Monthly Archives: February 2017

Environment

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: We Had to Destroy Environment to Save It

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Taxpayers Foot $1M Bill to Clean Up Dakota Pipeline Protest Area

In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, photo, debris is piled on the ground awaiting pickup by cleanup crews at the Dakota Access oil pipeline protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball. The camp is on federal land, and authorities have told occupants to leave by Wednesday, Feb. 22 in advance of spring flooding. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)

One site after another, Occupy Wall Street, Baltimore, Ferguson, Million Skank march, etc., it is always the tax payer, i.e. YOU dear reader, who gets stuck paying to clean up their crap, literally.

In January, Stand Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II spoke out about the clean up after the protest, which was staged because the tribe and others believed a pipeline spill could contaminate the Missouri River and a reservoir, the Tribune reported.

“Because of this risk of flood, we’re worried about what’s going to be left at the camp,” Archambault said. “What we want to do is make sure none of that waste gets into the Missouri River .… We’re water protectors, but we’re the ones that are going to start contaminating the water.”

And so????????….

Media

Is the Media Trying to Set-up a Dictatorship?

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Excuse me, but wasn’t it Brzezinski who, not over a week ago, said ‘OUR JOB’ IS TO CONTROL ‘EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE THINK’?  Now who in the hell is actually trying to set up a dictatorship?  So often, when the left accuses any one else of some ‘negative’ behavior or agenda it is they who are actually committing that which they accuse others.  In other words, they are sneaky, lying TURDs.  And Mika is not very bright for letting the ‘cat out of the bag’.  But figures she’d be a cat lover.

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From breitbart.com dated 2/27/2017 by Jan Hanchett entitled, “Brzezinski: Is Trump Admin ‘Trying to Create a Dictatorship?’”

During a discussion of the Trump administration banning certain outlets from a press gaggle on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski wondered if the White House was “trying to create a dictatorship?”

After playing a clip from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in 2016 saying, “We have a respect for the press, when it comes to the government, that that is something that you can’t ban an entity from, you know, conservative, liberal, or otherwise. I think, that’s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.” Brezinski stated, “[H]e’s just described himself.”

She added, “[A]re they trying to create a dictatorship? I mean, I’m not joking and I’m not angry.”

 

Government

US Senate Has Confirmed 14 of the 669 Senior Federal Positions and Vacant Federal Judgeships!

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The likelihood that President Trumpsenate-image will get the Senate to approve all the federal positions and vacant judgeships in his first four years is nil.  The Senate Republicans, particularly the Dem’s Bitch McConnell, are not helping the process.  AND not one Senator is complaining about it!  Even though I would like to see half of government go away, this is asinine.  Senators, TURD!

From breitbart.com dated 2/25/2017 by Alfred S. Regnery entitled, “Exclusive—Regnery: Anti-Trump Democrats’ Best Allies Are Senate Republicans”:

So far, the Senate has confirmed 14 of the 549 senior federal positions that President Trump needs to run the government and who need Senate confirmation—Cabinet secretaries and people who run the departments, bureaus, agencies and the rest of the government. The rest of the government is being run by career bureaucrats and a few Obama holdovers.

There are another 120 vacant federal judgeships and, of course, the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme Court. Each requires Senate approval.

White House staff is busily choosing and vetting candidates for the rest of the positions, and there undoubtedly will be many nominations sent to the Senate for confirmation in the next several weeks.

And where is the Senate now? On vacation.

We hear a lot of talk that Harry Reid gave away the store when he exercised the nuclear option, and that Republicans have the 51 votes needed to get the Trump team confirmed. That may be, but with the way Majority Leader Mitch McConnell runs the Senate, Democrats can—and probably will—make it impossible to confirm more than a handful of nominees.

The problem isn’t the votes. Republicans have those. The problem is time—floor time.

As a senior Senate staffer told me this week: “Regardless of how many votes it takes to confirm or approve anything in the Senate, if Democrats want to force the issue, they can require a minimum of 30 hours to debate any nomination or any bill.  Let that sink in.  549 vacancies, at 30 hours each, equals 686 days.  If you subtract weekends, and add a nice vacation every few months, you are looking at never finishing this job throughout the entirety of Donald Trump’s first term.  And this assumes they are in session around the clock and do no other legislative business, which is also impossible.”

Under Senate rules, when debate is cut off, senators are entitled to another 30 hours of debate. Since the Senate is rarely in session for more than 25 to 30 hours a week, Democrats can tie things up indefinitely.

