MORT’s Meanderings

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Sagacity for the aged and happily uninformed

Thomas Friedman is Krugman, is Dowd, is Goldstein, is Schumer, is Waxman, is Durbin, is all the wrong-headed and stupid ‘thinkers’ who have access to a public forum that panders to the readers of the NYTimes, the Jewish Journal and are consumers of similar leftist mass-media.

Reading and accepting whatever Friedman writes, is like following a garbage truck in a convertible with the top down on a hot Summer day, on a one-way street that is too narrow to pass, as it stops every 25 feet to pick up more odiferous garbage.

What can I tellya? With all due respect and love for my fellow man, if Friedman contracts a severe case of osteo-arthritis in his typing finger – it vooden bother me a bit.

MORT KUFF
Humanitarian extraordinaire

Cheerleaders for Occupy Wall Street

It is becoming readily apparent that the St. Petersburg Times and the main stream media have forgotten their obligation to report news and not be a cheer leader for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

When the Tea Party was having their weekend demonstrations, the main stream media manufactured racist comments that were allegedly made by some of the demonstrators and painted the entire movement as racist. Of course, no proof was necessary that these statements were ever made or that the founders or leaders of the Tea Party made, approved, or adopted them.

Now, however, the Occupy Wall Street movement begins and since its agenda is more in line with what Democrats appear to believe, the main stream media seems to have adopted a policy of not reporting statements, endorsements, or actions taken by its supporters.

Here a just a few of the no news items that failed to be reported:


· On Sunday the American Nazi Party endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement. The statement urged all Nazis to “take part and join in…Produce some flyers EXPLAINING the ‘JEW BANKER’ influence.”

· On that same day the American Communist Party endorsed the same movement saying the objectives of both are to end capitalism in the U.S.

· In Los Angeles, protester Patricia McAllister, who identified herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said on TV “I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, need to be run out of the country.”

· In Portland OR marchers sang a song “F__k the USA.”

· In NYC one protester defecated on a police car.

· In many protests the U.S. flag was desecrated and stomped on.

· In NYC protesters carried signs that said “Google for Wall Street Jews, Jewish Billionaires.”

· The conduct of the demonstrators is never discussed. In NYC the owner of Panini & Co Breads said, “I’ve had a lot of damage from the protesters. I’ve had to put a $200 lock on my bathroom because they come in here and try to bathe. The sink fell down to the ground, cracked open, pulled the plumbing out of the wall and caused a flood..”

It is a sad day when newspapers and the main stream media become cheerleaders and no longer report all of the news.

Conservative Commentary by James J. Pirretti

Obama The Embarrassment to America

The most important thing concerning the closer than reported Ayers - Obama relationship by the Lame Stream media is that Obama has no problem with violent activism. Just look at lowlife Jimmy Hoffa and Barry. The liar that he is, we knew Barry and Ayers were two peas in a pod. The Lame Stream Media cowered in the corner like the wimps that they are. They ask Texas Governor Rick Perry "How He can Sleep at night" after allowing Savages to be killed for the Crimes they committed. Let America ask “How can the wimps of the MSM sleep at all”. Yes, 99% of the MSM are vile and despicable louses and they knew Barry was hanging out with Racists, savages and terrorists. The MSM are Traitors, plain and simple.

The portion below is written by Rex Murphy.

Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president

Since 2008, much of the Obama coverage has been nothing more than orchestrated sychophancy.

As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.

Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sychophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.”The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jermiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.”

The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency.

Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes. As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rotweiler toward the other. If Obama was sacred , classy, intellectual and cosmopolitan, why then Palin must be malevolent, trashy, dumb and pure backwoods-ignorant.

Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.)

As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.

To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency.

National Post

Rex Murphy offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup.

Hat Tip to Mr. I

Clock - Stop Marxism

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

He asked, 'What are all those clocks?'

St. Peter answered, 'Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock.

Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.'

'Oh,' said the man, 'whose clock is that?'

'That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie..'

'Incredible,' said the man. 'And whose clock is that one?'

St. Peter responded, 'That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.'

'Where's Barrack Obama's clock?' asked the man.

'Obama's clock is in Jesus' office.

He's using it as a ceiling fan.'

Hat Tip to James J. Pirretti

ACORN a Corrupt Criminal Enterprise

Once again we see Obama’s Group, ACORN, a Corrupt Criminal Enterprise receiving money from the Messiah. When will people get over Political Correctness and demand an Investigation by an Independent Prosecutor. Barry is knee deep in this Corrupt Organization and Liberals still support him. The Messiah gives Money to Hate Groups.

Hat Tip to Mr. I

Obama’s ‘Jobs Bill’ Makes ACORN Eligible for $15 Billion in Taxpayer Money
Portion below by Matthew Vadum

ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama’s new economic stimulus package becomes law.
Now that public polling shows Americans are realizing that economic stimulus programs don’t work, the Obama administration is calling the latest round of futile stimulus a “jobs bill.” In a sense it really is a jobs bill: a jobs bill for Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers.

The draft legislation [1], which had not yet been introduced in Congress at press time, makes ACORN, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), and a phalanx of leftist groups that regularly feed at the public trough eligible for funding. [2]

Section 261 of the bill provides $15 billion for “Project Rebuild.” Grants would be given to “qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or consortia of eligible entities for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for the stabilization of affected neighborhoods.” Radical groups like ACORN won’t get the whole $15 billion, though, because they will have to compete with state and local governments for the money.


