This is my new entrance music. I don't even care what I'm entering, this will now be playing.

What about America 1952-1980 strikes you as a land of brilliant political minds?

Not going to see one of these kitted like this very often however. All of that cash spent making the plane stealthy is lost once you start hanging missiles on it.

I wont tell you that we cant improve - you can always get better. I wouldnt say that casualties are acceptable, either. Was just pointing out that in a world where it happens, its going to happen more with those weapons systems with the greatest opportunity.

Now, if you want to make the argument that A10's should…

The nature of a close air support plane. Blue on Blue happens. Shouldn't - but it does. It happened in European armies when people were still fighting with swords, for goodness sake.

The loiter time here is just fantastic. Not very many birds that can stay that low, that long, and provide continuous fires support of that nature. Takes big brass ones to fly like that. Thanks for the share.

who the hell are we killing here? Because I'd imagine he's quite dead. A few times over.

Fucking Bill Brasky.

You're right! Kind of. Its probably more accurate to say 'don't fuck with really large nations half a continent away from you.' We remember those empires which managed to conquer far off lands because...they're really rare. Supply lines are a bitch to maintain over a few hundred miles when all you've got are…

How long before the Doctor just shows up and starts yelling at people? Clearly, neither humanity nor our mechanical progeny have any respect for time travel.

Stark Enterprises is not pleased.

Serious question here engineer types...

All Doom, all the time. The power to speak in caps is not so easily defeated.

You're right. The system is racist - which is why this entire damn discussion is so sad. It doesnt actually matter if the officer was guilty of misconduct, or charged with a crime - what matters is that this case is used as a rallying cry for examination of a broken system. Instead, we're all shouting at each other…

I am the sads.

To date, my state has not -

Tried to shake me off of its back.
Started on fire.
Run out of water.
Buried me in mud.

I cant tell you how often I point to his examples when dealing with fundamentalists. Of course, his theology requires a nuanced view of religion - and that's so much harder than 'its all literal!'.

I can concede the point here.

I didn't say we have - I said we're close. I should probably qualify close though - I'm talking in the relative time frame of evolution (so centuries to millennia - not decades).

Thanks for the thoughts!