Friday, September 18, 2009

Blues State


Democrats have controlled California for over two decades. Their policies have transformed a beautiful, industrious state into a monumental catastrophe.

Open Borders and Easy Access to Welfare: as the stack graph shows, California accounts for 12% of the nation's population but 32% of welfare recipients. Only California and Texas registered high enough to include the state name on the Y-axis. Texas has 8% of the U.S. population and is equally burdened by border issues but has only 1/10th of California's welfare rolls.

More Open Borders, More Welfare: This pie will give you indigestion; California represents 32% of America's welfare caseload. Chuck Devore explains, "California's share of the nation's welfare recipients has been soaring since Democrat legislators severely relaxed welfare rules and eligibility while hiking benefits around 2001. The result was as predictable for welfare as California's high taxes and heavy regulations have been for jobs and business."

Even More Open Borders and More Relaxed Welfare Policies: While the Blue State of New York has its own bragging rights (highest per capita spending on welfare rolls), the distance between New York and the other states compared to California is like the distance between the Earth (other states), the Moon (New York), and the Sun (California). California is the only state that refuses to "seriously enforce the federal lifetime limit of 5 years of welfare for able-bodied adults."

California faces the biggest financial crisis in its history due in no small part to the waste, fraud, and abuse related to its outrageous entitlement programs. Devore calls them "a honey pot for many in America who find it easier to accept a taxpayer handout than to work."

This "generosity" with other peoples’ money impels Sacramento lawmakers to give such large sums of working Californians' money to non-working Californians inevitably results in less of the former and more of the latter. This is simple economics, and it's a shame that it escapes the architects of our state's governance today.


Powerful and Unaccountable Unions: San Francisco, to use a simple example, employs at least 100 unionized workers who earn over $200,000 annually (including a $350,000 a year "Special Nurse").

Los Angeles has nearly 300 retirees earning over $100,000 a year.

The website Pension Tsunami recently noted several articles of interest related to union pension funds. “Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout” summarizes how public employee pension funds have cooked their books for years. This has gotten worse in recent years, as public sector employee unions have, "consolidated their power in state and local governments by controlling elections [and] demanded unsustainable increases to the benefit packages of their members – often retroactively – from politicians whose survival depended on their obedience."

Gee, by all means, let's pass card-check (also known as "The Employee No Choice Act")!

The facts are indisputable: Blue States are melting down.

California is an ominous preview into America's future. Perhaps an enterprising progressive (or is that an oxymoron?) could explain why we should follow the Obama-Pelosi-Reid brain-trust into certain oblivion.


Linked by: Verum Serum. Thanks! Hat tips: Chuck DeVore will be a candidate for Senate in 2010, challenging the egregious Barbara "Call Me Senator" Boxer, No Oil For Pacifists.

Larwyn's Linx: Man Up - It's Only the Anti-Christ!

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Nation

Man Up - It's Only The Anti-Christ!: JOM
What would a communist do?: AT (Hoven)
Pelosi tears up: GWP

When hidden camera reporting becomes distasteful: TigerHawk
Lies!: Coulter
House votes to defund ACORN: final vote results: BigGov

New Secret Weapon in Selling ObamaCare: Hot Air
A victory for the American taxpayer: GOPleader
Devore fundraising widget: Lane

Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care: Times
NEA, SEIU Sent Member Dues to ACORN: Freedom@Work
Hawaii and Chicago Communist Networks Were Linked?: New Zeal

Economy

Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties: Examiner
40 million reasons Federalism matters: RSM
Biggest pension in Chicago, courtesy big labor: Sun-Times

Obama "Czar" Ron Bloom's Socialist Vision for US Industry: NewZeal
Michigan jobless rate climbs to 15.2%, Highest In The Nation For 40 Straight Months: BlogProf

Media

Survey: More Democrats Trust Fox News Than NYT: Surber
Democrat Legislator Advisory: Lane
For Bush, "Dissent Was Highest Form Of Patriotism". Now, It's The Lowest Form Of Racism: Hammer

When Jimmy Carter ginned up race hatred to get elected governor: AT (Moran)
Is Michael Moore a Racist?: No Pasaran
This is what set Rush off: JOM

Anatomy of the "Racist" Charge—or, How to Turn a Setback into a Disaster: Hanson
Dinosaur Media Smears Beck: GWP
Joe Klein Loves Diversity: Corner

