Think about it: he's got a threat out there with a demonstrated ability to perform mass killings, and he'd prefer not to die in a fireball of aviation fuel. Neither would his boss, his boss' replacement, nor any of his immediate colleagues.
Meanwhile, his former colleagues are hounding him because he still doesn't really have a good answer on who mailed the anthrax.
If I ever saw a man grasping for straws, Ashcroft's that man. I think I understand where he's been coming from in all this (ever been hounded by QA and PHBs?), and I feel for him.
I mean, if Cynthia McKinney, the cutest little communist who used (yay!) to be in Congress can get Atlanta's Memorial Drive renamed to "Cynthia McKinney Parkway," then RWR should have a carrier named after him.
Think about it:
- Khomeini released the hostages the DAY Reagan was sworn in. Jimmy has 15 months to get something done, and all we heard about was savage rabbits and foreign policy consultations with Amy.
- RWR announced SDI (Directed Energy Weapon, anyone?), which ultimately bankrupted the USSR and sank the Evil Empire.
- RWR deployed IRBMs into Europe, over the objections of the local communist claques, refused to compromise with Gorby, and again, forced the USSR into bankruptcy.
- When RWR came in, Tactical Air Command was cannibalizing aircraft to keep smaller and smaller numbers of aircraft flying. during RWR's presidency, mission-available rates in TAC were in the region of 90%, plus.
- RWR slashed tax rates, starting an economic boom that continues to this day, putting America at the top of the world's economic heap. He might have PROPOSED spendeing increases, but actual spending as ENACTED by the Congress always exceeded what RWR had requested. Anyway, I'm glad the Congress over-spent so badly. The country got such a shock at seeing how badly Democrats would gorge themselves on taxpayers, the country recoiled in horror towards the Republican party. The end result is that the next Democrat president, the Rapist-in-Chief, was economically more like an Eisenhower Republican than a Democrat.
- RWR bombed Libya and invaded Grenada, showing the world (a) the time you could mess with Americans was over, and (b) that further communist expansion in the world was no longer acceptable. It wasn't until the Rapist-in-Chief seduced America's women for eight years that the Islamofascists decided we were back to the days of Carteresque decadence and they could once again start slaughtering Americans. Just in time for another Republican president to save us.
Basically, RWR ended the policy of containing evil in favor of a policy of active engagement against it, ended the notion that you could tax youself into prosperity, and gave Americans new faith in themselves after the series of body blows inflicted by Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter.
Of course, the left will never forgive him for defeating communism. Since members of the left, being mostly unemployed or underemployed in academia, have the time to slander him endlessly, I expect that in years to come we'll be unable to distinguish Reagan from Adolf Hitler, so vicious will the leftist attacks be.
Still. Tough, lads, you lost. I suggest you accept reality, breath a sigh of relief that the gulag doesn't loom, and thank God RWR was once President.
I mean, after the French forced the F-111's to go the long way to Libya, BOOM!, there goes the French Embassy in Tripoli.
The Chinese bought the Clinton administration. made off with designs for nuclear weapons, and stole guidance systems from Loral. Then, BOOM!, there goes teh Chinese Embassy.
Back when there was a Soviet Union we definitely supported some unsavory characters, on the basis that it's better to have a dictator we own than one they own.
Mind you, up until the ivasion of Grenada, the Soviets had been advancing across the globe. Only after Ronald Reagan rejected "containment" as a strategy in favor of active engagement did we begin to win. After his Presidency the Soviets collapsed.
Now we can turn our attention to the lesser evils.
I mean, our support of dictators may not have covered us in glory, but we're far from the 100 million - or so - deaths that can be laid at Communism's door.
I agree with you that Saudi Arabia is a festering pustule on the backside of humanity, and that the sooner it's lanced, the better.
I don't see the President as being a Saudi stooge. I see it more like this: the Saudi's have spread the rot of Wahhabism far and wide throughout the world. I'm pretty sure the administration is leaning on the Saudis to stop contributing to terrorism. Meanwhile, the worst terrorist nations are being taken out. The day will come for a settlement with the Saudis.
...is another man's war of liberation. I mean, have you been watching the pictures of mass graves we've been finding in Iraq?
As for the trade deficit, let me see, we send them pieces of paper, they send us cars. I like it.
Now, to your longest paragraph. Look at it like this: Europe couldn't organize enough to put down a fin-de-siecle resurgence of genocide just a few hours from Berlin. More recently, the French have gone on their own against their own EU to keep French farmers fat, dumb, and eonomically unproductive. As for the Japanese, I don't rate them at all. I mean, they've been in a recession for the last 10 years and they're government's on the verge of bankruptcy. As for the rest of the world, well, scratch Africa: it's basically Mugabe after Mugabe; the entire Muslim world exports less than Finland, after you subtract oil. Really, it would be in the world's interest to emulate the US.
