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Berkeley Daily Planet Targets Private Resident for Protest

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:32:11 PM
Speaking of the vile media, The Berkeley Daily Planet published this:
 
Last week the Grizzly Peak neighbors of John Yoo received a “Neighborhood Alert” regarding Professor Yoo, in the form of a flyer letting them know he lives among them and providing information about his crimes, namely providing unethical and shoddy legal advice and cover to Bybee, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc. for illegal interrogation methods and the inhumane, degrading treatment of detainees—“unethical” because Yoo advocates breaking the law and “shoddy” because the memos were so ineptly crafted that they were repudiated and rescinded.
 
I question the acceptability of sheltering a war criminal in Berkeley. I don’t feel safe living in the vicinity of someone who believes torture is legal. Furthermore, Yoo has made all of our lives even more unsafe by inflaming hatred worldwide against our country and endangering American lives everywhere. I resent Yoo immensely for making me feel so ashamed of what has been done in my name. He has robbed me of my pride in my country and alma mater. Shame on UC! I won’t give another penny to the university as long as Yoo works there, but I’d write a check immediately to help buy out Yoo’s contract.
Zombie writes: These freelance protesters have decided on their own that Professor John Yoo is guilty of a crime and needs to be punished. No longer content to let the courts decide whether he is even to be charged with anything, much less found guilty, much less determine the punishment, the anti-Yoo protesters have decided to stalk him at home, menacing him and making sure that “John Yoo is going to have problems living a normal life now.”
 
Professor Yoo's address was published on a San Francisco website along with instructions about how and what to protest at his Berkeley home.
 
Professor Yoo is being targeted at his private home, for professional reasons, and called a war criminal. The Berkeley Daily Planet explains his "war crimes:" Contrary to Yoo’s frequent public assertions that he was helping to prevent another attack after 9/11, evidence shows that detainees such as Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi were tortured to get intelligence linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein in order to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq. A bipartisan report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found that al-Libi “lied [about the Iraq link] to avoid torture.” Thus Yoo directly helped Cheney and Bush make the false claims that lead us into the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, which in turn has lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, displaced populations, and cost billions of dollars we could have spent instead on health care, environmental protection, education, and infrastructure.
 
The Berkelely resident and writer of the inflammatory story in the Berkeley newspaper, Cynthia Papermaster, also had this to say: A number of groups, including students, alumni, professors and staff, are working to have him fired from UC. Dean Edley of the law school should ask Yoo to leave now. Yoo doesn’t have to be convicted or disbarred first. Also there’s a national campaign calling for Yoo to be fired by the Philadelphia Inquirer (see firejohnyoo.org). Maybe she'd like her job threatened and her home stalked by loonatics, who terrify her children and spouse, just because they disagree with how she earns a living.
 
read more about what these freaks have done to Professor Yoo and his family:
the Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper published an article encouraging people to join a vigilante-style protest in front of the private home of Professor John Yoo
 
and get the story at Zombie's Zomblog: how Berkeley shows its tolerance.
 
 
Vile, despicable, disgusting hate-filled people - who am I talking about? The liberal left in this country...
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Vile Media Bias

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:08:10 PM
With the inordinate amount of sympathetic media Dr.Tiller's brutal murder has garnered because he was an abortionist, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the mainstream media is the Democratic Party. Continuing with their sick agenda, they have all but ignored the brutal murder of Army Recruiter Private William Long and the gravely wounded 18-year-old Private Quinton Ezeagwula.
The White House has also ignored the recruiters' brutal attack.
 
The gunman of abortion doctor Dr. Tiller was Scott Roeder; white, Christian, anti-government, and anti-abortion. The gunman in the military recruiting center attack, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, was a black, Muslim convert, anti-military, and anti-American who admitted to police that if there were more military guys in the parking lot, he would have killed them as well.
 
Michelle Malkin addressed this in her column today:

"By contrast, President Obama was silent about the military recruiter attacks that left 24-year-old Private William Long dead and 18-year-old Private Quinton Ezeagwula gravely wounded. On Tuesday afternoon – more than 24 hours after the attack on the military recruiting center in Little Rock – President Obama held a press conference to announce his pick for Army Secretary. It would have been exactly the right moment to express condolences for the families of the targeted Army recruiters and to condemn heinous acts of violence against our troops.

