Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "CBC News" channel.

What piqued my interest is two videos: 1) All the missile parts laid out for a news conference, apparent "malfunctioning" cruise missiles that crashed in the desert. These caught my eye because I have built, flown and crashed fiberglass composite r/c aircraft and these missiles looked more like they were torn apart and smashed by hand tools rather than crashed. In addition, one of the missiles had "cobwebs" inside the open spaces between the fin and the sheet metal braces (shown in the longer video not this short clip). . . not something that would have survived flight at several hundred MPH. 2) The towers in the oil refineries were not hit by missiles. All missiles pack warheads that explode, blowing all non-armored metal structures they hit into shards. These towers were hit by short range artillery rounds, not missiles. This means the Saudis did this to themselves and all this is a set up. Even the parts shown in this video where whole panels with holes, square holes, panels that should have been greatly disfigured due to catastrophic explosive force . . . even the smallest missiles with a 50 pound warhead would do greater damage than that which was shown. This whole thing stinks of collusion between the Saudis and Trump to cause a war with Iran . . . .my fellow citizens of the USA, beware.
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+ James Ramsier - It is indeed refreshing to read your comments, as a democrat I have been trying to reach across and talk to republicans and conservatives . . . who seem to indeed have a hatred for civil discourse and use of logic. Thank you for showing that attitude is not the only narrative the left will encounter when we try to bridge the divide.
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+Trixiegirl88 - Found your post perplexing. After much research looking at both sides I found the left is powered by fact and the right powered by emotion, mainly racism and hate for the left. It seems odd to me that you came up with a different conclusion, could you give us some clarification? I've been trying to reach out to those on the right, have run into a stone wall of name calling and vitriol. Furthermore, please give clarification on how trump is not beholden to anyone but the people? His first act was an executive order against first time home buyers, hardly an action for the people. He has then proceeded through executive orders to dismantle everything President Obama has done for the people, and then his new federal budget is completely against the peoples best interests.
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+Julie Ann Ennis - Thank you for your well reasoned post. Greetings from the USA and thank you for your rationality.
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+Trixiegirl88 - Thank you for the FHA MIP insight. Working and saving for a home is a given, to be sure. I'm set to understand conservative republicans are always concerned about the taxpayer costs and the federal debt. Since I have researched this arena quite a lot, I am not as concerned for many reasons of which I will give only two, in the interests of time and space. 1). The discretionary budget for the federal government is overloaded with military costs, eating up 55% of the one trillion dollar discretionary budget. As a U.S. military researcher specializing in WW2 and after, I can assure you we have no need for that much military spending and even less need for a 55 billion dollar expansion to the military budget. We simply put, do not have a threat level to this country's homeland that justifies that level of expense. 2). As a home owner you are probably familiar with debt to earnings ratios. The U.S. annual federal debt is about 4% of GDP and total deficit at about 104% of GDP. The entire population is under taxed when compared the period between 1945 and 1980, yet even with this total deficit the United States is not debt burdened anywhere close to where we have been in the past. The federal government can handle helping first time buyers with FHA MIP, it should not fall on the sellers shoulders because that is a transferred "tax" you have no need to bear. Now about the howls and screams coming from the left, I'm afraid I have to admit that comes from the less well informed left. For myself and others I know, we like to deal in verifiable facts. For that I rely on Robert Reich, Dr Richard Wolff, Noam Chomsky, and news sources not in the corporate media realm. These people always give sources and demand that people do their due diligence with verification. There is a verifiable threat right now to the Constitution and (dare I say it) a long running assault on the American people using the economy as a weapon. Luckily the perpetrators of this assault do not have all their pieces set on the board. All the screaming and marching is mostly being done by those that can feel the assault but do not understand it. The riots I believe are a tool, instigated by masked persons whose affiliation is unknown at this time. The goal of the economic assault on the American people is as old as mankind, some people believe they have the god-given right to rule. They seek to return us to the Lord/serf and Master/slave regime, except this will be the modern version with modern tools and technology. Two of many simple indicators are these: 1). The American worker has not had a raise in pay commensurate with the GDP and inflation for over 35 years, yet the GDP has doubled in that time period. Ask yourself, where did all the money go? 2). The top tax bracket has enjoyed a 55% reduction in income taxes during this same time period. Now combine the two and you get a top 1% that has absorbed all of the proceeds from a doubling of GDP and they also got a 55% tax break. Care to guess where the economic assault on the American people is coming from? These are the factual events powering up the left wing of the U.S. political system. If these events are allowed to continue unchecked it will cause the demise of the U.S. Constitution and our democratic republic. A new country will arise with only two classes of people, the tiny upper class with all the rights, voting privileges, power and wealth, and the massive under class with no rights, voting privileges, power or wealth.
