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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judicial Watch Finds New Emails Showing Huma Abedin Doing Clinton Foundation Favors For Russia Connected Group While at The State Department
More on the subject of the article below, so moved to Lurid Crime Tales so they can more easily be read sequentially.
[TownHall] Government watchdog Judicial Watch has found a number of new emails belonging to former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton containing classified information and showing favors being done for a Russia connected organization through the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. The emails were obtained through a lawsuit against the Department and a recent court order.

"The new Abedin emails also reveal additional instances in which Clinton’s then- scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded the former secretary of state’s detailed daily schedule to top Clinton Foundation officials. The new emails also reveal a number of favors that were requested and carried out," Judicial Watch found. "In May 2010, Abedin tells Band that she has 'hooked up' people from the Russian American Foundation with 'the right people' at the State Department after Abedin received a request from Russian American Foundation Vice President Rina Kirshner, forwarded by Clinton Foundation donor Eddie Trump (no relation to President Trump)."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 02:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has the real Russian connection now been found ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't count. She's liberal.
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 3:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Or, as one of my leftist aquaintences told me, "It's Old News. Move along".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/02/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  "That happened like two years ago, dude..." - Tommy Vietor.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/02/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  showing favors being done for a Russia connected organization through the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State.

The real Russian scandals among the many others. We will one day learn that this past era resulted in the greatest theft of all time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#6  "Judicial Watch Finds New Emails Showing Huma Abedin Doing Clinton"

I only read the first line and thought it was the whole title...imagine my disappointment.
Posted by: Warthog || 06/02/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||


Judicial Watch obtains new classified Clinton emails
More on the subject of the article above.
[FoxNews] A nonprofit legal watchdog claimed Thursday that newly unearthed documents show Hillary Clinton sent and received more classified information on her private server than previously known, and that the papers also show top aide Huma Abedin did favors for Clinton Foundation insiders.

Judicial Watch released more than 2,000 pages of documents it obtained pursuant to a May 5, 2015 court order, after filing a lawsuit against the State Department for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The new documents included 115 Clinton email exchanges that were not previously turned over by the State Department.

“These shocking new Clinton emails show why the Justice Department should reevaluate, reopen, or reinvigorate Clinton, Inc. investigations,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said on Thursday. “The casual violation of laws concerning classified material and noxious influence peddling show the Clinton State Department was ‘corruption central’ in the Obama administration.”

According to Judicial watch, on Dec. 6, 2010, Clinton shared classified information with non-U.S. government employees Justin Cooper, an aide to former President Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Director Doug Band. The email allegedly shows Clinton instructing her aide to print the correspondence, which involved allegations of theft by Bangladeshi banker and Clinton Foundation donor Muhammad Yunus.

Yunus was accused of embezzling $100 million from the Grameen Bank, which he founded.

In another instance, on March 14, 2011, Judicial Watch says State Department official Maria Otero emailed Clinton information about the Grameen Bank, and it was deemed classified and “confidential” by the State Department, but later redacted.

Judicial Watch claimed Clinton responded to Otero using her HDR22@clintonemail.com account, and copied Abedin’s unsecure email account as well- huma@clintonemail.com.

Judicial Watch’s new emails appear to show multiple Abedin email exchanges from an unsecured server. They also appear to show that Clinton’s then-scheduler, Lona Valmoro, forwarded Clinton’s daily Secretary of State schedule to top Clinton Foundation officials, along with a “number of favors” that were requested.

In a May 10, 2010 email between Abedin and Band, Abedin said she “hooked up” people from the Russian American Foundation with the “right people” at the State Department. The Russia-American Foundation was then staffed by Clinton political supporters, according to Judicial Watch.
And from the Judicial Watch trove, courtesy of charger:
Twitter: Hillary Willing To Kill Planet To Avoid Flying With Black People
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Email tranche indicates or confirms:

1. Not all emails were delivered to the government as HRC said,
2. Emails did contain classified materials,
3. The emails were delivered to an off-site computer.
4. She lied to Congress under oath.
5. The emails acknowledge she knew classified materials were being sent to HDR22@clintonemail.com account, and copied to Abedin’s unsecure email account as well-huma@clintonemail.com.

