American Solutions II

This post, and the post prior to this one is all about solutions. Not solutions that will cost the taxpayer another Trillion dollars, but simple solutions that have numerous benefits. I’m sure others have either talked about this idea, or may have even written about it. If they have, I’ve not seen or heard them. With that little caveat out of the way, here’s one of my own solutions for America.

We have approximately 6 Million illegal immigrants on the payrolls of American companies large and small. If we would just have the guts to ship these folks back home, it would fix a number of problems.

First and foremost… Our laws would be enforced.

Second… We would open tens of thousands of  jobs across America, which Americans desperately need right now.

Third… With millions of mostly Hispanics being deported, the Hispanic drug cartels operating in the USA would stand out more because there would be less Hispanics in the country for them to blend-in with. This would make Law Enforecment very happy. And obviously, this should put a major dent in drug trafficking.

Fourth… More Tax money would go to the Federal government because Americans tend to tell the truth when they fill out their Tax paperwork when getting hired somewhere. It’s a well known fact, that illegals (and many legals) claim 6 dependants (and more). I know there are some where this is true, but the majority do this to make sure they get more $$$ in their paycheck each week, and on top of that, they will get a refund from Uncle Sam at tax time.

Fifth… Less taxpayer money will get spent on services the government provides for illegals. Such as Food Stamps, HUD Housing, Medical, Welfare, etc.

The list could go on, but you get the idea. I would love to have one person explain to me what the negatives are, if there are any.

Gio-

French Count Joseph Marie Maistre (1763-1821) once said, “Every nation has the government it deserves.”

American Solutions I

This is so simple, yet brilliant in it’s simplicity. As Dok said “I love this plan” too!

Gio-

h/t to GiovanniWorld member “The Doktor”.

I love this plan!

Dok

 

This was an article from the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on “How Would You Fix the Economy?” I thought this was the BEST idea. I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr.President,

Patriotic retirement:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force; pay them $1 million apiece severance with stipulations:
 
1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.

2) They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.

3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.

 

Tea-Parties Galore!

This list was posted on the 19th, so I’m sure more names and places have been added to the list since then. Please try to attend a Tea-Party in your area or hometown. It’s time the country told D.C. and the Obama administration to “STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY”!

Gio-

(Submitted by west coast editor Eowyn.)

REVOLUTIONARY IDEA
Tax Day tea parties expected to number more than 1,000

‘We don’t necessarily need mainstream media anymore’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
 
While WND has been tracking 170 individual tea parties across the nation, one group has announced it is planning rallies in 1,000 cities and towns on April 15.

 
The American Family Association, or AFA, is coordinating 1,000 Taxed Enough Already, or TEA, parties to be held at 12 p.m. in front of city halls across the nation.  The organization launched a Tea Party Day website just days ago so volunteer organizers may register their protests with AFA. The website also provides a list of other protests across the nation that are not organized by AFA.
Tell Congress to stop spending America into the ground! Sign the WND petition demanding lawmakers stop the bailouts, stimulus bills and march toward socialism and national destruction. Michael DePrimo, special counsel to AFA President Tim Wildmon, told WND that AFA has been inundated with e-mails from citizens who want to attend or organize tea parties in their own cities.  “We’re trying to get people to attend these and we’re also encouraging others if there is no tea party in their community to start their own,” he said. “All we’re trying to do is really generate activity to try to try to get people to attend these rallies to really send a message to Washington.”

The tea party website asks, Are you fed up with a Congress and a president who:

Vote for a $500 billion tax bill without even reading it?

Spending trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren will be paying?
 
Consistently give special interest groups billions of dollars in earmarks to help get themselves re-elected?
 
Want to take your wealth and redistribute it to others?
 
Punish those who practice responsible financial behavior and reward those who do not?
 
Admit to using the financial hurt of millions as an opportunity to push their political agenda?
 
Run up trillions of dollars of debt and then sell that debt to countries such as China?
 
Want government-controlled health care?
 
Want to take away the right to vote with a secret ballot in union elections?
 
Refuse to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into our country?
 
Appoint a defender of child pornography to the No. 2 position in the Justice Department?
 
Want to force doctors and other medical workers to perform abortions against their will?
 
Want to impose a carbon tax on your electricity, gas and home-heating fuels?
 
Want to reduce your tax deductibility for charitable gifts?
 
Take money from your family budget to pay their federal budget?
 
The group encourages tea party attendees to bring a cell phone and call the president, 202-456-1414, and Congress, 202-224-3121, while attending the rallies.
While many mainstream media outlets have provided little to no coverage of the nation’s numerous tea parties so far, DePrimo said the growing movement is proof that Americans no longer need them to launch a widespread revolution.
“I think the media does whatever the media choose to do,” he said. “We’re all aware that the media have a liberal bias. I suppose if it’s big enough, they will report on it. If they think it really may spur some change in Washington that the media elites don’t want, they may ignore the story altogether.”
De Primo continued, “The good news is that with the Internet, Facebook, texting and with all the ways we can communicate today, we don’t necessarily need the mainstream media anymore. The message can get out without them.”

AFA lists tea party organizers from various cities to coordinate the April 15 events and is rapidly adding more by the day. DePrimo said volunteers who do not see their location on the list should visit the Tea Party Day website to add their tea party information. The current list includes the following towns and cities:

Alaska
Wasilla
Alabama
Pinson, Brewton, Killen, Calera, Fairhope, Dadeville, Alabaster, Birmingham, Montgomery
Arkansas
Monticello, Little Rock, Searcy, El Dorado, Russellville, Magnolia, Rogers, Harrison, Pocahontas, Yellville
Arizona
Scottsdale, Phoenix, Mesa, Phoenix, El Mirage, Yuma
California
Highland, Camarillo, Fontana, Lancaster, Roseville, San Clemente, Cambria, Spring Valley, Lakeside, Exeter, San Jose, Pleasanton, Yuba City, Turlock, El Cajon, Ventura, Sacramento, Rancho Palos Verdes, Fresno, Porterville, Palmdale, Valencia, San Marcos, Modesto, Orange, Woodland Hills, La Palma, Fremont, Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Valencia, Taft
Colorado
Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Denver, Coaldale, Delta,
Connecticut
Groton
Washington D.C.
Delaware
Newark
Florida
Casselberry, Saint Petersburg, Deland, Orange Park, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Vero Beach, Homestead, Lake Worth, Cape Coral, Howey in the Hills, Zephyrhills, Mulberry, Lecanto, Rockledge, Hollywood, Clearwater, Homosassa, Windermere, Niceville, Orlando, Callahan, Winter Springs, Melbourne, Stuart, Sarasota, Jacksonville, Lake Placid, Delray Beach, Bowling Green, Lake City, Dunnellon, Saint Petersburg, Clearwater, Bradenton, Satsuma
Georgia
Adairsville, Savannah, Lawrenceville, Douglasville, Coolidge, Dudley, Monticello, Columbus, Duluth, Hoschton, Dahlonega, Carrollton, Blairsville, Martin, Ashburn, Loganville
Hawaii
Kapaa
Iowa
Red Oak
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Illinois
Staunton, South Elgin, Aurora, Elizabethtown, Riverton, Saint Elmo, Niles, Oswego, Bloomington, Savoy, Highland, Naperville, Arthur, Downers Grove, Machesney Park, Marion, Mackinaw
Indiana
Crown Point, West Lafayette, Marion, Goshen, Peru, North Judson, Columbus, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Granger, Connersville, New Albany, Sellersburg, Terre Haute, Greenwood, South Bend
Kansas
Wichita
Kentucky
Louisville, Richmond, Goshen, Burlington, Ft. Mitchell
Louisiana
Denham Springs, Baton Rouge, Deridder, Sorrento, Walker, Saint Francisville
Massachusetts
North Attleboro, Pembroke, Shrewsbury, Peabody
Maryland
Baltimore, Cumberland, Brandywine, Oakland, Bel Air, Denton, Mount Airy, Pasadena, West Enfield
Michigan
Caledonia, West Bloomfield, Auburn Hills, Holland, Fife Lake, Flushing, Saline, Almont, Macomb, Ray, Kalamazoo, Monroe, Owosso, Roscommon, Waterford, Grand Haven, Lamont, Montague
Minnesota
Hopkins, Minneapolis, Eden Prairie, Milaca, Lakeville
Missouri
Kirksville, Cassville, Lees Summit Mpo, Sunrise Beach, Saint Charles, Galena, Saint Joseph, Mountain Grove, Springfield, Columbia, Altenburg, Harrisonville, Grain Valley, Dutchtown, Marshall, Ballwin, High Ridge, Rolla, Farmington
Mississippi
Jackson, Meridian, Madison, Raymond, Newton, Ripley, Petal, Terry, Biloxi, Tupelo, Lucedale, Jackson, Greenwood, Purvis
Montana
Helena, Corvallis, Glendive, Billings, Stevensville
North Carolina
Fayetteville, Wilmington, Maysville, Walnut Cove, Statesville, Wilmington, Henderson, Lincolnton, Supply, Elizabeth City, Richlands, Morehead City, Matthews, Pfafftown, Thomasville, Emerald Isle, Morganton
North Dakota
Fargo
Nebraska
Firth, Fremont
New Hampshire
Windham, Newport, Newmarket, Auburn, Nashua
New Jersey
Sussex, Wharton, Crosswicks, Thorofare
New Mexico
Las Vegas, Mesilla Park, Portales, Alamogordo, Clovis
Nevada
Las Vegas, Mesquite
New York
Massapequa, Randolph, Riverhead, Avon, Lake Grove, Corning, Lindenhurst, Holtsville, Wading River, Schenectady, Camillus
Ohio
Grove City, Dublin, Novelty, Cleveland, Trenton, Garrettsville, Johnstown, Middlefield, Springfield, Dayton, Germantown, Fayette, Newark, Amanda, Eastlake, Youngstown, Waynesville, Lucasville, Heath, Franklin, Toledo
Oklahoma
Tulsa, Ardmore, Bartlesville, Marland, Lawton, Stigler, Broken Arrow, Jenks, Prague
Oregon
Bend, Lake Oswego, Lincoln City, Terrebonne, Hermiston, Newberg, Grants Pass, Vernonia, Portland
Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Milford, Greensburg, Malvern, Clymer, Franklin, East Stroudsburg, Southampton, Harriburg, Wexford, Coraopolis, Allentown
Rhode Island
Cranston
South Carolina
Laurens, Moncks Corner, Myrtle Beach, Conway, Gaffney, Florence, Sumter, Easley, Columbia, Pickens, Spartanburg
South Dakota
Rapid City
Tennessee
Clarksville, Franklin, Crossville, Manchester, Strawberry Plains, Greeneville, Kingston, Rutledge, Kingsport, Knoxville, Brentwood, Newbern
Texas
Cypress, Ropesville, McAllen, Bryan, Lyford, Abilene, Wimberley, Eddy, Lewisville, Edinburg, Amarillo, Houston, San Angelo, Austin, Victoria, College Station, Muleshoe, Magnolia, Snyder, San Antonio, Missouri City, Round Rock, Carrollton, Beaumont, Georgetown, Plano, Huffman, Newark, Rockwall, Larue, Plano, Wichita Falls, New Braunfels, Quitman, Killeen, Lewisville, Richardson, Frisco
Utah
Smithfield, Saint George, Tremonton
Virginia
Callaway, Vinton, Aylett, Moneta, Virginia Beach, Burke, Midlothian, Urbanna, Prince George, Spotsylvania
Washington
Olympia, Kirkland, Puyallup, Gig Harbor, Richland
Wisconsin
Appleton, Hales Corners, Reedsville, Sheboygan Falls, Fort Atkinson, Milwaukee
West Virginia
Newell, Huntington, Beeson, Fairmont, Glenville
As reported earlier, WND has been tracking more than 170 tea parties in addition to the AFA list.
WND has also launched its own tea party forum so citizens may exchange ideas, information and announcements about the “revolution.” After reviewing various website protest listings and e-mails from many readers, WND found more than 170 tea parties scheduled for upcoming months and compiled one of the most complete lists on the Internet. Here are some scheduled tea parties:
Alabama
Birmingham – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Veteran Park on Highway 17 Valledale Road

Huntsville – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., vacant lot (lot k) across the street from Clinton Avenue post office
Decatur – Saturday, March 28, at the Rhodes Ferry Park, (also known as River Park)
Mobile – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the USS Alabama battleship
Montgomery – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Alabama Statehouse located at 11 South Union Street
Springdale – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in downtown Springdale, exact location to be determined
Arizona
Phoenix – Wednesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. at capitol building
Tucson – Wednesday, April 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of Joel D. Valdez Main Library on 101 N. Stone Ave.
Arkansas
Mountain Home – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be announced
California
Atascadero – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Sunken Gardens on El Camino Real
Citrus Heights – Wednesday, April 15, from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., intersection at Greenback Lane and Sunset Boulevard
Hollister – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., corner of San Benito and 4th St.
Los Angeles – Saturday, July 4, from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Santa Monica Pier
Modesto – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 1010 10th Street
Pasadena – Saturday, April 11, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 100 N. Garfield Ave.
Sacramento – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at state capitol building on L Street
San Bernadino – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. from Meadowbrook Park to Joe Baca’s Office, 201 N. “E” St.
San Diego – Saturday, April 11, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., West Basin on N. Harbor Dr. across street from airport, Spanish Landing Park
San Diego – Wednesday, April 15, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at a post office near you
San Francisco – April 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Civic Center Park, one block from Nancy Pelosi’s office at 450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco – April 15 at 1 p.m., location not yet chosen.
San Jose – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at IRS offices at 55 S. Market Street, across the street from Saint Joseph’s Cathedral
Santa Ana – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., tentative location at Santa Ana Civic Center
Santa Barbara – Saturday, April 4 at 2:30 p.m., meeting at Santa Barbara County Courthouse
Temecula – Wednesday, April 15, 11 a.m., Duck Pond
Connecticut
Hartford – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
New Haven – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Ridgefield – Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m. at Ballard Park
Stamford – Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m. at 96 Broad Street (Starbucks/library location), corner of Broad and Bedford
Colorado
Colorado Springs – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at city hall, 107 North Nevada
Denver – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the west steps of the capitol, 200 East Colfax
Grand Junction – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 12th Street and North Avenue
Delaware
Dover – Wednesday, April 15 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be announced
Florida
Inverness – Saturday, April 18 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., at the old historical courthouse, One Courthouse Square
Jacksonville – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., either Jax Landing or Friendship Fountain
Miami – Wednesday, April 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be announced
Naples – Sunday, April 5 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., across from Coastal Mall at the gazebo, seating available for elderly and disabled
Naples – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Pine Ridge Road and U.S. 41
Orlando – Saturday, March 21, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the amphitheater at Lake Eola in downtown Orlando
Orlando – Wednesday, April 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be announced
Palm Beach – Wednesday, April 15 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., location to be announced
Panama City – Wednesday, April 15 from 3 p.m. to dark at Sherman Avenue Post Office
Pensacola – Wednesday, April 15 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at downtown courthouse, Palafox Street and E. Garden St.
Punta Gorda – Wednesday, April 15 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Gilchrist Park, 400 W. Retta Esplande
Tampa – Wednesday, April 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Gaslight Park, downtown Tampa
West Palm Beach – Wednesday, April 15 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be announced
Tallahassee – Thursday, March 17, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., 400 South Monroe
Tallahassee – Thursday, March 19, at 5 p.m. at the Leon County Commission Chambers, 5th floor, Courthouse
Georgia
Atlanta – Wednesday, April 15 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.at the capitol building located at 206 Washington St.
Atlanta – Saturday, July 4, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the capitol building located at 206 Washington St.
Augusta – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Gainesville – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., downtown Gainesville
Savannah – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be announced
Hawaii
Honolulu – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the state capitol building
Idaho
Boise – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., at the state capitol building
Burley – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Overland Bridge over the Snake River just off exit 208
Idaho Falls – Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., downtown Idaho Falls
Illinois
Urbana – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be determined
Chicago – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Daley Plaza Civic Center at 50 Washington St.
Chicago – From Saturday, July 4, at 7 p.m. to Sunday, July 5, at 5 a.m. at Belmont Harbor on Lake Shore Drive
Indiana
Bloomington – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. outside the Shower’s building, corner of W 8th St. & N. Morton St.
Fort Wayne – Saturday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. downtown at Courthouse Square on Main Street
Indianapolis – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in downtown Indianapolis, exact location to be announced
Iowa
Bettendorf – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., 2023 Ridgeway Court
Davenport – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at 4th and Main Street (in front of office of Rep. Bruce Braley D-Iowa)
Iowa City – Wednesday, April 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Burlington Street Bridge
Kansas
Overland Park – Wednesday, April 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Johnston Community College
Wichita – Wednesday, April 15, from 4:15 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wichita post office on West Harry Street, north of airport, bring homemade sign
Kentucky
Louisville – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Jefferson Square (tentative location), 10th and Jefferson St.
Lexington – Saturday, March 21, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Robert Stevens Courthouse Complex, 150 North Limestone
Louisiana
Baton Rouge – Wednesday, April 15, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the steps of the capitol building
Lake Charles – Wednesday, April 15, at 5 p.m. at Lake Charles Civic Center on Lakeshore Drive
Shreveport – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at downtown Shreveport Riverfront
Maine
Augusta – Wednesday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m. at Capital Park
Maryland
Annapolis – Wednesday, April 15, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Campbell Park on the dock/boardwalk at Annapolis Harbor
Salisbury – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at downtown Salisbury
Massachusetts
Boston – Wednesday, April 15, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at City Hall Plaza
Boston – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m. at Ivy Restaurant at 49 Temple Place
Boston – Saturday, July 4, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Griffin Harbor on Congress Street Bridge
Newburyport – Saturday, March 28, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., 60 Pleasant St., City Hall
Worcester – Wednesday, April 15, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Lincoln Square (in front of the auditorium)
Michigan
Bancroft – April 11 from 9 a.m. to sundown at Camp Stasa, 7963 Cork Rd.
Jackson – Wednesday, April 15, at 6 p.m., Oaks Park, birthplace/first convention of the Republican Party
Lansing – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Michigan State Capitol, 100 N Capitol Ave
St. Paul – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at capitol
Mississippi
Jackson – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., in downtown Jackson, exact location to be determined
Jackson – Saturday, May 16, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.on the steps of the capitol building
Missouri
Joplin – Wednesday, April 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., location to be determined
Kansas City – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., location to be determined

