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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Activist Who Took Credit For Violent Chicago Protests Was On Hillary’s Payroll
[DAILYCALLER] An activist who bragged about disrupting multiple Donald Trump campaign events in a recent Project Veritas video was on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Everett ...
’s campaign payroll, a search of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveals.

In a Veritas video released Monday, filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe recounts meeting activist ZLearned Elders of Islam Rodriguez at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
. In the video, Rodriguez takes credit for violent protests in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
that forced Trump to cancel a March rally.

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"So, [Aaron Black] and I did the Chicago Trump event where we shut down like all the yeah," Rodriguez says in the video. Rodriguez also takes credit for an Arizona protest, also in March, that shut down a major highway outside a Trump event.

Notably, a search of FEC records reveals that Rodriguez was paid by the Clinton campaign shortly before she disrupted the Chicago rally. The campaign paid her $1,610.34 as a "payroll" expense, and also gave her a $30 payment that is described only as "phone."
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is a RICO possible for starting a riot?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2016 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  No - they're Democrats.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  And where is this in Reuters, UPI, AP? *crickets*
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 1:49 Comments || Top||

#4  OS, I found a piece in the Daily Mail feed on: "Chain-smoking chimp puffs away on cigarettes - and even knows how to use a lighter - at North Korean zoo where she has developed a 20-a-day habit." That's the closest I came but I'm still looking.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  WAPO piece on this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:34 Comments || Top||

#6  ....puffs away on cigarettes - and even knows how to use a lighter - at North Korean zoo where she has developed a 20-a-day habit."

North Korean zoo, ciggies? I don't remember reading anything about Clinton either visiting there or smoking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 7:35 Comments || Top||

#7  That's the closest I came but I'm still looking.

I should have said "Close but no cigar?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Go to your room.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/19/2016 8:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Pappy, I'm looking for the little emoji, the one with the little "aw shucks" figure with head hung down in shame on my keyboard.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 9:41 Comments || Top||

#10  JQC you don't have the self-flagellation one Pappy send out?
Posted by: Shipman || 10/19/2016 16:11 Comments || Top||


James O’Keefe Gets Another Scalp: Subject of Undercover Video Ousted
[BREITBART] Scott Foval, one of the subjects of a recent James O’Keefe exposé broken exclusively by Breitbart on Monday, has been removed from his job with the liberal advocacy group Americans United for Change.

Fox News has released a quote from Americans United For Change [head] Brad Woodhouse stating. "Americans United For Change has always operated according to the highest ethical and legal standards. Scott Foval is no longer associated with Americans United for Change."

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, James O’Keefe said he believes this is not the end. "They want to make Scott Foval the fall guy. But this rot goes higher and deeper. This was a conspiracy to create a narrative that Trump supporters were dangerous and out of control. This scheme was created and approved at the highest levels of the Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ...
campaign and the Democratic National Committee," O’Keefe said.

A quote from Foval published in the widely read Breitbart article supports this, with Foval saying,"We are contracted directly with the DNC and the campaign. I am contracted to [Robert Creamer] but I answer to the head of special events for the DNC and the head of special events and political for the campaign. Through Bob. We have certain people who do not get to talk to them, at all."

Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Bond, my name is James Bond."
Posted by: Big Wholuper1709 || 10/19/2016 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone actually believe any of these "exposed and disgraced" miscreants have actually stopped working for the Clinton campaign?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2016 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Doing the job the "mainstream" media refuses to do
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 1:46 Comments || Top||

#4  O'Keefe was criminally charged for his work on exposing 'Planned Parenthood' and Acorn. This may carry a stiffer penalty. My prayers go out for him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 1:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Time for a body count?
Posted by: Black Bart Glutch4583 || 10/19/2016 2:28 Comments || Top||


Hillary 'stole State Department furniture'
The State Department's answer to this story from yesterday.
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] An un-named member of Hillary Clinton's security staff made the claim in interviews released by the FBI as part of their probe into her emails

  • The State Department furniture was sent 'early in her tenure' to Clinton's home in Washington, DC, she said - at her or her aides' request

  • State Department says it knows claim is untrue because it did inventory of her office before and after her time as Secretary of State

  • Clintons became notorious for leaving the White House with furniture which wasn't theirs when Bill ended his second term in 2001

  • Agent also told how Clinton insisted on riding in limousine with Huma Abedin, her top aide, not US ambassadors, who were insulted

