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A trial will do more damage to our image. Letting him get away with it will do more damage than holding him accountable. When I deployed in 2009, we took SCI information with us on our C17. We had to overnight in Germany for crew rest, and had no nearby storage facility (SCIF) we could use, so we h...

We clearly told Putin not to do it. He did it anyway. 100% on the Russians. Is it worth all that destruction for Putin to be out of power? All that destruction is going to happen now, the worst outcome is it happens and Putin remains in power, looking for his next target, and China learns the wrong ...

Buttered popcorn with old bay seasoning on it

Russia blows up the dam, and you blame the USA.

This war ends with Russia out and Putin retired. They started it, we help Ukraine finish it. The world will be a better place for it.

Also…hola everybody!

The Officer Friendly Five in Memphis...

When is a conspiracy not a conspiracy? When they're they're doing it in plain sight. Covid-19 was the least surprising thing to happen. Tons of viruses have made the leap to us, and there will be more to come. There will be a Covid20 and 21, or some crazy flu variant, or who knows what else pops ou...

This is a cool short story ******* Sticks by George Saunders Every year Thanksgiving night we flocked out behind Dad as he dragged the Santa suit to the road and draped it over a kind of crucifix he'd built out of metal pole in the yard. Super Bowl week the pole was dressed in a jersey and Rod's hel...

Give this man back his nucular codes

Blaidd Drwg wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:35 pm He is a fucking idiot and he's mentally unstable.

Even one or two repubs are agreeing with BD now, although plenty more will gladly terminate the Constitution to own the libs.

It’s well known that nazis tip 20%.

0-0 score with USA and UK. Almost exciting.

Glad you had a nice walk, friend.

I ate until I was in pain. Yum.

Gene wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:51 am President Biden has committed the US to use nuclear weapons if Russia uses them in Ukraine.

No he hasn’t, and the article you cited acknowledges it as such, before going on to over-claim what he said.

It’s called strategic ambiguity. Leave your opponent guessing.

Russia basically gave us the means to degrade them at no risk and a pittance of money. Stupider than our invasion of Iraq by orders of magnitude. We’d be nuts not to take the opportunity that they’ve offered. The Putin apologists have taken the House in Congress, and they are still upset Zelensky di...

Thanks for this, Lenny

motherjuggs&speed wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:59 pm That's the justification for a global supergrid.

We already have a global supergrid of energy, it just moves really slowly by tankers and pipelines.

All of it

Natural gas is how the US makes "renewables" work. We don't have decent batteries yet. We should be working on mass produced reactors and reprocessing "spent" fuel. So should the EU, but only France is doing it. The French at La Hague make one fresh MOX fuel element out of four ...

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:23 pm is…

What do you mean by that? Oops, I said “do”. Is that wrong? Dammit, said “is”. Shit.

We haven’t intervened there. No troops on the ground, no planes in Ukrainian airspace. Just helping out an emergent democracy struggling to survive in a cruel part of the globe. No war declared. We help them less than they would like to be helped, that’s for sure. We are getting dollars of foreign a...

Gene wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:13 pm why did we start one in Ukraine

Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine didn’t invade Russia, and neither did we.

Gene, the contorting and cherry picking of facts that you go through to justify your positions…

Russia invaded Ukraine, full stop. Fuck those guys.

Gene wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:22 pm war mongering elitists

We are out of Afghanistan. E are not in Ukraine.

Gene wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:56 am It's not a hard sell.

Then why aren’t the Ukrainians buying?

The atrocities committed by the Russians aren’t helping with their marketing campaign either. Stupid.

The Ukrainian fighters refer to the Russians as orcs. Fitting.

Thanks for the pointer. After 6 months in Africa, the continent had a special place in my heart.

Ever read A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul?

motherjuggs&speed wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:54 pm I have no sympathy for Russia but China is also a nogoodnik and gets almost no criticism, let alone sanctions like we see Russia getting.

No Russian goods in Walmart, but lots of Chinese.