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Biden, Buttigieg Flummoxed by First FAA Ground Stop Since 9/11
Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2023 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 01/11/2023 6:58:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg struggled Wednesday with the first Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop of all flights nationwide since the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001.

As Breitbart News reported Wednesday morning: “Commercial airline flights in the U.S. were grounded Wednesday morning due to a mass system failure. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it experienced a computer outage and was working to fix the problem.”

As Fox Business noted: “For the first time since the September 11th attacks, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all domestic flights Wednesday morning after suffering a nationwide technical outage.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bidensfault; buttigieg; buttigiegsfault; faa; fullmoxed; wherespete; whoops
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To: V_TWIN

Only if he’s face down


41 posted on 01/11/2023 7:35:54 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Golden Eagle

“Hey oldguy. A lot of the brilliant, hard working old guys who have been maintaining systems like these for decades, have been retiring the last few years. Or in worse cases, dying off.”

I worked at a DR site and we kept a bank of old IBM reel tape drives for the Feds to use. One department would come in with 10 people and they would all stand around watching one guy work. :)


42 posted on 01/11/2023 7:36:28 AM PST by dljordan
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To: oldguy1776

Its part of Space Force. They see everything that is going on and who’s naughty and who’s nice. Just like they watched all the election fraud in realtime in 2020 and 2022.


43 posted on 01/11/2023 7:38:52 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Extra-Ordinary Objectives
Oh I can’t wait for how proudly and confidently Buttigeig will tell us everything is perfectly under his complete control and is already handled.

He has an exceptional ability to talk authoritatively and say absolutely nothing of substance.

44 posted on 01/11/2023 7:39:00 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Incompetence on parade! Elections have consequences. Sequential election of Congress and administrations with demented political agendas has consequences of historical proportions.


45 posted on 01/11/2023 7:42:30 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The billions we spend on ‘intelligence’ is a (90%) waste of money.


46 posted on 01/11/2023 7:49:17 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pete is queer........ that’s his only qualification for office


47 posted on 01/11/2023 7:50:13 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: 1Old Pro

Nice Job Pete, seems like every week we have another national transportation disaster.


Someone pointed out that Buttigieg is so bad at his job, that Americans actually know who the Secretary of Transportation is.


48 posted on 01/11/2023 7:56:22 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Everything started getting really strange under Barky.

And his followers act like there’s nothing wrong.


49 posted on 01/11/2023 8:02:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: moovova
We are living in the Bizarro World

Or, more accurately

The times of Luke 17:26-32 - prophesied by the Lord to be as in the Days of Lot (Genesis chapter 19)

Genesis 19:23-28 - New King James Version

23 The Sun had risen upon the Earth when Lot entered Zoar.

24 Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.

25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
50 posted on 01/11/2023 8:04:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats put the mentally ill in charge of things and everything goes to crap. Not a surprise, more of a sign of a collapsed society.


51 posted on 01/11/2023 8:06:47 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How is that Buttgig workin out for ya?


52 posted on 01/11/2023 8:16:38 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: dljordan

“One department would come in with 10 people and they would all stand around watching one guy work.”

Now that “that guy” has retired, it is game over!


53 posted on 01/11/2023 8:18:15 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrat Leftists cannot govern because they don’t know how the real world actually works.


54 posted on 01/11/2023 8:33:32 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Most likely somebody was trying to leave the country that they didn’t want leaving.

Is that criminal Trump trying to escape...I mean...take Melania to Acapulco?

55 posted on 01/11/2023 8:35:48 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: gr8eman

😆


56 posted on 01/11/2023 8:37:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Golden Eagle; oldguy1776

. . . and we can expect our infrastructure to continue its decay as the complexion of the country darkens. It’s terribly unfashionable to say such things, but it was those horrible white men who built this into a First World powerhouse. Our new population is simply incapable of maintaining it.


57 posted on 01/11/2023 8:46:34 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it experienced a computer outage and was working to fix the problem.”

Betcha they got hacked and just won’t admit it.


58 posted on 01/11/2023 8:48:20 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: oldguy1776

“I’d be curious to know just how new or how antiquated the systems that the FAA uses are.”

Since it’s the government, the computers are probably running on Windows 95 because they’re using a custom software that won’t run on anything else so they can’t upgrade.


59 posted on 01/11/2023 8:49:29 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Oh that is truer than you know. I have been told, not verified mind you, that there are still systems running COBOL in the govt....:) You will find older systems many times in state govts. not because there is no money to upgrade but because they won’t pay a competitive salary to attract the talent needed to upgrade these systems and maintain them. Some of my fellow grey haired IT buddies have been approached about doing upgrades, etc. but the pay offered is ridiculous. They can make more working part time than working for the govt. But that has always been the case sad to say.


60 posted on 01/11/2023 8:56:19 AM PST by oldguy1776
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