The meat looks delicious. You can buy it right now with your brother's credit card.

The Air Force’s vaunted Thunderbirds jet fighter aerobatics team is not diverse enough inside the cockpit.

Brig. Gen. Christopher M. Short, commander of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, said in an email last month that of 15 pilot applicants for three openings, 14 are white.

He asked fighter wing commanders to stir up more candidates who “don’t necessarily look like each of you.” He bemoaned the fact that, not only is there a lack of diversity, but the number of applicants to make the world-famous team has taken a puzzling drop in the past two years.

“I am asking for your help in finding the right pilots for next year’s Thunderbirds team,” is how Gen. Short begins his email.

“While we have several qualified candidates that many of you submitted, I am lacking the depth in talent we’ve seen in previous years and I am lacking in diversity of gender, ethnicity and [aircraft type] background,” Gen. Short wrote.

His wing commands more than 100 combat aircraft, as well as the Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Thunderbirds.

“As you look out at your wings, I’d also ask you to look at those pilots that may have the ability to reach our audiences that don’t necessarily look like each of you,” he said.

All eight current Thunderbird pilots are white males. Of the eight, six fly the demonstrations, one flies as the lead and narrator, and one is the operations officer. They fly on the team for two years, and three of the six demonstration fliers are replaced annually.

Gen. Short told the story of former Thunderbird pilot Caroline “Blaze” Jensen, the team’s right wing and No. 3 (now one of the openings), who was not only a skilled performer but also a public relations asset. The longest lines of fans seeking autographs typically formed in front of her.

“Being a female pilot allowed her to make connections none of the other pilots were able to do,” Gen. Short said. “While she brought a different gender demographic — she was also a reservist — she earned her position on the team and, like each of the team members, did an amazing job representing our AF.”

The general, himself an F-15 pilot, acknowledged that there may not be a sufficient pool of black and female pilots in the Air Force.

“I don’t expect a huge push of diverse applicants, primarily because our pool isn’t very diverse,” he wrote. “But I need talent on the team as well, and some of the 15 applicants just don’t have the depth of record of our typical competitive applicant. I am hoping you have one or two you can engage and discuss the impact they could have on our Air Force by becoming a Thunderbird pilot.”

He said he does not know why the number of applicants is shrinking.

“If you have insights on why we are not getting the number of traditional applicants, I’d love to hear,” he said. “The challenge cuts across many [aircraft types] on the team, so I think it is a reflection of a slightly tired force — but there may be other factors I’m missing. I would really appreciate your help.”

He added: “With over 200 days a year of [duty away from base] and a focus on retaining, recruiting and representing our AF, this has to be a volunteer, but I have found, and learned from others, that the reluctant volunteer often makes the best Thunderbird officer. I’d offer that those chosen for the team do very well in school and promotion competition — often they come in with the record that supports that — but we have taken very good care of those with excellent records.”

The Washington Times asked the Air Force whether Gen. Short was able to attract more applicants.

“Unfortunately, it is too early to discuss applicants or the composition of next season’s team,” said Maj. Sheila Johnston, a Nellis spokeswoman.

In a speech one year ago, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James ordered her service to become more diverse, especially by bringing in more women and training more female pilots.

Women make up about 20 percent of officers and 6.7 percent of pilots. Women at the midlevel ranks are leaving at twice the rate of men.

“Diversity and inclusion will help us to become more strategically agile in our Air Force,” Ms. James said.

Gen. Short’s email was posted on the blog site John Q. Public. It is run by a retired Air Force officer who fights political correctness and welcomes commentary and tips from the active force.

The blogger, who asked not to be identified, commented on Gen. Short’s email: “If there’s a concern about getting enough nominees with the experience and flying ability to build a successful team, as Short attests, the message should arguably have been a much more straightforward push for the best candidates, regardless of sex or skin color. Seems like Short’s message here is ‘send me more diverse candidates’ and also they need to be superb pilots. Shouldn’t the message read more like ‘send me your best pilots, and do your best to incorporate visible diversity.’”

Lt. Col. Christopher Karns, an Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon, said, “Ensuring a diverse Air Force is critically important. The Thunderbirds are key to recruiting. Having a diverse team can only help the Air Force reflect the nation and the people it serves.

“The Air Force is actively working to ensure we attract, recruit, develop and retain top talent. A team such as the Thunderbirds serves as global ambassadors for the Air Force. Different types of people from different backgrounds offer different perspectives and vantage points. As a force, we need to not only be operationally relevant but culturally competent,” Col. Karns said.

The US is responsible for the crap Europe is in? Liberal logic right there. I think Europe is responsible for their own crap.

Yes, this is totally how I see it as well.

I had the unfortunate experience once of encountering a horse by the side of the road that was the victim of a hit and run.  It was bleeding profusely, and it was, as you say, a dead horse that did not know it was dead already. 

Having no guns or knives to put the poor animal out of it's misery, there was nothing I could do.  The thought actually did cross my mind, though.  "I could beat the dead horse," and then I would be able to say I beat a dead horse.  But that it was already dead did not mean it might not bite back. 

It's useful, though to attempt to actualize many phrases used in speech.  Now I'm not an advocate of beating dead horses, you see.  From the above it's obvious that I declined the opportunity.  But I do suggest that advocates of Bernie mull all this over while they piss into the wind.

