Archive for August, 2011

Major FasTracks grant to be announced today

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

(Image: RTD)

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administration Administrator Peter Rogoff are in Arvada today to announce a major funding agreement for the RTD FasTracks lines to Denver International Airport and to Arvada and Wheat Ridge.

The grant is expected to be in the range of billion, as first reported in The Colorado Independent in July. Also attending the ceremony will be Gov. John Hickenlooper, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, Congressman Ed Perlmutter, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and various RTD and city and county representatives.

“It’s estimated that every invested in transit infrastructure translates into a return on investment in the local economy over a 20-year period. That’s an investment we all benefit from for years to come. Rebuilding and expanding America’s transportation infrastructure is a key element to our nation’s economic recovery. And with this unique long-term public-private partnership, the Denver region will continue to lead the nation with innovative and outside-the-box solutions to meet our transportation needs,” Perlmutter said in a prepared statement.

The grant is expected to be the largest transit grant yet awarded by the Obama administration. Festivities in Olde Town Arvada will begin at around 2:30.

The Colorado Independent

Myers Briggs Personality Type and Political Affiliation

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

We’ve all come across people who just seem incapable of modifying their perspective based on new data being presented. Most of us still mouth the words that additional education (or indoctrination/propaganda as is often the case) is what is needed since surely this person will turn around if his/her consciousness is sufficiently expanded with additional [...]
Best News & Politics

Government To Blacklist Websites

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

This is something that’s really been bothering me.  One great thing about the interent is the freedom to put whatever we want online.  It’s like the holly grail of free speech.  Not many people know this but there are plans in congress to start an internet blacklist.  What does this mean?  If they don’t like [...]
Best News & Politics

E-mail Marketing- Can it be precisely what it’s chipped up to end up being? Expert Evaluation

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Review learned that 58.5% associated with business professionals had been planning to improve their investment in e mail, while merely Five.7% planned to scale back.
As outlined by research carried out with the Electronic mail Knowledge Local authority or council, simply 9% involving key trusted online retailers use a one-click unsubscribe process (nearly all require at least about three!).
89% involving stores cited email is easily the most pointed out profitable technique all round in accordance with Forrester Analysis
In line with the E-mail Experience Local authority or council, employing a specialist firm and/or their particular equipment usually helps you to enhance result charges up to around 87%.
75% regarding everyday social websites consumers stated email is the best method for companies to talk with them, in comparison with 65% coming from all email customers in accordance with a report by MarketingSherpa (2010)
The actual Radicati Team Corporation. reported which an average of corporate personnel devote 1 / 4 of these of the work day on a variety of email-related duties. In comparison, time spent in personal group meetings accounted for 14% through the day and make contact with chats filled just 9% from the common workday.

Our favorite e-mail supplier can be Campaginer, we also have a couple of campaigner coupons quit!

Nurses To Converge on 60 Congressional Offices, Calling for New Tax on Wall Street

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

A national nurses' union plans this week to pressure lawmakers to support a new tax on Wall St. speculation.

From Maine to California, nurses, joined by others angry over the ongoing economic crisis, will call on members of Congress in their local district offices on Thursday to support a tax on Wall Street financial speculation to pay to, in their words, “heal the nation.”

The nurses — members of the National Nurses United (NNU) labor union — will visit the home offices of Republicans and Democrats, with a common message: Everyday Americans are hurting, and they need jobs, healthcare, housing, quality education, nutrition, and a secure retirement, not more cuts, as has been the recent obsession of Congress.

Among the lawmakers nurses want to meet with are members of the leadership of Capitol Hill, including House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

The meetings with lawmakers will be joined with other events, from soup kitchens to help feed the hungry and homeless, to community speak outs to street theater are planned in major urban centers like Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Orlando, to smaller cities and towns, such as Corpus Christi, Texas; Marquette, Mich.; Bakersfield, Calif.; Dayton, Ohio; and Worcester, Mass.

