“Say, just how many admirals does the US Navy have — and were any of them not involved with “Leonard the Legend” Francis? In March, the “Fat Leonard” case made headlines when the Department of Justice indicted a second admiral along with seven other naval officers in the corruption scandal, but that may have been just the appetizer. The Washington Post’s latest update in the Navy’s “Fat Leonard” corruption case claims that over sixty admirals have come under suspicion:
The “Fat Leonard” corruption investigation has expanded to include more than 60 admirals and hundreds of other U.S. Navy officers under scrutiny for their contacts with a defense contractor in Asia who systematically bribed sailors with sex, liquor and other temptations, according to the Navy.
Most of the admirals are suspected of attending extravagant feasts at Asia’s best restaurants paid for by Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime tycoon who made an illicit fortune supplying Navy vessels in ports from Vladivostok, Russia to Brisbane, Australia. Francis also was renowned for hosting alcohol-soaked, after-dinner parties, which often featured imported prostitutes and sometimes lasted for days, according to federal court records.
The 350-pound Francis, also known in Navy circles as “Leonard the Legend” for his wild-side lifestyle, spent decades cultivating relationships with officers, many of whom developed a blind spot to his fraudulent ways. Even while he and his firm were being targeted by Navy criminal investigators, he received VIP invitations to ceremonies in Annapolis and Pearl Harbor, where he hobnobbed with four-star admirals, according to photographs obtained by The Washington Post.
The two admirals previously charged were Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless and Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau, who pled guilty in 2016. Altogether, 28 people have been charged by the DoJ in the scandal, making it already the biggest corruption scandal in the Navy’s history. Francis himself has been cooling his heels in jail since pleading guilty in 2015 to getting approximately $35 million at the expense of American taxpayers, awaiting sentencing.
The scope of the probe turned out to be much larger than first admitted. The Navy confirmed to the Post’s Craig Whitlock that 440 officers had been under investigation, including over 60 admirals. For scale, Whitlock notes parenthetically that the Navy has around 21o active-duty officers of those ranks, which means it would have involved more than a quarter of the Navy’s senior leadership [see update].
So far, the Navy has exonerated just a little over half of those under investigation — 230 officers of all ranks. That leaves over 200 still under investigation, although Whitlock also points out that the statute of limitations for most will have already passed, at least under military law. That may be why the Department of Justice has taken a lead role in pursuing corrupt officers.”
“Consider the increasing number of claims that the incendiary allegations of the dossier “check out,” in the words of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Bankrolled by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, guided by the dirt-digging opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele, the dossier’s key allegation is this: “There was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership.” Steele attributed that claim to “Source E,” whom he described as “an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
“What’s relevant is [Steele’s] credibility, the reliability of his sources and the truthfulness of their claims,” Stephens wrote recently. “These check out.”
But do they? In reality, most reasonable people not named Mueller would have to say we don’t know.”
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“In that passage, Sipher pointed to this Isikoff article, from Yahoo News, on September 23, 2016. The only problem is, Isikoff did not report that U.S. intelligence sources had confirmed the Page meetings in Moscow. In fact, Isikoff’s article was worded carefully to avoid saying that there had been any confirmation.
The article began by reporting that “U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether” Page met with the Russians. Isikoff noted that, at the time of his visit, Page had declined to say whether he met with any Russian officials. And then:
But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News. That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials because the Treasury Department in August 2014 named Sechin to a list of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned over Russia’s “illegitimate and unlawful actions in the Ukraine.” (The Treasury announcement described Sechin as “utterly loyal to Vladimir Putin — a key component to his current standing.”) At their alleged meeting, Sechin raised the issue of the lifting of sanctions with Page, the Western intelligence source said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have also received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election, the Western intelligence source said.
Contrary to Sipher’s claim, Isikoff did not report U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed reports about Page — he reported they had received reports about Page. That’s a pretty big difference. And just to emphasize the point, Isikoff wrote the alleged Page-Sechin meeting, if confirmed, would be important. (Isikoff also referred to the alleged Page-Sechin meeting as an “alleged meeting.”)
And yet now, somehow, Sipher’s article, with its mischaracterization of Isikoff’s reporting, is being cited as the “decisive case” for the dossier’s accuracy.
