CLINTON (CARTEL) FOUNDATION

As most of us have heard, those who listen anyway, the generosity of the Clinton Foundation has applied only 6 or 7 percent of their received donations to charitable causes.  To top that disgusting fact off, many of the donations were in the furtherance of a pay to play income enhancing ploy for the Clintons e enhancing ploy for the Clintons personally. 

These numbers were similar in the foundation's 2013 tax returns, which revealed that the Clinton Foundation raised over $140 million but only used $9 million in direct aid, according to the New York Post:  “It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group where progressive Democrat and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout was once an organizing director.

I can’t personally write about all of the evidence, the books, and the e-mails that support the accusations, but I can give some informative articles.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8561/7-things-you-need-know-about-clinton-foundation-aaron-bandler#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mc3iuqlesc

“The Clinton Cartel Defrauded Bernie and His Supporters”

http://truthfeed.com/video-lou-dobbs-the-clinton-cartel-defrauded-bernie-and-his-supporters/29210/

COMPREHENSIVE CLINTON BODY COUNT LIST

http://www.govtslaves.info/comprehensive-clinton-body-count-list/

The Clinton Foundation Scandals, Explained

Everything you need to know about the shady dealings of the Clinton family's global corporate charity conglomerate

http://freebeacon.com/blog/the-clinton-foundation-scandals-explained/

This is just a few articles on these folks…\

Pray for discernment   Vote for what serves our country

GOD BLESS THE USA

REALLY HILLARY

I would wager that the dog ate your homework in grade school. 

With all the finger pointing going on, regarding what the FBI should have done or should not have done, memory should serve we the people best.  With all the smoke that has been blown our direction for the last few years, regarding Hillarys’ indiscretions in safe keeping our country’s vital communications, it is sometimes difficult to recall the absolute cause for our concern.  

Do you remember the fact that she decided to shun protocol, and agreement with the executive, by using a private server to communicate government correspondence?  

None of the subsequent investigations would have occurred if she had just followed the rules.  She would have followed the rules if she didn’t think they should not apply to her.  

If one were to study the historical record of her skirting both legal and ethical boundaries that record is probably one more task that you would not have enough time to accomplish before election day. 

The fact to remember is this: without Hillary’s bad judgment, disregard of protocol, and failure of full disclosure, we would not be having this discussion. None of this is the fault of anyone else, she is responsible.

So now it’s time for the Clintonesque common practice of misdirection and deflection.  This practice has been a predominate method of the Clinton cartel since their political presence entered our national awareness.  Some suggested reading regarding the lady who could become our first female President: “Crisis of Character”; “Armageddon”; http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/ ; Clinton Cash; “Hillary’s America”. 

Throughout the study of Hillarys’ records, the pattern of smearing accusers with blame and the obscurement of facts is more than evident.  The most notable are Hillary’s smearing the women who accused Slick Willy of sexual assault while in the office of president.  This time it’s trying to accuse Mr. Comey, Director of the FBI, of attempting to influence the election.  Once again, I reiterate, there would be no problem if she had just followed the rules.

After all, is said and done, should we elect her as President or should we do everything we can legally do to thwart her drive to govern?

Pray for discernment.  Pray for our country.

CARNIVAL BARKERS

What an experience we are getting crammed down our collective throats.  The media acting like carnival barkers directing us to the oddity they want us to view.  Hyping and sensationalizing only the perverse of one show while ignoring the hideous facts of the other. 

We, our society, who are supposed to be in charge of who we elect as our representative governance are no longer acting responsibly. We no longer look at the facts of what our country is in need of, or what’s best for the common good.  We are, instead, in the process of electing a leader on information being fed to us by a self-serving ideological media.

This last week the media had two major impactful stories that should have an effect on our choice of leadership. One story regarded the (Possible) personal reprehensible actions of one of the candidates, the other showed in black and white the actions and words which actually affected our nation and its politic.  One story made the one candidate look personally repugnant, the other story was virtually non-existant.  The barker refused to shout out “Looky here” too.

In fact, the mainstream media reportage is pushing the Trump show at least 7:1 over the Hillary Wiki-leaks information.  In the case of NBC, ABC the coverage or mention was an average of 9 minutes on Trump, 15 seconds on Hillary’s Wiki-Leaks information dump.

Now, I don’t know about you, but when it comes to choosing a leader for the free world, (our country, the USA), my priorities are focused on items that affect our nation, rather than on the indiscretions of a personal nature.  Individual morality is not the question we need focus upon, even though the moral fiber of our society may be important to us all.