Remember during the debates when Hillary was heard to say:

" If that f - - - ing bastard {Trump] wins, we all hang from nooses!"

No wonder there has been so much push back. The Clinton/Obama corrupt ball of yarn is beginning to unravel. Bottom line, this investigation should be re-opened and pursued with vigor or the Deep State will deep-six Trump--if that happens most likely civil war.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Or the Deep State will once again manage to deep-six this investigation, no matter how many times it bobs back to the surface.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Case of alleged hit-and-run driver deported 17 times is a '‘wakeup call,' senator says
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you are deported only once, return and captured, you will be sentenced to 10 years hard labor. Sanctuary supporters, 20 years hard labor.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  We need folks to clean out the fatbergs in the sewers.
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Did the Distinguished Senator have his alarm set to go off after seventeen returns? I'd have set mine to one or two, certainly no later than three or four.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 3:13 Comments || Top||

#4  A politician's alarm system is rigged to go off when their policies appear to be about to inflict collateral damage to their coveted official titles.
Posted by: Woozle Big Foot7076 || 06/02/2017 4:40 Comments || Top||

#5  I would have thought 9/11 was the only "wakeup call" this nation would have needed regarding border security.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/02/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6  So, how about deporting him to Atlantis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||

#7  If Rep. Raul M, Grijalva is so pro illegal undocumented immigrant then maybe he should post a personal bond for this person. Any legal costs to come out of the Representative's personal bank account.
Posted by: magpie || 06/02/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  We need to deport them after they serve time for any crimes. And send the bill to Mexico for jail costs. It is INSANE to send a criminal back to Mexico who will just let them free.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/02/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||

#9  I was trying to think of a way deportees could be tagged so they would be easier to identify if they tried to sneak back in. Something like a nonremovable tattoo. Of course, the MS-13 types would just make it a badge of honor.

Maybe removing a joint from one of their fingers ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/02/2017 21:13 Comments || Top||

#10  During the Vietnam war, When locals fired on the S.Korean troops, they'd round up anybody in eyesight and cut off one of their ears. They then told them if they got shot at and found someone nearby with a missing ear they'd be at the bottom of a rice paddy.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 06/02/2017 21:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Obamas buy D.C. home for $8.1 million
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Former President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
and former first lady Michelle purchased the home here that they have been renting, the Sun-Times has learned, closing on the $8.1 million purchase on Wednesday.

Obama front man Kevin Lewis confirmed the sale, telling the Sun-Times, "Given that President and Mrs. Obama will be in Washington for at least another two-and-a-half years, it made sense for them to buy a home rather than continuing to rent property."

A source familiar with the situation said the Obamas will continue to own their reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
home in the South Side Kenwood community.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The shadow government white house. A lot of Cover Your Ass work to do by continuing the Wasington, DC Beltway Mafia swamp effort.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  "At some point, you have made enough money"

Or Anarchy.
If I hear so much as a peep from you after this Malfeasance, That house goes into collection Captain Anarchy.

Or, we may just take a raft ride. Un-seat your special KGB ass from all contact.

I have Fire.
Posted by: newc || 06/02/2017 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  In fact, I heard you have a chateaus in France, It is more apropos for you after this coming run through the legal woods of Executive Authority.

But, You are a free man. Judge for yourself I guess. That always worked before, no?
Posted by: newc || 06/02/2017 1:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll wager Comps in their neighborhood are plummeting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 6:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Good, it will be easier to find him when the papers are served on him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  How's the wall around the house coming?
Posted by: Raj || 06/02/2017 8:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Think of all the Syrian refugees he'll be able to house. Or maybe it will be a Sanctuary House.
Posted by: Matt || 06/02/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Must have been a pretty sweet book deal.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/02/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  It will make a swell "home for white orphans of black crime" after the SHTF...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/02/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Did he pay cash or is he just renting the place from a creditor?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Saw a neat little note, can't find it now.
Older daughter interning her 'gap' year,
invisible younger daughter in rehab.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Making the case daily that we should raise the minimum age for a President so that they have experience and won't hang around too long afterwards.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/02/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#13  What a jock sniffer.

