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According to 32 CFR 855.14,(b)Emergency landings. Any aircraft operator who experiences an inflight emergency may land at any Air Force airfield without prior authorization (approved DD Form 2401 and 24 hours prior notice). An inflight emergency is defined as a situation that makes continued flight hazardous.You will not be charged a landing fee if you have a real emergency, but you’ll pay for things like:(A) Spreading foam on the runway.(B) Damage to runway, lighting, and navigation aids.(C) Rescue, crash, and fire control services.(D) Movement and storage of aircraft.(E) Performance of minor maintenance.(F) Fuel or oil (AFM 67-1, vol 1, part three, chapter 1, Air Force Stock Fund and DPSC Assigned Item Procedures 4).“Inadvertent unauthorized landings” are a different situation. If you think you are landing at Spokane International but you accidentally set the thing down at the airport four miles to the west, expect a big bill from the Air Force for landing fees and the fifty gallons of JP-8 they put in your plane to get you to the right airport safely.

I was suddenly reminded of Rachel Dolezal once again with this whole shitstorm about Joe Biden saying if you vote for Trump, you "ain't black".So I actually used to have a podcast and I did an episode about Rachel Dolezal once. I think a lot of the people who were quick to mock her haven't actually looked into her history.In case you haven't heard about this story, Rachel Dolezal is a white woman who pretended to be half-black for many years (half-black is the only way she could have fooled anyone, judging by her appearance), she claimed to be the mixed-race daughter of a couple from the south who was forced to flee to Idaho, and then later Spokane, in order to escape prosecution after assaulting a racist policeman.After moving north, she became heavily involved in civil rights activism, taught classes about african-american studies, and was even elected president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, in addition to being chosen for the Spokane police ombudsman commission in the wake of the black lives matter movement, since she was seen as such an important figure there.She created art having to do with civil rights, including a fountain sculpture that was installed in downtown Spokane, which was then auctioned off to benefit the human rights education institute. By all accounts she was a fervent, tireless, and prominent figure in the fight for racial equality.But then she was exposed in a very uncomfortable interview in which Rachel walks off camera after being asked questions about her parentage. The video went viral and led to national attention of the story and the downward spiral of Rachel Dolezal's life.A national news feeding frenzy occurred, with a vast majority of journalists and commentators mocking her relentlessly. She was fired from all positions and essentially became an outcast in society.She has applied for more than 100 jobs, but no one will hire her, not even to stock supermarket shelves. She applied for a position at the university where she used to teach, and says she was interviewed by former colleagues who pretended to have no recollection of having even met her. The only work she has been offered is reality TV, and porn. She has changed her name on all her legal documents, but is still recognized wherever she goes. People point at her and laugh, she says.To be fair, some of this could be exaggerated - she has been known to lie after all. But judging by the way society at large mocked her, I believe it.If you've ever seen the episode of Black Mirror titled “White Christmas”, this might sound very familiar. SPOILER ALERT! A former prisoner is released on the condition that he will be unable to communicate with anyone, and nobody will be able to communicate with him. The similarities are eerie.Does she deserve this fate?She was apparently able to convince many black people that she understood and shared their struggles, that she was one of them. She was democratically elected president of the NAACP chapter.When she was 5 years old, her parents adopted 4 black children. This apparently had a profound effect on her, as you might expect, and in her own words, she never thought of herself as white after that. She even has a doll that her aunt made for her, and the doll appears to be black. Considering this history, is it really that hard to believe that she may genuinely feel that she is a black person?Some have made the argument that since she is not truly black, she cannot understand the struggle of being black in America. But I would ask those people, what does being black mean to you? Is it more important that she actually be black? Or is it more important that she has lived her entire life around black culture, black siblings, chose to educate college students about african-american studies, fight for civil rights every day, and become a well respected member of the black community in several facets? The answer seems simple to me.If we as a society can respect the often half-hearted attempt that certain groups of people put forth with unusual identities, which "society" does, why is it so wrong for society to respect an entire life lived around this identity? Caitlyn Jenner won woman of the year. Rachel Dolezal can't get a job.On the other hand, we have a person working as staff at Twitch who identifies as a deer and feels very empowered in their position. As a society we respect this person, but not Rachel Dolezal.During Rachel's tenure at the NAACP, she was actually officially recognized by the organization for quote, “revitalizing the chapter”.She taught college courses about african american studies for sixteen years total (8 in Idaho, 8 in WA) and only got fired when the scandal arose.Rachel has a Master of Fine Arts degree, which is a postgraduate degree requiring 2-3 years of study, although since the degree is in fine arts, the student is only required to produce works of art such as photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, or other performing arts. In other words, the degree that got Rachel Dolezal her 8-year college professorship required no actual academic knowledge or research. However, I think it's safe to assume that she did have to perform academic research and gain knowledge in order to teach these classes. If she didn't, you have to wonder what the content of these classes even consists of.Let's think about this a little more: what was/is her end-game? If she really doesn't feel like a black woman, if she really didn't care about racial equality and justice, if she really didn't care about african-american studies, why did her whole life seem to revolve around these issues? Was she being paid very well? No, she was actually not. This is documented.Was she planning to take her accumulated wealth and flee the country one day, ironically adopting a new identity and living out her life in the Bahamas, or something like that? I doubt it.Here's the big question I really want to ask you guys:What if she plans to keep up this life until her dying day?And if that is done, what, really, is the difference between someone living this life legitimately, and someone living this life while keeping their true intentions secret? At what point does the line blur? At what point does a mask become your true face? At what point does a white woman pretending to be a black woman, become a black woman?

