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  1. The Ukrainians in the east want to join and voted too join Russia before the Ukrainian army began to attack them late spring. So what's new? As for Tawian it has always had a tedious relationship with Mainland China. Tibet has long time 20th century history too. What does any of that have to do with my previous post? I only noted that the world is changing and there shall be more than one dominant power as this century passes by. It does not matter if you, me or any other here do not like it or what have you, but you better get use to the concept of it all. Living in the past, cir
  2. WTF is your problem? Instead of chirping idiotic comments, how about reading what I said and think a bit before you reply. My previous post never defended Russia today nor the USSR yesterday. I merely noted that the Russians are not coming but they sure the Hell see NATO sitting now at their door step. Putin is as much a Commie as you are. He is as self-centered and cronyistic as most any politician the west including those in the USA. This gibberish that he is creating havoc on Ukraine is B.S. spread by first the US State dept. Type in VICTORIA NULAND on a search BUB! and se
  3. ] From The Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man. The day arrives for Chambers's excursion to the Kanamits' planet. Just as he mounts the spaceship's boarding stairs, his staffer Patty appears. He waves, smiling, but she runs toward him in great agitation. While being held back by a Kanamit guard, Patty cries: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The rest of the book To Serve Man, it's... it's a cookbook!" Chambers tries to run back down the spaceship's stairs, but a Kanamit blocks him, the stairs retract, and the ship immediately lifts off. :lol:/>/> One of the many very good Twi
  4. Aliens and UFO's There are many ideas and theories on such including having Earth been visited by such. Some people explain vast space travel via worm holes etc. The idea that the universe is like the surface of an expanding balloon with all the galaxies on said surface. To travel from one to the other looks to require much like riding our Earthly oceans riding the surface till we get to the next place. But worm holes are like burrowing through holes on a straight line meaning distance be traveled may be shorter. An interesting experiment on the topic of distance that one can try with
  5. The difference is that the Russians unlike the former Soviets are not Red Commies. Putin is as as selfish, myopic and greedy as well as corrupted and his inner circle as cronyistic as any other western nations' peers including that of the USA. Today it's not Us vs Them in a Bi-polar, ideological divide, but one of a top dog being the USA seeing that other near top dogs are nipping at its proverbial heels and these other growing more influential nations are not just going to sit on their collective hands and take it forever. The powers inside the halls and in the dirty back rooms of
  6. Extending my best wishes for a full and swift recovery.
  7. So the athletes or teams who lost are likely just as good in being pissed off at God for losing and not getting the gift? It's not a gift if others MUST LOSE! Added, Atheletes as you said may not pray for an outcome but fans do. I said that God likely has no care in such sporting events As to nations, a nation does not act on one mind. So how can God bless a nation as its peoples are of many thoughts and not all of the same mind or faith. This is why blessing a nation state is unrealistic and has no relevance for God. God blessing good men/women is fine. But for every good
  8. Seriously man you need to clear you head before you read such text because what you chime as an a insulting retort to me, I did not speak as such. As to Normandy what I said is very true. From Allied Paratroopers loading up on planes and gliders to men embarking on ships, that day men of faith likely all the major ones stood before them all and with them prayed for God's aid and believing God was on their side. But also on the shores of France that day German soldiers as many were certainly religious they too prayed for God and believed that God was on their side. That i
  9. For my sanity, I try not to discuss faith of any religious kind with others. I'm not a religious person per se. I live life based on what I know and experience, but I am open minded and like to believe in things that may be unsubstantiated. I see how such things can be a religious faith. Faith I or any other may have is a personal thing, THAT'S ALL! I do not believe in a lot of religious hyperbole and I do not believe in say oh thinking that 10-100-1000-10,000 or more folks falling to their knees and praying for a God's intervention has any affect on an outcome. But it may have
  10. From my years of trying to understand faith and what is important to me about it all. God did not create the nation state, man did so why should God pick any one or group as higher or more worthy of some blessing(s) over any other? I also doubt God cares as to who wins in a sporting event to by some divine intervention pick one team or athlete over another. All this God bless and Thank God stuff as ascribed to nation states or to some even inane personal request or status is psychological pablum for our own personal minds and conscience. But if people get something out of i
  11. It's not about a lack of faith Bill, but of respect to a God who IMO probably has no interest in picking and aiding winners from losers in sports, or in picking one nation state or peoples over another in terms of his blessings. Last I checked God looked at all of us as mankind not by our birth certificates (which none of us had any say in when being born) and our passports. Sorry, that's my beliefs and my faith. Peace out. B)
  12. Nothing new in life and history. During WWII every German soldiers uniform had sewn on it "Gott mit uns" translation "God with us". Interesting how humans choose to relate what they think and believe are God's wishes and desires.
