seattle.politics

Don Homuth wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:19:48 +0200, dangerman
> < @ > wrote:
>
>> Don Homuth wrote:
>>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:12:55 +0200, dangerman
>>> < @ > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don Homuth wrote:
>>>>>>> I lived in Nordakoda, where there were not one but Two Buff Bases --
>>>>>>> each of which flew the nuclear-armed flights on a regular basis for
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>>> But not over the US. They flew toward the Soviet Union, and then they
>>>>>> turned around and came back.
>>>>> There were Many routes flown "toward the Soviet Union." Not all of
>>>>> them went straight north across Canuckistan.
>>>> But they all went north from north dakota. It's the shortest way.
>>> No, child -- they did not. The airborne nuclear-armed flights
>>> deployed in locations all across the northern hemisphere. Not all of
>>> them went directly towards the USSR. Each of the Buff wings flew the
>>> separate patterns in rotation.
>> They all went north.
>
> Sorry -- they did not.

They did. The idea was to get there.

>>> Besides -- where Do you get the idea that the USAF was seeking
>>> effiency each and every time in such things.
>> I got the idea when I was in the USAF.
>
> Ah -- they Told you something, and you believed them.

No. I said I was in the USAF.

> That would explain it, certainly.
>
> Have you always been that gullible?