Representative John LaBruzzo (R) recently proposed fixing the welfare problem in New Orleans by offering poor women $1000 to be sterilized, a suggestion that New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes has condemned as "blatantly anti-life" and eugenic in nature.
Louisiana Rep. LaBruzzo proposed the plan last week, which may also include vasectomies for poor men as well as a tax incentive for richer, better-educated citizens to have more children. LaBruzzo aims to steer the demographic away from welfare recipients, who he claims are reproducing too fast, saying, "We're on a train headed to the future and there's a bridge out."
Archbishop Hughes slammed LaBruzzo for promoting the eugenicist's "selective breeding" mentality.
"The Catholic Church has consistently taught that direct sterilization is seriously wrong," said the Archbishop in a statement. "The recent proposal of Rep. LaBruzzo not only would make sterilization our public policy and require tax payers to pay for it, but would also constitute a form of eugenics that the Church and this country have always condemned as an egregious affront to those targeted and blatantly anti-life."
The Nuts Behind Acorn
Unless you are in a cave and don't make or spend money, you know things are tough right now. There is more blame to go around then answers.Last week it was a high stakes game of "Deal or No Deal" and it's your money & future at stake.
As the house was burning, some stood dusting the furniture as Democrats in Congress managed to find time to slip language into the bailout legislation that would provide a dandy little slush fund for ACORN.
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a busy hive of left-wing agitation and "direct action" that claims chapters in 50 cities and 100,000 dues-paying members.
ACORN really is a cesspool of 1960s leftovers who couldn't get a real job anywhere. But why would anyone even think of including these folks in on any deal like this? The attempted gift to ACORN (stripped out of the bill after outraged from Republicans) demonstrates how little Democrats understand about what and who caused the mess we are in.
All that "community organizing" you hear attached to Barak Obama was done through ACORN. That organizing included pushing for higher minimum wages, attempts to thwart school reform, attempts to unionize welfare workers (i.e., those welfare recipients obliged to work in exchange for benefits) and organization of voter registration efforts (always for Democrats of course).
In 2006, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in Washington state. The only trouble was, with the exception of six, (YES 6!) all the names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it the "worst case of election fraud in our state's history."
ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms. (I guess that helps with making up creative names. How about Mary Wanna 123 Ganja St.)
Similar stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Colorado - all swing states by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a number of states. (See www.rottenacorn.com)
Back to our current mess... ACORN recognized the opportunity presented by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. With "affirmative action" lending, they pressured banks to make subprime loans. That means they were forced to give loans to people that could not pay them back. Madeline Talbott, a Chicago ACORN leader, boasted of "dragging banks kicking and screaming" into dubious loans.
Talbott hired Barack Obama to train her staff - the very people who would later descend on Chicago's banks as shakedown artists. Obama later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat with William Ayers, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge whose successful grant application was written in 1993 by William Ayers.
Ayers cofounded the violent radical left organization Weatherman. He and his group participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and The Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet at his house during Obama's first Illinois state Senate campaign in 1995, and donated to Obama's campaign in April 2001.
I could spend weeks writing about this stuff. Yet the most troubling aspect of this is with the world economy on the brink and real people in danger, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN. It has been stripped out of the Senate bill, but we must watch closely as the House takes up the matter. It would not surprise me if Pelosi & Company stick a funding provision for ACORN in again. Don't let that happen! There is much too much at stake.
What gall Pelosi has to step before the TV cameras to declare that "the party is over" for Wall Street. All while seeking to fund (with your tax money) the fools that brought us to this pass.
The fact is not everyone can afford a home. Not everyone wants a job or is even educated enough to hold to one. I'm all for helping people to get back on their feet when they get knocked down, however, I not in favor of rubbing their feet, paying for their home, food, children, beer & weed.
Even a acorn will turn into a tree in the right environment, but these people are just plain nuts.
As the house was burning, some stood dusting the furniture as Democrats in Congress managed to find time to slip language into the bailout legislation that would provide a dandy little slush fund for ACORN.
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a busy hive of left-wing agitation and "direct action" that claims chapters in 50 cities and 100,000 dues-paying members.
ACORN really is a cesspool of 1960s leftovers who couldn't get a real job anywhere. But why would anyone even think of including these folks in on any deal like this? The attempted gift to ACORN (stripped out of the bill after outraged from Republicans) demonstrates how little Democrats understand about what and who caused the mess we are in.
All that "community organizing" you hear attached to Barak Obama was done through ACORN. That organizing included pushing for higher minimum wages, attempts to thwart school reform, attempts to unionize welfare workers (i.e., those welfare recipients obliged to work in exchange for benefits) and organization of voter registration efforts (always for Democrats of course).
In 2006, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in Washington state. The only trouble was, with the exception of six, (YES 6!) all the names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it the "worst case of election fraud in our state's history."
ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms. (I guess that helps with making up creative names. How about Mary Wanna 123 Ganja St.)
Similar stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Colorado - all swing states by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a number of states. (See www.rottenacorn.com)
Back to our current mess... ACORN recognized the opportunity presented by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. With "affirmative action" lending, they pressured banks to make subprime loans. That means they were forced to give loans to people that could not pay them back. Madeline Talbott, a Chicago ACORN leader, boasted of "dragging banks kicking and screaming" into dubious loans.
Talbott hired Barack Obama to train her staff - the very people who would later descend on Chicago's banks as shakedown artists. Obama later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat with William Ayers, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge whose successful grant application was written in 1993 by William Ayers.
