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FWIW the current focus on Iranian use of missiles, drones and mines to close the Straight of Hormuz glosses over the physical limitations of the waterway itself. VLCCs (supertankers) and large container ships can be easily ten times the size of...

This thread has veered off topic. Perhaps a new thread if there's a new report?

Looking at that map, I am struck by the opportunity presented by the peninsula on which UAE and Oman sit.. A canal there would have little use during normal times, but might be handy when anybody, Iran or somebody else, might try to choke of...

Perhaps she was trying to manage nausea or was anticipating it, as it is a common side effect of Cymbalta. Consuming grated ginger might have helped her mitigate or prevent the symptoms. Nausea was the most common side effect reported in...

Perhaps she was trying to manage nausea or was anticipating it, as it is a common side effect of Cymbalta. Consuming grated ginger might have helped her mitigate or prevent the symptoms. Nausea was the most common side effect reported in...

"[The war department] is going to fight to win, not to lose."

I don't doubt that. My personal issue with the common trope is more with the mass ontological shock which is often delivered from a position of "I'm ready, no one else is", which the trailer seems to hint at. I think most people are either ready...

I take it to mean that the button is there and it works, it's just black-on-black?

FWIW the current focus on Iranian use of missiles, drones and mines to close the Straight of Hormuz glosses over the physical limitations of the waterway itself. VLCCs (supertankers) and large container ships can be easily ten times the size of...

FWIW the current focus on Iranian use of missiles, drones and mines to close the Straight of Hormuz glosses over the physical limitations of the waterway itself. VLCCs (supertankers) and large container ships can be easily ten times the size of...

I take it to mean that the button is there and it works, it's just black-on-black?

Seems to be getting quite speculative in here...

Perhaps if you crushed it and mixed it with something like applesauce? When our kids were little, that was one way to get them to take medicine, they were not yet able to swallow a pill and applesauce or something like that stoop in for Mary...

Close Encounters began with a police UFO chase based on a chase that occurred in Ohio in '66, iirc. Skeptics contend that the police were chasing Venus. There is a drawing that one of the officers made (iirc), and a picture was also taken which...

I'm going to assume that's sarcasm...