Government Shuts Down and Reopens Overnight, ICE Wants to Join Intelligence Community, Feds Seize $5 Million in Bitcoin: A.M. Links

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  The federal government "shut down" and then voted itself back into business while you were sleeping.

• "With hunger widespread amid a fifth year of painful economic implosion under President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has seen a frightening surge in attacks on increasingly lawless roads," reports Reuters.
• "ICE doesn't belong in the intelligence community," argues former Reason writer Matthew Feeney at the Cato Institute.
• Walgreens has adopted a gender-blind bathroom policy in its stores.
• The feds seized nearly $5 million in Bitcoin, gold, and silver from a man in Toledo accused of producing fake IDs.
• Around three-quarters of last year's new union members were millennials, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute.
• The Wall Street Journal editorial board pushes back against "distorted campus assault math."

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The federal government "shut down" and then voted itself back into business while you were sleeping.

That was the scariest shutdown yet. Like a stalker in the night.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Around three-quarters of last year's new union members were millennials, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute."

Shocking.

[Zeb]

Imagine that. The cohort that is starting or settling into careers is joining unions more.

[Mickey Rat]

And overall, only 8% of that cohort are union menbers compared to 13% of next older age bracket.

[Rhywun]

The article is claiming some sort of union "renaissance". I'm skeptical, myself - and not just because of the source. I think what it really represents is a greater percentage of low-wage jobs being associated with large chain stores and such, which tend to be unioninzed. In other words, they don't have any choice in the matter. Joining a union in order to make 8 bucks an hour instead of 7.50 and handing over the extra to some vampire sucking union goons isn't exactly a win for these people.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'm also with Zeb. It said it was somewhere near 180,000 millennials joining unions. That's a pretty small gain overall. And the chart also show a 75,000 person drop in the 40 something age bracket. So that data is not very clear.

That being said, as long as government is uninvolved I don't have issue with unions per se.

[some guy]

We'll never know what was taken from us, what we lost...

[Mike Laursen]

Well, I am traumatized by this micro-shut down and may need counseling.

[Fist of Etiquette]

With hunger widespread amid a fifth year of painful economic implosion under President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has seen a frightening surge in attacks on increasingly lawless roads...

It's always the lawless roads' fault.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

At least they have roads. At least it's not a roadless libertarian paradise.

[Citizen X - #6]

The federal government "shut down" and then voted itself back into business while you were sleeping.

I'm starting to think that words don't mean anything to our betters in the Capital District.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Don't bring that YA baloney in here, Millennial. And it's just The Capitol.

[Citizen X - #6]

That's not the reference i was making.

[Fist of Etiquette]

May the odds be ever in your favor.

[Citizen X - #6]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[BestUsedCarSales]

He's drunk on Yuengling again.

[Conchfritters]

I wish him good fortune in the wars to come.

[Citizen X - #6]

Yuengling? Fist is me from when i was 22? Jesus Christ.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yuengling is great. It's why President Obama drank it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"ICE doesn't belong in the intelligence community," argues former Reason writer Matthew Feeney at the Cato Institute.

Exactly what I'd expect a foreigner to say.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Walgreens has adopted a gender-blind bathroom policy in its stores.

They removed the light switches.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Marco!

Polo!

HOW DARE YOU MISGENDER ME!

[Mickey Rat]

Wagreen's generally does not have gang fixture restrooms in its stores, so it is not quite the same issue as at Target.

However, why segregating by gender identity is permissible, but segregating by sex is an affront us unexplained. Though the nonsense language in their press release that sex is "assigned" at birth is evidence if the quality if their logic.

[Rhywun]

sex is "assigned" at birth

Sounds like the mgt has been taken over by SJW pod people - that is their language.

[Mickey Rat]

The subjective trait must be treated as if it were objective and the objective trait must described as if it were subjective.

[BYODB]

Yep. Although I'm all for it since it by necessity eats the concept of the Progressive identity groups whole. They're not an ally now, and may never be one, but eventually they will be the enemies of Progressives. It's a necessary evolution for their mutually exclusive goals.

