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turbinetree's JournalRoger Stone gets caught in blatant lie on CNN, doesn't miss a beat
You are also part of the past TRAITOR Richard Nixon asshole
The Tenth Supreme Court Justice, and this is really scary..................
This is the man who will supervise Mueller if Trump fires Rosenstein
"I always say yes to the Federalist Society."
IAN MILLHISER MAY 7, 2018, 8:00 AM
Even before he became Donald Trump’s top Supreme Court advocate, Solicitor General Noel Francisco was a magnet for Trumpian causes. Francisco was one of the tobacco industry‘s top appellate advocates. And he represented the coal company at the heart of a deadly mining disaster — a coal company owned by Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
In the Supreme Court, Francisco convinced the justices to effectively strip President Obama of the recess appointments power. He represented religious conservatives attacking the Obama administration’s efforts to expand access to birth control. And persuaded the Court to legalize many forms of political bribery.
In short. Francisco built his law practice as if his primary goal was to troll the libs.
Flash forward a few years, and Francisco is now one of the most powerful and influential lawyers in the country. As Solicitor General, Francisco shapes the Trump administration’s appellate litigation strategy and acts as one of the top advisers to the justices themselves. And, as one of the Justice Department’s top officials, Francisco is next in line to supervise Special Counsel Robert Mueller if Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
https://thinkprogress.org/noel-francisco-will-supervise-mueller-if-trump-fires-rosenstein-af2c0ec66b13/
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Meanwhile, an unstable and increasingly angry president occupies the White House. Trump reportedly views Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as a threat, because the president feels that Rosenstein has not done enough to hinder Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. If Trump fires Rosenstein, the job of supervising Mueller will fall to Francisco.
Everything in Francisco’s record suggests that he is a passionate conservative, eager to use his office to advance ideological causes. Someday very soon, Trump may hand Francisco the power to shut down Mueller’s investigation.
A gun that looks like a cellphone isn't the only tone deaf thing on display at the NRA annual meetin
Just amazing now the police will think everyone has gun,what could possibly go wrong...............
Hey NRA................your fucking idiots, now I am in danger because of my cell phone..............fucking think about that dumb shits................................
Glare on Southwest highlights tense relationship between management, mechanics
Reuters May 5, 2018
By Alana Wise and David Shepardson
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators were assigned last year to monitor Southwest Airlines' maintenance operations, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday, after whistleblower complaints of mistreatment of mechanics raised safety concerns.
The agency found no rule violations, it said, and the assignment of additional inspectors was standard practice to preclude any deterioration in maintenance.
The FAA issued a statement on the incident as investigations continue on last month's midair engine fan blade blowout on a Southwest plane that killed a passenger. The two incidents are unrelated.
The FAA, which oversees U.S. civil aviation, investigated Southwest in 2017 after employee reports that airline management had discouraged maintenance workers from reporting mechanical issues.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/glare-southwest-highlights-tense-relationship-between-management-mechanics-104530210--finance.html
Investigators reveal what caused window to shatter on fatal Southwest Airlines flight (LUV)
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed on Thursday what caused the window blowout onboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 last month.
According to investigators, the window in row 14 was punctured by pieces of the engine inlet and cowling that exploded after a fan blade in the left engine snapped off.
The punctured window caused the cabin of the Boeing 737-700 to depressurize, nearly sucking passenger Jennifer Riordan out of the aircraft. Riordan, 43, was pulled back into the plane by fellow passengers, but would later die from her injuries.
The exploding engine also caused heavy damage to the plane's left wing and left horizontal stabilizer.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investigators-reveal-caused-window-shatter-153520339.html
Tap water in some Denver homes contains elevated lead. Now Denver Water, CDPHE and others
are fighting about what to do.
Denver Water detected elevated lead in 2012, but is pushing back on the state’s plan to correct it
By BRUCE FINLEY | bfinley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 7:01 pm | UPDATED: May 4, 2018 at 9:50 am
Six years after Denver Water detected elevated lead in tap water at some homes, state health officials have ordered the injection of a chemical into water supplies to slow lead-pipe corrosion — but utility officials are resisting.
