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"Christian Era. After our Lord."

I wish you were right, but it really means "Common Era." It is an attempt to remove even a hint of Christianity from our language. But If someone challenges you, just say, "Well, what happened in 1 AD?"

"It would be hard for an engineer to design a system more prone to failure. Men are expected to make the first move and come on to a woman. If she finds him unattractive or she’s not in the mood, then it’s an unwelcome advance. And these same women complain that men don’t show them any attention."

Bingo. Leftist women want it both ways. They can do everything a man can do, until they can't and then it is the man's problem.

What a tool!

As the lions would say- Yes, Mr. Starmer. I will stop killing zebras as soon as my belly is full. Well, at least until I get hungry again.

I don’t know about you, but anytime we put an aviator in a position where someone can shoot at him, it is risky.

I absolutely agree with you. To me drones on the battlefield is like the rise of aviation in WWI- a complete game changer. Yet we don't know the limits of the change. Remember after WWII there were a lot of really smart people that said air power was king and we didn't need as many ground troops or ships. That didn't work out.

I do believe that we don't need manned fighter planes anymore, we just need to figure out how decrease the communication time lapse between the human controllers and the drones. Maybe manned aircraft 100 miles behind the drones?

"Why does this whole thing look like satanists against Putin?"

To me it doesn't. Many of us don't have a "side" in this issue. The Ukraine and Russia are two of the most corrupt countries in the world. For me, it is kind of like a fight between the Bloods and the Crips- I want to stay informed but I don't want to be drug into it.

I try to stay current because I am trying to figure out the secondary and tertiary effects of these conflicts.

They also neglected the locations of military bases and communication centers, e.g. submarine telecommunication centers (which are not located on big military bases). This is a nothing article.

I can see volunteering to test a medicine when I am at the end years of my life, but not before then. Don't get me wrong, I am not risk adverse. My parents voted me "the child least likely to live to the age of 25." However, you have to know that every medicine has a risk, so why take that risk?

OBTW, I knew that COVID was not that big a deal when I noticed that our store clerks were always showing up to work, healthy as the next person.

If you are going to get me to be a guinea pig, you are going to be paying the big bucks before, during and after.

People from Liberia have doing this for generations. I was in Liberia during one of their many revolutions in the 1990s. We evacuated “American citizens” twice a week via helicopter. Most of those “American citizens” had only been to America once in their lives- when they were born.

I agree. After Clinton lied to a grand jury and the left’s defense of him, I stopped caring. Now I just want good policy to be carried out.

Your reply is much better and thorough than any I have seen in a long while. Thanks.

I worked with LCol West many years ago. I think he would be a great choice. If anyone gives a crack about shooting a weapon near a POW’s head in order to get him to talk- well have at it. Only the most snow flake would consider it a bad thing. Don’t let your opponents set the argument or the conditions.

Ha, ha. I hadn't thought about that.

Oh yeah, one thing about telework is you can hire outside your geographic area, so your pool of potential hires has greatly expanded. I was able to hire some great people because of that. I found a great contracting officer that was over 500 miles from where I lived. Without telework, I could never have even considered her.

Some people thrive on telework- self starters- and those are the people you want.

I agree with you as long as there is active monitoring with repercussions if someone is goofing off. And that is the key, proper oversight.

I teleworked for over 12 years and what I found was that the commute was wonderful (30 seconds travel to work), but I never left the office. Having said that, my job was rather unusual because my area of responsibility crossed 11 time zones, so my hours were set by what was going on in my world, e.g. meetings at 4AM or 11PM were pretty normal. Of yeah, sometimes I had to work on Sundays because of the international time zone meant that some of my locations started their Mondays on my Sunday (and bad things happen on Monday).

I see the standard black and white rectangles, so you know this is legit. They seem to be always found when there is an archelogy find of significance. I wonder why there is no curiosity about them. Maybe they are tools that the human species used to use. Maybe we will never know.

Well, now that Hunter has been pardoned, he cannot refuse to testify for all actions that occurred during this period.

This comment is not to diminish the significance of what you have written. And I agree with everything you say, but septic systems are an area that needs to be controlled. My Mom had a rental house where the neighbors septic system went bad. The owners of the house that had the bad septic system did not have the money to replace it (about $10,000-$15,000), so it stank up the neighborhood. Because of the smell, my Mom could not keep renters so she almost lost the house.

Within its design parameters, septic systems work extremely well. But if you put too much waste material in it, could can destroy your septic field. It get my septic system serviced regularly. Accordingly to my septic guy, my system was designed to support five people- six if they go to work. This doesn't mean it is going to go bad over night or because you have a weekend party. Rather, constant overuse will cost big money.

I don’t want to diminish the underlying purpose of training kids to take apart and reassemble a battle rifle, it is pretty easy. Practice it a dozen times and you will be proficient. Two dozen more times and you can do it in the dark.

You are right. Sadie and Amanda have nothing to worry about, unless someone wants their cell phone.

"Looks like somebody tried to make a pet of it."

It probably is a free ranging pet. In the 1960s it was pretty common, but back then they put collars on them. Many a deer did not get shot because it had a collar on it. Back then a lot of wild animals that were orphaned became free ranging pets, e.g. ran wild but came home almost every night to get food and a safe home. The animals usually became semi-domesticated, e.g. they would let the adoptive family touch and feed, but staid away from everyone else.