And thus, the worry. SOS Clinton, when she left office, failed to turn over official records of the United States for almost 2 years. We know this because she now has, belatedly, turned over 55,000 pages of records to the State Department. Assume that the failure to turn over the documents was an accident -- doesn't matter, per the regs, she is still subject to criminal prosecution, and 18 USC 641 is broad enough to encompass even accidental retention. Worse still, it was unlawful for her to remove the documents from the state department or to "conceal" them on her server and not turn them over. She could be arrested, forfeit office, and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States....forever.*
Oh the sweet irony: RONALD D. ROTUNDA, WSJ, 16 March 2015 - "Title 18 USC 1519 which includes the deletion or destruction of only one email to block a Federal investigation could be punishable by up to 20 years in Federal Prison. The bar on prosecuting this offense is much less than Title 18 USC 2071 (b) and much easier to Prosecute. This law was enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes -Oxley act dealing with obstruction of Justice in Federal Investigations with then Hillary Clinton supporting this bill in the US Senate."
If Champ really wants to put a stick into Hillary's wheelchair spokes he could do something really simple, completely legal, and totally devious:
pardon her.
It's his right under the Constitution. It would spare her (and the country) all the legal wrangling and it would destroy her presidential campaign, thus opening the door to Fauxcahontas and others. How enjoyable it would be...
It might be instructive to note what we are NOT hearing in the MSM or even at FOX; that being any discussion of late regarding Bill, the Beest's campaign committee, funding, or potential campaign strategy. For this I am thankful
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Nonsense! She is a Democrat, and more importantly, a CLINTON! Such laws might apply to mere mortals, but not to her. Besides, once she is crowned as Empress, she will simply issue a decree declaring those laws null and void.
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SteveW (you're pinky right?),
That may be the sneakiest, snarkiest idea I've seen in years.
If I understand correctly that would give her total immunity when ordered to testify as there would be no 5th amendment out cause she couldn't incriminate herself. Drag her butt in and make her spill the beans...all the beans.
[NYPOST] Christina Leos, a former preschool teacher, described for jurors how her pudgy, bespectacled former boyfriend, Ryan Hemphill, allegedly choked her during one of their rough-sex sessions. "Wanna get roughed up, baby?"
"Sure, pudge!"
“It hurt, it scared me, but there was no pain afterwards,” the petite bottle blonde, 32, said in Manhattan Supreme Court. "It was more like if I'd coupled with Kim Jong Un..."
Hemphill, 33, the son of a pediatric neurologist, is on trial for allegedly assaulting Leos, with whom he enjoyed S&M sex games at his Murray Hill pad. Sounds hilarious.
During pretrial hearings, prosecutors said the couple made a sex tape where he pretended to be a “TSA agent, searching her body cavities,” papers state. "I'm naked!"
"Gotta inspect those body cavities, ma'am!"
"Hey! Get outta there! That's my... No! Not the taser! Don't taze me, bro!"
Hemphill also had 20 homemade porn videos featuring him choking, water-boarding and torturing women, mostly prostitutes, prosecutors added.
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She may have been under the influence when she harangued and smoked on the flight home from her Venezuelan vacay (videos at the link), but she was sober when the reporter interviewed her. Which suggests she may actually have been sober when she did and said those things on the airplane as well. More here. Hat tip to Shipman.
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"Listen, the point is, I am a sociologist, and I live in an intellectual world"
fire her ass and ship her back to Venezuela. They deserve her
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This is what academia calls 'intellectual'. Institution of higher learning it is not.
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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Does a fellow flyer have any recourse when this happens? Granted, if you are on a Nicaragua to Miami flight you may have to expect this, but flying stinks enough w/out having to put up w/a nutjob acting out w/apparent impunity. A D&D charge and release don't cut it. Will she at least be put on a no-fly list?
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You could encourage her to take it up with the captain. When she heads for "rushes" the cockpit, tackle her and gag and bind her--by all means gag her.
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I read this yesterday. She's gone from Bowdoin to University of Vermont and now Penn State-Abington.
Magic Eight Ball sez, "Career Track Downward".
Wonder if she'll still have a job there? If not, Bunker Hill Community College, here I come!
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JQC, I like the way you think.
TU, she is also a grad of BC, which explains her drinking and shitting-in-the-interrogation-room problems.
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She was lucky:
On August 11, 2000, Jonathan Burton stormed the cockpit door of the Boeing 737 on Southwest Airlines flight 1763 from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, in an apparent case of air rage. The 19-year-old was subdued by six to eight other passengers with such force that he died of asphyxiation.
Norsemen served in the Varangian guard in Constantinople, as early as 874. They were often the only troops the emperor could trust. There are Viking runic graffiti in the Hagia Sophia.
That a Varangian won or bought a bit of jewelry from Arabia then took it home and gave it to his wife or daughter is as shocking as sailors carrying STDs. It doesn't mean they could read the Arabic, or gave a rip about Allah.
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In the museum in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden you can see a silver coin found in a 6th century burial mound nearby that was minted in Egypt during the reign of Hadrian, 400 years earlier. Objects wander far and wide.
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OOOOOOOOO, you just know the ring belongs to ANTONIO BANDERAS as the "THE 13th WARRIOR"!
AFAIK Islamic raiders were able to mount a few successful raids in the British Isles back in the day, + also raided, traded vee the Rus' = Russians - its not a stretch to believe they made it to Scandinavia.
Nor the other way, i.e. that FRANCE + ITALY + BYZANTIUM = MEDITERRANEAN-raiding, trading Scandinavians made it to ME lands.