But President Obama said nothing. The Justice Department was mum. And so were the legions of finger-pointing pundits happily convicting the pro-life movement and every right-leaning writer on the planet of contributing to the murder of George Tiller. Obama’s omission, it should be noted, comes just a few weeks after he failed to mention the Bronx jihadi plot to bomb synagogues and a National Guard airbase during his speech on homeland security."
 
The media chooses to ignore that Muslim extremists have set their sites on Military recruiters and Jews, but splash all over the headlines that abortion doctors are killed by crazy Christians. : Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters
 
Why?
 
Because the media is the Democrat Party and anti-Christian headlines targeting the "opponent" are good politics. The President does the same - ignores the Muslim extremists crimes but sends U.S. Marchalls to protect other abortion doctors... not military recruiting offices, but abortion doctors.
 
follow Michelle Malkin's research on this subject: http://michellemalkin.com/
 
These media people are vile.
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The Pelosi GTxiSS/RT - Zoom Zoom Zoom?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:11:04 PM
For sale: The 2012 Pelosi GTxiSS/RT Sport Edition
 
 
Courtest of Iowahawk
 
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Eric Holder undermines Georgia’s voter verification rules; ACORN cheers

Posted by Katy Grimes on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:13:40 PM
Michelle Malkin today wrote about Attorney General Eric Holder's blatant violation of Georgia's elections:
 
 
Eric Holder and the DOJ are opening the voter fraud floodgates in Georgia. The Georgia secretary of state explains:

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel issued the following statement following the U.S. Department of Justice’s denial of preclearance of Georgia’s voter verification process:

Atlanta - “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy."

One reader left the following comment: "Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel needs to write a letter to Eric Holder reminding him of the 9th, 10th and 14th amendments. The states created the federal government and the states are in charge of elections."
 
It sounds as if that's exactly what the Georgia Secretary of State is about to do.
 

Furthermore, not allowing the state to correctly maintain voter rolls disenfranchises US citizens who are the only people legally entitled to vote.

The states need to wake up before they find themselves in the same position as GM and Chrysler. The states are the only solution to the mess the feds have put us in. If they don’t act to rein in the insanity in Washington, DC the America has a very dark future as a free nation.

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Bird With a Groove Thing

Posted by Katy Grimes on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:10:53 PM
This bird can shake it!
 
 
 
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We Need A New Milton Friedman

Posted by Katy Grimes on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:32:08 PM
In recent months, nasty bumper stickers are popping up that say "Milton Friedman: Proud Father of Global Misery." Liberals demonize Friedman because his policies and sound economics are right and true - but libs don't like the hard work and discipline it takes. So now they demonize him in order to make their mesiah look as if he knows what he is doing.
The spoiled, self-absorbed lefties can continue to try to "level the playing field," however according to Christopher Chantrill at American Thinker, "our liberal friends are shortly going to experience a very nasty rendez-vous with reality.  As usual with our liberal friends, they will insist that we experience it with them.
It's a real shame that we are going to have to go through the 1970s all over again.  And it's a shame that the people who will suffer most will be the kids who voted for Obama.  Well, maybe not.  Maybe the sooner they get a reality check the better."
 
It will be the 1970's all over again. And as I state, Chantrill says we need another Milton Friendman again, very badly.
 
Chantrill continues: "Everyone understands that capitalism is the only thing that works.  But our liberal friends just don't care. 

They had a chance to incorporate his ideas into their policy, and the Clinton administration did, in a half-hearted way, for a while.  But who wants to wind down welfare?  Who wants to forswear gorgeous mega-projects to save the planet with renewable green energy?  Who wants to give up "free" health care?  Who wants to give up sexy high-speed rail-you know, just like they have in Europe?  What would be the point of political power without all that?
 
 Today we need a pitcher that can throw even better stuff than Milton Friedman.  Most likely, he -- or she -- is already warming up in the bullpen.  That's the whole idea behind American Exceptionalism.  When we Americans need a new pitcher to get us out of a jam, there always seems to be one on the bench, name of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Friedman, or Reagan or something like that.
We'll know if this pitcher is the real thing because of the Bronx cheers coming out of the expensive liberal box seats.  Here's the kind of no-nonsense pitching that I'll be looking for:

  • Enough already with trying to beat the business cycle. The government has been promising to do this for about a century and it has failed. Get it out of here!
  • Enough already with getting other people to pay for your health care. It is cruel, wasteful, and unjust.
  • Enough already with sending little Johnny off for a mandatory twelve year sentence at the state educational penitentiary. Hey, at least your average violent offender at the regular pen gets a trial of his peers and time off for good behavior.
If the new conservative pitcher has the stuff to "slice and dice" the liberal sophistry that would truculently come up to bat against this modest program, here is what I would say.

