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3881  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: September 15, 2015, 08:20:17 PM



Donald Trump YUGE Rally In Dallas Texas – Full Video…










http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/15/donald-trump-yuge-rally-in-dallas-texas-full-video/


3882  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: September 15, 2015, 08:15:32 PM


But my own belief is that the laws of gravity will apply and those who are prepared to run the marathon will benefit when Trump drops out at mile 22. Right now people think Trump is pretty hilarious but the longer it goes on the more frightening it gets.”

The latest frightening broadside for the Wall Street class came on Sunday when Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that executive pay in America is “a complete joke” and promised to raise taxes on “the hedge fund guys.”....

The Gubbermint should be scared of the people.

Wall street should be scared of the people.

Yep.

3883  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: September 15, 2015, 03:03:36 PM
Some of her latest ramblings on this indicate that classified stuff went through a gubmint server/account and only low level shit went through this server.

but then how did she only carry one device?  that was her original reasoning, if I recall.

Did she just go back to the office and grab it if she got an e-mail alert then I wonder.

"Turn this fucking plane around.  I've got to check my e-mail"


This is exactly what happens to liars.  They trip over their own tongues and prior lies.  As slick and pathological as this crazy bitch is she is starting to contradict herself and forget her own stories.



I am surprised, after such a long career as a con artist, she does not have her lying ducks in a row... Obviously she made a deal with 0bama but he is stabbing her in the back...

Also, we are led to believe she NEVER sent or received one email to or from the White House on clintonmail server. 5 months gap.


3884  Other / Politics & Society / Re: “God bless Planned Parenthood” – PP Uses Abortions to Sell Baby Parts on: September 15, 2015, 02:54:27 PM



‘EVERYTHING WE PROVIDE IS FRESH,’ PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEADER TELLS UNDERCOVER CAMERA



As members of Congress consider whether to defund Planned Parenthood, a new video highlights the abortion provider’s booming business in organs harvested from aborted babies.

“We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural,” Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood for America tells a hidden camera. “Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”

The video is the tenth from The Center for Medical Progress.

Westhoff seemed to be aware that she was treading on dangerous ground with her commments about selling “fresh” baby organs. “Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue in doing this,” she told a man at a cocktail party. But she then offered to introduce the buyers to “national office abortion people” from Planned Parenthood.

In another tapped interview, Deborah VanDerhei tells a questioner: “I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation, we’re trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we’re going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster.” VanDerhei is the National Director for CAPS, an influential committee within Planned Parenthood that drives abortion policy across the organization.

Her words are prophetic, as the revelations have stirred up a firestorm for several months.

There’s also a legal question at stake. As CMP notes, “The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).”

House lawmakers are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/15/everything-we-provide-is-fresh-planned-parenthood-leader-tells-undercover-camera/


3885  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: September 15, 2015, 02:46:54 PM



MORE BAD NEWS FOR CLIMATE ALARMISTS: ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS AFRICA’S DESERTS ARE GETTING GREENER





Climate change has saved hundreds of thousands of Africans from extreme poverty, starvation and premature death, a study from Arizona State University has confirmed.



The study shows that the West African Sahel – part of the semiarid strip just south of the Sahara desert, which spans the African continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea – has been steadily “regreening” since the severe droughts of the 1970s and 1980s which killed more than 100,000 people.

Among the reasons for the “regreening” are increased rainfall, the beneficial effects of increased atmospheric CO2 on plant growth and the ingenuity of farmers (“community-led conservation efforts) in this harsh, marginal region.

Skeptics have long been aware of these beneficial side effects of “global warming” – see, for example, this * report from 2011 by the Global Warming Policy Foundation called The Sahel Is Greening.


* http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/mueller-sahel.pdf


But alarmists have fiercely resisted this good news because it so flies in the face of their doomsday narrative that “climate change” is making everything worse, in third world regions like sub-Saharan Africa especially, and that human beings are quite incapable of adapting to cope with it.

That stuck-vampire screeching you can hear in the background comes from the Soros-funded climate alarmist attack-dog website DeSmog. After The Sahel Is Greening report, it hurried out a furious, pseudo-erudite rebuttal drawing on all its favourite parti-pris sources.

It quoted a briefing paper by one of its greenie chums suggesting that ‘any greening of the Sahel and Sahara in the near future will eventually be reversed.‘

This led to its deliciously petulant conclusion: “The greening is unreliable. It is thus hardly an encouraging example of a ‘positive impact’ from global warming.”

