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Mar 28, 2017 15:18:06   #
Thanks for an excellent, meaningful post. Appreciate it.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:59:02   #
Mr Bombastic wrote:
Women should not be serving in combat. They should be raising children. If that sounds sexist, I don't care. That's the way things should be. Not saying that women shouldn't have a career, but they should not be in combat.


Have no problem with women serving in uniform. My former First Sergeant (60 years ago) married a Sergeant Major. I do not believe their should serve outside the Continental U.S. I remember well the adrenaline rush lads got when seeing a white female in the Far East. Serve in the U.S. in any MOS which will permit one more lad to serve as an 0300 or wh**ever the artillery and armored MOSs were. And don't be assigned MP MOS. This is not sexist; it's common sense which will keep the morale of the Corps where it should be.
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Mar 16, 2017 16:34:32   #
mongo wrote:
You are correct. However, I don't think anybody would care if Mad Dog took him out to the shed, and beat the sht out of the geeky little backstabbing RAT!

SEMPER FI


Have cousins living in or near his Congressional district. You should hear what they have to say about him.
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Mar 16, 2017 16:32:07   #
Sounds like candidates for Jerry Springer.
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Mar 16, 2017 16:29:01   #
Rivers wrote:
What do you do if you're a woman in the Marines, and you make a sex video, and your fellow Marines see it? Claim you're being sexually harassed, of course!

It seems that a number of female Marines are having sex with male Marines and filming it, and then, when they break up, the male Marines share the sex videos with their comrades. This is said to have provoked a major crisis in the Marines.

Marine officials on Sunday said the branch was looking into a number of Marines, as well as current and former service members, who shared naked and compromising photos of their female colleagues on social media through a shared drive on a Facebook group called Marines United.

"It's Marine Corps wide," said Marine Pvt. Kally Wayne, 22, who joined in 2013 and was removed from the service three years later for disciplinary problems. In early 2016, her ex-boyfriend, a Marine, posted a sex tape they had made in 2013 to a Marines Facebook group, which quickly spread, eventually getting posted on Marines United, which has 30,000 members, where it appeared sporadically.

I guess you could said that her sex tape went v***l. I think they should change her rank from Pvt. to Non-Pvt.

"I went to the police to get them to take it down and they told me because I didn't live in North Carolina they couldn't do anything," Wayne said. "I went to his command and they said, 'Why don't you not make sex tapes?'"

Exactly.

Wayne said she knows at least 10 other women who have endured online sexual harassment.

How is it sexual harassment for other people to view your sex video?

There are more stories like this. The New York Times has the story of a brave Marine who has to endure her comrades watching her striptease video.

"I wanted to make sure I could do anything male Marines could," she said. "I didn't want anyone to hold me to a lower standard."

Later, she was dating a Marine, and when he was stationed outside of Arizona, she sent him a short strip tease video.

The video was soon added to the cache of hundreds of photos and videos of active-duty Marines and veterans – filed with the subject's name, rank and place of duty – that is being circulated by Marines United and other groups.

Herein lies the problem. The problem is not male Marines watching striptease videos of female Marines. The problem is women in the Marines.

Women and men can and do work together in the workplace. But the armed forces are different. Soldiers are stationed in close quarters 24 hours a day. They are often cut off from their husbands and wives, who keep them happy in that special way. In such a situation, you have the perfect recipe for sexual tension that can disrupt unit cohesion.

What happens when sergeants start dating privates and corporals start dating captains? What happens when officers are perceived to be showing favoritism to subordinates they are having sex with, or subordinates are attempting to seduce their superior officers?

This is why having women in the military is problematic at best. The reason these videos were circulated is because female Marines were dating male Marines in their own ranks. It has enormous potential to disrupt unit cohesion.

The viewers of the videos are blameless. The only ones to blame are the unhappy boyfriends who disseminated the videos and the female Marines who made them in the first place. If the worst thing male Marines have done is to view nude videos made by their female comrades on a Facebook page, then I would say the problem of real sexual harassment in the military is close to zero. The problem of unit cohesion, however, is very real.

