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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: locogringo who wrote (92980)	6/19/2014 9:30:35 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	2 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee locogringo Respond to of 103300

Exactly... they don't want to appear "racist," that's their lunatic mantra for anyone who disagrees with that maggot... GZ

To: locogringo who wrote (92980)	6/21/2014 7:45:30 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Bullish: Congress’ approval rating at all-time low By Jeff Macke June 19, 2014 6:08 PM Breakout finance.yahoo.com It’s an American tradition to hate Congress, but this is getting out of hand. In a Gallup poll released yesterday just 7% of Americans reported having “a great deal” or “quite a lot of” confidence in Congress. That’s exactly the same percentage of people who told Gallup they have no confidence in Congress whatsoever and that wasn’t even an option given in the question. This isn’t just low by the standard of our normal disdain for DC. Seven percent is the lowest level of faith in an organization that Gallup has ever seen in the 41 year history of tracking the trends in America’s attitudes towards various institutions. This is the first time Gallup has ever seen a rating in the single digits at all. For the sake of perspective here’s the full list. Note that banks, organized labor and television news are all but venerated compared to elected officialdom: View photo . Is DC still a threat to the bull market? In light of the shocking loss of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and America’s shocking impotence in international affairs, Lincoln’s metaphorical “house” of America is not so much divided as just strewn all over the place. The bafflement is less that a Republican lost a primary than that there are still organized political parties at all given the demonstrable contempt we have for elected officials. The really impressive achievement is that the country is so negative despite stock hitting record highs and unemployment rates falling to multi-year lows. These measures are deeply flawed and those of us who have lived through dire economic periods recognize despair when we see it. The low participation and record “under-employment” of today are problematic but nothing compared to where the country was six years ago. Hank Smith of Haverford cautions investors against thinking DC has lost its once formidable ability to screw up the stock market. While there’s no telling how the market will react to what promises to be a contentious fall election, the silver lining is that there isn’t a shut-down or debt ceiling donnybrook in the country’s immediate future. “The good news is we don’t have those self-induced deadlines, whether it was sequestration, debt-ceiling limits, budget, what have you that plagued the economy and the market and created artificial uncertainty that we really didn’t need. We’re past that,” Smith says.

To: locogringo who wrote (92980)	6/22/2014 5:41:51 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 103300

"Lost" IRS emails can now be found... Sonasoft Corporation has been backing up ALL IRS emails for years... either they still have all of them or someone at the IRS told them to delete them, if so, then Sonasoft can provide a name and criminal charges can then be filed and the wider investigation can begin for tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice... The IRS had a contract with email-achiever Sonasoft in effect at least through 2009, according to the website FedSpending.org. That same year, the company tweeted: “The IRS uses Sonasoft to back up their servers, why wouldn’t you choose them to protect your servers?” And a document on the company website suggests its system "archives all email content and so reduces the risk of non-compliance with legal, regulatory and other obligations to preserve critical business content." However, whether Sonasoft’s government contract extended through 2011 or if the company had the capacity to save every email from such a large agency remains unclear. The California-based company could not be reached Sunday for comment. The agency has said that internal backup tapes are recycled every six months and that Lerner's hard drive has now been recycled. In addition to the IRS saying the emails are un-recoverable, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave a similar statement Wednesday. He also said none of Lerner’s recoverable emails included direct exchanges with the Executive Office of the President and that the agency is turning over 24,000 Lerner emails, recovered through the files of other email users. The IRS told Congress earlier this month that it could not produce all of the requested Lerner emails because her hard drive crashed in 2011. And last week, Michigan GOP Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the IRS also has lost emails from six other IRS personnel. foxnews.com GZ