I v**ed how I wished the last time and sure as hell am complaining now. So I might as well v**e for ones that I know are for the country rather than v**e again as I did last month and get kicked in the damn teeth for it. As I see it, there is not a tinkers damn bit of difference in v****g Republican or Democrat because they will kick us where it hurts . Or are you saying this did not happen?

If everyone would just investigate the Tea Party on their own without getting their "information" from the left-wing media they would realize that the Tea Party is what we have been searching for. This group stand for less government, less taxes, Constitutional rule, a government of the people, by the people and for the people and less meddling in other countries business. If this isn't what the majority want, then I say go ahead and v**e for either of the crooked parties.

It sure does get worse. This bunch of dictators are now planning to outlaw all wood-burning stoves. This even includes the ones used by the people who live off-grid. Now this bunch of crooks have been against anyone living off grid and off the land for many years because they can't keep track of their activities as they would like, so what do they do? Plan to pass a law against wood burning stoves for everyone. Now many people have these stoves and fireplaces for auxiliary heat when the electricity goes off. I know several people who had to go to a motel when their power went off and was off for a week. Had they had auxiliary heat, they could have stayed in their homes and still kept warm. There are several of my neighbors that have total wood heat and even heat their water with outside wood burners. These people can't afford gas or electric heat because they are on fixed incomes and always had to work low paying jobs so their SS is not very high. But do you think this bunch of crooks care about these people? They care more about illegal criminals than they do Americans. So while they make life extra hard for Americans, they are planning to build multibillion dollar living quarters for these dregs that they value so greatly.

Poll after poll going into the e******n showed the same thing about v**er attitude: They disliked the Democrats, they disliked the Republicans as much or more, but they were angry about the way things were being dome in Washington and wanted to send a message. The Republicans ran on virtually nothing in the way of an agenda and therefore had almost no mandate to do anything other than throw the brakes on what the Democrats have been trying to accomplish in the last 6 years.

The House "compromise" budget in which the Republicans give Democrats everything they want in exchange for reforms that favor Wall Street (which is still virtually the least popular institute in America, not to mention the fact that the majority of Wall Street has been bankrolling the Democrats for the last decade) is a deliberate slap in the face of the sentiment that brought them to power. Literally no one who v**ed Republicans did so in order for them to v**e to fund the government all the way through virtually half of their term in power just so Dodd-Frank could be tweaked, and Obama's executive amnesty could go forward.

To all v**ers that v**ed Republican last month, including me and my husband, we have been screwed by the biggest crooks in America. And after a meeting with my group this afternoon, if a candidate is not a Tea Partier, we will leave the b****t blank from this day forward.

Under the Rules of Engagement Set by Obama, if You, The Press Don't Like Something: "So Sue Me!" Is His Attitude & Was His Reply... Hillary's is Following Right Along Behind Him it Would Seem... Don D.

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TheBlaze

The Hillary Clinton Documents the State Department Has Failed to Release to the Associated Press

Dec. 10, 2014 / By Oliver Darcy For The Blaze

Story by the Associated Press; Curated by Oliver Darcy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has failed to turn over government documents covering Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state that The Associated Press and others requested under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ahead of her presumptive p**********l campaign. They include one request AP made four years ago and others pending for more than one year.

The agency already has missed deadlines it set for itself to turn over the material.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses 'Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership' at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, December 3, 2014.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses ‘Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership’ at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, December 3, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)
The State Department denied the AP’s requests, and rejected the AP’s subsequent appeals, to release the records sought quickly under a provision in the law reserved for journalists requesting federal records about especially newsworthy topics.

In its requests, the AP cited the likely prospect of Clinton entering the 2016 race. The former first lady is widely considered the leading Democratic contender hoping to succeed President Barack Obama. She has made scores of recent high-profile speeches and public appearances.

On Wednesday, the conservative political advocacy group Citizens United sued the State Department for failing to disclose flight records showing who accompanied Clinton on overseas trips.

