November 02, 2009
Former GOP Candidate Scozzafava Officially Supports DEM Owens After Talks With Chuck Shhumer
Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of N.Y. Congressional Race
Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, one day after Scozzafava dropped out of the contest.
Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Dough Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement send out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first."
Scozzafava was criticized by members of her party for being too moderate on social issues. However, it's unclear how much of an impact her endorsement will have as there were mixed messages coming out of the GOP -- a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee said Saturday that Scozzafava was releasing her supporters to vote for Hoffman.
A changed race
Owens is best-equipped to represent NNY
Dierdre K. Scozzafava's decision to suspend her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District seat is a shocking development in what had already been an extraordinary race.
In her statement Saturday morning, the assemblywoman explained the reasons behind her decision: "It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so."
During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens.
Ms. Scozzafava finished a distant third in the latest Siena Research Institute poll with 20 percent support of likely voters. Her opponents, Mr. Owens and Conservative Douglas L. Hoffman, garnered 36 percent and 35 percent respectively.
Dede Scazzafava officially endorsed democrat Bill Owens today after she held discussions with democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer.
SCOZZAFAVA BACKS OWENS, STUNS GOP
Lifelong Republican throws support to former Democratic rival
The Watertown Daily News reported:
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., was among those who urged Dierdre K. Scozzafava to endorse Democratic congressional candidate William L. Owens, the senator’s spokesman said Saturday.
The spokesman, Maxwell Young, said the senator called a number of north country political leaders after Ms. Scozzafava suspended her campaign and had more than one conversation with the Republican candidate ahead of her announcement. He said the senator also called other Democratic leaders about the situation, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Mr. Owens said he was “honored” by the endorsement.
“Over the course of her career, Dede has always committed to serving the people of Upstate New York before serving a partisan agenda,” he said in a statement. “Now more than ever we need bipartisan solutions to help bring jobs to Upstate New York to get our economy back on track and move our country forward. Those are the kinds of priorities I will fight for in Congress because that’s the kind of leadership Upstate New York needs right now.”
Those in the camp of the Conservative candidate Douglas L. Hoffman called Ms. Scozzafava a turncoat.
“This afternoon Dede Scozzafava betrayed the GOP,“ Senior Communications Advisor Rob Ryan said in a statement. “She endorsed a Pelosi Democrat who will spend more, tax more, and push the liberal agenda that is dragging down this nation
Wild Thing's comment.......
The GOP needs to stop backing and financing RINO's. This is what moderate and liberal republicans do. They would rather see democrats win than any hated conservative. The GOP is just going to have to step back and get out of our way...let us pick the candidates. Scozzafava was fully endorsed by the RINO Chairman of the RNC, Michael Steele, and by his fellow RINO Newt Gingrich as well.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!
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November 01, 2009
Sharpton's Ex & Daughter Cuffed After Beating A Pair of Harlem Cops
Kathy Jordan and her now ex-husband, the Reverend Al Sharpton
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/10/31/2009-10-31_al_sharptons_exwife_and_daughter_get_disorderly_conduct_tickets_after_speeding_a.html#ixzz0VZXFoZTC
Sharpton's ex & kid cuffed in 'cop rage'
The rabble-rousing Rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage.
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s ex-wife and daughter were arrested last night after berating a pair of Harlem cops who pulled them over for running a red light in the wrong lane to get around their slow-moving, unmarked cruiser, sources told The Post.
Kathy Jordan, 53, and her daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 23, were handcuffed and hauled to a precinct, where the raging reverend’s daughter tried to no avail to get off the hook because of her family ties, the sources said.
They were issued desk appearance tickets before being set free.
The road rage incident began around 7:30 p.m. on West 110th Street and Eighth Avenue as Dominique became frustrated as she drove behind the crawling police vehicle, the sources said.
Sharpton honked her horn and tailgated the vehicle from the NYPD’s Housing Bureau before finally losing her cool.
She furiously swerved across the double yellow line and sped through a red light to get past the cop car.
The officers pulled her over, and both she and her mother became belligerent and argumentative, the sources said.
They were both slapped in handcuffs and thrown in the cruiser.
Dominique Sharpton was charged with resisting arrest, and issued summonses for crossing a double yellow line and running a light.
Jordan was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, police said.
Sources added that Dominique Sharpton dropped her dad’s famous name at the stationhouse before being released.
An attorney for Al Sharpton said called the arrests and desk appearance tickets "highly questionable and unusual," and said the civil-rights leader would look into the case.
"How what was apparently a minor traffic dispute ended up with two arrests with desk appearance tickets is highly questionable and unusual. We will pursue all answers in this matter," said the attorney, Michael A. Hardy.
"Reverend Sharpton has been made aware of the details of the matter and will aggressively support his daughter and her mother, despite their announced change of marital status in 2003. He has instructed his attorneys to seek answers and justice in this matter."
Both Jordan and her oldest daughter live in Brooklyn. Someone who answered the door at their home refused comment and asked a reporter to "leave the premises. We don’t talk to the press here."
Jordan — a former backup singer for James Brown — was married to the longtime civil rights activist Sharpton for 23 years before they announced their split in 2004.
The pair, which would have celebrated their wedding anniversary yesterday, has one other daughter, Ashley.
Dominique Sharpton works for her father’s National Action Network.
She was recently named the interim director of membership, according to the organization’s Web site, which said she "brings a host of experience in entertainment, business management and years of seeing and working with her internationally-known father, Rev. Sharpton, to her new position."
She is also the production events director and a "working actress," according to her Twitter page.
She told Amsterdam News in a 2008 interview that following in her father’s footsteps was, "not something I really planned on doing, but I know it’s something I have to do. Being his eldest daughter, it’s my responsibility."
Wild Thing's comment.......
Don’t you know who we are? .....LOL hahaha "Don'choo know who I izzz?!?"
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October 31, 2009
Democrats Corruption List Hits The Fan
Democrats Corruption List Hits The Fan
Accidental Disclosure
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.
Report: Dozens in Congress Under Ethics Scrutiny
From FOX News Article
Nearly half the members of a House panel in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing a leaked confidential House ethics committee report.
Investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.,chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on defense, and six other lawmakers and their relationships with an influential lobbying firm, the newspaper said.
The Post reported in its online edition that the document was disclosed on a publicly accessible computer network and made available to the newspaper by a source familiar with such networks.
The ethics committee is one of the most secretive panels in Congress, and its members and staff members sign oaths not to disclose any activities related to its past or present investigations, according to the newspaper.
The inquiry involves lawmakers who steered appropriations to clients of a now-defunct lobbying firm and received campaign contributions from the firm and its clients.
The names included three lawmakers previously identified in the inquiry: the chairman of the defense subcommittee, Murtha; and Reps. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and James Moran, D-Va.
The Post said others whose names were in the report included Reps. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.
The committee, however, has not announced an investigation of any of these lawmakers.
A committee statement said its security was breached through "peer to peer file sharing software" by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired.
The July report contains a summary of the committee's work at the time, but Lofgren said no inferences should be made about anyone whose name is mentioned.
The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers.
The committee said it is investigating whether Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock, and whether the couple benefited as a result. Separately, the panel is investigating whether Rep. Laura Richardson failed to disclose required information on her financial disclosure forms and received special treatment from a lender.
As the House was conducting scheduled votes Thursday, ethics chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., went to the microphone to announce that a confidential weekly report of the committee from July had leaked out in a case of "cyber-hacking."
The committee makes a public announcement when it begins an investigation of potential rule-breaking, which is conducted by an investigative subcommittee whose members also are made public.
However, the weekly reports include a summary of the committee's work at an earlier stage, when its members and staff scrutinize lawmakers to see whether an investigation is warranted.
Waters is the No. 3 Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee and chairwoman of its subcommittee on housing. She has been an influential voice in the committee's work to overhaul financial regulations.
Waters came under scrutiny after former Treasury Department officials said she helped arrange a meeting between regulators and executives at OneUnited Bank last year without mentioning her husband's financial ties to the institution.
Her husband, Sidney Williams, holds at least $250,000 in the bank's stock and previously had served on its board. Waters' spokesman, Michael Levin, said Williams was no longer on the board when the meeting was arranged.
Waters has said the National Bankers Association, a trade group, requested the meeting. She defended her role in assisting minority-owned banks in the midst of the nation's financial meltdown and dismissed suggestions she used her influence to steer government aid to the bank.
"I am confident that as the investigation moves forward the panel will discover that there are no facts to support allegations that I have acted improperly," Waters said in a statement.
The committee unanimously voted to establish an investigative subcommittee to gather evidence and determine whether Waters violated standards of conduct.
The committee said it would investigate "alleged communications and activities with, or on behalf of, the National Bankers Association or OneUnited Bank" and "the benefit, if any, Rep. Waters or her husband received as a result."
The committee also voted unanimously to investigate whether Richardson violated House rules, its Code of Conduct or the Ethics in Government Act by failing to disclose property, income and liabilities on her financial disclosure forms.
The investigation also will determine whether Richardson received an impermissible gift or preferential treatment from a lender, "relating to the foreclosure, recission of the foreclosure sale or loan modification agreement" for her Sacramento, Calif., property.
Richardson said she has been subjected to "premature judgments, speculation and baseless distractions that will finally be addressed in a fair, unbiased, bipartisan evaluation of the facts."
"Like 4.3 million Americans in the last year who faced financial problems because of a personal crisis like a divorce, death in the family, unexpected job and living changes and an erroneous property sale, all of which I have experienced in the span of slightly over a year, I have worked to resolve a personal financial situation," she said in a statement.
The committee ended an investigation of Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., and released a report finding no ethical violations. It investigated whether Graves used his position on the House Small Business Committee to invite a longtime friend and business partner of his wife to testify at a committee hearing on the federal regulation of biodiesel and ethanol production.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
I think if the average Joe and Jane Sixpack really knew the extent of government corruption and graft in this country, the sound of gallows being built and trapdoors being tested would be deafening.
I hope they hang, draw and quarter Murtha!
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States Set Low Bar for Student Achievement
States Set Low Bar for Student Achievement
WASHINGTON
Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported Thursday.
The agency compared state achievement standards to the more challenging standards behind the federally funded National Assessment of Educational Progress.
State standards were lower, and there were big differences in where each state set the bar.
The Obama administration said the report bolsters its effort to persuade all states to adopt the same set of tougher standards for what students should know.
"States are setting the bar too low," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. "We're lying to our children when we tell them they're proficient, but they're not achieving at a level that will prepare them for success once they graduate."
The federal government can't impose a set of standards, because education is largely up to states.
But Duncan noted he is offering millions of dollars in grants to encourage states to accept a set of standards being developed by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers. The grants come from the federal stimulus law, which set aside $5 billion to push Obama's vision of educational reform.
While the standards are not yet final, every state but Texas and Alaska already has committed to work toward adopting them.
The head of the department's Institute of Education Sciences said the biggest concern should be the wide disparity in standards among the states. A student who is proficient in one state might not be proficient in another, the report said.
"Why are these performance standards so far apart, and why are expectations set so widely from one place to another?" IES director John Easton said.
House Education Committee chairman George Miller said a child's education should not be determined by zip code.
"If we are serious about rebuilding our economy and restoring our competitiveness," Miller, D-Calif., said, "then it's time for states to adopt a common core of internationally benchmarked standards that can prepare all children in this country to achieve and succeed in this global economy."
The report by the department's statistics arm compared state achievement levels to achievement levels on NAEP. It found that many states deemed children to be proficient or on grade level when they would rate "below basic," or lacking even partial mastery, in reading and math under the NAEP standards.
Among the findings:
- Thirty-one states deemed fourth-graders proficient in reading when they would have rated below basic on NAEP. Mississippi's standards were lowest, and Massachusetts' were highest.
- Seventeen states deemed eighth-graders proficient at reading when they would have rated below basic on NAEP. Tennessee's standards were lowest, and South Carolina's were highest.
- Ten states deemed fourth- and eighth-graders proficient at math when they would have rated below basic on NAEP. Tennessee's standards were lowest; Massachusetts had the highest fourth-grade math standards, and South Carolina had the highest eighth-grade standards.
In addition, the report said more states lowered standards than raised them from 2005 to 2007.
North Carolina state education official Lou Fabrizio said states face a dilemma because of No Child Left Behind, the 2002 federal law that prods schools to boost test scores to meet annual improvement goals.
States can set easier standards that ensure schools will meet the federally mandated goals, or they can set more challenging standards that help kids improve.
His state chose the latter, but Fabrizio said it was tough to explain that higher standards meant lower scores.
"That was a really difficult job for us to do and communicate to the public that students did not all of a sudden become very ignorant," he said.
North Carolina still has below-basic achievement standards for fourth- and eighth-grade reading.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Schools have changed a lot since I went. The thing that has bugged me is the dumbing down. It not only effects that students abilities but also their future and in the long run effects those around that person in how well they can do their job.
When I was in high school the scale was:
95-100 A
90-94 B
80-89 C
75 (maybe 70) - 79 D
Below that an F
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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October 23, 2009
Harvard Event Credits Obama Sicko CZAR Jennings
A poster featured at a Harvard display of Act Up radical homosexual material, an event supported by Obama Safe Schools chief Kevin Jennings
Obama's safe-schools boss sponsors radical porn
Harvard event honoring AIDS activists credits Jennings for 'gifts and grants'
The chief of President Obama's Education Department Office of Safe Schools, homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, is being credited for helping sponsor a Harvard University display honoring the work of the radical homosexual organization Act Up.
WND reported just days ago when Mass Resistance, a pro-family organization in Massachusetts that has battled over homosexual agenda points there, reported that Jennings was a part of that organization, known for its aggressive badgering of those who don't support the homosexual lifestyle.
A YouTube video revealed Jeff Davis, Jennings' "partner," addressing a banquet and saying of Jennings, "He was a member of Act Up. Act Up! So it's like – you know – here's a big gay activist. BIG gay activist!."
The video was pulled down shortly after the WND report appeared.
Now the advertising for the Harvard exhibition: "Act Up New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993," credits Kevin Jennings with others including Fred P. Hockberg and Tom Healy, Open Gate and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation for "gifts and grants" used for the project.
The display included dozens of "politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City," according to a website promoting the effort.
Among those organizations displaying their work was "Fierce Pussy," which featured a poster of a toddler labeled "Dyke."
"Pairing text and image with penetrating anger and searing wit, ACT UP's art collectives targeted specific individuals and institutions at the local and national level, advocated for safer sex and gay and lesbian rights, and galvanized broadband support for the AIDS activism movement," the promotion states.
That group also was being featured as four "central members" will participate in a 3-day activism and print media workshop, the announcement said.
"The exhibit includes horrible anti-Catholic bigotry, child pornography, and various descriptions and depictions of sexual perversion. It also includes posters accusing various public officials of murder during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s and a call to terrorize offices of the National Institute of Health," wrote Mass Resistance in its report on the event.
A member of the Mass Resistance group attended the event, which runs into December, when it opened just days ago.
"It was extremely disturbing. This exhibit is a 'celebration' of anger, terrorism, religious bigotry, and sexual deviance. It's considered a serious mainstream event by the elite academic and homosexual communities. In many ways it's a window into what the homosexual movement - including many who teach in colleges and high schools across the country - thinks of children, America, religion, society, and you," the report said.
"For any public official to be involved with this and funding it (much less a person in charge of directing the nation's children's 'safety') is beyond offensive. It's every parent's nightmare," the report said.
The website posted or linked several pages of reports on the event, but warned that they are "offensive and pornographic."
The group also reported that Jennings' book, "One Teacher in Ten," about homosexual teachers, was published by Alyson Books, which describes itself as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature."
Among the titles featured on the website are "Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica," "New Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings," "Sordid Truths," and "Body Count."
The website confirmed one of its projects was "One Teacher in Ten."
According to the pro-family organization Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, Jennings already was "under fire for praising his hero, early homosexual activist Harry Hay, despite Hay's longtime, dedicated support of NAMBLA – the North American Man/Boy Love Association."
Wild Thing's comment..........
Obama and his CZAR's are a freak show!
Obama is the first president, ( NOT MINE) that causes me to feel like throwing up. Including his CZARS!
Dear God please help our country we do not want any of this and neither do the 47% that did not vote for this eviol man.
I can't even use the title of this article for this post in the header, because of the word PORN. If I did I would get tons of spam sent to my blog comments and trackbacks. Can you imagine that we have someone in our White House that has this kind of thing one has to be careful how we label a post at a blog and all because of Obama and his CZAR!
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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October 11, 2009
Obama Flag Flys in Kokomo, IN. ~
This Obamanation was spotted flying at a house, in Kokomo, IN
NOT A PHOTOSHOP!
Wild Thing's comment........
What the hell is this crap! Burn it down with the building! Or just show up at 3am and blast holes through the d@med thing!
They are singing songs to him, praying to him and now they even have their own flag.
What a slap in the face to all who have fought and died for under Stars and stripes!
God help our country!
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Feinstein Compares Water Amendment to Pearl Harbor
Sen. Feinstein’s bizarre statement in opposition to DeMint’s attempt to save farmers from eco-hysteria — in which she compares water restoration to, um, Pearl Harbor:
On September 22, 2009, Senator Jim DeMint offered an amendment that would have provided California relief from the man-made drought. The amendment would have blocked federal funding from being used to implement biological decisions that are preventing the Delta pumps from operating. This prohibition would have lasted one year.
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Sean Hannity traveled to the San Joaquin Valley to report on the man-made drought that’s wreaking havoc on farmers in the name of saving the Delta smelt
Wild Thing's comment..........
Amazing how stupid people can be. All enviro's have lost it imo. I am all for taking care of what God has given us, but God also gave us a brain to use and to force something not to allow water and that is from God too is soooooo stupid and cruel to those trying to survive.
It is just like the forests too. The enviro's have caused a lot of the forest fires and firefighters to be killed. All because the enviro's have stopped so many of the fire lanes that the firefighters cut to have paths and breaks in the forest to help protect the forests and be able to fight any future fires.
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October 10, 2009
Illinois Democrat Sen. Roland Burris Defends ACORN, Blames Fox News
Here is video of Fox News' Griff Jenkins confronting Illinois Democrat Sen. Roland Burris about why he voted to protect funding for ACORN the other day. Burris was one of only seven Senators to vote for ACORN.
Jenkins confronted Burris, asking him why he voted against defunding ACORN. Burris bizarrely answered, "I voted for ACORN." Jenkins said, "I know that; I want to know why." Burris would never say more than "I voted for ACORN." As he walked away, Burris said to Jenkins "you've got a problem."
Burris defends ACORN, Blames Fox News
Politics Daily is reporting that "Sen. Roland Burris took on the director of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday at a hearing over his decision to cut the bureau's ties with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now without a formal review or inquiry."
According to the story:
"Burris asked if news reports of "the so-called Fox sting, which ACORN now is suing over," had contributed to Groves' decision to cut ties with the group. Groves said the scandal was part of it, but added the negative feedback from his regional offices was his primary concern."
"Burris argued that Groves' move stemmed from "unfair assessments based on agendas that have nothing to do with service to the community." The senator said he knows of ACORN's work in Chicago and said the organization could have been a valuable partner in getting a full census count in African American and poor communities."
Note to our appointed senator Burris - Fox News didn't make or fund the video. They were just the first to air it.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
The quintessential “deer in the headlites” look from Burris - it was priceless!.
Griff needs to be a personal trainer! Burris turns into a speed walker when he’s asked a question. LOL
Griff is great! Talk about a happy guy who loves his job. He cracks me up every time I see him confront one of these idiots.
Two Illinois U. S. Senators were among the “Sinful Seven” that voted against denying federal funds to ACORN. Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris voted “no” on the suspension.
.... Thank you Eden for sending this to me.
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October 09, 2009
Piracy on Treasure Island ~ Pelosi Land Grab
Piracy on Treasure Island
Politicians with ties to land developers are trying to force the Navy to hand over one of the most valuable pieces of property in the country for free. The House version of the 2010 Defense authorization bill scheduled for conference today contains language that would speed the transfer of Naval Station Treasure Island to the city of San Francisco at no cost.
Treasure Island is a 535-acre man-made island in San Francisco Bay owned by the U.S. Navy. The naval station was selected for closure in 1993, and Navy operations ended there in 1997. Some of the property was transferred to the Federal Highway Administration, the Labor Department and U.S. Coast Guard, and the rest is open for development.
However, problems have arisen over the terms of the transfer, specifically Treasure Island's fair-market value. One would expect it to be a highly valuable piece of property, given the island's size and location and the potential for waterfront lots with spectacular views of San Francisco. The Treasure Island Development Authority, the local redevelopment agency acting on behalf of the city, valued the land at $13.8 million, and the city offered the Navy a $40 million in-kind deal.
The Navy commissioned two independent estimates, by the firms Ernst & Young Global Ltd. and Duff & Phelps Corp., which returned a fair-market value of $250 million. These assessments were reviewed and verified by the General Services Administration.
Nevertheless, members of Congress have come back with their own offer: nothing. In 2008, legislation was introduced that would have compelled the Navy to convey Treasure Island to the local redevelopment authority at the cost offered by the city. This effort failed. The current attempt hinges on Section 2711 of H.R. 2647, the House version of the Defense authorization bill. This section would, among other things, eliminate considering fair-market value for property conveyed under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment authority in favor of a "no-cost economic development conveyance" - if it survives House-Senate negotiations.
~snipet~
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, hailed the legislation as paving the way for affordable housing and extensive commercial development on Treasure Island. Mrs. Pelosi claims development will create 2,500 long-term jobs and attract $5 billion in public and private investment.
A Pelosi spokesman stressed that she did not author the provision, but her involvement is unmistakable. Mrs. Pelosi was behind the 2008 provision that sought to force the Navy to hand over Treasure Island, and Mr. Farr is an important Pelosi ally.
"This is something the city has been trying to do for a very long time," said her spokesman Drew Hammill. "It could be a major job creator for the city."
But Treasure Island is not a case of a small town that has relied on a local military base for its livelihood for decades. It is a land grab by politicians for well-connected developers.
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The potential for abuse of the process has come to the attention of the White House. President Obama has been subjected to an intense lobbying effort by members of the California delegation.
The Navy merits praise for holding the line in defense of a market-based transfer of Treasure Island. Cloaking this land grab under a measure to help local communities suffering the disruption of military base closure is disgraceful. Senate conferees would do well to reject this measure and force the Treasure Island pirates back out to sea.
Wild Thing's comment.......
PELOSI swindling AMERICA!! Yet Again!
This is very interesting and it goes along with this article. There is a ton of information here on Pelosi on this project. They definitely have an agenda and it’s not for the good of our country. Greed rules with them!
PAY-TO-PLAY BAY AREA
An abbreviated primer on how our political players operate
.... Thank you Jim for sending this to me.
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October 08, 2009
Detroiters Mob Government Grant Office Wanting Promised Stimulus Money
Here is another video showing added footage..............
Detroiters Mob Government Grant Office ...CLICK TO SEE THIS VIDEO ..
Residents Get Chance At Stimulus Money
Detroit's homeless and low-income residents have another opportunity for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars.
The money is available to help low-income residents from becoming homeless and homeless residents to find housing.
Thousands of people lined up Tuesday.
Some people in line falsely believed they were registering for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama Administration.
City officials told Local 4 that Detroit was granted $15 million to help residents pay bills and their rent or find temporary housing for the homeless.
The Detroit Planning and Development Department (PDD) is taking applications Tuesday and Wednesday for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program.
Application Guidelines
To qualify, a person must have been a resident of Detroit for more than six months, must be homeless or facing eviction and must be able to maintain housing after receiving assistance.
Also, a resident must make 50 percent less than the median area income, which would be less than $24,850 for single Detroit residents and less than $35,500 for a family of four.
No mortgage assistance will be available through this program.
Once applications are reviewed, only applicants eligible for funding assistance will receive notification from a service provider.
Scam Artists Target Homeless Seeking Help
The city of Detroit has turned away thousands of people who lined up Wednesday for a chance to receive stimulus money set aside for homeless and low-income residents.
Wednesday at the Cobo Hall was the last day for Detroit residents to get an application for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program stimulus money.
The city said an overwhelming 50,000 people came to the center seeking money that was promised to keep low-income residents from losing their homes and finding temporary housing for the homeless. The massive crowds created a fire and safety hazard and forced the Detroit Police Department to shut down the entire process.
"The line was so long that we couldn't even get in here. And look, there are people all over the place, this is getting crazy here. We need help here," said Detroit resident Yvonne Crandell.
The crowd got so rowdy at one point that people were fainting and fighting. The Detroit Police Gang was called.
DPS also requested that the Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services team, which is trained to help law enforcement deal with a disaster, come to the Cobo Hall to help deal with the crowds.
The teams are distributing food and other relief to people waiting in line.
More than 20,000 applications were handed out Tuesday at six neighborhood city hall locations. Residents had one last chance to get an application Wednesday at the Cobo Hall, but after only one hour of opening its doors, the city ran out of forms.
Asia Johnson was the first person in line at the Cobo Hall.
"Yes, I'm No. 1 and I've been in line since 10 o'clock p.m. last night," said Johnson.
"I feel that the ones are out here really, really wanted it, if they didn't they wouldn't be in line to get it," said Debra Yatts, who had been waiting in line since 2 a.m.
Some people in line Tuesday falsely believed they were registering for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama administration.
But instead, city officials told Local 4 that Detroit was granted $15 million in stimulus money to help residents pay bills and their rent or find temporary housing for the homeless.
"I'm at a dead end then, because we need this, we truly do need it," said Yatts.
Detroit is among the nation's leaders in home foreclosures, and at least one in four households are in poverty.
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This doesn’t bode well for Detroit. I have an uneasy feeling about that city.
PHOTO GALLERY CLICK HERE...there are 18 photos.......I felt fear of these people las I looked at these photos.
Masses like this are scary to me and to know they can get angry and violent.....well. I would be terrified to be there.
Coming to a city near you ? Pray for our country.
So many people have been drinking from the democrat kool-aid for so long that they are completely blinded by the root causes of many of their problems. What party has controlled Detroit politics for the last 30-40 years? Or Chicago?
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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October 07, 2009
Pelosi Says New Tax is 'on the table'
Pelosi says new tax is 'on the table'
A new value-added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night.
Pelosi, appearing on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" asserted that "it's fair to look at" the VAT as part of an overhaul of the nation's tax code.
"I would say, Put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves," Pelosi told Rose when asked if the VAT has any appeal to her.
The VAT is a tax on manufacturers at each stage of production on the amount of value an additional producer adds to a product.
Pelosi argued that the VAT would level the playing field between U.S. and foreign manufacturers, the latter of which do not have pension and healthcare costs included in the price of their goods because their governments provide those services, financed by similar taxes.
"They get a tax off of that and they use that money to pay the healthcare for their own workers," Pelosi said, using the example of auto manufacturers. "So their cars coming into our country don't have a healthcare component cost.
"Somewhere along the way, a value-added tax plays into this. Of course, we want to take down the healthcare cost, that's one part of it," the Speaker added. "But in the scheme of things, I think it's fair look at a value- added tax as well."
Pelosi said that any new taxes would come after the Congress finishes the healthcare debate consuming most lawmakers' time, and that it may come as part of a larger overhaul to the tax code.
The Speaker also emphasized that any reworking of the tax code would not result in an increase in taxes on middle-class Americans.
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"I would say put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves," Pelosi told Rose when asked if the value-added tax has any appeal to her.
Translation: I never met a tax I didn't like.
Why not simply tax anyone who votes against them? You know that is what they really want to do.
Sure, there is that pesky Constitution thingy, but that shouldn’t stop them.
No tax is too big and no outrage is too small for these people. We are their ATM machine !!!
They really think our money is theirs. Putzes on parade.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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September 24, 2009
Census Worker Hanged With 'fed' Scrawled On The Dead Man's Chest
A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest. The FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment
Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body
The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.
The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.
Investigators are still trying to determine whether the death was a killing or a suicide, and if a killing, whether the motive was related to his government job or to anti-government sentiment.
Investigators have said little about the case. The law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, said Wednesday the man was found hanging from a tree and the word "fed" was written on the dead man's chest. The official did not say what type of instrument was used to write the word.
FBI spokesman David Beyer said the bureau is helping state police with the case.
"Our job is to determine if there was foul play involved — and that's part of the investigation — and if there was foul play involved, whether that is related to his employment as a census worker," said Beyer.
Beyer declined to confirm or discuss any details about the crime scene.
Lucindia Scurry-Johnson, assistant director of the Census Bureau's southern office in Charlotte, N.C., said law enforcement officers have told the agency the matter is "an apparent homicide" but nothing else.
Census employees were told Sparkman's truck was found nearby, and a computer he was using for work was found inside it, she said. He worked part-time for the Census, usually conducting interviews once or twice a month.
Sparkman has worked for the Census since 2003, spanning five counties in the surrounding area. Much of his recent work had been in Clay County, officials said.
Door-to-door operations have been suspended in Clay County pending a resolution of the investigation, Scurry-Johnson said.
The U.S. Census Bureau is overseen by the Commerce Department.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with William Sparkman's son, other family and friends."
Locke called him "a shining example of the hardworking men and women employed by the Census Bureau."
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Oh my gosh. Why was he in a remote part of the forrest? There couldn't be many people living there or maybe a few cabin type places.
The article doesn't make him sound like one of the ACORN people doing this.
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September 20, 2009
Crazy Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake Defends No Chase Policy
Chris Cato interviews Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake regarding a recently issued chase policy. The Mayors policy states there are to be no foot chases by Wellford Police whatsoever.
Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake Defends No Chase Policy
The Mayor of Wellford is defending her policy which bans police officers in that city from chasing suspects. Sallie Peake says the policy also includes vehicle chases along with pursuits on foot.
A memo issued on September 2nd from Peake to all Wellford officers reads:
“As of this date, there are to be no more foot chases when a suspect runs. I do not want anyone chasing after any suspects whatsoever.“
WSPA first reported the mandate on Wednesday after an anonymous citizen faxed a copy of the memo to our newsroom. Peake was out of town and unavailable for comment. On Friday, reporter Chris Cato caught up with her in her office and questioned her about the origin of the policy. Peake says she issued the mandate because several officers have been injured during chases, driving up insurance costs for the town.
“The officers are costing us more money on insurance than most citizens here in the city of Wellford are even earning,“ says Peake.
She says the city is paying out $20,000 annually in workers’ compensation claims, much of it due to the police force. In July, two officers wrecked their cruisers while chasing suspects and had to go to the hospital for minor treatment. The police chief says three officers have been injured during foot chases in the last two years.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says the policy prevents police from upholding the law—a direct violation of their constitutional oath.
“If a bank robber or a drunk driver or a shoplifter or somebody with a warrant runs on foot, it’s our obligation to do what we can do to bring them to justice,“ says Wright.
But when we asked Peake about her order impeding an officer from stopping a crime in progress, she became defensive and irate. The conversation went as follows:
Reporter: “Are you telling your officers if they witness a crime - they witness someone commit a crime on someone else and they’re ten yards away - they can’t go stop that person?“
Peake: “Is that in there?“ (referring to policy)
Reporter: “It says no chases whatsoever.“
Peake: “Well, that’s what I said, no chases, didn’t I? I didn’t say nothing about a crime. If you see a crime, this that and the other -“
Reporter: “Well, that’s what a chase is - “
Peake: “Well, I told them no chase on foot, and (the police chief) know exactly what I mean, so you’re trying to twist what I -“
Reporter: “No, I’m not. You said no chases. No chases means no chases.“
Peake: (claps hands) “You got you a story, thank God! You are so sweet! You got you a story on a woman in Wellford! Hallelujah! I’m so proud of you, Mr. Cato!“
Wellford Police Chief Chris Guy has told his officers to abide by the policy. He says they can still protect the public.
“Just because a suspect may run does not mean we can’t identify them, sign warrants, and catch them later,“ says Guy.
But Sheriff Wright says when a suspect gets away, there is always the chance he could hurt someone before officers catch up with him.
Peake says that won’t happen in Wellford.
Here’s hoping the arm of the law really is long.
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LMAO Can you imagine the 911 disptchers in the future.
“Could you ask the suspect to wait for police to arrive?”
