JoeWeber

No, you are not. You are supposed to believe whatever Brent claims as if it were well researched, unbiased, chiseled in stone, or even made a form of sense on offer somewhere in the galaxy.

Mustering up the maximum amount of respect I have for your dancing abilities: bollocks.

I suppose you could say Stalin was a leftie. Not sure if Solzhenitsyn would agree.

Only for us'n's? Time may be like an arrow but that's it. Everything else is up for periodic direction change, no soul searching required. I, myself, am cheered. I'm hoping that fracking waste water is thick as minestrone soup with lithium bits that can be extracted with naught more than a french coffee press. He who laughs Faust, right?

When he says cereals he means cereals, in boxes with sugar, preservatives, and colors of the rainbow food coloring already added and on the truck bound for Mogadishu to solve world hunger. Easy peasy.

MIT grad, more patents than Carter has little liver pills, sought after by used EV battery recyclers, and that's what you've learned? Alrighty then, will do.

American exceptionalism, except like the most of our exceptions they're really not. It's just not as funny when yours is the shit hole country.

And some more Trump neurological problems: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1798837557662540256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1798837557662540256|twgr^9cb22ea3b25f0c659d9d59ad0cfae4d0a836544b|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2668473350advanced

For anyone who refuses to believe it and needs video: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-speech-debank-extremists-jim-jordan-rcna134524 Or, if MSNBC is too liberal and you prefer X: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1747818968549634411?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1747818968549634411|twgr^a860636adbc0ea45ff67c8cd74c744ba00c460d5|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fiframe.nbcnews.com%2FqxV23c3%3F_showcaption%3Dtrueapp%3D1

Unless you are comfortable with the general attitudes in red South Carolina and are happy to take a Trump presidency if it means not making social waves then you really aren't helping. The absolute easiest, and most useless, tack anyone can take in a dialogue or conversation is to be totally opinion neutral, avoid being honest or, in it's absolute worst variation opine that some people are saying as some kind of evidence. Here's an opinion: I see no real evidence of senility in Biden, the economy is doing great considering the rising inflationary environment he inherited which takes time to fix, and Trump, supported by his complicit republican cultists, killed a border deal crafted in the Senate to hurt the nation and benefit his campaign or that would be on the mend now.

I recommend deleting this entire post before jakee rises from his nap.

How about a Swoop Pond? How long, how wide and how deep? I went with 200' X 60' X 4' deep and they still found ways to kill and injure themselves so I filled it in. How about a Landing Area for Tandem Jumpers to reduce the probability of them geting hurt? Absolutely. Should be USPA mandatory, not the dumb vertical separation nonsense they allow. How about a Landing Area for Jumpers who have injuries and they want to reduce the probability of them geting hurt? No way, heal first and then jump. How about a Landing Area for Beginner Jumpers to reduce the probability of them geting hurt? Absolutely. Should be USPA mandatory, not the dumb vertical separation nonsense they allow. How about Dog Kennels for those who have Dogs and want to leave them in a Safe Enclosed Area? Individual or grouped together so they can fight? Lot of money for a problem. I let them have them on leashes in the experienced only parking lot in the back area where no spectators are allowed. If they bark or bite or even threaten they are banned. How long of a Runway do you need for a Twin Otter or Caravan to land and with minimum Taxi, Load, then take off again? At $20-30 per minute Operating Costs, that seems to add up quickly. 2500'-3000' does the job with a little safety margin for take off and return to airport scenarios. How many Jumpers do you need daily to keep a Twin Otter or Caravan in business and profitable? At todays rates you really want to average 3-4 flights per start over the year, so that many.

Seriously, John? That's a ridiculous list of nobody's except Iceland and we should throw their cheap asses out of NATO. And didn't we beat Grenada fair and square in 1983? That's like our only real win since WWII, I think.

