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Investigators have determined that a census worker founding hanging in a cemetery committed suicide.
There was much speculation that he had been murdered because he was in Kentucky. The usual suspects used his death to promote their own stereotypes about the people who live in Kentucky specifically and the south in general.
Now those stereotypes have proven to be wrong, but the damage those cretins did will live on in the minds of those whose opinion of the area were poisoned by their false words.
"That's a horrible thing that's happened to that fellow," said community activist Doug Abner. "But like most Clay countians, I feel like we get a bad rap. It's just a stereotypical thing." One would hope that people would learn from this kind of easily avoidable prejudice by simply not making assumptions about people based on where they live.
Then again, we are talking about hardened racists. While we can hope that they change we shouldn't hold our breath waiting.
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The criminal scumbags at ACORN are at it again. A massive document dump is the latest evidence that RICO charges need to be brought against the entire organization.
In California surveillance video caught ACORN dumping thousands of documents in attempt to hide them from criminal investigations. These documents were simply dumped in a public trash dumpster despite the fact that they contained sensitive personal information.
Of course, the "see no evil" policies of the Obama administration Department of "Justice" means that will never happen, at least at the Federal level.
We can only hope that there are enough states outraged at the continual criminal behavior of ACORN to shut them down permanently.
Update: Another document dump in Oklahoma.
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Let's say you get in your time machine and spin back to 2008. You convince politicians to invest $3 trillion instead of simply blowing it on bailouts and stimulus schemes.
Some samples of what could have been (or might be, depending on where you are in your time machine):
- $3 trillion invested in Apple stock at an average price of $80 a share yields 37.5 billion shares of Apple stock. Now ignoring the affect of buying (and selling) that much stuck, you could then sell it today at say an average price of $200 a share and return $7.5 trillion to the taxpayers and/or pay off an additional $4.5 trillion in debt.
- $3 trillion invested in gold at $75 an ounce yields 45 billion ounces of gold. Again ignoring the market distortions from buying/selling that much gold, selling it today at $105 an ounce yields $4.2 trillion.
- $3 trillion invested in a Dow Jones index fund would garner a 25% gain, or an additional $750 billion.
What he have instead are $3 trillion mostly wasted; either used to prop up companies that should have been allowed to go bankrupt or cycled through the Washington bureaucracy and then used to bribe voters into thinking money had been "spent" in their area "creating or saving" jobs.
This is one of the reasons they don't teach math or logic in many union-controlled schools. You can't bribe people with their own money if they know math and logic!
Now for all you people who think the "stimulus" was a great idea: please send me all of your money. I promise to travel right to your very neighborhood to spend most some of it! Think of all the jobs you'll create or save in the process!
Suckers.
Current Mood : The joke's on you! 
Tags : federal spending, obama administration, scandals
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They're also making up the places they've been "created" or "saved" in!
Ever been to the 99th Congressional district in the US Virgin Islands? Hopefully not because it doesn't exist! Yet recovery.gov shows that jobs were "created or saved" there. The administration is of course blaming "stupid people" for not knowing what district they are in. So someone who lives in the tiny island territory of the US Virgin Islands thinks they have more than one district? Seriously? And remember, these number are supposed to be "certified" by both the Obama administration and the recipients (the US Virgin Islands governor, among others) and these numbers are entered into the much ballyhooed "state of the art" website that is recovery.org. And nowhere along that way was any fact checking done? Then again, that does sound like a typical liberal policy/program, doesn't it?
I told you the Obama administration is just making up numbers and now they are even making up the places where these mythical jobs exist. Isn't it amazing how all these brilliant leaders of liberal administrations and entities keep hiring such incompetent people to execute their orders? Why everyone from ACORN to Obama is shocked, shocked they say, to find incompetent people carrying out their lawful, innocent orders. (I have several bridges to sell you if you bought that!)
And need I remind you yet again that this is exactly how the Obama administration wants to "count" people for the census!
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Have you heard the one about where a President uses money borrowed under a previous administration in an attempt to make is own outrageous deficits appear smaller?
