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doesnt make it moral.

Same here - i dont give a single fuck that the usa has laws on books to hide their illegal activities.

If you can throw the book at a non-usa civilian for breaking the law, then the USA bureaucrats should be held to same, if not higher standard.

For example, this thing called FOIA exists for a reason Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

It is illegal to spy on american people (or was). It is also illegal (and still is) to lie to Congress Mr. Clapper.

When you perpetrate a war crime Mr Gates you should be rotting away in a prison.

And this is but a few of what I believe are clear crimes perpetrated by those within the USA government.

Not one of these ass clowns was ever even charged. The political class protects their own. Anyone else - and that means you - are fucked if you ever take a stand. So take notice american public - the Political Class is sending an explicit message that if you speak out or expose them, they will fuck you into next year and beyond.

Until we have equal protection under the law, I will stand with the little guy - and this case, its Mr. Assange.

The whole series of charges stinks like fresh political dog-shit to distract, while innocent lives are destroyed.

If even a quarter of us spineless tech dweeb arm chair quarterbacks had 1/10th the balls of Assange, Manning or Snowden maybe the USA would be a different place.

Instead we continue to lose the republic, and it seems the pace it slips away is increasing.

https://docs.house.gov/meeting... The only thing in the bill that even resembles a ban is a section on how they have to work with 3rd parties. Do yourself a favor and STOP reading the headlines (Sec. 1102. IRS Free File Program): "(4) The IRS Free File Program shall continue,to work cooperatively with the private sector to provide the free individual income tax preparation and the electronic filing services described in paragraphs (2) and (3)."

The reality of situation is, yes absolutely the outlets like CNN and MSNBC etc have a liberal bias, but the degree of their bias, their intention to mislead, isn't in the same universe as Breitbart and Fox News (yes, some are, but the cable networks and giant print papers, no).

Are you fucking kidding me? Breitbart has an intention to lead, they are very biased, but their misleading is accidental because they don't have a good editor. The other news outlets lie their asses off every single day as a matter of policy. Here is a very small number of examples off the top of my head where the outlets like CNN and MSNBC fabricated news and reported the opposite of the truth:

• George Zimmerman was a NAACP volunteer who had campaigned against police brutality.
• The Palestinians are a terrorist organization whose founder advised Adolph Hitler to kill the Jews instead of using them for forced labor.
• The West Bank is Israeli land. All of that media whinging about The Occupation and Illegal Settlements is fake.
• Transgender is a quasireligious order founded in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2007 that is supported by Cynthia Rothschild, George Soros, the Rockefeller foundations, and the British Army Bureau of Psychological Warfare.
• Gamergate was a racketeering scandal that the FBI refused to prosecute because the people responsible were working for the White House and State Department. There was so little harassment of women that the FBI closed the case after interviewing three teenagers, one of whom was a friend of Brianna Wu. Meanwhile, US Government agents inside Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and LinkedIn gathered the identities of everyone discussing the scandal, convinced most of Silicon Valley to blacklist them from employment and industry conferences, and shipped their information to Qatar.
• That Catholic kid in the MAGA hat who was grinning nervously while someone he didn't know, who turned out to be a professional Indian, had walked up to him and was banging a drum in his face to try and cause a reaction, he literally did nothing but the media wanted him murdered.
• The Indian tribes called themselves Redskins, formally, during diplomacy, and there is nothing derogatory about the name.
• Donald Trump did business with Russia as an FBI sting operation, which means that the FBI officials who made up Russiagate to derail his presidency knew that he was an undercover agent.
• There are several White Genocide projects, we saw it happen in Rhodesia and South Africa and the American inner cities, it is not just a conspiracy theory but people have been caught conspiring to make it happen.
• That kid in Texas with the fake bomb was arrested because he committed a felony and the school was required by law to call the police on him. There was no racism involved. He did not invent a clock, he disassembled one.
• Pepe the Frog was the most popular meme on the Internet since AYBABTU when the media started claiming that everyone using it was a Nazi just so they could have an excuse to call Donald Trump Jr. a Nazi for posting a Pepe meme.

When presented with evidence that they are wrong, Breitbart will sometimes get around to fixing it. The reporters from the Big Three and CNN and MNSBC will insult whoever sent in the correction, we see them do it on Twitter, and they put pressure on social media organizations to develop algorithms to automatically block any independent media that might report different facts to the same story and any users who read independent media.

