Da, Kommisar!

Saw this today on the news....

WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday pushed out the chairman of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to form a partnership with the Italian automaker Fiat within 30 days as conditions for receiving another much-needed round of government aid.

What. The. FUCK?!?!?!?!

Exactly what right does the President of the USA have to control a private business?

This is another nail in the coffin of the Constitution. Why don't we just shred it and burn it, since it obviously doesn't matter to the parasites in Washington D.C. That Newsweek cover that said "We're all Socialist Now"? Fuck that, we're all COMMUNIST now, being lead by the Chicago Commie in Chief, the Teleprompter Jesus, the Liberal Lord and Messiah himself.

Hold on to your guns, folks. This is going to be a bumpy ride, and we may need them halfway down.

Welfare for terrorists : Gitmo-fare

Welfare to be paid to terrorists : Terror inmates may be released in US: intel chief

"If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life," said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first press conference.

"You can't just put them on the street," he added.

Not just why should they be released, or why should they be released in America, but why should we pay to have them to be released in America?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Photo Time

Another one from the "Where the Hell was Dave"? Files. Clickee for Biggee.

That is the afternoon sun over the Great Salt Lake, SLC Utah. I'm standing on the flats with the lake in the distance, shooting the mountain range to the South. I've got more beautiful shots from that one opportunity than I know what to do with.

It's a little over 2MB if you want to download it.

More Amature Hour at the White House

Just un-freakin-believeable.

He also sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (a member of the now defunct Communist Party), expressing confidence that the United States and Italy would work together “to overcome the current global political and economic hardships and build a safer world.” The only problem with the letter was that the Italian president does not make policy; that power resides with the prime minister and his cabinet. Perhaps the White House czars have issued an ukaz stipulating that the American president writes only to his peers, and thus instead of addressing himself to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, President Obama wrote to a man who holds an almost entirely ceremonial position.

Change you can believe in! "Change" in this case being defined as transitioning from a team who at least knew what the hell they were doing in foreign and diplomatic matters, even if they didn't always do it gracefully (Bush), to a team that seems as clueless as a dog in a chess tournament.

Isn't there at least ONE DAMN PERSON at the White House who could have tapped Teleprompter Jesus on the shoulder and said "Um, we need to write a letter to Berlusconi, boss."?

And, just in case your stomach isn't churning enough about this..... Ugh.

Msgr. Monroy took Mrs. Clinton to the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which had been previously lowered from its usual altar for the occasion.

After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded “God!”

Um...... You know.... if you're going to look at a cultural/religious icon, you might want to actually LEARN ABOUT IT FIRST if you're the Secretary of State!

Couple this with the "reset" button (which actually red "overcharge") that looked like the button for nuclear launch that Clinton presented to Russia... are they TRYING to destroy any and all credibility the USA has?

Muslims in the White House for Muslims sake???

I think this is a clear violation of the separation between Church and State, being the 1st amendment. The Raging Dave thinks it is hypocrisy at its finest, but not a violation of the 1st. Either way it is not what should be happening.

Please chime in.

Missouri "Militia" report

There was a report put out by a group called the Missouri Information Analysis Center, that listed possible connections to "militias" that law enforcement should watch out for. The so-called warning flags this group listed would be items such as displaying a Gadsden flag (which I had up outside my front door until it got too tattered to keep up), displaying bumper stickers for third party candidates such as Ron Paul or Bob Barr, etc. From what I could see, it listed things that any America-loving conservative or libertarian might do. Biased? Yes. Glen Beck had a section on his show about it.

Reports like this, I sit on. And what I mean by that is I'm going to wait a few days for more information. I wasn't quite sure if this was some government report that was going to be put into immediate action, or if this was some group that just poppped off with this BS, or what the deal was. Got a couple of emails over it. My initial response was to print off a Gadsden flag, tape it to a pencil and hang it up at my personal rat cage at the office. Co-workers were asking what the deal was, and I told them about the report. Said I was forming the Militia of Dave. We're against higher taxes. We're against big government. And we're against the wearing of spandex by anyone over 200 pounds.

My co-workers all wanted to join. So I let 'em.

Anywho, just got this little tidbit in my inbox when I came home tonight:

The chief of the Missouri highway patrol is blasting a report issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center that linked conservative groups to domestic terrorism, assuring that such reports no longer will be issued.

(.....)

He said the militia report was "created by a MIAC employee, reviewed by the MIAC director, and sent immediately to law enforcement agencies across Missouri. The militia report was never reviewed by me or by the Director of Public Safety, John Britt, at any point prior to its issuance. Had that report been reviewed by either my office or by leaders of the Department of Public Safety, it would never have been released to law enforcement agencies," wrote Keathley

The report simply "does not meet" the needed standard for "intelligence," he said.

"For that reason, I have ordered the MIAC to permanently cease distribution of the militia report. Further, I am creating a new process for oversight of reports drafted by the MIAC that will require leaders of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Department of Public Safety to review the content of these reports before they are shared with law enforcement. My office will also undertake a review of the origin of the report by MIAC," he ordered.

Now, that there is a massive, public slapdown by the top law enforcement official in Missouri.

I wonder if he's got a Gadsden flag tucked away somewhere?

Am I Simon Jester?

Yes, I think I am.

We are Simon Jester.

We are not anarchists.

We are not Far-Right or Far-Left. We are the seventy percent in the middle.

We are not Capital “L” libertarians, although we do have sympathies with their platform.

We are neither bitter clingers nor conspiracy nuts.

What we are is a group of folks that think we see liberty and freedom eroding in our beloved United States. We see the policies and agendas of the hirelings in Washington D.C. heading toward an abbreviation if not outright abrogation of the Bill of Rights.

We think that the Federal government is grasping to consolidate power using the current crisis, since as Rahm Emmanuel said, it’s a terrible thing to waste. We think the Federal government, not just this administration, is more interested in self-serving personal, political, and party power than it is in actually doing its best to do the least.

There's a few things in the manifesto that I can't quite get behind, but I agree with 98% of it. I'm not going to let that other 2% get in the way.

Our voice has been ignored, even to the point of telling the citizens of a state that a duly enacted and overwhelmingly voter-approved constitutional amendment would not be allowed to stand due to political correctness.

Our representatives have listened to us on occasion however; only to be overturned by a penstroke from the Executive Branch, like when we said we didn’t like the idea of bailing out the auto industry.

