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Now we've explained two things: first, why you have no idea what you're talking about wrt the law profession. Second, why you have such poor reading comprehension.

It doesn't need any revision at all. I'm smart enough to use Google before asking a rhetorical question to point out how stupid you are; research estimates that roughly 11-15% of lawyers use illegal drugs, and of that 11% roughly 5% are utilizing prescription drugs (valium, percoset, oxy, etc.)...

Can you or can you not cite peer-reviewed research that estimates the rate of cocaine use among lawyers as > 50%? Can you or can you not cite peer reviewed research that says > 50% of lawyers have been convicted of a DUI?

Eh, I think it's more a case of when the CO loses common sense. There isn't any trigger by instruction that would have made the CO tell the 4-star about this, and I have to think that this has happened in the history of the nuclear navy way more than the one incident report I (and plenty of...

My favorite waste of a nuclear incident report (because there is nothing of value to learn from it other than humor, especially when it uses formal terms to dance around human bodily functions): SRO is on mid-watch in port. Gets a stomach ache and has to poop. Calls up for a relief, doesn't...

He didn't say that, either. He said that he would have a hard time recommending someone for an officer program with an NJP on their record. Seeing as he's a served CO, I took this to mean pragmatically he didn't encounter a sailor who met the threshold to overcome that blemish in lieu of the...

I'm sure you're aware that neither vaccine has proven it gives immunity longer than than 6 months, right? It's likely that immunity lasts longer, but the objective data to prove it is lacking.

This argument has devolved into creating two mythical creatures because people didn't like Brett's answer: In the red corner we have a stellar #1 EP E-5 who's performing as an E-7. He's so good that the command couldn't get along without him. He finds out his wife wants a divorce, has a lapse...

I was able to get a written letter of recommendation from my direct supervisor at my 3 previous employers going back to when I was 16 years old when I applied. All I had to do was ask. I agree that if the recruiter asked then they would not have answered because they're not allowed. Also one...

That's kind of the definition of red herring. A more direct comparison is how many civilian applicants are accepted for commissioning programs when they can't get a recommendation from their most recent employer due to being fired? How many are accepted with a DUI in the past 12 months? Prior...

The CDC puts out all sorts of guidance about all sorts of diseases and conditions. Before COVID-19, this advice would get summarily ignored, but with COVID-19, everything they say automatically becomes public health policy. Imagine if we forbid bars from selling men more than 2 drinks and women...

No, just 3 years.

I think you're missing his point, which is that the federal government's messaging has been wholly inconsistent, and the strategy for returning to a normal lifestyle non-existent. It really doesn't matter whether HAL, or you, or me thinks that vaccines are going to work; Biden and Fauci are...

Not emotional at all. NY cops are rounding up COVID-19 vaccine dodgers like Nazi SS troopers. Jews and Catholics are dying by the millions. I'm an asshole for waiving the bullshit flag. Got it.

Bullshit.

Be careful. HAL throws tantrums when facts get in the way of his opinions.

Obviously not going to deny your son-in-law's experiences, but there is no NY state government policy that he has to have a note/prescription to get tested. Many doctors offices are turning people away over the last year for acute illnesses all over the country. It's actually quite annoying...

I'll be the first to say that the data shows that NY should have re-opened last Memorial Day (76% of total COVID-19 fatalities in NYC are before this date), and definitely by July 4th if they wanted to trend that out a little farther. However, the title of the NYT article posted is misleading...

Maybe in total budget to pay for cool toys. But in the last decade we've seen 5% cuts to military retirement and 5% cuts to BAH.

No. That's what you read into it because you have an inherent distrust for the system and view yourself as a stop-gap between the Navy's senior leadership fucking sailors. What I said, and explicitly meant, is that servicemembers should talk to their spouses about getting tested when directed...

I'm still trying to reconcile "we also encouraged people to talk to their spouses..." with "taking sailors' freedom of healthcare away." Nothing you circled in red supports your thesis...and I do like how you omitted "we also encouraged people to..." in your microsoft paint escapades. Also...

Which means that you own it. You're trying to be PC about it, but in no other line of work can a manager / boss talk directly to someone's doctor to discuss treatment options and come to the conclusion to defer an 'elective' (as determined by you) procedure to meet readiness requirements. It's...

Why don't you enlighten me as to where I said that they do?

What are you waiving the bullshit flag on? The NAVADMIN for COVID testing outright says that test-based policies are no good and negative test results are not to be used for getting sailors out of ROM requirements. This is Navy policy, not my personal opinion. That's great that your command is...

It's not up to me, it's how your command interprets who is a PUI. Negative tests are not valid for excusing someone from ROM according to the NAVADMINs because the false negative rate is too high. Again, we eventually settled on calling the docs at the MTF and asking them if their symptoms met...

