Update
Today I entered my 70th year. Grateful to have made it this
far--too many good folks didn't--including my brothers--and 8 sisters--on the
wall in DC.
Rushing this post as picking up my brother Marine, John
Payne at the airport. In for a 3-month check on his new lung. He's doing well. ~Bob
Quote
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you
look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. --Mark Twain
General News and Comment
Oh Geez: Hillary Was Asked About Private Email Account In
2012. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: The LA Times reported on Rep.
Darrell Issa (R-CA), then-Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and
his investigation into Obama administration officials using personal email
to communicate with staff and other government officials. It was alleged that
they did this to circumvent FOIA statutes. Rep. Issa's letter to Clinton asked if the
former secretary of state had used a private email address. The State
Department never responded until Clinton
had left her cabinet position, only giving the committee the department
protocols for using email...
Excerpt: All of which is problematic for Hillary Clinton as
she begins another presidential run. Among other things, she must persuade
voters to ignore her association with a time gone by. A few questions naturally
arise: How do you run on change when you were aboard the hope-and-change train?
How do you distinguish yourself from your predecessor when you worked for his
administration? How do you sell tomorrow on yesterday?
Money Good for me: Hillary Clinton to raise $2.5
Billion
Excerpt: This campaign will begin on a small scale and build
up to an effort likely to cost more than any presidential bid waged before,
with Mrs. Clinton’s supporters and outside “super PACs” looking to raise as
much as $2.5 billion in a blitz of donations from Democrats who overwhelmingly
support her candidacy. (Just learned that the most important requirement for
being president is possession of a vagina. --George)
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton called for a constitutional
amendment to address the influx of “unaccountable money” in politics during her
first official day of campaigning in Iowa .
"We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable
money out of it once and for all, even if it takes a constitutional amendment,”
she said during an event at Kirkwood Community College in Monticello .
Morning Jolt is free and worth subscribing to: Income
inequality. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
In her first remarks of the campaign, she addressed the pressing issues of hedge-fund managers paying
insufficient tax rates and the salaries of CEOS. Clearly, those CEOs don’t
earn their pay the way she does with her $300,000-per-speech speaking fees or her $14 million book advance. (According to salary.com, the median expected annual pay for a typical
chief executive officer in the United
States is $681,798, so 50 percent of the
people who perform the job of chief executive officer in the United Sates are
expected to make less than $681,798. For perspective, Bill Clinton made $17
million in public-speaking fees in one year and $106 million from 2001 to 2013. The CEO making that median
salary would have to work about 25 years to make what Bill Clinton made in
speaking fees in that year; a CEO making that median salary would have to work
155 years to equal Bill Clinton’s speaking-fee total over that twelve-year
period.)
Friendly Reminder: It’s Already Against Federal Law to Pay
Women Less Than Men. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: It’s the feminist left’s favorite issue: equal pay.
The inaccurate 77¢ statistic gets replayed over the airwaves, and the false war
on women narratives
get rehashed. Of course, no one is for wage discrimination. Well, at least
sentient beings are not for justifying pay discrepancies based on gender. There
are two federal laws on the books that prohibit pay discrimination based on
gender. Also, American women are killing it, but it appears those leading the
feminist charge are more content with Perpetual War theory than acknowledging
that the pay gap has an expiration date–and that young women today have virtually
wiped it out.
Hillary Clinton’s
policies: Where’s the beef? “There will be plenty of time for policy and
serious discussion,” one Democratic strategist says. “This is the entertainment
part of the event.” By Darren Goode
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton’s campaign rollout has been slow to
fill a large blank space in the center of her quest for the White House: What
exactly she would do if she wins. Clinton
has sketched out the broad policy strokes, declaring in her campaign
launch video that
she wants to be the “champion” for “everyday Americans.” On issues ranging from
health care to climate change, she’s been largely in lockstep with President
Barack Obama, and she used a roundtable discussion Tuesday at a community college
in Iowa to
outline four big fights she wants to take on...