What's scary is that their disinformation is getting into the education system because "everybody" is reporting it except for those "fringe" independent websites that are

Actually the statistics demonstrate that people with higher educations tend to favor Democratic policies and ideals. ....

In other words, people who grew up sheltered, never had to work for a living, and had mommy and daddy around to pay for college?

Education != intelligence

Just look and the current Marxist bae of the left - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's so "educated" that she had to 404 her "New Green Deal" off her web site in less than 24 hours, because it was bog-standard election-losing leftist STUPID drivel like "everyone is entitled to economic security whether they want to work or not."

AOC is so fucking "educated" with her economics degree paid for by her parents from Boston University that she's TOO FUCKING STUPID to know how unemployment works:

Ocasio-Cortez said, "Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family."

So you wanna spout crap about "education"? That STUPID shit is from someone who graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics.

In other words, "education" today is fucking worthless.

You watch - after dragging Democrats down with her Marxist/Communist/Socialist FWEEEE STUFFFZZ!!!, AOC is gonna get primaried and shitcanned in 2020.

So Democrats want money for improved detainment facilities, additional judges to address the backlog of cases, and improved technology to provide a "virtual wall" in many locations, along with additional border agents? Hold that thought.

I would say Democrats want money for things like single payer and green energy (or big pharma and the entertainment industry, if you're more of a cynic), but it turns out that you're somewhat right -- "sensible immigration reform that keeps America’s promise" is the third point listed on the DNC's page itemizing their self-professed beliefs. Digging a bit deeper about what specific actions that might entail, I find this, but the closest reference to anything you describe may be "strengthening in-country... processing", which is quite a far cry from the explicit points you make. As such, I'm not sure if your claim about what Democrats want money for is entirely accurate. I don't doubt that some Democrats have wanted money for some of these policies in the past, or want money for them presently, and I also wouldn't be surprised if Democrats as a party were willing to support policies like this as part of a broader compromise with Republicans, but you're making a much stronger claim for which there doesn't seem to be sufficient evidence.

First off, it was always a "scaled-down" solution - he never proposed a border-to-border wall fro $5.7BN, he wanted $25BN for a border-to-border wall, to be built over time - you know, the wall Democrats voted for in 2006.

Presumably you're referring to H.R. 6061, 2006's Secure Fence Act, which both parties supported, but which was primarily opposed by Democrats (it's not clear why you'd think it was most accurate to describe this piece of legislation as "the wall Democrats voted for" and not "the wall Republicans voted for", since it enjoyed much greater support on the Republican side of the aisle). Note, the Secure Fence Act only included $1.4B in appropriations funding for the eponymous "Secure Fence" which it authorized, so it's not clear how you can cite the tepid support Democrats offered this earlier legislation (13 years ago, mind you) as evidence of Democrats' willingness to spend larger amounts on border security, whether $5.7B or $25B. At best, it's evidence that Democrats are willing to tolerate a certain nonzero level of spending increases when it comes to border security, which is consistent with what we're seeing today -- Democrats have offered some $1.3B-$1.6B in increased border funding in the last month or so.

Um, no. Those "essential" employees who've been forced to work without a paycheck are entitled automatically.

Regardless of how "essential" an employee is thought to be --- unless they're military enlisted, they cannot actually be "forced" to work without pay. The employee can simply decline, go on strike, be a no-show, call in sick, etc.

After every shutdown; Congress consistently passes a bill providing backpay for the furloughed employees.
That's what is in the works already.

>"All the outdoor parks and memorials will remain open because there's no need to close them. Trees keep growing, rivers keep flowing..."

Unless you are under the Obama administration and then close and ROPE/CONE OFF outdoor parks, monuments and/or parking, just to prove a point. So the shutdown won't pay for the operational aspects, but they somehow can pay rangers and police to force people to not enter parks, to park their cars, or get too close to monuments??

https://naturalresources.house...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

It's not clear that the Mac Mini is aimed at the consumer

How I'm supposed to feel about that depends on what you meant by "consumer", which isn't quite clear. Which of these did you mean?

Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow?
https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...

And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?

https://realclimatescience.com...

https://science.house.gov/news...

https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire.
http://variable-variability.bl...

