Let's rock.
Fire for effect.
It's heating up. Monday ought to be interesting.
Jimmy Panetta
James Varni Panetta (/pəˈnɛtə/ pə-NEH-tə; born October 1, 1969) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Navy intelligence officer from the state of California. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the U.S. representative for California's 19th congressional district. Formerly his district was numbered the 20th congressional district. His current district includes southeast San Jose and much of California's Central Coast, including Monterey, Santa Cruz, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Paso Robles to the south.[1] Panetta was first elected in 2016, after working as a deputy district attorney for Monterey County. He is the son of former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and holds the same congressional seat his father once held.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Panetta
Panetta was sworn into office on January 3, 2017.[13][failed verification] House Democrats selected him to be a regional whip for Northern California, the Central Coast, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific Islands.[14]
Twice, in 2018 and in 2019, Panetta introduced a bill commonly stylized as the KITTEN Act, a legislative proposal to curtail certain types of animal testing.[15][16]
As of October 2021, Panetta had voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.[17]
In February 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Panetta signed a letter advocating for President Biden to give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.[18]
During May 2024, Panetta joined a bipartisan House delegation that traveled to Taiwan to signal support for the newly elected pro-Taiwanese independence government in the aftermath of Chinese military exercises that simulated a blockade of Taiwan.[19]
At SUNRISE. The end of darkness.
And a de-brief.
I think they pissed off that their "back-up," are getting booted as well. It's WHY they stack the front load.
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My current watch looks a lot like the one on the right. Can't afford to really spend that kind of money on something I have already had for years.
Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says
Reuters
Sun, July 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM PDT
(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) status page said on Sunday.
The reason for the request was not immediately clear.
Alaska Airlines and the FAA did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment outside regular business hours.
The FAA status page showed all destinations being impacted by the ground stop of Alaska's mainline aircraft.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/alaska-airlines-requests-ground-stop-030945093.html
Alaska Airlines Asks to Ground Its Fleet, F.A.A. Says
The reason for the grounding, issued in an F.A.A. advisory just after 9 p.m. on Sunday, was not immediately clear.
By Yan Zhuang
July 20, 2025
Alaska Airlines requested a ground stop for its entire fleet of planes that operate under its brand name, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an advisory on Sunday night.
The reason for the advisory, issued just after 9 p.m. on Sunday, was not immediately clear. The grounding affects more than 200 planes under the Alaska Airlines brand but does not affect aircraft operated by the airline’s subsidiaries. As of April 24, Alaska Airlines said it operated 238 planes, all Boeings, under its brand.
Neither Alaska Airlines nor the F.A.A responded immediately to requests for comment.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/business/alaska-airlines-grounds-plane-fleet.html
Alaska Airlines grounds all mainline flights nationwide, FAA says
By KIRO 7 News Staff
July 20, 2025 at 9:00 pm PDT
Alaska Airlines requested a nationwide ground stop for all its mainline aircraft on Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) status page.
The FAA’s website showed that the order affected all destinations served by Alaska Airlines’ mainline fleet.
The reason for the sudden halt was not immediately provided.
KIRO 7 News has reached out to Alaska Airlines for more information.
Users have started reporting issues with Alaska Airlines’ app and website.
Comments include “At checkout they say all the machines are down so everyone has to wait in line.”
Other people are saying they are stuck at various airports and aren’t allowed to board.
" Can confirm that all Alaska flights out of Seattle are not departing. We are sitting on a plane scheduled to go to Portland.
— DB Cooper (@FR_Downforce) July 21, 2025"
It was not immediately clear how many flights were affected or whether regional operations were included in the ground stop.
The FAA’s listing made clear that only Alaska’s mainline aircraft—typically larger jets used on longer routes—were subject to the halt.
The airline had not issued a public statement as of Sunday evening.
