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Friday, September 25, 2015

The double dip



On a tip from Phil McCafferty

Hillary Clinton personally signed deal that let top aide collect two salaries




Hillary Rodham Clinton personally signed the controversial deal in 2012 that let her top aide Huma Abedin simultaneously work for the State Department and a private New York firm with deep ties to the Clinton family, according to records made public Thursday.

The State Department emails released to select congressional committees and the watchdog group Judicial Watch also show that almost immediately after Ms. Abedin got permission to work in New York for the Teneo Group, she tried to get the federal government to pay the cost of her commuting back and forth to Washington to serve as a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton, who was then the secretary of state.

“I need to come down to state tomorrow. Can state start paying for my travel since ny is now my base?” Ms. Abedin asked in an email to a top State Department administrative official on March 27, 2012, around the time her deal to become a special government employee (SGE) was struck.

Just four days earlier, Mrs. Clinton personally signed an agreement that let Ms. Abedin, one of her most trusted aides, transition from being her deputy chief staff and a former federal employee, to an SGE, the equivalent of a contractor with special privileges.

The change freed Ms. Abedin also to work simultaneously in the private sector for the Teneo Group, a consulting firm in New York run by top Clinton confidant Doug Band, where Bill Clinton also collected a salary as a paid adviser.

State officials said Thursday night they did not immediately know whether Ms. Abedin got taxpayer reimbursement for her travel costs.

Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, has been investigating whether Ms. Abedin’s simultaneous work for both State and Teneo created improper conflicts of interest while allowing her to “double dip” on salaries.

Federal investigators also have concluded that Ms. Abedin billed for more hours than allowed for an SGE contractor, according to investigative documents obtained by The Washington Times.

Ms. Abedin’s lawyer, Miguel Rodriguez, has denied she did anything wrong and accused Mr. Grassley of a political witchhunt.

He did not return a call Thursday seeking comment from the Times.

But documents first reported earlier this month by the Times show the State Department’s own internal investigator believed Ms. Abedin might have engaged in embezzlement via inaccurate time sheets and concluded she was overpaid by about $10,000 in federal salary.

And the new documents further support questions Mr. Grassley has posed to the Obama administration.

For instance, the senator asked weeks ago whether Ms. Abedin was ever reimbursed by taxpayers so she could travel between her private job in New York and her federal job in Washington.

Mr. Grassley also has questioned whether the deal with Ms. Abedin really met the requirements for a special government employee status. One of those requirements is that someone’s work as a contractor be different enough from the original job to warrant giving the person contractor status.

But the documents released Thursday show Ms. Abedin told State officials she planned to do the same type of work as an SGE as she did as deputy chief of staff.

“MY NEW POSITION IS THE SAME AS MY OLD POSITION,” Ms. Abedin wrote in all caps to a State Department colleague on June 5, 2012.







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Thursday, September 24, 2015

You gotta laugh!




From Ed Kilbane



                                                                           Talk about smokin' hot!


Rich Lowrey on Fox's Kelly File last night was discussing Trump's reaction to Carly's surge in the polls. Lowrey thought Trump was starting to panic ever since "she cut his balls off in the last debate". Trump then tweeted that such foul language was shocking and that he should apologize. Fox had Lowrey back on this morning to apologize. He did, saying that his description was accurate but perhaps his language was "a bit salty". He went on to say that he was clearly talking about Trumps "persona" and not his balls!

Talk about "salty language".
Trump speaking in Vegas 2011.

He sounds almost as bad as me. Turn up the volume.

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Donald Trump resumes feud with Fox News, tweets that he won’t be ‘doing any more shows’ on network




If you can't get along with conservative leaning FOX News he's in big trouble. What's he going to do swim with the sharks at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC?

Oh...and I'm sure Univision will treat him fairly.

I still say despite the pledge somewhere down the road I'm looking for Trump to jump ship. 

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"@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future," Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday.

It's on — again.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday he won’t be appearing on Fox News Channel any more because the “fair and balanced” network isn’t fair and balanced with him.

“@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future,” Trump tweeted.

The bombastic billionaire, who for weeks blasted the network for its treatment of him during the first GOP debate in August before agreeing to a truce, has in recent days escalated the feud.

On Tuesday evening, Trump again took aim at Megyn Kelly, the Fox anchor who moderated the first GOP debate and questioned him about his treatment of women.

“Do you ever notice that lightweight @megynkelly constantly goes after me but when I hit back it is totally sexist. She is highly overrated!” he tweeted.

On Monday, he lashed out at another Fox News personality, Bill O’Reilly.

“@oreillyfactor, why don’t you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!” he tweeted.

But he apparently still watches the cable channel.

During Wednesday’s “The Kelly File,” National Review editor Rich Lowry suggested Carly Fiorina’s debate performance had a castrating effect on Trump.

