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The Grassley letter everyone is ignoring is way more important than the Nunes memo

Israel launches heavy Syrian strikes after F-16 crashes

Furthest photo ever taken -- 4 billion miles away ...!

Former State Dept. official: I fed oppo research from Stdney Blumenthal to Christopher Steele

Justice Department No. 3 official resigns

Trump refuses to declassify Democrat response to GOP-Russia memo

American spies gave $100,000 to Russian who wanted to sell [compromising] material on Trump ...

Egypt announces counterterrorism operation in Sinai -- with Israel's help

Trump believes the [accused] men

North Korea's Kim Jong Un invites South Korean president for a visit

Stocks bounce in hell week.   Dow [Jones] travels 20,000 points

Shiff: 'The country would be much safer' if the president was [sic]watching cartoons

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All from Internet news sites. guess which from Politico.

Pence blasts NYT report about [his] 2020 ambitions

Prof who said Trump must hang won't be returning to teach

NKorea vows 'thousand fold' revenge

Maduro wants anti-Socialist Twitter users in jail for 30 years

Why Trump's new immigration bill makes sense

Jeb Bush just ripped Debbie Wasserman Schultz over House IT scandal

Bubble of Trouble: When will the tech boom burst?

GOP Sen. Flake: I'll stand against Trump's immigration plan

Cities fear Obamacare repeal, warm to single payer

Apple CEO trashes Trump but lets his company kowtow to Communist China

Justice Department not looking to charge journalists ...

Trump deporting 'children' for mere suspicion of gang membership, says ACLU

Sources and Methods

There is something very strange about the recent revelation by the US "intelligence community" that Vladamir Putin positively and personally directed the Russian hackers in trying to get Trump elected president. And that strangeness is -- Why would a US intelligence agency jeopardize giving up important sources and methods of its intelligence gathering for such a clear political end? Is the potential nullifying of Trump's voter mandate so important that some unnamed intelligence agency would be willing to pay such a steep price?

Besides, the British press is now saying that the Russians had nothing to do with these hacks ... it was a disillusioned employee of the Democrat National Committee who surreptitiously passed on these e-mails to a Julian Assange intermediary in a Washington, DC park ... see: UK Express Story and Daily Mail Article.

One last question ... Is not the threatening of the lives of Republican electors, unless they change their Electoral College vote on Monday from Trump, an extremely serious affront to national law and order and to our Constitution ... and why has not Obummer and the Justice Department decried these death threats and taken any actions to find and prosecute the offenders? Must be that they are OK with such anarchy?

Pardon Me?

Trump's best line at the Catholic charities event a few weeks back was the one about Hellary bumping into him and saying, "Pardon me?" Now, she has lost the election and he is soon to be confronted with this choice. It is clear to most Americans that this woman is guilty of many serious transgressions. The aura of years of malfeasance hangs over her like that cloud of dust around Pigpen. She has skated through life ignoring all the ethical and legal boundaries and never really been punished for it ... except of course by losing two attempts at the presidency. But she has also been richly rewarded financially for her arrogant flaunting of our laws.

But is her punishment enough that she has been twice denied the big POTUS prize? This is the decision that Trump will have to make ... unless of course Obummer makes it for him ... which I consider quite unlikely ... due to his obsession with his legacy. Like always, Obummer prefers to let others do the dirty work. But even if this happens, I believe that the Clinton Foundation and its bevy of capos should be prosecuted with the full might of Trump's Justice Department and his IRS.

The question then presents itself ... what if Obummer doesn't let Hellary off the hook? My answer is simple. If Trump pardons her, then he will be sending a clarion message to his voters that he is (re)joining the Establishment ... the very people he opposed in this past election. As THE agent of change, showing mercy to this evil, evil woman  would be the Christan thing to do, but not the right thing to do. This past election was not just the Globalists versus the Nationalists ... it was also the Establishment against the crockery breakers, the Populists. Thus, a presidential pardon would also send too clear a message to future politicians that laws are for little people ...and Republican campaign promises are also will o' the wisp.

