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Technical outage causing flight delays for airlines
A technical outage is impacting major airlines and causing flight delays that may impact travel.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that several airlines were dealing with computer issues. The agency recommended people contact their airline directly for flight information and updates.
There are delays already at airports in Chicago, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Miami and Detroit.
Dan Landson of Southwest Airlines said there was an outage with a vendor that services multiple carriers with data used in flight planning. Southwest said it lifted an internal ground stop at 7:05 Eastern that had been implemented for about 40 minutes.
The airline anticipates scattered delays and said that travelers should check its website for the latest updates on specific flights.
Delta said some of its flights were impacted.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/04/01/technical-outage-causing-flight-delays-for-airlines
Barbara Bush saw Trump as a ‘symbol of greed’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied for generations into his likeness, dates as least as far back as a 1990s diary entry.
She referred to Trump in the entry as “the real symbol of greed in the 80s.”
Mrs. Bush, who was 92 when she died last April , gave Susan Page, author of “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty,” access to volumes of her diaries, which she began keeping in 1948. The former first lady recounts in a January 1990 entry about reading a news article on Trump speaking at a Los Angeles charity awards dinner for Merv Griffin. Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, attended the gala, and Trump needled the former president over pricey speeches he had given in Japan.
Mrs. Bush later showed a friend news clips about Trump’s separation from his first wife, Ivana, and noted that allies of the soon-to-be ex-Mrs. Trump were saying a $25 million settlement in the prenuptial agreement she signed wouldn’t be enough.
“The Trumps are a new word, both of them,” Mrs. Bush wrote. “Trump now means Greed, selfishness and ugly. So sad.”
Her dislike of Trump spiked more recently over the way he belittled her son, Jeb, when the New York businessman and the former Florida governor competed for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Trump also had criticized other members of the Bush clan, including George W. Bush over starting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Page, the Washington bureau chief for USA Today, also reveals that Mrs. Bush blamed Trump for causing her “angst” during the 2016 election – she called it a “heart attack” – and leading her to question whether she was still a Republican. Asked in the months before she died whether she still considered herself a Republican, Mrs. Bush answered: “I’d probably say no today.”
The book, based also on five interviews Page conducted with Mrs. Bush, is due in bookstores Tuesday. It comes nearly a year after the passing of the second woman in U.S. history to be the wife of one president and the mother of another.
The former first lady had drafted a tongue-in-cheek letter to send after the November 2016 election welcoming former President Bill Clinton to the club of first spouses. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, was the Democratic candidate, and Mrs. Bush thought, as did many voters, that she would be the next president.
The letter never saw a mailbox. She woke up the morning after the election “and discovered, to my horror, that Trump had won.”
Weeks later, however, she wrote to Melania Trump. At the time, Mrs. Trump was the subject of intense speculation over whether she would relocate to the White House from her family’s penthouse at New York’s Trump Tower. Mrs. Bush encouraged the incoming first lady to do what was best for her and for the couple’s young son, Barron. Mrs. Trump attended her predecessor’s funeral.
Until the day she died, Mrs. Bush also kept on her bedside table a red, white and blue digital clock, given to her as a joke, that counted down to the end of Trump’s term.
Mrs. Bush, who had been living in constant pain, fell and broke her back shortly before she died. In the hospital, after receiving the news that she was dying, she asked her doctor to keep it a secret. Once back at her Houston home, receiving only palliative care, she sat in the den holding hands with her husband of 73 years. They had the longest presidential marriage in U.S. history.
He gave “Bar,” as he called her, permission to die, and she gave her then-93-year-old husband permission to live.
Then they each had a drink: bourbon for Mrs. Bush, a vodka martini for the former president.
She died two days later.
https://whdh.com/news/politics/barbara-bush-saw-trump-as-a-symbol-of-greed/
I am feeling the same way anon, here is to a GREAT day!
Good morning swordanon
Wow, the more I read and learn, it sounds like CBD is like, a new miracle drug. I heard on the news they are going to be selling it at CVS pharmacies.
Thank you for the info anon.
I know what you mean anon. I sit here some days so long that I can no longer see straight…kek
Trump takes a jab at Democrats burned by 'former hero' Robert Mueller's collusion conclusion claiming they're pretending he 'no longer exists!'
'''President Donald Trump called for an investigation into how the special counsel probe against him and his campaign began
'We need to know for future generations to understand. This Hoax should never be allowed to happen to another President or Administration again!,' he tweeted
Trump has railed against Robert Mueller's probe since it ended
'We need to figure out what went wrong with the Mueller report,' acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on CNN'''
President Trump began his work week by mocking Democrats who insisted for months that he or his associates must have colluded with the Kremlin on election meddling.
He claimed that 'most Democrats' had gotten back to business, while 'others' are in denial.
'Now that the long awaited Mueller Report conclusions have been released, most Democrats and others have gone back to the pre-Witch Hunt phase of their lives before Collusion Delusion took over. Others are pretending that their former hero, Bob Mueller, no longer exists!' he said in his first tweet of the day.
President Donald Trump on Sunday called for an investigation into how the special counsel probe against him and his campaign began, continuing a drum beat against Robert Mueller's look into collusion and obstruction of justice.
Everybody is asking how the phony and fraudulent investigation of the No Collusion, No Obstruction Trump Campaign began. We need to know for future generations to understand. This Hoax should never be allowed to happen to another President or Administration again!,' he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Trump has railed against the investigation since it ended and cleared him and his campaign of any collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday it was important to find out what went wrong around Mueller's investigation and the media reports of the past 22 months.
