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woebedamned

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:50 pm

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:16 am

Recent Voter Fraud

State Year Details

AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

FL 2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.

MI 2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.

MO 2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.

2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.

2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

NC 2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

NM 2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”

2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
OH 2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.

2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.

MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.PA 2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.

2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

TX 2004 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

WI 2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.

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Phantom

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:19 am

What ACORN Won't Tell You About Government Mandated Wage Increases

Forcing an increase in the minimum wage sounds like a good idea. Supporters claim that increasing the minimum wage will help working families make ends meet. But decades of research are clear: mandated wage hikes impose high economic costs. Worse, they also impose high social costs, hurting most those they are intended to help.

With an increase in entry-level labor costs, many employers will shorten the shifts of many existing employees. Other employers will eliminate positions entirely. The least-skilled will be particularly harmed, as they will have a harder time finding — or keeping — that critical entry-level job.

Low-skilled employees will be pushed out of jobs as higher wages attract applicants with more skills and more experience. In 2004, Duke University researchers found that low-skilled adult employees are often displaced by teens from wealthy families who are attracted by the higher wage.

The vast majority of minimum wage earners are teens living at home or are second-wage earners from financially stable families. Nationally, only 15% of employees that would be affected by a minimum wage increase are single earners with a family. The average family income of employees who would be affected by this minimum wage increase is just over $44,000.

A minimum wage job is the first step to higher wages. The skills and experience acquired help employees move up the economic ladder. Research shows that almost two-thirds of those earning minimum wage receive a raise within one to twelve months of being hired.

A minimum wage is a starting wage, not a life or career wage. Employees gain critical skills and experience that help them advance to higher pay. Raising the minimum wage reduces the availability of these starting jobs. It pushes these first jobs further out of reach of low-skill employees.

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woebedamned

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:51 am

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Need2Know

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:58 am

woebedamned wrote:

My husband is a die hard democrat, and feels much the same as you. He wouldnt even watch Obama's acceptance speech.

I don't go by political parties anymore; I registered as a Democrat when I was 18, much has changed since then Wink

I actually consider myelf very independent of all of this insanity and just pray our country can solve ALL of our issues and move on, united, as we were very early, post 9/11 - that was nice to see and we are all capable of it if we would just focus on what unites us and work to make everything better, taking everybody into account who is an American and wakes up every day trying to make a better life for themselves and their families/loved ones.

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Need2Know

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:00 pm

woebedamned wrote:

I dont know how anyone can think rasing the minimum wage will fix anything. It isnt the wage that drags things down, the problem is the over-all prices we pay for everything.

In 1978, I started my first job...$2.65/hour. Gas was around 63 cents a gallon. For about $10.00, (about 4 hours pay) I could get 16 gallons of gas. Enough to get me around for at least a week.

Now, minimum wage here is $6.85/hour, and gas is $3.99/gallon. It would take me almost 9 hours pay to get that same 16 gallons of gas. So, in the long run, that raise in minimum wage did nothing. I would need to work more than twice as many hours just to maintain the standard of living I had in 1978, if I were a minimum wage employee. It simply isnt possible to set a minimum wage high enough to solve this type of problem. If wages go up, so do prices.

You placed it in very easy-to-understand economics.

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dithers

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:01 pm

woebedamned wrote:

I dont know how anyone can think rasing the minimum wage will fix anything. It isnt the wage that drags things down, the problem is the over-all prices we pay for everything.

Regardless of whether it's $5.15 or $7.25, the minimum wage has absolutely nothing to do with a living wage because the notion that it IS is laughable. The Dems aren't stupid: They know $7.25 is not a "living wage". They also know this: Virtually no one is out there trying to provide for a family on the minimum wage. Their slavish devotion to their union cronies manages to induce more than a little amnesia by liberals on the facts surrounding the minimum wage.

