NOT A HAPPY HALLOWEEN IN WASHINGTON DC

Hot on the heels of the news that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch has essentially pleaded the Firth Amendment regarding inquiries into the sending of $1.7 billion to Iran.  

In an Oct. 24 response, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik responded for Lynch, saying: "Disclosure of this information beyond members of the House and Senate and staff who are able to view them could adversely affect the diplomatic relations of the United States, including with key allies."  

Kansas Representative Mike Pompeo rebuked the Obama administration about the issue. "Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney General Lynch's approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so controversial that she would refuse to answer them?"  

It looks as if it's going to be a long, hot winter in Washington DC, with plenty of cats on hot tin roofs. 

 

EWWW! SOMETHING BIG IS ON THE HORIZON!!!

The White House has abruptly, quietly and without fanfare... cancelled all campaign appearances with Hillary Clinton scheduled for next week.  
 

CLINTON GETS THE WEINER

This is a special post on Friday afternoon in reaction to the news that the FBI has announced it is looking into the Clinton Email scandal again.   

We all know that Comey's FBI has been in the tank for Hillary, so it comes as a great surprise that an announcement of this sort and of this magnitude is being made just 11 days before the election.  If it was only a matter of some suspicious emails discovered during the investigation into Anthony Weiner, you would expect that such an announcement would be withheld until after the election.  I suspect it is something much more... something huge.  

I have narrowed it down in my mind to one of two possibilities:  (1) Some new and damning information has been discovered that makes the release of the news of a continuing investigation absolutely necessary now, just 11 days before the election or (2) Many top-ranked FBI officials have threatened to revolt and go public unless Comey takes action.  

Those are the only two scenarios I can think of that would result in this news at this time.  

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MEGYN KELLY GETS HER COME-UPPANCE

Ever since the first Republican primary debate, Megyn Kelly has made no secret of her disdain for Donald Trump.  In fact, the FOX NEWS "diva" has been making it clear that she has elevated herself to the position of "elitist-in-chief" ever since she butchered her formerly-attractive hair.  

Tuesday night, she had former FOX contributor and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on her show and she went after Trump like a barracuda in heat.  Partway through the segment, she lit on allegations that Trump is a sexual predator.  Gingrich started to say, "He's not a sexual predator..." and she interrupted him, as she often and rudely does with any guest who takes a position contrary to hers.  

“I’m sick and tired of people like you using language that’s inflammatory that’s not true!… When you used the words, you took a position. And I think it’s very unfair of you to do that, Megyn!”  Gingrich shot back at her.  

At that point Kelly remarked that the speaker’s defensiveness “may speak volumes.”  

“You wanna go back through the tapes of your show recently?” Gingrich shot back. “You are fascinated with sex and you don’t care about public policy! That’s what I get out of watching you tonight!”

And FOX NEWS wonders why its rating are going down?  Her show has definitely progressed from being informative, wholesome and interesting to being a platform for self-absorbed, bitchy narcissism.  

 

I stand with Newt.  

 

DOJ THREATENS POLL WATCHERS

The Department of Justice is warning poll watchers that they may be jailed or subjected to fines.  They are basing their threats on the "possibility" that poll watchers may be perceived as meddling in the election process.  

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/24/doj-warns-efforts-stop-2016-voter-fraud-violate-federal-law/
 

FBI PAYOFF ON CLINTON INVESTIGATION

The WALL STREET JOURNAL is reporting that Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a close personal friend of Hillary Clinton, donated over $675,000 to the wife of the FBI Special Agent in charge of the Clinton Email investigation.  James Comey, Director of the FBI, subsequently ruled that Hillary should not be indicted.   

Why are they not all in jail?  And this country is going to endorse this kind of corruption by electing her? 

SOMEBODY HAS TO FIX IT

Getting off the political trail for a change, there's something ominous happening in the retail sector.  Macy's is closing 100 stores; Sports Authority is going out of business; Sears is shutting down 68 K-Marts and 10 Sears locations; Penny's has closed 80 stores; Kohl's is laying off 1,500 employees and the list goes on and on.  What's happening? 

