February 4, 2015

How Mike Huckabee’s BLIND HATE For Bill Clinton LED TO MURDER

In 1984, serial rapist Wayne DuMond was convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault after he used a gun to force a 17-year-old high school cheerleader into his car, before driving to a secluded place where he violently raped her. The victim’s name was Ashley Stevens. Stevens was the third cousin of Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas at the time she was raped. Prior to raping Ashley Stevens, DuMond had been arrested twice for the rapes of at least two other woman. He received a deferred sentence after being convicted of the rape of another teen in Tacoma, Washington. A few years later he raped a woman in DeWitt, Arkansas. Prosecutors dropped the charges in that case, on the condition that DuMond attend counselling. DuMond openly admitted to beating a man to death with a claw hammer, in Lawton, Oklahoma. In that case he was not charged because he agreed to testify against two others who were involved in the killing. DuMond was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years, for the kidnapping and rape of Ashley Stevens. Before his sentencing, however, DuMond’s testicles were cut off. He claimed that two men attacked him in his home, tied him up with fishing line and castrated him. In reality there was never any evidence of a break-in. There were no ligature marks or injuries, which should have been apparent if DuMond had been forcefully restrained with fishing line by two attackers. DuMond’s own wife asked the doctor who treated him if it were possible he had injured himself. Of course the answer was yes. The nearly empty half-gallon jug of whiskey near the scene of the castration suggested that it was indeed possible.


But what do facts matter to right wing fanatics? Inside the diseased minds of warped right wing lunatics, this was all Bill Clinton’s doing. DuMond became a martyr, a victim of the evil leftist regime. Guided by nothing but their blind and vicious hatred for Clinton, right wing church groups, political organizations and pro-rape – anti-women -“‘conservative activists” demanded clemency for DuMond. A relatively unknown author by the name of Guy Reel, came out with a book about DuMond, titled Unequal Justice: Wayne DuMond, Bill Clinton, and the Politics of Rape in Arkansas. Not surprisingly, the book omitted important details and falsified others. Steve Dunleavy of the New York Post and Jay Cole, pastor of the Mission Fellowship Bible Church in Fayetteville, were also among the right wing fanatics who pressed for clemency in the case. Some of the lies spread by the right wing media regarding DuMond included that DuMond was a “Vietnam veteran with no record.” He was a Vietnam vet, who openly confessed to slaughtering a village of Cambodians during the Vietnam war. He also has a history of violent crime and previous rape charges going back more than a decade, including a previous rape conviction. DuMond supporters claimed that Ashley Stevens “failed to identify DuMond in two lineups,” a statement that was entirely misleading. She identified him immediately during the only lineup in which he was present. Another claim, that Stevens “identified two other suspects, one an ex-boyfriend,” was total fabrication. She never identified anyone except DuMond. The claim that DNA evidence exonerated DuMond, is also a lie. No evidence of the kind ever existed.


Desperate to blame Bill Clinton, the right wing also claimed that he had personally intervened to keep DuMond in prison. Clinton explicitly recused himself from the case because of his relation with Stevens. As governor of Arkansas, one of Huckabee’s first acts was to move to give DuMond a commuted sentence. After Huckabee announced his intentions to free DuMond, Ashley Stevens and other victims appealed to his office and to the media. Letters from Stevens and from other victims of the serial rapist can be read in full at this link, via the Huffington Post. Huckabee wrote to DuMond in 1997, addressing the letter “Dear Wayne,” and saying that it was his “sincere desire” to see him released from prison. Huckabee wrote that while he could not offer clemency, he would recommend parole to the seven-member parole board.


Huckabee met privately with DuMond’s parole board, during what was most likely an illegal meeting, held in violation of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. Under pressure from Huckabee, the parole board voted to allow DuMond to move to Missouri, where he raped and killed at least two women, one who was pregnant with her first child. Later Huckabee denied intervening in the case, but the evidence shows that he’s lying about the role he played in getting DuMond out of prison. Members of his administration say otherwise. In 2007 several members of the parole board came forward to talk about DuMond’s release. Mike Huckabee wants to be president of the United States. It isn’t just the horrendous judgment that he showed when intervening in the DuMond case that should be causing alarm bells to sound across the country. While Huckabee was governor, he pardoned literally thousands of Arkansas criminals, and he did it without notifying victims or authorities of his intention to release these people.

