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And then you look at other states that are failing

Other states have:

*Taxes that are devastating on people with lower incomes
*Instead of randomly belaboring a single data point, consider the whole picture, including the nastiness of total local government debt
*A regulatory and legal climate that leads to exposure to pollution and injury risks
*Decades old reports with schools that are some of the worst in the nation being hysteria to justify even worse results
*Huge backlogs of road work necessary across the country, and a refusal to pay for it
*Increasing income inequality
*Huge drug problems in rural areas.

I can drop links on you all day, don't pester California or San Francisco when you live in a glass house yourself.

Actually, popularity, not any vote, is what matters AFTER the election.
Normally the winning party starts pushing more centrist messages in order to draw in support from the losing party.
And normally that works.

This year not only did the winning party not do that. Their approval has decreased. Dramatically.
Fox's own poll shows Trump with just a 37% approval level./a. Lowest in for an incoming president ever.

Obama had an 80% approval rating at this point in 2008.

Maybe you are right. The country isn't really divided.
I guess you could say the country is actually united, against Trump.

Asked for Manning to receive clemency (e.g. commuting a sentence), not being pardoned.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...

http://thehill.com/homenews/ne...

Correction: He made the promise if Manning was given clemency, not being pardoned, and having one's sentence commuted falls under clemency.

http://thehill.com/homenews/ne...

Why would it be a problem?

Trump.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314693-trump-puts-pressure-on-gop-congress

See how Bush the second got reelected after some of the most catastrophic policy decisions in the last fifty years.

George W. has been out of office for eight years. Time to let go and move on.

That AC is being dumb about the subsidies--Elon has done far more good with those than most and I cheer for his success. I sincerely wish more of our subsidies were bringing us awesome tech the way the ones going to him are. That said, your post is nonsense too.

Elon is a Trump advisory team member and they've been cooperating together.

But why let facts get in the way here when you can conjure more Russian boogeymen?

If Clinton had won, you would be fighting in Trump's revolutionary army and decrying the continued Democratic tyranny. Which ok, would amount to you trolling on the Internet some more, so no, we would be having this discussion, and you'd be doing the same things as you are now.

Funny. Because that sure didn't happen when Obama won, but the left were right there back when Bush Jr., was elected for a second term screaming that they should violently oppose him.

Nope, it's confirmed that there were internet trolls then. Some continue to this day.

2012 also had plenty. Including a special one you may know.

And gee, look again...it's the left doing exactly the same thing.

Yes, yes, pity you, because the Left surely is the one making you the victim, you internet troll you. Poor you. Why do you lie? Do you think everybody else is too dumb to spot your bullshit?

When Trump himself jumped into it with vigor, that's a losing game.

But oh boy, let's look at Obama's decisions shall we? A head of the DoJ that refuses to enforce immigration law, and is now in the running to defend criminal illegals. Very progressive, much law and order!

Even Donald Trump admitted that Obama had deported millions. Strangely he had no problem lying about it otherwise. Just like you.

Couldn't Trump find a non-racist attorney general candidate? Couldn't Trump find a candidate for secretary of state who knew what a war crime was? Couldn't Trump find a way to not create more conflicts of interest?

You mean the joke? Did you actually read/watch what he said. I guess not, that's what happens when you let the media lie to you. Yep, he's so racist he's prosecuted KKK members.

Oh goodness, he's not so stupid he can claim that the KKK is a perfectly normal civil organization. But he's stupid enough to crack jokes about them. Well, that's not a point in his favor, nor is his position on marijuana, which remains opposed to legalization. Nor the failure to list his failed judicial nomination. Or the other things he mysteriously left out.

But I guess it's too bad there's plenty of other things to know about Jeff Sessions.

Really, couldn't Trump find ANYBODY else?

Now, let's move on to that "war crime" bit. Smart move. You know why?

Because you aren't thinking, and believe being stupid enough not to condemn actual war crimes because of some carefully inculcated desire to be legally scot-free equivocator is a good thing?

It's dumb. Dumb-ass stupid shit that would get you worked up into a frenzy if it were the other side saying it, but when it's yours, well, you just think it's the greatest thing ever.

Because if he didn't answer the way he did, he would have let every nut with an axe to grind go after the government.

