I’m bored and being forced to stay awake so I want to reason this out. Bear with me. A co-worker of mine found the track of the merch online - proceeded ~345T prior to accident then drifted to W-SW post-collision until regaining way. Damage: Port bow on Merch, STBD beam-ish on DDG. No clue what course DDG was on. I…

McDanalds? Is that the home of the golden arcs?

Was your grandmother in the Marine Corps? That’s their practice.

This isn’t about defense of their countries. It is about defense of trade, something they’ve show little interest in. But hey, you want to roll the dice.

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As a child of the littlest state and former resident, I both empathize and must state: HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! ...HA!

Please read up on Chinese aggression in the nine-dash line. Chinese bullying of Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and the PI to include invasion of EEZs, and harassment against fishing fleets and trade vessels. This has literally been going on for years. The links are a good place to start.

No. The Navy is designed to prevent a war from happening.
One - nukes won’t be used against carriers. No one will go nuke in total war. The 20th century proved that. It is a zero-sum game.
Two - The Navy exists to deter aggression through power projection and to ensure continuity of free maritime operations and free…

Western colonies and arrogance? Okay. #Revisionist. Who do you mean by “people of the Asia-Pacific”? Because it was all kumbaya out there?
No aggression by the Japanese. No invasion of Manchuria. No rape of nanking. No forced slave labor camps under Japanese rule? No extrajudicial killings of POWs or foreign non-combat…

1) Different kind of leaks. We’re talking about technology and procedures for industrial methods - hard stuff. You’re talking about what kind stupid stuff the shithead in chief wants. That’s not even apples to oranges. That’s apples to jackasses.

Disregard that. I started it and then tried to delete it. Don’t know why it stayed.

Really, I think people have forgotten the purpose of salt in these concotions - to dull the bitter component in cooking. If there is no bitter flavor, then there is no point.

Until you’ve embraced the distinct flavor of non-redneck white-trashiness that is Rhode Island, you won’t understand. But is it good. Damn good. One might even say wickhed good.

The South China Seas is indeed an American (read “our”) problem, even if you claim it is not “our job”. 43% of all goods traded, and 25% of all petroleum flows through the SCS. And we’ve all seen a) China’s cowtongue plan and b) how China likes to steward resources. If you don’t think this matters, then you need to…

“The only thing the Navy really has thats useful anymore is aircraft carriers and floating missile launch platforms, the traditional role of the Navy has been rendered obsolete by modern weapon technology.”
The role of the Navy is power projection and keeping the world at a state of realive peace for commerce. Are you

You can tell yourself that, but it was never that. The first people to receive Social Security never paid into it. It is a means for society to look after elders, not an investment or a reward.

Considering a large part of the United States’ economy earns money by staving off death (not improving health or curing disease), I imagine expenditures will skyrocket as “Boomers start to live with significantly increased medical expenditures in large numbers rather than die off”

It appears that these are out of stock. Shame. I bought a pair two weeks ago and loved them until I misplaced them during a work conference. Haven’t a clue where they went which is unlike me. Hazard of being so tiny, but so, so worth it.

It appears that these are out of stock. Shame. I bought a pair two weeks ago and loved them until I misplaced them…

Got any brunch recommendations for ORD? I’m getting a layover there next week following a redeye.