17D_guy

Matinee prices aren't bad here, $12 for Alamo Drafthouse where I can narc on the little old lady for talking is worth it. Sent from my Pixel using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

Huh.. Marines faced it straight on. Wonder that would have been like for us, instead of that worthless "Don't worry about stuff..." video we got.

Newest Kong was ridiculous fun. Don't spend more than $7 on it.

Batman movie was fun if you liked the Lego movie. Logan was good. Strange having a PG13 franchise go for the hard R (little/no sex) and seeing just how brutal metal clawed combat would be. Would recommend both.

It's an ok piece. Still an attempted white-wash of the Flynn situation. "It was a benign conversation" -- then why lie? Trumps rode down some amazingly politically difficult releases. Also, can we stop calling it deep-state. It's the bureaucracy, not some shadow government keeping the anointed one down.

Rather slow week for the Prez on the "outrage" front. New NSA's a good choice. Interesting to see Sec of Ed basically saying she disagreed with the transgendered bathroom revocation. Kinda the same with Mattis on torture & NATO. Has there been a cabinet with this much leeway before? Rumsfeld was pretty...wild, but I don't remember him publicly disagreeing with Dubya. Only thing I found particularly distasteful was this - https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/doj-walks-back-guidance-discouraging-use-of-private-prisons/index.html

I don't even know if this is a big deal or not. I do like how they're starting to list the number of sources to show they're not "faking" it up. Still, it's WaPo.. so YMMV https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-flynn-falls-under-growing-pressure-over-russia-contacts-trump-remains-silent/2017/02/12/2b58f31e-f15e-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?utm_term=.f05766e8943f

Having recently stayed on a few Army bases at their commercial Candlewood suites (and racked up rewards) I'm struggling to see how AFInns is cost effective at all.

Well.. Army gets out of their cars for retreat at the end of the day too.

Wasn't the F35 savings us buying more to lower per unit cost? I remember the articles around it were very confusing.

John Wick 2 - Not quite as good as the first, since the first was a fresh breath from the action slop we'd been getting recently. Still a lot of fun, more world building and brutal fast action. More laughs in this one also. Well worth the $11.50 I spent on the ticket.

Yea, I get it. One of the arguments made by WA was that a non-American spouse of an American would be impacted by this ban. I don't know if the non-American had a green card, I'm inclined to think not the way they were discussing it. Additionally, I think (again, not a law-dog) that if the law is discriminatory in nature (no Muslims) it doesn't matter if it applies to non-US citizens only, because it would still violate our other laws. Perhaps along the lines of Mark1's spirit of the law. I get it that politics is politics. But I think if the conservatives I usually stand with had taken the high road, and not done tit-for-tat shit (ex. we hate Obama's EO...Trump's are fine), we'd be in a much better place politically and looking even better going into 2018. As it is now, I've heard of little that's going to benefit those very red-states in the middle, I hope that's coming soon.

I think this is one of the problems the 9th sees. Again, not a lawyer, but they made it sound like you can't do this because of due process and equal protection under the law against possible future individuals who could come under the US' courts jurisdiction. It's an interesting argument (if I understood correctly), not one I'm sure I'm comfortable with.

When can I have my patches back? Also... crew neck under-shirts in blues. It's 2017... how is this still not a thing?

Man, good think Pakistan's on that list. Got a whole section of the country the gov't just gave to terrorists... Oh wait... This isn't even that big a smackdown despite what CNN, Fox, whomever says. They didn't say the EO was bad/good. The standard wasn't that we haven't been attacked by those countries. The Fed could have presented evidence of a credible threat, but nope. Hence the pic I posted above. Fed went Wookie defense on it. 9th Court said the gov't couldn't prove that allowing the injunction of the EO could be proved to cause harm to the nation, while also not causing irreparable harm to the states while the lower courts figured out the case. They also discussed standing and judicial review. The plaintiff (WA, etc) just has to show that they've got a good chance of winning and the order causes harm. Apparently they did, I thought WA's oral (STS) argument was weak. The gov't had to prove danger to the nation. Unless you're arguing the courts shouldn't review anything the Executive says in "National Security," which they addressed directly since that was also part of the Fed's argument. It's a well written ruling without any court overreach or legislating from the bench that I can tell. It's not terribly long, give it a read. So now, it either goes back to the lower court while restrained, or the Executive appeals to SCOTUS. 9th Court is most overturned in history, but the case law in their review seemed pretty pedantic. Do people think terrorists are just flooding in here differently now than they have the past 8 years? The rules for entry haven't changed. EDITED to add that the twitter, campaign and advisers (ex. Rudy G.) statements CAN be used in this case is hilarious. Also, when it goes back to lower court discovery is going to be allowed...wonder if they're going to attempt executive privilege on any/all communications on this? That would be an interesting SCOTUS case.

My favorite part - Didn't think they'd be a fan of the "We know something you don't know" argument.

Well, Obama was pushed to fire ADM Rodgers and he's received much criticism for issues within that org. Overall, it's the same issue we're facing and our forefathers faced with air. Old people that don't want to change and realize the capabilities this new domain brings. Army's NETCOM just offered a bunch of gray-hairs VSP style packages to get them to retire and are hiring like mad. Don't know if we need to do the same thing. Also, direct commission of IT/Cyber Pro's isn't the worst idea. But they're not going to be able to do ANYTHING until the juggernaut that is AFLCMC, DISA and other "centers of innovation" are brought to heel.

It's impressive how important physical controls are, and how even when presented with clear evidence of their necessity our gov't still won't do the right thing - https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/02/08/how-hal-martin-stole-75-of-nsas-hacking-tools-nsa-failed-to-implement-required-security-fixes-for-three-years-after-snowden/

Probably wouldn't be so much outrage if he could just act presidential and not use official twitter account to retweet and push his kid's business - And/or get a press secretary who could make even a modicum of sense of what he's doing - https://www.snappytv.com/tc/3889840

I miss the days when I my party stood for the American Exceptionalism. Now we're just like every other nation state according to the Command-in-Chief.

So here's the Fox News Interview video. The comments w/ the President saying "You think our country's so innocent?" start around 2:20. https://video.foxnews.com/v/5311416183001/?#sp=show-clips edit: watched it about 3 times now trying to get context. Think he's trying to imply Dubya as a killer on par with Putin?

You mean like North Korea and the GDR?

If that's really what you took from my statement suggest reading glasses to go with the beers and firearms.

What? Cite your source. It was quiet on here until I pointed out the silence, then everyone got back on track with the political discussions on the Internet. Prior Admin got lambasted on here on the regular. For example - inept international diplomacy, to firing CC's for their staff's leaks, to overuse of drones, "gun control" was always a big one. Too much zipper-suited-sun-god up in here to go with the "racism" charge and not get demolished with facts and "go for quals." The lack of self-critical political evaluation you're advocating for because you allege the other admin didn't get it is stupendous. But then, ceding 70 years of American leadership abroad doesn't seem like a big deal to you, so I'm not surprised. We'll all see how it goes. I found your latest portrait: