Congressional oversight
The Dims love throwing this out there to justify their plethora of investigations into the current administration.
Just what the heck is it? And what authorizes it?
Here’s what Wiki says:
Congressional oversight is oversight by the United States Congress over the Executive Branch, including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Congressional oversight includes the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation. Congress exercises this power largely through its congressional committee system. Oversight also occurs in a wide variety of congressional activities and contexts. These include authorization, appropriations, investigative, and legislative hearings by standing committees; specialized investigations by select committees; and reviews and studies by congressional support agencies and staff.
Congress’s oversight authority derives from its “implied” powers in the Constitution, public laws, and House and Senate rules. It is an integral part of the American system of checks and balances.
Get that? Implied powers.
In other words, something Congress has taken upon itself in addition to specific constitutional powers.
This will be great if … if our representatives actually represented us, the American people. Sadly, from what we’re seeing from the current bunch of political hacks, one wonders if that is no longer the case.
What are your views on what is currently going on in the House?
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Army Medical Researchers Want Head-Up Displays for Combat Medics
Cutting the “Golden Hour” down to minutes. The military catching up to the civilian community for a change?
U.S. Army medical researchers want to equip combat medics with a head-up display so they can connect with surgeons in the rear for help with critically wounded troops on the battlfield.
"What we are working on is the ability to project surgical expertise and medical expertise as far forward as we can ... right out to the medic," Geoffrey Miller, a research scientist at the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command, told Military.com on April 25 at a Pentagon technology demonstration.
The effort is designed to use augmented reality to guide a medic to perform advanced procedures such as trauma surgery on wounded personnel who can't wait for a medevac, Miller said.
Rep. Green ACCIDENTALLY Admits Real Reason Dems Want to Impeach Trump
Anyone need to guess what it is?
.@RepAlGreen: “I’m concerned if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected. … We must impeach him.” pic.twitter.com/3cwG7eFIdy
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 5, 2019
Surprised?
What makes me laugh is their absolute stupidity.
And that this Dim is from a Texas district. What are those people thinking?
INHO, if they do actually hold hearings, it will be such a circus that all it will do is drive more people to vote the Dimocrap participants out of office.
Estonia has a single gold bar in its vault... but cannot sell it
They say it’s worth 500k Euros. The rest of their gold is in foreign banks, a lot in the US.
Does anyone still believe that money is backed by gold?
Tallinn sold most of its gold reserves in the 1990s and invested money in other liquid assets, such as bonds and equities, according to the bank official.
Estonia’s gold reserves are the second lowest among European countries, behind Albania by 1.35 tons, according to Trading Economics website data.
Vehicles Left to Rust, Faulty Furnaces: Most Military Depots in Bad Shape
Few understand just how damaging to military readiness the 8 years of the Obama administration was.
Of the 21 depots that maintain, overhaul and repair complex weapons systems, 12 were listed in poor condition and operating with equipment past its expected service life, according to the 77-page GAO report, issued Monday.
The result has been a "general decline in depot performance over the past 10 years" and delays in returning weapons systems to the field for operations and training, the report states.
In addition, "the military services can't determine how much of the decline is due to facility and equipment problems," according to the GAO, Congress' audit, evaluation and investigative arm.
Mogadishu Comes to Minneapolis
As Lincoln said, “A house divided cannot stand.”
And this is sure as hell a case of being divided.
Representative Omar is further keen on constantly expressing how America is a terrible and unjust country structured around “systematic racism.”
One wonders, if America is such a terrible and racist place deserving of terrorist attacks by murderous organizations such as al-Qaeda—which as Omar suggests to us, are nothing to be afraid of—why does not the proud Somali Muslim woman move back to the country of her birth?
It seems, however, that the people of Minnesota are abundantly blessed with enough Somalis—80,000, in fact, including 43,000 settled there by noted American patriot Barack Hussein Obama—to make Ilhan Omar feel quite at home in the frosty and forested state on America’s Canadian border.
Why? What on earth earns these people the right to come to America? To completely ignore our ways, our beliefs? To kill our children and rape our women?
We’ve given them great gifts and I firmly believe it’s time to give them another gift – one-ways tickets back to Somalia! Now!
Terrorists crossing our southern border
It’s no longer just Mexicans and other Latin Americans, we are seeing people on terror watch lists being smuggled in for $2 to $6k per head.
Who pays that kind of money to fly them from the Middle East to Central America so they can come north and infiltrate our border?
