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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Here's What The FBI Found In The Emails On Anthony Weiner's Laptop
In which Newsweek carries Hillary's water, spinning hard enough to turn it into butter. The two key sentences, in the first and last paragraphs, are in bold.
[Newsweek] The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that almost every email discovered in a laptop used primarily by the husband of an aide to Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ...
was a duplicate of previously produced documents or personal emails, a person close to the case told Newsweek.
As a result, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress Sunday saying the new emails have not changed the bureau’s earlier decision that no crime occurred with Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state.

The night of the disclosure, Newsweek reported that the emails were from as many as three accounts--one through Yahoo, one on the domain clintonemail.com, and one from an account Abedin used in support of one of Weiner’s campaigns for office. Last week, Newsweek learned that that account was through Gmail. In other words, Abedin’s personal account provided by the State Department for non-classified emails was not involved. Abedin, who did not know Clinton used a private server for her emails, told the bureau in an April interview that she used the account on the clintonemail.com domain only for issues related to the secretary’s personal affairs, such as communicating with her friends. For work-related records, Abedin primarily used the email account provided to her by the State Department.

From the information obtained that first day by Newsweek, it was already clear that, because of the accounts involved, almost all of the documents were going to be duplicates or personal emails. In other words, from the opening moments of this inquiry, there were people in government who already knew what the outcome of this new FBI effort would be, yet it took the bureau another nine days to confirm those details.

Here is where the emails came from. Because Clinton preferred to read documents on paper rather than on a screen, emails and other files were often printed out and provided to her either at her office or home, where they were delivered in a diplomatic pouch by a security agent. Abedin informed the FBI in April that, like many State Department officials, she found the government network technology cumbersome, and she had great trouble printing documents there, investigative records show. As a result, she sometimes transferred emails from her unclassified State Department account to either her Yahoo account or her account on Clinton’s server, and printed the emails from there. A person close to the case said she does not appear to have ever forwarded emails to her Gmail account for printing.

Abedin would use this procedure for printing documents when she received emails she believed Clinton needed to see and when the secretary forwarded emails to her for printing. Abedin told the FBI she would often print these emails without reading them. Abedin printed a large number of emails this way, in part because, investigative records show, other staff members considered her Clinton’s "gatekeeper" and often sent Abedin electronic communications they wanted the secretary to see. The evening of Comey’s announcement, a government official told Newsweek that this procedure for printing documents appeared to be how the emails ended up on the laptop shared by Abedin and her husband.

Since then, additional details were developed as to the specifics of how the information appeared on the laptop. Weiner, who is currently in a rehabilitation program for people suffering with sexually related addictions, told people connected to the case that he had synched his wife’s cell phone to the laptop in 2013, transferring all of her data from the mobile device onto the computer. He did so to ensure her phone was backed up so that, if it were ever damaged, she would still have the data, according to a person connected to the case. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
that information has not been ultimately confirmed as the means by which the emails appeared on the laptop. "He may think he knows how it happened, and he may be right,’’ one person connected to the case said. "But no one has proven that to be the case yet."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2016 09:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems if they could determine this within a week Comey could have avoided announcing the FBI was going to reopen the investigation altogether.

I don't think I'm alone in feeling something stinks about this sudden reversal.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/07/2016 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Democrats will accept this because it fits their wishes and fulfills their needs.
Comey will go down in History as a Clown. He's toast now, no matter what he does. He has lost credibility for Judgement and Integrity. The Bottom line is that now the American Public can't trust the FBI for much. And it is apparent that the FBI is compromised and intimidated. The DOJ is a Tool and corrupt as well.

The State Sept. is a bought and paid for bunch of Shills.

The President of the United States is a mouth in a suit. You can keep your health Plan period.
Somehow, I do not think he is the MESSIAH and Hope and Change were hype for suckers. The people who voted for Obama ( twice ) are not the brightest people in the room. Black are screwed and used like Puppets. The Left tells you where you can Pee.

The Constitution of the United States is punked. Nobody including the Elected Cingress is educated enough to have ever read the silly thing. The Marines and the Military take an Oath and shine their shoes.

