Vertigo

It's no more sickening than publicly warning of missile strikes against Syria, waiting a week for Assad to empty out and evacuate facilities, and then proclaim "Mission Accomplished" for spending $90+ million to move some fucking rubble around. Or firing your second National Security Advisor after he publicly expressed a hard stance against Russia. Or firing your Secretary of State after he publicly expressed a hard stance against Russia. Or shelving the Russia sanctions passed by Congress with near-unanimous support. Or saying our UN ambassador was "confused" when she announced the US was thinking about additional sanctions against Russia for the Syrian chem attacks. Or personally leaking critical intel from our allies to Putin's ambassador during a WH meeting, and also burning our source for said intel in the process. Or firing the FBI director, and then publicly and openly admitting in an interview that he fired him over "the Russian thing". Or repeatedly getting caught in lies about dozens of campaign contacts with Russians who have ties to the Kremlin. Or having campaign personnel and your first National Security Advisor plead guilty for lying to the FBI over their Russian contacts. At this point I don't know what it'll take for Trump's supporters to just acknowledge that this man is compromised, is a present and clear threat to the nation, and needs to be removed. It isn't a partisan matter. Pence is the successor and there isn't a single liberal who wants to see that hyper-religious zealot in the Oval Office. But it's better him than a possible traitor.

Israel says the airstrikes had limited to no effect. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5232786,00.html Also this: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/us-syria-briefing-trump/index.html Looks like Trump is going to back us out completely and hand Syria to Russia because, well frankly, he loves giving gifts to Russia as well as blocking any attempt to punish them for their actions. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/us/politics/trump-rejects-sanctions-russia-syria.html

I'm suggesting that Obama sought approval for strikes against Assad from Congress when Syria used WMDs against its people. I would like to think I'm limiting the scope of discussion by comparing apples to apples.

I love the revisionist history going on in this thread. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/09/obama-congress-syria-vote-in-doubt/2788597/ Obama follows the Constitution to get Congress' approval for military strikes. Congress never backs the strikes so the strikes don't happen. Obama gets labelled as weak for not acting out in violation of the Constitution. Had Obama ordered the strikes anyways you guys would have been crapping in your diapers over the abuse of power.

Cheers. You learn something new everyday.

if POTUS is the declassification authority, does that mean he declassifies the material or he waives the requirement to have a clearance to possess classified material? There's quite a difference between the two.

It should be dealt with appropriately. I said at the time had it been me, or anyone else I serve with, that was found with that we would currently be in prison. How about when a son in law of the President sits in on TS/SCI briefings and meetings, and has access to TS/SCI materials for a year and a half but doesn't even have a clearance and lied or omitted things multiple times on his SF86?

I'm a huge fan of all the amendments. The presumption of innocence doesn't mean police shouldn't investigate crimes when evidence shows crimes may have been committed. When a detective finds child porn images on a suspect's computer, his/her impartiality towards the type of person the suspect is gets tainted. The judge and jury are the only ones required to be impartial at that point on.

Just as impartial as any other cop is towards a murder suspect when they've seen the evidence.

Note that Title 32 technician program will most likely die in the next decade. NGB is converting 10% of Title 32 technicians per year to AGR coupled with the mandated Title 5 conversion until we get a 65/35 split between AGR and technician force. So in essence, being guard will look no differently than being active.

Not needed, but if crimes are uncovered while investigating something else, should he have just looked the other way? Isn't it his DUTY, as a law enforcement officer, to lay charges for all crimes that have been found during an investigation... even if that specific crime wasn't the target of the investigation? If you have 10 kilos of coke in the backseat of your car, and you get pulled over for speeding, should the officer ignore the coke and just write a ticket for speeding? If you're being investigated for possible murder and they find evidence you launder money for the mob, should they ignore that because they were only looking at you for murder? Your argument makes no sense.

That's not a stance on guns, that's a stance of kids being killed in schools. There's a difference. Which is still less than 100%.

Too bad the headlines didn''t read "No school shootings to report"

Basing this on the fact that age, as a protected class (over 40), is only listed in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and not in the Civil Right Act of 1964 in which sex, race, religion, national origin are listed.

I'm just making an assumption, of course, that the cake company is a small business with not a lot of profit margin. I also going on the assumption that alienating an extremely small segment of the population also alienates a larger segment of population that supports that community, and that could potentially be enough of a cut in business that they are no longer viable. My assumptions could also be wildly off base.

MOST people start up a business to make money, not to preach their beliefs. But to each their own.

I imagine the sale of guns to 18-20 year olds is so small they can absorb that lost profit without even seeing a blip on the profit/loss sheet, whereas a small business maybe can't afford to alienate a segment of the population (and their supporters). Regardless, no one should be FORCED to sell a product to someone else whether it be a cake, a gun, or a lapdance.

I agree. I don't believe the baker should have to sell to a homosexual couple if they choose not to, even though they are a protected class (and 18 year olds aren't). The real question is why you, as a small business owner, wouldn't want that business? It's not like you're approving of their lifestyle, you're just profiting from making a cake.

It's not a Constitutional right to purchase a firearm from Dick's either. It's the right to bear arms, not the right to force a sporting goods store to sell to whom they choose not to.

Yeah, that's why hotels and car rentals places get sued all the time for not renting to those under 21. Wait a minute...

Typically true, however just yesterday I needed an ATP day for one of my Airmen and our RA is on paternity leave. I called FM myself (at 1505) and requested a day be loaded. At 1509ish they called me back and said it's been loaded and the 105 can now be accomplished.

I've had no issues with it. In regards to your AFTP day, your squadron's RA needs to contact FM and have them load the day to your squadron's account before you can certify it. It's typically a 2 minute fix.

To be fair, their Field and Stream stores are not the same stores as their Dick's Sporting Goods stores. The Dick's stores never stocked them after Sandy Hook. Now they're taking them off the shelves of their Cabellas/Bass Pro Shop type of store.

Trump's administration didn't release it. The HIC did after the they redacted it to make it not classified. As opposed to the Republican memo which was declassified by the President and then released.

Cliff Notes: - Steele Dossier played NO role in opening the Carter Page investigation. They began their investigation prior to even receiving it. - The DOJ did in fact inform the court of the origin of the Steele Dossier. - They accuse Nunes of deliberately misrepresenting the underlying FISA Warrant intelligence. - Four different judge's approved FISA warrants including judge's appointed by Bush and Reagan. Multiple DOJ officials also approved the applications prior to the court even seeing them including Trump appointees Rosenstein and Boente. - They actually started listening to Page after he left Trump campaign so the idea they were watching him to spy on Trump is absurd. - Page has a long history with Russia going back to 2004 and was being actively investigated once before already in 2013. The FBI had even interviewed him in 2016 again prior to receiving the Steele Dossier. The Steele dossier was referenced in the application as corroboration of certain things, and not to independently demonstrate. - A bunch of blacked out additional evidence with a bit in the middle noting Page lied to the HIC in his testimony in 2017 about meeting with Russian officials. - It included the footnote that discusses the Steele dossier source which SPECIFICALLY STATES ..."The FBI speculates the the unidentified U.S. Person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1's campaign." Candidate 1 is Trump I believe. - DOJ timely informed the court when the FBI fired Steele and why. - The attacks on Bruce Ohr for knowing Steele/and his wife working for Fusion GPS are 100% baseless. He was not involved in the FISA process and disclosed his relationships in November 2016. Basically Nunes and Gowdy lied whole cloth that the FISA warrant was primarily based on a news article and the Steele Dossier. Those were in fact the least used and most minor pieces of evidence and they picked them out specifically for that reason to discredit the investigation and lied about their use.