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Wyo Dragon - What piqued my interest is two videos: 1) All the missile parts laid out for a news conference, apparent "malfunctioning" cruise missiles that crashed in the desert. These caught my eye because I have built, flown and crashed fiberglass composite r/c aircraft and these missiles looked more like they were torn apart and smashed by hand tools rather than crashed. In addition, one of the missiles had "cobwebs" inside the open spaces between the fin and the sheet metal braces . . . not something that would have survived flight at several hundred MPH. 2) The towers in the oil refineries were not hit by missiles. All missiles pack warheads that explode, blowing all metal structures they hit into shards. These towers were hit by short range artillery rounds, not missiles. This means the Saudis did this to themselves and all this is a set up. Even the parts shown in this video where whole panels with holes, square holes, panels that should have been greatly disfigured due to catastrophic explosive force . . . even the smallest missiles with a 50 pound warhead would do greater damage than that which was shown. This whole thing stinks of collusion between the Saudis and Trump to cause a war with Iran . . . .my fellow citizens of the USA, beware.
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@BIackCadillac - Perhaps heat alone from kinetic energy would blow a hole . . . but who sends out a missile without an explosive warhead? I don't know who Michael Bay is, haven't you ever seen war documentaries or clips of Hellfire or cruise missiles when they hit a target? Obliteration is what happens, not standing structures with holes in them. We are talking artillery rounds here, not cruise missiles or ballistic missiles.
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@BIackCadillac - I am extremely skeptical of the whole situation. Weak missiles notwithstanding, it seems even more suspicious that there are direct hits producing holes in structures . . . so they have weak missiles with the ability to hit tall, skinny silos . . . amist a whole bunch of other tall, skinny silos? I'm just not buying this. At the range we are talking, if Iran fired these "missiles", it would be from several hundred miles away with awesome guidance. From a tactical point of view, it makes more sense to send in missiles with 1000 pound warheads that "blow" in the vicinity and use the blast wave to literally cave in many tall, skinny silo towers at once. This looks like artillery damage with very convenient hits, which allow the facility to be repaired in short order. Does not pass my smell test, even the news person from our local station stating that the damage is facing toward the north-east, toward Iran . . . that is awfully convenient to be able to show this off to the media. I believe this is a Saudi setup rather than a bona-fide attack from distance.
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@MST3Killa - Really now, you think my r/c flight experience included blowing things up? Oh no, no, no . . . you do not get to smear my integrity like that and get away with it. When a model maker such as myself builds a scale replica (like the USN-SSN Los Angeles Class Attack submarine on my YouTube channel), it takes a tremendous amount of research and documentation to accomplish that. Think logically man, when one such as myself has such interests, there comes with the territory dozens, if not hundreds of documentaries on land and naval warfare . . . and the effects therein. I am extremely skeptical of the whole situation. It seems very suspicious that there are direct hits producing holes in structures . . . so they have weak missiles with the ability to hit tall, skinny silos . . . amidst a whole bunch of other tall, skinny silos? I'm just not buying this. At the range we are talking, if Iran fired these "missiles", it would be from several hundred miles away with awesome guidance. From a tactical point of view, it makes more sense to send in missiles with 1000 pound warheads that "blow" in the vicinity and use the blast wave to literally cave in many tall, skinny silo towers at once. This looks like artillery damage with very convenient hits, which allow the facility to be repaired in short order. Does not pass my smell test, even the news person from our local station stating that the damage is facing toward the north-east, toward Iran . . . that is awfully convenient to be able to show this off to the media. Use your brain man! This looks like a Saudi setup rather than a bona-fide attack from distance.
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@krexoriginal - Triggered much? Don't need to be a combat vet or EDO to know what different kinds of ordinance is capable of. I've seen all types, from cruise missiles to anti-tank rounds, also seen armored and non armored, land force, air force and naval force capabilities from the modern age all the way back to Viking long boats. I was never commenting on Shia or Sunni or any other group . . . I was commenting on the media circus and false attack scam being pulled off . . . . trying to get Trump his war. Apparently you think getting the USA into a hot war again for political gain is a good idea? I don't. Let the Saudi fight whomever . . . without our help and certainly without OUR weapons.
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