tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6799865650252552102..comments2024-03-28T20:27:03.808-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Kevin Drum advances a theory!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18311266243846134882016-10-07T15:05:16.967-04:002016-10-07T15:05:16.967-04:00Life is good when you have your love ones around y...Life is good when you have your love ones around you, I am saying this because when i had issues with my lover i never seen life as a good thing but thanks to Dr. AGBAZARA of AGBAZARA TEMPLE, for helping me to cast a spell that brought my lover back to me within the space of 48hours. My husband left me for another woman after 7years of marriage,but Dr.AGBAZARA help me cast a spell that brought him back to me within 48hours. I am not going to tell you more details about myself rather i will only advise those who are having issues in there relationship or marriages to contact Dr.AGBAZARA TEMPLE through these details via email; ( agbazara@gmail.com ) or call him OR Whatsapp: +2348104102662Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02322896103722682163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68757683980250095072016-09-09T01:15:33.802-04:002016-09-09T01:15:33.802-04:00My boyfriend broke up with me its been 4 days now....My boyfriend broke up with me its been 4 days now. We have been dating sense he was 18 and I was 22. he has just know turned 21. We have been dating for 3 years and 2 and half months. Through the years we have had a really good relationship it was serious and we really wanted to be with each other forever. Of course we had are arguments but nothing too bad. I know that these past 3 months I had taken him for granted thinking he would always be there but was wrong. he told me he didn’t want to be in a relationship that he wanted to take time with himself. But he was still kissin me and hugging me and telling me that he will always love me and I hold a special place in her heart. I realized that right before he done this that I needed to get my act together but I guess was too late. I really love this boy there is something different about him he is the love of my life and I want us to have a better relationship then ever before and I wouldn’t ever take him for granted ever again I really do want to marry this boy and he wanted that too but idk how to get him back with out being clingy and desperate. Obviously he needs his space because he cheated on me and this time I really need help to bring him back and marry me, one day i was searching online and i saw a good testimony of how Dr Joy a real Africa spell caster help to restored back broken marriage, getting ex back, fix broken relationship. so i copy his email via??? joylovespell@gmail.com and told him all my problems so he ask me not to worry that my problem are solve that with 2 days, i will get him back which i believe in and put all my hope on and to my greatest notice, after the spell my boyfriend who broke up with me gave me a call to apology and feel so sorry for what he did so my dear ones that is how i got my boyfriend back with the help of Dr joy the real spell caster so also email him now on via joylovespell@gmail.com????Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04302237154426952662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73995456027769092502016-09-07T18:21:42.365-04:002016-09-07T18:21:42.365-04:001) Frank Rich is a "liberal god?" Did no...1) Frank Rich is a "liberal god?" Did not know that.<br />2) "We let them do it?" What exactly was it "we" were supposed to do to stop them?Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77681009003481864752016-09-07T16:57:58.178-04:002016-09-07T16:57:58.178-04:00DinC,
Here's a puzzler for you: how many time...DinC,<br /><br />Here's a puzzler for you: how many times do you have to lie to become a liar? Do the lies have to have consequence?<br /><br />If by being a liar, it is meant that one has a character flaw whereby one tells untruths habitually, the press is calling the wrong candidate a liar.<br /><br />What the FBI thinks are gotchas, are hardly an indication that Hillary was caught in a lie.<br /><br />There is a difference between finding a punctuation error in the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address, and understanding the lies in this:<br /><br />"My fellow citizens. At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80591329108059077432016-09-07T15:52:25.926-04:002016-09-07T15:52:25.926-04:00One simple rule of critical thinking is that repea...One simple rule of critical thinking is that repeating the same factually unsupported conclusions over and over does not make them true. You'd be as big a failure as a teacher as you are a critical thinker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12389284155625177242016-09-07T14:37:53.521-04:002016-09-07T14:37:53.521-04:002:13 -- I feel like I'm being invited to teach...2:13 -- I feel like I'm being invited to teach a class in critical thinking. OK, here's your homework. <br /><br />E-mail critics have made the following claims:<br />1. Hillary broke the rules by not having a government server.<br />2. Hillary had info on her private server that ought to have been kept confidential.<br />3. Hillary told the FBI that she didn't know that "c" stood for confidential or classified. She said she thought it might have been an alphabetic designation.<br /><br />Here's the homework: Go through the sources listed by hardindr and see if these claims are specifically refuted. I believe you'll find that they aren't.