Also, where did the Page allegation in the Isikoff article originate? In the dossier itself. First, we know that Steele took the dossier to the FBI. Then we know that, at Fusion GPS’s direction, Steele personally briefed Isikoff on the dossier’s claims.
Voila: Isikoff reported, accurately, U.S. intelligence agencies received intelligence reports on Page’s trip. The alleged actions involving Page that Isikoff reported — attributed to a “Western intelligence source,” which was some reporters’ shorthand for the former British spy — lined up precisely with the contents of Steele’s dossier. (Even John Sipher conceded that, “Admittedly, Isikoff’s reporting may have relied on Steele himself for that information.”)
Given all that, Stephens’ point that the dossier “checks out” is basically saying the dossier proves the dossier.”
From NewsMax
“California’s NAACP is pushing for state lawmakers to support a campaign to remove “The Star Spangled Banner” as the country’s national anthem.
The group says the song, which has been a point of controversy in the NFL, is “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon,” The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday.”
They’re running out of things for their agenda. It always has to be something.
Actually, I don’t like the Star Spangled Banner either. It’s unsingable.
Kate Smith once pushed for “God Bless America”
.
Can you imagine the trouble that would cause now?
The President is delusional, but that is a really nice conference room.
“I think we can solve almost all of them and maybe all of them,” Trump says of the world’s problems, at meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. pic.twitter.com/8XFV3b12G2
The admirals I know are all men of character who served with distinction–under the water–until some were ousted by people who objected to them praying during their personal off hours.
Now that I think about it, one was a jerk after my husband retired (20 years ago now!), and he was in the Pacific Command. Maybe . . .
I don’t care about the Russians. I don’t care about Hiliary’s e-mails. I don’t care about Trump’s gaffs. I don’t care about the NAACP, the NRA, the LGBTQRSTWXYZ, or any other initialed group. I just want our elected officials to get to work and do the job we elected them to do.
“On October 30, I blogged how President Donald Trump’s former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI about contact with Russians.
Well, the man who supposedly possessed “thousands of emails” on failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has disappeared.
CNN reported Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud vanished last Thursday “from the private university in Rome where he teaches.”
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“However, he told Italian publication La Prepubblica last week that claims “he knew about Russia’s material on Clinton” was just “baloney.” He stated that he excludes “the fact that I spoke of secrets regarding Hillary Clinton.”
That’s the last time he has spoken.
The indictment on Papadopulos contradicts the professor’s claims. The Wall Street Journal reported:
In fact, Mr. Papadopoulos met with the professor in March 2016 after learning he was joining the campaign, court documents say. The professor only took an interest in Mr. Papadopoulos because of his status on the campaign, according to the documents. In April 2016, the professor told Mr. Papadopoulos about “thousands of emails” related to Mrs. Clinton.
After that March meeting, Mr. Papadopoulos emailed Trump campaign officials to say he had just met with his “good friend” the professor, who had introduced him to an individual described in the email as the niece of Russian President Vladimir Putin, court documents say. Mr. Papadopoulos said the topic of the meeting was “to arrange a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss U.S.-Russia ties under President Trump,” according to the documents.
A campaign official said he would “work it through the campaign,” but that no commitments should be made at that point, the documents say. The campaign official added, “Great work.”
Mifsud admitted that she was not Putin’s niece. From CNN:
He told La Repubblica: “She is a simple student, very beautiful. Like many other students, I introduced her at the London Center where Papadopoulos was, and he showed an interested in her that was not academic.”
Many of these issues are armed forces wide. You can’t operate it as a business on a shoe string budget and expect to maintain the best fighting force in the world. Training and equipment, as well as base closure and troop purges, are the front line victims every time. The rear echelon types and politicians are where the blame lies for these systematic failures. And they always blame the little guy.
I found this from your link said it best.
“The Navy is charged by law with organizing, training, and equipping in preparation for prompt and sustained combat operations. Individual ship commanders bear the final burden in the chain of command, however, those commanders are wholly hostage to the Navy system which provides sailors, trains those sailors, and equips the ships.
Manning is determined at least two years out in budget submissions to Congress. And while ships are no longer in the optimal manning era, the billets they were designed to carry were not completely bought back. If a ship is not fully manned all a commander can do is tell his boss. Who tells his boss. Who tells his boss. None of whom can actually do anything except rob from USS Peter to pay USS Paul.
