The final flight for the F-4 Phantom set for next week
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American Thinker ^
| December 14, 2016 | John Smith
The final flight and retirement ceremony for the venerable F-4 Phantom will be December 21st at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The Phantom is still in active service at Holloman with Detachment 1 of the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron.
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Beware of the phantom: ‘New jobs’ hoax
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New York Post ^
| 05/06/2015 | John Crudele
Get ready for another ride on the economic roller coaster. Last
week, we got bad news about the economy when it was announced that the US gross domestic product barely rose in the first three months of 2015. And it looks as though the 0.2 percent annualized growth reported by the Commerce Department for the winter months will turn into a contraction when revisions are made at the end of May. Worse, GDP in the second quarter hasn’t gotten much better. The Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow, which tracks the economy in real time, has GDP growing at a wimpy 0.8...
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Is Roger Stone the New Pink Panther Phantom?
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YouTube ^
| January 25, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO Could Roger Stone deep down be overjoyed by the notoriety that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has given him with his arrest early on the morning on January 25? For
years, the name-dropping Stone has portrayed himself as some sort of insider with special information and now Mueller has validated that fantasy. To understand Stone's position, one must be familiar with what happened at the end of the 1963 Pink Panther movie. Yes, Roger Stone is as much the current Phantom as Jaques Cousteau was.
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Great Planes McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom
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YouTube ^
| June 12, 2015 | Great Planes
I've always loved the F-4 Phantom. Probably got it from my Marine dad who witnessed F-4s doing their thing back in the 1960s. I
love their sinister appearance with their droopy nose and tail fins. Such cool looking machines.
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This DJI Phantom 3 drone hit a Quebec woman in the head
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engadget ^
| 6/24/2016 | Brittany Vincent
Picture this: You're out enjoying a sporting event, just minding your own business. All
of a sudden a 2.7-pound DJI Phantom 3 drone falls from the sky and beans you squarely in the head. What do you do? You file a lawsuit. That's exactly what happened to 38-year-old Stéphanie Creignou, who unfortunately suffered injuries when the drone fell from the sky and crashed directly into her head. She has yet to get back to work, and as a result of her injuries, she was forced to cancel a vacation she had already planned with her husband. You can see it...
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AOC just a ‘phantom of the media’ without real influence, ex-Gov. Paterson says
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NY Post ^
| 7/03/22 | Sam Raskin
Former New York Gov. David Paterson dismissed US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s influence as a “phantom of the media” after left-wing candidates endorsed by the socialist firebrand suffered brutal losses in last week’s primaries. “AOC
are just three letters in the alphabet,” the 68-year-old Democrat said in an interview on WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” aired Sunday. Paterson was asked by host John Catsimatidis about the Tuesday primary results in which the majority of left-wing state Assembly contenders were unsuccessful in their efforts to expand their presence in Albany by ousting more moderate Democrats. Asked if the losses represented “the rise...
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“The Phantom Universe” –There’s a New ‘Unknown’ Messing with the Cosmos
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Daily Galaxy ^
| 3/9/19
There’s a crisis brewing in the cosmos. Measurements
over the past few years of the distances and velocities of faraway galaxies don’t agree with the increasingly controversial “standard model” of the cosmos that has prevailed for the past two decades. Astronomers think that a 9 percent discrepancy in the value of a long-sought number called the Hubble Constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, might be revealing something new and astounding about the universe. The cosmos has been expanding for 13.8 billion years and its present rate of expansion, known as the Hubble constant, gives the time elapsed...
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Tim Kaine Dismisses Sanctuary Cities As a 'Phantom'
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Cybercast News Service ^
| September 2, 2016 | 9:09 AM EDT | Susan Jones
Hillary Clinton’s running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) shrugged off the reality of sanctuary cities in an interview with CNN’s “New Day” on Thursday, calling them a “phantom.” “When
Donald Trump kind of goes after these phantom sanctuary cities and talks about how bad they are, basically what he’s going after is police chiefs. And I trust police chiefs, in terms of knowing what should be done to keep their communities safer — and police departments and mayors a lot more than I trust Donald Trump.” […] Trump repeatedly has criticized sanctuary cities on the campaign trail: “I have met...
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Phantom Eye Patients See and Feel with Missing Eyeballs
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.discovermagazine ^
| Elizabeth Preston
Patients with visual symptoms most often saw simple shapes and colors. But
some people reported more distinct images, “for example, resembling wallpaper, a kaleidoscope, or fireworks, or even specific scenes and people,” the authors write. Then there were the ghosts. Some people said they had seen strangers haunting their fields of vision, ... “We can now tell whether certain kinds of patients are more likely to have phantom symptoms,” she says. For example, “PES is more common in younger patients, and having pain in the non-existent eye is more likely in patients who are anxious and depressed, although we don’t...
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Phantom Voters Spark Suit [semi-satire]
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Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^
| 17 March 2024 | John Semmens
This week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The NVRA requires states to remove ineligible voters from the rolls. These
ineligible voters include people who have moved or died. Failure to purge the rolls of such persons makes it easier for others to fraudulently cast ballots in the names of these persons. This marks the second time in the last three years that Benson has been sued for not cleaning up the voter rolls. A 2021 suit filed by the Public Interest Legal...
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Did Johnny Manziel Or Phantom Menace Have A More Disastrous Debut?
