The Hillary Clinton Documents the State Department Has Failed to Release to the Associated Press | TheBlaze.com

The Hillary Clinton Documents the State Department Has Failed to Release to the Associated Press | TheBlaze.com:

"The State Department denied the AP’s requests, and rejected the AP’s subsequent appeals, to release the records sought quickly under a provision in the law reserved for journalists requesting federal records about especially newsworthy topics.

In its requests, the AP cited the likely prospect of Clinton entering the 2016 race. The former first lady is widely considered the leading Democratic contender hoping to succeed President Barack Obama. She has made scores of recent high-profile speeches and public appearances."

Treasury Department Seeking Survival Kits For Bank Employees

Remember, this is NOT about giving any protection to employees. 
It's about giving a BIG ORDER to a company that provides the "survival kits". 
A company that is a "loyal" supporter of the politician who sponsored the bill. 
Almost all "crazy" spending can be explained by following the money. 
Legalized pay-to-play.
Treasury Department Seeking Survival Kits For Bank Employees | Washington Free Beacon:
"The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation.
The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country.
The survival kit includes everything from water purification tablets to solar blankets.
The government is willing to spend up to $200,000 on the kits, according to the solicitation released on Dec. 4.
...Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo."

5 Potential Outcomes of Political Apathy

5 Potential Outcomes of Political Apathy - Liberty Conservatives:

1. Dictatorial Oligarchy

2. Anarchy

3. Continued Political Corruption

4. Police State

5. Hostile Take Over

Long, but well worth your time to read......Duck And Cover——-The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh

Duck And Cover——-The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh | David Stockman's Contra Corner: "As subsequent history has now proven, AIG’s $800 billion globe spanning balance sheet at the time was perfectly solvent at the subsidiary level.
Not a single life insurance contract, P&C cover or retirement annuity anywhere in the world was in jeopardy on the morning of September 16th.
The only thing gone awry was that the London-based CDS (credit default swap) operation of AIG’s holding company was monumentally illiquid.
Joseph Cassano and the other latter-day geniuses who were running it had spent two decades picking up nickels (CDS premium) in front of a steamroller, while booking nearly the entirety of these winnings as profits—all to the greater good of their fabulous bonuses.
But now, as the underlying securitized mortgage market imploded, they needed to meet huge margin calls on insurance contracts they had written against mortgage CDOs.
In truth, however, the whole mountain of CDS was bogus insurance because AIG’s holding company did not have a legal call on the hundreds of billions of cash and liquid assets ensconced in dozens of its major subsidiaries.
.....But it also did something else; it destroyed the remaining vestiges of financial market stability and honest price discovery. 
After 6-years of the central bank tsunami, two-way markets were gone; the shorts were dead; skeptics were out of business; greybeard investors had retired; speculators regularly bought downside “protection” (i.e. puts on the S&P 500) for chump change; and the law of “buy the dips” became unassailable.

Even more crucially, capital markets were transformed into rank casinos that were virtually devoid of all economic information……except, except the word clouds, leaks and sound bites of central bank speakers and their tools in the press and monitors in the banks, brokerage houses and hedge funds.

At length, this meant that the only reason to buy was that virtually every risk asset class was rising; and it also meant that the only risk worth worrying about in a day-trading market was from the verbal emissions of central bankers and their Wall Street accomplices and stooges.

So as long as the central bank con job lasted, there was no reason not to buy, buy, buy. 
The financial world’s greatest clown, Jim Cramer of CNBC, became a prophet in his own time. Indeed, the man’s stupendous insouciance became embedded in the casino itself."

A College President Had to Apologize for Saying 'All Lives Matter'

A College President Had to Apologize for Saying 'All Lives Matter' - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
Smith College President Kathleen McCartney thought she was showing solidarity with students protesting racism and police brutality when she sent a campus-wide email with the subject line, "All Lives Matter." But the anti-racism slogan popular with students is actually the more selective "black lives matter."

