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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Real Story Behind The FCC Sex Scandal
[FORBES] Though a lawsuit’s revelation that Thomas Reed, the director of the FCC’s Office for Communications Business Opportunities, had sex with a Washington Post news hound in his office is salacious, that’s not what should get Congress’s attention. The far more serious revelation involves the FCC’s official legal response to a female employee’s allegation that she was subjected to a hostile work environment due to management inaction when a male coworker repeatedly invited other male coworkers to watch porn with him in the cubicle adjacent to hers, from which she would "hear groans ‐ mmm, mmm, ahh ‐ in response to the pornography viewings," while having one "stand guard looking for her."

In today’s environment of heightened concern regarding gender issues, these allegations should have raised red flags about the prevailing institutional culture at the FCC and prompted swift remedial action. Instead, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s legal team attempted to dismiss the case in federal court by arguing that these allegations amounted to nothing more than the "mere existence of pornography in the workplace" that was not sufficiently "severe or pervasive" to create a hostile work environment.

As common sense suggests, the court disagreed. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly recognized that the female employee alleged more than the "mere existence of pornography in the workplace," as the FCC contended. The court determined the allegations were sufficient to demonstrate that the female employee "frequently had ’no way to avoid’ the groups of men watching pornography in the adjacent cubicle," that "she felt ’surrounded by’ the pornography being viewed nearby," and that "the hostile conduct could be considered to be ’directed at [her].’" In short, the court found it plausible that the FCC subjected the female employee to "discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult" that is sufficiently "severe or pervasive" to alter the conditions of her employment and "create an abusive working environment."

Chairman Wheeler’s dismissive response to these activities is especially troubling when the social context of these events is considered. The FCC’s Office for Communications Business Opportunities (known as OCBO) "serves as the principal advisor to the Chairman and the Commissioners on issues, rulemakings, and policies affecting small, women, and minority-owned communications businesses." And the female employee, who worked at the FCC for over thirty years, was working as a "Women’s Outreach Specialist" at the time of the alleged harassment. When the head of the FCC office responsible for promoting business opportunities for women condones loud and conspicuous porn watching by a group of males in a cubicle adjacent to a female employee and admits to using his own office in the FCC as a location for sex, there is evidence of a problem that should be addressed by more than an aggressive legal defense.

An internal investigation indicates the female employee’s allegations were more than merely plausible. According to a memorandum the female employee filed in her legal case against the FCC, after Reed failed to take action on her behalf and her male coworkers’ behavior escalated, she reported the pornography issue to the agency’s Inspector General in February 2012. Though it doesn’t name any employees specifically, pages 17-18 of the Inspector General’s March 2016 report to the agency’s commissioners describe the results of a "lengthy investigation" into the misuse of FCC facilities to conduct personal business and view pornography. The report states that the investigation, "which included referrals of potential criminal activity to the Internal Revenue Service that were ultimately declined, revealed that four FCC employees violated various ethical and administrative rules, including the FCC’s Computer System Rules of Behavior, the FCC’s Cyber Security Policy, and the Standard of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, 5 CFR § 2635 et seq." Among other violations, the report noted there was "substantial evidence" that the employees used FCC equipment to "view, store, and send pornographic material," and that the Inspector General had referred the case to "the appropriate Bureaus and Offices within the Commission for action."
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/23/2016 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Reed screwed a Wapo reporter in his office? She's supposed to join the rest of us and like it. Oh, that's not the story? The real story is one of gender issues and an creating an abusive working environment? I thought the real story was what Donald Trump said about poussewais a dozen years ago.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/23/2016 9:26 Comments || Top||


Joan Lasonde Demands Schakowsky Resign over James O’Keefe Videos
[BREITBART] Republican Congressional candidate Joan McCarthy Lasonde, 50, is demanding that nine-term incumbent Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), 72, resign over videos released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealing that her husband, Robert Creamer, was at the center of a plot to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies, in a tactic known as "bird-dogging."

"We called for her to step down yesterday in front of her office," Lasonde told Breitbart News on Thursday. "Willful ignorance is no excuse. The people in our district are upset. The people are horrified. Our phones are ringing off the hook,"

Lasonde claims that the stunning revelations in the video -- which has forced Creamer to resign from his work with the Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ...
campaign -- has resulted in constituents to switch their support to her instead of Schakowsky.

"Creamer is obviously guilty," Lasonde said of the veteran reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
activist and convicted felon who is thought to have planned the Democrats’ political strategy during the push for Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
in 2009 and 2010.

"He stepped down. Inciting violence is criminal. Our question is, what was Schakowsky’s part in it? Was she an accomplice? She’s denying that there is even a problem.

