6/29/2012
6/27/2012
6/22/2012
Gay Activists Visiting White House Take Photos of Themselves Flipping Off Reagan Portrait
Really helping their cause...though I would probably do this with a picture of Nancy Pelosi.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gay-activists-visiting-white-house-take-photos-of-themselves-flipping-off-reagan-portrait/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gay-activists-visiting-white-house-take-photos-of-themselves-flipping-off-reagan-portrait/
5/14/2012
5/10/2012
5/08/2012
George Soros gives $ to OWS and DNC
Anyone who claims OWS and the DNC funding is from "grass roots" is completely full of it...
Liberals Steer Outside Money to Grass-Roots Organizing
After months on the sidelines, major liberal donors including the financier George Soros are preparing to inject up to $100 million into independent groups to aid Democrats’ chances this fall. But instead of going head to head with the conservative “super PACs” and outside groups that have flooded the presidential and Congressional campaigns with negative advertising, the donors are focusing on grass-roots organizing, voter registration and Democratic turnout.
The financier George Soros is expected to contribute $1 million each to a rights group and a research “super PAC.”
The departure from the conservatives’ approach, which helped Republicans wrest control of the House in 2010, partly reflects liberal donors’ objections to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which paved the way for super PACs and unbridled campaign spending.
But in interviews, donors and strategists involved in the effort said they also did not believe they could match advertising spending by leading conservative groups like American Crossroads and Americans for Prosperity, and instead wanted to exploit what they see as the Democrats’ advantage in grass-roots organizing.
“Super PACs are critically important,” said Rob Stein, the founder of the Democracy Alliance, a group of liberal donors who will convene near Miami this week to discuss where to steer their money this year. But the liberal groups, he said, believe that local efforts and outreach through social media “can have an enormous impact in battleground states in 2012.”
In a move likely to draw in other major donors, Mr. Soros will contribute $1 million each to America Votes, a group that coordinates political activity for left-leaning environmental, abortion rights and civil rights groups, and American Bridge 21st Century, a super PAC that focuses on election-oriented research. The donations will be Mr. Soros’s first major contributions of the 2012 election cycle.
“George Soros believes the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United opened the floodgates to special interests’ paying for political ads,” said Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Mr. Soros. “There is no way those concerned with the public interest can compete with them. Soros has always focused his political giving on grass-roots organizing and holding conservatives accountable for the flawed policies they promote. His support of these groups is consistent with those views.”
On Monday, in an indication that he does not expect significant advertising spending from Democratic-leaning outside groups at this stage, President Obama unveiled a $25 million ad campaign against Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee.
A super PAC founded by two former Obama aides, Priorities USA Action, has struggled to raise money against better-financed conservative groups like American Crossroads, which expects to spend $300 million on the presidential, House and Senate elections.
Those difficulties stem in part from Mr. Obama’s past opposition to spending by outside groups, which has dampened donor enthusiasm despite his about-face this year. But it also reflects how major liberal donors and independent groups have focused since 2004 on creating a permanent infrastructure of liberal research and voter-outreach groups. That year, liberal groups spent more than $200 million on advertising and grass-roots activity in a failed bid to deprive President George W. Bush of a second term.
Conservative independent groups, including super PACs that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on election ads, dominated the advertising wars in 2010, helping Republicans make major gains in Congress, and their money has had a similar impact so far in this cycle.
“The idea that we’re going to engage in an arms race on advertising with the Republicans is not appealing to many liberal donors,” said David Brock, the founder of American Bridge 21st Century.
The advertising-oriented Democratic super PACs, including Priorities USA and two groups founded to back Democrats in Congress, remain on the list of organizations that the Democracy Alliance recommends to its members. Robert McKay, who is the chairman of the Democracy Alliance and sits on the board of Priorities USA, said the $100 million expected to be spent this year by alliance members would include some money for election ads, but would most likely favor grass-roots organizing and research groups.
“There is a bias towards funding infrastructure as it relates to the elections,” Mr. McKay said. “That means get-out-the-vote efforts” directed toward young voters, single women, black voters and Latinos, he said.
Organizations likely to be a part of the effort include Catalist, which creates voter lists for allied liberal groups; ProgressNow, a network of state-based Web sites for liberal opinion and activism; and the Latino Engagement Fund, a new group that works to register and turn out Latino voters for Democrats. Conservative independent groups are financing similar outreach to Latino voters: the American Action Network, which spent $26 million against Democratic candidates in 2010, last year unveiled the Hispanic Leadership Network, which will seek to mobilize center-right Latino voters.
