tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50608653090440722462024-03-27T02:37:50.802-04:00Bread upon the WatersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1079125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060865309044072246.post-8409619983651768582013-03-29T08:00:00.000-04:002013-03-29T08:00:05.436-04:00Good Friday: Just As I Am, Johnny Cash<blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cuRAecGAvLg?rel=0" width="420"></iframe> </div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now that Obama's membership in the left-of-leftist New Party <a href="http://www.punditandpundette.com/2012/06/kurtz-obama-was-member-of-new-party.html">is no longer under question</a>, I think it's an appropriate time to review some of the activities of the New Party's offspring, the Working Families Party, which is active in New York, </span></span> Connecticut, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Delaware, Pennsylvania<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party#cite_note-0"></a></sup>, Vermont and Oregon. </div>
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I can only guess what the Working Families Party is up to in other states, but here in New York State I've gotten campaign calls from them. Here even local political candidates apply to the Working Families Party for help--and get it--but only after making . . . promises. Here's <a href="http://quite-rightly.blogspot.com/2009/09/acorn-has-own-political-party-in-nyc.html">a blog post</a> on the topic (one of many) that I ran in September of 2009:</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGlAXXwOaEu-YkfSv7Nx3kdXixD8IIXKQ0HjlwPgKb3m0ZjYPUfdeZOj6Vh8KG4BWJojEEBuPygcYGpVGxnKh4apyYIPT_4c9mQYiQodwBYn3BlrkY4XO_2X_j-yiUwyJQGDdGS0Ibzmn/s1600-h/wfp.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383395808015227650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGlAXXwOaEu-YkfSv7Nx3kdXixD8IIXKQ0HjlwPgKb3m0ZjYPUfdeZOj6Vh8KG4BWJojEEBuPygcYGpVGxnKh4apyYIPT_4c9mQYiQodwBYn3BlrkY4XO_2X_j-yiUwyJQGDdGS0Ibzmn/s400/wfp.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 298px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 400px;" /></a>It isn't well known, but ACORN has its very own political party, which is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/nyregion/17working.html">winning races</a> against progressive Democrats in New York and other states. The name of this enterprise is the Working Families Party (WFP). From <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965" style="font-style: italic;"> Discover the Networks</a>:<br />
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According to the party's website, WFP is a coalition founded jointly by ACORN, the Communications Workers of America, and the United Automobile Workers. However, ACORN clearly dominates the coalition. New York ACORN leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1286">Steven Kest</a> was the moving force in forming the party, and WFP headquarters are located at the same address as ACORN's national office, at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.<br />
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An outgrowth of the socialist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434">New Party</a>, WFP was created in 1998. According to a 2000 article by the Associated Press, its objective was (and still is) to "help push the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214">Democratic Party</a> toward the left." In pursuit of this goal, WFP runs radical candidates in state and local elections.<br />
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The Working Families Party benefits from a quirk of New York State (and Connecticut) election law which allows parties to "cross-endorse" candidates of other parties. Thus when <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18">Hillary Clinton</a> ran for the Senate in 2000, she ran both on the Democratic Party ticket and on the Working Families Party ticket. Of the 3.4 million popular votes Ms. Clinton received from New Yorkers, the Working Families Party delivered 103,000.<br />
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"Candidates know that when they're on our line, they're committed to certain things," explains Bertha Lewis, who moonlights as WFP co-chair and New York ACORN Executive Director. Speaking days before Mrs. Clinton won her Senate seat in 2000, Lewis noted, "Hillary knows that if she wins, we're going to be knockin' on her door. She won't be able to hide."<br />
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During the campaign, Mrs. Clinton spoke at numerous WFP events, most memorably at the party's debut convention, held March 26-27, 2000 at the Desmond Hotel in Albany -- an event which the Communist newspaper <i>People's Weekly World</i> approvingly called "a turning point in New York politics." After receiving WFP's endorsement, Clinton vowed to wage a "people's grassroots campaign." "[T]here have been few candidates in history more supportive of our issues than Al Gore and Hillary Clinton," proclaimed WFP campaign literature.</blockquote>
That was <span style="font-style: italic;">then</span>.<br />
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Along came Barack Obama, one of ACORN's very own <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=">"community organizers" and lawyers</a>, and Hillary slipped under the train, reduced to a babbling mouthpiece for Obama's unique Poke-An-Ally-In-The-Eye brand of socialist foreign policy.<br />
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Last Tuesday, on Sept. 15, candidates of the Working Families Party forced <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/nyregion/17working.html">surprised Democrat incumbents</a> into run-off elections in New York City:<br />
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<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/eric_n_gioia/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Eric N. Gioia.">Eric N. Gioia</a>, a city councilman from Queens and a candidate for public advocate, was in a great mood Tuesday as he walked to his car after voting in the Democratic primary. Until he spotted a lone young man who stood on the sidewalk, holding a stack of fliers. “See him?” said Mr. Gioia, his face darkening. “He’s from the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/working_families_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Working Families Party.">Working Families Party</a>.” Much to the chagrin of candidates like Mr. Gioia, the still relatively little-known 10-year-old party had dispatched a small army in the weeks before the primary, selling voters on its candidates in the mayoral, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/city_council_new_york_city/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about City Council (New York City)">City Council</a>, public advocate and comptroller races. Organizers knocked on 227,928 doors and talked to 62,112 voters, a party official said. On Tuesday, more than 350 workers were stationed throughout the city, most working for a day rate of $100. </blockquote>
