Friday Blog Round-Up: Power to the People Edition

come on from a company that said they would never cap salarys and then changed change is good right

I am a new employee of a walMart But already I have noticed that who or what ever system they use to scedual thier shifts is wacked out ! I worked Sat from 3-10pm as I do most nights secedualed . But this is not the peroblem . It is that when I was hired I was told that in my position I was not alowed to take a 1 hr Lunch and Now all of a suden they decide to make everyone take a 1hr lunch ! This after the cut us from a 5 day week to a 3 & 4 day week ! ( loss of hrs and Pay ! ) Now the other day I was told I was 1 hr over my aloted time worked for this pay period ! What the hell I only get 65 to 66 hrs every 2 weeks anyway ! My Pay went from 380.00 every 2 weeks to 295.00 and now will be less. You all should have seen all the associates being forced to take 2-2+ hr lunches to esentually ( pay back Walmart for Over time ) Over time that was earned honestly some people were over cause they were asked to stay late till the next person could clock in and get up to were You were or over time earned cause they were short casheirs and needed Help for abt 1/2 hr or more ! ( All to serve the customer demands. There was even a girl that got fired or let go cause she was a Meal exception when a co worker had a low blood sugar and had to go get her lunch early to avoid passing out in a diebtic event ! she switched lunches so she could go and became a meal exception when the other lady came back late whitch made her late going to her lunch. This girl is Pregnent her self and needs the job but no matter to them they let her go anyway !
Some body better wake up and realize that sometimes being late can not be late when others cause it to happen threw nofalt of their own. ( shit happens an it can’t be helped )
I now workless Hrs so the bigwigs can get a bonous for keeping labor cost down and that is not fair to us that are struggeling to make ends meat ! I may not be a long time employee But I know how to balance the sceduals better then what has been done . And I know not to jump down peoples throet for shit that can’t be helped ! You talk to the person exsplain the situation and ask NOT DEMAND for a rectificating if they are able to do it If not You find the person or persons to do so .
As soon as I can I will be looking for a better place to work I can not stand by an be abused this way ! If I work the hrs I exspect to be payed for them Not Told I will take a 2 hr lunch after they told me that I was only alowed to take a 1/2 hr lunch when I started then they Never told me to change and start taking a 1 hr lunch . whitch ment for the 2 days I worked I was 1 hr on the clock TO LONG Already and I have to now take 2 hrs to make up for it all in 1 day .
Yah I am ranting But You Know I am not the only one who feels this way !
signed confussed

The Wal-Mart store I go to, must not have gotten the ‘Memo’!!

Quite awhile ago, WalMartWatch, said that Wal-Mart was getting rid of their ‘sewing & crafts department’, but guess what, the store I shop at, STILL has it’s ‘sewing & craft department’ and it’s just as big as it always was!!

The DRM mess is just another instance where Wal-Mart lurched at a fad. If you think buying anything at Wal-Mart, but particularly gizmo gadgetry, can be relied on, think again.

The collection is very simple and basic...

In WalMartia we will all dress the same. We will all decorate our houses with the same stuff. Everything will be nice and cheap and the same. It will be known as the Age of Conformed Consumption.

One of the perks for me, as one of the ElevenMoms, is this trip - A trip to the official home of Walmart. In fact while I am here, I get to tour the very first Walmart store, #1.

Here, my dear, have some Kool Aid then we’ll tour a Bangladeshi sweatshop. You’re not allergic to lead, are you?

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Am I surprised that b in Ky got treated as a piece of dirt to be swept around the floor? No. This is apparently how WAL-MART TREATS MOST OF THEIR EMPLOYEES. Who would want to work there being treated like that? Only desperate people who cannot find work elsewhere.
Imagine what would happen if all Wal-Mart workers went on strike all at once? Who would run the registers? Who would stock the shelves? Does anyone think that management will come out of their offices to do this? Think again!!
Wal-Mart has apparently FORGOTTEN WHO HAS MADE THEM ALL THEIR MILLIONS. Without all their employees THERE WOULDN’T BE A WAL-MART!! And as far as I’m concerned that would be a good thing!!
Yes--What’s good for Wal-Mart is bad for America!!

The “Poring of America” you bet- if the Muslim gets in.

Lord, Have mercy on us!

This will make you re-think: A Trivia question in Sunday School: How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelations?

Revelations Chapter 13 tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is. Almost a four-year term of a Presidency.

All I can say is ‘Lord, Have mercy on us!’

According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40’s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything..

Do we recognize this description??

I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to post this as many times as you c an!  Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet..do it! I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere.

From: Dr. John Tisdale
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Friends,

As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . ..’we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . .’ As with so many other statements I’ve heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I’d see the day that I’d hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation.  To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation--and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be.

I hope that each of you will do what I’m doing now--send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list.  With God’s help, and He is still in control of this nation and all else, we can show this man and the world in November that we are, indeed, still a Christian nation!

Please pray for our nation!

“Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech”
Ministers will intentionally violate ban on campaigning by nonprofits in hopes of generating a test case.
By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 25, 2008
Setting the stage for a collision of religion and politics, Christian ministers from California and 21 other states will use their pulpits Sunday to deliver political sermons or endorse presidential candidates—defying a federal ban on campaigning by nonprofit groups.

The pastors’ advocacy could violate the Internal Revenue Service’s rules against political speech with the purpose of triggering IRS investigations.
Said the Rev. Wiley S. Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. “We may not be politically correct, but we are going to be biblically correct. We are going to vote for those who follow the Bible.”

Drake was the target of a recent IRS investigation into his endorsement last year of former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

Drake and 32 other pastors who have signed on to the “pulpit initiative” have sparked loud condemnations by fellow clergy and advocates of the separation of church and state.

These critics, such as Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argue that Sunday’s sermons at churches in Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and other states will violate federal tax law by politicizing the pulpit. That, they believe, will undercut the independence churches have long enjoyed to speak out about moral and ethical issues in American life, including women’s suffrage, child labor and civil rights.

“The integrity of the religious community is at stake when religion and politics become entangled,” said the Rev. Eric Williams of the North Congregational United Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio.