  13. No lecture, but only revealing the truth. You can freely choose to know it or not.
  14. Well ok then, no need to get huffy, no sense discussing such further as all sides apparently do keep fighters near by their respective spy planes and other planes used to test other nations air defences. It's all ok then as long as all sides doing such keep this espionage or other military aircraft probing inside international airspace which looks to be the way it is and has been. 40+ years of Cold War saw this often and we all came through fine. It's all dog and pony shows, posturing, trying to piss in each other's proverbial cornflakes anyways, while the various air crews smile and wave
  15. May not be so wise. At least with the current situation a spy [type] plane is not going to shoot an investigating interceptor, this poses little threat to the fighter jet. But if you bring fighter escorts near by your spy [type] planes then we now have armed fighters vs armed fighters and hot shot jocks in each who may get itchy trigger fingers. Could spell a potential problem up to disaster. On top of that when Russia for one probes near North American air space do you want to know that they have fighter escorts near by too? None of these incidents by all sides seem to violat
  16. Though it may take a few minutes more with a classic double edge safety razor (it takes me about 10 minutes) I find the time more therapeutic and the feeling of using a quality manufactured handle with a good simple blade plus I use a brush and shave soap in a cup well makes what is totally mundane and tiresome, more of an art. The overpriced commercial handles (I've bought many from Gillette and Schick) and cartridge type blades just doesn't feel the same and I just wanted to GET IT DONE when using them. BTW using a good shave soap or some like tube of cream to lather up in a
  17. I too ditched all these costly artsy fartsy razors and blades for a traditional (Merkur) double edged safety razor (the same type your dad and grand dad probably used). Blades for these cost between oh $0.15 -$0.50 each depending on brand and amount you buy in advance. Once you get use to using one properly you get a proper shave an save many $$$
  18. Yeah, it's fine. It's just a stupid high speed shutter setting by the guy with the video camera. I hate that crap on video. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to use such a setting for video. In fact too high of a shutter setting on regular still photography is bad enough as it makes the STOPPED propeller motion and looks unrealistic. For video as such when panning moving objects like airplanes, 1/60th second speed is more than enough. You are not trying to FREEZE frame an image, you are following in a panning motion the object in the sky and you have no need for super high speed shutters on
  19. RT is no worse than FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, and in Canada Global, Sun News, CTV News and even CBC news, along with any other western MSM. Hell, even once vaunted BBC has sunk to the pits of propaganda. Josef Goebbels would only wish to have such propaganda powers back then. Anyone, repeat anyone who gets their news (HAH!) info via most any main stream media is being deluded into thinking they are getting straight facts. Lets not even add the trollop of crap from your own govts. and their mouth pieces. ALL ARE BULLSHITTERS! One has to dig much deeper, get and hear from all many sources
  20. Good to hear they made it all ok. A long flight over lots of open water for such a wonderful old bird. That Lanc flew at the Abbotsford airshow in 2010. It was quite a sight to see and photograph. I wish them a safe flight back when done in Jolly Old England.
  21. I read the news today. RIP sir. If I may? I'm not a poet but I just felt to put a few words down as such. Not only for the fact the last crew member of the Enola Gay has now passed but being so close to Aug 6. and Aug 9. I hope any real poets may forgive me for any errors in composition. ---------------------------- The Flight Of the aircraft called, The Enola Gay. Written By: Les on the ARC Forum The flight line on Tinian sure shines today Just hours before the flight of the Enola Gay. Hustle and bustle mere yards away Men are prepping and loading up her today. The flight t
  22. It's happened already.... boy expelled by making a finger gun. It's happened already
  23. One of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. In 66 years the world went from the Wrights flying at Kittyhawk to Armstrong and Aldrin setting foot upon the Moon. FANTASTIC!
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