B-Man Posted September 9, 2016 Posted September 9, 2016 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: State Dept sand bags and slow-walks document requests by Republicans, but it’s quick to respond when Democrats ask. Indeed. It’s part of a calculated –and massive– obstruction of justice operation run by Hillary. Obstruction of justice is the crime that drove Nixon from the White House.
B-Man Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 HOUSE REPUBLICANS INTRODUCE RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH IRS COMMISSIONER JOHN KOSKINEN: Good, he should be impeached. He behaves as if he’s above the law. The resolution faces procedural hurdles and may not move forward. Even if Koskinen isn’t convicted, the process will serve a useful and instrutive purpose.
B-Man Posted September 14, 2016 Posted September 14, 2016 On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its annual poverty report declaring that 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty in 2015. We should be concerned about any American living in real material hardship, but much of what the Census reports about poverty is misleading. Here are 15 facts about poverty in America that may surprise you. (All statistics are taken from U.S. government surveys.) Poor households routinely report spending $2.40 for every $1 of income the Census says they have. The average poor American lives in a house or apartment that is in good repair and has more living space than the average nonpoor person in France, Germany, or England. Eighty-five percent of poor households have air conditioning. Nearly three-fourths of poor households have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks. Nearly two-thirds of poor households have cable or satellite TV. Half have a personal computer; 43 percent have internet access. Two-thirds have at least one DVD player More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation. One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV. Activist groups spread alarming stories about widespread hunger in the nation, but in reality, most of the poor do not experience hunger or food shortages. The U.S. Department of Agriculture collects data on these topics in its household food security survey. For 2009, the survey showed: Only 4 percent of poor parents reported that their children were hungry even once during the prior year because they could not afford food. Some 18 percent of poor adults reported they were hungry even once in the prior year due to lack of money for food. Why does the Census identify so many individuals as “poor” who do not appear to be poor in any normal sense of the term? The answer lies in the misleading way the Census measures “poverty.” The Census defines a family as poor if its income falls below a specified income threshold. (For example, the poverty threshold for a family of four in 2015 was $24,036.) But in counting “income,” the Census excludes nearly all welfare benefits. Do the higher living standards of families receiving welfare mean the welfare state is successful? The answer is no. The real aim of welfare should be to make families self-sufficient: capable of supporting themselves above the poverty income threshold without reliance on government welfare aid. Despite having spent over $25 trillion on means-tested welfare since the beginning of the War on Poverty under President Lyndon Johnson, many Americans are less capable of self-sufficiency today than when the War on Poverty began. The pathways to self-sufficiency are work and marriage. We should reform the welfare state to promote these. Able-bodied recipients should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of getting aid. Penalties against marriage in welfare programs should be removed. Let’s make welfare a hand-up, not a handout.
Nanker Posted September 14, 2016 Posted September 14, 2016 This won't be discovered by the MSM until a Republican is in the White House... even a phony one like Trumpster.
B-Man Posted September 15, 2016 Posted September 15, 2016 70% of everyone in prison's a Democrat http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/jail-survey-7-in-10-felons-register-as-democrats/article/2541412 … 20% of everyone in prison's an Illegal Alien http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonside.html … Get it ? BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court slaps down Republicans' attempt to block ex-felons from voting ThinkProgress From the hilariously named Think Progress
DC Tom Posted September 15, 2016 Posted September 15, 2016 BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court slaps down Republicans' attempt to block ex-felons from voting ThinkProgress From the hilariously named Think Progress How the VA Supreme Court can decide that a selective restoration of only certain legally rescinded rights by executive order is equivalent to a pardon. It should have been a ridiculously simple test: are they getting their gun rights back as well? No? Not a pardon.
B-Man Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 Mediaite @Mediaite 58m58 minutes ago OOPS: Feds Mistakenly Grant Citizenship to Hundreds of Immigrants Scheduled for Deportation http://bit.ly/2cN9zxh
B-Man Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 Court: Farmers can continue suit against EPA over release of personal info to environmental groups EPA hands farmers’ personal data to environmental groups on “a silver platter.” Last week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would battle the “regulatory industry” that has prospered under President Obama. The Environmental Protection Agency has been the tycoon of this industry. Now, in what is hopefully a sign of turnaround, a court has ruled in favor of American farmers who have been pitted against the agency in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. A federal appeals court recently overruled a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its release to environmental groups of personal information on tens of thousands of farmers. In late 2015, a U.S. district court dismissed the NPPC-Farm Bureau suit for lack of standing. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis ruled that “the associations have established a concrete and particularized injury in fact traceable to the EPA’s action and redressable by judicial relief.” “EPA’s release of sensitive, private and personal materials on more than 100,000 farmers and ranchers was an outrageous abuse of its power and trust,” said NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from Dysart, Iowa. “We are very pleased with the Court of Appeals’ decision to reinstate our lawsuit to prevent the EPA from doing this again.” The case stems from the federal agency’s 2013 release to three environmental groups of a vast compilation of spreadsheets on American livestock producers. Why should these farmers worry? After all, animal-rights and environmental activists are always so respectful, restrained, and reasonable!
