The Pentagon can count ships – but little else.
I’m not going to comment. This speaks for itself,
In addition to “being the taxpayers’ greatest investment,” Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi writes that the Pentagon is also “the world’s largest producer of wrong numbers, an ingenious bureaucratic defense system that hides all the other rats’ nests underneath.” Last year, the Department of Defense became the last Cabinet-level department to submit to a comprehensive review of its books — and it flunked the audit. But Defense Department “never expected to pass it,” explained then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan. Whether it ever will — or is even committed to doing so — is an open question. In this week’s episode of Net Assessment, Bryan, Melanie, and Chris discuss Taibbi’s scathing feature, aptly titled “The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit,” and unpack his suggestions for how to fix the problem. Bryan has no grievances — life is coming up roses now that his beloved Virginia Cavaliers have made it to men’s college basketball’s Final Four (Cavaliers’ head coach Tony Bennett, naturally, earns his attaboy). Chris faults those who want to keep expanding NATO, and Melanie credits the Southern Poverty Law Center for (belatedly) doing the right thing.
From https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/net-assessment-the-pentagon-can-count-ships-but-not-much-else/
Sheryl Crow’s Teslia “goes black” on her
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A bit of karma perhaps?
A longtime left-wing activist, Crow is perhaps best known for a 2007 statement urging fans to limit toilet paper use to one square per restroom visit.
Herman Cain for the Federal Reserve
Can’t be. Racist Trump would never put a black man in such a sensitive position.
Right?
“Anonymous sources” - doncha love it – say he’s waiting on the completion of the background check. Doesn’t want to get blindsided again.
Cain served in multiple positions within the Fed system at the Kansas City Federal Reserve between 1989 and 1996. He served as CEO of Godfather's Pizza and ran for the 2012 GOP president nomination, but dropped out after sexual harassment allegations sank his candidacy.
President Trump regards his selection of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell as one of the greatest mistakes of his administration. He has told aides that Powell has no "feel" for the markets and compares him to a golfer who cannot putt.
Trump tells aides that Powell is the biggest threat to the economy due to his 2018 decisions to raise interest rates, and even as Powell halted the rate rises he failed to win back Trump's affection. Trump considers Powell to be "weak" and blames Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for encouraging him to pick him, according to sources who've discussed the matter with the president.
Trump considered replacing Powell with Kevin Warsh for a brief moment last year, as Axios reported earlier this week.
The president has two picks for the Fed and will get both.
Democrats in 2020: Unelectable Nonentities
I think the next 19 months are going to be among the most entertaining of my 80 years. Better than going to the circus or watching some of the old TV comedy shows.
It is uproariously entertaining to see the scurryings of the innumerable host of Democratic presidential candidates in what is already more of a lottery than a quest for the nomination of a great party to the world’s greatest office.
The Gadarene stampede to (and over) the edge of the abyss of all who advocate open borders, 70 percent income taxes, the green terror, socialized medicine, legalized infanticide, reparations to native and African-Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and vacation of the Electoral College, has finally elicited, in a Churchillian expression, a tiny mouse of dissent. The charge to oblivion reminds me of 1972. I had the privilege of knowing Richard Nixon in his last five years of his life and he described to me the reaction he and his wife had to the Democratic opposition of that year. Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.) was nominated on a platform that included a general income tax increase, the transportation by school buses of millions of children all around every metropolitan area to distant neighborhoods in search of “racially balanced” schools, and a capitulation to North Vietnam that was, as even the New York Times acknowledged, more humiliating to the United States than Hanoi was seeking.
I had to look up the word “gadarene.”
Beto caught in another scandal;
EL PASO, Texas — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke paid roughly $110,000 in campaign funds to a web development company while either he or his wife owned it, public records show.
Beto for Texas paid Stanton Street Technology Group $58,544 during the 2011-12 election cycle, $39,060 during the 2013-14 cycle, $9,290 in the 2015-16 cycle and $32,778 during the 2017-18 cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Cummings Going After White House Security Clearance Adjucator
We will see so many of the House committee subpoenas in the next 19 months that our heads will be spinning.
The House Oversight Committee voted to authorize a subpoena for a former adjudications manager in the White House Personnel Security Office to testify behind closed doors as part of an investigation into the security clearance process of the Trump administration.
The poor guy was just doing his job and is now caught up in the web because of Dim hatred of the president.
I got curious and looked into just what Carl Kline can do about it. He has to appear before the closed door session of the committee or face legal action at the federal level. So, that leaves the question; can he just clam up and claim either executive privilege or his 5th Amendment rights? If he claims the 5th, the committee can then grant him immunity which then forces him to answer questions.
It’s going to be hilarious to watch and one just has to feel sorry for the poor guy who was just doing his job.
Much more about this @ https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/another-democrat-subpoena-to-the-white-house-issued-after-security-clearance-issues-alleged-by-whistleblower/
Not a Single CNN Show Placed in Top 20 During First Quarter of 2019
How on earth do they still have advertisers?
