The Evening Blues - 5-27-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 2:51pm
Zoe Lofgren: chasing bigotry from the record
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 2:33pmGail Heriot is a law professor at the University of San Diego. When George W. Bush stacked the US Commission on Civil Rights with conservative members in 2007, Professor Heriot was involved. Now calling herself an Independent, she was an alternate delegate to the Republican Convention in 2000.
Heriot testified before a House Judiciary Committee about federal regulations this past week.
Heriot testified that the guidance issued by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights was an example of the executive branch overreaching what the legislative branch intended.
Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, CA) took issue with a written statement submitted by Heriot.
"Bernie Birthers": The Rise of the Pundit Class Demanding Bernie Drop Out. (Update: HUFFPO now one of them)
Submitted by bikingforkarma on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 2:16pmRight now, as of 1:30 PM CST, Huffington Post's big frontpage clickbait headline is :
"Bern it down: Bernie's scorched-earth summer stunner"
Now I claim that to be clickbait for a few reasons: the use of (Drudge-like) visual pre-attentive attributes in the font and text of the headline, the use of the word 'stunner' even though no discrete event is described, and the bolding of the text font.
About Emails In Corporations and Universities
Submitted by LaFeminista on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 12:51pmEvery corporation that I have worked for either as an employee or contractor has the same rules, indeed I have to supply our security protocols to their IT departments.
Rule 1
Company emails are for business use only, it is forbidden to use company email for personal use.
Rule 2
It is strictly forbidden to conduct any company business via private email accounts.
Breaking of these rules is grounds for dismissal
Hellraisers Journal: Jacob Waldeck Reports from Boise: State Alleges "Inner Circle” Ordered Murder
Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 12:30pmThere are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday May 27, 1906
Report from Boise: Fourth of Five Part Series by Jacob Waldeck
The Unsavory Pattern of Cash Given to the Clintons & Hillary's Actions Favoring Donors as Secretary of State
Submitted by Steven D on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 12:07pmThe New York Times last month posted this article, describing how a Russian corporation, Roscom, acquired a dominant position in the world's uranium market when it received special approval from the US Government, including the State Department, to acquired a Canadian company with "uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American W
Wake Up Democrats! h/t: Kossacks- for- Sanders
Submitted by Caerus on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 8:28amJust in case all haven't read this on K for Sanders ( time for a name change?) this is an excellent article.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/05/the-democrats-are-making-a-suicid...
Grotesque, Neo-Liberal Der Spiegel: "Wake up, Hillary!"
Submitted by Aardvark on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 3:42amEven the propaganda rag of German neo-liberalism, Der Spiegel, sees Secretary Clinton headed for the cliff:
Der Spiegel
Mistakes and Breakdowns in the Campaign
Hillary Clinton has a monumental task: the apparent Democratic candidate is the hope of every American, who wants to preserve the country from Donald Trump in November.
The Hillary Victory Fund and DNC kicks back less than 1% of Money Raised to 32 state parties
Submitted by Steven D on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 7:44pmRemember when Hillary people informed us that she was doing the state parties a big favor by creating her Hillary Victory Fund, whereby money would be shared by her campaign, the DNC and the local parties, money they wouldn't ever have been able to obtain without access to her wealthy donor base?
It's Official. Hillary thinks you are stupid and can't read and
Submitted by Phoebe Loosinhouse on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 7:06pmhave a poor retention of facts.
This interview is one unrelenting insult:
Hillary Clinton Doubles Down on Email Scandal Saying "It was Allowed"
Clinton explained why she did not cooperate with State Department investigators, despite repeatedly saying she would talk to anyone, anytime about her emails.
