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Arizona Woman Gets Prison Sentence for Hiring Illegal Immigrants Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 06:24:06 PM

 

 

The office manager of a Sierra Vista drywall firm was sentenced to jail today for hiring illegal immigrants in the case of the first worksite enforcement bust in Arizona by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

 

 

 

According to this news release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona, 44-year-old Carol Hill of Sun Drywall and Stucco must serve two months in prison, followed by one year of house arrest and 36 months of supervised release.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a pretty stiff sentence for doing something that thousands of other Arizonans have done in recent years: Hire illegal immigrants.

But Hill and the seven other defendants in the case got swept up in the national anti-illegal-immigrant fervor that compelled ICE to look more closely at employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers. The bust at Sun Drywall, as part of a larger ICE worksite enforcement effort in the spring of 2007, made headlines across the country. Another Sun employee, manager Edward Durgin, received a sentence of probation over the summer after he pleaded guilty. The company's president, Ivan Hardt, awaits trial.

 

 

ICE efforts targeting employers continued through this summer, which only seems fair considering all the illegal immigrants being deported these days. If undocumented workers themselves are a problem, it stands to reason the people who hire them are the root cause of that problem -- and should face consequences.

 

 

 

 

Some worksite enforcement has occurred locally due to the state's employer sanctions law. But that has resulted only in the jailing of Hispanic employees, not their bosses. In fact, the state's law doesn't mandate jail time for employers in violation.

The punishment for Hill and Sun Drywall, however, will undoubtedly instill more fear in employers who hire illegal immigrants. -- Ray Stern

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I find it curious that our government would be wanting to stand up and bail out a corporation like Citi Group that is 51% owned by the United Arabs Emirates, the same people that have enough money to be building billion dollar islands.

in the Persian Gulf.

We have US automakers (thats right, made in the USA) that are turned away by the government. Everybody right up to the President Elect is supporting the bail out of Citi Group. I do not care what they claim, whether they bail out Citi Group or not those peoples homes that are in forclosure with Citi Group will still be forclosed on. I'm not saying there are not some good people out there getting a bad deal with a forclosure, but come on, most over extended themselves and regardless if the morgage companies get bailed out or not those same people will have their homes forclosed on. Why can't the Arabs bail out their own crap. They are droping over 14 billion on a man made island

As expected President Elect Obama has already decided to duck responsibility

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27752740

President Elect Obama,

(1) Who funded your campaign ?

(2) Where is the proof to whom gave you these funds ?

(3) Where were you born ?

(4) illegal immigration question here : Can you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are an american citizen ?

(5) Why did you not ask for all the facts before voting for any BAIL OUTS of real estate markets as well as wall street ?

(6) Why do you mislead a country that you are their best chance for change ?

(7) Why do you Mis-Lead the same bunch of citizens by allowing them to assume you are african-american ?

(8) What have you promised Congress to stop them from questioning your citizenship ?

(9) How is it that over 30 years of Presidents could not fix the health care system, why would you try to convience this country now that you can ?

(10) Do you really believe that crap you have convienced your followers that you will do ?

I don't know where all the concern has went for the economy, but I can grant you just because you changed the President you still have to stop the congressional morons from killing this country. If you have not heard our President and Congress have been dumping money (our money) into CEO's hands, vacationers and major exiting bonuses some 800 Billions dollars. They told you that it was needing to be down because CEO's falsified documents and just wasted corporations and stock holders money. I think  they were calling it miss management of funds and they held NO BODY ACCOUNTABLE !!! In case you have not been paying attention, because they are hoping you are so caught up in the leection you are not watching the other news reports. The treasury department that gave out your money has recently announced they will need to BORROW 500 BILLION dollars to fulfill that pledge. NOW WHO IS MISS MANAGING THIS COUNTIES MONEY ? They bailed everybody out and my retirement is still down over 40%. You elected a NEW PRESIDENT and my retirement is still down 40%. Our country is about to sell off ownership of what you and your ansestors have fought to retain. YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR FREEDOM.
Now they are going to go outside this country for that $500 BILLION DOLLAR LOAN and guess what, they are going to have to give perks to the countries that loan them the money

ENGLISH has been put to the vote in the State of Missouri to be declared the official language. I personally want to thank all of you that have stood up to vote for what you believe in. With Missouri making it official will be the first step in sending the message to our federal government that they need to follow suite. BRAVO Missouri

Relationships, now that is a word that holds various different terminology as well as meaning for various people.

