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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lol, you're right, it's an assault-style fish.

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It did have a forward pistol grip, but no shoulder thing that goes up.

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @d_blades said:
    Looks like Biden is giving Iran, 6 BILLION, plus releasing 5 probable terrorist in a prisoner release. He says it good for security. :/

    And then, as if there'd been a plan, Hamas and Iranian backed Hezbollah suddenly have found the logistical necessities to attack Israel.

    You think it might be, you know, connected?

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just wait, the aid that's gonna be requested through congress will have another aid package for Ukraine tied to it. You can guarantee that.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I visited New York in the fall of '79. This was during the Iran hostage crisis. I remember bootleg t-shirts being sold by street vendors that said "Nuke Iran". I remember seriously considering all the downstream outcomes to the crazy idea on that T-shirt. I remember thinking that the end results would make it worse for us in the long run. Now, I'm thinking it over all over again.

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nuke the entire middle-east.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,924 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You point me out a politician and I’ll point you out a w ****. They are all the same, just different colors.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For all our "sophistication" we are remarkably stupid.

    "The horrors that Hamas has committed have not been witnessed since the hours of ISIS," Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu declared in a nationally televised address. "What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations." The Israeli military has already activated 300,000 reservists in a massive mobilization, while the Pentagon has warned Iran and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah to "think twice" before opening another front to the war.

    Defense stocks surged on Monday as the U.S. began delivering munitions to Israel, with Northrop Grumman (NOC), L3Harris (LHX), Huntington Ingalls (HII), Lockheed Martin (LMT) and General Dynamics (GD) finishing the session as the top five gainers in the S&P 500. The USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and accompanying war vessels have also been sent to the eastern Mediterranean, with the U.S. indicating it was prepared to come to Israel's defense and protect its interests in the region. Elsewhere, WTI crude oil (CL1:COM) pared its big gains following a "knee-jerk" surge reaction, but still remains elevated at $86/bbl, while U.S. stock indexes turned higher and Treasuries had their best day since March following the latest policy remarks from the Federal Reserve.

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    For all our "sophistication" we are remarkably stupid.

    "The horrors that Hamas has committed have not been witnessed since the hours of ISIS," Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu declared in a nationally televised address. "What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations." The Israeli military has already activated 300,000 reservists in a massive mobilization, while the Pentagon has warned Iran and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah to "think twice" before opening another front to the war.

    Defense stocks surged on Monday as the U.S. began delivering munitions to Israel, with Northrop Grumman (NOC), L3Harris (LHX), Huntington Ingalls (HII), Lockheed Martin (LMT) and General Dynamics (GD) finishing the session as the top five gainers in the S&P 500. The USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and accompanying war vessels have also been sent to the eastern Mediterranean, with the U.S. indicating it was prepared to come to Israel's defense and protect its interests in the region. Elsewhere, WTI crude oil (CL1:COM) pared its big gains following a "knee-jerk" surge reaction, but still remains elevated at $86/bbl, while U.S. stock indexes turned higher and Treasuries had their best day since March following the latest policy remarks from the Federal Reserve.

    American companies love wars! In turn, so do the politicians they influence.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This statement from Netenyahu struck me as not solving any of Israel's problems...

    . "What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations."

  • StubbleStubble Posts: 8,988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2023

    @silvermouse said:
    This statement from Netenyahu struck me as not solving any of Israel's problems...

    .

    What would Edward do? What would your solution be?

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Give back the occupied land in trade for hostage release; turn the water, electricity, food deliveries, in trade for peaceful dialog and a surrender of heavy weaponry with a an aim to avoid the rising spiral of retribution killing. Or get everyone to back off and watch them slaughter each other until no one is left. I don't know, what would Stubble do?

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Meanwhile, from two decades ago.

  • StubbleStubble Posts: 8,988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2023

    I'm going to support Netenyahu.
    I will also keep training myself and my family in hopes the Native Americans and Mexicans don't pull off the same attacks to get back their occupied land.

    Edit to add: For now...

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Deadstroke174Deadstroke174 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2023

    People tend to forget how and why the land ended up in the hands of Israel. Remember this land was taken because they were attacked and continued to be attacked after it was taken. If you continue to punch and harass someone you can’t be surprised when they fight back and do what is needed to protect themselves. I have studied there and spent some quality time with both Palestinians and Israel’s and met some good people and pray that they can live in peace. That being said based on history Israel should beat them so bad they won’t be able to fight again for generations.

  • Deadstroke174Deadstroke174 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know people can say the land was taken by Israel first when the UN set up the country again and created the 2 state setup which is a viable argument on whether the UN should have done so. But that is a conversation for another day. Just my 2 cents

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I support both sides in their given right to defend themselves against the other. None of that should be our concern. What is our concern is the open border in the south where who knows who is coming across in the 10s of thousands every month.
    Isreal is not innocent of their treatment of the Palestinians in the Gaza strip nor is Hezbollah innocent of their indiscriminate attacks of civilians.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Deadstroke174Deadstroke174 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now I 100% agree on the open southern border!!

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

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