Sadly, it's no joke. The Obama administration is proposing that money borrowed under TARP (during 2008) be used to "pay down the deficit" in the 2010 fiscal year. Remember when politicians told us we'd have another Great Depression if we didn't allocate this money immediately to save the financial markets? And here more than a year later it remains unused, along with most of a second round of even more massive "emergency" spending. (See the trend?)
If the Obama administration succeeds it will be a new low in corrupting democracy. In the future Democrats will simply borrow huge amounts of money at the end of Republican terms and then "reallocate" that money to pay down debts in a succeeding term of a Democrat. This makes the Republican spending look higher that it is and the Democrat spending lower than it is.
Talk about robbing George to pay Barrack! Unused TARP money should remain unused, as in unborrowed, as in the President rescinding the funds. With reports that anywhere from $400-600 billion was used from TARP funding that would make the 2008 deficit almost $200 billion lower. What Obama hopes to do, of course, is make his own outrageous deficits look $200 billion smaller.
Note to Democrats who parrot talking points: this is vastly different than Senator Brownback's proposal to pay down the federal debt with money repaid by firms that borrowed it. If you don't understand why you shouldn't be attempting to argue other people's talking points.
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Because $46 billion in nothing compared to how much will be lost to fraud, waste and abuse when the government controls it all!
WASHINGTON – The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year.
Quick, sign up for slavery before it's too late!
Current Mood : determined
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That's right. ACORN is claiming that Congress can't cut off funding for ACORN and doing so is "unconstitutional".
Meanwhile the FBI raids ACORN offices in New Orleans and several states are investigating the organization for a variety of crimes.
But hey, all that criminal activity is actually a sign that ACORN follows the law, according to ACORN press releases. No doubt receiving your tax dollars while committing crimes is one of those "shadow" rights in the Constitution that only liberals can see.
ETA: ACORN pleads poverty. Perhaps they should fire all those executives who keep approving criminal activities?
Current Mood : predatory 
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As it becomes clearer and clearer by the day that the Obama administration is simply making up the number of jobs "saved or created" two things are becoming quite clear.
First, the money given to bureaucracies was simply used to give people raises. So not only were those jobs not "at risk" but the bureaucrats used your tax dollars to further feather their nests. What was that again about a government run health care program not having to "worry" about the "profit" motive? I think waste, fraud and abuse accounts for far more money than the "profit" motive, which actually improves goods and services.
Secondly, this is a clear demonstration of how the administration wishes to "count" people in the coming census. Do they need more Democrat representation in a region? No problem, just invent more Democrat voters! Want to marginalize areas that don't vote for you? No problem, just invent a population decrease for that area!
If you need more evidence just look at the administration attempts to defend these made up numbers as reasonable! For example, when the fact that they counted raises as a job "saved or created" they attempted to defend the notion that a raise was evidence that "part of a job was saved". Worse yet there was no defense at all offered for counting this mythical "part of a job saved" as a whole job. In other areas the number of jobs listed as "saved or created" (usually in union friendly sectors such as teaching and "community organizing") was greater than the number of jobs that existed in the first place. (!)
This is all you are going to get from the most "open and transparent" administration ever. They are simply going to lie to you and expect you to shut up and take it. If the big Democrat loses yesterday didn't send a message to this administration perhaps crushing losses for incumbents in 2010 will.
Current Mood : determined
Tags : big lie, census, dishonesty, obama administration, scandals
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You shouldn't be surprised to learn that government agents (that is, people working in the quasi-government agencies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.) are "earning" millions of dollars for helping to promulgate one of the biggest frauds in American history. Meanwhile, anyone working for a company that received bailout money (whether they wanted it or not) are being forced to work for as little as...zero dollars per year.
Yep, straight out of the "some people are more equal than others" book.
You can expect similar patterns in anything else the government touches. You know, like health care. Government bureaucrats will make millions while doctors and nurses (at least those who are not government agents) will be forced to take pay cuts.
Welcome to the new slavery!
Current Mood : determined
Tags : bureaucracy, government, health care, hypocrisy, scandals
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AP, in an obviously biased piece, desperately tries to rescue the Church of Climate Change from the facts.