Climate & Energy

Green Sprawl: Surber
John Holdren in 1971: “New ice age” likely: Zombie
A “Green Schools” Czar? Pell Grants Gone?: TRBO

The California Water v. Delta Smelt War: TRBO

World

The Gathering Storm, Part 168: Power Line
Who gave Iran the nuclear bomb?: Surber
Timing is Everything: JOM

Democrats to Obama: Um, what exactly are we getting for selling out Poland to Russia?: Hot Air
Missile Defenseless: Surber
Rifqa Bary's Dad confesses... who cares?: Odysseus

'Pre-emptive Capitulation: Corner
Obama's Missile Offense: WSJ
The Lies About Christian Zionists: AT (Lasky)

Cornucopia

Video: Awesome Prank on Weather Girl Trainee: BlogProf

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Massachusetts changes the rules... again


The Bad captions this Boston Globe article: "They have no shame".

The Massachusetts House voted late Thursday to change state law to give Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint a temporary successor to the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy until a special election is held early next year.

The vote has drawn controversy because a 2004 change in the law stripped then Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of the power to appoint a successor if Democratic Sen. John Kerry would have won the presidency."

C'mon, Bad: the end justifies the means. So quit whining. It's a "living and breathing" law... kinda like the Constitution.

Exclusive: Official ACORN Employment Application


Dumpster-diving pays off again for Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle.


Full-name:
Please enter your real name, you will have an opportunity to make up names later

Do you have access to a car or other vehicle?
Yes
No
Don't know/don't remember

If No, do you know how to hot-wire an ignition?
Yes
No

If Yes, how many homeless vagrants or illegal aliens can you transport?
0-1 Coupe
2-4 Sedan
5-7 Minivan
9-11 Conversion van
12-99 Schoolbus
100-199 Semi with empty trailer

Do you know any dead people?
No
Yes

If you had to make up names of people for some reason, which method would you use?
Dead people
Disney characters
Members of the Dallas Cowboys/NFL team
Cast of Beverly Hills 90210
Cast of Star Trek
Superheroes like "Batman" or "Underdog"
Other cartoon characters like "Tin Tin" or "Jonny Quest"
Names of cheap beers, malt liquors and wines
Series of random letters like "Aasdfasdf Aasdfasfs"

Please check any relevant experience?
Intimidating bank employees
Mortgage fraud
Prostitution
Child Prostitution, Slavery
Illegal Immigration, Human Smuggling
Slashing Tires, Assault, Battery
Arson
Breaking and Entering
Mail or Wire fraud
Rating subprime debt tranches "AAA"

How would you prefer to be paid?
Cash
Check
Cigs
Cigs (menthol)
Beers/malt liquors (cans)
Beers/malt liquors (bottles)
Wine, wine spritzers (specify red, white or gray)
Crack cocaine
Cans of mackerel

When can you start work?
Now
Tomorrow after 3pm

If tomorrow, do you need written directions to remember how to return here?
Yes
Maybe



Hat tips: Leo Alberti (Obamacorn logo), Michelle Malkin and Larwyn.

Larwyn's Linx: 'A racist: anyone who's winning an argument with a liberal'

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Nation

Feldman's Law: AT (Feldman)
ObamaCare divides and conquers... Democrats: Surber
'A racist: anyone winning an argument with a liberal': AmDig

2 of 3 physicians oppose ObamaCare: GWP
There's reality... and there's reality-based: JOM
ObamaCare fees: feel the hope and change?: STACLU

The Best Little Whorehouse in San Bernardino: Fausta
Barack Dangerfield looking for respect: AT
ACORN's new excuse: AT (Arenas)

'Why I am a racist': AT (Benoit)
Carter proves his critics correct, chapter 909: Gormogons
Race Card: Crittenden

Economy

SEIU: one of the pillars of the ACORN family: BigGov
Up to 45% of doctors to retire if ObamaCare passes: IBD
Boeing employees vote to disband union: Post & Courier

Obama revives welfare as we used to know it: Ace
President Obama - still working for ACORN?: Gormogons
Democrat Epiphany: Let's Fund Kids Who Work for ACORN!: BlogProf

It's all about the economy: AT (Hoven)
GAO: Guaranties made Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac worse: Surber
Democrats approve spending millions on Stimulus road signs: Times

