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Huh? She tried to chew him out in a dark parking lot. It was clearly an error of omission not commission and bad form on the LCDR for treating it like the latter.

All you have to do is look at Presidential administrations going back to and including Reagan. The Republican administrations bankrupt the country by drastically expanding military funding and enact silly police state laws (although Obama has taken great liberty in using them via things like...

It doesn't add up because even if Buffet's income was 100% from capital gains, he should have been paying 15% of his AGI toward taxes (now 20%). Remember that AGI is your income AFTER your deductions.

This is the crux of the issue. The reason politicians are able to run on a platform of 'tax the wealthy' is stories like this. This is why John Q. Public thinks that 'rich people' don't pay taxes. Then once politicians get elected, they raise taxes on the top quintile without making a separate...

I don't know your dad's income, but is he better off than he was before? Then the government isn't breaking his back with progressive taxes.

Progressive taxation is fair. A person making $100,000 can afford more taxes than someone making $20,000. And we do need a federal government. Put it this way: the adjusted marginal federal income tax rate for the top 20% of income earners (>~$90,000/year income) is 20% (that was when capital...

No, I'm not confused. I understand the premise of insurance, and that the more low-risk people who join, the cheaper it is. However, the ACA is not a government single-payer nonprofit system. Like you said, there wasn't enough popularity to push that through even though I think we can both...

The Republican party has been on the ropes for a while. They cling to unpopular conservative social policies because it's how they get the Bible Belt to vote against their own economic interests, while the rest of the population views them as a bunch of bigotted old white men looking to pad the...

Enlisted service members on a sea tour don't get BAS. Technically they do, but it's automatically deducted to the boat so they never see it, even in port. They should if they reside off the barracks because expecting them to commute to the boat or galley every meal when they have an apt/house...

I wasn't talking about filet mignon or organically grown exotic vegetables. I was talking about stocking with produce that doesn't spoil in 12 hours in the fridge. There are savings to be had, sure. Mostly in the meat/chicken department. But for me, I would have to shop at two different stores...

If you're too injured to jog a 5k at a leisurely pace, then you're too injured to carry a 200 lb dummy across a field.

You are correct; the only spending that needs a bill to be allocated on an annual basis is discretionary spending. The relation is that the treasury takes in $X, and spends $Y. To spend $Y, it borrows $Z. Y includes both mandatory and discretionary spending. I'm sure you're aware that...

It's not exactly analagous because a tougher gun control law or repealing the death penalty doesn't necessarily require a large amount of additional federal funds to enforce. The ACA is projected to add a huge amount of money to mandatory spending, so it belongs at the heart of any budget...

Several candidates ran on (and won) House seats in part because they wanted to repeal Obamacare. I'm not going to go through and dig up all their old campaign sites because you don't want to believe it. You posted an exit poll stating that voters rated the economy as the number one issue as...

You can't have it both ways. You mentioned his reelection in a previous post being an indication of public endorsement for Obamacare. Now you're saying it's not (which would go against your previous point on why Republicans shouldn't be fighting this battle anymore). Which is it? I wasn't...

Huh? Our victory run was a 1.5 mile run at about a 9 min/mile pace. Like Pickle said, if you're struggling to keep up by week 8-9, then how come you're still in the class and not in H with the other fatbodies? The victory run doesn't exist to make you more fit. It's supposed to be a fun, easy...

First, the president won both times because enough people thought that Obamacare meant free health insurance. It was strategically not implemented until his second term. People are just now figuring out how high the rates are for the government option since the prices were finally released this...

The justification is that there are enlisted servicemembers, typically junior ones not making a whole lot of money, who don't have cars and use base facilities as their closest access to food and other consumable products. And there are some motivated people who do have cars who shop at multiple...

The POTUS submits a budget outline (well, he probably has someone do it for him, but it comes from his administration) and has final signature/veto authority on the budget. There's a snowball's chance in hell that the required 2/3 majority to override a veto will agree when they can't even get a...

The Constitution says that the President can call a session of Congress; it doesn't say anything about Congressmen being able to simply ignore that call. If what you say is true, there's a piece of legislation and a Supreme Court decision somewhere that interprets the article that way. I didn't...

Then apparently we have the government we deserve because it's completely appalling to people for the President to hold Congressmen accountable for not doing their sworn duty. Source? Not really. If he calls a bunch of people to work over the weekend because the U.S. is about to default if...

But I heard they'll take anyone... :confused:

Each branch has mechanisms to ensure the other ones do their job. The legislative branch can impeach and remove the President if he fails to execute the law; why can't the President hold Congressmen accountable for failing to do their duties under the law? EDIT: Looks like he has that power...

