Let’s Roll, It’s Clinton and Trump

Hugh Hewitt was just trying to beat life into the dead horse of Ted Cruz

All those solid blue states voting for Donald Trump.  You would almost suspect they are trying to mess with the GOP ?

So is Bernie saying that he will run as an Independent in the General?  Or is he lying to his people by touting “national polls” that don’t mean a thing in electing a president given the Electoral College.

Do his fan club members even know what the Electoral College is?

Mortonie

It is so obvious on Twitter.  Between the Bernie paid trolls from several different locations on the globe (one of the things making the FEC very unhappy), the Karl Rove paid for PAC, and just a large group of truly nasty Bernie Bros, you could spend 24 hours a day defending Hillary if you didn’t have a handy “Flee the Bern Feel the Block” button.

Sanders wins Rhode Island

My apologies to my roiling stomach at the thought, but if I were a Republican and looking at Cruz and Kasich, I could understand voting for Trump.

Final Point Standings for the Kentucky Derby First 20 horses plus the 3 Also Eligibles.  Nyquist is second in points but is still the favorite.  Of course there will be a shakeup in the odds following post position draw.

Pogo

My son and I have had long conversations about the vagaries of handling classified material at all levels. I dealt with everything other than “we shoot you at dawn if you screw up” level and he does regularly now. As far as I can tell from every description of the way Hillary and her staff dealt with the material, neither she nor they did anything wrong.

Now as to the weird vagaries.  There seems to have been a percentage of “after the fact” classification.  This happens with frequency when one entity finds for their purposes that when it is included in whatever they are doing that it deserves to be classified.  This can result in really stupid things such as something you can find in print at your local library being held under lock and key simply because it has become a part of something more important.  If you try to extract it once this happens there can be hell to pay if someone gets a burr under their saddle.  I believe there was something Hillary did in instructing someone to “strip the headers” then fax.  That was the only thing I’ve seen that even came close to a violation.

Use of a private server was not prohibited at the time hers was set up nor according to Dept regulations was deleting her personal material.  At worst, she could be said to have used less than perfect judgement in using a personal email address for both types of communication.  Everything she sent to the State Department had copies on the receiving end.  Everything sent from the State Department had copies at the State Dept.

All of the FOIA requests have resulted in some questions but no violations.

Everything else is accusation, guilt by association, and just right wing nut job nonsense simply because her last name is Clinton.

Jack

In the case cited it meant removing the classification off something that had already been published elsewhere so that it could be sent regular FAX because the super secret whatever wasn’t working at the time.

The offending piece was not “classified” in its own right but by virtue of being part of something else that was.  As I said, a possible offense but only if someone really, really wanted to complain about the ridiculous.

PIT Probably the same one that told the three previous Secretaries they could do the same thing if they wanted to.

I can think of a whole host of reasons why folders from Foster’s office might have been a perfectly normal action except for those with a taste for tin foil chapeaux