Uh oh. Burn the heretic!

Students were furious and offended, according to Fox News:

The Daily Hampshire Gazette, which first covered the story, quoted one Smith sophomore, Cecelia Lim, as saying, “it felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives.”

In response to student backlash, McCartney apologized in another campus-wide email Friday, saying she had made a mistake “despite my best intentions.” 

She wrote that the problem with the phrase lay in how others had used it.

“I regret that I was unaware the phrase/hashtag “all lives matter” has been used by some to draw attention away from the focus on institutional violence against Black people,” she wrote.

Centralized control devastated Europe, now it threatens U.S. | WashingtonExaminer.com

Centralized control devastated Europe, now it threatens U.S. | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"Incredibly, the eurozone is trembling on the brink of its third recession in six years. Its industrial production has slumped, its exports have fallen and its debt is rising. Business confidence has declined over the past 12 months from 35 to 5 percent, and you can see why. France last ran a balanced budget in 1974. Italy has, to a single approximation, not grown since it abandoned the lira. Even Germany, which has until now borne the weight of the euro, Atlas-like, is starting to sweat and sway.

What has gone wrong? And are there any lessons here for Americans?"

Omnibus Bill Spends over $19 Million Protecting Rhinoceroses

Omnibus Bill Spends over $19 Million Protecting Rhinoceroses:
"...There are actually two full sections in the bill designed to protect the giant exotic creatures.
On pages 674-675,
Boehner aims to appropriate $9,061,000 to protect Rhinos and other endangered species.
“For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), $9,061,000, to remain available until expended,” the bill text reads.
On page 1,340, there is $10 million appropriated to combat “rhinoceros poaching.”
“Not less than $55,000,000 of the funds appropriated under titles III and IV of this Act shall be made available to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking, including not less than $10,000,000 for programs to combat rhinoceros poaching,” the bill text reads."

OVERNIGHT TECH: FCC eyes fee hike for school Internet program

OVERNIGHT TECH: FCC eyes fee hike for school Internet program | TheHill:
"THE LEDE: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday is slated to consider a plan to increase fees on phone users to boost funding for a program that provides Internet connections for schools and libraries.
The commission will take up changes to the E-rate program to increase the funding cap by $1.5 billion, as well as two other proposals, at the final open meeting of the year.
...Nonetheless, activists in favor of stronger rules are planning to protest outside the FCC building to remind Wheeler the issue has not fallen off the radar.
The E-rate proposal to be considered Thursday would increase fees by about $2 a year per phone line for customers in order to increase high-speed broadband and Wi-Fi for schools and libraries.

LIBERTY REVIEW-Take Care

LIBERTY REVIEW:Take Care
http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/12/take-care-by-tammy-derouin-i-recently.html

The president doesn’t have the authority to make laws, that’s the job of the legislature. 
It’s the job of the president, using the words of the Constitution, “…he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” 
The president’s job is to make sure the laws are followed after being passed by Congress and checked by the courts, should there be a question of its Constitutionality. 
There’s no such thing as a Whining Clause, a Tantrum Clause, or even a Threat Clause, giving the executive the power to make his own law when he doesn’t get his way.   

There is a reason it takes time for a bill to become a law. 
There needs to be discussion and debate. 
Of course, that would require reading and investigating a bill prior to voting it into law. 
The actions of one branch must be checked by the other branches to insure a balance of power.
If the executive dismisses this process, the executive becomes dictatorial. 
If Congress doesn’t use their authority to check our resident Pres-a-king, a more formal coronation will be forthcoming.

History for December 11

History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com
Fiorello La Guardia 1882, Perez Prado 1918, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918 


Rita Moreno 1931, J. Frank Wilson 1941, Teri Garr 1949 


1769 - Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds. 


1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January. 


1816 - Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th American state. 


1872 - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana. 


1930 - The Bank of the United States in New York failed. 