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Their efforts resulted in the party’s best electoral showing yet. In the public advocate’s race, the Working Families endorsed <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_de_blasio/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Bill De Blasio.">Bill de Blasio</a>, a city councilman from Brooklyn. Coming from behind, he forced <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/mark_green/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Mark Green.">Mark Green</a> into a runoff on Sept. 29, even though Mr. Green was the presumed front-runner based on pre-election polls and had already held the position. In the comptroller’s race, the party backed <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/john_c_liu/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about John C. Liu.">John C. Liu</a>, a councilman from Queens, who won 38 percent of the vote, more than any other candidate, and will face the second-place finisher, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/y/david_yassky/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about David Yassky.">David Yassky</a>, a Brooklyn councilman, in the runoff. </blockquote>
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Of the four incumbent council members who were toppled, three faced challengers supported by the Working Families Party. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;">“To say that it has vastly exceeded expectations would be an understatement,” Dan Cantor, the party’s executive director, said of the primary results. “Nobody saw this coming.”</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The party also supported Comptroller <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/william_c_jr_thompson/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about William C. Thompson Jr..">William C. Thompson Jr.</a> in the mayor’s race, though its endorsement did not make much difference since he had long been expected to win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"> And it is allied closely with powerful labor unions, whose members tend to be reliable voters, even in low-turnout primary elections like the one on Tuesday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">That has resulted in a history of success in local races, as in 2003 when its endorsement and field work helped Letitia James win a City Council seat. But it has never been so deeply involved in citywide races and has never had so much to show for its work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The NY Times article, published as the ACORN scandal videos were hitting the blogosphere and Fox News, failed to mention ACORN's connection with the Working Families Party.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"> Interesting, especially considering that the NY Times </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/opinion/05sat3.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=opinion&adxnnlx=1253412141-udb4K3qiaiHAadUIiMLx5w"><span style="font-style: italic;">endorsed</span></a> seven of the Working Families Party candidates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">But the NY Times did mention that the Working Families Party had "drawn scrutiny" because it has a "for-profit arm, Data and Field Services, which provides staff members to knock on doors, call potential voters and hand out campaign flyers."</span><br />
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The city’s Campaign Finance Board has warned the party that it would be watching its finances closely, prompted by critics who say that the service charges fees lower than such campaign services typically cost. The board also determined that the Working Families Party and Data and Field Services, which share an office and staff, are virtually indistinguishable.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">In June, three Working Families staff members started working for the de Blasio campaign, helping recruit volunteers and contact voters. Data and Field Services provided field managers, who organized the 200 people hired to canvass on primary day.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">[snip]</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">The three City Council candidates supported by the party were Jumaane Williams, a housing advocate from Brooklyn who beat Councilman Kendall Stewart; Daniel Dromm, a public school teacher who defeated Helen Sears in Queens; and Deborah Rose who defeated Kenneth C. Mitchell and could become the first black member of City Council from Staten Island.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“Getting their endorsement was a tremendous help,” Mr. Dromm said, who won the party’s support months ago after a rigorous round of interviews by members of its Queens chapter and others at the headquarters of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_federation_of_teachers/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about United Federation of Teachers">United Federation of Teachers</a>. Mr. Dromm sat alone at a table in the middle of the room, he recalled, as his questioners formed a horseshoe around him.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">In the end, he said, the greatest service the party provided was “legitimacy.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;">“They validate you as a candidate,” he said. </span></blockquote>
Legitimacy. Right.<br />
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Let me walk though paradise with you, Lord.<br />
Take my hand and lead me there.<br />
All my earthly treasures,<br />
I would gladly give.<br />
Teach me how to love, how to share.<br />
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Greed and lust and vanity were mine Lord,<br />
'Til I held your love divine.<br />
Now on my knees I pray,<br />
That I will find a way,<br />
Let me walk through paradise with you.<br />
Ya ho way<br />
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Oh my Lord, my saviour.<br />
Lead me down that long and lonely road<br />
Faith hope and trust and charity before me<br />
Let me walk through paradise with You.<br />
Ya ho way</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="color: #990000;">What's next? Limits on the width of a pizza slice, size of a hamburger, or amount of cream cheese on your bagel?</div></blockquote>Go ahead, Dems. If you <i>really</i> want to see revolution, start messing around with our pizzas. <br />
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Note: I'm not a coffee-drinker, and even if I was I wouldn't be a Starbucks customer, so I had to look it up: At Starbucks, a <i>venti</i> is a drink size of 24 ounces, taken from the Italian word for twenty. <br />
