#2
Nothing gets attention like telling the truth to Congress about government misbehavior....its like you expect government to actually believe in that oath and constitution stuff!
[USATODAY] In 2002, Norman Shy was settling into his new, custom-built mansion in Farmington Hills, Mich. -- complete with an indoor lap pool, massive marble foyer, paneled library, movie theater and nine bathrooms.
Life was good for the school supply vendor.
But behind the glamour was a scammer, prosecutors allege in a federal criminal case, and he would go undetected for years.
Farmington Hills: 10,978 square foot Cape Cod, five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, five car garage, movie theater, lap pool. Good schools, low taxes, priced to sell.
Call Katie at ReBAR 855-555-1234
Here, in this 11,000-square-foot estate, public records show, is where the central figure in a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... school corruption case lived for years while allegedly cheating the Detroit Public Schools out of millions of dollars with the help of 12 principals and one administrator. Shy's home was featured in a Michigan House Envy article in the Detroit Free Press in 2013. He sold the home in November 2014.
According to court documents, principals used Shy as their school supply vendor for items such as chairs, workbooks and paper, but the supplies rarely made it to the classrooms. In return for their help, the principals allegedly received $1 million in kickbacks that came in all forms: payments made to sham companies that the principals had created, cash, gift cards and house repairs, including a new roof and gutter work for one administrator.
Detroit Public Schools unknowingly paid for it all, prosecutors allege, claiming Shy was the biggest benefactor of all. Over 13 years, he billed the district $5 million, of which $2.7 million was ill-gotten, they say.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/20/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
That level of corruption would indicate a deep corrupt network including accountants, auditors, administration committee members...
Two lawmakers claimed Tuesday that the U.S. Secret Service may need to seek outside help to fulfill its mission because agents are leaving the agency faster than they can be replaced. That is what happens when the common people realize the political elites are a bunch of morons. Would you want to be Hilarity's personal security detail the next four years? I knew a member of Hillarity's Secret Service detail. He wasn't in Secret Service anymore.
"USSS simply cannot hire enough personnel to keep pace with historic attrition rates," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland noted in a Tuesday letter to Secret Service director Joseph Clancy.
"The committee encourages USSS to explore innovative ways to fill this staffing gap-such as detailing qualified law enforcement officials or [administrative, professional, and technical] employees from other agencies-in the short-term while continuing its long-term efforts to develop a zero-based budget and increase hiring and retention," they wrote. You could hire German barbarians. Worked for Rome... for a while. We don't hire our barbarians, we elect them...
Their letter comes on the heels of a DHS probe that raised questions about the agency's "ability to protect the White House and its occupants." The inquiry was launched after a man succeeded in jumping a fence and entering the White House in 2014.
DHS attempts to bolster the number of special agents have so far failed, because the staffing increases were outstripped by the number of departures over the last two years. If the problem persists, Congress could mandate major overhauls of the Secret Service to ensure that it succeeds at its core "zero-fail mission" of protecting the president.
"Although they may have only indirectly contributed to the events of that night, underlying and continuing resource and management issues are negatively affecting the Uniformed Division and, potentially, its ability to protect the White House and its occupants," the DHS inspector general warned in a report released Tuesday. "In particular, the Uniformed Division is severely understaffed, which has led to inadequate training, fatigue, low morale, and attrition."
The presidential elections are exacerbating the staffing problem by putting an additional strain on the U.S. Secret Service resources, but the larger problem is that employees are leaving faster than the agency can hire special agents.
"Nearly every USSS employee who spoke with the [inspector general] said they had serious concerns regarding UD staffing shortages," the lawmakers observed. "Some employees characterized the agency as 'hemorrhaging' employees." Just wait until no one wants to volunteer for this assignment. Mercenaries will be protecting our "government". And like in Rome, they will realize they can be bribed to all an emperor to continue their reign... or to lose it.
#4
I wonder if Hillary kept Blackwater/XE's phone number from her stint at State? Sort of like forcing fundamental Christian bakers to make gay wedding cakes.
Congress wants to grow the power available and the bureaucracy wants to extend it's reach to control more of it planting THEIR flag on as much new turf as possible.
#10
There's never been a bureaucracy that hasn't engaged is significant mission creep and I'd bet the SS is no different.
There has been a vast increase in SS protection for the First Lady, First Children, ex-presidents and their families, the vice president and his family, and even Speaker of the House.