invisible younger daughter in rehab.
Yikes, little young for that isn't she. Hope that is a rumor or overreaction.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 17:50 Comments || Top||


Mitt "Never Trump" Romney's Twitter On Withdrawal From Paris Accords. Defendin' Them Troo Conservative Princuhpullz
Posted by: charger || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mitt Romney is a Goldman Sachs supported RINO, Goldman Sachs who paid Hildebeast huge speaking fees, and who just within the past few days gave a financial life line to Venezuelan Tyrant Maduro.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Afterall, I have $2.7 Trillion Dollars to spend on non-defined goals in Foreign Countries, and will tax my poor more with higher energy rates for a farce of speculation on falsified data ?

$2.7 Trillion Dollars DR Evil? We are already in HOC for 24.6 Trillion!
Posted by: newc || 06/02/2017 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  The vicious the left becomes over the POTUS decision, the more confident we should be that he was right to pull out of the Accords.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:21 Comments || Top||

#4  The Paris climate change scheme was a means of wealth redistribution by the globalists who bouth and paid for phony/junk science results to bless their fake concept. The resulting boodle would first be passed-through the globalist billionaires so they could get their cuts.

Trump did the right thing for the people of America.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The resulting boodle would first be passed-through the globalist billionaires so they could get their cuts.

The level of incandescent anger at yesterday's announcement shows that the train ws in fact derailed, if only temporarily...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/02/2017 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  IOW, Trump is pissing off all the right people.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/02/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  We really dodged a bullet here. Looks like Romney and McCain turned out to be the true blue liberals we always suspected them of being. Obama's two terms turned out literally to be the lesser of two evils.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/02/2017 13:51 Comments || Top||

#8  The French were less angry when Hitler invaded than Trump backing out of this deal.
Posted by: airandee || 06/02/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Romney wouldn't know what a 'conservative principle' was if it hit him in the face.
Posted by: Raj || 06/02/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#10  It doesn't seem like the elites really understood the depths to which the folks in fly-over land were pissed. What can be done next to irritate them?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||

#11  When Trump was returning from his trip, the radio dude announced that no deal had officially been made, and dude used his tsk tsk great deal maker couldn't do what Obama did so easily voice.

I was so elated, I could have been pulled over on suspicion of DUI.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 18:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
They would rather explain that the Democrats' policy was the correct one, but that an outsider deceived the American people
After his meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Versailles, Vladimir Putin gave an an exclusive interview to Le Figaro's Alexis Brézet and Renaud Girard (video) from a classroom of the Russian cultural center in Paris (translated from the French translation of the remarks in Russian).

Excerpts related to the accusations of the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 election:
Suspicions of Russian interference in the US election campaign have triggered a political storm in Washington. In France, similar suspicions have been expressed. What's your reaction?

The Western press talks about Russian hackers. But where does the idea come from? When President Trump mentioned the situation, he said things that are quite right. Maybe it did not come from Russia, maybe there was someone who inserted a USB stick under the name of a Russian citizen. In this virtual world, today, anything can be done. Russia has never hacked. We do not need it. No interest. What's the point ? I've talked to several American presidents, you know. Presidents come and go, but politics do not change. And do you know why ? Because the bureaucracy in America is very powerful. The person elected has his or her opinions, ideals, visions, but the day after the election, people with briefcases, in tie and suits with white shirts come to explain how to act as a good president. And changing something in this situation is very difficult. I say this without irony.

So, are you saying that this storm in Washington is based on nothing but a fantasy?


