The Snark of the Day, from Kevin D. Williamson, National Review:
Did I miss the suicide bombings at The Book of Mormon, or did they just not happen?
Don’t believe the liberal lie that all cultures are equal.
Is Maryland State’s Attorney for Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, doing her own personal Bruce Jenner and transitioning to become a blond? Has Mosby been getting dumb injections or is she just naturally stupid, from Ben Stein. American Spectator:
First, Marilyn Mosby should not be allowed to be a law clerk, let alone a state’s attorney/prosecutor.
From Andrew Branca, Legal Insurrection:
Confirmed – Freddie Gray’s Knife WAS Illegal
Last Friday, while Prosecutor Mosby was announcing her poorly supported tsunami of charges against the six police officers involved in arresting and transporting the ill-fated Freddie Gray, Mosby also remarked that Gray’s knife-claimed by police to be the probable cause for his arrest-was in fact lawful under Maryland law.
I am being to think that I, who is not now or ever been a lawyer, could beat Mosby in a honest court of law. At least, unlike, Mosby, I can read.
I’m in Denver,PA, as this is written, and I’m being unloaded at the moment. Unclear what’s up next, but there’s nothing unusual about that. Truck is running fine and all is well. Welcome to my world.
* It’s so precious being preached at by liberals about Fox News, when they still consider Brian Williams to be a good news man and who think anything with the letters NBC, has any credibility to it.
* it’s so precious, the left’s reaction to that woman disciplining her son, who she found rioting on the streets of Baltimore. They’re not happy, calling it child abuse. Let’s face it, its news because the action of actual parenting is so rare anymore. And I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that the usual suspects attack her for it. I submit Baltimore wouldn’t have been a problem, had we more parents like that. Can you imagine such a headline 40 years ago?
*Gun control is so precious….The same Democrats who tell us we don’t need guns are also the ones who gave the police stand down orders in Baltimore because “it’s only property”.
* Speaking of Baltimore, it’s so precious, this short attention span theater that we are being subjected to in this election cycle. I wonder if it’s occurred anybody that the more we concentrate on those events in Baltimore , the better it is for Hillary Clinton? We are not concentrating on her misdeeds anymore. Certainly the riots have moved the spotlight off Peter Schweizer’s book, for example. Thing is, that still not going to solve her other problems. Too much momentum has been lost at this point, and most of it on the Democrat side. Still, Hillary could simply “come out”, declaring that she is an honest individual and would make a good president. Such factless declarations seem to work with the left these days. Consider Bruce Jenner.
* Its so precious watching a black prosecutor accusing a black mayor, a black city council and a 50% black police department of racial discrimination against blacks. Its even more precious watching Democrats, who have run every ghetto in the country for generations, claim to be agents of change, and that the whole thing is the GOPs fault…. When the GOP has had nothing whatsoever to do with the process… Again, for generations.
* it’s so precious, the continual harangue from the left over our supposed responsibility for global warming. Sorry, climate change. The reason that the global warming crowd is completely impervious to facts, is that their arguments were never based on facts in the first place. The biggest clue of late is when they changed it from global warming to climate change to account for why their predictions never came true in the first place. And that’s pretty much the point here, absolutely none of their predictions has ever come true, since the 1970s. Not one. But, there will continue to change the conditions of the attack. the only thing that remains constant in their position is that it’s all capitalism’s fault, we need to turn everything over to the government, and socialism is the only way out of the problem.
* It’s so precious being preached at about how the supposed 1 percent isn’t paying their fair share in taxes when in fact they’re paying the vast majority of taxes already, and when in majority such criticism is coming from people who don’t pay any taxes at all.
And down the road I go.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
Bulletin to the Obama administration, Islamist radicals attacked Americans engaged in constitutionally protected free speech. Jihadists hate free speech, and attempt to kill to enforce their personal speech codes. However, unlike in France, in Texas the locals shoot back. from Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit:
Gunfire erupted outside a ‘Draw Mohammed’ free speech event hosted by Pam Geller and featuring Geert Wilders in Garland, Texas on Sunday. Latest reports are one police office was wounded and two suspects are dead. A bomb squad is investigating the scene for explosives and nearby businesses are reportedly on lockdown.
