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"Hillary For President" Fundraiser Busted For Illegal Campaign Contributions

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If you listen carefully, you can hear the stampede of politicians distancing themselves from their once best-friend - Hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal - as AP reports, he plead guilty Thursday to charges he secretly funneled more than $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions to three unnamed candidates and coached someone to lie about it. Without the contributions "nobody will even talk to you," Chatwal said. "That's the only way to buy them, get into the system." Welcome to the ugly truth of American politik.

 

 

The FT details that Sant Singh Chatwal, chairman of Hampshire Hotels Management, pleaded guilty on Thursday to making more than $180,000 in illegal federal campaign donations to three candidates through “straw donors” who were reimbursed, the DoJ said in a statement.

He raised at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama.

 

The justice department did not comment on whether Mrs Clinton was one of the three candidates, but it said there was no allegation that candidates took part in or were aware of Mr Chatwal’s scheme.

 

Mr Chatwal was skirting legal limits on contributions to an individual candidate’s campaign of $2,300 in 2008 and $2,400 in 2010.

As AP explains the fraud was extensive...

Court papers allege that between 2007 and 2011, Chatwal used his employees, business associates and contractors who worked on his hotels to collect contributions from straw donors in Queens, Long Island and elsewhere. He then arranged to pay the donors back, a violation of the election laws.

 

As part the scheme, an unnamed business associate submitted a bill to Chatwal for $104,745 in 2011 for purported work done for one of Chatwal's companies. Prosecutors allege that $69,000 of the total actually was reimbursement for money the associate had raised via straw donors.

 

In a conversation recorded in 2012, Chatwal instructed the associate that if he were asked if Chatwal gave him the money back, he should respond, "Never."

 

Chatwal directly backed several Democratic candidates with his own money — at least $31,200 since 2004, according to Federal Election Commission records.

 

Among them were New York Reps. Joe Crowley and Gary Ackerman, along with California Rep. Howard Berman and Florida Rep. Robert Wexler. He also gave money to Montana Sen. Jon Tester, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner.

And leaves the ugly truth of American politics behind...

An informant caught Sant Singh Chatwal on tape in 2010 explaining that he believed his illegal fundraising bought him access to people in power.

 

Without the contributions "nobody will even talk to you," Chatwal said. "That's the only way to buy them, get into the system."

 

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Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:49 | 4671776 LetThemEatRand
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"Without the contributions 'nobody will even talk to you,' Chatwal said. 'That's the only way to buy them, get into the system.'"

His problem was not being a rich enough.  You need to pay off the politicians and the Justice Department.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:51 | 4671783 DoChenRollingBearing
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For that kind of money, I would only hope to talk with Hillary...  Ack!  No closer!

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:00 | 4671812 Soul Glow
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If you get close enough you can smell the sulfer.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:43 | 4671928 hungrydweller
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Or the rotten fish

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:09 | 4671987 Ignatius
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I'm for anything - will believe anything - to keep this bitch out of the White House.  I say that knowing full well that some other psychopath will more than likely take her place, and so be it.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:35 | 4672041 Xibalba
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What difference does ..... oh hell with it

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:36 | 4672148 Anusocracy
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The American Coprophiliac Club just endorsed that POS.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:48 | 4672167 Anusocracy
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A friend of mine was a personal bodyguard of the Clintons for a short time.

She is a very unpleasant psychopath.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:51 | 4672171 icanhasbailout
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I knew someone in Bill Clinton's Secret Service detail. Monica was raped, FYI.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:03 | 4672190 Skateboarder
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That's what happens when you put yourself in a psychopath's way. And so were many unwitting and unwilling girls we don't know about.

Some of these kings/counts and queens/countesses still likely take after the famous Blood Countess.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 03:43 | 4672343 Tengri Temujin
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Her daughter is pregnant now, Chelsea is now TRIBAL via her husband

Guess Hillary and Bill can now que up for the dual citizenship.

You just know they made their daughter marry that guy so they can expolit the connections and support from that demographic.   Truly a bunch of heartless scheming mofos those Clintons

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:19 | 4672408 negative rates
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And they all came just after she barfed on some dipolmats pants.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:51 | 4672432 GetZeeGold
Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:22 | 4672409 negative rates
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Great, she's getting good and ready to break her zen and start that slow decline into hell, all for the kids, sweet, but what is she going to do for me lately?

