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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Obama Tells Jerry Seinfeld Many World Leaders 'Insane'
[DEADLINE] The night before GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was scheduled to ring in 2016 on Fox News Channel, President Obama debuted on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Crackle. Seinfeld explains in the interview that Obama has gotten off just enough funny lines during his presidency to barely qualify as a guest on his Crackle gig.

“How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind?” Seinfeld asks, one of the better interviews conducted with Obama during his presidency.

“A pretty sizable percentage,” Obama answered, continuing what Comedy Central late-night host Larry Wilmore has dubbed Obama’s “Doesn’t Give a F•ck” year in office.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course Seinfeld's questions and the larger psy-war message were pre-coordinated. It's not just 'world leaders.' Anyone who disagrees with the Champ is seen as 'Insane.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Insane and in need of re-education.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2016 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Projection anyone ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  A story about a pot and a kettle.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2016 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  "Takes one to know one"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/01/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  I wish it was mere insanity. Champ is a narcissistic, venal, immature, racist child. He exists in a bubble of manipulation and censored news, and he sees his power to destroy the America he hates as moral transformation and social justice. He is a force of turmoil and divisive public policy and his immigration intent is to change the American demographic forever. He is a dangerous fool and the damage he has done is epic and perhaps permanent.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/01/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  You're being far too charitable NMBS. Far, far too charitable.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  I wish it was mere insanity.

The insanity is in believing he won't have to pay.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/01/2016 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  What NoMoreBS said.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/01/2016 12:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Obama is only a figurehead for a whole group of 'more than merely insane' people.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2016 13:41 Comments || Top||

#11  He is insane, yet he outranks them.

----Firesign Theatre
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/01/2016 13:58 Comments || Top||

#12  I wonder how much money already rich Jerry made shilling for the vomitous Barry. I guess in some cases "you haven't made enough yet..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/01/2016 16:34 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Hundreds of new laws in California
[LATIMES] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns face new restrictions on carrying guns, protections from warrantless searches of their emails, immunity from city fines for installing artificial turf and higher pay if they earn minimum wage under laws that take effect with the new year.

Many of the 807 bills signed into law touch on broad aspects of California residents' everyday lives or address major issues like voter participation, and life and death.

Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown
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Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm outta here.

Fuck you California
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2016 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "The new year also requires law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant before looking at private emails, text messages and GPS data stored in smartphones, laptops and the cloud."

That is a good one.
Posted by: Lionel Thoth9784 || 01/01/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Me thinks California just nailed a big bull's eye on the back of the University system with the banning of all weapons from campus.

Any bets on how long it takes a shooter or three to cause mass blood shed on a California campus?

Remember it was a student with a handgun that stopped the Virginia Tech shooter.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/01/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Any bets on how long it takes a shooter or three to cause mass blood shed on a California campus?

Three months - give me the under.
Posted by: Raj || 01/01/2016 13:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton Is Not a Feminist

Since Hillary announced that her husband would be joining her on the campaign trail, people have been debating whether or not it's fair for the GOP to attack Bill's sexual misdeeds in order to indirectly attack her.

This makes sense. After all, we're talking about a guy who has been accused of the sexual assault of more than ten women. Think about it: How is her appointing him really any different than if she'd appointed Bill Cosby? But here's the thing: The real issue isn't whether or not to attack Bill to indirectly attack Hillary ‐ it's about directly attacking Hillary for how she herself treated the women involved.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2016 10:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is she even human?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/01/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is she even a carbon-based life form?
Posted by: Matt || 01/01/2016 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's leave the dehumanisng of our opponents to the left. That love that sort of thing.

Hillary is all too human and fully capable of doing some truly evil things song the lines of Pol-Pot, Stalin, Hitler, and all the way back to the Prophet Mohammand himself.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2016 19:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, CF, don't hold back.

Tell us how you really feel.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/01/2016 19:58 Comments || Top||


Democrats are now in real danger of becoming extinct in the South
[WASHINGTONPOST]
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't see this as good at all. It just shows how divided we are becoming as a nation and it will not end well as those clamoring for more federal government control clash with those that want the old Republic style smaller federal government.

I fear it will end in blood as the feds get more paranoid and tyrannical as their power slips away.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2016 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course the reason the Democrats are losing the south, according to the article, is that the southerners are racist homophobes clinging to their bibles and guns...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2016 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The Left is the government now. They have enough pull, don't ja think?
That government would not exist without the democrat party. The democrat party would not exist but for that government.

