I’m guessing this was an attempt to thwart possible suicide attack via abducted light aircraft - or even attacks by remote-controlled drones.

It’s not the comment that gives them away, its the denial that invariably follows.

Putin is not there to defeat ISIS, he is there to prop up Assad. One of the factions fighting Assad’s regime are ethnic Turks (Turkomen); who , incidentally, also fight ISIS when ISIS forces are nearby.

Putin learned, at his warriors’ expense (as usual), that Turkey will defend its ethnic minorities and will not tolerate Russia bombing them, even if they are in Syria. Russia had been warned by Turkey about this in the past. That people were being bombed is what makes this incident of border violation different from…

All that’s wrong in today’s America, summarized neatly in this one bigoted idiot.

The H2 Hummer turned out to be a dog once I drove one for a week. I always admired them from a distance but then hated the damn thing once I wrestled it around a bit on the streets and freeways. Fortunately, I was only buying and exporting it for someone else and so I did not have to deal with buyer’s remorse.

I’ve owned at least 3 AMD cards and more than that in Nvidia cards over the years. Every last AMD card failed in use, typically well within a year and sometimes within weeks of installation. Every Nvidia card I’ve ever owned lasted until upgraded, typically a 2-4 year service period. That’s all I need know or have to…

Another Russian airline tragedy. Typically these are caused by either too much vodka or too little maintenance. The former is usually consumed by mechanics on the ground and the latter is not always mechanics’ fault, more to do with managers pocketing funds intended for spares and inspections.

I’m going to guess that most new Cherokees are going to be driven by soccer moms who drive them on the freeway to a mall where they spend $600 on a purse. That’s who the Cherokee was designed for.

Why do I get sudden recall of a film (& novel) entitled “The Bedford Incident” reading this? Rings eerily prescient, that’s why.

I was buying my first Mac at the time, which had very few games in the beginning. Went to an arcade or two for missile defense or somesuch. Never played a single one of these Mario games though.

Sometimes car salesman are just strange, but in a good way. When I was a teenager living in Sacramento back in 1969, I bought an army surplus M151 Mutt, produced by Ford, got it running, fixed it up and hand painted it International Orange with a gloss black windshield frame. When six months later I got bored with it…

If its out there and can be seen, they want it to be seen. More than that is conjecture.

We had the Jeep, then the Mutt, then the Hummer, so this is logically the Hump. But let’s face it, the grunts will call it the same thing they called the others: “pieceocrap.”

Always tickles my fancy to see Ed Heinemann’s Hot Rod still strutting its stuff after all these years. Talk about a classic combat aircraft.

“Our JLTV has been extensively tested and is proven to provide the ballistic protection of a light tank, the underbody protection of an MRAP-class vehicle, and the off-road mobility of a Baja racer” ...all in one vehicle costing about as much as you would pay if you bought the other three separately.Well, exaggeration…

Glad to see Cuomo appreciates New York sex should stay in the back alleys and mayor’s closet, where it belongs.

Did you perform the secret handshake with the hotel clerk? I’m guessing not.

As an atheist, these stories have me convinced that there is a Hell and that restaurant workers live in it.

Army brat here, from 1948 to 1969 when my army sergeant dad returned from Viet Nam. It really is a different life, one that I’ll never regreat having been brought up in. The exposure to different peoples, cultures, languages and geography is unsurpassed for bringing up individuals with a great capacity for learning…