Saturday, May 26, 2018

The Clinton Foundation is back! Sting, Shaggy and Adam Rippon hail charity at $100,000-a-table gala - while chardonnay with Hillary and the Caribbean with Bill go up for auction

Daily Mail

Breakout star: The Clinton Foundation has found a new supporter in Adam Rippon, 
the U.S. figure skater Dancing With The Stars champion, who used his social 
media to promote the event

"The Clinton Foundation is under FBI investigation into pay-to-play while she was Secretary of State - but roared back at a New York gala Thursday
  • "Bill, Hillary and Chelsea all took to the stage to talk up the foundation as millionaires and celebrities rubbed shoulder
  • "Sting and Shaggy performed together and Jon Bon Jovi helped compere, while figure skating star Adam Rippon also spoke and was praised by both Clintons
  • "Auction saw a bid of $65,000 for chardonnay with Hillary, while also on offer was a trip to the Caribbean with Bill 
  • "Foundation kept the venue secret in sign they are still concerned about public perception of charity, which came under intense scrutiny during 2016 election 
  • "Donations have plunged: In 2015 it got $182.5 million from donors, but in 2016, which saw intense scrutiny on who had given, that was down to $135.4 million"



Brother Of Parkland Victim Slams David Hogg’s Publix ‘Die-in,’ Lists ‘Who People Should Be Protesting’

Weasel Zippers

"18-1958 refers to the Parkland shooter, that’s his case number."

"Hunter Pollack and his father are focused on school safety and they believe that the gun control focus is distracting from basic safety that can be done to help secure schools with things like armed security, single-point entry and metal detectors."

'Stubbornly fighting for life': how Arthur Koestler reported the birth of Israel

The Guardian
Seventy years ago, Israel declared independence, and the Manchester Guardian sent the leftwing intellectual to cover the nascent state. But was he an altogether accurate witness?

Young people in Tel Aviv celebrate on 29 November 1947, the day the UN voted to allow the creation of a Jewish state.
" 'In the beginning was chaos and muddle,” reads the first line of the June 1948 dispatch from the coastal city of Tel Aviv. The state of Israel was less than a month old when the Manchester Guardian launched a series of articles by the journalist and novelist Arthur Koestler. The country had declared independence on 14 May.
"In the midst of a conflict with Arab Palestinians, coupled with an invasion by surrounding states, Israel had no clearly accepted borders but was hastily forming a government. So young was the country that the Israeli visas stamped on Koestler’s and his partner’s passports in Paris were numbered five and six. On arrival, he found airport signs freshly painted in English and Hebrew, while immigration and customs officers had not yet received uniforms.
. . . "He arrived to an Israel vastly unrecognisable from the regional powerhouse it is today. Notwithstanding open conflict, Israel’s untested leaders were gathering Jewish militant factions into one army and forming a nation of disparate Jews from across Europe and the Middle East. After close to three decades in which the territory had been under the British Mandate for Palestine, the United Nations proposed, in 1947, to split the area into two, forming independent Arab and Jewish states. Civil war erupted, and Jewish leaders later announced Israel’s creation." . . .
Israel at 70: jubilant US embassy opening masks fevered times
"Move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is celebrated in land where ‘Netanyahu is king and Trump is a god’ "
. . . "Trump’s decision to recognise the holy city as Israel’s capital was made in stark defiance of long-held international consensus that the status of divided Jerusalem should be negotiated with the Palestinians." . . .


David Hogg's Publix stunt is an Alinsky-style shakedown

The foul-mouthed brat strikes again. This tool of the left must have gone to Al Sharpton University; Magna Cum Loudly. TD



