NYNolaguy1

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Until someone comes along to drain the swamp.

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So who is supposed to do that?

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The simple answer is it's not our strait to control.

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I keep reading from multiple posters that's not true and that Trump controls all of the middle east, and the strait of Hormuz. Which is it?

It seems like it's a complete victory that needs constant vigilance and may unravel at any point.

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We officially control the Middle East now.

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I mean, that's the White House's story, but going back to the initial position before the war started isn't exactly a win, or control.

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you can't be trusted with a weapon on or off duty you shouldn't be in the military.

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Having seen some of the shenanigans first hand that happen in barracks, I just have a hard time thinking that conduct would improve with either personal or issued weapons in barracks. Also what problem is being solved by allowing it?

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Good. An armed society is a polite society.

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I feel like you have had different experiences than I with junior enlisted and good judgement/weapons on post. Typically they don't mix well

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Who else is going to Disney for Easter break?

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Imagine the best place to go on vacation, double the price, and cut in half the time you can afford to go, and you've just accurately depicted the current state of Disney vacations.

Also the return on investment for the quality of your Disney trip is no where near what it was say 10 years ago, with awful weather.

ETA: There's far better places to go for the same money, for more time and better weather.

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You don't see the morality question of using legal loop holes to let guilty men walk free into our society?

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Everyone deserves legal counsel as long as it's the state's job to prosecute citizens. How many people have been prosecuted with the DA knowing they were innocent? In the eyes of the state if a conviction can be garnered the case is worth prosecuting, regardless of guilt or innocence.

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pass sales will be down but a decent snow year and there will be plenty of revenue at the big mountains.

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That's quite a gamble based on this years conditions, and there's still a lack of sensitivity to having egregious lift tickets for terrible conditions. Who wants to pay higher rates when no one is sure if it's worth even going?

I know multiple people that either cancelled their trips out west to Breck, Beaver Creek, etc, because it's simply not worth the cost of flying out west and dropping $15k for terrible conditions versus either going to VT/ME/NH or simply flying to Europe and getting way more for the dollar.

I still think there's going to be a serious reckoning for the CO/UT/WY big ski resorts unless a big change in direction happens at the corporate level.

CEO jacks up rates, sees record low turnout, wonders where folks are, and then jacks up rates again.

Bold strategy, cotton.