Citizens United, which in 2009 mounted a legal battle that led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning campaign finance limits, said the department unlawfully was withholding the records it sought nearly five months ago.

The State Department is among the U.S. government’s worst-performing federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act. There is no direct evidence that political considerations in a Democratic p**********l administration have delayed the release of files about the party’s leading contender for 2016. But the agency’s delays, unusual even by government standards, have stoked perceptions about what could be taking so long.

“There may not necessarily be political interference, but if the department went out of its way to speed these documents there would be no way for people to accuse them of it,” said Thomas Blanton, who has previously sued the State Department for access to records as director of George Washington University’s National Security Archive, a research organization.

The department “is stonewalling us,” said Citizen United’s president, David Bossie. He asserted that “these decisions are being made with Hillary Clinton’s intentions at heart,” but acknowledged he could provide no evidence of political interference.

Bossie, a former Republican congressional investigator who researched figures in the Clinton administration, said his group’s film unit wants the records for a sequel to its documentary about Clinton, which spurred the Citizens United court decision.

The group first asked Air Force officials for passenger lists from Clinton’s overseas trips but was told all flight records were under the State Department’s control. “These were Air Force flights and crews but State has the records?” he said, adding that his group has submitted 15 Clinton-related requests in the past six months.

The AP’s requests go further back.

The AP requested copies of Clinton’s full schedules and calendars from her four years as secretary of state; her department’s decision to grant a special position for longtime aide Huma Abedin; Clinton’s and the agency’s roles in the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices; and her role overseeing a major Defense Department contractor. The AP made most of its requests last summer, although one was filed in March 2010.

State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach cited the department’s heavy annual load of FOIA requests — 19,000 last year — in saying that the department “does its best to meet its FOIA responsibilities.” He said the department takes requests “first in, first out,” but noted that timing depends on “the complexity of the request.” He declined to comment on Citizen United’s suit.

In a previous communication, a State Department official apologized for its own delays responding to AP’s records requests without offering any explanation for the delays.

“We sincerely regret the delay,” said Lela H. Ross of the Office of Information Programs and Services, which administers the agency’s requests. The official did not explain the delays but cited the agency’s “complex and lengthy administrative FOIA process.”

Last May, the State Department told the AP that its search for records pertaining to Clinton and the defense contractor would be completed by August. The agency said it now expects the files to be available later this month. Similarly, the agency said the Clinton and Abedin records would likely be completed in September. Now it says it will not finish until next April. The 4-year-old FOIA request still has no estimated completion date.

The agency’s pace responding to requests for Clinton-related files has frustrated news organizations, archivists and political groups trying to research her role at the State Department in the months before Clinton decides whether to formally enter the 2016 race.

At stake is the public’s access to thousands of documents that could help understand and define her activities as the nation’s chief diplomat under Obama.

Other major document repositories have released thousands of pages of files about Clinton’s private and public life.

Since February, lots of previously restricted records from her years as first lady to President Bill Clinton have been made public by the Clinton P**********l Library. Last month, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center p**********l oral history collection unveiled dozens of interviews with key players from the Clinton White House.

The State Department generally takes about 450 days to turn over records it considers to be part of complex requests under the Freedom of Information Act. That is seven times longer than the Justice Department and CIA, and 30 times longer than the Treasury Department.

An inspector general’s report in 2012 criticized the State Department’s practices as “inefficient and ineffective,” citing a heavy workload, small staff and interagency problems. A study in March by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Government said the State Department was the worst-performing agency because of its delays and frequent failure to deliver the full number of files that people requested.

Amazing video - well worth watching... Don D.


This was beautiful and I could understand the clearly spoken German. Thanks Lin.

Take care, Dick


An actor wrote a waltz as a young musician, but had never heard it played by an orchestra.

He went into acting, became a movie star and gave up on the music end of his talents.

As you will hear, that is a real shame. This is very high quality composing!

This video shows him hearing it being played for the first time.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=656937684343747&set=vb.226877604016426&type=2&theater