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H/t: <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/01/nanny-bloomberg-wears-dress-in-full-page-new-york-times-ad/">The Daily Caller</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In India, they call it "<a href="http://www.savegirlchild.org/">female foeticide</a>." What do they<br />
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Is your Congressional representative a candidate for the Wall of Fame or the Wall of Shame when it comes to standing up for the unborn? Find out <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h299">here</a>.<br />
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In my home state, New York, RINOs Richard Hanna of New York's 24th District and Nan Hayworth of New York's 19th District crossed the aisle to join New York Democrats in opposing HR:3541: the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2012 (PRENDA), which would make it illegal to discriminate against the unborn on the basis of race or sex. <br />
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I wouldn't count on interested voters having a short memory on this shameful vote.<br />
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House rules say that this failed vote, taken under a procedure called “suspension of the rules,” can be taken again. I hope that's the plan, and that we have plenty of time to contact the Congress Critters who think that the <i>real</i> discrimination is <a href="http://www.civilrights.org/advocacy/letters/2012/oppose-hr3541.html"> preventing discrimination</a><i> <a href="http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/05/29/prenda-the-pretenda-h-r-3541-is-an-attack-on-asian-american-women-and-we-know-it/">against girl children</a> and children of whatever race is considered "undesirable"</i> at a given moment in time.<br />
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The good guys on this issue in New York State are Republicans Pete King (NY 3rd), Robert Turner (NY 9th), Michael Grimm (NY 13th), Chris Gibson (NY 20th), Ann Marie Buerkle (NY 25th), and Tom Reed (NY 29th).<br />
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They need our support. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060865309044072246.post-9717221298850890122012-05-31T08:00:00.000-04:002012-05-31T09:13:13.443-04:00Poland During WWII: Not What Obama Thinks<blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote>It's another teachable moment for Obama's 14-year-old speechwriters and for the "smartest" speaker "in the room," who together managed to call a death camp designed, built, and staffed by German National Socialists in occupied Poland a "Polish" death camp.<br />
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As the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, correctly pointed out, "When someone says 'Polish death camps,' it is as if there were no Nazis, no German responsibility, as if there was no Hitler."<br />
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I will grant that someone in the White House may have picked up the information that 3 million Polish Jews had their lives barbarically stolen from them in Poland during World War II as part of the Nazi attempt to exterminate all Jews.<br />
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What seems to have entirely escaped the notice of the White House (and many others) is the fact that <b>complete extermination of all Poles</b> also was on the National Socialist to-do list.<br />
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Another fact missing from the White House history primer is the fact that the lives of 3 million <i>non-Jewish Poles</i> also had their lives barbarically stolen from them by Poland's Nazi occupiers. <br />
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Here's a quote from Heinrich Himmler, whom someone should inform the White House was <b>the actual overseer</b> (and not Poland) of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camps" title="Concentration camps">concentration camps</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp">extermination camps</a>, and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a></i> (paramilitary death squads):<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"><div><i>"All Poles will disappear from the world. [...] It is essential that the great German nation should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles."</i> </div></blockquote>In 1939, Adolf Hitler authorized his military commanders to kill "without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">German execution of 51 Polish hostages in retaliation for an attack on a National Socialist (Nazi) police station.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>In furtherance of this goal, people of Polish descent were shot, hung, burned alive, worked to death in German mines and factories, relocated, starved to death, etc., etc. Before using Zyklon-B to gas Polish Jews, Germans first tested it on the Polish gentiles and Soviet POWs who were the first prisoners held by Nazis in their concentration camp at Auschwitz.<br />
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Elimination of education in Poland and persecution of the Catholic Church there were big parts of the National Socialist agenda. Himmler's long-term plan included leaving Poland only <i>four</i> grade schools, "in which counting would be taught only till 500 [and] writing one's name." No need for any Poles to learn how to read.<br />
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To these ends, Germans destroyed 80% of all the school libraries and 75% of all the scientific libraries in Poland and forbade all education above the elementary level. The Nazis closed all Catholic schools. In Western Poland, the Nazis closed all elementary schools where the Polish language was used. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maksymilan Binkiewicz,<br />
one of the 108 blessed martyrs</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The National Socialists closed not only schools run by Catholics but also Catholic seminaries, monastaries, and convents and then rounded up the priests, monks, and nuns to shoot or <a href="http://www.fold3.com/page/286161256_nazi_crimes_against_ethnic_poles/">imprison</a> in Nazi concentration camps:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #990000;">In </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerania" style="color: #990000;" title="Pomerania">Pomerania</a><span style="color: #990000;">, all but 20 of the 650 priests were shot or sent to concentration camps. Between 1939 and 1945, 2,935 members of the Polish clergy (18%) were killed in concentration camps. In the city of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw" style="color: #990000;" title="Wroc?aw">Wroclaw</a><span style="color: #990000;"> (</span><i style="color: #990000;">Breslau</i><span style="color: #990000;">), 49% of its Catholic priests were killed; in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%C5%82mno" style="color: #990000;" title="Che?mno">Chelmno</a><span style="color: #990000;">, 48%. <a href="http://www.hagiographycircle.com/martyrs/Nazis1.htm">One hundred and eight of them</a> are regarded as blessed martyrs.