Todd Bensman, of the Center for Immigration Studies, says, “Thousands of so-called ‘special interest aliens’ (SIAs) arriving annually from the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa — mostly without any identification or vetting — have given rise to national security worries about infiltration.”
“Right now Border Patrol agents are being pulled out of the field to process family units,” Bash said. “That creates a vicious cycle because more and more people can enter undetected because we have fewer agents in the field.”
Even when arrests are made, the results aren’t necessarily comforting.
While Aldairi faces three to 10 years in prison, the six Yemenis were prosecuted for illegal entry, which is a misdemeanor carrying light penalties. They served sentences of just 14 to 20 days, and three of the six remain in the U.S. Officials would not provide details on their status or whereabouts.
When will the media report this?
When will the Dims sit up and down something about this?
When will the American people learn the danger facing them and their families?
Should student loan debt be canceled?
I got this from Yahoo News and it presents an important question.
It mentions that students – or graduates – are in debt to the tune of $1.25 TRILLION! And that lots of Dimocrap candidates want to see it “forgiven.”
It would only help 42 million people, a mere 14?% of Americans.
My take is simple. Why should you go to college if you’re not ready to pay your way?
My granddaughter is going to college, studying civil engineering. She is receiving scholarships because she busted her butt in high school, earning straight As. And she’s working part-time to help pay for her school costs.
Is she less important than those parasites who sit around doing nothing to get degrees in art appreciation or minority theme studies?
And then comes this:
"It is complicated and potentially fraught and has many specifics that will have to be more thoroughly vetted, and some groups will benefit more than others, but as a statement of values, it is clear. It is a vision that says higher education should be accessible to people regardless of race, class, or place of origin." — John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
Why? Where in our constitution does it say there is a right to higher education?
"This pander will not only be incredibly costly, but it will be a slap in the face to those who have already struggled to pay off their student loans without government assistance." — Philip Klein, Washington Examiner
New far-right party seen entering Danish parliament
It’s beginning to spread throughout Europe. Awareness of the peril presented by Islam within more and more countries. Denmark is the latest – and won’t be be the last.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A new Danish far-right party that wants Islam banned and hundreds of thousands of Muslims deported could win seats in Denmark’s parliament in an upcoming election, an opinion poll showed on Monday.
The party ‘Stram Kurs’, which means Hard Line, was founded in 2017 by lawyer Rasmus Paludan who first came to public attention by posting anti-Islam YouTube videos. His stunts have included publicly burning the Koran, sometimes wrapped in bacon, in what he calls a tribute to free speech.
A Voxmeter poll published on Monday
showed that Hard Line would win 2.4 percent of the vote, thereby clearing the 2 percent barrier required to enter the Danish parliament. It gave its margin of error as a maximum of 2.7 percentage points.
The percentage may seem small but it’s a foot in the door. Will the rest of the body follow?
Who owns the media?
We continually hear complaints of fake news and biased reporting. We see the faces on TV spouting their lines, most often created by their producers and not them. And nobody really knows who those producers or directors are – the real people behind the news. At least there are some of those faces who makes no pretense as to who they are and what their agendas are.
So, back to the question. According to Wiki:
Globally, large media conglomerates include Bertelsmann, National Amusements (Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation), Sony Corporation, News Corp, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T Inc., Fox Corporation, Hearst Communications, MGM Holdings Inc., Grupo Globo (South America) and Lagardère Group.[4][5][6]
As of 2018, the largest media conglomerates in terms of revenue rank Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T, CBS Corporation and Viacom per Forbes.
At least we know who owns them.
My rambling comes from this article @ https://www.rt.com/usa/458320-media-decay-for-profit-news/
Left-Wing Ideology: A Cult, a Religion, or Science?
Socialism is a state of society where most wealth, either de jure or de facto, belongs to a government.
Capitalism is a state of society where most wealth, both de jure and de facto, belongs to its citizens.
Communism is a Utopian state of society where all wealth, both de jure and de facto, belongs to a government.
The author rightly points out that it is impossible to argue with a socialist/communist because they refuse to see any point other than what is included in their dogma.
Doesn’t that make it a form of religion?
It is often said that left-wingers and right-wingers do not understand each other because they "live in parallel universes," or one side blames another for living in the so-called "alternative reality." Since core leftist belief is irrational, the right-wingers are not surprised when adherents of leftism stiffen their resolve when confronted with social and economic truth.
In other words, instead of accepting a valid argument that contradicts the prevailing dogma, the very first reaction of adherents of a dogma is to protect the dogma at all cost.
