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The problem with the Abrams is always going to be fuel consumption.

Worn out artillery barrels if I had to guess, in addition to low ammunition stocks. Feels like German in late 1917. Just running out of gas. No wonder everyone is leaning on the German's so hard to release MBTs for re export. A break through is there for the taking.

For whatever reason, I just kept catching Casino on TBS or USA a lot back in the day. It seemed like it was always on. I've seen that shoeless cowboy get thrown out it feels like 20 times.

It’s weird, I’ve seen this movie exactly once. Probably at a dollar theater, 30 years ago. And never seen it again except the shoe shine scene a million times (kind of hard to avoid) But I’ve probably seen Casino at least 4-5 times, out of order, on cable.

Or if Jermichael Finley and Jamaal Charles had stayed one more year.

The Saints are eventually looking down the barrel of a rebuild. Yeah the division is terrible and they were close to winning more games then they lost, but that's a tallest dwarf contest if I ever saw one. Putting aside the annual cap space drama, the defense front 7 isn't getting any younger, they need to fix a couple of major holes on O-line, Kamara is beginning to show some wear on the tires. And that says nothing of the obvious QB problem they have. They'd be ecstatic if someone will sign Payton and give them a first round pick. Dennis Allen certainly isn't the answer. They were Charlie Strong dysfunctional all season. OTOH, Gayle Benson might be the least involved owner in the league.

You guys wanna tl:Dr that longcat shit?

That’s your home! Are you to good for your home?!!!!

Sober oversight of the military left the building in the late fall of 2001. Raytheon lobbyist out front shoulda told ya.

They also padded the NDAA with all sorts of authority to allow the administration to transfer weapons and order replacement equipment without having to come back to Congress.

As much as we Stan for the Abrams, the Leopard 2 makes much more sense for the Ukrainians: it’s traditional diesel, and thus much easier on the fuel supply then the Abrams, which was designed to take advantage of the many pros of the turbine engine with the assumption NATO supply lines would be shortening as Cold War era armies fell back towards the Fulda Gap. I suspect that’s the endgame with all these arms sales to Poland: allow them to transfer their Leopards to Ukraine, once the Germans sign off. I’d be shocked if the Ukrainians aren’t already being trained up now. And all of that can be done outside of a congressional authorization, since Poland is buying the Abrams.

We are too smart to do the smart thing.

My cousin went to Eastern Michigan, so this hits close to home.

My oldest son saved my younger off the the Jersey shore a couple of years ago. They are both lifeguards too. Glad it wasn’t me, I can barely swim.

Lamar Smith used up his Judiciary and Science Committee Chairmanships—>retires—->Chip Roy appears. As opposed to John Conyers, who sat on top of the Judiciary Committee one way or another, for over 20 years

The House GOP has a chair term limit rule that limits Committee Chairs to 3 terms. Most Members don’t want to go back to being a back bencher after that good committee life, so they retire. The GOP is more broadly young than the Democrats because they experience more safe district churn, allowing promising young state lawmakers to rise up to the federal level.

So, what you are calling for is what I would call a nostalgic return to “regular” order. Every Congress there is a group (usually the minority party) that decries last minute late night votes, giant kitchen sink bills, etc. But the reality is that as long as the Senate requires 60 votes for passage of most legislation ,it’s very hard to do anything in a timely, transparent manner. The nature of the process basically dictates everything is done behind closed doors at the last minute, then rammed through as the Members flee to DCA to go home. But the truth is, Regular Order is a myth. Speakers have been twisting the rules to pass legislation since the ink on the Constitution was still wet. The House mostly manages to do its appropriations and authorizations in a procedurally transparent way, because it’s a majority rule institution (although less so after KM gave away the farm). But the Senate isn’t and the House often has to take whatever deal those old bastards cut at the last minute in order to keep the lights on. I used to be anti term limits but I’m starting to warm to the idea because I hate that our governance is a gerontocracy.

Dude, I’m drunk as shit on a Friday. I’ll attack this tomorrow morning.

I do. Unequivocally. But it is not applied evenly, ever. And the GOP has and will violate this rule as it serves them purpose.

Yup. The 72 hour rule is a way of saying: “You know when you cut a deal with the Senate to keep from defaulting on the debt? We want an iron clad rule that will allow us to throw the House into disarray to prevent you from banding together with the Democrats to keep the world economy afloat.” otherwise, we don’t care.

Is that a vehicle left out of the 80s Tron movie during editing? WTF?

seems to be a theme here.

The “let’s make a deal” going on for these last 3 votes must be insane. people getting the Johnson Treatment rn: If I were McCarthy I’d send Graves or another member the Dems don’t hate over and see if they have a request to have a dozen members vote present that I could live with.