When things go south and you can't buy food even if you have a wheelbarrow full of cash the Winter is going to get very Cold. A LOT of people own guns.
Posted by: Greart Ebbanter6392 || 11/07/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think I'm alone in feeling something stinks about this sudden reversal.

But if we believe the stories, NYPD has the copies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  They found the Hit Order on Comey in the recent emails?


Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2016 14:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Comey got Petreused... Another "strong horse" career sidelined by the cabal.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 11/07/2016 17:27 Comments || Top||


Scandals, ‘politicization' of FBI date back to HRC's tenure as first lady
[Wash Times] Hillary Clinton remains embroiled in email and pay-for-play scandals from her days as secretary of state, but as first lady she also fell into questionable behavior that dogged her husband’s first term.

The scandals were known as Travelgate and Filegate, and both set off extensive investigations, resignations, charges and countercharges of lying, file-scrubbing and unethical conduct.

The early 1990s shared issues and people with 2016: Twenty years ago, there were the Clintons, of course. There was the "politicization" of the FBI, as one committee report put it. Mrs. Clinton’s staunch defender, Lanny Davis, appeared on TV blasting her critics, as he does today.

The conservative watchdog Judicial Watch sued the Clinton administration then, as it has done more recently, to compel disclosure of her State Department emails, of which more than 30,000 were destroyed -- off-limits to the FBI. In the 1990s, White House files also went missing.

"FBI leadership has a long history of kowtowing to the Clintons," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. "And it meant that front-line FBI agents were either boxed in, abused or hung out to dry. Nothing has changed in 20 years. If anything, the Clintons have perfected the art of intimidating federal law enforcement."
Con't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I miss Obama already!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I see where Janet Reno, former AG of the Bill and Hillary Clinton administration (1992-2000) has died of Parkinson's--she along with the co-presidents called the shots on WACO and Ruby Ridge--a stain and scandal of the Clinton administration.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||


WikiLeaks: Chelsea Clinton Used Foundation Cash for Her Wedding
[PoliZet] Former Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band accused Chelsea Clinton of using the private charity’s resources for her "wedding and life for a decade," according to a new email published by WikiLeaks in its Podesta emails series.

The new email was released Sunday as part of a chain, some of which had been released in earlier dumps from WikiLeaks.

In the January 2012 chain, Band told Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta that he had just learned from a close friend of former President Bill Clinton’s that Chelsea Clinton was responsible for launching an internal investigation into the foundation’s finances and the Clinton Global Initiative.

Band was less than pleased with Clinton’s "not smart" behavior, especially since he’d heard how Chelsea and one of former President George W. Bush’s daughters had engaged in "more and more chatter" over the foundation’s internal dealings. Podesta concurred, telling Band, "You are perfecting your skills for understatement."

But in the newly released email, Band took his spat with Clinton a step further when he insinuated that she was by no means innocent herself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Groom price ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  After a lifetime of watching her parents use the foundation as their private drawing account what'd expect?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't expect much will be done about it either. Our legal system has been out to lunch.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Dowry.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 11/07/2016 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm sure she used the cash form some Emir of Something-or-Other, so it's OK.

Yes, I understand the term "fungible" and I'm sure the Clintons know the concept, if not the meaning of the word.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2016 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  That's ok. Marrying her was an act of charity.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/07/2016 15:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Yee-ouch, #6 EC. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 11/07/2016 15:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Even if Chelsea was perfect the in-laws would be a nightmare.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/07/2016 17:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
African software to prevent fraud in US elections
[DeutscheWelle] The Kenyan non-profit company Ushahidi has launched a website which lets voters report irregularities on polling day. The creators want to promote transparency - with a tool they invented in a time of bloodshed.
Our technological edge continues to slip away.
Kenya was in turmoil in late 2007 and early 2008. Mwai Kibaki had been declared the winner of a controversial presidential election which reeked of fraud and corruption on both sides. Violence erupted between different ethnic groups throughout the country that killed at least 1,000 people. It was hard for the media to keep track because many of the murders happened in remote regions.

