Boom Jam
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That was great. I like this kid.
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I've never liked the concept of using a GPS. Part of the game is visually sizing up the distance to the green and the general layout of a hole. It's just part of the skill, and benefits experienced players. Sure, you have the 100,150, and 200 yard markers as benchmarks, but those can only tell you so much. Call me a stodgy purist if you must, but something about using a GPS seems...impure.
And as for the 4 putt...well, we've all been there before.
Exactly. Go to the range, know your yardages, know your wedges, and go from there.
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The right to be earthquake free?
It is all to obvious that we live in completely different realities, and I think yours sucks.
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It's awful. I can't imagine what it's like for those caught in the middle of a disaster like this.
Long live the 2nd Amendment...
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Arizona please.
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That you judge all of Islam by the acts of those on the lunatic fringe, speaks volumes. Do you judge Christianity by those who used it to lynch Blacks, for years, in the USA? Do you judge Christianity by the evangelists who beg for our money, cheer the 911 incident, run sites like this, etc?
Since we live in a country that is primarily Christian, we see the whole spectrum of good and bad, and understand that it isn't the religion that makes these sick fuc#ing wackos the way that they are. They simply use their religion as their excuse to be morons. But, since we don't have a lot of day-to-day interactions with Muslims (not to the extent we do Christians and Jews), we get our impression of them from the media...and that usually focuses on the unusual/dangerous/etc. You cold probably go ahead and conclude that Islam has their share of sick, stupid douchebags that use their religion to justify their moronic acts, too.
Nice link to godhatesfags, and speaking of morons:
Ahmadinejad rejected accusations that he has denied the Holocaust actually happened, but argued for more research to be conducted on the subject."I'm not saying that it didn't happen at all," he said. "I said, granted this happened, what does it have to do with the Palestinian people?"
He used his 30-minute speech to repeat Tehran's insistence that its nuclear programme was focused on meeting the country's electricity needs.
Washington says Iran is seeking to produce nuclear weapons.
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"We do not believe in nuclear weapons. Period. This goes against the whole grain of humanity," Ahmadinejad said.
During the question-and-answer session he denied that homosexuals were persecuted in Iran.
"In Iran we do don't have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you we have it," he said, sparking laughter from the audience.
Some, however, were not amused.
"This is a sick joke," said Scott Long of Human Rights Watch, saying Iran tortures gays under a penal code that punishes homosexuality between men with the death penalty.
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Didn't see this posted yet. It's an instant classic:
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Stockton and Modesto should be tied for first on that list. Both towns are cesspools.
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"No new contract" for Kelly.
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17-9 Pats.
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This sucks too:
The P-8A, a Boeing 737-800 ERX that is the replacement for the P-3C, is becoming increasingly less cost effective and affordable. If any are built for the fleet, the total number is likely to be far below the official goal of 108 aircraft.The P-3 fleet is disintegrating from overuse at such a high rate that Navy squadrons no longer “own” their own airplanes – what was typically nine aircraft. Instead, all flyable P-3s now belong to the Wing and are “loaned” to squadron aircrews on a mission-by-mission basis. From 288 flyable P-3Cs in 2003, the Navy has less than 100. The P-3 fleet has been aged prematurely by the shift away from ASW to overuse in overland surveillance and weapons delivery since 1991. Ground commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan love the Orion’s ability to loiter over a battle area for 8-10 hours, providing real-time visual and electronic surveillance.
A number of factors make it likely that the 108 aircraft goal is becoming unrealistic. One is cost. When the P-8A development and manufacturing costs are fully amortized, each P-8A will cost approximately $416M in 2004 dollars. Remember, the Navy has to buy ships, whose costs are rising at staggering rates. The Littoral Combat Ship, the Navy’s answer to coastal, “brown water” fighting, has had two of the first four ships canceled for 100% cost overruns. The goal of 55 LCSes is in serious doubt. The just canceled DDG-1000 saw its price per hull exceed $3B, triggering a Congressional revolt and ending what was to have been at least seven ships to just two “technology demonstrators,” a la the Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarines. CVN-X, the follow-on to the Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier, is in limbo with the Navy saying little about its future. CGN-X, the follow-on to the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, also looks doomed. Building of the Burke-class guided missile destroyer will, instead, be extended for an undetermined number of additional ships with enhanced capabilities and major upgrades of onboard sensors and greatly increased electrical generation capabilities for new weapons and much more powerful radars. The Navy Program Executive Officers for the various new ship classes has been repeatedly shaken-up in the past several years, with multiple firings of high-level Navy and civilian personnel. Forty-five billion dollars for 108 P-8As seems increasingly undoable.