</span> </blockquote>An estimated 200,000 Polish children under the age of 10 that Germans thought had German ancestry were stolen from their parents for "Germanization" and adoption by childless German couples. Many more children who didn't quite make the "racially valuable" grade in their captors' twisted minds were killed by phenol injection, by suffocation with carbon monoxide, and by entirely draining their blood for use in transfusions for wounded German troops. Many children, after being abducted from their parents (who were beaten or murdered), died of thirst or cold during transport in cattle cars. The horror stories go on and on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forced expulsion of Poles from a village in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87" title="Zamość">Zamość</a> region of western Poland, where over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87_Uprising">110,000 people from about 300 villages</a> were expelled to make room for German settlers, and where almost 30,000 children were kidnapped for potential Germanization. Because of heavy resistance by Poles and their Soviet partisans hiding in the region's forests, only about 10,000 Germans were able to settle in the region before the advancing Red army forced them to abandon their effort</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The enormity of the Nazi's crime of genocide committed against Europe's Jews does not obliterate from history the atrocities committed against Poland's non-Jewish citizenry by Nazi occupiers. If the Nazis had not been stopped, their attempted genocide of Europe's Poles would have had even more gruesome and deadly success.<br />
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The importance of understanding such uncomfortable facts as these is the job of American-taxpayer-supported specialists in European history and diplomacy whose services are available--at any time--to the White House. If only this administration bothered to make use of them . . . .<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.fold3.com/page/286161256_nazi_crimes_against_ethnic_poles/">Nazi Crimes Against Ethnic Poles</a> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Obamas attending a Medal of Honor ceremony<br />
for U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, who was<br />
killed in Afghanistan in June 2006. Mrs. Obama<br />
<a href="http://www.ihatethemedia.com/fashionistas-think-michelle-obama-can-do-no-wrong">wears a party dress, green shoes, and chandelier earrings</a>.</td></tr>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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It's an election year, so Obama has suddenly recalled "that the nation needs to honor veterans, including those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, by ensuring that they have <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/memorial-day-weekend-2012-president-obama-honors-veterans">access to jobs, health care, and higher education</a>."<br />
<br />
I guess the president's golf caddies have informed him that he might lose more than a few votes if the public was aware that one of his first actions as president was an attempt <b>to force combat-injured veterans (or their wives) to pay for combat-injury-related health care, <a href="http://quite-rightly.blogspot.com/2009/03/tears-no-laughter.html">including buying their own prosthetic limbs</a>.</b><br />
<br />
Back in March of 2009, Investor's Business Daily was aware of the travesty and, in a editorial scathingly critical of Obama's health care plan for wounded warriors, <a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=322183610326971">quoted</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
a "furious Commander David K. Rehbein of the American Legion," who, together with representatives of 11 veterans groups, met with Barack Obama on Monday [March 17, 2009]:</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote style="color: #cc0000;">
[The President] refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by [the plan].</blockquote>
According to CNN, at that meeting, Barack Obama challenged those veterans <span style="color: #cc0000;">"to come up with an alternative way to raise revenues."</span></blockquote>
Just 6 weeks after taking office, Commander-in-Chief Obama petulantly argued that, if American veterans want medical treatment for their combat injuries, it's up to <span style="font-style: italic;">them</span> to figure out where the money should come from.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, only a month <i>before</i> his election, Obama <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/record/economy#returning-service">was promising</a> to "<i>restore our sacred trust with our nation's veterans</i>" and "was committed to creating a 21st Century Department of Veterans' Affairs that provides the care and benefits our nation's veterans <span style="font-style: italic;">deserve</span> [italics mine]. <br />
<br />
This is the man whom many Americans still trust with their <i>own</i> health care.<br />
<br />
Think about it, civilians. If a president who doesn't think a combat-injured veteran <i>deserves</i> having his health care paid for by U.S. taxpayers, what makes you think he genuinely believes that <i>you</i> deserve health care?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cornell Law Library</td></tr>
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Deserving of much reposting, this heads-up from <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/headline/did-brett-kimberlin-break-federal-law-18-usc-241/" target="_blank">The PJ Tatler</a> about a lil' ol' section of the U.S. Code, namely: <a alt="Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/usc_sup_01_18" title="Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE">Title 18</a> › <a alt="Part I - CRIMES" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I" title="Part I - CRIMES">Part I</a> › <a alt="Chapter 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_13" title="Chapter 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS">Chapter 13</a> › § 241:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;">
The story about the SWATTING and intimidation is shocking. It might also be illegal. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;">
18 USC 241 prohibits intimidation against Americans for exercising free speech rights. The <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241" target="">statute says:<br />
</a><br />
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.</blockquote>