St. Louis – Wednesday, April 15, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be determined
Montana
Missoula – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., downtown Missoula, exact location to be announced
Nebraska
Lincoln – Wednesday, April 15, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., location to be announced
Omaha – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Bob Kerrey Memorial Pedestrian Bridge
Nevada
Carson City/Reno – Wednesday, April 15, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 101 N. Carson Street in front of state capitol building and Supreme Court
Las Vegas – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., at sidewalk across from Sunset Post Office at 1001 E Sunset RD
New Jersey
Morristown – Wednesday, April 15, at 12 p.m., the Green in Morristown
Newark – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m., visiting Sens. Lautenberg and Menendez offices, Gateway Center One, 782 McCarter Highway
Trenton – Wednesday, April 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at New Jersey State House, 125 W. State St.
New Mexico
Albuquerque – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Las Cruces – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., location to be announced
New York
Albany – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Corning Preserve
Buffalo – Saturday, March 28, at 2 p.m. at the Terminus of the Erie Canal
Buffalo – Saturday, April 18, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., 199 Deleware Ave
Fishkill – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Doug Phillips Park
Gardiner – Wednesday, April 15, from 64 p.m. to 8 p.m., the Rail Trail, Route 44/55
New York – Wednesday, April 15, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., location to be announced
New York – Saturday, July 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at South Street Seaport and Pier 17
Rochester – Wednesday, April 15, at 11 a.m. at Genesee Crossroads Park
Staten Island – Tuesday, March 31, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., 265 New Dorp Lane
Staten Island – Wednesday, April 15, at 12 p.m., Rep. Michael McMahon’s office, 265 New Dorp Lane at corner of Edison Street
North Carolina
Asheville – Wednesday, April 15, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., in front of the Asheville City building and the Buncombe County Courthouse
Charlotte – Saturday, April 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Marshall Park (uptown Charlotte)
Charlotte – Wednesday, April 15, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., City Hall lawn at 600 E. Trade Street
Edenton – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Edenton Courthouse Green, Court and Water Streets
Greensboro – Wednesday, April 15, location and time to be announced
Raleigh – Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the state capitol building on East Edenton Street
Ohio
Canton – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in downtown Canton, exact location to be announced
Cincinnati – Saturday, March 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Fountain Square at the corner of Fifth and Vine Streets
Cleveland – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Public Square, downtown Cleveland
Columbus – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:20 p.m., Statehouse on High and Broad
Dayton – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in downtown Dayton, exact location to be announced
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at state capitol step
Tulsa – Wednesday, April 15, from 11:25 a.m. to 1:25 p.m. at Tulsa City Hall, 175 E. 2nd
Oregon
Bend – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Grants Pass – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Medford – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Portland – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., location to be announced
Roseburg – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Salem – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at capitol building, in the park
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg – Wednesday, April 15, at 12 p.m. west steps of capitol building
Philadelphia – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at downtown Philadelphia, exact location to be announced
Philadelphia – Saturday, April 18, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Independence Hall
Pittsburgh – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at downtown Pittsburgh, exact location to be announced
Pittsburgh – Saturday, April 11, at 12 p.m. at Allegheny Landing
Rhode Island
Providence – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at state capitol steps (city side across from Providence Place Mall)
South Carolina
Charleston – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Old Customs House building, East Bay St. and Market St.
Columbia – Wednesday, April 15, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at state house, 1101 Gervals Street
South Dakota
Sioux Falls – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Terrace Park, Coval Lake (free lunch and entertainment)
Tennessee
Memphis – Wednesday, April 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., location to be announced
Nashville – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., location to be announced
Texas
Austin – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on south steps of state capitol building
Austin – Saturday, July 4, time and location to be announced
Amarillo – Saturday, March 28, 11 a.m., Randall County Annex, I-27 & Georgia
Amarillo – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m., Potter County Courthouse
Brazoria City – Wednesday, April 15, time to be determind, Angleton, County Seat (likely by the Steven F. Austin Memorial Statue) call 979-319-5911
Burleson – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., across the street from Wal-Mart, 951 S. W. Wilshire Blvd.
Dallas – Saturday, July 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Victory Park
Dallas – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., location to be announced
Dallas – Wednesday, April 15, from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Dallas City Hall
Denton – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Courthouse on the Square, 110 W. Hickory
El Paso – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be announced
Floresville – Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at courthouse
Fort Worth – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., location to be announced
Fort Worth – Saturday, July 4 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Cowtown Bar & Grill
Houston – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. across street from downtown post office
Kerr County – Friday, April 24, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Guadalupe River at Louise Hays Park pavillion, speakers, barbecue, please feel free to bring children
Kerrville – Wednesday, April 15 at 11 a.m. at Kerrville County Courthouse at 700 Main Street
Longview – Wednesday, April 15 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gregg County courthouse lawn
McAllen – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Midland – Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m., Vietnam memorial at Midland International Airport, local and state politicians will be present with “open mic” time for citizen
Nacogdoches – Wednesday, April 15, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.at downtown square
New Braunfels – Wednesday, April 15, from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., gather around local plaza and down Main Street into town
San Antonio – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be announced
Woodlands – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., location to be announced
Tyler – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., location to be announced
Utah
Salt Lake City – Wednesday, April 15, downtown Salt Lake City, time and location to be announced
Virginia

Annandale – Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mason District Park, 6621 Columbia Pike
Charlottesville – Wednesday, April 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., downtown mall by the pavilion
Richmond – Wednesday, April 15, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond, 8th and Canal Street
Roanoke – Wednesday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Along Roanoke River, Wiley Drive, near footbridge at the old Victory Stadium site
Virginia Beach – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Central Plaza, Towne Center (across from Sen. Webb’s Office)
Rutland – Wednesday, April 15, downtown Rutland, exact time and location to be announced
Washington
Bellingham – Wednesday, April 15, from 4p.m. to 6 p.m, Guide Meridian near Bellis Fair Parkway
Everett – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Mt. Vernon – Wednesday, April 15, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on corner of College Way and Riverside Drive (1 block from freeway exit)
Olympia – Wednesday, April 15, at 12 p.m. on the capitol steps
Seattle – Wednesday, April 15, from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., Westlake Park by the arch, 410 Pine St., downtown Seattle
Spokane – Wednesday, April 15, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., location to be announced
Vancouver – Saturday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Clark County Courthouse lawn
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, April 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Lafayette Park
Washington, D.C. – Saturday, July 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Upper Senate Park adjacent to Capitol building on north side
Washington, D.C. – On April 1, 2009, all Americans are asked to send a teabag to Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
Beckley – Wednesday, April 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at large fountain on Neville Street, across from university book store
Charleston – Wednesday, April 15, 12 p.m., at state capitol
Wheeling – Wednesday, April 15, time and location to be announced
Wisconsin
Appleton – Wednesday, April 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Fox Banquets, 111 E. Kimball
Madison – Wednesday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at state capitol
Milwaukee – Wednesday, March 25, 9 a.m., Wisconsin State Fair Park
Wyoming
Cheyenne – July 4, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the state capitol building

Are you planning a tea party? WND is your place to launch the tea party revolution. If you would like to include your tea party in this list, send the city, date, time, location and point of contact to WND.

You Should Absolutely Know

We gotta thank Michele Malkin for posting this info. Every single one of these cowards should get a letter of disgust from not only the people in their district, but from Americans all across this nation. Give the devil their due!

Gio-

Roll call vote breakdown: The 85 House Republicans who supported Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 19, 2009 10:55 PM

You can find the full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax here. I have broken out the 85 Republicans (led by GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor) who voted with Rangel and the Democrat demagogues.

Because you should know:

Aderholt
Alexander
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Blunt
Bono Mack
Boozman
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Cassidy
Castle
Crenshaw
Davis (KY)
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Duncan
Ehlers
Emerson
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gerlach
Goodlatte
Guthrie
Heller
Herger
Hoekstra
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Kirk
Lance
Latham
Lee (NY)
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Manzullo
McCaul
McClintock
McHugh
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Petri
Platts
Putnam
Rehberg
Reichert
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Schmidt
Schock
Shimkus
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stearns
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Wamp
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

***

Way to go, confiscatory Republicans. Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd, and Barney “Grabby Hands” Frank thank you!

Another Great Tea-Party

I just wanted to post some pics from the Tea-Party held in Raleigh North Carolina, earlier today. The people are almost at their tipping point, so I’m wondering, what will be the match that lights the fire?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MY PERSONAL FAVORITE.

OPEN THREAD – SURVIVAL EDITION

This is an Open Thread, but I would like to make it an Open Thread with a cause. Please share any survival ideas you have, or have heard about.

I’m fully expecting hyper-inflation to kick-in by the end of this year, then by this time next year we will be paying $20 dollars for a gallon of Milk. Now you know why I’m a little worried. Below is one of my ideas…

If you have the ammo to spare, find time to do some target shooting at least once a month. Knowing how to handle a firearm, and handle it well, can keep you and your family alive.

For inspiration, I strongly urge you to watch and listen very carefully to what this man has to say. This should be mandatory viewing for all liberals that still call themselves American.

 

 

Gio-

More Bad News

Here comes ACORN!

There are two articles on ACORN: the first on its mob tactics; the second on
ACORN “partnering” with our govt for the 2010 census. God help us.

~ Eowyn
…………………….

Hill panel testimony to accuse ACORN of mob tactics

S.A. Miller (Contact)
Thursday, March 19, 2009

A lawyer for a whistleblower on the activist group ACORN is prepared to tell a
House panel Thursday that the group provided liberal causes with
protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from the targets of
demonstrations through a mob-style “protection” racket.

ACORN called it the “muscle for the money” program, according to prepared
testimony Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh plans to deliver at a hearing
of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil
liberties.

A copy of her prepared testimony was obtained by The Washington Times.