GOP, Dems see different problems: By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
We established in a previous Jolt that what worries us
conservatives doesn’t worry progressives, and vice versa: “By and large, the
Republicans are worried about the right problems -- the big problems: crazy
people who want to kill us, a skyrocketing debt, a growing culture of
dependency, an avalanche of red tape strangling the entrepreneurial lifeblood
of the economy, and an unsecure border.” Both conservatives and progressives
look at America
and see problems, but they see completely different problems. They dismiss with
a shrug the problems that worry us most. What’s the Democratic solution to the
national debt? It’s not really a problem. What’s the Democratic solution to
Putin’s aggression? It’s not really a problem. What’s the Democratic solution
to the Islamic State? It’s not really a problem, we’re handling it fine through
airstrikes. What’s the Democratic solution to illegal immigration and an
insecure border? It’s not really a problem, let’s pass an amnesty. What’s the
Democratic solution to children being raised without fathers? To the extent
they address this, they insist it reflects low wages and economic factors.
Meanwhile, they turn to us and ask, “What’s your plan for dealing with the
temperature rising a century from now? Why aren’t you concerned about
micro-aggressions? What’s your plan to ensure every woman in America has
access to affordable birth control? What are you going to do to stop people
from being able to buy guns?”
Media lapdogs chase
Billary's van
Doubtful--She's too good looking: 16-Year Old Girl
Claims Former President Bill Clinton Is Her Father. By Barbara Johnson
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/16-year-old-girl-claims-former-president-bill-clinton-is-her-father/
Excerpt: A 16-year old girl has presented a paternity action
lawsuit this morning, before an Arkansas state
court, alleging that the former president of the United States , William Jefferson
Clinton, is her biological father. Alyssa Gilmore claims that her mother, a
former secretary of the oval office named Whitney Gilmore, had an affair with
President Clinton between 1998 and 2001. She says she was born out of that
relationship, and demands that Mr. Clinton undergoes a paternity test to
prove that her story is true.
DEA chief tells House
committee she can't fire agents involved in sex parties
Excerpt: The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration,
Michelle Leonhart, Tuesday faced a grueling
three-hour inquisition from the House Oversight Committee over an
Inspector General's report that found DEA agents in Bogota, Colombia
engaged in "sex parties" with prostitutes and that the parties were
paid for by the very drug cartels the DEA was sent to fight...."You're
protecting the people who solicited prostitutes who had 15 to 20 sex parties,
went through this whole operation, and used taxpayer money to do it." The
Department of Justice Inspector General's report, released last month,
found that corrupt local police officers in Bogota "arranged” the "sex
parties" with prostitutes funded by the local drug cartels for the DEA
agents at their government-leased quarters, over a period of several years.
Need a Right to Work Law: Labor
union boss paid $258,000 from Ohio
Excerpt: School employees across Ohio were forced to help pay labor boss
Joe Rugola $258,873 last year, even if they declined to join the union Rugola
leads. Because Ohio
law allows unions to take “fair share” fees from nonmembers, thousands of
workers have mandatory, automatic union deductions taken from
their paychecks. This is true even for teachers, school staff and other
government employees, effectively forcing not just workers but also taxpayers
to fund six-figure salaries for Rugola and other union officials.
A three-step plan to prevent welfare fraud. By Kristina Ribali
Excerpt: Fraud of state welfare programs including Medicaid
and food stamps is far too common, and today the Foundation for Government
Accountability released a report documenting cases of abuse and how
state legislators can stop it. Let’s take a look at just a few of the many
egregious cases where taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars in
welfare scams. Just last year in Arkansas ,
the Department of Human Services removed almost 5,000 enrollees from the
state’s Medicaid expansion after learning that they were ineligible to receive
these benefits in the first place. Some of these enrollees where receiving both
Medicaid and ObamaCare subsidies.
“Ummm…” Americans
Attempt to Name Obama’s Accomplishments
Excerpt: What do Americans think of President Barack Obama,
Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush? Jesse Watters set out to get answers on this and more
on Bill O’Reilly’s Watters’ World segment.
