changes. If I wanted always summer I'd go to the Venezula, or if I wanted always winter I'd go to Canada. I like - I WANT - the climate to change! If God had wanted it any other way it would not happen!
Just be sure to bring your own toilet paper, that worker's paradise is out of just about everything related to civilized living.
First politifact.com and snopes.com are horribly partisan and often go off on a tangent on something only vaguely related and then call something disproved, even the lasvegassun.com went on a rant about some solar project when the media I saw was talking about planned freeway development making land more valuable for commercial development, as in strip malls ect.
1. Wait. I thought Republicans were the party of big business. Schmidt must have gotten confused, right?
2. Wait. He's wanting "low paid workers". I though the Democrats were all about paying more? And making sure women had pay equity with men, right? $15 minimum wage? I mean, he wants to pay above minimum wage, right?
You're the one who's been spoon-fed the party's agenda, as usual.
There is a big difference between "backing" and supporting a candidate with the resources of one of the biggest and most advanced companies in the areas of big data, analytics, publishing, and advertising.
Don't worry in 8 years, if you don't pay for Google Politiometrics(Tm), you don't get elected.
For a mere $1.50 per view, Google will beam specific tailored content to undecided but convertible electorate members Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts to convert those persons from undecided to in-your-pocket; all without wasting money on people who would vote for you even if your parents were Satan and Lucifer, or the people who wouldn't piss in your mouth if your teeth were on fire! Don't be a turd and go with the flow, when Google Politiometrics(Tm) can make the current go where you want. Why worry about a Chief of Staff and the expensive "Life Insurance Policies"?
Indians as in Hindustanis are Caucasians, so technically they would be "white people" sometimes very black white people but white people none the less. Of course the "race thing" is way over-blown, most of us in North America are mongrels right now and the few who aren't will be in a couple generations.
There were also those gun wielding uneducated hicks trespassing on land that wasn't, isn't and will never be their land.
I suppose that Harry Reid owning 93 acres next door and wanting to start commercial development had no effect on the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) deciding the Bundys were suddenly trespassing after generations of using the land.
Trump is the cure to the Republican leadership failure, which began in 1981 with Reagan's takeover of the Conservative movement, then GHW Bush's failed re-election, and has continued despite presidential election successes intervening. 35 years of failed GOP leadership has left us with a party that is led by and populated with elected officials that prefer to go along with the opposition for a variety of reasons, but largely because they have no vision for our nation nor their own political movement.
While I don't disagree that Congressional Republicans abandoning any kind of consistent philosophical have lead to a lot of the problems we're seeing today, but Reagan set the country on a course that firstly set up an robust economy that took two Bushes to destroy (Hell even Bill Clinton was smart enough to ride that wave), secondly he convinced Gaddafi to stop being a sponsor of terrorism and to abandon his WMD programs, and thirdly his build up of our National Defenses lead to the Soviet Union collapsing from the effort of trying to keep up. He can hardly be blamed for the lack of Congressional spine.
I don't disagree but would bust the Key West Agreement and open a whole can of worms
The Navy would be allowed to retain its own combat air arm "...to conduct air operations as necessary for the accomplishment of objectives in a naval campaign..."
The Army would be allowed to retain aviation assets for reconnaissance and medical evacuation purposes.
The Air Force would have control of all strategic air assets, and most tactical and logistic functions as well. Key West Agreement
Consider the Benghazi consulate attack. It would have cost peanuts to keep a Super Tucano gassed up and ready in Sicily for 24/7, and it could get where it needs to be in an hour. Instead we hemmed and hawed and figured out that a supersonic jet from a NATO base in Spain or North Italy would take several hours to arrive (because of the jets do not have that range without arranging for re-fueling first). Which plane is faster?
We had assets on the ground with Props spinning waiting for release while Obama and Clinton tried to decide how the rescue personal should be dressed. It had nothing to do with arrival times, beside Sicily was only 20 minutes away.
Of course, we all know how this will turn out... Both plane programs will continue forever. We need to keep sending money to defense contractors... lots of money and it doesn't really matter if things work or not. They have a blank check to spend as much as they want and they bribe Congress to keep the money flowing. We can't appear to be "soft on defense".
