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Awesome post Marg. Natch. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Read past the OP there doc. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

DU tastes like paprika. I sprinkle it on my MREs. Scouts Out! - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

I voted for Ron Paul, because he's straight up gangster yo. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Anachists, chistans, what the hell is the world coming to? You're killing me woman. Type slower! - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

They dragged me away from the line kicking and screaming...trust me. I held out 18 years! THIS is what I call a waste of government resources -Harvey in the TOC. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Yeah, sorry for the confusion. You can't swing a dead cat wiothout hitting a last name K, (M.Ph.Psy.Ed)D in this crowd. Point: "Holy crap! W is GOLFING ALL THE TIME while Rome is burning! Oh my God he's terrible! Aaaaah! He's somehow killing babies and causing global warming that way!" - Liberals on this board, circa the last 8 years. Obama has played as much golf as W did in 2.5 years in just 9 months. - Politico, today. It would be nice to see the same folks bitch about it. Just makes me mad because, ahem, It would be nice to have a couple of brigades to help us play whack-a-mole...or ahem, get us the fuck out. /Point The fastest way to lose respect in my business is not fear, but an inability to make timely decisions. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

In this forum you're the wrong Dr K. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

You bet your ass. Poorly. But I drink well...and Patron on ice is like buttuh for my golf game. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Wow. #1 - You're missing the point. #2 - You suck at the search function. I found 2 pages. However - none were Dr. K. So you get a 5%. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Are you kidding? I'm a staff weenie now - OF COURSE I DO! Just pointing out a little hypocracy...ya know...like bible thumpers blowing alter boys that you point out. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Awesome. Wasn't it Dr. K. who made fun of W for golfing while troops died? That was child's play. Fore! How about since you won't give us any help in Afghanistan, you get us the fuck out? I would love to have a leader that can make a goddamn decision. Without focus grouping it for 2 months first. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

What Wilson did showed a lack of class and discipline. Neither party has the market cornered on either. Gut congress now. They are not the people. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Honest Marine here. The only deception I created was convincing girls in bars on ball night that my SCUBA bubble was from being a door gunner on the space shuttle. Next. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Good question, obviously to be met with as many opinions as there are assholes on here. I agree the answer would depend on the application of the scale of a conflict. As an armor officer, of course I love GSP...particularly for the relief of Bastogne, which was simply brilliant. A result of the character of his men, but a direct reflection of his style of leadership. But having done tequila shots with him at the Marine Corps Ball of 1991, and getting to know the MAN, I tip my hat to Harvey Barnum His MOH citation could be paraphrased to read: "As a 1LT, he won the battle of Hue City. Because he's a brilliant tactician, and his balls are gigantic." He secured a ridiculously difficult Bn objective as a Lieutenant in the wake of a leadership vacuum. That's a leader. Good post though. Nice change of topic. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Holy shit if she isn't spot on. Refreshing to see a liberal with half a clue. Obama's Healthcare Horror - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

