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Posted By pc25 6 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsDangerously close airstrike in support of US Marines in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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Goppy6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I don't know what 'badmouthing' ... you are talking about ... unless you are referring to Rush Limbaugh calling our American Soliders "Phony".
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The sad fact is ... those who yell the LOUDEST that they support our troops ... are the SAME folks who support the Modern Republicans who TALK the TALK ... but don't WALK the WALK.
1) Modern Republicans have been working to gut the GI Bill for decades - in spite of the fact that it's been proven to be a fantastic program.
2) The Modern Republicans voted AGAINST a one-time bonus promoted by Democrats for soldiers fighting in Iraq - to compensate them for those Extended Tours.
3) The Modern Republicans voted to CUT IN HALF ... funding for Head Trauma Centers for soldiers and veterans - this, at a time when Head Trauma injuries were rising due to IED's.
4) The Modern Republicans did NOTHING as Walter Reed Hospital ... in WASHINGTON DC was collapsing around our wounded soldiers. Now I will allow that I don't think this was due to the STANDARD Disrespect that Republicans give our Soldiers ... I think it's symptomatic of their INCOMPETENCE.
5) Bush offered the LOWEST Cost of Living Increase in nearly 20 years ... this, during a time when he was demanding extended tours of ALL Soldiers serving in Iraq.
6) During the Bush Administration, it was discovered that a large portion of military barracks across the nation were decrepit hell holes - with extensive mold, and electrical problems - some soldiers had been electrocuted.
7) Did I mention that Republicans have been trying to GUT the GI Bill ... including John McCain?
But I don't expect y'all to understand what these FACTS have to do with your fake support for our American soldiers.
Some of you are only in it for the money ... as military contractors ... taking money from the government with ONE side of your mouth ... while lampooning the government for spending too much out of the OTHER side of your mouth.
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Believe me ... the ONLY friend of The American Solider at this point in American history is the Democratic Party.
It pains me to say that ... as a supporter of Barry Goldwater as a young man ... but The Modern Republican party is the party of hypocrisy ...
Actions speak ... Words are Weak.
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FrankHummel6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Probably the GREATEST foolishness committed by "our" marvelous MIS"management" (BOTH “political” and also “corporate”) in "modern" times has been the failure to actually respond intelligently to fundamental, evolving TECHNOLOGICAL realities of the era --- and most notably, the steady, ongoing exhaustion of "our OWN" PETROLEUM resources. The MIS"leaders" of not only “Government” but also of "Big OIL" and "Big AUTOS" (and all their many thralls), instead of seriously pursuing the sorts of alternatives that COULD (and SHOULD!) have been phased in gradually over the course of the last quarter of a century or so now already in order to OPTIMIZE THE CHARACTER AND QUALITY OF "OUR" PRODUCTS, have preferred instead to merely MAXIMIZE "THEIR" MONEY!
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The immutable fact of the matter is that "we" could LONG AGO now already have easily FLAT-OUT ELIMINATED about THREE-FOURTHS of all that importation of oil to refine into gasoline to fuel our automotive vehicular fleet --- had "we" but had the wisdom and wit to have done so --- and "we" would then have AVOIDED all the waste of an entire WAR that is (actually) being fought over the stuff!
Now however OUTRAGEOUS and OUTLANDISH such an assertion may sound to many, make no mistake about it: PRECISELY THAT genuinely, absolutely IS the inescapable implication of the “new” ELECTRIC / I.C.E. “chimera” automotive architectural concept --- exemplified by the (hopefully) soon-to-be forthcoming (but really much BELATED!) Chevy VOLT --- or if not THAT, then by its now even-slightly-farther-advanced EUROPEAN counterpart (jovially dubbed the AMPERE), and/or undoubtedly very soon OTHER “entries” in the “development derby” coming from ASIA. The basic idea involves BATTERY POWER carrying the car a substantial distance (in the case of the VOLT, FORTY miles), with an internal combustion engine then kicking in if (and only if) the battery runs down.