Well, the simple answer according to a recent article in Newsmax,  is that more and more people are buying more and more goods on the Internet.  But, is that really the end of the story?  Why aren't we asking the question: Why are more and people buying online?  

I relate back to a story early in my career in the Las Vegas gaming business.  I was working in what was then a huge hotel property, the Flamingo with 750 rooms, when the MGM came along and built where Bally's is now located, just up the street.  Originally 1,500 rooms, it would quickly expand to 2,000 rooms and many of the people around town were afraid it was going to suck up all of the customers.  And old-timer at the Flamingo told me, "Son, if you just take care of business, nobody can steal it from you."      

When small, local retail stores were faced with the advent of the big-box stores, they all grumbled in the same way and, sure enough, the big box stores drove countless thousands of retailers out of business around the country.  But... some survived and even thrived.  Why?  Because they took care of business.  

Successful store owners get to know their customers and they treat them almost like family.  They are cheerful, helpful, friendly... and when something goes wrong, they bend over backwards to get it fixed.  Those who didn't blamed the big-box stores.  But, if you're not going to be treated with respect and courtesy as a customer, why not go shop where the prices are lower?  

Which leads is to the decline in business and the bottom-line profits of the bib-box stores while buyers pick themselves up and go elsewhere... this time to the Internet.  Show me a big box store that takes care of its customers and I'll show you a pig in a poke.  So, why shouldn't I go where the prices are lower and I can still get my merchandise within a day?  What's the difference between ordering something on a sterile computer and dealing with an employee in a store where you are simply just another walking statistic with a wallet-full of credit cards?  

And that is the very crux of the problem, which ultimately leads us back to politics.  Nobody cares about anybody anymore.   Customer service departments are merely a front for a careless and cavalier management.  Management hides in the stock rooms and when it comes time to fix a problem, everyone in authority disappears into the woodwork.  

Just like government. 

HILLARY, THE SLIMY LIAR

Hillary Clinton for the second time stood before millions of Americans and claimed with a straight face that 90% of the Clinton Foundation fortune is being spent on legitimate charitable purposes.  And, she further lied, the vast majority of independent agencies who looked at the Foundation said it is a "top-rated" charity.  

God was obviously not in the room at the time, or she would have been struck dead on the spot. 

The real research done by reputable accountants shows that 6% or less of the donations to the Foundation ever ends up in charitable hands.  Furthermore, Charity Navigator, which gives the Clinton Foundation a "glowing report," happens to be at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 42nd Floor in New York City... the exact same address as... the Clinton Foundation.  Get the picture?  

The Foundation is a corrupt front for organized crime... that of peddling influence in the United States Government in exchange for cash.  It's the epitome of racketeering on an international scale.  

TRUMP'S MAJOR PROBLEM

To be clear, the alternative to Donald Trump is way beyond unacceptable.  But, there's one major problem that is looming the possibility of doom over his campaign: If he can't resolve the issues with Ryan and the other so-called leaders of the Republican Party on some semblance of comity, how can he deal with the infinitely more complex issues of a Putin, an Iran, terrorism or the sawed-off midget from North Korea?  

That, my friends, sticks in my craw.  It doesn't change my vote, but it is of major concern.  

In this case, we all know who to blame, but how can it best be fixed, in one big hurry?  

AND SHE STEALS FURNITURE

Newsmax.com reports that Hillary stole her State Department office furniture for use in her Washington D.C. home.  This information was contained in F.B.I. files obtained tjhrough a FOIA request by Judicial Watch.  

As you may recall if you were around then, the Clintons were accused of loading up White House furniture and silverware when they left Pennsylvania Avenue.  They and their White House Mafia also trashed computers, glued down keyboards and, according to rampant rumors, threw darts at White House portraits of previous presidents.  

