Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever

[B-Man]

Clarence Thomas: Disappeared by the Smithsonian

by Kevin D Williamson

What is the Smithsonian Institution?

It is a depository of national treasures and a national treasure in and of itself. It is the world’s largest system of museums — 19 museums, nine research centers, 138 million items in the archive, etc. — and it is a trust established by Congress, the original bequest from the British scientist James Smithson having been squandered through — one suspects this history will repeat itself — a bum investment in Arkansas bonds, which the state defaulted on.

It is also corrupt.

The Smithsonian has opened a new National Museum of African American History and Culture, a long overdue addition to its offerings. And in this version of African-American history and culture, black conservatives do not exist.

Specifically, the life and career of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas have been — forgive the term — whitewashed from the record. Anita Hill, an obscure functionary who achieved for herself a moment of fleeting fame when she advanced the interests of the Democratic party by smearing Clarence Thomas with lurid, flimsily documented allegations of sexual harassment, is presented as a major figure of the 20th century.

The scholar and jurist who actually sits on the Supreme Court? Clarence Thomas is an invisible man, so far as the Smithsonian is concerned.

There are two possible explanations for this. The first is the Hanlon’s-razor (never attribute to malice what may be adequately accounted for by stupidity) explanation: The dons of American history simply goofed and overlooked Justice Thomas, as though the new museum were a picnic and each of its curators thought the other guy was bringing the potato salad. Because we tend to have warm feelings toward the Smithsonian, we may extend maximum charity in our analysis here. But even at the limit of that charity, we could conclude at best that the Smithsonian is managed by incompetents, that its management should be decimated or more than decimated, and that Congress should use its purse-string powers to effect this.

The second and more likely explanation is that the Smithsonian is corrupt.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440810/clarence-thomas-smithsonian-african-american-history-museum

[Magox]

That's downright criminal. What an embarrassment.

[B-Man]

OBAMA VOTER FRAUD IN COLORADO

 

I have been working my way through the John Podesta emails that were released by Wikileaks. They provide an interesting look behind the scenes of the Hillary Clinton campaign, but generally don’t seem to contain a lot of blockbusters. This one was spotted by Breitbart. Podesta reports on a meeting with two friends of the Clintons from Colorado, at least one of whom is a lawyer.

In his email, Podesta recounts what these two Coloradans told him about their experience with the Colorado caucuses in 2008:

“They are reliving the 08 caucuses where they believe the Obama forces flooded the caucuses with ineligible voters.”

Voter fraud: when Republicans complain about it, the Democrats’ party line is that it practically never happens. But when they are talking among themselves, they acknowledge that the Obama campaign “flooded the caucuses with ineligible voters.”

Voter fraud has been, and continues to be, a major problem.

[B-Man]

NY Dem Election Commissioner: 'There's a lot of voter fraud'...

[Azalin]

NY Dem Election Commissioner: 'There's a lot of voter fraud'...

 

So people don't need an ID to cash a social security check? To validate assistance/food stamp card purchases? To obtain section eight housing?

 

I don't see any way that anyone could possibly make a valid case that it's racist, or otherwise oppressive, to provide ID to prove you're who you are in order to receive public assistance. If you receive public assistance, then the ability to vote often enables you to either protect or increase the amount of assistance you receive, so since you have a vested interest in election outcomes, you should have to prove you are who you say you are in order to vote.

 

Seriously, for God's sake - I don't receive a dime's worth of assistance, and I always have to show ID at the polls. Why is it not racist that I must comply?

[B-Man]

Washington Post: Obama lied about firing “a whole bunch of people” at VA over scandal

[B-Man]

Justice Department decides to pass on prosecuting EPA officials over Gold King spill (Good thing I was sitting down when I read this)

 

[Azalin]

Justice Department decides to pass on prosecuting EPA officials over Gold King spill (Good thing I was sitting down when I read this)

 

 

But are you honestly surprised at all that they wouldn't pursue charges?

[B-Man]

 

But are you honestly surprised at all that they wouldn't pursue charges?

[Azalin]

 

Didn't think so

[B-Man]

TIME TO PUT THE UNITED NATIONS OUT OF BUSINESS?

