Monday - August 16, 2010
$2.25 Billion for Reparations?
via C&S, via Freep, via Pajamas Media
I am full-on confused here. WTFFFF?
Barack Obama and USDA’s Shirley Sherrod involved in reparations shake down?
Ok, there was this court case. Pigford v. Glickman. 1997. 400 black farmers felt they had been discriminated against by the USDA when applying for farm loans. They won. In 1999 each was given $50,000 for settlement. But by then the word had leaked out, and the original 400 plaintiffs had grown to a class action suit involving thousands. Sixteen thousand to be a little specific. It was the free money tree: all you had to be was black, and a farmer, and the government would cut you a check for 50 Large. Period. Done deal, no proof of anything discriminatory required. Yikes.
Well, that’s not entirely true. At the time the government was reviewing each claimant, and about 41% of them were denied. But quite a few years later the case was re-opened. By a freshman Senator, Barack Obama. And by Chuck Grassley (R - IA). And the awarding started all over again, with those denied in the past now being accepted. And tens of thousands of new applicants accepted and approved. So many, in fact, that the number of applicants was 2 to 4 times greater than the actual number of black farmers, then, now, or ever. Go figure.
Somehow in this mess, Shirley Sherrod and her husband managed to get awarded a $13 million settlement, for a farm that they owned that had gone out of business. The largest settlement of all the Pigford claimants. How about that? And just after that, coincidentally, she got hired by the USDA. Amazing.
Now it looks like the total settlement amount could add at least $1.25 BILLION to the $1 BILLION already paid out.
What was originally a $20 million settlement has ballooned exponentially, twice. It does not appear that any real proof of discrimination, or even of actual farming, is necessary. It looks to me like somebody planted ACORNS and grew a money tree, and the fruit is ready for picking.
This really looks like a major scam. It looks like Sherrod and Obama are in it up to their necks. Please read the whole story, or at least as much as is known at this point, starting with
Rdoger’s post at C&S, a slightly longer synopsis at Hummers & Cigarettes then loads of details and data in Zombie’s post at Pajamas, and then by what might be the first post on this over at Free Republic. Googling up Pigford v. Glickman couldn’t hurt either.
From what I gather, $1 billion had already been paid out, back in 1999. Another $1.25 has been awarded, but the allocation of that money is in doubt. Looks like it was recently removed from a defense appropriations bill. How it was in there to begin with, God only knows, but that’s DC.
400 black farmers were discriminated against. Agreed. Pay them their settlement. 16,000 more tried to get some of that 11 years ago. Half failed. Now 89,000 black farmers are claiming they should be paid as well. Even though we have don’t have even half that many black farmers. How can this not be a scam? How the EFFITY EFF did Sherrod get $13 million and a job out of this? How can this not be some kind of stealth reparations in the most original form - because somewhere between $50,000 and $13 million really ought to enable you to buy 40 acres and a mule.
Spread the word. If this is not a con and corruption, then this is the biggest example of government ineptness ever. Ever. I want to see proof of discrimination for each and every loan application, all 89,000 of them, for the period in question. With further proof of farm ownership at that time. And 10 years in jail for any and every applicant who faked it. You can not join a class action suit after it is settled. That’s not allowed. It is not the fault of the government that the suit may not have been advertised sufficiently at the time, is it? You certainly can not be allowed to put your claim in 11 years after the fact. This smells to high heaven, and if it turns out to be rotten, then Chuck Grassley should get the axe too. Good intentions are no excuse if he didn’t investigate enough to smell a rat.
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Permalink • Monday - July 12, 2010
And this is news?
Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds
The six-month election recount that turned former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
That’s the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes—fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority’s newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been “stonewalled.”
“We aren’t trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can’t be done,” said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority’s executive director. “We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn’t compromised.”
He said his group was largely ignored when it turned over a list of hundreds of names to prosecutors in two of the state’s largest counties, Ramsey and Hennepin, where fraud seemed to be the greatest.
A spokesman for both county attorneys’ offices belittled the information, saying it was “just plain wrong” and full of errors, which prompted the group to go back and start an in-depth look at the records.
“What we did this time is irrefutable,” McGrath said. “We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists, where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand.
“The only way we can be wrong is if someone with the same first, middle and last names, same year of birth as the felon, and living in the same community, has voted. And that isn’t very likely.”
The report said that in Hennepin County, which in includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched on the county’s voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. The report says only three people in the county have been charged with voter fraud so far.
Shit piss and corruption! I’ve said it a hundred times, and I’ll say it again: Every town, every county in every state need to purge their voter rolls and re-register everyone all over again. This time with proper ID, proof of citizenship, SSN matched to the Social Security database, and a criminal background check. A photographic ID card needs to be issued, and no one will be allowed to vote without it.
