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June 28, 2016

More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — An additional 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department surfaced Monday, including nearly three dozen that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee failed to hand over last year that were sent through her private server.

The latest emails were released under court order by the State Department to the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. The batch includes 34 new emails Clinton exchanged through her private account with her deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin. The aide, who also had a private email account on Clinton's home server, later gave her copies to the government.

The emails were not among the 55,000 pages of work-related messages that Clinton turned over to the agency in response to public records lawsuits seeking copies of her official correspondence. They include a March 2009 message where the then-secretary of state discusses how her official records would be kept.

"I have just realized I have no idea how my papers are treated at State," Clinton wrote to Abedin and a second aide. "Who manages both my personal and official files? ... I think we need to get on this asap to be sure we know and design the system we want."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/775550d62ef8487a975a2a1c1c8b1100/more-clinton-emails-released-including-some-she-deleted

June 14, 2016

Police: W.Va. man shot and killed three people 'ambush-style'

Source: Hagerstown MD Herald-Mail

Authorities said a preliminary investigation shows three people were murdered when a Great Cacapon, W.Va., man who was prepping for the "end of times" hid behind a tree and opened fire with an assault-style rifle Monday afternoon on top of Sideling Hill Mountain in Morgan County, W.Va.
"He took cover behind a tree and shot these people ambush-style," Morgan County Sheriff Vince Shambaugh said Tuesday morning.
He said an initial investigation and information provided by a person who escaped the shooting indicate Erick Shute, 32, of Great Cacapon, fired the fatal shots from behind an oak tree about 20- to 25-yards away.
The dead were identified as Jack Douglas of Great Cacapon, and Travis Bartley and Willie Bartley, both of Hedgesville, W.Va.
Shambaugh said an AR-15 rifle was used to commit the killings.

Read more: http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/breaking/police-w-va-man-shot-and-killed-three-people-ambush/article_078a4f3c-323c-11e6-bf69-bf8b2145c508.html



More AR-15 killings
June 8, 2016

The Power and the Glory by Phil Ochs should be our song:

Come and take a walk with me through this green and growing land
Walk through the meadows and the mountains and the sand
Walk through the valleys and the rivers and the plains
Walk through the sun and walk through the rain

Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Glory shall rest on us all

From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas too
Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new
Texas and Ohio and the California shore
Tell me, who could ask for more?

Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Glory shall rest on us all

Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor
Only as free as the padlocked prison door
Only as strong as our love for this land
Only as tall as we stand

Oh, here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Glory shall rest on us all

Come and take a walk with me through this green and growing land
Walk through the meadows and the mountains and the sand
Walk through the valleys and the rivers and the plains
Walk through the sun and walk through the rain

Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Glory shall rest on us all, on us all

Songwriters
PHIL OCHS

June 8, 2016

Sad to see president of Emily's List gloating

on MSNBC

My last contribution was last January before I realized that they were supported right-wing Democratic women over progressive Democrats.

Never again...

June 4, 2016

Weird = Rachel Maddow saying it's the Bernie campaign only...

that said the media shouldn't include superdelegates in the counts.

We know the DNC said the same thing.

Rachel keeps pushing for Hillary.

June 2, 2016

The roll call began at the Democratic Convention in 2008...

then:

Obama's formal nomination as the Democrat's standard-bearer came in a choreographed minuet that followed weeks of negotiations between the Clinton and Obama camps.

The balloting stood at 1,549 for Obama and 341 for Clinton -- with 2,210 delegates needed to clinch the nomination -- when it came Illinois' turn in the roll call of states. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley passed on behalf of the state delegation and the count skipped to New York. Clinton, surrounded by the governor and other state political leaders, read carefully from printed remarks, urging delegates to "declare together in one voice, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president."


http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/28/nation/na-ledeall28
June 2, 2016

Plutocracy is rampant

as is sycophancy.

I'm afraid this will not change in my lifetime or ever.


When ethical candidates like Bernie Sanders are vilified and golems get revered, I despair.

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