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You want to presume you have "vexed" me due to my "thin-skin?"

. Yu weren't present at any of the dealings, any more than I was. Don't make pronouncements about things you don't know,

Don't make pronouncements about things you don't know,

.Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president [Bill Clinston] and a woman who would like to be the next one [Hillary Clinton].

American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States....

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side. The New York Times areported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Before Mrs. Clinton could assume her post as secretary of state, the White House demanded that she sign a memorandum of understanding placing limits on the activities of her husband’s foundation. To avoid the perception of conflicts of interest, beyond the ban on foreign government donations, the foundation was required to publicly disclose all contributors.

To judge from those disclosures — which list the contributions in ranges rather than precise amounts — the only Uranium One official to give to the Clinton Foundation was Mr. Telfer, the chairman, and the amount was relatively small: no more than $250,000, and that was in 2007

Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions...

Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One. The $500,000 fee — among Mr. Clinton’s highest — was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin. According to a Russian government news service, Mr. Putin personally thanked Mr. Clinton for speaking.

Why not make the voters actually find out what the candidates think rather than just assuring them that this candidate has some political organization's imprimatur so some mouthful of pretty teeth, devoid of backbone, without an original idea "deserves" your vote?

Well, that was one pretentious crock of ****, which completely ignores the reasons the objectors were protesting.

I didn’t see the production that turned Julius Caesar into a Donald Trump look-alike, so I can’t comment on the accuracy of the impersonation or the violence against the president that some people believe it meant to incite

Supreme Court: Will Justice Kennedy retire this month?

The Supreme Court’s term ends next week with growing speculation that Justice Anthony Kennedy--the panel’s most pivotal member--may retire at age 80 after 29 years on the court.

Several of his former law clerks have said they think he is contemplating stepping down in the next year or so.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters in April, "I would expect a resignation this summer."

Kennedy has played an important role as the court’s swing vote on many important rulings. His departure would allow conservatives to wrest near total control of the bench for the foreseeable future.

The other two older justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, and Stephen Breyer, 78, are Democratic appointees.

Supreme Court sides with The Slants, rules ban on offensive names is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal trademark law banning offensive names is unconstitutional, siding with a rock band whose name had been deemed racially disparaging by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The case centered on Oregon-based, Asian-American band The Slants, which was denied a trademark because its name was considered offensive.

Cool!

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Supreme Court sides with The Slants, rules ban on offensive names is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal trademark law banning offensive names is unconstitutional, siding with a rock band whose name had been deemed racially disparaging by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The case centered on Oregon-based, Asian-American band The Slants, which was denied a trademark because its name was considered offensive.

The fact that this kinda unconstitutional candyass PC law was ever passed in the first place tells ya that there were way too many cheese-eaters in office way too long.

First Amendment ROCKS, Baby!

College Professor: Otto Warmbier 'Got What He Deserved'

The University of Virginia junior died Monday after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and being brought home in a comatose state. He had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel while visiting the country.

"Otto Warmbier got exactly what he deserved. Otto is typical of the mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueles [sic] males who come into my classes," anthropology professor at the University of Delaware Katherine Dettwyler wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday.

The professor said students like Warmbier cry about their grades and think they can get away with anything, including raping women. It is unclear how she was relating rape to Warmbier's case.

Dettwyler wrote that instead of feeling sorry for Warmbier people should think of the people in North Korea "suffering under the repressive government there."

I dunno man, dude went to North freaking Korea and broke the law. Not saying that should be a death sentence, but don't place yourself in a position where it could be.