Media

Interview with Hannah Giles: BlogProf
The Future of News Reporting: Riehl
Dontcha know? Only the Right's Signs Are Worth Covering: NewsBusters

Johnnies-on-the-spot NYT and NPR finally react to ACORN: Surber
Maxine Waters: Hey, You Know Who The Media Should Investigate?: Ace
Lots of the news that's fit to print: JOM

Howard Kurtz: You're Racists 'Cuz No One Insulted a President Before: Ace
CBS, NBC Finally Catch Up to ACORN Scandal; Express Sympathy for the Left-Wing Group: NewsBusters
This post is dedicated to socialists of every stripe: OneCos

LA Times finally finds commie-like iconography: STACLU

Climate & Energy

Our Bizarre Science Czar, John Holdren: Zombie

World

Shameful: Obama Surrenders to Russia, Snubs US Allies, Scraps Euro Missile Defense: GWP
You wish it were Carter II: Ace
Former IDF Defense Chief: We May Have to Attack Iran by December: JPost

Obama will allow Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Gaddafi, Castro into US, but ban Honduras: GWP
Breaking the law to engage Iran: Tobin
Come to Denmark -- our Women are Easy: Surber

Cornucopia

Jon Stewart on ACORN scandal: The Audacity of Ho's: Daily Show

"We probably should mention that in this brief excerpt [from San Diego], the ACORN employee offers advice on the best way to smuggle 13-year-old girls into the United States to serve as sex slaves. For this, ACORN has received tens of millions of dollars in federal aid, plus much more from many states. Under current legislation, some say ACORN could stand to get billions. Of our tax dollars. This would seem to be the ultimate test of whether our political system is so hopelessly corrupt that anyone--absolutely anyone, however useless and criminal--can sign up to steal your money, via the federal government. Right now, the spigot is open, and ACORN is getting your money. If you don't like that, tell your Congressman." -- John Hinderaker, Power Line


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

What do Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd and Mike Lupica have in common?


You're stumped, aren't you? Think about it: what do Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd and Mike Lupica have in common?

FDR Care -- In November 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, "Whether we come to this form of insurance soon or later on, I am confident that we can devise a system which will enhance and not hinder the remarkable progress which has been made and is being made in practice of the professions of medicine and surgery in the United States."

After years of false starts, Democrat Congressmen Wagner, Murray and Dingell (don't ask) introduced a national health insurance bill in 1943 -- and every year afterward for 14 consecutive years. The bill instituted a national health insurance package for all citizens, which was paid for with a mandatory payroll tax. Its backers included organized labor, progressive farmers, and liberal physicians who lobbied fiercely for socialized medicine. But Republicans and everyday citizens rallied to oppose the bill. Eventually, this coalition was able to defeat the Democrat effort.

Truman Care -- In November 1945, President Harry Truman addressed Congress regarding the urgent need to nationalize health care. He stated, "[In September, Democrats proposed an] Economic Bill of Rights[, which elaborated upon] certain rights which ought to be assured to every American citizen... One of them was: 'The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health... [and the] ...right to adequate protection from the economic fears of . .. sickness ....'".

Republicans banded together behind powerful Republican Senator Robert Taft to marshal public support against socialized medicine. Democrats lost control of the Congress until 1948, at which point they tried and failed again.

HillaryCare -- Upon taking office, President Bill Clinton assigned his wife Hillary to create a program that would nationalize the American health care system. Working for months, she orchestrated an immense health care bill that was intended to completely transform the entire delivery of medical care in the United States.

Her bill, The Clinton Health Care Plan of 1993, otherwise known as HillaryCare™, was defeated as a coalition consisting of "conservatives, libertarians and the health insurance industry" representatives united to rally public support against socialized medicine.

By September 1994, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared the bill dead.

ObamaCare -- Unlike previous Democrat efforts to implement socialized medicine, if you oppose Barack Obama's form of National Socialized Democrat health care, you're a Nazi racist bastard. That is, according to:

Jimmy Carter
Maureen Dowd
Mike Lupica
• and numerous other liberal crackpots.

Even though Republicans, Libertarians and those who support the United States Constitution have been fighting socialized medicine for 75 years, your opposition represents: RACISM. You're all f***ing racists, get it?

Screw the Constitution! Screw the Bill of Rights! Screw the Declaration of Independence! You've got a President with a slightly different skin color: you're not allowed to express dissent! You're all racists! So shut the hell up, you wingnuts!