As free citizens, we should never be afraid to exercise our constitutionally protected right of free speech, and if need to use our god given right to keep and bear arms to protect both our lives and our rights.
It could not be confirmed if Baltimore resident idiot mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked event security that that the Islamist terrorist be given room to vent their rage.
This evening I’m just west of Syracuse New York. Syracuse is known as the Salt City, because of its early salt industry which gave for many years the largest tax revenue of any industry in the state. it’s also the site of the State Fair, and has been since 1848 if I’m not mistaken.
The biggest employer in Syracuse these days is the college did Vera its name. Much like Rochester, where the U of R is the biggest employer there.
It didn’t used to be so. Time was New York had a healthy industry base. Rochester had Xerox ocean liner Kodak and the usual service industries that pop up around such major industries. Syracuse, similarly. Not so much anymore, because for the last hundred years or so New York state governments, under both establishment Republicans, and Democrats, has been pushing industry out of the state, or killing it off entirely. That for another night.
I’m parked at a rest area along the Thruway. I’m here because of government regulations. I am less than an hour from the house, but can’t legally make it to the house to spend the night with my family, regulations forced me to sit out here in Syracuse for a 10 hour rest period. The difference in time is the really aggravating part of this. 15 minutes. 15 minutes worth of drive time is what’s keeping me from sleeping in my own bed tonight. Welcome to good government, and welcome to my world.
I notice the situation in Baltimore continuing to get stranger by the moment. The state prosecutor today came out to a press conference that she arranged, and made several overtly political statements. Statements that where is she Caucasian, she would have gotten fired over before the echo died.
She should have recuse yourself in any event. There’s a number of conflict of interest points to be made about the woman, and those conflicts are what is causing many to call for a special prosecutor there.
Despite this grandstand play, it seems that the case is not going her way already. It turns out that not only was Gray belligerent in the extreme, it also turns out that the toxicology report came out with traces of both marijuana and heroin in his system. The story I’m getting from people in Baltimore, is that Gray was observed involved in a drug deal, and that’s why he was originally arrested.
Given the arrest record that I posted the other night, this would seem to make a great deal of sense. But you will notice that the prosecutor said nothing about this. But I fully expect us to come up in both testimony, and in the news reports going forward.
I also note, that this report that she called the press conference over yesterday supposedly wasn’t supposed to have been made public. We were told right up until Thursday night the public wasn’t supposed to be informed of that till such time as the investigation went through with the process. Suddenly, the next day, she comes up with this grandstand play. Couldn’t have anything to do with the arrival of Sharpton? That seems an even money bet.
Plus the state prosecutor is obviously going after political power here. The charges that she’s broad have so high a standard as to prevent a successful prosecution. Even assuming the cops did something wrong. I’m increasingly suspecting they have not.
Oh, and you’ll recall I mentioned that nobody had said anything about the racial makeup of the cops. I was immediately suspicious, given the racial makeup of the police department overall. Turns out, three of the cops are black, three white, one of them is a woman. Which of course let’s down the narrative that this is white cop on black citizen crime. Remember, a couple of examples. In both the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases the usual suspects were immediately screaming about white caps. That didn’t happen this time.
And keep a close eye on the police union there. Normally, I’m not overly happy with unions, particularly those dealing with government employees. But in this case, they have several valid points.
As I suggested last night, the poster child has once again fallen off the wall. Don’t doubt me on this, this stuff is not going to go down the way the prosecutor wants her to, because the truth is going to out, and it’s going to destroy the liberal race baiting nonsense once again.
Which raises the question, what happens one actual justice is served, as opposed to the bloody revenge being screamed about by the usual race-baiting suspects?
As far as I’m concerned, this entire case has very little to do with who suffered , and far more to do with who benefited. We’ll get into that Monday.
As a parting shot, I noticed that Hillary Clinton has been joined by some competition on the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders is now running for president. Sanders is probably the only person who could come down to Hillary’s left. Ross Perot, call your office. That’s the kind of ticket split I expect to see her. Does anybody think this thing is going to fly?
And down the road I go. I’ll see you Monday.
I’m in the Bronx tonight, having delivered off in the early evening. I’ll be leaving in the early morning heading for Scranton Albany and then home.