[Zeb]

Well, like .01% of people are born intersex, so obviously we have to treat everyone like they might not be clearly male or female.

It's a bit disturbing that all of these ideas that have been festering in academia for decades are all of a sudden (or so it seems to me) out there in the world.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The feds seized nearly $5 million in Bitcoin, gold, and silver from a man in Toledo accused of producing fake IDs.

The bulk of that amount being bitcoin is my guess.

[Conchfritters]

It was $10 million last week.

[loveconstitution1789]

That is just completely unreasonable bail.

The only reason that bail was set that high was because he made so much money.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Around three-quarters of last year's new union members were millennials...

Doubling their reasons to vote Democrat.

[Conchfritters]

Those are some woke lit 100 kids.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board pushes back against "distorted campus assault math."

Cementing itself squarely in the male-dominated alt-right camp!

[Rhywun]

Those fascists don't even give away their news for free either.

[Libertarian]

Floridians unfamiliar with trains. Too stupid to avoid standing or walking on tracks.

"A Brightline train struck a pedestrian in Florida on Thursday, marking the sixth incident since it started testing trains last year and the fourth since it began regular service Jan. 13, a report said."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018.....-year.html

[Citizen X - #6]

In Florida Man's defense, railroad embankments are the safest way to get around the python- and gator-infested swamps.

[Rhywun]

Sounds like a multi-billion dollar investment in safety is called for here.

[Bee Tagger]

The feds seized nearly $5 million in Bitcoin, gold, and silver from a man in Toledo accused of producing fake IDs.

I would have offered to carry the bitcoin out of the house.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Is the nine year bull market over with?

Or as that dumbass Sevo calls it, the Trump bull market?

[loveconstitution1789]

We are finally having gains in the stock market after Obama left office.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Oh yeah, you're the only bigger dumbass than Sevo.

Obama's first year had much bigger market gains than Trump's first year.

President Trump's first-year stock market gains actually look pretty middling compared with Obama's
December 21, 2017

http://theweek.com/speedreads/.....red-obamas

[creech]

Any guesses what would happen to the stock market if, today, it was announced that Hillary really won the electoral vote and would be taking over the White House on Monday and that the corporate tax reduction was going to be rescinded???

[Palin's Buttplug]

Nothing.

The tax cut was good for earnings but 2/3 are going into stock buybacks. The positive effect is more than offset by the bigger deficits.

[Sevo]

"The tax cut was good for earnings but 2/3 are going into stock buybacks."
Cite missing, liar.

"The positive effect is more than offset by the bigger deficits."
Assumptions are not arguments, liar

[some guy]

Obama was certainly the President right after one of the largest market drops in history. But you can't give him credit for the rebound. Considering how far the market dropped we could have elected a blind squirrel in 2008 and still seen that recovery.

[Palin's Buttplug]

And Trump walked into a full employment, low interest rate, global market recovery and tried to take credit for it.

A blind squirrel would have had the same market gains in 2017.

[some guy]

Indeed.

[Sevo]

"And Trump walked into a full employment, low interest rate, global market recovery and tried to take credit for it.
A blind squirrel would have had the same market gains in 2017."

Yep, cutting future regulations and taxes had nothing to do with it.
Fucding idiot...

[Sevo]

Palin's Buttplug|2.9.18 @ 9:22AM|#
"Obama's first year had much bigger market gains than Trump's first year."

You stupid shit, how long are you going to try to peddle that cherry-picked horse-shit?
You're an embarrassment to humanity.

[Sevo]

"Is the nine year bull market over with?
Or as that dumbass Sevo calls it, the Trump bull market?"

No, you stupid shit. It will return to trend shortly and you will again be left hoping for a depression to justify voting for that hag.
You LOST, loser.

[Bee Tagger]

"ICE doesn't belong in the intelligence community," argues former Reason writer Matthew Feeney at the Cato Institute.

