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-Lurid Crime Tales-
McAfee's MxLogic spam tool may harbor missing Hildebeest emails.
[Daily Caller] One IT expert explained to TheDC that mail exchange records, or MX records, for Clinton's email domain, clintonemail.com, indicate that emails going into her server first went through MxLogic, a spam management and compliance company that is now owned by McAfee.

MxLogic received all inbound email destined for clintonemail.com, Walker found. He said it's not clear whether Clinton's outbound email went through MxLogic as well.

"I'd bet to some extent that [Clinton's] emails are sitting in an MxLogic datac enter either on the server used to service her domain, or within their elaborate backup system," Walker tells TheDC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...A possibility fraught with weirdness, for John MacAfee is so batshiat crazy he makes Hillary! look like Mother Teresa looking for alms.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/07/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I should would have figured Hillary for a Barracuda user.


I shall now ride around brooding castle Rantburg in my Triumph since we are not in a Cord.

Posted by: Shipman || 09/07/2015 15:08 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Wymn's Chorus Replaces '€˜Jesus' With Candidate's Name In Afri-American Spiritual
[Daily Caller] Hillary Clinton's campaign needs a resurrection in New Hampshire, but this is a strange way to go about it.

The Democrat invited the "alternative" women's chorus Voices From the Heart to sing at a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H. on Saturday. And the group did so, distorting the African-American spiritual "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus)".
Four Barking Moonbats on that one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, it's a kind of Black Mass?

Snark of the day. And it's early.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2015 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  So it's settled then. You have to be crazy to support Her Hillaryness.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/07/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||


Europe
Peter Hitchens: We Won't Save Refugees By Destroying Our Own Country
"Everything is short lived. Transitory are not only people, languages, races and cultures. In the next few centuries there will be no more West-European culture, no Germans, Englishmen or French, just as there were no more Romans at the time of Justinian. It was not just the results of human generations that were extinguished; the inner form of the people that grouped a number of them together into a unitary form was not there anymore.”

~ Oswald Spengler, "Decline of the West“, München 1923
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/07/2015 02:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good on you peter hitchens
Posted by: anon1 || 09/07/2015 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  But to the people promoting the refugee/ immigration influx, destroying the country is a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/07/2015 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Buh-Bye...!

VIDEO: MUSLIM “REFUGEE” ARRIVING IN EUROPE MAKES ‘CUT THROAT’ GESTURE TO TV CAMERA:

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/07/2015 16:33 Comments || Top||

#4  It worked so well in Lebanon....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/07/2015 19:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
What the axis of evil owes Obama
Obama's presidency has been paved not with failures, but with a string of the most successfully orchestrated disasters in history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2015 00:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This week, he scored his ultimate coup – over Congress. Faced with a majority of the House and Senate opposing the deal, Obama announced that if it did not pass when put to a vote in September, he would exercise his presidential veto power and force it down the throats of the American people.

That's only because of the Corker bill. A presidential veto can not force the Senate to ratify a treaty.

Any executive action in lieu of ratification could have been undone by a future President with a stroke of the pen.

The AoE owes the Republican Congress as well.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/07/2015 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't do us any more favors Obumble, we can't stand any more of your "successes" (sarc).

Do me a favor, don't do me any favors.'s photo.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2015 9:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Unvaccinated children
[DAWN] THERE is no end to the self-created sufferings of Paks young and old.

A report says some 440,000 Paks under the age of five have not received the polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination -- not even a single dose of it.

The data has been gathered by the emergency operations centre in Sindh, the province securing a shameful second position on the list by showing 75,000 children who have remained out of the reach of the vaccination teams.

This is shocking especially given the interest that the PPP's young scions of the Bhutto-Zardari line, have been expressing in the anti-polio drive in Sindh.

At the top of the chart, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
is a story unto itself: Some quarter of a million children under the age of five have not been vaccinated against the crippling disease.

The provincial government in Quetta, which claims to have a wider, deeper base among the people, must be as vigilant against the perils posed by polio as it is against any other existing danger.

It is sad but not at all unexpected to find Fata and KP featuring prominently in this ignominious gallery. Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

is an exception, but while it stands out, the current situation demands it does not become complacent. It must pursue the anti-polio drive vigorously.

Figures showing the prevalence of polio in various areas and data on the number of children who have not been covered by the vaccination programme do lead to some routine analyses.

Quite frequently, and with a lot of logic, it is pointed out that the situation varies from province to province and thus figures about the number of immunised might not be sufficient to project gains or lack of them in a particular area. It can also be argued that whereas these figures might have been gathered over a period of time, of late, the effort against polio has picked up speed, in the face of whatever threats there have been.

