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jmowreader's JournalCorrupt Minnesota business owner dies in Montana warbird crash
https://theanswerhawaii.com/news/national/founder-of-minnesota-based-precision-lens-dies-when-vintage-airplane-crashes-in/6f5f571cf5d76021b49d1cb7b0066b97Paul Ehlen, cofounder of Bloomington, Minnesota-based medical products company Precision Lens, died at 8:07 am Tuesday, June 27, when the World War II-vintage Curtiss P-40E aircraft he was piloting lost power and crashed at Ravalli County Airport, Hamilton, MT, during his takeoff on his way back to Minnesota.
Okay...plane made in the 1940s, elderly aviator at the controls, stuff happens, right? Well...now it gets interesting.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/court-enters-487-million-judgment-against-precision-lens-and-owner-paul-ehlen-paying
Precision Lens sells, as you probably guessed, products for eye surgery. They were caught by the feds for making kickbacks, in the form of expensive travel and entertainment, to ophthalmic surgeons to induce them to use Precision Lens products in cataract surgeries billed to Medicare. They maintained a fund Precision Lens used to pay for this travel. The government found that Precision Lens' conduct caused 64,575 false Medicare claims to be filed, resulting in $43,694,641.71 damage to Medicare. The result was that Precision Lens and Ehlen were ordered to pay $487,048,705.13.
I checked Ehlen's OpenSecrets page...lots of money flowing to Republicans, including $5600 to Trump.
Me being a suspicious individual I can't help but think this crash isn't what it seems.
NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson's in-laws, nephew die in murder-suicide
https://www.kcra.com/article/nascar-jimmie-johnson-in-laws-murder-suicide/44362499#When police arrived on the scene, they found one person near the front door of the home and then heard a gunshot from further inside, where officers later found two other people dead, Hamlin said. Hamlin confirmed the three are the parents and nephew of Johnson’s wife, Chandra Janway.
The cops believe the wife killed the husband and their grandchild before turning the gun on herself.
This is the complete statement from Johnson's race team Legacy Motor Club, where he runs a limited schedule:
The Johnson family has asked for privacy at this time and no further statements will be made.
NASCAR's statement:
Very sad situation all around.
My suspicion as to what caused the Titan disaster
Well...apart from the insanity of getting in such a thing and diving two miles below the surface of the ocean.
This vessel made something like 50 dives, many of them to the Titanic. The water pressure at Titanic depth is 5625 psi. By comparison, water will compress by one percent of its volume at the relatively low pressure of 3000 psi. Hence, this thing was at a depth high enough to compress something normally considered absolutely incompressible.
Titan's pressure hull was made of 660 layers of filament-wound carbon fiber. What that means is they got a big pipe or something that was the outside diameter of the inside of the pressure hull, coated it with something epoxy won't stick to, and put it in a machine that will rotate it at a certain number of revolutions per minute. This pipe would be called a mandrel. They then got a roll of carbon fiber, and wound the filament onto the mandrel through a machine that coated the filament in epoxy until the winding was as long as they needed it to be. Epoxy is used because it's the only thing that'll stick to carbon fiber. Once they get to the end of the winding they put a new roll of CF onto the machine and wind it back the other direction. Do this over and over until you have 660 layers of CF on the mandrel. After doing all this they stick the mandrel and its layer of CF into an autoclave to cure it. At the end of the curing cycle they pull out the mandrel and have a pressure hull.
This is a video of them making a Boeing 787 fuselage section the same way.
Filament-wound carbon fiber is used for many things like making bicycle forks. It is a proven and reliable technology.
Now for the problem: Epoxy is not flexible. At the depths this boat operated, it was going to compress at least slightly. US Navy submarines compress at their operating depth, which is far shallower than Titan worked at. Repeated compression and expansion is going to abuse the epoxy, and at some point the abuse is going to get severe enough that the epoxy in the CF matrix will fail. Unfortunately for five rich people, this failure happened at the worst possible time - when the boat was two miles below the surface.
NASCAR track in Pennsylvania helps reopen I-95 in Philly
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44301369/nascar-jet-dryer-i-95-bridge-rebuild/#Interstate 95 through Philadelphia is currently impaired because a burning truckload of gasoline melted a bridge. The state transportation agency, PennDOT, is working very hard to build a temporary bridge to get the traffic moving again.
One of the final tasks is to paint markings on the bridge surface. That requires perfectly dry pavement, which they don't have.
The solution? NASCAR tracks have jet dryers. What they are is an airplane engine mounted in the bed of a pickup with a hose coming down and to the side. Those things will dry off a racetrack in short order. There happens to be a NASCAR track in Pennsylvania that isn't using theirs at this time, so PennDOT called Pocono Raceway and the speedway sent theirs to Philly.