It's not like the money is going to stop, at least with defense contractor we have a chance to buy some stock and get some dividends back.
People like to be masters of their own destiny, the Navy bugged out on the Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign and withdrew with the supplies and air support the Marines needed, therefore the Marine will never completely trust the Navy again. The Marines having the CAS capability to self-support forces the Navy into the position of competing with the Marines to provide air support.
Your going to see the same thing between the Military and the State Dept of the Benghazi fiasco, the Military will never completely trust the State Dept again; they left men behind and lied about it.
Citation needed. Seriously, if you have a scholarly article with data to support this assertion I want to read it, for some of my own related research.
We tried to get one of those Scholarly Pukes to collect the data for an article, but every time we got them up to 400m of a 100Kg bomb going off, they'd curl up into a fetal position and whine for their mothers. Don't get me wrong, those DARPA dudes come up with some really good ideas and make them reality, but for every good idea, there are 49 bad ideas. The more scholarly articles with supporting data an idea for Grunts has, the more likely it is to be bad.
You may honestly think that your persistent CAS utilizing PGMs is a great idea, but we know it's a grandiose plan concocted by POGs and when the shit hits the fan, the REMFs are going to be more worried about exceeding their budget by shoot expensive ordinance than they will be about saving our sorry asses.
What matters today, where the F-22 dominates, is the range you can get missile lock-on vs your opponent...
Surely that's a function of the missile, not the aircraft.
Not necessarily, you have to know where to point the missile for it to get the lock. The plane with the ability to see the opponent's radar cross section at the greatest distance has an advantage.
If the quality of Iranian students hasn't increased tremendously from those I've seen at Redstone, the Iranian air defense systems will collapse within hours of the Russian technicians pulling out.
I'm not seeing the point in your BSG argument, F35, Guns: 1 × General Dynamics 25 mm (0.984 in) GAU-22/A 4-barrel rotary cannon, internally mounted with 180 rounds A10, Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon with 1,174 rounds (capacity 1,350 rd) To me the 5mm difference isn't enough to consider and 1/10 the ammo makes the F35 cannon stupider then the A10's cannon.
A-10s are surprisingly slow (slower than some WWII strike/CAS piston-engined aircraft!) which means they have to operate from full-sized air bases close to the front line...
All of the examples below are limited to the vicinity of 0.8 Mach, like any subsonic aircraft. Portions of airflow over the craft are likely to enter into the supersonic range, so while the F35 is theroeticaly twice as fast, it's not going to be twice as fast down in the weeds where a lot of down and dirty CAS happens. That's where low stall speed and high power to weight ratios for acceleration trump Max velocity.
Beside the A10 isn't slower than WWII strike/CAS piston-engined aircraft, it's the same. It's Stall speed: 120 knots (138 mph, 220 km/h) means it's pretty easy to get up in the air and back down on shorter runways.
North American P-51 Mustang, Maximum speed: 437 mph (380 kn, 703 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m) Range: 1,650 mi (1,434 nmi, 2,755 km) with external tanks Wing loading: 39 lb/sqft (192 kg/m) Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
(P-47D-30 Thunderbolt) Maximum speed: 433 mph at 29,000 ft Range: 800 mi combat, Empty weight: 10,000 lb (4,535 kg) Loaded weight: 12,731 lb (5,774.48 kg) Wing loading: 42.43 lb/ft2 (207 kg/m2) Power/mass: 0.204 hp/lb (335 W/kg)
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, Maximum speed: 437 mph (380 kn, 703 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
Range: 800 mi Empty weight: 24,959 lb (11,321 kg) Loaded weight: 30,384 lb (13,782 kg) CAS mission: 47,094 lb (21,361 kg) Anti-armor mission: 42,071 lb (19,083 kg) Wing loading: 39 lb/sqft (192 kg/m) Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
You sir, appear to be under the delusion that We The People are electing a president, we are not. What we are doing is choosing "electors", who usually pledge to vote for particular candidates. If for some reason Hillary Clinton were to withdraw at this point, the Electors would still elect a President, even if it wasn't Grandma Hilldebeast. Secondly Bill Clinton was impeached, he just wasn't convicted; Clinton is one of only two Presidents to be impeached, the other was the Democratic Slave Owner Andrew Jackson who was acquitted.
