Former Clinton Supporter: Sid Blumenthal Fed Me 'Birther' Hit Pieces in 2008 All the Time

Former Clinton Supporter: Sid Blumenthal Fed Me 'Birther' Hit Pieces in 2008 All the Time
James Asher, a former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief, tweeted out on Friday that Hillary Clinton’s surrogate Sid Blumenthal pushed the rumor in 2008 that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

The liberal mainstream media attacked Trump on Friday for suggesting the Clinton campaign was behind the ‘birther’ rumors.
The media gave Trump “Four Pinocchios.

BREAKING ALERT Hillary Clinton best friend/advisor Sid Blumenthal caught flaunting Obama Kenya #birtherism in 2008 pic.twitter.com/zz82pSz9iy

— DEPLORABLE TRUMPCAT (@Darren32895836) September 16, 2016

Now this…

Another former Clinton supporter wrote on Friday that Sid Blumenthal and the Hillary campaign was behind the birther controversy.

Larry Johnson at No Quarters reported:

I am shocked at the audacity of Hillary Clinton to decry Donald Trump as a birther because her campaign not only pushed that item in a bid to discredit Barack Obama, but mounted a sustained campaign attack Obama on a broad array of issues. How do I know? I was part of that effort and was in regular email and phone coordination with Sidney Blumenthal. Sidney was the conduit who fed damaging material to me that I subsequently posted on my blog.

In some cases Sid Blumenthal actually provided a draft piece that I would slightly modify and publish under my name. Most of the time, however, Sid provided background information and researched material that I would use to craft pieces. How many? I am providing the links to 63 blog articles that I posted (and in one case was posted by Susan Hudgens, who assisted with the blog) between January 2008 and June 30, 2008.

Here is simple summary of material (in writing or through a verbal briefing) that I received from Sid?

• Information surrounding the corrupt business relationship between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko.
• Information about Barack Obama’s ties to Palestinian radicals.
• Information concerning Barack Obama’s longstanding ties to the American terrorist, Bill Ayers.
• Information concerning Barack Obama’s close ties to radical clerics–i.e., Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger.
• Information concerning allegations that Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen.
• Information concerning Barack Obama being adopted by Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetor
The big Kahuna of the anti-Obama dump was the allegation that Republicans had a tape of Michelle Obama in which she used the disparaging term “Whitey.” I published that after being told about the “tape” by Sid Blumenthal. (I learned a few weeks later that the story of the tape actually originated with Media Matter’s David Brock and he confirmed its existence to me in person).

Read the rest here.

Why It's Not Carbon Dioxide

 Why It's Not Carbon Dioxide:
"...Many climate blogs promote the views of the owner as to whether or not, or by how much carbon dioxide might affect Earth's surface temperature.
But this compelling evidence proves it has no effect.
In the book Why It's Not Carbon Dioxide After All and my paper I explain the real physics of climate based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the associated state of thermodynamic equilibrium which that law says will evolve.
The overall level of Earth's surface temperatures is set by solar radiation and also cosmic ray levels, as these can affect cloud formation. 
There are natural long and short term cycles which are clearly evident in the climate records.
There is a very interesting strong correlation between the climate cycles and the 934-year and superimposed 60-year cycles in the above plot which is derived from planetary orbits.
For those who are interested it is the inverted plot of the scalar sum of the angular momentum of the Sun and all the planets. 
Magnetic fields from the planets may affect solar activity and cosmic rays.
...But to maintain a certain temperature there must be an input of thermal energy (usually called "heat") which balances the natural heat losses.
James Hansen incorrectly assumed that radiation from the colder atmosphere could transfer the extra thermal energy into the surface.
But radiation mostly transfers thermal energy out of the warmer surface, not into it.  
The actual process involves energy being transferred during molecular collisions, as with conduction.  ​
You are familiar with this diffusion process which can be observed if your car is left in the Sun and then driven into your garage. 
Close the garage door and open the car doors and gradually you will feel the temperature of the air in the garage warming and that of the air in the car cooling..."