It was then that a group of tech-savvy Kenyans got together and developed Ushahidi, a crowdsourcing software that let people report cases of violence and tracked them on a map. This provided a far more complete picture of the situation than any news outlet had given at the time.

Ushahidi, which means testimony in Kiswahili, has come a long way since then. It's now a multinational software enterprise headquartered in Nairobi with around 30 employees working in eight countries. Their technology has been used for all kinds of purposes - from earthquake response to journalism. And this year, it will help monitor the US elections.

From Kenya to the United States
Ushahidi has put up a special website, where voters can report any irregularities or problems they may encounter at the polling stations. They can, for example, flag up that ballot papers have run out or that disabled people have a hard time accessing the polling booth - or that there's nothing wrong at all. Ushahidi collects and maps all this information to visualize the bigger picture.
If some of Rantburg's clever computer people would take a look at that and let us know if it's what it claims to be, I would be grateful.
"My real hope is that on Wednesday we look at the report and that 99.9 percent of reports say: 'Everything went great!'," says Nat Manning, Ushahidi's Chief Operations Officer who's based in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
The existing structures to prevent voter fraud in the US already seem quite fail-safe. The different states and parties as well as outside observers all independently monitor the polling. But Manning thinks Ushahidi can still add to the process. "It allows regular citizens to raise their voice. It puts a lot more eyes out there. And importantly, it creates a feeling of transparency and engagement," he told DW.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Clinton calls off Election Night fireworks
[NYP] Hillary Clinton’s planned celebratory Election Night fireworks display over the Hudson River that The Post exclusively reported on has been canceled, it was revealed Monday.

"They do have a permit for fireworks, but at this point we believe the fireworks is canceled," NYPD chief of intelligence Tommy Galati said at a city press conference on Election Day security with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill.

When asked by a reporter why the fireworks were canceled, Galati responded, "I cannot tell you that."

Clinton was planning aerial detonations for her potential victory that would last for two minutes starting as early at 9:30 p.m. -- a half-hour after the polls close in New York.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 14:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmmmmmmm
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/07/2016 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Plans auto da fe of Huma & Weiner instead?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 15:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Flying to Qatar more important?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/07/2016 15:23 Comments || Top||

#4  'Internal polls are that bad' would be my guess.
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2016 18:18 Comments || Top||

#5  the 930pm fireworks would have gone off while the poll were still open in many states- it would be
arrogant and trashy but then its the HRC campaign after all
Posted by: lord garth || 11/07/2016 18:40 Comments || Top||

#6  When asked by a reporter why the fireworks were canceled, Galati responded, "I cannot tell you that."

Makes it kinda hard to tell from which directions the weapons-fire is coming from?

What?!!!
Posted by: Pappy || 11/07/2016 20:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Optics.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/07/2016 20:20 Comments || Top||


WIKILEAKS: Campaign Manager Says ‘Clinton Had Little Consideration For Ethics'
[Daily Caller] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has "little consideration for ethics," according to Robby Mook, her campaign manager.

Mook’s comment was included in a devastating list he compiled of problems associated with Clinton’s decision to appoint a longtime friend to her campaign after he helped her raise $72 million for the U.S. Expo at the 2010 Shanghai World’s Fair.

The comment -- "When soliciting contributions, Clinton had little consideration for ethics" -- appeared in an attachment to a March 11, 2015, email made public Sunday by WikiLeaks in its latest release of materials hacked from Clinton national campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account.

Mook questioned the appointment of Jose Villarreal as an officer in the campaign, telling Podesta that he "found a potential flag about Jose Villarreal" and that "it looks like he’s snared up in the conflict of interest stuff at State" and "there’s a real argument here that he was at the nexus of foundation/state issues."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 14:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That Robby Mook, mind like a steel trap. Where do they find these people ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 14:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Clinton and ethics is an oxymoron.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 18:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Time is running short for Tsar Bomba-type revelation.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/07/2016 21:46 Comments || Top||

#4  "little" would be an improvement
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/07/2016 21:53 Comments || Top||


CNN BUSTED! Got Complete List of Questions for TRUMP Interview from DNC
Wiki email excerpt: [Gateway Pundit] "Good to have the others as well."

Why go half-way ?
Update from The Daily Caller at 10:10 a.m. ET -- it's systemic:
WikiLeaks Show Washington Post Writer Dana Milbank Asked DNC For Anti-Trump Research
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 08:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Commission on Presidential Debates was 'busted' during the last election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  C'mon Boeseker, Candy Crowley does not conjure up a good image this a.m. to carry one thru the day. I might just as well watch the View.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  My apologies John. With you in mind, I did manage to avoid a frontal view.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/07/2016 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Is that ass named Mitt?
Posted by: gorb || 11/07/2016 14:17 Comments || Top||


Elementary school cancels mock election after kids chant ‘Trump'
[Wash Times] A New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted "Trump" and repeated "negative rhetoric about minorities," according to the school principal.

Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too heated.

"Some people were getting angry because some people like Trump and some people like Clinton," fifth-grader Miranda Waters told a local ABC News affiliate. "Some people think Clinton’s not good. Some think Trump’s not good. So there’s a lot of arguments going on, and I don’t like that."

School officials decided to cancel the mock election to prevent minority students "from feeling uncomfortable," according to Glen Rogers, the school’s principal.

"Teachers have said they’ve heard some kids in the cafeteria chanting ’Trump! Trump! Trump!’ or saying they don’t want Muslims here," Mr. Rogers told ABC News.
Con't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 05:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reality, it's offensive to some people and makes them feel uncomfortable. We'll just banish it forever.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 5:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Who knew coal mines were so extensive New York.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 11/07/2016 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  My first grade neighbor told me they voted for President last Friday. She said she voted for Trump. I asked why not Hillary because I figured being a little girl she would pick the woman. She said, "She's ugly and mean. Just look at her mean eyes". From the mouths of babes.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/07/2016 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Somebody's snowflake was triggered
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/07/2016 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  This is actually an interesting form of sampling given that young children tend to mirror their parents preferences in religion and politics. At least until they reach the rebellious age.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/07/2016 16:19 Comments || Top||


Bill Clinton Calls ‘Coal Country' Most Racist ‘Anti-Immigrant' Part Of America
[Daily Caller] Former president Bill Clinton, who previously took flack for mocking the "coal people" in West Virginia and Kentucky, accused "coal country" of being the "most anti-immigrant" part of America while speaking at a private fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.

As he did when criticizing the "coal people," Clinton again singled out Kentucky and West Virginia while speaking to the audience of wealthy Democratic donors in November 2015.

"One of the reasons I’m for immigration reform is that on balance immigrants add to the employment base, not take away from it," Bill said, according to a leaked transcript of the speech.

He added that housing problems "in the most anti-immigrant parts of America, like in coal country, West Virginia and Kentucky, don’t have anything to do with immigrants."
Con't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 02:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once the economically impacted residents find employment elsewhere, this coal belt region can become Federally protected land. We owe it to our children and Gaia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Ahem, Bill do you recall what you said about Barack Obama carrying your bags or Hillary using the "N-Word" in the Whitehouse? And do you recall your wife saying she was going to do away with all the coal mining jobs? Please leave the honest coal miners alone.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:54 Comments || Top||


Two Democratic electors threaten to throw the election to Donald Trump
In which the lefties at Think Progress wax hysterical at their gal reaping the consequences she sowed.
[ThinkProgress] In the looming election, a solid majority of the American people could cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton. Yet, thanks to two guys from Washington state, Donald Trump could be sworn in as the next president of the United States.

Two men who were selected as members of the Electoral College in the likely event that Clinton wins the state of Washington, are, at the very least, uncertain that they will honor the will of the people of their state. Robert Satiacum told the Seattle Times that he is "absolutely not" voting for Clinton and that "I hope it comes down to a swing vote and it’s me," because then "she ain’t getting it. Maybe it’ll wake this country up."

The other likely elector, Bret Chiafalo, says that he has "not ruled out that possibility" of voting against Clinton.

It is unlikely, but not impossible, that the race could be close enough that these two men could effectively rig it for Donald Trump.