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
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September 17, 2009
Norah O'Donnell: ACORN Video 'Might Be Viewed As Entrapment'
Norah O'Donnell came on and suggested that the video of the ACORN employees giving advice on how to evade the tax laws in setting up a brothel with young illegal aliens "might be viewed as entrapment."
O'Donnell was careful to disassociate herself from ACORN's actions, saying her comments were "in no way defending what was indefensible, what these particular ACORN employees were doing." But O'Donnell didn't report that others were alleging entrapment: she offered it as her own possible analysis of the situation.
Joe and Mika were clearly skeptical . . .
NORAH O'DONNELL: I think it should be noted to be fair, though, that this might be viewed as entrapment. That some conservative activists used hidden cameras to get this stuff on camera.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: They can talk about entrapment all they want. Three different offices: Baltimore, Washington, New York, specifically Mika, were giving these people advice, telling them how to break laws, how to lie to the IRS, how to set up prostitution rings. I mean, I don't know that that's entrapment.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I don't think that's entrapment!
Entrapment n. In criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to go ahead. The key to entrapment is whether the idea for the commission or encouragement of the criminal act originated with the police or government agents instead of with the "criminal."
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Wild Thing's comment......
What a bunch of BS from Norah O'Donnell! Nobody made those ACORN fools say what they did. If they were on the up and up, they would have kicked the pimp and the prostitute out the door.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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September 16, 2009
ACORN San Bernadino Investigation
ACORN San Bernadino Child Prostitution Investigation Part I
From Big Government
From Glenn Beck
If you didn't think ACORN could get any worse after several of their employees (in multiple locations) tried to help a prostitute buy a house, lie to the IRS and run a brothel with underage hookers from El Salvador...you were wrong. It gets much worse. In today’s tapes, this ACORN employee gives away the farm -- she names names of politicians she talks to each day, plus what bills they are lobbying heavily for (with taxpayer money). Oh, this Acorn employee is also a former hooker herself, who (in this audio tape) admits to killing her abusive husband. Your tax dollars hard at work!
Obama speaking before a group of Acorn community organizers on December 1, 2007. Didn't Obama say he had no connection to them other than a little legal work? Then why the promises?
Charlie Gibson told WLS Radio the reason he hasnt reported on ACORN -”(he) didn’t know about it.”
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ABC's Gibson: ACORN Story Is "One You Leave To The Cables"
Acorn Faces More Funding Pressure Over Video Incidents
WASHINGTON
Federal and local authorities are considering pulling back on funding Acorn, a leading community organizing group, after videos showed employees at a number of Acorn offices allegedly advising a filmmaker how to evade taxes in operating a brothel.
New York City is "treating this very seriously," a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, adding that the city will await an investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney before deciding whether to curtail funding the city channels to Acorn. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, is the landlord for some of the city's affordable housing units. One of the hidden-camera videos was shot at an Acorn office in Brooklyn.
In a video released Tuesday, an Acorn employee in San Bernardino, Calif., said she had been an escort and touted connections with California Democrats Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Joe Baca.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Boxer said the senator has never spoken with the woman, and that staff in California and Washington have not heard of her. A spokesman for Mr. Baca didn't return calls.
The Acorn employee in the video, Tresa Kaelke, also claimed she had killed her husband. A spokesman for Acorn said Ms. Kaelke's husband is "alive and well" and she was using humor in what she considered an awkward situation.
Acorn has called the actions unacceptable and has terminated the workers involved.
The U.S. Senate voted 83-7 Monday night to attach an amendment to a must-pass spending bill that would bar Acorn from obtaining direct federal grants. In the past, Acorn has been a target of Republicans, mainly because of several cases of voter registration fraud. But the Senate vote showed the organization is losing support among Democrats. Late Friday, the U.S. Census Bureau severed ties to Acorn, which had been a partner in promoting the 2010 count.
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio introduced legislation Tuesday that would stop all funding for the group, and sent a letter about Acorn's activities to President Barack Obama. Several Republicans also called for investigations into the group. Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Judiciary Committee's top Republican, separately called for investigations into whether Acorn broke federal laws.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) told reporters Tuesday the Acorn employees' behavior was "despicable." "If it's broader-spread, I think we need to look very carefully at the assistance that we give," he said.
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) did not return calls for comment.
An Acorn official said the organization is not worried about losing federal funding. Brian Kettenring, the organization's deputy national director, said Acorn received between $2 million and $3 million in federal money last year.
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Unbelievable. regarding Charlie Gibson, I remember a time when reporters weren't so lazy and they would go out and dig up information and investigate things. I guess they are only motivated to dig up stuff about Sarah Palin and other conservatives. When it comes to 'Rats and liberals, they can't be bothered because they don't know about it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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The Good The Bad and the Ugly (racist) Speak About Rep. Joe Wilson
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"I guess we'll have folks putting on white hoods and robes again and riding through the countryside intimidating people." -- Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) Congressman Wilson is the "face" of the new KKK?
These are the words and thoughts of the congressman who replaced the nutjob Cynthia McKinney, famous for slapping a Capitol Hill policeman who didn't recognize her and asked for her I.D.
The only member of the U.S. Congress who DID wear the white hood is U.S. Senator Robert Byrd... A DEMOCRAT!
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That really shocks me that anyone would take a person saying Liar to a Liar and turn it into something racist and then bring in the KKK and say they will ride through the countryside. That is so totally sick and THAT guy is ithe one that should be given the boot out of office with that kind of racist remark.
Good grief! Call the president a liar and we all are wearing KKK garb. If it wasn’t such a serious subject, I would be having great fun with this one.
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Obama's Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein says "Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'
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Sunstein: Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'
Argues cloning ban 'silly,' scoffed at those who find it morally repugnant
By Aaron Klein
There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
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"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
"It is silly to think that 'potential' is enough for moral concern. Sperm cells have 'potential' and (not to put too fine a point on it) most people are not especially solicitous about them," Sunstein wrote in a review of the 2003 book "Our Posthuman Future" by Francis Fukuyama.
Sunstein's comparison is not firm, however, as sperm cells, unlike embryos, do not have the potential to develop into life on their own.
Sunstein, nevertheless, expounded on his attitude toward human cloning in a 2002 paper for the Harvard Law Review, "Is there a constitutional right to clone?"
WND obtained and reviewed Sunstein's 17-page article in which he scoffed at those who find human cloning morally repugnant.
"Moral repugnance might well be a response to vaguely remembered science fiction stories or horror movies, or to perceptions based on ignorance and confusion (as in the idea that a clone is a complete "copy" of the original, or a "copy" that is going to be evil)," he wrote.
Sunstein eventually determined there is no constitutional right for each citizen to clone themselves, but he seemed to argue for all states to allow cloning. Currently, while federal regulations prohibit federal funding for research into human cloning, there is no federal law banning cloning. Some individual states imposed a ban.
Wrote Sunstein: "For some people, cloning might be the only feasible way to produce a biological offspring. It would certainly not be ludicrous to say that as a matter of constitutional law, the state has to produce a strong justification for intruding on that choice in cases in which it is the only realistic option."
In addition to Sunstein's moral disregard for human embryos, WND reported last weekthe Obama czar several times has quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should, therefore, be granted similar rights.
A brief video on YouTube captures Sunstein at a 2002 event using the writings of Jeremy Bentham, a 19th Century social reformer and animal-rights pioneer.
( SEE above video at top of post)
"You've heard a reference to Bentham, so let's listen to him, shall we," he begins in the video.
He then quotes from Bentham's 1789 primer, "Introduction to Principals of Morals and Legislation," written just after slaves had been freed by the French but were still held captive in the British dominions:
"The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor," Sunstein states, quoting Bentham.
Sunstein continues quoting the author: "A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise."
The rest of Bentham's sentence, not captured in the video, continued, "what would it avail? The question is not, can they (animals) reason or can they talk? But, can they suffer?"
While the YouTube video offers only a brief sound bite with no context, a WND review of Sunstein's academic writings find he used the same verses from Bentham to push for animal rights.
In the footnotes to a 2002 academic paper for Harvard University, "The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer," Sunstein expresses his approval of Bentham's arguments:
"I suggest that Bentham and Mill were not wrong to offer an analogy between current uses of animals and human slavery," he wrote.
Several other works by Sunstein, including his books, quote approvingly of Bentham's statements comparing adult dogs and horses to human infants.
In the Harvard paper, Sunstein even suggests animals could be granted the right to sue humans in court.
"We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are in some general sense 'persons,' or that they are not property," he wrote.
The Senate last week confirmed Sunstein as Obama's administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs overcoming months of delay due to Republican concerns that he would push a radical animal-rights agenda.
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"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
What a moron! Can a moron be ignorant, too? I am astounded by how this man thinks or doesn't think. Life begins at conception, Sunstein. That handful of cells could be the next Mozart.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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September 15, 2009
Axelrod Dismisses Tea Party as Wrong
Axelrod Dismisses Tea Party as Wrong
A top White House aide said Sunday that the thousands of conservative “tea party” demonstrators who marched in Washington on Saturday were “wrong” because they represent only a fringe section of society.
“I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” David Axelrod, the president’s top adviser, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “My message to them is, they’re wrong.”
A major catalyst of the rally — as well as the many protests staged at congressional town hall meetings nationwide last month — was President Obama’s push for health care reform, which conservatives have blasted as an egregious example of government expansion and intrusion.
“I don’t believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully, that were constructive,” he said.
Wild Thing's comment......
Citizens to axelrod: Screw you servant you are paid by us. You are the one who is wrong. About everything.
“I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,”
Who does he think he’s kidding! LOL Wrong-O !
Hahaha, they ignore us at their peril. Axlegrease puts up a brave front but inside he’s shaking.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the protesters, part of the "tea party" movement, do not represent the views of the broader public when it comes to health care reform.
Unbelievable. How many more people need to show up before you will believe that it is the view of the "broader public" ?
Ahm David, WE the people are the government and WE the people determine right and wrong via direction of the Constitution.
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Mark
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September 14, 2009
Just Now Senate Votes to Defund ACORN Housing
Breaking: Senate Votes to Defund ACORN Housing
WASHINGTON
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman’s income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate’s move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count.
In recent months, Republicans have become increasingly critical of the census' ties with ACORN. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."
Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.
On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal. In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland's wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Here is the list of the seven nays :
•Dick Durbin (D-IL)
•Roland Burris (D-IL)
•Robert Casey (D-PA)
•Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
•Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
•Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
•Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wild Thing's comment.......
Of course, the bill still must be passed by the House and signed by President Obama (yeah, right) but congrats to Glenn Beck, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for exposing the corruption.
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Former Leftist Activist, Turned FBI Informant, Pulls Back the Curtain On ACORN
Former Leftist Activist, Turned FBI Informant, Pulls Back the Curtain On ACORN
by Brandon Darby
I first experienced ACORN in post-Katrina New Orleans. I was part of a relief organization, Common Ground Relief, which had been delivering much needed aid to the 9th Ward, an area that had been hit especially hard by the flood waters and by neglect. Rumors immediately began surfacing, questioning our motives and intentions. I was very confused by these rumors. Who was behind them? How could anyone question the vital work we were doing in the community? We lived and worked in the 9th Ward. We suspended ourIn the following weeks, I was made aware of the fact that ACORN had reopened its New Orleans office (several months after the storm). Various groups from around the city informed me that Acorn was upset with us because we were in “their” community and had not sought approval from ACORN to operate there. I was told that ACORN said that we were “privileged white people who had come to a Black community as saviors and we refused to work with local Black leadership.”
The more I pondered the matter, the more I realized what was happening. As usual in marginalized and impoverished communities, a small group of radical self-proclaimed leaders was insisting that all local aid and relief came through them—even if they were AWOL for several months. Though the majority of residents either hadn’t heard of ACORN or simply disagreed with their politics- ACORN insisted that they were THE Black leaders. This was upsetting to me. Sure, the local pastor we worked most closely with was Black; but that didn’t matter to ACORN. It was as if Pastor Johnson didn’t count because he didn’t evoke the name of Elijah Mohammed or Malcolm X. It was as if Pastor Johnson didn’t count because he didn’t submit to ACORN’s mandate that ACORN was the sole leadership of Black New Orleanians.
As then director of Common Ground Relief’s 9th Ward project, I was warned by many that ACORN would ruin me politically if I didn’t submit to their leadership. I believed in what I was doing and how I was doing it. I refused to submit. The political fallout was almost unbearable. I just kept my eyes on meeting the needs of the community. When confronted by adherents to ACORN’s brand of race analysis, I pointed out that ACORN was not there immediately after the storm, so I could not have sought their leadership even if I had wanted to.
Over the following years, that particular style of political attack was prominent in New Orleans. Anytime that ACORN was displeased, the other party was deemed a racist. If the other party disagreed with the label or with ACORN’s agenda- they were met with “of course you feel that way. You are a racist.” Though it is clearly woefully inaccurate and unethical to use such an accusation as a political attack and as a means of shutting down philosophical debate and discourse, some at ACORN didn’t let that stop them. I refused to submit to it. I believed in listening to the majority of the community, who were desperate for our help, and not only to the self-proclaimed leaders. I paid a dear price for it.
I returned to Texas after a couple of years adminst the political quagmire of post-Katrina New Orleans. My experience there with various groups was educational and life-changing, though some of these groups concerned me. Eventually I began to see some of them as dangerous and deceitful about their missions. This, along with a growing appreciation of my country helped lead me to work with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
I was as proud of this new era in my life as I was of my time in New Orleans. I had the privilege of participating in efforts where lives were saved; both in the United States and in Israel. While working undercover with the FBI at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, I helped to uncover a bomb plot. Two men had made firebombs with a homemade napalm mixture of gasoline and oil. Their initial targets were Republican delegates. These bomb-makers (domestic terrorists) later decided to attack a staging area for the Secret Service and other law-enforcement agencies. Fortunately, they were stopped and arrested.
I was asked, and agreed, to testify against them. As was expected, the more radical elements of the media began to attack both me as an individual and the FBI as a whole. One of the men accused plead guilty; the other hired an expensive defense attorney and concocted a story about the FBI building these bombs to “set up left-wing activists” and stop dissent. But once the facts became clear, the defense changed their story and instead tried to blame the FBI for ”influencing” the terrorists. Thankfully, after one hung jury and many months of intense media attacks against me, the other bomb-maker (domestic terrorist) decided to come clean and admitted to the judge that he had invented the whole story.
What does any of this have to do with ACORN? I wondered the same thing on January 31st of 2009 when I was reading an ACORN blog that is run by Wade Rathke (the man who claims credit for founding ACORN). He devoted an entire page to my work with the FBI. How did he describe the FBI’s effort and success in preventing innocent Americans, local police and federal agents from being burned, maimed and/or possibly killed by firebombs? He wrote that it’s “one thing to disagree, but it’s a whole different thing to rat on folks.” That is what ACORN’s founder had to say about my role in stopping a bomb plot.
I was even more shocked as I continued reading the article. ACORN’s “founder” went on to mention that another self-proclaimed “radical” activist who had worked closely with him was also involved in my story. Her name is Lisa Fithian. I first encountered Ms. Fithian in New Orleans. She came to town after Common Ground Relief had started operations. She assumed a position of prominence and continuously challenged my work and leadership. During the RNC bombing trial, she cooperated with the defense of the bomb plotters and led media attacks on me and the FBI.
Ms. Fithian has been quoted in various mainstream news articles as saying, “Nonviolence is a strategy. Civil disobedience is a tactic,” and “Direct action is a strategy. Throwing rocks is a tactic.” She is also quoted as stating that “When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say, ‘I create crisis’, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
ACORN receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to promote their agenda. Free speech is sacred, of course. However, it is clear that ACORN has made a practice of blurring the lines between free speech and tax-payer-funded activism. Fortunately, our federal government is adept at investigating and identifying the misuse of federal funds. It will be interesting in the near future to see how Mr. Rathke and his ACORN associates stand up to the same scrutiny they have focused on our military, the FBI and other governmental groups and agencies.
Wild Thing's comment........
ACORN doesn’t want anybody on their turf muscling in on their action.
"ACORN receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to promote their agenda. Free speech is sacred, of course. However, it is clear that ACORN has made a practice of blurring the lines between free speech and tax-payer-funded activism."
How have we come to this place in our nation these are the same people that attempted to destroy our nation in the sixties. While we were sleeping are nation has been infested top to bottom.
"ACORN receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to promote their agenda."
Actually, ACORN got FOUR BILLION in taxpayer money in the Porkulous bill.
This is so outrageous that even the MSM can't cover it up.
.... Thank you Eden for sending this to me.
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Poll: Sen. Dodd Trails Foe by 10 Points
Poll: Sen. Dodd Trails Foe by 10 Points
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., has fallen behind his Republican challenger by 10 points, according to a new poll.
In the latest Rasmusssen Reports survey, Dodd drew the support of 39 percent of respondents, while former GOP Rep. Rob Simmons attracted 49 percent. Six percent said they weren't sure who they'd vote for in next year's election, while 5 percent said they'd prefer another candidate.
While Simmons is Dodd's main Republican challenger, other Republicans interested in his Senate seat include state Sen. Sam Caligiuri, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley, and Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff. All three are essentially even with Dodd when matched up against him.
Other results of the Rasmussen poll:
4 percent of Connecticut voters rate the economy as good or excellent/
46 percent say the economy is in poor shape.
36 percent say the economy is getting better.
39 percent say the economy is getting worse.
47 percent fear that the government will do too much in responding the economic problems.
44 percent fear that the government will do too little.
52 percent favor the healthcare plan proposed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.
46 percent are opposed.
Wild Thing's comment.....
It sure would be great if a Republican won and better yet a conservative if that is at all possible. It really amazed me that John Murtha was voted back again.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
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September 11, 2009
Obama's Protects HIS ACORN Group He Could Care Less About ACORN'S Corruption !
Chaos for Glory: My Time With ACORN
Big Government ...New website by Andrew Breitbart
by James O'Keefe
A famous community organizer once said, “The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them.” Impossible demands can irritate modern leftists in ways nothing else can, whether it’s by banning Lucky Charms cereal because it’s racist against Irish people, calling Planned Parenthood saying you want to donate money for black abortions in the name of Margaret Sanger, or making Sen. Snowe sign an oversized bailout check for a billion dollars to Amtrak, in her own office.
The scenario we posed the ACORN Housing employees in Baltimore is due to the application of similar power tactics. We gave ACORN a taste of its own medicine. ACORN was alleged to be thug-like, criminal, and nefarious. This criminal behavior was evidenced by a video of Baltimore ACORN community organizers breaking the locks on foreclosed homes. Instead of railing against their radicalism, it is best to bring out this type of radicalism. Hannah Giles and I took advantage of ACORN’s regard for thug criminality by posing the most ridiculous criminal scenario we could think of and seeing if they would comply–which they did without hesitation.
Additionally, instead of focusing on foreclosure itself, which has become seemingly as politicized as abortion, we focused on crimes more difficult for the left to defend: trafficking of young helpless girls and tax evasion. The first group represents the severely disadvantaged, the second a threat to the distribution of wealth.
While manipulation or entrapment occurs when people are encouraged to do things they otherwise wouldn’t, the pre-set trap is their own. These tactics allow the viewer to see ACORN’s soul; their playing field and their morality, out in the open. Their system is based on conflict and change for its own sake. This system is based on totalitarian principles and class war techniques. These people understand pressure, power and self-interest. When the Baltimore employees saw we were shady dealers, their instincts clicked in, as we were prime recruits.
ACORN has ascended. They elect our politicians and receive billions in tax money. Their world is a revolutionary, socialistic, atheistic world, where all means are justifiable. And they create chaos, again, for it’s own sake. It is time for us to be studying and applying their tactics, many of which are ideologically neutral. It is time, as Hannah said as we walked out of the ACORN facility, for conservative activists to “create chaos for glory.”
ACORN FIRES TWO EMPLOYEES CAUGHT ON VIDEO OFFERING ADVICE ON SKIRTING TAX LAW
The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law.
An ACORN official told the couple how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that they said they wanted to import as prostitutes.
Though no tax forms were filed and the child prostitutes didn't exist, the ACORN official engaged in "numerous acts of criminal facilitation," said Judge Andrew Napolitano, FOX News senior judicial analyst.
"Criminal facilitation occurs whenever a person encourages, enables, entices, or explains to another how to commit crimes with the real purpose of helping that person to commit those crimes" — a violation the ACORN employee "committed in full," he said.
Napolitano said the worker could also face charges for criminal conspiracy, though each charge would require a heavier burden to prove: a so-called "act of furtherance" — a concrete move that makes the conspiracy active.
Napolitano outlined eight crimes the ACORN worker could potentially have committed that could bring a total sentence of 24 years in prison, including criminal facilitation and conspiracy to:
• (a) commit prostitution
• (b) operate a prostitution ring
• (c) file false documents with taxing and other government authorities
• (d) file false documents with a bank [also known as bank fraud]
• (e) violate numerous immigration laws
• (f) transport children into the U.S. for immoral purposes
• (g) transport women into the U.S. for immoral purposes [also known as violating the Mann Act]
• (h) impair the welfare of minors.
But not all legal experts agreed that ACORN had committed a crime. Trial attorney Lee Armstong said that the employee had engaged in "repulsive ... disgusting behavior," but nothing illegal occurred because the entire scenario was a sham.
"For aiding and abetting tax evasion, for aiding and abetting child prostitution ... you need the actual crime," said Armstrong, an attorney for Jones Day in New York. "That's what's missing here."
Armstrong said that the videotape appeared to show the ACORN official hatching a conspiracy, but no violation occurred because the 25-year-old filmmaker was only "pretending" to be a 25-year-old pimp.
"You need an actual agreement between two people to commit a crime. If one person is just faking it, you don't have a meeting of the minds, you don't have a conspiracy," Armstrong told FOX News. "How do you clap with one hand?"
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — calls itself a network of families "working together for social justice and stronger communities," according to its Web site.
But the organization has been accused by conservatives and Republicans of committing fraud in voter registration drives around the country, and reaction to the videotape came swiftly after its release on Thursday.
"Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
"As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise."
In a selection from the video, ACORN officials treated the "pimp's" illegal schemes with nonchalance and offered to help further what they knew to be crimes.
"It's illegal. So I am not hearing this, I am not hearing this," said an ACORN staffer who identified herself as an accountant. "You talk too much. Don't give up no information you're not asked."
Because the group receives millions of dollars in federal grants, Napolitano said, "ACORN agents and employees are required by law to adhere to high standards of lawful and ethical behavior; standards akin to those required by law of federal employees."
ACORN suggested a plan of action for the purported pimp and prostitute, but did not fill out tax forms with any false information. But because the official sought a $50 fee for ACORN's services, a conspiracy charge could still be considered, a defense attorney told FOX News.
Rep. Steve King Calls for Congressional Investigation of ACORN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
From the desk of Congressman Steve King (R-IA):
Congressman Steve King today reacted to a tape released by an independent filmmaker showing Baltimore-based ACORN workers assisting a man and a woman claiming to be involved in a prostitution ring. According to FOXNEWS, “Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.”
“Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution,” King said. “As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise. Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank and other Democrats on Capitol Hill continue to protect and fund ACORN while blocking Congressional hearings on ACORN’s operations and finances. Shielding ACORN from oversight ensures that this partisan criminal enterprise will continue its shady practices while collecting taxpayer funds.”
Woman who posed as prostitute to expose corruption at ACORN
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Wild Thing's comment........
Rush Limbaugh talked about this on his show and Glenn Beck did his TV show yesterday about this. This really shows too how bad the media has been at NOT reporting the truth. CNN, MSNBC as far as I know have not touched this.
This ACORN group has GOT TO BE SHUT DOWN! There is no way they should be able to continue. It is good they fired two people, butr you know what.....that is not even a drop in the bucket with them.
SHUT ACRON DOWN
The have messed with every election, an what about the census and the next election. And then there is all the massive amonts of money they get. OMG they are so horrible. And Obama just loves them because Obama IS ACORN and ACORN is the POS Obama.
We're losing our country to these thugs.
Kudos to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, John Fund (Wall Street Journal) and Fox News. Brett Baier reported this story tonight on "Special Report". Sean Hannity and I believe Greta talked about it earlier tonight as well.
It was Andrew Breitbart (along with James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles) who broke this story on Breitbart's brand-new website BigGovernment.com.
From the transcript of today’s “Rush Limbaugh Show” show:
RUSH: Now, this is incredible. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, started a new website recently, BigGovernment.com. And filmmaker James O’Keefe, 25-year-old independent filmmaker, has his own theory about how to expose people on the left and he’s using Alinsky rules. One of the Saul Alinsky rules in dealing with your enemies is making your enemies live by their own rules will destroy them. So O’Keefe’s theory is, hey, just calling attention to their corruption and disagreeing with it and demanding that it stop isn’t going to accomplish anything. We’ve got to go encourage the corruption and illustrate how it happens.
They exist to overthrow the system. They’re made up of people just as angry at this country as Barack Obama and Van Jones and Mark Lloyd are, and Valerie Jarrett and all the rest of them.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
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September 09, 2009
George Pataki: Obama is Jeopardizing U.S. Security
George Pataki: Obama is Jeopardizing U.S. Security
Eight years after the worst-ever terrorist attack on American soil, the man who was Governor of New York at the time, George Pataki fears that President Obama has weakened U.S. security.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Pataki says:
“There is no question in my mind he is jeopardizing our security. You cannot turn terrorists loose, turn them back to where they came from and not expect them to engage in that activity again. We’ve already seen the example of a number of Guantanamo detainees who were released and returned to the battlefield, fighting our troops, fighting others who are trying to uphold the rule of law and defend freedom. So that clearly places us in jeopardy”
The three-term Republican governor also warns the investigation and possible prosecution of CIA terrorist interrogators by Obama’s attorney general will undermine America’s national security.
“When CIA officials, CIA agents and others who play a critical role in trying to gather the intelligence we need to prevent further attacks have to look over the shoulder about investigations and possible criminal charges, it certainly hampers our ability to get the necessary intelligence to protect ourselves,” he says.
Pataki suggests Obama is repeating the mistakes of the previous Democratic administration.
“Using the FBI and by derivation our criminal justice court system to look into this, this is exactly what happened in 1993,” he says.
“We had the towers bombed by an Islamic terrorist and rather than seeing it as an act of war by those who would attack us any chance they would get, we treated it as a criminal case, we had a trial, the trial went forward, the sheik was convicted, but it sent all the wrong messages to those who would attack us again.”
In the 90’s, the Janet Reno Justice Department reportedly issued a memo known as the “wall of silence” that prohibited the sharing of information between law enforcement agencies. Pataki says that was a contributing factor to 9/11.
“The fact that the FBI and the CIA couldn’t share information I think in retrospect clearly was one of the major problems because the terrorists, the hijackers were here in the U.S. and the FBI had some information, the CIA had different information, but they could not coordinate. And that was a self-imposed Clinton administration restriction that had tragic consequences. I fear that too many of the actions of this Obama administration have the potential, let’s hope it never happens, but have the potential to open us up to further attacks.”
By contrast, he notes that since the 9/11 attacks the Bush administration prevented any more terror attacks on the U.S. homeland.
“So take a look at the past eight years,” Pataki says, “For all the uncertainty in the world, we were safe, we were not attacked again. I fear that the Obama administration’s policies are jeopardizing our security going forward.”
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Wild Thing's comment.......
WoW
Pataki was there, he saw what terrorists are willing to do.
Obama won't listen he could care less about our country, security, our citizens, our troops, or anything else about America except his agenda to destroy.....typical Muslim.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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September 08, 2009
Barney Frank wants Cabinet post (HUD Secretary)
Barney Frank wants Cabinet post (HUD Secretary)
Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president’s Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman.
Frank (D-Mass.) told author Stuart Weisberg that he would like to be Housing and Urban Development secretary. However, the 69-year-old lawmaker stresses that his departure from Congress is not imminent.
He first wants to pass more legislation on affordable housing, saying, “I want at least two years with President Obama and a solidly Democratic Senate so that we can get the federal government back in the housing business.”
The last time a president appointed an openly gay Cabinet member happened during the Clinton administration.
Weisberg, who used to work for Frank on Capitol Hill, spent five years on his authoritative book, titled Barney Frank, The Story of America’s Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman. He interviewed over 150 people, including compiling 30 hours of interviews with Frank.
Frank talks about how he struggled as a gay man growing up in blue-collar Bayonne, N.J. He dated women throughout high school and college, but knew he was gay at 13. Still, he delayed revealing his sexuality until he had established a foothold in the House.
In the 501-page tome — to be released later this month — Frank is described by people who know him well as a masterful legislator, an impatient boss, and “socially handicapped.”Frank has been the subject of many profiles, but Weisberg provides news that political junkies crave.
One of the most riveting parts of the book is Frank’s recollection of his ethics scandal, when he paid a male prostitute for sex. Various media outlets called for Frank to resign, but he persevered by admitting his mistakes and asking the ethics committee to investigate him in 1989. Many Republicans, including then-Rep. Larry Craig (Idaho), called for serious sanctions against Frank, who was ultimately reprimanded by the House, 408-18. (California Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman both voted against the measure.)
The following year, a Republican challenger to Frank’s seat — described as “not the smartest person in the district” — called on Frank to take an AIDS test and reveal the results publicly. Frank replied that he would do so if his GOP challenger would take an IQ test and release it to the public.
Throughout his life, Frank has battled bouts with depression and his voracious appetite. When Frank was advised by a political operative to improve his appearance, Frank responded that “when you are 5 feet 10 inches and you have a 46 waist and your thighs rub together, your clothes have a way of not looking good.”
At other points in his life, he was able to lose weight — a lot of it. He once lost 100 pounds in eight months. Knowing that avoiding obesity would be a lifelong struggle, Frank said, “The day I die, I will either be fat or hungry.”
Sometimes to his detriment, Frank was not shy in criticizing Democrats publicly, most notably President Bill Clinton during the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate. He also irritated Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) by suggesting Kennedy had no chance of becoming president after his 1980 bid fell short.
The personal details about Frank show a side of the Financial Services panel chairman that Washington insiders have not seen. He pumped gas as a teenager at his father’s truck stop in New Jersey, formally changed his name from “Barnett” to Barney and was an avid baseball and tennis player. Weisberg writes that only Frank’s mother Elsie, and his sister, Democratic strategist Ann Lewis, consistently won arguments against him. Elsie Frank died in 2005.
There are many amusing quotes from the quick-witted Frank. After then-Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) called Frank “Barney Fag” and then attributed the remark to a slip of the tongue, Frank said, “There are many ways to mispronounce my name. That one is the least common.”
Amid the GOP-led Congress’s actions to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case, Frank challenged Republicans who offered their medical analysis during the debate: “The caption tonight ought to be: ‘We’re not doctors — we just play them on C-SPAN.’ ”
Frank acknowledges missteps in crafting the 2008 financial bailout bill, saying the measure gave the Treasury secretary too much discretion in how to use the funds. But he asserts that passing the legislation was a necessity.
Weisberg writes that “the best of times is now” for Frank, noting the 15-term member is “at the top of his game as a lawmaker and as a deal-maker … He feels comfortable with who he is and he is no longer emotionally isolated.
“I am what I am," Frank said, adding, "sort of like Popeye.”
Wild Thing's comment......
Barney wants a position on the President’s staff ???
Hmmmmm this is the guy who was pretty much responsible for the subprime crisis getting rewarded with a HUD cabinet post??? well ..................
OK get him out of his senate seat..and the Administration will be out in 2012. If Barney Frank wants a Cabinet post
I guess it is OK. But what does he intend to do with it?
He will mess up anything he does, that's for sure. But gosh it would be nice to be getting rid of the democrat body count to help us out in the next election.
He would be a perfect cabinet member: 1.) He does not pay his taxes, 2.) He lies on federal forms, 3.) He has proven himself to be incompetent on housing matters and 4.) He is a slut. ( can a male be a slut?) oh well he sure as heck is.
A perfect candidate for this administration.
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Charles Krauthammer Compares Van Jones to Reverend Wright
It's a reflection of the boss. The boss also had a history before he became a candidate of being around and friends with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. The liberals scolded us last year on how irrelevant all that is and how it's a smear campaign against Obama. But, if you live in that environment and you find nothing inherently wrong with that kind of radicalism. Then a Van Jones will show up. You'll watch him years and years and you'll think this guy is perfectly mainstream.
Wild Thing's comment......
Charles Krauthammer is right, Obama is no different then this Van Jones.