The religious leaders asked the agency to stop the Arizona-based defense fund from recruiting churches and to investigate whether its efforts may jeopardize its own tax-exempt status.(Continued)

Representing the religious leaders are three Washington attorneys, all former IRS officials, who also filed a complaint accusing defense fund attorneys of violating IRS rules by helping the churches break federal law.

Meanwhile, a separate group of 180 ministers, rabbis -
members of the Interfaith Alliance—which includes the nation’s top Episcopal bishop—have signed a pledge to refrain from electioneering in their houses of worship.

“Political activity and political expressions are very important, but partisan politics are . . . . a death knell to the prophetic freedom that any religious organization must protect,” said the Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, who signed the pledge.

At the heart of the controversy is the Johnson amendment, named after former President Lyndon Johnson, a senator from Texas when it was enacted in 1954. The measure stated that nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations cannot participate in political campaigns for or against candidates for public office.

The defense fund issued seemingly contradictory statements about the initiative. On one hand, it insists pastors will not endorse candidates and will simply exercise their constitutional rights by addressing “the differing positions of the presidential candidates in light of Scripture.”

On the other hand, the defense fund describes its efforts as a “strategic litigation plan” that seeks to “restore the right of each pastor to speak scriptural truth from the pulpit” without losing a church’s tax-exempt status~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: They want it BOTH ways.

Joyce Meyer’s $23,000 Toilet: A Symbol Of The Prosperity Gospel
Robert Paul Reyes
November 09, 2007
“Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has opened an investigation into the finances of six of the leading prosperity televangelists, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn. Grassley is looking into whether these celebrity preachers abused their tax-exempt status by using proceeds to enrich themselves with luxury items like mansions, private jets, and fancy cars.”

Quotation from The American Prospect

A concise definition of the prosperity gospel: A well-coiffed and designer-clad televangelist badgers his TV listeners to send him their hard-earned dollars so that God will in turn financially bless them.

Jesus Christ never promised his disciples earthly rewards—only heavenly rewards. For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul? Mark 8:36

These shameless prosperity hucksters live in mansions, ride in limos, dine in world class restaurants and stay in 4-star hotels, but the Bible says “the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”

Televangelist Joyce Meyer, who’s yet to meet a plastic surgery procedure she doesn’t like, installed a $23,000 marble topped antique commode in her new ministry center complex.

Nothing has changed since Tammy Faye Baker invested more on a luxury dog house than some people spend on a mobile home.

How can a so-called preacher justify wasting $23,000 on a toilet? Don’t her followers cringe at the prospect of their donations being flushed down the toilet? Apparently not, her ministry continues to prosper financially.

No church, and certainly not the ministries of these prosperity gospel charlatans, should enjoy a tax-exempt status.

I have little faith that the intellectually-challenged supporters of these con artists will ever have an epiphany and reject the false prosperity gospel. It is imperative that the federal government stop enabling these clowns and take away their tax-exempt status.~~~~~~~American Chronicles~~~~~NOTE: Maybe Joyce could loan out the commode to the Federal Government to flush the “$700 Billion $$$$ bail -out “down the drain(and perhaps, simultaneously , earn a little “quid pro quo” from the IRS, for the courtesy.)

The “false prosperity gospel’? I thought the author was referring to “Free Market “ theory .

Well, It’s Obvious OCS Has Drank the Kool Aid!

Hey Larry, that’s not really you is it?  I almost didn’t recognize you because of the references to “scripture” and the sheep’s clothing you’re wearing.

So Obama Barack is “The Beast” huh?  The “Anti Christ?” What a fertile imagination you have!  Or, is that a fetid imagination?

No doubt about it, we’re in the so-called “crazy season” of a political election.  The desperation of Right Wing Nuts like “O.C.S.” and Larry are becoming louder and more frenetic, as each day ticks off towards November 4th.

These two guys and the Republican Party in general, have finally realized the futility of trying to convince America in the next 25 days, that the last 8 years have really been good for them.

These Wacko Malcontents are starting to “eat their own” and trun on each other as their desperation turns to outright panic.

Yesterday, John McCain was booed at a rally in Minnesota when he described Obama, “as a “decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”

The palpable fear gripping many Conservatives today, is evinced by personal attacks against Obama, with shouts of “traitor,” “terrorist,” “treason,” “liar,” and even “off with his head,” heard at McCain/Palin rallies.

And while Larry and OCS waste their time spewing fear and hate on the internet an army of young Jews are converging on South Florida to persuade their grandparents to VOTE OBAMA.

Face it fellows. you’ve been out-manuevered in this campaign from the get-go.

And do you think seeing John McCain’s medical records would change your vote?

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I Got a Big Job For You, Paul

Can you drop by Bentonville, ARK A.S.A.P. and clean out the Wal-Mart HO “wall to wall?” Send the bill to Lee Scott.

Screwed: That would be the first time in eight years that ANYONE would have exerted pressure UPON Bentonville H.O.-Usually, its the other way around-Bentonvuille exerting pressure UPON everyone else.

Obama has promised an additional $3 trillion in new spending. He has proposed soaking the rich, who will then pass the costs on to the middle and poor classes in the form of lower government revenues, less investment, less jobs and higher prices.

Obama would meet with terrorists without preconditions, truly was a registered Muslim until he was 31 years old, would do nothing to address our budget deficit or $40 + trillion in unfunded entitlement spending, has collected more than $200 million in contributions which cannot be traced to a specific person or source, bought his house in a shady land deal with convicted felon Tony Rezko, was close friends with and a close associate of admitted terrorist William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dorn, still can’t explain how he got into Harvard Law or where he got the extra $30,000 beyond student loans to pay his tuition.

Obama has a 100% liberal voting record, has no legislative achievements of his own, beyond a few bills to which someone added his name, has no history of bi-partisan cooperation, has voted for sex education classes for kindergarten children, has voted against giving medical treatment to aborted fetuses that survived the procedure, voted ‘present’ more than 150 times, spent 12 years as a law “professor’ despite having no qualifications and never having published a single document, article or book of his own, spent 11 years as a “community organizer” where, by his own admission, he accomplished little, admitted to large scale marijuna and cocaine use as a youth, had a black Muslim with ties to the Saudi royal family raising money and recommendations for his Harvard tuition, had a father and grandfather who were Nigerian Araba, registered as a Muslim and recited Muslim prayers in school, prayed in a mosque 6 months before he announced he was running for President and refuses to allow Harvard to release any information about his admission, record, financial aid or work while in law school.

