Push for overhaul of immigration laws taking on new forces, greater commitment, more diversity

This is not about reform it is about votes. The democrats know they are in trouble come 2010 and they are attempting to build up a support base. Reality is they only support “reform” when they are feeling heat. Immigrants legal and illegal need just check for themselves the record of the democratic party and they will see the democrats are not now nor have they ever been on their side. Their record speaks for itself. If those currently in the majority have not helped you in the last 40 years, take the hint.

SUZANNE GAMBOA, 26 Nov 09, (AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

With the 2010 election year looming, Democrat Barack Obama in the White House and increasing numbers of Asian-American and Pacific Islanders in Congress, many groups, including the NAACP, are working harder in the traditionally Latino-led movement, sensing a fresh opportunity to overhaul laws affecting millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal.
-Read that, as the organized immigration rights groups are willing to push votes if paid for in policy.

“For far too long, the Latino population in the U.S. has really borne the brunt of the anti-immigrant sentiment,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y. Washington NAACP bureau director Hillary Shelton said: “The immigration debate needs to have, in addition to a Latino face, it needs to have a Haitian face. It needs to have an Asian face.”

Unquestionably, the immigration issue is a temperature’s-rising matter; opinions are strong, in some cases ranging to demands to close the borders. And no small part of the renewed impetus for revamping the system are the increasing immigrant crackdowns.
-Ignoring the real issues of lost jobs, high crime rates and bankruptcies caused by massive numbers of illegals by turning this issue into a moral one is an old democrat game.

Christian Leaders Persecuted for their Beliefs in china

Just a reminder that on this thanksgiving Christians are still being persecuted for their beliefs. I do not buy Chinese junk myself but many of you will soon see the stores pushing that crap as Christmas presents. If Chinese drywall, poisoned medicine and dog food is not enough to discourage you then think of the oppression your money supports when it falls into Chinese hands. Notice, I did not mention many of their goods are just plain crap; if it says “made in China” that should be obvious to you already.

By Matthew Robertson, 26 Nov 09, Epoch Times
Five leaders of a Christian church group in Northern China were each sentenced on Nov. 25 to between three and seven years in prison.

The five were charged with “illegally occupying land” and “assembling to disrupt public order,” according to the NGO Chinese Human Rights Defenders. The sentence was handed down at a court in Linfen city, Shanxi Province. The defendants were not allowed to respond to the charges, CHRD said on its Web site.

Li Fanping, their lawyer, told AFP: “I was shocked at the seriousness of the punishment. This shows that the government is intent on using the law as a tool to attack the church.”

-Compared to the fates of Christians in Africa, the Middle East and the Philippines (all under attack from Muslims) they got off lightly. Oppression and persecution would diminish if enough of you Christions would think before blindly spending your money. Your support of these cultures puts your own at risk and passively supports the persecution of your fellow believers. Passive support is still support.

Best Buy Goes All Dhimmitard

Look in the lower left circle on the following ad page from Best Buy.  Notice anything?  Yup, they’re celebrating Eid al-Adha; a non-American holiday!

Now, it should also be pointed out that Best Buy was one of the stores that refused to use the word “Christmas” in their lexicon last year, and the year before that, and the year before that…    So, what are they thinking?

This is pretty basic stuff, here.  And, it’s not rocket science:  If it is an official American Holiday, you put it in your ad flyer.  If it isn’t an official American Holiday, then you don’t put it in your ad flyer.  How freakin’ hard is that to understand?

Here’s the spokeswoman for Best Buy from a couple of years ago:

“We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them,” said Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., whose advertising omits any reference to Christmas.

Really?  Well then, why do you mention Eid al-Adha by name, but then go out of your way to omit Christmas?  Obviously, there is no good answer to that question, unless they admit the truth:  They are Libtards who hate Christians.

Happy Thanksgiving

Today is the day Americans celebrate thanksgiving. One of our traditions is going around the room and telling everyone why we are thankful. No easy task as I have a house full of relatives and they are driving me nuts. Luckily they do not know how to work a computer.

I am thankful that my blessings far outweigh my problems.

Happy thanksgiving everyone.

New Zealand’s NIWA Gets Busted “Tricking” Their Climate Date

Oh, this is going to get good!  Where’s my popcorn?

BREAKING: NZ’s NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking

UPDATE 15:49 NZDT – NIWA’s news release in response to this story appears to have been delayed, and according to a radio news report a few minutes ago Rodney Hide, leader of the minority Act Party and a minister in the National Government, is now calling on his Cabinet colleague, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith, to “please explain” [normal transmission now resumes]

The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn’t there.

The scandal breaks as fears grow worldwide that corruption of climate science is not confined to just Britain’s CRU climate research centre.

