Sometimes I am not cheerful. It usually occurs when I read something that has been twisted completely around from what its original intent was, like you have been doing as well as a few others. You have admitted that you are not a Christian, I think. It's pretty difficult to remain cheerful when Bible passages are used to prove something they don't really say. One of my favorite writers, an African-American, said that it is very commendable to take a dollar out of your pocket and give it to someone in need. When you reach into my pocket and take a dollar out, that is considered theft. Ultimately, you will not be the judge of whether an act is charitable or righteous. God, who can see into the heart, will be the judge.

The Bible was the only book necessary? What about "The Law of Nations" that all the anti-Cruz posters seem to think is the Bible? What about the works of John Locke, whose beliefs influenced John Adams and Thomas Jefferson AND Ben Franklin? Are you discounting the works also of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and others? Let's not forget Plutarch, either. Almost all of the Founders were well versed in the sciences of the day, and sk**led in mathematics also. Most had well stocked Libraries.

This DOJ is a hell of lot more impartial than the one run by GW Bush. John Ashcroft was a good AG, but Gonzalez was a crooked Texican who was dumber than a box of rocks. If the possibility of wrong doing is discovered, they are required to investigate.....period. The right wing rhetoric, as it relates to Obama's entire cabinet is nothing but conservative b***hing due to false narratives created by right wing news outlets with nothing but ignorant listeners and watchers.

The Clinton Foundation does a lot to eliminate poverty and hunger in the world, and it does nothing to enhance the personal wealth of the family..... They don't need it. Approximately 89% of all funds donated to the foundation are distributed within their internal charities, and another 6% is given to different charities outside the foundation. These charitable acts go unnoticed.

This Clinton Foundation witch hunt was initiated by Senator Grassley with the help of one of his former employees, who just happens to be employed on the staff of the IG. Technically, she should be terminated for participating in partisan politics, which is prohibited for federal employees under the Hatch Act. This is nothing but more than another waste of funds and is more partisan bull s**t. I think the American public is tiring of these antics.

The Occupy Wall Street populist is terrified of being outed as a 1-percenter Wall Street elitist.

The campaign of class-warrior Hillary Clinton is pushing the panic button over the prospective release of secret transcripts of high-dollar speeches she made to Goldman Sachs that threaten to portray her as a two-faced un-progressive Wall Street elitist who is out of touch with the common people.

The Democrats' leading avatar of avarice depicts herself as the candidate of Occupy Wall Street, a fearless champion of the downtrodden, but the transcripts of three speeches for which Goldman paid her an astonishing $675,000 threaten to torpedo the false, focus group-friendly image she has cultivated.

In the speeches to her fellow one-percenters, she reportedly comes across as unduly cozy with the financial titans that her angry left-wing base blames for most of America's (and the world's) problems today. In the current political environment publication of the transcripts could be as damaging to her run as Republican Mitt Romney's ruinous "47 percent" speech was to his 2012 campaign.

One speech attendee reportedly said Clinton "sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director" than a politician. This phrase could easily end up in her Democratic opponent's TV ads as the race shifts to the March 1 v**e in critical South Carolina.

The matter now takes on an even greater urgency for Clinton after Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, crushed her in the New Hampshire primary e******ns Tuesday. At press time Sanders had a reported 60 percent of the Democratic v**e, compared to just 38 percent for Clinton. Clinton's humiliation in New Hampshire comes after party insiders' dirty tricks enabled her to just barely limp away from the Iowa caucuses a week ago with a victory over Sanders.

Clinton's duplicitousness could end up being her undoing.

Politico reported in 2013 that Wall Street plutocrats felt reassured by a speech Hillary had delivered away from TV cameras. Sources in attendance paraphrased her saying that "the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish."

The article continued:

"Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to [sic] say was just what they would hope for from a prospective p**********l candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Tim O’Neill, who heads the bank’s asset management business, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank."

During another 2013 speech at a Goldman retreat in Arizona for which she pocketed $225,000, Mrs. Clinton was bursting with praise for the investment bank's capital-generating and job-creation efforts. She lauded Goldman for its workplace diversity and conspicuously left out any criticism of the company or of the financial sector for any role it may have played in the 2008 stock market collapse.