They already do. What's your point? That we should keep doing the things that are fucking dumb?

Starting right at the top with the previous Obama ad

Haha, who am I kidding. So far, they strongly prefer to keep losing to Trump.

Somebody's #madonline.

But actually, he's not mad, he's laughing. You can tell because he typed "Haha".

Just suck it up and take the L on this one, buttercup. You're president is a piss-soaked yam who brings a stack of folders with blank sheets of paper in them to a press conference.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

You'll want to scroll down to the photo showing that none of the stacks of folders containing these "important documents solving all his ethics problems" have labels on them. Maybe he should talk to his legal team. Or, his prop master.

And you should also admit that Trump is largely the source of the "hire local" climate, he's caused companies to rethink their outsourcing plans, especially in light of the alternative candidate who said explicitly that she wants completely open borders for job seekers.

Nope. That's been something proclaimed for YEARS. It's been a scam.

So is Trump's "Carrier deal" and "Ford and he lied about "Boeing too.

Durp, durp, durp. You lie about Hillary Clinton as well. Just like Your Orange God

Who also made up a story about bidding on drugs. LOL. Yeah, let's see him change the Republican's opposition to the reform proposed by Democrats for decades. He'll either come up with a way to screw us, or fail and claim he somehow saved us anyway.

But none of that matters. I don't think many people really care who takes the credit.

Is it important to you?

Help me out here.

Why should credit even matter?

Ask your good buddy, Donald J. Trump, who puts his name on everything.

Sorry, but some of us know that Donald only wants CREDIT for success, he doesn't even care if the job gets done.

Maybe you like his over-the-top bombastic style of self-aggrandizement, maybe you think his much vaunted narcissism is a matter of virtue, but you're the one who has to look at what you've embraced.

With open eyes. He's already said he likes being liked. He can't see a problem in that. He'll be a suck-up to anybody who offers him praise.

And if you dare to criticize or challenge him, he'll throw a tantrum.

Back in 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney had his pacemaker's wireless functionality disabled.

Ah, the good old days when the veep shooting his friend in the face with a shotgun and refusing to apologize was considered a scandal.

Don't forget James Clapper. The person at the root of this mess.
The master of lying.

"Weeks before the National Security Agency (NSA) began a massive phone sweeping operation on U.S. cellular provider Verizon, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress the agency does not conduct intelligence on American citizens.

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clapper denied allegations by panel members the NSA conducted electronic surveillance of Americans on U.S. soil.

"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper during the March 12 hearing.
In response, Clapper replied quickly: "No, sir."

"There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect [intelligence on Americans], but not wittingly," the U.S. intelligence chief told Wyden and the rest of the committee.
http://thehill.com/policy/defe...

I never said they were illegal. If that's your reading comprehension I don't expect reasonable discussion.

In Jan 2016 the Supreme court heard a case about new FERC rule forcing power producers to pay users that curtailed energy use during peak periods. See: http://thehill.com/policy/ener...

There are dozens of companies that have sprung up and are assisting large manufacturers and heavy power users in maximizing these payments. The result has been that the whole dynamic of the electricity market is changing. Power companies no longer are talking about base load, they are talking about demand response and power shifting. The whole idea of a dumb grid and base load is not the energy market of the future. Germany and California have already moved heavily in this direction and it won't be long before the rest of the US follows. The western states are all talking about joining California's central grid management and there is a compact already under consideration.

Not for not knowing how to use e-mails, but for maintaining her OFFICIAL WORK ON A PRIVATE SERVER, CRETIN!!!

Something that was a quite widespread practice among politicians ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE NOT THAT LONG AGO, CRETIN!!!

Really?

Other Secretaries of State DIRECTED their underlings to strip classification markings off and send the classified data via unsecure means

GFY, you useless lying toady.

And take Hillary!'s dick out of your mouth while your at it.

Your information is out of date (from early December). Since then, Risch and Coats have joined the others in saying that enough evidence exists.

To date, every single member of the Senate Intelligence Committee agrees.

Even Speaker Ryan came out in favor of President Obama's sanctions today.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor...

It's like what we saw from the past 8 years from Obama (and probably presidents before them.)

"As president and commander in chief I take full responsibility for all counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovani."
http://thehill.com/policy/defe...

