Here’s a news snippet to gladden the heart:
Couple of names there I don’t recognize, but given the company they’re in I’m pretty sure they deserve it as much as, or more than the others.
Way I see it is that if you got security clearance on entering government service, you should lose it when you leave. End of.
Oh boo-hoo-hoo. In his latest oh-so-Hitler initiative, POTUS Trump has caused massive heartache to immigrants:
In keeping with his March 1 order making English the official language of the United States, the president has directed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to cancel a contract with a translation service provider, according to Government Executive magazine.
The translation service was offered to migrants calling the department for information about their status under E-Verify and other government programs.
The administration is also now directing agency call center employees to terminate any call from a caller who can’t make his needs known in English.
Yup: as in most countries, if you don’t speak the country’s official language, you’re screwed.
Here’s the real deal. The article linked above talks about audio translation services. What is not discussed is the paper (and processing) cost of providing documentation to would-be immigrants — in multiple languages.
It’s complete bollocks. Nothing screams inefficiency like having to do everything twice — or more times — which in essence is what’s being ended here.
As I’ve said countless times before, if you’re going to move to a foreign country, learn to speak its fucking home language before embarking on the journey. Nothing is more irritating than having to deal with people from another country who insist that you speak their language in dealing with them. It’s nothing less than a divisive and arrogant attitude, coming from people who have no right to be so in their adopted country.
As an immigrant, you’re here on sufferance, not entitlement. And the sooner the huddled masses learn that lesson, the easier it will be for them in the long term. Fit in or fuck off.
…in Britishland’s Cotswolds; and of course POTUS Trump is to blame.
JHC.
You have to read it to believe it — and I half-believe that it’s satire. Nobody could be that entitled.
…and if you misbehave, you can get kicked out.
This is as true for Hamas-loving terrorsymp “students” as it is for racist assholes like the Seffrican Ambassador.
Buh-bye.
So your community was trashed by a storm, and you’re about to get all sorts of relief from the .dotfedgov.
However, because you’re a bunch of woke raacists and sexxists, your announcement concerning said relief contains the following little nugget:
“Within the Small Business Support Program, the City will prioritize assistance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBE) within the scoring criteria outlined within the policies and procedures.”
In the bad old days (say, the Obama/Biden Years), this would have got nods of approval from the issuing power.
But we no longer live in those dark times, so:
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner has decisively rejected Asheville, North Carolina’s outrageous $225 million disaster relief request.
HUD Secretary Turner condemned the city’s initial draft action plan for prioritizing assistance based on race and gender identity rather than need. “This draft action plan that the city of Asheville presented at first has elements of DEI, and that is not acceptable to HUD.
“It’s not acceptable to the President, according to his executive order to get rid of all DEI. We’re working with the city of Asheville.”
Yeah… and?
“They have been very responsive to make sure that their upcoming draft action plan is in compliance with HUD and how we give funds out according to HUD’s principles.”
HUD’s new (and proper) principles, and not the old DEI-spattered ones, that is.
MOAR like this, please.
Here’s a consequence of being entrusted to collect critical data, then using that data to peddle a false narrative:
The US government’s weather agency has been dismantled by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) after it was accused of peddling “misinformation”.
Hundreds of weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were fired last week as part of Donald Trump’s plans to slash the federal workforce.
In total, at least 800 civil servants are thought to have lost their jobs, including meteorologists, radar specialists and crews of hurricane hunters, who fly aircraft into storms to help forecasters, according to CBS.
Of course, out come the apocalyptic doomsayers:
The job cuts have triggered protests at the agency’s headquarters in Maryland, with some scientists and lawmakers warning that removing staff involved in predicting natural disasters will “endanger American lives going forward”.
No, they won’t — at least, no more than they ever did before. There are several other avenues of getting such warnings — from private enterprise — and not from some Gummint malignancy.
But here’s the critical part, from someone who’s been doing the hard work of tracking this nonsense for a decade and a half:
Prof Roger Pielke, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who focuses on the politicization of science, said that the agency is “reaping the whirlwind” for “cutting corners on science”.
“By not upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, we’ve opened the door to politicians meddling,” he said.
According to experts, studies and former NOAA officials, the chart proves little about the effects of climate change, and instead shows that disasters are becoming more expensive because Americans choose to build in hazard-prone areas.
“The problem is you can’t use economic data to say anything about climate change,” said Prof Pielke.
Quite right. Collecting data to forewarn of disaster, then using that data incorrectly and unethically to further a boutique (and flawed) worldview — that would be Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, of course — deserves censure of the second-highest order. (“First-order” censure would be imprisonment and so on.)
So of course this little clique of taxpayer-funded climate alarmists deserves to be shut up and disbanded.
MOAR DOGE like this, please.