sherpa

Best user name on the site. I remember it so well.

One of my favorite quotes. From a a former undersecretary of defense: " ...you know, frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion."

Welcome to the NFL. Just stupid.

Nice post. Accurate. I'm kind of a Jefferson nut. What would be really neat, and valuable, would be to get a copy of the original Declaration drafts wherein he condemned the slave trade. That proposition was cast aside because it was thought that unanimity was more important, and it was thought that some wouldn't sign it with that provision.

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States...." "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." T. Jefferson, In Congress, July 4, 1776

I live in Charlottesville. We've been through this and continue to be impacted. Leave them alone or you will invite hundreds of lunatics to protest the issue. Monuments are monuments. No support or condemnation need be implied.

Viognier. Simply the best white. If you can find one from South America, all the better.

I'm told they survived the initial explosion and separation. 3 or 4 g's would be meaningless. Above 7 and you start dealing with issues. Normal Shuttle launch was about 3. Not a big deal. I have a few friends of friends who were involved in other flights. I'm told the thing shook like crazy at liftoff.

I know you did. Just wanted to make the point that categorizations of weapon system readiness are grossly different in peacetime than in war, and often done for budget reasons. We used to have three classifications; fully mission capable, mission capable and airworthy. Big difference in numbers, and a lot of creativity goes on in those numbers. If you want parts priority you do one thing. If you want to pound your chest, you report another.

Apollo command module had much less room than the shuttle, so not an option. Not a big deal at all. Bad part is, I'm told, when Challenger blew up, the flight deck area survived for a bit. Not a pleasant situation.

My only comment is that when discussing these things, you have to be a ware of the definition of terms. In this instance, the Eurofighter aircraft "technical glitch" refers to a problem with the cooling system used to support a wing mounted defensive warning system. While that may technically cause them to categorized as not fully "mission capable," they could certainly go without it if needed. There are a number of classifications used by various forces, fully mission capable, mission capable etc. One has to dig into the definitions in order to fully understand what the real situation is, and there is always attempts to report things with budge as motivation, and wartime rules are way different. The Russians and Soviets before them constantly harp on the lack of availability of what they think are overly complicated US airplanes. In a conflict, things would change dramatically. The US has some serious issues as well. When Hurricane Harvey struck SE Texas lst year, only 28 of the 99 T-45 trainers at Kingsville Naval Air Station were deemed airworthy to fly off and avoid the storm. The remainder were hangared or otherwise rode it out. No damage, but not a good sign.

The Federal Reserve is independent, and has three mandates. 1. Maximizing employment. US jobless rates are at historic lows. 2. Price stabilization. Inflation rates are low and not an issue at all. 3. Moderating long term interest rates. Anybody can look at at a chart of the long bond over the past 30 years and see the trend. What banks do with their assets is their own business, and governed by market forces, not the Fed.

Hundreds of easier, less risky ways to do it. A CFA would know that.

That's the first accurate thing you've posted, and it would be fun. Any self proclaimed "CFA" that claims, in the context of this thread, that hedge fund managers can "leverage the heck out of small price movements in oil, the dollar etc.," is ignorant. None of that has anything to do with the ways one could have made money with very little risk if the event was known.

Not buying it for a second. You would not have posted what you have if you had any financial experience.

You have so much to learn. Just a note, expressed in a polite, kind spirited way. If you want to be a conspiracist, you have to have some idea of what you are talking about. You don't, on anything related to this matter, from the actual event to peripheral issues. Calling someone Zionist isn't going to get it. It's like pointing a paint gun at yourself and pulling the trigger.

You know, the more you type, the more silly you get. Forget the claim that I lived in Israel.That's just stupid, and irrelevant. You are not at all knowledgeable about markets or the ways to potentially make money off a single event. One would have to be ignorant to buy defense stocks to profit off of this. There are many other "options" that would be far more profitable, involve less risk and provide profit percentages that dwarf anything involving a defense stock purchase. You are not that bright. Not bright about what happened that day. Not bright about the work and research into it and the conclusions that work provided, and certainly not about markets.

I have never posted a single thing about Israel. Yet....You have me living there, and it being "the only country I care about." I am getting the feeling that you are the reason the ignore option is offered. By the way, this stupid "why are there no OBL in Saudi Arabia picture" thing is getting you nowhere. He was one of many kids. His passport was revoked and there is no doubt about his origin, history or dispute with the Saudi Royal family. None.

Oh those nights on the Galilee......Enough said. It's coming back to me now.

The FAA. No reason for it not to be privatized. Other countries do it successfully. The Department of Education. Most of this is best handled at the state level without the massive infrastructure costs of a federal department.

LBJ is a red herring and has nothing to do with this. I lived in Israel?

If you care to find out about bin Laden, there are tons of books that deal with him. One of the most researched and thoroughly documented is a book called "Ghost Wars," by Steve Coll. Though it doesn't focus on bin Laden it lays faultless research on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; who was dealing with who, and how this all got started. You are posting absolute nonsense. High school..."Hey I just read something that's cool, but I know nothing about anything" nonsense.

LaDexter You are not good at this. Sometimes it's interesting to see someone who is wrong but good at it. You are very bad at being wrong.

Old reliable Maxine Waters wants it stepped up. "Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." https://www.dailywire.com/news/32232/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra

Have they surrendered it yet?