 

What, exactly, is the U.N. good for? Hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered in Syria, and no one looks to the U.N. for a solution, just as no one expects the U.N. to do anything about ISIS or al Qaeda. Wars have raged in Congo and across much of Africa, and the U.N. has done little but embroil itself in an unending series of sexual exploitation scandals. The Middle East has been in turmoil for years, from Libya to Afghanistan,

and what contribution has the U.N. made? None.

So the organization’s grandiose claims to be a force for world peace are hollow.

 

 

If the U.N. is useless with regard to actual international crises, what does it do? No doubt there are U.N. agencies here and there that do some good, although the cost of the larger organization is likely far greater than what it would take to fund the groups that are actually useful. More often than not, it seems that the U.N. is on the side of evil, as in the current UNESCO controversy.

Many of the member nations of the U.N. are engaged in a long-term project to delegitimize Israel, with the object of turning that country over to the surrounding Arabs and, presumably, driving out or killing the Jews who now live there. The latest phase of this effort is a proposed UNESCO resolution that attacks Israel on various grounds–nothing new there–and, most notably, implicitly denies the connection between Jews and Temple Mount, or Jerusalem.

YNET News explains:

{snip}

The Israeli government has gone to the length of issuing a publication detailing the millennia-long relationship between the Jewish people and the Promised Land. I admire the Israelis’ patience, but in their shoes, I think I would tell the lunatics–the UNESCO resolution was sponsored by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and supported by any number of Europeans–to get stuffed.

The evil done by the United Nations is palpable, while the good is obscure and mostly presumed. Is there a compelling reason why hard-pressed American taxpayers should continue to support this organization? Is there a good reason why the U.N. should continue to exist? These are serious questions that should be debated. Unless someone has a good argument to the contrary, I incline to the view the the United Nations should go out of business.

 

[B-Man]

THE MOST IMPORTANT WIKILEAKS REVELATION ISN’T ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON:

 

“This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, a month before votes were counted.”

 

 

The password is: Corporatism.

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[Deranged Rhino]

 

THE MOST IMPORTANT WIKILEAKS REVELATION ISN’T ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON:

 

“This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, a month before votes were counted.”

 

 

The password is: Corporatism.

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This was one of the most damning things in the leaks so far. And the amount of media coverage it's received is nil.

 

...But we're still living in a democratic republic because that's what the TV says.

This should wake some up... talk about brazen propaganda:

 

https://streamable.com/6g5v

 

It's "illegal" to read wikileaks, only trust the media to view them for you...

[keepthefaith]

 

So people don't need an ID to cash a social security check? To validate assistance/food stamp card purchases? To obtain section eight housing?

 

I don't see any way that anyone could possibly make a valid case that it's racist, or otherwise oppressive, to provide ID to prove you're who you are in order to receive public assistance. If you receive public assistance, then the ability to vote often enables you to either protect or increase the amount of assistance you receive, so since you have a vested interest in election outcomes, you should have to prove you are who you say you are in order to vote.

 

Seriously, for God's sake - I don't receive a dime's worth of assistance, and I always have to show ID at the polls. Why is it not racist that I must comply?

Politics has its' own ruleset and it's counter to what most of us are taught about what is right, wrong and of common sense.

Edited October 16, 2016 by keepthefaith

[Deranged Rhino]

 

Hacked Emails Prove Coordination Between Clinton Campaign and Super PACs

THE FACT THAT political candidates are closely coordinating with friendly Super PACs – making a mockery of a central tenet of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision – is one of the biggest open secrets in Washington.

Super PACs are only allowed to accept unlimited contributions on the condition that the money is spent independently of specific campaigns. The Federal Election Commission hasn’t reacted for a variety of reasons, including a lack of hard evidence, vague rules, and a partisan divide among the commissioners so bitter they can’t even agree to investigate obvious crimes.

But newly disclosed hacked campaign documents published by WikiLeaks and a hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 reveal in stark terms how Hillary Clinton’s staffers made Super PACs an integral part of her presidential campaign.

(snip)

Super PACs, known technically as “Independent Expenditure-Only Political Committees,” are a direct result of the Citizens United court decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of the decision, proclaimed that deregulating outside money would have no corrupting effect upon candidates because there would be strict firewalls between candidates and outside groups.

 

[Taro T]

Hacked Emails Prove Coordination Between Clinton Campaign and Super PACs

THE FACT THAT political candidates are closely coordinating with friendly Super PACs – making a mockery of a central tenet of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision – is one of the biggest open secrets in Washington.

