Thank God for Reagan's Star Wars

[Meathead]

Weren't you talking about self righteous twats, a minute ago?

One couldn't possibly be more self righteous than the infamous internet grammar Nazi.

What an enriched life.

Being an internet grammar nazi is uncool. Jeez, wish you had told be earlier. I want to be real, real cool just like you!

So what does "fing a, right" mean?

I'm not cool, I'm quite comfortable.

You seem cool, to me. So cool, that apparently you get to decide which slanguage is acceptable and which is taboo.

You fing diva, you.

I'm getting a bit tired of this. I thought you would help me be cool too. I guess being cool isn't what I thought it was.

 

[Wyatt earp]

well this topic went to hell

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

The Conservative Movement is based on Appealling to greed and

dear, China just switched to conservative Republican capitalism and now everyone is getting rich. If thats greed, it sure beats slowly starving to death under liberal socialism.

 

[WUN]

Um ... Star Wars didn't work.

However, the more sensible ship-launched SM-3 anti-ballistic-missile-missile does work. That has zilch to do with Reagan, being the SM-3 is an evolution of the old SM-2. And the program was fully embraced by the Obama administration.

Any more history you guys want to rewrite?

"Star Wars" evolved into many other things that we should be grateful that we have. The program continued under various names under both Bush's, Clinton, and now Obama. We should be grateful that we've been able to work on it for so long.

No it didn't.

Reagan's plan called for orbital satellites armed with missiles.

It didn't even get off the ground.

Many of the initial plans were scrapped, but it still exists today under the name
"Missile Defense Agency"

Here's a successful test of a laser shooting down a missile. It may not be as grandiose as was originally planned, but they've made a lot of progress with the use of lasers.

U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile | Reuters

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

"Star Wars" evolved into many other things that we should be grateful that we have. The program continued under various names under both Bush's, Clinton, and now Obama. We should be grateful that we've been able to work on it for so long.

No it didn't.

Reagan's plan called for orbital satellites armed with missiles.

It didn't even get off the ground.

Many of the initial plans were scrapped, but it still exists today under the name
"Missile Defense Agency"

Here's a successful test of a laser shooting down a missile. It may not be as grandiose as was originally planned, but they've made a lot of progress with the use of lasers.

U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile | Reuters

Thank God for Reagan and Star Wars:

Navy's Laser Weapons Just 2 Years Away, Admiral Says - ABC News
Oct 23, 2012 ... Whoever wins the upcoming presidential election, by halfway through the new
term the Commander-in-Chief could be wielding a new weapon ...
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/navys-laser-weapons-just-2-years-away-admiral-says/

 

[Nole]

Thank God for Reagan and Star Wars:

only one big difference, the laser is ground based not space based. Huge difference and not Reagen's idea.

See, a space based system would have a far greater reaction time and more than likely a on board radar/ infrared system. What the Navy is dealing with is a ground based system that would deal with the SBIRS bird I linked you to. Either way you slice it, its Obama's bird, not Regan's.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Either way you slice it, its Obama's bird, not Regan's.

stupid lying liberal:


Forbes: The U.S. could have already had those 14 more interceptors in place, along with another 10 in Europe next year. The Bush administration deployed the first ground-based interceptor (GBI) in 2004, and had planned to deploy a total of 54. In 2009, Obama pulled the plug on that plan, and cut GBI deployment to just 30.

President Obama also mothballed or killed several other missile defense development programs. This included a scale-back of the Airborne Laser program to enable enemy missile interceptions during their early launch phase, along with the elimination of the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor which uses small warheads on a single rocket to handle decoys and offer a better chance of success. Obama’s 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency.

A comparison of 2010 and 2013 budgets submitted by the Energy Department and National Security Agency indicates that 5-year budgets for nuclear and missile program modernization has been cut by $4.4 billion, the same amount the president had agreed to add to secure Senate support for his New Start treaty with Russia. This is ocourring as Russia prepares to field a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including one type that can carry up to 15 warheads.

President Obama had also promised to build a modern Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility for handling plutonium which was included in the Treaty Resolution of Ratification and presented in his message to the Senate upon entry of the treaty into force. Yet that facility, which is essential for modernization to extend the life of aging ballistic nuclear warheads, has now been delayed for at least five years, and some believe, permanently.

 

[JoeB131]

tell us oh wise one ...where do you get your info ??

I read a wide variety of sources, both left and right.

I did this when I was more consevative as well.

What changed my mind was not anything I read. It was when my Romney-loving boss fired me after six years of loyal service because I had run up a lot of medical bills on the company's insurance. When I pointed out his actions were morally wrong and probably illegal, he announced, "Well, good thing this isn't a union shop!"

The Conservative Movement is based on 1) Appealling to greed and 2) Getting stupid people lathered up about gays or abortions or some other such shit while slowly dismantling your middle class life style so the rich can live better.

Anyone who doesn't see that is willfully blind.

I stopped being willfully blind to it some time ago.

so up until the point that you were recently fired, you were a greedy,stupid,homophobic blind man ??

Up until that point, I believed the system worked if you tried hard enough.

Now I realize tht people bust their asses, but as long as no one is looking out for them, they have nowhere to hide.