The protest shakedowns are among a slew of accusations that Ms. Heidelbaugh
intends to make against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now. She also will accuse the nonprofit group of violating tax,
campaign-finance and other laws by sharing a list of President Obama’s
maxed-out campaign donors to solicit more funds for a get-out-the-vote drive.

The accusations, which are based entirely on sworn court testimony late last
year by ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief, range from unlawfully coordinating
campaign activity with Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign to deliberately
engaging in voter-registration fraud and misusing federal grant money.

ACORN officials say none of the charges is true, though they declined to respond
to any of the separate claims.

“None of this wild and varied list of charges has any credibility, and we’re not
going to spend our time on it,” said Kevin Whelan, ACORN deputy political
director. He said the group’s voter-registration drive succeeded in bringing
many disaffected minority and low-income voters into the democratic process.

Ms. Heidelbaugh, a member of the executive committee of the Republican National
Lawyers Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking a
court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN’s voter-registration drive for
the 2008 presidential campaign.

Republican members of the committee invited her to appear as a witness.

Ms. Moncrief, who worked for years as a clerk at the ACORN office in the
District before being fired for charging about $2,000 in personal expenses on
an ACORN credit card, is not scheduled to testify. Ms. Heidelbaugh said the
whistleblower will be present as a guest at the hearing.

ACORN’s Mr. Whelan said Ms. Moncrief was never a part of the organization’s
management and was fired for stealing.

“Nothing she says has any credibility,” he said.

Ms. Heidelbaugh called Ms. Moncrief a “courageous woman” who has withstood
threats of violence to shed light on what goes on at ACORN.

The prepared testimony described two facets of the “muscle for the money”
program, an official and unofficial program.

The “official” program is the name of the ACORN voter-registration drives. The
Obama campaign paid an ACORN affiliate group more than $800,000 for these
get-out-the-vote services during the primary race, though the expenditure was
initially misrepresented to the Federal Election Commission as for “sound and
lighting equipment,” but later corrected.

The “unofficial” program collected payments to organize protests. For example,
the Service Employees International Union hired ACORN to harass the Carlyle
Group, a global private equity firm. Other paid protests targeted
Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and Money Mart, according to the
testimony.

The protests then became a way to extract corporate donations.

“The protesting was used to get companies to negotiate. The companies would pay
money to get the protesting to stop,” Ms. Heidelbaugh said, quoting Ms.
Moncrief’s court testimony. “In addition to calling this activity ‘Muscle for
the Money,’ the insiders at ACORN called it ‘protection.’ “

The hearing likely will rekindle criticism of the financial ties and close
cooperation between Mr. Obama’s campaign and ACORN and its sister organizations
Citizens Services Inc. and Project Vote.

The groups came under fire during the campaign after probes into suspected voter
fraud in a series of presidential battleground states, including Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico and Nevada.

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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/acorn_census_partner/2009/03/18/193218.html?s=al&promo_code=7C64-1

Newsmax.com
ACORN to Partner With Government for 2010 Census
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:07 AM  By: Dave Eberhart

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN) is now a “national
partner” with the U.S. Census Bureau, soon to help the White House find 1.4
million workers to canvass for the country’s 2010 census. If the acronym rings
a bell, it’s because the organization has a history of voter fraud charges in
the last election cycle, according to a report by FOXNews.com.

ACORN will be joining with more than 250 national partners, including TARGET and
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to
assist in the hiring of census workers around the country.

ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson told FOXNews.com, “ACORN as an organization has
not been charged with any crime,” adding that concerns that the organization
will unfairly influence the census are unfounded. (If hired personnel are
accused and convicted of voter fraud on behalf of the organizations charter,
are they somehow separate from the organization? Ed.)

The U.S. Census Bureau has also gone on the defensive.

“The Census (Bureau) is a nonpartisan, non-political agency and we’re very
dedicated to an accurate account,” bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner told
FOXNews.com. “We have a lot of quality controls in place to keep any kind of
systemic error or fraudulent behavior to affect the counts.” Buckner said
140,000 census taker jobs must be filled to complete the first phase of the
effort. Each applicant, he emphasized, must take a basic skills exam and is
also subject to an FBI background check.

But there are many who remain concerned about the organization’s role.

“ACORN has been accused of voter fraud, embezzlement, and more… and yet this
is a group that the federal government wants helping with the census?” asks
Bobby Eberle of GOPUSA.

“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.”

ACORN came under assault in 2007 when Washington State filed felony charges
against several paid ACORN employees and supervisors for more than 1,700
fraudulent voter registrations. In March 2008, an ACORN worker in Pennsylvania
was sentenced for making 29 fraudulent voter registration forms.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the House census
subcommittee, said, “I feel fairly confident that the penalties for an
individual manipulating the count are pretty severe,” noting that the penalties
would certainly deter any fraud in the counting by workers. The penalty for any
fraudulent activity can be up to five years in jail.

The census count is critical to both politicians and states because it not only
determines congressional allocation, but it also provides the raw data by which
government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools.

© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

—– End forwarded message —–

—–Inline Attachment Follows—–

 

 

Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:25 PM

Subject: RE: ACORN TO DO 2010 CENSUS… WILL OUTRAGES NEVER END?

A little extra to go with Chet’s Article!

 

Hill panel testimony to accuse ACORN of mob tactics

S.A. Miller (Contact)
Thursday, March 19, 2009

A lawyer for a whistleblower on the activist group ACORN is prepared to tell a House panel Thursday that the group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from the targets of demonstrations through a mob-style “protection” racket.

ACORN called it the “muscle for the money” program, according to prepared testimony Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh plans to deliver at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties.

A copy of her prepared testimony was obtained by The Washington Times.

The protest shakedowns are among a slew of accusations that Ms. Heidelbaugh intends to make against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. She also will accuse the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by sharing a list of President Obama’s maxed-out campaign donors to solicit more funds for a get-out-the-vote drive.

The accusations, which are based entirely on sworn court testimony late last year by ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief, range from unlawfully coordinating campaign activity with Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign to deliberately engaging in voter-registration fraud and misusing federal grant money.

ACORN officials say none of the charges is true, though they declined to respond to any of the separate claims.

“None of this wild and varied list of charges has any credibility, and we’re not going to spend our time on it,” said Kevin Whelan, ACORN deputy political director. He said the group’s voter-registration drive succeeded in bringing many disaffected minority and low-income voters into the democratic process.

Ms. Heidelbaugh, a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Lawyers Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN’s voter-registration drive for the 2008 presidential campaign.

Republican members of the committee invited her to appear as a witness.

Ms. Moncrief, who worked for years as a clerk at the ACORN office in the District before being fired for charging about $2,000 in personal expenses on an ACORN credit card, is not scheduled to testify. Ms. Heidelbaugh said the whistleblower will be present as a guest at the hearing.

ACORN’s Mr. Whelan said Ms. Moncrief was never a part of the organization’s management and was fired for stealing.

“Nothing she says has any credibility,” he said.

Ms. Heidelbaugh called Ms. Moncrief a “courageous woman” who has withstood threats of violence to shed light on what goes on at ACORN.

The prepared testimony described two facets of the “muscle for the money” program, an official and unofficial program.

The “official” program is the name of the ACORN voter-registration drives. The Obama campaign paid an ACORN affiliate group more than $800,000 for these get-out-the-vote services during the primary race, though the expenditure was initially misrepresented to the Federal Election Commission as for “sound and lighting equipment,” but later corrected.

The “unofficial” program collected payments to organize protests. For example, the Service Employees International Union hired ACORN to harass the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. Other paid protests targeted Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and Money Mart, according to the testimony.

The protests then became a way to extract corporate donations.

“The protesting was used to get companies to negotiate. The companies would pay money to get the protesting to stop,” Ms. Heidelbaugh said, quoting Ms. Moncrief’s court testimony. “In addition to calling this activity ‘Muscle for the Money,’ the insiders at ACORN called it ‘protection.’ ”

The hearing likely will rekindle criticism of the financial ties and close cooperation between Mr. Obama’s campaign and ACORN and its sister organizations Citizens Services Inc. and Project Vote.

The groups came under fire during the campaign after probes into suspected voter fraud in a series of presidential battleground states, including Ohio , Pennsylvania , Michigan , New Mexico and Nevada .

 

 

Just say NO to Socialism!

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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/acorn_census_partner/2009/03/18/193218.html?s=al&promo_code=7C64-1

 

Newsmax.com

ACORN to Partner With Government for 2010 Census

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:07 AM  By: Dave Eberhart

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN) is now a “national partner” with the U.S. Census Bureau, soon to help the White House find 1.4 million workers to canvass for the country’s 2010 census. If the acronym rings a bell, it’s because the organization has a history of voter fraud charges in the last election cycle, according to a report by FOXNews.com.

ACORN will be joining with more than 250 national partners, including TARGET and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to assist in the hiring of census workers around the country.

ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson told FOXNews.com, “ACORN as an organization has not been charged with any crime,” adding that concerns that the organization will unfairly influence the census are unfounded. (If hired personnel are accused and convicted of voter fraud on behalf of the organizations charter, are they somehow separate from the organization? Ed.)

The U.S. Census Bureau has also gone on the defensive.

“The Census (Bureau) is a nonpartisan, non-political agency and we’re very dedicated to an accurate account,” bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner told FOXNews.com. “We have a lot of quality controls in place to keep any kind of systemic error or fraudulent behavior to affect the counts.” Buckner said 140,000 census taker jobs must be filled to complete the first phase of the effort. Each applicant, he emphasized, must take a basic skills exam and is also subject to an FBI background check.

