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If new defence facilities are on the table, they could be more than just one-company armouries. Against that, too much "hey, this might be useful too" feature creep could bloat the costs beyond all reasonable limits.

If deficit spending is the major underlying problem (it is, for pretty much everyone so affected), and in the US Congress retains full control of appropriations (it does), focusing attention away from other factors and using it as another haranguing point against Trump isn't particularly...

Long-term rates aren't just a US problem, and are a consequence of many factors. See here. "For insight, I plot some of the international pattern. (Sorry, Fred only goes to June for the other countries.) It’s a global phenomenon. And it lines up roughly with fiscal policies. The US actually...

There's a lot of stuff on the fringes and most of it never goes very far. What's interesting about the particular case is the amount of stuff being blurted out by at least a couple of jurors about people who started the trial with ideas in motion and brought their "lived experiences" into the mix.

Substitution of anything for merit is never a free lunch.

And yet the societies that assemble from these components are not the same.

High oil prices benefit some people. A weak dollar benefits some people. So it goes.

Gee I miss the days when additional LNG development was something to be avoided because it would not be needed.

Ah, seen. My shortcoming.

$2.45/L * 3.8L/USGal = $9.31/USGal, no?

Some people won't want to fight, or at least not force-on-force, but that applies to any war in which Canada has been involved and pretty much every country has the same problem. Simply interrupting all southbound critical flows in ways which cannot be quickly restored can be done without...

The only division for which the word "division" matters is 1 Div, the same way that calling Res F "brigades" as such (rather than "districts" or "areas") doesn't matter much. The domestic "division" and "brigades" are frameworks for expansion as well as various domestic contingencies. Not much...

GoC is upending and reworking all sorts of stuff because the US is a bully. If only it would do China as well.

So easy to rationalize, isn't it? Conflict between US and Iran has been ongoing for over 45 years. The Cold War lasted almost as long, and has sort of entered a phase II. Obviously it's possible to not tolerate tyranny if you're really committed to it, and not satisfied with pretending the...

Yeah, so what if they continue to occupy Tibet and treat Uighurs abysmally. People you can work with, though.

Are you expecting a veto-proof majority? If not, what useful differences do you expect? Another wave of puppies-and-kittens bills containing poison pills designed to make Republicans look like they are opposed to puppies-and-kittens is less helpful than doing only a few useful things.

Calling it a brigade while it has few to no additional supporting units (ie. is not a brigade group) would be perfectly correct.

Awesome. I was beginning to miss Biden's tall tales.

A pig wants to wrestle, and it is interesting to observe who wants to wrestle with him. I certainly am not interested in having any part of Canadian officialdom wrestle on my behalf and thereby worsen the situation. Carney illustrated the correct position when he said something to the effect...

Sure. It is challenging to find Trump allies who want to upend the constitution and institutions of the US and flat-out ignore if not change laws governing immigration, though. While there might be some who want to end or severely curtail the 2A, pack the USSC, abolish the Senate, open the...