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They are lowering overhead to help with the San Onofre cleanup expenses. A big boondoggle for them.

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Mr. Bongo: I don't believe you have a realistic grasp on Chief Petty Officer Kyle's mission during his combat deployments. War is a horrible thing. There are snipers in war. Their job is to kill the enemy. Unless you know a sniper personally with actual combat deployment, you are only guessing with ...

"The official report that covers everyone's butt, and what actually happened. "


-Correct.

Parrotpaul wrote:There are many Muslims running around hating and killing. That isn't good. I wish I had an answer.

Now you're on to something.

A solid post MDDad. Completely agree with you. The events we are seeing around the world are unprecedented. I understand the need for vacation, and I get that the President can read reports and respond from the toilet if need be. But golfing whilst some of the most serious developments in the world ...

Wabash: Please post any links you may have to final committee findings on Benghazi. Three months since inception, there has yet to be a report released from the committee. In case you are perplexed about the insistence of many here...a number of brave men died do to inaction and incompetence. Their ...

Wabash: I appreciate your commitment to the law. I also respect your consistent giving benefit of the doubt to humanitarian positions. However, I have personally listened to discussions with active duty servicemen from Sgt. Bergdahl's platoon that do not respect him, nor believe he will receive any ...

1. He deserted. 2. This is a spectacular p.r. boner for the administration. 3. From interviews with his teammates, he displayed increasingly erratic and unusual behavior. 4. The UCMJ will only apply if someone very high up in command isn't preventing him from being punished. 5. He will have a very d...

Like Glen Doherty?

Read the chapter on Benghazi. Then post your response.

Men died due to inaction by people who shouldn't be in high-level positions. The inaction of those listed in the Seals account of the incident is inexcusable. Criminal actually.

"In fact cops and firemen make a heck of a lot less then teachers over a nine month work period."
Completely false, if your making a statement about those in California.

Do you ever search the salary tables available online for police and especially firefighters?

Don't even start the discussion of O.C.F.D. compensation, where the average retirement is $140,000 per year.

Well said MDDad. Neighborhoods often get more expensive and harder to afford to live in. How many teachers that teach in Beverly Hills live there? What some don't discuss is the lifetime pensions and medical coverage that many teachers receive. I live next to a couple of retired educators that each ...

And so it goes...
Justifying this is pure insanity. He should be removed and another put in his place that is compensated realistically. Makes you wonder how many situations such as this are out there in these spectacularly over-compensated positions.
Disgusting.

What's spectacularly entertaining, speaking of entertainment, is that there are folks out there that don't get the insider trading, skirt the law profitability much of which has resulted in a record amount of super-wealthy. The fat cats have lobbied for and created their own world that they flourish...

Lose their pension? I don't believe that's correct. That was one of the proposals In the last pension reform in Ca, but Governor Brown didn't go with it. I think that any public employee guilty of a felony or serious crime should automatically forfeit their pension. That would provide some incentive...

"But the problem comes in when it becomes as unequal as it has in the last few decades."



-That's it in a nutshell.

"What does that really mean? People's achievement is what moves them upward. (or downward)" You just don't get it, do you? The spectacular growth of mill & billionaires is the result of what is essentially a stacked deck. This unprecedented growth in the ultra-wealthy class is historic. Our system ...

"I think there are also businesses out there that realize they can be as profitable if not moreso than before the recession but with fewer employees. I think I read somewhere that employees who still have jobs are more than willing to work longer, harder, and for fewer dollars just to keep their jo...

The United Staes is among the highest rated countries for productivity. Facts contributing to increased productivity & resulting record profit: Outsourcing to slave-labour & low-wage countries. Working beyond 8 hours without overtime. "Contract" status employment. (no benefits) Overall wage erosion....