No offense intended. I knew a few very liberal staff officers in my day :)

That’s as it should be.

Haha. This line of thinking is hilarious. Firstly, it is not ‘your’ military. Second, you go ahead and try to get active service units to fire on American civilians. See what happens. Lastly, I think you will find that the political leanings of most active service personnel - especially line (as opposed to staff)…

I’m not saying who, but there is a ‘journalist’ who takes pride in the claim that he has had sex in every press car he has been given. Just saying.

I would never, ever buy a press car. I’ve seen things that can’t be unseen. But then again, most used cars have been through far more than buyers know.

Actually, they stuck that ‘D’ on there so it wouldn’t sound like ‘jette’ (to throw). The ‘J’ in French is kind of like the ‘Zh’ in Russian.

Is milk good for dehydration?

Listen boss, porus borders have to be closed. It would be a crimea not to. Isthmus too much to ask? Ukrain’t argue against this. Just don’t russia to judgement, otherwise your cattle will get covered in vegitation - moss cow. Or turn brown - Is tan bull..... If only Czar Nicolas was back in power. No one wanted to…

Yes! Bench seats!

Ha! I thought it was 29 promises, 15 excuses and 00 chances.

A really badly kept secret.

“FA: Bernie Sanders is correct, the DoD and the CIA have both stated many times that climate change is a catalyst for instability and conflict. If we are serious about eradicating groups like ISIS, we need to be serious about looking at all the systemic issues that may lead to these groups’ rise to power and sustained…

There is a great chart at the Titan Missile museum in Tucson, Arizona. It shows expected failure rates of the various stages of targeting, launch, flight, re-entry and mission completion - for both our stuff and the Russian missiles of the same era. The expected failure rates were surprisingly high.

And I think it’s funny you don’t think this conversation is evidence of people being narrow-minded about race, just not in the way you mean. Where we obviously disagree is whether the race of the James Bond character is of any importance. I am of the opinion that the race/gender/orientation/history/etc. of fictional…

“Could be” is not “necessarily”. It is a shame that it ‘could be’, but these are the times we live in (as evidenced by this conversation as well). Respecting the history of a character, and of the authors intent for that character, may be ‘closed-minded’, but that’s ok by me. Since we are continuing, I’ve asked before…

No. To be clear - I am saying this particular fictional character should not undergo a race-change for no good purpose. If you misunderstand that, I now understand why this conversation has gone nowhere.

You should have stopped at ‘we’ll agree to disagree’. I can see you’ve given up on following the discussion, and that’s fine. And I’m glad you made an attempt to understand a differing opinion than your own. You are just one step away from being a reasonable, thoughtful person - accepting an alternative opinion…

You are looking at this from an American perspective where we are all mongrels, don’t have a class system, and have spent over 100 years dealing with racial issues. England has none of those attributes. It is difficult to believe a character would have those motivations when he would be (at best) a second generation…

A review of Patrick’s review