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 09:29 | 4672701 chemystical
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"Her daughter is pregnant now, Chelsea is now TRIBAL via her husband"

And let us not forget that Al Gore married off his daughter Karenna to Andrew Schiff who is the great great grandson of Jacob Schiff.  Yep, THAT Jacob Schiff - Rothschild potentate and the financier of the Russian Revolution and the ensuing slaughter of 10's of millions of Christians, the rape and murder of nuns, and the burning of churches.  Yes, THAT Jacob Schiff.

Oy the cohencidence. 

Strengthening the demonic haploids through interbreeding.

In other reptile society page news: Hillary's brother Tony married the daughter of CA Senator Barbara Levy Boxer.  Tony and Hillary were the children of Chicago textile wholesaler Hugh Ellsworth Rodham.  Textile industry littered with the Tribe.  More reptilian haploid mingling.

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 03:46 | 4672345 nathan1234
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"I knew"  Past Tense.

So Bill & Hill took him out?

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:40 | 4672423 nmewn
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Had to be, Norman Hsu had an aritight alibi.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 09:42 | 4672749 icanhasbailout
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as in I am no longer in association with the individual. Last I saw him, he was taking himself out with repeated Jack Daniels to the head.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 09:54 | 4672791 Bankstein Swiss...
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obviously that what it takes to get to the top! a problem difficult to fix...

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 02:28 | 4672157 Manthong
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You know.. that large red head gear?

..what sort of latex product comes to mind?

..and can granny hill handle it ?

ooh.. I am sorry.. I should not be going there.

 

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:51 | 4672031 sixsigma cygnus...
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"Welcome to the ugly truth of American politik."

That should be Hitlery's 2016 campaign slogan.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:53 | 4673433 Chupacabra-322
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Busted. Would you expect any less from a Criminal? This fugitive & her Ilk need to be arrested for Crimes Against Humanity & Crimes Against The American People.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:03 | 4671816 Four chan
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same old clinton scamming. and now there is a spawn of the spawn of satins.

the clintons are a national disgrace.

 

heres a ripe link. http://prorev.com/connex.htm

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:11 | 4671854 zorba THE GREEK
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Four chan... Your Clinton link was very educational and should be required reading for all college students

considering a career in politics.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:21 | 4671879 Stackers
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Standard Operating Procedure for the Clintons

 

Remember the Chinese scandal from Slick Willy's days ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controv...

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:45 | 4671934 AldousHuxley
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everyone knows that's how politicians work. what's not well known is just how much it is required to be on their radar....>$500,000/year income = a person....<$500,000/year income = serf.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 07:58 | 4672510 GetZeeGold
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This thread should be pinned to the top of ZH until after the 2016 elections.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:39 | 4671917 kchrisc
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And the Clintons were balls deep with the CIA and Bush Sr. in Iran-Contra.

And I don't mean tacit approval, or looking the other way, I mean in there and an active participant.

http://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Clinton-Bush-Terry-Reed/dp/1561712493

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:55 | 4671957 john39
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these people are allowed to take positions of perceived power because they are all soulless psychopaths who will do anything that their cult requires, including murdering a sitting U.S. president who won't play ball:

http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 10:00 | 4672811 chemystical
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"And the Clintons were balls deep with the CIA and Bush Sr. in Iran-Contra."

Continue that reading and you'll see that ISR Mossad was also in balls deep - selling weapons for coke and then re-selling that coke (and thereafter crack) to Americans.

Peruse the Clinton Cabinet.  Reads like Irving's Bar Mitzvah guest list.  Oy the Cohencidence:

Madeleine Albright

Mickey Kantor

Robert Reich

Dan Glickman

Robert Rubin

Larry Summers

William Cohen

Then toss in some other key positions:

Trade Reps Charlene Barshevsky and Mickey Kantor

UN Ambassador Albright

Director of OMB Alice Rivlin and Jack Lew

Director of Central Intelligence John Deutsch

Chair of Council of Economic Advisors Josef Stiglitz and Janet Yellen

...Tel Aviv West

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:56 | 4673447 Chupacabra-322
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Zionists.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 11:24 | 4673073 Four chan
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during the presidential debates clinton and bush1 did not mention iran contra once,

a raging investigation at the time. vp bush1 ran the cia shortly before and his grandfather founded the

oss, the precurser of the cia after ww2

gb1 was allowed to escape with one term as bill clinton was gifted the presidency for his involvement

in iran contra, the importation of cocaine by oliver north and barry seal to arkansas, to sell on the streets

of america to raise cash for the cia. these facts are born out later in the bcci banking scandal when

he cia laundered the ill gotten gains.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:55 | 4673443 Chupacabra-322
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Mena Airport.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:03 | 4671828 zorba THE GREEK
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For a large enough contribution, Hillary will take the towel from your head and wipe her feminine parts

and wrap it back around your head for you adult olfactory pleasures.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 02:32 | 4672288 Rakshas
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You and I define pleasure very differently...........

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:31 | 4672415 negative rates
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He get's a tad edgy when he drinks & drives.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:28 | 4673362 BidnessMan
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Is Red the before or after wipe version? 

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:11 | 4671855 drendebe10
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"What difference at this point does it make!"

 

"There ain't nuthin uglier than an old white woman."  Fred Sanford

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:54 | 4671954 wee-weed up
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Yep, I think Hitlery's "what difference" comment should be used to push her daughter, Chelsea, to be the next Ambassador of Libya! And especially now that Chelsea is pregnant with the Hill/Billery granchild.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 02:33 | 4672291 Rakshas
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Truer words........

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:17 | 4671869 Luckhasit
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Nah, LTER you don't have to per say.  You just need to pay off the politicos that run the Justice Department.  Like Goldman and company.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:40 | 4671920 Vashta Nerada
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Do you know why certain politicians are so interested in mass transit and light rail?  It has little to do with forcing people into urban ghettos as often thought.

It is about the kickbacks that the developers put into said politicians' bank accounts.  Simple graft.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:50 | 4672072 williambanzai7
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Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:58 | 4672080 sixsigma cygnus...
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Dear God, can't someone please wish her into the cornfield?

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:06 | 4672083 LetThemEatRand
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Now there's a good strip bar for the austerity-minded.  It's like going to a carnival and all the rides are closed.  You don't have any fun.  You wonder why you went.  You feel sorry for the people who work there.  You feel dirty for having gone.  And your wallet looks the same at the end of the night as the beginning.  

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:09 | 4672091 sixsigma cygnus...
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I bet that's exactly what Vince Foster was thinking before he did himself in (if he really did pull the trigger).

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 02:16 | 4672275 jbvtme
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did vince precede the invention of the nail gun?

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:00 | 4672399 williambanzai7
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In Vince's day the drink of choice was the rusty nail gun.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:08 | 4672098 813kml
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Ugghhh, there are not enough black lights on Earth to hide the globs of cellulite and muffin top.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:18 | 4672110 LetThemEatRand
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And God said.  Let there be less Light.*

*Actual quote:  "turn all the fucking lights out.  Jesus, are you seeing this?  For My sake."

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:11 | 4672536 Uncle Remus
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LOL

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:17 | 4672197 Manthong
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omg..  I can never go to one of those places again.

..she's a granny now, you know.

and  was that background Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Dallas, New York, Chicago .. or what? .. I forget.

ah.. now I remember.. Singapore!

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:49 | 4671778 surf0766
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Que Fluffy doing the "two indians trying to rob a bank"

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:51 | 4671782 Vice
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Duh

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:58 | 4671784 Rican
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I wonder what type of influence he was seeking. 

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:10 | 4671852 813kml
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Bill's recommendations on truck stop whores in the metro DC area.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:18 | 4671872 Rican
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I'm sure Hill has her list of favorites, as well.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:12 | 4672538 Uncle Remus
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Monica's phone #

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:52 | 4671785 Rusty Shorts
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ROPE 2016

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:55 | 4671791 buzzsaw99
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he was stupid. just hire their friends and relatives if you want to buy influence.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:57 | 4671799 Soul Glow
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lol Hillary for President.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:06 | 4671841 813kml
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Too bad that shoe wasn't a hatchet, it was her only hope of acquiring a vagina.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:03 | 4671977 dexter_morgan
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She looks like Elaine Benes doing her dance............aarrrgh.......