The Employment Policies Institute has an excellent study on the minimum wage which confirms exactly what rational people who aren't in the back pockets of the labor unions freely admit: Eighty five percent of the folks making minimum wage are not the primary bread winners in the household - and if you happen to be a breadwinner who is you are also the recipient of gobs and gobs of government aid for being in poverty. In fact, the vast majority of these earners are kids -- teenagers making spending money after school and on the weekends. Statistics show that 85% of minimum wage earners either live in a household with family members who earn more or don't support kids with that wage.

Most union contracts are tied to the minimum wage. Generally, an increase in the minimum wage results in a corresponding percentage increase in the union rate -- in some cases a large percentage. This is why the union bosses give huge sums to the liberals year after year.

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Phantom

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:04 pm

Obama & ACORN: Old Media Negligence on Parade

How come the old big media has ignored Barack Obama’s association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)?

American Thinker writers, including Patrick Casey and Rick Moran, have addressed Obama’s links to ACORN.

And, last May 29, Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online (NRO) Contributing Editor & Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote a article profiling Obama’s affiliation with ACORN and offering plenty of follow-up leads to aspiring big media reporters looking for a story. No significant takers.

Old big media has had very little to say about the topic. It’s as though they just as soon not bring it up.

But the Obama Campaign hasn’t been silent about Kurtz, whom they characterize as a “slimy character assassin.” In case you missed it, Ben Smith, writing (Aug 27) for POLITICO, reported on the Obama Campaign’s efforts to thwart Kurtz’s plans to appear on a Chicago radio station.

“And tonight, the [Obama] campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program....

The campaign e-mailed Chicago supporters who had signed up for the Obama Action Wire with detailed instructions including the station's telephone number and the show's extension, as well as a research file on Kurtz, which seems to prove that he's a conservative, which isn't in dispute…

‘Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse,’ says the email, which picks up a form of pressure on the press pioneered by conservative talk radio hosts and activists in the 1990s, and since adopted by Media Matters and other liberal groups.

‘It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves. At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies,’ it continues.”

These are tactics also common to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and ACORN’s historical efforts to disrupt their opposition. That doesn’t make their behaviors always illegal. But it should give a heads-up to reporters covering the McCain-Palin campaign as well as election officials (Jimmy Carter?) who will be poll-watching in November.

Poll watchers should remember that ACORN has a proven track record for promoting voter fraud. And, that Chicago’s Daley Machine, in particular, has the demonstrated election-day ability to resurrect the dead, enabling them to vote once again.

In the meantime, how long can it be before there’s an ACORN-sponsored effort, more substantial than Code Pink’s Republican Convention disruptive theatrics, to disturb a McCain-Palin rally? For as Obama fades, his radical allies may emerge in force, and not quietly.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/Obama.html

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Phantom

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:31 pm

ANOTHER ACORN SCANDAL

The folks at the far-left radical activist group ACORN are embroiled in a financial corruption and cover-up scandal that they managed to keep hidden from their donors and political partners for eight years.

Now their deception has been uncovered for all to see.

But is ACORN's leadership apologetic? Not in the slightest. "We did what we thought was right," said the group's president, Maude Hurd.

ACORN's founder - whose brother perpetrated the fraud - also defended the cover-up, saying publicity would have given the group's critics a "weapon."

As if there wasn't enough ammunition already to discredit ACORN.

The New York Times reports that Dale Rathke - whose brother started the group back in 1970 as a vehicle to help low-income people "take back what's rightfully theirs" - embezzled nearly $1 million from ACORN back in 1999 and 2000.

How did ACORN handle the crime? By disguising it on the books as a loan from one of its contractors and letting Rathke's family make restitution at the rate of $30,000 a year. (An anonymous donor reportedly has agreed to pick up the remaining $800,000 tab.)

Incredibly, ACORN kept Rathke on the payroll as a $38,000-a-year employee until as recently as last month - and only let him go when word of his fraud leaked to donors.

And, the Times reports, most of the people who covered up the embezzlement are still working for ACORN.