... But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world’s wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics . This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics, ...

IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.

Letter from US House Representatives to President Moreno
That's a top Democrat and a Republican from the House of Representatives Committee on foreign Affairs telling Ecuador's president that Assange is a dangerous criminal that should be stripped from citizenship and handed over. Strong arming the other country, meddling with their internal affairs (human rights respect). Three days ago.
TFA is about JA suing over censorship in a "free" country after USA's vice-president visited said country.

How can such a stupid post, so far removed from reality, be modded insightful? Is this place filled with government crooks?

Those idiots couldn't feed themselves if they had to...

I was planning to just look for replies to mod up, but I found no responses to this part of your argument, and, well... I figure it deserves a reply as much as anything else you said (which is to say, it probably doesn't merit a response).

For your edification, here are just a couple of the top google hits for "california america's breadbasket":

More than half the country's vegetables, fruits, and nuts are grown in California.

source: https://naturalresources.house...

California has often been referred to as the breadbasket of the world. In fact the California Department of Food and Agriculture notes that California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities. Some of the leading agriculture commodities are dairy, grapes, almonds, walnuts, various varieties of fresh fruit, and vegetables. Over 400 different crops are grown in California. Interestingly, California only possesses 4% of the total U.S. farms, but supplies the nation with the most agriculture products.

source: http://eb5northerncalifornia.c...

Yup, I'm pretty sure it's you who's the idiot who couldn't feed themselves... if it weren't for California.

I believe 1 Republican voted for it.

Well, you are hallucinating.

House vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201... (note that 34 Democrats voted against it)

Senate vote: https://www.senate.gov/legisla...

Check Arlen Specter - he changed parties to support the bill. So technically you're correct, no standing Republicans supported the bill. His support also prevented a filibuster in 2009.

Because of this, some of the flaws of ACA can be laid at the feet of Republicans.

When you buy a car, the price you pay and the car you get are determined by the contract you sign; how that contract was written is irrelevant. It's the same with a bill: only the people who vote to pass a bill are responsible for it.

What does matter, of course, is lies and misrepresentations, like when Gruber and Obama deliberately lied to the American people about the consequences of the bill.

You keep asserting this - document the lies and misrepresentations.

There's many ways to be obstructionist, and the party of no (ideas) was exceptionally good at this.

Obviously they are not good enough at obstructionism to keep a bad bill from passing.

Let's see, no law vs a flawed law that actually does some good and can be amended. Except no one counted on the party of no (ideas) to act as a block to prevent all fixes that would make ACA better. So yes, I still blame Republicans across the board, and even more so with their lame-ass repeal & replace effort and subsequent sabotaging actions.

I believe 1 Republican voted for it.

Well, you are hallucinating.

House vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201... (note that 34 Democrats voted against it)

Senate vote: https://www.senate.gov/legisla...

Because of this, some of the flaws of ACA can be laid at the feet of Republicans.

When you buy a car, the price you pay and the car you get are determined by the contract you sign; how that contract was written is irrelevant. It's the same with a bill: only the people who vote to pass a bill are responsible for it.

What does matter, of course, is lies and misrepresentations, like when Gruber and Obama deliberately lied to the American people about the consequences of the bill.

There's many ways to be obstructionist, and the party of no (ideas) was exceptionally good at this.

Obviously they are not good enough at obstructionism to keep a bad bill from passing.

It's odd, but I don't see anything here on the House Ethics page permitting personal OR campaign money being used to pay off lawyers to pay off porn stars or heiresses for their silence about incidents that might influence ethical voters to choose a better candidate. It just isn't there, for some reason. https://ethics.house.gov/campa...

It's probably somewhere in here but I'll admit I didn't actually read it.

2017 military: $569B, welfare and income support: $226B.

569 / 226 is a fraction, just not a proper one.

No doubt there are some illegal immigrants that are abusing our social safety net. Oddly though, almost every Latino I ever see is busting their ass: landscapers, hotel housekeepers, line cooks.

41 USC 3903 Multiyear contracts

(a) Definition.-In this section, a multiyear contract is a contract for the purchase of property or services for more than one, but not more than 5, program years

5 years is max.

