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Just for that, I'm going to crank Spirit of the Radio and Tom Sawyer

Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here.

You wouldn't happen to know anyone looking to offload one... asking for a friend...

One of the best ads ever - though I still want my pet house hippo! If we can land a rover on Mars, or develop mRNA vaccines, then we can genetically engineer a house hippo!

How about a tinfoil hat emoji?

Thanks Edward, very much appreciated. And, over the last few days, this calculation has now fully changed with the death of Nasrallah, the US keeping a second Carrier task force in the region, and the news this morning from BBC that Iran is preparing a ballistic missile strike on Israel. Both...

I'm curious, and wondering if anyone here who is more learned in the region has any thoughts or articles to recommend. My question is this: Lebanon is in theory a sovereign state, yet they have Hezbollah operating with seemingly absolute impunity within their borders. Does this mean that the...

Hmmm, I wonder if Roshel could produce an Ambulance variant for use from R2 to R3, possibly even from R1 to R2? Something that can hold up to four litter patients.

Coming off of the BMQ doesn't necessarily mean releasing from the unit/Reserves entirely. We often have students who need to pull out of their course due to unexpected workload. If we have the positions available, and they are certain they can commit, we will sometimes hold them over to a summer...

I've been a smart ass lately and answered a few with 'We have nothing because there was never anything to have.' So far nobody has come back after me yet. I suspect they received a similar answer from almost everybody it was sent to. They should have been narrow-focus ATIP, but the net was cast...

I've also had Ministerial Inquiries and ATIP from people who must be very seriously mentally ill - and you have X number of days to provide an answer. I've fired back on a few that there is no possible answer as the question is the ramblings of a very ill individual. I really wish there was some...

Never advisable to deliberately omit something from an ATIP response. Folks aren't idiots - they often know exactly who has what, they just want a copy of it. And, imagine its an email, and everyone else submits their copy - the recipient will see exactly who was on the distribution, and...

GOFOs do tend to move quickly - especially if they are already identified as streamers. Most are already eligible for an annuity and many are late 40s or 50s - so if it were to take too long, then they would hit CRA 55 or 60 before they could become CDS. In this case, I'm not sure of the dates...

One can only hope... Though there's no guarantee that the replacement is any better.

Bubble wrap that kid!

I've got a lot of observations and thoughts on this after 32 years in the CAF..... Points to ponder - how much of toxic leadership is a learned behaviour, and how much stems from some sort of personality disorder - narcissism, oppositional defiance disorder, borderline personality disorder, or...

I think you know why.... so you can get down and boogie!

Not just the economy. It creates ripples and dependency throughout the socio-cultural spectrum - in some ways it creates learned helplessness. Short term foreign aid can address the emergency needs, but moving past that everything needs to focus on building long term self-sufficiency. In this...

Colin, I'm not sure the Gaza region could have become a significant economic player. I may be incorrect, but I believe there is little in the way of natural resources on/under the land or sea to develop. If it were not for significant aid influx, it would not even be able to support its population.

Because angry, desperate, disenfranchised Palestinians served a purpose for proxy wars.