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		<title>All I Got From the Presidents Prime-Time Press Conference Was a Headache!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keely</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would think with the glorious praising of himself and his administration I shouldn&#8217;t be feeling the small pounding of a headache coming on in the logical part of my brain. I’m wondering if he can cure the headache he inflicted with his lofty rhetoric?  I doubt it because, as he continued to pound the [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One would think with the glorious praising of himself and his administration I shouldn&#8217;t be feeling the small pounding of a headache coming on in the logical part of my brain. I’m wondering if he can cure the headache he inflicted with his lofty rhetoric?  I doubt it because, as he continued to pound the podium with each ridiculous claim of how great HE is doing, my head pounded harder.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Continuing to listen to his opening statement was enough to further escalate my headache. Is it ever a good idea to come out and immediately blame others or a past administration for the problems created by yourself?  Evidently, it is to President Obama because, he did just that last night.  He continued to blame everything on the Bush administration and refused to take any responsibility for his part in it.<span id="more-3791"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/22/fact-check-obama-health-care/">Fox fact checker</a> had this to say:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">OBAMA: &#8220;You haven&#8217;t seen me out there blaming the Republicans.&#8221;<br />
THE FACTS: Obama did so in his opening statement, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it&#8217;s better politics to &#8216;go for the kill.&#8217; Another Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about &#8216;breaking&#8217; me.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes laughter is truly the best medicine! I began to feel a reprieve from the pain when I heard a great question from Steven Thomma. Funny how the leader of the free world doesn’t know who he has called on or what they look like &#8212; umm, doesn’t he have a seating chart?  President Obama called on Steve Koff, from The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Instead, Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers stood up and asked a question. I have a sneaky feeling Thomma knew he would not be called on and took matters into his own hands and asked “real”questions; the type of questions “real” Americans are asking. The small pounding in my head quickly dwindled when he asked a question that caused me to jump up and applaud this brave man. Basically, Thomma asked,  if this health care reform bill is so great, would the President and  Congress be willing to, as a symbolic gesture, take the same plan they are pushing on us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My enthusiasm quickly disappeared and the headache advanced rapidly into a migraine as the President attempted to answer the question. Can anyone out there ever understand which question he is answering? Is it the reporter&#8217;s question or the question Obama is asking himself? The only statement he made with any clarity is “I’m the president…and I have the best health care in the world.” It really is a no brainer.  If you live in the USA you have access to the best doctors, medicine, hospitals in the world. His answer truly begs the question: is the bill really about health care or simply more government bureaucracy?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Overall, Obama’s performance is a disgrace to the Office of The Presidency. He dodges questions and exhibits a lack of understanding of the proposed Health Care Bill. Does he know any of the <a href="http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=107&amp;t=1460">details of the bill</a> being put forward?  If he does, then his glossy speech last night is that much more non-presidential because it puts government before the people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, he lacks the leadership ability required to build concensus in Congress much less to inspire Americans to rally behind his agenda.  Thank God for that!  As for my headache&#8230; it miraculously disappeared when Obama turned and walked away from the podium.</p>
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		<title>Pay Your Children To Go To School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is yet another sad day for our public education program, our entitlement mentality in America, and our media.  Tom Brokaw, a new member of the White House fellows board, is pushing the idea that paying children to attend school is brilliant. If I were to take some of the statistics used in Glenn Beck&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today is yet another sad day for our public education program, our entitlement mentality in America, and our media.  Tom Brokaw, a new member of the White House fellows board, is <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/07/02/nightly-news-promotes-paying-children-public-school-success" target="_blank">pushing the idea that paying children to attend school is brilliant</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If I were to take some of the statistics used in Glenn Beck&#8217;s latest book &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; I would see a very stark picture of our education system.  Glenn states the following:</p>
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<li>Only 34.6% of kids in Baltimore city&#8217;s public school system received a high school diploma in 2004;</li>
<li>The Indianapolis public school system handed out diplomas to just 30.5% of students;</li>