( I leave it up to you to solve the absentee voter problem, but it isn’t very hard. Make Election Day the last day of Election Fortnight and 80% of absentee balloting would be unnecessary. Clear out those laws that allow for Motor Voters and Lazy Voters: absentee voting is for actual disabled folks and soldiers oversees only. Make the military vote first, perhaps a month ahead of time for those oversees, and put in validation checkpoints along the way so those votes don’t evaporate. That should handle another 10% of it right there. You figure out the rest. )
You provide more information to the credit card companies and the DMV than you do to your local board of elections. But without ensuring that the people who do vote are the people who are allowed to vote and no others, then the system is a fraud. And the results ... see above. And in many other places, like the state of Washington.
This garbage is by no means limited to Minnesota. It’s in your state too. In your county. Right in your own town. Mine too. The people hired by the government to keep the voter rolls clean and up to date do not do their jobs. This is done purposely: the technology already exists and the computer systems are in place. It’s no bet at all that Visa and MasterCard have a far better list of their members than the government has of it’s voters. It’s the same technology too, which means the whole job could be outsourced to Discover, who could do the work for nothing more than a tax write-off. Social Security could do it as well, and so could quite a few other government databases.
Anyone who has ever gone through the background search process while applying for a gun permit or a security clearance knows what I mean. There are databases out there that the rest of us don’t even know exist. Adding just one bit and 4 characters to the NCIC database record - a Y/N flag for whether a conviction denies the criminal the right to vote, and if Y the 4 digit year when that denial expires; 9999 = “never”, and Y2K-aphobes should see that’s good for another 8000 years - and sharing those 1 Y/N value with the elections people when an SSN inquiry is made is all it takes. Heck, many polling places have a cop nearby or on hand, don’t they, and it’s certainly fine for any cop to access that database. Double Heck, just have NCIC build an external hash table and let the elections people access that. Concerned citizens or criminals coming off of probation would be advised to make sure their number is in the clear before the voting starts. You don’t even need a day-month-year code in the NCIC database, since you’d write the table entry code to look at Election Fortnight and judge accordingly. Probation ends in June? You’re in. Ends October 25th? Sorry, you get your voting rights back the year after. You don’t have to be smarter than a fifth grader to write code like that. Third graders could probably do it these days.
It really is that easy. The technology is there. Are you kidding? The technology is there so that any citizen ought to be able to walk into any polling station in the country and vote in their local election, and then not be able to vote anywhere else in that same election. All that would take is one more flag bit (voted/didn’t vote yet) at NCIC and a flag-clearing operation run the day after. And that’s one line of code, m’kay? Piss simple stuff here people.
Meanwhile in Missouri it’s the same old dirty story:
Last year, Justice abandoned a case it had pursued for three years against Missouri for failing to clean up its rolls. When filed in 2005, one-third of Missouri counties had more registered voters than voting-age residents. What’s more, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who this year is her party’s candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat, contended that her office had no obligation to ensure individual counties were complying with the federal law mandating a cleanup of their voter rolls.
The case made slow but steady progress through the courts for more than three years, amid little or no evidence of progress in cleaning up Missouri’s voter rolls. Despite this, Obama Justice saw fit to dismiss the case in March 2009. Curiously, only a month earlier, Ms. Carnahan had announced her Senate candidacy. Missouri has a long and documented history of voter fraud in Democratic-leaning cities such as St. Louis and Kansas City. Ms. Carnahan may now stand to benefit from voter fraud facilitated by the improperly kept voter rolls that she herself allowed to continue.
Mr. Adams’ allegations would seem to call for the senior management of Justice to be compelled to testify under oath to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. But Justice is making none of its officials available and is refusing to enforce subpoenas issued by the commission. The more this story develops, the more it appears Justice is engaged in a massive coverup of its politicization of voting rights cases.
Elected officials should be trotted out to the pillories once per year, everyone from the town clerks or is whoever responsible for the rolls, all the way up to the governor. Are the voter rolls clean, accurate, and up to date (accurate to within 60 days)?
Yes? Great! You may keep your jobs. And your skin.
No? 10 lashes for each of the clerks, and 2 lashes more for each level of administration above that. In some states I think that would mean about 100 lashes for the governor. Punish them, then send them on their way, unemployed. Draw names from a list of unemployed college graduates and give them the jobs at the same pay and benefit level. Call a special election in 45 days to replace the elected officials.
One step towards restoring America is restoring people’s faith in America. Guaranteeing clean elections and up to date voter rolls would go a long way ... and we’d never ever be plagued by an Al Gore “selected not elected” month of hell again. With broadband just about everywhere, and computers already everywhere, it should not take more than about ... half an hour after the polls close for anyone in America to know the exact vote count in every state, county, and town. WTF, they can do it for American Idol. How about doing it for American Democracy?
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Permalink • Friday - April 02, 2010
Then Let Them Starve
After six days of waiting at Haiti’s border, Mario Polanco was losing patience with the red tape holding up his truck full of earthquake relief supplies.
Polanco drove the equipment for the International Committee of the Red Cross 11 hours from a port in the Dominican Republic, only to have the Haitian customs agent find one problem after another with his paperwork. As he waited in the shade of his truck’s cab in this dusty border town, dozens of others were lined up behind him.