The truck is working well, it’s been a productive week, but I’m ready for the house. I miss my loving wife and kids, and I need a little cat therapy.
I’m sitting very close to the Whitestone bridge, and the freeway is quite noisy. Time wise, the noise used to bother me, but this truck I’m in is a quiet one and so it doesn’t bother me nearly as much. I’ve overnighted here four or five times.
There are still a few places in the city you can park a truck on the street and not get into trouble, and this is one of them.
Welcome to my world.
Evidence has begun to trickle in in the Baltimore police business with Freddy Gray. I am quite willing to sit back and wait for the evidence to come in before making a final judgment, but I do have to say that what I’m saying so far it does not look any more impressive then the ultimate aces of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
Aside from the arrest record which we have already discussed, it turns out on this occasion Gray was arrested for having an illegal switchblade.
I suggest that this arrest, given his previous arrest record, we would have sent him up for some serious time. Given what we know of the record it’s probably justified.
If that’s correct then it’s also reasonable to assume that this would have been responsible for sending him over the edge in terms of compartment.
Which leads us to the report that he was trying to hurt himself in the van. This report did not come from the police but from another passenger in the van, who was also arrested. One could easily presume that the other man, who was also under arrest was not on the side of the police in that instance.
The reports I’m seeing suggests that he managed to hit his head or perhaps more correctly the back of his neck on the Boldt that was inside the police van door. I suppose you could ask any bus driver how hard it is for most people to stand up much less run around and rant and rave in a moving vehicle.
No on like a number of people, I’m willing to sit back and wait for all the evidence to come in before I make a final determination. But, based on these bits of information that we have so far, it seems reasonable to question if this whole affair wasn’t far less than it was made out to be.
Warning. Fasten your seatbelt.
And so, like so many before him, the poster child falls.
Every time the left attaches itself to one person or another, claiming that one person is emblematic of police brutality, it ends up proving to be something completely different.
I trust that you have not forgotten Michael Brown being portrayed as the gentle giant, someone was looking forward to going to college, someone who would never hurt anybody, etc. The reality came out a little different in that case didn’t it? Similarly, Trayvon Martin. Moreover, in that case, Zimmerman didn’t prove to be the racist that every leftist claimed he was. And now this case.
It comes down to this. if police brutality against black people was so prevalent, If such a thing actually existed, you would think that examples of such would be easier to find. If such things existed on the level that we’re being told it is, why would the proponents of that point of view resort to such weak cases?
As I allowed the other night, we had a cut and dried case of police brutality in the case of Charleston. Yep, we don’t see the level of angst about that that we see about these cases that are anything but cut and dried.
Keep that in the back of your mind for the moment. Just for this moment I’d like you to remember the reports we got that had George Soros and company investing a couple of million in promoting the riots in Ferguson.
But again, not in Charleston? And then, in Baltimore. Clearly, somebody is taking advantage of the question marks surrounding the case. Rahm Emanuel was quoted as suggesting that we should never let a good crisis go to waste.
I would suggest to you that the cut and dried nature of the events in Charleston do not offer any advantage to those investing their money in the riots in Baltimore and in Ferguson.
Observe once again, and David you should chime in here, about the Duke University players who were accused falsely of rape. Look at the number of stories that have been generated as regards the supposed to rape culture, of which there is not of course. Notice that in each case, the question marks are larger then the fax for the majority of that particular events 15 minutes of fame. Once again, somebody is profiting by those question marks.
No, I’m not suggesting literal monetary profits, I’m talking about a particular political profit.
Oh, and by the way. Remember this phrase : ” Let them loot. It’s only property.” that phrase is going to play a large in our conversations over the next couple of days.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.
It is no long the Twentieth Century, yet the candidate from the previous century is trying to run on and away from her political past. Mrs. Clinton is for running on husband’s, B.J., record except when she is not, from Anne Gearan and Philip Rucker, Washington Post:
Hillary Rodham Clinton isn’t just running against Republicans. She’s also running against parts of her husband’s legacy.
On issues large and small, the Democratic presidential contender is increasingly distancing herself from — or even opposing — key policies pushed by Bill Clinton while he was in the White House, from her recent skepticism on free-trade pacts to her full embrace of gay rights.