But there are many who remain concerned about the organization’s role.

“ACORN has been accused of voter fraud, embezzlement, and more… and yet this is a group that the federal government wants helping with the census?” asks Bobby Eberle of GOPUSA.

“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.”

ACORN came under assault in 2007 when Washington State filed felony charges against several paid ACORN employees and supervisors for more than 1,700 fraudulent voter registrations. In March 2008, an ACORN worker in Pennsylvania was sentenced for making 29 fraudulent voter registration forms.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the House census subcommittee, said, “I feel fairly confident that the penalties for an individual manipulating the count are pretty severe,” noting that the penalties would certainly deter any fraud in the counting by workers. The penalty for any fraudulent activity can be up to five years in jail.

The census count is critical to both politicians and states because it not only determines congressional allocation, but it also provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools.

© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Your Kid Is Next

House adopts plan for ‘volunteer’ corps
Also requires new evaluation of ‘mandatory’ service for all.

Submitted by west coast editor, Eowyn.

——————————————————————————–
Posted: March 19, 2009

A proud Obama brigade reporting for neighborhood watch duty.

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer
corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service
requirement for all able young people” should be developed.

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.

Many, however, are raising concerns that the program, which is intended to
include 250,000 “volunteers,” is the beginning of what President Obama called
his “National Civilian Security Force” in a a speech last year in which he
urged creating an organization as big and well-funded as the U.S. military. He
has declined since then to elaborate.

WND reported when a copy of the speech provided online apparently was edited to
exclude Obama’s specific references to the new force.

The video of his statements is posted here:

The new bill specifically references the possibilities “if all individuals in
the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to
perform a certain amount of national service.”

Such new requirements perhaps, the legislation notes, “would strengthen the
social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together
people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

No one, apparently with the exception of infants, would be excluded:

“The means to develop awareness of national service and volunteer opportunities
at a young age by creating, expanding, and promoting service options for
elementary and secondary school students, through service learning or other
means, and by raising awareness of existing incentives.”

According to a report by Canada Free Press, “‘volunteerism’ that kept America
running since the days of its founding” would be “wiped out with the stroke of
a pen.”

“It becomes forced labor and like the practice of another era, presses American
citizens of all ages and creeds, unknowingly into military service,” the
commentary said.

“On paper, H.R. 1388 is the ‘Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education
Act‘; the more innocuous sounding ‘The Give Act,’ for short.

“The Give Act puts the finishing touches to Public Allies New Leadership for New
Times, modeled after Saul Alinsky’s ‘Peoples Organizations’ and operating under
Michelle Obama,” the commentary said.

“Michelle was also a pioneer in the social entrepreneur movement – leaders who
create new approaches and organize to provide new solutions to social problems.
Like most things Saul Alinsky, H.R. 1388 sounds noble in stating why
wide-sweeping change is necessary,” the commentary said.

“H.R. 1388 goes straight to the heart of volunteerism in America, impacting
everything from the lemonade stands of neighborhood children, to the residents
of senior citizens homes. … The Give Act puts tow-headed school children and
silver-haired seniors in the official uniform of the new State, and encompasses
every walk of life in main-street America,” the commentary said. “Whether you
are young or old, or firmly believe that volunteering means you are offering
your time to the good of community work, you will be pressed into Obama’s
National Civilian Community Corps.”

Groups of such “volunteers,” would, under the legislation, be “grouped together
as appropriate in campuses for operational, support, and boarding purposes. The
Corps campus for a unit shall be in a facility or central location established
as the operational headquarters and boarding place for the unit. … There shall
be a superintendent for each camp.”

The plan generated this concern from Resistnet.com: “This is the equivalent of
brown shirts.”

Another portion of the bill talks about a “service learning” plan that will be
“a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by
the local educational agency.”

A forum participant noted, “I wonder what’s going to happen to those who refused
to ‘volunteer.’ Maybe they will be put into a different ‘campus.’ I guess we
will soon find out.”

Formal announcements about the plan suggested something far different, picking a
provision far down in the 200 pages of legislation to highlight.

According to a Business Wire statement released by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
the bill “would formally authorize federal support for establishing the
anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America as a National Day
of Service and Remembrance.”

That provision is tucked into the far reaches of the legislation, but Schumer
discussed it as if it were the primary point.

“I could not be more proud to work to pass this important provision,” said
Schumer. “September 11 should not only be a day for mourning – it should be a
day to think about our neighbors, our community, and our country. We can take a
tragic day in our nation’s history and turn it into a force for good.”

On the Albany Insanity blog, this concern was raised: “What gives the government
the right to require individuals to give three years service under the guise of
‘volunteer’ service? It is not explicit exactly who is required but I think
they get the bill passed and then iron out the details. It talks about uniforms
and ‘camps.’ They revise the word ‘camps’ and call it ‘campus.’ There is
language about Seniors and Community organizations.”

The blog noted, such work forces would be used for “pressing national and local
challenges” that apparently could range from weather disasters to economic
uncertainty.

At a Republican website, officials noted it authorizes funding for an Education
Corps, Healthy Futures Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans’ Corps and
Opportunity Corps.

The bill was sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a Democrat from New York. It
was approved in the House 321-105, with mostly GOP opposition. It now goes to
the Senate.

WND reported earlier on Obama’s Colorado Springs campaign speech when he sought
a civilian security force as big and well-funded as the military – with a
budget of hundreds of billions of dollars.

WND later reported when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, announced he
would “require” all middle school through college students to participate in
community service programs.

However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama’s
proposed youth corps, officials softened the website’s wording.

Originally, under the tab “America Serves,” Change.gov read, “President-Elect
Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and
will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as
well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan
to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and
100 hours of community service in college every year,” the site announced.

WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth.

Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column first to raise
the issue and then to elevate it with a call to all reporters to start asking
questions.

“If we’re going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful
and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn’t this rather a big
deal?” Farah wrote. “I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too
much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create
some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger
than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?

“Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and
more expensive than that? If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?” Farah
wrote.

Pledge Your Obama Loyalty

I have such a headache, all caused by Obama and his goal of destroying this

May God help us save this country!

once great nation, that an intro is just not in me. Read below, and weep!

ALERT- Obama Wants You To Pledge Loyalty To Him Tomorrow!!!

By Lona Manning

They have taken a pledge of loyalty to Obama, and they say they are coming tomorrow for yours. Organizing for America, the Obama-for-President campaign morphed into Obama-for-Maximum-Leader army, will hit the streets for their “Pledge Project Canvass,” knocking on doors and accosting folks in parking lots and sidewalks to ask them to sign a pledge to support Obama’s policies for health care, energy and education reform.

Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee, is variously described in the media as [President Obama's] “own version of a lobbying firm”, “a parallel organization to the Democratic National Committee” and “an independent force to lobby for Obama’s goals” (Houston Chronicle); “an independent group” (Dayton Daily News); Obama’s “citizen army,” and a way of building public opinion” (The Bergen County Record); “a grass-roots lobbying group,” (Roll Call), “Obama 2.0″ (Newark Star-Ledger), “a joint partnership,” (DNC press release), and as a “political bully,” (AP).

According to Mitch Stewart, Director of OFA, the organization will be “getting out in front of Washington and asking our elected officials to lead the charge on energy, education and health care this year.”

So one might suppose that all the names and emails collected this weekend will be sent to our lawmakers in Washington in the form of a petition. Except that David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign director and an “advisor” to OFA, has emphatically stated that they will do no such thing.

Plouffe “stressed that Organizing for America is not aimed at twisting the arms of members of Congress but meant to keep activists engaged on issues such as health care, energy and the economy.”

Syndicated columnist Dick Polman reported on January 29 that:

“Mr. Obama’s aides emphasized that the effort was not created to lobby directly or pressure members of Congress to support Mr. Obama’s programs… ‘This is not a political campaign,” Mr. Plouffe said. ”This is not a ‘call or e-mail your member of Congress’ organization.””

Whoops! Looks like Plouffe is out of the loop on that one. The OFA website prominently asks people to call Congress and helps them look up their representative’s name and number. It even provides a script.

Now, it is confusing to see the Democratic National Committee asking for help to persuade the Democrat-led Congress and the Democrat-led Senate.

But according to OFA Director Stewart, ordinary folks like you are needed to combat “a Washington establishment that doesn’t welcome change…. It’s up to you to show Washington that Americans are demanding this new direction.”

Okay, so who in Washington, exactly? Is the DNC going to give the names and emails to lobbyists? To Washington bureaucrats? That’s doubtful. The sign-up sheet to be used for the pledge drive does not mention any privacy policy.

It does reveal (at the very bottom) that OFA is a project of the DNC. This might come as a surprise to dedicated Obama supporter Janine Poppa, who told the Dayton Daily News, “It is a nonpartisan effort, and I hope people believe it’s nonpartisan, because we truly do need each other to move it forward.”

Poor Ms. Poppa might be disillusioned to learn that the Florida Democratic State machine unabashedly bragged to the St. Petersburg Times that they were “preparing to tap into Barack Obama’s grass roots machine to build the biggest political operation ever seen from the state party.”

“The million-dollar question is how to translate the activism and enthusiasm that Barack Obama was able to create and translate it down the line,” said Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who managed Obama’s Florida campaign. “That’s the challenge, but fundamentally the state is better for Democrats than ever before because of what Barack Obama was able to do. It’s still up to candidates to have compelling messages and drive up enthusiasm.”

