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February 21st, 2021 at 9:46:03 AM permalink
Pacomartin
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: ams288
A United 777 blew an engine taking off from Denver and scattered debris over several nearby neighborhoods.


United has 30 Boeing 777-200s active and 44 parked (8 retired) with an average age of 21.8 Years.
American has 35 Boeing 777-200s active and 12 parked (0 retired) with an average age of 20.2 Years.
Delta has retired all 18 of their Boeing 777-200s. They have no B777-300s.

I know that engineers believe the lifespan of a jet is roughly only as long as the maintenance is affordable, but the Post-Covid economics makes the Dreamliner the more affordable twin aisle jet to operate.

In 2015 a 10 year-old 777-200ER was reselling for a relatively cheap $10M. After this engine fire and COVID they should be almost worthless.
February 21st, 2021 at 3:36:09 PM permalink
rxwine
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: ams288
A United 777 blew an engine taking off from Denver and scattered debris over several nearby neighborhoods.



You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
February 21st, 2021 at 4:07:41 PM permalink
petroglyph
Member since: Aug 3, 2014
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Quote: rxwine
Do you know who the actor is looking out at the monster on the wing?
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
February 21st, 2021 at 4:58:08 PM permalink
rxwine
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This was before his 5 year mission.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
February 22nd, 2021 at 6:47:23 AM permalink
ams288
Member since: Apr 21, 2016
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court declines Trump request to halt tax record turnover to New York state prosecutor, a post-presidency defeat.


“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
February 22nd, 2021 at 7:03:59 AM permalink
JimRockford
Member since: Sep 18, 2015
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Quote: terapined
I have to admit I am enjoying TX becoming a sh**hole state directly due to failed Republican policies

Quote: terapined
Not unkind
This was not a disaster caused by weather
No tsunami
No flooding
No hurricane winds
It simply got cold, that's all. Just cold.
Yet due to republican policies , people are suffering.
It's really incredible. Its gets cold in Russia and China yet they keep their power grid up.Its really shocking the suffering going on in TX. If dems were in charge, no way this happens.
That's incredible to say if another party was in charge, there would have been no power issues. Republicans are directly responsible.

In my opinion it is unkind to proclaim enjoyment of the suffering of millions of people because of politics. Maybe that's just me.
The mind hungers for that on which it feeds.
February 22nd, 2021 at 7:29:05 AM permalink
AZDuffman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: JimRockford
In my opinion it is unkind to proclaim enjoyment of the suffering of millions of people because of politics. Maybe that's just me.


It is not just you. You are just seeing how "compassionate liberals" really feel.
The President is a fink.
February 22nd, 2021 at 9:49:55 AM permalink
terapined
Member since: Aug 6, 2014
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Quote: JimRockford
In my opinion it is unkind to proclaim enjoyment of the suffering of millions of people because of politics. Maybe that's just me.


I'll let John Prine speak for me

I Ain't Hurtin' Nobody by John Prine

"I'm a walkin' down the street
Like Lucky LaRue
Got my hand in my pocket
Thinkin' 'bout you
I ain't hurtin' nobody
I ain't hurtin' no one

There's three hundred men
In the State of Tennessee
They're waiting to die
They won't never be free
I ain't hurtin' nobody
I ain't hurtin' no one

Six million seven hundred thousand
And thirty-three lights on
You'd think someone could take the time
To sit down and listen to the words of my song

At the beach in Indiana
I was nine years old
Heard Little Richard singing "Tutti Frutti"
From the top of a telphone pole
I wasn't hurtin' nobody
I wasn't hurtin' no one

There's roosters layin' chickens
And chickens layin' eggs
Farm machinery eating people's arms and legs
I ain't hurtin' nobody
I ain't hurtin' no one

Perfectly crafted popular hit songs never use the wrong rhyme
You'd think that waitress could get my order
Right the first time

She's sittin' on the back steps
Just shuckin' that corn
That gal's been grinnin'
Since the day she was born
She ain't hurtin' nobody
She ain't hurtin' no one

I used to live in Chicago
Where the cold wind blows
I delivered more junk mail
Than the junkyard would hold
I wasn't hurtin' nobody
I wasn't hurtin' no one

You can fool some of the people part of the time
In a rock and roll song
Fifty million Elvis Presley fans
Can't be all wrong"
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
February 22nd, 2021 at 9:58:59 AM permalink
Dalex64
Member since: Mar 8, 2014
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Quote: ams288
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court declines Trump request to halt tax record turnover to New York state prosecutor, a post-presidency defeat.


Must be Trump day in the SC
Quote:
USA Today: Supreme Court won’t hear 2020 election case that questioned some Pennsylvania ballots

Three conservative justices on the high court said they would have heard the Pennsylvania election cases, one vote shy of the four needed.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/supreme-court-declines-take-2020-election-case-pennsylvania/6578884002/

Quote:
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a dispute over whether absentee ballots received up to three days after Election Day in Pennsylvania should have been counted in the 2020 presidential election.


I'm surprised they aren't going to hear the case.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan
February 22nd, 2021 at 10:04:08 AM permalink
terapined
Member since: Aug 6, 2014
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Posts: 11786
Quote: Dalex64



I'm surprised they aren't going to hear the case.

Its a moot case
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"