I have to admit I don’t think I have ever seen the Political Industrial Complex* (PIC)  and its “elitist” denizens in such tizzy as they are now.  Trump has them rattled – badly.

I know the media portion of the PIC likes to claim “Trump” is dragging this election into the gutter, but it is clearly the media who are slinging all the mud.  Looks like endless wild and vulgar claims against Trump until election day.

Which will fall on death ears on Main Street. The problem with yelling “fire” over and over (and over) again is people just tune you out. They can see your lips move, but they cannot hear (or care) what you are saying.

The PIC News Media as achieved full meltdown and brand destruction.

The silver lining in all this is we should see a total collapse of the old guard media outlets and fresh new blood rolling in to take their place in the 4th estate.

What Wikileaks has exposed this past week: the denizen’s of the PIC are congenital liars.  By definition, to be successful in modern politics means you have to be a consummate liar. Hillary admitted as much when she opined about her public face and private (inside the PIC) face. Clearly, Hillary and her ilk (think Paul Ryan) are all “two faced”:

Simple Definition of two–faced: not honest or sincere : saying different things to different people in order to get their approval instead of speaking and behaving honestly

Sounds just like Hillary and the rest of the PIC.

 

BTW, there is a good wikileaks email to John Podesta confirming Clinton’s penchant for lying:

Beyond this Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does.

What has the denizens of the PIC so freaked out is the fact that an outsider has a very good chance to not only invade their world, but come in at its apex and have the ability to rule over them! But the more they freak, out the more the voters realize electing Trump could actually change America’s trajectory!

Some interesting numbers from PA show a surprising shift from the Democrat Party to the GOP:

Nearly 100,000 Pennsylvania Democrats have switched to Republican since the beginning of the year.

What’s more: The Pennsylvania Republican party says more than 240-thousand new voters have joined the party since last November.

The state Republican party says that the surge in Republican registrations is nearly twice the number of newly registered Republicans compared to both the 2008 and 2012 numbers combined.

I think that state may be in play – no matter what the PIC’s polls show.

From FL we also see some interesting indicators from early voting:

This is as of this morning and shows Rep voters returning more votes than Dems (42-40%). For comparison let’s look back to 2012 and Obama’s reelection:

Florida

Votes: 4.3 million

Democrats: 43 percent

Republicans: 40 percent

So the GOP is outperforming 2012 by 5% points! But somehow the polls show something very different?  RCP has Florida right now with Clinton up 3.2% (46.6%-43.4%) in a two way race (I know the 3rd party candidate numbers will evaporate to near nothing come election day, as they usually do). Another disconnect between hard data and polls (estimates).

It has been stated all election season long that the polls are full of modeling uncertainty that is very likely beyond their statistical Margin of Error (MoE).  The turn out models pollsters use to guess (and this year it is really going to be a guess) which demographics come out to vote are the reason the numbers keep bouncing around so much. No one knows what they voter turn out will look like. So the facts on the ground look to be trending opposite to the polls.

This, BTW, happened with Brexit were the final day polls were completely wrong.

Which brings me to an old blogging colleague, and a post where I think he has it all backwards. Ed Morrissey posted on October 11 about the Morning Consult poll which had come out post Trump Tape and Debate:

Prior to both the tape and the debate, Hillary led Trump 42/36 in the four-way race, and by seven points head-to-head, 46/39. The differences between the two polls are all in the margin of error, but in both races, Trump actually edged upward from last week.

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What does that all mean? Taken together, it suggests that Trump is close to a ceiling of support. He’s not dropping down after the tape (and debate), but he doesn’t have much room to add voters now.

OK, that is a shaky conclusion to come to.  Most of this year it has been Hillary Clinton who has been bumping her head against a ceiling, that being 43-46%. This is trigger point for any incumbent.  And while Hillary is not the “incumbent”, she is running for Obama’s 3rd term, so slavery to the definition of “incumbent” is not warranted.