In New Zealand’s case, the figures published on NIWA’s [the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research] website suggest a strong warming trend in New Zealand over the past century:

The caption to the photo on the NiWA site reads:

From NIWA’s web site — Figure 7: Mean annual temperature over New Zealand, from 1853 to 2008 inclusive, based onbetween 2 (from 1853) and 7 (from 1908) long-term station records. The blue and red bars show annual differences from the 1971 – 2000 average, the solid black line is a smoothed time series, and the dotted [straight] line is the linear trend over 1909 to 2008 (0.92°C/100 years).

But analysis of the raw climate data from the same temperature stations has just turned up a very different result:

Gone is the relentless rising temperature trend, and instead there appears to have been a much smaller growth in warming, consistent with the warming up of the planet after the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850.

[...]

Do you all see what they did here?  They used a Bezier curving “trick” to pull the temperatures down by weighting it around the year 1905 or so.  That way, it looks like the temperatures were a lot cooler in the past!

CLICK HERE to continue reading this over at the Briefing Room

Our Dark Overlord Uses America’s Thanksgiving Eve to Wish the Hajis Well

I think I’m going to hurl…

Gee, I sure am glad that Our Dark Overlord has repeatedly assured us that he is now a Christian, else one might be led to believe that he is still a Muslim.

BTW – Has Obama even picked a church, yet?

H/T – Gramfan:

On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issues special message to world’s Muslims on hajj
November 25, 2009 |  4:14 pm – LA Times Blog

Statement by the President on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, as provided by the White House

Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major religions.

During Hajj, the world’s largest and most diverse gathering, three million Muslims from all walks of life – including thousands of American Muslims – will stand in prayer on Mount Arafat. The following day, Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid-ul-Adha and distribute food to the less fortunate to commemorate Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son out of obedience to God.

This year, I am pleased that the Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with the Saudi Health Ministry to prevent and limit the spread of H1N1 during Hajj. Cooperating on combating H1N1 is one of the ways we are implementing my administration’s commitment to partnership in areas of mutual interest.

On behalf of the American people, we would like to extend our greetings during this Hajj season – Eid Mubarak.   ###

Two Somewhat Conflicting H1N1 Vaccine Reports from the Associated Press

Seeing the following articles come across the AP wire, one after the other, kind of had me doing a double-take:

24 reactions to H1N1 vaccine recorded in Canada with 1 person dead+
Nov 25 05:33 PM US/Eastern – via Breitbart

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (AP) – (Kyodo)—Twenty-four people have developed a side effect known as anaphylaxis from new-flu vaccine in Canada and one of them has died, Canadian health officials said Wednesday.

The fatality was a man in his 80s who was suffering from an underlying disease, the officials said, adding they are investigating a possible linkage between the H1N1 flu vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc which the man was administered and his death.

Earlier in the week, an unusually high rate of severe allergic reactions to the vaccine was reported in Canada, prompting health authorities to recall a batch of the vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline.

[...]

Meanwhile, the CDC continues to massage the public’s pleasure center:

CDC: Swine flu vaccine safe; no big problems seen
By MIKE STOBBE (AP) – Nov 25 04:30 PM US/Eastern

ATLANTA — There’s no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects, U.S. health officials said Wednesday, in their first report on the safety of the new vaccine.

Since vaccinations began in early October, the government has been tracking the safety of the swine flu vaccine. By mid-November, about 22 million Americans had gotten the vaccine and there were about 3,200 reports of possible side effects, the vast majority for minor things like soreness or swelling from the shot.

Health officials didn’t expect to see any serious problems — the swine flu vaccine is basically the same as the regular winter flu vaccine. And there weren’t any signs of trouble in the tests done in thousands to find the right dose.

Still, it is “very reassuring” to see that confirmed in their first report, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The vaccine data so far really suggests this is a safe vaccine,” she said at a press conference Wednesday.

[...]

I guess it all depends on what your definition of safe is…

BTW – Still no data on the side-effects to pregnant women and their fetuses…

FBI Serves Warrant for “Muslim Mafia” Documents

Well, this is certainly an interesting development.  I suppose CAIR is going to attempt to sue the FBI, now…

FBI swoops in to halt return of ‘Muslim Mafia’ documents
New subpoena in conflict with judge’s order on papers captured in undercover investigation
WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – While attorneys representing the co-author of “Muslim Mafia” were preparing late today to honor a federal court order to return documents obtained from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in an independent undercover operation, FBI agents served a warrant on a Washington, D.C., law office for the same documents.

The FBI agents entered the capital law offices of Cozen O’Connor tonight and issued a warrant for thousands of pages of documents as well as audio and video recordings gathered by P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris in a daring and lengthy undercover penetration of CAIR in which the younger Gaubatz served as an unpaid intern for the group that was labeled an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in last year’s Holy Land Foundation trial.