If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast in the Electoral College, or at least 270 votes, then the House of Representatives will choose the president, with each state delegation being allowed to cast a single vote. Such an arrangement would overwhelmingly favor the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

The fact that two men who think they have the right to override the will of their states’ voters were chosen as Democratic electors appears to be the fault of an utterly reckless method the Washington Democratic Party uses to name those electors. Electors were chosen at the state party convention in June, an event where so-called Bernie-or-Busters were overrepresented.

In other words, rather than, say, allowing the party’s nominee to name reliable electors, the party chose to select electors during an emotional primary season at an event that could be gamed by a minority faction that was willing to sabotage the party if Democrats did not chose that faction’s preferred nominee.

Nevertheless, if these two electors succeed in throwing the election to Donald Trump, the lion’s share of the blame should rest with the framers of the Constitution, who gave us the Electoral College system in the first place. Thanks to this system, the losing candidate has gone on to be the president in four different presidential elections -- most recently when Al Gore was "defeated" by Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other words..... The State of Washington has two fellas who won't stay BOUGHT !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Putting the country over the party - what kind of mental disease is what?

Or, just trying to extort something for themselves?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ...I would expect lawfare on Malificent's part were this to happen - that the electors be ordered to cast their votes in accordance with 'the will of the people' or that they be replaced by ones who will.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/07/2016 4:50 Comments || Top||

#4  ...appears to be the fault of an utterly reckless method the Washington Democratic Party uses to name those electors.

Simpsons character sez - HA HA!
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2016 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  They shouldn't be punished for recognizing the criminal enterprise for what it is, having an epiphany, seeing the light and wanting to bale.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  The electoral college is a problem. We can all gloat they will vote for trump, but if they were in a red state wanting Hillary the comments here would be visceral the other way. We need to have voter reform. We need to work to find a better way to elect our representatives. We need to get this country to a point where America's brightest are willing to serve. The thought of going through anything that looks like a primary drives away all people of honor that respect their privacy and leave the only people that are willing to go through the mess are the extreme narcissists and the power greedy. Not what we want running our national affairs.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2016 10:00 Comments || Top||

#7  The Electoral College protects us out here in rural 'flyover country', Pan.

Otherwise the largest urban areas (with the usual population demographics) would always be the deciding factor for how this country fills the Administrative Branch (not that it isn't 'loaded' already).

Fairly good summary here
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/07/2016 11:41 Comments || Top||

#8  The question is whether these electors mean it or are just negotiating for consideration from Clinton for their favorite causes.
Posted by: Zebulon and Tenille2425 || 11/07/2016 15:44 Comments || Top||


Ohio official: 'Extremely questionable, if not illegal behavior' outside polling station
[FOXNEWS] An unidentified male on Sunday potentially violated Ohio election law by standing outside a polling station to hand out invitations to an event touting appearances by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ...
and NBA star LeBron James.

"It is clear that this is extremely questionable, if not illegal behavior," a front man for Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office said after reviewing a video of the incident taken by the Fox News Channel.

Husted told Fox last week that his office would investigate any allegation of fraud or tampering that is brought to his attention by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who warns of election "rigging" regularly, or anyone else.

James is appearing with Clinton at a rally in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
Fox News first spotted the unidentified male Sunday making contact with dozens of people in the voting line, handing out small pieces of paper with instructions about how to RSVP for the event at the nearby Cleveland Public Auditorium, several hours later.

The bottom of the flyer stated: "Printed in House, Paid for by the Ohio Democratic Party."
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FTA:
Multiple signs posted outside the polling place state: “ATTENTION: No person shall loiter, congregate or engage in any kind of election campaigning within 10 FEET of any elector in line to vote. Ohio Revised Code Section 3501.35.”

A review of the code shows that violating this law can result in either being sued or put in jail for 30 days, depending on the severity of the offense.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/07/2016 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  No one arrested as I recall. Only newsworthy for a day or two. Why the concern ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll go with both; "extremely questionable and illegal behavior" for $20,000 bucks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||


David Brooks: Less Educated Will Vote For Trump No Matter What, "Going With Their Gene Pool"
[REALCLEARPOLITICS]

I recommend David consider submitting an article to BCR.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No matter whom wins the election... what nation does David Brooks plan to run to?
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2016 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I assume he is excluding less educated GIVERnment dependent gene pool and less educated illegal immigrants in his assessment and merely making an implied racist comment about white Americans living in the rust belt.

