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If this wasn't "chaos," I shudder to think what he thinks meets that threshold.

Never met anyone like that, and we played a 50+ game schedule in three states. Regarding your question, it is typical of the insanity posted here, and not interested.

Not sure if you consider me a fascist or not, but I ran a pretty successful baseball travel team in suburban Chicago for a number of years and was a patched ump in Il. and Va. I never noticed any political component from anybody in any of these endeavors.

I saw a report today from a source I trust that a significant amount of Russian aircraft lost have been the result of friendly fire. It was actually a shocking number, mostly helicopters, but I'm not going to post the actual figure because I have never seen a situation that produces such questionable, propaganda-ish news. Still, it is a source I trust. I do know that the ex Soviet Union and Russian pilots had absolutely no confidence in their ground based air defense's ability to separate friend from foe and their greatest concern was being shot by their own defenses. Ground based air defense is one area that the Russians have great capability, if not discernment, and that is why I have not been a fan of F-16's for them until they get some of resolution in that area. Their air defenses, if not degraded by lack of maintenance, still provides an effective envelope for the eastern areas that are still in active conflict.

Again, I repeat what I posted earlier. What intel? People and things fly over US military bases all the time, with a very few exceptions. There is no significant intel to be gained. You could rent an airplane and do the same thing and nobody would care. I still think it should have been shot down the minute they knew it was in violation of sovereign airspace, but I doubt it provided anything of value, other than a giant black eye for the Chinese, and a major black eye for the Administration.

So you go from the fallacy of the false choice, to the fallacy of the false premise. You are authoring examples of the first chapter in any logic text. Anyway, I am not willfully ignorant. I am simply not politically charged enough and not inclined to comment on everything that gets written here. You can write whatever you want, and I rarely care. What I do comment on are things that I have knowledge of and get misrepresented, or that I can provide additional information on. Not asking for agreement or trying to be intentionally confrontational. Not my style.

Are you aware of the fallacy of the false choice? Kind of well known in logic 102. Or simply a dope.

I fully understand the quote. It simply is void of any information that any data was collected, and suggests, if not indicates, that the source does not understand how these systems and processes work.

But the "source" says nothing related to the claim. There is nothing in it that indicates any knowledge of qwhat may have been collected, or how the US operates in this area.

I believe the claim that this balloon collected any "sensitive military data" is ridiculous.

I'm not aware of any "cult." But in the interest of full disclosure, regarding energy, I have a very significant commitment to emerging energy that is not fossil fuel, and zero to fossil fuel. I am simply a realist who understands how stupid and destructive the Administration's stated elimination of drilling is. Absolutely void of economic reality, and we have seen the results.

I would absolutely love to get into a discussion of a free enterprise system, the success of the US economic model, buy backs and ESG investing, but it will never happen here. Perhaps you are smarter than those paid and who have a fiduciary responsibility to manage the assets of millions of investors. I don't see it from you, and I absolutely don't see it from this administration who cannot get simple appointments approved, let alone have a scale tipping influence on very major impacts to our economy. The faster they are gone, (though not trump), the better.

The sad part is that we have the ability to de-weaponize oil and removing it from impacting foreign relations by simply producing cleaner energy that we are going to burn regardless of where it comes from. ........domestically. Cleaner. Cheaper. The claim that what we produce will be sold overseas is a specious argument.

Stop this nonsense. I don't pretend anything.

I have no interest in defending Trump. Never voted for him and have despised him since an event in 1989 that I became aware of his character and business acumen; both nonexistent. That is not to say I didn't favor his policies, esp energy, NATO, tax, climate, Iran and a host of others that I think the Dems are always wrong on. While getting him off the US political scene is something I think is best for the US long term, revenge political prosecution is not the way to do it, and will lead to far more escalation and trouble. I have no idea what is in this sealed indictment, but it better be something more than what has been discussed, because if it isn't, the game will be escalated to our great remorse.

You speak for middle America? The reality is that Pelosi always says something stupid and my response to a claim that the Republicans are more dumb is deserved when the ex Speaker of the House says something remarkably dumb, even for her, and that is a tough standard to breach.

Not sure what you are asking re the House, but I am far more confident than I was before the last election. But.... "We'll have to pass it to see what's in it."

And the ex Speaker of the House, a prime Democrat says that Trump can "prove his innocence," turning American historical jurisprudence on its head. Meanwhile the nominees to head FAA and FCC withdraw. One is completely unqualified and the other totally inappropriate. Ya.....The Dems have a deep bench.

On a side note. I've got a Kahr P40 pistol for sale. I bought it when Kahr offered a really good deal on it when guns in the cockpit was allowed after 9/11. Never fired. Never carried, just oiled every six months or so. My 270 Ruger I must keep for deer never graze zones, like my vineyard, though I haven't fired it for years either.

In addition, Pete's candidate for FAA Administrator, discussed here earlier and totally unqualified, has removed himself from consideration knowing he would never be approved, thank goodness. And....Airlines are withdrawing flights from JFK because of insufficient FAA staffing there. He's a great Sect. of Transportation doing a great job.

And that isn't what I said.

Just crazy.

Whatever anyone thinks about the war, both Saddam and Bin Laden were very bad guys. Nobody needed to make that up.

He also trashed the Thai Baht, putting millions of people in a far wore position than they were before. He was trying to do the same with the Mexican peso, all for personal, financial gain, until the US Fed intervened and supported the peso, ending his foray. He's a horrible man.

Rolling Stone lost whatever it had left with the "Rape on Campus" story featuring "Jackie," a lying attention seeker who basically plagiarized s book to create the story. Glad they had to pay for that. Just despicable.