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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Clinton charity arranged $2M pledge to firm owned by Bill’s ‘friend’
Bill Clinton’s foundation arranged a $2 million pledge to a power company partly owned by a wealthy blond divorcée — who some say is the frequent visitor to his home nicknamed “Energizer.”
Pay careful attention to the posted images, and see if you can figure out what Bill is pondering...
The “commitment” to Julie Tauber McMahon’s firm from the Clinton Global Initiative was placed on its 2010 conference agenda at Clinton’s urging, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
From pics around the web, you'll see that Ms. McMahon's bazooms are so small that they look like melons...
The initiative “commits $2 million to support the work of Energy Pioneer Solutions, a company founded to deliver energy savings to communities in rural America,” said a 2010 statement from the charity.
Crooked Hillary and Bent Bill...
Clinton even went to bat for the company when it came to lobbying for federal funds. He helped steer an $812,000 federal grant to it by endorsing the funds via then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Journal said.
Kathleen Willey simply didn't play her cards as well as she might...
McMahon owns 29 percent of Energy Pioneer Solutions, which was given the money to make people’s homes more energy-efficient.
Which homes? I'll bet if you checked the books there would be no homes...
The buxom fit, blond mother of three, who lives just minutes from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, West­chester,
Met at the block party?
is the daughter of Joel Tauber, a millionaire donor to the Democratic Party.
She really does have all the attributes Bill looks for in a 'business partner'. Blonde, wealthy, available, and likely can suck a golf ball through a garden hose...
McMahon, 54, is rumored to be the woman dubbed “Energizer” by the Secret Service at the Clinton home because of her frequent visits, according to RadarOnline.
Ahhh, I don't think that's why the Secret Service boys gave her that nickname, if you know what I mean and I think you do...
Secret Service agents were even given special instructions to abandon usual protocol when the woman came by, according to journalist Ronald Kessler’s tell-all book, “The First Family Detail.”
Clearly Bill has joined the #NeverHillary crowd...
“You don’t stop her, you don’t approach her, you just let her go in,” says the book, based on agents’ accounts.
"You were permitted, however, to watch the show."
“Energizer” is described in the book as a charming visitor with large ta-ta's who sometimes brought cookies to the agents.
I'm afraid, given the reputation the Secret Service has had these last few years, to ask exactly what kind of 'cookies'...
The book describes one sun-drenched afternoon when agents
"Hot DAHMN, Tyrone! Energizer's got a nice bounce today!"
"You betcha, Darryl, and look at the cookies she brought!"
"Not her cookie Tyrone, these cookies!"
took notice of the woman’s revealing attire.
Oh, I'll bet they took notice every day, and had every reason to...
“It was a warm day, and she was wearing a low-cut tank top, and as she leaned over, her breasts were very exposed,” an agent is quoted in the book as saying. “They appeared to be very perky and very new and full … There was no doubt in my mind they were enhanced.”
The only thing 'perking' at her age is her koffee pot.
And if you can't believe the observations of a trained Secret Service observer, who can you believe?
“Energizer” reportedly timed her arrivals and departures around Hillary Clinton’s schedule.
Hillary's electronic security was so-o-o-o lax that even the "Energizer Bunny" could crack her Blackberry...
McMahon has denied in reports having an intimate relationship with Bill Clinton.
Define 'intimate'...
The commitment to McMahon’s company raises red flags for the Clinton Global Initiative.
These are different red flags than Champ's Syria policy, but they'll be as widely ignored...
Other Clinton bagmen friends — including former Democratic congressional candidate Scott Kleeb, Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andrew Tobias and Mark Weiner — share ownership of Energy ­Pioneer Solutions.
Any updates from DoJ, Director Comey or the Bureau on this? I thought not.
What? No Sid Blumenthal? How did he miss out?
Under federal law, tax-exempt nonprofits like Clinton’s are not supposed to act in anyone’s private interest, the Journal reported. Spokespeople for Bill and Hillary Clinton declined to comment.
Honestly, what are they going to say? Their bosses are classless, rude boors? That Bill looks as if his sexual addiction has finally sucked the life essence out of him? That Hillary feels threatened that her biasexual coattail-hanging political ride is in danger? That's it's not their fault that they work for two sociopaths, and good luck trying to figure out which one is worse?
A foundation spokesperson defended the financial commitment as “a common practice in the broader philanthropic space.”
That might even be true, and it's even more of an indictment...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I recall the program under Secretary Chu was Booties for Bill. It kept BJ occupied and away from the interns.
Posted by: Eohippus Snore8229 || 05/14/2016 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Philanthropic Space.
WTF? I mean WTF, seriously, WTF?