“Let’s be honest, in the last debate Carly cut his b---s off with the precision of a surgeon,” Lowry said, prompting a slew of tweets from The Donald.

“@FoxNews owes me an apology for allowing clueless pundit @RichLowry to use such foul language on TV. Unheard of!” he tweeted.

A representative for the channel said it had canceled an appearance by Trump on “The O’Reilly Factor” scheduled for Thursday, which prompted the outspoken magnate’s “subsequent tweet about his ‘boycott’ of Fox News.’ ”

“When coverage doesn’t go his way, he engages in personal attacks on our anchors and hosts, which has grown stale and tiresome,” the network said in the statement.

O’Reilly commented on Trump’s attack during an appearance on Tuesday’s “Today” show, saying, “I’ve known Trump a long time. He wants people to like him. When people criticize him, he takes it personally.”

Despite Trump’s relationship with the network, he remained at the top of a Fox News poll released Wednesday. The real estate mogul led the pack with 26% support among GOP primary voters. He was followed by Ben Carson at 18%.

Fox and Trump have been on shaky ground since the Aug. 6 debate, when Kelly asked the mogul pointed questions about his personal insults against women.

Afterward, Trump said Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever,” during the debate, a meanspirited barb that many assumed was a reference to her menstrual cycle.

Later Wednesday, Trump, who has been blasted for his disparaging remarks about minorities, touted his popularity among black voters.

Speaking at a black business conference in South Carolina, Trump cited a poll from SurveyUSA that showed him getting 25% of the black vote against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.







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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Give them an inch...




'We're going to be the majority soon!' Furious Muslim parents taunt New Jersey school board over religious holiday closure

And that my friends is the f-ing problem!

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Tempers flared at a school board meeting in New Jersey when a room crowded with Muslim parents learned that schools will remain open during the upcoming holiday of Eid- al-Adha.

Parents and children who took part in the heated debate that broke out during last week's school board meeting in Jersey City screamed in rage and some openly wept.

At one point, a young woman in a purple head scarf took the microphone and addressed the board, telling them with a sneer: 'we're no longer the minority, that's clear from tonight. We're going to be the majority soon.'



Enraged: Muslim parents in Jersey City were furious to learn during a school board meeting September 17 that local schools will remain open during the holiday of Eid al-Adha



Feeling betrayed: The Jersey City Board of Education had initially proposed to close local schools September 24 allowing Muslim children to observe the holiday, but later had a change of heart 



Taunt: This young woman in a purple head scarf took the microphone and addressed the board, telling them with a sneer: 'we're no longer the minority, that's clear from tonight. We're going to be the majority soon


The Jersey City Board of Education had initially proposed to close local schools September 24 allowing Muslim children to observe the holiday, and the City Council unanimously voted in favor of the closure two weeks ago.

However, during the contentious four-hour meeting held last Thursday, the board ultimately voted to keep Jersey City schools open so as not to cause disruptions for non-Muslim families, reported NBC New York last week. 

'Doing this at this point on six days' notice for this upcoming holiday is going to cause undue hardship on 5,000 to 10,000 people who are going to have to scramble to get coverage for their children,' board member Gerald Lyons told the crowd.

Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, is the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.



Silver lining: The board noted that Muslim students who choose to take Thursday off to observe the holiday will not be penalized

Guess that wasn't enough they wanted the board beheaded!




Practical concerns: Board member Gerald Lyons told the crowd closing Jersey City schools on such a short notice would cause hardship for non-Muslim families 



A Jewish parent who attended the meeting said that some in his community felt they were being discriminated against because the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were not on Jersey City's official school closure list.

Okay... if every ethnic group's holidays have to be celebrated there would be no one in school.

Board members pointed out that Muslim students who choose to take Thursday off to observe the Feast of Sacrifice will not be penalized.

The school board is expected to review its religious holiday policy later this year.

In New York City, schools will be closed for Eid Al-Adha for the first time as a result of a calendar change that was put in place by Mayor Bill de Blasio back in March.


Guarantee you Comrade de Blasio is a one termer. 







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Clock controversy risks backfiring for Obama as critics cast doubt on narrative



"President Obama's practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago," Palin wrote.

"If I had a son his name would be Trayvon" comes to mind. He filed adoption papers before the facts were in and Zimmerman was found not guilty. So why the uproar in the first place? Because a "white Hispanic" shot a black. Had it been the other way around you wouldn't have heard a damn thing about it!

Just to reiterate:

When police questioned the boy (Ahmed), WFAA reports, they said he was “passive aggressive” and didn’t give them a “reasonable answer” as to why he had brought his contraption to the school. “We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only say it was a clock. He didn’t offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school,” said James McLellan of the Irving Police Department.

