And Children Of All Ages!

Folks, I got to tell you, the US Presidential election has taken a turn for the truly hysterical.

Donald Trump has toned down and found a new hair-doo, while Hillary Clinton...well, pick a catastrophe - health, pay-for-play, email, &c and so forth.  Even the more reliable polls show the third-parties (Libertarians, Greens) are outstripping Clinton, while Trump looks to be headed to a landslide.

Some people may dismiss an ABCNews online poll, but look at it this way - all those "official" polls supposedly use landline telephones to reach respondents.  How many people do you know who still have landlines?  Most folks have gone completely to cell phones and those aren't listed in any "phone book" that I know of.  Either this means that they are outright lying (not impossible), or they have a very non-representative sample of likely voters.

And I hand it to the Libertarians - ABCNews asked, "Who are you voting for?"  The Libertarians quickly corrected the grammar to read, "For whom are you voting?"  Snopes was quick to dismiss the poll, but I trust Snopes about as much as I trust a politician.  For the record, I voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson...three times from different devices.

It should be noted that the ABCNews poll has been scrubbed.  Though I have found a number of references, including a link in one of my previous articles, the actual link goes nowhere, and all Google results refer to third-party sites with screen shots of the results.

More to the point, most people have portable numbers now, so a nutcase living in Jakarta for the past nine years could have a Houston, Texas number, watch zero TeeVee and not really care who wins, since we all lose.  So how can the pollsters be sure of any of their metrics, such as location, length of residency and likelihood of voting.

Bottom line is I am more likely to trust an online poll at a MSM website that shows Trump galloping over everyone else, than I am a telephone poll by Zogby any day.  Besides, how many times in your life have you ever been randomly polled by anyone?  Your friends and family?  Their friends and family?  In fact, has anyone you've ever know been randomly polled by any organization for any reason?  Makes you wonder where the results are coming from.

There's also the matter of rally attendance, not to mention holding rallies.

Clinton's schedule looks like someone who either thinks she will win due to good rigging, or has given up due to health/reality.

Hard to know what Trump is doing.  After half an hour proving I'm not a robot, his site only gave me August, so no apple-to-apple here.

If you go by butts in seats, Trump looks to be riding a massive wave of support.  Videos that I have seen of various events slways show close-ups of Clinton and never pull out wide enough to see the crowd, while Trump videos make a point to show the full houses.

As for the upcoming "debates" (the definition of debate in US politics is rather fluid), it will be interesting to see IF they actually take place.  The "health" theorists say that Clinton will find some way out of them.  It will also be fun to see how Trump handles them, after all, it was his antics in the primary "debates" that propelled him to the nomination.

The Big Question is how honest and fair the election will be.  Clinton, right or wrong, has a lingering reputation for fixing votes. Certainly, the ability and likelihood of computer voting terminal hacking has been proven many times, and there is no doubt that digital data can easily be manipulated with no physical, paper-based backup.  If the ABCNews poll has any basis in reality, then any attempt to rig the election will be readily apparent and could lead to some rather nasty backlash.

Regardless of the outcome, the election has at least been entertaining.  Given that the campaigns started over a year ago, and the conventions were held a month early due to the Olympics (that no one watched), people are just burned out.  The world is scratching its collective head wondering if the US has finally gone round the bend with these year-and-a-half circuses for a job that pays $400,000/year.  Sure, it's a lot of money, but how does one justify sending billions of dollars and vast amounts of resources to receive $1,200,000 for a single term.  Both major candidates probably earn that a month through their businesses and (ahem) charitable foundations.

And speaking of charitable foundations, Clinton is catching a world of hurt on that issue.  What no one seems to mention is that these "charitable foundations" are all over the place.  Most US politicians have one, and movie stars too.  They are a means to receive bribes while looking all warm and fuzzy at the same time.  The foundations are basically the way First and Second World politicians hide the corruption that Third World politicians always get caught receiving.

The other means of doing this is for politicians to write books and some big donor step up to buy all the copies.  Same result, but looks oh so squeaky clean and intellectual-like (see Dreams of My Father, which no one seems to ever have read).

The most interesting bit of this three-ring circus is the Trumpster.  Back in the day, we called Ronald Reagan the "teflon" president, since no scandal seemed to stick to him.  With Trump, it's an even more amazing phenomenon.  Whatever scandal is thrown at him, it not only does not stick, but flies back in the face of the one casting it.  Too bad this effect can't be patented and sold to all of us.  Think how much self-esteem could be saved!

As entertaining as this has all been, it's becoming something akin to Nightmare on Elm Street sequels...can we just get this over with?

No matter what the outcome, there will be masses of unhappy people wanting recounts.  In fact, we've probably got another year or so of reviewing the election results to come.  And the worst part of it all is that just as everyone finally gets used to whoever gets elected, the process will start again and old wounds will be opened.  Hell, Obama will finally go away in January, and we are still hearing about the birther mess.  Sorry folks, have to wait for the deathbed confession to put that one to rest...unless the Trumpster is elected.