The nurses will call on Congress members to sign a pledge to “support a Wall Street transaction tax that will raise sufficient revenue to make Wall Street pay for the devastation it has caused on Main Street.” The visits follow a letter sent by certified mail to all 535 members of the House and Senate last week asking them to back the pledge and help “make the promise of the American dream…a reality,” according to a statement from the union.

A tax on Wall Street trading of stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies, credit default swaps, and futures –- the speculative activity linked to the 2008 financial meltdown and resulting recession –- could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for the programs that “are desperately needed to reduce the pain and suffering felt by so many families who feel abandoned in communities across this nation,” says NNU Co-President Deborah Burger.

NNU, which says it is the nation’s largest union and professional association of nurses, has sponsored other protests in recent months, including in Washington, outside the headquarters of the powerful pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and in New York City, across from the Stock Exchange, to advance its campaign.

“America’s nurses see every day the broad declines in health and living standards that are a direct result of patients and families struggling with lack of jobs, un-payable medical bills, hunger, and homelessness. We know where to find the resources to bring them hope and real solutions,” says NNU Co-president Karen Higgins.

 

Scott Nance is the editor and publisher of the news site The Washington Current. He has covered Congress and the federal government for more than a decade.

The Democratic Daily

Will America Survive Obama?

Monday, August 29th, 2011

 

WILL AMERICA SURVIVE OBAMA?

By Frances Rice

A war is being waged against America by our own president, Barack Obama.  The question is whether our country will survive Obama’s socialist wrecking ball being rammed against our nation’s economic house.  We must wait until the 2012 election to determine who will be victorious—Obama and his fellow liberal Democrats who are seeking to destroy America with their failed socialist agenda, or fiscally conservative Republicans who are fighting to save our country.

In electing Obama to be our president in 2008, most Americans decided to ignore his Socialist/Marxist leanings and vote for him because he is black; thus, sacrifice our country on the altar of Affirmative Action.  Now Obama is on a fast track to imposing government supremacy over the people, countering our nation’s founding principle where our Constitution made the government subordinate to the people.

Will the majority of Americans now vote to re-elect Obama in 2012 while ignoring how he is doggedly clinging to his well-publicized failed economic policies?   Every time Obama speaks, he offers more of the same—a socialist agenda that’s anchored on pure absurdity, the ludicrous notion that more spending on an expanding government propped up by a declining or, at best, stagnant private sector will somehow magically produce robust job growth and economic prosperity.

Most Americans voted in 2008 while wearing skin-colored glasses and, in a little over a year, we will see if the majority of Americans have opened their eyes and now see Obama in the same light as does Mychal Massie who described Obama as a congenital liar in his article “Nero in the White House” that can be found on the Internet by clicking on the below title.

Frances Rice is a lawyer, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She may be contacted on the Internet at:  www.NBRA.info


_______________________________

Nero in the White House
By Mychal Massie

Three significant historical events have been eclipsed by Obama: 1) Jimmy Carter will no longer be looked upon as the worst president in American history; 2) Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton will no longer be recognized as the greatest liars in presidential history; 3) Clinton’s stain on Monica’s dress, and what that did to the White House in general and the office of the president specifically, will forever pale in comparison to the stain and stench of Obama.

I need not spend much time on the failure of Obama as president. His tenure has been a failure on every measurable level. So much so, in fact, that some of the staunchest, most respected liberal Democrats and Democratic supporters have not only openly criticized him – some even more harshly than this essayist – but they have called for him to step down.

Richard Nixon’s words "I am not a crook," punctuated with his involvement in Watergate, and Bill Clinton’s finger-wagging as he told one of the most pathetic lies in presidential history, in the aftermath of Obama, will be viewed as mere prevarications.

Mr. Nixon and Clinton lied to save their backsides. Although, I would argue there are no plausible explanations for doing what they did, I could entertain arguments pursuant to understanding their rationales for lying. But in the case of Obama, he lies because he is a liar. He doesn’t only lie to cover his misdeeds – he lies to get his way. He lies to belittle others and to make himself look presentable at their expense. He lies about his faith, his associations, his mother, his father and his wife. He lies and bullies to keep his background secret. His lying is congenital and compounded by socio-psychological factors of his life.

Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

As the stock markets were crashing, taking with them the remaining life savings of untold tens of thousands, Obama was hosting his own birthday celebration, which was an event of epicurean splendidness. The shamelessness of the event was that it was not a state dinner to welcome foreign dignitaries, nor was it to honor an American accomplishment – it was to honor the Pharaoh, Barack Hussein Obama. The event’s sole purpose was for the Pharaoh to have his loyal subjects swill wine, indulge in gluttony and behavior unfit to take place on the property of taxpayers, as they suffer. It was of a magnitude comparable to that of Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski’s million birthday extravaganza for its pure lack of respect for the people.

Permit me to digress momentarily. The U.S. Capitol and the White House were built with the intent of bringing awe and respect to America and her people. They were also built with the intent of being the greatest of equalizers. I can tell you, having personally been to both, there is a moment of awe and humility associated with being in the presence of the history of those buildings. They are to be honored and inscribed into our national psyche, not treated as a Saturday night house party at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green.

The people of America own that home Obama and his wife continue to debase with their pan-ghetto behavior. It is clear that Obama and family view themselves as royalty, but they’re not. They are employees of "we the people," who are suffering because of his failed policies. What message does this behavior send to those who today are suffering as never before?

What message does it send to all Americans who are struggling? Has anyone stopped to think what the stock market downturn forebodes for those 80 million baby boomers who will be retiring in the next period of years? Is there a snowball’s chance in the Sahara that every news program on the air would applaud this behavior if it were George W. Bush? To that point, do you remember the media thrashing Bush took for having a barbecue at the White House?

Like Nero – who was only slightly less debaucherous than Caligula – with wine on his lips Obama treated "we the people" the way Caligula treated those over whom he lorded.

Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.

Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C. He was recognized as the 2008 Conservative Man of the Year by the Conservative Party of Suffolk County, N.Y. He is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30 years, Massie can be followed at mychal-massie.com 

 

© National Black Republican Association, 2011. All Rights Reserved.

 

BLACK REPUBLICAN: National Black Republican Association E-News

Who’s making the cut?

Monday, August 29th, 2011

If teams haven’t done so already, tomorrow is the deadline for the NFL’s first mandated roster cuts. Clubs will…

Home – BostonHerald.com

Democratic Party News – The Left’s Sexual Abuse Of Children.

Monday, August 29th, 2011

progressive-liberal-socialist-sexual-abuse-of-children.jpg 

Years ago there was an incendiary article in our local free newspaper. It was called, Berkeley’s Dirty Little Secret.

The article exposed an unseemly aspect of the 60’s, one that isn’t touted in the flattering history books. The dirty little secret was the widespread sexual abuse of children.

While parents were ingesting copious amounts of drugs, while they were off picketing and protesting, there was no one to look after the children. With communal living, the newest roommate took advantage of all that freedom by preying on the little ones. And with the nuclear family an oppressive relic of the past, sketchy lovers and others had easy access to the kids.

With the 60’s over, have the progressives given up their corruption of the innocent? No; they are just sneakier about it. They camouflage abuse with lofty concepts, such as “diversity ” and “social justice.”

The left is a shapeshifter movement; like a chameleon, the radicals change their appearance to adapt to the times. The left has morphed into many different life forms since its roots in Marx.

In the 60‘s, the progressives were in-your-face revolutionaries. They were the Black Panthers carrying machine guns and donning military fatigues; they were the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Weather Underground and their bloody trail of destruction.

When the radicals grew up, many of them infiltrated the universities, schools, media, and government. Even the churches and the synagogues have not been immune. In fact, the leftists have wormed their way into every aspect of society.

Now the Bill Ayers and the Van Joneses of the world masquerade as men of impeccable character. Ayers, domestic terrorist and mad bomber, has metamorphosed into Dr. Ayers, tenured Professor in Education.