Some extremely valid points.
The opinion piece goes on to cite endless examples and it well-worth reading @ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/leftwing_ideology_a_cult_a_religion_or_science.html
The Solar Energy Racket
Not only solar but wind power too.
You pay all that money for something that doesn’t work at night or when it’s cloudy. Or when the wind doesn’t blow.
So, let me ask a question.
How many here have solar panels or a wind turbine at home or at work?
Does it really save you money?
What we have is an alliance among hysterical environmental groups, profit-making solar developers, and politicians eager to make important friends. The environmental groups need a stream of impending catastrophes for which they propose impracticable or crackpot solutions. That's how they excite interest and stay in business. The Sierra Club and other groups are against all energy sources except wind and solar and some niche energy sources. The media, probably out of ignorance, go along with the propaganda in favor of solar energy. Rational, fact-based analysis appears to be politically incorrect.
Another Scandal-Ridden Obama Program
A program designed in 2010 to help struggling families negatively impacted by the housing crisis.
Or just another attempt by government to “fix” something that didn’t need fixing?
And, where is the congressional oversight on this?
Years after a scathing federal audit exposed rampant waste in a multi-billion-dollar government program to help the “unemployed or underemployed” pay their mortgage, the gouging continues full throttle. Public officials who operate the disastrous project, known as Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), have wasted millions of dollars on parties, fancy cars, gifts, extravagant dinners and receptions, gym memberships and luxury travel. Previous investigations have uncovered more than $11 million in wasteful spending at HHF for illegal things such as employee bonuses, lavish shindigs, expensive vehicles and superfluous data storage. The latest enraging figures are documented in a lengthy report to Congress that outlines how HHF continues fleecing American taxpayers.
Is anything being done?
Not much!
On a positive note criminal bribery charges were filed against multiple public officials handling HHF money, according to the Treasury watchdog, though it won’t stop the cash from flowing into the famously crooked program’s bloated coffers. Among them are an unnamed city official, land bank official and a contractor in Michigan and Ohio. “This is SIGTARP’s third audit finding waste and unnecessary charges in the HHF,” the latest report states. “Previous SIGTARP audits uncovered more than $11 million in waste and other unnecessary expenses.” When will the madness stop?
Is Google Street View Impacting Your Life?
How many of you have used Google to take a look at your home or the neighborhood you live in?
I think a lot of us use Google Maps to find something or figure out how to get there. But, how many even know what Street View is or how to get to it?
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explore holiday destinations, and to virtually stalk friends and enemies alike.
But researchers have found more insidious uses. In 2017 a team of researchers used the images to study the distribution of car types in the US and then used that data to determine the demographic makeup of the country. It turns out that the car you drive is a surprisingly reliable proxy for your income level, your education, your occupation, and even the way you vote in elections.
And other groups are going even further.
One has to wonder if criminals aren’t using it too. Checking out which neighborhoods are worth visiting for break-ins.
Inside Gang Territory In Honduras
‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them’
Why is it our problem?
One is bombarded by the absolute barbarism infesting the streets and villages of this Central American country – as well as the rest of Central America.
But, hidden deep within the piece is something that should set many aback – this cruelty among the people did not exist when these countries were ruled by dictators.
Underpinning nearly every killing is a climate of impunity that, in some countries, leaves more than 95 percent of homicides unsolved. And the state is a guarantor of the phenomenon — governments hollowed out by corruption are either incapable or unwilling to apply the rule of law, enabling criminal networks to dictate the lives of millions.
For the masses fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, the United States is both a cause and solution — the author of countless woes and a chance to escape them.
More of this sad story @ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/04/world/americas/honduras-gang-violence.html
Dem Rep. Cunningham: I Wasn’t Sent to D.C. to Focus on Mueller Investigation
Pelosi’s cabal is fracturing and she’s losing control of the Dims in the House. I wonder how many feel this way but are afraid to speak out?
And, will they stand up when it comes time to run for reelection?
MSNBC “Kasie DC” host Kasie Hunt asked Cunningham if he thinks Attorney General William Barr lied to Congress during his testimony last week about the investigation, to which Cuningham revealed he was elected to focus on “kitchen table issues.”
“I wasn’t sent up to Washington DC to focus on this. I was sent up there to focus on kitchen table issues, the ones that got us elected …
Cunningham went on to list offshore drilling, infrastructure and tariffs as the issues that are “concerning” the people.
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