Liberals outside the Democracy Alliance are also likely to make significant contributions, as are labor unions, which plan to spend up to $400 million on state, local and federal races, and advocacy groups like the Sierra Club.
Some groups will pay for both advertising and organizing. PAC+, a super PAC founded by the San Francisco philanthropist Steve Phillips, a member of the Democracy Alliance, expects to spend about $10 million on Latino voters in six states, with a heavy emphasis on Arizona, which the Obama campaign is seeking to turn into a battleground. Half of PAC+ spending will go to enrollment and half to advertising.
“You can dump 10 or 20 million in TV ads in Ohio and try to reach the persuadable swing voters there, or you can up voter turnout among Latinos in Colorado and Arizona and win that way,” Mr. Phillips said. “It’s much cheaper.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/us/politics/liberals-putting-super-pac-money-into-grass-roots.html?_r=1
5/01/2012
May 1 OWS Summary
Occupiers Self-Identify as Socialists, Revolutionaries
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/30/occupiers-self-identify-as-socialists-revolutionaries
5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/01/5-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-blow-up-ohio-bridge/#ixzz1tcviy8Az
Democrat Endorsed #Occupiers Open May Day Festivities With Mass Rioting and Vandalism in San Francisco (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/democrat-endorsed-occupiers-open-may-day-festivities-with-mass-rioting-and-vandalism-in-san-francisco-video/
Threatening Notes, White Powder Sent to NYC Banks on Eve of May Day Protest
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/threatening-notes-white-powder-sent-to-nyc-banks-on-eve-of-may-day-protest/
Gore to college grads: ‘Occupy Democracy’ bring ‘American Spring’ (video)
http://www.owsexposed.com/2012/05/gore-to-college-grads-occupy-democracy-bring-american-spring-video/
Occupy graffiti vandalizing a historic NY church
http://citizenjournalistdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/occupy-grafitti-vandalizing-a-historic-ny-church/
Protesters Trash Valencia Street Businesses In Early May Day Demonstration
http://sfist.com/2012/05/01/protesters_trash_valencia_street_businesses_mission_police_station_in_early_may_day_demonstration.php
‘Occupy’ returns to New York City [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/01/occupy-returns-to-new-york-city-video/
Occupy Wall Street Has Gathered In Union Square, And The Demonstration Looks HUGE
http://www.businessinsider.com/occupy-wall-street-has-gathered-in-union-square-and-the-demonstration-looks-huge-2012-5
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/30/occupiers-self-identify-as-socialists-revolutionaries
5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/01/5-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-blow-up-ohio-bridge/#ixzz1tcviy8Az
Democrat Endorsed #Occupiers Open May Day Festivities With Mass Rioting and Vandalism in San Francisco (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/democrat-endorsed-occupiers-open-may-day-festivities-with-mass-rioting-and-vandalism-in-san-francisco-video/
Threatening Notes, White Powder Sent to NYC Banks on Eve of May Day Protest
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/threatening-notes-white-powder-sent-to-nyc-banks-on-eve-of-may-day-protest/
Gore to college grads: ‘Occupy Democracy’ bring ‘American Spring’ (video)
http://www.owsexposed.com/2012/05/gore-to-college-grads-occupy-democracy-bring-american-spring-video/
Occupy graffiti vandalizing a historic NY church
http://citizenjournalistdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/occupy-grafitti-vandalizing-a-historic-ny-church/
Protesters Trash Valencia Street Businesses In Early May Day Demonstration
http://sfist.com/2012/05/01/protesters_trash_valencia_street_businesses_mission_police_station_in_early_may_day_demonstration.php
‘Occupy’ returns to New York City [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/01/occupy-returns-to-new-york-city-video/
Occupy Wall Street Has Gathered In Union Square, And The Demonstration Looks HUGE
http://www.businessinsider.com/occupy-wall-street-has-gathered-in-union-square-and-the-demonstration-looks-huge-2012-5
4/30/2012
Occupy Wall Street: Back, But Does Anyone Care?
So true!
Occupy Wall Street: Back, But Does Anyone Care?
