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I'm not sure what this additional bullstuff means, and by the way I have never expressed any "lover for these idiots," to quote your additional lie.

I have not interest is addressing someone's invented fantasies, and I have never claimed anything remotely close to your invented quote: "Oh yeah, man, it's totally cool the guy was texting his mistress battle plans to show off." You made it up and assigned it. Total nonsense.

Absolute nonsense, and complete bullstuff. You invented this claim, and then further assigned it to someone. This happens way too frequently here, and it's deliberate deception. I commented on military recruitment, and the good news what it was up. I then argued why that was important given the mission and the status of our current capability. The claim you made is your pure fantasy, preposterous, impossible and a lie.

I am unfamiliar with this claim. Who did this?

Say whatever you want. I'm just stating how it is. Iran is way more dangerous than it was. Russia has started a war. China is very aggressive.

It doesn't matter how anybody rates the "relative peacefulness" of a president. What matters is what Congress has deemed the military mission to be, and what it takes to be able to provide that. Right now, the mission is to be able to wage full warfare on two fronts. One in the Middle East or Europe, and the other in the Pacific. That takes a certain amount of manpower and capability which we currently don't have. We are short about 1000 Air Force pilots. We have fewer and far older airplanes than in decades. We could not possibly handle the operational tasking we covered during Desert Storm. Not possible. We are short two carriers, a bunch of Naval Aviators, and we can't man the carriers we do have. Every carrier that has gone to CentCom, or the Med/Red Sea has been extended beyond reasonable time. That has a massive impact on retention. We are wearing out our airplanes, which have a defined service life, at an astounding rate. Far accelerated from the initial plan. Our ship building capacity is sorely lacking, but getting better. That's the way it is. Want to change that? Change the mission requirement. Either way, the bump in recruitment is the best news in years.

This makes absolutely no sense. The recruitment numbers, and trend changes are very good news. Undeniable.

There's a good deal of irony in this. Jesus was put to death by the Romans, because the Jews did not have that power under occupation. He was put to death on a made up charge of sedition, which was a capital offense under Roman rule. The Jewish church Pharisees and leaders pleaded with the Romans to do it, thought Pilate had no desire to do so. The reason they did it was because he was upsetting their nonsense Jewish law, which they had invented over the years, far away from what Moses was given. So, Jesus gets executed for going against non religious traditions. Everything posted in the claim of disparaging the Easter celebration is also a non religious human "tradition."

I used to go to Guayaquil and Quito a few times per year. I liked their coconut broth sea food dish called Encocado de Pescado. Very good because the fish used is covina, which is even better than Chilean Sea Bass. Kind of like halibut but a bit better. I always ordered ceviche, because that is my favorite food in the world, but it's better in Peru. I found the food in Guayaquil to be better, since it's a coastal town catering to tourists. The food in Quito was more traditional, but I still ordered the ceviche. But they sold roses for dollar per dozed, so I always bought a couple dozen home.

Unfortunately, that isn't currently possible. There is no such coalition available or foreseeable. The US Navy is the only force dealing with freedom of navigation in international waters, just as the US military is the only force behind NATO, and footing the bill, and just as the US industrial base is footing countless foreign tariffs aimed against us, by allies and enemies. That is the reality.

A common, and meaningless event. We do this same thing all the time.

.Saw Byrd and James, Booker and a few others. James was the best corner I ever saw. As a fan, on passing downs, you could eliminate watching routes on the side of the field he was playing, because the simply would not throw there. He was a physical force in a time it was, somewhat, allowed. Simply the best.

So, being so convinced of this nonsense, why did you back down from a $10,000 wager regarding this? By the way, I get that processing language is not your strength, but I never claimed to be a "winemaker." Enology, or often spelled oenology, is the correct term, but never claimed that. I grow and sell a French Bordeaux red wine grape in the Monticello AVA, and have done so since 2008.