Actually, none of this really should surprise. After all, "fraud" has practically been ACORN's middle name.

As Michelle Malkin wrote on these pages last month, the group recently settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history - having submitted thousands of bogus voter-registration forms.

ACORN has been implicated in similar schemes in 14 other states - including Ohio, where a worker traded crack cocaine for fraudulent registrations.

Back in the '80s and '90s, ACORN's tactics included trespassing, illegal seizure of private property, physical harassment, intimidation and outright extortion.

For example, in 1985, ACORN illegally seized 25 abandoned buildings owned by New York City and installed squatters as residents. A weak-kneed City Hall eventually gave the group title to the buildings - proving that crime can pay.

Amazingly, a large chunk of ACORN's budget is provided by taxpayers.

Much of the rest comes from gullible foundations and groups like the United Federation of Teachers - which has partnered up with ACORN in efforts to kill Mayor Bloomberg's school reform.

The Times reports that many of ACORN's philanthropic benefactors have begun taking a close look at the group's finances.

It's long overdue.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132008/postopinion/editorials/another_acorn_scandal_119692.htm

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Phantom

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:34 am

Obama and the Annenberg Files: The Mystery Deepens

While running in the Democratic primaries Obama pointed to one of his very, very few legislative endeavors and — in his post partisan, post-racial mode — posed as someone who championed it:

“It’s no secret that most Americans think the country is on the wrong track,” Obama told the group. “But the reason isn’t just failed policies. It’s a system in Washington that has failed the American people. A system that has not kept the most fundamental trust of American democracy: that our government is of the people, and that it must govern for all the people - not just the interests of the wealthy and well-connected

It’s a decent, good government position to advance, but there’s nothing in the record of the candidate or his close associates to suggest that what they mean is that they want to lift the curtain on the doings of others while keeping their own activities hidden behind the screen.

His record for opaqueness was clear early on in the campaign. He tried to hide who managed his PAC — Hopefund — which received money from lobbyists. And when he finally stopped stonewalling, it was evident that the PAC was being used to advance his presidential ambitions. Nor was he open about campaign events with his most generous donors.

The latest example of the lengths to which Obama and his associates have gone to keep whatever still extant records of his early life from reaching the public involves the failed Chicago Annenberg Challenge records — virtually the only records of his pre-US Senate career not claimed to be missing or destroyed.

In 2001, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) turned over its records to the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) Richard J. Daley library. The records are of value because they document the close working relationship Obama had with domestic terrorist leader and “bomb designer” William Ayres. They demonstrate that Obama failed at the one executive position he ever held; Chairman of the Board of the CAC. And they reveal how the charitable funds donated to improve the public education of Chicago schoolchildren were used to fund extreme radicals like Ayers and Maoist Mike Klonsky.

Last month when National Review reporter Stanley Kurtz tried to review the files, the university blocked that request –ostensibly to review the terms of the record gift. That explanation may not be fully correct, however. A third year law student (Jason Wilcox) who was working with Steve Diamond, publisher of the blog site Global Labor and Politics, which has played a lead role in exposing the work of the CAC , made a Freedom of Information request to which he received a response. That reply reveals that Kenneth Rolling, the CAC’s former executive director and an associate of Barack Obama, contacted the university and induced them initially to refuse Kurtz’ request.

There is a question about whether someone at the University itself actually tipped Rolling off to the request by Mr. Kurtz to open the records for public viewing. Rolling claims that he saw references to the records on the internet on August 11 and contacted the University in order to prevent confidential information like credit card numbers and social security information from being disseminated.

But did he?

Steve Diamond has been able to confirm that Mr. Kurtz made his request to the Univeristy on August 11 — the same day Rolling claims to have seen references to the documents on the internet. Coincidence? Or a hint that Mr. Rolling was contacted by someone from the University or the library and informed that the records were about to go public?

The University, having reviewed the board minutes of the CAC in which the members had agreed to turn over the records to UIC, determined it had the right to open the records and it held nothing back.

