This IS NOT your 'pedestrian grade' OIL THREAD!

[dlaing]

Oh, I had no inclination to take it personally wotsoever. It's just that I've noticed there seem to be many these days who're mighty quick to find xenophobia in 'others'.

 

I b'lieve the pop-psych term for this is xeno-xenophobia?

 

Double-xeno phobia?

 

Xenophobia-phobia?

 

Or is it xenophobia by proxy??

 

It's designer terminology itself that provides the framework for the way we view behavior these days, you know.

 

I find it quite fascinating, but I'm afraid I don't have all the lingo down yet.

 

Coupla thoughts:

 

Ever realize that before the great discovery of "issues", that people simply had problems??

 

With all the "advancements" in the fashionable (and increasingly lucrative) pop-psych extortion industry in recent years, I find that "problems" are rapidly becoming a thing of the past! The term simply isn't used much anymore.

 

The way I see it, problems have solutions. But this just won't do today. No, no, not at all. Can't have that!

 

Seems to me that "issues" were among the most brilliant discoveries of the last century! "Issues" are fertile ground for a rich harvest, for the simple reason that, of course, "issues" have no solutions wotsoever!

 

Wot "Issues" have going for them are detailed pop-psych explanations, endless justifications, legions of professional enablers, and entire emerging fields of "counseling" (under the "I'm OK, you're OK, yes, your Healthcare Insurance will pay" plan), backed-up by a blizzard of all-new pseudo-science degrees, an endless cornucopia of new mind-numbing designer drugs, and a vast (and rapidly widening) array of giant taxpayer-funded pseudo-scientific social "support networks". Brilliant, I tell you.

 

Why, when you've got "issues", you're set up for life. . .

 

"Free" Government-provided Health Care (including Psycho Health, of course) is certainly The Final Frontier. . .

 

Here in the US, we've got an aspiring Candidate for the office of Leader of the No-longer-so-very-Free World who's made it the centerpiece of her campaign (for the second time!). . . Over here, we have vast segments of the population well-conditioned and well-prepared to vote early -- and often. . .

Would a moderator please move this thread to the banter section?

This Ratchet guy has got issues and needs my therapy.

No forget moving the thread.

Because it is therapy, we need to keep it a technical issue.

Let us begin.

Ratchet, what drugs are you on?

[Greg Field]

Here in the US, we've got an aspiring Candidate for the office of Leader of the No-longer-so-very-Free World who's made it the centerpiece of her campaign (for the second time!). . . Over here, we have vast segments of the population well-conditioned and well-prepared to vote early -- and often. . .

 

And at the same time, we have a current leader who has made it his mission to, paraphrased from the words of another great American, "Take away our freedoms in order to protect us from the people who hate us for our freedom."

[Guest ratchethack]

This Ratchet guy has got issues and needs my therapy.

Arfffkk. . . [gasp!]. . . No, no thank you just the same, Dave. . .

 

I find that "Just say, NO!" to all forms of historically repetitive, classic, yet well-camouflaged debilitating enslavement scams foisted on the gullible as "therapy" by the irretreivably indoctrinated, serves me (and thankfully -- most of the rest of us who're still capable of thinking for ourselves!) just fine. . .

 

But thanks for the. . . err, offer!

 

You see, I know you have ONLY the "best of intentions", Dave!

 

Do give my regards to the rest of the crew over at Best Intentions Paving*. . .

 

NOTE: Since those of us with a clue about history already know where your road leads, we're headed in the opposite direction. . .

 

*Best Intentions Paving the road to hell , see F. A. Hayek, various presentations at the London School of Economics, and abundant background source material available via the Ludwig von Mises Institute. http://www.mises.org.

[GuzziMoto]

And at the same time, we have a current leader who has made it his mission to, paraphrased from the words of another great American, "Take away our freedoms in order to protect us from the people who hate us for our freedom."

Well said.

[dlaing]

 

NOTE: Since those of us with a clue about history already know where your road leads, we're headed in the opposite direction. . .

 

There are more than two directions.

There is the road that your pro-corporate anti-human buddies have us on, and there is any other way but that.

[Guest ratchethack]

There are more than two directions.

Um, not on the infamous, well-worn Road to Hell that you're paving, Dave. Not ever in history, not since the Dawn of Man.