“I don’t know why they are making it so difficult on people,” Polanco said.
For more than six weeks following the Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti left its border with the Dominican Republic open to speed the delivery of aid. As the government now reasserts control, the return of bureaucracy is leading to delays as trucks idle for days.
One day this week at the customs office at Malpasse, the Haitian town across from Jimani, a single agent was processing a caravan of trucks, including Polanco’s, that stretched for two miles (three kilometers). In the line were rice, beans, canned food, construction materials and ambulances — all desperately needed in Haiti.
“We haven’t been able to distribute food for two weeks,” said Paloma Rivera, an official with Quisqueya in Action, a nonprofit Dominican organization that is feeding some of Haiti’s homeless quake victims.
Haiti’s bureaucracy was famously sluggish even before the earthquake shattered government agencies. Businesses could wait months for supplies from the U.S. to clear customs at seaports.
Corruption was also a problem. Haiti regularly ranks among the worst in Transparency International’s annual ranking of perceived corruption. Haiti ranked 168th out of 180 countries in 2009 on a scale where low scores mean most corruption.
At the border, drivers without other options have had luck with bribery.
Customs agents have been arbitrarily charging trucks $40 for entry, Reyes said. He said agents threaten to demand passports or visas that many drivers do not have.
One driver, Jose Lorenzo, was held up for four days before he was allowed to cross the border with a load of canned tuna for the SOS Children’s Villages organization.
When the Haitian agent demanded that he present a passport, Lorenzo said: “Here is my visa,” and handed over 150 Dominican pesos — about $5. He said the agent let him pass without further hassle.
Somebody please tell me why Haiti even has border guards? They have nothing. Zip, zilch, zero. Nada. They need everything. Nobody wants to live there. What on earth is the point of even looking into the bundles, bails, and barrels of free goods the world is sending them in their time of need? Drugs? Who effin’ cares? Nothing is getting out of Haiti, and the people there don’t have 2 cents to rub together. You think they can afford recreational drugs? Pssst - hey, you wanna trade that bag of heroin for this shovel full of mud? How about for this moldy old yam?
Puh-leez.
But if they want to put roadblocks in the way, it’s their country. Fine. If they want to slow the flow of badly needed supplies to a crawl so as to get a few dollars in bribes, let them. It can all go back on the ships, back on the planes, and go away. Forever.
Fuck it up, even once, and you lose. Bye bye.
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 30, 2010
Give Us Our DaneGeld!
The 11 House Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak who dropped their opposition to health care reform mere hours before the final vote have requested $3.4 billion in earmarks—and one watchdog group wants to know whether the money represents business as usual, or a political payoff.
The Sunlight Foundation says it plans to track the earmark requests, which were put in one day after health care reform cleared Congress, to see whether they’re approved and whether it appears lawmakers are being rewarded for their vote.
“We know that in Congress one of the ways that leadership tries to influence members is through earmarks,” said Bill Allison, editorial director at the nonpartisan organization. “So this seemed to us something good to follow.”
Stupak and the 10 other Democrats were critical to the success of the health care bill. They were holding out over concerns about funding for abortion coverage but announced the president had assuaged their worries—with an executive order restricting abortion funding—the morning of the big vote.
Stupak’s office said there’s absolutely no link between the earmarks and the health care bill’s passage.
Here are the earmark amounts requested by the 11 House Democrats in the 2011 bill:
Rep. Jerry Costello of Illinois.: $1,418.7 million ($256.4 million in 2010)
Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Texas: $618 million ($726.1 million in 2010)
[Rep. Bart] Stupak of Michigan: $578.9 million
Rep. Steve Driehaus of Ohio: $332.2 million
Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio: $294 million ($305.7 million in 2010)
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania: $236.8 million ($54 million in 2010)
Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota.: $207 million ($226 million in 2010)
Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana.: $115.4 million ($82.3 million in 2010)
Rep. Charles Wilson of Ohio: $84 million ($62.3 million in 2010)
Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania.: $67.1 million
Rep. Joseph Donnelly of Indiana: $19.8 million ($11.65 million in 2010)
Guess these folks all had superior negotiating skills, that’s all. This is NOT legalized bribery of any kind. Huh? What? Oh, you must excuse me. My leg is ringing. I’d better go answer it.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 27, 2010
What Change Looks Like, Part Deux
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Permalink • Thursday - March 04, 2010
I’m not a lawyer—oh, wait, yes, I am!
Priceless! Ann Coulter remembers that she IS a lawyer!
Subprime crisis hits whorehouses
I’m just glad to know that Hynes conducted a thorough “investigation” first. Who did he have screen the videotapes, Gov. Paterson?
If his investigators had actually watched the videotapes, they would have found ACORN employees apparently advising a pimp and prostitute on how to defraud mortgage lenders, deposit prostitution money in a bank, hide money from the government and avoid detection while running a whorehouse with teenage girls from El Salvador.
I’m not a lawyer—oh, wait, yes, I am—but I count approximately a half-dozen state law crimes being discussed on those tapes, from money laundering to advancing prostitution.
