[TOWNHALL] A prominent Democratic campaign strategist who worked on President B.O.'s 2004 Senate campaign and wooed Democrats like Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit honest service wire fraud.
Thomas Lindenfeld of Washington D.C. participated in a wire fraud scheme started during the campaign he consulted in the 2007 election of Philadelphia's mayor. The official campaign that he was hired by is not disclosed in an FBI release because the person has not been officially charged yet.
"Elected Official A" (the title given by the FBI) and Lindenfeld arranged an illegal campaign contribution in the form of a $1 million loan that he routed through his own political consulting firm, LSG Strategies Services Corporation. Documents show that $600,000 of that money was used in "Elected Official A's" political campaign and the rest returned to the creditor (who also hasn't been charged and is unnamed).
When the creditor who loaned LSG the money that was used for "Elected Official A's" campaign sought to have the loan paid off, Lindenfeld paid the debt with stolen charitable funds and federal grant money that he routed through LSG and several other entities.
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[CNSNEWS] Sen.-elect James Lankford (R-Okla.) told 'Fox News Sunday' that Obamacare architect and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's comments reflect an 'arrogance of centralized government.'
'I think Gruber's comments show what is consistent in Washington, it's this arrogance of centralized government. This administration really believes they're smarter than everyone else and they need to just create the policy and impose the policy, and states exist only to be able to carry out their wishes from the central government. And I think that's exactly backwards,' he said.
'Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get anything to pass,' Gruber said in a newly surfaced video of comments he made in 2013.
'What is it that you think, given the fact that the president will certainly veto any outright repeal of Obamacare, what do you think the new Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate can actually accomplish in Obamacare over the next two years?' 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace asked Lankford.
'The best thing that we can actually do is return health care decisions back to states, back to local authorities. Health care compacts, all the different things that actually return those authorities back to the states,' Lankford said. 'We have $50 billion -- $50 billion last year in Medicare fraud, $50 billion.' ... with a "B."
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"I think Gruber's comments show what is consistent in Washington, [Moscow, Beijing] it's this arrogance of centralized government."
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Not arrogance so much as the desire to make sure the magic checks keep coming.
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Among my economic readings for my doctorate was a comment that highly centralized governments fail because they lack expertise in some areas they try to manage and they are also thus spread too think and too distracted to effectively manage those things only a government can manage.
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notice Pols can always cite a $ figure for fraud and waste, but can never seem to put a stop to it?
almost a failure of desire or will...nahhhhhh
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'Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get anything to pass,'
I don't know about all of you, but this arrogant piss ant really ticks me off.
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The people that Gruber called stupid are the ones who supported Obamacare. The deception that Gruber talks about was targeted at the ones who supported Obamacare. It’s telling that now the jig is up many of the people who dismiss Gruber’s comments are the same ones who continue to support Obamacare. Maybe that stupid comment isn’t far off the mark?
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The ACA/Obamacare was a law based on deceit and subterfuge. It would seem that such a law would be unlawful for no other reason that it was based on lies. I hope SCOTUS considers this when deciding the legality of the subsidies and other cases. The ACA continues to be propped up by lies.
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First of all, travelers, feckless do gooders, and civilians in general need to exercise some basic common sense. Read [and fok'n heed] the State Department Foreign Travel bulletins.
Ask yourself, now what could possibly go wrong with me leaving Peoria and flying to Baghdad to become an aid worker, news person, or writer? Use worst case scenario's, read the paper, talk to your insurance agent, your mother, e-mail the USEMBASSY personnel. Do some fok'n research !
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Of course, if you really want to get money to your fellow travelers without acting outright treasonous, this is one three-card-monty shuffle to do it. Plausible deniability.
[BREITBART] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... , who was re-elected in a landslide earlier this month to what he says is his last term in office, will ask political donors on Monday to keep contributing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Brown defeated his opponent, Neel Kashkari, while retaining $20 million or more in his reelection account as of mid-October. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Brown--who says he will not run for President--is still asking for cash.
The Sacramento reception asks for donations of $5,000 for a "private reception and sit down conversation" with Brown at Mulvaney's B&L. Capitol Advocacy, a top lobbying firm, plans to attend; the firm will reportedly bring some of its major clients, including PepsiCo, Corrections Corporation of America, T-Mobile USA Inc., WellCare Health Plans, Pacific Compensation Insurance Co., and Diageo.
The Times, which secured a copy of the invitation, reports that Brown has spent little of his reelection funds since mid-October; he had told the Times that he was thinking of using any funds left over from his campaign to support ballot measures in his new term.
