My office just made all employees exempt, eliminating overtime pay. We get steady cost-of-living increases, but they don’t keep pace with the cost of living in the area. There are no merit raises or performance reviews.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bigger collection of dipshits on broadcast television.

So, yes, it’s murder insurance. You pay them a monthly fee and they support you when you kill someone under a particular set of circumstances.

So this is murder insurance?

Global manifest destiny is accomplished with culture, not soldiers and nation-building. Meaningful change is cultural and cultural change is generational. Shit takes time.

Today’s children: “Can’t they just track her cellphone?”

I don’t like people; nor do I think I could pretend to like people.

when you spend millions of dollars to do thousands of dollars worth of damage, you’re not actually winning.

Could probably scrape by for two years in my current area—twice that if I moved somewhere cheaper—without digging into retirement savings. Could stretch that out further with freelance work and the like.

I’m done playing gear treadmills.

Was surprised to find that Trader Joe’s adds soy protein to their grilled chicken strips—I assume for the same reasons (protein = omg yay moar)

Did they ever fix the problem of the rails only being good for a couple shots before having to be replaced?

I especially liked what he said about investing in our infrastructure using both public and private capital. Suggesting that Congress give private businesses tax credits to stimulate these projects. There was a white paper authored last year argued that just $137 billion worth of tax credits could turn into $1…

Generally speaking, the Joint Chiefs don’t react to anything said during these political speeches. You’ll get a few claps when whomever is speaking calls out a servicemember, but that’s it.

Trump was clearly talking about himself and how his words were able to generate such a long ovation.

Falcons, Eagles, Ravens, Cardinals, Seahawks...not the worst strategy.

No to you and to C83nonstop - The Secret Service is an arm of the Treasury department. Their other big gig other than protection of the President is investigating and finding counterfeiters of US currency.

Trump was having dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Saturday when news broke that North Korea had launched a nuclear missile.