BTW, I only keep hearing about "rigged" elections, fraud, stealing votes etc. from two kinds of people. Political dilettantes and Republicans.
Only difference being that as far as I can tell, while political dilettantes have always been partial to conspiracy theories because they are... well...dilettantes... Republicans seem to have built their myth of "being cheated" around that time JFK beat their "not a crook" sweatball Tricky Dick.
There has been plenty of fraud in American Elections, the real question is, is the amount significant. In battleground states, a little fraud can have disproportionate effects.
Satan is just a name that is phonetically pronounceable for a multi-lingual organisation, if anything it was a sophomoric association rather than a nefarious propaganda ploy.
Your link article is confusing, they seem to be use "expired" and "Withdraws" interchangeably, are you saying that not voluntarily being bond by an expired treaty is cheating?
The United States withdrew from the landmark 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty on June 13..... President George W. Bush, who had announced the U.S. pullout six months earlier, issued a short written statement the day the treaty expired.
Yes a 100T missile would have some serious portability problems, and the Russian historically used the portability shell game to increase survivability of the ICBM fleet; a lot of bragging rights but not much practicality.
Russia didn't hack no emails, shit like that is almost always an inside job. Sure it could happen, more likely somebody had a stupid simple pasword. Cops have a saying "Check the Inlaws before the Outlaws". I'm sure Putin helps wikileaks a lot, being former KGB he knows his shit is tight, so just keeping it going means the odds favor him, but actively participating is likely below his pay grade.
I got news for you, anybody who isn't a self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic douchebag wouldn't take the job! The best you can hope for is finding one who relatively domesticated and not completely feral.
Funny thing, the Afghan mujahideen, was armed to fight the Soviets, and the Syrian opposition was armed to fight the long-time Soviet Ally, Bashar al-Assad. The bottom line is both are equally complicit in most of the world's serious problems. The way thing are now in a couple years, the Russians throw weight will have gone up so dramatically, there's no sense in targeting their ICBMs now because even one can inflict catastrophic losses, we might just as well point every thing we have at Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
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changes. If I wanted always summer I'd go to the Venezula, or if I wanted always winter I'd go to Canada. I like - I WANT - the climate to change! If God had wanted it any other way it would not happen!
Just be sure to bring your own toilet paper, that worker's paradise is out of just about everything related to civilized living.
First politifact.com and snopes.com are horribly partisan and often go off on a tangent on something only vaguely related and then call something disproved, even the lasvegassun.com went on a rant about some solar project when the media I saw was talking about planned freeway development making land more valuable for commercial development, as in strip malls ect.
A couple of observations:
1. Wait. I thought Republicans were the party of big business. Schmidt must have gotten confused, right?
2. Wait. He's wanting "low paid workers". I though the Democrats were all about paying more? And making sure women had pay equity with men, right? $15 minimum wage? I mean, he wants to pay above minimum wage, right?
You're the one who's been spoon-fed the party's agenda, as usual.
Liberals seem to be more of a "Do as I say, not as I Do" kind of people; most Americans would be satisfied with getting paid the gap!
There is a big difference between "backing" and supporting a candidate with the resources of one of the biggest and most advanced companies in the areas of big data, analytics, publishing, and advertising.
Don't worry in 8 years, if you don't pay for Google Politiometrics(Tm), you don't get elected.
For a mere $1.50 per view, Google will beam specific tailored content to undecided but convertible electorate members Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts to convert those persons from undecided to in-your-pocket; all without wasting money on people who would vote for you even if your parents were Satan and Lucifer, or the people who wouldn't piss in your mouth if your teeth were on fire!
Don't be a turd and go with the flow, when Google Politiometrics(Tm) can make the current go where you want. Why worry about a Chief of Staff and the expensive "Life Insurance Policies"?
Indians as in Hindustanis are Caucasians, so technically they would be "white people" sometimes very black white people but white people none the less. Of course the "race thing" is way over-blown, most of us in North America are mongrels right now and the few who aren't will be in a couple generations.