Rolling, however, continues to assert that the gift to the university was never executed, that the University had no right to release the records, and he is threatening to block Stanley Kurtz from publishing what he’s found in the records.

I asked Steve Diamond to explain what the present situation is and he responded:

“Rolling also told the Tribune he is thinking of suing to block the documents that Kurtz is using for a story.

The Tribune was also told that someone else accessed the records this past summer.

Rolling said he saw reports about CAC records on the web and unilaterally called UIC. But the only reports all summer about the CAC records were mine based on what I clearly identified as CAC records provided by Brown University not UIC.

However, soon after I posted my analysis on June 18 based on those records Brown stopped answering my email inquiries, while until then they had been very responsive.

I have now asked them if they were also contacted by anyone associated with the CAC.”

Tom Maguire smells a rat:

Kurtz went public with the library’s evasions on August 18. By his account Mr. Kurtz had been in discussions with the library and had made an appointment to view the documents prior to the 18th.

So why did Mr. Rolling contact the library on the 11th? Was his spider sense tingling? Or did someone at the library mention to him that the Annenberg Challenge files were in play? One might think that the library spokesperson could address the question of whether someone from the library contacted Mr. Rolling, thereby precipitating his call.

The only thing that’s transparent about Obama is that he and his friends are anything but. Undoubtedly there’s a good reason for that.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/Obama-and-the-annenberg-files-the-mystery-deepens/

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Need2Know

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:27 am

Obama is all pomp and polished speeches, that is all. He lacks any real credibility and his proposed "plans" are dangerous to ALL of us in my opinion.

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pax

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:45 am

Need2Know wrote:

Obama is all pomp and polished speeches, that is all. He lacks any real credibility and his proposed "plans" are dangerous to ALL of us in my opinion.

His proposed plans are very similar to those of Bill Clinton, imo. McCain's proposed plans are very similar to those of George W. Bush, who you've said has been a terrible president. I think John McCain is a great war hero who deserves our eternal gratitude, as do all war heroes. Yet, as he was talking about his deeply moving personal story, there were people at his convention with purple band-aids on their cheeks, mocking the purple heart that John Kerry was awarded. How does that type of attitude, sarcasm and mockery, improve the tone of politics? Are the only true heroes militarists? Does our country also honor the bravery and courage of those who serve the country they love in a non-military manner? How do you think John McCain would be a better president than George W. Bush, with policies so similar as to be virtually identical?

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pax

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:47 am

Need2Know wrote:

Obama is all pomp and polished speeches, that is all. He lacks any real credibility and his proposed "plans" are dangerous to ALL of us in my opinion.

One more question. With Tom Brady out for the season, will the Patriots make the playoffs? (I think they will.) Very Happy

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Phantom

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:50 am

pax wrote:

One more question. With Tom Brady out for the season, will the Patriots make the playoffs? (I think they will.) Very Happy

Bellichik is 16 games inder .500 without Brady.

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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:38 am

pax wrote:

I am moderate in most of my views with the exception of a few. I do not think John McCain mirrors George Bush at all. He may have similar economic beliefs, but so do millions of other people. Continuing to compare McCain to GWB and to ride that wave of negativity of these last eight years in favor of Obama's "change" is really selling McCain and others who support him short. We will not agree on what we feel is best for this country at this given moment in history and that is fine. The attacks of both sides is wearing thin with many people, I can tell you that. Many, many people are tired of the politicians playing their games and not solving our problems. Come November, the majority will speak and that majority will decide who sits in the Oval Office and even though I think Obama is FAR from ideal (as Biden and Clinton themselves said) if he is elected, he will be MY president and I will respect him, encourage him, support him and most of all, pray for him while leading our country.

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apodixis

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:46 am

Write in: PETREAUS FOR PRESIDENT. CONDI RICE FOR VEEP.

