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Actually your statement is BS. Copy Gadget Bent, Screw it...Fox Three anyway!

Pointless, you are confusing not only arguments but posters.

Dude, I was making a point. Smarter people than me still have to decide the legality which as well all know often differs from the science. I've heard arguments all over the place from conception to viability to birth. As I mentioned I am only 51% in favor of abortion, I think it is abhorrent, truly HORRIBLE, but I can't make the mental leap to telling a woman what to do with her body. I am religious...I have TWO aunts that are nuns, but I certainly don't agree with everything under the banner and I remove myself from secular arguments. I 100% agree that at some point there is a human there...100%. I do not support late-term abortion or what the wackos believe like up until birth. When did I compare miscarriage or a pregnant woman being murdered? I think you have crossed streams/posts (standing by apology.) It is a messy issue and the Va governor belief is again, absurd. Again, I 100% agree with you on the timeline and plan B pill. My belief is not perfect or without confliction, but somewhere early on, there is room for a woman to decide what she does with her own body.

Disingenuous? I have to be wed to your all in or all out argument? GTFO.

Not a dodge at all and brother and thanks, you just proved my point. When life begins has NOT been settled, certainly not in the court, but you automatically default to it is life and it is aborted out of convenience because that is YOUR moral belief. The only court settled opinion (Stare Decisis), on Abortion was Roe V Wade.

The problem is the government continues to show a willingness to break the law and do what ever the F they want. Breaking today The CDC reportedly monitored the location data of millions of phones

I am really looking forward to the May 3rd Insurrection hearings and prosecutions.

Funny thing, our Constitution (maybe you've heard of it), is supposed to allow me to believe whatever I choose, even if my beliefs straddle political parties and NOT be constrained by or become a prisoner of a single party.

Hunter Biden Laptop Whistleblower Sues Schiff, CNN, The Daily Beast , Politico

So in a country based on freedom we are going to regulate based on YOUR morals and beliefs, not mine, YOURS. It is just too convenient for a woman to control her own body, YOUR morals get to dictate her body and moral choices. Line up everyone and get your mandatory vaccine, I believe it is the morally right thing for YOU to do. Next it will be against your morals to kill animals and eat meat - everyone gets to be a vegan. I am going to tread very carefully here but I would invite you and others to read Freakanomics. The authors attempt a purely statistical analysis of the impact of political and social decisions. They present some rather compelling (and disturbing), data that shows a drop in crime rate aligned directly to abortion. They go fairly deep and show a drop in crime in each state based on the date abortion became legal in that state. The insinuation is the aborted were that bad part of the population...yes a horrific argument. I think what they are actually trying to say is those on the lower end of the economic spectrum have a fewer support mechanisms that lead to them being productive members of society. Again, a very clinical and sad observation. What we do know is that minorities resort to abortion at a FAR greater rate. As an example the abortion rate for African American women is FIVE times that of white women.

Incorrect, 25 states will likely immediately pass laws banning abortion in half the country...some of them on VERY slim majorities. When making the states rights argument I assume you are universal in that belief? Individual states can outlaw guns or stop minorities form voting, I mean who needs the Supremacy Clause? Lets base the whole thing on states rights, the strategy argued by the southern slave owning states. Yes we are a republic but some on brother...very shaking ground.

It has begun...

This ruling will be...well an abortion. To overturn a ruling that is Stare Decisis merely for political reasons is absurd. Stand by to re-adjudicate every milestone decision each time one party take control and gets more justices on the court. Prepare for an onslaught from the left to pack the court and go after every conservative ruling. Really? So many battleground states that will sway by very small majorities and you are telling them to just get out because of a very draconian ruling based on religion. News flash, they won't move, abortions WILL continue even when a state says not in my backyard. I feel sad for a lot of women who will go underground and resort to abortion in the shadows, some will pay with their lives...but hey as long as the bible bangers are happy. This will also be the demise of the GOP who was poised to sweep the mid-terms, you just lost a LOT of independents. All of the recent appointees refused to answer pointed questions about Roe V Wade but they each sat there and mentioned Stare Decisis and its importance, then they turned around and voted to overturn, disgusting. Now the court has gone the way of the political parties. Truly sad.

