There was nothing "clear" in that Whitewater investigation. They got away with murder... in more than one way.

Scary stuff to me


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It is a pretty sorry Government that is willing to put it's citizens at risk of death rather than inconvenience citizens of another country.

The U.S. Marines who guarded the sprawling complex in northwest Iraq where Saddam Husseins 1980s war machine churned out some of the most deadly chemical and biological weapons known to man had a name for one especially mysterious bunker: The Dragons Egg.

Although the Americans assigned to the Al Muthanna facility until 2008 were forbidden by superiors from peering inside the bunker, they knew the larger complexs history. From 1983 to 1990, the brutal dictators scientists worked there, developing mustard, sarin, VX and Tabun gases for use on Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurds. And although it was under the control of U.S. and Iraqi military forces for most of the last decade, the entire facility - and whatever it held - is now firmly in the grasp of the Islamic State, the terrorist army that has claimed a vast swath of Iraq and Syria and allegedly used chemical weapons against Kurds this summer.

The X-shaped bunker, encased in cement and shrouded in mystery, was one of two that were handled differently from the many other bunkers that made up the facility, according to Lt. Joshua Hartley, who was stationed there in 2008. It was off-limits.

Lewiston Idaho veterinarian's Letter to the Editor re: Ebola, Nails it!

The present Ebola crisis in the world is frightening. I have submitted the following letter to the editor of the Lewiston Morning Tribune:

Editor, Lewiston Morning Tribune:

If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country. Africa has a disease called African Horse Sickness that does not exist in the US; this is the way we have kept it out of this country. African Horse Sickness does not cause disease in people, only horses; our government has determined that it would be devastating to the US horse industry if it were to come here.

The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.

I cant legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required. In fact I cant legally cross the Snake River and ride my horse in Idaho without a health certificate and a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia.

Im not complaining; the United States of America, the States of Idaho and Washington as well as the other 48 states take the health of our livestock very seriously, and we have a very good record at keeping foreign animal diseases out of our country. I am happy to do my part to maintain biosecurity in our animal population.

If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.

I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly.

David A. Rustebakke, DVM

n a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the Republican chairman to warn that the Left wants to regulate conservative political sites and even news outlets like the Drudge Report.

Democratic FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel announced plans to begin the process to win regulations on Internet-based campaigns and videos, currently free from most of the FECs rules. A reexamination of the commissions approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long over due, she said.

The power play followed a deadlocked 3-3 vote on whether an Ohio anti-President Obama Internet campaign featuring two videos violated FEC rules when it did not report its finances or offer a disclosure on the ads. The ads were placed for free on YouTube and were not paid advertising.

While he was early voting on Friday, a Douglasville, Georgia man says he was asked to remove a hat he wears everywhere, one that reads NRA Instructor, because poll workers said it was too closely associated with the Republican party.

Bundy Cobb, who is certified by the National Rifle Association in firearms training, wears the hat in part to promote his business, True Aim Defense. But poll workers apparently saw it as something different.

I went by the first two ladies, and they didnt say anything. And then the next lady, she said sir, youre going to have to take off your hat, Cobb recalled in an interview with The Daily Caller.

What are you talking about? Cobb said he replied.

Cobb, who is a veteran, says he looked down the voting line and saw another man with a hat on. Whats the difference between his hat and mine? Cobb asked.

Thats when workers told him that his NRA hat was perceived as being associated with the GOP and that he couldnt wear it near the voting booth.

It kind of caught me off guard, Cobb told TheDC, adding that he has worn the exact same hat three times to the same polling place.

Its ridiculous, Cobb said. My hat advertises my business.

Cobb took off the hat but contacted the local Fox News affiliate in Atlanta. He also contacted the state board of elections, which, he told TheDC, is investigating the case.

Laurie Fulton, the Douglas County board of elections supervisor, explained that the decision was made out of an abundance of caution.

The courts have found that anything that suggests associated with the NRA in many peoples perceptions is associated with the Republican party, Fulton told Fox Atlanta. So in an overabundance of caution Mr. Cobb was asked to remove the hat so that no one could interpret that we were playing any favoritism over one party versus the other.

But reached for further comment, Fulton couldnt cite the court case she alluded to and told TheDC that there was no clear precedent at the state level prohibiting NRA apparel.

Instead, Fulton said that the policy came about after she consulted a colleague following an incident that took place in Douglas County earlier this week.

It started earlier in the week when a voter complained to me about a hat a man was wearing [an NRA hat], Fulton told TheDC.

Like Cobb, that man removed his hat after being asked.

