are those your words and thoughts or a quote you found somewhere?
My own words. Every one of them.
So… it’s OK for Obama to influence elections in France, Israel, or Kenya, or anywhere else in the world, but, let Putin even attempt to influence the American elections (even if didn’t) and the left does their best to destroy, not Putin, but our legitimately elected President, Donald J Trump. Does not compute.
July 4, 2017
Happy Independence Day, America!
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The Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee
are at the center of the swamp that Trump wants to drain.
The story of Imran Awan illustrates the corruption of the Washington Establishment in general, and the Democrat Party in particular. The mainstream media should be focused on this story, rather than on their fabricated “Russian collusion” fiction.
This opinion-piece appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and was then reprinted on MSN.com.
The Scandal That Matters
The Wall Street Journal
KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Imran Awan was arrested at Dulles International Airport July 24, while attempting to board a flight to Pakistan. For more than a decade the congressional staffer had worked under top House Democrats, and he had just been accused by the FBI of bank fraud.
It was a dramatic moment in a saga that started in February, when Capitol Police confirmed an investigation into Mr. Awan and his family on separate accusations of government theft. The details are tantalizing: The family all worked for top Democrats, were paid huge sums, and had access to sensitive congressional data, even while having ties to Pakistan.
The media largely has ignored the affair, the ho-hum coverage summed up by a New York Times piece suggesting it may be nothing more than an “overblown Washington story, typical of midsummer.” But even without evidence of espionage or blackmail, this ought to be an enormous scandal.
Because based on what we already know, the Awan story is—at the very least—a tale of massive government incompetence that seemingly allowed a family of accused swindlers to bilk federal taxpayers out of millions and even put national secrets at risk. In a more accountable world, House Democrats would be forced to step down.
Mr. Awan, 37, began working for House Democrats as an IT staffer in 2004. By the next year, he was working for future Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Over time he would add his wife, two brothers, a brother’s wife and a friend to the payroll—and at handsome sums. One brother, Jamal, hired in 2014 reportedly at age 20, was paid $160,000. That’s in line with what a chief of staff makes—about four times the average Capitol Hill staffer. No Democrat appears to have investigated these huge numbers or been asked to account for them.
According to an analysis by the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak, who has owned this story, the family has collected $5 million since 2003 and “appeared at one time or another on an estimated 80 House Democrats’ payrolls.” Yet Mr. Rosiak interviewed House staffers who claim most of the family were “ghost” employees and didn’t come to work. Only in government does nobody notice when staffers fail to show up.
The family was plenty busy elsewhere. A litany of court documents accuse them of bankruptcy fraud, life-insurance fraud, tax fraud and extortion. Abid Awan, a brother, ran up more than $1 million in debts on a failed car dealership he somehow operated while supposedly working full time on the Hill. One document ties the family to a loan from a man stripped of his Maryland medical license after false billing. Capitol Police are investigating allegations of procurement fraud and theft. The brothers filed false financial-disclosure forms, with Imran Awan claiming his wife had no income, even as she worked as a fellow House IT staffer.
This is glaringly shady stuff, in no way “typical,” yet nobody noticed. Federal contractors are subject to security standards, but individual congressional offices have giant leeway over their hiring—and apparently no quality control. If a private firm had such shoddy employee oversight, it’d be sued into oblivion.
The most recent FBI affidavit accuses Imran Awan of defrauding the Congressional Federal Credit Union by lying about the use of his rental properties to get a $165,000 home-equity loan—which he immediately wrapped into a $283,000 wire transfer to Pakistan. At one point, when the credit union asked Mr. Awan (who was pretending to be his wife on the phone) why he wanted to send money to Pakistan, he replied, “funeral arrangements.”
Told this was not an acceptable reason, Mr. Awan went to “look online for an acceptable reason” and responded “buying property.” The bright bulbs at the credit union approved the transfer. His wife was already in Pakistan. The FBI stopped her at the airport in March, and despite finding $12,400 in undeclared cash (in excess of the legal limit), they let her go. Seriously.
Imran Awan has pleaded not guilty to bank fraud. The law office representing him issued a statement casting the investigation as “part of a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry in the literal heart of our democracy.” It calls the accusations “utterly unsupported, outlandish, and slanderous.”
Yes, it is weird that Ms. Wasserman Schultz continued to shield Imran Awan to the end. Yes, the amounts of money, and the ties to Pakistan, are strange. Yes, it is alarming that emails show Imran Awan knew Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s iPad password, and that the family might have had wider access to the accounts of lawmakers on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.
Yet even if this never adds up to a spy thriller, it outranks most of the media’s other obsessions. The government, under the inattentive care of Democrats, may have been bilked for ages by a man the FBI has alleged to be a fraudster. That’s the same government Democrats say is qualified to run your health care, reform your children’s schools, and protect the environment. They should explain this first.
Write to [email protected].
