I'm pretty sure Obama For America employed many, if not all the same tactics in 2008 election...
Why yes, look at MIT's Technology Review, the New York Times, and InfoWorld - again, another glaring example of a profound double-standard. When Team Obama did it, it was "ground-breaking", when Republicans employ similar tools it a nefarious plot to control the world!
US Law - See Whitewater, Rose Law Firm billing records, etc.
International Relations - Russian Reset, Benghazi
Military Operations - Benghazi
Other Required Skills - Like failing to understand confidentiality markings at the level required of mailroom clerks at the State Department, refusal to use secured government email server, and insistence of having her lawyers personally scrub her email archive after office before choosing to comply with government records retention la2s?
You also understand she had to re-start her campaign due to lack of interest, her listening campaigns were a pathetic attempt to try and find a plausible reason for her to run for President, and her campaign's decision to completely ignore several of the "Blue Wall" states she needed to win during the general campaign - ignored, as in never visited once nominated.
Yeah, that's quite the candidate, I can't imagine why she lost the election it must be "the Russians", no wait, "Big Data", no wait "Sexism", no wait... All we know for sure is it wasn't her fault (It never is, it's always a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", like the one that put Bill's Baby Batter on Monica's blue dress, then forced him to lie about it under oath in a federal court...
The National Advisor Bureau Limited's (NABL) managing Director Abdullah Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi says an average iceberg contains "more than 20 billion gallons of water" which would be enough for one million people over five years.
Where do they propose to "hold" this five year supply of water? Seems like they'd need to build a really big holding tank, about a 3 billion square foot tank (there are 7.48 gallons of water in one square foot)... By my back-of-envelope, sure to be proven wrong, calculation that would mean a 7,745 foot square box, fifty feet tall to contain the 20 billion gallons.
This is honestly a great thing - I've worked in public education, and the food schools were 'allowed' to sell and still qualify for federal subsidy programs were disgusting... nor even the school the Obamas sent their kids even entertained the idea of complying with those standards.
A tremendous smount of food was wasted trying to appease a non-sensical program that was based on the idea that the First Housewife knew what all of america's school-age children would eat.
Schools were finding cheaper to drop the restrictions and forgo federal food subsidies - it was actually cheaper, more meals were sold in the cafeteria and the kids ate better meals.
the vast sum they've avoided paying a cent in taxes on
No, they paid taxes on the money - in the countries where the earnings were booked. The US gov't is not owed taxes on earnings in England on devices manufactured in Asia (for example), England and Asia are.
"A lot of people ask me, 'Do you think it's a company's job to create jobs?' and my response is [that] a company should have values because a company is a collection of people. And people should have values, so by extension, a company should. And one of the things you do is give back,"
Wasn't that same argument the basis of the infamous "Citizens United" decision, that corporations are collections of people, and that corporations have the same rights as individuals in many respects?
Trump's allegation was that he was specifically wiretapped at the orders of Obama. Not that his conversations were swept up in a dragnet.
Because no one ever uses the President's name to refer to the action of an administration?
If every conversation is swept-up in a dragnet, it makes no sense to physically tap a phone connection, you just query the Utah Data Repository under the guise of "National Security" and with the blessing of the FISA court's rubber-stamp warrant.
We do know, with absolute certainty (because she herself admitted it on camera) was that Susan Rice, in her capacity as National Security Advisor, repeatedly and specifically asked for the redaction of Trump campaign workers and known associates during the campaign. Why did she do it, because she needed "context". We are to believe that Susan "A YouTube video caused Benghazi" Rice was conducting her own investigations out of her office, because she doesn't trust the FBI, CIA, etc. to do their jobs...
What I want to know is what did Peter Schiff see in the SCIF that made him stop attacking Repubicans and their "Politically-motivated witch hunt"?
Nothing suspicious there, perfectly normal - every National Security Advisor in recent administrations has been a part-time sleuth.
There has always been, and always will be 'election tampering' by other governments.
