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The "pull" is because the ridiculous claim of asylum makes it much easier to nor enforce laws approved by our legislature, you know, the governmental body elected to make law, that the administration has absolutely no history of enforcing and no intent to do so.

Which is why they need to elect or at least exercise some level of control over those who govern them. The difference between being a citizen or being a subject is something that takes a lot of effort, and the longer it's neglected, the more effort required to change. When they don't exercise that effort, you get situations like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuela and a host of regimes that either abuse the governed, threaten their people, neighbors or both, and/or cause mass exodus as is happening on our southern border.

Because they provide very effective products built to specifications that the government, (with a lot of advice), requests. The government then assures that its' people are well trained to operate these very effective product, and provides the environment and support necessary to these very effective products to be employed. Win Win

Piece of cake. Now this is tough: Dark night on Nimitz Carrier shows up at about the 1:30 mark, but that is the light on the island. The landing area, to the lower left of of the island light, doesn't show up until the 2:50 mark, seconds befoe toufhdown And taxiing after the landing is interesting also.

You may have misplaced a decimal somewhere, or something, but the Ruble is nowhere near 14-16 cents US. The exchange rate in the open market today is 68.55 rubes to the dollar. That after massive intervention and restrictions imposed by the Russian gov to support it earlier in the year. And they sure as hell aren't getting anything close to WTI or Brent North Sea prices for their dirty fuel. Economy shrinking. revenue shrinking. Foreign exchange being depleted. Only one path for them.

I'd say both are struggling. Russian GDP is down 4-6% this year, depending on who you believe. The Ruble is losing ground and bound to get worse in spite of huge restrictions put in place by Moscow to prop it up. Slow asphyxiations.

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.