Native here and son of natives and grandson of natives (on father’s side, though my grandmother was born in Ladner BC which is close enough), even great-great-grandson of native. I love Washington and not just the Puget Sound region that many of the commentors reference. But it’s not all orcas and mountains and espressos.Washington State, along with Oregon, has some of the most diverse geography of any state in the Union. From the rain forest along the Pacific Coast where I grew up — up to 100 inches of rain per year so, yes, it’s wet — to the glacier-scrapped Puget lowlands to the Cascade Mountains separating the damp from the dry parts of the state to the near-deserts of central Washington, to foothills of the Rockies at its eastern and northern edges,The Hoh River Valley in the Olympic Rain Forest — watch out for vampires!Prairies in South Puget SoundFrenchman Coulee in Eastern Washington showing both the Columbia River Basalt that underlays the river basin and the effects of the great ice age floodsThe wheat fields the Palouse, with farms built on the wind-borne loess covering the underlying basaltAnd that diverse landscape corresponds to the diverse economy and politics of the state. The economy of Western Washington was built around the exploitation of rain forests west of the Cascades. Logging camps and sawmill towns grew throughout the western part of the state, from Ferndale to Forks to Yale to White Salmon. The region is littered with ghost sawmill towns like Walville, Dryad and Sutico. As the forests were cleared and the mills more computerized, jobs were lost and the remaining towns diminished (unless they found some alternate economic reason for existing). And along the coast, both along the ocean and the sound, fisheries were a second primary resource extraction-based economy. There too the resource was harvested aggressively and is nowhere near its earlier health.While the forestry industry and the fisheries were reduced in importance, the central Puget Sound region converted to other industries. Boeing was the first big corporation to grow up there — I mark its current problems to its moving its corporate headquarters to Chicago — but it was followed by others: Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, to name the three most famous. As those post-resource extraction-based industries grew, so did the concentration of population there. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound. (Washington (state) - Wikipedia). Typical for many growing and economically successful metropolitan regions, Seattle is overwhelmingly Democratic as are most of the cities in the metropolitan area though not all (hello, Kitsap!). On the other hand, Seattle has grown as a cultural center since the 1950s not the least of which was the grunge moment, but certainly not limited to it.With that growth, has come substantial urban problems. According to the Texas Transportation Institute, Seattle had the sixth largest amount of delay per commuter in 2018, just after Boston and just before Atlanta. It also has a growing homeless problem which increasing housing prices — average square foot costs increased 116 percent, from $346 to $750, between January 2012 and June 2018 — contribute to. (While housing prices have decreased slightly over the last year, they are still higher than all but six other cities and above New York and Boston.)On the other side of the Cascades, settlers focused on farming rather than forestry (though was some of that around the edges of the region), especially wheat and orcharding (apples, pears, cherries, etc.). 75% of the hops grown in the US come from Eastern Washington and the wine industry is expanding apace with the Washington State Wine Commission reports that we're home to 900 wineries, more than 350 grape growers and 50,000 acres of vineyards – approximately the size of Napa Valley (How Washington became a major player in the wine industry). The farming industry depends on the investment during the first half of the 20th century by federal government in dam building and irrigation though you’ll not hear much recognition of that by the small government Republicans that dominate Eastern Washington politics. Two of my least favorite Republicans are from there. Matt Shea distributed a document described as a "four-page manifesto" titled Biblical Basis for War that listed strategies that a "Holy Army" could employ (Matt Shea - Wikipedia). “Shea also organized the Spokane chapter of the anti-Muslim ACT for America, pulled a loaded gun on a motorist during a road rage incident, and has referred to journalists as ‘those dirty, godless, hateful people’" (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/31/34818287/extreme-right-wing-washington-rep-distributes-extreme-right-wing-biblical-basis-for-war). Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a typical Christian conservative who supports removing the separation of church and state. She once asked constituents to send her their Obamacare horror stories but instead got lots of stories of how Obamacare had saved them. Did she start supporting Obamacare then because it benefited her constituents? Hardly.Okay, that’s a bit off-topic but my point is: while the Puget Sound region is predominantly Democratic, Eastern Washington isn’t. If you’re a Democrat and want to live in Democratic cities, I wouldn’t suggest Eastern Washington — except maybe Ellensburg, Walla Walla and Pullman which are college towns. Even smaller towns in Western Washington are pretty conservative, especially Lewis County and Vancouver WA, Portland’s evil twin.