Saying you take full responsibility apparently shields you from punishment.

"That played well before the election. Now? We don't care."

Besides, he has to ensure the H-2B program is running smoothly as well, so he can staff Mar-A-Lago.

As far as the Wikileaks connection, evidence there is not as strong and we don’t have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided.

I wanted to point out that there is a diverse set of opinions. "Democrats" say X and "Republicans" say Y is a gross generalization. Also, you have to put everything in context. The GOP doesn't simply say illegal immigrants are bad so lets have a scholarly debate. They make vile disgusting political ads specifically designed to rile up people with their propaganda.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

So, if you could spare us your sanctimonious bullshit about having a proper discourse it would be nice.

Just keep moving the goalposts there, brother. Eventually it'll work for you.

Remember this post of yours??

So we're just completely forgetting the actual rioting that happened both times Obama was elected?

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

Where is the proof of riots resulting from Obama's election? That's what you imply you have, that's what I've been looking for, and you haven't delivered. That's not me "moving the goalpost," that is you being unable to back up your claim. There is no surprise there because it is rubbish. Conservatives/Republicans didn't riot over their loss in the election.

And no, "I don't have time" is just a poor excuse for not wanting to face that facts.

No, it is a statement of prioritization of my use of time in which replying on Slashdot falls far below the other demands on my time. That isn't hard to understand.

But tell you what, I'll grant you a minor indulgence.

Remember this link of yours above?
http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
or as I render it:
Squeaky Wheels Get the Greece

A photograph purportedly showing a violent anti-Trump protest in the U.S. was actually taken in Greece in 2012.

What a strange link. Are you trying to imply that there really weren't anti-Trump riots going on? That rubbish is easily disposed of:

Anti-Trump protesters march for 3rd night; Portland police call it a 'riot'

An anti-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon, revved up as protesters confronted police Thursday night. What started out as a peaceful march, with more than 4,000 people, quickly turned violent. Over the course of the evening, "anarchists" in the crowd threw objects at officers, vandalized local businesses and damaged cars, Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said. Police publicly declared a "riot" due to "extensive criminal and dangerous behavior" and called the protest "unlawful," according to posts on the department's Twitter page. The crowd was dispersed using "less lethal munitions" and at least 26 protesters were arrested, police said.

Some of the roughly 1,000 protesters in Oakland broke store windows, left graffiti on buildings and threw M-80 firecrackers, Molotov cocktails and bottles at police officers, authorities said. Eleven people were arrested in Oakland, including someone who had seven Molotov cocktails in his possession, police said. Some of those arrested are accused of assaulting police officers.

Words matter. I could write my own explanation, but here's a pro-Trump editorial about why: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

Jesse Jackson sez...

they're washed up in politics and it's really not worth it.

That's just not true. They are drowning in money. The flow has not dwindled one bit.

And Trump will need her advice once Kissinger kicks the bucket.

Trump needs Hillary's advice for WHAT?!?!?!

How to marry Bill Clinton? Because that's pretty much the entirety of Hillary's accomplishments.

The fact that she was able to ride that to the cusp of the Presidency is more a comment on the low standards we place on our pols than anything else.

Jesse Jackson sez...

they're washed up in politics and it's really not worth it.

That's just not true. They are drowning in money. The flow has not dwindled one bit.

And Trump will need her advice once Kissinger kicks the bucket.

When have the democrats ever linked hands to deny every supreme court nominee?

I can't say that there is history of Democrats blocking every Supreme Court nominee. But the Democrats have a rich history of blocking nominees at all levels including Supreme Court, especially recently.

Here's a short overview. More specific links follow.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/22/democrats_double_standard_for_high_court_nominees.html

Samuel Alito was not filibustered but it was a close thing. Several prominent Democrats (including Senator Barack Obama) unsuccessfully voted for a filibuster despite Alito being rated "Well Qualified" by the American Bar Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito_Supreme_Court_nomination

George W. Bush's nominees repeatedly were blocked in committee or filibustered.

