It was not a theoretical question: Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret “nominations†process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.
Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list,†poring over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre “baseball cards†of an unconventional war. When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises — but his family is with him — it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation.
“He is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go,†said Thomas E. Donilon, his national security adviser. “His view is that he’s responsible for the position of the United States in the world.†He added, “He’s determined to keep the tether pretty short.â€
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Mornin' all & Happy Fridee
Last night on NBC News they had this segment on the proliferation of bank fees. Included in it was a literally 5-second long un-refuted sound clip of this guy, appropriately named Dick Hunt, saying that the increase in number and amount of bank fees was a result of overregulation.
ABSOULTE BULLSHIT - Regulations on the banking and financial industries are currently at an EXTREMELY low level. Dodd-Frank put some safeguards back into place after the 2008 economic collapse and allowed for the promise of other increases in oversight (depending on the federal budget and other further acts of Congress that are being stonewalled by the GOP). Even then, regulation is at its LOWEST LEVEL since Glass-Stegall was repealed in 1998.
And those fees? I don't EVER remember ridiculous fees for BASIC JOB DUTIES such as counting coins, or services such as using a human teller, receiving a printed & mailed bank statement, and so on. And this goes way back to the 80s, before the S&L scandal when regulations were still fairly tight.
The simple truth is that these fees are a result of CORPORATE GREED AND SEVERE UNDER-REGULATION. They are ripping off their customers BECAUSE THEY CAN, and they will continue to do it UNTIL THE LAW SAYS THEY CAN'T.
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
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Mornin' all & Happy Fridee
Last night on NBC News they had this segment on the proliferation of bank fees. Included in it was a literally 5-second long un-refuted sound clip of this guy, appropriately named Dick Hunt, saying that the increase in number and amount of bank fees was a result of overregulation.
ABSOULTE BULLSHIT - Regulations on the banking and financial industries are currently at an EXTREMELY low level. Dodd-Frank put some safeguards back into place after the 2008 economic collapse and allowed for the promise of other increases in oversight (depending on the federal budget and other further acts of Congress that are being stonewalled by the GOP). Even then, regulation is at its LOWEST LEVEL since Glass-Stegall was repealed in 1998.
And those fees? I don't EVER remember ridiculous fees for BASIC JOB DUTIES such as counting coins, or services such as using a human teller, receiving a printed & mailed bank statement, and so on. And this goes way back to the 80s, before the S&L scandal when regulations were still fairly tight.
The simple truth is that these fees are a result of CORPORATE GREED AND SEVERE UNDER-REGULATION. They are ripping off their customers BECAUSE THEY CAN, and they will continue to do it UNTIL THE LAW SAYS THEY CAN'T.
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Mornin' all & Happy Fridee
Last night on NBC News they had this segment on the proliferation of bank fees. Included in it was a literally 5-second long un-refuted sound clip of this guy, appropriately named Dick Hunt, saying that the increase in number and amount of bank fees was a result of overregulation.
ABSOULTE BULLSHIT - Regulations on the banking and financial industries are currently at an EXTREMELY low level. Dodd-Frank put some safeguards back into place after the 2008 economic collapse and allowed for the promise of other increases in oversight (depending on the federal budget and other further acts of Congress that are being stonewalled by the GOP). Even then, regulation is at its LOWEST LEVEL since Glass-Stegall was repealed in 1998.
And those fees? I don't EVER remember ridiculous fees for BASIC JOB DUTIES such as counting coins, or services such as using a human teller, receiving a printed & mailed bank statement, and so on. And this goes way back to the 80s, before the S&L scandal when regulations were still fairly tight.
The simple truth is that these fees are a result of CORPORATE GREED AND SEVERE UNDER-REGULATION. They are ripping off their customers BECAUSE THEY CAN, and they will continue to do it UNTIL THE LAW SAYS THEY CAN'T.
Last night on the way home, we were listening to the radio, and they were interviewing a fellow about all the crazy fees. EMPTY ENVELOPE FEES?) The interviewer said to the guy (it may have been the same fellow)
Why do you need a 80 pages of disclosures? to which he replied, We HATE it. Hate it. But we can't help it, it's because of all the regulations that have been placed on us. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor of the truck.
WTF?
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We should make our own most wanted deck of playing cards.. and use corporate asshats like this Dick Hunt guy and Jamie Dimon as the faces on them.
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We should make our own most wanted deck of playing cards.. and use corporate asshats like this Dick Hunt guy and Jamie Dimon as the faces on them.
there are so many asshats! Who would go on the ace of spades? I'm thinking Jamie Dimon. Why does he still have a job?