"Early in Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, she and her staff were observed removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, D.C.," the FBI was told by an agent, who was assigned to Clinton in 2009, at the start of her term, but was not on the detail when Clinton left in 2013.  One has to wonder why the FBI didn't prevent it or report it.  

But, let us not forget how poor and destitute they were.  Surely, we must show some compassion and I'll be showing mine on November 8th. 

CLINTON: BLACKS ARE "NIGGERS"

Tracey Martin, a former traveling chef who worked in the Clinton administration, says that Hillary angrily referred to a Black staffer as a "nigger."  He claims that both Clintons used racist remarks on a frequent basis.  Within 48 hours of doing the interview, Martin claimed that his phone was hacked and that his apartment was broken into at 3AM. 

THE F.B.I.'S TAINTED MEAT

FOX NEWS is reporting that F.B.I. summaries of investigations reveal a senior State Department official, Patrick Kennedy, offered a "deal" to the F.B.I.: if they would change the classification codes on Hillary Clinton's emails, the F.B.I. would be able to employ more agents at F.B.I. agents overseas.  In other words, if you'll scratch my back, we'll scratch yours. 

The offer allegedly came shortly after it was publicly reported that, contrary to Clinton's claims, there were indeed some classified emails on her private server; Clinton wanted the classifications changed in order to prove her correct.  Whether or not the quid pro quo actually occurred is not known as this blog is being written.  

What bothers me is that Kennedy would have the temerity to suggest the deal in the first place.  Evidently, he must have known in advance that the F.B.I. would be receptive to the proposal, or he certainly would not have risked making it; there would be too much at stake.  What also concerns me is that this happened back in the spring of 2015 and no one from the F.B.I. reported it to Congress or took any overt steps to reveal what was going on to the public.  

What further concerns me is that there are F.B.I. agents who are grumbling about another apparent "deal," this time involving James Comey's agreement not to recommend prosecution of Clinton for her obstructions of  justice or violations of national security regulations.  They grumble, but yet they do not come forth and offer to tell the facts, to testify and to end this Clinton corruption.  

They say they don't want their agency or themselves to be tainted, but they are, and they will be blamed and tainted for eternity because they are complicit in corruption and un-American activities.  They are therefore unilaterally sentencing all of us Americans and our country to many more years of the same. 

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS TO BLAME

Here they are again: they could have the House, the Senate and the White House, but they simply cannot stand the thought of success.  Either that, or they actually don't want the responsibility.  They call themselves Republicans, but ever since Ronald Reagan left office they've been behaving like the Keystone Cops.  Every chance they get to do something good for the country, they manage to screw things up beyond comprehension.  

Their constituencies clearly and soundly informed them months ago... years ago... that they were not happy with the way things were going.  The jackasses refused to listen.  Along came Trump, the only one of seventeen candidates who understood what we deplorables really want from our government.  So, we put him on the ticket as our candidate.  

Still, the Republicans haven't gotten the message.  And they point the fickle finger of blame at everyone but themselves. 

THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD

Here we are, less than one month away from E-Day... and the time has come to quit the posturing and size the situation up as it really exists.  

On the one side, you have a candidate who tells it like it is and doesn't mince any words when he does so.  He's gruff, no doubt about it but... you can't do business in New York City for two seconds unless you're sharper than a tack and gruff as all get out.  And he cusses and brags.  But, pretty much everything he stands for, from the Mexican Border to I.S.I.S., to the economy, to education, to the inner cities, to China... the list is lengthy... pretty much everything he stands for we yearn for.  

Hillary on the other hand, besides being an unethical liar and manipulator, stands for exactly the opposite in all respects.  In fact, her 30-year track record in government sucks.  And whereas Trump is totally against "the establishment," she is totally embroiled in it.  In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the only reason Obama got past her in the 2008 primaries was because even the Democrats feared what would happen to this nation if she were elected and so they threw their support to Obama in the hope that he would be the nation's savior.  Sadly for the nation, he let the whole country down and became the worst president this country has ever had or probably ever will have.  

How can we even think of allowing her back into the White House?  

