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espola said:
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I've selected nothing...as usual you know nothing of what you speak of.
You continue to speculate about everything from how the epa got involved in Wyoming to air conditioning & where I grew up.
You live in a fantasy, from you wild west days in Vermont to your dementia filled neighborhood in Poway.
You get hung up on minutia " how many times was the word stock pond used" who cares?
The stock pond, the swimming hole, the reservoir, the fish pond, the fishing hole...was deemed illegal by the EPA. The rancher hired a lawyer, who unlike the flim flam man you paid good money to, did his client well and the EPA went back east & the body of water is still on the ranch where it was constructed.
 
Lion Eyes said:
I've selected nothing...as usual you know nothing of what you speak of.
You continue to speculate about everything from how the epa got involved in Wyoming to air conditioning & where I grew up.
You live in a fantasy, from you wild west days in Vermont to your dementia filled neighborhood in Poway.
You get hung up on minutia " how many times was the word stock pond used" who cares?
The stock pond, the swimming hole, the reservoir, the fish pond, the fishing hole...was deemed illegal by the EPA. The rancher hired a lawyer, who unlike the flim flam man you paid good money to, did his client well and the EPA went back east & the body of water is still on the ranch where it was constructed.
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The EPA did not deem the pond illegal - they informed Johnson his construction project was under investigation and warned him of what the possible penalties might be. Even up in Vermont we hear of tussles with EPA and similar organizations - they usually end up with a compromise. Case in point I discovered just yesterday - the EPA and state wildlife authorities discovered that the rebuilding of a highway bridge near a large lake in Vermont (Lake Seymour) resulted in creating a mini waterfall - one and a half inches - at the downstream end of the new culvert. It seemed like a trivial matter, but the stream is spawning ground for a breed of small fish that couldn't make the leap, and the bigger fish everyone likes to catch from the lake depended on the little fish as food. Rather than have the state highway department rip up the culvert and rebuild it, the local power company who has a state license to control the lake level as a headwater source for two hydro plants downstream agreed to keep the lake level high enough during spawning season to flood the outlet of the culvert. Everybody's happy and the EPA goes back to Washington (well, Burlington, actually).

Johnson didn't "hire a lawyer". Pacific Legal Foundation provides free legal service to people in dispute with the government if they think the story fits their purposes. They also provide PR counseling, which might explain why Johnson changed from a union welder with a nice big home in the country to a pitifully small "rancher".

You are just quoting stuff from the lawyers again. Do you even know you are doing it?

Oh, and I don't live in Poway anymore. Wee moved to a smaller place so Poway is now about a block away. I changed my voter registration yesterday so now I get to vote in San Diego city elections.

Down with Dumanis!!!

(I'm kidding. My wife likes her.)
 
Comey again referenced Clinton’s lack of sophistication during an exchange with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who asked the FBI director whether he meant to say that the secretary of state “is not sophisticated enough to understand a classified marking.”

"That’s not what I’m saying,” Comey answered. “You asked me, did I assume that someone would know. Probably before this investigation, I would have. I’m not so sure of that answer any longer. I think it’s possible — possible — that she didn’t understand what a ‘(c)’ meant went she saw it in the body of an email like that.”

Meadows then asked Comey whether a "reasonable person" would think that someone of Clinton's stature would understand that.

"I think that's a conclusion a reasonable person would draw, it may not be accurate,” Comey remarked, “but that's what folks would say.”
 
"We did not find evidence sufficient to establish that she knew she was sending classified information beyond a reasonable doubt to meet the intent standard," Comey explained.

While acknowledging that he understood why people "are confused by the whole discussion," Comey said. "But you know what would be a double standard? If she were prosecuted for gross negligence," he remarked, in reference to repeated comments from Republicans on the panel noting a perceived double standard for the Clintons.

He added, "I think she was extremely careless. I think she was negligent. That I could establish. What we can't establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent.


 
Why would we be worried about her criminal intent? Shouldn't we be worried about the criminal intent of hostiles that may have gained access to Top Secret or Secret information carelessly handled by hillary?
 
“Is it your statement, then, before this committee that Secretary Clinton should have known not to send classified material and yet she did?” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) asked as the hearing extended to its third hour.

“Certainly she should have known not to send classified information,” Comey said. “As I said, that's the definition of negligent. I think she was extremely careless. I think she was negligent. That I could establish. What we can't establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent.”


Not Best Qualified for the Job of POTUS.
 
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As the hearing wound down, Chaffetz asked Comey whether Clinton’s attorneys had the security clearances needed to go through her emails, the FBI director answered that they did not.

Asked whether that concerned him, Comey responded, “Oh yeah, sure.”

Moments later, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted (Espola loves twitter), “To be clear, the lawyers who sorted through Clinton's emails had Top Secret-level clearance.”

Clinton’s personal attorney David Kendall said last August that he had received Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance from the Justice Department and Top Secret clearance from State, noting that his law partner, Katherine Turner, received State clearance in September 2014. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) later wrote to the State Department to indicate that the clearances are inadequate to have received the information from Clinton.

As he concluded his questioning, Chaffetz asked whether Clinton gave “non-cleared people access to classified information.”

“Yes,” Comey said, repeating, “Yes.”

“What do you think her intent was?” Chaffetz followed up, continuing his line of questioning about Clinton's intent.

“I think that was to get good legal representation and to make the production to the State Department,” Comey said. “I think it would be a very tall order in that circumstance, if I don't see the evidence to make a case that she was acting with criminal intent in her engagement with her lawyers.”
 



Fossil Fuels for foreseeable Future
Chevron CEO sees fossil fuel use as indispensable for our future - not Earth's.

Although the use of renewables will grow, under the International Energy Agency’s New Policies Scenario (with calculations based on current and projected emissions policies) we see oil and natural gas are forecast to account for 50 percent of global energy demand by 2040.

http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2016/09/oil-natural-gas-into-future.html
 
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I think it is impossible without huge contortions to not see this law as racist but does that mean the people who planned it's enactment are racist?



RALEIGH, N.C. — The emails to the North Carolina election board seemed routine at the time.
“Is there any way to get a breakdown of the 2008 voter turnout, by race (white and black) and type of vote (early and Election Day)?” a staffer for the state’s Republican-controlled legislature asked in January 2012.
“Is there no category for ‘Hispanic’ voter?” a GOP lawmaker asked in March 2013 after requesting a range of data, including how many voters cast ballots outside their precinct.
And in April 2013, a top aide to the Republican House speaker asked for “a breakdown, by race, of those registered voters in your database that do not have a driver’s license number.”
Months later, the North Carolina legislature passed a law that cut a week of early voting, eliminated out-of-precinct voting and required voters to show specific types of photo ID — restrictions that election board data demonstrated would disproportionately affect African Americans and other minorities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/inside-the-republican-creation-of-the-north-carolina-voting-bill-dubbed-the-monster-law/2016/09/01/79162398-6adf-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_northcarolinavote-950am:homepage/story
 
“a breakdown, by race, of those registered voters in your database that do not have a driver’s license number.”

Disgusting.
 
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