Religion needs to go away

My deepest condolences to you Paul.

@Flashman:

Looks like I’ll be a year short of getting a pension.

But the odds are that civilization will be destroyed by some religious fruitcake long before then.   :evil:

Religious Fruitcakes are the leading cause of death in world history.

The USAF and the RCAF/CFAC also had some nuclear-tipped air-to-air weapons in their inventories, such as the AIR-2 Genie.  Canada had them as late as 1984; they were carried by CF-101 Voodoo interceptors.  They were officially under US control, but they could be released for use by Canada as circumstances warranted.

In addition to the two big components of the nuclear triad that have already been mentioned – the land-based ballistic missiles and the manned SAC bombers – there was also the third component, the US Navy’s ballistic missile subs.  At the opposite end of the scale, the US nuclear inventory includes – if I’m not mistaken – man-portable nuclear demolition charges, designed for things like special commando-type operations.  I think a weapon of this type is featured in the 1977 motion picture thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming.

@GeodrivE:

Believe me, It’s nothing I’m losing sleep over. I’m curious thats all.     I wonder if commander jen gets to pick the name of the next level since she’ll be the first one there? :-)javascript:void(0);

Powerful in the Force, she is.

Hilarious combo of the 2 stories and sympathetic background music.

@desertrat:

I heard, that there is acutally a “Loosers Museum”

Yeah, it’s Ford Field.

@F_alk:

Good thing. More of that.

Another liberal who runs away to fight his battles??

@Grigoriy:

well, it seems as though they’re doing the right thing to me, even though I am a conservative (don’t want to say Republican necessarily) but the real issue here is
“In a showdown with national implications, 11 Democrats from the Texas Senate accused Republicans of trying to ram through a CONGRESSIONAL redistricting plan that could get them seven more seats and add to their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.”

That’s like allowing the foxes to build the chicken coop. Someone else ought to be doing that job.

Okay, it’s been done this way for about 15 decades. How about we allow the redistricting with a net gain for the Republicans of 3(below the average and not the SEVEn seats they could gain. Then pass an ammendment that redistricting would only be necessary when the states # of US Representatives changes.

@Anonymous:

have any of you heard of a thing called the “children’s crusade”…

I have to agree with Fin here. The end of that crusade is unknown, there are many different stories around. One goes that the “leader” sold them all as slaves, others that they all died through some fever, that they reached the holy land and some of them later faought in the 5th crusade, etc.