Subdeacon Joe

Carry that thought through. You've made the argument that every threat should be responded to with tanks. Or maybe carpet bombing with B-52s.

Sometimes I think that the cheerleaders are better athletes than the players.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048966/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_(1956_film) Attack, also known as Attack!, is a 1956 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, William Smithers, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen and Peter van Eyck. The cinematographer was Joseph Biroc. Plot Europe 1944: Fox company (call sign "Fragile Fox") is a US Army National Guard infantry unit based in a Belgian town near the front line. They are led by Captain Erskine Cooney (Eddie Albert), who appears to be better at handling red tape than combat. When Lieutenant Joe Costa (Jack Palance) sends a squad to take a pillbox, Cooney agrees to provide covering fire but freezes at the critical moment leading to the slaughter of Costa's squad, and the off-screen death of Lt. Ned Lathrop, another company officer who had attempted to rescue the squad. The executive officer, Lt. Harold Woodruff (William Smithers, in his first credited screen role), is the "voice of reason" who tries to keep the peace between Cooney and Costa. Woodruff approaches battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Clyde Bartlett (Lee Marvin), who is a career officer intent on leveraging Cooney's family ties for political gain when the war ends.

Free on Amazon. A delightfully silly movie.

I'm not saying that the A-10 is useless. But looking at the the last 15 years or so almost all of the BRRRRRRT could have been done just as well with .50 BMG or 20mm. That SkyraiderII looks to be a capable platform that can actually multi-task. Give that to the Air Force and transfer the Warthog to the Marines and Army.

Take it out, otherwise it gets very bitter.

Which is great, but doesn't answer my question. https://www.afsoc.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/4201500/oa-1k-skyraider-ii/#:~:text=The OA-1K Skyraider II is a cost-effective%2C,conventional aircraft or other special operations platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3Harris_OA-1K_Skyraider_II I have a feeling that these could also put a hurt on armour: Armament Hardpoints: 10 (2 centerline and 8 wing) , with provisions to carry combinations of: Missiles: AGM-114 Hellfire, AGR-20 APKWS carried in LAU-131 A/A rocket pods Bombs: GBU-12 Paveway II https://www.sandboxx.us/news/socoms-new-oa-1k-skyraider-ii-aircraft-will-make-americas-elite-units-operating-far-from-home-more-lethal/ The aircraft is capable of carrying .50 caliber machine guns or 20mm cannon as well as two LAU-131 seven-round rocket pods that can be equipped with the AGR-20 FALCO laser-guided 70mm rockets, Hellfire missiles, laser-guided bombs, and much more depending on the mission.

How much Close Air Support really needs tank busting 30mm rounds? Not going against divisions of Soviet Armour in the Fulda Gap these days.

Nope, that's correct. About 10 to 15 steps is normal. She's batting left-handed, so that puts her a step or two closer to first.

Leave out the "other valuable considerations" clause.

If it's after hours but mandatory ask him if you'll be getting time and a half.

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Fairbairn described the rationale behind this design in his book Get Tough! (1942):

"Ray's 'Then and Now;' Glen Ellen in 1920 looking north on Arnold Drive at London Ranch Road. Photo from the Sonoma County Library, now photo by Ray."

From Larry Correia's FB page: A story to illustrate why I am the way I am on the internet- Many years ago, back in my twenties, I was going through an in depth background check for a law enforcement job. Part of this process is that investigators talk to everybody who knows you. They talk to friends, family, coworkers, teachers, etc. They ask all sorts of questions about you, your behavior, your past, and any skeletons you might have in the closet. Then at the very end the investigator interviews you, and they really want to make sure what you say about yourself matches up with what everybody else said about you. The guy interviewing me is an ex-detective. I think it's going pretty good. I've always been an open book kind of guy. Then the investigator asks me something like "do you harbor any bias or bigotry toward any one group of people?" And I go "Nope." But then he says, "That's not what I hear. I was told that you are extremely biased against one group." And my brain kind of skips a beat. I honestly don't know what to say. This is the first wrench thrown into this process. I look at him, and he stares back at me, totally deadpan, and I'm trying really hard to figure out what group I'm racist against. "I'm sorry. I'm not. I don't really know what you're talking about." "No, Mr. Correia, everybody I talked to told me the same exact thing. And I mean everybody. Going back through your entire history, you are continuously, consistenty, biased against one particular group of people, and never ever hesitate to insult them when given the opportunity." And I ponder on it for a long moment, then guess "Stupid people?" Then the investigator breaks character and starts to laugh. "Oh yeah, everybody I talked to said the same thing. Larry can't stand stupid people. Stupid people piss him off." Which is accurate and fair. So I was like, "Oh, shit, is that a problem?" He goes "Nope, you'll fit in fine." ## I ended up on an entirely different career path, but I tell this story today in an attempt to explain why I enjoy social media so much. It's just such a target rich environment.

