Quote from: PaulS on January 20, 2016, 01:02:25 PM

Trillion Becky, it's trillion.

fixed.  Still wondering how it freaking doesn't seem to bother anyone in charge.

OPM.  ironically, OPM spelled out loud is very similar to opium.  Very very addictive.

who cares?

They both fly and that is the important thing.

What the State Department considers classified is considerably different than what the Defense Department considers classified.  Given the polarization of the whole thing I really sit on the fence.  That said, the scandal is old news and doesn't seem to have slowed Clinton down one iota.

and you say this based on your extensive experience with State Departement and DoD SCGs, right?

and why am I not surpised that you don't care about hillary's illegal activities.

ACA allows only a small segment of Americans to have a catastrophic plan.  Logically, catastrophic plans make the most sense.  The idea of insurance is to save you from financial catastrophe.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/obamacare-coverage-flies-under-radar-099635

Why ACA took that option away, I don't know.  It's no longer an option for us, should we lose our current insurance; we don't fall in the teeny demographic of people ACA allows to have it.

ACA is a nightmare unfolding.  Where it leads, we have speculated here; certainly, it is presently another toxic and dysfunctional Obama legacy that is gazed upon lovingly by the Unicorn contingent. 

What will wake them up?

nothing.  Each and everyone is a skxawng.

Quote from: LevelWing on January 11, 2016, 08:37:29 PM

Iran would do it to as a means to strike the west. The Iranians can probably disguise it well enough to not trace it back to them, or at least to the point to be able to deny it. I don't think North Korea is in this for growth, unless it's the South. Iran wants to expand their influence. Iran selling the technology, even a degraded version of it, achieves their strategy of growing their influence and striking at the evil west.

How does "striking the west" covertly serve their interest in any way?? I'm at a loss here. If nobody knows they are at the heart of this attack, how does it help? If everybody knows they are the source of the attack, how does it help?

Who are they going to sell this tech to?? They don't have loads of friends and anybody in the region would likely want to use this tech against them. If some Palestinian group were to somehow find a way to get a nuke to Israel, everybody would know where it came from. Tehran would be radioactive and uninhabitable the next day.

Iran and North Korea want nukes to keep people out of their countries and be regarded as big shots in their neighborhoods. That's all there really is to it.

I think you are assuming that the leaders of Iran and North Korea are rational and have some of the same values you have.  I'm not particularly interested in assuming that your view of their motives is correct.

Turn it around a bit - consider your view of the US invading Iraq.  How did that serve the US interests?  And yet, it happened, didn't it.

A NK supported nuke attack on the US or Israel could serve their interest by weakening an enemy.  Even if it wasn't known that NK was involved, it would still weaken an enemy.

.snipperoo...
Again I say that none of you would sling this trash in person. Hide behind your keyboards.

You've been here for how long and have decided to characterize the entire zone so quickly?

you are exhibiting characteristics of a troll.

Having spent 35 years with a "single-payer" system, I strongly advise against it.

oh but the the really smart people inside the beltway will be able to do it much much much better.

Anyone want to bet their life on that?

I think you are missing the point.