Our legislature has pretended to listen to us about our need to protect our country’s borders, but then come back and tried to tell us that they have changed their minds. All the while trying to curry favor to their own districts with pork projects.

We flood D.C. with calls and letters and emails demanding that the administration not burden our grandchildren with huge government debt that will necessitate huge tax increases, but are told that our thoughts on the matter have no bearing because some things are just too big to fail; only to hear the same legislators come back a few months later and demand punitive taxes on those companies it gave money to against our wishes.

The current administration has appointed all of these extra-constitutional “Czars” to oversee what they view as problems in our country and in our world, including an avowed Communist.

This administration, as well as far too many legislators, clings to a philosophy of man-made global warming that is far from settled science and has decided that “Cap and Trade”, regardless of the huge burden that will place on the consumers, is necessary to limit carbon emissions. The fact that it has been tried in Europe and FAILED to limit carbon emissions doesn’t matter because this program will generate huge tax dollars for the government while at the same time penalizing the consumers of energy in the form of higher energy bills.

Another thing that has failed in Europe and elsewhere is the idea of universal health care. Yet still our government is racing headlong towards rationed medical procedures, diagnostics, medicines, and preventive care because it is yet another way to control the population. It is very hard to tell the government “No” when you or your spouse, or your child, depend upon the government owned and run kidney machine, insulin shots, or cancer treatments.

And now our Federal government has asked for more power. It isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. They want the power to regulate to the point of confiscation the administration of every business in the United States, just for our own financial safety or course. They want to regulate our salaries and compensation. They want to bankrupt the coal industry, which provides eighty (80 !!) percent of all the power in this country. They don’t want us to be able to drill for oil or natural gas. But at the same time they don’t want to allow the transmission of power from wind farms or solar farms across the countryside because they say it will affect the natural beauty of the desert or they don’t want their view cluttered out past Martha’s Vineyard. They want control of the means of production, the type of crops we grow, and the structure and location of the buildings in which we live. And, despite their protestation to the contrary, they want to disarm us. Too much has slipped out about that for them to be able to deny it any more.

And yes, we repeat, they now are asking for more power. This isn’t just theft, it is a bloody strong-arm robbery with a knife in your ribs.

Now, here is where Simon Jester comes in.

This whole thing isn’t about the Democrats or the Republicans, because they are both taking us to the same place and they aren’t afraid of us anymore. It is about our Constitutional form of government. The Rights were there before the words were written, for they are inherent in all people. They don’t come from government; government, no matter how hard it tries, cannot dissolve them. Now, here we the people are, having all these Tea Parties, trying to show our government that we, the seventy percent or so of the country who is right smack dab in the middle trying to raise our families and give our children better lives than we had, are tired of this grab for power. These Tea Parties, where no one actually throws anything in the harbor, are getting hardly any coverage from the press. In fact, the TWO counter protestors at the March Tea Party in Orlando got as much or more local coverage than the under-reported thousands who attended the rally. So, short of actually committing acts of vandalism and felonious assault, how are we going to get noticed?

Simon Jester. A symbol, since “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1966, of dissent against authority. Let the press, and the government, and your neighbors know that you are paying attention to what the Federal government is trying to do. Let someone ask you what that little devil underneath the word “Citizen” across your chest means and then explain it to them. Explain to the one pool reporter who shows up at the next Tea Party that you and Simon have your eyes open and are watching as the government tries to control your life. Explain to your pastor, or your waitress, or your barista at Starbucks, that our government is power hungry and that you and others like you are trying to be heard.

We are Simon Jester. So are they.

And so are you.

Read who they are, and decide for yourself. I've known that I was fed up with the FedGov power grab for a while. It's time we started pushing the bastards back where they belong. Legally.

Found at The Smallest Minority.

In case you hadn't noticed

I'm busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.

I've got no less than three different trips to make in April, and another two, possibly three in May. My wife wakes up and wonders who the man in the bed is until she's awake enough to recognize me.

Just please bear with me.

So much blogfodder

So little time. If it's not the $6,000,000,000 boondoggle of "National Service", (YAWOL, MINE FURHUR!), then it's the Democrat American Communist Party raising the spectre of the "Assault" Weapons Ban, (Eeeek! They look scawwy! Ban them! BAAAAAAAN THEM!), or it's the Useless Nations still trying to impose their Tranzi plan on America, (by any means possible!) or, or or...

Hell, I don't even have time to read all about how the Left is destroying America. There's too much to read.

I've reached the point of this guy.

I do not fully know what to think about this

This is called the Obama Deception. I think it should be called the buy out and financial control of the U.S. then the world.

It has 12 segments, the first of which is 1 1/2 hours. It is something to watch if you have time and energy to think about what is being said. A lot of it sounds conspiratorial. Though, it could also make sense of current events.

If anyone has time to view it, please let me know what your take is.

Obama is no longer responsible for just ruining our economy.

He is being held responsible for ruining the Global Economy. (LOL)

BRUSSELS — Transatlantic tension over the handling of the global economic crisis intensified on Wednesday when the prime minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the European Union presidency, described the U. S. stimulus measures as the “way to hell.”

Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek argued that the Obama administration’s fiscal package and financial bailout “will undermine the stability of the global financial market.”

Talk show president may not be so welcome

President Obama, champion of abortion is supposed to be the key note speaker at Notre Dame's graduation ceremony this year. There is a lot of uproar and anger because Notre Dame is a Catholic instution and does not support abortion. So the question is, what is the thought process of bringing one of the most pro-abortion people in as the key note speaker???

I think Spector sees his chances of reelection in the toilet

Apparently Senator Arlan Spector, R-PA, has decided to withdrawl his support from the "freedom of choice act" as a swing vote. But wait, his decision is not final:

In a speech on the Senate floor, Specter said the dismal economy makes it "a particularly bad time" to enact the Employee Free Choice Act -- the so-called card check law -- but that he might reconsider "when the economy returns to normalcy."

What he is saying is I want to be reelected, then I will be back to my old B.S.

I know our immigration system is cracked/broken but

I am really trying to get my head around how this kind of situation happens. It seems to me that there would be a couple of databases that could be checked quickly to avoid citizens being locked in with immigrants. My second question from this article is why are the immigration holds being put in with the main stream prison population?

The cases of two Bay Area men illustrate two of the problems highlighted by the Amnesty report: Detainees often are denied due process, and the burden is on the detainees to prove they don't belong in custody.