Hide From Washington’s Thought Police … Now!
By Ted Bauman, Editor, The Bauman Letter
It certainly has enough plot, and enough characters, to be a spy thriller.
Hooligans caught looting during the storms and flooding
in Texas will face mandatory jail-time.
[U]From The Hill:[/U]
[U]Excerpt:[/U]
"Fourteen people in the Houston area have been arrested on looting charges over the past 48 hours as Hurricane Harvey floods the region.
"If convicted, the defendants will face steeper punishments since the acts were committed during a crisis, according to a prosecutor’s statement provided to NBC News.
“The offenders, who were arrested by the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly looting residential and commercial properties during and after Harvey, will be subject to a Texas law that mandates increased punishments for crimes committed in a disaster area, the statement said.”
In my view, looters should be shot on sight.
Here’s some common sense from the newspaper USA Today, reprinted in msn.com
(a mouthpiece of the Microsoft Corporation).
Tellingly, msn.com and Microsoft have disavowed the common sense put forward in this article.
In case you don’t feel like reading the article, here’s my take on it:
Building homes and cities in obvious flood-prone areas is extremely risky.
That risk should be borne by the people who choose to build in these hazardous areas –
– not by the taxpayers of the country.
Building homes and cities in places like New Orleans or Houston is just plain stupid.
It’s time to stop paying people to rebuild in these areas.
USA Today article –
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/dear-texas-we-need-to-stop-rebuilding-your-houses/ar-AAr5Hrf
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September 11 – Sixteen Years Later
September 11, 2001 – The attack on the twin towers of The World Trade Center
September 11, 2017 – The September 11 Memorial Site, where the towers once stood
Until the worldwide terrorist menace has been eradicated,
we will continue to remember and avenge the attack on 9/11.
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[U]Excerpt[/U] –
"As long as this “what did Hillary know and when did Hillary know it” question is of no interest to Mueller, his investigation has no credibility whatsoever. But therein lies the dilemma for Mueller. A real probe of Hillary would mean a review of his own actions and those of his colleagues. He’s cornered.
“Mueller’s strategy is clear. He has to rescue himself, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein and others from their complicity in Hillary’s dealings with the Russians. Mueller is creating a diversion by going after Manafort, the lowest of low-hanging fruit. Just about any inquiry into Manafort’s dealings over the years was sure to yield results.”
President Trump has an enormous swamp to drain.
Apparently, the U.S. government swamp is vast enough
to float a significant portion of the United States Navy.
Here are some stories about Navy Swamp Creatures.
‘Fat Leonard’ scandal expands to ensnare more than 60 admirals
‘Fat Leonard’ scandal expands to ensnare more than 60 admirals
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Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend -Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,'
when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?'
and maybe someday that will happen!
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, speaking for President Trump,
has offered a binary choice to certain countries (which shall remain nameless)
which might be tempted to condemn the United States in the U.N. vote on Thursday
Either stand with the United States, or
don’t bother coming hat-in-hand, asking for foreign aid.
Here’s how Obama’s Catch and Release Program works –
**-- [U]and is still working[/U], because President Trump has not put a stop to it.**
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What a sad spiral.
All countries without exception throughout the world and throughout history want to have control over their own borders and of immigration. Its a brilliant yardstick for measuring how (in)competent an administration is.
Did US markets finally wake up to all the B.S. coming from Washington, Friday saw the biggest one-day selloff in over 18 months, and it was not limited to stocks as Gold and Silver also took a big hit.
This selloff seems to center around the Nunes memo that made public what most of us already knew, that there was a coordinated effort between, the CIA, FBI, Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign to stop the election of Donald Trump. Yet as the evidence mounts, the players of the Deep State and Democrat party yet again double down on this fake story of Russian interference. The United States is anything but united as we tumble into a full-blown political civil war. So far this war has confined its self to the Washington beltway, and the misinformation campaign of the mainstream media. But for how long
Where do we go from here, your thoughts
Nothing to do with politics - just economics.
Look at the chart posted, it’s time for a breather. Trumpeconomics is working and producing results, those same results will likely cause a modest increase in rates, there has to be control.
The market is simply reacting to this reality, see the NFP, better still see the average earnings, this tells the tale.
Clinton, Obama etc are of zero interest to a market that always looks forward.
The market sees no war within the US, instead it sees rising employment, rising wages and economic growth - the rest is for the media.
An excellent Town Hall article by attorney Kurt Schlichter.
It’s long, but it’s well worth your time to read.
The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.
Excerpt:
“So the only outcome is that one side wins and the other loses. There’s no truce to be had, no possibility of a tie. And the frightening thing is that the Left is so foolish, so stuck in its bubble that it has no understanding that it can only push so far before the people with all the guns and all the training push back. That’s the problem with kids who were raised on participation trophies and who never got into a fistfight – they don’t consider the possibility that they will lose, and lose hard.”