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The Gestapo (abbreviation of Ge heime Sta ats po lizei, "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
#3
Will have to mosey on over to the goons and remind them that Lew said yesterday he is going to raid their federal retirement accounts and the be making better use of thier time guarding their bank accounts (remember Greece mr gastapo boy?) over across the way at Bank of America...
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture fills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our father's God to, Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
#9
Twasn't that long ago when DHS were routine
"first responders" vee local cops, etal. to any + all criminal incidents in Washington [Oregon?] state - AFAIK they still are.
#4
POTUS ended her call without so much as a good bye, and Hillary's phone beeped obediently. You are on your own, her phone said.
Asshole. And it was three a.m. too. For a moment Hillary considered the device in her hand. The Apple of her eye. Picked it out herself, she did. She was quite fond of it, and it had served her well. But now it was the bearer of bad news, and Hillary knew she had a regal tradition to uphold.
The phone peeped pitifully and gave out a death rattle as its INTEL insides exploded from the impact with the Navajo flagstone fireplace. Hillary never did throw like a girl.
The last thing she remembered before waking up in ICU was reaching for the commemorative Jack Daniels decanter, a gift from the distillary (rhymes with Hillary!) in Lynchburg. A dry county.
#5
She did initially joke about people having the worst day of their life...if they were lucky.
She did initially try to brow beat people trying to correct her.
Wut, no abortion or hurricane jokes?
Story of a teacher who managed to bundle her class into a bathroom at the eleventh second. They sang the National Anthem to help make it through. These people have wounds a 19th century surgeon on a Man-O-War would recognize.
Kevin Durant has pledged $1million - she eventually managed a link to somebody else's work and a lame nothing about being from Minnesota. No, the joke here is that people smile at her at the dinner table.
Tuesday afternoon a bombshell was dropped into the already explosive IRS scandal when it was reported that Lois Lerner, a top IRS official in the non-profit division that paralyzed Tea Party groups with ongoing harassment, would invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions during Congressional testimony schedule before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. And so it begins. At least the Obama administration finally found a Constitutional amendment they like...
The LA Times reports that Lerner will refuse to answer any questions about what she knows about the targeting of conservative groups. She will also refuse to explain why she is refusing to answer questions. That's all in addition to being "bad at maths".
Lerner has retained defense attorney William W. Taylor 3rd, who sent a letter to Darrell Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. In the letter Taylor said, "She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course." The truth is certainly a "choice".
Taylor is hoping Issa will excuse his client from having to testify in order to save her the embarrassment of having to invoke the Fifth in public. Per The L.A. Times, the committee hasn't yet answered her request one way or the other. "SAVE HER THE FOK'N EMBARRASSMENT"... *#^&#&*&#@!!!!
ADDED: National Journal reports that Issa "has issued a subpoena to Lerner anyway."
Since the IRS scandal broke wide open ten days ago, Lerner has been at the center of the controversy. She is not only the head of the division that oversaw the Kafka-esque harassment of President Obama's political foes; she has also been caught on numerous occasions making misleading statements. "Making misleading statements"...generally referred to as obfuscation and LYING !
Lerner was also part of the fumbled attempt to control how the scandal was made public with a planted question at an American Bar Association meeting. Lerner followed that debacle with a phone call with journalists in which she attempted to downplay the scandal and laughed off the fact she didn't understand math. "Funbled attempt to control" = OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE !
Lerner's testimony had been widely anticipated. What she knows is considered key to finding out the answer to the one question we still don't know the answer to: Who okayed this partisan harassment and who participated in it?
#3
"Lerner will refuse to answer any questions about what she knows about the targeting of conservative groups. She will also refuse to explain why she is refusing to answer questions."
No explanation needed, Lois: you've been ordered to clam up to keep this scandal from going all the way back up the food chain to where it began-- the Oval Office.
I hope to hell Issa doesn't excuse this corrupt political hack from testifying...
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Plead the Fifth: From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden, enormous price. We can no longer see the consequences of our actions; we lose our intrinsic sense of connection to a larger whole Thus, after a while we give up trying to see the whole altogether.
Peter Senge
Might be a smart move on her part to plead to the Fifth.
#6
I hope to hell Issa doesn't excuse this corrupt political hack from testifying...
Posted by Dave D.
He's already said she'd have to do it in person at the hearings. For the news report video, if nothing else. Terrible optics for Teh Won's regime
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"Terrible optics for Teh Won's regime"
I wanna see some perp walks-- with the perps in handcuffs.
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#8
And another one bites the dust under the bus!
I'm sure Obama appreciates her sacrifice and will (or already has) appoint her to some greater position - like overseeing the IRS Obamacare division.
Why do I get the feeling that all this is coming out now to distract from Benghazi. This will probably never be linked to the Administration - just some 'rogue employees'. Lois will be tossed under the bus and will eventually be allowed to get back on via the backdoor in some other role. Sure the administration will take some damage but not enough as Benghazi would cause and in three years the MSM will spin it to be the Republican's fault - they are already working on it.
While Benghazi (which this pushed off the front pages) has a direct link to the WH and Hillary's Office.
#9
This should make it easier to charge her with perjury for her previous prevarication.
Miller has already admitted that this was a partisan ploy. With the DHS sending armed gaurds to monitor Tea Party protests now how long before the uniforms change to black and brown?
#11
It was nice but all too short to watch her sit there with contempt at having to appear, and respond so arrogantly that she wouldn't answer any questions today...
She just put a nice face on this scandal and those self important career civil serpents...
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