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Really, there's no way around a sales tax? I predict a surge in craigslist transactions.

Shit, we should have invaded Venezuela then. Where's that spanish rosetta stone disc?:icon_wink

And yet not listening to the queen isn't the same thing as, say, violating an English law. And frankly, I think the Queen of England carries more clout than the Secretary General. I mean, how many people would die for one over the other? :icon_wink

Because our "little camps" and their "little camps" were so alike.

The word of the Secretary General doesn't carry the weight of a UN mandate. It's not like he has any real executive power.

Biggest one is they changed streaming fuel to recognize that it isn't automatically a PEL due to the stability of jet fuel (not going to type out the whole thing); though it now contradicts the note in smoke and fume elimination. Changed the cockpit indications for 115-V 1-Amp C-B popped in...

Look at this idiot. :) http://www.caller.com/photos/galleries/2008/sep/12/hurricane-ike-prep-0912/10344/ Pickle, could you update us in the morning as to the extent of flooding? I figure I ought to bring some supplies on my way back.

Huh, I'm guessing it's not LtCol(Ret) Shusko that designed it, then.

Not that the Soviets haven't had a history of copying us, but how much of the resemblance is also from similar requirements resulting in similar designs? If you poke into it, the Buran and Shuttle are very different in detail, even if they're visually similar.

http://www.caller.com/news/2008/sep/11/padre-island-residents-mostly-inland-already/ "Padre Island residents mostly inland already" ..... SNA's still waiting for "the word" At least traffic will be light over the JFK. My roommate just got assigned duty Saturday, looks like we're weathering it...

Damn, I searched for IL-76.

IL-76 takeoff using every inch of the runway And some Aussie color commentary to go with it.

Read my updated post, I just remembered that my clearance came in while USCIS was still twiddling their thumbs, so your passport should be OK. I had to send in the same docs that I needed to get the passport in the first place (parent's naturalization certs and birth cert), and argue that USCIS...

Having been in exactly that situation, my passport got me as far as TBS, but DoNCAF (who runs the background checks) held up my clearance because they wanted a naturalization certificate. PITA since it meant I'd be staying at TBS until I got the clearance, and USCIS was taking 6 months to...

UAV's spotted at Corpus? Per the NOTAMS and ATIS, we've got UAV's working out of here this week. I didn't see them, has anyone spotted them or know what they're doing here? CBP perhaps?

I'm not talking about the notion of IED-resistant vehicles, just the current incarnation of the MRAP, which is tailored for Iraq and in particular, convoy ops. In particular, it's so heavy that its off-road reliability is poor. They weigh about as much as a Stryker but with a 4x4 or 6x6...

It's a news article, how would they know if they talked? And can you fairly second guess her decision without access to 1) An M.D. 2) Her medical files Since one (and likely both) are off-limits to all but 2 people, then it's really an non-issue.

Not really getting it, are you? Her medical choices and the circumstances for those choices are between her......and her doctor. You've talked to OBGYN's? Congrats, my neighbor just broke her water. Why don't you come on over and assist?

3x 12oz.....that's what....8-9 G&T's? I think I'm good.

Well, http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8194634 http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/22/palins-flight-labor-falls-under-scrutiny/

So, you're now second guessing her personal medical decisions? What's your point, it's her fault the kid came down with Down's Syndrome? Let's get all the cards on the table shall we?

The MRAP is not the wave of the future, unless we plan to invade Iraq again, or, ideally, South Africa (the original target environment for tall v-hulled APC's). That or Mothers of America continue dictating our equipment purchasing.

Relax, it's most likely a typo.

What is this, 6 degrees of Obama?

Well, according to the campaign site he hopes to be a naval aviator. http://www.johnmccain.com/about/mccainchildren.htm

He has an older stepson, Doug. who flew A-6's and is now flying 777's for American.

Vehemently against? More amusement at your desperation. The original article. http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html Funny how wired omitted her clarifications: It's never been an issue she's campaigned on and she said she wouldn't push the Board of Ed...

Isn't she to the right of McCain on social issues?

Wired blog isn't exactly MoveON.org. Still, that's the best you can dig up, m0t?

Ah, the Cheney "one percent" doctrine, perhaps? Don't know about Gore, but Cheney came into office determined to redefine and expand the office Vice Presidency, and succeeded in taking a much broader executive role that customarily associated with the Veep. I don't think that relationship will...

Depends on your interpretation of "combat arms." Col. Shusko (phrog pilot) thought so, and so does MATSG-22, as they are getting their IP's spun up on grey.

It was a remix of show footage. The last photo in front of the Saddam statue is based off one the platoon actually took, but if you compare with the one in the book, they're different.

So why send Flight Surgeons through API, and put them in aircraft? API teaches pilot-type skills, right? You are still making a judgment on the utility of training that, you self-admittedly don't know shit about - especially regarding training we "don't really need". So STFU. You should have...

We febrezed our TBS gear quite frequently. But we had to sleep with that stuff in the same room.

So you admittedly don't know shit, but you still spout off. Well, since you admit you don't know TBS is effective or worth it, what makes it financially unsound? That it costs money? Flight school must be pretty damned financially unsound then, but then again, what do I know.

The esteemed Aviation Leak and Space Mythology? I'd love for it to be true but I'll hold out for some corroboration.

The nose shape is more noticeable, to me at least.

We've since moved the paintball indoors to an abandoned middle school and developed a curriculum for the paintball scenarios. I thought it went pretty well, and 4th MAWTSG ended up using that setup for their refresher training. We only did convoy ops with rubber duckies, but we had a decent IED...

Not quite. Yes, Lt's are going to JATOPC. But the convoy classes are taught principally by Lt's, to AMS 1/2 poolees. Actually, that's kind of what a MTT does, isn't it?

So simply to campaign for policies in contradiction to the Constitution is illegal? So the Brady Campaign's lies are not malicious and had no forethought?

Really, so you've never heard about COINTELPRO? Liberals are really bent out of shape about that, not without justification. I don't see this as much of a coup as the two organizations she duped don't seem like big players and she never made it to the Brady organization's board. Should send...

He was a helicopter pilot (or student pilot), and went PAO after he attrited. He's still a reserve Major, IIRC.

Intelligent leftists, I'll give you that. Hippies, the court's still out. But protesters and so-called "activists"? Meh. Not the finest specimens of humanity on either side of the fence. If they were articulate they'd have better outlets than rallies and other such self-congratulatory mayhem.

Wild-ass guess, but I don't think she reads the bible. Or cares what it says. Just a hunch.

The sharpshooter does 1 on 1 instruction as well as the CC classes. No experience as to their quality but they seem like a squared away bunch. Or email some of the folks on cbshooters.com, they can probably point you in the right direction.

More than that, the President grants you the authority to take other Americans into harms way, and makes you responsible for them. Don't screw that up.

My old man was like that and I went on a 4-year long spending spree once I started earning my own money before I realized he's right. Now if only someone would talk me out of getting a motorcycle.

Cameo in a TV miniseries != movie about Marine aviators

Looks like a flak to me. Jon Stewart was mocking it on the Daily Show last night. And it was in Jordan.

That's, ah, actually his flak jacket in his left hand. Guess he's trying to outdo Hillary.