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https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-grounds-all-mainline-flights-nationwide-faa-says/VW4X75B7SZED5MQMY6SCQE57GE/
Warren Bass demonstrates how U.S. policy toward Israel evolved from the chill of the Eisenhower period to President John F. Kennedy's view by late 1962 that regional developments justified the first major sale of U.S. arms to that country. His book is the most recent contribution to the growing body of literature on U.S.-Israeli relations based on archival sources and the first to deal with the broader context of Kennedy's policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.1
Bass divides his book into three sections of two chapters each, only the last of which analyzes U.S.-Israeli relations during the Kennedy period. The first chapter, “Kennedy's Inheritance,” is a rather lengthy but useful review of U.S. policy toward Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from Presidents Wilson to Eisenhower. The shorter chapter that follows explores Kennedy's early acquaintance with the Middle East and introduces the senior advisers and diplomats who administered policy during his presidency. Bass serves his readers well by explaining not only the approaches to the region of McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, and Dean Rusk, but also the influence of less prominent officials such as John Badeau, a leading Arabist whom Kennedy appointed ambassador to Egypt, Robert Komer, who had charge of Middle East affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), and Phillips Talbot, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. The outstanding features of the Middle East policy that the Eisenhower administration left these men were mistrust of a “skittish” Israel and hostile relations with Egypt. “Kennedy concluded that Eisenhower and Dulles had made a hash of things” (p. 48) and promised in his inaugural address to “support any friend … to assure the survival and success of liberty” (p. 1).
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https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/29/2/379/594613?login=false
Kennedy and Israel: The turning point
U.S. President John F. Kennedy's relationship with Israel had its ups and downs but it symbolized the beginning of Jerusalem's long-standing strategic partnership with Washington
Exactly five decades have passed since Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. That day, which is etched in shame in the collective memory, Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the outskirts of Dallas, putting an end to a thousand days of high hopes and rising optimism about the United Statess ability to reshape the international environment according to the American vision.
The main thread running through the Kennedy era in the White House was the burning faith in the unlimited intellectual and scientific ability of human beings, which allowed them to overcome technological and mental limitations. In other words, the confidence of President Kennedy (who was anchored in the pragmatic tradition of the American nation) in the idea that there was a solution for every problem infused Washington of the early 1960s with a spirit of initiative and frenetic activity with the goal to change the global balance of power from the ground up.
Kennedy believed that in this way, the U.S. would be able to achieve superior status at the expense of the Soviet Union. His desire was to form a new and ambitious policy that would cause significant satellite countries, Egypt first among them, to be cut off from the circle of Soviet power and influence and bring them close to the West.
To accomplish this, Kennedy made a series of far-reaching economic gestures to Egypts president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. These included a significant increase in foreign aid, the provision of loans with easy repayment conditions with the cooperation of the World Monetary Fund and financing long-range development programs. Kennedy hoped that extending a helping hand and engaging in a series of confidence-building measures would slowly chip away at Nassers ideological commitment to financing and arming anti-Western underground movements in Aden, Libya and Oman.
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https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/134981
This kinda shit seems to explain why Johnson didn't like Kennedy and may also explain why the USS stark incident took place, especially if Johnson was a closet nazi adherent. They may have had intel that Johnson was being a prick and selling them out to their enemies, you know, kinda like Brennan and others.
Yeah, but they are sure being less than forthwith on the reason why.
Think it through. What possible reason or reasons would their be, to ground ALL flights? Unknown mechanical? Bad fuel? Or something related to a crew or passenger?
How much did Bill Gates get for selling back doors to his OS to foreign and domestic, "entities?"
>Ben Minicucci
Benito Minicucci (born April 27, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the president and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group, the parent company of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air.
Minicucci was born in Montreal, Quebec. His parents were from Casacalenda campobasso and immigrated to Montreal from Italy in the 1950s. Minicucci received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2012, he completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.[1]
Following graduation from college, Minicucci served 14 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. After, he joined Air Canada where he worked in a variety of roles in technical operations and later as vice president of heavy maintenance.[2]
Minicucci joined Alaska Airlines in 2004, where he first worked as staff vice president of maintenance. He went on to hold roles as executive vice president of Alaska’s operations in Seattle and chief operating officer.[3] In 2016, he became president of Alaska Airlines where he led the company’s expansion into California and was CEO of Virgin America during Alaska’s acquisition of the airline.[4][5] AFAR magazine named Minicucci one of their Global Visionaries in 2019.[6]
Minicucci is on board of directors for Airlines for America, UNCF Seattle, World Trade Center Seattle, Challenge Seattle, Washington Roundtable, and the University of Washington Foster School of Business Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking Advisory Board.[8]
Minicucci became a U.S. citizen in 2012.[citation needed] He also has a brother Pasquale, (Pat) who had a very successful career in the banking sector in Toronto. He lives in Issaquah, Washington.[9]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Minicucci
How many different avionic softwares do companies run? I'm pretty sure there are probably either one main one, or maybe a few alternate ones.