It's a start.
Obama is destroying the American economy. It appears to be his goal. However, he is not a true American if he thinks we can't overcome his sloppy policies and get rid of him by 2012. Even a sh*t-storm has to end sometime.

Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his roadtothemiddleclass.com and usgovernmentspending.com.  His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
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"Sotomayor and White Wise Guys"

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, June 01, 2009 5:28:14 PM
"If you believe the myth that Democrats are champions of equality for women, racial minorities, and folks with "compelling" life stories, maybe you've been spending more time tracking Big Foot than judicial nominations."
 
That statement was written by the American Thinker's Jan LaRue: a Senior Legal Analyst with the American Civil Rights Union.
 
Read her entire column - I've copied it entirely:

"Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's Hispanic nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, is the perfect pick to reinforce their myth.

That's not to diminish in any way Sotomayor's life story and accomplishments, which are impressive and admirable. Still, the American people expect a full and fair hearing regarding her competence, judicial philosophy, temperament, and commitment to "Equal Justice Under Law."

The self-anointed authority on "mainstream" judges, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has already warned that "if Republicans oppose Sonia Sotomayor, they'll do so at their "own peril."

You don't have to be a world-class cryptographer to bust that code. No matter how courteous and respectful Republicans are to Sotomayor, the first and every time a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) asks her a relevant question about her judicial philosophy, statements, court opinions (which have a reversal rate of 60 percent in the Supreme Court), the Democrats will consume most of the SJC's time ranting against Republicans as "anti-Hispanic misogynists."

Here's some advice and consent for Republicans: "Get over it."

Democrats are so taken by their munificent minority myth that they can't grasp how demeaned and offended most women and minorities feel about being force-fed affirmative action and set-asides. Most of us believe that we really are capable of making it on our intellect and abilities if we have equal opportunity at the starting line.

Sotomayor's ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano is certainly worth examining, especially in light of her statement: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

Ricci concerns firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who were denied promotions because no black firefighters qualified for advancement. Sotomayor, as part of a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit appeals court, upheld the city's rejection of a race discrimination lawsuit by white firefighters and one Hispanic. She voted with the majority of the full court in refusing to rehear the case. The Supreme Court is currently considering the case, and will announce its opinion at the end of June.

If they can stomach it, Republicans should prep themselves for Sotomayor's confirmation hearing by reviewing tapes or reading transcripts of Judge Janice Rogers Brown's hearing. Brown was President George W. Bush's African-American nominee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats weren't so smitten with her compelling life story that they were incapable of asking her tough questions.

Democrats should have championed Judge Brown's confirmation, not because of her compelling life story, but because of her record as an exemplary judge committed to the rule of law, equality for all Americans, and her limited role as a judge.

Instead, privileged, wealthy, white Democrats attacked Brown as an "extreme right-wing" judge who didn't care about "civil rights" or the "down-trodden." They were unconstrained by accusations of racism and sexism.

When the Democrats ended their nearly two-year delay, including a filibuster of Brown's re-nomination in 2005, their attacks continued. They claimed their opposition wasn't racist or sexist:

  • Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) ridiculed Bush nominees including Brown, as "Neanderthals." He attacked Brown as "another extreme right-wing candidate ... a judicial activist who will roll back basic rights."
  • Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) said: "I oppose giving Justice Brown this lifetime promotion to the second highest court in our land because the American people deserve judges who will interpret the law fairly and objectively. Janice Rogers Brown is a committed judicial activist who has a consistent record of using her position as a member of the court to put her views above the law and above the interests of working men and women and families across the Nation."
  • Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said: "Janice Rogers Brown is one of President Bush's most ideological and extreme judicial nominees."
  • Schumer said: Judge Brown "is the least deserving of all of President Bush's appeal court nominees."

Many political pundits apparently share Democrats' low opinion of Hispanic voters. All we've heard thus far is, "Republicans don't dare go after Sotomayor," or they'll lose the Hispanic voting bloc.

Democrats are counting on Hispanics forgetting that it was Democrats who blocked Honduran immigrant Miguel Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals solely because they couldn't abide the prospect that President Bush might elevate the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court.

Hispanics should be insulted by the race-baiting. They know the difference between addressing an issue and attacking a person. That's what Democrats do when a woman or a minority won't tow the Party line as a judge.

