There’s no end to it. They were created to regulate and they will always regulate.
I see in the Times-News that the EPS is moving to slash carbon emissions from heavy trucks. They say that it will “boost fuel efficiency”. If it were economical to boost fuel efficiency, they would have done it without the EPA. It’s just that they have something to regulate. There will always be something.
And you never know who’s next.
“In a 56-page opinion issued today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously upheld Texas abortion laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital and requiring abortion facilities to meet state safety standards for ambulatory surgical centers. While the court did affirm, in modified form, an injunction as applied to two particular abortion facilities (in El Paso and McAllen), the court rejected abortionists’ challenges to the regulations elsewhere throughout the state. The ACLJ, jointly with the Houston Coalition for Life (HCL), had filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the regulations.
This decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Cole (previously named Whole Women’s Health v. Lakey) reaffirms the principle that the “right to abortion” recognized in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is not the “right to an unsafe abortion.” As the appeals court emphasized, the Supreme Court has repeatedly underscored that states can protect women from unsafe abortion practices.
This case has the potential to reach the Supreme Court – that is, if the abortionist challengers decide to pursue it further.”
“The technical details are a little difficult here so let’s put it this way – idiotic and utterly incompetent government officials outsourced IT management of highly sensitive information to companies that had some workers in China, and gave them complete and total access to that database.
From Ars Technica:
Some of the contractors that have helped OPM [Office of Personnel Management] with managing internal data have had security issues of their own—including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project “was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People’s Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is ‘so what’s new?’”
That’s the message one prominent pastor is sending to some 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas, said American Christians should be prepared for massive fallout if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex unions.
“We want to stay in the system,” Graham told me in a telephone interview. “We want to work in the system. We want to support our government. We want to obey its laws.”
But.
“But there’s a coming a day, I believe, that many Christians personally and churches corporately will need to practice civil disobedience on this issue.””
““It is essential that there be no misunderstanding: fast-track preapproves the formation of not only the unprecedentedly large Trans-Pacific Partnership, but an unlimited number of such agreements over the next six years,” Sessions said. “Those pacts include three of the most ambitious ever contemplated. After TPP comes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, followed by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), seeking as one its goals labor mobility among more than 50 nations. Together, these three international compacts encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP. Including the nations whose membership is being courted for after enactment, the countries involved would encompass nearly 90 percent of global GDP. Yet, through fast-track, Congress will have authorized the President to ink these deals before a page of them has been made public. Then, the Executive sends Congress ‘implementing’ legislation to change U.S. law—legislation which cannot be amended, cannot be filibustered, and will not be subjected to the Constitutional requirement for a two-thirds treaty vote.”
Sessions then laid out how several members of Congress didn’t even know about what they were voting on when leadership forced them to vote—and how it’s not too late for Republicans to see the light and oppose the creation of a new global governance.
“According to the European Commission, the TiSA agreement—which most House and Senate members did not know about when they voted—will follow in the footsteps of the WTO’s Trade in Services Provisions, which has already inhibited the U.S. from making needed immigration changes,” Sessions said. “The European Commission says the EU ‘wants as many countries as possible to join the agreement.’ We have already seen how the EU has curtailed sovereignty in Europe; we do not want to follow in its footsteps.”
We should have subcontracted the building of the B-29 to Japan. They would be glad to help.
I have heard before that some of our fighter planes have parts manufactured in China. Some were worried that there may be “back door” access to their performance.
We are letting them dig our grave, at reduced rates of course.
On the issue of same sex marriage, Pastor Steve has already said that he is willing to go to jail if necessary. It will not come to that because it would arouse opposition. It’s the IRS that will enforce the regulations.
I wish we had someone with Trump’s gumption in someone who isn’t an egomaniac.
Someone who realizes that China is not a friend and that Mexico isn’t interested in controlling the drugs and others coming north.
Wandering Views 
There’s no end to it. They were created to regulate and they will always regulate.
I see in the Times-News that the EPS is moving to slash carbon emissions from heavy trucks. They say that it will “boost fuel efficiency”. If it were economical to boost fuel efficiency, they would have done it without the EPA. It’s just that they have something to regulate. There will always be something.
And you never know who’s next.
