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They recently relocated from a liberal state. They didn't believe in gun ownership. Maybe people should stop trying to pretend evil doesn't exist and drop this delusion that a couple of new gun restrictions will fix the problem.

We've brought interpreters back with us. Many of them stayed to continue working with the replacement units or went on to work with private contractors. It just takes a couple of recommendation letter and they apply for a visa and all that. In 2009 I wrote a letter for my terp and in 2014 I was interviewed by an investigator for his TS clearance. He came here and enlisted in the Army as a linguist and ended up in 10th SF group in Carson. A lot of them stayed by choice to help better their country. They were working with us for that very reason. They a truly passionate patriots.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080924130640/http://omlt3-kdk3.over-blog.com/article-22935665.html [url] http://www.scout.com/military/warrior-lodge/story/1557834-a-french-soldier-s-view-of-us-soldiers[/URL] I came across this article written by a French military officer attached to an American unit from the 101st Airborne Division. The first link is in French on what I belive is a French military blog site, and the second is the English translation of his article. It had me reminiscing about the times I've worked with militaries from Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Italy, Finland, Russia, Spain, Uganda, Bulgaria, and even El Salvador. For those of us who have worked together, the brothers in arms thing extends beyond national borders. Maybe it's like a stepbrother kind of thing or whatever amongst each other. Something to think about for Veterans Days. I don't come across many foreign service members unless they are visiting a base for training, and I rarely come across foreign veterans living or visiting the U.S., but I've always been treated very well on personal travel in most of the above mentioned countries, so I like to make sure we extend them the same respect. After all, we did kind of drag them into a couple of erroneous wars recently, so the least we can do is thank them for their service.

https://youtu.be/1kfaWE-JFwY I do outreach on poor souls like this one.

The F-35 is going to be replacing the F-15, F-16, and A-10. Any one of those planes could go to some of the larger police departments. A 500 pound bomb should disperse enough water for stranded people to just walk to safety.

Checked your link. It sounds good, but I'd like to remind people that in addition to "Soldiers", there are also Sailors, Airmen, and Marines there who could use a little pick-me-up as well.

I feared consequences when I was a kid. I didn't want to be locked up with druggies and violent criminals. I was worried about a record haunting me for the rest of my life and not being able to find employment or buy guns and stuff like that. I also knew all the cops in my hometown by name and I got in trouble once because I got caught arranging peoples' Christmas decorations into sexual positions and I "yes Sir'd" and "no Sir'd" chief Westwood to death because I didn't want him to tell my dad. He followed me in his patrol car while I walked down the road putting everyone's stuff back the way it was. A week later I had to walk home from school after an evening baseball game and some of the town bullies had been threatening me so I saw Chief Westwood and flagged him down and asked for a ride. He took me home, but made me sit in the back seat (as a joke) and said if I want to keep messing with other people's stuff, I better get used to the view. *I still fear consequences. Prison doesn't help the street cred for a white boy with a family, and I don't want to live in a cage. I've come to enjoy the freedom of the woods, the open sky, the open water. Also, I'm a good looking man. I may only be like a 7 out in the world, but in prison, forget it, I'm a 10. That's not conducive to a solitary shower.

Unfortunately the Sheriff immediately threw him under the bus, no questions asked. That Sheriff must have bigger political aspirations and chose Mr. Popularity over standing up for his deputies. Several law enforcement analysts have said that Fields (1.) should not have been brought into the situation in the first place, and (2.) that he handled it the way he needed to handle it in accordance with his authority as a law enforcement officer. Too bad Fields's boss isn't a "buck stops with me" type of leader. When I was a young soldier, I had some really awesome leaders and mentors (a couple bad ones that were perfect examples of what "not" to be), but one of those guys told me, "be careful who you fuck over on the way up, because you'll have to face them on your way down"

Well screw it, as long as everyone is getting a piece, I might as well try to get mine. If I'm elected president, I will have Air Force 1 stripped out and have bench seats and a plexiglass door installed.

Your numbers: ---$100/barrel, gas at $4/gal ---then moved to $45/barrel, gas at $2.50/gal so if all was equal the original ratio - Gas should be $1.80/gal. Not $2.50. Agree, it's more expensive as a ratio to oil prices.... So the clarity we need here is who is taking that extra 70 cents per gallon? Do you have the numbers to show how much of that is: -- extra taxes, -- and how much is increased profit margin, -- did any go to improving employment or pay of workers as a company triggered effort - voluntary -- improved employment situation due to government regs - same thing, but legislated -- extra product costs due to government regulations added for new or tightened gov regulations Hard to analyze unless the other components are taken out. But I'd like to know. No, I didn't do any search into it at all actually. I was just at the pump one day daydreaming and had an "ah-ha" moment. That's why I said I was pulling it out of my ass, I was only looking at the surface of what I saw in prices.

