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Yeah like I said it wasn’t expected to he an orphan when we chose it. But when we skimped on missiles and buggered the contract for over a decade we didn’t impress anyone else to buy it. VH-92 complications have been worked out it seems, it will fully assume all presidential transport responsibilities this year Sikorsky VH-92A Patriot to take over Marine One mission completely by 2024 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/sikorsky-vh-92a-marine-one-2024/amp The EH101 version named VH-71 Kestrel also had delays, performance and cost overrun problems Besides there is no way the US military would ever let the POTUS fly in a European helicopter over an American one. It’s like when the proven Airbus MRTT won the USAF KC-135 replacement competition, the Air Force just redid the competition and them awarded the contract to an unproven and less capable Boeing aircraft that’s plagued with deficienciesbb

Of course not, he’s a multimillionaire. He even grew up fairly rich so has no frame of reference for these things.

Hilarious because here that’s not considered fancy or desirable, that’s just mostly at the low-end grocery stores. I expected him to next say “the aspirin and diapers are kept in a locked cabinet, you have to ask the staff for a key! Amazing!” The shopping cart escalator that “he just figured out” is not special either. Multi-floor grocery stores in downtown city centres have them. I know of a few here in Toronto.

Not Putin. A stalemate on this battlefield = Russia loses. Besides, his original goal was to conquer all Ukraine which he has failed to do. And will not do. The best he can hope for is to hold on to what he’s got long term as a foreign occupying army which is not cheap in blood or treasure. Russia’s economy is smaller than Canada’s it cannot continue to bleed hundreds of thousands more men and hundreds of billions of dollars indefinitely, especially while under sanctions. Something’s gotta give eventually even if Ukraine cannot dislodge them on the battlefield. .

