The House, in a motion to recommit attached to the student loan bill, has voted overwhelmingly to de-fund ACORN.
It was a bipartisan vote, with more than 300 members voting for the measure…
This goes further than the Senate did; the Senate took money out of one bill. This is to de-fund the group completely—for any money the House would appropriate.
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“ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization. All federal ties should be severed with ACORN, and the FBI should investigate its activity. This united Republican effort to defund ACORN is a victory for the rule of law and taxpayers across the country.”
An uncharacteristically emotional Nancy Pelosi is warning House Republicans — and other groups getting whipped up over the health care debate — not to incite unstable supporters who might repeat acts of violence that struck San Francisco in the 1970s.
A top Pelosi aide later confirmed reporters’ suggestions that her statement was likely a reference to the City Hall murder of gay rights activist Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in Nov. 1978 — an earth-shattering experience for Bay Area Democrats like the speaker.
Pelosi stumbled when asked about Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst and its impact on civility in the House, momentarily overcome by emotion.
“I think we all have to take action and responsibility for our words — we are a free country and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we, um, have to carefully balance,” she said.
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because i saw this myself in the late ‘70s in San Francisco, this king of rhetoric. ... It created a climate in which violence took place. ... I wish we would all curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not a balanced as the person making the statements may assume.”
09/17 at 06:19 AM •
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dating uh-oh’s
According to a survey by hotel chain Travelodge, more men said they take teddy bears to bed. The survey found 20% of respondents that were male were teddy bear cuddlers, while only 15% of women admitted to the practice.
09/17 at 06:01 AM •
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to not cover all these stories
MSM LSM State-Run Media MIA Media
While Charlie Gibson sails away from the day’s top stories, where’s the investigative reporting on this?
[A former fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich] Christopher Kelly, 51, died Saturday morning, hours after his girlfriend found him slumped over the steering wheel of his Cadillac Escalade in a lumberyard parking lot in Country Club Hills, a city just south of Chicago.
Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans said Kelly had set up a sleeping bag inside a rented trailer at the lumberyard and set out photos of his children before taking a suspected overdose. She said an unopened box of rat poison was found in the trailer, and someone later turned in empty containers of Tylenol and aspirin that had been removed from the scene.
...three to six weeks to get the results of ...toxicology reports
*crickets*
apotheosis
09/17 at 05:58 AM •
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In 1814, about a week after the city of Washington had been badly burned, British troops moved up to the primary port at Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in the Harbor on September 13th to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes who had been captured during the Washington raid. The two were detained on the ship so as not to warn the Americans while the Royal Navy attempted to bombard Fort McHenry. At dawn on the 14th, Key noted that the huge American flag, which now hangs in the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, was still waving and had not been removed in defeat. The sight inspired him to write a poem titled Defense of Fort McHenry. The poem was eventually set to music that had originally been written by English composer John Stafford Smith for a song titled “The Anacreontic Song”. The end result was the inspiring song now considered the national anthem of the United States of America. It was accepted as such by public demand for the next century or so, but became even more accepted as the national anthem during the World Series of Baseball in 1917 when it was sung in honor of the brave armed forces fighting in the Great War. The World Series performance moved everyone in attendance, and after that it was repeated for every game. Finally, on March 3, 1931, the American Congress proclaimed it as the national anthem, 116 years after it was first written.
original photo KisPer ThomasM
ShitPissFuckCuntCocksuckerMotherfuckerTits
Decorum in the House and in Committees
Under clause 1(a)(1) of Rule XI, the rules of the House are the rules of its committees as far as applicable. Consequently, Members should comport themselves with the rules of decorum and debate in the House and in Committees specifically with regard to references to the President of the United States as stated in Section 370 of the House Rules and Manual.As stated in Cannon’s Precedents, on January 27, 1909, the House adopted a report in response to improper references in debate to the President. That report read in part as follows:
“It is… the duty of the House to require its Members in speech or debate to preserve that proper restraint which will permit the House to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members or antagonism from those other branches of the Government with which the House is correlated.”
