Expanded SNAP Eligibility, Student Meal Cards Make Biden Budget
Biden wants pandemic-era school lunch program to be permanent
Asks for more for broadband, climate-agriculture initiatives
A pandemic-era school lunch program would become permanent and food assistance would be expanded to individuals with prior drug convictions under the White House’s fiscal 2022 budget request.
President Joe Biden’s full budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Agriculture showcases several of his administration’s top priorities, including tackling the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
The president also called on lawmakers to expand broadband access, push farmers to use cleaner energy, invest in research for farming technology, and ensure more equitable farm programs.
The latest fad is a poverty social. Every woman must wear calico,
and every man his old clothes. In addition each is fined 25 cents if
he or she does not have a patch on his or her clothing. If these
parties become a regular thing, says an exchange, won't there be
a good chance for newspaper men to shine?
To those who want to understand one side of the political divide, you are right. It's irrelevant.
If someone wants to acknowledge both sides, it looks like a significant figure. Like a relevant part of the population, who will be having preferences, and votes, in the future.
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There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Expanded SNAP Eligibility, Student Meal Cards Make Biden Budget
Biden wants pandemic-era school lunch program to be permanent
Asks for more for broadband, climate-agriculture initiatives
A pandemic-era school lunch program would become permanent and food assistance would be expanded to individuals with prior drug convictions under the White House’s fiscal 2022 budget request.
President Joe Biden’s full budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Agriculture showcases several of his administration’s top priorities, including tackling the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
The president also called on lawmakers to expand broadband access, push farmers to use cleaner energy, invest in research for farming technology, and ensure more equitable farm programs.
Yeah, I'd say time is due for the Democratic Party to step up and roll over the Republican intransigence on things like this. I think the chances are good that they'll manage to mealy-mouth their way to some sort of mangled half-arsed stump of their proposals though.
Meanwhile, the Biden Justice-fucking-Department continues to do its best to cover somebody or other's arse.
Lawyers for the Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to dismiss lawsuits against former president Donald Trump, former attorney general William P. Barr and other officials for last June’s violent clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette Square by U.S. military and police.
Trump and other U.S. officials are immune from civil lawsuits over police actions taken to protect a president and to secure his movements, government lawyers said of the actions taken ahead of a photo op of Trump holding a Bible in front of the historic St. John’s Church. A crowd of more than 1,000 largely peaceful demonstrators were protesting the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis before the park was cleared.
A year to the week after Floyd’s death, Justice Department lawyers argued that the lawsuits should also be tossed because last November’s presidential election made future violations unlikely. The government said the square has been reopened, and President Biden’s administration does not share Trump’s stated hostility toward Floyd and the racial justice movement.
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Lawyers for the ACLU said that despite legal precedents, the government’s defense would “authorize brutality with impunity” in the heart of Washington at one of the most symbolic spaces within the seat of the federal government.
If their defense was upheld, U.S. authorities “could have used live ammunition to clear the park, and nobody would have a claim against that as an assault on their constitutional rights,” said Scott Michelman, legal director for ACLU-D.C.
In response, Justice Department attorneys for current and former U.S. officials and Park Police officers in their official and individual capacities, called presidential security a “paramount” government interest.
Police acted lawfully to protect the president while he moved a block from the White House through an unscreened crowd at a time of civil unrest, Justice Department trial attorney David G. Cutler said.
So there WAS a laptop, emails, photos and other material then!
Do your best to find evidence that it doesn't affect former Vice-President Biden, or his current professional efforts. I have really been losing trust in the whole Biden clan, since Bubilinski made his statements.
And you had so much in the beginning...
He has neither trust nor evidence. However, the lack of one infinitely makes up for the lack of the other in his mind.
All ready for Biden impeachment! He had dinner with foreigners! The foreigners paid 3.5 million to Ukraine so there! They got...I dunno what...in exchange.
So no quid pro quo. I heard somewhere that means it was a perfect meeting.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
"If you vote for idiots, idiots will run the country." - Dr. Kori Schake
Somebody has to ask somebody to do a favor, though.