I disagree and think an objective mind would look at the emails, the pictures, the money and the testimony from folks who were there and at the very lease arrive at the conclusion that this needs to be investigated, not suppressed. I think a non-partisan investigation MUST happen. I 100% agree but we have seen the press become completely bifurcated along partisan lines. The press (on both sides of the aisle), rather than act as the 4th estate has turned into a cheerleader for each political candidate. Honestly I expect political parties to act stupid, but I never thought the press would be such a failure, we REALLY need them acting as a check on power to keep our system viable. I agree here as well, I voted for Trump both times, VERY reluctantly the second time. He is a narcissistic ass clown but many (not all), of his policies were working and I was very concerned about the uber-liberal wing of the DNC controlled power and driving decisions like they are able to do with Biden. I hope Trump doesn't run again, I fear he will and he is doing great damage to the GOP and ruining a chance for them to be a moderate party more in the middle. This Roe V Wade fiasco isn't going to help matters either. Of course, that is the foundation of our country, we can discuss dissenting view, sometime very passionately. We may yell at each other and vehemently disagree but I am not going to commission a hit man to kill you and your family to eliminate your opinion. Can you imagine some of these discussions in Russia or China? An interesting generalization. Numerous studies have shown a decline in adherence to religion in our country and I think that translates to the military as well, likely because we hold a range of beliefs that don't nest exclusively in party. I consider myself a Republican, but many in the party would disown me because I believe in abortion (51% vote in favor in my pear brain mainly because of women's rights, it is abhorrent but I have ZERO right telling a woman what to do with her body), I am in favor of gay rights and gay marriage (I could care less what you do in your own home and I truly want EVERYONE to be happy). I agree. It is probably obvious the laptop absolutely enrages me. There is so much circumstantial evidence but NO ONE on the left (including you and other more liberal folks on this forum), can take a minute to honestly say yeah that doesn't smell right, we need the truth.

The lady that will be leading this board labeled the Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinformation and by your rule set it would have ceased to exist. If you can't grip the importance of that one fact, then yes it is a massive waste of time for you to be here.

We are saying the same thing. As most know USAF bet the enterprise on 5th gen (for good reason), in the middle of a war with dudes running around Afghanistan with AK-47s and IEDs. The real damage occurred during the fight between Gates v Moseley/Wynne. At that point ATF had been a program of record for 20 years and they wanted to see it through because they saw the long-term threat and the absolute need for 5th gen if we were going to fight/deter China and Russia. Gates was focused on the now (again for good reason), young men and women were being blown up everyday and Gates wanted drastic action and response to stop the damage. Forcing USAF to field 100+ orbits of RPA manned at 9:1 gutted the Air Force in both personnel and treasure. We never got credit (or resourcing), for using up 20+ years of a modern Air Force flying two No-Fly zones over Iraq. In the environment the Air Force made some tough (often Sofie's Choice), type resourcing decisions that ultimately cost CSAF and SECAF their jobs. As such we kicked the AWACS can down the road, we kicked the JSTARS can down the road, we kicked the CSAR can down the road, we kicked the nuclear enterprise can down the road and we kicked the tanker can down the road. Now all the cans are rusted and need to be replaced in what would have been a decreasing fiscal environment (if not for Ukraine), and at a time when were are trying to field large numbers of the most expensive procurement program in the history of DoD. All of that being said, just because we have to make tough decisions doesn't give permission to make hasty faulty decisions. Does Wedgetail takeoff and land more often that the E-3, yup but not as often as it should and more importantly not as often as other options. I say again, the Aussies are having a TERRIBLE time with Wedgetail, as are the South Koreans...to the point South Korea is going to buy something else! Is anyone paying attention? Air Force seniors reference commercial fleet reliability rates when they talk about Wedgetail "90+% reliability rate" when the Aussies and Koreans are seeing 60% on their Wedgetails, some issues so severe they only fly at night. There are options that fly faster, higher, further with a MUCH better radar that could be on the ramp in about the same time as Wedgetail but we are so myopic we can't take an honest look. The Air Force is acting like an 18 year old who spent years struggling to catch a glimpse of side boob through the neighbors window. Miraculously he got laid by the fat chick down the street and now he is in love, he can't see anything else and wants to get married because it never felt so good. Forget the fact that he got into the University of Alabama with some of the dumbest yet hottest nymphomaniac blondes in the nation. I hope something changes, I hope they use the decision space to make a choice that solves the immediate problem while providing for the future. And yes, the maintainers are magicians, unsung heroes who have made us all look good for many many years.