In a rush to appear “holier than thou”, the media minions have decided that to advance their cause, hypocrisy might serve their candidate well.  Focusing  the full thunderous  sound of their attacks on the personal (undocumented) deeds of the Donald, while ignoring factual information showing the self-serving actions of the Hillary camp.

I will be among the first to condemn the actions of Mr. Trump if and when the allegations are proven to be factual.  I will also point out that sexual misconduct has not been any kind of disqualifier for the office of President.  While Presidents such as FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton have shown their sexual indiscretions, with Clinton being most obvious, how is it that we disallow Trump's viability.  President Jimmy Carter even admitted to lusting in his mind, the difference with Trump is the lack of political correctness.  We need to put all this into perspective, and we need to do it without hypocrisy.  Men can be pigs and we all know that and most men if being honest to have lusted in their minds as well.

My concerns for our country are not what Mr. Trump thinks about women, about men and women, about fast cars, or any of that small ball diversionary shiny subjects the elite would like me to be focussing on.  I don’t trust the Barker.  There is not one of my concerns that Donald Trump has not addressed during this campaign period.  He has proven himself in the economic/financial arena, in the rebuilding of infrastructure, and as one who completes his vision of what can be.  His children, his family, his companies have shown his devotion to the standards of education, morality, and success.  His success has shown his ability to see what needs to be done, then do it, a series of visionary objectives achieved.

I expect his abilities to match his objectives for our country.

Trump says he will make America Great Again, Hillary says she will implement more of where we are.

My daily political random thought:

It's like dreading a new medicine that looks like sludge, that smells really bad, and we're not sure of how it will taste.

Its history has shown despite all the drawbacks it has performed remarkably well in improving conditions.

The old medicine has not shown itself to be working.  In fact, it has worsened the conditions that are harmful to the body.  Even though abhorrible, the new medicine at least gives a chance of recovery.

Pray for our country   Love your neighbor  Pray for discretion

God Bless the USA

HYPOCRITICAL OR IGNORANT?

Listening to the talking points spilling out of Hillary and her surrogates, (political, on-line blogs, main- stream- media), you would think that Donald Trump had bilked our government out of millions of dollars in taxes. 

 Hillary’s talking points on this subject are terribly ignorant, hypocritical, or outright lies. I don’t think that Hillary is ignorant on how to use tax law to advantage since she has done so in at least three situations that I know of: 

1. Claiming a loss of some $700,000  in the 2015 taxes;

2. Charitable tax deductions of $10m which were to the Clinton Foundation which has been proven to make their way into the hands of various Clinton enterprises;

3. Utilization of the real estate provisions in the tax codes in such a way as to diminish estate tax liabilities.  

That does not make her ignorant about the use of tax law to lower the amount of taxes they would legally be liable.  It does, however, make her seem highly hypocritical. 

The fact that her conglomerate of peeps treat the citizens of our country as being ignorant, in regards to business and tax practice, is an insult to a large majority of we the people.  The same talk down to us blather about the practice of saving a company’s existence, by using the legal method of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  That is another insult to all the small business owners who have had to use chapter 11 to survive. 

How many times has she insulted “We the people” ?  How many times has she counted on her sound bites to be ingested, into the voting populace, as gospel?  That’s really sad.  What is much worse is the number of folks so indoctrinated in our society that buy into her false narratives.

Def: Ig·no·rant:

without knowledge of, unaware of, unconscious of, oblivious to, incognizant of, unfamiliar with, unacquainted with, uninformed about, ill-informed about, unenlightened about, unconversant with, inexperienced in/with, naive about, green about.  Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.

Def: Hypocrite: a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs,principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude,especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Information of interest:

According to Hillary's tax returns--which she's published on her website, the Democratic nominee reported close to $700,000 in long-term capital losses in 2015:   http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-election-493995/hypocrisy-hillarys-tax-returns-show-she-15166016/

This is an illuminating article regarding finance and acceptable tax practices.  It also shows how the Clintons used tax laws to their advantage. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-17/wealthy-clintons-use-trusts-to-limit-estate-tax-they-back

http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-reveals-real-scandal-trumps-failure-pay-taxes The real scandal here is that Trump and other hugely wealthy people can get away with this, and do so all the time. It’s just another way the system has been rigged – by rich people who buy off politicians to alter tax, bankruptcy, and other laws and regulations to their advantage, just like Donald Trump has done. 

