Sunday, December 02, 2018
John Hofmeister, ex-Shell president: Obama 'had nothing to do' with oil-and-gas boom - Washington Times
John Hofmeister, ex-Shell president: Obama 'had nothing to do' with oil-and-gas boom - Washington Times:
Mr. Hofmeister also criticized the former president’s opposition to drilling, his increasing of permitting regulations and his handling of the Keystone XL pipeline.
“I would say that he was not a leader when it comes to energy, other than the Clean Power Plan, when he tried to remake the power generation industry without involving Congress, and the Paris accords, again without involving Congress,” he said. “So he tried to do a lot but it was not in the direction of the kind of energy that President Trump is working on.
“[Mr. Obama] was mostly in the way when it came to any carbon-based fuel, but when it came to the actual facts of the matter, because there were areas beyond his jurisdiction, things got done. The industry and the states working together did a remarkable job, which continues to this day under Trump,” he said. “So [Mr. Obama] can take credit for all he wants, but whether people believe him or not it depends on how much history do you really know versus how much history do you want to reinvent.”
Mr. Hofmeister also criticized the former president’s opposition to drilling, his increasing of permitting regulations and his handling of the Keystone XL pipeline.
“[Mr. Obama] was mostly in the way when it came to any carbon-based fuel, but when it came to the actual facts of the matter, because there were areas beyond his jurisdiction, things got done. The industry and the states working together did a remarkable job, which continues to this day under Trump,” he said. “So [Mr. Obama] can take credit for all he wants, but whether people believe him or not it depends on how much history do you really know versus how much history do you want to reinvent.”
American Gestapo-----Revealed: Mueller's FBI Repeatedly Abused Prosecutorial Discretion
Revealed: Mueller's FBI Repeatedly Abused Prosecutorial Discretion:---Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
"...The media and establishment DC who reflexively defend Mueller haven’t explained how they came to trust him so completely.
It’s a question worth asking given the bumpy historical record of Mueller’s tenure as FBI director from 2001 to 2013.
For instance, as I noted to Allen, Mueller was also “unafraid” at completely botching the anthrax killer case, wasting more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars, destroying the lives of multiple suspects, and chasing bad leads using bad methods.
Let’s look at that and other cases involving how Mueller and those he placed in positions of power used their authorities and decided what charges to pursue.
The FBI quickly focused on an innocent man named Steven Hatfill, relentlessly pursuing him for years while the real killer walked free.
As Carl Cannon wrote about the botched case, ridiculous and aggressive methods were used to go after the wrong man:
So what evidence did the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that they’d ‘alerted’ on Hatfill and that he must be the killer.
Mueller and his deputy James Comey were certain they had the right guy.
They didn’t, and taxpayers had to pay Hatfill $5.82 million for the error..."
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"...The media and establishment DC who reflexively defend Mueller haven’t explained how they came to trust him so completely.
It’s a question worth asking given the bumpy historical record of Mueller’s tenure as FBI director from 2001 to 2013.For instance, as I noted to Allen, Mueller was also “unafraid” at completely botching the anthrax killer case, wasting more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars, destroying the lives of multiple suspects, and chasing bad leads using bad methods.
Let’s look at that and other cases involving how Mueller and those he placed in positions of power used their authorities and decided what charges to pursue.
- The Anthrax Bungling
The FBI quickly focused on an innocent man named Steven Hatfill, relentlessly pursuing him for years while the real killer walked free.
As Carl Cannon wrote about the botched case, ridiculous and aggressive methods were used to go after the wrong man:
So what evidence did the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that they’d ‘alerted’ on Hatfill and that he must be the killer.
Mueller and his deputy James Comey were certain they had the right guy.
They didn’t, and taxpayers had to pay Hatfill $5.82 million for the error..."
- The Democrat Berger Treated Gently
- Republican Scooter Libby Charged, But Not The Leaker
- Republican Ted Stevens Railroaded
- An Israeli Spy Ring That Wasn’t
- Incompetent Supervision
Much, much more.
