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Saw on National Geographic they're doing a series called Inside Combat Rescue starting in 2013. Seem pretty legit.

Start here. How about the 13th Amendment, The Civil Rights Act, the Interstate Highway System, the GI Bill, ending polio, the Marshall Plan, or putting a Those are all pretty good.

That's what she said.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_f16accident_041408/ I mean, thank god it was Vipers doing the shooting to ensure no one in the car was injured!

Anyone heard of or used www.troopid.com? Recently got a shout out from the White House for doing good work. Their website is mostly just a video and a sign-up page. News story about it here.

I'm thankful for Dallas' hot, hot cheerleaders and crappy, crappy football team. Redskins! RGIII 2016 or bust!

I like how the crocodile survived in the second to last one. Well played sir.

This has beed done. Whether it is long-term viable or better than other methods of delivering warheads to foreheads or a real need, I feel you on that since the B model is driving costs higher. I have to say though, kinda seems like AF dudes would be talking out of their ass WRT the strategic need to VSTOL-launch fighters off of a smaller boat...kinda like when Army guys say we should just chop A-10s and preds to the Army and downsize the rest of the AF because what good are they doing anyways?

Sounds delicious.

Eh...if he's actually nominated for something then maybe; hasn't happened yet so maybe we're jumping the gun on the whole 2004 Swift Boat sequel.

So many gems and I'm only 6-9 pages in. This is some stellar bullet-writing on behalf of her Commander: Patriotism skyrocketed! Those must have been some damn dirty Red Communists at the base before she coordinated the flying of those 1,000 flags. I'm pretty sure my patriotism meter is already pegged max, no room for skyrocketing here /sarcasm The whole OPR/EPR bullet process makes me wanna

Already discussed in part in the election 2012 thread.

I think his point was that increasing executive pay while asking for concessions from labor is bad form at best, and a bad business decision that cost them the company at worst. If you're truly cutting costs to the point where you're proposing potentially fatal concessions from your labor force if they do not agree, do you really need to prioritize executive pay increases at the same time?

Cool man, congrats on getting good deals...gotta pay down a little more and hope the market recovers a little more before I can try to do the same. Cheers

That's what I was thinking but I've been told by more than one lender that having Chase as my original loan complicates things. The wrinkle is that is you have negative equity some leners require an appraisal and others don't, chase being one of the ones that does. No way my place appraises for what I owe unfortunately. Any of you guys in the same situation or were you all above water on the value vs what you owed?

I'm curious who you guys' original lender was. When I've shopped around to refi my place I'm getting told that my current lender is not easy to work with thus making it hard to do a refi at all...

Damn straight. FBI agent sexting pics, two semi-hot chicks fighting over one man, two 4-star generals, I see a telenovela in the making. We just need an alien impregnation or some psychic visions... Gee, that is some insightful sh*t right there...you must be the FIRST person who has thought of this! Try to keep up...that's pretty much the first thing anyone thought of but it seems unlikely given the circumstances that have come to light since the initial announcement. In related news, Feinstein says she wants to talk to Petraeus about Benghazi regardless of whether he's now stepped down or not. Edit to add: appropriate graphic

Mixing up speed of sound and speed of light seems to cut across many of the cable news channels...

The current administrator actually seems to have a pretty full resume that details a lifetime of emergency response service and leadership. Don't know the guy at all or if he's any good in practice, but it's easy to say "they're band camp leaders!" but look at this dude and tell me that's true. Yea, well that and their massive budget and stockpiles of equipment plus ability to put thousands of able-bodied people on the ground anywhere in the country within hours and leave them there indefinitely until the disaster is over. That may be part of it... Not gonna happen. Let's hear it, because I can think of a lot of ways a disaster commander would want to use a platform such as the MC-12 that would provide minimal actual disaster relief at the cost of launching sortie after sortie. Not that 350s are expensive to operate, but knowing the business of what they do, I don't see the need for them CONUS disasters. Would the Guard love to do it, sure; would the state leaders love to have it, sure. Happy customers! But is it worth the cost, is it the most effective use of those resources, are there other platforms that are better suited that we also already have in the inventory, those are the questions being raised here. The fact that "your customers are happy" isn't necessarily the right answer in the game of effectively allocating scarce resources. You're justification for launching a C-27 sortie is to dump a bunch of trash (i.e. what leaflets turn into about 6-9 seconds after someone sees them) onto a neighborhood in New Jersey?? Did you guys know the sky is blue? What do you think your audience is here chief? And those people are idiots. Haters gon hate, fact of life. And guess who was at the helm during the Liberty standup? A prop guy...what was your point again?

New story claims the relationship lasted 9-10 months and ended 4 months ago. That timing puts it starting basically when Petraeus started at the CIA, i.e. post-retirement from the Army. Interesting that you choose to start an affair with someone you've known for a while right at the time when you move back to DC where you wife also happens to live and work after years of being overseas...the power of the pu$$y is strong I guess and doesn't lend to rational decisions.

Lol...yea, socialism by the billionaire business man, and recent Republican BTW, mayor. Yes, I'm sure he hates private ownerships of the means of production.../sarcasm. You know what socialism is, right? It's not just a catch-all for anything you don't like, it's something pretty specific. Nanny-statism, which is what is going in in NYC, that's a different thing all together and I think you'll find a lot of liberals (like many of the ones who live there!) who don't agree with the mayor in some of his efforts. Don't worry, this isn't going anywhere. M2 debriefed this pretty well in the guns thread. I doubt this would pass the Senate even with 55 Dems, let along the GOP-controlled house. I bet it won't even come up for a vote in the Senate if Reid is smart.

The list of who knew about the affair before it was disclosed grows. And it's not who you may think.

Air Force aircraft...shrinking and precious resource. I'm well aware that you can't hardly swing a dead cat around some deployed locations without hitting a BE350 of one kind or another. And I'm extremely familiar with where the concept for the MC-12 came from.