The last SR-71, the SR-71C, was nicknamed “The Bastard.” The name was partly due to the Frankenstein-like creation of the aircraft. After one SR-71B trainer crashed in January 1968, it was determined that another trainer plane should be constructed.

The project began with a wrecked YF-12A that was utilized for the rear part of the fuselage, and the front came from a static, but functional, SR-71A mockup. It was apparently a “bastard” to fly as well, considering it was said to have a “yaw at supersonic speeds” due to the joined fuselage not being quite straight

This is a day of national shame and mourning for the tens of millions of slaughtered innocents sacrificed on the altar of inconvenience.

In Corn Pop’s White House, though, the mood was celebratory and triumphalist:

In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack. We are deeply committed to making sure everyone has access to care – including reproductive health care – regardless of income, race, zip code, health insurance status, or immigration status.

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v. Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe. We are also committed to ensuring that we work to eliminate maternal and infant health disparities, increase access to contraception, and support families economically so that all parents can raise their families with dignity. This commitment extends to our critical work on health outcomes around the world. //

Cassie Smedile
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Jen Psaki spins out of Hyde Amdt. & Mexico City question by saying Pres. Biden is a "devout Catholic".

Either Pres. Biden is about to be a very pro-Life President or Jen Psaki (and basically everyone else) needs to stop referring to him as a "devout Catholic"...! //

Joe Biden is technically a Catholic because he was baptized into the Church. Beyond that accident of history, there is no possible measure that would indicate that Joe Biden is Catholic. Biden has long been a hardcore fan of infanticide, the support of which brings with it automatic ex-communication Latae sententiae:

Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,”77 “by the very commission of the offense,”78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. //

Biden pimping transgenderism, openly endorsing homosexual marriage and claiming that abortion is a legitimate therapeutic procedure all the while claiming to be Catholic certainly has the ability to lead some people to believe that he is correct.

Reuters
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Critics have said the CDC fumbled key decisions on COVID because the Trump administration meddled in the agency’s operations. But @Reuters has found evidence that the response was marred by actions – or inaction – by career scientists and frontline staff https://reut.rs/3paHCES //

cafeblue32
12 minutes ago edited
I am continually perplexed by the childishness of adults on the left. They still read comic books, they watch superhero movies, they play video games, spend hours on social media, ride skateboards and bicycles, defer marriage and family until mid to late thirties or forties, and hold the belief that the insulated fantasy world of the university socialist cocoon should be social reality for everyone.

One of the most irritating things children do is exaggerate and overstate everything. If something is good, it's the best thing ever. If they don't like it, it is akin to Hitler. If someone makes them mad or hurts their feelings, they never want to see them again and hope something bad happens to them in return. Allowing them to do it for long allows them to develop a childish view of society as a binary proposition from scalp to sole. Everyone wears a white hat or a black hat. They are moral or they are evil. They are good or they are bad, college educated or stupid, oppressor or oppressed, ally or enemy, conservative or human. This is the binary world they wish to create, and are creating, where there is no nuance or subtlety, no neutrality allowed about anything, and where you are either an asset to the collective to be used or you are an obstacle to it to be eliminated. And so the ideological violator is not just wrong, he is evil, and the evil become fair game. And here we are. //

Jim_SE
17 minutes ago
Trusting the government to get things right is always foolish. Just because the bureaucrats were 'scientists' from the CDC in this case doesn't make them any more competent. Governments are force, markets are competition. Without competition you can always expect incompetence. //

Robal
2 hours ago
Liberals intentionally created chaos to destroy Trumps chances of being re-elected as POTUS at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Salviati Robal
an hour ago
Indeed. One need only read Marx, Lenin, and Stalin to know the playbook:
Misery motivates, not utopia. - Karl Marx

NBC News
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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visits National Guard troops stationed outside the US Capitol in DC:

"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe ... The White House baked you some chocolate chip cookies." //

In response, actor Tim Matheson (known for being Otter in Animal House and mostly forgettable roles), tweeted a fawning homage to Jill Biden. But in it, he also took a backhanded bigoted slap clearly aimed at Melania Trump.

“So wonderful to have a First Lady with class and heart,” he said. “And, can speak English!” //

The Voice of America
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▶️ First lady Melania Trump visits the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for Valentine’s Day.

👉 First Lady Makes Valentine's Day Art With Pediatric Patients
https://voanews.com/a/first-lady-m //

Tegan Hanlon
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Melania Trump visits Anchorage military families today at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson via @lisa_demer and @lorenholmes: https://adn.com/alaska-news/military/2017/11/10/melania-trump-visits-military-families-at-jber/

Andrew Malcolm
@AHMalcolm
First Lady Melania Trump made holiday visits today to 3 military installations including CVN 77 the nuclear carrier George HW Bush in the Atlantic. Did you see it in #MSM ? //

Skeptical Techie
9 hours ago edited
Two points:
1 - First Lady Trump went to the troops disturbing their off-duty time as little as a First Lady with all that entails may. Conversely, First Lady Biden stood out on the firm and dry blocked off street and sidewalk and had the troops called from their free time to fall-in in front of her (some of them lined up in cold, possibly soggy grass) for her to bring a couple baskets of cookies. A - I only saw two baskets with too few cookies to show over the rims. I wonder if there was even a cookie a piece for the unit so presented to her. B - I hope none of the troops had to abandon their place in line for the bathroom to fall in for her.

2 - Regarding language acumen: While First Lady Trump is an ESL speaker (and also fluent, as noted, in other languages), certainly as this article and the ratio pointed out, that is patently not a bad thing in this diverse country. However, it seems a mistake to make accusations of linguistic shortcomings given the quality of the paper which was the pinnacle of First Lady "Doctor" Biden's vanity degree. Were she not at the time the Senior Senator's Wife, it is questionable that she would have been awarded a doctorate of any flavor based on such a flabby, shabby and uneven submission. She could not blame that on being an ESL speaker either.