So at what point does the left go Oooops? I have rarely if ever agreed with Rall. We have a more expensive GWB. Politics as usual. Change? Neh. Article: SORRY, MR. BUSH SEATTLE--I miss Bush. Stop the presses and shut off the RSS feeds: the bashiest of the Bush-bashers is starting to appreciate the Exile of Crawford. I haven't forgiven George W. Bush for stealing two elections, starting two wars, bankrupting the treasury and doing his damnedest to turn the U.S. into a fascist state. He deserves one of hell's hottest picnic spots for refusing to lift a finger to bring the 9/11 murderers to justice. Bush was stupid. He was vicious. He should be in prison. He was the worst president the U.S. had ever had. Until this one. On major issues and a lot of minor ones, Obama is the same as or worse than Bush. But Bush had an opposition to contend with. Obama has a compliant Democratic Congress. Lulled to somnolent apathy by Obama's charming manners, mastery of English (and yes, the color of his skin), leftist activists and journalists have been reduced to quiet disappointment, mild grumbling and unaccountable patience. I don't care about window dressing. Sure, it's nice that Obama is intelligent. But policies matter--not charm. And Obama's policies are at least as bad as Bush's. Guantánamo was but the beginning of Obama's betrayals. First he ordered the camp closed--not immediately but in a year. Now he's expanding the U.S. concentration camp at Bagram--where 600 innocent men and children are being tortured--so he can send the 245 Gitmo prisoners there. In the Bush era, Gitmo POWs received legal representation. Obama has ordered that the POWs sent to Bagram not be allowed to see a lawyer. You saw the headline: "OBAMA BANS TORTURE." But it was a lie. Obama's CIA director told Congress that there's a "review process that's built into [Obama's] executive order" that allows torture to continue. Leon Panetta said the Obama Administration will keep using at least 19 torture techniques against detainees. In addition, Team Obama will "look at those kinds of enhanced techniques to determine how effective they were or weren't and whether any appropriate revisions need to be made as a result of that." As editorial boards of liberal newspapers tut-tut and the feds convene committees, the screams of the victims pierce the night. Bush was the biggest spender in history, running up a $1.8 trillion deficit with wasteful wars and tax cuts. But next to Obama, Bush was a tightwad. Glamour Prez hasn't been around six months, yet the Congressional Budget Office reports that he already has quadrupled the deficit by an extra $8.1 trillion. "The total debt held by the public [will] rise from 57 percent of GDP in 2009 to 82 percent (!) of GDP in 2019," reports U.S. News & World Report. Obama is sinking us into financial oblivion 72 times faster than Bush. Where'd the money go? Mostly to insurance companies. Banks. Brokerage firms. Who used it to redecorate their offices and give themselves raises. Against logic and history Obama claimed his bailout package would create jobs. Instead, unemployment has risen by 1.3 million. Has Obama's plan saved a single homeowner from foreclosure? Reporters can't find any. I liked Bush better. He wasted our money when the economy wasn't quite as sucky. And he didn't insult us by pretending to care. Come on, Barack, smirk! Truth in advertising! I know: he's a politician. Politicians break promises. As the presidential scholar Stephen Hess says: "There are some pledges that a candidate reverses when he becomes president because things look different. He knows things that he didn't know then." (An official familiar with the photos in question tells me they include, among other atrocities, U.S. personnel sodomizing a child.) Obama has done more damage than Bush. And no one's stopping him. Which makes him worse. Sorry, Mr. Bush. If I'd known what was coming, I would've been nicer. Link to Column - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

You rock dude. Thanks. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Lost mine test flying a ridiculously fast wingsuit last week. Does anyone know of a rigger with some lying around, makes them custom, or have a pattern I can give my ninja rigger to make one? Thanks. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

The assumptions of the original exercise: Native English speaking firefighters (Cept maybe the hispanic guy who passed the test - I have no idea) Tested in English Standard atmospheric pressure throughout the room. #2 pencils. Now Bill and Ron come up with something more in line with the issue at hand. I can't even think of a question that would be skewed strictly by skin color. (#22 - What SPF is the best for you in August?) I mean really. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Perfectly summarized. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

He is sticking to the meat. What you're avioding is what appears to be a characteristic bias on the part of the judges. BLUF - Political Correctness blinded the municipal government and their lawyers. They fucked up. They got called on it, and a few jurists saw things their way. SCOTUS worked. The city appeared to do it's due-dilligence correctly, and as Tom said - if anything, the test should have come out with a bias against non-minorities. What happened is a bunch of lawyers got scared of the big bad wolf that is the affirmative-action lawsuit, because in that department - during that test phase - the black candidates just didn't score high enough. Bill...I got what you were saying, but, I like you, couldn't find a modern example. And I doubt this case was such an example. (Question #43 - What is step two of the secret whitey handshake?) It just isn't there. I can't think of a single question I've seen on any promotion exam that I am better equiped to answer because I am white. Better educated? Perhaps. And I suppose that can be correlated to race by someone, but tough shit. I have many superiors of color who are better educated than me. They managed without a crutch. I know of one in particular who had his education paid for because he's black. And good for him. Tom...thanks for the research - been a busy day in the salt mines. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Got that. Doesn't answer my question. HOW is a test biased towards a skin color? I took several promotion tests when I was a cop (similar municipal structure) and the questions all revolved around law, policy, procedures, knowledge of investigative techniques, etc. You don't prevail because you're white. You prevail because you've studied. And I got my ass handed to me by more than one black cop on an exam. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

I'm being serious here. Someone please explain to me how a promotion test can be biased based on anything other than intellect. One of the plaintiffs in the suit is hispanic, so to say the tests are skewed towards whites makes no sense to me. It's skewed towards people who know the material. And they scored higher. The black firefighters just need to hit the books more, as I'm sure plenty of white guys who didn't make the cut do. Wtf was Sotomayor thinking? Or Ginsberg for that matter? - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member

Voted for Dr. Ron. Anyone from the two major parties is a cookie cutter. Pretty much the same. Rich, corrupt, out for #1, and completely out of touch with a majority of Americans. Obama is pretty much as I expected. As McCain would have been. A figurehead hobbled by an inept and corrupt Congress. Neither offers much, if any, real change. Politics as usual. It will take a revolution to fix things significantly. - Harvey, BASE 1232 TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA BLiNC Magazine Team Member