No doubt the Florida Dems will be getting another memo from Plouffe to remind them that OFA a movement “not to win an election, but to change this country.”

Phillip Elliott reported in January that the extensive OFA email list is not even being shared with the DNC: “Party officials had hoped Obama would transfer his list of supporters to the party, a move that would put them in control of one of the most extensive campaign organizations in politics. Instead, Obama decided to keep ownership of that enormous campaign and install his own loyalists to run it.” This was done, Obama’s aides insisted, in the name of being “post-partisan.”

And Stewart and Plouffe, those idealistic grass-roots campaigners, stress that OFA is all about getting feedback from the Obama followers: “Mitch… believes so strongly in feedback, so we want to hear from you!”

The website is all about making “sure your voice is heard.”

So tut-tut to Macon Phillips, the 30-year-old White House director of New Media, who told the New York Times that the OFA website “would give the White House another way to reach the public without having to rely on the mainstream news media.” Doesn’t he know that OFA is for people to communicate with their Leader, not for the Leader to send messages to his people?

Turns out even commenters at the Daily Kos are skeptical of the post-campaign uses of a campaign database.

“A small concern… again, small, but I need to voice it. I’d love to work like this to push for certain issues and policies I want to see enacted……however…I don’t want to see this turn into some type of “permanent campaign”. If anyone knows how the Obama administration is drawing that line I’d like to hear about it.”

“There’s no more campaigning to do. We won. Now it’s up to us to usher in Obama’s Age of Responsibility by working together to help fix America. The new goal is in service projects, not electioneering.”

“I think it would be nice to include a smidge of something somewhere about the difference between governing and campaigning – it’d not only help answer any critics, but it would again draw another difference between the Obama administration and 8 years of Bush.”

Whatever OFA is, David Plouffe at least thinks ”[t]his has obviously never been undertaken before. So it’s going to be a little trial and error.” As we noted on Wednesday, it seems as though OFA’s organizers are ignorant of the lessons of history and of the sinister ambitions of leaders who created their own private organizations, loyal only to them.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/…edge_loya.html

Well this should go over well…

This Too Must Not Stand

You WILL volunteer and we're here to make sure you do! Now say it loud so everyone can hear you... "Hail Obama - Hail Obama".

I knew this was coming up but because of everything else that has been happening, I had totally forgotten about it. This reminder came to my email box just a short while ago in the form of a petition. I would attach the URL for this petition, but have recently learned that almost all of these petitions never get delivered. Instead they are used by people to collect names and email addresses, or other personal info.

I suggest you call your Rep. Mail your Rep. Or even email your Rep.

This has become so scary that I have run out of words of warning. If I need to explain to anyone why being forced to volunteer by our Government is a bad thing, then they deserve to get what this Communist Administration gives them!

To:  U.S. Congress

We, the people, of the United States of America demand that H.R. 1388 “The GIVE Act” be voted against by all officials elected to represent us.

H.R. 1388 “The GIVE Act” is in direct violation of our Constitutional Rights as American citizens.

Requiring mandatory volunteerism of United States citizens is a form of slavery and will not be tolerated.

We, the people, of The United States of America collectively object to any reauthorization or reformation of the national service laws.

Sincerely,

The Whole Damn Truth!

A big thank you goes out to GiovanniWorld member DCG for this video.

No Taxation Without Honest Representation

Our government is now making destructive decisions with our money that we never gave them permission to do. Some would say… “well, we voted for them so the only option left to us is to vote them out again. To that I say “BullShit”!

For our more liberal readers, I’m going to give them just a short history lesson to give an example of what I mean by ‘No taxation without representation”. Afterwords I will give my explanation for the “BullShit” remark.

History lesson…

“No taxation without representation” was the catch phrase in the period of 1763-1776 to summarize the major grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies, incipient kernels of what would later become the United States of America. When King George III of England and the English Parliament began to impose new taxes on the colonists (Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, etc.) without their concurrence, Reverend Jonathan Mayhew of Boston coined this term during one of his sermons in Boston. Another Bostonian, a politician by the speak of the day, James Otis, changed this just a bit and he is well known for the phrase, “taxation without representation is tyranny.” Tyranny it was and in this book, you will see that tyranny it surely is again.

Since the colonists had no representation in Parliament they complained the taxes violated the guaranteed Rights of Englishmen. Parliament contended that the colonists had virtual representation.

In an appearance before Parliament in January, 1766, Prime Minister William Pitt stated:

 

The idea of a virtual representation of America in this House is the most contemptible that ever entered into the head of a man. It does not deserve a serious refutation. The Commons of America, represented in their several assemblies, have ever been in possession of the exercise of this their constitutional right, of giving and granting their own money. They would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it.

Grenville responded to Pitt, saying the disturbances in America “border on open rebellion; and if the doctrine I have heard this day be confirmed, nothing can tend more directly to produce a revolution.”[END]

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Ok, here is my heartfelt, yet logical reason, for a call once again to “No taxation without representation”.

Let me start by throwing out one of the latest moves made by the Congress and the Obama administration. Yesterday, the US Mint (treasury) printed more money, a lot of it too! In fact, they printed exactly one Trillion dollars. Hard to grasp right? Well I just hapen to have the very same graphic that Glenn Beck used today on his program, so pay attention…

The man used in this graphic is used for scale reference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, keep in mind we are only up to one Billion dollars so far. In the very next graphic it becomes very difficult to see the same man used as a scale reference, but be assured if you look close enough you will see him standing at the bottom left hand corner of the One Trillion Dollars.

The man used in this graphic is used for scale reference.

Now that you know what a Trillion Dollars looks like, let me explain what effect printing all this money does to our currency. In a nut-shell, it devalues the dollar like crazy! This has incredibly long lasting effects for our economy. This truly means that our children, our grandchildren, and our great grandchildren will be drowning in our debt for maybe the next 75 years. Yep, that’s what our so-called representation got us.

I’m getting tired of writing so I will try and shorten this. There have been a relative few reasons to be upset with our government over monetary policy over the last couple of years.  So the Bush administration is not completely innocent when it comes to how they spent our money, but they sure got the snowball started down the mountain.

Please note: These Billions and Trillions I am talking about is taxpayer money, and money that the tax payer has yet to earn and pay to Uncle Sam.

We started to get in real trouble when a particular candidate convinced the American people (just over half that voted) that he was lord and saviour of this great nation. He said he could do damn near anything. And with his political party controlling both the house and senate, everything he wanted to do would be a breeze, including bankrupting the country. Hundreds of Billions of dollars have been pissed away since the very first day he was put in office, and his bed fellows in congress have been there to help spend those hundreds of Billions of dollars. I won’t list them all because that would take all night, but instead I want to ask you a question… Is this what you wanted your representative government to do?

Because I’m a betting man, and have a decent education, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that over 70% of Americans, if they were told the truth about all this money, would vote against where it’s going. That means that over 70% of our representatives in Congress, and 70% of Obama’s skinny little ass, are NOT representing the people!

Now, can you say “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”? 

Gio-

P.S.  I am not kidding about this. We need bumper stickers, pundits on TV, writing to your local “letter-to-the-editor”, and of course… we need to gather in very large groups holding very large signs that say the obvious…

“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”

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How did he know?

A Demand For Congress…

I have a demand that may, or may not, get me in trouble. Here goes nothin!

I DEMAND THAT CONGRESS AND OBAMA STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY THIS VERY SECOND,  AND IF THEY FIND THAT THEY CANNOT, OR WILL NOT, THEN WE CITIZENS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO WITH-HOLD EVERY DIME OF OUR TAXES!

This is what I think of when thinking about our Congress and our president. Yeah, I'm pissed!!!

I Am Ashamed Of My Government

We now have 243 Democrats and 85 Republicans that deserve to be publicly humiliated and thrown into the streets for the scavengers to tear apart and eat…

This may be too good for Congress!

The heathens in Congress make me sick, and make me ashamed of my own Government.

OMG! Some dumb-ass Democrat just wrote on another blog the following…

Politically this was a huge win for the Democrats. They truly show they are on the side of the people. It’s also a lose for the Republicans because have of them buckled like a belt breaking their so called principles. This is a glorious day for democracy.

 

WASHINGTON – Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by taxpayers. The bill would impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at American International Group and other companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money.

“We want our money back now for the taxpayers,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Democrats led the charge in an attempt to get in front of raging public anger over the AIG bonuses, even though a provision that would have made such payouts illegal was stripped from last month’s $787 billion stimulus bill by its Democratic sponsors.

The vote to tax back most of the bonuses was 328-93. Voting “yes” were 243 Democrats and 85 Republicans. It was opposed by six Democrats and 87 Republicans.

The bonuses, totaling $165 million, were paid to employees of troubled insurer AIG over the weekend, including to traders in the unit that nearly brought about the company’s collapse.

The wide margin of victory came despite sharp Republican attacks calling the legislation a ploy to paper over Obama administration missteps.

Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the bill was “a political circus” to divert attention from why the administration and congressional Democrats had not done more to block the bonuses.

However, although a number of Republicans first cast “no” votes, the political appeal of the legislation apparently won the day. In the closing moments of the roll call there was a heavy GOP migration from the “no” column to the “yes” side before the final vote was called.

Democratic leaders rushed the bill to the floor under a procedure that requires a two-thirds majority for passage.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said he expected local and state governments to take the remaining 10 percent of the bonuses, nullifying the payouts.

Rangel said the bill would apply to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, among others, while excluding community banks and other smaller companies that have received less bailout money.