So you would think the Senate would be working long hours, forcing Democrats to talk until exhausted, so the President’s team gets confirmed, right?

Wrong. After doing virtually no work during most of January, and working at a leisurely pace in February, the Senate just left town for a 10-day recess. That means they went home to campaign—after being on the job for about six weeks. As my friend said: “The Democrats are shutting down the Senate’s business, and Mitch McConnell’s answer is to give everyone a big vacation.  The message to Democrats is: keep up the great work, we have no intention of fighting back.”

The result? The government will be run by bureaucrats, Obama holdovers and temporary “acting” trump appointees. Neil Gorsuch won’t get confirmed for weeks and weeks, and other judicial vacancies will remain vacant. Not to mention letting President Trump’s program simply die on the vine—the crucial business of repealing Obamacare, tax reform, passing budgets and appropriations, and the rest of the things Donald Trump and taxpayers so badly need.

So what is to be done?

I spoke with a long-time staff member from the Senate Judiciary Committee (who must remain anonymous if he wants to keep his job), who told me that Republicans’ only remedy is to force Democrats to debate until they wear themselves out. Schedule Senate floor debates to go all day and night, on weekends and holidays until Democrats cry uncle.

“Is McConnell likely to do that?” I asked. Not a chance, said my friend.

“Are any Republican Senators demanding that they fight back?” I asked.

Not a one, I was told.

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington told the New York Times this week that [Democrats] “have to resist [Trump] every way and everywhere, every time we can… By undermining Mr. Trump across the board, Democrats hope to split Republicans away from a president of their own party.”

Unless Mitch McConnell gets down to business and gets the Senate back to work, he may help Democrats do exactly that.

Government

Deconstruction of the Administrative State

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By heavens, he is actually doing it.  Yes, Reagan, Clinton and G.W. Bush gave it a half-hearted try but by embedding regulation monitors in the agencies and requiring reporting it appears that the most successful attempt at paring back government in our lifetime could succeed.  And of course, less government means more freedom.  MAGA!

Now be prepared for the bureaucratic fight!

To wit from reuters.com dated 2/24/2017 by David Shepardson and Steve Holland entitled “In sweeping move, Trump puts regulation monitors in U.S. agencies“:

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to place “regulatory reform” task forces and officers within federal agencies in what may be the most far reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades.

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The sweeping order directs every federal agency to establish a task force to ensure each has a team to research all regulations and take aim at those deemed burdensome to the U.S. economy and designate regulatory reform officers within 60 days and must report on the progress within 90 days.

“Excessive regulation is killing jobs, driving companies out of our country like never before,” Trump said before signing the order. “Every regulation should have to pass a simple test; does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers?”

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Government

SSA, TURD

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It just keeps being one governmental agency tripping over another to see how incompetent and for what amount they can bilk the taxpayer.  I know it is difficult to beat the military for financial malfeasance but the SSA is putting forth a good effort.

From Breitbart.com dated 2/23/2017 by Katherine Rodriguez entitled, “Social Security Administration Paid $1 Billion in Benefits to Those Without a SSN“.

The audit, released Friday, found thousands of instances where no SSN was found on file.

The agency paid $1 billion to 22,426 representative payees  {$44,591/payee!} who “did not have an SSN” and had not kept any paper applications supporting an individual’s case to receive benefits on someone else’s behalf, according to the inspector general.

“Furthermore, unless it takes corrective action, we estimate SSA will pay about $182.5 million in benefits, annually, to representative payees who do not have an SSN or paper application supporting their selection,” the inspector general said.

The agency also paid $853.1 million in benefits since 2004 to individuals whom the agency terminated as representative payees.

Politics

The Democrats’ Plan of Disruption and Intimidation: Indivisible Guide 2017

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Find herein the link to a .pdf document that is being disseminated by the Utah Republican Party. They state:

“Democrats are planning an all out effort of mayhem and disruption to undermine the results of the 2016 elections. They’ve put together a training handbook for protesters with detailed instructions to harass and intimidate. They are targeting Republican members of Congress for defeat in 2018.

The UTGOP is shining a light on the Democrats’ hypocrisy and we’ve posted their manual on our website. We want you to know what the American people are up against.”

Here is a link to the .pdf document as obtained from the UT GOP which is entitled, “Indivisible Guide 2017”.  Makes for interesting reading and sounds like leftist modis operandi.

