Comments on: Congress to Military: Take More F-22s. We Insist.

[darthcheney345]

Your state also has one too many "skirt lifters" (perverts). : )
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Now, if he lifted her skirt and then DROWNED HER in a car, he'd be given a 50 year career as the most powerful member of the U.S. Senate.

What a difference it makes when you're a Democrat named Ted Kennedy...

[darthcheney345]

by ibsteve2u July 15, 2009 3:12 PM EDT
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Why don't you search for "F-22 pugachev cobra" on YouTube.

Then you tell me if it looks like it "flies good enough."

[au_fait]

cost of an F-22 is not a 250,000,000, the cost is coming closer to 150,000,000. There a reciept/invoice for each of the plans in the bar for each squadron here at Tyndall. As we receive a new plane you can see where the cost has come down. Yes the first were more expensive, but as they are built the cost comes down. BTW, there is not a fighter out there that can do what the 22 does and probably will not be one that can come close for many years. yes they are expensive, yes we do not need as many as originally planned, but ther is a need for more of them! We just need leaders with balls to put them into combat situations.

[erasmus111]

Your state also has one too many "skirt lifters" (perverts). : )

[darthcheney345]

by bajajohn1 July 15, 2009 2:44 PM EDT
We have 187 F-22's.
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That's far, far too many.

I would have spent half of that money on education, and given the other half to the poor.

[pete_in_az]

My god, its the first rational thing i've ever heard you say.

[darthcheney345]

We have 187 F-22's.
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That's nowhere near enough.

We need at least twice as many as that.

[straightmate]

This is a total cluster#$%&. Why can't people be employed building what the military NEEDS. This is the sort of thing that defines bureaucracy. Congress needs to suck it up.

[darthcheney345]

But the REAL question is - can a Gauntlet do a 360 degree Pugachev Cobra????

I THINK NOT!!!!

The F-22 is just so UTTERLY cool. I thought Obma was cool.

Guess not.

[radicalc-2009]

"95,000 jobs would be lost in a variety of states if F-22s stop being built"

Study catfish or build new planes and save 95,000 jobs.

[erasmus111]

They need to do MAJOR cuts in your state.

[antoniof123]

What are you talking about this is never going to happen here is why now read this go check it out then make your own assumptions as to what the outcome would be.

The USA destroyed an island called Bikini using a 15 megaton blast their is a hole in the ocean 250 feet deep where the entire island once was.

Not to be out done the Soviet Union then droped a 50 megaton bomb the biggest ever droped in the Artic Circle. The blast produced a shock wave that traveled around the Earth and could be felt 4 times around and measured. The blast produced between 1 to 2 percent of the Suns output for 54 nano seconds. The cloud was over 60 miles high and 20 miles wide. The blast knocked out windows in Finland. That was only a 50 megaton blast.

Now think about this we have thousands of nukes and Russia has thousands and China has thousands and the EU has a bunch too so does England.

Now here is the important part if each is just 1 or 2 megatons to you think if they are used all at about the same time you really need to hit a target if one 50 megaton blast could do what it did.

Really it would be the end of the world that is why you can not use them but once.

[antoniof123]

Republicans Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, whose party has been railing against Democrats for wasteful spending, have been pushing hard to fund the F-22s. Chambliss argued on the Senate floor yesterday that it is up to lawmakers ? not the military ? what gets funded.

Hypocrocy and stupidity at it best Mr. Chanbliss and Mr. Isakson.

This is the worst case of pork I have ever seen and you complian about what.

Dumber than dirt it seems.

[stevex47]

I wonder why NO missions have been flown with the 187 we now have?

I think I'd prefer to invest in un-manned aircraft.

[ibsteve2u]

by bajajohn1 July 15, 2009 2:46 PM EDT "It is not a plain, which describes flatlands; it is a Plane, which flies."

Although whether or not it flies "good enough" under combat conditions - which includes all-weather flying through storms of both hail and missiles - has yet to be seen.

Good enough is a relative term, of course.

For instance, it could include good enough to accomplish a one-way mission, good enough to bring our pilots back, or just good enough to make our defense industry's managers and shareholders a lot of money.