 

Better wake up to the fact that it's a one-way street you and your crew are paving with your "good intentions", Dave. Even a casual student of history knows that it leads to the same place it's always led. . .

 

Again, see: The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek, various presentations at the London School of Economics, and abundant background source material available via the Ludwig von Mises Institute. http://www.mises.org.

There is the road that your pro-corporate anti-human buddies have us on, and there is any other way but that.

Err, I don't b'lieve you have the faintest clue who "my buddies" are, Dave.

 

Now I've provided you with at least a dozen reminders that your favorite target of hatred and image-of-Satan Incarnate-elect, Dubya sure ain't one of 'em, neither your second-favorite hatred target and vice-image-of-Satan Incarnate-elect, D!ck Cheney -- nor your cliche'd Corporate Twin Pillars of Evil, Exxon/Mobil and Halliburton. . . As I've explained to you repeatedly without apology, Dubya is among my least favorite Presidents in my lifetime, and likely the most disappointing to me of all Presidents in our Nation's history. . . So just WHO d'you think you're referring to as "my buddies"??

 

BTW, Dave, when Dubya and Cheney are gone after next year, who'll be the next focus of all your blind, seething hatred?

 

As far as labeling me "pro-corporate", I'll accept this with great enthusiasm. It would appear from your abundant posts to the effect, that you're more than just a bit "anti-corporate". No doubt this is because of the thuddingly stupid Hard Left, left-over, and recycled from the '60's cliche's that corporations are raping Moms Gaia, they exploit employees, and trample the rights of "the little guy". Does your employer know any of this, Dave? Any of your investments or retirement funds invested in stocks or mutual funds built on stocks of corporations? How many of the material benefits of wealth created by corporations d'you suppose you benefit from directly and personally every day, in all aspects of your own life? Do you feel guilty about any of this? Ever consider leaving this country permanently to get away from the greed of capitalism and evil corporations? It's quite easily done, you know. . . Why, being anti-corporate would make you more'n a bit of a hypocrite as long as you enjoy living in such an EEEEEVVVVIIIILLLL capitalist nation, would it not?

 

Now lumping me in with some unspecified group of "anti-humans" would seem particularly specious of you, and is quite vicious, as well as entirely unfounded, I would say. Upon what possible basis would you say that I'm anti-human, praytell?? Or is it just anyone who disagrees with your particular er, inclinations who recieves an "anti-human" label??

 

D'you realize Dave, that the political principles that you seem to identify with without reservation have been responsible -- just in the last century -- for more human mass murders, more gruesome forms of torture and REAL slavery, than all deaths due to known diseases of humankind since the Dawn of Man -- including the infamous plagues -- both of biblical times and in the Middle Ages?

 

Take just one example, the USSR, once the Darling of your Hard Left in this country. In one century, the failed Socialist model resulted in 100 million political murders -- an average of a mil a year. Quite impressive, Dave. Take your pick of any other murderous thugs besides Lenin and Stalin, who sold the wonders of Socialism to idiots like you -- the regimes of Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel, all the way up to Chavez -- That's the identical model for a People's Paradise that you now wish us to follow here , Dave. . .

 

Fidel has long been a favorite of you and your Hard Left Socialists -- right along with his murdering thug henchman, Che. Cooba is already planning the largest celebration in half a century very soon. Got any idea why, Dave??

 

Now being anti-corporate, I peg you as a Marxist, in the grand tradition of Fidel, Che, and "Oogo" -- right along with your Presidential hopeful, Her Fuhreress Hitlery, faithful student of Marxist Saul Alinsky. If you're voting next year, Dave, I b'lieve it'd be a fair assumption that Hitlery is YOUR GAL. Now for your information, you might find it interesting to know that it was Saul Alinsky, prolific Marxist author and political radical, who first personally mentored Hitlery away from her activism in the Republican Party as a Barry Goldwater campaigner in the '60's, and got her to embrace Alinsky's First Principle of Action for seizing the reigns of political power -- that principle is, "EMBRACE CORRUPTION fully and without reservation." And Wot a job Hitlery has done as an Alinsky acolyte!