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:58 | 4671806 Shrapnel
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Tip of the iceberg

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:59 | 4671810 NOZZLE
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Pull start, not push button.  And if you don't like my humor, get bent.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 21:59 | 4671811 SandiaMan
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There is Dirty Harry"s name . Arrest him!

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:01 | 4671817 El Gordo
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Why do we have these free speech limitations anyway?  Limits on campaign contributions mean nothing since the weasels will sidestep them at every turn, so just open it up and let the money flow unobstructed.   I'm beginning to think the limitations are placed there as roadblocks to transparency in the first place.  Unobstructed, it shoudl be more visible to anyone who cares.   

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:33 | 4671901 Let them eat iPads
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I thought the Supremes did away with limits last week.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:45 | 4671932 kchrisc
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The limitations are so only the connected can buy pols, and crats too.

Can't have just anyone, as this guy found out, buying pols and crats. That might raise the price to the Rockefellers, Israelis, Soros, Koches, etc.

 

”My guillotine deals with pols in a far different way.”

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:39 | 4672154 Telemakhos
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One of the few posts that's trying to ask a substantive question and not devolve into meaningless insults... and it's got about even votes up and down.  I upvoted you just for saying something worth reading, even though I disagree with your idea of eliminating limits on contributions.

Will the candidates be held accountable for their part in this?  Of course not.  Due diligence on smurfed donations would be an "undue" burden, even though they clearly know to whom to return the favor after the election.  That's the difference between "House of Cards" and real politics: on TV, citizen ire over a campaign funding scandal forces politicians to resign, while in real life they just smile and deny any knowledge of wrongdoing if anyone in the MSM even bothers to ask.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:03 | 4671827 buzzsaw99
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billions raised and the only guy to get caught is this unconnected schmuck. free corzine

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:24 | 4671888 Bangin7GramRocks
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There are illegal campaign bribes in the United States? Holy shit! News to me!

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:31 | 4671897 kurt
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I dare you to look up the picture of Hitlery when the shoe flys past her head.

Now compare it to a image search for the Wicked Witch of the West.

There... her natural state, true personality, revealed.

When she was in the Majestic program she slept in a room with kids who washed out, died. Many had their fingers eaten off by rats. That's why she's protecting her hands. Between that and extensive sexual abuse, and finally murdering her mates, she was successful in becoming a "multiple" which are controllable. That's why they want to run her... why waste all that work trying to find  or make another. Perhaps her control word is "Bats".

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:32 | 4671898 Let them eat iPads
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If Hillary runs again then Rudy "9-11" Guiliani should as well.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:32 | 4671899 earleflorida
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'Impeach John Roberts'

in fact, impeach the entire bench of SCOTUSSA...

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:35 | 4672419 negative rates
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Those guys were over the hill in their 30's, does it reek of old people in that courthouse today i wonder. Or is that why we needed funding for the chemistry dept?

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:35 | 4671907 Van Halen
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One of the best shows Limbaugh ever did was when he went down the gigantic list of all the people associated with the Clintons who are dead, suicided, in jail, under investigation, have fled the country, or have criminal backgrounds.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:23 | 4673346 BidnessMan
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Was there any Clinton associate not on the list?

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:52 | 4671947 loveyajimbo
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Right, the candidates had no idea... the guy was making illegal campaign contributions for what... the challenge of it?

 

BTW... nice pic... which one is Hillaroid?

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:59 | 4671963 dexter_morgan
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LOL - Classic Slick Willy

The Washington Times reports that in the portions of President Clinton's deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.

I don't remember - 71
I don't know - 62
I'm not sure - 17
I have no idea - 10
I don't believe so - 9
I don't recall - 8
I don't think so - 8
I don't have any specific recollection - 6
I have no recollection - 4
Not to my knowledge - 4
I just don't remember - 4
I don't believe - 4
I have no specific recollection - 3
I might have - 3
I don't have any recollection of that - 2
I don't have a specific memory - 2
I don't have any memory of that - 2
I just can't say - 2
I have no direct knowledge of that - 2
I don't have any idea - 2
Not that I recall - 2
I don't believe I did - 2
I can't remember - 2
I can't say - 2
I do not remember doing so - 2
Not that I remember - 2
I'm not aware - 1
I honestly don't know - 1
I don't believe that I did - 1
I'm fairly sure - 1
I have no other recollection - 1
I'm not positive - 1
I certainly don't think so - 1
I don't really remember - 1
I would have no way of remembering that - 1
That's what I believe happened - 1
To my knowledge, no - 1
To the best of my knowledge - 1
To the best of my memory - 1
I honestly don't recall - 1
I honestly don't remember - 1
That's all I know - 1
I don't have an independent recollection of that - 1
I don't actually have an independent memory of that - 1
As far as I know - 1
I don't believe I ever did that - 1
That's all I know about that - 1
I'm just not sure - 1
Nothing that I remember - 1
I simply don't know - 1
I would have no idea - 1
I don't know anything about that - 1
I don't have any direct knowledge of that - 1
I just don't know - 1
I really don't know - 1
I can't deny that, I just -- I have no memory of that at all - 1

