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Also, won't the Israeli fighters have to violate other airspace to reach Iran? Other countries might not like that. The most significant issue with this is that they would need to transit US-controlled Iraqi airspace to attack a target in Iran, which would entail more or less direct permission from...

Yeah, for me it was the whole "committing a felony" thing with Clinton, not the extramarital affairs. Then there's the whole Vince Foster thing. You seriously believe in the Vince Foster conspiracy theories? This little exchange goes to show that the Lewinsky Scandal was the culmination o...

Serious investigations into the actual practices of the Church of Scientology are basically a fait accompli . Any investigation will find that the CoS is a cult and/or fraudulent criminal organization that needs to be suppressed by the application of state action, just as happened in France and Germ...

Rogers nearly got the upset, if he had better top control & balance he could've punched Fedor's head through the mat, but he didn't, and almost got armbarred when Fedor went for the escape. He was scoring solid punches on Fedor with his ground & pound but he just couldn't maintain his posit...

A lot of this is nostalgia, I think. I also remember the days any game shop would have possibly dozens of older, dirt-cheap games you might have missed or would now buy at a bargain price, but the market seems to have changed. Prices stay high, games that don't make a big splash simply disappear, e...

Wow, it turns out that Hasan attended the same radical mosque and liked the same radical iman as the...9/11 hijackers....during the same time period pre-9/11 as well! Don't say "the same mosque as the 9/11 hijackers" like it means anything, especially since it was only 2 of the 19 who att...

The last poll I've seen of his favorability numbers were 59% positive, 29% negative but that was back in May Coburn is solid with the right wing of the party, so he won't face a primary challenge from the right. Oklahomans tend to elect Republicans for national office by margins of around 30 points...

The interesting thing about this, to me, is that the Stupak amendment passed and has already ensured that no federal money will go to help women who need to terminate their pregnancies. There was really nothing in the bill for anti-abortion activists to complain about, except for their generalized s...

If people want to continue to talk to Chocula about his learned opinions on Islam they can do it in his new thread in the Hall of Shame. This story sounds like this guy agreed to work for the army for the money before 9/11, so the expectation that it would be an easy stretch would not have been unre...

Oh, I don't doubt that it was internal, rather than external, factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's just that I had a different understanding of which of those factors was most prominent. Understanding of the end of the Cold War in the West is heavily inflected by political con...

In the end in large scale conventional combat individual weapons are really just a way to defend tanks and artillery observers while they do the real killing. For a specific figure the number of small-arms rounds expended per enemy killed in Vietnam is usually given at 50,000. The vast majority of ...

I actually think stuff like the money balance really hurts the game - when I played on PC, I got the 50cal in a mission and nursed that bitch for ages, because it was so awesome. It woudl have been nice if the crates weren't so expensive, so you could keep such guns stored earlier. If you get aggre...

There's something willfully ignorant in talking about how it's dumb for the Nobel Committee to give Obama the Peace Prize when he hasn't done anything. Crack open a history book, guys, the Nobel Prize has been a joke for a long time. I mean, they gave the award to Henry Kissinger in 1973. Matt Taibb...

Oh sorry, no I was suggesting they're not really 'psychic' (like guys in Oblivion), they just have clumsy AI that sees through bushes, isn't bothered by the dark, etc. They still react and have to see things. I use fire to distract them all the time for melee kills; they're not literally informed a...

I said they were progressives, as opposed to the conservatives of the time. I said nothing about them being secular. If seems you can't read. Even in issues where religious feeling really did play a strong role, like the Mexican-American War or Slavery, it doesn't work, because in both cases the ov...

What are you talking about? Those were the conservative positions. The abolitionists were the progressives of the time. Er, what? The whole "God wants you to have slaves" is an entirely religious stance. You could say it was just being manipulated... except it was explicately supported by...

You actually think that development of new airplanes and/or rockets and missiles somehow constitutes support for science? Or that cancellation of such projects is an attack on science? Do you even know what science is? Science is a thing that defense contractors use to design weapons systems. Publi...

Matt Taibbi reminisces about an encounter he had with Alan Grayson before the man was a representative: I have personal experience with… well, let’s call it the unique personality of Alan Grayson. In his capacity as an attorney he once basically threatened to have me dismembered and have my body pa...

The Russian actors, aside from showing utter contempt for the police by standing in the open , also show a lot more familiarity with weapons. If you look at the character played by Brad Pitt in Heat , he consistently aims his rifle higher than the car or cop he's apparently trying to shoot. Althoug...

The thing that's weird about this to me is that it's not just fans of Polanski who are outraged over the arrest: it's French government officials. They can't understand why the US would have a legitimate interest in trying to put the guy in jail after he drugged and raped a kid, and then spent 30 y...

I've lived in the upper Midwest, Illinois and Wisconsin, for 63 years, and I don't recall any "sundown" laws in any area I lived in. I don't recall my parents or Grandparents talking about them either. Not to say they might not have existed,... just not where we were at. Here's a director...

The article in the OP talks about him traveling freely between countries gives a different impression, The article in the OP sucks and it omits facts that seriously alter the tenor of the story. For example the story says "Polanski fled America more than 30 years ago after pleading guilty to h...

It just seems rather strange that they'd wait over 30 years to follow up on the warrant. They didn't, it's just that the diplomatic procedures for requesting extradition made him very difficult to catch. France wouldn't extradite him, so he resided there. If he needed to travel to a country that mi...

Have you any proof that the media is status-quo? In other words, more dickless Axis Kast [[citation needed]] argumentation. No, I don't have any quotes of media stars announcing that they love the status quo. What I did was make a reasonable inference based on their behavior in a number of cases. E...

Because he escaped his sentencing, perhaps? He wasn't going to hang around, and that made the US want to get at him more pressing, I suppose. I honestly can't see the point to a prison term now, and I doubt the girl involved really wants this dragging up after so long. The main argument for sending...