In only one recent incident I'm aware of the federal government under President Obama used federal funds to support political groups in Israel in a bid to influence their elections - where's the outrage?
Democrats have a 'claim' regarding Russian involvement, proof has been very, very scant so far.
More in dollars ? No. More as percentage of income - hell yes
Are federal income taxes - the only taxes I mentioned, btw - intended to 'punish' taxfilers equally, or fund the operation of the government? I thought it was the latter...
Reminds me of then-candidate Obama saying he refused to lower taxes "even if it will help the economy" because it didn't seem 'fair'. This from the candidate that wanted to put science in it's rightful place - I guess that didn't include 'economics' as a science.
In the context of a federal government shutdown, only 3% of the federal EPA workforce needs to show up for work... there are still 50 state-level EPAs left unaffected by a federal government shutdown.
If Trump were to trim the EPA workforce by, say, 5%, would the effects really be noticeable? Probably not. Maybe the EPA could use the streamlined workforce to re-focus itself on thing it is actually responsible for, rather than deeming every 3" wide stream that feeds into another body of water as a 'navigable waterway' (they did this st my old house in NJ, I had to get federal approval to do any improvements to my land, as it was within 300' of a stream no wider than a sheet of binder paper.
Under the previous administration 97% of EPA employees were deemed "non-essential" during a government shutdown... That was BEFORE Trump took office, that was under an administration that promised to "return science to it's rightful place."
If 97% of employees are 'non-essential', perhaps trimming the budget isn't really the end of civilization...
Critics of Energy Star say the government should get involved in the marketplace only when absolutely necessary. But that argument doesn't hold sway for the program's legions of supporters, which span nonprofits, companies and trade groups.
Is there a valid reason that prevent an organization like Consumer Reports taking over the consumer education function of the Energy Star program and test the appliances independently?
Just because something is worth doing doesn't mean the federal government has to do it.
Sorry, no they don't - 1/3rd of all US tax filers in 2014 paid no or negative federal income taxes (negative means they received a refund in excess of all monies paid the previous year)... are THOSE the poor and middle class that you claim pay the brunt of US taxes?
Oh wait, now tell me about how the poor pay taxes on gasoline, car tires, etc.! Because a poor person obviously buys more gasoline, car tires, than the rich that can - what - buy their gas and car tires overseas?
Because once a whole lot of under-employed, disaffected voters start grasping at straws, everybody wins.
So you think Trump won after the previous democrat administration left some 60 million Americans as under-employed, disaffected voters? I am SHOCKED that the democrat candidate (HRC) lost the election after such a (as Charlie Sheen would say) "Winning!" job!
More realistically it would benefit the Democratic party to offer social services to unemployed, otherwise unskilled drivers. They would garner their vote and come into great power relative to Republicans.
Right, because up until now the government has done nothing to offer 'social services' to the unemployed?
Ever heard of:
Unemployment benefits Welfare SNAP benefits Section 8 Housing subsidies Aid to women with dependent children Free cellphones Free broadband internet Free healthcare Etc...
Why would $17K/yr end meth addicts stealing your tools? I think the more likely outcome is meth will become more expensive since meth heads will now have an 'extra' $17K in their pockets...
Up until relatively recent a woman could get an abortion when she wanted it
Bull. Where can't a woman get an abortion whenever she wants it?
Kermit Gosnell would perform abortions between a pregnant woman's contractions in the labor room if that's what she wanted, and he was by no means the only late-term abortionist in the world.
without a lot of hassle.
Define 'a lot of hassle'? Does that include 'forcing' her to make a life/death decision about her mother's granddaughter or grandson within six months of conception?
Show of hands, who was sitting on their hands, waiting for the incoming administration to ramp up a cyber security team to help democrats secure their private, non-government email servers? In providing guidance to geniuses like Jpn Podesta to NOT use 'password' as the password on your work GMAIL account?
Seriously, Democrats ignored warnings from FBI that they were being targeted by hackers, the Republicans heeded the warning, with predictable results in both cases.
