Hillary and Funny Money, Part $$

Hillary Clinton and funny money go together like Bill Clinton and anything with big boobs.

The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, will hear arguments about whether Hillary Clinton should be a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Hollywood mogul Peter Paul. An earlier ruling dismissed Hillary Clinton from a previous lawsuit under a statute that protects politicians from harassing or frivolous lawsuits. Paul's legal team argues the statute does not apply to a political figure who violates the law.

Attorneys for each side will also debate the inclusion as evidence of a videotape in which Clinton can be heard agreeing to plan a fund-raiser, which was later determined to be illegal by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).

This videotape "captures the very commission of a crime, namely, that of knowingly soliciting, coordinating and accepting federal campaign contributions far in excess of the legal limit of $2,000."

This harks back to Galagate, an August 2000 Hollywood event that was titled the "Bill Clinton Farewell Tribute" but was in fact a fund raiser for Hillary that took in $1.5 million for Hillary's Senate campaign.

After failing to properly report the money raised, Clinton's campaign finance director, David Rosen, was accused of lying to the FEC and the Clinton Senate campaign paid a $35,000 fine to the FEC.

Paul said:

"Everything I complained about in 2001, and she denied, was supported in the Rosen trial and the FEC. Only her direct knowledge continues to be denied, and the tape contradicts that. Hillary's obstruction is worse than Nixon's obstruction in Watergate."

In a written declaration for the California court filed on April 7, 2006, Clinton said that she did not remember discussions with Paul about the fundraiser.

"I have no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with him whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate in exchange for anything from me or then-President Clinton. I do not believe I would make such a statement because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred."

(Hillary, the 'smartest woman on earth' apparently has convenient memory lapses)

If Clinton helped to plan the event, it could legally constitute a direct hard money donation to her Senate campaign, and if that is the case, the donation from Paul would be more than a thousand times the legal limit for an individual donation.

Knowingly soliciting an individual contribution of $25,000 or more is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Be still my heart.

"The Clintons represent the worst in modern American politics: ruthless ambition over a desire to serve; preoccupation with political funding over a fair system; opportunism over principle; betrayal of any cause or policy over taking a stand; and a desperation to gain and keep office over any obligation to honor its responsibilities." -- Christopher Reed, in the Los Angles Times

Political Cartoontist: Scott Stantist, The Birmingham News

Whoopi, Another FOOL

I don't always agree with what Susan Estrich writes, but she happens to be absolutely right about the following:

"Whoopi, a woman who is clearly at her best delivering lines written by other people, used her first day on “The View” to insult every dog-loving American from the South.

You know, that region of the country where it’s part of the culture to torture dogs, and drown them and hang them if they don’t run fast enough to please you.

According to Whoopi’s defense of the disgusting criminal named Michael Vick, abusing dogs “is part of his cultural upbringing."

Cultural upbringing? Is this how Whoopi raises her family?

"For a lot of people, dogs are sport. Instead of just saying he is a beast and he's a monster, this is a kid who comes from a culture where this is not questioned."

What is wrong with this woman? Torturing dogs, putting them on a “rape stand” to force them to breed, hitting them with sharp sticks to make them run faster, and then executing the ones who don’t, doesn’t fit any definition of “sport” I’ve ever heard of, at least outside of concentration camps.

Michael Vick is a 27 year-old multimillionaire, not a “kid” who deserves anyone’s sympathy or understanding.

I don’t know what “culture” it is where this kind of behavior is “not questioned,” but wherever it is, federal authorities should be investigating it.

Why would any semi-sentient person want to listen to this woman’s “views?”
Why does she get a megaphone to spread vile?

Ms Goldberg spent her 2nd day on 'The View', denying she ever defended Michael Vick, saying the media misunderstood when she said she could see how Vick could get into dog-fighting growing up in the South. 

 

Why should growing up in the South be an excuse for abominable behavior?

Because Southerners are ... what?

Please give me a clue, Ms Goldberg.
Oh, wait, you don't have one.And couldn't that "part of his cultural upbringing" remark be considered just a bit, well, racist?

If a white person had said that, Whoopi and Brothers Al and Jesse would have been all over it like flies on dog poop.

I'm fed up with these celebrity idiots and political fools and every dimwit in between who whine about all the problems in this country and continue to say and do things which just keep fomenting all the same damn problems.

Seems to me like 'The View' has replaced one big-mouthed idiot Fool with another big-mouthed idiot Fool.

I won't be watching this one either.

Hillary's Clintonesque Math

Hillary Clinton thinks that her political negatives are a positive, a "fortunate blessing" even.

I can just imagine a certain portion of the American public nodding in agreement.

If the 'smartest woman on earth' says so, it must be so.

I may have only a state university education, not Wellesley or Yale, but I do know that 'political negatives' do not add up to a 'fortunate blessing' no matter what formula you use.

It must be Clintonesque math.

What are her political negatives anyway?