Any unplanned loss to illness, death, or poor performance is unlikely to be replaced. Today’s ship captains often have to suffer through poor performance in their crews because even a poor performer is better than no one in the job. There are reports today that the Navy is short 14,000 sailors at sea. In October, there were almost 17,000 open billets with less than 3,000 available sailors. This didn’t happen overnight and individual ships are being put at risk by shore commands who have no responsibility, accountability, or culpability — but who do retain all the authority.
Most training is completely outside the purview of the ship captain, his boss, or Adm. Rowden. The Navy’s vast array of schoolhouses plan out five years in advance. And they plan for available seats based on arcane math and incantations. They do not plan out based on Fleet need. If there are 300 ships who need four sailors trained to Navy Enlisted Classification Code 24601 for four-year sea tours, then annual throughput needs to be at least 300. If the Navy only has 250 seats because of physical plant capacity or budget, then the fleet is left with a shortfall and the school commanders are not held accountable for the discrepancy.
One historical solution is to reduce the requirement. In the Navy Enlisted Classification 24601 example, reducing the ship requirement from four to three solves the school throughput problem. Everything looks great on paper, but the ship ends up manned to 75 percent of what it was intended to have in that particular code. Multiply that by 20, 30, or even 100 and you end up with ship’s playing five card draw with three cards.”
The ship’s commanding officer had no control over this and the decisions behind this omission are not reported. However, the ship’s lack of knowledge was repeatedly pointed out and the ship’s commanding officer got the blame. Who cancelled the training? No one is saying. But whoever it was bears significant culpability in what happened. In his press conference, Adm. Richardson repeatedly lay blame at the feet of the crew and commanding officer. He never highlighted that someone off ship did not provide the needed training.
Maintenance is another house of cards. The Comprehensive Review and Balisle Report each recognize that maintenance impacts operations. Maintenance funds are budgeted two years out. And shipyard periods are planned at least 90 days out. Ships enter the yards and get things fixed to what the budget allows, not what the ship needs. And many maintenance actions are deferred for cost savings, even though the maintenance was part of the ship’s design. Amphibious ship ballast tanks are notorious for this. The Navy might save money up front, but loses money down the line because eventually that deferred maintenance needs to get done. An illustrative, but imperfect analogy is waiting to replace your car’s oil until the engine seizes up.”
The Washington Post has released a big Roy Moore story. For forty years, my rule has been: “The Democrat is always worse.” However, Kim’s judgment looks pretty good on this one.
“Want to protect yourself from being embarrassed by nude photos? Facebook has launched an initiative to assist its users from being exploited with “revenge porn” from ex-partners, and the only thing you have to do is … send the world’s largest social-media platform all the nude photographs you have of yourself.
They’re actually serious about that request:
Facebook is asking users to send the company their nude photos in an effort to tackle revenge porn, in an attempt to give some control back to victims of this type of abuse.
Individuals who have shared intimate, nude or sexual images with partners and are worried that the partner (or ex-partner) might distribute them without their consent can use Messenger to send the images to be “hashed”. This means that the company converts the image into a unique digital fingerprint that can be used to identify and block any attempts to re-upload that same image.
They promise to delete them when the conversion is complete, which is probably just what your ex-partner told you, too.”
Is there any reason whatsoever to believe the Roy Moore story is true, or is it just another hit job? I didn’t think predators went inactive for 40 years.
I was “molested” as a child. Lucky for me my parents caught on to what was happening before too much damage could be done. From that I have learned to trust my “skin”.
If I have a viseral reaction to a man or he makes my skin crawl there is a reason. I have long despised Roy Moore but have not been able to explain it to anyone. Once again, my reaction has been proven true.
Wandering Views 
Yikes. Not good.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/06/wapo-pentagons-fat-leonard-scandal-now-involves-60-admirals/
“Say, just how many admirals does the US Navy have — and were any of them not involved with “Leonard the Legend” Francis? In March, the “Fat Leonard” case made headlines when the Department of Justice indicted a second admiral along with seven other naval officers in the corruption scandal, but that may have been just the appetizer. The Washington Post’s latest update in the Navy’s “Fat Leonard” corruption case claims that over sixty admirals have come under suspicion:
The “Fat Leonard” corruption investigation has expanded to include more than 60 admirals and hundreds of other U.S. Navy officers under scrutiny for their contacts with a defense contractor in Asia who systematically bribed sailors with sex, liquor and other temptations, according to the Navy.
