We already know that Team Pantsuit used the Bleachbit software in an effort to wipe her server ("You mean, like, with a cloth?"). And since we know that the software was used, we can also infer that they weren't smart enough to run it from a portable device such as a USB stick or a DVD - nope, they downloaded it onto the very server they were planning to wipe. That leaves tracks, and you don't have to be an IT genius to follow them in order to determine what was done.
Then there's the fact they sorta forgot that email send/receive data would also be stored in the associate accounts - like Huma's systems, for example. That means they can be recovered even after Pantsuit's private server was wiped. And about 15,000 more were recovered, likely after scanning through associate systems. And they're set for release in September.
No wonder she's taking some time off from campaigning; she has many more lies to come up with.
Streetcar and his pals Shorty and Danny voted to turn a warehouse at Portland's Terminal 1 into a temporary mass homeless shelter, hoping to bypass zoning restrictions and other technicalities. That didn't work out so well - not only is the city being sued on behalf of ratepayers whose funds were used to purchase the site, but now another high-powered set of attorneys is involved:
A group of businesses in the Portland Harbor plans to challenge the City Council’s decision to open a homeless shelter at Terminal 1 before the state Land Use Board of Appeals.
The Working Waterfront Coalition filed the notice with LUBA on Friday by certified mail. It was submitted by Steven Pfeiffer, a lawyer with the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland.
The incompetence of Streetcar and his pals must amuse those who don't have the misfortune of actually living with it.
Um, no...it's just that there's never enough money for Democratics to spend. Paul Warner is the Oregon Legislative Revenue Officer, and state revenue, as he notes below, is at an historical high - yet public employees are pushing for for the most regressive and burdensome new tax in state history. Because there's never enough money.
From: Warner Paul D
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:00 AM
To: Sen Whitsett
Subject: State Tax Collections
Scott
Below are data from the Census Bureau on total state tax collections per year for the last 9 years. The
data goes back to the prior cyclical peak in 2006-07, so safe to say that collections are at a historical
high.
(Millions)
2013-14: $9,683.6
2012-13: $9,160.9
2011-12: $8,728.1
2010-11: $8,017.4
2009-10: $7,475.1
2008-09: $7,115.0
2007-08: $7,487.9
2006-07: $7,742.9
2005-06: $7,590.3
Let me know if any questions
Paul
Personally, I think too many people grew up on Walt Disney stuff, but in any case, the evidence seems irrefutable. You may recall these recent episodes at Yellowstone alone:
A Canadian tourist who put a bison calf in his SUV hoping to save it, ending with wildlife workers euthanizing the animal when they could not reunite it with its herd.
Three visitors from Asia cited on separate occasions for illegally collecting water from the park’s thermal features.
And the list goes on. Clueless visitors are in total disbelief that any harm could come to them - or that they could possibly do any real damage themselves - and so they routinely flout park rules, doing everything from camping in off-limits areas to taking "selfies" with wildlife.
Law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press suggest such problems are on the rise at the park, offering a stark illustration of the pressures facing some of America’s most treasured lands as the National Park Service marks its 100th anniversary.
From Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, major parks are grappling with illegal camping, vandalism, theft of resources, wildlife harassment and other visitor misbehavior, according to the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In July alone, law enforcement rangers handled more than 11,000 incidents at the 10 most visited national parks.
Tourists like Washington state resident (why is it so often someone from Washington?) John Gleason, who considers himself an experienced woodsman and hunter, creeps through the grass with four small children in tow to get within a dozen yards of a large bull elk (less than half the distance that visitors are supposed to keep between themselves and wildlife). And they always have a reason why it's okay:
Gleason said he was “maybe” too close but felt comfortable in the situation as an experienced hunter who’s spent lots of time outdoors.
Yeah, don't mind him; he knows what he's doing. Because he's an outdoorsman. And a hunter (the kind who give real hunters a bad reputation). Adding to the idiocy:
Washington state resident Lisa Morrow’s son was among the children Gleason led toward the elk. Despite safety advisories - and numerous examples of visitors getting gored by bison, mauled by bears and chased by elk - Morrow declared herself unafraid of the park’s wildlife. She said she was eager to see a grizzly up close.
“I want to see one right there,” Morrow said, pointing to a spot just feet away. “I’d throw it a cookie.”
That's how truly stupid many of these people are: "I'm not afraid of it, I'd throw it a cookie". "I'm comfortable with it, I'm a hunter". "I'm...hey, can you get an EMT over here?"
