piper17

Well, the US Consitutution does authorize the federal government to "provide for the common defense" so I guess that would be where it makes it okay to "subsidize the military". I take it you never served? "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Evidently, you don't remember Hillary's healthcare plan from the 1990s when slick willie was in the White House. "Education benefits society as much as the individual" Society should pay for it" First, many things benefit society but I don't think it is up to the taxpayer to fund them. Secondly, why can't txpaying parents choose the schools that their children attend instead of being forced to continue sending their children to failing schools. If education benefits society and society should pay for it, what is wrong with allowing children to attend parochial schools if these schools provide a better education? "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Subsidizing airlines, subsidizing those who can't pay their own medical bills, subsidizing an educational system that doesn't educate and is run by a bloated school administration bureaucracy....what's the difference? Heck, taxpayer dollars subsidize things such as NPR and PBS...why not the airlines? Why can't NPR and PBS pay their own way as commercial television and radio has to do? "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

No, I don't like big government but you certainly seem to like it...except when it is your "ox that is being gored". Why do you avoid addressing the rest of the material in my posts. You seem to think it is okay for socialized medicine and a public education system that is a disgrace to be foisted on tax payers in this country but you don't like the idea of having to pay for the the national air traffic control system. Same idea! How about everyone (with the exception of those who are mentally or physically unable to work) paying for their own healthcare and parents get vouchers for their children's education and choose where they send their kids to school. I don't see anywhere in the US Constitution where the federal government is granted the authority to take over the healthcare system or the way healthcare is delivered to citizens. I DO see where the federal government has the responsibility to facilitate commerce between the states. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

So, how does this differ from socialized medicine being promoted by the Dems or the public education mess in this country being controlled (and run for the benefit of) teachers' unions? Why is it okay to make taxpayers subsidize the healthcare of those who don't have private healthcare and mandate that they use a national healthcare system? Why do parents have to pay for a lousy public education system (being mismanaged by teachers' unions among others) and then have to pay more out of one's own pocket for private schools? "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Gee, what's wrong with general aviation pilots, aircraft owners, DZ operators and skydivers paying for use of the national air traffic control system. It is a necessary part of our infrastructure and what exempts skydiving and other areas of aviation for paying "their fair share". To me, this is quite similar to the coming national healthcare program that Hillary/Obama crowd are pushing where all of us have to pay for socialized medicine to covers the healthcare of those who can't pay for their own and we all will suffer with what will be inferior healthcare for ourselves as well. Or, the public education system in this country where parents are pressured to send their kids to failing schools run be the teachers unions whose primary interest is themselves rather than the students' learning rather than opting out and being allowed to use vouchers to send their kids to successful schools. Instead, parents taxes go to pay for failing schools and then have to spend more of their own money to send their kids to private schools. Welcome to socialism and a federal government that is increasingly taking more and more control of our lives away from us. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/TonyMartin/asp/KeyEvents.asp Here is one link to the entire story. I still don't see any reference to shooting one of the burglars in the back. Then again, so what? In Connecticut in recent months we have had a number of home invasions where the residents were murdered by the burglars including one in which three women (mother and two daughters) were murdered and burned, only the husband (badly beaten) survived. The perps both had lengthy criminal records. Break into a person's home...pay the price! "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Isn't it comforting to know that when seconds mean the difference between life and death, the police are only minutes away? Then again, who knows how long it will take for the police to arrive as it all depends on what the 911 operator is going to do with your call for help. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Home security? Self-defence? In the UK? Not likely. I seem to recall the courts in the UK putting a homeowner (farmer?) in jail because he shot a burglar with a shotgun in self-defense..then he was sued by the burglar. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

As a "typical white person" (according to Obama), I would have to agree with rushmc! "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

While he wasn't my first choice on the conservative side, I'll take McCain over the racist liars that the Dems are currently trying to choose between. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

It reminds me of the actions of the federal government regarding their actions at Waco....the lie of the Davidian compound being a meth lab which justified the introduction of the US military equipment (war on drugs) and the BATF claiming that the Davidians had automatic weapons although none have ever been shown. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