Obama is a Socialist who has lied about his religous background, his association with terrorists, with convicted felons, with Muslims and with foreign powers. He is against guns and he will attempt to destroy America as we know it.

So, by all means, vote Obama.

11

Oct

2008
The God That Failed: The 30-Year Lie of the [Free] Market Cult
Written by Chris Floyd


In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.  The effectiveness of this unprecedented transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens to the top tiers of the business world remains to be seen. It will certainly insulate the very rich from the consequences of their own greed and folly and fraud.But putting aside for a moment the actual intent, details and results of the global bailout offers, it is their very extent that shocks, and shows—in a stark, harsh, all-revealing light—the brutal disdain with which the national governments of the world’s “leading democracies” have treated their own citizens for decades.

Beginning with Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979, government after government—and party after party—fell to the onslaught of an extremist faith: the narrow, blinkered fundamentalism of the “Chicago School.” Epitomized by its patron saint, Milton Friedman, the rigid doctrine held that an unregulated market would always “correct” itself, because its workings are based on entirely rational and quantifiable principles.  This was of course an absurdly reductive and savagely ignorant view of history, money and human nature; but because it flattered the rich and powerful, offering an “intellectual” justification for rapacious greed and ever-widening economic and social inequality, it was adopted as holy writ by the elite and promulgated as public policy.

This radical cult—a kind of Bolshevism from above—took its strongest hold in the United States and Britain, and was then imposed on many weaker nations through the IMF-led “Washington Consensus” (more aptly named by Naomi Klein as the “Shock Doctrine"), with devastating and deadly results. According to the cult, not only were markets to be freed from the constraints placed on them after the world-shattering effects of the Great Depression, but all public spending was to be slashed ruthlessly to the bone. (Although exceptions were always made for the Pentagon war machine.) After all, every dollar spent by a public entity on public services and amenities was a dollar taken away from the private wheeler-dealers who could more usefully employ it in increasing the wealth of the elite—who would then allow some of their vast profits to “trickle down” to the lower orders.

This was the cult that captured the governments of the United States and Britain (among others), as well as the Republican and Democratic parties, and the Conservative and Labour parties as well. And for almost thirty years, its ruthless doctrines have been put into practice. Regulation and oversight of financial markets were systematically stripped away or rendered toothless. Essential public services were sold off, for chump change, to corporate interests. Public spending on anything other than making war, threatening war and profiting from war was pared back or eliminated. Such public spending that did remain was forever under threat and derided, like the remnants of some pagan faith surviving in isolated backwaters.

Year after year, the ordinary citizens were told by their governments: we have no money to spend on your needs, on your communities, on your infrastructure, on your health, on your children, on your environment, on your quality of life. We can’t do those kinds of things any more.

Of course, when talking amongst themselves, or with the believers in the think tanks, boardrooms—and editorial offices—the cultists would speak more plainly: we don’t do those things anymore because we shouldn’t do them, we don’t want to do them, they are wrong, they are evil, they are outside the faith. But for the hoi polloi, the line was usually something like this: Budgets are tight, we must balance them (for a “balanced budget” is a core doctrine of the cult), we just can’t afford all these luxuries, sorry about that.

But now, as the emptiness and falsity of the Chicago cargo cult stands nakedly revealed, even to some of its most faithful and fanatical adherents, we can see that this 30-year mantra by our governments has been a deliberate and outright lie. The money was there—billions and billions and billions of dollars of it, trillions of dollars of it. We can see it before our very eyes today—being whisked away from our public treasuries and showered upon the banks and the brokerages.

Let’s say it again: The money was there all along.

Money to build and generously equip thousands and thousands of new schools, with well-paid, exquisitely trained teachers, small teacher-pupil ratios, a full range of enriching and inspiring programs.

Money to revitalize the nation’s crumbling inner cities, making them safe and vibrant places for businesses and families and communities to grow.

Money to provide decent, affordable and accessible health care to every citizen, to provide dignity and comfort to the elderly, and protection and humane treatment for the mentally ill.

Money to provide affordable higher education to everyone who wanted it and could qualify for it. Money to help establish and sustain local businesses and family farms, centered in and on the local community, driven by the needs and knowledge of the people in the area, and not by the dictates of distant corporations.

Money to strengthen crumbling infrastructure, to repair bridges, shore up levies, maintain roads and electric grids and sewage systems.

Money for affordable, workable public transport systems, for the pursuit of alternative sources of energy, for sustainable, sensible development, for environmental restoration.

Money to support free inquiry in science, technology, health and other areas—research unfettered from the war machine and the drive for corporate profit, and instead devoted to the betterment of human life.

Money to support culture, learning, continuing education, libraries, theater, music and the endless manifestations of the human quest to gain more meaning, more understanding, more enlightenment, a deeper, spiritually richer life.
The money for all of this—and much, much more—was there, all along. When they said we couldn’t have these things, they were lying—or else allowing themselves to be profitably duped by the high priests of the market cult. When they wanted a trillion dollars—or three trillion dollars—to wage a war of aggression in Iraq, they found it. Now, when they want trillions of dollars to save the speculators, fraudsters and profiteers of greed in the global market, they suddenly have it.

Who then can believe that these governments could not have found the money for good schools, health care, and all the rest, that they could not have enhanced the well-being and livelihood of millions of ordinary citizens, and helped create a more just and equitable and stable world—if they had wanted to?

This is one of the main facts that ordinary citizens around the world should take away from this crisis: the money to maintain, secure and improve the lives of their families and communities was always there—but their governments, and their political parties, made a deliberate, unforced choice NOT to USE it for the COMMON GOOD. Instead, they subjugated the well-being of the world to the dictates of an extremist cult. A cult of greed and privilege, that preached iron discipline to the poor and the middle-class, but released the rich and powerful from all restrictions, and all responsibility for their actions.