1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor. 


1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries. 


1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon. 


1994 - Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore control the breakaway republic. 



1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases." 


1998 - The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values. 


2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches. 

Should you be able to sue the parents of an unvaccinated child if your child gets sick or dies?-------Vaccination waivers put hundreds of Michigan communities at risk of disease outbreaks

Vaccination waivers put hundreds of Michigan communities at risk of disease outbreaks | MLive.com:
"Michigan has one of the highest vaccine-waiver rates for kindergartners in the country, three times the national median, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And the number of kindergartners getting vaccine waivers is growing.
In five years, it's increased 23 percent, the CDC says."

Obama: Christmas Season Should Help Us Understand Executive Amnesty

Obama: Christmas Season Should Help Us Understand Executive Amnesty:

"President Barack Obama thinks that Christians should use the Christmas season and “the good book” to understand the importance of immigration reform."

New York Claims Hundreds of Residents are Too ‘Mentally Unstable’ to Be Allowed to Own Firearms

New York Claims Hundreds of Residents are Too ‘Mentally Unstable’ to Be Allowed to Own Firearms:
"Such a state was New York who passed the SAFE Act that implemented new anti-Second Amendment laws that placed arbitrary restrictions on firearm ownership and included provisions that make it easier for government to revoke the irrevocable right of individual firearm ownership for those deemed mentally unfit for such a right.

According to Freedom Outpost, 278 licensed gun owners in the Empire State are now deemed too “mentally unstable” to exercise their Second Amendment right. "

How they "think"----President Obama is Too Intelligent for Republicans to Understand

The Simple Truth: President Obama is Too Intelligent for Republicans to Understand:
"Which brings me to President Obama. 
While I’m not calling him a genius, I do think he’s extremely intelligent. 
I also believe that his tendency to use “big picture” thinking while drafting policy is something most Republican voters simply can’t understand.
Take “Obamacare” for instance.
It’s not a “fix health care today” law.
In fact, the law itself is made to grow and evolve over time.
My belief is that it’s a springboard to true socialized medicine.
But, as it is now, it’s a long-term outlook on our health care.
While many Republicans want to look at the “now” aspect of the Affordable Care Act, they seem unable to grasp the reality that as more Americans get health insurance, giving them access to preventable care, this lowers expenses down the road for everyone.
If people can prevent very costly heart attacks, strokes or other debilitating health issues now, that’s an overall savings for practically everyone from consumers to health insurers to doctors who now have more patients.
Quite literally, improving the overall health of Americans will improve the health of this country.
It even makes sense for our economy.
If workers are healthier, because they have access to quality health care, that means there will be fewer people calling in sick to work, showing up sick to work (putting other employees at risk) or relying on government programs because their health conditions (that were preventable) render them unable to work at all.
But to see all of that requires “big picture” thinking and Republicans seem unable to understand anything beyond the spoon-fed bumper sticker talking points they’re given by the GOP and the conservative media.
Minimum wage is another issue you see this with.
Republicans constantly paint it as a “job killer” (it’s not) while also rallying against the millions of people who are on government assistance..... "

Ten Stories NBC Nightly News Aired Instead of Covering Gruber Scandal

Ten Stories NBC Nightly News Aired Instead of Covering Gruber Scandal:

"But over the past month, NBC has found a lot of so-called “news” to fill up its evening broadcast, including a Washington story about a previously-unknown GOP staffer writing a snarky Facebook post about President Obama’s daughters. Nightly News has also carved out a lot of airtime for network self-promotion, including multiple plugs for NBC's live broadcast of Peter Pan, an entertainment program starring the daughter of anchor Brian Williams.

Below are ten stories that, unlike the Gruber videos, were deemed worthy of coverage by NBC Nightly News during the past month. With Gruber himself set to answer questions at a congressional hearing later today, NBC has a fresh opportunity tonight to fix the glaring omission of the past 30 days — the question is, will they once again pretend the Gruber story doesn’t exist?"

