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Former California mayor, 72, dies in a small plane crash days after he quit following outrage over him calling Trump 'racist'
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Posted on 04/19/2020 8:35:05 AM PDT by navysealdad

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To: IrishBrigade

Right. Let’s not be as goofy as the Communist side.


41 posted on 04/19/2020 9:18:50 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The shore was washed away.They say you hear church bells still as they toll beneath the waves. Al S)
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To: navysealdad

Suicide by plane?


42 posted on 04/19/2020 9:23:26 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: HangnJudge

I agree with your point, and have known too many people who died in motorcycle accidents, but I think the odds of dying on a motorcycle are much lower than that.


43 posted on 04/19/2020 9:43:55 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Here in California fatal small plane crashes often involve pilots who are medical doctors. Maybe they should stick to medicine and stay away from piloting and politics.


44 posted on 04/19/2020 9:47:22 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Clay Moore

...Suicide is the thing that popping up in my mind as to cause.

There was a passenger though...
Only cowards take other people out with their suicide


45 posted on 04/19/2020 9:47:33 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: navysealdad

If I am not mistaken he called Trump supporters part of KKK.


46 posted on 04/19/2020 9:49:25 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: God luvs America

He wished Trump supporters dead as well as the president and the vice president I believe it was one of the statements it was more than just the Klu Klux Klan outfit that he referenced


47 posted on 04/19/2020 9:49:33 AM PDT by Rj Snows (Some years back Sacramento area used to be the capital of tomatoes)
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To: navysealdad

As far as I am concerned its good riddance.


48 posted on 04/19/2020 9:49:45 AM PDT by sport
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To: kosciusko51
...but I think the odds of dying on a motorcycle are much lower than that.

2016 NTSB statistics... haven’t checked recently

49 posted on 04/19/2020 9:50:29 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: navysealdad

Was he was flying a load of Ice Cream to San Francisco?


50 posted on 04/19/2020 9:52:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: God luvs America

You are probably right...LOL


51 posted on 04/19/2020 9:54:12 AM PDT by Revel
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To: forgotten man

For years the Beechcraft Bonanza was called “The fork tailed Doctor killer”.


52 posted on 04/19/2020 9:57:57 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: All

Ya know, Trump is a racist Nazi and yes I can clear that tree, watch this ...


53 posted on 04/19/2020 9:58:22 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: HangnJudge
According to the Insurance Information Institute, which uses data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Federal Highway Administration for the years 2009 to 2016, the fatality rate for motorcyclists is about 25 per 100 million vehicle miles.
54 posted on 04/19/2020 10:03:07 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: HangnJudge
Years ago I took a weekend motorcycle course run by the DOT.

The first time after that class that my then husband and I took the bikes out for a ride on the back roads he was behind me, and later said he was petrified the entire time. He could see that I was unsure, stiff, and scared. Which I was. Plus, my mind was not 100% "there" the whole time.

I quickly realized that I had no business whatsoever riding motorcycles. That was the first and last time. You have to grow up riding them (as my ex did, and he also raced them) to be competent, I believe.

55 posted on 04/19/2020 10:04:14 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: navysealdad

According to the latest CDC guidelines the death is being attributed to corona virus.

gotta make the numbers look good.


56 posted on 04/19/2020 10:42:42 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: kosciusko51

Good link, now compare and contrast to 4 wheel passenger vehicle mortality figures...


57 posted on 04/19/2020 10:43:45 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: kosciusko51

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-highway-safety

2016 total vehicle mortality 1.19/100 million vehicle miles

So by those statistics 21:1 odds ratio vs all vehicle miles
Somewhat lower, as you thought, than my independent recall


58 posted on 04/19/2020 10:51:11 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: Beagle8U

He’ll still vote in Nov.


59 posted on 04/19/2020 10:56:23 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: Oldexpat

Currently too warm for that. Unless water in fuel froze at higher altitude.


60 posted on 04/19/2020 12:14:22 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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