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Fake News Alert: Secret Service Not Running Out of Money Because of Trump and Family
Major news outlets around the country would have you think that the United States Secret Service is running out of money due to President Trump’s frequent travel and large family. From the USA Today:
The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump’s family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.
Problem is, that’s not true. According to a press release from Director Alles:
This issue is not one that can be attributed to the current Administration’s protection requirements alone, but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade due to an overall increase in operational tempo.
Better luck next time.
(h/t @max)
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Oh, children! Squabbling among ourselves–when we should all be worshipping at Al Gore’s shrine ! Did ya know global temperatures now are lower than they were the year he won the Nobel? His be the power and the glory forever!
No. This time is enough. It will be quoted by many over a period of years. Clarification and retractions don’t matter. Once it’s said, it’s repeated as truth.
I said I hoped I’d be ridiculed tomorrow, but I guess you just couldn’t wait! May you be right!
(Looked it up–no, the Clinton-loving, Trump-hating SS agent was not fired. First, paid admin leave, then, we think, transferred to another post in Homeland Security. So yuh. )
I’m aghast that a SS agent who said she won’t take a bullet for the president hasn’t been fired.
Do we still have penguins?
They had some ugly covers in 1977, but you’ve got to love the one with Linda Ronstadt on it.
If they were gonna go back and purge anything, it would be Jimmy Carter as MOTY.
I so hope you’re wrong. If something happens to him this country will be in serious trouble.
I remember a Time cover with scientists playing in the ice and the doom and gloom of the coming ice age. My older sister, who turns 60 next month, is a journalist of sorts and a Dem, can’t remember the fear of the coming ice age. I don’t get it.
Where are my three points, Max? Stop lollygagging!
It was one of those flash-in-the-pan things that was hyped in the ’60s and ’70s. There wasn’t the scientific consensus about global cooling then that there is about global warming now, and the warnings about cooling didn’t pan out.
However back then, as now, the media love sensational headlines, and so the global cooling got hyped.
Okay, a few things:
There was no consensus because the left hadn’t yet become the thought police they are today. Anyone who dares to step out of lockstep now will have his career and life ruined.
GAH never mind, I know you don’t.
And were not willing to engage in a massive scheme to destroy conflicting data.
Umm… isn’t “the details may have been wrong, but – what the hell! – the overall point is valid” one of those sophistical justifications for which we hammer the Left in, for example, fake accusations of sexual assault or hate crime?
I don’t think playing fast and loose with the truth is good for the Right because I don’t think it’s good.
Y’all need to listen to James Delingpole interview Chris Horner.
No, there was no consensus because scientists were unsure whether global cooling or global warming would be the problem.
There was a 2008 study that looked at scholarly climate articles between 1965 and 1979. The study found that during that period, 10% predicted cooling, 62% predicted warming, and 28% found insufficient data to predict either way.
That is not what this is about at all.
Enron
Could this be why Pence will also be there? As a hedge in case something goes wrong? Like Johnson in Texas with Kennedy.
I’m not sure what this means in this context.
Listen to the Delingpole podcast with Chris Horner.
I believe I made some comment yesterday about how quickly folks are to tell others they are making “common cause” with the left. This is a different context, but the same thing nonetheless.
That 2008 study is more fake news.
As long as we’re pulling made up estimates out of our Ahrses, I’m pretty sure I heard it was $3.23 billion dollars with about $500 million of that to pay for the the urinating hookers alone!
You’re right, of course. It’s my fault for referring to a peer reviewed journal instead of notrickszone.com.
Well the FED issues more bonds for suckers to buy and then gives that money to Congress to appropriate with the “promise” of repaying those suckers in five, ten, or thirty years. And that’s how money is made Little Johnny.
Michael Mann and Michael Bellesiles thank you for your support.
The guy who runs the site seems pretty legit to me:
http://notrickszone.com/about-pierre-gosselin/