Things are so bad for CNN that Fox & Friends First, which airs at 4 a.m., earns more viewers than CNN’s hideous New Day (562K viewers to 561K).
Fox News owned 12 of the top 20 shows last quarter (MSNBC held the rest), including the four of the top five. Here’s that breakdown which includes total viewers in millions:
Sean Hannity (3.121M) – Fox
Rachel Maddow (3.057M) – MSNBC
Tucker Carlson (2.982M) – Fox
The Five (2.575M) – Fox
Laura Ingraham (2.434M) – Fox
I almost never watch Hannity but do my best not to miss Tucker.
As of now, though, those numbers could look dramatically different come next quarter. Since the release of the Mueller Report two weeks ago, the cable news landscape has shifted dramatically. It’s not just CNN taking a hit. President Trump’s exoneration in the Russia Collusion Hoax has also driven down MSNBC’s ratings, most especially Rachel Maddow, who spent years promising her audience Trump’s arrest would be televised live from the Oval Office after the next commercial break.
I bet steam’s coming out of Jim Acosta’s ears.
Navy SEAL accused of war crimes reunites with family
God bless you Mister President!
Hunter told Kilmeade that Gallagher had been allowed to see his family, go to a Denny’s restaurant on the base and even hit golf balls at its driving range.
And the congressman who helped get him out vows that he’s going to keep a close eye on the legal proceedings to ensure they Navy doesn’t try to “get even” for having The Big Guy step in.
Gallagher’s family, on a Facebook page that has been posting updates about the case, says the move away from the brig allows him “to receive the medical care he needs and deserves, and also the opportunity to adequately and fully prepare for his trial with his legal team.”
“Family means everything to us,” his wife, Andrea, wrote in a message posted on Wednesday night. “After 8 combat deployments over the past 15 years, we cherish every waking moment we have together. This is why we’re so incredibly grateful that President Trump exercised true leadership in granting us time together as we fight the battle of our lives against false charges.”
Who Writes Our Laws?
This is an unusual article written in a way that makes it difficult to nail down for posting here. It is very difficult to try to present the graphics.
So, here’s a try of summing it up.
Across all 50 states, it is very clear that private industry – and political organizations – were the prime mover behind laws introduced in all the 50 states.
An investigation by USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity has found that in the last eight years, more than 10,000 bills introduced in statehouses nationwide were almost entirely copied from bills written by special interests.
More than 10,000!
They refer to “model bills” which are written by private entities and 2,100 of them have been signed into law in the last 8 years.
What do we elect legislators to do?
I’ll let you check it out for yourselves @ https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/asbestos-sharia-law-model-bills-lobbyists-special-interests-influence-state-laws/
The Babylon Bee
CNN Publishes Real News Story For April Fools' Day @ https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-publishes-real-news-story-for-april-fools-day
Joe Biden Sneaks Up Behind Nation's Women To Whisper In Their Ears How He's Going To Be More Respectful @ https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-sneaks-up-behind-nations-women-to-whisper-in-their-ears-how-hes-going-to-be-more-respectful
Monkey With Typewriter Produces Reasonable Alternative To Green New Deal @ https://babylonbee.com/news/monkey-with-typewriter-produces-reasonable-alternative-to-green-new-deal
Wackos want Justice Kavanaugh Fired from George Mason University
Parents spend ridiculous sums to send their twinkles to get an education and get this instead.
George Mason University students are urging the school’s administration to fire Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (shown above with accuser Christine Blasey Ford) and prevent him from teaching a summer course over misconduct allegations.
The group calling themselves “Mason For Survivors” started a petition to “terminate AND void ALL contracts and affiliation with Brett Kavanaugh at George Mason University.”
The petition attracted over 3,000 signatures so far.
Kavanaugh is set to teach a course for students studying abroad in the United Kingdom next summer for the university’s Antonin Scalia Law School as a distinguished visiting professor.
But the activists say the allegations raised by women during the confirmation hearings last year warrant the firing of the justice.
Mass Exodus: Union Dollars Dry Up Thanks To SCOTUS Ruling
Two major public sector unions lost nearly 210,000 agency fee payers combined in 2018, according to recently filed reports showing the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibits forcing nonmembers to pay for collective bargaining and other nonpolitical expenses.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) saw a 98 percent drop from the prior year, leaving 2,200 agency fee payers. The Service Employees International Union lost 94 percent of their agency fee payers, reducing the number of agency fee payers to 5,800.
Does that make you feel bad? For the union bosses, that is?
The two main public teachers unions similarly lost their fee payers following the ruling, according to government reports and union representatives.
Not just the government unions but teachers too!
How awful.
Outside of funds taken in, public sector unions have had to dish money out to defend against a slew of Janus-related lawsuits seeking fee refunds, and challenging unions’ power to represent nonmembers and their ability to limit when former members stop paying dues.
And even more is how union money is drying up for the Democrats.
New Record: Obama Mentions Himself 467 Times During Berlin Town Hall
Anyone forget just how narcissistic he is?
