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APNewsBreak: State Dept audit faults Clinton in emails
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/25/2016 10:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently the handlers don't think she can win and are starting the replacement process.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/25/2016 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Summary: the last five were bad, she was the worst of the lot.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||


First 'Clinton Cash' Domino to Fall: FBI Reviewing Investigating Bagman McAuliffe
[Breitbart] Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.

As part of the probe, the officials said, investigators have scrutinized McAuliffe’s time as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a vehicle of the charitable foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton.

There’s no allegation that the foundation did anything improper; the probe has focused on McAuliffe and the electoral campaign donations, the officials said.

Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the FBI declined to comment.
Hillary's memory is about to get worse. "McAuliffe? Never heard of him!"

In Chicago, we call that "Fedheimers Disease." Just as Alzheimers disease is a loss of memory and inability to recall things, Fedheimers is the inability to recall an association with someone who has just been indicted by the Feds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2016 04:39 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  B***h set me up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/25/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Hillary's memory is about to get worse

She is getting up there in mileage years, and she's always had a poor memory....especially in Senate and House hearings, interviews, testimony under oath, her husband's philandering, the source of funds to her Criminal Organization Foundation, landing in Tuzla, ....
Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2016 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope they put the sleazoid under the jail.
Posted by: Barbara || 05/25/2016 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey Barbara - don't blame me. I voted for Cuccinelli.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/25/2016 16:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Me three, Rambler.

Not that it mattered - McAwful had so many in-kind contributions from the press. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 05/25/2016 16:40 Comments || Top||


Baltimore Blames ‘White People’ After Cop Found Not Guilty In Freddie Gray Case
[DAILYCALLER] BALTIMORE, M.D. — Baltimore city residents expressed disappointment in response to the city circuit court Monday finding a police officer not guilty in connection to the death of Freddie Gray.

Officer Edward Nero was charged with several misdemeanor offenses after Gray died April, 2015, in his custody. Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams found Nero not guilty of all charges just over a year later. Residents were not surprised given what they saw as racial bias in the criminal justice system.

“White people are turning a blind eye,” resident Mumin Soweto told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We’re not the ones stirring up the racism.”

Mumin adds the black community is fearful 1960s style racism is on the rise. Nero was charged with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office. The prosecution argued Nero and the five other officers involved were wrong in detaining Gray without a good reason and for not buckling him into a van he was transported in.
Yes, they were wrong for doing that, but it ain't murder.
“No one wants to play the race card but it’s hard not to see it that way,” city resident Mike Smith told TheDCNF. “That man had human rights just like everyone else.”
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “White people are turning a blind eye,” resident Mumin Soweto told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We’re not the ones stirring up the racism.”

We're just the ones torching and looting the stores!
Posted by: Raj || 05/25/2016 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I have found people from other countries who are dark complected shun the blacks here because of their racism and hatred of others as well as themselves. Well, I added the last part. I remember the riots well and they attacked their own people readily. In our universities the pressure to conform is greatest there. Good old peer pressure.
Posted by: Dale || 05/25/2016 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone forgot to mention the judge is black.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/25/2016 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  And the driver of the van that actually had the responsibility and knowledge of restraining the prison I believe was black.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/25/2016 12:16 Comments || Top||

#5  But a black cop isn't a proper black, just as blacks from the Caribbean without the baggage of American slavery aren't proper black until they've been here a generation or two.

Very sad where black culture has gone and that anybody that holds up a mirror is vilified. I suspect history will not look kindly on Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/25/2016 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  I am certain that race hustlers don't give a sh*t about history, only the money and power.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/25/2016 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I suspect history will not look kindly on Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

Don't forget Baraq.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/25/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I know history won't look kindly on Obama.

Obama didn't start the race hustle though (the way Jackson and Sharpton did), he just exploited it and made it worse. That's another topic.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/25/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#9  I suspect history will not look kindly on Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.
Can't happen soon enough.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2016 16:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Sadly, History is written by the winners.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2016 21:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Americans darker complected,
Benighted, are often detected
By flashes of anger
And miserable clangor
At having been (eeek!) disrespected.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 05/25/2016 23:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton's problem isn't Bernie Sanders. It's Hillary Clinton
[Salon] No matter what you think about Hillary Clinton as the presidential primaries wind down, there is one undeniable fact that lingers in the background. Despite having had enormous advantages from the start of the campaign--no serious competition from within the party, solid support from national party leaders, a massive war chest and a nationwide grassroots network built over the course of decades in national politics--Clinton has struggled to put away a 74-year-old Jewish socialist who has had almost no establishment support.
This in Salon? She must really be in trouble.
Say whatever you want about Clinton’s lengthy resume'--and her credentials are indeed impressive--
No they aren't. She's ridden Bill's coattails all the way to this moment. She'd be another hack lawyer if she'd married someone else. She'd be a ham-and-egger in suburban Chicago, or a adjunct faculty person at an unranked law school. The only things that have gotten Hillary to where she is now are her ambition and her marriage.
her performance this primary season is hardly indicative of a strong candidate.