Most of the admirals are suspected of attending extravagant feasts at Asia’s best restaurants paid for by Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime tycoon who made an illicit fortune supplying Navy vessels in ports from Vladivostok, Russia to Brisbane, Australia. Francis also was renowned for hosting alcohol-soaked, after-dinner parties, which often featured imported prostitutes and sometimes lasted for days, according to federal court records.
The 350-pound Francis, also known in Navy circles as “Leonard the Legend” for his wild-side lifestyle, spent decades cultivating relationships with officers, many of whom developed a blind spot to his fraudulent ways. Even while he and his firm were being targeted by Navy criminal investigators, he received VIP invitations to ceremonies in Annapolis and Pearl Harbor, where he hobnobbed with four-star admirals, according to photographs obtained by The Washington Post.
The two admirals previously charged were Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless and Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau, who pled guilty in 2016. Altogether, 28 people have been charged by the DoJ in the scandal, making it already the biggest corruption scandal in the Navy’s history. Francis himself has been cooling his heels in jail since pleading guilty in 2015 to getting approximately $35 million at the expense of American taxpayers, awaiting sentencing.
The scope of the probe turned out to be much larger than first admitted. The Navy confirmed to the Post’s Craig Whitlock that 440 officers had been under investigation, including over 60 admirals. For scale, Whitlock notes parenthetically that the Navy has around 21o active-duty officers of those ranks, which means it would have involved more than a quarter of the Navy’s senior leadership [see update].
So far, the Navy has exonerated just a little over half of those under investigation — 230 officers of all ranks. That leaves over 200 still under investigation, although Whitlock also points out that the statute of limitations for most will have already passed, at least under military law. That may be why the Department of Justice has taken a lead role in pursuing corrupt officers.”
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Sometimes you don’t know what you think you do.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-spinning-in-circles-on-the-trump-dossier/article/2639708
“Consider the increasing number of claims that the incendiary allegations of the dossier “check out,” in the words of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Bankrolled by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, guided by the dirt-digging opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele, the dossier’s key allegation is this: “There was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership.” Steele attributed that claim to “Source E,” whom he described as “an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
“What’s relevant is [Steele’s] credibility, the reliability of his sources and the truthfulness of their claims,” Stephens wrote recently. “These check out.”
But do they? In reality, most reasonable people not named Mueller would have to say we don’t know.”
——————————-
“In that passage, Sipher pointed to this Isikoff article, from Yahoo News, on September 23, 2016. The only problem is, Isikoff did not report that U.S. intelligence sources had confirmed the Page meetings in Moscow. In fact, Isikoff’s article was worded carefully to avoid saying that there had been any confirmation.
The article began by reporting that “U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether” Page met with the Russians. Isikoff noted that, at the time of his visit, Page had declined to say whether he met with any Russian officials. And then:
But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News. That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials because the Treasury Department in August 2014 named Sechin to a list of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned over Russia’s “illegitimate and unlawful actions in the Ukraine.” (The Treasury announcement described Sechin as “utterly loyal to Vladimir Putin — a key component to his current standing.”) At their alleged meeting, Sechin raised the issue of the lifting of sanctions with Page, the Western intelligence source said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have also received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election, the Western intelligence source said.
Contrary to Sipher’s claim, Isikoff did not report U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed reports about Page — he reported they had received reports about Page. That’s a pretty big difference. And just to emphasize the point, Isikoff wrote the alleged Page-Sechin meeting, if confirmed, would be important. (Isikoff also referred to the alleged Page-Sechin meeting as an “alleged meeting.”)
And yet now, somehow, Sipher’s article, with its mischaracterization of Isikoff’s reporting, is being cited as the “decisive case” for the dossier’s accuracy.
Also, where did the Page allegation in the Isikoff article originate? In the dossier itself. First, we know that Steele took the dossier to the FBI. Then we know that, at Fusion GPS’s direction, Steele personally briefed Isikoff on the dossier’s claims.
Voila: Isikoff reported, accurately, U.S. intelligence agencies received intelligence reports on Page’s trip. The alleged actions involving Page that Isikoff reported — attributed to a “Western intelligence source,” which was some reporters’ shorthand for the former British spy — lined up precisely with the contents of Steele’s dossier. (Even John Sipher conceded that, “Admittedly, Isikoff’s reporting may have relied on Steele himself for that information.”)