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/21/carly-fiorina/trumps-four-bankruptcies/   Trump’s four bankruptcies were Chapter 11 reorganizations (named for its location in federal bankruptcy code), which are designed to restructure businesses without shutting them down completely. The purpose is to "save" the business, as opposed to other forms of bankruptcy which would liquidate the company

ALWAYS DONKEY'S FIRST

SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/06/16/draft-n2012995

John Hawkins

1) “Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” – Hillary Clinton

2) “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.” -- Hillary Clinton

3) “You know, we can’t keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God’s creation and just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.” – Hillary Clinton

4) “I can’t worry about every undercapitalized business” — Hillary Clinton testifying before Congress on the effects of Nationalized Health Care.

5) “Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” – Hillary Clinton

6) "We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West." -- Hillary Clinton per Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton

7) "There are rich people everywhere. And yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries.....They don't invest in public schools, in public hospitals, in other kinds of development internally." – Hillary Clinton

8) "No. We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people." – Hillary Clinton

9) "If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters." -- Hillary Clinton to middle school students

10) "I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry..." -- Hillary Clinton

11) "I think again we’re way out of balance. We’ve got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don’t believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people." -- Hillary Clinton

12) "We came out of the White House not only dead-broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea's education. It was not easy." – Hillary Clinton

13) “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” — Hillary Clinton makes up a ridiculous, untrue story about her trip to Bosnia.

14) “In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.” — Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002

5) "There’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer." -- Hillary Clinton on tyrannical maniac Bashar Assad

16) “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?” --Hillary Clinton

17) “My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.” -- Hillary Clinton per Kim Eisler's Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm

18) "Put this (helicopter) on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!" -- Hillary Clinton from Air Force Lt. Colonel Robert Patterson's Dereliction of Duty.

19) "I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from my daughter. (As) some of you who are our friends know, she took a course last year in Islamic history." – Hillary Clinton

20) “The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996.” -- Hillary Clinton

Pray for our Country      love your neighbor    Spread acceptance, not division

God bless the USA                     God protect our protectors

TWO FACES TO CHOOSE FROM

A small collection of articles on the dichotomy of Hillary

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/17/many-contradictions-hillary-clinton.htm

Communications consultant Jon Kraushar is at www.jonkraushar.net. He is a consultant to corporate and political leaders including Steve Forbes.

At a rally in Florida, Clinton said, “…our next president needs to be ready to face three big tasks. First can you make positive differences in people's lives? Second, can you keep us safe? Third, can you bring our country together again?”

She says, “Ask any parent, you'll hear nothing is more important than making sure their kids have a good school and a good teacher, no matter what zip code they live in.” But in a craven caving to teachers’ unions, Clinton abandoned her previous qualified tolerance of limited school choice and is now an unqualified defender of consigning many minority children and their parents to failed and dangerous public schools. Of course, Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, attended private school.

Clinton says that, “…hard working Americans across our country deserve a president with both the ideas and the know-how to create good jobs with rising incomes right here in our country.”

Never mind the contradiction that as a U.S. senator, Clinton was a foe of policies helping job creation—especially by small businesses. Never mind the contradiction that Clinton gavePresident Obama an “A” for his handling of an economy that has, during his term, resulted in middle class incomes dropping and poverty increasing, especially among Clinton’s base of minority voters.

Clinton says, “We're going to stand up for American workers, and make sure no one takes advantage of us, not China, not Wall Street and not overpaid corporate executives.”

Contradicting all this: a CBS News investigation finding that a Chinese company run by a billionaire with close ties to the Chinese government pledged $2-million to the Clinton Foundation while lobbying Congress and the State Department.

Finally, Clinton says, “We live in a complex and, yes, a dangerous world. Protecting America's national security can never be an afterthought. Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it, engage our allies, not alienate them, defeat our adversaries not embolden them.”Clintonian contradictions once again abound.

Clinton recently claimed that the U.S. “didn’t lose a single person in Libya” when she was secretary of state. Considering that four Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya while Clinton was contradicting the facts on the ground, this is worse than a “gaffe” statement: it is a bald-faced lie and an insult to the families of the slain American heroes.

As for the rest of her statement, with Hillary Clinton’s complicity, America’s relations with allies like Israel deteriorated to disastrous levels. Her state department opposed sanctions against Iran and she supports President Obama’s dangerous nuclear deal with Iran.

