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Mr. Wile E. Coyote's lawsuit against Acme Products. "Mr. Coyote states that on eighty-five separate occasions he has purchased of the Acme Company (hereinafter, "Defendant"), through that company's mail-order department, certain products which did cause him bodily injury due to defects in manufacture or improper cautionary labeling..... Upon receipt of the Rocket Sled, Mr. Coyote removed it from its wooden shipping crate and, sighting his prey in the distance, activated the ignition. As Mr. Coyote gripped the handlebars, the Rocket Sled accelerated with such sudden and precipitate force as to stretch Mr. Coyote's forelimbs to a length of fifty feet" Also mentioned were defective "rocket skates," which propelled the plaintiff through a billboard, leaving a full body silhouette. The Claim One of my personal favorites was the earthquake pills.

I went through Aviation Officer Candidate school in 76. It was run my Marine Drill Instructors and was pretty intense, see "An Officer and a Gentleman." It has been grossly tuned down since woman were allowed in. SEER School, which is POW school, was really intense. Freezing at night in a box with no clothes wasn't that bad. Getting interrogated wasn't too bad either-just get shoved into a wall a few times, but it actually warmed me up at the time. Watching waterboarding and hoping I wouldn't get selected. It was one of two times on active duty that I was actually scared.

No they didn't. And the rest of the story? All, ex John, suffered torturous death affirming Jesus, and John did as well, he just didn't die directly for it. Did you miss that? You may be the most misinformed individual to ever post. Seriously. 2000+ years, and you are not aware? And by the way, as late edit, there is noting anywhere that suggests or even hints that Jesus or his disciples enjoyed any material gifts as part of the Gospel. That seems to be you invention.

You are incredibly ill informed, to the point of writing your own idiotic history, in direct opposition to the record. His disciples didn't "bolt." And there weren't 5000. That is the number of people fed, having followed he and his group because of healing. There were 12, all but one died horrific deaths as the result of their faith. Judas committed suicide. Nowhere is it claimed that Jesus derived anything from these people, other than faith. Your historical inventions are about as impressive as your ignorance regarding 9/11.

If you are talking about material possessions, you are wrong. If you are talking about faith, that is mostly correct, but not entirely.

That excludes me. By the way, your sentence is very poorly constructed, but the condescension is apparent, nonetheless.

Claiming he dedicated his life to "putting servicemen in harm's way" is a gross distortion, as is claiming that he "pissed on the graves of everyone who served." You sound like one of the Viet Nam vets who never got over that war and how details of it were treated afterward, and for very good reasons. And for the record, I've never liked the guy, and viewed his revered treatment last week as undeserved and bizarre.

He certainly did not "piss on the graves of everyone who served."

I have not, and don't, "call" it anything. If he is guilty of treason, it shouldn't be too hard to prove. Being in a picture doesn't pass even the most minuscule concept of guilt.

I get your general sincerity. Still, you have a habit of posting pictures and suggesting things without any semblance of proof. This isn't the first time you have done it. If there is proof of McCain committing treason, that should be provable. Being in the same picture as someone proves nothing, and is a cheap shot.

You called the man a racist. He challenged you. Do you have anything?

McCain should have gone a lot quieter. Never liked the guy. Always suspected him. None of this surprises me. Still......Trump is an ass.

Want bizarre, listen to HF at night.

Its not odd. The atmosphere changes at night, and the changes effect radio wave propagation.

I know. Overnight reception can be strange because the FCC regulates wattage in order to reduce the effect of skywave propagation, which is much more prevalent at night. That's why you'll get stations like WGR until about 7AM, and then a much closer 550 khz stations will ramp up at the same time the nightime skywave propagation diminishes, so they'll better service their listening area.

AM, due to its much lower frequency travels much further. FM is generally line of sight, but sometimes with atmospheric bouncing it can go greater distances.

1. Whoever they wanted to, or nobody. Just leave their possessions. 2. The 5000 people came from surrounding towns. They had heard that Jesus and the 12 were healing people and were attracting crowds, so Jesus told them to get into a boat and head to a solitary place for rest, but they were seen, and the crowds followed. 3. Find someone from another galaxy and ask them. God is a sovereign. He could do what he wanted.

