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The AF should have escorted the demonstrators away from the area with their faces on the ground and military members holding each ankle. ****slapping
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Gaza protests block gate at New Mexico’s Kirtland Air Force Base
By Associated Press and Rachel S. Cohen
 Thursday, May 2

 
About two dozen protesters sat in the middle of a roadway blocking access to one of the main gates at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Thursday morning, waving flags and vowing to “shut everything down” over U.S. military support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Base spokesman Rob Smith said Kirtland supports citizens’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest and that base security would monitor the situation throughout the day. Meanwhile, the gate would remain closed indefinitely and people who work on the base were advised to use other routes.
 
The protest comes just days after 16 people — including five students — were arrested at the University of New Mexico just a few miles away after they occupied the campus’ student union building and caused damage inside.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2024/05/02/gaza-protests-block-gate-at-new-mexicos-kirtland-air-force-base/
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Modern science, technology, medicine, and the norms of Anglo-Saxon law are all very strong arguments for the superiority of the culture of Europe, and specifically north-western Europe.

I wonder whether the protestors would like to be tried for a crime under a system of law that lacked writs of habeas corpus, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and the requirement that the state proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt.  Would they prefer Islamic law?  Chinese legalism? Code Napoleon?  The Code of Hammurabi? The legal system the prevailed in Benin when its kings were selling fellow-Africans to European traders as slaves? Whatever systems of law prevailed among the Aztecs or the Hindus before European colonialism replace them?  Didn't think so. I suspect they all like the Anglo-Saxon system just fine and will daddy's lawyer on speed-dial in case their protest goes sideways.

As Jordan Peterson put it "The Common Law is a bloody miracle!"
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If it doesn't get delayed 6 years with funding diverted to take care of illegal "newcomers." :whistle:
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Army planning consolidation roadmap for loitering munitions and small drones
Army acquisition head Doug Bush said he and Army Futures Command head Gen. James Rainey expect to have a plan rolled out sometime this summer.
By   ASHLEY ROQUE
on May 02, 2024 at 8:10 PM
 

WASHINGTON — Nearly three months ago, the US Army announced a massive aviation overhaul, which led to the cancellation of several programs and the redirection of funds to new priorities. Now, service leaders are preparing a shakeup with its weapons portfolio, which may revamp plans for buying weapons like launched effects, loitering munitions and drones, according to Army acquisition head Doug Bush

“The good news is, there’s so many options… because there’s so many companies that are doing things that are either a UAS [unmanned aerial system], a lethal-UAS or just a loitering munition and they start to blur together because the tech is moving so fast,” Bush told reporters today.

Bush said he and Army Futures Command head Gen. James Rainey expect to have a formal roadmap rolled out sometime this summer.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/army-planning-consolidation-roadmap-for-loitering-munitions-and-small-drones/
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... high ticket prices, insane concession stand prices, rude and inconsiderate children and adults in theaters today...oh and insane volume blasted at you that leave your ears ringing for hours and possible long term hearing issues. ...
Those are some of the reasons I have no interest in going to a movie. Also, most of them seem to be remakes or nothing but comic book stuff. H'wood has a serious lack of imagination.

Having said that, some people I know have seen this movie recently and speak very highly of it: Unsung Hero
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When David Smallbone's successful music company collapses, he moves his family from Australia to the United States in search of a brighter future. With nothing more than their six children, their suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY's Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives from the ground up. Based on a remarkable true story, a mum's faith stands against all odds; and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs.
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General Discussion / Re: Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA
« Last post by ChemEngrMBA on Today at 05:13:38 pm »
The widespread support of Hamas terrorists by people living in America is evil, despicable and cowardly. - John Phillip Jaeger
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It's hard to be proficient at things you don't practice.
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The border is right where Trump's hyperbole bit him in the ass.

He campaigned on that ridiculous claim that Mexico would pay for the border wall and the result of that was that he couldn't/didn't push hard for border money when elected because that would have been contradicting his stupid promise.

As a result, he waited too long to make that push, and by the time he got around to it, the Democrats controlled the House and wouldn't give him the money.

Agreed.  Trump won his campaign on securing the border and building the wall.  He failed.  He also failed to get the $$ needed while he had a decent majority in both Houses. 

Now ... he's vowing to do this again.  So...what is he going to do differently that will allow him to secure the border and build the wall? 

He also is campaigning on draining the swamp (retribution), he didn't accomplish that in his first administration, how is he going to accomplish that if he's re-elected?

His failed policies are many.  Why would his second term be any different?

The obvious is not in his favor; his age and facing 90+ felonies.

His supporters really need to get a grip on reality.

More than anything conservatives and the GOP are left with no path forward right now.  The one conservative that may have led us to victory he smeared.
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After downsizing health care for years, Pentagon says medical readiness was a casualty
MAY 2, 20245:00 AM ET
 
Quil Lawrence
 
Jenn Ackerman for NPR
The Air Force put Todd Rasmussen through medical school, and he planned to serve a while and then go into private practice at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He started his military career as a vascular surgeon in Northern Virginia, a few weeks before Sept. 11, 2001.

"You could sort of see smoke from the Pentagon. I thought, boy, my military career as a surgeon ... it's gonna be vastly different than what I expected," he recalls.

Rasmussen switched to trauma surgery as casualty numbers soared to the highest rates since Vietnam. At first, the way patients arrived within days from the war zone thousands of miles away amazed him. That wore off though, when he realized patients weren't getting care soon enough. By the time they reached the U.S., their wounds were contaminated and sometimes too late to treat without amputation.

  https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1246636334/pentagon-military-healthcare
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