As a guide for debate, it is permissible in debate to challenge the President on matters of policy. The difference is one between political criticism and personally offensive criticism. For example, a Member may assert in debate that an incumbent President is not worthy of re-election, but in doing so should not allude to personal misconduct. By extension, a Member may assert in debate that the House should conduct an inquiry, or that a President should not remain in office.
Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:
* refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
* refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
* refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
* refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
* call the President a “liar.”
* call the President a “hypocrite.”
* describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
* charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
* refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
* refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”However, the Senate rules on decorum and debate do not prohibit personal references to the President. Senate Rule XIX governing decorum and debate is applied only to fellow Senators and “does not extend to the President, the Vice President, or Administration officials and a Senator cannot be called to order under rule XIX for comments or remarks about them...” (Senate Procedure, p. 741). The Senate rules also provide that Jefferson’s Manual is not part of the Senate rules (Ibid, p.754).
By contrast, the rules of the House specifically provide that Jefferson’s Manual does govern the proceedings of the House where applicable (Clause 1 of Rule XXVIII). Section 370 of Jefferson’s Manual states that the rule in Parliament prohibiting Members from “speak{ing} irreverently or seditiously against the King” has been interpreted to prohibit personal references against the President. In addition, Speakers of the House have consistently reiterated, and the House has voted, to support the proposition that it is not in order in debate to engage in personalities toward the President. The Chair enforces this rule of decorum on his own initiative.
the 12 missing minutes
Remember that speech to the little children about staying in skool, washing their hands and eating their veggies? The one that the RWE redneck, clinger, terrorist paranoids so raaacistly thought might turn out to be fulla political mind-thoughts? [aside from the creepily Big Brother/Dear Leader quality?]
Bemember how it somehow turned out to be 12 minutes shorter than originally planned—after they pulled teh study guides about letters to themselves pledging how students would “help Obama” [not “help the POTUS”: “help” OBAMA, hizownself, personally]
Yeah. That speech.
When critics lashed out at President Obama for scheduling a speech to public school students this month, accusing him of wanting to indoctrinate children to his politics, his advisers quickly scrubbed his planned comments for potentially problematic wording. They then reached out to progressive Web sites such as the Huffington Post, liberal bloggers and Democratic pundits to make their case to a friendly audience.
The controversy escalated, but by the time it was over, White House advisers thought they had emerged with the upper hand. The speech, they said, was the most-viewed live video on any government Web site in history, and they were pleased with the media coverage of the event.
Not so paranoid, hm? Just wait.
In private, Obama has developed what his advisers say is becoming a familiar response to new allegations, rolling his eyes in disbelief and asking how his staff plans to counter them. ...
But at a tactical level, administration officials are taking seriously the potential for damage and are attempting to respond forcefully. In early August, officials stepped up their efforts to link the “birther” movement ... to Republican leaders. ...
Obama publicly rejected the charge that he is maintaining an “enemies list,” raising the issue to dismiss it at a town hall meeting. ...
“In a world with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report and everything else that makes up the right-wing noise machine, nothing is clean and nothing is simple,” a senior administration official said. “You don’t stomp a story out. You ride the wave and try to steer it to safe water.”
Aww—having to face what you did? How awful for you.
Although Obama does not pore over the conservative attacks himself, he is not oblivious to them, advisers said. ...sometimes after learning of them in e-mails from friends outside the White House, for example, or from ordinary voters at rallies. Little of it surprises him, aides said.
Well, it’s surprising many who voted for ya, Jugears.
...Rahm Emanuel .... “Father Coughlin called Roosevelt a socialist, the John Birch Society was created in reaction to Kennedy, Clinton had [Richard Mellon] Scaife and others who went after him,” he said. “And now they’ve come after Obama on Socialism and other things. This has always been a creed from those voices dealing with Democratic presidents. But yes, there’s an intensity, given the [rapid media] time frame we’re all under, that’s different.”