...the U.S. has learned that it can't depend on too many countires for support. Especially when those countries are making a profit from savage dictators or bent on restoring the European status quo to where it was around 1680.
So, the U.S. has decided not to be in a position to have to depend on anyone.
If we're attacked, we'll be able to respond without having to listen to complaints from Middle Eastern kleptocracies, European hegemonists, etc.
You're living in a country where you can drive from one end to the other in a day. Here in the US you can drive for a day and still be in the same STATE.
The amount of money required to build a network into a country this size means you'll actually get regional networks that interoperate.
The great thing about this is that in just one country you can experiment with all the technology. The bad thing about this is that once the technology's in place the owner (AKA "Vested Interest with Captive Government Employees") will do anything possible to stay in place with no further investment.
We're not playing catch-up, we're playing "what will you pay for the next bew thing?"
Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from the New Yorkâ(TM)s Idlewild airport to the Belgium Congo in 17 minutes!
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He showed utter class by stepping aside for the dead guy's widow.
My God, you're angry!
How, exactly, do you know 9/11 will only work once, and why make it a 9/11 scenario.
Why hijack a plane if you can buy one.
Think about it: he's got a threat out there with a demonstrated ability to perform mass killings, and he'd prefer not to die in a fireball of aviation fuel. Neither would his boss, his boss' replacement, nor any of his immediate colleagues.
Meanwhile, his former colleagues are hounding him because he still doesn't really have a good answer on who mailed the anthrax.
If I ever saw a man grasping for straws, Ashcroft's that man. I think I understand where he's been coming from in all this (ever been hounded by QA and PHBs?), and I feel for him.
Even so, I'm glad TIA is dead.
Smarter than thou.
I mean, if Cynthia McKinney, the cutest little communist who used (yay!) to be in Congress can get Atlanta's Memorial Drive renamed to "Cynthia McKinney Parkway," then RWR should have a carrier named after him.
Think about it:
- Khomeini released the hostages the DAY Reagan was sworn in. Jimmy has 15 months to get something done, and all we heard about was savage rabbits and foreign policy consultations with Amy.
- RWR announced SDI (Directed Energy Weapon, anyone?), which ultimately bankrupted the USSR and sank the Evil Empire.
- RWR deployed IRBMs into Europe, over the objections of the local communist claques, refused to compromise with Gorby, and again, forced the USSR into bankruptcy.
- When RWR came in, Tactical Air Command was cannibalizing aircraft to keep smaller and smaller numbers of aircraft flying. during RWR's presidency, mission-available rates in TAC were in the region of 90%, plus.
- RWR slashed tax rates, starting an economic boom that continues to this day, putting America at the top of the world's economic heap. He might have PROPOSED spendeing increases, but actual spending as ENACTED by the Congress always exceeded what RWR had requested. Anyway, I'm glad the Congress over-spent so badly. The country got such a shock at seeing how badly Democrats would gorge themselves on taxpayers, the country recoiled in horror towards the Republican party. The end result is that the next Democrat president, the Rapist-in-Chief, was economically more like an Eisenhower Republican than a Democrat.
- RWR bombed Libya and invaded Grenada, showing the world (a) the time you could mess with Americans was over, and (b) that further communist expansion in the world was no longer acceptable. It wasn't until the Rapist-in-Chief seduced America's women for eight years that the Islamofascists decided we were back to the days of Carteresque decadence and they could once again start slaughtering Americans. Just in time for another Republican president to save us.
Basically, RWR ended the policy of containing evil in favor of a policy of active engagement against it, ended the notion that you could tax youself into prosperity, and gave Americans new faith in themselves after the series of body blows inflicted by Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter.
Of course, the left will never forgive him for defeating communism. Since members of the left, being mostly unemployed or underemployed in academia, have the time to slander him endlessly, I expect that in years to come we'll be unable to distinguish Reagan from Adolf Hitler, so vicious will the leftist attacks be.
Still. Tough, lads, you lost. I suggest you accept reality, breath a sigh of relief that the gulag doesn't loom, and thank God RWR was once President.
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"UK Parliament Clears Govt of Misleading on Iraq" - Reuters/Washington Post.
"Campbell cleared by MPs over Iraq dossier" - Daily Telegraph.
"Dossier report clears Campbell" - The Guardian.
"Iraq weapons claims criticised" - BBC headline.
It's just the Air Force's puckish sense of humor.