Afghanistan-born Lemar Nasir of Fremont and Thailand-born Yuttasak Simma of San Francisco were taken into ICE custody in 2007, though both are naturalized U.S. citizens.

Though the men told immigration officials of their citizenship, neither had papers to prove it, and both languished in immigration custody in Santa Clara County jail - Nasir for 11 months, Simma for seven - before a lawyer finally secured their release.

Sin Yen Ling, an attorney with San Francisco's Asian Law Caucus who represented the men, called the cases a violation of the men's constitutional right to due process.

"Absent congressional authorization, you cannot use immigration laws to lock up a citizen," she said. "And this is not unusual: I have on my docket right now five to seven of these cases. People have legitimate claims to citizenship, and they inform ICE, yet there's no formal procedure to figure out what to do with these folks."

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there

This article from the N.Y. Times discusses the possible senarios of how Goverment run healthcare is going to work and how it competes with private sector health insurance. It discusses a number of options including the government demanding lower prices than private sectors are able to negotiate. Of course this is going to happen. That is what Medicade and Medicare have been doing for years. What they pay does not even cover the cost of overhead in most cases. We knew this was going to be a downfall from the minute it was first mentioned. I think that Private Insurance is going to have to find ways to compete by giving their insured better coverage. Universal healthcare will be limited. Doctors currently and in the past have been able to decide not to take Medicade and Medicare, and a lot of them don't. I think we may see many doctors switch to cash only. Unless providers are still allowed to choose to take it or not, with this socialist plan, which I highly doubt, all of the good providers will be gone and we might as well be in England, waiting in line for essential services!

Pardon my French

But FUCK YEAH!

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, that the state of Idaho hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions, or requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.

Now I hope and pray that this passes the Idaho State Senate, and that the Democrat American Communist Party doesn't kill it like they did in New Hampshire.

Found at P, G, and B.

You know, when you're a military brat like the Ragin' Mrs. and I both are, you always hesitate a bit when people ask you "Where are you from?" Well, I was born in Kommiefornia (spithackgag), I then moved around all over the USA before my father retired to Idaho, and then I joined the Army a couple years after high school and moved around even more. But in the past few years after we bought our property, the Mrs. and I have been able to proudly state that we're from Idaho. And the more I see, the prouder I am of the state I choose to call home.

and now it begins

We knew it was coming. Here it is.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed declaration that greenhouse gases pose a health danger may increase pressure on Congress to pass new limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants and factories.

Obama is still having issues with his budget

Wee little bambam has to go to Capital Hill to persuade Democrats, his own party, to pass HIS bill. It is nice to see that not just the Republican party is concerned about the staggering numbers of having to borrow over $9.3 TRILLION over the next 10 years, which is $2.3+ trillion MORE than was estimated by the White House. In 5 years this will double the national debt, in 10 triple it. The indication, from the White House, is that Obama is willing to accept cuts anywhere except his programs, health care, education and clean energy.

Gee Mr. President aren't these the things that are making the debt so huge? What happened to cutting the national deficit? Keep in mind when he was discussing cutting the national deficit, he was only talking about the annual national spending deficit, not the one that has China and Japan all but owners of our country.

Finally someone on Capital Hill gets it

WND reported Posey's H.R. 1503, an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, would "require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of president to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution."

Posey is suggesting something that should have been introduced a long time ago.

Just because what he is asking for is common sense and may get in the way of the Democrat party he has people like, U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii calling his judgement skewed and saying that by the time someone is running for President that their citizenship doesn't matter.

I personally welcome Posey and hope he keeps up the good work.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Better late than never!

SEATTLE - Seattle will be a one-newspaper town after Tuesday, when the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer prints its last edition.

The P-I will continue to live on the Internet with a much smaller staff.

Parent company Hearst Corp. says it has failed to find a buyer for the newspaper, which it put up for sale in January after nine years of financial losses.

The end of the print edition leaves The Seattle Times as the only major daily in the city.

The announcement comes about two weeks after Denver's Rocky Mountain News published its final edition.

I don't know about the Rocky Mountain News, but the Seattle PI was nothing more than another Leftist rag, spewing biased opinion as "news". Choke on it and piss off, you Leftist rag. I'll be drinking to your demise, and hoping that your online news goes under as well.

I know that there will be people bemoaning the loss of another newspaper, and talking about how this somehow hurts the country, but we didn't lose a "newspaper". We lost another arm of the Democrat American Communist Party propaganda machine. They didn't print the news, unless it was in the Sports section. They printed a load of biased crap, and I wouldn't use the PI to wrap up fish or line a birdcage. If I wanted Communist propaganda when I lived in Seattle, I'd just grab a copy of the Seattle Weekly. It was free, and the bias was the same.

When the New York Times goes under, I'm throwing a party. You'll all be invited.

If you deal with moonbats re: AIG bonuses

I've had a few dealings with the random and various civilians I deal with on a day to day basis. The subject of AIG bonuses came up, with the predictable "I think Schumer is right! Let's tax it all!" Blah blah blah blah blah.

It might be nice to remind those moonbats that the AIG bonuses were written into law by none other than Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, and voted for by Chucky Schumer, and signed into law by Teleprompter Jesus himself. So all the Democrat American Communist Party members who are throwing a shrieking, poo-flinging temper-tantrum about the AIG bonuses are the very people who made them happen.

So that could mean a couple of different things, all of which could be true, possibly at the same time -

1) That congresscritters don't understand what they write when they craft a bill or an amendment.
2) That congresscritters don't understand what they're voting for.
3) That congresscritters don't read what they're voting for.
4) That Teleprompter Jesus doesn't read or understand what he signs into law.
5) That all the politicians know exactly what they're doing, and this is nothing more than political Kabuki Theater put on by a bunch of flaming hypocrites who need to be tarred and feathered.

Any of it is plausible.

Photo Time

From the "Where did Dave go?" files.... (clicken for biggen!)



This is a night-time shot of San Diego Bay looking North from the top of the downtown Hyatt. It's 1.59MB if you want to download it.

As an aside, if anyone wants to use these photos, please just attribute them to me somehow. A link, an email, whatever. I'm thinking about using some graphic program to put my signature on them somehow. But I figure that if you've been coming here and reading my tripe for any amount of time, you should at least be entitled to some sort of special privileges.

Approaching Heretic Status here...

But I don't give two hoots about basketball. It started with the NBA, where I might watch a few games but don't really care who wins, and now I can't even get excited about March Madness.