The Washington Post reported in October that Brown's campaign said it had spent over $3.3 million on ads for Propositions 1 and 2. At that point he had not run a single television ad for his campaign.
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OOOOOOOOO, you just knew this was coming.
Personally, I've always wondered how Linda Ronstadt would do as FLOTUS???
Parkinson's Disease has left Linda Ronstadt unable to sing.
The 67-year-old singer, who will publish her memoir, Simple Dreams, next month, revealed her condition Friday in an interview with AARP.
The singer of such '70s and '80s hits as You're No Good, Hurt So Bad and Don't Know Much now uses poles to assist her when walking on uneven ground and travels with a wheelchair. She says she was diagnosed with the neurological disorder eight months ago, though she began experiencing symptoms, including hand tremors and trouble controlling the muscles that let her sing, several years ago. She says she initially attributed her problems to the residual effects of a tick bite and shoulder surgery.
"I think I've had it for seven or eight years already, because of the symptoms that I've had," the 11-time Grammy winner tells interviewer Alanna Nash. Ronstadt's last album was 2006's Adieu False Heart with Cajun musician Ann Savoy.
As far as Jerry Brown, born Apr 07, 1938 age 76, his father Pat Brown lived to be 90, and Jerry could run at 78 years old, serve 2 terms as President of the United States of America, be 86 at the end of his term, live 4 years.
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California seems better under Jerry Brown because the media here tend to not complain. Brown has a choice to screw the Greens (and allow offshore drilling adn fracking) or the unions (by cutting the pensions that the state can't afford) or the rest of the state (do nothing).
He appears to have chosen the do nothing option and it got him reelected. The whole thing is very Obama-ish.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... 's reelection campaign pioneered a pathway for political campaigns to reach voters through Facebook when it released an app that helped supporters target their friends with Obama-related material.
But as the 2016 presidential campaign approaches, Facebook is rolling out a change that will prevent future campaigns from doing this, closing the door on one of the most sophisticated social targeting efforts ever undertaken.
So they figure the Pubs have caught up and have more enthusiasm going into 2016, do they...
"It's a fairly significant shift," said Teddy Goff, who was Obama's digital director in 2012, and oversaw the effort that helped the Obama campaign gain a Facebook following of 45 million users that year. Goff's team used Facebook and other tools to register more than a million voters online and to raise $690 million online in 2011 and 2012.
"The thing we did that will be most affected -- by which I mean rendered impossible -- by the changes they're making is the targeted sharing tool," Goff said.
More than 1 million Obama supporters in 2012 installed the campaign's Facebook app. These supporters were given the option to share their friend list with the Obama campaign. Goff said most of the app users did so. And when they did, Goff's team would then "run those friend lists up against the voter file, and make targeted suggestions as to who [supporters] should be sharing stuff with."
This was a powerful new form of voter outreach. The Obama campaign had concluded that many voters -- especially younger Americans -- viewed TV and other forms of advertising from the campaign with suspicion and skepticism. But they were still open to messages that came from friends and acquaintances.
The key to getting persuasive messages in front of persuadable voters going forward, the campaign decided, was to have them come from people they knew.
"It's extremely powerful for a campaign to be able to say to [a user], 'Hey, here are your persuadable friends, ranked in order of where they live: Ohio first, Virginia second, et cetera. Go share this video directly with them,'" Goff said.
The Romney campaign also started doing this, but only in October, a month before the presidential election.
Then in the spring of 2014, Facebook -- responding to growing privacy concerns -- cracked down on how much information third-party applications could gain about those who installed the apps.
"We've heard from people that they're often surprised when a friend shares their information with an app," wrote Facebook engineering manager Jeffrey Spehar in a blog post. "So we've updated Facebook Login so that each person decides what information they want to share about themselves, including their friend list."
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The marks have caught on, so it's time to change the game. Bait and switch.
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...except those of the Left. It'll just be like racial quotas in colleges. They're there, but not there.
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she said. “…The Constitution is going to be, I think, the storyteller. The president has executive power to be able to do this and use prosecutorial discretion.”
Key words - 'prosecutorial discretion.' Breaking down the gates of the racist gulags and the freeing of political prisoners cannot happen without it.
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Jackson Lee, Jessie Jackson, AL Sharpton should join with Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) for goofy comments. Congressman Johnson, you remember, was concerned that Guam would capsize with the transfer of 8,000 Marines and dependents from Okinawa!