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We should make our own most wanted deck of playing cards.. and use corporate asshats like this Dick Hunt guy and Jamie Dimon as the faces on them.
there are so many asshats! Who would go on the ace of spades? I'm thinking Jamie Dimon. Why does he still have a job?
Donald Trump could be the joker
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
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We should make our own most wanted deck of playing cards.. and use corporate asshats like this Dick Hunt guy and Jamie Dimon as the faces on them.
there are so many asshats! Who would go on the ace of spades? I'm thinking Jamie Dimon. Why does he still have a job?
Donald Trump could be the joker
PERFECT
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
There is the retaliation option. This does require a home theater system with a subwoofer. Turns the volume of the subwoofer to 11 and put on a movie that has lots of sploshuns! Just sayin....
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
No, no it isn't. Had to go over there. Think the teen is home on her own, she wouldn't answer the door so I had to say something just standing on the stoop. Thankfully she heard me and turned it down. It was starting to drowned out my own tv, which we don't keep very loud
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
There is the retaliation option. This does require a home theater system with a subwoofer. Turns the volume of the subwoofer to 11 and put on a movie that has lots of sploshuns! Just sayin....
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
No, no it isn't. Had to go over there. Think the teen is home on her own, she wouldn't answer the door so I had to say something just standing on the stoop. Thankfully she heard me and turned it down. It was starting to drowned out my own tv, which we don't keep very loud
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
There is the retaliation option. This does require a home theater system with a subwoofer. Turns the volume of the subwoofer to 11 and put on a movie that has lots of sploshuns! Just sayin....
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
No, no it isn't. Had to go over there. Think the teen is home on her own, she wouldn't answer the door so I had to say something just standing on the stoop. Thankfully she heard me and turned it down. It was starting to drowned out my own tv, which we don't keep very loud
lol - I think its cheaper just to ask the teen to turn it down. She's a good kid, if not a little snotty at times (but that's pretty normal for a teen girl) no need to re-arrange my living room to blast them out
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
There is the retaliation option. This does require a home theater system with a subwoofer. Turns the volume of the subwoofer to 11 and put on a movie that has lots of sploshuns! Just sayin....
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
No, no it isn't. Had to go over there. Think the teen is home on her own, she wouldn't answer the door so I had to say something just standing on the stoop. Thankfully she heard me and turned it down. It was starting to drowned out my own tv, which we don't keep very loud
lol - I think its cheaper just to ask the teen to turn it down. She's a good kid, if not a little snotty at times (but that's pretty normal for a teen girl) no need to re-arrange my living room to blast them out
I didn't say revenge was easy, did I?
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So The Daily Caller has reporters that like to yell at POTUS HUH?
Neil Munro -- that is the dudes name...
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Morning
okay so if I did own a gun, I would be shooting my neighbors tv through the wall - ugh I hate that low droning sound the I'm forced to put up with daily
There is the retaliation option. This does require a home theater system with a subwoofer. Turns the volume of the subwoofer to 11 and put on a movie that has lots of sploshuns! Just sayin....
Since you share a wall, fire bombing isn't a good solution.
No, no it isn't. Had to go over there. Think the teen is home on her own, she wouldn't answer the door so I had to say something just standing on the stoop. Thankfully she heard me and turned it down. It was starting to drowned out my own tv, which we don't keep very loud
lol - I think its cheaper just to ask the teen to turn it down. She's a good kid, if not a little snotty at times (but that's pretty normal for a teen girl) no need to re-arrange my living room to blast them out
I didn't say revenge was easy, did I?
or cheap
though it is a dish best served cold
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So The Daily Caller has reporters that like to yell at POTUS HUH?
Neil Munro -- that is the dudes name...
??
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damnit Mondo now I wants some fried chicken!
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damnit Mondo now I wants some fried chicken!
Sorry man.
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damnit Mondo now I wants some fried chicken!
Sorry man.
S'alrite.. I'm headed in the general direction of Popeye's later today
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damnit Mondo now I wants some fried chicken!
Sorry man.
S'alrite.. I'm headed in the general direction of Popeye's later today
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AND from what I am now2 understanding -- I don;t think it even a presser. I think it was a statement
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AND from what I am now2 understanding -- I don;t think it even a presser. I think it was a statement
Here is perfect example full of black rage POTUS really is! But I bet it becomes a real RWNJ talking point.
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AND from what I am now2 understanding -- I don;t think it even a presser. I think it was a statement
Here is perfect example full of black rage POTUS really is! But I bet it becomes a real RWNJ talking point.
It will be about the president being disrespectful of the press...
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Hey Tri (wherever you are)!! You headed down to the Air Show at Quonset this weekend?