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September 07, 2009
Church-bell 'noise' Under Attack – in America
Bishop Rick Painter, sentenced for allowing church bells to ring
Church-bell 'noise' under attack – in America
Three churches in Phoenix have brought a legal action against the city because one pastor already has been convicted and other churches are being threatened over the "noise" from their bells, some of which have rung out to the community for decades.
The lawsuit has been filed by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of St. Mark Roman Catholic Parish, First Christian Church and Christ the King Liturgical Charismatic Church.
The dispute focuses on the city ordinance that even city officials have conceded is vague, according to the lawsuit. Nevertheless, on the strength of neighbors' complaints and the existing statute, one pastor already has been convicted and sentenced for violating the city ordinance with church bells. The complaint alleges others now also are threatened.
City officials said they could not comment because they had not been served with the complaint, which has been posted on the Internet.
"Churches shouldn't be punished for exercising their faith publicly," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. "The law is unconstitutionally vague and has been abused to silence a form of worship that has peacefully sounded through the streets of our nation since its founding.
"No one should be sentenced to jail and probation for doing what churches have traditionally done throughout history, especially when the sound of the church's bells does not exceed the noise level that the law allows for ice cream trucks," he said.
The complaint notes that city officials wrote into the noise ordinance an exemption allowing ice cream trucks to play loud music, but refused to include a similar exemption for churches.
The case alleges violations of the constitutional provisions for freedom of speech, due process and free exercise of religion.
It was Bishop Rick Painter of Christ the King Church who was convicted and sentenced earlier.
By court order the electronic chimes that used to be heard ringing each day now also are restricted to Sundays and special occasions. Painter was given three years probation and a suspended 10-day jail sentence.
"After convicting and sentencing Painter to jail for ringing church bells, city officials notified St. Mark Roman Catholic Parish in August that the ringing of its bells could be considered in violation of the same noise ordinance," the ADF said. "Two representatives from the Phoenix city prosecutor's office and two Phoenix police officers visited St. Mark after one neighbor complained about the bells. St. Mark has rung its bells for the last 20 years. Both churches, along with the First Christian Church of Phoenix, are filing the lawsuit so that they can ring their bells without fear of future prosecution and criminal penalties for violating the ordinance."
The case documents that the bells at Painter's church were recorded at 67 decibels from the nearest property line, while a whisper was measured at 30 decibels and a normal conversation ranged between 60 and 70 decibels.
"Ice cream trucks are allowed to emit up to 70 decibels at a distance of 50 feet under an exemption to the city's ordinance, but no exemption exists for church bells," the case writes.
"The church bells chime a short, ancient melody of praise to God no louder than an average conversation," said Stanley. "It's true that people can hear the bells at that low level. After all, bells are meant to be heard. But the city's problematic ordinance is being used to inconsistently single out the peaceful sound of this time-honored expression of worship while allowing exceptions for others."
The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, was accompanied by a motion asking the court to halt enforcement of the ordinance while the lawsuit moves forward.
The ADF also has filed an appeal of Painter's conviction.
The civil rights lawsuit explains, "These churches want to ring carillon bells from their locations in the city of Phoenix as part of their religious exercise, but fear that they will be prohibited from doing so under a facially unconstitutional noise ordinance."
The churches use their music "as a way of evangelizing by notifying anyone nearby that the church is there and is a place of hope, help, and prayer" and to continue "a centuries-old church tradition of ringing bells as a way of glorifying God."
The lawsuit notes that the offending "noise" that generated complaints for Painter's church included a "16-beat melody taken from Handel's Messiah."
It alleges the noise ordinance is unconstitutionally vague, subjective, is content-based and is not neutral.
When his case was being argued, Painter defended the bells as a constitutionally protected freedom of religion issue.
"We're expressing our religion," he told KNXV. "We glorify God by the bells."
Wild Thing's comment........
This is soooo wrong. Church bells are beautiful and they give comfort ringing out.
What I don't understand is when a person buys a home they are made aware or on their own what is nearby. People have lived in churchs with church bells for ages and this kind of thing never happened before.
Wait till they hear the wailing from the mosques. Of course, complaints about the Muslim call to prayer (5X per day!) will be dismissed as racist
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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September 06, 2009
Van Jones Resignation Letter ( His Whine and Lies)
Van Jones Resignation Letter
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, discusses Van Jones on "This Week,"
"He was going to get in the way of the President, and ultimately this country, moving forward on something as important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy."
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Glenn Beck statement on resignation of Van Jones
The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness. I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.
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Wild Thing's comment......
This is just the beginning. Normandy has been stormed. The creature ( Obama) has been wounded and will begin to fight back with more ferocity. It’s going to get uglier from here on.
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and others like him who put themselves on the front lines will need all the support we can give them.
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Keith Olbermann To Daily KOS ~ " Send Me Every Rumor or Slander You Have on Glenn Beck"
Glenn Beck is a Hero. Olberman is a jealous far leftie idiot!
The Left is utterly desperate to destroy Glenn Beck. Keith Olbermann has written a personal "diary" on DailyKos titled: "Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck" Olbermann also is asking for dirt on "Stu Burguiere and Roger Ailes". Stu is Glenn's longtime producer and friend. this is in response to Beck's .
Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck
from Daily KOS
by Keith Olbermann
Share this on Twitter - Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:14:03 AM PDT
I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes.
No, even now, I refuse to go all caps.
No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up rumors.
Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push).
This becomes necessary after this in order to prove various cliches about goose and gander, and to remind everybody to walk softly and carry a big popsicle, and most particularly to save this nation from the Oligarhy of The Stupid.
I keep wondering if somewhere somebody named Ollie Garhey thinks he's in charge now. Or, even more entertainingly and societally satisfying, if somebody named Ali Garhi does.
Despite the worn-out snark above, I am in earnest here.
Wild Thing's comment......
Keith is going to explode hahaha
Well Keith that is how I feel every time I read what Obama is doing.
Glenn’s TV ratings are through the roof and Olberman and Chris Matthews are tanking. And Glenn has already beat them to the punch. He has always been open about the rough times in his life. His alcoholism, etc. I wonder what Olberman has hiding in HIS background? And besides Glenn Beck, he’s a private citizen, not a politician.
God bless Glenn for bringing the truth.
This is what the left does, they do whatever necessary to destroy the opposition. People talk about getting Obama thrown out of office in 2012, who is to say we even have a country left in 2012. We have to do whatever necessary to save it now, or else we won’t recognize it by the time 2012 comes along.
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September 05, 2009
Democrat Pete Stark Blows Up Over National Debt
Pete Stark Blows Up Over National Debt
Here is a write up about the man doing the interview:
Who is Jan Helfeld?
Library of Economics and Liberty
by David Henderson
In a comment on one of my recent posts, commenter Patrick Sullivan referenced an interview with Harry Reid in which the interviewer tried to get Senator Reid to admit that taxes are involuntary. Reid simply wouldn't. I found the style of the interviewer, Jan Helfeld, so compelling that I started watching other interviews he'd done. One of the two best, in my opinion, is his interview of Nancy Pelosi on the minimum wage. He gets Representative Pelosi to admit that there's nothing wrong with young people working for less than minimum wage if they work for her or if they work for a charity. She seems to understand all the tradeoffs involved and to understand that even young people can look out for themselves. Watch what happens (at about the 3:50 point) when Mr. Helfeld tries to get her to extend her thinking about less-than-minimum-wage work to McDonald's. At about the 6:00 point, she tells him he made a mistake by not moving on to another question and, instead, sticking on one point.
My other favorite is his interview of Representative Pete Stark in which Congressman Stark actually states that more government debt means more wealth. Watch this video for his extreme rejection of Ricardian equivalence. Also note how nasty and abusive he gets when he fails to convince Mr. Helfeld and when Helfeld doesn't back down.
Helfeld reminds me of John Stossel. He's willing to confront people directly and won't give up. Also, his face even looks a little like Stossel's.
Two questions. Who is this guy? And how did he get in to interview them?
Wild Thing's comment.....
He is such a typical democrat politican. Wow, he’s testy! Why did he agree to do the interview? The person that will run agaisnt this guy should get this video and use it in their campaign. Fight back or forget about it.
Stark insulted the interviewer personally, his education, the university he attended and NEVER answers the questions put to him/ Stark’s arrogance is completely over the top and his continuous non-answers to reasonable questions was quite amazing.
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
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September 04, 2009
Sen. Reid Threatens Las Vegas Newspaper
Las Vegas Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick on Fox News
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened the largest newspaper in his home state of Nevada for publishing a series of critical articles and editorials as he seeks a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.
The veteran Democratic lawmaker threatened economic punishment in retaliation for the negative coverage and told a senior executive at the paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, that he hopes it goes out of business. Over the weekend the newspaper’s publisher wrote a piece calling the senator’s remarks a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.
The publisher points out that Reid’s behavior is not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate and that it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term. “If he thinks he can push the state's largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don't have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal,” the publisher writes.
Reid is evidently worried that the paper’s coverage of his numerous mishaps and all-time low approval ratings will cost him reelection next year. Recent news stories have documented the senator’s wasteful earmarks and exorbitant spending of tax dollars as well as statewide polls revealing that more than half of Nevada voters have an unfavorable view of him.
The paper’s recent editorials have also blasted Reid who is tight with President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. One editorial claims that reelecting Reid will keep the federal welfare flowing into recession-ravaged Nevada and help the 2011 Legislature continue to expand state government despite the private sector’s inability to sustain it. Another points out that being the face and voice of an increasingly statist, job-killing liberal agenda has exacted a political toll for Reid
The senator has also been embroiled in a series of corruption scandals in the last few years by using his influence to help a mob-connected developer secure a lucrative Las Vegas land deal in exchange for campaign contributions and a $1.1 million profit he concealed from the public. He was also involved in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, taking tens of thousands of dollars from the jailed lobbyist’s Indian tribe clients and refusing to return the tainted money by claiming that “Abramoff was a Republican operative and this is a Republican scandal.”
Wild Thing's comment.....
This is a good newspaper it is the biggest on in Las Vegas and Nevada. Reid is desperate and he’s making me laugh.
Reid is a vile man, I hope he gets thrown out in the next election.
....Thank you Jack for sending this to me.
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September 01, 2009
"Beam me up Scotty"....Former Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) to Be Released Wednesday
Democrat James Traficant - Prison Mail Bomber
Traficant to be released Wednesday
Former Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) is scheduled to be released from a federal prison on Wednesday, after having spent seven years stemming from a corruption conviction.
The bombastic former lawmaker will be released Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. He was convicted in 2002 of bribery and racketeering, as well of charges of improperly using his congressional staff.
The House voted to expel him in 2002 after his conviction, though Traficant, who has maintained his innocence, ran for reelection from his jail cell.
The AP reported that he'll return to Youngstown, though his district has since been represented by Rep. Tim Ryan (D).
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Wild Thing's comment......
I wonder if he will sporting a new hair doo.....? And I wonder if he will run again? One thing about him, many of his speeches were very entertaining. LOL He was so funny without intending to be. He actually stood up to the snobs in Congress and said things without a spin. He told everyone off.
One of his quotes:
June 16, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I voted for the Brady bill. I voted to ban certain semiautomatic weapons. I honestly tried to help. But enough is enough. Guns are a two-edge sword, dangerous for sure, but guns prevent more crime than anything else in America, and no one is saying it.
Mr. Speaker, armed robbers just do not fear the welcome wagon, and all the policemen in the world, and I used to be one, may never get there in time.
I say be careful, Congress. Certainly guns are a symptom of great problems in America. But guns are not the root causation of all these problems in America.
December 12, 1995
“...Mr. Speaker, how can America be bankrupt? There are airport taxes , highway taxes, excise taxes, estate taxes, gas taxes , property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, luxury taxes, nanny taxes, old taxes, new taxes, hidden taxes, inheritance taxes; there is even now a tax called a sin tax. I say to my colleagues, no wonder the American people are taxed off...”
“...The truth is that Congress as a Congress that taxes everything ultimately will tax freedom and will not balance anything. What is next? A budget tax? Is it any wonder that the American people are saying, kiss my taxes?...”
“...Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my taxes...”
James Traficant 1 Minute Speeches, 2001.......His website.
Traficant Minute Speeches 2001
CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT BIRTH OF CHRIST
December 12, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the school prayer issue is out of control, literally. Students in Pennsylvania were prohibited from handing out Christmas cards. Reports say students in Minnesota were disciplined for having said merry Christmas. Now if that is not enough to find coal in your athletic supporter, check this out: A school board in Georgia removed the word ``Christmas from their school calendar because the ACLU threatened to sue. Beam me up. If this is religious freedom, I am a fashion model for GQ.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the fact that Christmas is not about a jolly old fat man. Christmas is about the birth of Christ.
CHINA’S TWO-TIMING OF AMERICA
November 28, 2001
Mr. Speaker, reports say that China is two-timing Uncle Sam big time. With one hand China slaps Uncle Sam on the back and wishes us well in Afghanistan. With the other hand China sells missiles and weapons to Iran and Iraq and continues to funnel support under the table to the Taliban. Bottom line, China continues to aid and abet our enemies. Beam me up. I yield back the fact that the Taliban are a fly on our face, but China is a dragon eating our assets. Think about that.
A CHALLENGE FOR VICTORIA’S SECRET
June 20, 2001
A California woman has set a world record by hooking 7,000 brassieres together to create the biggest bra ball in history. This bra ball is a protest against the way women’s breasts have been exploited. Now, if that is not enough to challenge Victoria’s Secret, this buxom diva has filed a lawsuit against another artist who is also building a ball of bras. Think about it. America’s courts are bogged down with drugs and murder, and now we will be tied up with 200 pounds of Maidenforms. Unbelievable. Even Slappy White of hillzoo.com cannot believe this. What is next, Congress? A stainless steel panty hose contest? Beam me up. I yield back the fact that all this money being used for this litigation would be better served if they put it towards a cure for breast cancer.
ABOLISH THE IRS
July 18, 2001
The IRS said last year’s 81 percent error rate dropped to only 73 percent this past year. Unbelievable. The Internal Rectal Service screws up 73 percent of the time and then brags about it. If that is not enough to cause your 1040 to crepitate, IRS agents gave the wrong advice to taxpayers only 50 percent of the time last year, according to an investigation. Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers; the IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go. I yield back the need to pass the Tauzin-Traficant 15 percent flat retail sales tax, abolish the income tax, and abolish these nincompoops at the IRS.
UNISEX RESTROOMS, WHAT IS NEXT?
June 12, 2001
Mr. Speaker, last week a girl was crowned prom king in Washington. This week we learn a whole new classification term for men and women: Transgenders. That is right, transgenders. Ohio University has designated 30 restrooms as transgender-type restrooms, able to be used by both men and women at the same time. They are officially called unisex restrooms. Unbelievable. What is next? Unisex locker rooms with thong/jock support dispensers? How about Maxipad vending machines in locker rooms? Beam me up. I yield back this higher education business as yet simply getting high.
HIGH GAS PRICES
May 8, 2001
Mr. Speaker, government investigators said, and I quote, there is no conspiracy by petroleum companies to raise gas prices in America. Unbelievable. Who is kidding whom here? Gas prices are over $2 a gallon, and, in addition, it just seems every weekend they just raise them 25 cents a gallon just for the sake of it. Mr. Speaker, if that is not enough to flatulate your rectangle, the oil companies announced that gas prices will hit $3 a gallon this summer. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker; those so-called government investigators are either on the payroll of those oil companies or they are smoking dope. I yield back the biggest rip-off in the history of the United States of America.
THE SELL-OUT OF AMERICA
May 2, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the Great Lakes are now open. The first foreign ship to dock in Cleveland, Ohio, carried 10,000 tons of steel from Russia. While mills are closing in Cleveland, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh, steel mills are closing all over America. Ten thousand tons of illegally dumped steel just came in to America. Unbelievable. Think about it. It is getting so bad the Army almost bought, without Congress’ interference, black berets for the Army from China. Beam me up. If our trade program is so good, why does Europe not do it? Why does Japan not do it? Why does China not do it? I think it is time to put things in order in America, my colleagues. Enough is enough. I yield back the sell-out of America, wholesale, to Communist dictators, and the loss of jobs to these socialist, communist countries.
ABOLISH THE IRS
May 1, 2001
Mr. Speaker, a government investigation said that the IRS gave, quote-unquote, wrong information 50 percent of the time. In addition, they say one-third of all calls to the IRS go unanswered. Unbelievable. According to my math, the IRS is upside down about 80 percent of the time. If that is not enough to give your 1040 a hernia, the IRS says, give us more money and we will solve our problems. Beam me up. The IRS does not need more money. Congress has got to abolish the IRS. A recent national poll says 70 percent of American taxpayers favor the Tauzin-Traficant 15 percent national sales tax. No more forms, no more tax on capital gains, savings, investment, education, inheritance. Think about it. And the IRS is abolished. I yield back those stumbling, fumbling, bumbling, nincompoops at the IRS.
PASS FLAT SALES TAX AND ABOLISH IRS
March 27, 2001
Mr. Speaker, in 1998, Congress reformed the IRS and included two of my provisions. The first transferred the burden of proof from the taxpayer to the IRS; the second required judicial consent before the IRS could seize our property, and the results are now staggering. Property seizures dropped from 10,037 to 161 in the entire country. The IRS had a license to steal, and they were stealing 10,000 properties a year. And if that is not enough to tax our gallbladders, the IRS is now complaining the new law is too tough. Beam me up here. It is time to tell these crybaby IRS thieves that we are going to pass a 15 percent flat sales tax and abolish them altogether. I yield back what should be the next endangered species in the United States of America: The Internal Rectal Service.
PEACE IN THE BALKANS REQUIRES INDEPENDENCE FOR KOSOVO
March 22, 2001
From the United Nations to heads of state, everyone is hoping against hope for peace in the Balkans. I do not want to rain on everyone’s parade, but in my opinion there will never be peace in the Balkans until there is independence for Kosovo. The bottom line, it is the right thing to do. Ninety percent of the citizens of Kosovo are ethnic Albanians. Freedom and independence for Kosovo is the only long-term solution for a lasting peace in the Balkans. I yield back the fact that map boundaries have been redrawn regularly throughout history to accomplish peace.
TIME TO PASS A FLAT TAX
March 20, 2001
From the womb to the tomb, Madam Speaker, the Internal Rectal Service is one big enema. Think about it: they tax our income, they tax our savings, they tax our sex, they tax our property sales profits, they even tax our income when we die. Is it any wonder America is taxed off? We happen to be suffering from a disease called Taxes Mortis Americanus. Beam me up. It is time to pass a flat, simple 15 percent sales tax, and fire these nincompoops at the IRS. Think about it. I yield back the socialist, communist income tax scheme of these United States.
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Charlie's ( Rangel) Mortage Bares Home Untruth
Charlie's Mortage Bares Home Untruth
Rep. Charles Rangel claimed on mortgage papers that a Harlem brownstone was his principal residence -- even though he was living elsewhere at the time, The Post has learned.
When the Democrat -- who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee -- took out the mortgage in 1990, he said the property on West 132nd Street was his "principal residence," records show.
But Rangel has been living since the 1970s in Harlem's Lenox Terrace apartment complex, where he improperly amassed four rent-stabilized properties.
State law requires that rent-regulated apartments be the tenant's residence.
"I will reside in the Property (on 132nd Street) for at least six (6) months of every calendar year," read Rangel's mortgage contract with Citibank, which is on file with the city.
The terms of the $60,000 loan appear to be normal for that time, but lenders say claiming principal residency when you live elsewhere is a serious breach.
"It's fraud or a mistake," said David Reed, an author of several popular books about mortgage lending.
"Owner-occupied dwellings -- where you hang your hat -- always get better interest rates and lower down payments than rental properties or second homes," Reed added.
"That's because if a borrower goes south, you're likely to dump your vacation home or your investment property first."
Citing privacy concerns, a Citigroup spokesman declined to comment on the mortgage, Rangel's principal-residency claim, or whether any favorable treatment had been granted to the longtime congressman.
Last November, Rangel and five other members of Congress took a junket to the Caribbean with $100,000 from Citigroup -- just weeks after Congress bailed out banks with $700 billion in taxpayer funds.
Rangel sold the brownstone at 74 W. 132nd St. to Bethel AME Church in 2004, although several of his relatives continue to live there.
Newly filed financial-disclosure reports show Rangel has understated his annual earnings, his assets and his business dealings by millions of dollars since 2002, The Post has reported.
This is not the first time Rangel has gotten into trouble claiming property as his primary residence. Last year, The Post reported that Rangel had been claiming a "homestead" tax break in Washington, DC, while claiming primary residency in New York.
Meanwhile, Rangel again refused to answer any questions yesterday.
"My only concern is just to see how is the press going to handle the mistakes that clearly they've made after the investigations have been completed and the Ethics Committee has worked its will," he said.
This past September Rangel admitted that he failed to report $75 thousand in taxes.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Why isn’t this guy in jail?
(Ha ha - I crack myself up.)
Oh wait! Charlie’s a DEMOCRAT! Therefore, he didn’t LIE, he simply ‘mis-spoke’!
The ethics Committee, Bwahahahaha, What a joke.
The Congressional Black Caucus, Ahahahaha, funnier still.
President Barrack Hussein Obama.
The joke isnt funny anymore
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....Thank you Darth for sending this to me.
Darth
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August 27, 2009
Her Name Was Rosemary and She Was Ted's Sister
She was born in September 13th, 1918, her name was Rose Marie Kennedy, but she became known as “Rosemary".
In his book, “The Kennedy Women,” Lawrence Leamer describes her as “painfully slow… a pretty child with green eyes that peered out on life directly.”
Leamer: “As Rosemary grew into a teenager she desperately wanted praise. She was happy for hours with a mere scrap of approval, and forlorn and discouraged at the hint of criticism…. Rosemary was slow, but she was not stupid and sometimes she would erupt in an inexplicable fury, the rage pouring out of her like a tempest from a cloudless sky.”
Perhaps she was angry at being treated as if she were somehow inferior to her siblings. At most, Rosemary was “mildly retarded,” as her obituaries would one day describe her.
Shortly before World War II broke out in Europe, FDR appointed Joe Kennedy as ambassador to the Court of St. James – at the time the most important diplomatic post any American could hold. Joe of course moved to London, along with Rose and his two oldest daughters – Rosemary and Kathleen. As the American ambassador, Joe and his family would move in the highest circles of British society. And a decision was made: both daughters, the charming and brilliant Kathleen, and the “slow” Rosemary, would be “presented” to the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Rosemary spent endless hours practicing her curtseying – the bow she would have to make to the King and Queen. On the appointed evening, with the cream of British nobility (and the press) watching, Kathleen and Rosemary were presented. Everything went off without a hitch, until the very end.
“Suddenly,” Leamer wrote, “just as Rosemary was attempting to glide off, she tripped, nearly falling. It was a debutante’s worst horror, at the most important social moment of her life, in front of the king and queen, to make a public spectacle of her awkwardness, her ineptness. The kind and queen smiled as if nothing had happened, and there was not even a murmur from the assembly, and indeed, it was all over in a few seconds. Rosemary recovered and followed Kathleen out the door.”
But although no one ever mentioned when Rosemary triopped, her family took it as an embarassment.
Increasingly, the problem was simply that Rosemary was too good-looking, even more striking than Kathleen, who was herself a knock-out. As long as older brothers Joe Jr. and Jack had been around, to arrange her dance card and to scare off the potential suitors “who took her cryptic silences and deliberate speech as feminine demureness,” she was okay. Later, in London she was often squired to social events by a young Embassy employee named, of all things, “Jack Kennedy,” who became known as “London Jack,” to distinguish him from JFK.
But as war clouds gathered, and Joe was recalled to the U.S. after his disastrous pro-Hitler remarks to the Boston Herald, Joe, Jr. and Jack joined the Navy. There was no one left to escort Rosemary. She was packed off to a Washington convent, which she quickly figured out how to escape from.
“At night she walked out into the dark streets looking for the light and life of the city… The family feared that she was going out into the streets to do what Kathleen called ‘the thing the priest says not to do.’… There was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace.”
Joe Kennedy began talking to a quack physician from George Washington University named Walter Freeman, who was experimenting with a new form of brain surgery that would come to be known as a pre-frontal lobotomy. He sold Joe Kennedy a bill of goods – the biggest drawback for a female patient, Freeman wrote, was the fact that her head would have to be partially shaved, preventing her from going out socially for several weeks. Joe Kennedy had it done while his wife was out of the country. She knew nolthing about it till she returned home.
Not everything in the family was convinced, though. Kathleen Kennedy sought out a reporter friend of hers who had done research into the new procedure. The reporter told Kathleen that the whole procedure was “just not good” and that post-lobotomy, the patients “don’t worry so much, but they’re gone as a person, just gone.”
Freeman and his associate drilled a hole in her skull and inserted a sort of spatula into her brain and began digging. They asked her to sing simple songs and perform basic addition and subtraction. As long as she could recite the doggerel, and handle third-grade arithmetic, they kept digging. Finally, though, Rosemary Kennedy fell silent, and the operation was over.
And so, for all practical purposes, was Rosemary Kennedy’s life.
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“She had regressed into an infant like state,” Leamer wrote, “mumbling a few words, sitting for hours staring at the walls, only traces left of the young woman she had been, still with flashes of rage. This was a horror beyond horror, an unthinkable, unspeakable disaster. Rose and her children had repressed so much, and now they repressed what Joe had done to his daughter, repressed it all and pretended that it had never happened and that Rosemary no longer existed.”
She lived in a series of private institutions, including years in the Craig House, a private hospital north of New York City. In the 1970’s, she somehow escaped once more, from a Midwestern psychiatric home, into the streets of Chicago. The wire services carried photos of her in a wheelchair, being hustled into an ambulance by Chicago cops.
But Rosemary’s story, so horrifying in its casual, callous brutality, was never forgotten by millions of Americans, and certainly not by any members of the Kennedy family. In the late 1970s, Bobby’s doomed son, David, was reading a copy of the pro-drug magazine High Times when he came across a story on lobotomies. Naturally enough, one of the illustrations was a photo of his beautiful aunt Rosemary, pre-lobotomy.
“She had a new pair of white shoes on,” David recalled later for the authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz. “The thought crossed my mind that if my grandfather was alive the same thing could have happened to me that happened to her. She was an embarrassment; I am an embarrassment. She was a hindrance; I am a hindrance. As I looked at this picture, I began to hate my grandfather and all of them for having done the thing they had done to her and for doing the thing they were doing to me.”
David died of a drug overdose in 1984. His aunt ( Rose Marie Kennedy) outlived him by almost 21 years, finally dying in January 2005 in Fort Atkinson, WI, where she had been institutionalized for more than a quarter century. She was 86.
The evidence from documents written in Rosemary's hand, and from contemporaries outside the family, suggests that she was probably not clinically retarded. She happened to have slightly subnormal cognitive abilities -- within one of the most competitive families.
Joe Sr., concerned with the family's moral reputation and Rosemary's possible vulnerability to fortune-hunters, decided that a lobotomy was the answer. Contrary to the implications of Eunice's story, he seems to have regarded this as an alternative to institutionalization. Ignoring widespread Catholic and secular opposition, he doctor-shopped until he found someone willing to perform the still-experimental psychosurgery.
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Wild Thing's comment......
This just rips at a person's heart how they did this to this young women. One can just see the Dad, Joe Kennedy on his search for a doctor that would do such a thing to a person that truly did not need it done. I would be willing to bet that the other doctors he spoke with were shocked at what he ( Joe ) wanted done.
It is an evil family and an evil health care bill no wonder Kennedy has been pushing for a socialized medicine bill for a long time. If he was a better man and with the experience he has had in his own family, what they did to his sister, he should be the opposite, he should be against the pro death parts of the bill at least and demand they be taken out. But he wanted it in there obviously.
Washington, DC. yesterday, Aug. 26th, Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., issued the following statement upon learning of the passing of his dear friend Senator Ted Kennedy:
" In Ted Kennedy's honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.”
On Rush Limbaugh's show on March 9, 2009. He was discussing the death care bill . Rush Limbaugh predicted this and the Dems were terribly upset about it at the time.
“Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare bill,” Limbaugh said on his show.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee quickly launched a petition drive urging Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to denounce Limbaugh.
It doesn't matter what they name the bill, no mater what it is it needs to be thrown out for good and never again suggest socialized medicine in our country. There are so many other ways to fix things with medical care and insurance companies that would have nothing to do with government involvement, and this bill is not the answer.
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Fundraiser for Clinton and Obama Arrested on Fraud Charges
Iranian-American Investment Banker Namazee is a millionaire Iranian-American investment banker and democratic fund-raiser. He was the Finance Chairman for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and heavy contributor to Barack Obama. Nemazee was also nominated by President Clinton to be the Ambassador of Argentina. Namazee, along with Brzezinski, was at the secretive meeting in February 2008 with President Assad.
Fundraiser for Clinton and Obama Arrested on Fraud Charges
Prosecutors accuse prominent Democratic fundraiser Hassan Nemazee of giving Citibank fraudulent documents showing he owned millions of dollars in collateral.
NEW YORK
A wealthy investment banker and prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats was arrested Tuesday on charges he lied to get a $74 million business loan that -- once confronted by authorities-- he hastily repaid.
Prosecutors accused Hassan Nemazee of giving Citibank documents showing he owned millions of dollars in collateral. They said the documents were "fraudulent and forged."
At a brief appearance in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, a judge ordered a haggard-looking Nemazee locked up for the night. His attorney won assurances from prosecutors that he would be fitted with an electronic monitoring device and put under house arrest on Wednesday as part of a $25 million bail package secured by property including a $20 million Park Avenue apartment.
The attorney, Marc Mukasey, had argued that Nemazee should be released immediately after agreeing to "the most onerous bail package I've ever heard of." Instead, his client, wearing a wrinkled pink dress shirt, was led out of the courtroom to jail.
A Clinton spokesman didn't immediately return an e-mail message seeking comment.
The chairman and chief executive of Manhattan-based Nemazee Capital Corp. served as national finance chairman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008, and later raised money for Obama after her primary defeat. He also was Sen. John Kerry's finance chairman in New York for his 2004 bid for president.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated him to be U.S. ambassador to Argentina but his nomination was never confirmed.
A criminal complaint alleges that Nemazee gave the bank documents detailing assets that "never existed or had previously existed" in accounts that had been closed years earlier. It also accuses him of providing false verifying information for financial institutions, including a phone number that actually belonged to him.
Prosecutors said FBI agents had stopped the 59-year-old financier on Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Rome. They said he paid off the $74 million loan the next day.
His attorney said Tuesday that family members were headed home from Europe, where they had been vacationing.
Nemazee, who did not enter a plea or speak at the court hearing, faces up to 30 years in prison plus a fine if convicted.
According to Nemazee's Web site, his firm was founded in 1987, and invests in health care, insurance, real estate and other areas. The Harvard graduate "has more than 30 years of successful investing experience across numerous sectors," it says.
George Soros and Hassan Nemazee
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MAP......pretty amazing.
You can also run your mouse over each name of move the smalll boxes around to read more of them.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
It doesn't surprise me that the donors to the biggest frauds ever to hold office should themselves be fraudulent. I am glad they are going after this guy. It would be wonderful if someone would go after George Soros.
I suppose Eric Holder to drop the charges in three... two... one...
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....Thank you Darth for sending this to me.
Darth
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August 26, 2009
Absolutely Disgraceful Kennedy To Be Buried at ARLINGTON ~ WTF??!!!
A U.S. defense official confirms that the late Ted Kennedy will be buried at Arlington Cemetery -- date and time still TBD.
The official expects he will be buried at the John F. Kennedy gravesite, but that is also still TBD.
Any sitting or former senator is eligible for burial at Arlington Cemetery, but Kennedy's military service alone does not qualify him for burial there since he did not retire from the Armed Forces. His military service alone only qualifies him to be cremated and inurned at the Columbarium at Arlington.
Kennedy served as a Private First Class in the Army, serving from June 25, 1951 to March 27, 1953. He was honorably discharged.
"..Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[9] Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation.[9] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[9] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[4][9] His father's political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[4][10] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[11] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[9][11.."
Kennedy to Be Buried at Arlington, Near Brothers
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the political patriarch who died late Tuesday after a 15-month battle with brain cancer, will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery, close to the famed gravesites of his slain brothers.
