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It’s Friday!!!
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The Cold Clinton Reality
Why isn’t the IRS investigating the Clinton Foundation?Longtime Clinton aide Doug Band wrote the memo in 2011 to justify himself to lawyers at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett who were reviewing his role and conducting a governance review of the Clinton Foundation at the insistence of Chelsea Clinton. In an email two weeks earlier, also published on WikiLeaks, Ms. Clinton said her father had been told that Mr. Band’s firm Teneo was “hustling” business at the Clinton Global Initiative, a regular gathering of the wealthy and powerful that is ostensibly about charitable activity.
Poor innocent Chelsea. Bill and Hillary must never have told her what business they’re in. If she had known, she would never have hired a blue-chip law firm to sweep through the hallways of the Clinton Foundation searching for conflicts of interest. Instead of questioning Mr. Band’s compensation, she would have pleaded with him never to reveal the particulars of his job in writing.
But she didn’t, and so Mr. Band went ahead and described the “unorthodox nature” of his work while emphasizing his determination to help “protect the 501(c)3 status of the Foundation.” That’s the part of the tax code that has allowed the Clinton Foundation to remain tax-exempt on the premise that it is dedicated to serving humanity. -
Nothing like starting your day off with a dead stop traffic jam at 04:30.
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I would have thought the Clinton’s law firm was Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe.
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Hammie
A truck hauling granite slabs overturned on the ramp to I-10 from 290 & West Loop. Complete shutdown. -
I missed that one. They interrupted the ubiquitous silver alerts from Fort Worth on the warning billboards to announce that one. The one that caught me was at 290 and Little York. Everyone on the freeway had to exit at Gessner. My exit.
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Why do old folks in Fort Worth always get lost?
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The Bundy trial in Oregon ends in acquittal for all defendants, even though the undisputed facts of the case show otherwise. Then the US Marshalls beat up the defense attorney. I think the people have had enough thug governance. Look it up.
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Garmisch was where I had my first ski lesson and several other ski trips.
A spokesman for Kassel explained: “There will be no Christmas celebrations, in the strictest sense. Because the majority of children at this kindergarten are not Christian the festival will not be celebrated in the way that it is at other schools.”
Migrants now outnumber native children at many schools in Germany as the country has been inundated with migrants in recent years. -
RE my post last night about the get-out-the-vote junk mail I got from those Color of Change deviants, I guess Near NW Houston may have been deluged with these mailings. I am within a mile from Acres Homes, and my little subdivision is gerrymandered into Shirley Jackson Lee’s district.
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I like this story about Trump’s son Jr. !!
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Bowyer said the woman didn’t indicate whether she was a Trump supporter.
It didn’t seem like DTjr was concerned about her political leanings before he left his car to push hers.
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#13,14: The character displayed was instilled a long time ago; long before political office became a thought in DJT, Sr. Note the difference in how the Trump kids act and how Chelsea acts. . . . .
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Newt is correct; the media is obsessed with sex and has little interest in substance.
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Late good morning Hamsters. Another pleasant 59 started us off in pitch dark at 6, and now it’s 75 on the front porch with a light breeze but 86% humidity. Not bad sitting on the back porch if all you’re doing is sitting.
Spouse went to vote around 9 this morning and got right in to the polling place at the middle school in Pecan Grove. Suspect many folks were likely to wait until the school kids had arrived and settled in for the day before coming over.
So we await the next WikiLeaks dump today. I see Slick Willie has been busy trying to blunt the effect of recent dumps from various sources, and he does not look slick any more in trying to do it, more like sick and worn out. -
President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can’t drill its way out of high gas prices.
“We can’t just drill our way out of the problem,” Obama said during an energy policy speech in Indiana Friday. “If we’re serious about addressing our energy problems, we’re going to have to do more than drill.”
Obama’s remarks come as Washington policymakers are feeling pressure to take action to address high gas prices, which are nearing a nationwide average of $4 a gallon.Bonus wisdom from energy analyst “experts”:
Energy analysts say expanded domestic oil production would have almost no near-term effect on gas prices.
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11 mharper42
This was my response last night.64 mh42
I recognized Color of Change and remembered Van Jones, the commie forced to resign from the White House, was the founder.
At Discover the Networks.org, you’ll find this:Founded by Van Jones and James Rucker, a former director of MoveOn.org…
Discover the Networks.org is an excellent database for researching people and organizations of the Left. It’s part of David Horowitz’s operation.
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The Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, a progressive liberal advocacy organization “dedicated to ensuring human rights protections” for immigrants and asylum seekers—including apparently terrorists—filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.
The lawsuit claimed that DHS was refusing to release the identity of Tier III terrorist organizations, unlike the identities of what are defined as Tier I and Tier II terrorist groups that are publicly identified.and,
However, in a spirited concurrence written by Judge Daniel Manion, the judge expressed his “concern about the apparent lack of Syrian Christians as a part of immigrants from that country.”
According to Manion, it is “well-documented” that the refugees are not representative of that “war-torn area of the world.” Ten percent of the Syrian population is Christian and “yet less than one-half of 1 percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year are Christian.”
