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Oil is a fungible asset. To some extent, so is gasoline. You can't hurt Hugo Chavez by boycotting his oil or gasoline. You buy it from somewhere else and someone else just fills the demand void that you left. If you want to hurt Mr Chavez, stop buying gasoline. Lowering aggregate demand for oil...

I'm not sure why everyone is afraid of hyperinflation all of a sudden. Inflation is the least of our problems. Right now, the economy is on the brink of deflation. Commodity prices are dropping (have you seen the price of oil lately?) and there's an overstock of durable goods like cars and...

That candidate next to the "see the pictures" link was killed in Iraq.

Focus! We're talking about the French elections! Not where the hottest women are from (IMO Poland). :icon_tong

Panera Bread on Garrisonville Road.

France? When I lived in New York City, I had a hot bisexual French woman who lived next door to me... but I digress. :icon_tong

Too bad Royal didn't win. She's so pretty! :icon_tong

Ya got me! So many threads I can't tell you apart! And if you're not a Christian, why do you use the Lord's name in vain? Why? I never understood why my Jewish friends would yell "JC!" when they got mad. As far as using the Lord's name in vain, that has nothing to with do with preaching or being...

I need you to focus--we're talking about Nancy Pelosi and her visit to Syria, not Saddam Hussein or the Cold War. And let's agree not to use the Lord's name in vain.

Maybe the talking heads on FOX think it was a bad idea, but the talking heads of the WP, LAT and the NYT would disagree. It's just a matter of perspective.

What am I confused about?

You're right--people do love holding up the image of Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands because it implies more than wrongdoing! After that handshake, we supplied him with the materials he needed to make chemicals weapons, arms and intelligence which he used to kill millions; that lead him to...

I am unsophisticated--I eat my dessert with the wrong fork all the time; I drink orange juice out of the carton; I don't always cover my mouth when I cough. Why don't I just give up. But even with the benefit of hindsight, my unsophisticated opinion is that Saddam was a turd. He was a turd...

Speaking of senators, what about Senator's McCain's laughable trip to Baghdad's Shorja market? He did more damage to our foreign relations and his own credibility than Speaker Pelosi could have done with a hundred trips to Syria.

Nothing in the Constitution about that. A strict constructionist would know that.

Sounds like hypocrisy to me, however you want to rationalize it. President Assad is no Saddam. Saddam killed millions, most with poison gas (a definite war crime). Yet we were still prepared to negotiate with him. If you don't know what advantage we'd gain from talking to Syria I'd suggest you...

Deja vu?

Stafford's not bad. However, it can take you a surprisingly long time to get to Quantico from Stafford if you get caught in the traffic heading North on Rte 1/I-95 (not normally a problem at TBS because of the early on-deck times). However, any commute into DC from Stafford would suck. If you...

"Can't we all just get along?" --Rodney King

Try Springfield. If you find a location near the Metro, your wife can take the Metro into DC and you can commute in the opposite direction of traffic. With "aggressive" driving (traffic S on I 95 in the morning and N in the afternoon is light) you can be at the gate on the mainside of TBS in 15...

Invest in waterproof socks.

Waterproof your iPod.

M C B Hawaii. Nuff said.

Unless you're an aviator you'll have marines you're responsible for. Paperwork/admin etc. is what the typical marine officer is responsible for regardless of MOS. It's the aviators that are the exception.

When I returned to see my OSO after OCS the FIRST thing he wanted from me was to see my platoon's shirt. In retrospect, I wished I had got him his own shirt. Also, my OSO (and I suspect most other OSOs) liked his job. OSOs volunteer for their billet; its not some crappy job someone had to...

Of course he/she will remember... it will have your class number on it, and maybe the name of all the members of your platoon... if you're lucky, your OSO may even be able pick your name out a year later (but I doubt it). If the shirt is OD green, your OSO will at least have an extra shirt to...