In Obamacare's Wake, New York's Tale of Two Medicaid Programs

In Obamacare's Wake, New York's Tale of Two Medicaid Programs:
"On the one hand, just last month Akim Murray, employee of New York City’s Medicaid Reimbursement Unit, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to a Medicaid fraud scheme in which he issued fake reimbursements to “friends and criminal associates” to the tune of more than $1 million.
In 2010, the Poughkeepsie Journal exposed massive overbilling in the state’s program for the developmentally disabled that charged $5,000 per day, or $2 million per patient, bilking the federal government for some $15 billion over 20 years that went right into the state’s coffers.
Indeed, absent several enterprising Albany-based journalists, the scam might still be going on.
In late July, the feds announced that they were seeking $1.3 billion in overpayments from 2010 (and possibly more for additional years).
In a system as vast and complex as New York’s Medicaid program, detecting waste, fraud, and abuse remains a serious challenge.
In 2013 alone, the state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General recovered close to $900 million in “improperly expended Medicaid funds”—perhaps the mere tip of the iceberg."

What Politicians Do 17 Seconds Into This Video Is Being Called ‘Un-American’ and an Act of Discrimination | Video | TheBlaze.com

What Politicians Do 17 Seconds Into This Video Is Being Called ‘Un-American’ and an Act of Discrimination | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A politician in Lake Worth, Florida, is breaking her silence one week after she joined others in abruptly and silently walking out of a city meeting before an atheist delivered his secular invocation."

Government: Gas to average $2.60 next year

My Way News - Government: Gas to average $2.60 next year:
"The Energy Department again slashed its prediction for next year's average price of gasoline across the U.S., this time to $2.60 a gallon.
That would be 23 percent below this year's projected average and the lowest full-year average since 2009."

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies - Telegraph:
"Our biggest worry is the end of the liquidity cycle.
The Fed is done.
The reach for yield that we have seen since 2009 is going into reverse”, said Bank of America."
The Opec oil cartel no longer exists in any meaningful sense and crude prices will slump to $50 a barrel over the coming months as market forces shake out the weakest producers, Bank of America has warned.
Revolutionary changes sweeping the world’s energy industry will drive down the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG), creating a “multi-year” glut and a much cheaper source of gas for Europe.
Francisco Blanch, the bank’s commodity chief, said Opec is “effectively dissolved” after it failed to stabilize prices at its last meeting.
“The consequences are profound and long-lasting,“ he said.
The free market will now set the global cost of oil, leading to a new era of wild price swings and disorderly trading that benefits only the Mid-East petro-states with deepest pockets such as Saudi Arabia.
If so, the weaker peripheral members such as Venizuela and Nigeria are being thrown to the wolves.

How to care for illegal alien children for only $182,129,786!

How to care for illegal alien children for only $182,129,786! by Curtice Mang
Thanks to the folks at Judicial Watch, we recently learned that Health and Humans Services (HHS) paid Baptist Children and Family Services $182,129,786 to house and feed illegal alien children for four months. 
That seems like a lot of money, especially when you consider this – the number of children was 2,400. 
I think that’s even more than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) spends on its Las Vegas retreats.

That works out to almost $76,000 per illegal alien child.
And you thought it was expensive to send your kids to college!
What exactly did these millions provide? 
Here is a sampling, but not a complete list:
Catering services at $75 per day for three meals and two snacks.

