[TheRealThing]

- Check the record of the George H W Bush and number of sailors on leave for Christmas, before the ship deploys. Yet more blather on your part.

- All your "researched" blather is just that. The Congressional record is what it is. You prefer the Magical Kingdom of TRT and corresponding worldview to history, and you confuse the two, which is dangerous if it becomes the collective.

- Trump could be re-elected in 2020. I am speaking of the initial four years where I would suggest only the Scalia seat will be filled, barring unforseen circumstances.

- One of the pitfalls of being, basically, a propogandist who vomits up straw like a sick mare, is you can't see, and you won't see, believing you have sight.

- Right, why not let them go home since they're not required to be at sea? I agree. But as always your argument is straight off the pages of liberal apologetics. This is still the first time in more than a half century we did not have even one carrier at sea. And government authorities say it is because of budgetary shortfall. Who cares where the heck the sailors went when the carriers are in port? Your argument then if I understand it, is that carriers are not moving because they're sitting still, and the sailors are all home on leave for Christmas. That about right? Now that's foreign policy La-La style.

If you'd served, you'd know that Christmas for the US military is largely something that is observed while on duty. Like a Christmas tree on the hangar deck. Only a relative few service-wide get to go home on leave, and then only if they actually have the leave time and can afford the travel expenses. In any case up until the romper roomers got put in charge of the armed services, there were carriers at sea manned by able bodied seamen no matter what day it was. I guess there is some question about whether or not our enemies give a flip about holidays as observed by the US. :eyeroll:

- I will concede that one of us is confused.

- Ol Ruth will be 84 this March and ain't lookin so good. I believe she will hang in there as long as she can, but she'll never make it till 2024. Steven Breyer is 78. If both check out in the next 8 years and it is better than 50/50 that they will, that would leave only 2 La-La's.

- LOL, even if I couldn't see I'd still remember the truth.