(c) Termination Clause.-A multiyear contract entered into under the authority of this section shall include a clause that provides that the contract shall be terminated if funds are not made available for the continuation of the contract in a fiscal year covered by the contract. Funds available for paying termination costs shall remain available for that purpose until the costs associated with termination of the contract are paid.

All contracts have a termination clause to cover no more funding and since Congress is required to pass a budget every year, any contract can be ended at any time.

That's because you're ignorant. Or forgetful.

EVERYONE is on Facebook.
Your dead relatives, five generations back, probably have a shadow profile that Facebook is using to finely tune all those ads from Russia they will show the people of your cultural background and heritage.

It's like the Mafia. It keeps track of everyone you're related to back in the old country.
So they could make you offers you can't refuse.

You're right about Obama, but it's really Colin Powell you should ask about this, with some questions about just what Hillary learned from him.

Powell taught Hillary how to bypass the security controls and refused to listen to the NSA because he didn't understand what they were saying.

Regarding Trump, here's what TFA says: The White House declined to comment for this story, but a senior West Wing official said the call-capable phones are seamlessly swapped out on a regular basis through routine support operations. Because of the security controls of the Twitter phone and the Twitter account, it does not necessitate regular change-out.

TFA says under the "more info" link that the ads were seen by over 11 million Americans.

https://democrats-intelligence...

Keep in mind that's just the ads, which were a very small part of their efforts. The latest stats I could find show they had 1000 people working on this stuff, much of it around fake social media accounts, memes and trolling.

This is where they are: https://democrats-intelligence...

The ads can be downloaded here, courtesy of the US Govt: https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social-media-advertisements.htm

Well, further research indicates it is still an open question, at least as far as I can tell from the request for details regarding their attendance in the FCC related posting under: https://democrats-energycommer...

...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?

Um... none?

You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?

Yes, the Republican party has been working hard to discredit the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign but the truth shall prevail. Also, I have some bad news about the upcoming elections: Democrats are poised to take control of both the House and the Senate. Taking control of the House was previously seen as "impossible" now it's likely and taking the Senate is now within reach. Undoing gerrymandering is doing great things for democracy.

And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.

Collusion isn't a legal term but Conspiracy and Obstruction of Justice are. It's also possible many other criminal activities will be revealed since the raid on Michael Cohen.

Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?

Actually, it's not and such facts have been reviewed closely. Also, bad news, the raid on Michael Cohen wasn't done by Mueller and thus is a separate investigation by the stated of New York.

Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.

That's not entirely true. It seems to have leaked that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague which is at the crux of the Russia investigation. However, do note that information only leaks when there is a vested interest in information being leaked. The team of lawyers investigating have a vested interest in information not leaking.

Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.

Absolutely. Clinton was being impeached over perjuring himself over an affair. That's a far cry from conspiring with a foreign nation, obstructing justice or whatever other crimes are unveiled.

You're mad.

You're ill-informed and/or possibly deluded.

...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?

Um... none?

You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?

Trump has been trying to have his political enemies jailed for awhile. That we elected him still means that this country has turned to shit and stupid.

Of that list, Hillary has been thoroughly investigated and there wasn't enough there to go further. Comey hasn't committed any crimes, unless thinking Trump is a clear and present danger to our country and doing what is legally possible is a crime. He did it after he was fired, and thus no longer had to follow FBI policy, though he does still have to protect classified info. No, he nor Clinton is not responsible for releasing any information if it was not classified at the time of release or use on an unclassified system.

McCabe apparently lied about informing a reporter. He has been fired and his pension taken from him despite he otherwise earning it. Seems enough to me. Lynch was just amazingly stupid to meet Bill on the tarmac. That is not a crime.

And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.

You probably didn't hear about that - the MSM was pretty quiet about it.

Your ultra special sources are the problem, with their conspiracy crap propping up a wanna be dictator. Stop using these fuckwits like Breitbart as a source. They are not remotely credible. I do like your bringing up Clinton's lie about having sec with an intern. *lol*

The republicans went all in for it, and he lost his law license, but in the end there wasn't enough there to impeach. Trump on the other hand is up to around lie 2500. Trump Lies.

Surely the American people deserve better? It is okay if Trump stays below 3000 lies, below 4000, below 10000, below a million? Is there any limit you right wingers would say, enough?

