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And, yes, Frank. She has received tuition from several members of our family besides myself, and she has learned from experience the meaning of trust and ethics in a variety of private and public "contexts". I can recall many humorous and poignant episodes of trial and error, aged 4 - 19.
"The First Lie," "The Responsibility Chart and the Lady Bug Purse", "Common Courtesy (Because you can)," "Free-riders in Group Assignments," and "Resting Bitch Face" immediately come to mind, because these produced the greatest volume of tears from her. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Typical Disney. As the kids used to say in LA in '67 "That is so mouse!" Disney taints everything it touches. Walt showed genius back in the '30s and recruited people with real genius. But he had some pretty hard limits. He could not understand why the NCAA didn't want him to release 'Song of the South' in Atlanta and why blacks might be offended. Zippedy-do-dah, zipidey-a. "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Seems like he has something on Cohen, something ver' bad. Which means Cohen is gonna have to cough up something good. keep to the Fen Causeway
Anyway, in one week US press has rallied around Cohn's moral rectitude. And whatever Mueller says Nunberg says in his deposition is ... laughable. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Obamas reportedly in talks with Netflix about developing a series who didn't see this coming? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
RLY?
Verified Voting a/o FEB 2018 Push to bolster election security stalls in Senate "Lankford's amendment, provided to The Hill by an aide, aimed to improve the flow of information between federal officials and state officials involved in administering elections." The CIA Democrats: I, II, III Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
SRSLY? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
This one needs a whisper list booth AND a podium at the Summit Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Haspel's ascension [SIC] illuminates what happens when there is no accountability, no truth, and no justice for torture. Because of the power and influence of the United States, this lack of accountability, truth, and justice undermines the power of international law and the strength of the anti-torture norm globally. Moreover, letting officials of past administrations get away with torture does nothing to deter the possibility of a future administration attempting to do it again. For these reasons, all possible pressure must be brought to bear on Congress to vote down Haspel's nomination. This won't right the wrongs of the past, but it would be an important political victory against Trump [?] and the torture enthusiasts [?] who live among us.
So much for The Nation correction. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
WIRED | TRUMP WANTS ALL YOUR VOTER DATA. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? JUNE dilettant CNN | Forty-four states and DC have refused to give certain voter information to Trump commission JULY "other channels" Texas judge blocks state from handing over voter info to Trump commissionOCT "The lawsuit was brought by the NAACP and the League of Women Voters of Texas against Texas' secretary of state, the state's election administrator. A second hearing is scheduled for Oct. 16." Legal Actions Taken Against Trump's "Voter Fraud" Commission DEC -- Appeals court rejects challenge to Trump voter fraud panel "The group is 'not a voter' and represents no voters, and therefore had no standing to sue, Williams wrote."
NEW script! Places everyone! Democrats want $300 million to fight possible Russia election tampering FEB 2018 &tc. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
go. dems. find those commies! Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
The first ballots of the 2018 mid-term elections will soon be cast, but many Americans will exercise this constitutional right without much confidence that their votes will be fairly and securely counted. Partisanship in Congress and bureaucratic delays have left voting even more vulnerable to the attacks that top intelligence officials say will accelerate in 2018. Meanwhile, irrefutable evidence has revealed that Russia engaged in a multifaceted attack on the 2016 election through information warfare, and that hackers also scanned or penetrated state election infrastructure in ways that could lead to manipulation of voter registration data -- and possibly change vote totals in 2018. We propose two stopgap measures that can be immediately implemented without waiting for funding or new legislation.
front page lede HTML TITLE "www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/15/trump-sanctions-russia-following-poisoning-british- spy/427464002/" Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
https:/www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/15/russian-election-hacking-what-we-can-do-now-protec t-democracy-buell-demillo-hoke-column/393565002 :Election hacking is going to happen. Here's what we can do now to protect our votes. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
The election official was commenting on an article titled "Five Strategies of Protest Behavior at the Russian Presidential Elections," which was posted on the Russian-language website of German public news corporation Deutsche Welle (DW). The article advised Russian voters to spoil their ballots, to take them home instead of casting them, or to shun the polls altogether. The authors also suggested that voters should apply to vote remotely and then not avail of the option, as well as voting for a candidate "that causes less negative emotions" in order to decrease the eventual winner's margin of victory.
The article advised Russian voters to spoil their ballots, to take them home instead of casting them, or to shun the polls altogether. The authors also suggested that voters should apply to vote remotely and then not avail of the option, as well as voting for a candidate "that causes less negative emotions" in order to decrease the eventual winner's margin of victory.
We ALL KNOW what happened to "spoiled" ballots, "hanging chads," provisional ballots, absentee ballots, and little ol' black church ladies in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 --don't we? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Bannon and his alt-right flunkies are out, now goes the billionaires. And left standing is the military.
Tillerson was the last man standing having a moderate voice on foreign policy and diplomacy. It appears the man sitting behind that oak desk in the Oval Office has been encapsulated. The military and intelligence, which had a major voice under a clean Obama, must now have the goods that could ruin Trump Empire financially.
The force will be towards Russia for its protection of Syria under Assad and the Shia alliance with Iraq's majority and Iran. The newly formed alliance of Israel with the Emirates and young crown prince Salman of the KSA will put further pressure on its archenemy the Shia state of Iran.
Tillerson has been blamed by Trump for opposing the shredding of the nuclear pact with Iran. Watch the Ides of May. May as in the calender month and Theresa "sanctions" May. It's just all too convenient.
After the anthrax deaths of September 2011, how many months/years did it take to determine it originated in a lab of the U.S. Army in Fort Detrick? The person who caused the anthrax scare was never found. At one time the FBI pointed at a deceased person.