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Who Wants to Support a Millionaire? - WSJ
Who Wants to Support a Millionaire? - WSJ
"A number of readers responded to Monday’s column about an Illinois school superintendent who managed to snare an annual pension of nearly $300,000—and then double-dip by returning to school part-time, collecting a total annual taxpayer payout of $419,000.
This staggering windfall for what used to be called public service amounted to nearly ten times the local median household income of $44,000.
Several Best of the Web regulars have since urged this column to elaborate on public-sector retirement benefits and their private counterparts.
But they probably won’t enjoy reading about it.
"A number of readers responded to Monday’s column about an Illinois school superintendent who managed to snare an annual pension of nearly $300,000—and then double-dip by returning to school part-time, collecting a total annual taxpayer payout of $419,000.
This staggering windfall for what used to be called public service amounted to nearly ten times the local median household income of $44,000. Several Best of the Web regulars have since urged this column to elaborate on public-sector retirement benefits and their private counterparts.
But they probably won’t enjoy reading about it.
Thank goodness that few government workers have figured out how to soak taxpayers for more
than $400,000 annually, but as Steve Cortes noted in RealClearPolitics, “over 94,000 total public employees and retirees in Illinois command $100,000+ salaries from taxpayers.”
It’s not just an Illinois problem.
Eric Boehm wrote last year in Reason magazine:
Two retired Los Angeles city employees—Earl Paysinger, a former deputy police chief, and Emile Mack, a former assistant fire chief—pulled down more than $1.4 million apiece in pension benefits last year, giving them the largest nest eggs across all California’s public retirement systems...
...the average person covered by CalPERS (the main pension plan for the state’s workers outside of education) who retired in 2016-2017 after at least 31 years of service receives $70,092 per year.
Annual pension payments rise with inflation and Mr. Biggs adds via email that “most CA public employees are covered by Social Security, from which they’d probably get another $20k or so.”...
Annual pension payments rise with inflation and Mr. Biggs adds via email that “most CA public employees are covered by Social Security, from which they’d probably get another $20k or so.”...
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EXCLUSIVE: Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media In Search | The Daily Caller
EXCLUSIVE: Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media In Search | The Daily Caller
...Byer falsely labeled The Daily Caller and Breitbart as “opinion blogs” and urged his coworkers to reduce their visibility in search results.
“How many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news organizations? That’s something that can and should be fixed,” Byer wrote..."
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- Google employees debated whether to bury The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election
- “Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years,” one engineer wrote in a thread that included a Google vice president
- Google employees similarly sought to manipulate search results to combat Trump’s travel ban
- Google employees debated whether to bury conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, internal Google communications obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.
...Byer falsely labeled The Daily Caller and Breitbart as “opinion blogs” and urged his coworkers to reduce their visibility in search results.
“How many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news organizations? That’s something that can and should be fixed,” Byer wrote..."
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Melania Explains The ‘Patriotic’ Christmas Decorations Throughout The White House | The Daily Caller
Melania Explains The ‘Patriotic’ Christmas Decorations Throughout The White House | The Daily Caller:
“So here we are in the Cross Hall and Grand Foyer,” the first lady stated. “This is representing — you could see the color red. It represents the bravery, heart and patriotism. So here we go to the East Room, but it’s decorated blue, and then we will see later on the State Room. And here we are, this is red, blue, and white, and it’s patriotic and it reminds us of [the] American flag.”
She added, “We have thousands and thousands of people coming through here and [seeing] the decorations. So it’s very exciting. So here we are arriving in the East Room. This represents diversity of the cities in [the] United States.”
She added, “We have thousands and thousands of people coming through here and [seeing] the decorations. So it’s very exciting. So here we are arriving in the East Room. This represents diversity of the cities in [the] United States.”