Her “reset” with Russia was a setback and a subsequent scandal, as even the New York Times admitted in a story headlined, “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.” From Poland and the Czech Republic to Syria and North Korea, “our foreign policy during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state was to undermine our friends and cater to our enemies,” as columnist Thomas Sowell detailed.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/14/new-documents-prove-hillary-told-conflicting-stories-about-benghazi-video/

CHUCK ROSS, REPORTED

During a Sept. 12 phone call with then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil Clinton said that the Benghazi attacks “had nothing to do with the film.”

“You’re not kidding. Based on the information we saw today we believe that group that claimed responsibility for this is affiliated with al-Qaeda,” Kandil responded to Clinton during their chat.

Clinton’s call with Kandil was referred to during Clinton’s Oct. 22 testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. As was an email that Clinton exchanged with her daughter, Chelsea, on the night of the attack. In that email she acknowledged that an “Al Qaeda-like group” had carried out the attack.

But Clinton’s comments in those communiques were at odds with the public position that she and others in the Obama administration took in the days after the attack.

“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” Clinton said in a White House-approved statement on the night of the onslaught. “The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”

Further complicating matters is Clinton’s statement during the Oct. 22 Select Committee hearing and during a Democratic debate that she believes that the video did play a role in the Bengahzi attacks.

“Congressman, I believe to this day the video played a role,” she told Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan during the Benghazi hearing.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that the new documents show that Clinton offered inconsistent stories about the root cause of the attacks.
http://dailym.ai/1aDZcY9  
This is the World wide war on women 
http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-of-abortion.html

WHICH HILLARY IS REAL

This is a compilation of web articles about a smidgen of Hillary History on womens rights etc.  The champion just may not be.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/9/hillary-clintons-womens-rights-history-contradicts/  

By Mercedes Schlapp - - Thursday, June 9, 2016

 Mrs. Clinton is the epitome of the Democratic establishment, a career politician out of touch with the concerns of everyday American women.

Mrs. Clinton is the first presumptive presidential nominee ever who is also being investigated by the FBI on suspicion of compromising the nation’s security with her private email server and cavalier handling of classified information.

Mrs. Clinton talked Tuesday night about the women at Seneca Falls who fought for women’s rights but notably failed to embrace the spirit of these early feminists who were pro-life and fought for women and their children.

She tweeted last year that “every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported,” but obviously that sentiment did not apply back in the 1990s when she dismissed Monica Lewinsky as a “narcissistic loony toon” and helped discredit and destroy the reputations of other women such as Gennifer Flowers and Kathleen Willey. Ms. Willey, who was sexually harassed by President Clinton, stated that Hillary used “moblike tactics” to silence her.

Clinton Foundation, which accepted tens of millions of dollars from nations with disturbing records on women’s rights, gender discrimination and violence against women and children such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Algeria.

turning a blind eye to Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct — all for the sake of political power.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/22/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/  by ERIC DRAITSER

“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21^st Century.” So said Hillary Clinton in a 2011 interview with Newsweek.

As First Lady, Hillary Clinton, along with her then President husband Bill Clinton, did more than anyone to make the lives of poor and working class women and girls all the more precarious

For Clinton, what matters is not the material reality of women’s lives, but rather how best to exploit them for political gain. 

Clinton was instrumental in ginning up support for the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). 

feminist scholars Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis noted:

“[PRWORA’s] legacy still ripples through the country, where families remain as poor as—or, in many cases, poorer than—before, but with one crucial difference: Today, the “reformed” welfare system provides little safety net, and no hand-up. Instead, it traps poor mothers into exploitative, poverty-wage jobs and dangerous personal situations, deters them from college, and contributes to the growing trend of poor mothers who can neither find a job nor access public assistance. It is our failed social policy—not simply the recession—that is responsible for crisis-level poverty in the United States.”

One should remember the children of Haiti living in inhumane conditions thanks in no small part to the continued exploitation of their country by the likes of Bill, Hillary, and the Clinton Global Initiative.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-womens-rights-record-saudi-arabia-116160

By Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl  March 17, 2015

the Hillary Doctrine.  Hillary Clinton herself defined it, “the subjugation of women [is] a threat to the common security of our world and to the national security of our country.”

in Saudi Arabia, the subordination of women is as peculiar and pernicious an institution as was slavery in the antebellum South. 
reports have emerged concerning large donations to her family’s foundation from countries including Algeria, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and, of course, Saudi Arabia—a rogues’ gallery of governments with poor records on women’s issues.  Child marriage is not uncommon because there is no legal minimum age to wed. For the bride, consent isn’t even required, and indeed, a woman (or girl) need not even be present for her own marriage, as long as her male guardian and her groom agree.