The other half of the P-8 plan to replace the P-3 is the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned vehicle program. While the Navy has been struggling with this, too, for years, it looks like the RQ-4 Maritime Global Hawk UAV/UCAV will be chosen. At $123M a copy (including development costs) it isn’t cheap, but it has many attractive features. One is the lower cost than the P-8. Another is not having to carry a crew for which the Navy has to pay a small fortune in training and support. Another is the ever greater capability of unmanned systems, which, like computers, double their capability for the same price every eighteen months. The RQ-4 can fly for 24 hours or more, affording unmatched persistent surveillance capability. Yet another is avoiding the loss of personnel in any combat situation – something an ever more militarily ignorant citizenry demands of its armed forces. Arming the RQ-4s becomes even more attractive when one considers as well the recent arrival of mini-sonobouys that may be dropped and monitored from the UCAV as well. .
The P-8 program is going to be scaled-back in favor of increasing the responsibility and perhaps the numbers of the BAMS program. The P-8s are to be based at two CONUS sites – NAS Whidbey Island, WA, and NAS Jacksonville, FL, plus a detachment at MCAS Kaneohe, Hawaii. The Pacific and Atlantic wings will probably have a dozen P-8s each, with the Fleet Replacement Squadron at NAS Jacksonville signing for another 18 or so. That makes 42. The Hawaiian detachment may borrow from the Pacific wing, or may have as many as another six aircraft basically based at Kaneohe. That’s 48. Add some wiggle room and as many as 60 P-8s may be built, although that’s unlikely. That’s all we’ll have, plus as many RQ-4s as can be pried-away from the USAF.
One has to understand a little about anti-submarine warfare for this scenario to make sense. There are basically three kinds of ASW: detection, tracking, and localization/attack. Detection is done any number of ways. For the maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), it’s usually done at altitude using sonobouys, either based upon intelligence or upon detection by some other asset. This is easy on the airframe because higher-level flight is usually smooth and more aggressive high-G maneuvers are rare. Passive tracking (using the target’s noise and not generating any yourself) of a located target can also be relatively sedate and again, at a higher altitude. Things get hairy during localization for an attack. For this the P-3 uses active sonobouys that “ping” to provide a distance and bearing to the target, which now knows you are there and begins high-speed evasive maneuvering. The P-3 also uses magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) to provide an “on top” mark from the sub’s steel hull. This is low-level, yanking and banking flight that puts the aircraft through a lot of relatively high-G stuff as a result of steep turns and low-level turbulence, which really wears on both the airframe and crew (see Romancing Julie.) The Navy is trying to extend the life of its remaining p-3s as much as possible by minimizing low-altitude flight. One step has been to create a kit that turns the P-3’s Mk 54 torpedo into a glide bomb that may be launched from altitude. The P-8 is being designed without MAD, a clear nod to minimizing low-altitude flight, both for airframe ease and limiting a target’s chances of detecting a tracking airplane.
The Navy has funding for the first five P-8s. Three are for ground testing and two are to fly, the first in 2009. The P-3s are being re-winged, a plan to extend their airworthiness until replaced by the P-8 beginning in 2012/2013. What the MPA world will look like by then – not to mention the Navy and its budget – cannot yet be accurately foretold. All MPA flight may be transferred to UCAVs, as is the trend for all tactical flight in the US military. The Lockheed P-3 line has been reopened to provide new wings for the P-3 fleet. How long before someone at Lockheed pitches producing entirely new Orion-21s, or even the P-7? Lockheed did so before it lost out to the Boeing version MMA. What is known is that we are entering as dangerous a period to our national security as any since the 1930s.
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So, out of all those instances I gave you, you point out one that wasn't a complete backfire.....bravo.
You're not as smart as you think you are.
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If you can root for Beast Mode after his hit and run fiasco, then you would be able to root for Peters when he is back to his 2007 form next year. Trading him for a second rounder would be ridiculous.
I get what you are saying and your points are valid, but you didn't include the McGahee trade and subsequent drafting of The Beast in your previous post. That's interesting considering he was the biggest ass on the team when he was dealt and the Bills had to use a #12 overall for The Beast. The second rounder we would be trading for is the #33 overall, and I don't think of that as being quite as ridiculous as you do.
Lynch's hit-and-run was a P.R. fiasco, and didn't translate to his performance on the field. I'd like to see you make a similar case for Peters' lengthy and bizarre holdout.
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I think Peters is an ass and I find it hard to root for him anymore. I used to like the guy and remember checking out the pics of him riding in the back of Thailog's vette during whatever parade they have during training camp. What was there not to like about his story, or about him? Nothing. He changed positions, excelled, became two time Pro Bowler, and somewhere along the way he also became an ass. Goodbye.
All that being said, I think the ideal trade is for Detroit's 2nd rounder. Three picks in the top-45 in this draft class would be sweet.
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should have drafted Ngata
And Greg Jennings in the 2nd.
Jackson Sitting Out
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I couldn't agree more.