I grew up as a poor country boy, so after surviving the war, I celebrated life, and my extra combat pay, by purchasing a nice new Silverado 2500 twin turbo diesel, lift kit, 38 inch tires, all the extras. Then I get sent right back over there for another year, and I get home and the price of fuel had tripled. I couldn't afford to drive my damn truck anywhere. I was like, "what the f'k am I fighting for?" "I thought Bush sent us there for oil, this doesn't make any freaking sense." At least when I traded that truck in I got a really good deal, because it had extremely low mileage on it

I'm just pulling this out of my ass, so don't bother fact checking my numbers or anything, but I was thinking about oil prices the other day. In the 90s, oil was $20 per barrel and we were paying $0.75 per gallon for gasoline. These prices made everyone in the oil industry millionaires and even a couple of them, billionaires. Three or four years ago, oil was $100 per barrel and we were paying just under $4 per gallon for gasoline, up to $4.50 for diesel. So far, price of oil has increased x5, and the price of gasoline has increased x5 along with it. Now, current oil price is around $45 per barrel, but we are still paying $2.50 per gallon for gasoline. If I were to take my shoes off I could count up to twenty, but I'll leave the math for you. Bottom line, the people who became millionaires off of oil are currently making a significantly higher profit margin today than ever before, but they are bithching to the government that if consumers don't start paying higher fuel prices, it is going to destabilize our economy and destroy the world. WTF? My guess-timate is that we should be paying about $1.70 per gallon, and they would still be making their millions.

I think this woman says it pretty well, We are raising a generation of entitled brats who think they are above all authority and the law. What are we teaching “children” and young adults when a 17- or 18-year-old can disrupt a class, ignore 3 adult authority figures, and STRIKE an officer, and the officer gets fired for handling the situation? It’s this mindset that’s breeding disrespectful punks and causing them to get shot. Stop making kids think they are above the law and authority. You’re not doing them or society any favors. And before anyone says, “What if that was your daughter?” I’d like to think my kid wouldn’t disrupt the class, ignore 3 authority figures, and strike a police officer. If she did, she should expect a similar reaction and even worse when mama gets hold of her. There are THREE videos. Watch them in slow motion. The “violent throw” was caused by her own momentum as she bucked against the officer. I don’t care how big or tough he is, he couldn’t have “thrown” her in such a way by his own power with where his hands were. She bucked, straightened her body, lost balance, tumbling HERSELF backwards. A cop’s life and reputation is ruined and a bunch of punks now think they are untouchable. I think that by condoning this type of attitude towards authority, we, as a society, are throwing gasoline on the fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/politics/iraq-isis-military-combat/ Guess we've beat around the bush long enough. That whole "I have ended the war in Iraq" campaign lie is a turd that just won't flush.

Back when I was but a small boy, I was taught to find a policeman if I ever needed anything. If I was lost, hurt, scared, in danger, no matter what the problem was, a police officer was the universal symbol of safety. I was also taught that if you find yourself on the receiving end of law enforcement, that the police officer had AUTHORITY. I was taugh that they are the police, and you do what they tell you to do, period point blank. Failure to do that resulted in fines, court, criminal record, and jail. Up into the 90s in Tennessee, cops still carried mostly revolvers. They carried their pistols for self defense or to keep the bad guys from hurting me. Then people undercut he police officers authority by resisting, assaulting the officer, and fleeing, so the consequence of criminal charges and jail are out the window if you beat the cop up bad enough. So then cops start carrying batons, pepper spray, and tasers, and learning joint manipulation techniques so they can effectively make their arrests. These items ended up being the only thing to put any authority behind the badge because no one respects the officers anymore. Now the trend is that the police are violating your rights, you don't have to do what they tell you and you can fight back however you want because either you disagree with them or you don't want to go to jail. We are teaching our kids that cops are wrong and they can just do what ever they want because if the police interfere we will sue them and buy a nice new home. Not every cop on the force is the street fighting champion of his or her city. If they are rendered unconscious in a struggle, they can be beat to death, strangled, stabbed, shot with their own weapon, or ran over with their own patrol car. Then a city issued handgun is out on the streets adding to the gun murder problem. I think our current society is responsible for the current state of police tactics or aggression. These officers graduate the same high schools and colleges as you and then you become a mechanic, engineer, doctor, or porn star, and they become police officers. Only difference is engineers aren't being blamed for failing infrastructure, doctors aren't being blamed for Obama care, and mechanics aren't being blamed for all these recalls and the "big three" going bankrupt. If you think you are innocent or you are "in the right" and the officer is "in the wrong" there is a course of redress in our justice system. The cops job is to enforce the laws, which means they will try to prevent or deter you from breaking laws, but if you break them, they arrest you, charge you, and put you into the court system. Then their job is done. If you believe you are being dealt an injustice, you go along with it, because failure to do so is a separate crime that you will be held accountable for, and you plead your case in court. A judge and jury decide who is right and who is wrong. If you were innocent, you go free. If the cop did something wrong, it is identified in court and dealt with. Either way, as the chinaman says, "two Wongs don't make a wigt"

