Damn interesting?

[charles royer]

The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637
The later part of the 20th century saw its share of odd financial bubbles. There was the real-estate bubble, the stock market bubbles, and the dot com bubble, just to name a few. In each instance of price inflation people paid exorbitant amounts for things that shouldn’t have been worth anything like the going price. And each time people stood around afterwards and said “What were we thinking?”

One has to believe that the same thought occurred to the Dutch in the 17th century when they settled down after their bout with tulipomania, wherein the humble tulip bulb began to sell for prices to make New York Realtors blanch.

As much as the tulip is associated with Holland, it is not native there. Rather it was introduced in 1593 by a botanist named Carolus Clusius, who brought it from Constantinople. He planted a small garden, intending to research the plant for medicinal purposes. Had Clusius’s neighbors been morally upright, the tulip might still be a rare exotic in the gardening world. Instead they broke into his garden and stole some of his bulbs in order to make some quick money, and in the process started the Dutch bulb trade
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/
Just sayin!

[M]

[Patriot Ozzie]

Hello fellow Deplorables

Who was it who said "words matter my friends" ?

Lives matter too my friends - 29 innocent people injured in Manhattan yesterday but somehow the Afgani perpetrator probably won't be accused of being a "Deplorable", perhaps a wayward immigrant, but never a Deplorable

[The Bull]

[The Bull]

Everything the left is accusing Trump of has not been Illegal.  His rhetoric is harsh but not as harsh as President Truman’s was and LBJ was well known for his extreme profanity and racial insults.  What is a fact is what Hillary has done it’s well documented and on tape: perjury under oath, pathological lying, excepting bribes, racketeering, money laundering? She even pilfered $200,000 dollars’ worth of furnishings from the White House when they moved out.  Look at how she attacked Bill’s accusers when they were raped by her husband, she latterly attempted to slander their reputations.  Is that standing up for women and protecting women’s rights.  I think not.  So the next time someone calls Trump a brut say yes but…

[M]

This was from 3 weeks ago and neither the Congress nor the DOJ have moved on it despite enough circumstantial evidence to begin an investigation. Are they afraid they might get to the truth and have to prosecute Hillary? We need to create a massive public outcry to Congress and also to our State Legislators warning them of the Election and future election consequences if they do not do it.

[The Bull]

Hillary's resume
 

Hillary hopes you have forgotten. Have you????

Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified
candidate for president based on her "record," which she says includes her
eight years in the White House as First Lady - or "co-president" - and
her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record
includes:

- As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a
process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill
Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that
she would "demonize "anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she
couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party.
(And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and
Senate.)

- Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General.
Her first two recommendations (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to
withdraw their names from consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno.
Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as "my worst mistake."

- Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights
Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be
withdrawn.

- Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster,
and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House
staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later
imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

- Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig
Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When
Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI
files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by
White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. (FBI
agent Dennis Sculimbrene Confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996
both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After
that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven
presidents for over thirty years.)

- In order to open "slots" in the White House for her friends the Harry
Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be
awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office
fired; they were reported to the FBI for "gross mismanagement" and their
reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy
Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House
funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two
hours.

---- Another of Hillary's assumed duties was directing the "bimbo eruption
squad" and scandal defense:

---- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.

---- She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the
appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars
of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica
Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

---- Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.

---- And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury.

---- And Bill was impeached by the House.

---- And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction
of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, "I do not recall,"
"I have no recollection," and "I don't know" 56 times under oath).

- Hillary accepted the traditional First Lady's role of decorator of the
White House at Christmas, but in a unique Hillary way. In 1994, for
example, The First Lady's Tree in the Blue Room (the focal point each
year) was Decorated with drug paraphernalia, sex toys, and pornographic
ornaments, all personally approved by Hillary as the invited artists'
depictions of the theme, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

- Hillary wrote "It Takes a Village," demonstrating her Socialist
viewpoint.

- Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never
lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino
support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also
had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial
support.

- Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in
White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.

- In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the "woman card" by
portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.

- Hillary's husband further protected her by asking the National Archives
to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the
White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her
calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those
records.)

- As the junior Senator from New York , Hillary has passed no major
legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to
the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of
workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.

- Hillary's one notable vote, supporting the plan to invade Iraq , she
has since disavowed.

Quite a resume, isn't it? Sounds more like an organized crime family...

Make sure America remembers. Pass this on.

[Hankelvis]

[The Bull]

[Hankelvis]

good stuff

[The Bull]

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email

https://sharylattkisson.com/the-clearest-no-spin-summary-of-fbi-report-on-hillary-clinton-email/

[The Bull]

Actually No. Immigrants Are Not the 'Backbone of America'. America is... by Crowder Leftists, whenever they want to grant amnesty or refuge to people who do not deserve it, echo this: "Immigrants are the backbone of America." Usually adding if you are against immigration, you're anti-American. Of course in the fine print is the word "illegal." No matter. Leftists can just sweep that one under the prayer mat. Most people aren't against immigration. We're against ILLEGAL immigration. How is this hard? But let's not get distracted. File the "Immigrants are the backbone of America" meme under: "Never use for a drinking game." Because your liver cannot handle it. Immigrants have NEVER been the backbone of America. America has been the backbone of America. "Immigrants" aren't any more our "strength" than anyone else. "Diversity" is of precisely zero intrinsic value. Yep, I bolded and italicized that for extra boom factor. Let it rock your world. Now allow me to explain. If the bolded statement offends you, congratulations. You're part of the problem. Because you see people through labels:  "immigrants" is simply the one most in vogue. But America wasn't "built by immigrants." It was built by people who wanted to build America -- a country that embraced a specific set of ideals, the mantle of which was freedom. The countries from which these individuals hailed was, and is, irrelevant. What mattered (and still matters) is a citizenry that wanted to build a great new country, taking part in the world's greatest (and most successful) experiment. Humor me for a second and let's strip away the label "immigrant" for this paragraph, okay? Original country, religion, race, sexual orientation are entirely inconsequential if someone wants to help build what America already is: a beacon of freedom, a place where wealth is created based on good ideas, ingenuity and hard work. Historically, America is a reaction to the problem of tyranny, government overreach, and religious oppression. The settlers to America were scratching more than their itch to explore, they were hoping to quench the thirst of freedom. The experiment payed off, resulting in...

[kevin kiernan]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-gave-state-department-app...