She's a woman.... This isn't necessarily a negative. I think a woman could be president, and I'd vote for a woman, just not HER.

She's scripted.... Hillary won't/can't answer an unrehearsed question. She relies on her 'handlers' to get questions before-hand so they can review and refuse them if necessary.

She's unlikeable.... Unless you like cold, ambitious, angry, arrogant, corrupt, duplicitous, paranoid, ruthless, and elitist people.

She's a socialist.... No matter how times in how many ways she tries to reinvent herself, she's a socialist.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

All that 'it takes a village' to raise a child crap?
No, it does not. It takes parents.

Hillarycare was socialized medicine all dressed up as 'universal health care'.

Earlier this year she promised that a third Clinton administration would seize oil company profits and use the money for government projects.

Google 'Saul Alinsky', the subject of her locked-away Wellesley thesis.

She monitored the Black Panther trial at Yale for 'Tommy the Commie' Emerson, her leftist law professor and mentor; summer of 1972, she interned at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft, a hard-line Stalinist who quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and was no longer a good platform for his activism and who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB.

She's a liar.... as First Lady she:

* obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.
* lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
* lied to investigators about her involvement in the Castle Grande land scam.
* lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees.

She's a flip-flopper.... For the war, then against the war but for the troops, but not for funding the troops.

Clinton's vote for the war wasn't her fault....
she didn't bother to read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before she voting to authorize President Bush to use force in 2002.

She now claims she was misled by faulty intelligence she never read, but rather was briefed by staffers.

She's polarizing.... Love her, hate her. Despise her.

She's got baggage....

Cattlegate. Whitewater. Travelgate. Filegate. Chinagate. Galagate.
Vandalgate. Lootgate.

She's got bigger baggage....

His name is William Jefferson Clinton.

Some deluded people think he's a positive.

He's a ZERO.

"I think Elizabeth Moynihan, Senator Moynihan’s wife, had it right when she told me that Hillary is "duplicitous." Hillary acts as though she is chosen by God, and that gives her the right to use any means to justify her ends." -- Edward Klein

(Political cartoonist: Paul Combs, Tribune Media Services)

UnBloody Believable: A Broken Covenant

Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, 23 year-old British paratrooper, who proudly volunteered to serve his country, was grievously wounded in September, 2006, on the front lines in Afghanistan.

He suffered a total of 37 terrible injuries when he was blown up by a land mine, losing both legs and sustaining damage to his spine, skull, pelvis, hands, spleen and ribcage, and was in a coma for 3 months, during which he contracted MRSA.

After gradually regaining consciousness he could not speak and remembered nothing of the past three years.

Today he is making progress but with no legs, a badly disabled left arm and a severely damaged spine.
He is struggling to learn to speak again and cannot take in liquids by mouth.

Ben is expected to spend a year or more in a military rehabilitation center, but will then need a specially-adapted home and specialized daily care.

He has been told that red tape surrounding the Government's compensation scheme means only three of his injuries can be taken into account. The rest count for nothing.

As compensation for his ruined life, Ben has been offered only £152,150 - little more than half the maximum award for maimed military personnel and less than a third of the £484,000 doled out to an RAF typist who claimed she had suffered repetitive strain injury to her thumb.

In addition to his lump sum, Ben will receive a pension of around £19,000 a year. But his family believe a far bigger award is crucial to enable him to rebuild a life with some dignity.

In a civil claim involving similar injuries, an individual could expect compensation of upwards of a million pounds.

Ben's mother, Mrs. Diane Dernie, has been told that Ben's case does not qualify for legal aid.

Mrs. Dernie has shunned publicity but she is so angry at the treatment of her son that she has decided to spearhead the campaign to raise £50,000 to fund the first High Court challenge against the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, arguing that its rules are patently unfair in the most severe cases.

A successful judicial review would ensure that several other soldiers maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan will receive financial security.

Ben's case exemplifies the mounting concern about the Government's treatment of the Armed Forces.

Opposition MPs, veterans' organizations and even some commanders are arguing that the military covenant - which guarantees personnel fair treatment in return for risking their lives - is being broken.

The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme was set up in 2005 to cover payments to men and women injured on duty.

Losing all four limbs is a Category 1 injury, earning a £285,000 lump sum. But having both legs amputated is in Category 3, worth only £115,000.

His brain injury is also in Category 3, but for his second injury he receives only 30 per cent of the maximum - an additional £34,500.

Finally he receives a paltry £2,650 for severe fractures which rendered his left arm almost useless.

None of his other injuries is worth a penny.

And if that doesn't make you mad enough, check this out:

• an RAF typist who injured her thumb at work was awarded £484,000 after suing the Ministry of Defence. The woman developed a repetitive strain injury while typing computer data and claimed it left her unable to work and caused her to become depressed.

• a Fraudster who never held down a job receives £248,000 after claiming he fell over in the shower at Wayland Prison, Norfolk. He claimed the injury left his legs numb and made him impotent. He later fathered a daughter.

