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Most all presidential movements are far more expensive and problematic for all concerned. Simply not worth it. Simply a ridiculous burden for any event that is not a necessity, like a summit.

Stock holders have plenty of say on how things are done. That's how publicly held companies are run. What she wants is the gov regulating how they are run, thus reducing stockholder's views.

When buying property that your family is going to live in, probably bad advice to choose an option that had a horrible smell that I could "get used to." And it is horrible.

And in the real estate market, the smell of burning money. It is horrible.

No. Nobody is ever allowed to "blab publicly about confidential stuff." Do it as an officer on active duty and its a court-martial. Badmouthing people is a freedom of speech issue for civilians. Could do it all I wanted after active duty.

I don't get the whole kerfuffle, especially regarding McRaven. When I was in, I had a top secret with some compartmentalization, but only on a very few things. To get information, you needed a). the clearance. b) access. c). need to know. I don't see how McRaven's current position should allow him to have either b or c, unless he gets read in on something related to special ops to solicit his opinion, which really shouldn't be necessary anyway.

The paper mill smell there is a real factor. Based on location and wind, it can be horrible. There is plenty of information regarding which areas to avoid because of it, and I would not go into a real estate search project without eliminating the areas impacted. I'm sure the costs reflect that, so one might be tempted to reach for a seemingly good deal. Avoid.

Avoiding the draft was a national obsession at the time, and if people weren't around, they shouldn't criticize. Many creative ways, especially from those with means. That was part of the absurdity of the times and war run from failed Washington "strategy." I have no problem with anybody who tried to avoid the draft.

I don't want to hijack the thread.

Ya. Two cruises on Kitty Hawk in the A7E. It was a TA4, as you suggest. We had A4's, a few TA4's and F-5's at the time with the Adversaries.

I'll tell two, both from my days in the Navy. We were going on our first cruise on Kitty Hawk. Supposed to be a six month Pacific deployment-turned out to be nine, but that's another story. One of the other bachelor junior officers in our squadron had a Porsche 911. He figured he'd store in during the cruise, so he removed the insurance two weeks prior to deployment. You guessed it-his girlfriend was driving it two days before we left and burned in to the ground. I was in the Pacific Fleet Adversary Squadron. We had 12 airplanes, but only two were two seaters. Occasionally, some guy from another single seat squadron would need to fly in a two-seater, maybe off for a while with some medical issue or something. Anyway, they'd put him in the back seat of one of our airplanes and go out to the warning area east of the Sierras and fly around on instruments for an hour and a half or so. Incredibly boring if you're in the front seat, so the junior guy always got it. No reason to ever be below 15,000'. Anyway, one Friday afternoon our new guy was assigned to do this and off he goes. Nobody is flying over the weekend, but Sunday night when the full maintenance Dept. comes in to prepare the airplanes for the upcoming week, one of their guys notices the top 4 inches of the vertical stabilizer, (what most guys would call the tale), is gone from that airplane. As bad luck would have it, about 40 homes in an area in our warning area had called in to their power company that they had lost power Friday afternoon. Power guys find a down cable and a four inch piece of aluminum a couple hundred feet away that nobody could identify. He had flown under it and cut it. Fight as hard as our CO could, the guy lost his wings over that.

If you don't have pictures they didn't.

Stratton, Tracy and Jacobs. Ah.... the days when guys didn't get hurt all the time.

Race Bannon is a two handed flyer. No seat belts, and notice Bandit on Hadji's lap.

Isn't that "Johnny Quest?"

Evidently, bin Laden's mother has some pics in Saudi Arabia. While they don't say the pics were taken in SA, you can bet they were. "The red hijab that covers her hair is reflected in a glass-fronted cabinet; inside, a framed photograph of her firstborn son takes pride of place between family heirlooms and valuables. A smiling, bearded figure wearing a military jacket, he features in photographs around the room: " Bin Laden Mom Interview

I have a "nuisance" permit. I can shoot them whenever I want. I don't, unless they refuse to stay out of my vineyard. I give them two chances.

I used to get up really early and turn the TV on. First the test pattern, then the Public Service Announcement about the dangers of blasting caps. I used to think they must be laying around everywhere. Eventually, the cartoons started, but I worried about blasting caps for years. The first really serious thing I watched was Cuban Missile Crisis coverage with my father.

Because they can't, and they don't want to. Their view is that soybeans have too much negative impact on the soil.

When I'm in a high level business meeting, I simply text: HLBM They seem to understand that, although initially, the last two letters caused some confusion. When I'm in a very high level business meeting I have to turn my phone off because, well, the meeting is just to high level.

The 12,500 square foot number is the lot size. The house is a 3 br/ 3 bath 2477 square foot house.

Does seizing an embassy and holding hostages count? It isn't done too often.

I really like WNY, having grown up there, but it is what it is, a place with really non-competitive weather. Sometimes it takes a kid to make an observation that is so clear it is really neat. I used to visit family there every year. One year, the year my oldest was learning about the solar system and earth's play in it, we were visiting in late October. We were walking around somewhere and there was a broken layer of clouds quite low, maybe about 800', and it was very windy. The clouds were just whistling by. Anyway, he looks up at me and says,"You know why I like visiting Buffalo so much?" Of course I thought it was visiting relatives and food, which he loved, but he said; "It's because it's the only place you can see the earth spinning." I looked up at the clouds speeding by and I knew exactly what he ws thinking.

49 years ago today we made it through four 1202 alarms and one 1201 alarm. They're trouble for sure.

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