If your personal information is correct, I guess you are in a good position to be talking about glorious leaders, using people for propaganda, etc given what Germany brought forth to the world 60+ years ago. It's too bad the rest of the world didn't have the fortitude to take preemptive action against that "glorious leader"; it might have prevented the evils he and his "master race" perpetrated on much of the rest of the world. Instead, Europe was content to appease him time and again and the millions upon millions of dead in WWII was the result. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Then there is this: Average global temperatures in 2008 are forecast to be lower than in previous years, thanks to the cooling effect of the ocean current in the Pacific, U.N. meteorologists say. The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, said it was likely that La Nina, an abnormal cooling of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, would continue into the summer. If the forecast holds true, global temperatures will not have risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. • Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center. A small number of scientists doubt whether this means global warming has peaked and the Earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted, but Jarraud insists this is not the case and notes that 1998 temperatures would still be well above average for the century. "When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he told the BBC. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming." RelatedStories Junk Science: Bush Beats Gore on Climate? Australia Opens Plant to Bury Greenhouse Gases Underground Gore Announces 3-Year 'We' Campaign to Combat Global Warming Millions to Turn Off Lights for 'Earth Hour' Saturday EPA in No Rush to Comply With 2007 Supreme Court Greenhouse Gas Order "La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for climate change is that the trend is up." Experts at the U.K. Met Office's Hadley Centre for forecasting in Exeter said the world could expect another record temperature within five years or less, the BBC reports, probably associated with an episode of El Nino. AND THIS, TOO: http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/Conf2007/Archibald2007.pdf "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Perhaps I missed the follow-up article about this incident but I have yet to see any mention of the circumstances regarding the AD...or ND. Where was it reported that the pilot was handling the weapon at the time? The article I read mentioned that the aircraft was at 8,000 ft and manuevering for the approach. If that is true, why would the pilot (FO, I guess) be playing with the H&K at that point in time? I thought the handgun was supposed to be cased etc. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Nice choices. Are you aware of this information regarding ammo for the Seecamp? http://www.seecamp.com/ammunition.htm "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

...and was she "sleep-deprived" all the other times she told the same story in different venues over a period of more than one year? Senator Bob Kerry (D-Nebraska) referred to Clinton as "being an usually good liar" in the January 1996 issue of Esquire magazine. All this time I thought he had been talking about Bill Clinton. Maybe he said "Clintons" and I just missed the plural. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

The nice thing about being Armor branch after finishing Infantry OCS...I got to ride around in M-151s, M-48s, M-113s, M-88s etc...no more dirt pounding humping heavy loads. ;>) "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

Sounds like the Washington Post took the article directly from this left-wing web site: http://www.democrats.com/node/15948 but that wouldn't be a surprise, now would it? "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

It was just part of the demonstration of cook-offs in the M-60....part of the program and impressive looking at night watching the barrel go to red then white. The class was, as I recall, was in regard to utilization of the T&E mechanism, fields of fire, and some other terms that I can no longer remember. Bbl changes...that's why they gave out insulated, asbestos gloves, too. And...the bitch and its ammo (blanks) got heavy after a few hours of trudging around the GA woods...just like the prc-25! "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

A round cooking off because the the weapon was sitting in the sun. That is a load of BS, IMO. At Ft. Benning, during nightfire training with the M-60 machine gun, we saw that the barrel/chamber would get red - then white - hot and the machine gun would keep firing of its own accord. A weapon sitting in the sun is just NOT going to get hot enough to do it. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

What, pray tell, is the difference? The term in the firearms community is "accidental discharge"...as opposed to a purposeful firing of the weapon. Before anyone should be drawing any conclusions from this CBS News report, we should find out all the facts. Does "Duke Lacrosse Team" ring a bell. Just as any resemblance to reality being strictly coincidental in news reports about skydiving incidents, that is usually the case in incidents regarding firearms as well. What was the brand of hand gun? Glock? Sig? Was the pilot handling it at the time? If so, why? It might be nice to know the facts before drawing conclusions. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

