Not a political post, so figured it should be here…

The last F-14’s have been grounded.

The Theodore Roosevelt flew her last 2 squadrons to Oceanna Naval Air Station today before she returned to dock… grounding the last of the Tomcats forever.

Navy is replacing F-14’s with F/A 18’s… swapping Carrier Group defense for offensive ground strike capability.

Story is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/tomcats_return

@MuthaRussia:

Guys…how can you even argue this? Thats like saying my team can breathe under water better than yours can fly…

Both teams suck. USA baseball isnt ANYTHING, I repeat ANYTHING without latin america. :roll:
I hate to say this, but it’s true.

There may be something to this . . . .
Yesterday we lost to Mexico (9-1).

Go South Africa!!!

It’s a documentary about Robert McNamara. Very good.

I know of the Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati.

I recently saw a tv news bit about a Slavery Museum…
coulda been the Cincy one, but on one wall was the quote…

“If not us, who?  If not now, when?”
I do not believe it was attributed to Ronald Reagan(see my sig below.)

http://drudgereport.com/flash3hs.htm

Did Les Moonves put Howie on other shows(or was it a Letterman request to razz Moonves?)!  Has Howie got it in writing?

However, Howie plugged his Sirius show every day(if not every hour) on the air for 3 months!

Howie had a stock deal with Sirius to be collected after he joined the team.  However, so many signed up for the adolescent behavior on Sirius that they gave Howie the stock early.

What other dirt will Mister Stern turn up?

What is Sirius’ financial standing currently?  +/- ??

Nice one….

Just going by stats posted in The Hot Zone that had Marburg at 50% lethal…

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane223

Granted BET ain’t ABC, cBS, or NBC, but they made a decision based on the bottom line…
or the viewership line.  Which due to advertising works out to about the same thing.

What? They don’t want to edgykate de bros about the evils of W, Republicans, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Clarence Thomas??

I seem to recall one or more of the major networks going through financial struggles and having to cut the budget so the news wasn’t such a drag on the bottom line$$$$.

And now we may soon have Perky Katie Kouric(sp?) taking the anchor news_reader_ chair @ one network and the Survivor Celebrity Newstarget(who was set up for an assassination attempt by his own network) taking another news_reader_ chair.

More big money to a losing cause.
Just like Leno($14M/year) and Letterman($17M/year.)

Nazi intrusions / restrictions on his business opened Oscars eyes a bit more to the Nazi atrocities against the Jews.

He still managed, and he knew he had to keep a friendly face forward so the Army would keep buying his cookware.  But he finally saw enough and was in the end became human.  Keeping his workers alive amid his dwindling resources was his way of taking it to “Der Herr”.

Someone else is going to create it, because I have already created the maximum number of allowed leagues (2).

Let’s keep it simple this time. 5x5 Scoring (BA, R, RBI, HR, SB, W, ERA, WHIP, K, Sv), Roto league.

I am 1/32 black, so if i needed to i could benefit from it. :mrgreen:

@Linkon:

John Connor is alive and no longer trackable.

What? They removed his DNA from his personage?
I don’t think so.

When my father was in his early 20s he enlisted into the Army during Vietnam.  He had a college degree, and the powers that be wanted him to become an officer but he declined preffering to go at it as a grunt.  He was newly married, and I had just been born when he made this decision.  He left shortly after and served his country for a year and was honorably discharged.

Sounds nice doesn’t it?  Ok, SPIN OFF

My father had no intrest in the military whatsoever, esp with the war going on.  He was contacted a lot by a recruiter who was trying to warn him that if he did not enlist he would be drafted eventualy.  My father would not join, and he was drafted.  On the day he got his draft notice he went to the recruiter begging him to let him enlist, because the recruiter said if he did enlist… he would not have to go to Vietnam.  The recruiter, knowing his situation being newly married and having a infant son “fudged” the date of my father’s enlistment to show that he had enlisted before he was drafted.  He was stationed in Germany, hating every second of it.  The ONLY reason he decided not to become an officer is because he detested the military so much.  Becoming an officer would have entailed him being in the military longer than what he had to.

My point to this, you can spin the hell out of this kind of thing.  Which is what I think some veterans do, not to mention any names cough cough Kerry Cough Cough (and others).

A derail on the topic, but I feel like saying it anyway.

My father is against the war in a big way, I’m not, and we argue about it some times.  The one argument HE can not use AT ALL is that Bush got preferential (sp?) treatment.  You can’t take the moral high ground after what happened to him.  My grandfather was not a senator, he was a janitor.

@Yanny:

ESPN did a poll a while back. “Which Olympic event do you watch most”. Ice Hockey was #1. I forget which was #2. Figure Skating maybe?

Ah…I see.
I thought this was a global poll.
Now I understand.  :-D

Any people on this forum comic book readers?  Im not all that into comic books, however my friend Jason whom has XBL (Xbox Live), has persuaded me otherwise.  Apparently he has someone on his friends list by the name of Gerry Duggan that is best friends with comedian Brian Posehn (Comedians of Comedy).  Brian Posehn is a big comic book fan and is currently writing a comic with Duggan entitled “The Last Christmas”.

@The:

After the apocalypse no one is safe - even at the North Pole. After tragedy strikes Santa withdraws from life and turns his back on Christmas. When Claus finally emerges from seclusion the old world is gone forever. As Santa struggles to find his way in a Mad Max-like world - can he find a way to save Christmas too?

The main site is here: http://thelastchristmas.com/

And if you think you may enjoy this comic, then you might also want to check out “Battle Pope”

@Battle:

It’s the end of the world and few are worthy of passage to heaven, not even the Pope. God leaves behind Saint Michael, the leader of his army, to act as a guardian for the humans. He fails, and is held captive by Luicfer. God then enlists the aide of the Pope to rescue Michael, and leaves his son Jesus H. Christ to assist him in his quest. Now presented in full-color!

Is the book Hitler Victorious in the same line?  It sounds like it would be…

I found D-Day to be necessary.  Strategically and politically.

@AgentSmith:

Not true. At the end, Hitler blamed the German people (along with the Jews, of course) for his defeat. Some of his generals asked to surrender to spare the civilians and Hitler replied that they knew what they were getting into and had no sympathy for them. Hitler was anything but a “protector of the German people”.

This is largely irrelevent b/c this assumes the outcome is all that matters which in of itself assumes an egocentric view of the war in favor of whose telling the history.  by this reasoning had the Germans won he would’ve been the great protector of the German people?  No this is absolutely how Hitler saw himself and that is all that matters.  If you want to dispute that then pull up some sources of Hitler blaming the people, and better yet for once explain how that would be at all relevent to the discussion at hand.  Analysis mary, analysis.  I can site blanket facts too but that doesn’t really reveal anything.

AS - I know you are reading.  This is info for when you come back, because you will be back.  :-D

There was an ideology. Not to mention, Hitler blamed the German people & Jews for failing him (germany) - read Cornelius Ryan’s The Final Battle.  It’s an exciting read anyway.  There’s plenty of other sources as everyone and their mother were anxious to find out the “Why?” of WW2.  I’m sure you recall Meyer’s “shocking” results.

3 other things, in general.  Stop arguing for the sake of arguing, or to get some irelevant point in.  Don’t shootdown someone’s point due to lack of sources when you don’t supply them yourself.  Argue what they are saying, not what you think they are thinking/doing.

I should have known better then to actually believe the first story.  Stupid me.

Another example of the media printing a story without actually checking the facts.

They are so intent on “getting people” and trying to be the first to break a story that they completely ignore research and whether the story is even true.  Idiots.

Well, as many of you know, my preliminary run of my 2005 Federal Taxes left me with a miserable $50 refund out of nearly $10,000 in Federal Income Tax paid.  I was NOT happy.

But… spent the afternoon with Turbo Tax…

Now I am getting back $2700+

$40 to buy it, and that investment paid a return of $2650.  Hell of an investment.  You gotta love loopholes, itemizing, losses from the sale of property, etc., etc. to reduce that Federal Income Tax bill…

All legal, all above board.

Just trying to keep a bit more of what is mine…  The Feds still get too d*mn much of it anyway…