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Wow, really!
 
Well thank God we have you here to tell us what to think.
 

You're right I really don't have to be rude about it, but it's almost a guarantee that when I see something as asinine as what you just said I will be.
 
The truly sad thing is you almost certainly don't see that your choosing to respond that way will sour people to actions that they'd otherwise see as legitimate. Me for example, I actually don't see anything wrong with the things going on now but because of the arrogance, dishonesty, and overall disgustingly patronizing way you "made your case".... It's a fight for me not to knee jerk WANT to find some reason I can condemn it!
 
Bluntly, every time you speak up for your cause and your nation you do it damage by being so monumentally easy to hate.

+1 used cars shouldn't come with Chlamydia.

So I don't get to voice my opinion? I merely reiterated that some people make mistakes, because judgement changes and gets colder when you cannot see the person. Usually people agree with such stance. If this antagonized you that much, maybe there is also a problem in you.
 
But I can definitely see a pattern here. I will be careful not to speak near you, so as to not antagonize you.

Still no reports on Iranian casualties. Oh, wait, here it is:
 

Hey.....At least your pizzas will be delivered on time.

Don't misunderstand me. I think it should all be fair game. Let's see just how crazy we can go. And who knows, we may learn something of value. 
 
 

Maybe they could make it interactive, like the 'Fan-Boosts' in ePrix?
 
Athletes could be awarded an array of experimental amphetamines based on a popular vote.....I'd watch that for sure!

I assume Germany would the strongest supporter of such a move. I heard they are planning to double their tank force and service a whole platoon.

Pharaoh, let my people go?
 
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But seriously, I was commenting on the whole death spiral is coming any day now meme.
 
I think so long as sustainment costs and logistical issues can be kept under control the f35 is going to be a great combat aircraft.
 
Honestly, Lockheed needs to hire the guy colli quoted in his posts to handle their PR and Promotional work. To put it mildly, what he said and how he said it there is a bunch more convincing and confidence inspiring than the stuff Lockheed itself seems to put out.
 
I fully admit that up until fairly recently I fully bought into the whole f35 is a gold plated school bus with wings 3 cylinder geo metro engine and stealth shaping that is going to bankrupt the country and make our military so weak the Swiss guard could fly into DC on a Thursday and have us officially surrendering before the Simpsons is on Sunday evening bullshit.
 
And a huge part of it was the messaging being put out there by Lockheed and the people trying to tell us it was a good choice.
 
If they'd have had this guy from Colli's post get up and say what he said there 8 years ago, there wouldn't be as much fatalistic the f35 is going to cause the fall of the western world histrionics as we see now.
 
Unfortunately, just like we saw with the air show performance awhile ago, it's way too late to change the minds of quite a few people.
 
I still think the x32 was better though, and everyone knows that the yf23 lost for being too good heh.

The helmet design in the background is intriguing. Looks like it might limit peripheral vision though.

I love that in that picture they have one of their hyper-advanced Oplot MBTs, but the infantryman out front is clearly armed with an ancient 7.62mm underfold AK.

To come to Jeeps' defense a bit, there are of course extremists on both sides of the political divide. Part of the frustration that law-abiding Conservatives feel is that the general media and cultural narrative is that the extremism is coming SOLELY from our side.
 
A Bernie bro stabs a bunch of people in Portland and all of a sudden it's the fault of Trump voters.
 
A mosque burns down (twice) in Bellevue, WA and it's Trump's fault that he's "created an environment where extremism can flourish. Well, no, it was a homeless dude (and a teenage squatter the second time) who lit the match. 
 
A guy shoots up a congressional baseball practice and clearly it is a right-winger... oops... no, it was another lefty. 
 
Now don't get me wrong, Conservatives have their own Jump to Conclusions mat that we hop on. But other than a few blogs, websites, talk radio and Fox News (which I'm not a fan of and which is staffed by people faking being a Conservative for financial gain) the preponderance of the media consisting of network news, newspapers, blogs, YouTube/Facebook/Twitter, Hollywood and the music industry, and even sports leagues are pretty far on the Left of the spectrum. 
 
So if Conservatives act like we've been put upon, it's because we have. Particularly when we manage to get "OUR" guy elected and he's being thwarted in ways previous Presidents have been immune to such as the confirmation process where EVERY single cabinet appointment has been "Borked". Or how every single Executive action taken by the President - even though it is clearly Constitutional - has been challenged in court via a campaign of blatant judge shopping. 
 
This stuff did not happen in the previous Administration. 

Would you guess that because it was Trump who singlehandedly ended homosexuality as a political issue in this country?

Because it really rather annoys me that, after well over a decade of moralizing about this issue from the Left, the Right and the Trump campaign never got a shred of credit for that from them.

In this instance, the state decided for the parents to forego treatment. I am saying that that is fine. It's when the state then denied parents access to their child for what in the states would be a second opinion that the line was crossed. 
 
The key here is that legal guardianship of a minor has passed from parents to the state. 
 