Posted By: Jeff Cox | CNBC.com Senior Writer
CNBC.com
| 30 Apr 2012 | 02:13 PM ET
After
spending 2011 near the top of the news headlines, Occupy Wall Street
finds itself in a struggle to regain relevance as a grassroots protest
against corporate greed and Washington corruption.
The
movement hopes to regain some of its mojo Tuesday, when it stages a
nationwide May Day protest and celebration that will focus on a broad
agenda of causes it hopes to push.
But with neither presidential candidate paying
much attention to the OWS faction and the bloody protests in Europe
seemingly quelled for the time being, this is a pivotal moment for the
Occupy movement either to regain its footing, or risk being dismissed as
a non-factor in the national dialogue.
"They
lost relevance a little bit. A lot of people felt like it wasn't going
anywhere," says filmmaker Emil Chiaberi, who wrote, produced and
directed "Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal," a documentary that
explores the motivations — and extremes — of protest movements that
predated Occupy Wall Street or its conservative twin, the tea party.
"This
whole idea of let's just protest the corporate greed — yeah, but what
are you trying to accomplish?" Chiaberi adds. "How are you going to
affect change?"
Primarily, the group hopes to get noticed again simply by getting busy.
Though
Occupiers have held small demonstrations this Spring around the New
York Stock Exchange, Tuesday's May Day effort marks the year's first
coordinated nationwide event.
In New York,
events include a kickoff at 8 am in Bryant Park of a "Pop-Up
Occupation," followed by a Free University in Madison Square Park at 10
am. At 2 pm, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello leads a
march from Bryant Park to Union Square.
Later
in the day, there will be a Solidarity Rally in Union Square at 4,
followed at 5:30 pm by another march "into the heart of corporate
corruption on Wall Street," according to the maydayncy.org Web site.
Similar
events last year drew heavy media coverage but not always huge crowds.
Weekend gatherings tended to be more raucous and well-attended, while
weekday protests, such as the Upper East Side march in front of several Wall Street kingpins' homes, attracted noisy but relatively small crowds.
Occupiers
often complained about how the mainstream media covered their protests,
focusing more on arrests and uproar than the actual message being
conveyed.
A group of alternative media outlets has bonded this year to make sure the OWS message is heard without distortion.
"We
were worried that corporate media tends to focus on arrests, on police
action, on violence, because it makes really great TV," says Jo Ellen
Green Kaiser, a spokeswoman for "Media for the 99 Percent," a group that
has coined a popular OWS motto to demonstrate the type of coverage it
plans. OWS claims it represents the 99 percent of Americans not in the
ruling class.
"We
will be tracking arrests, but our interest is really in understanding
why these protests are happening now and what they're trying to
accomplish," she says. "When you have hundreds of people, maybe
thousands of people, who are volunteering their own time to be a part of
a protest movement, who are willing to camp outside, who are willing to
attend mind-numbing General Assemblies, for hours on end — we want to
understand why people are doing that."
The media group entails indie outlets like Yes! Magazine and AlterNet, as well as more recognizable names like The Nation and Mother Jones.
Kaiser said the outlets are undeterred by the notion that adopting the "99 Percent" moniker might betray a bias of their own.
"The
difference isn't that we're taking a side, the difference is we can
offer more perceptive coverage because we are more interested in the
context," she said. "The one place where we are very sympathetic with
Occupy is, honestly, we feel that we're fighting a battle against
corporate media."
OWS also will face some
other constraints with which it is well familiar — the New York Stock
Exchange is planning stepped-up security, while the city police
department also is prepared to make sure the protesters don't get out of
hand.
More than that, though, the movement
confronts the challenge of making sure its message doesn't get lost.
While the OWS message that Wall Street has damaged the national economy
through reckless greed certainly garners sympathy, OWS often is faulted for offering little alternative.
"No
one even thinks about asking the question as to why every country in
the world protects its banking system," banking analyst Dick Bove of
Rochdale Securities said. "The answer, of course, is because the banking
system holds the key to the health of middle to small business and the
people they employ."
May Day, then, provides both an opportunity and a challenge for OWS to show it still matters.
"Even
if the movement itself is losing relevance, what's relevant are the
feelings, emotions and concepts that brought those people together in
the first place," says Chiaberi, the filmmaker. "If Occupy Wall Street
dissipates or loses relevance, something else inevitably will appear in
its stead. I hope it will morph into something more organized."