Roosevelt was a socialist—and admired the fascist economic system, as well. Sounds like you’re losing control of Teh Narrative—and Teh Narrative Givers, Rahm…
Now, the challenge for Obama will be to maintain that stance without ceding ground to his most extreme critics, whom administration officials believe are trying to mount an existential threat to the president.
What’s that old phrase.... oh yeah: Turn about is fair play.
09/16 at 08:02 PM •
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inquiring minds all you pigs want to know…
From what I saw, the ACORN workers come across as earnest, caring and human. In the one I saw, the ACORN women kept explaining that what the hoax perpetrators were wanting to do was illegal, though they didn’t refuse them their service. All in all, it comes off as a sleazy trick played on earnest, helpful people.
Briatore and Symonds out - Renault not disputing charges
The ING Renault F1 Team says that it will not dispute the “recent allegations made by the FIA concerning the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix”. The FIA said that the team had “conspired with its driver, Nelson Piquet Jr, to cause a deliberate crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix with the aim of causing the deployment of the safety car to the advantage of its other driver, Fernando Alonso”. The FIA also announced that the team had been called to answer charges, “including a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code”, which states that ‘any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally” will be punished. While Renault is not admitting all of the above, it is not disputing that the team conspired to cause a deliberate crash nor that fraudulent conduct was involved. Lawyers may argue that there are distinctions between not disputing and openly admitting but now is not the moment for legal sophistry. The sport is in the spotlight for yet another scandal and one which The Times newspaper described today as “one of the worst examples of pre-meditated cheating in the history of professional sport”. It is clearly not a time to fudge justice, lest the sport add to its already dubious reputation, summed up by a column in The Guardian a few days ago which described F1 as being “a sport stripped of its integrity, its old values replaced by a superficial prosperity that can no longer conceal a putrescent core”.
This is heavy stuff. ...
Bastards!
Bastards!
*spit*
Video BTF:
Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn’t sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own........
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote Attorney General Jerry Brown a letter today urging the state Department of Justice to investigate ACORN’s activities in California…
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted today to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. The proposal, approved by a 68-30 vote, seeks to give Amtrak riders rights comparable to those enjoyed by airline passengers, who are permitted to transport firearms provided that they declare they are doing so and that the arms are unloaded and in a securely locked container.
“Americans should not have their second amendment rights restricted for any reason, particularly if they choose to travel on America’s federally subsidized rail line,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who made the proposal.
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Current Amtrak policy, put in place after the bombings of passenger trains in Madrid five years ago, prohibits weapons, including firearms, from being carried on its trains.
Maybe we’ll even be able to check a weapon on a bus trip someday.
Good read.
Oh, yeah. Almost forgot:
Ev-er-y, frig-gin’, dayyyyyy !
These jackasses insult the American people ev-er-y, frig-gin’, dayyyyyy !
There, now I feel better.
ToDaZeD Raacist Polyunsaturated Space Porcupine* Post
A little late on Teh Narrative, Carter wakens from his nap and mumbles:
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American,” Carter told “NBC Nightly News.” “I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way, and I’ve seen the rest of the country that shares the South’s attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans.”
“That racism inclination still exists, and I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of belief among many white people—not just in the South but around the country—that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply,”
Yeah. This race-baiting, hate-mongering obfuscation concerns me very deeply.
09/16 at 07:35 AM •
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ON THIS DAY....
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The Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill
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Thousands of Muslims from all races, creeds, colors and ethnicities will gather for the sole purpose of prayer
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Bonds of friendship will be formed between those in attendance, both Muslims and Non-Muslims
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Muslim youth will experience tours of the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court.
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The peace, beauty and solidarity of Islam will shine through America’s capitol.A DAY OF ISLAMIC UNITY…
...For decades, Federal law has prohibited the U.S. Department of Education from exercising control over the “curriculum, program of instruction . . . or over the selection or content of library resources, text books, or other educational materials by any educational institution or school system.”
Now the Obama Administration and Congress are poised to provide the Secretary of the Education half a billion dollars, and give him the authority to enter into contracts with any entity he deems “appropriate” to “develop, evaluate and disseminate” “freely available” “education courses.”…
