[BREITBART] With the sun finally setting on the Bloomberg empire, New York City's fastidious mayor attempts to seal his legacy by tackling the most dangerous threat facing America's largest city: styrofoam cups?
Yes, it's true--the non-biodegradable material is Public Enemy Number One these days at City Hall, where the City Council's Sanitation Committee is holding a hearing on banning the use and sale of "plastic foam cups and plates" at the request of the mayor. The ban had been proposed earlier this year, but with little time left in Bloomberg's tenure, he is making sure the city addresses the foamy material haunting New York with its ability to retain heat for years. Styrofoam is a particularly difficult material to recycle because it does not naturally degrade, and so lives on for decades in already overcrowded landfills across the state in New Jersey.
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Hostility? Yeah and Obama deserves every bit of it. He generated it all with his lying, overtly racist, baldly partisan, strong-arm, thuggish, Chicago politics and the corruption that comes with it.
[BREITBART] After the Senate Conservative Fund (SCF) endorsed Matt Bevin, the Tea Party challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), McConnell has reportedly gone on a rampage against SCF allies and the conservative candidates it has endorsed.
Most recently, McConnell reportedly directed his anger at Nebraska conservative Senate candidate Ben Sasse, whom the SCF has endorsed in the open primary.
According to National Review, on November 12, "Sasse walked into Mitch McConnell's office to clear the air" and let him know he never intended to oppose McConnell's leadership, but McConnell was having none of it. The outlet notes that McConnell's incident with Sasse in his war with SCF is "notable" because "it involves an attractive, promising candidate in an open primary as collateral damage in the intramural fight."
Josh Holmes, McConnell's top adviser, "privately told friends afterward it was the most uncomfortable meeting he'd been in"; Sasse reportedly turned to Holmes when he walked out of meeting and said, "That didn't go well!"
McConnell reportedly "lit into" and grilled Sasse about "exactly when Sasse had first interacted with Matt Hoskins, the hard-charging executive director of SCF" who is "working to elect McConnell's primary challenger." The SCF was started by former South Carolina Senator and current Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint ...junior U.S. Senator from South Carolina, distinguished by not being Lindsey Graham. He is a member of the Republican Party and a well-regarded leader in the Tea Party movement... , who feuded with McConnell because he backed candidates--like Marco Rubio and Rand Paul--that went up against McConnell's handpicked candidates in Republican primaries.
McConnell reportedly asked Sasse about the YouTube video (embedded below) that was highlighted on the Drudge Report in September in which Sasse said it was time for "every Republican in Washington, starting with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, to show some actual leadership."
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McConnell has realized that the nuke option Reid played means RINOs have no uses. Before they could rationalize they held the 'central' position to keep the Donks from pushing through their agenda. Now, no such position exits. See-Downfall rage fits.
- Sasse is everything you want from a candidate, running in a relatively conservative state. So all the hogwash you hear about Tea Party candidates not being ready for prime time is just that - hogwash. It's about ideology. McConnell doesn't want any more conservatives in the Senate.
- McConnell is at war with conservatism and the Tea Party. Open war.
- McConnell does not believe his leadership would survive more conservative wins. Otherwise he would not be alienating potential future Senators. This puts him in a position to make common cause with Reid and the Democrats, which explains a lot.
Hah. I'll be snickering at that for days. How about Endive-Khedive? The salad Caesar. Labour camp? Mais non, citoyen, are we barbarians? All aboard for the Frisee-corvee!
[COURANT] Citing "philosophical differences" with Democratic party leadership, school board Secretary Neal Leon said Monday that he will not seek the nomination to continue in that position and will leave the party.
The board is scheduled to meet Monday at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Center.
Leon, who is serving a 2012-15 term, said he would be "switching to an Independent in the near future."
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Too late asshole, we remember what you did, and Democrat or not, You'll do it again.
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US president approved final language on American side of accord reached in Geneva; Obama seeking to use deal as legacy-shaping foreign policy accomplishment at time of low domestic approval ratings. I guess I'm a racist
Obama left the troubleshooting to Secretary of State John Kerry and gave him much of the credit for securing the diplomatic coup.