 

             I have a life long friend who comes here from time to time as a way to keep a line of communication between them and I. I guess to explain our relationship maybe I should clarify my choice of user ID and Avatar.

Semper Fi actually holds 2 meanings for myself.

(1) is Latin for "Always Faithful" (strongly used between fellow Marines)

(2) It is in the arms of the family seal of my ancestors

 

My Avatar choice of the US Marine Corps Devil Dog.

It comes from 3 years of service to our country with a group of the strongest will, close nit and "always faithful" Squadron a person could ask for, the best thing I can remember is no one in our squadron new the word quit.

 

With that said: My friend and I meet in high school then moved on to serve 3 years in the USMC. My friend and I, have kept close ties before, during and after, even with all the moving around the country and the world the both of us have done. Over the years of our travels and experiences with different cultures our friendship has grown stronger as we have watched and endured the many changes that our country has experienced. I would like to think that our time in the USMC together was the reason for our long term relationship, but it was only a contributor. The 2 of us grew up in a time all its own, where like the USMC people worked together for the common good. Did we always get along, NO, but because of our beliefs we were able to reach a neutral stand and move on. 

 

          I guess for me; the definition of relationship for us would fall under the understanding of each others beliefs. The ability to disagree, yet move on and remain friends. The life experience that we have and will share. To know if one of us was to fall down, the other would lend a hand to help pull us to our feet. To pass on the teachings that we have learned and experienced through our own experiences in life and connections to other cultures. And the promise that if the other person needs help, we will always be there

 

 

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office.

Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are — beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

A sampling of what voters heard in the ad, and what he didn't tell them:

THE SPIN: "That's why my health care plan includes improving information technology, requires coverage for preventive care and pre-existing conditions and lowers health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."

THE FACTS: His plan does not lower premiums by $2,500, or any set amount. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money. He uses an optimistic analysis to suggest cost reductions in national health care spending could amount to the equivalent of $2,500 for a family of four. Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it's not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.

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THE SPIN: "I also believe every American has a right to affordable health care."

THE FACTS: That belief should not be confused with a guarantee of health coverage for all. He makes no such promise. Obama hinted as much in the ad when he said about the problem of the uninsured: "I want to start doing something about it." He would mandate coverage for children but not adults. His program is aimed at making insurance more affordable by offering the choice of government-subsidized coverage similar to that in a plan for federal employees and other steps, including requiring larger employers to share costs of insuring workers.

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THE SPIN: "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost."

THE FACTS: Independent analysts say both Obama and Republican John McCain would deepen the deficit. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates Obama's policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years — and that analysis accepts the savings he claims from spending cuts. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, whose other findings have been quoted approvingly by the Obama campaign, says: "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next 10 years." The analysis goes on to say: "Neither candidate's plan would significantly increase economic growth unless offset by spending cuts or tax increases that the campaigns have not specified."

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THE SPIN: "Here's what I'll do. Cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year. Give businesses a tax credit for every new employee that they hire right here in the U.S. over the next two years and eliminate tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. Help homeowners who are making a good faith effort to pay their mortgages, by freezing foreclosures for 90 days. And just like after 9-11, we'll provide low-cost loans to help small businesses pay their workers and keep their doors open. "

THE FACTS: His proposals — the tax cuts, the low-cost loans, the $15 billion a year he promises for alternative energy, and more — cost money, and the country could be facing a record $1 trillion deficit next year. Indeed, Obama recently acknowledged — although not in his commercial — that: "The next president will have to scale back his agenda and some of his proposals."