For democrats, the government is but just a means to spread their narrow, corrupt ideology.

Karl Marx wrote a fairy tale, and they will be damned if they cannot force you to make it a reality.

Governing? HEH! That's for fools and squares. Who needs the functioning government if you have coercive power?
Make them do favors for you.
Who needs a legal system when the state owns everything?

Simple, right.

Democrats can kiss my ass.
You suck running anything. That's why you need government jobs so you do not have to compete with people who actually know what they are doing?

Like the Private Sector, in almost anything.

Posted by: newc || 01/01/2016 2:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Also, need I mention the FACT that there is no future in America with democrats at the helm? They are cursed, illogical, deny science, and GOD.
Posted by: newc || 01/01/2016 2:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps there is some sort of long-standing ideological connection ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 4:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Democrats have walked away from their base several years ago. Republicans are in the process of doing the same. They just want the power. Forget the people. My new years wish with Obama's folly that all those immigrants be sent to Hawaii.
Posted by: Dale || 01/01/2016 6:56 Comments || Top||

#7  The author must not have been to atlanta in awhile.
Posted by: chris || 01/01/2016 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Nothing will alter the politics of Fulton County, GA or any other giant, urban kraal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#9  This crop of radicals (Democrats) has done it to themselves. Bunch of lemmings in lock-step parroting the same messages.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#10  That's OK. Republicans are practically extinct in California.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/01/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#11  *raises hand*
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Correction: endangered
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/01/2016 14:01 Comments || Top||

#13  A friend of mine is a certified Vietnamese boat person. Usual story: escapes the Communists by the skin of his teeth, comes to America, works 58 times harder than the locals, now owns a modestly successful business.

If you ask this guy what he thinks of Communism, you'd better be wearing full body armor in a blast shelter 10 miles away. But when he goes into that rant, he slips onto the habit of using "Communists" and "Democrats" interchangeably. It must be be his less-than-perfect command of English.
Posted by: Matt || 01/01/2016 14:43 Comments || Top||

#14  "It must be his less-than-perfect command of English."

He said with a wink.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/01/2016 15:20 Comments || Top||

#15  This should be a model for us all.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/01/2016 16:07 Comments || Top||


Foggy Bottom again defies federal judge on Hilarity emails
The State Department broke a judge’s order on the number of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails it was supposed to release Thursday, blaming a dog for eating the homework the holiday season for throwing it off track.

The department promised another release of emails next week to make up for its breach, and said even the emails it was releasing Thursday will not be fully processed and won’t be able to be sorted by senders or recipients in the department’s computer system.

“We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month. To narrow that gap, the State Department will make another production of former Secretary Clinton’s email sometime next week,” the department said in a statement.
I have read that when a party at a court hearing upsets a judge enough that party can be jailed for "contempt of court". However, I've never seen it applied. Is what I've read correct or should I confine myself to more reliable sources like Soldier of Fortune?
It’s the latest embarrassment for the department, which has supposedly repeatedly struggled to handle the more than 30,000 emails Mrs. Clinton returned to the government nearly two years after she left office.

The department is under a federal court order to release emails every month since the summer, but broke the order by missing the first deadline under that order. It had caught up, but has now fallen behind again.

All told, some 5,500 pages of documents will be released later Thursday. It’s not clear yet how many actual individual emails that works out to, since many of them span multiple pages. Under the court order, the government is supposed to release 4,800 full emails this month. The final 5,400 emails are to be released near the end of next month — just days before Iowa voters hold the caucuses that kick off the primary season, deciding whether Mrs. Clinton will be Democrats’ presidential nominee.

She belatedly returned her emails after the Obama administration, prodded by Congress’s probe into the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, realized she had taken all of her messages with her when she left office. The administration then publicly revealed that Mrs. Clinton had refused to use a regular account on the State.gov email server, instead creating an account on a server she kept at her home in New York.

Hundreds of the messages she returned contain information that has now been deemed classified — though Mrs. Clinton insists it was not secret at the time she sent it. She says she didn’t break any laws in keeping her own account.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Key here is, no one has been indicted of jailed. In all of this, not ONE !

The 'rule of law' means nothing when edicts from the King to his Department of Justice direct otherwise. Nothing heard from the Beltway Party as the trail would undoubtedly lead to them as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2016 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought the judge in this case had a spine. Guess I was wrong.
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/01/2016 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Time is long overdue to jug her.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||



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