Chicago Thugacracy at White House, Bondholders Play Ball or We Will Humiliate You

Posted by on May 2, 2009 · 3 Comments 

This is disturbing!  Listen to the audio clip Mark Levin obtained from the White House in which bondholders from Chrysler are being threatened:

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New Fairness Doctrine, “Media Diversity”

Posted by on May 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

The FCC will hold a panel discussion entitled media diversity that will consist of 31 media and liberal grievance groups.  The not so surprising thing to all of us will be the lack of representative of conservative outlets and radio programs.  Not one conservative group will be represented in this commission; (media diversity?)

The gathering will take play next week, Thursday, May 7, 2009.

Chairing the meeting is Henry Rivera, a former FCC Commissioner who was (and presumably still is) a strong proponent of the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the “Fairness” Doctrine.

Many, many liberals in Washington have over the last several years called for a reinstatement of the Doctrine. But push-back from people who have read and actually understand the First Amendment led the Left to realize that the political price to bring it back was too high, so they MovedOn.org.

Of course, their desire to silence the lone voices of their opposition had not lessened in the slightest. They’re still just as dictatorial, just pragmatically so.

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Take a look at the Commission:

Henry Rivera (Chair); Emma Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media
Barbara Kreisman (Designated Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Jamila Bess Johnson (Deputy Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Carolyn Fleming Williams (Deputy Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Raúl Alarcon, Jr.; Spanish Broadcasting System
Jenny Alonzo; Mio.TV
James M. Assey, Jr.; National Cable and Telecommunications Association
Geoffrey C. Blackwell; Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.
Matthew Blank; Showtime Networks
Maria E. Brennan; American Women in Radio and Television
Kathy Brown; Verizon
Toni Cook Bush; Virgin Mobile
Alan B. Davidson; Google, Inc.
Ralph de la Vega; AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets
Steve Hillard; Council Tree Communications
David Honig; Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
Rodney Hood; National Credit Union Administration
Ronald Johnson; Ronson Network Services
Debra Lee; BET Holdings, Inc.
Jane Mago; National Association of Broadcasters
Robert Mendez; ABC Television Network
Marc H. Morial; National Urban League
Karen K. Narasaki; Asian American Justice Center
Melissa Newman; Qwest
Jake Oliver; Afro-American Newspapers
Susan K. Patrick; Patrick Communications
Lisa Pickrum; The RLJ Companies
Rey Ramsey; One Economy Corporation
Michael V. Roberts; Roberts Broadcasting Companies LLC
Andrew Schwartzman; Media Access Project
Anita Stephens; Graham Opportunity Capital Partners
Diane Sutter; Shooting Star Broadcasting
Charles Warfield; Inner City Broadcasting
James Winston; National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters

For those that might want to call and express outrage:

http://www.fcc.gov/

Phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322)
TTY: 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322)
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
E-mail: fccinfo@fcc.gov

And it’s not just our imagination – it’s also our lying eyes. The Center for American Progress is a left-wing hack outfit headed by former Clinton Administration and Obama Transition Team adviser John Podesta. And they released on January 22, 2007 a report entitled “Local Media Diversity Matters – Measure Media Diversity According to Democratic Values, Not Market Values.”

I have warned previously that liberals will pass legislation that sounds Utopian and wonderful because of its clever language, but it means something else entirely.

I am all for diversity and equality, so let’s make it real easy and put the same amount of air time on for each opinion on all radio stations and media outlets… This FCC rule would force one side off the air – how constitutional/sarc!

The broadcast license is of course a station’s lifeblood; take it away, or make it impossible to meet the regulatory obligations to keep it, and they are literally out of business.  The Left, no longer comfortable with trying the top-down, all-out assault that is the “Fairness” Doctrine, intends instead to silence conservative and Christian talk via this broadcast license manipulation.

If they can succeed in making it impossible for talk radio to operate as a business, talk radio will cease to operate.  Leftist problem solved.