 

1961-1966

 

 

Barack Obama Jr. is allegedly born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961, [1] to Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995). [1,289] Ann Dunham (who understandably had dropped the “Stanley”) married Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936-1982), on February 2, 1961. Obama, Sr., an African Muslim by birth, but an atheist by admission, [324] already had two children with a woman in Kenya named Kezia (1938 -    ). [289] It is likely, however, that Obama, Sr. was not legally married to Kezia (their marriage was only a tribal marriage), making his marriage to Dunham (if there was a marriage) legal. [3,7,289,299] (Obama and Kezia eventually re-unite after he separates from Ann Dunham, and Kezia bears two more of his children.)

If Obama, Jr. was born in Hawaii, he was both an American and a Kenyan citizen because his father was a Kenyan. If he was born in Hawaii, Obama’s Kenyan citizenship expired when he turned age 21. [219] If Obama later became a citizen of Indonesia by virtue of being adopted by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, Obama lost his Kenyan citizenship at the point of adoption. [258]

 

 

  Although the divorce of Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham in 1964 [6] suggests they had been married on Thursday, February 2, 1961 [6,324], there are no disclosed records or witnesses to indicate a marriage [4,10], and Michelle Obama states in an interview that Ann Dunham was “very young and very single when she had him (Barack).” [8,352] In any event, Dunham was unmarried, and likely under age 18, when she became pregnant.

 

 

  Dunham is an atheist [2,324], an “Adlai Stevenson liberal,” a secular humanist, [9] leftist social-activist, [10] and a student of cultural anthropology. Ann Dunham meets Barack Obama Sr. while both are studying Russian at the University of Hawaii. [4,5] Dunham is an excellent debater at school, and excels at defending the concepts of Karl Marx’ “The Communist Manifesto.” [324]

 

 

  In 1962 or 1963, Obama’s parents separate; his father leaves Hawaii (probably in 1963) to attend Harvard and then returns to Kenya, with a woman named Ruth Nidesand, who he met at Harvard. Obama, Sr. marries Nidesand in Kenya in 1967; they are eventually divorced. Obama, Sr. eventually has at least eight other children with four women (two of those additional children are borne by his former wife Kezia, while he is still married to Nidesand.)  Obama, Sr. does not see his son Barack Jr. again until 1971, when he visits Hawaii for one month; he is eventually killed in 1982, at age 46, in an automobile accident. (A year earlier, Obama, Sr. had been in an automobile accident and had to have his legs amputated. Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in both accidents.) [6,7,11,271,324]

 

 

  The 1961 birth certificate posted on the Internet by the Obama campaign is suspected of being a forgery, based on a modified copy of his half-sister Maya’s birth certificate. [12] If Obama does have a legitimate Hawaiian birth certificate, it possibly does not list a father if Dunham and Obama, Sr. were not married. (At that time, the custom was to omit the father’s name when the father and mother were not married). By July, 2008, it appeared that the forgery may have been perpetrated for the “Daily Kos” web site, by a Jay McKinnon, who describes himself as a “Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist.” [325]

 

 

  The Internet site “FactCheck.org” states that the birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is legitimate, but it should be noted that FactCheck.org is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation, which also funded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama and William Ayers distributed tens of millions of dollars to leftist organizations. [302] It should also be noted that most, if not all, of the people who have declared the birth certificate to be either authentic or a fake have seen only photocopies or scanned images, and not an original paper document.

 

 

  There has been speculation that Obama was born in Kenya [197,199,199,248] and brought to Hawaii as an infant, because the airlines would (in 1961) not have allowed a pregnant Dunham to fly. [248] (Relatives of Obama in Kenya, who likely are unaware of the eligibility requirements of the U.S. Presidency, state that he was born in Kenya.) The Kenya birth speculation is incorrect if Dunham met Obama Sr. while both were students at the University of Hawaii and if they did not also travel to Kenya in 1961.

