August 14, 2015 · 11:21 am

The plot thickens

Here’s a report, “FBI Said to Examine Whether Hillary Clinton E-Mail Was Backed Up”, from Bloomberg.com, which contains an interesting comment:

“Barbara Wells, an attorney for Platte River Networks, a Denver-based company that has managed Clinton’s private e-mail since 2013, said in a phone interview Thursday that the server turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation “is blank and does not contain any useful data.” But Wells added that the data on Clinton’s server was migrated to another server that still exists. She ended the interview when questioned further, declining to say whether the data still exists on that other server and who has possession of it.” (my emphasis)”

Also, read Mr. Jacobson’s, “How did Hillary’s lawyers search a server no longer in her possession”, at Legal Insurrection.com, where he provides highlighted timeline discrepancies in statements from David Kendall, long-time Clinton scandal-fixer and lawyer.  Sleight of hand with the Clinton political machine and for any who doubt it, they operate like a crime syndicate, so powerful DC insider hacks will be paraded around to deflect, obfuscate and otherwise stall, impede, and mislead, both the investigators and the American people.  They will attempt to use public opinion polls to rally support for Hillary as the victim again.

My own experience (Messages of mhere tabbed on my homepage), being a nobody homemaker, with no connections, and not being able to get anyone in the press to even listen to me about what happened during the Clinton Impeachment, late ’98 and early ’99, leads me to believe that she will get away with this too.  She will plod along, campaigning, avoiding questions from the press, pretend the investigation is just another right-wing political witch hunt.

I don’t have the connections to prove my story.  I know a lot of crazy crap happened to me during impeachment,  as described in Messages of mhere – the new tree stand by the woods behind my house, positioned to look into my fenced-in backyard, the events as described  – feeling knocked off balance and escalating over weeks to where I felt pressed down and had to fight to stay on my feet, and when I was alone the TV starting flipping channels and one night it flipped to foreign TV, which scared the crap out of me.  Sure, just my crazy imagination.  I kept posting messages on the Excite message boards, mocking the Clinton supporters posting there and as I stated, the writing on those Clinton impeachment threads went from mostly poorly written comments to more polished, professional writing.  After the impeachment saga, this retired general got placed in a high-profile, foreign position, where if he retired suddenly, under the circumstances as the scuttlebutt indicated, it would have made him the last choice, due to – national security implications.  In the intervening years, I’ve watched online – casually searching this retired general’s name and he’s become a loyal Clinton/Dem mouthpiece to roll out supporting the Dem view on military matters, just another loyal FOB

So, while the Washington crowd and mainstream media are just shocked at Hillary’s cavalier handling of our nation’s secrets, I  already knew how far she would go to cling to power, even borrowed power from her husband.  She wears the pants in that family!  So, what if my story is true ( I believe it)? I believe the Clinton sewer rats set out to find out who this annoying “mhere”, the poster on Excite mocking them and making mincemeat of their spin, was.  I believe they located a retired general who hated me from some issues several years before, where personal letters I wrote ended up at DA and embarrassed that general and his  uppity wife.   I believe that SHE  through her husband fed false information to this retired general and recruited him to silence me over my comments on the Excite message board, would anyone care?  I believe she cast me as some dangerous, right-wing zealot, when in fact, I am a zealot ONLY on following the rules and obeying the law!  I have never owned a gun in my life and abhor violence.  I am just a nobody homemaker, who likes taking care of my family, cooking, needlework, gardening, but I am also a news junkie and love reading about military strategy and history too.   My rights as an American citizen should count too and I will never relinquish my right to free speech- EVER!

Anyways, for what it’s worth, from my experience, Hillary Clinton and her clean-up squad are sloppy operators and reactionaries, they peddle in attacking anyone who gets close to exposing HER criminal activity (yes, I said criminal).  The investigators, any judges, Congressional members, the press – all will be attacked as she recruits loyal political hacks to hit the press and airwaves with a scorched-earth campaign that works like the military strategic idea of “swarming”.  To win you need to persistently ignore the stings of personal character attacks and stay calmly, resolutely determined to SPEAK THE TRUTH and never lose sight that the queen bee will eventually destroy herself, but it’s a long, slow, painful road to drag her to justice.

Alas,

The plot thickens…..

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August 13, 2015 · 8:10 pm

Hillary refusal to turn over server for months may have led people off the trail

Hillary refusal to turn over server for months may have led people off the trail.

This link is to “Legal Insurrection” a very good blog, where Willliam A Jacobson lays out a very interesting theory.  He believes that Hillary Clinton turning over this blank server is a red herring and that the information on that server was likely transferred to another server that she retains control over.    Definitely read Mr. Jacobson’s post to follow his line of reasoning.

I wonder if they can figure out a timeline for when this server was scrubbed, when it got carted off to NJ, who carted it off, and who scrubbed it.