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31420003745405967802016-09-07T14:13:52.330-04:002016-09-07T14:13:52.330-04:00You "started" it? It's 17 paragraph...You "started" it? It's 17 paragraphs! You've written 1700 paragraphs about this subject just here on this blog. You lie a lot more than Clinton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20550659482734052682016-09-07T13:40:03.287-04:002016-09-07T13:40:03.287-04:00Well, I started Kaplan's and found it unconvin...Well, I started Kaplan's and found it unconvincing. In a way, I'd be happy to spend a couple of hours laying out the flaws in his argument. But, I don't have time today, and I don't know where to post it so that you'd receive it. Based on a cursory glance, I cannot see where Kaplan refutes any of the specific points I listed. Maybe he does so later in the article or maybe Drum does so. As I said, I just don't have time today to study and analyze those articles.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73214063299569207692016-09-07T13:39:45.476-04:002016-09-07T13:39:45.476-04:00You might as well ask the troll to stick pins in h...You might as well ask the troll to stick pins in his eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24234862409721738012016-09-07T13:01:39.487-04:002016-09-07T13:01:39.487-04:00Okay, I can see that his will get me nowhere. If ...Okay, I can see that his will get me nowhere. If you want, you can read this article by Fred Kaplan that lays out that there isn't anything to the Clinton email "scandal" (Bob has linked to this before, so I am sure you have seen it):<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/07/hillary_s_email_scandal_was_overhyped.html<br /><br />Kevin Drum's posts on Hillary's email scandal can be found here:<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum<br /><br />With the latest one here:<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/hillary-clintons-personal-email-key-understanding-emailgatehardindrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275899305949454964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81066686374069046822016-09-07T12:50:06.158-04:002016-09-07T12:50:06.158-04:00hardindr -- the fact the Hillary claimed not to kn...hardindr -- the fact the Hillary claimed not to know what "c" stood for was reported in a reputable (albeit conservative) newspaper, as cited above. They quoted Hillary's words from her FBI questioning. <br /><br />I think I could find cites for all 11 points above, but I'm busy catching up today. The first point is just a paraphrase of what the head of the FBI said publicly. <br /><br />Regarding #3, Factcheck reported <br /><i> The IG report cited department policies dating to 2005 that require “normal day-to-day operations” to be conducted on government servers, contrary to Clinton’s claim that her server was allowed. It also said she “had an obligation” to discuss her email system with cybersecurity officials, but there’s “no evidence” that she sought or received their approval.<br />The IG report said Clinton should have turned over her emails before she left office — not 21 months after she left. “[S]he did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act,” the report said.<br />Clinton has said her emails “were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department” because she emailed department officials at their government accounts. The IG report said that is “not an appropriate method of preserving any such emails that would constitute a Federal record.”...<br /><br />the IG report said the comparison to Powell — who did not use a private server — only goes so far. It said during Clinton’s tenure, the rules governing personal email and the use of nongovernment systems were “considerably more detailed and more sophisticated,” citing specific memos that warned department employees about the security risks of not using the government system.</i><br />http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/ig-report-on-clintons-emails/David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23465853861344189422016-09-07T12:38:12.860-04:002016-09-07T12:38:12.860-04:00So putting your interest above the nation's in...So putting your interest above the nation's interest is wrong now? <br />Who is going to tell the GOP?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31232903543270858682016-09-07T11:42:46.698-04:002016-09-07T11:42:46.698-04:00DinC:
If you read Somerby's blog (and presuma...DinC:<br /><br />If you read Somerby's blog (and presumably the links he has to Kevin Drum's work on HRC's use of a private email server while at the State Dept.), you know most of the stuff you are linking to about them isn't true. Why do you insist on posting it here in the comments?hardindrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275899305949454964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-72141654495607429782016-09-07T09:57:17.861-04:002016-09-07T09:57:17.861-04:007:23, regarding #10, Clinton told the FBI she didn...7:23, regarding #10, Clinton told the FBI she didn’t know emails marked ‘C’ were confidential. <br /><i><br />When asked about an email chain containing “C’’ markings during her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton “speculated it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.” instead of the obvious designation for confidential or classified data.