“It was pretty glowing about us,” said one person who heard the speech. “It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a rah-rah speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”

Releasing the transcript "would bury her against Sanders,” the individual said. “It really makes her look like an ally of the firm.”

In a separate speech the same year to Goldman and some of its major clients Clinton refused to blame the banks alone for causing the market meltdown from which the U.S. economy has yet to fully recover.

Sounding like a Republican or a libertarian economist, Hillary said the landmark Dodd-Frank financial reform law of 2010 may have contributed to the financial crisis.

“It was mostly basic stuff, small talk, chit-chat,” said one witness. “But in this environment, it could be made to look really bad.”

Clinton mouthpiece Brian Fallon huffed that the anonymous recollections were "pure trolling," but as Bernie Sanders keeps pounding away at the Clinton campaign, attacking her from the left as a tool of special interests, the pressure on Clinton to release the transcripts grows.

“The big-picture question v**ers care about is: Who does a politician surround themselves with and will they hold accountable people they have a close relationship with?” Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee was quoted as saying.

“Hillary Clinton would reassure v**ers if she said she would appoint a Treasury secretary not from Wall Street, an attorney general and SEC chair with a proven record of holding Wall Street accountable, and generally work with [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.] to stop the revolving door between industry and government.”

The former secretary of state has pushed back against allegations of corporate water-carrying in recent days.

And on Monday she directed her fire against her primary opponent, offering an unconvincing argument.

“Sen. Sanders took about $200,000 from Wall Street firms. Not directly, but through the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,” Clinton said. “There was nothing wrong with that. It hasn't changed his view! Well, it didn't change my view or my v**e either!”

Townhall's Guy Benson opines that releasing the speech transcripts could be fatal for Clinton. It "would further undermine her credibility among the Democratic base's rabidly anti-Wall Street base, buttress one of Bernie Sanders' central lines of attack, and again expose her as self-serving and genetically incapable of ruthful candor."

That Hillary Clinton still has any credibility with anyone anywhere at this point in her career is hard for rational people to accept.

She’s an awful candidate and "a cong*****l liar," as New York Times columnist William Safire famously dubbed her.

And her fevered attempts to depict her family as ordinary people facing the same problems everyone faces have fallen flat.

This is the person who in 2014 tried to portray her family as financially struggling when her husband's presidency ended in 2001.

"You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt," Clinton told ABC’s Diane Sawyer with a straight face. "We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education." [italics added]

But as Politico reports, the Clintons "are far from the 'dead broke' couple, as she has described, who left the White House saddled with debt after Bill Clinton's presidency. In fact, they now rank comfortably among the top one-tenth of the top 1 percent of earners."

Disclosure forms indicated that at best the Clintons had a net worth of negative $500,000. But those documents did not include the five-bedroom home in Chappaqua, N.Y., they purchased in 1999 for $1.7 million. Also not included was the seven-bedroom house across the street from the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C., that they bought in late 2000 for $2.85 million.

By 2001 Hillary had received $2.84 million in royalties from Simon and Schuster and by 2004 she was the 10th-wealthiest member of the U.S. Senate, with a net worth somewhere between $10 million and $50 million.

As of last fall, Clinton herself was worth about $32 million. One source estimates that Clinton has a net worth of "about 50 times that of Bernie Sanders[.]"

Hillary earns more for a 20-minute speech than a fast food employee makes in a year. The Clintons pay more than $100,000 a year in local property taxes on two fancy homes. Then there is the international clearinghouse for future p**********l favors known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. How the money moves around isn't entirely clear but surely at least some of the anticipatory bribes paid to the charity by foreign governments and huge multinationals find their way to the Clintons' bank accounts.

Although Hillary Clinton, the supposedly inevitable nominee who managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2008, is (again) in trouble during primary season, it is still too early to write her political obituary.

Clinton has waited eight years for her postponed c****ation and this is probably the last opportunity she will ever have to make her mark on history.