Day After Obama
Removes Cuba from Terror
Sponsor List, Terror Group Sponsored by Cuba Cuba
Excerpt: But just hours later, a terror group long fostered
by Cuba — even today, the Castro brothers are harboring several wanted members
of the group — murdered 10 Colombian soldiers and wounded 17 others in a terror
attack on a military base.
Americans paid more income tax in 2014 than ever before.
Here’s where it went. By Philip Bump
Excerpt: So how much money do Americans actually turn over
to the government? We pulled data from
the Office of Management and Budget to find out. We've included OMB's 2015
estimates on the charts below.
2 TSA screeners
in Denver
Excerpt: The tipster reported that when the screener saw a
man in the security line that he deemed attractive, he would alert a female
screener to indicate on a computer that the passenger was female, not male.
That, in turn, would trigger an alert of an anomaly in the passenger's genital
area that would require a pat-down of the passenger.... The investigator
reported that he had watched as the male scanner "[conducted] a pat down
of the passenger’s front groin and buttocks area with the palms of his hands,
which is contradictory to TSA searching policy," the police report
said. (No charges reportedly filed because those groped did not realize
they had been sexually assaulted through an abuse of power. --Barb)
Military dogs save
lives and serve our nation: They deserve better
Excerpt: "What I know is that both two and
four-legged veterans deserve the chance to retire together with dignity, and
that the four-legged veterans deserve more than they get today. Americans who
love and admire all those who serve our nation would be surprised to learn that
MWDs and CWDs are considered equipment. And, while MWDs are provided with some
assurances of being returned to the United States for their
retirement, that is not the case for CWDs."
Excerpt: If Jesus was alive today, and if he wanted to feed
those multitudes with barley bread and fishes, he'd have to pay the city of Sacramento $1,250 dollars
for a permit to do so. I've just been reading a report on the hungry and
homeless from the National Coalition For The Homeless and I was surprised to
learn how difficult states and municipalities are making it for anyone who
wishes to feed the hungry. So far 21 states have implemented legislation that
makes it illegal to feed the homeless, or make the permit costs so prohibitive
that a charity organization can't afford the permit. Hundreds of American
municipalities completely outlaw any type of organizational feeding unless a
charity actually owns a building for the purpose. Cities have begun to post
signs in public places and public parks citing the legal code and impressive
fines for daring to feed homeless people in those places. One city converted a
"Don't Feed The Pigeons" sign, crossed out "Pigeons" and
substituted "homeless" to alert people of the new laws.
Ex-drug officer says
he stole cash, planted drugs many times
Excerpt: A disgraced ex-police officer testifying against
his drug squad colleagues acknowledged Tuesday that he stole drug money,
planted evidence and lied on police paperwork too many times to count. Jeffrey
Walker told jurors that the Philadelphia Police Department drug squad targeted
white "college-boy ... khaki-pants types" who were "easy to
intimidate." (This is why I say "thank heaven" for the FBI,
since they are an important way, often, that the really corrupt cop networks
finally get taken down. Reading this story will make you sick, when you realize
how long all the horrific acts of these corrupt cops went on. And notice that
when this particular guy got busted, he was making $119K/yr and working OT as
well. With that kind of income, why in hell did he need to be stealing tons of
money besides? These guys seem to have finally gotten caught because they had
done so much, so long, that finally the FBI had heard about it and started
investigating them. Once they busted the first guy, it was the classic case of
making him sing to get a lighter sentence while they could then roll up the
rest of the crooked cops. I hope they go to jail for a very, very long time. Where
they will have to be in special areas, since they can't go into the general
population, where they'd get killed sooner or later. This is really a sad
thing, and it makes you wonder how much of this kind of stuff goes on in other
places. And it must upset and frustrate all the honest cops enormously, who
just did their jobs honestly, took the responsibilities seriously, and sure
didn't get rich at it. --Del )
Hillary’s Twitter
Account is just as Fake as Barack Obama’s & So Is Her Campaign
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/04/hillarys-twitter-account-is-just-as-fake-as-barack-obamas-so-is-her-campaign/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/04/hillarys-twitter-account-is-just-as-fake-as-barack-obamas-so-is-her-campaign/
Excerpt: According to two popular online measuring tools, no
more than 44 per cent of her Twitter fan base consists of real people who are
active in using the social media platform.