  • Donald Trump has said he will jail Hillary if he wins on November 8
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Admr. John Kirby says it was hers and doesn't have to return it as she did the WH stuff back in 2000.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Settled science then if Admiral Kirby said it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Take the china and flatware, take the furniture and light bulbs... just get out !
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  She's probably the kind of person who "works from home" a lot...like whenever she doesn't feel like getting up out of bed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2016 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  By that I mean, maybe she figures that if she's gonna work from home she might as well have the desk and chair there.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2016 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Imagine 4-years of this:

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/19/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Imagine 8.
Posted by: JHH || 10/19/2016 16:56 Comments || Top||

#8  This happens when you don't go furniture shopping with Donald.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/19/2016 18:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Imagine 2, then 10 with Kaine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2016 18:11 Comments || Top||

#10  #6 Imagine 4-years of this:

The womyn has tombstone eyes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 20:42 Comments || Top||


Former Cuomo lobbyist claims he doesn’t have to repay $85G to company suing him because it was bribe, not loan
If you look up chutzpah in the dictionary, dear Reader, you will see his picture.
[NYDAILYNEWS] A lobbyist with ties to Gov. Cuomo has a novel argument why he shouldn’t be forced to repay a company $85,000 -- it was meant to be a bribe, not a loan.

Cor Development is suing its former lobbyist Todd Howe for the money.

But in legal papers filed Monday, Howe’s lawyers argued that the "purported loan was illegal, as it was part of an illegal conspiracy to deprive the public of its intangible right to honest services of an employee of the state of New York by soliciting and giving bribes and gratuities."

Cor officials told Syracuse newspapers, which first reported the legal maneuver, that Howe is lying and the debt is real.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Hey, I stole this money fair and square!"
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2016 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, I had a black sheep relative who showed up in prison periodically. His mother (my aunt) always said he was away at college.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Penn State or the State Pen(n)?
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this the guy that murdered his parents then claimed mercy cause he was an orphan?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||


Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet at U.S. request, WikiLeaks says
[MCCLATCHYDC] Wikileaks said Tuesday that Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
asked Ecuador to stop WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, from publishing leaked emails that could disrupt peace negotiations with a guerrilla group in Colombia. Assange, who has been in refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London for more than four years, saw his access to the internet cut over the weekend.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gateway, same subject.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, interfering with U.S. elections, or Hillary's coronation, or something.

I wonder if Hil directed Jawn, or if he figgered it out for hisself?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/19/2016 12:35 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how much U.S. Taxpayer money he promised in order to shut Assange up? Iran was $400M plus. I'm betting at least $1B.

He didn't figure on this triggering the failsafe distribution of that key. Dumbass.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/19/2016 12:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Not a rigged election, huh?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2016 14:51 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember when it was right to interfere with Egypt's and Israel's election, and Brexit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2016 15:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Since Ecuador uses $USD for it's currency, all it probably took was a threat to cut off transfer of $1 Sacagawea coins. Seriously, it's all they use to make change in Quito.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 10/19/2016 16:18 Comments || Top||

#7  According to An Nahar, the US denies it urged Ecuador to block Mr. Assange's internet access.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2016 19:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DNC Campaign Bus Does Something Real $hitty
Sometimes, the headlines just write themselves...
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (CBS46) -
Georgia's Environmental Protection Division is investigating after a witness spotted a Democratic National Committee tour bus apparently dumping human waste into a storm drain.

Lawrenceville police are also investigating the claim which surfaced on Tuesday, a photo shown to us by a CBS46 viewer showed a Democratic National Committee tour bus apparently making the dump between campaign stops.

CBS46 viewer Mike Robins, manager of a nearby business, took several photos of the tour bus dumping waste into the storm drain. In the pictures, a liquid can be seen coming from the bottom of the bus.

According to Robins, a hazardous materials crew responded to the location and collected the waste to keep more of it from entering the storm drain.

Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 14:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smelled like lavender, may have been a mistake.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/19/2016 14:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Could there possibly be a more perfect metaphor for the DNC / Clinton Crime Family?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2016 15:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Busload of people so full of sh*t that the holding tank overflowed...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Could there possibly be a more perfect metaphor for the DNC / Clinton Crime Family?

