You can add faces and information as it all unfolds! I want to see it! Make it happen!

If you want to have a look at the links try this website

http://www.muckety.com/Bertha-Lewis/148709.muckety

Only now could I get around to this, but the Senate has voted to stop funding for ACORN….

Meanwhile, as Michelle has pointed out here, journalism is alive-and-well, if only in the blogosphere.

My collie says:

Like Bernard Goldberg’s search for a new term for the MSM, I think we should be looking for new nomenclature for “journalism” as well. The actions of the MSM have tainted the word so badly that I feel dirty every time I use the word “journalism”.

Yeah. “Journalistic integrity” is now officially an oxymoron.

It was a pretty good place for a while…

At least I found out what LGF stood for. The title, not the theme.

What’s a “Kathy Griffin??”

locomotivebreath1901 on September 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM

A red furred weasel

CNN..TRANSCRIPT…9/16/09″ “And up next, the real cost of welfare in this country. It’s a hidden cost, but you can’t imagine how big it really is. We’ll have that for you, nextDOBBS: A new Heritage Foundation study finds that the Obama administration will spend more than $10 trillion on welfare programs over the next decade. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, the co-author of the study, calls the president’s approach a plan for bankruptcy.
Robert Rector joins us now. Robert, good to have you with us. I mean this is — it’s an extraordinary amount of money and why is it not in plain view as we look at the budget numbers and what is being proposed?

ROBERT RECTOR, SR. RESEARCH FELLOW, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: This spending is largely hidden, because when you deal with similar programs like Medicare and Social Security, they are a single item in the federal budget. But when you look at aid to the poor, and that’s cash, food, housing and medical care for poor and very low income people, it’s spread out among 71 different programs and 14 different departments and agencies.
So you have to literally go through thousands of pages in the budget to uncover how much we spend on poor people. But when you do that exercise, what you find is that this year, we’re going to spend about $800 billion on poor and low-income people. And it’s about 5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. It’s the third largest category of government spending. Social security and Medicare come first, then public education, then comes aid to the poor or means tested welfare. And we’re now at a record level. Obama is going to increase it by about $300 billion over the next two years. But the increase isn’t temporary. It just goes on and on and on.
DOBBS: Did you say $300 billion over two years?

RECTOR: Yes, that’s the increase over the next two years alone. But then it doesn’t go down after the recession. It continues to remain high. Within a few years, we’re going to be spending $1 trillion a year on this stuff. And I’m not making these numbers up. They come right out of Obama’s budgets. And it’s an astonishing thing. We are marching towards national bankruptcy. He’s piling on half a trillion dollars of debt a year for the foreseeable future. We’re basically mortgaging our children’s future in order to spread the wealth today. And spreading the wealth might be a good idea, but we ought to at least be honest before we start doing even more of it about how much we’re currently spending on the poor.
Our current spending amounts to about $18,000 on assistance to the poor for every single poor person in the United States, every single year.
DOBBS: Say that number again. How much per person? RECTOR: It’s $18,000 for each poor person. That’s the total amount of spending on means tested welfare. Now you could even look at it more broadly, because some of the spending goes to people that are low income, but not necessarily poor. But even if you were to take that, if you were to take this money and spread it out through the bottom one-third of the U.S. population, everybody in the bottom third gets part of this money.

It comes to $28,000 for each family of four down in that bottom third of the population. It’s a huge amount of expenditure and it’s largely untouched, undescribed. When the Census Bureau talks about inequality or measures poverty, guess what? Of this $800 billion of spending, not a — virtually none of it is counted.
When we talk about how much the poor have and how much the rich have, we don’t count the welfare state. They pretend that this doesn’t exist. That’s an insane way to conduct a discussion about public policy.

DOBBS: Insane and insane that we don’t have a discussion of what is being spent in total. $10.3 trillion over the next decade. That is absolutely staggering. $28,000 per family in the lower third of income in this country per year. Again, staggering. And yet, poverty persists. And as you say, there is no acknowledgement of the money that is being redistributed by the federal government to these low-income people in this country.

RECTOR: What you find when you really examine the living standards of lower income people is that they’re doing much better than normal dialogue puts on. For example, if you look at families that census identifies as poor, they have cable and satellite television. What the problem with a lot of this spending…
DOBBS: Robert, I’m going to have to break here. We’re running out our time. And Robert, we thank you for being with us. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation.”

$28,000 TO A ‘POOR’ FAMILY OF FOUR..BUT LITTLE IS COUNTED AS INCOME..SO THE POVERTY PIMPS..WHO DO EXCEEDINGLY WELL IN THE USA…GET RICHER. AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A USA CITIZEN TO GET A LOT OF “INCOME TRANFERS” FROM THE :”RICH” TO THE “DESERVING POOR”. THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH. A LIE IS A LIE. WE HAD BETTER START MAKING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. AND MICHELLE OBAMA..JUST LIKE ROSYLN CARTER..AND HILLARY CLINTON..WAS ELECTED TO NOTHING. IF SHE WISHES TO MAKE POLICY..LET HER RUN FOR THE SENATE..LIKE HILLARY DID..THEN IT WILL BE FINE. THEN. WHEN SHE IS ELECTED.

SilverStar830 on September 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM

The time stamp is irrelevant. 2005 was 4 years ago and Giles would have been 16 years old – she’s clearly older than that in the videos.

O’Keefe explained it was a camera reset … But if you think about what they are doing – the more ambiguity about exactly WHEN they walked into the these offices the harder it gets for ACORN to calculate what went on and in what order. When they’re confused – they tell more idiotic lies.

O’Keefe’s goal here isn’t just to catch ACORN in illegal acts – but to push them to make certain reactions to his videos that he knows they will make.