 

Super PACs are only allowed to accept unlimited contributions on the condition that the money is spent independently of specific campaigns. The Federal Election Commission hasn’t reacted for a variety of reasons, including a lack of hard evidence, vague rules, and a partisan divide among the commissioners so bitter they can’t even agree to investigate obvious crimes.

 

But newly disclosed hacked campaign documents published by WikiLeaks and a hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 reveal in stark terms how Hillary Clinton’s staffers made Super PACs an integral part of her presidential campaign.

 

(snip)

 

Super PACs, known technically as “Independent Expenditure-Only Political Committees,” are a direct result of the Citizens United court decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of the decision, proclaimed that deregulating outside money would have no corrupting effect upon candidates because there would be strict firewalls between candidates and outside groups.

In Secretary Clinton's case, he's likely correct.

 

When you're already at a 98 on a corruption scale of 0-100, additional money really can't cause much, if any, more corruption.

[B-Man]

That's downright criminal. What an embarrassment.

 

More:

 

Smithsonian Insists That Clarence Thomas Simply Did Not Make The Cut Of Great African Americans At The Opening Of The African American Museum . . . While Anita Hill Did

https://jonathanturley.org/2016/10/19/smithsonian-insists-that-clarence-thomas-simply-did-not-make-the-cut-of-great-african-americans-at-the-opening-of-the-african-american-museum-while-anita-hill-did/

 

Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian, insisted that it was just not a story that made the cut among the stories to be told: “There are many compelling personal stories about African Americans who have become successful in various fields, and, obviously, Associate Justice Thomas is one of them. However, we cannot tell every story in our inaugural exhibitions.”

 

The American public funded half of the cost of this $540 million museum and gave the museum a prime location on the mall. It should expect better.

 

 

 

Why doesn’t Clarence Thomas get his due? He’s a black man who challenged liberal orthodoxy.

Mainly, though, it’s that Thomas, throughout his career, never wavered from a set of principles that many liberals don’t think a black man can legitimately hold. He believes in individual rights, not group rights, a view enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He opposes racial preferences both because they are bad policy and because they have no basis in the Constitution. Thomas held those views long before he arrived on the court, but they have been powerfully expressed in many of his opinions.

 

 

 

The point of such treatment is not just to minimize Thomas’s accomplishments, but to warn any black jurists who want to follow in his footsteps that they, too, will be marginalized and abused.

[Deranged Rhino]

15 years ago today, the Patriot Act was signed.

 

Our country has been fundamentally transformed in the aftermath... 15 years of non-stop war and non stop spending, the destruction of three countries (still working on #4), unprecedented federal bloat, millions of civilian lives lost in the crossfire as well as thousands of American servicemen and women, and there's no sign of stopping since we have yet to learn a single lesson from our follies.

 

God bless those who use fear and death to convince the people that giving up their constitutional protections is the only way to stay safe in a world full of terrorists, especially terrorists funded, supported, and trained by our own government and its allies.

[DC Tom]

15 years ago today, the Patriot Act was signed.

 

Our country has been fundamentally transformed in the aftermath... 15 years of non-stop war and non stop spending, the destruction of three countries (still working on #4), unprecedented federal bloat, millions of civilian lives lost in the crossfire as well as thousands of American servicemen and women, and there's no sign of stopping since we have yet to learn a single lesson from our follies.

 

God bless those who use fear and death to convince the people that giving up their constitutional protections is the only way to stay safe in a world full of terrorists, especially terrorists funded, supported, and trained by our own government and its allies.

 

Three countries? Iraq, Libya...?

[Jobu]

Everyone is pissed at the Federal government because they have their hands in everything. They impose one rule and expect it to work for everyone. Just not possible. If the federal government was reduced to the limits imposed by the Constitution, the government would be small, and would not interfere with issues it shouldn’t. The federal budget would be balanced, and most of America’s social problems would be solved, because most of them have resulted from federal intervention.

 

The social issues were meant to be dealt with at the state level. If this had been adhered to you would not have the polarity we have in politics. Abortion, Drugs, Gay Marriage, all would be at the state level. This allows like minded people to live in the same geographic area. Then when considering the Federal government, these very individual states can find a lot of common ground.

 

Our founding fathers were geniuses, we are all lemmings.

Edited October 26, 2016 by Jobu