At the rate things are going, it will soon be necessary to require that each would-be visitor to a national park first pass a test on basic common sense prior to being permitted to enter.
He resigned from Congress in 2011 amid revelations of his sexting with other women.
His New York City mayoral campaign fell apart two years later when more online sexual misbehavior was discovered.
Anthony just can't help himself, it seems. This time may have been the end of the line, as he was yet again "sexting" - while his son was in bed with him. It appears that he deleted his Twitter account today, but it also appears to be too little, too late:
A little more than five years after the first Anthony Weiner sexting story broke, wife Huma Abedin has announced she is leaving him. A brief statement from Abedin was posted on Twitter by NBC Nightly News editor Bradd Jaffy. It reads, "After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband. Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
Although he claims to have gone to a therapist, he's made a lot of claims; back when he was still in Congress and the first blow-up occurred, he initially tried to claim that his Twitter account had been hacked. Yeah, right. What a piece of work.
Some people simply should not be allowed access to technology.
Apparently not content with a salary of $18 million per year, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch cashed in 100,000 shares of Mylan stock three weeks ago, to the tune of $5 million.
Bresch did so under a 10b5 plan, which spans a certain waiting period and are set up to avoid the appearance of insider trading, reports the Guardian. "Yet," as the Guardian writes, "Bresch did not need insider information to know that trouble lay ahead."
Mylan shares went from $49.20 per share on August 19, 10 days after Bresch's sale, to $43.11 on August 24—a $3 billion loss in value, notes Raw Story.
In addition to jacking up prices of EpiPen, Mylan has, according to Wells Fargo, also raised prices on seven other products by 100% and on 24 more by at least 20%. According to the bank's analysts, these actions invite "greater regulatory scrutiny."
AMELIA COUNTY, Va. – A rural EMS agency will forgo carrying EpiPens on board due to skyrocketing costs of the live-saving drug. If a patient is going into severe anaphylaxis, then only thing that will save them is epinephrine.
“We are no longer able to carry EpiPens on any of our ambulances or quick response vehicles,” said Jay Rupkey, with the Amelia County EMS. “This is due to the exorbitant costs involved. As of today it cost $1,200 to carry the recommended dosage on each vehicle, that is two doses.”
Every ambulance in the Greater Richmond area carries a sealed drug box containing epinephrine, but not an EpiPen, that all Advanced Life Support (ALS) personnel have free access to use.
All Basic Life Support (BLS) units are only allowed to give three drugs: oxygen, the patient's own nitroglycerin or assist with the patient's own EpiPen -- or they may use an EpiPen that is on the ambulance.
This is especially disturbing because although urban EMS units are widely staffed with ALS personnel, rural EMS units are not - they have mostly BLS staff, and they're not allowed access to the sealed box containing epinephrine and syringes. In the case of rural Amelia County, the cost to stock their four ambulances and single quick response unit now runs to at least $6,000 for EpiPens - and possibly more; the County EMS simply can't afford them.
It seems likely that we'll begin to see a lot more of these issues in rural areas around the country, although according to CBS news, Teva Pharmaceuticals is developing a generic alternative that they hope to have available next year. Likewise, Mylan claims that they'll offer a generic version as well.
Darn, and Oregon's Willamette Valley Democratics just passed a new "clean fuels" law that mandates more biofool in our gas pumps.
The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry — promoted and expanded for more than a decade by the federal government — may be built on a false assumption, according to a University of Michigan study published Thursday that is sure to stir all sides in the contentious debate over the industry.
Despite their purported advantages, biofuels — created from crops such as corn or soybeans — cause more emissions of climate change-causing carbon dioxide than gasoline, according to the study from U-M Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco.
It's not too surprising that food prices - everything from cereal to tortillas to meats and dairy products - have been steadily increasing as food is turned into mandated biofool. Farmers are growing a lot more corn (and lowering the aquifers for irrigation to do so), but nearly 40% of the crops are diverted from feed and seed to biofool production. This will not end well.
Over the past decade, as the consumption of corn ethanol and biodiesel more than tripled in the U.S., the increased carbon uptake by the crops only offset 37% of carbon dioxide emissions from biofuel combustion, DeCicco said.
"When it comes to the emissions that cause global warming, it turns out that biofuels are worse than gasoline," he said.