Ayers cofounded the violent radical left organization Weatherman. He and his group participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and The Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet at his house during Obama's first Illinois state Senate campaign in 1995, and donated to Obama's campaign in April 2001.
I could spend weeks writing about this stuff. Yet the most troubling aspect of this is with the world economy on the brink and real people in danger, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN. It has been stripped out of the Senate bill, but we must watch closely as the House takes up the matter. It would not surprise me if Pelosi & Company stick a funding provision for ACORN in again. Don't let that happen! There is much too much at stake.
What gall Pelosi has to step before the TV cameras to declare that "the party is over" for Wall Street. All while seeking to fund (with your tax money) the fools that brought us to this pass.
The fact is not everyone can afford a home. Not everyone wants a job or is even educated enough to hold to one. I'm all for helping people to get back on their feet when they get knocked down, however, I not in favor of rubbing their feet, paying for their home, food, children, beer & weed.
Even a acorn will turn into a tree in the right environment, but these people are just plain nuts.
$12.8 billion turnpike lease offer expires, as do Rendell's options
A group led by a Spanish toll road operator on Tuesday dropped its $12.8 billion offer to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike, rather than extend it and push for a legislative deal. Read More
Bidens owe $1 million in hedge fund deal
Here is what you don't hear in the media:
Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden owe $1 million to SimmonsCooper law firm of East Alton from a hedge fund buyout that fell apart in 2006.
SimmonsCooper attorneys have contributed hundreds of thousands to campaigns of Senator Biden, his other son Beau Biden, and John Markell, current candidate for governor, while turning Delaware into a national magnet for asbestos lawsuits.
In 2005 and 2006, SimmonsCooper contributed at least $114,250 to Delaware Sen. Joe Biden's campaign for a seventh term. Biden's former presidential bid received at least $46,450 from SimmonsCooper last year.SimmonsCooper contributed at least $34,800 to Biden's son, Beau Biden, in his successful campaign for Delaware attorney general in 2006.
The firm where Beau Biden worked -- Bifferato, Gentilotti, Biden & Balick -- has filed asbestos suits in New Castle County Court in Wilmington for SimmonsCooper, representing plaintiffs from all over the nation.
In 2005, SimmonsCooper shifted its focus away from Madison County, Illinois, after Chief Judge Edward Ferguson transferred the mammoth asbestos docket from Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron to Circuit Judge Daniel Stack.The firm targeted Delaware because many businesses incorporate there and the firm's roster of defendants always includes Delaware corporations.
But no one at SimmonsCooper held a Delaware law license, so Beau Biden's firm filed the suits and SimmonsCooper identified itself as, "of counsel."Beau Biden even dropped a client he had defended against asbestos claims in order to accommodate SimmonsCooper. At the same time, Sen. Biden obstructed reform of asbestos litigation on the Senate Judiciary Committee!
On New Year's Eve 2005, SimmonsCooper attorneys, staff and spouses contributed at least $52,250 to Biden's campaign for a seventh Senate term.In the following five weeks the firm contributed at least $56,100.Campaign reports don't allow full accounting from any source because contributors ignore employment information requests or many channel cash through others.While SimmonsCooper backed Joe Biden's reelection, he prepared to run for president.Hunter Biden meanwhile earned his living as a lobbyist.
According to court records filed by Lotito, Joe Biden wanted Hunter Biden to find a different line of work because he couldn't afford to run for president as father of a lobbyist.Lotito claims he and James Biden discussed Hunter Biden's job prospects.Lotito met James Biden in 2002 and they invested together in 2005, according to Lotito.
Everyone agreed that the Bidens and Lotito would form a corporation to buy 54 percent of Paradigm for $21.3 million in cash.They would install Hunter Biden as chief executive officer at a salary of $1.2 million.
Lotito sued the Bidens in January 2007, alleging fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
In the hedge fund case, Hunter Biden and James Biden seek to shift their debt to former partner Joseph Lotito through counterclaims in a fraud suit he filed against them.
SimmonsCooper committed $2 million but withheld the second million after seeing how Lotito wasted the first million, according to Hunter Biden and James Biden.
Although the dispute hinges on the SimmonsCooper investment, neither side has alleged that Lotito knew or didn't know that SimmonsCooper would invest.
While SimmonsCooper leader John Simmons continues litigating in Delaware through the Bifferato firm, he faces charges that one of his companies, YTB International, operated a nationwide pyramid scheme. Simmons, principal owner of YTB International, resigned from its board Sept. 3.
Couric: 'Palin Makes No Apologies for Her Pro-Life Views'
(From News Busters) It was the kind of liberal media bias that is perhaps the most telling of all. The unconscious sort, revealing a Main Stream Media's world view. On today's Early Show, introducing the portion of her interview with Sarah Palin dealing with abortion, Katie Couric states: "Palin says she makes no apologies for her pro-life views."
Can you ever imagine Couric introducing an interview with a Dem and saying "so-and-so makes no apologies for his pro-choice views"? In Couric's circles, support for abortion rights in this default position, the view that all right-thinking people hold. No apologies necessary.
But being "pro-life"? That's the kind of thing any cultured person should really consider apologizing for. If Palin won't, so be it: but she better not expect to be invited to the better parties on the Vineyard this summer. Read more..
Can you ever imagine Couric introducing an interview with a Dem and saying "so-and-so makes no apologies for his pro-choice views"? In Couric's circles, support for abortion rights in this default position, the view that all right-thinking people hold. No apologies necessary.
But being "pro-life"? That's the kind of thing any cultured person should really consider apologizing for. If Palin won't, so be it: but she better not expect to be invited to the better parties on the Vineyard this summer. Read more..
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