Recent content by spat

"Honey, someone's breaking in, call 811". --- "Don't you mean 911 ?" "No, 811, I'm going to need to dig a hole...."

Ukraine wouldn't have to go the super resource intensive uranium route that Iran does. They have the type of research reactors that can produce weapons grade plutonium right now. Iran has not (and will not) be allowed to build them. Commercial power reactors generally can't produce weapons...

The census only counts residents. People who are just in the US temporarily, like tourists aren't counted. So it makes perfect sense not to count people who are about to be deported....

All of that stuff is local. No such thing as "friendly" or "unfriendly" states, just counties. You're better off in a friendly county in NY than an unfriendly one in TX or FL. And that's how you know you don't have a real justice system. When it matters more who is prosecuting than it does...

What we need is to drastically reduce their jurisdiction. Federal law enforcement's jurisdiction should be *only* government employees and foreign threats. They should be going after corrupt state and federal actors, and things like international terrorism. Any crimes committed by private...

It's because of the secrecy. By their nature, those agencies need to operate in secret. That makes proper oversight *very* difficult. And then the claims of "national security" are more often used to cover up embarrassment, corruption, or incompetence than they are actual national secrets...

Can't be residents if they're not legal. Tourists don't get counted in the census.

For low ranking enlisted, they're probably right about the risk. I've known plenty of those guys, and they'll get in trouble with basically anything. Officers at least should have a sidearm as part of their uniform IMHO. Higher rank enlisted should probably be allowed to carry personal...

We need an intelligence agency. We do not need that one. It's beyond reform. Needs to be burned to the ground and a brand new one built from scratch. Maybe some low level agents can be retained, but nobody in management higher than a 1st level supervisor.

Yes. They may occasionally do some good work in America's best interests, but it's absolutely overshadowed by the danger they present to America.

I feel like there's a lot of redundancy in that name. "NY City department of education" is basically just 3 different ways of saying "corrupt". Might as well have called it the cheating corrupt grifters. Or just "corruption corruption corruption".

Ukraine made most of the nuclear weapons for the Soviet union. And your attitude that Russia is the rightful successor is the problem. They may have accepted (and been granted by the other states) certain economic obligations and and assets, but that doesn't make them the legal successor...

Ukraine has sufficient technical and industrial ability, they could probably develop their own nuclear weapons pretty quickly. Since basically everyone else has pulled out of the Budapest memorandum, and Ukraine *was* a nuclear power when the non-proliferation treaty was signed (and they...

Honestly, arresting the janitor would make these the most productive congressional hearings this century.