Americans don't expect or want Republicans to behave like Democrats. But they do want a thorough review and some tough questioning of Sotomayor's record, speeches and opinions.

A Latina woman can take it, especially a former prosecutor who grew up in the South Bronx. Besides, she's probably looking forward to the chance to prove she's smarter than white guys."

Jan LaRue is Senior Legal Analyst with the American Civil Rights Union; former Chief Counsel at Concerned for Women; former Legal Studies Director at Family Research Council; and former Senior Counsel for the National Law Center for Children and Families.
 
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Pravda Calls U.S. "Communists"

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, June 01, 2009 3:19:28 PM
Pravda not only called America "Marxist" and "Communist," they wrote that the election of Obama is the final collapse of America.
 
In American capitalism gone with a whimper, Pravda writes, "First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics."
 
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
 
Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
 
Conservative voters already know this. Yet the madness is all around us. The Land of the free and home of the brave is on the verge of something truly dangerous. Who is this man that America so willingly elected to the highest office in the country, and why is he killing our country?

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies.

 
 
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Two Army Recruiters Gunned Down

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, June 01, 2009 2:20:55 PM
Two Army recruiters were gunned down today in Arkansas. Both men were combat war veterans. Heroes. Neither man was an abortion doctor, so the media is quiet on this horrific crime.
 
A local Fox news station has the story: HERE
 
According to Army Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, the two victims were not recruiters, but part of a recruiting program called "Hometown Recruiting Assistance." Artis says recruiters use soldiers to tell their stories and talk to potential recruits while they are visiting or based back in their home region.
 
Will update as more info comes in.
 
Michelle Malkin writes:

I wonder if the Justice Department will send marshals to beef up protection at recruiting centers — especially given the past targeting of military centers on campuses and elsewhere across the country.

Too early to say anything about suspect, motives, etc. But these facts are worth bearing in mind:

Flashback: Special report: Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters

Flashback: The continuing war on recruiters that the Left doesn’t want to talk about

Flashback: Document drop: Unclassified memo warns military personnel of anti-war threats to recruiters, Army installations/facilities

Flashback: Bastards: Vandals strike at Berkeley Marine recruiting center again

Flashback: Explosion at Times Square recruiting station; Update: Bloomberg blasts the blast; Update: Security video released; Update: House Dems received letters, photo of recruitment center; Fox reports maybe more than 8 received letters; AP says manifesto was anti-Iraq war screed, “Happy New Year, We did it;” Newsday: At least 10 got the package


 
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Judge Sotormayor - "The Equalizer"

Posted by Katy Grimes on Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:28:03 PM
For a President who constantly reminds us that he's a constitutional scholar, Obama doesn't seem to have any regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. His choicec of Sonia Sotormayor for the United States Supreme Court proves this, beyond a reasonable doubt.
 
That she is the child of Puerto Rican parents (not immigrants) is laudable and worthy of mentioning. But Sotormayor wears her Latina heritage like a scarlet letter. Her often-played quote "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” also proves beyond a reasonable doubt that she trumps her Hispanic heritage before the rule of law in America.
 
Minorities in this country are allowed to be racists.
 
Sotormayor has a questionable judicial record. While she is said to be a workaholic and devoted jurist, she has a 60% rate of decisions being overturned. That's darned questionable work performance and demonstrates that she is an activist and not a constitutionalist. Her decisions fly in the face of the rule of law.
 
Sotormayor seems to have been determined to make a name for herself instead of upholding the constitution, which she was sworn in to do.

I solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of (Judge.) to the best of my ability. (So help me God is traditionally added.) 

Sotormayor swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States... as did President Obama, but he's not doing such a hot job of it either. He stated that he wants her confirmed and "walking up those marble steps and providing some justice." An outrageous statement for the American President to make. Does he want Justice based on her Latina experience and Obama's racial attitudes, or justice based on the rule of law and the Constitution?
 
Karl Rove wrote, “Empathy” is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn’t pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash."
 
The Washington Times wrote, "With Judge Sonia Sotomayor already facing questions over her 60 percent reversal rate, the Supreme Court could dump another problem into her lap next month if, as many legal analysts predict, the court overturns one of her rulings upholding a race-based employment decision.

Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents Tuesday after President Obama announced he will nominate the 54-year-old Hispanic woman to the high court.

“Her high reversal rate alone should be enough for us to pause and take a good look at her record. Frankly, it is the Senates duty to do so,” said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America."
A majority of Americans believe that judicial decisions should be made on the rule of law - even if it means they are rules against. Americans believe in fairness of law. Judge Sotormayor does not - she sees herself as "The Equalizer."
 
