The Clinton Foundation will stop taking foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected President
According to this story The Clinton Foundation will stop taking foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected President, here is more:
Hillary Clinton’s family foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she is elected president, and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November election.
Former President Bill Clinton made the announcement at an afternoon meeting with foundation staff members, according to the Associated Press; CBS News confirmed the news Thursday evening.
In other words it will not be as simple for Hillary Clinton to run a pay to play scheme as President as it was for her to do so as Secretary of State, especially since she most likely will have to use a government email server instead of her own private server so get your donations in now and help her get elected and your reward will come later…
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Why is the Louisiana flooding being ignored this time around?
We all remember the pummeling the Bush regime received by the Democrats and the mainstream media over Hurricane Katrina in 2005 for the President’s alleged lack of action. He was absent we were told, he did not care about black people we were told, and it went on and on for weeks. It was relentless…
Today portions of Louisiana are just as affected by flooding as was New Orleans back in 2005, here is more:
Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes amid rising water — a constant, churning anxiety about the future.
Thousands are still holed up in shelters or at friends’ houses on high ground, relying on Facebook videos and word-of-mouth for an answer to the question on everyone’s tongues: How bad is the damage?
“We still don’t know the state of our house,” said Justin Sylvest, 21, who lives with his girlfriend and their 11-month-old in Denham Springs, a town east of Baton Rouge that was among the hardest hit.
The three of them had been staying since Sunday at an emergency shelter on the vast grounds of the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, southeast of Baton Rouge. Sylvest said the shelter had provided everything his family needed, starting with formula for the baby and clean clothes.
But a shelter’s still a shelter, a gymnasium lined with cots with no personal space or guaranteed quiet — all the more difficult for a young father who isn’t sure whether his family has a place to live or a way to pay the bills. He said he hadn’t slept much.
“I don’t even know when I’ll be able to go to work,” Sylvest said, taking a drag on a cigarette. “It’s going to be a lot getting back to normal.”
After two feet of rain began falling Thursday night, water rose quickly in Baton Rouge and then migrated east and south, leaving a vast swath of damage. At least 40,000 homes have been damaged, according to Gov. John Bel Edwards (D). The death toll has risen to 13.
Roads remain flooded and closed, while schools, businesses and government offices have been shut down for days. The country has not seen a natural disaster this bad since 2012, when Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast, according to the American Red Cross.
“The current flooding in Louisiana is the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy,”
Yet this flooding is not receiving nearly the attention in the mainstream media as did the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, or the attention Superstorm Sandy garnered for that matter, and it is receiving no attention whatsoever from the Democrats even as Barack Obama plays golf on Martha’s Vineyard. There are no cries about an absentee President in the midst of a crisis.
Why is that?
The House Oversight Committee has laid out the case for perjury charges against Hillary Clinton for lying to the Congress when she testified on her email scandal in front of the Congress. Here is a video which juxtaposes what Hillary Clinton testified in front of the Congress with what the FBI investigation found:
Earlier today Tim Kaine was put in the awkward position of trying to defend Hillary Clinton’s email lies, here is more:
Yesterday two top Republicans laid out perjury charges against Hillary Clinton and referred the case to the top prosecutor in Washington DC.
Today the House Oversight Committee has released a new video which juxtaposes Hillary Clinton’s testimony under oath with the FBI’s findings in that agency’s investigation into the former Secretary of State’s email scandal and I think it is quite damning.
Here is the video:
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan dodges question on if she believes Hillary Clinton is trustworthy and honest
My Democratic Governor, Maggie Hassan, has decided to run for the Senate against Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte rather than run for reelection as Governor. It goes without saying that she is an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Recently she was asked about the former Secretary of State’s trustworthiness and honesty. She was given three opportunities to state she believes Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy and three times she dodged the question. Here is the transcript of the exchange:
Asked in an interview aired Tuesday on CNN whether Clinton is “honest and trustworthy,” Hassan first replied, “I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and record demonstrate she’s qualified to hold the job.”