Posted by: Airandee || 11/07/2016 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  A variation on "deplorable", but more racist - 'they can't help themselves, it's their inferior genes.'

And everyone else - with the 'correct' genes - who are they voting for? In other words, all of the anti-Trumps are also voting with their gene pool, right?

Great logic, David!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2016 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this the same guy who one of the Podesta emails stated: "Does Hillary know that Brooks is batshit crazy?" The response: "I hope."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Sorry, the least educated large voting blocks in America are the black communities and the Latino community. There are a lot of social reasons for this, none of which I desire to debate here. They predominantly vote for the dems. He seems to have this backward.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  The least PRODUCTIVE will vote for handout Hillary
Both establishment, gimmegrant and welfare plantation.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/07/2016 11:01 Comments || Top||

#7  In a just world, David Brooks would be hunted for sport.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/07/2016 13:29 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't think of myself as highly educated; I prefer the more accurate phrase: "highly leveraged."
Posted by: regular joe || 11/07/2016 13:42 Comments || Top||

#9  #* joe - I am "highly educated" and I'm still not voting for Shrillery.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/07/2016 15:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Anyone else remember what evil group in recent history was always talking about gene's and inferior unter menschen? Welcome to how fascists think .....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/07/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Anyone else remember what evil group in recent history was always talking about gene's and inferior unter menschen?

Yes, evil does resurface from time to time. New faces, new tongue, same old evil.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 17:51 Comments || Top||

#12  what evil group in recent history was always talking about gene's and inferior unter menschen?

I'm gonna go with Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/07/2016 18:28 Comments || Top||


One million new Muslim votes can make a difference
[DAWN] The Moslem vote in the US election, particularly in the battleground state of Florida, could tilt election in favour of Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ...
, reports suggest.

According to the US Council of Moslem Organisa­tion over one million American Moslems have registered to vote in the Nov 8 elections, a record number that puts the community in a position to tip the race in states where they live in large numbers as polls show a tightening contest, Moslem advocates said.

Pak registered voters in the past overwhelmingly supported the Republican Party because it was perceived as being pro-Pakistain when it came to American aid to country.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is a part of the Democratic long-run game plan.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  a.) I thought 'real' Muslims didn't vote in infidel countries, and

b.) Didn't these citizens voting for their old country take some sort of an oath to support the US of A?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  And "b" matters how, exactly, #@ Bobby?

Taquiya.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/07/2016 15:39 Comments || Top||


Hillary maintains her grip over US Electoral College
[DAWN] Democrat Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Hamilton Fish ...
holds a clear advantage in Electoral College but can she hold this advantage for the next two days? If she does, she will make history as the first woman president of the United States of America.

If her Republican rival Donald Trump breaks this hold, he too will make history as an outsider by demolishing her as well as his own party, which is as scared of his victory as the rest of the world is.

Almost 219 million Americans are eligible to vote this year but only 149.3 million have registered as voters. In 2012, more than 126 million or 57.5 per cent of all voters -- registered or unregistered -- cast their ballots.

This year, the voter turnout could be a little higher as surveys by various polling agencies predict that almost 145 million Americans are likely to vote on Tuesday, which will be 66.2pc of total votes.

But these 145 million voters alone will not decide who will be the next US president, 270 members of the Electoral College will. This is because the US president and vice president are not elected by popular vote. Voters choose electors, who elect the president and his number two.

There are a total of 538 electors who are distributed among 50 federating states according to the number of seats each state has in the US Congress. Congress has two chambers, the House and the Senate. The House has a total of 435 members while the Senate has 100, which adds up to 535 electors but three electors are also given to Washington, DC, which does not have representation in Congress.

The electors usually vote according to the pledge they make during the election, thus those who are pledged to Mrs Clinton will vote for her and those to Mr Trump will vote for him. But the relevant federal law does not require an elector to honour his or her pledge. The 12th amendment to the US Constitution only requires an elector to cast one vote for president and one for vice president.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds an umbrella while leaving a campaign field office in Miami, Florida, on Saturday.--AFP (Right) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Friday.--Rooters
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  she will make history as the first woman president of the United States of America.

