Sunday Mornings Fall To Pieces

[Guest post by hit and run*]

And now for your listening pleasure, we present Clarice Feldman with her weekly column "Clarice's Pieces" summing up all things Clinton for the week that was by invoking . . . musicals.

Grab a cup of coffee and settle in.

ABOUT THE LISTENING PLEASURE PART: Here is a version of the number "Little Tin Box" from the musical Fiorello performed as part of The BBC Proms.

Link to Last Page of Thread.

Comments

[Jack is Back!]

Primo?

[Peter]

first?

[sbw]

Dos. Hillary is the stalking horse for the real candidate. Clydesdale?

[jimmyk]

A tired old nag ready for the glue factory. Of course that's true of Red Squaw and most of the potential Dem field (Biden, Sanders, etc.).

[sbw]

Suppose the Clinton Foundation is determined to be an illegal extortion scheme. How would courts disperse the assets of the foundation?

I think part should go to a number of $50,000 prizes for the winning essays written on the subject of corruption in government.

[Jack is Back!]

sbw,

Of course. If you can name a prize for journalism after the father of "Yellow" journalism, why not name an essay contest on corruption after the Clintons?

[clarice]

From the last thread:
think the things that will most effect the public is (a)the small percentage that actually goes to charity.(b) the fact that the three of them charged the foundation $8 million for travel and (c) the uranium deal.

As for me, I want to know who paid the Blumenthal intel service, how much and under what phony line item?

[Jane]

Clarice,

Do you personally know Lanny Davis? I almost feel sorry for him this morning.

[Captain Hate]

Lanny Davis should take a long stroll in Fort Marcy park.

Remember all those FBI files that Rodham and her minions had for long periods of time. Does anybody doubt that their contents were spilled to that drunk wife beater, Sid Vicious (we really need DoT back for this)?

[Captain Hate]

Shouldn't the Clinton Crime Family Foundation be heading off to Nepal for some "humanitarian aid"? Or is that too close to the ChiComs which might deal more harshly with grifter scammers?

[clarice]

No,Jane.

[Ben]

Russkie oligarchs make for global CU's. What's good for the goose...

I don't hear Althouse lamenting her imminent walking papers with no severance pay. Things go better with Koch.

[DebinNC]

If Hil implodes, Martin O'Malley's being awol from the Freddie Gray fracas in the city he headed didn't help his chances of replacing her. His tepid and belated "it's a tragic situation" twitter comment didn't go unnoticed by the voters he'd need to win.

[Captain Hate]

Does anybody take O'Malley seriously? He reminds me of that boob, Ed Fitzgerald, who was a placeholder on the ballot against Kasich and only 33% of the voters chose.

[DebinNC]

An absolutely must-read Piece today, Clarice. It made me wonder how the Clintons live with themselves, then I remembered Hillbilly leaving office with stolen WH furniture/artifacts they were forced to return:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121856

[Captain Hate]

Reporting on Rove News Sunday will be difficult because apparently the Cheney/Rove earthquake machine employed in Nepal, has caused reception problems for my over the air antenna. I'll probably watch it online later.

[clarice]

Thanks. Sometimes I think there's so much coming out on an important topic that busy people just need someone to put it together in one place for them, and that's pretty much what I did this week.

[Miss Marple]

More signs that the Left has decided to dump her: Common Cause wants and independent audit:

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/25/time-for-an-independent-audit-of-the-clinton-foundation-says-common-cause/

[peter]

Great pieces today. One thing I noticed reading the Slimes dead tree edition. Not one mention of Hillary's scandals in the week in review.

[Captain Hate]

Welp Rove must have adjusted the machine settings. Peter Schweizer is on blasting the Clintoon Crime Family although Chris Wallace is claiming Slick and Muffer don't control their own foundation.

[Captain Hate]

LOL @ Tony Soprano Rodham being a "mining expert". The lizard-line Pederesta slithered out to blast Schweizer which he laughed at.

[Tonto]

Thanks, Clarice, for this excellent, excellent Pieces.

[Captain Hate]

Schweizer has blasted some of OrangeDrank's shady practices and is looking at prince Jebby. I like this guy.

[Captain Hate]

Lanny Davis drew the short straw to defend these crooks. Snakehead Carville must be buying a new trowel for his wife's makeup applications.

[Captain Hate]

Lanny: Slick is the greatest speaker in the history of mankind and of course people want to pay a gazillion dollars to hear this latter day Caligula.

[Captain Hate]

Even Dick Lugar was "concerned" about Slick's speaking fees in front of shady countries.

