Sending a Message

The Twitter feed of James O'Keefe, a young man who is now becoming a folk hero of sorts amongst those of us who want corruption to be exposed and destroyed.

I found particularly amusing his statements directed to NBC and Today Show producers.

Tip o' the hat to Pedaling.

They Must Be Very Busy...

"Shower-heads harbor a bounty of germs."

"Jimmy Carter: Wilson Comments based on racism."

"Obama's new fuel economy rules."

Yet on the front page of http://abcnews.go.com/ there is not one mention of the exploding ACORN scandal at the time this piece was written.

Charlie Gibson, host of ABC World News Tonight, was interviewed on WLS AM in Chicago, and had no knowledge of the story.

On http://www.cbsnews.com/ the story made the front page, below two articles about the "racist" Joe Wilson and one about the raid of a Yale professor's apartment. One of these stories is worthy, in my opinion, and it ain't the week old Wilson issue.

MSNBC - I suppose I'd better say something here, otherwise you might think I spaced out and forgot to fill in the blank. Zero. Nada. Nein. Nil. Squat. Zilch. I know you're surprised.

CNN? Forget it.

The New York Times. "The Gray Lady." Considered "The Standard in News." Toward the bottom of their front page, in the small print block, was this (you be the judge) hatchet job of an article, making it a partisan issue as opposed to a legal and taxpayer concern.

Rather than concerning themselves with the fact that ACORN has received millions of taxpayer dollars and is a tax-exempt organization that has, to date, been documented on videotape in multiple locations, offering advise on tax evasion and prostitution, ptentially operated illegally in the state of Maryland, as well as having open discussions about murder - The Times decided to print an article in which such statements were written as:

"For months during last year’s presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign"

as well as:

"Conservative advocates and broadcasters were gleeful about the success of the tactics in exposing Acorn workers, who appeared to blithely encourage prostitution and tax evasion. It was, in effect, the latest scalp claimed by those on the right who have made no secret of their hope to weaken the Obama administration by attacking allies and appointees they view as leftist."

And those are just two of the first three paragraphs from the article.

According to statistics provided by Glenn Beck's TV show on Monday, these are the news agencies they have tracked and the number of times this story has been reported by each:

FNC - 133 CNN - 90 MSNBC - 10 NBC - 2 NYT - 17 Washington Post - 10 The Wall Street Journal - 5 ABC - 2 CBS - 1

Really?? I'm having a big 'WTF' moment, and I think blood is about to shoot out of my eyes.

Okay... truth moment. I have not watched any of the "big three" national newscasts in I don't know how long. I've never had a subscription to the New York Times. I did, a few years ago, consider CNN to be a reasonably fair network, and on September 11th, 2001 and shortly thereafter, I was a regular viewer of MSNBC. That ended when they changed, and became the partisan shell of what they once were. Tim Russert is dearly missed, and likely rolling over in his grave.

I am not a journalist, but I know journalism when I see it. What Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe have done, with the support of Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the entire Fox News Channel - this is the work of Pulitzer Prize winning journalists.

Giles and O'Keefe are two brave young Americans who have chosen to act on an idea because they knew there was something wrong. They are now being desecrated by some in the media and some politicians for acting in a way that paid professionals are refusing to accept as their responsibility as a part of "The Fourth Estate."

Meanwhile, as our tax dollars are being wasted away on this clearly questionable (if not corrupt to the core) organization, The House felt today that it was extremely important to formally rebuke Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his outburst during last week's health care speech before a Joint Session of Congress.

Again... Are you kidding me? This is the most important thing you have to do with our 435 representatives, Ms. Pelosi?

To date, The Senate has voted 83-7 to de-fund ACORN. The Census Bureau has broken any potential ties with ACORN. Minority Leader John Boehner, in a letter signed onto by 130 total members of the House, has called on President Obama to use his Executive power to immediately disclose and stop any public funding to ACORN, as well as sever all ties. Three members of The House have asked the IRS to immediately sever all ties and stop all funding to ACORN.

This is not a Democrat issue, nor is it a Republican issue. This is an American issue. and it needs to be the focus of a full blown investigation.

The fact that there are now more than three instances pointing toward corruption and possible extortion merit a RICO investigation.

If not that, then certainly The United States Department of Justice should begin an immediate investigation.

ACORN stands to bring in BILLIONS of dollars through its own name and its family of agencies from the "stimulus" bill signed in mid-February by President Obama.

There is absolutely not one decent American citizen who, regardless of personal politics, should be able to learn the details of this story without feeling absolutely repulsed and offended.

Yet the media and the Democrats in The House of Representatives are remarkably silent to date.

Rules For Radicals?

Glenn Thrush at Politico is reporting on a set of rules being enforced by Democrats, most specifically due to the recent racist outburst by Joe Wilson (R-SC) in which he falsely proclaimed "You Lie" to the President, Lord Barry the Most Merciful, during the Messianic Health Care Informational Seminar, given last Wednesday in The House Chamber.

Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:

• refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
• refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
• refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
• refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”

Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:

• call the President a “liar.”
• call the President a “hypocrite.”
• describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
• charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
• refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
• refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”

Notice how conveniently the rules allowed seem to fit terms and words used towards George W. Bush. Meanwhile, any terms not allowed seem to fall in line with terms which might be considered fitting of Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.

See a complete version of "Rules For Radicals, Congressional Democrat Style," here.

ACORN - The Nut Is Busted

The AP and Reuters are both reporting tonight that The United States Senate voted today to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, otherwise known as The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.

