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    Thread: On This Day In History
Post: RE: On This Day In History

(06-01-2026, 04:01 PM)Deesse23 Wrote: One of her 15cm casemate guns rests on the ocean floor.................ca. 200km/130mi off the west coast of Australia. So about where MH370 is likely to be.  :...
airportkid History 1,049 94,073 06-02-2026, 09:31 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

Trump wants a $250 currency bill with his portrait.  No surprise.  But I haven't yet seen among all the excellent reasons not to do that one that may prove decisive:  in 1969 all denominations abo...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 05-29-2026, 09:25 PM
    Thread: The Value of Life
Post: RE: The Value of Life

How many people have access to these buttons?  What brought these buttons into existence - other agencies? - which would then imply other people can access them too. I find the mindset of these hypot...
airportkid Philosophy and Ethics 78 912 05-18-2026, 06:32 PM
    Thread: What should liberals do when an assassin sounds like them?
Post: RE: What should liberals do when an assassin sound...

(05-06-2026, 05:14 PM)Minimalist Wrote: ... On what charge ...? In August 2022, New South Wales (NSW) passed the Crimes Amendment (Prohibition on Display of Nazi Symbols) Bill 2022, making it a crim...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 39 798 05-06-2026, 06:33 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(04-26-2026, 02:29 AM)Minimalist Wrote: How is it that all these "assassins" keep missing a large, slow-moving, pile of Orange Shit? The incompetence of the whole Trump apparatus is unfortunately co...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 04-26-2026, 08:37 AM
    Thread: Political Watch
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(04-21-2026, 07:32 PM)Dānu Wrote: ... the complete defunding of U.S.A.I.D. would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually, leading to a total of 14,051,750 excess all-age deaths and 4,53...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 1,259 52,907 04-21-2026, 07:49 PM
    Thread: Political Watch
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(04-19-2026, 11:49 PM)brewerb Wrote: ... Several officials cited in the piece say that Patel is known for "obvious intoxication" ... Patel.  Hegseth.  Noem.  Bondi.  RFK Jr.  Vance.  etc. Trump was...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 1,259 52,907 04-20-2026, 05:25 AM
    Thread: The Wrong Crew
Post: The Wrong Crew

Artemis has set a record, carrying its live crew farther away from Earth than any human has ever gone, which means, obviously, the wrong crew is on board that bus, which is also too small.  It should ...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 1 99 04-06-2026, 10:11 PM
    Thread: Attack on Iran
Post: RE: Attack on Iran

(03-30-2026, 12:49 AM)SYZ Wrote: ... Pope Leo has said God ignores the prayers of leaders who wage war ... He's wrong of course: Deuteronomy 20:12–16 (KJV): Directs that if a city makes war, the Lor...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 341 7,609 03-30-2026, 05:42 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(03-28-2026, 05:09 AM)Szuchow Wrote: ... Scenarios for trump and Sharpie are practically writing themselves I think ... I'll say!  New bills off the Mint presses will now bear Trump's signature - an...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 03-28-2026, 10:18 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(03-27-2026, 09:32 PM)SYZ Wrote: ... He is seen to grab his wayward right arm with the left one in an effort to keep it under control ... Just like Dr. Strangelove!  :shock: :P
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 03-27-2026, 10:43 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

This story was written in 1931.  It's hard to imagine Trump hasn't brought it to mind by now - perhaps it has been but I haven't seen it. Thurber's The Greatest Man In The World
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 03-24-2026, 02:34 AM
    Thread: Trump's Abhorrent Response to Mueller's Death
Post: RE: Trump's Abhorrent Response to Mueller's Death

Hmm.  It's remarkable that Trump doing something he rarely does, telling the truth (and in this case the whole truth), is even uglier than when he doesn't.
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 20 408 03-22-2026, 05:11 PM
    Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch

(03-08-2026, 06:53 AM)Deesse23 Wrote: Even if he had dementia, it would be inconsequential and irrelevant Interesting assertion.  I see only two possible meanings: A political leader with dementia ...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 1,259 52,907 03-08-2026, 07:41 PM
    Thread: Attack on Iran
Post: RE: Attack on Iran

(03-05-2026, 05:53 PM)Szuchow Wrote: I wonder what trump voters will think ... "Think" is not a word that has ever applied to Trump voters.
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 341 7,609 03-05-2026, 06:01 PM
    Thread: Attack on Iran
Post: RE: Attack on Iran

(03-01-2026, 10:21 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Only idiots subscribe to single-cause explanations for complex phenomena. The fact that you're an idiot is no surprise to me, and the fact that you're una...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 341 7,609 03-04-2026, 07:49 PM
    Thread: Attack on Iran
Post: RE: Attack on Iran

(03-03-2026, 06:09 PM)Unsapien Wrote: The answer I got from someone once was that they charge you what it will cost to refill the tanks with new fuel, not based on what it cost them for the fuel cur...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 341 7,609 03-03-2026, 09:00 PM
    Thread: Help me find a flaw in this falsifiable proof for divine design.
Post: RE: Help me find a flaw in this falsifiable proof ...

Try teaching your dog chess, and, especially, appreciating the irony of this game (castling is strictly a defensive maneuver, but here turned offensive and final): Checkmate by Castling The type of ...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 11 455 03-02-2026, 05:33 AM
    Thread: Trump's State of The Union Address
Post: RE: Trump's State of The Union Address

The most (and only) useful information from the SOTU will be the body language experts' and mental health physicians' assessments of Trump's state - its own "SOTU": State of Trump Unveiled.  Trump kno...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 26 689 02-24-2026, 08:32 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

With tariffs by oval office decree illegal, the minions who continue to impose and collect them are acting illegally themselves, and can be prosecuted by an actually functional DOJ, hopefully not too ...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 18,365 1,475,265 02-22-2026, 02:09 AM
    Thread: How Criminals Get Rich....
Post: RE: How Criminals Get Rich....

(02-11-2026, 11:27 PM)pattylt Wrote: ... Then again, bridges connecting two nations isn’t common here ... Dozens and dozens around the world
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 12 483 02-12-2026, 03:19 AM
    Thread: The End of The Arms Control Era?
Post: RE: The End of The Arms Control Era?

Decades ago Carl Sagan likened the global situation to a room filled with gasoline, its inhabitants, far from doing everything possible to drain the room, instead give every energy to building and acc...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 5 216 02-08-2026, 10:29 PM
    Thread: A kind of important ICE question
Post: RE: A kind of important ICE question

(02-08-2026, 12:41 AM)GenesisNemesis Wrote: It's a bit like how Hitler had a Jewish doctor. He did - just not Morell.
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 50 1,567 02-08-2026, 10:23 AM
    Thread: A kind of important ICE question
Post: RE: A kind of important ICE question

(02-07-2026, 01:10 PM)SYZ Wrote: ... ICE agents Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, have been identified as Alex Pretti's murderers.  Records show both men are from South Texas ... So, retu...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 50 1,567 02-07-2026, 11:38 PM
    Thread: The 25th Amendment Dilemma
Post: The 25th Amendment Dilemma

As Trump's obviously worsening cognitive decline wreaks ever greater havoc the hope is that the GOP will finally see themselves injured enough to invoke the 25th and take Trump out of the office.  But...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 5 214 02-06-2026, 08:48 PM