ACORN would have to get creative to extract grant money from the $5 billion allotted in the legislative package for two other competitive grant programs covered in sections 214 and 215. At first glance ACORN wouldn’t seem to be eligible for funding under the Community Oriented Policing Stabilization Fund and First Responder Stabilization Fund, but oddly enough the group has managed over the years to receive funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, so anything’s possible.

But there is every reason to believe ACORN, which has long been in the real estate development business, will get a chunk of the $15 billion. President Obama, who used to work for ACORN, wants to give his allies taxpayer dollars regardless of whether it is lawful to do so.

In March of this year, Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave a $79,819 grant to the Miami branch of the massive conglomerate known as ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC). AHC filed papers in 2010 legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). The nonprofit corporation owed $162,813 in back taxes to the IRS, states, and cities as of this past July.

Despite the new name, AHCOA is the same old corrupt organization. It even uses AHC’s federal Employer Identification Number (72-1048321). AHCOA operates out of the same office address (209 W. Jackson Blvd., 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60606) and uses the same telephone number (312-939-1611).

AHCOA is run by the same people who ran the ACORN network. Michael Shea, AHC’s longtime executive director, remains in the same post at AHCOA. AHCOA president Alton Bennett and board member Dorothy Amadi were involved with AHC and are longtime ACORN activists. (There are more examples of overlap between AHC and AHCOA, but I’ll spare you them for now.) [3]

Like the T-1000 in "Terminator 2" ACORN can be slowed down but it will just continue to regroup under different names, and operate out of the same offices.The $79,819 grant to the former ACORN Housing comes out of HUD’s Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) program, a political indoctrination program that gives nonprofit groups money to rail against lenders and the supposed unfairness of the capitalist system.

The circumstances of the grant are particularly striking. HUD was so eager to start funding ACORN again that it apparently broke the law, taking the cash out of fiscal 2010 appropriations. This is a problem because Congress banned federal funding of ACORN through the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010. But two months earlier HUD cited the congressional ban when it withheld a $461,086 grant to AHCOA. Something happened between January and March. In March HUD relied on a government lawyer’s dubious legal opinion from 2010 that ACORN Housing was no longer part of the ACORN network — and the new $79,819 grant went through.

And now there are dozens of new ACORN offshoot groups ready to devour taxpayers’ money, as I write in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers [4].

Many of the new ACORN groups — with names like New York Communities for Change and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment — are eligible for federal funding. They have obtained Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) numbers which nonprofits are required to have in order to seek federal grants.

If the proposed Jobs for Community Organizers bill becomes law it’s a safe bet the rebranded ACORN groups will be first in line with grant applications.

Matthew Vadum is a great writer. He is also an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Stop Marxism and Get a Handle On Welfare

The new breadwinne​r in the family... Just thought you would like to know


This is how it's done. Thanks to the people in Washington who live above their means and attack the Middle Class. This is Suicidal Political Correctness.


The new breadwinner in the family...

This is preposterous!

An emergency room physician told me that a woman in her late 20's came to the ER today with her 8th pregnancy. She told the first doctor she saw: "My Mama told me that I am the breadwinner for the family." He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money from the State for the family.

It goes like this:
The Grandma calls the Department of Child & Family Services, and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for all of her kids. DCFS agrees, and tells her the children will need to go into foster care.

The Grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and receives a check for $1500 per child each month in Illinois.
Total yearly income:
$144,000 tax-free and nobody
has to go to work!
In fact, they get more if there is no husband/father/man in the home!

Not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid), plus a monthly card entitling them to free groceries and a voucher for 250 free Obamaphone minutes each month. This does not include WIC and other welfare benefits...

Indeed, Grandma was correct that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family.

This is how the liberal politicians spend our tax dollars. When this generous program was invented in the '60s, the Great Society architects forgot to craft an end date... and now we are hopelessly overrun with people who vote only for those who will continue to keep them on the dole....

No wonder our country is broke! Worse, the Muslims have been paying attention, and by mandating that each Muslim family have eleven children, they will soon replace the voting bloc above and can be running this country within 50 years.

Are we alarmed yet?

Is anybody listening?

Sincerely,

Sebastian J. Ciancio, M.D. Urologist,
Danville Polyclinic, LTD

Is this a GREAT COUNTRY or what...?
Don't forget to pay your taxes!!
There are a lot of breadwinners depending on you!

Poignant Analysis from DNC Chair

As you have heard by now, Robert Turner, Republican, defeated David Weprin, Democrat, for the N.Y. Congressional seat previously held by Anthony Weiner. This remarkable feat happened notwithstanding the fact that:

• Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of more than 3 to 1.
  
• The District overwhelmingly voted for Obama in 2008.
  
• The Democrats outspent the Republican candidate by a significant amount.
  
• The district has voted Democrat since 1923!
  
• The Democrats called in former President Bill Clinton and Governor Andrew Cuomo to garner support.
  

What is even more remarkable is the statement by Debbie Wasserman Schultz:”It’s a difficult seat for Democrats.” This brilliant statement came from the Democratic National Committee Chairperson who represents Weston, Florida.

Conservative Commentary from James J. Pirretti