Yeah. Sh*t on mainstreet America any chance they get. That occurred to me also...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2016 17:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Regular people get in Very Real Trouble for doing something like that.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2016 17:04 Comments || Top||


When Dems claim it's rigged, they're paragons of wisdom. H/T Paul Joseph Watson
Posted by: Jan || 10/19/2016 11:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Flashback: When Elizabeth Warren and Other Democrats Whined About Washington Being ‘Rigged’
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/19/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||


CNN Cuts Another Mic As Congressman Mentions Wikileaks
Via Drudge. Yeah, I know it's Infowars, but this is at least the fourth time this campaign season CNN's done this. They don't call it the Clinton News Network for nothing.
During an appearance on CNN this morning, Congressman Chris Collins’ satellite feed was cut as soon as he began talking about Wikileaks.

Host Chris Cuomo asked Collins what he thought Trump could do in tonight’s debate to prove he was fit for office. However, the Congressman went off script.

"Two thirds of the public know that Hillary Clinton’s a liar, she can’t be trusted and now the two faces of Hillary are coming out ‐ the fact through Wikileaks she says one thing and...."

The feed is then immediately cut.
The message got out. All the rest was detail, and cutting off his mic underlined it.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 11:04 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

1/3 don't know she is a liar. They are either completely drugged out or dead. There is the other possibility, that they are Donks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 20:40 Comments || Top||


Soros-connected company provides voting machines in 16 states
[DailyCaller] Soros' company provides voting machines in 16 states. These states are/were:

Arizona
California
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Illinois
Louisiana
Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey
Nevada
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin

Now, that ought to give pause for concern of all honest, law-abiding citizens who want fair elections.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 10:56 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Stalin
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/19/2016 17:42 Comments || Top||


Voter Fraud in Tarrant Country Texas puts 2 Democrats in Office
The (Texas) Secretary of State has referred to the voter fraud evidence as "voluminous." The complaint contained over 1,500 pages of documents. And while the complete document is not yet public, one thing [is] clear--political operatives inside Tarrant County have illegally forged thousands of signatures on ballot-by-mail applications and carrier envelopes over the last four years.

At least two local officials are in office as a result of the voter fraud uncovered; State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. (D-Fort Worth) and Fort Worth Mayor Pro Tem, Sal Espino (D).

Espino won his race by a twenty-six vote margin in an election in which 450 votes were fraudulently harvested in that district alone. Romero won his seat by a 110 vote margin in a race that was similarly impacted by voter fraud.

Democrats stealing elections in a heavily Republican area in Texas. It can happen. And its a fact, not a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 01:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Hillary's A Switch Hitter
To the surprise of nobody...
Hillary Clinton is a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up illicit romps with both men AND women!

That’s the blockbuster revelation from a former Clinton family operative who is sensationally breaking ranks with his one-time bosses to speak to The National ENQUIRER in a bombshell 9-page cover story -- on newsstands Wednesday.

"I arranged a meeting for Hillary and a woman in an exclusive Beverly Hills hotel," the man, who was hired by the Clintons, via a Hollywood executive, to cover up their scandals, told The ENQUIRER.

"She had come to the studio to see the filming of a movie in 1994."

"While I was there, I helped her slip out of a back exit for a one-on-one session with the other woman. It was made to look casual, leaving quietly [rather] that being caught up in the melee ... but really it was for something presumably more sordid."
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 00:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  National Enquirer. Need more substantiation than this, just like Ted Cruz dad being a Kennedy conspirator (bullshit)
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  It was the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards affair story, as I recall. But yes, because of the source it does need serious substantiation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2016 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  She plays for both teams? Walks both sides of the street? The screen door swings both ways for her? An advocate of diversity? Multifaceted? A persona for the public and a persona for private? All along, I thought she was a Humaphrodite. Next, you will tell me she is a trisexual, i.e. she will try anything sexual.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  The most frightening part of this story is that a man (any man) would play hide the salami with her.

I've been really, really drunk back in the day but seriously. . . . .
Posted by: GORT || 10/19/2016 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Yep, some things are too difficult to contemplate sober or drunk.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  The only surprise will be is the MSM reports the details.
Posted by: jvalentour || 10/19/2016 7:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Trisexual? Indian has a new Thunder Stroke 111 engine. Just might work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 8:00 Comments || Top||

#8  The only surprise will be is the MSM reports the details.