President Barack Obama set a goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S., and by August that goal had already been exceeded. But of the “nearly 11,000 refugees admitted by mid-September, only 56 were Christian.” -
A woman with a lot of courage.
She leads a clandestine existence, on the move and under 24-hour guard as France’s most protected woman. Yet Zineb El Rhazoui, the Charlie Hebdo journalist who happened to be in Casablanca on January 7 last year, the day terrorists “avenging the Prophet” massacred nine people at the satirical magazine in Paris, believes she has a duty to defy Islamists desperate to silence her.
Shaken but undeterred by the fatwas and relentless, precise death threats issued via social media to “kill the bitch” since she helped produce the publication’s first survivors’ issue following the attack — and spoke about it in Arabic for the Arab press — the Moroccan-French writer refuses to assume an anonymous identity. Fleeing Paris or abandoning her human rights activism, and her unforgiving critiques of the religion she grew up with, are also out of the question. -
Just for show?
FBI probing new Clinton emails.The FBI is probing new emails related to Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said in a Friday letter.
“In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony,” Comey wrote.
“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation,” he added.
“Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be signifcant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony,” Comey concludedWell in any case I’m sure nothing will come of it!
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Grifters-in-Chief
The Clintons don’t draw lines between their ‘charity’ and personal enrichment.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Oct. 27, 2016 7:26 p.m. ETIn an election season that has been full of surprises, let’s hope the electorate understands that there is at least one thing of which it can be certain: A Hillary Clinton presidency will be built, from the ground up, on self-dealing, crony favors, and an utter disregard for the law.
This isn’t a guess. It is spelled out, in black and white, in the latest bombshell revelation from WikiLeaks. It comes in the form of a memo written in 2011 by longtime Clinton errand boy Doug Band, who for years worked simultaneously at the Clinton Foundation and at the head of his lucrative consulting business, Teneo.
It is astonishingly detailed proof that the Clintons do not draw any lines between their “charitable” work, their political activity, their government jobs or (and most important) their personal enrichment. Every other American is expected to keep these pursuits separate, as required by tax law, anticorruption law and campaign-finance law. For the Clintons, it is all one and the same—the rules be damned.
The memo came near the end of a 2011 review by law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett into Clinton Foundation practices. Chelsea Clinton had grown concerned about the audacious mixing of public and private, and the review was designed to ensure that the foundation didn’t lose its charitable tax status. Mr. Band, Teneo boss and epicenter of what he calls “ Bill Clinton, Inc.,” clearly felt under assault and was eager to brag up the ways in which his business had concurrently benefited the foundation, Clinton political causes and the Clinton bank account. The memoed result is a remarkably candid look at the sleazy inner workings of the Clinton grifters-in-chief. -
#22 SD: I am quite certain that nothing will be forthcoming until after the election. If T wins, I suspect that Comey may recommend charges this time in order to protect his own azz; that with the full understanding that JugEars will pardon the (female dog type person) and she will get off scott free. If Cankles wins, well we know nothing will happen except perhaps that Comey gets to be the AG or some other huge payoff.
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The Trump kid helping push a car reminded of a story about Trump stopping for a car crash to see if he could help anyone before the 1st Responders got there. -
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Yes, thanks Texpat, I did see that this morning. If Soros paid to have the document I received sent to everyone in my subdivision, I’d say almost all of them were wasted. Houston is almost 25% black, but my subdivision is 5-6%. Not that there aren’t some progs living here — there sure are. But they don’t need a letter from California to remind them to go vote. -
Assange says next week’s dump will get Clinton arrested.
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28 Phil
The new fridge is hot stuff. Almost sexy. 🙂 -
Does it look good in a lace negligee?
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LED lighting!! Woohoo!!
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So Hussein the Destroyer used a phony name communicating with the Arkansas East SheBeast yet he tells the country he heard about her using a private server on the news just like everyone else.
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The Head Wiki, Julian Assange, has a great record of delivering that which he promises. What has already been published must have been a pitchfork in Comey’s rear end to make him announce the FBI is reopening the investigation into Hildebeast’s emails. Newly discovered material, ya know. Or could it be knowledge that what is yet to come as promised will come as promised? And thereby expose even more collusion and lawbreaking involving more exposed important rear ends?
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Back about 14 years ago, a young evangelical Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma named Michael Graham wrote a book titled Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War in between stints on the road as a stand-up comic. Graham is a talk show host in Atlanta these days.
Ed Driscoll reviewed the book for National Review at the time and included this quote:After a set at a hotel in Washington State, I was dragged into a long, drawn-out discussion with a graying, balding New Ager who just couldn’t get over my evangelical background. “You seem so smart,” he kept saying. “How could you buy into that stuff?”
Here’s a guy wearing a crystal around his neck to open up his chakra, who thinks that the spirit of a warrior from the lost city of Atlantis is channeled through the body of a hairdresser from Palm Springs, and who stuffs magnets in his pants to enhance his aura, and he finds evangelicalism an insult to his intelligence. I ask you: Who’s the redneck?