And at least 15 per cent – more than 544,000 – are
completely fake.
Three ways the rise
of China Shanghai
Excerpt: When a market gets on a roll, nothing seems to stop
it. We have just learnt that China ’s
exports fell by an alarming 15pc last month, while its imports fell by the
biggest amount since the financial crash of 2008 and 2009. And the Shanghai index? Well, you
might expect it to be down at least a little on news like that. Instead, the
benchmark for Chinese stocks was up another couple of percentage points on
Monday, taking it to yet another all-time high. Like any great bull run, it
doesn’t matter much anymore whether the news is good or bad — equities just
keep powering upwards.
Excerpt: Officers who balk at the idea of women serving in
ground infantry units or on Special Forces Operational Detachments Alpha (ODAs)
won’t publicly say so, let alone publicly explain why. They worry about
retaliation that could hurt their careers. In contrast, those who have no
reservations — usually because they won’t be the ones who have to deal with the
fallout from integration at the small unit level — slough off the challenge as
just another minor problem or “ankle biter.” ... But fortunately, since I am
not a male and have already been accused of being a reactionary, and thus have no need to
worry about seeming to be politically correct, let me point to something else
lurking in the gulf between those who don’t speak up and those who are okay
with the lifting of the combat exclusion ban: a reality gap. On the one hand,
there is what those who don’t speak up know. On the other, there is what
those who see no problems only assume. (This time from a female professor,
who argues from the simple, scientific point of view, which is always to look
for and then analyze the data. Except we don't have all the data we need, and
people seem to be pushing to make sure we can never actually look for and
accumulate the data that would really tell us the facts about women in the
military in general and in combat units in particular. She hasn't touched the
main thing that is important to my point of view, which is simply that women's
bodies are not equal to men's when it comes to doing what the infantry do now,
carry heavy loads long distances. And once again, the question is if the
Olympics don't have men and women competing together in any events, which are
all physically demanding, why in the world would anyone expect women to keep up
with men in the physically demanding situation of ground combat? --Del )
I don't give this one
out very often! Queen pins the VC on hero of Taliban firefights: Para braved hail of bullets to save wounded comrade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038439/Paratrooper-risked-life-three-times-Taliban-firefight-receives-VC-Queen.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038439/Paratrooper-risked-life-three-times-Taliban-firefight-receives-VC-Queen.html
Excerpt: She told Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey: ‘I don’t get
to give this one out very often. Did you ever imagine you’d be standing here?
Well done.’ But in fact the 27-year-old is the second member of his family to
receive the highest military decoration for valour – a cousin was given the
honour 70 years ago.
Gun News
Police: Teen shot
dead after involvement in home invasion
Excerpt: The woman told police the teenager held a gun to
her head and raped her while the others ransacked her home. She said two of the
men eventually left her home, but the teen stayed behind, beat her in the head
with his gun and demanded
money from her. The victim told police they ended up at a neighbor's
home after she told the attacker her neighbor had her money. Police say the
neighbor called 911 when the woman and her attacker arrived outside his front
door. The attacker reportedly demanded the neighbor get off the phone, fired
two shots into the air, and pointed the gun at the neighbor. The neighbor, who
was armed, fired a bullet into the teenager's chest, killing him.
How Much Do the Top 1 Percent Pay of All Taxes? By Curtis Dubay
Excerpt: Ever since President Obama started running for
president in 2007, there has been a debate about how much tax rich Americans
pay and whether they should pay more.