Update: MSNBC, thy name is racist!

Visualizing the Baucus Bill


Brian at Snapped Shot is a freaking genius:

The four most prominent words in the "new and improved" Democratic healthcare proposal, as put forth by Senator Baucus.

I snagged the full bill text from the useful dolts at the New York Times, after getting an evil idea from Eddie Bear (748 times, by my count). After replacing all variations of "require" (required, requires, requiring) with "REQUIRE," an interesting pattern developed:


What can I say? The Democratic Party lives to "require" things upon you.

Indeed. Isn't that The Way of the Statist™?

Mandate after mandate. How much water your toilet can flush. The size of the car you drive. How much electricity you can use. What kind of light bulbs you can buy.

Even how much care your parents should receive as they grow older... once they nationalize the health care industry (according to the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which is not a death panel, you right-wing nuts!).

In good times and bad, the Democrats seize more liberty, more private property from you -- the American taxpayer -- to pay off their backers: ACORN, the unions, the trial lawyers.

You can either keep taking it and taking it and taking it. Or you can vote this egregious lot out in 2010.


Larwyn's Linx: ACORN and the Roots of a Scandal

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Nation

ACORN: the roots of a scandal: MonCrief
Liar's Poker: Wizbang
Full, unedited sting video: ACORN San Bernardino: Hot Air

Likely voters overwhelming disapprove of ObamaCare: Rubin
The Science Behind the ACORN Sting: BigGov (Giles)
Teachers forced to fund ACORN through NEA union dues: TUE

ObamaCare's big problem: the Constitution: AT (Lifson)
61-27, Americans favor fixing Medicare fraud first: RCP
Video: Rep. Stark (D) Called Bush Liar On House Floor, Twice: GWP

Rise of the Uncouth: Hanson
Is Obama's top adviser going down?: Riehl
The Left's New Enemies: 'Tenthers': AT (Fitzgibbons)

The White House: New Home of the Whopper: PJM (Kimball)

Economy

The Uselessness of Paul Krugman: PJM (Yates)
Boehner, Cantor, Camp to IRS: Sever ACORN Ties Now: BigGov
U.S. Economic Freedom Rank Slips Under Obama: AT (Moran)

Media

What's missing from the NYT's coverage of ACORN: Malkin
Andrew Breitbart as the new Don Hewitt: Wizbang
What do you mean, 'where is Sarah'?: Lamb

Howard Kurtz: You're All Racist Because No One Ever Tried to Delegitimize a President Before: Ace
NPR on ACORN: hard core bigotry of low expectations: BigGov
Hey, David Brooks: Who does this sound like?: Rubin

Mark Levin book sells a million copies; never reviewed by NYT or WaPo: CNS
Breitbart: the American People are the Fourth Estate: InstaPundit
Michael Moore Leads ‘Million Pound March’ in Pittsburgh: Powers

Climate & Energy

Internal Treasury Memos debunk Obama: Cap & Tax Could Cost Americans $100 to $200 Billion Annually: Ace
WANTED: Carbon Criminals: Junk Science

World

Report: NYC terror plot was/is on scale of 9/11: Hot Air
Iranian Regime Behind Plot to Blow Up World's Tallest Building: 45 Arrested: GWP
Goldstone Report: a Warning to Israel: Muqata

Terrorist Killed In 'Stan By Poor Craftsmanship & Inability To Get Good Tax Advice From ACORN But Mostly Poor Craftsmanship: Ace
Diluting Meaningful Data, EU-style: Fausta
Europe: Land of Cosmic Justice: Corner

Modern Leftism as Recycled Fascism: Ray
Still Fighting, Iranians Prepare For a Massive Demonstration on Friday: PJM (Ledeen)

SciTech

The $150 Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money Budget: Wired
White House collecting Web users' data covertly: Times

Cornucopia

5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics (That Will Get You Killed): Cracked
ACORN Now Developing Anti-Fraud Program Called 'Know Your Ho': RSM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Twitter: Cultural Phenomenon


It's an official phenomenon: consider all of the cartoons.








Pat Buchanan, Truther


I've despised Patrick J. Buchanan for years.

His thinly veiled calls for racial divisiveness.

His underhanded attempts to market holocaust denial on his website.

His ludicrous claim that Hitler was really a misunderstood pacifist.