<li>Detroit&#8217;s public school system struggled to have 25% of its students qualify for a high school diploma;</li>
<li>45.2% of New York City public school kids graduated with a high school diploma.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/On-Time-High-School-Graduation-Rate-Declines.html" target="_blank">What about our nation&#8217;s capital</a>?</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>On-time high school graduation rates for the D.C. area are not improving according to an Education Week study released Tuesday.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">[In actuality the On-Time High School Graduation Rate is Declining]</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>Fewer than 50 percent of high school students graduated within four years from D.C.&#8217;s public schools in 2006, according to the study. That&#8217;s down almost 9 percent from 2005, the Washington Post reported. The figures didn&#8217;t include public charter schools.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The true rate wasn&#8217;t provided for in the biased NBC article however, it still says a lot if liberal media outlets can&#8217;t spin the story to a better statistic of over 50%.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What about our education system as a whole when compared with those of other countries?</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>In a 2003 study conducted by UNICEF that took the averages from five different international education studies, the researchers ranked the United States No. 18 out of 24 nations in terms of the relative effectiveness of its educational system.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So excuse me if I&#8217;m just a tad skeptical about the latest idea coming out of Washington, D.C.; the incentive to pay children to go to school.  A couple months ago we were paying young women to avoid pregnancy and now we are planning on paying children to get an education!</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>A July 1 &#8220;NBC Nightly News&#8221; segment detailed a new use of tax payer dollars in one of the worst performing, financially struggling school systems in the country &#8211; the Washington, D.C. public school system. They are paying school children with taxpayer funds, part of a social experiment to improve school participation at the middle school level.</p>
<p>&#8220;Keeping the exuberant sixth graders of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson in line on a sunny Friday is a challenge for principal Brian Betts,&#8221; former &#8220;Nightly News&#8221; anchor-turned-correspondent Tom Brokaw explained. &#8220;But this is not an assembly, it&#8217;s payday. It&#8217;s called Capital Gains &#8211; paying students for good grades, behavior and attendance, part of the massive restructuring of the D.C. schools by a 38-year-old Korean-American woman, who as chancellor, wants to transform what is by many measures the worst-performing public school system in the U.S.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brokaw credited Washington, D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee for being instrumental in making this program a reality. He explained the Capital Gains program was the invention of a Harvard think tank that came with a $1.35-million price tag for taxpayers.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am very disappointed that this idea was hatched by Michelle Rhee who, beforehand was doing an excellent job at changing the DC public school system.  She has taken tenure away from teachers, fired others, and has increased salaries among other measures I personally agree with.  However, this idea that America should pay children for an education is despicable and will only cause worse standards among our graduating youth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My thought on paying children is very similar to the concept of the children&#8217;s book &#8220;If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.&#8221;  When you give the mouse a cookie, he continues to stick around asking for more and more.  He got away with the cookie, so why not ask for more goodies and entitlements until the people doling out the cookies and additional perks are broke, tired, and annoyed?  This is the enabling concept.  If children do not learn maybe we should be looking at the teachers, the parents, or the curriculum!  Why should we give incentives for children to just sit in a classroom?  What happens when that incentive is gone and a college that admits them does not continue handing out &#8220;cookies?&#8221;  My guess: they will be left with the mentality of a drug addict.  Students will now be addicted to money and benefits and will become lazy and complacent if they do not receive their immediate gratification or, in this incident, cash.  They will become spoiled and even more uneducated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What good does paying a child to attend school do, if the curriculum and the teaching is so incredibly horrid?  Teachers are not even giving an accurate representation of American history let alone capable of making children smarter via remuneration.  What happened to the days when it was fun to go to school?  When teachers were interesting and engaging?  Where free thought and opinion was allowed and not dissuaded?  If we cannot teach our youth and encourage their brains, imagination, dreams, and knowledge to grow &#8211; then what good will that really do us in the end?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile India, China, Russia, and various other countries are way ahead of us on the learning curve.  Their children are engineers, scientists, doctors, and the like.  