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Keith B wrote:North St. Louis is the worst place in the US. East St. Louis is worse. Cahokia, Sauget and that general area (part of East St. Louis IL) is where all of the 'gentleman's' clubs are. Lots of gangs, organized crime, drug dealers and just plain old thugs. It is a cesspool of the worst excrement you can think off.

This is one of the major reasons I live in TX again. I moved back to Belleville IL after my medical retirement from the Army in 2004. It too is becoming a cesspool. A fine example of what happens when nothing is done about a neighboring problem and it is allowed to become so common place that it looses it's boundaries and confines. This is also why we shouldn't consead any states, county or city to the leftist anti 2a. It will eventually infect everything around it and spread untill it swallowed everything up.

The Annoyed Man wrote:people who get 3 square meals a day, hot showers on demand, soft beds and warm cozy blankets, no incoming mortar fire, no rucksacks with 75 lb loadouts, no IEDs, ZERO personal danger, AND WHO DO IT IN NEVADA instead of deploying overseas....

Two years ago while doing some I.T. work in the Military Treatment Facility (MTF) at Creech AFB, Nevada where is just so happens they train the Drone Pilots, a LT walks in all a huff. And the following discussion took place:
Female NCO “How can I help you sir?”
LT “The Doc gave me this” holding out a hand written script
NCO “What’s your concern with this prescription?”
LT rolling his eyes “I’m on flight status, I’m a Pilot!”
NCO “Ok sir, so is your concern with this script that it might lead to you falling over in your rolling chair, if so; I can get ortho to issue you a stool without wheels?”
LT with a dumbfounded look “ No… I.. uhhh…”
NCO “Sir, you’re on flight training status and only fly simulators not actual aircraft. And I doubt these two Tylenol with codeine will adversely affect you through the entire weekend and affect your game play on Monday. If it does, come back and see me as you will be in need of a full flight physical to make sure you’re up to the rigors of office chair piloting”
LT left without another word.

Over the five days working there, I saw similar exchanges between so called “Pilots” and the medical staff. Seems there was some real issue with these guys strutting about in flight suits calling themselves Pilots when they’ve never flown a real aircraft and did mostly simulation flying. The flight surgeon in charge of the clinic had flown combat mission in both Desert Storms and had his staff’s back on them NOT being real Pilots.

Back on topic.
It seems the IL Democrats are invading their neighbors to the west. St Louis and Kansas City are the Chicago’s of MO. Everything in between seems to be far more conservative. Unless the Meth epidimic there has destroyed that too.