"...only ten Bush appellate nominees were confirmed during the 110th Congress. A total of eleven appellate seats with Bush nominees were left open at the end of the 110th Congress."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_judicial_appointment_controversies

Democrats blocked Priscilla Owen for four solid years (including filibustering). Senator Barack Obama personally voted against her.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261878/democrats-blocked-bush-judicial-nominee-entire-daniel-greenfield

The Democrats seem to really hate Trump, and I imagine that a majority of them will think it a virtuous act to block anyone he appoints. We'll see if I'm right or not.

Democrats are more like herding cats. Republicans are more like the Borg.

Democrats have reached a record for voting together: 97.4% This may be the all-time record, but easily searchable electronic records only go back to 1989 and the article linked below only checked the electronic records.

The Republicans currently are at 87.2%, a much lower number, but the article speculates that the Republicans will raise that number now that they have majority power.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/upshot/barbara-boxer-and-the-rise-of-democratic-partisan-discipline.html

And here's an article called "Are Democrats Less 'Disciplined' than Republicans?" Spoiler: no.

http://themonkeycage.org/2011/10/are-democrats-less-disciplined-than-republicans/

Did you read the link? No? Here it comes again:

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

Actual violence, rioting and attacks by right wingers, following each of Obama's elections. Don't act like "your side" can do no wrong, because that is objectively bullshit.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

So we're just completely forgetting the actual rioting that happened both times Obama was elected?

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

Could you point out in the article where it documents an actual riot resulting from Barak Obama's election as you claim? There doesn't seem to be an actual riot from protests against Obama mentioned in the article. There are acts of violence by individuals, or a small group, but not actual riots. There is nothing comparable to what is going on in Portland.

Did you not read your own link? Or are you just bluffing to trick people?

You're very good at only picking and choosing articles that back up your prejudices.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

So we're just completely forgetting the actual rioting that happened both times Obama was elected?

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

The exact same thing right wingers did in 2008 and 2012?

  http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

People seem to have a short memory.

I think if we've seen any "insurrection" lately it would be a right-wing militia taking over a federal building. And if the stuff happening now counts as "insurrection", then so does this.

Sue and settle is used by the EPA to avoid public input on rules and pretend that their hand is forced by a Judge. They collude ahead of time with special interest groups, behind closed doors to reach the goals the bureaucrats desire then agree to the terms and no one in the procedure actually speaks for the people. Google it. Here is one article on it. http://thehill.com/blogs/congr...

Whether it be going after them as political enemies by refusing some form of charity status.

The IRS was wrong for limiting their targets to Republican PACs, but let's be honest - they weren't charities.

Let's be more honest then. They did.

You know, I wonder if people get their facts or not, when they are only half right.

Nobody should be surprised that Putin reached out to Trump, Putin has put out an international arrest warrant on George Soros, and Clinton was basically a Soros sock-puppet.
Russia has a huge financial interest in the sale of natural gas to European nations, it undoubtedly a matter of great national security, bordering on an existential matter for them. the Qatarris want to build a natural gas pipeline the
Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, which Syria's president al-Assad opposed "to protect the interests of [its] Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas." Which brings us back around to al-Assad, to get him out of the way to install the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, you need the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria to over throw him. Clinton is up to her eyeballs in Muslim Brotherhood through her longtime assistant and Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin.

Her mother, Saleha Abedin, sits on the Presidency Staff Council of the International Islamic Council for Da wa and Relief, a group that is chaired by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Huma Abedin's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

Under Clinton-Obama we've ended up in a all-but shooting war with Russia in Syria, and Candidate Clinton has been pretty shrill about accusing Russia of undermining her campaign, I'm surprised that Putin hasn't been more blatant about things.

It certainly is. I recall this a live mike episode in 2012: Obama tells Russia he will have ‘more flexibility’ after election

One of those public position for the plebs private position for reals Clinton mentioned. Privately.

I can't even wrap my head around your apologist logic. It must be nice to live in what ever world you live in.

She explicitly told staff to go around secure fax by scrubbing headers. -

“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Clinton responds.

And if you're going to still double down on her ignorance to the security clearance levels then I will agree with you. She doesn't deserve to be prosecuted but she then doesn't meet the minimum intelligence requirements for POTUS.

Not one links to an actual investigation showing proof that even a single citizen was unable to vote because of voter ID laws.

Don't, worry, the courts are blocking those impediments.

It's almost as if they're being prevented from malfeasance by some unknown means.

