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Idiotic post. You must be referring to someone else here. Clearly not me. By the way, and just so you you are aware, faith views should supersede political party allegiance, if held sincerity.

US Demo Catholics "dodge the point" every time. Never adhering to doctrine. Simply doing what is politically expedient. Always the same. Never ends.

So can we expect a Democrat party change on abortion, a Catholic doctrine?

The jobs report is not produced by the administration.

Totally disagree. I don't give a rat's ass about January 6, nor Epstein. Just not in my care box, so not in my pay attention box. Early judgement, but how has the currency swap with Argentina worked out so far? I'm informed that it is quite well. Plenty of focus on inflation, to the extend that any president can. Energy policy is a place they can do something, and that is down quite a bit. Agriculture/food not so much. Health care was a time bomb the minute the ACA passed. Everyone knew it and and here we are. Completely predictable. The tariff thing has been really sloppy, but needed to be addressed. Either way, whoever was running the Biden Admin was frighteningly bad, and nobody even knew who it was. Shumer, Biden Hakeem Jeffries, and the other "Squad" members as well as the new mayor elect in NY, along with AOC? I fear for my kids if these people are not removed.

I don't have any disdain for you or anyone else who voices their opinion honestly and objectively. I have an issue with people who are grossly political, or ignorant. You can fill in those names. Biden was the worst president in my lifetime. Worse than Carter, who was second. He kneecapped the Us energy industry, then begged them and the Saudis to bail him out when polls tipped against him Trump is a guy I cannot stand personally, but what he does, ex the juvenile nonsense of name calling, usually makes sense. People post here all the time with no effort of understanding the real issues involved in these decisions. The F-35 program deliveries are way behind schedule. The US Air Force is one half the size that it was during Desert Storm, in no way capable of supporting anywhere near the level of operations they did then. The US Navy cannot support it's carrier commitments, and doesn't have near the aircraft or pilots to do that. The US Congress will not support those commitments, as evidenced by the recent shutdown, which has serious results in defense issues. That was all on Shumer. My point is this. The F-35 backlog re deliveries is very significant. I have no idea how long it will take for the Saudi number to come up and receive airplanes. I also believe, based on my background and understanding, that allying with the Saudis is a smart, efficacious undertaking. Totally desirable to defuse the middle east. What I cannot stand is stupid political hatred being injected into reasonable, smart foreign policy. The Abraham Accord is a potentially very big deal, unimagined 20 years ago. Getting Saudi Arabia onboard would be a very major move in the right direction.

Kramer.

Was it greed, corruption or shamelessness when Biden enacted a number of executive orders on his first day that damaged the US energy industry at the drilling, refining and transportation levels, and then, when things got uncomfortably expensive, and polling numbers indicated the US citizens were tired of increasing energy costs to beg the Saudis to increase production. Then, when they told him to pound sand, he asked them to at least delay production reductions until after the mid terms, only to raid the Strategic Oil Reserve for non "strategic" reasons; simply for price. Greed, corruption or simply shameless horrible leadership, or maybe he was already incompetent, which would become undeniably evident soon after.

The terrorist operation was led by Al Qaeda, and specifically by bin laden. The same bin laden who hated the Saudi Royal family more than he hated Americans. The same Saudi gov that refused to allow him into Saudi Arabia. I don't excuse the Saudis. It was a group of them that surreptitiously supported Al Qaeda. Not a fan at all. Know the logical explanation of why the terrorists were disproportionately Saudi? Are you familiar with US Visa requirements regarding various countries? Are you aware that we have an agreement with the Saudis that contained completely different entry requirements for Saudi citizens that many other countries in the Middle East? Are you aware that folks from other countries wanted to participate, but their visas were denied? 'Cause that's the reality. Further, nobody has forgotten. We have gotten along pretty well with them the last few years. I am not the least bit worried about them challenging us with F-35's, and I've fought their F-15's. Unless there has been a monumental evolutionary change with their aviators, they would be targets against US air power.

Is that why we sold them to them? What leads you to make that claim? Do you know what the production timeline is for F-35's? If you do, can you tell us when they will get them and what that means? Are you aware that each one sold lowers the unit cost of those sold to our AF, Navy and Marines? "F Qatar" is not a reasonable defense of "they'll have a base here."

As has been discussed many times, Qatar doesn't have a base in the US. Selling F-35's to the Saudis is not "bowing down." The 9-11 attacks were certainly supported by quite a few Saudis, and some of those individuals were in the gov, but there was never any proof that it was a Saudi gov condoned operation. It was a Islamic operation, specifically the Wahhabi interpretation, which is popular in Saudi Arabia.

Before I started the vineyard, I completed a class in viticulture, (grape growing), and spent an entire day on herbicides. I would never put myself, my family or our dog in jeopardy for any reason. I read the entire gov stuff on glyphosate, available at the time. I also understand and have looked at the European view on it. I don't drink it. I don't touch it. I add it to my sprayer and use it. I have a very good bug population, and I don't have cancer yet, nor do the good number of other people that I know of who use it, carefully. To each his own.

I like roundup. I have used it for years, because it doesn't kill bees. I have a vineyard, and it has worked fine. It worked better using the old glyphosate formula. I do not get it on me. I am not a chemist or an oncologist. Works and I buy it, use it and am careful in that use.

No. The winds were quite strong yesterday, so there could have been a nonstandard use of the other runway, but the approach controllers would know about the TFR and not vector anyone through that airspace. I'm guessing it was either above 3000' above the stadium, or an approved thing, but very unusual to ever use a jet to do anything game/film related, as it makes no sense.

The FAA issues a "TFR," temporary flight restriction, that prohibits unapproved flights from flying less than 3000' above, within a three mile radius for a period of one hour before until one hour the event for any stadium with a capacity of 30,000 seats or greater. Certain flights are allowed, like air ambulances or individually approved, which won't be for general aviation ops.