Despite Federal Funding Ban, ACORN To Receive Four Billion Dollar Earmark

Barack Obama  hasn’t forgotten his old friends at ACORN.

In spite of President Obama’s pledge to freeze discretionary spending and reduce earmarks, ACORN stands to receive nearly four billion dollars in President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget.

The money will come through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The embezzllement-prone organization will receive the funding in spite Congress last year passing a ban on federal monies being given to Acorn or any of it’s affiliated groups.

As I understand it, HUD doles out “block grants” to assist with community development needs.

Now before we go any further, let me try to put into perspective just how much a bliion dollars is, and keep in mind that ACORN stands to receive 4 billion:

If you spent one dollar every second of every hour of every day, to spend a billion dollars it would take you:
Thirty One Years
Two Hundred And Fifty Nine Days
One Hour
Forty Six Minutes
Fourty Seconds

So how will ACORN, an organization with a history of fraud, spend all of that money?

Well, some of it will surely go to pay staffers to offer advice on how to set up a child prostitution ring, as is shown in this clip from the Glenn Beck program:

Some of it might be spent on bribing members of the mainstream media.
Why do I think that may happen?
Watch the reaction of the MSM when the hidden camera interview of an ACORN staffer first broke:

They found one office where the people were stupid enough to give them this kind of silly advice.”
“It sounds to me like that’s just entrapment.”

“It’s entrapment.”
“They went to four offices and one took the bait.”

Someone must be bribing the members of the mainstream media!

It doesn’t matter if these people went to four offices or four hundred!

The bottom line remains that ACORN staffers advised someone on how to set up a child prostitution ring!!

Yet all that these pinheads are concerned about is that the people at ACORN might have been victims of entrapment.

The entrapment of children into becoming sex slaves they didn’t see fit to mention.

They might use some of the cash to influence the outcome of an election.

Some folks have asked did ACORN elect Al Franken?

So when they aren’t rigging elections, bribing the mainstream media, or offering advice on how to set up a child prostitution ring, how do these folks at ACORN spend their time?

Well, last April, I wrote an article in which I pointed out that with the help of the biggest group of supporters of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and the organization that continues to travel across America promoting President Obama’s policies, Organizing For America, may be working hand-in-hand with ACORN to have their members infiltrate Tea Party events

With all of this going on, you would think that an article in a major newspaper about ACORN sowing the seeds of their own destruction would have put an end to them receiving any federal earmarks, however it appears that report was a bit premature.

So how is it that the folks at ACORN aren’t in jail, let alone receiving 4 billion of our tax dollars?

Well, first of all, the bully tactics of the White House work to silence anyone who attempts to investigate the group.

Anyone who has any doubt about President Obama’s previous ties to ACORN can take a look at this timeline and see that Obama’s twisted ACORN roots go back a long way.

Yet in spite of all of this, ACORN is in line for a four billion dollar federal earmark.

It pays to have friends in high places.

Especially the White House.

 

To read the federal court documents ACORN filed against whistleblower Anita MonCrief, click here.

For former ACORN member Anita MonCrief’s inside look at ACORN fraud, click here.

The DNC Puts A $24,000 Bounty On Glenn Beck And The “Tea Baggers”

A few months back, I attended a dinner where Karl Rove was the featured speaker.
During his remarks, Mr. Rove stated his belief that those of us on the right should always try to have reasonable and cordial discussions on the issues separating liberals and conservatives.
Shortly afterwards, I wrote an article outlining the reasons why I disagreed with him.  (You can read it here.)

My main point was that how can conservatives “play nice” when liberals will stoop to any level to further their agenda?
And after this latest sleazy tactic from the left, I’m thinking that maybe it’s time we conservatives starting playing by the liberal’s rules.

Help-wanted ads are appearing on Craigslist that offer to pay citizens $24,000 a year, plus health insurance, to “counter the hysteria and lies of Glenn Beck and other talking heads” and “stop the tea-baggers!”

The ads are being posted by Grassroots Campaigns, a canvassing group that has performed services for the Democratic National Committee and MoveOn.org. Its postings can be found among Craiglist listings in Chicago, Ill.; San Francisco, Calif.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Penn. and Austin, Texas.

“Whose agenda will win in 2010?” the ad asks. “You decide.”