...and just when I'm ready to relocate to Florida with my 1999 FXDX! "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

What some in the media have said: Obama's Speech: The Morning After Presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech yesterday was written by the candidate himself, and attempted to transcend race while justifying his continuing twenty-year commitment to the church led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Many reviews of the speech were predictably glowing in their admiration for the Democratic Senator from Illinois, but that reaction was far from universal among op-ed writers, even in a media that is generally accepted to be left-of-center ideologically. While giving credit to Obama's speech as a "fine political performance," Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post, noted: Obama's excellent and important speech on race in America did little to address his strange tolerance for the anti-Americanism of his spiritual mentor... ...In Philadelphia, Obama attempted to explain Wright's anger as typical of the civil rights generation, with its "memories of humiliation and doubt and fear." But Wright has the opposite problem: He ignored the message of Martin Luther King Jr and introduced a new generation to the politics of hatred. King drew a different lesson from the oppression he experienced: "I've seen too much hate to want to hate myself; hate is too great a burden to bear. I've seen it on the faces of too many sheriffs of the South. . . . Hate distorts the personality. . . . The man who hates can't think straight; the man who hates can't reason right; the man who hates can't see right; the man who hates can't walk right." Barack Obama is not a man who hates -- but he chose to walk with a man who does. Writing in a similar vein in the Boston Herald, Michael Graham opined: Obama is right when he reminds us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But where he is cynically and shamefully wrong is insisting that we all have fallen as far as he has. The reason many of us are horrified by the senator's connection to the Rev. Wright is that most Americans can't imagine spending 20 minutes listening to his ignorant rantings, much less 20 years. Most of us would never even consider joining a church that preaches racial theology of any kind, much less the overt racism of the "black values system" at Obama's church. And now we're supposed to believe that this man is going to heal our souls? Likewise, Thomas Sowell likened Obama to a con man: Someone once said that a con man's job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe. Accordingly, Obama's Philadelphia speech — a theatrical masterpiece — will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now "move on," even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush's 2000 election victory. Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama's speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the "useful idiots" useful. Stated Mark Davis in the Dallas Morning News: Mr. Wright has spent years infecting congregations with sick obsessions about an evil, racist America. That congregation has largely responded with cheers of agreement. Yet Mr. Obama insists he has absorbed only the "loving" portions of Rev. Wright's Christianity, not the portions that have heaped condemnation on our country, on white people, on Israel and on specific political figures he reviles. How conveniently selective. Can you imagine a conservative politician able to skate away from decades of association with a pastor who spent frequent occasions spewing fiery condemnations based on race and politics? In the Jerusalem Post, Armstrong Williams points out the obvious: This past week was not an exemplary moment for the man who has prided himself on integrity and honesty throughout this campaign. The fact is that the senator has no plausible excuse for why he remained a member of Rev. Wright's church. He and his family should have immediately left that congregation for the embrace of a church that teaches the Bible rather than the alienation, lunacy and outright mockery of Christian teachings. Even reliably left-of-center Maureen Dowd was forced to concede in an otherwise glowing review in the New York Times: The candidate may have staunched the bleeding, but he did not heal the wounds. His naive and willful refusal to come to terms earlier with the Rev. Wright's anti-American, anti-white and pro-Farrakhan sentiments — echoing his naive and willful refusal to come to terms earlier with the ramifications of his friendship with sleazy fund-raiser Tony Rezko — will not be forgotten because of one unforgettable speech. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

My home will be on the market by the end of the month. Just as soon as I lock in a deal, I will be purchasing a larger home in Florida. I'm hoping to relocate by June. Here in the northeast, the housing market didn't see the excessive run-up in housing prices (in most places) and I should get a good price for mine. It's a great time to buy in the areas that have experienced "irrational exuberance" during the past few years and have now crashed! "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling