Check out the media coverage of the Tea Party Express, which is on its way to Washington! CNN and Fox News have both covered the kickoff of the caravan today, which began in Sacramento.
Probably, Shakespeare. And the outcome is always sure, the deception of the Obama team, and all the liberals, will bring about entablement, for them, and for our society. Yet we must remain true to principles, to that which is right, to our Constitution. Let us press on fellow patriots, onward to victory.
We should push for Minarchism or at the very least Classic Liberalism. When it was more like today’s Libertarians. Personal Liberty and Personal Responsibility have gone by the wayside.
I saw a lot of nutty socialists calling us racist, but I didn’t see anyone on our side making racist comments. It is astonishing to me that the race card is being played so much here (and elsewhere).
This man’s policies and associations are disturbing, unAmerican, authoritarian, and creepy:
His “green energy czar” is an avowed communist.
His science advisor has expressed his willingness to implement compulsory abortions for the purpose of population control.
His top health advisor has written journal papers that advocate rationing and total governmental control of the medical industry.
His mentor of 20 years referred to the 911 attacks as “America’s chickens coming home to roost,” as though it was deserved, and has been on the record shouting “God Damn America!” at the top of his lungs during a church service.
Obama himself has been caught on tape ranting about “the white man’s greed.” He has nationalized most of the auto industry. He has nationalized a large segment of the banking industry. He is attempting to nationalize the health care industry, which is one of the most terrifying aspects of his agenda.
THIS only begins to scratch the surface of the vast collection of reasons that so many Americans are horrified with this man. If you disagree with our objections, fine. But if all you have as a rebuttal is name calling, that is a confession that you have no legitimate defenses to offer for this man, his radical agenda, or the gang of thugs that he has selected to accompany him in the White House.
Well said. It most be dawning on a lot of folks what the true agenda of BO and his gangsters is: socialism. The top stratum will not suffer, they will always do well, those who will suffer are the middle classers, the elderly, the small business owners who built America (all entrepreneurs start as small business owners), as they are taxed and pushed down to the lowest denominator, the entitlement crowd. No problem with a safety net for the truly needy but those just looking for handouts, gimme this and gimme that, need not a socialist in power but a swift kick in the butt.
Why would you have to say that. Don’t make us look like a bunch of racist. We are not. If you can’t say the facts then it’s best not to say anything, we have enough facts that we do not need to spout racist words. Don’t call people names, you are playing right into the hands of the radicals.
The question is should a communist be advising our president?
You do nothing but harm to our cause with your racist remarks. This isn’t the venue for that. There are plenty of racist sites that you can post that garbage on.
HERE IT IS, SIMPLE FOR YOU DEMOCRATS. OUR PRINCIPLES ARE NOT RACIST AND NEVER HAVE BEEN. FOR YOU TO SAY THEY ARE OR HAVE BEEN IS COMPLETE IGNORANCE AND JUST FURTHER SHOWS WHY YOUR IDEOLOGY’S ARE SO WARPED. WE ARE FOCUSED ON TRUTH AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. I WOULDN’T CARE IF OBAMA WAS FUCKING PURPLE WITH GREEN SPOTS. HE IS A SOCIALIST AND LIKE ALL SOCIALIST HE WOULD BE BETTER OF BEING A COMMUNIST. YOU THE PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU CAN SACRIFICE YOUR MORALS IN SMALL WAYS TO ACHIEVE A LARGER MORAL PURPOSE. YOU ARE GROSSLY MISTAKEN AND SHOULD CHECK YOUR PREMISE. NOW THIS IS REALLY SIMPLE, TAKING FROM ONE PERSON WITH OUT THERE CONSENT AND OR BY FORCE IS CALLED “STEALING”! STEALING! I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY. I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOUR IDEA’S BUT I RESPECT YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE THEM. IF YOU THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE FROM ME FOR YOU. WHY DON’T YOU GO TO YOUR neighbor HOUSE WALK INTO HIS HOUSE AND TELL HIM TO GIVE YOU ALL HIS MONEY BECAUSE YOU NEED IT MORE. LET ME KNOW HOW THAT GOES FOR YOU. YOU ARE CHILDREN! ONLY CHILDREN ANT AS BAD AS YOU BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW YET RIGHT FROM WRONG. SPECIFICALLY THIS IS FOR ALL US CATHOLICS. YOU WANT TO COME INTO OUR HOSPITALS. TRY TO FORCE US TO PERFORM ABORTIONS AND TELL US OUR RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY IS A WAY OF THE PAST. WELL LET ME TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME YOU TRY TO TAKE FROM MY ACHIEVEMENTS TO PROPAGATE YOUR EVIL BELIEF STRUCTURE. I WILL BURN YOU DOWN AND ALL I HAVE DOWN AND YOU WONT HAVE ANYTHING LEFT TO STEAL:) THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
The speed at which this man is moving is scary. If we do not move with precise strategies to get him and his horde of fruitcakes out of office, we are in deep du-du. We must organize under a new party banner, giving the American people the choice to choose a true conservative party. We must come up with a strategic plan to oust the people that lied to us, and we must implement bills that will protect us from this in the future.
One of the first things called for should be a demand on the part of the American public for Obama to show us his Birth Certificate, not a forged copy of a certificate of live birth. IF he is not an American born citizen, he should be impeached and then booted out of the country. I do not think you can become a Boy or Girl Scout without showing a certified birth certificate. After this is established, then we go about cleaning out his den of wackoes and communist he has surrounded himself with. But this must be a united front.
Ten Billion dollar deficit, our children should start illegally immigrating to Mexico, they will soon be better off than us.