The Real Hillary Clinton 
by Doug Henwood

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/hillary-clinton-president-my-turn-feminism-welfare-reform-haiti/

Clinton’s material actions have often been decidedly less woman-friendly, starting with the war on teachers — disproportionately black women — she conducted in Arkansas; running through her service on the board of Walmart, a notoriously sexist operation, about which she said nothing

her support of welfare reform, an abomination that deserves more than a grudging sentence of concession for having driven millions of women and children into poverty. (She called welfare recipients “deadbeats,

False Feminism: Hillary Clinton And Her Financial Backers Are No Friends To Women

http://www.mintpressnews.com/hillary-clinton-is-no-friend-to-women/206996/

By Kit O'Connell  @KitOConnell | June 26, 2015

Donors from Saudi Arabia gave millions to the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit operated by Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, despite Saudi Arabia’s appalling record on women’s rights. In return for their financial support, Hillary Clinton helped Saudi Arabia obtain billions in military equipment from the U.S.

 a look at some of her top donors suggests Clinton favors the rights of Wall Street over that of American women. During her 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton’s top donors included finance and investment industry giants like JPMorgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Citigroup — some of the same corporations that caused a massive global financial crash in 2007 that led to an unprecedented wave of job losses and home evictions. 

Women and children suffered most from the poor economy, according to a 2013 article from Mercedes White, a reporter for Deseret News

Voters may find it instructive to consider whether black people are better off after the U.S. elected its first black president. The opposite is true, according to Dr. Reginald Clark, writing for Black Agenda Report.

“Black misery has been growing since 2009 under President Obama’s economic and job creation policies. Black folks participation in the labor market has been steadily moving DOWNWARD during the Obama presidency – since 2009 when he was first inaugurated,” Clark commented in 2013.

This is just a snippet of the articles available.  Do your own fact checking

God bless and protect the USA and its people.

Love your neighbor

DREDGING THE PAST

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE

Once again the subject of Benghazi rears its ugly head.  The queen of the Democratic Party made the phrase “what difference does it make?” part of the standard discourse.  Most of the little people, including me, still have unanswered questions.

Anytime the facts of a circumstance are manipulated to change perception to create a false belief, most of us in our daily lives would say, we have been lied to.  Generally, I will refuse to use the words all, anytime or always because they are so absolute and very seldom lead us to the truth. Truth is and should be an absolute.  In the case of Benghazi, the truth of that circumstance has never been accounted for. 

The answer to the question “what difference at this point does it make” requires an answer.  If I were asked this question I would have this answer:  it matters because I don’t like being lied to; I expect honesty from my government; we cannot correct a problem if we are told there is no problem; because of the timing, we as a country may have elected people because of false confidence.  Our country’s standing in the world community is lessened because it is evident that democracy can be easily manipulated by propaganda; most importantly it diminishes the faith and belief that our country stands for what is good in humanity.

Something for us to think about might be how would we react in our personal lives if our friends, spouses, parents, or children manipulated  information constantly to lead us to believe nonexistent facts.  What if they did this to make us perceive them as someone they aren’t?  What do we think about people who sell us products using false claims regarding what those products are or what they can do for us?  How long could we put up with those people being in our lives?

I think most of us are smart enough to know why the facts surrounding Benghazi might have been manipulated.  Why the cause of that heinous act would have looked better if it were caused by a random group of people acting in response to an insult of their religion.  How would it have looked if an incumbent administration looked incompetent just prior to their request to be re-elected?  How would it have looked if a decimated enemy were able to pull off yet another attack on American soil?  We might ask how it looks almost two years later when no one has been held accountable for perpetrating that attack, or for the lack of preparedness, or for the lack of importance placed on the value we call truthfulness.  

LUCK OF THE DRAW

Just for a hoot I thought to have a look at a bit of political history.   I can still hear the rhetoric of the man we were to elect the 44^th President of the United States.  I distinctly heard him promise “the most transparent administration” in recent memory.  Seems to me I heard a lot of things back then.  It seems so very, very long ago.  The only things proven true were those I feared.  My trusted Google was more than happy to provide me with a White House Brief regarding what Mr. Obama meant regarding transparency.  It was a fantastic memo.  Unfortunately, the fairy tale of all time came to a screeching halt as political expediency overtook his verbosity. 

