Posts Tagged ‘ACORN’
It’s truly disgusting to see how in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary that we as conservatives still have to couch our words and unequivocally provide a presumption of innocence. Bertha Lewis is a liar, a crook, and a fraud. Obama is inextricably linked with ACORN, Bill Ayers, The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and a veritable cornucopia of leftist malcontents dedicated to the subversion of the American way of life, and ultimately the subjugation of it’s citizenry.
The Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they had an internet connection.
By MirthfulMe
Climategate
New York Times carries CFACT’s “Climate Sense” Conference
Skewed left, of course. But at least the flagship of the establishment media acknowledges that there is opposition to the faux scientific “consensus.”
Clash Between The Guardian And Science
Sign the www.allpainnogain.org petition today. The debate between climate realists and climate alarmists is actually a debate between reason and emotion. Climate realists use facts, figures, measurements, history and scientific analysis. Climate alarmists use anecdote and emotion.
I’d like to think that reason will win in the end, but history is replete with examples of national movements based on everything BUT reason. National Socialism comes to mind. International Communism is another. Progressivism. Obama-ism. And now eco-disasterism.
Minds need to open. The IPCC has the science wrong. Taxpayers must demand a reexamination of the entire climate issue before they commit to sending their family’s nest eggs to the government to distribute to a new class of carbon carpet baggers.
“Carbon carpet baggers.” Nice.
Propaganda makes you see clothes on a naked emperor, it makes you see man-made climate change in a world where nature rules our temperature. Let us remember the voice of the child who cried, “but he has nothing on.” Let us have the courage to reveal that the global warming emperor has no clothes.
Heh.
The reality behind the mythology of Cap and Trade
Gets into the nuts and bolts of the Cap and Trade scam. Invisible chains around our necks. How much more of the kind of crap will we take?
Climategate Reaches the British House of Lords
The first 2/3 of the article deals with the very boring policy aspects of regulating carbon emissions in Great Britian and Europe. But the last third, posted below, deals with the science supporting AGW. Much more interesting.
There is the issue of the science, which I had previously taken as given; but many people’s faith is being tested. We are often told that the science is settled. I suppose that is what the Inquisition said to Galileo. If so, why are we spending millions of pounds on research? The science is far from settled. There are major controversies not just about the contribution of CO2, on which most of the debate is focused, but about the influence of other factors such as water vapour, or clouds-the most powerful greenhouse gas-ocean currents and the sun, together with feedback effects which can be negative as well as positive.
Worse still, there are even controversies about the basic data on temperature. The series going back one, 10 or 100,000 years are, in the genuine sense of the word, synthetic. They are not direct observations but are melded together from proxies such as ice cores, ocean sediments and tree rings.
Given the extent to which the outcome is affected by the statistical techniques and the weightings applied by individual researchers, it is essential that the work is done as transparently as possible, with the greatest scope for challenge. That is why the disclosure of documents and e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit is so disturbing. Instead of an open debate, a picture is emerging of selective use of data, efforts to silence critics, and particularly a refusal to share data and methodologies.
It is essential that these allegations are independently and rigorously investigated. Naturally, I welcome the appointment of my old colleague, Sir Muir Russell, to lead this investigation; a civil servant with a physics degree is a rare beast indeed. He needs to establish what the documents really mean and recommend changes in governance and transparency which will restore confidence in the integrity of the data. This is not just an academic feud in the English department from a Malcolm Bradbury novel. The CRU is a major contributor to the IPCC process. The Government should not see this as a purely university matter. They are the funders of much of this research and their climate change policies are based on it.
We need to purge the debate of the unpleasant religiosity that surrounds it, of scientists acting like NGO activists, of propaganda based on fear, for example, the quite disgraceful government advertisement which tried to frighten young children-the final image being the family dog being drowned-and of claims about having “10 days to save the world”. Crude insults from the Prime Minister do not help.
The noble Lords, Lord Krebs and Lord May, and their eminent colleagues on the CCC have a choice. They can take the policy framework as given, the policy responses as given, the costs as given, and the science as given, and then proceed to churn out more and more sophisticated projections, or-as I hope-they can apply the formidable intellectual firepower they command and start to find answers to many of the unsolved questions.
