[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Clinton Foundation needs to stop accepting donations for the remainder of the 2016 election, and it should be shut down altogether if Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... wins in November, the Boston Globe's editorial board wrote Tuesday.
The foundation is a "clear liability" for Clinton as she tries again to win the White House, it wrote.
Really? I hadn't noticed. Relatively few voters care, and the ones that do aren't voting for Hilarity anyway. And most of the moneyed folk who gave money to the Foundation have a fair understanding that one way or another they're going to get what they've been wanting...
Though the Clinton-founded organization has "supported relief in Haiti,
...ask the Haitians about that...
global health, and other good causes," it has also accepted a immense amount of cash from overseas, "including from foreign governments with troubling human rights records." One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
"The inherent conflict of interest was obvious when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009," the Globe's board wrote.
It was obvious while she was Senator...
"She promised to maintain a separation between her official work and the foundation, but recently released emails written by staffers during her State Department tenure make clear that the supposed partition was far from impregnable."
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Surely this is the Boston Globe in that alternate universe where Spock has a goatee?
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Obama: "At some point you've earnedstolen been bribed enough money"
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The weaknesses in the Clinton-Obama campaign are glaring.
- Pound them on the Clinton Foundation racket - suppresses the Dem vote.
- Pound them on the Obamacare rate increases - this is what folks complain about the most. Make the Ds own the increases - swings the Ind vote.
I don't care for either candidate, but the enemy of mine enemy theme applies this season - thus I support Trump.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Owen Smith has suggested Isil fighters should have a seat at the negotiating table if there are talks to end Syria's bloody civil war.
Going for the dumber than a box of rocks vote?
The Labour leadership contender said representatives of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) would eventually need to be involved in talks to find a resolution to the conflict.
Except that to ISIS the only acceptable resolution is the one where they rule it all: Syria, Iraq, the entire Middle East, in time the entire world. There really is no point in talking to such people.
His comments came during a heated debate with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Appearing on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, Mr Smith said "all of the actors" involved in the Syrian crisis should be negotiated with at "some point".
In contrast, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that there was no place for the terrorist group at the negotiating table.
Like a stopped clock, the little antisemite got something right.
Asked whether he believed Isil should be involved in the negotiations, Mr Smith said: "Ultimately all solutions to these sorts of international crises do come about through dialogue so eventually, if we are to try and solve this, all of the actors do need to be involved.
"But at the moment Isil are clearly not interested in negotiating."
He added: "At some point, for us to resolve this, we will need to get people round the table." Like we negotiated a settlement with Hitler?
Asked the same question, Mr Corbyn said: "They are not going to be round the table. No."
Last month, Isil grabbed credit for two attacks in Germany - an axe attack by a 17-year-old Afghan refugee and a suicide kaboom by a Syrian refugee that injured about 20 people.
Isil also opened a new front in its war with the West by murdering a French priest in July, the first such attack on a Christian church in Europe.
Reports from Syria reveal Isil carry out regular beheadings and people are nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for crimes as minor as smoking, listening to music or not wearing the burka.
Responding to the comments, Johnny Mercer, a Tory member of the Defence select committee, said: "Owen Smith's suggestion that we should get Isil 'round the table' demonstrates his unfitness for leadership.
"Everyone knows negotiation is far more desirable than violence in any conflict, but to suggest it in this case, is to entirely misunderstand and fail to grasp the challenge posed by ISIS.
"His desperate attempts to out-Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn have led him to the view that barbaric murderers who behead journalists and lynch homosexuals are now the sort of people that we should negotiate with.
"It shows that whoever wins this increasingly bizarre leadership election, I'm afraid Labour just cannot be trusted with keeping us safe."
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Public interest group Consumer Watchdog today reported that twenty-six energy companies including the state’s three major investor-owned utilities, Occidental, Chevron, and NRG—all with business before the state—donated $9.8 million to Jerry Brown’s campaigns, causes, and initiatives, and to the California Democratic Party since he ran for Governor. Donations were often made within days or weeks of winning favors. The three major investor-owned utilities alone contributed nearly $6 million.
An exhaustive review of campaign records, publicly-released emails and other documents at PUCPapers.org, court filings, and media reports, shows that Brown personally intervened in regulatory decisions favoring the energy industry, and points to Brown and his operatives having used the Democratic Party as a political slush fund to receive contributions from unpopular energy companies in amounts greater than permitted to his candidate committee. Between 2011 and 2014, the energy companies tracked by Brown’s Dirty Hands donated $4.4 million to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party gave $4.7 million to Brown’s re-election. Earmarking to the Democratic Party is illegal. Consumer Watchdog is forwarding its report to the Fair Political Practices Commission.
“The timing of energy industry donations around important legislation and key pro-industry amendments, as well as key regulatory decisions in which Brown personally intervened, raises troubling questions about whether quid pro quos are routine for this administration,” said consumer advocate Liza Tucker, author of the report, Brown’s Dirty Hands. “While Brown paints himself as a foe of fossil fuels, his Administration promoted reckless oil drilling, burning dirty natural gas to make electricity, and used old hands from industry and government, placed in key regulatory positions, to protect the fossil fuel-reliant energy industry.”
