Random Politics & Religion #01

Hello darkness my old friend

For something like this I have no problem with. I do however have a problem when collecting welfare is turned into a career and passed down to your children. Before people say this doesn't happen I call *** I see it all the time in the medical field. Parent A: I have NY Medicaid..4-5 years later child a pops out a kid at 16 and boom I now have medicaid and food stamps for life now too.

How exactly does the store know that the groceries are for someone else? I'm sure it's their fault, just like gun stores are at fault for gun crime.. But how?

Doubtful -170°F would be a likely scenario for either of them.

A terrorist was arrested in France and they found

1.3 kilograms of dynamite, thousands of steel balls and 105 gram of the same type of explosive used in the attacks in Brussels.
5 AKs, one assault rifle made in Croatia, seven pistols and a lot of ammunition.

Liters of different chemicals that can be used to create bombs, such as hydrogen peroxide, acetone, glycerine and electrical components for making blasting caps.

5 stolen French passports.

7 new phones and 2 coputers. The computers had information about different jihadist groups and several documents on how to make bombs.

Sounds like rampant paranoia going on in France.

Sounds like rampant paranoia going on in France.

Washington (CNN)The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Defense spent more than $86 million on an aircraft for counter narcotics efforts in Afghanistan that has "never actually flown in Afghanistan," according to a Department of Justice inspector general report.
The aircraft, an ATR 42-500, was purchased for a program called "Global Discovery." Over the last seven years, it was outfitted with surveillance equipment and modified to conduct operations in a combat zone, which cost the Pentagon four times the anticipated $22 million. And of as March, the aircraft was inoperable and resting on jacks, said the report, which was issued on Wednesday.

Though the DEA awarded a contract to purchase the aircraft at a cost $3 million more than it estimated, most of the misused funds were used in retrofitting the aircraft. For example, by October 2014, more than $65 million was spent on the aircraft's modifications. But those modifications required that an additional $6 million more be spent to repair damages that which occurred while outfitting it with surveillance and communications equipment.
Additionally, the report found that almost $2 million was spent to modify a hangar for the aircraft, also known as ATR 500, but the aircraft was never housed there, nor will it, as the DEA ceased aviation operations from Afghanistan in July 2015.
Flight logs revealed that only 14% of the missions flown by the DEA in Afghanistan between October 2011 and February 2015 were for reconnaissance, surveillance or intelligence, according to the inspector general. The rest of the flight missions were for "transporting personnel and equipment."
This led to more than 1,000 mission requests for the DEA going unfulfilled and to pick up the slack, the State Department flew more than 1,200 missions to support DEA aviation operations.
In response to the report, the DEA released a statement saying "reviews by the Office of the Inspector General are necessary and important, and DEA welcomes recommendations that make us better. DEA agrees that it can and should provide better oversight of its operational funding. We are reviewing policies and procedures to ensure the limited resources allocated to DEA are utilized in the most responsible and effective way possible."
The audit that led to the findings was prompted by a whistleblower complaint from an anonymous source in July 2014 that claimed the DEA had "misused DOD funds by misdirecting, diverting, and spending them in areas not related to DEA's Afghanistan aviation operations."
In a letter to the inspector general, the DEA took exception with some of the findings of the audit but relented that the money could have been spent more efficiently. They cite the joint funding agreement with the DOD as to one reason why costs ran wild. "The significant difference between previous aircraft modifications and the Global Discovery program was that in the previous modifications, DEA utilized its own funding and, therefore, had the latitude to be more involved in the modification process. Based upon that previous experience, DEA had no indication that the Global Discovery modification would encounter the significant delays and problems that ultimately occurred."
Even though the Global Discovery program has missed four deadlines, has no funds, and DEA and Defense officials have concluded that all the modifications they initially requested will not be possible, "modification efforts remain on-going, and the most recent delivery date provided for an operable ATR 500 is June 2016," the report said.

When I got laid off in July 2015, I paid for whatever bills etc. while looking for a job, being turned down constantly. While doing so, I went and got food stamps and I do not regret getting them. I was at zero income and little savings left. How else was I to feed my kid, myself, and since I live in my mother's basement for the time being, my rent had to be replaced on providing food using my food stamps to cover my portion? I went through interviews left and right and no job yet. I was NOT being lazy....I tried my hardest, changed my resume around, different job fields, and even went as far as dropping my job pay from 50k year to taking almost about anything. I finally did get a job the end of December, it doesn't give me 50k like I would like BUT since I do make too much over the limit, I no longer have food stamps.

What kind of life do you think these people are living? Is it something you are jealous of because you are picturing them living the life you have, but without doing any work? It is more likely there are 3-4 generations living in a tiny apartment with not much in the way of modern conveniences. Their entire world probably consists of just a few blocks from where they live. Not like they are driving a fancy car and going on exotic vacations every month.

They have a really good reason to be, lol.

It isn't paranoia if they are finding that kind of stash.

Damn you Edit button

Let's fight....for our right......to edddddit!

In a couple days, I'll probably open the floor up to discussion about the changes; what's worked, what hasn't. I want to give it a full week at least, since it didn't explode on the launch pad.

Overall, I'm pleased with the changes, but it's still pretty early, so I'm not calculating my poultry yet.

Your post counts are all likely to shoot up too.
Ya *** nerds

Spoilers are broken by the way.