In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler examine the recent gifted plane from Qatar, Comey’s 8647, Robert Hur’s audio released, Hannah Dugan and other ICE protests, Harvard’s board, and the new masquerade for DEI in universities and libraries.
Victor, I’d like to add some observations about Boeing (based on 20 years at another defense contractor where I dealt with Boeing as a customer, supplier and competitor). While the current DEI mess at Boeing has added to its woes, they are just the icing on the poop. Boeing started downhill in the mid nineties when, as we joked at the time, MacDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money. Mac Air had already succumbed to the ‘run the company with MBAs armed with spreadsheets’ mentality and it immediately carried over to the merged company. On the commercial aircraft side, this first became obvious in the mid 2000s during the development of the 787, where the beancounters subcontracted huge amounts of the plane’s content, often to suppliers that had never manufactured a composite part before. That mess was salvaged by sending Boeing engineers all over the world to ‘fix’ the suppliers (something they couldn’t do today because the engineering talent has left). The Defense and Space division followed suit (I can’t tell these tales because they are still classified), but they were every bit as bad. The 737 Max resulted from the beancounters telling the engineers how to design an airplane. Yes the DEI crap they adopted when it was fashionable has added to Boeing’s woes but the corporation was already soul dead before that came along. Boeing goes on the list along with GE, Westinghouse, IBM and many other great 20th century companies that have committed corporate suicide.
Like the Obamas and justice department liberals, the Clintons were hyper-sensitive to any criticism as well, esecially during 1996’s File-gate, when private FBI files were found in the White House at Hillary’s disposal.
At a Chicago food fair that July, glad-handing Bill approached a cheering crowd and extended his hand toward a woman who refused.
“You suck and those boys died,” she protested, referring to 19 U.S. airmen who died in a bombing a month prior in Saudi Arabia.
The woman said Clinton looked her in the eyes, then motioned to an assistant and pointed her out, as he continued to get photos of people shaking hands with him.
She and her husband were hustled away by the Secret Service for “threatening the president,” and interrogated for 12 hours by the Chicago Police, then charged with disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor before they were allowed to leave police headquarters — charges later dropped.
As for classified documents, don’t forget Sandy Berger who on behalf of protecting the Clinton’s legacy post-911, shoved classified documents down his underpants and stole them from the National Archives.
86 has another source. Article 86 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is Absent Without Leave (AWOL). i believe that many of the bar uses came from that. Being gone. Comey was a Marine so he would be familiar with “86”.I know that when I got tossed out of a bar for fighting, my buddies kidded me about being 86’d.
Lady journalist was criticized for commenting on Biden’s interview
— I think it was CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Suggest Topic:
How did the Greeks and Romans handle jail and prisoners?
I don’t know about the Greeks.
My understanding is the Romans had punishments and executions.
They also had placement: soldiers, gladiators, household and construction.
Most persons didn’t stay in jail very long.
The prisoners who stayed in jail the longest were the big shots
held for ransom while money was being raised.
At one point, Attila the Hun was held.