You never provided a single source for any of the BS you spew here daily while at the same time demanding a library full of sources for anything you dislike and still claim it’s inadequate. Typical MAGA troll. And it’s quite obvious YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO F-CKING CLUE what happened in that election you don’t even have a version of events, just baseless insults. You couldn’t even begin to tell me how you think Gore tried to steal the election you uneducated mor*n. But ok I’ll bite here are the published accepted historical facts, not that a vulgar troll like you have the intellectual curiosity to even read it much less understand it And we both know you’re not mentally capable of accepting information that’s inconvenient to your ideology anyway but here’s me once again taking the high road over an unwashed bottom-feeder like you. It’s why I’m the good guy and you’re an Orc from Lord if the Rings 1) FLORIDA LAW, NOT AL GORE REQUIRED THE RECOUNT; The Florida election was closely scrutinized after Election Day. Due to the narrow margin of the original vote count, Florida Election Code 102.141 mandated a statewide machine recount,[5] which began the day after the election. It was ostensibly completed on November 10 in the 66 Florida counties that used vote-counting machines and reduced Bush's lead to 327 votes.[4][6] According to legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, later analysis showed that a total of 18 counties—accounting for a quarter of all votes cast in Florida—did not carry out the legally mandated machine recount, but "No one from the Gore campaign ever challenged this view" that the machine recount had been completed.[7] 2) AL GORE WAS ENTITLED TO REQUEST A MANUAL NOT MACHINE RECOUNT UNDER FLORIDA LAW Following the machine recount, the Gore campaign requested a manual recount in four counties. Florida state law at the time allowed a candidate to request a manual recount by protesting the results of at least three precincts.[10] 3) JEB’S FLORIDA OFFICIALS CONVENIENTLY FAILED TO ABIDE BY FLORIDA LAW AND COMPLETE THE RECUNT BY THE LEGALLY REQUIRED DEADLINE AND TRIED TO STOP THE RECOUNT Florida statutes also required that all counties certify and report their returns, including any recounts, by 5:00 p.m. on November 14. The manual recounts were time-consuming, and it soon became clear that some counties would not complete their recounts before the deadline. On November 13 the Gore campaign and Volusia and Palm Beach Counties sued to have the deadlines extended.[13] Meanwhile, the Bush campaign worked to stop the recount. On November 11, it joined a group of Florida voters in suing in federal district court for a preemptive injunction to stop all manual recounting of votes in Florida. 4) VARIOUS LAWSUITS AND COURT ORDERS STOPPED AND RECOUNTS ALL OVER THE STATE, WITH REPUBLICANS TRYING TO PREVENT RECOUNTS AND DEMOCRATS TRYING TO START THEM AGAIN (Described in detail over multiple paragraphs I will not try to repost here) 5) IN NARROW 4-3 VOTE, SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF BUSH TO STOP RECOUNTING TO “AVOID IRREPARABLE HARM TO BUSH” The U.S. Supreme Court convened on December 1 to consider Bush's appeal. On December 4, the Court ordered the Florida Supreme Court to clarify its ruling that had extended the certification date. On December 9, the Court suspended the manual recount, in progress for only several hours, on the grounds that irreparable harm could befall Bush, according to a concurring opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia. Meanwhile, on December 6 the Republican-controlled Florida legislature convened a special session to appoint a slate of electors pledged to Bush, as the U.S. Constitution bestows upon state legislatures the duty to determine how its state's electors are appointed. On December 12, the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Florida House approved awarding the state's electoral votes to Bush, but the matter was moot after the Court's ruling. Some have argued that awarding the electors in this manner would be illegal.[15] On December 13, Gore conceded the election to Bush in a nationally televised address.[16][17] 6) JEB BUSH RECOUNTED VOTES IN REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS WHILE FIGHTING RECOUNTS IN DEMOCRATIC ONES While the Bush campaign opposed the Gore campaign's requests for manual recounts in four heavily Democratic counties, they quietly accepted manual recounts from four Republican-leaning counties. Polk, Hamilton, Seminole, and Taylor Counties, which used the more reliable optical scanners, decided to manually examine unreadable ballots (both undervotes and overvotes) during the counties' electronic recounts, in accordance with those counties' existing policies (see County-by-county standards below). These manual counts garnered Bush a net gain of 185 votes.[23] 5) IF ALL VOTES IN THE STATE HAD BEEN RECOUNTED (SOMETHING GORE NEVER ASKED FOR) GORE WOULD HAVE WON CNN and PBS reported that, had the recount continued with its existing standards, Bush would likely have still tallied more votes, but variations of those standards (and/or of which precincts were recounted) could have swung the election either way. They also concluded that had a full recount of all undervotes and overvotes taken place, Gore would have won, though his legal team never pursued such an option.[74][75][76] The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, sponsored by a consortium of major U.S. news organizations, conducted the Florida Ballot Project, a comprehensive review of ballots collected from the entire state, not just the disputed counties that were recounted.[77]. ., Based on the NORC review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes (with, for each punch ballot, at least two of the three ballot reviewers' codes being in agreement). The standards that were chosen for the NORC study ranged from a "most restrictive" standard (accepts only so-called perfect ballots that machines somehow missed and did not count, or ballots with unambiguous expressions of voter intent) to a "most inclusive" standard (applies a uniform standard of "dimple or better" on punch marks and "all affirmative marks" on optical scan ballots).[4] An analysis of the NORC data by University of Pennsylvaniaresearcher Steven F. Freeman and journalist Joel Bleifuss concluded that, no matter what standard is used, after a recount of all uncounted votes, Gore would have been the victor.[37] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida

He did more than that he presented Russian propaganda and couldn’t bring himself to ask even one tough question or challenge even one of Putin’s dubious claims. He even produced a little video segment where he tried to falsely make it seem like poverty-riddn, crime-infested Russia is a paradise by filming bits in the ONE nice area where all the businesses and rich oligarchs go. “The grocery store locks up their shopping carts so homeless people don’t steal them! Isn’t that amazing?” “Trust me this loaf of bread I’m sniffing smells better than American bread!” “This ONE subway station is nicer than American subway stations!” Jon Stewart aptly describes Tucker’s hack job Even Family Guy’s depiction of Russia is more realistic

Yes sorry I stand corrected after 13 years of true balanced budgets under Chretien/Martin, Harper inherited rhat and blew it all after year 2. Not that I think balanced budgets are so great, we’ve now had 2 generations of austerity with underfunded schools, hospitals, military, crumbling infrastructure, etc. Under Harper we got the same austerity and underfunding as Chretien/Martin while also running more deficits… No. That had nothing to do with it. Those GST cuts occurred before the Great Recession anyway. We didn’t have a financial meltdown because our financial sector is well regulated there, was no subprime mortgage crisis here, commodity prices wee booming, and the Fed cut interest rates to near zero to juice the economy. No mention of GST in any account of the Great Recession I can find, which makes sense because Canadian economic challenges were due to decreasing exports as the rest of the world suffered, not decreasing domestic consumer demand.