The chemical, orthophosphate, would harm humans and hurt the South Platte River basin, worsening algae blooms and increasing the cost of cleaning wastewater, Denver Water contends. Utility officials propose solving the problem with a different chemical to lower the acidity of drinking water, combined with accelerated replacement of old lead plumbing.
This disagreement has escalated into a legal fight, with Denver’s Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, Aurora and the Greenway Foundation battling the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in state court — possibly delaying action to deal with the problem.
No amount of lead in water is healthy, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and even low levels can hurt children — slowing growth, impairing hearing and digestion, shortening attention spans and stunting academic achievement. CDPHE director Larry Wolk, a pediatrician, says removing lead from metro Denver tap water is an immediate top priority.
Denver Water officials have known at least since 2012 about the lead contamination, caused mostly by an estimated 58,000 lead pipelines between water mains and homes that are expensive to replace.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/03/denver-tap-water-lead/
Colorado "red flag" gun bill passes Democratic-controlled House -- but with almost no GOP support
House Bill 1436 cleared the Colorado House by a 37-23 vote
By JESSE PAUL | jpaul@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2018 at 6:57 pm | UPDATED: May 4, 2018 at 7:40 pm
Legislation that would allow Colorado judges to order the seizure of guns from people who are considered a “significant risk” to themselves or others passed out of the Democratic-controlled House on Friday night with almost no Republican support.
House Bill 1436 cleared the chamber by a 37-23 vote — with two Republicans voting “aye” — but not before facing another round of GOP backlash.
“If you truly care about those in uniform who protect us every day you will not take away the rights that they defend overseas,” said House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock, in assailing the measure.
Democrats argue the legislation is among the best of so-called “red flag” bills and laws in the U.S.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/04/colorado-red-flag-bill-passes-house/
Facing extinction, the North Atlantic right whale cannot adapt. Can we?
Once the right whale to hunt, Eubalaena glacialis is now beset by nets, ships and changing seas. We are losing a beautiful beast
As if to confound everyone, this past week Dr Charles “Stormy” Mayo and his team from the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies reported seeing up to 150 right whales in Cape Cod Bay. Dr Mayo – who has been studying these animals for 40 years and has a scientist’s aversion to exaggeration – is stunned.
North Atlantic right whales may face extinction after no new births recorded
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“It is amazing for such a rare and utterly odd creature,” he tells me. All the more amazing since he knows this great gathering could be a final flourish. By 2040, the North Atlantic right whale may be gone. He hesitates, then uses the e-word: extinction.
How can such a huge mammal simply disappear within reach of the richest and most powerful nation on earth? Shifting food sources – due to climate change – are leading whales to areas where maritime industries are unused to them. In the past 12 months, 18 rights have died after ship strikes or entanglement in fishing gear. With as few as 430 animals left, 100 of them breeding females in a reduced gene pool, the species is unsustainable.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/05/north-atlantic-right-whale-extinction-cape-cod-philip-hoare
As a species we are really stupid with out whales we cannot survive..........
One West Virginia County Tried to Break Its Dependence on the Energy Industry. It Was Overruled.
After seeing the scars of coal, Fayette County banned the disposal of natural gas drilling waste. Industry fought back, arguing the community doesn’t get a say.
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail May 4, 5 a.m. EDT
This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Matt Wender’s vision for Fayette County begins with the New River Gorge. Whitewater rafters, hikers and mountain bikers congregate there every summer. Craft beer and artisan pizza are helping his home emerge as an outdoor tourism hub.
Just upstream from the river, there’s another reality: A company called Danny Webb Construction Inc. pumps waste from natural gas drilling underground. Chloride, strontium, lithium and other markers of gas waste have been found in Wolf Creek, which flows into the river.
In the southeast corner of the county, developers of a 300-mile gas pipeline hope to turn a wooded, 130-acre plot into the site of a gas compressor station, a facility local leaders say would be noisy and would change the inviting nature of the area.
Fayette County is more than 150 miles from the vast reserves in Northern West Virginia that fueled skyrocketing gas production over the past decade. But the infrastructure to support the drilling crisscrosses the state: new pipelines, a host of processing plants, compressor stations and — industry supporters hope — a new generation of sprawling chemical factories and manufacturing plants.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fayette-county-west-virginia-energy-natural-gas-coal-dependence
This is really fucked up
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