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Just now, meazza said:
Jewish, Muslim and Christian.
And that doesn't include the Israelis.
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1 hour ago, snafu said:
What's the value of anyone's homeland?
People live all over the globe, not just the scenic parts or the arable parts or the moderately temperate parts. Also, people practice their respective religions all over the globe -- not just in their particular holy land.
The answer to your question is: who cares, people want to live there, and when that happens, they'll fight to stay there.
The land is of inestimable value.
It is simply impossible to value it without regard to Jewish history.
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20 minutes ago, Niagara Bill said:
The Arab world never agreed with Israel being created, so the fight continues.
And the Arab world's treatment of the "Palestinians" throughout history is another interesting subject.
Only works when they are leveraged against israel.
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17 minutes ago, Justice said:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/16/politics/biden-israel-progressive-democrats/index.html
This for any idiot that thinks Biden won’t support Israel like any other US President has. Wag the dog. And to the US troops I say good luck in your war with Iran. More American blood will be lost on behalf of Israel real soon. As soon as Dem takes office the bloodlust resumes.
Plenty of US blood has been lost as the result of Iranian action.
A US retaliation against that regime would not involve significant US troops.
It would be air, and it would be effective.
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8 hours ago, 4merper4mer said:
This place is slipping. Not a single person has asserted that this means Edmunds is done.
Christian Wade can do everything he can do better.
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Glad you made your decision and are pleased with it.
As I said, I've been cooking on a Primo XL for years, and if there is one bit of advice I would offer, because I think it's invaluable, is to purchase some kind of temp controller. If you want to do long cooks, like brisket, pork butt, or ribs, it is essential that the temp be controlled accurately.
Same with turkey/chicken.
It is way too much work to actively control it with vent placement, and even then the temps are not accurate.
On my Primo, I cook brisket and pork butt at 225.
In order to get 225 in the cooking area, where it matters, the dome temp indicates 305.
In other words, the dome temp is useless if you care to cook precisely.
Controllers are not cheap, my DIGI Q is about $125, but it holds the cooking temp within two degrees without any work, or opening the lid, on my part. I get it stabilized at the cooking temp for 20 mins then don't open the thing for ten hours until done.
Pays for itself after about five cooks, and I wouldn't operate without it.
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I've owned a Primo XL Kamado for years.
I use lump charcoal only, and control the temp with a Diqi-Q controller.
Not a cheap combination, but works great and I really enjoy it.
I always use a meat thermometer to check for doneness. Those are quite inexpensive and very accurate.
I've cooked just about everything in it.
Not sure about your non ceramic question.
The benefit of ceramic is that they really hold moisture in, as long as you don't keep opening them, which you never have to with a controller for the pit temp and a meat thermometer.
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I have an even/odd thing with gas also, but it's octane based.
I will only allow the fuel to be an "even" total octane.
Sine the choices are 87, 89 or 93 octane, I have developed charts that I carry to blend to three in hundreds of potential volume options so that it averages 88, 90, or 92.
Takes a bit longer at the pump, but peace of mind is pricless.
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58 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
But I think the stuff to do is more nature-oriented and then the weird new agey stuff too. Let us know how it goes.
Did a five day thing there as well.
Nice place in the desert Southwest, but the new age stuff, to use your phrase is a bit, well a lot, over played, in my view.
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1 hour ago, Seasons1992 said:
Will you force the kids to be in the bunk beds?
Nah.
They'll get the kings.
Ms. and I will make do.
Living on an aircraft carrier in a junior officer's bunkroom for months on end, I get in one position and don't move much.
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Here's where we're going on Sun- next Thurs.
The cabin is near Sevierville TN., in the Great Smokey Mountains.
Our three adult kids will join us.
https://www.cabinsforyou.com/brothers-deja-view.htm
We always do a mountain cabins with the kids once per year.
I'll bring the flyrod and waders along, so we'll see how that goes, and plenty of other things to do there.
The Mrs. and I will do the annual Europe thing in late Oct, but no specific plans yet, as that situation re Covid changes weekly.
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2 hours ago, Freddie's Dead said:
Both songs are on my list.....
