It is harder to hide heavy drinking more than any other form of substance abuse. If he is drinking at his office, it will be well known.

And Staind, plus the Aaron Lewis solo stuff.

Dude, Pete is definitely rocking some Five Finger Death Punch.

Johnny Cash and PBR, Jack Daniels, NASCAR
Facebook, Myspace, iPod, Bill Gates
Smith and Wesson, NRA, Firewater, Paleface
Dimebag, Tupac, heavy metal, hip-hop
(I am) What you fear most
(I am) What you need
(I am) What you made me
(I am) The American Dream
I'm not selling out
I'm buying in
I will not be forgotten
This is my time to shine
I've got the scars to prove it, only the strong survive
I'm not afraid of dying
Everyone has their time
Life never favored weakness, welcome to the pride

It is illegal for a country to refuse the return of a citizen. We're seeing this in Syria with ISIS fighters who are held in camps because their home countries do not want them returned.

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That's my thought as well. I totally support an end to birthright citizenship, but right now that's how the constitution says it is.

"He knows he can just give more money to the government if he wants to right?"

He could, if he wanted to be super inefficient. He (they-the 370 millionaires) could also stop engaging in those activities that made them rich.

But if you feel like you have too much money, there is never going to be an issue with giving it away.

"How has the middle class been doing since reaganomics was introduced?"

They're doing ------- excellent. In inflation adjusted dollars, median household income has increased by 22% in inflation adjusted dollars.

"Has it occurred to the Buffoon and his idiot sycophants that the "concept" of illegal aliens not being "subject to the jurisdiction" means they can't be prosecuted for crimes they commit?"

As a lawyer, how to you interpret the use of the term "jurisdiction." When I read the language, it looks like it is saying that any person born in the US is a citizen, and therefor subject to US jurisdiction. And this is absolutely true. Regardless of where you go after you are born, so long as you're a US citizen, you are expected to pay taxes to the US government.

I don't see how Trump can use an executive order to override a constitutional amendment. I'm curious to see where this goes. I'm totally in favor of getting rid of Jus Soli, but when I read the language in the 14th amendment, it seems pretty clear.

Germany's policy on birthright citizenship seems like a pretty solid model that could be followed if the 14th amendment were overturned.

"So being honest it's you and people like you that do not care."

Never did care. I couldn't care less about diversity. I care about objectivity and competence.

You should not care about diversity for diversity's sake either.

Let's be honest, even those pretend to care about this...don't really care about this.

And the Palestinians rely on people like you to defend their atrocities.

"The Israelis have been living in a walled in territory under constant occupation by Palestinians who neglect, abuse, kidnapping and kill them, constantly, since the country of Palestine was established by England and America?"

Yeah...that's sorta the thing. The Brits intended for their to be a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state. That's something the Palestinians and their Arab allies could accept no more than the National Socialists did.

And yes, the Palestinians are constantly abusing, kidnapping, and killing Israeli citizens. They love that ----.

"Only Palestine is actually an Occupied People fighting a clear Oppressor."

I would say the opposite is true. I don't think the average Israeli is hoping for the extirpation of Palestinians in the region. The Palestinians are devoted to the destruction of the Jews.

"That's like Vlad was engaging in legal bombing of civilian targets as he invaded."

We can never know for sure, but I do think that Russia is largely following LOAC principles. The problem is, Russia is about where the US was in Desert Storm technology-wise. They do have some precision weapons, but they are limited, and not very accurate. When I was flying, I could drop a low-collateral bomb on the top of a house to take out a sniper while causing minimal damage to the house and everything in it. That was the standard. Russia does not have that capability.

"If the Palestinians actually want to resolve this once and for all they should bury the hatchet and forgive the Israelis."

Forgive them???

For what?

Palestine is not a real thing. It never has been.

Maybe I'm wrong, but has there ever been a Republic of Palestine? A Kingdom of Palestine? Even an Emirate of Palestine?

No. The land was owned by Ottomans who lived in Turkey.

The closest that Palestine ever came to being a real thing was in 1948, and the so-called Palestinians rejected it.

Palestinians need to understand this, but they've been fed a narrative where they are entitled to something they had no part in creating. Progressivism at its finest.

My Norwegian counterparts like their system, or at least seem to prefer it over the US system. And they're not stupid. They're all senior military officers.

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You're not wrong, but try selling increased taxes on lower and middle-class income earners in the U.S. Even if it comes with expanded benefits. It's likely that some of the strongest opposition would come from progressives.

"You lie. Trump started a war in Syria. It was short lived but he did start one."

Which war was that? I honestly don't know, and I spent a year running the coalition targeting enterprise in Syria.

That's kinda my thought. The Islamic resistance trades hostages for the time and space required to reconstitute.

What seems a bit encouraging is the comments by the Palestinians who are returning to their destroyed houses and wondering why it all happened. Sure, the Islamic leaders now have more street cred while they're snorting coke off the asses of European hookers in Dubai, but I'm not sure that the narrative is going to hold that this whole Hamas campaign was being conducted for the benefit of Palestinians.

"Isn't that interesting that in 2002 George W. used wars to "spread democracy". MAGA cheered him on."

I'm sorry...what?

First, there was no MAGA back then. And MAGA and the GWB team are NOT friends.

GWB has more in common with Biden then with Trump.

But more to the point...my job is not a 9-5 kind of thing. If I don't actually need to go into my office, I don't. In fact, it's better if I don't. Not so much for me, but for the other people who may need to access the systems available in my office. That doesn't mean we don't sometimes work 16-hour days, or spend weeks or months traveling, but no one is going to care where I am, provided that I am getting my work done.

And one of my colleagues who is a US military officer just had a baby in June. He is entitled to 12 weeks of paternity leave. he's taken seven days of it so far. He is hoping to take the rest here soon, but if there is work to be done, there is work to be done. And that will always come first.

"Hot Nordic babes."

I just spent a week in Norway. It is unreal how hot those girls are. And unfair.

I work mostly with the defense forces, which me and my crass colleagues refer to as the "Smokeshow Army."

It's ridiculous.

Why is no one addressing the fact that low-income earners pay virtually nothing when compared to their peers in European countries?

"Today's MAGA is not old school Conservative. It's extreme right wing. Just sayin"

You're sayin, but I don't think "extreme right wing" is easily definable. The immigration policies within many of the EU countries is more "extreme" than what I perceive to be occurring in the US.

And when it comes to economic policy, I half-joke that the US is the last Marxist country. A lot of people on the left talk about higher income earners in Europe pay more. They do, but it's low-income earners who pay significantly more. I don't often see our lefty friends advocating for a 30% tax on lower income earners in the US, but that's what it is for someone living in Sweden. What's unique to the left in the US is the class-warfare mentality. The belief that high income earners have somehow wound up with money that should have gone to lower income earners. That's a belief that is built solely on emotion.