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59 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
Are you saying that family members never charge others for staying in their home? I’ve known of adult children living with their parents who are charged rent.
No I'm saying you can't forge a rental agreement to pocket the allowance
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It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to in order to justify defrauding the federal or state government. Other great schemes I've heard about:
Loading your car up with cinder blocks before you move
Claiming legal residence in a state you've never set foot in for tax advantage
Having family members charge you rent so that you can pocket the hotel payment on TDY
I'm sure the list goes on. At best you lie to your employer to make a quick buck and get away with it. At worst, you open yourself to serious civil & criminal liability.
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Refugees have a responsibility to seek asylum in the first safe country they reach, not the one with the best career opportunities or welfare programs. If we enforced this principle with the remain in Mexico policy we would be able to distinguish the myriad of illegal crossings from legitimate asylum claims.
As it stands you just state that you're seeking asylum, you get a court date, and you get released into the country with no risk of deportation when you skip your court appearance. How is this fundamentally different from letting 5000 people in directly? It just takes 1 extra step where you have to say the magic words.
Semantics
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58 minutes ago, Lawman said:
Oh wow a congressman said it on twitter. In like a whole sentence? Omg it must be true… except no it isn’t.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/no-the-senate-immigration-bill-does-not-allow-5000-people-to-illegally-enter-the-us-daily/
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/no-senate-border-bill-would-not-have-allowed-5000-migrants-per-day-verify/65-ad109cd1-6671-4d0c-8239-b5e4b4d4d951
Sent from my iPad using TapatalkSemantics.
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4 hours ago, Swizzle said:
Austin is worth 3 days
Might as well make it a week
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I'd recommend that men avoid sexual relations with women that will abort their children.
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59 minutes ago, stickshakergoaround said:
To be fair, I'd rather transfer that potential experience over to a mission ride where I can get aero, form, low level, instruments, etc. all in one 'free' sortie in the mission phase rather than slog through a final nav sortie where all I can do is approaches.
If students are actually flying additional flights to work on other weak areas that's great. From what I remember of pilot training if you PAed through a ride you just flew one less flight than everyone else.
As far as I'm concerned, a dozen instrument flights is such little training already that even if you have a hot streak or just feel like you're nailing it, it's still worth it to see it one more time to solidify effective habit patterns and to potentially expose you to a situation you haven't seen yet.
When you're RTB low on gas, at night and in the weather from an LFE sortie that utterly blew your mind, you'll be glad you have good habit patterns to fall back on.
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I'm sure Proficiency Advancing a few high-performing students through their last instrument ride will solve the training pipeline 🙄 Let them get the experience. How many UPT DGs have morted themselves in the traffic pattern or on ILS?
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Not to mention the attrition that will occur in UPT / PIT
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The best part is that these civilians will be the ones flying daily while the line officers bear the burden of all the paperwork required to run a squadron. If contracting schedulers didn't fix the problem I guess we'll just contract all of ops.
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18 minutes ago, Prozac said:
I don’t have an answer for that other than it strikes a balance that reflects where we are as a country. [...] This kind of debate happens all the time & somewhat arbitrary limits are set when we make laws for the benefit of society.
But that kind of debate hasn't been allowed to happen because a 7-2 majority made abortion the law of the land 50 years ago. Think about that -- this issue that countless people have anguished over and debated since time immemorial (there are records of arguments on abortion at least as far back as the Roman empire) was "settled" in 1973 by 7 people on behalf of a nation of over 300,000,000.
If it's truly about striking a balance and making the best law for the benefit of society, the issue should be left up either to the state legislatures and/or Congress so that they can enact the will of their representatives via the legislative process.
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If abortion is protected by the 14th amendment why did it take 100 years to realize it? When Roe was decided, every state in the union had laws restricting abortion.