As tributes poured in Wednesday from across the country and the world, Washington mourned the Massachusetts Democrat whose outsize personality and political skills continued to drive the health-care debate even in his final days.
Flags were ordered flown at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol, the White House and federal buildings. Across the Potomac River at the nation's military cemetery, photographers and camera crews were escorted to the flickering orange flame and polished marble gravestones that mark the final resting places of John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, in the third year of his presidency, and Robert F. Kennedy, gunned down nearly five years later during his own White House campaign.
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Wild Thing's comment......
After how he smeared our troops??????????????????? He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Hello, Kennedy at Arlington???? They ought to cremate him and flush him down the toilet. Although given the consistency of his blood alcohol level, if they cremated him he'd burn for a week. So just throw him in the ground in his own backyard like a bone. Or bury him at sea( or a river) in an old Buick!
Unreal that Ted Kennedy will be buried in such a Hallowed Place with real heroes. How can they do this how can they bury him in this place of Honor with men who gave all for this country
“Socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.” - Ted Kennedy
No room at Red Square????
Posted by Wild Thing at 08:20 PM | Comments (8)
Senator Ted Kennedy DEAD ~ Let's Look Back At His Life
This came through at 2:38 A.M. this morning......
Senator Ted Kennedy has died of brain cancer at the age of 77
By Scott Malone – 20 mins ago BOSTON (Reuters)
U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died, his family said. He was 77. "Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy family said in a statement. One of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history -- a liberal standard-bearer who was also known as a consummate congressional dealmaker
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Wild Thing's comment..............
We have so many truly awesome Americans in our country. And far too often they go unmentioned, but those that have done damage have been praised and exhalted to a place of a sick kind of liberal, leftiist honor. The code of as long as the person is a liberal they get praised.
I think it is only fair to mention a few of the things Ted Kennedy is known for that possibly will be eluded by the media in their what will be attempt at kissing up to the Kennedy family in the next few days.
Ted Kennedy was NO Ronald Reagan!
LOOKING back at Ted Kennedy's Life......
* Killed Mary Jo Kopechne , than the Kennedy clan intimidated the victim's family and local authorities, to prevent justice. To this day, Kennedy has not apologised to Mary Jo's family, and, of course, the tragedy did not for a moment affect his future rampant drinking and womanising.
* Kennedy was a leader in the Democratic effort to cut off funding to our South Vietnamese allies in 1975. Resulting in the neighnorhood of 3 million murdered in Vietnam and Cambodia.
* Slandered Judge Bork in the confirmation hearings on Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court.
* Twice kicked out of Harvard for cheating on exams. ( having someone else take the exam for him)
* KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party.
In his letter, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov offered Andropov his interpretation of Kennedy's offer. Former U.S. Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) had traveled to Moscow on behalf of Kennedy to seek out a partnership with Andropov and other Soviet officials, Kengor claims in his book.
* Kennedy for many years was one of the chief agents to raise funds and moral support for the IRA. Kennedy's positive role in persuading the IRA to give up terrorism is little redemption for the decades he was funding it, and was only due to Al Qaeda's actions on 9/11 which make terrorism suddenly impossible for US citizens to support.
* "In 1985, Senator Kerry was one of the members of Congress who returned from Nicaragua with that worthless signed piece of paper. He then supported the third Boland Amendment. Apparently, not only did John Kerry [and Ted Kennedy] not want to fight Communism "all over the world," he didn't even want to fight communism in our own backyard." American Thinker
* "In 1985, when the Reagan administration requested aid for the Contras, Kennedy couldn't resist evoking the "Gulf of Tonkin" resolution. The Panama invasion didn't last long enough to be compared to Vietnam. Instead, the removal of Manuel Noriega represented "long-term damage" to our foreign policy, to our ability to work with other nations in Latin America, and our goal of achieving lasting democracy in the region. Kennedy predicted that George Bush Sr.'s aggressive actions made the Sandinistas shoe-ins for the Nicaraguan election in February of 1990. He was dead wrong. As soon as the Nicaraguan people had a chance, they booted Fidel wannabe Daniel Ortega from power by a 14-point majority."
"In congressional debate on aid to the Nicaraguan "contras," Sens. Ted Kennedy and Tom Harkin seized on testimony by Gen. Paul Gorman, then the U.S. commander with responsibility for South America. The rebels, he had testified, would be incapable of overthrowing the ruling Sandinistas "in the foreseeable future." The Front Page
* Ted Kennedy And The First Gulf War - From FrontPageMag.Com
"Kennedy went beyond Vietnam in the debate before the first Gulf War. According to the senator, the casualties in Southeast Asia would seem slight when compared with Desert Storm. "The 45,000 body bags the Pentagon has sent to the region are all the evidence we need of the high price in lives and blood we will have to pay," said Kennedy. And when the war ended in a matter of days, as predicted, he never apologized to the President for his paranoid insinuations and over-the-top fear-mongering."
* Kennedy reaffirmed his position that with abortion, "we are dealing with a personal and private reproductive decision." He has said that he supported civil unions and equal rights for gays (Death To Marriage).
* Kennedy smeared President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
* Kennedy described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy
* Kennedy smeared Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears. “In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
* Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.” ........A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Ted Kennedy exemplified the worst of politics in the United States - a fraud, a thieving conniving pork barrel peddling image merchant who has supported murder and violence. A nasty piece of work if ever there was one.
I don't expect anyone to be perfect. I certainly am not. I realize the thing to do when a person dies is to say rest in peace or prayers for their family. I will not dance on his grave, but I am not going to do a 180 just becuase he passed away or had a horrible brain tumor. I will not be a phony and say I am sorry for his death, or that he will be missed. I will honor our real heroes that serve our country, and anyone else that loves our country and does not live a life of doing harm to it.
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Perhaps a little poetic interlude...
Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged.
~~Hillarie Belloc
Epitaph
Posterity will ne’er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Ted Kennedy
Stop traveller, and piss.
Apologies to Lord Byron
by Tet 68
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:55 AM | Comments (18)
August 25, 2009
Democrat Wanna Be John McCain Gets Booed At His Townhall Meeting
Remember duringi the campaign last year what McCain did. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
McCain on the campaign trail tells a crowd Obama is not a person that you should be scared of, and then takes the microphone away from the lady that said Obama was Arab...
Wild Thing's comment......
This post will be located under the fold DemoRATS in my sidebar. McCain might as well go join the DNC for all the good he does for the Republican party and forget about him having one ounce of conservative in his DNA.
First he ran a campaign to lose, he defends these people after what they did to Gov palin and her family!
McCain is despicable! Just add this continued BS to what he did with the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs.
“...Senator McCAIN Poised to SNATCH DEFEAT FROM the Jaws of VICTORY...”
From Rush Limbaugh:( transcript)
Senator John McCain says
that President Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option
if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health care reform."
So far, so good.
I'm still reminded of last week.
I was laughing myself silly when news came out and how big news it was
that McCain was voting with Republicans. (laughing)
Our nominee, our presidential nominee, and there was a huge story, about it:
"Ah, he's voting with Republicans now!"
Of course, he was called a sellout by the left.
So, so far, so good.
"McCain says
Obama will have to drop proposals for government-run health insurance option
if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on reform.
McCain says
many Americans are losing confidence in Obama,
partly because of concerns about the so-called public option.
"So McCain proposed
that Obama meet with members of both parties in Congress
to find areas of agreement, abandon the public option,
and then make clear exactly what he wants in the legislation."
Just as things were going good.
Just as things are going good, what happens?
McCain rides in to, quote, unquote,
"save the day."
You know, I've got this deja vu Gang of 14 thing running through my head.
Right, public option is no good, won't pass.
Leave it there, senator!
Leave it there!
Don't have a meeting with him to figure out what can pass.
Leave it there!
Don't let this guy do it!
Don't...
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Here we are,
we we've got victory in our jaws. All we have to do is clamp down,
and here comes McCain with the jaw constrictors. (snorts)
(McCain impersonation) "That's right, Limbaugh.
That's right.
Bipartisanship. Bipartisanship.
I'm going to show we can do this if we work together!"
No! No!
You don't want to be part of this.
When the other guy is going to bomb out,
when the other guy is going to flame out,
when the other guy is gonna crash...
McCain, would you follow an enemy fighter pilot down and crash just because he was going to?
No!
You would stay up there and gloat,
especially if you shot him down.
If this guy is going to go down in flames, figuratively speaking,
watch from the cockpit.
Ah, jeez.
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 PM | Comments (5)
August 22, 2009
Man with NO Honor or Principles Ted Kennedy Seeks To Change Election Rules
What Ted Kennedy Wants
He's trying to change election rules—again.
Senator Ted Kennedy, who is gravely ill with brain cancer, has sent a letter to Massachusetts lawmakers requesting a change in the state law that determines how his Senate seat would be filled if it became vacant before his eighth full term ends in 2012.
Current law mandates that a special election be held at least 145 days after the seat becomes available. Mr. Kennedy is concerned that such a delay could leave his fellow Democrats in the Senate one vote short of a filibuster-proof majority for months while a special election takes place.
"I therefore am writing to urge you to work together to amend the law through the normal legislative process to provide for a temporary gubernatorial appointment until the special election occurs," writes the Senator.
What Mr. Kennedy doesn't volunteer is that he orchestrated the 2004 succession law revision that now requires a special election, and for similarly partisan reasons.
John Kerry, the other Senator from the state, was running for President in 2004, and Mr. Kennedy wanted the law changed so the Republican Governor at the time, Mitt Romney, could not name Mr. Kerry's replacement.
"Prodded by a personal appeal from Senator Edward M. Kennedy," reported the Boston Globe in 2004, "Democratic legislative leaders have agreed to take up a stalled bill creating a special election process to replace U.S. Senator John F. Kerry if he wins the presidency." Now that the state has a Democratic Governor, Mr. Kennedy wants to revert to gubernatorial appointments.
Beacon Hill has long sported heavy Democratic majorities, so the state legislature has the votes to grant Mr. Kennedy's wish. But does it have the chutzpah? An election is the more democratic option. After witnessing recent attempts by incompetent Governors in Illinois and New York to fill Senate vacancies, Massachusetts voters may have soured on such appointments. Especially when Mr. Kennedy's motivation for changing the law is so obviously born of partisan interest, not principle.
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You know...a normal guy would have resigned when the terminal situation was given by the doctor. He would have gone to live in peace the last few months. But being a liberal he is not a normal person so forget what I just said. hahaha
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August 15, 2009
Man Guilty of Posing as White Supremecists and Issuing Death Threats
NEW ORLEANS - Dyron Hart, a former Nicholls State football player, faces 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
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Man guilty of posing as white supremecists and issuing death threats
There was a report that a protester outside of the Dingell office was actually a Dingell staffer/volunteer or something. This is a very common tactic for the left.
A black man who pretended to be a white supremacist on the Internet has entered a guilty plea to charges that he issued death threats.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says 20-year old Dyron Hart pled guilty in federal court to "communicating threats in interstate commerce."
"According to court documents, Hart... admitted that he created a fictitious name and used the photograph of a white supremacist to communicated a threat. He then purported to be a person outraged by the election of President Barack Obama," Letten said in a news release.
Letten says that Hart sent the threat to an African American student at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux "indicating he wanted to kill African American individuals because of the election of the President."
Hart now faces a maximum 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,0000.
Sentencing has been scheduled for November 18, 2009.
Wild Thing's comment.......
There are more phony incidents than real ones! It is good to see one get caught!
If there was as much racism in this country as the left thinks, Obama would never have become Senator. I don’t know any whites that are inciting racism like that likes of Barack Obama, Rev. Wright , Al Sharpton, and the Black Panthers, Shelia Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters the list is long .
... Thank you Eden for sending this to me.
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August 02, 2009
Obama WASTES Tax Payers Dollars To Fund Underground Gay Art Houses
A dancer performs a nude routine for "The Symmetry Project" as part of a San Francisco dance group that has received emergency funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing 'Pervert' Revues, Underground Pornography
Talk about a stimulus package.
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, ( a gay and lesbian film house), which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
"When you spend so much money in a short amount of time ... you're going to have nonsense like this, and that's why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
Williams said such support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage the recession.
"When taxpayers see this, they realize that's just a bunch of hot air," he told FOXNews.com.
Some members of Congress raised alarms as the stimulus bill was being drafted and approved, but President Obama, while admitting there were problems with the $787 billion legislation, stressed the need for immediate action to resuscitate the economy.
"We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary," Obama said at the time.
One project that has received past NEA funding and stands to get an additional boost from a $25,000 stimulus grant is "The Symmetry Project," a dance piece by choreographer Jess Curtis.
The show depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience," according to a description offered on Curtis' Web site.
In the flesh — and there's a lot of it — it amounts to two people writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the altogether.
Curtis said that diminished support from regular funders like San Francisco Grants for the Arts "would mean lots less work and less ability to organize ... to get the work out in front of people." He said the NEA funding will help keep his art afloat.
"I think art is an incredibly important part of our culture and our life and ... that it's very much appropriate that our government should be supporting it," he told FOXNews.com.
Wild Thing's comment......
Disgusting, This misuse of money goes beyond corruption. This is in Nancy Pelosi's area. Her voters, so she must be the one that forced this one to be paid by we tax payers. sheesh
Totally disgusting people!!!
....Thank you Richard for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:40 AM | Comments (5)
July 30, 2009
Once Again Democrats Are The Party Of Making Threats!
Dems warn GOP of backlash for opposing Sotomayor
The Senate debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor turned bitter Wednesday, after Democrats warned the GOP it would pay a steep price for opposing the judge who would be the first Hispanic justice, and a top Republican charged they were playing destructive racial politics.
Majority Leader Harry Reid implored Republicans Wednesday to join Democrats in voting to confirm Sotomayor next week, warning that GOP opposition would bring the same sort of public backlash that followed the party's spirited opposition to measures that would have given some illegal immigrants a chance to gain legal status.
"I just think that their voting against this good woman is going to treat them about the same way that they got treated as a result of their votes on immigration," said Reid, D-Nev.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the head of his party's Senate campaign committee and a Sotomayor opponent, shot back that Reid and other Democrats were trying to exploit the nomination and "giving cover to groups and individuals to nurture racial grievances for political advantage."
"I don't think it influences people's votes, but what it does encourage is a very poisonous — indeed a very toxic — tone of destructive politics," Cornyn told The Associated Press. "They ought to be ashamed of themselves."
Reid's comments and the heated response they drew highlight the incendiary political dynamics surrounding next week's vote to confirm President Barack Obama's first high court nominee, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who was raised in a South Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before spending 17 years on the federal bench. There is little doubt that Sotomayor, 55, will be confirmed with majority Democrats backing her solidly and a handful of Republicans joining them.
The decision on how to vote on her confirmation was made more difficult in recent days for some Republicans and Democrats from conservative-leaning battleground states after the National Rifle Association, which has a loyal and politically active base of members, announced that a vote to confirm Sotomayor would count against senators in the group's annual candidate ratings. The NRA calls Sotomayor "hostile" to the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Since the NRA's threat, no Republican or conservative Democrat has come out publicly to support Sotomayor.
Three Republicans, Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jim DeMint of South Carolina, announced Wednesday that they planned to vote "no."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he was "disappointed" that more Republicans hadn't sided with him in support of Obama's nominee. His panel's vote Tuesday to send Sotomayor's nomination to the full Senate was nearly along party lines, with just one Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, breaking with the party to back her.
Reid and Leahy appeared at a Capitol Hill news conference with a crowd of activists representing civil rights, Hispanic and women's groups, among others who are enthusiastically backing Sotomayor.
"She knows the law. She knows how to apply the law. She understands the role of a judge. She understands the role of the courts. There is no mystery about this nominee," Leahy said. "Hers is a truly American story, and what a story, and what a model this is going to be for others in America."
Most Republicans, though, say they don't trust Sotomayor to keep her personal prejudices and opinions out of the courtroom. Burr said in a statement that the judge has "let her personal beliefs cloud her judgment."
DeMint said she "has not inspired confidence that she will consistently base her decisions on our Constitution and laws," citing in particular her stance on gun and abortion rights.
Wild Thing's comment........
Whenever there is a threat made is done by a democrat. I don't remember one single time the Republican party or a Republican politician has made a threat to the Democrats.
I am so sick of the left doing things and saying things like this and getting away with it.
What they put Clarence Thomas and also Bork, what they put them through was horrible and someone should bring that up to these freaks on the left. And there were no such threats by Reps about Dem opposition to Estrada .
Democrats had better be worried about the backlash they are going to get for all the leftist crap they’ve been pulling, including Sotomayor. I’m serious. Contempt for them is far too nice the word for what people who pay even the mildest attention are starting to feel. Average “Joe-sixpacks” are starting to get really mad. And these are folks who don’t watch what’s going on every day.
If God didnt want some hypocrites in the world, he wouldnt have made Democrats.
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:49 AM | Comments (8)
Seventy-year-old Congresswoman Makes Most Beautiful List
Seventy-year-old congresswoman makes most beautiful list
WASHINGTON
California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters has a beauty secret.
"I bathe in moisturizer,'" the 70-year-old congresswoman told the Hill newspaper.
Waters is one of seven lawmakers that made the cut for the most-beautiful ....Capitol Hill paper's 2009 50 Most Beautiful List, landing in position #5 in the top 10.
Other lawmakers on the list include New Mexico Democrat Rep. Martin Heinrich, who scored the top spot on the list, Washington Republican Rep. Dave Reichert, Colorado Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey, California Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier, Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock, and North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Reichert said to CNN about making the list.
Update 6:48 p.m.: Rep. Heinrich has chimed in about making the list: "The honor and photo provided my colleagues and me a brief laugh this morning, and then we went back to work trying to reform our health care system.”
Wild Thing's comment........
If you go HERE you can CLICK THE ARROWS on the right side bar and go through all of them. There are a lot of people I have not heard of before men and women and Republicans.
Maybe some of you have them in your State.
LOL I showed this to Nicolas and he laughed so hard. But he was also surprised too at the others on the list at the Hill site he had not heard of before.
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July 28, 2009
Democrats Eye 10% TAX On Botox and Cosmetic Surgery ~ LOL
Democrats Eye 10% TAX On Botox and Cosmetic Surgery
Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, CONGRESS DAILY reports.
The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10% excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.
DAILY's Peter Cohn reveals: The idea was broached in a meeting with OMB Director Orszag in mid-July, after which Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some "interesting," "creative," and "kind of fun" ideas.
Wild Thing's comment........
Let's make it retroactive and our own reps in Washington will owe millions in back taxes. Pelosi alone could bail out California. LOL
I get so tired of seeing all the people with crash dummy type faces. haha
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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July 23, 2009
DNC Runs Another Anti-Rush Ad
Wild Thing's comment..............
Everything Obama wants is to destroy our country so you bet I want him to fail too. How a person that has been friends with Bill Ayers and all the other things could ever become president is shameful.
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:40 AM | Comments (2)
July 22, 2009
Democrats Irked By Obama Signing Statement
Democrats irked by Obama signing statement
WASHINGTON
Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same.
Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's declaration in June that he doesn't have to comply with provisions in a war spending bill that puts conditions on aid provided to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
In a signing statement accompanying the $106 billion bill, Obama said he wouldn't allow the legislation to interfere with his authority as president to conduct foreign policy and negotiate with other governments. Earlier in his 6-month-old administration, Obama issued a signing statement regarding provisions in a $410 billion omnibus spending bill.
"During the previous administration, all of us were critical of (Bush's) assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of congressional statutes he was required to enforce," the Democrats wrote in their letter to Obama. "We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude."
The letter was signed by Reps. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as Reps. Nita Lowey and Gregory Meeks, both of New York, who chair subcommittees on those panels.
Obey and Frank in particular are needed by Obama to push through Congress key pieces of his agenda, including health care and financial oversight reform.
The White House said Tuesday the administration plans to implement the provisions of the bill and suggested that Obama's signing statement was aimed more at defending the president's executive powers than skirting the law.
"The president has also already made it clear that he will not ignore statutory obligations on the basis of policy disagreements and will reserve signing statements for legislation that raises clearly identified constitutional concerns," White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
Bush issued a record number of signing statements while in office as he sparred with Democrats on such big issues as the war in Iraq.
Democrats, including Obama, sharply criticized Bush as overstepping his bounds as president. In March, Obama ordered a review of Bush's guidelines for implementing legislation.
"There is no doubt that the practice of issuing such statements can be abused," Obama wrote in a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies.
At the same time, however, Obama did not rule out issuing any signing statements, which have been used for centuries. Rather, he ordered his administration to work with Congress to inform lawmakers about concerns over legality before legislation ever reaches his desk. He also pledged to use caution and restraint when writing his own signing statements, and said he would rely on Justice Department guidance when doing so.
Two days after issuing the memo, Obama issued his first signing statement after receiving a $410 billion omnibus spending bill. He said the bill would "unduly interfere" with his authority by directing him how to proceed, or not to, in negotiations and discussions with international organizations and foreign governments.
Obey and the other House lawmakers said this week that Obama's signing statement on the war bill will make it tougher in the future to persuade other lawmakers to support the World Bank and IMF.
If Congress can't place conditions on the money, "it will make it virtually impossible to provide further allocations for these institutions," they wrote.
Wild Thing's comment...........
It seems the dems never thought they’d get the ‘We won!’ line used on them.
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:47 AM | Comments (4)
July 21, 2009
Democrats Refuse to Sign Pledge to Read Health Care Bill Before Vote
Let Freedom Ring: By close of business on Monday, July 20th, we will release the names of those who have signed, those who have declined to sign and those who have failed to respond.
We will then begin targeted publicity campaigns thanking those who have signed and taking to task those who have not.
Senators and Members of Congress who have already signed our pledge:
Total signers at the time I am doing this post.....72
http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/pledge-to-read
Rep Steve Austria, OH - 07
Rep Michele Bachmann, MN - 06
Rep Brian Bilbray, CA - 50
Rep Gus Bilirakis, FL - 09
Rep Rob Bishop, UT - 01
Rep Marsha Blackburn, TN - 07
Rep Roy Blunt, MO - 07
Rep John Boehner, OH - 08
Rep Michael Burgess, TX - 26
Rep Dan Burton, IN - 05
Rep Dave Camp, MI - 04
Rep Eric Cantor, VA - 07
Rep John Carter, TX - 31
Rep Bill Cassidy, LA - 06
Rep Mike Castle, DE - 00
Rep Jason Chaffetz, UT - 03
Sen Tom Coburn, OK
Rep Mike Coffman, CO - 06
Rep Tom Cole, OK - 04
Rep Mike Conaway, TX - 11
Sen John Cornyn, TX
Rep John Culberson, TX - 07
Sen James DeMint, SC
Rep Charlie Dent, PA - 15
Rep Mary Fallin, OK - 05
Rep Jeff Flake, AZ - 06
Rep John Fleming, LA - 04
Rep Virginia Foxx, NC - 05
Rep Scott Garrett, NJ - 05
Rep Jim Gerlach, PA - 06
Rep Phil Gingrey, GA - 11
Rep Louie Gohmert, TX - 01
Rep Kay Granger, TX - 12
Rep Sam Graves, MO - 06
Rep Ralph Hall, TX - 04
Rep Gregg Harper, MS - 03
Rep Wally Herger, CA - 02
Rep Duncan Hunter, CA - 52
Sen James Inhofe, OK
Sen Mike Johanns, NE
Rep Steve King, IA - 05
Rep John Kline, MN - 02
Rep Doug Lamborn, CO - 05
Rep Bob Latta, OH - 05
Rep Kenny Marchant, TX - 24
Rep Kevin McCarthy, CA - 22
Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers, WA - 05
Rep John Mica, FL - 07
Rep Jerry Moran, KS - 01
Rep Pete Olson, TX - 22
Rep Ron Paul, TX - 14
Rep Mike Pence, IN - 06
Rep Joe Pitts, PA - 16
Rep Todd Platts, PA - 19
Rep Bill Posey, FL - 15
Rep Tom Price, GA - 06
Rep Adam Putnam, FL - 12
Rep Tom Rooney, FL - 16
Rep Paul Ryan, WI - 01
Rep Steve Scalise, LA - 01
Rep Pete Sessions, TX - 32
Rep John Shadegg, AZ - 03
Rep Lamar Smith, TX - 21
Rep Mark Souder, IN - 03
Rep John Sullivan, OK - 01
Rep Todd Tiahrt, KS - 04
Rep Patrick Tiberi, OH - 12
Rep Fred Upton, MI - 06
Rep Zach Wamp, TN - 03
Rep Lynn Westmoreland, GA - 03
Rep Joe Wilson, SC - 02
Rep Frank Wolf, VA - 10
Obama = LIAR LIAR LIAR
Barack Obama "Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk"
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Great concept I love it! Thank you Let Freedom Ring for doing this.
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July 20, 2009
40 Years Later Kennedy Still Getting Away With Death of Mary Jo Kopechne
Spinning Kennedy For 40 Years
In Massachusetts, everyone just loves Senator Ted Kennedy. In the Boston media, this man can do no wrong, especially now because of his illness, but we all know there are things few of us could get away with but he did simply because he’s a Democrat and (more importantly) a Kennedy.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, killed July 18, 1969 after leaving a party with Senator Edward Kennedy. That night, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, and left the scene with Kopechne still in the submerged vehicle; he did not call the police until the following morning.
Perhaps the most egregious example of the liberal media planting a pro-Kennedy spin on Chappaquiddick came in a January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine profile of Kennedy:
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.” — Charles Pierce Globe writer
We all know what would happen to any of us had we walked away from the scene of an accident where someone died. Continuing on as a United States senator would not be one of them.
Remember that while Ted Kennedy continues to be celebrated
On this day 40 years ago 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was left in the car to drown
Sometime around midnight, on July 18, 1969 Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile 88 off of a small bridge on Chappaquiddick island, into eight feet of chilly water. The vehicle landed upside-down. While Kennedy managed to free himself from the wreck and swim to safety, his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was left in the car to drown.
Once he reached shore, Kennedy claims to have made seven or eight attempts to rescue Kopechne, but could not free her.
Kennedy then walked back to the cottage where he and four other men, were partying with several young women known as the “Boiler Room Girls“ who had worked on Robert Kennedy‘s campaign. Though Kennedy passed by a fire station and a private home to return to the cottage, he never stopped to ask for help for the trapped Kopechne.
He returned to the party and according to Kennedy himself, informed his cousin and a friend of the situation. The two men, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham claim to have returned to the scene of the accident and made several unsuccessful attempts to free Kopechne.
Then Kennedy’s story takes an even stranger turn.
After the failed rescue attempts, Kennedy claims to have jumped back into the water and made the 500-foot swim across the channel back to Edgartown. He then walked back to his hotel and spent the night. He even took the time to change clothes and pay a visit to the front-desk, to complain about a noisy party--no doubt Kennedy's sloppy attempt at securing an alibi.
The next morning, Gargan and Markham around 8:00 a.m., and were supposedly shocked to discover that Kennedy never reported the accident to police. According to Kennedy‘s own testimony, he told them: "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel ... that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive"
The two men along with Kennedy went back to Chappaquiddick, where Kennedy spent some time making phone calls, seeking advice from various individuals as to how to proceed.
Meanwhile, two fisherman had discovered the submerged car and notified police. At 8:45a.m. a diver recovered the lifeless body of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It was not until 10a.m., over nine hours after driving-off of the bridge that Ted Kennedy went to the police station in Edgarton to report the accident.
Kennedy then gave the following prepared statement to police: “On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge.
The car went off the side of the bridge. There was one passenger with me, one Miss Mary [Kopechne], a former secretary of my brother Sen. Robert Kennedy. The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. I was exhausted and in a state of shock.
I recall walking back to where my friends were eating. There was a car parked in front of the cottage and I climbed into the backseat. I then asked for someone to bring me back to Edgartown. I remember walking around for a period and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police”
In a move which must have been rather tortuous for her parents, Kennedy attended Mary Jo's funeral, wearing a neck brace (which he reportedly never wore again) and looking rather pathetic.
The diver who recovered Kopechne’s body, John Farrar testified at the official inquest that her body was found where the air pocket would have formed. He said: “Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.”
A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended two-month sentence. Kennedy then went on national television to repeat his rather implausible story, and to ask for the public’s “prayers.”
The ensuing scandal and questionable details given by all of those involved is now left to speculation. It was obvious to most people that Kennedy had allowed a young girl to drown, in a desperate and self-serving attempt to protect his political career.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
It is sickening how the media and the Democrats and the RINO’s fawn over what a great man Ted Kennedy is/was.
It’s more revolting as the years pass. No justice.
....Thank you Jack for sending this to me.
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July 15, 2009
Cronkite Award for Couric Represents Journalism’s Rotting Corpse
Cronkite Award for Couric Represents Journalism’s Rotting Corpse
by John Ziegler
On April 15th, the “prestigious’ (and apparently now openly liberal) USC Annenberg School for Communication will be presenting CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Journalism.
Now, for there to even be such a thing as an prize for “Excellence in Television Journalism” in an age where a desperate thirst for ratings has caused most TV “news” to become little more than glorified infotainment, is a bit like passing out awards for fiscal responsibility to members of Congress. But for Katie Couric, the poster child of this “infotainmentification” of news, to be the recipient of such an oxymoronic honor is much like if that aforementioned trophy for frugal spending in Congress went to John Murtha or Barney Frank.
But what makes this situation so particularly galling is the specific reason why Couric is being honored for her “excellence in journalism.” Couric is being presented with the award for “Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.”
What was it that Couric did that was so “special”? The judges singled her out solely for “her "extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.”
Of course there is no disputing that the perception created by that interview and the ensuing media and entertainment coverage of it clearly had enormous impact on how Barack Obama got elected, but is this the kind of “achievement” that journalism is supposed to be honoring? (If it is, shouldn’t the award really go to Tina Fey?) And is there any doubt whatsoever that had Couric asked the exact same questions and Palin had been perceived as having preformed well (or if one of her softball interviews with Barack Obama had brought down his candidacy) that there would be no awards for her from USC or anyone else of note?
So it is obvious that Couric is being rewarded for the political result of her interview (the shooting down of a conservative superstar just in time to save the Obama campaign) and not the “journalism” of it, but that truth is not even the most outrageous aspect of this absurdity. That lies in the reality that not only shouldn’t Couric be getting rewarded for that Palin interview, in a world where journalism still mattered at all she would have been roundly condemned for it.
How do I know this? Because I have devoted most of the last eight months of my life to telling the real story behind the media coverage of the 2008 election with my documentary “Media Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.” The focal point of my film is the exclusive interview I did with Governor Palin from her home in Wasilla where she reveals more than enough evidence to completely discredit Couric’s USC award.
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Katie Couric Buys Daughter Mosque-Shaped Alarm Clock That ‘Does the Call to Prayers’
"I recently traveled on a five-day trip to the Middle East and Afghanistan with Sec. of Defense Robert Gates and a small corps of traveling press. In this video, I interview some of the other journalists about their experiences covering the new administration."
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Wild Thing's comment........
Liberals giving other liberals awards. Sounds like Oscar night.
I guess next Katie will be buying a burqa for herself. She is nuts!!! She has been disgusting for a very long time. I can't remember if she ever did real reporting, or journalism.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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July 01, 2009
What Did John Conyers Know About His Wife's Corruption?
Former aide: Monica Conyers took cash in Greektown deal, wrote letter with husband
Sam Riddle, a former aide to Monica Conyers, says the Detroit councilwoman drove him to a meeting with a Greektown businessman, arranged a $20,000 consulting contract for Riddle, demanded $10,000 as a finder's fee and later drafted a letter along with her husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, in support of the businessman.
In an extended admission, Riddle told the Detroit Free Press that Conyers brokered several similar deals for him because she could not hire him directly as a consultant, including the deal with Greektown entrepreneur Dimitrios Papas.
Detroit Free Press, June 29: "I didn't have to do a lot of work," Riddle said. "And the councilwoman insisted on half of my retainer as a finder's fee."
Riddle said Papas gave him checks totaling $20,000. He said he then paid the councilwoman $10,000 cash.
"While I felt it was a bit exorbitant, it didn't feel that bad given the workload, which was nil," Riddle said, adding, "It was clear he was dealing with me because of Monica, not because of any special skill set he was hoping to gain with me."
