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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalAuthor of Google Memo Sues Former Employer For Discrimination Against Conservative White Men
How did this idiot find a lawyer willing to file this piece of crap lawsuit. The attorney who signed the pleadings need to be sanctioned https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/james-damore-google-memo-sues-discrimination-against-white-conservative-men.html
Damore, who filed the suit in the Santa Clara Superior Court, is joined by another plaintiff named David Gudeman, a software engineer who worked at Google for three years.
The accusations against Google are manifold.
One group of allegations has to do with supposed ideological discrimination at the company. According to the filing, the plaintiffs claim the company mistreated employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Googles on issues such as diversity hiring policies, bias sensitivity, or social justice. It further argues that political diversity is neglected in favor of race and gender diversity at the company.
Health Insurer Sues Trump Admin Over Slashed Subsidies For Low-Income Patients
The prior ruling rejecting the lawsuit by the State AGs is not the end of the issue on cost sharing reduction subsidies. The lack of an appropriation means that insurers have to sue the federal govt. directly for such subsidies and such judgments will be paid to the insurers. The first such lawsuit was filed http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/health-insurer-sues-trump-admin-over-slashed-subsidies-for-low-income-patients
The text of the Affordable Care Act, MCHO argued, guarantees the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurance companies to compensate them for having to accept patients regardless of their health status. Following the Trump administrations move to terminate the payments, insurers still have to provide the subsidies to low-income enrollees, but they no longer get reimbursed. A December report from Maines Bureau of Insurance says MCHO lost $1.9 million in October alone due to the loss of the CSRs, and the companys lawsuit says it lost out on at least $5.6 million for the remainder of 2017.
The federal lawsuit, filed in late December in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., is the first to hit the Trump administration on the CSR cuts since more than a dozen left-leaning states banded together in October to sue. (A California federal court declined their request to force the government to pay up, saying the states had not proven their residents would face immediate harm.)
Videogame Stars Have Fans, Fortunesand Utterly Baffled Parents
These videogame stars can make a decent living https://www.wsj.com/articles/videogame-stars-have-fans-fortunesand-utterly-baffled-parents-1515085499?shareToken=ste71cfd2a7d4541359f2a2a9eb90f0e46&reflink=article_email_share
He makes more than me, said Mr. Higginbotham, a certified public accountant, and here Ive been in the workforce for 40 years.
Mr. Higginbotham has since seen the light. He started recognizing similarities between the games battle tactics and his own experience in the U.S. Army. Its virtual warfare, he said.
Juanita Jean-Executive (Wink, Wink) Time
From Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/executive-wink-wink-time/
Its probably as bad as you think it might be:
On Tuesday, Trump has his first meeting of the day with Chief of Staff John Kelly at11am. He then has Executive Time for an hour followed by an hour lunch in the private dining room. Then its another 1 hour 15 minutes of Executive Time followed by a 45 minute meeting with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Then another 15 minutes of Executive Time before Trump takes his last meeting of the day a 3:45pm meeting with the head of Presidential Personnel Johnny DeStefano before ending his official day at 4:15pm.
Hell, Honey, Im retired and I have a busier schedule than that.
On the other hand, fixing that hair of his has got to take a whole mess of time.
Report: Omarsoa Is Struggling To Land A Book Deal
Who would buy this book? https://newsone.com/3766720/omarsoa-book-deal-white-house/
The millisecond Omarosa Manigault Newman got the boot from the White House (yeah, we know she claims she resigned), the reality star has been teasing that she has a story to tell. Reportedly, she is ready to dish on Donald, Melania and Ivanka and, allegedly, Omarosa could be Trump worst nightmare. That said, Omarosas dreams of an epic book deal do not appear to be as easy as she thought.
According to RadarOnline.com, the reality star is having serious trouble landing a publisher because she wants too much cash. A source said, She certainly has a story to tell, but it isnt worth the amount of money that she wants. It is also unclear if she would be willing to exploit her 14-year friendship with Mr. Trump in order to make the deal happen. Reports claimed Omarosa could get up to a ten-million dollar deal, which sounds ridiculous. Hillary Clinton reportedly landed a 14-million dollar book deal for 2014s Hard Choices Omarosa deserves nothing close to that amount. For all we know, Omarosa could be leaking the ten-million number to the press to make publishers interested. Also, do we really need a full book from Omarosa on her one-year working at the White House? She could tell her story on a ten-minute interview with Good Morning America. As Robin Roberts said, Bye, Felicia!
RadarOnline.com also reports that she has already been talking with TV executives including the producers of the Real Housewives franchise. Yep, go back to your roots, sis.
Roy Moore's Jewish lawyer voted for Doug Jones, raised money for his campaign
As a Jewish lawyer, this makes me smile http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moores-jewish-lawyer-voted-for-doug-jones-raised-money-for-his-campaign/article/2644738
Richard Jaffe is an Alabama defense attorney hired by the Moores to defend their son, Caleb Moore, against drug charges in 2016.
Jaffe told the Washington Examiner he has been close personal friends with Doug Jones for over 30 years and he both contributed to, and raised money for, his campaign.
"There could not be a more passionate supporter of Doug than me!" Jaffe said.
President Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days
Trump is setting a record https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/02/president-trump-has-made-1949-false-or-misleading-claims-over-347-days/?utm_term=.554b6e2d1012
As of Monday, the total stood at 1,950 claims in 347 days, or an average of 5.6 claims a day. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)
As regular readers know, the president has a tendency to repeat himself often. There are now more than 60 claims that he has repeated three or more times. The presidents impromptu 30-minute interview with the New York Times over the holidays, in which he made at least 24 false or misleading claims, included many statements that we have previously fact-checked.
We currently have a tie for Trumps most repeated claims, both made 61 times. Both of these claims date from the start of Trumps presidency and to a large extent have faded as talking points.
Roy Moores Defeat Means Ted Cruz Retains Status as Most Despised Person in Senate
This is some great satire from Andy Borowitz https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/roy-moores-defeat-means-ted-cruz-retains-status-as-most-despised-person-in-senate
According to those insiders, Cruz had been secretly hoping that Moores election would displace him from his unenviable position as the most vilified pariah in the upper chamber.
Cruz was praying that, if Moore got in, that might change the daily conversation around here from Who has to sit next to Ted?? one Republican colleague said.
Cruz, whom colleagues deem even more insufferable than such other senatorial ass-clowns as Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, was reportedly distraught upon learning that Moore would not be joining him in the U.S. Senate.
Ted was absolutely positive that Roy would have been more hated than he is, one Senate colleague said. But, to tell you the truth, it would have been close.
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