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If I am included in your "they," the assertion is idiotic. The man is useless. He is the typical political appointee with no skill in the area he is responsible for. Impresses his party by his ability to respond in front of a camera, until someone has the nuts to challenge him, as Joe Kernan did on CNBC. He then looks completely helpless, which he is. If nothing else, stop with the preposterous innuendo that anyone who thinks he is useless gives a rat's about what he does in his personal life. That assertion has been tried and tried and tried, and it's a false, failed course.

When you man your administration with people who have no corporate experience or knowledge or contacts, but are simply career public servants, this is the kind of uselessness you get.

All different airplanes. The balloon that shot down the first one had one painted on as soon as it landed. The F-22 has an interesting skin coating to assist in its low observability operation, so I'm not sure they can mess with it that much.

It will be interesting to learn who is responsible for these past two incursions. It it is determined that China is responsible for all three, it is time to respond in an incremental fashion. We'll see.

I don't know what "decommissioned" means, but there is a report of another radar hit over Lake Huron that didn't amount to much.

I suppose there would be a cheaper way using the gun, but that would probably result in a much longer and unpredictable drift. In addition, F-22's fly every day, so no additional expense there, and US Navy and Air Force planes shoot a small number of non warhead equipped Sidewinders and carious other missiles every year to assure satisfactory inventory, so it's one less practice shot to do. I wacked a drone with one during my days. Really fun. For various reasons I won't confess, the missile hit the full size drone and splashed it. The ground operator of the drone was supposed to cut the engine to remove the heat signature as soon as the missile came off the rail, but my call was "late" so he was late, and even the non warhead AIM 9 bulls-eyed the thing. A good day for me. Minor edit.. By the way, the AIM 9X, which was used in both cases, does not rely on heat signature for guidance. It uses light contrast. The heat signature of a balloon question has been brought up on various web stories by authors who don't know that.

Evidently whacked something else over Alaska today, this time at 40,000'. Same routine. F-22 with Sidewinder.

Here's a thought. If a being was so enormously powerful that he (pronoun of your choice), could create our universe, it is likely we could not understand him. Correct? Now if that being created the universe and its laws of science to sustain it, all science, he is probably capable of doing other things we are not capable of understanding, or in some cases even considering. If those laws of science that the universe he created were to operate, they would require a functioning universe on day one, ie., fossils, fires, decaying plant matter, rivers and all manner of natural phenomena, because the universe would not work without everything working on day one. So, this being we don't understand creates a universe that is operating on day one as if it were created millions of years ago. He says, "Here you go. Now use my laws of science and evolve."

He was the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and used that position to advocate and jawbone others to support the second Iraq war. I don't blame him for that, but it is what it is.

And it is, by any objective measure. What is your point?

He's a error a day guy. Here he is completely screwing up his own claimed religion's doctrine. Joe screwing things up

Bring those points to the 80+% that think we're heading in the wrong direction.

Kind of interesting that a full four fifths of US think we are on the wrong path, whatever that means. These two stats happen at the same time.

Have you ever tried to get stained glass in "being" colors? It's very difficult.

A simple reading of 1 John would clear up the issue. It is suggested that the epistle, among other motivations, was written to stop the emerging Gnostic view on the issue. I think it's interesting that he starts out by establishing his bona fides as a direct witness, not some guy who was forming a views based on current and developing opinion, ie., Gnosics of the time. "which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,...."

I'm not certain what you are claiming here, but to make it clear, I am completely OK with Jesus joint existence as God and human, if that is your complaint. Not of fan of the early Gnostic beliefs, or others that claimed separation. Either way Jesus was presented as male during his human existence, but God has no gender.

Jesus gender has nothing to do with his divinity. Jesus was on earth as a human. His divinity is completely separate. The Bible, whether in Hebrew, Greek, Latin or English uses the language of the time. It has noting to do with God's relating any gender.

Ya. Because of his "lily white skin," he needed to be born on the day of least daylight. everybody knows that. Not sure what "Christ-mass" means, and not interested in finding out.

New level of ignorance regarding religion. What madness is next? You mean Jesus wasn't really born on Dec 25th?

Are you serious? I am aware of no art work that has ever been produced that claims to be a likeness of the appearance of Jesus. He was simply an unremarkable looking male of his time, and went to lengths to not disclose his divinity on a large scale. A few miracles here and there, with often admonitions to not mention stuff. Anything of an unusual appearance would certainly have been mentioned. Just dumb. Either way, God does not have human gender.

God is a being No need for human gender. By the way, no knowledgeable human thinks that Jesus was "lily white." That is nonsense. He was the same as others of his locale/era. It is mentioned that his appearance never stood out.

None of that is your claim. You stated that nobody was forced. That is not true, and I stated so. My career had random drug testing, alcohol testing, and prohibiting certain activities like the simple purchase of alcohol while in uniform, so I'm no stranger to this. What is your definition of "forced," a death sentence; prison? The fact is that the military forced vaccines until they wisely ended the rule. Couldn't be more simple.

Sure. That's not "forced." Get it or lose your career. If that's not forced, what is? Get it or get shot? The other vaccine requirement for the military is an oft used specious argument/

I heard today that he was going to propose a massive increase in capital gains tax on stock buyback gains. Not that I will watch, but that is an insane idea. We'll see.

The US military was forced. Regarding gun laws, Biden is claiming to have passed largest gun law in dacades.