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This kind of touches on where my thoughts are at the moment. I'm curious if the European coalition can stick together. There will be differing national interests and alignments (eastern nations vs western nations, coastal nations vs more land locked, etc) as well as demographic problems. I'm curious if one nation starts down the domestic nuclear program path, does that result in others following suite? Is Russia enough of a boogey man to keep them all focusing in one direction?

Parliament in Finland just passed a bill (2/3 majority) to lift a ban on nuclear weapons that had been in place since the 80s. This website indicates it'd most likely be fighters (F-35 or Rafale) and either US or French weapons. That said, Foxnews indicates the lifted ban would also repeal a ban on production. I would think Finland producing their own nukes is unlikely compared to the previous examples. But if they don't get some nukes on their territory, they might. In context with the UK defense minister's warning/resignment, it's going to be interesting in the coming years; to what degree will the European rearmament include nuclear weapons?

Straw man. You should re-read the declaration of independence and the constitution. You do not understand them. In what forum will you be proving this and to whom? Ad-hominin

You are rationalizing an outcome you want while ignoring any counter points. You justify curtailing due process and habeas corpus, hand way away actual examples of government screw ups all around you. Bananas!

RIP Evil Him Him

In one sentence you go from shifting the goalpost to rationalizing eliminating all checks and balances on individual rights. You also keep talking about proving your citizenship, while defending eliminating the very forum where you would do that. On a board where there is an entire thread about cops being malicious screwups, in a world where the most technically advanced intelligence apparatus in history bombed a school, and you're ok with no built in check/balance? Bananas

A 4 second Google search produces multiple claims of detained/deported citizens and legal immigrants. Some of this is obviously dubious, but due process is how that is sorted out. Trusting "the most unfathomably complex surveillance tools ever imagined by man" without any oversight is an insane violation of basic civil liberties.

You're making a strawman argument and you know it. Bad Ratner. Prove this person is an illegal alien, before imprisoning them and deporting them. Cause the government never makes mistakes, this should be easy.

Fellas/sock-puppets, there are no tin pot dictators that trusted the US prior to this. Smoking Ghaddafi ironed that out for them all. Everyone gets kid gloves after getting nukes, and death by unga bunga before that. Iran knew what it could do with the straight. That was true before the advent of drones or this most recent boondoggle. We argued about this same topic on this board 20 years ago, and that was one side of that argument then. Freedom of international water ways isn't a natural state of things, it is put in place by a global police state under the threat of war. Everyone had a good idea that said threat wasn't real anymore, and was just letting it ride for mutual benefit and caution.

37 flavors of Christian and everything else is an umbrella category. Pretty easy case to be made that it's a violation of the first amendment.

If continued military action is desired, the logical thing is to continue the blockade while striking as required to self defend. And sink or seize the entire shadow fleet that was involved in running Iranian oil. Otherwise, min engagement. Take the IRGC's money. Let them break themselves trying to stretch this out. Turn this into Northern/Southern watch.

Hopefully the institutional myopia doesn't set in before that actually happens.

So the exec mafia can get around the WIC.

You clearly don't know what it takes to fly precision loops to Van Halen, while taking all the 60 series.

CH, a suggestion: put a sharpie mark on that enbloc clip. Include an up direction. That way if it happens again, you can see about isolating it to gun vs clip. The up arrow is to check it against which set of feed lips (I think those can go in either way, right?) Good luck, I know how frustrating feeding issues are.

What would Jonathan Taylor Thomas do? That's what I asked before going into combat.

Ah, the Maryland politics angle.

This is true. I have three SA 1911/2011s, one is a TRP from 2015 timeframe. The fit is good, so is the accuracy. I shot it a lot. I also have a stainless range officer that is very loose (from day one), and was terrible accuracy wise and a Prodigy that was also terrible (after the Cerakote wore off). Mileage may vary.

At the risk of being told "no shit": Kimber warranty service is terrible. I bought a long slide 10mm double stack 1911 (DS Warrior LS) mainly since a 6 inch barreled 2011 in 10mm seems comically fun. But their new 2011s seemed to be getting good reviews, so I figured I'd give em a try. It didn't run. over the course of 100 rounds, it would three point jam once per magazine (maybe 2 out of 3 magazines) give or take. So I RMA'd it. They found a feed ramp that was not in spec and said the pistol woul need a new barrel, and I would have to pay for it (no chance). Their justification was "the modification/polishing apparent on the barrel is not consistent with any work we perform at the factory." On the phone the rep said it would never have got out of their (paraphrase) looking like that. Basically, they don't make mistakes. I had the gun store verify with the distributer that the gun was in fact new, and hadn't been a test gun or something. Brand new. So basically one of their techs fucked this thing up, and QC missed it, and I'm left holding the bag. Since they will never get another dime of my money, I'll probably spend a bunch more to get a legit smith to build something cool. So don't buy Kimber. They're just as shit as ever. Que the "no shit sherlock" responses. I deserve them.

Ah yes, the "skin on the line" defense. The second cousin of the wookie defense.

Van Dyke was charged with “unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.” Semantics aside, my point stands.

Of a sort, yes.

Insider trading and fraud. Classified info or not, this is pretty clear cut.

Just to clarify for the heavy guys: Fighter RTMs all have 96 sorties. So two sorties per week, over a 48 week training year. So they calendar determines the size of the pie. It was a big "ah-ha" moment for me when I figured that out. That's about what we were talking about at ACC back then.

Hogs have a BFM requirement now. The RTM is a zero sum game, put something in, you must take something out.