If incumbents get stuck in this range they nearly always lose. Yes, she has been there in the 4 way races with 15% going to the “also ran’s”, but she is in this range also in the 2 way polls.  Only recently did we see some polls where she had a blip above this level. In the long term RCP numbers Clinton has bounced between 44-48% since April of this year (when she last saw 50%). It is Trump who is on the polling roller coaster (unless you look at the LA Times daily tracking pool which has a non-traditional turn out model and has been damn steady for Trump).

Clinton is going to loose ground with all these leaks of Media collusion and bad mouthing Main Street from the PIC”s ivory towers of power. The media is being tuned out in terms of Trump smears.  Their big “Sleaze Guns” are now shooting blanks.  To continue shooting will only confirm the media is in the tank for Hillary and the powers that be.

Which means if you as a voter feel we need to clean out DC and get on a better track, you are not going to listen to the talking heads anymore because they are the propaganda arm of what’s wrong in America. And the more this propaganda arm attacks Trump, the more these “new track” voters are going to line up behind him.

Why would they do otherwise?

The PIC smear campaign is going to blow up in their faces.

* The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society. It is a bipartisan exclusive club. It includes the Politicians and their career staffers. It includes crony donors and lobbyists who reap government windfalls and special treatment that average citizens cannot obtain. It includes the PIC industrial base of pollsters, consultants, etc. And it includes the pliant news media, whose success rest on access to those in power, and in return for access making sure no bad news will disrupt said power.

It was a cringe-worthy moment in the debate.  The question was spot on and challenged Clinton (a politician through and through) what she meant by having a private position (global trade, open borders) and a public position (what she needs to say to get elected). And like the klutzy politician she truly is, she tried to invoke Abraham Lincoln to cover H->ER ass:

In response, she said that she was referring to how Lincoln got the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery passed, as depicted in the 2012 Spielberg film Lincoln.

“And I was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it and yes, President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments,” she said. “That was a great — I thought a great display of presidential leadership.”

First off, it was a Hollywood movie she was referring to, not the actual  POTUS. Did Clinton learn all she knows about the real world from Holywood fiction?

I am pretty sure Lincoln’s public face was all about freeing the slaves at this point in time (1864, 4 years into the civil war). It was preceded by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. So his public and private face were all in alignment. He was not going into back room saying “I am actually for slavery”.

To invoke such a bold and brave move by Lincoln to cover up HRC’s lying to the people about her positions on world trade and low wage workers for her rich allies was one of the grossest acts of political BS I have ever heard.  It was an insult to Lincoln, and if anything showed HRC will say anything to win the election. Anything.

Trump’s response was easy and on the tip of every tongue watching:

Clinton is no Lincoln.

Freeing the slaves is not the same as lining the wallets of Wall Street. What an insult to the African American community (which clearly is who this awkward and clumsy excuse was aimed at). To compare the end of slavery to open borders to replace Black workers is just unbelievable arrogance.

We clearly saw in this exchange Clinton’s lame attempt to put a better public face over her private face with Wall Street.

Epic Fail.

 

Tags: 2nd Debate, Clinton, Lincoln, Private Face, Public Face, Trump

10:04 PM – Sorry folks, been under the weather all day.  So far the debate is a draw or slightly towards Trump (because Clinton remains the status quo candidate in a anti-government election). The Trump Tapes have dissipated into some good discussions on real issues. So Trump survives (so far) and the media ‘sleaze guns’ failed to make a dent.

9:52 PM EST – OK, the actually got to the question of the wikileaks and her two faced positions. Clinton: Now she lies another big lie she was talking about Lincoln! Good lord, this woman cannot say anything straight and open. Trump better come back and say “Lincoln”, that’s your story?  And of course it is all about Russia undermining her. Can you say desperate and paranoid?