This should be a constant—and galvanizing—thought in the minds of the public in the months and years to come. Remember what you could have HAD, and how it was DENIED you by the lies and delusions of a powerful elite and their bought-off factotums in government. Remember the trillions of dollars that SUDDENLY appeared when the wheeler-dealers needed money to cover their own greed and stupidity.

Let these thoughts guide you as you weigh the promises and actions of politicians and candidates, and as you assess the “expert analysis” on economic and domestic policy offered by the corporate media and the corporate-bankrolled think tanks and academics.

And above all, let these thoughts be foremost in your mind when you hear—as you certainly will hear, when (and if) the markets are finally stabilized (at whatever gigantic cost in human suffering)—the adherents of the market cult emerge once more and call for “deregulation” and “untying the hands of business” and all the other ritual incantations of their false and savage fundamentalist faith.

For although the market cult has suffered a cataclysmic defeat in the last few weeks, it is by no means dead. It has 30 years of entrenchment in power to fall back on. And the leader of every major political party in the West has spent their entire political career within the cult’s confines. It has been the atmosphere they breathed, it has been the sole ladder by which they have climbed to prominence. They will be loath to abandon it, once the immediate crisis is past; most will not be able to.

So REMEMBER WELL the lessons of this new October crash: The money to make a better life, to serve the common good, has always been there. BUT it has been kept from you by deceit, by dogma, by greed, and by the ambition of those who have sold their souls, and betrayed their brothers and sisters, their fellow human creatures, for the sake of privilege and power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EMPIRE BURLESQUE

Obama is a Socialist..

It wasn’t Obama that bailed out financial institutions with taxpayer’s money. It wasn’t Obama that has proposed nationalizing US banks. The current Republican administration is what’s socialist.

“The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America.” ~ Senator Jim Bunning, (R) Kentucky

Who Left the Back Door Open?

Now we know things are getting a little desperate for the Republicans.  Our “old buddy” Nick felt obliged to throw in his worthless 2 cents.

I must admit to a little nervousness myself with both of the Clintons on the prowl.  The Clintons have been campaigning for Obama together, but they feel they “can be more effective” if they split up.  Yeah, they can also do twice as much damage.

With the biggest stock market disruption since the Great Depression, a lingering subprime mortgage mess, a war in Iraq that won’t end, a war in Afghanistan that wasn’t finished, Osama bin Laden still at large, spiraling deficits, 9 straight months of negative job growth, George W. Bush’s approval rating the lowest it’s ever been, does Obama really need “help” from the Clinton’s? BTW, I loved your gig on “The View” Bill.  You fit right in with all the ladies.

If the Clinton’s really want to serve this country and the Democratic Party, they’ll shut their big mouths, and hide out on a moutain top in Arkansas until the election is over!

Screwed: I suspect his two cents is worth even LESS,now.

Screwed: I suspect his two cents is worth even LESS,now.

You Got That Right, ddrb!

Can’t you just see Nick sitting down with Dr. Phil to discuss “free trade” and unfetteredm freemarket Capitalism?  I can just hear Dr. Phil asking him, “How’s it working for you now?”

The point of my last post is that Obama needs to borrow a page from John McCain’s book on mavericks.  Obama needs to get a little of the “maverick” in him and go against the flow of politics as usual in Washington.

The Clintons and Ted Kennedy represent the old vanguard for Democrats.  They are yesterday’s news.  Barack Obama has to show them that he’s “appreciative” of their “help,” but at the same time, he has to distance himself from the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, if he truly wants to convince America that “Change” is coming.

Religious ideologues have a problem. If another religion gets respect and seems as plausible as theirs then it opens up doubt as to whether they are following the “true path”.

Doubt is the destroyer of faith and faith is all that an ideologue has to depend on, since they can’t use logic.

So it is necessary to deny the legitimacy of other’s beliefs in order to shield one’s own from question. The result is illogical ranting that gets more and more strident as the ideologue sees himself losing.

This also applies to economic and social ideologues as the frequent nonsensical rants from some of the most delusional on this site demonstrate.

Those who benefit the most from the current arrangement, whether the Waltons, or corrupt religious leaders don’t spend their time on such rants, they, instead, spend their money buying politicians and using lobbyists to improve their financial position.

They leave the ranting to the useful idiots who believe the propaganda while making the rich richer.

Columnist Paul Krugman wins Nobel economics prize By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers (Courtesy Yahoo)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar, New York Times columnist and unabashed liberal, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect international trade patterns.

Krugman has been a harsh critic of the Bush administration and the Republican Party in The New York Times, where he writes a regular column and has a blog called “Conscience of a Liberal.”

He has also taken the Bush administration to task over the current financial meltdown, blaming its pursuit of deregulation and unencumbered fiscal policies for the financial crisis that has threatened the global economy with recession.

Perhaps better known as a columnist than an economist to the public, Krugman has also come out forcefully against John McCain during the economic meltdown, saying the Republican presidential candidate is “more frightening now than he was a few weeks ago.” Krugman (pronounced KROOG-man) also has derided the Republicans as becoming “the party of stupid.”

Tore Ellingsen, a member of the prize committee, acknowledged that Krugman was an “opinion maker” but added that he was honored on the merits of his economic research, not his political commentary.

“We disregard everything except for the scientific merits,” Ellingsen told The Associated Press.

The 55-year-old American economist was the lone winner of the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) award and the latest in a string of American researchers to be honored. It was only the second time since 2000 that a single laureate won the prize, which is typically shared by two or three researchers.

Not one to tone down his opinions, Krugman has compared the current financial crisis to the devastation of the 1930s.

“We are now witnessing a crisis that is as severe as the crisis that hit Asia in the 90’s. This crisis bears some resemblance to the Great Depression,” Krugman told reporters Monday.

But he was optimistic that a global effort aimed at stemming the financial blood loss had taken root.

“I’m slightly less terrified today than I was on Friday,” he said, referring to the weekend crisis talks among European leaders that led to the nationalization of British banks, unlimited access to U.S. dollars to banks worldwide and efforts to stave off a global recession.

In contrast to his treatment of U.S. officials, Krugman has praised Britain’s financial leaders for their nimble response to the credit crisis.