Race Card News
Excerpt: The Democratic Party has decided it is okay to let
out their inner racist against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-FL)82%. The New Yorker referred to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)95% as
“uppity” and MSNBC referred to Rubio as “boy.”
Brutal Sentences For
Convicted Atlanta
Excerpt: Recently-convicted Atlanta educators who conspired for years to
fraudulently boost the city’s scores on standardized tests were slapped with
lengthy prison sentences of up to seven years Tuesday. (Race card will be
played in 5...4...3...~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
Feds releasing
hundreds of illegal immigrant rapists, murderers: report
Excerpt: According to the
statistics, the aliens released by ICE had amassed 13,636 convictions for
driving under the influence, 1,589 weapons offenses, 994 aggravated assaults,
56 arsons and 31 smuggling offenses. The Obama administration has claimed that
many of those releases are required by court order stemming from a years-old
Supreme Court ruling, Zadvydas v. Davis ,
that says immigrants can’t be held indefinitely and if their home countries
won’t take them back, they must eventually be released. But the new numbers
suggest those released are a small fraction. (I guess this will only stop once
all of America looks like Detroit . Sad. I say that
because the latest poll results showing Hillary winning over all other
candidates is proof positive that the collective IQ of our nation will not
support a viable government or viable economy or macrosystem of any kind for
much longer. For crying out loud, Folks, if their home countries won't take
them back, we must threaten to toss out their embassies and break relations
with them, cut off their aid, and if that doesn't help, send in the Marines! A
nation that sends us its rankest criminals is an enemy and the result must
be an invasion. (Art 4, Sect 4 of the Constitution enjoins the federal
government to protect the States from invasion. It is therefore obvious that
the federal government no longer has the will to obey either the Constitution
or statutes. That means that Washington
is now an alien government and is illegitimate. States therefore have every
right to secede and MUST. An Article 5 Convention, suggested by
some, would only provide more amendments for them to flout! It will NEVER
work! Our nation will not survive its fools in official places! --Don Hank
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Cher Attacks Black
Conservative On Twitter, Blames Fracking For California
Excerpt: Hear what Cher tweeted to Zo about “gas” and the California water
shortage. Will paying more for gas mean more water for California citizens? Zo is skeptical. (well,
when a scientist of her stature and education says something...ignore it. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: For months, the White House has been threatening to
veto bipartisan
legislation that would assert the legislative branch's constitutional prerogative
to review and weigh in on any finalized nuclear deal forged between Western
negotiators with the Iranian regime. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) has been telling reporters that he was getting close
to securing the 67 votes necessary to overcome a potential Obama veto. It looks
like Corker will have at least that many, given his committee's dramatic
show of unity in advancing the bill last evening:
Hamas Rebuilding War
Machine as Gaza
Excerpt: The Hamas leadership in Gaza has been unable to
rebuild any of the homes destroyed in last summer's war with Israel, but the
terrorist group has had little trouble using heavy machinery to restore its
vast tunnel networks that can be used in future attacks.
Reconstruction of Gaza has "barely begun," the
Associated Press reports. At least the above-ground kind. Underground, small
bulldozers are busy restoring damaged tunnels, using "whatever cement
[Hamas] can get its hands on," the Times of Israel reports.
Bloomberg Poll:
Voters Split Along Party Lines on Support for Israel
Excerpt: Israel
has become a deeply partisan issue for ordinary Americans as well as for
politicians in Washington ,
a shift that may represent a watershed moment in foreign policy and carry
implications for domestic politics after decades of general bipartisan
consensus.
Republicans by a ratio of more than 2-to-1 say the U.S. should support Israel even when its stances
diverge with American interests, a new Bloomberg Politics poll finds.
Democrats, by roughly the same ratio, say the opposite is true and that the U.S. must pursue its own interests over Israel ’s.
IS Sets Up Camp
Within A Few Miles Of Texas
Excerpt: No sooner had President Obama gutted border
enforcement than the Islamic State built a Mexican training camp just a few
miles from Texas .