In other words: ignore the good things that have definitely happened, and concentrate on the bad things that might theoretically happen if the scary computer models turn out to be accurate.

Aren’t they so cute, those greenie alarmists?


http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/15/bad-news-climate-alarmists-another-study-confirms-africas-deserts-getting-greener/


3886  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: September 15, 2015, 02:39:52 PM



BOOM, There It Is – Wall Street In Panic: “Trump Could Win”…


The latest sunlight onto an increasingly obvious RNC/GOPe scheme comes from the most unlikely source, POLITICO, who highlight their article Wall Street’s Latest Panic.

In very direct ways their article cuts to the very heart of the matter – Wall Street cannot fathom a Donald Trump candidacy – They Planned For JEB!


However, this reality is still met by people who refuse to accept the overall system we call modern 2016 Presidential Politics is entirely the construct of financial stakeholders who have financed, and in 2014 constructed, a political road map for Clinton/Bush 2016.

We still find people who don’t understand the basic element behind this truth:

Jeb Bush is Wall Street, Donald Trump is Main Street !

NEW YORK — Wall Street is growing increasingly terrified that Donald Trump — once viewed as an amusing summertime distraction — could actually win the Republican nomination for president.

The real estate billionaire, who took another populist shot on Sunday by ripping into lavish executive pay, continues to rise in the polls. Would-be Wall Street saviors like Jeb Bush are languishing in single digits. The belief that Trump’s candidacy would quickly fade is now evaporating in a wave of fear.

“I held four lunches for investors in August and at the first one everyone assumed Trump would implode,” said Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners and a senior figure on Wall Street. “By the fourth one everyone was taking him very seriously. He taps into frustrations that are very real and he is a master manipulator of the media.”

The CEO of one large Wall Street firm, who declined to be identified by name criticizing the GOP front-runner, said the assumption in the financial industry remains that something will eventually knock Trump off and send voters toward a more establishment candidate. But that assumption is no longer held with strong conviction. And a dozen Wall Street executives interviewed for this article could not say what might dent Trump’s appeal or when it might happen.

“I don’t know anyone who is a Donald Trump supporter. I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who is a Donald Trump supporter. They are like this huge mystery group,” the CEO said. “So it’s a combination of shock and bewilderment. No one really knows why this is happening. But my own belief is that the laws of gravity will apply and those who are prepared to run the marathon will benefit when Trump drops out at mile 22. Right now people think Trump is pretty hilarious but the longer it goes on the more frightening it gets.”

The latest frightening broadside for the Wall Street class came on Sunday when Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that executive pay in America is “a complete joke” and promised to raise taxes on “the hedge fund guys.” In a statement sent to POLITICO on Monday from his campaign, Trump relished in the attacks from Wall Street, singling out both Bush and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, another favorite on Wall Street.


http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/14/boom-there-it-is-wall-street-in-panic-trump-could-win/#more-106084


3887  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: September 15, 2015, 02:35:51 PM



BLACK RAPPER AZEALIA BANKS SHOWS HOW TRUMP’S MESSAGE RESONATES WITH BLACK VOTERS






As polls show Donald Trump performing better than ever with black voters, progressive rapper Azealia Banks is expressing support for Trump’s popular immigration policy because of the positive impact it could have on black Americans.

“Do you think it’s bad that I sort of agree with [Trump’s] stance on immigration?” the rapper wrote on her Instagram account on September 7th.

Banks, a black rapper from Harlem, made headlines in March of this year by declaring her hatred for “this country” and “white Americans.”

Banks explained that her support for Trump’s immigration plan is based on the detrimental impact mass immigration has had on the black community. “Black Americans still have not been paid reparations for slavery,” she wrote. “It’s selfish, but America has been really good at convincing me that everyone else’s problems are more important than my own.”

Following an immediate onslaught of progressive backlash, Banks tried to vaguely signal to progressives that her pro-America immigration statement was just a “social experiment.” However, all of her social media posts thereafter demonstrate a strong support for the ideas underpinning Trump’s rise.

“If the United States of America is an aircraft on its way down, (which it seems to be) I must put my own air mask on before I assist others,” Banks later wrote.

