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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hillary 'furious' over Bill's part in latest sex scandal
[PAGESIX] Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ...
is furious at husband Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
, according to Washington insiders, after his name came up in the latest sex scandal involving his disgraced former pal Jeffrey Epstein
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Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill, the spy said, had been waiting for his wife, who didnt look too happy with him.


Non-typical to a lucky few I'd reckon.


Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2015 5:12 Comments || Top||

#2  They just never stop giving. Dis gottum legs.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2015 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't matter. Every welfare recipient, every public employee, every ag subsidy recipient, and every grant recipient professor will pull the "D" lever for her even if she set fire to a busload of third graders on national TV. If not her, then Warren, or whomever the Dems throw up. The vote of those people will go to whomever has the highest chance of getting in office and leaving their magic paychecks alone. The sum total of publicly funded who will vote for someone who is fiscally conservative could fit in a telephone booth.

Obsessing with this gets the center/right off message. Winning in 2016 is a function of getting conservatives and libertarians to vote for the non-Dem candidate, not hoping that a sex scandal will sour the publicly funded on voting for their paycheck.
Posted by: no mo uro || 01/10/2015 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets not forget undocumented Americans & the hereditary oppressed, no mo uro.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2015 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Bill Clinton does not care one bit what Hillary thinks of him. Literally his punishment is having to still deal with Hillary on a weekly or monthly basis at these type of public events.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/10/2015 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  It really does not matter, she has so many soiled clothes in her political closet. Virtually any political subject she attempts to engage in during her potential presidential bid will carry an odor of her past incompetence or malfeasance.

Bill is an odorous, vain person, one who sees nothing wrong about himself. At this point in his life, I doubt he even cares what she thinks. His marriage has been a shell for years, wealth and influence are the spoils from their corrupt lives. Bill will remind you, he is an Oxford man, and he has the shoes to prove it.
Posted by: Skunky Whatch6970 || 01/10/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#7  I doubt that she is furious that he did whatever he did - she is used to that by now. She is furious that his name came up on the list.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/10/2015 9:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Epstein's Black Book could prove most interesting. Underage girls aren't the only thing the billionaire mega-yacht owners that traverse the area seem to have a penchant for. He owns St. James, USVI, which is conveniently located on the cocaine cartel's delivery route from So. America north....
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940 || 01/10/2015 9:57 Comments || Top||

#9  More scandal connected to Epstein and dirty Dems.
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940 || 01/10/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Dear Bill on a 3 Dollar Bill and a Hillary Bill will follow...

We are becoming such a debased nation, it isn't even funny.
Posted by: Skunky Whatch6970 || 01/10/2015 11:02 Comments || Top||

#11  every public employee

Blanket-label much?
Posted by: Pappy || 01/10/2015 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I is a gubbamint employee and I rarely vote Democrat
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2015 11:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Bill and Hillary, who had put on their best Metro disguises, were recently spotted on the street, a passer by took exception and warned the little girls in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Grereter Black5353 || 01/10/2015 11:30 Comments || Top||

#14  Frank, you're about as much a democrat as I am a mooslim.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2015 11:31 Comments || Top||

#15  Asalaam aleikum, Besoeker!
Yeah,the public employee/Democrat charge *is* painting with a broad brush. But I'd bet a round of drinks the distribution is something like 80:20 Democratic, especially when public unions are involved.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/10/2015 13:38 Comments || Top||

#16  they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged

Actually the girls were just entertaining them by humming the Star Spangled Banner.
Posted by: frozen al || 01/10/2015 13:58 Comments || Top||

#17  Massage, cigar, a nice single malt, and a patriotic song. What's not to like ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2015 14:01 Comments || Top||

#18  She ain't pissed his name came up, she's pissed because she thought all the witnesses were dead.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/10/2015 19:41 Comments || Top||

#19  BINGO, #18 USN!
Posted by: Barbara || 01/10/2015 20:07 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Congress urges end to program sharing forfeited assets with state and local police
From the "Policing for Profit" department:
Leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees on Friday called on the Justice Department to end the sharing of civil seizure proceeds with local and state police, a change that with few exceptions would cut the flow of hundreds of million of dollars annually to departments in every state.

In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the lawmakers said they think money from Justice’s Equitable Sharing Program, the federal government’s largest civil asset forfeiture initiative, may be encouraging heavy-handed tactics by local and state police agencies.

Equitable Sharing allows police who seize property under federal civil law to keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds, while Justice and other participating federal agencies can keep 20 percent or more. In 2012, the most recent year of complete data available to The Washington Post, seizures worth more than $1.5 billion in cash, cars and other property were processed through the program.
Why should these assets go ONLY to police and not to general tax funds - never discussed. Why these these assets be seized at all - hardly discussed. What is the potential for this type of seizure to be used as yet another part of executive overreach - do not discuss this!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/10/2015 04:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why should these assets go ONLY to police and not to general tax funds

Can you say conflict of interest? When they 'executed' the accused witches in Salem guess who collected the property of the deceased. Could you guess the magistrate and sheriff?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/10/2015 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Seize the 4.5 million Al Sharpton owes to the IRS, then end the program.
Posted by: Raj || 01/10/2015 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the lawmakers said they think money from Justice’s Equitable Sharing Program, the federal government’s largest civil asset forfeiture initiative, may be encouraging heavy-handed tactics by local and state police agencies