Obama Backs the Worst Colleges While Destroying For-Profit Schools.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » HANS BADER: Obama Backs the Worst Colleges While Destroying For-Profit Schools. The federal gove…:
HANS BADER: Obama Backs the Worst Colleges While Destroying For-Profit Schools.

The federal government happily subsidizes inferior state colleges that graduate few if any of their students. That includes Chicago State University, which has a 12.8 percent six-year graduation rate.

The Obama administration has rewritten federal student loan rules in a way that encourages colleges to raise tuition and effectively subsidizes the worst colleges the most. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that each additional dollar in government financial aid results in a tuition hike of about 65 cents.

The federal government also subsidizes expensive, low-quality third-tier law schools whose graduates are often unemployed. It does so even though many of their graduates will never pay back their student loans because of their low graduating salaries, and the huge amount of money law students are allowed to borrow from the government. . . . As the Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey notes, ITT Tech produced better graduating salaries for its students than nearby public alternatives. But no one is suggesting that those lousy public colleges be shut down.

Like most such things, it’s just a transfer of taxpayer resources to Democratic Party constituencies.

Related: “You’d think that there’s no inherent reason why universities should always and only ever be non-profit (or state owned).
After all, we don’t demand that our cars be made by non-profit groups, and say that there’s no way a for-profit car manufacturer could ever be trusted to provide us with a quality product.”

Hilary Clinton supporters started the Obama 'birther' claims.

Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Top Agency Officials Raised Questions about Clinton Emails in Early August 2013 - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Top Agency Officials Raised Questions about Clinton Emails in Early August 2013 - Judicial Watch:

"According to the newly obtained emails, in August 2013, State Department officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating to requests for Clinton correspondence, including four that “specifically mention Emails or Email accounts.” Despite the large number of FOIA requests and growing concern among top agency officials, the State Department did not formally request that the former secretary of state produce the emails on the clintonemail.com server until October 2014."

Watch This Real Life Photo Bomb As Syrian Rebel Accidentally Blows Himself Up While Taking Selfie With Cell Phone Detonator

Watch This Real Life Photo Bomb As Syrian Rebel Accidentally Blows Himself Up While Taking Selfie With Cell Phone Detonator:
"We’re not quite sure if these are the good guys, the bad guys or this week’s allies du jour, but the video below is a lesson in how not to take a selfie with a random mobile device picked up from a table full of guns and improvised explosive devices.

Several reported rebels were sitting together and appeared to be preparing for and celebrating a future attack when one of the men was so excited he just had to take a selfie. 
He grabs a cell phone of the table, positions for the perfect social media pic and takes a snap shot.
A clicking noise can be heard, suggesting that the phone he used was a detonator for the IED explosion that immediately followed:

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History for September 18

History for September 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Samuel Johnson 1709, John George Diefenbaker 1895, Greta Garbo 1905


Robert Blake 1933 - Actor (TV: "Baretta"), Fred Willard 1939 - Actor, Lance Armstrong 1971 - Cyclist


1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $19,608.81.


1830 - The "Tom Thumb", the first locomotive built in America, raced a horse on a nine-mile course. The horse won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties.


1946 - Mound Metalcraft was founded in Mound, MN. On November 23, 1955, the company changed its name to Tonka Toys Incorporated.


1947 - The United States Air Force was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act.


1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948.


1963 - "The Patty Duke Show" premiered on ABC-TV.


1981 - A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI.


1998 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to release to videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony from August 17.

Clinton Foundation Donor Ensnared In Vote-Buying Scandal | The Daily Caller

Clinton Foundation Donor Ensnared In Vote-Buying Scandal | The Daily Caller:

"A Chinese billionaire who has contributed $2 million to the Clinton Foundation and attended a fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s home in 2013 has been kicked out of China’s National People’s Congress on accusations of bribing his way into office.

The New York Times reports that Wang Wenliang is one of 45 lawmakers from China’s Liaoning province who attained positions in the National People’s Congress by paying for votes."