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:57 | 4672635 Falconsixone
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Extreme leadership. Now if he could get the family lost in to the woods.   

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:21 | 4673342 BidnessMan
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This is a useful list.  Provide some variety when you get tired of saying I don't remember and I don't know in a deposition.  In any case, worked for Bill.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 22:59 | 4671964 object_orient
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Thank God the guy was caught. Everyone calls me crazy when I warn them about the secret Sikh agenda in America. Now who's laughing!?!?

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:16 | 4672544 Uncle Remus
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Which is why they won't ban knives...

 

/sarc

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 12:28 | 4673230 shovelhead
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ZH-ers laugh at Sikh humor?

Never.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:01 | 4671970 q99x2
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The Butcher of Benghazi busted for illegal campaign contributions, say it ain't so.

So there is a globalist out there that has sense enough not to let that mad woman run for president of Washington D.C.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:01 | 4671972 TammanyBrawl
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This guy just looks sooooo legit. Nothing suspicious here, move along.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:01 | 4671973 planet psyop
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i thought she was already president - twice !!

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:04 | 4671978 TammanyBrawl
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No, she was 2nd Deputy Komissar in charge of looking the other way while Bill got his sweve on.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:04 | 4671980 Joenobody12
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'Completely Unique': Cave-Dwelling Female Insects Have Penises

https://news.google.com/news?sa=N&hl=en&tab=ln&q 

No, not completely unique. Thre are some human females have penises too.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:28 | 4672020 disabledvet
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I'M VOTING FOR HILARITY IN THE NEXT ELECTION!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDXQdgx_QU

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:23 | 4672124 laomei
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lol, tip of the iceberg and not even close to being one of the big dogs in it.  And if you take this to implicate that one side is at fault and the other is innocent.. again, you're a fool.  Both sides are guilty of this crap and it's epic in scale.  Of course, the trick is to "legalize" or "ignore" the most frequently utilized methods.

 

So, I say, screw this system, let's just embrace the reality that money is power and money is speech and if you have money you have right and if you don't you are nothing.  No more voting, just end that entirely.  Instead, let's penny auction everything.  Proceeds go to the public equally.  In 2012, for the presidency alone, there was spending of over $2 billion.  If that was penny auctioned, it means about $7,500 would have been the winning bid.  A presidential campaign is called a "bid" anyways, let's just lose the bullshit.  Every bid, up by a penny at a time, every bid winning or losing, gets paid for.  In theory, anyone with a few grand can then be president.  Anyone with a few hundred bucks can be a senator.  Let's bring MORE money into politics.  Sure, the winners will be absolute monsters, but at the same time, you are removing the power of money from many others.  Make that presidential penny auction ramp up from $2b to hundreds of billions.  What's the big deal? You don't even have to change it overnight, do you? Primaries become penny auctions with the winning bids then open to an actual election.  The problem isn't too much money in politics, the problem is that there is not enough money in politics and the format of the money going into politics makes it inaccessible to the majority, while the minority gets to see the greatest returns.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:09 | 4673320 BidnessMan
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Just an amateur and useful for a televised perp walk to distract the hoi polloi.  The poor guy did not figure out that the far better way to do it is to hire the kid (Chelsea) as a lobbyist and/or to be the President of some faked-up "non-profit" charity (Save the Aardvarks - fill in whatever you want in the blank, doesn't matter although better to have a higher tear-jerker rating).  Pay exorbitant executive salaries for no duties and round up lots of unpaid interns that have plenty of time to do political stuff.  Lots of Political Science majors in DC area colleges who are desparate to plug into a political job somehow.  The smart Pay to Play buddies make big contributions to the ______ Initiative.  Why hire campaign workers with campaign contributions that can be directly tracked?  Sheesh - Play the Game like the big dogs do.  

