Janice Stroud

[Texas VLB @TexasVLB]

Join the VLB for an Unaccompanied Veteran Burial at the Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery in Corpus Christi.

U.S. Navy Veteran Christopher Ray Flores will be laid to rest on Wednesday, June 10th, at 10:00 a.m.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@stationcasinos @MeltzVegas Omg I need one of these. Where is Stations Casino it’s not on the strip is it?

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

Several cars caught on fire inside the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid Airport right as the temperature in Las Vegas hit 101°F.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@legend034 @paulmaranto Probably but all us boomers be dead when it happens.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@KrytakliAklaimd @VigilantFox @aziceworm The people I knew who died were very old and got bad medical advice or they were diabetic. Not a single smoker in my family got the covid pneumonia.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@csim1977 @ATXVegasFan @itsvegasmatt Yes and what happens if the bluetooth or whatever connects your card to the machine to the wallet freezes up. The technology may exist but is all of Vegas casinos going to get this tech online in next 5 years?

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@ATXVegasFan @itsvegasmatt I said it’s coming but never forget Cash is King.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@SkylarJameson1 @LuckyTraveling I stayed there once. I think it’s haunted.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@SCVegas Wynn

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@robolivermd @VigilantFox I’m your walking talking evidence 🤷‍♀️

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@KrytakliAklaimd @VigilantFox @aziceworm Smoker here. Had the mildest of all symptoms when I got it. Only ones in my family who had milder cases were the kiddos. Ones who had worse were the diabetics.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@robolivermd @VigilantFox No you’re wrong. There’s an actual scientific paper on why smokers didn’t do worse on covid and it’s because nicotine resides in the epithelial cells of lungs where covid liked to go and replicate

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@dbrownhess Never resume normal activities after an invasive procedure. You want to keep swelling down because if you stress the area and get swelling you will feel pain & that sucks. Just relax and don’t worry, 80% of these are benign. Odds in your favor. Got you in my prayers.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The richest guy on the planet is about to rob your 401K
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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The more Netanyahu prevents the war with Iran from ending, the more obvious it becomes that he convinced Trump to start it.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@Soothsayer1000 @KatrinMarquez yah what @dorkwad21 said

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@csim1977 @MLiamMcCollum Well you nailed that one

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@VegasUncomped @SkylarJameson1 Lol I judge places by their coffee. Wynn has excellent coffee.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

Swell my Denver to Fairbanks is on a 737 Max

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

If you have ever boarded a plane, you should read this once.

In January 2020, Boeing handed over 100 pages of internal messages to Congress. They had to. The court asked for them.

These were not press releases. These were messages between Boeing's own engineers, pilots, and managers. Texts. Slack. Emails. The kind of thing you write when you think no one is watching.

What was inside was Boeing employees, in their own words, describing the plane they were building. Not a critic's words. Not a journalist's. Theirs.

This is the plane that crashed twice in five months. 346 people died.

Here is what they wrote.

- A Boeing employee wrote about the 737 MAX in a 2018 message: "This airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys."

- In a 2018 message, one employee asked a colleague: "Would you put your family on a MAX simulator-trained aircraft?" The colleague wrote back: "No." A third employee said: "I wouldn't."

- Boeing's chief technical pilot, Mark Forkner, wrote in 2016 messages that the MAX's flight control system was "running rampant" during a simulator session. He used a stronger word than "rampant."

- Forkner also wrote that he was "Jedi mind-tricking" foreign regulators into approving the plane without proper training.

These messages were sent before the plane started flying paying passengers.

Then there is the system that killed both planes.

- Boeing added a new piece of software to the 737 MAX called MCAS. It could push the plane's nose down on its own, without the pilot asking. It was triggered by a single sensor on the nose of the plane. If that one sensor was wrong, MCAS would activate anyway.

- Boeing did not tell the pilots MCAS existed. It was not in the flight manual. It was not in pilot training. Most pilots flying the 737 MAX learned the system existed only after the first crash, in October 2018.

- Boeing's own engineering analysis found that if a pilot took more than 10 seconds to figure out what MCAS was doing and override it, the result was "catastrophic." That word is from Boeing's own coordination memo, dated March 2016. Two and a half years before the first crash.

