FROM A RECENT ONLINE JOB AD I SAW
“All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets”
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I guess fat old white guy injineers can be discriminated on by age?
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Ten reasons to vote against the use of military force
By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Published March 11, 2015 FoxNews.com
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7. A Solution: Follow ISIS’ money, and shut it down.Where is ISIS getting its money? Up to 100,000 ISIS fighters are funded by Gulf State donors, identified in the past as being from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Fully equipping and providing for one modern combat-ready soldier can cost $850,000 to $1,000,000 a year. ISIS’ army could be gaining $85 billion to $100 billion a year from various sources. We can either commit the U.S. military to another war, and the U.S. to further risk of impending attacks through the genesis of a new crusade, or we can fight this threat with intelligent power and high technology.
The administration must identify the specific sources of ISIS’ money, the individuals, the nations and the means of transfer, and shut them all down. It must sanction countries and individuals, tie up their bank accounts and commercial activities, freeze their assets and cancel their credit cards. Send platoons of accountants from the Treasury Department and the IRS into the fray, not platoons of U.S. soldiers. The U.S. must track oil sales, sales of antiquities and other valuables. Anyone involved in any transactions of any kind with ISIS must be identified and sanctioned.
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I don’t often agree with a Liberal Leftie, but in this case, I think he’s correct.
“Not my monkey; not my circus.”
The fact that our alledged ally, Saudi Arabia, is funding this to keep their own power is crazy.
Bring the girls and boys home. Tell the “bad guys”, you “mess with us and we’ll nuke ya”!
Argh!
Dona Nobis Pacem
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http://www.economics21.org/commentary/PRRIA-2015-amtrak-reform-subsidies-privatization-2015-03-06
Amtrak Bill Continues History of Wasted Subsidies
Matthew Sabas | 03/06/2015
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Four Decades of Failure
Congressional Republicans were elected on a platform of cutting spending, but taxpayers will continue to pay for Amtrak’s losses for at least 5 more years if a bill that just passed the House becomes law. Can’t Congress do better?
Amtrak has cost the government over $45 billion in subsidies over the last 44 years, allowing it to finance the upkeep of unprofitable routes, overstaffed trains, and the mismanagement of its food services.
The bipartisan Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 would subsidize Amtrak by an estimated $7 billion from 2016 to 2020. It passed the House by 316 votes to 101 votes on Wednesday and is now headed to the Senate and, presumably, President Obama’s signature. Amtrak has been operating without official funding authorization since the previous bill expired in October 2013.
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How can it operate without an “official funding authorization”?
Why pass anything?
It’s a sad state of affairs just how “law-less” we have become.
The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over!
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http://nhindependence.org/video-southern-tier-towns-looking-to-cut-ny-ties/
Southern Tier towns looking to cut NY ties
Posted on Mar 6, 2015
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The local economy is pushing one organization in Upstate New York to pose a question: Is it possible to secede to Pennsylvania?The Upstate New York Towns Association is researching this very topic. The group says a few factors pushing its research are high property taxes, low sales tax revenue and the recent decision to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York.“The Southern Tier is desolate,” said Conklin Town Supervisor Jim Finch (R). “We have no jobs and no income. The richest resource we have is in the ground.”Finch said the ground in Conklin is rich with natural gas in the Marcellus Shale. However, that shale is unable to be tapped. He described this ban as a violation of his natural rights as a property owner.
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This is a good sign.
Vote with your feet if you can.
Vote to secede if you can’t.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/frank-hollenbeck/deadly-government-labs/
Five Steps to Fixing Greece’s Debt Problem
By Frank HollenbeckMises.org
March 5, 2015
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Step Five: Fix the New Drachma to Gold
Gold has many drawbacks, but gold’s primary advantage lies in the fact that it constrains current and future governments from using the printing presses to finance government expenditures. Once the tie to the euro is broken, Greece should then fix its new currency to gold. Even though Greece has no significant gold reserves, it can follow the example of Germany in 1923 when a broke Germany slowly returned to a gold standard by first fixing its money to non-gold commodities (i.e., rye bread in the German case).
By instituting true austerity and freeing the banking sector from the euro and the EU, Greece could go from being the example to avoid to the example to emulate in a relatively short period of time. With such a financial structure, Greece would benefit from long-term financial and economic stability. It would force Greece to make hard choices up front, thus avoiding later problems in the first place.
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I’d want some of them. Or any hard money currency tied to something!
As a non-enconmist, I’d assume that there would be a capital inflow with a hard money currency.
Akin to the Swiss Franc, that’s becoming a proxy for a strong fiat currency.
And, if Russia or China do it, then that is the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Whatever happened to the gold dinar?
Remember what happened to Saddam when he made noises about wanting to be paid in gold for his oil?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/felix-bronstein/deadly-government-labs-2/
I’m From A Government Lab, And I’m Here To Help You
By Felix Bronstein
March 5, 2015
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Among other things, FBI’s handling of evidence in such cases as the Oklahoma City and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings was criticized. The investigation came about as a result of a whistleblower, Frederic Whitehurst, Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI Crime Lab. In 2003, an investigation by the Associated Press showed that “the FBI lab, which reformed itself after a mid-1990s scandal over bad science, is grappling with new problems that have opened its work on lead bullets and DNA analysis to challenges … .” The IG began an investigation, which eventually broadened to the FBI’s DNA analysis unit. In May of 2003, a man who spent 10 years in prison had his conviction overturned “because an FBI scientific expert gave inaccurate testimony and withheld evidence.” In the summer of 2003, the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility began investigating its crime lab’s chief of scientific analysis, Steven Burmeister, regarding his conduct in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Burmeister initially claimed that the crime lab mishandled evidence, but then retracted that statement, allegedly under pressure. In July of 2014, it was revealed that the task force the Department of Justice created in 1996 to identify cases involving “fabricating evidence and reaching conclusions unsupported by science” and other mishandling by the FBI acted very slowly. A number of defendants were never informed that their convictions were based on such evidence, and at least 3 death row inmates were executed before they could be informed of this. “Nearly every criminal case reviewed … as part of [an] investigation started in 2012 of problems at the FBI lab has included flawed forensic testimony from the agency.” The FBI then stopped the review of its hair and fiber analysis unit until the July 2014 report came out.
