While Murray urged the current president to lower his expectations, the CEO expressed optimism about the Trump administration—especially in comparison to the previous administration.

"I would not say it's a good time in the coal industry. It's a better time," Murray told the Guardian. "Politically it's much better. Barack Obama and his Democrat supporters were the greatest destroyers the United States of America has ever seen in its history. He destroyed reliable electric power in America, he destroyed low-cost electric power in America, and he attempted to totally destroy the United States coal industry."

 

"I suggested that he temper his expectations. Those are my exact words," Murray said. "He can’t bring them back."


"I don’t think the Trump presidency will have a material impact on bringing coal miners back to work," Ted O’Brien, a coal analyst at energy industry research firm Doyle Trading Consultants, told The New York Times just after the November election. "He may eliminate the regulatory overhang... but I have a hard time seeing a surge in coal demand."

 

Trump--When I am president we will win. We will win so much you will get tired of winning

Now I told you so that was total bullshit. But even I had no idea how hilarious that bullshit would turn out to be.

The nightly shows are just having a field day with "tired of winning yet." On the internet there are pictures of Trump saying that next to score cards listing his epic failures. There are segments about it on news shows. And probably the funniest thing I saw today was clips of Trump saying "winning" played next to clips of Charley Sheen strung out on crack saying winning.

OMG what a fucking laughingstock.

 

House pulls the plug on internet privacy rules:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...nternet-privacy-rules/ar-BByYPFA?ocid=U220DHP

Broadband providers won't have to get your permission before sharing your web browsing history and other personal data with marketers thanks to a vote today on Capitol Hill.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday followed their colleagues in the Senate with a vote to approve a resolution that uses the Congressional Review Act to prevent privacy rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission last year from taking effect. The vote was 231 in favor of the resolution and 189 opposing the measure.

The Senate voted on Thursday to adopt the resolution to nullify the rules. All that's left now is for President Trump to sign the order. This will essentially repeal the Obama-era regulation passed in October days before Trump was elected. These rules would have required broadband companies to get their customers' permission before they sell "sensitive" information about their web browsing activity, app usage or whereabouts to marketers. The Congressional Review Act also prohibits the FCC from adopting similar rules in the future.

Why should you care?

Proponents of the rules, like consumer advocacy groups, say this is bad news for consumers because the rules protect your privacy. Without these regulations, these groups say that broadband providers will be able to sell information about where you've been online, what you're buying, the apps you're using, and where you're located to marketers and other third parties, like insurance companies.

"ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and Charter will be free to sell your personal information to the highest bidder without your permission -- and no one will be able to protect you," Gigi Sohn, an advisor to former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, who championed the rules, wrote in an op-ed on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, internet service providers say the regulations are too strict and unfairly single out broadband providers, because they require broadband companies to adhere to a more stringent privacy requirement than internet companies must follow. They say the rules are burdensome and will stifle competition, driving up prices.

"The FCC's flawed broadband privacy rules will have a chilling effect on internet innovation and competition," said Gary Shapiro head of the Consumer Technology Association.

Instead, these groups say that broadband companies should follow the same privacy guidelines as internet companies, like Facebook and Google. They follow rules established by the Federal Trade Communication, which only requires companies offer consumers the opportunity to opt out of such data sharing. Industry groups argue having two sets of rules gives internet companies a competitive leg up.

For broadband companies the stakes are high. These companies are looking to expand their businesses and offer marketers more targeted advertising, and they want to use the personal information they collect from their customers to do it. The nation's largest broadband companies -- AT&T, Comcast and Verizon -- have each made acquisitions in an effort to build their digital content holdings, making them not only the companies that provide a broadband pipe into your home, but also companies whose own content rides that network.

The vote, which has been highly politicized, fell along party lines. It's part of a GOP effort to eliminate several regulations issued during Obama's final months in office. And it comes just days after Trump's plan to repeal and replace "Obamacare" failed. President Trump has already signed several resolutions under the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations, including two related to education and one concerning the environment.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who voted against the rules when he was a commissioner before being appointed as chairman in January, had already put the brakes on the rollout of the rules. In February, the FCC voted to hold off implementing the rules until challenges to the rules could be assessed.

Hush....an alias

 

Might as well get ready for the onslaught of spam email...

 

I think this is another thing that is going to blow up in the Republican's faces big time. I was just on another site that was carrying a story about someone vowing to purchase the browsing histories of every member of congress and publishing them. And that could be some mighty interesting reading.

 

Go sign this petition

Reinstating "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services"


https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...oadband-and-other-telecommunications-services

On March 7th, 2017, a repeal for the "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Communication Services" bill that protects the people from having their information sold from ISPs to paying bidders. On March 23rd, 2017, a joint resolution was made and the bill was repealed by our senators who had received generous donations from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as AT&T and Comcast.

We the people, by signing this petition, demand that Congress reinstates this bill to protect the American people from having their information released by our ISPs.

 

There are still times when RandyKnight surprises me and I find myself in total agreement. Count me in. I will certainly sign just as soon as I'm done with my morning Trump bashing. But before I get started on my afternoon Trump bashing.

 

I am headed there now.

 

HUMMM! Dark/deep web sounds pretty good right now, doesn't it?
Free wifi from other locations sound pretty good too!
How about masking your ip, while at it as well!
Proxy chains, and knowing how to avoid the pitfalls a real plus, especially now that 1984 has become our future !
Yup, tech can be your friend with the use of the right programming, and a little know how!
I don't care what anyone knows about me visiting here! So what's to know? I have a kinky side! So what!
But after my visit at my friends ends! Everything I do will be going dark, as well as teaching, and setting my friend up for the same!
Yes, two laptops for portability are becoming a must. One for I really don't care, and one to keep your privacy concerns, private!