The MSM views it as a bonus feature.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/19/2016 8:06 Comments || Top||

#9  There have been rumors of her being a carpet muncher for decades. Really wouldn't be surprised if this was all true. Bill and her had an arrangement.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2016 9:13 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm curious if this will move the polls at all. Maybe Trump can hit her for being gay and opposing gay marriage a decade ago, but beyond the hypocrisy there's nothing here that balances against the mountain of actual crimes she's connected to.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/19/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#11  IMO quite a few of Hillary's supporters are gay and wouldn't care about this. Likewise, with the press, e.g. Anderson Cooper (CNN) and others.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 10:28 Comments || Top||

#12  It's not really a secret that she goes by sail or by steam (as the French would say).
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/19/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Look, who cares what a pol does in the privacy of their bedroom? Hillary's public record is enough for 10 hangings.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2016 16:13 Comments || Top||

#14  LOL, meerons! She to ugly either way.
Late in the day BS.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/19/2016 16:14 Comments || Top||

#15  She's only "experimented" from age 18-68...so far
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2016 20:39 Comments || Top||

#16  She has always been this way. Not news. I still despise her.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/19/2016 21:45 Comments || Top||

#17  From (comment 13) has it right. She is still despicable. I have despised her and her cronies since Sen. Brooke. Y'all are newbies.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/19/2016 21:49 Comments || Top||


Second Hillary Clinton Anti-Trump Violence Coordinator Resigns
Robert Creamer, a central subject of two recent James O'Keefe exposés broken this Monday and Tuesday, has resigned "from his responsibilities working with the campaign."

"I am unwilling to become a distraction to the important task of electing Hilary Clinton, and defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election."
Posted by: Spoper Cromoger3501 || 10/19/2016 00:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RICO
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  But we all know there's nothing there, there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The Secretary disavows ...this email will self destruct in 10 seconds.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 10/19/2016 11:05 Comments || Top||

#4  When do we declare Chicago a failed state and stop importing politicians from there?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2016 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Sorry, I flunked Double Speak and don't understand what this panjandrum is saying.
Posted by: Jack salami || 10/19/2016 20:10 Comments || Top||


Michelle Obama recruited to run for Senate, Chicago mayor
She loathes political people, and voters even more. Nor is Mr. Obama likely to be happy as a trailing spouse while she gets all the attention, especially since Mr. Clinton will have vacuumed up all the lucrative speaking offers.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] First lady Michelle Obama's star status on the 2016 campaign trail is prompting top Democrats back home in Illinois to ready an effort to recruit her to run for the Senate or mayor of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
Should she run and win, Obama would join only Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Daniel Webster ...
in the rare class of former first ladies to swap out the "volunteer" public service job for an elected position.

The burgeoning effort comes despite Obama's inclination to leave elective politics behind when her husband's two terms are up in January, according to National Journal.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the headline, I was expecting The Onion.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2016 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  If they're feeding us this crap, it explains how thin the Dem bench is.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  A fate well deserved by Illinois voters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Another crown jewel being offered up to us (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, she has to have SOMETHING on her resume before she is crowned the first African American female President.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/19/2016 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps we could fence Chicago in and leave the Obamas in charge. Then check back in a few decades to see what's left.
Posted by: Crusader || 10/19/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, she has to have SOMETHING on her resume before she is crowned the first African American female President.

That's not funny.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2016 11:53 Comments || Top||

#8  But perfectly logical.
Posted by: JHH || 10/19/2016 17:06 Comments || Top||


McCain Says GOP Senate Will Block Hillary’s Supreme Court Nominees
[DAILYCALLER] Republican Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
told local press in Pennsylvania that Senate Republicans would block the confirmation of Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ...
’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees, should she prevail in the November election.

"I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up," McCain told WPHT radio in Philadelphia. "I promise you. This is where we need the majority and Pat Toomey is probably as articulate and effective on the floor of the Senate as anyone I have encountered," he continued, in reference to the incumbent Republican senator he was campaigning with. The comments were first flagged by CNN’s Chris Massie.

There is currently one vacancy on the high court, precipitated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. A slew of retirees are expected in the next presidency, given the age of several justices. Justice Anthony Kennedy in 80, Justice Stephen Breyer is 78, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who appears increasingly frail on the bench, is 82.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  B.S.
Posted by: Big Wholuper1709 || 10/19/2016 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  John McCain is a fool.
Posted by: jvalentour || 10/19/2016 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Right. If the GOPe clings to Senate control by its fingernails, it will rush to the center of the aisle the left as fast as decrepit creatures like McShame can move.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2016 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  If Chuck Shumer becomes senate majority leader, lights out for the first two amendments.
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/19/2016 4:46 Comments || Top||

#5  If Chuck Shumer becomes senate majority leader, lights out for the first two amendments.