Hillary still has more than a few tricks up the sleeve of her pantsuit.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261784/hillary-fights-keep-wall-street-speeches-secret-matthew-vadum

Obama responsible for Fast and Furious--52gh.,b26
The authorities seized a .50-caliber rifle in Guzman’s possession. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) checked its serial number, they found that it was one of the rifles they had allowed straw buyers to purchase as part of Operation Fast and Furious, and then lost track of when the guns crossed the border into Mexico.
Out of the estimated 2,000 weapons that the ATF lost track of in Operation Fast and Furious, 34 were .50-caliber rifles. That is just one reason why Operation Fast and Furious was probably the most reckless law enforcement operation ever conducted by a federal agency—or as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said, a “felony stupid” operation.
While the Justice Department turned over some materials to Congress, Holder refused to provide any DOJ/ATF records created after February 4, 2011. On June 19, 2012, the Justice Department informed Congress that Obama had asserted executive privilege over all documents after Feb. 4. Less than two week later, on June 28, the House of Representatives v**ed—for the first time in American history —to hold an attorney general in contempt. After the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia refused to enforce the contempt citation, the House filed its own civil suit against Holder, claiming that the assertion of executive privilege was invalid.
After the Justice Department kept revising its list of documents, Jackson finally determined that out of 13,753 “unique documents,” the Justice Department had turned over only 3,307 to Congress. The remaining 10,446 documents had been withheld by the Justice Department “in whole or in part” based on the deliberative process privilege (5,342 documents), law enforcement sensitivity (3,041 documents), privacy concerns (1,351 documents), and other miscellaneous reasons (792 documents). The deliberative process privilege covers conversations with the president, as well other communications among high-ranking executive branch officials “crucial to fulfillment of the unique role and responsibilities of the executive branch.”
Jackson decided that this privilege does cover the Justice Department’s internal deliberations about how to respond to the press and Congress, but it is a qualified privilege, meaning that a court can order the production if the public interests at stake override the privilege. Here, the Justice Department was claiming that disclosure would harm the ability of its lawyers to have internal deliberations.
. The inspector general issued a report on Fast and Furious, according to Jackson, that “laid bare the records of [DOJ’s] internal deliberations—and even published portions of interviews revealing its officials’ thoughts and impressions about those records.” Thus, “wh**ever incremental harm that could flow from providing the Committee with the records that have already been publicly disclosed is outweighed by the unchallenged need for the material.”
In fact, the Department of Justice can “point to no particular harm that could flow from compliance with this subpoena, for these records, that it did not already bring about itself.” The Justice Department listed nine documents it was withholding without giving a reason; those documents were ordered by Jackson to be produced. The judge also ordered the production of the “segregable portions of any records withheld in full or in part on the ground they contain attorney-client privileged material, attorney work product, private information, law enforcement sensitive material, or foreign policy sensitive materials.” Whether any additional records have to be produced, she said, “is a matter to be resolved between the parties themselves.”
There is a lot of leeway in Jackson’s order that may still allow the Justice Department to claim it does not have to turn over documents under the other exemptions it has asserted, such as the “law enforcement sensitivity” claim.
source--the daily signal, judge amy berman jackson
--52gh.,b26
The authorities seized a .50-caliber rifle in Guzman’s possession. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) checked its serial number, they found that it was one of the rifles they had allowed straw buyers to purchase as part of Operation Fast and Furious, and then lost track of when the guns crossed the border into Mexico.
Out of the estimated 2,000 weapons that the ATF lost track of in Operation Fast and Furious, 34 were .50-caliber rifles. That is just one reason why Operation Fast and Furious was probably the most reckless law enforcement operation ever conducted by a federal agency—or as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said, a “felony stupid” operation.
While the Justice Department turned over some materials to Congress, Holder refused to provide any DOJ/ATF records created after February 4, 2011. On June 19, 2012, the Justice Department informed Congress that Obama had asserted executive privilege over all documents after Feb. 4. Less than two week later, on June 28, the House of Representatives v**ed—for the first time in American history —to hold an attorney general in contempt. After the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia refused to enforce the contempt citation, the House filed its own civil suit against Holder, claiming that the assertion of executive privilege was invalid.
After the Justice Department kept revising its list of documents, Jackson finally determined that out of 13,753 “unique documents,” the Justice Department had turned over only 3,307 to Congress. The remaining 10,446 documents had been withheld by the Justice Department “in whole or in part” based on the deliberative process privilege (5,342 documents), law enforcement sensitivity (3,041 documents), privacy concerns (1,351 documents), and other miscellaneous reasons (792 documents). The deliberative process privilege covers conversations with the president, as well other communications among high-ranking executive branch officials “crucial to fulfillment of the unique role and responsibilities of the executive branch.”
Jackson decided that this privilege does cover the Justice Department’s internal deliberations about how to respond to the press and Congress, but it is a qualified privilege, meaning that a court can order the production if the public interests at stake override the privilege. Here, the Justice Department was claiming that disclosure would harm the ability of its lawyers to have internal deliberations.
. The inspector general issued a report on Fast and Furious, according to Jackson, that “laid bare the records of [DOJ’s] internal deliberations—and even published portions of interviews revealing its officials’ thoughts and impressions about those records.” Thus, “wh**ever incremental harm that could flow from providing the Committee with the records that have already been publicly disclosed is outweighed by the unchallenged need for the material.”
In fact, the Department of Justice can “point to no particular harm that could flow from compliance with this subpoena, for these records, that it did not already bring about itself.” The Justice Department listed nine documents it was withholding without giving a reason; those documents were ordered by Jackson to be produced. The judge also ordered the production of the “segregable portions of any records withheld in full or in part on the ground they contain attorney-client privileged material, attorney work product, private information, law enforcement sensitive material, or foreign policy sensitive materials.” Whether any additional records have to be produced, she said, “is a matter to be resolved between the parties themselves.”
There is a lot of leeway in Jackson’s order that may still allow the Justice Department to claim it does not have to turn over documents under the other exemptions it has asserted, such as the “law enforcement sensitivity” claim.
source--the daily signal, judge amy berman jackson

