November 14, 2016, 11:39 AM
Elk Hunterquote:
They can go and check it out. It’s not propaganda or bias if it’s based on hard facts.”
I figure it kind of depends on whose facts are used.
And the idiot left are not noted for using real facts as opposed to making up their own.
November 14, 2016, 11:50 AM
LS1 GTOquote:
Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Has the tide turned?
California history teacher placed on leave after comparing Trump to Hitler...
The easiest way to answer this is "no."
This eff'ed up state VOTED to ban plastic grocery bags and require them to be sold for $0.10 each.
Lady across the street works as a check-out cashier and what is pissing her off the most - those who complain at her store are blaming Trump for it!!
Eff'ing liberal dipshits at their worse!
/rant
November 14, 2016, 11:56 AM
Balzé Halzéquote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
quote:
Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Has the tide turned?
California history teacher placed on leave after comparing Trump to Hitler...
The easiest way to answer this is "no."
This eff'ed up state VOTED to ban plastic grocery bags and require them to be sold for $0.10 each.
Lady across the street works as a check-out cashier and what is pissing her off the most - those who complain at her store are blaming Trump for it!!
Eff'ing liberal dipshits at their worse!
/rant
California trying to be more like Europe.
This is exactly how France is. They banned plastic bags so now you bring your own bag or pay for them at the store.
I don't know how you guys breathe there with all the smug in the air.
November 14, 2016, 12:15 PM
sdyNot to go too far OT, but here is the remarkable Catherine Engelbrecht story
snips from 2013 article
http://www.nationalreview.com/...jillian-kay-MelchiorThe Engelbrechts ran a tiny manufacturing plant in Rosenberg, Texas
“Now, we’re up to about 30 employees.”
Catherine worked as an alternate judge at the polls in 2009 in Fort Bend County, Texas, Catherine says, she was appalled and dismayed to witness everything from administrative snafus to outright voter fraud.
These formative experiences prompted her to found two organizations: King Street Patriots, a local community group that hosts weekly discussions on personal and economic freedoms; and True the Vote
In July 2010, Catherine filed with the IRS seeking tax-exempt status for her organizations. Shortly after, the troubles began.
the Federal Bureau of Investigation came knocking with questions about a person who had attended a King Street Patriots event once.
the IRS visited the Engelbrechts’ shop and conducted an on-site audit of both their business and their personal returns
Two months later, the IRS initiated the first round of questions for True the Vote
In October, the IRS requested additional information. And whenever Catherine followed up with IRS agents about the status of True the Vote’s application, “there was always a delay that our application was going to be up next, and it was just around the corner,”
the FBI continued to phone King Street Patriots. In May 2011, agents phoned wondering “how they were doing.” The FBI made further inquiries in June, November, and December asking whether there was anything to report.
The situation escalated in 2012. That February, True the Vote received a third request for information from the IRS, which also sent its first questionnaire to King Street Patriots. Catherine says the IRS had “hundreds of questions — hundreds and hundreds of questions.” The IRS requested every Facebook post and Tweet she had ever written. She received questions about her family, whether she’d ever run for political office, and which organizations she had spoken to.
On the same day they received the questions from the IRS, Catherine says, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) launched an unscheduled audit of their machine shop, forcing the Engelbrechts to drop everything planned for that day. Though the Engelbrechts have a Class 7 license, which allows them to make component parts for guns, they do not manufacture firearms. Catherine said that while the ATF had a right to conduct the audit, “it was odd that they did it completely unannounced, and they took five, six hours. . . . It was so extensive. It just felt kind of weird.”
That was in February. In July, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration paid a visit to Engelbrecht Manufacturing while Bryan, Catherine, and their children were out of town. The OSHA inspector talked with the managerial staff and employees, inspecting the premises minutely. But Bryan says the agent found only “little Mickey Mouse stuff, like, ‘You have safety glasses on, but not the right kind; the forklift has a seatbelt, but not the right kind.’” Yet Catherine and Bryan said the OSHA inspector complimented them on their tightly run shop and said she didn’t know why she had been sent to examine it.
Not long after, the tab arrived. OSHA was imposing $25,000 in fines on Engelbrecht Manufacturing.
A few months later, True the Vote became the subject of congressional scrutiny. In September, Senator Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) wrote to Thomas Perez, then the assistant attorney general of the civil rights division at the Department of Justice (who has now been nominated for labor secretary). “As you know, an organization called ‘True the Vote,’ which is an offshoot of the Tea Party, is leading a voter suppression campaign in many states,” Boxer wrote, adding that “this type of intimidation must stop. I don’t believe this is ‘True the Vote.’ I believe it’s ‘Stop the Vote.’”
And in October, Representative Elijah Cummings (D., Md.), the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, attacked True the Vote in a letter. He wrote that “some have suggested that your true goal is not voter integrity, but voter suppression against thousands of legitimate voters who traditionally vote for Democratic candidates.” He added that: “If these efforts are intentional, politically motivated, and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights.” He also decried True the Vote on MSNBC and CNN.
The next month, in November 2012, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state’s environmental agency, showed up for an unscheduled audit at Engelbrecht Manufacturing. Catherine says the inspector told her the agency had received a complaint but couldn’t provide any more details. After the inspection, the agency notified the Engelbrechts that they needed to pay for an additional mechanical permit, which cost about $2,000 per year.
Since then, the IRS has sent two further rounds of questions to Catherine for her organizations. And last month, the ATF conducted a second unscheduled audit at Engelbrecht Manufacturing.
Catherine says she still hasn’t received IRS approval for her nonprofits, though she filed nearly three years ago
On behalf of the True the Vote and King Street Patriots, Representative Ted Poe (R., Texas) sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI, OSHA, and the ATF, inquiring whether the organizations were under criminal investigation. A statement on Poe’s website states that “the reply from these agencies was that none of these individuals were under criminal investigation. Well, if they’re not, why are they being treated like criminals? Just because they question government.”
November 14, 2016, 12:37 PM
Hound Dogquote:
Originally posted by dewhorse:
The article goes on to suggest that many distraught employees may decide to retire rather than deal with the change. “If [Trump] starts doing rotten things, then people will say, ‘Enough of this crap,'” Union president John O’Grady tells E&E News.
I simply cannot believe that very many people would retire. The libs railed on about how 'thousands of govt employees would quit if Trump were elected,' as if THAT were reason to vote for the hag. I see those threats just like the multitude of celebrity retards threatening to leave the US if xyz candidate were elected (Bush in 2000, 2004, and Trump in 2016). They rarely follow through on these threats. They are empty.
If govt employees quit en masse, though, so much the better. That will mean less obstructionist employees trying to sabotage Trump's presidency, and more job openings for me (I've been trying to get a Govt Service job for years now)
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November 14, 2016, 12:41 PM
sigcrazy7That post about the EPA mentioned a union representing the EPA workforce. At the risk of being a simpleton, I must ask what power a union has there? If you were to piss them off, and they went on strike, wouldn't that be exactly what we want? Or is a government union just the place where lawsuits and candidate endorsements originate?
November 14, 2016, 12:55 PM
HRKOne of the buttercups posted on Twitter, Donald Trump is our president so I guess I'm leaving America ... Goodbye America and Hello Hawaii.
Bless her heart she didn't do too well in American geography.
taylor @liardeluxe Nov 13
@realDonaldTrump @nytimes Donald trump�� is our president������so I guess �� I'm leaving America ��✈️ Goodbye America �� and hello Hawaii!��☀️��
Does anyone know if she is being tapped/tied into the Trump transition in any way? That video needs to go viral somehow...