Something we want to talk about and that we want you to return to read and learn from as we have about whether it is we face now. And we do in this country face an extraordinary structure that has done the things that were so upsetting. One example referred to by all of us, democracy in those days was a word that was akin to a chaotic, disorganized, messy, negative, negative, negative. We lived in a bizarre reversal. Now it is the holy of holies. We celebrated democracy the way we celebrate cowboys in the old days. A complete fantasy, a makeup so that we can indulge this desire as an economist i keep saying this and i know some of you have heard it from me before. We go to work. We spend five out of seven days a week and when we go to work we enter a place in a capitalist society that is the absolute opposite of democracy. A tiny group of people, major shareholders and boards of directors make all the decisions thousands of employees not to speak of the communities where they work have
Thank you for his service to you and country. Lord, were also grateful for all of our military men and women who back their words with courageous deeds. In this season that brings tidings of a coming dawn, guide our lawmakers through the darkness that precedes the breaking of day. You have guided this nation through stormy places, and we have felt the winds and have been tossed by troubled seas. May our senators, amid the tumult, hear the whisper of your promise to never forsake us. Remind us of lifes brevity so that we will number our days and have hearts of wisdom. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , december 15, 2014. To th
Association manufacturers association. Remember the ipad wasnt invented when adsb cannot. There some type of lower cost of ice that could be like our cell phone. General scovel, the faa seems to be behind on issuing rulings on drones and integrating uas, uab, whatever want to call them, integrating them into the airspace. How far behind on the no . Are behind. They are behind the mandate established by congress in the last reauthorization from 2012. We should say we really mean it this time. Well, yes absolutely. And it would certainly help everybody if the agency listened. Faa was slow in designating its sites, six of them. They were finally designated, again for switzer congressional authorization or mandate, but we have found that the agencys plans to develop data and to learn from the results that accrue from operations at these test sites have not been prepared to the agency satisfaction. And certainly not to the needs of the burgeoning industry. When it comes as well to gathering
2002. After the news and photographs emerged from the United States military detention of iraqis at abu ghraib, the Intelligence Committee held a hearing on the matter on may 12th, 2004. Without disclosing any details of its own Interrogation Program cia director John Mcglocklin testified that ciaer interrogationse were nothing lie what was depicted at abu ghraib. The United States prison in iraq where detainees were abused by american personnel. This of course was false. Cia detainees at one facility, a described as a dungeon, were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells, with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. Ur the u. S. Bureau of prisons personnel went to that location in november 2002 and according to a con tame rain just internal cia email told cia officers they had quote, never been in a facility where an individuals are so sensorydeprived, end quote. Again, source, ci email, sender and recipient redacted, december 5th, 2002.
And once, at 10,008 whats the way to get back in the direction you think it ought to go . I think we have a evolve away from local School Districts being the governing model. Im not suggesting he wouldve been. Im suggesting getting rid of the monopolistic nature of them, the politicized, unionized, novelistic nature which then puts the economic interests of the adults in the system, which in many communities in this country is the largest employer, for those who dont live, you know, Like Washington or new york. If you go to tennessee or texas or florida, outside of the big urban areas the number one employer come in miami the number one employer by far and what is the miamidade school district. Its got a big economic interests rather than focus on how to customize learning experience so a Diverse Group of kids again knowledge . The model is designed for the adults rather than the children. And reforming it on the edges is going to change that. Ive lost my patience on this to be honest