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Massachusetts Dems: “Let Illegal Immigrants Vote”

Posted by on April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

It’s just one brilliant idea after the next with these democrats.  So illegals who shouldn’t be here in the first place should have a vote?  And here I was thinking that only taxpayers should get the vote.  I guess I’m way on the other side of this coin – as usual! ;-)

Rep. Pam Richardson of Framingham wants the Massachusetts Democratic Party to advocate voting rights for illegal aliens.

You read that right. A handful of liberal Massachusetts towns already allow legal resident aliens to vote in local elections. But Richardson wants illegal immigrants canceling out your vote for school committee and town selectman.

And she wants the state Democratic Party to lead the way.

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“We have a large population of people living here who don’t have the same rights and opportunities of the rest of us,” she complained. “I’m talking about undocumented immigrants.”

There’s a reason they don’t have the same rights and it has nothing to do with discrimination it has to do with the words ILLEGAL and UNDOCUMENTED – it has to do with them not paying income taxes, etc.  It has to do with the fact that many of my family friends who are honest, hard-working LEGAL immigrants cannot stand the ILLEGALS.   They went through the process to apply for citizenship even though it was full of red-tape, difficult, and arduous.  They went through this because they wanted nothing more than to be AMERICANS.  Many of whom left communist dictatorships in Russia, Vietnam, and Korea.  A personal friend of mine wrote a book on the experiences she had growing up in Vietnam during the war and how she fled on a boat to Europe.  She lived in the Netherlands for several years with the ultimate goal of becoming a U.S. citizen because she wanted to be free.  She came to the U.S. with cash in hand and a family and nothing else.  She built herself up from nothing, saving her money, and finally establishing a business. She is now well-off after growing up and living in poverty and she became a citizen the right way.  That’s how it should be and that’s why I will never agree with any of this!  This is just another way to grab power by the liberals – watch the census…

The Author of the article tends to agree with me:

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Barney Frank Wants to Set Your Salary

Posted by on March 31, 2009 · 1 Comment 

This is beyond socialism folks.  Barney Frank is trying to pass new legislation that will allow government control of salary setting and pay. 

I wonder if I will be forced into gymnastics since I am short and close to five foot – as they did in communist Russia.  I feel as though we are heading down that path. 

It was nearly two weeks ago that the House of Representatives, acting in a near-frenzy after the disclosure of bonuses paid to executives of AIG, passed a bill that would impose a 90 percent retroactive tax on those bonuses. Despite the overwhelming 328-93 vote, support for the measure began to collapse almost immediately. Within days, the Obama White House backed away from it, as did the Senate Democratic leadership. The bill stalled, and the populist storm that spawned it seemed to pass.
But now, in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

I don’t know what scares me more, that this is unconstitutional, that the government wants more control, that Timmy Geithner the incompetent, will get more control or that Barney Frank is leading this charge?  They are all very scary to me to be honest! 

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More Unconstitutional Mayhem; Obama Wants Expanded Power to Seize Firms

Posted by on March 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.

I may have joked around in the past and a lot of my statements were dripping with sarcasm, however, we really are in the USSA if this plan passes congress and is signed into law.  This is completely unconstitutional and gives the government too much power – something I will finally admit, think that Obama and his cronies want so they can fundamentally reshape America.

The government at present has the authority to seize only banks.

Which it shouldn’t have had in the first place, no thanks to Bush!

Giving the Treasury secretary authority over a broader range of companies would mark a significant shift from the existing model of financial regulation, which relies on independent agencies that are shielded from the political process. The Treasury secretary, a member of the president’s Cabinet, would exercise the new powers in consultation with the White House, the Federal Reserve and other regulators, according to the document.

There was a reason why the regulation was conducted by independent and non-partisan institutions…

The administration plans to send legislation to Capitol Hill this week. Sources cautioned that the details, including the Treasury’s role, are still in flux.

After the H.R. 1388 bill passed yesterday for National Service – I won’t hold my breath, hoping that specific RINOs in the party won’t vote for this intentional power grab.

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