 

D'you reckon that the hopeful Klinton II Regime, still consistently illegally funded (per all the recent news) by the Chinese government, will be acting in YOUR best interests, and that Her Highness will finally be THE ONE SOCIALIST EXPERIMENTER in all of human history to finally make Socialism actually work without murdering millions of our own Citizens in the process of stifling speech, not to mention trampling the rest of our God-given rights? Never mind the fact that it's never been done before. Must be something VERY SPECIAL about Hitlery, n'est-ce pas?

 

Sorry, Jaap. I just had to . . .

[WitchCityBallabio]

Why take just one example, the USSR. In one century, the failed Socialist model resulted in 100 million political murders

 

A classic example of a lie being told so many times it becomes a "truth". I've seen this number quoted from the "Black Book of Communism" ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It gets funnier every time I hear it quoted. Actually, they credit the ex-Soviet Union with 20 mil, with a total Communist kill of 100 mil worldwide. Numbers by the way, which handily include famine. Can you imagine how tragic it must have been to have millions of people starving while surplus grain is poured into the sea? Oh wait...... <_>

 

The boys of capital; they chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope that no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the twentieth century-without exception-has either been crushed, overthrown, or invaded, or corrupted, perverted, subverted, or destabilized, or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movement-from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the EMLN in El Salvador-not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home.

 

-William Blum

 

 

Any way...enough politics...

 

 

Here's Tom with the weather...

[Guest ratchethack]

A classic example of a lie being told so many times it becomes a "truth". I've seen this number quoted from the "Black Book of Communism" ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It gets funnier every time I hear it quoted. Actually, they credit the ex-Soviet Union with 20 mil. . .

Well I must say that I'm amazed, but not surprised, that there's at least one Hard Lefty here who would find humor in the murder of tens of millions of innocents, and who has such a callous disregard of the numbers to very evidently not have done any research whatsoever. The credible sources are many, easily found, and vary, but most are quite consistent in being five times this number and possibly much more for the century. (see below).

 

We're talking about murders in only one Nation of dozens of murdering Socialist tyrants here. Is it somehow less important if the number of innocent people murdered as a direct result of Socialism in any nation is "only" 20 million? How about if it was "only" 50 million? 100 million? 200 million? At what murder count is a Socialist State excused as the historic murderer of its' innocent citizens of record, and brushed aside as if it were merely a misdemeanor, as is apparently the intent of the poster above?

 

I said 100 million were murdered by the USSR in 100 years, with an average of one million per year for the century. Of course this is an estimate, and of course the murders did not start with the official formation of, nor stop with the official demise of the USSR. Some estimates are far higher.

 

In the USSR, the most conservative number of Soviet citizens were murdered outright (non famine, non gulag) is 20 million during Stalin's 19 year reign of terror alone. 50 million is a more likely estimate.

 

Another 50 million (most conservative estimate again) died in the gulags alone during a 20 year period starting in the '30's, with an upper estimate of 80 million.

 

These were two separate numbers covering separate, overlapping 20 year periods each, just parts of a century of terror and murder.

 

70 million were murdered by Marxists and/or the government for political reasons in USSR in the 70 year period 1917-1987.

 

SOURCE:

 

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocides and Mass Murders 1917-1987 , Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1990.

__________

 

"The greatest source of post-war democide was communism (see the communist death toll). During and after the war communists seized power, or came to power with the help of Soviet military might, as in Eastern Europe. In addition to the USSR, Mongolia, Eastern European regimes, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, communist regimes eventually also included China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Grenada, Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and South Yemen, or 26 regimes in all. These communist governments and the communist guerrillas they supported in other countries account for about 66,000,000 of the 76,000,000 murdered since the war, or about 87 percent. Clearly, of all regimes, communist ones have been by far the greatest killer. During these years it has been mostly death by Marxism than more generally by government."

 

SOURCE:

 

R.J. Rummel

Charlottesville, Virginia:

Center for National Security Law,

School of Law, University of Virginia, 1997; and Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University

 

original reference statistics:

 

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE5.HTM

__________

 

It's completely beyond me how it could be any kind of a comfort to anyone even to consider (however misguided and propaganda-indoctrinated) that the tens of millions who died of famine under the failed Socialist 5-year plans (of which not a single plan survived its first year) that the the blame for these famines rightfully belongs to the USA??!!