America worries too much about feelings and emotions, and pushing their political agendas on students rather than caring about truth, facts, logic, and wisdom.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I was fortunate to have teachers who believed in free thought and not indoctrination.  I was lucky enough to look forward to school, taking electives that fired my synapses, like English Sarcasm 101 (no joke); Graphic Arts, Call of the Wild [an English course where you went camping, dissected poetry/short stories, and studied human nature], etc.  I wasn&#8217;t stuck in a government mandated curriculum that didn&#8217;t engage my brain or hindered my thoughts to the point where I could only think inside a small box.  Unfortunately, that same public school that I attended has changed for the worse (and that was since 1999).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As they say when students receive poor grades as a whole &#8211; it&#8217;s more a sign of the teacher than those being taught.  I could say the same regarding graduation and attendance rates &#8211; it&#8217;s more a sign of the government agenda than those being taught.</p>
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		<title>Helen Thomas Questions Gibbs About Obama&#8217;s Controlled Town Hall Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below photo sums it all up: CBS&#8217; Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the &#8220;tightly controlled&#8221; town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of &#8220;controlling [...]]]></description>
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<p>The below photo sums it all up:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">CBS&#8217; Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the &#8220;tightly controlled&#8221; town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of &#8220;controlling the press.&#8221; She said almost all White House/Obama events are &#8220;prepackaged.&#8221; She accused the White House of not &#8220;having any answers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>More FOBs (Friends of Barack) Getting Into Trouble These Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOB used to stand for Friends of Bill, referring to the relationships Bill Clinton kept.  As time passed during Bill&#8217;s terms as president, the fawning media found it harder to continue covering for Bill&#8217;s past misdeeds and corrupt cronies.  Eventually all the scandalous individuals who surrounded the Clinton&#8217;s became known was Friends of Bill. I [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">FOB used to stand for Friends of Bill, referring to the relationships Bill Clinton kept.  As time passed during Bill&#8217;s terms as president, the fawning media found it harder to continue covering for Bill&#8217;s past misdeeds and corrupt cronies.  Eventually all the scandalous individuals who surrounded the Clinton&#8217;s became known was Friends of Bill.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I guess we could begin using that acronym again for Barack Obama.  I could also use FOO&#8217; as in &#8220;Mamma didn&#8217;t raise no FOO&#8217;&#8221; or Friends of Obama &#8211; but the liberals would probably cry RAAAAAAcist.  However, my mother did in fact raise me to be ethical so,  I wouldn&#8217;t be a friend of Obama.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One of Obama&#8217;s mentors, supporters, and contributors is being investigated for his associations with Rezko and for other <a href="http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/another-fob-%e2%80%9cfriend-of-obama%e2%80%9d-is-on-the-spot,32335" target="_blank">corruption charges in the city of Chicago; Allison Davis</a>.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>Another “Friend of Barack” is under increased scrutiny these days, but only a mere handful of media reports have linked Obama with Allison Davis. Once upon a time, Davis, Obama and Rezko were as thick as thieves. Davis and Rezko relied upon their friend and politically ally, Barack, to promote their plans to redevelop dilapidated slums into affordable housing for low income residents of the former legislative district represented by State Senator Obama. Tax dollars were misspent and pocketed by the developers, while the minority tenants continued to live in substandard apartments. Obama managed to bob and weave throughout the primaries as he ducked the malfeasance allegations and the issue was ignored in the general election. For his part, Davis dismissed the numerous building code violations by blaming the impoverished  tenants for their own misfortunes.</p>
<p>More recently,  Mayor Richard M. Daley has been place on the defensive by the simmering city pension fund scandal. While the members of the complicit media focus their short attention spans on the mayor’s nephew, Robert Vanecko, less has been said about Vanecko’s wily business partner, Allison Davis. This an angle that needs to be more examined closely.</p>
<p>Davis has developed relationships that have made him wealthy as a consummate political insider without ever having held elected office. He  helped promote Obama long before he became a member of the state legislature. Along with his law partners, Davis gave Obama his first position as an attorney at a politically connected firm. Obama never developed much of a courtroom reputation as a practicing attorney, but like his Columbia and Harvard degrees, the legal position that he briefly occupied was important to him solely as a resume credential. Like the disgraced Rod Blagojevich, Obama seems to have spent much of his career gathering a succession of prominent job titles without producing any significant accomplishments while in office. Blagojevich’s eventual fall coincided with his election to an executive position. It is easier to be a backbencher in the legislature than to be a do nothing executive. Obama still has time left to prove his mettle.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I believe the media, this time around, is willing to cover up more than they did for Bill Clinton &#8211; mostly to be on the side of &#8220;history.&#8221;  But there will come a day when Obama and the media will have to answer for their corruption and the company they keep.</p>