I was asked to make a pie chart for an accounting class and I got an F. I don't know why, because my chart clearly showed that cherry was my most favorite with apple being my least favorite'

What do we call a manhole, when a women goes down it?

Airplanes crash, because highly trained pilots get lazy due to all the automation in the cockpit - and we want self driving cars?

The automotive industries answer to too many distracted drivers, is to add more distractions in the cars. Kinda like reducing budget deficits by spending more money, right?

Remember the great wall of China, that was built to keep the Mongols out? It didn't work. Well, the great southern wall of the USA is supposed to do better? The Mongols rode ponies and still made it over the wall - Mexicans have had 50 years to perfect their wall defeating sk**ls - and they don't ride ponies.

Here's a math problem: you save 50 billion cutting program A, then increase spending on program B by 100 billion. How much has the deficit been reduced?

Math problem #2. You save 100 billion cutting programs A, B, and C. Then you increase spending on program D by 100 billion. Subtract 100 billion in reduced revenue by decreasing taxes. How long will it take to balance a budget?

Math problem #3. Rich person A spends 50 million to avoid 10 million in taxes. Rich person B spends 50 million to get 10 million in tax exemptions. Which rich person is the biggest dumba$$?

The GOP controlled Congress complains that they can't get anything done, because a democrat is in the white house. What would make us think that they can learn to govern - by moving one of their OWN into the white house? If he could do it - wouldn't he have been doing it already - or at least, trying to?

At least 75 years of experiencing broken campaign promises, makes us hungry for more promises?

:thumbdown:wo Central American teens charged in the recent execution-style k*****g of a Massachusetts man came to the U.S. as unaccompanied alien children or UACs under President Obama’s “open-border free-for-all,” according to a Judicial Watch report.



The two 17-year-old boys also have ties to the notorious MS-13 gang, according to the Boston Herald.

Upward of 130,000 women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have poured across the U.S.-Mexico border since the summer of 2014 and the administration has distributed them into communities nationwide with the help of the Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and various evangelical churches.

WND reported Wednesday that a new study by a Catholic organization found that nearly 80 percent of those coming from Honduras were not fleeing violence but merely seeking economic opportunities.

In “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance,” renowned activist Pamela Geller provides the answer, offering proven, practical guidance on how freedom lovers can stop jihadist initiatives in local communities.

WND also reported last month that Obama was reclassifying the next wave of Central American migrants as “refugees.” This will give them a legal status that makes them eligible for a host of government welfare benefits.

The Obama administration has for months been employing a “catch and release” strategy for Central American children and families who show up at the southern border. More than 50 percent of those caught and released have not reported for their deportation hearings.

