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431 responses to “Sandbox – 11aug19”
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 August 2019 at 07:00 PM
Where’s Fish? Learn something new everyday. Bubba with a blue dress on.
Saw it William…..Epsteins preferences were well known…..pure mockery…..can’t be unrequited lust for Clinton.
More importantly….do we know if jeffty is OK…..saw this and was worried!
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article233990877.html
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Beat me to it BT! The only question is was it from a live sitting? Gotta love the fuck me pumps.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7353967/Did-Jeffrey-Epstein-portrait-Bill-Clinton-blue-dress-red-heels-NYC-mansion.html
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PaulE 548pm – So Paul, over the last couple of years you have gleefully predicted the downfall of President Trump about 517 out of zero occurrences. Is there something new and exciting you can report this time that puts bounce into your step? The same ol’ same ol’ drizzle of poll numbers is really beyond boring. Give us a hint, please.
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The Blue Dress: Darn guys. Was it on Drudge all day? Told myself to check before posting. I snooze and lose. Well, Walt will like it. 🙂
All is not lost. The show must go on. Thanks Fish.
“The contest immediately concluded, though there no was no stoppage to the baseball game.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article233990877.html#storylink=cpy
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Posted by: George Rebane | 14 August 2019 at 07:19 PM
Is there something new and exciting you can report this time that puts bounce into your step?
Well of course there is…..! If the economy goes tits up Trump will be a one termer! And the economy seems to be giving indications that it may be on its last legs (Yield Curve acting up, Trade War, etc.). Punch strikes me as the sort of guy who would be fine with breadlines if Trump was turned out. I think that probably accounts for his unusual glee this afternoon!
Now…..Punch……which of the group of distinguished “Statesmen/women” are you hoping replaces the Tangerine Tornado?
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DO tell! They were all protecting the anointed one at every turn including 0. –
Interviews with intelligence community officials have revealed that senior FBI leaders “seemed indifferent to evidence of a possible intrusion by a foreign adversary” into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-government email server, and that State Department officials allegedly sought to “downgrade classified material found on the server,” according to Senate investigators still probing the matter.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-indifferent-to-possible-china-hack-of-hillary-clintons-server-as-state-department-fought-to-protect-her-interviews-suggest
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Another metoo at CBS? –
During a Tuesday night segment on the sexual harassment accusations against opera star Placido Domingo, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was caught on a hot mic saying what sounded like, “Sounds like somebody else here…”
O’Donnell was overheard during a portion of the report in which Domingo said he believed all relationships in his past were consensual. But her comment was scrubbed from the audio when the clip was uploaded to the CBS website.
You can hear her comment at the 1:45 mark in the video above. Representatives for CBS News had no comment.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cbs-evening-news-norah-o-000212370.html
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Dude, if they did that they wouldn’t get as much air time and they don’t want to talk with Jews in the government anyway.
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Doesn’t matter who replaces Trump fish. I’d even vote for you if that was the option. Trump in my view is mentally ill and a danger to our country and the planet.
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Talk about gobbling the koolaide like jim jones!
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Touching words from a mother.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/14/illegal-alien-freed-twice-into-u-s-convicted-of-murdering-20-year-old-jared-vargas/
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Obama’s polls in august 2011 on Gallup
https://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx
Up 40, down 53
Trumps
Up 45, Down 54
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From a demented mind comes wack job words. Where do the Dems find these nuts? Boy, talk about fear mongering. Stacy Abrams, the woman who still has not lost a race.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/13/stacey-abrams-rnc-going-to-send-off-duty-officers-to-scare-voters-of-color/
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 August 2019 at 10:08 PM
Trump in my view is mentally ill and a danger to our country and the planet…..
Okay……”mentally ill”…..good to know.
This then excludes shotgun Joe from consideration as well I assume? Senesence falling under the same umbrella as mental illness……”A marked deterioration of mental processes and faculties”.
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“According to a report by Campus Reform, programming created by diversity office officials at the University of South Dakota asks white students to consider if they are “taking” too much “space” away from minority students.“
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/08/14/university-of-south-dakota-tells-white-students-to-stop-taking-up-space/
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Your uplifting passage of the day…..
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/08/15/you-should-totally-trust-our-elite-institutionsnot-n2551647
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,,,Fishstick,,,you forgot to mention your HERO with the gold plated Crapper Trump!!!