 Have a look at this memo and give him your own grade.   https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment  

What is really sad about the total lack of adherence to this idea is the addition of misspeak, convenient loss of memory and brazen lies that have been put to use to circumvent transparency.  For some in our society, that seems to be some sort of a badge of honor as they can hardly wait to vote for a woman that makes this president look like Sister Theresa.  Come to think of it, Mrs. Clinton had her hands covered with plenty of what made this administration appear to be so secretive and untruthful.   The only political factor that comes close in comparison is that of Sadam Hussein’s publicity man Bagdad Bob, his reporting was upside down as well.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/03/barack_obama_promised_transparency_the_white_house_is_as_opaque_secretive.html

This election cycle we are faced with a difficult decision in our country.  I have to admit it’s apparent to me what would be the better of the two candidates, but then I’m not part of the intelligentsia.  It’s probably the poker player part of my reasoning but I for sure wouldn’t be playing a 95% odds of a known loser against drawing a whole new hand. 

There is not one segment of our society, our security, our medical and our educational system that has not been affected.  This lack of transparency and the dissemination of falsehoods by the current administration has been its main implement in keeping the rest of us in the dark.  This is nothing new to Mrs. Clinton as it has been a major component of the Clinton machines operating manual for the past thirty years.  I cannot understand the thinking process that would vote to see this activity continued.  Sadly one would have to admit that honesty in our political aggregate has been sorely missing during other tenures as well.  

We can mix up the cycle this time.  We don’t need to elect someone, to the office of POTUS, who regards us as ignorant, and calls us the little people.

Some suggested reading regarding the lady who could become our first female President: “Crisis of Character”; “Armegeddon”; http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/ ; Clinton Cash; “Hillary’s America”. 

I can guarantee that there are many detractors of these titles, but where there’s smoke there is also a smell.

We do not have to accept that hand. I would suggest we draw all new cards, who knows we might get aces.

Pray for our Country and love your neighbor.

God Bless our Country and Bless us all with discernment.

PATHOLOGICAL SHORT CIRUCUT

Short circuit definition:  an abnormal connection between two nodes of an electric circuit. This results in excessive damage to the entire circuit, causing overheating, damage and possible explosion.  Although normally a result of a fault, there are occasions when caused on purpose. The result is a connection with almost no resistance. In such a case, the current is limited by the rest of the circuit.

(Or in the case of humans, caused by some pathological fault)

Pathological definition: adjective:  relating to, or manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive and compulsive.

For some inexplicable reason these two definitions seem to be somewhat appropriate regarding Secretary Clinton’s recent “short circuit” during her interview with Chris Wallace last Sunday.  Mrs. Clinton seems unable to control herself when it comes to her struggles with truthfulness and her constant inability to get her facts straight.  It’s impossible for her to admit that she was lax, totally negligent and misleading regarding our country’s national security while in the office of Secretary of State.

I cannot fathom why she is even allowed to put herself in the position of becoming the next President.  I cannot understand how a major political party can support her in that quest.  We personally would not continue a relationship with someone who can’t tell the truth even when that truth might serve them better.  If you can’t trust someone why interact with them?  Most assuredly you would not allow them control over your finances, your children, your health or anything else.  So why are so many trying to infect the rest of us with her sickness?  With Hillary, I know what I will get and I’ve had enough political and personal fertilizer and I just don’t need anymore.

Do you think our politicians have served us well over the last 50 years?  Have they served us before themselves? Have they made choices for our country or have they chosen their own personal gain and power over common good.  I think it’s time to choose a non-politician to shake the sack up and see if some good comes out.  Trump’s methods, attitudes and ethics have given him a measure of success that would be great to see emulated in our vast government machine.  Perhaps he might be labeled brash, unconventional and politically incorrect but I can deal with that. I don’t like the direction we’ve headed in.  

We have accumulated enough debt.  We have wasted enough time money and national blood by not prosecuting wars to the best of our ability.  We have made ourselves vulnerable and I’ve had enough pathological liars to last a lifetime.  We need to make a change and one that works a lot better than the last one we were promised.  We need someone who is there for all of us.

Demand honesty from your media:    http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/08/he-said-what.html

Pray for discernment and pray for your country:  http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/08/he-said-what.html

God bless you neighbor and God bless our country

BAIT N SWITCH POLITICS

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bait-switch.asp

DEFINITION of 'Bait And Switch':  A dishonest marketing tactic in which a marketer advertises a very attractive price/rate/term that is really a teaser rate meant to attract customers.  Once the customer comes into the store/office to inquire about the advertised price/rate (the "bait"), the advertiser will attempt to sell the customer a more expensive product (the "switch").