It's not clear that John Conyers knew of his wife's link to the businessman, but the two drafted a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking approval of a Romulus waste injection project that one of Papas' companies was looking to take over.
Riddle also confirmed a similar arrangement with Zeidman's owner Tomas LaBret in which he was paid a large retainer and Conyers received jewelry.
Riddle's candor isn't a total surprise. Although he had refused to comment on the situation, he repeatedly promised to tell the truth under oath and earlier this month told Fox 2 that "The only difference between Detroit and third world nations -- where corruption is concerned -- is goats in the street."
Wild Thing's comment.......
John Conyers: Take my wife. Please! (/hennyyoungman)
What a couple, but they do fit right in with the rest of the party on the left.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
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June 30, 2009
With Al Franken Dems Get 60
After Court Ruling, Coleman Concedes to Franken in Minnesota Senate Battle
After the Minnesota high court rejects a legal challenge from Norm Coleman, the Republican concedes to Democrat Al Franken in the state's Senate race.
Ending an eight-month legal battle, Republican Norm Coleman conceded Tuesday to Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race after the state's high court ruled that Franken should be certified as the winner.
Though Coleman could have tried to take the case to the federal Supreme Court, he told reporters outside his home in St. Paul that continuing to drag out his challenge would hurt his state.
"I just had a conversation with Al Franken congratulating him on his victory," Coleman said. "The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken. I respect its decision and I will abide by its result. ...We have reached the point where further litigation damages the unity of our state."
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race.
The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling.
Justices said Franken is entitled to the election certificate he needs to assume office.
When Franken is sworn in, he'll give Democrats a big enough majority to overcome Republican filibusters.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Al Franken the crook who’s Air America franchise embezzled tax payer money from a children’s charity.
Ono the way home I just heard on talk radio that Franken is "essentially a "ticking time bomb". He's unpredictable and scares the democrats as much as anyone. They're reported to be *NOT* looking forward to working with him. He's going to be a huge embarrassment to them."
If that is true about how many of the dems feel about him then it would be the ONLY up side to this.
Did not Caligula make his horse a Roman Senator? Well, not be outdone, a true horse’s ass now sits in the U. S. Senate. As a nation have truly sunk to a new level of depravity and darkness.
My God... WHAT has happened to our country???
And what about Cap and Trade in the Senate?
Unless the GOP doesn’t start to take on ACORN and similar organizations we can kiss free elections goodbye forever.
Then there is his stupid book:
Today, Rush Limbaugh today compared the results of Minnesota's senate election to the corrupt, obviously rigged election in Iran.
" Just like in our country. Norm Coleman wins in Minnesota in a recount, and they keep having recounts, and Al Franken wins. So they had the recount in Iran, and shazzam! Ahmadinejad gained votes!"
Limbaugh made the comments before the Supreme Court ruled 5-0 for Franken.
....Thank you Richard for sending this to me.
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America Hating NYS Senate Democrats in SHOCKING Video Won't Stand for Pledge
Video of NYS Senate Democrats sitting defiantly through the Pledge of Allegiance in protest after losing political control of the Chamber to Republicans.
Only one courageous Senator tried to stand to honor the flag, but he was immedaietly pulled down into his seat by fellow Democrats.
The video is from WCBS-2 TV on 6/23/09, taped during a "special session" of the Senate called by Democrat Gov. David Paterson in an effort to end a three-week walkout by Democrats that has brought government to a screeching halt.
Grim-faced Democrats refused to acknowledge even their presence in the Chamber, failing to answer when their names were called, or join in a silent prayer that traditionally begins each session.
The first Senator pictured seated is Antoine Thompson of Buffalo. The Senator attempting to stand is Martin Dilan of Brooklyn, and he looks clearly uncomfortable when he is pulled down by Kevin Parker of Brooklyn and Ruth Hassell-Thompson of Westchester.
Wild Thing's comment.......
I swear with all that is in me, these people should be at least KICKED the HELL out of our Government. Everyone of them is a traitor to our country.
"This is a time in our life that we're making history, this is our moment. We chose to come into the Army knowing that we could be sent over here, but we chose that anyway, because we choose to believe that the patch we wear on our right shoulder stands for something that's greater than Ourselves, that's greater than where we are from. We're the fabric that holds the flag together."
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RIP Chris
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June 27, 2009
California School Mosaic of 'Capitalism Will Fail' and Communism Symbol
Communism's hammer and sickle is seen in the "Class of 2007" mosaic outside of the Black Pine Circle School in Berkeley, Calif.
'Capitalism Will Fail,' Marijuana Leaf Part of California School Mosaic
Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader.
But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic.
The symbols, which are prominently displayed outside the school, have prompted questions about the appropriateness of images like a hammer and sickle and a marijuana leaf on school grounds — and have led critics to say they are blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children.
Black Pine Circle bills itself as a day school where students from kindergarten through eighth grade will be "maximally free of all the 'isms' which pervade most aspects of the world around them: from racism to sexism to the less obvious forms of discrimination," according to its Web site.
Capitalism, even if it fails, apparently isn't one of those: Tuition for a 10-month term costs more than $17,000.
Laura Wolff, assistant director and head of BPCS's Lower School, told FOXNews.com that each graduating student makes a tile to commemorate his or her time there, sometimes teaming up with other students to make a "dual tile." She said school officials do not edit or otherwise influence the end products.
"Being Berkeley, of course, we don't censor their creative expression," Wolff said. "It's fun to see what they come up with."
During a brief interview, Wolff said she was not familiar with the images in question — including the four-tile hammer and sickle depiction — and referred inquiries to John Carlstroem, director of the school, and art teachers Kieren Dutcher and Kim Buckingham. Multiple messages seeking additional comment were not returned.
Ron Reynolds, executive director of the California Association of Private School Organizations, said the images were in "bad taste," but stopped short of calling for their removal.
"I am certainly not enamored by that particular expression and I certainly disagree, but I don't think there's a law against someone expressing a stupid thought," Reynolds told FOXNews.com. "If they felt capitalism will fail, I'd be curious to see what their alternative is."
The mosaic's location on the perimeter of the school serves as an "advertisement for discriminating parents," according to Reynolds, who said he thought the images were conjured up solely by the students.
"Living in Berkeley, I don't think it's a tremendous stretch," he said. "If it were in Irvine or Van Nuys, yeah, I think there would be some raised eyebrows."
Alice Davis, 21, attended Black Pine Circle School from 1998 to 2001 and remembers painting her own tile — a "cityscape scene at nighttime." Davis, now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., said she doesn't recall receiving any instruction regarding the content of her creation.
"They left it up to a bunch of 13-year-olds to decide," Davis told FOXNews.com. "They were hands off in telling us what was appropriate and what wasn't. It was left to our judgment."
Meanwhile, Danae Condos, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, said she found the images "shocking" and not suitable for young children.
"I know some people might say it fits in with the Berkeley atmosphere, but it does say something about the type of education the students are receiving," she told FOXNews.com. "It's obvious that they're receiving some political indoctrination from the school or from their parents. There's no doubt in my mind they're being politically influenced in their education."
Condos, a 19-year-old student at the University of California-Berkeley, said she doubted that school administrators would allow any and all symbols.
"They wouldn't allow a swastika symbol," she said. "It shows where the school's standards lie. If you're seeing this at one of the top-notch schools in the area, imagine what's going on it other schools that don't have the same privileges."
Wild Thing's comment.......
I wish more conservatives would retrun to teaching. There may be some now but it sure seems over run by the left, socialists, communists re-writing our history and this like this in the story. Destorying our country in their propaganda instead of real teaching of subjects like they used to do.
School for future John Walker Lindhs’, Bernadine Dohrns’, nd William Ayers’.
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....Thank you Richard for sending this to me.
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Monica Conyers ~Wife of Rep.John Conyers ~ Pleads Guilty
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Democrats Culture of Corruption: Monica Conyers (Wife of Congressman John) Pleads Guilty to Bribery
Monica Conyers, the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in a federal court in Detroit, this morning.
According to court documents, in late 2007, Mrs. Conyers, president pro tem of the Detroit City Council, twice accepted envelopes filled with cash, once in the parking lot of a Detroit McDonalds.
Mrs. Conyers faces up to 5 year in prison, three years supervised release and/or a $250,000 fine. Calls to an attorney for Mrs. Conyers were not immediately returned.
Jackson was working as a consultant for Synagro which won the $1.2 Billion contract to remove sludge from the city's water treatment plants. The contract was awarded in 2007.
Wild Thing's comment.......
" the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers"
Gosh I didn't know he was soooo powerful. hahahaa Both of these Conyers people should be kicked out of politics.
Nicholas just said, "It’s alright she had a right to do it. You know, because of slavery." omg LOL
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June 26, 2009
Democrats David Obey and Maxine Waters Waters in Noisy Floor Fight
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Obey, Waters in noisy floor fight
Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation — and according to one a physical one — on the floor of the House on Thursday night over an appropriations earmark one was seeking.
After the House floor had largely cleared following a series of votes, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) split apart from a heated conversation and began yelling at one another.
The confrontation began with the two talking in each other’s faces and gesturing animatedly with their hands. Obey then attempted to walk away, but Waters kept following him. Obey then put his hand on Waters arm and shoulder, and Waters became irate.
Obey again turned away, dismissing Waters by throwing up his hands, but Waters continued to stalk him, talking to his back and making a shoving motion.
Waters followed Obey down to the well of the House, and as the confrontation — and shoves — continued, Obey turned and told her: “You are out of line.”
“You’re out of line,” Waters shot while walking down toward the well.
“You’re out of line,” Obey shot back before turning and walking away.
But then Obey stopped, turned back toward Waters, and shouted: “I’m not going to approve that earmark!”
Obey turned away, but Waters went to go huddle with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She could be over heard telling them: “He touched me first.”
Waters was escorted by her colleagues into the cloakroom.
Obey then conversed for a few minutes with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Hoyer's office said the two did not discuss the incident but instead talked only about the appropriations process. Obey had been speaking with Hoyer and leadership staff for most of the vote series prior to his encounter with Waters.
Obey then exited the chamber.
But Waters soon returned briefly, again telling her colleagues: “He touched me.”
Waters then disappeared into the cloakroom.
Waters and Obey have had an ongoing dispute about an earmark for a public school employment training center in Los Angeles that was named after Waters when she was a state representative.
Obey rejected that earmark as violating policies against so-called “monuments to me.” Waters revised her request to go to the school district’s whole adult employment training program, so the district could decide whether the money would go to the school named after Waters.
Thursday was the committee markup of the spending bill that would include the earmark, and Obey let it be known that the earmark would be denied. She approached him and complained.
A Waters aide said that Obey had pushed her.
Ellis Brachman, a spokesman for Obey, confirmed that the dispute was about an earmark Obey denied Waters, but placed the blame on Waters for escalating the situation.
“As I understand it, she was the one who pressed the issue,” Brachman said. “The chairman repeatedly tried to end the confrontation.”
Obey-Waters clash on House floor
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) engaged in a late afternoon shouting match on the House floor after Obey reportedly rebuffed Waters on a $1 million earmark request, aides and witnesses said.
Witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that Waters pushed or shoved Obey.
The pair were seen shouting at each other and had to be separated by members -- who were gathered on the floor casting final votes before heading off to a party at the White House.
Waters, according a Democratic staffer familiar with the situation, approached Obey to ask him to fund one of her longstanding earmarks, the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.
Obey -- who irked Waters a few weeks back by banning "Monuments to me" funding projects named after the politicians that earmark them -- told her no, emphatically enough to be heard across the chamber.
"I'm not going to approve that earmark!" Obey shouted.
The two veteran Democrats -- each pugnacious and 71 years old -- began shouting, with the L.A. area-Congresswoman following Obey around the chamber, reportedly suggesting he channel the vocational money through a local school district.
At some point, they collided, witnesses say, with one Obey ally claiming the lean Waters "tried to shove" the stout Obey.
UPDATED: Waters spokesman Michael Levin called to say that the center -- which provides a wide array of health care, automotive, GED and job preparedness training programs -- was named after Waters before she entered the House by LA school officials.
"That's a point she was trying to make with Chairman Obey," Levin said.
The program Levin said, serves hundreds of low-income people a year and is located near four housing projects with sky-high unemployment rates. Waters' funding request is needed to keep the center going, he added, because may of the centers' state grants are on the chopping block, a result of the California's staggering deficit.
He refused to comment on the specifics of the scrap, saying, "I wasn't a witness, but it's my understanding it was a heated exchange."
Waters told colleagues that Obey "touched me first," according to The Hill.
"One testament to her work is the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center, a multimillion dollar campus providing education and employment opportunities to residents of the Watts area," reads a description of the center posted on her Web site.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Thrilla in the Congress........LOL Cage match, two Dems enter, one Dem leaves! Somebody call WWF Vince McMahan! Unfortunately, no shots were fired.
And the rest of the world looks on and as we see the dems in the majority not only destroying our country but they don't even have one ouce of class to know how to behave while their doing their dasterdly deeds.
These are the people deciding the fate of our country?! God help us.
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June 24, 2009
Obama To Blame for Economic Problems
While most U.S. voters still blame the Bush Administration for the nation’s economic problems, a growing number are inclined to blame President Barack Obama.
Obama only has a few weeks at most to keep using the “inherited from my predecessor” defense, if that. The next joblessness report comes out in early July.
The likelihood of severe unemployment extending into the 2010 midterm elections and beyond poses a significant political hurdle to President Obama and congressional Democrats, who are already under fire for what critics label profligate spending. Continuing high unemployment rates would undercut the fundamental argument behind much of that spending: the promise that it will create new jobs and improve the prospects of working Americans, which Obama has called the ultimate measure of a healthy economy.
Obama tersely acknowledged in an interview with Bloomberg Television last week that unemployment is likely to peak above 10 percent.
"They even predicted that if we passed it quickly, unemployment wouldn't go higher than 8 percent. Well, here we are just a few months later and the unemployment rate is approaching 10 percent," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). "The administration admits that their earlier predictions were a guess -- and that they guessed wrong."
Wild Thing's comment......
You bet it is all on Obama and he better stop with the it is Bush's fault bs.
If a conservative had become president in this last election we would already be on the up swing to revocery, I really believe that. There would not have been one HUGE spending bill after the other like Obama and Pelosi have been doing. This is all on Obama and he can get as upset, terse, snotty to those asking about it all he wants and it does not change that HE is the one to blame!
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June 20, 2009
Apology From That Boxer Broad? No way Jose!
Sen. Boxer Offers No Apology for Rebuking Brigadier General Who Called Her 'Ma'am'
Aside from a briefly worded statement about a "friendly" conversation she had with an Army brigadier general after dressed him down a day earlier for calling her "ma'am," Sen. Barbara Boxer remained silent Friday in the face of growing criticism as to whether she owed an apology.
She may be a lady and a senator, but don't expect an apology from Barbara Boxer for making the distinction to an Army brigadier general this week.
"Senator Boxer spoke with General Walsh yesterday and he said he was fine with her comments at the hearing," Boxer spokesman Zachary Coile said in a statement sent Friday to FOXNews.com.
"It was a very friendly conversation and they reiterated their respect for each other and how much they look forward to working together," he said.
The controversy began when Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, was testifying during a hearing before Boxer's Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and he summoned the audacity to call the California senator "ma'am."
Boxer immediately interrupted him before he could answer one of her questions.
"You know, do me a favor," a clearly agitated Boxer said. "Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?"
"Yes, ma'am," Walsh replied.
"It's just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it, yes, thank you," she said.
"Yes, senator," he answered.
But Walsh was following military protocol, which advises officers to use "sir" or "ma'am" when addressing anyone higher than them on the chain of command..
The Pentagon refused to jump into the fray Friday.
"The matter was between the two and we have nothing to add," Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said in a statement to FOXNews.com.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars supported both Boxer and Walsh and downplayed the exchange.
"The general is 100 percent correct in responding to members of Congress with 'Sir' or 'Ma'am.' The senator, on the other hand, is also correct, though probably everyone now agrees that this should have been handled differently, if at all," the group said in a statement.
"There are far more important issues facing America -- from national security to the proper care and treatment of veterans, military service member and their families -- and this difference of opinion in salutations is not one of them."
But the National Republican Senatorial Committee tried to take political advantage of the incident by collecting signatures on a petition reprimanding Boxer.
"All of our military men and women deserve more dignity than to be on the receiving end of condescension and disrespect, especially at the hands of our elected officials," the organization wrote in an e-mail.
Wild Thing's comment........
Senator is not a rank and she does not, contrary to democrat party beliefs, rule anyone. She holds a public trust as a public servant and does not rule or hold a position over anyone, even a general. These new Nazis believe that they rule rather than serve.
Sorry but WTF is this?
The Veterans of Foreign Wars supported both Boxer and Walsh and downplayed the exchange.
Wrongo!
Enough with the kissing up to the Nazi left being condesending to our military.
Look at this....The General was correct. The POS Boxer was wrong.
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Scroll down to # 11
It says Ma'am LOL so jump in a lake B**** Boxer.
This kind of thing really ticks me off. Too many years of seeing disrespect to our military from the left. Too many things said by the left that are NOT made a big deal about because of the double standard. She should be polishing his boots and be glad he defends our country.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:20 PM | Comments (15)
Liberal HAG Public Servant Barbara Boxer Has No Respect For Our Military
Thank you Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh for your service ito our country. Please know we all do not feel like this ungrateful woman feels and we look forward to paying our respect to all of our military each day. ~ Wild Thing
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Mark Levin's Comment about this:
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Wild Thing's comment........
Boxer is pathetic, and breathtakingly ignorant. Her petulant demand to be addressed as "Senator" only goes to demonstrate her own sense of inferiority and insecurity. Her interrupting the General shows her rudeness and self-centered nature. Of the many insulting things in our society, the fact that our military officers have to answer to ignorant twits like Boxer is one of the worst.
God how I would love to have heard him say, “And you can call me Brigadier General”!
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“When you act like a US Senator and not a Marxist fool for foreign nations, maybe I will.”
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:50 AM | Comments (8)
June 13, 2009
Propaganda of Hate from Shepard Smith and Other Lefties After Shooting By a LEFTIE!
Shep Smith attacks right-wing 'crazies'
Rips people questioning eligibility as being 'out there in a scary place'
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the top-rated evening cable newscast, believes Americans challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president are "crazies," saying "there is no truth whatsoever" to the suggestion Obama is not a "natural born citizen."
Smith made the remark during analysis of today's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where an elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle, killing a security guard before himself being shot. Police were probing an alleged white supremacist, James von Brunn, as the assailant.
During his interview with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Smith said:
"There are these crazies out there who want to pretend [Obama's] not a citizen of the United States, who want to pretend that his religion is something they see as in some way troublesome to them and all of us. And there is a group perpetuating this thought, and there is a culture to which you can attach yourself very easily through the Internet. ... We know it's absolutely – there is no truth whatsoever – zero – to any of those ideas, yet they live within the computer and they fester in people's minds."
Beirich agreed completely with Smith's remarks, as she responded:
"You're hitting the nail on the head about these kinds of crazed conspiracies whether they're about the president, or we're hearing things like FEMA setting up camps to round up Americans and put them in. I'm getting bad sort of deja-vu from the 1990s when anti-government militias were on the rise, when Tim McVeigh committed that [bombing] in Oklahoma City and I really am hoping that we're not going through a repeat of that."
Smith made numerous references to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of potential violence from "right-wing extremists," and said he's been personally disturbed by an increase in e-mail to him from people "who are way out there on a limb ... out there in a scary place."
Ironically, Smith himself allegedly engaged in activity some might deem questionable.
Shepard Smith's 2000 mugshot
As WND previously reported, during the presidential election fiasco in November 2000, Smith was arrested at the Florida Capitol for allegedly driving his Mazda Millenia into another reporter who was standing in a parking space she attempted to save for a friend. The victim, freelance journalist Maureen Walsh of Tallahassee, was hospitalized and released later the same day with bruises on her knees and legs.
According to NewsBlues, a witness to the incident said Smith "intentionally ran into her with his car to try and get her to move from the parking spot. She was thrown onto the hood of the car and ended up on the ground. Smith then parked the car, turned off the engine, turned to the crews assisting the reporter and said "f--- you" and walked into the state capital. Police and paramedics were called."
"When arrested on the street outside the capital, Smith said he couldn't understand why this was happening ... they then handcuffed him."
Smith was charged with a felony the day of the offense, but the charge was later downgraded to a misdemeanor and eventually dropped.
Two hours after Smith's TV remarks about "crazies," his network colleague Glenn Beck said of the shooting in Washington, "This is not the work of right-wing conservatives."
"This guy is a lone gunman nut job," Beck said. "I'm not stirring the pot. I am pointing out that the pot is boiling and there is trouble in America. ... Common sense tells you that there are very hateful people on the right and on the left."
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Wild Thing's comment.............
CHRIS MATTHEWS: This is a political action by a far right extremist
ANDERSON COOPER: The rise of hate groups in the United States of right-wing extremists.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Right-wing religious based domestic terrorism.
BROWN: Right-wing extremism.
JOAN WALSH: There is a rising climate of right-wing hate, a lot of it directed at Obama.
Well, who did the shooter in Washington D.C. at the Holocaust Museum hate? He hated both Bushes. He hated neocons. He hated John McCain. He hated Republicans. He hated Jews as well. He believes in an inside job conspiracy of 9/11. This guy is a leftist, if anything. This guy's beliefs, this guy's hate stems from influence that you find on the left, not on the right.
People on the left are the ones that hate the Jews, I have never met a conservative that hated Jews. People on the left are the ones that preach racism such as Rev. Right, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton etc. The left is doing a huge propaganda thing against the Right that is very bad and dangerous too. The way they lie and notice how all those people had the same speel moments after the shooting. And they want us to think they actually are giving the news????? NO WAY it is all about propaganda including Shepard Smith.
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (6)
May 30, 2009
Gibbs vs.UK Press
Robert Gibbs, rattled by Telegraph story, lashes out at British press
Posted By: Toby Harnden
US Editor
It's difficult to know where to start with the extraordinary outburst by Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, after he was asked about the Telegraph story based on an interview with Maj Gen (Retd) Antonio Taguba, author of a 2004 report into the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal.
Gibbs didn't feel he was on sure enough ground to attack Taguba or deny the Telegraph's story so he attempted this..............................
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Lashes out at British media
Robert Gibbs swatted down reports in British newspapers that suppressed photos of prisoner abuse included graphic ... images of torture and rape — and took a hard shot at the overseas media.
“I want to speak generally about some reports I’ve witnessed over the past few years in the British media. And in some ways, I’m surprised it filtered down,” Gibbs began. “Let’s just say if I wanted to look up — if I wanted to read a writeup today of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champion’s League cup, I might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be in the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”
“You're not going to find very many of these newspapers and truth within 25 words of each other,” Gibbs continued.
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Back to the article by the Telegraph.co.uk...............................
The Obama White House seems to view the British media as insufficiently compliant and respectful. They were intensely irritated about UK coverage of the DVDs gift fiasco - pushing American reporters very hard not to write about it.
Obama himself gave a little flash of his disdain for the British press at his G20 press conference when he took a question from Justin Webb of the BBC and noted the hubbub in the hall. "See, everybody's complaining," he said. "I'm sure that's all your fellow British journalists."
All this flies in the face of Obama's promises. In February 2008, he told me: "As somebody who myself lived overseas for a time, the world would see me as a different kind of president, somebody who could see the world through their eyes."
Well how can you do that when your press secretary trashes the press of your foremost foreign ally and suggests that only American journalists can report US politics?
President George W. Bush was clearly irritated by the British press on occasions, particularly the practice of visiting UK reporters to remain in their seats while their American counterparts stood up. But he engaged in banter and even came to enjoy the often very direct questioning from the likes of Nick Robinson of the BBC.
Bush, of course, gave many more foreign press interviews than Obama has. He regularly held foreign press round tables before overseas trips - a tradition that Obama, who prefers US outlets - particularly niche magazines who are guaranteed to ask soft questions - seems to have dispensed with.
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Wild Thing's comment........
The original article was VERY straightforward, merely reporting the fact that Obama changed his mind (rightly, in my opinion) on this issue and not commenting on that change of mind. So I don't really see what the WH is so upset about. It is a simple statement of fact, nothing more.
For the most part I appreciate the Telegraph.co.uk,, and the Canadian Free Press they have had many stories that either never show up in our media other then at Fox, or days later with the slant on them that CNN and MSNBC does to the news.
LOL I wonder if Obama understands that the Telegraph doesn’t care what Obama thinks and probably won’t respond well to thug tactics?
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (6)
May 27, 2009
'Reid must go,' Say Protesters on Las Vegas Strip ~ Obama Should Too!!!!
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'Reid must go,' say protesters on Strip
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama prepared for a fundraiser Tuesday evening to help get Reid re-elected, about 100 protesters worked the Strip in hopes of preventing just that.
Carrying signs and chanting slogans such as "Heave ho! Reid must go!" the protesters in front of Caesars Palace, where the fundraising concert was to take place, criticized Reid's "tax-and-spend," "big government" ways.
"I'm not a big fan of what's going on in D.C.," said the 6-foot-4, heavily tattooed Dan Stephens, a local tattoo artist who brought his three young daughters and also-heavily-tattooed wife to the protest. "It seems like our representatives have forgotten who hired them."
The mostly Republican protesters said they want representatives who advocate for small government and are against tax increases.
"We need someone who shares our core principles: family, self-sufficiency, low taxes and getting government out of our lives," said Dean Meek, a 51-year-old property manager who was carrying a sign that read: "Don't tax me, bro."
The protest was organized by Our Country Deserves Better PAC, a conservative, California-based political action committee that is campaigning against Reid's re-election.
The committee held a news conference Tuesday morning in Las Vegas to highlight its $100,000 anti-Reid ad campaign. Radio, television and Internet ads calling Reid a tax-and-spender who does not respect the military were airing statewide, timed to coincide with the president's visit.
Many of the protesters Tuesday evening said they heard about the event on talk radio.
Passers-by cheered or jeered. Curious tourists stopped to ask: "Who's Harry Reid?"
Hundreds others lined access roads to Caesars hoping to catch a glimpse of Obama as he made his way to the venue.
"I came down to support Obama. He's such a refreshing change," said Parris Lane, 50, who waved a small American flag and chanted Obama's name in response to the protesters. "We have someone really smart in charge, who makes everyone feel like part of things."
Inside, the line to get into the fundraiser snaked through the casino. Well-dressed concertgoers said they came to support Reid and could not pass up the opportunity to see Obama in person.
"We supported him all the way from Italy," said Giovanni Coinu, a constitutional law professor there who was thrilled that his Vegas vacation coincided with the fundraiser. "We had T-shirts made up, and we followed him all the way to the presidency."
Jeanne, a local, "over-50" business executive who declined to give her last name, said the $300 she forked out for her ticket would be well worth it.
"I wanted to hear what the president had to say about Las Vegas," she said. "Plus, we get entertainment on top of it."
Protesters outside criticized what the president had to say about Las Vegas not long ago, when Obama mentioned Vegas junkets as the type of corporate excess that federal dollars shouldn't be funding.
"Shame on President Obama, pointing fingers at Las Vegas, and here he is campaigning for Harry Reid," said protester Karina Ostenberg, 29.
"Reid needs to stand up for us," she added.
Sharron Angle, a Republican former assemblywoman from Reno who is a possible Reid challenger for 2010, agreed.
"He should at least have defended us," Angle said as she shook protesters' hands.
At the morning news conference, Angle had urged donations to the exploratory committee for her candidacy, saying the strength of the financial support would determine whether she decides to run. Angle declined to disclose how much she has raised so far.
"Money talks," she said. "With Harry Reid, it's going to take more than just good intentions. It's going to take a lot of money to take him out."
Wild Thing's comment.........
Ok so I add the Obama should too to the title. And he should GO! He has been the one to blame for the economy going down hill, for the devastating decline of tourism and business meetings cancelling their trips to Vegas and NO ONE ELSE IS TO BLAME!
Obama is the worst president our country has ever had!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:48 PM | Comments (9)
May 23, 2009
Renovating Private Parking Garages for U.S. House
Parking garage outside Longworth House Office Building. (CNSNews.com photo/Penny Starr)
Renovating Private Parking Garages for U.S. House Will Cost Taxpayers $156,322 Per Congressman
As it is considering legislation that would cap carbon emssions and significanly increase energy prices of U.S. consumers in the name of controlling global warming, the U.S. House of Representatives is also considering spending $68 million to renovate two parking garages that are used exclusively by members of Congress and their staff.
Given that there are only 435 members of the House, the renovation of these exclusive garages would cost $156,322 per congressmen.
The garages are just south of the House office buildings that form part of the complex surrounding the U.S. Capitol. They are also adjacent to a station of the Washington Metro subway system that members of Congress and their staff could use to get to work if they did not want to drive a car and emit carbon into the atmosphere.
Terrell Dorn, the director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), on May 6, testified before the House Committee on House Administration about plans by the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to renovate the East and West garages, which serve several House buildings.
Approximately $38 million of the request is attached to a project to overhaul the Cannon House Office Building at an overall cost of $753 million.
“Renovations of the Cannon Building and East and West Garages are needed to maintain the integrity and safety of these facilities and reduce the likelihood of unplanned outages and associated cost,” Dorn’s written testimony stated.
Dorn told CNSNews.com that the funding request is still being considered by the House Appropriations Committee and has yet to be approved by House Leadership.
According to the Architect of the Capitol, problems with the structures will require action to be taken “within the next 2 to 4 years.”
Wild Thing's comment..........
What part of “knock this crap off” do these congressmen don’t understand?
Deduct the parking garage from the overpaid Congress’ salaries.
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:40 AM
May 22, 2009
Say NO to KOH Nomination!!!
JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.
Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.
President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.
It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
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The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.
Including, apparently, the world of radical imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."
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His nomination is out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He will go before the Senate in June. You must contact your Senators. GO HERE.
There is a wealth of documentation and evidence here.
Here are my past posts here at Theodore's World about this horrible man:
Critics Decry Obama Nominee for State Dept. Legal Adviser Harold Koh
B.Hussein Obama's Most Perilous Legal Pick Harold Koh
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If you go HERE there are serveal letters and articles about NO on KOH
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Here is just one of them...................
Oliver North writes in the Fox News Forum on May 15, 2009:
It is said that there are two kinds of lawyers: Those who know the law and those who know the judge. And then there is Harold Koh, the man who is likely to be the next legal adviser to the State Department.
Koh most recently served as dean of the Yale Law School and before that as assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Labor and Human Rights in the Clinton administration. He is a prolific author and a legal activist of the left. Earlier this week, his nomination to be Foggy Bottom’s barrister was voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 12-5; his pending appointment has received scant attention from the media or the Senators who will decide his fate.
KOH's opinion of the Second Amendment. “What kind of global gun control regime could we and should we try to build?” Koh asked in an essay entitled A World Drowning in Guns. He urged “a global regulatory” scheme prohibiting the ownership of firearms could be achieved through a “process whereby rules negotiated among governments at a horizontal, intergovernmental level and interpreted through the interaction of transnational actors in these law-declaring fora are brought down vertically into the domestic law of each participating country — ‘brought home’ if you will — and internalized into the domestic statutes, executive practice, and judicial systems of those participating nations.”
In short, this means that U.S. law — constitutional or otherwise — must be amended or revised to comport with “international standards.” Presumably this same concept would apply not only to our Second Amendment, but to U.S. federal and state laws pertaining to abortion, same-sex marriage, pornography, drug use, private property rights or presumably, child molesting. In the Koh legal universe, these issues should be debated in the United Nations’ numerous institutions and commissions. Then, non-governmental organizations from around the globe will opine, a U.N. body will issue a report and the U.S. Congress and state legislatures will be given a deadline within which to pass conforming legislation. The will of the American people will no longer matter if it is contrary to that of the “world community.”
The Koh perspective on national security is equally alarming. In October, 2002 after Congress had already authorized the use of force against Iraq, he wrote in the Hartford Courant: “I believe… that it would be a mistake for our country to attack Iraq without explicit United Nations authorization,” because, “such an attack would violate international law.” Since the U.S. did not seek or obtain U.N. “permission” before liberating Iraq, Koh included the United States, Iraq and North Korea in what he described as an “Axis of Disobedience.”