Indeed, black Americans have been disproportionately impacted by mass immigration. “Competition from immigration accounts for approximately 40 percent of the 18-percentage point decline in black employment in recent years,” U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has documented. “That’s nearly a million jobs lost by blacks to immigrants.”

Black Americans are currently unemployed at twice the rate of white Americans, and real average wages are lower today than they were in 1973, shortly after the green card gusher began.

Yet the consequences of mass immigration for “the black community in general are not limited to wages,” three members of the Civil Rights commission wrote in 2013.

In addition to lower wages, decades of mass immigration has led to an increase in the incarceration rate amongst black Americans. As Harvard Professor George Borjas has analyzed, “a 10% immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group is associated with a reduction in the black wage of 2.5%, a reduction in the black employment rate of 5.9 percentage points, and an increase in the black institutionalization rate of 1.3%.”

Banks’ immigration post, however, caught the ire of Buzzfeed’s Conz Preti, who according to Buzzfeed’s website, is “la directora regional para las Américas”– or the regional director of Americas for Buzzfeed.

“Dear ‪@AZEALIABANKS, I’m not sucking up state aid nor your gov money. I’m busting my [a**] working and not bothering you,” Preti tweeted on September 8th.

“‪Yes,” Banks tweeted in response, “but eventually you and the other 10 million undocumented immigrants will have children who need schooling and need food stamps etc”

But Preti isn’t an illegal immigrant, so she lashed back: “[W]ho said I’m undocumented?”

Banks’ statistics overall are correct. “Immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households,” with more than half of U.S. immigrants on welfare, a new Census data study reveals. The disproportionate reliance on welfare continues amongst the second and third generations (i.e. the American-born children) of immigrants: 76.4 percent of native Hispanics report that they use welfare as opposed to 40.8 percent of native whites.

Banks pressed the point. “Who’s going to pay for [mass immigration]?” Banks tweeted. “I’d much rather have my tax dollars go to making schools better then spreading schools thin.”


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/13/black-rapper-azealia-banks-shows-how-trumps-message-resonates-with-black-voters/



3888  Other / Politics & Society / Australian Cell Phone Company Admits To Hacking A Journalist’s Cell Phone on: September 15, 2015, 05:01:32 AM




Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is being implicated in a fairly stunning scandal, in which it has admitted to having improperly accessed a reporter’s phone in search of the identity of a whistleblower. An individual had leaked confidential security information to her, regarding a story about vulnerabilities in the company’s customer identity systems.

The reporter had been writing an article detailing how the personal information of millions of Vodafone customers was easily accessible online, including home addresses, driver’s license information, and credit card details. A day after Natalie O’Brien published that story, her call and message data was apparently accessed in search of her source.



http://www.neowin.net/news/vodafone-australia-admits-to-hacking-journalists-phone-in-public-statement


3889  Other / Politics & Society / Re: University of California: The Right Not To Be Upset By The Speech Of Others. on: September 15, 2015, 01:08:05 AM
Can we get a TL:DR?

Universities, like businesses, are entitled to define the attitudes that are expressed and the discussions that are had as long as it doesn't discriminate against protected classes (i.e., race, age, etc.) If their students or customers don't like those attitudes or discussions they can go to a different university or business. University of California is not limiting people's rights, they're defining their culture.

No. 140 characters or less are for people who can't read or think. Everyone in this this forum can. Of course if one likes to form an opinion without reading anything... That's OK too...

 Smiley


Don't be an ass.

In the business world if you can't give someone the answer first they don't have the time to wait for the end of your story to find out. The reason most people on this forum don't respond to your rants is not because they're rants but because they're too damn long! This isn't novel writing, it's a forum thread - get to the point!

Ok...allow me 20 minutes to ready your position paper...

So your point, or question, is the bolded underlined section below?

When these students and faculty members are told that certain views about disabilities, about race or ethnicity, or (by obvious extension) about sexual orientation, sex, or religion have “no place at the University” — and violate others’ rights to be “free from” such “expressions” — will they feel free to openly discuss these topics? Or will they realize that they had best follow the orthodoxy?

My answer: Yes, they'll feel free to speak openly about these topics as long as their purpose of discussion is related to...

"...the course content, teaching methods, scholarship, or public commentary of an individual faculty member or the educational, political, artistic, or literary expression of students in classrooms and public forums that is protected by academic freedom or free speech principles.”

If students don't like these rules, or see them as stifling the education process, they can apply to and attend one of the other public or private schools in the country.