Surprisingly, some environmental groups are now coming around to the concept:
Emily Cassidy, a research analyst with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, said DeCicco is looking into an area that "deserves a lot of scrutiny."
"There is mounting evidence that the Renewable Fuel Standard has been bad for the environment and the climate, and this paper is a new take on that," she said. "There are some fuels that could be beneficial to the climate, but those fuels would mostly be using crop waste and woody biomass that wouldn't be used for other things."
Unsurprisingly, the Renewable Fuels Association and other groups that rake in billions of dollars in subsidies each year disparage the findings, claiming that the professor is biased against their industries.
DeCicco countered that all of his research is peer-reviewed, meaning other scientists in the field have, and will continue to, scrutinize it. As for the petroleum industry funding, DeCicco said that years ago, he reached out to other more environmentally oriented funding sources that he declined to specify, who weren't interested in funding his examination of life-cycle analysis.
What a surprise. Why would any group that's getting piles of cash from government subsidies be interested in funding research into the actual cost/benefit ratio? And left unmentioned is the fact that biofools provide considerably less useful energy than conventional fuels.
A 53-year-old woman was killed while descending a 3,000-feet mountain after her husband used a smartphone app to navigate instead of a paper map which apparently showed the wrong path, the media reported.
Jane Wilson and her husband Gary were looking for a safe route off Tryfan peak in Snowdonia, Wales at dusk when the fateful incident happened in March and was under investigation, telegraph.co.uk reported on Friday.
Chris Lloyd, who was among the Ogwen Rescue team, described the route the pair had taken as "not a straightforward path".
"The image would have been small and not as detailed as on a proper map. There is no easy way up Tryfan but there are easier routes," Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team was heard speaking at the investigation.
Mountain rescue teams present at the investigation said it is always better to use a paper map and compass to navigate instead of or in addition to any electronic navigation aids.
Exactly. Around here, we see this happen on a regular basis. Just this last week, we had another guy killed on the Angel's Rest trail in the Columbia River Gorge; he stepped off a cliff when he should've stayed on the trail. In the Coast Range, people end up following forest roads instead of sticking to the paved ones. They end up getting stuck and on occasion dying out there. And it's generally because the app said this was a good way to go. Then there are all the hikers who get lost in the Gorge and the Cascades. We have great S&R teams here, so if hikers just stop and hunker down, there's a pretty good chance that they'll be found - just don't use an app for guidance. They almost always lead you wrong out here.
Speaking of idiocy, I saw a photo earlier today in which the teen driver was not wearing a seat belt and his girlfriend was riding in the passenger seat, glued to her phone, with her feet on the dash and also not wearing a seat belt.
Depending on the circumstance, airbags deploy at between 100 and 220 mph. If that happened, the girl's knees would be driven into her eye-sockets.
Well, this is interesting. Of course, Lefties always claim they're going to do that if a Republican candidate wins office; the problem is that they never follow through. They always say one thing, then do the opposite. If she'll put that in writing, I'll have little choice but to vote Trump. I don't like him, but I like Pantsuit, the serial liar, even less. And getting Babs out of the country would be a great start when it comes to cleaning house here. It'd be even better if she'd take Cher with her.
Barbra Streisand revealed during an Australian TV interview that she will move Down Under if Donald Trump is elected President of the United States in November.
The 74-year-old actress, a lifelong Democrat who endorses Hilary Clinton in the US election, made the admission during an interview with 60 Minutes.
Barbra told Sydney-based journalist Michael Usher on Sunday she would consider relocating to Australia or Canada in the event of a Trump presidency.
'I'm either coming to your country, if you'll let me in, or Canada': The 74-year-old actress is a lifelong Democrat who endorses Hilary Clinton in the US election.
Make it so!
Oh wait - she's only going to consider leaving the USA. They always need to leave some wiggle-room. Go, Babs, go! Don't wait around! Don't back out like all your buddies have in the past; stick to it.
It's not too surprising that food prices - everything from cereal to tortillas to meats and dairy products - have been steadily increasing as food is turned into mandated biofool. Farmers are growing a lot more corn (and lowering the aquifers for irrigation to do so), but nearly 40% of the crops are diverted from feed and seed to biofool production. This will not end well.
Oh wait - she's only going to consider leaving the USA. They always need to leave some wiggle-room. Go, Babs, go! Don't wait around! Don't back out like all your buddies have in the past; stick to it.