Yes, on fantasy. On the desire of those who lost the elections to remedy their situation by accusing Russia of interference. They lost because the winner was closer to the people and had a better understanding of the voters' aspirations. It's hard to admit. One would rather explain and prove to others that the policy followed by the Democrats was the right one, but that someone from outside deceived the American people. That someone rigged the election. But this is not the case. They simply lost: one must know how to recognize one's defeat, and have the strength to do so. Once this is done, it will be simpler to work together. But today, we use the anti-Russian card in Washington, and this is detrimental to international relations. They could of course quarrel among themselves: who is the best? Who is the most intelligent? But hey, it will pass...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 12:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I agree with Putin's statement.
Posted by: Snomong Snolusing6062 || 06/02/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin is *so* much more intelligent than the Democrats.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/02/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||


Here's The Complete List Of Everyone & Everything The Hildebeest Has Blamed For Her Loss
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 01:42 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't believe Bill is not on there.
Posted by: Slusolet Elmuting9341 || 06/02/2017 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  I reckon Seth Rich would be a sub-category of Wikileaks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:37 Comments || Top||

#3  reminds me of Jake's excuses for missing wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE
Posted by: lord garth || 06/02/2017 6:49 Comments || Top||

#4  I see no listing of the election being lost because the HildaBeest was a lousy, smug, filled-with-a-sense of entitlement, lying, sick, evil, candidate bytch.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Even John King at CNN has jumped on the bandwagon, he said: “You don’t understand: The Russians cloaked Wisconsin,” referring to Clinton’s ignoring the battleground state until it was too late.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  It's not complete! I don't see my name or the Constitution on there.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/02/2017 12:02 Comments || Top||

#7  This list is bullshit without Drudge, Rush Limbaugh & NASCAR.
Posted by: Raj || 06/02/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't forget the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy(TM)
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll wait for summer vocation before starting anything that long.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 17:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Hillary didn't lose the election because of any of the listed factors; she lost because a sufficient number of Americans figured out that she's a spiteful, vindictive, power-obsessed termagant-- and that's ALL she is.
Posted by: Dave D. || 06/02/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||

#11  NO, NO, NO!!! Hillary didn't lose the election!! She won the popular vote!!!


right?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/02/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#12  'The Rain'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 17:53 Comments || Top||

#13  'Professor Plum, in the Kitchen, with the Candlestick.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 17:53 Comments || Top||

#14  'The discovery of Element 117'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 17:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Congrats to everyone (and everything) who made the list. For everyone else, thank you for your participation. Better luck next time. We'll play again in 2020.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/02/2017 18:33 Comments || Top||

#16  Feminine itch and dry balls syndrome also!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 06/02/2017 19:19 Comments || Top||

#17  Probably no chance I make the list.
Posted by: Lord Calvert || 06/02/2017 19:34 Comments || Top||


Study: New taxes could fund universal California health care
[SFGATE] A longshot Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, proposal to replace insurance companies with government-funded health care for all of the state's residents could be paid for with a sales tax hike and a new tax on business revenue, according to a report released Wednesday.

The report said those taxes would generate $106 billion annually. It was made public by the influential California Nurses Association as the state Senate faces a Friday deadline to vote on the bill, which outlines how a single-payer health care system would function but does not say how it would be funded.

In a study commissioned by the nursing union, researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst suggested a 2.3 percent sales tax and a 2.3 percent gross receipts tax, which would apply to all corporate revenue. Poor residents would get a tax credit to offset the higher sales tax.

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ...
, both Democrats, have expressed skepticism about the proposal. If it were to clear the Legislature and be signed into law by Brown, it would need cooperation from President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's administration to waive rules about federal Medicare and Medicaid dollars.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is a reason socialist countries have a 63-75% tax rate.

Enjoy bondage Caliphornia
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2017 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Abu Ulu,

Time to pack it up and head for higher ground.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  How about studying what happens to populations and businesses when they are overtaxed?
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#4  The other 49 states should offer all welfare recipients universal health care via one way ticket to the People's Republic of California.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/02/2017 1:58 Comments || Top||


#6  The other 49 states should offer all welfare recipients universal health care via one way ticket to the People's Republic of California.