The starkest example yet came Wednesday, when Hillary Clinton delivered an impassioned address condemning the “era of incarceration” ushered in during the 1990s in the wake of her husband’s 1994 crime bill — though she never mentioned him or the legislation by name.
Unlike John “French” Kerry, Mrs. Clinton is not honest enough to admit her flip flops on her Husband’s record.
One thing I like about Rand Paul, is willing to call Mrs.Clinton on her bovine scat, from Fox News:
Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign mocked Hillary Clinton’s call Wednesday for justice reform, claiming she’s running from policies her husband advocated during the Clinton administration.
In a speech at New York’s Columbia University, and in response to the Baltimore violence, the Democratic presidential candidate decried what she described as “mass incarceration” for low-level offenders.
[…]
But, within hours, her speech earned a rebuke from another declared presidential candidate, Kentucky Republican Sen. Paul, who for years has focused on the issue of criminal justice reform.
Now Senator Paul needs to learn how give his Clinton treatment to his dingbat father.
Ok, I just have to do this one…
Seriously, that’s where I am tonight. One of our other trucks had some problems, so I had to leave New York City where I delivered this afternoon, run halfway across Jersey, pick up his load, and run it down here. I must say, this is my first time in the neighborhood.
This trip has reinforced a long-held opinion about New Jersey roads. Particularly, there is no such thing as a simple intersection in New Jersey.
Cassie is running fine, although she’s due for a bath. I’ll see if I can’t get that taken care of tomorrow in Pennsylvania. That service engine soon light went out and hasn’t reappeared, thankfully. Turns out my diagnosis that there was a settling in period for the new part was correct.
That’s one advantage to being assigned one truck on a longer term basis. Its like hanging out with one person for extended periods of time. Years. You get to know all of the little idiosyncrasies of your ride, and you know when somethings not right. You also know when it’s happy. Dare I say it, this thing was happy today.
About 500 miles yesterday and probably about 450 today. Not a bad week so far, really. Particularly given I got a late start. I started on Tuesday as you’ll recall. Welcome to my world.
The Wall Street Journal today has an excellent editorial explaining why the Baltimore riots are a failure of the progressives, and the left in general.
Frankly, there was no doubt of it in my mind what I wrote last night’s ramble, but nice to see so many of my points reinforced at the Journal.
I can’t let this one go by, without also making mention of John Nolte, who says in part…
Contrary to the emotional blackmailsome leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.
In 2012, after four years of his own failed policies, President Obama won a whopping 87.4% of the Baltimore City vote. Democrats run the city of Baltimore, the unions, the schools, and, yes, the police force. Since 1969, there have been only two Republican governors of the State of Maryland.
Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore in the U.S. Congress for more than thirty years. As I write this, despite his objectively disastrous reign, the Democrat-infested mainstream media is treating the Democrat like a local folk hero, not the obvious and glaring failure he really is.
Every single member of the Baltimore city council is a Democrat.
Then comes the matter of race. Baltimore city government, at least the positions of power, have been all black for just about 30 years now. And all Democrat is John says. The police department is about 50 percent black.
So with all that in mind, where is this oppression coming from we keep hearing about?
And is John for their points out, Detroit suffers from the same problems.
You’ll recall, if you read last night’s Ramble, that I wondered why there was not a protest of any consequence as regards the shooting in Charleston. I’m going to send you to do a little research on your own. What is the political makeup of the city government in Charleston?
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.
All is not lost . One Baltimore mother laid down the law to one now former rioter, her son, video:
Hat tip: Dana, Patterico’s Pontifications.
The mother has more sense than all the media and most of the politicians.
Today finds me in South Jersey. I took a few days off…first time I’ve done that in quite a while.
My truck was attended to while I was out, which was part of my purpose. Nice when that comes together.
Tonight, I’ll most likely be overnighting somewhere in eastern PA. Welcome to my world.
As have most of you, I’ve been watching with a somewhat jaundiced eye, the events in and around Baltimore. As of this writing there are six officers injured and a seven who is unresponsive.
The first thing that needs to be said is that what we have in Maryland right now is a complete lack of leadership at both the city and state level. This should not be surprising to anybody with a pulse who has actually been watching what’s going on in those jurisdictions over the last few years.