Indeed, Clinton concedes that she’s not a natural politician, lacking the charm of her husband or the charisma of Barack Obama. But what should be troubling to those who hope to see a Democrat in the White House next year is that Clinton seems to suggest that this weakness isn’t problematic, that her resume and policy-wonk reputation will be enough to carry her on Election Day.
She's "Crooked Hillary".
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2016 06:34 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lengthy resume'--and her credentials are indeed impressive-

Impressive to whom? Why? What has she ever done?

This is the kind of $hit that turned me off to the media and politics. The MSM has just decide to make stuff up and pimp for their masters no matter how asinine they appear.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/25/2016 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  She's a sleazy lying lawyer and an awful human being. Listening to her speeches should be considered punishment
Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2016 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Meskins are moving over to support third world commie Sanders. That is why you see Meskin flags at Trump protests.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 05/25/2016 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm not sure it's all Hillary's fault. Sanders is generating a lot of excitement on his own. I don't think the schools these days educate kids about the differences between capitalism and communism, free enterprise versus government control of the economy. The kids certainly don't remember the Soviet Union or the Cold War. They think Bernie is some kind of a mild Santa Claus socialist who will turn America into Sweden and for some reason they think Sweden is cool. They think all the free stuff that he promises is really gonna be free. It's kinda scary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/25/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Trailing daughter #2, who found herself the only one arguing the conservative side of every question in Hebrew school discussions, likes Candidate Sanders' honesty, even when she doesn't agree with his positions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2016 21:42 Comments || Top||


Jimmy Carter: Trump tapped a reservoir ‘of inherent racism’
[YAHOO] Former President Jimmy Carter
... the second worst president ever...
had some tough words on Monday for Donald Trump.
"Jimmy Carter" and "tough." That's a set of words you don't often see in one sentence.
Carter told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
that Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, had "tapped a waiting reservoir there of inherent racism."
Every election it comes out. Romney and McCain were racists. Bob Dole was a racist. Both George Bushes were racists.
He also said Trump had violated human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
with some of his incendiary comments on the campaign trail. According to the Times, Carter cited Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from the U.S. and his claim that Mexico is sending criminals across the U.S. border.
How does a proposal violate "human rights?" If you don't like it, argue against it.
"When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights," the former president said.
How can people who aren't citizens have "secondary citizenship status?"
Carter, 91, gave the interview to the Times in order to highlight a Baptist conference he is hosting this fall to address race issues and social inequality. He told the paper that he has seen an increase of open racism.
From the time Bull Connor set the fire hoses and the dogs on people?
"I don’t feel good, except for one things: I think the country has been reawakened the last two or three years to the fact that we haven’t resolved the race issue adequately," he said.
We elected a man who was bi-racial and got one who was black.
He further said, "I think there’s a heavy reaction among some of the racially conscious Republicans against an African-American being president."
Maybe it's not his race? Maybe it's the fact that he's a communist?
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No dipshit. We don't care if he is "African-American", aka Melanin rich.

We hate him because he is a symptom of the sickness that is being spread by progressive pukes like yourself that is destroying freedom and this country.

The faster you all die of bowel cancer the happier I'll be.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/25/2016 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep. He's very good at it. That's why the Elders of Zion created him.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2016 4:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I have only a few questions for the almighty, but this one is at the top of my list.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2016 6:04 Comments || Top||

#4  jimmy carter tapped a reservoir of anti semite money

lots of contributions to his foundation from really awful folks including, for example, the bin laden foundation and the Zayed foundation

having Carter denounce you is like being criticized by one of Satan's public affairs lobbyists
Posted by: lord garth || 05/25/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Elected a black man twice, now suddenly racist. Only, in the minds of those who are truly racist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/25/2016 8:49 Comments || Top||

#6  why won't he just die? I'll be sure to make a deposit on his grave
Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2016 10:41 Comments || Top||