Buchanan should have been persona non grata at any respectable outlet years ago, but I'm hopeful his latest outrageous decision will put a stake in the heart of his pathetic mainstream media career once and for all.*

Buchanan's site is now pitching 9/11 Trutherism -- the disgusting, hard left religion that asserts George W. Bush secretly planned the 9/11 attacks.

...Another problem that the 9/11 Truth Movement faces is that few people have the education to follow the technical and scientific aspects...

For example, consider the case of the Lockerbie bomber. One piece of “evidence” that was used to convict Magrahi was a piece of circuit board from a device that allegedly contained the Semtex that exploded the airliner. None of the people, who have very firm beliefs in Magrahi’s and Libya’s guilt and in the offense of the Scottish authorities in releasing Magrahi on allegedly humanitarian grounds, know that circuit boards of those days have very low combustion temperatures and go up in flames easily. Semtex produces very high temperatures. There would be nothing whatsoever left of a device that contained Semtex. It is obvious to an expert that the piece of circuit board was planted after the event...

So not only is this idiot -- hosted by Buchanan -- selling the rancid excretion known as Trutherism... he's also asserting that the Pan Am 103 terrorist attack, the subsequent investigation, the military operations that followed... all were somehow orchestrated by mysterious forces.

Pat Buchanan is no conservative.

He's a freaking disgrace and a crackpot... the ideological equivalent of Jimmy Carter or Bill Maher.

Come to think of it, Maher's is the one show that should warmly welcome Putz Buchanan. All six viewers should have a ball.


* Except for MSNBC, which no longer qualifies as a media outlet due to viewership lower than airport radar.

Sheriff defends soldier's funeral procession


STLtoday reports that the Jefferson County Sheriff vociferously defended a soldier's funeral procession from a crank who said she was "inconvenienced" with the traffic delay.

The woman wrote a complaint email to Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer after she was delayed by the funeral procession for Sgt. William Woods, killed-in-action by Taliban Jihadis in Afghanistan.

I tried to call you earlier this morning, but was unable to obtain your extension from the voice mail system as I was not sure of your first name or correct spelling of your last.

I was inadvertently in this procession as I was leaving work on 270 from Creve Coeur and proceeding on Hwy. 30 West. I have some issues and complaints. I called the Sheriff's office last night, but the officer in charge would not speak with me. His name was Corp. Curtis. I am in no way complaining about your officers. I, however, was not treated very fairly when I called last evening because I wanted a ticket/complaint/or at least a slap on wrist for the people involved. Let me explain:

1) This procession should never have been held during rush hour traffic! Hwy. 270 is dangerous and people drive way too fast and there is too much traffic. This soldier's certainly would not have want his family hurt on the interstate taking him to Cedar Hill. People were dead-stopping on the interstate even though the procession was in the far right lane, the other three lanes just stopped. There were many near accidents and possibly were after I drove through. I was in the 2nd to left lane, no way obstructing the funeral procession.

2) I exited off on Gravois (30 W), far right lane. Your police officers went in the left lane to stop any additional on-coming traffic so the procession could exit off 270 into the LEFT lane of 30. Again, I was in the right lane. The St. Louis County officer stopped and turned around at Weber Hill to return on 270 after the procession passed.

3) The road was not closed. (Only for president as far as I know.) Again, the road was not closed. Your officers only had the left lane blocked/closed for the funeral. All other traffic by MO law can proceed as long as they do not interfere (weave in and out )with funeral procession.

Let me say, that I did not know what was happening. I knew the did not have Kennedy coming to STL, at least not yesterday. I was at work all day. No news. Nothing reported on the traffic on the radio driving home.

Anyway, two of these dirty, nasty, renegade, who knows what motorcycle men that were escorting the procession proceeded to stop in front of me in the right lane on Gravois. I had to stop in the middle of an intersection. They proceeded to scream and yell at me about respecting this soldier, etc. One of them climbed off his motorcycle and came over to me and stuck his head in my car continuing to scream at me. I asked him what this was for and he told me I needed to stop as the officers had the road blocked and show some dang respect.

#1, the road was not blocked, the funeral was in the other lane.

#2, I am proud of our country and sorry for the family, but they had no idea where I was going or anything else. I could have a child at day-care, I could have been sick and racing to the bathroom, I could have a sick parent waiting for me, etc., etc.

