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1 hour ago, Chris farley said:
Everything I over read said only with mild winters. Thermal is what, 55 degrees.
I've had gas, geo thermal and heat pump.
I can't see a heat pump only product working north of central Virginia.
What can be done is having a heat pump that is dual fuel, and switches to nat gas/propane below about 45 degrees.
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1 hour ago, redtail hawk said:
In 2004, Bush won Virginia by a safe 8.2 percentage point margin, but in 2020 Biden won by an even safer 10.1 points..."
In 2022, two years after your 2020 observation re Biden, Virginia elected a Republican Governor over the ultimate Democrat operative, Terry McAuliffe.
So what.
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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
I'd be mildly surprised if they have not been. NATO, of course, will supply the parts, and the logistics might be easier than you think. If they can get the equipment to the front, they can also get the spare parts there.
It is never "easier than you think."
The M1 Abrams is powered by a jet engine.
It is really heavy and really complex.
Recovery vehicles, loaders to move it, as well as normal consumables and normal maintenance for its operation are way more complicated.
Leopard tanks from Germany and Challenger tanks from the UK make way more sense.
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Not interested in what Boris Johnson has to say about this.
Headlines for the ignorant.
Providing front line, near state of the art arms to the Ukraine is a complicated issue requiring many levels of competency for success.
Boris isn't the guy to deliver an accurate or realistic approach.
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
I do admit when I am wrong, I do not bare false witness
You? Well, not so much
I'd be glad to, when that exists.
Point it out with real quotes, not made up ones that eliminate essential words.
Know what?
It aint gonna happen.
You and your partner are going to continue quotidian efforts, and it doesn't matter what happens in disagreement, because you will continue to invent posts, misrepresent policy and view and do what you do.
Everybody knows it.
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50 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
So sad, keep digging.
I'm not digging, I'm accusing.
You are a fool and a liar.
Quite clear.
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2 hours ago, redtail hawk said:
Those at Davos are correct to be concerned. The dollar is weakening and we just hit the debt limit and utilizing emergency measures to pay the bills.. Maybe the right will wake up and understand that it's a global economy. https://www.fxstreet.com/news/gbp-usd-gauges-intermediate-support-above-12300-amid-subdued-usd-index-202301190406
Put your money......
Short the $ and see where that takes you.
I think both right and left are quite awake.
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
No, you were wrong and I busted you on that. Wow, claiming to be a Biblical scholars and then saying something so stupid that this poor nonbeliever could pick it out easily. Even I know the Ten Commandments are old testiment
No.
You didn't "bust" me on anything.
Your first lie is stating I claimed, ever, to be a Biblical scholar.
Your second mistake, or lie, is claiming I said something I didn't, on a subject that anyone with a modicum of knowledge would know, except you.
Your third lie is misstating what McCarthy said, which was not a cut, but a cap at 22 levels.
Your fourth ignorance is repeatedly misspelling Testament.
You are either so immersed in partisan nonsense that your ability for discernment is corrupt, or you are simply not smart enough to interpret English.
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8 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Not real cuts!! That’s funny! You really are a clown!
Boy, you really twist like shape shifter.
Not as good as your “Oh the old Testiment rules don’t apply to Christians” garbage you vomited up, but still clown funny
You are simply too ignorant.
I never said the old Testament rules don't apply.
I said there are items in the "Law," outlined in the Old Testament that Jews were to live by that do not apply to Christians, and I pointed many out.
You seem to have forgotten that, as well as misquoting me.
Here's an example as it may be easier for you to understand.
In the 1967-68 NCAA basketball season, dunking was ruled illegal.
If someone said, in 1980, that the NCAA basketball rules had been modified, and dunking was now legal, only an idiot suggest that that person said no rues prior to 67 existed in '80.
Is that too complicated?
Read the suggestions from McCarthy about leaving defense spending where it was weeks ago.
See his suggestions? Eliminating woke classes/seminars that are expensive and time consuming.
Ceasing to fund expensive and thus non productive weird fuel programs was mentioned. By the way, some have promise, not that you would know.
Suggesting that run downs in US weapons inventory below acceptable levels need not be worried about because there are fewer targets is all one needs to see to determine your level of knowledge.