No! Why do our seniors fall for the Jedi Mind Trick? How about we be good stewards of our nation's treasure and start with what it the requirement and what is the timeline. Are all the current E-3's falling out of the sky tomorrow? Wedgetail is indeed better than the E-3 but it is still 15 year old technology that will be two generations behind even if it was fielded in six months. What if there was a solution that was an revolutionary change in capability rather than Wedgetail that is an evolutionary change. USAF is so blinded by the fact the Wedgetail is better than E-3, they can't see beyond their Stockholm Syndrome and realize there are things MUCH better than Wedgetail that can probably be delivered on about the same timeline.

I don't read Breitbart, never have. I think you have missed the main point, I DO care about the second quote. Ever larger portions of the population (especially the younger crowd), get their news online and from social media (wasn't that the thing that started this fight), and I don't think the government should be empowered in ANY realm to decide what is news and what isn't. Again look no further than the Hunter Laptop, I don't know if Joe Biden is dirty, I certainly hope he isn't, but the laptop is real and and raises some questions that need to be investigated and answered. Twitter/Facebook purposely hid the story, shutdown the ability of news paper to publish on their platform and now the government wants to participate in that. Her quote specifically says remove those fake voices, so she and her board could decide on stories they deem fake news and remove them. Imagine if Nixon had that power. If you read some of the editorials out there (likely fueled by "on background administration folks", they have even suggested a legal thread to take down websites or "organizations" they deem as fake news. In other words they are trying to postulate derived powers in DHS that likely don't exist, but would be extremely dangerous. If this happens it will of course go direct to SCOTUS and shockingly one or two liberal justices will be in favor, but it will be shot down. The bigger point is the people in charge think this is ok...they are comfortable enough to say it out loud in front of Congress and a camera. Not to the same extent, we are comparing oranges and thermonuclear weapons, if you disagree on the point above then there is no sense debating this one.

Have a buddy at Southwest who posted this: We had a full class of 30 new hires; only 10 showed up for class, why? Long time to upgrade (10+ YEARS), we fly more than our peers for same or less pay, poor contract. Not so at Delta and FedEx…for starters….

Should be good, it was Fundy that was hacked then taken down at the request of the Russians.

The other piece is USAF pushed an RFI to industry as park of their "market research." By business rules if their is more than one technically compliant response they have to go to an RFP. Multiple companies responded and the USAF graded the homework in hours...literally HOURS. large documents full of engineering reviewed and discounted in hours, ultimately declared "not technically feasible. That response meant USAF could say there is only one choice so we are going to sole source to Boeing...AND we are going to give BOEING a contract to grade the submissions for the NATO AWACS replacement...including their own. Honestly I believe this is on par with the tanker shenanigans that put people in jail.

Not applicable in this case...True AGILE is simply a programing method not an acquisition process. I won't list them here, if you are on a .mil net simply contact PEO-FW and they will share their AGILE programs. I can assure you there are numerous highly successful, once of them running for over 15 years. I will share an example of the benefits of AGILE. From the LAE one of the programs was restricted to TPS grads only because the plane had not been certified by the Air Force. There was an O-6 TPS grad who was a GRP/CC who flew that airplane and gave an input to the team about the HOTAS arrangement (I think a sensor or weapons slaving input). He came back for a second flight a week later and the team informed him the change had been made in MMS for HOTAS. At first he didn't believe it. That change was now in the OFP which includes STC approval because it can communicate with he autopilot. The company was able the change overnight, sent it to the SIL for regression testing, then to the OEM for two test flights, all completed within 7 days thanks to AGILE and without breaking the STC. The same change in the F-16 OFP using waterfall would have taken 6 months or more. Shack! There are other more capable radars that are TRL-9 as well as platforms out there. The risk and delivery schedule is the same and at a lower cost point. The problem is USAF has to take more than a cursory look. Again, I refer you to the problems Wedgetail is currently having.

How did you donate? The Russians hacked his Fundy link. I have his wire info and Venmo.

A good man and good friend, doing incredible work over there.

Wouldn't than mean we should censor Jen Psaki who from the White House Podium has shared these truth bombs: "Hunter Biden Story is Russian Disinfo" "Putin Price Hike on gas" "Inflation is transitory" "It is irresponsible to say Americans are stranded in Afghanistan, they are not" "Psaki denies transporting illegal immigrants at 0230 AM is the middle of the night, calls it early flight"