BigDave posted:

https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/1065583433978531841?s=09

Ok who took the last piece of pie and made Daddy Trump mad?

The Constitution as written posted:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

bird food bathtub posted:

What the gently caress is it with him and those steam catapults? It's one very specific thing he's brought up multiple times (that he still doesn't understand the first, most basic thing about).

mods changed my name posted:

get this, it's because he think's he's smart when he brings it up

LingcodKilla posted:

Russians don’t want us to have them

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Carriers? Makes sense since theirs lost to a dry dock

Mustang posted:

Most of the comments are from the yokels in Eastern Washington or Seattle and Tacoma natives that now live in some cesspool in the South.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1065392693289910273?s=19

McNally posted:

I can't wait to hear him blame the Democrats for a government shutdown that happens while the Republicans still control Congress.

It's going to be amazing.

ded posted:

He blamed them when they controlled house and senate why stop now?

EBB posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

Freedom from Gritty

EBB posted:

Gritty is Freedom.

mods changed my name posted:

get this, it's because he think's he's smart when he brings it up

Ataxerxes posted:

Now that is certainly something I haven't come across, but it's been a long time since I was in. Getting to AUK or RUK (nco and officer training) varied a lot between places, in some garrisons it was really hard and it others they had to ask for volunteers. For the international audience the system was so that a certain group would get nco training and the best of each nco group would go on to be reserve officers. To get into the military academy having been in the nco training was enough.

Kemper Boyd posted:

It's been a while since I read it, but it boils down to how restrictive recruiting is because of the requirement to pass RUK training to be eligible for the military academy. NCO training alone doesn't qualify for Kadis, you need to be accepted to a platoon leader's course and pass that first.

At the core, the issue is that the requirements for officer training restrict the pipeline, and how well someone performs in Basic at age 19-21 doesn't really predict if they can be a good officer later down the line, especially since only a minority of those who pass RUK even consider a career in the military. Most suggestions I've seen is that there should be a secondary pipeline to those who either don't serve or serve poorly but later want to be nobles.

Ataxerxes posted:

Well, it is true that you need to have completed the platoon leader course, but the instructions for applicants (https://upseeriksi.fi/haku) state explicitly that you can be a reserve nco who has completed the course (see here: https://maavoimat.fi/artikkeli/-/asset_publisher/joukkueenjohtajakurssilta-valmiudet-kadettikouluun) after service. Also, you need to be no more than 26 to apply so I would say that the alternate pipeline exists, especially since this (https://puolustusvoimat.fi/web/reservilaiselle/reservin-taydennyskurssit) is also an option. A person could complete the service as a private, do the nco training some years after voluntarily, then apply to the academy and get accepted on the condition that they complete the platoon leader course.

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A federal judge dismissed criminal charges against two doctors in a landmark female genital mutilation case and ruled that Congress “overstepped its bounds” by passing a law banning the procedure.

The case centered on two Michigan doctors and six others charged last year in connection with arranging to perform female genital mutilation on nine girls, four from Michigan and five of whom were brought to the state from Illinois and Minnesota.
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But on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman found the federal ban unconstitutional, ruling that, among other reasons, female genital mutilation is a “local criminal activity” that must be regulated by the states, not Congress.

He dismissed most mutilation and conspiracy charges against Jumana Nagarwala, the physician who was accused of performing the procedures, and Fakhruddin Attar, the doctor who was accused of allowing his clinic to be used for the surgeries. Those charges were also dismissed against two others accused of assisting in the surgeries and four mothers who were accused of bringing their daughters to the clinic for the procedure.

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Starting her second year as a Mississippi state senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith arrived at the State Capitol in Jackson in 2001 to file one of her earliest pieces of legislation. Senate Bill 2604, as she proposed it, would have renamed a stretch of highway to the title it had in the 1930s: Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.

It is one of several instances in which the now-U.S. senator would embrace a pride in the Confederacy and its aftermath that is coming under new scrutiny in the wake of her comments that she would sit with a supporter in the front row of a “public hanging” — remarks that she defended as an exaggerated gesture of friendship and that others said alluded to lynching.

In 2014, she donned a Confederate hat and posed with a rifle, writing on her Facebook page that the Jefferson Davis homestead in Biloxi is a “must see.”

“Mississippi history at its best!” she wrote.

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WASHINGTON — Before Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery: Was the prince laying the groundwork for building an atomic bomb?

The 33-year-old heir to the Saudi throne had been overseeing a negotiation with the Energy Department and the State Department to get the United States to sell designs for nuclear power plants to the kingdom. The deal was worth upward of $80 billion, depending on how many plants Saudi Arabia decided to build.

But there is a hitch: Saudi Arabia insists on producing its own nuclear fuel, even though it could buy it more cheaply abroad, according to American and Saudi officials familiar with the negotiations. That raised concerns in Washington that the Saudis could divert their fuel into a covert weapons project — exactly what the United States and its allies feared Iran was doing before it reached the 2015 nuclear accord, which President Trump has since abandoned.

BigDave posted:

Happy Black Friday everyone! Hope you spend the day drinking beer or vaping weed and eating Thanksgiving leftovers instead of shopping.

Here are you headlines:

Law prohibiting Female Genital Mutilation ruled unconstitutional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...m=.5ccedebec5d5

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Oh my loving god

Stultus Maximus posted:

He's not wrong. The statute would have to be written to fall under the powers granted the federal government. Similarly, murder is not a federal crime nor could it be unless is involves interstate commerce, or federal land or officials. When the federal government prosecutes something like a lynching or church bombing, it's for "violating civil rights" under the Civil Rights Act.

SimonCat posted:

On the other hand it does mean that when the Republicans take over the Federal Government, like they have for the past 2 years, they can't completely gently caress up states that have more progressive rules in place.