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August 13, 2015 · 7:16 pm

It gets worse

The UK Daily Mail is reporting some alarming allegations about the company Hillary Clinton hired to manage her home-brew server:

“The Internet company used by Hillary Clinton to maintain her private server was sued for stealing dozens of phone lines including some which were used by the White House.

Platte River Networks is said to have illegally accessed the master database for all US phone numbers.

It also seized 390 lines in a move that created chaos across the US government.

Among the phone numbers which the company took – which all suddenly stopped working – were lines for White House military support desks, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, a lawsuit claims.

Others were the main numbers for major financial institutions, hospitals and the help desk number for T2 Communications, the telecom firm which owned them.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of T2 claims that the mess took 11 days to fix and demands that Platte River pay up $360,000 in compensation.

The claims raise questions about the competence of Platte River, which is based in Denver, Colorado, to handle Mrs Clinton’s highly sensitive personal information while she was Secretary of State.”

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August 13, 2015 · 4:23 pm

One from the left

One candidate that isn’t getting much notice who might be worth looking at – Jim Webb, the former Democratic senator from Virgina.  He mentioned FDR and Ronald Reagan as his two favorite presidents of the 20th century during a question and answer session at the Iowa State Fair according to this Washington Times report:

“The other favorite is Ronald Reagan — I served in the Reagan administration,” said Mr. Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy under Mr. Reagan. “And I will tell you, the Reagan administration did a terrific job whether you agreed politically with them or not of putting strong people into the administration, giving them guidance and having them step [forward] and lead.

“In a Webb administration, we will do that — we will bring the greatest minds in America to the table, give them direction as to where we want this country to go and have them lead,” he said, speaking at the Des Moines Register’s political “soapbox” at the fair.

I’m adding him to my list of candidates to watch.

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August 12, 2015 · 4:19 pm

In her own words

From firstlook.org, The Intercept,  comes this short piece by Glenn Greenwald:

“Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information”

In her own words, Greenwald quotes:

“I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so,” Clinton said.”

Drip, drip, drip….

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August 11, 2015 · 7:51 pm

Finally!

Hillary Clinton to give her private email server to Justice

– CNN reports.

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August 11, 2015 · 2:27 pm

For the future in the distance

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance

– George Linneaus Banks

Jeb Bush, whom I don’t support at this point (and doubt I ever will), keeps getting asked questions about invading Iraq, which he stumbles over continuously.  It’s become almost a ritual to repeat this question and demand a public repudiation of his brother’s decision. I didn’t wholheartedly buy the rationale back then, but I remained hopeful that a free, democratic Iraq would be a very positive development for the entire region.  Whether we could nurture that flower of hope into bloom, I remained skeptical, but truly Iraq seemed more likely than Afghanistan, which had no infrastructure from which to build a modern democratic state.  If I had been voting, I most likely would have voted yes – that’s the truth.

That said, my point is, if we continually debate the invading Iraq decision, we remain stuck in endless political carping that precludes any meaningful efforts to move forward and forge a comprehensive strategy to help stabilize the entire region, repatriate the hordes of refugees, end the constant fighting, and last, but not least, defeat IS.  That’s the thing, defeating IS can only be accomplished if we work with other countries, especially those in the ME, but also including our adversaries, like Russia and China at some diplomatic agreements on some very complex issues. 

This is not a Rambo movie, where one American warrior can take on the world.  We must seriously gauge our American actions to not foster more regional instability.  We could go in and defeat IS in a matter of weeks, if not days, depending what level of force we chose to use, but we would be left with another power vacuum that various factions and neighboring countries would quickly move to seize territory and control – more fighting would ensue.

Without a comprehensive strategy, determined, careful diplomatic efforts and serious, careful analysis of the complex issues involved, talking about upping the op tempo of our military efforts to defeat IS makes good, tough-sounding sound-bites, but it’s just blowing smoke.  Military action is needed to defeat IS, but before we waste any more American lives or military materiel, we need a comprehensive strategy.

Ranting that Bush was wrong to invade Iraq or that Obama abandoned Iraq, unto perpetuity, gets us nowhere – it’s time to look to the future and act like America is not a reactionary, immature, reckless, or clueless country.  It’s way past time for politicians to shut-up about their pet theories and lame, short-sighted, simplistic strategies and do their homework.  The politicians need to seek a wide array of expertise –  from military leaders, academia, think tanks, foreign diplomats and leaders, even ordinary people.  Heck, I’m a homemaker who loves to study military strategy and I am always trying to look for new ways to move mountains in my strategic ponderings, because I believe nothing is impossible.  Why can’t our leaders start looking ahead, instead of squabbling about the past?  America was built by people who believed that the future does not have to be a repeat of the past!