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cbs ^
His debut, this past weekend, was just about as disastrous as it could have been. But
was it a more disastrous debut than that of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace? Let’s go to the tape:
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Phantom' village school stays open despite having no pupils
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The Telegraph ^
| DECEMBER 3 2014 | Rosa Silverman
ike all schools, it has a head teacher, governors, and a caretaker. But
unlike any other school, Llanfynydd Primary has not a single pupil. The “phantom” village school near Carmarthen in South Wales remains open despite this, and will remain so for another seven months. Red tape means it cannot be closed for lessons even though all 11 pupils have left for other school. No children have been taught there since last July, when it cost taxpayers £50,000 to run.
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Aboard a U.S. nuclear sub, a cat-and-mouse game with phantom foes
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Los Angeles Times ^
| September 25, 2015 | DAVID S. CLOUD
America's most advanced nuclear submarine was slicing through the water off Hawaii last month, 400 feet under the surface, when a sonar operator suddenly detected an ominous noise on his headphones. It
was a faint thump … thump … thump — the distinctive sound of a spinning, seven-bladed propeller on a Chinese attack submarine called a Shang by the Pentagon and its allies. A neon green stripe on his sonar screen indicated that the Shang was only a few thousand yards off the U.S. sub's bow. "Sonar contact!" he yelled to 15 officers and crew in the dimly lighted control...
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'Phantom' Pilgrims Fail to Bring Cash to Vatican
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News24 ^
| November18, 2016 | N/A
Rome -- The Vatican's Jubilee Year was supposed to draw 20 million Catholics to Rome, where hotels and restaurants were rubbing their hands with glee, waiting to cash in. But
two days before the closure of Pope Francis's special Year of Mercy, a disgruntled hospitality trade has slammed it as a flop. "We were expecting much more than this. We did even worse than last year," said Antonio Calicchia, who owns a traditional restaurant a few hundred metres from Saint Peter's Square. "We heard some 20 million pilgrims would be coming to Rome. Where did they hide?" he quipped, bitterly....
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Iranian Phantom jet strikes the Islamic State in Iraq
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IHS Jane's Defence Weekly ^
| November 30, 2014
An Iranian McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet has struck Islamic State targets in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, footage shot by regional media shows. At
least one F-4 is seen conducting a bombing run against ground targets in the footage shot by Al Jazeera , which erroneously identified the aircraft as an Iraqi fighter. Iran and Turkey are the only regional operators of the F-4, and the location of the incident not far from the Iranian border, and Turkey's unwillingness to get involved in the conflict militarily, indicate this to be an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force...
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Phantom Time Hypothesis: Dark Ages Never Happened
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Global Bizarre ^
| Sean Ro
As of this writing, the year is 2020. But
what if the year was ACTUALLY 1722? What if hundreds of years ago there was a conspiracy by a few European noblemen to change the modern calendar? This may sound crazy, (and, admittedly, it is a little crazy), but is it possible? Stranger things have happened. It all has to do with the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope, and (maybe) the Byzantine Empire circa AD 1000 (that’s important for later). There's this weird theory called Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that Dark Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened...The Phantom Time Hypothesis was first...
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The F-4 Phantom's Manufacturer Wanted To Give It Swing-Wings
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Foxtrot Alpha ^
| 10/18/15 | Tyler Rogoway
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air missiles the next. The
potential for evolving the already successful Phantom became especially attractive as high-end combat aircraft programs of the ‘60s began to sputter, namely the Navy’s F-111B. Enter the F-4(FV)S variable-geometry wing Phantom concept. The F-4(FV)S concept took the F-4 fuselage and omitted its low, bent-wing configuration. In its place was a redesigned highly-mounted swing-wing mated to large wing-root extensions. Within these extensions were the pivot points for...
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The Maltese Phantom of Russiagate (Mifsud is NOT DEAD 5/30/2018)
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Real Clear Investigations ^
| 5/30/2018 | Lee Smith
...Painting a full picture of Mifsud is difficult because after the 58-year-old professor was first identified by name in a Washington Post article in the weeks following Papadopoulos’ confession, he gave a few interviews to the international press, and then disappeared. Rumors
circulated in the press that the Kremlin-linked professor may have been recalled to Russia or was liquidated. A new book by former colleagues of Mifsud’s – Stephan Roh, a 50-year-old Swiss-German lawyer, and Thierry Pastor, a 35-year-old French political analyst – reports that he is alive and well. Their account includes a recent interview with him. Their self-published...
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Top 2015 Story No. 5: The Phantom Menace (Of Global Warming)
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The Federalist ^
| 21 Dec, 2015 | Robert Tracinski
We'll start the countdown with #5, which is the least important of the big stories because it's not about something that's actually happening. It's
about how a whole section of our top political and cultural leadership is pretending that something that isn't happening is actually the most vital and pressing issue of the day. That is pretty important in its own right........The role of global warming in this year's news is summed up in the recently concluded Paris Agreement: a gigantic international meeting held within a month of a massive terrorist attack on that city, for the purpose of diverting...
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Professors Fight Phantom Federal Budget Cuts
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| June 1, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline
The professoriate is fighting what it perceives as federal budget cuts to higher education proposed by the Trump Administration. Yet and still, it is difficult to find those cuts in the Trump budget proposals. "We
already knew from the Trump administration's initial 'skinny' budget proposal, released in March, that higher education would be on the chopping block," Kelly Hand writes on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). "The fleshed-out budget proposal released on May 22 details cuts that would have a devastating impact on student aid, the arts and humanities, scientific research, and international...
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