And while we're here, they said, neither does snow regardless of his track record with informers.

[Bee Tagger]

The federal government "shut down" and then voted itself back into business while you were sleeping.

this feels RANDom and apPAULing!

[Fist of Etiquette]

No.

[Libertarian]

RNo Paul?

[Conchfritters]

Just a few days earlier, Aguilar said he sat terrified when hundreds of looters swarmed a stationary convoy, overwhelming drivers by sheer numbers. They carted off milk, rice and sugar from other trucks but left his less-prized vegetables alone.

Venezuelans are starving, but not enough to start eating broccoli yet.

[loveconstitution1789]

Mark Alex Simon, 34, of Toledo, appeared in federal court Thursday on 17 charges of transferring false identification documents and forgery, the Associated Press reports. He is being held in the Lucas County jail on a $5 million bond.

Its like judges have never heard of the 8th Amendment in the BoR.

8th Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

[Citizen X - #6]

The Constitution's been a dead letter for at least a century - maybe more like two centuries, if you read Spooner.

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

Walgreens has adopted a gender-blind bathroom policy in its stores.

As a nonbinary person, I welcome this. I can't tell you how many times I've needed to use a public restroom and had only "men's room" and "women's room" to choose from. Instructing me to use the men's room just because I have a Y chromosome is a form of misgendering me, really no better than calling me "he / him" when my preferred pronouns are "they / them."

And don't even get me started about my miserable high school experience, when all I had to choose from was the "boy's soccer team" and the "girl's soccer team." Why must I conform to outdated, unscientific binary gender categorization just to play a sport?

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

OBL is pretty sensitive. isn't he?

[Griffin3]

I think the word is "delicate".

[Citizen X - #6]

No, the words are "incredibly obvious parody."

[Vernon Depner]

"Why must I conform to outdated, unscientific binary gender categorization..."

You don't have to. You have to conform to sex categorization.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Got to say. I don't really understand that segregation either.

[Troglodyte Rex]

D G A F

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

You should have grown up in Alabama in the late 70s. Our HS soccer team was coed the 4 years I played. Our whole conference was.

[Vernon Depner]

But didn't that mean that the fat girls didn't get to play?

[Citizen X - #6]

Around three-quarters of last year's new union members were millennials, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute.

Generations Succeed One Another; film every eighteen years or so

[Stormy Dragon]

So as usual, Paul's big speech turns out to be a big PR stunt.

He's all about theatrics when it doesn't make a bit of difference, but when it might actually change things (e.g. Session's confirmation) he's suddenly a loyal party soldier.

[Palin's Buttplug]

After getting trounced in 2016 Rand is done for on the national level.

GOP voters hate him.

[some guy]

GOP voters hate anyone who is principled. Democrat voters hate anyone who can do basic math.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Actually that is wrong. The last three Dem presidents were known as wonks - in the weeds guys. Clinton knew 100x more budget math than any conservative idiot.

Dubya and Trump are known as incurious laggards.

[Mickey Rat]

Democrats have been running that playbook since at least Ike and Stephenson. It is not credible anymore.

[Rhywun]

But the people are desperately crying out for a technocrat!

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""Clinton knew 100x more budget math than any conservative idiot.""

Clinton had experience dealing with republicans and balancing budgets with three terms as governor of Arkansas which requires a balanced budget.

Clinton also had a trick that was later ruled unconstitutional, the line item veto. Clinton would agree to fund things the GOP wanted as concession to get what he wanted. Then strike those funds with the line item veto after the budget was passed.

[Citizen X - #6]

My goodness, it's almost as though Rand Paul is a... is a... politician!

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

What might have changed about Sessions's confirmation?

[Stormy Dragon]

Session was barely confirmed, so a no vote by Paul would have been far more significant. They just needed 3 more nos to stop Sessions.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

So he still would have been confirmed, and the petulant president would see Paul as an enemy.

It would have been nice and honest of Paul to have voted against Sessions, but unless he could wrangle those other votes behind the scenes*, the political move does look a lot smarter.