Damn and I had mod points before I posted too, well played sir.
There were also those gun wielding uneducated hicks trespassing on land that wasn't, isn't and will never be their land.
I suppose that Harry Reid owning 93 acres next door and wanting to start commercial development had no effect on the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) deciding the Bundys were suddenly trespassing after generations of using the land.
Trump is the cure to the Republican leadership failure, which began in 1981 with Reagan's takeover of the Conservative movement, then GHW Bush's failed re-election, and has continued despite presidential election successes intervening. 35 years of failed GOP leadership has left us with a party that is led by and populated with elected officials that prefer to go along with the opposition for a variety of reasons, but largely because they have no vision for our nation nor their own political movement.
While I don't disagree that Congressional Republicans abandoning any kind of consistent philosophical have lead to a lot of the problems we're seeing today, but Reagan set the country on a course that firstly set up an robust economy that took two Bushes to destroy (Hell even Bill Clinton was smart enough to ride that wave), secondly he convinced Gaddafi to stop being a sponsor of terrorism and to abandon his WMD programs, and thirdly his build up of our National Defenses lead to the Soviet Union collapsing from the effort of trying to keep up. He can hardly be blamed for the lack of Congressional spine.
I don't disagree but would bust the Key West Agreement and open a whole can of worms
Consider the Benghazi consulate attack. It would have cost peanuts to keep a Super Tucano gassed up and ready in Sicily for 24/7, and it could get where it needs to be in an hour. Instead we hemmed and hawed and figured out that a supersonic jet from a NATO base in Spain or North Italy would take several hours to arrive (because of the jets do not have that range without arranging for re-fueling first). Which plane is faster?
We had assets on the ground with Props spinning waiting for release while Obama and Clinton tried to decide how the rescue personal should be dressed. It had nothing to do with arrival times, beside Sicily was only 20 minutes away.
Of course, we all know how this will turn out... Both plane programs will continue forever.
We need to keep sending money to defense contractors... lots of money and it doesn't really matter if things work or not. They have a blank check to spend as much as they want and they bribe Congress to keep the money flowing.
We can't appear to be "soft on defense".
It's not like the money is going to stop, at least with defense contractor we have a chance to buy some stock and get some dividends back.
People like to be masters of their own destiny, the Navy bugged out on the Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign and withdrew with the supplies and air support the Marines needed, therefore the Marine will never completely trust the Navy again. The Marines having the CAS capability to self-support forces the Navy into the position of competing with the Marines to provide air support.
Your going to see the same thing between the Military and the State Dept of the Benghazi fiasco, the Military will never completely trust the State Dept again; they left men behind and lied about it.
Citation needed. Seriously, if you have a scholarly article with data to support this assertion I want to read it, for some of my own related research.
We tried to get one of those Scholarly Pukes to collect the data for an article, but every time we got them up to 400m of a 100Kg bomb going off, they'd curl up into a fetal position and whine for their mothers. Don't get me wrong, those DARPA dudes come up with some really good ideas and make them reality, but for every good idea, there are 49 bad ideas. The more scholarly articles with supporting data an idea for Grunts has, the more likely it is to be bad.
You may honestly think that your persistent CAS utilizing PGMs is a great idea, but we know it's a grandiose plan concocted by POGs and when the shit hits the fan, the REMFs are going to be more worried about exceeding their budget by shoot expensive ordinance than they will be about saving our sorry asses.
What matters today, where the F-22 dominates, is the range you can get missile lock-on vs your opponent...
Surely that's a function of the missile, not the aircraft.
Not necessarily, you have to know where to point the missile for it to get the lock. The plane with the ability to see the opponent's radar cross section at the greatest distance has an advantage.
If the quality of Iranian students hasn't increased tremendously from those I've seen at Redstone, the Iranian air defense systems will collapse within hours of the Russian technicians pulling out.
I'm not seeing the point in your BSG argument,
F35, Guns: 1 × General Dynamics 25 mm (0.984 in) GAU-22/A 4-barrel rotary cannon, internally mounted with 180 rounds
A10, Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon with 1,174 rounds (capacity 1,350 rd)
To me the 5mm difference isn't enough to consider and 1/10 the ammo makes the F35 cannon stupider then the A10's cannon.
