vxbush 7/2/2026 6:13:38 AM

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Let's line up the dominoes, shall we? Taken from this article:

• During the pandemic, Ilhan Omar submitted the MEALS act to loosen oversight of the federally funded food programs. It passed and was signed into law. 
• Back in February 2021, Aimee Bock, the person who was convicted and sentenced to 42 years in prison for the Feeding our Future scam in Minnesota which occurred during COVID, wrote to another alleged co-conspirator, Abdikerm Eidleh, via email and Omar's name was in that email. The subject of that email? "Help with USDA food program". That email has not been released, so far as I know.
• A few years ago, Omar "used her political office Minnesota ... to ensure that the state House would allocate money for the renovation of a clinic which her own sister ran."
• A state assembly woman, Kristin Robbins, has asked Omar to testify before the state house, but Omar has said no. 

I'm just getting this sense that maybe Omar isn't on the up and up. It's just a niggling concern in my brain. //////////

JCM 7/2/2026 6:16:16 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

I don't know, the evidence is purely circumstantial! I mean who hasn't made a $30 million mistake in their financial disclosures?

vxbush 7/2/2026 6:16:52 AM

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vxbush 7/2/2026 6:21:45 AM

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vxbush 7/2/2026 6:41:36 AM

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JCM 7/2/2026 6:47:53 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Boeing is in deep, deep kimchi. Starliner is late, and it is iterative technology. The VC25B, the new Air Force one is 4 years late. It's all existing tech. the airframe is well proven. The communications tech and security tech is all existing and deployed elsewhere. The 777X is 7 years late, again iterative on an existing proven design. 737-10 is a couple years late. The debacle with the 737-MAX MCAS flight control software, to be truthful the half that one was pilot error. The assembly quality problem that caused the departure of a door plug.

Ignore any news article that puts Boeing in the headline when the issue was an engine.

This train wreak has been in progress since the '96 merger with McDonnell Douglas. 

IMAO Boeing needs to right the ship or it will fail. Problem is Boeing is critical to our national security infrastructure.... literally to big important to fail.

JCM 7/2/2026 6:57:01 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Anyone can be racist? OMG that is the most evil and pure hate I've evah seen! Drawn and quartered would be too good for him.

Some people need to be forced to watch Blazing Saddles!

preBoomer-Marinebrat 7/2/2026 7:24:03 AM

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In #6 JCM said: the '96 merger with McDonnell Douglas

Very specifically ... Stonecipher.

A bean-counter who hated engineers.  A division head at GE in the '80s, gave a speech on GE's "Engineers Day" where he very patronizingly dissed the hell out of the design staff.  Within two weeks, Jack Welch (of all people) had kicked his butt to the far side of the street.  At McD-D, he'd all but destroyed their commercial aircraft division (castrating tyhe MD-11 design project.)  He did the same at Boeing, putting quality in a far-back-seat to quarterly profit figures.  The MAX disaster was "his".

JCM 7/2/2026 7:33:12 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 8:

The line up here is MD bought Boeing, with Boeing's money.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 7/2/2026 7:46:39 AM

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Reply to JCM in 9:
I never paid attention to that transaction itself ... but from what I've seen (particularly on PPRuNE threads after MAX) that sounds, at very least, metaphorically accurate.  Condit (good engineer but horrible business man, so I've read) was probably a key part of it.

The move of the HQ to Chicago is proof that Stonecipher was extreme open to eagerly accepting what amounted to a bribe.

JCM 7/2/2026 8:06:31 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 10:

It changed Boeing as you mentioned from and being run by engineering company to being run by the accountants. The sold off key manufacturing segments. The most visible was the 737 fuselage as Spirit Aerospace in Wichita. Boeing became an assembler, not a manufacturing.

JCM 7/2/2026 8:21:51 AM

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On the subject of Boeing and MD aircraft.

NTSB documents reveal inspection gaps before UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville

According to the documents, UPS never required a detailed inspection that could have spotted the problem that caused an engine to separate from the aircraft during takeoff.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 7/2/2026 8:29:27 AM

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In #12 JCM said: UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville

For the obsessively-compelled ... (comments at the end -- go to "Last" page" -- beginning with 1229, might be pertinent)

preBoomer-Marinebrat 7/2/2026 8:38:05 AM

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In #11 JCM said: Boeing became an assembler

True -- and thereby dumping off design issues and [insert sarc tag] subsequent legal liabilities.

I had found it VERY interesting that Welch had fired Stonecipher.  Both companies were destroyed for the same bean-counter reasons.  Welch was an engineer, but in the end, he only wanted beans.

Abraham Lincoln said:  "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if youi want to test a man's character, give him power."

preBoomer-Marinebrat 7/2/2026 8:49:16 AM

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In #14 preBoomer-Marinebrat said:     a man's character

In today's culture, content of character means nothing.

In the Sixties, the word on the street was "Keep your opinions off my behavior!!!"

Today that's devolved into rampant hedonism ... and by way of the Web and social media, avid narcissism.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2026 9:22:17 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 8:

That's the problem of putting MBAs in charge of companies. You need to know the industry

JCM 7/2/2026 9:57:04 AM

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I ran into this directly, a few years back. I was managing all the lab equipment at a R&D facility for new computer chips. Small ones for consumer and automotive electronics. We had big fancy test equipment, worth a couple of millions a piece. We ran them 24/7/365 because test programs could run for day. The machines generated a lot of heat they had 480V power, UPS and power conditioners, and we kept the lab at a balmy 68°F. The machines did not like warm temps or any power fluctuations. Facilities was being pressured by the bean counters about the power and HVAC costs. The asked can we shut down the machines at night and weekends? Can we turn the AC off the machines aren't running. They wouldn't let the idea go.

In one meeting I ask a simple question, is our company a facilities company supported by engineering or a engineering company supported by facilities. The meeting and issue end when my VP slammed the table and shouted, "WE ARE NOT TURN THE TESTERS OR THE AC OFF!"

vxbush 7/2/2026 11:06:38 AM

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In #17 JCM said: In one meeting I ask a simple question, is our company a facilities company supported by engineering or a engineering company supported by facilities. The meeting and issue end when my VP slammed the table and shouted, "WE ARE NOT TURN THE TESTERS OR THE AC OFF!"

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that meeting! 

JCM 7/2/2026 11:16:39 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

This had been going on for months before... my buddy was the local facilities manager so this came through him every time. He knew better than turn off equipment and HVAC. Poor guy was caught in the middle of this Charlie Fox.

Meetings like that are fun when you know you have the high ground.