I guess I have more important things in my life.

Obama's ACORN Brownshirts' Ritch-hunt!

It is important to remember the (D)emocrats are fanning the flames of outrage over payouts to AIG executives that the (D)emocrats approved, after accepting massive campaign contributions. To pass an unConstitutional and retroactive Bill of Attainder to sieze those bonus payouts, wages earned I remind you, is as offensive to liberty as it is hypocritical.

Is it flirting with 'trutherism' to suggest that the very tactic, of manufactured crisis, that the Left so frequently projects upon it's target might be a well documented method?

Michelle Malkin : Look beyond the bogus bonus smokescreen

...the little-noticed $6 billion GIVE Act, which just passed the House — and which looks like the very kind of Soros Slush Fund I warned about last summer. Also note the rising cost of the $2 trillion cap-and-trade scheme...
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“U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said on Thursday he expects federal deficit spending will be about $1.6 trillion greater over the next ten years than President Barack Obama’s budget plan forecasts. Obama submitted his budget outline to Congress last month which forecast almost $7 trillion in deficits through 2019, however a worsening economic picture is expected to make the budget outlook darker. Conrad told reporters that the additional $1.6 trillion over the next decade was based on projections of the Democratic majority’s budget committee staff.” -- Kent Conrad(D)

Where others see method, Ed Morrissey sees incompetence: Announcing the Obamateurism of the Day feature!

This week has certainly given us plenty of material, but I’ve already linked the AIG-is-a-suicide-bomber and the Special Olympics gaffes that Weisberg is trying mightily not to spot

But even Ed Morrissey has to concede : Setting the mobs loose

Just in case people didn’t figure out what the end result of all this faux outrage over AIG bonuses would be, New York Magazine reports on the latest in liberal-populist tourism. Community organizers for Connecticut Working Families Party want to send busloads of outrageously outraged people to the doorsteps of AIG executives’ homes … and claim that they don’t want to put them at risk. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
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Remember when Bill Clinton accused conservative talk radio of fomenting hate?

Fausta’s Blog : What a shock — CWFP is an arm of ACORN.

...of all the news of the past sixty days this I find the most disturbing of all

Sweetness & Light : ACORN Behind ‘Protests’ At AIG Homes

...who are Connecticut Working Families?

Why a couple of mouse clicks would tell any interested journalist that they were ‘founded’ by none other than ACORN.
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The only question is why does ACORN feel the need to hide behind a front group?

Van Helsing : Careful About Answering Your Doorbell

You can't ignore Obamunism. Not only will it destroy you financially, Obamamites will even come banging on your door, demanding fealty to their pencil-necked socialist lord.

"Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual." -- Michelle Obama

Sweetness & Light : Cloward-Piven, ACORN And AIG Witch Hunt

The DTN article goes into much of the recent voter fraud allegations and convictions involving ACORN. As previously noted, voter fraud is part and parcel of the Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the system.
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But with their recent demonstrations against the very politicians, banks and insurers who caved to ACORN’s demands and gave and insured these loans to the poor, we are seeing the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’ coming full circle.

One is literally damned if you do and damned if you don’t do exactly what ACORN and demands.
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Are we not witnessing the culmination and ultimate triumph of the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’?

Discover The Networks : ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW (ACORN)

Largest radical group in America, with more than 400,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 1,200 chapters in 110 U.S. cities

Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election

Maintains close ties to organized labor

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a grassroots political organization that grew out of George Wiley's National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), whose members in the late 1960s and early 70s invaded welfare offices across the U.S. -- often violently -- bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law "entitled" them. In the late 1960s, ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke was a NWRO organizer and a protegé of Wiley. Rathke also organized draft resistance for the militant group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the same period.

Yes... that would be the SDS that became Weathermen in which Barack Hussein Obama's good friend Bill Ayers started a bombing campaign.

In 1970 Rathke -- along with the aforementioned Wiley (best known for his effective use of the so-called "Cloward-Piven strategy," which called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants and thereby creating an economic crisis) and Gary Delgado (a lead organizer for Wiley's NWRO) -- formed a new entity called Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The group's name was later changed to Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, but the acronym ACORN remained. Instead of focusing only on welfare recipients, ACORN's mandate included all issues touching low-income and working-class people.

Rathke and his ACORN co-founders enlisted civil rights workers and trained them in a program (at Syracuse University) patterned after Saul Alinsky's activist tactics.

Sweetness & Light : The Many Tentacles Of ‘Cloward-Piven’

...the left is seeking to blame the current economic crisis on a conspiracy that is an inversion of the actual facts.
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Notice how the people who espouse the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’ run like a scarlet thread through the organizations that figure so largely in the housing and banking – and voting – scandals.

Note too how President Obama, a confessed Alinsky acolyte, worked for the Cloward-Piven inspired “Project Vote” project. In fact, it is one of his proudest achievements...
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Mr. Obama continued to work for “Project Vote/ACORN” and the Cloward-Piven people for many years later – as an instructor in their “power training” classes– despite his many claims to the contrary.

Discover The Networks : CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
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Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration.
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..."cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy."
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This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change.
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The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began. New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.
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Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.
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Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.
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All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.

The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.

Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.

Sweetness & Light on the narrative behind the threat of violence : How The Left Is Spinning The Bank Crisis

Why post the long winded ravings of an obvious lunatic, whose big claim to fame is insisting that the Challenger disaster was a conspiracy and whose highest achievement is teaching history once upon a time at a girls prep school?

Well, for one thing this interview provides the rest of us a chilling glimpse into the minds of the ultra fringe left, who like it or not, now control more and more of our government and its policies.
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The ‘Cloward–Piven Strategy’ is a movement we have referenced several times before over the years on this site, especially with regard to ACORN, Project Vote and the National Welfare Rights Organization.

It's all part of the pogram, or did you forget about the new "Obama Youth" : House adopts plan for 'volunteer' corps

Also requires new evaluation of 'mandatory' service for all.
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The legislation also refers to "uniforms" that would be worn by the "volunteers" and the "need" for a "public service academy, a 4-year institution" to "focus on training" future "public sector leaders." The training, apparently, would occur at "campuses."

The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.

It not only reauthorizes the programs, but also includes "new programs and studies" and is expected to be funded with an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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The video of his statements is posted here...
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...when a copy of the speech provided online apparently was edited to exclude Obama's specific references to the new force.

