The cover of New York Magazine.

I always see Donald Trump as a pig so it took me a second to see that they added photoshop.

New book reveals Vatican intrigue, Mother Teresa's vast wealth, and rampant pedophilia.

The book is called "Original Sin" by author Gianluigi Nuzzi, and it paints a rather disgusting picture of the Holy See as a den of iniquity, depravity, and base immorality.

Here are some excerpts courtesy of the Daily Beast:

The book is filled with salacious scoops, backed up by copies of documents printed in an exhaustive index. He shines a light on the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee who went missing 30 years ago after a music lesson and whose body has never been found. Conspiracy theorists waffle between theories that she was kept as a sex slave for priests for years or that she was murdered by a local Roman gang of criminals as a threat to her father, who may have witnessed a crime. 

Nuzzi provides interview transcripts, sealed court documents and secret video from when police opened a mobster’s tomb in Rome to search for her body to support the theory that she was murdered by an “international group” that Pope Francis has been made aware of. He asks if justice has or will ever be served in the case.

On Mother Teresa:   

Nuzzi also sullies the legend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, made a saint by Francis in 2016. He has uncovered accounting slips from secret bank accounts, in dollars and Italian lire, that the austere nun kept in her charity’s name in the troubled Vatican bank during the time when American archbishop Paul Marcinkus led the institution. 

Nuzzi said her accounts were so flush that if she had withdrawn the money or transferred to a more legitimate institution, the bank “risked default.” The nun, whose net worth is thought to be in the billions in the name of her charity, was such a valued client that she was ushered in through a secret door so no one suspected she was the bank’s wealthiest patron at a time when most women were prohibited from having accounts in their own names.

On the almost institutionalized pedophilia:   

But the most troubling revelation in the book is one that Nuzzi himself admits he only scratched the surface of. He provides horrific proof of widespread sexual abuse inside San Pio X, the pre-seminary boarding school where middle school and high school age boys who express interest in joining the priesthood are still sent today. 

The boys of the institute, housed in the same majestic building where former Vatican secretary of State has a controversial penthouse apartment which was recently renovated with funds from the Vatican’s children’s hospital, officially serve as altar boys at Vatican masses and choir boys for St. Peter’s basilica. But the author also alleges they are actually nothing short of play things for the Vatican priests who like sex with young boys. 

Nuzzi interviewed a former seminarian thought to be a victim and published disturbing phone transcripts in which priests discuss playing with the boys, how ejaculate was referred to as “milk” and that oral sex was described as “a game” that should only be played once every two days. 

He also amplifies the accusations of a Polish man named Kamil Tadeusz Jarzembowski, who was a student at the pre-seminary when he was 13 years old and who has sent a number of complaints about what he saw to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which acts as gatekeeper for such accusations to determine their legitimacy. Despite saying he witnessed at least 140 sexual acts by an older priest who was “favored by various monsignors in the Church” on his underage roommate, he was eventually expelled from the seminary.

By all rights this book should launch an investigation that would essentially destroy the Catholic religion, and see the Vatican disassembled brick by brick.

But of course that will not happen, and the church has actually survived two previous books by Nuzzi which also contained astonishing revelations.

It is certainly no secret that I do not have much use for ANY religion, but Catholicism in particular seems to be incredibly toxic.

In my opinion no parent worth a damn would ever consider sending their child to be an alter boy in the Vatican, or ANY Catholic church for that matter.

Winning!

Look I know we give Trump shit all of the time for not being able to make good on any of his campaign promises, but you have to admit this IS pretty damn impressive.

And remember it has only been six months. Just imagine how many more title he might be able to steal from his predecessors.

Watch out William Howard Taft, you might be the next one to lose your title.

"We are pretty close to a laughingstock" says outgoing ethics watchdog.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Actions by President Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis, the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics said. He called for major changes in federal law to expand the power and reach of the oversight office and combat the threat. 

Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government’s top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States’ ethical standards, which have been admired around the world. 

“It’s hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we’re not even keeping our own side of the street clean. It affects our credibility,” Mr. Shaub said in a two-hour interview this past weekend — a weekend Mr. Trump let the world know he was spending at a family-owned golf club that was being paid to host the U.S. Women’s Open tournament. “I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.”

The only dispute I have with that is that I don't think we are CLOSE to a laughingstock.

I think we ARE a laughingstock.  

In fact everything that we could be proud of as Americans seems to have been turned on its head, whether it is welcoming immigrants, our dedication to election integrity, or our treatment of minorities.