 

 

  Although Obama’s campaign has given the names of two different Hawaiian hospitals where he was supposed to have been born (Kapiolani Women’s Center and Queens Medical Center, both in Honolulu), that may be due to campaign staff ignorance or incompetence, and not deceit. Still, no one has been able to confirm the birth from either hospital’s records. There is apparently a register of the birth in the public records office, dated August 8, 1961, one week after the birth, but it supposedly does not list a place of birth. (Note that a register of birth is not the same as a birth certificate.) [248]

 

 

  A writer for “Online Journal” publishes an article on June 9, 2008 claiming that a research team went to Mombasa, Kenya, and located a certificate of the Kenyan birth of Barack Obama, Jr. It is unclear why that story, if it is true, did not get “traction.” There is also speculation that certified copies of a Kenyan birth certificate, with embossed raised seals and with birth witness signatures, are now in the hands of three individuals; the documents allegedly state that Obama was born at 7:24 p.m., on August 4, 1961, at Coast Provincial General Hospital, in Mombasa, Kenya. [248,299,301]

 

 

  There have been claims that Obama’s paternal grandmother (his father’s mother), Sarah Hussein Obama (or Sarah Onyango Obama) (1922 -    ), [289] told reporters that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Kenya, when her son came to visit, accompanied by a pregnant Ann Dunham - who was very close to her delivery date. Sarah Hussein Obama further states that she was present in the delivery room when Obama was born in Kenya. [299] One half-brother and one half-sister of candidate Obama also claim he was born in Kenya. [248] This would be consistent with a reported stop by Dunham in the state of Washington on the return trip to Hawaii, and with the possible existence of only a Hawaiian “register of birth,” rather than an actual birth certificate. The Chicago Tribune was told by Dunham friend Susan Blake that Dunham visited her in Seattle shortly after Obama’s birth. [324]

 

 

  Note that Hawaiian law allows the State of Hawaii to issue a certificate of live birth even if the child is born outside the State, provided the parents have been legal residents of Hawaii for at least one year immediately preceding the birth. Such a certificate does, however, require that the place of birth be correctly recorded. Thus, had Obama been born in Kenya and shortly thereafter brought to Hawaii, Dunham could have had a Hawaiian birth certificate prepared, but that document would have been in addition to the birth certificate issued in Kenya. Such a Hawaiian certificate, if issued, does not make the child a United States citizen; it is merely a birth-recording convenience offered by the State. If the place of birth on a Hawaiian birth certificate is later altered, the certificate could nevertheless appear legitimate in terms of format, style, and numbering. [301]

 

 

  Note that states typically have a “long form” (certificate of live birth) and a “short form” (certification of birth) for their birth documents. The long form, or vault copy, contains the more detailed information, such as the hospital name, names of parents, date, time, infant’s weight and length, footprint, doctor name, and certified signature of the doctor. In 1961, the document would obviously have been typed on a typewriter. The short form contains more limited information, and is the less desirable of the two forms when absolute proof is desired. When someone requests a copy of a birth certificate from a state (or county), the document provided is typically the short form, computer-printed at the time of the request and based on information on computer databases; the vault copy is not retrieved and examined. The short form is then usually stamped or embossed with an official seal. The document provided by the Obama campaign, whether valid or forged, is the short form.

 

 

  Only a few sources have been listed here for the many Obama birth speculations; there are far too many, and rumors and stories can readily be found on the Internet. Speculation will not end until original birth and citizenship documents are released, and the likelihood of that may be minimal. A lawsuit has been filed [13] by attorney Philip Berg (a Democrat and a Clinton supporter) to block Obama from running for and becoming President without first proving he is an eligible U.S. citizen; it alleges he was born in Kenya. Whether that lawsuit leads to anything remains to be seen, but if the truth damages Obama, there will certainly be continued efforts by many to keep that truth successfully hidden.