P.S. even the military (especially SOCOM) gets pulled in to become part of the praetorian guard.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
04/20/2016 13:07 Comments ||
Top||
#11
Well it's totally reasonable to expect a problem in staffing. Consider the ad in the Employment Section of the local rag... "Join the Secret Service and take a bullet for Champ!". Lotta takers there, I'll bet. On the other hand, I hear the hotel parties are a perk.
[FOXNEWS] Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda.
These emails, obtained under open records laws, shed light on what followed after a January meeting, reported by the Wall Street Journal on April 14, in which groups funded by anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller interests met to urge just this sort of investigation and litigation against political opponents.
Recently, after the think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) criticized the AGs’ intimidation campaign, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker -- one of the AGs working with Schneiderman -- subpoenaed ten years of the non-profit organization’s records relating to climate change.
The latest email release strongly suggests a financial incentive for AGs to pursue their political opponents, rather than merely silencing and scaring away support for those who dare disagree with their extreme global warming agenda.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/20/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
As Instapundit notes, this indicates a conspiracy to deprive Anthropomorphic Climate Change Skeptics ("Deniers") of their First Amendment rights. A crime
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/20/2016 7:59 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Galileo could not be reached for comment.
Scientism is not Science. White coats and pieces of paper doesn't make one a scientist if one refuses to follow the tenets of science established/resurrected since the Renaissance. Welcome to the new Dark Ages.
[BREITBART] The first accomplishment of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s pioneering $15 minimum wage law is killing the revival of America’s clothing industry.
American Apparel, which provided 10 percent of all apparel manufacturing jobs in Los Angeles, has terminated 500 employees in the last two weeks. Chief Executive Paula Schneider also told the Los Angeles Times that "manufacturing of more complicated pieces, such as jeans, could soon be outsourced to a third-party company."
The company did not tie the announcement directly to California Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... signing of the nation’s first statewide $15 minimum wage on April 4. But the layoffs started shortly almost immediately after Brown’s action, and were announced on April 14 as labor organizers filled Los Angeles streets with fast-food workers set to strike, supported by unionized home-care and child-care workers.
Lloyd Greif, Chief Executive of Los Angeles investment banking firm Greif & Co. told LA Times, "They’re headed out of Dodge." He added, "They are going to outsource all garments. It’s only a matter of time."
At the turn of the 21st Century, Los Angeles County was the "rag trade" capital of America. With 4,000 active apparel-making sites employing almost 90,000 workers, the Los Angeles area was over twice the size of the rag trade in the New York region.
Apparel-making got cut in half over the next decade, as Chinese and Asian imports coming through Los Angeles ports sky-rocketed to $46 billion. The number of local apparel-making sites fell to 2,200 and local industry jobs shriveled to 46,000.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/20/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#4
Maybe they can find jobs on the high-speed rail project, its going to really make Caliphornia better, oh and the new water project, yeah, another great idea.
Sadly, I had occasion to actually be in closed door meetings with Governor Brown, and his wife Ann, and she literally had, on several occasions, to inject herself in the discussion to bring him back on topic after he drifted into irrelevance.
Breitbart's national security editor Sebastian Gorka received a one-time payment of $8,000 from Donald Trump's presidential campaign last October, Federal Election Commission records show.
According to an FEC filing first reported by Buzzfeed News, the Trump campaign paid Gorka for "policy consulting" on Oct. 1, 2015. As recently as Monday, Gorka was identified as Breitbart's "national security editor" by the news outlet itself.
Gorka, a well-respected security and intelligence expert who teaches military theory at the Marine Corps University, has not written for Breitbart since Dec. 2 — two months after he received a payment from Trump's campaign.
He did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment. More at the link
[NYPOST] In a pre-primary bombshell, the city’s Board of Elections was pummeled with questions Monday about how 54,000 Democratic voters vanished from the rolls in Brooklyn. It's not that they were dead or anything?
The voter rolls on April 1 showed the borough had 853,687 registered Democrats who are considered "active" because they voted at least once in the last four years.
But in November, there were 917,508, or 63,558 more.
The board said the numbers changed because many once-active voters were moved to the inactive list.
But that list grew by only 9,154 voters -- from 82,807 to 91,961 -- leaving 54,404 Brooklyn voters missing.
How many were Imaginary-Americans?
