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You know what would happen if the restart was reduced to 24 hours? Some companies would set their hometime AT 24 HOURS. "There you go driver, your clock is restarted, so get back out there. The government says that's all the home time you need." One company I was with had a minimum 34 hour...

Keep in mind that several of these women, though attractive, are neocons, and therefore not true conservatives. And though it does seem to be a truism that those on the left are lacking in many areas including looks, there are some exceptions. Rachael Maddow is attractive, and as hard as it is...

:eek::eek: Hah? Whatever happens to someone elsewhere on the planet who's not an American means nothing?:eek::eek: Especially when it's done at our behest? That's an uh, interesting set of ethics you've got there. Should we have given a rodent's rectum over the Jews in Auschwitz? They...

There are circumstances in which soldiers can be told not to read something, but it's not a blanket authority. The military tells recruits they didn't surrender their civil rights when they joined. This is a case of the government clamping down on lawful dissent, plain and simple. In fact...

You do realize that these charges are likely bogus, right? The PTB want him and will manufacture any charge or evidence they want to get him.

It's been a little easier. There are still some places that make you go to the truck fuel desk and then some of them are still writing down the transaction on paper and they say they fax them in to CS where they'll be added in 72 hours. I missed some credits that way when they didn't get added...

That's not absolutely true. They have to follow lawful orders. There are many, many orders a military member wouldn't have to follow, and many, many orders that to follow would constitute a criminal act on their part. One night, one guy had real bad gas. He was farting all night and the...

Boy, was that ever flawed. It didn't give control over the entire budget, just over current proposals of modifying the budget. There was no way to abolish entire programs or departments, no way to abolish the entire income tax, no way to abolish SS or medi-scare. It also made faulty...

"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the...

You'd be shocked to hear how many people believe the opposite of what you just posted. I've argued with them over and over, but they believe Net Neutrality means regulating the freedom out of the internet.

What's wrong with T&K?

I wish you would stop beating around the bush and say what you really think. edited for inappropriate language.

"Let's you and him fight!"

That can't be done overnight. I've often heard some worry aloud that China's huge army could take us without much problem just due to their size. The thing is, there aren't enough ships and planes on the planet to transport them all over here...at all, that is, not just in any reasonable...

If those are your criteria, you know how many wars you're going to have to fight? The countries on Earth that wouldn't mind taking us down a peg or three are quite numerous. You going to go to war against all of them? At what point? The nuclear genie is out of the bottle. If North Korea...

Why? Here's one reason. There are lots of people in the country who think nothing of finding a young man with his whole life ahead of him, grabbing him by the collar, telling him, "Let's you and that guy over there fight." Then they ship him off to Outer Elbonia for him to die over NOTHING...

Ok, Bob, let's have a little exercise here. Let's say you convince America that we need to go kick some North Korean @$$ over this. The Chinese get involved, or heck, maybe they don't, but regardless, American soldiers and marines start coming home in body bags, or maimed. So you are...

Again, looking at it backwards. This phrase: says it all. As I pointed out, young Americans don't (at least to this point) care enough about the world's geopolitical situation to join in greater numbers. Unless/until they do, we could triple our armory and it would make no difference...

Completely different. In WWII, we were attacked by the Japanese. In Europe, Hitler had made his expansionist ideas known, and it was clear that we would have been on his list in a few years. Not to mention, the human rights atrocities that were going on. North Korea can never be said to...

It's not so much that as the fact that we have an all-volunteer force. Volunteers are inspired by several factors, one of them being the worthiness of the causes in play at the time. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, and the Japanese and Nazis were terrorizing the globe, lines formed at the...