Please no K.C. on this site.
One guy I never want to hear again, in any context.
I'm sure the guy wasn't into football, if you get my drift.
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The Navy operates near the San Clemente Island facility.
Those operations have nothing to do with the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant, which is on the mainland, south of the city of San Clemente, (not the island), and was run by Southern California Edison.
the Navy does not defend civilian nuclear power plants.
Very few aircraft operations are conducted on San Clemente Island.
Years ago we would use targets there, but environmental pressures have pretty much ended that, and even then it wasn't used much.
The area that those FLIR images came from is called the SoCal Operating area, and is where carriers operate during work ups for Pacific cruises.
It is international waters.
Anyway, not trying to be impolite, but linking these recordings to a suggestion that there is some nuclear component is a non starter.
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Iraq was stashing WMD's.
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We will own the sixth round.
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You came to this conclusion from somewhere else, and I am interested in finding out where that was from.
I have operated in the area where these were recorded.
The US, nor any other country that I'm aware of, does not operate nuclear facilities in international waters.
So where is the area, and where is the claim?
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On 4/28/2021 at 7:05 PM, ChevyVanMiller said:
Furthermore, the aircrafts were over Navy-protected nuclear sites.
I hate to nag, but I'm quite interested in where the reference is for this claim.
No response for a couple days, but I'm hoping.
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China claiming some bizarre sovereignty over the South China Sea is like claiming sovereignty over the moon.
International law and right of passage is clear, established with agreements and precedent, and indisputable.
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2 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
Dude...classified
The claim comes from somewhere.
I'm interested in where it came from and what the actual claim is.
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7 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said:
Yes, as I posted earlier for the first time ever the Pentagon has confirmed the existence of UFOs. Furthermore, the aircrafts were over Navy-protected nuclear sites.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business-videos/2021/04/15/navy-pyramid-ufo-video-orig-jm-kj.cnn
Where are these Navy protected nuclear sites you mention?
That isn't in the link.
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3 minutes ago, SoTier said:
You wouldn't have money to save if the government didn't provide an environment where business and commerce flourish, not the least of which is a stable government itself.
I think you might have that a little backwards.
The government wouldn't exist without being funded by "business and commerce."
Now it exists far beyond its support, but that is another subject.
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2 hours ago, Nextmanup said:
It would almost certainly have been darting and moving around like a knuckle ball on the wind, coming down from the equivalent of a 60 story balcony.
No reason to assume that.
Probably no wind during the time of flight.
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15 minutes ago, Draconator said:
Can you calculate that for me? (I dropped out of Math in 10th grade).
Can't be done, though I'd be glad to if the variables were know, because the math is pretty simple.
The problem is that a football, when dropped, thrown or otherwise released, presents a drag coefficient to the atmosphere.
In order to calculate the 9.8 meters per second squared until terminal velocity, you have to have the values for that drag coefficient each millisecond.
One could argue that that is true until terminal velocity is reached, but that is a specious argument, since terminal velocity is only precise as the ball presents itself to the atmosphere, ie,. a spiral would have a greater terminal velocity than a spinning in a horizontal plane ball.
Either way, I'm guessing that it is about 100mph, not much different that a major league fastball, and sighting it would be harder than catching it.
Whatever, I'm kind of sick of Gronk.
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9 minutes ago, TH3 said:
Until air drag overcomes A
And that is called terminal velocity.
An object, unpropelled, ie., dropped, will accelerate at 9.8 meters per second squared, until it reaches its terminal velocity, which is the point that atmospheric drag will prevent further acceleration.
For the human body, that is about 120mph at sea level.
For a football, probably a bit less, but not much.
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Mystery Surrounds Upcoming Pentagon Report on UFOs
in Off the Wall
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It's very difficult to judge or evaluate IR video from a HUD camera.
I've flown many sorties at sea using FLIR and you get some really strange images.
Even the accurate ones are suspect unless you know the range and heat source.
I doubt one in ten would be able to identify an aircraft carrier at 60 miles using FLIR with appropriate magnification unless you knew what you were looking at. It's an odd, distorted image.