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The advocacy groups raise the price and gives cover.
Nice, straight forward example - Lawrence KS vs. Wal-Mart.
Lawrence, aka Berkley on Kaw, was petitioned by Wal Mart to build a new store and was initially agreed upon...then suddenly there were the people's uprising, No to Wal-Mart! booo never never! Suddenly, the zoning was suspended, no new Wal Mart.
The people had won! Power to the People!
Well, a couple months later, the zoning was re-approved. Yeah, it had to be away from the high school, have a fancy façade, hire a certain number of youngsters, face saving stuff.
Well, The People were shocked, betrayed. What are they famously called....useful idiots? Any rate, it begs the question - what sort of donations did the councils' spouse's hobby collect?
Yeah, but why should Walmart have to *bribe* anyone to build a store? I've seen it from the opposite side too--liberal city councils attempt to obstruct legitimate businesses all in the name of "preserving downtown" or "neighborhood standards".
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That's just it; and at first they didn't other than normal construction costs.
But, The People, probably KU students and affluent proto-hippies, raised such a stink the council, an elected position, made such a counter-popular decision to continue with the Wal Mart construction, it was what The People accused them of...it was so bad, I would talk to someone in the area and they would lead the conversation with Can You BELIEVE those bastards are letting that Wal Mart be built? To me, though, it was the only thing which made sense, but I'm of the Rodney Dangerfield Back to School. School.
[POLITICO] Donald Trump declared on Tuesday night that the Democratic Party had "failed and betrayed" black voters. But the civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... and other liberal black leaders are saying it’s Trump who’s full of false promises.
"If he cares about black voters, he certainly has shown a complete disregard and disrespect for addressing them and their issues," Sharpton told POLITICO in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. "I don’t know what’s in his head, but I know where his body has been. And it’s been absent in terms of black concerns and black people and black audiences throughout his campaign."
While a shakeup of Trump's campaign on Wednesday largely overshadowed his apparent attempt to improve his meager standing among African-American voters, Sharpton and others said his effort was no overture to African-Americans anyway.
Sharpton, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... , noted that Trump delivered remarks "with hardly no blacks in the audience" during his late-night rally in West Bend, Wisconsin, where he blamed Clinton for poverty and crime in America’s inner cities, called for more police on the streets and vowed to appoint the nation’s top prosecutors and judges and to increase enforcement of federal laws.
"To put more police out there without changing policing and without dealing with the issues is to increase the tension and increase of potential problems, not decrease," said Sharpton, who called Trump’s rhetoric on policing the "antithesis" of what should be done. "So either he has no understanding of the issue or he’s taking an absolute, adversarial position to where the country’s moving, or a combination of both."
Time.com has Mr. Trump's entire speech here. Read it and judge for yourself, dear Reader.
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"If he cares about black voters, he certainly has shown a complete disregard and disrespect for addressing them and their issues,"
Much like your attitude in paying Federal payroll taxes, big guy? Resist we much!
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Trump needs to hammer this message in, the cities that are in ruins have all had Democrat mayors for decades. Whatever solutions those Democrat Administrations have tried are not working. Whatever racism is behind the problems blacks face it comes from those Democrat administrations, not whites in general.
[TRIB] Liz Cheney overcame criticism about her ties to Wyoming and won the Republican primary for the U.S. House, a seat once held by her father.
With 82 percent of the precincts reporting at press time Tuesday, Cheney had received 40 percent of the vote in the most competitive U.S. primary contest in Wyoming in over 100 years.
Leland Christensen carried 22 percent, followed by Tim Stubson with 17 percent and Darin Smith with 15 percent.
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[Michelle Malkin] The Loathsome Cowboy rides again.
Ken Salazar, President Obama’s disgraced ex-interior secretary and former U.S. senator from Colorado, was named Hillary Clinton’s White House transition chair on Monday.
The pick confirms that a Clinton presidency would not only be Barack Obama’s third term ideologically, but also culturally. As in the Democratic culture of corruption.
I'm only surprised that she didn't name her son-in-law...
Ken Salazar is a thug. Before stepping down as Obama’s interior secretary in 2013 "to spend time with family," Salazar threatened violence against a local Colorado Springs Gazette reporter who had the audacity to challenge one of the ten-gallon hat-wearing bureaucrat’s cronyism-tainted deals.
At issue: How rancher and reported Salazar business associate Tom Davis profited handsomely from the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. Not long after Salazar took office, Davis paid $10 each for more than 1,700 federally protected horses who roamed on public lands. He then turned around and sold them for slaughter near the Mexican border for $154,000, despite signing a contract prohibiting him from doing so.
When Gazette reporter David Phillips (now at The New York Times) asked about the controversy at an Obama election night event in November 2012, Salazar snapped:
"You know what, never do that. This is a -- this is the Obama -- You know what, if you do that to me again, I’m going to punch you out. OK? Don’t ever, ever, from the Gazette or anybody else do that to me again. Set me up. You know?"
