PS: Good afternoon, everyone...

Another interweb rumor debonked...
https://www.newsweek.com/washington-dc-plane-crash-jo-ellis-trans-helicopter-pilot-wrongly-named-2024149

https://www.smobserved.com/story/2025/01/30/news/a-transgender-pilot-named-jo-ellis-flew-blackhawk-helicopter-into-the-american-airlines-jet-at-reagan-national/8719.html

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/31/trans-helicopter-pilot-jo-ellis/

Still no name for the female pilot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-hawk-crew-chief-identified-151051004.html

Cheers! ☮️

PS: A little more info...

https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/living-to-serve-living-as-myself-a-transgender-service-members-perspective/

(Archived link.)
https://archive.ph/3mGQE

I don't know if this internet rumor will turn out to be true, but who knows. ☮️

PS: Good evening, everyone,

(Original video.)
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2025/01/30/3869711919294230638/1024x576_MP4_3869711919294230638.mp4

(Same video.)
https://files.catbox.moe/rmly7v.mp4

It looks like the helicopter flew straight into the airplane.
Could this have been deliberate?

Also, (and I have no way to confirm this) I've seen a few rumors that the female pilot was actually a trans named Jo Ellis.

I suppose we will learn more tomorrow.(?) (Anyway...)
I hope you all sleep well. Happy evening! & Good night. ☮️

PS: Greetings, Achmed,

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
(Might be my favorite commandment. In all honesty though, "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee" is really good advice. Might be the best commandment.)


So... Apparently the pilot of the blackhawk was a woman.
A little info...

𝐾𝑜𝑧𝑖𝑜𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 1,000 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 500 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.

https://abc7ny.com/post/army-black-hawk-crew-involved-dc-crash-made-top-pilots-thousands-hours-experience/15849913/

I'm no expert, and I may be wrong about this, but it does not seem to me that these pilots were highly experienced.

A little more info...

https://www.wxxv25.com/mississippi-man-identified-as-victim-in-fatal-passenger-jet-and-army-helicopter-crash1/
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-was-ryan-o-hara-soldier-killed-in-dc-black-hawk-helicopter-crash-identified/ar-AA1y8IRB

I can't find a name for the female pilot yet. (I hope she's 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! 'cause that would be funnier in light of Trump's DIE comments.)


https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2034&version=KJV
I almost went with the KJV for my other comment. Not sure why I didn't as it's usually my go to for things of this nature.

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Thanks, Adam, no pun intended. I am partial to that King James version, even knowing that the NIV whatever are more clear. I just like the thees and thous is all ...

PS: Good afternoon, gentlemen,

𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐼'𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔...

The New Stone Tablets

34 The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.”

8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. 9 “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. 11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 “Do not make any idols.

18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Cheers! ☮️

PS: "This includes the military helicopter crew."

Now that's a good point. Have you heard anything about "who" they were?

If Trump had know something already about the pilots of the helo, and he'd instead mentioned their training and diversity rather than ATC, it'd be a different story.

I guess we'll find out. They are screwed up. If there were 3 crewmembers, one the crew chief (like lead mechanic) that's at least 2 sets of eyeballs that should have been outside even if the trainee had been behind on things.

Though I wrote that these guys had to go this way (through the east portion of the tower airspace) in order to get to a place where they could train, I wonder if they were too busy doing training already when the instructor should have just flown, and said "OK, I got it, Let's look for the traffic and wait till we get south to do get back to this."

PS

The meta-lesson of the thing is, even if there is zero direct role for "DEI" in the accident it's highly plausible that there would be.

The rise of DEI and the anti-White preference-system has created a lot of basic social-distrust among a normally high-trust population. White-Western people are not normally inclined to "conspiracy" thinking like that (assuming corruption or evil motives); others in the world do tend to see things that way. DEI is like a giant social-trust-crushing machine.

In other words, at this point in the 2020s, people think and feel that the baseline-likelihood that DEI is behind this kind of accident is high.

Some on the Left are outraged and treating the DEI comments as if DJT had blamed extra-terrestrials and UFO laser-beams for the accident. Maybe some of them believe criticizing DEI is on the same level as that. Many others know better but may not admit to it, because it seems to cede point to their enemies.

PS: Finally, Drumpft, ugghhh. I really wish he hadn't had said that.

I mean, I'm very glad that he's the kind of guy that would, when it applies! He should have waited, as the cause of this crash is pretty obvious to someone who could have listened to the recordings late last night even.

It's not good for his credibility, and that's what I hate about his having said that. Again, that he would - that's one thing I love about President Trump - 47. It's a love/hate relationship, I guess.

Oh, I did read your comment, with its referenced to '23 Steve Sailer, before I wrote you back just now. His response was indeed very reasonable, and he may have already seen that this may not have been a D.I.E. case.

PS: I just looked - that was 9 hours ago, before at least I wrote all that to hijack (ouch, don't say that word right now!) his Superbowl thread. So, in hindsight, Mr. Sailer comes off even more reasonable. I can see this Trump thing explaining why Mr. Sailer never has directly praised him as a person.