Reverse Midas Touch

Manure is flying all over the place and the fan has not even been turned on yet. FBI Director James Comey is being besmirched by many for his letter to Congress last week reversing his decision on Servergate. However, what is forgotten is that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had told Comey that this Hellary Clinton e-mail issue was his to decide because she had been compromised. What would normally be a Justice Deptartment prerogative was shifted to the FBI. And why was this? The Arizona airport meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton basically soured the normal process and put the weight of the world on Comey's shoulders.

So the real source of this shit storm is Bill Clinton for his out-of-bounds meeting with our Attorney General just days before her decision was to be made on Hellary's e-mail server fecal faux pas. So we now see that the Clinton couple has once again tarnished two major American institutions. This couple has an alchemist knack for turning gold into baby poop ... a reverse Midas touch if you will.

Starting over 40 years ago with Hellary being tossed off of the Watergate Committee for untrustworthiness ... through her dangerous screwing around with our health-care system ... then including Bill Clinton's amoral sullying of the White House ... to SecState Hillary's feckless destruction of the Middle East ... through many other doo-doo details that the Clintons have left in their wake as they have defiled individual and institution after individual and institution.

Basically just about anything that this evil couple touches turns to excrement ... and yet millions of Americans want to put them back into the White House! Go figure?!

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Hell Year -- Month 4

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has generally seemed to be fairly rational at the Justice Department (other than her slow-walking the Hellery Clinton private e-mail server prosecution.) However, she has now gone full-throated political in her attack on North Carolina's gender-specific bathroom law. John Hinderaker, an excellent lawyer, has dissected this Lynch decision at the Powerline Blog and finds it to be without any semblance of legal logic.

I have in the past surmised that President Obummer would slake a vengeance in his last year on the country he has misgoverned for a seeming eternity ... see: Hell Year. This Justice Department attack on North Carolina, threatening to freeze federal funding to it unless it toes the administration's transgender line, is but another of these vengances. We are now into month four of Obummer's hazing of his countrymen before he retires to Chicago or Hawaii next January to write his Manifesto. And I am not the only one who feels that Obummer will salt the fields and poison the wells of his "native" land on his way out ... see: Michael Savage Comments..

And there are a few more of these paddlings that are currently  in the Obummer pipeline ... see: The Hill Story and Fox News Story.. And I am certain that there are more to come ... each getting more onerous as his sun is finally setting.

Afterward: Take your blood pressure meds and also read: Ben Rhodes Spills the Beans.

Tortoise Justice

The Justice Department under Attorney General Loretta Lynch is slow-walking the investigation and possible prosecution of Hellery Clinton in the case involving her using a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State ... for details see: Washington Post Story. Clearly, since Ms. Clinton is the presumptive nominee of the Democrat party for president, this case has enormous political implications and thus has caused unprecedented problems for this investigation.

As the onset of this imbroglio was last summer when it seems the FBI was first involved using many dozens of its agents, and, as such, a rational person would conclude that the FBI might have wrapped up this case by now, no? No! Obviously, no matter how cleverly our AG Lynch wordsmiths this issue, she is obviously kicking the legal can down the road ... hoping she can postpone things until after this November's election ... at which point it will go away ... for who's going to indict an elected president or punish the loser?

I'm sure our AG knows that old saw -- justice delayed is justice denied. Allow me my own shibboleth -- the dirty oil of politics doesn't mix with the pure water of justice. The people of the United States deserve better than this out of our tortoise-in-chief law-enforcement officer.

Justice Blinked

The Department of Justice blinked in its attempt to force Apple to open up the IPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist, Sayed Farook. The FBI now says that it has found a third party (NSA?) to open up this possible source of further intelligence and doesn't need the court to force Apple to comply ... see: Politico Story. This all sounds very fishy and halfway supports Apple's position that this FBI request was a red herring really meant to open up the IPhone to generic government access (not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that.)

This FBI vs. Apple issue is all about personal privacy. American people want to believe that our Constitution guarantees them an inviolate cocoon of privacy that our government cannot pierce no matter what national security issues involved. Clearly this may not be the case. However, in a related development, Edward Snowden, our traitor hero,  avers that the federal government is not the only risk to our personal security. He says that large technology companies such as Microsoft are equally guilty of the invasive collection of our personal information ... far more than we suspect ... see: Sputnik News Story. I agree with the rat-fink Snowden and would add at least Google, Apple and Facebook to his named snoop.

