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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Boeing CEO Refuses To Disclose Clinton Emails
[Daily Caller] Boeing's CEO refused a shareholder request Monday to release emails between company officials and the State Department that may have been deleted from Hillary Clinton's server.

David Almasi, executive director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, requested the disclosure at the company's annual shareholder meeting Monday, but was rebuffed by Boeing's CEO, according to a press release.

Clinton has been under fire in recent months following revelations that she used a private email address for official correspondence while serving as Secretary of State, and that her staff has since deleted more than half of the messages.

Noting that Boeing had already successfully blocked a resolution calling on it to release correspondence it may have had with the Clinton Foundation, Almasi said, "you still have the opportunity to set the record straight that every communication between Boeing and the State Department was above board. Will you release every email and communication that Boeing officials had relating to donations to the Clinton Foundation, and with the State Department?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 07:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Boeing donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. It also lobbied the State Department while Clinton helmed the agency."

Link to Free Bacon story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Rep Gowdy needs to subpoena him and the emails. And remind him there is a jail cell awaiting him for contempt charges if he does not comply.
Posted by: OldSpook || 04/29/2015 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Congress could also withhold funding on a few key Boeing contracts.... until they come to their senses.

Defying the shareholder's request, very telling. Sarah, please put me through to the Proxy department, I'll hold.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 - Free Bacon? You pulled me in.

Mmmmmmmmm bacon
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2015 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow Free Bacon is more eye-catching than free beacon.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/29/2015 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  People still go to jail for contempt, OS? /sarc/
Posted by: Lowspark || 04/29/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||


VDH: Fall Of The House Of Clinton
a blistering indictment of the Grifters and their Liberal enablers. A taste:
The Democrat Party's investment in Hillary Clinton is too substantial for any such reckoning. Liberals have embraced the Cold-War cliche ‐ "of course, he is a SOB, but he's our SOB." Translated to Hillary that means she is a tough political brawler, she's on their side, and she's all they got ‐ and therefore anything such an asset does is more or less tolerable in an imperfect world. Democrats expect her to weather this mess. Each time she does so, the next and more egregious scandal becomes more "old news." The family's Nietzschean creed is that any scandal that does not kill off their careers makes a Clinton stronger. Despite the dozen or so ethical scandals that will inevitably arise over the next two years, Hillary Clinton will be nominated by the Democrats and has at least a 50/50 chance of being elected president. The Democratic elite will call her survival "fully vetted" and "time tested."

But all that said, the House of Clinton has utterly collapsed in a moral sense. The very name Clinton is now synonymous with amorality and will be so for the rest of American history. It is not that the Clintons are immoral and thus break existing moral canons and laws; rather they operate completely outside of any moral universe. To them, there is no such thing as moral or immoral, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical, only whether their aim is judged lucrative and the means to obtain it without serious liability. A form, a disclosure, a protocol for a Clinton is not a question of signing it as required or not signing it; rather, for them, such a requirement simply does not exist. Clintons do not erase emails; they destroy the server to ensure erased emails are erased for good.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's up to a third of the voting block who would welcome a king, autocrat, or even dictator, as long as it was theirs. They'll show no mercy to you. They'll justify it in what ever way they can, but ultimately its just Freudian projection. Why waste time an effort dealing with these creatures.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2015 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  The fall of the Clintons? It has been predicted before and yet they still keep on keeping on just like a bad case of incurable disease or like Freddy Kruger. There is a left wing element that would vote for a yellow dog so long as it had a "D" after its name. They are basically single issue voters who vote for their particular tribe's issue. They don't care who the candidate is so long as its a womyn, or black, or this or that--whatever they happen to think is chic, cheeky or in vogue. They forgive the lack of character of the candidate because the candidate is on the same side of the issue and represents the same ax to grind as they have. They care little about the welfare of the country or where the country goes so long as it goes in their particular direction or in other words gives them what they want...and now! This particular segment is the most pampered, spoiled and self-centered, narcissistic segment of society we have ever seen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/29/2015 14:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The very name Clinton is now synonymous with amorality and will be so for the rest of American history

The same could be said of Stalin and Mao, who both died in bed and in power.

What difference does it make?
Posted by: charger || 04/29/2015 19:42 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Hildebeest resorts to talking to herself to avoid press.
As one commenter opined, 'This is funny, but it is getting kind of weird now.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 07:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I'm walking through the door and to the car..oh, hi! It's people! ok."

Being dotty is a winner huh.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2015 12:52 Comments || Top||

#2  You're just jealous cause the voices only talk to her.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2015 18:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Conversing with Eleanor Roosevelt again?
Posted by: charger || 04/29/2015 19:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Cause nobody else believes a word she says.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2015 19:39 Comments || Top||


Malik Obama disappointed and angry with his brother.
[The Right Scoop] An interview came out by Director Joel Gilbert with Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half brother supposedly revealing all sorts of laundry on President Obama of abandoning his Muslim family in Kenya and adding that Malik now also suspects that his half brother Barack could be illegitimate, which the question then becomes: who to believe, the polygamist (Malik) or the suspected bastard (Obama) or even the opportunist Joel Gilbert who should be ashamed of himself as we shall see.