 

 

  If Obama was born in Hawaii, the more damaging issue may be whether he became and is still an Indonesian citizen. [258,305]

 

 

  In 1965, Obama’s father writes in the “East Africa Journal” an article called, “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” in which he criticizes Kenya for not being socialist enough. He writes, “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed." [271] Obama the Presidential candidate has so far suggested an income tax rate of “only” 39.6 per cent (not counting Social Security and Medicare taxes, and state income taxes). [271]

 

 

  Obama, in his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” clearly states that, like his father, he is also no great fan of the American system of free enterprise capitalism; he describes capitalism as “chaotic and unforgiving,” and has a desire to roll back the “ownership society.” [271]

 

 

 

1985-1988

 Obama moves to Chicago, and hangs out with black militants and leftists. [33] Obama works as a “community organizer” for the “Industrial Areas Foundation” (IAF), an organization founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul Alinsky. Its national activities have included a “Citizens USA” project to obtain citizenship for over one million illegal aliens. (Coincidentally, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight,” is about Alinsky; [45,192,229] in 1968 Alinsky offered Clinton a job, which she declined.) [46]

 Obama also works with the Alinsky group “Developing Communities Project” (DCP), and “ACORN” (the “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now”) and Project Vote, both Alinsky-network creations. Obama’s duties include organizing residents of the Altgeld Gardens housing project on Chicago’s south side. [45,324] ACORN is an off-shoot of what had been the National Welfare Rights League (NWRL), a militant 1960s group that staged protests in welfare offices and, often successfully, demanded increased benefits with threats of violence. ACORN was founded by William Ayers’ SDS associate, Wade Rathke, and is currently the largest and most powerful leftist organization in the United States. [227,322]

 Obama’s Altgeld Gardens work allegedly involves forcing a clean-up of asbestos. Obama’s mentor during his time on the project was Hazel Johnson, who argues that she discovered the asbestos problem and led the efforts to resolve it; according to Johnson, Obama exaggerated his role in the project in his book, “Dreams From My Father.” [345]

 Alinsky’s “training manual” for community organizers, “Rules for Radicals,” states that community organizers are primarily agitators, who must "Fan the resentments of the people of a community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression - he must search out controversy and issues... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontentment [sic].... He knows that values are relative.... Truth to him is relative and changing." [315]

 Note that Alinsky’s work also influenced the creation of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” named after Columbia University professors Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their strategy involves taking action to force deliberate failure in society, to foster change toward socialism, by overloading the bureaucracy with impossible demands, lawsuits, holding officials to the extreme letter of the law, etc. The Cloward-Piven method is to push society into an economic collapse, thus forcing a fear and resentment of capitalism, making it easier to usher in socialism. The Cloward-Piven strategy is one of the tactics used by “community organizers” (e.g., storming welfare offices and violently demanding immediate action) to impose intentional strains on the system, like forcing the hiring of more government workers to deal with their ever-increasing demands. [327]

 Obama has probably already met William Ayers by this time, and likely still remains in contact with him. [259]

 While at IAF, Obama reports to Gerald Kellman. [20] Kellman is a follower of Alinsky, whose book “Rules for Radicals” was widely read by 1960s radicals, such as members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weather Underground, and the youths who rioted at the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago. [33] (Obama’s line about “the world as it is and the world as it should be,” which his future wife swooned over and which she repeated twice in her speech to the Democrat National Convention, comes from Chapter 2 of Alinsky’s book.) [352]

 Obama is hired with $25,000 Kellman receives from the Woods Fund. [33] Obama will later serve on the Woods Fund board, along with former Weather Underground domestic terrorist, Pentagon bomber, radical, leftist, communist, and fugitive from justice William Ayers. [33,204]

 Note that the Woods Fund was founded by the Woods family, which owned a coal business that was a major supplier of coal to Commonwealth Edison; the CEO of Commonwealth Edison was Thomas Ayers, father of William Ayers. [346]

Gerald Kellman later relates that Obama’s job “largely consisted of interviewing community members and creating a narrative out of their experiences, the problems the community faced.” [190]

 As a community organizer, Obama, despite being a “master of agitation,” [47] has limited success [35,47] working for more welfare programs for the poor on the south side of Chicago. Obama is less a “community organizer” than a “community agitator,” getting people to demand more welfare benefits and government hand-outs.

