It sounds like the plane issue was more of a Southwest Airlines issue than a Boeing issue. No other airlines have reported this issue.

You have to maintain equipment, you know.

Welp, it's clearly time to go back to the Militia Acts. Register all guns, ammunition, gun owners with the state, make them turn out monthly for marching drills, mandate unloaded storage of guns, and ban concealed carry. Punishment to include being held in the stocks. I'm only kind of joking about the last one.

boatgeek dear, I'm so tired of five old men (and one bible-addled nutjob) who are constantly surrounded by security making decisions that allow gun weirdos to slaughter people.

@4: yes. everyone should de militia duty if they want a firearm. it's part of being well-regulated.

@4- the women you are describing would have no trouble explaining to a judge why they need a gun permit. Some incel who wants to shoot up Santa Barbara, not so much.

Also, if we would get serious about taking every last fucking gun away from the wifebeaters who are the subject of those restraining orders, women would be a lot safer. Police need to do their job on that. Send the SWAT team to the assholes’ houses if that’s what it takes. Losing your gun rights needs to mean something.

I doubt that any of those abused women need (or want) a bump stock, Raindrop dear. But thanks for the non-sequiter!

Nathalie, Boeing and Airbus bought titanium parts from Spirit Aerosystems, which made them from titanium bought from a Turkish supplier, which in turn bought the titanium from a Chinese source which supplied dodgy documentation of the metal. Another one of the Turkish supplier's customers thought the metal looked a bit off, and that's what started the investigation.

And though Airbus likes to claim the A220 as its own, it's a Bombardier design made in Montreal.

Just to me clear, here's the definition of milita in the constitution:
"all able-bodied male citizens of the United States and all other able-bodied males who have . . . declared their intention to become citizens of the United States,” between the ages of eighteen and forty-five".

Toe Tag dear, I've heard that Boeing is looking to buy Spirit Aerosystems, which I believe is the old Boeing Witchita plant. Have you heard anything about that?

@5 fucking
BINGO. and let's make
Two Years of Service to the
USofA Mandatory for ALL at 18.

“This is John R. Tyson's second alcohol-related charge in two years. The first occurred in November 2022, when he was charged with public intoxication and trespassing after breaking into a stranger's Fayetteville home and falling asleep in her bed.”

But don’t ALL beds
Belong To the Rich yet?
It’s fucking Good to be Rich
but Inherited Wealth* Means you
(almost) NEVER Gotta say "I’m sorry.”

so: just say “wha- ?”
to 'The Death Tax'
good buddy and
They‘ll be De-
lighted you
(finally)
Did.

‘State of emergency in Florida: Southern Florida
[the State of JUST SAY “NO!”] has seen
up to 25 inches of rain so far this
week. Gov. Ron DeSantis . . .

has Twenty-SIX inch boots!
Nothing to See here

Move along.

@11
thank Jesus
for our hall monitor
now if they might just
Obey their very own Rules.

@5
I was trained in the safe and effective use of firearms by our very own federal government. As a result, I identify as well regulated.
From what I’ve read in The Stranger, once someone announces how they identify themselves, the discussion is over.

Oh wow, an incel coming out as ammosexual. And during pride month no less.

@2 Sure! No exceptions. I'm not recommending that we prohibit people from owning guns, just that in order to own a gun you need to register it and demonstrate that you can use it. And that you can't hide it on your person. By the way, despite what you may hear from the Fox News poison in your ear, owning a gun makes it more, not less likely that you'll get shot.

If the only tool that the Supreme Court will let us have is what gun laws were available in 1790, then this is the solution. I would love to have a nuanced discussion, but if we can't, this is an answer that meets Clarence Thomas' criteria.

@17 was supposed to be @4, sorry.

@16 And somehow you do it every day.

@14

so how 'bout bump-stocks
for the "well-regulated"
mulitiamenfolk and
the little Ladies?

Las Vegas:

60 DEAD
FIVE HUNDRED
TWENTY-SEVEN Injured.

ONE man
Many Bump-
Stocks. all's Fair?

so Who
regulates
our lone wolf
Armies of One?

@20

you may Claim
to not use profanity
but you endorse Obscenity

give me
the Cusser
Every time
their words
are Honest.

@18b
BINGO.
thank you.

@20, Your “rhetoric” is saying annoying things for attention and then whining when you get the reaction you’re trolling for.

Your friend here made the conservative classic “I identify as” joke — never gets old! — and I took it from there. It’s all in good fun but I’m sure he appreciates you coming to his rescue.

@21 Since reading comprehension seems to have been displaced with superciliousness and feigned victimhood, you may want to review @17 and note that I specifically said that nobody would be prohibited from buying a gun.

@20 You don't exactly call names, but you've definitely said some awfully condescending stuff like saying that I sounded very young. Is that worse than namecalling? Eh, hard to say.

@17: "in order to own a gun you need to register it and demonstrate that you can use it."

That could backfire miserably (for the left anyway). Currently, the vast majority of weapons training and instructors are provided by the NRA (even for law enforcement). Although I'm not a member, if there was a mandatory training program and I wanted to ensure my position in the next available class, I might very well hold my nose over their politics and sign up. I'm certain the NRA would absolutely love the revenue. Particularly in light of their recent mismanagement.

"And that you can't hide it on your person."

Currently, our laws seem to be headed in the opposite direction. We certainly can't have the general public see how many people are actually armed or have them develop a sense of ease around guns. Panic is necessary to drive the political agenda. Even if it is unjustified.

@1, @3, and @8 Catalina Vel-DuRay and @6 & @7 dvs99: +5 For the WIN!!!
And thank you both for beating me to it. Well said, kudos, and amen.

“As of now, the world still generally favors those who stay silent, who shut up and eat. Pass me the listán negro, let me drink to a better world, one where the righteous fight at dinner parties and everywhere else, with ever-increasing imagination and force.” [and, hopefully, with a dash of humor & a side of ridicule for the absurd.]

-- Sarah Miller; a writer who
lives in California and
writes a Substack.

@Natty-- thanks for the Link!
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/06/13/the-people-who-fight-at-dinner-parties/

@27 your self-awareness
looks Good on you!
keep it Up.
thnx!