Fri
Feb 7 2025
12:29 pm

On January 31, David Lebryk, the most senior career civil servant in the Treasury, announced he would retire; he had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to give Musk’s DOGE team access to the federal payment system. The next morning, sources tell WIRED, Elez was granted read and write access to PAM and SPS.

On February 3, Politico reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Republican lawmakers in the House Financial Services Committee that Musk and DOGE didn’t have control over key Treasury systems. The same day, The New York Times reported that Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said that DOGE’s access was “read-only.”

...Sources tell WIRED that by afternoon of...February 5, Elez’s access had been changed to “read-only” from both read and code-writing privileges.

...The significance of this is that the ability to alter the code on these systems would in theory give a DOGE technologist—and, by extension, Musk, President Donald Trump, or other actors—the capability to, among other things, illegally cut off Congressionally authorized payments to specific individuals or entities.

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Fri
Jan 31 2025
07:09 pm
By: WhitesCreek

Tue
Jan 28 2025
08:26 am

Mark Harmon:

Inspired by a recent trip to Walt Disney World, I’ve decided the only way to understand the current Tennessee legislative session is to approach it as a theme park. Here is my guidebook to Legislative Land.

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Sun
Jan 26 2025
07:36 am
By: WhitesCreek

Mon
Jan 20 2025
03:14 pm

toon

Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.

Sun
Jan 19 2025
08:08 am

A summary of what's going on:

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Fri
Jan 17 2025
09:02 am

Tennessee State Republicans have filed a bill that would allow Tennesseans to sue the manufacturers of abortion-inducing medication if a family member uses it to obtain an abortion.

The House sponsor of the latter bill is Rep. Gino Bulso, a Brentwood Republican who also happens to be trial attorney with a successful track record of personal injury suits. The Senate sponsor is Joey Hensley, the Hohenwald Republican physician who was found in 2020 to have violated medical ethics by prescribing opioids to his medical assistant/cousin/romantic partner.

There are two articles that speak to where we, in America, are right now:

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The first one indicates what Tennesseans think and how far off base from reality they are. The second tells us why this is so.

Fri
Nov 29 2024
09:37 am
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Nov 1 2024
07:24 am
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Oct 25 2024
07:58 am
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Oct 18 2024
05:52 pm
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Oct 11 2024
05:10 pm
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Sep 20 2024
07:52 am
By: WhitesCreek
Sat
Aug 24 2024
07:16 pm
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Aug 23 2024
06:26 am
By: admin

Fri
Aug 9 2024
06:47 am
By: WhitesCreek
Mon
Jul 15 2024
12:21 pm
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
Jul 5 2024
06:59 pm
By: admin

Fri
Jun 28 2024
07:02 pm
By: admin

Sat
Jun 15 2024
06:32 am
By: WhitesCreek
Fri
May 31 2024
10:58 am

Kids who ride electric school buses to school are getting a healthier trip to school. One that is not exposing their developing lungs to asthma and cancer causing pollution because electric school buses don’t have a tailpipe like fossil-fueled buses.

Additionally, electric school buses account for less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of diesel- or propane-burning buses, helping us lower the risk of a warming planet. For communities across the Southeast that are ground zero for rising heat, sea-levels, and catastrophic hurricanes knowing that these buses reduce carbon pollution that is driving these threats is a double benefit.

Additionally, the economics of implementing electric buses mean real savings for the school district because the lifetime cost of operating those vehicles is significantly lower.

ev bus

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Thu
May 23 2024
02:49 pm

Of course, R Congressmen like Chuck Fleischman voted against the Biden monetary Bill but tried to take credit for all it did for Tennessee. r's helped themselves to the money and now Biden won't help them any more with the result that the TN economy is slowing down.

toon

Thu
May 23 2024
07:19 am
By: WhitesCreek

Mon
May 13 2024
09:58 am
By: WhitesCreek

The decision concluded TWRA’s warrantless forays onto private property violate Article 1, Section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution, which reads in part: “The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures.”

This part of the ruling still concerns me:

"The ruling does not apply to privately-owned acreages that are left wild and unused — land the U.S. Supreme Court has dubbed “wild or waste lands” and concluded in a so-called “open fields doctrine” are not subject to traditional search and seizure Constitutional protections. The open fields doctrine has long allowed law enforcement to enter such properties without a warrant."

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Fri
May 10 2024
06:13 pm
By: WhitesCreek
Tue
Apr 30 2024
05:48 pm

Eco warriors and politics

Science and stuff

Lost Medicaid Funding

To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.