#3, They are not law enforcement and had no right to stop in the lane on Gravois and they had no right to scream at me and intimidate and threaten me. If I would have had my pepper spray, I would have used it on this nasty man! He is just a big hoo ha that is not even related to this soldier. The other man did not get off his scooter, but was along side of my passenger window screaming.

I left an abusive husband 1 1/2 years ago and I did not need this intimidation. I was livid and shaking!!

My son is a deputy sheriff in another MO county. I respect police officers. It was not their fault as they were busy with traffic, but I called to make them aware of what was going on during this thing. The St. Louis County officer saw it but of course he was out of jurisdiction.

However, I called last night and your office asked me if I knew about this soldier. Again, I am sorry about him, but I am a taxpayer. I got a speeding ticket a few months ago and paid the fine. I do not deserve to be treated like this. I wanted to let the officer know how these men were acting. Also, they were driving into the turnarounds on Hwy. 30 and then back onto the road. the funeral was much further ahead. One of them nearly got hit by me and other people almost hit him and another as well. I wanted to lodge a complaint about them why they were still there, but no one in your office would take any information or do anything.

This was not a military funeral, even though it was a soldier. There were not military vehicles. It was a funeral and the road was not closed, the lane was closed, I was in the other lane and again, these nasty men had no right to do this and I would have liked them to get a ticket!

I am sorry for the soldier and his family but you cannot let these motorcycle renegades do this. They could have caused several accidents and I really wanted them arrested. If they had any respect for the soldier they would have dressed better and not looked and acted so scuzzy.

Thank you.

Sheriff Boyer's response:

Dear XXXXXXXXX:

Yes, you do deserve a response and I am willing to give you one.

I would like to say that I am sorry for the inconvenience we caused you during the funeral procession of Sergeant 1st Class William B. Woods, but I cannot do so. I would ask instead that you take a moment of your time to take into consideration the scope of the event. Your very right to complain was the reason Sgt. Woods fought for his country and ultimately gave his life; thus making the ultimate sacrifice for you and your family.

Let me introduce you to him. After high school, Sergeant Woods entered the Marine Corps. After his contract was up, he joined the Army, where he became a Green Beret. He comes from a long line of military members in his family. His Uncle is a Vietnam Veteran and two of his grandfathers were World War II Veterans. His job in the Army was one of the most dangerous jobs - he was a sniper looking for the bad guys to stop before they killed or injured one of our soldiers. He has numerous decorations to include the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

He grew up in Catawissa and was best known by his middle name, Brian. He enjoyed the outdoors, playing sports, and skydiving. He had a wife, Elizabeth, and two daughters, whom he loved dearly. He was a soft-spoken, level-headed young man who was proud to serve his country no matter what the risk. Now, I did not know him, but I wish I did. I am quoting from newspaper articles written about him.

At the young age of 31, he was shot during an engagement with Taliban forces in Ghanzi, Afghanistan . He died of his wounds in Germany on August 16, with his family by his side. He did not choose the time of his death, nor did he choose the time his remains would be brought back to his home in Catawissa. He just did his duty. He was quite a young man.

While you were being inconvenienced in your car on your way home, there were soldiers just like Sergeant Woods carrying 100+ pounds of equipment in 120 degree heat, up some mountain or in the middle of some desert. They will shower out of a helmet liner if they get the chance. They will eat a cold meal of MRE's; something most people would consider garbage. They cannot text their family or friends, or go to McDonalds, or watch TV. They can only continue the mission and look out after the guy to the left and right of them. They don't complain because they know they volunteered. The only thing they ask is that we do not forget the sacrifices they have made.

One of the dirty "big hoo ha" bikers, as you call them, was Brian's uncle, a Vietnam Veteran, like myself. We were not treated with a homecoming. We were spit on and called baby killers by a misguided public. Brian's uncle was giving him the respect that he, himself, never received when he came back and I, for one, am proud of him for doing so.

You say that your brother is a deputy in another Missouri county. I am sure he would be proud to escort the casket of a fallen solder, the same as he would that of a fallen officer. I am also sure he would not agree with your complaint about being inconvenienced.

My mother recently passed away. She was a World War II Veteran, serving the U.S. Army. She would say, maybe you should pick up Sergeant Woods' ruck sack and carry on where he left off. Then you could see first hand what it really is to be inconvenienced.