At a local level, we have a mayor who is more interested in the needs of the rioters, than she is in the law abiding. What suffers of course is law and order. She does defy logic, when she makes the claim that giving those who wish to destroy, ” space”, wasn’t an encouragement to riot. As far as I’m concerned a woman should be hauled up before a judge on incitement charges. At the very least she deserves to be removed from office… in handcuffs if necessary.
Of course, she’s now backed off of her previous comments, and is now making pitiful noises about how her city is being destroyed in a senseless way. You ought to know, mayor. You encouraged it.
She’s a Democrat, of course. With a degree in political science from Oberlin College which is probably among the top five of the far left leaning schools in the country. Maybe her defying logic shouldn’t be such a surprise.
Then we have the Democrat Governor O’Malley, who is directly responsible for disarming the law abiding citizens of Baltimore that’s giving the advantage to the thugs who are currently ripping the place up.
And who further showed a lack of leadership by not calling out the National Guard this morning as opposed to waiting until almost night fall, when the local police had already been working double shifts. And, until such time as it was so far out of control that we’re almost guaranteed a few more nights of this nonsense.
Then we have the rioters themselves who were screaming earlier yesterday about how Freddy Gray was such a good man. Let’s look at what the rioters think is a good man, shall we?
No surprise, then, that so many of the people who are currently demolishing sections of Baltimore are members of street gangs. Street gangs who have made it clear that there are about taking out as many police officers as they can. And firefighters, apparently… I saw one report last night that suggested that some thug in a gas mask walked up and used a knife to cut the fire hose that the firefighters were using to put the fire out at the CVS. Thus, putting the firefighters in danger.
Not before we get morons warming up about how I’m suggesting Grey deserved what he got, that’s not at all what I’m suggesting. But I am getting a little bit tired of criminals in police custody getting injured or killed, and being projectef by the community organizers as some kind of innocent lamb, a model citizen, a gentle soul.
In any event,last night is what happens when you have a state local and federal government more interested in not hurting the feelings of the street gangs, the gang bangers, the drug dealers, and the hell raisers, than they are about maintaining law and order in their jurisdictions.
Oh and in case nobody noticed, the street gangs were standing up next to the mayor earlier today. You know how badly is city is screwed when you see that happening. When the street gangs are the adults in the room,the Government is ineffectual.
Interesting, though… Baltimore has been Democrat run for generations. The police are nearly 50% black. Kinda hard to claim Grey was being oppressed by white Republicans.
In the small mountain of data pouring over my systems at the moment, I noticed a remark, and I’m afraid at the moment I can’t come up with a backlink for it, saying that “hope and change apparently takes a bit more rioting then we were aware of.”
I’m afraid I can’t add much to that remark other than it only took six years of Obama to get us to this stage.
Frankly, I have often wondered if this kind of behavior is what’s required of conservatives to get their message across. It does seem to work for the Democrats and the thugs that support them.
Now it seems stupid to have to disclaim that, but before you get wound up, here.. Of course, I’m not encouraging that, and frankly being people of values, I doubt conservatives would be doing it anyway. but it does make you wonder, if we will yet again see over 100% of voters in inner city districts voting straight line Democrat in the approaching election.
And one more.. We’re seeing an awful lot in the mainstream media, and mostly coming from the government officials, particularly those above named, that what we’re seeing here is the residents of Baltimore expressing their frustrations.
Thing is, that’s not what’s happening here. The rioting that we saw in Baltimore last night and what we are seeing going forward has no more to do with the death of Freddie Grey, then sheeps bladders have to do with the prevention of earthquakes. The Mayor opened up the door to a group of opportunistic thugs, who are doing collectively, what they would have been doing more individually, had the mayor not effectively said, go ahead, tear the city down.
Another.. Why is it we haven’t heard anything about Charleston? Just a few weeks ago wasn’t it that we had an unarmed black man shot in the back. Funny how there wasn’t a great deal of protests about that. I mean, Charleston was what Ferguson was supposed to be if you go by their measurements. Why the silence for that, and doors for this?
I’ll be watching.
There’s other things going on in the world besides Baltimore. For example we do have an election coming up.
There’s been an awful lot of traffic on the social media and the blogs lately about whether or not Hilary Clinton can survive this latest round of scandal. For example Bruce over at Q & O...
Seriously? One more scandal? A few more scandals?
