Does this look like the house that a top Clinton fundraiser would live in?
It doesn’t to me either, but it is. Looks to me as though there may be a shady deal going down on this one. First Hillary is being sued for breaking campaign finance laws. Then the video that shows her committing felony campaign finance law violations shows up. And then still she is accused of illegal wiretapping, and now this.
One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.
It isn’t obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple’s grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to “attendance liaison” at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund.
So where did the money really come from?
The Paws’ political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign. He has hosted or co-hosted some of her most prominent money-raising events.
Every time Norman Hsu made a donation to Clinton so did every member of this family. That is an incredible coincidence, is it not?
But it gets even better as today’s LA Times is reporting that Norman Hsu is a convicted felon and a fugitive from California.
For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
“He is a fugitive,” Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. “Do you know where he is?”
Oh the company those lovable little Clinton’s keep. I’m sure this has all been a misunderstanding.
Clinton-Obama Pick up Major Endorsement….. From Castro
Just in cast you still don’t believe that Democrats are at least socialists at heart, this should help you to realize it.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.
“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
Hillary and Barack pick up a key endorsement from a like-minded friend, Fidel Castro. If this doesn’t show you where the Democrat’s hearts really lie, nothing will.
According to this article marriage may become a thing of the past in California. This appears to be a case of if you can’t give everyone the same rights afforded to some, than take away the rights afforded to those people. Marriage is not a right, straight people can be denied a marriage licence yet gays are supposed to be allowed to marry no matter what.
In legal briefs submitted to the California Supreme Court regarding same-sex marriage, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown both stated that a future legislature could abolish marriage and remove the rights now enjoyed by a husband and wife.
This is unbelievable. Because gays haven’t been able to gain the rights to marry, they are considering abolishing marriage all together. I have to be honest with you, when I hear this kind of militant position I lose any compassion I have for these people. Although, in today’s world where divorce is so easy to acquire, and men are required to pay the antiquated idea of alimony when women can and do receive equal pay this could reek havoc on the woman’s movement. The gay movement must be more powerful.
University of Vermont to add Trans-Gender Restrooms on Campus
If you are a man, you use the men’s room. If you are a woman, you use the woman’s room. Simple, isn’t it? It doesn’t seem that complicated to me either. But some people don’t know what they are, or at least that is what I am told. It doesn’t seem that hard to figure out what equipment you have to me, but what do I know? Now the University of Vermont has decided if you don’t know what you are they will create a special bathroom for you.
It also has gender-neutral bathrooms, a feature added to accommodate transgendered people, as well as those with some disabilities. The four single bathrooms in the new Dudley H. Davis Center — each with a toilet, sink, shower, and lockable door — cost about $2,500 a piece to build. Their wall signs identify each as “gender neutral restroom.”
“It’s about inclusivity and accessibility and the importance of meeting all people’s needs, not just a few,” said Annie Stevens, assistant vice president for student and campus life.
“A multiuse bathroom doesn’t necessarily feel safe to transgendered students, because they have concerns about how their gender would be read by others,” said Dot Brauer, director of the school’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Ally Services.
A woman who identifies as a man, for example, may not feel welcome in a women’s restroom. Transgendered people have been the target of verbal and physical abuse in restrooms and been arrested, or suspected of lewd conduct, according to Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
The National Center for Transgender Equality? Now I have heard it all. Once again we have the all-inclusive left separating people into different groups. Why is it that all of these groups need to be separated? How are we all supposed to be equal when the left keeps fracturing us by hyphenating us into different categories? We will never be equal until we are all non-hyphenated Americans. Yet the left tries to equalize us by seperating us, does that make sense? Wasn’t it the left that originally said seperate but equal was not equal? I think it was, yet they are the ones who see everyone as some sort of group before they see people as individuals.
Read the rest of the story here.
Recently we have heard unofficial reports that General Petraeus’ report would show military gain in Iraq and very little political progress. With Democrats having to concede that the surge is working they are hanging their fortunes on the fact that little has been accomplished politically. They will use this as their new excuse for reason to surrender in Iraq. They need little or no political progress in order to keep up their we must surrender rhetoric. Perhaps that is why the recent political breakthrough in Iraq is getting so little coverage by the oh-so-willing-to-go-along-with-the-Democrats main stream media.