Trump: She got caught in a lie.  Now she is blaming the lie on Honest Abe – OUCH, that left a mark in HRC. That is the best takeaway from the debate.  Trump does  not know Russia.

9:41 PM EST – How can Muslims not be tagged as a threat. Muslims need to report hate and crime. If they do not report then you look at Orlando, San Bernadino, Paris and the Dems (Obama and HRC) must say the name to focus on the real issue.

Clinton: Heard this question.  She blames divisive language (as opposed to terrorist attacks). Muslims in America since Washington (true – but they were trying to kill us in bars, malls, etc).  Then she tries to claim Muslims need to be part of out homeland security. Ugh, now she stepped in it – she will defeat ISIS???

9:37 PM EST – Cooper: Your husband said Obamacare was a mess. Was he wrong? No, he clarified his position (which means what?).  Obamacare was for people who were too poor and without employer paid insurance.  So they ruined it for everyone to fix that???

Trump: Bernie Sanders said Clinton had bad judgement. Trump noted this is where he was right. Anderson interrupts again (HRC supporter!).  Trump has a good answer on how to fix.

9:33 PM EST – CNN moderator is trying to control the debate against Trump.

Look, Trump (and his followers) have nothing to loose in this debate, so playing inside the rules is a waste of time.

Obamacare question: Clinton agrees it is not affordable or accessible. Trump is interrupting to knock her off her game.  She lists what Obamacare brought to coverage.  She claims Trump will stop all those benefits.

Trump: Obamacare is a disaster – too expensive.  Not sustainable. So all the benies are no good if we break the bank. Very bad health insurance. Big line item.  Repeal and replace it was something that works.

9:28 PM EST – Finally, the emails are debated. Trump (rightfully) says she should be investigated. She claimed being serious about security. Trump: She doesn’t even know what the “C” stood for (Confidential), so how could she be so good on this?  Trump is on the attack.  Single payer, where government rules everything.

9:18 PM EST – Still the tape? And now Raddettz Raddique extends a question with her own spin. And of course, moderators went one too far.  Bill Clinton was abusive. Hillary attacked them. They should have stopped when they were behind.

9:15 PM EST – First question: are you modeling appropriate behavior for POTUS. Clinton goes first. Not really hearing much except we are going to respect diversity and reach out. Overcome divisiveness (like gutter politics). Sort of the usual wah, wah, wah, wah (think Charlie Brown). Hoping to earn your vote, etc.  So she took the high road (and tried to take Trump’s line being the president of all Americans).

Trump: Started campaign because of all the foolish things he saw – MAGA. Obamacare astronomical premiums increases, Iran deal ($150 B to them to terrorize). He is also very calm and professional. End shootings of police.

If there are no fireworks I do not see how this moves the polls.

So here comes CNN to bring up the trip. Cooper claims he admitted to sexual assault.  Trump attempts to put it in context with the violence of ISIS. Locker room talk vs real world issues. Cooper interrupts Trumps to bring it home again trying to make it stick. And he avoided bringing in Corndog Bill!  Amazing. Trump did say clearly he never did what he bragged about.

Clinton: Questioning his fitness to serve.  Duh – heard this before. She has to be careful, if his words make him unprepared, how was her husband prepared?  Is she serious? He “rates” women (does she get the alliteration with the word “rape”).  What person does not rate  the opposite sex???

Trump responds: Just words. She talks, but does not produce.

8:55 PM EST – Not sure what is going to happen, but it will be different from any other debate in American history. With the Trump tapes leading off (and I hope some real policies and positions coming afterwards) I think the trajectory of this will be set early. Clinton actually has the tougher challenge, she needs to answer the Trump Tape question first.

Tags: 2016 Elections, 2nd Debate, Clinton, Trump

Someone at CNN just woke up and figured out what it is about Trump and his followers:

If you think this latest controversy will finally beat him, you are wrong. If you can’t understand how someone could “still” vote for Trump after all “this,” consider what makes this such an unprecedented election.

