Because in the Trump WH, you're supposed to fail up the ladder, right?  Especially if you can't even get a security clearance.

Starting to wonder what other secrets Porter knows.

Honestly, how do these people have any time for real work when they are spending so much time putting out personnel fires?

I might need to watch the odious Sarah Sanders today, because I can't wait to hear how she explains the promotion talks, Wray blowing gigantic holes in their "we were waiting for the FBI to complete their investigation for the security clearance" BS, and whatever else happens between now and the briefing.

To me, being against Trump more than enough qualifies as being for something... for...honest, competent, and lawful government. No flat-out racism eclipsing even club house talk,  white supremacy, misogyny, nepotism, reactiveness, and patriarchy. Would qualified people running the government be too much to ask? It is all so bad, that the line makes for a good bumper sticker.

 Where there are no very fine Nazis and no very fine wife beaters. Where security clearances and espionage are taken seriously, and citizens can be assured that its highest government officers are not assets of a foreign, hostile power.

However, if this is not enough, how about being for everything that the Trump budget is against or wants to end/dismantle.. be for strengthening social safety nets, .be against.. government cheese baskets instead of food stamps, be for movement toward Medicare for All, rather than slashing and hobbling Medicare, and improving transportation.  Be against cutting spending while increasing the deficit.  

Be for a real infrastructure program and against the budget's scam that makes Trump University diplomas look good.  For a plausible program , not the sketchy $200 billion over 10 years that relies on a mystery multiplier from crony businessman and strapped local and state governments...strapped all the more because of limits on federal deductions for local and state taxes, thanks to the Republican tax cuts/deficit explosion.

White House Counsel Don McGahn suggested to Rob Porter in November that he resign from his position as staff secretary after Porter's ex-girlfriend contacted McGahn about Porter's behavior, the New York Times reported Tuesday night, citing people familiar with the discussion.

McGahn did not follow up on his suggestion to the since-ousted staff secretary, according to the New York Times.

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According to previous reporting, McGahn learned in September that Porter's security clearance had been delayed due to accusations of domestic violence, though it's not clear how McGahn learned that and how much detail he had at that time. Porter's ex-girlfriend then called McGahn in November. According to a previous Washington Post report, she told McGahn about the abuse allegations from Porter's ex-wives. According to the Tuesday New York Times report, she told McGahn that Porter had cheated on her and that he had anger problems.

The forecast is saying that between now and next Saturday the chance of precipitation here is never lower than 80%.

They say in some areas, and I am right in the bullseye , there could be 10 inches.

Glad I live on a hill.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) tore into President Trump after the president suggested the FBI could have stopped a deadly shooting at a Florida high school if it spent less time working on the Russia investigation.

"You are such a psychopath that you have to make even the death of 17 children about you," he tweeted.

"America will regret the day you were ever born."

Secretary of State Tillerson is currently meeting with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is the lone US representative and Turkey's foreign minister is translating.

Diplomatic malfeasance at best You don't have meetings like this without your own translator. You just don't. The typical process is that both sides have interpreters. Official A speaks, the interpreter for Official B tells Official B what was said, and the interpreter for Official A says some version of "Yes, that's correct" to verify the interpretation. Then it all works in reverse when Official B replies. With difficult issues under discussion, the last thing either side wants is confusion about what each side is saying.

Excluding your own interpreter is so far outside of normal protocols it is unreal, and begs the ever-green question about most everything since 1/20/2017: idiot or crook?

But now, With today's announcement by Israeli authorities that seven members of the prime minister's political inner circle had been arrested yesterday on charges of public corruption in the Bezeq scandal, it's pretty apparent that the combative Netanyahu is apparently in far greater legal jeopardy than he might have previously thought.

With these latest developments, what was formerly a simmering ethics problem has now burst into the open. Given the close relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv, these events are now worth watching more closely, to see how they unfold.

Seriously one of the creepiest things I've seen in a long time.  A 21st century cautionary tale on many levels.

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Black Mirror is about seeing how far technology stretches human emotions. "Hated in the Nation" doesn't have to push nearly as far as you might expect to go from "social media outrage cycle" to "literal swarms of insects killing people."

Black Mirror is about worlds that have ended already -- they just don't know it yet
Truth be told, I was a sucker for "Hated" from the second that first little drone bee crawled around on a flower. The deeper I got into season three of Black Mirror, the more I started to realize that the show is, on some level, about a series of worlds where the apocalypse has come and nobody's realized it yet.

An intellectually ambitious, formally striking, and altogether out-there odyssey, Alex Garland's film begins conventionally before spiraling into ever-more-hallucinatory realms, its every element in perfect harmony with its larger themes--all of which resound not as definitive statements but as haunting questions that linger long after the credits have rolled. In just about every respect, it's the finest cinematic sci-fi in years--or, at least, since Garland's prior Ex Machina.

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"Mute" closes with a dedication to director Duncan Jones' childhood nanny, and to his father, David Jones, aka David Bowie. Even before that blatant acknowledgement, "Mute" has obvious personal ramifications for the director by communing with Bowie's legacy, with a Ziggy Stardust remix of neo-noir tropes. From a familiar set of references, the movie forges an unexpected narrative stew -- namely, the story of a voiceless Amish man in a "Blade Runner"-inspired Berlin (which, of course, carries plenty of Bowie resonance on its own). "Mute" is ludicrous, but within the confines of its referential logic, also pretty cool.

It's a mad gamble that works better than it should, and though it never quite finds its natural rhythm, stands out as one of the strangest Netflix original productions to date -- a messy, off-the-wall conceit made with a sizable budget -- and it could only have found support from a studio capable of luring audiences on the basis of the movie's resemblance to other material. Whereas "Bright" offered Netflix subscribers hip to Will Smith movies and "Lord of the Rings" the mashup they never really needed, "Mute" suggests what might happen if a user had "Blade Runner," "Witness" and "M*A*S*H" stacked together in a Netflix queue and flipped between the three until they became interchangeable. In an age of algorithms-mandated greenlights, we know for a fact that things could be worse

Ah, those were the days.  It put me in a nostalgic mood so I went looking for Wayne County videos and found this great inter view with who had by the become Jane County.

Watch The despicable Matt Schlapp 'publican-splain saying electing a "black guy" republican party chairman was a mistake