 

We obviously have enemies of our Nation within, who have succumbed to the deadliest forms of propaganda, the likes of which have resulted in the murders of hundreds of millions elsewhere for their beliefs. Real Americans don't want any of this here. So far we've succeeded. If you don't want to continue this kind of success, by all means, please leave the country for enjoyment of the many joys of Socialism already in later stages elsewhere. We're not having any of it here -- not ever -- no, not even under Hitlery, should it come to that. . . . most of us here will make damn sure of it.

[dlaing]

Yah, you are so right Ratchet.

Hitlery is gonna be lining up the dissidents for the gas chamber.

Do you think she'll kill as many as Stalin?

(sarcasm intended )

[g.forrest]

JAAP close it down! there's been personal attack and blatant advertising!

[Guest ratchethack]

Yah, you are so right Ratchet.

Hitlery is gonna be lining up the dissidents for the gas chamber.

Do you think she'll kill as many as Stalin?

(sarcasm intended )

Well, your intended sarcasm here would seem to be, er, somewhat misplaced, Dave. I'm sorry to say that this is actually not at all an unreasonable question to ask. I'm glad you did, even though such a question in itself reveals the typical naïveté and depth of ignorance of any supporter of this particular nominee-to-be. I would expect this from not only yourself, but from anyone so easily duped and manipulated by the powerful propaganda via The Klinton Machine's de facto ownership of the mainstream media that has surrounded and protected the Klintons their entire political careers. Again, this is consistent with previously mentioned Marxist activist and author Saul Alinsky's Prime Directive for seizing political power in his role as close advisor and personal mentor to budding Marxist Tyrant-in-training Hitlery in the early '60's -- that requisite principle of Marxist tyranny in action being: "Embrace and harness the power of corruption immediately, fully, and unreservedly". . .

 

Of course, with YOUR err, sources, (such as they are) you would have no possible way of knowing the following. If you had the faintest clue about the true nature of your Marxist Candidate's character and the truth of her background, you surely wouldn't have posed your question above. . .

 

HOWEVER, in reply to your question:

 

Though the sheer scale is hardly comparable to that of Stalin's Reign of Terror, the Klintons actually have a pretty good start already, and their modus operandi has ALWAYS been and ALWAYS WILL BE exactly the same as that of Papa Josef, the "Man of Steel" himself . . .

 

"An apparent pattern of violence and intimidation has befallen a number of men and women with ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, their partners in business, law and politics, and people investigating their affairs..." (The Arizona Republic, June 7, 1994)

 

Note the year of the above quote. This was over 13 years ago. Lots of water has gone under the dam since then. Lists have grown, people have continued to disappear, flee the country for their lives, commit "Arkansas Suicide" (see below), dozens of agencies and investigations have mysteriously shut down, countless threats have been made, publishers bought off, etc. Though it's inconceivable that a publication such as Arizona Republic would dare print such a statement TODAY, the "pattern" mentioned above has taken on far greater dimensions since then, and without much question, the "pattern" may be reasonably expected to ramp up sharply going into the elections next year and possibly beyond, depending of course on the outcome. . .

 

During the Klinton Machine occupation of Little Rock, they had the Arkansas State Coroner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, on the Klinton Machine payroll. See Los Angeles Times article from May 19, '92, linked here:

 

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/P...S/malak_la.html

 

The Klintons had ushered unprecedented legislation through (under extreme duress, of course, and this legislation is still on the books today in Arkansas) that made it illegal to exhume the body of anyone with SUICIDE as cause of death. Following rapidly on the heels of this legislation came a steady series of mysterious SUICIDES under highly qustionable circumstances in every case of what was to become upwards of 120 political enemies and insiders of the Klintons with information that was known to be potentially damaging to them in the endless stream of criminal investigations that have characterized all Klinton offices. This practice continued throughout the Klinton I Regime in Washington. Of course, Malak put SUICIDE on death certificates under the aforementioned suddenly very numerous and highly questionable sets of circumstances, and made sure funerals and burials were conducted unusually rapidly, both following within 48 hours of declaration of death. Of course, no investigations of any of these mysterious and completely unexpected "suicides" were possible, and none were ever conducted. Following behind the first rash of such "suicides" came a mass exodus of Klinton enemies and cronies alike (hard to tell the difference with the Klintons ) from the country. Most who made it out alive have still not returned, and for good reason. . . D'you reckon any of 'em are likely to come back to the US as we ramp into next year's elections -- or d'you think they'd be more likely to show up here again after?? Just asking. . .

