Ditto for Montana and Idaho.

Duarte canceled the (very badly needed) new airport in Mexico City, after construction had already begun. In no universe could the current MEX airport handle anything even slightly above its current passenger capacity.

(Unless, of course, this whole Olympic gambit is just a strategy to re-start the canceled new airport! In which case, it would totally be worth it.)

Isn’t that the World Cup plan?

Like they did with the Mexico City Airport?

Taking a page right out of The Kentucky Fried Movie.

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So I’ve been hiking all over Manitoulin Island in Ontario for pretty much my entire life. (It’s in northern Lake Huron).

Even if you’re well off any trails, you never need a compass. The glaciers pushed down from the north, and left deep gouges in the exposed rock as they pushed south.

Just look for the gouges in the exposed fossilized coral reefs. They’re all north/south. The entire island is a compass.

A quick google revealed the following professions require licensure (at least in some states):

Flower arranger, gas pumper (NJ), hair braider, travel guide, interior designer, aircraft fueler (HA! Just kidding. No license or certification required to refuel your airliner. I did that job while in college.),

Ummm….I think you have me confused with someone who disagrees with you.

(And the one million casualties is what the US calculated it would cost the American military in an invasion of the Japanese home islands. The Japanese estimated it would cost 20 million of its own civilian population in defending against such an invasion…a cost they were actively preparing to absorb.)

The ongoing conventional bombing of Japan was FAR more destructive (and lethal) than the atomic bombing. People always seem to forget that.

By mid-1945, the US was running out of targets to destroy. Yet the Japanese were showing absolutely zero indication of entering into surrender negotiations. (We were reading their encoded messages. We knew their plans!)

The civilian populations were being trained in the manufacturing and use of homemade weapons to defend the home islands. The Japanese Imperial Army informed the Emperor that it would only require 20 million civilian deaths to repulse an American land invasion, which they felt they could easily absorb and recover from, while the Americans would surely lose their stomach for the war afterwards. (Just as they assumed the Americans would lose their stomachs for war after the attack on Pearl Harbor)

The cities targeted for nuclear weapons were chosen solely because they were ones of only a few cities that had not already been utterly destroyed by conventional bombing, or recognized as having historical/religious significance.

(Yep, that’s right. The US spared some Japanese cities specifically because they had historical or religious importance to the Japanese. I cannot think of another nation in history that has spared an enemy’s cities, in a time of total war, specifically because those cities were precious to the enemy.)

The answer to the killing of millions of people? No.

The way to stop the continued killing of millions of people? History would indicate, yes.

Cursed with an interesting life?

I’ve walked through areas scorched by wildfires that were hot enough to fuse sand into tiny glass beads…there were “shadows” of cattle and kangaroos on the ground. It’s essentially a grease spot.

Fun fact (which I stumbled upon during a visit to Hiroshima)…

After touring the museum and its surrounding grounds, you are left with the impression that Ground Zero was directly above the Peace Memorial or perhaps the Dome. At least, that’s what I felt. If you Google “ground zero” those are the photos that will show up.

After the museum, my colleague and I were walking to a nearby shopping mall. About halfway to the mall, we came upon a small cement monument just outside the front door of an apartment building…

That is ground zero.

Don’t forget the HKG is the central hub of two regional airlines and a major international airline (Cathay Pacific).

While IND is home to a Delta Air Lines regional affiliate (Republic), it doesn’t serve as a hub to the flight operations, but merely the corporate headquarters.

How Cathay Pacific is surviving today is a total mystery to me.

You are correct. Your valve that controls the water flow is not fully closing. The show heads are simply where that water ends up coming out. I would assume that, since this is a new house, the builder will fix the issue?

Your photo doesn’t show the make/model of your valve. But it’s typically just a faceplate between the valve handle and the actual inner workings of the valve.

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This always irks me.

Iraq, in fact, possessed WMDs. (Various blister and nerve gas agents). They produced these agents in large quantities…and used them on both Iran and their own Kurdish populations. All of this is well documented.

An Iraqi general later admitted to being one of the leaders responsible for smuggling large quantities of these agents out of the country. Syria being one of those destinations.

Was lumping Iraq into the GWOT wise? Probably not.

But to say they didn’t produce/possess WMDs is demonstrably false.

Outside the environment.

It’s called “translational lift”.

By moving forward, clean (undisturbed) air begins flowing over the rotor blades, greatly increasing their efficiency.

He didn’t know. Wasn’t his watch. All he did was have a three minute egg timer. Every time the sand ran out, he had to open a little window to observe the general eating his catered meals, reading books from his library or writing letters. As long as he’s not dying, close the little door and flip the egg timer over. Such was the life of an E-2 in the Big Red 1…after the war.

No. It wasn’t a numbers game. It was a knowledge game.

They were “snatching” up as much technical knowledge as possible. But then again, the German scientists and engineers didn’t need to be snatched…they were actively trying to be “captured” by American and British forces before the Soviets could (literally) snatch them.

FWIW, my dad guarded Herman Göring during the Nazi trials in Nuremberg. He had the same complaint.

No new refineries have been built in the US since the 1970s.

Since it takes roughly ten years and $10B to complete a refinery, no company could justify such an expense on a long term project that could be shut down by the next administration, before construction is ever completed.

Meanwhile, every time a refinery shuts down or suffers a catastrophic accident, that’s one less refinery to produce the nation’s ever-increasing energy.

I’d say the profit margin for taxes is pretty much 100%.