By all rights the foundation spokesperson (WTF?) ought to be taken out and hung, for the cold blooded murder of the English tongue.

/Professor H. Higgins
Posted by: Shipman || 05/14/2016 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Careless and stupid are bad combinations. Arrogance tops both.

It's an old habit. I spent my life trying not to be careless -- women and children can be careless, but not men.

~ Don Vito Corleone:
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 8:00 Comments || Top||


Hildebeest abandoned secure line to use home phone, new email shows
[The Hill] New emails released by a conservative watchdog group on Thursday appear to show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton directing a top aide to call her via an unsecured phone line when technical troubles prevented a secure phone conversation.

"I give up. Call me on my home [number]," Clinton told then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills in a February 2009 email after more than an hour of trouble trying to communicate via a secure line.
That would be the same Cheryl Mills who stormed out of an FBI interview last week.
"I just spoke to ops and called you reg line -- we have to wait until we see each other b/c [the] technology is not working," Mills said in another email sent at almost exactly the same time.

"Pls try again," responded Clinton, a few moments later.

It’s unclear whether the two did connect or if they moderated any discussion they may have had to avoid sensitive topics while on an unsecure landline.

But the episode is likely to cause concern among critics of Clinton, who have previously accused her of resorting to unsecure forms of communication out of convenience, potentially jeopardizing sensitive information. Another email of Clinton’s, released in January, appeared to show her telling a top aide to remove identifying details and send a sensitive document through a "nonsecure" channel instead of via "secure fax."

"This drip, drip of new Clinton emails show Hillary Clinton could not care less about the security of her communications," said Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, in a statement releasing Thursday’s email. "How many other smoking gun emails are Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators in the Obama administration hiding from the American people?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah wat the heck, we'll just talk around it. We're brilliant, they're stupid. No one will think to cross-reference our email traffic using dates, key words, and topics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Hoping Clinton's collapse is delayed, I feel if Bernie is the nominee with the power surge of Millennials/Feel the Bern/uninformed types he may be harder to beat than Hillary. Then add the never-Trump folks.
Posted by: Jan || 05/14/2016 15:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I still prefer Bernie to the Bitch.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/14/2016 17:44 Comments || Top||

#4  agree with ship on this.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/14/2016 18:32 Comments || Top||

#5  It's too bad all we have are fake commies running. It would be nicer if Bernie wasn't anti real energy industry and proletariat. I imagine in a real communist country he'd wind up running a hot dog cart.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/14/2016 20:39 Comments || Top||

#6  There a place in hell for anyone who doesn't indict her.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 05/14/2016 21:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Until anyone in this place picks up a Bible, it is cursed.

Two terms of obama was enough to do you in
Posted by: newc || 05/14/2016 23:27 Comments || Top||


Flt logs show Slick flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known
[FOX] Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the "Lolita Express" -- even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.
Maybe he was being chaperoned by Julie Tauber McMahon...
Clinton’s presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including "Tatiana." The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.

"Bill Clinton ... associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knows is a pedophile," said Conchita Sarnoff, of the Washington, D.C. based non-profit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, and author of an upcoming book on the Epstein case called "TrafficKing." "Why would a former president associate with a man like that?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003"

Could have been many, many more. Separating many of the log book pages could have resulted in their destruction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#2  If I was married to Hildabeast I would want to run away with a bunch of pretty women too!!! Can you blame him??
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/14/2016 12:07 Comments || Top||

#3  With women? No. With underage girls? Yes. I'd like to remove the Clenis's dangly bits the same way we castrate young bulls here Texas.
Posted by: Bill Glorong8334 || 05/14/2016 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Calling Lorena Bobbitt
Posted by: Jan || 05/14/2016 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing says thir4d world than boinking under aged sex slaves from the third world or supporting those who do.