Here I thought it was the splinter medal. Or the medal you get for being the worst at dodging. The 5 Ds of combat: Dodge Duck Dive Dip Dodge

I don't believe in politics. I hail from the hills of Tennessee, the descendant of moonshiners. People where I'm from kind of live by their own set of rules.

A PH is the silver medal of gun fighting.

Your words are wise and truthful. I just noticed a pattern of only GOPs being blasted and therefor, in the interest of fairness, pointed out that all (ALL) politicians are corrupt. That's why I want to see a president who is not a lifelong politician this next term ( but not The Donald). Our forefathers didn't make lifelong careers out of manipulating the government for personal gain. They were nominated and voted and did what the people asked them to do and then went back to their farms.

Drag her desk into the janitor closet and say, since your ass seems to be stuck to that desk, it better stay that way the rest of the day or I'll straight up drop kick you in the face.m "Put down that cell phone or I'll come across this desk and scissor kick you in the back of the head!"

My wife gets pulled over probably once a month for speeding. I mean like 85 in a 55. Every time, whether it's a male or female officer, they do a quick license check and send her off with a verbal warning. I've been pulled over once in the last 10 years. 70 in a 65. $150 ticket. Give me your friends number so I can ask him his definition of officer discretion and tell him where to put that radar gun.

O M G. Good thing the democrats set a better example than all these dirty republicans. Former Rep. Frank Ballance, D-N.C. The former congressman was sentenced to four years in prison on October 12, 2005 for conspiring to defraud taxpayers. Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, Democrat Siegelman was found guilty of bribery, mail fraud and obstruction of justice on June 29, 2006. He was sentenced to 88 months in prison. Former Rep. William Jefferson, D-La. The former congressman was convicted of 11 counts of bribery and sentenced to 13 years in prison on November 13, 2009. This was after the FBI seized $90,000 from Jefferson's home freezer. Former Birmingham Ala. Mayor Larry Langford, Democrat The former mayor of Birmingham was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns on March 5, 2010. Former Hartford, Conn. Mayor Eddie Perez, Democrat The former mayor of Hartford, Conn. was sentenced to eight years in prison on five corruption charges on September 14, 2010. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, Democrat On June 3, 2011, the former presidential hopeful was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury on six felony charges, including four counts of collecting illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one count of making false statements. Former Illinois Gov. Rob Blagojeich, Democrat The former governor was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Dec. 7, 2011 on 18 corruption convictions, including trying to sell a senate seat that became vacant when the nation elected President Barack Obama. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Democrat The former mayor of Detroit was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Oct. 10, 2013 for corruption. According to a report by the Detroit Free Press, the investigation that ultimately took down Kilpatrick spanned a decade and "also has resulted in convictions against 33 other people." Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. The democrat congressman reported to prison on Oct. 29, 2013 after being convicted of illegally spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items.

Another example of Britts causing problems for Americans Conspiracy theory A: Democrats set it up because they needed to inflate their gun violence numbers

I think it would have been better if the teacher had been the one to judo flip that little hussy out of her desk. Remind her of the golden rule: I'm the teacher, you're the student. I'm the adult, you're the punk ass child. Do as you are told. Unacceptable behavior = consequenses

It's commonly referred to as an enemy marksmanship badge Some IEDs just aren't detectable and with bullets, when it rains, sometimes you just get wet. But when the Purple Heart was introduced in the Revolutinary War, it was basically the Medal of Honor of that time. To me the PH shows that you took one for the team. I see PTSD more as a condition (illness isn't the right word) than a wound. Take what I say about it with a grain of salt, but I have a VA rating for PTSD, as well as a PH for being wounded. Actually, I think you can line up everyone with PTSD and ask them who thinks PTSD should meet criteria for the PH, then everyone who raises their hand can be charged with malingering and fraud because they are full of shit PTSD is more of like a survivors guilt type thing, so giving me a medal for doing whatever I did that has me so torn up inside is going to make me feel even worse.