An extreme closeup reveals a few additional details.
Hat tip and headline: Doug Powers. Image: White House Image Cache.
An extreme closeup reveals a few additional details.
...one of the men clearly says he did not make the sign -- another appears to say a "lady" was paying them to hold it... "These people don't even know what they're protesting and they're being asked to hold signs," Broes said. "It's a manufactured protest."
The Boxer campaign insists it had nothing to do with the scene. The campaign said it does not pay or offer to pay anybody to hold signs and nobody interviewed in the amateur video was with the Boxer campaign...
...Broes said the lady appeared to be with the Boxer campaign, considering she showed up when an official-looking truck arrived with the campaign signs.
But the Boxer campaign aide said nobody on staff recognized the woman or the people she was with. "They were not ours," the aide said.
The Fiorina campaign could not confirm the claims but said the scenario points to potential problems in Boxer's base... "If these allegations are true it is disappointing. If Barbara Boxer had to pay people to protest on her behalf it is a clear sign that the enthusiasm gap is wider than we thought and a sure sign that the people of California have had enough of her 28 years of out of touch failed policies," the Fiorina campaign said in a statement.
Broes, a former Microsoft executive who worked with Fiorina when she was heading up Hewlett-Packard, said he wasn't planning to shoot video of the Boxer activity when he first showed up at the debate site -- ironically, that debate focused in part on immigration and outsourcing. Broes said he was just carrying a camera to shoot generic footage and decided to videotape when he saw the men from the U-Haul site.
He said the men disappeared, along with the signs, shortly after he started shooting video and asking questions.
"Apparently they thought they were going to get paid," he said. "They're not volunteering their time out there standing in the hot sun."
On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) secured diplomatic courtesy letters that allowed anti-American Code Pink activists to travel to Fallujah, Iraq. The radicals traveled to Fallujah in late 2004 to donate $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the people who had just killed 51 Americans and wounded 560 more earlier that month. Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah was the heaviest US urban combat since the Vietnam War.
Perhaps the most revealing window into Boxer’s true feelings towards our military is her close alliance with Code Pink, a radical leftist group that reviles American troops as terrorists and assassins while praising their enemies as freedom fighters. For years, Code Pink has viciously harassed wounded veterans and their families outside Walter Reed Hospital, even telling the mother of a slain Navy Seal that her son “deserved to die.” Code Pink actively supports terror groups such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Hezbollah and al Qaeda.The Code Pink website repeatedly praises “our beloved Barbara Boxer.” And why not? Boxer has worked with the group and supported its goals on many occasions. In early 2005, Boxer was the only member of the Senate to oppose certifying the Electoral College result that returned George Bush to office for a second term. Code Pink hosted rallies and participated in various demonstrations and marches to “defend democracy” against the results of the 2004 elections. They wrapped up the event at Senator Boxer’s California office, “singing her songs of thanks.”
Code Pink’s leaders had just returned from Fallujah, Iraq, where 51 Americans had been killed and 560 wounded in the US Marines’ heaviest urban combat since the Vietnam War. Code Pink delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies to the very insurgents the Marines had been fighting against - quite literally giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies in a time of war. As noted in Islam Online, a diplomatic courtesy letter from Barbara Boxer helped make the trip possible.
You May Want to Walk Back From that Remark, Barry: RedStateQOTD: "Sharon Angle’s campaign in Nevada just released its 3rd Quarter fundraising totals: it raised $14 million to defeat Harry Reid... This is stunning, folks...
...The reason Democrats have such a hard time understanding what’s going on is because this doesn’t happen for them. There is no 'grassroots', for real, on the Left. It’s pure astroturf. There aren’t millions of dollars that really come in $5 and $10 at a time from regular people. Democrats CLAIM that’s what happens, but in reality those are the unions forcing people to contribute or its money from Saudis and other Muslims that’s been run through money laundering operations on Martinique and broken up into $199 or less contributions so Democrats can mask the true identity of the donors...
...$14 million in the 3rd quarter of a midterm election is just unheard of…regular, average, working class people really, really want Harry Reid out of office in a bad way... Democrats should be terrified of that number, because I bet it’s happening all over the country with all sorts of candidates." -- Kevin Dujan
CNN’s prime time ratings woes are only increasing with [its] new program Parker Spitzer.
Monday night was the lowest weekday prime time rating average in more than 10 years, since June 28, 2000. And it wasn’t just the 8pmET that was seeing low ratings.
Larry King had even lower ratings tha [sic] Parker Spitzer, with just 196,000 total viewers. That’s less than Rachel Maddow’s A25-54 demo average in the same hour...
