[Nationwide Lifts] Many people have probably never seen an elevator operator these days. Jobs like elevator operator and bathroom attendant seem to be extinct. However, if you should happen to become a United States Senator, get used to having someone push the elevator buttons for you.
Over the last five years, Uncle Sam has paid out over $1.2 million to pay operators who man the Capitol's senators-only elevators. The longer the elevator operator pushes the right buttons, the more money they will rake in. The longest tenured elevator operator has seen a salary increase each of the last five years. That operator has earned over $210,000 over those five years, giving them an average salary of around $42,000 a year.
So why can't Senators just select their floor on their own? The Senate sergeant at arms office, which employs the operators, defended the presence of the elevator operators by saying that they provide services to the Senators besides the obvious. They listed nine roles and responsibilities of the operators that are separate from the physical operation of the automated elevators. Many of these other responsibilities deal with providing a clear and safe path for Senators to move through quickly, pointing confused tourists in the right direction, and working in the galleries during Senate recesses. The sergeant at arms office also noted that all elevator operators are certified in first aid and CPR.
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You have to do your own income tax return. The IRS will not do it for you, unless you are blind, mentally challenged, or a Congressperson. Given the criteria, why would you expect them to remember the route?
[POLITICO] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Jay ... on Sunday resigned from the board of the Clinton Foundation to focus on her just-launched presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.
Clinton announced her resignation in an email to the foundation's employees Sunday afternoon, not long after launching her presidential campaign with a digital media blitz.
"While I have cherished my time serving on the board and engaging in the day-to-day work of the Foundation, in order to devote myself to this new, all-encompassing endeavor, I have resigned from the Board of Directors effective today," she wrote in an email obtained by POLITICO. "As I step down from that position, I know that I am leaving the Foundation in great hands. I am equally as excited that Chelsea will continue to lead the Foundation's mission with Bill, building upon our family's commitment to help all people live their best life story."
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"I have totally dissociated myself from the Foundation. From now on, Bill and Chelsea will be accepting the bribes from corrupt misogynist autocratic regimes and rentseekers. So, as you can see, my hands are clean. No blood. See?"
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Hillary goes unnoticed in Ohio.
Had I been there, at the very least my skin would have been crawling or my stomach upset.
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Likely funds from the Clinton Foundation will find their way to the Center for American Progress for "voter outreach." The think tank, by the way, just happened to have had John Podesta as its first president, and is currently headed by Neera Tanden, who worked for both the Obama and Clinton administrations and for Hillary Clinton’s campaigns.
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It doesn't matter whether she stayed or quit the foundation. The money will get cleaned up and come her way none-the-less. Any paper trail will get blurred, smudged, erased, cleaned, dumped, scrubbed...
[ALGEMEINER] The top political and intellectual leaders of the Israeli left are coming out against President B.O.'s capitulation to Iran. This development will impact the political dynamics in Israel, the American Jewish community, and the US-Israel relationship. And it will leave J Street on the fringe, once again. I believe they're discounting Short Attention Span Syndrome. The mantle of "Hope and Change" is shifting from B.O. to The Divine Mrs. C. At some point in the next year she will make the approximate statement "Israel has had no better friend than I!" Purportedly intelligent Jewish donors, their eyes blank, will utter "Hokay" and write the same checks they always write. Money being fungible, those checks will mingle with other checks, drawn on Arab banks, written by people who heard the other speech, about how Hill and Bill stand with the Paleostinian People™ and always have.
Israel's Labor Party opposition, known during the recent election campaign as the Zionist Union, issued an official blurb on April 2 criticizing Obama's Iran deal. The head of the party's Knesset delegation, MK Eitan Cabel, elaborated on his Facebook page: "I refuse to join those applauding the agreement with Iran, because the truth is it keeps me awake at night. President B.O. promises that if the Iranians cheat, the world will know, but isn't that exactly what the Americans promised after the agreement with North Korea?"
The senior Labor Party official continued: "When a crazy religious regime with a proven track record of terrorism and cheating receives permission to get that close to a nuclear bomb, I am very worried. The fact that the man who is in charge of making sure the deal won't be broken has a proven record of mocking his own redlines, makes me even more worried."
Calling Prime Minister Netanyahu's efforts against the Iran deal "a correct struggle," the Labor Party MK emphasized that he is "standing behind Netanyahu" because "in the face of a nuclear Iran, there is no coalition and there is no opposition--we are all Israelis."
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... Haaretz editor Aluf Benn, himself a virulent critic of Netanyahu in the past, wrote on April 5 that Netanyahu's call for the international community to insist that Iran recognize Israel's right to exist was taken directly from the campaign rhetoric of Labor Party chairman Yitzhak Herzog.
There are signs of change among leading Israeli left-wing intellectuals, as well. Israeli author Ari Shavit, who has been the darling of the American Jewish left because of his recent book urging more Israeli concessions to the Arabs, may find himself with fewer speaking engagements on these shores in the near future, now that he too has come out against the Iran capitulation.
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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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[Nationwide Lifts] Many people have probably never seen an elevator operator these days. Jobs like elevator operator and bathroom attendant seem to be extinct. However, if you should happen to become a United States Senator, get used to having someone push the elevator buttons for you.
Hillary Clinton
[ALGEMEINER] The top political and intellectual leaders of the Israeli left are coming out against 