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47233587/
4/27/2012
MSNBC at it again
Stupidity masquerading as journalism.
The picture that she is talking about is here:
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/27/msnbc-analyst-compares-jan-brewers-confrontation-with-obama-to-segregation-era-racist-screaming-at-black-kids/
The picture that she is talking about is here:
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/27/msnbc-analyst-compares-jan-brewers-confrontation-with-obama-to-segregation-era-racist-screaming-at-black-kids/
OWS and its liberal democrat assocation
For any idiot who claims that OWS is not aligned with any political party, the association of moveon.org with OWS shows that OWS is lying.
How Occupy Co-Opted MoveOn.org
How Occupy Co-Opted MoveOn.org
The 99% Spring campaign trains gray-haired progressives to ditch their internet petitions and take to the streets.
| Fri Apr. 13, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
If you're one of the millions of people who get emails from MoveOn.org [1],
then you've probably heard of the "99% Spring." Far from another
clickable internet petition, it is possibly the largest attempt ever to
train people in nonviolent protest techniques. Some Occupy types have
criticized the effort as a scheme by Democratic operatives to co-opt their movement [2].
But the reality is probably the opposite: It seems that America's
best-known progressive fundraising organization is now taking its cues
from Occupy Wall Street.
I didn't know what to think of the 99% Spring [3] until I stopped by a three-hour training session—one of more than 900 being held nationwide this week—at a Unitarian church in San Francisco. My presumption was that the 60 or so gray-haired attendees would be interested in supporting Democratic candidates—after all, the event was cosponsored by the Progressive Democrats of San Francisco—but many seemed just as disillusioned with electoral politics as the folks who took over New York City's Zuccotti Park this past fall. "I believed Obama when he said he would change things and he didn't, so I quit the Democratic Party," said one middle-aged MoveOn member who asked that I not use her name. She went on to talk about about how "the deck is stacked" and "voting doesn't work anymore." She'd come to the training looking for a new way to get involved.
I didn't know what to think of the 99% Spring [3] until I stopped by a three-hour training session—one of more than 900 being held nationwide this week—at a Unitarian church in San Francisco. My presumption was that the 60 or so gray-haired attendees would be interested in supporting Democratic candidates—after all, the event was cosponsored by the Progressive Democrats of San Francisco—but many seemed just as disillusioned with electoral politics as the folks who took over New York City's Zuccotti Park this past fall. "I believed Obama when he said he would change things and he didn't, so I quit the Democratic Party," said one middle-aged MoveOn member who asked that I not use her name. She went on to talk about about how "the deck is stacked" and "voting doesn't work anymore." She'd come to the training looking for a new way to get involved.
"It's clear that the sorts of tactics we've
engaged in in the past are no longer enough," Justin Ruben, MoveOn's
Executive Director, wrote in an email to his staff last week, arguing
that the growing corporate influence on policy-making has left the group
little choice but to take to the streets. In a subsequent interview
with Mother Jones, he added, "We know that whoever wins in
November, they are still going to be listening more to the 1 percent
than to the rest of us because our political system is completely
broken. So we don't have the luxury of not engaging in this kind of
action."
David King, a social worker who led the training I attended, told me
he wanted to see MoveOn focus less on electoral politics and more on
Occupy-style activism. "MoveOn needs some co-opting," he said, "because
they got co-opted a few years back."
The session began with a slick video urging trainees to break into small groups and share their personal stories. Then came a condensed history of American social movements, followed by drills on nonviolent protest strategies. At no point did trainers suggest that their students get involved in specific political actions. "It was a really important piece for me that this wasn't trying to funnel people into one campaign and wasn't trying to funnel people into electoral politics," said Sam Corbin, a veteran member of Occupy Wall Street's Direct Action Working Group who agreed to star in the training video. "When they said we want to talk about 'people power' and making people understand and be comfortable with direct action, they meant it. I am really proud to have been part of it."
Over the past six weeks, the 99% Spring has gone from an idea batted
around on lefty email lists to a full-bore collaboration between dozens
of activist groups, who, just like Occupy Wall Street, are loath to
admit that any one of them is leading the effort. In addition to MoveOn,
the coalition includes most of the nation's largest labor unions,
environmental groups like Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network, and
grittier Occupy allies like New Bottom Line and the Working Families
Party. MoveOn contributed some its staff, access to its 7 million
members, and use of its sophisticated web platform, where it will host
online trainings next week.