You would not think that it would only take six months to erase the prestige of America, but I guess that was not entering Donald Trump into the equation.

Drunk with power the first move by the Republicans in Congress is to make sure there will be no swamp draining on their watch.

Courtesy of The New York Times:  

House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail. 

The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure. 

The surprising vote came on the eve of the start of a new session of Congress, where emboldened Republicans are ready to push an ambitious agenda on everything from health care to infrastructure, issues that will be the subject of intense lobbying from corporate interests. The House Republicans’ move would take away both power and independence from an investigative body, and give lawmakers more control over internal inquiries.

With this office now gutted it essentially means that these lawmakers can do as they please with no independent oversight and if anybody complains they will promise to have their pals on the newly created, and totally partisan, Office of Congressional Complaint Review "look into it."

Here was Nancy Pelosi's statement: 

“Republicans claim they want to ‘drain the swamp,’ but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions. Evidently, ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress. 

“The Office of Congressional Ethics is essential to an effective ethics process in the House, providing a vital element of transparency and accountability to the ethics process. The amendment Republicans approved tonight would functionally destroy this office. 

“Congress must hold itself to the highest standards of conduct. Instead, the House Republicans Conference has acted to weaken ethics and silence would-be whistleblowers.”

Remember this happened on DAY ONE. And it can only get worse from here.

Trump himself also tweeted his displeasure at this move by House Republicans.

With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

........may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

However his opinion makes little difference. And he is undoubtedly only tweeting this to cover his gigantic orange ass.

Any moron who voted for Donald Trump and these ass clowns because they believed they were going to "drain the swamp," and clean up Washington, is a special kind of stupid.

If we thought we had seen corruption before we are about to get a taste of what REAL corruption looks like.

Hillary Clinton ad brilliantly turns Donald Trump's "pay for play" allegations against the Clinton Foundation right back on him. Update!

Pay-To-Play: The act of making a donation to a politician so they'll help you out. See: Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/BrEDwdZoPe

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 13, 2016

In my opinion Trump really does not have a good line of attack against Hillary at this point.

If he attacks her on policy she has reams of information that back up her policy decisions, and the positive effect they will have on the American people.

If he attacks her for being a "criminal" she can simply point out that he is being investigated by the New York District Attorney concerning his "nonprofit" foundation, or Newsweek's investigation into his secretive business deals with foreign governments and known criminals.

And as for her health, well let's just say that one note from the wackiest doctor NOT featured on a children's cartoon series is not going to convince anybody that his health is better than hers.

P.S. By the way did you all see Trump get shut down by a pastor in Flint, Michigan when he started to attack Hillary?

A pastor in Flint abruptly cuts off @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/aAKsyxmz53 https://t.co/XNvjdAtmzN

— POLITICO (@politico) September 14, 2016

Well she's asking for some ugly tweets. 

Update: Actually she received more than a tweet from Trump.

He lied about her and about what happened.

Good question. Update!

And the thing is that right now the media is working over time in an attempt to slime Hillary with allegations that folks who contributed to the Clinton Foundation got special access, and here they have a factually based story of bribery and political corruption and virtually all you hear are crickets.

Update: Trump claims there is no connection between the donation and the Trump U case.

Here is a picture of Donald Trump walking with the Florida Attorney General that he totally did not pay to dismiss a lawsuit against him just last month.

Malia Litman's explosive Secret Service expose hits the MSM.

So as a number of you are no doubt aware fellow blogger, and friend, Malia Litman has been doggedly pursuing stories about Secret Service malfeasance and scandalous behaviors.

Malia originally started her inquiries based on information she received from Shailey Tripp and it just exploded from there.

So here she is a number of years later and all of her hard work has now been vindicated.

According to The Dallas News this is just a portion of what she has uncovered: 

Here, though, are lowlights of behind-the-scenes mishaps of our vaunted Secret Service. 

• A culture of "wheels up; rings off" meant even married agents could party on foreign trips. 
• Secret Service K-9 units brought their dogs into their hotel room, which the dogs trashed. The agents made payoffs so the incident wouldn't be reported. 
• A agent who missed his flight later showed up drunk with two prostitutes. He was not disciplined. 
• Agents "engaged" with prostitutes in Amsterdam's red-light district during an advance team trip. 
• A supervisor choked a female subordinate because she rejected his sexual advances. 
• A supervisor offered a subordinate a larger office in return for sex. 
• A supervisor took a subordinate to a sex show while on duty. 
• A male agent's gun was stolen by a male prostitute he solicited online. The gun was never recovered. 
• A manager in the National Threat Assessment Center forced employees to drink alcohol in his office "so that he could trust them." The same manager was accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment.