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Exactly - here are some of the links:
MIT's Technology Review
New York Times
InfoWorld
The Left seems to have forgotten how Obama won the 2008 campaign - look at MIT's Technology Review, the New York Times, and InfoWorld.
I'm pretty sure Obama For America employed many, if not all the same tactics in 2008 election...
Why yes, look at MIT's Technology Review, the New York Times, and InfoWorld - again, another glaring example of a profound double-standard. When Team Obama did it, it was "ground-breaking", when Republicans employ similar tools it a nefarious plot to control the world!
You ignore HRC's series of scandals:
US Law - See Whitewater, Rose Law Firm billing records, etc.
International Relations - Russian Reset, Benghazi
Military Operations - Benghazi
Other Required Skills - Like failing to understand confidentiality markings at the level required of mailroom clerks at the State Department, refusal to use secured government email server, and insistence of having her lawyers personally scrub her email archive after office before choosing to comply with government records retention la2s?
You also understand she had to re-start her campaign due to lack of interest, her listening campaigns were a pathetic attempt to try and find a plausible reason for her to run for President, and her campaign's decision to completely ignore several of the "Blue Wall" states she needed to win during the general campaign - ignored, as in never visited once nominated.
Yeah, that's quite the candidate, I can't imagine why she lost the election it must be "the Russians", no wait, "Big Data", no wait "Sexism", no wait... All we know for sure is it wasn't her fault (It never is, it's always a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", like the one that put Bill's Baby Batter on Monica's blue dress, then forced him to lie about it under oath in a federal court...
Where do they propose to "hold" this five year supply of water? Seems like they'd need to build a really big holding tank, about a 3 billion square foot tank (there are 7.48 gallons of water in one square foot)... By my back-of-envelope, sure to be proven wrong, calculation that would mean a 7,745 foot square box, fifty feet tall to contain the 20 billion gallons.
This is honestly a great thing - I've worked in public education, and the food schools were 'allowed' to sell and still qualify for federal subsidy programs were disgusting... nor even the school the Obamas sent their kids even entertained the idea of complying with those standards.
A tremendous smount of food was wasted trying to appease a non-sensical program that was based on the idea that the First Housewife knew what all of america's school-age children would eat.
Schools were finding cheaper to drop the restrictions and forgo federal food subsidies - it was actually cheaper, more meals were sold in the cafeteria and the kids ate better meals.
You have a year and a half to avail yourself of the free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro on a new surface, until the end of 2018.
Why are including the 4-5 billion people without electricity in a discussion of operating system popularity?
What? You're trying too hard.
What's the most popular OS in Russia?
What's the most popular OS in China?
What's the most popular OS in India?
What's most popular OS in the EU?
What's the most popular OS in the US?
Answer to all the above? Some version of Windows.
Windows Vista has more users than either Mac OSX or Linux (desktop) - worldwide.
No, they paid taxes on the money - in the countries where the earnings were booked. The US gov't is not owed taxes on earnings in England on devices manufactured in Asia (for example), England and Asia are.
Wasn't that same argument the basis of the infamous "Citizens United" decision, that corporations are collections of people, and that corporations have the same rights as individuals in many respects?
Interesting.
Because no one ever uses the President's name to refer to the action of an administration?
If every conversation is swept-up in a dragnet, it makes no sense to physically tap a phone connection, you just query the Utah Data Repository under the guise of "National Security" and with the blessing of the FISA court's rubber-stamp warrant.
We do know, with absolute certainty (because she herself admitted it on camera) was that Susan Rice, in her capacity as National Security Advisor, repeatedly and specifically asked for the redaction of Trump campaign workers and known associates during the campaign. Why did she do it, because she needed "context". We are to believe that Susan "A YouTube video caused Benghazi" Rice was conducting her own investigations out of her office, because she doesn't trust the FBI, CIA, etc. to do their jobs...
What I want to know is what did Peter Schiff see in the SCIF that made him stop attacking Repubicans and their "Politically-motivated witch hunt"?