In a “Eureka” moment, ACORN Employee-of-the-Month Volda Albert identifies for O’Keefe and Giles the problem they had been having getting a mortgage:
Albert: Um, is it legalized? Is prostitution legalized in New York state?
O’Keefe: It’s not. It’s not, unfortunately.
Albert: Well see, that’s your problemAs ACORN employee Milagros Rivera said, “You can’t say what you do for a living because of the law.” But displaying ACORN’s can-do attitude, she explained: “Honest is not going to get you a house.”
ACORN employees helped concoct a scheme to hide from the lender the source of O’Keefe and Giles’ down payment money. Albert suggested that O’Keefe “pay a down payment—or (Giles) can transfer to somebody else, who is not in that business ... a close friend, then (Giles) can transfer that, and then he can give you, like, a gift to purchase.”
Under New York law, hiding the true source of down payment money from a lender constitutes mortgage fraud. Also, using the proceeds of criminal conduct in any banking transaction is money laundering.
Does anybody need a flow chart at this point, or should I continue?
In fact, she does continue. The ACORNS never fall far from the Barack tree.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 09, 2010
One of the country’s most senior police officers, a ‘criminal in uniform’, is jailed
All in the name of diversity and political correctness and a FEAR of being called racist, the dept. advanced a totally crooked cop, a disgrace to the uniform and the service. This was an officer who came very close to becoming England’s top cop.
He has been investagated over a period of years and every time has beaten off his accusers by using the race card.
He has even brought official charges against superiors using race discrimination.
The force was afraid. How fuckin pathetic. He is Iranian born .... he isn’t black but was head of the black officer’s assoc. ?
He is sitting on a possible million pound retirement pension.
He was promoted to commander, equivalent in rank to a provincial assistant chief constable, despite performing poorly in interview and Yard chiefs being warned by the Serious Organised Crime Agency of concerns about his conduct.
Police authority officials had wanted to sack him in a fast-track process last spring but backed down amid fears he would sue for racism - allowing the £90,000-a-year officer to stay suspended on full pay for a further nine months.
‘He knew where he could push the boundaries, and how to use the Met’s fears of appearing racist to make it difficult to investigate him,
Wiretaps revealed unauthorised links with a number of foreign embassies.
His bosses limply played along as he shamelessly played the race card . . .
Further diplomatic concerns touched directly on national security.
He had contacts with senior staff in the Iranian Embassy and sometimes drove a Liberian Embassy car with diplomatic plates.
He dominated and poisoned race relations within the Metropolitan Police.
His public face was that of human rights champion and defender of fellow ethnic-minority officers against prejudiced white colleagues. Dizaei felt their pain. After all, wasn’t he the most unfairly persecuted ‘black’ policeman of them all?
In fact, he was simply a self-serving crook; clever conman, bully, playboy, womanising misogynist, serial litigant and liar, who hijacked the issue of race and used it for his own ends.
Under his presidency the National Black Police Association became a useful tool against those who dared cross him.
One of the most telling moments in his trial was a witness’s account of how the ‘Teflon Commander’ had shouted at him: ‘Do you know who I am? I’m Ali Dizaei. Back off!’
And back off they did, shamefully. Successive Met commissioners, home secretaries and independent police watchdogs were too nervous to take him on because of the race storm he would invoke.
Dizaei grew up in Tehran, where his father and grandfather were both senior police commanders. At ten he was sent to boarding school in England, later studied law and in 1986 joined Thames Valley Police.
He was fast-tracked through the junior ranks but his abrasive personality, self-promotion and readiness to find offence were already an issue with colleagues and public alike.
In 1999 he applied to become a superintendent in the neighbouring Metropolitan Police. Britain’s biggest force was in turmoil, damned as ‘institutionally racist’ by the Macpherson Report into the bungled investigation of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs.
The Met needed more senior black officers. Dizaei was accepted even though Deputy Assistant Commissioner Barbara Wilding described him after his interview as the most rude and arrogant man she had ever met.
Alas, Commissioner Sir Paul Condon was in no position to be choosy. Dizaei, with a PhD newly awarded for a thesis ‘The Thin Black Line’ on - yes - police racism, was in.
Once, when he was questioned by a senior white colleague, he replied: ‘You can’t tell me what to do.’ ‘But I’m your boss,’ said the startled superior.
‘I have only one boss and that is Allah,’ snapped Dizaei, piously.
When a women he was dating discovered he was married and tried to break with him, police recorded this exchange, and this is not even the half of it.
‘You want war, bitch, you’re going to get some war. You will see now what I can do so you will cry for years. First I will start with your family, then I come to you and your reputation. I will spread all over London that you are a prostitute.’
You ain’t read nothin’ yet. Here’s MORE A LOT MORE.