Is there anyone in our population who doesn’t recall who said “You can keep your doctor”?  Who said, “Ours will be the most transparent administration”?  Who was it that said “Hope and Change” would be a good thing.  In some states, if a car salesman made such statements and gave a similar grade of product in place of the car advertised, he might well face hefty fines and in egregious cases jailed for fraud.  I guess in our new form of judiciary certain leniencies are available.

This election cycle we get to make our best guess once again.  Let’s hope that we get lucky enough to make a better and more fruitful decision.  Hoping and praying to get a better result than what we had the last couple of times.  All we can hope for is that someone in this pair will be honest with us.  We also need to have a pretty firm idea of what we hope to get this time around.

One side of the debate is offering us the first woman nominee of a major party, a past Secretary of State with a dubious record.  Her ability to twist and bend the truth is at the top of her list of credentials.  On the other side of the coin, we have a candidate that seems to have no filter on what he thinks, but his record of successful business and ability to create wealth is indisputable. Which one is more apt to change things for the better?  We have to go to their track record to make our best guess.

Do we go with the one who is the polished politician?  The one who says what political expediency dictates? We know for sure that what she states as fact, may or may not be.  How probable is the old marketing trick of bait and switch and how much of what we see is merely a smoke screen.  Or do we go with the one who has spent the last 30 years being able to say whatever he feels like. Her opponent has a reputation for achieving what he sets out to accomplish and has the business reputation of doing what he says he will do.  His evidence of achievement is stunning.

We are at a crossroads. We know that staying on in the same direction leads to a cliff most of us do not want to go over.  We have a choice of staying on the same pathway or do we catch a ride going in a different route that may lead us to a brighter place.  The choice for me is simple.  I choose not to go over the cliff.  I choose not to follow or to be led by a person who lacks the moral compass of honesty and truthfulness.  I deplore the sick virus of political correctness that attacks the very core of honesty, a virtue that used to have much more esteem.  Whether I like what Mr. Trump dispenses vocally or not, the knowledge of what he says is totally unfiltered is reassuring.

Just ask yourself, “do I think I have been lied to during the last 7 ½ years?” Was Hillary complicit in those falsehoods?  Has Hillary shown any sign that honesty is an important part of her moral fabric?  Do you know for sure where she stands on the different factors facing our country?  Some of the things I believe she will hold to are: staying the current course regarding ISIS; status quo on education; raising taxes; excessive regulations inhibiting business; appointing liberal judiciary.  

I would suggest that our odds are better with an unknown with a possibility of a better economy, better education for all of our population, a return to the rule of law for all of our society and a chance to believe what we hear.  I’m pretty sure there is far less danger of political “bait and switch” with the unfiltered non-politician.

Pray for discernment, our country and your neighbor.  God Bless The USA  

OMG HAVE WE BEEN DECEIVED?

CLINTON CASH a you-tube movie about the Clintons climb to wealth.  This movie is about an hour long.  Time well spent.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2pyyCau30

 

This was so unbelievable and so full of food for thought, if you are not a Mensa genius it will boggle the mind.  This could not have any validity, but it does. Like most informational things today, there is most likely some stretch going on so it’s up to you to do your own fact searching.  I have only done a minimal amount, but one source I checked with gave it some validity.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/apr/26/fact-checking-april-26-shows-clinton-cash/

I'm one of the first to admit that my man Donald appears to be a bit narcissistic but we've proved we can survive 8 years of that personality defect. The choice on the other side is very much akin to what third world countries have to contend with and I’m not so sure how well we will survive if we go in that direction. We have the opportunity to elect what I (if this movie has validity) would classify as an opportunistic sociopath and her enabler. Before you get all bent out of shape, educate yourself without blinding your mind with your side, my side clingy and sheep like ignorance. 

High intelligence and communication skills give some folks a real ability of persuasion.  If that’s connected to a strong drive for achieving power and the personality defect of a sociopath, we have the ultimate con artist.  For the last thirty years I have heard all the conspiracy theories regarding the “Clinton Machine” and for the last thirty years I have sprinkled salt on them and forgot them.  Like most of us, the thought of someone being able to fake their way into the Presidency of the United States was way past reality.  The one thing in our favor is that most people can be fooled some of the time but all the people cannot be fooled all the time.  We need to be sure we are smart enough to salvage what is ours.