The article goes into more detail, but that right there is enough to take your breath away.

None of this information came easily and Malia spent $100,000 of her own money on legal fees to gain access to the documents which tell these troubling tales.

Which goes to show the kind of dedication it requires from citizen journalists to get to the truth, and then get that truth out to the American people.

All I can say is congratulations Malia! You do us proud!

Indictment Friday part two. Bridge-gate.

David Wildstein

Courtesy of NJ.Com: 

David Wildstein, a key figure in the Bridgegate scandal, today pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in connection with the politically-motivated lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in 2013. 

Two others — Bill Baroni, former Port Authority deputy executive director, and Bridget Anne Kelly, a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie — have been indicted. 

Ooooh! I had started to think that perhaps this whole thing was dead in the water.

Instead that might be an apt description for Chris Christie's future political aspirations.

The attorney for David Wildstein, Alan Zegas, today repeated the claim that Gov. Chris Christie was aware of the plan to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.

Yep, might be. 

Of course Christie was quick to deny any culpability.

I had no knowledge or involvement in the planning or execution of this act.

— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) May 1, 2015

Uh huh.

Gee, I want to believe him. But.....

Bridget Anne Kelly also came out swinging today:  

A defiant Bridget Anne Kelly on Friday denied charges she was one of the masterminds behind the George Washington Bridge lane closures that have dogged the administration of her former boss, Gov. Chris Christie. 

"I am not guilty of the crimes for which I have been accused," Kelly said during a press conference with her attorney, Michael Critchley, after prosecutors unsealed a nine-count federal indictment. 

"David Wildstein is a liar," Kelly said.

Really? But what about this email from Kelly dated August 13, 2013?

"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."

So who's the liar again?

Well I for one am going to stock up on popcorn, because THIS looks like it is going to be highly entertaining.

I don't think Sarah Palin knows how long e-mail has existed.

Okay so the above image showed up last night on Palin's Facebook page.

It clearly shows Hillary about to take a pickaxe to a bunch of e-mail servers, thereby destroying them, and of course makes the claim that even Nixon never did that.

Which is true, since the very first sitting President to send an e-mail was Hillary's husband Bill, who sent exactly two of them.

What I find even more bizarre is the fact that the conservatives keep using these comparisons to Nixon in order to smear Hillary, without copping to the fact that he was one of theirs.

In fact constantly bringing up Nixon only allows progressives to point out that the most corrupt president's in recent history have been Republicans. Nixon with Watergate, Ronald Reagan whose administration had 21 convictions, and of course the Bush administration lied to the entire country in order to start a war with Iraq.

And of course we all know the kinds of trouble that Sarah Palin herself got herself into while SHE was Governor of Alaska.

So yes Sarah, President Nixon, the man famous for the missing 18 and half minutes of missing audio tape, did not destroy any of his non-existent e-mails. He also did not murder any non-existent unicorns, so I guess he deserves credit for that as well.

The comparison with Hillary, of course, is simply ridiculous, But hey I guess when you don't have much to work with, you get a little desperate.

P.S. Palin also linked to that Dakota Meyer interview the other day, just to make the fact that he recorded it in her Wasilla studio just that much more obvious.

So yesterday former Virginia Governor Bob "Transvaginal screenings" McDonnell was sentenced to two years for being a douchebag. Oh sorry, for taking illegal donations. Same thing.

Courtesy of The New York Times:  

Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia who was convicted in September on corruption charges, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Tuesday in one of the most spectacular falls of a statewide elected official in the history of the commonwealth. 

Mr. McDonnell, 60, was given the sentence by Judge James R. Spencer of Federal District Court. He was found guilty of trading favors in return for $177,000 in loans, vacations and gifts from a wealthy family friend who was trying to promote his vitamin supplement business.

At one time this guy was quite literally one of the top choices to run for the GOP nomination.

And now he is just another Republican criminal serving time in prison, who tried to throw his wife under the bus to escape a conviction. 

Like I said, douchebag.

Wait, Sarah Palin's choice to be the next Senator from Iowa might have some ethical problems? Say it ain't so.

Courtesy of Salon:  

A construction company owned by GOP Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst’s father received more than $200,000 in county contracts while she served as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa, despite a strict conflict of interest code governing the provision of contracts to family members of county officials. 

