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Very few satellite shots are right at nadir either.
Shoot, if you're bringing presidential politics into this, I'm leaving... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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So, should I say "Yousall get ya cahs off the street befa the sno plahs
come" to my neighbors, you might correctly guess the middle part of my life was spent in Massachusetts. Or you are a real Jar-Jar Binks fan... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
... Did MiG25 pilots ahve full space suits that would permit flight above 50,000 feet? Yes. In fact, a Mig-25 holds the altitude record of 123,524 ft for an atmospheric air breathing machine. If you want to fly one to 80k feet: http://www.flymig.com/packages/MiG-25.flight.htm Paul |
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alexy wrote: And I might point out that we Southerners are not the only ones to compensate for this lack of a distinct 2nd person plural, and at least we do it without any gender confusion! And in NJ, it's "youse guys", or sometimes just "youse". George Patterson I childproofed my house, but they *still* get in. |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "Gerry Caron" wrote: A different regional note: In Texas, y'all (NEVER you-all) is singular. No self-respecting Texan would use y'all when talking to more than one person. The plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all." Sorry, Gerry, it just ain't so. If I ever say "y'all" to you, I mean you and your family/friends/company, etc. "Y'all" is NEVER singular (except on TV). It is short for "you all," used to make up for the absence of a distinct second person *plural* pronoun in English. "All y'all" is just a redundancy, as in "refer back." It may be that Hollywood is corrupting the use of "y'all" among younger Texans, but I haven't heard it yet. -- Dan Native Texan I agree with Dan. Only place I heard y'all singular is on TV or in movies. Cheers, John Clonts Texan born and raised |
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Your right. I equate these clerics with feudal war lords. Each with a
private army and each trying to consolidate power. "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "C J Campbell" said: is that poor intelligence is becoming very costly. Satellites are predictable and are unable to loiter over an area, while drones can cover only relatively small areas. From Desert Shield up to now we have been basically blind in our search for WMDs, terrorist and troop concentrations, mobile Scuds, etc. I think Predators and Global Hawks would do a better job on almost all of those jobs. But what the US really needs is spies on the ground. The biggest problem in the lead-up to Iraq is that they put too much emphasis on the tales of one guy, who lied through his teeth trying to get the US to depose Saddam so he could take over. Maybe he did do that, but Saddam's actions in the period leading up to the war seem to indicate that Saddam himself believed he had weapons of mass destruction. He may have been deceived by his own people. Certainly there is a very lawless element in Iraqi culture. Every two-bit cleric seems willing to submit to no law but his own, and every one of them seems willing to back up his threats with force. They out-gun both the Iraqi military and the police. It is as if we allowed Jesse Jackson or Jerry Fallwell to maintain their own private armies while declaring the holy cities of New York and Birmingham off-limits to law enforcement personnel. To paraphrase the quote attributed to T.E. Lawrence: "So long as the Islamic nations submit to no law but that of local clerics, they will remain a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel." |
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