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-Short Attention Span Theater-
California Senate erases websites of 3 lawmakers, including Leland Yee
[AP] The California Senate has erased the names and online archives of three suspended lawmakers entangled in criminal cases.

The Senate removed pictures, video clips and legislative archives over the weekend involving Democratic Sens. Rod Wright of Los Angeles, Ron Calderon of Montebello and Leland Yee of San Francisco.

All that remains on the websites is information about their Senate districts.
Just a bit of tidying up before the midterms.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 01:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coming next, the Democratic Party sends them down the memory hole. Leland who?
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/08/2014 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Please someone, erase this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure that they erased anything that might be incriminating as well.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 04/08/2014 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Waiting to see if they get 'airbrushed' out of the official photos...
Posted by: Pappy || 04/08/2014 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  As for Leland Yee, it seems that some of our Chinese American residents are beginning to have misgivings about the Democrats, in particular the donk attempt to get Affirmative Action reinstated for California universities. They've gotten wise to the fact that Affirmative Action helps certain minority groups (which groups have actually become the majority) at the expense of Asians. Kinda have to wonder if Yee's stand on Affirmative Action was the reason why Eric Holder's DOJ and the rest of the donks are so eager to heave him under the bus.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/08/2014 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  "Kinda have to wonder if Yee's stand on Affirmative Action was the reason why Eric Holder's DOJ and the rest of the donks are so eager to heave him under the bus."

Naaahhh, EU, I think it's more likely they didn't like the gun-runnning competition.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/08/2014 13:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Reid: "Really Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich People" Keep Women from Equal Pay
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2014 15:30 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Including your boss in the white house who pays women staffers less.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2014 15:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "Reid: ‘Really Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich People’ Keep Women from Equal Pay"

Well, you'd know about that.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/08/2014 15:57 Comments || Top||

#3  What do these rich people do? Throw lots of money at wimmen's studies departments to keep 'em from becoming welders instead?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/08/2014 16:18 Comments || Top||

#4  TFSM, Take a welder to dinner.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Cause it's those entertainers, studies professors and the other fem Donk fete bundlers who hire lower class women to take care of their homes and kids. Think they're paying generous wages?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2014 16:50 Comments || Top||

#6  The stoking of the class/gender/racial warfare is downright obvious and pathetic these days. One has to love the use of newspeak as well. Language warfare I guess it could be called. The introduction of the meaningless phrase "income inequality" was a great move on their part. On the gender pay gap nonsense, if madam let-them-eat-cake is factored in I bet average pay for womyns in the White House is well above the mark.
Posted by: Lowspark || 04/08/2014 20:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The former USSR loved to promote its equalist or unitarian pay scales between the genders before the World - in practice, however, it never was.

Much like its also well bally-hooed abortion + workplace rights for women.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/08/2014 22:40 Comments || Top||


Champ Fundraising In Texas Same Day As Fort Hood memorial
[Breitbart] "The president and first lady send their thoughts and prayers out to the victims and families and everyone on the base, and they're going to actually travel down on Wednesday to the memorial ceremony," White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer explained on CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

But President Champ was already scheduled to travel to Texas that day for a big Democratic fundraiser with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R-CA).

According to a February report from the Associated Press, the event will take place at the home of John Eddie William in Houston, Texas. Tickets for the event cost as much as $64,800 per couple and proceeds from the event go to the Democratic House Senate Victory Fund

Champ is also scheduled to speak at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin on Thursday, at a summit marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Keeping it classy, our Champ and FLOTUS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You never let a crisis go to waste."
~ Rahm Emanuel
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Out of staters, ie carpetbaggers, scooping up money. Less money to be spent on Texas Donk Governor and Senate races. Take the money and run!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2014 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Stay classy assholes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2014 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  What Darthvader said - And they can use an abacus to tally up the loot, but you know what that will lead to... yeah everybody will know they are...

Posted by: Au Auric || 04/08/2014 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  They likely would not be going to the Memorial Service if they did not already have the fund raiser on their schedule.
Posted by: warthogswife || 04/08/2014 13:16 Comments || Top||

#6  "likely??"
Take that to the bank; no fundraiser then the Weasel-in-Chief would be on the links. If it was OK with FLOTUS, that is.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/08/2014 22:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Tickets for the event cost as much as $64,800 per couple and proceeds from the event go to the Democratic House Senate Victory Fund

To be used to go on the attack of the rich. How ironic. Or maybe these people will be listed for special treatment for such bribes to the regime.
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 || 04/08/2014 22:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Reminds me of that story a few days about Breck Boy Edwards going to a funeral (and being refused admittance) and then 'working the crowd' at the memorial.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/08/2014 22:48 Comments || Top||


Government
Champ dangles student loan freebie for midterm 2014 voters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 08:27 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just moves their costs (taxes and inflation) to the national debt they'll carry after I'm gone. There's no free lunch. Idiocracy - life imitating art.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2014 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The link started ads popping up everywhere.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/08/2014 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Everything this guy does is a scam.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/08/2014 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  If it works them Champ's voters sure are selling themselves cheap. Kind of like House Republicans if they go along.

In case anyone is interested, the actual fix would have to include making student loan debt dischargable in backruptcy (like it used to be) and making universities pay a penalty when this happens.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/08/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  >student loan debt dischargable in backruptcy

I tend to disagree. There's no way to reclaim any of the "knowledge" taught to the student. I suppose revoking the degree or even not awarding the degree until the debt is repaid might be options.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/08/2014 19:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I smell desperation. These despicable A-holes have no shame or sense of decency--they'd hustle a buck or a vote from their dying grandmother before they hurried her along after they got what they wanted.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/08/2014 20:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, very desperate. Appears to be some of the opinion that Harry Reid's campaign against the Koch bros. has more to do with the anticipated democratic midterm losses. The logic is, knowing they are going to lose seats, the dems will attempt to invalidate the results by claiming some type of campaign contribution or election fraud.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2014 20:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I saw the first two words of the title, and felt my spirits rise. I'd like to see him dangling.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 04/08/2014 21:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Bright Pebbles:

If a doctor cures you of cancer and you can't pay the bill you can discharge the debt in bankruptcy. What's the diff?

And seriously, what is the knowledge gained from that Fem Lit degree worth anyway?
Posted by: Omuth Sloluck1035 || 04/08/2014 21:25 Comments || Top||

#10  "Obama won control over the student-loan market in 2010, when the Obamacare law was passed. The law effectively pushed private banks out of the sector because it allowed the government to offer cheaper loans than banks. That means the federal government can raise or lower interest-rates to suit its political priorities — such as reelection."

Guess you gotta pass the law to know what's in it...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 04/08/2014 22:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Unfortunately Secret Asian Man, Champ is just a figurehead - a symptom of a much deeper problem. Look to his masters - ValJar and company and his associates - heck the entire leadership of the Democratic party (and not a few leaders of the Republican party as well).
Heck Champ and his family may be only in it for the ride and freebes - just look how Michelle Antoinette and the spawn jet around on the taxpayer's dime like royalty and how much time he spends at the golf course.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/08/2014 22:40 Comments || Top||



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