You hear wrong. What you should have heard is that people shouldn't be self-diagnosing COVID without consulting a healthcare professional through the proper channels. Additionally, when you talk about 'freedom of healthcare' you should also educate yourself on navy policy wrt healthcare for...

There's a NAVADMIN about this. Like any policy, YMMV wrt level of adherence and commands may have to modify from baseline (with first flag permission) to meet their needs. The "close contacts may return to work with a negative test" is from an older rev. It now requires 7 day minimum for...

The democratic and republican parties encompass a wide variety of people with a broad spectrum of opinions. We should not conflate the views of individual politicians with the official party platforms. Anytime you're using the phrase "the Democrats / Republicans want to..." based on a quote...

Trump won't do this because his ego will get in the way, but the biggest middle finger he can give to this whole process is to refuse to submit a defense and no-show the impeachment trial.

Chief Justice Roberts refuses to preside over the impeachment, citing that the impeachment is unconstitutional on the grounds that Trump is no longer THE president. Since he is actually a lawyer and makes a living interpreting the Constitution, I'm inclined to take his word for it.

I'mma break it down barney mMarine style for you... Trump lost the election. Biden didn't win it. I don't care if Biden is the next George Washington, the next Ulysses S. Grant, or anyone inbetween. If Trump exercised a modicum of competent leadership while holding the office of the President...

I can't wrap my head around why you don't understand that this is a red herring aka whataboutism.

Perhaps you enjoy its more technical term? Most people can make the link.

As a reminder, we were talking about Trump. Please try to follow along.

But that's exactly why it was implemented in the minds of some of the founding fathers. They were afraid of the President turning into a king; impeachment was the check against that. What I find interesting is that they debated whether this power should be held by Congress or state governors...

I never claimed there was any one magic action to take. But you're comparing over a year of Trump being in office since COVID-19 hit with a week of Biden. There was a lot that Trump could have done in that time span to make things better for people (note I did not say magically fix in a week)...

Except I wasn't making any comparison of policy to anyone. I was criticizing Trump and Trump alone for his lack of leadership during COVID-19. Nowhere did I say I thought that Biden was a better or worse person for the job, so Treetop Flyer's post is irrelevant to the discussion.

My mom once taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. Let's keep the whataboutism somewhere else. Where did I ever claim that the MSM didn't attack Trump? Of course they did. But he could have overcome that quite easily by exercising good leadership in a time of crisis. That's what sunk...

I agree with most of what you wrote but I think this is a little bit off. I honestly couldn't tell you what Trump's ideal policy on COVID-19 looks like other than 'let the governors handle it.' In other words, if he were a governor rather than the President what would he have done? What would...

Building more commercial nuclear plants won't make them magically cheaper to build and operate. Countries in the EU are responsible for quite a few tier 3 nuclear incidents in the 21st century, so I'd be careful about modeling their cost-cutting savings.

I think that if there was a plan to do this, it would have been communicated already to spur more interest in getting the vaccine.

The main reason nuclear power hasn't taken a broader hold in the US is that it's too expensive. If there were an economic incentive to expand nuclear power, we would do it despite the complaints from any dissenters.

Increased data collection and and analysis by people who get paid to do these things that reduces the error on that estimate?

As I pointed out, President Johnson was impeached without an investigation and of the Presidential impeachments I think that his had the most ammunition for removing him from office. The devil's advocate to that stance is whether or not Congress's laws restricting Presidential appointments and...

If you want to sea lawyer the meaning of misdemeanor, if I shout at you and call you bad names I technically committed a misdemeanor. Seems like something politicians do everyday. At the end of the day, the House and Senate gets to determine whether the President committed 'a high crime or...

As someone who listens to a lot of NY radio... Supposedly fewer than 1% of COVID cases came from restaurants and bars when social distancing practices are properly followed [citation needed]. The culprit of increased spread are household gatherings where people are a lot less careful with their...

This is why I waffle about term limits. On the one hand they're un-democratic because it's telling people they're not allowed to continue to vote for someone when they're doing a good job. We can imagine an alternate reality where Obama got a 3rd term and Trump never becomes President because...

It doesn't really matter. Andrew Johnson was impeached without a pre-investigation. The purpose of the impeachment process, to include the trial, is to give Congress the power to remove a sitting President from office if he's not executing his office in good faith. That's why the people who...

I'm not against free speech. I never said that the US government should punish people for posting dumb shit on social media. However, if [pick your favorite social media personality] posted some stupid meme such as that the COVID-19 vaccine causes mad cow disease, you bet the US would share it...

Right back at you. You responded to my questions with "I ain't gonna read that shit." So great, I'm just taking your theory to its logical conclusion. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey held a secret meeting to get Joe Biden elected because they like higher taxes and increased government regulation...