[DebinNC]

Schweizer's book was the first I'm aware of where the author gave his research info to competing outlets (FOX News, NYT, and WaPo), rather than a few chosen "friendlies". This strategy would seem to force more converage/exposure than the msm would normally allow, which is brilliant.

[Captain Hate]

Lanny isn't a good liar. He needs Dr Yeeaarrgh's prescription pad.

[clarice]

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of people who vote Democrat.

[Captain Hate]

Lanny was gripping hard during that complete interview; he would've burned up a polygraph.

[Beasts of England]

Eminence front. It's an eminence front. It's a put on! A very wet put on!

But it was worth it. A little brunch at Commander's Palace is on the agenda before wrapping up our musical indulgences with Lady Gaga + Tony Bennett and something from the all-you-can-eat Jimmy Buffett.

Hopefully the rain is gone, but the forecast calls for a very dry 90 degrees. Did I say dry heat? In the Delta? Oh, my. :)

[henry]

The Clintons aren't the only ones having a bad week. DA Chisolm feels the heat, wants to charge Walker with criminal defamation. In Iowa, for pointing out the John Doe law is a problem as shown by Chisolm's activities. The DA's co conspirator Schmidt wants to dump the raided material to the press (selectively of course) to slime Walker again. ( they tried this with the John Doe I files, and all they got was "Molotov").

[Captain Hate]

Panel time: Britt: Schweizer doesn't need a smoking gun with the train of evidence he's produced. Julie Pace: is actually defending 404's people as having their "trust" in Rodham betrayed. She obviously got the memo to trash Rodham. Rove: this goes way beyond anything I advised the Bush family to do. Fournier: this whole thing is stupid and seedy. He got the memo too.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Clarice - Thank you for the latest "Pieces."
What a masterful job of laying out the various elements of the Clintons' fraudulent enterprise. Bravo !

Since oBOzo's DOJ will *never* even conduct a preliminary inquiry into their "foundation's" activities, we have to hope that a Republican president in 2017 will have the backbone to authorize the criminal investigation that is so greatly overdue.

[Ben]

"Sliming Walker again.."

Heh. Predator vs Ghostbusters..comedy relief.

[Captain Hate]

Panel on drone strikes on US hostages. Pace: no dramatic changes in drone policy after this despite how "anguished" (LOL) 404 is. Rove (in response to viewers trashing the intel currently being gathered): defends the terrible intel and is defending 404. Not sending people to Gitmo for interrogation isn't working. Fournier: is accusing 404 of breaking his promise of being transparent and leading his own administration. Ron is confusing everybody with his questions. Brit: war is Hell and trying to change that is a fool's errand. Fournier is really being an idiot. Rove refuses to pull the trigger on how many intel operatives 404 has burned.

[Ben]

Quinnipac poll has 59 percent opposing his 2016 run. 41 percent approval rating in Wis probably dumps to 21 on the national front. Overwhelming popularity is a beatch.

[Captain Hate]

They just played a clip from last night's embarrassment. What an unfunny waste of time.

[Neo]

Clinton Foudation: "... but we are acting quickly to remedy them ..."

Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and AMY CHOZICK AUG. 13, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html

Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Two weeks of interviews with Clinton Foundation executives and former employees had led the lawyers to some unsettling conclusions.

The review echoed criticism of Mr. Clinton’s early years in the White House: For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in."

[Captain Hate]

And that's a wrap. I missed the early part of Schweizer's part but he seemed very credible and will be difficult for the foundation's hit squad to discredit. Unless the first perpetual child will claim in Rolling Stone that he raped her from a distance.

[DebinNC]

I can't think of anything more venal than bilking the desperately poor in Haiti.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Wallace harping on 'evidence' hoping against hope, the precious to Democrats Clinton Commodity Inc, won't be devalued and put out of business forever.

[Ben]

Gawd. Read the transcript. Stephanopoulis takes the swiftboater to task. Schweizer the opportunist and Dubya speechwriter .....

[Jane]

Clinton matter a postscript on MTP and Face the Nation. (It's all about appearances and most people won't care because they know she is looking out for them). On Stephanopolus, Schweitzer was on for the 2nd segment, and George yelled at him.

[Ben]

Whitewater redux. Fig Newton baking his cookies again.

[Neo]

And Mr. Bush also appeared to work blue in the post-presidency. He told how President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made fun of his small dog, Barney, by telling the American president, "You want to see a real dog?"

Mr. Putin called over his large dog, which the Russian leader apparently described as larger and more powerful. Mr. Bush recounted that he later told the same story to the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, who he said replied, "You're lucky all he did was show you his dog."