In a column Monday in the New York Times, Krugman wrote that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling “defined the character of the worldwide rescue effort, with other wealthy nations playing catch-up.”

Whereas U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at first rejected giving financial institutions more money in return for a share of ownership, the British government “went straight to the heart of the problem ... with stunning speed,” he wrote.

“And whaddya know,” Krugman continued, “Mr. Paulson — after arguably wasting several precious weeks — has also reversed course, and now plans to buy equity stakes rather than bad mortgage securities.”

The Bush administration would not comment Monday on whether Krugman would be invited to the White House as is custom with American Nobel laureates.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Krugman for formulating a new theory to answer questions about free trade and said his theory had inspired an enormous field of research.

“What are the effects of free trade and globalization? What are the driving forces behind worldwide urbanization? Paul Krugman has formulated a new theory to answer these questions,” the academy said in its citation.

“He has thereby integrated the previously disparate research fields of international trade and economic geography,” it said.

The award, known as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is the last of the six Nobel prizes announced this year and is not one of the original Nobels. It was created in 1968 by the Swedish central bank in Alfred Nobel’s memory.

In addition to his work as an economist at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he has been since 2000, Krugman has written for Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review and Scientific American, among other publications.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1974 and received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. Besides teaching at Yale and MIT, he also taught at Stanford.

Krugman said winning the Nobel award won’t change his approach to research and writing.

“I’m a great believer in continuing to do work,” he told reporters. “I hope that two weeks from now I’m back to being pretty much the same person I was before.”

Krugman’s work on new trade theory also garnered him the John Bates Clark medal from the American Economic Association in 1991. That prize is given every two years to an economist under the age of 40.

The Nobel citation said Krugman’s approach is based on the premise that many goods and services can be produced at less cost in a long series, a concept known as economies of scale. His research showed the effects of that on trade patterns.

“Trade theory, like much of economics, used to be discussed in the context of perfect competition: thousands of farmers and thousands of customers meeting in a market,” with supply and demand governing prices, said Avinash Dixit, a Princeton professor and economist who specializes in trade theory.

Gradually, people began to realize that conditions in the market were less than perfect, and the small number of companies in some industries had economies of scale that changed the trade equation.

“Krugman was the main person who brought all the theory together, recognized its importance to the real world (and) produced a large expansion of international trade theory,” Dixit said.

Krugman introduced his trade theory in 1979 in a 10-page article in the Journal of International Economics.

It posited that because consumers want a diversity of products, and because economies of scale make production cheaper, multiple countries can build a product such as cars. A nation like Sweden can build its own car brands for both export and sale at home, while also importing cars from other countries.

The article also outlined a new theory of economic geography. Krugman’s idea was that if two countries were alike but one had a larger population, real wages would be somewhat higher in the more populous country because companies there could make better use of economies of scale, creating a greater diversity of goods, lower prices, or both.

Because this enhances the welfare of consumers in that country, its population would increase as more people moved there, which would lead to additional increases in real wages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Bush administration would not comment Monday on whether Krugman would be invited to the White House as is custom with American Nobel laureates. ~~~~~~~~WTF?

BTW: IF the White House DOES invite Krugman, will Bush NOT look him in the eye,and can we look forward to Krugman being referred to as “That OTHER One”?

Screwed: I suspect his two cents is worth even LESS,now.

Don’t let the likes of “her” annoy you, Nick.  She’s been !giving her material away, here for free, and still, no one wants it!

BTW, welcome back.

Screwed: I suspect his two cents is worth even LESS,now.

Don’t let the likes of “her” annoy you, Nick.  She’s been !giving her material away, here for free, and still, no one wants it!

BTW, welcome back.

Have You Ever Heard You Shouldn’t Throw Stones, “bbrd/Someone in USA”?

Especially since you’ve been living in that BIG GLASS HOUSE, otherwise known as your “blogspot.” You know… the blogspot where you dispense all of your “knowledge” and “advice” to Wal-Mart.

It’s you who’s been giving away his material for years and “still no one wants it!”

Sometimes I think Maxine should run for president—she was right on with this one!

Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in this country lately—illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida ... 
.... not me—I concentrate on solutions for the problems—it’s a win-win situation.

* Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
* Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border .

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? Yes!

Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow. 

THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore. 

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this—you cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, politicians and liberal Democrats ... it creates a hostile work environment.

From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A.  County ( L. A.  County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal aliens working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A.  County .. )

(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States ‘ annual population growth

(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration.  29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

What a bunch of fools for letting this continue.

If this doesn’t open your eyes nothing will ! and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters- AKORN & Pelosi= disaster for America!

I guess what I find interesting about Larry in USN WWII (Ret) thoughts are the following:

The illegal aliens from third word countries are NOT WANTED, however they are important enough when it comes to exploiting for slave labour wages, to make goods cheaper for their foreign bosses and to provide the ‘good deal’ to the consumer.
Kind of like Walmart would you not say?
What does Walmart say? Save Money, Live Better?
For who?

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“* Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
* Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border ."~Larry

Maybe you could ship them all to China, then you would only have to enjoy the accomplishments of their hard work for little or no money. If people aren’t good enough to live there then why are they good enough to make your underware?

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Our Wal*Mart/Urban Sprawl Dollars at work…

Saudi Prince and billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world’s tallest building, planned to be over a kilometer (3,281 feet) high. The tower will be built in the Saudi town of Jeddah and will be part of a larger project that will cost $26.7 billion, (100 billion Saudi riyals) said the Prince’s firm, Kingdom Holding Company.

....I can still remember when we did cool stuff in America…

The planned Kingdom City project will be taller than Burj Dubai tower which is the world’s tallest man-made structure.

1 of 4 more photos » The project, entitled Kingdom City, will span 23 million square meters (248 million square feet) and will include luxury homes, hotels and offices.

The booming city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has also joined the skyscraper race.

While the ever-growing Burj Dubai is already the tallest man-made structure in the world, the Nakheel Tower is set to go even higher.

Developers suggest the finished building will be at least 1 km tall.

Larry your bigotry is showing. By the way illegal immigrants can’t get welfare. They can get emergency medical service, however.