Watch this movie.  If it raises questions, look for answers.  Just don’t trust there to be a pot of gold waiting for you.  Some rainbows exist only in the mirage of hope.    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2pyyCau30

Pray for discernment, our country and your neighbor.  God Bless you and our country.

WHO KNEW?

CLINTON CASH a UTUBE movie about the Clinton foundation.  How could we be so uninformed?  Some rainbows exist only in the mirage of hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2pyyCau30

This movie is about an hour long.  Time well spent.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/apr/26/fact-checking-april-26-shows-clinton-cash/

BILL DOESN'T LIE

I listened to one of the most talented speakers of our time as he used his magical abilities to paint pictures in our mind.  He painted the picture of a modern Joan of Arc fighting courageously for those in need.  He spoke of a nimble quick mind surrounded with the heart of gold.  He told a story about the perfect politician for both then and now.  I am absolutely certain that every one of his claims those positive exploits can and will be substantiated throughout the next few months. 

One thing the past has shown us is that “Bill cannot tell a lie”.  If Bill says he didn’t, he didn’t and if Bill says Hillary is all good with no bad we are almost forced into believing that scenario.  Bill did make a little tiny mistake towards the end of his eloquent flowery painting.  He asked the question of the American voters.  How can we square what we heard in his speech with what we heard at the RNC just the previous week?  We can’t, and like he said, one of the Hillary depictions must be a falsehood.

The problem with lies of omission is they are very hard to disagree with.  You cannot disagree with something you don’t even hear.  As usual, the use of semantics makes it easy to say “Bill doesn’t lie”.  Hillary may well have done all those great things with great altruistic purpose, but some of the other things we have seen and been witness to didn’t make it into the painting.  One problem with that practice is somewhere in time and space. the omissions are a glaring reality.   There is an old adage in play and it is this “the truth will out”.  The missing colors to the painting set before us are pretty much of the same hue, not good.

Most of us are aware of the current missing items:  

·         Benghazi (a video did it)

·         Missing e-mails (30,000 compared to Richard Nixons missing 6 minutes of taped conversations)

·         Playing fast and loose with classified documents (General Petraeus called guilty and lost position)

·         Lying to Congress (“ I never had classified material on the personal computer)

·         Possible use of the Clinton Foundation as a personal slush fund ( Bill and Hillarys speaking fees took a giant increase, over $26 million from Clinton Foundation donors; donations tied to positive government decisions in favor of donors)   

This trend did not appear magically in the last decade.  Here are some others that are there for you to peruse: 1978 $100,000. Profit on a $1,000 investment in cattle futures (I think Martha Stewart served time for some similar act); 1980’s Castle Grande drafting of misleading documents to deceive bank examiners; somehow documentation of her complicity in the former was somehow lost and didn’t reappear until the investigation had closed (sound familiar); Travelgate; throwing women under the bus during Bills sexual scandals; verbally abusive to White House and security staff; there is also some question as to her role in the suicide of Vince Foster  What a little sweetheart she is.

One of the things that Mr. Bill said is that Hillary is one of the smartest people he knows.  Smart doesn’t mean you are moral and it certainly doesn’t mean mental acuity can’t be used to attain wealth and personal power.  Hillary states that when the Clintons left the White House and Bills presidency they were flat broke.  What part did her being smart play in going from zip to $120 million in just one decade’s time?  Warren Buffet would be proud of her business acumen.

Hillary in her younger period was so enamored with the Saul Alinsky model of sowing discontent and taking down governments (Rules for Radicals) that she carried on a correspondence with him.  I would suggest that you look up the tenants of that writing and realize that is a part of Hillary’s deeply rooted belief system.  Alinskys ideology is based on creating revolution by anger and division.  I have to think the diviseive methods we have witnessed fit right into his methodology.  I might note that we have just completed 7 ½ years of governance under another one of his close followers.  It’s pretty hard to say that we are more united as a country than we were in 2001. Transforming every difference into have and have not’s has the effect of changing reconcilable difference into civil disobedience and violence.  Nice job guys in proving Saul knew what he was talking about.  American society can be brought into the socialist fold.

We, at least, were spared explanation, excuses, or statements common to Clinton defense methods.  Missing was Mr. Clintons famous defense of “ I did not have ___ with that woman”, or Hillary’s “everybody else did it” and “I didn’t know it was (classified).  I guess no defense was needed other than just plain ___________________________________               (silence, the soothing sound of crickets and birds chirping).

Pray for our country, pray for discernment.  Seek the truth.

God bless our country and God bless each of you.