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Irish#1 said:
I am still amused that Biden is trying to make a list of areas or industries that's off-limits for hacking. EVERYTHING SHOULD BE OFF-LIMITS JOE!
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Biden is drawing a clear line in the sand... lol
 
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Another interesting observation from our Government-

Lina Khan’s Power Grab at the FTC

The new Chair snatches unilateral authority and rescinds bipartisan Obama-era standards.

Independent federal agencies have power over American life that the Founders never imagined, and that reign is about to expand with a vengeance in the Biden era. Witness the unprecedented power grab engineered last week at the Federal Trade Commission by the new chair, Lina Khan.

The events didn’t get much attention because the press cares more about politics than governance. But on a series of 3-2 votes, the Democratic commissioners turned agency tradition upside down and gave themselves vast new powers to harass business.

The agency eliminated the long-standing role of the agency’s chief administrative law judge in presiding over fact-finding and rule-making. Now Ms. Khan, or someone of her choosing, will preside. The Democrats also killed the requirement that the FTC staff get a majority vote of the commission to start an investigation. Now only a single commissioner can sign off. Subpoenas can also fly at Ms. Khan’s discretion.

The commissioners rescinded the bipartisan Obama-era FTC statement, adopted in 2015, that the agency follow antitrust law as it has evolved in the courts. This is a sure signal that the three Democrats are planning to dump the consumer-welfare standard for antitrust that has prevailed for decades. Instead the agency will replace it with some new standard it hasn’t specified. Also on the chopping block is the “rule of reason” the Supreme Court has applied to antitrust law for more than a century.

This is the handiwork of Ms. Khan and Rohit Chopra, who is still a commissioner but has been nominated by Mr. Biden to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ms. Khan is a 32-year-old academic who has no experience running anything. She helped write the October 2020 House Antitrust Subcommittee report on Big Tech and has called for breaking up large firms. Now she’s teeing up the FTC to stretch its powers in a way it hasn’t done since the 1970s and 1980s before it was rebuked by Congress and the courts.

Ms. Khan and her academic ally Tim Wu, who now works in the White House, claim they are merely restoring proper antitrust law from the intellectual detour pioneered by the late, great Robert Bork. But they ignore that modern antitrust law, with its focus on economic analysis and consumer benefit, has also been nurtured by many others. They include scholars Phillip Areeda and Herbert Hovenkamp and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Ms. Khan appears to reject all of that. She writes fondly of railroad regulation, of all things, which was repudiated by Congress after demonstrable failure. She wants to apply the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 to Amazon and other giants. That price discrimination law was long ago diminished by the courts with hardly a word of objection from Congress.

Ms. Khan may feel she has the political wind behind her given the anti-Big Tech mood on Capitol Hill. Twenty-one GOP Senators voted to confirm her, including some upset with Big Tech for censoring conservative speech. But they voted to make her a commissioner before President Biden made her Chair—a decision he announced only after her confirmation. That was a clear break with tradition that a nominee for Chair be identified before a Senate vote.

These Republicans may be under the illusion that Ms. Khan has only Big Tech in her sights. But the new powers she is claiming will give her authority to shoot at business in all directions. The FTC is supposed to be mainly an enforcement agency that polices bad practices, but Ms. Khan and her fellow Democratic commissioners want to expand its regulatory powers as well. Watch out for rules on privacy and data-collection for starters that will affect hundreds if not thousands of companies.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce awoke to criticize the FTC votes last week. But Republicans in Congress are still asleep.

Wide awake is Amazon, which last week filed a petition with the FTC seeking Ms. Khan’s recusal from actions concerning the giant retailer. The petition includes a declaration from Thomas Morgan, one of the country’s foremost experts on legal ethics who was retained by a firm working for Amazon. Mr. Morgan recounts Ms. Khan’s extensive record of hostility to Amazon and thus her inability to fairly judge the facts of an antitrust case.

“The Majority Staff Report in which Chair Khan played a large part in effect asserts that Amazon is guilty of violating the law,” Mr. Morgan writes. “In my opinion, in any future matter tried before the FTC, Amazon is entitled to decision makers who have a more open mind about those issues than Chair Khan would appear to a reasonable observer to have.”

We have no special brief for Amazon and have criticized its dominance in the e-books market. But the point here is about Ms. Khan’s blinkered zealotry. Don’t expect her to take Mr. Morgan’s recusal advice, but the courts may come to a different conclusion. Meanwhile, American business should get ready. The Khan FTC is coming after you.
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TorontoGold said:
Would be a good option for those not working, dig some ditches, fill some pot holes, or tell the brainless to get vaccinated.
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The first two, absolutely. The last one...big oof. I'd be concerned about getting shot or stabbed.
 
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TorontoGold said:
Would be a good option for those not working, dig some ditches, fill some pot holes, or tell the brainless to get vaccinated.
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Work? why work? They make the same or more sitting at home doing nothing. Equal outcome means they get the same if they sit at home, or work. With socialism/equity(equal outcome) only suckers work.
 
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TorontoGold said:
How would you suggest increasing vaccine uptake?
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Does your mind go into rebuttal mode as soon as you get up in the morning? He simply asked if anyone had anyone come to their house trying to encourage getting vaccinated. Did he say he thought it was stupid or was wrong?
 