The rules haven't changed. A lot of energy must still go into making the drive successful.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I thought it's about California.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2015 1:29 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mosques on Steroids
President Obama and his administration rightly claim that they have dismantled Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But there is another powerful tool in the arsenal of the Iranian regime that is not only alive and well, but growing fast: the religious network of mosques and their associated businesses.

The Iranian theocracy in Iran is reinforcing its pillars – economic, social and political. It wants to make sure that the nuts and bolts of the Shiite regime stay firmly place, and are not eroded in post-nuclear-deal Iran by the presence of Western business and visitors.

To clarify the point, let’s look at the difference between a mosque built before the 1979 Revolution, and one built afterwards.

Basically, any mosque built in the past 36 years has been designed to be economically self-sufficient, and even generate a profit for its board of trustees. Take, for example, the mosque on the Fatemi roundabout near the Interior Ministry (where the first crackdown took place after the disputed election in 2009). The mosque complex includes a major branch of the Sepah Bank (established more than 80 years ago by the military to pay monthly army salaries), which acts as a focus for local financial activity. The complex also includes facilities to host workshops and classes in computer skills, religion and Koranic studies.

By contrast, the pre-revolutionary mosque in the north central Gaysha neighbourhood (not far from the Tehran research reactor site) stands alone. It is a simple place of worship for the community, its function limited to observing Shiite Islamic rituals.

So what does the future hold, and in a decade, will the number of mosques have grown or shrunk?

Taghi Qaraati, brother of the hyperactive television-preacher Mohsen Qaraati, has an ambitious prediction.

“In order to spread the values of the Islamic Revolution and support Islamic awakening in the region, we are going to need 250,000 mosques,” he told Press.Jamejamonline.ir.

“That is more than twice as many as the current number – 100,000 — and nine times as many as Iran had before the revolution.”

And how will they be staffed?

Every mosque is led by an imam (a clergyman) who is faithful to the Supreme Leader. He leads prayers at the mosque and makes speeches. It goes without saying that he will never criticize the religious/political establishment, let alone become an opponent of the regime. And there are other willing servants of the theocracy.

Believe it or not, there is a specific institute in charge of Friday Prayers, a ritual that reinforces the regime’s message every week. A few weeks ago its head, Reza Taghavi, said, “We have more than 35,000 staff working at the Friday Prayers Institute’s headquarters and in our 800 offices in cities and towns across Iran. Hundreds of our staff are sisters [ie women].”

In fact, the ritual of Friday Prayers is not a feature of traditional Shia worship. It is a political invention — a post-revolutionary innovation. In his book Shiite Revival, Hossain Nasr refers to it as the "Sunnification of the Shiite sect."

The thousands of people now associated with (and dependent upon) Friday prayers – both staff and those who attend – have become a powerful bastion of the regime.

Let’s have a look at the growth in the number of mullahs – both male and female – in the past four decades. At the start of the Islamic Revolution, there were only about 25,000 mullahs studying in Qom, the powerful Vatican of the Shiites located 75 miles south of Tehran. According to the author of Who Rules Iran?, in 2002 — just over 20 years later — there were 45,000.

These days, many of the theological students are women.

To see them you have only to go for a stroll in middle class neighbourhoods of Tehran such as Gaysha , Sharak Qarb or Yousefabad, or in the poor southern and eastern districts of the city. You cannot help bumping into young women wrapped in black chadors in the sizzling summer heat, leaving their women-only theological schools. These schools are funded by the state, with the money channelled through government owned- businesses or factories.

According to my thumbnail calculation, there are more than half million male and female seminarians and new mullahs — all graduates of various theological institutes in Qom, Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Yazd, Kashan, and so on. It’s a staggering number and represents the grandiose vision of a regime that values influence, power and wealth.

On every official tourist itinerary of Iran, there’s a stop at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomenei so visitors can pay tribute to the father of the Islamic Revolution. The place is under constant reconstruction, and the extravagant additions and adornments are beyond belief. So much so that grass-roots Shiite worshippers, who revere modesty, recently complained to the manager of the shrine.

In response, according to Nasim Online, he said :' The more magnificent the mausoleum, the more spiritual its effect on pilgrims".

My conclusion: The dismantling of Iran’s nuclear bomb program was a piece of cake compared to the challenge of dismantling our grotesque Mullah-ocracy. Its growth will block the development of democracy in our country.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  President Obama and his administration rightly claim that they have dismantled Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Sod off swampy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2015 4:00 Comments || Top||



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