And, probably, as the last POTUS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 3:44 Comments || Top||


Hillary to win US election, predicts Hina Khar
[DAWN] Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar thinks Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ...
will win the United States presidential election as she is considered more suitable, respected, experienced and sensible candidate for the slot, not only in the US but also in other countries of the world.

Donald Trump will lose the election because of his extremism and hatred towards other religious communities--particularly the Moslems, she has predicted.

"Though the contest for the US presidential elections appears to be neck and neck between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I am of the view that Ms Clinton will win. I as well as others think of success of Hillary as good, not only for the US but also for other countries, including Pakistain," Ms Khar said while speaking at a discussion in the Beaconhouse Group’s three-day festival, ’A World of Tomorrow: Seeking Inspiration and Equilibrium in a New Age’ at a local club here on Saturday. The discussion was moderated by FS Aijazuddin.

Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Matthew Dowd: Clinton Has 95% Chance To Win, Will Win By 5 Million Votes
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] ABC News contributor Matthew Dowd predicts that Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edmund Randolph ...
will win by a larger margin than Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
did in 2012.

MATTHEW DOWD, ABC: I think she's got about a 95 chance to win this election, and I think she's going to have a higher margin than Barack Obama did in 2012. Higher margin. She's going to win by more than 5 million votes. She's going to win a higher percentage. And itnerestingly she's going to have amore diverse coalition than Barack Obama even did when you take the final vote into consideration. Every piece of data points in that direction.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  5 million votes? Have the Dems got enough money left in the coffers to buy that many votes?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Day before the election and we got 5 articles declaring victory for Hildabeast. Now THATS how you rally the anti-Hillary vote!! /sarc
Posted by: Huperese Platypus6497 || 11/07/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Dowd was chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign. Just another RINO.
Posted by: Craique the Kid6652 || 11/07/2016 18:17 Comments || Top||


Franken: "We Will Have Hearings" About "Rogue Elements" Inside The FBI
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] FRANKEN: I think what's troubling that we have heard out of the FBI, I think it was troubling that he put that vague letter out 11 days before the election. I think even more troubling is what we have heard from sort of the rogue elements within the FBI, seemingly tipping off former Mayor Giuliani that something was up. And also, I mean, it just seems like that's not the FBI. That's not what the FBI is supposed to do, it seems. So, I'm on the Judiciary Committee. I'm sure we will have hearings. I'm sure that FBI Director Comey will be before us. And I think he should answer questions about this. And he should be able to control the FBI. He is director of the FBI. He should be able to -- what has been happening there has been a little hinky, I think.

TAPPER: But, as you know, FBI directors...

FRANKEN: So, we will be asking him questions.

TAPPER: Yes. FBI directors are basically appointed for 10-year terms. He has served three....Do you have confidence that he can continue in that job for the next seven years if Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ...
wins?

FRANKEN: I think we are going to have hearings. I think we're going to try to get to the bottom of this sort of rogue element within the FBI that seems to think it's OK to go outside the FBI to be trying to affect the election, that seems to be responding to just scurrilous right-wing books, and starting investigations based on that kind of -- you know, that kind of propaganda that we have seen before.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hearings. Erdogan style?
Posted by: gorb || 11/07/2016 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  No, Stalin's.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/07/2016 3:45 Comments || Top||

#3  How'd those voting felons work out for you Senator? See - rigged
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 11/07/2016 6:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I recommend ramping up Affirmative Action, early retirements, Paris, London, Vienna remote unaccompanied assignments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2016 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  remote unaccompanied assignments.
Elba's too nice. Afghanistan? Devil's Island still available? GITMO?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/07/2016 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  -- what has been happening there has been a little hinky, I think.

Kind of like the additional votes 'recounted time and again until you won' with your election, Uncle Al?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/07/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||

#7  I remember a day when you could expect a bunch of honorable folks to resign in disgust when they saw this kind of political manipulations. Good times.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/07/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||



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