'We need to figure out what went wrong with the Mueller report, why - in all fairness to your network, why the media got it so wrong for so long,' he told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" on Sunday.
'How did the media get it so wrong? I think the president is just venting the same frustration a lot of people had when the Mueller report came out, and it turned out exactly like he said that it would,' he said.
He said the White House has not read the full report, merely Attorney General William Barr's summary that went to lawmakers.
'I have read the Barr summary, which is what everybody else has read,' Mulvaney said.
Trump said on Friday he is on board with Barr's decision to release the nearly 400-page Mueller report – minus several categories of redactions that are already drawing scrutiny.
'I have great confidence in the new attorney general, if that's what he'd like to do,' Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club. 'I have nothing to hide,' the president said.
Then Trump went off on yet another attack against the Mueller probe, the product of which Barr would be releasing following a redaction process, according to a new letter from the attorney general.
'This was a hoax. This was a witch hunt. I have absolutely nothing to hide. And I think a lot of things are coming out with respect to the other side,' Trump said. The comment was a veiled reference to Democrats and other critics who have been set back by summary findings that Mueller did not find evidence that his campaign conspired with the Russian government.
By Friday evening, Trump took his attacks on Mueller online, casting the prosecutor who Trump earlier bragged 'totally exonerated' him as a partisan idolized by the 'Radical Left.'
'Robert Mueller was a Hero to the Radical Left Democrats, until he ruled that there was No Collusion with Russia (so ridiculous to even say!). After more than two years since the 'insurance policy' statement was made by a dirty cop, I got the answers I wanted …' Trump wrote, referencing an FBI email uncovered through an Inspector General's investigation
'The problem is,' Trump followed up in another tweet, 'no matter what the Radical Left Democrats get, no matter what we give them, it will never be enough. Just watch, they will Harass & Complain & Resist (the theme of their movement). So maybe we should just take our victory and say NO, we’ve got a Country to run!' he wrote.
Earlier Friday afternoon, Barr told the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that he expects to release Mueller's final report in the next two weeks, and that he will testify publicly about it in early May.
Mueller completed his investigation on March 22.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6873081/Trump-jabs-Democrats-former-hero-Muellers-collusion-conclusion.html
Democrats to prepare subpoenas for Mueller report
(Washington) – The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week seeking special counsel Robert Mueller's full Russia report. This, as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report's release.
The Judiciary panel plans to vote on subpoenas Wednesday. The chairmen of several House committees demanded the full report last week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary laying out the report's "principal conclusions."
The committee vote would not automatically issue subpoenas but authorize House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler to send them.
The panel will also vote to authorize subpoenas related to a number of President Donald Trump's former top advisers, including Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Donald McGahn and Ann Donaldson.
https://www.witf.org/news/2019/04/democrats-to-prepare-subpoenas-for-mueller-report.php
I have examined that photo a LOT. I came to conclusion that is NOT her in that photo.
The posture was all wrong, and she walked too 'normal' in the video.
But why would they put someone in disguise like this? Very odd…
I saw these last night. Did anons determine if
these are shopped or not? I know someone posted that it was her, but as we know, anyone can say anything on the interweb….doesn't make it so.
Trump's New Food Stamp Plan Could Strip 755,000 Of Their Benefits
A proposed rule from the Trump administration for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, could leave many Americans going hungry. Some recipients would now need to work to receive the aid. And according to the administration's own estimates, the new Trump food stamp rule would leave 755,000 without help, NPR reported. The public comment period on the proposed rule ends Tuesday; already 8,000 people have commented.
The rule would require "able-bodied adults without dependents" to get a job, or limit the amount of food assistance they can get to just three months every three years, according to what the Food Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) submitted to the Federal Register. They'd also have the option to volunteer or take 20 hours of job training classes a week.
That's currently what the law says, but areas in the country with high levels of unemployment can have that job requirement waived. Some 40 percent of all SNAP recipients have it waived as of a USDA estimate submitted to the Federal Register in February. Just 10 percent would get the work requirement waived under the new rules, according to the Regulatory Impact Analysis the administration submitted to the Federal Register.
That would affect 755,000 people according to what the administration submitted to the Federal Register. "Of those newly subject to the time limit, the Department estimates that approximately two-thirds (755,000 individuals in FY 2020) would not meet the requirements for failure to engage meaningfully in work or work training," the administration writes.
The comments on the rule proposal are brutal online. "Please do not impose difficult work requirements for poor people to be allowed SNAP benefits," one American wrote. "When I worked for Big Brothers and Big Sisters and for Habitat for Humanity, I met many families who were doing their best to keep themselves fed. It's not fun being poor and is not someone's choice. Let's help people not hurt them. Most people only get SNAP as a last resort - no one wants to be doing this. Have mercy."
Another called the rule "horrible and unjust" and called it a "right-to-life issue," the language of Trump and his base. "It will remove many deserving people from SNAP for the only reason that they can not follow the bureaucratic regulations involved and lack the resources to appeal faulty decisions," the commenter wrote. "I thought this administration was going to streamline rules, but so far it has only done so for the well-to-do. SNAP should be streamlined so that all the hungry are fed."
Advocates say that even the best-meaning recipients could soon see themselves cut off from the program. "The Administration may portray its proposal as a reasonable 'work requirement,'" Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said in a statement. "But as noted, most states don’t offer these people any job, training opportunity, or slot in a work program, and people who are 'playing by the rules' and looking hard for a job are cut off nonetheless."
If the rule is adopted, recipients may soon be looking elsewhere for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
https://www.bustle.com/p/trumps-new-food-stamp-plan-could-strip-755000-of-their-benefits-17000083