MSNBC, Politico, Bloomberg, CNN, McClatchy and More Confirm: Hillary Clinton's 2008 Campaign Spread 'Birtherism' About Barack Obama

MSNBC, Politico, Bloomberg, CNN, McClatchy and More Confirm: Hillary Clinton's 2008 Campaign Spread 'Birtherism' About Barack Obama - Breitbart:
NEW YORK CITY, New York — The mainstream media, from Bloomberg News to MSNBC to Politico to the Washington Post and more, have all confirmed: 
Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 campaign for president did substantially further the birther movement.

Sean Hannity, the nationally syndicated radio host and Fox News anchor, said on his radio program during an appearance this reporter made on Friday evening:

The only time I ever, in my life, had any contact with Hillary Clinton supporters—you know what message I was getting, in 2007 and 2008, I was kind of a lone voice out here in talking about the radical roots of Obama and Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright and Frank Marshall Davis and Black Liberation theology and [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn and I was trying to warn the country that it was going to be a disaster, I wish I turned out to be wrong but it’s probably even worse a disaster than I ever thought—well, guess which campaign was encouraging me back in the day to do all of this?

“The Hillary Clinton campaign,” Hannity replied, answering his own question just after this reporter answered it the same way.

“Word was getting back yo me [that they were saying] ‘you’re the only one, we really admire your work,’” Hannity said. 

“Pretty interesting, right?”

It’s not just Hannity, who’s opposed to Clinton’s election and is a supporter of GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, who has confirmed that Clinton’s 2008 campaign and its allies pushed this.

In fact, Politico, in 2011, published a piece from two of its top reporters at the time—Ben Smith and Byron Tau, who have gone on respectively to BuzzFeed and the Wall Street Journal—specifically detailing how the Clinton campaign was behind birther rumors spreading.

Smith and Tau wrote in the Politico piece:

Just when it appeared that public interest was fading, celebrity developer Donald Trump has revived the theory that President Barack Obama was born overseas and helped expose the depth to which the notion has taken root—a New York Times poll Thursday found that a plurality of Republicans believe it. If you haven’t been trolling the fever swamps of online conspiracy sites or opening those emails from Uncle Larry, you may well wonder: Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there? The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.

Tau and Smith detailed in a lengthy four-page-long investigation how in April 2008, when Clinton was slipping in her battle against Obama for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, “Clinton supporters”—as they say—circulated an anonymous email chain that pushed the theory..."

Lots more proof.

Read on!

Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive?

Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive? - Reason.com
"What is the attraction of socialism?
The Cato Institute held a policy forum Wednesday to consider that question, featuring talks from the moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt and the evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
One problem they quickly encountered was how to define socialism in the first place.
Is it pervasive, state-directed central planning?
A Scandinavian-style safety net?
Something else?
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who pursued the Democratic presidential nomination while describing himself as a socialist, attracted a big following among voters under age 30.
But most of those voters actually rejected the idea of the government running businesses or owning the means of production; they tended to be safety-net redistributionists who want to tax the rich to pay for health care and college education.
And this was, in fact, the platform Sanders was running on.
...Cosmides then turned to a fascinating 2014 study in The Journal of Politics by the Danish political scientists Lene Aarøe and Michael Bang Petersen.
Aarøe and Petersen found that certain cues could turn supposedly individualistic Americans into purportedly welfare-state loving Danes, and vice versa.
In that experiment, researchers asked 2,000 Danes and Americans to react to three cases involving a person on welfare. 

• In one, they had no background information on the welfare client. 
• In the second, he lost his job due to an injury and was actively looking for new work. 
• In the third, he has never looked for a job at all. 