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Permalink • Friday - January 22, 2010
Dogging the Dawg
Looks like time to squeeze another one under that old bus. YaVaughnie Wilkins was mistress to Oracle president and White House Economic Recovery Adviser Charles Phillips, and got DUMPED after their 8 1/2 year affair. He went back to his wife and son, and left this missy at the curb with the rest of the trash. So she got even. She spent a quarter million dollars putting up billboards that proclaimed her eternal devotion ... and just also happened to let everyone in the world know they’d had a thing going on. Trying to get her man back from the grasping clutches of his own wife? Woman scorned and all that? Or just out to embarrass the living #&^% out of the guy? Who can tell, but when this woman drops the dime, she goes all the way.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned—and then there’s this lady.
A fuming mistress catapulted retribution into a new orbit by plastering the country with billboards that show her nuzzling a married New York business honcho and adviser to President Obama, sources said.
The spurned squeeze, YaVaughnie Wilkins, went nuclear after she learned that Charles E. Phillips—president of tech conglomerate Oracle and a member of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board reconciled with his wife despite his lengthy affair with Wilkins.
The very public humiliation campaign may have cost Wilkins upward of $250,000, at an estimated $50,000 a pop.
Court records show that Phillips’ wife, Karen, filed for divorce in February 2008, but no action has been taken on the filing since that year. The couple recently made up, a source said.
After the billboards surfaced, Phillips fessed up to his longtime affair through a spokesman on Thursday.
“I had an 8-and-a-half-year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins. The relationship with Ms. Wilkins has since ended, and we both wish each other well,” he said.
The billboards also feature a URL of the Web site http://www.charlesphillipsandyavaughniewilkins.com, which features photos of Phillips’ and Wilkins’ lengthy relationship.
In an Oracle newsletter from 2006, Phillips was described as an ex-marine and “family man” who has a wife and 10-year-old son, Chas, the New York Times reported.
Another top Obama guy caught with his pants down. What a dawg. Wilkins had earlier paid to have a professional “love shrine” website made. It was supposed to be a gift to him, but after she got dumped it’s little more than an ammunition depot filled with pictures and mementos of their long term affair ... which started barely a year after his wife gave birth to their son. That site has been crashing it’s server with hits.
Most ethical government evah, indeed.
Phillips who lives with his wife and their son, Chas, in an Upper West Side brownstone, said, “Oh, man,” after The Post knocked on his door yesterday.
“I’m sorry,” he said before closing the door.
Karen Phillips’ divorce lawyer didn’t return calls. Wilkins did not return calls or respond to an e-mail. Oracle also didn’t return calls.
Gee, I wonder why?
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Permalink • Monday - November 02, 2009
OH POOR ME. I WORK SO HARD AND PUT IN SO MANY HOURS AND I’M NOT MAKING ENOUGH.
I doubt much if even the liberals here would have used his example, pc as they are. I’m particularly PO’d BIG TIME not just because this politician said something dumb. They manage to do that everyday no matter the party they belong to. What has me seeing red (again) is my previous and sad post on the death of that brave soldier. That poor fellow wasn’t making a quarter of what his representatives were making while CHEATING on their expenses.
The bastards were caught red handed and the maddening thing about so much of what they did is, much of it was legal because THEY MADE THE RULES! Some are refusing to pay back any money, some are paying back a portion, and many are crying the blues claiming they are being picked on.
Not all of them were cheating to be sure. Lets be very clear on that. But you should hear the excuses and arguments many are making in an attempt to mask what they did or else make what they did appear on the up and up. But this story today really set me off in light of that soldier’s death.
Maybe he should be sent to fight this war in that benighted place, on the same money the SSgt was making. Yeah. We can all see that, right?
It is NOT his making a comparison with the Holocaust that set me off to be honest. I don’t think he meant it the exact way it’s been taken. I think
I understand his theory, while I think he was pretty darn foolish to use that example. . No ... what bothers me so much is his complaint with regard to what he was paid as an MP and his gripe about hours worked and pay received being equal to “minimum wages.”
Tell that to the late Sgt., subject of my last post.
Cameron rounds on Tory MP for comparing expenses ‘witch-hunt’ with Nazi persecution of the Jews
By Claire Ellicott
02nd November 2009The MP who compared the clampdown on expenses with the Holocaust was ordered to say sorry today.
In an astonishing outburst, Tory MP David Wilshire said the “witch-hunt” against cheats was akin to the politics that “led to Hitler’s gas chambers”.
His remark was branded “offensive and unacceptable” by Tory leader David Cameron who told the Spelthorne MP to withdraw it.
Mr Wilshire paid a total of £105,000 from his expenses into Moorlands Research Services, a firm owned by him and his girlfriend Ann Palmer.
The MP used his office expenses to write to all his constituents in Spelthorne, Surrey, defending his claims.
The two-page letters were printed on Commons notepaper and sent using taxpayer-funded envelopes funded by his office expenses.
When one constituent wrote back, Mr Wilshire replied: ‘The witch hunt against MPs will undermine democracy.
‘It will weaken parliament, handing yet more power to governments. Branding a whole group of people undesirables led to Hitler’s gas chambers’.
The Commissioner for Standards is expected to investigate whether he broke Commons rules that forbid MPs from entering into arrangements that ‘may give rise to an accusation’ of profiting from public funds.
