Bill’s Wife

The sound of drums in the distance…

The Clintons know how to lie their way out: He’s sick, she’s sick, the dog ate her email server, their immediate presence is needed on Wall Street, one of his old girlfriends fell off her walker, whatever.
Hillary’s latest disastrous email dishonesty would not be such a big deal but Americans are exhausted by decades of dishonesty. Yes, other secretaries of state have used private email addresses — they just didn’t have private email servers on their property. Huge difference.
That being said, U.S. government email servers didn’t turn out any safer than Hillary’s homegrown one. Last year the fingerprints and personal info of tens of millions of federal employees were stolen.
Clinton’s server issues aside, the Justice Department’s investigation of their pal Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee, is lurking like the Zika virus, threatening to bring the Clinton Foundation’s hazy doings out into the ugly bright light of day.

Et tu, Bernie?

Dirty Rat

Another 14 hours and my portion of the Dirty Rat is complete, the clear should be going on as I type. I’ll have a photo in a few days after it’s been put together, in the meanwhile, these shots from inside the booth will have to do.
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Dirty Rat

Any day you can spend ten hours standing on concrete, while inhaling the chemical equivalent of nail polish remover, is a good day.
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The job’s at about the midway point, so tomorrow is another.

Oh, Shiny Pony.

Meanwhile, some Liberals have been privately bristling over what they saw as heavy-handed efforts to get members to back proposed changes to the party’s constitution. Others say the changes go too far in concentrating power at the top.
Shocking, I know. A party whose entire focus for sixty years is centralization of power with Ottawa is taking criticism for being controlling.

Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me

CNBC:

Donald Trump’s promise to get government out of the way of energy companies was greeted with hoots and hollers in shale-rich North Dakota, where the presumptive GOP presidential nominee presented his plan.

And from a Canadian perspective — Saskatchewan’s Brian Zinchuk, from Pipeline News, joins John Gormley to talk about the keynote address, and the questions Trump asked him about the Upland Pipeline. Refreshing, eh? (podcast)

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