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Delay in final vote on Kavanaugh

lundi 1 octobre 2018 à 02:00

Senate Republicans agreed to delay the final vote on Kavanaugh by one week for the FBI to investigate the various rape and groping accusations against him.

Is one week really enough to do that?

Normal FBI investigations of nominees do not examine their conduct as juveniles. But even if they did, they had no reports to look into until the recent accusations were reported.

Inadequate federal data privacy law

lundi 1 octobre 2018 à 02:00

Big tech companies propose a federal data privacy law that is intended to do an inadequate job while prohibiting states from doing any better.

They want the law to be weaker than the EU's GDPR, which itself is not strong enough to do much good.

Anything that regulates mainly the use of their collections of personal data, and fails to limit what data they can collect, is missing the point.

Salafi Arabia

lundi 1 octobre 2018 à 02:00

Don't treat Salafi Arabia like a banana republic!

For one thing, it's not even a republic. It is an absolute monarchy with an imposed religion.

Puerto Rican debt

lundi 1 octobre 2018 à 02:00

Hurricane Maria gave vulture funds an opportunity to buy Puerto Rican debt cheap. It looks like they want funds supposedly for Puerto Rico's rebuilding to be given to them instead.

Puerto Rico deserves an opportunity to declare bankruptcy and make those debts disappear. That the vultures will lose a lot of money is an additional secondary reason for this.

Deborah Ramirez's testimony

lundi 1 octobre 2018 à 02:00

SCROTUS's lawyers made discussions about Deborah Ramirez's testimony break down by switching from phone calls to written communication. They also demanded a full description of her evidence in writing before they would even decide to invite her to testify. Sounds like they wanted the negotiation to fail.

Then they blamed it on Ramirez's lawyers.

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