Hillary has more in common with Russia than Trump does.

That's exactly why Putin wants Trump to be president.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

While this is certainly interesting and deserves attention (I voted it up in the firehose), it's unlikely to be of any use during the campaign.

For one, the server was registered in 2009 and is unlikely to be anything related to the elections. Trump's business is pretty big, and he has contacts all over the world.

(For comparison, the Podesta group is registered with the U.S. government as a lobbyist for Sberbank. Google "Podesta Russia" for lots of links and info.)

For another, if it's nefarious it's more likely to be some sort of mole or agent within Trump's organization. Again, Trump's business is huge, and there are probably one or more foreign government agents working for him (also in Google, Facebook, and a hundred other big organizations).

Also, there might be a perfectly reasonable explanation. We should wait for the Trump campaign explanation, then see if their explanation seems reasonable. God only knows how many times we've done that for the Clintons!

And finally, it might be too little too late. Word on the street is that Clinton will be stepping down on Tuesday (tomorrow), Veritas is planning a "blockbuster" drop this week, Wikieaks is about to start phase three of its election coverage, and internal leaks from the campaign indicate that Hillary is coming apart at the seams: binge drinking, uncontrolled anger, and poor judgement in general.

As the saying goes, it's not over until its over.

Let's just wait for the election.

And the useful idiots think that Mrs. Clinton is their friend.

As a European I'm not a fan of either of the candidates, but do we have any reason to assume Trump is any better?

Seriously I have not seen Trump make any statements about privacy/mass surveillance/whistleblowers/etc that'd give me a reason to believe that he will somehow change or improve America's status quo when it comes to surveillance. In fact, a quick googling tends to reveal the exact opposite of that:

"I tend to err on the side of security, I must tell you," Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt when asked about the metadata program.

"When you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security," - -

Trump said his position in favor of the NSA data collection had been the same since before last month's terrorist attacks in Paris, which stoked fears of international terrorism and revived debate over government surveillance measures. - -

Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection, something candidates such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have also called for that was banned with the passage of the USA Freedom Act, which Cruz supported.

"As far as I'm concerned, that would be fine," Trump said.

The problem with this candidates is that both sides of this debate are so heavily polarized that the fanbase of both seems to assume their candidate is better on a given issue simply because the opposing candidate has a bad stance on it.

You may think Trump is the lesser of two evils, but make no mistake: Trump is no champion of civil liberties. If this is your reason for voting him, I suggest re-thinking about it.

Hillary was trumpeting "But Russia!" the day of the leak, before any investigation could possibly have taken place.

Trump does the same thing all the damn time, and he uses his rush to judgement as proof of how awesome he is.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

If you're going for a Hillary conspiracy on that same thin premise, I suppose we'd have to say Trump mush have had advanced knowledge of the NYC bombing...

Fact check? Not. Google whores for hillary http://www.democracynow.org/20... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... https://theintercept.com/2016/... https://aeon.co/essays/how-the... http://thehill.com/policy/tech... http://observer.com/2016/08/te...

Consider:

Obama's IRS targeted his political opponents - by admission (under oath) by the IRS's own inspector general in testimony before congress. The responsible parties were either hidden or "punished" by being given better jobs with more pay plus paid time off.

Obama's State Department has been fighting in the courts for two years to help Hillary hide her documents.

Obama's DOJ seems to have been caught in league with the Clinton team they were supposedly investigating. They APPEARED to be giving immunity to witnesses as part of a case, but never empaneled a grand jury to hear that immunized testimony and actually helped team Hillary destroy evidence that was (and still is) under subpoena by congress (google: DOJ + laptop + "cheryl mills").

We now know from that leaks that Hillary buddy (and now DNC chair) Donna Brazile was working at CNN during the primaries and in that role was getting debate and forum questions in advance and forwarded at least one question to team Hillary to help her beat Bernie. She has now been rewarded with the chairmanship of the DNC.

Oh, as a cherry on top of this sundae, The Democrats in California have re-wired the elections so that the senate race this fall will be between two Democrats (no Republican is allowed on the ballot). The one favored to win is Camilla Harris who is famous for, among other things, supporting the criminal prosecution of anybody who disagrees about global warming.