If you think that Big Brother government is the only risk to your little secrets, you are just another babe in the woods.

Pigs in a Blanket

President Obama has labeled the execution-style shooting of a Texas Deputy Sheriff as "completely unacceptable." In his signature distracted and perfunctory way our president then added that this was "an affront to civilized society" ... see: Breitbart Story. No, Mr. President, chewing gum in school is "unacceptable." Pulling your sister's pigtails is "unacceptable." You have a staff of highly-paid and talented writers who, I am sure, could come up with a better adjective than "unacceptable."

How about "craven" or "heinous" or "cowardly" or "gutless" ... or even "lily-livered?" This kind of soft-spoken cerebral response to this Texas shooting by our president I think speaks volumes to those in the Black Lives Matter movement who believe that the police should be "pigs in a blanket" and they should "fry like bacon." Has the president made any comments about this pond-scum movement ...  or has our Justice Department sent a phalanx of investigators to Texas like it did in Ferguson? Making his administration's sly response to this Black Lives Matter movement so invisible only encourages more of the same.

Wait and see.

Nation's Health vs. Wave Election

Clearly this nation is slowly slipping into a possible health-care crisis. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) seems to be botching its job on a daily basis. An emigre from Liberia has come down with Ebola shortly after entering the United States in Dallas. Apparently he had been let go from his job at FedEx and quickly decided to pursue his destiny in the United States ... visiting "immigrant" relatives in Texas. Whether he ever planned to return to Liberia will never be revealed, but my guess is clearly no. Unfortunately  before he left Liberia he helped carry a pregnant woman by one leg who was dying of Ebola ... and, in the process, contracted the disease. And now he has, because of a inattentive emergency room worker, possibly passed this dreaded disease on to untold Texans of all ages and stripes.

The issue that I would like to address here is why do we now face this possible health-care crisis? If this disease ... which our fearless leader vehemently said was not a threat within our shores ... does indeed cause much misery and even death in our country, then I believe that it will be because there have been numerous failings on the part of our government. What are they?

1) We, unlike Great Britain and France, have not stopped all flights into the U.S from the hotbeds of this Ebola outbreak in West Africa. One can speculate about the reasons for this lapse, but I believe that political correctness ... and our president's roots ... are at the head of this list.

2) The Center for Disease Control has clearly dropped the ball in this skirmish. Why have they not issued and enforced strict guidelines for dealing with possible cases of Ebola? Due diligence by them might have prevented the emergency room lapse that was the nexus of of current problems. I also believe that CDC is showing management problems like many other of Obama's fiefdoms ... the IRS, the Justice Department, the Bureau of Veteran's Affairs, the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security.

One more management lapse for Obama is clearly too many at this time in the election cycle. For example, the CDC also had allowed a three-times convicted felon to be used as a security guard when the president visited there in September. Yes the Secret Service was primarily at fault, but doesn't the CDC also due background checks?

3) The Obama administration is attempting to use immigration reform as a wedge issue in the upcoming November elections. The fact that our porous borders may be causing a national health emergency (or emergencies since there are other health problems manifesting themselves due to this summer's influx of thousands of unscreened illegal immigrants from Central America) can not help to embellish the story that the Obama administration is attempting to peddle. Any voter with a modicum of sense will see that our government may be putting our nation at risk for its own political gain.

I sincerely hope that the CDC is right and that it has its arms around this current Ebola problem. But, if it doesn't ... watch out for the wave!

Afterword: George Will apparently has many of these same thoughts ... see: Fox News Story. And, it seems, so does the Diplomad blog ... see: The Diplomad.

Memorable Lines

Tonight, in his State of the Union address, President Obama will deliver a number of memorable lines that will most certainly go down in the annals of history.  Here are just a few of them:

"The New York Rangers have crossed a blue line …"

"If I had a son, he should look a lot like me …"

"We will hunt down all those lawyers … and bring them to the Justice Department …"

"A nursery full of better clingers …"

"Albinos are just typical white persons …"

"If you like your Heath Bar, you can keep it …"

"If you’ve got a business like Solyndra, you didn’t build that …"

"It was all Bush’s fault …"

"You folks … don’t forget … I won …"