{"id":130503,"date":"2016-04-27T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/a-conservative-who-trumpeted-his-honesty-and-small-town-values.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:07:24","slug":"a-conservative-who-trumpeted-his-honesty-and-small-town-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/a-conservative-who-trumpeted-his-honesty-and-small-town-values.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;A conservative who trumpeted his honesty and small-town values&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good end to bad rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>And, yeah, if it wasn&#39;t an (elderly and in poor health) former Speaker of the House, I suspect we&#39;d be seeing more than 15 months plus probation and treatment here. But, on the other hand, that&#39;s more than I&#39;d have guessed he&#39;d get, especially after an array of Republican colleagues wrote to the court, extolling how helpful, and nice, and pious, and a great leader, and a wonderful friend, Hastert was to them.<\/p>\n<p>Which I&#39;m sure he was, aside from the sexual abuse and financial shenanigans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-crime-hastert-idUSKCN0XO178?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=politicsNews'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fTn2ITmh9HXgiJhANWHMt9C2BLO35f6iFqEYKmwcnZa-vV5Kgi9QMyhxvhUscklNEeEWBuByZQ8riCMSQcB_7U7slbwGWjsQ1JmNWXvopN3oqsj9PrhERZbFZmp51qhqbrKiE10jZiPayrdFSMV0mx1_YpMHqWwE2dA8sDZhLg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-crime-hastert-idUSKCN0XO178?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=politicsNews'>Ex-House Speaker Hastert gets 15 months, admits sex abuse<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFormer U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, once one of the country&#8217;s most powerful politicians, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison for a financial crime related to sexual abuse of high school wrestlers he coached decades ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/LD3xFu9ose7'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good end to bad rubbish. And, yeah, if it wasn&#39;t an (elderly and in poor health) former Speaker of the House, I suspect we&#39;d be seeing more than 15 months plus probation and treatment here. But, on the other hand, that&#39;s more than I&#39;d have guessed he&#39;d get, especially after an array of Republican colleagues &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/a-conservative-who-trumpeted-his-honesty-and-small-town-values.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;A conservative who trumpeted his honesty and small-town values&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50012,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/the-shaming-of-the-poor-and-their-parasitic-dependence-on-the-dole.html","url_meta":{"origin":130503,"position":0},"title":"The shaming of the poor, and their parasitic dependence on the dole","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Apr-15 9:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, yet, nobody from the federal government has ever come back to me and asked me to show that I wasn't squandering my tax refund -- made possible largely by a mortgage payments and charitable contributions -- on filet mignon and cruises.That said, the WaPo has it wrong -- it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51125,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/love-the-poor-hate-the-poorness.html","url_meta":{"origin":130503,"position":1},"title":"Love the poor, hate the poorness","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-May-15 2:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News talking heads, who never, ever criticize the poor as slackers, sponges, or scalawags, are shocked, shocked, that Obama would accuse them of such a thing. \"Really.\" The Poor You Know & Did You Even Try to Research This? 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Very poor. The worst. Sad","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Oct-16 6:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Unpatched Win2K3 Servers and IIS 6? Sounds like Apprentice-level security.Makes one wonder why nobody's breaking in to Trump's business email servers and serving up hot administrivia scoops to WikiLeaks. Trump Organization uses really, really insecure e-mail servers. Sad! TrumpOrg.com servers use unpatched, unsupported Windows Server 2003, IIS 6. 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