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That's referencing the Scalia judgement I mentioned earlier. We don't seem to hear much about the actual wording of that judgement in the US discourse (or screaming match...) about gun control. I think the anti-gunners see Heller VS DC as a defeat for them (and best forgotten about), while the...

Unfortunately, this is the frightening challenge that all people in an organization face when they know something wrong is going on. It gets much worse in organizations like the military, the police or the fire service where the positive ideals of shared danger, service before self and "I've got...

Exactly. This is a symptom of the widening gap. "You are either fer us er agin us!!". This binary view is very simple and feels very good. It is also easy to communicate to a mob or by a Tweet. What I want, and I hope we all want, is to be able to think about what we support and what we don't...

Jarnhamar: Not really a rant. You raise many good points. Outstanding amongst them is the sense that if you are a conservative person (I'm not sure that is automatically the same as "right wing"), then you are being backed into a corner and denied a free and level playing field. The "left wing"...

Yes. Equally true, and equally useless in reaching the point of intelligent discussion of anything: gun control, immigration, health care, taxation, the environment, etc.  The "debate" rapidly ceases to be about the issue at hand and becomes a bumper-sticker flame war.

Jarnhamar made a good point about a distinction between a fitness test and other strenuous physical activities: it leads to a question. If you must be able to carry your full load during a BFT, or you aren't meeting the standard required for real operations, then why might it be acceptable...

A month? Really? It doesn't seem worth the candle. By the time you get them sorted out it will be time to release them. No wonder the French Army isn't happy. There doesn't seem to be anything in it for the huge investment of NCOs and officers this will require, all of whom could be better spent...

Heyyyyyy...where can you get one of those?

I agree with Altair here: leaving soldiers behind is not good leadership, in my opinion. Apparently, neither is leaving Marines: Going through Inf School, I remember more than once that we carried the rifles and packs of exhausted course mates, after a few days of stumbling through the swamps...

I agree with that. It sounds like a swamp that could employ bureaucrats and Royal Commissions from now until...until....until the Ontario Tories sort out their act.

What? Really? CNN is a business run for profit. It is part of corporate America, run by people who want to make lots of money. Like all MSM, they perform a useful purpose by counterbalancing the shrieking from the two outer wings of the political spectrum, (which immediately PO's those to the...

My impression from coverage so far is not that this is a major problem in government jobs (where pay rates tend to be set by various regulations and are thus usually more transparent, and unions are almost always involved), but more in private businesses that are not so tightly regulated and...

Was Harper voted in by "sheeple"?

[cheers] From the Other English Speaking Regiment....

Oh, good. Just what we need.

If the Army was a business, it would be out of business...

Or frying eggs....

I was asked a few posts back about what I meant by :"reasonable restrictions" on firearms ownership. After a bit of digging, I found something interesting: the October 2008 decision by the US Supreme Court which struck down the District of Columbia's attempt to restrict firearms ownership. The...

I agree that there are people who will trash The Younger no matter what he does or says. They may hate the idea of a Liberal Govt, or of another Trudeau in office, or God knows what. They are thoroughly PO'd, and bit prone to ranting. But, that should not be allowed to overshadow the concerns...

" Specs for the ants..." I think he means Meyer was designing eyeglasses for his parent's female siblings. You gotta do something to pass the time when you're a bored Nazi war criminal, right?