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April LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of April?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 4.84%

John Kelly

13 20.97%

Jared Kushner

1 1.61%

Ty Cobb

6 9.68%

Ben Carson

4 6.45%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.61%

Scott Pruitt

18 29.03%

Kellyanne Conway

7 11.29%

Rod Rosenstein

6 9.68%

Write-in

3 4.84%

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04-02-2018 , 11:13 PM

#51

zikzak

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Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 22,199

Kelly once again accused of grooming teen girl into ‘sex pet’

04-02-2018 , 11:17 PM

#52

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

my first thought was kelly ripa

04-02-2018 , 11:38 PM

#53

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Kelly once again accused of grooming teen girl into ‘sex pet’

Raise you Allison Mack and the weird self-help sex cult NXIVM.

04-03-2018 , 08:18 AM

#54

Huehuecoyotl

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29,257

Quote:

In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.

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Pruitt asked that Greenwalt’s salary be raised from $107,435 to $164,200; Hupp’s, from $86,460 to $114,590. Because both women were political appointees, he needed the White House to sign-off on their new pay.
According to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting, held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, staffers from the Presidential Personnel Office dismissed Pruitt’s application. The White House, the source said, declined to approve the raises.

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So Pruitt found another way.

A provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act allows the EPA administrator to hire up to 30 people into the agency, without White House or congressional approval. The provision, meant to help expedite the hiring of experts and allow for more flexible staffing, became law in 1996. In past administrations, it has been used to hire specialists into custom-made roles in especially stressed offices, according to Bob Perciasepe, a former acting EPA administrator.
After the White House rejected their request, Pruitt’s team studied the particulars of the Safe Drinking Water provision, according to the source with direct knowledge of these events. By reappointing Greenwalt and Hupp under this authority, they learned, Pruitt could exercise total control over their contracts and grant the raises on his own.

Pruitt ordered it done. Though Hupp and Greenwalt’s duties did not change, the agency began processing them for raises of $28,130 and $56,765, respectively, compared with their 2017 salaries. Less than two weeks after Pruitt had approached the White House, according to time-stamped Human Resources documents shared with*The Atlantic, the paperwork was finished.

Pure corruption all the way down to the salaries

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...tt-epa/557123/

04-03-2018 , 09:30 AM

#55

OneEyedPoker

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 569

Sinclair group executive chairman David Smith has a middle name and its Deniston.

David Deniston of course is a big fan of the president David Dennison. The simulation writers are being too lazy with this.

04-03-2018 , 09:49 AM

#56

daca

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,499

Quote:

Originally Posted by goofy

What does he want to do instead?

the chapo anti-yimby episode is unlocked now i think. the yimby stuff starts about a quarter into the episode and lasts until the end.

the yimbys are terrible and the solution to california missing 5 million homes is maybe something about rent control and decommodifying housing whatever that means. rich cities insisting on 4000 parking spaces around train stations and nothing but single family homes are also kinda bad, but the nimbys are the worst so what are you gonna do really? requiring 6 story buildings would ruin san francisco and modern architecture is all terrible

04-03-2018 , 10:09 AM

#57

Max Cut

Guest

Posts: n/a

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker

Jessica Denson

04-03-2018 , 10:10 AM

#58

TrollyWantACracker

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,184

Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

Think there is a lot of potential for housing relief by reducing demand. In NYC I have long lobbied for the outright ban of kitchen islands, tile backslashes, in-unit washing machines and dishwashers, and use of the term "mid-century modern." I suspect a similar strategy would work in the bay area.

04-03-2018 , 10:24 AM

#59

zikzak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

modern architecture is all terrible

04-03-2018 , 10:30 AM

#60

jt217

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,020

Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

Also, don’t try to do anything to fix the problem without consulting and getting the blessing of a handful of small local organizations that all want different things.

04-03-2018 , 10:59 AM

#61

StevenPoke

adept

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 1,143

So apparently Facebook labels you politically as very liberal, liberal, moderate, conservative, and very conservative, and this effects what you see on your feed.

I know, lol Facebook, but if you want to see what they have you labeled as go to settings, account settings, ads, your info, categories, politics. For those who still use this awful thing like myself.

04-03-2018 , 11:06 AM

#62

TrollyWantACracker

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,184

Quote:

Originally Posted by StevenPoke

They have me down as "либеральный," must be a bug or something.

04-03-2018 , 11:10 AM

#63

spidercrab

veteran

Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 3,206

Interesting, I virtually never post anything on FB. Am labeled liberal. I'm also characterized as a frequent traveler, which is a little odd because I never post anything.

04-03-2018 , 11:17 AM

#64

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

I don't have a Politics category.

04-03-2018 , 11:18 AM

#65

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

I apparently am a moderate, lol

04-03-2018 , 11:38 AM

#66

uDevil

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Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,941

Quote:

Originally Posted by spidercrab

Interesting, I virtually never post anything on FB. Am labeled liberal.

Same. Im sure they have their fancy algorithms but it could be because I told conservatives fantasizing about stoning gay people to f-off that one time before blocking them and rarely open the app since.