Posted by: newc || 05/14/2016 23:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cruz: Those Responsible for Trump's Rise Will 'Bear Responsibility Going Forward
[Breitbart] Former 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told radio host Michael Berry, when asked if Fox News treated the Texas senator fairly, "There were more than a few players" with a "disproportionate role" in the rise of Donald Trump.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 08:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least we'll be going 'forward.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  You can't go forward till you know where you stand.

ie for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, if you are employed for just one hour this month, you are considered employed for the whole month.

Whether its an out right lie, or a wink and a nod by the other players in the Beltway Party, it's all deception they choose to live with at everyone's expense.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/14/2016 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  We know the unemployment rate is going to go up because certain politicians will be losing their phony baloney jobs and certain talk radio creatures will be right behind them in the unemployment line.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/14/2016 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Whoever is responsible for {insert your favored political miscreant's name here} will 'bear responsibility' for ... the consequences. I remember grade school teachers issuing subtle threats like that. Then they promised us black marks would be put on our 'permanent record'.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/14/2016 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Your absolutely right. We understand very clearly what you consider forward. This is why we are not voting for you. We want our nation to stop doing what you consider business as usual. We want a balanced budget, a national security plan, a strategic political plan. Most of those Mr Cruz you know nothing about.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/14/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Is this like "History will show who's right!"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2016 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  No, History will show who won.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/14/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||

#8  If, as many of us believe, Trump turns out to be a train wreck. The sad truth is that those who championed him will bear no responsibility whatsoever.
Posted by: Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 || 05/14/2016 19:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Way to tell em 49 Pan... We don't need no Hillary and Obama donating 911 further pretending to be a Republican like Trump. Oops, I mean Cruz... How many lights are there again?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/14/2016 20:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Peter Pan 49 you are sadly misguided.
Posted by: jvalentour || 05/14/2016 22:45 Comments || Top||


Government
Before Crafting The Iran Deal Narrative, Email Shows Ben Rhodes Spun Benghazi
[Daily Caller] The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, an email reveals.
Next week we will learn that the Beest got all of her Benghazi information from Rhodes, and that she was essentially victimized by a carefully crafted disinformation campaign.
Now there's an attribute we want in our chief executive: easily fooled by wannabe novelist.
Deputy National Security Adviser for Communication Ben Rhodes appears to have outlined the administration’s strategy to handling the attacks in an email before holding a phone conversation with National Security Adviser Susan Rice. That email has been obtained by Judicial Watch.
Yes, wannabe novelist. He and Mr. Rhodes have much in common. That is if one assumes Champ penned his own material, which is admittedly a very steep climb.
Among the stated "goals" in the email, dated Friday, September 14, 2012, was to push the narrative that protests led to the attacks on the U.S. consulate. These protests were supposedly the result of an anti-Islam video posted to the internet. The plan found in the email was to push the narrative that the attacks were not the result of "a broader failure of policy."

The attacks in Benghazi led to the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Rhodes has been at the center of controversy since a Thursday New York Times Magazine profile describing his strategy to push the Iran nuclear deal by manipulating media sources and crafting a false narrative around Iranian leadership.

In addition to each goal, Rhodes included a talking point line, one such reads,"we reject its message and its contents. We find it disgusting and reprehensible."

The email contained a list of what appears to be potential questions that Rice would answer on talks shows, complete with prescribed answers. One proposed question asks about a report by the Independent, which claimed the government had intelligence warning of the potential attacks 48-hours before they occurred, which was subsequently ignored. The prescribed response stated: "We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent." The planned response noted the protests and subsequent attacks were "spontaneously inspired" by protests at the U.S. embassy in Egypt.

It has become clear that Rice’s 2012 claims that the attacks were prompted by the video were false. Additionally, a report by Judicial Watch has since shown that the Defense Intelligence Agency had knowledge that an al-Qaida affiliate planned the attack ten days earlier, contradicting the point that it was spontaneous.

Rice would make the rounds on Sunday talk shows the day after the meeting, pushing the narrative outlined in the email nearly verbatim.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tonto can you make anything of this my friend? Chemosavy, treads look like Goodyear clan, maybe a partial G152+. Damn Tonto, that's a big ass tire, what do you think? Chemosavy, these whiteman got run over by a bus, likely an MCI G4500, the one they call "Big Brother".
Posted by: Shipman || 05/14/2016 4:13 Comments || Top||



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