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The Problem with the accounting is that the F-35 isn’t one plane and all those different planes were never going to be compatible within one airframe. It was simply too many requirements to ever be effectively built into one aircraft. It’s only competition, the XF-23, recognized and this and said as much in the initial design and bid phase of the contract. That they have come as close as they have within the project limitations is something else, and they still have no less than three variants.

The F-35 was supposed to be a fighter that we would sell to nations we were not willing to ever sell the F-22. That slot has somewhat been filled by the F-16X.

Overall the F-35 is a good example of allowing people that have no aviation or aviation engineering experience design an aircraft because their donors all needed a piece of the pie.

Is there any doubt? Jeb Bush is the annointed establishment GOPe candidate, and their candidate will be THE candidate. They care nothing for the hicks in the hinterland that vote for them, and they certainly aren’t going to let anything that may upset the Democrats too much.

The wall would not succeed at it’s intended purpose. Hadrian’s Wall and the Great Wall of China didn’t work for their intended purpose either.

Empires who set their borders and hide behind them and start encouraging the successful parts of their population to have low birth rates inevitably fail

I hate to say it, but the 2016 election is going to be Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton. The sad fact is that there isn’t really any significant policy difference between them. This is what the powers that be want.

Personally, if I’m right then it’s time to vote for secession.

It’s disjointed but your rant is pretty spot on.

CEO’s pushed “free trade” without making sure it is equitible. They wanted Americans buying their goods produced for pennies on the final sale dollar, but wouldn’t hear of any problems when anything we produced couldn’t find a market in Asia, because the rules are set up against it.

The average CEO of these major companies isn’t some guy who made it to the top with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck. He comes from the Ivy league schools. His father likely attended the same school. His family has wealth, and that is all they care about.

These same Ivy league graduates couldn’t see when their lunch was being eaten by their own suppliers, just that it was good for the company’s next quarter earning sheet to cut out American jobs.

Now, these CEOs want massive umlimited immigration, and they don’t care what effect it has on the middle class, so long as the next quarter looks good on the spreadsheet. They also want to train asians in high tech manufacturing processes. I guess they’ll tell us we need to train in nanotechnology next.

Big government, big business, and big labor are an unholy troika. They are all three disasters to a free people.

We need to stay out of it. Why is it more terrible to die in a gas attack than it is to die in an artillery strike, or bomb strike, or just a lucky bullet. We weren’t willing to intervene in any other case. Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons and the world shrugged.

Also, were any chemical weapos actually used? Do we have any actual idea who used them? Neither has been answered satisfactorily.

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Muslims can’t heandle the truth....they can’t even handle a good story.

The two largest battles led by British regulars in North America were near catastrophic losses. They marched straight into an ambush in one and attacked a fort without adequate men in another. The colonists had pretty much won Canada with no help from Britain by capturing, at great cost in fortune and life, the fortress at Louisport during King George`s War, only to watch the British negotiate it away for some piece of land in the Netherlands.

By the time the Declaration was written Royal forces had shelled and burnt down Charlestown During the battle of Bunker Hill, raided farms near water to support their army in Boston, and was in fact planning to subjugate the colonists especially in New England.

Canada`s public screwls must be as poor as ours.

Ignore it. I have a friend named Michael that got similar threatening letters from the Selective Service back in 1994. We had a real good laugh about it. She said that wasn’t the only time that had happened.

Maybe there is somewhere in the universe where being right and just is enough. Maybe a place exists where the phrase “Only the unjust have need to fear authorities” has some actual weight.

What is it when even the innocent have good reason to flee from authority? Whatever it is, it’s the government that we have today.

It wouldn’t be on this planet at this time though. Snowden would have been tossed in jail while the authorities trumped up charge after charge against him, even with no proof they could quickly bankrupt him and keep him out of the news.

The Federal Government has no objective need to collectively store all of that information. They have already proven that it does nothing to stop a terrorist. If they need an investigation, then they need to go to the court’s and get warrants specific to the people and the information. Of course, that would count as an expansion of our current rights, and it isn’t like the politicians and the bureaucrats give a rip about what the average American thinks.

I wonder, did Margaret Mead ever really visit and understand these peoples or did she just write about them?

Plenty of people write things about which they scarcely understand.

Did they check?

Sucker Punch is a rare gem, a really good movie on a lot of levels. The protagonist is actually a real hero, even if she didn’t want to be. She has a real mission with real goals, even if they are told via some of the most fantastical scenes I have ever seen in a movie. The movie touches heavily on the theme that the internal battles are more important than the external battles. The villains make sense in their own way.

Is it the perfect movie, no and not by a long shot, but movies are about the suspension of disbelief. The characters and script are sometimes disjointed.

It’s a great sit back with a bag of popcorn and enjoy the eye and brain candy sorta movie.

The government has other ways. They have been able to detect data on computers via the power cable as well. They said that it would require a modem for the computer to respond, but who really knows once they have figured out how to detect it what they could do.

Yes, and eventually they will.

They will also dogfight each other and human piloted planes, and the human piloted planes will lose catastrophically. Planes manned by humans are limited by human limits, planes manned by computers have only the limits of their engineering imposed on them.

We’ll also start to see this in land warfare. An M1 that doesn’t have to keep it’s crew alive can slap on even more armor without being any larger. Smaller, less armored units could be designed to take much over many infantry roles.

Machines don’t need to eat or drink. That takes out most of one major logistical hurdle. They don’t need rest longer than it takes to refuel/re-energize or swap batteries. No one is going to mourn the loss of a machine, making it more politically palatable to wage wars this way.

Einstein wasn’t quite right about WW3.

Superman showed up in America as a baby refugee whose home planet had been destroyed. I’m quite sure we could find a way to offer someone like that citizenship, regardless of whether or noe he had any particular superpowers.

Mexico, on the other hand, isn’t destroyed. It’s management is terrible and it’s culture encourages total lawlessness. Those are things that can be fixed. The poeple that want to come here would be better off fixing their own country rather than spreading their plague here.

I’ve seen a fire do that in Arizona. The fire literally went underground. We could all see the smoke from the fire, but the fire fighters withdrew from the area. It was simply too dangerous to try and fight.

There is a huge difference between gathering evidence against certain individuals and then presenting that evidence to a court for a warrant to gather information on them and just gathering in all information about all individuals to be used as some petty, or not so petty, tyrant sees fit.

I was willing to bend a little bit on the secret warrants before this relevation. A small piece of tyranny used for a little while to protect the larger freedoms seemed reasonable. Now, they don’t even feel the need for a warrant to collect information, they probably also track the location of cell phones. It’s just another symptom of a totally out of control government.

Snowden didn’t reveal anything other than the fact that US government had turned it’s apparatus against US citizens. He should be awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Why are they so scared to identify who the most likely potential terrorists are? If they had done what used to be called good honest police work, they may have caught the Tsarnov’s before the plot.

All of it goes to show just how useless all the data mining is in stopping terrorism.