On Aug. 28, 2008... Obama took the stage at Denver’s Invesco Field in front of thousands of adoring fans. In a weirdly ostentatious framing of Greek columns and pilasters[, he] decree[d] his intentions to fundamentally transform the world amid a storm of disaffection with George Bush, weariness of war, a lackluster McCain campaign and an economy in free-fall.Admirers cheered, women swooned, media pundits and journalists pronounced him the savior of America and of the world while the deitylike echo ordered by the campaign producers reverberated. Hailed as a redeemer, his negligible political experience and enigmatic background were summarily dismissed while those of his opponent, Sen. John McCain and especially Sarah Palin, were fiercely examined and ridiculed in shameless displays of journalistic favoritism.
Even Los Angeles Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorn submitted to his own leg-tingling adoration, writing the day following the speech that when Obama declared, “America, we cannot turn back,” he found himself “thinking about those columns... about how they were employed primarily to suggest time rolling backward all the way to the Greeks..."
Obama's columns were, instead, constructed with styrofoam and tossed into a dumpster hours after the convention's conclusion.Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign announced today that President Obama will be here Saturday for a fundraiser and public rally at the Hynes Convention Center.Every Tea Party and 9/12 group in Massachusetts is calling for volunteers to greet the president. We remember the turnout in January when Obama came to Boston to campaign for Martha Coakley. When Democrats have to bring the president to a deep-blue state like Massachusetts in October . . . ?
UPDATE: There are rumors that Barney Frank, concerned about Sean Bielat’s insurgency in the 4th District, has asked Obama to make an appearance in the Newton area. Please give to the Bielat money-bomb at Bye Bye Barney!UPDATE II: Obama’s Boston event could be another omen of the Democrat mass-extinction event coming Nov. 2. Given how disappointed and disillusioned Obama’s supporters are, my slow-typing friend Pete Da Tech Guy thinks Obama will actually hurt Democrats here... Speaking of fat guys: Bye Bye Barney!
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Speaking of foreign money: Soros closes his wallet: RWNQOTD: 'With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft aims to offer a middle ground with more flexibility than Apple's dominant iOS and more certainty than the open-ended nature of the Google-built Android open-source software. Or, as Twitter user @DerickP put it while watching live coverage of the event, a "happy medium" between "iDictatorship" and "Androidarchy." ' -- Caroline McCarthy



Moonbattery also dug up some shocking new photos.
The financial blogs have been atwitter for months over paperwork problems in the housing industry related to foreclosures. Around one-quarter of all recent home sales are foreclosures and now it appears many of those transactions -- and, worse, the mortgage-backed securities that undergird much of the economy -- may be at risk.Old Republic National Title Insurance, among the nation's largest title insurance companies, will no longer write new policies for homes foreclosed upon by J.P. Morgan Chase and Ally Financial's GMAC Mortgage unit –– a sign that concerns about faulty foreclosure paperwork could now endanger new sales of foreclosed homes.
A major securities lobbying group said on Monday that a U.S.-wide foreclosure moratorium would be "catastrophic" ...Investors who buy mortgage-backed securities free up money that can be used by lenders to make new loans...
The market for such securities nearly dried up during the height of the 2007-2009 financial crisis but the instruments have rallied since March 2009 as investors bet depressed prices more than account for losses that will come as homes backing bad loans are liquidated... Moody's Corp warned on Monday that most residential mortgage-backed securities could see losses increase because of delays in foreclosures.
[Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid's latest ploy has been to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures because of a faux scandal about banks using robo-signers to sign massive numbers of foreclosure documents. Never mind that Nevada, a subprime ground-zero where thousands of Mr. Reid's constituents are defaulting on loans they never could afford, is not a state where the document snafu is even alleged to have occurred.
We’ve said for some time that document fabrication is widespread in foreclosures. The reason is that the note, which is the borrower IOU, is the critical instrument to establishing the right to foreclose in 45 states... The pooling and servicing agreement, which governs the creation of mortgage backed securities, called for the note to be endorsed (wet ink signatures) through the full chain of title...
Evidence is mounting that for cost reasons, starting in the 2004-2005 time frame, originators like Countrywide simply quit conveying the note. We are told this practice was widespread, probably endemic... We finally have concrete proof of how widespread document fabrication was... you can view the entire Lender Processing Services price sheet here, and here are the germane sections:Not only are there prices up for creating, which means fabricating documents out of whole cloth, and look at the extent of the offerings. The collateral file is ALL the documents the trustee (or the custodian as an agent of the trustee) needs to have pursuant to its obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement on behalf of the mortgage backed security holder...
