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Me: How late at night is too late to run the food processor? Husband: Probably not past ten, I think. Me: I almost said “word processor.” Husband: Oh, you definitely shouldn’t use that. Me: Haha, no. Husband: After all, we don’t want to mince words. Me:
Two stunning African Lion brothers at WHF Big Cat Sanctuary…
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Judicial Watch, an organization that has been pursuing Clinton for many years, has released a trove of emails it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, emails that supposedly show how donors to the Clinton Foundation got special access, and presumably special favors, from Clinton while she was at State.
The only problem is that the emails in question reveal nothing of the sort. What they actually reveal is that a few foundation donors wanted access, but didn’t actually get it.
Let’s look at that story. It mentions three specific requests sent to Clinton aide Huma Abedin by Doug Band, an executive at the Clinton Foundation, on behalf of people who had contributed to the Foundation:
* A sports executive who had donated to the foundation wanted to arrange for a visa for a British soccer player to visit the United States; he was having trouble getting one because of a criminal conviction. Abedin said she’d look into it, but there’s no evidence she did anything and the player didn’t get his visa.
* Bono, who had donated to the foundation, wanted to have some kind of arrangement whereby upcoming U2 concerts would be broadcast to the International Space Station. Abedin was puzzled by this request, and nothing was ever done about it.
* The Crown Prince of Bahrain, who had donated to the foundation, wanted to meet with Clinton on a visit to Washington. Abedin responded to Band that the Bahrainis had already made that request through normal diplomatic channels. The two did end up meeting.
And that’s it. If there were anything more scandalous there, have no doubt that Judicial Watch would have brought it to reporters’ eager attention.
Just to highlight this, because it’s important: If there were anything more scandalous there, have no doubt that Judicial Watch would have brought it to reporters’ eager attention.
There’s just nothing here, and everyone knows it. However, Judicial Watch and its allies will do everything they can to create the appearance of something being wrong, so that the Breitbarts and Drudge Reports and other Stupidsphere “news” sources can “just ask questions” that feed into the narrative that the Stupidshpere so desperately needs to believe.
These stories aren’t intended to sway anyone. These stories are meant to reassure the base of the Stupidsphere, and force journalists to waste time and resources debunking them.
That I found a bat this morning. A cute lil bat. An adorable lil thing. It was so cute.
But it was in my car. There was a bat. In my car. Just chillin in the back seat. Eating an Oreo that had probably been lost under my seat since the stone ages.
I noticed him just as I was buckling my seat belt. He just sat there. Munching. Watching me watch it.
It’s 5am lil buddy I have to work. Go home. What are you doing eating sweets for breakfast? That is not good for you, young man. But get out of my car and take your horribly unhealthy breakfast with you.
I was late for work because I spent twenty fucking minutes trying to get a small baby bat out of my car without hurting it or it hurting itself.
Just.
There was a bat eating an Oreo in the back seat of my car this morning lookin at me like “Where we goin, Mom?” and I just don’t know how to go about my day now.
