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You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. No history. No knowledge. It takes well over a year to train a controller. Who does that out this issue on. Pete Buttigieg was an abject failure that performed miserably, and we are paying the price. Duffy is an infinitely better Sect. of Transportation, and is fixing the issue. The destructive Shumer shutdown only points that the ATC function should be privatized because the gov has proven to be incapable of performance. Your stupid cub reporting of aviation items has no insight, no knowledge, no ability to judge and no perspective. They are dumb posts.

Homey's recent is completely unrelated to the thread, and silly.

I saw a news story the other day that 33 counties in Eastern Oregon have given favorable consideration to secede from Oregon to Idaho, and 13 of those have passed items to look into it formally. Their view is that they have no representation in the Oregon state gov.

Maybe I missed the news. Have we done anything offensive in Venezuela? I haven't seen anything except claims on this forum

Perhaps. But smuggling is done on an individual basis decision. Being vaporized in the Carib is probably not worth the payoff. Either way, my point is that we are letting them know we will kill them, and I really doubt there is is any US interest in a strike at the Venezuelan mainland. Makes no sense.

First, take oil out of the equation. We really don't need their high sulfur oil.\ Second, this nonsense about the CIA. Think about this. If the US was going to operate a significant CIA operation in a foreign country, do you think they'd announce it? Absolutely not. It is a ridiculous conclusion. This is a signal, as have the boat strikes. The message is that we have intel that lets us know what you are doing and when, and we intend to eliminate you if you operate. All meant to dissuade folks from engaging in drug smuggling into the US.

is there any evidence of this intent?

Carriers are a signal. If it fits the carrier and airwing schedule for workups, why not? Cruise in the area to let them know we care. But, the point is, I have no idea why we would ever strike Venezuelan military targets on terra firma.

Rumors are rumors. Why would the US attack "military targets" in Venezuela?

British intel. American equipment. Russian blood. But...and my Dad's family had six brothers, five made it back, the US military at the time was a huge amount of first or second generation Americans who had assimilated.

And kind of won WWII.

I saw an interview with a Republican Congressman on CNBC early this week, talking about the shutdown and specifically, the health care component of it. He mentioned that the Affordable Care Act is seriously flawed, and guaranteed this kind of expense appreciation. On a positive note, he mentioned that there is a bipartisan group that has suggested a number of provisions that would change it, and clean it up to make it work. Again, bipartisan. Not the warfare you see on TV. Get the gov started and go this route, and I think we would be headed in the right direction. Use as a political weapon and we go nowhere.

Not close.

Nope. Not at all. There isn't a thing about this forum that would ever cause me either pain nor pleasure. Couldn't care less. They are about someone getting out of their lane and posting something that proves to be utterly ridiculous, and the motivation is nothing more than you don't like the individual that brought the technology up in a conversation about long term energy developments. Much like when I said Biden was toast during Super Bowl week when he refused network interviews as president and Billy claimed disagreement and said he was going to save that post and bring it up when it was proved wrong. A few months later we have the "debate," if anyone of sound mind and body would call it that, and off the table Joe went. Of course not a word from the individual who was "saving" the post for later "told you so."

You've said a lot of things. Few made sense.

What I don't think is that you have any idea what you are talking about, nor any idea of the complexity of this issue. For the US to respond would take either a carrier in the area, which we could do, but is not worth it and so isn't done, or have airborne close air support within small time strike range, which we don't. Hamas is a terrorist group. They don't have a base to strike. The Israelis infiltrated Gaza, know where these high priority people are, and can respond within minutes. We can't. Further, we have no purpose in doing so, so the idea is idiotic.

A vacuous post. You can laugh all you want. What you can't do is provide anything supporting a stupid suggestion.

Hamas is a moving group of thugs. The US has no capability to track them, and no asset in the region to conduct a precision strike within the minutes it would take to respond. It's like bombing neighborhood punks that run around in SUV's. The IDF has that capability. We do not.

I asked how old you are because it seems you have no knowledge of this stuff. The US has no idea how to target Hamas, as they are inside a civilian population in Gaza, and we have no intel there. They have no interest in doing so, and you have never given a motive. It is preposterous to suggest we would do such a thing, thus my assertion of your naivete.

I quite enjoy being told I'm wrong. "The market is unconvinced." Mentioned it at $25 in Feb. of this year. It is now $135. Ya......Unconvinced.

Could you inform us of how old you are? I am suspicious. Not only is the US not going to "bomb Hamas," such an action would be unnecessary, unproductive and foolish. How do people come up with these ideas?

Again, and again and again. That is not a claim I have ever made. So habitual here.

Maybe you don't understand this. The US gov takes revenue from taxes and pays for this in many programs. That money is coming from wage earners. Is that unclear?

I'm pretty sure his family would confirm it. But...Great strategy. Don't like the truth, which is quite verifiable, at least in the civilized world, claim it is a lie becasue, well, just because.

You have done what is so often done here, and is completely misrepresenting not only what I said, but forming a false conclusion based on your misrepresentation. Happens every day here, all the time. I never said that "100 people were killed." I have no idea, and the idiocy of believing numbers that come from there is it's own fantasy realm. I never said "no innocent people killed." I have no idea. What I said was that Hamas assassinated an Israeli reservist who was doing nothing other than excavating. That isn't all that was done by this group breaking the cease fire. You can do your own research. Israel responded. People got killed. You do this stuff and you should expect a response. When the people of Gaza stop putting up with this, you won't see a peep from the Israelis. If you don't stop them, you will.