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Sunday, July 24, 2016

A tale of two governors...one Democrat one Republican



Tim Kaine Took ‘Gifts’ as Virginia Governor Like Bob McDonnell









In June, Isaac Arnsdorf wrote at Politico about the troubling “gifts” Virginia Senator Tim Kaine received while governor of Virginia, noting that “similar presents” led to corruption charges former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took advantage of the state’s lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.

Now a leading contender to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Kaine reported more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences, according to disclosures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project. The givers included political supporters, a drug company that soon after bought a facility in Virginia, and Dominion, the state’s biggest provider of electricity.

While legal under Virginia’s unusually permissive ethics rules, the gifts could become attack-ad fodder after similar presents led to corruption charges for Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction the Supreme Court overturned. Republicans could also use the records to portray Kaine as part of the self-dealing establishment in a cycle animated by hostility toward the political class.


Just one more example of how The Rule Of Law really works! 









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Top DNC official apologizes for 'insensitive' email after leak




If it wasn't for the fact they got caught dead to rights with these emails they would be lying through their teeth. One thing, which cannot be ignored scanning through these emails, is how deeply embedded the MSM is in the Democratic Party!



The chief financial officer of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday apologized for the "insensitive" contents of an email leaked by the website WikiLeaks which appears to refer to Bernie Sanders.

The internal email from Brad Marshall was one of more than 19,000 emails from several officials in the Democratic National Committee released Friday by the website founded by Julian Assange.

An email purportedly written by Marshall in May appears to refer to Bernie Sanders, but does not name him.

The email says "ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist." 

Saturday, Clinton released a statement that said: "I have never sent nor received any DNC emails regarding Jews or Atheists."

In a Facebook post Saturday, Marshall said emails were written in the heat of the moment. 

"I deeply regret that my insensitive, emotional emails would cause embarrassment to the DNC, the chairwoman, and all of the staffers who worked hard to make the primary a fair and open process," Marshall said. "The comments expressed do not reflect my beliefs nor do they reflect the beliefs of the DNC and its employees. I apologize to those I offended." 


Re: Sanders: If I'm elected, DNC leader would be out



Sounds to me like her mind was pretty much made up. Sorry for the use of the word pretty.












WikiLeaks does not say how it obtained the internal DNC files. The DNC's computer network was breached in the past by Russian government cyber operations, NBC News reported last month. 

"This is further evidence the Russian government is trying to influence the outcome of the election," the Clinton campaign statement said. 

Oh...but they didn't hack her non-secure private email account... 


Another email posted online by Wikileaks, a May 21 message purported to be from Deputy Communications Director Mark Paustenbach, asks: "Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess. Specifically, DWS had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they'd either ignored or forgotten to something critical." 

The email posted on WikiLeaks also says: "It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together." 





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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Kerry: Refrigerator chemicals are just as bad as ISIS








Air conditioners and refrigerators pose as big a threat to "life on the planet" as the threat of terrorism, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.

Kerry was in Vienna negotiating a global climate deal to phase out chemicals used as refrigerants in basic household and commercial appliances such as air conditioning and refrigerators, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. The chemicals are a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions that many scientists blame for contributing to global warming.

Kerry made the remarks as part of a pep talk for negotiators working through the weekend to amend a 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to deal with the chemicals.

"Yesterday, I met in Washington with 45 nations — defense ministers and foreign ministers — as we were working together on the challenge of [the Islamic State], and terrorism," he said. "It's hard for some people to grasp it, but what we — you — are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself."









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Citizen Kaine







Sure she is. 

She announces her decision at 8 o’clock on a Friday night (bad enough)… while the media is covering an on going terrorist attack in Munich! 
Guess she was "thrilled" because no one was paying attention. 












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Friday, July 22, 2016

WikiLeaks releases 19,252 DNC emails









This couldn't have happened at a better time! 


Go here. 











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