Um, sorry that was an honest question. There are a lot of weird details in this story that set off my radar. She is fully employed as a psychic which immediately says she’s a little kooky. She’s running for senate while still maintaining that job, frankly I find it bizarre someone who is publicly in that line of work…

Did you read the whole story? Frankly it sounds like Ellie thinks she may be lying about the whole bit about receiving threats and she sounds like a bit of a nutter who was soaking up DNC money. The message I took from this is that she may have been a saboteur candidate who may show up again.

The “all comments” button needs to go away entirely. I don’t want to only read author liked comments. We’ve had it for years now and literally the first thing I’ve done since day one is click it and wait for comments to load. I wonder if it gets them more ad revenue as an additional page load or something...

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this Stef, so jelly right now. That looked awesome!

I’ve read in places that US military may be operating the THAAD systems in place on the peninsula for the Saudi’s as that’s sensitive technology still. Haven’t seen it confirmed officially though, I assume that has yet to be determined. The Saudi’s seem to like flying as that’s a status symbol, the ships always look…

A big part of the F-35 is that it’s likely going to be used as a drone swarm coordinator. With it’s sensors it can have robots as wingmen with the pilot directing their use. You could do it all with pilotless aircraft but for now the military still feels having a human brain and eyes on the scene is worth the risk to…

The thing is the only reason why government bureaucrats exist in this regard is because ambitious rich guys have literally wrecked the shit out of cities and the environment in the past. I admire Musk for his hard work and ambition but it doesn’t negate the fact that doing what he’s proposing requires a shit ton of…

This is a great response though I think the DOD has transitioned away from developing specific platforms in light of the whole F-35 fallout. Honestly your suggestion falls directly under the OV-10 experiment from a few years ago

The Stratos is fucking sexy. Opinion piece, everyone has a different fetish, mine is the Scooby 22B.

My great grandparents had oceanfront property and literally everything gravel related on their property was crushed clam shells. My mom spent hours picking them out of our skinned up knees during my childhood.

You ever make it out to Westport or Ocean Shores when you were still a left coaster? They have mountains of the shells at some of the farms out there, never noticed a bad smell other than the standard stinky ocean smells. I know Washington has super strict laws about harvesting wild oysters (must schuck the oyster on…

In my humble opinion, best looking rally car ever. The RS200 comes in close second and all the Lancia’s after that. I still pine for an Impreza from that era and they are still bloody expensive!

First off I support Kaep and his protest and I think the vast majority of people preaching how awful he is are ignorant morons. Having said that he did do this which was pretty dumb.

The only complaint about Pratt that seems reasonable to me is that he and his wife seem to have questionable judgement with regards to pet ownership. I really don’t care that he is quietly religious and an outspoken outdoorsman, plenty of lefty’s are all those things. Honestly I think he’s the most normal of the…

The really bizarre thing is that Qatar hosts the most important US military base in the region, specifically so we wouldn’t have to keep negotiating with the Saudi’s for use of their facilities. Trump supporting the Saudi coalition and pointing at Qatar is literally undermining American interests.

Al-Udeid AB is massive and isn’t going anywhere. That place was a MAJOR investment for both the US and Qatar in the early 2000's and it’s primary function was to get out of having to deal with the Saudi’s for use of their facilities. I’m pretty sure no matter what Trump says publicly the US military is going to keep…

Obama laid some pretty harsh sanctions on Russia right at the end of his term that are still in place today in response to this. This is one of the main issues driving the Russia investigation, it really looks like the Trump campaign was talking to Russia about lifting those sanctions prior to both the election and…

I had A-10 Cuba! which I believe is the sequel to Attack! Super fun games, I used to spend hours just dicking around flying through canyons. It’s funny thinking about how great the graphics felt at the time and how dated it looks now. So much fun though, first time I remember a flight sim having a totally functional…

The Air Force has been pretty clear that they don’t intend to outright replace the A-10. The idea is that the F-35 and it’s sensor suite will be able to fill in the high altitude stuff and they have been hosting competitions for a low cost down low CAS fighter. So far it’s looking likely to be one of these:

This reminds me of my time back in the Air Force, had a pilot on a two week mission doing the Atkins diet and he found that the easiest way to stick to it was nothing but canned tuna or various forms of European tinned herring. He opened a can of Surstrommen on the plane after takeoff and we all nearly barfed for the…