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As it happened, the ejection happened when they realized the friendly missile was tracking them. If they had waited, they would have been killed, as the SM2 is a huge warhead missile. They were also on final approach to the ship, so all their defensive countermeasures were off, and they would not have the airspeed to duel it. A huge amount of "stuff" going on at the same time, and they fired two sm2's, and might have gotten his wingman, who was a few miles behind, also preparing to land.

Absolute nonsense. No surprise.

I don't know if he is diminished at all, and no I didn't see it. But.......You have absolutely zero credibility, well, as much as Kamala Harris, in determining mental fitness in elected officials. Zero. You defended Biden right up until he disintegrated before a national TV audience, when every other rational, objective human was well aware of his incapacity. So, understand the perspective of those who would laugh at your judgement on such matters.

This isn't clever, or funny. We have been in a position for a year that the most powerful person on earth is completely incompetent. Along with a foolish disguise that every rational individual saw, and then was exposed at the meltdown. We can't let this happen again.

An absolutely absurd suggestion of correlation. Had the Democrat apparatus that runs the Biden Administration approved the Carrier Task Force' appeal to the national command authority to allow more offensive actions against the Houthis many months ago, things might be a lot different in the Red Sea, but they refused.

Russia is in no position to bail anybody. The ruble is tanking. their economy is completely screwed up. Not an issue. I China were to try some Cuban strategy, they would regret it.

Cuba is bankrupt. Massive power outages. Just done.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I think it is absolutely foolish to assign political patronage or affiliation with murderers, lunatics or anyone else that commits heinous crimes. Simple waste of time and meaningless.

Or the hundred and something million that we spent on a bridge to provide "aid" to Gaza that was never going to work, got destroyed, and killed a US service guy A horrific administration.

Gosh. Over one person per day leaves WVA. I say we divert the 33 million we spent on each electric mail deliver truck built in Wisconsin under the last Dem spending bill, and get this "exodus" figured out.

79 Beech A36 Bonanza. I owned one of those form 2003 until 2009. Nice airplane.

Quality of life is a personal judgement. I live on 30 acres away from a city. My wife and I walk our 850' driveway from 5:45 am to 6:30, every morning. Dead quiet. Watching the space station over fly, and looking at the solar system season by season. Pretty decent quality of life compared to urban living, if you ask me, but to each his own.

The man lives close enough to Whitetop Laural Creek. Grab a fly rod and enjoy. I have. It will be better for you than this last day here.

You are clearly crazy. The nonsense of the creeps on Jan 6 is minimal compared to what occurred on 9/11. No different than any other riot, which we have had hundred of. No threat to our gov/democracy or anything else suggested. Just stupid. Further, this total "Charlottesville" thing is idiotic. The people who marched in that unite the right thing were out of towners. Not from here. They came here because of this nonsense of removing a Lee statue, which was stupid but did get removed. Further, for clarification, since you often post stuff without accuracy, I didn't "witness" it. I went to our church to do something, and when I came back, I drove through the County building area where the unite lunes were staging. I saw them and they were dressed, and signed in a manner that was insane. They were not from here. I got held up by local police so those nuts could cross the road and get to their march, which eventually led to the death of a woman. When I got home, I told my wife that this was going to get ugly, and events played out the way they did.

If there's water involved, which I doubt based on where you live and the time of year, be careful of double deeping that "deep end."

Presumably faculty. Thus the descriptor.

You are clearly disturbed. I didn't disparage academics. I disparaged the faculty lounge atmosphere wherein people who have done nothing express strong opinions. I have never mentioned a thing in this thread about where I live, why I live here, people I know and have served, nor anything else related to my situation. One quick note though, since it is something you brought up. We do have a Wegmans here. After the Rolling Stone debacle falsely claiming a rape on campus, there was one woman from UVA who they targeted. Manipulated pictures all over the "claim." She sued Rolling Stone after the entire thing was proven to be as false as the Duke lacrosse nonsense. I ran into her in the produce section of our Wegmans, a few weeks after she was awarded the judgement. Very easy to identify. I told her I had never cared more about a single person getting a favorable judgement in a lawsuit.

You have gone off the deep end.

It is a common phrase meant to disparage people who do nothing but talk, conveying a view that they know what they are talking about, without ever having a real job, making a payroll, facing shareholders or competing in any way. Blowhards with tenure who think people care what they think.

Elon Musk is a brilliant man. But......and I've read that thing closely, he has absolutely no idea about the subject of the deployment of the F-35, nor air combat or fleet defense, and it is quite obvious in his expressed view. This is late 2024, not 2028. People's lives and nation's status are at stake, as well as international commerce. That is the reality, and dealing with that reality is the mission of gov's.

It isn't "clear" at all. I have no desire nor "need" to debate nor have contempt for anyone. You post wacky judgements all the time on things you know nothing about, and simply aren't true. I have no interest in talking about Jan 6 because doing so with folks who think is is bigger than 9-11 are people I don't think are rational, and therefore 'twould be a fool's errand. It was an action by a few crazy people. Just as riots in major cities are the actions of vandals. Not concerned, and certainly not motivated to discuss it with people who enlarge it to a lunatic scale. You post too much, and the more you do, the wackier you seem.

You are clearly an idiot. There are no university elites in this conversation. In no way, ever, have I contested any election. Wrong on all accounts. No surprise.

I have no interest in opining on anything regarding a group of morons on a single day doing something remarkably stupid, anymore than I think school shootings from individual lunatics point to a national attitude. Same thing with those out of towners that came to my hometown. Anamoly. 9-11 was way bigger. Way more impactful. Way more fatal. Had an infinitely grater economic impact. Had an infinitely greater impact on our gov. To claim otherwise is the stuff of idiotic faculty lounge conversation expressed by people who have no idea of scale or scope. In other words, idiotic.

I wasn't referring to a message board. I was referring to the reporting from the uninformed media.

That "judgement" depends on where you were at those times. 3000+ people dead. An entire industry destroyed. Scores of medical problems years after. A massive reworking of US internal security. Not close, at least not to the people attending the memorial services that I did. Partisan nonsense. Partisan insanity.