...This revelation touches every major servicer and RMBS trustee in the US... And this means document forgeries and fraud are not just a servicer problem or a borrower problem but a mortgage industry and ultimately a policy problem. These dishonest practices are so widespread that they raise serious questions about the residential mortgage backed securities market, the major trustees (such as JP Morgan, US Bank, Bank of New York) who repeatedly provided affirmations as required by the pooling and servicing agreement that all the tasks necessary for the trust to own the securitization assets had been completed, and the inattention of the various government bodies (in particular Fannie and Freddie) that are major clients of LPS.
Did nobody, for instance at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, review any of the paperwork fluttering in from places like Countrywide or Ditech and scores of other boiler rooms where mortgages were hatched like Peking ducklings? There was an awful lot of it, I'm sure, but aren't there a lot of seat-warmers at Fannie and Freddie who collect their salaries for the express purpose of reading mortgage documents? Was nobody the least bit suspicious about the mysterious flurry of "restaurant employees" and "lawn-care technicians" buying million-dollar condominiums with no money down at terms that would make a three-card monte dealer weep with laughter?
...And what of the numberless agencies, federal on down, starting with, say, the Office of Thrift Supervision, or the Comptroller of the Currency, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, or the chairpersons of a dozen senate and house subcommittees on matters related to finance, or the various inspectors general from sea to shining sea or the attorneys general of all fifty states plus the US Department of Justice, or the countless fiduciary officers of the pension funds who tripped over each other buying all the tainted paper churned out like so much Purina Rat Chow - or, for Godsake, a lonely loan officer here or there with something resembling a conscience?
I'll say it for the umpteenth time: whenever the government gets involved with extra-constitutional pursuits, it screws them up. This is a failure of Democrat policies, not the free market. Agency after agency, bureaucracy after bureaucracy, politician after politician failed to unwind the disastrous policies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD and the other Statist programs hatched by Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo and Janet Reno to make homes "affordable".
Newly nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money: MalkinQOTD: "Ralston thinks the potentially lethal combination of votes to [fake Tea Party candidate] Ashjian and the 'none' category are the whole ballgame for [Harry] Reid. 'It’s the only way he can win,' he said.
History supports the view. Consider the case of John Ensign’s narrow loss when he challenged Reid back in 1998. Voter turnout was over 400,000; roughly 19,000 votes went to “none” or to third-party candidates; and Reid won the election by just 428 votes.
Reid is hoping to tread a similarly narrow path to victory this year, and has to hope that as many voters as possible are fooled by Ashjian." -- Elizabeth Crum
Axelrod: Chamber must prove foreign money allegations false:
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the burden of proving false the charge by Democrats that the business group is funneling foreign money to Republican campaigns... President Obama and Democrats have attacked the Chamber and outside conservative groups... [asserting] that foreign-based individuals or corporations could funnel money through those groups to influence the election. The Chamber has denied being involved in such practices.
Obama's campaign website intentionally turned off all credit-card security, an unprecedented step that allowed fake names and addresses for donations. The website intentionally allowed this to occur.
And Obama's contribution website accepted made-up credit-card numbers, which were probably tried one after another until valid card numbers were found. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.
The Obama website also retained forged computer addresses for its donations instead of the addresses of the real donors.
The Obama website accepted untraceable prepaid cash cards that could easily have been used to evade contribution limits, mask contributor identities or launder foreign contributions.
And the Obama campaign secretly shared donor lists with Project Vote and ACORN, the latter a group reportedly under a RICO investigation for multi-state vote fraud involving hundreds of thousands of fraudulent registrations and other misdeeds.
The Obama website permitted hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed, suspect donations reportedly orchestrated by foreign nationals and other persons unknown.
Roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s record haul derived from a website that intentionally disabled all security checks that prevent basic fraud. In other words, his website facilitated crooked donations complete with fake names, phony addresses, no donation limits, untraceable cards and bogus computer addresses.
Let me repeat that last point. The Obama campaign's website intentionally allowed the use of fake computer addresses (IP addresses). In my opinion, there is only one reason a website would allow the submission of a fake IP address: money-laundering. Logging the true IP address would mean that the real source (including the city and country) of the contribution could be traced. Allowing a fake address to be logged instead would prevent authorities from ascertaining the true origin of the donation.
Should the GOP take one of the houses of Congress, a first order of business should be the subpoena of David Axelrod, the executives of Blue State Digital (the company that created the Obama website) and others obfuscating the sources of contributions.








Someone please help. I can't stop. Please tell me these aren't funny. Please. Do it for the children.