I consulted with one of my contemporaries in another county, Fulton said. They determined that the NRA hat fell under the same sort of grey area as a ruling that barred voters from wearing a Dont Tread on Me t-shirt, Fulton said, citing apparel that is popular among tea party and other similar groups.

Fulton was unable to recall if that ruling came from the Georgia Supreme Court or the state election board.

Fulton also discussed how she handles politicized speech and apparel in her office. Once, Fulton said, she wore a Rosie the Riveter t-shirt to work, and a co-worker complained that it was too political. Since then, she says she cautions employees against engaging in behavior that could be seen as overly politicized. She applies the same thinking to the voting public.

Cobb called the decision ridiculous and said that NRA membership has nothing to do with political leanings.

I know personally some Democrats who are members of the NRA, he said.

Earlier this year a Texas man was forced to cover a pro-Second Amendment t-shirt while voting. In that incident, a gun initiative was on the ballot. No similar initiatives were on the ballot when Cobb went to the polls on Friday.

Barack Obama served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993 to 2001. During that time, the tax exempt foundation made some interesting grants, including one to Obama's church, Trinity United Church of Christ, headed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the time. Grants were also made to ACORN, a left wing voter registration group and to a partnership for constructing low income housing. The fund also used Northern Trust for financial services, which is the same company that provided Obama his 2005 mortgage.


In 2001 the board of directors included Obama, William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical terrorist, and serving as chairman was Howard J. Stanback who headed New Kenwood LLC, a limited liability company founded by now-convicted felon Tony Rezko and Allison Davis, Obama's former boss at the law firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland.

The pro-amnesty Hispanic activist organization the National Council of La Raza helpfully promoted a Washington Post article explaining which states people can vote in without having to use a photo ID.

Voter ID laws are at-issue across the country, with newly Republican-controlled legislatures having passed them in numerous states after the 2010 election, explained The Washington Posts Aaron Blake. Most states still request some form of ID, but dont require it.

Karma?

(CNSNews.com) A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that the state with senators who both voted for the Gang of Eight immigration bill, which cleared the Senate in June, has 71 percent of its job growth going to foreign-born workers, including legal and illegal immigrants.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) both voted for Senate Bill 744, which CIS calculated would have roughly doubled the number of new foreign workers allowed into the country and would have given legal status to millions of illegal aliens already in the country had the legislation been passed by the House and become law.

Notifications have been sent out to 30,000 residents of Indiana informing them their health insurance plans no longer meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and will be cancelled at the end of this year.

Welcome to open borders:

A deadly disease called Chagas has been estimated to have infected at least 300,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. This infection is transferred by the kissing bug and is contracted when the bug bites its sleeping victims, takes their blood, and then deposits its feces where the unaware victim rubs it into the open wound.
The disease can remain in the victims blood for over 20 years before it manifests symptoms. The first stage of the disease has few symptoms, and they can seem like symptoms of other illnesses, with fever, fatigue, achiness, headaches, loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea. Those symptoms can last for weeks or months, but the second stage can trigger an enlarged heart, heart failure, altered heart rate or rhythm, cardiac arrest, or enlarged esophagus or colon.
Melissa Nolan Garcia, from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said of the first stage, "People don't normally feel sick, so they don't seek medical care, but it ultimately ends up causing heart disease in about 30 percent of those who are infected." Garcia added that there may be more than 2,000 congenital cases through mother-to-child transmission.
Garcias team studied 17 blood donors in Texas who had the parasite that causes Chagas disease. She said, The concerning thing is that majority of the patients [I spoke to] are going to physicians, and the physicians are telling them, No you dont have the disease' A lot of the cardiologists were aware of Chagas disease, but they dont make the connection when the patient is sitting in front of them.
The actual parasite causing the disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Roughly eight million people have the disease; most are unaware they have it.

It is shameful what is happening to this country.

A plan by police in Buffalo, N.Y., to begin confiscating the firearms of legal gun owners within days of their deaths is drawing fire from Second Amendment advocates.

The plan is legal under a longstanding, but rarely enforced state law, but gun rights advocates say, with apologies to onetime NRA spokesman Charlton Heston, it is tantamount to prying firearms some of which may have substantial monetary or sentimental value from the cold, dead hands of law-abiding citizens.

Theyre quick to say theyre going to take the guns, said Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. But they dont tell you the law doesnt apply to long guns, or that these families can sell [their loved one's] pistol or apply to keep it.

King said enforcing the state law is the latest example of authorities targeting law-abiding gun owners, while doing little to secure the streets.

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