So is it 'trutherism' to document how George Soros money, Bill Ayers terrorist legacy, ACORN's Brownshirt tactics, Cloward-Piven strategy and Saul Alinsky's tactics are all behind... Barack Hussein Obama?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

*sigh*

So, yeah, anyways, all you moonbats out there who wanted "peace", tell me....

Earlier this month, the Chinese started harassing an unarmed Navy exploration vessel, requiring the US to send armed escorts into the international waters of the South China Sea. North Korea is about to launch an ICBM with a reported range that easily includes American territory. Moscow has flipped Kyrgyzstan and put our supply routes into Afghanistan in jeopardy.

Just how is that whole electing an complete and total amateur, a spineless pissant, a weak jellyfish, a world novice, an unprepared do-nothing junior senator with nothing but glib phrases... how's that working out for ya, anyways?

Biden was right; they’re testing the mettle of the new President. Evidentally, they’re finding that he doesn’t have much, and they’re becoming more and more arrogant about their provocations.

I'd really love to know how prostrating ourselves in front of the world's tyrants is supposed to make us safer. Because that's what this administration's defense policy seems to be. "Oh, but I'm not George Bush! I'm a nice guy! I have Hope and Change on my side! Let's be friends!" Yeah, real coherent defense policy. We already knew why the terrorist groups around the world wanted Obama to win. Now we see why China and Russia wanted him to win as well. Because now they can do anything they want around the world, and that jug-eared dipshit won't so a single thing to stop them.

Hope and Change! Hope and Change! Hope and Change! Yeah, a great slogan for brain-dead fucktards who are incapable of understanding more than one sentance at a time, but not a real good defense policy.

Another Myth, destroyed

What myth, you ask? Why, that would be the myth of Jewish superiority and world domination.

Consider this - for years, I've had lunatics try to tell me that Jews controlled the world, or that I was nothing more than a Jewish neo-con puppet, or some such tripe like that. I honestly just brushed it off, because that's all you can do with something that stupid.

My response is, if Jews are so smart that they control the world, why does the Jewish vote always go to the Democrat American Communist Party?

Consider this, if you will. Link found at KisP.

First, last Saturday, The Boston Globe reported that Paul Volcker, who serves as President Barack Obama's economic recovery adviser, and several former senior US officials have written a letter to Obama calling for the US to recognize Hamas. As one of the signatories, Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser under president George H.W. Bush, explained, "I see no reason not to talk to Hamas."

Scowcroft further argued, "The main gist is that you need to push hard on the Palestinian peace process. Don't move it to end of your agenda and say you have too much to do. And the US needs to have a position, not just hold their coats while they sit down."

Congressional sources claim that Obama has selected Scowcroft to replace Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

The second reason that it is becoming apparent that the Obama administration is poised to recognize Hamas is that on Thursday, Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman held talks at the State Department with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and enjoined the administration to support the reestablishment of a Hamas-Fatah unity government to control and reunify the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.

This is significant because it is becoming apparent that top administration officials only meet with people who tell them what they want to hear.

Case in point is IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi's trip this week to Washington. Ashkenazi went to the US to brief top administration officials on Iran's progress toward a nuclear bomb. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Ashkenazi's counterpart, Adm. Michael Mullen, both managed to be out of town. Defense Ministry sources say that Ashkenazi only met with National Security Adviser James Jones, who reportedly wished to speak exclusively about the Palestinians, and with Clinton's Iran adviser Dennis Ross, whose role in shaping US policy toward Iran remains unclear.

Now, by all means go read the whole thing, and gaze in horror as the USA gives the cold shoulder to our one true ally in the Middle East. And then prepare to vomit as you see that this administration is greasing up it's bunghole in preparation of bending over and getting assfucked by the sub-human terrorist swine of Hamas.

The Jewish vote? They voted for this.

For some reason, when you break down votes by ethnic group, the Jewish vote always goes to the Democrat American Communist Party. You would think that a group of people who secretly ruled the world would at least want to be Republicans, so that they could keep more of their filthy lucre. But no, all those successful people have voted to have their money taxed away! You would think that a Jewish Cabal tugging on the puppet strings in Washington D.C. would vote for the politician most likely to flatten the various terrorist groups that constantly threaten Israel, but instead that group voted for the politician and the party who have a long, sordid history of capitulating to terrorist groups at each and every opportunity. Brent Scowecroft wants the USA to "push hard on the peace process" with Hamas?

"Push hard on the peace process" Brent? Do you even understand what you just said? How did someone this damned ignorant get to a position of power in the government?

Yeah, gee, let's "push hard on the peace process" with a group that refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. Let's "push hard on the peace" process with a group who's founding charter calls for genocide and the destruction of an entire country, that country being Israel. Tell me Brent, just how do you "push hard on the peace process" with a group that has rejected peace since it's very inception?

The Jewish vote went to the political party that would let them all die, if push came to shove. The Jewish vote went to the political party that wants to divest itself of that pesky little Israel problem. The Jewish vote went to the political party that surrenders to, and thus encourages and grows, various terrorist groups around the world, all of whom want to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

And yet I'm supposed to believe that there's this Jewish cabal running the world? Please. I think that myth is safely destroyed.

Firearm tracking bill

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."

If you don't have a shrink you don't have mental health records!!! Fine, this law would fix that for you and require your mental health to be evaluated. I am certain that evaluation would be fair and impartial(lol). I would have no issue if you were required to take a firearm safety course before obtaining a gun. I even understand running a criminal check. The Brady bill is BOGUS! This is insane.

I keep seeing all of these anti-gun agendas today. All I can think is with the attempt to sell shredded brass casing to china and the laser etched bullets in 19 states the new plan is not to get rid of guns through laws but expense. The problem is the harder for people to get guns, the more those of us who believe in our bill of rights will have guns.

Long live the 2nd Amendment!

H.R. 1022

This is a nice little piece brought down from the current administration that attacks the second amendment despite the Supreme Court ruling last year.

"The last part is particularly clever, stating that a firearm doesn't have a sporting purpose just because it can be used for sporting purpose – is that devious or what? And of course, 'sporting purpose' is a rights infringement with no constitutional or historical support whatsoever, invented by domestic enemies of the right to keep and bear arms to further their cause of disarming the innocent," he said.

Korwin told WND a new proposal to replace H.R. 1022 is not expected to be less draconian.

"Remember – these bans were proposed when the congressional anti-rights crowd had no chance of success. Now they are ready to run wild, or according to Sarah (Brady) herself, 'I have never been so confident,'" Korwin wrote, referring to the champion of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, which requires background checks

on purchasers of handguns.