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2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
So is the number of targets those would destroy are way down also. And the GOP trying to cut defense spending is not a good idea
This is utter nonsense .
The "number of targets" is a specious suggestion.
The "GOP trying to cut defense spending," is a great idea if you actually read the link.
The cuts suggested were in non effective, wasteful issues, and would take us "back" to a few week's ago defense spending.
Not real cuts.
Few know it, but the mandate that the US military has is to be able to fight a two front war.
The locations change, but that is now thought to be a European/NATO thing, and a South China Sea thing-anyone can figure out who that is directed at.
In order to do that, you have to have the manpower, equipment and logistics.
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Regarding inventories, I posted this on Dec. 9 in this forum:
"First on an inventory note, I was watching the CEO of Raytheon on CNBC the other day and he mentioned that in the first ten months of this war, Ukraine had gone through ten years of Javelin production and fifteen years of Stinger production.
Obviously, we need to get those, or replacements back up to acceptable inventories."
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10 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Now do Biden
Don't have to "do Biden."
Biden is not only done, he's being done by his own party as they abandon ship.
Glad to see both he and Trump gone, if it works out that way.
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1 hour ago, BillStime said:
It’s so nice to see the cult come around and see the importance of handling classified documents.
Whoever the "cult" is, perhaps they were moved to serious personal reflection after hearing Biden sermonize about his life long serious approach to such matters just months before they were discovered in every property he owns.
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10 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:
It’s bad that he had them! I’m just pointing out that one doesn’t automatically know everything that is on a room when they walk into it. I have boxes in my garage, I’m not 100% of everything that’s in them.You are digging deeper.
You don't simply throw classified material in a box, and pack it like any moving item.
Further, you are required that anyone who has access to it has appropriate security clearances, and depending on level, a need to know.
This is gross negligence.
It is this attitude that permeates the gov including Congress and their staffs, and it's exactly why we get less cooperation from the Brits and more specifically the Israelis in security and intel matters.
There is a view that the US doesn't treat this stuff with anywhere near the level of importance that other countries do, and our porous history is embarrassing, and ultimately expensive if not dangerous.
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4 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:
Ok, so I know this is absolutely pointless because Occam’s Razor is apparently illegal on this site, but what do we think is more likely given the known facts:
1. When packing up Biden’s things at the end of the Obama administration, classified documents were inadvertently included with his things. When this was discovered many years later, he notified authorities and kicked off a search of all of his stuff to see if there were more documents that needed to be turned over.
2. Biden intentionally took classified documents for nefarious reasons and then suddenly decided that he wanted to get in trouble for it, so he called up the authorities to confess. And instead of just handing everything over, he handed the documents over in batches to keep the story in the headlines and continue to hurt himself politically.
The facts we have only support scenario 1 but it seems like most people here believe scenario 2 because of it feels good to them. “Feelings over facts” should be the motto of PPP.
BTW: It’s good that DoJ appointed a conservative special counsel to investigate Biden. If it comes out that this was all intentional, he should face consequences. It’s just that the current facts don’t support that conclusion.
The "facts?"
The facts are that intentional or not, he was responsible for properly handling them.
The political "class" in this country has diferentiated itself form others, who are sworn to uphold these type of responsibilities.
The "feelings," true or not, are yours's.
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35 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:
negligence versus organized attempts to override the legal system. Both bad for sure. One more sinister than the other imo.
Gross, seemingly uncaring negligence by both him and his staff all of which he has decried and claim he was above in the recent past.
Gets you potentially court martialed and in jail in other, less privileged but supposed to be just as responsible organizations.
Totally irresponsible and stupid.
I had one experience with this during service time.
We had a safe where the stuff was stored, and materials were logged in and out.
One guy checked out a TS document which was not allowed out of the squadron building.
We do doing an Air Force thing at Nellis, and somebody spotted the red cover and binder in the back of a rental.
The guy was not prosecuted, but offered a deal he couldn't refuse. He was out of the service in one month.
The items likely discussed in the presidential/vice presidential nonsense were likely briefing documents that are prepared by intel orgs for reading.