I would take the side of the suspected bastard in this case: Barak Hussein Obama. Here is why this interview is worthless and Gilbert should be shamed of himself. Malik, the polygamist lied when he was asked about his living condition claiming he was living in poverty, so why trust anything else he says? Gilbert should be ashamed to go below the belt and suggest that Barack is a bastard without presenting real evidence. That, plus, he should have known better that Malik is a first class liar. Instead of exposing the Islamist connection (which we did the most extensive research on the topic) he opted for smear.

Malik who claimed to live in "poverty" seems to have enough money he gained from his relationship with his half brother Barack to build a center claiming it was a public facility. But according to several sources, this center is a "hotel" with a restaurant: "The meeting was conducted in the only hotel in Kogelo which carries the name Barack H. Obama Recreation Center and Rest Area" (Egyptian Al-Masry 11, 6, 2012).
Well at least I have something in common with Malik.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, the first Barack H.Obama Rest Area is already open.
Posted by: Grunter || 04/29/2015 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know if his parents were married, but regardless, Barry is definitely a bastard.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2015 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  That, plus, he should have known better that Malik is a first class liar.

So, it's a shared genetic inheritance?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2015 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah Yes another story of brotherly love, sibling rivalry.

Posted by: Fleatch Omavirong9115 || 04/29/2015 13:24 Comments || Top||

#5  he should have known better that Malik is a first class liar

It must run in the family.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/29/2015 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  No more that I, I assure you.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 04/29/2015 17:28 Comments || Top||


Government
Kerry Told Iran He Wishes '€˜U.S. Had a Leader like Iran's Supreme Leader'
[Free Bacon] Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished the United States had a leader more like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to comments made by a senior Iranian cleric and repeated in the country's state-run media.
"Et tu, Brute ?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 08:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Progressives love a tyrant.

Obumble isn't enough of one for poor Kerry apparently.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/29/2015 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Kerry Told Iran He Wishes 'U.S. Had a Leader like Iran's Supreme Leader'

Reward your cronies - check
Flip your finger to representative government - check
Rule by fiat - check
Create chaos and mayhem (think Libya et al) - check
Destroy your middle class - check
Play one internal group against another - check
Hate Israel - check
Blame America for all your problems - check

So, what's the difference?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2015 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  So, what's the difference?

Too much dissent allowed still. Not enough conservatives dangling from cranes. Other than that, not so much.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/29/2015 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Anybody but Obama?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/29/2015 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Jawn, I wish we had a nuke negotiator like Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 04/29/2015 17:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Was Kerry asking for a job?
Posted by: Iblis || 04/29/2015 19:13 Comments || Top||

#7  So Kerry has a serious man-crush on the Tyrant Ayatollah Khamenei.

This does not bode well for any negotiations.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2015 19:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Obama must be steaming that his sec of state says he doesn't measure up as a top tier mad mullah
Posted by: regular joe || 04/29/2015 20:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama On Baltimore: Republican Congress Won't Invest in Urban Communities
[Breitbart] During his press conference today, President Obama addressed the violence in Baltimore, claiming his political agenda would help solve some of the problems found in impoverished urban communities, such as the one where the violence occurred.
Alright, so you've had 6 years. How much more time do you or LBJ's 'Great Society' actually need? Wait! Let me do the math...51 total years is it now? Please give us a new number, a new myth.
"There's a bunch of my agenda that would make difference right now in that," he said, calling for more funding for early education, criminal justice reform and job training.
More funding is it? Imagine that. Money, the usual donk antidote and sacred mantra of the community organizer.
Obama criticized members of Congress for blocking his agenda items, but encouraged Americans to do some "soul searching" during his joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this afternoon.
Yes of course, Americans must 'soul search', it's actually all our fault anyway.
"I'm under no illusion that under this Congress we're going to get massive investments in urban communities," he said, adding that it was important to work to improve communities anyway.
Translation: It doesn't matter what he Congress and the American people want, Champ knows best and will do it his way.
He explained Americans should not "just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns," but rather work together to tackle poverty around the nation.
Yes, yes, yes....you racist Americans pay attention.
"[W]hat I've tried to do is promote those ideas that would make a difference, but I think we all understand that politics is tough because it's easy to ignore those problems or to treat them as a law and order issue as opposed to a broader social issue," he said.
It all begins with law and order, the rule of law is the foundation. All else is potential anarchy. Check out the Japanese model while you're there.
Obama also suggested that the media was once again overplaying the violent protests while ignoring the peaceful ones done by community organizers in the Baltimore community.
I agree, urban rioting, the torching of 145 automobiles and 15 businesses a few miles north of the nation's capital.... not actually newsworthy. Yawns, calmly kliks over to 'Wheel of Fortune'.
"One burning building will be looped on television over and over and over again and the thousands of demonstrators who did it the right way, I think, have been lost in the discussion," he said.
Did what the 'right way', break windows, loot, stone the police ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 03:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like a smart move not to, to me.
Posted by: chris || 04/29/2015 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I posted about this years ago.