But, no, I've never really been comfortable with the GOP and its appeals to religous craziness or homophobia or bigotry. Sadly, they've doubled down on that crap in recent years, and got the result that should have surprised no one.

 

[JoeB131]

The Conservative Movement is based on Appealling to greed and

dear, China just switched to conservative Republican capitalism and now everyone is getting rich. If thats greed, it sure beats slowly starving to death under liberal socialism.

Except they did no such thing.

Frankly, if you think China is a conservative example, you are kind of deluded.

Here's a hint. They are spending like mad on education and infrastructure.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Frankly, if you think China is a conservative example, you are kind of deluded.

dear in 1980 they switched to capitalism and have had 7-10% growth every year since!! and instead of starving in the millions they are now buying cars in the millions. What did you think happened in 1980??

Did you know many other countries had switched too?? East/West Germany, Cuba,Fla., North/South Korea, Israel before/after 1999, Ghana/Ivory coast, Red China before and after communism, Hong Kong/Red China, Taiwan/Red China, El Salvadore before and after Funes . The list is endless. The more capitalism the better. Liberals lack the IQ to grasp what is simple for conservatives to grasp.

does the perfect idiot liberal know of a country that switched to liberal socialism, destroyed everyones incentive to work and produce, and did well???

 

[Nole]

Obama’s 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency.

You sack of crap conservative.

and look, Obama the fiscal conservative! you just pointed that out on your very own, well done.

I work in this field dude. We have a lot more options than GBI's.

What do you think this bad boy is up there doing. No one really knows but I would guess some sort of real time defense system that is maneuverable at a moments notice.

Boeing X-37 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Obama’s 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency.

You sack of crap conservative.

because BO, LIKE A TYPICAL LIBTURD, brilliantly cut our missile defense programs just as Iran and N Korea were finishing their offensive missiles programs.

See why we say liberals will be slow, so very very slow!!

 

[JoeB131]

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dear in 1980 they switched to capitalism and have had 7-10% growth every year since!! and instead of starving in the millions they are now buying cars in the millions. What did you think happened in 1980??

Did you know many other countries had switched too?? East/West Germany, Cuba,Fla., North/South Korea, Israel before/after 1999, Ghana/Ivory coast, Red China before and after communism, Hong Kong/Red China, Taiwan/Red China, El Salvadore before and after Funes . The list is endless. The more capitalism the better. Liberals lack the IQ to grasp what is simple for conservatives to grasp.

does the perfect idiot liberal know of a country that switched to liberal socialism, destroyed everyones incentive to work and produce, and did well???

Ed, why are you calling a dude , "Dear"... that's just strange.

Second- What China has isn't "Free Markets". You can't do a start up in China and start your own companies. If you really want to find a historical comparison, it would be Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany- The State franchises which cronies get to run which markets. China's model is to let foreign companies come in, set up factories, and produce a lot of stuff for export that most of their people could never dream of owning.

There are some merits to "Free Markets", as long as labor is empowered and working people are compensated fairly.

China is not an example of that. In fact, China is developing a growing wealth disparity that is going to bite them in the ass. Which is why the Governmetn has started cracking down on people who flash their wealth...

 

[Dante]

Israel needs it to defend itself, our Navy ships need it to defend themselves, and now we need it to defend ourselves against Iran and North Korea, the Axis of Evil!

In time liberals always look very very foolish!!

False security? No shield is going to be 100% effective.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

You can't do a start up in China and start your own companies. ...

every word you write is pure stupidity!!! you are in contention with Rdean!!


Still, Clark says, China has become “a fast-paced entrepreneurial launchpad.” PaPa’s Xu, 33, says he and Li Xiaobao, 24, finished the first version of their photo- and audio-sharer a month after conception. Xu estimates that PaPa will hit 50 million users this year and 200 million within three years. (That would outpace Instagram, which reached 100 million users in January, nearly two and a half years after its launch.) The 30-employee company, based in a reclaimed Mao-era factory, has raised more than $10 million from Innovation Works, Sequoia Capital, and other firms. It’s already sold its first paid advertisements, and Xu says it’ll do even better once he hires a sales team. But he’s resisting urges to attempt an IPO. “PaPa now is only at the start of our ambition,” he says.

 

[BallsBrunswick]

Is this brain dead half a man really advocating the United States should imitate China's society?

I think most of us on here would be in favor of chaining him to a sewing machine for 18 hours a day and beating him the rest just so we wouldn't have to read his idiocy anymore.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Is this brain dead half a man really advocating the United States should imitate China's society?

too stupid but 100% liberal!!! China is imitating the US!!! How could anyone be so stupid as to not know that??

China is a great example that perhaps even the liberal IQ can understand: when liberalism ended in China so did en masse liberal starvation. Instead, people starting getting rich thanks to Republican capitalism??

Still over your head???

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Israel needs it to defend itself, our Navy ships need it to defend themselves, and now we need it to defend ourselves against Iran and North Korea, the Axis of Evil!

In time liberals always look very very foolish!!

False security? No shield is going to be 100% effective.

too perfectly stupid but 100% liberal!! No defense is 100% effective but still dear we build defenses!!!!!