Poll: 44% younger Americans believe Obama had 'bigger impact' on US than George Washington
Poll: 44% younger Americans believe Obama had 'bigger impact' on US than George Washington"A new poll unleashes some upsetting and alarming news about the way that half of millennials and Generation Z feel about the United States.
The results of the poll indicate anti-Americanism, with people age 38 and younger not considering America to be “great,” and seeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” The Washington Examiner reported.
Young people who became adults while Obama was president stated that they think he had a “bigger impact” on the U.S. than founding father George Washington.
YouGov.com conducted the “State of American Patriotism” poll on behalf of the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG) and it was the first of its kind.
Nearly half of millennials believe that America isn’t “great,” and many see the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred.” washex.am/2RhAwxJ
History for December 2
History for December 2 - On-This-Day.com
George Seurat 1859, Ray Walston 1914, Maria Callas 1923
Alexander M. Haig 1924, Edwin Meese III 1931 - Attorney general in the U.S., Lucy Liu 1968 - Actress, Britney Spears 1981 - Singer, TV judge ("The X Factor")
1823 - U.S. President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1942 - A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
Saturday, December 01, 2018
DHS asks troops to remain at border through January - Washington Times
DHS asks troops to remain at border through January - Washington Times:
With the caravans still camped out on the Mexican side of the border, Homeland Security asked the Defense Department on Friday to keep the latest deployment of troops at the border through the end of January.
The previous request had been slated to expire in mid-December, and a key general had suggested several weeks ago that troops would come home by then. But after a weekend of violent attempts by caravan members to punch through the border, and with thousands of members of the migrant caravan still eyeing attempts to reach the U.S., the Trump administration has concluded the troops are still needed.
The previous request had been slated to expire in mid-December, and a key general had suggested several weeks ago that troops would come home by then. But after a weekend of violent attempts by caravan members to punch through the border, and with thousands of members of the migrant caravan still eyeing attempts to reach the U.S., the Trump administration has concluded the troops are still needed.
Foreboding – FBI Raids Home of Clinton Foundation Whistleblower… | The Last Refuge
Foreboding – FBI Raids Home of Clinton Foundation Whistleblower… | The Last Refuge
"The Daily Caller has an exclusive report tonight that is very troubling, and, unfortunately in alignment with a previous suspicion CTH shared when it was first announced that John Huber was scheduled to testify to congress on December 5th.
"The Daily Caller has an exclusive report tonight that is very troubling, and, unfortunately in alignment with a previous suspicion CTH shared when it was first announced that John Huber was scheduled to testify to congress on December 5th.
According to the Daily Caller: FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.
The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.
The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF, noting that he considered the FBI’s raid to be an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections. (continue reading)
Make sure you read the entire article because if the DOJ was intending to throw a bag over the entire Clinton Foundation investigation and cover-it-up, that raid is exactly what they would do. This is presumably the investigation that John Huber was/is controlling..."
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Nolte: Only Anti-Science Suckers Believe Climate Change Hysteria
Nolte: Only Anti-Science Suckers Believe Climate Change Hysteria
"Here is a very simple question for all of you upset over the fact that I do not believe in Climate Change: How many scientific doomsday prophecies do I have to see debunked before I am allowed to be skeptical of the next one?
How many?
Give me a number.
How about if I give you a number: Thirteen. Thirteen, y’all.
...This is how old I am. … Old enough to remember being told that by now…
And that is just the Big Stuff, the world-shaking predictions the oh-so holy scientific consensus got horribly wrong during my lifetime.
Yes, that science was also declared settled..."
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"Here is a very simple question for all of you upset over the fact that I do not believe in Climate Change: How many scientific doomsday prophecies do I have to see debunked before I am allowed to be skeptical of the next one?How many?
Give me a number.
How about if I give you a number: Thirteen. Thirteen, y’all.
...This is how old I am. … Old enough to remember being told that by now…
- We would be living through a new Ice Age by the year 2000.
- We would all die when the ozone layer disappeared.
- The oceans would be dead.
- Global Cooling would destroy the world.
- Acid rain would destroy our forests.
