You’ve got it. Photons exerting momentum - good ol’ particle wave duality.

BS anyone with a mic and camera was shouting about how awful Trump is. It didn’t work. When faced with 4-8 more years of status quo or a wild card, America rolled the dice.

It is also the ideological purity tests: If you don’t want free health care, want free abortions, want open immigration, oppose organized religion, actively support gay marriage, or want your son to grow up to be a man, then you can’t be on our team. The R’s are more than happy to take our leavings while also cobbling…

When your political party is in the minority, if you don’t play team ball, you don’t play at all. Look at the DeVos nomination. The R’s have enough clout to steamroll anything through. D’s don’t even have the power of opposition right now. Those 48 seats may as well be empty for the next 2 years for all the good it…

As long as you keep telling people that they are “voting against their interests” you will remain ignorant to the reasons why liberalism is losing. Liberalism is losing because the benefits of globalism are going to urban centers and the advocates and verbiage of intersectionalism/ feminism/secularity are hostile to…

Still better than being dead.

Yeah, the spotters failed this one. The good news is that Jeep hoods are pretty cheap and very easy to change.

If the insurance companies find it cost effective and in their best interests, your plan should offer BC with no out-of-pocket expenses regardless of what the law says.

I don’t claim to have the answers. That was pretty much the point of my post: that until we know more, assigning blame isn’t possible yet. I appreciate your civility and thoughtful dialog on this forum.

Agree. Ultimate responsibility lies with the Commander-in-Chief. Those dead bodies are his. I hope he carries the weight of them for the next four years and beyond. I merely dispute the assertion that this raid was a calamity because of Trump’s involvement. Trump needs to take this as a lesson on what questions to ask…

It matters why Obama denied permission. The sources I have read (NYT, NPR, WaPo) state that the military wanted a new moon, which necessitated waiting until after the inauguration. Do you have something different?

The man only knows what he has been told. If everyone paints a rosy picture or gives him incomplete facts or analysis, he isn’t going to have everything he needs to make a good decision. Learning which questions to ask also takes experience.

I am no fan of Trump or US presence in Yemen. I just believe that blaming…

Evidence points to the raid being specifically authorized by POTUS. What I have read indicates that during the planning of the raid, the Seal team wanted to do the raid during a new moon, which required them to wait until after January 20th. As pointed out by others, it didn’t matter which rube was sitting in the…

Correction noted - UAE Forces. The more reports I have read, the more certain it appears that Trump authorized the raid. I still would place the bulk of any blame on the military commanders. Trump’s knowledge of the military and military-intelligence is such that he has to go along with whatever his advisers say.

There are laws and protections against wrongful termination - especially in the Federal Government for military and civil service employees. Political appointees do not have those same protections. Further, any good officer got to where they are by telling his/her boss the truth. I know my job isn’t worth killing…

That last quote is what has me shaking my head the most. The military chain of command would plan the op, brief the op of the chain of command, then request permission to execute. The only time you really need POTUS involvement is when you are about to start some shit: begin an offensive, cross national boundaries, do…

I am very curious here. Trump and the National Security Team do not plan raids. This was done by Naval Special Warfare Group with approval from CENTCOM. Anyone in the long chain from the LTjg up to the 4 star could have stopped this raid if they felt it was going sideways before they hit the ground. That the Op went…

You’ve hit the nail on the head with Milo’s fanbase. These are are usually upper middle class white men who are socially awkward. One one side, we have site like Jez telling them that they are oh-so-privileged while on another side Breitbart tells them that there is nothing wrong with them; it is the feminazi left…

So, free-speech catch-22? The right answer is for privileged college kids to not go starting fights and setting shit on fire. You know, be adults. Campus groups should be able to keep their autonomy. I don’t care if they book the KKK, black panther party, or the Islamic States favorite Imam. Respect for free speech…

Thank you for saying this. Without the protest and crowds, Yiannopolous would just be a fringe anti-SJW figure. These protest have made him a mainstream figure. As you pointed out, Milo’s worldview is that the political left suppress speech and thought (PC newspeak and shaming for micro-aggressions) because they know…