http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=02/21/2008&SO=&HC=4&ID=228376

The things Obama talks about were a scam when LBJ talked about them and are a scam now. Beyond relief from starvation, nothing can be done to elevate many people, regardless of their race. They do not have the intelligence or work ethic or inherent skills or correct personality traits to do better than rented housing, simple food, and cheesy entertainment. A better education system might help some maximize their lives, but not all or even most. The reality is that many Americans - not just black people in inner cities, but people of all races in all areas - want the stuff without the ability to delay gratification or make sacrifices or work very hard. That attitude is what happens when you don't keep score in soccer and everyone gets a trophy, just as much as when Democrat politicians tell you that the only reason you don't own a house and a nice car is racism, and that envy is a virtue and not a vice. "Stuff" isn't a right.
Posted by: no mo uro || 04/29/2015 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  What happened to all that trillion dollar stimulus from 2009? That was a Donk Congress. You had the means and choice between shovel ready (low skill) projects or crony politics. You chose crony politics. Reap what you have sowed. However, you, just like the community, blame everyone else but yourselves. That's why you fail.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/29/2015 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  We've destroyed the family unit, the values of faith, and exported the old middle class jobs. We've devalued discipline and slef-discipline. It hsould be no surprise that the trillions of dollars thrown at the 'problem' over the last half century have been 'insuffucient.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2015 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Because it worked so well in Detroit.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/29/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#6  President Obama says the Baltimore rioters that chose to loot, burn, and attack police aren’t true demonstrators at all – why they’re just plain “thugs”. Not content with a simple denunciation of criminal actions and the folly of pissing in ones’ own water bucket, Obama is compelled to continue his lecture on the perceived inequities that face Americas’ minority populations. Similarly, President Obama has repeatedly said Islamic terrorists aren’t true Muslims – they’re simply common criminals. And bound by his postmodernism roots he routinely provides ethical equivalent arguments based on ancient atrocities. In both cases Obamas’ Social Justice Sermons allude to a greater oppressor as the root cause. Thus alleviating individual responsibility (criminals as well as the larger group) and advocating government solutions. Moreover, by now those that’ve paid attention should know who the “Oppressors” are.
Posted by: Unomomble Unolurt3811 || 04/29/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  no mo uro, In the past the uneducated unskilled workers were doing all the jobs that illegals are doing now (carwash, construction, gardening, etc).

The problem is few are connecting the dots between higher minimum wage, increased illegal immigration, increased welfare, and growing welfare rolls in the black community.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/29/2015 14:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes, RJ.

After the WWII peace dividend ran out in the '70's, both political parties used various techniques to try and fool people into believing it would last forever. One of the things they did was bloat the federal government in order to create higher paying "jobs" for native born Americans who had told themselves (and were propagandized to believe it by Madison Avenue and Wall Street and the entertainment and education industries) that they couldn't possibly work for such a low wage as the jobs you mentioned actually paid. But the tasks that you describe still needed to be done.

Trouble was that you can't pay much more than a few dollars per hour for that type of work because that's all it's worth in a world labor market. So the way politicians dealt with this was by allowing illegal aliens in, and telling native born Americans that "working class" was something vastly more than what it actually is in terms of material standard of living and that they were "above all that".

Now the chickens are coming home to roost. The size of the publicly employed sector needs to be diminished by 50% or more, and illegal immigrants need to go away, and the former government employees need to do those jobs the illegals were doing, even if it means a massive downward adjustment in their income stream. This MUST happen, but the way of doing it will be tricky. Any way you slice it violence will happen since this will be a massive disruption of the status quo.

It's loin-girding time.
Posted by: no mo uro || 04/29/2015 15:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Provocative analysis NMU. I think we'll all be knee deep in empty shell casings and hand grenade pins before para #3 happens, but good luck with it anyway.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2015 16:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Midnight Basketball - again?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2015 17:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Basketball is so racist. More like Midnight Knockout Game.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/29/2015 18:32 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2015-04-29
  Houthis, tribesmen battle in central Yemen, at least 15 dead
Tue 2015-04-28
  Saudi Arabia Arrests 93 Jihadists, Says Attacks Foiled
Mon 2015-04-27
  Isis Leader Baghdadi Is Reportedly 'Unable To Move' After A Spinal Injury
Sun 2015-04-26
  Mpls. Man Charged with Making Threats in Islamic State Group Case
Sat 2015-04-25
  Italy arrests suspected bin Laden bodyguards, Peshawar bombers
Fri 2015-04-24
  Italian police arrest 18 in AQ plot to attack Vatican
Thu 2015-04-23
  Adam Gadahn finally actually dead
Wed 2015-04-22
  IS “crucifies” family in Derna
Tue 2015-04-21
  Iraqi security official: heavy fight continues in Ramadi
Mon 2015-04-20
  Clashes, Saudi-led Air Strikes Kill 85 in Yemen
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  IS claims Responsibility for Deadly Afghan Bombing
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