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The BLM email-gate TAkes!

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Now we have yet another email-gate.

Hillary is most likely toast, yet the Democrat bench only seems to have Joe sitting on it.

Enjoy the BLM email Takes! (and turn your flash-blocker on)

Planet Obama

Hillary Clinton Hacked Emails For Sale

Will Hillary Clinton’s Emails Burn the White House?

The incalculable damage done

“We know now that HC had classified information on her email server because of what she turned over. What we don’t know is what she didn’t turn over. This creates a massive Counter-Intelligence (CI) problem… This action has done irreparable damage to US national security”

Clinton Admits She Destroyed Government Property

Tech company: No indication that Clinton’s e-mail server was ‘wiped’

someone is really incompetent

Peggy Hubbard’s classic rant about black lives matter after a nine year old was killed while studying in Ferguson MO.

MN Black Lives Matter Protesters Chant: “Pigs in a Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon” – YouTube

The assassin who killed two cops in NYC tweeted that he was going to put pigs in a blanket.

NFL Star Richard Sherman GOES OFF On Man Who Called For “Open Season On Crackers and Cops”

Sherman is a star in more ways than one.

Farrakhan: We Must Rise Up and Kill Those Who Kill Us; Stalk Them and Kill Them

where are the voices to condemn and/or arrest Farrakhan? The O seemingly loves it.

Message to the Black Lives Matter Movement

complete Whaley video above

…if you have a Boehner lasting longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention!

Articles: Donald Trump and the Revenge of the ‘Low-Information’ Voters

Biden: ‘Totally Legitimate Argument’ That Iran Can Use Sanctions Relief to Fund Terror

Yet he has no problem moving ahead with this disaster anyway

Three illegal immigrants charged with murder of Va. student

Captured: Convicted Burglar Deported 5 Times, Back in Texas

Obama claims that the border is more secure now than ever. I guess that is not saying much.

USA Today reporter covering Scott Walker’s campaign signed petition to recall him

I’d like to know what “journalists” contributed to political campaigns too.

John Kerry Appoints Clinton Donor to Oversee Email Production

nothing says transparency like hiring a Clinton partisan to oversee the release of Hillary Clinton’s email

~ remember when State conducted an investigation into Benghazi without interviewing Hillary, or producing a single document with her name on it? That was also conducted by another Clinton partisan, surprise, surprise!

FEC Must Investigate Democratic National Committee for Employing Illegal Alien to Craft 2016 Political Message

I’d be shocked if that ever happened

Obama EPA rule blocked, criticized as fed power grab over state waters

“Judge Ralph R. Erickson called the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt “inexplicable, arbitrary and devoid of a reasoned process,” and issued an injunction preventing the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from claiming oversight of millions of acres of land that contain small bodies of water.”

Clintons Facilitated Donor’s Haiti Project That Defrauded U.S. Out of Millions

The Clintons should be prosecuted under RICO laws as a continuing criminal enterprise

What Is Obama’s Top Population-Control Freak Hiding?

Science czar John Holdren is withholding his private email too. He is the top strategist in Obama’s war on carbon, war on coal, war on the West and war on the economy.

Conservative Review – McConnell Plans to Fund Planned Parenthood

He’s funded everything else that Obama wanted

Satanists are Pro-Choice, If You Didn’t Know

duh!

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Rich’s Select Committee Double-TAkes!

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Special Double Edition Rich TAkes!

Lots has been going on, and very little has been going on. Trey Goudy is named Chairman of the Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, The EPA has been asking human subjects to stick their head up a tail-pipe, and the IRS targeting seems to track directly to the White House (to the surprise of virtually no one).  Trey

The EPA has also proposed regulating (read: taxing) cow farts. And the FCC has raised the ugly head of Net Neutrality once again. Oh yes, the TEA Party is not dead yet.

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting

Linking straight to the White House

The Terrifying Implications of the IRS Abuse-DOJ Connection

Gun-running in Libya and Syria led to 9/11/2012 at Benghazi?

House approves select committee to investigate Benghazi attack

I’m not sure if better late than never applies here, John Boehner should have done this a year ago

CIA Whistleblower faces the ire of an angry Justice Department over Benghazi questions

Hillary Language On Benghazi Identical To Rhodes Email — 1 1/2 Days Before!

Clinton advisor Dick Morris traces video talking points directly to Hillary.

Fast & Furious: Benghazi Edition

Speaking of Fast & Furious, I remember raising my eyebrows when I heard reports of an early Secretary of State speech in Mexico City inn early 2009. She said, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” Mrs. Clinton said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”

Besides the obvious, which is, if we controlled our borders this wouldn’t be happening, my second thought was that legal semi-automatic firearms sold in the US would not be at the top of any drug cartel’s wish list. Much better would be Mac10s, Uzzis, and AK47s from black market sources, which would also be cheaper than US AR-15s when purchased in bulk.