And there's more, way more, to be learned about<span style="font-size: small;"> "18 USC § 241 - <b>Conspiracy against rights</b>"</span> at the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241" target="_blank">Legal Information Institute</a> at the Cornell University Law School.<br />
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</blockquote>
Watching the numbers, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/"><i>FrontPageMag.com,</i></a> in an excellent article, published this bit of information about some of the financial backers of a tax-exempt organization directed by Brett Kimberlin, the convicted "Speedway Bomber": <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000;">
The mission of the other Kimberlin-created group, the Justice Through Music Project, is to somehow pound political enlightenment into the skulls of young people through music. The group has received at least <b>$70,000</b> in grants from the Tides Foundation since 2006. Barbra Streisand has given JTMP at least <b>$10,000</b> through her foundation since 2006. Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), is CEO of the Heinz Family Foundation. That charity has given JTMP at least <b>$20,000</b> since 2006.</blockquote>
From <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/the_left_and_con_men.html" target="_blank">American Thinker</a>: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The Justice Through Music Project has collected <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2012/05/19/domestic-terrorist-now-using-lawfare-convicted-felon-kimberlins-501c3-raised-1-8-million-in-six-years/">$1.8 million</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"> from the usual suspects on the political left over the last eight years, </span><span style="font-size: small;">including these grants. </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2005</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Farview Foundation ..................................... $9,000</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2006</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tides Foundation ........................................ $60,000<br />
<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">Fidelity Investments</span> Charitable Gift ......... $45,000<br />
HKH Foundation ...................................... $20,000<br />
Heinz Family Foundation ......................... $20,000<br />
Olive Branch Foundation ......................... $15,000<br />
Farview Foundation ................................. $10,000<br />
Barbra Streisand Foundation .....................$5,000</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2007</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift ......... $19,000</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2008</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Threshold Foundation ............................ $20,000<br />
Tides Foundation .................................... $10,000<br />
Nathan Cummings Foundation ............... $10,000<br />
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift ......... $20,000<br />
Fred Gellert Family Foundation ................ $5,000<br />
Silicon Valley Community Foundation ..... $5,000<br />
Barbra Streisand Foundation .................... $5,000</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2009</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Schwab Charitable Fund ............................ $10,000<br />
Silicon Valley Community Foundation .... $10,000<br />
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift ......... $6,000</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;">TOTAL (2005-2009) ..................................<b>$304,000</b></span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
[That's leaves <b>$1.5 million of donations unaccounted for</b>. I wonder who gave Brett Kimberlin's organization that dough?]<br />
<br />
<a href="http://breitbart.com/">Breitbart.com</a> investigated:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #660000;">
A spokesperson for Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift, which is listed by JTMP over several years, explained to Breitbart News that the fund is donor-advised, meaning that it does not have discretion over donations made by individuals or organizations with accounts at the fund. Donors merely park their funds at Fidelity to receive an immediate charitable tax deduction, and direct those funds over time, as they wish, to any 501(c)3. </blockquote>
Schwab Charitable Fund had this to say:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">National donor advised funds like Schwab Charitable Fund are cause-neutral, and exist to facilitate the charitable giving of their clients. Grants do not in any way reflect the views or perspectives of Schwab, Schwab Charitable or the management of either organization. </span> </blockquote>
Oh, and the response from the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which <i><b>does have discretion </b></i>over where they give money?<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">"No comment."</span></blockquote>
No surprise there. Is there a PR guy in the house?<br />
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<a class="" href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obamacare&view=detail&id=A5430E98F5C6165CFA1D8B0FB5B791585ABCB36E&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR" id="" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="sg_t" height="400" src="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4675768261477047&pid=1.1" style="height: 250px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 172.5px;" width="276" /></a> If Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio did not drop its <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/611712/201205161856/franciscan-university-drops-its-health-coverage-.htm" target="_blank">$600</a> per year student health insurance plan when it expires this coming August, they would have to <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/1642539282001/"><i>double the cost</i></a> of the policy to <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/611712/201205161856/franciscan-university-drops-its-health-coverage-.htm" target="_blank">$1,200</a> next year, and <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/1642539282001/"><i>triple it</i></a> to $1,800 the year after that. <br />
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Thank you, M<span class="sg_hu" style="width: 172.5px;"><span class="sg_hcv" style="height: 250px; width: 172.5px;"></span></span>r. Obama. "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." Isn't that what you promised? <br />
<br />
And thank you to Ms. Sebelius, Ms. Fluke, and the Bradley University student <a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/romney-schools-free-birth-control-student/436581" target="_blank">who told Mitt Romney</a>, "You're all for like 'yay freedom and all this stuff and yay pursuit of happiness.' You know what would make me happy? Free birth control."<br />