The MP’s latest controversial comments come less than a month after he infuriated David Cameron by comparing his salary to the minimum wage.
He provoked fury by complaining about his salary and long hours in a Westminster meeting with trainee journalists.
He told them: ‘I work 60 to 70 hours a week some weeks. When you look at what I earn, it comes dangerously close to working out as the minimum wage.’
Mr Wilshire paid £3,250 of his office allowances to his own firm over a period of three years.
He claimed that the money was used to pay other suppliers for posters and office products.
The arrangement was highly unusual. Most MPs submitted receipts for office costs directly from suppliers and claimed them back.
The constituency offices of senior Conservative MP David Wilshire in Staines, Surrey. Mr Wilshire said his company was used to pay ‘suppliers’ for office services such as printing
Moorlands Research Services was never registered with Companies House. Mr Wilshire said the firm closed down last year.
Before that, details of his involvement with the company had been included in his entry for the Regis-ter of Members’ Interests.
Mr Wilshire insisted he had done nothing wrong and had not personally profited, calling the claims against him ‘deeply hurtful and unjustified’.
He said the arrangement had been approved in writing by the House of Commons Fees Office, the body accused of nodding through questionable claims for hundreds of MPs.
btw .... That’s another thing that I have heard quite a bit of. The MPs saying when all is said and done, they aren’t making all that much considering the hours they work. OK. Maybe so. But is anyone holding a gun to their collective heads and forcing them to become MPs? Don’t think so.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 15, 2009
RATS THAT HAVEN’T LEFT THE NEST ….
And you should see yesterday’s headline. Worse yet because the thieving so and soz have refused the PMs order to return monies.
They say no way Jose.
Just about when I thought things were more or less settled with regard to the dishonest representatives of the people themselves, the Telegraph has opened fire again with banner headlines raking over not just old coals but they have apparently discovered some new scams by MPs.
Oh yeah, and the former speaker, Michael Martin, who was forced to resign but has friends in high places, has been made a “Labour Peer.” A people’s peer the lefties like to say. What it means is that a disgraced speaker now comes back to draw a salary PLUS perks. And all he has to do is show up and sign in. There isn’t any sign out I am informed so he can do as quite a number do. Come in for a chat with friends and leave for the day. He’ll still be paid and boy he’ll be paid well.
None of us here at BMEWS are members of Mr. O’s fan club BUT I bet even back home neither he nor almost anyone else (ok, that old bastard Robert Byrd comes to mind) would even dream of getting away with the things the Brit MPs do. Or am I being naive?
Meanwhile, the wife and I have just today written out another check for house deed and have been reading the lawyers instructions for our signatures
which must be sent back. We’ve been stressed all day but alls well. There’s gonna be a mail strike and we don’t trust the mail so a friend is driving me to Southampton tomorrow morning where I will hand deliver the papers. Whew.
Don’t have a clue yet how we are gonna work out getting back home. Sell this place first I guess. When we can and of course once out of probate.
Then what? Maybe back to warm climes like So Calif desert which we loved but may no longer be able to afford? And live someplace while looking for something permanent. ??? Decisions - decisions. But FIRST ....
Gotta see if they’ll let her back into the states. Oh Boy!
Another thing to consider ... LYNDON. Will they let me back in on my visa if I have to return for legal and or banking reasons?
I paid for the darn thing but don’t know if I can come and go at leisure. Any ideas?
So then, Today’s Morning Headline. My scanner not really big enought. Will correct with next one I buy.
The full headline reads as follows.
MP PAYS £100,000 TO THE COMPANY HE OWNS WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND
One the things that are so damn pathetic about this continuing scandal, is that many of these shysters are already millionaires. In fact, one is a BILLIONAIRE and even he fiddled and cheated the taxpayer.
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Permalink • Sunday - October 04, 2009
Blair can’t be allowed to become the next Napoleon…
Another headline in this morning’s Sunday Mail reads as follows.
So as Ireland votes ‘yes’ to Lisbon treaty, our 1000 years of history ends like this
It is not over yet but might be close. As you read the comments by the Conservative leader David Cameron, I think unless you’re a Brit you’ll be as lost as I am to fully understand what Cameron is saying.
LYNDON ..... HELP? What does this mean in plain Engrish?
“‘If the Treaty is ratified, we would not let matters rest there. But we have one policy at a time and we will set out how we would proceed in those circumstances if, and only if, they happen.”
Blair can’t be allowed to become the next Napoleon… and don’t even ask about Cherie Antoinette
By Simon Walters, Simon Mcgee and Brendan Carlin
October 4, 2009
Sunday Mail
Boris Johnson put himself at the head of a Tory Euro revolt yesterday by demanding a referendum on whether Tony Blair should be the ‘big magnifico’ President of Europe.
The London Mayor threw down the gauntlet to David Cameron after the Conservative leader declined to give a cast-iron pledge to call a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty if it is ratified by the rest of Europe before the next Election.