After going to great lengths to claim that people who cite the evidence that the Earth has not warmed over the past 10 years, the authors admit that it hasn't:
Grego produced three charts to show how choosing a starting date can alter perceptions. Using the skeptics' satellite data beginning in 1998, there is a "mild downward trend," he said.
Of course, they then go on to claim that the facts are "deceptive". Why? Because of the time frame.
Ah, but the time frame is what the global warming hoaxers have been fudging all along!
Of course, the Church of Climate Change is cited numerous times, with blatant lies proffered as accepted fact:
"To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford.
Reliable records for temperature only go back about 150 years or so. Anyone trying to make a claim about "many thousands of years" is either lying or a quack.
Anyone agreeing with those who accurately note that the Earth has not warmed appreciably in the past few years are quoted to make it seem like they are agreeing with the premise that any non-warming is a "deceptive" claim.
"It pretty much depends on when you start," wrote John Christy, the Alabama atmospheric scientist who collects the satellite data that skeptics use . He said in an e-mail that looking back 31 years, temperatures have gone up nearly three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit (four-tenths of a degree Celsius). The last dozen years have been flat, and temperatures over the last eight years have declined a bit, he wrote. (Emphasis mine.)
In other words, the "skeptics" are right: the claims of the global warming hoaxers about inexorable climbs in temperature have been proven to be false. Remember: people who debunk the global warming hoax do not have to prove an opposite theory, they merely have to debunk the hoaxer's theory about temperatures and CO2.
Bob Carter, a paleoclimatologist from Australia, notes that the earth also had strong global warming between 1918 and 1940. Then there was a long cooling period from 1940 to 1965. He points out that the current warming started 50 years before cars and industries began spewing consequential amounts of CO2. Then the planet cooled for 35 years just after the CO2 levels really began to surge. In fact, says Carter, there doesn’t seem to be much correlation between temperatures and man-made CO2.
The article also glosses over the fact that the global warming hoaxers have stopped using the more reliable satellite data because it confirms the cooling trend (something the hoaxers refer to as a "cooling bias", as if it were a bad thing). By only using the less-reliable ground stations (subject to island heating affects from cities) the hoaxers are all but admitting that their theories cannot stand up to rigorous scientific examination.
And now AP is admitting that, too.
ETA: There are charts of the data which demonstrate the "trends". The purple and dark blue trend lines are specifically what people have been pointing to as flaws in the global "warming" crowd's theories. That is, none of their theories or models anticipated these trends. So the Church of Climate Change, instead of addressing this valid criticism of its dogma, instead creates a "straw man"—global cooling—and then attempts to "knock it down", as if it has debunked critics of the global warming hoax.
Current Mood : determined
Tags : bias, church of climate change, global warming hoax, junk science, msm, scandals, science
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It has certainly taken long enough but more arrests are being made in the massive mortgage fraud schemes that have plagued the industry over the past few years.
NEW YORK – A mortgage fraud crackdown announced Thursday resulted in the arrests of dozens of people, including six lawyers, seven loan officers and three mortgage brokers in four states.
Thirty-one people were arrested in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina. They were among 41 people charged with engaging in mortgage fraud scams that defrauded lenders out of more than $64 million in home mortgage loans.
It's just a drop in the bucket but it is good news. Hopefully we'll see many more such arrests and it will reach into the banks and financial firms that helped promulgate these frauds.
Current Mood : happy
Tags : banking, housing, mortgages, scandals
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Apparently even the MSM has reached its limit for tolerating the Obama administration's attempts to circumvent the Constitution.
This time the administration attempted to shut out Fox News from interviews of administration officials. To their credit, the rest of the MSM got together and told the administration that this was one "general welfare" abuse too many and they would not stand for it. The administration backed down (this time) but you know their war against Fox News is still going on.
I'm betting their radical FCC Chairman will be the next person to take shots at Fox News. Also look for the administration to pressure cable and satellite networks carrying Fox News.
After all, it's really, really bad for this administration to know that the truth is out there—and its on Fox News!
Current Mood : determined
Tags : constitution, fox news, free press, msm, obama administration, scandals
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Widespread fraud and abuse taint yet another government housing program. This time it is the tax credit for first-time home buyers.
