@#8 ... I don't have any close airports ...

Nor do I (at least, major airports).

I'm in southwestern Connecticut, and the FAA changed the flight patterns a few years ago of the NYC airports to overfly this area instead of the ocean.

Come to think of it, was that the first Trump admin maybe getting back at a state that did not vote for him?

@#1 ... Lt Governor Micah Beckwith, who is a Christian pastor, also smeared NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, bleating that he "has no right to force his values" on NYC because "we are a Christian nation." ...

"Lt Governor Micah Beckwith, who is a Christian pastor."

Wow.

But it seems to get even worse ...

"smeared NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, bleating that he 'has no right to force his values' on NYC because 'we are a Christian nation.' "

So, maybe it is better to force Lt Governor Micah Beckwith's apparent values upon NYC?

@#10 ... All needed is for 5 dem votes and the govt would reopen ...

... and what is Spkr Johnson doing to attain those 5 votes?

Saying, ~you must obey~ or "let's negotiate?"

imo, it looks like Spkr Johnson is saying the former, and not the latter.

Also, imo, the latter is the way government should work.

Aside...

Is it just my imagination, or do the various JeffJ aliases seem to be more than a bit "off" this evening?

Their comments seem to be quite a bit more lame than their norm.

Maybe, today's substitute poster for that collection of aliases is a rookie?

I dunno ...

@#18 ... Epstein kept these in his safe ...

If that is correct, then those photos may be a part of the Epstein Files.

@#11 ... Johnson is keeping the government closed to hide the Epstein Files, which would destroy half our government. ...

While I do agree that Spkr Johnson seems to be keeping the House shut down so as not to enable vote #218,I'm not yet in agreement about the "destroying half our government" part.

Unless, and until, the Epstein files are released, we do not know what they may contain.

Yeah, we have have some prior info, such as ...

Along the lines of ...

So, South Korean President Lee has realized that the way to get on Pres Trump's good side is unfettered adulation, and gold?

More from the article ...

... Trump landed in South Korea on the final leg of a trip through Asia that also saw stops in Malaysia and Japan, with high-profile trade talks expected with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

U.S. and South Korean warplanes escorted Air Force One on approach, and on the tarmac a South Korean military band greeted Trump with a rendition of "YMCA" and guns fired a salute.

Lee is hoping to win concessions from Trump in drawn out negotiations aimed at lowering U.S. tariffs on South Korea, and has wooed the U.S. president by praising his outreach to North Korea.

Lee's office said that in recognition of Trump's role as a "peacemaker" on the Korean peninsula, he will be awarded the "Grand Order of Mugunghwa", which is named after South Korea's national flower, a pink hibiscus also known as the Rose of Sharon in English. ...

... Kai Trump received a sponsor exemption Tuesday to play in The Annika at Pelican Golf Club on November 13-16 ...

So, a kissing of the ring?

I wonder what they received in return?

@#3 ... New jet engines are already a lot quieter. ...

While I'd hope that to be the case, I still hear the jets going to and from area airports.

They have not seemed to have gotten any quieter in recent years.

Maybe the planes are still using the old engines?

I dunno.

But what I do know is the noise I hear.

@#23 ... OH ---- off with this nonsense.
The difficult part is Israel.
Israel claims the land From The River To The Sea, and then some. ...

Mostly, I agree.

@#22 ... You might not have noticed, they are not buying what you're selling. ...

What exactly am I selling?

@#1 ... "We deeply regret these errors," he added ...

More likely...

"We deeply regret having been caught lying."

More from the cited article ...

... "We stated in our supplemental brief that it is undisputed that nearly a quarter of the agency's entire FPS capacity had to be redirected over a relatively short period to a single location in one medium-sized American city due to the unrest there,'" Bernie wrote. "This statement was incorrect."

Instead, Bernie claimed that the statement was meant to refer to the percentage of FPS "inspectors" who were sent to Portland. Rather than a quarter, the amount was only around 13% of all FPS inspectors, Bernie wrote.

"We deeply regret these errors," he added. ...

@#1 ... Perfection of such low-decibel flight technology ...

Let me know when they reduce the noise of the jet engines.

More from the article ...

... After a steep climb over sod fields just east of the runway, the plane was seen banking to the north on a trajectory toward Edwards Air Force Base, where it landed safely about an hour later near NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. It was accompanied by a NASA chase plane.

The plane's unique shape is designed to greatly reduce the explosive-like sonic boom normally produced when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, lowering the volume to a muffled "sonic thump" no louder than slamming a car door.

Perfection of such low-decibel flight technology is aimed at overcoming one of the primary obstacles to supersonic commercial flight, long restricted over populated areas on land due to noise concerns, according to Lockheed. ...

Another view ...

@#25 ... Bingo. ...

Yup.

@#2 ... It's not like he asked what Americans thought about it... ...

From what I've seen, that has never been Pres Trump's approach.

Regarding real estate, he seems to have an approach he learned from his father.

From what I've seen...

~Don't ask for, or go through the process of, approval before demolition. Just demolish it, then there is no alternative but to allow you to build what you want.~

@#61 ... Seven days from now ...

Seven long days.

I am grateful that my DVR has a fast-forward button ....

@#57 ... That may be why Mr Cuomo has turned to racist ads to try to gain points ...

Or, maybe, it is just a campaign in desperation?

Seven days from now (give or take), we'll know ...

@#13 ... What do you know, I agree with you.

This article told me what I want to hear.

The truth. ...

I dunno.

The headline of the cited article states, "'No Kings' protests largely composed of people from one demographic: experts"

And goes on to say ...

... At last weekend's "No Kings" protest in Washington, D.C., inflatable chickens bobbed above a crowd that, according to demographic research, was made up mostly of educated White women in their 40s. ...

Yet, if you read deeper in the article, the crowd's demographics seem to morph from "mostly of educated White women in their 40s." to "the typical D.C. attendee was an educated White woman in her 40s."

More from the Axios article mentioned (but not linked) in the cited article ...

... State of play: 86% of surveyed protesters in D.C. were white, and 57% were women.

- - - "It makes sense that we're not seeing people of color in the streets because people of color are being disappeared," Fisher said.

- - - She said she's surprised, though, that women's rights and reproductive rights are no longer leading factors the way they were during Trump's first term. ...