- Overpopulation would result in worldwide famine.
- We would deplete our natural resources.
- We would run out of oil.
- The polar ice caps would melt.
- Manhattan would be underwater.
- People who live in cities will have to wear gas masks.
- Nitrogen buildup will make the land unusable.
- “Decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.”
And that is just the Big Stuff, the world-shaking predictions the oh-so holy scientific consensus got horribly wrong during my lifetime.
Yes, that science was also declared settled..."
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Google: Should we bury conservative media? - WND
Google: Should we bury conservative media? - WND:
Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller revealed discussions about how, in the words of one engineer, to “make sure that we reverse things in four years.”
The report said the Daily Caller and Breitbart were “specifically singled out” as potential targets of a campaign to suppress the influence of conservative media.
The Daily Caller said the documents “show that internal Google discussions went beyond expressing remorse over [Hillary] Clinton’s loss to actually discussing ways Google could prevent Trump from winning again.”
“This was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand in it,” Google engineer Scott Byer wrote in a Nov. 9, 2016, post.
He “falsely labeled” the Daily Caller and other conservative news organizations as “opinion blogs.” And he advocated suppressing their stories in search engine results.
Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller revealed discussions about how, in the words of one engineer, to “make sure that we reverse things in four years.”
The Daily Caller said the documents “show that internal Google discussions went beyond expressing remorse over [Hillary] Clinton’s loss to actually discussing ways Google could prevent Trump from winning again.”
“This was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand in it,” Google engineer Scott Byer wrote in a Nov. 9, 2016, post.
He “falsely labeled” the Daily Caller and other conservative news organizations as “opinion blogs.” And he advocated suppressing their stories in search engine results.
Rape Facts and Falsehoods - Just Facts
Rape Facts and Falsehoods - Just Facts
"In this era of #MeToo and rampant sexual assault allegations, many media outlets, politicians, and scholars are misleading people about the prevalence of rape.
They accomplish this by publicizing unscientific studies, mischaracterizing reliable ones, and making statements that have no basis in reality.
Although precise figures on rape don’t exist, credible data gathered from females in the U.S. indicates that:
"In this era of #MeToo and rampant sexual assault allegations, many media outlets, politicians, and scholars are misleading people about the prevalence of rape. They accomplish this by publicizing unscientific studies, mischaracterizing reliable ones, and making statements that have no basis in reality.
Although precise figures on rape don’t exist, credible data gathered from females in the U.S. indicates that:
- about 11.5% of women say they have been the victim of acts that fit the legal definition of forcible rape.
- each year, about 0.2% of women enrolled in college explicitly state that they have been raped, but this figure grows to 1.0% if they are prompted with graphic descriptions of acts that fit the legal definition of rape.
- each year, roughly 2.1% of college women say they have been the victim of acts that fit the legal definition of rape. However, only 1.0% consider these acts to be rape.
- college-age women who are not enrolled in college are about 50% more likely to be raped than women who are enrolled in college.
- about 40% of female rape victims were first raped before the age of 18, and 79% were first raped before the age of 25.
- cases that involve “date-rape drugs” appear to be a very small portion of all rapes, but the data is uncertain.
Contrary to the claims of some reporters and notable organizations, there are no sound estimates for the portion of rape claims that are false.
In fact, a widely cited study alleged to show that only 2% of rape claims are false actually shows many times more than that..."
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott suspends Brenda Snipes from role as supervisor of elections | Fox News
Florida Gov. Rick Scott suspends Brenda Snipes from role as supervisor of elections | Fox News:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday suspended Brenda Snipes from her duties as the supervisor of elections in Broward County, and chose her temporary successor following the contentious recount in the state’s governor and U.S. Senate races during the midterm elections earlier this month.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday suspended Brenda Snipes from her duties as the supervisor of elections in Broward County, and chose her temporary successor following the contentious recount in the state’s governor and U.S. Senate races during the midterm elections earlier this month.
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