Jetrell Fo

The Sundays - Summertime

Do some people wind up with the one that they adore
In a heart-shaped hotel room it’s what a heart is for
The bubble floats so madly will it stay sky-high?
Hello partner
Kiss your name bye-bye
Sometimes…

Romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise
Chinese-speaking girlfriend big brown eyes
Liverpudlian lady sophisticated male
Hello partner
Tell me love can’t fail

& it’s you & me in the summertime
We’ll be hand in hand down in the park
With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
& all the sunshine banishes the dark

Do some people wind up with the one that they abhor
In a distant hell-hole room third world war
But all I see is films where a colourless despair
Meant angry young men with immaculate hair
Sometimes…

Get up a voice inside says there’s no time for looking down
Only a pound a word & you’re talking to the town
But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart?
Just to touch
A lonely heart

& it’s you & me in the summertime
We’ll be hand in hand down in the park
With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
& all the sunshine banishes the dark

& it’s you I need in the summertime
As I turn my white skin red
Two peas from the same pod yes we are
Or have I read too much fiction?
Is this how it happens?
Written by David Gavurin, Harriet Wheeler • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group

This is why you guys don’t get anything new … you don’t know how to respect new things.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staff-criminal-investigation-234714

House staffers under criminal investigation still employed.

Multiple Democratic lawmakers have yet to cut ties with House staffers under criminal investigation for wide-ranging equipment and data theft.

Imran Awan, a longtime House staffer who worked for more than two dozen Democrats since 2004, is still employed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, though his access to the House IT network has been blocked since last week.

“At this time we are continuing to gather information from House officials and will determine the best approach to move forward once we have reviewed that information,” David Damron, communications director for Wasserman Schultz, said in an email when asked by POLITICO if Awan was still working for the Florida Democrat.

Wasserman Schultz declined to comment, referring POLITICO to the statement when asked follow-up questions Monday night.

Multiple relatives of Imran Awan, including his wife Hina Alvi, Abid Awan and Jamal Awan — all House staffers until recently — are also being investigated in connection to the alleged procurement scam, according to a senior House official close to the investigation.

Alvi has worked for more than a dozen House Democrats and the House Democratic Caucus since 2007. At least one member, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), is still employing her.

“My office is in the process of gathering information to make a determination in the near future about the employment of Ms. Alvi with our office,” Meeks said Monday in a statement to POLITICO.

Five House staffers are accused of stealing equipment from members’ offices without their knowledge and committing serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network, according to multiple sources briefed on the investigation.

Top staffers for lawmakers impacted by the scam were briefed last Thursday. A source in the briefing said the Sergeant-at-Arms confirmed the U.S. Capitol Police is conducting an active criminal investigation but said no arrests have been made.

Imran Awan was first employed on Capitol Hill by former Rep. Robert Wexler in January 2004 as an “information technology director.” Awan has worked for at least 25 other House Democrats since that time as a shared employee providing technical support including to previous House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra, currently the California attorney general.

Imran Awan has a longtime relationship with some members, including working for Meeks and Becerra starting in 2004 and joining Wasserman Schultz’s office in 2005.

Several members who have employed Imran Awan and Alvi in the past confirmed to POLITICO they terminated their employment late last week.

Jamal Awan worked as a House IT staffer for more than half-dozen House Democrats since 2014, according to LegiStorm, a website that tracks congressional employment. Abid Awan worked for more than a dozen House Democrats as a systems administrator since 2005, according to congressional records.

Another House staff with connections to Imran Awan is also under investigation, according to the senior House official.

No one named in this POLITICO report as being under investigation returned multiple calls and emails requesting comment over the past several days.

Capitol Police also did not return multiple requests for comment Monday asking for an update on the case.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/suspect-in-house-it-security-probe-also-had-access-to-dnc-emails/#ixzz4b3rTtD4p

The fact that either of you would expect someone not to point it out says something about the “let’s just start harassing a member we don’t like until they leave or shut up” mentality that some have grown accustomed to. As expected, I didn’t see a single person speak up as to why that ideal is better, than letting the mods handle it.

Do whatever you like really, it’s that simple.

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SilverWook said:

Jetrell Fo said:

An E.P.A. scientific review panel made up of academic experts last July also had raised questions about some of the conclusions the chemical safety staff had reached. That led the staff to revise the way it had justified its findings of harm, although the agency employees as of late last year still concluded that the chemical should be banned.

Mr. Pruitt, in an announcement issued Wednesday night, said the agency needed to study the science more.

“We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” Mr. Pruitt said in his statement. “By reversing the previous administration’s steps to ban one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, we are returning to using sound science in decision-making — rather than predetermined results.”