Given all that, Stephens’ point that the dossier “checks out” is basically saying the dossier proves the dossier.”
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For those who are interested, here is what is going on in the Senate on the tax bill:
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From NewsMax
“California’s NAACP is pushing for state lawmakers to support a campaign to remove “The Star Spangled Banner” as the country’s national anthem.
The group says the song, which has been a point of controversy in the NFL, is “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon,” The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday.”
They’re running out of things for their agenda. It always has to be something.
Actually, I don’t like the Star Spangled Banner either. It’s unsingable.
Kate Smith once pushed for “God Bless America”
.
Can you imagine the trouble that would cause now?
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If you want to make it through your evening without watching anything connected to Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey or Trump, I have a suggestion:
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The President is delusional, but that is a really nice conference room.
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How FoxNews joined The Cult:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/09/fox-news-trump-presidency-244712
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I’ve only vaguely heard of the Fat Leonard case.
The admirals I know are all men of character who served with distinction–under the water–until some were ousted by people who objected to them praying during their personal off hours.
Now that I think about it, one was a jerk after my husband retired (20 years ago now!), and he was in the Pacific Command. Maybe . . .
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I don’t care about the Russians. I don’t care about Hiliary’s e-mails. I don’t care about Trump’s gaffs. I don’t care about the NAACP, the NRA, the LGBTQRSTWXYZ, or any other initialed group. I just want our elected officials to get to work and do the job we elected them to do.
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I’m sure it’s just another coincidence. 😨
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/man-with-the-supposed-dirt-on-hillary-disappears/#more-232527
“On October 30, I blogged how President Donald Trump’s former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI about contact with Russians.
Well, the man who supposedly possessed “thousands of emails” on failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has disappeared.
CNN reported Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud vanished last Thursday “from the private university in Rome where he teaches.”
———————-
“However, he told Italian publication La Prepubblica last week that claims “he knew about Russia’s material on Clinton” was just “baloney.” He stated that he excludes “the fact that I spoke of secrets regarding Hillary Clinton.”
That’s the last time he has spoken.
The indictment on Papadopulos contradicts the professor’s claims. The Wall Street Journal reported:
In fact, Mr. Papadopoulos met with the professor in March 2016 after learning he was joining the campaign, court documents say. The professor only took an interest in Mr. Papadopoulos because of his status on the campaign, according to the documents. In April 2016, the professor told Mr. Papadopoulos about “thousands of emails” related to Mrs. Clinton.
After that March meeting, Mr. Papadopoulos emailed Trump campaign officials to say he had just met with his “good friend” the professor, who had introduced him to an individual described in the email as the niece of Russian President Vladimir Putin, court documents say. Mr. Papadopoulos said the topic of the meeting was “to arrange a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss U.S.-Russia ties under President Trump,” according to the documents.
A campaign official said he would “work it through the campaign,” but that no commitments should be made at that point, the documents say. The campaign official added, “Great work.”
Mifsud admitted that she was not Putin’s niece. From CNN:
He told La Repubblica: “She is a simple student, very beautiful. Like many other students, I introduced her at the London Center where Papadopoulos was, and he showed an interested in her that was not academic.”
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In other Navy news, this article came from a friend of Kim’s who is now my friend on FB:
https://warontherocks.com/2017/11/somethings-wrong-surface-fleet-arent-talking/
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Michelle,
Many of these issues are armed forces wide. You can’t operate it as a business on a shoe string budget and expect to maintain the best fighting force in the world. Training and equipment, as well as base closure and troop purges, are the front line victims every time. The rear echelon types and politicians are where the blame lies for these systematic failures. And they always blame the little guy.
I found this from your link said it best.
“The Navy is charged by law with organizing, training, and equipping in preparation for prompt and sustained combat operations. Individual ship commanders bear the final burden in the chain of command, however, those commanders are wholly hostage to the Navy system which provides sailors, trains those sailors, and equips the ships.
Manning is determined at least two years out in budget submissions to Congress. And while ships are no longer in the optimal manning era, the billets they were designed to carry were not completely bought back. If a ship is not fully manned all a commander can do is tell his boss. Who tells his boss. Who tells his boss. None of whom can actually do anything except rob from USS Peter to pay USS Paul.