He said claimants include those who could possibly be illegal immigrants and that 580 people seeking $4 million from the first-time homebuyer credit were under the age of 18. The youngest taxpayers receiving the credit were 4 years old, his office said.
Now the question is will all these examples of fraud be prosecuted or will the government simply look the other way, again?
Current Mood : determined
Tags : federal government, housing, scandals
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Apparently there isn't even enough "info" in the hate-based "infotainment" at MSNBC these days for their white broadcasters to tell which token minority is gracing their airwaves that day! Can you imagine how many weeks MSNBC would lead with this little item if it had happened on Fox News?
So...when will Oblerloon give up his spot to a minority to demonstrate MSNBC's commitment to affirmative action and show that they're really sorry for for getting it wrong, again?
Don't hold your breath!
Current Mood : amused
Tags : hypocrisy, msnbc, scandals
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You know it's bad for a Democrat when even his fellow Democrats turn on him. Democrats are famous for defending scandal-plagued people and groups (ACORN, anyone?) so when they begin to bail on someone like Rangel.
Two Mississippi Democrats, Gene Taylor and Travis Childers, have already bailed on Rangel, voting against him on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday night, Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., who is running for the Senate, chose not to sign a Black Caucus letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in support of Rangel.
Ouch!
It's been a long time coming for Rangel. Unfortunately for New York voters the Democrats are already planning on dumping another feckless Democrat into his seat: embattled New York Governor David Patterson.
Current Mood : amused
Tags : charles rangel, democrats, new york, scandals
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I was watching a Fox News program about ACORN and it's even worse than I had previously believed. There are more than two hundred separate entities under the "ACORN" umbrella and when the brother of the head of that many-tentacled organization isn't embezzling a million (plus) dollars and their managers aren't conspiring to break voter registration laws and their rank and file aren't pushing coke and enabling child prostitution and human slavery...there's still more crap bubbling to the surface.
Last year ACORN's own auditors said there was simply no way to track or account for all of ACORN's doing and proving that they weren't illegally comingling money and/or personnel across their various organizations and sub-organizations.
ACORN is a cancer that has metastasized across America.
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the Obama administration to start the RICO indictments which are so obviously needed.
Current Mood : disgusted 
Tags : acorn, obama administration, scandals
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With Democrats increasingly under fire for both obvious lies and lies of omission when it comes to health care Nancy Pelosi is trying to deflect attention away from Democrats who are screaming that Republicans want people to "die quickly". What was that about the "tone" of debate, Nancy?
Here's a helpful hint: you stop lying to the American people and they might just stop disliking you and your policies to the point where hundreds of thousands of them will travel to Washington, D.C. at their own expense to march in the streets.
Cooperating with RICO investigations against ACORN would be a great start!
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The NEA has always been a scam. The notion that "government" not only can judge artistic work but also promote its growth is nonsense. It is and always has been a way for liberals to funnel tax dollars to their supporters.
Take, for example, a recent story dug up by the Washington Times (via Michelle Malkin).
The NEA organizes "artists" to support Obama and his agenda. Those that cooperate, of course, get NEA grants. So your tax dollars go to support "art" such as pro-Obama "viral videos" and pro-Obama propaganda in films, written work, etc. (You know, where the brave hero of a movie has to fight not only evil corporate villains but also those racist southern white males clinging to their guns and religion.)
As with ACORN, only the constant exposure of this kind of corruption will prod those in Washington to act. Democrats had to be humiliated with video of ACORN aiding and abetting sex slavery, prostitution, underaged prostitution, tax evasion, illegal immigration, etc. before they could be forced to vote against ACORN funding. And even then there were dozens who voted to continue it!
Only when crimes of a similar magnitude are brought to light about other parts of this vast liberal network of quid pro quo abuse of your tax dollars will it be stopped.
Are you tired of your hard-earned money being abused in this manner? Contact your representatives in Congress and demand the zeroing-out of criminal enterprises like ACORN and an end to government "subsidies" for "art".
Current Mood : resisting
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With ACORN (finally) being held to account for their crimes (at least in terms of funding) I think we can chalk up another victory for Glenn Beck.
How's that faux boycott working out for you, liberals? :D
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