A competing bill is gaining support in the Senate that would impose a 35 percent excise tax on the companies paying the bonuses and a 35 percent excise tax on the employees receiving them. The taxes would apply to all companies receiving government bailout money, but they are clearly geared toward AIG.

In the House, a nonbinding resolution to express “the sense of Congress that the president is appropriately exercising all of the authorities granted by Congress” to deal with economic crisis didn’t fare as well as the vote to tax the bonuses. The vote on that measure was 255-160, short of the required two thirds margin.

A tax expert said there is plenty of precedent for levying punitive taxes on behavior that lawmakers find objectionable. Robert Willens, a corporate tax lawyer in New York, cited the steep excise taxes levied on money paid to firms to keep them from launching hostile takeover bids, known as “greenmail.”

“You can write very narrowly tailored laws,” Willens said. “And they can do it for bonuses already paid.”

The bill passed as controversy swirled around the disclosure that, while Democrats and Republicans were both railing about the AIG bonuses, Democrats were also responsible for removing a provision, originally contained in stimulus legislation, to ban such bonuses.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said Wednesday his staff agreed to requests from the administration to delete the executive pay provision that would have applied retroactively to recipients of federal aid.

However, Dodd said he was not aware of any AIG bonuses at the time the change was made.

President Barack Obama, who took office just under two months ago, told reporters Wednesday that his administration was not responsible for a lack of federal supervision of AIG that preceded the company’s demise.

But Obama added, “The buck stops with me.”

Huffpo Readers Love Rush

Two things I know… Rush Limbaugh can cause a stir, and the left hates him for it. What, you don’t believe me?

Some turd over at Huffpo wrote a gawd-awful article about Rush and his defense of the AIGbonuses. All I did was copy the Headline and one paragraph for reference, It’s the comments by Huffpo readers that you will find most interesting.

While you have fun reading, I shall practice my cheer of “Go Rush Go”!

Limbaugh Defends AIG From “Lynch Mob … Ginned Up By Obama”

“A lynch mob is expanding: the peasants with their pitchforks surrounding the corporate headquarters of AIG, demanding heads. Death threats are pouring in. All of this being ginned up by the Obama administration.”

Now for the comments…

The GOP has been bashing hard working Americans for years telling those that have done nothing but go to work every day and put in their best that they have no one else to blame but themselves for their jobs being shipped overseas. They have been rooting with pitchfork and torch in hand for the demise of the last bastion of American manufacturing (the last of the survivors) the American auto industry.

Say what? The commentor above is ignorant of reality.

I ask this with all sincerity; how can anyone with conscience be a republican?

And I ask this with all sincerity; how can you be so stupid?

When the conservatives jump to their causes, it gives them political clout and there are no checks and balances. The current state of the financial industry is their crowning achievement.

I’m starting to see a pattern with these comments. It seems that many of the participants at Huffpo have had liberal teachers and/or professors, so they may have an excuse.

This idjot thinks the (peasants), factory workers, dreivers flight attendants, pilots shoukdtake pay cuts but the not peasants get bonuses? Are we taking jobs we can’t afford, Lord Limbaugh?

Not so sure the guy above even went to school.

You know You are on shakey ground when the only people defending AIG is Lush Lim.baugh and and talking Bush mouthpiece Dana Perrino. Neither of them deal in Reality.

Hmmm, let me get this straight… The Obama administration made damn sure the bonus provision stayed in the agreement for AIG bailout money, and you want to blame this on Rush and Perrino?

It’s going to be interesting to see if the dittoheads remain stuck on stupid – or if the faithful will begin to dimly realize that they have been conned for a long long time.

Now that is funny. You get all bent out of shape because legally binding bonuses, adding up to less than one tenth of one percent of the money given to AIG, were paid out to employees, but you have no clue that over 50 BILLION was given away to foreign banks out of the same pot.

My guess is if Rush really had to WORK for a living instead of just slinging’ sh*t over the radio everyday he wouldn’t be able to earn $250,000 or even $25,000. What does the average person with his (lack of) education earn these days?

Ok moron, try this on for size… The last time I looked at this info, a few months ago, we had just over 60% of American millionares that had never gone on to higher education after High School, and a small percentage of those never finished High School. And besides, are you trying to start some sort of class war? War Monger!!!

Which only proves the Rush Limbaugh is a spawn of the devil.

Hey wait one darn minute… I thought you guys don’t want us talking about religion. What’s up with that?

Rush, why don’t you just climb back in that whole you came from…..you are a piece of work.

Don’t know how you climb into a “whole”, but you are correct, Rush is a peice of all American work.

How any blue collar worker can listen to this guy after this, I’ll never understand. He’s not for the working stiff, he’s for the big guys. One set of rules for them, another set of rules for the little guys. I hate his blasted guts.

Rush is quite clear about this. Rush is for all the workers. He wants even the little guy to have a chance at being a big guy. Whereas, your POS president thinks the ruling class should be above everyone!

All these WHITE people brought down the financial system and America. Now a black man has to clean up their mess.

White folk started the civil war, a black man will end it.

The two comments above are a bit surprising coming from a liberal site like Huffpo. What was even more surprising is, nobody called these two people on the comments.

Actually, don’t forget the homeowners who bought above their means….I’m SURE that included some black folks as well as Hispanic folks, Asian folks, perhaps a Native American or two.
Besides that, Obama is half white.

Not sure at all what to make of the above. None of the comments before, or after this one, had anything to do with mortgages, loans, etc. However, it did come after the white/black man comments. If anyone here has a clue, I’m all ears.

Another one of the arguments he made in defending these bonuses, was that by denying these executives their bonuses, we would be hurting the N.Y. economy, because these execs. would spend the money in restaurants, stores, car dealerships, etc. He also added that they would be paying taxes on it, and the Gov’t. needs the rich because they are the ones paying all the taxes.

Yep! So Rush get’s hammered for this?

A call to violence.

Now things get interesting. This is all this poster wrote on this particular thread. For shits and giggles, I’m going to follow this poster around for awhile and see exactly what their intent and purpose may be. And here I always thought liberals beieved in peace, love, and all that stuff.

Is anyone really surprised that this windbag would feel sorry for the AIG executives.

Feel sorry? Rush never said he felt sorry for anyone at AIG, he simply defended the legally binding contractual obligation to pay the bonuses.

Rush’s listeners are the peasants with pitchforks.

Obama wants all of us to be peasants. That is the way of Communism/Socialism.

When someone mentions Rush Limbaugh’s name it makes me want to pewk.

Then you my dear lady, need to see a professional head shrink!

yaaaa, I get that feeling with the name of Palin too! yuchhhh

You too!

ALERT. Readers. The enemy is NOT Rush Limbaugh. Don’t get distracted by the barking dog named Limbaugh. Your enemy is the corporation and the owner of the corporation that is holding the leash to this dog. Dogs are replaceable. They come and they go. But the owners keep buying new ones to scare, distract and divide. This distracts from who really is behind the messages of hate. You need to refocus and go after these owners. Regain your focus. The people holding the leash are the enemy of the people and of the American way.

Spoken like a true Marxist. Obama would be proud of you. Actually, I wonder if this message came from a PC somewhere in the White House?

The president is responding to the people’s outrage, NOT causing it, you doofus. And we are right to be incensed! This is more proof that the Republicans only care about getting rich and to hell with the little guy. If Rush’s audience would just stop tuning in and, even better, boycott his advertisers so that they pull out, he would feel the sting of losing his money like so many others do. Only masochists listen to him as it is.

So many things wrong with the above comments by this one guy, that I’m considering  just leaving it alone… Ok, I considered it, and have decided this guy has his head up his ass!

Thank God I’m Happy

Submitted by west coast editor Eowyn.

Happy people naturally have better lives.

March 18, 2009
ROOT CAUSES OF HAPPINESS
Bill Donohue
http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst.php?year=2008&month=June&read=2424

Q: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who is the Happiest of Them All?
A: You are.

Thats right, in general, those who are the most likely to be reading this article are the happiest of them all. The obverse is also true: The odds are that those who would never read anything associated the with Catholic League are the most unhappy of them all. This isn’t poppycock, and it isn’t being said to make you happy. It just happens to be true.

Happily, Arthur C. Brooks provides us with all the evidence we need to make these assertions. The Syracuse professor of Business and Government Policy has given us another brilliant book, Gross National Happiness, that is as enlightening as it is fun to read. It is worth noting, too, that Brooks is a proud Roman Catholic.

Brooks is one of those rare birds in academia: he actually draws his conclusions from the data. And data he has: Brooks has scoured the social science research on the subject of happiness and has turned up some extraordinary findings.

To be sure, there is nothing extraordinary about learning that optimists are happier than pessimists, or that those who have many friends are happier than those who do not. But it may come as a surprise to find out that money by itself doesn’t buy happiness (success and peer recognition do matter). What is truly surprising is the extent to which at least half of our happiness stock is genetic: Nature plays at least as big a part as nurture in determining our level of happiness.

These findings are interesting, but what really makes Brooks volume so important, especially for Catholic League members, is his sociological insights: he identifies a constellation of social attributes, as well as ideological predilections, that are clearly linked to happiness.

It is hardly a risky bet to claim that the typical Catholic League member is a religious person of conservative values who prizes his family. Nor is it a risk to say that he enjoys working hard (or did so before retirement) and is known to be generous. Well, it is precisely those characteristics that Brooks identifies as being integrally related to happiness.

