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keep_left's JournalWell, like I said, it was their plane and they signed off on it. I do know...
...that Parker Hannifin and Boeing engaged in endless legal wrangling over what were clear and obvious issues. Of course, no one wanted to accept fault in the matter. Parker Hannifin was particularly obstinate, and it took years to resolve. As I recall, the NTSB investigation was the longest and most expensive case in their history (at the time).
To be fair to Boeing, the 737 rudder issues were caused by a serious flaw in a part...
...made by a subcontractor. While Boeing was ultimately responsible (it was their plane and they signed off on it), they didn't make the part (a rudder servo valve). Parker Hannifin made the rudder control system that failed on those 737s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
It is Boeing's more recent planes, in particular the 737 MAX series, that are under highly deserved scrutiny for multiple incidents and failures.
There is definitely something to what you are saying, though the ultimate cause...
...of the Alaska Airlines near-disaster will no doubt be found to be related to multiple factors (as most engineering-related failures commonly are). But I have been following the Boeing "outsourcing story" for a number of years now, and I was also fortunate enough to have a neighbor who worked for their defense division in MO before jumping ship just ahead of massive downsizing (and a company move to VA). I got quite an earful from him about what had been going on for many years at Boeing, and it does indeed seem that there is truth to what many have said: the bean-counters from McDonnell-Douglas got the upper hand in the merger with Boeing, and the engineers ended up being ruled by the accountants.
That second picture--it's amazing that there's not a lightning bolt...
...striking him down for blasphemy!
And as at least one other poster here pointed out, it looks like he has six fingers. 
In recent years (maybe even earlier than that), Heritage has gone openly fash.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218613365#post12Taiwan "took our business away"? WTF?! Apparently the US had nothing...
...at all to do with this? The last 40 years of bad business decisions by companies and politicians in this country are irrelevant, I guess?
This kind of Trump garbage just goes to show why real business leaders in this country have no respect for him. Because every time Trump opens his mouth, complete ignorance pours out every time. He's a real estate guy in Manhattan, something a trained monkey could do. The truth is that the guy couldn't run a coffee shop competently.
You beat me to it! Even Trump's grandfather dodged the draft.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/trump-grandfather-germany-friedrich/index.htmlThis just goes to once again prove the far-right precepts "every accusation is a confession" and "attack with your greatest weakness". Trump always gets away with it, mostly because too many in the news media don't know their history (especially when it comes to Trump).
Wow...I just looked her up. She's a real piece of work...
...and a real piece of shit!
Haven't been to NM yet, but I am familiar with the effect that road salt has in...
...New England (family lives there) and in the upper Midwest (where I live). I have heard that about southern CA as well; you see pristine cars that are 30+ years old. Here, you're lucky if you can get past a decade rust-free.
I still wonder if the designers at Tesla watched Back to the Future a few too many times and ended up with a DeLorean truck. It's the first thing I thought of when I saw pictures of the Cybertruck.
What a surprise. Far-right "intellectuals" at "think" tanks sound just like...
...alt-right trolls on 4chan/8chan/8kun/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now. It's quite literally the same language, only cleaned up a bit. MacDonald's emails read just like the kind of garbage you would see on an online incel forum, right down to the obligatory slut-shaming: "hurr durr...too many brown nannies from the third world, because the mommies want to be sexually liberated and make partner at the law firm".
Claremont Institute fascism: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218115131#post10
First Things is a radtrad Catholic journal which has become increasingly extremist over the years. Conservative author Damon Linker resigned from the journal after it began advocating secession and treason. (The incident is recounted in Linker's excellent book The Theocons).
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218549354#post6
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217685257#post63
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