“These leaders … recognize the true and meaningful reconciliation that needs to take place,” Bush said in a brief statement upon his arrival at Albuquerque. “They recognize this is a process. Yesterday’s agreement reflects their commitment to work together for the benefit of all Iraqis to further the process.”
He said their action “begins to establish new power sharing agreements.”
The Iraqi leaders said they agreed on some issues that the U.S. has set as benchmarks for progress, among them holding provincial elections, releasing prisoners held without charge and changing the law preventing many former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party from holding government jobs and elected office.
Funny how that works, isn’t it. Read the rest here.
Alberto Gonzalez Resigns, But Why Did the Democrats Want Him To?
Before I begin this post I would like to take a moment to warn any liberal readers that this post is intended to infuriate you. If you are an easily infuriated liberal, and what liberal isn’t, STOP HERE. Why do I say this about liberals? Because liberals are always infuriated by something, they believe that the deck is stacked against them and they will never be able to get ahead because America is flawed. Now on to the post:
As everyone knows by know Alberto Gonzalez, a Mexican-American, resigned today under extreme pressure from the left. I am not going to discuss whether he should have resigned or not. This is a discussion I will leave up to hundreds of blogs, television networks, websites, and newspapers. Conservatives will believe he was jobbed, liberals will believe he had it coming. I would like to touch upon another possible reason the Democrats wanted him gone.
Could it be the LEGAL firing of the United States attorneys?
Could it be the foreign surveillance program?
Or could it be something else? Read more…
“There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. They should come to their senses.”
Those words were spoken by Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. So it appears as though rhetoric and words that are muttered here for pure political reasons do get heard in Iraq. The Democrats like to think their words go unheard over in Iraq, they don’t believe their words have consequences. If Maliki heard what Clinton and Levin have said over here, let us look at some of the words our enemy may have heard.
Harry Reid:
“I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything
Dick Durbin:
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings,”
John Murtha:
“there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
And:
“I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened,”
I know the anti-war crowd will read this and say it is old news but I don’t care. When I hear United States high ranking politicians say things like this about our soldiers I become livid. I was livid the day these comments were made and I am still livid today. These people just throw these lines out there and aparently don’t care about any likely repercussions.
You can’t tell me that the enemy doesn’t hear these words. They do. This kind of rhetoric is what leads them to believe they can win this war, and frankly I also believe this is the kind of thing that will help them win. Winning the public perception war is the only battle that the terrorists care about winning. They know they can’t win militarily, so they just have to hope they can wear the American people out by the suicide bombings and the killing of innocent civilians.
When you hear our leaders speak in such a manner it gives the impression to the enemy that they are succeeding, and you know what? They are.
This video is funny and sad at the same time. Penn and Teller have a woman go around a convention with a petition to ban water in the guise of saving the planet. These environmental lemmings sign it, mostly without question, because they care so much about the environment.
HAT TIP: arclightzero
Mike Huckabee Believes He is Surging in New Hampshire
After the Iowa straw poll in which Mike Huckabee came in second he believes the latest New Hampshire polls have him receiving a bounce. I have not seen any recent polls to find out whether the bump is actual or just perceived. But he is very confident.
Last Saturday Mike Huckabee was in my town of Kingston, New Hampshire. He attended an event called chowderfest at the Kingston 1686 House. This is an upscale restaurant about a half a mile from my house. I read in the Rockingham News that he would be at the Kingston House at 11:00 on Sunday morning and decided I had to go, it would be interesting. I thought I would head over to the Kingston House later in the day on Saturday just to find out if I needed a reservation. That is when they informed me that he appeared earlier in the day on Saturday. The Rockingham News had printed the wrong day of the event. Needless to say, I am still disappointed I missed this opportunity to sit down with a presidential candidate so close to my house.
Evidently the event went pretty well and you can read about it here.
Before you count this man out remember that Bill Clinton trailed in all the national polls before the New Hampshire primary and we know how that turned out.
Music Video: Press One For English
Here is a video of a song called Press One For English that I found on the Some Things Need To Be Said blog. This isn’t my style of music, but it packs a great message about immigrants learning our language. This is bound to piss off any multiculturalists that may be out there.
HAT TIP: Some Things Need To Be Said
