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You know, the more you type, the more silly you get. Forget the claim that I lived in Israel.That's just stupid, and irrelevant. You are not at all knowledgeable about markets or the ways to potentially make money off a single event. One would have to be ignorant to buy defense stocks to profit off of this. There are many other "options" that would be far more profitable, involve less risk and provide profit percentages that dwarf anything involving a defense stock purchase. You are not that bright. Not bright about what happened that day. Not bright about the work and research into it and the conclusions that work provided, and certainly not about markets.

I have never posted a single thing about Israel. Yet....You have me living there, and it being "the only country I care about." I am getting the feeling that you are the reason the ignore option is offered. By the way, this stupid "why are there no OBL in Saudi Arabia picture" thing is getting you nowhere. He was one of many kids. His passport was revoked and there is no doubt about his origin, history or dispute with the Saudi Royal family. None.

Oh those nights on the Galilee......Enough said. It's coming back to me now.

The FAA. No reason for it not to be privatized. Other countries do it successfully. The Department of Education. Most of this is best handled at the state level without the massive infrastructure costs of a federal department.

LBJ is a red herring and has nothing to do with this. I lived in Israel?

If you care to find out about bin Laden, there are tons of books that deal with him. One of the most researched and thoroughly documented is a book called "Ghost Wars," by Steve Coll. Though it doesn't focus on bin Laden it lays faultless research on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; who was dealing with who, and how this all got started. You are posting absolute nonsense. High school..."Hey I just read something that's cool, but I know nothing about anything" nonsense.

LaDexter You are not good at this. Sometimes it's interesting to see someone who is wrong but good at it. You are very bad at being wrong.

Old reliable Maxine Waters wants it stepped up. "Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." https://www.dailywire.com/news/32232/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra

Have they surrendered it yet?

Ya. I'm lacking in what conspiracy theorists will come up with next, but I think I've seen most of them.

If you want to interest people who know a lot about this stuff, you are going to have to ratchet up your game considerably. It was an airplane. There are hundreds of witnesses who not only saw it, but walked the grounds after and saw all of the evidence. Airplane parts with serial numbers, body part and all manner of other things. Further, you need to up your game on "cruise missiles." There are no cruise missiles that are bunker busters. Bunker busters are extremely heavy, not mounted on cruise missiles, and have delayed fuses. Get smarter or give up. .

Closer to 500mph

I don't know if you're doing this as a joke or what, but there is absolutely no doubt that an American Airlines 757 hit the Pentagon that day. You seem to be oblivious to the evidence. The "hole" is the exact size of the fuselage of a 757. 757 parts, specific to that particular airplane were recovered on the lawn and in the building. Specifically, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered. So was a landing gear strut from the the main gear with a serial number that matched that airplane. The oft pictured compressor which is claimed to be way too small to be from a Rolls Royce engine that American used to power their 757's isn't from the engine. It is from the Aux Power Unit, which all 757's have and which is in the tail, used to provide ground electrical and air for the heat/AC units. American Airlines uniforms and a lot of DNA was recovered, and directly proven to be from the crew, passengers and terrorists. A great deal of effort was expended to keep the DNA separate for burial purposes. The reason parts are on the lawn is because the airplane actually hit the ground just prior to the building. There were scores of eyewitnesses who identified it as an American 757, easily identified because of American's polished aluminum fuselage. Anyway, there's a lot more evidence, but its a little more complicated and not worth typing.

And and thousands of temps linked from airliners to the ground every day, at all altitudes. Constant linking.

The title of the thread and the link are inaccurate. The application has been approved. There has been no approval of the event, nor any permit approval. We shall see.

Iraq did, briefly. Aside from that, air supremacy involves much more than shooting down airplanes. It involves having the capability to detect threats to ground forces that are not always obvious. It's a complicated issue, but all of our military enjoys a tremendous advantage because of our unmatched air superiorit...y. It there was any doubt, note the order of battle the US has used since Vietnam. First two days......air defense command and control eliminated. Same game plan over and over, and it has always worked. No mission is more enjoyable or rewarding that close air support of the ground folks, but you have to own the sky to do it successfully.

I'm not sure how much the concept of air supremacy is understood. The reason the Army and Marines were able to do what they did to support you was because of air supremacy. No superiority.......Supremacy. We have enjoyed that in each engagement since Vietnam. It is what allowed ground support from the services mentioned. I've never been a big fan of the Air Force, but they have sterilized the skies above our ground folks, and that is a good thing.

I'm glad that's all you're saying. The other services don't have anywhere near the capability for pure numbers, command and control, airborne tanking or logistics movement the Air Force does. I've always been disappointed in their flexibility compared to the other services, and they are far more rule oriented, the the capability is undeniable.

I made it to Whitefish Bay.

What? I'm not sure you are aware of carrier capabilities or airwing numbers, but there isn't a chance in the world the Navy could "pick up the slack," and even a small attempt would be disastrous. The Navy provides a very capable strike force, but nowhere near the numbers the Air Force has. The reality is that we are at the early stages of a a major change in offensive air platforms, from manned to unmanned.

Have you thought about this at all? Marines and their M4's, beach invasions, open battles at sea and a host of other ancestor worship military tactics are obviated by an effective, offensive space platform. As horrible as it is, our adversaries are moving that way.

The best views of thunderstorms are from the air. I've seen storms that are so intense that weather radar can't get through them. What you see is one giant red return and nothing but a shadow behind. Similar to your experience, I remember one evening flying from Chicago to Orlando. This British woman introduced herself and asked how the weather was. I told her there was a huge line of thunderstorms that would be parallel to our route, but we would avoid the line. She told me that since she was from the UK, she was no stranger to rain. Two hour of paralleling that thing and it was nothing but a spectacular light show. Not a single second without some lightening, which show up much more at night, obviously. Anyway, when she got off, she said she never saw anything like it. UK and western Europe just doesn't get hot enough for serious convective activity. The Amazon basin in norther Brazil has some pretty good ones, but the midwest US can compete, just not every day. During flight planning, you can get charts that show potential for huge storms. They graphically display moisture content and atmospheric instability, which when combined, and extreme, is what leads to sever thunderstorms. One of the worst I've ever seen was the evening that Air France Airbus crashed from Rio to Paris. Just impenetrable.

I'd bet I got 50 of my sailors out of trouble. Worst one was after being married for six weeks and being home a total of three days, I was enjoying a nice evening with my newlywed wife, and the call comes in. Excusing myself, I drove in to the base and got the kid out. I just told her it comes with the job.

It is a very complicated situation, and a situation that is being taken advantage of. The real issue is what it has always been. These countries governments are not being held to account for the claimed atrocities, and are using the US as a relief valve. Make no mistake. This is as much an industry as it is a human interest story. Do you think persecuted Indians would storm the Pakistan border? People are getting paid for this. There is no vetting of these decapitation stories. That is not to say I, or anyone else in the US is not sympathetic to the plight of the folks in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras or anywhere else in Central America, but I have watched this for decades, and while the strategy changes, the goal is always the same. Get people in the US. Get the money back to the home country, and do so while screaming ab out humanitarian atrocities. The answer is obvious. Force the govs to fix those atrocities, or we fight and pay for this forever. Sorry if that seems unsympathetic. It isn't. It is reality.

Yes. And driving our to Jim's on Lake Shore Drive for Sealtest ice cream at .35/cone and Sahlens hot dogs on the coal. Not absolutely sure if it was Lake Shore Drive, but it was on the lake.