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On January 30 2016 10:24 GoTuNk! wrote:


As someone who owns a business (2 actually). Every little minute thing you have to do because the government says so and not because you need, or want to, hurts you.

Business are ALWAYS short on resources, money, man power, etc. Nothing, but nothing, is worse than when you are tired (or your employees) but some lame paper work or report has to be done because the government says so.

On January 29 2016 12:39 cLutZ wrote:

So your assertion is that Bernie and Hillary know the Constitutional structure of all the OECD countries?

On January 30 2016 07:52 cLutZ wrote:


The reason that it isn't really speculation is because there is already a huge number of employment discrimination lawsuits, and hiring practices are already molded to try and get "pleasing" numbers (aka a quota system) at a lat of big employers. I'd actually be in favor of more transparency if it was essentially "traded" for a more sane burden of proof in employment discrimination law overall (along the lines of eliminating the disparate impact test and making plaintiffs show a discriminatory cause).

According to newly discovered emails, Michigan officials were trucking clean water to a state building in Flint in January 2015, long before they acknowledged to residents that the city had a contamination problem.


One of the emails, which were obtained by the group Progress Michigan, was sent from the state Department of Technology, Management, and Budget. It reads, "While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, DTMB is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink. The coolers will arrive today and will be provided as long as the public water does not meet treatment requirements."

The email was sent just days after the city sent out an advisory about high levels of trihalomethanes in its water but maintained that, for healthy individuals, the water was safe to drink. Residents had been reporting smelly, tainted water and adverse health conditions related to it since shortly after Flint switched water sources in April 2014.

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz an "anchor baby" during a campaign stop in which he also said his chief Republican rival got "pummeled" at Thursday night's GOP debate.

"Ted Cruz may not be a U.S. citizen, right? But he's an anchor baby. No, he's an anchor baby -- Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada," Trump quipped in a speech to supporters in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Environmental officials found this week that at least seven Maryland homes certified as lead-free were actually contaminated by lead paint or not inspected at all. The findings by the Maryland department of the environment and the Environmental Protection Agency have prompted a broader investigation into the unnamed private inspector, and notices to 384 families urging them to have their children tested for lead poisoning.

While attention to the recent crisis in Flint, Michigan, has focused on lead contamination in water, high rates of lead poisoning in Baltimore come from lead paint. Children, particularly those younger than six, are vulnerable to long-term effects when they ingest lead particles from peeling paint.

When people in Baltimore talk about “lead checks” they are not talking about the inspections that are supposed to ensure that children aren’t endangered by lead poisoning; they are talking about the settlement payments that come after the damage is done. In the most recent discovery of fraudulent lead inspections, the inspector was not named, but is known to have worked for American Homeowner Services LLC between 2010 and 2014.

Although there have been dramatic reductions in lead poisoning in Baltimore over recent decades, an investigation by the Baltimore Sun in December showed that more than 4,900 children have been affected by lead in the last decade – 129 in the last year alone.

On January 30 2016 18:05 GreenHorizons wrote:


Source

So Trump went there.



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On January 30 2016 22:02 Toadesstern wrote:
I think he's trying to say that Cruz is an Anchor Baby IN Canada, as in, the parents had him so that they could stay in Canada and only decided to move to the US later?

Otherwise this doesn't really make sense.

From DNA Info, here’s the latest piece of evidence that the corruption and abuse in the Chicago Police Department aren’t limited to a few bad cops — the problems are systemic.

Why are so many police dashcam videos silent?

Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And sometimes, dashcam systems didn’t have any microphones at all, DNAinfo Chicago has learned.

Police officials last month blamed the absence of audio in 80 percent of dashcam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”

A DNAinfo Chicago review of more than 1,800 police maintenance logs sheds light on the no-sound syndrome plaguing Police Department videos — including its most notorious dashcam case.

Maintenance records of the squad car used by Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald, and his partner, Joseph Walsh, show monthslong delays for two dashcam repairs, including a long wait to fix “intentional damage.”

On June 17, 2014, police technicians reported fixing a dashcam wiring issue in police vehicle No. 6412, the squad shared by Van Dyke and Walsh, about three months after it was reported broken, records show.

A day later, the same vehicle’s dashcam system was reported busted again. It took until Oct. 8, 2014, to complete repairs of what technicians deemed “intentional damage,” according to reports.

The article goes on like that. This isn’t a few bad apples. It’s 80 percent. Why haven’t these officers been prosecuted? Several years ago, a woman named Tiawanda Moore tried to file a report of alleged sexual assault by a Chicago PD officer. When the internal affairs officers with whom she was trying to file the complaint began to intimidate her, Moore began recording the conversation with her cellphone. Under Illinois law at the time, it was a felony to record a police officer without his or her permission. That law has since been struck down, but Anita Alvarez, the state’s attorney for Cook County who had the power and discretion to decline to prosecute given the circumstances, pushed ahead and attempted to put Moore in prison. Her office did the same with Chicago artist Christopher Drew. Moore was eventually acquitted, in what was almost certainly an act of jury nullification.

On January 30 2016 10:24 GoTuNk! wrote:


As someone who owns a business (2 actually). Every little minute thing you have to do because the government says so and not because you need, or want to, hurts you.

Business are ALWAYS short on resources, money, man power, etc. Nothing, but nothing, is worse than when you are tired (or your employees) but some lame paper work or report has to be done because the government says so.

On January 31 2016 01:25 Mohdoo wrote:


And if you aren't able to get by in spite of these things, you're probably not a good business owner.

One of the most attractive parts of Mrs. Clinton’s economic platform is her pledge to support the well-being and rights of working Americans

We are not convinced that a no-fly zone is the right approach in Syria, but we have no doubt that Mrs. Clinton would use American military power effectively and with infinitely more care and wisdom than any of the leading Republican contenders.

a vision in which middle-class Americans have a real shot at prosperity

On January 31 2016 03:43 Mohdoo wrote:
NYT has a well articulated article why they endorsed Hilary Clinton

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-endorsement.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

In the end, though, Mr. Sanders does not have the breadth of experience or policy ideas that Mrs. Clinton offers. His boldest proposals — to break up the banks and to start all over on health care reform with a Medicare-for-all system — have earned him support among alienated middle-class voters and young people. But his plans for achieving them aren’t realistic, while Mrs. Clinton has very good, and achievable, proposals in both areas.

On January 31 2016 04:06 aksfjh wrote:




That basically sums up the difference between them to me as well.