Ayers was smart enough to know what every totalitarian regime understands: to control the populace, focus on the children. This is why the SS mandated that children over 10 must join the Hitler Youth.

Rather than directly recruit children as foot soldiers, the left does something more insidious: the left poisons children’s minds through, for instance, the garbage in the media. But while kids can turn off the boob tube, there’s nothing that they or their parents can do when the public schools turn into instruments of corruption. Exhibit A: “sex education.”

In today’s public schools, kids are inundated with sexual material. We’re not talking sex education here, but sex saturation.  

The debasement of children’s minds through sex education was concocted about a hundred years ago by Germany’s Frankfurt School. The socialists launched a cultural revolution to corrupt the West so badly that it would “stink,” in their words. Some of their methods would be destroying the family, stripping parents of power, and forcing sex education into the schools.

Sex education has mutated from, in my day, animated films of sperms swimming toward eggs to an outright violation of children’s innocence. Nine-year-olds learn to put condoms on bananas; middle school children squirm at talks about sex change operations. By high school, free condoms are in plentiful supply.

The federal government and progressive states, such as California, are big cheerleaders for children becoming sexual junkies. The One-World loving UN has chimed in with proclamations declaring children’s “right” to masturbation. And the deluded dupes running today’s public schools follow in lockstep.

The sexual immersion in today’s public schools doesn’t just stimulate kids to experiment with the opposite sex; it cajoles them to consider a gay or bi or polyamorous lifestyle. 

Being gay appears more and more appealing as schools hold assemblies where gay teachers and teens offer guidance and support. And all of those special services and attention cast a magnetic spell on some children hungry for a sense of identity and belonging.

There’s actually a word for what schools are doing; it’s a form of recruitment called “queering.” This term became widely known after Obama appointed Kevin Jennings as his School Czar. Jennings became notorious in Massachusetts for his “queering” of teens through instructing them on hard-core practices such as fisting and water sports.

But the news gets worse. The latest craze (and I do mean craze) is teaching “gender diversity” to children as young as five. Gender diversity means that since gender is socially constructed, children are free to change their gender whenever the spirit moves them.

Close to home, an Oakland public elementary school recently held a two-day training on gender diversity. Kindergarten through first grade kids explored the question, “Boy, girl or both?” while perusing the picture book, “My Princess Boy.” 

Second and third graders were informed that gender diversity was natural; that it appears throughout nature and in the animal kingdom. The fourth and fifth graders were treated to the song, “All I want to be is me,” while being told that they “can be a boy, a girl, both or neither.” And lest you think this type of brainwashing only happens in Berkeley and Oakland, there are national organizations working hard to bring this to a classroom near you. 

The progressives, of course, don’t publicize such training as queering or gender bending. In classic doublespeak, they cloak the programs in noble terms, such as “safety training,” and “anti-bullying.” (Thus, Kevin Jennings’ position in the Obama Administration has been carefully crafted as “The Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.”)

But while the training is supposedly about safety, the issues quickly become focused on sexual minorities. There’s no help for the Christian child bullied for his beliefs, or the abstinent teen teased mercilessly for waiting until marriage.

Somehow the safety issues always return to the gay, bi, or trans youth. Perhaps this is a way to control and intimidate the sexual majority; certainly, it forces more sex talk into the curriculum.

Regardless of how the left spins it, children being forced to listen to one uncomfortable, repellant sex talk after another, is not safety. It’s also not education. It’s actually a state-sanctioned form of child abuse.

This is another of the left’s dirty little secrets: the ease in which they will use and abuse children for their radical agenda. Back in the 60‘s, the secret was the molestation of kids in places like Berkeley. Today, it’s the widespread exploitation of children in the public schools.

Sexual misconduct isn’t just creepy Uncle Henry touching and exhibiting. Abuse exists on a continuum from exposing a child to inappropriate sexual materials and asking sexually intrusive questions, all the way to incest and rape.

Notice the disturbing parallels between the creepy uncle and today’s schools. Uncle Henry may force a child to look at pornography; how is this any different in a child’s mind than the child being required to sit through sexual talks and films, beginning in elementary schools?