I'd guess that, too, but I am not privy to any numbers. Interesting is that our vaunted Abrams tank, yes it's no the A2, we surplussed to Ukraine have no more battlefield value than WWII Russian T-34's: mobile artillery. Our 50 year old F-16's with the right missiles will likely balance things in the air. Clearly we don't need anymore tanks that burn the wrong fuel, if any at all, and it's doubtful we need the 6th generation airpower we are paying through the nose for. Like it or not there are serious limits on what conventional arms can achieve in todays world and that in itself may shape the coming world order.

Sure, we duplicate too many things in the military. But even if you lumped all service branches together you'd still need to divide the operations into different segments to manage it all. The problem is much simpler: we buy the wrong stuff for the wrong reasons and need to stop. In WWII we were great because we were forced to build weapons that we needed, kaizen style, not ones we needed to placate politicians. Even now with an US M1A1 Abrams tank parked in Red Square Sen Wicker (R) is calling for increasing the budget to 5% GDP. The only way to do it, and it won't be done while we're on this side of the daisies, is to make a massive funding cut, like 25%, and tell them to make it work and to work together or new asses will be in the chairs.

Moving somewhere else, and selling out to someone dumber than you, before Hurricane 150 or flash flood 75 hits while observing that insurance premiums in your location are rising rapidly and forecast to become unavailable when you can't afford to self insure is also not an entirely abstract idea. This one isn't a conversation about global warming it's one about staying in the path of disaster and then being a crybaby about it when you lose everything and no one donated to your go fund me. If you live in Florida and aren't hurricane or flood proof or are just happy to take the risk because you can, get moving. Me, I'm hoping values in the Keys retreat to where I can get something well located near friends. But I won't be crying if I get swamped.

Which countries? The Congo and Luxembourg? That's military chump change. One Nuclear powered aircraft carrier costs $8M per day, on average, so that's two weeks of operations for one. We have 11 of those. I'm thinking you need to take this one back to the drawing board.

It's so much worse than a joke, it's a national tragedy; a misfortune for America that will endure for decades or more. Our nation and the institutions we held up as examples to the world are broken.

Freudian slip? No matter, I agree that somebody needs to do something. Damn, where's Genghis Khan when you need him?

According to New York pre-sentencing rules they could lock him up for thirty days for a full psych evaluation. Given that he is more deluded than John Nash by any measure it seems a reasonable thing to do. One can hope. https://ypdcrime.com/cpl/article390.php#c390.30 2. Physical and mental examinations. Whenever information is available with respect to the defendant's physical and mental condition, the pre-sentence investigation must include the gathering of such information. In the case of a felony or a class A misdemeanor, or in any case where a person under the age of twenty-one is convicted of a crime, the court may order that the defendant undergo a thorough physical or mental examination in a designated facility and may further order that the defendant remain in such facility for such purpose for a period not exceeding thirty days.

Put the Coast Guard in charge? That's some nice stuff to say but there is zero detail. For the purpose of understanding, and for starters, what bloat would you cut from each branch.

Lobbyists and buying friends aside, where would you start cutting 50% off our military budget?

International Treaty? You're behind the times, son, those are now Best Intentions Treaties. Think how cool it will be to have a hundred food carts along the Assiniboine and Red rivers. Tacos, Arepas, you name it. Yum!

It'll get votes at not much cost, seems to me. The trick will be in the spin: Mexico's nice, lot's of Americans retire there. Also Costa Rica and Panama. In the real world, I had some good quality dental work done in Panama at a great price, there are beaches and played right the cost of living is a lot less than the US. Ice cold beers are a buck each at Carnival which is great value at free. Of course, those countries have gun violence, crime, corrupt politicians and insensitivities to certain social groups. You know just like here in America. So I'm okay with serious restrictions and even repatriation. We need immigrants, absolutely, but we don't need a free for all. Alternatively we can take a page from Mexicos policy and let everyone cross in but then bus them all to a fun welcoming in Canada.

They, to be gender neutral, also kill whales and eat them. Maybe if we spread our oil wealth around between the states and killed whales we'd have better health care.