You say you're tenured faculty member - not at UC I presume otherwise you'd be sharing your concern with an audience that actually has a vested interest in the University of California policies (rather than a Bitcoin forum that has an audience that is largely international.) What's your faculty role?

I think a better question for you to ask yourself - if you hold so much contempt for these policies - is what are you doing to change what you think is an injustice or bad course of direction? What are you doing to affect change? What are you doing to cure "this cancer" as you call it?

I look forward to your thoughts, try to be concise.

  • Don't be an ass.
  • The reason most people on this forum don't respond to your rants is not because they're rants but because they're too damn long!
  • try to be concise.

1) Liberalism is a cancer eating everything, then itself
2) The author of this article, not me, is a tenured faculty member
3)  Smiley


You disappoint me (and of course your purpose here is to not disappoint me.) I thought you were producing something new, genuine for all of us to discuss? You're just copy and pasting something someone else wrote. Why do you waste our time with such things?

P.S. Conservatism has it's share of censorship. Both parties need to disappear, their purpose has passed its prime.


I shall never be disappointed by you. This how the flow of ideas roll. I told you it would have been wiser to read the article first. But you tl;dr'ed it.
Again, I never block my threads. You do not need to reply the second you see it up. Take your time. Play outside. Let life be. Then, come back and go like: "hmm.. Where was that thread that ass Wilikon wrote so I can tell how HIS rants are soooooo disappointingly long and boring... Oh Yeah! here it is... I'll make it concise..."

You took your time to not read then reply on my thread, instead of doing something else. I thank you.

 Smiley

Wil, read before you write. I was being saracastic, but I'm glad I don't disappoint you. More importantly, I didn't write "TL:DR", I defended some poster who did. Finally, I DID read the article before responding...see the part of my post where I write...

Ok...allow me 20 minutes to read your position paper...

Maybe I should shut up, you're doing such a good job killing your credibility on your own!


I have ZERO credibility. I am not selling anything. Not even a vpn service. I just like to share ideas I like AND ideas I dislike. I am perfectly OK having ZERO credibility and you having 1000% credibility. You rather have 100000% credibility? Sure. I am all for it.

Really. Your speech does not upset me. That is the core subject of this thread by the way...

 Wink


3890  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Femen protesters 'kicked during scuffles' at Muslim conference about women on: September 15, 2015, 12:30:06 AM
Two topless feminist protesters from Femen have stormed the stage of a conference discussing women in Islam.

A video of the incident appears to show one of the activists being kicked by a man as she is hauled off stage at the event in France.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/topless-femen-protesters-kicked-during-scuffles-at-muslim-conference-about-women-10499668.html


Yes.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=776096.msg12422417#msg12422417


3891  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: September 15, 2015, 12:17:34 AM



Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap


(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year.  The documents also show that one key State Department official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails.  The documents also raise new questions about the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the Obama administration and Clinton.

The documents were produced under court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Judicial Watch filed on May 6, 2013 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)).   The lawsuit was filed after the Obama State Department violated federal law and failed to respond to two separate FOIA requests, including a request for records about the actual production of the emails records by Clinton to the State Department.

The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject “HRC Emails.”  Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that the “gaps” in Clinton’s emails include:

Jan. 21 – March 17, 2009 (Received Messages)
Jan. 21 – April 12, 2009 (Sent Messages)
Dec. 30, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2013 (Sent Messages)
In addition, Stein notes Clinton’s employment timeline as follows:

Secretary Hillary Clinton
Appointed:  January 21, 2009
Entry on Duty: January 21, 2009
Termination of Appointment: February 1, 2013
The email also contains a chart detailing the first and last emails both sent and received to Clinton’s email address, as documented in the records turned over by Clinton’s lawyers.  This chart, information from which is chopped off, reveals a non-state.gov email address Cheryl Mills evidently used to conduct government business.  The email address, “cherylmills@gmail.com,” received the last email the State Department currently has from the Clinton’s non-state,gov account.

The chart shows a significant email gap lasting 40 days before Miguel Rodriguez, with the email address “Miguel_Rodriguez @clinton.senate.gov,” sends Clinton’s account an email on March 18, 2009.  Rodriguez worked in the Clinton State Department and is now a private attorney representing Clinton aide and confidante Huma Abedin in Clinton email-related litigation.  This “email gap” information was forwarded to other top officials in the State Department, including Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy.

