Meanwhile, expansion of the fleet requires more oilers and replenishment vessels. No budget for them. Hell, they’re short oilers now.

It’s Future Combat System for the Navy!

Schools want to rein it in because when done right it requires intensive one-on-one time and is expensive. In response here in Missouri they changed the state education law so that special ed was no longer required to maximize the benefit to the child but merely provide ”some” benefit.

Watching him regress from hundreds of unprompted responses an hour to nothing was heartbreaking. I’d finally gotten my first unprompted “Daddy, I love you“ right before the district took it over. That was after three years of work.

The therapists that I’d rigorously recruited, required 40 hours of training/shadowing and then had to pass a review of their one-on-one work by our ABA consultant (and those require vetting) was replaced by a para with a two hours of “training.” Training not grounded in science.

With school funding I ran a state of the art ABA program for my son. His progress was remarkable. Then the district took it all in house and he regressed.

One of my best friends was diagnosed with brain cancer at 32.

He was an Iron Man triathlete. Proposed to his wife at a triathlon. He was the healthiest eating person I knew. The cancer came back and killed him at 35. So don’t talk to me about healthcare being a consumer choice.

He completely agrees with your assessment in terms of the failure of current approaches to spelling and reading. He sees It in his 9th grade students.

My son is a high school English teacher who did NOT do well in school. In fact, almost didn’t graduate because of final English grade. He was hopeless in math. Eventually got his masters after working as a para for special needs students for a decade (his brother is autistic).

I wasn’t singling out Sasse but his party. Even without the havoc created by RFK, several states (Iowa comes to mind) were moving to outlaw mRNA vaccines as medical “weapons of mass destruction.”

I‘ve had the same issue across the board with all my cookies. The only change has been butter brands

The sad part is Ben’s GOP has effectively killed research into mRNA vaccines. Clinical trials for Pancreatic cancer had produced - by cancer research standards - astonishing results. If he’s advanced, maybe no difference as no time to produce immune response. But still…..

It’s not so much the stipend but the loss of tuition reimbursement as an “employee” of the university since they are no longer teaching.

Jobless recoveries have sort have been the rule post 1980 in the US. Anecdotally, my wife has been relatively deluged with friends reaching out that have been laid off and looking for work. (IT). They’ve been on the market 6+ months

BMW is NOT the standard issue armored SUVs used by federal protective service types.

Thank you for sharing. I’m terminal and on palliative care. It deeply resonated with me and I found courage in her words.

My pet peeve is the conflation of life cycle sustainment with logistics. The actual logistics of sustaining a system while deployed tends NOT to be considered.

The proliferation of highly privatized, boutique logistics networks will leave Services/TRANSCOM holding the bad on contact with LSCO

I cant believe the navy that literally did the great Marianas turkey shoot has devolved into *handwaves* whatever this is

10-40% of slaves we’re Muslim. The U.S. was never entirely “Christian”