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Franciscan University leaders point out that to mandate that their students pay exorbitant health insurance costs <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/1642539282001/">would be immoral</a> in itself, not to mention the immorality of teaching one thing in the classroom (the sacredness of life) and doing another (purchasing contraception and abortion-inducing drugs for students). <br />
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Obviously, as <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/611712/201205161856/franciscan-university-drops-its-health-coverage-.htm" target="_blank">Investors Business Daily</a> reminds us:<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">It's the first shoe to drop in what will be a cascade of such decisions. Franciscan University was able to drop its coverage, but as the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has warned, other institutions and charities may be forced to close, sell off their assets or turn them over to secular operators in the wake of ObamaCare's unacceptable mandates and costs. </span></blockquote>
<a href="http://tunecedemalissedcontraaudentiorito.blogspot.com/2012/05/franciscan-university-is-first-catholic.html">Teresa</a>, a Franciscan University alum, published the University's <a href="http://www.franciscan.edu/StudentHealthInsurance/" target="_blank">new policy:</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover “women’s health services” including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Up to this time, Franciscan University has specifically excluded these services and products from its student health insurance policy, and we will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Additionally, the PPACA increased the mandated maximum coverage amount for student policies to $100,000 for the 2012-13 school year, which would effectively double your premium cost for the policy in fall 2012, with the expectation of further increases in the future.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Due to these changes in regulation by the federal government, beginning with the 2012-13 school year, the University 1) will no longer require that all full-time undergraduate students carry health insurance, 2) will no longer offer a student health insurance plan, and 3) will no longer bill those not covered under a parent/guardian plan or personal plan for student health insurance. The current student health insurance plan will expire on August 15, 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> We encourage you to decide how you are going to provide for accidents or illnesses requiring visits to physicians, health clinics, or the hospital emergency room while you are a student here. As always, our Health Center on campus will be staffed by a certified nurse practitioner Monday – Friday during normal business hours. No insurance is necessary to receive basic health-related services at the Health Center, and the visits cost only $5 at the time of service. However, if you are referred off campus for further lab testing, physician specialists, X-rays, etc., you will be responsible to pay for those services.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">As Theresa points out, the idea is to force everyone into more Gov't "care."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Yeah, and we all feel so cared for. Particularly those of us who don't subscribe to Obama's version of "freedom." </span> <br />
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Thank you, <a href="http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/2012/05/ad-to-confusion.html">Stilton Jarlsberg</a>.<br />
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I remember when a local Democrat ran for office citing as important experience having slipped out of the middle class into poverty. Liberals elected that politician to handle <i>their</i> money. With predictable results.<br />
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And then they blamed Conservatives for those results.<br />
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Yep. Liberals prefer leaders who have no experience in <i>creating</i> wealth. They have enormous tolerance, however, for politicians who pick their pockets.<br />
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Suckers.<br />
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In May of 2009, the decision makers of the Catholic University of Notre Dame went out of their way to award an honorary law degree President Barack Obama. This action, the University explained, was a "<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/three-years-after-honoring-obama-notre-dame-sues-obama-trampling-first-amendment-rights_645246.html">good thing</a> for the president and for the causes we care about."<br />
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Suckers. <br />
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Before Notre Dame knew what hit them, said Honoree, who, not-so-incidentally, is an outspoken advocate of abortion <i>and</i> <a href="http://www.mcclpac.org/about_obama_baipa.htm">infanticide,</a> a Democrat, <i>and</i> a socialist, determined that Notre Dame pick up the tab for the "<a href="http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/30962-notre-dame-files-religious-liberty-lawsuit-related-to-hhs-mandate/">abortion-inducing drugs</a>, contraceptives and
sterilization procedures" that he advocates.<br />
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Only Liberal academics wouldn't have seen that coming. <br />
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Next comes a legal battle featuring The Fighting Irish vs. Harvard.<br />
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And only a Liberal White House wouldn't have seen <i>that</i> coming. <br />
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Don't you love it when Big Nanny uses the latest technology and hired brains to tell you why you should be emptying your wallet to save the world? From <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/12/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-nearly-ice-free-at-the-end-of-summer-by-2012/">Watts Up With That</a>:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review those predictions when the time is right. In four months, just 132 days from now at the end of summer on the Autumnal Equinox September 22nd 2012, the Arctic will be “nearly ice free” according to a prominent NASA scientist in a National Geographic article on December 12, 2007. </span></blockquote>
Ahem:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arctic Sea Ice Comparison, Then and Now: 5/12/07 to 5/12/12<br />
Credit: Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois</td></tr>
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As posed by <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=132470">iOwnTheWorld</a>: <br />
