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Gutsy call. Do they have any news on Franco's health?

When was Trump under oath?

Wow. I posted one post, and got a both "suck my dick" and "***** yourself" response. Impressive. So which year of fourth grade is this for you? Sixth? Seventh? One more, and you'll have tied @The_Dude.

It is mostly links to CNN stories, so...

Oh, good. Fresh stupid.

Trump, Trong, Phuc, and Un. Whete's Bang Ding Ow when you need him?

No, it would not be cool. It would be stupid. A fleet defense fighter that wasn't a bastardization of another platform, that didn't fly like a bathtub and didn't break pilots' necks on ejection or suffocate them, and that wasn't made out of material that's degraded by water, that would be cool. Not a 200,000 ton submarine. You're basically a GI Joe caricature, aren't you?

It would have to be around 180,000-200,000 tons to operate a meaningful air group. And spend enough time operating on the surface that it makes the "submarine" features pointless. What chucklehead refuses to understand is that carriers don't just "launch bombers." They are designed to execute flight operations over a period of time (several days, or longer with support) at a sustained operational tempo. Chucklehead is arguing for a platform (aircraft-carrier-sub) to perform a specific mission of limited scope (sneak attack) that's already better performed by existing platforms (TLAM-armed attack subs). Sherpa's observation notwithstanding - but his technical observation doesn't change the fact that cruise missiles are nonetheless better suited to certain missions than manned aircraft (such as: being secretly launched from a submarine at high-value, high-risk targets).

I'm not a douche to everyone. Just those who deserve it. Which is most. Including you. And people who post walls of text and complain I'm stealing their valor.

It's abject idiocy.

You may not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but He believes in you. We are all Touched By His Noodly Appendage.

No, just stupid. You don't just "pop up" and launch "heavy bombers." Carriers run continuous operations, of various different types of missions that are either integrated with other service missions according to the Joint Command's ATOs, or integrated into strike packages that take time to arm, spot, and launch - which requires the carrier to fly other operations in defense and support while spotting and launching the strike. The mission you're describing - pop up, launch a strike, dive deep, pop up somewhere else later - is wasteful. Because why not launch a strike of autonomous vehicles and skip the recovery in that case? Which is one of the missions submarines execute - they launch TLAMs. Your idea is not just boneheaded, but was superseded before you were even born.

He's certainly proving he's not a moron. Not too bright, are you? Soft, too. Probably why you're Army and not Corps.

He IS within the law as it is written. The national emergency to build the border wall is just as valid as Obama's national emergency over Burundi's human rights violations. It's the law that sucks here, not the ####### executing it. Notably, Congress doesn't want to fix the law, they want to fix this #######. This is an explicit attempt to imbue different rights and restrictions of executive action to different people based on who they are, rather than granting executive action to the office.

Thus, why I publicly shamed the moron. Yes, I actually took that in to consideration. I thought about being nice about it, but...nah, the moron used ***** Facebook as some sort of primary source for his argument.

And now NBC has informed the Russians of such. Who's the Russian asset, again?

Not copyright law. It was a copy-and-paste from Facebook. No, public shaming is the way to go about it. You were a moron. You were called out on it. You won't do it again. You learned. We'll see if the learning actually sticks - personally, I doubt it, as you seem like the sort of self-centered dullard who believes everyone else exists to cater to his whims, as evidenced by the fact that you were a big enough moron to post a wall of text that violates the ToS, common courtesy, and common sense.

There's always fighting in Sialkot.

He didn't read that wall of text, either. But you managed to piss off most everyone with it. All you proved is you're a moron.

Don't post entire articles.

I'm at the point where, if I see The_Dude was the last one to post in a thread, I don't even look at it, as I figure any pretense of real discussion is ended.

They've owned the Pakistanis twice since the partition. And they have both the British heritage of training and organization, and the mythos of Imphal/Kohima. Interesting side-note: Pakistani M-48 tanks were savaged by Indian Centurions in...73, I think. Even though the Centurion was notionally the weaker tank, the Indian gunners could lay on target and fire more quickly than the early computerized range-finders on the M-48 could. It's CNN...so...

Since Alexander of Macedon at least. Maybe since the Medes.