In another time, this kind of record would disqualify any aspirant for an office requiring confirmation by the U.S. Senate. But these are indeed different times.
Wild Thing's comment.......
This man cannot get this nomination!!!!
Koh is scary, America hating idiot. He supports Muslims rights to be judged by Sharia Law as well. He also wants to hurt the arms manufacturers as much as he can.
Soros, B.Hussein Obama and KOH all thinking America is the bad guy, all hating our country and the rest of Obama's administration as well.
God Help us all.
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:50 AM | Comments (7)
May 17, 2009
Gaffe Machine Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
The vice president, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks.
Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.
According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.
The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor, said Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner, who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering.
According to the report, Biden "said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment."
Clift continued: "The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall."
In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974.
The upset neighbors were sent a letter by the observatory's superintendent, calling the work "sensitive in nature" and "classified" and that it was urgent it be completed "on a highly accelerated schedule."
Residents said they believed workers were digging deep into the ground, which would support Biden's report of a secret bunker, but officials never confirmed the purpose of the work performed.
The revelation is the latest from Biden, who has a long history of political blunders.
Most recently, he said in a televised interview that if a family member asked him about traveling he'd advise staying away from public transportation or confined spaces to avoid swine flu -- a remark described as "borderline fearmongering" by an airline spokesman.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
My gosh, I can't get over that these morons are running the country. What in the name of everything that is holy, were people thinnking when they voted these nitwits into office. And it doesn’t just stop with the President and the Vice President, it allllll the way down through the chain of command, or shall we say, the chain of ascension.
So he’s given away the location of his own secret hidey-hole, ay. What a doofus. He just made the game of hide-and-seek much easier, if the day ever comes that he has to make like Saddam Hussein and scuttle down his Spider Hole. Finding him will be much more efficient.
Its not the real, secret bunker. IT’s just the one they told him about. heh heh
Secret service agent on the phone “Hey chief, the VP asked where the secret bunker is. No sir! I’m not that foolish. I just told him it was in his basement and he went away.”
There used to be a day when the Russians would have to get a female spy to sleep with and drug a target in order to get him to divulge info.
With Biden, all they have to do is to have a television camamra & pretend to admire him , hang on every word he says and they could get the codes to our nuke missle launchers.
.......Thank you Lynn for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:25 PM | Comments (6)
May 13, 2009
Che-Guevarrios Obama's FDA Battles CHEERIOS
FDA Blasts General Mills Over Cheerios Claim
Cereal Makers Scolded Because Claim Of Lowering Cholesterol 10 Percent In Month Makes It A "Drug"
Company Fires Back: This Is About Language, Not Science
The Food and Drug Administration scolded the makers of Cheerios about the way they promote the cereal's health benefits. The FDA sent a letter of warning to General Mills accusing them of making unauthorized health claims.
Current boxes of Cheerios are touting what the company calls exciting news -- the cereal's ability to help lower cholesterol 10 percent in one month.
According to a letter from the FDA General Mills' advertising violates the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The agency said claims that Cheerios ingredients can lower cholesterol within a certain amount of time, all while providing cancer-fighting and heart-healthy benefits, essentially makes Cheerios "a drug" by their definition. And no drug in this country can be legally marketed without an approved new drug application.
As a certified dietetic nutritionist, Keri Glassman often recommends foods high in soluble fiber for patients looking to lower their cholesterol.
"Because of the oats, because of the soluble fiber in Cheerios, it may help you reduce cholesterol and I think the FDA is still acknowledging that ... I just think they are saying but you can't really say that because you are a food product, not a drug," Glassman said.
"It doesn't change what's in the box," added Michael Zorek of the Upper West Side. "It's healthy no matter what they say."
The FDA gave General Mills 15 days to explain how it will correct the statements on Cheerios boxes.
In a statement issued Tuesday, General Mills said this dispute is over language, not science. The company pointed out that the FDA'a complaint doesn't actually question whether Cheerios can help lower cholesterol levels -- it only talks about how the health benefits are advertised.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Oh good grief!! While they’re at it go after Quaker Oats for their cholesterol lowering claims on oatmeal.
Go get ‘em Obama! Take on those evil rolled oats! They’re destroying America! Cheerios must be stopped!
Next, it’ll be Shredded wheat and Quaker Oats.
Next comes Maypo and Wheaties.
You have been warned, America. No more breakfast cereal for you!
Cheerios is a drug? I’m an addict? LOL, seriously, I have just about met my limit with this BS.
Since their stock is up, I’m assuming that they didn’t donate heavily to Obama. I mean how obvious is that! Cheerios have been around forever and it is only NOW that they are making something out of how they advertise. So they are they are aiming for the big food corporations now????
The FACT is that Oats do lower cholesterol levels. Not if a person has some a few times a year. But if they are consistent with it then it works.
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:55 AM | Comments (11)
May 09, 2009
Howard Dean Says America Has Had "Enough of Capitalism"
Howard Dean on CNBC where he made the statement, among other things, that "we have had enough capitalism the past 8 years; what we need now is some regulation."
Dean was discussing with Jason Lewis the $17 Billion in Budget Cuts announced by President Obama out of a $3.55 Trillion 2010 Budget.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
LMAO this guy is nuts!!! Howie, just go scream at the moon and leave us alone.
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (3)
May 04, 2009
Nancy Pelosi Works To Obstruct Justice
EDITORIAL: Pelosi confronts justice
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working to buffer lawmakers from federal investigators. This is a bad idea. Special legal protections for politicians encourage unethical conduct.
Irvin B. Nathan, general counsel of the House of Representatives, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday about establishing a protocol on how to handle "hopefully rare searches and electronic surveillance involving members of Congress." Mr. Nathan previously failed to negotiate such an agreement with the George W. Bush administration when Republicans controlled the House. His return to this effort isn't surprising given the number of congressional Democrats facing accusations of ethical misconduct.
Democrats facing scrutiny include the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, for his close ties to the defense lobby firm PMA Group, which is under federal investigation; House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York about a number of tax issues; Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. of Illinois over his reported effort to persuade ousted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich to appoint him to fill President Obama's former Senate seat; and Rep. Jane Harman of California, who reportedly was taped in 2005 by the National Security Agency purportedly agreeing to help seek leniency for two accused Israeli spies in exchange for help in lobbying her appointment to chair the House Intelligence Committee.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, on Thursday invoked the separation of powers as justification for the move. Mrs. Pelosi, who has acknowledged being aware previously of Mrs. Harman's controversial dialogue, claims the stance is a matter of principle. "Whether it's invading an office or wiretapping a conversation, it's important for us to have the separation of powers and the respect for individual liberties, again, while not harboring information that would be useful under the speech [or] debate clause," she said.
Wild Thing's comment.........
These people already get to do anything they want with zero accountability. She wants to be able to unilaterally grant “Above the Law” status to HER favorites.
Hmmmm, Is she getting a little nervous after lying about her knowledge of interrogation techniques?
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:40 AM | Comments (10)
April 30, 2009
Biden to US: Hunker in the Bunker!
Joe Biden said Thursday he advised his family to stay off airplanes and subways because of the new swine flu, a remark that forced the vice president's office to backtrack and prompted one airline official to complain about "fear-mongering."
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would tell his family to stay off planes or subways to avoid swine flu, prompting his office to go into damage control and the travel industry to complain.
Asked on NBC's "Today" show what he would tell members of his family if they asked him whether they should get on a commercial airliner to Mexico in the next week, Biden said:
"I would tell members of my family -- and I have -- I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now."
He said the problem is that "when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft."
"I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway. So from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation," he said.
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White House Responds To V.P. Biden's 'Swine Flu' Comment Fiasco
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Napolitano Tries To Explain Away Biden Blunder
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Posted by Wild Thing at 07:14 PM | Comments (10)
April 29, 2009
Arlen Specter Comes Out of the Closet ~ GOOD! Bye Bye!
"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Specter said in a statement.
With Sen. Arlen Specter switching to the Democratic Party , once Sen. Franken gets seated, the party will have their 60 senators needed to stop a Republican filibuster.
President Barack Obama called Specter almost immediately after he was informed of the decision to say the Democratic Party was "thrilled to have you," according to a White House official.
Specter says Obama promised to campaign for him
Veteran Sen. Arlen Specter says President Barack Obama has promised to campaign for him in next year's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania.
Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday that he spoke to the president about his party switch.
Separately, the White House said no promises were made to Specter to get him to switch parties and become a Democrat. Asked about Specter, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that no promises were made to the veteran senator as far as he knows.
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Wild Thing's comment........
“I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,”
LMAO He’s just NOW admitting that??? We see Specter for what he really is; A RINO TRAITOR!!!!!! He belongs with the socialists; he’ll feel right at home!
I’m thinking that by 2010, the chickens of Obama’s many wrongheaded policies will be coming home to roost, and his support will be an albatross around Specter’s neck.
No More Arlen Spectors!
Not quite as good as "never again!" or "Remember the Maine" but it has potential. hahaha
He is no longer a RINO for which I am grateful. With his brand of Republican politics, we didn’t have the votes to stop anything anyway. Better he became a Dem then keep pretending he was one of us. I can deal with a Democrat that acts like a Democrat. I can’t deal with a Republican who acts like a Democrat and then takes Republican money to get reelected. Good riddance.
....Thank you Horace for sending this to me.
Horace
U.S.Army
Horace Smith, Pvt. E-1, USAR
1956-1964
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April 17, 2009
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, "Tea parties 'despicable"
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful."
"The �tea parties� being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs," Schakowsky said in a statement.
"It�s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt," she added. "Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.�
This is the strongest language to date opposing the protesters, which, according to some estimates, topped 250,000 across the country.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Congressmen, including Schakowsky, who support unconstitutional spending increases, are despicable. What’s “despicable” and “shameful” is that our government is out-of-control, spending like there’s no tomorrow and completely disregarding the American people.
LOL Do they not realize that they’re calling average Americans despicable? Their own constituents.
No Schakowsky, what is despicable and shameful are these lies:
* “This Tea Party initiative is funded by the high end — we call it astroturf, it’s not really a grassroots movement.” … Pelosi
* “the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans” … Schakowsky
* ABC reports Obama is ‘Unaware of Tea Parties’
These tea parties really have the libs knickers in a bunch!
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
......Thank you Richard for the graphic.
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April 16, 2009
Nancy Pelosi Re:Tea Parties ~ "This Is Astroturf, Not Grassroots Protest"
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Wild Thing's comment........
Speaking of artificial surfaces, what substance is Nanzi Pelosi’s face made up of these days? heh heh
Where does this idiot get off insulting tens of thousands of Americans because we don't want to be taxed more to pay for stupid, wasteful "investment" that lines the pockets of the corrupt politicians and their friends?
If this had been uttered during our Founders' era, Nancy would have 1,000,000 of the "Great Middle Class" challenging her to a duel.
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April 10, 2009
Democrat Chuck Schumer: 'Traditional Values'...'All That Is Over."
Schumer: 'The Hard Right, Which Still Believes' in 'Traditional Values'...'All That Is Over.'
"I think President Obama has a pretty smart strategy. He is going to talk bipartisanship to the American people. But realizes until the Republican grassroots pushes their people over, if that ever happens, we are not going get change in the House or Senate."
So let me get this straight. Obama will "talk bipartisanship" but "change" won't happen until Republicans agree with Democrats. That's bipartisanship?
Exit Question: Does Obama's "strategy" of talk apply to world leaders who disagree with him?
Wild Thing's comment.......
I don't care who said this above, the fact that it is said by an elected official in our country makes me sick and angry. The LEFT really does want to destroy what our country has been all these years. I never in my life knew their hate was so strong, not only for Bush, but also for the citizens of our country.
'Traditional Values'...'All That Is Over."
OK so Democrats that are lurking at this blog, think about this! YOUR Schumer has just said this about traditional values and since you vote for these human being rejects then one has to think that YOU agree with him and with Obama as well. Do you see how bad this makes you look or do you just not care, or worse yet do you agree with him.
The democrat party of Ted the drunk and murderer Kennedy, Barney Frank and Pelosi, Michael Moore, Sean Penn Castor hugger, party of commies, socialist, and misfits all.
Chuck Schumer. When pond scum just isn’t vile enough.
The only silver lining to this is that America is about to discover why traditional values have held up throughout the ages. It's because they work, and are compatible with a free society.
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April 09, 2009
Sen. McCaskill Meets A Heated Audience
Sen. Claire McCaskill addresses an audience at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin on April 7. (Photo by Vice Rosati)
Joplin Independent ...very long article so I am just putting some snipets
A frenetic hum in the auditorium of Missouri Southern's Criminal Justice Center ebbed and flowed as people assembled for what had been advertised by McCaskill as a "Kitchen Table Talk."
The audience clapped when McCaskill took the podium but as soon as she mentioned "the economy," she could feel a tension in the room. She described those shouting to be heard as a "bunch of unhappy, angry, frustrated" people. "Be Missouri polite; hear what's on people's minds," she suggested.
McCaskill was given a "roaster pan" from which randomly to draw out questions audience members had written on slips of paper just prior to the meeting. She didn't miss the irony in that...
John Putnam of Carthage, who said he was a fee agent for the Joplin license office, wanted to know why people had to show their birth certificates and not Obama.
The issue of Pres. Barack Obama's citizenship rocked the Internet blog world, especially after a number of self-proclaimed experts pronounced the "certification of live birth" produced by the Obama campaign in June 2008 a forgery.
McCaskill assured everyone that Obama was a citizen of the US. [He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.] After mentioning that McCain was born in Panama [that didn't seem to be as much an issue], McCaskill told the audience that she didn't know where this birth certificate controversy came from.
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McCaskill said she hoped the audience understood how she was being accountable. She called the audience, "patriots for being here."
However, as an aside, just before leaving McCaskill admitted, "I had never had people yelling at me before." She added, "I'm not used to people being that rude."
Wild Thing's comment.........
Well, that settles it. He’s a citizen and that’s all that is required after the votes are counted. Thanks, Claire. LOL
YO Claire, do you have an answer to Barack’s phony Selective Service registration?
We may never get an answer, but it won’t go away.
"You guys find something else to talk about,"
Typical Leftie response. When you don't like the question; change the subject. McCaskill was certainly most rude and condescending with that “You guys find something else to talk about” snide and snarky answer, that’s for sure.
" just before leaving McCaskill admitted, "I had never had people yelling at me before." She added, "I'm not used to people being that rude."
She calls someone else rude? hahahahahahhaha
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March 31, 2009
Democrat Senator Chris Dodd & His Many Scandals
Sean Hannity laid out the many scandals facing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) on his March 30th show. The list goes on and on. This was a devastating piece laying out the facts against the corrupt senator.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Excellent video and I hope finally his voters start to wise up and see the kind of trash they have been electing over and over.
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March 28, 2009
Democrats Balk At Obama's Thug Tactics
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Some Democrats balk at White House tactics
A campaign to persuade Republicans to support President Barack Obama's budget is morphing into something broader, with the White House political machine and its allies focusing pressure on conservative Democrats and anyone else who might be tempted to vote no.
Targeted Democrats are balking at some of the tactics, a sign that campaign methods so effective in getting Obama elected might not be easily transferable to the policy realm.
Earlier this month, ads underwritten by Obama allies were directed more narrowly against Republican lawmakers opposed to the president's budget. As an example, a tax-exempt group called Americans United for Change ran an ad in recent weeks mocking Republicans, saying they had simply said "No" to the Obama agenda rather than roll out policy alternatives of their own.
This week, the group is running cable TV ads in what it describes as "12 targeted states represented by Republican and Democratic members of Congress." Obama's fellow Democrats caution that the ads can backfire in swing districts heavily populated with conservative voters. MoveOn.org, a progressive group, is running radio and Internet ads focused on 10 Democratic members of the House and Senate considered potential no votes. The ads invite people to call lawmakers and urge them to vote for Obama's budget.
MoveOn has been in contact with the White House, including Obama aides Valerie Jarrett and Michael Strautmanis, to "keep them abreast of what we're doing," said Justin Ruben, executive director of the group.
A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said mobilizing such outside groups is crucial to Obama's agenda. The other side has more money and we need more grass roots and more people." Democratic lawmakers contend the ads won't work.
On a parallel track, Obama's campaign group, now called Organizing for America, is using ZIP codes to reach supporters and ask them to call the person representing them in Congress. The organization also began airing a nationwide cable TV ad on Thursday in support of Obama's budget. Last weekend, Obama campaign supporters fanned out across the country to get people to sign petitions supporting the basic goals of Obama's budget.
Democratic lawmakers contend the ads won't work.
Sen. Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, said that none of the TV advertising would influence his vote. And he questioned whether the ads are consistent with the president's promise of collaboration.
Wild Thing's comment........
THUGOCRACY from Obama.
Not so much fun for Democrats when they’re on the receiving end of leftist idiocy. The more ads they run the more they look like big brother ( which is what they are) and over time they will unnerve the voters with their bully tactics.
In our form of gov't, those elected are supposed to "represent" the will of their constituents. In the thugocracy gov't that the Obamanistas are trying to cram down our throats, all that matters is loyalty to the State.
We must all bow down to TOTUS, or else! GRRRRR, I NEVER will!
Something I want to make mention of. You can watch the whole video or go to 5:20 on the video to hear the Obamasheep speak. Now this is what I notice that is interesting, when Republicans run an AD they use a different way of speaking, phrases like, please call your Congressmen, Please write, Please let them know...... yadda yadda yadda.....BUT in the Obama video paid for and produced by Move On.org they don't do it like that at all. The Obama sheep in the video says......
You WILL call, you WILL flood your Congress person's office, you WILL pressure them ....... anyway check it out. For a thinking person I would be offended to the max if our side ran an ad that said....."You WILL" , but see this is how the sheep need to be talked to and treated, they don't think for themselves so they have to be told what to do. The only problem is, Obama treats all of us the same way that he treats his brain dead zombies.
Just one more thing on this. These things I pointed out are things our GOP should be noticing, and Michael Steele should be checking on and then when he is on talk shows or is interviewed point these things out. But he doesn't, and he won't nor will the other rino's in our Republican party that have a voice.
It took me approximately 20 minutes to find this video above after I read the article in the post. Went to Google then to Moveon.org., clicked on their YouTube videos and searched for the most recent one which I figured would be the one discussed in this article.
Could Michael Steele take 20 minutes of his life and do that ? PLEASE! No he can't and won't.
I am usually up very late into the morning hours so just as I am done with doing the posts and ready to go to sleep, it is very early morning such as yesterday Friday. Michael Steele was on mamby pamby Bill Bennett's radio show as a guest host. I am not a huge fan of Bennet only because he is way too weak and I like passion when it comes to our country. ( Rush, Laura, Mark Levin etc.)
Anyway, get this, he starts off the show saying.... " things are just crazy out there" , " so much has been happening"....."does anyone want to talk about anything? "
WTF????? I am sorry but he should have come on to guest host loaded for bear. He should have had folders packed full of shit that Obama has been doing against America to discuss and INFORM. Here is a man that has been handed the opportunity of a lifetime, to transform our party and bring it back to the conservative base, to the things our Founding Farthers wanted for America. And instead he oozes kumbaya from every pore.
IMO we are at war, I pray no gun will be fired, but by God we need to be taking no prisoners in how we fight back, words can slice and dice almost as good as a knife and words can be legally used if stated the right way with facts and with passion that will light up a room. Don't these idiots even wonder why Rush has done so well? Don't they even spend a thought process in trying to see how his passion , facts and humor to close the deal sometimes, are making him more popular then ever to listen to??!!
For those that have a voice, they need to be shaming the Republicans that voted for HR1388, giving names and letting people know what HR1388 is all about. Speak out against what Obama's agenda is not hoping someone won't bring up his name. Not this " everything is crazy out there" baloney.
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Dingy Harry Reid: "Chief Justice Roberts Lied To Congress"
Sen. Reid: Chief Justice Roberts Lied To Congress
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid charged Friday that Chief Justice John Roberts tricked Congress by pretending to be a moderate while he was actually a stalwart conservative.
“Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was,” Reid said, referring to Samuel Alito, the second judge nominated by former President Bush to serve on the nation’s highest court.
“But we’re stuck with those two young men,” Reid continued. “And we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on.”
Reid added, “I think that will happen.”
Roberts was initially appointed to fill a vacancy on the court created by the retirement of Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
During Roberts’ confirmation, Chief Justice William Rehnquist passed away. President Bush then switched gears, nominating Roberts to replace Rehnquist as Chief Justice.
The Senate confirmed Roberts as Chief Justice in September 2005 by a 78 to 22 margin. The 22 Senators who opposed Roberts’ confirmation were all Democrats.
Reid presumably would not consider himself among those who were taken in - he voted against confirming both Roberts and Alito.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Reid is walking around blind without a cane. First, Reid is an idoit. Second, Reid is an idiot!
I wonder if this has anything to do with Obama's Obama birth certificate credentials. And Barney Frank, twice accused Justice Scalia of being a homophobe. I say open the Genie Bottle regarding Obama’s Birth Certificate.
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (10)
March 24, 2009
Stop Obama From Being Honored at Notre Dame
The Destruction of Notre Dame
by James M. Thunder
(The author is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.)
On Friday, March 20, it was announced that President Obama had accepted an invitation by the president of the University of Notre Dame, Father John Jenkins, to give the commencement address on May 19 and receive an honorary degree. What fire could not do, Father Jenkins and his Academic Council may succeed in doing -- destroying a major Catholic institution.
In April 1879, the Main Building of the University was destroyed by fire. It was "the Main Building" because it housed classrooms, student sleeping quarters, kitchen, library, offices. The man who had left France and founded Notre Dame 37 years earlier, in 1842, Father Edward Sorin, was 65 and saw his life's work destroyed. Nonetheless, with fiery determination, he exclaimed: "If it were all gone, I should not give up. Tomorrow, we will build again, and build it bigger."
That summer, with help from Chicagoans who had suffered their own fire eight years before, 300 laborers, using mud from the campus lake, made bricks and rebuilt it. It was sufficiently complete for the return of students in September. It is this building that TV viewers see during Notre Dame home football games.
How did Father Jenkins calculate the benefits and the burdens of Notre Dame giving Obama a platform on campus at commencement?
As Notre Dame's own press release indicates, this would not be the first time that a sitting president would have visited Notre Dame. Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, and Bush the Younger all spoke at commencement. And FDR, Kennedy and Ford each came to campus for honors. So, if Obama came and gave one of his first commencement addresses at Notre Dame, it would add to Notre Dame's secular glory only in an incremental sense.
Maybe Father Jenkins wants to honor Obama as the first African-American to become president. Undoubtedly this fact will be prominent in the biography the school will recite just prior to conferring the honorary doctorate upon him. (Frankly, there is no other achievement in his biography.) But this would be looking at the color of his skin over his policies.
Consider these policies and the burdens of Notre Dame honoring Obama. We must assume that Father Jenkins knows how hostile Obama, as state legislator, as U.S. senator, and now as president, has been to innocent human life and to the Catholic Church which tries to protect it. And Father Jenkins must have thought about the fact that inviting Obama would offend large numbers of students, the graduating seniors, alumni/ae, benefactors, and all pro-lifers through the country and the world. Moreover, it would constitute an attack on the pastoral authority of the local bishop, the American bishops as a group, and the Pope who have prohibited Catholic institutions from granting platforms to pro-abortion speakers -- even if their talks would not be about abortion and other human life issues.
So, any rational person occupying the position of president of Notre Dame who weighed the benefits and the burdens would not invite Obama. It would be self-destructive.
It was just last month that Speaker Pelosi who, no doubt, sees herself as the Supreme Head of the Catholic Church in America, visited Pope Benedict, but Pope Benedict was politically aware and refused to give her a photo opportunity. Father Jenkins thinks he is smarter than the Pope and will purposefully smile with Obama for the cameras.
Obama's visit to Notre Dame will be a one-way street -- in favor of Obama. Father Jenkins will not be taking Obama to Notre Dame's woodshed, to speak truth to power. No, Obama will be doing all the talking. Obama will co-opt a major Catholic institution.
Above the Main Building that TV viewers see during Notre Dame home football games is a Golden Dome. Atop it is a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. (Notre Dame is "Our Lady" in French.) At the end of every game, the football players face the students and all of them sing the school's alma mater whose title and first line is "Notre Dame our Mother." Another line is "Glory's mantle cloaks thee; golden is thy fame." Father Jenkins will allow Obama to take Mary's mantle and wear it on his shoulders for all the world to see.
The day Father Jenkins' presidency is over (soon one hopes), the new president, the loyal faculty and alumni/ae, and friends throughout the world will repeat Father Sorin's words, "Tomorrow, we will build again, and build it [better]."
There is also this from some research online:
The Cardinal Newman Society site is getting 270+ signatures PER MINUTE on their petition. Their wonderful president, Patrick Reilly, has flown to Rome
The Mission of “Stop Obama at Notre Dame”
Our Mission: Stop President Obama from Speaking at Notre Dame on May 17.
Our Principle: Nothing is Sacred, except that which is Sacred.
And Joe Scheidler/Prolife Action League is working on this as well. Quote from his site:
"If Notre Dame does not disinvite Obama, Scheidler says, the Notre Dame campus can expect a massive pro-life protest on graduation day, including the use of large, graphic abortion pictures that show exactly what Barack Obama supports."
League Calls on Notre Dame To Disinvite President Obama
On March 20 it was announced that President Barack Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the renowned Catholic University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The Pro-Life Action League immediately issued a press release calling on Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins to withdraw the invitation.
Obama Attacks Sanctity of Life
"Over the first two months of his administration, Barack Obama has established himself as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history," said League National Director Joe Scheidler, himself a graduate of Notre Dame, a Catholic university. "My alma mater should not be providing a platform for this president."
"Starting from his first week in office, President Obama has enacted a string of executive orders, appointments and policy decisions that contradict Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life—a teaching that Notre Dame is supposed to uphold," said Scheidler.
Among the pro-abortion actions Obama has taken in just two months in office, Scheidler lists:
* Overturning of the Mexico City Policy, which had prohibited U.S. funds from being used to promote or provide abortions overseas.
* Working to overturn conscience protections for healthcare workers, forcing them to cooperate in abortion or risk losing their jobs
* Appointing pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who has close ties to late-term abortionist George Tiller, to head the Department of Health and Human Services
* Dedicating federal funds to harvest embryonic stem cells for research at the expense of the most defenseless members of the human family
"Father Jenkins cannot expect pro-life Catholics to stand back and allow the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history to make a mockery of Notre Dame's Catholic identity," Scheidler said.
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Wild Thing's comment........
I don't understand this at all. Why are their exceptions made just because a person is a President or because a family has wealth, or because a person is a high profile person like Pelosi and others that have also taken a stand of PRO Abortion. Obama leads the way in wanting abortions and to the extreme with his putting into law that it is ok to kill a baby if it some way has a miracle and makes it alive from an abortion he want that baby killed ASAP. And Obama’s contempt for life is the fundamental issue here.
Please understand I am not a Catholic and this is not about bashing Catholics, it is about not understanding the weakness that shows up when it does not have to. Giving an honorary law degree to this man, is a symbol of approval
"You don’t “engage” with a person who is embroiled in massive, murderous moral wrong by inviting him onto a floodlit, nationally-televised public platform and giving him an honorary Law Degree."
There is a cost that comes with true leaders, not elected officials but true leaders in history, a cost that leadership, takes the high road and that is not always easy, but it is the very thing that separates the average from those that make a difference in the world. Those that leave their mark in history for the better. I tell our troops that too, they are not only living history they are making in a special way. Just as our Veterans have all done, being part of history that has made changes in the world or kept our world here in America from becoming the monster that communism brings and other things.
But also, how on earth can the President of Notre Dame justify an honorary law degree to someone who has never done anything whatever in the fields of law or politics to deserve it?
As President of the Harvard Law Review he broke a long tradition by writing NOTHING for the review he headed.
As instructor of constitutional law in Chicago he argued that the Constitution need to be rewritten, but he never wrote a single scholarly article.
As a lawyer, he forced banks in Chicago to make subprime loans, leading to our current economic crisis.
I hope they think hard about this decision, I truly hate to see people giving agreement to what Obama stands for.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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Democrats Too Afraid To REALLY Investigate Criminal ACORN
ACORN Whistleblowers Produce Shocking Testimony on Capitol Hill
Late last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, called for a hearing to investigate ACORN. You read that right. At a Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittee hearing entitled “Lessons Learned from the 2008 Election” last Thursday, witness testimony not only drew Conyers to the subcommittee hearing but events led to Conyers strongly urging that subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) conduct a full hearing on ACORN, calling allegations made at the hearing “serious.”
The shocking testimony that began the chain of events came from Pennsylvania attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, who in October of last year represented “a candidate, voters and the Republican State Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” seeking a preliminary injunction against ACORN and the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The complaint alleged violations of the election code, fraud and misrepresentation, and violations of equal protection and due process.
Heidelbaugh brought with her to the hearing ACORN whistleblowers, including Anita MonCrief, a former Washington, D.C., ACORN employee who came forward to testify last October in the Pennsylvania case. MonCrief, a Democrat who voted for and still supports President Obama, made allegations including the exposure of Obama maxed-out donor lists illegally shared with ACORN, allegations of illegal intermingling of non-profit employees between ACORN and Project Vote, and the use of intimidation tactics and training methods to skirt regulations, among many other assertions.
Testimony also revealed ACORN’s unofficial “Muscle for the Money” program directed at fundraising from corporations. Allegations were made of payments from Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to ACORN's D.C office to harass The Carlyle Group and specifically David Rubenstein, a founder of the company. Even though ACORN D.C. had no interest in The Carlyle Group, they were allegedly paid by SEIU to go break up a banquet and protest at Rubenstein’s house.
It was called “Muscle for the Money” because they would go “intimidate people and protest.” Targets of the protests included Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and Money Mart among others, testimony revealed. The apparent purpose was to get money from the targeted entities for ACORN.
Perhaps the most controversial accusation revealed by whistleblower testimony was the scheme by which ACORN and Project Vote are paid by foundations per voter registered and the submission of copies of actual voter registration cards to the foundations, which is a violation of federal law.
I spoke with whistleblower Anita MonCrief at the hearing.
“ACORN itself is sometimes paid by foundations per registration and, in some case,s they would send copies of the voter registration cards straight to the funder,” MonCrief said. “Workers are improperly trained. … They are trained to never ask, ‘Are you registered to vote?’ because if the person says ‘Yes,’ they have to move on. They ask, ‘Did you vote in the last election,’ and if the person says ‘No,’ they register them again. This is how they duplicate registrations and flood the offices.”
When these allegations began to surface in hearing testimony, Conyers suddenly appeared at the subcommittee hearing and asked to be recognized, saying that he was “… unaware that this was a hearing on ACORN.” Conyers probed those assembled, asking if any representatives of ACORN were present to defend the organization. Conyers called the accusations made against ACORN a “pretty serious matter.” When no one from ACORN came forth, he asked subcommittee chairman Nadler to hold a hearing on ACORN so the organization could defend itself, to which a shocked Nadler replied, “I’ll take it under advisement.”
Conyers pressed the matter, saying, “I think that it would be something that would be worth our time. We've never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. ... I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it.” An exasperated Nadler said he would hold a hearing when he had “credible allegations of misconduct.”
Nadler abruptly dismissed the panel shortly thereafter.
“I would encourage chairman Conyers in his call for a hearing and investigation into ACORN,” Heidelbaugh told HUMAN EVENTS in the hallway outside of the hearing. “The Judiciary Committee has oversight of the voting system in America, and ACORN is interfering in it in a large, large way. The federal government in some cases is providing the funding for that interference.”
I also spoke with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a member of the House Judiciary Committee as well as the Constitution subcommittee, who questioned Heidelbaugh during the hearing.
“We’re about to appropriate even more money, and we’ve already appropriated some money that may very well be directed to ACORN,” Gohmert said. “If we know that an organization is guilty of fraud, and we provide them the money and the wherewithal to continue the fraud, then we are accessories to fraud. The only difference between us and a criminal is that we have the ability to pass laws that say even though we’re criminals we’re doing our criminal work legally. It doesn’t make it moral, it doesn’t make it ethical, it just makes it legal to say we can be accessories to fraud by providing the money.”
Wild Thing's comment.........
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, Conyers and Nadler aren’t doing anything other than say; See, we investgated ACORN and found nothing. How convenient now can go back to their naps.
