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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Podesta Emails: Bill, Chelsea ‘Office Crap' Made Foundation COO Suicidal
[LI] Wikileaks released another batch of emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, some of which tells about drama within the Clinton Foundation and limiting the usage of Bill due to his sexual history. In one disturbing chain, Doug Band, a lawyer who helped form the Clinton Foundation and former aide to President Bill Clinton, wrote to Podesta, Hillary aide Cheryl Mills, and aide Justin Cooper about how Bill and Chelsea's "office crap" almost caused the foundation's COO to commit suicide:

"Let's do a call and discuss this Document is mostly fine with a few Late last night, laura graham called me as she couldn't reach my brother or her shrink. She was on staten island in her car parked a few feet from the waters edge with her foot on the gas pedal and the car in park. She called me to tell me the stress of all of this office crap with wjc and cvc as well as that of her family had driven her to the edge and she couldn't take it anymore. I spent a while on the phone with her preventing her from doing that, as I have a few times in the past few months, and was able to reach roger and her shrink. Bruce said the stress of specifically the office had caused his very serious health issues as you both know."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Job Lock" sucks.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Now they're trying to expand the Clinton Foundation to make the U.S. suicidal.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I spent a while on the phone with her preventing her from doing that, as I have a few times in the past few months, and was able to reach roger and her shrink.

You have become a crutch. Turn off your phone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't understand. Why couldn't she just walk away? Oh, right. Fort Marcy Park.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/11/2016 11:24 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Leaked Emails Show Facebook Exec Shared Research With Clinton Campaign
But it was her own "personal research".

Uh huh.

Fascbook delenda est



Posted by: DPRK || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is yours is ours.

Privacy, smivacy, peasants. See - scorpion and frog.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2 
O'Reilly: At Least 3 Media Orgs Have 'Ordered Employees to Destroy Trump'

I expect Mr. O'Reilly to step down in shortly after the election. Something is happening at Fox, and he is not happy about it. The veneer of "Fair and Balanced" is coming off?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I stopped using Facebook a long time ago. I suggest that other people destroy it down by refusing to use it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Something is happening at Fox, and he is not happy about it. The veneer of "Fair and Balanced" is coming off?

I have sensed the same thing. He's showing signs of Dennis Miller 'societal write off.'

Yes, we're here visiting South Africa. We wanted to escape the crime in California.
~ Dennis Miller
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Personal research... yeah... right...

She might have ordered it, but it likely used the vast amount of Facebook data collected from its subscribers (without their knowledge). Big Data and Analytics.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/11/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||

#6  What's the olde adage?

If it is free, then you are the product.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 11:45 Comments || Top||

#7  If her "research" was conducted using Eff-Book resources, I doubt it belongs to her.

The Head Weasel is in on this also.


I got off Facebook a while back, as did most of my (real) friends with an IQ above room temperature.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
GOP Bed-Wetters Abandoning Trump
h/t Instapundit

Mike Huckabee, former presidential candidate and governor of Arkansas, says the Republican leadership is more concerned Donald Trump will win the 2016 election than they are he will lose and that is why they are jumping ship.

"A lot of these bed-wetting, hand-wringing Republicans -- they're not afraid Donald Trump is gonna lose. They're scared to death he's gonna win," Huckabee told Megyn Kelly. "And if he wins, he's going to mess up the neat little package of fun they have because they all play to the donor class, and Donald Trump is coming to make big changes in the way that these institutions go."


Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2016 14:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is no more or less popular in the Republican party than when this all started. Remember he was never supposed to be the nominee - just to suck all the air out of the race until the heavy hitters, Walker and Perry, bowed out.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/11/2016 18:13 Comments || Top||


Mrs. Janna Little Ryan: A Liberal running the show from the family kitchen table?
"Paul Ryan is married to Janna Little a liberal, left wing progressive, anti-Constitutional, big government George Soros supporter who voted for Barack Hussein Obama twice.

Heavy.com's Stephanie Dube Dwilson in an October 2015 column titled "Janna Ryan, Paul's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" reported:

Janna comes from a Democratic family. Her cousin, Dan Boren, was a Democratic Representative for Oklahoma from 2005 to 2013. Dan's father, David Boren, was the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979. Dan's grandfather, Lyle Boren, was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947. Janna's grandfather, Reuel Little, helped found a third party called the American Party in Oklahoma in 1968. He ran for governor in 1970 but didn't win, ABC News reported.