Since fall, MoveOn has struggled to figure out how to ally itself with the Occupy movement. Though it donated tents and sleeping bags during Occupy's Zuccotti Park phase, the movement's radicals still tend to write off the group as an arm of the Democratic Party. At a December gathering of Occupy groups in DC, a tearful MoveOn council member from Connecticut complained that she'd been getting emails from people in her state "that we are not welcome at the Occupies there."
While tensions remain, the 99% Spring might be a more natural way for MoveOn and similar groups to make friends with Occupy. Ruben says the coalition will eventually connect its trainees with Occupy-friendly actions such as protests at corporate shareholder meetings, defenses of foreclosed homes, and campaigns that encourage people to switch to credit unions over big banks. But it won't recruit them to work on elections, despite what is likely to be a nail-biter presidential race.
Not that MoveOn's participation in the effort will hurt its everyday electoral efforts. Ruben points to the role of Occupy in the GOP primaries, where none other than Newt Gingrich attacked Mitt Romney as a heartless capitalist. "The power of a relatively small group of people to shine a light on these issues that the whole political class would rather ignore just by virtue of their bravery and their moral clarity and willingness to put their bodies on the line—that's always how justice is moved forward in America," he says. "It's on us to figure out how to support it in every way we can."
Of course, MoveOn could have simply directed its members toward their
local Occupy groups, which have been holding direct action trainings
from the start (see "Meet Professor Occupy [4],"
my profile of activist Lisa Fithian), but Ruben felt that the 99%
Spring needed to move beyond Occupy Wall Street if it wanted to train
100,000 people in a couple of weeks time. Aiming large also allowed the
coalition to attract people who might feel uncomfortable sucking tear
gas fumes—like a 72-year-old retired car salesman I met at the San
Francisco training, who showed up to see whether he should "spend my
time volunteering for election stuff, or do this sort of thing."
As the training session wrapped up, the facilitators urged anyone involved in organizing protests to speak up. One attendee referred the crowd to the websites of Occupy Oakland, Occupy San Francisco, and even Occupy Monsanto. May Day—a national day of action that Occupy has planned for May 1—was mentioned repeatedly. There were also rallies in support of postal workers and against Wells Fargo. Nobody said a word about gathering signatures or canvassing for candidates.
"It's fine that we have MoveOn.org and we can press a button and sign a petition, but that isn't going to get the job done," an elderly woman in a red sweater told the crowd. "So we are here. And the real question is: What are we going to do when we leave here tonight? Are we going to stray out of our comfort zones and take some direct action together—or not?"
"MoveOn needs some co-opting," says 99% Spring trainer David King, "because they got co-opted a few years back."
The session began with a slick video urging trainees to break into small groups and share their personal stories. Then came a condensed history of American social movements, followed by drills on nonviolent protest strategies. At no point did trainers suggest that their students get involved in specific political actions. "It was a really important piece for me that this wasn't trying to funnel people into one campaign and wasn't trying to funnel people into electoral politics," said Sam Corbin, a veteran member of Occupy Wall Street's Direct Action Working Group who agreed to star in the training video. "When they said we want to talk about 'people power' and making people understand and be comfortable with direct action, they meant it. I am really proud to have been part of it."
Like their Occupy counterparts, organizers of 99% Spring are loath to admit that anyone is leading the effort.
Since fall, MoveOn has struggled to figure out how to ally itself with the Occupy movement. Though it donated tents and sleeping bags during Occupy's Zuccotti Park phase, the movement's radicals still tend to write off the group as an arm of the Democratic Party. At a December gathering of Occupy groups in DC, a tearful MoveOn council member from Connecticut complained that she'd been getting emails from people in her state "that we are not welcome at the Occupies there."
While tensions remain, the 99% Spring might be a more natural way for MoveOn and similar groups to make friends with Occupy. Ruben says the coalition will eventually connect its trainees with Occupy-friendly actions such as protests at corporate shareholder meetings, defenses of foreclosed homes, and campaigns that encourage people to switch to credit unions over big banks. But it won't recruit them to work on elections, despite what is likely to be a nail-biter presidential race.