Did Obama doubt IS would take advantage of his immigration policies? If he did,
he is dangerously naive. But we do not see how he could have been so clueless.
There were plenty of warnings that IS was targeting the border, and they
emerged even as he was putting the final touches on his executive amnesty
scheme. Last fall, for example, a top Homeland Security official testified
before Congress that U.S. intelligence picked up IS chatter about infiltrating
the U.S. through its southern border with Mexico. (Really? Great, just great. I
guess we should all just wait until six or eight guys with AK-47 rifles show up
at several entrances to a major mall on a busy shopping day and start working
their way in, shooting everyone who can't recite Muslim prayers. It could work
out like that horror show at the school in Russia , where they ended up killing
over 300 people, or the same scene in Mumbai, also several hundred killed. After
that, when investigations show they came in across the Mexican border, gee, I
bet Congress and whoever is President then will suddenly find all kinds of ways
to tighten that border up. Night vision choppers going back and forth, motion
detectors all over the place, the National Guard all along the border, with
ammo in the weapons and orders to shoot to kill, maybe ambushes planned along
those well worn paths in the desert, the kind where you get everyone in the
kill zone and open up with the L-shape setup of automatic weapons. Just to be
safe, of course. Which will make all the families of those people who were in
the mall that day feel OK with things, sure it will. It that what it will take?
--Del )
Excerpt: In the canvas expanse of the Shariya refugee camp,
thousands of Yazidis live within hearing distance of one of Iraqi Kurdistan's
frontlines with ISIS . The vast majority of the
camp's occupants are from the town of Sinjar and
fled the ISIS assault there back in August.
But not everyone escaped. ISIS took thousands
of Yazidis captive. Men faced a choice -- convert to Islam or be shot. But the
Islamist militants separated the young women and girls to be sold as sex
slaves.
Excerpt: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a
statement announcing the death of Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish, the group’s
mufti, or Islamic scholar, in a drone strike that took place last night in
eastern Yemen .
Rubaish, a veteran al Qaeda leader and a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay
Feds update 'no fly'
list so suspected terrorists can learn why they were denied boarding a flight
Excerpt: The Obama administration will soon tell suspected
terrorists if and why they are on the federal government’s so-called “no-fly”
list. Travelers who have been refused access to a commercial airliner either in
or out of the United
States can petition the government to
learn whether they are on the list. And they can petition a second time for an
unclassified explanation on why they are on the list. The Justice Department
will file a notice Tuesday in federal court detailing the updates to
the federal inquiry program. (So they can "fix it" so they can
fly.....Barb)
Seven French
Nationals Guilty of Suicide Attacks for ISIS
Excerpt: France 's
prime minister revealed Monday that seven
French nationals or residents, including six converts to Islam, had committed
suicide attacks in Syria
and Iraq .
Speaking in parliament as he defended controversial draft
spy laws, Manuel Valls said that of the hundreds of French people who had
made their way to Islamic State-held territory, seven had died staging the
suicide operations. "The youngest was not yet 20," he said.
Afghan president
admits he's losing troops to ISIS
http://triblive.com/usworld/world/8023386-74/afghanistan-afghan-ghani#axzz3XIH8KuK9
http://triblive.com/usworld/world/8023386-74/afghanistan-afghan-ghani#axzz3XIH8KuK9
Excerpt: President Ashraf Ghani publicly acknowledged for
the first time Saturday that the Islamic State is gaining influence in Afghanistan as he prepared to leave for the United States
and attempt to slow the withdrawal of American
troops. Reports have been growing that commanders of the Islamist Taliban
forces fighting the Afghan government are swearing allegiance to the terrorist
network that controls swathes of Syria
and Iraq ,
sometimes called “Daesh.”
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
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It's a safe bet Bill Clinton is Alyssa Gilmore's father. Whitney is attractive so goes daughter. And Hillary explains Chelsea. Shut your mouth and take the paternity test, Bubba.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Bob. I'm exactly 3 years and three days behind you.
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