Janna herself has lobbied for liberal movements, such as marching in Washington in college for women's rights, The New York Times reported. Janna rarely gives interviews, CNN reported, and doesn't speak publicly about her political views.

Speaker Paul Ryan will not operate his family unit and make decisions that will cause friction and go against the will of his wife.


See "Pu$$y-Whipped." Would explain a lot.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 09:01 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He lacks spine, so he marries a liberal. Typical.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2016 18:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to believe stuff like this doesn't get more coverage /sarc.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/11/2016 20:52 Comments || Top||


Spineless establishment Pubs care more about their jobs than the future of America
[Wash Times] The self-righteous wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from Republican congressmen and other officials is down right pathetic.

So a man, eleven years ago, said some trash talk in a private conversation. Compare that with rape, impeachment, sticking a cigar you know where in the oval office, persecuting women, lying, selling out the United States to the highest bidder, committing national security crimes, committing charity fraud, taking money from people who stone women for being raped and cut gays’ heads off, killing four Americans in a botched gun run to jihadis... the list goes on and on.

A President Hillary Clinton is not an option. She will destroy the country, sell us out to the highest bidder, and further soil the executive branch. Bill will be free to roam the halls looking for the next place to put his cigar. Muslim extremist killers will be welcomed into the American halls of power, more than they already have been. Our borders will become nonexistent. Globalism will continue to decimate our jobs and economy. Regulations will continue to choke the life out of your family’s future.

To all those spineless, gelatinous masses who call themselves conservatives and demanding Trump drop out, I say it’s time to lead, follow or get out of the way.

So we found out Trump is a red-blooded, American male. Today, that is enough to get you shot. The Left’s hero, John F. Kennedy had multiple affairs in the White House and was a womanizer; he still is put on a pedestal.

All you GOP blowhards trashing Trump, I say, grow a pair and fight the real danger to our future, Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 00:59 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All you GOP blowhards trashing Trump, I say, grow a pair and fight the real danger to our future, Hillary Clinton.

IMO, the author's assumption that "GOP blowhards" have the same definition of "our", is not justified.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2016 3:46 Comments || Top||

#2  GOP weak-kneed blowhards need to decide who their real enemy is. You won't find the Dems collapsing support for their candidates even though they are treasonous, subversive, lying, devious, and deceptive and don't give a damn about the country or the American people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  John, for the demoncrats that is a plus, not a negative.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2016 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  They're afraid of losing their memberships in the Inner Party.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/11/2016 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Doesn't anybody remember Senator Tom Daschle and Moveon.org?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/11/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Master of the Obvious picture taking the day off?
Posted by: Raj || 10/11/2016 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  JohnQC, they won't trash fellow Dems because each of them look on at awe at the professional level of graft the Clinton's have achieved and hope to get a piece.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/11/2016 12:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Donald Trump is not a Republican. Never was.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/11/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#9  ...I'll buy that, but the Trunks today are not either. Who controls Congress but surrenders everything in the budget to the WH? What's the purpose of even having a legislative branch if it just allows the executive to issue fiats in the form of regulations and funds it all? It's just plain ritual.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2016 19:28 Comments || Top||

#10  You have a point. Same in Germany with Merkel.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/11/2016 19:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Its not the GOP you need to worry about - its Trump offending the general voting populace, especially the independents who hold the balance. Trump supporters seem incapable of seeing this, being too busy lashing out at the GOP which will give Congress to the Dems while Trump loses to Hillary as many predicted.

Blind rage is no way to run a campaign.
Posted by: Vespasian Snuger7509 || 10/11/2016 22:39 Comments || Top||


GIRLS: Hillary, Lena Dunham talk about Lenny Kravitz's penis

I completely fail to understand the things that interest some people.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, if they didn't found this, they'd present the way he butters his toast as crime against humanity. Don't you get it? For these "people" there is not such thing as objective reality!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2016 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Locker-room talk? "Hillary the Hypocrite" displayed abundant faux indignation at the 2nd debate. Drop out Hildabeest. Latest round of WikiLeak's Podesta emails indicates even they think Hillary has a problem with the truth.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  I am probably fortunate I don't know who Luna Dunham is.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/11/2016 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Phil_b: You are blessed by GOD to not know who she is.
Posted by: Charles || 10/11/2016 16:47 Comments || Top||

#5  An ignorant man (let us shun him!),
He didn't yet know Lena Dunham.
How came it to pass
That she waylaid his ass?
The naggy neurotic outrun him.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/11/2016 17:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Good one ZF. Phil! Don't find out! Don't go into the dark!

