Perhaps some day we will look back on their many years of tediously genuflecting to British royalty as a golden era of television.

Oh okay. Yeah, that’s fair then.

I’d maybe compare it more to the Occupy movement. Maybe a mix of the two?

I don't understand why they don't simply decide to fly these until their airframes are worn out, then either rectify them or cannibalize them.

A-10 is apparently much more survivable than SU-25… though successful ejection in IS territory is probably not all that survivable. You are correct to point out recent SU-25 losses in Ukraine (5 and counting). Iraqi’s are using SU-25 in the current conflict, but no reported crashes or shoot downs.

Because the AF prefers flying high and fast to low and slow. They've been trying to replace the A-10 with F-16s for 25 years. The solution would have been to transfer the A-10s to Army aviation, but the AF insists on their owning all fixed wing CAS.

It's the other way around. A cam is a simple device that is difficult to fail. If you go camless and there is a single fault, you will have valves colliding with pistons. And what's the failsafe? If such a system fails, there is no backup like there is with multiair (which defaults back to normal cam operation)-…

Also confused... but I don't hate it.

I should say that I have no idea where exactly to get all the parts. Am I going to be on eBay for the next few days? Is there a site that stocks this shit? Can I take the train out to the Autozone in the South Bronx and get everything?

http://www.cato.org/blog/police-mi…

Good article on this subject from people who've been talking about police militarization since long before it was cool.

I think the North Hollywood shootout really changed things in this country. During that incident LA police had to raid gun shops to get their hands on high powered rifles to fight the bank robbers. Now many cops, even in small towns, have m4's in their trunks. I remember watching police surround a building where…

You mentioned that Israel arrested 100 Palestinians and bulldozed homes while they only arrested 6 Israelis. Isn't this heavy-handed ness the reason the death tolls are lob-sided? Perhaps they're unbalanced simply because Israel wants them to be, for whatever reason.

First of all don't call it a bone yard because **noise**. Nah, I'm just kidding. Call it whatever you want since it was yours and our tax dollars that are being completely wasted. Fellow slaves, it's okay to be upset at our government. They aren't god's and should not be treated as such. They're Just a bunch a…