I mean, after the French forced the F-111's to go the long way to Libya, BOOM!, there goes the French Embassy in Tripoli.
The Chinese bought the Clinton administration. made off with designs for nuclear weapons, and stole guidance systems from Loral. Then, BOOM!, there goes teh Chinese Embassy.
God bless 'em!
...cooperating on the development of a space shuttle. Who would have thought it?
I mean, I know that the Japanese have their F-2 and manufacture F-15s under license, while the Swedes have their Saab fighters.
I'd just never thought about the two of them getting together and into the space race.
Wow!
Well, you can't be a complete ape because you seem to have mastered the skills necessary to post on /.
That said, any review of world history since 1776 will have to place the US on the side of the angels, and the Europeans in hell.
IMHO, you're the one with the amazing and dangerous way of think(ing).
...is actually considered "unreliable."
Of late, the paper has been mostly in the news for its inaccuracies.
Their coverage of Tony Blair and the war in Iraq is nothing short of New York Timesish.
Back when there was a Soviet Union we definitely supported some unsavory characters, on the basis that it's better to have a dictator we own than one they own.
Mind you, up until the ivasion of Grenada, the Soviets had been advancing across the globe. Only after Ronald Reagan rejected "containment" as a strategy in favor of active engagement did we begin to win. After his Presidency the Soviets collapsed.
Now we can turn our attention to the lesser evils.
I mean, our support of dictators may not have covered us in glory, but we're far from the 100 million - or so - deaths that can be laid at Communism's door.
I agree with you that Saudi Arabia is a festering pustule on the backside of humanity, and that the sooner it's lanced, the better.
I don't see the President as being a Saudi stooge. I see it more like this: the Saudi's have spread the rot of Wahhabism far and wide throughout the world. I'm pretty sure the administration is leaning on the Saudis to stop contributing to terrorism. Meanwhile, the worst terrorist nations are being taken out. The day will come for a settlement with the Saudis.
...is another man's war of liberation. I mean, have you been watching the pictures of mass graves we've been finding in Iraq?
As for the trade deficit, let me see, we send them pieces of paper, they send us cars. I like it.
Now, to your longest paragraph. Look at it like this: Europe couldn't organize enough to put down a fin-de-siecle resurgence of genocide just a few hours from Berlin. More recently, the French have gone on their own against their own EU to keep French farmers fat, dumb, and eonomically unproductive. As for the Japanese, I don't rate them at all. I mean, they've been in a recession for the last 10 years and they're government's on the verge of bankruptcy. As for the rest of the world, well, scratch Africa: it's basically Mugabe after Mugabe; the entire Muslim world exports less than Finland, after you subtract oil. Really, it would be in the world's interest to emulate the US.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond.
...the U.S. has learned that it can't depend on too many countires for support. Especially when those countries are making a profit from savage dictators or bent on restoring the European status quo to where it was around 1680.
So, the U.S. has decided not to be in a position to have to depend on anyone.
If we're attacked, we'll be able to respond without having to listen to complaints from Middle Eastern kleptocracies, European hegemonists, etc.
Good move, IMHO.
It actually started life as the YF-12, a fighter aircraft that could launch a huge air-to-air missile .
I do agree with you however, it was an awesome aircraft. I once saw one take off at night from Mildenhall. Once seen, never forgotten.
Jeez, talk about insular (as it were).
You're living in a country where you can drive from one end to the other in a day. Here in the US you can drive for a day and still be in the same STATE.
The amount of money required to build a network into a country this size means you'll actually get regional networks that interoperate.
The great thing about this is that in just one country you can experiment with all the technology. The bad thing about this is that once the technology's in place the owner (AKA "Vested Interest with Captive Government Employees") will do anything possible to stay in place with no further investment.
We're not playing catch-up, we're playing "what will you pay for the next bew thing?"
...when I'd be perfectly happy to pay for a police escort (blue lights, sirens, etc.) to push the peons out of the way on GA 400.
Bring it on, I say.
Am I the only one to think "Frat Boy Drinking Game!"?
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Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from the New Yorkâ(TM)s Idlewild airport to the Belgium Congo in 17 minutes!
subject line says it all.
No, seriously, this is a good book.
1. Bluetooth devices. What bluetooth devices? A Microsoft keyboard and mouse do no a summer make.
2. Development tools. I can write a Java app. and use ordinary TCP/IP on a WiFi device. I've yetto see anything like this for Bluetooth.
So, no hardware, no software, and WiFi coming on strong. Bluetooth is heading for death.
Thanks for all the moderation.
Maintenant, s'il vous plait, rentrez en France (oui, avec votre famille).
Bon voyage.