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And Gore is the consumer of the dirtiest energy on Earth.

Pipe and Hammer...

Obama’s attempt to rehabilitate communism. He replaced the sickle with a bong. He calls it “compassionate communism.”

You don’t get it yet, but you will.

The reason the economy is recovering is the same reason that it recovered for Clinton and did not for Bush: Oil. We are awash in oil, and that is giving the economy and the treasury a boost.

It’s ironic considering all that Obama has done to shut down the oil industry.

Why are they releasing this info now?

Answer: They are trying to send a message to all aspiring Deep Throats within the State Department and the IRS. “We’re watching you. Don’t talk or this will be you.”

Hitler had the decency to shoot himself.

All it means is that someone else wrote the lies she uttered. How is that better?

No problem. The rich will pay.

To some degree you’re right about in search of a problem but drones are no panacea and neither is air power in general. You can’t use drones in mass. You can’t use them in poor visability. You might be able to move a large unmanned tank battalion in quickly and just let it sit there until its needed. You can send it down a road to see if it draws fire or triggers mines. You really don’t know what good it will be until you have it and test it out. But I do think that robotics is going to be the next wave of military technology and I would rather be on the guy dishing it out than the guy taking the hits.

Well, I respect your opinion but let me remind you that the admirals were opposed to the aircraft carrier in the 30’s because they were afraid it might obsolete their battleships and put themselves out of a job. Of course, history proved them wrong. The battleships were needed to protect the aircraft carriers.

The correct way to view this unmanned tank is that it’s really a new weapon, not simply a new version of the old weapon. If you need speed and fuel economy, then ditching the personnel, shrinking the size, and taking advantage of expendability and reduced profile to reduce the armor gets you a capability that you did not have before. You just need to figure out a way to use it to your best advantage. I think it could soften up the enemy’s defenses in advance of a manned tank advance. And moving a lot of small lightweight unmanned tanks around the world where they are needed would be a lot quicker and less expensive than the logistics of moving a manned tank battalion. Maybe you could even drop them in by parachute. You don’t need to feed, pay, uniform, train, or quarter computers. Your manpower limitations become less important. I am reminded of these totalitarian regimes who urge their population to have children so they can be conscripted. That’s so 20th Century.

Schoolyard bully? That makes the Senate a schoolyard.

They should not use the term woman. The correct term is woperson.

“And what happens when you throw track?”

You push the self-destruct button. Yes, it may not completely replace the manned tank, but I think it will become developed enough that it will be used in battle, and will enable us to save a lot of lives and a lot of supplies. The logistics of supply are a big part of war. The fewer your army uses, the better. You use these tanks as the vanguard, move in to kill the enemy, and the men follow behind to strike the second blow.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/weapons/a/blacknight.htm

Black Knight - Future Combat Unmanned Ground Vehicle Is Similar To A Tank

The Black Knight is a remote controlled armored vehicle being developed by British defence company BAE Systems PLC. The unmanned ground combat vehicle is currently in the prototype phase. However, people in the global defense industry have high hopes for the Black Knight and see it as the future of ground warfare. Unmanned ground vehicles are operated remotely from a distance, and soldiers do not travel in them – keeping military personnel out of harm’s way.

While unmanned vehicles are mostly associated with aircraft and aerial drones, a growing number of unmanned ground vehicles are also being developed for use by militaries around the world. The Black Knight is one of the most sophisticated of the unmanned ground combat vehicles, and its development is at an advanced phase. In 2010, the U.S. Army was putting the vehicle through a series of evaluations...

Not that difficult. You don’t accomplish anything by voting for a liberal Democrat over a liberal Republican.

It’s not so much drones that make it obsolete as it is that it won’t be long until they have unmanned tanks. The humans are surplusage, for the most part. You need a really heavy tank to protect soldiers, and that means it eats a lot of fuel. A remote vehicle needs less armor, less internal space, and could therefore be designed so as to save a lot of fuel.

Chomsky has no criticism for communist dictators, though.

“Because if a business could have the Sheriff reposes stuff, why hire a repo man?”