God Bless America and Tea Party for the Third Party.
I’m to the point that people will call us what they want to call us–who cares?! Although I do love it when we make the liberals mad! Looking forward to being in Washington on 9.12!
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the President’s race. I don’t like his policies or the direction in which he is trying to take this country. The only ones I hear talking are incompetents like David Patterson and Crooks like Charlie Rangle. All those caught with their hand in the cookie jar are claiming it is a race issue — puuuulease!
WHY ISNT THERE ANY MEDIA COVERAGE OF WHAT LOOKS TO BE BECOMING AMERICA’S LARGEST PROTEST AGAINST THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT AND OR SOCIALISM/DEATH?
WHY ARE SO MANY AMERICAN IGNORANT TO THE IDEA’S OF FREEDOM WE WERE ALL RAISED WITH?
WHY IS THE U.N. TRAINING TROOPS HERE IN OUR COUNTRY?
WHY IS FEMA STORING RUSSIAN CHEMICAL DISBURSEMENT TRUCK HERE ON AMERICAN SOIL?
WHY DOES FEMA HAVE 30 FULLY STAFFED PRISONS WITH NO INMATES?
WHY ARE WE THE MAJORITY BEING SILENCED?
WHY DO WE HAVE ANTI TRUST LAWS?
WHY ISNT SOMEONE AND I MEAN EVERY ONE STANDING UP AGAINST ALL OF THIS? OH WAIT, WE ARE ON THE 12 IN WASHINGTON D.C.!
I JUST WANTED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WHO STAND FOR FREEDOM, WHO SEE THROUGH THE HYPOCRISY AND INSANITY. THAT YOU ARE ALL GREAT AMERICAN’S AND YOU HAVE TRUELY AND I SAY THIS WHOLE HEARTEDLY….. YOU HAVE RESTORED MY FAITH IN MAN KIND… I LOVE YOU ALL FOR THAT AND CAN’T WAIT TO STAND NEXT TO YOU, SIDE BY SIDE, WITH ONE VOICE OF SOLIDARITY AND LET THESE LEFTEST AND CORRUPT POLITICAL FIGURES KNOW. THEY HAVE GOTTEN TOO FAT FOR TOO LONG OFF THE AMBITION, BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS OF OUR PEOPLE AND WE ARNT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY LONGER.
I AM PROUD OF ALL OF YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
I do know that ACT for America has identified 35 or so Islamic camps around the country (approximately 100 acres or so each, I believe). The neighbors hear sound of gunfire and there are armed guards at the entrances turning infidels away. Google it of go to American Congress for Truth.
Don’t think that these camps have any thing to do with Fema but why are they not being shut down by the FBI or law enforcement?
You might want to look a little deeper. Supposedly Glenn Beck had his whole staff working on debunking the camps for 4 days and found no way to do so.
As well They are completely funded by FEMA. When the director of Fema was asked about them. He said they were incase a huge influx of illegal immigrants cross the border. “WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP”
I am not much for large scale conspiracy’s but why are they there and why ant we getting direct answers and also why did Glen promise to deliver the story he was so excited earlier in the day to report,and then not? Like he had found something that could change the view of our whole society then he just changed his mind………
I’m going to put the old foil hat on now…lol …with the talk of shutting down the internet in a crisis it may be a good idea to have a meeting place for your groups set up in advance should this happen. maybe even exchanging cell phone and land line phones with other groups in a small radius so we can hold together….in case of a crisis of course..lol
I’ve been watching the left tear the constitution apart for quite some time…long before the election of the messiah….he is a mere puppet as are most politicians…It is time to clean house and they know we’re going to in 2010…the scary part is they don’t seem to care…therefore I put nothing past our leaders…damn..leaders…that’s a stretch..lol
What is really upseting to me is that all of our lives the democrates and the republicians have been dividing us and we feel into that. We are American’s, not democrates or republicians, the mess came from both sides. I wish, that we would have woke up when Bush didn’t close the borders, like he said he was. That’s what got me started, but no one would listen. We signed petitions after petition to get that border closed down.
The general population doesn’t know that we were working on this long before it came to a tea party. We work and try to do the right thing, we really don’t have the money or the time to do all this protesting. But it has come to the point where we have no choice.
Rahm Emanual said, “Never let a Crisis go to waste” Well there has been a crisis everyday since Feb. and that is the plan. Do you know how many bills are going through while we are protesting. And the media doesn’t tell us. They have been working 50 years to dumb us down and we have been silent.
Well I’m sorry, to all my friends that seem to be OK with the way things are going. I can not sit while my our rights are taken away one by one.
As for health care, we don’t need a 1017 page bill and 50 lawyers to tell us what it says. We can get this done without all the bull that’s in that bill. Talk stright to us, don’t try to ram things through without the people having a chance to figure out what the government is doing to us now. Dem’s are repub. but start listening to us. Vote them all out in 2010 and I don’t care what party they are in. Just vote people in that care about US and our COUNTRY.
I am with you midnightsky I have thought of all these things long before their was an Obama didn’t make much sense to me to spend all this money on ‘homeland security after 9/11 and yet leave our back door wide open. Another thing has any body thought about how all of a sudden were getting word that swine flu is going to be a pandamic I saw on the news the other night as many as half the population could die ..is tthis a crisis you don;t want to waste .something just isn’t right .. watch what the other hand is doing with Obama he’s creating all this confusion on the right with health care cap and trade stimulus and on and on but maybe we should be looking what the left hand is doing we might see what is really happening…
I have been reading “How We Are Governed”, which was written back in 1885. The way the CONSTITUTION was written was with the intention of the citizens being involved every step of the way. Way back then when a bill was introduced it had to be read in the Senate and the House of Representatives three (3) times. Alot has changed and we need to find out how and when. Look back in history and you will find the answers.
HA HA HA HA HA HA…that is the most stupid idiotic crap I have ever had the displeasure of reading you really don’t get it do you how dare you …you insult me and everyone who is a conservative on this site .go take you Sears doctrine and put it were the sun don’t shine..Sir or Madam whatever ..please just take a long long look in the mirror at yourself ..one more thing I might add my husband and I have never I repeat never taken anything of the government nadda zip nothing we paid for our home which we built two as a matter of fact and have not had any debt none for forty years we didn’t BUY ANYTHING WE COULDN’T AFFORD get it Einstein we put two boys throught University all WITHOUT GOVERNMENT HELP.. I suggest you look into the minds if they have one of the ones that are following Obama now theirs a challenge for you but then their sheep so you wouldn’t get to much out of that .
One more thing about Medicaid the people at the townhall meetings that have medicaid HAVE PAID INTO IT THEIR WHOLE LIVES YOU MORON so the government.. ISN’T GIVING IT TO THEM IT’S THEIR’S …
If you go to http://www.bondaction.org. This Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is an african american that is against what OBAMA is doing. Does that make him a racist? Don’t you understand by now it’s not Dem. or Rep. it is the entire Government taking control. President Obama is unfortunatly getting the brunt of the american citizens anger. He ran on “Change” and he is doing exactly what BUSH started. (spending our tax dollars). If you look back in history it didn’t just start with BUSH either. READ THE CONSTITUTION! It is really sad that african americans will simply vote for someone because of race and not what the person stands for. Doesn’t that make them racist to the white man. It seems to me that racism won’t be forgotton because “they” don’t want to let it go. They are the ones keeping it to use for a later date. (playing the race card) Maybe we need an african american on the right side to elect. What will happen then? It could still be the same old politics as usual if we let it. We need to make sure we know what these politicians stand for and make sure they do what they say they are going to do. It is our duty as american citizens to be involved in our Governement. It is what was intended when the Constitution was written. We are letting them once again pit us against eachother. Guess what, if we let them do that then they win. We need to stand up for FREEDOM. It is not about race, it is about FREEDOM! If you make it about race, you are simply wrong. You are drinking the coolaid that Pelosi and the rest of them want you to drink. It’s so easy to call us racist, mobs then it is to admit to the truth. This won’t stop at healthcare and it won’t stop when OBAMA is out of the White House. Once again, it is our duty as american citizens to not only vote, but to make sure what is going on in the legislature is what we represent. Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness. We finally get it, we have awaken and will not be silenced. They can call us paranoid, racists, crazy mobs. It doesn’t make it true. The truth will come out, it always does. The truth will set us free.
YOU CAN WRITE AND SPECULATE ON ANY IDEA’S YOU MIGHT HAVE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS SPECULATION IS NOT FACT AND PSYCHOLOGY IS MORE OF A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY RATHER THAN AN EXACT SCIENCE. UNLESS YOU REALLY DID HATE YOUR FATHER BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR SEXUAL DESIRES WERE ALL DERIVED FROM WHETHER YOU SUCKED YOUR THUMB “NOW YOU HAVE AN ORAL FIXATION” TWO ENJOYED YOUR BUTT BEING WIPED. “NOW YOU HAVE AN ANAL FIXATION” SO ON AND SO FORTH…. IF YOU DO BELIEVE THESE THINGS. THEN WE HAVE NO ROOM FOR DEBATE BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT DEBATE THE IRRATIONAL.
“SIGMUND FREUD” WAS ONLY THE FATHER OF PSYCHOLOGY BECAUSE OF HIS “ID, EGO, AND SUPER EGO” THEORY. THE TRUTH IS SIGMUND FREUD WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PSYCHOLOGIST TO USE COCAINE AS AN ANTI DEPRESSANT. THEN CONTINUED TO USE THE DRUG WHEN IT WAS ILLEGALIZED. FREUD WAS MOSTLY A CROCK WHO’S IDEA’S WERE MOSTLY LUNACY AND WERE BASED MOSTLY UPON HIS COCAINE ADDICTION.
Former Voice Of America Official Tied To Abramoff Indicted On Corruption Charges
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Share Print CommentsWASHINGTON — A former top official for Voice of America was indicted Friday on corruption charges, accused of taking thousands of dollars in concert and sports tickets in exchange for favors to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Horace Cooper, who is also a one-time aide to former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey, is accused of defrauding the government after getting choice seats to see ‘N Sync, the Dixie Chicks, and Bruce Springsteen, among others.
The indictment charges Cooper agreed to use his position at Voice of America – and his subsequent job at the Labor Department – to advance the interests of Abramoff and his clients.
Abramoff was sentenced in September 2008 to four years in prison on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. Since pleading guilty in 2006, the once-powerful lobbyist has cooperated with the federal investigation of influence-peddling in Washington.
The long-running corruption probe has led to the convictions of one former congressman – Republican Bob Ney of Ohio – and 16 others, including lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen.
Prosecutors say that between 2002 and 2004, Cooper received thousands of dollars worth of free meals or drinks at Abramoff’s restaurant, as well as a free Super Bowl party for him and about 25 friends.
The five-count indictment charges Cooper also took thousands of dollars worth of free entertainment, including tickets to professional baseball, hockey, basketball, and tennis events, as well as concert tickets.
Officials say Cooper did not report the gifts on government paperwork.
Cooper’s lawyer, Solomon Wisenberg, denied the charges.
“We are very disappointed that the Department of Justice has decided to go forward with these charges,” the lawyer said. “Horace Cooper is innocent and we look forward to our day in court.”
Cooper, 44, worked as chief of staff at Voice of America in 2002, before taking the same position at the Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration, where he worked until 2005.
In both positions, prosecutors charge, he used his official position to advance the private interests of the lobbyist Abramoff and his clients.
The indictment charges Cooper agreed to help Abramoff secure VOA funding for the lobbyist’s newly formed television production business, and assist an Abramoff client, a Mariana Islands garment manufacturer, with an investigation they were facing by the U.S. Department of Labor.
He is due in court next month on charges of fraudulent concealment, false statements, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge
Observations in ref to Albany NY Tea Party Express 10 September 2009. Dissapointing turn out.
1- There was nothing in the local “Daily Gazette” the morning after.
2- There was nothing in any local media ref to the lead up to the day of. Local news was present in the beginning but soon went home after they got hungry.
3- There may need be port-a-jons next time for the females.
4- BEWARE of Obama supporters passing out “Don’t Tread On Me” stickers under the guise of conservative orgs.
5- The Tea Party press need to confirm identity when taking photos.
Some of this may need be taken in consideration by local organizers, the rest just FYI for future plans. Please pay attention to detail.
If we would have kept the dollar sound through our Reagan / GATT Tariff Trade rules in the 1980s would we have kept our Capitalists system solvent and leading the world economies to better quality of life achievements , like it has done forever , so that the rise of Social Justice would not be rising up in the debate on Equality ???? I believe the Change of Tariff Law back in 1994-95 was the beginning of this demise we see today , and the Giant Sucking Sound Ross Perot talked about in the 1992 Presidential Campaign , http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011231/greider
remember how we had balanced trade deficits and a sound dollar , before the Ban on what was keeping our dollar sound , when we trade with a lower valued currency country so we would maintain our economic value , and with this came the support to our infrastructures and communities ????? The process of trade was not handled right , so the dollar would stay sound , the fact that trade partners currencies were to par value in a short time was not up held , or even policy implemented in the agreements , so the integrity of our dollar and its economy would be offset , and the outcome was predicted here and should be debated as to why did we continue on a path that was in need if ever was a time needed a overhaul ;
The High Cost of the China-WTO Deal
Administration’s own analysis suggests spiraling deficits, job losses
by Robert E. Scott http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/issuebriefs_ib137/
I am sick and tied of hearing how good this Free Trade deal was for America , because here we are today without a Job left other than a Government one , and I want to know why we are letting this Go On ??????
I remember when the FTC would bust up the consolidation of a Corporate consolidation in the USA every now the then when they applied to take over a business , so that the MOM and POP stores would not be over ran , so that wealth redistribution was more equal , but ever scene the WTO and the Free Trade era of the 1994-5 , we been going down hill faster than the shuttle reentering earth atmosphere
I believe the Change of Tariff Law back in 1994-95 was the brining of this demise we see today , and the Giant Sucking Sound Ross Perot talked about in the 1992 Presidential Campaign , http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011231/greider , has come home to roost , and its not just the USA its every country that cannot compete with the way that Asian Countries manipulate their currencies lower than the Trade partners that are Higher , which is a direct example of ” Gresham’s Law of the 14 th Century , http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Gresham%27s-law , which you should argue with economic gurus that , without a counter balancing measure to deal with different valued currencies like how tariff law revalues a product par to the post of calls currency value , so the currency is not undermined of its value , and defeats its support of its working peoples ability to be competitive , ” When 2 different valued currencies trade in the same markets , the Lower valued currency will drive the higher down and out of circulation ” , so by what is said in that valuing currencies in terms of Commodity values , the currencies of China and the USA should be way closer in value than they have been over the past 15 years of WTO trade , because Commodities are traded in par valued international markets .
So to consider that before we had the WTO trade agreement of 1994-5 , we had Balanced Trade deficits and a sound dollar , and a healthy Manufacturing base in the USA , the very support structure for wealth creation , that then feeds the secondary markets and infrastructures , a debate on how we can use a Bid Concept for all forms of Imported goods , like if we take the effective cost of what it would cost to manufacture a product in a given nation , and the price of raw materials is based off the international Commodities price indexes , so that the value to produce in one country is equal to or is reflective in what kinds of trade agreements can be made to keep all trade nations currencies sound should be the way in which a price for a product should be arrived at , as well as our domestic needs should be the new economy fundamental we seek in our Country , to go with this health care renovation .
The Current Trade agreement is lacking sound currency terms so our living wages can maintain cost of living increases to keep up with the inflation , which is just the way its been since the beginning of economic societies so this needs to be debated .
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Wasn’t it Shakespeare in Hamlet, that said; “‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
Probably, Shakespeare. And the outcome is always sure, the deception of the Obama team, and all the liberals, will bring about entablement, for them, and for our society. Yet we must remain true to principles, to that which is right, to our Constitution. Let us press on fellow patriots, onward to victory.
I could not agree more
We need to take back America
The great country that our forefathers fought for and created must be protected.
We are moving towards socialism by liberal radicals that want to tear down this great country
We need to get back to prayer and turning to God
God will answer our prayers, all we have to do is ask.
We should push for Minarchism or at the very least Classic Liberalism. When it was more like today’s Libertarians. Personal Liberty and Personal Responsibility have gone by the wayside.
Shakespeare also siad “The first thing you do is kill all the lawyers”. Obviously a true visionary.
I saw a lot of nutty socialists calling us racist, but I didn’t see anyone on our side making racist comments. It is astonishing to me that the race card is being played so much here (and elsewhere).
This man’s policies and associations are disturbing, unAmerican, authoritarian, and creepy:
His “green energy czar” is an avowed communist.
His science advisor has expressed his willingness to implement compulsory abortions for the purpose of population control.
His top health advisor has written journal papers that advocate rationing and total governmental control of the medical industry.
His mentor of 20 years referred to the 911 attacks as “America’s chickens coming home to roost,” as though it was deserved, and has been on the record shouting “God Damn America!” at the top of his lungs during a church service.
Obama himself has been caught on tape ranting about “the white man’s greed.” He has nationalized most of the auto industry. He has nationalized a large segment of the banking industry. He is attempting to nationalize the health care industry, which is one of the most terrifying aspects of his agenda.
THIS only begins to scratch the surface of the vast collection of reasons that so many Americans are horrified with this man. If you disagree with our objections, fine. But if all you have as a rebuttal is name calling, that is a confession that you have no legitimate defenses to offer for this man, his radical agenda, or the gang of thugs that he has selected to accompany him in the White House.
Well said. It most be dawning on a lot of folks what the true agenda of BO and his gangsters is: socialism. The top stratum will not suffer, they will always do well, those who will suffer are the middle classers, the elderly, the small business owners who built America (all entrepreneurs start as small business owners), as they are taxed and pushed down to the lowest denominator, the entitlement crowd. No problem with a safety net for the truly needy but those just looking for handouts, gimme this and gimme that, need not a socialist in power but a swift kick in the butt.
Why would you have to say that. Don’t make us look like a bunch of racist. We are not. If you can’t say the facts then it’s best not to say anything, we have enough facts that we do not need to spout racist words. Don’t call people names, you are playing right into the hands of the radicals.
The question is should a communist be advising our president?
Red weasel,
You do nothing but harm to our cause with your racist remarks. This isn’t the venue for that. There are plenty of racist sites that you can post that garbage on.
HERE IT IS, SIMPLE FOR YOU DEMOCRATS. OUR PRINCIPLES ARE NOT RACIST AND NEVER HAVE BEEN. FOR YOU TO SAY THEY ARE OR HAVE BEEN IS COMPLETE IGNORANCE AND JUST FURTHER SHOWS WHY YOUR IDEOLOGY’S ARE SO WARPED. WE ARE FOCUSED ON TRUTH AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. I WOULDN’T CARE IF OBAMA WAS FUCKING PURPLE WITH GREEN SPOTS. HE IS A SOCIALIST AND LIKE ALL SOCIALIST HE WOULD BE BETTER OF BEING A COMMUNIST. YOU THE PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU CAN SACRIFICE YOUR MORALS IN SMALL WAYS TO ACHIEVE A LARGER MORAL PURPOSE. YOU ARE GROSSLY MISTAKEN AND SHOULD CHECK YOUR PREMISE. NOW THIS IS REALLY SIMPLE, TAKING FROM ONE PERSON WITH OUT THERE CONSENT AND OR BY FORCE IS CALLED “STEALING”! STEALING! I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY. I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOUR IDEA’S BUT I RESPECT YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE THEM. IF YOU THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE FROM ME FOR YOU. WHY DON’T YOU GO TO YOUR neighbor HOUSE WALK INTO HIS HOUSE AND TELL HIM TO GIVE YOU ALL HIS MONEY BECAUSE YOU NEED IT MORE. LET ME KNOW HOW THAT GOES FOR YOU. YOU ARE CHILDREN! ONLY CHILDREN ANT AS BAD AS YOU BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW YET RIGHT FROM WRONG. SPECIFICALLY THIS IS FOR ALL US CATHOLICS. YOU WANT TO COME INTO OUR HOSPITALS. TRY TO FORCE US TO PERFORM ABORTIONS AND TELL US OUR RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY IS A WAY OF THE PAST. WELL LET ME TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME YOU TRY TO TAKE FROM MY ACHIEVEMENTS TO PROPAGATE YOUR EVIL BELIEF STRUCTURE. I WILL BURN YOU DOWN AND ALL I HAVE DOWN AND YOU WONT HAVE ANYTHING LEFT TO STEAL:) THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
The speed at which this man is moving is scary. If we do not move with precise strategies to get him and his horde of fruitcakes out of office, we are in deep du-du. We must organize under a new party banner, giving the American people the choice to choose a true conservative party. We must come up with a strategic plan to oust the people that lied to us, and we must implement bills that will protect us from this in the future.
One of the first things called for should be a demand on the part of the American public for Obama to show us his Birth Certificate, not a forged copy of a certificate of live birth. IF he is not an American born citizen, he should be impeached and then booted out of the country. I do not think you can become a Boy or Girl Scout without showing a certified birth certificate. After this is established, then we go about cleaning out his den of wackoes and communist he has surrounded himself with. But this must be a united front.
Ten Billion dollar deficit, our children should start illegally immigrating to Mexico, they will soon be better off than us.
God Bless America and Tea Party for the Third Party.
I’m to the point that people will call us what they want to call us–who cares?! Although I do love it when we make the liberals mad! Looking forward to being in Washington on 9.12!
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the President’s race. I don’t like his policies or the direction in which he is trying to take this country. The only ones I hear talking are incompetents like David Patterson and Crooks like Charlie Rangle. All those caught with their hand in the cookie jar are claiming it is a race issue — puuuulease!
WHY? WHY? WHY?
WHY IS THIS THREAD BACKWARDS? LOL!
WHY ISNT THERE ANY MEDIA COVERAGE OF WHAT LOOKS TO BE BECOMING AMERICA’S LARGEST PROTEST AGAINST THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT AND OR SOCIALISM/DEATH?
WHY ARE SO MANY AMERICAN IGNORANT TO THE IDEA’S OF FREEDOM WE WERE ALL RAISED WITH?
WHY IS THE U.N. TRAINING TROOPS HERE IN OUR COUNTRY?
WHY IS FEMA STORING RUSSIAN CHEMICAL DISBURSEMENT TRUCK HERE ON AMERICAN SOIL?
WHY DOES FEMA HAVE 30 FULLY STAFFED PRISONS WITH NO INMATES?
WHY ARE WE THE MAJORITY BEING SILENCED?
WHY DO WE HAVE ANTI TRUST LAWS?
WHY ISNT SOMEONE AND I MEAN EVERY ONE STANDING UP AGAINST ALL OF THIS? OH WAIT, WE ARE ON THE 12 IN WASHINGTON D.C.!
I JUST WANTED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WHO STAND FOR FREEDOM, WHO SEE THROUGH THE HYPOCRISY AND INSANITY. THAT YOU ARE ALL GREAT AMERICAN’S AND YOU HAVE TRUELY AND I SAY THIS WHOLE HEARTEDLY….. YOU HAVE RESTORED MY FAITH IN MAN KIND… I LOVE YOU ALL FOR THAT AND CAN’T WAIT TO STAND NEXT TO YOU, SIDE BY SIDE, WITH ONE VOICE OF SOLIDARITY AND LET THESE LEFTEST AND CORRUPT POLITICAL FIGURES KNOW. THEY HAVE GOTTEN TOO FAT FOR TOO LONG OFF THE AMBITION, BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS OF OUR PEOPLE AND WE ARNT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY LONGER.
I AM PROUD OF ALL OF YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Can you please post some of the links to verify what you are saying. Empty FEMA Camps, Russians storing stuff!
I need more information. See in on 9/12 Washington DC!
Thank you and you are a GREAT AMERICAN TOO!
I do know that ACT for America has identified 35 or so Islamic camps around the country (approximately 100 acres or so each, I believe). The neighbors hear sound of gunfire and there are armed guards at the entrances turning infidels away. Google it of go to American Congress for Truth.
Don’t think that these camps have any thing to do with Fema but why are they not being shut down by the FBI or law enforcement?
You might want to look a little deeper. Supposedly Glenn Beck had his whole staff working on debunking the camps for 4 days and found no way to do so.
As well They are completely funded by FEMA. When the director of Fema was asked about them. He said they were incase a huge influx of illegal immigrants cross the border. “WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP”
I am not much for large scale conspiracy’s but why are they there and why ant we getting direct answers and also why did Glen promise to deliver the story he was so excited earlier in the day to report,and then not? Like he had found something that could change the view of our whole society then he just changed his mind………
Look it up on you tube…
I’m going to put the old foil hat on now…lol …with the talk of shutting down the internet in a crisis it may be a good idea to have a meeting place for your groups set up in advance should this happen. maybe even exchanging cell phone and land line phones with other groups in a small radius so we can hold together….in case of a crisis of course..lol
I’ve been watching the left tear the constitution apart for quite some time…long before the election of the messiah….he is a mere puppet as are most politicians…It is time to clean house and they know we’re going to in 2010…the scary part is they don’t seem to care…therefore I put nothing past our leaders…damn..leaders…that’s a stretch..lol
What is really upseting to me is that all of our lives the democrates and the republicians have been dividing us and we feel into that. We are American’s, not democrates or republicians, the mess came from both sides. I wish, that we would have woke up when Bush didn’t close the borders, like he said he was. That’s what got me started, but no one would listen. We signed petitions after petition to get that border closed down.
The general population doesn’t know that we were working on this long before it came to a tea party. We work and try to do the right thing, we really don’t have the money or the time to do all this protesting. But it has come to the point where we have no choice.
Rahm Emanual said, “Never let a Crisis go to waste” Well there has been a crisis everyday since Feb. and that is the plan. Do you know how many bills are going through while we are protesting. And the media doesn’t tell us. They have been working 50 years to dumb us down and we have been silent.
Well I’m sorry, to all my friends that seem to be OK with the way things are going. I can not sit while my our rights are taken away one by one.
As for health care, we don’t need a 1017 page bill and 50 lawyers to tell us what it says. We can get this done without all the bull that’s in that bill. Talk stright to us, don’t try to ram things through without the people having a chance to figure out what the government is doing to us now. Dem’s are repub. but start listening to us. Vote them all out in 2010 and I don’t care what party they are in. Just vote people in that care about US and our COUNTRY.
Well said Midnightsky….see you in DC!
I am with you midnightsky I have thought of all these things long before their was an Obama didn’t make much sense to me to spend all this money on ‘homeland security after 9/11 and yet leave our back door wide open. Another thing has any body thought about how all of a sudden were getting word that swine flu is going to be a pandamic I saw on the news the other night as many as half the population could die ..is tthis a crisis you don;t want to waste .something just isn’t right .. watch what the other hand is doing with Obama he’s creating all this confusion on the right with health care cap and trade stimulus and on and on but maybe we should be looking what the left hand is doing we might see what is really happening…
I have been reading “How We Are Governed”, which was written back in 1885. The way the CONSTITUTION was written was with the intention of the citizens being involved every step of the way. Way back then when a bill was introduced it had to be read in the Senate and the House of Representatives three (3) times. Alot has changed and we need to find out how and when. Look back in history and you will find the answers.
HA HA HA HA HA HA…that is the most stupid idiotic crap I have ever had the displeasure of reading you really don’t get it do you how dare you …you insult me and everyone who is a conservative on this site .go take you Sears doctrine and put it were the sun don’t shine..Sir or Madam whatever ..please just take a long long look in the mirror at yourself ..one more thing I might add my husband and I have never I repeat never taken anything of the government nadda zip nothing we paid for our home which we built two as a matter of fact and have not had any debt none for forty years we didn’t BUY ANYTHING WE COULDN’T AFFORD get it Einstein we put two boys throught University all WITHOUT GOVERNMENT HELP.. I suggest you look into the minds if they have one of the ones that are following Obama now theirs a challenge for you but then their sheep so you wouldn’t get to much out of that .
One more thing about Medicaid the people at the townhall meetings that have medicaid HAVE PAID INTO IT THEIR WHOLE LIVES YOU MORON so the government.. ISN’T GIVING IT TO THEM IT’S THEIR’S …
So very well said, Daigon! This clown doesn’t get it at all!
If you go to http://www.bondaction.org. This Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is an african american that is against what OBAMA is doing. Does that make him a racist? Don’t you understand by now it’s not Dem. or Rep. it is the entire Government taking control. President Obama is unfortunatly getting the brunt of the american citizens anger. He ran on “Change” and he is doing exactly what BUSH started. (spending our tax dollars). If you look back in history it didn’t just start with BUSH either. READ THE CONSTITUTION! It is really sad that african americans will simply vote for someone because of race and not what the person stands for. Doesn’t that make them racist to the white man. It seems to me that racism won’t be forgotton because “they” don’t want to let it go. They are the ones keeping it to use for a later date. (playing the race card) Maybe we need an african american on the right side to elect. What will happen then? It could still be the same old politics as usual if we let it. We need to make sure we know what these politicians stand for and make sure they do what they say they are going to do. It is our duty as american citizens to be involved in our Governement. It is what was intended when the Constitution was written. We are letting them once again pit us against eachother. Guess what, if we let them do that then they win. We need to stand up for FREEDOM. It is not about race, it is about FREEDOM! If you make it about race, you are simply wrong. You are drinking the coolaid that Pelosi and the rest of them want you to drink. It’s so easy to call us racist, mobs then it is to admit to the truth. This won’t stop at healthcare and it won’t stop when OBAMA is out of the White House. Once again, it is our duty as american citizens to not only vote, but to make sure what is going on in the legislature is what we represent. Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness. We finally get it, we have awaken and will not be silenced. They can call us paranoid, racists, crazy mobs. It doesn’t make it true. The truth will come out, it always does. The truth will set us free.
YOU CAN WRITE AND SPECULATE ON ANY IDEA’S YOU MIGHT HAVE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS SPECULATION IS NOT FACT AND PSYCHOLOGY IS MORE OF A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY RATHER THAN AN EXACT SCIENCE. UNLESS YOU REALLY DID HATE YOUR FATHER BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR SEXUAL DESIRES WERE ALL DERIVED FROM WHETHER YOU SUCKED YOUR THUMB “NOW YOU HAVE AN ORAL FIXATION” TWO ENJOYED YOUR BUTT BEING WIPED. “NOW YOU HAVE AN ANAL FIXATION” SO ON AND SO FORTH…. IF YOU DO BELIEVE THESE THINGS. THEN WE HAVE NO ROOM FOR DEBATE BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT DEBATE THE IRRATIONAL.
“SIGMUND FREUD” WAS ONLY THE FATHER OF PSYCHOLOGY BECAUSE OF HIS “ID, EGO, AND SUPER EGO” THEORY. THE TRUTH IS SIGMUND FREUD WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PSYCHOLOGIST TO USE COCAINE AS AN ANTI DEPRESSANT. THEN CONTINUED TO USE THE DRUG WHEN IT WAS ILLEGALIZED. FREUD WAS MOSTLY A CROCK WHO’S IDEA’S WERE MOSTLY LUNACY AND WERE BASED MOSTLY UPON HIS COCAINE ADDICTION.
Former Voice Of America Official Tied To Abramoff Indicted On Corruption Charges
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Share Print CommentsWASHINGTON — A former top official for Voice of America was indicted Friday on corruption charges, accused of taking thousands of dollars in concert and sports tickets in exchange for favors to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Horace Cooper, who is also a one-time aide to former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey, is accused of defrauding the government after getting choice seats to see ‘N Sync, the Dixie Chicks, and Bruce Springsteen, among others.
The indictment charges Cooper agreed to use his position at Voice of America – and his subsequent job at the Labor Department – to advance the interests of Abramoff and his clients.
Abramoff was sentenced in September 2008 to four years in prison on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. Since pleading guilty in 2006, the once-powerful lobbyist has cooperated with the federal investigation of influence-peddling in Washington.
The long-running corruption probe has led to the convictions of one former congressman – Republican Bob Ney of Ohio – and 16 others, including lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen.
Prosecutors say that between 2002 and 2004, Cooper received thousands of dollars worth of free meals or drinks at Abramoff’s restaurant, as well as a free Super Bowl party for him and about 25 friends.
The five-count indictment charges Cooper also took thousands of dollars worth of free entertainment, including tickets to professional baseball, hockey, basketball, and tennis events, as well as concert tickets.
Officials say Cooper did not report the gifts on government paperwork.
Cooper’s lawyer, Solomon Wisenberg, denied the charges.
“We are very disappointed that the Department of Justice has decided to go forward with these charges,” the lawyer said. “Horace Cooper is innocent and we look forward to our day in court.”
Cooper, 44, worked as chief of staff at Voice of America in 2002, before taking the same position at the Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration, where he worked until 2005.
