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Rumour: Iraqi news site indicates IS supremo may have been hit by coalition force strike
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A NYC Biker Got A Mouthful Of Asphalt After Trying To Cut Across Champ's Motorcade [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] Obama had been in town to tape his segment for “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” (VIDEO: Obama Tells Fallon — Presidency Is A ‘Serious Job … Not Reality TV’)

The biker was seen being handcuffed in the video and reportedly received a summons for disorderly conduct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 07:55 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He was no "biker", just a bicyclist, doing what bicyclists have always done, especially in big cities.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/10/2016 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess this is one time they are not above the law.
Posted by: gorb || 06/10/2016 12:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Tiananmen Square moment.
Posted by: Regular joe || 06/10/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Lese Majeste!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2016 17:16 Comments || Top||


White House calls FBI probe into Beest's emails a 'criminal investigation'
[Mail] OOPS: White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday that President Obama won't interfere with 'any criminal investigation' like the one Hillary Clinton faces over classified documents in her private emails

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 07:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet he endorsed the candidate being investigated.

All part of his grand plan for Biden and Warren? Including the oops?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/10/2016 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Or the "fix" is in.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/10/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  The path to deflect Hillary May be emerging, as Cheryl Mills begins to look like road kill and the option of a pardon for her and lifetime of fat employment after the pardon dangles. If she takes the bait, she should consider how often tragic accidents seem to follow post-deal Clintonian synchophants.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I trust Obama as far as I can throw my thumb. The fix is in.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/10/2016 13:56 Comments || Top||

#5  If Comey resigns it'll be a dead giveaway.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 15:58 Comments || Top||


Obama siphoned $500M From Zika response, sends to U.N. Climate Fund
[LI] At the same time, he asked Congress for $1.8 billion in funding for the resources to combat the Zika virus, the pathogen spreading rapidly through the Americas that can cause birth defects and neurological problems. In a rare display of fiscal restraint, Congress granted $622 million (mainly from unused Ebola response money).
Yes, Bernardo. Five hundred million U.S. dollars.
However, as negotiations continue for even more Zika funding between these two branches of government, it seems that $500 million of those taxpayer dollars initially allotted now sits in the coffers of the United Nations.

The Obama administration siphoned $500 million that could have gone toward combating the Zika virus into a United Nations effort aimed at mitigating climate change.

Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.) wrote in an op-ed published in the Daily Signal that the Senate last year granted Obama the authority to pay for a response to Zika, but his administration chose instead to allocate those funds toward the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 06:22 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No doubt the funding diversion was justified by saying fighting global warming fights mosquitos fights Zika, so they are complying with what Congress granted the money for.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/10/2016 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently he needed a few bribes, fast.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2016 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Simple rationalization.
Warmer weather, longer Mosquito season.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2016 12:22 Comments || Top||

#4  So, it's OK for the next prez to redirect EPA and Dept of Ed money too. Cool!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2016 17:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Hummm, I see 6 new flight 2 Seawolves.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/10/2016 20:36 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bill Claims To Have Slept With 2000 Women
Big huge Daily Mail article. Here are the lowhighlights:
Bill Clinton's lover - before and AFTER his marriage - tells how 'lumpy' Hillary with her 'fat ankles and hair on her toes' schemed to get her to LIE on 60 Minutes about Bill's other affairs

'There appears to be no limit to what Hillary will do to destroy her perceived enemies,' Dolly Kyle writes in her new bombshell book

Kyle began sleeping with Bill Clinton after high school and their affair didn't end until he moved to the White House

'Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent,' she admits in memoir that rips the lid off the power couple

Bill was undone by Wilt Chamberlain's claim to have slept with 20,000 women - That's ten times more than I've had!' he told Dolly

Dolly says Bill told her he and Hillary - who he called 'The Warden' -needed to have a baby 'so we can appear to be a normal couple'

'We need to do something serious to take attention off the Warden's lifestyle,' Bill said and Dolly suggested he sleep with Hillary
Drastic times . . . ."
When Dolly met Hillary - May 28, 1974 - she wore a 'misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body'

The garment 'stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair'

'Thick brown sandals did nothing to conceal her wide feet and the hair on her toes,' Dolly said, adding that she was embarrassed and staring
I recall Huma saying something like how she thought Hillary was beautiful. I guess that explains why she might marry Weiner.
Posted by: gorb || 06/10/2016 10:18 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So few?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/10/2016 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  She wasn't much of a warden if she let him out that often.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  her wide feet and the hair on her toes

Hillary is a giant Hobbit?
Posted by: Clyde Shoth5669 || 06/10/2016 12:48 Comments || Top||

#4  A handful even consented.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/10/2016 13:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Piker...
Posted by: Wilt Chamberlain || 06/10/2016 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  and not fond of using a condom. probability of an STD has to be pretty high
Posted by: Warthog || 06/10/2016 15:16 Comments || Top||

#7  2000 women? Is that more than Hillary has?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2016 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2016 15:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Actually this would be more appropriate:

Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2016 16:00 Comments || Top||

#10  You know Bill is humming this...
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Given how good Brazilian and Thai doctors have gotten, you sure none of them were convertibles?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2016 17:40 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2016 20:51 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
VA Fires First Negligent Officials in 18 Months
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] The Department of Veterans' Affairs fired three bigwigs from the Phoenix VA health care system Wednesday, marking the first dismissals linked to the mismanagement in Arizona since the system's director was ousted in November 2014.

