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Quite false, as always. My "claim" was that people were put in places they were not qualified to be in, and that resulted in death and destruction of tens of millions of dollars. I made no claim that you assert. I specifically claim that in these two instances, that was absolutely the case.

Absolute correlation. Absolute facts. Absolute dead people and 60 million destroyed. Those two incidents, specifically related to answering your challenge, were quite worthy of the time of the people effected, who, like me, don't give a rat's about your time.

Pot calling kettle...... A couple days ago you challenged me to provide evidence of people losing lives because of diminishing standards based on things other than merit. I did, Didn't see any acknowledgement, just a Tib's disappearance.

Didn't happen, just like the good people on both sides was referring to Nazis and white supremacists didn't happen. Keep repeating a lie. Works for you.

Win.

If lower inflation is desired, practice responsible fiscal policy. We haven't done that for years. Monetary policy, ie., the Fed acts in response to data caused by fiscal policy.

I have brined in liquid and dry brined, and I much prefer dry brining. Put the dry brine on and let the turkey sit for two days, uncovered in the refrigerator. Make sure to loosen the skin and get the mixture under it and on the meat. There's solid chemistry backing this process. I also place the turkey breast side down for the first half of the cook. I discovered this technique by accident a few years ago, and the breast is much more moist.

Are you serious? A hint. There are just as many people "making prognostications re interest rates" on both sides of the argument. That is what makes the market. Jeez this is stupid.

Absolute nonsense. Of course tariffs would cause higher prices on those items impacted. That would slow demand, and thus lower interest rates. Interest rates are the free market demand for money.

First game Sep22, 1963. My uncle took me. I wasn't really interested, but I went. Really young. I still remember the smell of those Sahlens hot dogs. Great atmosphere. We sat behind Kansas City wide receiver Chris Burford's parents. Game ended in a tie, but I was hooked. Been a fan ever since, as are our kids, who were born and raised for their first years in San Francisco during their heyday, but are just as die hard for the Bills as I am. We never call them the Bills. We call them "the beloved." They still join me on Sundays when able for good food and the game. They'll be here this Sunday for the Dolphins. The Bills have provided massive disappointment at times, but their contribution to the the closeness of family is immeasurable.

Non citizens, in this case self proclaimed non citizens do not have that right.

Are you in possession of the facts here? These are self identified non citizens. The state's actions were a continuation of a precedent set in 2006 by gov Tim Kaine. Recognize that name? Hillary's running mate and favorite of on of our staunch Dem poster's here?

Can you possibly be more disingenuous or deceitful? He was talking about the Biden Admin's refusal to apply US immigration law, and what has resulted. Goodness, what gross, intentional lying.

I served as an elections officer for five years. I knew and met people who are extremely affluent, and many less so. After a while of doing this, and engaging in conversation, which my small precinct allowed me to do, I concluded that there is no value in judging based on net worth, education or any of the myriad of other categorizations. We have two very flawed candidates. We need to get through this and get over this nonsense. We don't have a Hitler or fascist, and the world is not going to end. We have a somewhat narcissistic blowhard, and a leftist loon from an area that has destroyed effective government, and cannot answer a simple question. Tough years ahead. Great for the media, but not for us, but we'll get over it.

Billy Shaw vs the Chargers Ernie Ladd. Worth the price of admission.

This guy is a total goof. My brother in law and his wife just visited. He is a partner is a Minneapolis wealth management firm that does a lot of Vikings and Twins clients. He and his wife despise the guy. Special state call in lines to report on your neighbors who might be violation their covid restrictions at family affairs? One could drag a guy off the street and I'd be more confident in competency.

I like revenge movies. Top two. The Count of Monte Cristo, newest version, with Jim Caviezel, and Mask of Zorro with Banderas, Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins. Simple stuff. Total escapism.

Second question first. Typical false premise leading to false conclusion, leading to false accusation. Tibsy path. I don't "automatically assume that women and minorities are worse at their jobs than white men." That is from you. What I assert is that in the professions I have mentioned, standards have been lowered to accommodate various individuals. Simply undeniable. Now to names. As is my habit, I don't post stuff unless I am knowledgeable of the issue. Two Naval Aviators died, and two airplanes crashed at sea because of this. One name, because it is so well known. Kara Hultgreen. Once Congress changed the law and allowed females to fly combat airplanes at sea, the Navy and Air Force were in a race to get the PR win by being the first service to find one. She was it. She was assigned to an F-14 squadron and had an approach turn stall while attempting to land on Lincoln. Her training records and personal witness accounts indicated beyond doubt that if her performance prior to that was as a man, she would never have made it that far. She was not competent to be in that position. Thankfully, her back seater, who commanded the very low altitude ejection survived. Neither she nor the F-14 did. Second, and very personal. There were no single seat pilots in the Navy of a certain race. My squadron had a guy assigned to us. An extremely great guy who became a good friend in our brief time together. The problem was, he couldn't land on the ship, which is the unique and most difficult thing in all of aviation. During workups, which are two week sea periods prior to deployment to get up to speed, he was having difficulty and had not been scheduled at night, which is much more challenging. The decision was made to get hi two day flights, then if that went well, he would be scheduled the next night. If that didn't work out, it was going to be the end of his carrier career. I was his flight lead on the first day mission that day, a perfect day to fly off the boat. On his second flight, he had an approach turn stall, (same as above), and ejected inverted at about 200' killing him at impact with the water, just behind Kitty Hawk. During the accident investigation, it was revealed that there was flag after flag during his training that should have disqualified him, but he was pushed along for a reason. It turns out he had expressed to friends in other squadrons that he was terrified of flying the airplane off a carrier. There are other issues in this accident that even more telling, but were never formally revealed. The Navy would never admit to the training stuff, so they placed some blame on my squadron commanding officer stating that he should have known about this "fear," though it was never expressed to us. Great guy. Great family that I met as one of six officers in my squadron that served as pall bearers at his funereal in Baton Rouge. Anyway, that capped the CO's career.

The issue I commented on is "lowering standards." The point I made is that standards have been lowered in order to accommodate certain people based on things other than capability, ie., race and gender. People have been killed becasue of this, along with other consequences.

Until someone gets killed. Then not so "silly."

Does this apply to firefighters, police, med school applicants, military and military special forces as well?

Where was this? Quite abnormal.

This has nothing to do with money, and nobody is comparing him to anybody. Not sure how that came up. His retirement is a great loss of an incredibly honorable man, tremendous coach and beloved individual to his players, university and community. It is also as I said, a canary in the coal mine indicator of where college athletics is heading.

I agree that it would more dangerous with missiles launched from the mainland, but either way they wouldn't survive it. Regarding Houthi actions, the way the Administration handled it was a bit "Vietnam-esque," with naval hands tied by Washington. The Eisenhower task force commander expressed a need to be more aggressive in dealing with them, ie., launching offensive strikes instead of just defending against missile attacks and then using relatively small attacks against launch sites. Those requests were denied. Would have been a bit different if their reqeusts were approved.

They tried that before and lost half their Navy in eight hours. They could have lost everything but the Chief of Naval Operations called off the dogs. Operation Preying Mantis My old squadron took part in that, though I was gone. A good friend of mine put a 500# laser guided mark 82 right down the stack of the Iranian frigate Sahand.