Pressed on whether she sees the former secretary of state as honest, the governor, facing a tough Senate race against incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte, commented on Clinton’s “critical, critical plan among others for making college more affordable.”
“But do you think she’s trustworthy?” CNN’s Manu Raju inquired, to which Hassan responded, “I think that she has demonstrated a commitment always to something beyond herself, bigger than herself.”
Much to my chagrin I cannot directly post the video here but if you are so-inclined you can watch the video by following the link I provided above.
This was a simple yes or no question and yet Governor Hassan refused to answer the question and I think that speaks volumes about the former Secretary of State’s trustworthiness and honesty, even one of her biggest supporters in not willing to go on record on this issue…
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Retired General claims the White House ordered the intelligence community to skew intelligence on ISIS
Everybody knows, including those who are attacking Donald Trump on this issue, that when the billionaire businessman called Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the “founders” of ISIS he was not speaking literally. He was not suggesting that they went to the Middle East and started up the terrorist organization or that they funded ISIS, he was implying that their policies led to the rise of ISIS in the Middle East.
But that did not stop the mainstream media and Donald Trump did not help himself when he was given several opportunities to clarify what he said and he refused to do so–instead doubling down. In his arrogance he could not admit he didn’t speak as clearly as he should have.
A vastly under-reported story last week was a report which came out that found the intelligence community was tweaking its ISIS reports in order to paint a more rosy picture because Barack Obama did not want to hear the truth. This is the type of thing Donald Trump was referring to and he could have used it against the President and the former Secretary of State if he was humble enough to admit he was not being very articulate.
Anyway, here is more on that report:
When FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the Congress under oath about his decision not to recommend charges be brought against Hillary Clinton the one thing he was forced to admit was that Hillary Clinton lied to the Congress while under oath when she testified.
Here is a video showing James Comey admitting Hillary Clinton was not exactly telling the truth when she testified, you only have to watch the first 45 seconds of the video to hear the lies:
In response to this testimony two top House Republicans have laid out a perjury case against the former Secretary of State and have referred the case to U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips. He is the chief federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.
Earlier today Joe Biden appeared at a campaign rally with Hillary Clinton and in addition to catching the unsteady former Secretary of State when she slipped off the podium the Vice President took a little time to out a military aide who was carrying the nuclear codes.
Here is more:
“There’s a guy that follows me right back here, has the nuclear codes,” Biden said, turning and pointing. “So God forbid anything happened to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me.”
Sunday, August 14th open thread: ‘Would it Matter’
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A week ago Thursday I went to see Skillet play at the annual Christian music festival in Gilford, New Hampshire called Soulfest. I wanted to post a video from the show during last week’s open thread but there was not much posted from the show at that time. I have posted a couple of Skillet songs in the past but this one is a little different; Skillet is a pretty heavy band but about midway through their set the band left the stage and John Cooper stood alone with an acoustic guitar. Something was different here and we were about to learn what it was.
About an hour before Skillet took the stage the band held a meet and greet with their fans and a young man named Brian who is a bone cancer survivor requested a song called “Would it Matter?” This is an old Skillet song and it had never been performed live before: John Cooper introduced the song by telling us Brian’s story and about how he was going to do something he has never done before in playing a song he hadn’t rehearsed. He went on to say he had about 35 minutes to relearn the lyrics and the music but if Brian could fight his way through bone cancer this was nothing compared to what Brian went through. He then joked “this is awesome” before going into the song.
As he played the song and I listened to the lyrics (I hadn’t heard the song before) it really touched me because I couldn’t help but think about what was probably going through Brian’s mind as he fought this disease and how the lyrics must have hit a personal note with him when he was not sure if he was going to live or die.
frui diem
In an attempt to shame Donald Trump into releasing his tax returns–which he should do by the way–and also in an attempt to distract the American people from the recently released emails which show a cozy relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department and a possible pay to play scheme, Bill and Hillary Clinton released their 2015 tax return earlier today.
However it turns out this just might play into the narrative the Clinton’s were hoping to distract us from because it turns out that while the Clinton’s donated over $1,000,000 to charity 96% of the donations went to The Clinton Foundation.
Here is more:
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