<br />Clinton didn’t know the difference between the government’s classifications of TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFIDENTIAL. In fact, she told the FBI that she “did not pay attention to the ‘level’ of classification and took all classified information seriously.”</i><br /><br />As I said, if she was telling the truth, she's incompetent. Fortunately, she was probably lying.<br /><br />http://nypost.com/2016/09/02/fbi-releases-documents-on-clinton-email-investigation/David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22647834819368657992016-09-07T09:21:03.954-04:002016-09-07T09:21:03.954-04:00Yeah, if those other people are too stupid to reco...Yeah, if those other people are too stupid to recognize how great I am (and my awesome understanding of how politics *really* work), then it's their problem. Not mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89662730490055438732016-09-07T08:43:25.457-04:002016-09-07T08:43:25.457-04:00The reports on this use the weasel word "excl...The reports on this use the weasel word "exclusively," suggesting that cabinet and other officials sometimes use personal email but not always. The policy says that any email sent using a personal account must be copied to preserve records. The concern is with records preservation, not with the technical issue of what server or what email account is being used, government or not.<br /><br />Government officials are being instructed to preserve their records, not to exclusively use government email. So, I think you are misunderstanding the issue with Clinton's emails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53195156178959381582016-09-06T23:26:38.271-04:002016-09-06T23:26:38.271-04:00Speak for yourself.Speak for yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37128027253268070892016-09-06T19:53:17.639-04:002016-09-06T19:53:17.639-04:00We have met the enemy--and he is us.We have met the enemy--and he is us.Carohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01372850688572724835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14827719705773062922016-09-06T19:25:19.200-04:002016-09-06T19:25:19.200-04:00Three guesses on where our Trump-troll has read th...Three guesses on where our Trump-troll has read that bullshit. As for what he wonders when it comes to Hillary Clinton, the sky's the limit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62762872335476790172016-09-06T19:23:32.805-04:002016-09-06T19:23:32.805-04:001. No it didn't.
2. No she didn't.
3. No i...1. No it didn't.<br />2. No she didn't.<br />3. No it wasn't.<br />4. No she didn't.<br />5. No she didn't.<br />6. No she/they didn't.<br />7. No it isn't.<br />8. No it doesn't.<br />9. No they don't.<br />10. Maybe, but not incredibly so. She is. No she didn't.<br />11. No it doesn't because the only thing long held about the Clintons is a bullshit narrative that the GOP keeps feeding to the cuck media. (Sadly, CDS wingnuts actually think that there has been one scandal after another since the late 80s and have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in the futile hope that something - ANYTHING!! - will turn up.)<br />12. No it doesn't.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-7292414477680581902016-09-06T18:50:25.190-04:002016-09-06T18:50:25.190-04:00Amplifying point #11: I have read that Hillary was...Amplifying point #11: I have read that Hillary was the only member of Obama's cabinet who failed to use a government server, as instructed. I wonder whether Hilary was the only government employee at any level who was supposed to set up a government e-mail but failed to do so.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91301393641307817182016-09-06T18:19:40.306-04:002016-09-06T18:19:40.306-04:00Why is the e-mail a big problem? Let's count ...Why is the e-mail a big problem? Let's count the reasons:<br /><br />1. At best, it demonstrated massive carelessness.<br />2. In reality, she pretty clearly violated the law -- a law for which others who took similar actions have been punished.<br />3. It was a giant FU to Barack Obama, since the White House had instructed her to use a government e-mail system.<br />4. She may have allowed foreign interests to learn confidential information.<br />5. She obviously lied when she said her reason was "convenience". It's obvious that her reason was to keep potentially embarassing e-mails out of the public eye.<br />6. She (or her spokepeople) lied when they said Colin Powell did the same thing and said that Powell had recommended Clinton's behavior.<br />7. She swore under oath that she had made all the non-personal e-mails available. Sub subsequently, thousands of addional non-personal e-mails were discovered. (Is this perjury?)<br />8. Her decision to handle the e-mail situation this way suggests that she has something embarassing to hide.<br />9. Her answers to FBI questions, released last Friday, show evasions.<br />10. If her answers were accurate, they woulds show that she's incredibly ignorant and naive about e-mails and about confidentially measures. If her answers were true, she's not competent to be President. Fortunately, she was probably lying.<br />11. Her behavior reinforces a long-held image of Hillary and Bill that they believe the ordinary rules don't apply to them. (Sadly, their escape from scandal after scandal shows that they're right.)<br />12. Hillary's decision to use a private server shows that she put her interest above the nation's interest.<br />David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.com