Another fact-check : HALO Trust is a global charity that helps train locals to safely clear landmines. ONE of their programs is specifically aimed at training local women but they also train men. As for your claim that “Trudeau insisted” that appears to be made up by you.

Just a point of fact: Harper NEVER balanced the books (His final budget doesn’t count as he avoided a defeat for the first time by basically doing the equivalent of taking money out of your RRSP to buy groceries). No conservative in modern times ever has. Perhaps if he hadn’t lost billions in revenue by cutting the GST he might have. pulled it off, but his choice just goes to show he wasn’t really “obsessed” with balancing the books

I agree can’t be a launch customer for any product. To your question though, USAF, and USMC, USCG, German Navy, all looked at it. USMC purchased 21 aircraft +2 more for testing, designated VH-92 that will fully takeover presidential duties this year. It’s also a militarized version of the H-92 superhawk but still probably very different than the Cyclone. As I understand it: Because the CH-148 Cyclone was an adaptation of a successful civilian aircraft and large US/foreign orders were also anticipated at the time it was expected to be a simple implementation. But meeting the RCAF’s requirements especially the folding tail proved challenging. Plus in addition to the cyclone being a small fleet with these bespoke features not necessarily valued by other countries, we cheaped out on other capabilities. it was only ever designed to carry torpedoes when at a minimum anti-ship missiles should have been included as this is pretty much a core feature of most maritime combat aircraft and ASW helicopters. Despite the horrendously excessive amounts of time and money spent developing and delivering the Cyclone, AFAIK the helicopter that is flying today is highly capable and well regarded by the crews that use it, except for lack of additional weapons like missiles. Initial problems with tail cracking and autopilot have been addressed to my knowledge and no new ones have emerged. I’m not saying it was the right choice to purchase but we’re not currently flying a lemon, just a very expensive orange that took a very long time to ripen. And now the fleet is approaching mid life upgrade despite not reaching full delivery and nobody has planned for it.

Well at the time we didn’t think we’d be the only ones. The Cyclone is American made and meant to a larger version of the widely used Seahawk. The civilian version of the cyclone is also widely used. The alternatives of this size category are European NH-90 and EH/AW-101 which at the time had their own troubling technical problems Canada is just a bad launch customer for any military product.

Yes we should be. Reluctance nowadays is due to cost mostly and historically a fear of anything with the word “nuclear” in it, especially if it’s related to the military. Assuming Canada stays in the submarine business after the current submarines are done, my guess is that we will pursue “Air Independent Propulsion” subs rather than nuke. AIP use tech like hydrogen fuel cells so can operate under ice but currently they can only stay submerged for a few weeks vs nukes which in theory can remain submerged indefinitely

As point of fact: -Helicopters that got cancelled: Mulroney deal cancelled by Chretien. New deal awarded under Harper with major flaws we area still dealing with - fighters that got canceled: we are buying larger numbers than under Harper - many of the new capabilities acquired for Afghanistan like air defence, Leopard 2 tansy and TOW were discontinued or put in ling term storage by Harper gov

A right wing opinion piece peddling more of your garbage. People like you have no grasp of the facts and you rely on partisan opinion pieces for information to tell you only what you want to hear What I said was 100% accurate. A recount in Florida was MANDATORY because the vote was so close. Florida governor Jeb Bush only wanted to recount the districts where he thought Republicans would win. Gore wanted a different set of districts recounted . So they went to court because the law was unclear on how the recount would happen. The court’s ruled the governor can recount any way he wishes. Gore conceded even though he disagreed he respected the rule of law. LIKE A MAN. And unlike Trump A later audit found that if all the districts had been recounted Gore would have won. (Note: Gore had not asked for all districts to be recounted).

He does. As of yesterday, he’s “taken care of” 407,240 Russian soldiers since February 2022, with many more to come. Now F*ck off this thread and go pollute a different area of this forum.

More of your BS Zero-evidence, zero-fact lies, how surprising. BTW, even though Gore conceded after the supreme court ruled Jeb Bush was fee to engineer the recount in any way he pleased, a state-wide post-election audit revealed that Gore would have won if a recount had begun conducted in every single district instead of just the ones Jeb picked for his brother.

