I thought that Kelly's resume would win come converts on the left, and he would emerge as a potential candidate.  But the MSM has to do a LOT of work to mute his idiot mouth.

Emerging from the usual suspects of Newsom and Pritzker, it seems that Mark Kelly is getting a lot of headlines lately.  With everyone else being idiots or socialists or communists, he seems the least objectionable to the centrist left.

My wife likes to shop.  I like to buy.  I go in, do the most efficient route through the isles to get what's on the list, and go to the self check so I don't have to talk to anyone.  My wife likes to shop: explore every isle, see what's on sale, chat with people, interact with the sales person.  She knows to plant me in a chair somewhere so she can shop in peace.

Exactly.  They go for shocking lies to get attention.  They crave attention!  And attacks from the Right on what they say only cements in their mind that they are correct.

My wife got REALLY tired from me laughing as we were driving along the German autobahn and kept seeing "Ausfahrt" (exit) signs.

Maybe should be it's own thread, anyone know why gas prices just jumped $0.35+ in one day?  We've gone from nid $2.60s to $2.99 overnight.

I think it has to do with switching from a summer formula to a winter formula.  Not sure what that means, but there's always a jump about this time of year.

Not much is truly "old junk"—it's mostly serviceable, with new buys addressing Ukraine's high-consumption needs (e.g., 4,000+ shells/day).

Thanks! I appreciate the correction.

Something I kind of wonder about, not necessarily related but it could be...  We've lost a LOT of the technology for making stuff as we move to more advanced stuff.  Now that Beech is done making Bonanzas and Barons, what will happen to their jigs and plans and stuff.  Too expensive to store, so will they be recycled?  The molds for 155mm dumb projectiles when we go to all smart technology.  Who will make new Merlin engines when we run out of the old ones?  At the peak the US turned out one P51 every hour.  Now it can take decades to refurbish one, never mind build a new one from scratch.  Liberty ships in a couple of days.  Not much shipbuilding here in the US any more.  Let's bring chip manufacturing back here.  But the chip making technology will take years to rebuild.

Yeah, I'm just rambling on here.  But I do worry that the skills and technology to make old stuff are being forgotten.  COBOL forever!

Boot camp is designed for you to learn how to take orders and work as a team with others.

Probably why it was decided that for the betterment of mankind it would be best if I didn't serve.  I'm always analyzing orders and hate teamwork.  Whenever I'm put on a team I try to put the rest of the team on the bench and just do it myself.  "Teamwork makes the dream work" is nonsense.  "Teamwork makes the team worse."