Pray for the continued health of Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia.
 
 
 
 
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Chrysler Dealers Forced To Close - Except For Dem Owned Dealerships!

Posted by Katy Grimes on Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:15:00 PM
Yesterday I wrote about this: UPDATE below:
 
New information has come to light in the Chrysler Dealership closures.

Rick Moran wrote in "More evidence emerges that Chrysler Dealer closings was politically motivated," The dealer closings were not ordered by the bankruptcy judge but by the White House. This puts a whole new light on how the dealers to be closed were chosen and, more importantly, who did it.

And Jim Hoft has found an incredible piece of information. Apparently, a politically connected group of Democrats who own six Chrysler dealerships not only were allowed to keep them, but their competition was deep sixed. Hoft has a link to a blog on the Chrysler dealer shutdowns run by Joey Smith who reports:

The company is called RLJ-McLarty-Landers, and it operates six Chrysler dealerships throughout the South. All six dealerships are safe from closing. The dealer locations are:

Bentonville, AR (northwest Arkansas)
Lee's Summit, MO (south of Kansas City, MO)
Branson, MO
Olathe, KS (near Kansas City)
Bossier City, LA (near Shreveport)
Huntsville, AL

The interesting part is who the three main owners of the company are. The owners are Steve Landers (long-time car dealer, 4th-generation dealer), Thomas "Mack" McLarty (former Chief of Staff for President Clinton), and Robert Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television and co-owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats). Landers has given money to Republicans in the past, but McLarty campaigned for Obama in 2008, and Johnson has given countless amounts of money to Democrats over the years.

This thing is getting stinkier by the hour. And it's starting to smell like rotten bananas - as in the tactic the White House is using is something you'd find in a central American banana republic and not the greatest nation on earth.

I wrote a piece on my own blog a while back when Chrysler dealer George Joseph wrote a letter published on AT about his own troubles with being shut down. In that piece, I made the argument that what we were seeing was not socialism, but gangsterism. And how did it happen?

It can happen because we are barking up the wrong tree when we accuse the Democrats of practicing socialism. Any Chicagoan recognizes what's going on as pure gangsterism - the application of power through the use blackmail, threats, and pure muscle and the devil take the Constitution, the rule of law, and simple fairness.

It can happen because we've elected a president who aggrandizes power unto himself while running roughshod over individual rights.

This story is about ready to explode. All the ingredients are there for a gigantic political scandal that would shake the Obama administration to its foundation and perhaps take down several high ranking officials. All that's needed is one connecting piece of evidence that would tie the White House Automotive Task Force to some political arm of the Democratic party."

This is reminiscent of the Soviet Union, nationalizing every business, and forcing closures of private business. Is this really America, and is our President really forcing private businesses to close, while allowing the businesses of cronies to remain open?
Read the entire column and stay tuned. Share this with everyone you know. We can fight this.
 
UPDATE:  From Mark Tapscott of The Washington Examiner:

He writes: "A lawyer representing a group of  Chrysler dealers who are on the hit list deposed senior Chrysler executives and later told Reuters that he believes the closings have been forced on the company by the White House.

"It became clear to us that Chrysler does not see the wisdom of terminating 25 percent of its dealers. It really wasn't Chrysler's decision. They are under enormous pressure from the President's automotive task force," said attorney Leonard Bellavia.

RedState.com's Josh Painter has a useful roundup of what has been found so far by a growing number of bloggers digging into what could be a very big story indeed. Also, see my column on this issue and how it fits into the larger context dubbed by the Examiner's Michael Barone as "gangster government."

As part of Chrysler's bankruptcy agreement with the White House, the company plans to close roughly a quarter of its 3,200 dealerships.  Lists of the dealerships being cut and those retaining their Chrysler franchises can be found here in pdf format. Many dealers contend the criteria being used to determine which dealerships survive is not clear and that many of those that are being closed in fact are profitable businesses, despite the current recession. 
and...

