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I don't know about him, but I respected Trump's efforts to prevent them becoming a problem for the US by simply stopping most from being able to just walk into the country. If they couldn't cross, they became Mexico's problem and would, IMO, have led to Mexico stopping them entering Mexico in the same way, which would have led to people not making the dangerous journey in the first place.

Yeah, Moore was a bad joke in comparison.

If that were true, why all the fuss? Seems to me that it's been milked for public consumption, and if it was known about all the time, why wasn't that the first thing put out by the media?

Has anyone claimed the balloon was stationary? A balloon by definition does not have that ability unless there just happened to be no wind in the exact required location.

Perhaps a test run for something more sinister, or just a weather research balloon that went astray. Hopefully they can recover the payload and are able to find out.

The US has the capacity to go into space, which is higher than the balloon, and neither you nor I know of everything in the US military equipment. If they could build the X1 in 1945, a plane capable of reaching the balloon would be a doddle now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1 If they don't have that ability, perhaps they should. IMO if nothing else, this episode has exposed that the US is vulnerable to an attack using balloons, and it should not have been if the thousands of guys in the Pentagon had been doing their job.

True, true. Distract everyone with something of little importance while doing something they don't want reported. Typical political trick.

Good one!

I was referring to religious beliefs that I don't personally uphold, but as the people that claim God doesn't exist are always referring to the religious version of God it's relevant in the context of the post. Anyone can believe in anything they want to, like there are multiple genders or suchlike, but it doesn't make them true. Faith is beyond religion, so fake gods are irrelevant.

Prove it.

Prove God doesn't exist.

and you could be in the Matrix. How would you know differently?

I'm not religious so I don't believe in heaven or hell. Alice and the Queen have nothing to with religion so deflection.

I'm not religious, but it's a bit sad seeing the C of E trying to be woke. Besides, a being that can create the universe sure ain't human, ergo not a man, or a woman.

You seem very confused as what God is. Santa Claus, fairies at the bottom of the garden- has anyone ever in all of human history claimed that they created the universe? Buddha was a man, Satan was a fallen angel.

Exactly, God can't be proven not to exist, ergo God has to be possible.

They are a bit sad, presumably because they believe that once they die they become nothing. Everything they were vanishes forever. I'd say they are certainly wishing that they become nothing as non believers don't get to enter heaven, and go to the other place.

Prove it.

Ah, good old "anonymous sources". That guy has been around a lot recently. I guess it depends on which side of the debate one is as to which leaks to believe.

IMO nothing that Biden can say will unify the country. It's far too broken and IMO many will regard anything he says as lies.

Seriously, did I need to put a sarcasm alert on my post?

The claim was that the 300 Blackout is a re barreled AR 15, but it's a varient of the M4 as the below article shows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.300_AAC_Blackout The .300 AAC Blackout (designated as the 300 BLK by the SAAMI[1] and 300 AAC Blackout by the C.I.P.[2]), also known as 7.62×35mm, is an intermediate cartridge developed in the United States by Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC) for use in the M4 carbine.

We live in a world awash in lethal weapons and some seem to think a "ban" on certain weapons will end the killing- dreamers all. If they can't get semi auto rifles they'll use Sarin or food poisoning or machetes or a pointed stick.

The AR 15 isn't a "weapon of war", but the similar looking weapon, the M16 was. https://www.quora.com/Does-the-military-use-AR-15 “M16” is often used to refer to full auto versions of the rifle, while “AR-15” refers to semi-auto versions of the rifle (which aren’t in common use in any military). In a world where the bad guys have no problem getting weapons, I want something that is as good as what they have. People that want to be defenseless are welcome to not have any. Just don't expect any sympathy from me if it all goes wrong.

I've returned to my weight of 30 years ago, under 90 kg, no idea what my BMI is, not going to pay for a blood test just for this , can shovel about a ton of dirt a day. Not bad for a bloke of my age, I reckon.