These emails raise questions about whether Clinton told the truth last month when she declared, under penalty of perjury, “I have directed that all of my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State….”  Clinton made this statement in response to a court order Judicial Watch obtained in separate FOIA litigation.

Another new State Department email shows that one of the agency’s top officials for records management and public disclosure did not want to create a written record about issues.  State Department FOIA official Peggy Grafeld, in an October 20, 2014, email wrote to her colleagues,“Fyi. I’d prefer to discuss, rather than email. Thx.”  The State Department redacted details about what caused Grafeld’s desire for secrecy.

The State Department almost completely redacted several September 25, 2014, “high” importance emails about Clinton’s emails, including information about “earlier conversations and fact finding.”

A February 9, 2015, document, “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Email Appraisal Report,” describes the emails that Clinton returned in December 2014 “as approximately 60,000 to 70,000 pages of email correspondence printed to paper and stored in twelve bankers boxes.”  The “records document major foreign policy issues as well as the administration and operation of the Department and inter-agency activities.  They reflect the highest level of decision-making and activity in the Department and contain significant documentation.”

The “Appraisal Report” shows the State Department had concerns that Clinton’s government email correspondence would not be found:

This record series is the only comprehensive set of Secretary Clinton’s email correspondence.  Some of Secretary Clinton’s email correspondence may be available elsewhere in the Department either as duplicate copies or scattered among record-keeping systems and other government officials’ email accounts.  However, of the sample examined, many of the emails were from Secretary Clinton’s personal email account to official Department email accounts of her staff.  Emails originating from Secretary Clinton’s personal email account would only be captured by Department systems when they came to an official Department email account, i.e., they would be captured only in the email accounts of the recipients.  Secretary Clinton’s staff no longer work at the Department, and the status of the email accounts of Secretary Clinton’s staff (and other Department recipients) is unknown at this time.

The report confirms Clinton’s alleged personal emails from her non-state.gov account are government records:

This collection contains instances of personal communications.  Nevertheless, the fraction of personal communications is small and does not affect the overriding archival value of this collection. This records series meets all of the relevant considerations for archival retention under NARA Directive J 441.

The report next confirms that all of Clinton’s emails are “Federal records.”  A section entitled “Record status” states:

This records series meets the statutory definition for Federal records. Recorded information has record status if 1) ”made or received by a Federal agency under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business” and 2) “preserved or appropriate for preservation.” The sent and received email messages of the Secretary of State used for review, comment, information, or other reason fall under the first part of that definition. As the person holding the highest level job in the Department, any email message maintained by or for the immediate use of the Secretary of State is “appropriate for preservation.” This record series cannot be considered personal papers based on the definition of a record in 44 U.S.C. 3301 or Department policy found in 5 FAM 443.

The report suggests that all of the emails that Clinton returned, including personal emails, are subject to review and retention retained by the National Archives (NARA).  A section titled a “Note On Personal Papers” states:

This record series contains instances of personal communications that relate solely to Secretary Clinton’s personal and private affairs. The Agency Records Officer conducted a page-by-page review of approximately 1,250 pages of received messages for the period March 15, 2010 through April 30, 2010 to determine the prevalence of personal communications in a random sample of material. The Agency Records Officer identified 30 messages (approximately 30-40 pages) in the sample set as solely personal in nature. These messages were interspersed with significant documentation relating to Haiti, Mexico, Israel, Afghanistan, Russia, and South Africa. Since NARA possesses the legal authority to make the final determination of record status under the Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, all final decisions must be made by NARA at the time of archival accessioning.  [Emphasis in original]

The report also confirms that all of Clinton’s emails are subject to “line by line review” for release under FOIA.

State Department rules “specify that personal records of a departing Presidential Appointee may not be removed from the government until the State Department ‘records officer…’ approves of the removal, a process which ‘generally requires a hands-on examination of the materials,’” as Judicial Watch noted in litigation seeking preservation, recovery, and search of personal emails from Clinton has not turned over to the State Department, FBI, or Justice Department.

The “Appraisal Report” is at odds with claims by Clinton and the Obama administration that Clinton can delete over 30,000 personal emails from non-state.gov email accounts she used for government business. In fact, the “Appraisal Report” suggests that all of Clinton’s personal emails are Federal records subject to “line by line” review for possible disclosure in response to FOIA and other document requests.