This election isn’t about greatness, the future, or even Donald Trump. It’s about defiance.

To his supporters, a vote for Trump is a way to flip the middle finger to the system, the media, the elite, the liberals, the know-it-alls and the people who pretend they’re better than “us.”

Every dangerous and disgusting thing Trump says proves he’s not fit — and that’s the point. He’s not fit for the current “system.”

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Most Republican voters disagree with Trump’s grotesque, lewd words on an intellectual level — but they still back the man because they feel defiant. That matters.

The only thing that surprises me is how long it took this epiphany to sink into those who stand in opposition to Trump – and therefore provided his Bona Fides by showing he has the right enemies.

On Thursday, I drove almost three hours north on Highway 94 in Minnesota. Not one Clinton sign. Not one. That matters.

Saturday, in a hotel lobby in New Jersey, I spoke with a woman who’s terrified that Trump is going to win. Her husband is a lifelong Democrat and he’s voting for Trump, because he’s “sick of how broken Washington is.” That matters.

The phrases I’ve heard over and over from Trump’s supporters in Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and elsewhere are: “he’s not another politician” and “he’s flawed, like me.” That matters.

…

What Trump represents is real. Concern about Hillary’s ability to fix a system she’s been inside of her whole career is real.

Yeah, it really does matter that Trump as created a backlash in the most unsupported element of modern America. Big Government, The News Media, Politicians  in general all rank low with the public. And the path these people have been pushing America on is why the nation’s “wrong path” numbers are so high.

Sadly, just because one person finally woke up and broke the code, it does not mean the overall media will realize they are the ones being rejected by the voters. Until of course they are rejected.

Tags: CNN, Deplorables, Trump

 

OK, this poll really stunned me. I knew the media’s big ‘sleaze gun’ misfired, but this is a pretty amazing poll result. Of course, the ABC News headline screams:

43 Percent Of Americans Say Trump Should Withdraw From Presidential Race

Given the headline, I was expecting the ‘Trump stay’ tally to be less than 43% with ‘no opinion’ making up the difference. But that is not what I found – 57% say he should stay in!

Now it could be a large swath of the 57% wanting Trump to stay are  happy Clinton supporters – but I doubt it.  And I know Bill Kristol and other #NeverTrump idjits are going to land in the 43% side.

So what is going on here? How is it nearly 60% of those polled are not buying into the political elite’s game plan?

The other question in the poll (does it make you more or less likely to voter for him) shows completely opposite results.

It seems to me if this is accurate, Hillary’s high-water mark in the voting could be mid-to-low 40’s.

This could be a peek at what will happen in November, when the protest votes for the 3rd party candidates wither (as they always do) and voters make a choice. Could Trump be in better shape than the polls and pundits think? My guess is this poll did not have a “likely voter” turnout filter that would “adjust” the results.

Fascinating.

 

Tags: 2016 Elections, Trump

 

The Political Industrial Complex* (PIC) brought out their big ‘sleaze guns’ and took their best shot at Donald Trump. As I posted earlier,  other candidates from outside the PIC have similarly been challenged, and they were chased out of their elections (see Herman Cain for President). The ‘news media’ – the propaganda arm of the PIC that protects its denizens from real elections – dug through their hot mic archives to magically try and save Hillary Clinton.

Jazz Shaw at Hot Air stated it well:

Now we are expected to believe that only then, after nearly two years of Trump blossoming on the political stage, somebody at the sprawling behemoth of NBC Universal woke up from a nap during a staff meeting and said, “Hey. Wait a minute, now. Didn’t we have about a bazillion interviews with this Trump fellow on Access Hollywood and other celebrity related programming where he was saying all sorts of goofy and potentially damaging stuff? And didn’t he do the Stern show a million times and talk about all sorts of pornographic, filthy stuff about strippers and what have you? Do you think we still have any of that lying around? Maybe it’s worth taking a look!”