 Obama also works on voter registration drives during this period, and comes into contact with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI); Obama is likely to have met Carl Davidson during this period; Davidson is a former member of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and later is a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), which organized the 2002 rally where Obama announces his public opposition to the looming Iraq War. [34]

 Obama learns from the Alinsky crowd the method for getting people to support radical change they would ordinarily not be willing to accept. "They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.” [192] Thus, just as it has been the theme of most Democrat Presidential campaigns over the last 30 years, so is it Obama’s: “Everything is terrible and headed in the wrong direction, your lives are in shambles, greedy capitalism is at fault, and you need to trust a bigger government and my plans to solve all  your problems.”

 For three years, Obama is the director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), part of the “Gamaliel Foundation,” another Alinsky-like group which uses “in your face” tactics and threats against banks to obtain more loans to people in poor neighborhoods. Gamaliel’s co-founder and executive director is Gregory Galluzzo, who served as a trainer and mentor during Obama’s community activist days in Chicago. [227,228,337]

 Probably in 1987 or 1988, Obama joins the black liberation theology Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC); it’s pastor is Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who preaches Marxism, black liberation theology (a Marxist version of Christianity that worships a white-hating black Jesus), gives controversial sermons, supports communists in Cuba and Nicaragua, and who later says America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that America intentionally spread the AIDS virus to remain wealthy at the expense of poor Africans. Some accounts state that Obama joins TUCC in 1992. [33,268,324,336]

 For what it calls a “commitment to truth, education, and leadership,” Obama’s church magazine, “Trumpet Newsmagazine,” gives a “lifetime achievement award” to Louis Farrakhan, [36] a virulent anti-Semite whose quotes include, “Hitler was a very great man,” [37] “Judaism is a gutter religion,” [38] and “white people are potential humans, they haven’t evolved yet.” [39] Obama alleges that his church is “fairly conventional,” and that he “wasn’t in church” when Wright made his more inflammatory statements.

 Reverend Wright, along with Louis Farrakhan, visits Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 1984. Obama’s church presents Louis Farrakhan with its “Empowerment Award.” (References to that award are, in 2008, removed from the church’s web site after Obama’s relationships with Wright and Farrakhan are questioned.) [315]

 Obama considers Wright to be his “moral compass,” “sounding board,” and “confidant.” [202] Obama is likely an atheist, like his mother and father, but joins the church for “street cred,” probably to please his wife, and to end the flak he receives from people in the community for his lack of religion. [239,271,336]

 Obama alleges that he was baptized at TUCC, but no one has been able to find records of the event. [336]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

updated 7:39 a.m. CT, Tues., Oct. 21, 2008

CHICAGO - The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who freshened the water in her fishbowl. So election officials in Chicago's northern suburbs want to know why voter registration material was sent to the dead goldfish.

"I am just stunned at the level of people compromising the integrity of the voting process," said Lake County Clerk Willard Helander, a Republican, who said she has spotted problems with nearly 1,000 voter registrations this year.

Beth Nudelman, who owned the fish, said Princess may have landed on a mailing list because the family once filled in the pet's name when they got a second phone line for a computer.

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"There was no fraud involved," said Nudelman, a Democrat who supports Barack Obama. "This person is a dead fish."

The paperwork sent to a "Princess Nudelman" likely came from the "Women's Voices, Women Vote" project, which sent nearly 1 million mailings to Illinois households in August using a list that mistakenly included some pets, said Sarah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit group that encourages single women to vote.

The mailing list, purchased from a vendor, included names from warranties, magazine subscriptions and other sources, Johnson said. The group attempted to screen out obvious pet names.

