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Too bad there wasn't someone from the guard there to tell him "I appreciate your recruiting efforts for the guard, but we don't need the help. We already have plenty of guys rushing us trying to escape toxic leaders like you." How have generals become so clueless that they can actually think like that and then be so dumb as to say it out loud in front of an audience of fighter pilots? Is he really a Manchurian Candidate intending to destroy "his Air Force"?

To put it simply, they were basically their own county and city government with regards to almost everything infrastructure related. They ran zoning, roads, maintenance, building inspections, code enforcement, etc. That basically allowed them to do what they wanted not only with the property they owned, but other their neighbor's property as well. This was enormously beneficial to the company. They did it all how they wanted and as efficiently as a for profit company does business. Now an inefficient government that is not just going to always do their bidding is going to take over all those functions like most other places in the country. That means they will end up paying more and not always getting what they want. That also means hotels, which Disney could have prevented before, can now buy and build on property next to the park and now compete more directly with Disney hotels. Disney will end up paying more in taxes, have more direct competition, and have far less say about what happens around them. All that will almost certainly hurt their bottom line. The other thing that blows my mind with this is how large companies keep supporting the left. The left is generally against big business, against free capitalism, for increased taxes, and for increased government regulation. For example, Bernie Sanders has tried to reverse Disney's purchase of other companies. When will companies learn to ignore their vocal activist shareholders and just do business?

Yes the county will take on the debt, but that debt will be paid off by the taxes levied on Disney property. The county will have to increase their personnel, again at the cost in taxes, which will mostly be paid by Disney. The left is trying to claim this is going to be a huge cost to the people that live in that county. I doubt it.

By the way, I'm at 13 months and counting, so hopefully the e-file speeds things up considerably. Or even better, just allow you to buy it without the paperwork.

Pretty sure it has already started. https://eforms.atf.gov/login;referrer=%2Fhome Looks like there are already links to start filing the forms online.

Nice try, but I have a masters degree in history, so I have opened a history book or two or hundreds or thousands. I agree and understand that calling yourself something does not mean that you enact that system. But, as others have pointed out, the Nazis were not pure socialists, but their economic system of governance was much more towards the socialist side than the capitalist side. Some have claimed that Hitler actually privatized large parts of the German economy, such as the railroads, but it should be noted that new majority stakeholder that benefited from that privatization was an early supporter of Hitler and was heavily involved in government activities. That is hardly a free market. Germany moved significantly away from a capitalist society under the Nazi rule and even "private" (Lufthansa, BMW, etc) companies were not free to do as they desired in a capitalist free market but were often directed what to do and how to do it by the Nazi government. That is strongly on the socialist side of the economic spectrum, thus it is reasonable that the Nazis when they called themselves socialists and were in fact socialists. Also, as others have pointed out, politics are often too complicated to put on a simple linear model. But if you were to make a simplified American political thought process on a linear spectrum, a larger and more invasive government is the left side, and a smaller and less invasive government would be on the right side. While greatly simplified, the Nazis would clearly fall on the far left in this model.

So apparently if you want to be in shape, you're a Hitler Youth? Also, how did the left succeed in pulling the switch-a-roo on making the Nazis right wing? Last I checked the official party title was the National Socialist German Workers Party. Only a the modern American liberal could come up with something so absurd as a Socialist Workers party being right wing.

CE requires a unit to have ownership of you. If you retire and no one gains you, either government or private sector, you age out of CE and your clearance lapses. However, there is a window of either 1 or 2 years for you to get gained by someone else. Probably not long enough to go to school and then get hired with a clearance, but plenty long if you are going to transition fairly directly to private sector or GS type stuff. It is not like the old 10 year clearance for regular secret where you could get a re-investigation a year prior to retirement and be good for most of a decade.

The fact that he warned the west doesn't make it the west's fault that he invaded a sovereign country without even a hint of a pretext. Your argument is basically the same as "she wore a mini-skirt, so she was asking to get raped". Not ok.

I really hope you're right, but I think the last 24 hours have shown that Putin is switching strategies and is no longer trying to minimize civilian deaths. He's shelling major cities with absolutely zero military value other than avoiding urban combat. But, even with that as an excuse, that's a poor one as history has shown that shelled cities are just as defend-able as intact ones. That does not mean that nukes are a logical next step, but the war going poorly for him does not mean the war will continue to go relatively well for Ukrainian citizens. On the contrary, the worse the war goes for Putin, the worse it is going to get. This is an ego driven war and a totalitarian leader with an ego in a losing war is a dangerous thing.