Third alleged k**ler still at large

Boston media now reports that the 17-year-olds charged in the grisly Jan. 2 k*****g entered the U.S. as UACs and both have ties to MS-13, according to authorities cited by the Boston Herald.

A third suspect is also wanted in the case but remains on the loose, considered armed and dangerous.

The two teenage boys charged this week resided in Everett and one of the them, Cristian Nunez-Flores, migrated to Massachusetts from his native El Salvador in the summer of 2014, which is when the influx of Central American minors began to heat up.

The teen’s parents remain in El Salvador, according to the Herald. The other suspect has been identified as Jose Vasquez Ardon, who is also a recent arrival from Central America.

‘Baby-faced boys’

Prosecutors say the two suspects, described by the Boston Globe as “baby-faced boys,” shot a 19-year-old in the head at point-blank range. Both have pleaded not guilty and are being held without bail. They needed the assistance of a Spanish interpreter during court proceedings.

In a chilling retelling of 19-year-old Omar Reyes’ final moments, assistant Middlesex District Attorney Carrie Spiros said Reyes told his girlfriend he had “a bad vibe” about leaving her apartment and meeting up with the two suspected k**lers. But he feared he’d get a beat down if he didn’t go, the Herald reported. Prosecutors say he was shot in the head on a bike path beneath the Tileston Street Bridge in Everett on Jan. 2.

With a third suspect still unidentified and his whereabouts unaccounted for, Malden District Court Judge Lee G. Johnson sealed the police reports on the case.

Congressmen send letter demanding answers

This week two federal lawmakers – a senator and a congressman – sent a letter to the administration demanding answers on exactly how and when the teens entered the U.S. The lawmakers, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, also want to know if the administration had knowledge about the suspects’ gang connections.

“Please provide a complete copy of the alien file for Jose Vasquez Ardon and Cristian Nunez-Flores,” the lawmakers state in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, the agency that’s mostly handled the barrage of UACs and the relocation process.

“Please provide any other information collected or maintained by DHS and HHS regarding either Jose Vasquez Ardon or Cristian Nunez-Flores,” the request states.

Shortly after the first batch of UACs arrived in mid-2014, Judicial Watch reported that many had ties to gang members in the U.S., specifically MS-13.

Recruiting gangsters at migrant shelters

Homeland Security sources directly involved with the UAC crisis told Judicial Watch that street gangs, including MS-13, went on a recruiting frenzy at U.S. shelters housing the i*****l a***n minors and they used Red Cross phones to communicate.

The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American i*****l i*******ts that’s spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes.

The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illegal drugs.

image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/06/MS-13.jpg

3 Teenage MS-13 Gang members charged with 'Brutally' raping 16-Year-Old girl In New York
Three Teenage MS-13 members were charged last year with ‘brutally’ raping 16-year-old girl in New York.
Last year three MS-13 gang members were charged with the brutal rape of a girl in New York.

Police raids last month put the gang back in the spotlight in the Boston area.

“Just a few weeks ago dozens of MS-13 members were indicted in Boston for serious crimes including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking, firearm violations, federal racketeering and immigration offenses,” according to the Judicial Watch report. “Several of the defendants are responsible for murdering at least five people since 2014 and the attempted murder of at least 14 in Chelsea and East Boston, according to the federal indictment. MS-13 members also sell cocaine, heroin and marijuana and commit robberies to generate income to pay monthly dues to incarcerated gang leadership in El Salvador, federal prosecutors say. The money is used to pay for weapons, cell phones, shoes, food and other supplies for MS-13 thugs in and out of jail in El Salvador.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/teens-charged-in-gruesome-k*****g-entered-u-s-as-kids/#uSACLIsfbIlGA4xA.99

If you are a liberal of any kind be sure not to click on the link here. So much has been forced out of the State Department by Judicial Watch that it does get more obvious that more people than Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills were regularly getting that info that the State Department thinks is too much for the rest of us to know about. You can find the names of those who saw those things other than these two in this article.

Click on the words at the end of this article and read much more that has been dug up.

http://conservativebyte.com/2016/02/astonishing-new-revelations-in-ever-widening-clinton-email-scandal-video/#