TigerNutwhack

There's a lot of garbage in the genre, but some true gems such as DCC and Iron Prince. It's also got a lot of decent "junk food" that are just easy listens on long trips.

My first thought was the No Man's Land scene in Wonder Woman. Mediocre super hero movie but that scene made me feel something the first and only time I watched it.

I just went to watch it again after this thread and it's really not anything special by itself.

Another candidate that always comes to mind is the first Truck scene in Jeepers Creepers (and really the first 30 minutes of the movie).

They are a fringe but loud group. If you want to destabilize another country, you get these groups under your thumb by funding them and pointing them towards the establishment. They are loud and divisive and create chaos, and chaos is a ladder.

Am I missing something? Katrina hit in 2005 and Jindal wasn't governor until 2008.

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NIH, this is why it's important to post the actual perspective.

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Sorry buddy, I think you're the one who lacks perspective here. You claim to be for spending cuts, but when waste and fraud is found you down play it as a "rounding error". It won't, by itself, solve our budget issues. But you've got to build a baseline of what is actually necessary spending before you can really do that. You want to know how you get people on board with actually balancing the budget, whether through taxes, cuts, or both? You restore trust in the institutions that are utilizing those tax dollars. And to do that, you have to cut as much waste and fraud as possible and make it as loud and transparent as possible.

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Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world

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Where does that say no spending cuts? Where does it say they don't want to find waste fraud and abuse within the defense budget?

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Fight for and protect social security and medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age

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Where does that say they don't want to find waste fraud and abuse within SS and Medicare?

Like I said, no one is saying stop at the $40 billion. But like another poster said, we're not going to find a $3 Trillion dollar bill laying around either. We've got to eat this elephant one bite at a time.

Anyone sporting the Hammer and Sickle has no moral high ground on Nazi's. They're both representations of sub-human level scum.

As easy as it is to believe that there were nefarious forces at work that day other than the lone gunman, this does look like it was written by a loony toon.

I can't say I'd be completely surprised if it turned out to be true, but it certainly doesn't look very credible at first glance.

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Good. An unelected oligarch should not be allowed to do what he is doing.

If Kamala was doing this same stuff, this board would go ape shite sperging out.

Elon is an enemy of the state and MAGA is speed running the decline of the US.

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What, exactly, is he "doing"?

So un-named sources are all you have to go on for him having "write" access. That's not much, but let's say they just gave him admin privilege because it was expedient.

I don't know how this particular government software's pipeline is set up, but if it's even remotely modern there's source control, review processes, and whole pipelines of builds set up for code changes to get from a developer (even with admin privilege) to a release candidate. So not only would any changes have to go through a gated process, but any changes by the individual would be directly tied to him, forever enshrined in the source control system. You can't just slip something in.


This entire kerfuffle about "write" access is just dem fear mongering, hoping to create enough emotional push back to give them time to better hide their grift.

I don't think it's accurate to compare Cartel members to Islamic terrorist groups. Both have very different motivations and core beliefs. Where an Islamic terrorist may be willing to suffer and die for their ideology belief to the very end, would a cartel member be willing to do the same when he sees the walls crumbling around him? Are his motivations strong enough to stay the course?

It's certainly fun fantasizing about the US military wiping out these cartels, but practically it would probably get very ugly and I don't think we as a people are willing to pay the human cost it would take to dig them out. Especially considering we are basically the reason they exist.