I suppose to a right winger lying continuously to the American people is not remotely as important as lying about an affair once under oath. Hell Trump is too big a chicken shit to even testify to Mueller under oath. He might even scrape by without prosecution. Who knows. I do know one thing about the Mueller probe. It is not all about Trump.

If Mueller fails to indict Trump it doesn't mean they failed at their jobs. Their jobs were to investigate and see what was there. They have already gotten others and do not seem remotely out of steam. Hell an offshoot of Mueller has apparently gotten Trump's lawyer with evidence damming enough a judge okayed a raid and the bar there was quite high.

...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?

Um... none?

You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?

And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.

You probably didn't hear about that - the MSM was pretty quiet about it.

And also note that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher claims to have physical proof that the Russians did not hack the DNC.

You knew about that, right?

Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?

Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.

Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.

Do you think saying “I hope you can let this go” rises to that level?

You're mad.

Hmmmm... Tens of thousands of brilliant leaders over centuries,

If you're talking about the current disproportionate makeup of the House, that got screwed up in 1929. Centuries, my a**. It hasn't even been ONE century.

We'll stick with the Constitution, thanks. You can get fucked.

Try following it, then. The House of Representatives, and thus the overwhelming majority of electors, are supposed to be proportional to the population of the states, according to the Constitution. Right now, that isn't true. You're entitled to stick to the constitution. You're not entitled to claim the moral high ground if you're only pretending to stick to it.

Here are the lists of the people who voted for it:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
https://www.senate.gov/legisla...

Sure. So did you find information in your research that's publicly available? No harm, no foul from what I understand.

How about information that is not publicly available? Now we're in a little different spot. Now let's add that you intentional disseminate that information publicly after having sold the privileged information to a third party who acted on that information to purchase a security with an expectation that your public release of the information will affect price of the security? From what I understand, now you're dealing with securities fraud. I am in no way an expert on the associated laws, but section 9.a.5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (page 87) seems to apply directly to this situation. You would have to prove intent with that section, but it seems pretty obvious in this case.

We'd be talking about the same thing if a member of Google Project Zero shorted Intel stock just before the public release of the Meltdown/Spectre fiasco. The purpose behind the regulation is to prevent an unfair advantage in cases where only a select group can be "in the know" and use that information to manipulate the stock price or act on expected changes to the price based on that privileged information.

Indeed.

It's unfortunate that the USA PATRIOT act was passed but it's notable, that the bill had only one senator voting against it (who was later defeated). In other house, the bill was passed 347 to 66 -- nays included Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders (back when he was in the house).

Bipartisan opposition to tyrannical legislation also has a proud history.

Steele did leak the dossier to media

The person who leaked to Buzzfeed is not known; a ruling last year determined that Buzzfeed does not have to reveal the source. However, by the time that Buzzfeed published it, it was already widely circulating in the federal government, so the most likely source was a government official.

You're confusing the release of the dossier with the release of the fact that Steele was assisting the FBI.

reporting on his leak was subsequently used (in part) as justification for FISA application

We don't get to see the full Democratic response to Trump transition team member Devin Nunes because the White House blocked it, but from the summary: "The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced."

Nunes, it should be added, never even read the FISA application.

Steele did knowingly impair and obstruct the functions of the Department of Justice

Oh give it a bloody rest. The guy compiled intelligence memos - something he's been doing for his entire career, MI-6 and after. Nothing about them or him was kept secret from the FISA court, and nothing about any aspect of his work was even remotely against the law; it's rather baffling what on Earth you think was. On the other hand, what is being investigated is serious violations of federal law. Covering a wide range of topics, some of which have already gotten guilty pleas.

The FISA warranty was given to surveil a guy who had been boasting about being a Kremlin representative. The fact that you find this to be some sort of grave miscarriage of justice is even more baffling.

Are your purposefully ignorant?

Its from the House Committee on Intelligence, put forward by the chairman after months of investigation.

https://intelligence.house.gov...

Backed up by real objective (objective means anyone can see them and agree, not mysterious anonymous sources, see the difference there? no of course you dont) facts unlike the trump.russia narrative, which has morphed into the obstruction narrative, and will probably morph next into the hates america narrative or some other nonsense like the previous things.

Like I said get up to speed on current events:

http://docs.house.gov/meetings...

And there is more to come.

