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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Unfortunately, the blame rests on the electorate, who could well stand to suffer such a test.

I am very much intolerant of the unpatriotic knaves who are in the process of ruining our country...but I have to recognize that they simply took advantage of a credulous and inattentive and ignorant public, who ARE NOT INNOCENT of the decisions they have made. When people express pity for the havoc visited on Germany toward the end of World War II, and sympathy for the "innocent civilians," I tend to respond: "Innocent of what? Of electing Adolf Hitler as supreme leader?" Ignorance explains, but does not exculpate.

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DeathRayDesigner 9 points ago +9 / -0

That would be what, 33 treasonous RINOs? (I don't like to use "treason" promiscuously, but unconstitutional commitment to war would be giving aid and comfort to a domestic enemy in the presence of many witnesses.) I suppose we can assume all the Democrats voted in favor.

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DeathRayDesigner 7 points ago +7 / -0

Glad to see you included pets in your sphere of mercy. That is a blessing from St. Francis of Assisi and, while I am not a Catholic, I do believe it is a blessing. No one can take it from you. Sleep well with it.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's okay. The whole subject is really not worth discussing. There was more juice in the East Palestine derailment, and that is now a long-forgotten incident. Sometimes these exchanges become a real headache when they are moved off the main page and the context is troublesome to recover.

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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ick. Jeb vs. Pence in debate is like watching a motor rally between a Yugo and a Brabant (or maybe a Wartburg). (If you don't get the references, look them up.)

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

In the words of "Dirty Harry" Callahan, she would probably go into full "vapor lock."

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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Also, the modern design approach was to have inner (not core) columns supporting an exterior "curtain" wall. It was one of the only ways to achieve higher buildings without making them into ziggurats.

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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good point on the power of momentum. But I wouldn't make that assumption about the Twin Towers construction. A severe fire can reduce the strength of steel by 90%. They just didn't figure on that scenario when they built it. Hard to imagine how one could build it to survive.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

Rather goofy article, clearly supportive of the Biden regime. Ukraine surrendered nuclear weapons because it had no means of using them (no command and control structure). If they had missiles, they were not the ones being used to attack their own military structure (certainly not ICBMs). Too many other reports about black market diversion of U.S. and NATO armament.

At this stage of the game, there will be no recovery of funds. Russia will control the government of whatever Ukraine remains and any debt will be a dead letter. Unless Russia can use the debt as hostage for recovery of its own frozen assets.

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DeathRayDesigner 4 points ago +4 / -0

Teeny-tiny bomber at propeller speed. Details make a difference. But created a big hole anyway. Not too many storefronts suffer serious damage when a Smart car crashes into them. But the story is different when it is a laden Freightliner.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nice work of fiction. The distribution statement at the end is superfluous. Were this an actual document, access (not distribution) would be according to who was read into the program and who had been granted need to know. Since that is standard operating procedure, no special comment need be made.

The distribution would be a list of identified recipients. Not left up to anyone's choice or interpretation.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

Actually, no. They may have lots of data, but disclosure may reveal the characteristics and utilization of our sensor technology. The data itself may be inconclusive. Or might implicate limitations of our operational systems.

All it proves is that you are curious. That's not a need to know. Don't expect too much.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

The rule is neither confirm nor deny. "Sorry, I can't say." It's really simple. The best way to protect classified information is not to talk about it. At all. Ever.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

No, he didn't answer the question. He evaded the question---and you are using confirmation bias to construe it as a positive answer. The vastness of space could equally well mean that there is no possibility of alien life (like the vastness of a desert, or the antarctic ice cap). Or no possibility of effective contact.

"Highest classification" most likely because we have data, but we have no clue...and it is not helpful for prestige to be admittedly clueless. And futile. Plenty of the encounters seem to illustrate our technological impotence in the face of the phenomenon.

Don't be so eager to open Pandora's Box. This foolish boldness comes from a complete lack of imagination. (Best to read Stanislaw Lem for an attempt to picture actual alienness.)

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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Puzzle. I clicked on the video, its frame loads, one can see the thumbnail images from scanning the timeline, but no image comes up in the main screen.

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DeathRayDesigner 2 points ago +2 / -0

I react to this as I react to my African compadres who are famously church-going, yet terrified of black magic and witchcraft: "How can you be this way? Don't you realize how you are protected by baptism?" As for me, if I were measuring out distance, I would not flinch at the 666th foot. I would move on to the 667th and onward. It's very much like the Hindus rejecting the Nazi expropriation of the swastika. Just because the evil side has taken things to symbolize their evil does not mean they own them, nor should we think so.

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

Actually, he lives within us. Each and every one of us. He doesn't need to move around, except in our restless spirit. (This is, by the way, the great error of Pentecostalism. By looking for God within us, we are doomed to find the only thing that God has allowed to be there.)

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DeathRayDesigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

As if that made any sense. Do you never get off on a 13th floor? Or do you simply outlaw evil numbers? (I've heard of a practice of never naming a 13th floor. The sequence goes directly from the 12th floor to the 14th floor. Civilized people call this superstition.) If the Beast took his name to be "Jesus," what would you do then? Abjure anyone named Jesus? Not wear black? Shun five-pointed stars (such as on our flag)? This is worse than astrology.

Symbolism may be "their" downfall, but it doesn't have to be our downfall.

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