The vote, which passed 83-7 in a Democratic led Senate Chamber, would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. This denial of funds was included in a must-pass spending bill that funds housing and transportation programs for the fiscal year that starts October 1.

This announcement comes on the heels of the appearance of yet another undercover videotaping in an office of ACORN. This taping took place in the Brooklyn, NY office, and was documented by the same two young individuals who have caused the prior controversy, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles.

In the past week, Miss Giles and Mr. O'Keefe, with the cooperation of Andrew Breitbart's new website Big Government and Fox News have uncovered unscrupulous behaviors in Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC, as well as this most recent exposure of misconduct in Brooklyn.

In addition to the denial of funding, ACORN has been removed from any participation in the 2010 Census.

Tonight on Hannity, Breitbart and Giles acknowledged that tomorrow there will be yet another scathing announcement about ACORN, and immediately after that segment Fox News Channel ran a promo for The Glenn Beck Program which offered a tease that his show will have an exclusive on the most damaging information about ACORN brought forward to date.

Kanye West - Profile Of A Racist

Taylor Swift, a 19 year-old country singer who has had crossover success with her 2008 release "Fearless" and her single "You Belong With Me" from that album, got a surprise when she accepted the award for Best Female Video at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards.

After Swift, looking shocked at the announcement of her winning, beat out Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce for the honor, she took the stage and began her acceptance speech for the award.

As Swift was thanking MTV, Kanye West ran up on stage, took her microphone, and proclaimed that "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!"

Taylor Swift is White, Beyonce is Black.

Swift stood silently holding her trophy, cameras cut to Beyonce looking stunned in the crowd, and MTV then cut to break.

Reportedly, later the same evening when Beyonce won Video of the Year, she called Miss Swift out to the stage to give her interrupted speech instead.




Kanye West has a history of incidents that involve race.

In 2005, in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster for which FEMA and President Bush took much criticism, Mr. West proclaimed that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." These comments were widely regarded by the liberal community as truth, regardless of the lack of preparedness and planning executed by then Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

After the storm and during the cleanup efforts, parking lots full of municipal and school buses were found. These vehicles were left standing, waiting for the impending storm but not used for emergency evacuation, even though local authorities had nearly one full week's notice from federal agencies (including FEMA and DHS) as well as the National Weather Service about the impending storm that ravaged the New Orleans area, eventually killing as many as 1800 people and leaving the city ravaged.

Geraldo Rivera Punk'd by Ann Coulter

Last night on Fox News Channel, Geraldo Rivera joined the legions of liberals and Media Elitists who are attempting to frame Joe Wilson (R-SC) as a racist due to his exclamation of "You Lie!" in the House chambers as President Obama addressed a Joint Session of Congress last Wednesday.



In an ongoing and increasingly disgusting attempt to frame concerned Americans as "racists who can't believe or accept a non-white as the leader of the free world", many in the mainstream media as well as many prominent liberals have recently called tea party protesters "tea-baggers," alluding to a sexual concept as defined by urbandictionary.com. References to the Confederacy have become commonplace in liberal talking points, and the Department of Homeland Security has gone so far as to create a report in which it claimed that militia memberships were on an uptick, and furthered their own rhetoric by claiming that anyone who owned a firearm or attended church may be considered a racist and a threat to a safe society.

Meanwhile, London's Mail Online reported that "As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism."

There were no reports of violence or unruliness during Saturday's gathering.

Additionally, while it is not being widely reported, it is rumored that there were indeed people of multiple races and diverse backgrounds in attendance, and that a Black man traveled across the nation with a group called The Tea Party Express and sang a song known as "The American Tea Party Anthem"

Jim Morrison - Great American Prognosticator?

I am a big fan of Jim Morrison's writing and of The Doors music. Morrison's ability to create metaphoric imagery was beyond that of many (if not any) others in music (if not poetic) history. I truly believe that The Doors were one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands of all time.

Last weekend, on a beautiful desert evening, I took a drive, with the windows open and the stereo cranked. I put The Doors "L. A. Woman" into my CD player. On that album (side 2, first song if you have the vinyl) is an outrageously cool song called "L'America."

I've always thought of it as a neat story of a snake oil salesman, gypsies, voodoo, and the like. However... this is the first time I've listened to this song since the election of Barack Obama. Hmmm... neat story of a snake oil salesman...

I found a recording of this song on YouTube - so drop your acid, put the video on full-screen, watch the groovy visuals somebody put to the music - and then tell me if you don't think of Washington D.C., Obama, and Congress lately as you listen to Morrison chant and croon over the hypnotic march of John Densmore's drums, Robby Kreiger's eerie and methodical guitar, and Ray Manzarek's carnival-esque keyboards.

Lyrics transcribed below the video box for your convenience.




I took a trip down to L'America,
To trade some beads for a pint of gold.

I took a trip down to L'America,
To trade some beads for a pint of gold.

L'America, L'America, L'America.

L'America, L'America, L'America

C'mon people, don't ya look so down -
You know the rain man's comin' ta town!
He'll change the weather, change your luck -
And then he'll teach ya how to...

Find yourself.... L'America...


Friendly strangers came to town,
All the people put them down.
But, the women loved their ways -
Come again some other day...

Like the gentle rain....
Like the gentle rain... that falls...

I took a trip down to L'America,
To trade some beads for a pint of gold.

I took a trip down to L'America,
To trade some beads for a pint of gold.

L'America, L'America, L'America.

L'America, L'America, L'America

L'Ame - rica!