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The results have not been demonstrated over time, and the Pentagon, Interpol, the EU and of course the Russians have do not share your view as yet, and have expressed the same concern that I have regarding oversight of the weapons delivery and subsequent supply line integrity to Ukrainian military.

Tax policy is arbitrary and effects all. Abrogating legal promissory notes, at the expense of the American taxpayer, for the benefit of those who refuse to be obligated to their promises, while countless others did so is an entirely different situation.

Nonsense. The claim of "class" is diminished by the fact that they can't, or won't honor obligations. It is a boldfaced bribery attempt that allows deadbeats to not live up to promised obligations.

So do a number that could, and paid for their kids that could, and are funding their grandchildren who will. The gov, by one presidential decree, having never gone through Congress, has just eliminated hundreds of billions owed to the American taxpayer across every economic level.

I asked a simple question, based on something you authored. I asked how you were aware that "the current level of oversight is just fine," a claim that you made. You didn't answer. Instead you said that I wanted t fix something that isn't broke, which is nonsense and never a claim I have made. That is your invention. My assertion is that there is no way that someone here has any idea of what level of oversight is occurring with this massive transfer of extremely sophisticated weaponry to an area known for gross corruption, so if you do, I'd be very interested to hear the basis for your confidence. You still haven't answered that. As background for my view, and regarding what has happened in the near past, the US and other countries have provided weapons to many other parties. A dangerous number of those weapons have been traded on the black market and ended up in the hands of really ad people who intended to use them for really bad outcomes. The industry I was in was made aware that a number of shoulder mounted anti aircraft weapons were in that market, for sale to any bidder, and that area of Libya was a trading location, and that the US was trying to get them off the market. You can connect the dots. The point is, that it is nearly impossible to stop this trade, and I have no doubt that someone in the supply chain has come upon a windfall profit, and that somewhere in some province of China, Russia or Iran, sophisticated weapons are being studied and reverse engineered, as has been goin on for decades, The debacle that was the Afghanistan withdrawal gives me cause for great concern over this administration's "oversight" capability. Thus the question I posed. What evidence do you have to claim the "oversight" is just dandy?

So you didn't answer the question. Instead you assert that I want to do something that I have never suggested. You simply made it up. Can you answer the question or not? The reason I asked the question is that i am quite familiar with the history of weapons transfers into very unfriendly hands during surrogate war operations. I want to know how someone on this site can claim there is adequate oversight, which is what you did. Remember Benghazi? Know what a big part of the CIA presence there was for? I'll give you a hint.......It's related to this subject. That is why I asked the question.

I am interested to hear how you have information on the oversight of these weapons contributions to have an opinion on it.

Absolutely, totally absurd.

Biden is 99% politician and 1% affiliated with a religion. It is simply impossible to claim to be Roman Catholic and support abortion, unless you are doing it for political advantage. He uses his Catholic claim as yet another political chip. A true phony.

I noticed in the fourth quarter that it almost looked like the Bills, ex Miller, were pulling up at the end of their rush to maintain the "net" around Mahomes instead of going for the sack and leaving him an escape route. I saw that on ore than one play. Clearly, and the end, they rushed three, used Milano as the spy, specifically to cut down on the the intermediate routes that are lower trajectory throws and thus, can be batted. Interesting adjustment, I thought. I still can't believe they are incapable of disrupting Kelce.

I expect it wasn't simply a cabin altitude thing. Typical cabin altitude for a 767, which is what they charter, is around 6000' at cruise altitude in the mid 30's. While the airplane climbs at around 2000'/min and descends at upwards of 3000'/min, the cabin pressurization schedule is about 500'/min during climb, and 300'/min during descent. What would be a major problem for a weakened lung is a rapid depressurization event, which can ignored as a possibility. That would instantly put the cabin at cruise actual altitude, and it takes a few minutes of very rapid descent to get to a habitable altitude of 10,000' or so. Not something a bad lung would want to go through.

So a US president should be impeached for an intelligence failure? Was Iraq in violation of the ceasefire agreement, including, but certainly not limited to, shooting at coalition aircraft? Did Iraq position anti aircraft batteries south of their agreed to line? Were the UN resolutions that were violated over the years meaningless? Impeachment in that circumstance would have been insane.

He absolutely should have been. Lying under oath to a grand jury is egregious. The president is the Commander in Chief, the head of the Executive. Military Officers would be prosecuted and convicted in a second for this. For such a person to be above the law is unacceptable.

The standard is: "Treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors." It is not, and should not ever be, populist view or Congressional majority.

We need to get off this wasteful, silly impeachment habit, and force our gov to do its day to day job. Not an impeachable offense. Lying to grand jury was.

700 point hit to the Dow Futures on the inflation report. Nice.

Trump is completely irrelevant in the Clinton issue. Clinton lied, under oath, to a grand jury. That is not in question. If this country allows presidents to do that, no matter the issue, it isn't a good thing.

Fully agree with this. The US intel community had this specifically predicted. It was almost like they had very reliable informants in Russian offices. This one's on Putin, and ugly as the end game may be, he caused it and he will pay the consequences Unfortunately, totally avoidable, so not only Putin, but NATO, the Russians, the US taxpayer and more importantly, the Ukrainians are paying the initial cost.

In my view, it would make more sense to have their their own conference, complete with a championship, and then do a Super Bowl type thing with the US team that emerges.

Too many unsolved variables to rely on this. There is still a restriction on supersonic flights over land. That would have to be adjusted, though current potential manufacturers believe they can get that approved with more modern designs that eliminate the sonic boom issue. As I understand it, Boom Jet doesn't even have an engine supplier yet. They are years, probably closer to a decade for operation. It would take about three-four of these to do an NFL charter from or to Europe, not counting equipment, which could be shipped by other means. Hard to say what the free agent market would attract. NFL players are not exactly the demographic that desires European life. Tax situation is a puzzle as well. Not holding my breath.

Ya know, just as a guy who follows the energy markets..... The OPEC cut by the Saudis is a production limit cut announcement. They. OPEC, weren't producing at the limit anyway, so other than the headline stuff, it isn't that big of a deal. Short term, markets react. Long term, with Europe heading into a tough winter, it isn't needed.

Good God. The price of oil diminished because the expectation is for a recession in Europe, and perhaps the US. You know---less demand. Claiming that Biden did it with the release of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the stuff of idiots.

Jim Ritcher a number of times. His post NFL career led to many encounters. Great guy. Much smaller than you'd expect.

No admission. It's crazy. Did you drink the water from Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987? You'd have a valid case for damage.

Just for my edification, because I really want to be educated on this, the Saudi gov is backing a pro energy independent party instead of the party that makes the world more dependent on their one and only export? And....they are "after our democracy?"