That doesn't sound like our Champ. Not the same guy who dispatched bin Laden all by his lonesome.
His engagement - at a level of minute detail - is in contrast to a more aloof approach as Egypt came under military rule and Syria descended into civil war.
Details have not been his strong suit. A detail guy does not vote "present".
"It's the top item on his foreign agenda for the rest of his term. He doesn't want to leave anything to chance."
As opposed to O'care, his first signature achievement, where it seems he left everything to chance.
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Iran nuclear deal bears Obama ValJar's personal stamp
I'm visualizing an old-fashioned document stamp with FUBAR across it in large letters.
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Uh oh, looks like IRAN is claiming that the Bammer + SecState Jaaawhn "Presidential" Kerry lied about a few Nuke Deal thingys.
* DRUDGEREPORT > IRAN REJECTS "INVALID" NUKE DETAILS | [Washington Free Beacon] IRAN: WHITE HOUSE LYING ABOUT DETAILS OF NUKE DEAL. IRANIAN OFFCIALS SAY WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET [Nuke Deal Primer]"INVALID".
* TOPIX > IRAN: RIGHT TO NUCLEAR/URANIUM ENRICHMENT IS PERMANENT [forever-n-ever-n-ever ... + not-a-day].
Boy o boy, can't wait to see what Diplomatically/ Pol-Correct deal the Bammer + Jaaawhn will make iff Why-yes-we-do-have-ICBMS-n-SLBMS China starts shooting at Japan, etal in NE andor East Asia.
[Aypee] LOS ANGELES – President Obama has visited with the family of a Transportation Security Administration officer who was killed at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama gathered with relatives of officer Gerardo Hernandez at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday. Obama was in Los Angeles to attend Democratic Party fundraisers. Both events were actually Democratic fund raisers.
Obama also met with TSA agents Tony Grigsby and James Speer, both of whom were wounded in the shootings. Men with Anglo sounding names, also involved.
On Nov. 1, a gunman pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot the TSA officers. Hernandez died from his wounds. Authorities have said 23-year-old Paul Ciancia had a vendetta against the federal government and was targeting TSA officers.
Hernandez had a wife, Ana, and a 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. No presidential stops in rural Peoria or Washington, IL where nearly 500 suburban homes were destroyed and half a dozen people died. I guess that's why they call it 'fly-over country'.
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IIRW, Obama handed out signed copies of his Vegas itinerary, Biden mumbled stuff about peoples' balls, and Hillary! said they'd nail that sonobich filmmaker if its the last thing she does before leaving State.
[BOSTONHERALD] A stunning 40 percent of the staff at the state agency that oversees the glitch-plagued, befuddling $69 million Obamacare website earn six-figure salaries, according to payroll numbers obtained by the Herald.
Some 21 of the 53 employees at the Massachusetts Health Connector make more than $100,000 a year, even as Bay Staters struggle to sign up for health care through a website beset by slow speeds and technical difficulties and a call center with frequently long hold times.
Topping the list is Executive Director Jean Yang, who is pulling down $179,243. Chief Operating Officer Roni Mansu earns $178,415, while General Counsel Edward DeAngelo makes $175,621. Chief Information Officer Scott Devonshire makes $164,545, and Director of Business Development David Kerrigan brings in $164,545.
And those figures don't include fringe benefits.
Former state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan said the tally "appears to be very high" and that Massachusetts should endeavor to compare its salaries with those of other states as they roll out their own connectors to administer Obamacare.
"I think what the public is owed is a straightforward comparison, position-by-position, including the number of positions, of all the states," Sullivan said. "Certainly these salaries are far in excess of salaries of comparable state employees, no question about that. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... we also have to consider the nature of the job. It's expensive to hire IT people. But that's true around the country."
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I'm worried about Champ packing the courts, but almost more worried about the billions flowing to people who will use that money to fund the Left for the next 50 years.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