#7  I'll be sure to make a deposit on his grave

I'll make a deposit too.. but would have to drink a few beers first to work up a full bladder..
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2016 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  I will just drink a ton of beer and eat a lot of chili to work up my deposits.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/25/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm still pissed about the Panama Canal giveaway.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/25/2016 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  I promised myself after the military, I'd try my best to avoid really really long lines like that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/25/2016 12:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Follwing up on lord garth's statement: based onwhat Alan Dershowitz dug up, it looks like former president Carter received at least $20 million from Saudi sources going back to the late 1970s.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#12  And the Soddies are not racist?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/25/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Jimmuh couldn't work up the courage to punch himself out of a wet paper bag because, then and now, he second-guessed every motivation he and others had. Sometimes, you just need to shoot and stop worrying about it.
Posted by: gorb || 05/25/2016 13:31 Comments || Top||

#14  He can't go to Heaven and Hell won't take him.

And Purgatory isn't a permanent solution.
Posted by: charger || 05/25/2016 18:58 Comments || Top||


CBS2 Investigation Uncovers Votes Being Cast From Grave Year After Year
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Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Name That Party!
Posted by: Raj || 05/25/2016 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  You'd think with all the illegal aliens voting they wouldn't have to resort to this.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/25/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Only 215 in Los Angeles County?

Compared to Cook County, they're pikers.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/25/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#4  215 is the start, and maybe all they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/25/2016 14:40 Comments || Top||

#5  It is interesting that Republicans have been talking about this for decades and of course were called racist but now Bernie Sanders voters are running into it and suddenly investigations are happening.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/25/2016 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, #5 rj - go figure.
Posted by: Barbara || 05/25/2016 16:29 Comments || Top||


'Gigantic' corporate tax hike likely headed to Oregon voters
[FOXNEWS] A massive $2.8 billion annual corporate tax hike is likely headed to Oregon voters in November, a move that could create the most aggressive tax climate for big business of any state in the nation.
After all the businesses leave the state they'll be able to concentrate on Agrarian Reform®.
The ballot proposal comes as raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations is at the forefront of a national debate — especially among Democratic progressives such as Bernie Sanders and much of Oregon's electorate— about how to close the gaping economic disparities between rich and poor in a post-Great Recession era.

The proposal's labor-union backers are just one step from getting the measure on the ballot after submitting 130,000 signatures to state elections officials last week. They say it would tap a tiny portion of Oregon businesses while bringing a huge boost to cash-strapped public education, health care and senior services.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They say it would tap a tiny portion of Oregon businesses while bringing a huge boost to cash-strapped

"Smash the kulaks as a class!"
Posted by: charger || 05/25/2016 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Enjoy your loss of jobs and high unemployment... assholes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/25/2016 0:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Now all they need is a huge tax on leaving the state...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/25/2016 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  labor-union backers...

Any bets that they are state/local government employee unions that don't care if everyone ELSE loses their jobs as long as their pensions are guaranteed?
Posted by: magpie || 05/25/2016 1:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Totally Ignorant Commie Statists

Corporations whether profitable or not would be required to pay a major tax. Wholesalers would pay a tax, the retailer would pay another tax, then the consumer would pay a third tax on that one item.

Hospitals would be hit as well as anything that is moves.

Many jobs would be lost "unexpectedly" as well as shopping sprees outside the state resulting in "unexpectedly" lower tax revenue than expected by the knuckle dragging liberals.
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 || 05/25/2016 1:24 Comments || Top||

#6  "Seed corn? What's that?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/25/2016 5:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Hospitals would be hit as well as anything that is moves.

As hospitals close, just think of the healthcare savings this will produce.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/25/2016 6:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Texas better get ready for another round of incoming businesses.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/25/2016 7:54 Comments || Top||

#9  The allegory of the golden goose is only two and a half millenniums old. Free stuff, free stuff, free stuff! Welcome to Caracas of the North comrades.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/25/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Venezuela with hacky sack
Snark of the Day
Posted by: regular joe || 05/25/2016 11:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Phil Knight to the white courtesy telephone, Phil Knight.
Posted by: Speagum Henbane3168 || 05/25/2016 14:37 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 Venezuela with hacky sack

That's a winner!
Posted by: SteveS || 05/25/2016 15:13 Comments || Top||

#13  The mayor of Eugene, Oregon decided it would be good to be a sanctuary city for homeless. They come from all up and down the I5 corridor and set up in areas all over the place. She was reelected too, so the folks in this uber-liberal university town must agree. I doubt she can see any of this from her house, so it's probably OK.
Posted by: gorb || 05/25/2016 15:28 Comments || Top||

#14  #10 - extra double good snark!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2016 21:01 Comments || Top||



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