UPDATE II: White House car czar married to Democratic fund raiser

Maybe it's significant, maybe not, but a colleague here in the Examiner newsroom just reminded me that White House car czar Steven Rattner is married to Maureen White, the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And let's not forget that before Rattner became a Wall Street mover and shaker, he was a New York Times reporter. Check out the Wiki bio here.   
read the whole article here: HERE 
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Union or Non-Union Grass?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:09:39 PM
In recent headlines in The Sacramento Bee, reporter Ryan Lyllis wrote how the city's budget shortfall was heading right for the parks - the bottom line, that is. City budgeteers are proposing a 35% budget cut for the department of Parks... but not for the Recreation side of the department. http://www.sacbee.com/government/story/1844020.html
 
The neighborhood in which I live surrounds Sacramento's largest regional park, William Land Park, and the neighbors are spitting mad. There has been no talk of cutting the excessive staff in the city - only parks maintenance and services.
 
Within the Department of Parks and Recreation, the parks budget is pretty straightforward and typical: maintenance, repairs, projects and restorations. The Recreation side of the department however, is bloated with lots of interesting departments:  pools & aquatics, senior enrichment classes, a travel agency, teen "health" centers, neighborhood block party planners, a skate park, day care centers, and even 17 community centers (all of which require staffing).
 
Last week, 65 people from my neighborhood attended the City Council meeting and present an optional budget proposal to the council, instead of allowing the parks to fall into blight. Not just for our neighborhood, but for every Sacramento neighborhood where a park is located. We testified about what happens to parks when the maintenance ceases and bathrooms close: public urination (and worse), crime, drugs, gangs take over. Additionally, the city would have to spend an inordinate amount of money to get the parks back into shape once the economy recovers.
 
We proposed privatizing park maintenance, saving the city at least 60% of the existing cost due to the union contracts under which city parks employees currently work.
 
With a city council of all Democrats save one, it is the unions who put each council member into office. Consequently, no one will even broach the discussion of cutting union jobs... or pay... or benefits... muchless privatizing any city services.
 
Last night the City Council met again (here is the agenda and video link
05/26/09 Council Meeting May 26, 2009 01h 32m Agenda Video Open Video Only in Windows Media Player
 
skip to Public Testimony Parks for testimony.
 
In the meeting, it was brought up that the city found some additional money for Parks and Rec. When asked where and how, the City Finance Director stated that there are several lighting and landscaping assessment districts. They did an audit and "added parcels." They will use this money to "backfill the loss of general funds."
 
The city just "added parcels" to an existing assessment district - wait until the property owners find out. These people will not cut a thing out of the budget as long as it is tied to union jobs.
 
Meanwhile, our park is looking really neglected and blighted in some areas, but not one city parks department employee has been let go. Where are they working? Who ordered them to stop mowing and maintaining the park? My guess - One of their bloated union middle managers.
 
The funny thing is that adjacent to our park is the Land Park Golf course - beautifully maintained... privately. We refer to this as "union grass" and "non-union grass."
 
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USNA - Does Your School Let You Do This?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:16:29 PM
My son is a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy  - whenever I wonder what he's up to, I watch this great video.
 
Does Your School let You Do This? 
 
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American Headlines?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:54:41 PM
Look at these headlines - is this still America? "Gee Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore."
 
National Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look; Rahm Emanuel's brother advises 10% VAT... Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax
 
 
 
RUSSIA FEARS NKOREA CONFLICT COULD GO NUKE
 
 

American flag yanked from work cubicle - Hospital supervisor complained about woman's 'offensive' display at office

Have the Bolsheviks taken over?
 
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Why Socialists Always Fail

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:50:37 PM
Socialists Always Fail because their policies and practices defy reciprocal sociability.
Christopher Chantrill at American Thinker explains: "Social animals, humans are at our best when living in a world of reciprocal sociability; we are at our worst when issuing administrative orders to people that can't answer back."
 
"Capitalism is a social technology in the same way that the a trauma center is social technology.  You can let the technicians organize and run it, subject to law, or you can stick your political nose in and order the professionals around.  Just to show who's boss, you can mix in a special deal for a powerful interest.

Time and time again in the last century, liberals have insisted that only political power can deliver the right kind of service from business.  First we had to have a Federal Reserve System because you couldn't trust the Money Trust.  That worked out well.  The dollar is now worth 2.5 cents.

Then they decided that America's corporations had to have strong unions -- in 1935 right in the middle of a Great Depression.  That worked out well.  It plunged America into a second depression in 1937.

They decided that senior citizens had to have subsidized health care.  So now health care for seniors is eating the budget alive, and that's before the $40 trillion that's promised but not funded.

They wanted everyone to have "affordable housing."  Well, now they have their wish.  Pity they had to blow up the banking system to get there.

And these are the people that called President Bush clueless!"
 
 
 
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