Random Politics & Religion #34

Oh, by the way, about Alex Jones' radio station being shut down. Keep in mind, this happened YESTERDAY, on Ajit Pai's watch! Gee, who appointed Ajit Pai, I wonder? Meanwhile, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, those years were on the watch of Obama's folks, who did nothing against him, even though they should have nailed him then for running a pirate radio station.

Meanwhile, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, those years were on the watch of Obama's folks, who did nothing

Why would I care about this ? Is this critical to PnR ? It isn't informative or funny or relevant. Nice try.

I would guess somewhere near syracuse ny based on his written dialect.

A manufacturer of storage safes is closing its two Chicago-area factories and moving operations to Mexico, in part because of the Trump administration's tariffs on metal from China.

Stack-On Products plans to lay off 128 people at its facility in Wauconda, Ill., and 25 people at its McHenry, Ill., plant when it closes both facilities Oct. 12 ...

Fone, I thought some idiots on here would care, because isn't the whole "banning him is against the First Amendment" argument still going on?

The U.S. government says the operators of a station considered the "flagship" radio outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay a $15,000 FCC penalty for broadcasting without a license. The station's operators have rejected the demand and accuse the Federal Communications Commission of "trying to run a bluff."

To collect the debt, the Justice Department recently filed a civil suit against Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick, demanding the married couple pay the FCC's penalty "for willful and repeated violation" of U.S. law. They're accused of operating a pirate radio station; Texas Liberty Radio has been unlicensed at least since 2013, according to the FCC.

On its website, Texas Liberty Radio says it stopped broadcasting when it lost tower access in December 2017. But for years, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick have been fighting the FCC's attempt to enforce federal laws, insisting the agency doesn't have any power over them....

In a string of correspondence with the FCC, Olenick and Nadler-Olenick dismissed the agency's claims against them as preposterous and unfounded, saying in essence that they never agreed to be regulated by the U.S. government....

In September 2013, the FCC sent a letter to Olenick and Nadler-Olenick, warning them of the penalties of running an unlicensed radio station and giving them 10 days to respond.

The pair sent a rather extraordinary response, alternately telling the agency to "kindly never bother us with your harassment under color of law and office again" and saying that if the FCC wanted to communicate further, "knock yourself out."

The demands in the FCC's letter were "facially preposterous," they wrote.

The couple also seemed to assert rights reserved for foreign states, telling the FCC, "We expect that letters so addressed would more properly come from your company's International Bureau and then only after there's been some treaty of other discovered to which we are signators...."

Trump's military parade is now estimated to cost $92 million – $80 million more than earlier estimate

President Donald Trump's military parade is estimated to cost $92 million, according to a U.S. defense official with firsthand knowledge of the assessment.
An earlier estimate pegged the cost at $12 million.
The parade is scheduled to take place in the nation's capital on Nov. 10 and will feature armored vehicles, aircraft flyovers and period uniforms.
CNBC

Including future period uniforms ...

I guess we’ll have to hold it someplace less greedy for tax payer money.

Leave it to DC to take full advantage of all the potential gravy involved in a simple military parade.

let's *** with canada and have it in north dakota!

The funny thing? For the same $92 mil, he could either build his HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE fence, or provide free housing for a year for our nation's homeless veterans.

Bluth’s ruling became public today when Denson tweeted a copy of the order. It is notable because Denson is representing herself and still defeated the Trump campaign’s lawyers. The judge’s decision represents a rare victory for a pro se litigant, the legal term for a person proceeding in court on their own behalf against a party represented by licensed attorneys. Denson, a young actress, declined to comment on this story.

In an ironic twist, President Trump personally was a party to the New York case that establishes the legal principle controlling Bluth’s decision. That 1993 case, Trump v. Refco Properties, Inc., concerned a dispute among the partners who own the Grand Hyatt near Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan; it established that a party may not be forced into arbitration unless their agreement to arbitrate “expressly and unequivocally encompasses the subject matter of the particular dispute.” President Trump sought to avoid private arbitration in that case, and won the issue on appeal. Bluth specifically cited that decision in her ruling against Trump’s campaign.

Now the left is concerned with homeless vets? Obama did nothing for them.

Considering the amount of permanent damage the tanks caused to the DC streets

Its just gonna be some soldiers marching down the street and some generic planes flying over.

I thought multimillion $ military parades while citizens live in poverty were what dictators did.