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Need to keep Boeing in the fighter business
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4 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
Can't argue with you on those points, this is a pickle
Not a treaty ally but we made assurances 25+ years ago to get them to de-nuclearize to get to what we thought would be a better post Soviet arrangement, don't really have direct interests in their nation but at a very high level strategically / globally allowing them to be overrun undermines the semi-fair and basically decent rules based order that America has led for decades with every alternative to this order worse.
This should light a fire under the asses of the planning and strategy 20-lb brains in the Puzzle Palace to develop capes, systems, training and relationships with nations at the periphery of our influence and inside the threat rings of our enemies
I know there are some systems and support we can share now and are but as we are going into the turbulent 20's, we need to rapidly field systems that are affordable, attrittable with a level of technology that we are not overly concerned with being compromised. Likely unmanned in some cases, designed to be mainly operated by allies and partners to deter aggression and/or suppress constant needling aggression against them.
Vaporware UCAV from Deal of the Century would be an example:
No LO, weapons truck, unmanned, zero length launch capable, etc... launch it, they direct.it or we surreptitiously direct it and have a cape that raises the cost of aggression without the footprint that our current forces/systems bring
I agree there's plenty more we can do. I also think our standing in the world and the future of free nations that cannot defend themselves are hurt by our inaction. I suppose I'm just expressing my frustration that time after time we shoulder that burden more or less alone.
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2 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
But they would have to be willing to use it, methinks they don't want Ukraine to be assimilated by the Russian Borg but are not going to do anything kinetic or material if they are attacked
Not throwing spears but I double the NATO members of Western Europe would put blood and treasure on the line for Ukraine, a non-treaty ally. Now Central and Eastern Europe might as they know where this train ends if they let it get out of the station.
Fair enough, but as far as I can tell the average American shouldn't want to spend blood and treasure on Ukraine any more than the average German. With that in mind, it seems like the disposition of eastern Europe would mean a lot more to the Germans and Italians than it does to someone who won't leave America once in their life.
Yet we accept this sort of apathy from the largest countries in Europe because we don't want to make waves in the classic Cold War alliances.
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2 minutes ago, Guardian said:
1:1:1 he didn’t say you should do that. He said for him it’s enough. For you to say it’s insulting of him to say that to you means you didn’t read it and are easily offended even when someone’s not talking to you. Be happy for him. He seems to found happiness. So what if it’s different from yours.
Never said he insulted me. I've just sat through enough all calls with NAF or MAJCOM commanders who harp on patriotism to automatically roll my eyes when someone implies money is shallow or meaningless. That is what I find insulting.
That being said, if you enjoy your place in the air force, I'm glad you're happy. Continue to do what works for you.
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Money may not buy happiness, but financial security is a real thing. Being able to send your kids to any college they get into is a real change in your quality of life. Knowing that your wife won't be impoverished if you don't make 20 years and Lt Col is also a real difference in your life. The air force may not be able to compete dollar for dollar with a lot of jobs, but pretending any money above $100k salary and tricare is unnecessary is asinine and insulting.
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What if the European continent spent > 2% of GDP on defense and therefore presented a credible deterrent? Are What Ifs open?
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How early is too early for an active duty non-rated officer to apply for a guard UPT board? Asking for a friend who currently has 18 months ADSC remaining.
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Needed more right rudder
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51 minutes ago, FT11 said:
KSZL back to 100 percent masks on base regardless of vaccination status on Monday…🙄
Just 15 more days to flatten the curve... right??
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39 minutes ago, Prozac said:
For example, stating that there could be unforeseen consequences is protected. Definitively stating that vaccination causes infertility is not.
Actually, many factually inaccurate statements are in fact protected under the first amendment.
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You regularly invert your sleep schedule within 14 hours of reporting to fly? Not sure how that doesn't increase risk.
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Proof that to many of the Bobs ORM is just another way to spell CYA. Of course the only risk they buy is losing the next promotion.
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The Next President is...
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Can't be worse than the Big Guy being beholden to Chinese billionaires