[Washington Examiner] A top State Department official who was viewed as a loyal member of the administration resigned Thursday in protest of President Trump’s response to the racial tensions across the country.
That’s nuts.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the first black woman to serve as assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, had worked in the Trump administration since the president was inaugurated.
"Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions," Taylor wrote in her resignation letter obtained by the Washington Post.
"I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs," she wrote. "I am deeply grateful to you, Mr. Secretary, for empowering me to lead this team and strategically advise you over these last two years. You have shown grace and respect in listening to my opinions, and your remarkable leadership have made me a better leader and team member. I appreciate that you understand my strong loyalty to my personal convictions and values, particularly in light of recent events."
Before joining the State Department, she was the White House’s deputy director for nominations.
Taylor, who has also worked for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and helped shepherd more than 400 presidential appointments through the Senate, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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I'd like to know what, specifically, Trump said or did to offend Ms. Taylor so badly. But then, liberals and Deep State types are so often short on specifics and long on meaningless rhetoric.
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Affirmative action = meteoric (unearned) advance, then no advance at all. IMO, the youngest, etc... hit glass ceiling some time ago, been looking for an excuse.
[Redstate] An Army officer’s promotion is in jeopardy over what some officials fear could be White House retaliation for his role in last year’s impeachment inquiry, raising the possibility that President Trump might again intervene in military affairs, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who received a Purple Heart for his actions in Iraq and later served as a White House aide on European affairs, is among hundreds of officers selected to be promoted to full colonel this year. Such promotions are typically signed off on by Army and then Pentagon leaders before moving to the White House and the Senate for a confirmation vote. The list is now with a Pentagon personnel office. Didn't LTC Sausage go out of his chain of command?
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You seem to forget that the Navy's promotion list was held up because of Tailhook and the order for promotion has the phrase 'resides special trust and confidence' in it? The 'Army' recommends, but it requires approval by the Senate. Usually one of those administrative yea nay type votes. This could be interesting.
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If the re-election goes forward, I forsee Vindman as a post commander. Guam.
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With his heft, it might tip over Ed.
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My promotion to 05 in 93 was held up over a year based on a list being stalled in the Senate over some pissing contest between Dept of the Army and a Senator from the Midwest. The good news was the big check for almost $18k in back pay when it finally cleared. Now I understand the list for Senate approval is down to 04? Hardly the way to run a railroad.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert in such matters but IIUC it's a big leap from lieutenant colonel to full colonel and a lotta guys don't make it, especially if they tend toward portliness and whining. Add questionable loyalties to the mix and it would seem that LTC Vindman should not take his promotion for granted.
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Pentagon is a bureaucracy. The services are just subsidiaries. It's being run about as well as GM these days.
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Vindman should be promoted to 2LT. Or E2.
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[AlAhram] Facebook Inc said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... for violating its policy against organized hate.
The ads showed a red inverted triangle with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against antifa, a loosely organized anti-fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... movement.
In a tweet on Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said: "The Nazis used red triangles to identify their political victims in concentration camps. Using it to attack political opponents is highly offensive."
I might be mistaken, but I thought the Nazis used a pink triangle to identify homosexuals. Is it possible that Facebook is incorrect?
The Facebook ads were run on pages belonging to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, and also appeared in ads and organic posts on the "Team Trump" page.
"Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol," said a Facebook company spokesperson.
"The inverted red triangle is a symbol used by Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... , so it was included in an ad about Antifa," Tim Murtaugh, a front man for the Trump campaign, said in an email.
"We would note that Facebook still has an inverted red triangle emoji in use, which looks exactly the same, so it’s curious that they would target only this ad. The image is also not included in the Anti-Defamation League’s database of symbols of hate."
The ads on the president’s page alone, which began running on Wednesday, gained as many as 950,000 impressions by Thursday morning. Identical ads on Pence’s page gained as many as 500,000 impressions.
This is an emoji.🔻
It's also a symbol widely used by Antifa. It was used in an ad about Antifa.
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An old friend with Trump Derangment syndrom posting this bit of news today with nasty comments about Trump and I hit it with the "Facebook uses that icon as an Emoji, very odd." (and included the icon).
