16 billion is for 200 NGAD fighters and 1000 loyal wing men; which is a glorified drone.
Edit to add: The cost of the program IMO after delays and reworks will be closer to double that amount if not more...

I know, if you go out in public these days or muck around in social media it can seem quite dark and you wonder if something has gotten in the water with all the dark and lost and even evil people you frequently encounter these days.

But fear not I think it's a case of the squeaky wheel gets the attention situation.

Here is a huge ongoing stream of the nicest people you would ever want to meet (and their new family members too!) that surround us every day! 

When this group put out the call on facebook for help, all of these people raised their hands and said "I will!"

NYC to deploy robot cops to busy subway station. $9 an hour for dystopian props.






Any particular movies come to mind?

Quote:What weighs almost 400 pounds, stands roughly 5-foot-3, and, according to Mayor Eric Adams, will be a valuable tool in New York City’s law enforcement efforts?

To Mark Radlein, a restaurant manager, it looked like an oversized version of R2-D2, the droid from the “Star Wars” films. “I don’t know what it’s supposed to be,” he said as he took a picture of the object.

Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy and civil rights group, had a more dismissive view.

A “trash can on wheels,” he called it.

Its official name is K5, and its California-based maker, Knightscope, describes it as a “fully autonomous outdoor security robot.” It is currently used in hospitals, malls, airports, warehouses and casinos, and will soon be deployed in the Times Square subway station, the city’s busiest underground transit hub.

The robot, armed with four cameras, will record video but not audio. It will not employ facial recognition and — at a moment when the mayor is calling for vital city agencies to slash 5 percent of their budgets — the cost of leasing it averages out to about $9 per hour.

Full article: NY Times

Tired of watching the same old thing on a Friday, I dug around for a movie and found this. I remember when it came out and didn't give it much interest, even though Clint is a hell of an actor and director.

So I gave it a go.

Overall, it's what you expect from the tail end of his career, as far as what he's been doing.

Pretty much like the last few I saw, heavily weighted towards the characters and just overall good story telling. If you watched gran torino, it's not that far off.

It's heartwarming, it's a story of broken people, struggling to get back something they've lost, or never had.

Clint has this pattern down pat in his latter years, he plays the worn, broken and shut away character who finds purpose when there was no expectation or hope of finding anything ever again(hence the gran torino reference).

He's a washed up, injured, alcoholic cowboy who's former business partner asks him for a favor, find his long distance son in mexico and bring him home. The plot is obvious, the beauty is in the acting, scenes and emotion you feel as you join the cast on their journey.

I recommend it, if you have the patience for a slow, drawn out but ultimately rewarding journey. Moreso if you identify with Clints characters in these films(broken, shut away and given up on society).

A good comedy for the Halloween season -

https://archive.org/details/killer.-klow...64-yts.-am

A Democrat US Senator accepting bribes? Say it isn't so.

A press event was held today at 11:00 a.m. to announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen.



Democrat Senator (New Jersey) Bob Menendez & his wife Nadine charged with accepting bribes in cash & gold bars in exchange for help with a criminal case, federal prosecutors claim.

Prosecutors in unsealed indictment of Senator Menendez: when they searched his home in June 2022 they found over $480,000 in cash, "much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in closets and a safe."



Mother Court of USA Indictment Vs Robert & Nadine Menendez


Sen. Bob Menendez will immediately step down from his role on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This is a rule as part of the Senate Caucus. If you are under indictment, you cannot serve as the chair of a Committee.

Though he's being charged, Menendez can continue serving in the Senate. He is up for re-election in 2024.

Menendez was previously indicted on federal bribery charges in 2016. That case related to a wealthy Florida eye doctor and longtime friend who gave generous donations to Menendez and allegedly received benefits in return.

In 2012 was implicated in an underage prostitution scandal within the Dominican Republic, however. that may have been a smear campaign. Although, just about anything political coming out of New Jersey is unclean, even after repeated white wash cycles.


His lucky charms has gotta be running out.


Flashback to the good 'ole days...



Wiki

"Ethically repugnant" conduct today would wipe out, expel, and/or imprison all 535 parasites. Ok, maybe 2 or 3 might be worth saving. LOL.

It will always be a classic and still can leave a listener wondering what this reality is all about.

This is funny and is quite a move. While Potato sits and hides, Trump is taking the fight to the front lines. It would be funny if the Unions switched sides though I assume the Union Bosses are bought and paid for by the DNC.

Quote:Some Democrats are panicking that Donald Trump is "outmaneuvering" President Joe Biden, according to a new report.

On Monday, the New York Times reported that Trump will skip the second Republican primary debate on Sept. 27 to visit Detroit, where he will meet with auto union workers. The decision was made just days after the United Auto Workers went on strike.

Trump's decision to skip the debate and engage with union workers, according to the Times, shows that his campaign is looking past the Republican primary and focusing its efforts on campaigning against Biden. And unfortunately for the president, that's also exactly how some Democrats understand it, Politico reported.

"Trump scooped us. Now if we announce we're going, it looks like we're just going because of Trump," a Democratic strategist told Politico. "We waited too long. That's the challenge."

The decision to head to Detroit before Biden, a union adviser told Politico, shows that Trump "actually has people who know what they're doing."

"He boxed Biden in. It was kinda genius," the union adviser said.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who is helping Biden with the autoworker strike, agreed and suggested Biden lacks a successful campaign message that resonates with working-class Americans, like those on the picket line.

"We should not underestimate Donald Trump. He's a survivor and this is going to be a very hard-fought campaign," Khanna said.

"We need a message to working-class Americans," he added. "Right now, they're still hurting in terms of gas prices, food prices, housing costs, utilities costs, and they don't feel like their wages are going up fast enough, and they feel like the very wealthy are getting too much of the rewards. That's what I heard on the picket lines."

The Biden campaign and White House aides, of course, do not believe Trump is "outmaneuvering" Biden. After all, Democrats almost always win union endorsements.

But as Politico noted, Trump won "many rank-and-file union members in 2016," and the White House — by canceling plans to send two top aides to Detroit — is certainly at odds with the unions. That tension is something Trump's campaign will try to exploit beginning this week to build on previous momentum with rank-and-file union workers.

Ahead of his visit, Trump is airing radio ads supporting the workers.

"All they've ever wanted is to compete fairly worldwide and get their fair share of the American dream," the ad says, according to the Times. "Donald Trump calls them great Americans and has always had their backs."

Not much has been disclosed on the crash of the F-35 last week. The pilot had to eject for presently unknown reasons. Since it is a single engine aircraft maybe it was just a simple engine failure and the inability to restart the aircraft. The F-35 is a computer controlled fly by wire (no electricity means no control and no fly) aircraft so an electrical fire with its lithium Ion battery could turn the thing into a lawn dart.

I have not been a fan of the F-35 with its performance and zillion dollar cost overruns.. Not to mention the quoted cost per hour and man hours required to fix the POS for every hour it is flown.


Now for some of the conspiracy theories..to include hacking the operating system