ACORN
Judge Rules Effort to Strip ACORN of Federal Funds Unconstitutional
Why am I not surprised? An activist judge rules in favor of leftist community activists. We get the government we deserve. The Congress is allowed to “target” an organization by showering it with funds, but it is not allowed to “target” an organization in order to turn off the spigot.
Interesting comments on this at FreeRepublic.
Obama
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-16!)
“…lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.” Obama is a one-hit wonder. Re-election prospects are very dim.
Obamacare
Healthcare reform draws nearer
The smart money in Washington is now betting that the arduous and often unseemly legislative process is within spitting distance of a conclusion.
Terrific. Our long journey into night may begin within the next couple of weeks. Tyranny, oppression, suffocating regulation, and confiscatory taxation . . . here we come!
GWOT
Terrorists To Be Moved to Camp Gitmo Illinois
Great. We’re actually going to inject bloodthirsty Islamic jihadists into our prison system, where they can proselytize and convert our most violent criminals to kill for the glory of Islam. The gifts from Obama just keep on coming.
Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak
Steeeeeeeeeeerike TWO!
Apparently, leaked documents show that world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries (e.g., the U.S., U.K., and Denmark, among others) and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.
First it’s the “hacked” emails in the Climategate scandal. Now it’s the “leaked” document in Copenhagen. Should we call it Copengate?
After a series of embarrassing undercover videos revealed ACORN to be the corrupt enabler of welfare cheats, mortgage crooks, and pimps, ACORN has released the results of an internal investigation showing that its employees did not break any laws.
It must be true. ACORN says so.
The Truth Behind Climategate and Hopenhagen
Just follow the money. Climate change is just another leftist wealth redistribution scheme.
Another Historic First for Obama
Obama’s approval rating fell to 47 percent, the lowest approval rating for any president at this stage of his presidency dating back to President Harry S Truman. White House Press Secretary Gibbs was not amused.
The Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero
Indisputable evidence that the “homogenized” climate data has been changed to fit someone’s preconceptions about whether the earth is warming.
In retrospect, it’s not all that surprising that politically-motivated scientists would collude with one another to falsify data and thoroughly corrupt the peer review process. Climategate revealed scientists to be mere humans, after all.
Lesbian Rhodes scholar and prison AIDS activist turned Air America radio jockette and MSNBC liberal commentator Rachel Maddow simply HATES Tea Partiers. It should therefore come as no surprise that she would attribute the recent Republican revolt in New York’s 23rd district to astroturfing, ginned up by the likes of Dick Armey and FreedomWorks.
On the November 3 broadcast of her show, Maddow said:
One point of interest in the New York 23 race has been the involvement of the ostensibly grassroots, but corporate-funded organization FreedomWorks, one of the many outside organizations that came in and sort of big-footed this local Republican Party race there. [Emphasis added]
Ostensibly grassroots? I’m no Rhodes scholar, but I’m pretty sure she’s implying that FreedomWorks is NOT a grassroots organization. The reason? Because it is “corporate-funded.”
So . . . if a group that organizes communities accepts money from corporations, said group can no longer be considered ”grassroots.” Therefore, ACORN is not a grassroots organization, either, since it has extorted, er received millions of dollars from banks and corporations.
But Maddow reserves her condemnation of ostensibly grassroots organizations to FreedomWorks, not ACORN. In fact, Maddow is ACORN’s biggest cheerleader. A google search of “site:youtube.com rachel maddow acorn” yielded the following hits, among others:
Rachel Maddow: The Truth About The Lies About Acorn
Rachel Maddow: Lies About Acorn & Something Unconstitutional?
Rachel Maddow: The Acorn Attack
Clearly, Maddow has a “thing” for ACORN.
But let’s go back to the Republican revolt in New York’s 23rd district. Later in the program, Maddow gave her explanation for the townhall outburts that occurred across the country this past August:
The reason that sort of thing happened in so many different town hall meetings during the month of August all around the country is in part because those things were not spontaneous. [Emphasis added]
Maddow goes on to discuss a memo authored by a Conecticut man named Bob MacGuffie that was supposedly circulated before one or more townhall meetings, urging people to essentially disrupt the meetings Alinsky style. Maddow’s feigned outrage was, to put it mildly, unconvincing. Maddow’s slobbering love affair with ACORN makes her faux outrage all the more laughable.