But instead of having a discussion about the proper role of women in the military, the military is now on a hunt for homemade porn that got on the wrong Facebook page.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/female_marines_outraged_that_others_watched_their_sex_videos.html
b What do you do if you're a woman in the Marines... (show quote)


It wasn't like that sixty years ago, but then we didn't have the digital technolgy. It was problematic making a phone call from the far east and letters could take several weeks at best. But I think part of the problem is a lower moral fiber of those serving. Physically, probably much better conditioned, but they have been raised in a different moral culture. I cannot imagine a girl I dated who would have been so indiscrete--also cannot imagine I would have treated someone I really cared about in such a manner. Maybe we have to be more selective on how we use the term "hero" or "patriot." A sad day indeed.
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Mar 15, 2017 18:09:14   #
QuestGirl wrote:
ObamaCare needs to be trashed. I do not trust Ryan, McConnell or McCain, the worst. I don't trust any of them, frankly. Except OUR President Trump, he has yet to disappoint me. The new HealthCare will determine if that changes or not. They need to scrap ObamaCare, or let it explode/implode, and build anew.

I have been on Medicare without complaint since late 1998, until ObamaCare descended upon an already working system. The only 2 good things I see in ObamaCare is the Age 26 Rule (while I find the age itself an odd number) and the pre-condition mandate. It's harder to find a doctor and as you said, wait time. It seems another issue is the facilities and doctors getting paid for their services in a timely fashion. Thus the issue, "We don't accept MedicAid.

My experience, I sought services for statis reasons. The facility did not accept my Humana,. Nor would they view me as "uninsured" for the sliding scale based on income. Oddly, through a grant at this same facility, I am still provided a "service" that gets me to the store and helped me physically move into a new place (after 4 years of roaming with intermittent homelessness) through their Homeless Outreach Service. I am most grateful for my "case manager". He's my hero!

Of President Trump's cabinet, I find Banner and Tillerson fasinating, his son-in-law too. It will be lovely to watch Melena(sp) grow in her role as First Lady. I have read she speaks 5 languages. No doubt an asset in her position. While my Liberal friends seem to like Ivanka. I hear her SS name is Marvel, with Mogul and Muse.
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I think your disappointment should be more with Humana--which I avoid at all costs--than Medicare. Have had Medicare for about ten years with no complaints--no premium, reasonable copays, minimal prescription payments. Have had to make some compromises, but that is to be expected. I assume you live in a rural area with minimal options. That complicates things and may make traditional Medicare a better choice than a Medicare Advantage plan, which does have some limitations.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:39:52   #
QuestGirl wrote:
Since you are completely ignorant to the reasons behind my move, it was not "my choice" to move. My complaint is not with Humana, and they have since dropped the "Gold" plan coverage on 12/31/2016. There were very few choices (maybe 2) when I signed on with this plan two years ago. .

Also, my "spenddown" with MedicAid increased by about $1,000. An amount, of nearly $4,000, out-of-pocket, which must be incurred within a 6 month period before MedicAid will kick-in. Due to re-vamping of the medicAid system, I was kicked off of my spenddown and did not know it until I finally made to the doctor's to learn my card was "inactive", to keep track of costs. I have been trying for a year to get back on the "spenddown", but due to all the re-vamping for ObamaCare, this process still is not done. I even submitted my application (3/2016) the "speedier" way via the internet. No longer can one apply for MedicAid at the local welfare office. It must be done at the State Office level.