LUN

[rse]

Anyone think Barbara and Jeb Bush would like to take back the effusive comments they have made about the respective Clintons?

Hard to see this helping jeb outside of his support among the party oligarchs who want someone who believes in Corporatism as how american business and politics should dovetail.

[Captain Hate]

Anyone think Barbara and Jeb Bush would like to take back the effusive comments they have made about the respective Clintons?

To hell with them; lock them in the same burning building.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I don't suppose expecting a Republican candidate to fearlessly expose Democrat party corruption and the consequent destruction of the American middle class, will be anything we'll see before 2016...

[Ben]

Bruce Jenner, republican, thinks he'll get a good reception from GOP.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Politico has Obama's top 10 jokes from last night's nerd prom. I'm pulling out these.

Self-awareness...

5. On Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) comparing himself to Galileo for denying the existence of man-made climate change: “Galileo believed the Earth revolves around the sun. Ted Cruz believes the Earth revolves around Ted Cruz”

Bringing us together A divisive straw man...

4. On his ever-improving relationship with Vice President Joe Biden: “We’ve gotten so close that in some places in Indiana they won’t serve us pizza anymore.”

Dignity...

2. On his plans for his last year and a half in office: “I have something that rhymes with a bucket list. Take executive action on immigration? Bucket. New climate regulations? Bucket.”

The Indiana one really grates on me. Really, really grates on me.

[DebinNC]

Me too, hit.

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of Memories Pizza, that can't be allowed to happen again:

http://weaselzippers.us/221755-gofundme-shuts-down-page-for-sweet-cakes-failure-to-bake-a-gay-wedding-cake-doesnt-fund-heinous-crimes/

[Jeff Dobbs]

A conservative leaning GoFundMe-like outfit could probably be set up quickly - and be very very successful.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Saw your comment in the naughty bin, Peter. I set it free. You didn't get first, but you did take dos away from sbw.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Samaritan's Purse is helping persecuted American Christians:

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/christian-couple-faces-135000-fine/

[Captain Hate]

About Bruce Jenner:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/todays-five-anything-but-conservative/

[matt]

By the way, where has Joey Plugs been lately? Not much is being reported on his always delightful turns of phrase.

It seems that Joey is also one of the key architects of our botched policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you recall he wanted to divide Iraq into three, which has occurred, and just get the hell out of the "Stan, which is in process. 10K advisers doesn't really do very much. Maybe some more drone strikes?

The Russians reading Obama's e mails should be front and center. That asshole was told time and again by his ComSec team that he was in violation of those rules and he went ahead anyway.

Now the Russkies know his golf scores and double secret Wednesday night partay guest lists. The man is the most arrogant a-hole I have ever watched on the international stage, or maybe not if you include Kim Jong Un.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Beasts:
A little brunch at Commander's Palace is on the agenda

I am not jealous.

I am, however, lying.

[Annoying Old Guy]

Since Clarice is musically themed this week, I know you'll all want an update on this comment about an injured base player. I saw them live last year before the injury and then last week and Otto, the bassist, seems fully recovered. No confetti, though.

P.S. I can't help but always think of Obama when I listen to their song "Go Away".

[Annoying Old Guy]

Since Clarice is musically themed this week, I know you'll all want an update on this comment about an injured base player. I saw them live last year before the injury and then last week and Otto, the bassist, seems fully recovered. No confetti, though.

P.S. I can't help but always think of Obama when I listen to their song "Go Away".

[Annoying Old Guy]

Since Clarice is musically themed this week, I know you'll all want an update on this comment about an injured base player. I saw them live last year before the injury and then last week and Otto, the bassist, seems fully recovered. No confetti, though.

P.S. I can't help but always think of Obama when I listen to their song "Go Away".

[Jane]

The legal Insurrection piece is wonderful.

[Jack is Back!]

Almost a confession:

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/blog/2015/04/26/commitment-honesty-transparency-and-accountability

What's that word again? Obfuscation?

"I also want to address questions regarding our 990 tax forms. We have said that after a voluntary external review is completed we will likely refile forms for some years. While some have suggested that this indicates a failure to accurately report our total revenue, that is not the case. Our total revenue was accurately reported on each year's form – our error was that government grants were mistakenly combined with other donations. Those same grants have always been properly listed and broken out and available for anyone to see on our audited financial statements, posted on our website."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I think John Nolte, quoted in that LI piece, is wrong that conservative Christians are typically willing to attend a friends homosexual wedding.
The reason is not condemnation of the couple. [woman where are your accusers? Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more]

It's the "we are gathered here in the sight of God to unite this couple in holy matrimony thing".
It is next to impossible to separate attending a homosexual wedding from endorsing homosexual marriage.