Perhaps you would like to eliminate that as well and then have those with TB and other infectious diseases wandering around the streets untreated?

I don’t know where you are getting your “facts”, even though you claim it is from the LA Times, but most of them are wrong.

Your Whining About ACORN is Getting Old, “Larry in USN”

Election Day is still 3 weeks away, and already we’re getting the desperate Right Wing-Nuts like “Larry”, whining about election tampering by ACORN.

What I don’t understand is why we apparently haven’t learned anything since the election of 2000.  Why in this age of eye scanners and fingerprints should it not be possible to come up with an iron-clad method to make sure that every person who is eligible to vote, votes only once.  I don’t care if they register to vote 10,000 times, as long as they vote only once.

Perhaps if it’s that hard for our government to keep track of voters, it should borrow one of your suggestions “Larry,” and assign each voter to a cow.

Are you suggesting with this quote from your “source” that we don’t follow the priciples of the U.S. Constitution anymore, “Larry”?  “...it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore.”

I tend to agree with you on this point, and that goes for the Declaration of Independence as well.

An inconvenient TRUTH for John McCain:He was FOR Acorn,BEFORE he was AGAINST it.To wit:~~~~~~~"ACORN officials, supported by several economists, say it is absurd to blame the crisis on the Community Reinvestment Act, which has been in place for decades. They also note that much of the subprime lending came from investment banks not under the act’s jurisdiction. In fact, they say, they have been pressuring federal regulators since 1999 to crack down on many of the institutions that provided subprime loans.

“ACORN, more than any other group, pleaded with regulators . . . to please, please regulate these institutions because they were stealing market share from banks that were making safe loans and inflating housing prices,” said Mike Shea, executive director of ACORN Housing, an arm of the group that focuses on building low- and moderate-income housing.

ACORN fired back yesterday at the McCain campaign, releasing a 2006 photo of the Arizona senator delivering the KEYNOTE speech at a pro-immigration rally in Miami that ACORN sponsored. “Maybe it is out of desperation that Senator McCain has forgotten that he was for ACORN before he was against ACORN,” Lewis said in a news release.~~~~~~~Washington Post,10/13/08

Miami Dade College press release:

Miami, Florida – February 20, 2006 ― Leaders from a diverse array of sectors will hold a rally in Miami on Thursday, February 23, 2006, in support of comprehensive immigration reform in an effort to keep immigration reform at the forefront of the public debate. Leaders from both political parties, immigrant communities, labor, business, and religious organizations will gather to call on Washington to enact workable reform.

The rally will feature Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as the headline speaker along with elected officials, immigrants and key local and national leaders. Sen. McCain is one of the chief sponsors of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act; bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform legislation introduced last Congress and scheduled for consideration by the Senate in the coming weeks. A similar rally with Sen. McCain is planned for New York City on February 27

The rally in Miami is being sponsored by the New American Opportunity campaign (NAOC) in partnership with ACORN, Catholic Legal Services - Archdiocese of Miami, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Miami Dade College, and People for the American Way/Mi Familia Vota en Acción.~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: This is a press release relating to McCain’s KEYNOTE address ,referred to in previous post,upthread.

The John McCain Quote of the Day

From now until the election, I’m starting an “unofficial feature” called the “John McCain Quote of the Day.”

Today’s entry:

“The next president won’t have the luxury of studying the issues before he acts.” (referring to Obama)

Gee, maybe if our current President had studied the issues more before he acted, America wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in today.

Gee, maybe if our current President had studied the issues more before he acted, ~Screwed~~~~~~NOTE: But is that not what the GOP lobbyists were for? Saved Bush so much unnecessary work and worry!

Another day, another effort by the McCain camp to seize the political advantage over the bogus issue of ACORN and voter fraud.

Of course, as TPM has been making clear, the allegations of vote fraud are essentially a crock.

But to reiterate the main point: according to experts, fraudulent registration FORMS almost NEVER lead to fraudulent VOTING. If ACORN submits a form with the name Mickey Mouse, Mickey is unlikely to show up to vote on election day.

In other words, there’s a CRUCIAL distinction between voter REGISTRATION fraud and VOTER fraud—and there’s essentially NO evidence whatsoever of the latter.

But the Republican bamboozlement is crucially abetted by the fact that a lot of the reporting on this story—much of it prompted by the GOP’s strenuous effort to tout the issue—utterly fails to make this key distinction, and often implies the opposite. The media’s FAILURE to grasp this CRUCIAL distinction has encouraged the GOP and the McCain campaign to believe that they can GAIN a political advantage by continuing to hammer on this BOGUS story.

In one sense, it’s easy to understand the Republicans’ motivation, as SLEAZY as the tactic might be: they’re TRYING to WIN an election, or at least lay the groundwork to make a post-hoc argument that their loss was unfair.

But media outlets--like CNN[and Fox] have no such excuse. ~TPM

Just read this in your New York Times.

The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll has found.

We have an election happening today. I guess yours is in a few weeks also. Who is going to win in your country?

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More ACORN Fraud Exposed: ACORN Whistleblowers

Monday, October 13, 2008

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

New testimony obtained by a consumer advocate group from former employees of ACORN paints a startling picture of the apparent misuse of taxpayer dollars to further the group’s left-wing political agenda.

Four former employees of ACORN and of ACORN Housing Corp. have supplied sworn affidavits to the Consumer Rights League that provide eyewitness accounts of how the two organizations have commingled funds and resources, in apparent violation of federal law.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) bills itself as a non-partisan group, supported by tax-exempt contributions from individuals and corporations.

The ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC), an ACORN affiliate, receives more than 40 percent of its funding from government sources, ostensibly to promote affordable housing to low- and middle-income families.

But according to CRL, internal documents obtained from whistleblowers suggest that ACORN has failed to maintain the proper distinction between its tax-exempt housing work and its aggressive political activities.

“ACORN and its offshoots take in millions of dollars in government grants under the guise of ‘consumer advocacy’ to line their own pockets,” said Jim Terry, CRL’s chief public advocate.

The new testimony, from four former ACORN and AHC employees, provides “hard confirmation” that ACORN and its affiliate are in fact one in the same, Terry told Newsmax.