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		<title>Call The WAAAAAAmbulance Obama Hates Dissent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is simply unable to handle honest criticism or peaceful dissent that happens to question his agenda.  Fox News is the only media network that consistently stands up to Obama.  It has been the fairest outlet both during and since the election.  In no way, shape, or form, should media be in the pocket of [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama is simply unable to handle honest criticism or peaceful dissent that happens to question his agenda.  Fox News is the only media network that consistently stands up to Obama.  It has been the fairest outlet both during and since the election.  In no way, shape, or form, should media be in the pocket of a politician or &#8220;part of his/her team&#8221; &#8211; that is just alarming.  It&#8217;s disingenuous for Obama to even attempt to justify the slobbering of the press corps and the national media.  He has not been held accountable, nor has he been asked questions that weren&#8217;t already pre-screened, pre-selected, and angled in such a way to be a bunch of softballs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I have been taught that EGO = Easing God Out and for Obama, he is God.  A man who is unable to humble himself has a lot of issues.</p>
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		<title>Adoring Barack Coverage (ABC) Will Hold Health-Care Discussion In White House With &#8220;Live&#8221; Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Adoring Barack Coverage is the new name for ABC &#8211; it certainly isn&#8217;t American Broadcasting, since they leave out at least half of America when they bow at the feet of their new cult icon, Obama. Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson will be live at the event, which will begin dramatically in the East [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The Adoring Barack Coverage is the new name for ABC &#8211; it certainly isn&#8217;t American Broadcasting, since they leave out at least half of America when they bow at the feet of their new cult icon, Obama.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson will be live at the event, which will begin dramatically in the East Room of the White House and move over to the Blue Room.  <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEyPf1QLWbHk8H9620bxTwOCeMZAD98R5E380" target="_blank">ABC will take questions from a &#8220;live&#8221; audience</a>, although these questions will all be pre-selected and under the complete discretion of the network.  Unfortunately, this network has long since become an arm of the Democratic Party &#8211; and any independent thinker is able to see that ABC continues to have a slobbering love affair (as Bernie Goldberg puts it) with the new president.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This adulation of the president is like nothing I have ever seen before, and it is quickly becoming much like a cult following.  I don&#8217;t think that using the term kool-aid in reference to Jim Jones is all that far fetched.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ABC will take questions in regards to the health-care program that Obama is trying to push through Congress which, much to his chagrin, is being criticized by members of his own party who are questioning the timing and dire need for the reforms he is currently proposing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have never in my young years <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm" target="_blank">seen a media outlet act on behalf of a president</a>; paralleling more of what you would see out of communist Russia and Pravda, than a Republic like the United States.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is an obvious attempt to try and help the President get his agenda through and I&#8217;m sure the questions asked will try to persuade and use propaganda on the American public.  I can guarantee that there will be several &#8220;heart wrenching&#8221; stories about individuals without health-care taken out of context.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The RNC has come out complaining about this blatant act of bias towards one party over the other and in particular one individual; Barack Obama:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>Dear Mr. Westin:</p>
<p>As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC&#8217;s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.</p>
<p>Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party&#8217;s views to those of the President&#8217;s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party&#8217;s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.</p>
<p>In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.</p>
<p>Respectfully,<br />
Ken McKay<br />
Republican National Committee<br />
Chief of Staff</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I would think that the American public would want to hear both sides of the issue and they have every right to have questions asked of both parties that are difficult (not softball-like).  Granted the station is boring, but C-Span does this already if you watch what takes place inside the House and Senate.  Why do we need another network attempting to change peoples&#8217; minds?  Since Obama is meeting a lot of opposition on both sides of the aisle, is this a gesture from ABC to try and swoop in to save him?  This type of media bias makes me sick to my stomach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is how ABC responded to the RNC&#8217;s letter.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>&#8220;ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers &#8212; of all political persuasions &#8212; even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.</p>