Come to think of it, I’m not sure if this guy-who believed in reincarnation, ghostly hauntings, and the eternal souls of animals-actually believed in God. It’s not uncommon for Northerners, especially those who like to use the word “spirituality,” to believe in all manner of metaphysical events, while not believing in the Big Guy. “Religious” people go to church and read the Bible, and Northerners view them as intolerant, ill-educated saps. “Spiritual” people go hiking, read Shirley MacLaine or L. Ron Hubbard, and are considered rational, intelligent beings.Good stuff – read the whole thing.
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Always lots from Tyler as well.
And they’re usually “last seen in a maroon Grand Marquis.”
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Leave it to a militant lesbian feminist who voted for the Green Party to give the best reason I’ve heard yet to vote for Trump:
‘But people want change and they’re sick of the establishment — so you get this great popular surge, like you had one as well… This idea that Trump represents such a threat to western civilisation — it’s often predicted about presidents and nothing ever happens — yet if Trump wins it will be an amazing moment of change because it would destroy the power structure of the Republican party, the power structure of the Democratic party and destroy the power of the media. It would be an incredible release of energy… at a moment of international tension and crisis.’
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Still not voting for him, but that’s a dang good reason.
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As far as I’m concerned, Levon should have received the Nobel Prize.
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I voted for him because Phil held a gun to my head.
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Kinda weird, too. Carries a wineskin and wears KISS makeup and platform shoes. -
I voted for him because Phil held a gun to my head.
Nasty guy.It was an act of love.
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One of the few good things that came out of the 80’s was one of my favorite B movies, Motel Hell. Ida and Vincent are one of the great brother/sister pairs of all time.
If I was set up for Netflix, I’d watch it this weekend.
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Still hot, cornmeal fried fresh squash is one of life’s great pleasures.
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This is for Hamous; Mullet Schooling in Fly Creek, Fairhope, Alabama.
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Still hot, cornmeal fried fresh squash is one of life’s great pleasures.
AMEN Brother!
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A delegation of Latter-day Saint leaders and Jewish dignitaries from the United States gathered at a historic site in Jerusalem to mark the 175th anniversary of an early Mormon apostle’s journey to Jerusalem. On October 24, 1841, Elder Orson Hyde climbed the Mount of Olives under the direction of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to offer a prayer to dedicate the land as a gathering place for the Jewish people.
“Orson Hyde’s 1841 mission to Jerusalem to dedicate this land for the return of the Jews and for Jerusalem to be its capital city was an important moment in the latter-day Jewish return to their homeland. We believe the work of Elder Orson Hyde has played a key role in God choosing Jerusalem again,” said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaking at a commemoration event at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, Thursday, October 27, 2016.
Elder Holland and Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Elder James J. Hamula of the Seventy traveled to the Holy Land with a group of distinguished Jewish leaders.
The delegation included former New York Attorney General Robert Abrams; former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman from Connecticut; Rabbi Michael Miller, executive vice president and CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; Marlene Post, former U.S. national president of Hadassah; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis; and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City and director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought of Yeshiva University.http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-jewish-delegation-jerusalem
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I’ll just leave THIS here.
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Well my bride went over to Alabama to see the Homecoming game at Airton since our grandniece is Homecoming Queen. The motley crew left to right, brother-in-law, sister’s youngest boy, sister, grandniece and my lovely bride. Yup, Life is Good.
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He was a great drummer.
Sometimes I hear Keith Moon in his drumming. -
Best description I’ve heard on the Weiner/Clinton revelations: Dickileaks
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Made me smile.
But I’m wondering what the RPMs on Grammy are runnin’ ’bout now. -
Best description I’ve heard on the Weiner/Clinton revelations: Dickileaks
Along with Erection Day Rocked! right below it.
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46, If I recall, ‘It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters’. Think it was that movie.
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Any new revelations concerning Anthony Weiner are now called “Dickie Leaks”
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Ida was also Beaulah Ballbricker in Porky’s.
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On the opposite end of Sarge’s dining experience in Wharton, head out towards Bolling on road of the same name. Past the WCC and HEB, about two miles. Red wood one story building, convenience store, has a breakfast all day and a buffet sign out front. Deep fried everything. Pork chops, chicken, catfish. Meat loaf (not fried) real old style country food. The menu has two mains and changes day to day. Some of the locals stop by in their tractors. The place puts jalapeños in the turnip greens. ’nuff said.
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The place puts jalapeños in the turnip greens. ’nuff said.
SOLD! That’s all I need. 😉
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I still plan to clean up one day and try that bistro. Looks like a nice place.
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Hasn’t Hammie been to mullet school already?
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Soitanly.
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H/t Chris Salcedo radio show.
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Come on Cubs. Pull a rabbit out of the hat.
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I’ve never watched a baseball game on this TV set.
100mph fastball is wholly impressive. -
Bottom of the ninth and I lose the Ch. 26 signal. Ugh.
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They lost.
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Got my signal back with one on.
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Try duct taping a coat hanger with foil to your new fridge–then get some aluminum foil and place it on the TV.
Grab a small mirror and point it at the foil on the TV so that it reflects back to the fridge coat hanger and foil.
Problem solved.
Not real country.
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