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June 2, 2015

Scott Walker promises to sign abortion ban that does not include exceptions for rape, incest

http://bloggingblue.com/2015/06/scott-walker-promises-to-sign-abortion-ban-that-does-not-include-exceptions-for-rape-incest/


Yesterday Gov. Scott Walker promised he sign a 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin regardless of whether such a ban had an exception for cases in which the woman was a victim of rape or incest.

Gov. Scott Walker said Monday he’s prepared to sign a 20-week abortion ban bill that has no exception for cases of rape or incest.

Asked Monday about the bill following a speech at a Boys & Girls Club event in Delavan, Walker said he would sign the measure banning the procedure after 20 weeks whether or not it had those exemptions.

No doubt Republicans in the Legislature will move quickly to give Gov. Walker the abortion ban he wants in order to further burnish his conservative credentials for the extremists who comprise the core of Republican presidential primary voters.



Squat Wanker should not be allowed within 200 yards of a Boys and Girls Club.
June 2, 2015

This cat cracks me up

https://twitter.com/TeaPartyCat


Wall Street opens higher as traders excited after another major banking scandal ends without a single person going to jail.



Thanks to Obama’s meddling Big Government bureaucrats kids today have been denied the chance to taste listeria in their Bluebell ice cream.



Next up on Fox News: How the real bigots are liberals, followed by our hosts mocking Caitlyn Jenner for not being a straight male any more.



Lindsey Graham announced he's running for president on a platform of hysterical overreactions to possible threats.
June 2, 2015

As one who advocates for a more peaceful world, I find this very troubling

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187


Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.

American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.

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In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation publishes only a rough range of individual contributors’ donations, making a more precise accounting impossible.



Why are countries with horrendous records on human rights donating to the Clinton Foundation?

Why are corporations dedicated to arms manufacturing donating to the Clinton Foundation and paying the Clintons millions in speaking fees?

Why is the Clinton Foundation, purportedly engaged in improving the human condition, accepting donations from these countries and corporations?

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