The timing here is important, this story appeared in the NY Times on March 25, 2009.

Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade – NYTimes.com

Judging by her statements in Mexico City, Hillary must have been in the loop on fast & Furious as well. No other logical conclusion can be reached. 

The Obama administration announces on March 24 that Project Gunrunner will be expanding: “March 24, 2009: David Ogden, deputy attorney general at the time, stated, “The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels and Attorney General Eric Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.””

Fast & Furious timeline:

Fast and Furious: The Events Leading to Eric Holder’s Contempt Vote

And this from MRC:

“DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing it’s efforts by adding 37 new employees in 3 new offices using $10 million dollars in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify it’s Project Gunrunner- which is aimed at disrupted arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico. ATF is doubling it’s presence in Mexico itself, from 5 to 9 personnel working with the Mexicans specifically to facilitate gun tracing activity which targets the illegal weapons and their sources in the United States.”

Flashback: David Ogden Announces New Efforts With Project Gunrunner “As Directed By the President”

Vid at the link.

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RichTAkes! on Enforce the Law, Red Dresses and TEA

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A Boeing 777 has been missing for a week, the people of Crimea will be voting on whether to secede from the Ukraine or to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia. Kerry and Obama are protesting, but they really can’t do anything about it, can they?

So until each of those stories plays out, here is my early spring

Rich TAkes! On Blue Dresses and stuff.

IRS Documents Reveal Agency Flagged Groups for ‘Anti-Obama Rhetoric,’ Big Three Refuse to Report

Using the IRS against political opponents should terrify everyone.

▶ Rep. Gowdy’s Floor Speech on the ENFORCE the Law Act – YouTube

Hypocrisy Meter Shattered: Bill Clinton Receives Women’s Day ‘Red Dress Award’

They should have called it the Blue Dress Award

Hillary Clinton campaign received illicit funds from Jeffrey Thompson

Both Clintons and Obama had no trouble accepting campaign funds from foreign sources either

Ted Cruz Wins Big in Texas

The real story in Texas primary is the ascendancy of Republican right wing

Progressives point to Cornyn’s win as proof of TEA party weakness, even though no one thought he would lose. Plenty of true conservatives won primaries is the real story here.

“Drunks,” “Bullies,” “Traitors,” “Fringe,” and Other Things Mitch McConnell Has Called Conservatives   MitchTEA party

The TEA party has always been just as much about tossing Republicans as Dems. They know it too.

Leading Republicans Move to Stamp Out Challenges From Right

McConnell Is For, and Has Always Been For Amnesty

Mitch has a long history of supporting liberal causes.

Mitch McConnell tells NYT he wants to crush young conservative challengers like Matt Bevin

Matt Bevin for Senate! It’s time to go, Mitch. It’s too bad your exit won’t be graceful.

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Obama’s Big Truck MPG TAkes!

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Yesterday,

Obama announced out of thin air that he was directing the EPA to mandate new MPG requirements for Class 8 trucks, mostly semi-tractors. What the EPA has already done to the Class 8 market is nothing short of breath-taking. 

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I first started big-time car-haul back in ’86, by ’88 I was running an 80,000 pound 65 footer with a large block 14 liter which got 6 MPG, a huge improvement over the average 4 MPG equipment from less than ten years earlier. In 1990, we had a small block 10 liter, rated at the same 300 horse power which got 8 MPG and was good for 10 MPG in certain applications.     

Beginning with 2006 models, big trucks were mandated by the EPA to reduce particulate emissions, that puff of black smoke which appeared slightly when shifting gears, it is unburnt carbon which falls harmlessly to the ground. Diesel engines have never contributed to smog, they only emit CO2, not CO, as gasoline engines do. Pre-2006, larger horse power engines yielded better fuel mileage, if the gearing was set up correctly. (most fleets did not spec larger HP engines, since they cost significantly more)

Last year, I moved into a first generation EPA emissions unit, and I was towed five times, and lost 20 days of work due to the emissions system breaking down. Any Class 8 tow-truck driver will tell you that 90% of his tows are all new EPA-mandated 2006 and newer equipment, in many cases, these power units are less than a year old, sometimes this occurs within the first week of being put into service. 

The 2009 Sterling that I am operating now is lucky to get 4 MPG, the older, pre-emissions 2005 model that I got out of was good for 5 MPG, and it was only towed once (the engine blew, it was long over-due for a rebuild).

Things got so bad that Caterpillar got out of the highway engine market altogether. They didn’t need the hassle, Class 8 engines was only a small part of their business. The EPA mandates added easily $20,000 to the price of an engine, and the manufacturer could lose a lot of that in warrantee claims.

So now comes Obama, proclaiming that he will have the EPA mandate the equivalent of CAFE standards for big trucks, with another expensive unrealistic mandate, which will serve to put the small operators out of business, and the big fleets will be able to suck it up by passing along higher freight rates to everyone, resulting in higher prices for everything.

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