On Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 2:34:30 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
> No doubt under orders from Joe Biden, the FAA instituted SEVEN separate TFRs (temporary flight restrictions for you non-pilots like Sloman)
https://abbreviations.woxikon.com/en/tfr
lists nine possible disambiguations - three of which are "temporary flight restriction.
Flyguy is much too dim to realise abbreviations really do need to be spelled out the first time you use them in any document, no mater how obvious they might seem to the author.
He's also much to dim to realise that the president of the USA isn't going to waste his time working down to the FAA to get them to issue temporary flight restrictions in the hope of muzzling Fox News - Fox News would just post something vaguely similar that they had snaffled from social media and run that.
"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was in Del Rio Thursday night, slammed the restriction as “ridiculous” and said he had “never seen anything like that.”
“The drone footage started this morning, and people across the country were horrified, and I guess the political operatives at the Biden White House saw that and decided the last thing they want is Fox News actually reporting on what’s happening down here,” he said."
Ted Cruz is quite as good at politically motivated guess-work as Flyguy (and I can't be ruder than that). The chance that Fox News was actually reporting real news - as opposed to fabricating right-wing propaganda - has to be zero. The crowd of pseudo-refugees won't have been all that expensive to put together, but it must have been irritating to lose the drone images after they'd got crowd nicely assembled.
Life can difficult for the fake news crowd. It's not as difficult (or expensive) as finding out what's actually going on - but real news is of no use to Fox News.It can't be relied to keep cretins like Flyguy and John Doe happy.
There was a British TV series - "Drop the Dead Donkey" - that satirised Rupert Murdoch's British media, but it's as hard to satirise Rupert Murdoch as it is to satirise Australian politicians. No matter how far-fetched your exaggerations are, the people you are satirising can be relied on to go further.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney