ACORN Workers Offer Tax and Business Advice For Prostitution In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Part I

ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in Philadelphia, PA Part I.  Big Government.  James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles take a trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a visit to the ACORN office on July 24, 2009. 

The duo have gained fame and respect for their cunning ability to expose ACORN for its shady dealings. 

The duo budding expose journalists, recreate their roles as aspiring Congressional politician pimp boyfriend and prostitute.  They enter the Philly office seeking advice on how to set up a brothel with underage El Salvadoran girls, in a home acquired via government backed loans, while evading taxes. 

ACORN willingly participates.  In contradistinction to the claim they did not.   Watch.

ACORN Philadelphia Prostitution Investigation Part I

October 21, 2009

Helen Thomas And Craig Crawford On Presidents And Hubris

Helen Thomas with Craig Thomas on presidents and new book Listen Up Mr. President.

“I think the atmosphere, the whole aura of the presidency.  Everyone bows and scrapes to you.  And suddenly you think you are really so great.  I think they feel so empowered they can say anything, do anything.  And they soon get slapped back.”

She hit the nail on the head.

Hat tip, RBO.  Beethovenqueen: Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford Tell It Like It Is.

Of Hubris and Fox

October 19, 2009

Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford on MSNBC “Morning Joe” (10/19/09)

Democrats Seek To Repeal Health Insurers Antitrust Protection

Senate Democrats to strip health insurers of antitrust exemption.  The Hill. 

Looks like the Democrats are going after some big campaign donor groups with a big stick.  So much for all the money in the bag.  Now comes time to beat them down for not succumbing to their health care reform wishes.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NE), Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Democratic Caucus Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are now poised to let the wolves go after the insurance industry with antitrust regulation.  Those same antitrust laws that apply to virtually any other business in America.  Until now, health insurance has been exempt, but that may soon change. 

Leahy Bill Repeals Antitrust Exemption for Malpractice, Health Insurance Companies.  Insurance Journal provides background information.  That pesky McCarran-Ferguson Act enacted by Congress in 1945.

The Act also provides that federal anti-trust laws will not apply to the “business of insurance” as long as the state regulates in that area, but federal anti-trust laws will apply in cases of boycott, coercion, and intimidation.

No more price fixing.  No more gouging the consumer.  Each man, ahem, insurance company for itself. 

Maybe now health insurance might actually become beholden to the consumer industry. 

Fun Windsurfing In Buff In Cold Atlantic

Nude windsurfers get their sails up.  Metro. 

Click here for larger images of the brave Atlantic windsurfers from Scotland.   

Chilly anyone?

 
Image courtesy of Barcroft Media via http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Nude_windsurfers_get_their_sails_up&in_article_id=752321&in_page_id=2.

See:

• http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Nude_windsurfers_get_their_sails_up&in_article_id=752321&in_page_id=2

Public Option Changes Name To Medicare For Everyone

The repackaging of an abominable package.  The public option in health care reform is now being called Medicare for everyone.  The Hill.

As the saying goes, it doesn’t matter how much you dress up a pair of jeans, it’s still a pair of jeans.

“No matter how the Democrats ‘re-brand’ their government takeover of healthcare, the American people oppose it.”

Republicans also note that Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole and is projected to go bankrupt by 2018. “Has anyone noticed that Medicare is completely broke?”

Read more here on the distressing concept.

See:

• http://thehill.com/homenews/house/64029-medicare-for-everyone

White House Renders Pure Opinion On Who Is A News Organization

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has been caught in subjective and opinionated practice, when it comes down to vilifying Fox News.  Keep in mind he is the speaker for the executive branch of the government when the President sends him out to do his bidding.  Rubberstamp style.

Previously it was White House Tells CNN They Are Punishing Fox News.  Townhall.         

Even the NYT discerned the heat. Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying. 

Then it was David Axelrod: Fox News “Not Really A News Station”.  RCP.

Obviously now, White House Escalates War at Fox News.  Fox.

Now this.  Today’s Qs for O’s WH – 10/20/2009.  Political Punch ABC.

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –

Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.

Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –

Gibbs: ABC -

Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?

Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.

Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?

Gibbs: That’s our opinion.

In other words, because “we say so!”  Rubberstamp style.

 
“We say so,” 
Image courtesy of http://familyrights.us/educate/because/we_say_so.html.

Yes We Can Campaign 2008 Turns Into Jack And Squat Campaign 2009

Chicago Sun Times is wondering what is happening with the White House these days.  The perennial litany of Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals. 

You’d think it’s October 2008, the final month in the Obama presidential candidacy, rather than October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Yet the Obama White House is in full campaign mode — maybe because it needs to mask the shortcomings of the Obama presidency.You’d think it’s October 2008, the final month in the Obama presidential candidacy, rather than October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Yet the Obama White House is in full campaign mode — maybe because it needs to mask the shortcomings of the Obama presidency.

Read on to see why.

“Robot Talks.”

American And Iranian Presidents

Entertainment straight from some very creative minds.  Two presidents of two very different lands.  Barack Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  A very testy relationship. 

The Nose On Your Face. 

Obama/Ahmadinejad Duet: Don’t Go Breakin’ My Balls

October 17, 2009

Abomber 08.  Paleo Lithics

“Mahmoud Ahamadinejad.  ‘A’ Bomber: Ahamadinejad on the Obama Tricycle.”
Image courtesy of  http://paleo.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/.

Iranian Caviar. Hold The Preconditions.  Paleolilthics.

“Mahmoud.  Michelle.  Barack.  Spread the wealth.”
Image courtesy of http://paleo.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/iranian-caviar-hold-the-preconditions/

Community Organizer College Parody

Sit back and laugh a little.  The simplicity in selecting the following college for your child!

No need to apply for tuition assistance.  It is free!

Paul Shanklin’s “Community Organizer College” parody commercial.

Community Organizer College

August 01, 2009

White House Administration Further Rankled By Fox News

Such contradictions.

White House boasts: We ‘control’ news media.  Parte 8 Anita Dunn and Ben Self Auditorio Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo January 12, 2009.   This is the same Anita Dunn: A corruptocrat flack and a Mao cheerleader per Michelle Malkin.  WND.  

…a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”

But it must not be the case, according to the White House messengers sent out on the Sunday morning talk shows.

David Axelrod: Fox News “Not Really A News Station”.  RCP. 

“The only argument that Anita was making is that they are not really a news organization, if you watch even its not even their commentators, but a lot of their news program. It’s really not news, it’s pushing a point of view and the bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours, ought not to treat them that way. And we’re not going to treat them that way, we’re going to appear on their shows and participate, but understanding that they represent a point of view.”

White House Escalates War at Fox News.  Fox. 

The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop “following Fox” and instead join the administration’s attempt to marginalize the channel.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”

“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.”

Legitimacy in journalism appears to be what the White House administration is antagonized by these days.  Looks like Fox is becoming a pebble in the White House’s shoe. 

Movimiento por el Cambio Obama-DUNN-SELF-P8

January 19, 2009