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/03/mike-huckabee-pardoned-convicted-killers-rapists/

February 3, 2015

EPA REVIEW Of Keystone XL 'National Interest' Ought To BE ENOUGH For Obama To Say 'NO' To Pipeline

The State Department is nearing the end of the process of determining whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline is in the "national interest." Neela Banerjee at InsideClimate News has written an excellent piece about that process. Among its key elements are examining more than two million public comments about the pipeline and pondering what eight federal departments and agencies have to say about the environmental review. The reports from those eight were due Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency had this to say in the report it released publicly:



The EPA also notes that if oil prices remained high, the assessment that tar sands petroleum would make it to market even if the pipeline weren't built is probably correct, even if it meant sending that petroleum via more rail, which is more expensive. But if the price of oil remains low, then building the pipeline would mean more tar sands would be extracted and shipped than would otherwise be the case. Bill McKibben, co-founder of the climate change group 350.org and a lifelong environmental activist, said: “In a city where bureaucrats rarely say things right out loud, the EPA has come pretty close. Its knife-sharp comments make clear that despite the State Department’s relentless spin, Keystone is a climate disaster by any realistic assessment. The president's got every nail he needs to finally close the coffin on this boondoggle.”


Let's hope President Obama is digging in his toolbox for a hammer.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/03/1362009/-EPA-review-of-Keystone-XL-impact-statement-ought-to-be-enough-for-Obama-to-say-No-to-pipeline#

February 3, 2015

Mitt RE-RE-RE-SAILS Into The Sunset

As Mitt re-re-re-sails into the sunset, enjoy one final reprise of his revised 2012 America the Beautiful lyrics---a reminder of the presidency that will never be, as he takes his car elevator ever-so-slowly down, down, down…





Bye, again! And thanks for all the chocolate goodies.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/03/1361791/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Tuesday?showAll=yes

February 2, 2015

Jeb Bush Was PERMA-STONED, BULLYING ‘D’ Student At Chi-Chi Prep School, Say Classmates

PERMA-STONED?...BULLYING 'D' STUDENT?......MY, MY.........





Classmates at an exclusive prep school recall former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) as a hash-smoking “bully” who routinely used his imposing build to harass and intimidate other students. Talking Points Memo reported Saturday on a Boston Globe article that detailed Bush’s “tumultuous” years at the Phillips Academy boarding school located in Andover, Massachusetts through the eyes of the people who knew him there. John Ellis “Jeb” Bush entered Andover in the fall of 1967, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother George.


“Classmates said he smoked a notable amount of pot — as many did,” wrote the Globe‘s Michael Kranish, “and sometimes bullied smaller students.” Bush’s former roommate Phil Sylvester said, “He was just in a bit of a different world.” Other students, said Sylvester, “were constantly arguing about politics and particularly Vietnam, he just wasn’t interested, he didn’t participate, he didn’t care.” The teen Bush proved to be an even worse student than his brother, maintaining a grade average barely high enough to keep him from expulsion. “I drank alcohol and I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover,” Bush said, which the Globe pointed out, could both have led to expulsion. “It was pretty common.”


One friend, Peter Tibbetts, recalled, “The first time I really got stoned was in Jeb’s room.” Bush invited Tibbetts to try some hashish, which is typically more potent than regular marijuana. “He had a portable stereo with removable speakers. He put on Steppenwolf for me,” Tibbetts said. The song was the group’s hit, “Magic Carpet Ride.” Later, Bush helped Tibbetts acquire some hash of his own, but the former classmate hastened to explain that Bush was not a drug dealer. “Please bear in mind that I was seeking the hash, it wasn’t as if he was a dealer; though he did suggest I take up cigarettes so that I could hold my hits better, after that first joint,” Tibbetts said. Tibbetts also told the Globe that he and Bush worked together to bully a fellow classmate, a smaller boy who they routinely taunted and vandalized his clothing. Bush denies the bullying, saying, “It was 44 years ago and it is not possible for me to remember.”


However, Gregg Hamilton, a Bush classmate at Andover and Pemberton College, told the Globe that he dreaded running into the 6-foot-4 Bush on campus. “Jeb Bush was large, physically imposing, and traveled in a crowd that was I guess somewhat threatening to an outsider like myself. I saw him as a cigarette smoker and ‘toker’ and someone that was comfortable being in charge of a group,” he said. “I was small physically, and small at an all-male boarding school that, at that time, was a bit of a hostile environment for the kids — sort of a ‘Lord of the Flies’ situation, at least as I saw it.” “He was physically imposing and just bad enough to be accepted or feared by everybody,” Hamilton said. The accusations echo those made against former Massachusetts governor and erstwhile Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who reportedly led a gang of boys who held down a gay classmate and cut off his hair at Michigan’s Cranbrook prep school.





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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/jeb-bush-was-perma-stoned-bullying-d-student-at-chi-chi-prep-school-say-classmates/