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We always get a cabin in the Blue Ridge. My three kids, their spouses and our new granddaughter. Wood fires, hot tub, hiking trails accessible from Skyline Drive. Do it every year.

What exactly does this mean? What is the point, and what was demonstrated in that event that makes the point?

Can we stop this stupid President and military respect nonsense? The way you show respect to the military, or anyone for that matter, is by not putting their lives in jeopardy for silly purposes. Showing up at various events honoring dead is meaningless compared to that. Nobody in the service cares. Asking that military people assigned to the White House to not make eye contact or talk with the president is an indication of how one feels, as is demanding that they not wear uniforms while on duty. So is not allowing the gent carrying the football to be close enough for a response to a nuclear attack. Do your own research. This has all happened.

I knew a lot of people who served with McCain. I served as a pilot in the same community, Pacific Fleet Attack. I have never heard a single one say that he "stayed alive so long because he was giving up intel." He had no intel to give. Just a bunch of nonsense, and the performance of Vietnam POWs was the common denominator of what became Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape training Navy pilots subsequent to that conflict went through, until is was grossly watered down. We have covered this before. McCain was not well liked for a variety of reasons in that community. His performance as a POW was not one of those reasons. That is an internet creation, and based on what he did as a Senator, and in my mind, for good reason.

Nonsense. They may have hated him for other reasons, but he was not disliked because of his actions as a POW.

I think you are amazingly ignorant about this entire subject. The Secret Service does not publicize any decision to wave off a presidential movement based on inability to protect. You clearly have no idea what this involves, politics aside.

You've probably already done so, but if you have time, go just across the street and visit the Library of Congress, and Jefferson's library display there. If you're a Shakespeare fan, the Folger Museum is across the street also and you can go in the reading room and look at almost 500 year old folios. They actually let you touch them. I was there last weekend. I'm always impressed with the many things to see along the Mall.

It wasn't "that." It was just a bit beneath. The part that holds the important parts. Pure black for two weeks. Really weird.

By the way, related. If anyone wants to talk about medical insurance away from work provided or Obamacare, I'd be glad to relate my experience with MediShare.

Actually, once you've broken three, the other 18 didn't matter. I actually hear them crack. I had a good support system, but I couldn't move laterally for about four weeks. Note to the guys, and I apologize to anyone who has any medical background, though I am thankful that my wife was a Navy nurse and thought I was going to die. If you subject your vascular system to extreme pressure, as in getting crushed, you will see results in weird areas, a few days later. My ***** turned black after two days, and it lasted for about a week. Too much information.....I know.....But just a heads up if you intend to over pressurize your vascular system.

No. Short story, but I was doing maintenance on my tractor. Not a small tractor, the rear wheels are about chin level. The valve that controls the hydrostatic transmission went into forward while I was underneath, pinning my shirt and me, and it ran over me. This tractor weighs about 1000 pounds more than a car. Still, after it ran over my chest, I got up, shut the tractor down, went in and sat on the couch. My wife came in and noticed I wasn't quite right...Petechial and other hemorrhages all over my face from blood being forced out. I told her what happened and she insisted we go to the hospital. I insisted that I must shower and change. When I looked at myself after the shower I realized things weren't quite right. Anyway, 21 broken ribs, four that are repaired with titanium.

I have the University of Virginia hospital record for number of broken ribs that someone has survived. I broke 21 of 24. She can make it, but she is beyond any age where she should be serving.

Any others interested in astronomy? Things will get even more interesting when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched, currently scheduled for March, 2021. Parked at the Lagrange 2 point, a million miles from earth, it sill search the IR spectrum instead of the UV and optical spectrum which Hubble does.

There is no doubt in my mind that the existence of WMD in Iraq was a universal, honest opinion of the entire US intel community. A view based on zero humint and defectors. A wrong opinion. A tragic opinion. The efforts of the Fed in 2008 had to do with saving our entire capital structure, without favorites, and brilliantly executed. It could have been way, way worse.

I spent nine days a month there for about eight years. Enjoyed it, but don't envy you a bit. Todo bem?

I volunteered to do that thing for six years. We had a few people like you. Never understood what kind of a loser would think that was of any value, but we had names for them, and never "sweated" them.

None of these measures would stop a pilot who was a legitimate hire.

If he's sane, he will avoid Venezuela, or prepare to give up his life. Brazil is the much better option, but if he doesn't care about immigration protocol, there may be no no place for him.

I think its funny when US or Canadians comment on countries and their govs and social systems that they know absolutely nothing about. Brazil is not what people think, nor is any other country. Corruption exists from the top levels of government to the school crossing guard, (which they don't have as I have been run over in Sao Paulo and can verify). Changing people at the top won't change that. It is systemic. Regional differences exist as well. Rio is completely different than Sao Paulo or Recife, and we won't even consider the Amazon area. What this is, in my humble view, is the final nail in the now continental repudiation of the Chavez Bolivarian Revolution coffin. Way too much ground to travel though, as Argentina has demonstrated.

Make no mistake. The provision that allows a guarantee of birth in the United States to citizenship in the United States is an industry across Central and some parts of South America. Along with the other profit making aspects of the immigration "trade." We need to view it for what it is, which is a profit seeking industry, designed to make money off the heartstrings of American benevolence. I saw it for years, and it has to be stopped.

Finally, a way to dispose of the missing 9-11 passengers. Or maybe just a simple pitot static problem that very poorly trained pilots on a very poor airline could not handle. But for conspiracy folks.....Both. By the way, I'm no DR, but I do have some contacts. Here's a maintenance write-up in that aircraft's logbook the day prior. " Indicated airspeed and altimeter disagree after takeoff and elevator feel differential pressure light illuminated." The airline claims it was fixed. I'm guessing they were wrong.

Or in some parts of the Islamic world.....dead.

You have no idea why they were targeted. Just stop......Until somebody with no other objective other than fact finding figures this out.

The size of the balance sheet has a good deal to do with the ability of the Fed to deal with the next downturn. Of course there is no magic number, unlike an individuals credit limit, but eventually the size gets to the point where it can't be reasonably financed by any rational estimate of GDP, so it eventually causes currency problems. See Venezuela. Deficits don't cause inflation, nor, in and of themself, stimulate economic activity. Deficits are simply spending more than one takes in. Supply and demand imbalance causes inflation or deflation, and clearly, gov demand is part of the calculus, but a part of it. The Fed is doing what it needs to do to fulfill its dual mandate of price stability and full employment. It is responding by incrementally raising its two rates. It is clearly not responsible for fiscal policy, which is an entirely different issue.