Riiigght.

The denizens of the PIC were so ecstatic! So sure Trump would fold or the GOP would push him out. The GOP side of the PIC ran for the exits in a flurry of prudish pretending. Finally someone stopped Donald Trump!!

Or did they?

One of the biggest frustrations on Main Street is how our elections don’t change the trajectory of a nation well off track. Herman Cain was the “Don’t Tread On Me” candidate in 2012, until he  bowed out in the face of past indiscretions. We were left with PIC denizen Mitt Romney. The Tea Party was going to shake up the PIC with a sea of outsider candidates – but most were taken out by the PIC.

So most voters just turned off and tuned out. If there is no Hope of real Change, why bother.

When the news broke on Trumps trashy guy talk (and this was mild compared to what I have heard over my 56 years) I felt the same old shoe drop – Trump would quit like all the others before him.

But he didn’t. And the first poll out of the gate proves that the PIC’s ‘sleaze gun’ missed its mark.

Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters — 39 percent — think Trump should end his presidential campaign, while only slightly more voters, 45 percent, think he should not drop out.

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Still, Hillary Clinton leads Trump in the four-way race for the White House by four points, 42 percent to 38 percent, with eight percent supporting Gary Johnson, three percent supporting Jill Stein and nine percent undecided. Clinton also leads by four in a two-way race, 45 percent to 41 percent.

That is a 1 point drop since the news broke, which is statistical noise.  Given the Margin of Error in the poll, this should technically be stated as a “no impact yet” in the race.

But something else is brewing. Tonight is the big debate (which it looks like I will miss). It will be Trump playing the outsider, the under dog, the “Cinderella” role. Hillary, will be the old and tired entrenched power.

She is the person who will lead the PIC in stealing a huge slice of everyone’s American Dream (taxes) and forcing us to use the remainder in a way they demand (laws, regulations and policies). If you are fed up sending your hard earned money to the IRS, or are not thrilled with Obamacare, or you work in the coal industry, then you are not supporting Hillary.  And after decades of royally screwing up, Main Street is done with the denizens of the PIC and their sleazy games.

So, if tonight becomes a battle royal, where Trump becomes the champion of “deplorables”, then the PIC’s ‘sleaze gun’ will have misfired and taken the PIC out instead of Trump.

Trump actually will gain support the more he challenges Hillary and the moderators. Just ask Speaker Paul Ryan.

* The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society. It is a bipartisan exclusive club. It includes the Politicians and their career staffers. It includes crony donors and lobbyists who reap government windfalls and special treatment that average citizens cannot obtain. It includes the PIC industrial base of pollsters, consultants, etc. And it includes the pliant news media, whose success rest on access to those in power, and in return for access making sure no bad news will disrupt said power.

 

Tags: 2016 Election, Clinton, Political Industrial Complex, Sleaze, Trump

OK,  we now know Donal Trump is a sexually active man who likes to “turn on” the ladies (note he was trash talking, he does not have a Jennifer Flowers or Jaunita Broderick after him). Glad we got through that Earth-shattering news flash. Face it, we are bombarded on TV and in the moves with much worse every day of the year. This will be the biggest dud of an October surprise in history. But it may be the biggest backfire ever.

It is not what Trump said 11 years ago that matters, it is what the Clinton and the Political Industrial Complex* (PIC) said this year that matters most (quote from LJStrata upon hearing the “news”). Think about it, Clinton admitted in private to Wall Street that she lies to the public about her positions, and that she is actually for open borders and global trade.

Every voter in American needs to think about how that Trump recording was preserved, how it came to be released at this moment before the next debate, and how Team Clinton coordinated this little “nothing cloud”. How this happened tells us something very tragic about the modern version of The United States of America.