False premise, as always. Your link suggests nothing of a 5% 30 gov bill. By the way, I'm not sure you are familiar with this subject, but you posted it. You might want to educate yourself on the difference between a bill and a bond. Show me a 30 year fixed yield of a reasonable provider, (not junk), let alone the US gov, that is 5% per your claim. I'd buy it today.

Pure nonsense, as always. The bond market, also known as the fixed income market is just fine.

Head Coach Tony Bennett's surprise decision to retire at Virginia was the canary in the coal mine signal. Stating the reason as the changing landscape of college basketball was code for the portal and NIL. They spend all their time recruiting and raising money. Such a shame.

The NPR hearing with Katherine Maher was an absolute TKO.

Just stupid You can find any comment you want. Not interested. Find someone on the strike who had any concern, or better yet, find someone who claimed that it mattered or effected anything.

I'm not pretending anything. I understand their concern as it was a major screw up and needs to be fixed. You can find anyone on the internet to make any claim you want. But what happened? Nothing. I taught Soviet anti air systems and am familiar with the basics of these, which are derivatives. You could tell the Houthis that we were going to strike this target at this time using this weapon and this delivery maneuver, and it wouldn't matter. Any successful shot would be pure luck, and surely not the result of what this foolish leak was about.

I have criticized it over and over and over. Maybe you can't read. What I am claiming is that the threat is being exaggerated for political reasons. Are those two views hard to understand? Further, I am not part of any cult, and whenever that claim is made, it marks the claimer as a goof.

The odds is losing an airplane over Yemen are far greater if it is from mechanical issues. This entire thing, as a threat to US forces is ridiculous and purely political. For the fourth time, it was was stupid and needs to be fixed, but the claim that it was a threat to US forces is grossly exaggerated. Previous policy pf tolerating drone and missile launches resulted in the friendly fire destroying of an F-18, and nearly two, but for the rapid action of an LSO on the back of a carrier who saw it an transmitted to make the second missile stupid. Make it political. I don't really care, bit it is nonsense.

I'm not sure what your point is here, but if the US lost a fighter, (and "jet" is a senseless redundant), it would be known. I'm not good with the leak, but in my humble view, the consequences, which amount to ZERO, have been grossly overstated for political reasons. Clean it up and move on. Existing policy re the Houthis is way better than it was three months ago, which resulted in getting an F-18 shot down, and very nearly two. The stupid, ungodly expense of simply defending against missile and drone attacks was idiotic, not that the commander in chief was even aware of it.

Ya. So how'd they do, and I am quite aware of their air defense weapons. Answer.... Zero.

I agree that every every effort should be made to eliminate the possibility of this happening again. What I would disagree with is overblowing the danger to US forces on these strikes. We are talking about coordinated strikes in Yemen. That area has very limited, and easily overcome air defenses. You could tell them a day in advance that a strike was planned, and without naming targets, I wouldn't feel threatened. As background, I have no idea what ships from foreign nations are watching the Truman Task Force. I do know that it is operating in international waters and might well be being watched by people sympathetic to Iran and the Houthis, if not from those nations specifically. When we deployed, the carrier was always tailed the second day out of Pearl Harbor through the entire WESTPAC cruise by Soviet intel ships, usually within 15-20 miles. Carriers are not invisible. Getting information on an impending strike is not hard. The F-18's with their visible weapons would have been very visible. Doing simple math, one could easily predict time on target. Twenty minutes to tank, 350 to "feet dry," then 450 knots or so so to the the target. Heck, when the US launched the attack on Baghdad in 2003, I wrote on another website the time when if would occur, four hours prior. It wasn't hard. I saw a report that a number of B-52's had launched from a base in the UK. I knew what they carried and I know the times/distances. I was exactly correct, actually the stuff started hitting Baghdad 8 seconds after I predicted. This stuff isn't hard. Again, this is a sloppy, major mistake, and needs to be corrected, but any threat to US forces is exaggerated.

I have no idea what you are talking about here, or your accusation.