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WOEING: 3-hour meeting ends with FAA saying Boeing can’t increase Max plane production until quality is fixed.

“This is a guide for a new way for Boeing to do business,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said after the meeting. He said he expected the company to produce “systemic change.”

Going forward, Boeing and FAA leaders said they will meet weekly on progress implementing the plan and the FAA will conduct monthly reviews.

The plan includes several components to improve employee training, clarify instructions for assembly line employees, prevent suppliers from shipping defective components to Boeing and go through additional FAA audits, the agency said.

The FAA had ordered outgoing Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and his aides to develop the roadmap after two reviews in February found serious issues at the planemaker.

The meeting included Calhoun and other leaders at the company, the FAA said. Whitaker said the meeting included an “extensive PowerPoint presentation that broke the plan into components.”

Whitaker said he expects the company to build “robust” safety and quality management plans. He said the FAA will not allow Boeing to increase the number of planes coming off of its Max assembly line each month until it is satisfied on production quality.

“I don’t think it will happen in the next few months,” Whitaker said.

It remains to be seen whether working under close government scrutiny will help or hurt.

PINE TREE FLAG UPDATE: This article isn’t new, but it’s relevant: Appeal to Heaven: On the Religious Origins of the Constitutional Right of Revolution.

And as a sidebar, though I regard the January 6 “insurrection” talk as BS — it wasn’t an insurrection at all, and if Trump had wanted one, it would have been easy to have a real one, and he didn’t — it’s also true that the right of revolution is built into our system and was revered by the Framers.

Note the first two sections of the Tennessee Constitution, which dates to 1796 and which Thomas Jefferson praised at the time:

Section 1. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; for the advancement of those ends they have at all times, an unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper.

Section 2. That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

This was unremarkable at the time of the Framers, when badges of office did not possess a talismanic power.

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Here Comes the Re-Recession? “In a very short span of time, barely 24 hours, my news feed became populated with stories about how maybe the Biden economy — Bidenomics, as the White House quit calling it out of embarrassment months ago — might not be so great, after all.”

ADMITTING/PROMOTING/HIRING PEOPLE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN COMPETENCE DESTROYS COMPETENCE:  After what happened at UCLA Med School, are we finally willing to admit these woke policies are destroying everything?

MARK THE SOURCE:  Guilty.

FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Our Revolutionary Times.

As for various institutions figuring out they’re losing the people and changing? Not a chance. The more they panic, the more they double down. That’s the way of the left.

THERE ARE IDEAS SO STUPID ONLY THE HIGHLY MAL-EDUCATED FIND THEM COMPELLING: Neo Wishful Thinking.

HE SHOULD. IT SAYS TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT NEW YORK’S JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND AMERICA’S. Jonathan Turley Has a Lot to Say About the Trump Verdict. “I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes.”

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Hell, if they’d treated him like anybody else with felony charges in NYC they’d never have brought him to trial.

WHY NOT?