I don't know any conservative Christians who would attend a bigamist's [male or female] wedding either.
A lot wouldn't even attend the wedding of a friend who had abandoned his wife [or husband] and family and gotten a divorce just to marry someone he suddenly preferred.

Attending a marriage is more than being a pal; it's an endorsement, as a witness, that the ceremony is blessed and approved by God.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Speaking of the Nepal earthquake and humanitarian aid . . . never forget that AmeriCares is a stellar organization for whom Mrs. TM works.

[Jack is Back!]

Iggy,

10-4. No way would I or my wife ever attend a same-sex wedding for exactly those reasons.

Heck, I even hate attending hetero weddings:)

[Preying for the end of time.]

She could hear paradise in the server's hum.

[Jane]

I cannot imagine not attending a gay wedding I was invited to.

[Captain Hate]

Welp there goes Kevin Love's season.

[Jeff Dobbs]

From last night's WHCD...

Spygate:

Belichick's line of sight is not even in question.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Well, it's Sunday and I'm still ranked #1 in the US for pool for this week's matches. I'm still going with the idea they just haven't input all the scores yet, but......

Keep Hope Alive!

Off to my singles match. Win this one and I have the inside track to winning the season. That'd be a mid-three digit payola if I can pull it off.

[Jane]

Perhaps he was looking for inflation.

[Jack is Back!]

Why Walker Wants to Play Poker with Obama

Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) in an interview broadcast Sunday argued that President Obama’s default strategy for dealing with Iran was surrender.

“I wouldn’t mind playing poker with this guy, because he tends to fold all the time,” Walker told host John Catsimatidis on his New York radio show “The Cats Roundtable.”

http://thehill.com/policy/international/240122-why-walker-wants-to-play-poker-with-obama

An old Kenny Rogers song comes to mind.

[Jack is Back!]

Too good to pass up:)

The White House Hits It's "Fuck it" Phase - The Daily Beast.

“I am determined to make the most of every moment I have left,” he went on. “After the midterm elections my advisers asked me, ‘Mr. President, do you have a bucket list?’ And I said, ‘Well I have something that rhymes with ‘bucket list.’”

The room exploded with a roar of recognition. Nearly everyone, with the possible exception of starry-eyed first-timers—namely, weary politicians and jaded journalists, greasy lobbyists and greedy corporate executives, honored guests and shameless party-crashers, plus a dwindling contingent of A-list celebs—seemed to be feeling the same thing.

Call it, for lack a better term, the “fuck it” phase of the Washington political cycle, as reliable and inevitable as 17-year cicadas.

“The Obama people are really bitter,” one of Washington’s savvier journalists informed me after encountering Ben Rhodes, the press-handling deputy White House national security adviser, hanging out in the smoking area of the MSNBC after-party, puffing on a cigarette. “They’re like an ’80s rock band. Nobody cares anymore.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/26/why-was-washington-s-party-weekend-such-a-washout.html?via=mobile&source=twitter

When you've lost Llyod Grove - well.......

[Eric in Boise]

An old Kenny Rogers song comes to mind.

Yeah, "Coward of the County".

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I've only read descriptions of last night's unholy gathering of the Scribblers Elite, but certainly enough to sense their hold on 'promoting the Democrat party establishment no matter what' is beginning to implode.

What an embarrassing, God-forsaken gaggle of counter-culturists they are.

[Jack is Back!]

After reading this, I am even more convinced Chisholm, like more Dems, are not just criminal but mentally diseased.

Milwaukee DA John Chisholm Lets the Mask Slip Again.

http://www.rightwisconsin.com/perspectives/my-what-thin-skins-the-doe-das-have-301350971.html

Wonders if Iowa has the same libel laws as Wisconsin and if Walker using his 1st Amendment rights is criminally liable.

