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- Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:52 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Stock Trading Bill
- Replies: 10
- Views: 92
Re: Stock Trading Bill
It's important to focus on the legislators themselves as not only can they benefit from insider trading, they actually can write legislation that can directly affect the stock price. Yes, and they can write legislation that benefits companies they plan to join after they leave Congress. Nothing is ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
- Replies: 34
- Views: 222
Re: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
What benefit would it be to China to go to war with the USA or any other country at this point in time. The economies of the U.S. and China are so intertwined that war with each other would cause serious, long-term damage to their economies. If China is to go to war it would probably be with a coun...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Stock Trading Bill
- Replies: 10
- Views: 92
Re: Stock Trading Bill
This bill sounds good but I don't know it applying it to the spouse and dependents is Constitutional; I hope it is. I was looking over the wording in the bill and it looks pretty good. Once the bill is enacted, all members would be required to place their investments in a blind trust within 120 days...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
- Replies: 19
- Views: 130
Re: Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
Yah well, a lot of Independents aren't really independent. They might make that claim but then only vote for Republicans. Just like we have around these parts. They're the types that say they don't conform and by god, no one will tell them what to do! But they are Right Wing Libertarians and Conser...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:03 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
- Replies: 19
- Views: 130
Re: Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
The independent numbers are interesting. It seems there numbers are very high. In the article, the Pew Research Center said Independents tend to lean 48% to Democrats and 39% to republicans so it's not surprising the number of deaths among Independents would be closer to the death rates for the two...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
- Replies: 19
- Views: 130
Interesting Report on Who Died From COVID
The Voice of San Diego is a digital, nonprofit news organization that covers San Diego County. They cover stories more in-depth than the local news media and they usually only do one news story per day. They did a study of who died from COVID by political party during the two years of the pandemic. ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:17 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
- Replies: 34
- Views: 222
Re: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
Do you get the feeling that the massive proliferation of weapons through Europe by way of Ukraine, may be for other puposes? There is a big dark spot of movement taking place that could fit many a build up or conflict or terrorism. The U.S. and European weapons being shipped to Ukraine is more of o...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:27 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
- Replies: 34
- Views: 222
Re: U.S. four-star general warns of war with China in 2025
I wouldn't put too much stock in this since it's only one person's opinion and like they say, opinions are like noses; everyone has one. About 1977, a MSgt (E-8), who was also our First Sergeant and on our squadron bowling team, told me we'd be at war with Russia within five years. I disagreed with ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Way to go Joe
- Replies: 475
- Views: 9314
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:00 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Ukraine
- Replies: 839
- Views: 24915
Re: Ukraine
Biden announces US will send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, signaling new phase of war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E Its a Mistake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-K5Duwe1I Germany & U.S. Agree on Tanks for Ukraine, German MP Accuses U.S. of Pushing Berlin into Proxy War It'll be at l...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:52 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Way to go Joe
- Replies: 475
- Views: 9314
Re: Way to go Joe
Unlike our progressive friends who would never dare to say anything any republican proposed is a good idea. This is a good plan which all should endorse If any republican came up with a plan like this we would have said it's a good idea. Unfortunately, the only immigrants republicans are interested...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Feel Good Story of the Day
- Replies: 1
- Views: 52
Feel Good Story of the Day
With mass shootings, war, politics, etc. taking all the oxygen out of the news sometimes you come across a story that makes you feel good. On December 21st, an AF plane flew from Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio to Kuwait on December 21 to medevac a patient to Germany. The patien...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: fake Congressman George Santos
- Replies: 172
- Views: 2375
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
I've known a couple of people similar to Santos. I worked with a guy back in the 80's, a guy in his early twenties. Literally, if he had just come in out of a pouring rain, soaking wet, and you asked him the weather, he'd tell you it was sunny outside. I came to think that he believed every bit of ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
- Replies: 857
- Views: 25798
Re: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
Chicago tries to pass meaningful gun laws, but it doesn't matter because anyone can drive to Indiana and pick up any hardware they want. Once again the ball is in the Feds' court, and we all know they'll miss it. Gun laws can prevent people who shouldn't have a gun from legally buying one if proper...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Docs found in Biden office
- Replies: 226
- Views: 2479
Re: Docs found in Biden office
Classified documents found in Pence's home. A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The FBI...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:20 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Docs found in Biden office
- Replies: 226
- Views: 2479
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:17 am
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
- Replies: 857
- Views: 25798
Re: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
Every big city in the US probably has some shooting like the one in Yakima on a pretty much weekly basis. Gangs have at it. Parties get out of hand. Interpersonal arguments escalate. In most advanced countries, this would cause incidents with knives or blunt trauma instruments. Here, however, peopl...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Problem Words
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:30 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Stop Pharma China production
- Replies: 22
- Views: 263
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Problem Words
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Re: Problem Words
Welcome to my world. It's been a lifelong problem for me. What's frustrating for me is being able to spell words like restaurant correctly one time and 2 seconds later have a total brain fart on how to spell it again. If it wasn't for spell check i'd never know the difference. The one thing that ha...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:07 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
- Replies: 857
- Views: 25798
Re: Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread
Cue the thoughts and prayers. A quick and cursory look at the Nooz seems to indicate yet another shooter with unlimited access to military-grade firepower, probably with plenty of links in his cell phone where he traded deranged macho fantasies with other whackos, limited or no access to psychologi...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Stop Pharma China production
- Replies: 22
- Views: 263
Re: Stop Pharma China production
Hopefully the Air Force specifies a more rigorously inspected class of drugs than the cheap generics that most civilian health insurance companies pay for. I can't remember the last time one of these didn't come from Asia or maybe Mexico. You just hope the stuff works at all. We bought generics whe...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Problem Words
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Problem Words
One of the things the computer has allowed to do is to spell words correctly with auto-correct. While it's helpful it also hurts in that we don't concentrate as much on learning and retaining the correct spelling of words. So, with this in mind what word(s) do you have trouble spelling. For me it's ...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Stop Pharma China production
- Replies: 22
- Views: 263
Re: Stop Pharma China production
Anyone who takes generics already knows most of them come from Asia. Not just China. Vietnam and Taiwan are well represented. One just hopes the ingredients aren't as sloppy as the packaging. One of the many duties I had in the AF was building air transportable hospitals and air transportable clini...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Politics and Current Events
- Topic: Covid is Weird
- Replies: 231
- Views: 2279
Re: Covid is Weird
Erring on the side of caution saves lives. Perhaps it doesn't save as many as some people think it did, but it always saves at least a few. It's worth it. > covid lockdown New York probably came the closest to a total shutdown of any US city. I read all kinds of things about New York, such as the (...