Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
Isn’t it strange how Democrats want to defund the police in your neighborhood, but are totally fine with hiring more police at the U.S. Capitol to protect politicians?

tsar becket adams
@BecketAdams
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Mar 10, 2021
Replying to @BecketAdams
also, uh, long wait or not, those people are all getting the vaccine. so, yeah, that strikes me as pretty great. //

tsar becket adams
@BecketAdams
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Mar 10, 2021
Replying to @BecketAdams
also, uh, long wait or not, those people are all getting the vaccine. so, yeah, that strikes me as pretty great. //

@Just “Mr. Shemp”
@presidentshemp
Replying to @jkbjournalist and @GovRonDeSantis
These were people who didn’t have to sign up? That is FANTASTIC. Wish we had that up here. I’d wait all day instead on 3 months.
7:28 PM · Mar 10, 2021

Cuomo was behind replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2017, even managing to get it named after his father, former NY Governor Mario Cuomo.

But a new report in the Albany Times Union alleges that structural problems, including faulty bolts, were “covered up” and that the New York Thruway Authority didn’t do anything about it.

The report revealed that dozens of bolts, an “abnormally high number that indicated a potential for very serious problems” broke at the assembly site, on the assembled girders, and on other places already installed at the bridge. The girders are held together by “splice plates,” with each connection secured by about 500 bolts. Problems with bolts could weaken the structure and result in a catastrophic collapse, the paper said. //

One worker, Jimmy Jordan, was injured when one of the bolts snapped at the threads as he was trying to tighten it and connect two girders. A piece of the bolt bounced off an overhang and hit him in the face, splitting his lip.

But Jordan, whose facial injury had sparked the whistleblower’s probe, told the Times Union in a series of interviews last year that he believes that the bolts were defective. At a meeting in a parking lot, he showed a reporter a plastic grocery bag full of cracked and broken bolts that he had collected during the construction project — in part because he thought something was wrong. Some of the bolts had gouge-like fissures on the tops where they had apparently not been “finished” during the manufacturing process. Others had snapped along the threads.

“I got a whole bin full of them at home,” said Jordan, who says he was never interviewed by state investigators.

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NYS Thruway, I-87

“All of this is part of the plan,” Jacobson said when asked if they should have been better prepared to handle this influx of children before it changed the policy.

Doesn’t that just say it all?

She then said they needed to convey to the people that they shouldn’t be coming, so she tried to do that in Spanish. But instead of saying that “the border is closed,” she ended up saying “the border is not closed.”

The Pratt & Whitney J58 made the Blackbird the fastest air-breathing plane ever. Which hypersonic aircraft needs the engine now?

Pratt & Whitney has quietly been working on reusable engines capable of powering an aircraft at hypersonic or near-hypersonic speeds.
The engine maker is reportedly going back to its work developing the engines on the SR-71 Blackbird.
Studies indicate the Blackbird’s J58 engine could be developed to provide even more power, making aircraft faster. //

The J58 was a one-of-a-kind engine. Its unique trick involved the ability to transition from turbojet engine to turbo-ramjet engine in flight, sucking in vast amounts of oxygen-rich air and burning it to drastically increase engine output. Each J58 could generate up to 32,000 pounds of thrust in afterburner mode, a spectacular feat for an engine designed in the 1950s. //

For all of its power, however, the J58 engine is more than 60 years old. A new J58, updated with modern materials and advanced cooling systems, could generate even more power, Aviation Week says. Sources say the Metacomet is likely aiming for a speed somewhere between Mach 4 and Mach 5.

But where does the new engine belong? The most likely candidate is in an unmanned, high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft. In November 2013, Lockheed Martin proposed the “SR-72,” a follow-up to the SR-71, and observers allegedly spotted a sub-scale flight demonstrator in 2017. That’s the last time we heard anything about the SR-72.