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Well, for one, SEAL teams generally don't carry 75-100 pounds of equipment. Sometimes they do, sometimes it's a lot more, but not generally. They sure train that way, tho. There was a recently discussed incident where a SEAL recon team didn't even have any rope with them on a mission in the...

I don't even know where to begin with this one. It's just creepy. They're trying to rediscover the pride? A celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the launching of the worst designed ships in maritime history, a ship that was unsinkable, which on it's maiden voyage... promptly sank. Hip...

You think I have a lack of understanding of modern combat. You're wrong. But she's not a Navy SEAL, so I guess it doesn't matter. You guys keep on laughing.

Oh, that's OK. I have a sneaky suspicion that the 112 pound daughter of a friend of mine would get the last laugh at all three of ya.

Modern warfare has and is rapidly changing from the days of yore when bigger and badder was needed to beat up on big and bad with some Medieval ax. Any 98 pound weakling can push a button and fire a trigger. Its to the point me that the physical requirements for men don't even need to be met by...

You're lumping an awful lot of people into a single category that fits a particular image or stereotype. Not that it matters, but there's a term for that. Just look at the exaggerations... Tens of thousands were waiting for limousines, everybody in New Orleans was carrying around a TV, there...

Well, most any RV place that sells the rooftop units can install it. They're probably gonna be really backed up this time of year working on RVs they actually sold, so that could be a problem. But Camping World will install it. Many independent auto mechanic shops can do stuff like that...

Here's the link: http://www.f-16.net/news_article2794.html

No, Greg, that may be why you're embarrassed, but it's a national embarrassment because we failed to get aid to them. I guarantee you that 10, 20 even 30 days after Katrina, that this nation was not embarrassed because we as a nation allowed the local officials to be reelected. <snort>

Brilliant deduction. These people were told to sit tight and then at the last minute were told to evacuate. Most of them had no money, no cars, and no way out. Those who did have the means left earlier. For 5000 people. 3000 initially, and buses eventually showed up that could take 3000, but...

There's a thread already in there about this.

You guess wrong on both counts. Although, I may indeed have some pretty bad sources, or an incredibly bad memory, as I cannot recall (or find online) where anyone, much less "a lot of citizens" that sat there waiting on a limousine to take them out of harm's way. So on that point I bow to your...

Here's another article that was posted Monday morning on SI. It's pretty damaging as well, not just for Tressel, but the university. Pretty interesting read about how things go on at many of these schools.

Thanks. Good point about Title IX and the courts being what they are. The courts are all up in the NCAA as it is. As for the non-scholarship players not being the ones who are making the money for the schools, that's true to a point, but a team sport is a team sport, and the stars cannot be the...

Why? I mean, if the swimmers can generate enough revenue to pay for themselves, great. Otherwise, it's business as usual. Why? Does that mean the Kansas City Royals should have the same payroll as the Yankees? That worked well in the 1950s, before television contracts and corporate...

Wow. Those people were ignored for days before they even had a chance to ACT like anything. When help did arrive, it was an incompetent afterthought. New Orleans was left on their own, but they had no resources to do anything. The police and fire were just as devastated as everyone else in that...

It amazes me still how most people will do whatever the last line of an e-mail tells them to do. If an e-mail says sent this to everyone you know, that's a red flag that (1) you shouldn't do that, and (2) that the e-mail is largely a load of crap and you shouldn't believe a word of it.

This common misconception, while understandable, is still a misconception nonetheless. Clearly, there are a lot of people who have never bothered to read the actual definition of HAZMAT (or Hazardous Material). If it requires placarding then it's hazardous material, and if it doesn't require...

Yeah, there's definitely a double standard going on. These athletes make millions of dollars for their university. I think they should be paid above just the scholarship.

I agree that the sentence is asinine. And if you look at the Oklahoma definitions of the various classes of murder, it's even more asinine. Malice and Forethought Murder —the state must prove the defendant caused the death of a human with the deliberate intent to take away the life of a human...