Caught on tape by Philipps and another witness, Knuckles Salazar issued an "apology." But neither he nor Davis, who said he had previously hauled cattle for Salazar for years, ever answered for their actions. An Inspector General determined Salazar’s department "failed to follow its own policy of limiting horse sales and ensuring that the horses sold went to good homes and were not slaughtered." No penalties, no prosecution, no nothing.
Ken Salazar is a liar. He trampled the rule of law, defied court orders, and doctored scientific conclusions in the name of environmental protection. Have you forgotten? After the BP oil spill in 2010, the Obama White House imposed a radical six-month moratorium on America’s entire deepwater drilling industry. The sweeping ban -- inserted into a technical safety document in the middle of the night by Obama’s green extremists -- cost an estimated 19,000 jobs and $1.1 billion in lost wages.
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Ken Salazar is a liar. He trampled the rule of law, defied court orders, and doctored scientific conclusions in the name of environmental protection.
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Transition chair? Hopefully, come November, his services will no longer be required.
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Given as how the media seems to be working overtime to prop up the walking dead presidential candidate, methinks things are looking work for Shillary than the MSM wants to admit...
[DAILYCALLER] An online feminist magazine recently featured an article that excused former President 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... ’s alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick.
A Wonkette article titled "Let’s Talk About Juanita Broaddrick" claimed that even if Clinton had raped Broaddrick in 1978 -- he was running for Arkansas governor at the time -- it does not necessarily mean he’s "an evil man."
"To sum up, I think Bill Clinton could very well have raped Juanita Broaddrick; that it doesn’t make him an evil man, or irredeemable (I’m Catholic; we’re all forgiven, if we’re sorry, and Broaddrick says Bill Clinton personally called her up to apologize). It doesn’t even necessarily make him a bad feminist -- you know, later, once he stops doing that," the article claimed.
The author also wrote that while she could see Clinton raping Broaddrick back then and viewing it as "alpha sex," she could also see a lot of other men of the time doing the same thing.
"I can absolutely see Bill Clinton doing this (then, not now) and not even thinking of it as rape, but thinking of it as dominant, alpha sex. I can see a LOT of men doing that during that time period, before we started telling them in the ’80s, "hey, that is rape, do not do that," the article stated.
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Feminist conclusion: if perpetrator is liberal then it is alpha sex else it is rape.
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Alpha sex? Nine years of sex ed. classes in my twelve years at a top-ranked public school, and I never came across that particular bit of terminology.
BTW, it is interesting to note the embracement of the ancient Egypt, Persian "God King" among the fawning Left. 'He/she is a god above us and thus not subject to laws of mortals.' Zeus/Jupiter was famous for these romps among the humans.
Speaking of Happy Family, if your boss tells you to give him oral, then sticks a cigar up your hoo-hoo so he can taste you hoo-hoo when having a smoke during afterglow - is that Alpha Sex?
Pedophile Island? Or Alpha Sex resort?
Harem? Or Alpha Sex Cave?
Or S. Sudan the other day - help! help! armed men are raping us!
Sorry ma'am can't help - just some Alpha Sex.
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Totally OT... may I revisit Scituate (by way of reject box)?
A happy homemaker of Scituate
Said, "Habits do tend to habituate.
Until I found uppers,
They turned down my suppers!"
"Hey, Mom, what's for dinner?" "Barbiturate."
[CNN] Donald Trump's campaign is undergoing a major staff shake-up with less than three months to Election Day, adding two officials to top posts overseeing his struggling campaign and signaling a shift toward campaigning as a scorched earth outsider in order to win.
Trump has named Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and a former investment banker, to the post of chief executive and promoted Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster to his campaign, to the position of campaign manager, Conway confirmed to CNN early Wednesday morning.
The addition of Bannon -- known for his brass-knuckled demeanor and his website's sharp tone -- came hours after reports surfaced that Roger Ailes, the recently ousted head of Fox News, will begin to advise Trump as he prepares for the presidential debates. The influence of both men lays the groundwork for unleashing Trump this fall from the more traditional presidential candidate framework, which Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort's leadership was brought on to create.
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HA!, "struggling" because he hasn't spent money on news media. Whereas Hilly, CNN, MSN, NBC, BLM, Soros, Democrats have paid who knows how much against Trump. He still stands. He only grows support form the vast majority of Americans. The first Republican to fight back at the global elites in these many years.
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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Hillary Clinton
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Public interest group Consumer Watchdog today reported that twenty-six energy companies including the state’s three major investor-owned utilities, Occidental, Chevron, and NRG—all with business before the state—donated $9.8 million to Jerry Brown’s campaigns, causes, and initiatives, and to the California Democratic Party since he ran for Governor. Donations were often made within days or weeks of winning favors. The three major investor-owned utilities alone contributed nearly $6 million.
[POLITICO] Donald Trump declared on Tuesday night that the Democratic Party had "failed and betrayed" black voters. But the 
Hillary Clinton
[DAILYCALLER] An online feminist magazine recently featured an article that excused former President 
[CNN] Donald Trump's campaign is undergoing a major staff shake-up with less than three months to Election Day, adding two officials to top posts overseeing his struggling campaign and signaling a shift toward campaigning as a scorched earth outsider in order to win.
