Quick hits

Bits and pieces, pieces and parts, short takes, &c.

1) Remember, folks: Always and forever, government makes things better. Always. Making everything better is its true function, after all, its raison d’être, and it is damned good at it.

Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight
About 100 planes around the world have been caught up in a scandal that would be cartoonish if it weren’t so terrifying. It saw a dubious company, with fake employees and an address that was a glorified PO box, sell and distribute fake airplane parts that ended up in planes belonging to some of the world’s biggest airlines. On Thursday night, American Airlines became the fourth, and so far final, airline to have found parts from AOG Technics in its aircraft. Southwest kicked off the disclosures from various airlines around the world in early September, when it became the first to announce it had located an unregistered part from AOG Technics.

Buck Throckmorton says:

I apologize for being pedantic, but if Delta’s engines contain parts that “do not meet documentation requirements” the immediate problem isn’t remaining in compliance with FAA guidelines, rather the problem is to become compliant with FAA guidelines.

Which brings up a few questions: Isn’t making sure commercial airline travel is safe, like, the FAA's one fucking job? If the engine parts used by the airlines weren’t FAA-compliant, shouldn’t we expect the FAA to do something about that? Where the hell were they on this? Did they get hoodwinked on this, or just find it less hassle to look the other way, assuming everything would work out all right?

Throckmorton goes on to make a somewhat different point than mine, which you should go read, namely that the whole mess is mainly due to greedy airlines looking to cut costs, but since these days government=big corporations all across the Western world, I can’t see that our two points are very much at variance with one another. They go together like beans and cornbread, if you ask me.

2) Conniving, senile, insecure, or just congenitally dishonest? Embrace the healing power of “and,” Derek.

The President Who Wasn’t There
A haunting narrative of fantasies and lies.

To hear Joe Biden tell it, he’s been a major factor in just about everything important that happened during his lifetime, and some things before he was born. The only problem is, we know he didn’t do important things and, more often than not, wasn’t even around when they were done. The truth has a weird way of complicating the president’s life story. But according to him, he’s the “Forrest Gump President,” always there, always playing a role in directing history. While the nickname is accurate, it’s for his IQ, not his participation in history.

Joe Biden’s life must be wildly boring. The reality of it, I mean. Why else would he spend so much time fantasizing about things that didn’t happen?

If you’re wondering how it is someone can lie so obviously so often, without any fear, it’s because he’s been getting away with it his whole life.

And that’s the REAL problem here, not only with Pedo Jaux but with every national-level ProPol in the US.

3) Remember when I cracked this kinda-sorta joke over at the CF Muthaship?

Stinging jokes insulting “transgenders,” Pride Week/Month/Summer/Year/Decade/Epoch, BLM, Green Weenie-ism, Crypt Keeper Pelosi, Stumblin’ Jaux “Pedo Pete” Biden? Check, check, check, check, check, and emphatically check

Nah, me neither. The part I put in bold is the relevant issue for tonight’s purposes, because of this:

An entire month of “pride” celebrations is seemingly not enough for California.

On Friday, the California Assembly voted to declare August “Transgender History Month” starting in 2024 as part of an effort to push back against legislation in Republican-controlled states they claim have targeted the “human and civil rights” of the transgender community.

By God Mother Gaia, you Xtianists, RightwingNaziDeathBeasts, genocidal cishet Breeders, and über-ultra-mega-MEGA fanatics need to get your heads, umm, straight about something: LBGTQRS%#@PBBLTHPPT people should be exuberantly celebrated as “courageous HEROEZ” every fucking day of the fucking year!!! Nothing less will do, and we will continue to have your children surgically mutilated, your jobs and livelihoods lost, and your cities looted and burned by our righteous Leftist allies until you wake up and give us what we want.

Which is where at least two if not more of Mike’s Iron Laws come into the picture.

• Mike’s Iron Law #1: Never cede ANYTHING to the Left, not a single goddamned thing

• Mike’s Iron Law for dealing with the Left: They will never be satisfied, no matter what you yield up to them

Give ‘em an inch and they’ll take absolutely everything you have.