Now we learn that Senior Justice Department officials including Attorney General Eric Holder and former FBI Director Robert Mueller used federal aircraft for hundreds of personal trips that were not properly reported, according to a report by Congresss nonpartisan Government Accountability office issued this week.
GAO found that Holder, Mueller and other Justice Department executives took 395 unclassified, non-mission flights between fiscal years 2009 and 2001. GAO determined that the flights cost taxpayers $7.8 million. But the General Services Administration, which oversees such trips, did not require documentation because of a GSA reporting exemption that covers intelligence agencies, even in cases of unclassified personal travel.
The GAO report states that the reporting exemption applied to the FBI and other Justice Department agencies contradicts decades-old executive-branch requirements, specifically guidelines established by President Bill Clinton and the Office of Management and Budget. The report said GSA has not provided a basis for deviating from executive branch requirements.
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As a macro-thinker and global citizen, he's never really understood the importance of names, certificates, documents, ID cards, passports, employment verification, citizenship, that sort of thing.
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Yeah, we wanna restrict the right of foreigners to vote in our elections. After all, we don't get to vote in theirs.
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Harry Dingle, huh? And here I thought Ebbang Uluque6305 was a funny name. Well, I took Pappy's advice and switched to PaleMoon as my browser so now I have to reset my cookie. PaleMoon seems to work OK but the way things are going I bet they'd back down in the face of the bullies the same way Firefox did.
#7
I think I get it now. Obama has buried his own ID so deep that he himself would not be able to produce it to vote. That would set such a bad example for the people. THAT's why he and his supporters are against having voter ID. It all makes so much sense now.
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Uneasy with a Pres sans credential
Whose bent is a bit rezidential?
"From the Rezidentura,
Please let me assure ya,
These lapses are inconsequential!"
[Iran Press TV] A prominent Democrat Congressman says America's broken immigration system remains stalled because the base of the Republican Party has racist elements, but all Republicans are not racist.
Steve Israel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, made the remarks in an interview with US broadcaster CNN on Sunday.
"Not all" Republicans are racist, said Israel, but "to a significant extent, the Republican base has elements that are animated by racism, and that's unfortunate."
Earlier this week, Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... , the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, blamed racial issues for the Republican Party's failure to take action on comprehensive immigration legislation.
"I think race has something to do with the fact that they're not bringing up an immigration bill," Pelosi told news hounds on Thursday.
The CNN journalist asked Israel about Pelosi's comments. He said he agreed with her remarks.
Pelosi also accused Republicans of being disrespectful to members of the administration of President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and to women.
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I consider myself immune. Any time someone says that to me, my answer "Yes, I'm very much pro-humans!" They get this weird look on their face cause while the logic part of their brain realizes they have just been trumped, their liberal brain cannot process what you said.
#5
I share a somewhat similar political and social philosophy as Dr. Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Condolisa Rice, Clarence Thomas, Allen West, Parker, Keyes, Sowell, my old barber in Leesburg, and the junk man....... am I still an evil racist ?
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Besoeker - of course you're still an evil racist. Anyone who agrees with the philosophies of those people is an evil racist. Even them - they are not legitimately black. Or so I'm told by my betters.
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This is the problem - the Dems are inventing stuff out of whole cloth, and not even one single reporter publicly calls them out on it. These "reporters" instead carry the lie and bias straight to the mainstream outlets who idealogue editors have the talking heads and hack writers parrot it, as Goebbels dictum says.
Goebbel's dictum? Here you go: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." (apocryphal attributed to Goebbels)
as well as
The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over
Destroying language disrupts the ability to communicate. Imagine you want to make a painting. You go to the hobby store to buy your paints. The paints have the different colors on them, but are only labeled white, black, yellow, red, green, etc. You can tell there are different types of green, but they are all called green.
You make your painting, somebody asks, "Wow, how did you make those trees?" You can only reply, "I used a green, a different green, and a third green."
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Here's how racist I am: If Mexican law allowed me to go somewhere down on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, buy property, enjoy the same voting rights, the same access to health care, education for my kids, the same protection under the law just the same as if I was here in California I would go. But that, unfortunately, is not the case. And yet, Mexicans expect to come to my country and demand all of those things, without having worked for them or paid any taxes for them, at my expense. If it's racist for me to believe that's not fair then I guess I'm a racist. That's an uncomfortable idea because I have a lot of friends whose ethnic background is Hispanic. I would like to assert that the policies advocated by the likes of Pelosi, McCain and Obama have led to a polarization in our society and to tensions with our neighbors to the south. If the law had been upheld all along it wouldn't have to be that way.
Serious question because if you are claiming (and indeed you, Nancy Pelosi, are!) that "Illegal aliens == Mexican (or Latin American)" then isn't that a very, very racist statement you, Nancy Pelosi, are making?
Equating a legal status (in this case 'ILLEGAL' as in 'IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW') with a race (or in this case nationality.) is one of the most racist things I've seen.
Kind of like claiming "All blacks are Criminals!". Which is patently false.
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For the true 'progressive' the state owns everything - all property, the products of your labor, and you. You exist to serve the state (row well and live). They're just being kind to let you retain what they do.
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Cause it was Republicans flying those planes into the World Trade Center. Then the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor makes WWII a Democratic Party war.
[NBCNEWS] Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the administration's own predictions that the new health care law's online sign-up system would be ready by Oct. 1 were "just flat out wrong."
Sebelius told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview airing Sunday the health care website's launch was "terribly flawed and terribly difficult."
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Hey ... since she was boss... why didn't she do something?
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since she was boss... why didn't she do something?
Because she wasn't the boss. Obumble is a worse micro manager than Jimmy Carter. Obama makes sure political considerations trump everything else.
Unfortunately for him, the computer doesn't care.
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Obumble is a worse micro manager than Jimmy Carter. Obama makes sure political considerations trump everything else. Unfortunately for him, the computer doesn't care. Posted by Frozen Al
Exactly correct on the 'micro-manager' piece, that's precisely the reason all of the scandal spoor, Benghazi, F&F, IRS, etc, leads back to the regime and White House.
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Well I for one am just stoked that the Obama budget director, which received yay votes in the House by only those who thought it was a call for a Bloody Mary, will be in charge of such a powerful fiefdom.
Did Sebelius remember to write an exemption for herself and new employer before retiring?
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How would you like to have that at the negotiating table?
"Mrs. Sebelius, we can offer you $300,000.00 per year with full benefits."
"Yes, well, my lawyer...where is that sheet...my lawyers figures you can pay me triple that amount plus benefits and your company could benefit greatly from my previous, uhem, experiences, with a guaranteed bump in your bottom line within a year."
"Yes Mrs. Sebelius, I think I understand. Just so you understand that initially we will need to appraise your talents, so you may not have very many projects until you feel so inclined. So we agree then."
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Nancy 
[NBCNEWS] Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the administration's own predictions that the new health care law's online sign-up system would be ready by Oct. 1 were "just flat out wrong."
I don't care what Chumlee says, she's a dumb ass and I'm glad she's gone. 