What IS the magic number? Please tell us.
Bill Clinton’s speaking fees go up and his speeches just happen to be in countries where the Secretary of State – that’d be Hillary Clinton – can help them get what they want. The foundation they both are a part of spends 10 to 15% of 500 million dollars on the charities it supposedly is fundraising for. The woman’s emails when she was Secretary of State are gone – well, except those she chose to have us see. And her emails about the foundation?
Private and on the same server that she willfully set up in contravention of a well known rule that required her to do her official business on her official email address.
But, you know, there’s no “smoking gun”.
Yeah, if you’re a crack addict with the IQ of a turnip.
Yeah, pretty much.
By that same token then, on what basis do we make the assumption that she will not be able to weather this particular storm? After all, she’s weathered so many in the past and still there is a legion of idiots ready to follow her into whatever more of destruction happens to await them.
Then too, from the opposite end of this, comes the question who else is in position to run for president on the Democrat side? Nobody that I can see. As an offhand observation, it must be a real problem working up any degree of enthusiasm for a presidential run when you know you’re exposing yourself to becoming the next Vince Foster.
So, the question to my mind at this point is not whether or not Hillary Clinton is going to survive the primary season, and whether or not her actually being the nominee is inevitable. The bigger question is whether or not there will be enough people who have reached their gag threshold, who have decided she won’t get their vote come the general to prevent her from being anointed.
But then there’s another matter to attend to, and it ties these two subjects together. I wonder how many of the rioters will be voting for Hillary Clinton specifically because she has no regard for the law?
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.
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Hat tip photo: Motus
If Carly Fiorina were male, she would be regarded in national politics as an anti-Clinton crony capitalist who mismanaged a company when she was its CEO, was terminated by the company’s board of directors, was criticized for flying around in multiple corporate jets as she laid off many thousands of workers, became outrageously wealthy as a performance reward for the performance that led to her removal, and then turned her attention to politics which led to her being overwhelmingly defeated by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in 2010, which was a banner year for other Republicans!
Carly Fiorina is the former CEO of Hewlitt-Packard. Fiorina’s tenure at H-P is not above debate, from Wikipedia:
Fiorina’s tenure at HP has been both criticised and defended. In 2008, InfoWorld grouped her with a list of products and ideas as flops, declaring her tenure as CEO of HP to be the 6th worst tech flop of all-time and characterizing her as the “anti-Steve Jobs” for reversing the goodwill of American engineers and for alienating existing customers.[57] In 2008, Loren Steffy of The New York Times suggested that the EDS acquisition well after Fiorina’s tenure was evidence that her actions as CEO were justified.[58] Fiorina has often been ranked as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time.[4][5][6][7]
After HP
After resigning from HP, Fiorina was named to several board memberships. She was named to the boards of directors at Revolution Health Group[59] and computer security company Cybertrust.[60] The following year, she became a member of the board of directors for chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.[61] She joined the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. She is an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School.[62][63][64][65] In July 2012, Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia appointed her to the James Madison University Board of Visitors.[66]
Unlike Mrs. Clinton, Fiorina has a resume based on hard work and achievement, mixed with more than a little success. Unlike Mrs. Clinton, Fiorina did not have to marry a cad to open her doors. After Fiorina’s departure, H-P remains a world leader and Fiorina business leadership remains in demand.
Meanwhile back at the Little Rock Presidential Library and Trailer Park, the supposed charity the Clinton Global Initiative on manages to distribute ten percent of its revenue to its purported mission charity.
I am not sold that Fiorina’s resume makes her a legitimate candidate for president. However unlike Mrs. Clinton’s resume, it does not make the case for a felony conviction. I don’t know what Mrs. Clinton’s role in the Clinton Global Initiative, but she either was complicit in or oblivious to an on going criminal enterprise conducted in her name.
File in Hillary.
As far as I can tell, Bruce Jenner is just another Hollywood celebutard, given much too much attention. Yet there limit to how lame stream media drivel I can tolerate, from Dana, Patterico Pontifications:
What Is More Shocking To Diane Sawyer (And The Twitterverse): Bruce Jenner Becoming A Woman Or That He Is A Republican?