In both positions, prosecutors charge, he used his official position to advance the private interests of the lobbyist Abramoff and his clients.
The indictment charges Cooper agreed to help Abramoff secure VOA funding for the lobbyist’s newly formed television production business, and assist an Abramoff client, a Mariana Islands garment manufacturer, with an investigation they were facing by the U.S. Department of Labor.
He is due in court next month on charges of fraudulent concealment, false statements, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge
FYI
Observations in ref to Albany NY Tea Party Express 10 September 2009. Dissapointing turn out.
1- There was nothing in the local “Daily Gazette” the morning after.
2- There was nothing in any local media ref to the lead up to the day of. Local news was present in the beginning but soon went home after they got hungry.
3- There may need be port-a-jons next time for the females.
4- BEWARE of Obama supporters passing out “Don’t Tread On Me” stickers under the guise of conservative orgs.
5- The Tea Party press need to confirm identity when taking photos.
Some of this may need be taken in consideration by local organizers, the rest just FYI for future plans. Please pay attention to detail.
Gotta go write a check for Rob Miller.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32790139
Gotta go write a check for Joe Wilson
….*Sing a’long teabagger’s, and show your spirit…..
So, C’mon all you big strong men
The Republican’s have done it again
Got ourselve’s in a real big jam
Over there in Afghanistan
So put down your books
And pick up your______________________
a) pens
b) guns
c) camera’s
d) babies
And let’s get us some______________________
a) Afghanistans
b) pictures
c) abortions
d) Republicans
….And it’s one..two..three what are we fighting for???!!!
*…sung to
If we would have kept the dollar sound through our Reagan / GATT Tariff Trade rules in the 1980s would we have kept our Capitalists system solvent and leading the world economies to better quality of life achievements , like it has done forever , so that the rise of Social Justice would not be rising up in the debate on Equality ???? I believe the Change of Tariff Law back in 1994-95 was the beginning of this demise we see today , and the Giant Sucking Sound Ross Perot talked about in the 1992 Presidential Campaign , http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011231/greider
remember how we had balanced trade deficits and a sound dollar , before the Ban on what was keeping our dollar sound , when we trade with a lower valued currency country so we would maintain our economic value , and with this came the support to our infrastructures and communities ????? The process of trade was not handled right , so the dollar would stay sound , the fact that trade partners currencies were to par value in a short time was not up held , or even policy implemented in the agreements , so the integrity of our dollar and its economy would be offset , and the outcome was predicted here and should be debated as to why did we continue on a path that was in need if ever was a time needed a overhaul ;
The High Cost of the China-WTO Deal
Administration’s own analysis suggests spiraling deficits, job losses
by Robert E. Scott http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/issuebriefs_ib137/
I am sick and tied of hearing how good this Free Trade deal was for America , because here we are today without a Job left other than a Government one , and I want to know why we are letting this Go On ??????
I remember when the FTC would bust up the consolidation of a Corporate consolidation in the USA every now the then when they applied to take over a business , so that the MOM and POP stores would not be over ran , so that wealth redistribution was more equal , but ever scene the WTO and the Free Trade era of the 1994-5 , we been going down hill faster than the shuttle reentering earth atmosphere
I believe the Change of Tariff Law back in 1994-95 was the brining of this demise we see today , and the Giant Sucking Sound Ross Perot talked about in the 1992 Presidential Campaign , http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011231/greider , has come home to roost , and its not just the USA its every country that cannot compete with the way that Asian Countries manipulate their currencies lower than the Trade partners that are Higher , which is a direct example of ” Gresham’s Law of the 14 th Century , http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Gresham%27s-law , which you should argue with economic gurus that , without a counter balancing measure to deal with different valued currencies like how tariff law revalues a product par to the post of calls currency value , so the currency is not undermined of its value , and defeats its support of its working peoples ability to be competitive , ” When 2 different valued currencies trade in the same markets , the Lower valued currency will drive the higher down and out of circulation ” , so by what is said in that valuing currencies in terms of Commodity values , the currencies of China and the USA should be way closer in value than they have been over the past 15 years of WTO trade , because Commodities are traded in par valued international markets .
So to consider that before we had the WTO trade agreement of 1994-5 , we had Balanced Trade deficits and a sound dollar , and a healthy Manufacturing base in the USA , the very support structure for wealth creation , that then feeds the secondary markets and infrastructures , a debate on how we can use a Bid Concept for all forms of Imported goods , like if we take the effective cost of what it would cost to manufacture a product in a given nation , and the price of raw materials is based off the international Commodities price indexes , so that the value to produce in one country is equal to or is reflective in what kinds of trade agreements can be made to keep all trade nations currencies sound should be the way in which a price for a product should be arrived at , as well as our domestic needs should be the new economy fundamental we seek in our Country , to go with this health care renovation .
Maybe the re-establishment of the old Bretton Woods would be a direction all International trade partners could debate as a direction of Re structure , http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Bretton-Woods-Conference .
The Current Trade agreement is lacking sound currency terms so our living wages can maintain cost of living increases to keep up with the inflation , which is just the way its been since the beginning of economic societies so this needs to be debated .
Karyn McDermott of Examiner.com sums it up best here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner~y2009m9d13-The-912-Project-Tea-Projec5t-March-on-Washington-Part-One-with-slideshow
now were there any black people at this klan rally or did you guys just lynch them all
Beck calls his audience “zombies,” O’Reilly dismisses Beck’s flu vaccine conspiracies: “That’s nuts”
October 09, 2009 5:44 pm ET
From the October 8 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910090052?lid=1069566&rid=35870712