A new review of records — as well as an analysis of the Code of Iowa — by Salon reveals that the nature of the contracts and how they were promulgated, may have violated relevant county standards. 

Ernst was elected Montgomery County auditor in 2004, serving in that role until her 2011 election to the state Senate seat she currently holds. Among the duties a county auditor “may perform,” according to the Iowa State Association of County Auditors, are issuing contract bid notices and soliciting and receiving contract proposals. Minutes from an April 2007 Montgomery County Supervisors meeting – printed in the Red Oak Express – note Ernst’s involvement in county contracts, stating that Ernst would “work [the] issue” of advertising bids for a roofing project in the county. 

The Iowa Code lays out stringent conflict of interest standards for county contracts. Chapter 331 of the code stipulates that “[a]n officer or employee of a county shall not have an interest, direct, or indirect, in a contract with that county.” The provision applies if 5 percent of a company’s outstanding stock is owned by either a county employee or an immediate family member – including a parent – of an employee. 

Still, a search by Salon of Montgomery County records reveals that Culver Construction – a construction company owned by Ernst’s father, Richard Culver – received $215,665 in county contracts during Ernst’s tenure as auditor. The six contracts, all awarded between 2009 and 2010, included five totaling $204,794 from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for such projects as road and flood damage repairs.

You know there is a term for this, gee what is it?

Oh yeah, "crony capitalism."

And you do remember whose favorite phrase that is, don't you?

Uh oh!

Awkward!

Alaska Dispatch calls out Governor Parnell for waiting his entire first term to do anything about sexual assault allegations at the National Guard.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

As the Alaska National Guard sexual misconduct and leadership scandal evolves into a major issue in his re-election bid, Gov. Sean Parnell is confronting two key questions: When did he learn about problems in the guard, and did he respond effectively? 

The record shows that Parnell took nearly his entire four-year term to remove officials at the top of the guard and its related civilian department. 

Parnell, officially the guard’s civilian commander, has acknowledged receiving complaints about deeply entrenched problems within guard leadership starting in 2010, but he said they lacked specifics. 

The problems didn’t go away. More than three years later, on Feb. 28, Parnell called for help from the Pentagon. 

Parnell’s plea to the federal government was answered by Gen. Frank Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, who sent a team of investigators to Alaska. They delivered a scathing report into leadership failures in the guard that created a toxic climate in which sexual assaults, sexual harassment, misuse of guard money and equipment, and outright fraud persisted for years.

The report by General Grass was released at the beginning of last month, at a time when Parnell was attempting to run for reelection literally forcing him to respond. Which he sort of did by firing two entire people, Major General Thomas Katkus and deputy commissioner McHugh Pierre.

Of course Parnell also tried to share the blame by stating that, Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski had not done anything about it either.

The difference being of course that it is NOT their fucking job. It is the job of the governor of the state to make sure that the National Guard was not misusing government resources or allowing female members to be sexually assaulted or raped.

The Dispatch then goes on to explain just now many people tried to get Parnell to get off his fat ass and do something, including three chaplains, a Colonel, two lieutenant colonels, retired Alaska Air Guard Brig. Gen. Gene Ramsey, and State Senator Fred Dyson, a fellow Republican.

Here is what Dyson had to say:

“I three times went to Sean and said, ‘You need to get on top of this and do something,’ and his response was, ‘I’ve done everything asked of me and every charge that has been brought has been referred to law enforcement. What more should I do?’ I said, ‘You need to be in charge of this and there’s more stuff, including an atmosphere that allows this stuff to go forward.’”

Dyson did not get involved until two years after Parnell had first been notified of the situation.

There were also two ADN stories in 2013, but still Parnell did nothing.

Finally when he could not longer ignore it, and there was a danger that it might negatively impact his bid for reelection, Parnell stumbles into action.

Here was how he explained the delay:  

In hindsight, Parnell said, he should’ve acted sooner, but believed he was being reasonable “under the circumstances.” 

“You check the traplines over there, you do what you think is reasonable at the time, and it turns out that we were wrong, and I was wrong to trust what I was hearing, ” Parnell said.

I have no fucking idea how a trapline analogy is supposed to work here, but I think a better one would be if you heard your frat brother raping a young woman and you closed his door so that the sounds of her screams and cries for help would not bother you.

