90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Colorado's Senator Udall runs from Obama, skips his own campaign fundraiser headlined by Obama

DENVER — As part of President Barack Obama’s visit to Denver on Wednesday, he will headline a fundraiser for Sen. Mark Udall’s re-election campaign. But Udall won’t be there.

Udall’s campaign said Wednesday morning that the senator is staying in Washington to vote on Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“Mark is grateful for the president’s support and had hoped to welcome him to Colorado in person, but his responsibilities to serve Colorado in the Senate come first,” spokesman Chris Harris said in a statement.

Udall had already planned on skipping Obama’s economic speech at Cheesman Park on Wednesday morning, the only scheduled event open to the press, playing into the narrative pushed by Republicans who argue that the president is an election year liability for Democrats.

He was expected to be at the fundraiser at the Westin Denver Downtown, which is off limits to reporters and news cameras.

Udall’s last-minute cancellation Wednesday morning only added fuel to the fire for Republicans.

“Actions speak louder than words,” read a press release Wednesday morning from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “It’s clear that the President is beyond toxic, and Mark Udall’s campaign is running scared.”

“The Senate schedule has been set for months and Udall knew the Senate would be in session when he scheduled this fundraiser with Obama,” said former Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams. “So when he says he can’t make it today because of ‘important votes’ in Washington, he has known all along there would be votes this week but he clearly was initially willing to miss those votes to raise money with Obama.

“So now he won’t even try to sneak into town later today to raise the cash, he’ll stay hunkered down in Washington.”

Tickets to the fundraiser cost up to $15,000 per couple and the money is split between Udall’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, another Democrat facing reelection this fall, is also missing Wednesday morning’s speech because of a prior commitment to attend an event with veterans in Colorado Springs.

But Hickenlooper, who called the idea that he was avoiding Obama “overblown”, met up with the president Tuesday night in LoDo for a beer and game of pool at the Wynkoop Brewing Company in front of dozens of cameras and reporters.

Udall is in a tight race with Rep. Cory Gardner and the race could go a long way in determining if Republicans retake control of the Senate.

Gardner’s campaign released a Web video targeting Udall and his ties with Obama.

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Tyranny: EPA Grabs Power To Punish Americans By Garnishing Their Wages

Please Note: The EPA has classified carbon as pollution. All humans emit carbon therefore, all humans are polluters and subject to the whims of the tyranny of the EPA.
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Washington - In a brazen power grab by the administration, the Environmental Protection Agency has presumed the power to "garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without a court order."

Part of President Barack Obama’s vow to use executive orders and Cabinet-level authorities to govern the U.S. while ignoring Congress, the EPA empowered itself by simply claiming it has the authority to garnish wages of private citizens who ”violate its rules.”

Not only has the administration claimed the right to garnish wages using the EPA, it has fast-tracked the plan to take effect on September 2 without notice to Congress or conducting public discussions.

To justify its new powers the EPA cites the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, which gives all federal agencies the power to conduct administrative wage garnishment, provided that the agency allows for hearings at which debtors can challenge the amount or the terms of repayment schedule.

The plan immediately drew the ire of Republicans and others. Sen. John Barrasso, (R-Wyo.) told The Washington Times, "The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority. It seems like once again the EPA is trying to take power it doesn’t have away from American citizens.”

The Obama administration has made clear its intentions to govern by way of executive orders and such power grabs as the new EPA plan in lieu of governing through the voters' elected representatives in Congress.

For its part, the conservative Heritage Foundation says the new EPA rule gives the federal agency "unbridled discretion" over the process of challenging fines. Pres. Obama appoints all Cabinet leaders to serve at his pleasure.

David Addington, group vice president for research at Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Times that “the rule not only puts the burden of proof on the debtor, rather than the agency, but also allows the EPA to decide whether a debtor even gets a chance to present a defense before picking whomever it chooses to serve as a hearing officer.”

EPA has issued far more fines since President Barack Obama took office. In 2012, the agency took in $252 million in fines, up from just $96 million in 2009.

Not unlike the unpopular Affordable Care Act passed by Democrats, the limitations and scope of the new EPA rule are unknown, which means the federal agency’s operations will become more like those utilized by the IRS who also has the power to garnish wages and seize the private property of U.S. citizens.

A high-priced prostitute was arrested on Tuesday night on murder charges in connection with the November death of Google executive Forrest Hayes.

Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, and Hayes, 51, met online and had several meetings before an encounter on Hayes’ 50-foot yacht turned deadly in Santa Cruz, California. Tichelman gave Hayes heroin while the two were on the yacht on Nov. 26 when Hayes suffered “medical complications” and lost consciousness, Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Citing surveillance video from the yacht, Clark said Tichelman didn’t make an effort to revive Hayes. Instead, she picked up her belongings and sipped a glass of wine before leaving the yacht.

"She showed no regard for him," Clark said of Hayes, who was employed in the auto industry before moving on to Sun Microsystems, Apple and Google. "She was just trying to cover her tracks."

"She was so callous in gathering her things, she was literally stepping over the body and at one point, stepped over the body to grab a glass of wine and finish the glass of wine in the process of this, all the while the victim is dying at her feet,” Clark added to Sacramento ABC affiliate KXTV.

Clark said evidence showed Tichelman had “a level of guilt that reached second-degree murder rather than involuntary manslaughter,” the Sentinel reported.

Police used the video to identify Tichelman, who lives in Folsom, California, and lured her to Santa Cruz where she was a member of a prostitution ring, the Sentinel reported.

It’s unclear exactly where online Tichelman and Hayes met, but KXTV said Tichelman met many clients on SeekingArrangement.com, a website that pairs “sugar daddies” with “sugar babies.” Tichelman allegedly told investigators that she had more than 200 clients.

Tichelman was charged with second-degree murder, destruction of evidence and transporting and providing narcotics, police told the Sentinel.

A few years back, after arriving by train to Madrid from Barcelona I happened on a square and it was filled with Muslims and some imam was on a speaker saying angry shit in Arabic, I started recording and suddenly I started getting angry looks and people started moving towards me, I walked away. It was clear by their actions that they were up to no good. This was 5 years after the 2004 Madrid the train bombings that killed 191 people and injured another 1,800.