How Stupid Are They?

[Tom Dempsey]

Maybe the Martians should have built a big beautiful wall.

[webenda]

I still think in the Imperial system but see no problem passing out metric measuring devices and say start using them.
I guess we would need to put up with some antique stuff for a awhile but it would eventually go.
The biggest opposers I can see in the U.S. are those involved in American style football. The U.S. still uses Imperial
measurements in a lot of sports, it seems.

Imperial measures in sports... good.
Imperial measures in anything else... stupid. [minority opinion of course]

[rogruth]

Wayne,
I agree but I am not infavor of a partial change.We already have that and still have confusion. My opinion, of course.

[HONDO74]

Georgetown student group targeted as 'hate group' for Catholic beliefs, could be sanctioned
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/24/ge ... ioned.html

A Catholic student group at Georgetown University could be stripped of its funding for its belief in traditional marriage.

Love Saxa, a group that advocates for marriage between a man and a woman, is under fire from LGBTQ groups on campus, PRIDE and Queer People of Color, according to The Hoya, Georgetown’s student publication. A pro-choice student senator filed a notice on September 25, arguing Love Saxa’s definition of marriage and relationships violates university standards by fostering hatred or intolerance.

This is how far the left has taken this country. If you believe in traditional marriage, you are a bigot, homophobic and a hateful person.

[up148]

When I read that I become livid. The gate has to swing both ways. If the left can do what they want and not be considered hateful and intolerant in their beliefs then the right ought to be able to do the same. And we wonder why this country is so divided.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When I read that I become livid. The gate has to swing both ways. If the left can do what they want and not be considered hateful and intolerant in their beliefs then the right ought to be able to do the same. And we wonder why this country is so divided.

It's $250 - write them a check if you feel livid.

I'm more irritated that GU supports any of these idiotic groups at all - for what tuition costs there, maybe they should go to class and get an education instead of wasting time and money both.

“If we cannot safely advocate for beliefs synonymous with Catholic social teaching,” she said, “then no group at Georgetown can be certain of its security.”

Can them all and get over it, and go back to being an educational institute.

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Sounds good to me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Sounds good to me.

This is also a great example of how a network news outlet manipulates people.

[webenda]

Everyone in favor of the Imperial System of Measures, welcome to flight 143.

Gimli Glider.jpg (61.93 KiB) Viewed 4463 times

On July 23, 1983, Air Canada’s Flight 143, with 69 people on board, ran out of fuel at an altitude of 41,000 ft. The pilot managed to glide the plane down safely as he was a very experienced glider pilot. 22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been put in instead of 22,300 kg.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been put in instead of 22,300 kg.

Ok, so who screwed up and where? And, who can't read lbs vs kg and tell the difference?

[webenda]

22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been put in instead of 22,300 kg.

Ok, so who screwed up and where? And, who can't read lbs vs kg and tell the difference?

The pilot, co-pilot and ground crew. The aircraft was metric, the ground crew was not. The pilot asked for 33,300 kg. The ground crew gave him 22,300 lbs (10,115 kg.) The ground crew, pilot and co-pilot all made an error calculating the amount of fuel remaining in the aircraft by using 1.77 lbs/liter (value given in the aircraft's documentation for converting fuel dipstick readings in liters to kilograms) instead of 0.80 kg/liter in their calculations. The flight crew of course double checked the ground crew's calculation, and making the same error, came up with the same answer. In addition, the pilot would normally have known he did not get the amount of fuel he had asked for (as well as they had miscalculated the remaining fuel), except the fuel quantity indicating system on the AC 767 was inoperative on the day of the flight.

[HONDO74]

Can them all and get over it, and go back to being an educational institute.

Well it's obvious you would never be a professor at a liberal collage.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The aircraft was metric, the ground crew was not.

Located out of where?

............the fuel quantity indicating system on the AC 767 was inoperative on the day of the flight.

I might have wondered if it permitted to fly then.....maybe not any more after this happened

[HONDO74]

The pilot managed to glide the plane down safely as he was a very experienced glider pilot. 22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been put in instead of 22,300 kg.

Big difference between a glider and a 767. That must have been like trying to glide a brick to the ground..

[Rufus T. Firefly]

a liberal collage.

What makes a liberal college so other than your declaring it to be so or its doing something that you disagree with?

This seems highly arbitrary and given all of the comments includes just about every college and university in the world.