Campaign Slogan: REALISM Thumbs Up

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woebedamned

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:49 am

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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:42 pm

Need2Know wrote:

That's cool. I feel the same. If John McCain is our next President I will wish him all the best. It's an incredibly difficult job. I like the note John Wayne wrote to President Kennedy. Something along the lines of I didn't vote for you but if you ever need my help, please ask. And tell the cowhands that pissing upstream don't make the coffee taste any better. (I made up that last part Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:57 pm

delete -- too negative

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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:06 am

pax wrote:

Hey cowboy, looks to me like you are quite the Marion Morrison fan Very Happy

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pax

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:42 am

Need2Know wrote:

Hey cowboy, looks to me like you are quite the Marion Morrison fan Very Happy

Ha ha. I had to look up who it is. Yes, love his movies. Very Happy

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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:58 am

woebedamned wrote:

Exactly. Its a job I wouldnt want for all the money in the world. Obama stands for many things I am against, so I cannot vote for him, and I really dont have confidence in his ability to unify the country, or God forbid, stand up for it should it come under attack, but that doesnt mean I will spend the next 4 years whining and screaming about how lousy he is. Should he win, he will be our leader, and as such, I can only support and pray for his decisons and leadership.

I feel exactly the same. If Obama wins (God help us), but so be it. I survived Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for a total of 16 years. I'll survive another 4 regardless of who's in the White House.

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Phantom

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:56 am

Who is Mike Klonsky and why does Obama let him blog?

Mike Klonsky : Obama blogger

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Mike Klonsky has had a blog on Obama's official website for a few months now (His first article is from February)...

Soooo who's Mike Klonsky?...

Quote: Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist. He is perhaps most famous for being National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society in 1968...

...On May 12, 1969, Klonsky and four other SDSers were arrested at the organization's Chicago national headquarters for assaulting a police officer, interfering with a firefighter, and inciting mob action[/b]. A prank call to a local police station said there had been a shooting at SDS' offices. When the police arrived, Klonsky and the others were convinced it was a ruse to gain access to SDS' offices.[1] Klonsky convinced the police everything was fine, when a second prank call brought local firefighters to the scene. When the police attempted to force entry to the offices, Klonsky and the others resisted. Convinced state repression of SDS was coming, Klonsky told a national television audience on CBS' "Face the Nation" that police repression of the New Left was being planned by the U.S. Department of Justice...

...At SDS' June 1969 national convention in Chicago, Klonsky played a major role in the dissolution of the organization. A group of 11 SDS national leaders—including Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, John Jacobs, Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers, Terry Robbins, and Howie Machtinger—had met in April and May of 1969 to craft a response to PL supporters within SDS. Their article, "You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows," was published in New Left Notes on June 18, 1969, the day the convention opened. The "Weatherman" statement denounced imperialism and racism, and repudiated PL's claim that youth culture was bourgeois. The Weatherman statement called for revolutionary violence at home to stop imperialism, and the formation of collectives in major cities to support violence and stop factionalism.

Maybe you'd like to see a little more from our Weatherman friend?...

Quote: In late 1969, Klonsky founded the October League, a communist party which in 1977 became the Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist. He was elected the party's chairman. The group opposed Gay Liberation and supported the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. Klonsky made several trips to China beginning in July 1977, where he was warmly received by government and Communist Party of China officials and treated to state dinners.

Now either you believe that Obama complicitly allows this thing to happen on his blogs because of his association or you believe that their campaign site is run by such ignorant people that they unknowingly and freely let anyone who feels like blogging get their own page...

Of course, you could easily say "maybe Obama doesn't know anything about this loon and doesn't want anything to do with him!"...

tsk, tsk, tsk...Not so easy, my compadres...read on...

Quote: In 1991, Klonsky co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in Chicago

Co-founded?...

Wonder who co-founded it with him?...

Quote: William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament.

Okaaaaayy...

So what does this have to do with Barack Obama?...

Well let's look at the grant support for this workshop...

Quote: GRANT SUPPORT

Grants obtained for the support of the Small Schools Workshop and/or the Chicago Forum for School Change at the University of Illinois at Chicago, co-director, principal investigator.