A-10s are surprisingly slow (slower than some WWII strike/CAS piston-engined aircraft!) which means they have to operate from full-sized air bases close to the front line ...
All of the examples below are limited to the vicinity of 0.8 Mach, like any subsonic aircraft. Portions of airflow over the craft are likely to enter into the supersonic range, so while the F35 is theroeticaly twice as fast, it's not going to be twice as fast down in the weeds where a lot of down and dirty CAS happens. That's where low stall speed and high power to weight ratios for acceleration trump Max velocity.
Beside the A10 isn't slower than WWII strike/CAS piston-engined aircraft, it's the same. It's Stall speed: 120 knots (138 mph, 220 km/h) means it's pretty easy to get up in the air and back down on shorter runways.
North American P-51 Mustang,
Maximum speed: 437 mph (380 kn, 703 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
Range: 1,650 mi (1,434 nmi, 2,755 km) with external tanks
Wing loading: 39 lb/sqft (192 kg/m)
Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
(P-47D-30 Thunderbolt)
Maximum speed: 433 mph at 29,000 ft
Range: 800 mi combat,
Empty weight: 10,000 lb (4,535 kg)
Loaded weight: 12,731 lb (5,774.48 kg)
Wing loading: 42.43 lb/ft2 (207 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.204 hp/lb (335 W/kg)
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II,
Maximum speed: 437 mph (380 kn, 703 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
Range: 800 mi
Empty weight: 24,959 lb (11,321 kg)
Loaded weight: 30,384 lb (13,782 kg)
CAS mission: 47,094 lb (21,361 kg)
Anti-armor mission: 42,071 lb (19,083 kg)
Wing loading: 39 lb/sqft (192 kg/m)
Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
You sir, appear to be under the delusion that We The People are electing a president, we are not. What we are doing is choosing "electors", who usually pledge to vote for particular candidates. If for some reason Hillary Clinton were to withdraw at this point, the Electors would still elect a President, even if it wasn't Grandma Hilldebeast.
Secondly Bill Clinton was impeached, he just wasn't convicted; Clinton is one of only two Presidents to be impeached, the other was the Democratic Slave Owner Andrew Jackson who was acquitted.
BTW, I only keep hearing about "rigged" elections, fraud, stealing votes etc. from two kinds of people. Political dilettantes and Republicans.
Only difference being that as far as I can tell, while political dilettantes have always been partial to conspiracy theories because they are... well...dilettantes...
Republicans seem to have built their myth of "being cheated" around that time JFK beat their "not a crook" sweatball Tricky Dick.
There has been plenty of fraud in American Elections, the real question is, is the amount significant. In battleground states, a little fraud can have disproportionate effects.
Satan is just a name that is phonetically pronounceable for a multi-lingual organisation, if anything it was a sophomoric association rather than a nefarious propaganda ploy.
Your link article is confusing, they seem to be use "expired" and "Withdraws" interchangeably, are you saying that not voluntarily being bond by an expired treaty is cheating?
Yes a 100T missile would have some serious portability problems, and the Russian historically used the portability shell game to increase survivability of the ICBM fleet; a lot of bragging rights but not much practicality.
Russia didn't hack no emails, shit like that is almost always an inside job. Sure it could happen, more likely somebody had a stupid simple pasword. Cops have a saying "Check the Inlaws before the Outlaws". I'm sure Putin helps wikileaks a lot, being former KGB he knows his shit is tight, so just keeping it going means the odds favor him, but actively participating is likely below his pay grade.
I got news for you, anybody who isn't a self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic douchebag wouldn't take the job! The best you can hope for is finding one who relatively domesticated and not completely feral.
Funny thing, the Afghan mujahideen, was armed to fight the Soviets, and the Syrian opposition was armed to fight the long-time Soviet Ally, Bashar al-Assad. The bottom line is both are equally complicit in most of the world's serious problems.
The way thing are now in a couple years, the Russians throw weight will have gone up so dramatically, there's no sense in targeting their ICBMs now because even one can inflict catastrophic losses, we might just as well point every thing we have at Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.