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1 posted on 11/09/2007 4:55:11 PM PST by fanfan
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MATTHEW HICKLEY of The Daily Mail (UK) shows one way to stretch one’s writing.

Here is what you do.

Make every sentence a paragraph.

He pretty much says the same thing over and over in his article.

But with all those paragraph breaks, it looks like he has a long column.

I almost think he relished writing this piece.

Mathew did not seem alarmed that the lives of American sailors might be at risk, or that Taiwanese security has been lessened.

Some people on the left see nothing wrong with communism, or real tyrants. They imagine President Bush is a tyrant. It’s that old “moral equivalence” thing. If Mathew had his head screwed on straight, he'd realize this is nothing to smirk about.

84 posted on 11/09/2007 7:33:06 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan dismantled the Russian empire of 21 conquered nations)
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To: PARodrig; Vom Willemstad K-9

ping


90 posted on 11/09/2007 8:26:50 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.

I wouldn't count on that. The sub driver may have not been playing by the normal rules of peacetime engagement. We could hardly drop depth charges or other ordnance on him. Well, one of the attack subs could, after all who would know, other than the crew of our sub would of course. But they don't call 'em the "Silent Service" for nothing. So if he just kept driving in, in spite of being detected, pinged and otherwise humiliated, there really wouldn't be much our guys could do to drive him off.

94 posted on 11/09/2007 8:57:13 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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This doesn't mean that the ChiCom sub actually navigated, submerged, into the middle of the carrier group.

The sub could have been on the bottom, silent, waiting for the group to pass overhead, then surface.

Another problem for the science boys to fix...

99 posted on 11/09/2007 10:37:10 PM PST by etcetera ("Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy." Henry Kissinger)
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I always have a strong feeling the Bush administration (or Department of State alone) is trying to avoid another cold war, and is keeping a blind eye on China. It’s time to declare a new cold war, and close the market to China. Our money is feeding the Chinese PLA. We are feeding our enemy, feeding our enemy that could develop more devastating weapons. I hope the new Cold War is officially declared.


104 posted on 11/10/2007 2:19:22 AM PST by Wiz
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ping


105 posted on 11/10/2007 2:19:58 AM PST by Wiz
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For this POS Chinese diesel sub-—>>

Sub = RPG

RPGs and anti tank missiles are cheap ways to kill armor

Chi quiet diesel Sub = very low cost way of inflicting great damage on our lumbering warships

Citibank and others have been forced to write down their bullshit mortgage portfolios. My unhappy guess-timate is our huge aircraft carrier groups are also headed to a write down


106 posted on 11/10/2007 2:29:33 AM PST by dennisw (Islam - "a transnational association of dangerous lunatics")
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Paid for with lead-covered toys, contaminated food and drugs and cheap junk sold in America, thanks to globalization and the international corporations.

“Capitalism contains within itself the sseds of its own destruction” Lenin (?)


109 posted on 11/10/2007 4:03:06 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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Thanks John Walker, Bill Clinton, and all the other pieces of crap in this country.


117 posted on 11/10/2007 7:11:09 AM PST by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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You can’t tell me pings don’t have mode 4 or above. This is unbelievable. My My.


129 posted on 11/10/2007 1:24:54 PM PST by eyedigress
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Last year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2179694.shtml


131 posted on 11/10/2007 4:46:26 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)
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Jeff Head was right. The vain and spoiled ones are wrong.


148 posted on 11/12/2007 6:20:18 PM PST by familyop (Roma est perdita)
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...need to split our fleets into many smaller ships, BTW, and build up ground and air forces.


149 posted on 11/12/2007 6:22:59 PM PST by familyop (Roma est perdita)
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Nanoweapons are going to make the whole concepts of radar and “early warning” into a total farce.


150 posted on 11/12/2007 6:23:38 PM PST by montag813
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