The Danes turned out to be slightly more likely than the Americans to assume that the person they knew nothing about was on welfare because of bad luck.
But both Americans and Danes were no different in opposing welfare for the lazy guy and strongly favoring it for the unlucky worker.
"When we assess people on welfare, we use certain [evolved] psychological mechanisms to spot anyone who might be cheating," Michael Bang Petersen explained in press release about the study.
"We ask ourselves whether they are motivated to give something back to me and society. 
And these mechanisms are more powerful than cultural differences."
Ultimately, Cosmides argued, those of us who want to preserve liberty and prosperity need to understand how human psychology has evolved and understand why evolved attitudes are often counterproductive.
The next panelist, John Tooby, turned to those counterproductive attitudes. Tooby has long been puzzled that so many of his colleagues are not struck by facts like Hong Kong's amazing economic success.
(Its GDP increased 180-fold between 1961 and 1996 while per capita GDP increased 87-fold and inequality fell.)
Instead, even a Nobel-winning economist like Joseph Stiglitz praised Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's ultimately disastrous redistributionist economic policies.
The chief problem, he suggested, is that many people are beguiled by "romantic socialism"—that is, they imagine what their personal lives would be like if everyone shared and treated one another like family..."
Read on!

What Is the FBI Hiding? - Judge Andrew Napolitano

What Is the FBI Hiding? - Judge Andrew Napolitano:

"Who cares about this? Everyone who believes that the government works for us should care because we have a right to know what the government -- here the FBI -- has done in our names. Sen. Grassley has opined that if he could reveal what he has seen in the FBI unclassified records, it would be of profound interest to American voters.

What is going on here? The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton has not served the rule of law. The rule of law -- a pillar of American constitutional freedom since the end of the Civil War -- mandates that the laws are to be enforced equally. No one is beneath their protection, and no one is above their requirements. To enforce the rule of law, we have hired the FBI.

What do we do when the FBI rejects its basic responsibilities?"

France Tries Combatting Terrorism. With 'De-Radicalization' Schools?!

France Tries Combatting Terrorism. With 'De-Radicalization' Schools?!
"Since allowing a crap ton of Muslim immigrants into their country, France has had a bit of a terrorist problem. 
We call that a direct correlation. 
Others might call it racist.
But Islam isn’t a race, stop it. 
...The latest brilliant plan to ensure potential terrorists are de-radicalized?
Sending them to school, or “centers,” if they don’t want to have a terroristy affliction anymore. Basically, making terrorism sound like a drug addiction.
Oh, and it’s all voluntary…
France plans on building 12 of these centers, which can only accommodate up to 25 people at one time.
French officials told The Washington Post that the centers were for potential terrorists “looking for way out” and that the government could not order citizens to take part.
Basically, if you make the decision on your own that you don’t want to kill in the name if Islam anymore, there’s a place for you..."

NFL Players Protest Anthem; Fan Reaction STUNS The League

NFL Players Protest Anthem; Fan Reaction STUNS The League | The Federalist Papers:
"Football fans have reacted to the constant player protests and national anthem controversies in a way that the NFL simply can’t miss:
They’re not watching.
They’re turning off the television rather than have their game night ruined with talk of Black Power and racism and … Colin Kaepernick. 
They’ve had enough.
NBC Sports is reporting that the ratings for week one of the NFL was lower than last season by every mark."

Must read and must see video!!-----Video Shows How Mainstream Media Uses A Single Talking Point to Brainwash Americans

Video Shows How Mainstream Media Uses A Single Talking Point to Brainwash Americans:
"Brainwashing can be most effectively a

Targets of efficacious brainwashing campaigns will never realize the tactic being used — unless someone provides clear evidence of the perpetrator’s methods.

On that note, consider the captive audience cable television and mainstream, corporate news outlets have at their disposal — when a big story hits headlines, the American public sits for hours, glued to nonstop coverage and overanalysis of every detail.

This week being no exception, when Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton fainted after an early exit from a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, conservative mainstream media scrambled to theorize on the ever-deepening questions surrounding her health.

Qualifying to head the empire, after all, would ostensibly require a person in their physical prime.