The United States Department of Agriculture, which works close with the nation’s farmers, supported Mr. Pruitt’s action.

“It means that this important pest management tool will remain available to growers, helping to ensure an abundant and affordable food supply for this nation,” Sheryl Kunickis, director of the U.S.D.A. Office of Pest Management Policy, said in a statement Wednesday.

Dow Agrosciences, the division that sells the product, also praised the ruling, calling it in a statement “the right decision for farmers who, in about 100 countries, rely on the effectiveness of chlorpyrifos to protect more than 50 crops.”

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Though I can see why you cherry-picked the article for info relative to your displeasure of Trump and Republicans, they didn’t make the decision. It was Mr. Scott Pruitt. Write your state officials and voice your concerns. Let them hear your displeasure so they can voice that concern up the ladder. It is your right as an American and your obligation if you disagree with choice made.

Give em hell Frink.

DDT was such was a resounding environmental success, so why worry? 😉

Thank goodness a lot of farms around here are organic.

Since I am not a Graduated Chemist or Scientist I don’t know what the actual differences between DDT and Chlorpyrifos are.

I did look up these two and found this information.

Chlorpyrifos (IUPAC name: O,O-diethyl O-3,5,6-trichloropyridin-2-yl phosphorothioate) is a crystalline organophosphate insecticide, acaracide and miticide. It was introduced in 1965 by Dow Chemical Company and is known by many trade names including Dursban, Lorsban, Bolton Insecticide, Nufos, Cobalt, Hatchet, and Warhawk [5]. It acts on the nervous system of insects by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase.

Chlorpyrifos is moderately toxic to humans, and exposure has been linked to neurological effects, persistent developmental disorders and autoimmune disorders. Exposure during pregnancy retards the mental development of children, and most home use was banned in 2001 in the U.S.[6] In agriculture, it is “one of the most widely used organophosphate insecticides” in the United States, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and before being phased out for residential use was one of the most used residential insecticides.[7] On March 29, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos.[8]

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is a colorless, crystalline, tasteless, and almost odorless organochlorine known for its insecticidal properties and environmental impacts. First synthesized in 1874, DDT’s insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. It was used in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. After the war, DDT was also used as an agricultural insecticide and its production and use duly increased.[5] Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods” in 1948.[6]

In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was published. It cataloged environmental impacts that coincided with widespread use of DDT in agriculture in the United States, and it questioned the logic of broadcasting potentially dangerous chemicals into the environment with little prior investigation of their environment and health effects. The book claimed that DDT and other pesticides had been shown to cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife, particularly birds. Its publication was a seminal event for the environmental movement and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led, in 1972, to a ban on DDT’s agricultural use in the United States.[7] A worldwide ban on agricultural use was formalized under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, but its limited and still-controversial use in disease vector control continues,[8][9] because of its effectiveness in reducing malarial infections, balanced by environmental and other health concerns.

Along with the passage of the Endangered Species Act, the United States ban on DDT is a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle (the national bird of the United States) and the peregrine falcon from near-extinction in the contiguous United States.[10][11]

It does kinda happen sometimes … not like I have any experience with a group saying I’m bad for this forum and then one after another they chime in, so yes. I am just trying to provide a bit of levity from personal experience, nothing more.

Feel free to do whatever you want about it really, I’m not a mod, none of us are. They are here, let them handle things if you feel certain members are getting more obtrusive than you believe is allowed.

I think using the report button and letting the mods handle it is a far better suggestion than suggesting other members take it upon themselves to become a posse and run people out of town.

It’s a possibility for sure.

I just saw that one. Well … I’m surprised they aren’t going after the actual people that physically handled them. They would have been the ones causing the actual physical damage, whatever it was, but Trump is higher profile and probably worth more financially. I don’t see anyone chasing around those “Black Lives Matter” people whose supporters were doing physical damage to people and property so who knows.

It will be interesting to see how this one ends. My suggestion to him would be, offer an apology, pay their bills, and drop them a little something for their troubles.

Oh, the angelic Dr. Farkas … she is a thorn, isn’t she?

I never saw any article or interview claim that she herself was in possession of any leaked documentation nor that she herself leaked it. For some reason unknown at present she certainly seemed to want the spotlight and now that she’s got it she’s unhappy with it.

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To stay connected to the world maybe? To come here for some support? Or maybe he likes asking goofy questions? Then again I could be wrong.

😉

An E.P.A. scientific review panel made up of academic experts last July also had raised questions about some of the conclusions the chemical safety staff had reached. That led the staff to revise the way it had justified its findings of harm, although the agency employees as of late last year still concluded that the chemical should be banned.

Mr. Pruitt, in an announcement issued Wednesday night, said the agency needed to study the science more.