[TheHill] Conservative House Republicans say they're willing to shut down the government to prevent President B.O. from carrying out what they see as unconstitutional actions on immigration.
Tea Party politicians emboldened by the GOP's big midterm gains say they will insist on attaching a policy rider to legislation keeping the government open that would block funding for agencies carrying out Obama's promised executive actions limiting deportations.
If the Democratic Senate or Obama rejects the rider, the government could shut down. A current measure funding the government expires on Dec. 12.
"I am insisting on that [rider] because the president is violating his executive privilege," GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, who represents the border state of Arizona, said in an interview Friday.
The call to arms by conservatives is a challenge for GOP leaders in both chambers, who also oppose executive action by Obama but acknowledge they have not settled on a plan to stop it.
"There's no decision on the strategy, but we know for one thing that the president should not move forward," Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... (R-Calif.) told news hounds Friday.
Frame the bill: pass the usual bill for Homeland Security minus the funding for these parts. Put that with appropriate riders and language into a separate bill -- not an amendment, a separate bill -- and send the big bill to Champ. If he signs, DHS is funded minus the money for his escapade. If he vetoes, DHS has nothing. Tell him that once the big bill is signed we'll talk about the remaining money.
It's unclear what Obama will do, but reports this week that he is considering expanding an existing program that defers the deportation of children who entered the U.S. illegally to both their parents and additional children have provoked outrage on the right. Obama's proposals could give legal status to 5 million people, some reports suggest.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed Thursday that Republicans would not shut down the government or default on the nation's debt.
Correct: just that one little part of the government. Remove as much of DHS from consideration as you can.
But hours later, Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... (R-Ohio), fresh off winning another two years in the top spot, said the GOP would "fight tooth and nail" to stop Obama and that all options remained on the table.
Good cop, bad cop...
Senior GOP aides said the Republican response could be a combination of blocking executive-branch nominees when Republicans take over the Senate next year and expanding a GOP lawsuit against Obama to cover his immigration action.
More moderate Republicans are trying to talk their conservative colleagues down from the ledge, warning that the GOP surely will be blamed for another shutdown. Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) is plowing ahead with a clean omnibus package that would keep the government open through September 2015.
In other words, real political sausage is being made, as our elected representatives do their best to represent the views of those who elected them.
If the omnibus bill excludes this part of immigration it's great -- again, put that in a separate bill. Let Champ be the one whose veto shuts down the government.
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...Maybe it's just not this easy, but it seems to me that the FIRST thing the Pubs need to do is pass the Governmental Services Priority Act (or some other appropriate name) that details to the letter what government services are to continue and which ones don't during a shutdown, and in what priority they are to continue. Seems to me that if Congress says, "SSA payments continue" and the White House says, "No, they don't," the White House is going to be the ones with some 'splainin to do.
Mike
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.. if Congress says, "SSA payments continue" and the White House says, "No, they don't," the White House is going to be the ones with some 'splainin to do.
It's already been done. It's just the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine won't let the word out to the 'stupid Americans' (whose 'stupidity' is serviced by said PPPM, it's a feature, not a bug).
Controlling both houses, you can do selective shutdown by approving the funding specified by the authorization bills. Fund DoD, Fed Prisons, etc. Hold EPA, DoE et al.
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What Mike Kozlowski said. Basically, the onus needs to be put on Obama and apparatchiks. Otherwise, get on with the death by a thousand cuts strategy.
[Bloomberg] The U.S. will offer refugee status to some undocumented youths from three Central American countries, Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... said, as the administration weighs a broader revamp of federal immigration policy.
The move modifies a program that now lets as many as 4,000 people a year from Cuba and Colombia seek refugee status when coming to the U.S. The change would allow people under age 21 from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to be eligible, Biden said today. It would apply only to people not already in the U.S. who have a parent in the U.S. legally, he said.
"It provides those seeking asylum a 'right way' to come to our country, as opposed to crossing the border illegally." Biden said at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
Because the offer applies only to people with parents living lawfully in the U.S., it won't help most kids who need it, said Jennifer Podkul, senior program officer at the Women's Refugee Commission in Washington.
"Some of the most vulnerable kids have parents who don't have legal status in the U.S.," she said. "It's a good first step but it's not going to be panacea for this problem."
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You don't go to another country and tell everyone under 21 to come overrun our towns, cities and country side and think you are going to come back to the US without getting your butt kicked, chump.
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How do you know these kids are actually theirs. They may be nieces and nephews. Something stinks about supposedly parents are here legally while their kids are growing up in another part of the world. What kink of parents would do that?
