Random Politics & Religion #00

The shooter worked for the government. His background was clean. What are lawmakers proposing that would have prevented this specific shooter from obtaining firearms?

They are pivotting ASAP to gun control to cover their *** because they know it is likely an ISIS related attack.

Is there a reason why maps usually always depict Europe in the middle?

I think that considering how far America is from Europe, and that Russia almost borders with Alaska, it would give a better sense of continuity and positions to put the pacific in the middle.

I know, not exactly a pressing matter, but I was wondering.

I dunno if I google maps I get 9/10 eurocentrics.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter has announced that all combat roles in the US military will be opened to women.

"America's force of the future," Mr Carter said, must be able to benefit from the "broadest possible pool of talent".

The move will lead to some 220,000 openings to women, he said.
Mr Carter is to give the armed services 30 days to submit plans to make the change. The US military has been easing restrictions over the past three years.

A ban on women serving in combat roles was lifted in 2013 but the military was given until 2016 to make the case for specific posts they thought should remain closed.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Joseph Dunford, had argued the Marine Corps should be allowed to keep women out of certain roles, citing studies showing that mixed-gender units are not as effective as all-male ones.

But Mr Carter rejected the argument. "There will be no exceptions," he said.

"As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before.

"They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, lead infantry soldiers into combat."

They'll be allowed to drive tanks

US to open all combat roles to women, defence secretary says

When will they be required to register foreliminate selective services like men have tobecause it's an outdated, problematic system in regard to our present society?

When will they be required to register for selective services like men have to?

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was found guilty Thursday of conspiring to violate mine safety standards.

Jurors at the U.S. District Court in Charleston, West Virginia, found him not guilty on one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements.

Blankenship, 65, pleaded not guilty and has been free on a $5 million cash bond since being indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2014, four years after an underground explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, killed 29 men.

According to the indictment, the Associated Press reported, Blankenship "knew that UBB was committing hundreds of safety-law violations every year and that he had the ability to prevent most of the violations that UBB was committing. Yet he fostered and participated in an understanding that perpetuated UBB's practice of routine safety violations, in order to produce more coal, avoid the costs of following safety laws, and make more money."

While Blankenship argued that natural gas in the mine caused the explosion, four separate investigations found that unmaintained cutting equipment created a spark and ignited coal dust and methane gas.

It was the deadliest mine explosion in the U.S. since 1972, when 91 miners were killed in a fire in an Idaho silver mine, Reuters noted.

Blankenship earned his "King of Coal" moniker by transforming a once-small family business into Appalachia's largest coal producer. Under his leadership, the company took down the mineworkers union and mastered the mountaintop removal process, reducing the land to "heaps of rubble," Mother Jones reported.

When will they be required to register for selective services like men have to?

When will they be required to register for selective services like men have to?

Update at 12:36 p.m. ET: Selective Service Registration For Women?

"That is a matter of legal dispute right now," Carter says, adding that the outcome of that process won't affect his decision.

Indeed I am. I think it builds character, teaches respect and discipline. All of which our society needs.

It also makes people not be nancy's as much.

I'm pretty sure that women wouldn't be in the selective service (or draft if that ever get's reinstated) because of their value to society is much greater than men's are.

Men are cheap and disposable. Women, not so much.

There is no reason in this day an age to not have women included.

If we all of a sudden have a severe population decrease or serious infertility problems maybe that would need to be reevaluated.