FBI Director Christopher Wray said he takes the DoJ IG report castigating the FBI’s performance on the Clinton email scandal seriously.
He [Wray] ordered training for senior executives on the report’s lessons….
Really? These guys are senior executives–they already knew what they were doing, and they knew at the time that what they were doing was wrong. They should be fired for cause.
So far, it looks like Wray is just engaged in the emptiness of sound and fury.
Recall President Donald Trump’s Executive Order limiting the amount of time public union employees can spend doing union business during their work day.
The American Federation of Government Employees has demurred and gone into court to seek an injunction blocking enforcement of the EO. AFGE General Counsel David Borer insisted
We will not allow this or any other administration to trample on the Constitutional rights of federal workers[.]
This cynical claim is based on Borer’s insistence that his members’ freedom of association right is violated by the EO.
This, of course, is nonsense.
There is no constitutional violation here. No association right is violated by requiring union member employees of a government institution to do the work of the institution when they’re on institution time and the taxpayer payroll. Union members remain free to associate with a union or with each other in a union. They remain free to conduct union business. There is no constitutional obligation, though, for taxpayers to pay anyone for associating or for doing non-work related tasks.
This is a case that should result in a declaratory judgment that the law—the supreme Law in this case—is on the side of the government. Alternatively, it should be tossed on its face and Borer and such of his staff as are participating in bringing this case, as well as the AFGE, strongly sanctioned for wasting the court’s time with such a blatantly frivolous case.
Two examples of felony stupidity.
The Putnam County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office was asked by a man to test the meth sample he brought in. It seems he’d had a bad reaction to a batch he’d bought, and he wanted to press charges against the person who’d sold him the “wrong narcotic.”
They did, it was, and they busted him. And no, he didn’t get to press charges; although presumably he IDed the seller to the deputies so they could “press charges” in the county’s name.
And this, also from Florida.
This guy, pulled over for driving on a suspended drivers license, drove off in mid-stop, was caught again, and proceeded to finish his beer while the cops had him at the second stop. This with three prior DUI convictions.
Some people’s children—you just can’t take them to raise.
That’s what Facebook is planning to allow regarding merchants that advertise on Facebook.
The social-media giant is rolling out a new feature that lets people leave feedback about their shopping experience after viewing a Facebook ad. The company said it is warning businesses that receive a high volume of negative feedback to give them a chance to address the grievances. If feedback doesn’t improve over time, Facebook will reduce the number of ads that businesses can deliver and could eventually ban them from the platform.
With this, Facebook is allowing “customers” to harm a business of whose ideology they disapprove simply by flooding that business with “negative feedback” on Facebook’s pages.
Just like the Left has been doing to the National Rifle Association, Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, and on and on.
I watched CNN‘s coverage of the President Donald Trump-Baby Kim summit, following which they signed a document wherein they agreed on four steps to carry out on the path forward, including Baby Kim’s commitment to denuclearize “the Korean Peninsula.” That last, especially, is a Big Deal, albeit hard details like on what schedule and what Baby Kim wants in return are yet to be discussed and agreed.
Still, you’d think that would be news worth covering, worth reporting and commenting on. So what did CNN devote its Tuesday morning programming to? Their morning Star Anchor interviewed two ex-Federal employees, asking them about taping back together “White House” torn-up documents. The anchor kept referring to the documents as “destroyed official documents” as she sat at her desk, leaning into the camera with her mouth hanging open in faux shock (or, as my mother used to say, drawing flies). The interviewees kept holding up the pieces of paper they’d brought with them to illustrate the kinds of documents they’d been told to tape together and the degree of “destruction” the tearing up represented.
Now, I came on the interview in mid-stream, so I don’t know the basis of the anchor’s characterization of the documents as “official” or as “destroyed.” It wasn’t clear to me throughout the remainder of the interview that these terminated employees weren’t expressing their disgruntlement over having been terminated. It wasn’t clear to me how these two interviewees came to have—after their termination—official documents still in their possession, or even whether what they had were documents. They did clearly represent the size of the torn pieces to be representative of their reassembly task. What also was clear was that those representative pieces of paper weren’t “torn-up,” official or otherwise. They were documents that had been torn in quarters or eighths. Thus, they could have been notes torn up to signify “done with these,” as many of us do, or they were “official” and torn in rejection, as the tearer (Trump? one of his senior staffers?) told the individual who handed them to him said, “This is trash; do it over. Bring me what I asked for.”
But what’s important about CNN‘s interview is this: the just concluded summit wasn’t important enough to cover, but taping pieces of paper together was.