Article excerpt: Over the 33-year history of the V-22, the Osprey has experienced at least 16 “hull loss” (unrepairable) accidents that have resulted in a total of 63 fatalities, according to the data we found: During testing from 1991 to 2006, there were 4 crashes resulting in 30 fatalities. Since becoming operational in 2007, the V-22 has suffered 12 crashes, including two in combat zones, and several other accidents and incidents that resulted in a total of 33 fatalities, based on the information we can find. Crucially, as far as we can tell, none of these crashes were the direct result of enemy fire. This record of fatal crashes certainly doesn’t sound good, and the deaths of any service members are indeed tragic. Of particular concern is the apparent acceleration of deadly incidents over the recent couple of years, with 4 fatal Osprey crashes occurring since March 2022 alone. But the Osprey is statistically among the safer military aircraft if you look at the numbers. While 16 crashes and 63 fatalities in 33 years might sound like a lot, crashes are an unfortunate fact of life in military aviation, particularly when you have to fly low, fast, and often in the dark. For example, the excellent F-15 Eagle has experienced around 125 aircraft losses in mishaps, though none in air-to-air combat. If you look at the death rate per 100,000 flight hours, the Osprey is not even close to the “most lethal” to fly. Alex Hollings of Sandboxx media points out that the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has resulted in far more deaths (more than 180 military and civilian deaths in non-combat-related crashes in its first 33 years of service), and is still considered “the safest helicopter the US military has ever flown.” Hollings references General Jorge Martinez, who says the V-22 has a lower crash death rate per 100,000 flight hours than the Harrier, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the F-35B, or the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion. It also depends on how you look at the numbers. For example, the Osprey can carry up to 32 people at once, so theoretically an F/A-18 Super Hornet carrying 2 people could have a fatal crash incident rate of 8 or 10 times that of the Osprey, but the V-22 would still show a higher death rate from fewer crashes.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Voter ID Outrage: By whom? Guns: https://www.newsweek.com/undocumented-immigrants-have-right-own-guns-judge-rules-1880806 Insurance: https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/biden-allows-daca-recipients-to-access-obamacare/ As to voting, I can't find a link at the moment. But as far as permanent LEGAL residents go, your comment is a good one.

Well, we all throw a brick now and then.

BTW, Ben Shapiro's podcast on 5/2 talked a good bit about crap degrees from prestigious universities.

@George-K said in None. Zero. Nada.: [image: tenor.gif] Why do you think that is? Lower quality of talent? In one word ... Yes.

Why, I didn’t know he lived in Louisiana. How about that.

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Twice and in the morning.

Still no apology from the White House, but... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/border-agent-on-horseback-falsely-accused-of-whipping-migrants-in-texas-now-awarded-for-his-service/ar-AA1o3arP One of the Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants at the border in Texas and chastized by president Biden himself, has now been given an award by the same government. The agent — whose name has been withheld since the September 2021 incident to protect his identity — received a Border Patrol Achievement award from the agency Thursday morning, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told The Post. The agent was recognized for his intelligence work on human smuggling cases, they added. The agent was one of the five photographed on horseback during the incident, where they were accused of whipping Haitian migrants at the riverbank in Del Rio, Texas, while trying to control members of a crowd of roughly 14,000 people crossing into the US illegally. The pictures were widely misinterpreted, with President Biden calling them “outrageous” and saying of the agents, “I promise you those people will pay.” A DHS source told The Post: “I find it hilarious and ridiculous that almost three years later, a Border Patrol agent who was accused of being racist and so vilified by this Biden administration now wins an achievement award for his efforts in preventing smuggling, before he gets a public apology.” Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted a thorough internal investigation into the incident, which concluded that none of the Haitians were harmed during the altercation and noted the agents did not carry whips or strike anyone with the reins of their horses. The probe, however, did determine that the agents used “unnecessary” force against the migrants, with one agent using “denigrating and inappropriate language” and maneuvering his horse “unsafely” at the time. I wonder who determined that the horse was being maneuvered "unsafely." Probably some guy who rides a desk, not a horse.

How timely! Last night I was trying to express to Lucas the ridiculousness of mainstream culture in the 60s. I pulled up an episode of I Dream of Jeannie on YouTube as a show that epitomized the era.

I think there is a good chance the move prevented injury to several people. Of course you can't say for sure.

Musk’s trolling is often quite good.

That was very neat to read and see.

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Kass - a story of politics and mayors and funerals: Years ago, when I was just starting out writing news columns, Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale was assassinated by a Gangster Disciple lookout during a drug deal at the Robert Taylor Homes projects. The young rookie officer was hit in the stomach. It took him a long week to die. It was horrible and the city was horrified. Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley wanted to go to the funeral. But he knew that police officers and some close to Ceriale’s family did not want him there. He went anyway. Because leadership demanded it. He delivered a stunningly emotional address in the beautiful and old Ukrainian Catholic Church I remember there were thousands of people in the street, and the church was full. The only sound was that of the church bell tolling. That bell tolled every 10 seconds. It tolled for hours. When it tolled the finality of it all cut through your heart. “The death of a young person is heartbreaking for a mother and father,” the mayor began, challenging everyone never to forget the young officer. Then his face changed and he tried to rush through his short speech before he was overcome. He didn’t succeed. Daley looked at the mother, then turned away. Daley understood the Ceriale family’s hideous and unremitting pain that is carried by parents who bury a child. In 1981, Daley’s own son Kevin, then not yet 3, died from spina bifida. “Less than two years ago, he stood at Navy Pier,” Daley said about Ceriale, tears coming, his voice breaking, remembering the ceremony of the young officer being sworn in. “He raised his right hand, he stood by that motto: We Serve and Protect. He was taken from us. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God.” I’m not lionizing him. Daley wasn’t stand up. He was weak in many ways. He backed down when it came to standing up to the Outfit’s unofficial Chicago chief of police, the late Chief of Detectives Bill Hanhardt, or acknowledging his administration’s role in the Hired Truck scandal that enriched Bridgeport trucking bosses he knew. But Daley was not a de-funder of police like the current mayor BLM Johnson. He didn’t hate cops or suck up to the cop haters. And he was not a proponent of pro-criminal legislation like Gov. J.B Pritzker’s “Safe-T Act.” Daley, for all his many faults, was law-and-order just like his father, the real Mayor Daley. And both men would have been horrified over what Pritzker, Johnson and Toni Preckwinkle have done to Chicago and Illinois with their so-called criminal injustice policies. These are Democrat policies that benefit repeat violent offenders like Octavious Crocket and Bruce Diamond. These are the policies that kill cities by first removing their will to live. When Daley was mayor, the newspapers would chase crime stories and put heat on prosecutors who failed the public. But now the papers don’t even bother, and they fear runing mug shots so readers and taxpayers (victims) can see for themselves. Read it all,

@89th said in Interesting two days coming up: but does the chairman have a self-portrait hanging in his office? Funny, but I thought the same thing!!!

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