Monica Showalter
What's frustrating here is that Publix didn't stand up to this little monster, whose piling-on victories have increased his power and public influence, not through the force of his ideas (which have no force and which won't lead to any gun control) but through the force of his coercion. He's already shown how immature he is, unable to convey his losing ideas to the public, so now he uses Chicago-style muscle as a frontman for the sleazy leftwing groups that are financing him. Because he's not even old enough to remember the nuclear 'die-ins' of the Reagan era that inspired this stunt against Publix, - but the moneybags backing him are.
"David Hogg is back at it, doing the only thing he apparently knows, which is mau-mauing business.
"The youthful gun-control activist staged a 'die-in' at Publix in Coral Springs, Florida, to protest the grocery retailer's donation to a pro-business Republican candidate who also supports the Second Amendment. Apparently, you can't do that and must only work to elect anti-business leftists, or else Hogg will come protesting, bringing his media gaggle, at you.
"Hogg's do-this-or-I'll-stage-a-dramatic-protest-and-bring-the-press is nothing but 'a shakedown.' It doesn't matter that you might be supporting a Republican for business reasons to represent you, you must support leftists or else be declared a mass murderer, all in for the slaughter of high school children. What a bargain. And if you want to talk about divisiveness, and demonizing the opposition, this is how it's done.
"Sadly, Publix, wary of boycotts, has caved in, apologized for being 'divisive,' and declared it has halted all corporate political donations in the service of its business interests. That pretty well ends donations to any Republicans now.
Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it, as Saul Alinsky used to say in his Rules for Radicals, the textbook guide to politically motivated racketeering." . . .
Commentary: Publix doesn't deserve David Hogg's 'die-in' treatment 
. . . "In an interview with The Outline, Hogg called the NRA a group of “pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children.”
"As for anyone who accepts an NRA contribution, “It just makes me think what sick f***ers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected.
“ 'What type of s***ty person does that? They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see these dollar signs." . . .

Not so fast Obama, your biggest scandal is unfolding before our eyes

Washington Times Opinion  "While speaking to a tech conference this week in Las Vegas President Obama 
repeated a claim he and many members of the media have made since his presidency came to an end. 


“ 'I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it shouldn’t be something you brag about,” Obama said. “But actually,” he said, “if you look at the history of the modern presidency, coming out of the modern presidency without anybody going to jail is really good. It’s a big deal.”
"The notion is obviously absurd on the face of it, for anyone who paid unbiased attention over the eight years of his presidency. Mark Hemingway and Hans Von Spakovsky have gone through the labors of detailing many (but not all) of the scandals of the Obama years. The short list includes Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS targeting, Solyndra, the Veteran Administration… how much time do you have?
"The fact that these troubling episodes have not risen (in some people’s minds) to the level of the multiple “Generic-Gate” scandals that crippled presidencies of the past is less a testament to Obama’s ethics than it is commentary on the two institutions charged with monitoring and exposing these dramas. " . . .
. . . "Make no mistake, Spygate is an Obama scandal and it involves Barack Obama, himself, in a very personal way. 
"First, the Spygate story is inexorably linked with the Clinton email drama, another Obama-era scandal that for some reason he gets to duck any responsibility for. Andrew McCarthy has been very thorough in explaining these very important links. " . . .

This just in:

'Scandal-free' Obama is daring Trump to bust corrupt members of his administration  . . . "Obama claims he had no scandals because he allowed no consequences, no matter what anyone ever did, no matter what laws they broke, which is not an argument to claim he had no scandals. In fact, as a leftist, he tended to let all kinds of miscreants and plagues on society out scot-free, starting with Bradley Manning, and moving on to all the criminals he let out via pardons, at least some of whom have resumed their lives of crime. It was quite a pattern with him, and signaled an inclination toward lawlessness, which only grew as his administration continued. 
"Three, Obama had a pliant press covering up for him, as the Washington Times notes in an op-ed about the latest garbage from him, headlined:" . . .


Jarrett and Obama are Behind Spygate. (Trump must be destroyed!)

It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL mission.  Seems she was concerned about the possible political harm to Obama if the mission failed[.] ... Edward Klein, author of the best-selling book about Obama, "The Amateur," once asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett, and the president responded, "Absolutely." 

Daniel John Sobieski   Unless we assume the FBI went completely rogue, it is inconceivable that the deployments of personnel to spy on the Trump campaign and make provocative contact with its lesser members could have occurred without the full knowledge and control of the occupants of the Oval Office.

"Obama may claim a scandal-free administration, but after Fast and Furious, the targeting of the Tea Party by the IRS, the Benghazi cover-up, Hillary's emails, to name a few, Spygate is just the latest.  I use the plural "occupants" because while Barack Hussein Obama may have been nominally the president of the United States, at the heart of every one of these scandals and virtually every administration move was Valerie Jarrett, who arguably could be considered our first female president." . . .
. . . "If Obama ran every decision past Jarrett, the decision to plant spies in the Trump campaign certainly was among the most important.  Obama's legacy was important to Jarrett, perhaps even more important than to Obama himself.  She had to preserve it and ensure that the fundamental transformation of America continued.  If Hillary could not win, Trump must be destroyed." . . .  (Emphasis mine, TD) 

And with the full cooperation of entertainment media, NBC and CNN, among others, including impressionable school children. "Skulls full of mush" as it were.

Obama: I Had a Scandal-Free Presidency  "Well, yeah, if you didn’t look at any of the eight years."