Annenberg Challenge -1997 - 260,000

Annenberg Challenge?...What's that?...

Hmmm....wonder who the chairman of the Annenberg Challenge was in 1997....

Quote: Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999

There you have it folks...

Mike Klonsky - Communist leader...and along with Bill Ayers, promoter of American terrorism, created a school workshop that received a grant from the Annenberg Challenge, the Chicago branch created by Bill Ayers and had Barack Obama as president and chairman, and now Klonsky gets his own little blog on Obama's offical website...

But you're not supposed to believe in "guilt by association", eh?...

Let's look back at what Obama said about Bill Ayers...

Quote: At the debate, Obama said of Ayers: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.”

When Bill Ayers started the Annenberg Challenge and YOU became the founding president and chairman of it, you weren't 8 years old dummy...

Only your blind supporters are willing to bypass it... __________________ "You get the respect that you give"

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:32 am

Obama's Plumbers ...

There is a secret group in the Obama-Biden campaign tasked with shutting off any leaks from the record that links Barack Obama to his longtime adviser and mentor Bill Ayers, professor of education at the University of Illinois and unrepentant Weatherman terrorist and fugitive from the 1970s.

This surprising fact has been developed by Chicago-born and Ralph Nader-supporting Professor Steve Diamond of Santa Clara University Law School, who maintains the Global Labor and Politics blog and has pieced together over many months the unusual surreptitious activity around the public records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) grant now housed at the University of Illinois and Brown University.

Since the spring, Diamond has led the investigation into the intimate working relationship between Obama and Ayers that dates back at least to the beginning of 1995 and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Grants.

Diamond believes this group is not harmless. "It's a 'Plumbers' unit. You know, we are old enough to recall the Plumbers in Richard Nixon's White House. This is like that. The job is to stop anyone trying to use the (Chicago) Annenberg (Challenge) papers to figure out how Ayers and Obama worked together on education."

The "Plumbers" were a Nixon administration fiasco, the so-called secret White House Special Investigative Unit 24 tasked to stop the leaks of classified material. Once revealed, the Plumbers unit led to more bizarre discoveries that culminated in the Watergate impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.

Diamond believes this Obama-Biden "Plumbers" unit was responsible for the harassment of Stanley Kurtz of National Review, who sought access to public records of the now defunct CAC at the University of Illinois Library in Chicago in mid-August. He also believes it may have played a part in frustrating his own investigation of similar CAC records in the papers of the nationwide Annenberg Challenge program that are housed at Brown University. The question now is who among the major figures in the Chicago progressive circle, as well as former Annenberg Challenge officials, are unofficial members of Obama's Plumbers? And who among other responsible officials of the University of Illinois are their unwitting allies?

There is a substantial independent report from a major Democratic source that confirms Diamond's suspicions. The source confirms the unit is led by Bill Ayers himself and likely includes Tom Hayden and other members of "Progressives for Obama." Most critically, the Democratic source says this unit has direct access to media adviser David Axelrod of the Obama-Biden campaign.

Obama has struggled since the primary contest with Mrs. Clinton last spring to avoid answering candidly about his relationship with Ayers. His motivation is entirely obvious, seeking to avoid the political damage that would result from exposure of his friendship with a strident radical who posed standing on an American flag to promote his 2001 autobiography "Fugitive Days" and who was quoted in the New York Times on September 11, 2001 as saying, "There's a certain eloquence to bombs."

In April 2008, Obama, speaking to George Stephanopoulos, described Ayers -- as if from a great distance -- as "a guy who lived in my neighborhood." Obama also mislead Stephanopoulos with the peculiar characterization of Ayers as "a professor of English." In September, Obama dropped the brittle pose of not knowing intimate details about Ayers and told Bill O'Reilly, "I haven't seen the guy in a year and a half," and, "I come to Chicago. He's working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So, he and I know each other as a consequence of work he's doing on education. That is not an endorsement of his views."