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University University Professor Takes On Glenn Beck…And Loses

You’ll have to read a bit of the article before reaching the part where I point out the glaring fact that Clemson University professor Steven Marks has no idea of what the hell he is talking about.

Glenn Beck Should Ask This Question: Is ACORN Bribing The Mainstream Media?

Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is certainly no stranger to controversy.

Eyebrows were raised when he left CNN, which really wasn’t a good fit for him, and joined Fox.

And his relentless style of reporting has caused quite an uproar.

He recently created a firestorm when he brought to light the background of Van Jones, which led to Jones resigning his post as President Obama’s “green jobs” czar.

And now he is at it again.

His latest investigation is once again focused on the widespread corruption at ACORN.

First, take a look at the following video clip.

You will see how a young woman posing as a prostitute receives advice from ACORN on how to set up a child slavery ring, and how to avoid paying taxes to the IRS.

The second video will showcase how the MSM must be on the ACORN payroll.

Here is the clip from the Glenn Beck show:

Now, how does one reach the conclusion that ACORN is paying off the MSM?
Watch:

“They found one office where the people were stupid enough to give them this kind of silly advice.”
“It sounds to me like that’s just entrapment.”

“It’s entrapment.”
“They went to four offices and one took the bait.”

Someone must be bribing the members of the mainstream media!

It doesn’t matter if these people went to four offices or four hundred!

The bottom line remains that ACORN staffers advised someone on how to set up a child prostitution ring!!

Yet all that you pinheads are concerned about is that the people at ACORN might have been victims of entrapment.

The entrapment of children into becoming sex slaves you don’t see fit to mention.

How do you men shave every morning?

Because if I were more concerned with making Glenn Beck and conservatives in general look bad than I was about ACORN members giving out this sort of advice, I’ll be damned if I would be able to look at myself in a mirror.

9-12 March On Washington Recap

Yesterday’s demonstration in Washington D.C. was a thunderous statement to “the powers that be” (as John Conyers calls them) that the people are not happy with the way the country is being run since Democrats took over power in 2006.

As much as the pundits and government-run media outlets try to downplay or propagandize what happened yesterday, they just will not be able to keep the citizen patriots quite or discourage them. And President Obama better be paying attention because the people who marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on September 12th represent the majority of this country. A majority who has decided it will be silent no longer.

I was fortunate enough to travel to D.C. yesterday on one of the buses that the local Tea Party organization put together yesterday for the march. Yes, I had to pay my own way to get on the bus as did everyone else. Dick Armey didn’t pick up the bill for any of us. It was an unforgettable experience and I am so proud to have been part of it. The people I talked and marched with were regular folks, many of whom have never been politically active before in their lives, but who just could not stand allowing the government to shove their policies down our throats without being heard.

There were people of all ages, races, and political backgrounds at the event which was entirely peaceful and orderly. I saw no signs of Obama as Hitler and I did not feel that the tone of the demonstration was angry, although the folks were angry at their representatives who are not listening to them. So the Associated Press’s report of the event is pretty flawed and most likely was just made up by someone who didn’t even attend.

Here are some pictures I took while in D.C. yesterday:

My favorite part of the march was when people started chanting “You lie, You lie!” showing solidarity to Rep. Joe Wilson who called President Obama out during his speech before Congress last Wednesday.

There was a HUGE biker contingency there. Gotta love having the bikers on our side.

The main topics of discussion yesterday were obviously government-run health care and “cap and trade”, but perhaps the most discussed topic was how the media would be covering the event, if they covered it at all.

People everywhere were getting reports from family and friends on what the news was reporting and shouting it out so everyone around them could hear. Whenever we heard that the media was saying 10’s of thousands of people were there, it resulted in an outburst of laughter from the crowd. That’s because at any given time during the day there were 10’s of thousands of people in line for the bathroom! There was clearly a momentous crowd of people that showed up.

For those who still don’t believe it, you can see pretty much the entire crowd that showed up in this time lapse video that I found on Michelle Malkin’s blog:

You tell me if that is 60,000 people or millions.

Karl Rove And The Republican Party Have Things All Wrong

A few months back, Salvaterra and I, along with 600 other people, attended a Republican fundraiser where Karl Rove was the featured guest speaker.

Known by many as “The Architect”, Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief Of Staff to George W, Bush.