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<a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=132470">Why Is Gay Marriage a State’s Right Issue But Abortion is a Federal One?</a></div>
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And that goes for <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/03/pelosi-suddenly-in-favor-of-states-rights-demands-obama-end-medical-marijuana-raids/">Health Care</a> and Health Care Reform, too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Read about it at <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html">American Thinker</a>.<br />
H/t: <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/osamabinladen/ig/Osama-bin-Laden-Dead-Photos/Obama-Gets-Osama.htm">About.com</a></td></tr>
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It's not just Mama Grizzlies that Obama has it out for.<br />
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As <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/05/hey-west-virginia-youll-get-yours-my-pretty-and-your-little-federal-inmate-too/">William Jacobson</a> pointed out today, "Obama already <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/01/obama-brought-the-epa-to-joe-manchins-cap-and-trade-fight/">had it out</a> for West Virginia" well before Democrats in at least 10 West Virginia counties demonstrated that, given their druthers, they'd prefer Keith Judd (aka <a href="http://wvgazette.com/News/201205070185?page=2&build=cache">federal prison inmate Number 11593-051)</a> as their 2012 presidential candidate to that other guy. Way back in January of 2011, as part of Obama's Cap and Trade "investment," <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/01/obama-brought-the-epa-to-joe-manchins-cap-and-trade-fight/">the EPA moved</a><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">to revoke the long-standing permits for a mammoth coal mine in West Virginia send[ing] a strong signal that President Obama plans to implement key parts of his agenda . . . .</span></blockquote>
I have to hand it to West Virginia's Democrats for their clear appreciation of the disastrous effects that Obama's goal to<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22420%22%20height=%22315%22%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/embed/NTCUOAfwILM?rel=0%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E"> bankrupt clean-coal power plants</a> is having on their lives.<br />
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I wish the same were true here in Progressive Paradise, where Obama's war on clean coal recently shut down our <a href="http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/205080355/Legislation-aid-AES-Cayuga-pending?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE">local clean-coal power plant</a>, AES Cayuga (formerly Milliken Station). This power supplier used to consume <a href="http://www.lansing-community-news.com/1997/7LCN0227-6.pdf">80 to 100 railroad carloads </a>of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania coal several times a week, back before Obama waged war on clean coal, clean-coal technologies, and the people whose livelihoods and energy use depend on it.<br />
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AES Cayuga has not produced power since early March because it cannot compete with power plants using lower cost natural gas. . . . The company has sustained losses of tens of millions of dollars since 2010.</blockquote>
Way to go, Progressive Democrats. <br />
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But oops, what's this? <br />
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AES Cayuga [had] not only been <a href="http://www.ithaca.com/news/lansing/article_af5b2218-6482-11e1-a1e9-001871e3ce6c.html">the largest single entity tax payer</a> for the Town of Lansing and the Lansing Central School District, but in better times they had also subsidized local charities, organizations, and facilities such as the YMCA. </blockquote>
Observed one county legislator here in Progressive Paradise:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">AES Cayuga has been a major source of tax revenue for the past 50 years, and its downturn has had a major negative effect on Tompkins County and the Town of Lansing in particular. </span></blockquote>
In the twisty-turny landscape of Progressive Paradise, one of New York State's lonely Republicans has taken it upon himself to save the anti-coal, anti-fracking, anti-Constitution (i.e., pro-Obama) Democrats of Progressive Paradise from themselves. <br />
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Sen. Michael Nozzolio, a Republican state senator from a neighboring county, has <a href="http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/205080355/Legislation-aid-AES-Cayuga-pending?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE">proposed legislation</a> to aid the plant. Which means, in layman's terms, a quick role reversal: Instead of profits from the power plant keeping <i>local schools</i> <i>and charities</i> running, New York State's Obama-lovin' Progressive moms will be emptying their "hope 'n change" purses to <a href="http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senator-nozzolio-announces-low-cost-power-allocations-finger-lakes-region-through-rech">keep the <i>power plant</i> running</a>. At Obama-inflated prices.<br />
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Pretty slick, eh?<br />
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Naturally, local Democrats are grateful: "Sen. Nozzolio learned of the difficulties facing AES in the fall of 2011 and has worked toward a positive outcome for all involved. We truly appreciate all of his efforts."<br />
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I won't count on that gratitude turning into votes on the Republican ticket come November.<br />
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I will count it as another opportunity for local Progressive Democrats to deny responsibility for the financial disasters caused by their own policies.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Update:</span> For more on this issue, see <a href="http://southof5and20.blogspot.com/2012/05/nozzolio-force-ny-taxpayers-to.html?showComment=1336597435319#c3082235979972122867">South of 5 and 20</a> and <a href="http://oneofnine.info/node/382#comment-6089">One of Nine</a>.<br />
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As usual, the Obama administration runs on the motto, "Do as I say, not as I do."<br />
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Today's belly laugh via <a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/wh-france-dont-end-austerity-measures/525066">The Washington Examiner:</a><br />
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President Obama's spokesman warned the new socialist president-elect of France not to implement his campaign agenda of ending austerity measures, indicating that <b>such a reversal could damage the world economy</b>.</blockquote>