That's crap. Marines love stuff. Don't get your OSO a K-Bar. He/she probably already has one (or five). When you go to OCS and graduate, get an extra platoon t-shirt, go visit your OSO afterwards and present him/her with your platoon's shirt (an unworn one, duh). It's an inexpensive gift, won't...

Signals intel is a cross between intelligence and communications. Signals intel go to a lot of schools--different intel schools, they may even go to SERE (don't know for certain), and they also go to USMC comm school in Quantico (although they only do the radio portion). What do they do? I don't...

Here's the deal with intel in the marines--if you have your mind set on being an intel officer in the marines, go navy. Whereas you can get a guarantee in the navy that you get the MOS you want (save attrition ruining your plans) there's no guarantee like that in the marines when it comes to...

"L" stands for "Lagrange," as in Lagrange point. It's ironic that the USA "won" the space race against the Soviets by putting men on the moon, yet can't even transport its own astronauts without using the "losers" Soyuz rockets to reach the ISS. The President is free to present whatever...

Why do we have a space shuttle? Basically, it's the only spacecraft that exists to service the International Space Station. Why do we have the International Space Station? Well if there wasn't an ISS the space shuttle wouldn't be needed. The rationale for the former and latter to exist rely...

New York is where I'd rather stay... I get allergic smelling hay... I just adore a penthouse view... darling I love you but give me Park Avenue!

When is the military going to procure planes that change into giant robots? I'm much more interested in robot time than flight time. BTW, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannakuh, Killer Kwansa, and jolly Festivus!

I think that DUG is having fun at the expense of everyone else.

I know I SAW this movie! This is the plot to Tears of the Sun. I am in love with Monica Belluci. Too bad she wasn't featured more in Matrix Revolutions. We can play amateur Tom Clancy and come up with an improbable scenario where narco-terrorist-facist-fundementalist carnie folk kidnap my...

Damn. I assumed if we found Saddam we'd find Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa. I guess I'm going to have to revise that conspiracy theory.

Touch and go's are with the tailhook up?

Tailhook probably missed the wire.

I'm "****ing ignorant" because I can understand the difference between right and wrong? Do us all a favor. Stay in the Navy. The Marine Corps doesn't need cowboys that ignore the rules of war that inconvenience them.

Here's a hypothetical situation to consider. I'm a commander and my men are surrounded by an enemy with superior firepower. I leave my position waving a white flag to signal surrender. When the enemy comes out to apprehend me, my men ambush the enemy and kills them. We've accomplished our...

Slasher, I don't need to have served to understand the moral dilemma this Lt. Col West was placed in. We're not talking F/A-18s here--serving isn't going to confer specific wisdom that a civilian wouldn't have here.

Riley, how about the Germans during WWII? And NeoCortex, don't buy into the rhetoric, most of the enemies in Iraq are technically "insurgents" not terrorists. Also, when the enemy doesn't follow the Geneva Convention, we have the moral authority to prosecute violators as war criminals...

When you're shot down and captured, and the enemy takes liberty to pistol whip you, torture or castrate you because the enemy is trying to do the "right thing" you may gain an appreciation for the Geneva Convention. We don't follow the Geneva Convention because it's the right thing to do, we...

The armed forces are mandated by Congress as to how many personnel they are allowed to have. Regardless of whether the Armed Forces need more personnel, until Congress approves an expansion, the military has to respect those numbers. Thanks to the poor economy, the military is recruiting and...

Is the ACLU trying to remove chaplains from the military?

I bet you'd love to give me a towel party. Bet you'd wouldn't blink at the idea of following an illegal order like that. Why don't you go back to high school and bully some kids out of their lunch money. Yes, I bet the Marine Corps needs a lot more idiots like you. Make fun of the Clintons all...

Well first, I should congratulate whomever created this thread for reading the NY Times. I just assumed that Room5047 and myself were the only readers of the NY Times, and everyone else got their news from Entertainment Tonight since the members of this board only seem concerned with what...

Ivy league windbag? You mean like our President GW Bush, or his father GHW Bush?

Hey lowflier, where did you get your info from?