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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Question about something I should probably know by now... The Big "Beautiful" Bill authorized all this new funding for ICE and DHS. How do these quarterly shutdown discussions weave into legislation that has already been passed? Am I correct in saying it's because the BBB contains more of the summary, high level funding levels for these agencies. But getting the check written and actual money transferred requires additional congressional action containing all the details. In a normal functioning congress, those details are fleshed out for the entire FY. But since we're dealing with a Mike Johnson congress, we keep passing these stopgap short term funding details which just do the bare minimum. It's currently too dysfunctional to pass anything long term through the end of the FY. Is that a roughly correct understanding?
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Trump’s America
And hopefully in the coming weeks the Supreme Court will invalidate all these bullshit tariffs anyway.
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Booking a private flight . . . .
^^yep. Buying into private jet ownership is probably not too difficult for a "rich" person. The kicker is when you want to actually use it for a trip. Landing fees, parking fees, crew costs, fuel in the 1000s of gallons, engine/maintenance hourly charges. Only a seriously rich person can be able to pay all that without going bankrupt. I'd much rather spend a fraction of it on a First Class ticket on AA.
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The Supremes
Maybe a decision on tariffs or birthright citizenship...
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Trump’s America
There are a few on 35 between Hillsboro and Austin. I remember one said "NO FUNDING FOR ILLEGALS" 🙄
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I have graduated after 20 years
Otsukaresama des!
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The Supremes
Goddamn is that still your schtick?
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Hegseth & the Boys
In today's cabinet "meeting" he said he watched the first strike live, the vessel was on fire, and since he's a busy guy he had other meetings to attend so he left the conference room to do other things. Then, only later did he learn of the second strike while he was off doing other things.
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Running and Jogging and Shuffling
I travel a lot for work and although I hate treadmills, it's usually my only option on the road (especially in the winter months). Anyway for whatever reason I've never touched the slope angle, but lately have been doing 3-5 degrees of an upslope. You can definitely feel it and I'd like to think it's adding some type of benefit.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
lol reminds me how those obnoxious AOs in the Navy would sign-off their e-mails: "IYAAOYAS!" 🙄
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UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
Dassault is still making 900s, it's an s-duct though.
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Should Traffic Controllers be paid during shutdowns? And should private planes receive the same access as commercial airlines during flight restrictions?
Using the terms "GA" or "private planes" is a hugely broad brush because it's not just private jets. There is absolutely GA low-hanging fruit that, in my opinion, should be grounded first in the event of a shutdown. For example there's a shitload of Cessna 172 and Cherokee student pilots clogging up the system, requesting VFR flight following and a Class Bravo clearance for their flight from Denton to Waco. Not to mention their departure tower is already handling 4 touch-n-go's in the pattern (half of which want a short approach) and 5 in line waiting for takeoff. That should be the first to get cut and would help alleviate both tower and enroute ATC: no pattern work at a towered field and VFR on your own. Another would be instrument students who want to knock out 4 practice approaches on a single IFR flight plan (each with the published miss please!) at Conroe, Hooks, and then Sugarland. Those take up far more ATC bandwidth and patience than a Gulfstream on a standard departure/arrival whose going to get in/out of the area quickly. After that you could work your way up through grounding piston, then turboprop, etc. using either engine type or MTOW, maybe even adding a Part 91 vs. 135 element to it. Point being if a government shutdown forces us to start grounding aircraft, there are many different ways to split up the GA world that would have a meaningful impact on alleviating ATC's job. And the private jets would likely be quite far down that list. (Except Teterboro, that's its own animal and no idea how to manage that through a shutdown except grounding flights). Agree 1,000% with this.
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Trump’s America
It's depressing. That day of Four Seasons and widespread celebrations, followed by Dave Chapelle's amazing SNL monologue that night. The weeks thereafter through the inauguration (minus Jan 6th of course) was full of hope and optimism for me. All of his lawsuits were failing, alternate electors getting rejected, Sidney Powell and Rudy hearings were a shitshow... so much desperation and fail for him and I loved every minute of it. Coincidentally there are 4 or 5 songs that I had on heavy rotation during that timeframe and I continued to listen over the following years, but for whatever reason they've fallen off my playlist and I can't bring myself to listen to them now. I'm saving them for 2028 because yes I think we'll get there and have a reason to be hopeful again.
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UT Language Website Fundraiser
Donated! Can I ask a basic question? This is coming from someone who barely passed two years of high school Latin and somehow UT let that satisfy the foreign language requirement. Needless to say I'm clueless about this stuff... How important really is the gender of a noun? If I accidently flip-flop a masculine determiner with a feminine noun or otherwise construct a sentence as feminine even though the noun is masculine, etc. Aside from getting scolded for poor grammar and sounding like an idiot, the point of the sentence would still be communicated, right? So in the list of priorities one should have in learning a language, using nouns with 100% correct gender isn't really at the top of the list? Just curious after reading through your grammar website (which btw is really well done, thanks for sharing).
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Trump’s America
I know it's a HUGE stretch because these people have no sense of self awareness, integrity, shame, anything. But I can't help but wonder if MTG finally had a realization of how fucking stupid she's been. For the 4 years under Biden's administration she and her trailer park barbie friend had all the spotlight and were the center of attention by acting like complete idiots. Then this year happened. She barely registers on the radar anymore. Even BIGGER idiots took over and her name wasn't brought up for nomination to a single position. After all that public embarrassment she ends up with nothing, including not even getting Trump's support to run for next year's GA senate seat. I'm not quite ready to believe she actually has any sense of integrity, there's got to be some angle I'm missing as to why she's suddenly fighting for healthcare and turning on Johnson...
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Trump’s America
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Trying very hard to enjoy this episode since I'm strongly on team Bad Bunny Super Bowl. But man, so far it's just been not funny. After a few sketches in and I'm just waiting around for Weekend Update.- Trump’s America
Holy shit is that a thing?? The only golf I've watched is Tiger Woods clips and I remember thinking it was fucking dumb hearing them yell "Get in the hole!" right after the swing. But having to hear this type of stupid shit would be a beating.- Ideas for Long Weekend Trip
How was the flight and trip?- Flying in or out of DFW or Love Field today?
At 7 am this morning was informed by Arlington tower that the issues were still ongoing and expect delays like yesterday.🙄 But then at 7:15 whatever was happening had resolved and they were up and running. Had to wait a tad longer waiting for release but took off at 7:30 and otherwise all was normal. Hope they've got it all fixed!- Flying in or out of DFW or Love Field today?
Engines running and ready to taxi at Arlington when we found out. Shut down and waited it out for 2 hours and ended up postponing until tomorrow morning. Hopefully it'll all be resolved by then.- the official and final end of the last vestige of the golden age of commercial aviation
+1....been an avgeek most my life, spent years doing the work travel thing, and have rummaged through countless reading materials at FBOs big and small. Have never heard of this so my FOMO is kicking in. Would love to learn more about it. - All things SNL
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