Ya think? <br />
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"A balanced approach . . . Both fiscal consolidation and efforts to boost the recovery is the right approach for Europe," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. "That's an approach that he [Obama] thinks ensures that the recovery continues while putting our fiscal house in order."</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkL_DTL9opZ0-ZCvn2Rb81sLpEOgw0EzAZP5_heoZAx99-7dhaoxO9teCe7abnvFvMmpoa41B64XJiuhEC_u4mIuP5O_2L02gC7_ZYKR2ovpO7W4mx8CNVXfDl93RNW5wf9ZN4jmOl1k/s1600/SunKingObama-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkL_DTL9opZ0-ZCvn2Rb81sLpEOgw0EzAZP5_heoZAx99-7dhaoxO9teCe7abnvFvMmpoa41B64XJiuhEC_u4mIuP5O_2L02gC7_ZYKR2ovpO7W4mx8CNVXfDl93RNW5wf9ZN4jmOl1k/s200/SunKingObama-1.jpg" width="155" /></a>Hollande campaigned on a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/world/europe/hollande-and-sarkozy-in-crucial-runoff-in-france.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2">no-austerity-for-Europe platform</a> built with planks such as <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-05/rich-french-consider-london-move-on-hollande-tax-fears-ft-says.html">a 75% tax on incomes of the wealthy</a>, lowering of manual worker retirement age from 62 to 60, raising of the minimum wage, and the hiring of 60,000 new teachers--all in a country burdened with <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/06/us-france-election-projections-idUSBRE8450AR20120506">10% unemployment</a> and a public debt equal to<a href="http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/france/france_economy.html"> 86% of GDP.</a><br />
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It makes one wonder what Obama could possibly dislike about Hollande's plans, but a glance at the fine print reveals that Hollande intends to start his presidency with "a few <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/07/francois-hollande-nicolas-sarkozy">quick symbolic measures</a>" such as <b>freezing the cost of fuel</b> for three months and <b>cutting his own presidential salary by 30%</b>.<br />
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Tonight's full moon will appear <a href="http://youtu.be/kOplwuMTyS4">14% larger and 30% brighter</a> than usual. Although the moon reached fullness last night, tonight (weather permitting) we have the opportunity to see it rise above the horizon, when the moon appears largest to the naked eye.<br />
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You can find the moonrise time for your location <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/moonrise.html?obj=moon">here</a>. In the USA, moonrise will be sometime between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., depending on altitude.<br />
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(From John 15:5)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occupy Cleveland protester and alleged bomber<br />
wanna-be, Brandon Baxter, reportedly<br />
had been "living on the streets." <br />
He turned 20 years old on Friday.<br />
<i>Photo credit: <a href="http://cuyahogafalls.patch.com/articles/men-arrested-in-bridge-bombing-plot-have-ties-to-lakewood-35192cf5#photo-9779091">FBI</a>.</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Blogger <a href="http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2012/05/remember-when-may-day-meant-baskets-of.html">Adrienne</a>, an advocate of civilized discourse and behavior, remembers celebrations of May Day involving baskets of flowers and children's flights around a Maypole.<br />
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With a darker view of society, Occupy Whatever members view May Day as a worker rights holiday featuring celebrations of anarchy and revolution (livestream via <a href="http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2012/05/remember-when-may-day-meant-baskets-of.html">Adrienne's Corner</a> and <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/schannel/occupycongress/channel/therevolutionwillbestreamed#utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=9917042&utm_medium=social">here</a>).<br />
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Today, Cleveland area FBI agents observed May Day by escorting to court a trio of Occupy-connected, self-proclaimed anarchists who attempted to blow up a bridge on state Route 82 in Cuyahoga Valley National Park:<br />
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<a href="http://cuyahogafalls.patch.com/articles/men-arrested-in-bridge-bombing-plot-have-ties-to-lakewood-35192cf5#photo-9779091">Arrested yesterday</a> in connection with the bomb plot were Brandon L. Baxter, 20, Connor C. Stevens, 20, Joshua S. Stafford, 23, Douglas L. Wright, 26, and Anthony Hayne, 35. Three of these men, Baxter, Wright, and Hayne "are being charged with conspiracy and attempted use of explosive materials to damage physical property affecting interstate commerce."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occupy Cleveland organizer Anthony Hayne. <br />
<i>Photo credit: <a href="http://lakewood-oh.patch.com/articles/occupy-cleveland#photo-8242282">Cory Shaffer</a></i></td></tr>
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Charges against Stevens and Stafford are pending.<br />
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Not being held accountable are the Occupiers and Occupier fans who glamorize socialism, communism, anarchy, street violence, and revolution.<br />
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<div style="color: #990000;">Update: 5/2/12:</div><br />
Via <a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/05/01/men-who-plotted-to-blow-up-cleveland-bridge-had-eyes-on-nato-summit/">CBS Chicago, </a>the <a href="http://quite-rightly.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-day-occupy-cleveland-nuts-try-to.html">Occupy Cleveland anarchists</a> who planned to blow up a Cleveland area bridge "also talked about plotting acts of terror in Chicago during the NATO summit":<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Douglas Wright, age 26</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote style="color: #990000;">Wright said it would be “crazy” in Cleveland after the group blew up the bridge, but “crazier in Chicago with people coming from everywhere to Chicago to protest the NATO summit. Wright also “predicted a ‘s**t load’ of people going to Chicago to protest the summit would first come to Cleveland, presumably drawn by the destruction of the bridge.<br />
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He predicted that anarchists ultimately headed to Chicago would riot in Cleveland for a week, “then everyone will leave and downtown Cleveland will ‘be a pile of rubble and ashes,’ as anarchists in every major city in the country will ultimately be ‘rioting and destroying each city,’” the criminal complaint said.</blockquote><br />
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