D-List, but not for swimming in Fruit Loops & Milk.


I love her Joker face.

Put a Bozo the Clown wig on her, and you get Pennywise.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 17:24 Comments || Top||


The Wind Down Begins: First stop for Obama library archives? An empty furniture store in Hoffman Estates
[ChicagoTribune] "The National Archives employees will organize, digitize and preserve the contents of what is sometimes called the "president's attic," said John Laster, who directs the Presidential Materials Division at the agency and has toured the Hoffman Estates site.

The space at 2500 W. Golf Road was leased in February by the General Services Administration. Village officials are expected to consider a special use permit for the project, which has the backing of Mayor Bill McLeod, in July. Work at the location could start as soon as October.
Street View HERE. Barricades in process of placement - guess he's gonna go..
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cookie time.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 10/11/2016 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Perfect site! It backs up to a country club!

And is across the street from the Goodwill donations center...
Posted by: Bobby || 10/11/2016 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  It's right next to the empty suit store.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  After all the destruction of documents and emails, how big does it have to be?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2016 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Good point P2k. The crumpled golf scorecards could actually be digitized.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  What about the real birth certificate?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Beat me to it P2K.

You will be more likely to find an original birth certificate than a score card.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 11:59 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS
[Daily Caller] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release.

Clinton sent the email on August 17, 2014 to Podesta. It was an eight-point plan to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton’s email said that the United States should support Kurdish forces on the ground with U.S. military advisers and avoid the use of a conventional ground operation.

"While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region," Clinton wrote.

The former secretary of state added: "This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the [Kurdish Regional Government]. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 00:39 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Anything Sunni is funded by the Saudis. Where's the Captain Obvious graphic?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/11/2016 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The problem here is the US administration doesn't take the Iran Shiia threat to the Sunni states seriously. For the Sunnis states any Sunni proxy is a good proxy.

Yemen is just the prologue.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/11/2016 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  What BrerRabbit said. The Sunni and Shia are only united when Israel and the U.S. are involved.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The Sunni and Shia are only united when Israel and the U.S. are involved.

Popcorn then, amirite ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Saudi's funded Al Qaeda and got away with it, why not fund ISIS and hope the crocodile eats you last.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/11/2016 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 Saudi's funded Al Qaeda and got away with it, why not fund ISIS and hope the crocodile eats you last. Posted by rjschwarz

Concur in part. The KSA birthed the original Muslim Brotherhood, incubated and supported Al Qaeda, funds and support ISIS. They are the alligator. When do we light their asses up?

Further, the KSA is responsible in part for Iran's belligerency (the Iraq invasion...), Iran's pursuit of nuclear arms since the KSA supported Pakistan's nuclear program, and for our fight in Gulf War I to protect them against the alligator to the north that they created, and most likely contributed to the Bush mis-step on Gulf War II. They have never been held accountable for the American blood on their hands.
Posted by: Tennessee || 10/11/2016 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Hillary is beholden to the Saudis and these other M.E. Arab countries. She took money from them to enrich herself. Better hope she does not get to be POTUS. She will sell the country out for a buck.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 10:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Sorry JQC you're wrong. Hillary would never sell the country for a buck.

She's always easy, but never cheap. /sarc needed?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/11/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  urther, the KSA is responsible in part for Iran's belligerency

So the whole hostage thing, which predates the Iran/Iraq war, wasn't belligerency. Right.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/11/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#10  She's always easy, but never cheap. /sarc needed?

$250,000 an hour. That ain't cheap.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/11/2016 15:35 Comments || Top||



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  German Police Arrest Syrian Refugee Suspected of Plotting Attack
Mon 2016-10-10
  U.S. Navy Ship Comes Under Fire Near Yemen
Sun 2016-10-09
  Islamic State launches first operation in Algeria
Sat 2016-10-08
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  Planned Hezbollah terror attacks in Haifa thwarted, six arrested
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