"Both human deployment of the patch and the scanning deployment did not work. The protocol was followed .. The human error was the individual who is responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch did not." transcript

Sole Equifax security worker at fault for failed patch, says former CEO

I love your post. Zero facts, zero logic, but somehow I'm the "moronic denier". Since you clearly failed debate (or never had to take it), here's a tip: when a side reverts to name calling and logical fallacies (Ad hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and appeal to majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), that in it'self is a flat out lie ( https://www.skepticalscience.c... ) they typically have a very weak position.

And no, the AGW scientists have been caught a number of times falsely manipulating the numbers (FACT)
https://science.house.gov/news...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
http://www.foxnews.com/science...

The AGW "scientists" mathematical models have been wildly inaccurate: http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp... (how you can look at that graph and not doubt the quality of their predictions is beyond me) but still you want to treat them like a hard science... Good luck with that.

I have facts and evidence, you have blind faith in "scientists" who are out to make a buck vis a vi federal grant money. Get back to me when you have more facts and less name calling...

As you said, thanks for playing.

The Democrats on the committee are currently muzzled by the Republicans voting to release only the Nunes memo, but they have been able to specifically comment on a few claims and that was one of them:

... the Majority deliberately misstates the reason why DOJ specifically explained Russia’s role in courting Papadopoulos and the context in which to evaluate Russian approaches to Page.

The Majority suggests that the FBI failed to alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential political motivations or the political motivations of those who hired him, but this is not accurate. The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced.

But of course, when you put a legal muzzle on your opponents, you can write whatever congressional fan fiction you want and present it as the truth. The only "stink to high heaven" is coming from Nunes and his enablers.

(Should I even bother to mention that Nunes is supposedly "recused" from the Russia investigation for his previous attempts to coordinate conspiracy theories with the White House (incl. sneaking off to the White House in the middle of the night), or that he was part of the freaking Trump transition team, deep in the middle of the Flynn mess? He'll be lucky if he doesn't end up indicted himself)

Also, I'm amazed that nobody has yet posted the House Intelligence Committee minority's response. They're still legally prohibited from releasing their memo (is their any way that Nunes could possibly have made this look more like a partisan hack job than that?), but they've stated all that they're legally allowed to:

“The Republican document mischaracterizes highly sensitive classified information that few Members of Congress have seen, and which Chairman Nunes himself chose not to review. It fails to provide vital context and information contained in DOJ’s FISA application and renewals, and ignores why and how the FBI initiated, and the Special Counsel has continued, its counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election interference and links to the Trump campaign. The sole purpose of the Republican document is to circle the wagons around the White House and insulate the President. Tellingly, when asked whether the Republican staff who wrote the memo had coordinated its drafting with the White House, the Chairman refused to answer.

“The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process. As the Minority memo makes clear, none of this is true. The FBI had good reason to be concerned about Carter Page and would have been derelict in its responsibility to protect the country had it not sought a FISA warrant.

“In order to understand the context in which the FBI sought a FISA warrant for Carter Page, it is necessary to understand how the investigation began, what other information the FBI had about Russia’s efforts to interfere with our election, and what the FBI knew about Carter Page prior to making application to the court – including Carter Page’s previous interactions with Russian intelligence operatives. This is set out in the Democratic response which the GOP so far refuses to make public.

“The authors of the GOP memo would like the country to believe that the investigation began with Christopher Steele and the dossier, and if they can just discredit Mr. Steele, they can make the whole investigation go away regardless of the Russians’ interference in our election or the role of the Trump campaign in that interference. This ignores the inconvenient fact that the investigation did not begin with, or arise from Christopher Steele or the dossier, and that the investigation would persist on the basis of wholly independent evidence had Christopher Steele never entered the picture.

“The DOJ appropriately provided the court with a comprehensive explanation of Russia’s election interference, including evidence that Russian agents courted another Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos. As we know from Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, Russian agents disclosed to Papadopoulos their possession of stolen Clinton emails and interest in a relationship with the campaign. In claiming that there is ‘no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos,’ the Majority deliberately misstates the reason why DOJ specifically explained Russia’s role in courting Papadopoulos and the context in which to evaluate Russian approaches to Page.

