Recent content by gloom111

I would have to agree that throwing a $10,000 part over the side of a ship is a waste, any idea why it was done? At the same time, not excusing such waste as you witnessed with your own eyes, I think number 4 below might be a slightly bigger problem with our naval services. Federal...

I suggested putting the support in place prior to an incident. If it was already in the embassy, I would imagine it might have a chance to arrive on time. I'm pretty sure that running away from terrorists hasn't helped much. Sure, they've only destroyed one building and killed about 3000 people...

LOL, if you can't defend your ignorance, find someone more qualified that made a statement equally as ignorant. As for waste in the DoD, I said it is easy to criticize it when you aren't required to come up with a better alternative. I didn't ever say their wasn't waste in the DoD, especially...

Who did Fox threaten and when? This is an irrelevant argument anyway. It's there club, they can invite who they want as their guests to their party. Flip it around an ask yourself if you want the GOP dictating the policy for the Democrats? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get over yourselves and...

I wouldn't want CNN or any other agency to once again influence a debate with factually incorrect information. I wouldn't want ANY debate moderator to make ANY candidate look like a dumbass regardless of whether the information is factual or not. That isn't their job. It's a bad precedent, and...

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.” — Then-Sen. Barack...

Yes, with increased security, increased cooperation with the host nation, and response teams on standby. No, what happened was that they ignored the last one after cutting the security detail the month before. No one suggested that we ignore the threat, simply that we respond to it in a manner...

Not possible, and not feasible. Outside of that, CNN was one of the networks that refused to have press conferences at the White House when they decided to refuse Fox News entrance. What the GOP does at their convention is one thing, to try to interfere with CNN being at the debates is a...

Read the rest of the post. But for the sake of argument, how do you think these networks will portray Hillary Rodham Clinton?

Not a fan, though for what it's worth, Oreilly claims to be non-partisan. I've seen more people getting cut off on ABC and NBC by political talk show hosts than I have on Fox. I won't argue that the talk show hosts on Fox don't cut in when someone who is supposedly being interviewed goes into a...

I've always found the difference between the left and the right to be that the right generally listen to your arguments before rejecting them, and the left will interrupt you in the middle of your argument and start screaming at you for being so stupid. The difference is that the left still...

SNAP... Well, I guess that answers that question

Raise the debt limit how far? When do you stop? It's easy to criticize how almost every government agency in the country is budgeted when you aren't obligated to propose an alternative method that will limit waste more than the current system does, and by the way, I'm not working for the...

We do have our own security forces. There is no reason we shouldn't be able to increase our security, and work with the host nations to ensure we are ready and capable of defending our embassies. In the event that a host nation is uncooperative, fine, close the embassy, pull any aid, and leave...

More than likely the security threat is real, but the reaction is overblown. It's also a very non-confrontational approach to the problem. It looks like...no, we are running away from the threat, whatever it is. I can understand many of these closings, but Bahrain? Bahrain is the home of the...