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[chasfh]

By the way: Happy Labor Day, everybody.

You know what I mean.

[Tiger337]

I am seeing a lot of speculation about a flat 1660 or 2000 monthly SS benefit fo all.  This would be a big loss for me, but I would honestly accept it to help less fortunate people except for one big condition.  It is being done to fund trillions of dollars of tax cuts to wealthy people and corporations.  So, **** that!  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-flat-1-660-monthly-social-security-benefit-for-everyone-its-one-proposed-cbo-remedy-fae3378c?mod=home_lead

Edited May 2 by Tiger337

[CMRivdogs]

8 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I am seeing a lot of speculation about a flat 1660 or 2000 monthly SS benefit fo all.  This would be a big loss for me, but I would honestly accept it to help less fortunate people except for one big condition.  It is being done to fund trillions of dollars of tax cuts to wealthy people and corporations.  So, **** that!  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-flat-1-660-monthly-social-security-benefit-for-everyone-its-one-proposed-cbo-remedy-fae3378c?mod=home_lead

Somebody needs to propose that Congressional and Cabinet salaries be tied to Social Security. 
These critters have enough under the table sponsors to live on 1660 a month

[Deleterious]

Some captain is getting demoted.

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Some captain is getting demoted.

 

Bad weather, bad deck crew, bad flyer?

Called it an 'arrestment failure'. I suppose that could mean that something broke - if he just missed he should have been able to get airborne again but if he caught and then something broke, maybe he'd lost too much velo.

 

Edited Wednesday at 03:14 AM by gehringer_2

[oblong]

From a movie group I belong to. 
 

 

[Deleterious]

OK maybe I was quick with the blame.  But man, this carrier group is having a hell of a time.

Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier

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The Truman aircraft carrier in particular, though, has been plagued with problems as part of its Red Sea deployment. In December, another F/A-18 fighter jet was operating from the Truman when it was “mistakenly fired” upon by the USS Gettysburg and crashed into the Red Sea. Both aviators ejected safely at the time.

Then, in February, the Truman was involved in a collision with a merchant ship near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. Following the incident, the commander of the Truman at the time, Captain Dave Snowden, was relieved of duty. Captain Christopher Hill took command of the carrier shortly thereafter.

 

[gehringer_2]

31 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

OK maybe I was quick with the blame.  But man, this carrier group is having a hell of a time.

Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier

 

even if it was equipment failure, on a carrier that is still probably someone's fault. The carrier groups are all stretched too thin, spend too much time on station. We are trying to be a 7 ocean navy with a 5 ocean fleet.

Edited Wednesday at 04:28 AM by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Some captain is getting demoted.

 

Maybe he’ll be busted to UN delegate.

[CMRivdogs]

I don't know whether anyone has been following this farse. How much NC taxpayer money had the GOP wasted here?

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

There is no accountability for police in America. They can do and act as they please, including beating a man to death on camera. 

 

[smr-nj]

16 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

There is no accountability for police in America. They can do and act as they please, including beating a man to death on camera. 

 

Like other instances, even with visible proof, there are no consequences. No justice.

What an awful verdict

[chasfh]

People will point to this as evidence that America and the police can’t possibly be racist, since these officers were black like the victim. But when it comes to the police, there is no black and no white. There’s only blue, and that makes cops a different breed altogether, one that transcends race.

[CMRivdogs]

The Ono move has been discussed in the College Football thread. Instead of it getting more political (but isn't everything political these days) I'll put this here.

 

[pfife]

I bet he had to do that to get that job.  total downgrade for him

[romad1]

6 hours ago, pfife said:

I bet he had to do that to get that job.  total downgrade for him

University of Florida is working on the "Old Time Religion,Weather Prediction Center For Knowing When God Loves You or for When God is Testing You"

[romad1]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

University of Florida is working on the "Old Time Religion,Weather Prediction Center For Knowing When God Loves You or for When God is Testing You"

Craig Ross on the MGOBLOG roundtable is roasting Ono for going to a "bookburning state" to go to a compromised university and failing to defend academic integrity going out the door. 

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

Craig Ross on the MGOBLOG roundtable is roasting Ono for going to a "bookburning state" to go to a compromised university and failing to defend academic integrity going out the door. 

there is really only one interesting question here - did he quit or did he get fired?  Everyone's interpretation of the event is either true or false depending on the answer to that question.

[romad1]

15 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

there is really only one interesting question here - did he quit or did he get fired?  Everyone's interpretation of the event is either true or false depending on the answer to that question.

He wasn't given only the option of going to Desantis U.  

[pfife]

I think he was pushed 

[romad1]

1 hour ago, pfife said:

I think he was pushed 

We have a Chancellor!  a University of Mom and Dad guy!

aka Fairlane University

aka Dearborn University of Michigan

aka Henry Ford University

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2025/05/08/university-of-michigan-interim-president-domenico-grasso/83511277007/

edit: all with love as a UM-Dearborn grad

Edited 20 hours ago by romad1

[gehringer_2]

Mary Sue not up for another interim. Provost apparently not in line for the job ....or  maybe is.

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Mary Sue not up for another interim. Provost apparently not in line for the job ....or  maybe is.

Grasso has spent my donations decently or so I assume.

[Tiger337]

 

So, the GOP wants to increase taxes on the rich and Trump supports it?  I wasn't expecting that.  What is their angle here?  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-plan-to-increase-tax-on-rich-could-hit-most-u-s-businesses-b829753d?mod=home_ln

[chasfh]

16 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

 

So, the GOP wants to increase taxes on the rich and Trump supports it?  I wasn't expecting that.  What is their angle here?  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-plan-to-increase-tax-on-rich-could-hit-most-u-s-businesses-b829753d?mod=home_ln

Off the top of my head, I'd guess the angle is to apply the new law selectively to punish wealthy people they don't like while giving a pass to wealthy people they do like.