I suspect when Afghanistan winds up in 2015 the UK financial situation wouldn’t be a dire as it is now the the govt will decide to keep it in service. After all it’s already paid for and why lose that capability…

Unfortunately that logic didn’t hold true for the Nimrod. Developed, paid for, largely finished, scrapped 😡

The King’s Speech

Saw The King’s Speech the other day and I thought it was excellent, very good performances from all the cast 🙂

Also the deadly MiG28 if my memory serves. :p

ah, yes 😀

& it turns out the nutter in querstion was some left wing wacko which has come as a shock to the lefties who immediatly tried to blame the right…

Um….not sure where you got that from.

Sure, he had a copy of the communist manifesto, but this does not make one a communist. He also had a copy of Plato’s Republic and that doesn’t mean he’s an ancient Greek philosopher. Nor does it mean he is right wing, just because he had a copy of Mein Kampf or Ayn Rand books.

Some things that we do know is that he dislike Rep. Gifford personally, was affected by conspiracy theories about the government and was profoundly disturbed.

The only person responsible for the murders is the person who pulled the trigger. The argument for amending the gun law will not get off the starting blocks as long as all parties support the 2nd Amendment relating to possession of weapons.

As for inciteful remarks this is a good one: ” If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl.” Obama, Philadelphia 2008. Nuff said!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqmZs0VoPw

Congrats China – the rest of the world just got served.

Part of me feels like this bird must have been flying already months ago – such is the uncharacteristically cavalier way it’s been displayed to the world, but it doesn’t matter one way or another.

This is the ultimate expression of China’s modernisation – and the way it’s gone from paper nothing, to flight – with a minimum of nonsense and fuss, well – it’s a lesson to the rest of the world.

Of course, we don’t know how long this design has taken, the problems encountered, if it has any flaws that are simply not mentioned, or if it is nothing more than a paper tiger :rolleyes:

I’m not saying this is necessarily true, China can produce as good hardware as anywhere else, but without access to all the information it’s inappropriate to declare it a triumphal success.

Yet.

While I find myself broadly in agreement, I think that maintaining the status quo and finding ways to help the gun culture change is the best we can hope for.

No government would survive any kind of nationwide gun ban, even banning certain types of weapon is very, very difficult, it would have to be voluntary.

And if it was voluntary, you would still have anyone who actually wants a gun (be they law abiding or hardened criminal) retaining one.

What may have been a contributing factor in this case, imho, is the highly aggressive right wing media in the United States, specifically Fox news and the like.

I did think it would make me look like a grouch 😮

I mean, I stay away from threads I’m not interested in, but it seems I can hardly move in GD without tripping over memorial threads! 😉