[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The official behind the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ' conservative nonprofit targeting scandal, Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... , was friends with the Wisconsin regulator who targeted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's conservative aides and allies.
Lerner and Kevin Kennedy, director of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, were friends for 20 years and traded emails on campaign finance, politics, and personal matters between 2011 and 2013, emails obtained by the Wall Street Journal reveal. That was the same time frame the IRS increased its harassment of conservative groups and Wisconsin prosecutors conducted a secret John Doe probe of Walker's allies, raising the troubling question of whether they coordinated their investigations.
After Walker's victory in a recall election, Lerner's long time friend Kennedy helped Milwaukee County prosecutors conduct an onerous, several-year investigation into Walker's political allies, complete with secret subpoenas for phone, text message and email records and armed, middle of the night raids on Walker associates' homes.
Under Kennedy, the Government Accountability Board hired four Sherlocks to conduct the probe and set aside staff for the investigation, according to WSJ.
Ostensibly the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether Walker's campaign had illegally colluded with conservative groups, after Walker had busted state employee unions and Wisconsin Democrats lost the state election recall to Walker.
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Slave historian Dr. Ibrahima Seck told WWLTV of the symbols history of slavery connection to “code noice,” the “black code” for slaves in eighteenth century Louisiana, when a slave could be branded with the symbol if they tried to run away.
It was also branded on thieves, fraudsters and anyone else that society claimed needed to be marked as they couldn't interact with other people without that warning.
Sounds almost like a solution for these whiny prats....
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Some form of these sayings exists in all languages I'm familiar with.
(1) Appetite comes during a feast.
(2) Give 'em a finger, they want the whole hand.
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During her youth Mylady (of the Tree Musketeers novel has one branded on her for thievery or prostitution (don't remember).
Anyway,New-Orlean's Fleur de Lys is the Fleur de Lys of the Kings of France. The fact the King's justice marked criminals and escaped slaves with the King's symbol is unrelated to New Orleans' Fleur.
I thought ambulance chasers were the lowest of the lowest. I was wrong. There is something lower; racial ambulance chasers.
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This country suffers from an epidemic much like the ebola virus but maybe more damaging--it's called political correctness. One of the symptoms is that it destroys our 1st Amendment rights and freedoms.
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The "SJW's" (just the latest acronym for communists/totalitarians) will be dismantling the Statue of Liberty before they're done, if we stand by and do nothing.
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Of course she does. She, like Obama worshiped at the feet of their hero, Saul Alinky. Blame others for your failings and anything bad that happens that you might have fomented---a recent corollary added to the playbook is "Never let a crisis go to waste."
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Still more than enough Muh Free Shit LIVs in this country for this tactic to work.
Besides, the Ruling Class RINOs actually have rolled over for Obama on practically everything, so she's actually largely correct; just not in the way that she means.
[CITY-JOURNAL.ORG] After years of warnings, financial reality is hitting home in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , clouding Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hope for a transformational legacy. In March, Moody's downgraded the city's credit rating to junk, but Chicago's financial hole long predates its ratings slide.
The trouble began emerging at least as far back as 2003, albeit under the radar. Then, as the Great Recession pummeled municipal budgets around the country, former Mayor Richard M. Daley engaged in dubious deals, such as the city's parking-meter lease.
In 2010, as Daley's tenure neared its close, Crain's Chicago Business published an exposé on the troubling levels of debt that the mayor's administration had accumulated.
In 2013, after Daley had left office, the Chicago Tribune ran a series further detailing the city's questionable debt practices, such as "scoop and toss"--that is, rolling over debt at higher cost as it came due, rather than paying it off.
Chicago's pension woes, along with Illinois', started attracting media coverage--as did financial can-kicking by agencies like the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which drained its reserves in 2012 and created a 2015 budget showing 14 months of revenue ("loopy," said the Tribune).
So for several years now, the media have been telling Chicagoans that there's a financial crisis. But it hasn't really felt like one, at least not in the booming Loop and on the North Side.
The Moody's downgrade triggered termination clauses in swaps contracts that the city and CPS had been using as part of their financial juggling act, creating a liquidity crisis. To deal with the downgrade fallout, the city plans to issue $1.1 billion in long-term bonds.
While some sort of refinancing may be required, the proposed debt issue contains maneuvers similar to those that helped get Chicago into trouble in the first place--including more scoop and toss deferrals, $75 million for police back pay, $62 million to pay a judgment related to the city's lakefront parking-garage lease, and $35 million to pay debt on the acquisition of the former Michael Reese Hospital site (an architecturally significant complex Daley acquired and razed for an ill-fated Olympic bid).
The debt-issue proposal also includes $170 million in so-called "capitalized interest" for the first two years. That is, Chicago is actually borrowing the money to pay the first two years of interest payments on these bonds. In true Chicago style, the proposal passed the city council on a 45-3 vote. Hey, at least the city is getting out of the swaps business.
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The price of greasing the political machine for too long. It's always easy when you're committing other peoples money to cover your generosity. see-magic money tree.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