On the other side, left-leaning corporate media — previously exposed for colluding with the Democratic National Committee to bathe the former secretary of state in the glowing light of positivity — was forced to scramble to explain away her sudden inability to stand, while Facebook blatantly censored coverage of the incident in its trending topics section.

After a laughably thin attempt by the Clinton camp to attribute the fainting spell to early autumn heat, we learned she’d been coping with pneumonia — and that her appearance at the memorial actually represented an act of bravery and strength.

Keeping in mind the aforementioned collusion, it’s imperative to also note just six corporations own no less than 90 percent of all media — cable television outlets, radio, and print — in the United States. 
...“Without an awareness of the grave consequences involved with an increasingly concentrated media environment the public (i.e. non-elites) will continue to be systematically brainwashed by the propagandist arm of the government that is the mass media and will unknowingly acquiesce to the interests of the dominant elites.”

This is how brainwashing so exclusively serves the corporate and political plutocrats — vast swaths of the public have no idea what they’re being subjected to.

Repetitive pounding of an idea or phrase gradually shapes thought by reinforcing an idea that might otherwise be doubted. 

When you hear something enough times, it’s easier to accept — as if the number of mentions somehow validates the idea, regardless of merit.

Nowhere has this been more apparent, all political collusion aside, than in coverage of everything pro-Hillary Clinton — and one thing this oligopolistic media couldn’t stand for, all puns intended, is negative publicity from a fainting spell.

But it’s okay — as you’ll see in the telling compilation video below — Hillary might have fainted, but that’s only because she wanted to “power through” her harried schedule despite suffering such a serious illness as pneumonia.

Notably, the intentional choice of the word “power” for its triple-entendre — not only does this push the idea that Clinton isn’t seriously ill, it intimates her desire to work when necessary, no matter the consequences, and subtly reiterates her status as an elite at the height of, well, political power.

Behold, the mainstream media brainwashing in the laughable collection of media pundits touting the “powering through” of Hillary Clinton:

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Noon-toon

If You Want Economic Growth, Vote Republican, Says … Harvard Business School? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

If You Want Economic Growth, Vote Republican, Says … Harvard Business School? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"The latest HBS report paints a bleak but accurate picture of the current economy -- lackluster economic and productivity growth, an incredibly slow rate of job creation, declining median household income, a dramatic slowdown in new business formation, and a growing pessimism about the future of U.S. competitiveness.

Then it goes on to say that "the federal government has made no meaningful progress on the critical policy steps to restore U.S. competitiveness in the last decade or more.""

Store Owner Is Sick Of Rude Customers, So He Puts Up A Sign As Revenge

Store Owner Is Sick Of Rude Customers, So He Puts Up A Sign As Revenge
"Austin Simms of Roanoke, VA, thought some of his customers could use a little help with their manners.
The CUPS Coffee & Tea worker put up a sign indicating that the more impolite you are the more you’re going to have to pay.
The sandwich board reads:
Each phrase indicates what a customer should say to receive the most inexpensive price.
The less rude the better. 
Sometimes we’re so busy when we order our morning cup of joe — or barely awake — we forget that the person serving us is in fact another human being.
There’s no need for being short with someone during a transaction and the sign is a firm reminder of that.
“I decided because I need to solve all the injustices of the world to start charging more for people who didn’t take the time to say hello and connect and realize we’re all people behind the counter,” Simms said...."

Clinton Foundation Barely Spent Any Money On Real Charity

Clinton Foundation Barely Spent Any Money On Real Charity | The Daily Caller:
"Just 5.7 percent of the Clinton Foundation’s massive 2014 budget actually went to charitable grants, according to the tax-exempt organization’s IRS filings.
The rest went to salaries and employee benefits, fundraising and “other expenses.”
The Clinton Foundation spent a hair under $91.3 million in 2014, the organization’s IRS filings show. But less than $5.2 million of that went to charitable grants.
That number pales in comparison to the $34.8 million the foundation spent on salaries, compensation and employee benefits.
Another $50.4 million was marked as “other expenses,” while the remaining almost $851K was marked as “professional fundraising expenses..."