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And kind of won WWII.

I saw an interview with a Republican Congressman on CNBC early this week, talking about the shutdown and specifically, the health care component of it. He mentioned that the Affordable Care Act is seriously flawed, and guaranteed this kind of expense appreciation. On a positive note, he mentioned that there is a bipartisan group that has suggested a number of provisions that would change it, and clean it up to make it work. Again, bipartisan. Not the warfare you see on TV. Get the gov started and go this route, and I think we would be headed in the right direction. Use as a political weapon and we go nowhere.

Not close.

Nope. Not at all. There isn't a thing about this forum that would ever cause me either pain nor pleasure. Couldn't care less. They are about someone getting out of their lane and posting something that proves to be utterly ridiculous, and the motivation is nothing more than you don't like the individual that brought the technology up in a conversation about long term energy developments. Much like when I said Biden was toast during Super Bowl week when he refused network interviews as president and Billy claimed disagreement and said he was going to save that post and bring it up when it was proved wrong. A few months later we have the "debate," if anyone of sound mind and body would call it that, and off the table Joe went. Of course not a word from the individual who was "saving" the post for later "told you so."

You've said a lot of things. Few made sense.

What I don't think is that you have any idea what you are talking about, nor any idea of the complexity of this issue. For the US to respond would take either a carrier in the area, which we could do, but is not worth it and so isn't done, or have airborne close air support within small time strike range, which we don't. Hamas is a terrorist group. They don't have a base to strike. The Israelis infiltrated Gaza, know where these high priority people are, and can respond within minutes. We can't. Further, we have no purpose in doing so, so the idea is idiotic.

A vacuous post. You can laugh all you want. What you can't do is provide anything supporting a stupid suggestion.

Hamas is a moving group of thugs. The US has no capability to track them, and no asset in the region to conduct a precision strike within the minutes it would take to respond. It's like bombing neighborhood punks that run around in SUV's. The IDF has that capability. We do not.

I asked how old you are because it seems you have no knowledge of this stuff. The US has no idea how to target Hamas, as they are inside a civilian population in Gaza, and we have no intel there. They have no interest in doing so, and you have never given a motive. It is preposterous to suggest we would do such a thing, thus my assertion of your naivete.

I quite enjoy being told I'm wrong. "The market is unconvinced." Mentioned it at $25 in Feb. of this year. It is now $135. Ya......Unconvinced.

Could you inform us of how old you are? I am suspicious. Not only is the US not going to "bomb Hamas," such an action would be unnecessary, unproductive and foolish. How do people come up with these ideas?

Again, and again and again. That is not a claim I have ever made. So habitual here.

Maybe you don't understand this. The US gov takes revenue from taxes and pays for this in many programs. That money is coming from wage earners. Is that unclear?

I'm pretty sure his family would confirm it. But...Great strategy. Don't like the truth, which is quite verifiable, at least in the civilized world, claim it is a lie becasue, well, just because.

You have done what is so often done here, and is completely misrepresenting not only what I said, but forming a false conclusion based on your misrepresentation. Happens every day here, all the time. I never said that "100 people were killed." I have no idea, and the idiocy of believing numbers that come from there is it's own fantasy realm. I never said "no innocent people killed." I have no idea. What I said was that Hamas assassinated an Israeli reservist who was doing nothing other than excavating. That isn't all that was done by this group breaking the cease fire. You can do your own research. Israel responded. People got killed. You do this stuff and you should expect a response. When the people of Gaza stop putting up with this, you won't see a peep from the Israelis. If you don't stop them, you will.

I'm quite certain you don't understand the scope of this issue. The child is the anchor that leads to a number of other people living off tax payer provide benefits. If that isn't "taking anything away from you," neither you nor your family pays taxes.

Did you miss the fact that the strikes were in response to a murder? Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum, a reservist excavator. killed by Hamas sniper fire.

That viewpoint is honorable, but extends the problem. The solution is to stop the US being a safety valve so that these folks don't have to fix problems in their own country. The first thing we should do is deny citizenship to any child born in the US under a false visa application or to an individual whi is in violation of their visa date of expiration. We don't do any of that, thus the industry.

That is exactly how it works. For about ten years I would go to South America for work, once per week. We always arrived back at about 7AM in Miami along with many other flights from the region. We would constantly see pregnant women entering with proper visas at Immigration. You get to Know some of the Immigration guys doing this so often and they would often lament on the scores of people who did this, including violating their visitors visas to stay in until the child was born. They would often say "She's never leaving," as one of these would walk by or be in an adjoining line. People who don't travel for a living to that region have no idea what a formal industry this is.

The only reason Hamas exists is to wage war with Israel. They are funded, trained and supported in every way by Iran. Their raison d'etre is to wage war and kill Israelis. They have no other purpose. Peace isn't part part of that.

That is the last thing Hamas wants.

Maybe the FAA should be privatized, and get it away from this failing gov budget "system." It was a good idea fifteen years ago, and is only more apparent now.

Jamaica gets threatened by hurricanes often. Ivan barely missed it in 2004. I remember looking at it on radar and suggesting to the FO that Jamaica wouldn't be the same tomorrow. Ivan suddenly turned due west, but they suffered significant damage.

That's my old airwing, The F-18 is from our sister squadron, VFA 22. Glad everyone was recovered safely.

One of the things I've noticed over many visits to various places there on business is how poorly the airport at Kingston is set up to withstand high waves. The Intl. airport is south of the land mass, and there is a lengthy causeway you must drive over to get there. When I was travelling there, there was no effective breakwater to protect this long roadway, and I remember thinking that if they ever had a close hit from a hurricane there would be no way to protect the airport or use it for relief efforts. We'll see.