Air National Guard units operate under the good graces of the DOD. The Feds can easily pull the equipment and all the governor can do is complain about it.

Whoever is doing your contracting is lazy or incompetent. Contracts do have to be very detailed, stating what standards things must be built to. I am sure that there is a building code either local or not that will specify things like vapor barriers, the capacity of HVAC systems, et al. In the contract you can specify…

Boeing has been a military contractor for many many years, literally from almost the beginning of the company.

Your state must have poor laws, because at the Federal level they can eliminate contractors that have a proven poor track record (though that has to be documented), or they simply don’t believe have the capacity to meet demand.

IMO since it is something that is so easy to do, and so hard to catch, that the solution is on the rare occasion that it happens the punishment should be extremely harsh almost a corporate death sentence, and fraud charges if you can prove that that people did it willfully for profit.

No, it is the result of an unusual S&M sexual relationship that even the victim claimed started out consensual. The prosecutor likely decided getting a plea with no jail time was better than going to trial with a case that would be hard to explain to a jury.

As someone that dives Florida’s springs, please don’t. Last year was the year of the pink flamingo, I am really hope that this year isn’t the year of the yellow duckie. Can we mix it up a little, maybe something that isn’t a bird? How about a pig since it is the year of the pig?

As someone that dives Florida’s springs, please don’t. Last year was the year of the pink flamingo, I am really hope…

This is not even close to a Falcon 9 Heavy replacement, heck it can’t even compete with a regular F9. This is mostly for smaller programs, that still want to be the primary cargo, instead of being a secondary payload on a Falcon launch.

Got my initial license in IL—no birth certificate required.

Licensed in MI—no birth certificate required.

Licensed in KY—no birth certificate required.

Moved to OH—and they needed my birth certificate, my wife’s divorce papers from her first marriage, my old license, and a host of other documents.

That’s not normal, and…

Being involved, for a reasonable period before, with a religion that has a long history against vaccination, and often other forms of modern medicine.

I’m well aware of herd immunity, I was simply pointing out the error in your logic.

This logic doesn’t work, because if you and your children are vaccinated someone else choosing not to vaccinate doesn’t really concern you.

Not based on what I saw, Google puts his net worth at about $80 million. Which compared to the $5-10M donation required that is a lot of money.

If her parents were rich enough to just fund her lifestyle like that, they wouldn’t have needed to do the illegal bribe. They would instead donate enough money to build a new building, and the dean would use one of his discretionary slots to get them into the school. Which is perfectly legal, as those slots are…

Exactly ATL has some major issues, and the city’s fix is often to shuffle people around while claiming that it is all about race. No this is about decades of corruption, and the declining quality of the airport.

After she turns 60 she will marry Jim Olde, and become Truly Olde.

Sounds like a debtors’ prison to me.

Putting women into a movie doesn’t make it bad, the actors or actresses typically have little say with the script. It is the producers, directors, and script writers that make poor movies. Take Ghostbusters, Paul Feig doesn’t make movies with a widespread appeal and now he took that format and made a comedy without…

Must be a change due to Obamacare. I had UnitedHealthcare when I had cancer pre-ACA, UntiedHealthcare was extremely easy to deal with. They never denied a single treatment including a rare treatment for my particular form of cancer. They even dealt directly with providers that were billing me more than what they…

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