The demented relative will tutor the child that sex is pleasurable; that he’s doing this for her own good. Note the similarity to teachers advising kids that it’s okay, even desirable, to have sex with whomever; that kids, in fact, have a “right” to it.

Abuse often happens in secret, with the predator twisting and contorting his true intent. Notice the parallel to teachers introducing shocking and confusing sexual information to children, unbeknownst to parents.

Of course, the left has worked overtime to make sure parents are left out of the picture. Liberal courts have determined that parents don’t need to be notified or consenting for sex talk. In schools today, parents have little or no say in what their children are exposed to. 

Teachers force-feeding kids a steady diet of sexual information confuses and corrupts them. At least when it comes to the creepy uncle, most kids know, on some level, that what the relative is doing is wrong. 

But teachers are in positions of authority; they are guardians of the public trust. Schools violate this trust and abuse their power by using it to brainwash kids. And this is how brainwashing works: forcing a person to remain in a disturbing situation where propaganda is repeated over and over again, until finally the victim becomes desensitized and compliant.

By focusing on the youth, the left creates the perfect victim. Sexually abused children may lose their ability to say no – or even to recognize when it’s appropriate to say no. Exposing them to sex at an early age plants permanent images in their brains, ones that stimulate them to become hooked on thrills, sexual and otherwise.

The sexualization of school children isn’t simply a difference of opinion between the right and the left. It’s a difference between right and wrong.

Teaching school children to become hooked on pleasure; coaxing them to try sexual practices that may sicken, even kill them; giving them license to change their genders. . . Is there a person in their right mind who can’t see that this isn’t just inappropriate; it is downright evil? 

Those in charge of the sexualization of children are our postmodern Frankensteins; they have engineered mad plans to steal the bodies and souls of our children.

Why? For so many reasons: cultural Marxism; social control; desensitization. . . maybe even because the same was done to them when they were too young to object; maybe, shorn of strong arms to guard and guide them, they were victims of abuse and neglect in those communes and broken families so long ago.

And this is the final legacy of the abused child: that he can use his pain to help others. He can become a beacon of light to people in darkness.

Or he can do the opposite: he can become darkness itself; he can grow up to be a monster. And in today’s progressive classroom, under the pretense of justice and fairness, he can do monstrous things to others.

Written by Robin of Berkeley.

Democratic Party News – The News of the Democratic Party.

TNDP Chair Chip Forrester’s Statement on the Passing of Justice A.A. Birch, Jr.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester issued the following statement Friday after hearing of the death of A.A. Birch, Jr., the Tennessee Supreme Court’s first African American chief justice:

“With the passing of Supreme Court Justice A.A. Birch, Tennessee’s judiciary has lost a clear and vibrant voice for those least able to speak for themselves. Over my years, I have witnessed a jurist who understood the role of protecting the least among us and was a passionate defender of civil rights and open government. That loss will be greatly felt going forward. Justice Birch always had a warm comment for me and his wry sense of humor was welcoming. He never was shy about speaking his mind and he did so with clarity and force—something other jurists often lack.”

TN Democratic Party News

Democratic Party News – America’s Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

dangerous-cities.jpg 

Here are America’s Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors:

1. Flint, Michigan
Dayne Walling, Democrat, term 2007- present.

2. Detroit, Michigan
Dave Bing, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

3. Saint Louis, Mo.
Francis G. Slay, Democrat, term 2001 – present.

4. New Haven, Ct.
John DeStefano, Democrat, term 1994- present.

5. Memphis, TN.
AC Wharton, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

6. Oakland, CA.
Jean Quan, Democrat term 2011- present.

7. Little Rock, Ark.
Mark Stodola, Democrat, term 2007 – present.

8. Baltimore, Md.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Democrat,  term  2010 – present.

9. Rockford, Illinois
Lawrence Morrisey, Independent term 2005 – present.

10. Stockton, CA.
Ann Johnston, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

Anyone see a patteren here?

Democratic Party News – The News of the Democratic Party.