"Fido's not going to be left on there, but if a cat is named is Polly, she may be," Johnson said. Princess could be a person's name, she insisted. "I went to high school with two Princesses."

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Nudelman said the only address on the registration card was the Lake County clerk's office. She said she wrote election officials a humorous note explaining why the fish was ineligible to vote.

The Illinois mailing generated 63,500 returned voter applications, Johnson said. Applicants were instructed to fill in a driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number so election officials would be able to validate their identity.

"We obviously don't want to add more work for any election official," Johnson said. "At the end of the day, our goal is same as theirs: To give as many people as possible the chance to make voices heard in our democracy."

  Click for related content Read about the ACORN voter registration issue

As if  A.I.G.'s $400,000 vacation was not a big enough slap in the face, after giving that corp. an 85,000,000 to keep them in business. Now they want another 37,000,000 (to leave a tip ? ) At one point everyone needs a helping hand, some more then others. But I do not see the government giving my neighbor any fund to keep their business from going under in a bad economy. Oh wait I think I just hit a good topic, maybe that is not happening because my neighbor is actually seeing a slow business margin due to the economy issues, instead of them going to get a 23,000 dollar spa treatment at the expense of their customer base.

Just like the average business owner whom may suffer tremendiously because of a slow economy. They have to make a choice on placing a second mortgage on their home or pushing their own life savings into their business to keep it open, or they choose to shut it down and lick their wounds. They are not offered an endless cash flow with a below average interest rate to help keep them accustom to their life style. So why are we as a nation padding millionaire CEO's retirement funds, stock options and bonus accounts with our hard earned tax dollars while they reap the lap of luxery for not running their Corp. properly. Its not only wrong but should be criminal !!!

I read the below blog and it about floored me. What I ask you now if with the approval of the AIG Bailout in which involved congress as well as the current President.

The CEO's of AIG was so grateful to your presidential candidates and congressional candidates for relieving their stress and filling their bank accounts they all took a 400,000 dolar vacation at your expense. Even with the congressional hearing do you really think any one of those CEO's will be held accountable ? Those hearings is just a public PR show to keep you the people off their governmental butts.

I am actually surprised there was not a blog already listed involving this subject with the political party dwellers that flock on what they think can be used against the other.

 

AIG Bailout: Is It Working? September 17, 2008 03:56 PM ET | Kirk Shinkle | Permanent Link | Print

Obviously, it's a bit early to tell whether the government's $85 billion bailout of American International Group will keep the financial sector from falling in on itself, but after watching the market's reaction today, things could be better.

I read the article below and do believe it ask the ultimate question. Who is Obama ? As I have said before I do not care for either candidate, but this voter will have to admit. At least McCain is known !!! Obama has side stepped questions from the first day he campaigned and still has not changed. He distracts people when asked a question by turning to the current President and situations or his republican counterpart McCain. Why is it him nor his campaign advisers can give a straight answer !

 

Republicans have for months criticized Obama’s relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright; convicted Chicago businessman and contributor Antoin “Tony” Rezko; and William Ayers, a 1960s-era radical and a founder of the Weather Underground group blamed for several Vietnam War-era bombings. Some of the criticism has come from McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

McCain hasn’t stepped there yet.

“Who is the real Sen. Obama?” he asked Monday. “Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? ... Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? And he’s bought into it, big time.”

McCain drew loud cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but “he’s not exactly an open book.”

McCain also raised the specter of illegal foreign donors to Obama’s campaign and special “earmark” spending requests for campaign fundraisers. “Why has Sen. Obama refused to disclose the names of people funding his campaign,” McCain said as the crowd booed.

Obama, McCain said, sidesteps questions and instead criticizes anyone who challenges him.

“Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Sen. Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America?” McCain said. “But ask such questions and all you get in response is another angry barrage insults.”

As I read in a blog earlier today so I did some research, it would appear the dems have been in control of the congress more then the republicans. It would also appear that everytime a Democrat says if they are elected they will reduce your taxes. Yet everytime one gets elected our taxes actually go up