“We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” Mr. Pruitt said in his statement. “By reversing the previous administration’s steps to ban one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, we are returning to using sound science in decision-making — rather than predetermined results.”

The United States Department of Agriculture, which works close with the nation’s farmers, supported Mr. Pruitt’s action.

“It means that this important pest management tool will remain available to growers, helping to ensure an abundant and affordable food supply for this nation,” Sheryl Kunickis, director of the U.S.D.A. Office of Pest Management Policy, said in a statement Wednesday.

Dow Agrosciences, the division that sells the product, also praised the ruling, calling it in a statement “the right decision for farmers who, in about 100 countries, rely on the effectiveness of chlorpyrifos to protect more than 50 crops.”

Though I can see why you cherry-picked the article for info relative to your displeasure of Trump and Republicans, they didn’t make the decision. It was Mr. Scott Pruitt. Write your state officials and voice your concerns. Let them hear your displeasure so they can voice that concern up the ladder. It is your right as an American and your obligation if you disagree with choice made.

Give em hell Frink.

Sougouk said:

Life (2017)

Sci-Fi Horror about a group of 6 crew members on a space station, examining rock samples from Mars, in search of life. The movie is not deliberately scary like most horror movies, with jump scares. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the Alien franchise. It’s a great movie, and I recommend it to anyone who likes Horror movies.

I will put this one on my list as I do like Ryan Reynolds and sci-fi horror.

flametitan said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Well, we did hear Obi-Wan’s voice in TFA, so I assume his ghost is still around in some amount.

The forceback is still rather difficult to fit into this, as I don’t even think the times where the characters get visions of the future really compares well with it. For all we know it could even be a piecemeal construction from the thoughts of a sentient lightsabre (though where it got the information regarding the razing of Luke’s academy is a good question.)

Maybe it’s actually the crystal that powers the lightsaber. Not so much alive but a resonant frequency that only someone force capable could be affected by or connected to. Yoda said, “The force surrounds us, binds us, luminous beings are we”.

Just a thought anyways.

http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/03/30/a-cyber-gulf-of-tonkin/

The “cyber-security” firm that everyone is depending on to make the case for Russia’s alleged “hacking” of the 2016 presidential election, CrowdStrike, has just retracted a key component of its analysis – but the “mainstream” media continues to chug along, ignoring any facts that contradict their preferred narrative.

“U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking during last year’s American presidential election campaign. The shift followed a VOA report that the company misrepresented data published by an influential British think tank.”

This retraction pulls the rug out from under CrowdStrike’s identification of the hacking group that supposedly broke into the Democratic National Committee’s server. Last year, the company announced that “Fancy Bear” – the name they gave to the hackers – had used identical tools and methods to hack into software used by the Ukrainian military, an act they claimed led to the destruction of 80% of the Ukrainians’ howitzers in their war with rebel forces. Up until that point, CrowdStrike had merely “suspected” that the Russians were behind the DNC hack. However, given the Ukrainian “evidence,” combined with the assumption that the rebels are “Russian-backed,” CrowdStrike head honcho Dmitri Alpervovitch told the Washington Post: “Now we have high confidence it was a unit of the GRU,” i.e. Russian military intelligence.

Their retraction means that “high confidence” has been considerably lowered down to the level of a mere “suspicion.” Forced to backtrack in light of VOA’s definitive takedown, CrowdStrike’s whole case collapses. Despite dubbing the alleged hackers with the nom de guerre of “Fancy Bear” – as in the Russian bear – the evidence that supposedly identifies whoever broke into the DNC servers as GRU agents is virtually nonexistent. And the remaining “evidence” is hardly impressive. As cyber-security expert James Bamford pointed out:

“Last summer, cyber investigators plowing through the thousands of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee uncovered a clue.

“A user named ‘Феликс Эдмундович’ modified one of the documents using settings in the Russian language. Translated, his name was Felix Edmundovich, a pseudonym referring to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the chief of the Soviet Union’s first secret-police organization, the Cheka.”

So why would the nefarious albeit highly skilled Russians leave this glaring clue – in Cyrillic, no less! — for all to see? Or was this “clue” deliberate misdirection on the part of the real hackers? The latter seems highly likely – not that the geniuses over at CrowdStrike would want to understand this. After all, they were paid by the Democratic National Committee, which used the incident to drum up a narrative that the evil Russians were trying to damage Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump. Follow the money, folks – and Alperovitch’s position with the Atlantic Council, an organization that is assiduously trying to launch another cold war with Moscow.