More important is that it's bribery by the Justice Department.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/10/2015 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Local agencies use this program to dodge local laws which limit forfeiture. Illegal in your state? No problem! Call the feds. Get a cut of the take.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2015 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  I seriously doubt they give a rat's ass about heavy handed tactics by local and state cops. They just don't wanna share anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/10/2015 13:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Victim compensation fund, and fund for wrongly convicted. The ONLY place the money should go. No place that the cops or govt has a fiduciary interest.
Posted by: OldSpook || 01/10/2015 14:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Agreed.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/10/2015 15:12 Comments || Top||


Economy
Momentum builds in Congress for raising the federal gas tax
[THEHILL] Record-low gas prices across the U.S. have given rise to fresh talk in Washington of raising the federal gas tax for the first time in over 20 years, with leading Republicans now saying a hike must not be ruled out.

The GOP has long resisted calls from business leaders and others to boost the 18.4 cent-per-gallon tax as a way to pay for upgrades to the nations crumbling roads and bridges.

Yet in recent days, senior Senate Republicans have said they want to keep options open and that "nothing is off the table" when weighing the best mechanisms to pay to finance infrastructure projects.
Nothing is off the table, save for a tax cut.
"I just think that option is there, it's clearly one of the options," said Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.), new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the third-ranking Senate Republican, also said they were open to the possibility of raising the tax.

Democratic leaders in both chambers of Congress, meanwhile, declared this week that now is the time for an increase.

While major obstacles stand in the way namely the House of Representatives business groups believe there is a real chance to raise the tax in the final two years of the B.O. regime.

Comments this week from Sens. Inhofe, Hatch and Thune signal a growing recognition that the gas tax is a fair and consistent way to fund our infrastructure needs, Association of Equipment Manufacturers front man Michael OBrien said in an interview on Thursday.

Democrats have typically been more open to the idea of hiking the gas tax, but its the shift in Republicans' tone that is drawing more attention to the possibility.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So this tax increase would be used to fund infrastructure repairs that should have been funded by the previous taxes that were diverted to the general fund, or spent on underwriting hugely overpriced boondoggles like the California bullet train.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/10/2015 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  What about taxing POLs as parasites?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/10/2015 2:10 Comments || Top||

#3  You didn't build that fracking and tar sand technology.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2015 3:47 Comments || Top||

#4  What about shutting down the Department of Education, firing the bunny inspectors and other useless Federal paycheck cashers, etc? Why is the subject being changed?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/10/2015 4:51 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm good to go as long as the peanut allotment is protected.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2015 6:28 Comments || Top||

#6  So this tax increase would be used to fund infrastructure repairs that should have been funded by the previous taxes that were diverted to the general fund

And this one will also end up going to the general fund for things like "Free" Community College 'to teach' people what the K-12 system failed to teach them.

So the 'Infrastructure' still will not be maintained (and the college students still won't be taught what they should have been taught in K-12).

And we would be looking at even higher tax increases in the future to pay, once again, for infrastructure maintenance.
Posted by: Spats Jones1481 || 01/10/2015 8:14 Comments || Top||

#7  I can remember paying $0.199 per gallon circa 1968. Until THAT number is cracked don't give me this "record low" BS, 'kay?

I'll even give you $1.25 adjusted for inflation.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2015 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I hate it when rats get into my exhaust pipe and think they have got momentum for raising my taxes.

Posted by: Skunky Whatch6970 || 01/10/2015 9:53 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Skunky Whatch6970 || 01/10/2015 9:56 Comments || Top||

#10  They are such pieces of shit.

The only break Americans have had, and they are all over it.

I want DC to cease to exist. The whole thing is a torture chamber of stupid.

These are scumbag GOP talking about this. How very democrat marxist of them.

Nuke DC
Posted by: newc || 01/10/2015 10:32 Comments || Top||

#11  The Wrong Republicans.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2015 10:36 Comments || Top||

#12  Not one moment's consideration for a spending cut now that they have the votes to enforce it. Not a dime's worth of difference between the current crop of Republicans and Democrats. Watch them not repeal ObamaCare or do anything about executive amnesty either.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/10/2015 14:03 Comments || Top||

#13  By all means, raise the gas tax a nickel a gallon. But in the same bill: Clear keystone and lower all income tax rates by 20% or so and pass a balanced budget law.

Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/10/2015 17:04 Comments || Top||

#14  Let's start by us all holding hands and walking backwards to make a nice circle. That's step one.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2015 18:33 Comments || Top||

#15  I am not opposed to a gas tax for infrastructure.

I am opposed to nothing being talked about being cut.

Unless this current batch of publicans start cutting back some of the government overreach, I will not support them.

Ever.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/10/2015 19:21 Comments || Top||

#16  Yeah, sure. Put a ten cent tax on gas dedicated to the infrastructure. Then, lay a tariff to keep the cost of imported oil at $60, with the proceeds going solely to advanced energy development: non-conventional fission, fusion, black solar cells, and advanced energy storage, e.g. carbon nanotube capacitors.
Posted by: KBK || 01/10/2015 19:57 Comments || Top||


Reuters: Keystone clears hurdles, stage set for Washington showdown
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:



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