Day: May 26, 2018

JUST IN: Trump Put All Gov’t Workers On 30 Day Notice With Sudden Executive Order Overnight – He’s Had It!

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President Trump has just issued a series of executive orders that potentially gut federal employee unions’ ability to negotiate with agency leaders and represent workers, as well as reducing the time it takes for an agency to fire people for poor performance or misconduct. I view this as a very good thing. For far too long, government employees have felt safe from repercussions for not working or for misbehaving. This puts an end to that. It looks like President Trump has had it with slackers in the federal government and he’s fixing that. Shape up or ship out.

Trump is billing this as the first step toward broad civil service reform. Three executive orders were issued that are aimed at making it easier to fire poor performers and it orders harsher treatment of union representatives. This step is long overdue and it will go a long way to eradicating corruption in the government ranks. It also sets the powerful unions back on their heels. They will no longer operate like the mafia within our government.

“Today, the President is fulfilling his promise to promote a more efficient government by reforming civil service rules,” said Andrew Bremberg, director of the President’s Domestic Policy Council. “Every year, the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey shows that less than one-third of federal employees believe poor performers are adequately addressed by their agency. These executive orders make it easier to remove poor performing employees, and ensure that taxpayer dollars are more efficiently used.”

The first thing on the agenda is reducing the time it takes to fire poor performers and employees suspected of misconduct by standardizing the length of Performance Improvement Plans to 30 days across the federal government. Right now it varies agency to agency and takes somewhere between 60 and 120 days usually.
“A GAO report shows that it takes six months to a year to remove someone from government, and can often take another nine months on appeal,” an official said. “[This] also encourages agencies to fire someone for misconduct when they’ve been engaged in behavior that warrants it, instead of just suspending them.” Talk about cleaning house. The official said the administration would also make performance a more important factor than seniority when agencies undertake layoffs.

According to DML News:

“The second executive order directs federal agencies to renegotiate co

Giuliani Sends the DOJ Into PANIC MODE With This Explosive Demand

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Rudy Giuliani continues to bulldoze through all the red tape in the Justice Department and just issued a demand that’ll have the Deep State shaking in their boots!

Giuliani is now demanding that the FBI brief President Trump’s legal team on the same classified information shared with lawmakers this week on the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
If they refuse to comply with this request, Giuliani is prepared to use that as ammunition to further draw a close to Mueller’s probe.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe.

Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s attorneys, told The Associated Press on Friday that the White House hopes to get a readout of the information next week, particularly about the use of a longtime government informant who approached members of Trump’s campaign in a possible bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the election. Trump has made unproven claims of FBI misconduct and political bias and has denounced the asset as “a spy.”

“If the spying was inappropriate, that means we may have an entirely illegitimate investigation,” Giuliani said of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. He then invoked the material compiled by former FBI Director James Comey before he was fired.

“Coupled with Comey’s illegally leaked memos, this means the whole thing was a mistake and should never have happened,” Giuliani said. “We’d urge the Justice Department to re-evaluate, to acknowledge they made a mistake. It’s a waste of $20 million of the taxpayers’ money. The whole thing is already a waste of money.”

Comey has said he had the authority as a private citizen to ask a friend to share details from one of his memos with the news media, and has said he did nothing wrong. The Justice Department official who would be the one to receive any complaints from Giuliani would presumably be Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller last year in the wake of Comey’s firing and was present for Thursday’s briefings.

Suggesting that the probe was launched on the backs of inappropriately obtained information was Giuliani’s latest effort to discredit the investigation by painting it as a purely political event. The FBI began a counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 to determine if Trump campaign associates were coordinating with Russia to tip the election. The investigation was opened after the hacking of Democratic emails that intelligence officials later formally attributed to Russia.

The two meetings held Thursday were sought by Trump’s GOP allies in Congress and arranged by the White House, as the president has tried to sow suspicions about the legitimacy of the FBI investigation. Trump and his allies have focused on the use of the informant.

“What motivated putting him in? What sort of information were they seeking from him? What did they get?” Giuliani asked Friday. “They clearly did not get incriminating information or we’d have found out about it by now. And why did they hide it for so long? There’s a big concealment that went on here for over a year since the president said he had been surveilled.”
So far, 19 people, including Trump’s former campaign chairman and former national security adviser, have been charged in Mueller’s investigation. Three former Trump aides have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the investigation.