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It's amazing how that Farcebook rubbish is automatically installed on mobile devices. In fact, on one device, it's impossible to delete it. Scum bags.
[UPI] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday requiring all registered voters to receive a mail-in ballot.The Assembly sent the legislation to the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.
"No one should have to risk their health -- and possibly their life -- to exercise their constitutional right to vote," said Assemblyman Marc Berman, a Democrat who co-authored the legislation.
"In the midst of a deadly health pandemic, giving all California voters the opportunity to vote from the safety of their own home is the responsible thing to do."
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So CA has decided it isn't worth bothering wasting money upon for this cycle. Remind me who did CA go for in the last election?
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And they will count every unreturned and mark every unfilled ballot for Biden. And that will count as part of the popular vote against Trump. And their excuse will continue to the next administration.
Overuse of mail-in elections should invalidate the state's vote.
[NYPost] The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed black man killed in February by a pair of armed white men who chased him in their car while he jogged in Georgia, offered a glimpse into her "very emotional" meeting with President Trump.
Speaking to news hounds on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon, Wanda Cooper-Jones described herself as "very, very emotional throughout the whole conference."
As for the commander-in-chief, Cooper-Jones said, "He was very compassionate. He showed major concern for all families, not just one family, but for all families."
The president met on Tuesday with Cooper-Jones and the families of seven other Americans who have been killed by police violence, including Botham Jean, the 26-year-old Texas man who was fatally shot by a white off-duty police officer in his own apartment.
"I can say that President Trump was very receiving, he listened and he addressed each and every family accordingly," Arbery’s grieving mother continued.
Cooper-Jones said Trump assured "each family member that we would and should expect change" in the wake of their loved ones’ senseless deaths.
Following the meeting, the president went on to sign an executive order on criminal justice and policing reform, which he described as a "very comprehensive" response, in the White House Rose Garden.
The order includes a requirement that police departments meet training certification standards in order to get federal funds. It also bans use of chokeholds except in situations where deadly force is required.
Cooper-Jones did not feel satisfied with the content of the executive order, but called it "a start," when asked if she thought it went far enough.
After their Oval Office meeting, the families met with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who is leading the GOP charge in the Senate on police reform.
Cooper-Jones described that meeting to news hounds as "very, very emotional" as well.
"It was very, very emotional. We have mothers, we have sisters, we have grandmothers that were in the room," she said. "We’re in so much pain and we need some change."
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Did the statue of Chris Columbus which Nancy's mobster mayor daddy enthusiastically support get yanked down yet? Oh, wait, she's of Italian heritage, too. Oh well, just a thought.
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And one day any vestiges of Madame Speakers reign may be removed as well by some disgruntled Washington official with a beef and wanting to virtue signal.
[PHYS.org] Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises.
A group of researchers, led by a UNSW sustainability scientist, have reviewed existing academic discussions on the link between wealth, economy and associated impacts, reaching a clear conclusion: technology will only get us so far when working towards sustainability—we need far-reaching lifestyle changes and different economic paradigms.
In their review, published today in Nature Communications and entitled Scientists' Warning on Affluence, the researchers have summarized the available evidence, identifying possible solution approaches.
"Recent scientists' warnings have done a great job at describing the many perils our natural world is facing through crises in climate, biodiversity and food systems, to name but a few," says lead author Professor Tommy Wiedmann from UNSW Engineering.
"The key conclusion from our review is that we cannot rely on technology alone to solve existential environmental problems—like climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution—but that we also have to change our affluent lifestyles and reduce overconsumption, in combination with structural change."
”The important thing is that everyone be forced to give up everything I believe they don’t need,” he added.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Washington Examiner] A top State Department official who was viewed as a loyal member of the administration resigned Thursday in protest of President Trump’s response to the racial tensions across the country.
[AlAhram] Facebook Inc said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President 
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[NYPost] The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed black man killed in February by a pair of armed white men who chased him in their car while he jogged in Georgia, offered a glimpse into her "very emotional" meeting with President Trump.