Obama went on to answer a question that O'Reilly actually did not ask in the course of the conversation. Obama declared, "This guy is not part of my campaign. He's not some adviser of mine."

The leaking that the "Plumbers" unit has blocked so far began last spring when Diamond posted several literate articles on his Global Labor and Politics blog on how Obama, an outsider to Chicago, had risen so swiftly in the Cook County machine.

On June 18, Diamond posted "That Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood," in which he discussed the CAC for the first time, using research he'd done from the CAC papers on file at Brown University. Diamond was puzzled when an additional request to Brown for more information was met with silence; and he now wonders if this was an oversight or the work of the "Plumbers."

Kurtz ran into the Plumber unit August 11 when he requested CAC documents at the University of Illinois library in Chicago. Kurtz was denied access, and there have been several inconsistent explanations as to why. What is now believed more accurate is that the former executive director of the CAC, Ken Rolling, who was a long-standing associate of both Ayers and Obama, contacted the library officials to stop Kurtz's inquiry.

There are inconsistent statements made by Rolling about the reason for and timing of his intervention, and he told the Chicago Tribune that he got involved because of surfing on the net from his home in Mississippi, despite the fact that there was no mention of the CAC on the net before August 11 -- except in Steve Diamond's blog.

What is clear is that by mid-August Rolling was in communication with major University of Illinois officials, including B. Joseph White, the university's president, Thomas Bearrows, the university's counsel, and Tom Hardy, the university's executive director for university relations. An August 23 Ken Rolling e-mail to Bearrows (obtained by the Freedom of Information Act) points to telephone communications the day before between all of the principals involved in the decision to withhold the documents from Kurtz and others.

What is not answered at this time is when and why Rolling was in regular contact with university officials, though the few facts indicate Rolling began his interference -- and Diamond calls him "the lead Plumber" -- at exactly the same time Kurtz made his request: August 11. Did a university official give Rolling a heads-up?

Most significantly, the August 23 e-mail indicates a range of materials that Rolling wants to review personally and to restrict in the documents. "I can be at the UIC library between 9:00 am and 10:00 am on Monday August 25 to review the files." Much of the material Rolling aimed to review relates to the first year of the CAC, 1995, when Ayers and Obama were most active together in making decisions on the large cash awards. Thanks to the FOIA, we know the response by Bearrows to Rolling's request was suggestive -- "as promised, we will carefully consider the concerns that you identify..."

Importantly, we do know that at least one of the awards in 1995, the largest that year, went to a group led by Ayers and his partner and fellow radical Mike Klonsky.

Who is Ken Rolling? He was a member of the Woods Foundation board that was responsible for awarding the grant that first brought Barack Obama to Chicago as a community organizer. Later, Ayers is said to have been involved in choosing Rolling to be executive director of the CAC.

It seems more than coincidence that Obama, as a 33 year-old junior lawyer at a modest Chicago law firm, was then brought onto the CAC board as chairman, despite the prominence of other members that included two university presidents. In a September 10 New York Times article on Obama and education that mentions Ayers and depends upon Rolling as an informant, one of the presidents, Stanley O. Ikenberry of the University of Illinois, remembered about the choice of Obama as chair, "It was unusual: here you had a person trained in the law chairing a board on school reform."

The CAC documents were again opened to the public on August 26, several days after the exchange of information between Rolling and library officials. We await Stanley Kurtz's forthcoming articles to explicate the details of the Ayers-Obama-Rolling CAC working relationship. What is not clear is whether or not all the CAC materials are yet available for the full discovery of the relationship between the unrepentant radical Ayers and the guarded presidential candidate Obama.