Korwin said the Democrats listed in H.R. 1022 a framework for guns to be banned that includes originals, copies or duplicates of a wide-ranging list of shotguns, pistols and rifles.

One of the red flags for semiautomatic rifles would be "anything" that can serve as a grip, and as set up now, the Democrat members of the Judiciary Committee "are all sworn enemies to the Second Amendment and are unlikely to be swayed at all by any firearms related arguments," he said.

Muslims rioting in Sweden

Seems that they don't take kindly to Western Civilization, do they?

Yannow, between the Teleprompter Jesus and his Communist Cohort Congress driving this country into ruin, liberal asshats taking their temper tantrums to a national level, voter fraud perpetrated by the Liberal Lord and Messiah and cheered on by the Left, and illegal immigrants hopping over our border to kidnap someone in Phoenix for the Mexican drug cartels, I'm at the point where if Muslim "youths" were to start rioting and torching cars in my area, I'd simply take my deer rifle out for a little target practice.

Found at Eternity Road, in a piece that should be read on all it's own.

Just in case you were wondering...

THIS is how the Liberal Lord and Messiah managed to insult the Brazilians.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- His meet and greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.

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Silva aides said the trip was pushed forward from Tuesday because of the St. Patrick's Day holiday - making Latin America once again look like an afterthought. Then, the White House announcement misspelled his name as "Luis Ignacio" and put "Lula" - a nickname that decades ago became a legal part of the Brazilian leader's name - in quotes.

It's Amateur Hour at the White House. I guess those little things like "protocol" don't come across well on a teleprompter.

Ragin' Dave's quote 'o the day

Since the Mrs. has given you her quote down below, let me toss this little bugger into the fray, by one Gonzo, who I seem to be quoting quite often as of late:

50 plus days into the Era of The Messiah, of Teleprompter Jesus, and he’s managed to insult the Brits - a couple times - Insult the Brazilians, has broken the “Transparency” promise, has broken the promise of earmarks, has broken the promise to keep lobbyists out of his administration - Hell, the biggest difference between Teleprompter Jesus and the real Jesus is that the real Jesus knew how to build a fucking cabinet.

You have GOT to read the whole thing.

Illinois budget-three stikes...

I had to post this quote because...

"I think Illinoisans want to know, 'Before you raise my cost of living, what are you going to do to clean up Illinois government? What are you going to do to reform it? What are you going to do to fumigate that government?"' said House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago.

Census Bureau partnered with A.C.O.R.N

I have ideas of what kind of mischief A.C.O.R.N is up to this time, just read the last paragraph in this post, and let your imagination go wild. I personally am imagining suddenly needing more Representatives for Liberal areas. Since they are involved I have no doubt that corruption is at the heart of it! With the current corruption on Communist Hill I doubt anyone would get in trouble even if a mis count was proven.

The bureau is currently employing help from more than 250 national partners, including TARGET and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to assist in the hiring effort.

But ACORN's partnership with the 2010 Census is worrisome to lawmakers who say past allegations of fraud should raise concerns about the organization.

"It's a concern, especially when you look at all the different charges of voter fraud. And it's not just the lawmakers' concern. It should be the concern of every citizen in the country," Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, R-Ga., vice ranking member of the subcommittee for the U.S. Census, told FOXNews.com. "We want an enumeration. We don't want to have any false numbers."

The census is an official count of the country's population mandated by the U.S. Constitution. It is used to determine distribution of taxpayer money through grants and appropriations and the apportionment of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Every U.S. household unit, including those occupied by non-citizens and illegal immigrants, must be counted.

Mexico's blackmail tariffs begin

Here is a partial list:

A list of some of the U.S. products subject to retaliatory tariffs as a result of the cross-border trucking dispute (the tariffs cover only specific types of some products):

Christmas trees, onions, pears, apricots, cherries, strawberries, grapes, dried fruit mixes, lettuce, potatoes, peas, almonds, fruit and vegetable juices, prepared soups, wine, pet foods, shampoo, hairspray, dental floss, aftershave, deodorant, plastic kitchenware, printer paper, toilet paper, refrigerators, coffee makers, dishwashers, washing machines, sunglasses, ball point pens, marking pens, pencils and yarn.

The vast majority of these things are made in China and distributed by U.S. companies like Proctor & Gamble or Johnson & Johnson. The tariffs only go up to 20%. It sounds like the hope is that Mexican's will stop buying these products and it will adversely affect Texas to the point that we will give in. But my understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that we stopped this program because their trucks and truckers were not in compliance with the rules.

With the relations with Mexico being what they are I say stick to our guns, build the fence and do constant military war games on the border, using paintballs, allowing anyone who is in the "game field", including wet-backs, to be shot and have border patrol on standby.

I don't feel the need to support a country that expects us to support it through illegal _____________, fill in the blank, when their government is complaining that too many of them are coming back across the border and we are reaping the damage of their self inflicted corruption that we are trying to fight in our own country. I have no pity for them. I have no support for them. Kick Paco and Jose back to Mexico unless they have come here legally. Keep jobs for people who are supposed to be here. Maybe that will help lower these unemployment rates, especially in states like California which is over 10%.

My brother-in-law is a naturalized citizen who was born in Mexico. I can tell you from talking with him and other legal immigrants that no one is more against illegal immigration than legal immigrants!

Obama backs off plan to screw soldiers

For now....

But if you wanted t0 know how the Teleprompter Jesus and the rest of his Communist Cohorts feel about the military, all you have to do is just LOOK at what he's proposing. Keep an eye on him - this won't be the last time the Liberal Lord and Messiah tries to fuck the military. This was just the opening salvo, if you will. He's got four years for the Democrat American Communist Party to destroy the military, and they're going to be attempting to do just that.

Charlie Daniels has two plans to deal with the Mexican Drug Cartels

Any thinking person has long known that the debacle at our Southern border would eventually turn into something ugly and nasty and our gelded politicians -of both parties- have refused to even acknowledge the severity of the problem, much less deal with it.

Well now the time has come and we have two choices:

1) Give California, Arizona and Texas back to Mexico

2) Take the gloves off and mount an all out border war with these bloodthirsty thugs.

Destroy their drug tunnels, confiscate and destroy their drugs and ultimately destroy them, by whatever means necessary.