Mr Johnson demanded a referendum not just on the Lisbon Treaty, but on whether the UK should pull out of Europe altogether.
‘A referendum would send out a clear message that we do not want a badly thought-out treaty imposed on us without the chance to vote on it,’ Mr Johnson told The Mail on Sunday.
‘It also sends the message that we don’t want some big magnifico swanning round the globe purporting to be acting on our behalf when we haven’t even been consulted as to whether it should be Tony Blair or not.’
Mr Johnson denied that his surprise move was an attempt to undermine Mr Cameron on the eve of the Conservative conference in Manchester, which starts today.
Mr Cameron said if the Treaty is not ratified by the Election, he will go ahead with a referendum if he wins power. However, if it is ratified by then, he said he would ‘not let matters rest there’ – prompting claims he might call off a referendum.
Mr Johnson had no such reservations. ‘I have the solution,’ he declared. ‘What we have got to do is to have a referendum. If Tony Blair is going to be President of Europe, I want a referendum on the matter, and a lot of people will agree with me.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson is calling for a referendum on the EU president
‘The British people are entitled to one – and they were certainly promised one. It doesn’t mean the answer has to be “no” but it would be very interesting to hear the arguments.
‘There should be two questions: are you in favour of the Lisbon Treaty and are you in favour of remaining in the EU?’
The Mayor said he would campaign for the UK to stay in Europe but believed that the Lisbon Treaty should be torn up.
Mr Cameron said: ‘I have said repeatedly that I want us to have a referendum. If the Treaty is not ratified in all Member States and is not in force when the Election is held, and if we are elected, we will hold a referendum and lead the campaign for a “No” vote.
‘If the Treaty is ratified, we would not let matters rest there. But we have one policy at a time and we will set out how we would proceed in those circumstances if, and only if, they happen.’
No matter who becomes President of Europe, and people that will be the official title if the treaty is finally forced thru, here is what the estimated cost will be for the new fuhrer.
My source for the following information was the Daily Mail on Saturday. Sorry, no link to the following available. I had to copy it from the paper.
LIFE OF LUXURY FOR ‘PRESIDENT BLAIR?’
Here’s what the Brits could be helping to pay for, along with other european txpayers.
There is NO job description;
nothing on how long a person will serve, nor any details on how the successful candidate will be remunerated.
But he or she will almost certainly be paid as much as European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso. His pay-and-perks package is:Salary: £269,246 a year
Residence allowance: £40,390 a year
Entertainment allowance: £15,635 a yearResettlement allowance (when he leaves the post) £22,441
Transitional allowance (to help his re-entry into the non-EU world) £403,956PENSION: £57,557 A YEAR.
Brussels has been reluctant to say what the position entails.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 16, 2009
How conservative pranksters made idiots of Obama’s favourite left-wing charity .
Perhaps some of you have already seen this. Lyndon did and passed it on to me. I missed it coz I didn’t check everything, every day as I promised myself I would do.
So,, H/T to LYNDON and thanks again.
This is good folks. Really good. The reporting and the writing. What’s bad of course is the subject.
There were a number of comments on the site as always, but this one in particular (Thanks again to Lyndon for directing me there first) is of huge interest and so I’m posting it as well for all to see.
My postings might be light today. Will have to see as day goes on.
I have written a lot on other blogs about voter fraud. That the biggest fear of all is that future elections have been irretrievably rigged. That fear comes from knowledge of the years-long and completely insidious George Soros financed effort to elect far left secretaries of state. Secretaries of State for the individual states are the officials who are in charge of the voter rolls, policing the election voting venues and doing the vote count. This is the single official most able to rig elections (Al Franken, anybody?). And the single high state official most unknown to and uncared about by the public. So it doesn’t take much to get in a far left candidate, since very few in the public pay any attention.
How does this fit in with ACORN? Well, have we all noticed that ACORN has been hired for voter registration in all the states? And, until yesterday, had we noticed that ACORN was going to do the next census count? Do we all realize that not only does that census count control where government moneys are disbursed, but also that population count also is used in figuring the boundaries of Congressional districts. Did we have any concern that for the first time ever, former ACORN-lawyer President Obama has pulled the census count out of the Department of Commerce into the White House?
Call me crazy, but that sounds like a scheme to perpetrate massive vote fraud to me. (If there is a particular reason for having the census in the White House, the President hasn’t explained. And of course the press hasn’t asked.)
In the previous thread I listed many of my concerns about Obama. The census and election rigging should have been on that list, and probably as the biggest concern of all.
Incidentally, as of last night, the film maker may be subject to charges in the State of Maryland where it is illegal to tape record (i.e., the audio on the camera) someone without their consent. Don’t know how that will play out.
One last thing: my strongest reaction at seeing the ACORN videos was surprise that the ACORN employees were so knowledgeable and smart at gaming the system. I am a lawyer (who doesn’t practice and hates the litigiousness of society and the whole trial lawyers-tort bar - so don’t yell at me). So as I watched the videos, I kept thinking that those ACORN employees missed their calling and should have gone to law school!