Voters on the inactive list can still cast a ballot if they live in the city.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/20/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I hope they figure things out so we can avoid this nonsense in the General Election. Apparently two centuries worth of elections isn't enough to get it right yet.
#4
DELETE FROM voter_rolls WHERE voter IN (select person from dead_rolls);
DELETE FROM voter_rolls WHERE voter IN (select person from Felon_rolls);
DELETE FROM voter_rolls WHERE voter IN (select person from ImaginaryFriend_rolls);
...
#7
Kasic is a pub party funded spoiler. No way he can do anything other than potentially destroy the choice of the majority of American voters. I have no use for the man, never have.
#8
Apparently people are very mobile in Brooklyn, moving in and moveing on frequently. As a result, voter verification postcards often get bounced back as "no such person at this address."
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] NBC's Hallie Jackson reports Cruz has changed his focus to Pennsylvania and making a play for the state's unbound delegates. Jackson, the network's Cruz correspondent, said even if Cruz has a third place finish in Pennsylvania's Republican primary, he'll win more than half the delegates.
"It's very telling that's Ted Cruz tonight is not in Brooklyn or Manhattan or any of the boroughs or state. He's in Pennsylvania," reported Jackson.
"He'll be in Philly for his watch party tonight," Jackson said. "That's indicative of where he and his campaign see this race going, to Pennsylvania, where they are looking to make a play for these unbound delegates. Even if they come in a distant third, a top campaign aide tells me, they will still, they believe, pick up more than half the delegates there."
"They're looking at more than 30," Jackson said.
Pennsylvania allots 71 delegates in the Republican primary; 54 of which are unbound.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/20/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
All rules have been known and in writing since last year. Trump's just been lazy and unorganized at the State level
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/20/2016 8:02 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Or perhaps he knew it was an exercise in futility.
#4
Super Delegates are in addition to the regular ones the states are allocated. The Dems added those. GOP has not. PA decided a while back to go with "unbound" for pretty much the same reason Colorado went with a caucus based system: it forces candidates to work grass roots instead of buying the election with TV ads.
#6
Cruz was not in New York because he knew Trump was gonna get New York no matter how much time and money Cruz spent. Trump did the same thing with a number of states. The test of character is how they each responded to the electoral beating this strategy created. Trump bitched and moaned like a baby and Cruz shrugged and said we were never going to win NY.
#7
By the way, is it me or does anyone else hate when Cruz uses "we" all the time. I know he's are trying to include his campaign and voters and all that but it sounds like the Royal "we" and I don't like the sound of it.
Trump doesn't do that. He uses I. Has this always been a thing and I'm just now noticing it? Or is Cruz unique in the "we" business?
[FOX] President Obama sought to increase the amount of money available for the federal government to spend on former presidents in advance of his White House exit.
In his budget requests for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, Obama proposed hikes in the appropriations for expenditures of former presidents, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service published Wednesday.
The report, which discusses the pensions and other federal benefits offered to former commanders-in-chief by way of the Former Presidents Act, specifies that Obama’s 2017 budget proposes a nearly 18 percent hike in appropriations for expenditures of former presidents. He successfully requested an increase in such appropriations for fiscal year 2016.
"The President's FY2017 budget request seeks $3,865,000 in appropriations for expenditures for former Presidents, an increase of $588,000 (17.9%) from the FY2016 appropriation level. The increase in requested appropriations for FY2017 anticipates President Barack Obama's transition from incumbent to former President," the report reads.
Posted by: Bobby ||
04/20/2016 13:51 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Even with this I still say he will be the first President to go broke. Some drug habit like Marion Barry especially if he stays in DC. The bill changes are his parting shot at America. He might even leave graffiti on the bathroom walls in the White House.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Two lawmakers claimed Tuesday that the U.S. Secret Service may need to seek outside help to fulfill its mission because agents are leaving the agency faster than they can be replaced.
[BREITBART] The first accomplishment of 
Jerry 
[NYPOST] In a pre-primary bombshell, the city’s Board of Elections was pummeled with questions Monday about how 54,000 Democratic voters vanished from the rolls in Brooklyn.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] NBC's Hallie Jackson reports Cruz has changed his focus to Pennsylvania and making a play for the state's unbound delegates. Jackson, the network's Cruz correspondent, said even if Cruz has a third place finish in Pennsylvania's Republican primary, he'll win more than half the delegates.