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:50 | 4672170 Peter Pan
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The problem with politicians is that people believe they can be bought.

The reality is that they can only be rented.

You have to keep bribing them to keep them on side.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 00:54 | 4672175 icanhasbailout
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Not to be blog pimping or anything, but here's a little story for you all. In the time I've been active on ZH I've also become a minor player in the Virginia GOP. I've been trying to slowly feed them info without shattering their realities all at once. Just a few days ago I wrote a lengthy piece on the pay-to-play culture - you guys will certainly appreciate the title if nothing else, which is "The Creature from Amelia Island". http://thebullelephant.com/creature-amelia-island/

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:46 | 4672613 Oldwood
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Good luck with the plying of truth. Hopefully it will give positive results but I would guess you may instead end up on the end of a rope, metaphorically of course. The truth is not very much more desired in the republican party than the democratic. By the time most get politically involved, the primary goal becomes power, and delusion is the base of all power.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 10:57 | 4672986 Cthonic
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In your blog article, the word "truth" appears three times in the first two paragraphs.  You lost 99% of Republicans at that point. You lost the remaining 1% with the third paragraph, as they constitute the very, monied interests described in the Ford quote.

I watched the Republican party assimilate folks, perhaps such as yourself, in the most ferruginous of all counties in the Union, Tarrant County, TX in the aftermath of the 2008 presidential primaries.  The leadership, if you will, of all the Paul supporters, who were granted functionary positions within the party, in effect pigeonholing them and creating yet another bulwark against reform from within.  In other words, they likely know exactly what you are up to, and they have you precisely where they want you.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:00 | 4672184 Quantum Nucleonics
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But, but, Democrats are outraged that there are vast amounts of cash in politics!

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:02 | 4672191 Atomizer
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Benghazi will haunt her forever. The new grand child will figure it out by 2 years of age. Mommies cunt lick politicial nanny grandmother wasn't available to arrive at 3AM to change my diapers or feed me chelsea's pre-pumped breast milk.

Fuck off Hillary..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:04 | 4672195 Atomizer
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last word..

 

Bill/Hillary

 

Perhaps Genetic inbreeding will finally catch up with you. Your universal HealthCare/Obamacare will blow-up in your face. Cross breeding strands will cost you grief. That 10 million NY flat will be used to leverage whatever miracle drug is needed . Watch and learn how you turn other peoples life’s upside down.. Goto the back of the queue. Karma is a bitch!

 

You already know the illness you carry, 2016 is a pipedream.  If this baby actually survives, don’t fucking use it as a pawn or PR stunt. Again, no promises on how we can undo your political fuck up. Try putting the Fresnel Prism glasses back on, maybe you can lie a bit better on the actual truth of your personal matters.

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:27 | 4672232 Carl Popper
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Please pass this to your congressperson

 

The BLM essentially acknowledged contract mercenaries when questioned.  Look up MSM reports.   Also our government has even acknowledged Greystone is in Ukraine.   Look it up.

 

Greystone is a way for the president and CIA to get around congressional oversight and legal restrictions of the executive branch established after the Frank Church commission.

 

The president cannot send CIA and military employees to Ukraine without Congressional oversight

 

A "private" company can, and Ukraine can "pay" for it with our loan guarantees and other aid we send Ukraine.

 

This circumvents legal restrictions and congressional oversight.

 

Greystone is the new Air America.

 

We have contractors.....um....private soldiers......um.......quasi government agents........in Ukraine......without congressional oversight, and this violates several laws established after the Frank Church commission hearings.

 

Even if the rumors of their capture is untrue, this is still potentially a huge scandal if some were to be captured.   Not only that, it is patently illegal.    Not only that, it is morally and ethically wrong.

 

That is also another reason that the BLM pulled out.   If there had been a shootout and Joe Blow died in a BLM uniform, then  his friends and family would say publicly "Joe Blow?   He didnt work for the BLM.   He worked for Blackwater and Greystone.   He was contract military."

 

Do you see the huge scandal?