In contrast, you are asking if legal guardianship extends the opposing way. That would I be fine with a parent refusing care for a child out of their morals or principals. 
 
I am in favor of legal guardianship being delivered at benefit or potential benefit of the stakeholder. In this case, the ultimate stakeholder is the child who's life is at risk. 
 
While you may make a rightful judgment call that in this case specifically the child's life was a lost cause, I am more Keen to look ahead at the precedent set by following this removal of guardianship from the party that holds the stakeholders best interests as their direct argument. 
 
I'm sure you're ready to bring up a Watchtower/JW example here stateside, and their insistence against blood transfusions. While currently the numbers Indicate about 1.5 percent increase in surgical deaths in this group because of their beliefs, I still hold fast to my analysis of stakeholder claim. 
 
Always err to context and the party at the most risk to lose if guardianship is transferred to someone without stake in the matter.

Bingo. Again, I will reiterate, the child is a lost cause. But it is no one's call but the parents of said child to determine what treatment he receives. 
 
Because boy howdy, any other way sets a very dangerous precedent.

What devotion to Trump?
 
Mine?
 
Bwahahaha that's the funniest shit you've said yet Walt!
 
You're so far off base here you're not even wrong... but it's still pretty fucking funny.
 
I didn't vote FOR TRUMP... I voted for NOT HILLARY and not the evil preparation H alliance that was the rest of the Republican pack...
 
So far NOT HILLARY and NOT MCCAIN/JEB is doing a great job of not being any of these people!
 
At the very least we get to see new and exciting fuckups rather than business as usual.
 
That's really all I was hoping to get and I got it that even before November 8th...
 
The two major parties doing everything they can to discredit themselves and the mainstream media coming along for the ride is just icing on the cake at this point.
 
So what reason again do I have to be unhappy?
 
Because the government isn't functioning for shit and fucking up everything it touches?
 
It was going to do this no matter what!
 
At least this way some awareness is being generated, and I strongly suspect the seeds of real change are getting the time to take root and grow just a little bit more daily.
 
Even if the Dems take the midterms Walt, the seeds that have been growing since that day in November all but guarantee that any "victory" your team has will be very short lived and pyrrhic...
 
And for that thought alone I wake up with a ghost of a smile every fucking morning.
 
 

From my external perspective, the performance of the Democrats (& their Tory/New Labour allies over here) really is quite something to behold.....They've actually managed to make Donald J Trump look like a stand-up respectable guy (compared to them). 
 

You're wrong man, If Obama had put this guy up, the press would have acted like he was the only possible choice for the Job, while giving Obama a handjob just to show their love.  The level of hate sperg for all things pro trump in the mainstream press was shocking, at first, and now just serves to further drop their credibility with the US people who don't buy the blatant anti American Propaganda the press spews. Obama being the worthless Cunt he was, did nothing for the VA, but he gets a free pass on that too. 
 
 
So you don't think the Whitehouse Doctor for several Admins was vetted?  That seems pretty unlikely. It seems far more likely, anti-Trump staffers or press are making shit up to fuck with Trump, like they've been doing from the start, and they already had it in for this Doc because he disappointed them by saying Trump was healthy and sane. 

Good old Hillary and Huma of course... I'm sure it was only a coincidence, just like the fires, and having a conversation about grandkids on the tarmac inside a secured airplane.
 
People are so suspicious these days!
 
Just because a family and everyone they associate with act like people who have a bunch of stuff to hide doesn't mean anything other than they like their privacy!
 
 
In a way it is pretty amusing though watching her have to work off her pretty extensive "debts" to people I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in hock to. She so thought she had her shit wired tight and an entire nation by the balls so it's very satisfying to see her now in the position of being an entirely disposable and deniable pawn to all the big bads she promised so much to and spectacularly failed to deliver.

Yeah, I don't see the personnel turnover as some sort of sign for anything other than the fact that Trump is the first president in a long ass time to come into office without a cabal of political figures and favors amassed from a life of work as a political figure.

If Obama had nominated him you wouldn’t have seen the flurry of slander.

Good old Hillary and Huma of course... I'm sure it was only a coincidence, just like the fires, and having a conversation about grandkids on the tarmac inside a secured airplane.
 
People are so suspicious these days!
 
Just because a family and everyone they associate with act like people who have a bunch of stuff to hide doesn't mean anything other than they like their privacy!
 
 
In a way it is pretty amusing though watching her have to work off her pretty extensive "debts" to people I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in hock to. She so thought she had her shit wired tight and an entire nation by the balls so it's very satisfying to see her now in the position of being an entirely disposable and deniable pawn to all the big bads she promised so much to and spectacularly failed to deliver.

Walter, 
I have the blueprints for the Canadian 7.62 NATO M37retrofit if you want them let me know.
Sidenote: the Browning 1919/m37 is just outright an awesome gun that you can get to run just about any round between .22 lr and 8x63 Bofors...
Including 303 & x54r... I helped a buddy do a x54r version...
Fun fact: the Finns even figured out a really simple push feed link to convert mg42's to x54r... Aimo Lahti was a genius.