Finally, the documents reveal the State Department raised concerns about classified information in Clinton’s possession back in March.  A March 23, 2015, letter to Clinton attorney David Kendall states, in part:

We understand that Secretary Clinton would like to continue to retain copies of the documents to assist her in responding to congressional and related inquiries regarding the documents and her tenure as head of the Department.  The Department has consulted with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and believes that permitting Secretary Clinton continued access to the documents is in the public interest as it will help promote informed discussion…In the event that State Department reviewers determine that any document or documents is/are classified, additional steps will be required to safeguard and protect the information.  Please note that if Secretary Clinton wishes to release any document or portion thereof, the Department must approve such release and first review the document for information that may be protected from disclosure for privilege, privacy or other reasons.

“Judicial Watch’s discovery of the Clinton email ‘gap’ may take a place in history next to the discovery of the Nixon tapes,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton have taken their cover-up of the email scandal too far.  I suspect that federal courts will want more information, under oath, about the issues raised in these incredible documents.”

Judicial Watch has 20 federal lawsuits against the State Department in which the Clinton email issue is implicated.  Judicial Watch seeks discovery and additional requests for court relief are planned.


http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-state-department-documents-reveal-hillary-clinton-email-gap/


3892  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: September 15, 2015, 12:11:19 AM



WaPo/ABC poll: Majority believe Hillary broke law, covered it up


It’s not the topline result from the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, but it’s an eyepopper anyway. Hillary Clinton still leads the field among Democrats and leaners 42/24 over Bernie Sanders, with Joe Biden getting 21% even without announcing a bid. Without Biden in the race, Hillary picks up most of his support to lead Sanders 56/28. The nearest Democratic option in the latter field is Martin O’Malley at 3%. And yet, a majority believes Hillary broke the law with her secret e-mail server, and a slightly higher majority believes she covered it up:





Here’s another interesting data point in this poll: even with these numbers, a plurality of adults thinks that the e-mail scandal is not a legitimate issue, 44/49 against. That’s rather astounding, and it’s difficult to lay blame for it on the framing of the question, even though the framing is weak. “Use of personal e-mail” makes it sound like she used an official system for unofficial business rather than hiding a private system for more than five years. Still, it’s the same question that got majorities on the other two questions, so the only takeaway from this is that there is a subset of people in this poll that believes a major presidential candidate broke the law while in office, covered it up, and … that’s not a legitimate concern in a run for the presidency.

One might be tempted to call this subset Democrats, but one would be mistaken. It’s independents, or at least a subset of them, that appear to want an end to the e-mail scandal. They believe by a 2:1 margin that Hillary broke the law (54/26), and by almost a 2:1 margin that she covered it up (59/30, almost exactly the flip side of Democrats on that question), and yet, only 48% of independents think it’s a legitimate issue for the election.

The Post’s analysis of the poll shows another big problem for Hillary, though:

In the contest for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost significant ground over the past two months, as she has struggled to manage the controversy over her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. She still leads the field of Democrats, but for the first time her support has dropped below 50 percent in Post-ABC surveys, with the biggest decline coming among white women.
Bear in mind that this was the demographic that was supposed to get excited for Hillary. Team Hillary told these voters that this was going to be yet another opportunity to make history by electing the country’s first woman President; Hillary herself has explicitly stated her gender as a leading quality to consider in the race. So far, that argument looks like a flop, and increasingly, so does Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, the Republican race is pretty much what one expects, with Donald Trump (33%) comfortably leading, and Ben Carson (20%) holding strong in second place. Jeb Bush is a distant third at 8%, only edging out Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who get 7% each. Among women, it’s Trump over Carson at 29/24, with Rubio in third place at 9%. And among independents, it shifts dramatically to … er … Trump 31, Carson 22, and Bush 10. The only real surprise among independents? Scott Walker jumps from 2% to 6% for fourth place.

Finally, one last shiver to send down Democratic spines. In a head-to-head matchup, the WaPo poll (with its D+11 sample) shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by only 46/43. Trump leads among independents, 44/39. That should have some of her donors thinking hard about a Joe Biden option. I’ll have more on that later.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/14/wapoabc-poll-majority-believe-hillary-broke-law-covered-it-up/


3893  Other / Politics & Society / Re: University of California: The Right Not To Be Upset By The Speech Of Others. on: September 14, 2015, 11:16:04 PM
Can we get a TL:DR?

