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February 18, 2021

My Time With Rush -- He Didn't Make Me a Conservative, but He Helped Me Understand I Was Right to Be One – RedState

I vividly remember sitting in line at the drive-up window at the bank — remember those? — and listening to Rush as he was telling a story. There was no political angle to the story he was telling, but the acrimony, sarcasm, and biting humor he wielded like weapons had me laughing out loud.

When Rush and his wife moved from Sacramento to New York, all their household belongings were moved by a national moving company. Rush and his wife flew and expected to furnish their New York apartment with the belongings after they arrived.

They never arrived. Never. Ever.

My recollection is — and this goes back 33 years now — that Rush ranted about this moving company on his show every day for several days. At first, it was just “When will they find our stuff and get it here?” He would recount his numerous conversations with company officials — I don’t think he ever named them because he didn’t want to risk getting sued — about the status of the search for his belongings and their assurances that they would be found — while commenting on the seeming impossibility of losing a full-sized trailer load of household belongings being hauled cross-country by a semi-truck. I tuned in every morning to hear what he might have to say that day about the events of the past 24 hours and the great search for a trailer holding all his earthly belongings. One day he announced that the search had ended. The trailer had simply vanished. Oh well.

In his first few years on the air, his political commentary was always intertwined with humor — usually mocking humor at the expense of some icon of the liberal establishment. I was in my late 20s at the time, so the edgier he was the more I liked it.

Antonov An-124 Carries 54 Tonne Generator From Ghana To India - Simple Flying

According to Stat Trade Times, the An-124 was chartered from Antonov Airlines for a special ferry mission by Rhenus Project Logistics USA. The logistics company needed the aircraft to carry a massive power generator with a unique shape, requiring more cabin space to accommodate it.

This was no problem for the An-124, which has a payload capacity of 150 tonnes, more than enough to carry the 54-tonne generator. However, fitting the 10.5m long, 3.89m wide, and 4.13m high item required experts to be on hand for loading and unloading. The flight flew from Accra to Mumbai and then back once the repairs were complete.

Nat Geo Special Examines New Air Force One | Business Aviation News: Aviation International News

With the current Flying White Houses growing long in the tooth after serving for more than 30 years, their replacements are taking shape in a hangar in San Antonio, Texas.

Texas Winter Storm Power Outages Prompt Bitter Fight Between Fossil Fuel, Clean Energy Advocates
Rush Limbaugh's final show featured impromptu look back at his career, warning to Biden | Fox News

Radio icon, who died Wednesday at age 70, closed Feb. 2 show by telling listeners: 'We'll be back soon'

End of her majesty: is this the end of the Boeing 747 production?

Ever since the dawn of the jet age within aviation, arguably, Boeing was ahead of the curve. While the early jetliners had their time in the limelight, the Boeing 707 was THE jetliner at the early stages of jet travel. Following up a successful product is no easy feat, but Boeing managed to do so: 12 years after the 707 gave birth to the saying “if it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going,” in 1969, a true Queen claimed her throne.

Understanding Linus's Law for open source security | Opensource.com

Don't trust software you haven't audited.

If you must trust software you haven't audited, then choose to trust code that's exposed to many developers who independently are likely to speak up about a vulnerability.

Open source isn't inherently more secure than proprietary software, but the systems in place to fix it are far better planned, implemented, and staffed.