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Posted by: AVMan | 15 August 2019 at 08:41 AM
That’s some first rate sentence structure dugsKKKi…..and you were some sort of educator I’m told?
How’s things at the group home?
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fishy– 8:28 — wrong.. we want elites like trumpy who said our trade deficit with Japan was due to them selling us cars and us selling them wheat…yes we want someone who knows what they are talking about..like the 12,000 plus false and misleading statements trumpy has uttered since taking office. Perhaps if you people knew truth from hole in the ground it might be different.. but, alas..you do not.
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PS fishy — how are things in your lower intestine which seems to be where your head resides?
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Another environmental disaster in the making.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/08/environmental-disaster-solar-energy/
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Meanwhile closer to home, the Frisco airport has banned the sell of bottled water. You can buy an environmental friendly cup for 20 bucks and have your cup filled with water at various venders. Save the planter. It is interesting to note that sugary carbonated drinks like Pepsi can still be purchased at the airport….in plastic bottles, raflmao.
Also in San Francisco, the city is passing out tons of hypodermic needles which come inside little plastic shooters, yet is enforcing its plastic straw ban, lol. Too funny. Yep, junkies and the homeless are notorious for leaving discarded items on the ground and are not known for recycling. Where do these banana brains come from? No straws, but here is a nice plastic sharp for the skin poppers.
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I understand that Hickenlooper has now bailed in the Dropout Derby.
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 15 August 2019 at 09:51 AM
Hot flashes again Roberta? They do make a girl cranky.
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The Jew haters Omar and Tlaib denied entry.
Well, when you push for a single state (Palestine) to be the Final Solution to the ‘Jewish Problem’ , Israel might take offense to that. Besides, it’s against Israel law.
As a vibrant and free democracy, Israel is open to any visitor and to any criticism, with one exception: The law in Israel forbids the entry of people calling for and acting to placing a boycott on Israel, as is the norm in other democracies that prevent the entry of people whom they see as harming the country.”
Of course, Donald J. Trump offered his opinion.
“It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/israel-bans-omar-and-tlaib-from-entering-country.php
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Speaking of Jew haters, the EU and UN does what they always do.
“The European Union may soon place labels on products made in Israel’s disputed territories – a label that would not be added to any other products from around the world.
“We are not the Israeli government,” Yaakov told the outlet. “Psagot winery is not responsible for Israeli government policy. But because we are Jewish owners of a winery in a beautiful and hotly contested land, we are being targeted and punished. And we are being punished precisely because we are Jews living in Judea where we have every right to be, as do the Palestinian Arabs and Druze and the Christians.”
“No one should be discriminated against because of their religion,” he continued. “If you support a Palestinian state, would you support a Judenrein state of Palestine? That seems to be what the EU is proposing when it says Jewish businesses are illegal in Palestine but Muslim businesses are not, in the same location! Such a de facto boycott of Jewish products, the likes of which we have not seen since Nazi Germany, would definitely run afoul of U.S. law.”
“The Advocate General’s opinion said that goods produced by Muslims are to be labeled from ‘Palestine,’ and goods produced by Jews labeled as coming from ‘Israeli colonies,’ she told the outlet. “Both people are living in the same geographic location, and yet Jewish goods are being treated differently.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50512/europe-set-add-warning-labels-israeli-products-ashe-schow
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Child rapists
“The facts of this case highlight the danger posed by the City of Philadelphia’s decision to disregard ICE detainers and release previously deported aliens from local custody,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Those of us in the law enforcement business should be doing everything in our power to protect vulnerable children from predators like Vasquez. Instead, this defendant received a free pass from the City of Philadelphia and its Department of Prisons, headed straight back into our community, and committed a heinous crime he never would have had the chance to commit had the City of Philadelphia complied with the ICE detainer.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/defendant-released-local-custody-despite-outstanding-ice-detainer-pleads-guilty-illegal
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“A 35-year-old White Center man who was recently released from the King County Jail after serving time for rape is now accused of tracking down the victim last weekend, pushing her out of her wheelchair and strangling and beating her in front of her young son, according to prosecutors.
