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#6 "We ask for police protection from the predators among us. However, when police does come - and uses force on the predators - we only see the skin color." sorta thing?
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Bout time to name and shame (if that's possible with a Dem) the Hacks and Prosecutors that allow this
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/21/2025 5:47 Comments ||
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Name them. I don’t think most of them are capable of feeling shame. Name them again and again until they become inconvenient for the Dems. That’s the only path to accountability.
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11/21/2025 6:08 Comments ||
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Someone should ask her why it was a good idea to let this guy loose.
#3
Teachers like all citizens have the right of free assembly, association, and petition. They do not have the right to run any governmental body nor strike against the people. They also have no right to mandatory dues extracted at the pay check.
[Peoria Journal Star] In October, 12 companies reported layoff and furlough plans affecting more than 1,500 Illinois workers.
The job reductions were reported to the state as part of the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
In addition, a chemical production company submitted a supplemental layoff notice impacting over 90 Illinois workers. The layoffs span multiple industries, including transportation, manufacturing, education, and retail.
Candy company to lay off 101 workers in Illinois
The multinational confection company Ferrero USA, Inc. will lay off 101 workers from its Chicago plant beginning next year. The company announced plans on Oct. 8 to lay off 69 workers on Jan. 1, 2026, and three more on Jan. 1, 2027. Ferrero also submitted a supplemental WARN notice Oct. 31 that it will lay off an additional 29 Chicago employees.
[AP] WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it plans to reclassify certain refundable tax credits as "federal public benefits," which will bar some immigrant taxpayers from receiving them, even if they file and pay taxes and would otherwise qualify.
Tax experts say immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children, known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status are most likely to be affected by the planned change. Foreign workers and student visa holders as well as some families with children who are U.S. citizens could also be affected, depending on how the rule is written, they say.
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^Add an additional factor: China's rulers don't give a f*ck about economics - to them it all about advancing national interest (as they perceive it). So relying in Chinese production is stupid.
[USNI News] Eastern Shipbuilding Group halted work on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter program, citing "significant financial strain" caused by the program’s conditions, USNI News has learned.
"Eastern Shipbuilding Group has made the difficult decision to suspend work on the Offshore Patrol Cutter program due to significant financial strain caused by the program’s structure and conditions. Despite our best efforts, continuing under the current circumstances is not sustainable," Joey D’Isernia, CEO of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, said in a statement to USNI News.
Four Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) were under construction at Eastern Shipbuilding, located in Panama City, Fla. Eastern, which also builds tug boats, commercial ships and structural units for Navy destroyers, reduced its workforce to remain financially stable, D’Isernia said.
"Our shipyards will continue to build quality American vessels and support the regional economy. We’ve overcome a major hurricane and a global pandemic, and we will overcome this challenge as well," D’Isernia said.
The announcement comes five months after Eastern reported it could not complete the OPC contract without taking an "unabsorbable loss," and as a result the service issued stop work orders on hulls three and four. This was revealed during an exchange between acting Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday and Rep. Mike Ezell during a June 5 hearing before the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for information on towing two of the hulls to a new yard to be completed, but the department hasn’t made a decision on how to go forward, USNI News understands.
The Coast Guard is working to replace its Famous-class and Reliance-class Coast Guard cutters which are more than 50 years old with a fleet of 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters. Eastern was tapped to build the first four Heritage-class hulls, having won an initial OPC contract for the Heritage-class cutters in 2016.
Eastern was slated to deliver the first ship, Argus (WMSM-915), to the Coast Guard in 2021. However, hurricane damage and an unstable ship design, have pushed the delivery to early 2026, according to a Congressional Research Service report on the program. Argus was 72 percent complete as of June, according to Lunday. unstable ship design? Somebodies need firing
The OPC program is around $5 billion over budget, and the initial operational capability is nearly seven years late. The acquisition cost estimate increased from $12.5 billion to $17.6 billion between the program’s 2012 and 2022 life-cycle cost estimates, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The program’s Initial Operational Capability date is now projected to be June 2029, a 78-month delay from the originally projected date of December 2022.
The GAO found in October 2020 that the OPC program started construction on the lead ship with an unstable design. Specifically, the Coast Guard failed to develop a plan to mature the stage 1 OPC’s critical technology — the davit, which is a crane that deploys and retrieves a cutter’s small boats — nor had the program integrated and demonstrated the davit in a realistic environment.
The Coast Guard also did not require completion of the design of distributive systems — systems that affect multiple zones of the ship — prior to construction of the lead ship, which can result in significant rework late in construction. In line with this, construction of the stage 1 lead ship progressed less than 2 percent from May 2023 to May 2024. Coast Guard officials attributed the lack of progress primarily to rework, the GAO said.
In 2022, Coast Guard moved the business to Austal USA as the "stage two" yard, to begin building the fifth hull, as part of a $208.3 million award in 2022. Eastern filed a lawsuit in federal court protesting the award. A court ruled against Eastern last year and affirmed the award to Austal. The Alabama-based shipyard is slated to build hulls five through 15.
As of July 2024, the GAO reported the stage 2 functional design, which details the size and positioning of structural components and distributive systems, was 95 percent complete. Coast Guard officials also stated that testing of the stage 2 davit was planned for February 2025.
The betting on the 'next best thing' has got to stop with those in charge fired or discharged. It would also help to do away with 'rotation' assignments in procurement (kicking the can down the road).
#3
While a demoncrat might have interfered to get a shipbuilder in their district work, the design part of the problem shouldn't involve Congress. This is a problem that's been around for a while. When it's time for a major new piece of equipment, the people involved in the design can never seem to agree on a finalized design. The same issues are happening with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
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Obviously these are a bit more complex, but production of Liberty Ships reached a record of one every 43 days in 1943. I Believe one is still docked and can be toured on the Ohio Iver in Evansville, IN.
I suspect additional investigation of the USCG contract is warranted.
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Procurement issues have been going as long as I can remember.
*equipment is much more complicated
*equipment is expected to last much longer (25+ years for a frigate or above class ship)
*Fewer companies making the equipment
*Congress funding things the military doesn't want or need (see Ted Kennedy trying to get funding for GE aircraft engines the AF did'nt want or need)
[Mediaite] Prominent supporters of President Donald Trump demanded answers on Thursday after it was revealed that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee had held a secret meeting in Jerusalem with Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy who sold American secrets to Israel.
Reacting to news of the July rendezvous, which reportedly raised concerns at the CIA, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, "This is shocking behavior from a United States ambassador. Is Huckabee going to explain it?"
"Immediately Recall Ambassador Huckabee, He is Out of Control," reacted former White House chief strategist and Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon.
[Modernity] Senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller has unleashed a blistering tirade during a Fox News interview, accusing Democrats of inciting "insurrection" by urging the CIA and Armed Forces to defy President Trump’s orders—demanding their resignation and labeling the party a "third world" entity obsessed with power through any means.
Miller slammed Democrat lawmakers for calling on spy agencies and troops to rebel, urging "These lawmakers should resign in disgrace and never return to public office again!"
"Saying that you have the right and duty and obligation to defy orders of the Commander-in-Chief?!" Miller proclaimed, adding "It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the Armed Services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying...that those who carry weapons in America’s name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection?!"
"That the CIA, the clandestine service, which isn’t even legally authorised to operate in the United States, should engage in, again, acts of rebellion and insurrection!" Miller reiterated.
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[USNI News] Eastern Shipbuilding Group halted work on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter program, citing "significant financial strain" caused by the program’s conditions, USNI News has learned.