And this is the guy who wants credit for starting a program to fight sexual assault in Alaska.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife found guilty of multiple charges. Another GOP star bites the dust.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

Former Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., and his wife, Maureen, have been found guilty on multiple counts of conspiracy, corruption and bribery. 

Bob McDonnell was found guilty on 11 different counts relating to the conspiracy charges. Maureen McDonnell was found guilty on eight of the 11 conspiracy charges as well as one charge of obstruction of official proceeding that occurred during the grand jury investigation. 

The jury reached the verdict after three days of deliberations. There was loud sobbing in the courtroom as the counts were read. 

Sentencing has been set for Jan. 6, according to news reports. The couple could face years of jail time.

Yeah I bet there was sobbing. 

I thought McDonnell staged one of the most cowardly defenses I have ever seen, where he essentially blamed everything on his wife and made sure they were never seen arriving or leaving the courthouse together.

I am not saying that his wife was without fault, but as the Governor HE is the one that was supposed to maintain the ethical standards.

Not only that but McDonnell was offered a plea deal that would have seen him convicted of only one of the charges against, him, and not the corruption one either, and allowed his wife to avoid any jail time at all, and he refused to take it. 

You may remember that McDonnell, also known as Governor Ultrasound, was once touted as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016.

Instead it looks like he might be spending some time behind bars where his prison husband can treat him just as shabbily as he treated his own wife.

Now let's see if we get a similar happy ending from the Rick Perry indictments. 

In order to take as many vacation days as George W. Bush, President Obama would have to be on vacation for almost every day for the remainder of his term.

Courtesy of Breitbart Unmasked:  

President George W. Bush took 879 days of vacation time during the eight years he was in office — an astounding 30% of his presidency. According to the Washington Post, as of August 15th Barack Obama had taken 150 days of vacation (Or 138 according to the above graphic. But hey, what's twelve days between friends?) in the five years  and seven months he has been president, or roughly 7% of his presidency. 

Using second grade addition and subtraction skills, anyone can determine for themselves that Obama is at least 719 days behind George W. Bush in his bid to become the most vacationing president ever. And he’d better hurry up if that’s really his goal, because he only has 880 days left in office. 

It never fails to amaze me that the Republicans find no irony in accusing this administration of the same corruption, abuses of power, and slothfulness that helped define the administrations of presidents representing their party.

No the President has done NOTHING as bad as Watergate!

No this President has NOT written more executive orders than any other President in the last fifty years.

And no this President has NOT gone on more vacations more than his predecessors.  Not even close.

Alaska's sole Representative, Don Young, reprimanded by House Ethics Committee for misusing campaign funds and accepting illegal gifts. Forced to repay nearly $60,000.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Longtime Alaska Rep. Don Young improperly used campaign funds for personal use, accepted “impermissible” gifts and failed to report those gifts, the House Ethics Committee announced Friday. 

Young, a Republican, has to repay nearly $60,000 to his campaign, and donors, the Ethics Committee said. He has also been reproved by the committee. 

The Ethics Committee said that Young, who has represented Alaska in the House since 1973, accepted improper “gifts and expenses related to” 15 hunting trips. The trips occurred between 2001 and 2013, the Ethics Committee said. 

Eight trips that Young took were improperly paid for, or were paid for by his campaign improperly. Young also did not disclose any of these gifts on his financial disclosure.

Okay while I am very happy that Young got his wrist slapped, I have to say that this is just the tip of the iceberg. 

I have said before that I was completely shocked when Ted Stevens was indicted back in 2008. NOT because I thought Senator Stevens was innocent mind you, but because of the two of them I simply assumed the Feds had more evidence on Don Young than they did on Uncle Ted.

And the fact that Young remains out of prison today is completely ridiculous in my mind.

The guy needs to go to prison for the rest of his life, and you would be hard pressed to find an Alaskan who did not think he was guilty.

At the very least he needs to be voted out in the 2016 election cycle.

I mean come on Alaska! At least we can manage that, right?

Alaska most corrupt state by population. Gee, no kidding.

Courtesy of KTOO:  

Alaska was No. 1 for corruption-related convictions of federal, state and local public employees and elected officials, averaged over the state’s population. When averaged over the number of public employees per state, Alaska ranked seventh. Convictions were counted from 1976 to 2008, based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice. 

The rankings were just one item the researchers fed into their statistical analyses testing for connections between corruption and state spending. 

Four theories were tested: 

1. The more corruption there is, the bigger the budget; 
2. Corruption skews spending toward capital spending, construction and highways; 
3. Corruption skews spending toward salaries, wages and debt financing; 
4. and Corruption skews state spending away from social sectors, such as education, welfare and health. 