It is extremely hard for me to imagine that members of Congress are spending their time grabbing Obama pork and pursuing their own miserable little ambitions like trying to impeach an administration that is totally out of office, while a well-armed terrorist army is poised to take over thousands of miles of our borders with Mexico.

Is everybody in Washington deaf, or completely out of touch? Or is it that both parties are so busy trying to make each other look bad that they just don't care?

We've got another potential Iraq on our border. The drug cartels already practically own the state of Sinaloa, they slaughter people daily in Juarez just across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, Texas. Phoenix, Arizona is now the kidnap capitol of America as enforcers come across the border to ensure the payment of overdue drug debts by kidnapping wives and children.

Last post about AIG Bonuses

Yes. I know I posted on this subject a lot lately. And I am certain you are fairly bored with it. That is why this shall be the last post about it.

I think the words on a previous comment, describing all of this fuss about the Executive bonuses as "faux outrage" is correct. The reality is that even though some of our congress critters did not want to allow for bonuses that the final wording of the bail-out allowed for it. At this point neither the White House or Congress can get that money back. The Raging Dave frequently tells me the press is still doing damage control for the White House. I am usually in disbelief considering how much damning information comes across the Main Stream Media these days. I think this finally coming out is proof of what he says.

But though some lawmakers did move to prevent bonuses in the stimulus bill last month, the final language actually makes an exception for pre-existing contracts, effectively exempting AIG.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, who originally proposed the executive compensation provision, said he did not include the exemption clause, which said new rules "shall not be construed to prohibit any bonus payment required to be paid pursuant to a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009."

In an interview with CNN, Dodd denied inserting that exemption at the 11th hour, and insisted he doesn't know how it got there.

"When I wrote the language there was no such language like that," Dodd told CNN Tuesday.

Go Egypt

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces blocked two Hamas officials on Tuesday from entering the Islamist-run Gaza Strip with night-vision goggles and around $900,000 in cash, security and customs sources said.

The food we eat and the farms that grow it

I was reading this article on Word Net Daily discussing a couple of bills that should concern us. On the surface they sound good. But the fines are up to $1,000,000 per offense, I believe per day. It makes a paperwork heavy enviornment that is targeted at small farms. I have no idea what the regulations are for big food processors but, I would guess not as stringent as what is being suggested in the food safety modernization act.

House Resolution 875, or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. DeLauro's husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto – the world's leading producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seed.

DeLauro's act has 39 co-sponsors and was referred to the House Agriculture Committee on Feb. 4. It calls for the creation of a Food Safety Administration

to allow the government to regulate food production at all levels – and even mandates property seizure, fines of up to $1 million per offense and criminal prosecution for producers, manufacturers and distributors who fail to comply with regulations.

Olson believes the regulations could create unjustifiable financial hardships for small farmers and run them out of business.

"That is often the purpose of rules and regulations: to get rid of your competition," he said. "Only people who are very, very large can afford to comply. They can hire one person to do paperwork. There's a specialization of labor there, and when you are very small, you can't afford to do all of these things."

Olson said despite good intentions behind the legislation, this act could devastate small U.S. farms.

"Every time we pass a rule or a law or a regulation to make the world a better place, it seems like what we do is subsidize production offshore," he said. "We tell farmers they can no longer drive diesel tractors because they make bad smoke. Well, essentially what we're doing is giving China a subsidy to grow our crops for us, or Mexico or anyone else."

Another "food safety" bill that has organic and small farmers worried is Senate Bill 425, or the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

Why is bambam running for office again...

Sorry, it is just his budget
Why on earth is bambam having his supporters knock on doors to get support for his monstous record $3.55 trillion budget? I know, it's because he has upset the balance to a point where even Congress is weary of his spending so since being their friends isn't working he is going to try to bully them into passing it.

My, isn't that nice.


Since he is asking for his volunteers that helped get him into the Oval Office, we now understand why Acorn got such a big payoff in the stimulust package.

AIG Exec bonuses just the beginning

I will be the first to admit that I don't understand a lot of the nuances pertaining to the "market crisis". Though as I read articles I can't help but feel that they are hinki. I previously reported that AIG gave its Executives huge bonuses, out of bail-out money, to the tune of $165 million dollars. Now it appears that they are using used more than $90 billion in federal aid to pay out foreign and domestic banks, some of whom had received their own multibillion-dollar U.S. government bailouts. It appears that the concern is from both Democrats and Republicans. Part of this article disscussed the concept of the federal goverment now being 80% owner and that even though these people are entitiled to their bonuses, despite gross incompetence, that they are not entiltled to their jobs.

How much is too much in the Oval Office?

Is Obama taking on too much at once, at economy's expense?

That is what this article is asking.

Andrew S. Grove, the former chief executive officer of Intel Corp. who's now a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, wrote an urgent appeal to Obama to focus on fixing the banks for last Wednesday's Washington Post:

"We have gone through months of chaos experimenting with ways to introduce stability into our financial system. The goals were to allow the financial institutions to do their jobs and to develop confidence in them. I believe by now, the people are eager for the administration to rein in chaos. But this is not happening.

"Until the administration does this, we should not embark on attempting to fix another major part of the economy," Grove wrote.

Obama and his aides say that he can, and must, do it all. They see him as a Franklin D. Roosevelt, confronting an emergency with a New Deal-like smorgasbord of government programs. If there's a problem, they say, it's getting Congress to keep up.

Republicans intend to obstruct Obama's agenda.

"It's time to focus on the emergency that we have in front of us," said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, his party's leader in the House of Representatives. "Can we really be talking about (the global warming) proposal or a government takeover of our health care system while our economy is collapsing?"

Republicans fear that Obama will use the combination of an economic emergency and big Democratic majorities in Congress to ram through a liberal agenda.

It's not just Republicans who are worried about the breadth of Obama's agenda, though.

William Galston, a top adviser in Democrat Bill Clinton's White House, noted that Carter, like Obama, thought it critical to enact his entire agenda as soon as possible when he took office in 1977.

"Everybody has warned me not to take on too many projects so early in the administration," Carter wrote in his diary. "But it's almost impossible for me to delay something that I see needs to be done."

Yet by the end of the year, most of his agenda was stalled.

Today, Galston notes in an essay for The New Republic, Obama appears unable to restore confidence in the financial system, arguably the key problem preventing economic recovery.

The comparison in behavior to Carter could be a ray of hope against too much future damage. Though I am unable to take too much hope to heart when it comes to this administation.

