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Hey, I've got 5 more months until I'm dinq :cool:

Well, then I stand down since I guess someone else already had the idea to put it back on the docket.

The equal opportunity program and the whole treating people with dignity and respect that was being pushed a few years back are not one of the seven mandatory GMT requirements: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Messages/NAVADMIN/FACT_SHEETS/Fact_Sheet_NAV_236_23.pdf If there is a mando...

No idea and really I have no solutions on how to thread the needle between bitching to the IG and Congress about parking spots (to use Brett's example) and stymieing legitimate complaints. My overall point is that there comes a crossover where watchdog organizations become overloaded with...

While I don't think the IG 'success' rate should be 100%, unsubstantiated cases are a waste of valuable government resources. "Sorry your legitimate complaint of discrimination or abuse has to wait months for us to get to it. We're currently processing 5642 complaints from SVMs using us as...

Army report that has data to demonstrate the staggering amount of IG reports vs substantiated claims: https://ig.army.mil/Portals/101/Documents/IG%20Training%20Documents/web_FY23%20DAIG%20Annual%20Report.pdf

Brett, if someone could dox you and judge you by posts that got you banned from aw.com about 10-15 years ago, they would. I understand that's not what is written on a piece of paper. But I'm talking about FO promotions, not O4 - O6 promotions.

Generally in agreeance, but maybe we could do without holding up promotions while the process takes 7+ months to adjudicate.

Frivolous meaning that the results of the investigation determined that there was no wrong-doing. Not a single one of them were relieved of command. But in a promotion system where it increasingly becomes about 'who knows your name' as you move up the ladder, their careers are pretty much dead...

I have served with 3 O-6s who had their promotions held up due to frivolous IG complaints during their O5 command tours, in multiple services. At least they got back pay, but it certainly was a stressful time for them. They also universally perceived it was a guilty until proven innocent...

I'm sorry, was there a 3rd Presidential candidate who had a legitimate chance of winning? Must have missed it.

It becomes about what we want when we're funding and supplying a good portion of the war effort. Doubly so when the defense-industrial complex shoots flares that we are running dangerously low on munitions and they can't manufacture the weapons we are expending in Ukraine until 5 years from now...

We can only surrender global hegemony if we're surrendering it to someone, and Russia ain't it. Trump's foreign policy wrt Ukraine is not related to his relatively radical economic policies. I agree that we generally should elect Presidents who are between 50 - 60 years of age. However, one...

It is an oxymoron to claim that Russia is a backwards-ass military that can't successfully conduct large-scale operations against a neighboring country the fraction if its size and also to claim that Russia is a threat to global hegemony in 2025. If you believe Russia is closer to North Korea...

I, too, live my days hoping to see images of 70 year old colons.

That is a better way of putting it. Yes, Trump frequently says ridiculous things that don't have any truth to it.

Trump occasionally says ridiculous stuff that has a nugget of truth to it. Is there a specific policy U.S. foreign policy position espoused by the Obama / Biden administration that would have influenced Putin to invade specifically in 2014 and then again in 2022, or is it really just coincidence?

It gets real muddy, real quick for people who work across state lines or travel frequently for work because you're dealing with multiple state laws about what constitutes being a resident and they don't all match. Most states only require you to file a non-resident or part-year resident return...

Why does anyone pay for movies and TV shows when you can sail the seven seas like a pirate?

That was the point of my tongue-in-cheek comment about grandma counting ballots by hand - the entire system is based on people's feelings, and not actual accuracy. No one cares who actually wins the election, only that the general public feels like the election was legitimate. And for many...

No. The SCRA covers residency and military servicemembers can choose to switch residency after taking actions to establish residency in another state (which includes, but is not limited to obtaining a license), but are by no means required to do so. Your income on your LES gets reported only to...

I think that it's a travesty that we're 25 years into the 21st century and we haven't figured out how to do secure online voting. We'd rather trust a bunch of retired people volunteering their time to manually count ballots and then call elections weeks before the counting is actually complete...

I'm saying that the federal government is supposed to primarily represent the will of the states with input from the people (the House). That's why Senators were originally appointed by state legistlatures and we have the winner-take-all electoral college (in most states). Parliamentary...