President Obama was in Germany on Saturday, ostensibly to speak about “community leadership and civic engagement” on behalf of his eponymous Obama Foundation, but Berliners soon discovered his main topic of interest was … Barack Obama.
Obama talking about himself in an almost obsessive manner is no new phenomenon, but today he shattered his own records. Over the course of a 90 minute townhall with “emerging leaders,” Obama mentioned himself an eye-popping 467 times.
Here’s the breakdown of his personal pronoun use (based on a rush transcript of the event):
“I” — 312
“Me” — 33
“My” — 43
“I’d” — 9
“I’m” — 61
“Myself” — 9
The former president’s comments began on his favorite topic: himself.
Assange Arrest Looms? British Police Ready For ‘Hours To Days’ Deadline
He’s been there forever and reports of his imminent ouster come daily. Is this one truer than any other?
WikiLeaks on Thursday tweeted: “BREAKING: A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told @WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within “hours to days” using the #INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext–and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.”
And;
But a top official said while Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno was angered by the apparent hacking of his personal communications, he denied WikiLeaks’ claim and said no decision had been taken to expel Assange from the Embassy. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter.
40 Facts That Prove America’s Moral Collapse Is Spinning Out Of Control
If you want some truly discouraging information, go to this website.
I’m not about to post all 40 but here are just a few:
#1 America has killed more than 60 million children since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The federal government endorses this activity by heavily funding the country’s leading abortion provider, and after that abortion provider harvests the organs of the dead children, the federal government also heavily funds the research that is conducted on those harvested organs.
#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs. [I can’t even begin to count the ones I’m taking. :)]
#21 Americans are obsessed with material things and are willing to go deep into debt to get what they want. At this point, 480 million credit cards are in circulation in this country. That number has risen by nearly 13 percent since 2015.
#38 An average of more than 100 churches are dying in the United States every single week.
You want to read all of them with links, go to https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/40-facts-that-prove-americas-moral-collapse-is-spinning-out-of-control/
More Than 47,000 'Structurally Deficient' Bridges In The U.S.
Think of that next time you cross one.
My granddaughter is studying civil engineering at UNLV and has a part-time job with the Nevada DOT. She says that part of what she does is examine bridges in Southern Nevada to assess their structural integrity. She tells me a lot of them have failing grades.
"Structurally deficient" doesn't mean the bridges are about to collapse, says Alison Black, chief economist for ARTBA. It just means the bridges are in need of renovation but are not unsafe for crossing, she tells Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd.
The number of structurally deficient bridges is actually down by about 7,000 from 2017, but those bridges weren't fixed. The number fell because the Federal Highway Administration weakened the standards of what it means for a bridge to be deficient, the report explains.
Why? What caused them to lower the standards?
The report notes that these deficient bridges are crossed some 178 million times a day. Some of the most notable bridges deemed deficient in the report include New York's Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883; Memorial Bridge connecting Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River; the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, which spans California's San Francisco Bay; and Florida's Pensacola Bay Bridge, which is known among locals as the Three-Mile Bridge.
Sidelined because she rejects radical green agendas?
Aurelia Skipwith has a BS in biology from Howard University, a Master’s in molecular genetics from Purdue and a law degree from Kentucky. She has worked as a molecular analyst and sustainable agriculture partnership manager. She was also co-founder and general counsel for AVC Global, a Washington, DC-based agricultural supply chain development company that helps small farmers link up with multinational buyers and with agronomy, business, financial and other service providers.
Another highly-qualified nominee for a Trump administration position being held up by petty Dimocrap politics.
In fact, the US Senate has already been forced to hold cloture votes—ending drawn-out debates—on 128 Trump nominees! In glaring contrast, the Senate had a grand total of only 24 such cloture votes for all six previous presidents combined: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush II and Obama! That’s 32 times more nominees by this president sidelined by Congress than during all ten previous presidential terms.
So, why is she being held up
She’s been nominated to be the next Director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) at Interior.
It’s all over her knowledge of and experience in genetically engineered crops. And her connection with that evil Monsanto.
To hell with her qualifications.
As threat of wildfire grows, B.C. lets logging debris litter landscape for years
The board also points out that the forestry industry used to rely on prescribed burning to deal with fire hazards, but that has virtually been abandoned in recent decades because of public complaints about the smoke. That has only contributed to the problem.
Get that? They did the smart thing by controlled burning to keep down the threat of massive fires.
But had to stop because of “public complaints.”
Complains by whom? Most likely whacko eco-freaks who honestly have no idea what’s best for the environment.
But as it turns out, every logging company in the area had met their legal requirements under B.C.'s Wildfire Act for clearing out wood and debris.
So they did what they were told to do and are now in trouble.
Makes one wonder if similar situations exist here in the USA.
And there’s another problem, pine beetle infestation!
The impact of that plan was complicated in 2004 when the Wildfire Act came into force and extended the deadline for dealing with logging debris by almost a year from the previous limit of 19 months. The reasoning for the extra time was to give the pellet industry a chance to come in and collect the woody leftovers, according to the board's report.
More @ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfire-logging-regulations-1.5087361?cmp=rss
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