<p>&#8220;<strong>ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.&#8221; </strong></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The whole notion that ABC is deciding what is being asked is scary enough.  We all saw how Charlie Gibson disrespectfully interviewed Sarah Palin and how he and Diane Sawyer drooled all over Barack Obama.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I hope somebody checks to see if this is an FCC violation.  I&#8217;m sure there is more to come.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What is that song the Spice Girls sang?  &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5jsa1lR9c" target="_blank">When two become one</a>&#8220;</p>
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		<title>The All Powerful Obama Fires Inspector General of AmeriCorps (For Investigating a Corrupt Crony)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General of the Corporation of National and Community Service, which runs AmeriCorps, was fired by Obama late last Wednesday.  Walpin was in the midst of investigating Kevin Johnson&#8217;s, a former NBA star and an avid Obama supporter, misuse of funds. If Kevin Johnson was found guilty of fraudulently spending or misusing money, [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/15/walpin-gate/" target="_blank">Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General of the Corporation of National and Community Service, which runs AmeriCorps, was fired by Obama late last Wednesday</a>.  Walpin was in the midst of investigating Kevin Johnson&#8217;s, a former NBA star and an avid Obama supporter, misuse of funds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If Kevin Johnson was found guilty of fraudulently spending or misusing money, he would have been barred from receiving any future federal grants.  He is now the current mayor of Sacramento, California and if barred from federal grants, he would not be able to receive billions in stimulus funding.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since the stimulus bill itself, was a major pay-to-play scheme, it is important for Obama to pay off his cronies and the constituents that voted for him, in order to secure votes in the future.  <a href="http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Obama_Fires_Inspector_General_Who_Investigated_a_Friend_90615" target="_blank">Anybody acting ethically and getting in the way of the Democrats will be sure to lose their job</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Walpin was driving to upstate New York when he received the dreaded yet ironic phone call on Wednesday night from Norman Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President on Ethics and Reform.  Eisen was calling Walpin on  behalf of President Obama.  Eisen said: &#8220;&#8216;Mr. Walpin, the president wants me to tell you that he really appreciates your service, but it&#8217;s time to move on,&#8217;&#8221; Walpin recalls. &#8220;Eisen said, <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Gerald-Walpin-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-AmeriCorps-firing-48030697.html" target="_blank">&#8216;You can either resign, or I&#8217;ll tell you that we&#8217;ll have to terminate you</a>.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>At that moment, Walpin says, he had finished not only a report on the Sacramento probe but also an investigation into extensive misuse of AmeriCorps money by the City University of New York, which is AmeriCorps&#8217; biggest program. Walpin says he told Eisen that, given those two investigations, neither of which was well-received by top Corporation management, the timing of his firing seemed &#8220;very interesting.&#8221; According to Walpin, Eisen said it was &#8220;pure coincidence.&#8221;&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my short life, I have realized that there aren&#8217;t pure coincidences and that things tend to happen for reasons.  &#8220;Nothing, absolutely nothing in God&#8217;s world happens by mistake.&#8221;  This is an historic precedent that just took place, and seems like a more appropriate action from Hugo Chavez or  Fidel Castro than from the President of the United States.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>The method of Walpin&#8217;s firing could be a violation of the 2008 Inspectors General Reform Act, which requires the president to give Congress 30 days&#8217; notice, plus an explanation of cause, before firing an inspector general.  Then-Sen. Barack Obama was a co-sponsor of that legislation. In the case of Walpin, Eisen&#8217;s efforts to force Walpin to resign could be seen as an effort to push Walpin out of his job so that the White House would not have to go through the 30-day process or give a reason for its action.  When Walpin refused to quit, the White House informed Congress and began the 30-day countdown.</p>
<p>Eisen&#8217;s phone call came after months of increasing conflict inside the Corporation for National and Community Service.  &#8220;We issued two reports that the management of the Corporation and the board of directors didn’t like, because they criticized what the board was doing,&#8221; Walpin recalls.  There is no question that Walpin discovered misuse of federal money in Kevin Johnson&#8217;s program, known as St. HOPE, and at City University of New York.  But as a result of those investigations, relations between Walpin and top executives became frosty, and he says they cut him out of Corporation business that should normally include the inspector general.</p>