A smart strategist, in my opinion, should seek out those contrarians, whose viewpoint differs widely from his/her own.  If you only read opinions and talk to people who agree with you – you’ve boxed yourself into a very dangerous strategic corner.  We’ve got politicians stuck like barnacles in just such a corner and political pundits and their preferred experts repeating the same tired talking points to a clueless American people – I mean really, who in their right-mind can still believe there are any “moderates” left in Syria fighting after this protracted civil war?  Yet, here we are trying to vet and train “Syrian moderates”.  $500 million American taxpayer dollars are earmarked for this training too and it has ZERO chance of helping to defeat IS.   America needs a foreign policy that isn’t a mishmash of partisan-political posturing and sound-bites.

The other day I read a post at the American Thinker:

“Former Saddam officers form the core of a rampant ISIS horde”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/former_saddam_officers_form_the_core_of_a_rampant_isis_horde.html#ixzz3iWuH83c9
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I disagreed with the author’s premise and commented under the user name: susanholly, but I enjoyed reading the comments from another poster, Dixie-Pixie, which prodded me to consider some other issues. That’s where we need to go with coming up with a winning strategy – consider more options and be open to new ones. Re-fighting the Iraq war decision and every move since then leaves us flailing about in, to repeat  that popular political buzzword, – a quagmire.

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August 11, 2015 · 12:07 pm

Twitchy on Hume/Trump

I can’t stop laughing:

http://twitchy.com/2015/08/11/hume-boom-wins-the-day-brit-hume-torches-trump-with-deadpan-snark-people-cant-stop-laughing/

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August 10, 2015 · 1:41 pm

Opposition research full throttle

In the era of the information superhighway, let’s just call this a facer to the Megyn-Kelly-champion-of-women hysteria after Donald Trump’s comments.  Shoebat.com posted this five year-old video of Megyn Kelly sitting there talking about the size of her breasts, whether she has implants, intimate details of her marital sex life with none other than Howard Stern, who talks about women as sex objects in the basest terms possible.

Of course, I like watching Megyn Kelly, but let’s face it, on FOX News, female looks matter just as much as talent and if Kelly was not a blond bombshell, she would have never gotten her foot in the door.  The real “war on women” is actually being fought between women, with men being accused of waging it.  There’s old, hardline harpy feminists like Hillary Clinton screeching about glass ceilings holding women down and there are career women divided along ideological lines, BUT the vast majority identify with “feminism” almost down to the last woman.  They differ slightly only in viewpoint on where society is on the “equality” issue scale.

In the mix are the Megyn Kellys who didn’t hesitate to sit there and play along with voyeuristic sex talk with Howard Stern to promote her career.  FOX News has become a place where only beauty-pageant-looks-women need apply.  Many “conservative” women buy into many of the same feminist claptrap, defining deviancy down PC social issues as far-left feminists.

Frankly, way too many women want it both ways – they use their “sex appeal” to sell themselves, while at the same time bashing men for “objectifying them as sex objects”.  Men (and Trump) should have known better than to wade into this no-win minefield.  I didn’t like his comment, but more for it displaying an alarming lack of self-restraint than on it being an attack on women.

The real issue with dealing with the “war on women” is women define this elusive, undefined war, won’t admit they are the ones creating the double standards at issue,  while men are confused with what the rules are in dealing with women.  As a woman, I will state that women aren’t men, they don’t think like men and their approach to problem-solving is completely different, as science has proved.  It’s a public outrage to acknowledge this fact and frankly, it’s much safer to buy into men and women are interchangeable parts in society, ignoring reality.  Some unknown woman in TX got publicly shamed for making a similar type of comment on facebook, as Trump used.

Personally, in politics, I have no problem envisioning a woman as President, because women can be great leaders. But I prefer to see how they deal under pressure and know more about their record. The truth is cattiness is inherent in human females, from my life’s observation and even grown women can change sides faster than you’d believe possible – going from best friends one minute, but upon hearing gossip, they can switch sides on the drop of a dime to being mortal enemies, then later, all in the same day be back to being best friends.  Being a woman, and making it a life-long hobby to watch people interact, women display some loyalty issues and very often react to personal slights emotionally rather than intellectually.

My pragmatic view is there are logical reasons for sayings like: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” and it’s called living in the real world.  In our current wimpified country, many men act just as catty as women, so let’s say I am looking for a person who can rise above the reality-show theatrics, lay out some plans to set America on a better course and display a personal history of behaving with integrity in both his/her personal and professional life – I want an honest,  decent person, of good character to lead America.  And that’s a very tall order these days.

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August 10, 2015 · 10:38 am

American Thinker article on Carly

Here’s a view on Carly Fiorina that challenges her “fighter” claim.  She definitely does her homework and makes it clear she’s studied the issues for interviews, but it’s important to look at her past comments and record:

“Carly: a Flawed Candidate”

The part about waxing romantic about the old Islamic Caliphate does sound tone-deaf, but it fits in with the PC attitude permeating after 9/11, from the White House on down – all that “Islam means Peace”,  thin gruel we were being fed.  The Islamic Caliphate, spurred trade and advancements in science and math, just as she mentioned,  that we should learn about.  That is not to champion Islam or an ancient theocracy and I understand the criticism of this being right after 9/11.

I’m still undecided.

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