FallingOsh

There's an assumption that the pet won't piss and shit all over the interior of the house. Allowing pets in a rental is a favor to the renter. Abusing the favor and breaking the contract has consequences. Fuck that. He breached the contract and should pay. Taking the IBM employee to court and having a judgement against him would ruin options for him. Threatening a chain of command involvement has no lasting effect on the Sgt.

Meh. I have a wife of 7 years with a kid on the way and I'm not 30. We make it work and enjoy the adventures. As for "normal life," you can pretty much take that and throw it out the window. As long as I'm not dead when I turn 35, things will be fine.

Well, that explains why the higher-ups seem to love her.

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A guy in the squadron just got back from shoe flag. In a discussion about retention issues, someone asked the full bird guest speaker what their plan was for fighter pilot shortages (expecting an answer involving incentives). The good colonel responded with something along the lines of, "We plan to stop-loss the irrational masses from making a bad decision and leaving active duty." So there you go. You're all just irrational and the leadership will set you straight. I dare them to stop-loss us. Hello 5 hour work week.

Sounds like it may have come apart while still airborne. Can't find any info on the crew. http://inserbia.info/news/2013/05/kyrgyzstan-us-transit-center-airplane-crashed-near-the-kyrgyz-kazakh-border/

http://www.shaw.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123343211

Ruined my week of leave. No. Ruined my Thanksgiving. This actually is starting. Ask the guys who are filling the revoked Viper slots to UPT/IFF. But anyway. NoDAKs can't do anything but whine and throw temper tantrums. I thought it was a great call to fly the B-2s over just to poke them in the eye a little. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life. But good luck to you Peter. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you forever.

Or you could put foam in the tanks like the Hawg designers did 40 years ago. What's the point of saving weight if the system doesn't work?

I'll give you a terrible deal on a house that's half the size you're looking for. PM if interested.

His baby girl was born yesterday morning. Seems both mom and baby are doing well. http://texomashomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=245352

Are the funds from this going to be combined with the already established PayPal buttons from Flare's post?

I'm in contact with Dave and he gave me the same info.

"Some, however, said the survey shows the need for sensitivity training and guidance from leadership so the change goes smoothly," Sensitivity training for our Marines. Just fucking awesome. "About 17 percent of male Marine respondents and 4 percent of female respondents who planned to stay in the service or were undecided said they would likely leave if women move into combat positions. That number jumped to 22 percent for male Marines and 17 percent for female Marines if women are assigned involuntarily to those jobs, according to the survey." They are probably just talking, but I think it's interesting how many females said they would leave. "The questionnaire also relied on the "mistaken belief" that training standards will remain the same, which Donnelly said is not realistic given the differing physical abilities between the genders. She said the Pentagon is bent on imposing gender-based quotas that will drive down standards. Defense leaders say standards will not be lowered." http://news.yahoo.co...-002047180.html

E-mailed them this morning. I'll post any info.

He is definitely a helluva guy and Cassey is just as awesome. Still hoping and praying for a miracle.

It doesn't begin to make a dent, no matter how you frame it. And only a politician or an idiot would champion deficit reduction of $1.5B per year when the deficit is $1.5T per year. They've made it pretty clear that sovling the debt problem is out of the question. Excellent analogy using the Titanic though. Yes, we would. And it will be even worse at 73% which is what your quote stated as a goal. 60% would be a miracle at this point. By "generally agreed upon," do you mean supported by absolutely no economic data and considered arbitrary by the IMF... because that's what your article calls it. (which is irrelevant anyway since we're not shooting for 60 as a goal, remember) Apparently the goal is to get to 73%, which is 13 points higher than some arbitrary number supported by no economic data. Of course they're oversimplifications. They're analogies. If anyone atually ran their personal lives like congress then they would be dead, bankrupt, in prison, or all of the above.

No. I would not trust the government with my retirement plan in the first place and this is exactly why. And there it is, right there. Let's not be worried about the long-term. This same thing happened two years ago and here we are again. The government doesn't care about the long term. Ever. They're only concerned with what is happening right now and how that will affect the next election cycle. "Pay it right now and deal with the real problem later" has not, does not, and will not work. Don't start that personalize guilt trip bullshit. If you or anyone else trusts the government with your future or your retirement then I highly suggest you reevaluate. hammer someone in the face? Congress appropriates more money than it takes in and then raises the debt limit to cover it. I'm well aware of the fucked up cycle that causes this year after year after year. Every year they say we MUST HAVE THIS BUDGET PASSED OR THE ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE AND PEOPLE WILL STARVE and then a year or two later the same people say we MUST RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT TO PAY OUR BILLS OR THE ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE AND PEOPLE WILL STARVE. The cycle has to be broken somewhere.

BBC is reporting multiple countries getting spun up, including Japan. One UK national was killed in the takeover.

No, you are clearly not tracking. If you purchase something on credit, you do not own it outright. The person or entity who extended you the credit owns it. You do not own a house you mortgaged; the bank owns it. Just because Airman Dumbass drives a $65,000 BMW does not mean he owns it. I'm saying "looking" for $1.5T in cuts over 10 years is a useless, petty claim. Even if he quit "looking" for it and "found" it, 1.5 over 10 years wouldn't even begin to make a dent. It's your logic that kills me. "If you're concerned about these slight-of-hand accounting tactics that potentially affect your TSP account, tell Congress to raise the debt ceiling immediately and Treasury will stop taking these "extraordinary measures." I'm concerned about shittly slight of hand accounting so I should be in favor of continually raising the debt limit. Just let them keep doing what they're doing or they'll be forced to take our pensions. It's not their fault, it's mine for not supporting more national debt, right?