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<p>In the course of his investigation, Walpin found Johnson and St. HOPE had failed to use the federal money they received for the purposes specified in the grant and had also used federally-funded AmeriCorps staff for, among other things, &#8220;driving [Johnson] to personal appointments, washing his car, and running personal errands.&#8221; Walpin came to the conclusion that Johnson and St. HOPE should be subject to suspension and debarment.  But it was not Walpin&#8217;s decision to make; there is another official at the Corporation whose job it is to make that call.  In September 2008, after reviewing Walpin&#8217;s evidence, the official decided to order a suspension, with the distinct possibility that it would lead to a permanent debarment.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Walpin&#8217;s opinion was overruled, whereby the government promised that most of the funds would be returned.  Walpin was incredibly discontented by the decision to not only undo the suspension but also attempt to vouch for St. HOPE, an organization that Walpin deemed insolvent.  Walpin had gone so far as to protest the decision through the board.  It was during this period of time that the Obama administration made their decision to terminate Walpin &#8211; a man who was only trying to practice integrity and do his job correctly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Senator Grassley, a Republican Senator, has called on an investigation into the activities that took place last week.  He also would like an investigation into Michelle Obama&#8217;s connections to the firing, AmeriCorps, and Kevin Johnson.  As you may recall, Michelle Obama is very involved in AmeriCorps and for the first time in any first lady&#8217;s history, she actually appointed her very own czar to the organization.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are being ruled not managed &#8211; and here I thought the mafia was bad in New York.  Boy was I wrong!  The thugacracy in DC takes the cake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama may have studied law, but he certainly has no regard for it.  Could you imagine if Karl Rove made the phone call for Bush to fire an inspector general?</p>
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		<title>Dick Durbin Another Democrat Corruptocrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One thing is for sure, Illinois certainly knows how to breed corruption.  They groom some real class acts in that state! <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/1620776,CST-NWS-durbin13.article" target="_blank">Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has been accused of insider trading</a> and is being investigated for some suspicious activities he took on the eve of the financial collapse last Fall.  Dick Durbin is somebody who we should know better &#8211; he is the 2nd highest ranked Senator in the Democrat Party after Harry Reid.  He is the Majority Whip in the Senate, currently holding seats on the Judiciary Committee, the Rules and Administration Committee, and the Appropriations Committee (of which he is the chair of the financial services &amp; general government subcommittee)!</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>The Illinois senator&#8217;s 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought $43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s Class B stock, the disclosure shows.</p>
<p>Altogether, Durbin sold investments worth $116,000 in September. By Oct. 2, he had invested $98,046 in Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway, the form shows.</p>
<p>The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index plunged 4.7 percent last Sept. 15 after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bank of America Corp.&#8217;s government-engineered takeover of Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. By the end of October, the index had fallen 22.6 percent.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">His spokesperson claims that he was just acting like every other American who were taking major hits on their portfolios and moving the money into a safer investment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, the timing of his move, especially after a closed-door meeting with the head of Treasury is a little too convenient.  Martha Stewart was arrested for less &#8211; why should a senator/lawmaker have more leniency when it comes to abiding by the law?  I would think that somebody who makes laws, would certainly know when they are breaking them as well.  Unfortunately, politicians always seem to be immune to legal repercussions, a real moral hazard in our government.  I&#8217;m sure if Durbin is indicted and possibly found guilty upon further investigation, his buddy Obama will grant immunity&#8230; I&#8217;d also be surprised if more than just this one paper reports that yet another Democrat is corrupt and gaming the system.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is unlike any politician we have seen for a very long time, if ever.  She is a people&#8217;s politician and believes in middle America, more than the powers that be.  She is a self-made woman who owes nobody, except God and family, for where she is today.  So many Americans are drawn to her [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Sarah Palin is unlike any politician we have seen for a very long time, if ever.  She is a people&#8217;s politician and believes in middle America, more than the powers that be.  She is a self-made woman who owes nobody, except God and family, for where she is today.  