Media

MSNBC Mika Brzezinski: Controlling exactly what people think is our {media’s} job

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So if it’s your job to control what I think then why do we live in a Constitutional Republic rather than N. Korea?  Rest assured Mika, you will NEVER control what I think.  Primarily because I never listen to you, other than report upon your bitchnesses.  All hail Queen Mika.

 

Mika Brezezinski, TURD of the Day

 

 From Grabien.com dated 2/22/2017 entitled, “BRZEZINSKI: ‘OUR JOB’ IS TO CONTROL ‘EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE THINK’

 

Controlling “exactly what people think” is the job of the media, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.

While discussing President Trump’s entreaties to the American people to remain skeptical of the press, Bzezinski worried that if the economy turns south, Americans may end up trusting him over the media.

“And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think,” Brzezinski said. “And that, that is our job.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, ‘Yeah you guys are going crazy. He’s doing — what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'”

BRZEZINSKI: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”

The comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump’s media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin.

SCARBOROUGH: “It’s the — it’s the ground noise that he is throwing out there also, whether he is questioning, Mark, the legitimacy of federal judges to do what they have done since Marbury v. Madison. It’s when he says the media is the, quote –”

BRZEZINSKI: “Enemy.”

SCARBOROUGH: “– ‘enemy of the people’, where he sounds like Mussolini or Lenin which obviously causes concern that phrase right there makes him sound more like a dictator in training, when he sends Stephen Miller out and says, basically the president has absolute power, he shall not be questioned.”

Scarborough also accused Trump’s base of having a “blind spot” on the issue of illegal immigration.

“We have an economy, let’s face it, we have an economy that is built on illegal immigration,” Scarborough said. “We have an economy that is built on that. That is why I say why don’t you just legalize it?”

Politics

Vote Illegally, We Deport

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MAGA!  We win another one.  President Trump take note!  Good idea Dems to get non-citizens voting for you.  Screw you Nancy Pelosi.  Dems TURD.

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Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick, citizen of Peru, lied about being an American citizen on an Illinois Department of Motor Vehicle form and votes illegally.  Here’s a hint, Margarita, if you come to the U.S., while a guest don’t be a TURD.

From JudicialWatch.org dated 2/17/2017 entitled, “Fed Appeals Court: Immigrant Who Voted Illegally Can be Deported“:

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An immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals, the government’s highest administrative body for interpreting and applying immigration laws, determined that Fitzpatrick should be deported because non-U.S. citizens cannot vote in federal elections and can be removed from the country for doing so.

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the two previous rulings in favor of deportation,…

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Right to Keep and Bear Arms

The Problem Lies In the Details, DOH, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals!

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From bearingarms.com dated 2/17/2017 entitled, “Federal Court Rules Florida Doctors Can Ask Patients About Guns“:

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Florida doctors can talk to patients about gun safety, declaring a law aimed at restricting such discussions a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law does not trespass on patients’ Second Amendment rights to own guns and noted a patient who doesn’t want to be questioned about that can easily find another doctor.

“The Second Amendment right to own and possess firearms does not preclude questions about, commentary on, or criticism for the exercise of that right,” wrote Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan in one of two majority opinions covering 90 pages. “There is no actual conflict between the First Amendment rights of doctors and medical professionals and the Second Amendment rights of patients.”

Circuit Judge William Pryor, who was a finalist in President Donald Trump’s search for a Supreme Court nominee, said in a separate concurring opinion that the First Amendment must protect all points of view.

“The promise of free speech is that even when one holds an unpopular point of view, the state cannot stifle it,” he wrote. “The price Americans pay for this freedom is that the rule remains unchanged regardless of who is in the majority.”

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The problem is that your electronic medical record (EMR) is far from secure and if any government agency wants to see it do you think your doctor is going to stand in the way?  Just like SSA did re: our veterans who had trouble with handling their finances.  Some damn bureaucrat raises their head above the trenches and declares anyone with such and such on the EMR cannot own guns or lollipops or whatever.  Trump vacated the ruling re: our vets.  When do you think we are going to get another Trump to vacate further abuses of our EMR?

Bottom line, if I’m asked by my doctor(s) re: guns, I will simply get up and walk out the door without saying a word.  Problem is, good docs (medically) are hard to find.  The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is wrong because of how the information can, and will, be used by government!  Using such information without proper adjudication must be deemed illegal, but good luck with that.