 

SOURCE: (Yes, I have a copy, and yes, I read it. It was on the New York Times best seller list for 20 weeks in '96.)

 

Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House , by Gary Aldrich, former Senior FBI Senate and House liaison responsible for maintenance of national security.

©1996 Gary Aldrich; Regnery Publishing, Inc. (January 25, 1996)

 

NOTE: Like Elliot Ness, Aldrich was an Untouchable -- he could not be bought off, and his long career and exemplary track record of service were, and still are impeccable . He was one of the Klinton's worst possible nightmares. Aldrich, due to his stature in the FBI, became particularly difficult to silence as just another victim on the list of what became well known as the Klinton's "Arkansas Suicide List". . .

 

BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Aldrich served as an FBI agent for 26 years, specializing in political corruption and assigned to major cities throughout the U.S. Over a period of 10 years. Mr. Aldrich worked with the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations and was the senior FBI Senate and House liaison responsible for the maintenance of national security.

 

Mr. Aldrich broke the code of silence surrounding the Clinton administration on Independence Day, 1996. In his book, Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House, Mr. Aldrich exposed the questionable behavior and serious breaches of national security he witnessed while performing his duties conducting comprehensive personnel screenings.

 

His book quickly skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List and stayed on the list for 20 weeks. To date, Unlimited Access has sold nearly 1 million copies and was #1 on every bestseller list in the nation! He has since written his first novel, Speak No Evil, which enjoys brisk sales. He has also composed a book of polemics entitled Thunder on the Left that has effectively exposed the hi-jacking of the once-proud Democrat Party by elements of the radical left.

 

Since publication of Unlimited Access, Mr. Aldrich has made thousands of radio, TV and personal speaking appearances, on programs including This Week, Good Morning America, Dateline, Equal Time, Hannity and Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Inside Edition, Larry King Live, Meet the Press, and others. Mr. Aldrich has also authored editorial pieces for distinguished publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Human Events Magazine, The Daily Oklahoman Newspaper, and Insight Magazine. In addition, he writes regularly for Newsmax.com and Townhall.com.

 

Given Mr. Aldrich’s past experience, he has a particular passion to intercede in the plight of ethical dissenters currently under attack by the media or by a corrupt federal agency or administration. Mr. Aldrich continues to appear as an expert witness guest on many talk shows around the nation discussing the Clinton administration, corruption, the FBI, other federal agencies, and issues related to law enforcement and Second Amendment rights.

 

Mr. Aldrich specialized in white-collar crime, including fraud and political corruption. For five years prior to his retirement, Mr. Aldrich served under former Presidents Bush and Clinton in a national security role. In addition, he was assigned to the U.S. Senate and House, working closely with elected officials on a variety of issues.

 

In January 1998 Mr. Aldrich founded The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights and supporting the right of citizens to engage in ethical dissent. Mr. Aldrich has a special interest in the rights of our young college students to engage in debate about important issues of the day, free of fear from the intolerance of the "politically correct."

 

THE KLINTON BODY COUNT CONTINUES

 

The Klinton "Arkansas Suicides" have been well documented in dozens of credible sources for well over a decade. Let anyone with an intent to make a claim that these are simply fabrications (of course such counter-claims are far more numerous than the actual names on the lists!) not be stupid enough to do so here without researching the great number of high quality credible sources.

 

There are many partial lists covering different time periods. Here are two (of many more readily available) with details on the "highly questionable circumstances" of each Klinton "Arkansas Suicide" case:

 

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/P...ICS/BODIES.html

 

http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/clintbodycnt.html

[Skeeve]

Yah, you are so right Ratchet.

Hitlery is gonna be lining up the dissidents for the gas chamber.

Do you think she'll kill as many as Stalin?

(sarcasm intended )

 

All sarcasm aside, you can generally judge a supervisor by how their subordinates view them. It's generally well known that the Secret Service agents during the Klinton administration particularly loathed Hilary; while they would have taken a bullet for Bubba 'cause it was their job, nobody was going to go out of their way to save the life of the FLOTUS during their regime.

 

I think that reveals all I need to know about her as a candidate to replace the Shrub...