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NorthDakota said:
The first two, absolutely. The last one...big oof. I'd be concerned about getting shot or stabbed.
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Oh, absolutely it would last choice but get the F to work. Unless you have a physical ailment, if you're getting more than like two weeks of UI there should be a work program. (Sounds commie AF but it's how our national parks got built up here)
 
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Does your mind go into rebuttal mode as soon as you get up in the morning? He simply asked if anyone had anyone come to their house trying to encourage getting vaccinated. Did he say he thought it was stupid or was wrong?
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So responding to my post...with a rebuttal lol, you are right though as an auditor I'm trained to question everything.

Saying "push" lends itself to being taken in a negative connation.
 
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Oh, absolutely it would last choice but get the F to work. Unless you have a physical ailment, if you're getting more than like two weeks of UI there should be a work program. (Sounds commie AF but it's how our national parks got built up here)
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The US did that during FDR. Did some civil projects with parks and stuff. I forget the name of the program. Perhaps some of our older folks here participated in it!

Not even sure I'd call it Commie, if the state is going to pay for you to exist, I don't see a problem with the state expecting some form of productivity in return. Hell, go pick up trash or something. I've done mandatory community service, it's not that bad if you got nothing else to do.
 
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NorthDakota said:
The US did that during FDR. Did some civil projects with parks and stuff. I forget the name of the program. Perhaps some of our older folks here participated in it!

Not even sure I'd call it Commie, if the state is going to pay for you to exist, I don't see a problem with the state expecting some form of productivity in return. Hell, go pick up trash or something. I've done mandatory community service, it's not that bad if you got nothing else to do.
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Teddy Roosevelt is the prez that started the national parks program.

​​​​​​​Are you thinking of FDR's "New Deal"? Maybe it contained some stuff to support the parks? Anyone that would have participated in FDR's New Deal would probably be dead by now as it started in 1933 and ended in 1939. IIRC, OMM is around 75 or 76 and our eldest member, so he would have been born around 1945.
 
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Irish#1 said:
Teddy Roosevelt is the prez that started the national parks program.

​​​​​​​Are you thinking of FDR's "New Deal"? Maybe it contained some stuff to support the parks? Anyone that would have participated in FDR's New Deal would probably be dead by now as it started in 1933 and ended in 1939. IIRC, OMM is around 75 or 76 and our eldest member, so he would have been born around 1945.
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I know Teddy did the parks. FOUND IT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Works_Administration
 
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Door to door sounds like an expensive experiment. My take is that those who want it, have it by now. Better to just stick up tents in grocery stores and malls and just try to hit everyone you can in common areas.

I know some people who havent had it. None of them will take it though, no matter how simple. How do they know who hasn’t had it yet either? Seems like a collosal waste of time.
 
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drayer54 said:
Door to door sounds like an expensive experiment. My take is that those who want it, have it by now. Better to just stick up tents in grocery stores and malls and just try to hit everyone you can in common areas.

I know some people who havent had it. None of them will take it though, no matter how simple. How do they know who hasn’t had it yet either? Seems like a collosal waste of time.
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We were just having this conversation yesterday. We just sold our house and are living in a camper until the new house can be built. Not sure how they are going to find me. I just have a PO BOX at the moment. POBOX people matter too. Also, I have a few rental properties in persons names that do not live there. So the house is under my name, rented by another name and lived in by another name. Good luck.
 
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Blazers46 said:
We were just having this conversation yesterday. We just sold our house and are living in a camper until the new house can be built. Not sure how they are going to find me. I just have a PO BOX at the moment. POBOX people matter too. Also, I have a few rental properties in persons names that do not live there. So the house is under my name, rented by another name and lived in by another name. Good luck.
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The government may not be able to find you, but if you have any student loans Sallie Mae can! lol
 
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ab2cmiller said:
LOL, I have no clue how much they spend on mailings to college age students, but they are relentless.
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I used to work for them. Think of that scene in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid where Redford looks at Newman and asks, "Who are these guys?" If Biden hired them, we'd wipe out the deficit in six months. lol
 
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Anyone see that awful rendition of We Will Overcome the Texas Democrats sang in DC? lmaoooooo. What a bunch of goobers.
 
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Anyone see that awful rendition of We Will Overcome the Texas Democrats sang in DC? lmaoooooo. What a bunch of goobers.
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The irony of the majority party in Texas flexing minority party rights by going to DC to push the Dems to demolish minority party rights to push an election fraud bill is amazing irony.

I did see them meeting with Kamala Harris, but no word if they were discussing this gem from the softball interview that managed to trip up Harris.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1413916912325734401?s=20[/TWEET]
 
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The irony of the majority party in Texas flexing minority party rights by going to DC to push the Dems to demolish minority party rights to push an election fraud bill is amazing irony.

I did see them meeting with Kamala Harris, but no word if they were discussing this gem from the softball interview that managed to trip up Harris.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1413916912325734401?s=20[/TWEET]
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Our VP needs to get out more and visit these folks. She probably thinks they don't have cell phones, cable and have to make a trip to the outhouse to drop one.
 
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US drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge


BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president.

That finding from an Associated Press analysis of government drilling data underscores President Joe Biden’s reluctance in the face of industry and Republican resistance to more forcefully curb climate-changing emissions from fossil fuels.

The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year. That includes more than 2,100 approvals since Biden took office January 20. New Mexico and Wyoming had the largest number of approvals.
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America is back! Time to reset the clock on days since the Biden admin embarrassed us on the world stage.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1415122665321508869?s=20[/TWEET]
 
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