But FULLY THREE-FOURTHS of all personal auto usage “fits” within a forty-mile power budget! You go to the store, bank, doctor, etc. and you come back home AND PLUG THE CAR BACK INTO THE WALL. MOST OF THE TIME THE GASOLINE ENGINE NEVER OPERATES! And even when it DOES (e.g. long trips), the overall fuel efficiency is ACTUALLY GREATER than the wasteful-anachronism architecture to which people have for so long been inured. In GENERAL, the OPERATING COST is SIGNIFICANTLY LESS: about 80 cents worth of “grid” power “fills the tank”; eight such charges, coming to $6.40, yield 320 miles --- about the same distance as a tank of gasoline THAT COSTS ABOUT FOUR TIMES AS MUCH! MOREOVER, YOU COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE ELABORATE, TROUBLESOME, EXPENSIVE TRANSMISSION --- which ought to itself greatly reduce the initial cost of PRODUCING autos --- ASIDE from the lower cost of OPERATION!-
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FrankHummel6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Now note that there really is NO(!) "new, exotic" technology involved --- BOTH components of the “chimera” are VERY OLD technologies! ELECTRIC cars have been around since the EARLIEST days of the automobile. And the I.C.E “fallback” component, involving a petroleum-powered engine coupled NOT to a TRANSMISSION / DRIVE TRAIN but, rather, merely to a GENERATOR that supplies the ELECTRIC drive motors (which had been powered by the BATTERY until it ran down) is a paradigm implemented LONG AGO on a much LARGER scale on the RAILROADS and also in the BIGGEST SHIPS on the high seas! Anybody ever hear of the DIESEL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE?? (It has been around since I was a kid back in the 1950s!) Really BIG-MUSCLE machines have LONG relied on relatively simple, UNbreakable MAGNETIC-FORCE drive elements rather than on complex, fallible mechanical ones --- because “we” simply couldn’t BEGIN to engineer a viable CLUTCH for coupling internal combustion engines (which CAN'T OPERATE DOWN AT ZERO RPM!) to really HEAVY loads!
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Moreover, “we” should ALSO now get busy converting “our” large trucks and other heavy vehicles over to (“our” OWN!) NATURAL GAS (in the form of LNG) --- which “we” have in abundance (for quite a while longer, until HYDROGEN alternatives are ultimately developed) --- per the proposals now being advanced even by famed “oil”man “T-Bone” Pickens. And THAT TOO could (and SHOULD!) have been done long ago now already!
Now I wonder just how such technological / economic realizations must now weigh on all the many foolish folks who long SPONSORED and BANKROLLED the likes of a Saddam Hussein for the sake of what he “had to sell” --- and who then later have perhaps even THEMSELVES been lured off into fighting a dirty little “OIL war” over in Iraq in which about a MILLION Iraqis have now perished, and millions more have been made refugees --- making “us” lots of enemies the world over, and in quite a few cases even coming back dead or permanently damaged --- and/or on those who may have lost loved ones or friends therein? It is surely a HATEFUL reality to which to have to face up. But would it somehow be any “better” for people to now instead just meekly try to erect a “psychological defensive barrier of DENIAL” --- letting what SHOULD be their RIGHTFUL wrath and ire be “harmlessly” diverted over to and dissipated on mere practitioners of artificial hocus-pocus involving our “financial system”??! Would THAT not actually merely COMPOUND the REAL fraud that has been foisted off on the REALLY aggrieved victims??! -
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jimdoze6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Can't be done given the anti-nuke lobby, Frank.
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Where do you think the energy comes from when you plug your car into the wall? The wall doesn't produce it, Frank. A hydrocarbon residue belching power plant generates it... and then a good deal of it is lost in the transmission to your wall. 80 cents worth of grid power to fill the tank? Nonsense! Only if electricity production is massively subsidized. And, who do you think would pay for the subsidies?
The reason auto transportation has defaulted to gasoline is because it is portable and, on a basis relative to other modes of energy delivery, very inexpensive.
Wind power and photovoltaics are great. But, it will easily be a half century, and probably more, before they will make a substantial dent in energy production.
It is very clear from screeds like this that the fundamentals of physics and economics are sorely lacking in modern American education.
By the way, of the daily flow of massive amounts of oil essential to the world economy, absolutely zero is coming out of Afghanistan. Never has been any.
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canadianrancher576 months, 3 weeks ago
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I shouldn't watch videos like this, they are sort of like starting to watch a really interesting movie and then not getting to see the end,and they always leave me with so many questions. Questions like after the first missle there was machine gun fire was it ours or theirs and after the second missle there was still gun fire. Then theres the question of what type of missle was used and were they shooting at a building or another wall, another question would be was this at the beginning or end of the day.
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Enough with the questions though, and I wish these people nothing but to return home safely, and also to say thanks for their efforts in the war against terrorism. -
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orndorffter6 months, 3 weeks ago
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What brave men and wemen we have they well give their all and their life for us and our country, the danger they face every day, not just one are Hero's but every single one of them are and may God be with them and bring them home safe. pc you showed me the dangers and when I go to bed tonight my prayers well be going up for them. We need to focus more on our troops then what we do. I know I say that my brother died a Hero but he's not the only Hero, they go in so young and come back a man. Thank you pc that was the best vedio I have seen. Lets always remember them and what their mission is for. America should be very prould of them, I know I am.
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