The answer is because a Democratic senator (Schumer) working with a successful and politically-correct business (Chobani) exerted as much pressure as they could on a willing USDA. Chobani spent at least $80,000 on lobbyists and that was after Schumer had started his Greek-yogurt campaign with the USDA.
The newest way to trash part of the Constitution they swore to uphold: create a problem and then declare "That means I know something is wrong!"
"I feel bad for her," U.S. Marshal Matt Wiggins told Sarasota Herald-Tribune columnist Tom Lyons. "But at the same time, I had to reasonably believe the bad guy was in her house based on what they were doing."
This asshole pointed at gun into a woman's face through her kitchen window and when that scared hell out of her, why, 'That means the bad guy is in there!'
Miserable disgrace to the badge he wears. And that he still wears it means the Marshall's Service is just one more batch of assholes with badges.
Why no, I'm NOT willing to tolerate this crap anymore; they don't want to be called assholes with badges, they can stop ACTING like that.
Speaking of assholes with badges who- obviously!- are the only ones who can be trusted with guns...
Why Unions Suck, Part 937:
Some incidents cited in the complaint include:
- During the service of a young child who had passed away from cancer, picketers laughed, smiled and joked as they created a disturbance within the immediate vicinity of the only public entrance to the funeral home. They were asked to move by a police officer who had been called – then moved back immediately in front of the building and its entrance after the officer left.
- While escorting a woman and her father who were attempting to plan her recently deceased mother's funeral, an employee escorting them was taunted and called names, the three of them were taunted with a bullhorn and siren sound, and intimidated by an unleashed German Shepherd.
- Picketers used a bullhorn to shout profane and sexually explicit taunts while a woman and her four- and five-year-old sons attempted to make arrangements for her grandmother's funeral causing the family to become visibly upset.
- A group of picketers temporarily blocked a grieving widow's vehicle as she tried to exit the parking lot.
From another article:
A Teamsters release said the picket lines succeeded at driving business away from SCI homes. The release cites several instances in which families sought to bury their loved ones at different funeral homes upon seeing the labor unrest outside. The union took such requests as a sign of support.
“The Teamsters cannot thank those families enough who’ve stood alongside workers,” Coli said in the release, which goes on to note that “the Teamsters have assisted all families to quickly secure new services.”
Yeah. Scare people into going somewhere else, and then declare that 'people supporting us!'.
Fucking dirtbags.
The other day got an e-mail from my Rep. about the NSA mess that includes
The NSA does not listen to or record any phone calls unless a specific court order is issued to tap a specific phone for a criminal case, nor does the NSA maintain a database of email content or email traffic.
Which would be more reassuring if the NSA hadn't been lying all along about things.
That same day I found a link to this Guardian article which includes
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
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But training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed.
Yes, it's Greenwald; problem is, after all the lies the NSA and various politicians have fed us so far, which do YOU believe?
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I saw the guardian article too. If you look closely, it's clear the NSA is lying when they say they only collect metadata. They clearly collect email content and have the capability of collecting most web content.
"I had to reasonably believe the bad guy was in the house based on what they were doing."
Two sentences out of my professors' mouths stay with me from law school. One was "on a clear day you can foresee forever", and the other was, "anybody can claim something was reasonable, that's why there's a trial."
Just because the cop claims he acted reasonably doesn't mean the court has to accept his self-serving statment hook, line, and sinker.
Two other phrases from law school are, "just because something went wrong doesn't mean someone did wrong", which has not yet been demonstrated in the case I am commenting on, and "Reason, hell, there is no reason, it's just the law," which seems to have more and more application every time I pick up the newspaper or watch the TV news.
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