BS. You’ll have to show me the transcript of Al Gore telling Florida election officials to just make up a number in his favour and simply say they’ve “recalculated” and threatening them with criminal charges if they don’t The Bush/Gore controversy was only debating which voting districts would be recounted and whether partially-punched ballots should be counted, period.

This thread is meant for serious discussions about the Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian defence policy. The only one responsible for the Ukraine war dead is the brutal dictator who started the war and refuses to end it by returning his invading troops home, Vladimir Putin. Take your crackpot Kremlin-made bullshit lies over to one of the Ukraine war threads if you want to debate that further instead of polluting this one, Now F*ck off.

Keep dreaming. Trump is least popular among young demographics, notwithstanding the usual douchebags and internet trolls While he’s made some gains with them in recent polls it has mostly to do with Biden’s lagging popularity. The youth newly indicating support for Trump to pollsters are mostly holding their noses not spending $400 on ugly AF golden sneakers….

Great analysis by CBC, once again debunking the myth that. BC and the MSM in general are outlets of Liberal party or “liberals” that need to be “defunded”. I doubt you’ll ever see Rebel media or any conservative news site excoriate the conservative party in such fashion. Theres no plausible explanation for the “no new roads” statements other than Liberal cabinet has written a really bad policy or a senior cabinet minister has gone terribly off script and communicating something which cabinet is actually not in agreement on which speaks ti serious dysfunction. Either way it just shows it going from bad to worse for the Libs

Now being the classless tacky loser he is, Trump is selling his followers ugly, gaudy golden Trump-brand hi-top sneakers for $400 per pair. I kid you not, you can’t make this shit up people The definition of un-presidential. Of course his followers being mindless zombies, bought all 1.000 pairs including one mor0n who paid $3,000 for an autographed pair

Not in mine but in many it is. is. Remember this? Patriots Coach Bill Belichick Under Fire for Kissing Daughter at Super Bowl https://www.yahoo.com/news/parenting/patriots-coach-bill-belichick-under-fire-for-109986670677.html Do you honestly think that was a sexual kiss Bush and the Saudi Prince are gay?

Don’t deflect. Certainly world leaders of including Trudeau and even would-be leaders all condemned those events as they did his recent sudden death, Trump is conspicuously absent Trump was President when Navalny was poisoned and still conspicuously refused to condemn Putin, unlike other leaders including Trudeau. Even PP has condemned Putin As for me, I wasn’t in this particular forum back then but certainly I condemned Trump’s refusal to speak out against the poisoning, as you might recall Trump’s Putin sympathies were a well-covered topic during his presidency Another id1otic statement. Nobody wants Trump to be murdered. He is not on trial for being a political opponent he is on trial for having committed actual crimes.

While it’s increasingly uncommon and controversial for parents and grandparents to kiss their children on the lips its not unheard of and was once quite common. People from generations and cultures that were were naive/innocent to think of everything in sexual terms didn’t see anything wrong with kissing kids or friends/relatives on the lips. Of course this was the same generation who naively let priests and coaches take their kids for overnight trips and sleepovers and thought nothing of it In many cultures including very traditional and homophobic ones like Arab cultures men kiss men and women kiss women as a common greeting. Do you not remember Bush and the Saudi king holding hands and on his lips? Do you think that means he’s gay? Why is kissing children on the lips still so controversial? Parents weigh in https://globalnews.ca/news/3531284/kissing-children-lips/amp/ PARENTS KISSING THEIR KIDS ON THE LIPS https://wbsm.com/parents-kissing-their-kids-on-the-lips/ As for showering with young kids its similarly not unheard of in some families under certain circumstances. Let’s just set the Republican lie machine straight we have ONE line allegedly from Biden’s daughter’s stolen diary in which she briefly mentions she has one partial memory of showering with her dad at some point. No context or age is provided. We don’t even know if she was perhaps showering with both parents or what other circumstances existed or if it is in fact an actual memory. The Republican lie machine distorted this to claim it was a regular sexual occurrence.

What makes her racist, exactly? Why is Trump’s insult for every black person that they’re “racist”? What does her alleged dating life have anything to do with Trump’s election interference anyway?