Things could get very unpleasant if this happens.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 6:01 Comments || Top||

#6  If she gets elected, they should start the impeachment process immediately.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 7:36 Comments || Top||

#7  #1, BS- Ditto that.
Posted by: Dale || 10/19/2016 8:08 Comments || Top||

#8  They will block it only until the checks clear.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#9  JohnQC, don't bother trying to impeach her until the Republicans have a two thirds majority, which ain't gonna happen.,
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/19/2016 10:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Bullshit.
Posted by: Crusader || 10/19/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Just like Kagan and Sotomayor?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Are the real Keating Five File documents still in Hillary's hidden footlocker?
Posted by: magpie || 10/19/2016 14:47 Comments || Top||

#13  John 'I got a sweet cut of the arms to Syria action' McCain.

John 'Anti-Gun green ribbon' McCain.

John 'We didn't block any of Obama's picks' McCain.

John 'Didn't look into Fast and Furious' McCain.

U.S. 'We abdicated our authority 8 years ago anyways' Senate.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2016 15:09 Comments || Top||


Key Members For The Commission On Presidential Debates Are In Bed With HRC
[Daily Caller] Chief members of the Commission on Presidential Debates have historically donated to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and to the Democratic party overall.

The Commission on Presidential Debates was founded in 1987 to ensure that debates are nonpartisan and provide the general public the best possible information. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that has sponsored all debates since 1988.

Co-Chairman Michael D. McCurry donated to Hillary Clinton campaigns from 2000 to 2008, giving her a total of $5,650 over eight years. In 2006, during her first push for the White House, McCurry gave Clinton $2,100. There is even a Federal Elections Commission lawsuit that alleges McCurry gave $7,500 to Hillary Clinton from 2008 to 2012.

Richard D. Parsons, member of the board of directors for the commission since 2011, gave $7,900 to Hillary Clinton while she ran in 2008, and contributed again during the 2016 cycle. Interestingly, Parsons was invited to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, just one year before his first large donation to Clinton in 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Revoke their 501(c)(3) status and disband the mother f***ers.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2016 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Literally?
Posted by: Crusader || 10/19/2016 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there no one who has not slept with the Clintons? I guess that would be like a Diogenes quest of looking for one virtuous person around the Clintons.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2016 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Sadly, I have to disagree. McCurry is not a baddie. He is a Dem, and that is not illegal. I know him personally. Such as THAT is. Dems will support Dems even though they do not swallow everything.

Maybe partisan thinking carried too far. I will still vote for Trump. I do not care what he thinks.

We are still Americans, and can disagree. And vote our consciences.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/19/2016 21:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Air Force releases guidance on transgender airmen
[AIRFORCETIMES] The Air Force this week publicly released its guidance for how the service will incorporate transgender airmen into its ranks.

"Transgender airmen serve alongside us with integrity, service and excellence," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in a news release announcing the guidance. "This is another step in allowing transgender airmen to serve openly, receive medical care relating to gender transition and allow transgender individuals to join the Air Force. Our strengths as a military are the quality and character of our people, and those things that make us unique are the same things that make us strong."

The guidance, which was included in a memo dated Oct. 6, spells out how the Air Force will handle questions of which lodging, bathroom and shower facilities transgender airmen will use while they are transitioning. It also outlines plans for handling their fitness assessments and uniforms during the transition process.

And while it warns airmen and commanders that discrimination and bias against transgender airmen will not be tolerated, the guidance also said that handling such transitions could be tricky.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile Russia and China concentrate on operational readiness and operational effectiveness.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/19/2016 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't you mean, airxe?
Quite problematic.

and tsk tsk cockpit? Xerpit.

And while we are at it, isn't a Herbst maneuver a bit white male racist? Perhaps Trayvon maneuver instead.

Moving forward then....I see you have 30 hours of flight time this week. Most impressive considering your weekly 20 hours of Social Dynamics Class. Oh, you did not? Grounded immediately until the 20 hours, now plus a first offense 8 hours Rudimentary Orders Analysis Training.

Guards, escort this airxe to the safe space.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2016 18:01 Comments || Top||



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