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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:38 pm

Proposal Redirects ‘Paulson’s Profits’ To Left-Wing Groups

Bush told the country that we are in an economic crisis and his Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, came up with an idea that would, it is claimed, end up actually making money for the U.S. Treasury in the long run. That’s all well and good, but the Democrats already have a plan to siphon off any repayment of the people’s money back to the treasury by adding one little line to the agreement that would end up stealing money from any repayments and giving it to left-wing political advocacy groups like ACORN, the National Urban League and the Hispanic group La Raza. Instead of trying to help the economy, the Democrats just want more money for their left-wing political constituents. It’s business as usual for the Democrats, of course, but a bigger question is will the media let them get away with it?

On Thursday, the Senate Democrats shopped around a one page “Agreement in Principle” from the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that laid out their proposal for the bailout of the economy. At first it all seems rather straight forward, but hidden inside this document is one little line that proves that Democrats aren’t as interested in the economy as they are in trying to extort a payday for their favorite political advocacy groups. Yes, even in a bill as important as the bailout the Democrats are trying to stuff it with pork!

Of course, the claim that this bailout will make money is not cut and dried. But the idea is that the bailout will put the Treasury Department in ownership of what could easily later become lucrative investments. And, at that later date, the Treasury Dept. can then begin to sell these investments off at a profit and, thence, pay back the Treasury for the bailout — in essence repaying the American people. But, the Democrats already have a plan to spend “profits” that not only do not exist yet, but may never exist. In the “Agreement in Principle” is the following line:

“Directs a certain percentage of future profits to the Affordable Housing Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund to meet America’s housing needs.”

So, the Senate Democrats want to re-direct profits to the “Affordable Housing Fund” and the “Capital Magnet Fund” instead of keeping these future profits going to pay back the American people for this $700 Billion bailout loan. And what are these special agencies the Senate Dems want to fund? We turn to the Wall Street Journal in a July 2008 piece that reports on what sorts of groups that were to be the recipients of the federal pork from earlier bills the Senate tried to pass.

That tax eventually will channel upwards of $600 million annually in grants for developing and restoring housing, mostly as low-income rentals, available to Acorn and other groups (such as the National Council of La Raza and the National Urban League ). Democrats on Capitol Hill and housing groups say the housing-assistance money is vital to helping Americans hit hardest by what some call the largest drop in home values since the Great Depression. But they acknowledge the perception of political conflict in giving federal funds to an organization that does political work. “We are guarding against it,” said Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank in an interview. He secured the Affordable Housing Trust from his seat as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee…

Many may already know that ACORN ( The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is under investigation in several states for voter fraud. They have been caught turning in hundreds of thousands of fake voter registration cards in an effort to stuff ballot boxes with fake voters and pump up Democrat vote totals. ACORN’s founder also tried to cover up an embezzlement scheme his little brother perpetrated when he stole $1 million dollars of the organization’s money. This has only lately come to light.

Of course, many are also aware of the race oriented Hispanic La Raza group that has been a major player in trying to allow illegal aliens to enter the U.S., vote in our elections, and take freely of schools and social welfare monies.

Naturally, all these organizations exclusively support the Democratic Party.

Lastly, there is one more aspect of this that proves the Democrats are playing politics with this issue instead of being concerned with the saving the economy. The Senate Democrats and Democratic Speaker of the House Pelosi have been pressuring John McCain to sign onto this deal. If he does and this payoff to left-wing groups like the vote fraud infused ACORN or the racemongering La Raza stays in the bill, McCain will be responsible for giving pork to dangerous hardcore, left-wing organizations. If he doesn’t sign onto this because of this pork laden provision, the Democrats can then turn around and say that McCain is a stumbling block in this important bailout bill. The Democrats have, in other words, slipped a poison pill into the plan.

Once again, the Democratic Party proves that it doesn’t care about capitalism, doesn’t care about the economy, doesn’t care about working for the people, but does want to continue slipping huge amounts of cash to their buddies in anti-American groups as well as using important bills to advance mere political partisanship.

So, lets see if the media siezes on this one line in the Senate Democrat’s “Agreement” and reports it for what it is: a cynical, partisan attempt to play politics during one of the most important crises in years.

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