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A depressing chart:
Or Tea Party porn?
A depressing chart:
The GOP's beef? The president should be focusing his attention elsewhere.
"How can @BarackObama say he is leading when puts his NCAA bracket over the budget & other pressing issues?" tweeted Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Tuesday.
I honestly don't give a crap about this sports thing, but it's something he's done each year thus far, so it's not exactly like it's a surprise or anything.
I read somewhere once, about how much his team fretted over whether they could use him playing basketball as part of his image. Some saw it as perhaps a little 'too black'. When it was finally okayed, they fretted over what he wore.
Like Rush said about this, Obama is a sissy
"Those who hate Obama or who hate assertive women (admittedly, there's often overlap between those two groups) have jumped on the story with glee. It allows them to call Obama effeminate and spineless, led around by the nose by mere women. And, oh, how they've missed Hillary the Nutcracker. Plus, three women means three times the opportunity to point out how these ladies fall short of God-ordained feminine norms."
They do drip with misogyny, do they not?
did it just get all 1950s up in here?
It's the t-shirt tucked into the too high up tracksuit pants.
I read somewhere once, about how much his team fretted over whether they could use him playing basketball as part of his image. Some saw it as perhaps a little 'too black'. When it was finally okayed, they fretted over what he wore. I'd like to think his get-up is their fault, but I suspect that its actually what he would have chosen anyway.
I wish he'd just wear some cool shoes. Would be great if he popped up on one of his basketball excursions not in plain cross trainers, but a super-rare colour scheme of Jordan 5's or something.
They do drip with misogyny, do they not?
The argument that taxing them more would mean they're going to leave the US clearly holds no water, as they're leaving the US anyway.
I for one am happy that I'm going to pay more tuition so good companies like GE and Marcellus Shale can continue operating with huge profits and nothing to pay to the government. Awesome. Fantastic. I love everything.
Acting Secretary Michael Krancer is changing the procedure after receiving complaints that agency staff in different regions of Pennsylvania were carrying out their responsibilities unevenly, a department spokeswoman said.
The new policy covers a variety of enforcement actions that can require a company to pay a fine or correct a problem, spokeswoman Katy Gresh said. In some cases, those matters reach top officials. But the policy also covers notices of violation — which Krancer's predecessor, John Hanger, equated to a traffic ticket making its way up to the chief of police and said it represents an encroachment onto the professional independence of the agency's inspectors.
The policy applies strictly to Marcellus Shale-related drilling activity, and not to any other activities that the agency also inspects across six regions, including mining, construction, water and sewer treatment, power generation and medical X-rays.
Gresh said the week-old policy may be only temporary.
"We need to make sure we are consistent and that we make our best effort to be the most effective regulator of this industry, which will benefit all Pennsylvanians," Gresh said.
Gov. Tom Corbett, whose successful campaign last year received sizable donations from members of the natural gas industry, has said he wants to make Pennsylvania the Texas of the natural gas boom. Pennsylvania is the largest natural gas state not to tax the activity, and Corbett is against imposing a new tax on it.
Notice of the change surrounding the hotly pursued natural gas formation wasn't announced publicly. Rather, a March 23 email from a top department official ended up in the hands of reporters.
In the email, the department's regional directors and the director of the bureau of oil and gas management were instructed to seek approval for actions involving Marcellus Shale drilling from two top agency deputies, with final clearance from Krancer.
"Any waiver from this directive will not be acceptable," wrote John Hines, the agency's executive deputy secretary.
On Wednesday, Hanger called the change to longstanding practice "ill-advised."
"I can't think of anything more likely to erode public confidence in the inspection process than this," Hanger said. "I urge them to rethink and reconsider."
Hanger said it oversteps the built-in checks and balances that give every company the ability to contest a notice of violation by responding in writing, asking for a meeting with regional staff to discuss it, appealing a decision to the Environmental Hearing Board and even going to court.
If there are complaints about consistency, the best way to handle those complaints is to carry out a management-level review of consistency and then train staff, if necessary, Hanger said.
"The idea that the secretary himself and the deputy secretary would presumably review, literally hundreds if not thousands of (notices of violation) before they were issued, when they were not on the site, they didn't do the inspection, is incredible," Hanger said. "It's a new full-time job for the secretary, is what's going to happen."
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Information from: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Post-Gazette.com
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