A Nod To The Gods

Nothing surprises me anymore, but the fact that they do this knowingly, and the story will come out eventually, shows that these people don’t care about how they are perceived after an election, only that they are elected.

This liberal attitude is telling and is exactly what Obama did with the IRS scandal, keep it under wraps until after the election.

A 20-year-old Virginia resident had possession of marijuana charges dismissed Wednesday morning following a brief appearance in a Fairfax County courtroom.

Charles Ziller Hagel, a.k.a. “Zilla Thrilla,” the son of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, appeared before Fairfax County Judge Thomas E. Gallahue during a brief criminal court appearance relating to the drug charge.

Hagel was arrested on May 19, 2012, and charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor charge, according to court records.

The arrest came just months before Hagel’s father was nominated to replace former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Ziller was originally scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 8, 2012, but a continuance was granted.

Three additional continuances were granted over the next several months as Hagel’s father faced a contentious nomination process on Capitol Hill before his confirmation in late February.

Hagel’s case was postponed on Aug. 27, 2012; Dec. 3, 1012; and on March 6, 2012 before Hagel finally appeared in court with lawyer on Wednesday.

Hagel, wearing a light blue dress shirt, sat next to his lawyer Nina Ginsberg until Judge Gallahue dismissed the charges in a proceeding that lasted mere seconds.

The courtroom was packed with more than a dozen other lawyers and clients waiting to have their criminal cases heard.

Asked why multiple continuances had been granted in the case, Ginsberg told the Washington Free Beacon that it “happens all the time.”

When pushed for a specific reason, she declined to discuss the matter further.

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There goes the emergency funding for Moore.

“It is my right to be uncommon…if I can. I seek opportunity….not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficience nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” All this is what it means to be an American.”

— Dean Alfange

Alfange was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, to two ethnic Greek parents.^[2] His parents moved to New York when he was still an infant, where they raised him in Utica, New York.^[1][2] He graduated from Utica Free Academy in 1918, and joined the United States Army during World War I.After the war, he attended Hamilton College and graduated in 1922 with honors in philosophy, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.^[2][3] Alfange remained active at the college, and when he received the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award for his book The Supreme Court and the National Will, he donated the prize to Hamilton College, establishing the ongoing Dean Alfange Essay Award, given to two students each year for essays on American constitutional government.^[4] He received a juris doctor from Columbia University Law School and became a lawyer in Manhattan.^[2]

More here

Not so much…
 

Not surprising but what I would call treasonable. Impeachment proceedings can’t start soon enough.

A few snip-its from here:

But the most important IRS story came not from the hearings but from Mike Huckabee‘s program on Fox News Channel. He interviewed and told the story of Catherine Engelbrecht—a nice woman, a citizen, an American. She and her husband live in Richmond, Texas. They have a small manufacturing business. In the past few years she became interested in public policy and founded two groups, King Street Patriots and True the Vote.

In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we’re now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.

All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: “These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers.”

Out of control government, this has to stop, revolution soon?