Had a taxi in there where we literally never talked to ground. The freq was so busy that every time I tried to key the mic, the controller started talking. Finally, the capt just taxied to the gate (landed on the inside runway, so didn't have to cross any runways). I kept waiting for the CPO to call, but I guess no one noticed.

If the current trend on the ground continues a couple more days, Ukraine should have a return of control to all of Ukraine as preconditions to peace talks. The sanctions from the EU (finally) and the weapons being shipped to Ukraine (finally) should only make Ukraine's position better and better as time goes. Maybe even the US could chip in something eventually when Biden gets back from vacation/cryo treatments. If Putin wants to dig in, he might find himself in serious trouble at home.

With the Ukrainians doing this well on their own, imagine what they could be doing with a little help. Putin clearly miscalculated. Think he intended to show that Russia was back and the USSR resurrection is inevitable. Instead, he is showing that Russia is having a hard time conquering more than 100 miles of a country less than 10% of their size. Rather than scaring the west with Putin's military juggernaut, this should embolden us to action.

Russia's just threatened Sweden and Finland. As much as I don't want this war to spread, one way to end Russia as we know it is for them to over-extend. The war is clearly not going as well as they thought it would and maybe they don't have quite the military we thought they did and might be on opportunity to send a real message. Admitting another country to NATO as response to Russia invading Ukraine would be a power move that would get Putin's attention. But that would take balls, so we won't do it.

They've threatened nukes just if another country intervenes IN UKRAINE. If we launched an attack against Russia itself, even if everyone saw it as just against their leadership, it would be World War III. Imagine Russia sending a cruise missile against the White House. We see him as a criminal, clearly enough people in Russia see him as their leader, otherwise he'd be hanging from a bridge.

For what it's worth, Russia has actually been invaded comparatively few times compared to most European countries in the last 400 years. While understanding their thought process is important, it is equally important to not to develop Stockholm syndrome and excuse their attack today because Napoleon invaded them back in the 1800s.

Did he discover the problem while skiing past the Swedish women's team, again? Brilliant. Better to finish there than in 24th place...

Overall, their product has gone downhill considerably over the last 6-9 years. Used to be great and way ahead of the competition. Now it is mediocre at best. All the disadvantages of a virtual bank with almost no advantages over the standard commercial big bank. I'd move everything now, but that's a pain. Once I retire, I'm probably done with them. I also noticed my dividend basically disappeared and everything started the downhill slide about the time they started putting ads on TV. Strange coincidence....

You're right, we are still the richest country by far. And while I don't think we should always be the only cop in the world, if we don't help defend a friend's house when we see someone about to break in, how long until our house is next? We are still richer than we think if we straightened out our priorities a bit. I think we are able, or at least could be able if we wanted to be money-wise. The real question is, are we willing?

Gulfstream is working on a similar concept, except the overall aspect ratio is variable due to basically a large pitot that extends/retracts almost the entire length of the airplane. Retracted for taxi/takeoff, extends in flight to create the quiet boom aspect ratio.

Maybe they need to look up what concealed carry means.

Not even remotely close, but nice try. With the specific regard to classification, the President is the ultimate authority (as I understand it, I could be wrong). Not breaking and entering, not obstruction, not murder, not any other crime. So unique that I can't even think of a reasonable analogy to make about it. Not saying that I agree with it or with the person, but merely an interesting point to ponder.

What ClearedHot said. Breaking the law to get potential dirt on your opponent is bad. Breaking the law to frame a sitting president in order to overturn an election is really bad. If Trump had done this to Biden, we would not be able to see any other story on TV for the next 6 months. Of an interesting academic note to ponder about those records; my understanding is that the executive branch makes all classification decisions. As the President is the ultimate executive authority, I don't think a President can actually break the law regarding the handling of classified materials. If he reveals Top Secret information to the press, he just declassified it. Clearly not a good idea, but if the records were moved while he was President, it would be interesting to see if he could actually be prosecuted for it.

United has a robust training capacity. I don't have figures available, but in the 2018-2019 hiring wave they were training 4 indoc classes a month and were still renting out a fair amount of sim periods to other airlines. And they built a bunch more sims in 2019. There's been talk of 2500 new hires a year coming up and I think they could keep up.

Proof that our future alibis are legit!