Posts by Simon Grigg
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How is McCain-Palin going to shrink government? Apart from firing everyone working in the White House kitchens, and putting Air Force One on E-Bay?
ha..brill....
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You learn something new every day, don't you?
Nope it's policy Craig and that policy is taking us all to the place where:
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight
simplistic platitudes for the converted..not policy, Sage.
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Simon - Can you point me to your criticisms of Obama for putting his kids on stage.
damn, Sage..these are really simple points but you miss them.
It was her, not Obama that demanded privacy for her kids....c'mon this is not that tricky.
And policy points..no..those are vague nothings to appeal to the converted, not policy. And all written by somebody else and read from a teleprompter.
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I read something about MiG 25s being able to start up in freezing conditions and just take off, whereas the flash American equivalents had all this fancy anti-icing gear and suchlike.
And they were far simpler to fly than any US aircraft from the 1960s onwards (although earlier Soviet jets, like the MiG-21s were beasts I believe) and far simpler to maintain and build.
And they carried that through to the 80s and 90s where the more recent Sukhois and MiGs were easily the tactical equivalent on the F-15 / F-16 but were a fraction the price.
A few years back the USAF went up against the Indians flying MiGs in a competition and the MiG's completely wiped the Americans out of the sky..it caused a bit of a noise at the time.
American military technological bloat was and still is a major issue, which may be why the a British general called them Teched Up Teletubbies a few years back. But then you have an industrial machine that demands and feeds off that bloat.
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But not for Palin after the loon frenzy???
C'mon SageNz surely this is not that tricky. Palin on one hand pleads that her kids and family should be left out of it..for privacy. Then immediately flies the kids, including the one who ain't even part of the nuclear family yet but has impregnated her daughter, down to St. Paul to do the heartstring hand holding (you can see the strategists saying 'hold that hand, hold that hand' on the way out) family stuff for the good ol' white folks out there...i.e. using him and the rest for political advantage.
I agree with you, it's loony and yep, it's both hypocritical and dishonest.
See, you're coming around slowly
And gods will was a reference to Iraq..that's true, but the point eludes you again..she actually said "a task that is from God." Considering the massive fuck up that the last 5 years have seen there, that she is placing her faith in god there instead of coming up with a reasoned policy would surely give most people pause for thought.
What else is a "task that is from God?" I think we need to know, but they're hiding her from the media so no-one can ask.
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Now, what is Palin's postion on taxation, government spending, defence or any damn thing?
Oh she has one..it's all gods will..seriously....
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After reading your prior post, which I read after I posted my link, perhaps best I leave you alone for a while. I dont want to ruin your blood pressure :^)
we'll take that as a no then....
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Sorry, but one of my bugbears is the assumption that "technology" and "magic" are synonymous.
No apologies required...that wasn't what I meant to imply at all and I'm well aware of the shock the USAF (and McCain's service mates) found when their F-4s met 1950s era MiG-17s over Hanoi and Haiphong and lost over and over again.
It was a lesson forgotten 40 years later in Iraq when messengers on bikes were able to defeat AWACs.
For all that, the Soviets did go into a mad panic circa 79 to upgrade their avionics systems in the wake of the MiG-25 into Japan, and of course a few years later discovered that all the avionics upgrades in the world can't defeat a man on a donkey with a hand-held SAM.
The later history of obscene cost overruns and functional failures of various much-touted hi-tech weapons systems from the US bears this out.
Yep, and it's a reason Asia has become so wary in recent years of the half trillion dollar a year US umbrella...it has holes and the size of that spend is one of the things that contributes to those holes when you rely on that.
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National supported Labour deploying troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm thinking that Simon Powers meant something more than a few engineers in Iraq for a brief moment when he said that (and I paraphrase because I'm too busy too google at the mo') "Where Britain and America go, so do we without question" or words to that general effect.
And the GOP has a far wider experience of actually invading nations and taking out swathes of civilians in recent decades although Clinton was happy to loose the cruise missiles and B-2s I agree.
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And was it just me, or was there a weird subtext to those musical choices at the end
There has been some comment online too about the choice of The Beach Boys to open the RNC..a band whose key members are either dead or want nothing to do with the bunch trading under that name now, lead by a widely despised man of little substance, trading on the past works of others and who is most commonly referred to in the phrase "Fuck Mike Love".
It seemed oddly appropriate.
Maybe it was just me too......