Doesn't this send up some red flags?

What does your common sense tell you about a clock in a briefcase belonging to a Muslim? If it wasn't meant to stir up controversy what practicality does it serve? He can't even answer the question! I don't know about you but... opening a briefcase every time to see what time it is makes about as much sense as wearing a wristwatch on your ankle.


Clock Kid: What They're Not Telling You

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Family pulls Ahmed Mohamed and siblings from public schools

President Obama’s public backing of a Texas high school freshman, who got national headlines last week when his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb by teachers, could be causing a headache for the White House and other supporters as questions are being raised about the motives in the case. 

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s father has said he now plans to withdraw the freshman from MacArthur High School, and said Monday that they intend to visit New York City where he says they will meet with dignitaries at the United Nations, before making a pilgrimage to Mecca and later visiting Obama at the White House, The Dallas Morning News reported.

It was not immediately clear which dignitaries had requested a meeting with Mohamed.

Mohamed had received praise and support from figures such as Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the wake of the incident, in which Mohamed was arrested on bomb hoax charges after bringing the device to school.

However, amid huge support online for the family, there also has been growing criticism and doubts about the motive behind the incident.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins linked to a video posted to YouTube by electrical expert Thomas Talbot, which closely scrutinizes a photo of the controversial clock.

In the video, Talbot argues the clock is actually a commercial alarm clock, removed from its casing. Features of the clock such as the printed circuit boards and ribbon cables are indicative of a manufactured product, he explained.

Dawkins asked, “If this is true, what was [Mohamed’s] motive?”

Mohamed’s father has a colorful history of his own. Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed announced in February that he planned to run for president of Sudan, as he also did in 2010, the North Dallas Gazette reported. In 2011, he defended the Koran when controversial pastor Rev. Terry Jones put the book “on trial." 

Interesting:

On HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban also expressed concerns about the family’s involvement. While calling Ahmed a “super smart kid,” he said that when he spoke to Ahmed, "his sister, over his shoulder, you could hear, listening to the question, giving him the answer.”

Maher, a left-wing comedian, also expressed skepticism, saying “the people at the school thought it might be a bomb, perhaps because it looks exactly like a [expletive] bomb.”

WOW! I didn't think he could connect the dots!

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Napolitano said that if the whole thing was a fraud, and the family was involved, they could be open to legal charges.

“It now appears as though this was a purposeful hoax," Napolitano told Fox News' Megyn Kelly Monday. “If the parents were involved now you have a fraud going on as you have funds going on for him right now,” he said, adding that the two funds to raise money for the family now amount to over $20,000.

Napolitano added that this could turn out to be a politically difficult issue for Obama.

"If this was part of a purposeful stunt and if the parents were involved in this and if everybody from Mark Zuckerberg to President Obama fell for this, this is not good," Napolitano said.

If so, it wouldn’t be the first time Obama has stepped into hot water after jumping into a local debate. In 2009, Obama reacted to initial media reports that black professor Henry Louis Gates had been arrested by Sgt. James Crowley for trying to get back into his own house after being locked out. Obama said at a press conference “the police acted stupidly” and cited a “long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.”

It later turned out the arrest was much more complex than it initially appeared, with it being alleged that Gates made offensive comments about Crowley’s mother. Obama came under criticism and later held a “beer summit” with the two in the Rose Garden.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin blasted Obama over his involvement in the clock controversy on Saturday, saying in a Facebook post his remarks were "about as presidential as a selfie stick."

"By the way, President Obama's practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago," Palin wrote. 




If you answered d to all questions you're as 'Islamophobic' as I am.






1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40


2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnappedin Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davey Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a USNavy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers?
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



11. On October 12, 2000 the USS Cole was attached and many sailors lost their lives.
a. Clint Eastwood
b. Bill Gates
c. Bob Newhart
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


12. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


13. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistanagainst:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


14. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


15. In 2004 Chechen Rebels took 700+ hostages in southern Russia :
a. Vladimir Putin
b. Bill Maher
c. Jay Leno
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


16. In 2004 Trains were bombed in Madrid :
a. Ralph Nader
b. Billy Mummy
c. Gene Autry
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


17. On July 7, 2005 bombs tore apart buses in London :
a. Art Linkletter
b. Bob Hope
c. Harvey Coreman
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


18. Who murdered 13 U.S. soldiers at Ft. Hood Texas in November 2009?
a. Michael Jackson.
b. Mother Teresa
c. Billy Graham.
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40


19. Who tried to blow up a plane landing in the US on Christmas Eve 2009?
a. A Swedish Grandmother
b. A French Student
c. George Orwell.
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40



There are hundred's more... How about this one.


Who shot Pope John?
a. Harry Reid
b. Barack Obama
c. Nancy Pelosi.
 d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40









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