“Here are people who have been in the room, testifying to the criminal intent of the people involved” in shuffling ACORN resources from tax-exempt purposes to political activities, he said.

“Everything they do and say, with the exception of filing their government reports, treats this family of organizations as one cohesive unit. They operated as one organization, controlled from the top down,” Terry said.

One former employee, who was with ACORN for six years, including in a management position, testified that she has “knowledge that AHC has subsidized and believe that AHC continues to subsidize ACORN activities,” in apparent violation of the law.

“AHC subsidies to ACORN include office telephone service, fax, supplies and rental space paid for by AHC funds,” she added.

In addition, AHC management routinely treated federal grants as money that could be shared with ACORN, Terry told Newsmax.

“Between 2004 through 2006, AHC transferred $4.6 million to ACORN in grants and fees, according to their tax returns. This is inherently wrong.”

Since 40 percent of AHC funds came from government grants, that means that U.S. taxpayers were in effect paying for ACORN’s partisan political activities, he added.

AHC required employees to “solicit funds and cash from clients and real estate professionals to pay for AHC operations,” one of the whistleblowers said, detailing what amounted to a “shakedown” operation.

Another former AHC employee said he would testify in court to the fact that “AHC and ACORN have operated as one entity,” and quoted internal e-mails detailing how federal grants were shared between the organizations.

The whistleblowers also stated that:

AHC employees were instructed to hide documents from federal auditors with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

AHC employees were instructed on “steering” loans to partner banks, including Chase (for loans in the New Orleans area) and Bank of America for other areas around the country.

AHC National Field Director Lee Trujillo stated in the presence of several of these witnesses that “AHC and ACORN would be funded out of the same account.”

AHC and ACORN have also shared “voter initiative money.”

Internal AHC e-mails and other documents “clearly show that AHC is paying for lease space occupied by ACORN.”

All of these are potential violations of the laws governing non-profit organizations.

ACORN is currently under investigation for fraudulent voter registration and related activities in at least 11 key battleground states.

Election officials in several states have said that 50 percent of ACORN voter registrations are fictitious.

Just last week, for example, ACORN’s offices in Nevada were raided by state law enforcement officials after reports that ACORN had registered the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Las Vegas.

In Connecticut, a 7-year-old girl was found to have been registered to vote by ACORN, which changed her age to 27.

ACORN announced last week that it had just completed “the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in U.S. history,” by helping “1.3 million low-income, minority and young voters across the country register to vote.”

GOP’s Fraudulent Claims about Vote Fraud
By Kathryn Kolbert Tuesday Oct 14, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “At a DC press conference this morning, the GOP trotted out two elder statesmen to do its dirty work – former senators John Danforth and Warren Rudman. Echoing accusations made by McCain and the RNC against the community organizing group ACORN, they falsely warned that voter fraud could throw the election into chaos.

With a straight face Danforth said that 2008 could be like 2000 if we don’t act now. But I’m sorry, wasn’t 2000 when HIS party strong-armed the recount and disenfranchised thousands of Floridians? 

In fact, today’s press conference was just the latest effort by the GOP to justify voter suppression under the GUISE of so-called election INTEGRITY. As in the past, Republicans have latched onto a few colorful but insignificant examples – e.g. a man who was registered to vote 73 times and a 7-year-old child who was registered – to advocate for draconian enforcement measures that disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, typically minority and low-income voters.

But there are ALREADY safeguards in place that PREVENT people who submit fraudulent voter registrations from ACTUALLY VOTING. In fact, there is NO evidence of significant voter fraud of ANY variety anywhere in the nation. At the urging of the GOP, the Justice Department sought evidence of fraud but came up EMPTY-HANDED.

However, there IS evidence for SIGNIFICANT vote suppression and disenfranchisement. As the New York Times reported last week: “Tens of thousands of ELIGIBLE voters in at least six swing states have been REMOVED from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law.” THIS is what Danforth and Rudman WOULD have talked about today IF they really cared about election integrity.

They also would have talked about the various barriers to voting that members of their party have erected, like rejecting voter registration forms not printed on 80-pound bond paper or requiring names on voter registration forms to exactly match records in existing databases (e.g. Mike R. Neuman would be rejected if listed elsewhere as Michael R. Neuman). Or how about the strict voter ID laws put in place by Republicans? They seem reasonable enough, until you consider that millions of voting-age Americans (perhaps as high as 10%) do not have driver’s licenses.

The logic behind the GOP’s efforts is as simple as it is undemocratic: the fewer people who vote, the better off Republicans candidates will be. When you hear Republicans talk about vote fraud, here’s what they really mean.

Kathryn Kolbert is President of People For the American Way.~~~~~~~~~~~Crooks and Liars

BREAKING NEWS: McCain Transition Chief Lobbied For Saddam Hussein
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Oct 14, 2008
Murray Waas has a huge breaking story. This just gets better and better.

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, AIDED an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to EASE international SACTIONS against his regime.

The TWO lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a FIVE year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded GUILTY to or were CONVICTED of federal criminal charges that they had acted as UNREGISTERED AGENTS of Saddam Hussein’s government.

During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park[remember him?], on a previously UNREPORTED prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

Timmons’ activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a ROGUE enemy state and a SPONSOR of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in STARK contrast to the views his CURRENT employer held at the time.

John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had “stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could.”

Timmons declined to comment for this story~~~~~~~~Crooks and Liars~~~~NOTE: Now what was McCain saying about terrorists and the company one keeps? And Timmons is tapped by McCain for his transition team? Transition to what?

A Quarter Of McCain’s “Clean Election” Committee Involved In Voter Fraud Oxdown Gazette | October 15, 2008 (Wednesday)

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Nearly a quarter of John McCain’s “Clean Election and Voter Fraud Committee,” chaired by Warren Rudman and John Danforth, have been involved in GOP voter suppression efforts and unfounded partisan claims of voter fraud. Of the 21 members of the committee, five (5) have been engaging in these shady efforts.