In November of 2014, charges against several defendants were dismissed and prison sentences were vacated as a result of an FBI agent allegedly “tampering with drug and gun evidence.” In December of 2014, an audit revealed that “F.B.I. agents in every region of the country have mishandled, mislabeled and lost evidence.” Also in December, a General Accounting Office inquiry found that the “FBI’s genetic tests didn’t nail anthrax killer.” This corroborated prior investigations that found problems with how the FBI and its lab concluded that Bruce Ivins was the Amerithrax killer.
Perhaps the next time someone states that we must always only look to the federal government when truly important matters of science, safety, objectivity, justice, national security and transparency are concerned, one may take a pause, and consider these (and other similar) cases.
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I have long ranted that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
Here’s another example.
How do we shut this stuff down?
Does anyone believe anything that comes from them?
I don’t.
I used to.
But, they have lost ALL credibility.
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http://www.cato.org/blog/after-eight-years-losses-end-governments-postal-monopoly
MARCH 2, 2015 4:34PM
After Eight Years of Losses, End the Government’s Postal Monopoly
By DOUG BANDOW
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The United States Postal Service lost $5.5 billion last year. That is the eighth annual loss in a row and the third highest ever. The only good news is that it remains below the red ink tsunami of $15.9 billion in 2012.
Why does the federal government deliver the mail? Why does it have a monopoly over delivering the mail?
The Postal Service one of the few government programs with actual constitutional warrant. Alas, America’s revolutionaries turned the system into a fount of federal patronage. Local postmasters became perhaps the president’s most important appointments. The Postmaster General was a member of the Cabinet from 1829 to 1971.
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Obviously, it’s a patronage boondoggle.
End the monopoly now.
Interesting that the PO is using FedEx and UPS to deliver to the PO’s and FedEx and UPS are using UPS to deliver to end Users.
Stop it all now.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
What speech is going to justify expulsion next?
By Eugene Volokh March 10 at 2:14 PM
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Oklahoma University President David Boren has expelled two students for leading a racist chant. These students’ speech was indeed quite repugnant, but for reasons I discuss here, it’s protected by the First Amendment.
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“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, ’cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the “land of the free”.” — President Andrew Shepherd played by Michael Douglas in “The American President” (1995)
Seems pretty OBVIOUS:
(1) Oklahoma University is a Gooferment Skrule!
(2) The OU Prez punished the students and the frat for their speech.
The First Amendment has been violated!
Using the liberal’s favorite movie, “defend that”!
Argh!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/no_author/the-okc-bombing-coverup/
Are FBI Informants Working Inside America’s Churches?
By Bob McCarty
BobMcCarty.com
March 3, 2015
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“The FBI argues that the discovery (he) seeks would be futile since ‘illegal’ activity by the federal government is shielded from disclosure under FOIA if covered by an exemption.”
He went on to question how the FBI can, in good faith, claim that a national security exemption allows the Bureau to declare its unconstitutional domestic spying program “secret” and, in turn, allows them to keep their illegal activities hidden from the public.
“It is an absurd — no, arrogant — position for the FBI to take,” he said
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One has to assume that there are secret Gooferment programs to spy on “We, The Sheeple”.
The question is when does surveillance turn into instigation?
It’s a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Argh!
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I’ve deleted all my personal emails and the server will remain private: Hillary Clinton reveals HALF her inbox has not been handed over and says she used one account for convenience
Clinton made peace with the public after her speech to the U.N.
Only acknowledgement of the email controversy had been through a spokesman and a single tweet
Former Secretary of State’s spokesman said Clinton had complied with in ‘both the letter and spirit of the rules’
Her tweet called on the State Department to make public the 55,000 pages of messages her team turned over
Even after the presser questions lingered about Clinton’s use of a private server, which she said would remain out of the government’s grasp
Clinton is reportedly looking to launch her presidential campaign on April 1
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 08:31 EST, 10 March 2015 | UPDATED: 14:59 EST, 10 March 2015
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Hillary Clinton addressed her use of a private email system during her four years at the State Department during a news conference today in New York City, ending her days long silence on the issue.Clinton explained that she used a personal email address so that she didn’t have to carry around two phones or two devices.’I saw it as a matter of convenience, it was allowed, others had done it,’ she said during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.Clinton insisted that she had turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department – which constituted about half of her inbox – and suggested that she deleted messages that were strictly personal in nature so that they did not become public. She later made it sound as her personal communications remain on a private server that she shares with husband Bill, however, and told reporters that she would not give the government access to her personal property.
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Sounds like she has committed two felonies and perhaps perjury.
Federal Records Retention Act — twice.
Swear on the State Department exit form under oath?
Argh!
If David Petraeus convicted for classified leaks, then it’s only fair to treat HRC the same?
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