I'd never heard of it before. I like it. Not your typical war movie.

Free on Amazon Ptime. Source: IMDb https://share.google/PNDGNpcX5iCxTczUF

Found on FB In 1962, a struggling McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati walked into Ray Kroc's office with an idea for a fish sandwich, and Kroc told him: "You're always coming up here with a bunch of crap. I don't want my stores stunk up with the smell of fish." That franchise owner was Lou Groen, the neighborhood around his restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati was 87 percent Catholic, and on Fridays during Lent his daily sales had dropped to 75 dollars. He had a wife, twins at home, and a McDonald's that was bleeding money one meatless Friday at a time. He had watched the Frisch's Big Boy across the street doing full business every Friday because they served a fish sandwich, and he had gone to Chicago to tell Ray Kroc that McDonald's needed one too. Kroc was not interested. The reason Kroc was not interested turned out to be that he was already working on his own meatless Friday sandwich. It was called the Hula Burger and it was a slice of grilled pineapple with a piece of cheese on a bun. Kroc believed in it enough to propose a competition. On Good Friday 1962 both sandwiches would be sold at select locations and whichever one sold more units would earn a permanent place on the McDonald's menu. Groen's granddaughter Erica Shadoin, who still owns and operates that same Cincinnati franchise today, later recalled what her grandfather said the moment he heard Kroc's idea: he knew immediately that his fish sandwich was going to win. The final score on Good Friday 1962 was Filet-O-Fish 350, Hula Burger 6. Kroc bought Groen a new suit as his prize. What Groen had understood and Kroc had missed was something almost embarrassingly simple. The Catholic population of Cincinnati was not avoiding meat on Fridays because they wanted pineapple. They were avoiding meat because their faith required it, and what they wanted in its place was something that actually tasted like a meal. A breaded halibut fillet with tartar sauce on a steamed bun tasted like a meal. A grilled pineapple ring with cheese on a hamburger bun tasted like someone had run out of ideas on a Thursday night. Groen had spent months perfecting his recipe before he ever went to Chicago. He had even noticed one of his employees putting a slice of cheese on a fish sandwich he was making for himself one afternoon and decided it was a good enough idea to steal. That half slice of cheese has been on every Filet-O-Fish ever since. By 1963 the sandwich was rolling out across the entire McDonald's system. By 1965 it became the first new item ever added to the permanent McDonald's national menu since Kroc had taken over the chain. Ray Kroc acknowledged the Hula Burger's failure in his autobiography Grinding it Out, writing: "It was a giant flop when we tried it in our stores. One customer said, I like the hula, but where's the burger?" Today McDonald's sells 300 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches every year. Twenty-three percent of those are sold during Lent. Lou Groen retired in 1985 owning 43 McDonald's franchises. He passed away in 2011. His granddaughter Erica still runs the restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati where the whole thing started, the 66th McDonald's franchise ever opened, the place where a desperate man with 75 dollars in daily Friday sales invented one of the most enduring items in the history of fast food because a pineapple slice on a bun was never going to be the answer. eatshistory.com

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The pilot https://michaeljesse.net/projects/Dayton/DDNPages/special_projects/1999/Falling_from_the_Sky/1026side2.html