US Politics Mega-thread - Page 9584

On December 21 2017 08:05 ticklishmusic wrote:
it's about convincing yourself that you enjoy and believe in what you're doing, really.

On December 21 2017 08:58 farvacola wrote:
I would, but my current job is inherently a stepping stone of sorts and the pay isn't really important.

On December 21 2017 08:56 IgnE wrote:
playing the "how much money would it take for you to do X?"game is fairly common

i think we should consider the other game, the "how little would you have to be paid before you quit?" game

who here would stick around at their job if their pay got cut by 30% next year?

On December 21 2017 09:10 farvacola wrote:

I'm a federal judicial clerk, so I'm seeing some eye-opening shit, just from an unorthodox view.

On December 21 2017 09:15 farvacola wrote:
Meh, I'm the son of a medical examiner who runs one of the busiest offices in the country and is an expert in child death, I'm not worried

The Trump administration has approved the first ever U.S. commercial sale of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, in a clear break from the de facto U.S. ban on arms sales that dates back to the Obama administration. The move was heavily supported by top Trump national security Cabinet officials and Congress but may complicate President Trump’s stated ambition to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Administration officials confirmed that the State Department this month approved a commercial license authorizing the export of Model M107A1 Sniper Systems, ammunition, and associated parts and accessories to Ukraine, a sale valued at $41.5 million. These weapons address a specific vulnerability of Ukrainian forces fighting a Russian-backed separatist movement in two eastern provinces. There has been no approval to export the heavier weapons the Ukrainian government is asking for, such as Javelin antitank missiles.

Congress authorized such sales in 2014 in the Ukraine Freedom Support Act but the Obama administration never made a decision to follow through, a move widely seen as de facto decision not to provide lethal weapons to the Ukraine military. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who co-sponsored the law, praised the Trump administration’s move.
“I’m pleased the administration approved the sale of defensive lethal arms to Ukraine,” Corker told me. “This decision was supported by Congress in legislation that became law three years ago and reflects our country’s longstanding commitment to Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian aggression.”

A State Department spokesperson, speaking on background, said that although the United States has now licensed the commercial export of lethal weapons to Ukraine for the first time, the U.S. government has not sold or given weapons directly to Ukraine. There’s never been any official policy on such sales one way or another, the spokesperson said, adding that this license was granted on a case-by-case basis.

Another senior Trump administration official said that Trump personally approved the decision to allow the issuing of the license after being presented a decision memo by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. While there was never a formal ban on such weapons transfers, the decision was discussed internally as a lifting of the de facto Obama administration restrictions, the official said.

On December 21 2017 09:01 IyMoon wrote:


We all played the how low would you work for game with HR when we got hired

On December 21 2017 10:30 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Add to the fact that there are confederate bodies buried in one of the areas.