Three New Ways Government Threatens to Tax the Internet

Three New Ways Government Threatens to Tax the Internet – As Soon As Thursday | Somewhat Reasonable:
 ...The Feds keep breaking records for taking our money – yet have racked up an $18+ TRILLION (and counting) debt.
Government doesn’t have a revenue problem – it has a spending one.
It needs to find ways to stop being so ridiculously profligate – rather than looking for new ways to take our money.
 But was we know, that ain’t happening.
Government views our money like Jello – there’s always room for more.  
Whenever it can raise taxes – or create new ones – it all but leaps at the opportunity. 
The Internet is currently threatened with multiple brand new taxes levied by multiple levels of government.
One tax tidal wave can happen by Washington simply doing nothing.
On Thursday, the federal moratorium on Internet access taxes expires.
…Instead of putting the same (PITFA) bill to the Senate,
…Reid has decided to attach it to a proposed law called the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA).
That bill…would require online retailers to collect tax on sales they make to out-of-state consumers (subjecting these retailers to 9,998 different tax jurisdictions).
 ...And as huge as these new taxes are – they aren’t the hugest prospective new tax.
 If President Barack Obama and the leftist of the Left (like the aforementioned Pelosi) get their way, the Feds will soon begin slamming the ridiculous, bloated, wasteful, utterly unnecessary Universal Service Fund (USF)’s gi-normous phone tax – onto the Internet. 
...That’s the USF tax – which is currently 16.1%.  
And it goes up every quarter – automatically. 

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of 'Marginal Children' a 'Social Good'

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of 'Marginal Children' a 'Social Good':

"No, Gruber’s abortion advocacy is of a particularly pungent eugenics variety. He’s on record repeatedly making the case from social science that abortion is a “social good” because it reduces the number of “marginal children,” by which he means urban poor—those he says can be counted on to commit crimes if they were ever born.
Gruber co-authored a paper during the Clinton years which argued that legal abortion had saved the U.S. taxpayer upwards of $14 billion in welfare benefits and that it also lowered crime."

Lima Climate Talks Set for Record Carbon Footprint

Lima Climate Talks Set for Record Carbon Footprint - US News:
"LIMA, Peru (AP) — The current U.N. climate talks will be the first to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution they generate, offset by host country Peru's protection of forest at three different reserves, organizers say.
Now the bad news: The Lima conference is expected to have the biggest carbon footprint of any U.N. climate meeting measured to date.
At more than 50,000 metric tons of carfb/phbon dioxide, the negotiations' burden on global warming will be about 1 1/2 times the norm, said Jorge Alvarez, project coordinator for the U.N. Development Program.
The venue is one big reason.
It had to be built.
Eleven football fields of temporary structures arose for the 13-day negotiations from what three months ago was an empty field behind Peru's army's headquarters.
Concrete was laid, plumbing installed, components flown in from as far as France and Brazil.
Standing in the midday sun here can get downright uncomfortable, but the Lima sun is not reliable.
That's one reason solar panels were not used.
For electricity, the talks are relying exclusively on diesel generators.
Organizers had planned to draw power from Peru's grid, which is about 52 percent fed by non-polluting hydroelectric power. 
"We worked to upgrade transformers and generators but for some reason it didn't work," said Alvarez.

6 Years Later, Stimulus Funds Still Being Spent on Manure

6 Years Later, Stimulus Funds Still Being Spent on Manure | Washington Free Beacon:
"Almost six years after the passage of the stimulus package, taxpayer dollars have finally found their way into a shovel ready project: $60,000 to haul horse manure.
Sold as an opportunity to bring America into the “21st century,” the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus, is now being used to remove wild horse manure off of public lands.
According to a contract awarded last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will pay $58,650 to load, haul, and dispose manure from a corral in Burns, Oregon.
The facility holds wild horses and burros found on the Oregon range where they await adoption.
“Manure shall be wind-rowed, piled if necessary, loaded, and hauled to a site for a beneficial use,” the BLM said in their solicitation outlining the project.
“If there is no beneficial use for the manure, then it shall be legally disposed of in a landfill or by another approved disposal practice.”
“Stockpiling of the manure shall not be permitted,” they added.
The government anticipated that laborers would be paid $16.86 an hour plus fringe benefits for the job, which was awarded to ACW, Inc., a company in Hines, Oregon."