I would not be surprised if he has a “plant” in the ACORN organization itself who’s documenting their internal reactions and angst for a future expose.

I recommend that all of us infiltrate ACORN, SEIU, and all their subsidiaries. It’s easy to do and next year the push will REALLY be on these organizations to get people to the polls to vote Democratic. Of course – any action by ACORN that is partisan is illegal since they draw public funds – but we know it’s happening. We need, and WILL get our own people into these organizations to document video of their wrongdoing.

This segeway’s into another Alinsky rule – that an organization’s REACTION to a threat will often, by itself, accomplish the goal of the radicals. By keeping the pressure on ACORN in this manner – they will no longer be able count on the fact that their blatant violations of the law will go unnoticed. This means they will either have to abandon those illegalities or drive them undergroud where they can’t be seen or filmed. Of course – the latter course will result in GREATLY DIMENISHED EFFECTIVENESS of ACORN – which is our goal.

You can thank O’Keefe and Giles for this.

Let’s also make sure WE PAY any any fines they get from Democratic attorney generals supporting the underage prostitute / illegal alien smuggling ring that is ACORN.

Michelle, when will you publish an organizational chart of this culture of corruption? Where on the web could we go to see all the faces and the involvement of each of the crooks?

You can add faces and information as it all unfolds! I want to see it! Make it happen!

Ricohoc on September 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM

I’d suggest MM start an entirely new website strictly made to report corruption in ALL facets of government.
ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, kick backs from defense contractors,
kick backs from security contractors, kick backs from manufacturers.

The site could include an e-mail function to report these abuses as there is no other media, except maybe FOX that would do anything with the information.

Please consider this as there are few entities large enough or with enough clout to do anything about it.

It could be a part of H.A.,I’m sure the regulars in here would support it.

LGF has NOT been covering for the Truthers.

Knucklehead on September 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM

Has. Was. Is.

In fact, Chucky defended Truther “Rabbi” Lerner in order to use his words to clear his buddy Van Jones. The same Lerner which Chuck himself denounced as a Truther back in 2006 (though if you link to the post at his own site he bans you).

Now the douche drools all over ACORN.

And he still links to Hotair, despite the fact Hotair features R.S McCain as a greenroom writer, something which got Pajamas Media out of his links.

There is strategic value in the video date stamp always being the same.

First, Hannah and O’Keefe know where they were on what dates and likely can prove it easily. Second, ACORN’s thugs probably are unclear as to what specific dates the tapes were made which will hinder destruction of evidence for those times. Third, a sleazy ACORN lawyer can’t accuse Hannah and O’Keefe of intentionally altering any dates marked on the videotapes if it is always the default date as set by the camcorder manufacturer, not them.

viking01 on September 17, 2009 at 2:28 AM

I think you’er right. Give the thugs as little as possible.

The Media Establishment is corrupt to the core.

Our politicians are corrupt to the core.

Many of oOur “Unions” are corrupt to the core.

The alliance of these 4 groups threatens the very future of America.

TheBigOldDog on September 16, 2009 at 10:50 PM

Fix it for you.

First, Hannah and O’Keefe know where they were on what dates and likely can prove it easily. Second, ACORN’s thugs probably are unclear as to what specific dates the tapes were made which will hinder destruction of evidence for those times. Third, a sleazy ACORN lawyer can’t accuse Hannah and O’Keefe of intentionally altering any dates marked on the videotapes if it is always the default date as set by the camcorder manufacturer, not them.

I’m not very interested in this story either, sorry. I think it’s a peripheral issue –red meat for the GOP base.

Yes, they should be investigated after what we see on the tapes, but it’s nowhere near as important as a lot of other issues.

Yeah, issues like, oh CREATIONISM and stuff. Because creationists routinely rip-off the taxpayers by promoting fraudulent loans.

What. A. Dumbass.

Thank you for developing you’re investigative skills and you’re hard work to uncover lies, hypocrisy and outright corruption. Thank you for you’re long hours of tedious work checking through seas of paper and jigsaw puzzles of evidence, for long meetings and phone calls relentlessly digging for any scraps of facts that could uncover proof of the truth, and sometimes not finding it. Thank you for enduring the rants, lies, cat calls and overt racism flung you’re way with a classy, calm and determined smile from those who only see you as a threat to their gravy trains at gaming the system. Thank you for never selling out you’re principals of fairness and honesty for a quick buck or just to appease powerful people or institutions. Thank you for demanding these principals from our elected officials and powerful voices in our media as well as from employees in our government. Thank you for you’re unwavering devotion to principal and for not being afraid to call out those whom you see violate those sacred principles, to their face, be they democrat or republican. Thank you for loving our country and standing up for those who fight to protect it. Thank you for you’re hard work and dedication to truth for the betterment of our country and society. Thank you for telling it like it is, and informing our citizens with books and media appearances, like a truth teller yelling from the rooftops at the top of you’re lungs for all to hear. Thank you for being my fellow American. You are my hero!

How is this for a defense of ACORN? linky

Scroll down to see how he responds to my blog and see what will no doubt be what other lefties try and do.

Scroll down to see how he responds to my blog and see what will no doubt be what other lefties try and do.

Scroll down to see how he responds to my blog and see what will no doubt be what other lefties try and do.

O’Keefe explained this at one point – I think over on BigGovt. The camera resets itself when it turns off or batteries are removed or something.

If it were 2005, keep in mind that Giles is only 20 right now. 4 years worth of aging would be recognizable. Same with O’Keefe, who’d be 21 and not 25.

CPL 310 on September 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Oh. I missed that over at BigGovernment. I will look for it.

That certainly helps relieve a little of my anxiety.

Thanks :)