It used to be that any person from anywhere Main Street could become anything they wanted – including President of the United States. But at some point in the last century that possibility was snuffed out by the Political Industrial Complex. This is not the first time those in power in DC have come after the outsider in the POTUS race. Recall Herman Cain, the prior populist candidate for the GOP:

Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a “cloud of doubt over me and this campaign.”

“As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” he said at an event in Atlanta. “I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me, on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter.”

Emphasis mine. The news media person/organization that had or obtained these youthful indiscretions is not required to make them public. The person who recorded it should have deleted it unless they were going to use if for blackmail. The PIC could squash these disgusting and irrelevant attacks by boycotting anyone who participates in them.

But they do not want to because this is HOW they retain control and power. These attacks are their last defense, they pay good money for people to dig up the smelliest crap they can find.

And let’s be clear hear – this is all coordinated. This year we have hard evidence of the State Department being driven by the Clinton Foundation (see here), Clinton and the DNC coordinating attacks on Bernie Sanders (see here) and the White House controlling the fall out from Clinton’s email server (see here).

The White House actually looks to be a good source for this filth, since it is Obama’s Modis Operandi ever since he got into politics:

John Clemens “Jack” Ryan (born October 6, 1959) is a former investment banker and American politician who was a candidate in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois. In 2000, he retired as an active partner at Goldman Sachs to teach at Hales Franciscan High School, a private, 4-year Roman Catholichigh school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.

His 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan’s withdrawal from the campaign.

Emphasis mine. It must be recalled that both Ryans resisted Obama opening up their divorce papers, and it took a political hack of a judge to get Obama in the senate.

So this is all coordinated mudslinging to try and dupe the voters – who see much worse everyday from the entertainment industry. If we want to break the hold the rich and powerful have over OUR government, we cannot condone this gutter crap and vote for Hillary.

We have to send a signal to the PIC, we may have to vote for Trump just so he can blaze a path for future outsider candidates who made their way on Main Street instead of  K Street or Wall Street.

Oh, and to all you spineless, pretend puritans in the GOP running for the exits – don’t let the door hit you on your brain pan on the way out.

* The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society. It is a bipartisan exclusive club. It includes the Politicians and their career staffers. It includes crony donors and lobbyists who reap government windfalls and special treatment that average citizens cannot obtain. It includes the PIC industrial base of pollsters, consultants, etc. And it includes the pliant news media, whose success rest on access to those in power, and in return for access making sure no bad news will disrupt said power.

Tags: Clinton, Mudslinging, Political Oppression, Trump

 

We know the “News” media will do or say anything to prop up poor Hillary. But recently we have had a spate of such moronic commentary it actually is burning my brain. I happen to be one of those quasi rocket scientists who has worked on little things like NASA’s Space Station (just to name one). I have also worked on science missions observing the Earth and I know there is very little consensus on what level of warming there is and its causes. So when an Obama-fanboy reporter comes out and just drools all over his hero, it is just too painful to watch:

Allen was glamoured by Obama’s ability to give the speech at such a crucial time in catastrophic weather history.

“It’s very interesting that this is happening a day when there’s a hurricane bearing down on the United States and in the Caribbean because these severe storms, beach erosions, intense weather episodes that we’ve had is perhaps the most practical sample of what the president was talking about as the threat that the planet faces,” he said.  “This is what this whole climate agreement… is designed to stop.”

And Obama will make the waters recede as well!

 

 

Good Lord, has the drooling stopped yet? But of course, this is NOT a coincidence that a major hurricane is finally hitting the US (after 4,000 days) and Obama has a speech on Global Warming.  He has been waiting 8 years for this moment to tout the elitist cover-story to control the world’s energy.

Of course, Hillary also cannot stand by and miss out on the perfect human tragedy:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign scrambled Thursday to quell charges that the Democratic presidential nominee was exploiting Hurricane Matthew for political gain, as they put on hold TV ads running on the Weather Channel that appeared timed to coincide with the storm hitting swing-state Florida.