*not to suggest that Paul actually tried to gather those votes

[BYODB]

For some reason a lot of people get upset when they realize that even guys like Paul are playing the game.

[Rebel Scum]

lawless roads

Libertarian paradise!

[Rebel Scum]

"distorted campus assault math."

Something something band name.

[Stormy Dragon]

NH gunmaker Sig Sauer taking a 'STAND' with latest handgun

"The STAND is the obvious choice to represent the heritage and tradition of American citizens who proudly stand for our great American flag," says Project Manager Paul Snyder in a marketing video.

...and want to shoot people who don't.

[Sevo]

You knew it was bound to happen:

"Assemblywoman in #MeToo movement is accused of sexual harassment"
[...]
"A California state assemblywoman and prominent voice in the fight against sexual harassment in Sacramento is now facing allegations that she harassed and groped a legislative staffer."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/
article/Assemblywoman-in-
MeToo-movement-is-accused-
of-12563731.php

[Rebel Scum]

"Grab 'em by the dick. They let you."

[Sevo]

Jim Carrey, advertising critic or conspiracy buff?

"Comedian Jim Carrey urges people to delete their Facebook accounts and dump the stock"
[...]
"Jim Carrey tweeted on Tuesday he was selling his Facebook stock and deleting his page because the company profited from Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. election.
"What we need now are activist investors to send a message that responsible oversight is needed," Carrey said to CNBC in a statement."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/
comedian-jim-carrey-delete-your
-facebook-account-and-dump-the-stock.html

Or just run-of-the-mill Hollywood lefty imbecile?

[Rebel Scum]

He's been a useful idiot for quite some time.

[Rhywun]

That is... deranged. Few companies are more on board with the SJW playbook and its insistence on policing crimethought.

"Now, social media has created cyber-bridges over which those who do not have our best interest in mind can cross and we are allowing it. No wall is going to protect us from that."

Wow. OMG THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE OUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND MIGHT SAY STUFF TO US!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The hostility to free speech is telling.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

BTW, I have it on good authority that Jim Carrey comments are of Canadian origin, and are not in "Our" best interests.

[Stormy Dragon]

Jim Carrey's been deranged for a while. That's why you hardly ever see him in movies anymore.

[BYODB]

"Activist Investors" seems to miss the point of investing in the first place...but I don't begrudge these people losing all their money I suppose.

[Sevo]

Oh, the paper was full of 'em this morning.
If an old-growth redwood falls in the forest and there is no federal agent to hear it, should we give a crap?

"Federal 'open house' on oil drilling angers activists in Sacramento"
[...]
"Hundreds of Californians who traveled to the state Capitol to voice their opposition to President Trump's plans to expand offshore oil drilling left a public hearing Thursday in anger and disbelief that there was no microphone or panel of federal officials to listen to their concerns."
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/
article/Californians-call-federal-
public-hearing-on-oil-12563681.php

[Rhywun]

Sevo... *please* change https to http in your links when you paste them. Otherwise they break.

[DavidC]

ICE wants to join the posh but secretive intelligence "community," - it's like joining a neighborhood with a strict Homeowner's Association (HOA). While ICE can afford a place there and the HOA fees, will the existing inhabitants welcome this working-class organization that deals with dirty would-be immigrants on a daily basis?

The "intelligence community" is just another nice-sounding US government-created phrase to hide what it really is: a group of government agencies that conduct illegal surveillance and operations. Similar to "regime change" for war to change a foreign government we don't like or "compound" for someone's home, farm, ranch, or estate we're about to destroy, along with whoever's inside.

[Eidde]

"Venezuela has seen a frightening surge in attacks on increasingly lawless roads"

So in Venezuela, anyone can be a highway robber, you don't need a police uniform like in the US?

[BestUsedCarSales]

To me it sounds like they just need to pass some laws.

[Citizen X - #6]

As always, the solution is more government.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Government Shuts Down and Reopens Overnight,

No it didn't.

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