“Yes, but what does this have to do with NY23? ” you ask.
Maddow:
In our reporting over the summer, we described the author of that disrupt the town halls memo as a FreedomWorks volunteer, because of the extreme behavior at some town halls and the amount of attention they got, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey tried to disassociate himself and his organization from that memo specifically on “Meet the Press” while at the same time attacking me for us reporting on it.
So, let’s thread the needle here. Maddow contends that the Republican revolt in New York’s 23rd district was astroturfed by FreedomWorks, which is not a bonafide grassroots organization because it accepts donations given freely by evil corporations (unlike ACORN which only accepts money it can extort from corporations). And to prove her point, Maddow accuses FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey of commiserating with the author of a memo supposedly circulated before some townhall meetings in August.
What rubbish. I would expect more of a Rhodes scholar.
Chris Rowan
(From the National Right to Work)
Thu, 09/17/2009 – 15:00 — Patrick Semmens
Most Freedom@Work readers are already aware of a growing scandal involving the pro-forced unionism Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in New York, Baltimore, Washington, and now, California. For those who missed it, ACORN representatives were caught on camera giving advice to undercover journalists on how to open an illegal brothel, launder its profits, and commit a host of other illegal activities.
According to The Washington Examiner, teacher union officials have contributed over 1.3 million dollars (in mostly forced union dues) to ACORN since 2005.
We decided to do a little digging into union financial disclosure forms on the Department of Labor’s website. After examining union financial records, it turns out that officials of several high-profile unions diverted large sums of mostly forced union dues dollars to the same ACORN offices in Washington and New York that are implicated in the hidden camera scandal.
In 2008, for example, the AFL-CIO New York City Teacher Union gave a total of $406,730 to an ACORN office in Brooklyn that was later exposed by undercover journalists at Big Government. This contribution was classified under “representational activities,” meaning it was funded by teachers forced to pay dues to teacher union bosses. In states without a Right to Work law like New York, employees who don’t join unions can still be forced to pay union dues if union bosses acquire monopoly bargaining privileges.
Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com posted an item about Media Matters‘ hit piece on Glenn Beck.
Oh, they want Beck’s head on a plate so baaaaad. Beck is the new Bush. Beckhitler. Beck lied, people died. The radical ecomarxist Alinsky-inspired statist faction that is the base of today’s Democrat party is absolutely furious at Beck for outing the self-admitted communist and racist and general purpose loon Van Jones. Outing is ok only if the target is a closet gay and Republican. I guess Beck didn’t get the memo.
How do you defend the indefensible? Why, you edit and cherrypick. That’s how. Media Matters claims that Beck bought into a very wacky-looking and wacky-sounding Acorn employee’s admission to murder without checking on the veracity of the story first. Media Matters took some of Beck’s words out of context, edited some video, and Presto! Proof Positive that Beck is an idiot and should be ignored.
Morrissey does a good job dismissing Media Matters’ obvious distortion of the facts, but he doesn’t go far enough. In attempting to smear Glenn Beck, Media Matters is defending ACORN. Media Matters is defending a criminal enterprise caught red-handed promoting child prostitution, tax fraud, and murder.
Find your Representative. Let him/her know that you do NOT want to fund ACORN, a well-known criminal enterprise, with your tax dollars. Call, email, fax, or write a letter. The Senate voted overwhelmingly (83 – 7) to de-fund ACORN. Pelosi will not de-fund ACORN unless a strong majority of House members fear they will not win re-election in 2010 should they vote to fund ACORN.
ACORN Employees caught at Brooklyn office helping hookers launder earnings.
This is the third such video involving employees of ACORN. Why is this criminal enterprise allowed to continue its operation?
(From BigGovernment)
A famous community organizer once said, “The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them.” Impossible demands can irritate modern leftists in ways nothing else can, whether it’s by banning Lucky Charms cereal because it’s racist against Irish people, calling Planned Parenthood saying you want to donate money for black abortions in the name of Margaret Sanger, or making Sen. Snowe sign an oversized bailout check for a billion dollars to Amtrak, in her own office.
Read the rest of the article (and view the other video) here.
(From GlennBeck.com)
August 24, 2009 – 18:05 ET
Am I hateful if I ask:
- Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?
- We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?
- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?
