Random Politics & Religion #00

I love the smell of P&R in the morning

Do you really want to tell the soldiers that due to your political ideals, instead of guns they are given bows and arrows, and instead of body armor, they are given pink ballerina dresses?

Defense budgeting is a hard thing to decrease because there are a lot of money going towards the training and survival of our soldiers, who, because of inept presidents in the past and present, created a "US World Police" mentality that we have to oblige with.

So the White House only cares about closing Gitmo when they no longer have majority power in Congress? That's convenient.

Hey, anything to make Republicans look bad. Remember, even though ACA passed with zero Republican votes, it's a Republican championed and conceived plan.

Don't bang the patriotism drum with me.

There is so much waste in military spending it's nearly inconceivable. Projects being funded that have gone nowhere. Programs being funded that the Pentagon has advised shouldn't be, but for some reasons politicians think they know better and keep finding them. So many examples like this.

All of this could be fixed, spending cut, and our soldiers would be just as well, if not better, supplied. Cut these ***programs and you could cut spending and STILL get more for them.

It's as much about corruption and pork barreling from BOTH parties as anything else.

Edit: For instance, from FOX, of all places!

Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists

Everything. All of it.

Fiscally responsible my ***.

Demand that for every government agency there is, and not just the Department of the Defense.

I'm not going to deny that there is waste in the DoD, in fact, I can probably point at more waste than you can shake a stick at.

But until we all start demanding spending cuts in all departments and not just the ones we don't like, then you will not hear much argument on me against the level of spending by the DoD. Except for the wasteful spending.

oh ***looks like the jurors have reached a decision in the marathon bombing case.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/14/boston-marathon-bombing-sentence/27336839/

Except what I'm talking about IS wasteful spending...

More to the point, we should be discussing what constitutes "wasteful".

For the record, when it comes to the IRS and the EITCs, I'm with you.

Solitary confinement for life, condemned to watching EWTN 18 hours a day.

I'd compromise if he was locked in a box with a TV that played OPRAH reruns over and over.

Hang him!

Oprah is fine too.

EWTN -- If you weren't clear.


**AKA: The Eyepatch Nun.

But she doesn't do this:

Wasteful spending examples:

Creating a training video that doesn't teach anything but instead spoofs "Star Trek"

Flying people to conferences regarding either GAAP seminars or GAAP related continuing professional education courses.

Paying $60k per conference for agents to neither attend nor speak at.

Creating a flagging system where addresses used for certain refundable credits are mailed to, but do not use said system.

Spending $60 billion in bonuses for federal top-level employees but closing down help centers and call centers for the public

Implementing a system where publicly traded companies file with the SEC but still requires the SEC filings to be handed to agents upon request (even though this information is public knowledge and the agents already are supposed to have reviewed such documents prior to any investigations).

Auditing high-income taxpayers and receiving less per audit than spent. In most cases these audits are done without any significant reason or question regarding why these audits are happening in the first place

Creating call centers and not man them.

These help some? This is all coming from only one agency, not even a full department.

Again, I'm on board with everything here.

I'm on board of cutting spending on certain items for the DoD too.

I've done that before. It's a good technique.

That was an entertaining back read ^^

Don't spoil it, I'm still reading.

Ok, So I'm not seeing the connection between the engineer's sexual orientation and his speeding up the train, except for 'risky behaviors.'

I'm still going with the projectile theory.

Not disputing anything?

Out of everyone who pretends to know it all, you certainly on top of the list. So, instead, you make little jibes and not really argue against anything.

What was the point in you posting again?

Nobody but crazy people are making the connection between the engineer's sexual orientation and his speeding up the train.

I'm still waiting for a good YouTube conspiracy video to pop up on it, but of all the ways they could have gone, I didn't consider sexual orientation as one of them.

Look, maybe it makes me a stereotyping son of a ***, but all I'm saying is that if you you say the words "gay train", this is NOT the mental picture I had in mind.

Our conspiracy nut is still taking a month vacation.

He still has 3 weeks left until his prison term is up. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Turns out it's srsly srs.

Death!
Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death

Thanks for giving a *** martyr what he wants. Front row tickets to go see Allah play in concert.

He never plays "Freebird" anymore, so I wouldn't get too upset.