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Thanks, Dirk. The dangers of copy/paste. I fixed it.

Bill

Welcome back, Alan. My best to you and Diana.

Bill

As an experiment, for the last two, I only Suspended the accounts. Both times, I got kicked off and had to log in again. However, if I Delete an account, this does not happen.

There is a lot of code for that page. Most of which I can't see to evaluate. It could be that since the person being Deleted MIGHT be logged in at the time, the site simply removes the page (and account)--catching the moderator as well. It could also be that the page refresh is doing something wrong by kicking anyone currently reading the page off the system while it rebuilds the page without the offending account on it.

Bill

That's outstanding, Randy. Your career as a writer seems to have taken off quite well. Congratulations.

Bill

Haven't heard that one, but I wouldn't put it past him. He's started so many fires all over the place, one or more is sure to flame up and burn our butt. If he tries this, I'd bet we would have a civil war within a month.

Bill

Thanks to my 20-year career in the armed forces, I have Tricare for Life. Whatever Medicare doesn't pay, Tricare does. My quad bypass cost around $600K. I didn't pay a dime of it. Tricare also picks up my medications, and I get them from the base pharmacy. Having said all that, I would still be in dire straits if SS goes away. My wife gets less than I do, but I've been paying into it since 1961, when I enlisted, until 2004 when I finally retired (at 62). Now that both of us are octogenarians, we'd both get hurt by the loss of ANY of these programs.

Bill

Here's a really hilarious juxtaposition: Felon47's speech follows, at least on the East Coast, the game show "The Price is Right." How fitting!!

Bill

The military mind is an odd mix of duty and conscience. In the majority of situations, the duty will kick in and without doubt they will run to the sound of guns. Length of service, amount of satisfaction they have with their environment, compensations when off-duty, and the support of family--either accompanying or remote, will determine the outcome of their course of action.

If I were still in the saddle, I would definitely be in the "no way" corner. My security clearances were the highest in the land, and I would do nothing to jeopardize them. Having said that, it would take a force bigger than just my immediate superior to get me to betray my oath to the Constitution and NOT to the Felon in Chief.

As you postulate, MJ, should the order come down to fight FOR Russia (not the bad, old USSR) against the beleaguered Ukraine, I would have to decline. Turkey has the right idea. Go in, finish the conflict, and get the Hell out. We should have done that in Vietnam, and probably would have had not Johnson sent those two destroyers (I was ON one of them) into the Gulf of Tonkin and forced North Vietnam to retaliate. This was his aim, to force Congress to allocate more men and equipment as targets. But I digress.

Russia is, by far, even more dangerous than the USSR was. They now have only loose control of all their firepower. They've lost their satellite countries, and are now desperate. Putin viewed Felon47 as an ally his first term, working to get him elected. Then, the second round was orchestrated by another oligarch who wants nothing more than to tear our government apart in order to make Felon47 even stronger.

The effects are even now being felt down at my level. Every contract doctor/nurse at the base hospital has been terminated. They're kicking every one of us who have been accepting care from the base (In my case for 32 years) out into the cold world of Medicare, which is itself under bombardment from Felon47.

Sorry. I rambled a bit, but to summarize: No way would I fight FOR Russia. I would fight as a common guerrilla FOR the Ukraine before I'd do that.

Bill

I'm not so sure Putin has anything on Felon47. It could very well be that Putin is a role model for him. He wants to be set up a dictator just like Putin.

Bill

I plan to do the same. No nothing except stay at home and do some reading.

Bill

Felon47 should have been there before the election. If the court system hadn't been handcuffed by big business and the like, this would have happened. The biggest problem would have been the Supreme Court, already bought and paid for my Felon47.

Bill