Porton Down has evidence of the origin and perpetrators of the Salisbury attack within days??? Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
FERS is the name of McCabe's "defined contribution" retirement fund, or US gov 401(k) plan(s). Plan distribution conforms with IRS rules for this instrument. CSRS is the name of the "defined benefit" retirement fund offered all US federal graded employees until 1986. It distributes annuity payments to retired employees hired before 1986. My father collected from CSRS. My brother will collect from FERS.
McCabe is affiliated with the Republican Party. He became a federal employee in 1996, according to wikipedia.
McCabe has not been tried or even convicted of any crime. Neither his nor Comey's "pension" is in jeopardy because he has been fired. McCabe has been fired --involuntarily separated from his employment by his US gov supervisor-- given unsatisfactory "performance" of his duties, found by the Justice Dept OIG. OIG authority:
OIG initiates investigations based on information received from a variety of sources, including: OIG's fraud, waste and abuse hotline; Departmental, GAO, and DOJ referrals; Congressional requests; and referrals from OSC regarding whistleblower disclosures. While anonymous complaints are accepted, they often present the greatest difficulty to investigate as there is not a person for OIG to contact for allegation particulars.
To answer the CNN "analyst" questions, Does McCabe have any recourse? Yes, unlike so many non-farm civilian "workers." Because, yanno, this travesty of justice and democracy all about McCabe's "pension"; and, no, details of the OIG forthcoming report cannot help CNN reportage. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Introduction Under a provision in federal retirement law commonly referred to as the "Hiss Act," Members of Congress and other officers and employees of the federal government forfeit their federal employee retirement annuities if they are convicted of certain designated federal crimes relating to disloyalty or involving national security or national defense-related offenses against the United States. In addition, under legislation passed in 2007, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, P.L. 110-81, 121 Stat. 735 (September 14, 2007), and amended by the STOCK Act in 2012, P.L. 112-105, 126 Stat. 301-303 (April 4, 2012), Members of Congress will lose their service credit toward their federal pensions for all of the time they serve in Congress if convicted for conduct engaged in while in Congress that violates one of several criminal provisions of federal law concerning corruption in public office. [...] The original Hiss Act provisions on forfeiture of annuities were enacted before the adoption of the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS), and the Hiss Act provisions were not specifically amended to expressly address the new retirement provisions of FERS.12 Although the Hiss Act was not itself amended, the FERS legislation expressly provides that upon a forfeiture of annuities under the Hiss Act, an employee also forfeits the government contributions, and all the earnings attributable to such contributions, in the employee's Thrift Savings Plan.13 This would indicate that under the current operation of law, employees and Members convicted of offenses under the Hiss Act who lose their annuity and lose the government contributions and earnings from those contributions in the Thrift Savings Plan, are allowed to receive back their own contributions and all the earnings attributable to those voluntary contributions in the Thrift Savings Plan. Spouse and Dependent Beneficiaries Under provisions of current law, when a Member of Congress or other federal officer or employee forfeits his or her federal annuity/pension because of a conviction for one of the offenses covered under the Hiss Act provisions of federal retirement law, that pension is not paid even to an "innocent" spouse or dependent of the Member, officer, or employee, except under special circumstances for a "cooperating spouse." Federal law now provides that the spouse of a Member, officer or employee who forfeits his or her pension under the Hiss Act shall be eligible for "spousal pension benefits" if the Attorney General "determines that the spouse fully cooperated with Federal authorities in the conduct of a criminal investigation and subsequent prosecution of the individual which resulted in such forfeiture."14 [...] Amendments in STOCK Act The pension forfeiture provisions originally placed in the law by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA) were amended in 2012 by the provisions of the so-called "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act," (STOCK Act). The STOCK Act amended the pension forfeiture provisions in two ways. Initially, the law added numerous other federal criminal laws relating generally to public corruption, election law violations, and misconduct in office, for which a final felony conviction would result in losing creditable service as a Member of Congress for federal pension purposes.21 Secondly, the STOCK Act expanded the potentially relevant time period in which conviction of one of the listed offenses would result in loss of creditable service.
Spouse and Dependent Beneficiaries Under provisions of current law, when a Member of Congress or other federal officer or employee forfeits his or her federal annuity/pension because of a conviction for one of the offenses covered under the Hiss Act provisions of federal retirement law, that pension is not paid even to an "innocent" spouse or dependent of the Member, officer, or employee, except under special circumstances for a "cooperating spouse." Federal law now provides that the spouse of a Member, officer or employee who forfeits his or her pension under the Hiss Act shall be eligible for "spousal pension benefits" if the Attorney General "determines that the spouse fully cooperated with Federal authorities in the conduct of a criminal investigation and subsequent prosecution of the individual which resulted in such forfeiture."14 [...] Amendments in STOCK Act The pension forfeiture provisions originally placed in the law by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA) were amended in 2012 by the provisions of the so-called "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act," (STOCK Act). The STOCK Act amended the pension forfeiture provisions in two ways. Initially, the law added numerous other federal criminal laws relating generally to public corruption, election law violations, and misconduct in office, for which a final felony conviction would result in losing creditable service as a Member of Congress for federal pension purposes.21
Secondly, the STOCK Act expanded the potentially relevant time period in which conviction of one of the listed offenses would result in loss of creditable service.
What message are CNN "analysts" attempting to communicate in the claim that McCabe may likely lose his "pension"? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
mmm hmm Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Serves him right ... a long life of mistakes! ;-) Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
"lured"? puhleeze. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
His e-campaign included not only MyBO, of course, but also the powerful leveraging of everything from text-messaging to YouTube video propagation to supporter networks on platforms like Facebook -- and on a scale that dwarfed what was achieved by Hillary Clinton or John McCain (for example, Obama had more than 3.4 million Facebook supporters, six times McCain's number).
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