So many Americans are drawn to her solely due to her genuineness and her bond with working Americans.  She doesn&#8217;t speak using erudite and urbane words, fancy rhetoric that contains no substance &#8211; no,  she just speaks in a simple fashion, right to the heart of America.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09165/976998-373.stm#ixzz0IT0zMtUr&amp;D" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Post Gazette</a> writes:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>President Barack Obama is, by far, the most popular politician in America. And there is little doubt who is No. 2.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>That many liberals found Mr. Letterman&#8217;s remarks humorous speaks not only to their depravity, but to their fear. The 20,000 who turned out to see Ms. Palin in Auburn testify to the fact that she strikes a responsive chord with ordinary people no other Republican does.</p>
<p>Liberals and some Beltway conservatives assert Ms. Palin is stupid. She frequently is misquoted &#8212; most recently by Dan Balz in The Washington Post Wednesday &#8212; to make her appear so.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;d say she got the better of it in her exchange with David Letterman. And her brief walk across the stage at the GOP dinner Monday drew more attention than Mr. Gingrich&#8217;s stem-winding speech. For someone who, according to the Washington cognoscenti, doesn&#8217;t know what she&#8217;s doing, she&#8217;s doing pretty well.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Sarah Palin has decided whether she&#8217;d like to live in the White House. But if she does, ignoring the conventional wisdom in Washington may be the best way to get there.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Palin drew a crowd of over 20,000 people in Auburn, a small democratic town, in New York.  I do not recall any other &#8220;failed&#8221; vice presidential candidate still receiving this much attention and still shown this much support from regular folks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Upon her departure to Washington, D.C., Monday, <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/revolt-could-imperil-democratic-control-of-senate/" target="_blank">two New York senate Democrats filibustered with the Republicans, and switched sides</a>.  Of course you cannot tie the event directly to Sarah Palin, but the move after her visit, is definitely considerable.  She was also ridiculed by David Letterman for her visit to New York, which even included a fund-raising event for an Autism Walk.  Liberals seem to do all that they can to destroy this woman and use the most vile, despicable, and non-substantive attacks against her.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Letterman&#8217;s sexist, misogynistic remarks against Governor Palin and her daughter(s) were heard around the world.  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526055,00.html" target="_blank">A New York lawmaker has called on Letterman to step down</a>.  It&#8217;s incredible, that of all places, New York is standing up for the Governor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She has set off a loyal army of support around the nation and a petition has been created to fire David Letterman, as well as a campaign to write to the CBS/David Letterman sponsors to cease their sponsorship or be boycotted by former consumers.  It will be interesting how this all breaks down.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And on a final note, Sarah Palin must be doing something right, hell even froze over, <a href="http://www.now.org/issues/media/hall-of-shame/ " target="_blank">NOW, the National Organization for Women</a> (or as I like to refer to them as, the Nauseating Obama Women), who have never so much as batted an eye when sexist remarks or unfounded attacks have been made against conservative women, have officially come out in support of Palin and have put Letterman into their Hall of Shame.  I&#8217;m flabbergasted!</p>
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		<title>Breaking News:  Shooting at the Holocaust Museum in DC; UPDATE: 89-Yr.-Old White Supremacist Was Shooter; UPDATE II: Guard That Was Shot, Has Died</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via FoxNews: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter. At least 3 have been shot.  More to come&#8230; UPDATE: [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/10/shots-fired-national-holocaust-museum-dc/"><strong><span style="color: #72123b;">FoxNews</span></strong></a>: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter.</p>
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<p>At least 3 have been shot.  More to come&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>At least three people were shot today at Washington’s Holocaust Museum, after an <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6473316.ece" target="_blank">89-year-old white supremacist </a>entered the building and opened fire &#8220;indiscriminately&#8221;.</p>
<p>Emergency services said that two adult males were taken to hospital suffering from &#8220;serious gunshot wounds&#8221; after the gunman opened fire in the museum, situated in central Washington, about one mile from the White House.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The gunman, believed to be James W Von Brunn, is in custody. Police said that he was shot by one of the museum&#8217;s guards, and sources said he was hit in the head.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>UPDATE II:</strong> </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/10/shots-fired-national-holocaust-museum-dc/" target="_blank">Guard shot at the museum earlier today has died</a>.  Please keep his family, friends, and loved ones in your prayers.</p>
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