B-Man Posted September 23, 2016 Posted September 23, 2016 Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens 'due to election'By Malia Zimmerman An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday. The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the election year.” “The Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,” reads the email, which was disclosed to FoxNews.com by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/22/email-shows-federal-immigration-bosses-in-ot-push-to-swear-in-new-citizens-due-to-election.html
B-Man Posted September 25, 2016 Posted September 25, 2016 Obama’s Colossal Email Lie Final Test for Tarnished MSM.........I have little doubt that they will fail this also JOHN SCHINDLER: The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton. How exactly Cheryl Mills got immunity, and what its terms were, is the long-awaited “smoking gun” in EmailGate, the clear indication that, despite countless man-hours expended on the year-long investigation, James Comey and his FBI never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton – or anyone – for her mishandling of classified information as secretary of state. Why Comey decided to give Mills a get-out-of-jail-free card is something that needs proper investigation. This is raw, naked politics. . . . Corruption is the tamest word to describe this sort of dirty backroom deal which makes average Americans despise politics and politicians altogether. How high in this administration EmailGate went is the key question, and it’s been reopened by the latest tranche of redacted documents that the FBI released – on Friday afternoon, as usual. There are lots of tantalizing tidbits here, including the fact that early in Hillary’s term at Foggy Bottom, State Department officials were raising awkward legal questions about her highly irregular email and server arrangements. Most intriguing, however, is the revelation that Hillary was communicating with President Obama via personal email, and he was using an alias. The alias he used with Hillary, and apparently others, was withheld by the FBI, and let it be said the fact that the president wanted to disguise his identity in unclassified email is not all that odd. What is odd, however, is the fact that Obama previously told the media that he only learned of Hillary’s irregular email and server arrangements from “news reports.” How the president failed to notice that he was emailing his top diplomat at her personal, clintonmail.com address, not a state.gov account, particularly when they were discussing official business, is something Congress may want to find out – since certainly the FBI won’t. Not if it can help it. 99
B-Man Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 (edited) The Road Not Taken: What If Infrastructure Were Actually Planned ... WELL, THERE’D BE FEWER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT Edited September 28, 2016 by B-Man
Deranged Rhino Posted October 1, 2016 Author Posted October 1, 2016 The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well.
/dev/null Posted October 1, 2016 Posted October 1, 2016 The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well. The Fed buying stocks, what could possibly go wrong? Santelli is usally spot on but I have to disagree with his remarks about how Yellen(Fed President) would have a hard time convincing Congress to give her the authority to do so. Well okay technically he is correct that Congress would have to approve the Fed purchasing stocks and Congress would take the opportunity to rip into the Fed. But not that it matters, the Fed stopped caring about oversight long ago and will do it anyway
TakeYouToTasker Posted October 2, 2016 Posted October 2, 2016 The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well. Asset hyper-bubble thy name is "yikes".
Deranged Rhino Posted October 2, 2016 Author Posted October 2, 2016 (edited) Nothing to see here... Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee. The agency’s staff worked alongside high-ranking U.S. military officers in their Baghdad Camp Victory headquarters as the insurgency raged outside. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/01/pentagon-paid-for-fake-al-qaeda-videos.html (Long, but worth the read) Edited October 2, 2016 by Deranged Rhino
B-Man Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS WISCONSIN PROSECUTORS’ JOHN DOE APPEAL. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by three Democratic district attorneys seeking to revive a criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign — effectively ending the legal wrangling over the four-year-old probe. The decision marks a major victory for Walker and his Republican allies, who mounted a vigorous challenge to the secretive, so-called John Doe II investigation that involved investigators issuing dozens of subpoenas and seizing equipment and millions of documents from those under investigation. In a statement Monday, Walker said the U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin Supreme Court and other judges have all reached the same conclusion — “that this investigation by prosecutors was without merit and thus must be ended.” “I applaud the individuals and organizations who fought for and successfully defended their First Amendment rights against political opponents who wanted to silence them,” Walker said.
Deranged Rhino Posted October 5, 2016 Author Posted October 5, 2016 We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through: • Sensual gratification, • Cheap mass-produced goods, • Boundless credit, • Political theater and • Amusement. While we were entertained, • The regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled, • The laws that once protected us were rewritten and • We were impoverished. Now that: • Credit is drying up, • Good jobs for the working class are gone forever and • Mass-produced goods are unaffordable, .... we find ourselves transported from “Brave New World” to “1984.” The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is clearly sliding toward unavoidable bankruptcy. It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxley’s feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-15/orwellian-america
B-Man Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 Parents Report Kids’ School Lunches Taken Away by Teachers. Tami DeVries said that when her son took his lunch to kindergarten, it was confiscated. A teacher took away his kielbasa, cheese, and Wheat Thins crackers, replacing them with Cheerios. Alicia Nesbitt reported that her stepdaughter, in first grade, had chips removed from her lunch during the first week of school. “She came home and told me they weren’t a ‘healthy choice,’” Nesbitt said. “That may be true, but the rest of her lunch and snacks were very healthy and it’s up to parents if they want to put a little treat in for their kids. Unless the school wants to provide lunches, I don’t really think it’s their business.”
boyst Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through: Sensual gratification, Cheap mass-produced goods, Boundless credit, Political theater and Amusement. While we were entertained, The regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled, The laws that once protected us were rewritten and We were impoverished. Now that: Credit is drying up, Good jobs for the working class are gone forever and Mass-produced goods are unaffordable, .... we find ourselves transported from Brave New World to 1984. The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is clearly sliding toward unavoidable bankruptcy. It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxleys feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-15/orwellian-america 1984 is right. I was at buffalo wild wings Tuesday. They hire a cop with a body camera to stand at the front door. This isn't in the ghetto. This isn't in the bad part of town. This was at 6pm on a Tuesday. This cop was overweight,out of shape, looking like the most he would want to do is take your appetizer. Why we need a cop at this place is beyond me? Who really feels safer? Why were there a group of kids having a party there when the next table was a group of idiot millenials hanging out next to a corporate group getting drinks. But the cop had a camera that when used as evidence wouldn't be believed, cause a riot and we would be outraged.
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 They won't hate the Fed nearly as much when the Federal help comes in for this hurricane. "And then she was so nice,Lord, she was lovey-dovey" Like the CCC, oh the conservatives sure slammed it in every town in America... But when it came rolling through your town in the 1930's, oh did people love it!
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