Any unplanned loss to illness, death, or poor performance is unlikely to be replaced. Today’s ship captains often have to suffer through poor performance in their crews because even a poor performer is better than no one in the job. There are reports today that the Navy is short 14,000 sailors at sea. In October, there were almost 17,000 open billets with less than 3,000 available sailors. This didn’t happen overnight and individual ships are being put at risk by shore commands who have no responsibility, accountability, or culpability — but who do retain all the authority.
Most training is completely outside the purview of the ship captain, his boss, or Adm. Rowden. The Navy’s vast array of schoolhouses plan out five years in advance. And they plan for available seats based on arcane math and incantations. They do not plan out based on Fleet need. If there are 300 ships who need four sailors trained to Navy Enlisted Classification Code 24601 for four-year sea tours, then annual throughput needs to be at least 300. If the Navy only has 250 seats because of physical plant capacity or budget, then the fleet is left with a shortfall and the school commanders are not held accountable for the discrepancy.
One historical solution is to reduce the requirement. In the Navy Enlisted Classification 24601 example, reducing the ship requirement from four to three solves the school throughput problem. Everything looks great on paper, but the ship ends up manned to 75 percent of what it was intended to have in that particular code. Multiply that by 20, 30, or even 100 and you end up with ship’s playing five card draw with three cards.”
The ship’s commanding officer had no control over this and the decisions behind this omission are not reported. However, the ship’s lack of knowledge was repeatedly pointed out and the ship’s commanding officer got the blame. Who cancelled the training? No one is saying. But whoever it was bears significant culpability in what happened. In his press conference, Adm. Richardson repeatedly lay blame at the feet of the crew and commanding officer. He never highlighted that someone off ship did not provide the needed training.
Maintenance is another house of cards. The Comprehensive Review and Balisle Report each recognize that maintenance impacts operations. Maintenance funds are budgeted two years out. And shipyard periods are planned at least 90 days out. Ships enter the yards and get things fixed to what the budget allows, not what the ship needs. And many maintenance actions are deferred for cost savings, even though the maintenance was part of the ship’s design. Amphibious ship ballast tanks are notorious for this. The Navy might save money up front, but loses money down the line because eventually that deferred maintenance needs to get done. An illustrative, but imperfect analogy is waiting to replace your car’s oil until the engine seizes up.”
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The Washington Post has released a big Roy Moore story. For forty years, my rule has been: “The Democrat is always worse.” However, Kim’s judgment looks pretty good on this one.
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And sadly, millions will.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/08/facebook-send-us-nude-pictures-better-security/
“Want to protect yourself from being embarrassed by nude photos? Facebook has launched an initiative to assist its users from being exploited with “revenge porn” from ex-partners, and the only thing you have to do is … send the world’s largest social-media platform all the nude photographs you have of yourself.
They’re actually serious about that request:
Facebook is asking users to send the company their nude photos in an effort to tackle revenge porn, in an attempt to give some control back to victims of this type of abuse.
Individuals who have shared intimate, nude or sexual images with partners and are worried that the partner (or ex-partner) might distribute them without their consent can use Messenger to send the images to be “hashed”. This means that the company converts the image into a unique digital fingerprint that can be used to identify and block any attempts to re-upload that same image.
They promise to delete them when the conversion is complete, which is probably just what your ex-partner told you, too.”
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Wow, way to abuse your authority on the way out the door Bob.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/09/bob-corker-troll-trump/
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Is there any reason whatsoever to believe the Roy Moore story is true, or is it just another hit job? I didn’t think predators went inactive for 40 years.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-gop-senators-proof_us_5a04ab07e4b03deac08c0e22
I was “molested” as a child. Lucky for me my parents caught on to what was happening before too much damage could be done. From that I have learned to trust my “skin”.
If I have a viseral reaction to a man or he makes my skin crawl there is a reason. I have long despised Roy Moore but have not been able to explain it to anyone. Once again, my reaction has been proven true.
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https://www.axios.com/republican-responded-roy-moore-allegations-2508140244.html
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Kevin D Williamson asks a good question:
https://twitter.com/kevinnr/status/928356001572671489
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Another good point:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/928782125976997888
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David French on the Moore story:
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