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Divernan's JournalMassive repressed anger against her father and husband.
According to snippets from both HRC's and WJC's books, her father was psychologically and physically abusive. Even one of HRC's strongest supporters discussed this in DU's Hillary Clinton group. http://www.democraticunderground.com/110713163
The brusque son of an English immigrant and a coal miner’s daughter in Scranton, Pa., Mr. Rodham, for most of his life, harbored prejudices against blacks, Catholics and anyone else not like him. He hurled biting sarcasm at his wife and only daughter and spanked, at times excessively, his three children to keep them in line, according to interviews with friends and a review of documents, Mrs. Clinton’s writings and former President Bill Clinton’s memoir."
http://t.co/LxfS5ft51H via NYTimes
Well, she was a kid and was stuck with her family. But come adulthood, she chose her partner.
The first time one's spouse cheats, it's a shame-on-the-cheater situation. One can choose to forgive and to try to save the marriage. But the second time? 3rd? 4th? and so on. Even when the adulterer is so reckless that the affairs get international publicity? It then becomes shame on the person who enables the serial adulterer by not only staying in the marriage, but by blaming the adulterer's partners. And not just blaming the women, but setting up & directing the Bimbo Eruption Squad to intimidate, threaten and otherwise shut them up.
Trading self respect for power & political positioning is not what one might call a "free trade" deal. There is a heavy psychological price to be paid for choosing to stay with a spouse who repeatedly and publicly betrays and humiliates you. That anger gets projected onto others in quite out-of-proportion ways. Witness HRC's admitted need for revenge, and the Clintons' enemies list. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/hillary-clinton-hit-list-102067
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/17/politics/diane-blair-hillary-clinton-documents/index.html
It's a tragedy - the 2 men in her life whom she should have been able to trust to protect and cherish her, failed to do so. I feel sorry for her, but not enough to vote for her.
Count your garden by the flowers . . .
Count your garden by the flowers
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by golden hours
don't remember clouds at all.
Count the night by stars, not shadows.
Count your years by smiles, not tears.
And with joy on every birthday,
Count your life by friends not years.
Many happy returns of the day!
PA Senate candidate Sestak called for EPA oversight of Marcellus drilling.
Sestak did this in October of 2013, following a blowout 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, which sent a plume of contaminated drilling water & natural gas 75 feet into the air & flowing into the ground for 16 hours before being capped. A failed blowout preventer triggered BP's environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
I post this to illustrate that he is not in the pocket of Big Fracking.
Sestak - the Democratic nominee for Senate - compared the incident, which has initially been linked to a failed blowout preventer, to the circumstances that led to the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sestak wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to ask that the Marcellus Shale development be monitored by the EPA to ensure that drilling does not harm Pennsylvania's water resources.
"This accident highlights the significant dangers of these drilling operations, which are expanding in Pennsylvania at an unprecedented rate and scale," Sestak wrote, noting that American Rivers has declared the Upper Delaware River the most endangered in the country due to Marcellus Shale development. "Proper regulations are not in place to manage them and protect the public." He said Pennsylvania must have proper investigation and testing of groundwater and air contamination and the EPA has the technical expertise to do so.
As a House member, Sestak co-sponsored the FRAC Act, a companion to a Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Bob Casey, that would repeal the "Halliburton Loophole," a Bush-era deal that allows drillers to avoid compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Sestak_calls_for_EPA_oversight_of_Marcellus_gas_drilling.html#g0rEfW7tm3QUGK72.99
McGinty top Dem. recipient of Marcellus Shale $$$ for last 2 reported years.
http://marcellusmoney.org/data/recipients/A handy dandy guide to the money drilling interests have lavished on PA legislators. When your sales tax goes up because our gutless, supine legislature won't pass a severance tax, here's where the blame lies.
Recipients | Marcellus Money
Recipient Name/Recipient/TypeParty/Grand Total
Granted that Republicans - especially Corbett- received lots of cash, take a look at the many Dems who also accepted $$$ from Marcellus Shale.
Of all the Democratic recipients for the two most recently reported years - 2013 and 2014, guess who is at the tippy-tippy-top of the list?
None other than current PA Senate candidate, Katie McGinty. She took in a tidy $72,600!
And yet she's running as a champion of the environment. She clearly is Marcellus Shale's favorite in the Dem. primary!
Park Ridge/elitist/white Chicago suburb!Not"the south"
Wow, Janey! You win the internets' daily award for exaggeration!!!!!!!! Also for being geographically challenged! As in suburban Chicago is not the south.
ONE time, HRC took ONE classmate to a Sunday service at her family's own Methodist church in the snooty, country-club level Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. I looked up HRC's home address at that time on Zillow - homes there described as in a country-club type of neighborhood.
Oh my God!!!! The horrors!!!! The dangers!!!!! The threats of violence!!!!!! I mean rich white Methodists!!!!! Who knows what they might have done????
(Actually, my grandparents were Methodists - and they took me to their Methodist church when I visited - albeit their church was in a poor coal-mining community, not a wealthy suburb). I used to BEG them - please, grammy - not a Methodist Church! Can you at least get me body armor?
HRC probably only took her black classmate once because the black classmate found the services remarkably boring!
And yet Hillary survived - it was prequel to BOSNIA!
And you have the chutzpah to describe this single incident at her own family's church as "desegregating churches in the south as a teen".
Janey, Janey, Janey - get a grip!
Not to mention "fired" as one of her 4 most frequent identifying terms.
I immediately thought of the ignominious circumstances under which she departed her job as an investigator for the Watergate committee, re her removing/hiding files relevant to and establishing precedent for Nixon's right to legal representation.
If anyone has any other explanation for the presence of the word "fired" as 1 of the 4 most frequent descriptive terms, along with "unethical", "behavior", and "lies", please share that explanation.
She was targeted re this incident in 2008, and it's still out there, in those clouds the Hill supporters are studiously ignoring, and positioned to be thrown at her if she is the candidate.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/252624
scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation by stealing Judiciary Committee files on the only precedent case that could have stonewalled their plot and drafting a legal brief that, according to Mr. Ziefman, "was so fraudulent and ridiculous Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge."
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