This would seem to suggest that our secular brethren who espouse a liberal ideology are nowhere near as likely to be as happy as we are. This is exactly what Brooks found. Moreover, secularists are also much less likely to be generous–both with their money and their time. Married persons are happier than singles, and the former make for much better parents than do cohabiting couples. And as critical as any variable, those who ascribe to a traditionalist understanding of morality are happier than those who reject it.

So here we have it: religious people are happier than secularists; conservatives are happier than liberals; those who volunteer are happier than those who don’t; those who are charitable are happier than those who aren’t; married persons are happier than single persons; those who work the hardest are happier than everyone else; and traditionalists are happier than the free spirits.

Brooks lays all of this out in great detail, and he explores the public policy implications of his findings, e.g, it is in everyone’s interests that we protect our religious heritage. Why? Quite simply, religious persons make for better citizens: they give more and are much more likely to be happy.

As Brooks writes, it is not just in the interest of religious folks to protect our religious traditions, but also in the interest of secularists. (His italics.) That’s a hard nut for secularists to swallow, but the fact is that they are benefiting from the moral capital (and its ensuing happiness quotient) of the faithful.

A question that Brooks does not directly address, but is worth considering, is whether there is a commonality that runs through the happiness variables? To simplify this matter, consider the following bipolar variables: married v. single; religious v. secular; giver v. non-giver; conservative v. liberal; traditionalist v. postmodernist. Why are the former variables associated with happiness and not the latter?

There is a mountain of psychological and sociological evidence that suggests that fully atomized individuals are positively dysfunctional. Put differently, those for whom the unencumbered self is the end all and be all of liberty are sick. It cannot be said too forcefully: The lone individual is a nightmare. Why? Because part of being human is the ability to connect ourselves to something greater than ourselves, which is why those who find communion with God, family and friends are freer than those who refuse to submit to moral codes.

The idea of surrendering oneself to God and loved ones is not something which resonates well with those for whom submission is a dirty word. Religious persons, especially Catholics, know exactly what Pope John Paul II meant when he said that the Ten Commandments were the foundation of liberty. But to the tin ear of the secularists, such notions are incomprehensible at best and downright dangerous at worst.

In any event, Brooks gives us much to think about, and he does so in a style that is as entertaining as it is educational.

Please see below for some of Professor Brooks’s most insightful comments:

*Your state of mind is due in significant part to the wiring you get from your parents.

*Happy people treat others better than unhappy people do. They are more charitable than unhappy people, have better marriages, are better parents, act with greater integrity, and are better citizens. Happy people not only work harder than unhappy people, but volunteer more, toomeaning that they increase our nations prosperity and strengthen our communities. In short, happy citizens are better citizens.

*Religious people of all faiths are much, much happier than secularists, on average. In 2004, 43 percent of religious folks said they were very happy with their lives, versus 23 percent of secularists.

*People who live in religious communities–even correcting for other cultural factors in these communities–do better financially than those who live in secular communities.

*Traditionally religious people do not tend to be ignorant or uneducated. Religious individuals today are actually better educated and less ignorant of the world around them than secularists. In 2004, religious adults–those who attended a house of worship every week–were a third less likely to be without a high school diploma, and a third more likely to hold a college degree or higher, than those secularists who never attended a house of worship.

*Religious people are 38 percent more likely than secularists to give money to charity and give about four times more money away each year (even holding incomes constant). They are 52 percent more likely than nonreligious people to volunteer. Religious people are even 16 percent more likely than secularists to give money to explicitly nonreligious charities, and 54 percent more likely to volunteer for these causes.

*Religious Americans create much larger families than secular Americans do, and religious parents tend to have religious kids.

*In 2004, 42 percent of married Americans said they were very happy. Only 23 percent of never-married people said this, as well as 20 percent of those who were widowed, 17 percent of divorced people, and 11 percent of those who were separated (but not divorced) from their spouses. Married people were six times more likely to say they were very happy than they were to say they were not too happy.

*The evidence is overwhelming that unmarried, cohabiting adults give children a worse home life than married parents do, on average.

*Secular liberals are about eight times likelier than religious conservatives to support abortion on demand, which may indicate a greater willingness to terminate an inconvenient pregnancy.

*Religious people feel freer than secularists.

*Those who favor less government intervention in our economic affairs are happier than those who favor more.

*More than just enjoying the freedom to worship as they choose, many of the happiest people in America achieve their happiness through their faith.

*Premarital sex, drug use, you name it–the moral traditionalists have it all over the moral modernists when it comes to happiness.

*The recipe for happiness is a combination of individual liberty, personal morality, and moderation. This age-old formula is overwhelmingly supported by the data.

*Very happy people work more hours each week than those who are pretty happy, who in turn work more hours than people who are not happy.

*Job satisfaction actually increases life happiness.

*Work also brings happiness because it gives our lives meaning–and meaning brings happiness, sooner or later.

*People who give charitably are happier than people who don’t.

*America was built as a nation of givers. Religious pilgrims were some of our earliest ancestors. Thousands of miles away from their homes and governments, they were confronted by a vast frontier that could only be managed if private individuals took the needs of their community into their own hands. This has led to the simple and enduring fact that no country gives and volunteers privately like America does. This fact is more than just a curiosity or source of national pride. It is part of the reason we are generally happier than people in other developed countries.

Nude Hiking?

This is a light piece of news for Gio’s World, for a change. This Swiss nude hiking thing will probably be exported to California first. Then, the rest of the United States. Hiking in the mountains will never be the same

~Eowyn
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See my semi-nude photo at bottom.

Gio-
Nude hiking gets cold shoulder in Switzerland
John Tagliabue, New York Times

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

(03-17) 04:00 PDT Appenzell, Switzerland –

The Swiss like their secrecy, particularly in banking. At other times, they are more open. Take hiking.

In recent years, it has become fashionable for a growing number of Swiss and some foreigners to wander in the Alps clad in little more than hiking shoes and sunscreen. Last summer, the number of nude hikers increased to such an extent that the hills often seemed alive with the sound of everything but the swish of trousers.

In September, the police in this mountainous town detained a young hiker, whose friends will identify him only as Peter, wandering with nothing on but hiking boots and a knapsack. But they had to release him, because in Switzerland there is no law against hiking in the nude.

The experience alarmed the city fathers of Appenzell, population 5,600, who worried that the town might become a mecca for the unclad. Suppose families with children were out hiking and encountered a group of nude hikers, officials asked.

“We’re not in Canada, where you can hike for hours in vast forests,” local government spokesman Markus Doerig said. “Here you meet other hikers every few minutes. It was bothersome.”

Hiker Konrad Hepenstrick, 54, counters that he almost never meets people who are bothered.

“You greet them, and they greet you, though in winter, of course, many ask, ‘Aren’t you cold?’ ” he said in a nearby restaurant.

In winter, he said, he has hiked for hours in freezing temperatures, though he does concede the need for a hat and gloves. He has hiked in the nude for about 30 years, he said, and has crisscrossed the hills and mountains around Appenzell, as well as in France, Germany, Italy and even the Appalachians.

Why does he take off his clothes? “There’s not much to discuss,” he said. “It’s freedom. First, freedom in your head; then, freedom of the body.”

With some Swiss legal experts arguing that banning nudity in public would be unconstitutional, the government has been hamstrung in responding to the hikers. It has drafted legislation that, if enacted, would outlaw “abusive behavior that offends against custom and decency.”

Daniel Kettiger, a legal expert, published a six-page paper last month titled, predictably enough, “The Bare Facts: On the Criminal Prosecution of Nude Hiking,” pointing out that in 1991 Switzerland struck a law from its books that banned nudity in public.

“Simply being naked without any sexual connotation is no longer illegal,” he said.

The Appenzeller justice minister, Melchior Looser, is sure he can frame a law that will force the naked to cover up.

“I think the measure will work the way we have fashioned it,” said Looser, 63, noting that offenders would be fined the equivalent of $170. He would like to have the law in place this spring.

But he concedes that it must be approved by the grand assembly of the people, an annual gathering of all voter-age citizens on the town’s main square, which is scheduled to convene April 26. Passage is by no means assured.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/MNSB16GPAE.DTL

This article appeared on page A – 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle

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I’m a bit shy, so you won’t see me hiking nude anytime soon. But on the other hand, I do like to show off my ripped abs, so I will take off my shirt. How’s that for a 6 pack???

Gio-

Tell Congress To Go To Hell

Our own Congress are guilty of burning down our financial system. "We the people" must act before we have nothing left.

No I am NOT kidding! I would like to ask anyone that reads this, to turn up the heat on the Congress of the United States of America. They have lied to us over and over, and I am sick of their grandstanding on the backs of American citizens.

Although I would like to make this post as non-partisan as possible, two villains jump out because of their involvement of not only the financial collapse we are experiencing, but the bonus issue also. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, knew these bonuses were going to be paid out long ago, but now all of a sudden they act like it was a big surprise and they are outraged. They deserve to be dragged off of their damn throne and put in a federal prison!

This Video says it all!

Even the president had people in some of the meetings when the bonus issue was being dealt with, and now all of a sudden he is outraged. What a piece of lying crap. He needs to go back to Chicago and rip-off his fellow citizens there as they don’t seem to mind. I do mind, and I mind alot!

Impeach our lying President now.

Peaceful Religion Update

How about these young dream killers?

Please note the message on the video below concerning ‘embedding disabled’. In order to bypass, simply double click on message and you will be taken directly to the vid.

I guess practice makes perfect!

Dissent Is Patriotic

At least that’s what the liberals said during president Bush’s tenure.

Touche’ Cowboy!