Per your request, I will forward your complaint to the Prosecuting Attorney's Office for his review. It is my personal opinion that your complaint is self-serving and without merit.

Sheriff Oliver "Glenn" Boyer



Exclusive: The Final ACORN Sting


Hidden camera ACORN sting operation, segment #408.

We wanna set up a business and can't get a loan through any banks...

How come? What kinda business is this?

We're gonna ship up a "Tijuana Donkey Show" and need a place with a garage.

Oh yeah, no problem. We could get you a place with a two-car garage for the donkey.

Cool. Plus, we're going to need to store some guns. About three hundred full-auto AK-47s. What do you recommend?

Happened last month. We rent you some storage facilities with taxpayer money... totally free to you!

Wow, excellent! One last request. It's kinda... errr, sensitive.

No problem... we're here to help...

Well, we need a place with a really big kitchen. We've got some foreign clientele who like to eat baby transexual seals. After having, eh, relations with the seals...

Oh, this is crazy... what a coincidence!! We set someone else up last month with a similar operation... an exotic panda restaurateur specializing in high-end, necrophiliac clientele. Very successful operation. Very lucrative.

Oh, I'm so relieved. I was worried that was... too... out there, you know?

I understand. We deal with these special requests all the time.

Now -- is it okay that we're Republicans?

What the -- ? Get the hell out of here! Get out of here now, before I call the cops!! What kind of operation do you think we're running here?

This is ACORN! We've got standards around here! Now, get the hell out of here!


Larwyn's Linx: The Liberal Media is Dying because Propaganda is Dull

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Nation

O'Keefe to ACORN: So Sue Me: Hot Air
The Patriot Tsunami: Bubba
Senate strips ACORN of federal funding: Hot Air

Investigating the Black Panther Case: Corner
Third time on the ACORN hooker-advisory train: Red State
March on Washington: How big was the crowd?: PJM (Martin)

As Constitution Day nears, states mull options to limit DC: USR
Behind Holder's Black Panther Dismissal: PJM (Rubin)
9/12: I was there. I know what happened.: Jane Q.

9/12 Report from El Cajon, California: InstaPundit
Upset may be brewing in Florida: Tackett
Murdered pro-life activist: Obama finally weighs in: BlogProf

Economy

Palin was right: Rangel seeks $540B tax increase: Texas4Palin
Teachers forced to give $1.3M to ACORN: Examiner
Meltdown: a Book Review on the Financial Collapse: GM's Place

Time for IRS to review all ACORN-prepared tax filings: AT (Feldman)
Obama aide clashes with immigrant groups over e-Verify: Times
Can New Jersey Reverse Course?: Mercatus

AP Again Erroneously Cites Cost of Wars As Deficit Increase Factor: BizzyBlog
ACORN: Hey, Maybe This Isn't The Best Time to Ask, But If You Have Another $6 Million Handy...: Ace
Calling out Obama's bogus health care anecdotes: Malkin

Media

Accountability Killed the Media Star: Breitbart
Even media griping about Obama's disengenuous health care rhetoric: GOPleader
Press accuracy hits two decade low: BlogProf

Time to convene a death panel: for old media: BrutHon
According to MoDo, we are all racists now: GrandRants

Climate & Energy

Media Charged with Performing 'Climate Porn' on Arctic Ice Shipping Claims: Depot

World

Yon with the Pedros: Yon
U.S. may face 9/11-scale threat from Venezuela: Timmerman
Why Not Victory?: Kesler

Hijab (The Headscarf)—Yes; The Burqa—No: PJM (Chesler)
Afghanistan's female police recruits: Pupista

Cornucopia

Propose a new name for ACORN: Ace
I finally agree with Obama!: Another Black Conservative
The strange, inside story of Gaston Glock: Maggie's Farm

Boob Czar meets Czar of Transparency: InstaPundit

"The Dinosaur Media is losing money, viewers and readers hand over fist. The reason they’re folding or on life support isn’t because there aren’t enough left-of-center Americans to keep them in business, it’s because, like everyone else, liberals don’t want to sit in a choir and be preached to. They want information. They want to know what’s going on in the world.

Our liberal friends may not like hearing Van Jones, the NEA and ACORN are under fire, but they still want to know. What a disappointing revelation it must be to open the New York Times or turn on the network news only to discover after the curtain has already fallen that one of Obama’s Czars was forced to resign or that the U.S. Census Bureau let ACORN go.

