JoeWeber

That's a ridiculous accusation, and you know it. Given that you must have an economics degree, too, please lay out the fool proof plan you've developed that will assure that every retiree will have a sufficient, self funded, retirement plan to protect them in old age and how those who fumble their savings away won't need the successful retirees to save them. Or, and this I suspect, your plan is to spout at them a simple fuck you for your bad luck and have a nice time living under the overpass.

I agree you couldn't agree more.

That's only even possibly true if you have one to be halved. Maybe you think a gun toting, dog eat dog, world is nirvana. Inarguably it's the natural order in most of the animal kingdom. The exception being a single species that saw that making concessions and working together for mutual success could reap huge rewards.

Of course you think some weeks have eight days. Given your prescience, how would you provide for seniors when the numbers of young workers are in decline and 401K's can drop by half overnight?

Still like Rick Scott? If so please give your usual detailed explanation of why.

Because that wouldn't be woke and that's, apparently, the problem.

That is just outstanding. What's next, Happy Birthday party balloons? Hopefully science classes will still have some balloons left when our new $300 Million Dollar 6th Gen fighter with it's $500 million dollar Drone squadron in tow comes on line. That'll learn them kids some science.

I'll look more into it but I think it's a proximity problem, but probably not so much at 20,000 feet as higher where to take it out with guns you need to get much closer than safety allows. Again, I'll look more into it.

The gentlemen was interested in knowing why missiles were used and not gunnery. I believe the answer is that at those altitudes gunnery is substantially less effective. I'll defer to your better understanding and await someone asking why it was the Chinese.

Altitude.

I'll defer to your real estate expertise. Thanks.

Something like 1,000,000 pounds of vinyl chloride is burning near East Palantine, Ohio after a train derailment. Egghead scientists are fretting about acid rain and Phosphene dribbling onto right wing heads in the area. Maybe airdvr can help us all set up a gofundme.

Absolutely. Apparently we were able to get them enough Soviet equipment that they could use right away. We supplied immediately usable intelligence right away. We supplied advanced artillery that was usable soon enough. We apparently supplied Javelin and other portable anti-tank and anti aircraft systems soon enough. I say soon enough because with that help the Ukrainians were able to fight back and reclaim territory. A year in Ukraine is still a sovereign nation, the war is yet contained in Ukraine, and Russia has thus far been humiliated by it's military incompetence and inability to win a quick war against a much weaker and contiguous nation. The frog is on the boil, seems to me. I continue to have faith that Biden, our military leaders, and our NATO partners will keep the Ukrainians well equipped and the war contained.

That's certainly an interesting view of history; you even have a close approximation of the number of Ukrainians killed by American foot dragging. Maybe we should have sent them an Aircraft Carrier Battle group on day two to keep the ports open and 6 wings of F-16's flown by Americans instead of going on the cheap as we have. Maybe 1000 M-1 tanks inferior to the T-72's etc that we helped organize into Ukrainian hands would have been smarter. Surely the Ukrainians could have figured out how to operate them from your day one by watching Youtube videos. Of course 3D printing would supply spare parts. Surely a little Vulcan mind melding could have supplied trained mechanics by day two at the latest. But no, Biden chose to help them with material they could actually use from the stocks of partners who used Soviet equipment and also build consensus in NATO. I might point out that Ukraine still exists as a nation almost a year into the war and our NATO partners, including Canada who just went large sending one antique tank to the fight, are girding for a longer fight backed up by guess who. Pretty much I think you don't have it right.

Good catch. I've previously posted here that armed speech can deter unarmed speech in the public square. That is to observe that in the presence of an armed individual or mob some folks might consider their privilege to speak freely abridged. Is such an effect not damaging to the specific intent of founders in the First Amendment? You could make it even simpler, is it right that someone should cross and walk on the other side of the road when faced with an armed group walking at them? That is to ask, just who gets the right to say someone should, or should not, be fearful of something that is publicly known to cause death or permanent harm to vast numbers of Americans annually. Is that not an abridgement of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States? Seems to me that making one Constitutional Amendment ineffective in the extreme so as to make another overly extreme runs contrary to original intent and to congresses obligation to make laws that equally protect every citizen. I see this as no different than denying the right to speed in school zones or throw rocks at windows as being no deprivation of privileges and immunities but rather a simple protection of the rights of others. We should do the same with gun rights.

That's a problem, sure, but the USSC justices who have read it but do not understand it is the real problem.

Back to Ukraine, here is what the United States of America has to date provided, or has committed to providing, Ukraine in the defense of world democracy. If you post here and are a citizen of a NATO country, not America, I'd like to hear from you why this horrendous asymmetry, once again paid for by we American taxpayers, is fair and right. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040

I'm thinking about certain persons who post here and have not been able to de-tribe for 2 seconds to say out loud, and without encouragement, that she's a disaster of republican construct. But they won't because they can not without admitting that how they have voted for years is why she exists.

You mean Thomas Reed, yes? No matter can we all agree that our best comparisons happened in our adult lifetimes?

We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

No, as per SOP, you are underthinking this.

I didn't expect a religious zealot to understand.

This is just ridiculous. No way should anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty be defending this guy irrespective of what a lawyer might win in court. We do not need to add private factories printing parts for the "personal" conversion of dozens of weapons to automatic fire added to every other gun rights absurdity this country suffers. Your position is just shameful.

Salute the rank, not the man? In the age of Trumpism, that's mind control bullshit you need to shake.

Classy, probably not. Ballsy, absolutely. I liked it then and I think it's aged quite nicely.