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For what it's worth, Biden was a strident advocate for invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is his history, no matter how be bungled the attempt to confuse the issue during the campaign. Still, it is hard to believe that Russia can make it through a second winter next year. They simply cannot handle the economic collapse. Now that Germany has constructed and is operating three LNG terminals, the price of Russian oil is bound to plummet. Very hard to see how the Russians can continue to fund this failed effort.

They are going to be operated by Ukrainian forces, trained by the US in a third country. While Patriot offers a significant upgrade to existing air defense capability, I really wonder about the efficacy of this. First, Patriot is a relatively short range system, a point defense weapon. Second there are not many of them being deployed. Thus, the question is where to put them? Probably to defend against very specific high value targets. Third, what happens if the battery is attacked by scores of drones? Patriot costs about $3 million per missile. The drones Russia is reportedly using cost about $50,000. twenty times less. The obvious strategy would be to saturate the Patriot batteries with drones and either waste the missiles or defeat the drones by other means. On a related note, our NATO allies, noteworthy the Germans, are failing miserably to provide what was promised. They promised Puma tanks, and every single one has failed, so they aren't being sent. Just a mess.

A ridiculous assumption.

Their airports a fine. They are just terrible at controlling airplanes, thus they operate incredibly slowly for what they manage. Totally incapable of handling small accidents in traffic. I've seen rear enders that result in massive jams in Beijing and Shanghai. There's nothing more welcoming than being presented a mask to protect your lungs during the Beijing winters when inversions set up and trap the coal exhaust. The country also has as ticking time bomb demographic issue.

Like most announcers, I'll bet Sanchez just wanted to get out of the stadium as early as possible.

KBUF is suitable for a 747, except at extreme weights on really long haul flights. Usually teams use either a 767 or 777, but as the airlines have withdrawn more and more from doing these for other reasons, the teams find other carriers.

Not sure about this claim. NFL charters to Buffalo disembark at the General Aviation ramp and go directly to chartered buses. They shouldn't pass through any TSA station in doing this.

I can't remember how he described what was going on but I do remember him stating that in 2019, about $75% of insurance litigation cases were from Florida, while the state only accounted for 8% of nationwide claims, and that 49 of the 52 carriers had losses between 2017 and 2021, and that the state run option, Citizens, was going broke.

For what it's worth, I heard an interview with the guy who is going to be the head of the Florida State Legislature in 2023 last week. He spoke extensively on this issue and stated they were going to address it in a comprehensive way as soon as they got in session. The fact is that insurance companies don't want to do business there, and that has been going on for over a decade. What they have done is dramatically raise rates to a point where nobody would accept, and then with no clients they could leave. Anyway, this Florida insurance issue has been going on for a very long time.

You are referencing Luke 15 for some reason, which is a chapter about welcoming after repentance.

Read what is there yourself, and you can interpret it for yourself. Obviously there are different views. What I know is that the church I belong to, which is a mainstream Christian Protestant faith, doesn't perform the ceremony for a gay couple, and doesn't restrict anyone from the regular services, and I'm OK with that, because I have no interest in people's personal lives nor in judging such matters.

I am not missing your point. You are asking me to voice a judgement on someone else's behavior, and I am not going to do that. It is warned against time and time again in the Bible. Regarding changing the playbook, there are ways to interpret things that govern Christian faith that are mentioned in the New Testament. If one interprets those a certain way, it is not up for "modernization."

I am never going to get into such a discussion here. I doubt anyone on this board has worked with more homosexuals than I, and like all folks, they are individuals and different from each other. What I strongly feel is that no religion should be forced to perform a marriage ceremony for those folks, just as that group should not be forced, and thankfully aren't, to perform any religious ceremony for a host of other reasons.

Ya. Sure. What I said is available on the previous page, and you boldfaced it in your ignorant response. What I said was: "It contains a lot of rules, called "The Law," that applied only to that group." Never, ever did I say that any rule in the Old Testament was not applicable to the Christian faith. That conclusion is your idiotic and false interpretation. That is not my problem. By the way, you've already called me an "idiot," along with coward, liar, unstable and a few others that I can't recall off the top of my head, so no need to repeat yourself.

No offense, but I am not going to do other's work. If you are interested, it is incredibly easy to find that in the Old and New Testaments.

I made no mistake. Your inability to understand what was said is not someone else's mistake.

That is not what I said, and I'm quite certain you have no idea how foolish and uninformed you appear. The Old Testament contains a number of rules those in the Judaism were to abide by. Many of them, but not limited to, circumcision, keeping the Sabbath, rules for keeping the Sabbath, strict dietary rules and rules for atonement after breaking one, did not carry forward to the Christian faith after the sacrifice of Christ and the spreading of that faith beyond the Jews. None of those apply to the Christian. The Ten Commandments certainly did, as I pointed out using a quote from Jesus. Most people are very aware of that, no matter their belief, and don't find that too hard to understand.

Please. What did Jesus say in the New Testament? Matthew 5:19. "So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Maybe not to you, though I doubt you are even aware, but think it's pretty clear.

Have to be careful if using the Bible. Remember, the Bible consists of two completely separate books. The Old Testament is the story of a culture, the Jews. It contains a lot of rules, called "The Law," that applied only to that group. The New Testament is the story of an individual, who fulfilled the law, and believers are no longer bound by Old Testament Jewish Law. The guidance in the New Testament is quite different.

I never claimed to be an "expert." so to answer your question...Not right. Having read your views on this issue, along with the preposterous suggestion that we deploy a couple squadrons to the Ukraine as a "deterrence" to a Russian invasion, the proposal that the US establishing and maintaining a no fly zone over the Ukraine, and your recent suggestion that we grant them $100b in aid, you have no idea how little I care regarding how seriously you take me, or any other view you have on any subject.

Apparently more than you. I'm sure most folks who flew tactical airplanes designed to fight in hostile lands received this information as you entered a new threat area. The first thing you go over is what they got, how they got it, and how much of a threat it represents. Here's what you don't seem to know, from evidence in your posts. The black market weapons market deals, other than small time stolen caches, are done through networks that buyers trust. I'm talking about large scale stuff, like what this guy was involved in, what the North Koreans do, and a host of other really bad people. These guys are not car dealers, only working for a specific label, as you foolishly suggest, and that because he is Russian, and you theorize, no doubt inaccurately, that there is no Russian stuff available for sale that he is probably harmless. A false premise followed by a foolish conclusion. Of course you have nothing to say about the effort, expense and danger of a multi continent sting to set up and effect his arrest in Thailand, or how the Russians tried to prevent his delivery to American hands, as if the DEA doesn't care about their effort or this release. I'll bet they really, really do. This mindless allegiance to Biden really warps your judgement. We got hosed on this "deal," and everybody on earth knows it.

Great response. The fact is that you know nothing about black market weapons sales, as is evident from your posts.

How do you claim any knowledge to state that he has nothing to sell? There are huge amounts of weapons and other military supplies available all across the world, including the stuff the US left behind in Afghanistan. The US military has itself omitted that it has not been able to track weapons provided once they leave Poland and get into Ukraine. I have no idea how you can make that statement.

Not that I care, but refusing to provide a catering service at somebody else's location is entirely different than refusing to serve them in your restaraunt and making that decision very close to the time of the reservation, claiming you were concerned about the safety of your wait staff. Give me a break.

When Tom Brady crosses the white line, he's going to be an ***hole.