Not that MoveOn's participation in the effort will hurt its everyday electoral efforts. Ruben points to the role of Occupy in the GOP primaries, where none other than Newt Gingrich attacked Mitt Romney as a heartless capitalist. "The power of a relatively small group of people to shine a light on these issues that the whole political class would rather ignore just by virtue of their bravery and their moral clarity and willingness to put their bodies on the line—that's always how justice is moved forward in America," he says. "It's on us to figure out how to support it in every way we can."
"Are we going to stray out of our comfort zones and take some direct action together?" coaxed an elderly woman.
As the training session wrapped up, the facilitators urged anyone involved in organizing protests to speak up. One attendee referred the crowd to the websites of Occupy Oakland, Occupy San Francisco, and even Occupy Monsanto. May Day—a national day of action that Occupy has planned for May 1—was mentioned repeatedly. There were also rallies in support of postal workers and against Wells Fargo. Nobody said a word about gathering signatures or canvassing for candidates.
"It's fine that we have MoveOn.org and we can press a button and sign a petition, but that isn't going to get the job done," an elderly woman in a red sweater told the crowd. "So we are here. And the real question is: What are we going to do when we leave here tonight? Are we going to stray out of our comfort zones and take some direct action together—or not?"
4/12/2012
4/05/2012
3/20/2012
Funny poke at liberal hypocracy
RNC Goes For Jugular In New ‘Obama’s War On Women’ Ad
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rnc-goes-for-jugular-in-new-obamas-war-on-women-ad/
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rnc-goes-for-jugular-in-new-obamas-war-on-women-ad/
National Debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush
I have no idea why people complain about "Obama is a Muslim!"...which I think is horse shit...when you just need economic metrics to show what a debacle Obama is.
(CBS News) The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.
The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day.
The National Debt also now exceeds 100% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the total value of goods and services.
Mr. Obama has been quick to blame his predecessor for the soaring Debt, saying Mr. Bush paid for two wars and a Medicare prescription drug program with borrowed funds.
The federal budget sent to Congress last month by Mr. Obama, projects the National Debt will continue to rise as far as the eye can see. The budget shows the Debt hitting $16.3 trillion in 2012, $17.5 trillion in 2013 and $25.9 trillion in 2022.
Federal budget records show the National Debt once topped 121% of GDP at the end of World War II. The Debt that year, 1946, was, by today's standards, a mere $270 billion dollars.
Mr. Obama doesn't mention the National Debt much, though he does want to be seen trying to reduce the annual budget deficit, though it's topped a trillion dollars for four years now.
As part of his "Win the Future" program, Mr. Obama called for "taking responsibility for our deficits, by cutting wasteful, excessive spending wherever we find it."
His latest budget projects a $1.3 trillion deficit this year declining to $901 billion in 2012, and then annual deficits in the range of $500 billion to $700 billion in the 10 years to come.
If Mr. Obama wins re-election, and his budget projections prove accurate, the National Debt will top $20 trillion in 2016, the final year of his second term. That would mean the Debt increased by 87 percent, or $9.34 trillion, during his two terms.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/
(CBS News) The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.
The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day.
The National Debt also now exceeds 100% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the total value of goods and services.
Mr. Obama has been quick to blame his predecessor for the soaring Debt, saying Mr. Bush paid for two wars and a Medicare prescription drug program with borrowed funds.
The federal budget sent to Congress last month by Mr. Obama, projects the National Debt will continue to rise as far as the eye can see. The budget shows the Debt hitting $16.3 trillion in 2012, $17.5 trillion in 2013 and $25.9 trillion in 2022.
Federal budget records show the National Debt once topped 121% of GDP at the end of World War II. The Debt that year, 1946, was, by today's standards, a mere $270 billion dollars.
Mr. Obama doesn't mention the National Debt much, though he does want to be seen trying to reduce the annual budget deficit, though it's topped a trillion dollars for four years now.
As part of his "Win the Future" program, Mr. Obama called for "taking responsibility for our deficits, by cutting wasteful, excessive spending wherever we find it."
His latest budget projects a $1.3 trillion deficit this year declining to $901 billion in 2012, and then annual deficits in the range of $500 billion to $700 billion in the 10 years to come.
If Mr. Obama wins re-election, and his budget projections prove accurate, the National Debt will top $20 trillion in 2016, the final year of his second term. That would mean the Debt increased by 87 percent, or $9.34 trillion, during his two terms.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/
3/15/2012
Hope & Change koolaid must have gotten Sour!
Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Arpaio
PHOENIX - A man described as a President Barack Obama fanatic pleads guilty to threatening to kill Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Adam Eugene Cox appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Wednesday.
He was arrested last year for a death threat that began on the Internet.
Cox threatened to kill the sheriff and his family.
Cox will not go to jail. He was sentenced to supervised probation.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/justice/man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-arpaio-03142012
PHOENIX - A man described as a President Barack Obama fanatic pleads guilty to threatening to kill Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Adam Eugene Cox appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Wednesday.
He was arrested last year for a death threat that began on the Internet.
Cox threatened to kill the sheriff and his family.
Cox will not go to jail. He was sentenced to supervised probation.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/justice/man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-arpaio-03142012
1/25/2012
George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
1/23/2012
‘God’-awful OWS mob steals sacred item from church
By CANDICE M. GIOVE
Posted: 1:23 AM, January 22, 2012
There’s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that’s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week.
When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.
In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.”
In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.
In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, “The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.”
The pastor of the church did not return calls.
At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl.
About 60 occupiers had rolled out their sleeping bags between the pews the night before as part of their evening ritual, Rev. Brashear recalled. When they returned to the church later, following the pastor’s discovery, he issued a stern warning: “You have 24 hours to find it and to come up with an amends and to come up with a plan. ‘I’m sorry and it won’t happen again’ won’t work,” he scolded.
The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.
“Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.
The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.
cgiove@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/god_awful_ows_mob_VqPjFDW0n234NhA9hxsxnL
Posted: 1:23 AM, January 22, 2012
There’s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that’s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week.
When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.
In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.”
In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.
In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, “The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.”
The pastor of the church did not return calls.
At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl.
About 60 occupiers had rolled out their sleeping bags between the pews the night before as part of their evening ritual, Rev. Brashear recalled. When they returned to the church later, following the pastor’s discovery, he issued a stern warning: “You have 24 hours to find it and to come up with an amends and to come up with a plan. ‘I’m sorry and it won’t happen again’ won’t work,” he scolded.
The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.
“Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.
The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.
cgiove@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/god_awful_ows_mob_VqPjFDW0n234NhA9hxsxnL
1/06/2012
1/04/2012
Columbia offers ‘Occupy 101’
By ANNIE KARNI
Last Updated: 8:45 AM, January 1, 2012
Posted: 12:43 AM, January 1, 2012
Does getting pepper-sprayed count as extra credit?
Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester — sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course credit.
The class is taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, who boasts about her nights camped out in Zuccotti Park.
As many as 30 students will be expected to get involved in ongoing OWS projects outside the classroom, the syllabus says.
The class will be in the anthropology department and called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement.” It will be divided between seminars at the Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork.
On her blog, Appel defends OWS, arguing that “it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”
Addressing the safety risks of fieldwork among protesters, she writes on the syllabus, “I can say with absolute certainty that there is no foreseeable risk in teaching this as a field-base class.”
She said her allegiance won’t keep her from being an objective teacher.
“Inevitably, my experience will color the way I teach, but I feel equipped to teach objectively,” Appel told The Post. “It’s best to be critical of the things we hold most sacred.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/columbia_offers_occupy_PKetTw1QSVVk23BllNN0DL
Last Updated: 8:45 AM, January 1, 2012
Posted: 12:43 AM, January 1, 2012
Does getting pepper-sprayed count as extra credit?
Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester — sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course credit.
The class is taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, who boasts about her nights camped out in Zuccotti Park.
As many as 30 students will be expected to get involved in ongoing OWS projects outside the classroom, the syllabus says.
The class will be in the anthropology department and called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement.” It will be divided between seminars at the Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork.
On her blog, Appel defends OWS, arguing that “it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”
Addressing the safety risks of fieldwork among protesters, she writes on the syllabus, “I can say with absolute certainty that there is no foreseeable risk in teaching this as a field-base class.”
She said her allegiance won’t keep her from being an objective teacher.
“Inevitably, my experience will color the way I teach, but I feel equipped to teach objectively,” Appel told The Post. “It’s best to be critical of the things we hold most sacred.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/columbia_offers_occupy_PKetTw1QSVVk23BllNN0DL
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