Francisco Carranza-Ramirez was supposed to board a flight to California and return to his native Mexico on Monday after King County Superior Court Judge Nicole Gaines Phelps agreed not to impose community custody, or probation, following his release from jail last week, court records show. He is now wanted on a no-bail warrant for violating conditions of his release on the rape charge, according to court records and King County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ryan Abbott.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/white-center-man-convicted-of-rape-accused-of-attacking-victim-days-after-his-release-from-jail/
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A Mexican immigrant illegally in the United States faces new federal charges after he was released from a Kansas prison, where he had been held for about 13 years after a child (11 years old). rape conviction.
Simon Rochel-Cervantes, 46, a citizen of Mexico, is charged in federal court with unlawfully re-entering the U.S. after being deported, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said Tuesday in a news release.
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article228453594.html#storylink=cpy
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in the “who killed robbin’ cock” category– Jeffery Epstein’s hyoid bone was found to be broken during his autopsy. While found in hanging suicides, it is more commonly found broken in strangulation homicides. Who stands to lose the most if Epstein’s secrets become public, which would certainly provide motive? Who could have had the right connections and skill set to engineer and execute a murder under the circumstances (in a jail cell) and make it look like a suicide, would narrow the list of suspects even more. Governance as reality TV…
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Pretty messed up when an American president tells another country to not allow elected American representatives to visit. Guess what Trump? Like it or not they were elected and have a constituency of American citizens regardless if you like them or not.
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Ya sure lets empower the jihadis who want to destroy the jews with photo ops with the terrorist ‘martyrs’ families that used to get checks from us taxpayers and then a big rally for BDS to cap off the visit!
Its in neither countries interest to give them a world wide platform. Only 10 donations from your district shows no level of support, just tools of the monied jihadi BDS jew haters on the coasts.
Then there is this –
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/08/15/omar-tlaibs-rejected-trip-organized-by-pro-bds-anti-israel-extremist/
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Posted by: J. Barron | 15 August 2019 at 12:12 PM
Like it or not
theyhewerewas elected andhavehas a constituency of American citizens regardless if you likethemhim or not.FTFY
#resist
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Well Bessee, Why am I not surprised? You have made a living out of denying others the freedom to make choices that you don’t agree with.
“Even the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobby, criticized the announcement.
“We disagree with Reps. Omar and Tlaib’s support for the anti-Israel and anti-peace BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement, along with Rep. Tlaib’s calls for a one-state solution,” AIPAC said in a statment. “We also believe every member of Congress should be able to visit and experience our democratic ally Israel firsthand.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/israel-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-netanyahu-1463655
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Tru dat –
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/brooke-goldstein-israel-smart-about-omar-tlaib-they-are-enemies-of-the-jewish-state
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 15 August 2019 at 12:04 PM
Governance as reality TV…
That’s a hell of an idea Roberta……we’ll call it the Arkansas Hillbillies……
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A graphic example of racism from the Trump administration:
‘Huddled Masses’ in Statue of Liberty Poem Are European, Trump Official Says
“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet,” said Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a top Trump administration immigration official….. refers to people “coming from Europe”.
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Yeah…..it sure is a shame that the American people didn’t get to have this “winner” as president…..
Yep……a real shame!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1162001040415363073.html?
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link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poem.html
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What shall we do with those anti-Semitics Omar and Tlaib? Those haters that have no place in our society? What can we do about them?
Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from those those Jew haters Omar or Tliab’s staff in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.
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Channeling your inner Maxine big mouthed (b)ass today I see @ 144.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 August 2019 at 01:37 PM
Ah Emma Lazarus……confusing tired old proggies for years!
Anyway……from an earlier exchange……given that you think Trump is mentally ill and that this is disqualifying I’m sure you’re happy to go on the record now and say that you think that “Gaffemaster Joe Biden is equally unqualified based on his obvious but different decline in mental faculties.
Exhibit A: Hiding crazy Grandpa Joe in the attic so he doesn’t embarrass the campaign as much!
We can have “Gramps” put down after he wins us the White House!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457486-biden-allies-float-scaling-back-events-to-limit-gaffes
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Bill-
I guess Palestinian haters aren’t haters.
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“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet“
YES, yes, yes, give us those who can stand on their own two feet.
Oh course. When that poem was placed in bronze at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in 1903, here was no unemployment insurance, no subsidized housing, no food stamps, no welfare, no disability insurance, and NO social security. If you could not make it and stand then you died in the streets. No slackers allowed. No sick weak people. No beggars. No one with epilepsy. No importers of prostitutes. And no friggin America haters.