Associate director Lance Robinson, chief of Health Administration Service Brad Curry, and hospital chief of staff Dr. Darren Deering were all removed for negligent performance and failure to provide effective oversight for properly scheduled appointments, according to a news release from the department.

"We have an obligation to Veterans and the American people to take appropriate accountability actions as supported by evidence," Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said. "While this process took far too long, the evidence supports these removals and sets the stage for moving forward."

The VA proposed the staffers' termination in March, and Wednesday's announcement formalized the dismissals.

"Deputy Secretary Gibson is correct in saying the process took 'far too long'," said Republican congressman Jeff Miller, the chairman of the House committee on veterans' affairs, in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just be sure they get their bonuses and pensions.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/10/2016 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "While this process took far too long"

Translation: "We had to comb through the list to find acceptable demographics."
Posted by: Pappy || 06/10/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder which cushy job they are headed to.
Posted by: gorb || 06/10/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Quietly rehired in 3, 2, 1...
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/10/2016 11:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't sign their loyalty oaths.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Here's your sacrificial lambs!

Now shuddup, awreddy!
Posted by: charger || 06/10/2016 13:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Warren declares herself ready to be Hildebeest's running mate
[Guardian] Senator Elizabeth Warren has declared herself ready to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the US presidential election.

The Massachusetts senator ‐ popular among the progressive wing of the Democratic party ‐ made the declaration shortly after endorsing Clinton, calling her "a fighter with guts" who would keep Donald Trump out the White House.

In an interview on MSNBC, Warren was asked by Rachel Maddow: "If you were asked to be Secretary Clinton’s running mate, do you believe you could do it?"

Her response was concise: "Yes, I do."

In another interview with the Boston Globe on Thursday, Warren endorsed Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee, saying: "I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 06:45 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's an exciting dynamic duo (sarc); a crook and a fraud.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2016 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Crook does not exclude fraud, and v.v.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/10/2016 9:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta read between the lines....

She's setting herself up to be Biden's VP when Hill goes down. Nobody wants a ticket of two old biddies.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2016 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  She adds nothing to a Hillary ticket. She would be of value as a VP to Biden.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/10/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Bravely waited until Hillary had it locked up. What a fucking fraud.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2016 12:01 Comments || Top||

#6  She won't be Hillary's VP, Hillary hates her and won't have a strong woman in "HER" Whit House.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/10/2016 13:59 Comments || Top||


Obama formally endorses Clinton for president
[Dhaka Tribune] US President Barack Obama formally endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, describing himself as eager to get out and campaign for her, days after she gained the delegates needed to secure the party's White House nomination.
One would think that the first presidential candidate to be the principal of a lengthy FBI investigation in the run-up to a national election might justify caution and pause, but no, political ideology trumps the hand of justice.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  political ideology trumps the hand of justice.

It's not political ideology. It's desire for the use of the apparatus of state to guarantee money and status. Most of the people who will vote for Hillary Clinton are apolitical, they just have the ability to see which side their bread is buttered on.
Posted by: no mo uro || 06/10/2016 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Consider the case of fellow Democrat poltician Alcee Hastings? Impeached Judge and "Representative for Life" in a safe district.
Posted by: magpie || 06/10/2016 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Or consider the case of Al Sharpton's delinquent taxes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Considering the success rate of his major public programs, I for one welcome his contributions to her campaign.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Me, too. Everything 0bean touches turns to $hit. I welcome his endorsement of Shrillary.
Posted by: gorb || 06/10/2016 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 I believe you confuse "getting the job done" with "getting the job".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2016 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  So Obean endorses Hillary and then he later meets with Bernie Sanders and also meets with Loretta Lynch of DOJ. Shortly after endorsing Hillary Clinton, Josh Ernest, the WH Press Secretary goes to the podium and says the FBI email investigation is a criminal investigation. Meanwhile, the few dribs and drabs that have appeared in the press suggest the email fiasco is far worse than people thought. Is Obean trying to protect his backside?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2016 14:02 Comments || Top||

#8  E mails implicate O. Hillary has him over a barrel. Correspondence occurred. The fix is in. They will never drag O down. The FBI will be forced to make a sacrifice within their department at most.
Posted by: Dale || 06/10/2016 18:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Hillary's PCorrect, on-going silence on the Econ + Foreign Policy won't help her iff an Obama-led US has to fight a war agz China + Iran this summer or fall in defense of overseas US allies. HER POLICY ADVISOR(S) ON CAMPAIGN NEED TO COME UP WID SOMETHING.

AND OBAMA CAN'T + WON'T BE IMPEACHED IFF HE IS NO LONGER IN OFFICE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/10/2016 23:57 Comments || Top||



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