Democrats emerged from the meetings saying they saw no evidence to support Republican allegations that the FBI acted inappropriately. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was not in the meetings but, in a radio interview Friday, broke with the president to say a “confidential informant is not a spy,” though he cautioned about investigations into campaigns.

Mysterious Concrete Arrows Point To An Incredible Origin

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Across the country, we can find many forgotten relics of the past that remind us of eras before technology ruled our lives. An excellent example of such relics are giant concrete arrows that have quite an incredible history and are a testament to American ingenuity.

When the U.S. government was looking for a more efficient way to deliver mail, they employed retired Army aircraft to get the job done. Unfortunately, in 1924 there were no radios, GPS, or any other communication systems, so pilots were forced to use landmarks to guide their routes.

The government funded a project to construct these enormous concrete arrows across the country on established mail routes. They were placed every ten miles or so and acted as road maps for the pilots of the United States Postal Service.

The arrows were painted bright yellow and measured anywhere from 30 to 50 feet long. They were also accompanied by a rotating gas-powered light tower and a cabin for the caretakers to stay.
One look at an image from a Google satellite gives you an idea of just how massive these arrows are. The one below is in Hurricane, Utah, and it dwarfs the road that runs nearby, so it’s likely that you’re not going to miss it if you come across one.
It was said that the arrows and towers were visible for up to 10 miles into the air, and they were instrumental in allowing pilots to effectively navigate during bad weather and at night, which was the preferred time to fly.

By the start of WWII, radio had become the king of communications, rendering the airway beacons obsolete. With the war effort sucking up resources, the government scrapped many of the towers and recycled them for the war.
It’s unknown just how many of these timeless relics are still in existence, but according to Messy Nessy Chic, at least three have been preserved by a program called Passport in Time. But many of the concrete arrows can still be found across the country in remote locations, and some may still be visible from the sky if they haven’t been overrun by vegetation.

To some, they may just be slabs of concrete nobody cares about, but to others they’re an incredible piece of history that shows us what life was like before the technology we’re accustomed to now. Make sure you share this with others to preserve the history of these forgotten arrows.

Sheriff Joe, ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff,’ SHOCKS Inmates With Rare Act

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made a name for himself as “America’s toughest sheriff” by taking a hardline approach to overseeing the inmates at his facilities. However, the no-nonsense sheriff shocked his inmates over the weekend by committing a rare act of kindness.

For the first time in years, many years actually, Sheriff Joe, who forces his inmates to wear pink underwear and sleep on pink sheets, allowed them to watch the Super Bowl, according to the New York Times. Although in keeping with his bulldog attitude, there was a catch to the rare viewing event – any mishaps and everyone goes on lockdown, all 8,500 prisoners.
The 82-year-old sheriff was able to get one of his donors to pay for 200 pounds of popcorn kernels so that a select few of the inmates could eat popcorn during the game. However, there wasn’t any butter or salt. In keeping with his pink-themed jail, the popcorn was dyed with a cherry powder so it was pink as well.

Even in Arpaio’s kindness, there’s strict rules that will have to be followed. Only inmates with sentences less than a year or military veterans will get to have any popcorn, and if anyone gets out of line, every television in the jail will be turned off, regardless of what the score is.

“There’s no constitutional reason I have to let them watch the game,” said Arpaio.
Nobody’s entirely sure of when the Super Bowl was last seen in the jail, but some say they remember seeing it in 2008, which was the last time it was played in Phoenix. Arpaio said the reason they were able to see it this year was because he was born in Springfield, Mass. and the Patriots are playing, but he’s not a Patriots fan, he says.

The event at the Maricopa County jail was paid for by a long-time Arpaio supporter by the name of Ira Gaines, who’s a theater producer. Gaines forked out $225 for the popcorn, and in his eyes, Sheriff Joe “can do no wrong.”

Arpaio didn’t attend yesterday’s Super Bowl, but he instead stayed home to watch it with his wife. Not wanting to pay $2,000 for tickets and fearing political backlash if he took free tickets, he decided the comfort of his home was the best place to be. Being home also allowed him to keep a close eye on the prison should anything go wrong.
“You never know what the prisoners will do,” he said. “If we have any problem, we’ll just put them in lockdown.”

Oh, in case you’re wondering, the sheriff pulls for the Dallas Cowboys, and has a ball signed by their quarterback, Tony Romo, in his office.

Let us know what you think of Sheriff Joe in the comments!