Universities, like businesses, are entitled to define the attitudes that are expressed and the discussions that are had as long as it doesn't discriminate against protected classes (i.e., race, age, etc.) If their students or customers don't like those attitudes or discussions they can go to a different university or business. University of California is not limiting people's rights, they're defining their culture.

No. 140 characters or less are for people who can't read or think. Everyone in this this forum can. Of course if one likes to form an opinion without reading anything... That's OK too...

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Don't be an ass.

In the business world if you can't give someone the answer first they don't have the time to wait for the end of your story to find out. The reason most people on this forum don't respond to your rants is not because they're rants but because they're too damn long! This isn't novel writing, it's a forum thread - get to the point!

Ok...allow me 20 minutes to ready your position paper...

So your point, or question, is the bolded underlined section below?

When these students and faculty members are told that certain views about disabilities, about race or ethnicity, or (by obvious extension) about sexual orientation, sex, or religion have “no place at the University” — and violate others’ rights to be “free from” such “expressions” — will they feel free to openly discuss these topics? Or will they realize that they had best follow the orthodoxy?

My answer: Yes, they'll feel free to speak openly about these topics as long as their purpose of discussion is related to...

"...the course content, teaching methods, scholarship, or public commentary of an individual faculty member or the educational, political, artistic, or literary expression of students in classrooms and public forums that is protected by academic freedom or free speech principles.”

If students don't like these rules, or see them as stifling the education process, they can apply to and attend one of the other public or private schools in the country.

You say you're tenured faculty member - not at UC I presume otherwise you'd be sharing your concern with an audience that actually has a vested interest in the University of California policies (rather than a Bitcoin forum that has an audience that is largely international.) What's your faculty role?

I think a better question for you to ask yourself - if you hold so much contempt for these policies - is what are you doing to change what you think is an injustice or bad course of direction? What are you doing to affect change? What are you doing to cure "this cancer" as you call it?

I look forward to your thoughts, try to be concise.

  • Don't be an ass.
  • The reason most people on this forum don't respond to your rants is not because they're rants but because they're too damn long!
  • try to be concise.

1) Liberalism is a cancer eating everything, then itself
2) The author of this article, not me, is a tenured faculty member
3)  Smiley


You disappoint me (and of course your purpose here is to not disappoint me.) I thought you were producing something new, genuine for all of us to discuss? You're just copy and pasting something someone else wrote. Why do you waste our time with such things?

P.S. Conservatism has it's share of censorship. Both parties need to disappear, their purpose has passed its prime.


I shall never be disappointed by you. This how the flow of ideas roll. I told you it would have been wiser to read the article first. But you tl;dr'ed it.
Again, I never block my threads. You do not need to reply the second you see it up. Take your time. Play outside. Let life be. Then, come back and go like: "hmm.. Where was that thread that ass Wilikon wrote so I can tell how HIS rants are soooooo disappointingly long and boring... Oh Yeah! here it is... I'll make it concise..."

You took your time to not read then reply on my thread, instead of doing something else. I thank you.

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3894  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: September 14, 2015, 10:51:59 PM
Feminism goes hand in hand with Liberalism. They are both mental illnesses. Nothing that mace and tasers can't fix.

That is a very fascist thing to say.

Would you want to live in a society where maces and tasers are used to "fix" everything?


Violence is rarely an answer. Mace and tasers are used in self defense, most of the time by women...

3rd wave feminism is fascism.

Are you analogizing self defense to fascism?
how is it self defense when the loud minority of feminazis are actively attacking everything they disagree with at the time (considering their opinions seems to change quite often Cheesy)? fascism comes pretty close to what feminism has moved towards.

I didn't say it was self defense, he did.

Also, it depends. Not all feminists are the same. The ones that trespass on private property to stage topless protests over some irrelevant issue while we are at a three trillion dollar war are definitely a threat because they continue to exhaust government resources, as well as consume valuable time that law enforcement could be spending on serious cases like homicide, armed robberies, etc are indeed at the brink of fascism.
i think wilikon was saying it was fascism, but that aside, cant agree more with your point here; the attention these "activists" draw is a detriment to resources that would be much better be utilized elsewhere. as for your statement "not alll feminists are the same," i would also agree; there are definitely level-headed, reasonable and sane women that advocate for equality. however, the loud minority tend to shout over that and give feminism a bad image. not everything is bad about the topless protests though  Cheesy

on a side note, i suspect that a women ruled version of nazi germany is the ultimate goal of these feminists feminazis. slightly related note, this trend of the loud minority taking over as the negative voice in what used to be positive movements is becoming more common then it should ever be. pretty tired so im not even sure if im rambling at this point.