[narciso]

Great piece, Clarice,

Having Lanny Davis, one of those birds perched on the animals, cleaning them, after Schweitzer's presentation, is an insult to the former,

the whole shindig reminds me of Bond Villains, either Spectre, who operated behind a Parisian store front, or the most recent variation, Quantum, which was a confederation of business and political interests, the weakest link was a Mr. Green, who fronted an environmental foundation like Telfer's Fernwood, but was actually an mining magnate,

re your earlier point, Drumheller seemed to stovepiping, a network run by ret, General Grange, who in turn was a contributor to the Clinton foundation, the former along with his deputy, Bill Murray, have a consulting shop,
which they run with Col, Bill Hunt, and they have contracts with various governments,

[narciso]

re; the drone strikes, they don't seem to tell us who they were targeting, Roggio's site, caught who they initially thought they had caught, part of AQ's South Asian expansion franchise, but at the time, didn't mention Gadahn,

[Thomas Collins]

Dorkiness on the part of Olynyk, CH, or an intentional armbar? I'm inclined to give Olynyk the benefit of the doubt. In any event, rough blow for the Cavs' championship hopes.

[narciso]

of course, the Waziristan strike, happened a week after the random shooting at Charlie Hebdo, no one seems to make the connection, they were throwing darts in the Tribals,

[Captain Hate]

TC, I'm back to thinking the Celtics are trash and will never change.

[narciso]

Recall the vapors when the Huntress pointed out how 'Winning the Future' was not the most apropo, description for a campaign of any sort,

[narciso]

a reminder of the former arrangement:

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/28/3772401/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton.html

wonder if Danny, is related to Bill Murray,

[Thomas Collins]

I can easily see how someone could view it as intentional, CH. Whether or not Olynyk meant to hurt Love, I think Olynyk should have been tossed. That was an MMA move.

[Miss Marple]

http://freebeacon.com/blog/this-is-why-they-hate-us/

[Captain Hate]

Maybe when somebody goes up 3-0 on the Celtics they should just not show up for game 4 and forfeit. Two seasons ago Garnett separated Carmello's shoulder and JR got tossed with a flagrant foul and had to sit out the following game.

I don't know if was intentional or not but the Cavs are probably screwed against the Bulls.

[Miss Marple]

http://cbs4indy.com/2015/04/26/mcdonalds-to-close-350-restaurants-remains-in-two-year-sales-slump/

[narciso]

it was just a disturbance in District 8, actually it's much closer to the capital,

[jimmyk]

McDonald’s to close 350 restaurants, remains in two year sales slump

Let's see how many are in places that have jacked up their minimum wage.

[Miss Marple]

jimmyk,

That was my thought, along with places which are becoming too high crime (Baltimore, for example).

I am going to keep an eye out for the list.

[narciso]

this is one take on it.

http://qz.com/388775/mcdonalds-is-closing-hundreds-of-its-worst-performing-stores/

now what percentage of their total outlets is left unclear,

[Captain Hate]

narc did you listen to the music I linked last night?

[narciso]

well Pravda didn't really go after corruptions in the oblast, until that fellow was going to be purged,

his contribution to the 'nerd prom'

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/26/world-leader-says-its-ridiculous-that-with-black-president-crimes-against-u-s-blacks-continue-now-guess-who-said-it/

[narciso]

yes, a great selection, Captain,

[Jack is Back!]

Just finished a round of tennis with Frederick. His backhand passing shot is tough on my old knees:)

Here on the First Coast, I have noticed that once the Chick-Fil-A opened up, the local Mickey D's seem to have much shorter Drive Thru lines and the Chick-Fil-A is almost impossible to get into. Is it possible that Christian values, healthier eating and backlash to the SJW crowd is driving all this?

[DebinNC]

We stopped at McDonald's yesterday for a coffee and apple pie. No cream and sugar packet station. No getting the packets from behind the counter at checkout. Instead, we were asked "How many sugars/milk?" and the coffee came already doctored up, which turned out to be less sweet and white than I like. Small savings add up, but customers leaving unhappy and unlikely to repeat the experience seems a foolish way to refresh the brand.

[Miss Marple]

We have a Chi-fil-A, a McDonald's, a Taco Bell, a Popeye's Chicken, an Arby's and a Steak n Shake all right next to each other.

Chik-fil-A is always crowded and drive-through often backs up into the service road. The McDonald's is pretty much constantly busy, with heavy traffic in the morning and at lunch. (This might be because it is the best McDonald's franchise I have run into; always clean, fast service, friendly workers, plus comunity activity lik fundraisers and sponsoring Little League.)

Franchises which are medium busy are Taco Bell and Steak m shake, with less wait time at drive through.

Ones which look to be not very busy are Popeye's (new and replaced a Burger King which went out of business) and Arby's.

This is suburbs, though, so may not be a good reflection of the franchises nationally.

[JeanD]

What if McD's told the food police to pound sand and brought back their magical fries, beef tallow and all?

They could keep the PC fries, but do the real fries, too.

I'd give them some business.