During the course of his speech, one of the comments that Rove made was that it was fine for Republicans to disagree with their political opponents, but that they should do so in a polite and respectful manner.

That remark made clear to me and a lot of the others in attendance why the Republican party has slipped from it’s former place of prominence in national politics.

With all due respect Mr. Rove, that is a load of crap!

The Republican party, and the majority of conservatives in general, place far too much emphasis on being perceived as the “nice guys.”

In the meantime, no tactic is too underhanded for our opponents.

The smear campaign directed against Sarah Palin is just one example.

Yet the Karl Roves’, the Newt Gingrichs’, and the other leading lights of the conservative movement stil feel that a passionless statement of principles is the key to success.

BULLS**T!!!

It’s about time that someone in the GOP takes notice that the reason the left hates and fears Rush Limbaugh is because he is not afraid to call these people out for the liars that they are!

They are so afraid of this man that there is still a huge movement among liberals to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine” as a means of silencing him.

Limbaugh’s methods are something that the conservative movement needs to work into their agenda.

Now I’m not saying that every leader of the Republican party become clones of Limbaugh.

However, back when Tim Geithner was first being considered for Secretary of the Treasury, I would have loved to have seen him and someone like Glenn Beck appear together on Meet The Press.

And if Beck had gotten up from his chair, gotten in Geithner’s face and demanded that he explain to the American public why a tax cheat should run the Treasury Department, and refused to sit down until he received an answer, the GOP just might have more of an influence on policy than it does today.

Watch the video below as a Congressman from Pennsylvania gives a prime example, not an isolated instance, but a prime example of the depths the Democrats are willing to stoop to:

This is amazing!

The man admits that he and his fellow Democrats lied, phrases it nicely but in effect states that someone would have to be pretty stupid to believe what he said, and then gloats over the fact that people did fall for it!

Congressman, did it ever occur to you that perhaps this tactic worked because families were concerned about the well-being of their loved ones?

If by some chance I ever find myself on a political talk show opposite Congressman Kanjorski, I am going to walk up to him, ask him to face the camera, and explain to the families of the members of the armed force who were killed in action how lying about ending the war was justified in order to win an election.

I have great respect for Karl Rove’s political acumen, but I cannot agree with him on this point.

Being polite to anyone from a political party who thinks that winning an election is more important than the lives of America’s military members is simply asking too much from me.

Penn Jillette: Why I’m a Libertarian Nut Instead of Just a Nut

I don’t speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. I’m not even sure my LP membership card is up to date. I’ve voted Libertarian as long as I can remember but I don’t really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty. When I go on Glenn’s show he calls me a Libertarian, I think that’s my only real credential.

There are historical reasons and pragmatic reasons to be a Libertarian, but there are historic and pragmatic reasons to be a Democrat, a Republican or a Socialist. I don’t know if everyone would… Read the rest of this entry

Glenn Beck On Obama’s First 100 Days

President Barack Obama, the man who promised us change, has been in office for 100 days.

So what changes has he brought about? Well, let’s see:

We are still fighting two wars.

The economy is still in the toilet.

The stock market, 401k’s, etc. are still down.

Millions of people are still out of work.

And we are still giving General Motors billions of taxpayer dollars so that they can continue to build cars that no one wants to buy.
Which is why they needed the bailout money in the first place.

Of course, there are some folks who are still holding out hope.

My buddy Glenn Beck doesn’t appear to be one of them.

History Of The Kyoto Treaty

Yesterday I did a posting in regards to the Kyoto Box, the latest pinhead idea from the global warming fanatics.

You can see the original post here.

And I’ve received a few e-mails asking me why it’s called a “Kyoto” box.

The word Kyoto refers to yet another hairbrained scheme that the climate change alarmists have come up with to save the planet.

As for myself, I can’t help but think that “the planet” would rather that people like Al Gore and his minions would shut up for a few minutes and submit themselves to a reality check.

Watch the video as my friend Glenn Beck explains the history of the Kyoto Treaty. 

Glenn Beck: What America Wants

What is your preference as to the size of the government?

Do you support President Obama?

What are your thoughts regarding the financial future of the United States?

Is it a good or a bad idea to raise taxes during an economic downturn?

Do you trust the government?

Watch the Glenn Beck report, and see how your fellow Americans responded to this survey.