Dang! I really wish he'd not have said that now. There probably WILL, unfortunately, be some happening for which his statement is right on the money and long due.

PS

A funny thing about the USA of our time is, everyone kind of wants to know the racial-religious-cultural identity of the main players.

This includes the military helicopter crew.

There is no reason the effects of DEI would apply solely to the air-traffic control people.

PS: It looks like I mashed submit right after you did, Mr. Hail.

No, I don't discount the D.I.E. theory and long-term (I know a guy from 25 years ago who experienced it when trying to become a controller) general AA factor.

It's just not the whole story for all recent happenings - I don't mean the near-hits and stuff we can see in videos. I wrote that lots of facilities are seriously understaffed. That means extra shifts, and odd and shifting hours, stuff that may cause fatigue and poor performance.

In this case neither D.I.E. concerns nor staffing/fatigue concerns were a factor as the tower did his job well.

PS: Regarding the Reagan Field crash: I went far overboard last evening and early this morning commenting, after having listened to a scanner recording of the DCA tower.

First, I'm kinda pissed at AnotherDad. I did not mean to claim that D.I.E. is not a bad thing - well see this very post, written before this crash. However, 2 things here:

1) As far as ATC goes, I've heard it directly from controllers and experienced problems myself, due to the lack of staffing period (no matter who they are and their level of competence.) This very recent thing is due to that long period of no training in Oak City due to the PanciFest (yes, TM!) AD wrote that the effect is not important. Sorry, but it is. It takes so long to train people up, many retired during that period, and so, they are understaffed.

2) ATC was NOT the problem on this one. The fault is with the helicopter crew. It's pretty obvious. The tower did an excellent job, and he may have even been a black guy - listen to the whole thing here:

https://files.catbox.moe/k6hmee.mp3

PS

I see you've written a long cascade of comments on the air-accident at the old Sailer blog @ Unz.

It seems your view is the "DEI air-traffic controller" theory, in its 'hard form' or simplified form, at least, is not correct.

In a wider sense, it may be that DEI is likely to blame in small ways, but not some single "smoking gun" sense, like one idiot failing to do something obvious; rather, more like an undermining of competency and readiness and moral-seriousness, a thousand little cuts leading to trouble.

Remember the much-discussed "Competency Crisis" article by Harold Robertson, 2023:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

PS

(OT, The aircraft accident in Washington DC)

I suggested Steve Sailer's "DIE in the Air" column from late 2023 is highly relevant at this moment. He characteristically brought out his Nice-Reasonable Guy response and said "We have to wait and see what happened first."

But then Trump came out at a press conference, and started a long diatribe against D.E.I. in the field of aviation and air-traffic controllers; and directly blamed DEI for the accident.

My exchange with Steve Sailer is here (also commentary from JMcG of interest):

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-2025-super-bowl-sailers-perspective/comment/89697624

PS: I meant to also write that I did read all the comments under the Africa electrification post, including yours, of course. Because there's no "New comments" functionality, as with the amazing UR site, I go by memory and then have to find where any new ones are. I think it was 20 last I checked.

PS: Thanks for that, Mr. Hail That was a nice, concise history of the push for repatriation, in a civil, humane fashion, something I hadn't known much about. (That is, other than the story about Abe Lincoln's plans.)

Yeah, Nixon had a lot to say, on tape, of what he thought about the situation. I imagine he knew better to say one little thing about repatriation - even by the 1940s, as you say, a no-no, much less 1968 or later. I also got the impression from Pat Buchanan's book "The Greatest Comeback"*, that Nixon felt himself walking a thin line of political expediency in the '68 campaign between being too close to Wallace, pissing off the whole Linsay(?)/Romney-the-Dad (George)/Rockefeller wing, or vice versa. He cared about winning more than policy - then, I wrote a review here.

Regarding Ann and Steve, they are both pretty courageous in their writing, but directly discussing re-patriation is probably a bridge to far for either of them. (Commenters are another story.). These two might at least have both written ABOUT it, in terms of what others had written before. Other pundits wouldn't go that far even.

I put a comment under that iSteve E.O. thread in reference to that Africa post on iSteve. I know, I probably shouldn't do that. Under the [MORE] tag, I put a couple of graphs to show that African immigration to the US is larger already than most people realize. So, it just all seems so hopeless. The first thing would be to at least stop digging, same as the idea behind the very good work Trump has been doing regarding the southern border.

"Colonization" is a pretty good term, IMO, but today, being a colonizer of any sort is not cool. Maybe it'd make the black people feel better about themselves to use it. I think the use of "remigration", as they do in Europe, was a very good idea.


* Ha, he's gonna have to rename that one to "The 2nd-Greatest Comeback"!

PS

Some commentary on the concept of Black client-regimes in Africa. A highly different "model" for affirmative action but similar in spirit to the motivation.