 

For congressional oversight you have to ask the CIA and NSA and the president to respond to this.   Pleas

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 06:38 | 4672421 negative rates
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No, I see us sending him over there so he won't be as big a problem over here.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 07:00 | 4672442 lakecity55
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Go back and look at the Utah tapes and see it for yourself.

It is easy if you know what to look for, but I will give you one clue. The mercs have no patches on their BLM uniforms. There are many other clues you can find by yourself.

Think of things this way: Russia collapsed, and had oligarchs. The West collapsed in 2008 in a similar way, and now we are left with oligarchs.

Too many oligarchs.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 12:55 | 4673278 shovelhead
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Because real BLM officers only chase underage drinking teens and the odd deer poacher.

If you need real shooters, you buy em and wrap em up in 'generic' packaging that looks 'close enough' for the nooze readers called reporters.

No 20 and paid guy is gonna risk that pension to shoot civilians, no matter how much fun it may be.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 09:22 | 4672682 Bangin7GramRocks
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Why so pissed? I thought it was best to privatize everything including war and prisons. You wanted it, you got it.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 02:33 | 4672289 BeetleBailey
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ANYONE that votes for this piece of SHIT Cuntlary IS AN IDIOT.

Doesn't matter if voting doesn't matter....it's the principle of it all.

FUCK YOU HILLARY ROTTEN CLINTON YOU FUCKING CUNT.

....lastly...

I'D LOVE TO SAY THAT RIGHT TO HER UGLY, LYING FACE...THEN PUKE ON HER....

then....

PISS on her

finally....

A SWIFT NAFTA KICK IN THE BALLS TO HER DOUCHEBAG HUBBY BILL...

......I'd feel better afterward.....truly

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 03:12 | 4672313 GoldenDonuts
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Sorry somebody is going to have to catch me up on this.  I am under the impression that in the states money = free speech.  I am also under the impression that companys are people too.  So how is it that this guy could possibly break any law.  Or is the money = free speech thing only applicable to bankers, banks, CEOs, huge defense contractors, multi national chemical companys, multi national oil companys etc.

Or maybe the USA is just getting more like China.  In China when you back the wrong horse they find you and only you guilty of corruption then they hang you.  Next time Mr Chatwal back the right horse.

Get the money out of politics so that the psychopaths who currently run the show will lose interest and find a cat to torture instead.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 03:21 | 4672319 NuYawkFrankie
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Breaking - USA out-sourced by USSA to "Highest Bidders"

Next Up - Who has the money? Who's "on the take"?

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 03:35 | 4672336 q99x2
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And what would Hillary be president of if she won the election. There is no America except for a geographical piece of the earth. The president of Washington D.C. doesn't make any rules or take any actions but only act on behalf of those that tell them what to do. There is no American military. 69% of the military is foreign non-US citizens. They get benefits for serving as an American troop but they are mercenaries. The Banking system isn't American and there is no American empire. America is not fighting Russia in Ukraine. Putin is fighting a specific group of oligarchs. He knows it and the oligarchs know it. So he has no need to use force against a land mass on the globe known as the United States of America. Putin has specific human targets and they have him as their target. Before the age of nuclear weapons it would have been possible to have a world war. Now that option does not exist because of nuclear weapons and also because there are no national enemies with nuclear weapons. Which up until now left financial weaponry as an option for oligarchs to use against one another. What we are witnessing in Ukraine is the end of Financial warfare not to dissimilar to the end of world war. We are back to one on one. One or one group of oligarchs out to assassinate another group of oligarchs.

To destroy a physical piece of geography on the earth serves no purpose and being called a TOTUS of that particular piece of geography also no longer serves any purpose. So what is a president of Washington D.C. anyhow I mean other than a shitty secretarial job that serves wealthy psychopaths.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 04:11 | 4672359 Atomizer
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Da hav al de money in redd screff on head. Look only in mi eyes, not de head.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 05:19 | 4672384 Rising Sun
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And did you hear that Chelsea is knocked up too????

 

Who'd tap that???? GROSS!!!!

 

Oh right, her husband.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 07:06 | 4672446 messystateofaffairs
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I think he got busted because his yarmulke is obviously not authentic.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 07:29 | 4672466 rsnoble
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I can't fathom that fucking cunt disorderment for president.  That oligarchy article ain't no shit.  This bitch spent how many millions on her gaping anal daughters wedding?

