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Do you get paid to ask stupid questions? There is o chance that anyone can answer the question of how much lower. It is absolutely certain that the peak prices would never have ben reached without Biden doing hat he did in his first six months. Watch this video for 30 seconds. Do you honestly think that any oil company is going to invest capital which takes years to produce product after listening to this? https://freebeacon.com/elections/biden-promises-no-more-drilling-under-his-presidency/ The more scary thing about that debate is that he could actually talk then. For him, that capability no longer exists. Very sad.

I'm quite certain that oil prices would be considerably lower if such policies in existence when our current administration took over were still in place. Further, when the next debt ceiling/continuing resolution debate occurs, I'm sure you will be silent as the Republicans advocate for anti inflationary issues.

These people do things habitually that would get a military officer court martialed immediately.

Exactly wrong. If someone behaves in a manner contradictory their own professed and expressed belief, that is hypocritical. Someone else's religious views don't enter into it.

The issue of continued support, is I think, made quite well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYDnspMWdaM&t=2172s Go to the 41:50 mark and watch the last five mins. The player's bona fides are established in the initial five minutes, but this is a guy I pay close attention to.

This missile in Poland thing should be very easy to figure out. The only way for the Russians to gain momentum is through air power, and the Ukrainian air defense capability is currently very poor, so perhaps aid from the US and others will be in that area. The Russians figured out within a couple weeks how to successfully jam drones, so that isn't a real threat to them either, unless changes are made. Evidently, the life expectancy of a Ukrainian drone is about a week, so they are treated as munitions, not assets that last multiple missions.

I have quite a few friends who were in the Blues, including Mike Gershon, who was killed in a midair at Niagara Falls. I have flown in three, two off the carrier and one shore based. The Blues and the Thunderbirds mission is public relations, and they are extremely prepared and extremely good. The point made to me as a young aviator is that you really can't do anything that is incredibly impressive, but you can easily screw up. I almost did that screws up thing when I flew the shore based one, being a young guy and trying to do something to "impress." Don't fly airshows and don't do interviews. Words to live by.

An old aviation axiom: "Nothing good comes from flying in an airshow."

The lack of evidence of widespread fraud is not a good reason to not tighten up our voting process. Evidence of such fraud can only happen after it occurs, which is something \we don't want to witness, I did this thing as a volunteer for six years, and I know how it works, and it's working pretty well. Still, this isn't the 1950's, and nefarious groups are at work, internally and externally. My point....We need to standardize and secure a system, nationally, which allows qualified voters to vote in their precincts, and eliminate manipulation. Back to scheduled programming.

That is a grossly ignorant view on how this system works, everywhere.

The "joke," as he has now explained it, is ridiculous. The goal of volunteering for this service is to ensure that your neighbors right to vote is enforced. I did it, and I'm well below the ages listed, was to provide a service to my community. Everyone else, that I ever met and worked with, was of the same view.

Point?

And your post strikes me as someone who has an opinion on something he clearly knows nothing about. I never saw a single individual over 80. That view isn't effective, informed nor funny. It's simply nasty, as is par for the course here, and in the general public. The people who do this, in my experience, have no objective other than to serve their neighbors, as this is all, by law, local, in the insistence that those folks have votes that count.

The age of the election workers is a red herring, though 4/5 being over 80 is quite shocking, as this is a very long day for them, ,and you don't normally see anyone over 80. You had to be there without leaving from 5am until 8pm. I did this for six years, and the machines not working has nothing to do with the poll workers. They check registration validity. The machines are put in place and completely secured until about an hour before the polls open. The process then begins to activate them, and always checked and verified by more than one person. In my six years, I had one machine malfunction, and while it was being fixed, which took less than fifteen minutes, I stood watch over those fixing it. Took about 45 minutes, and no data was lost.

The man promised to "end drilling," in political debate prior to his election, and enacted several mandates to effect drilling, refining and transport after his election. Is that going to dry up capital spending to develop projects that take years? Hell yes. He made his bed. Begging the Saudis to hold off an announcement of cartel production reductions until after the election is just another grossly political effort, and it failed.

Godfather 1 and 2. Two is a bit better, but only if seen after 1. And a sleeper I really like, the Count of Monte Cristo, the 2002 version. I really like well schemed revenge stories. Mask Of Zorro, 1998. The sequel is atrocious.

Lula will never be known for his intellectual capacity, nor for his keen interpretive skills.

Totally false, but par for your course.

Don't for a second conclude that his position as an editor at Stars and Stripes indicates objective political independence. He is totally involved in partisan poltics.

And thus my claim suggesting your ignorance. My "claim" was that I was concerned about these weapons getting into the wrong hands, as has happened with sales to Iran, gifts to the Mujahedeen and others. Weapons that US forces have had to plan to, and actually fight against, and have shown up in use by folks quite happy to use them against civilian targets. If that "concern" is unwarranted, you are ignorant of 42 years of history, US military operations, and will prove to be so in the future. You sir, are a clueless fool.

I'm not stable? You are in your own league of ignorant. Indeed, the standard of this sites ignorance.

No. incorrect premise again. What it looks like to you, a person who has demonstrated absolutely zero awareness of how this stuff happens, is of no value. I'd take that bet. As this unfolds, and the truth is revealed, I'm quite certain the concerns I have expressed will prove to be the situation.

No you didn't just ask for proof. You asked for proof of something that is going to take years to sort out, but has happened every single time since my experience in this fort of thing, and is made far more likely by the Administration led hideous escape from Afghanistan. Further, you suggested that people concerned with this thing, which has happened every single time, are guilty of "slandering the process," a process that you know nothing about.

Obvious, but you don't know the definition of "slander," and nobody here knows the "process," least of all, you. I voiced these concerns, here, many months before the Pentagon, Interpol and the EU echoed those same sentiments. You have shown no instinct for these things, evidenced by the insane idea that position two fighter squadrons in the Ukraine as a deterrent, which really means "bait," and your initial view that a US led no fly zone was a great idea. Simply crazy.

If you have read the last couple pages in this thread, you wouldn't ask this question. What I said at the very beginning of this aid effort, many, many months ago, is that I was quite concerned about these weapons getting into the wrong hands, and the high probability of technology transfer. Those two things happen every time there is a surrogate style war with weapons provided by other countries. Further, the weapons that make it to the black market do not show up during the supply because it would expose the corruption and end the supply line access. That's how it works.