I don't view it that way. Municipal elections are the most impactful to people's day-to-day lives, even though they won't go down in the history books. Since I don't actually live in my town / county / state of residency, my vote in these matters is wasted (unless I move back... which I...

My right to vote was removed by Real ID. I couldn't get back to my state of residency to convert my license, and when I got a license from a different state I lost the right to vote there. I will not officially change my state of residency because it's not worth an additional $8,000 per year in...

Not my favorite person, but like most former governors / presidents, he's capable of giving insightful takes when he's no longer constantly campaigning for office. G.W. Bush also sounds 10,000x smarter when giving interviews since leaving office.

People often equate an evaluation of Constitutional with "morally right." Which says a lot of good about how we view the Constitution. But when the Court determines something they think is morally wrong can be Constitutional, people now believe that it wants to destroy democracy.

Yep... just like Trump says that he gave Gen "Mad Dog" Mattis his nickname.

Not to parrot the Weekly Show again ... Jon Stewart had Chris Christie on about a month ago. Caught my attention because I always like listening when people on the left / right side of the spectrum can conduct a mature interview. It was a very insightful view into Trump's way of thinking. One...

Because treaty termination isn't explicitly covered by the Constitution. I'm not saying Trump should unilaterally leave NATO. I'm saying that there's no clear Constitutional clause that tells him he can or can't and SCOTUS has punted on the issue. Ergo, if Trump were to just terminate the...

Because there's Constitional ambiguity about enforcing said treaty.

NAL, but my understanding is that 99% of the GCM cases are DOA. The definition of contemptuous has a high bar. Not anything I'd ever want to go through, but chances are good that they beat the charges and keep their pensions.

I mean, if you've already decided that you can't reconcile your moral and ethical values with those of the CiC, going out with a bang is the best way to do it, no?

There are lots of rules and regulations. You can intentionally break any or all of them if want to, as long as you're willing to accept the consequences for it.

I think it runs deeper than that. The Democrats were slow to come around to gay / lesbian rights. Clinton institutes don't ask / don't tell and signs DOMA into law. Bush largely ignores the issue (and the military starts to follow suit), then Obama runs a campaign where he states he won't touch...

Part of the problem is that the MSM gets wind of schools banning biological males from girls sports and makes it into civil rights outrage porn, which particularly angers the Democrat progressive base. The politicians were merely responding to their constituents' call to action to be advocates...

Maybe I implied something I wasn't intending to say. 18-25 year olds were never able to support owning single-family homes on their incomes. The norm used to be multi-family homes or living in an apartment. Anecdotally, everyone from my parents' generation in my family and friend-group spent...

The median household income nation-wide for people aged 30-65 is about $100k. The explosion of housing prices was in large part due to a repressed market followed by rapidly increasing wages from 2020-2023. People tend to buy the most expensive house they can afford... and I use the phrase can...

Shipyards can't find workers for two reasons. First, they pay like shit. I see flyers for PNSY and they start at $17 per hour. That's a nickel higher than min wage in Massacchussets, where people often live and commute up there to work. Why break your back working in cramped spaces when Home...

That was the joke. I'll be here all night.

Who knew that having a brand-name that screams "strip club!" but a business plan that targets the family fast-casual demographic would go bankrupt?

It rates its own COG analysis.

"If you can't play in the field, you go around back and play in the dirt" t., anyone who fucks around in Africa. Aka "hogging"

Well, assuming a Trumpain "implement this immediately" transition plan... In the short term, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft (among a handful of others who disproportionately hire H1B workers) will see devaluation of stocks that will lower the overall value of the S&P 500 index. Many people will...

The vast majority of American innovation occurs in the private sector and not at universities.

We can hand-wring about bean counting STEM PhDs, but the US leads the world in communications technology, information technology, military technology, and biotechnology innovations. Germany comes in 2nd. The Chinese education system is very good at producing worker bees. I'll start to worry...

For PRT purposes, I believe that I'm Christopher Reeve and no one can tell me I'm wrong!

I mean, what part of making everyone reinvent the wheel and creating useless administrivia within the first couple of months of taking command is deviating from typical FO behavior? SECDEF obviously wants FITREP bullets to screen POTUS. Although to be fair, half of that is some O6 freaking out...

This definitely fits with Trump's theme of retribution against all who oppose him and especially anyone who was a 1st or 2nd order contact with former President Biden.