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Despite defending drilling in western Alaska, the Biden administration is following up its early move, putting the brakes (for now at least) on drilling in the northeast (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). Baby steps, I suppose. Just what is needed.
The Biden administration is suspending all oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending a deeper look at the environmental impacts of drilling in the sensitive region, the Interior Department said Tuesday.
The suspension of the leases, which POLITICO first reported earlier in the day, follows President Joe Biden's January 20 executive order that identified “alleged legal deficiencies” in the original leasing program and put in place a temporary moratorium on any oil- and gas-related activities in the refuge. The executive order also left open the possibility that the department would undertake a new environmental review to address potential legal flaws in the program.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland wrote in a secretarial order calling for the suspension that those legal deficiencies, "including the inadequacy of the environmental review required by the National Environmental Policy Act," prompted the temporary moratorium activities around the leases ANWR. The agency will publish its intent to start the review in the Federal Register in the next 60 days.
A new environmental analysis could impose additional restrictions on development in the refuge or potentially nullify the leases altogether, undoing one of the signature policy achievements of the Trump administration. But Tuesday's secretarial order does not go as far as green groups have requested in an ongoing lawsuit, which aims to void the leases that were awarded earlier this year.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Good to see that you have taken JimC's friendly words of advice regarding offensive posts to heart. Congratulations.
Now try a trick that will make your life easier. It goes like this: If you do not submit posts that contain malicious trolling, deliberate misrepresentation of other’s posts, disguised ad homs and refusal to engage with other posters in good faith in the first place it will spare you the bother of having to remove them.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Had a few minutes between posts to take in a Gad Saad monologue. This one on Biden and white supremacy.
Oh, you watched a Youtube clip.
One of Gad Saad at his quote mining best. Biden was talking about white supremacists and racism, yes. And yes, he called them "...the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda: white supremacists." What Saad quite intentionally, I think, left out was the context, which is terrorism in the US. Here is what Biden did say, with the context restored and highlighted:
according to the [U.S.] intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda: white supremacists.
"My administration will soon lay out our broader strategy to counter domestic terrorism and the violence driven by the most heinous hate crimes and other forms of bigotry
It is by the egregious elision of the context Biden was talking about - terrorism in the US - that Saad can attempt to portray him being wrong. Biden's speech was not "an extrordinarily false and divisive narrative" (1:07) Comparisons to making Biden's speech as deprived of its context by Saad to the Oncology Society, at a Blood Pressure Conference, if he were talking about Iran or ISIS outside the US (2:32 - 3:32) are irrelevant, laughable red herrings precisely because Biden was talking about domestic terrorism in the US, which, to repeat the point in case anyone missed it, is according to the [U.S.] intelligence community, is the most lethal threat to the homeland today and is perpetrated mostly by right wing activist white supremacists.
RIght wing and racially motivated terrorism has been recognised as the dominant feature of domestic violent terrorism for many years. In 2002, for example, Dale L. Watson, the FBI's Executive Assistant Director, Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Division at the time testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country.
The FBI's assessment has not changed since then. Two months ago Jill Sanborn, Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch of the FBI, testified before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
The top threat we face from DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremists] continues to be those we categorize as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race, and who were the primary source of fatalities perpetrated by DVEs in 2018 and 2019.
Biden is completely correct in what he said about the threat of white supremacist terrorism and Saad is totally barking up the wrong tree. Whether the latter is doing that on purpose or because some insurmountable bias prevents him from seeing the picture as it actually is, I can only speculate about. People who are similarly biased will of course admire the distortions in this video clip as well as all the other rubbish he utters in previous and subsequent ones.
As a side note, having listened to a number of Saad's offerings, I am not surprised that he rejects the notion of systemic racism, which he does here: "Hence one comes up with concepts such as [scare-quotes] systemic racism [/scare-quotes] that is otherwise invisible." (1:32), but since we have debated the issue recently in two other threads, I won't bother commenting on it in this post. Anyone who is interested in conducting an honest discussion can refresh their memory of it starting here and here and resume thence.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
