President Obama has shown he applies a double standard to almost everything he does. The below video shows he actually may have no standards, has no problem breaking the law and will let nothing get in the way of his agenda.
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While racial and gender quotas may or may not be a good idea, they really shouldn't be in a financial reform bill designed to prevent further financial decline.
From New Patriot Journal via Real Clear Markets --
What one finds when reading congressional legislation is invariably surprising. Take the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, for instance, which was created by merging Senate and House bills. When the Senate returns from recess one of its first actions will be to vote on the bill, which passed the House on June 30.
I was searching the bill for a provision about derivatives. What did I find but Section 342, which declares that race and gender employment ratios, if not quotas, must be observed by private financial institutions that do business with the government. In a major power grab, the new law inserts race and gender quotas into America's financial industry.
In addition to this bill's well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at least 20 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion. This has had no coverage by the news media and has large implications.
The Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the 12 Federal Reserve regional banks, the Board of Governors of the Fed, the National Credit Union Administration, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...all would get their own Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
Each office would have its own director and staff to develop policies promoting equal employment opportunities and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of not just the agency's workforce, but also the workforces of its contractors and sub-contractors.
What would be the mission of this new corps of Federal monitors? The Dodd-Frank bill sets it forth succinctly and simply - all too simply. The mission, it says, is to assure "to the maximum extent possible the fair inclusion" of women and minorities, individually and through businesses they own, in the activities of the agencies, including contracting.
How to define "fair" has bedeviled government administrators, university admissions officers, private employers, union shop stewards and all other supervisors since time immemorial - or at least since Congress first undertook to prohibit discrimination in employment... read more HERE.
Since SB 1070 is a virtual clone of existing federal law, Arizona’s sin against THE ONE, has nothing to do with the letter of the law. The Obama Regime isn’t worried that Arizona’s SB 1070 will ‘supercede’ federal law. The Obama Regime has its Colonista knickers in a knot because - unlike Uncle Sam under Vicente Bush and Pancho Obama - Arizona intends to defend our national sovereignty by - GASP - enforcing America’s immigration laws.
It’s ironic that the Obama Regime is so hot and bothered over a new, as yet unimplemented, Arizona law, when law enforcement officials in RHODE ISLAND, have been doing what SB 1070 mandates, FOR YEARS....[I]n Rhode Island, illegal immigrants face a far greater penalty: deportation.“There are police chiefs throughout New England who hide from the issue . . . and I’m not hiding from it,’’ said Colonel Brendan P. Doherty, the towering commander of the Rhode Island State Police. “I would feel that I’m derelict in my duties to look the other way.’’
From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such as speeding, to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. (Hot Air)
Why isn’t the Obama Regime suing Rhode Island? I can explain that in two words: BLUE STATE. If the stench of that selective outrage turd isn’t enough to suffocate you, let’s turn our attention to another glaring example: sanctuary cities.
If Uncle Sam really gave a damn about local governments which supercede federal law, they would paint a Justice Department bull’s-eye on sanctuary cities. Unlike SB 1070 which clones federal immigration law, sanctuary city laws do supercede federal immigration law. When will THE ONE nail any/all of them with a lawsuit? Never, because, he’s okey dokey with anyone who refuses to protect our national sovereignty. (H/T PIG)
"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.
"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. (Fox News)
Charles Bolden, the Nasa administrator, talks to Al Jazeera's Imran Garda about the US relationship with the Middle East after Obama's so-called Cairo initiative, reaching out to the Muslim world, international contribution to the space mission, the constellation project, Nasa's challenges, militarisation of space, the US leadership role in space, and life in space. (Click here to view Al Jazeera interview).
Griffin said Tuesday that collaboration with other countries, including Muslim nations, is welcome and should be encouraged -- but that it would be a mistake to prioritize that over NASA's "fundamental mission" of space exploration.
"If by doing great things, people are inspired, well then that's wonderful," Griffin said. "If you get it in the wrong order ... it becomes an empty shell."
Griffin added: "That is exactly what is in danger of happening." (NPJ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has now agreed to review and make all necessary updates to hazardous air pollution rules covering 28 types of industrial facilities, including pesticide production operations, lead smelters, aerospace facilities and pharmaceutical plants, among others. The proposed consent decree lodged today in federal court is the result of a Jan. 2009 lawsuit filed by Earthjustice on behalf of Sierra Club, which sought to end years of delay by the Bush administration in updating air pollution rules for industries that pollute neighborhoods with toxic emissions.
"For too many years, Americans have waited for the EPA to update and strengthen these standards. Now EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is committing to act on a long list of air toxics standards to protect people from serious health problems caused by air pollution," said Jane Williams, Chair of the Sierra Club National Air Toxics Taskforce. "We applaud her decision to take action so that people exposed every day to toxic industrial pollution will finally have the chance to receive the basic health protections promised by the Clean Air Act."
The industries affected by this settlement emit hazardous air pollutants which are associated with cancer, birth defects, anemia, lung and respiratory harm, damage to the nervous system, and other health disorders as well as environmental damage like contamination of the natural food chain.
There will be a public comment period and final agency review for the proposed agreement before the EPA and Sierra Club submit the final agreement to the Court for approval later this year. The EPA will be scheduled to take the first action under the agreement by mid-September 2010, and additional rulemakings on toxic air pollution standards for various industries will follow regularly over the next few years.
The EPA is required by the Clean Air Act to set industry air pollution standards that are up-to-date. The EPA must ensure that the standards reflect newly available technology and provide ample protection for human health and the environment. The EPA missed the mandatory 8-year review deadline to evaluate the "residual risk," that is, the remaining risk to public health and to the environment that is not addressed by emission standards on the books created years ago. As a result, numerous standards may be too weak or too technologically outdated to provide the public protections that are legally required under the Clean Air Act.
Details of the proposed decree:
- The U.S. EPA will review and, as necessary, revise the national emission standards for hazardous air pollution to control toxic air emissions for 28 industrial sources, hold a public rulemaking and issue a final determination as required by law.
- The agency also will hold a rulemaking to set "residual risk" safety standards if required to protect public health and the environment.
- The U.S. EPA will begin taking action this September and will complete all rulemakings in the next few years.
- For each of the 28 industrial categories covered by the agreement, the public will have the ability to review the EPA's proposed rule or determination and offer comments to ensure that the agency hears fully from local communities.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon publish a notice in the Federal Register and accept public comments regarding the proposed consent decree.
To review the decree visit: http://www.earthjustice.org/library/legal_docs/sierra-club-112-final-cdpdf.pdf
Contact:
Jane Williams, Sierra Club, (661) 256-2101
Emma Cheuse, Earthjustice, (202) 667-4500, ext. 220
Jim Pew, Earthjustice, (202) 667-4500, ext. 214
Raviya Ismail, Earthjustice, (202) 667-4500, ext. 221
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to submit to Congress district-level 2010 enrollment data for Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare.
CMS traditionally provides this information to Congress but it has been 14 months since Congress last received information.
“With less than five months until open enrollment for 2011, we have serious concerns that you have not provided us with the 2010 enrollment data,” the lawmakers wrote. “We are particularly concerned by this lack of transparency since the health reform law, according to the CMS Office of the Actuary, will ultimately reduce enrollment in Medicare Advantage by 50 percent. Given this projected drastic shift in Medicare enrollment, it is important that members have the most current enrollment data for the beneficiaries in their districts in order to carefully monitor the impact of health reform on their constituents from year to year.”
A copy of the letter can be found here.
