It’s Wednesday August 19th, 2015…and here’s The Gouge!
First up, as former Attorney General Mike Mukasey notes at the WSJ…
“…The common-sense issues in this matter are more problematic than the criminal ones. Anyone who enters the Situation Room at the White House, where Mrs. Clinton was photographed during the Osama bin Laden raid, is required to place any personal electronic device in a receptacle outside the room, lest it be activated involuntarily and confidential communications disclosed.
Mrs. Clinton herself, in a now famous email, cautioned State Department employees not to conduct official business on personal email accounts. The current secretary of state,John Kerry, testified that he assumes that his emails have been the object of surveillance by hostile foreign powers. It is inconceivable...
Yes, INCONCEIVABLE!!!
…that the nation’s senior foreign-relations official was unaware of the risk that communications about this country’s relationships with foreign governments would be of particular interest to those governments, and to others.
It is no answer to say, as Mrs. Clinton did at one time, that emails were not marked classified when sent or received. Of course they were not; there is no little creature sitting on the shoulders of public officials classifying words as they are uttered and sent. But the laws are concerned with the sensitivity of information, not the sensitivity of the markings on whatever may contain the information.
…When I attended my first briefing in a secure facility, and brought a pad to take notes, my chief of staff leaned over and wrote in bold capital letters at the top of the first page, “TS/SCI,” meaning Top Secret, Secure Compartmentalized Information—which is to say, information that may be looked at only in what is known as a SCIF, a Secure, Compartmentalized Information Facility. My office was considered a SCIF; my apartment was not.
Neither is Hillary’s home, her lawyer’s office…nor the bathroom of a loft in Denver!
The point he was making by doing that—and this is just the point that seems to have eluded the former secretary of state—is one of common sense: Once you assume a public office, your communications about anything having to do with your job are not your personal business or property. They are the public’s business and the public’s property, and are to be treated as no different from communications of like sensitivity.
That something so obvious could have eluded Mrs. Clinton raises questions about her suitability both for the office she held and for the office she seeks.“
From where we sit, regardless of whether she wins the Dimocratic nomination for President, The Deleter of the Free World is..
In a related item…
Turning now to the Left Coast, two pieces of evidence demonstrating why the once-Golden State grows more tarnished with every passing day under Dimocratic despotism. Exhibit A: as Debra Saunders details at Townhall.com:
“The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act isn’t living up to its promise. Also known as Proposition 47, the California ballot initiative, which was approved in November 2014 with 60 percent of the vote, downgraded drug possession and many property crimes from a felony to a misdemeanor. Proponents argued that lesser punishment for low-level offenders would enhance public safety. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon was the rare prosecutor who pushed for its approval. He told the San Francisco Chronicle, “What we have been doing hasn’t worked, frankly.”
…In San Francisco, theft from cars is up 47 percent this year over the same period in 2014. Auto theft is up by 17 percent. Robberies are up 23 percent. And aggravated assaults are up 2 percent, according to San Francisco police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. Burglaries are down 5 percent. (Why burgle when you can get away with robbery?!?)
The City of Angels saw a 12.7 percent increase in overall crime this year, according to the Los Angeles Times; violent offenses rose 20.6 percent, while property crime rose by 11 percent. Mayor Eric Garcetti says Prop 47 may explain Los Angeles’ change in course from crime reduction to crime increases…”
Exhibit B: as this item from the Washington Examiner suggests, what if you held a job fair…and no one showed up?!?
“In 2012, California voters were peppered with grandiose promises, such that they could not resist approving Proposition 39. The measure, created and backed by wealthy environmentalist Tom Steyer, sought to raise taxes on corporations and use the money to fund green energy projects in schools.
He promised it would create 11,000 new jobs each year. What could go wrong?…”
Boys and girls, can you spell “Solyndra”?
We KNEW you could!
Next up, writing at Townhall.com, Matt Barber serves warning of the very predicament Progressives purposed…and which we’ve repeatedly predicted:
“…Masha Gessen, a lesbian journalist, activist and author, expressly admitted this fact in a 2012 interview with ABC Radio: “It’s a no-brainer that [homosexuals] should have the right to marry,” she said. “But I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. … [F]ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there – because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.”
Homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein echoes Gessen’s candid sentiments: “Demand the institution [of marriage] and then wreck it,” he once wrote. “James Dobson was right about our evil intentions,” he quipped. “We just plan to be quicker than he thought.”
The goal is to water down marriage until marriage is pointless. And as evidenced by the burgeoning legal push for polygamous and incestuous “marriages” – even for the “right” to “marry” a robot – sexual anarchists are well on their way to achieving this goal.
…“Americans are guaranteed the freedom to live and work consistent with their faith,” observed ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco. “Government has a duty to protect people’s freedom to follow their beliefs personally and professionally rather than force them to adopt the government’s views. Jack simply exercised the long-cherished American freedom to decline to use his artistic talents to promote a message with which he disagrees. The court is wrong to deny Jack his fundamental freedoms.”
The court affirmed an earlier order wherein Phillips and his Christian staff were not only ordered to bake homosexual “wedding” cakes against their will, but were additionally forced into pro-homosexual “sensitivity” propaganda classes.
And if they refuse? Then they go to jail.
That’s how it works. Christian free exercise isn’t outlawed all at once. Judges across our fruity plain simply order from the bench that millions of Christians, just like Kim Davis and Jack Phillips, must either deny recognition of God’s natural order and Christ’s admonition to “go and sin no more,” or face prison for “contempt of court.”
Welcome to America 2015, where evil is good, men are women, judges are tyrants, and Christians are persona non grata. There is no more in between. The anti-Christ left has thrown down the “gay marriage” gauntlet. It’s either God or man.”
You know…
…where we come down.
Then there’s this little dilemma:
“…Lowe’s spokesman Steve Salazar says the company reacted swiftly when it learned of the incident. Salazar says Lowe’s has “no tolerance for discrimination of any kind.” Salazar didn’t name the managers or specify whether they resigned or were fired.
Bradley told WSET-TV that a Danville store manager ordered him off an Aug. 3 delivery at the customer’s request. Bradley says he asked for a reason and was told it was because he’s black and the customer didn’t want him at her house. Bradley says that when he returned to Lowe’s, a white driver replaced him.
Salazar says an executive later apologized to Bradley.”
We’ve no clue as to the nature of what is either the result of this old lady’s bitterness or major malfunction. And while we in no way, shape or form support her position, we do find it shares far more in common with the radical LGBT activists’ continual set-ups of Christians than the MSM sees fit to report.
Think about it; gay activists demand mom-and-pop Christian businesses (because small businesses don’t have the financial wherewithal to fight their frivolous lawsuits!) ignore their closely-held religious beliefs…beliefs specifically protected in the Constitution…in order to service their “right” to gay marriage; a “right” which suffers NO material adverse impact whatsoever through their refusal to participate.
Yet when this woman, for reasons known only to herself (Is it racism? Was she raped at some point by a Black man?) requests a national retailer provide her a delivery driver of a specific skin tone, a request which violates no statute or regulation with which we’re familiar, suddenly Lowe’s heretofore non-existent policies against customer preference overrides the demands of the consumer.
Soooo…provided one is on the wrong side of the politically-correct version of history…the customer is NOT always right!
Finally, on the Lighter Side…
Magoo
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