I was thinking about this on a run the other day... Would it be within the President's power to sign an executive order the FBI/National Guard/Whatever (you know, those guys who are about to be pissed for not having a paycheck) to confine Congressmen to Congress and order the Treasury to...

Yea, because it totally makes sense to put me into the same category as someone born after I graduated high school, or my parents in the same category as someone who was fighting in Vietnam while my parents were wearing diapers. In fact, depending on who you ask, it's possible that my parents...

That's why the current categorization of making 'generations' span 20 years is silly. It probably should be half that and with the way technology has progressed recently you could even say 1/4.

Just makes it a tighter fit then, huh? DI turns on cold water. You get in shower stall hunched over and scrub your underwear on the deck. He yells scrub, you yell harder.

It happens ashore; however, the guys armed standing watch are even less trained in tactical shooting situations than the guys working the gate that PhrogLoop referenced. They fire a weapon or two a few times at a piece of paper at various ranges, the MA2 (SW) on shore duty at the range does his...

That's a whole lot of people shoved naked into the shower stall/scrubbing underwear on the floor at one time on wakeup Wed.

I'm throwing the BS flag on this. You're saying that she can't find a job making $30-50k/year to afford a 2-3 BR apartment with roommates and a sub-$100/month electric/heat bill, and it's ONLY alimony that allows her to afford this? I understand your point about lost income potential (and that...

He's retired.

Class sizes of 50+? How will candidates get to know the joys of having a two hour watch to break up their sleep every other night? I guess it was a good preparation for submarine duty. PS: One poor class belonging to the 'black ninja' only had 13 candidates, and he made them post an extra p-way...

30 lbs, but I put myself on an 1800 cal/day diet after week 5.

I hope you all mention being cited for exceptional leadership at OCS while serving in the challenging billet of regimental commander in your letter to your CO. Be sure to also mention that you were an honor class for such difficult feats like doing a lot of situps and folding laundry correctly...

I only found out like 2 weeks ago that there was an official term for women shaking their ass in the air. Now it's in the dictionary? I'm getting too old.

The new strategy seems to be that the floor salesman is generally the 'good guy' and then the finance guy comes in trying to upsell you to make the money back. The frustrating part of it is just playing the game of chicken and it's time consuming. Test driving new toys wears off once you have...

Yea that's pretty standard. I was talking about when they don't even have that available.

For new cars, they basically have a datamine of all the incentives that are possibly available to you. So let's say it's March and the flavor of the month is March Madness incentive for $2000, then a $500 military discount, then some random incentive of $1000 or 0% financing or whatever. USAA...

I had no idea they did price matching.

The NEX is often more expensive.

In corporate, if you wake up with a 102 deg fever or were up all night puking your brains out, you call in and use a sick day and get back in bed. It may or may not be a paid day (usually paid if full-time, not if part time/retail). In the military, you drag your butt to medical at 0600 to sit...

This to anyone looking to break the $40k-50k/year blue-collar union worker barrier or entry-level cubicle warrior. This was one of the 'what they don't tell you...' things when joining the military. I understand why it is the way it is, but it's frustrating having to burn 10 days of leave to...

I understand your frustration but realize that they get about a dozen calls a day for people asking to be treated special for this, that, and the other thing. They have thousands of applicants to sort through and will end up filling the freshman class without accomodating the myriad of special...

Ehhh...I was born in '83 and had a computer in middle school only because my grandmother did IT for OTB. She would get us an older tower when they were being replaced instead of trashing them. Most people didn't get a PC until high school if they got one at all, and broadband wasn't available in...

Then ask questions. Your comment about 'better than no job' demonstrates you still don't fully grasp your options or their consequences.

I agree, and I even said that in my post you quoted. For every honors student, you could find 3-5 who were getting Bs in the baseline regents classes. It's a normal distribution. I wasn't the one pointing at Chinese and Indian immigrants as model citizens and parents who value education more...

You have an interesting stereotype for immigrants. In my small sample size, I saw the same distribution of hard working, intelligent 1st generation Americans as anyone else. Most 1st generation Chinese hung out with gangs in Flushing on the weekends and got the same Cs to skate by as most white...

Ehhh... True for aviation because your commitment is so long. I had my interviews before I went to OCS because the expiration date would be later than my initial contract... Cleared TS/SCI and never had another interview after OCS until it was due this year. It is equally as much a waste of...

Also... www.cantfindthepartLS3inventoriedlastweek.com

Would you be saying this if you got 'drafted' sub nuke and got 5 hours a sleep in 2 days time because you're doing vulcans for an ORSE workup so you can practice making announcements on a microphone for a pretend engineering casualty and approving fake tagouts, and you were unlucky enough to...