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (7)
March 15, 2009
Kennedy Receives Honory Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II
Sen. Ted Kennedy Receives Honory Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II
The Washington Post reported that the Massachusetts Democrat's honor was announced by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who on Wednesday addressed a joint session of Congress.
In his speech, Brown praised Kennedy's role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland after years of strife and his efforts to strengthen healthcare and educational opportunities in the United States and elsewhere.
"Northern Ireland today is at peace, more Americans have healthcare, children around the world are going to school," Gordon said. "And for all these things, we owe a great debt to the life, and courage, of Senator Edward Kennedy."
MPs' fury as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets honorary knighthood for Northern Ireland role
Gordon Brown sparked fury today by awarding an honorary knighthood to U.S. senator Edward Kennedy, who has been accused in the past of being an IRA sympathiser.
Conservative MPs and Peers condemned as 'inappropriate' the decision to make a man closely linked to the Irish nationalist movement a 'Sir'.
Senior British politicians also expressed unease at honouring the Democrat who was embroiled in controversy when he was involved in an infamous car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in which a young woman was killed.
Wild Thing's comment.........
The cowardly degenerate Ted: “Thank you, your majesty, (hic). As they say, (hic), once a queen, always a queen, but (hic) once a (k)night is not enough. (hic)”
Next thing you know Obama will be giving the Medal of Freedom to Bill Ayers.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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Obama's Budget Plan Failing So Team Obama Uses Palin in Some Hate Mongering AD's
In an ad called “Crickets” that begins Sunday, Americans United for Change, a labor-funded ally of the White House, says: “President Obama has proposed a budget plan to turn the page on the failed economic policies of the past – creating jobs and changing the way things are done in Washington. The Republican response?”
Then the viewer sees Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner(R-Ohio) each saying, “No!”
“So what kind of budget have the Republicans proposed to get us out of the mess they created? Here are the details,” the ad continues. The viewer sees a blank screen and hears the sound of crickets.
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And here is another one, they have been very busy making these stupid videos.
Wild Thing's comment.......
LOL Pandering ads like this do nothing but alert even the densest of kool-aid drinker of theirs that there is controversy over the Administration’s “plan.”
Democrats are so pathetic! I swear I really have tried to think positive about them over the years. LOL I just could not come up with one thing that I respect them for other then I love a good movie or TV show and good music. hahaha
OK so here is the AD Republican's should run.
When Democrats ran for election they said bills would be created with transparency and there would be no vote until a few days were allowed for comment.
Here is how the Democrats crafted the budget bill........show people going “I don’t know”
Here is how debate was handled by the Democrats in the Senate.....show Nancy Pelosi saying the bill had to pass intact without change and even playing Obama and his quote of how he had not read the bill he signed as well as anyone else!
This about that a President that signs a HUGE bill and could care less about reading it and knowing what is in it. Yes Obama you freak, it is obvious you could care less.
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:40 AM | Comments (7)
March 12, 2009
Democrats the Party of Tax Cheats
Unprecedented Level of Tax Evasion Among Obama Appointees
A list of Obama's potential high-level appointees who have withdrawn from consideration - mostly for failure to pay taxes - since Obama took office in January.
One of the most interesting phenomenons of the Obama administration so far is the difficulty he has had finding honest people to fill top-level positions. Every few days since he has been in office, another potential cabinet appointee is in the news for tax evasion or other financial corruption.
Let's rehash the list so far.
New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson, nominated for Commerce Department Secretary. He withdrew on January 4 after it emerged that he was the subject of a Grand Jury investigation for influence peddling, due to his awarding of a $1.5 million state contract to political contributors.
Former South Dakota Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, nominated for Health and Human Services Secretary. He withdrew on February 3, admitting that he had failed to pay more than $100,000 in taxes on a car and driver provided by a friend and on consulting fees after he left the Senate.
Nancy Killefer, former Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer of the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration, nominated for Deputy Director at the Office of Management and Budget and Chief Performance Officer. Obama said in announcing her nomination, "We can no longer afford to sustain the old ways when we know there are new and more efficient ways of getting the job done." Killefer withdrew on February 3 because of a lien against her home for failure to pay unemployment tax for household help. Ironic that she can afford household help - something most of us Americans can't - and then doesn't pay the taxes her party trumpets. Certainly not anyone you want in charge of managing the public's money.
Hilda Solis, nominated for Labor Secretary, was confirmed on February 11 even though her husband had liens against his business going back 16 years. He paid the full $6,400 owed a day before her confirmation hearing. Wouldn't that be nice if the average American could pretend to have nothing to do with their spouse's finances?
Only one with NO TAX problems.........New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, Obama's second nomination for Commerce Department secretary. Apparently the only Republican nominated to a high-level position by Obama, he withdrew on February 11 because of philosophical differences with the Obama administration over its advocacy of a massive stimulus plan. Judd had once called for elimination of the Department of Commerce. Judd was one of very few Obama nominees who withdrew due to legitimate reasons.
Timothy Geithner, nominated and confirmed on February 24 for Treasury Secretary. Geithner failed to pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes while he worked at the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2004. Yet he was still confirmed because Democrats said his position was too important to be left unfilled any longer.
Kansas Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius was nominated on March 2 as Obama's second choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services. So far, no back tax problem has emerged, but she does have one of the most extreme partisan positions on abortion of any politician in the country; which may cause trouble with her confirmation.
Former Obama campaign worker Susan Tierney, the leading candidate for Deputy Secretary of Energy, dropped out on March 3 without citing a reason. Is she afraid to cite back taxes?
Jane Garvey, reportedly Obama's top choice for Deputy Secretary of Transportation, also dropped out on March 3, reportedly for financial reasons. Did those reasons include owing back taxes?
Former Washington Democratic Governor Gary Locke. Nominated on March 5, for Secretary of Commerce after Bill Richardson and Judd Gregg withdrew. So far he appears to be sailing through to confirmation, but Frontpage Mag points out he was involved in Chinagate with former Clinton Commerce employee John Huang. Huang wrote a $1,000 check to Locke and co-sponsored fundraising events that netted $30,000 in 1996 alone.
Annette Nazareth, who was to be nominated for Treasury Deputy Secretary, abruptly announced on March 5 she was stepping aside for "personal reasons."
Caroline Atkinson, nominated for Undersecretary of International Affairs, withdrew on March 5 as well. Did these two prospects withdraw because of failure to pay back taxes? "Personal reasons" sounds like someone wants to spend more time with their family, or something along those lines. If that was the case, why didn't the candidates indicate so? Because of the long list of nominees who withdrew for tax problems, their withdrawals are forever tainted with a cloud of suspicion.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Obama's first pick for Surgeon General, withdrew on March 5 without citing a reason. What were his secret reasons?
Former Dallas Democratic Mayor Ron Kirk, nominated for Trade Representative, failed to pay $10,000 in back taxes for speaking fees over three years. He faced Senate questioning on March 9 over it, but is expected to win confirmation. $2,600 of the back taxes was due to deducting $17,382 worth of basketball tickets; he was unable to provide proof of business purposes for those tickets. Most Americans can't afford $17,382 in baseball tickets, much less have a business to deduct the cost from. Kirk also took overly large deductions for a used TV he gave to charity, and inflated accounting and tax preparation fees. He has agreed to pay $9,975 in back taxes from 2005-2007.
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What we are seeing is the results of a generation that has grown up without strict morals. Years of 1960's "progressive morality" has spawned a generation of Baby Boomers who have grown up without church and Judeao-Christian morals, not knowing the difference between right and wrong. And it has affected the Democratic Party the most, since they have rejected Biblical morality in favor of secular humanism with its acceptance of all viewpoints, no matter how flawed. This has left them with few political candidates to choose from who have maintained moral requisites. At some point, it will lead to the downfall of the Democratic Party - unless society's morals progressively change with them.
Wild Thing's comment........
Good clue to why Democrats love big government, hand out programs and taxing people. They do't pay taxes.
With all their yelling and screaming about their hate for the rich, their hate for how the rich have write off's etc. These democrats sure are phony's, they have no right to complain about anyone when they themselves have not paid.
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March 10, 2009
Jason Mattera Confronts the Tax Cheat Charlie Rangel
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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo comes from the ("We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...") Workers World Party website.
Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Hey Charlie Rangel it IS our business you is our business you arrogant SOB communist, and he needs to go to jail! I think not paying taxes and scheming to get more out of you is a requirement to be a Demoncrat.
This kind of thing makes my blood boil. It really angers and disgusts me how these people get away with things we would be prosecuted for.
Charlie is a prime example of the imperial Congress that has developed in the US.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:48 AM | Comments (8)
Chicago Politician Ricardo Munoz Shoves Voter and Tells Him ........
Ricardo Muñoz is alderman of the 22nd ward in Chicago. Muñoz was appointed to this position by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1993.
Move over Charlie "mind your goddam business" Rangel, you have company!
A Chicago taxpayer went to his 22nd Ward alderman, Ricardo Munoz, to protest the Democrat’s support for tax-increment financing. The constituent wants to present Alderman Munoz with a petition.
Munoz physically shoves the voter and yells: “Get the f**k out of my office!”
Wild Thing's comment........
Don't you just love the underlying ruler/serf attitude from these politicians. To them it is how dare we the people grow a pair and defend ourselves and speak up to them, question them, tell them what we think.
Alderman Munoz, it is not YOUR office. It belongs to the citizens of Chicago who entrust it to you, ya putz.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (8)
March 06, 2009
Botox Nancy Pelosi Has Her Panties All Knotted Up
Pelosi on spending bill: Take it or leave it
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) confirmed that if any changes are made to the omnibus spending bill in the Senate, she thinks Congress should scrap the effort and pass a continuing resolution to cover spending for the rest of the year.
“That is the plan,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference Thursday. “If we started to open up that package, the changes would be endless.”
Pelosi said the $410 billion omnibus spending bill was negotiated on a bipartisan basis before it was introduced this year, so it shouldn’t be changed.
The Senate is set to vote Friday morning on cloture for the bill, which has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for the 9,000 earmarks it contains.
Wild Thing's comment..........
We don’t want it, and we don’t want YOU. Why don’t you take your ‘Let them eat cake’ attitude back to the sordid hills of San Fran and glory in the muck there.
These humongous spending bills have gotten the attention of the public, and the public is getting ticked. The conservatives need to keep beating this drum.
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March 05, 2009
Evil Democrats Billboard to Rush ~ LOL
"I'm Jen O'Malley Dillon, the new Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee.If you're anything like me, then you've had the urge to talk back to a right-wing talk radio host more than a few times. Now you can.
Rush Limbaugh has made waves lately about his desire to see President Obama fail. And he's unapologetic, even though Americans voted in November for the very kind of change the President is bringing to Washington. As even Limbaugh must know, if the President fails, America fails.
Incredibly, Republican leaders have yet to condemn Limbaugh for his destructive comments. In fact, Republicans like Congressman Eric Cantor, a leader in the House, have adopted the Limbaugh strategy, telling the Washington Post recently that their strategy on the President's jobs plan was "just saying no."
The only Republican leader to challenge Limbaugh -- the chairman of the Republican National Committee -- even called Rush to apologize just a few days later.
But we have no apologies for Rush, just a message. We need you to come up with a slogan, in ten words or less, that we'll put on a billboard where he can't miss it -- in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida.
Can you help us come up with a message for Rush that we'll place on a billboard right in his hometown?
We'll go through all the slogans we get, and the winner will have his or her message appear on the billboard -- and receive a free T-shirt featuring the winning slogan.
If Republican leaders aren't willing to tell Rush, then we will. Americans want President Obama to succeed. Our country's future depends on it. Rooting for the President's failure is rooting for our country to fail.
To get America back on a path to prosperity, we'll need to leave behind the failed partisan attack politics of the past. Americans voted for a new direction in November. Choosing Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of their party -- as Republican leaders have done -- is not the answer.
Send in your suggestion of ten words or less for a billboard and we'll choose the best one to put in Rush's own "backyard":
http://www.democrats.org/rushbillboard
Thanks
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Wild Thing's comment..........
This is their stupid website paid for my the communist, socialist yukky Democrats the enemy of our country.
http://www.democrats.org/page/s/submitslogan
I thought it would be fun to add one to their submissions hahahaha. I realize it will not get picked but just to bug them, it was fun.
LOL....OK here we go................
Rush ROCKS He is right and that is why we agree with him.
Obama..now all we have left is change.
Mega dittos Rush, the magic negro should debate you.
“Wait! Is This Monica’s Cigar?!”
“Rush— Quit tying half your brain behind your back”
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February 28, 2009
TV Ad from American's United for Change Their Group Wants a Socialist America
Below is the new American's United for Change and AFSCME TV ad that is hitting airwaves today. The ad is interesting for two reasons. First, rather predictably, the ad seeks to paint the GOP as the party of 'no' for opposing President Obama's stimulus package.
Second, and perhaps most interesting, is that it goes after Rush Limbaugh at the very end.
Wild Thing's comment.........
This is a cowardly ad that leaves out any sense of honesty.
Rush is awesome and he will wear this as a badge of honor. And IF Rush was the leader of the Republican party then Obama would not have had a chance to win.
* find the target
* fix it
* then destroy it
(alinsky)
It amazes me how any American with more that a few brain cells can see this and NOT KNOW that it is a deliberate attempt at obfuscation and deception.
Any reasonable adult wants 0bama to fail. Because success means an America that is a Socialist, Marxist hell hole.
Many people do not realizes how much he’s targeted, both in his personal and professional life, and how much courage it takes to stand up to these guys. Congress has sent threats to his employer, they’ve targeted him with a three year investigation over his oxycontin addiction, he’s had boycotts of his sponsors, and he just mentioned he gets audited by NY State over his taxes every year.
He is a patriot in the true American Revolutionary sense, a point wholly lost on timid elected Republicans who seek to be loved.
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February 21, 2009
Obama's ACORN Group Breaks Into Home
Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore. Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence.
The activists who staged the break-in belong to the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN. After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters "this is our house now."
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ACORN Brownshirts break into foreclosed homes in acts of 'civil disobedience'
Rick Moran
There is little doubt that ACORN is feeling its oats now that one of their own is in the White House. The payback by Obama is just beginning and the only question in my mind is when we start calling these thugs "Obama's Brown Shirts?"
A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience.
The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.
Derek Valcourt reports their actions are not without controversy.
Near Patterson Park, the padlock on the door and the sign in the window tells part of Donna Hanks foreclosure story.
“The mortgage went up $300 in one month,” said Hanks, former homeowner.
She says the bank refused to modify her loan and foreclosed, kicking her out of the house in September.
The community group ACORN calls Hanks a victim of predatory lending.
"This is our house now," said Louis Beverly, ACORN.
And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months.
ACORN is seeking to destroy property rights as any good little marxist organization would. Once property rights are history, no one will be safe and people will scurry to the protection that Big Brother offers in order to save what little they have. Property rights guarantee our independence. And that just won't do for ACORN and their allies.
Wild Thing's comment........
ACORN - when you absolutely positively need someone with less ability and intellect than you’ve got.
And because of Obama's stimulus bill hand out another problem now is that ACORN will have lots of money for lawyers.
“This is our house now,” said Louis Beverly, ACORN
Didn’t they say the same thing about the White House after Obama was elected? (eye roll)
These people need to be stopped! Breaking into homes is not ‘civil disobedience’. It reminds me of the reported tactics of ACORN busting into bank executive meetings to intimidate them into giving them loans in the first place.
They are going to be doing more of this.
ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures
BALTIMORE (WJZ)
A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience. The group says it was staging similar demonstrations in six other cities nationwide while urging a moratorium on foreclosures. They want that until President Obama's stimulus plan begins on March 4. The plan is designed to help threatened homeowners.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me. The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (4)
February 19, 2009
Attorney Gen.Eric Holder US Remains A “a nation of cowards”
Holder: 'Nation of cowards' on race
Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race.
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.
“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”
Holder said that the Department of Justice, in particular, bears a singular responsibility.
“And we, in this room, bear a special responsibility,” he said. “Through its work and through its example, the Department of Justice — this Department of Justice — as long as I'm here, must and will leave the nation to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president. This is our duty, this is our solemn responsibility.”
Holder said that the country is now a “fundamentally different” place than it used to be, but that the nation “still had not come to grips with its racial past, nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have.”
“To our detriment, this is typical of the way in which this nation deals with issues of race,” he said.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Obama - crisis, crisis, crisis, crisis, doom, gloom, catastrophe
Holder- coward, race cowards, cowards.
This sort of language is completely out of line for an Attorney General. This is the type of trash talking you'd expect from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Utterly inappropriate and a disgrace to the office of the Attorney General.
Democrats sure love to insult our country and we the people. He mentions electing a black president as if it means almost nothing or is even a problem. And Michael Stelle who is a good guy head of the RNC. Oh yeah, and he’s a black attorney general. Real racial problem we have.
Hey Eric, you hypocritical coward, you wanna talk about unresolved racial issues?
Why don't you start addressing THIS one?
"The National Black Republican Association has issued a petition to Barack Hussein Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, requesting that Obama issue a formal proclamation of apology for the Democratic Party's 150-year history of racism.
We recognize that this is likely too much to ask of the oh so "racially sensitive" Democrats who want us to ignore their racist past and failed socialism that have caused so much harm to black Americans. So we will not hold our breath waiting for their response."
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (20)
February 18, 2009
Tax Troubles for Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's
Emanuel: "Oversaw" Freddie Mac's antics, then got donation from Freddie's PAC.
Rahm's 'rent' is just the tip of the ethics iceberg
by Dick Morris
News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel's previously undisclosed ethics problems.
One issue is the work Emanuel tossed the way of De Lauro's husband. But the bigger one goes back to Emanuel's days on the board of now-bankrupt mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.
During that time, he also served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - which gave Greenberg huge polling contracts. It paid Greenberg's firm $239,996 in 2006 and $317,775 in 2008. (Emanuel's own campaign committee has also paid Greenberg more than $50,000 since 2004.
Emanuel never declared the substantial gift of free rent on any of his financial-disclosure forms. He and De Lauro claim that it was just allowable "hospitality" between colleagues. Hospitality - for five years?
Some experts suggest that it was also taxable income: Over five years, the free rent could easily add up to more than $100,000.
Nor is this all that seems to have been missed in the Obama team's vetting process. Consider: Emanuel served on the Freddie Mac board of directors during the time that the government-backed lender lied about its earnings, a leading contributor to the current economic meltdown.
Meanwhile, Emanuel was paid more than $260,000 for his Freddie "service." Plus, after he resigned from the board to run for Congress in 2002, the troubled agency's PAC gave his campaign $25,000 - its largest single gift to a House candidate.
The president's chief of staff isn't subject to Senate confirmation, but his ethics still matter. Is this the change that we can depend on?
And there is this.......
There could be tax troubles on the horizon for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who reportedly has lived rent-free in Washington for five years but hasn't paid taxes on the imputed income from that, according to reports.
According to the New York Post, the free rent in a home owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and not disclosing that "gift" apparently isn't all that's being questioned about Emanuel's arrangements, either.
Another issue is "the work Emanuel tossed the way of DeLauro's husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg."
The report said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed despite not having paid on times the taxes he was supposed to have paid, Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle withdrew his name over unpaid taxes and proposed Chief Performance officer Nancy Killifer also withdrew over similar problems.
Also, while the issue didn't involve taxes, Obama's first pick for secretary of commerce – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson – proved an embarrassment because of his involvement in an alleged pay-to-play scheme.
And according to reports in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Democrat comedian Al Franken, whose challenge to incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman still is awaiting a result in the courts, also had tax issues during his campaign.
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Wild Thing's comment........
This whole corrupt admnistration is filled with law breakers and most don’t like to pay taxes. And these hypocrites lead by Obama want to tell all of us that Iwe have to sacrifice to better the economy. sheesh
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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February 15, 2009
Hussein Hears a Hughes
Watch towards the end of this clip where a middle aged white female ( mouths theh words) proclaims "I love you Barack."
UPDATE: Henrietta Hughes says she's not milking the system
A woman making national headlines after a tearful moment with President Obama has a new home.
Thursday morning, Chene Thompson handed Henrietta Hughes the keys to her home in Hendry County. Thompson is the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson (R-District 73). Hughes and her son will live at the home rent free.
However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn't being honest about how much help she's had in the past.
The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.
"We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free," said Tanya Johnson.
Henrietta Hughes has a web site,registered by a Judah Fontz, from Cape Coral Florida. Now I’m wondering why the MSM isn’t going after her ????
"After the president left, reporters crowded around Hughes, doing one interview after another. People in the crowd handed her business cards and cash."
1.) Henrietta Hughes has a long history of financial problems. Her story even made the news back in 2004 before the current recession. She has been playing the system for years.
2.) Unlike "Joe the Plumber" the mainstream media was not going to look into Henrietta's past.
Henrietta -- "How can you take care of my problems?"
Joe the Plumber -- "Can't the government leave me alone?"
It appears as though Henrietta Hughes is not registered to vote in either Florida or New York - not sure about son Corey. Their names appear to come up listed as "owner(s)" on three distinct public housing units going back as far as 1983 - one in Georgia and two in Florida. As to reports she was living with "friends" in New York, that appears to be the home of her parents.
I have no idea why Henrietta Hughes may be homeless today. Unfortunate events happen to us all. My only point is, her troubles and need for public assistance seem to precede the current economic crisis and likely go back years.
Wild Thing's comment........
Aren't the lefties wonderful? Give me Give me Give me more and more.
The lady dressed in white in the video that mouths " I love you Obama" looks familiar to me. I keep thinking I have seen her in the audiences before and not the Florida campaigns for Obama. We just don't know how many of these people are plants and how many are there on their own. Being the Democrat party I just don't trust anything about them.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:50 AM | Comments (13)
February 10, 2009
Biden Tells Munich Conference U.S.Ready to Talk to Iran
Biden's Munich Speech: Obama Administration Foreign Policy Projects Weakness and Confusion
The Heritage Foundation ...for complete article ( snipets below)
In a major speech at the February 7 Munich Security Conference
Vice President Joe Biden outlined the Obama Administration's foreign policy vision for the first time on the world stage. It was an address designed to reach out to leaders in both Europe and the Middle East, "on behalf of a new Administration determined to set a new tone in Washington, and in America's relations around the world."
Biden's speech should be viewed as one of the weakest projections of U.S. leadership on foreign soil in recent memory. The message was confused, apologetic, over-conciliatory, and remarkably lacking in substance and detail. It was the kind of speech, heavy in platitudes and diplo-speak, that could easily have been given by a continental European bureaucrat nestled in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin. It was not the voice of the most powerful nation on earth.
The Vice President went to great lengths in his speech to avoid offending America's enemies, such as Iran and Hamas, or her strategic competitors, such as Russia. One could have been forgiven for thinking that the world was largely at peace rather than facing the threat of global terrorism or a dangerous rogue regime aggressively seeking nuclear weapons capability.
Biden's remarks touched on several key areas, from Iran to NATO reform--all of which gave major cause for concern--and left critical questions unanswered.
Iran
The Vice President confirmed the new Administration's willingness to enter into direct negotiations with the Islamist regime in Tehran.
In essence, Biden offered a quid pro quo deal with Iran--the kind the European Union has offered for several years with absolutely nothing to show for it except spectacular failure.
Missile Defense
The Vice President stated that the United States "will continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability, provided the technology is proven to work and cost effective." However, Biden gave no pledge to press ahead with a third-site missile defense system in Eastern and Central Europe, sowing the seeds of further confusion in Poland and the Czech Republic, two key U.S. allies who have agreed to participate in the defense system by hosting missile interceptors and early warning radar.
Russia
Aside from a refusal to recognize the breakaway Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, there was little evidence in Biden's speech that the Obama Administration intends to adopt a tough line toward Russian aggression in its "Near Abroad" or attempts to bully and intimidate its neighbors in the Caucasus as well as Eastern Europe. Significantly, Biden made no mention of U.S. support for Georgian and Ukrainian membership in the NATO Membership Action Plan or Russia's brutal invasion of Georgia last summer.
NATO
While reiterating the importance of the NATO alliance and the need for its renewal in the 21st century, the Vice President supports policies that will undermine the organization and weaken American influence within it. In Munich, Biden backed the full reintegration of France into "NATO structures," and French officers are reportedly in line to take two senior alliance command positions: Allied Command Transformation and Joint Command Lisbon.
Afghanistan
Biden identified the war in Afghanistan as a top foreign policy priority for the Obama Administration, calling for close cooperation with America's allies in Europe as well as the government of Pakistan.
War on Terrorism
Significantly absent from the Vice President's address was any reference to the war on terrorism or the need for the United States and its allies to be prepared for a long hard battle against Islamist terrorism. Biden spoke in soft terms of "a shared struggle against extremism" and of "a small number of violent extremists [who] are beyond the call of reason," as well as the need to seek with the Muslim world "a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect." There was no indication given of the sheer scale of the global fight against al-Qaeda and its allies. Al-Qaeda is mentioned just once in Biden's speech, and only within the context of Afghanistan.
The Vice President also avoided directly mentioning terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel. There were no words of support for Israel's recent offensive against Hamas in Gaza, suggesting a significant shift away from open support for Israel by the new U.S. Administration.
A Celebration of Soft Power
Vice President Biden delivered what was in essence a quintessentially European-style speech on German soil. It was an address that tried to be all things to all people, lacking in concrete policy prescriptions and cloaked in vague statements designed to cause minimal offense in foreign capitals, including those of America's worst enemies. Biden's address was above all a celebration of "soft power," cynically re-branded by the Obama Administration as "smart power."
Wild Thing's comment........
The incompetence of the this group will be irresistible to the terrorist types. They have been waiting for idiots like this to be in control. What Biden and Obama don't seem to understand is that in the Muslim world, their conciliatory attitude will not result in a reciprocal "kinder, gentler" attitude.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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February 05, 2009
Robert Kennedy Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells Congressman Steve King that hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden in a February 4, 2009 House Judiciary Committee hearing.
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RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today turned a congressional subcommittee hearing into a diatribe on the dangers faced by the United States, affirming that hog producers are a far greater threat to the nation's future than Osama bin Laden – and his terror network.
Kennedy's comments came in response to a question from U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
King asked whether a comment attributed to Kennedy in a published Iowa report in 2002 was accurate. In that, Kennedy stated that, "Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network."
"Is that an accurate quote?" asked King, whose state includes thousands of small businesses producing pork.
"I don't know if that [quotation] is accurate, but I believe it and I support it," said Mr. Kennedy, who has been involved in a vigorous legal effort against the meat industry for some years, arguing that manure and other products associated with large livestock producers emit toxic wastes that threaten the environment.
"I believe it and I support it," Kennedy said.
Kennedy explained that he agrees with Teddy Roosevelt's statement that "this nation would never be destroyed by a foreign enemy. But he said malefactors with great wealth working from within would erode and subvert American democracy."
But Kennedy accused King of asking an "inflammatory" question.
"Osama has no power over this country," he said, periodically poking his finger in the air at the congressman. "Osama can't make us alter our Constitution but that is happening every day because of the power of this industry [hog producers]."
A spokesman for King's office in Washington said the congressman was concerned by the statements from Kennedy that accused the hog industry of subverting public officials, polluting the earth and damaging the nation.
Wild Thing's comment..........
LMAO I know PIGS are definitely a threat to Osama Bin Laden and his head choppin muslim buddies. Kennedy is an idiot.
Robert Kennedy is too stupid to know what the Teddy Roosevelt's statement even means. I HATE when these jerks do this kind of thing.
I’ve never known hog farmers to take down skyscrapers. But that’s just me.
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February 04, 2009
Pelosi Ties Obama in Being DUMB ~ LOL
Nancy Pelosi: Dumber than soap. Nancy claims that every month we do not have the stimulus package 500 million American lose their jobs " ...if they don't pass the $1 trillion pork barell spending boondoggle.
Wild Thing's comment......
"500 Million" ???? LMAO Well it does take a lot of people to populate "57 states" that Ho-bama counted.
LMAO You can’t make this stuff up.
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February 03, 2009
Daschle and Nancy Killefer Bows Out Due To Not Paying Taxes
Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle withdraws his nomination as Obama's health and human services secretary.
"But if 30 years of exposure to the challenges inherent in our system has taught me anything, it has taught me that this work will require a leader who can operate with the full faith of Congress and the American people, and without distraction," he said.
"Right now, I am not that leader, and will not be a distraction. The focus of Congress should be on the urgent business of moving the president's economic agenda forward, including affordable health care for every American."
Obama pick, Nancy Killefer, withdraws as tax problems take their toll on nominees
President Obama’s promise to set a new ethical standard in politics took another knock today when his budget enforcer was forced to withdraw amid revelations that she did not pay her taxes on time.
Nancy Killefer, a director of the McKinsey management consultancy firm whose brief was to cut waste and improve government efficiency, is the third member of the White House team to encounter trouble over her personal finances. Reports said that she failed for over a a year and a half to pay employment taxes on her domestic help.
Ms Killefer’s decision to withdraw her nomination follows similar controversies with Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle over their failure to pay back taxes.
Mr Geithner was confirmed as Treasury Secretary only after he apologised for his belated payment of tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes which he owed from his time working for the International Monetary Fund.
Mr Daschle's prospects of receiving Senate confirmation for the position as Health Secretary are hanging in the balance after he admitted that he was "deeply embarrassed and disappointed" by his failure to pay $128,000 (£89,000) in taxes for a car and driver provided to him by a wealthy Democratic donor.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
SahWEET!
Two down ( Richardson and Daschle ) and the rest of the administration to go. Obama not only has a problem with how he was vetted but he also has a problem in vetting his picks.
Geithner needs to step down now, as well.
Is Obama trying to say something by continually picking people with tax problems?
Please CLICK THIS LINK...this is a MUST SEE!!!!
http://webofdeception.com/obama.html
Look down the left column on the page.....shocking and amazing!!!!!! So many and Obama too of course all tax cheats. Family members etc. take a peek at the link, VERY interersting.
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Eric Holder Confirmed As Attorney General, 75-21
Holder confirmed as attorney general, 75-21
The Senate on Monday confirmed Eric Holder to become the first black attorney general, capping a prolonged but ultimately smooth confirmation process that saw little of the partisan fireworks some Republicans had hoped for.
These Voted Yes confirm a crook
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
The Nays:
Barrasso (R-WY)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not voting
Begich (D-AK)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Martinez (R-FL)
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Jim DeMint Statement on Holder Nomination for Attorney General
February 2, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C.
"Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement regarding his decision to oppose President Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for U.S. Attorney General:
“The Attorney General is our nation’s top law enforcement official, and Americans deserve better than someone who helped pardon terrorists and tax cheats and who is hostile to Second Amendment rights,” said Senator DeMint.
As assistant U.S. attorney general during the Clinton Administration, Holder recommended that Marc Rich, one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” at the time, receive a presidential pardon. Rich was indicted in 1983 for evading more than $48 million in taxes. He was charged with 51 counts of tax fraud and for running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis.
Holder repeatedly pressed his subordinates at Department of Justice to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 pardon of 16 members of two Puerto Rican terrorist groups convicted of bank robbery, possession of explosives and a conspiracy that was linked to more than 146 bombings in the U.S., multiple armed robberies, six murders and hundreds of injuries.
The two largest Second Amendment advocacy groups, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Rifle Association (NRA), representing more than 4.3 million Americans, both opposed the confirmation of Holder. He joined an amicus brief opposing an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the District of Columbia vs. Heller U.S. Supreme Court case. "
WIMPY Lindsey Graham Supports Holder for Attorney General
"Mr. Holder understands the threat to our nation posed by terrorism. In the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination, Mr. Holder agreed with me the United States is undoubtedly at war with a vicious and shadowy enemy, and that the war began before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“Mr. Holder agreed with me as well that the battlefield in the War on Terror is the entire globe. It is not limited to the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, but also includes the financial system, through which terrorist networks are funded; and the internet, through which terrorists communicate and spread their message of violence and hatred. Indeed, the tragic events of 9/11 proved that the battlefield even extends within our nation’s own borders. The question of how best to win the War on Terror is the most profound issue facing the next Attorney General. Mr. Holder understands the nature of this enemy and this conflict.