So, we have to lock ourselves onto the target and in the process we have to convince our family, our friends, our neighbors... this is where the rubber does meet the road, and it is totally up to us to make it happen.  Let's not allow ourselves to be to blame for yet another mistake.  We must vote and we must vote for Trump.  God help us if we don't  

D.O.J. AND CLINTON: A SMOKING GUN

There appears to be a jewel in the batch of emails just released.  At least one of them conforms that Obama's Department of Justice was in close contact with Clinton in 2015 regarding her Email case. A May 2015 email from Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said, “DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning, so we could have a window into the judge's thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today.”  

Such contact is clearly inappropriate, where you have the subject of an investigation receiving inside information about what is going on with a case.  “Today’s report that Clinton’s campaign was in communication with the Obama Department of Justice on the email investigation shows a level of collusion which calls into question the entire investigation into her private server,” Jason Miller of the Trump Campaign said in a statement. 

Fallon was director of public affairs for the Justice Department until joining Clinton’s campaign in April 2015, which is another blatant conflict of interest. He emailed Clinton’s staff from his private email address May 26, 2015, about the State Department schedule for making public Clinton’s private server emails.  

I never thought I'd ever see such conduct in this country. 

HILLARY DOES BELONG IN JAIL

One thing is for certain: Americans simply cannot allow themselves to be saddled with the likes of a Hillary Clinton in the White House.  If we do, we're giving up our gun rights, we're giving freedom of speech to some extent, we're going to have a single-payer tax system, the power of the White House will be for sale, Iran will get its nukes, international security will  become one helluva bigger mess, illegals will continue to take American jobs and dry up our benefits, the economy will suck and our national debt will continue to soar.  

If you can figure out a way to stop Clinton without voting for Trump, go for it.

And frankly, this country would be far better off without Paul Ryan and his continual snits in Congress anyway.  

GIVE MY REGARDS TO CHRISTOPHER

It's Columbus Day.  I'm out sailing.  

Check on MY AMERICAN OPINION, for my thoughts on the Sunday Night Debates. 

RYAN, PRESS MAKE TOTAL ASSES OF THEMSELVES

Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first boulder. 

Donald Trump did not say anything on that bus back in 2005 in a private conversation between two guys that hasn't been said by 90% of the men and women in this country at one or more times in their lives.  The other 10% are liars.  

This whole story has been manufactured and pumped up by Paul Ryan and the media who would have us believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the salt and saints of the earth.  Not a single word about the news that Obama and the White House have been perpetuating a cover-up of Hillary's Email misdeeds; nothing about the rampant corruption in the F.B.I. or Justice Department; nothing about Hillary's "pay for play" scheme involving the State Department and the Clinton Foundation; nothing about the Benghazi Massacre or Barack and Hillary's Libyan gun smuggling operations; nothing about leaking classified information.... no, the only thing you are hearing right now is about braggadocio and lewd language on a bus.  

The agenda is clear; the reason anyone is paying attention to it is not.  
 

NOW WE HAVE BOXES OF CLINTON EMAILS MISSING?

The F.B.I. has apparently been sitting on information that two bankers boxes, (two our of 14), full of Hillary Clinton emails, are mysteriously missing, according to FOX NEWS.  There is also evidence that Patrick Kennedy attempted to change the classification category of Hillary's emails in order to shield them from FOIA requests. 

The 14 boxes of emails were in Hillary's Friendship Heights lawyers office.  When State Department officials went to pick them up, there were allegedly only 12 boxes.  Of course, we don't know that to be a fact, but only 12 turned up back at State.  Hillary's lawyer, David Kendall of Williams and Connolly, happens to be the same David Kendall who has represented Bill and Hillary over the years, including the case of the missing billing records of the Madison Guaranty and Loan Company.  

Do you suppose that if she were to be elected president, the Constitution might go missing? 