[dlaing]

All sarcasm aside, you can generally judge a supervisor by how their subordinates view them. It's generally well known that the Secret Service agents during the Klinton administration particularly loathed Hilary; while they would have taken a bullet for Bubba 'cause it was their job, nobody was going to go out of their way to save the life of the FLOTUS during their regime.

 

I think that reveals all I need to know about her as a candidate to replace the Shrub...

Loathed by the SS. Sounds like something to be proud of.

Think they were shivering in their boots that if they pissed her off their heads would roll off their shoulders like that of chickens in an Arkansas poultry factory?

It is sheer paranoia that she is the next Hitler or Stalin, brought on by Right wing nut job propagandists.

Say it enough times and people will believe you.

Look at the credibility of people desperate enough to judge people by innuendo rather than by their substance.

GWB is a first class ______ but that didn't stop him from getting elected.

This argument by innuendo is clearly partisan crap.

That sad thing is 90% of the swing vote probably buys it and will vote for the next Republicant, just because they don't find her charming.

I do hope the Democrats chose anybody else, just because the propaganda has damaged her.

[Guest ratchethack]

Look at the credibility of people desperate enough to judge people by innuendo rather than by their substance.

Um, Dave.

 

What desperate people and innuendo -- exactly -- are you referring to?

 

Do you consider either of the following (from post #26 above) to be less-than-credible, "desperate" sources of "innuendo"??

 

1. Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House , by Gary Aldrich, former Senior FBI Senate and House liaison responsible for maintenance of national security. (see full biography, post #26)

 

2 The Los Angeles Times (I would've thought this to be one of your most "trusted" sources??)

 

Please do advise!

 

"The American people

are tired of liars and

people who pretend to be

something they're not."

- Hillary R. Clinton, 1992.

[Guest ratchethack]

All sarcasm aside, you can generally judge a supervisor by how their subordinates view them. It's generally well known that the Secret Service agents during the Klinton administration particularly loathed Hilary; while they would have taken a bullet for Bubba 'cause it was their job, nobody was going to go out of their way to save the life of the FLOTUS during their regime.

It appears that you read Unlimited Access also, Skeeve?

 

There were almost certainly multiple times when some of the toughest, battle-hardened, most self-disciplined Secret Service, CIA, FBI, and military officers of every branch and stripe must've been sorely tempted to throw the FLOTUS under the limo, or knock the B**** into the tail rotor of the Presidential helo. . .

 

Can't say for certain of course, but by countlessly repeated close encounters of the most contemptible kind in the book, according to Aldrich, it appeared that not too many "insiders" at the time would've blamed 'em too much, either. . .

 

BTW -- it wasn't so much that the staffers loathed the B****, as it was how much she loathed them -- openly, freely, and wildly. Her common, snide, vile remarks and foul language when addressing regular staff were occasionally punctuated by legendary screaming fits of raging fury. There was a standing unspoken order in the White House that NO ONE was to look at Her Highness Hitlery -- EVER . Staff were obliged to drop their eyes in her presence at all times. It was common practice of staff to duck into the nearest doorway at a distance to avoid her approach in a hallway so as to escape the wrathful witch's frequent explosive outbursts -- and her penchant for firing staffers on the spot for incomprehensible cause.

 

NOTE: If anyone has any doubt whatsoever about any of this, and is tempted to label this an exaggeration or some kind of a politically motivated character assassination, I would strongly encourage them to read the book to gain an understanding of the airtight credibility behind these accounts and their source (again -- see Aldrich's bio, post #26, above), as an alternative to discarding them out of hand by leaping to unjustified and unqualified conclusions of fabrication. . .

 

EDIT: Lest anyone fly off the handle and take some kind of emotional offense to the above, may I emphasize that the above are not MY observations. They are the direct, first-hand observations (not opinions) of the up close and personal experience of the author of the aforementioned book, as accurately as I know how to express them from my copy of his book, which is written with the clarity of the FBI's penchant for detail in reporting. Again, the author's entire career has been built around the highest levels of credibility that exist, and his direct observations were made during his service as Senior White House liason at Director level in the Federal Bureau of Investigation for National Security. I would point out that he was hired by the Klintons, not in small part due to his trustworthiness and credibility, which has never been compromised, or successfully challenged.