- Pilots in both crashes had no idea what MCAS was. They had no idea the plane was fighting them. They fought it for several minutes. They lost.

Then there is the FAA, the agency that is supposed to catch this kind of thing.

- In December 2018, after the first crash, the FAA did its own internal analysis. The conclusion: if MCAS was left as it was, there would be 15 more fatal crashes of the 737 MAX over the life of the fleet.

- The FAA did not ground the plane. It kept flying for another three months. The Ethiopian Airlines crash happened on March 10, 2019. 157 more people died.

- The US was one of the last countries in the world to ground the 737 MAX. China grounded it first. Then Europe. Then everyone else. The US held out until it could not.

Then there is what Boeing told the public while all of this was happening.

- Boeing's CEO at the time, Dennis Muilenburg, repeatedly told the press the 737 MAX was safe. He told the families of the victims it was safe. He told Congress it was safe.

- Internal Boeing documents released later showed that Boeing had been actively pressuring the FAA to remove every mention of MCAS from the pilot training manuals. Forkner's own messages show him pushing for this in 2016.

- Boeing knew the 10-second reaction time would be catastrophic. Boeing knew the system could be triggered by a single faulty sensor. Boeing knew most pilots had never heard of MCAS. Boeing said the plane was safe.

Then the bill came.

- In 2021, Boeing paid $2.5 billion to settle a fraud conspiracy charge with the US Department of Justice.

- In July 2024, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a felony fraud charge. A federal judge in Texas rejected that plea deal in December 2024 as too lenient.

- In May 2025, the DOJ announced a new non-prosecution agreement. Boeing avoided a felony conviction. Boeing pays $1.1 billion total. $487.2 million in criminal fines. $444.5 million into a victims' fund. $445 million into "compliance and safety" programs Boeing runs itself.

- The families of the 346 victims asked the DOJ to fine Boeing $24 billion. They were ignored.

- Mark Forkner, the pilot who "Jedi mind-tricked" regulators, was the only individual ever criminally charged. He was acquitted by a jury in 2022.

- Not a single Boeing executive has been criminally prosecuted for any of this.

Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case.

The engineers said the plane was designed by clowns. The chief pilot said he tricked regulators. Boeing's own analysis said a slow reaction would be catastrophic. The FAA's own analysis predicted 15 more crashes. Two crashes happened. 346 people died. Boeing's 2018 net income was $10.5 billion. The 2025 fine of $1.1 billion is roughly one tenth of that. No executive went to prison.

None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist's interpretation. These are court filings, DOJ press releases, House Transportation Committee reports, and Boeing's own internal documents.

The point of this post is not to scare you off your next flight.

The point is to notice what just happened.

A company knew its plane could kill people. It had the math in writing. It told the regulators a different story. It told the public an even different story. The plane killed 346 people. The 2018 net income alone was nine times the eventual fine. The man who lied to regulators walked free. The whistleblowers were silenced or are dead.

And the company is still building planes today. The same factory.

The lesson is not "do not fly Boeing." Most of us cannot tell which plane we are boarding, and switching to a different airline often gets you on the same model anyway.

The lesson is the gap between what a company says and what its own employees write down when they think no one is watching.

When a company tells you it cares about safety, ask what its engineers are saying internally. When a company tells you its product is fine, ask what its lawyers know. When a regulator tells you a product is approved, ask who paid to be in the room when it was approved.

346 people boarded a plane that day in Indonesia. 157 more boarded one in Ethiopia. None of them knew about MCAS. None of them knew about the 10-second window. None of them knew their pilots had not been trained.

The clowns and monkeys line is funny until you read the next page of the report.

That is when you find out what the clowns and monkeys built.

[Janice Stroud @jlsHouston]

@VegasUncomped @SkylarJameson1 @ATXVegasFan Lol I think I did. With my mom. I think it had stairs right? I remember a casino that was Merv Griffin too and the buffet was really bad. Mainly in the 90’s I rarely gambled but a few times I did the Grand in Biloxi. That more my style even back then lol