Starvin Larry

Remember your crummy first job? Much as you probably hated it, you learned about showing up on time, following directions, responsibility, and learning by doing. Donald Trump has appointed a Labor Secretary, Andy Puzder, whose company, CKE Restaurants (Carl’s, Jr., and Hardees) has lots of crummy first jobs, and that, according to Kurt Schlicter, is a good thing. From Schlicter on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

Trump’s selection of Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (which owns Carl’s, Jr., and Hardee’s), is great news to those of us who think that, to the extent it should exist at all (which is zero), the Department of Labor should be concerned with getting more people laboring. Instead, under Obama, it seems focused on ensuring that as few people as possible actually work. The liberals’ whinefest about Puzder – as opposed to the liberals’ whinefest about every other Trump appointee –…

According to this group of intelligence professionals, if the DNC was actually hacked, the NSA would know about it and who did it. Because the NSA has not come forward, it points to the probability of a leak, rather than a hack, that led to the WikiLeaks leaks. The leaks could have come from a DNC insider, or from an intelligence agency or the FBI, but it couldn’t have come from Russia. From VIPS at consortiumnews.com:

As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

MEMORANDUM

Allegations of Hacking Election Are Baseless

A New York Times report on Monday alluding to “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” leading the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin “deployed computer hackers with…