Not only did Bruce Jenner come out last night with Diane Sawyer and admit that yes, he is for “all intents and purposes” now a woman, he also came out as a conservative and Republican:
I loath to give undue attention to former athletic long past his glory days, desperate to regain public attention, but this amount of sheer stupidity is too much. Mr. Jenner made two assertions; one, that he thinks he is a woman and two, he is republican or conservative. The former is clearly impossible. Mr. Jenner was born a male and he will die a male, with or without his penis. To the latter, everybody is entitled to hold and declare his particular political belief.
That Diane Sawyer is so feeble minded as to believe in the fairy tale which is called sex-change, and so politically biased to disbelieve that any Hollywood style celebrity can be a conservative is an indictment the lame stream news media addiction to their narratives.
Hat tip: Instapundit
For those lucky enough to have gotten a snail mail from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, Mara Zebest, Gateway Pundit, suggests that you give Mrs. Clinton the kind of support she deserves:
Use Hillary’s fundraising postage-paid envelopes to tell Hillary what is on your mind as the most important issue for America’s future. Hillary wants to know if you are with her? The example posted below, uses the postage-paid envelope as a teachable moment for any volunteers opening the mail, not to mention the message you send may help to chip away at Hillary’s fundraising power when the campaign has to pay for the postage of millions Americans doing the same thing.
Mrs. Clinton is among the richest women in the world. She has been reported to be planning to spend two billion dollar to return her husband, B.J. Clinton, back to the Oval Office. Yet she wants working families to pony up both a campaign contribution and federal postage to put a One Percenter in the White House.
If you need addition motivation, read Clarice Feldman’s take down of the Clinton crime family, from American Thinker:
Every five minutes it seems the scandal deepens as it is beyond question that the Clinton family (including new to the game Chelsea) have been using their tax-exempt charity the Clinton Foundation to enrich themselves, expand their power, and sell out U.S. interests. The only questions remaining are when will she drop out of the race and can we expect a thorough investigation of the Foundation with appropriate consequence ,
Time for the Clintons to take a one way bus back to Arkansas.
The Snark of the Day, from Matt K. Lewis, Daily Caller:
Achieving a liberal social agenda will necessarily require first extirpating many “deep-seated” Christian values and tenets.
Are the liberals that much different than the Muslims? Both advocate killing to advance their professed moral beliefs.
The presidential candidate from the previous century dusts off an old tactic from said century, from John Podhoretz: New York Post:
The “vast right-wing conspiracy” is back.
That was the phrase Hillary Clinton herself used to describe the villainous puppet masters behind the Monica Lewinsky scandal back in 1998. And now, her camp has decided to reanimate this ludicrous bogeyman from the days when pets.com was the talk of Wall Street to combat new allegations of Clintonian malfeasance — allegations the substance of which she and we don’t even yet know.
The material dug up by the conservative writer Peter Schweizer for his new book, “Clinton Cash,” is credible enough to have led several news organizations not normally friendly to the right (The New York Times and The Washington Post) to strike deals with Schweizer and his publisher to share and independently substantiate some of its charges.
Problems; one, the Affair Lewinsky was not the product of some lurid right wing imagination. It as the product of B.J. Clinton’s lust. Two, the ilk of the organization carrying the load of manure on the Clinton Foundation can hardly be described as right-wing, from the New York Times, via Red State:
The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
…Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Read the whole article, there is too much awesomeness there to blockquote without running afoul of Fair Use. While the main point of the article is how an unending stream of Russian contributions to the Clinton Foundation coincided with the State Department’s decision to not block the acquisition, an action it had taken before:
When a company controlled by the Chinese government sought a 51 percent stake in a tiny Nevada gold mining operation in 2009, it set off a secretive review process in Washington, where officials raised concerns primarily about the mine’s proximity to a military installation, but also about the potential for minerals at the site, including uranium, to come under Chinese control. The officials killed the deal.
Such is the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security.
Will Mrs. Clinton’s antics land Hillary in the Oval Office or a federal prison? Does Mrs. Clinton need a better campaign staff or a good criminal defense lawyer?
The Clinton administration boosted about building a bridge to the Twenty First Century. At the time, I was less than impressed. What I missed, was the fact the B.J. Clinton’s bridge was not wide enough to accommodate Mrs Clinton’s extra wide butt.