I can only speak for Florida, but the way it works is that you hire a lawyer, the lawyer files a lawsuit, gets a court order, and the clerk of the court issues a writ of replevin. All that costs money, I would say about one or two thousand dollars, or more if there is any opposition.

Then the sheriff takes the writ, goes down to where the defendant has the stuff that needs to be seized, and seizes it. If it’s not there, then you need to find it and tell the sheriff where it is.

It takes time and money. Or you can just hire a repo guy and he goes out and does it, charges you several hundred dollars if it’s easy to do. So why would you not always hire a repo guy instead of using the sheriff? Because the repo guy can’t do anything that would “breach the peace.” He can’t use force. He can’t break and enter. He can’t even trespass. All the lady needed to do was tell them to leave, and if they didn’t leave, that would have been breaching the peace.

I am not sure what she did was actually illegal. The Florida statute allows you to use deadly force to defend your property. Did she know they were repossessors? If not, then maybe it was legal.

Good. NY needs to be knocked down to size, and who better to do it than Cuomo?

Obamacare=genocide.

I suspect that 7 billion people also produce a fair amount.

“Authorities said the man didn’t have identification on him, but he will be fingerprinted in Tarrant County. Hoskins said the man is a white male, “probably in his 30s.” He estimated his weight between 150 and 175 pounds.”

Also headed South. I’m guessing toward the Mexican border.

Seriously, the world’s best barbecue is at 4 Rivers in Winter Park, Florida. They opened a few years ago in a restaurant that was a little too small for them, and the line would be down the street to get in. Cars parked all over the neighborhood, to the dismay of the neighbors. So they built a nice big place across the street. It did not fix the problem, though. The line of people waiting to get in still goes down the street. I have never seen anything like it.

Probably written by a guy who’s never been out of NY. I don’t think that Texas has the best BBQ either, though. The fact that this guy compares NY to Texas just shows how little he knows.

I only watch for the commercials.

Looks like O’bamas fellow Irishman, Kilpatrick, has run out of luck.

Of course they are anti-Semitic. Do they allow Jews to join? Huh?

If you want to prepare for an earthquake in CA, I would say learn to swim.

So what? They’ve done that over and over.

“And let’s be very clear...”

Coming from the mouth of a liberal, this translates as “The most heinous lie ever told is this....”

With Obama gutting the military, we’re going to need those AR15’s for sure.

Shields either does not know who Marie Antoinette was or he doesn’t know who Ann Coulter is.

They are expecting an insurrection.

Whether the photo is fake or not, Obama is a phony.

Can’t speak as to police, but liberals hate vigilantes more than anything... because it’s PROOF that government has failed.

Think of all the jobs he’ll destroy in the process.

“their senior officers used them only sparingly in combat.”

My suspicion is that they’d complain also if their senior officers ordered them to do the same thing that they order the male soldiers to do. It’s really a Catch-22 for the military. If they don’t use them, they get complaints. But if they really treated them like the men, they’d also get complaints.

So now we have a Constitutional right to be in the military?

It’s not the declining birth rate that’s the problem. The problem is that all their children are being born with feet.

Because they can’t arrest drug dealers if they are illegal aliens.

Because they can’t arrest drug dealers if they are illegal aliens.

“Showing an empty gun magazine on television, though illegal in Washington, D.C., was hardly going to harm anyone.”

POSSESSION of a gun magazine is a victimless crime, no matter who does it, when, or why. There is only a victim if the gun magazine is used to cause harm to someone, and no one is arguing that should not be illegal, as it always has been.

I don’t think he will be ousted. But the question I have is who would replace him if he were? Does anyone have nearly as much support as he does?

I say yes. We don’t need to sell it to a foreign power. Sell it to the private sector. That’s eventually going to have to happen. Won’t solve the debt problem though.

They must have come back from the death then because things are much worse now than they were under Reagan.

There is no right to pork in Dearborn.

They would have been smart to make it an unbiased film because their audience is conservatives. No liberal is going to waste his time watching a movie about bin Laden. The only way they’d go to the theatre is if it were about Obama and Osama were just a bit part.

Lincoln Chaffee, maybe.

I think it did happen, and in fact, there were a lot of posters on the Freerepublic who were very vocal in making the point that they would do just that.