It's about damn time he decided to pretend to give a damn about the small businesses

I think he was probably nagged into this by ???? Anyway at least he is partially fulfilling his promise on this count. Mind you there is no mention of tax breaks in there.

WASHINGTON – Amid misgivings over his spending blueprint, President Barack Obama has decided to provide billions of dollars in federal lending aid aimed at struggling small business owners.

The broad package of measures to be announced Monday includes $730 million from the stimulus plan that will immediately reduce small-business lending fees and increase the government guarantee on some Small Business Administration loans to 90 percent. The government also will take aggressive steps to boost bank liquidity with more than $10 billion aimed at unfreezing the secondary credit market, according to officials briefed on the plan who demanded anonymity to avoid pre-empting the president's announcement.

"It's a huge step in the right direction," Giovanni Coratolo, director of Small Business Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Saturday. "In this economy, having the least amount of risk for banks will incentivize banks to lend to small businesses. A lot of small businesses will benefit from this."

How many AIG Executives does it take to accept the bail out in bonuses?

WASHINGTON – American International Group is giving its executives tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses even though it received a taxpayer bailout of more than $170 billion dollars

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I somehow believe that the Executives are the last ones that should receive this money.

The Treasury Department determined that the government did not have the legal authority to block the current payments by the company. AIG declared earlier this month that it had suffered a loss of $61.7 billion for the fourth quarter of last year, the largest corporate loss in history.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has asked that the company scale back future bonus payments where legally possible, an administration official said Saturday.

This official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that Geithner had called AIG Chairman Edward Liddy on Wednesday to demand that Liddy renegotiate AIG's current bonus structure.

Geithner termed the current bonus structure unacceptable in view of the billions of dollars of taxpayer support the company is receiving, this official said.

New FDA appointees

Obama is nominating Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg to be a commissioner of the FDA. She appears to have quite an impressive resume as a former New York City health commissioner. The down side is that she is pro-abortion. This stance is even state as a point of concern in some of the articles I have read on her.

Hamburg led the NYC health department from 1991 to 1997, where she established a needle-exchange program to curb the spread of HIV, set up a bio-terrorism defense program and instituted home visits to improve tuberculosis patients' adherence to their medicines. She was assistant secretary of health and human services for policy and evaluation in the Clinton administration and is now a senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that works to reduce the spread and use of nukes and chemical weapons.

So, what is so wrong with her that bambam is putting her in a seat of power?

Where ever I may roam

I did mention that my schedule was ramping up, yes? Yes.

The part that really erks me is sitting on an airplane for hours on end yet again. I understand the whole safety issue, but I'm about to start getting flights that connect in various airports along the way, so that I can at least get up and walk around from terminal to terminal instead of just sitting there and waiting for deep vein thrombosis to give me a stroke, or a heart attack, or a horrible leg cramp, or SOMETHING.

It could work

Here's a stimulus bill I can get behind!

What the hell?

I thought the government was supposed to stay out of church business?

What's the Constitution of Connecticut say about crap like this?

acting president bambam says economy isn't as bad

ironic
adjective
1.	humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: dry]
2.	characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely" Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said earlier on Friday Beijing expected to see results from U.S. President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan but expressed concern that massive U.S. deficit spending and near-zero interest rates would erode the value of China's huge bond holdings.

All I heard was blah blah blah, broken promise blah blah

Obama bayonets our wounded

Remember all those (D)emocrat party lies about underfunded troops, Humvee armor... etc. etc... given the chance the (D)emocrats show how they really support the troops.

Sweetness & Light notes : Obama Wants Vets To Pay For Healthcare

So taxpayers dollars will be available for healthcare for illegal aliens and deadbeats, but not for wounded soldiers?

Van Helsing : Obama Doesn't Want to Pay for Medical Care for Wounded Vets

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay fortreatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

Yes, that Shinseki, the Bush-bashing Clinton tool.

Here are just a few of Barack Hussein Obama's smears against the Military :

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

At a fancy '05 Manhattan fundraiser, Obama told the approving crowd that the Bush administration was using soldiers in Iraq as "cannon fodder."

“You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.” -- Barack Hussein Obama

..."oftentimes our women servicemembers are more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder partly because they — there's a sad, but real, problem of sexual harassment and sexual abuse for women veterans, and that makes them much more prone, then, to have post-traumatic stress disorder." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D)

"If you talk to commanders on the ground there, they'll tell you, 'Instead of having another platoon, I'd rather have a couple of agricultural specialists." -- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.(D) who hasn't been "on the ground there" in Afghanistan

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Economic meltdown averted! Teleprompter Jesus claims Miracle!

The Anchoress has the best rundown on the Liberal Lord and Messiah's miracle. He's canceling a crisis that didn't exist in the first place. How many times have I said that this whole housing market downturn is a CORRECTION, not a recession?

And National Review has the down-low on the next Obama appointee.

As a third top Treasury nominee withdraws from consideration (see Mark's item, below) and Vivek Kundra, President Obama's Chief White House Information Officer, takes a leave of absence following the FBI's raid on his former office, the administration announces that attorney Tony West, who volunteered his services to represent John Walker Lindh (the so-called "American Taliban" convicted after making war against his country), is the president's choice to lead the Civil Division at the Department of Justice.

And West's wife is a former executive director of the ACLU. How many more far Left loons are going to come out of the woodwork?

The Mrs. just asked me if all of Obama's problems are normal for a President. No, they are not. Obama is far Left. Marxist far Left. And he associates with others who are as far Left as he is, which means that he rubs elbows with folks to don't give one damn about rules, ethics, laws, or morals. Leftists of Obama's type care about one thing and one thing only - power, and the attaining of. Now, when he was the junior Senator from Chicago, nobody paid much attention to him. When he was running for President, the Democrat American Communist Party Propaganda Machine, aka the Media, covered up all his unsavory connections in their quest to see him elected. But now that he's President, there's only so much damage control that they can do, and all of his unsavory connections can't stand on their own once they're in the spotlight of the national stage.

I expect that this circus will continue for quite a while. We haven't even begun to the bottom of the barrel in terms of Obama's connections.

Congress refuses to scrap automatic pay raises

Oh sure, they voted down next year's pay raise, but you can't expect them to actually do that all the time, can you?

I think Congress is actually a little scared right now, hence turning down the raise next year. But they're hoping that all of us little people will just forget about it and go away, so that they can continue getting pay raises while they destroy this country from the inside out.

Fat chance, you worthless, bloated parasites.