HOW KAINE MISFIRED

Kaine spoke a whole lot of untruths Tuesday night.  One glaring example is when he went on the Obama-Clinton gun background-check junket.  He said that a gun background check would have prevented the horrible Virginia Tech shooting spree in April of 2007.  Now, he was Governor of Virginia at that time and certainly in a position to know the truth: that gunman passed a background check.  

According to BREITBART.COM, the following also passed gun control background checks:

• the Orlando attacker (June 12)
• the UCLA gunman (June 1)
• the San Bernardino attackers (December 2, 2015)
• the Colorado Springs attacker (October 31, 2015)
• the Umpqua Community College attacker (October 1, 2015)
• Alison Parker’s attacker (August 26, 2015)
• the Lafayette movie theater attacker (July 23, 2015)
• the Chattanooga attacker (July 16, 2015)
• the alleged Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal attacker (Jun 17, 2015)
• the Muhammad Carton Contest attackers (May 3, 2014)
• the Las Vegas cop killers (June 9, 2015)
• the Santa Barbara attacker (May 23, 2014)
• the Fort Hood attacker (April 2, 2014)
• the Arapahoe High School attacker (December 13, 2013)
• the D.C. Navy Yard attacker (September 16, 2013)
• the Aurora movie theater attacker (July 20, 2012)
• Gabby Giffords’s attacker (January 8, 2011)
• the Fort Hood attacker (November 5, 2009)
• the Virginia Tech attacker (April 16, 2007)
• the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle attacker (July 28, 2016) 

When Clinton and Kaine get on their soapboxes and start espousing tall stories, they should at least make even a feeble attempt at  checking out the facts.  And, if Clinton wins the presidency, she and Kaine will be just like Barack Hussein Obama... clueless.  

CLINTON'S MEDIA MAFIA

Hillary Clinton controls a lot of things besides her "foundation."  She controls the Democratic Party, the Obama White House, the State Department, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, the F.B.I. and the national press and media.  

The New York Times broke the story about Donald Trump's 1995 income tax return.  The first question is: How did they get a copy of it?  If Trump didn't provide it, they got it illegally from someone, (probably the I.R.S.), and it was illegal for them to publish it.  But, you don't hear about that fact.  

Clinton and her mafia have been hollering that Trump hasn't paid any taxes and that, therefore, he's not American enough to be president.  As it turns out, both Hillary and the New York Times have used the same tax provisions that Trump did.  But, you don't hear anything about that either. 

One of these days, she's going to choke on that canary that she's always eating.  And as for the press and the media, screw them; I'm not paying any attention to them or viewing their products any longer.  From now on, I'm getting my news straight from the National Enquirer, the news magazine you can always trust. 

CLINTON TO NAME LYNCH TO SUPREME COURT?

Where there's smoke there's generally fire and the rumor mill in Washington is awash with speculation that Loretta Lynch will be nominated by Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court if Clinton wins the presidency.  Unnamed sources in the F.B.I. have said the deal was reached on that famous plane encounter between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch in Phoenix last summer... just before Lynch declined to prosecute Clinton for her handling of classified information and the Email scandal.   

This could also have something to do with the fact that the F.B.I. agreed to destroy laptops belonging to Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson after their interview with the F.B.I., for which the F.B.I. and the D.O.J. also granted them some form of limited immunity.  

Corruption at the highest levels of our government and involving one of the most revered institutions in our land, the F.B.I., continue unabated.  

TRUMP IS AN ASS

There are a whole lot of people in this country whose sense of logic and reasoning appears to have been purloined by demented zombies from Dante's inferno.  They would argue that Trump is an ass, an egotist, a narcissist... and therefore you are obligated to vote for Hillary Clinton.  Because Trump is way too bombastic and opinionated, your choice should be to vote for the co-founder and cover-up official-in-charge of the Benghazi Massacre.  Although she's immersed in corruption, in illegal activities, in a vast left-wing conspiracy of her own making, in selling America down the river, in influence peddling... no matter.  Trump is an ass, vote for her.  

Because Trump is an ass, we are obligated to turn our backs on our country?