This is how fascism arises in a Democracy

Big media and big tech companies all aligning with a big central government that has aligned with a political party and is implementing speech codes and using government force to intimidate those who dissent. As usual, it's the progressive left encouraging it all (google: National Socialist Workers Party). Sic transit freedom and liberty.

While that seems like the conventional wisdom, it does not appear to be the case. Even the DNC is concerned about stealing votes away from Johnson.

The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:

A123 Systems ($279 million)*
AES's subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)
Abound Solar ($374 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Azure Dynamics ($120 million)*
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
Beacon Power ($69 million)*
Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
ECOtality ($126.2 million)
EnerDel's subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Fisker Automotive ($528 million)
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
LG Chem's subsidiary Chemical Power ($150 million)
LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)*
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
National Renewable Energy Lab ($200 million)
Navistar ($10 million)
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
Olsen's Crop Service and Olsen's Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
Range Fuels ($80 million)*
Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
Satcon ($3 million)*
Schneider Electric ($86 million)
Solyndra ($535 million)*
SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
SunPower ($1.5 billion)
Thompson River Power ($6.4 million)*
UniSolar ($100 million)*
Vestas ($50 million)
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)
Xunlight ($46.5 million)*

*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.

ALL of these companies had Obama donors and bundlers on the boards who got nice, fat, golden parachutes before they crashed. See how that works?

And then there's Abengoa, a spanish company that we gave four time the amount of money we gave Solyndra...and we can't even find out who we loaned it to, or why, or why it failed:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12...

Remember that talking point about how "even Exxon's own scientists say that global warming is real"? It turns out the fabulous reporting from the Columbia School of Journalism that was based on, was funded by anti-fossil fuel groups, and Columbia has been accused of ethical lapses. It's not true. It's just another leftie lie, exposed as the journalistic astroturf that it is.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congr...


Federal Lab Forced To Close After 'Disturbing' Data Manipulation


"Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of "disturbing" data manipulation with "serious and far ranging" effects forced a federal lab to close, a congressman revealed Thursday.

"The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey\92s (USGS) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety of topics \96 including many related to the environment \96 from 1996 to 2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six years."


http://dailycaller.com/2016/06...


From elusive mysterious garbage patches to failed solar plants, there's a lot of money in the green religion. A lot.

And Mashiki fails to note that they were doing so in order to track the process and thus improve their ability to make arrests.

You mean they were not tracking the process, ignoring informant information, and not doing any arrests. And according to the FOIA requests, the Obama administration went even further and blocked agents from actively perusing investigations against solid leads. Did not inform the Mexican government unlike the Bush administration did, illegally engaged in straw sale purchases, and in the end was so shitty that they "lost" thousands of weapons. Openly discussed and/or blocked ATF lab reports which showed that the weapons that the administration had approved for gunrunning were being used to commit crimes. Which came directly from Holder's office. And attempted to use "executive privilege" in order to block all information on it. Which of course is why it was such a big scandal...unless you watch the US news, in which case they simply brushed it off as nothing. Much like you did, and of course if all that had happened under a Republican president, you would be screaming from the rooftop right now.

But much like Yeland Lee(who was gunrunning as well FYI also a democrat), the only difference between the two is that no one in the Obama administration actually went to prison over it.

No joke. Choose your source. It happened.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...

or google "trump security briefing nuclear"

Remember, Trump solicited campaign contributions from foreign nationals. He has business interests all over the world, including many in Russia. His idea of a "blind trust" for his businesses is for his children to run them. There's no way Trump can avoid massive conflict of interests around the world. He's heavily indebted to Russian oligarchs and other areas that are in conflict with our national security.

Again, not true... Her email server and use of personal email was legal. It definitely was not in the spirit of the law, but it didn't violate it. I'm not saying that was she did was right as there is no way for a society to hold government officials responsible for their actions if they are deliberately hiding information or destroying records.

"Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history."

"The law was amended in late 2014 to require that personal emails be transferred to government servers within 20 days. But that was after Clinton left office."

http://www.npr.org/sections/it...
http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

Seth Rich, allegedly killed in a robbery where nothing was actually stolen: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

Vince Foster has a whole Wikipedia article devoted to his suspicious death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://thehill.com/policy/cybe...