THIRD WAVE feminism is fascism. Very important distinction.


3895  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This frozen chicken “had a rich, emotional life.” on: September 14, 2015, 10:43:35 PM
Look. The only people who can't think are the ones who have been damaged somehow, either in birth defects, or by some physical damage from an accident. The thinking of all humans is far above the animals, if indeed the animals really think at all.

People are not animals, and animals are not people. They share some similarities. But they are not of the same classification.

Smiley


We give names to animals, animals can't. Lots of animals use tools to feed themselves. None can start a fire...

 Smiley



Yes! And when you think of all the greater things that people can do - greater than the simple ones mentioned - animals fall far behind. The fact is that mankind is like gods with regard to the animals.

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But are animals "aware" of us?


3896  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do people hate islam? on: September 14, 2015, 10:42:22 PM



France: Topless Femen dragged off stage at Muslim conference *EXPLICIT*


Two Femen activists half-naked and with messages written on their bodies jumped on the stage and disrupted a speech of two imams during the Muslim Salon in Pontoise, Saturday.




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I have never seen so many men kicking a half naked woman while on the floor. She was like a soccer ball...




The really sad part is that most of those men who have the Internet will go off and look at pictures of naked women and think nothing of it.

The other sad part is, that even though the women may have been crippled for life by their beating, women won't learn. They'll just do it again sometime.

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However, the men who cruelly beat her are recorded doing so.  I hope she brings charges against them.

They had every right to physically remove her from the stage, and no right to show her their true inner psychos.

If this took place in America, the guys were simply practicing freedom of religion. Now, they may not know how to fight it in court. But the women provoked it.

States are starting to go back to the stand-your-ground laws. Florida and Texas are even upholding the public people in the face of police getting in your face. Stand your ground when somebody gets in your face and provokes you, even if it takes giving them a beating to do it.

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Hahaha!... "Your tits provoked me. Let me beat you down... Say please!"

 Cool


Online translation from what was written on their bodies:

"I'm my own prophet"
"I submit to no one"


3897  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What's your opinion of gun control? on: September 14, 2015, 10:35:43 PM
It is ridiculously easy in a lot of places for people to get guns. Why not make it a more difficult process so if someone is going to do something malicious with a gun at least they had to work for it?




Should all killer clown masks be banned?


3898  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This frozen chicken “had a rich, emotional life.” on: September 14, 2015, 10:27:15 PM
Look. The only people who can't think are the ones who have been damaged somehow, either in birth defects, or by some physical damage from an accident. The thinking of all humans is far above the animals, if indeed the animals really think at all.

People are not animals, and animals are not people. They share some similarities. But they are not of the same classification.

Smiley


We give names to animals, animals can't. Lots of animals use tools to feed themselves. None can start a fire...

 Smiley

3899  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This frozen chicken “had a rich, emotional life.” on: September 14, 2015, 10:14:35 PM

People are not animals! Thus, you can't use the same logic on people that you might use on animals.

Smiley

Then what are they? Plants? Bacteria? Fungi?

Was I really supposed to answer?

People are people a.k.a. human beings. They are greater than the animals, not as powerful as the angels, creatures that God made, and creatures, the only kind of which God came to as one of... in His form as Jesus, the Christ.

Smiley

Biologically, an animal is defined as an organism with animal cells. Like humans.

Is a checker board a chess board? Is a chess board a checker board? If it is set up for checkers, isn't it a checker board? If it is set up for chess, isn't it a chess board? If it is set up for neither, it isn't an animal or a person. It is just some biology.

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So... The organic blueprint does not make us humans. Our spirit, soul does.. Is this what you are trying to say?



3900  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do people hate islam? on: September 14, 2015, 10:11:18 PM



France: Topless Femen dragged off stage at Muslim conference *EXPLICIT*


Two Femen activists half-naked and with messages written on their bodies jumped on the stage and disrupted a speech of two imams during the Muslim Salon in Pontoise, Saturday.




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I have never seen so many men kicking a half naked woman while on the floor. She was like a soccer ball...


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