“The Majority suggests that the FBI failed to alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential political motivations or the political motivations of those who hired him, but this is not accurate. The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced. These are but a few of the serious mischaracterizations of the FISA application. There are many more set out in the Democratic response, which we will again be seeking a vo

If they had probable cause to surveil Carter Page, then they wouldn't have included the dossier in the FISA application. The dossier is absolutely the reason that the FISA warrant was issued. Without the dossier, the warrant would not have been granted. By the way, those aren't my words.....that's what Rod Rosenstein told Congress.

Senator Burr has released the some of the specific ads identified by Facebook as Russian in origin. The House Democrats have also released a wider sample of ads flagged by Facebook as Russian fakes.

I'd say calling your group "Heart of Texas", or "United Muslims of America" is representing yourself as American. SO is calling your group "Being Patriotic" and using crossed American flags as your emblem. Calling yourself "Donald Trump America" is pretending to be American.

Nothing Marsha Blackburn supports has a bright side.

Marsha Blackburn supports incandescent light bulbs. Idiotic? Maybe. But you can't claim it doesn't have a bright side.

Wire harnesses are a critical component to vehicle safety. Wires that can degrade during the normal service life of a vehicle can be deadly. Think about a wire harness with insulation that's been eaten that controls the ABS, fuel injection or an airflow sensor, and you hit a bump in the road and it shorts. Now you lose power or braking. Are we willing to have someone's vehicle fail and the people seriously hurt or dead because of a fundamental design flaw?

I've worked on my own cars for years and seen some really stupid compromises and designs that make regular service difficult or results in failures just outside the warranty period. This, however, takes the cake, and we need to stand up to this by declaring the insulation issue a fundamental safety issue. I'm now thinking about mitigation strategies beyond my standard maintenance that neither I nor anyone else shouldn't have to think about, like underhood blinking lights, sprays, capsaicin tapes, etc..

I would encourage anyone with one of these vehicles to file a NHTSA complaint stating that soy wire harnesses should be banned and recalls instituted to remedy the problem by either (a) replacing the harnesses with standard synthetic non-edible polymers as appropriate to the specific application, or (b) providing coatings that provably prevent rodents from consuming the insulation over the lifespan of the vehicle. We should also inform our congresscritters about this issue.

NHTSA complaint form: https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/... Congresscritters: https://www.house.gov/represen... and https://www.senate.gov/senator...

It would have been better if you had posted the link to the right roll. The one you posted is about rapid DNA analysis, not the counter individual network act. Try http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
And weep.

Sorry copy paste screwed up... but yes it was the Rapid DNA Act of 2017
that was the FISA extension. Passed 256 to 164

It would have been better if you had posted the link to the right roll. The one you posted is about rapid DNA analysis, not the counter individual network act. Try http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
And weep.

Sorry copy paste screwed up... but yes it was the Rapid DNA Act of 2017
that was the FISA extension. Passed 256 to 164

It would have been better if you had posted the link to the right roll. The one you posted is about rapid DNA analysis, not the counter individual network act. Try http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
And weep.

Funny enough the "Rapid DNA Act of 2017 is actually the http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...">correct roll call. The text of what was on the schedule as the "Rapid DNA Act of 2017 was completely replaced with the text for the FISA 702 extension.

This was the Amash amendment Roll Call for the amendment that would have included some privacy protections.

Apparently it is a somewhat common practice that bills get swapped out in this fashion. It threw me at first also.

It would have been better if you had posted the link to the right roll. The one you posted is about rapid DNA analysis, not the counter individual network act. Try http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
And weep.

Funny enough the "Rapid DNA Act of 2017 is actually the http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...">correct roll call. The text of what was on the schedule as the "Rapid DNA Act of 2017 was completely replaced with the text for the FISA 702 extension.

This was the Amash amendment Roll Call for the amendment that would have included some privacy protections.

Apparently it is a somewhat common practice that bills get swapped out in this fashion. It threw me at first also.

Right. Here is the right one: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll016.xml

You linked to the wrong roll call. Here is the correct one.

It would have been better if you had posted the link to the right roll. The one you posted is about rapid DNA analysis, not the counter individual network act. Try http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
And weep.

Here is a breakdown of the vote. I wish news outlets would simply provide a link to this and make life easier.

This appears to be the actual vote so you can see how people voted.

Gripe: I wish news articles would include this link or something similar that makes finding this information easier.