Remember, the FBI never looked at the DNC servers: they depended on CrowdStrike — which has a $150,000 a year no bid contract to perform “security” services for the agency — to analyze the forensic evidence. Shawn Henry, CrowdStrike’s CSO and head of CrowdStrike Services, is a former assistant executive director of the FBI.

Darth Id said:

Jetrell Fo said:

The Lady and the Hyden Hat

This flows better, lol.

😉

No one, ever, was waiting for …this…

“lol”?
No.
“wut”.

Thank you for your astute observation. Now that I know I’m not worthy I can just give up the charade.

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flametitan said:

Today is Trans Day of Visibility (damn, I never realized how many I’s are in that word).

Hello, I exist. Is that Visible enough?

Were we supposed to send you a card?

😉

Happy Visible Day!!!

I’m sure he can work out any medication concerns with his physician so that he is being helped in the best way possible.

Mike O said:

So I was supposed to have an appointment with a new psychiatrist last week and his secretary made a clerical error and now I have to wait three more weeks. Fuck. I want more of the medication I’m on, and I don’t think it’s working very well. That’s not a good sign. Not good at all. I’m out with my friends right now, I should be having fun, and I feel like shit. This is bad. I’m overdosing on Matt Dillahunty videos. I feel like I’m numb or anxious. And at work I had to be a witness for loss prevention. It was scary, and made this even worse. I feel like hammered shit. It’s getting harder. I’m so sick of this endless fighting. Fuck.

It will be a bit difficult to focus your thoughts because it might not be something you are used to having to do consciously on a regular basis. Some of these thoughts may be amplified or agitated by habits of yours … like going to the kitchen before you head outside (just an example). Take notice of things you are doing at the exact time and prior when stuff starts to get frustrating. You might find a pattern that you can change to help make it easier on yourself. I suffer from an ailment or two and I have taught myself some of these things. Now, I actually notice when something is going to start, and I am prepared to handle it before it goes full blown.

It takes a little work to do but I believe you have it in you to do. My proof? You are still with us, you are still communicating, you are still seeking and making use of outside avenues to help you move forward. Survival is by far one of the most difficult challenges and you are handling it. Be proud of yourself for it and keep moving forward.

My pm box is still open if you ever need an ear.

Shawn

And something finally moves.

http://thehill.com/homenews/326382-fbi-to-charge-state-dept-employee-report

A State Department employee pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday after being charged in an FBI investigation, the Department of Justice announced.

Candace Claiborne, who worked in the Caucasus Affairs office of the State Department, is being charged for two felony offenses.

Claiborne is being charged with “obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents,” a Justice Department release said.

Claiborne, who has a top-secret security clearance, failed to disclose her foreign contacts abroad despite being required to do so.

“Claiborne also is required to report any contacts with persons suspected of affiliation with a foreign intelligence agency,” the press release said.

“This case demonstrates that U.S. government employees will be held accountable for failing to honor the trust placed in them when they take on such sensitive assignments,” it added.

Claiborne is accused of repeatedly contacting two Chinese intelligence agents, who “provided tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits to Claiborne and her family over five years.”

The press release said the agents provided Claiborne with gifts, including “cash wired to Claiborne’s USAA account, an Apple iPhone and laptop computer, Chinese New Year’s gifts, meals, international travel and vacations, tuition at a Chinese fashion school, a fully furnished apartment, and a monthly stipend.”

Claiborne also wrote in her journal that she could “Generate 20k in 1 year” if she continued working with one of the agents, an affidavit says.

Claiborne was arrested Tuesday and appeared in a D.C.-based district court on Wednesday afternoon.

Claiborne has worked with the State Department in various posts since 1999, “including embassies and consulates in Baghdad, Iraq, Khartoum, Sudan, and Beijing and Shanghai, China.”

The FBI’s investigation of Claiborne included surveillance done under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Reuters said in a tweet, citing a federal prosecutor.

Claiborne could face a maximum of 25 years in prison.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/31/journalist-says-shes-found-twitter-account-fbi-director.html

Fox News should be fined for this. Why they even let this article get posted is beyond me.

DarthMarshall said:

MrBrown said:

Can someone write a script preventing people from asking their “question” in the Thread head, and then just put another more… and much shorter… annoying nonesense into the thread text itself?

Okay sorry for the mistake earlier I meant to delete this thread and I don’t know how (I am very new to this) all I’m asking is for someone to re dub the droid voices so they sound cooler (sorry if this is not in the correct thread to post in. I realized this after i posted and tried to delete it) sorry for any confusion I wasn’t trying to be an annoyance I’m just new at this

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Maybe taking a look around the forum to see how others handle such posts would help you formulate your idea better next time you want to make a post.

Welcome to the forum.

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The Lady and the Hyden Hat

This flows better, lol.

😉