Following sharp criticism from Republicans that the TV ads were opportunistic and insensitive to the destruction and suffering expected from the Category 4 hurricane, the Clinton campaign postponed the ads just as the five-day $63,000 ad buy began to air on the Weather Channel.

If not for the GOP criticism, the political hack deep inside “Her” would have merrily used this moment to gain the power she has craved her entire life.

Look, we don’t know enough about Mother Nature to understand if we live in a unique climate or not.  The long term record, spanning beyond humanity’s short stint on Earth, indicates if anything we are living in a relatively cold period with very low CO2 levels.

This image shows the last 5,00 years as recorded in the Greenland Ice Sheet (note: this is Northern Hemisphere between Europe and America so a good, neutral indicator). As can be seen we do NOT live in the warmest period of all time, let alone the last 5,00 years (see here for the actual scientific paper).

Figure 1. The past 5,000 years of the GISP2 temperature history of the Greenland Ice Sheet, adapted from Drake (2012), who denoted the general locations of the Late Bronze Age (LBA), the Roman Warm Period (RWP) and the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) in their original work.

It is telling that Obama had to wait nearly his entire term for a major hurricane to hit so he could have in media moment. Must have been so frustrating for him. But while the climate is not warming, damn does the “stupid” burn!

Tags: 2016 Election, Clinton, Global Warming, Hurricane Matthew, Obama

Hillary Clinton just asked the dumbest question a Democrat Politician can ask:

What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?

To which I ask her, what kind of genius loses 9 Trillion Dollars over 4 years?

The answer is obvious – The Political Industrial Complex, led by one Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

And guess who has to pay for it…

 

Tags: Clinton, National Debt, Obama

So, apparently the FBI helped HRC destroy evidence?

House Republicans are demanding to know why Justice Department officials entered into a pair of “side agreement” with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — two of Hillary Clinton’s top former aides who went on to become her personal attorneys during the FBI’s email investigation — that allowed law enforcement agents to destroy their laptops after searching their hard drives for evidence.

(emphasis mine) This is completely unethical and probably illegal. Since when does the FBI have the authority to delete State Department Records?

Since never.

One thing was known for sure at the time of this convenient destruction: when the FBI investigated Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson it was clear Congress had put EVERYONE on notice that no records were to be deleted. So let me point out the smoking gun here. If the State Department had deleted the records that would be a blatant cover up.  But would anyone noticed if they FBI did the deletion?

I guess I did.

The laptops were the property of the US Department of State, not the US Department of Justice.  They were covered under federal records law (from 1968, so no one can claim this is new).  The fact is the FBI would normally never destroy evidence.  But it also cannot destroy property that does not belong to it (say a personal computer or car confiscated under warrant).

This is pretty damn clear:

SECTION 4. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.

.01 Lawful disposal or removal of records.

a. In accordance with 44 U.S. Code 3301-3314, records are lawfully disposable only if they have been properly included on a Records Disposition Schedule or List that has been approved by the Archivist of the United States and, if necessary, concurred in by the General Accounting Office.

b. In the Department, typically such records disposition authorizations, received from the National Archives and Records Service, are issued to operating unit or staff office records custodians in the form of a Records Control Schedule.

This clearly indicates the only authority that could delete these records (or destroy this evidence) were State Department records custodians, and only after permission from the Archivist of the United States or GAO.

First thing I would do if I was Congress is I would get a copy of all electronic records going back to 2008 from the State Department. Clearly there is something not right there and they need to confiscate everything now.

And then I would begin to pour through all the backups. I would wager every time these folks got a new computer the data from their old computers was stored off. But there are going to be remnants of what was on those destroyed systems elsewhere.

And then I would haul in the FBI leadership and demand to see their permission slips from the USA Archivist or GAO. No permission slip would trigger immediate criminal charges.

Trust me, tongues will begin wagging once that happened!

Update: More here from Fox News – end update

Tags: Bengahzi, Clinton, State Department Cover Up