Nothing suspicious there, perfectly normal - every National Security Advisor in recent administrations has been a part-time sleuth.
There has always been, and always will be 'election tampering' by other governments.
In only one recent incident I'm aware of the federal government under President Obama used federal funds to support political groups in Israel in a bid to influence their elections - where's the outrage?
Democrats have a 'claim' regarding Russian involvement, proof has been very, very scant so far.
Are federal income taxes - the only taxes I mentioned, btw - intended to 'punish' taxfilers equally, or fund the operation of the government? I thought it was the latter...
Reminds me of then-candidate Obama saying he refused to lower taxes "even if it will help the economy" because it didn't seem 'fair'. This from the candidate that wanted to put science in it's rightful place - I guess that didn't include 'economics' as a science.
In the context of a federal government shutdown, only 3% of the federal EPA workforce needs to show up for work... there are still 50 state-level EPAs left unaffected by a federal government shutdown.
If Trump were to trim the EPA workforce by, say, 5%, would the effects really be noticeable? Probably not. Maybe the EPA could use the streamlined workforce to re-focus itself on thing it is actually responsible for, rather than deeming every 3" wide stream that feeds into another body of water as a 'navigable waterway' (they did this st my old house in NJ, I had to get federal approval to do any improvements to my land, as it was within 300' of a stream no wider than a sheet of binder paper.
Can an employee be fired for watching porn on company time? Yes.
Can an employee be fired for reading novels on company time? Yes.
What makes working for another employer on company time different in a way that doesn't cost them their job?
Under the previous administration 97% of EPA employees were deemed "non-essential" during a government shutdown... That was BEFORE Trump took office, that was under an administration that promised to "return science to it's rightful place."
If 97% of employees are 'non-essential', perhaps trimming the budget isn't really the end of civilization...
Is there a valid reason that prevent an organization like Consumer Reports taking over the consumer education function of the Energy Star program and test the appliances independently?
Just because something is worth doing doesn't mean the federal government has to do it.
I saw Sweeney Todd, I saw what happens when food sales are unregulated...
Perhaps people that suffer ill effects from eating somewhere could earn others via Yelp?
I think the average person's understanding of basic hygenie has changed since the 18th century.
Sorry, no they don't - 1/3rd of all US tax filers in 2014 paid no or negative federal income taxes (negative means they received a refund in excess of all monies paid the previous year)... are THOSE the poor and middle class that you claim pay the brunt of US taxes?
Oh wait, now tell me about how the poor pay taxes on gasoline, car tires, etc.! Because a poor person obviously buys more gasoline, car tires, than the rich that can - what - buy their gas and car tires overseas?
So you think Trump won after the previous democrat administration left some 60 million Americans as under-employed, disaffected voters? I am SHOCKED that the democrat candidate (HRC) lost the election after such a (as Charlie Sheen would say) "Winning!" job!
Right, because up until now the government has done nothing to offer 'social services' to the unemployed?
Ever heard of:
Unemployment benefits
Welfare
SNAP benefits
Section 8 Housing subsidies
Aid to women with dependent children
Free cellphones
Free broadband internet
Free healthcare
Etc...
Why would $17K/yr end meth addicts stealing your tools? I think the more likely outcome is meth will become more expensive since meth heads will now have an 'extra' $17K in their pockets...
Bull. Where can't a woman get an abortion whenever she wants it?
Kermit Gosnell would perform abortions between a pregnant woman's contractions in the labor room if that's what she wanted, and he was by no means the only late-term abortionist in the world.
Define 'a lot of hassle'? Does that include 'forcing' her to make a life/death decision about her mother's granddaughter or grandson within six months of conception?
Show of hands, who was sitting on their hands, waiting for the incoming administration to ramp up a cyber security team to help democrats secure their private, non-government email servers? In providing guidance to geniuses like Jpn Podesta to NOT use 'password' as the password on your work GMAIL account?
Seriously, Democrats ignored warnings from FBI that they were being targeted by hackers, the Republicans heeded the warning, with predictable results in both cases.