“The Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, was a law of the United States regulating immigration. It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. It had little impact and its provisions related to anarchists were expanded in the Immigration Act of 1918..
Anarchism came to public attention in the United States with the Haymarket Affair of 1886. On May 4, a policeman was killed and several others were wounded, of which six later died, after a bomb exploded in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. Eight members of the recently formed International Working People’s Association (IWPA) were found guilty of the bombing. The IWPA’s 1883 manifesto called for the “destruction of the existing class rule, by all means, i.e., by energetic, relentless, revolutionary and international action”.
[American hating commie bastards and socialists.]
The idea of excluding anarchists from immigrating was first mentioned at a Congressional hearing in 1889. A bill introduced on July 20, 1894 sought to restrict the entry of anarchists by requiring potential immigrants to visit an U. S. consulate for a political review before immigrating. A substitute bill proposed a system within the United States to detect, question, and deport immigrants accused of anarchism. Both died in committee.”
Theodore Roosevelt urged the exclusion and deportation of anarchist immigrants in his first address to Congress on December 3, 1901:
“I earnestly recommend to the congress that in the exercise of its wise discretion it should take into consideration the coming to this country of anarchists or persons professing principles hostile to all government. … They and those like them should be kept out of this country; and if found here they should be promptly deported to the country whence they came.”
Roosevelt signed the law on the last day of Congress in 1903. “It also allowed for the deportation within two years of anyone unlawfully in the country and raised the head tax on immigrants to the United States to two dollars ($2.00). It further allowed the deportation of immigrants who became a public charge within their first two years in the country.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1903
Yes, those who can stand on their own two feet. Right on. Hmmm.
“…should take into consideration the coming to this country of persons professing principles hostile to all government. … They and those like them should be kept out of this country; and if found here they should be promptly deported to the country whence they came.”
Hey, that’s is EXACTLY what Bebe told those Jew Haters Omar and Tliab who advocate the destruction of Israel.
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No lefty revisionist history –
Cuccinelli tweeted a link to a history of the U.S. public charge law, which began long before the poem was written or the United States even existed
Liberals in the media are breathlessly accusing the Trump administration of violating the spirit of “The New Colossus,” a poem written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 and placed on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty 20 years later. In their minds, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” means “yearning to get on welfare.”
The media is making fun of Ken Cuccinelli tweaking the poem by saying, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet. And who will not become a public charge.” But that is actually the application of the poem. The poem meant that America on its own, an America without welfare, offers the liberty that allows poor people to become prosperous.
“Public charge” has been part of US immigration law for more than 100 years as a ground of inadmissibility and deportation but has never been defined in the statute …
The Trump administration recognizes that while the United States is the most generous country in the world, American taxpayers already work very hard to provide for the needs of their own families. The resources needed to fund those coming into the country must not overburden Americans unnecessarily.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/15/uscis-chief-ken-cuccinelli-americans-laws-trump-progressives-1883-poem/
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So you agree Bill with Trumps acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli; who says that the ‘Huddled Masses’ in the Statue of Liberty Poem refers to people who are “coming from Europe”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poem.html
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Bill writes
“What shall we do with those anti-Semitics Omar and Tlaib? Those haters that have no place in our society? What can we do about them?”
Simple Bill, they will be up for re-election in a year. Just support their opponents and send them money.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 August 2019 at 02:25 PM
Well since most of those who were entering the US when that stupid poem was made famous were from Europe, then probably yes.
Honestly Punch I’ve referred to you as having the judgement and thought processes of a thirteen year old girl…..this most recent “outrage of the week” has done nothing to change my opinion.
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Switching hats, Bill grabs Punchy’s microphone and shoves it back in Punchy’s face.
“Now Paul, did your Greek grandmother sneak into this country like a criminal thief in the night or did she come in through a legal port of entry? Did she use the front door and entered lawfully? Yes or no?
Bill, puts the microphone back in Punchy’s face to continue the interview.
“Now Paul, did your Scottish ancestors sneak illegally across our northern border and paused only to shit on US laws, or did they come here legally and were granted admission to enter by the US government? Did those Scots in your family tree break our country’s laws to enter into this great country or did they come in through the front door and were granted permission to touch Sacred US Soil?
“Now Paul, were the Scottish considered “European?” Was your grandmother considered “European?”