• a Teacher won £330,000 from Birmingham City Council for her "trauma" after an intruder enters her classroom but does not physically harm her.

• a Prisoner who tried to kill himself at Northallerton Young Offenders' Institution in North Yorkshire was awarded £575,000 from the Prison Service - even though his life was saved by prison officers.

• A total of £750,000 was paid to 197 heroin addicts who claimed that the "cold turkey" withdrawal treatment they were forced to go through amounted to "torture".

Do a sore thumb, a fake fall, a dubious trauma, a failed suicide, supposed 'torture' = what this brave young man has suffered?

I think not.

I hope the MoD get off their collective arses and do right by Ben.

Let U$ Pray, $end Money

Pastor Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch he founded after admitting to 'sexual immorality' with a male prostitute, and to purchasing methamphetamines, has asked for financial support while he and his wife pursue academic studies.

The e-mail solicitation:

"It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years. During that time we will continue as full-time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer."

The couple and two of their sons planned to move to the Phoenix Dream Center, a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix, where Haggard and his wife would provide counseling, according to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs.

But wait ....

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that: 

 
     Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006 ... and an $85,000 anniversary bonus before the scandal broke ... and a severance package which included a year's salary of $138,000 ... and he collects royalties on his book titles.

El Paso County records show Haggard's Colorado Springs home, which has been up for sale, has a market value of $715,051.

It gets better.

    According to the Colorado Secretary of State, the tax-exempt group Haggard asked that donations (10% of donations for administrative costs and 90% to Haggard) be sent to on his behalf - Families With a Mission ... was dissolved in February 2007.

And Paul Huberty, a convicted sex offender, is/was the register agent of Families With a Mission. Huberty was convicted of attempted sexual assault in Hawaii, and also has a military conviction for sodomy of a minor, incest and adultery while serving in the U.S. Air Force.

A few days after Haggard's solicitation request, Mike Ware, New Life Church overseer issued a news release stating that Haggard was told during a meeting in Phoenix, "his (Haggard's) plan and his communications about it were unacceptable and that Haggard would not be working at the Dream Center or in ministry of any kind and that they advised Haggard to seek secular employment to support himself and his family."

There is a god.


"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine

What's the Deal with Massachusetts?

Are Bay Staters more forgiving?

Are they shameless?

Do they define decency differently?

Let's look at what the residents of Massachusetts have elected to Congress:

(Former) U.S. Representative Gerry Studds (Democrat)
       Admitted having sex with teenaged male congressional pages and bragged about it at a press conference.*

       He was re-elected six times before retiring.

* On the same day in 1983 as Studds was admitting his affair, Dan Crane (R-IL) admitted an affair with a 17-year-old female page; Crane apologized tearfully to the House; his conservative district voted him out in 1984.

U.S. Representative Barney Frank (Democrat)

  His affair with Steve Gobie, an $80-a-pop call boy,and personal aide to Frank, was revealed in 1989. Gobie was a convicted felon with a prison record and ran a prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment. Gobie accompanied Frank to public functions, even to a White House ceremony.

Guess who's still serving?
    Barney Frank has been in Congress since 1981.
    He is the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee.



U.S. Senator John Kerry (Democrat)

    The 'Winter Soldier' and unpunished traitor who consorted with the enemy and slandered Americans serving their country honorably.

  The faux war hero who threw faux medals away.
  The flip-flopping 'Swiftboated' candidate for president who was voted 'Unfit to Command'.

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat)

   The Bay State's senior senator and lecher, whose Palm Beach sexcapades are notorious.

  The driver whose cunning inaction caused a woman's death and whose family ties allowed him to get away with it.

  In Oregon and Illinois and Florida, depravity and dishonesty can cost a congressman his seat.

The standards must be lower in Massachusetts.

(Political cartoonist: Mike Shelton)

"Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto!"

Saturday is usually B-movie day on the Sci-Fi Channel and today's listings are: Tornado!, Tidal Wave-No Escape, Earthquake-Nature Unleashed, Ice, Magma-Volcanic Disaster, Atomic Twister, and Black Hole (not the Disney one) ... aha, today is Natural Disaster Day.

You know, I miss the old 1950's Sci-Fi movies with the lady scientists running around in high heels, tight skirts, and a pearl necklace. And, oh yeah, black-rimmed glasses to make them look serious. Chasing and being chased by creatures that had been transformed by exposure to *gasp* radiation.

The underlying message was that atomic bombs are bad and if we aren't careful the Cold War will turn Hot and radiation will destroy life as we know it and it will be all our fault.

Which brings me to ..."The Day the Earth Stood Still", a 1951 Sci-Fi classic.

Klaatu, the spaceman. Gort, the robot.

It's being remade with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu.
I can deal with an edgy, moody Klaatu.
I look forward to seeing a CGI-created Gort.

But Please, please, please .... do NOT have Klaatu bring a message about: global warming will destroy life as we know it... and it will be all Bush's fault!