I'm sorry, but you will never convince me that ObamaCare had no affect on MediCare. Coverage and choices have declined since ObamaCare came into existance.
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Again, sorry about the trauma our screwed up healthcare system has caused. Unfortunately, most of it from the accounting office, is driven solely by profit. Near the end of 2016 a daughter-in-law "needed" surgery, the specifics of which now elude me. The surgeon said he was not available until 2017. At the time she contacted him the family had reached the deductible level and it would cost her nothing. What the insurance company was trying to do was delay the surgery so they were off the hook for paying for the procedure and the family would have been responsible for the entire amount. That had nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act, but going toward paying United Healthcare's CEO a small slice of his millions of salary. T

To me there are only two solutions: a single-payer system or a cash only (no insurance company involvement) health care. Regarding the latter: Shortly after WWII would family moved into a home next to a country doctor in northwestern Illinois. We lived there only about six months before moving from town to country, but during those months mom would bake Doc Shenberger, a widower, a cake or apple pie. When I was about 15 I severely cut a finger on my left hand while cutting weeds with a sickle. I drove into town to have Doc Shenberger stitch it shut. When done I asked him how much it would cost. His response resonates with me over sixty years later, "Hell, boy. I don't charge my neighbors. The next time you come into town bring me one of your mother's apple pies--(the crusts of which were to die for). Hope you are able to procure some affordable health insurance, but do not rely upon receiving it through Ryan and McConnell..
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Mar 14, 2017 15:43:41   #
That's the whole purpose of insurance--everyone pays a bit so everyone can benefit. If the middle man was out of the system it would probably be much less expensive, I don't know. Medicare has much lower overhead, but the devil in a single-payer system would be keeping the bureaucracy in check and not bloat.
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Mar 14, 2017 15:38:37   #
QuestGirl wrote:
That's all I have now, Part D in addition to Part A and Part B, the death insurance. My drug co-pay has increased, not much, but increase just the same.

On the "replacement" MediCare plan (Coventry), in 2007, I paid nothing for two total hip replacement surgeries and re-hab. I had first time pneumonia last spring, one week in hospital and an $8,000 (about 3/4 yearly income) bill due under Humana's replacement plan. It seems imsurance does not cross county lines either. At least in Kansas, it goes by region, apparently. I moved in 2013, thus I lost Coventry for they only offered a "supplement" plan in the new county.

ObamaCare f*cked it all up, imho.
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The ACA had nothing to do with this. It was a function of Humana. Medicare is not perfect, but I have yet to meet a Republican who understood their plan who had a complaint. Unexpected events, unintended consequeces. You chose to move without doing your homework and now pay the price. Free markets at work. Really am sorry for the angst, but it was your choice, not Medicare.
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Feb 24, 2017 14:07:30   #
When I read the report I thought the gynocologist thought every was was getting screwed,
but that may have been the obstatricians.
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Feb 24, 2017 14:04:19   #
DGD,

So you do see validity in some social programs.
Good to read of support for a program that has
at its intent the improvement of the lives of the
"working stiff." Congratulations.
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Feb 13, 2017 15:11:58   #
An excellent idea. Too much crappy, shoddy work being done around the country.
To paraphrase a Founding Father: "If men were governed by angels there would be
little need for governance. If men were angels there would be no need for governance
at all."
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Nov 13, 2016 14:05:27   #
reconreb wrote:
Please show us where Trump said he would only appoint outsiders , take advice from outsiders only ,, Trump will use those He considers loyal to him just like obama did and every other president .. Guess you need something to b***h about . You got 4 yrs to b***h and moan , good . keep b***hing it will remind me why the demos lost and my smile widens with every post ..
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True, so there should be less talk during campaigns and more listening. We are all tired of the endless promises that the campaigners
should know will likely not be filled, especially with a divided congress.
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Nov 13, 2016 14:03:43   #
vernon wrote:
AND I GUESS YOU THINK HE SHOULD HIRE SOMETHING LIKE HILLERY OR SOME OTHER C*******T.


He said he was going to "drain the swamp." Now he is filling the bucket from the cesspool. So much for campaign rhetoric.
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Nov 7, 2016 21:49:37   #
MarvinSussman wrote:
I would never judge an allegation without a LOT of good evidence. As one who protested at the Pentagon in '68, I don't look for reasons to protest the war. As a veteran with 36 of my A-troop brothers buried all over Europe and the US, I am convinced of his worth as an individual.


Thanks for the elaboration.
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