Not directly related to a hypothetical Back-to-Africa movement, but in some ways overlapping:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/if-africa-electrifies-do-africans/comment/89443487

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/if-africa-electrifies-do-africans/comment/89439282

(And several replies to the second link, first by The Anti-Gnostic; especially this one:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/if-africa-electrifies-do-africans/comment/89456881 .)

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Google thinks PS has mentioned "Rwanda" in at least 5 different posts.

PS

-- 'Affirmative Action' vs. Back-to-Africa --

Moderator writes: "I've been disappointed in otherwise Conservative pundits, talking these two (Sailer and Coulter), who still would not completely renounce AA. We still had to right some wrongs to those ADOS, DOAS, or something."

In the 1910s and 1920s, there was some real momentum towards a grand-bargain of a similar type to "Affirmative Action," by which I mean a serious-wealth transfer and political commitment to U.S.-Blacks as a kind of client-population of the state, BUT with a very different end-goal envisioned: Blacks leaving the USA and setting up independent political entities in Africa, and renouncing U.S. citizenship in exchange for U.S. support.

(The late-1960s to early-2020s "affirmative action" regime that evolved/emerged, meanwhile, has had NO end-goal, hence its exceeding 'long-lastingness.')

In the 1910s-20s, and even into the 1930s, you had White-ethnonationalist leaders saying things like this:

"We, as White men, owe a debt to the Black mam here in North America, brought here by no choice of his own and unable to live among us. It is incumbent on us to solve in full fairness to the Black man; we are by honor bound to solve this problem in a spirit of full fairness and generosity to the Black man. And THAT is why we push for a path for Repatriation to Africa. We shall work to support and fund this effort and wish these people well as they find their own way again." (Quote made up but is quite close to spirit of the talk of the day back then.)

Many wouldn't believe this on my word alone, even though they know there was a Back-to-Africa movement that emerged in the 1920s. That 1920s Back-to-Africa movement was perhaps the most-serious one of the entire period of the 1870s to 2020s; and there had been many.

The leading figures of the patriotic-U.S.-flag-flying incarnation of the KKK at the time made this argument, but it had wider support. (This was when the KKK was a true mass-organization, of a kind hardly imaginable today. The arguments are a matter of record; and give lie to the idea that White-ethnonationalists in the USA were interested in "supremacy" over Nonwhite people, rather than the real goal of separation.) The Black-nationalists associated with names like Marcus Garvey (in fact a Caribbean immigrant) at the time of course went with this. Their support for Back-to-Africa is celebrated; Whites' arguments for the same, vilified.

Could a Back-to-Africa movement have succeeded, as a major geopolitical mega-project? A political breakthrough will have needed to occur. In fact momentum was undermined by the Great Depression and rise of the FDR-Coalition. The FDR people sidestepped the issue. Then came the unfortunate ratcheting up of things with the 1940s-war followed, also basically a doing of the FDR people; the USA might have stayed neutral even in that war. Needless to say the 1940s war ended this talk, and if anyone was heard talking of it in the 1950s or 1960s, they'd have been thought "extremists."

Ideas that were completely mainstream in the 19th century, from at least the 1820s and all the way thru the 1890s (it seems to have been Lincoln's own plan in the 1860s), looked like they could have been successful in the 20th century; the USA was becoming a fantastically wealthy society and technology was available, the only missing ingredient being "the will."

Starting in 1945, the entire argument of sponsoring U.S.-Black-colonization of some part of West Africa "lost its moral legitimacy." Elements within the U.S.-population that became more assertive and empowered were not only completely against it but sought a line almost the opposite: support for a kind of Black Supremacy within the USA itself, which indeed emerged by the latter decades of the 20th century. "Affirmative action" in this sense became associated with a doctrine of permanent Black Moral Superiority, which is the ideology all of us below a certain age have kind of grown up with.

By the mid-1960s, I think you had George Lincoln Rockwell talking of such things as a Back-to-Africa movement and few others (maybe some Black Panthers). The White political-Center became frightened of the whole thing, hence even stalwart-old Mr Nixon initiating certain pro-Black programs in the early 1970s. Nixon did not support what I call Black Moral Superiority Doctrine, and would probably have taken a bit more of a radical stance on certain things if he could have envisioned the path of the 1970s to 2010s. Remember that Nixon was a kind of simple farm-boy with humble (poor) Quaker roots, growing up the son of a failed-citrus-farmer-turned-gas-station-manager in Southern California.

Here is a theory to tie my commentary here together, up to our time in which born-circa-1960 figures like Steve Sailer and Ann Coulter would "support limited 'affirmative action' for Blacks": Not cowardice, not an old-thinking model, but a tacit little mental-tether to this 19th-and-early-20th-century model of thinking of the USA in which a Black Repatriation to Africa project was seen as possible. They are sharp enough to know it's not plausible right now, but it may be in the future. Because I think everyone kind of senses the USA is in long-term trouble and rearrangements will happen, sooner or later. Their instinct of magnanimity-to-Blacks is actually the same one that Whites who support "Black Colonization" (as it was called in the 19th century).