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“Civilian Casualties Reported As US Conducts Record Number Of Somali Drone Strikes“
Are we attacking Minneapolis now?
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“Civilian Casualties Reported As US Conducts Record Number Of Somali Drone Strikes“
Are we attacking Minneapolis now?
Minneapolis has turned into a shithole.
Whoever thought that they were doing a good thing by importing the Somali’s (the Lutherans?), they certainly didn’t do Minneapolis any favors.
Go to the airport there. That is where they all work.
No, thanks. I am a retired airline pilot and I’ve been to MSP plenty.
BTW, those airport jobs…not just at MSP, but everywhere…are part of the social safety net propping up the “vibrants”. I once flew with a guy whose wife worked in what I’ll call the “HR Department” of the Airport Authority at a very large airport….a hub for an airline that you’ll be able to name. She hired and fired all the wheelchair-pushers, the cabin cleaners, the custodians and other unskilled labor. Of course, every employer wants an employee who will show up to work, and for this level of employment, one of the benefits they offered was a half-price pass for that city’s mass transit system. They were trying to make it as easy as possible to get to work. The problem with this? Once the half-price pass was in hand, many of these new employees would stop showing up for work. IOW, the pass (which had to be renewed monthly, IIRC) was what they really wanted out of the employment, the work and the accompanying paycheck being secondary.
Between Army Reserve committments, my son is working as a baggage handler at ICT. I looked at the clock when he left this morning at 3AM.
I am well aware you are a pilot and your C130 story is legend to me. About ready for a repost…
Maybe I wrote and bawled about this already, but a few weeks ago I flew into ICT from DFW and realized I had left my interior light on. Didn’t get much more than a click-click-click when in vain, I hit the ignition switch. Top floor of the parking garage at midnight thirty and nobody is around for a jump start. I pushed the truck out of its parking spot then pushed it forward as fast as possible, jumped in and put it in 2nd and dumped the clutch. It sputtered a little. I am at the end of the aisle, so I push it backward to give it another whirl. Sputter sputter. Dammut. Go back into the airport and nobody is there but the cleaning crew and one airport cop. I asked him for a jump start. He says they are not allowed. OK. He says he will ask one of the cleaning crew guys to drive up and give me a jump. I go back and wait. Cavalry ain’t coming, and I was goning to drop an Andrew Jackson on whoever came to help. OK. I look toward the exit where there is a ramp down to the third floor of the parking garage. I pace count it to just over 50 meters. If I push the truck that far then I can get the advantage of the ramp down to get a gravity push start. I take off my dress shirt and still wearing pleated slacks with cuffs and dress shoes and start pushing toward the ramp and just then Johnny Law shows up. I ask if he would be willing to help me push start. He tells me he does not know what that is. After a short explanation he and I get that truck going pretty good, I jump in and with second gear engaged it fires right up. I’m 60, 5’7″ and 170lb and that cop probably thinks I am a groovy old man.
Times sure have changed. One of the blessings of having a manual vs. automatic tranny. Ain’t anybody going to steal your truck.