Their analyses backed all four theories. The researchers also presented a statistical model that suggests if Alaska had merely “average” corruption, the state could save more than $900 million a year.

To be fair between 2006 and 2008 we were convicting politicians right and left. (Well Right anyway.) However just because the FBI is not throwing them in jail at the same pace certainly does not mean that the corruption is any less than it was before.

It just means our politicians have become better at hiding their criminal activities.  

Of course in some cases the politicians simply quit their jobs half way through to avoid prosecution, which may skew the number of convictions as well.

The rest in the top five of corrupt states were

2) Mississippi
3) Louisiana
4) North Dakota
5) South Dakota

You know why can't Alaska be number one is something good for a change, instead of number one in things like corruption, rape, and alcoholism?

I am sometimes criticized for not calling out Democrats for egregious behaviors. Here you go.

Courtesy of the LA Times:  

State Sen. Leland Yee, a prominent figure in California's Democratic legislative majority, was arrested in a federal corruption investigation Wednesday along with an ostentatious gangster known as "Shrimp Boy" — who insisted that he had gone straight — and two dozen of their alleged associates. 

An affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua said there was probable cause to believe that Yee had conducted wire fraud and had engaged in a conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and illegally import firearms. 

Yee, 65, was taken into custody in San Francisco on Wednesday and was seen being loaded into an unmarked law enforcement vehicle under an umbrella, his wrists handcuffed behind his back. He was set to be released on $500,000 bond after surrendering his passport. 

The affidavit paints a portrait of Yee that is by turns seedy and bumbling, and one deeply at odds with the high-minded image he had long cultivated. Yee, a candidate for secretary of state, is accused of being willing to take varied and numerous steps to solicit campaign donations and sidestep legal donation limits. 

For instance, he is accused of seeking an official state Senate proclamation in the spring of 2013 praising the Ghee Kung Tong Freemason lodge in San Francisco. Yee sought the proclamation, according to the court complaint, in exchange for a $6,800 donation to one of his campaigns — a donation that was paid by an undercover FBI agent. 

The organized crime figure known as Shrimp Boy, whose name is Raymond Chow, identifies himself as the "dragon head" of that Freemason organization on his Facebook page. The indictment says that Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, has a position of "supreme authority" in the Triad, an international organized crime group. 

You know much of the time when conservatives call out Democrats for shady dealings it is exaggerated or made up out of whole cloth, but THIS one is a solid hit. 

The Right Wing will of course be even more over the moon since Yee was an avid gun control advocate who has now also indicted for running guns.

And for the cherry on top many of you may remember that it was Senator Yee who criticized how much Sarah Palin was paid by Cal State Stanislau for a speech she gave back in 2010, and received tons of hate mail for his troubles.

So you know there will be dancing around the old mansion in Arizona.

So go ahead conservatives take your shots. It is pretty clear this guy deserves it.

However that is one to your......your uh.......never mind I can't count that high.

Ex-FBI informant, and the man who helped put domestic terrorist Schaeffer Cox behind bars, has a blog.

I received a call late last night from our friend Bill Fulton.

"Hey Jess, guess what, I have a blog."

And sure enough he does. And it is a little intense:

Understand this if you are an extremist if you look to harm innocents regardless of your political affiliation we will find you we will dig you out from under whatever rock you hide under and put you in front of a jury and you will receive justice. I have dedicated my life to finding you exposing you and dragging you out into the light of day I don’t care what side left or right you cling to my job is to protect the innocents and I will do all in my power to accomplish it.

As some of you may, or may not know, Bill is currently down in the lower 48, working undercover with the FBI and helping to catch bad guys.

As you can see he takes his job very seriously. Which is why I had to use an old photo at the top, because he is not able to reveal what he looks like today or else he will tip off the militia members, KKK members, or motorcycle gang members who think he is one of them, and he might get shot in the face.

Now you may be asking yourself, "Hey if he is undercover why would he start a blog?"

Good question and the answer to that is coming my friends. And oh, are you going to like it when you hear it.

You know sometimes my job is just too much fun.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell indicted.

Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell just got indicted. Here's why. http://t.co/0ttyXUxLAv pic.twitter.com/A7JpUihH7D
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 21, 2014

Oh Virginia, I am SO jealous!

 Some of us were not lucky enough to see OUR corrupt officials brought to justice.