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Yeah, the perfect time to send your knife fighters in is when the opponent just got a new shipment of guns and ammunition.
("Gee, boss, should we wear our blindfolds?")
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I would think cutting off american heads, filming it and posting it on the Internet would be enough for me to put troops on the ground. But hey I am just an American concerned citizen; what do I know.
Get back to work. There's a lot of 'disadvantaged voters' need feedin' on our dime. No time for us to be worried about such lofty ideals, let our moral superiors deflect and obfuscate without hindrance.
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[BREITBART] Returning from his trip to Asia, President Obama issued a statement reacting to the beheading of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
Kassig, a convert to Islam, took the name Abdul-Rahman and was captured and held hostage by members of ISIS a year ago.
"ISIL's actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own," Obama wrote.
"Today we grieve together, yet we also recall that the indomitable spirit of goodness and perseverance that burned so brightly in Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and which binds humanity together, ultimately is the light that will prevail over the darkness of ISIL."
Obama called the action "an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity."
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Least of all?
Look around Obean. What other religion performs this act to please God?
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Kassig became a convert to Islam during his captivity.
ISIS called him 'Peter' in their video
Obama called him 'Abdul Rahman' in his statement
also, beheading is specifically called for in 2 koran verses; 8:12 and 47:4 ; many other verses call for harsh punishment that could include beheading (e.g., 5:33 calls for execution that could be via crucifixion or amputation)
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Maybe we will get a president who actually does something about it.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand jury decision about whether a white police officer will be charged in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
Nixon said the National Guard would assist state and local police in case the grand jury's decision leads to a resurgence of the civil unrest that occurred in the days immediately after the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.
"All people in the St. Louis region deserve to feel safe in their communities and to make their voices heard without fear of violence or intimidation," Nixon said in a written statement.
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Just to keep DHS under control.
Think Holder will march with Sharpton?
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Should have called up the state militia, telling them to report to the sheriff with four days food and 200 rounds of ammo. That would get someone's attention.
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My understanding is that police are on alert across the country. Protesters are being trained in Ferguson in anticipation of a grand jury decision of not to indict the cop. Essentially, the Ferguson protesters are holding the country hostage.
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They aren't holding sh*t. They're going to get their heads busted. We cannot let 12% of the population to make people afraid to walk down the street.
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Wait a minute I thought grand jury deliberations were confidential. Why the assumption that blacks will riot and loot? It feels like hype for Oprah's new Selma movie opening.
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Regular joe, the mobs won't be satisfied until Officer Wilson is publicly executed.
Since the grand jury is unlikely to deliver an indictment for capital murder, they will riot.
And even if they did get an indictment for a capital crime, they would riot in celebration.
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Suspect that past riot MO is followed: majority of damage will be in the black community. Ferguson will then be the first ghetto-free city; of course there will be hell to pay for all the carbon credits they need to buy to account for the fire and smoke.....
[DAILYCALLER] Liberal environmentalists are spending a rainy Monday morning in Washington protesting outside the Capitol Hill townhouse of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu over the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
According to a source on the scene Monday, protesters are standing in the yard of Landrieu's East Capitol Street home holding signs opposing the pipeline. Protesters also brought along a mock black plastic pipeline. The source said Capitol Police and D.C. Metro Police are on the scene, but appear to be letting the protesters stand in Landrieu's yard anyway.
The protest comes as Landrieu, trailing in the polls with her Republican opponent, is emphasizing her support for the Keystone pipeline ahead of her run-off in Louisiana next month.
Republicans say Landrieu is using the issue to try to save her seat. The Keystone pipeline would carry oil from Canada to oil refiners on the Gulf Coast, including in Louisiana.
After six years of not allowing a vote, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... plans to bring the Keystone pipeline up for a vote on Tuesday. The House voted to approve the pipeline last week. It's not clear whether President B.O. will veto the bill if sent to his desk.
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Don't sweat it, hippies; the house will be on the market in a few weeks...
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Of course because most of these retards are on the dole, none of them are thinking about the cost of gasoline, heating oil or natural gas.
AND they are all part of the true believer crowd that simultaneously can believe that CO2 can cause temperatures to rise creating vast deserts and cause temperatures to fall creating a vast snow covered world...
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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"I think Gruber's comments show what is consistent in Washington, [Moscow, Beijing] it's this arrogance of centralized government." 
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The protest comes as Landrieu, trailing in the polls with her Republican opponent, is emphasizing her support for the Keystone pipeline ahead of her run-off in Louisiana next month.