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Just seeing the name, George Soros, makes me see red. No pun intended. That foreigner who has done so well for himself on our shores has been a recognized danger to America and has worked actively against the USA for years, is still alive and breathing and living well. WHY?
Why has he been allowed to continue his unwelcome breathing? Can’t someone, somewhere nail that bastard? Guess not or it would have been done by now. Darn!
How conservative pranksters made idiots of Obama’s favourite left-wing charity ACORN
By James Delingpole
September 14th, 2009
The TelegraphA skinny white prostitute and her pimp turn up at the office of Barack Obama’s favourite US “poverty action” charity ACORN (Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now). They want advice on a few problems, like how best to bring over a “couple” of - well, 13, actually - underage girls from El Salvador to work in this brothel they’ve got planned, without attracting too much heat from the authorities. How can they get a mortgage, how should they deal with their tax affairs, how do they legitimize their immoral earnings and so on?
ACORN’s expert advisers are more than happy to oblige, as this hilarious video - first posted at the BigGovernment site - reveals.
Hilarious because, of course, the footage is a stitch-up. It was filmed with a hidden camera and acted out by two very brave young US investigative journalists - Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, keen to expose the dubious moral standards of the radical left organisation. (Using methods not unakin to those advocated by Obama’s preferred leftist agitator Saul Alinsky)
Since then they have struck twice more. First at one of ACORN’s Washington DC offices. Most recently in New York - where, among the advice they were given was to hide their illicit gains in a tin and bury it in their back yard.
A neat little scoop which has already caused several heads to roll at ACORN, and, as Toby Harnden reports today has led the US Census Office to break its controversial links (for chapter and verse see Stephanie Guttman’s blog on this) with the notorious organisation. But is it really any more significant than that?
Well, of course, those on the liberal-left would have you believe not. It’s just another of those typical right-wing smear campaigns that conservative “nut jobs” like Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart have so cynically concocted to discredit Democrats in general and the saintly Obama in particular.
Naturally I beg to differ. As something of a professional conservative nut job myself, I find that one of the hardest struggles of my daily existence is persuading the world that I’m not in this game just to be wilfully contrarian and I’m not in it because I’m a heartless, evil bastard who is never happier than when crushing the aspirations of the poor, the disabled or anyone from an ethnic minority.
The reasons I’m a conservative are a) because I do care actually and b) because I’ve seen the alternative and it sucks.
For a shining example of b) look no further than these ACORN video exposes, which show exactly what’s wrong with practical socialism. 1. Big government takes your hard-earned money. 2. It spends on it an organisations like ACORN so rotten to the core and with values so inimical to your own, that frankly it would easier if you’d taken 40 per cent of your income in a big suitcase down to the nearest housing project, allowed yourself to be mugged - and cut out the middle man.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 02, 2009
Gaddafi honours Scotland with pipers at 40th anniversary party to thank them for Megrahi’s release
Gee, Mr. Nice Guy huh. What a revolting piece of work this guy is. Why oh why couldn’t we have taken him out?
Anyway ... see the link for loads more photos, the rest of the article and a video, which really isn’t worth watching.
Thankfully, the papers say that the west shunned his celebration. All that oil. All that money.
Gaddafi’s 40th anniversary celebration includes simulation of the hanging of his political enemies.By Nabila Ramdani
Last updated at 10:58 AM on 02nd September 2009
Pipers in traditional kilts were the centrepiece at Colonel Gaddafi’s 40th anniversary celebrations because he wanted to ‘honour’ Scotland for freeing the Lockerbie bomber, it emerged today.
In scenes set to deepen the anger over the release of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, the band played traditional marching songs during a military tattoo.
Images of the 57-year-old convicted killer - who is too ill to attend in person - were then broadcast on massive screens in central Tripoli.
Pictures of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi’s hero’s return to Libya were shown during celebrations of Colonel Gaddafi’s 40 years in power last night
An organiser of the event, which was broadcast around the globe, said: ‘Colonel Gaddafi wanted to show the world his support for Scotland.
‘The freeing of al-Megrahi was a highlight of the Colonel’s time in office and he wanted to honour Scotland for it.’
Widespread revulsion greeted the pictures broadcast from Tripoli last night, which Colonel Gaddafi had agreed to distribute internationally for free.
It increases accusations the dictator is revelling in the diplomatic coup that led to Megrahi being released from a Scottish prison last month.
He was freed and allowed to return home to his family in Libya on compassionate grounds because he is dying of prostate cancer.
Now a Libyan national hero, he was today said to be ‘honoured and proud’ to have played a starring role in the celebrations, which he watched from his hospital bed.
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Permalink • Monday - August 31, 2009
“Stay away from my kids…”
I’ve been trying to catch up on my 24/7 Rush Limbaugh podcasts.
The first hour on 24Aug09 Rush carried the audio of this Marine’s challenge to his congressman. His name is David Hedrick and he really made plain what is at stake in government ‘deathcare’.
Honestly, when ARE our elected officials, from Obama on down, going to fulfill their oath of office?
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