Bill gets ready for more of Thirty Questions and continues the interview…..
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PaulE 228pm – Paul, since AOC has literally no or negligible financial support from her constituents, and so few people voted her into office, and that her overwhelming support has come from some outside organizations, therefore is it reasonable to think that she is a ‘political machine’ candidate funded and handled by like-minded ultra-left organizations??
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Et tu biden?
Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine have already become a liability for the elder Biden’s frontrunning presidential campaign, and the new investigation could lead to further allegations of corruption. Joe Biden has bragged about pressuring Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in 2016, and critics said the then-vice president wanted to head off the prosecutor’s probe into a company that employed Hunter Biden as a board member.
Grassley, writing to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, noted that Rosemont Seneca Partners, which was established by Kerry stepson Christopher Heinz and Hunter Biden, among others, joined with the government-run Bank of China to create Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) in 2013. The fund openly advertised its “unique Sino-US shareholding structure,” as well as its lucrative “global resources and network.”
In 2015, BHR and the state-owned military contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) jointly purchased Henniges, a U.S.-based automotive company that creates “dual-use” technologies with both military and civilian applications. including anti-vibration technology. AVIC purchased 51 percent of Henniges, while BHR took 49 percent.
The Obama administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), by law, had to approve the sale because of its national security implications. The CFIUS is an interagency body consisting of, among other agencies, the Energy Department, Defense Department, Treasury Department, and State Department — which John Kerry led from 2013 to 2017.
“CFIUS approved the transaction despite reports that in 2007, years before BHR teamed up with AVIC’s subsidiary, AVIC was reportedly involved in stealing sensitive data regarding the Joint Strike Fighter program. AVIC later reportedly incorporated the stolen data into China’s J-20 and J‑31 aircraft,” Grassley wrote to Mnuchin.
Grassley continued: “The direct involvement of Mr. Hunter Biden and Mr. Heinz in the acquisition of Henniges by the Chinese government creates a potential conflict of interest. Both are directly related to high-ranking Obama administration officials. The Department of State, then under Mr. Kerry’s leadership, is also a CFIUS member and played a direct role in the decision to approve the Henniges transaction.”
“The appearance of potential conflicts in this case is particularly troubling given Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Heinz’s history of investing in and collaborating with Chinese companies, including at least one posing significant national security concerns,” Grassley added. “As with the Uranium One transaction, there is cause for concern that potential conflicts of interest could have influenced CFIUS approval of the Henniges transaction.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-invoking-uranium-one-probes-sensitive-biden-linked-obama-era-sale-to-china
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The famous poem is interesting. Who wrote the poem? A: Emma Lazarus
“Lazarus was well-known for her work with Eastern European Jewish refugees, addressing racism and anti-Semitism.”
Oh my, Emma must be turning over in her grave seeing what today’s Democrat Party (and California’s public school proposed new curriculum) has a big big big anti-Semitism problem. Those are not our values. We must stop them. We must all join together to stop the ugly Democrat Party embrace of anti-Semitism….the largest component of hate crimes in the US and growing.
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Illegal alien who committed local crimes sued because he was turned over to ICE after he finished his jail sentence because of a Department of Homeland Security detainer request. The case was thrown out of court.
“When local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, they create de facto sanctuaries for criminals like Francisco Guardado Rios. It makes no more sense to release those aliens back into the community than it would make sense to release a convicted criminal who is a U.S. citizen, but who is wanted in another state or by federal authorities.
“For Sheriff Scott Jenkins, job no. 1 is safeguarding the citizens of Culpepper County. Providing sanctuary to criminal illegal aliens isn’t in the job description.”
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/sheriff-was-sued-cooperating-ice-now-hes-vindicated
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Its the economy stupid. Are the socialist dems trying to talk us into a recession? Your bet your ass. The old yield curve inversion never was in a world where 1st world countries had negative bond rates so its not the same now. We buy most of what we make. –
The good data included better than expected retail sales, stronger than expected survey results on the manufacturing sector from the New York and Philadelphia Federal Reserve banks, and better than expected productivity gains. Industrial production numbers disappointed but much of that appeared to be due to Boeing’s problems.
“The U.S. consumer cannot rescue the world but it can insulate the U.S. economy from the world’s problems,” Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, said in an interview on CNBC Thursday.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/08/15/u-s-economy-upgraded-one-day-after-yield-curve-panic/
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