One thing is quite clear, at this point.  The Clinton campaign, her "foundation" and anyone connected with the Democratic Party should stop sending email of any kind to anyone.  It's starting to look like a hoe-down, what with all the folks shooting themselves in the foot.  Apparently, all those "progressive" types haven't caught up with the 21st century, in terms of cyber security.

Just for kicks, the two biggies should jumble their slogans: Make Her Great Again, and I'm With America.  Oddly fitting, doncha think?

Hillary Dillary Docket

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I've been watching all this Hillary crap with half an eye for the past year or so.  Not that I have any real interest in it.  I just like watching the Clintons squirm.  If ever there were a pair of money-grubbing social climbers that deserved some grief, these two are it.

There I was, laughing at the antics of Hillary trying to cover her piles like a cat with diarrhea.  Every time she opens her mouth to defend her use of a private email server, some official or another steps up and slams that door shut in her face.  Frankly, how anyone can take her seriously as a presidential candidate mystifies me.

As I watched the latest flap over the Inspector General's report, a thought hit me.  A scary thought.  A thought that I have yet to see anyone else express, though I can't speak for their thoughts.

I though, "What if her unguarded server was actually in place to allow outsiders access to secret information?  What if Hillary is a spy...a mole?"  Think about it.

Hillary takes over the office of Secretary of State and immediately starts bringing her BlackBerry into the Inner Sanctum - the Secretary's highly secure office.  This was in spite of being told that she couldn't bring wireless devices into the secure area, and even being offered a secure device as part of her job.  She rejected it and instead insisted on bringing her personal phone into one of the most secure rooms in Washington D.C..

Though many previous Secretaries of State have used personal email, one is given the impression that they use personal accounts for their private conversations with friends and family.  Hillary went through a lot of effort to set up a private server in her basement and then proceeded to use it for everything, even to the point of NOT protecting her devices with something as basic as a password!  What?!

All of this is shrugged off with a chuckle because, well, gosh darn, Hillary is just computer-illiterate and didn't know better.

Excuse me?  Not only does that disqualify her from the office of President, in my book, but she learned nothing from the eight years her husband was in the office, nor the six years as New York senator, nor all those years as the wife of the governor of Arkansas?

I don't buy it.  Not for a second.

Alone, this information is bad enough, but when you add in the other various and sundry scandals around Hillary, suddenly a picture emerges.

Take, for instance, all those mysterious cash donations from foreign entities going into the Clinton "Foundation."  How about all those outrageous speaking fees coming from Golden Sacks and the Banksters?  Surely, all this money is buying her expertise in computer science.  What could she possibly have to offer Golden Sacks and the rest of those occult donors?

How about this?  Suppose Hillary has been getting paid for access to inside information, among other things?  Suppose all those mystery donations ensured her computers and email were hidden on private servers and didn't have any security - even passwords?  Suppose that unsecure BlackBerry was actually being used as a listening/recording device?  Suppose those donations were actually her cut of profits earned from the use of insider information?

Yes, these are rather scary and serious thoughts, but I just can't believe someone like Hillary Clinton is so befuddled by computer technology.  The testimony so far released from various interviews and depositions don't paint a stupid bumbling Hillary.  Instead, she sounds like someone steadfastly sticking to a plan of action and not listening to any rules or advice to the contrary.

Seriously, check out the deposition of Lewis Lukens.  You can tell he is trying hard to circumlocute the issues, but in the end, Hillary sounds like someone with a mission to subvert official record-keeping and provide certain outsiders with easy access to inside information - information that could easily be tradeable in the markets, the profits from which could be passed on as ridiculously ludicrous speaking fees for speeches whose content Hillary won't release.  I mean, c'mon!  She's giving more attention to protecting her speeches than she did to the nation's secrets.  Were these speeches, say...shareholder reports?  Hmmm....

The more I think about this situation, and the more information that gets out, the more plausible it seems that Hillary is the worst kind of traitor...the mole whose motivation is strictly profit.

In the absence of Hillary finally telling the world the truth, the only thing we can do is speculate.  One hates to think that someone like her, who has been privy to deep insider information over decades, could be so low as to sell her country for 30 silver pieces, but she is not putting fears to rest with her behavior.

Some food for thought, especially if you have any inkling whatsoever to vote for such a socio-pathic creature as this.  Even the slightest doubts to her motivations should give us pause, but even the slightest possibility that she could actually be a mole for profit should scare the living horse puckies out of folks.

I find the Clintons, parents and child, to be repulsive and repugnant.  For the most part, I ignore then to the extent that they allow me to.  But, when this line of thought occurred to me, I couldn't help going back to review all the evidence.  It all fits.  And every new piece that comes out fits the profile, as well.  If she refuses to come clean with the world, then the world should assume the worst, if for no other reason than self-protection.

This story is far from finished, and it's time to start asking more difficult questions.