[IB Times] A sunset cruise along the Zambezi River, which is between Zimbabwe and Zambia, turned out to be a shocker for British tourists as they saw crocodiles feeding on a human. When the vessel got closer to the feeding frenzy, the tourists realised the reptiles were dining on the lower half of a human body. Park Rangers have been properly notified. Please join us on the upper deck for sundowners following dinner.
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Many years ago I worked as an announcer/ caller on the glass bottom boats at Wakulla Springs, there was almost always a passenger who did not believe in the reality of our alligators, mocasins etc., having just been to the Good Attraction downstate. Sometimes kitchen would give me a bad chicken and I could illustrate cold blooded Florida. One guy demanded to be carried back to the pier LOL.
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Ross Allen demonstrates his snake venom-milking technique on this vintage travel brochure for Ross Allen’s Reptile Institute at Silver Springs, Florida. Circa 1950’s.
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from the same state that punished Pee Wee Herman for milking his snake in am adult theater.
Double Standards!
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Re: Ross Allen. I went to that attraction in the late 50's and actually handled a snake. Being a mere youth, I was more impressed with our family's trip to "Monkey Island"...more cheesy than a Svengoolie joke!
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... beheaded a Pak and two Saudis on Tuesday, bringing to 48 the number of death sentences carried out this year.
That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014, according to an AFP tally.
Reasons for the surge are unclear but human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group Amnesia Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is "well on track" to far exceed previous annual execution records. The London-based watchdog says Saudi Arabia has regularly been among the world's top five executioners.
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[REUTERS] Russia ruled out handing Crimea back to Ukraine on Tuesday and a Defence Ministry official said nuclear-capable long-range bombers were being sent to the Black Sea peninsula as part of war games.
The huge military exercises, in which the Northern Fleet was put on full alert on Monday and will range from the Arctic to the Black Sea, appear to be a show of force and defiance on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.
Russia's parliament approved the annexation on March 21 last year after Russian forces took control of the peninsula, which is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and residents backed joining the Russian Federation in a referendum.
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There's a shocker. Ask the Japanese about the southern Kuril Islands.
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Anyone else feel that sanctions have reached their sell by date?
This feels like sanctions are prescribed for whatever ails the world in the same way that penicillin used to be. That resulted in resistant strains of Strep, Staph, etc..
What will the over use of sanctions breed, aside from smug, sanctimonious politicians?
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On the other hand, haven't the sneaky Han pretty much taken over vaste swathes of the empty lands beyond their border? Russia has probably lost more than Putin has gained, if so.
[Guardian] Police officers injured as vehicles are set ablaze and streets blocked by burning tyres in clashes ahead of Mario Draghi speech. Dozens of police officers have been injured and hundreds of people detained after anti-austerity protesters clashed with riot police near the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.
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...it's like the zombie Apocalypse, just pick a place that has proper access to farms, water, energy that doesn't have to be trekked a god awful distance to support local life. Oh, and stock up on lots of ammo.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] A U.S. non-profit that has received State Department funding scrambled last month to create a new legal entity in the aftermath of a congressional letter suggesting its efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may violate tax law, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The PeaceWorks Network Foundation--a nonprofit linked to Obama campaign figures and also known as OneVoice--was identified in a January letter authored by U.S. politicians as having funneled money to campaign-related activities in the upcoming election despite being incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization. Such organizations are forbidden from engaging in foreign or domestic political campaign activities.
PeaceWorks moved to create a new organization that could engage in such electoral activities after the letter was issued, new documents obtained by the Free Beacon show. The new organization, named PeaceWorks Action Inc., was incorporated in Delaware in February 2015.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... multiple sources familiar with the controversy said the establishment of that new organization would not shield the earlier activities of the original 501(c)(3) organization from U.S. law.
"This isn't difficult. If you do something illegal, like [OneVoice's Israel-based campaign] V15 did, you can't erase that illegality by suddenly deciding to comply with the law," said one D.C. based source familiar with a congressional inquiry into OneVoice's activities, which was first reported by Fox News late last week.
At issue in that inquiry is whether OneVoice received State Department funding for its political activities.
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See posted article Crocs dining on poacher shocks British tourists on Zambezi sunset cruise for additional suggestions of what they can do with this group.
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"Thank you, oh giver of grants most merciful for the opportunity to carry out your will. We have received a letter though, stating that we may be in violation of tax laws, why is this so?"
"Indeed. Succeed, and all will be forgiven."
"As we volunteered to do, we will. However, we have already accepted money from The Department of the State, why did they not advise us on our legal trespass?"
"Because you are suckers. You are now motivated, and we are now insulated."
(joking aside, any penalty for giving money to an organization knowingly operating illegally?)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYPOST] Christina Leos, a former preschool teacher, described for jurors how her pudgy, bespectacled former boyfriend, Ryan Hemphill, allegedly choked her during one of their rough-sex sessions.
Ross Allen demonstrates his snake venom-milking technique on this vintage travel brochure for Ross Allen’s Reptile Institute at Silver Springs, Florida. Circa 1950’s. 
[DAWN] 
[REUTERS] Russia ruled out handing Crimea back to Ukraine on Tuesday and a Defence Ministry official said nuclear-capable long-range bombers were being sent to the Black Sea peninsula as part of war games.
[ARABNEWS]
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] A U.S. non-profit that has received State Department funding scrambled last month to create a new legal entity in the aftermath of a congressional letter suggesting its efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may violate tax law, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