Staff members should be tasked with providing them and returning them.
Just gross failures and negligence.
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5 hours ago, ChiGoose said:
Simple concepts such as whether or not someone is cooperating with law enforcement are impossible for people to grasp as they consume their information from the garbage heaps of the internet.
Good job, everyone!
Ya. Good job.
I've got an idea.
How about respecting and conforming to the laws, directives and protocols involving handling thee documents, the way everybody is supposed to?
If you do that, you don't have to worry about "cooperating with law enforcement."
Instead, we have one guy who has sensitive documents strewn all over the place, and another who absolutely failed to respect established protocols in declassifying materials.
One points to having the individual and his staff being grossly negligent, and the other playing some legal game.
Shame on both of them, and their staffs.
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23 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
You can’t make this stuff up. We have dozens of pages debating on spending money for a bunch of new IRS AGENTS. Somehow our government prioritizes that over a one time expenditure on new software for airline safety? To quote Irv….what a mess!
The money we spent changing the name of the NOTAM system from Notice to Airmen, which was evidently sexist and offensive, to Notice to Air Missions, which makes absolutely no sense as non military aviation is never a mission, could have been spent enhancing the software.
But no.
You get the results you get when you put political friends in leadership roles instead of people who have knowledge, experience and talent in those areas.
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7 hours ago, redtail hawk said:
Wow, good for you. Many without conscience do alright.
Do not the chiefs of staff meet with the prez (trump excepted of course) and advise him. You know, like kelly was. He apparently didn't like the idea of nuking N Korea and blaming it on someone else.
I have a fully developed and functional "conscience."
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs advises the Secretary of Defense who then serves the president.
The services do not form military policy. They advise on what is possible and recommend how that they would prefer to carry out directives given by the national command authority.
Regarding this suggestion of what Trump said, I wouldn't doubt it at all. The guy has no normal, disciplined control over his mouth and has said countless stupid things.
I'm quite certain there was never any realistic threat to perform a nuclear strike on North Korea.
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2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Lol, no sh it moron.
You are such a clown
I am always pleased to be called names by you.
As a "clown," I do alright,
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23 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Question, Chef: I’ve never used induction. What do you think about it?I'm not Chef, but we've used induction for over ten years.
Wouldn't do anything else.
Same goes with tankless water heaters.
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20 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Can't blame the military for either of those wars, Vietnam was different, though. The military leadership was pretty gung ho for that conflict, sadly.
The "military leadership," if you even understand your words, does not commit to military action by the US.
The "military leadership" is given a task by our government and attempts to carry it out.
By the way, do a little research on Congressional support, and Biden on particular, before you make stupid assertions.
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3 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
Trump is no genius but it would be nice for all these generals that everyone is constantly gushing over to win a war every once in a while. When's the last clear victory, 1945? Unless you want to count that major dust up in Grenada under Reagan. $800B annually. That stinks of gross incompetence.
I think they did pretty well in Iraq one and two and Afghanistan.
What happened after has little to do with military leadership.
I think "gross incompetence" is lack of awarness.
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"Today, 95 percent of our school busses are fueled with diesel fuel.
Which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and the ability to learn."
Goodness what an idiot.
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Democracy’s Fiery Ordeal: The War in Ukraine 🇺🇦
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Posted · Edited by sherpa
The tank thing is interesting. The Challengers from UK were last produced in the early 2000's, prior to 2005. Giving them 14 of them, old as they are and who knows what spare parts situation is, having been out of production for so long, doesn't seem to be militarily significant.
It certainly did break the diplomatic block that got them US tanks and many Leopards, which makes more sense.
The Leopard is far more easily operated in the Ukraine, including transport, recovery vehicles uniformity of weapons etc.
Toss those three into the mix along with scores of other systems they've not operated before and you have to wonder if they will ever achieve full capability.
It seems the Russians will attempt some kind of offensive in Feb that must be deterred.
Then, in late April or May they can mount a counter offensive and hopefully impact the current geo situation.
The Russians are not terminally stupid though. They are streamlining their defense production and eliminating wasteful programs that aren't doing anything while multiplying production of what they think does work.
This is going to be really high casualty warfare for both sides.