“There are some who argue that Mr. Holder’s previous mistakes should bar him from serving as Attorney General. In expressing my support for Mr. Holder, I do not mean to minimize those misjudgments. Indeed, Mr. Holder faces his past mistakes fully — admitting them, learning from them, and promising to exercise better judgment in the future. While I understand concern with Mr. Holder’s past errors, it would be a mistake in its own right to reject on that basis this qualified nominee who comprehends the challenge our nation faces in defeating terrorism.
“I look forward to working with President Obama and Mr. Holder to fashion a system of detention for the War on
Terror involving all three branches of government and of which all Americans can be proud. Mr. Holder and I agree that in order to maintain the critical moral high ground in this war, we must treat detainees fairly, with more process than they would necessarily provide us. We also agree that we must not release dangerous warriors back to the fight against our nation. Criminalizing this war would be a terrible mistake, and Mr. Holder understands that.
“Four years ago, President Obama, then Senator Obama, stated on the floor of the Senate that the test of a nominee for Attorney General is, “whether that person is ready to put the Constitution of the people before the political agenda of the President.” Eric Holder meets that test and for that reason I will support his nomination.”
Wild Thing's comment.....
I am just stunned that Jeff Sessions voted for this thug. And I am not surprised by McCain voting yes but Saxby?? Sarah Palin did all she could to help him get elected.
I forget. Is he one of the tax cheats, lobbyists, Marxist activists, or just another one of the scheister lawyers?...just kidding, But my gosh this Obama's change are all people that should be in jail....at least that!
The Clinton retreads will now get a chance to completely screw up what they missed the first time.
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February 02, 2009
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid: taxes are voluntary in America
Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid: taxes are voluntary in America
This man is a U.S. SENATOR... In fact he is the Majority Leader! This has got to be seen and heard to be believed!
Wild Thing's comment........
The tax system is about as “voluntary” as pulling over to the side of the road when you see flashing blue and red lights in your rearview mirror.
Between this video and the one I posted awhile back where Harry Reid said " coal is evil". How the heck do people keep voting for this total idiot.
......Thank you SSGT Steve
SSGT Steve Gaston, USMC
Big D Detachment
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January 28, 2009
Here Is The List Where Money Will Be Spent In Stimulus Bill
The House is expected to approve today an $825 billion economic stimulus package.
Republicans Object to Stimulus Dollars for ACORN
Republicans say voter registration and community groups like ACORN could be eligible for funding under the Democrats' economic stimulus bill.
FOX News
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
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The Pelosi-Obey Stimulus bill includes $358 billion in spending under the Appropriations Committee's jurisdiction. When combined with new spending that will be considered by the Ways and Means Committee, the estimated cost of all spending will reach more than $550 billion. Additionally, there is an estimated$,275 billion tax component, which will bring the total cost of the bill to $825 billion.
http://mack.house.gov/_files/StimulusSummary2009.pdf
Summary of spending by Appropriations Subcommittee:
Agriculture: $26.863 billion
$19.99 billion in mandatory spending for the Food Stamp program.
$5.13 billion for rural grant and loan programs, including programs to support broadband deployment, the Rural Business Cooperative Service, housing insurance, water and waste programs, and community facilities.
$726 million for the after-school snack program.
$253 million for the Department’s building and facility repairs.
$345 million for information technology improvements.
$400 million for watershed flood prevention and rehabilitation.
$23 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
Commerce, Justice, Science: $14.191 billion
$6.575 billion for the Department of Commerce, including $3.175 billion for broadband mapping and for the deployment of wireless and broadband technology to unserved areas,
$ 1 billion for unspecified activities related to the 2010 Decennial Census,
$650 million for additional Digital TV transition coupons, $1 billion for NOAA climate satellite and habitat restoration programs,
$500 million for NIST research, construction and manufacturing support pÍograms, and $250 million for economic development assistance grants.
$4.00 billion for the Department of Justice for grant assistance to State and local law enforcement, including
$3 billion for the Byrne/JAG formula grant program
and $l billion for COPS Hiring grants.
$600 million for NASA, including $400 million for Science to accelerate the highest priority Earth Science missions, $150 million for aeronautics research and
$50 million for hurricane-related construction projects at NASA centers.
$3 billion for the National Science Foundation, including $2 billion for research grants,
$300 million for research instrumentation grants,
$200 million for academic research facilities renovation grants,
$400 million for major research equipment and facilities projects,
$100 million for science education programs.
$ 16 million for the Inspectors General of the Department of Commerce, Justice, NASA, and the National Science Foundation to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
Defense:
$4.865 billion
$4.5 billion for sustainment, maintenance, and repair of Department of Defense facilities.
$350 million for research, development, test and evaluation, including pilot projects, for improvements in energy generation, transmission, regulation, storage, and use on military installations.
$15 million for the Department of Defense’s Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
Energy and Water:
$48.915 billion
$5 billion for water projects, including $4.5 billion for the Army Corps of
Engineers for repairs and upgrades to levees and dams and $500 million for the Bureau of Reclamation for drinking water supply, water reuse, and water recycling projects.
537.4 billion for energy projects, including the following:
1. $2 billion for research related to renewable energy and energy effrciency,
2. $500 million for an industrial waste energy recovery incentive program,
3. $ 1.5 billion for grants to institutions to identify, design, and implement sustainable energy proj ects,
4. $6.2 billion through the’WeatherizationAssistance Program to assist lowincome families in reducing energy costs,
5. $3.5 billion for Energy Effrciency and Conservation Block Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes to reduce fossil fuel emissions,
6. $3.4 billion for the State Energy Program to provide grants to state energy offrces,
7. $200 million for Transportation Electrification Program to move the transportation sector toward clean energy sources,
8. $300 million to provide rebates to residential customers for the purchase of energy efficient appliances,
9. $400 million for a pilot programthat will allow state and local governments to acquire alternative fueled vehicles,
10. $2 billion for facilities to support the manufacturing of advanced vehicle batteries,
1 1. $4.5 billion to support research and development, pilot projects, and federal matching funds for the Smart Grid Investment Program to modernize the country’s electric grid,
12. $8 billion for a new loan guarantee program for renewable energy and electric power transmission systems,
13.52.4 billion for carbon capture and sequestration demonstration projects,
14. 52 billion for capital improvements at Department of Energy labs and facilities, and for advanced research projects, and
15. $500 million for to accelerate ongoing nuclear waste cleanup.
$6.5 billion in additional borrowing authority for the Western Area Power Administration and the Bonneville Power Administration.
$15 million for the Department of Energy’s Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of these programs, but no new funds are provided to conduct audits and investigations of the Corps of Engineers’ projects. Financial Services: $8.755 billion
$430 million for subsidy and administrative costs of small business loans.
$600 million to replace a portion of the Federal vehicle fleet with alternative fuel vehicles.
$7.7 billion for construction and repairs of Federal buildings, with $6 billion dedicated to projects focused on energy-efficiency and conservation and $1 billion for ports of entry.
$25 million for the Inspectors General of the Small Business Administration and the General Services Administration to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
Homeland Security: $1.102 billion
$100 million for non-intrusive Customs and Border Protection inspection equipment,
$150 million for construction at land ports of entry.
$500 million for Explosive Detection System installation and procurement and Airport Checkpoint Technolo gies.
$150 million for the Coast Guard for alteration of bridges.
$200 million for Emergency Food and Shelter. (FY08 - $153 million)
$2 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General to conduct audits and oversight of these programs.
Interior: $15.010 billion
$8 billion for state revolving funds for clean water and drinking water.
$1 billion for clean-up of Superfund sites and leaking underground storage tanks.
$4.375 billion for construction, capital improvements, and revitalization projects of the Smithsonian Institution, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Indian Health Service.
$850 million for wildhrehazard reduction, including on Federal lands.
$300 million for grants and loans to states and local governments to reduce diesel emissions (DERA).
$200 million for repair and restoration of science facilities and scientific equipment of the US Geological Survey.
$100 million for the Brownfields program to address site assessment and cleanup.
$100 million for facility repairs and modernization of programs through the National Park Service Centennial Challenge grants.
$50 million for grants through the National Endowment for the Arts.
$35 million for the Inspectors General of the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Labor-HHS: $171.363 billion
$4 billion for worker training, including $1.2 billion for a new program for youth summer jobs, $50 million for Youthbuild, and
$750 million for green jobs, healthcare, and emerging industry training grants.
$120 million to employ older Americans in community service.
$500 million for state employment service and reemployment grants.
$80 million to ensure infrastructure projects funded in the bill comply with worþlace safety re gulations.
$300 million to construct Job Corps facilities.
$1.5 billion for community health centers, including $1 billion for construction and renovation of existing facilities.
$88 million to replace HRSA’s headquarters facility.
$600 million to subsidizetraining for primary care workers, including doctors, nurses and dentists.
$462 million to continue replacing CDC facilities.
$1.5 billion for university research facility construction through NIH.
$500 million for construction of NlH-owned facilities.
$ 1.5 billion for NIH research.
$ I .l billion for comparative effectiveness research.
$1 billion for LIHEAP for fiscal year 2010.
$2 billion for the Child Care Development Block Grant.
$2.1 billion for Head Start and Early Head Start.
$1 billion for the Community Services Block Grant.
$100 million for the Compassion Capital Fund.
$200 million for senior citizen nutrition programs such as Meals on Wheels.
$3 billion for a new prevention and wellness fund.
$2 billion to modernize electronic health records.
$900 million for Project Bioshield.
$13 billion for formula grants to school districts.
$100 million for school construction in school districts heavily impacted by Federal or tribal lands on which they cannot collect property taxes.
$1 billion for education technology in elementary and secondary schools.
$66 million for education for homeless children and youth.
$200 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund.
$25 million for construction loans to charter schools.
$13 billion for special education state grants.
$600 million for special education programs for infants and families.
$500 million for vocational and rehabilitation state grants’
$200 million for centers for independent living.
$15.6 billion for Pell grants.
$490 million for college work-study grants.
$50 million for student aid administration.
$100 million for teacher quality grants to institutions of higher education.
$250 million for statewide education data systems.
$14 billion for construction of elementary and secondary schools.
$6 billion for construction of facilities at colleges and universities.
$200 million to pay Americorps volunteers.
$900 million to reduce the Social Security disability case backlog and construct a new computing center for the agency.
$39 billion for state and local education agencies’
$15 billion to reward schools that have made progress in meeting No Child Left Behind standards.
$25 billion for other state and local government functions (including education).
$42 million for the Inspectors General of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, as well as the Social Security Administration and the Corporation for National and Community Service, to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
. Military Construction - Veterans: $7.001 billion
$6 billion for military construction projects, including base housing, child development centers, hospitals and ambulatory care centers, construction projects to support Guard and Reserve units across the country, and clean-up activities related to base closures.
$1 billion for maintenance of veterans’ medical centers and national cemeteries.
$l million for the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
State-Foreign Operations: $0.500 billion
$224 million to rehabilitate the Rio Grande Flood Control System and meet water quality and capacity requirements of the Colorado River Boundary and Capacity Preservation project.
$276 million to improve information technology, including cybersecurity enhancements.
No funds provided for the Department of State’s Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
Transportation-HUD: $59.485billion
$30 billion for federal highway projects, including
$300 million for roads on Indian reservations,
$250 million for park roads,
$20 million for on the job training,
$20 million for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise bonding,
$60 million for administration,
$29.35 billion to the States.
$6 billion for transit capital assistance grants for vehicle acquisition and facility construction.
$300 million for intercity rail programs.
$800 million for Amtrak for capital infrastructure improvements.
$1 billion for capital investment grants for new transit projects.
$2 billion to rehabilitate existing transit systems.
$3 billion for airport improvement projects.
$5 billion for repair and construction projects in public housing units.
$2.5 billion to renovate and retrofit federally-assisted housing units to make them more energy efficient.
$l.5 billion for emergency shelter grants.
$500 million to renovate and retrofit Native American housing units.
$l billion for Community Development Block Grants.
$4.19 billion for the Neighborhood StabilizationProgram for local communities to purchase and rehabilitate vacant housing.
$1.5 billion for the HOME program to rehabilitate and construct housing, as well as fill financing gaps.
$10 million for nonprofit housing organizations to develop or rehabilitate lowincome housing.
$100 million to address lead-based paint threats in public housing.
$50 million, which will allow loan limits to be raised in subareas, if warranted.
$35 million for the Inspectors General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Transportation to conduct audits and investigations of these programs.
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Boehner to GOP: Vote against stimulus
Politico
The nitpicking took its toll, and Obama on Monday privately urged House Democrats to remove a notable flash point: funds for contraception that had been defended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on national television just a day before. The Democrats agreed.
Loath to criticize a president who enjoys stratospheric approval ratings and the good tidings of most Americans, Republicans on the Hill are instead framing their overwhelming opposition to the stimulus bill as a vote against a congressional Democratic leadership that is far less popular than Obama.
“It’s not so much his effort, it’s what the House has done with this bill, what Pelosi has done with this bill,” explained Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), a veteran member of the Appropriations Committee.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a young conservative firebrand, was more blunt when asked what happened to Obama’s honeymoon: “Ask Pelosi.”
Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), a senior appropriator, said that “several people” registered complaints to Obama that the GOP had not been consulted in the development of the bills now being marked up in the Finance and Appropriations committees.
The committees “were run without Republican participation, the Appropriations bill had things in my subcommittee part that we never saw or had anything to say about. We have been shut out.”
Not all Republicans will say the honeymoon is over, but rather that it’s Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders who are doing their best to turn on the cold shower.
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Wild Thing's comment........
I read each one of them.
What a bunch of BS and if they think this list is going to stimulate anything close to jobs and helping the economy they have totally lost their minds. OH wait they have lost their minds we are talking about Pelosi and her gang and Obama their leader, their Commrade!
This thing is packed with pork! INSANITY!!!! And get this, now they are printing more money to do this with. OMG this is so dangerous what they are doing.
$726 million for after school snacks. Wow, is that going to create jobs?????
$200 MILLION for sod for the Mall? There is NO WAY that it would cost a tenth that much. Oh wait, we’re talking about the federal government where Obama is going to hire 2,000 people and pay them $50,000 each to put down ONE piece of sod each.
Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN!!! HO-bama's favorite. Most of the money is secreted away under an item in the now $836 billion package titled “Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.”
From Rush:
"If Obama can co-opt McConnell and a number of Republicans in the Senate to go along with him on this, then when this economy blows up, they're on record with Obama as being responsible. This is why it's crucial that the Republicans hold out. Because Obama doesn't need a single Republican vote in the House to get what he wants, and he only needs a couple in the Senate, and that couple is just to break cloture." Barney Frank -- who helped cause this meltdown by forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make loans that'd never be paid -- says Obama's mandate is to control businesses, because conservative economics of letting the market work have demonstrably failed. This is totally backwards."
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January 26, 2009
Kennedys Want Revenge
Kennedys Want Revenge
The Kennedy family is seeking revenge against New York Gov. David Paterson for his treatment of Caroline Kennedy during her aborted bid for the senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, the New York Post reported
"The governor's going to pay for this," a prominent Democrat told the New York Post. "Ted is furious. The family is furious. The Kennedys are now against the governor."
Patterson allegedly implored Kennedy not to suddenly withdrawal from contention, New York magazine reported.
"You can't withdraw. You've got to stay in this thing, and I'll just not pick you," Paterson allegedly told her during a phone conversation Wednesday.
The governor's office is also being blamed for unflattering leaks about Kennedy's taxes, her nanny and her marriage, sources told the Post.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Where was this outrage when Mary Jo Kopechne was murdered by this blowhard Ted Kennedy.
HAHAHAHAHAHA - Kennedys are furious. CAMELOT is dead - get over it ! Caroline Kennedy was just the latest Kennedy buffoon. Totally unqualified.
Paterson had better watch his step! (Also, if he rides with Ted Kennedy anywhere, he (Paterson) had better drive!)
Yes I know Peterson is blind, but it still is safer for him to drive then to let Kennedy to it.
LOL Bill and Hillary Clinton must be really laughing so hard at all of this. Ted and Caroline Kenendy both endorsed B.Hussein Obama.
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Pelosi Signals Willingness To Add to TARP Funds
Pelosi signals willingness to add to TARP funds
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday the federal government may need to pump more taxpayer funds into the faltering banking system and that taxpayers should receive equity as compensation.
Pelosi told ABC's "This Week" program that "some increased investment" might be needed beyond the $700 billion approved last year under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, to stabilize the nation's banks and get them to resume making loans.
Congress would require more oversight of any further bank bailout, the California Democrat said.
"Change has to happen in terms of what is done, what the transparency of it is, what the accountability of it is. Only then would we be able to pass any additional funding," Pelosi said.
President Barack Obama's pick for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, said last week the Treasury had no current plans to request more bailout money beyond the $700 billion already authorized, but that the situation was "dynamic."
"We have to be prepared to act flexibly and with speed if conditions worsen appreciably, to devote more resources if that is necessary to secure our objectives," he wrote last week in reply to written questions during his confirmation hearing.
Billions of dollars in auto and credit card debt held by banks are expected to default in 2009, after the billions in mortgage-backed debt that initiated the financial crisis.
The first $350 billion in TARP funds has been committed and lawmakers agreed last week to release the second half.
Pelosi said the government should take an equity stake in banks that receive funds so taxpayers could share in any upside as banks return to health.
"If we are strengthening (the banks), then the American people should get some of the upside of that strengthening," she said. "Some people call that nationalization. I'm not talking about total ownership."
The government has obtained preferred shares for the capital it pumped into ailing institutions as part of the first half of the TARP program.
Geithner said on Wednesday the Obama administration in coming weeks would unveil a multi-pronged effort to stabilize the housing market, strengthen core banks and support consumer credit to help foster economic recovery.
One idea calls for the establishment of a "bad bank" that would take distressed assets off banks' balance sheets to free them up to resume lending.
Geithner won Senate Finance Committee backing on Thursday, and the chamber's majority leader said he expected the full Senate to confirm him.
Wild Thing's comment..........
Sure just keep digging us deeper and deeper into the hole. GRRRRRR
I honestly don't know how to respond except to feel such anger. They want us all broke, owned by big brother and dependent on these wackos, that don't have one ounce of love for America in their blood.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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Pelosi Says Birth Control Will Help Economy and Obama Taxes for Abortions
Pelosi Says Birth Control Will Help Economy
Drudge
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.
The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
But there is more look at this..................
President Barack Obama Forces Taxpayers to Fund, Promote Worldwide Abortions
Barack Obama promised during the presidential campaign that he wanted to reduce abortions and said as much in a statement yesterday in association with the anniversary of Roe. Today, however, he betrayed that promise by forcing taxpayers to fund groups promoting and performing abortions overseas.
In an executive order, the president officially scrapped the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Now, Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.
Obama was slated to overturn on Thursday the protections President Bush put back in place following the Clinton administration, but Obama decided to wait.
He hoped his decision today to force taxpayers to fund foreign abortions will somehow make him seem less radical because he decided to wait until after the pro-life movement mourned the thirty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The executive order will make non-governmental groups that do abortions in other nations or lobby pro-life countries to overturn their abortion limits eligible for public funds.
During the Bush administration, such groups were prevented from receiving the family planning money or any aid through the State Department, if they would not back down from their pro-abortion agenda.
Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, emailed LifeNews.com about Obama's decision.
He told LifeNews.com how the executive order will hurt non-abortion groups that provide medical care and services to women and families in foreign nations.
"One effect of Obama's order will be to divert many millions of dollars away from groups that do not promote abortion, and into the hands of those organizations that are the most aggressive in promoting abortion in developing countries," he said.
"Obama's order will predictably result in a redirection of funds to groups such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which are ideologically committed to the doctrine that abortion on demand must be universally available as a birth control method," Johnson said.
Johnson said pro-life advocates need to brace for more attacks on pro-life laws and measures.
"This is the first in an anticipated series of attacks on longstanding pro-life policies, as the new administration pushes Obama's sweeping abortion agenda," he said. "That agenda includes repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which would result in tax-funded abortion as a birth control method in the U.S., and imposition of sweeping pro-abortion mandates on private employers through health-care reform legislation."
The two biggest abortion businesses in the world, the U.S.-based Planned Parenthood and the British-based Marie Stopes International, refused to stop doing abortions or trying to get nations to abandon their pro-life culture and heritage and refused to follow the pro-life rules and accept the funds.
Now, taxpayers will fund those abortion businesses and their abortion marketing campaigns.
Wild Thing's comment.......
The Dems new slogan: We’ll abort our way out of debt!!
So when is the Pope going to needs to excommunicate Pelosi, Obama and Biden. All three of them are pro baby killers. And this latest BS won't fly much with the Pope either is my guess. I am not Catholic so I don't know all the stands on this kind of thing.
Yeah, Nancy. Kill off all the American babies and replace them with illegal aliens who can work for you on the cheap.
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January 24, 2009
Gov. Peterson Picks Gillibrand as Liberal Dems Howl!
ALBANY
Gov. Paterson, defying the liberal wing of his Democratic Party, has chosen little-known, NRA-backed, upstate Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as New York's junior senator, it was learned last night.
The surprising - and, for many Democrats shocking - decision to pick the conservative Gillibrand, 42, from Hudson in Columbia County, was disclosed by the governor in calls to party officials and some members of the state's congressional delegation, many of whom said they were unhappy with the selection, sources said.
The decision was a major rebuff to some of the state's best-known Democrats interested in Clinton's seat, including Attorney General and former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, for whom Gillibrand once worked as a junior lawyer; Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, and Reps. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan and Steve Israel of Suffolk County.
Sources said "at least five" members of the state's Democratic congressional delegation called Paterson to protest the possibility of Gillibrand's selection.
One, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of Nassau County, even threatened a primary challenge. Gillibrand faces a special election in 2010.
Democratic activists predicted that Cuomo, son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, would also "seriously consider" challenging Paterson in a primary next year.
Gillibrand has won two successive elections in one of the heaviest GOP districts in the state, first upsetting incumbent Rep. John Sweeney and, in November, defeating former state GOP chairman and multimillionaire Alexander Treadwell, in one of the most expensive races in the nation.
Liberal Democrats have been wary of her because she ran for re-election with the backing of the National Rifle Association, opposed the federal TARP program to rescue banks, and has been less than enthusiastic about gay marriage.
Dave Picks Gillibrand as LILberal Dems Howl
Wild Thing's comment.........
LOL It is such fun to see the NYC libs upset.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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January 23, 2009
Gov. Blagojevich Compares His Arrest to Attack on Pearl Harbor
Gov. Blagojevich Compares His Arrest to Attack on Pearl Harbor
CHICAGO
Illinois' embattled but defiant governor, so fond of reciting poetry as he defends himself against federal corruption allegations, has turned instead to the history books to describe the emotional strain his arrest put on him and his family.
In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared his early morning December arrest by FBI agents to Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
He says it was a "complete surprise" but he'll prevail, just like America in World War II.
Blagojevich says there's no chance he will resign before the start of the state Senate's impeachment trial next week. He says he will fight the allegations against him "to the very end."
The two-term Democrat is accused of scheming to swap President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for personal gain.
Facing almost certain defeat in the Senate impeachment trial, Blagojevich might ask the courts to step in and block a proceeding that he considers "a sham," a lawyer for the Democratic governor said.
Attorney Samuel E. Adam told The Associated Press on Thursday that a lawsuit challenging what he called "completely unfair" Senate trial rules is being prepared and could be filed to the state Supreme Court within days, pending a final decision on whether to move forward.
Blagojevich's trial is set to begin Monday.
Wild Thing's comment.......
“Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared his early morning December arrest by FBI agents to Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Just when you think politics can’t get anymore bizarre
Blago is insane. What is it with them that they always compare things to things like this.
Remember back in April of last year, when Al Gore on "60 Minutes" compared the challenge of fighting global warming to the invasion of Normandy and the civil rights . And Shelia Jackson Lee, who, when told that the US space program had gotten to Mars, asked if they had been able to see the flag that the astronauts left there. She also blamed the Katrina deaths on the " Supression of the black vote."
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January 22, 2009
Democrats Urge Lieberman to Apologize To Obama, Biden
Lieberman Urged To Apologize To Obama, Biden
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut Democrats are calling on Sen. Joe Lieberman to apologize to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for his comments criticizing them during the campaign
The request was made in a Jan. 16 letter from Nancy DiNardo, chairwoman of the state party, on behalf of the Democratic State Central Committee.
It chastises the longtime Democrat, who won re-election in 2006 as an independent, for speaking at the Republican National Convention on behalf of Sen. John McCain.
The letter states that Lieberman's appearance undermined the efforts of Democratic candidates in Connecticut and across the country.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Fascists !!!!
To apologize for speaking critically? Is there a right to speak freely, or will there be government-imposed sanctions if you don’t apologize for doing so?
What about their criticisms of him , and their their criticisms of Sarah Palin, and their their criticisms of Bush and Cheney which is STILL happening.
Apologize for what? Standing on principle regarding the war against those who want to kill us, and then telling the truth about it? Never, ever, never, not once, no never, I mean never apologize for the truth.
It's always nice to see the left in full "We shall accept NO individuality!" mode. I thought Obama said he was listening to "especially" those who don't agree with him? YO homeboy Obama you are a LIAR! But we already knew that.
This is the Democrats’ version of unity - no dissent.
Lieberman should go in front of the microphones live and start reading a written apology: “I regret that I criticized Obama and I would like to take this opportunity...take this opportunity...I can’t make out Rahm’s handwriting here...”
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Robert Reich, Obamas Economic Advisor NO "White Male Construction Workers"
Robert Reich, Obamas economic advisor doesnt want recovery jobs for "White Male Construction Workers"
Charlie Rangel says Middle class wont fight back
Charlie Rangel and Robert Reich are conspiring to ensure SOCIAL ENGINEERING and WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION
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Wild Thing's comment........
White male construction workers are not their constituents, but the unemployed, some minorities, and some women are. They intend to build the dependency of these on them.
White construction workers will not be dependent on the DemonRats, so they do not want to help them.
This is about Socialism you understand. (Communism-Marxism-Fascism- Socialism- Liberalism)
These people have designs on this country that most citizens will not believe. For Reich to say, “Jobs should not go to WHITE MALE CONSTRUCTION workers” is quite an admission.
It also shows how supremely confident the libs are that they will not be challenged. UNREAL!
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Good News! Boreing,Non Voting Caroline Kennedy Says No To Sen. Bid
Kennedy cites 'personal reasons' for dropping Senate bid
Caroline Kennedy has given up her bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.
In a one-line statement citing personal reasons, the widely considered front-runner said Thursday she told New York Gov. David Paterson a day earlier that she was no longer interested in the job.
"I informed Governor Paterson today that for personal reasons I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate."
The statement, provided by Kennedy's press person Stefan Friedman, was issued after hours of divergent reports Wednesday evening.
The 51-year-old daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy has been involved in education reform and women's issues, but she never has held public office and mostly has stayed out of the public spotlight.
Wild Thing's comment........
Good, it will be a dem either way, but God help us from any more of the Kennedy's!
I for one have had my fill of them. She has barely voted in the last how many years and she can't speak. She uses as many UH-ER-UH'S as B.Hussein Obama does. And because she is a Kennedy she would ba asked to be on all the political talk shows as the media will over due their invites to yet another Kennedy. God help us from all of that.
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January 16, 2009
Republicans Blast Pelosi for Politicizing Intelligence
Republicans Blast Pelosi for Politicizing Intelligence
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision this week to pack the House intelligence committee with Democrats — despite a clear recommendation from the 9/11 commission to keep politics out of intelligence matters — has roiled Republicans.
Concerned by reports of the “politicization” of intelligence, the 9/11 commission recommended in July 2004 that the House and Senate intelligence committees be almost evenly balanced, regardless of the number of Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
“The majority party’s representation on this committee should never exceed the minority’s representation by more than one,” the final report of the 9/11 Commission states on page 421.
The issue of how many Republicans and Democrats should sit on the intelligence committees is not just inside baseball. It goes to the heart of the way national security issues will be debated in the next administration, and how oversight will be conducted in Congress.
“We want to work together with president-elect Obama on matters of national intelligence, but the decision by Democratic leaders to make policymaking and oversight at the House Intelligence committee more partisan undermines that effort,” House minority leader John Boehner, R-OH, said on Wednesday.
“In the last Congress, Republicans led bipartisan efforts to strip all earmarks from the annual intelligence bill and pass terrorist surveillance legislation to help keep America safe,” Boehner added. “And now Democratic leaders are seeking political advantage on a committee charged with protecting the American people.”
The composition of Congressional committees is decided during the early days of the new Congress in January, as the recent election results are factored in.
Keeping intelligence free of politicization will be important in the next administration as key national security issues are debated, in particular Iran.
Wild Thing's comment........
The Dems play for keeps and don’t give a hoot about “bipartisanship”.
"Nancy Pelosi’s decision this week to pack the House intelligence committee with Democrats"
Just a question...... what does Nancy Pelosi know about knows about intelligence. She is going to get us killed.
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January 15, 2009
Former Black Panther DEMOCRAT Bobby Rush's New GUN Bill
Big Brother's new target: Tracking of all firearms
'This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners'
By Drew Zahn
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.
Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America.
The bill claims its purpose is "to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth."
Columnist David Codrea of Guns Magazine, however, calls it a "ridiculous affront to liberty."
"This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners," Codrea writes on Gun Rights Examiner.
Rush's proposed bill, H.R. 45, is alternatively known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009," named after an Illinois teenager killed by a gunshot.
According the bill's text, "On the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting."
The bill then argues that interstate firearm trafficking and children dying from gun violence create legitimate cause for the federal government to monitor gun ownership and transfers in new ways.
If passed, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" – defined as any handgun or any semiautomatic firearm that takes an ammunition clip – without a "Blair Holt" license.
To obtain a "Blair Holt" license, an application must be made that includes a photo, address, all previous aliases, thumb print, completion of a written firearm safety test, release of mental health records to the attorney general and a fee not to exceed $25.
Further, the bill makes it illegal to transfer ownership of a qualifying firearm to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector. Exceptions to this rule include transfer to family members by gift or bequest and loans, not to exceed 30 days, of a firearm for lawful purposes "between persons who are personally known to each other."
The bill also requires qualifying firearm owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours or fail to report a change of address within 60 days.
And if a minor obtains a weapon and injures someone with it, the owner of the gun – if deemed to have failed to meet certain safety requirements – faces a multiple-year jail sentence.
H.R. 45 is a resurfacing of 2007's H.R. 2666, which contained much of the same language and was co-sponsored by 15 other representatives and Barack Obama's current chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel. H.R. 2666 was assigned to the House Judiciary committee, where no action was taken.
H.R. 45 currently has no co-sponsors and is likewise assigned to the House Judiciary committee.
Wild Thing's comment.........
The fact that this Bobby “Everything White Is Racist” Rush, a former black panther, his constituency has no intention of following these laws. This is a blatant attempt to disarm the good guys. It is an attempt to ITENTIFY and CONTROL all handguns in the USA !
The only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it.
Like in the movie "red Dawn", noting what it is that separates the group on the inside of the wire from the individuals on the outside ......weapons.
The armed thief is secure in the knowledge that all that is yours is his for the taking once he knows your only defense is to ask, “Please, no?”
There is a reason this crop of politicians want—NEED—an unarmed citizenry.
Some interesting things at this site
http://www.mouseguns.com/storage.htm
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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January 13, 2009
Officials Turn Down The CHEAT Al Franken Request in Minn. Race
Officials turn down Franken request in Minn. race
ST. PAUL, Minn
Democrat Al Franken was quickly turned down Monday when he asked Minnesota's governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
In letters the campaign sent to Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Franken's lawyers argued that a seven-day waiting period for issuing the certificate after an election has passed and he should get the signed certificate. But the state officials said their hands were tied by state law and they could not act.
Franken led Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes after a statewide recount that was completed Jan. 5.
Coleman is suing over the result, claiming there were irregularities on Election Day and during the recount.
Minnesota law prevents officials from issuing an election certificate until legal matters are resolved. But Franken's legal team argues that federal election law entitles Franken to receive the certificate before the lawsuit is settled.
"The people of Minnesota are down a senator in the U.S. Senate. This is an opportunity for Governor Pawlenty and Secretary Ritchie to ensure the interests of all Minnesotans are represented in Washington," Franken lawyer Marc Elias told reporters in a conference call. He didn't rule out a lawsuit.In a statement, Ritchie said state law requires him and the governor to turn down Franken's request.
"Minnesota law is very clear on when a certificate of elec