Your situation is exactly why I purchased long term insurance for my wife and I, and explained to our kids that if we ever need it, we would use it rather than burden them. The insurance is not cheap, but while you are relatively young and not in any need, it is affordable. It also provides some measure of protection against other assets you want to pass along. In short, I have taken this burden off of our children while we are both healthy and active.

A few comments, and provided from the most humble perspective. One thing I find interesting in this thread is that people who have served are multiples more aware of Iranian acts of war against the US. That bit of information is not well known in the US, but they have been responsible for killing our guys for decades, across many state boundaries. Just an observation. The military problem is, largely, a Navy problem, and it is correct to conclude that we could destroy their navy in very little time. See what happened to the Iranian navy ship Sahand when it fires a missile at a US Navy A6. I'll save you the time. An F-18 stuck a laser guided bomb down its stack, and would have sunk it, but was called off. (My old squadron---Go Shrikes). The problem is that the distances are so compressed that it makes it difficult to sort of who's who, and mistakes get made, because of that time compression. See the USS Stark and the USS Vincennes shooting of an Iranian airliner. When you try to protect shipping through that choke point, it is an extremely difficult task when everybody has live weapons. The Iranians mined the area in the late 80's and we had tremendous difficulty solving that. I've flown in that area, dragging their border trying to bait someone to come out, just outside their 12 mile limit and got the first intercept of an Iranian airplane after they took our embassy-a P3. Had a sidewinder missile, ( a heater), cooled, locked on him and ready. Joined on him, warned him through radio calls and hand signals that I was going to kill him if he threatened our task force, and trailed him for a half hour before he broke off. Things happen really quick there, and there would be a huge amount of civilian, commercial traffic involved. All the calculus points to very nasty headlines. Iran is a timing problem. Their radical Islamic component has little support, and let's hope it fails before they have a nuc to threaten Israel, because once Mossad thinks they do, the stuff is going to hit the fan.

No problem with anyone disagreeing, but I'm not sure you understand the problem. SAM's are not the issue. Those are surface to air defensive weapons. Surface to surface anti ship missiles are the issue, and they have the range to disrupt the Strait in a major way. Ships of commerce have to transit an extremely small waterway and that has always been a big problem in that region. I don't give Iran too much credit, but when you have an unfix-able choke point that borders their territory, and does that amount business, you have a major problem. Best way is to let it work its way out without military action.

First, somebody has to comment on your contention of not owning the land being a successful strategy by using Germany's near defeat of Great Britain in WWII. How did that turn out? The fact that they didn't own the land allowed Allied forces to use it to stage nearly the entire invasion of Europe which ended at Berlin, so it not only failed, it was responsible for their entire destruction. Might that be a "bad example," or better, using an example as a near success when it was the ultimate failure? Anyway, I get that you are an Army vet, but "artillery strikes" is not germane to this issue. Iran has significant surface to surface missile capability which has the range to hit defenseless tankers or any other ships in the Strait or parts of the Persian Gulf. That is a very small channel. This has been played out in the late 80's and resulted in really bad things, and they would probably not have to do this without significant support, at least for a brief time. You can guess the country. The best way to deal with Iran is to let its citizens continue to lose support for their radical Islamic leadership, and the factions of their military that think similarly. If they develop a nuke that threatens Israel, that is an entirely different situation.

Maybe you didn't read what was written. I said that if they impeded shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, military action would be justified. By the way, your suggestion that by sinking their Navy they cannot contest shipping through the Strait is just wrong. Been there, planned that.

Just an incredibly stupid suggestion, and would never be productive. You can't solve anything by simply taking out their military. The Persian culture would rally around a regime that it currently doesn't like. And "the thing with war is" you really do have to invade. The only justifiable reason for significant military operations against Iran would be any closure of the Strait of Hormuz, or any threatened, credible nuclear action against anybody, including Israel. Let the internal trend continue, and don't be foolish to embolden the regime by responding to stupid threats by their holders on.

Is it possible to acknowledge that we might be dealing with two irritating people here? McCain's history is about as irritating as it gets, and Trump's is re-writing the record books. We don't need to choose one or the other.

I'm quite familiar. And in that context, the thought of the time was that if it had a graven image on it, it belonged to the individual whose graven image was on it. Thus, since it had a graven image of Caesar, it was Caesar's.