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Senate Republicans ignited the "nuclear option" to allow confirmation of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee and bar Democrats from blocking future picks, a dramatic rule change that could deepen partisan divisions and put more ideologically extreme justices on the court.
The 52-48 party-line vote called for by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday will let the Senate confirm Neil Gorsuch on Friday to take a court seat that Republicans refused to let President Barack Obama fill during his last year in office.
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...I don't get it. Schumer's just guaranteed that the next vacancy - the one that really counts - will be a Republican victory. Are the Dems really that self-destructive, or is there some fiendish House of Cards-level plan at work here?
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[Right Scoop] Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton explained why Susan Rice’s excuse for unmasking of Trump people is flimsy and nonsensical.
He makes some good points, but it all comes down to what we can prove. In order to prove that she might have done something wrong, she needs to testify. BUT if you notice, in the end of her now famous interview with MSNBC, she refuses to answer if she’ll go to Congress to testify if asked. So... what is she afraid of?
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Why would any sane individual believe anything this woman says in view of Benghazi. She should forever be banished from government in any capacity. Is this a follow on article to Crime Is the New Black Entitlement.
[THEHILL] President Trump on Wednesday claimed that former President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... ’s national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime by requesting the identities of Trump associates who were mentioned in U.S. surveillance, though he did not provide proof.
Rice has denied leaking the names of Trump associates and denied she did anything improper.
Asked by The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... if Rice committed a crime, Trump said, "Do I think? Yes, I think."
Trump did not present any evidence to support that claim.
"I think it’s going to be the biggest story," Trump said. "It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time."
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Well, The must be a Prophet because what he says sounds crazy at first and then turns out to be true.
Goodness My!....
The log does not lie. Nor do they deny request for sitting Executive Authority.
When you start un-masking people like that after massive inquiry,
Let me put it this way...
You gone Fishing.
This is police state.
Maxine Waters talking about a private database delivered to the hill where Obama and co-horts have all our information.
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Turn it over to AG Jeff Sessions and push on. Sessions needs to follow this whoever is involved and wherever it may go. we've had lawlessness for far too long. There is two systems of justice; one for the little people and a different one for the elites.
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I wish Mr. Trump hadn't said this. The evidence is not there yet. But I understand that he has to do this to get the news to cover the story, so the people who have the evidence hear that what they know is important. Necessary, I guess, but so irritating to watch.
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From what I read, as far as we know at this point: * What Rice did was legal, but unethical.
* What Obama did to allow intelligence agencies to spread stuff far and wide was legal, but unethical.
* If there was collision between those two decisions (If Rice was acting under orders) then the combo would be illegal tampering into an election. If the orders were verbal and unrecorded (as seems likely) we'll never get to the bottom of it.
[TabletMag] At some point, the administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents," says a pro-Israel political operative who was deeply involved in the day-to-day fight over the Iran Deal. "The NSA’s collections of foreigners became a means of gathering real-time intelligence on Americans engaged in perfectly legitimate political activism--activism, due to the nature of the issue, that naturally involved conversations with foreigners. We began to notice the White House was responding immediately, sometimes within 24 hours, to specific conversations we were having. At first, we thought it was a coincidence being amplified by our own paranoia. After a while, it simply became our working assumption that we were being spied on."
This is what systematic abuse of foreign-intelligence collection for domestic political purposes looks like: Intelligence collected on Americans, lawmakers, and figures in the pro-Israel community was fed back to the Obama White House as part of its political operations. The administration got the drop on its opponents by using classified information, which it then used to draw up its own game plan to block and freeze those on the other side. And--with the help of certain journalists whose stories (and thus careers) depend on high-level access--terrorize them.
Once you understand how this may have worked, it becomes easier to comprehend why and how we keep being fed daily treats of Trump’s nefarious Russia ties. The issue this time isn’t Israel, but Russia, yet the basic contours may very well be the same.
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former National Security Adviser Susan Rice may have been rifling through classified transcripts for over a year that could have included information about Donald Trump and his associates.
Abuse? Well, it does seem so. Consider if the Pubs had done the same thing to the Donks. The Donks would scream bloody murder endlessly. Hmmmm, the pic here seems vaguely familiar.
