WingWalker7

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”

We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.

The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.

Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@BuzzPatterson Cheers.

When I was at Keesler (‘88-‘94), the retirees tried to get flight suits banned from the Club. The day were ending.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

My cholesterol runs a touch high. I used to take statins and quit over side effects. Working out brought my numbers down. Some time later my doctor suggested getting a calcium score. ZERO! No hard plaques. He dropped the push for statins. He retired, new doctor and a renewed push for statins which I’m resisting. That said, I understand my soft plaques are still an unknown and a concern. QUESTION. Why don’t they order the calcium score (hard plaques) and ultrasound (soft plaques) *BEFORE* pursuing extreme measures like statins? Prescribing statins should be condition based — ie, proven causation in the patient — and not just based on a correlation with cholesterol scores.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@JennyfromtheGOP @johnrich @Ford Average age of my stable? Already 22.6 years and aging.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

@elonmusk Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@JoshHall2024 @PaulHuron1 Please. Don’t sue her pants off. 😬

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem).

This has been explained over and over since day one.

Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying.

The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea.

During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul.

Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it

Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb.

The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability.

So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult

Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world.

Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage.

Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions.

This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: The Moon Launch

OK, look, I admit it. I am an astronaut fanboy nerd (except for one ex-astronaut politician whose head resembles a scrotum).

If you are a late Boomer or early Gen Xer, you remember.

You heard Genesis read from an astronaut orbiting the Moon.

You and all your friends wanted to be astronauts, more than anything.

You remember that your parents bought your family’s first color TV to watch Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

You built the LEM and CSM models and only killed a few brain cells with the glue.

You were scared and prayed during Apollo 13.

You had the lunchbox.

You were sad when they cut off funding for the rest of the Moon landings.

You were amazed when they saved Skylab.

You watched all the movies. (You saw “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13” at least 20 times each.)

You cried over Challenger and Columbia.

You got older and wondered why we became so timid. Why not more of the Moon? Why not Mars? Why not beyond? The ISS seemed so…. limiting.

You always said that the US space program was the one thing you did not care how much your were taxed for.

Elon became a god of space travel, and you were there for it.

So it’s our day, fellow astronaut nerd fanboys and fangirls. Put on your make-believe astronaut beanies and goggles, be 8 again, and remember the way you took that refrigerator cardboard box and turned it into the inside of an Apollo capsule with magic markers, Scotch tape and buttons stolen from your Mom’s sewing box.

WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE FREAKING MOON BABY!!!!!🚀❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CynicalPublius @rcpalmerii Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
— Sun Tzu

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CAgovernor And happy to have, consider it my contribution to ME peace.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CynicalPublius I remember being concerned every time I went through the gate at Khobar. Had colleagues injured there,

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@infantrydort Having many Persian friends from college for 40+ years, having served in PG1, and having had my name painted on the side of 62-1857, 1809’s sister who came home in 1980, I could not be more elated and hopeful to enjoy some ghormeh sabzi with my friends in Tehran one day soon.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@RepSaraJacobs @KimDotcom To quote The Who, “who the f*ck are you?”. F*ckwit.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CaptMarkKelly @naomirwolf Fuckwit. But with due respect. Even so , you’re still a shill. And a fuckwit.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CynicalPublius @aj1747 As someone who has many Persian friends from college, and once had his name painted on 1857 (look it up, hint Desert One and 1809), I’m elated and hopeful today.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@CynicalPublius I always wondered the same about government employees. So? Why should they be guaranteed, regardless of individual/department/organizational performance?

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@Linklevosstwins @ericweinstein Definitely the hottest on the planet.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@SenMarkKelly A country with a $30B international judgement against it for nationalizing the assets of US companies.

[WingWalker7 @WingWalker_7]

@MilaLovesJoe F no!

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Was reliably told this is impossible.