Anyone got any good Hell jokes?
https://www.quora.com/Did-you-know-that-Hell-is-not-something-to-joke-aboutOne of Quora's Christian trolls posted a question, "did you know that Hell is not something to joke about?"
There are currently 58 Hell jokes on the thread. Yours can be too!
After watching snippets of the latest Fox News Trump interview...
The next person to interview the Disgraced, Twice-Impeached, Twice-Indicted, Corrupt, Crooked and Senile Loser better be Samuel L. Jackson.
"Mr. President, you lost the 2020 election."
"No, Mr. Jackson, I won the 2020 election by a lot."
"MOTHERFUCKER, PULL YOUR EMPTY HEAD OUT OF YOUR BLOATED ASS, WASH IT THE FUCK OFF AND GROW THE FUCK UP ALREADY! You fucking LOST. Deal with it!"
One of my cats escaped while I was on vacation (he has returned)
In my house, cats name themselves.
This cat's name is Rotten. Because he is.
Anyway, I left him at my niece's house when I went on vacation. She likes Rotten and he's been there before, so no problem.
She owns a Mastiff. Apparently Rotten got tired of knocking sense into this damned dog and escaped the house. And it's not like he hauled ass out the front door. Oh no! The little bastard figured out how to open a double-hung window, knocked out the window screen and headed for the hills.
While I'm enjoying a somewhat-boring NASCAR race I get a text: Rotten has escaped. When Race Control threw a caution for a loose tire on the track, I called her up: he'll be okay, he is a rescued alley cat, we'll find him.
I sent pictures. They showed them to all the neighbors. They also called the cops, who were apparently quite amused by this cat's name.
On Wednesday when I got home I stopped by her house to pick up my other cat and my sister reported that "I almost caught him but he's a slippery little shit."
About half an hour after I got the other cat situated in the house sister calls: "He's in a shrubbery in front of someone's house! Come quick!" I roar over there as fast as the speed limit would allow with a can of cat treats and a can of catnip. I hand them out. "Just shake these as hard as you can." Then I positioned myself at the end of the shrubbery. Rotten walks out demanding to be petted and going "what's all the fuss?"
Imagine if Trump were to take the stand in his own defense
"The witness will state his name for the record."
"President Donald John Trump."
"The jury is hereby ordered to disregard the witness's self-proclaimed title as he is no longer president."
"Mr. Trump, please state your occupation for the record."
"I am president of the United States of America."
"Mr. Trump, you have been informed once in the last fifteen seconds that you aren't president any longer. Please describe to the court what it is you do for a living."
"I Make America Great Again."
"Bailiff, please bring the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Classification Manual to the bench." (judge leafs through it.) Making America great again is not a recognized occupation in the United States. Please describe the source of your income, Mr. Trump."
"Millions of people who believe in my future donate money to help me make it reality."
"Is there a job classification for what Mr. Trump has described?"
"Panhandlers, beggars, grifters, scammers, hobos and itinerant laborers, Your Honor. Standard Industrial Classification code 1369."
"Damn...they've got something for everyone! Let's put Mr. Trump down as a Panhandler."
"Without exception, Your Honor."
"Defense counsel, please approach the bench."
(He does.)
"Counselor, you look a little young. Have you graduated from an accredited law school and passed a bar examination?"
"No, Your Honor. I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night and played District Attorney Trotter in my elementary school's production of My Cousin Vinny."
"Well, fuck it...you're more highly qualified than anyone else Trump has brought in here. I admit you pro hac vice. Now remember son, pro hac vice only counts for one case so when your client gets hauled in for something else you must apply again. Defense, your witness."
"Mr. Trump, were you born a fat, slimy puke piece of shit or did you have to work at it?"
"Your Honor, move to strike defense's question."
"Overruled. I wanna hear this."
Is it right to celebrate the downfall of our poor misunderstood president?
Today my DU feed is full of celebratory messages about Trump's indictment for being a spy. People here are truly happy about this young man, who never harmed a fly, standing the chance of going to the hoosegow for the rest of his young life.
And I ask you, folks: is it right that Donald Trump be indicted, imprisoned, maybe even shanked for doing a few little acts that he didn't even think anything was wrong with?
OF COURSE IT IS.
Serious question deserving serious answer: What else can we get him on?
Let's put funny crimes like "New Jersey's leading producer of crab lice" or "first person to convert alcoholism into a communicable disease." What legitimate crimes can we expect Donald Trump to get thrown in jail for before the year is out?
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