She said her bill would ban "the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather"
Thanks.
Then simply take their tax exemption, since they are becoming a wing of the party.I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.www.nytimes.com
You can say that about almost anything they believe. Some element of magic, divine favoritism or other spiritual power is always more important than science, math or logic in their beliefs and philosophies. It lets them pass the buck either because they were misled by false prophets or God's will was thwarted by the evil, the wicked and the benighted.This are my thoughts on the subject, in general.
Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents government employees, said the San Antonio weather forecasting office did not have two of its top positions filled — a permanent science officer (a role that conducts training and is in charge of implementing new technology) or a warning coordination meteorologist (who coordinates with the media and is the public face of the office), though there are employees acting in those leadership roles. Overall, Fahy said, the offices had enough meteorologists to respond to the event.
The NWS is saying the opposite. A three hour warning seems like more than enough time to take action, if you choose to. The problem is that everyone was sleeping when the warning went out. That isn't the fault of any person. The weather data is what the weather data is. Whatever it is that triggers the warning happened in the middle of the night and the corresponding warning went out when people were unlikely to see it.
I think the most shocking thing about that is that there are FBI agents who are into New Order, Joy Division, and Morrissey. I’ve known a lot of FBI agents and couldn’t imagine any of them being into those music artists.well this is effed up
All that changed when I received a call from my boss. She wanted to know if I was friends with Pete Strzok.
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Prior to that day, I had never faced any sort of disciplinary review or investigation. And to be clear, I was not accused of violating any rules or regulations this time either, nor had any of my cases fallen short of institutional standards. My only supposed sin was a long-standing friendship with an individual who appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list, and against whom Dan Bongino had railed publicly.
Yet rules turned out not to matter much. And so, that weekend, Bongino informed my SAC, who in turn informed me, that he was halting—and actually reversing—my professional advancement.
I’m not going to rehash or relitigate Pete’s story here; it’s been told ably and comprehensively by others, not the least by himself. I’ll simply note that we worked together in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division roughly a decade ago, and we shared a number of mutual acquaintances before we ever even met (the counterintelligence world being not that large). Our own friendship began with a discovery that we liked the same bands and shared an interest in trying new restaurants; the notion that I was his “protégé,” as one X account stated, was news to us both. Most of our conversations since he left the Bureau have involved debating the relative merits of New Order versus Joy Division. If the fact that I sang along to “Every Day is Like Sunday” while he stood next to me at a Morrissey concert actually represents an imminent danger to the Bureau’s integrity, then, for the first time in nearly a half-century on this earth, I’m truly at a loss for words.
Yet under Bongino’s reign, it was apparently enough. My SAC informed me in a moment she described as “brutally honest,” that I would not be receiving any promotions; in fact, I needed to prepare myself for the likelihood of being demoted. She gave me no details about what position or office I would be sent to once my time as a leader prematurely concluded.
Furthermore, she told me, I would be asked to submit to a polygraph exam probing the nature of my friendship with Pete, and (as I was quietly informed by another, friendlier senior employee) what could only be described as a latter-day struggle session. I would be expected to grovel, beg forgiveness, and pledge loyalty as part of the FBI’s cultural revolution brought about by Patel and Bongino’s accession to the highest echelons of American law enforcement and intelligence.
And to keep paying for the tax cuts aimed at the wealthy that were passed in Trump's first term. Starving kids and leaving people without healthcare and harming veterans is a small price to pay so that the rich can continue to skirt paying higher taxes!
I'd make it truly ecumenical and apply it to every wing of every religion. Let them itemize their charity donations and to hell with anything else.
That's a challenge I'm struggling with also.