"Yesterday, she said it was manufactured and it’s a non-existing scandal. She said that my call for her to step down is ridiculous," Lasonde continued. "If she did not participate, at the very minimum, she needs to come out and denounce it. Instead, she’s pretending that it’s manufactured, that it’s not a scandal."

Creamer is the co-founder of Democracy Partners, a consulting group that, according to O’Keefe’s videos, apparently contracts directly with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Creamer also affirmed on video that Clinton is aware of "all" of his work, and that Democracy Partners has a daily telephone call with the Clinton campaign to coordinate efforts.

"And then, of course, it’s now coming out, that Schakowksy’s husband visited the White House 342 times since 2009. Are you kidding me? He’s a convicted felon," Lasonde said.

Creamer served several months in federal prison in 2006-7, plus several more of house arrest, for a check-kiting scheme.

Lasonde noted that Schakowsky was the ringleader of protests and riots that led to the cancellation of Trump’s March 11 rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lasonde was present at that protest and said that "it was ugly." She recalled how Schakowsky herself carried a "Gang of Hate" sign during the rally, which featured Republicans Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s names on it ,and which also bore the name of a Democratic super PAC with which her husband is aligned.

Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Schakowsky stepping down? Highly unlikely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2016 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Most likely, she will get assigned to a plum committee leadership position--probably a Soros/CFI bonus for her "good" works. Maybe a nice beach house somewhere. Promises of rewards in a Hillary administration? She might be surprised. Just might be a fed-up-with-this-$hit monster tsunami vote for Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/23/2016 8:13 Comments || Top||


Woman mistakes town meeting for Donald Trump rally and smears 30 cars with smooth peanut butter
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A woman was placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on Monday after allegedly smearing peanut butter on 30 cars parked outside what she believed was a pro-Donald Trump rally.

Christina Ferguson was arrested in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin after interrupting what turned out to be a meeting of a local environmental organization, Tomorrow River Conservation Club.

Witnesses claimed the 32-year-old entered the meeting at 9:30pm holding a "family-size jar of low-sodium, creamy natural Jif" peanut butter, shouting about how much she hated the Republican candidate.

Ms Ferguson was asked to leave the premises but shortly after, members went to check the car park to "make sure she wasn’t doing anything to their vehicles after leaving."

One witness, who allegedly caught Ms Ferguson spreading peanut butter on a car, shouted at her before calling police.

When officers from Portage Co. Sheriff Department questioned Ms Ferguson, she claimed she hadn’t left her apartment that night, while allegedly licking her fingers repeatedly, according to the complaint.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
one of the meeting members identified her and Ms Ferguson admitted her involvement.

When pushed as to why she had committed the offence, Ms Ferguson talked about "how much she loved Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ...
and hated Donald Trump," the complaint says.

"Peanut buttering is better than Molotov cocktailing, and Trump plans on Molotov cocktailing everybody in other countries," Ms Ferguson reportedly said.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
when she realised she had mistakenly identified the meeting as a Trump rally, she was remorseful saying she was "just fed up about the entire election."

The complaint claimed Ms Ferguson smelt strongly of alcohol and her blood alcohol level was 0.218, more than twice the legal limit for driving.

"Fortunately it wasn’t chunky peanut butter, so vehicles didn’t get scratched," said Chief Deputy Dan Kontos.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a local environmental organisation, Tomorrow River Conservation Club

So was this an own-goal?
Posted by: Pappy || 10/23/2016 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe an owl-goal?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/23/2016 4:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't fix stupid. Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, pop. 375, fairly rural. Strange, this little town in about a 100 miles from Madison. One wouldn't expect this. If this occurred in Madison one would expect that if the peanut butter wasn't organic or contained sugar, this woman would be in lots of trouble.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/23/2016 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  "tion" not "tive", you doofus!
Posted by: KBK || 10/23/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee confuses Wikipedia with WikiLeaks
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
...The clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome...
, D-Texas, denounced the wrong website on Friday for releasing thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ...
's campaign chairman John Podesta.

"You know that I'm going to first of all denounce the utilization of this intrusion by Wikipedia through the Russian intrusion," Jackson Lee said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday. "This is what it's about. Espionage just like what was said over these last couple of days. We need to be concerned about the intrusion of Russia and Putin in these elections."

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and was not behind the release of the Podesta emails. WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, was the outlet Jackson Lee was likely referring to.

Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shjeila is easily confused all the time. I think she gets dizzy from the earth spinning during the day.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/23/2016 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  A bag of hammers is still a collection of useful tools to someone.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/23/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  She has a lot of Aleppo moments.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/23/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Having spent a significant amount of time working in Sheila (The Queen Bee)'s district, I can tell you that the reaction from her constituents will be "She has a point".
The stupid is strong around there.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/23/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||



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