 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 07:56 | 4672507 Mi Naem
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Speaking of "BUSTED!",  check out the direction of Mr. Chatwal's gaze.  AND, look carefully at Hillary's expression. 

He's staring at what apparently serves as her breasts. 

She's not too pleased with it, and may even be muttering to him "Hello, my eyes are up here." with that forced smile straining not to let any truth peak through. 

Priceless! 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:00 | 4672515 overmedicatedun...
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Mi, no no, you got it wrong, He just realized she is completely insane, and he blew his cash then it hit him - he's gonna burn for getting near this viper.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 11:49 | 4673131 Emergency Ward
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"Your honor, I could not help myself.  Mrs Clinton seduced me with her wit and charm and many promises."

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:18 | 4672552 MarcusAurelius
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Herein lies the major problem of the problems that we have in the world. It is no different (although not to the same degree) here in Canada where I am. 

Politicians generally repulse most people. By their very nature they represent what most of us dispise about ourselves. Pretention, puppetering, and dishonesty to name just a few of their endearing qualites. Consequently what happens is we continually attract the worst segments of society who end up masquerading as our leaders. These types of people delusionally think that they have the qualities of "true leaders"even though they generally represent the very opposite of what most of us think of as a leader. Hence the constant referral to the group that wrote the constitution. George Washington gave the country to the people after fighting along side the very people that he sought to liberate. In my definition a "true leader". 

    We need more "good people" who are like Washington to run. However like the financial sector the worst have chased the good out. (Gresham Dynamics) Only a fool would want to waste his/her time with the likes of people like Hillary Clinton and her wonderful Hubby. 

However this is precisely the problem. These sickening excuses for leaders are the only types that run anymore. Sadly I don't know how to change it and I suspect it won't change until we get our pride as people back and remove these jokers either by electoral providence or force. 

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:50 | 4672621 Hobbleknee
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Why do we need leaders at all?  I'm a grown man.  I don't need someone to tell me what to do.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 16:46 | 4672771 Comte d'herblay
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You are two degrees of separation from the REAL" problem that is the major problem of the problems that we have in the world".

Narrowing it down a bit, to the US of A, the REAL problem is the US of A.

NO ONE, not one single human bean, no matter how intelligent, how charismatic, or inspired as a "LEADER" a good person, can Lead a nation of 330,000,000 human animals.

IT's just not possible to get an effective leader, not by election, appointment, or edict. WE are too spread out, too diversifed, and heterogeneous for one man or woman to lead.

The REAL problem is our expectations, in spite of all we know about ourselves. 

Forget being a child looking for someone a white horse to ride in and lead you.  When Washington was our leader we maybe a dozen people in what was then the U.S.

That's not to say the worst of us ATTEMPT  to sell you on the idea that they can do it. And some succeed at that persuasion due to a people with infantile daddy issues. 

The solution to our PROBLEM was born in 1861 and crushed by a tyrant, the lionized Abraham Lincoln who should have been along with Davis tried as War Criminals.  IF the southern states had been allowed to be peacefully successful in gaining their own Sovereignty, there would by now be a European style number of nations on this turf. And with that, there would be no FED, no Swamp on the Potomac. No Central Communism. 

That experiment in Self governance should have been permitted to go forward as much as this current one, that has proven of benefit primarily to about a few hundred Oligarchs and their minions carrying their water.

Bust it up if you seek real leadership.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:21 | 4672555 mrdenis
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Due to the sensitivity of this topic ,it will not be reported by the MSM .....

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 09:01 | 4672639 Infinite QE
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National security. The internet will now be scrubbed off all references to this issue.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 08:23 | 4672559 Ghostdog
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This is the first I have heard of this sort of thing.............

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:02 | 4673291 shovelhead
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I'm shocked...speechless.

180K should have got him out of the pink tie level and into the yellow tie 'power doner' level.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:00 | 4673295 ThroxxOfVron
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Hey, Banzai; -I only see seven figures represented in the G8 spread...

-I take it someone has been sent to the bar to put another round on their Nation's Citizen's tab?   I wonder who that might be???

 

Hillery looks like a flubbery prime 'candidate' for the ol' Durden artisan soap process.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:08 | 4673297 Mr Giggles
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Confusion over the swastika.

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