This is not boring national, tax funded french/euro television. This is US cable TV. I understand you can't tell the difference and like to comment on things you do not master on a country you hate.

 

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!

This is what you get when a few decide to give others the authorization of having human's rights. They can take them away as fast at the turn of the next revolution, with fields soaked in blood. It's not as if they know any better, when you look into the european's past history of those serial sermonizers...

Spendulus and Wilikon gave this article out saying it proves the "pause they're all claiming". here is the article:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/mann-splaining-the-pause.php

Of course ti's not a scientific article or study just a blog. But no problem the article says there is a pause so it's interesting. It's using a very biased vocabulary but hey, who has no opinion? It's not a crime to be happy when your side wins!

Let's check the sources then. Not very diversified sourcing but well. Mainly Nature articles so let's check them.

First source:
http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-hiatus-debate-flares-up-again-1.19414?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20160225&spMailingID=50779167&spUserID=MTc2NjY4OTI4MwS2&spJobID=863136582&spReportId=ODYzMTM2NTgyS0

Do they talk about a pause in temperature?
"The debate revolves in part around statistics on temperature trends. The study1 that questioned the existence of the slowdown corrected known biases in the surface temperature record maintained by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), such as differences in temperature readings from ships and buoys. This effectively increased the warming recorded, and the researchers also extended the record to include 2014, which set a new record high for average temperatures.

That work, led by Thomas Karl, director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina, calculated the rate of global warming between 1950 and 1999 as being 0.113 °C per decade, similar to the 0.116 °C a decade calculated for 2000–14. This, Karl said, meant that an assessment done by the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 20133  showing that warming had slowed was no longer valid.

Fyfe and his colleagues argue2 that Karl’s approach was biased by a period of relatively flat temperatures that extended from the 1950s into the early 1970s. Greenhouse-gas emissions were lower then, and emissions of industrial pollutants such as sulphate aerosols were cooling the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. Fyfe says that his calculations show that the planet warmed at 0.170 °C per decade from 1972 to 2001, which is significantly higher than the warming of 0.113 °C per decade he calculates for 2000–14."

Ok so they never talk about a pause here... They talk about a slow down...

Let's check the second source:
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-hiatus-disappears-with-new-data-1.17700

"All told, Karl's team finds that global temperatures increased at a rate of 0.116°C a decade in 2000–14, compared to a rate of 0.113°C in 1950–99. And Karl says that rate will probably go up once his team calculates the temperature increase for the entirety of the rapidly warming Arctic. Researchers found in 2013 that gaps in Arctic observations artificially cooled the Met Office temperature record2.

The latest study only resolved part of the question. Climate models used by the IPCC still project warming to continue, but scientists have documented various factors for which the models have not accounted, resulting in suppressed temperatures. These contributors include weak solar irradiation, volcanic aerosols that block sunlight and ocean circulation3.

“Once you take into account the slight forcing errors, the actual occurrence of El Niños, et cetera, there is very little left to explain,” says Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City."

Damn no pause here either!


Could it be possible that they talk only about a slow down because it's all there is?

Answer is not so simple.
We have to understand that Arabs countries was under dictatorship regimes for a very long time (Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya) etc.

When Arabs spring arrived, in most countries happened big politic change and democracy but people wasn't prepared for it.
Political instability created chaos and new conflicts.
You can't blame Western countries for it.

They didn't initiate this political and democratic movements but reacted in some countries, like Libya, in order to protect innocent people from brutal dictator.
Unfortunately, their actions created even more chaos and conflicts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421053/Romanian-mother-paid-7-000-abuse-11-month-old-daughter-online-British-paedophiles-said-thought-okay-just-game-girl.html

I just can't believe mother can do such thing ..And those who paying to see this i don't know how to call it abuse - incest..

In her newly published collection of personal essays, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham describes experimenting sexually with her younger sister Grace, whom she says she attempted to persuade to kiss her using “anything a sexual predator might do.” In one particularly unsettling passage, Dunham experimented with her six-year younger sister’s vagina. “This was within the spectrum of things I did,” she writes.

FOX News Gained 700,000 Viewers for Trump Victory Speech – Lost One Million Viewers When It was Over



    Donald Trump bragged about his wine, his water and his steaks during his “Super Tuesday 2” primary night news conference. Based on early ratings data from Nielsen, he can add another feather to his cap: his ratings.

    Trump’s presser dominated cable news coverage on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC during the 9 p.m. hour, and the ratings reflect that. All told, an average of 8.8 million viewers were watching one of those three channels during the 9 p.m. hour. Compare that to an average of 7.4 million people watching during the 8 p.m. hour and 7.3 million people watching during the 10 p.m. hour.

    Fox News added 700,000 viewers in the 9 p.m. hour (for a total of 4.24 million viewers) compared to 8 p.m. and lost more than 1 million viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. CNN added 500,000 viewers from 8 to 9 p.m. (2.97 million viewers) and lost more than 300,000 at 10 p.m. MSNBC gained more than 100,000 viewers in the 9 p.m. hour (1.65 million viewers) compared to 8 p.m., and lost 100,000 in the 10 p.m. hour.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/03/donald-trump-appearance-tops-cable-news-220510


 

A lot of people applauded too, when gays were dying of AIDS in the 80s... Maybe you were not born yet.

I don't know why but I read "advocates of Bernie mules pissing this all over the wind..."