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The article mentioned 'immigrated' to Zim. If so did the former Congresspuke from Chicago renounce his US citizenship? At least he still gets lifelong salary to pay for his perverted choice.
#4
That'll cost him at least a billion Zimbabwe dollars
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Reynolds, an Illinois Democrat who once was a Rhodes scholar, resigned from his congressional seat in 1995 after he was convicted of having sex with a former campaign worker while she was underage, and then trying to thwart the investigation. While in prison he was also convicted of bank and campaign fraud for concealing debts to obtain bank loans and diverting money intended for voter registration drives into his election campaign.
Wow! Bad stuff! How'd he get out, I wonder?
He was in jail until his sentence was commuted by then-President Bill Clinton in Jan. 2001.
Another Rhodes "Scholar."
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Lol, B!
E.C., I believe they will accept Chinese Yen as well.
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Pancho: They're essentially fruit fallen from a poisonous tree. If you have time, examine the history of Rhodes, and the origins of his entrepreneurial, social, and educational schemes. He was the George Soros of his time. Just my opinion mind you.
[Time] President Champ traveled to California Friday to highlight the states drought emergency at two events near Fresno, calling for shared sacrifice to help manage the states worst water-shortage in decades. He then spent the rest of the weekend enjoying the hospitality of some of the states top water hogs: desert golf courses.
Vacationing with DVDs of his favorite television shows and multiple golf outings with his buddies, the duffer-in-chief played at two of the most exclusive courses in the Palm Springs area. On Saturday, Champ played at the Sunnylands estate, built by the late billionaire Walter Annenberg, which features a nine-hole course that is played like 18 holes. The following day he golfed at billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellisons 19-hole Porcupine Creek. On Presidents Day, Champ hit the links at Sunnylands once again.
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It's petty to associate Obama with the drought, he's bad enough, no need to exaggerate.
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I'm with Redneck Jim, for once. California's drought is partially politically-caused, but not by the Oval Office.
That said, keep in mind two things:
The state's drought is primarily due to the lack of snowfall, and thus a lack of a snow-pack, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. But a significant part of it is also due to political factors like limited water delivery infrastructure, plus judicial decisions to close or limit access to water sources.
Coachella Valley's aquifer isn't part of the Sierra mountain recharge. It's recharged from the Colorado River water system. That same water system is also used by agriculture to raise low-value crops such as alfalfa and hay; agriculture also pays much lower rates for its water than do the golf courses. Yes, believe it or not - golf courses do pay for their water (they also use recycled water and agronomic practices to reduce water use. but that's - gasp - "science".) Oh, and it's a part of a multi-million dollar private sector tourism business that keeps a lot of middle and lower class folks employed.
Now, I realize this probably has bored most populists; sorry that I didn't have any 'clever' photo-shopped graphics to amuse you. I have serious issues with Mr. Obama; stupid penny-ante schidt like this ain't among them.
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Droughts have been politicized. Kerry, Gore, Obama, and others have politicized such issues by lumping everything under the sun under rubric of "the effects of climate change." The left has tried assiduously to extract taxes from the rest of us--despite the lack of science underlying CC claims.
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I don't blame the golf courses but I can blame a president who can't sit still long enough to do his job. Either that, or as some on this blog have speculated, he conducts business on the golf course so that some of his more unsavory associates don't have to log in and out of the White House.
As for the drought, there is a concept known as carrying capacity. Some years back the mayor of Poway, a mid sized city in San Diego County, had the nerve to mention it. I can't remember whatever happened to him but it's been a long, long time since we've heard anything from him. It's not a popular subject among the local pols in this county. They'd rather collect campaign contributions for letting developers do whatever the hell they want. Then they wonder why the reservoirs are low and the farmers and ranchers are going broke.
On a federal level, there was also that whole Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mortgage meltdown boom/bust thing. Obama had to know about that and it isn't far fetched to assume he had some idea of the effect it had on the housing boom in California.
Yeah, droughts are gonna continue to get worse here if we keep building more houses and importing more people. But that's the bright side of Moonbeam's high taxes and mismanagement because for the first time in my memory it's driving people outta here.
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One can enjoy the irony of left-leaning Time reporting such hypocrisies.
That's because, in the author's (and Time's) view, the President is not 'Left' enough in the rest of his doings. I'm sure a few dozen executive orders ranging from raising the minimum wage to sic'cing the IRS on Fox News would have gotten him a pass on golfing at elite courses, sampling the latest meth products from Indio, and enjoying Palm Spring's gay nightlife.
ABU DHABI (Rooters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Wednesday, the State Department said, as he seeks to nudge Israel and the Palestinians toward a peace deal by the end of April.
U.S.-brokered talks between the two sides have made little visible progress since they resumed in July after a three-year hiatus with a goal of reaching an agreement within nine months. Nine months, nine years, nine millennia....no change. Nine months: you mean just before the November elections?
"Secretary Kerry will meet with Palestinian Authority President Abbas in Paris, France on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in Abu Dhabi, where Kerry is meeting senior United Arab Emirates officials. Additional.... 'little visible progress' is expected.
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.
Yes, very badt muti. I recommend something be amputated to appease the locals and the gods. 
FDR meets with farmers during the dustbowl of the 1930's. Quite the contrast I'd say. 
ABU DHABI (Rooters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Wednesday, the State Department said, as he seeks to nudge Israel and the Palestinians toward a peace deal by the end of April.
