On trail of Comey the fink:

The first thing to know about James Comey is that before he became the FBI Director in 2013, he was a top executive at Lockheed Martin from October, 2005 until July 2, 2010.

As former general counsel and vice president of Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor benefited under Comey’s leadership from a number of contracts awarded by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

Lockheed Martin has been one of the top defense contributors to the Clinton Foundation:

Hillary’s state department approved:

. . . a $250,000 payment to Bill Clinton for a speech, just three days before a weapons-export contract was awarded to Lockheed:

Connecting the dots, in re Comey’s Lockheed M:

Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. would approve 215 speeches delivered by her husband Bill Clinton and a consulting deal worth a total of $48 million. In sum, 17 of 20 countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation saw an increase in arms exports authorized under Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

Comey’s Lockheed “would become a member of the Clinton Global Initiative in 2010.” Cozy, if also disgusting.

“But it’s not the only company that had extensive ties with the Clinton Foundation in Comey’s background.”

In 2013, the same year that he was appointed the FBI Director, James Comey became a board member, a director, and a member of the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee for the controversial London-based bank HSBC.

HSBC is a bank with close ties to the Clinton Foundation that lists among its clients Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate with ties to a Russian uranium deal approved under Clinton’s State Dept., and six other major foundation donors listed in a report by The Guardian.

Disgusting. He’s tied to the Clintons, maybe was installed at FBI with view to being of service.

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BTW, go here for source of article, a very interesting startup, Independent Journal Review.

Comey making a point:

In a very good piece, Matt Bai neatly observes the Clinton lack of affect, contrasting her with the ebullient Biden, whose pitch to students he also neatly dissects.

Business as usual in a long-time Democrat-run city. Hillary to make America safe again?

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Ho-hum. (Compliments of Chicago Sun-Times)

. . . after Comey’s testimony today on the Clinton emails, granting of immunity leading to non-prosecution, etc., as each did on Fox News’ “Special Report” tonight?

They think he’s a nice guy, one of their own on the Washington scene? Very conservative stance by them meaning as to caution in making judgment. Very strange.

K. earlier had this on the Comey matter.

 

 

Facing restless voters in the September 12, 2013 town hall meeting at Galewood Community Church, Sen. Don Harmon and Rep. Camille Lilly had another matter thrust before them, . . . .

. . . the recently publicized expensive copper doors for the state capitol, which the questioner said demonstrated a “let them eat cake” attitude.

The money for those doors did not come from general revenues, Harmon explained. It came from the Illinois Jobs Now! program, a capital spending bill signed into law (and nicknamed) by Governor Quinn in 2009.

This program, named as if it was job creation, was to cost $31 billion over six years and was to pay for more along lines of these copper doors — $17-plus million for two zoos, Brookfield and Lincoln Park, $1.2 million for the Muntu Dance Theater, and $.5 million for the Chicago Baseball Museum and Stadium, to name a few of its beneficiaries — all of it with accompanying taxation and borrowing. 

Raise taxes on “cronies,” man said.

A man emptied a grab bag of populist-progressive complaints: “People in power need money, they get it,” he complained. “The state has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. We should raise taxes on the people who can afford it,” especially “cronies.”

Furthermore, he did not want Harmon and Lilly (“you guys”) to “follow lockstep with Rahm [Emanuel] and the others in closing [Chicago] schools.”

This tore it for Lilly, who . . . 

. . .  bristled at it. She was “one of the few” to oppose the closings,” she protested, and was “very concerned” and was “going to make sure this issue [city schools] is revisited in our great state.”

Nonetheless, austerity was in order, she said. “Everyone will have to help. . . . It’s not easy, it’s not comfortable. . . .” Someone spoke up, she cut her off. “Not yet,” she said, raising her voice a notch.

More to come, from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters— available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

And her friend with the painful-to-look-at trying-to-be-nice smile. When it’s hard work being a candidate.

Here’s a detailed account.

It’s becoming more obvious than ever. I find myself going to some trusted solely on-line sources, except now and then I see Chicago Sun-Times blaring front page that catches my attention, like today’s “Steinberg: Donald Trump is going to be elected president.”

Which is the kind of man-bites-dog story that sells newspapers. Congratulations, Neil!

We also get Chi Trib on weekends, which is good for more than obits, providing a window to conventional wisdom among the genteel leftist elite. (Not in its editorial page, btw, needless to say.)

The Charlotte man being a case to examine, based on new information. His wife too. Not to mention Hillary R. Clinton. Typical, typical.

He caved.

Holt lived up to the expectations of his peers. But he lived down to the worst expectations of conservatives, who routinely see Republican candidates treated unfairly by debate moderators.

Again and again, Holt asked Trump tough questions that were straight from the Clinton campaign’s talking points, and which were obvious set-ups for Clinton to attack (and for fact-checkers to pounce on whatever Trump asserted in his own defense).Here are the five worst examples.

He faced ostracism. Parties would have become no fun at all.

Source: 5 Times Lester Holt Shilled for Hillary Clinton at First Debate

That would be Mr. Holt, says Heat Street:

At tonight’s debate, Donald Trump faced off not just against Hillary Clinton, but against moderator Lester Holt.

The game of two-on-one saw Holt ask no questions about:

• Hillary’s emails
• Benghazi
• The Clinton Foundation

While ignoring these issues, Holt grilled Trump on stop-and-frisk, the birther story, his comments about women, his many bankruptcies, why he hasn’t released his tax returns — and a host of other issues the media sees as unfriendly to the Republican candidate.

Ah those main-stream fellows. Can’t bust out of their bubble.