Unfortunately for America, the Republicans tend to focus on the latter as the appropriate definition of "good enough".

[ibsteve2u]

"and no one can pick it up..."

Assuming that an idea like using the reflections of thousands of cell phone and/or other communications tower emissions parsed with, say, supercomputers modeled upon a supercomputer sold to predict the weather during the Beijing Olympics never occurs to anybody.

[bajajohn1]

It is not a plain, which describes flatlands; it is a Plane, which flies.

[bajajohn1]

We have 187 F-22's.

[erasmus111]

by mainermike July 15, 2009 1:18 PM EDT
This is AS I SEE IT, by Mainer Mike Brown.

Obama has to make spending cuts somewhere.


Yeah, that's right. And just like always, no one can agree on where that should be. Always someone b*tchin'. And it's the same thing no matter who is President. When you are in major debt, you make those cuts anywhere and everywhere you can.

[erasmus111]

They need to do MAJOR cuts in your state.

[erasmus111]

Your state also has one too many "skirt lifters" (perverts). : )

[darthcheney345]

Your state also has one too many "skirt lifters" (perverts). : )
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Now, if he lifted her skirt and then DROWNED HER in a car, he'd be given a 50 year career as the most powerful member of the U.S. Senate.

What a difference it makes when you're a Democrat named Ted Kennedy...

[erasmus111]

Shut up, dinky head.

[erasmus111]

oops. I meant to post my comment here but screwed up. See below.

[igot_leishmaniasis]

The plains them selves don't need this 30 hour to one maintance, it's the plains skin that needs this TLC work. It's one of the most advance Air Weapons on earth, this plain can fly past mock-1 at a idle, and no one can pick it up, in flight. This plain is really a B-2 killer, it is the only aircraft in the world that can find and kill the B-2's or fly with it on missions. The reason this plain isn't in combat, it would be like going duck hunting with a Battle Ship, or water sking with an Air-Craft Carrier. But a First Strick on Iran, or N-Korea, then this is the only Fighter Jet in the World that could do this, over an over again! Even Russia is light years from this kind of Air Weapons of the USA.
We need at lease 500 of these Plains, we need 200 that would stay here in the USA at all times, just for our own protection, and a Super Carrier on each Coast, up an ready at all times. Their is only about 2+ billion people in this world that hates US, Why you ask? Because we are free, an they are not!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA an ALL THAT FIGHTS AN HAS GIVEN THEIR ALL!!!!

[bajajohn1]

It is not a plain, which describes flatlands; it is a Plane, which flies.

[ibsteve2u]

"and no one can pick it up..."

Assuming that an idea like using the reflections of thousands of cell phone and/or other communications tower emissions parsed with, say, supercomputers modeled upon a supercomputer sold to predict the weather during the Beijing Olympics never occurs to anybody.

[ibsteve2u]

by bajajohn1 July 15, 2009 2:46 PM EDT "It is not a plain, which describes flatlands; it is a Plane, which flies."

Although whether or not it flies "good enough" under combat conditions - which includes all-weather flying through storms of both hail and missiles - has yet to be seen.

Good enough is a relative term, of course.

For instance, it could include good enough to accomplish a one-way mission, good enough to bring our pilots back, or just good enough to make our defense industry's managers and shareholders a lot of money.

Unfortunately for America, the Republicans tend to focus on the latter as the appropriate definition of "good enough".

[darthcheney345]

by ibsteve2u July 15, 2009 3:12 PM EDT
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Why don't you search for "F-22 pugachev cobra" on YouTube.

Then you tell me if it looks like it "flies good enough."

[pete_in_az]

My gosh. I'm no 'plain' junkie, but the f22 was never designed to take off of a carrier deck right?

[bajajohn1]

We have a sophisticated weapons system in the F-22 that has not flown one single mission in either of the two theatres of war-Iraq and Afghanistan. Two REPUBLICAN senators are going against the defesnes department and the executive in pushing for a huge outlay of tax money for this unused weapons system. What is wrong with this picture?