In addition to Tom Davis, who has a history of openly discussing subtle voter suppression techniques, the committee includes:

* Cameron Quinn, who was a director of the Republican voter suppression front group, the American Center for Voting Rights.
* California Secretary of State Bill Jones, who has long fought for ways to make it more difficult for people to vote.
* Susan Molinari who cried wolf about voter fraud in 2004 and 2006, only to find her allegations proven false.
* Larry D. Thompson, who hired Bradley Schlozman to work in the Justice Department where he approved Tom Delay’s redistricting plan, GA’s modern “Jim Crow Law” and pursued politicized indictments against ACORN in MO.~~~~~~~HuffPo~~~~~~~~~NOTE: Tom Davis recently announced that if the Republican brand were a dog food, it would be recalled from the shelves. He won’t need to worry about being recalled-he announced recently he was not running again, and was disgusted with the GOP as a whole.So much for exiting with any shred of decency.

Obamas Character references:
Corrupt Chicago political fixers
Loony Racist peachers
unrepentant terroists

Oh & ddrb!

Carl Bernstein, Huffington Post

Does John McCain “pal around with terrorists?”

Certainly McCain’s continuing “association” and relationship with convicted Watergate burglar and domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy might suggest that is the case, if we are to apply the standards drawn by the McCain campaign.

In 1998, Liddy gave a fundraiser in his Scottsdale, Ariz., home for McCain’s senatorial re-election campaign—the two posed for photographs together; and as recently as May 2007, as a presidential candidate, McCain was a guest on Liddy’s syndicated radio show. Inexplicably, McCain heaped praise on his host’s values. During the segment, McCain said he was “proud” of Liddy and praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.” From the program:

Liddy: Your experience in the Hanoi Hilton is remarkable. I mean, I put in five years in a prison (for masterminding the Watergate burglary, and associated crimes), but it was here in the United States, and they didn’t torture—the only torture that I had was being forced to listen to rap music from time to time.

McCain: Well, you know, I’m proud of you. I’m proud of your family. I’m proud to know your son, Tom, who’s a great and wonderful guy. And it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon. And congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.

Which of Liddy’s “principles and philosophies” was McCain referring to? Liddy’s advocacy of break-ins? Firebombings? Assassinations? Kidnappings? Taking target practice with figures nicknamed Bill and Hillary?

During the same period that Bill Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, Gordon Liddy was making plans to firebomb a Washington think tank, assassinate a prominent journalist, undertake the Watergate burglary, break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, and kidnap anti-war protesters at the 1972 Republican convention.

Re: Liddy’s “continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great:” Did McCain mean to include Liddy’s instructions to listeners of his radio show in 1994 (around the time Ayers and Obama were on a board together discussing education programs and other plots) on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents (aim for the head)?

If ATF agents attempt to curtail a citizen’s gun ownership, Liddy counseled, “Well, if the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests.”

More recently, Liddy explained making the Clintons objects of shooting practice: “I did relate that on the Fourth of July of last year, when I and my family and some friends were out firing away at a properly constructed rifle range and we ran out of targets, and so we—I drew some stick figure targets and I thought we ought to give them names. So I named them Bill and Hillary, thought it might improve my aim. It didn’t. My aim is good anyway. Now, having said that, I accept no responsibility for somebody shooting up the White House.”

The Liddy-McCain symbiosis has been mentioned in a number of posts on the Internet—mostly by bloggers and sites identified with the Left. But the documentation of their interaction (Liddy has also contributed financially to McCain’s presidential campaign) is not a matter of Left or Right: It is astonishing that, given the prominence of the Ayers matter accorded by virtually every “mainstream” news outlet in America, there has been virtually nothing on the subject in the major newspapers and broadcast networks. This is a REAL journalistic failure and ABROGATION of responsibility.

Is Liddy any LESS a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers? It is a zero-sum argument, for sure. I do not believe, incidentally, that John McCain shares the most abhorrent of Liddy’s values, as expressed in Liddy’s actions during the same period that Ayers was a Weatherman—AND which Liddy CONTINUES to express, unapologetically, toTHIS day.

But McCain has now become SO UNMOORED from the principles he once espoused, so shameless in his courtship not only of the Republican “base” but in his eagerness to unleash a poisonous arsenal of character assassination and guilt by association—and plain and simple incitement of people’s fears and prejudices—that, now, inevitably his and Sarah Palin’s rallies and campaign events have taken on the aura of mobs at times.

“Kill him,” a man in the crowd responded last week, when Palin declared—yet again—“He’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” In Virginia, the state Republican chairman announced a set of talking points to campaign volunteers—stressing the incendiary connection, reported Time magazine, between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon. That is scary,” the Republican chairman[Jeff Fredericks] ,said..

The intended message of the McCain campaign is, of course, that Obama is less than patriotic—enunciated even by the candidate’s wife, Cindy: “The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body,” she recently told a crowd of several thousand, which also heard her husband and Palin sound similar notes. Nor did Cindy McCain mention that her husband, TOO, voted AGAINST the troop-funding bill—in the version that contained withdrawal language.

Thus has John McCain embarked on a scorched-earth death struggle for the presidency—cultural warfare that knows no bounds, exceeding perhaps even the mendacity and ferocity of the campaign waged against him by George Bush in 2000, and of which McCain once said there was “a special place in hell” for the Bush operatives who smeared him. (McCain also said of the Swift boat attacks against John Kerry by Republicans in 2004: “I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable.")

The lethal weapon of the McCain campaign’s dreams is the explosive allegation that, in Palin’s words—Obama “pals around with terrorists.” McCain, wisely, did not raise the matter himself in the last presidential debate. Why?

At the time, much of the commentariat attributed the omission to McCain’s purported concerns that Obama would respond by reciting the history of McCain’s “association” with the S&L;swindler Charles Keating, for which McCain was cited by the Senate Ethics Committee early in his career, for exercising “poor judgment” for intervening improperly with federal regulators on behalf of Keating, as part of the infamous Keating Five scandal.

But the more likely explanation of why McCain avoided a debate confrontation about “palling around with terrorists” is McCain’s very real—and recent—symbiotic association and praise for another (not Ayers) domestic terrorist emblematic of the Vietnam era: G. Gordon Liddy.~~~~~~~~~Carl Bernstein, Huff Po,10/14/08)

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