 

Awww, we'll miss you...

 

No you won't!
Remember the part of "I don't care what anyone knows about me visiting here! So what's to know? I have a kinky side! So what"!
Yep! I don't care what anyone knows about me visiting here! SOOOOOOOO, I'll likely still be poppig in every now and then on the I don't care unit. LOL
But then, maybe I'll just go dark on everything!

 

My friend has questioned a few things I've been explaining, and has actually gone to YouTube! OMG! YouTube, WTF!
Oh well. What can I say?

 

I'm at a total loss on this one. Does the Ass Clown and Chief not realize that false "twitter" postings would be libelous? What about plain old slander? More so in that in most cases he clearly intends on doing harm, so that makes his actions "malicious" the key-point in something being viewed as criminal.

Perhaps he simply intends on exempting himself like he has stated regarding his other little issues.

Donald Trump Revives Call To 'Change Libel Laws'
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...-to-change-libel-laws/ar-BBz3KLx?ocid=U220DHP

President Donald Trump tweeted another attack against The New York Times and called for libel laws to be changed.

Trump cited a John Crudele opinion piece that the New York Post published earlier this week that argued the Times’ “ongoing dishonesty” helps the president. The president tweeted the same story two days ago in a different attack on the Times.

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
The failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change libel laws? http://nypost.com/2017/03/27/the-new-york-times-ongoing-dishonesty-only-helps-trump/amp/ …


The New York Times' ongoing dishonesty only helps Trump
Six months ago, I canceled my subscription to the New York Times because I felt the paper had become ethically challenged in its coverage of the presidential election. And, it turns out, I was

nypost.com

This is the first time Trump has suggested a change to libel laws since entering the White House.

He said during the campaign that if elected, he would “open up our libel laws, so when [newspapers] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.” Trump has no power to “open up” libel laws, which are regulated at the state level, not the federal level.

Trump regularly criticized the press during his campaign, and has continued to do so as president. In a February press conference, Trump attacked the “out of control” media, following up that argument by tweeting that news organizations are “the enemy of the American People.”

Many people condemned Trump’s attacks on the press, including former President George W. Bush, who argued the media is “indispensable to democracy.”

“It’s kind of hard to tell others to have an independent free press if we’re not willing to have one ourselves,” Bush said.

What a dumbass, hehe, Ass-Clown is Dumb-ass, like we never saw that coming

Hush....an alias

 

Oh Hush did you ever nail it. The New York Times has not libeled Trump. But Trump did in fact and in deed meet the legal threshold for him libeling President.

Trump made a statement he either knew or should have known was completely false.

He made no attempt to verify the statement on his own or give President Obama a chance to respond.

And there was obvious malice in Trump's statement when he made the false accusation followed by calling President Obama a "bad' and/or "sick" man.

Those are the three tests that must be met before a "public figure" can successfully sue for libel.

But what makes Trump's threat just so laughably ignorant is he would have to get the supreme court to overturn about a half dozen Supreme Court decisions that span more than 50 years to change the libel laws.

Because its not the press that is the issue here. It is the First Amendment. And the courts have always came down hard on the side of the First Amendment and against cry baby politicians like Trump.

 

Let me throw something else in here. Instead of Trump suing the New Your Times for libel the New York Times could sue Trump for defamation, drag his ass into court and make him try to prove his claims.

And you talk about opening Pandora's Box. That would put Trump on the stand, under oath, testifying on every story in the New York Times he ever called false and/or even disputed.

 

Baubles.
Shooter thinks these are baubles the President is dropping for his unsupporters to pick up and glare at.

 

They are mild distractions from the ongoing train wreck the Trump administration is turning into, but they also have real world implications for Trump's future and that of his business empire. His continuing malicious attacks against anyone and everyone who comes within his arc open him to wider and wider lawsuit potentialities. His targets could decide to either bleed him white with multiple cases or even a class action suit to have his tweeter taken away.

 

People continue to underestimate President Trump. He did not build the empire he has because he or those around him are stupid.
Shooter is becoming more and more convinced that every tweet, every utterance, every inconsistency is intentional on Trump's part.

One tell is that every time Trump starts a firestorm with one of his tweets, while the unsupporters are gathered around it glaring and frothing, he does something without gaining attention that changes everything.

 

Trump--I will separate myself from my businesses

I told you so that is total bullshit and becomes even bigger bullshit by the day.

The press and some members of congress are finally noticing that the whole Trump family and especially Trump himself is profiting off the presidency like it just one great big White House infomercial.

They are reporting Trump lied when he said he would separate from his businesses and just let his sons run them after Eric Trump admitted he gives his dad reports ob how things are going.

They are also reporting Ivanka Trump is not only profiting but now represents a monumental ethics problem as her daddy moves her into the West Wing.

They are pointing out Trump's Muslim Ban is actually profiting him.

They are pointing out that while Trump and his family's travel expenses have already cost taxpayers more than Obama's averaged in a year Trump and his family are also profiting every time Trump runs off to Mar a Lago or visits one of his golf courses.

And they are pointing out the lie of conservatism as it is preached and practiced in this nation because the conservative/Republican/Tea Party/White Supremacists are willing to give Trump a free pass on all that.