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News dump……
http://aclj.org/pro-life/federal-appeals-court-uphold-texas-abortion-regs?sf38707812=1
“In a 56-page opinion issued today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously upheld Texas abortion laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital and requiring abortion facilities to meet state safety standards for ambulatory surgical centers. While the court did affirm, in modified form, an injunction as applied to two particular abortion facilities (in El Paso and McAllen), the court rejected abortionists’ challenges to the regulations elsewhere throughout the state. The ACLJ, jointly with the Houston Coalition for Life (HCL), had filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the regulations.
This decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Cole (previously named Whole Women’s Health v. Lakey) reaffirms the principle that the “right to abortion” recognized in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is not the “right to an unsafe abortion.” As the appeals court emphasized, the Supreme Court has repeatedly underscored that states can protect women from unsafe abortion practices.
This case has the potential to reach the Supreme Court – that is, if the abortionist challengers decide to pursue it further.”
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Wondering how China hacked us so easy?
Because we outsourced database management to some outside IT workers with total access in……
You guessed it, China. 🙄
http://soopermexican.com/2015/06/17/unbelievable-govt-outsourced-database-management-to-it-workers-with-total-access-in-china/
“The technical details are a little difficult here so let’s put it this way – idiotic and utterly incompetent government officials outsourced IT management of highly sensitive information to companies that had some workers in China, and gave them complete and total access to that database.
From Ars Technica:
Some of the contractors that have helped OPM [Office of Personnel Management] with managing internal data have had security issues of their own—including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project “was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People’s Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is ‘so what’s new?’”
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Thoughts?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/17/southern-baptists-urged-to-reject-any-laws-legalizing-gay-marriage.html
“Prepare for civil disobedience.
That’s the message one prominent pastor is sending to some 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas, said American Christians should be prepared for massive fallout if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex unions.
“We want to stay in the system,” Graham told me in a telephone interview. “We want to work in the system. We want to support our government. We want to obey its laws.”
But.
“But there’s a coming a day, I believe, that many Christians personally and churches corporately will need to practice civil disobedience on this issue.””
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Republican leaders are in on it Jeff. But you already knew that.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/jeff-sessions-on-obamatrades-new-pacific-union-like-the-eu-something-america-has-never-seen-before/
““It is essential that there be no misunderstanding: fast-track preapproves the formation of not only the unprecedentedly large Trans-Pacific Partnership, but an unlimited number of such agreements over the next six years,” Sessions said. “Those pacts include three of the most ambitious ever contemplated. After TPP comes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, followed by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), seeking as one its goals labor mobility among more than 50 nations. Together, these three international compacts encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP. Including the nations whose membership is being courted for after enactment, the countries involved would encompass nearly 90 percent of global GDP. Yet, through fast-track, Congress will have authorized the President to ink these deals before a page of them has been made public. Then, the Executive sends Congress ‘implementing’ legislation to change U.S. law—legislation which cannot be amended, cannot be filibustered, and will not be subjected to the Constitutional requirement for a two-thirds treaty vote.”
Sessions then laid out how several members of Congress didn’t even know about what they were voting on when leadership forced them to vote—and how it’s not too late for Republicans to see the light and oppose the creation of a new global governance.
“According to the European Commission, the TiSA agreement—which most House and Senate members did not know about when they voted—will follow in the footsteps of the WTO’s Trade in Services Provisions, which has already inhibited the U.S. from making needed immigration changes,” Sessions said. “The European Commission says the EU ‘wants as many countries as possible to join the agreement.’ We have already seen how the EU has curtailed sovereignty in Europe; we do not want to follow in its footsteps.”
Yes, they do.
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We should have subcontracted the building of the B-29 to Japan. They would be glad to help.
I have heard before that some of our fighter planes have parts manufactured in China. Some were worried that there may be “back door” access to their performance.
We are letting them dig our grave, at reduced rates of course.
On the issue of same sex marriage, Pastor Steve has already said that he is willing to go to jail if necessary. It will not come to that because it would arouse opposition. It’s the IRS that will enforce the regulations.
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I wish we had someone with Trump’s gumption in someone who isn’t an egomaniac.
Someone who realizes that China is not a friend and that Mexico isn’t interested in controlling the drugs and others coming north.
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Jeff Sessions
I would be proud to be an Alabaman.
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Chas and AJ,
How can either Democrats or Republicans sign on to this usurpation of power?
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