This may not work, it depends on having doctors of which most if not all would have left else where for lower taxes and cost of living.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/02/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#7  IIUC, this is the second single-payer funding proposal. The other one would be funded by a significant increase in income taxes.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/02/2017 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  I was talking to Mrs. Uluque about North Carolina last night. Not sure she's on board yet. She didn't want to hear about Ricardo Lara.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/02/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  I think California is missing an opportunity here to tax the bordering states just because they get to experience of being next to the most glorious state in the world!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/02/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Abu, South Carolina is a better deal. Just about every tax you can name is higher in NC than in SC (we moved across the border in 2008 and have never looked back.)
Posted by: Tom || 06/02/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||


Government
S&P, Moody's Downgrade Illinois to Near Junk
[BLOOMBERG] Illinois had its bond rating downgraded to one step above junk by Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings, the lowest ranking on record for a U.S. state, as the long-running political stalemate over the budget shows no signs of ending.

S&P warned that Illinois will likely lose its investment-grade status, an unprecedented step for a state, around July 1 if leaders haven’t agreed on a budget that chips away at the government’s chronic deficits. Moody’s followed S&P’s downgrade Thursday, citing Illinois’s underfunded pensions and the record backlog of bills that are equivalent to about 40 percent of its operating budget.

"Legislative gridlock has sidetracked efforts not only to address pension needs but also to achieve fiscal balance," Ted Hampton, Moody’s analyst, said in a statement. "During the past year of fruitless negotiations and partisan wrangling, fundamental credit challenges have intensified enough to warrant a downgrade, regardless of whether a fiscal compromise is reached."

Illinois hasn’t had a full year budget in place for the past two years amid a clash between the Democrat-run legislature and Republican Governor Bruce Rauner. That’s left the fifth most-populous state with a record $14.5 billion of unpaid bills, ravaged entities like universities and social service providers that rely on state aid and undermined Illinois’s standing in the bond market, where investors have demanded higher premiums for the risk of owning its debt. Moody’s called Illinois "an outlier among states" after suffering eight downgrades in as many years.

"The rating actions largely reflect the severe deterioration of Illinois’ fiscal condition, a byproduct of its stalemated budget negotiations," S&P analyst Gabriel Petek said in a statement. "The unrelenting political brinkmanship now poses a threat to the timely payment of the state’s core priority payments."

Illinois’s 10-year bonds yield 4.4 percent, 2.5 percentage points more than those on top-rated debt. That spread -- a measure of the perceived risk -- is the highest since at least January 2013 and more than any of the other 19 states tracked by Bloomberg.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think it is time for Indiana, Missouri and Indiana to form a coalition and liberate Chicago.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Why the heck would they want it?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  To contain the spread of Illinois refugees. Illinois can be considered a territory of Indiana, Iowa (third state I meant to mention above) and Missouri, much like Puerto Rico, until they achieve AAA rating under the guidance of mentally competent leadership.
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:55 Comments || Top||

#4  A day of financial reckoning may soon be coming for Illinois and California. When that day comes, I hope the do nothing Congress has enough courage to tell them to go to hell.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The time that Keynes predicted - "In the end, we are all dead anyways" - has arrived.

The rank and file are shocked that this thing they were told was sustainable forever is blowing up in their faces. The smarter individuals among Democrats and the rest of the left, the public thugocracy and the politicians and the professoriate and the Davoisie, have ALWAYS known that the Keynesian project would ultimately go bust, they just hoped it would be after they had lived a long and comfortable life. The ones living now have the misfortune of being still alive when the endpoint of stealing from the productive and from their progeny's future has occurred.

It was a gamble on their part. They've crapped out.
Posted by: no mo uro || 06/02/2017 5:34 Comments || Top||

#6  The result of decades of political corruption in Chicago. The "One" transferred the new and enhanced model to Washington. Now we know what "O" meant when he said amongst the faux Greek columns: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” after the election in 2008.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7  A lot of corporations quit doing work directly for the State of Illinois some time ago.

Seems they weren't getting paid or something.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/02/2017 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Meanwhile unfunded public pensions, a widespread state and city problem all over the USA, continues to get minimal MSM attention.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Happier every day that we left Illinois in 2000.
Posted by: Tom || 06/02/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#10  "Escape from Illinois?" A new movie?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/02/2017 18:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Number #1 to blame: Michael Madigan
Posted by: 3dc || 06/02/2017 19:34 Comments || Top||



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