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"Did the Obama Administration's Abuse of Foreign-Intelligence Collection Start Before Trump?"
Does a bear sleep in the woods?
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Like they have to ask? Captain Jug Ears was leaking sealed divorce records of his political opponents while he was a state senator. This shit's in his blood. He's a dirty little bastard.
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As the majority party in the House, Republicans will keep the committee chairmanship. GOP Reps. Mike Conaway of Texas, with help from Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina and Rep. Tom Rooney of Florida, will temporarily take charge of the [hah, hah, Russian] investigation. Noam Chomsky said one of the few things I agree with (at least partially). Chomsky says the Democrat probe is a "Joke." Democrat's Obsession, A "Joke."
A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America's rural heartland. Is there nothing the Gubamint can't screw up?
The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 percent of corn on infested land, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It is spreading across Iowa, which accounts for nearly a fifth of U.S. corn production and in 2016 exported more than $1 billion of corn and soy. There go the ethanol subsidies.
The federal Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers to remove land from production to improve water quality, prevent soil erosion and protect endangered species. The endangered species seems to be increasingly the American Farmer.
The destructive weed - Palmer amaranth ‐ has spread through seed sold to farmers in the conservation program, according to Iowa's top weeds scientist, Bob Hartzler, and the conservation group Pheasants Forever. I think Tommy Chong is a top weed expert.
"We are very confident that some of these seed mixes were contaminated," Hartzler said. It's also called pigweed. Pigs love it. There are many uses for amaranth seed.
Hartzler, an Iowa State University agronomy professor, said one seller was Allendan Seed Company, the state's largest producer of local grass and wildflower seeds for conservation land.
In written responses to questions from Reuters, Allendan said it was "possible that pigweed seed ... was present in some mixes."
Palmer amaranth is a type of pigweed. Allendan did not confirm it had found the seed in any of its supplies. It said outside labs that the firm hires to test seed quality had been unable to distinguish Palmer amaranath from other pigweeds.
The company said it started using a new DNA test in February to check its seed for Palmer amaranth.
Many farmers joined the conservation program in the past year as prices for their crops tanked amid a global grains glut. The weed can be killed, but the cost of clearing it would be another hit to the cash-strapped farming community in the United States, the world's top corn supplier.
The program is managed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA), units of the USDA. NRCS officials have acknowledged that contaminated seed mixes for conservation land have spread Palmer amaranth.
In another state, Minnesota, authorities are also investigating whether the conservation program inadvertently introduced the weed to that state.
Keith Smith, a corn and soybean farmer in Gladbrook, Iowa, said he yanked Palmer amaranth out of land he set aside in the conservation program after finding the weeds last year.
He doused them in diesel and torched them with old tires. Polluter!!
Smith now regrets joining the program.
"I thought I'd help out the Earth," he said. You didn't figure in the Government.
The NRCS and FSA denied responsibility for the infestation because they do not supply or test the seed that farmers use to turn cropland into a refuge for wildlife. Landowners are responsible for finding their own seed.
None of the companies or organizations involved in the program should be blamed, said Jimmy Bramblett, the NRCS's deputy chief of science and technology. "It's just something that happened," he said.
The NRCS is nonetheless considering giving financial assistance to Iowa farmers to help control the weed and is working with the farming community and other government agencies to control it, Bramblett said.
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He doused them in diesel and torched them with old tires. "I thought I'd help out the Earth," he said.
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Thought amaranth was used as food. Have seen amaranth flour in the store--good source of protein for a plant. Is Palmer amaranth different than food quality amaranth? Just a question from an injuneer not a farmer.
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If the pigs love it, perhaps the farmers can hire pigherds to bring along a herd to preferentially eat the stuff. Transport would no doubt be a small challenge, but getting free feed plus a fee would invert the usual husbandry calculations... In California there are professional goatherds who hire out their animals eat the brushy weeds that feed wildfires -- 200 goats can clear an acre a day, according to one supplier.
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TW, it is common in the South to turn goats loose on Kudzu, a vine imported from Japan. The goats can clear out this stuff in no time and they like it. Chattanooga has a Kudzu festival.
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