The liberal media is failing for the exact same reason a dozen-plus anti-war films flopped: propaganda is dull."   -- Andrew Breitbart

Monday, September 14, 2009

Breaking: ACORN bombshell #4 due from BigGovernment tomorrow


Tonight on Fox News, Andrew Breitbart unleashed a salvo heard round the criminal-sphere. He promised the video release of another blockbuster sting operation tomorrow -- which would be number four, for those counting -- involving ACORN on his new BigGovernment website.

Employees of ACORN, in instance after instance, were confronted with multiple child prostitution rings involving illegal immigrants. It's hard to envision a more preposterous scenario.

Yet, not only did ACORN helpfully assist the young "prostitute" and her "pimp", in each case they actually fast-tracked them according to Breitbart, pushing them to the front of the queue ahead of normal folks seeking housing assistance.

And, while, it's easy to get sidetracked with ACORN's well-reported ties to voter registration fraud, housing fraud, and who knows what else, it's worth recalling President Barack Obama's longstanding and disturbing affiliation with this disgusting outfit.

Obama campaign scrubbed its website to hide ACORN lies


Here's the Google cache's copy of Barack Obama's official "Fight the Smears" website regarding the candidate's involvement with the vote-fraud specialists known as ACORN (currently being investigated in fifteen states).

Before: "• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity."

Well, that was the website before Audacity of Hypocrisy located a vintage ACORN article online.

Let’s take a look at a quote from a 2004 article - Case Study: Chicago- The Barack Obama Campaign - written Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader, which was published in the journal Social Policy. Did we mention that Social Policy recently pulled this particular article from their website, while leaving links to all articles up?

Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).

Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.

Not only does Foulkes boast of Obama’s ACORN leadership training, but also makes it clear that Obama’s post-law school organizing of “Project VOTE” in 1992 was undertaken in direct partnership with ACORN. The tie between Project VOTE and ACORN is also something that Obama and others have attempted to disprove in recent weeks as ACORN has come under fire for allegations of voter registration fraud. As recently as March 2008, the Los Angeles Times also made reference to Barack Obama’s involvement with ACORN:

“At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.” (LA Times, March 2, 2008)

Moments after this revelation, Obama's "Fight the Smears" was hastily -er- repaired.

After: "• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee."

Get it? He wasn't "hired" as a "trainer". I guess he just did it for free. After all, it's for the children.

Obama in 2007: ACORN will shape my presidential agenda


Deepak Bhargava is a director of the Center for Community Change. Prior to joining the center, "Bhargava was the legislative director at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), where he gained broad experience in community reinvestment and housing finance issues."

Translated: Bhargava and ACORN helped set the stage for the subprime mortgage fiasco.

In any event, this video from 2007 captures Barack Obama's appearance at the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum on 12/1/2007. Bhargava kicks off the evening and then gets Obama's introduction rolling.

When asked whether Obama would sit down with community organizers in the first 100 days of his presidency, the Senator from Illinois responded affirmatively.

"Yes, but let me even say efore I even get inaugurated, during the transition we'll be calling all of you [community organizers] in to help us shape the agenda."

"We're gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

ACORN will drive the agenda? Of what? More vote fraud, law-breaking, lying, child prostitution and illegal immigration? I'm just guessing, but does that sound about right?

Yes we can!

ACORN and Obama at the Heart of the Mortgage Meltdown


Starting in the nineties, a young attorney named Barack Obama began working with ACORN to promote mortgages for those who could not afford them.

At the time, ACORN consisted of community agitators, who falsely accused banks of "redlining" (failing to offer mortgages to the urban poor). These groups would pack bank lobbies and harass customers in order to intimidate the institutions and force the government to lower underwriting standards.

A former community agitator and ACORN attorney named Barack Obama sued Citibank in 1994, just one of hundreds of nuisance lawsuits filed by ACORN and its affiliates to loosen mortgage underwriting standards.

The inevitable result is still unfolding. But this much is clear: ACORN, its attorneys and its sycophants in Congress unleashed a catastrophic meltdown on America. It used government power to to force financial institutions to underwrite completely unqualified applicants, without documentation of income, citizenship, equity or any other reasonable measure.

Hope. And Change.


One out of two ain't bad. We got the change. Hope, however, is in short supply.


Linked by: InstaPundit, Big Government and W. C. Varones. Thanks!


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