American capitalism gone with a whimper – Pravda.Ru.
Considering our MSM, Pravda is ranking high with me these days. Hey, if Pravda can see Obama’s paved yellow brick road clearly, why can’t the American public?
Thanks to the Founding Bloggers for the video link.
Germany’s Opel has been s old – with a joint-Russian-Canadian bid the winner in the race to buy one of Europe’s oldest and most well-known carmakers.
Russia’s biggest lender [state controlled] Sberbank and automotive giant GAZ – along with Canadian car parts firm Magna – have successfully bought Opel from US motor giant General Motors, which is filing for bankruptcy.
Anyone guess who gave a helping hand? Ask Angela Merkel.
Found at my pals place TDN. I, and many others had posted on all of this during the primaries however, the MSM did not listen to any of us. They labeled us unkindly. My or my how things change. Pravda can’t believe the downward spiral either.
From There’s My Two Cents Worth
Fact: Wade Rathke is the founder of ACORN and the SEIU (Service Employees International Union).
Fact: ACORN is now in hot pursuit of $8 billion in porkulus funds.
Census 2010, anyone?
So where does ACORN reside?
Fox News followed the money.
ACORN HQ and its 268 affiliates reside at a single, small funeral parlor in New Orleans on Elysian Fields Ave.
And some of its affiliates — like “The ACORN Institute” — are 501(c)(3) organizations.
Are they partisan, because if you are a non profit status organization you are supposed to be.
Mitchell Blatt may have found a damning piece of evidence that destroys ACORN’s claims of non-partisanship:
An internal ACORN memo — dated January 26, 2004 — that spells out explicit gerrymandering strategies.
Top beneficiaries: Democrats.
This is a long-term, multi-faceted project with the following goals:
a) Impact the post-2010 Congressional redistricting process by building progressive electoral majorities in swing state legislative districts in states where partisan control of legislative bodies is potentially in play.
b) Organize in 10 – 20 selected Congressional Districts where recent close elections and/or demographic shifts make them likely swing districts.
The strategy here is to build the long-term, targeted organizing and electoral capacity needed if we are to have a Congress with a progressive majority. The redistricting process is key, since it is unlikely that there are enough competitive House districts to end right-wing control of the House of Representative before 2012. But we need to start now.
The first step is to review the literature analyzing the redistricting process state-by-state, determine which states’ re-districting processes are in the hands of state legislatures (most), which state legislative bodies have a close enough Democrat-Republican ratio to be in play, and which state house and state senate districts in those states are competitive. With this information, one can then target appropriate legislative districts. We have identified an organizer with previous experience with 21st Century Democrats and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee who we would like to hire to develop this targeting plan.
In other words, ACORN plotted a national campaign to benefit a Democrat Party takeover of Congress, explicitly naming the Democrats as beneficiaries of their “largesse”.
Surprised?
You can read the entire memo here, preserved for posterity.
Help shut down ACORN.
Report this violation of the tax code to the IRS. Fill out a Form 13909 (Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) Form).
Then, use one of the following methods to dispatch the form to the IRS:
- Mail to IRS EO Classification, Mail Code 4910DAL, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242-1198,
- Fax to 214-413-5415, or
- Email to eoclass@irs.gov.
By all means, please do not forget to reference ACORN’s own memo.
Georgia State Sen. Jeff Mullis (Chickamauga) has filed legislation urging the IRS to revoke ACORN’s tax exempt status. Consider this additional ammo for Mullis’ efforts.
Lesson here?
Lee said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she wanted to hand Obama a letter urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.”
She said she asked a Secret Service agent to give the president her letter, but he refused and referred her to a White House staffer. Lee said she refused to give the staffer the letter.
“I said, ‘I’ll take my chances if (the president) comes by here,’” said Lee, who identified herself as a Roman Catholic priestess who lives in Anaheim, Calif. “He became annoyed that I wouldn’t give him the letter.”
Lee, who was wearing what she described as a cassock, said she protested when she was asked to leave…
Two officers then picked her up and carried her out. An Associated Press photographer photographed the incident.
“I was afraid you could see under my clothes,” she said, her voice choking up.
Or was Aunt Zeituni trying to board AirForce One?
From the Charlie Rose show via Kausfiles:
CHARLIE ROSE: How would you have lived your life differently based on what you know now?
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: Boy, I mean, there`s so many — I certainly would have gotten mammograms more often. That was an easy one.
CHARLIE ROSE: Yes, of course, right.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: You know, I would not have voluntarily put myself in a position where I thought I would lose a child…
CHARLIE ROSE: Of course not.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: … and that I would feel so betrayed. I wouldn`t have done that voluntarily. I would…
CHARLIE ROSE: What does that mean? I don`t know what that means.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: That means I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else and done something else … [E.A.]
from the Chicago Tribune on Loon Alert (Father Phleger BFF of Rev Wright)
Father Phleger in Chicago is flying the flag upside down as a sign of distress that lives are in danger. People are calling in on radio shows that he is desecrating the flag.
Wake up people! It is a sign of distress because something needs to be done now! Maybe he has not gone far enough. Maybe he should be asking for Homeland Security to be addressing the matter to stop the terrorism taking place on the streets of our cities! Over the top? How many school children have been killed on the streets of Baghdad this year compared to how many have been killed on the streets of Chicago?
Vatican 911, has he been drinking?