CAIR claimed in a lawsuit that Gaubatz removed its papers and made recordings of employees “without any consent or authorization and in violation of his contractual fiduciary and other legal obligations.” A federal judge in Washington issued a restraining order Nov. 3 barring the Gaubatzes from further use or publication of the material – 12,000 pages of documents along with audio and video recordings – and demanding that they return it to the Muslim group’s lawyers.

However, last night the FBI stepped in with a warrant, suggesting the agency wants to see the papers and examine the recordings as part of its interest in CAIR and its Hamas terrorist links, including those involving its founding chairman and acting executive director.

Ed Begley, Jr. Loses it Over Climategate

Too funny!  The guy is a total moron!  Here’s a tip, Ed:  In the scientific community, it’s not considered “peer reviewed” if it isn’t “independently reviewed.”  That’s the problem with the Asinine Global Warmists; they were reviewing each others work and not allowing independent researches to review the work.  There’s even a technical term for that—”scientific fraud.”

A Christmas Special With the O’s

Apparently, Obama thinks Christmas is HIS holiday and will team up with Oprah for a Christmas Special.

And you thought all those Christmas specials with the Osmonds were pure, unadulterated torture when you were a kid.  Can you imagine yourself as a child being subjected to this type of cruel and unusual punishment during the holidays?

Just shoot me….Shoot me now!

ABC announces Oprah-Obama Christmas special
By James Hibberd & Nellie Andreeva – thrfeed.com

The queen of daytime will interview the president of the country during an ABC holiday special that brings together Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.

The network has announced “Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special,” which includes an interview with the president, a conversation with the First Couple and tour of the White House.

The special marks the first time Winfrey has interviewed Obama since he took office. “Christmas at the White House” will air Sunday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m.

Winfrey, who has never endorsed a presidential candidate before, was a strong supporter of Obama during his presidential campaign, stumping for him in key states.

[...]

Canadian Judge Open to Claim of Honor Killing Threat

Hmmm…  Dishonoring her husband’s family because she was touching men’s hair while working at a hair salon…

This will be one to watch:

Don’t dismiss honour killing claim: judge
Kenyon Wallace, National Post

A Federal Court judge has ordered the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration to consider the credibility of a woman’s claim that she will be the victim of an “honour killing” if deported to her home country of Pakistan.

Justice Michael Kelen found that an immigration officer reviewing evidence in the case of Roohi Tabassum, a 44-year-old Mississauga hair stylist who has been fighting to stay in Canada since 2001, made a mistake by characterizing as “not threatening” letters purportedly from Ms. Tabassum’s husband in which he promised to “finish” Ms. Tabassum if she returned to Pakistan.

According to documents submitted to Citizenship and Immigration obtained by the National Post, Ms. Tabassum claims her husband, Faisal Javed, thought to be living in Dubai, began sending her letters and emails in 2006 in which he threatens to kill her for “dishonouring” his family by touching other men’s hair while working at a Mississauga salon.

Where in the World is Goracle?

Yes, if I were him (perish the thought), I’d be laying low, too!

"When I get back, you will all pay for your insolence!!!"

Al Gore “laying low” in Canada
By Judi McLeod  Wednesday, November 25, 2009 – CFP

Where does Al Gore stand on Climategate?

He doesn’t stand up in debate but hunkers down in hiding, holed up in Canada.

Gore, in Toronto for the MTS Allstream Inc. fundraiser dinner last night, which raised $100,000 for the David Suzuki Foundation, according to MTS Allstream Inc. “supporting its efforts to help transform the Canadian economy in ways that are consistent with a sustainable future”, is staying in Canada for about a week.

While the Internet world reeled in shock at a time when the U.S. considers a probe of whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories are cooking the books on the truth about climate change, Gore was telling the same old jokes to a friendly green Canadian audience.

“I am Al Gore.  I used to be the next president of the U.S.,” he quipped to the by-invitation-only Canadians inside Toronto’s Allstream Centre.  “Now I’m a recovering politician.”

They laughed just like Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.

There was no sign that the curtain had been pulled back revealing the Global Warming Wizard of Oz in England last week after computer hackers who got into the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England leaked personal emails and documents pointing to the orchestration of global warming by prominent scientists, advocates of global warming alarmist theories willing to fudge the truth about climate change.

“But Gore’s supporters at the dinner shrugged off the allegations,” TorontoSun.com, Nov. 25, 2009.  “It doesn’t matter who or where you are, there’s always going to be some corruption,” said Port Elgin green activist Victoria Serda, 36.  “There’s still substantive evidence we need to act as quickly as possible.”

Protesters were rushed off the scene with threats of arrest.

“I arrived at the protest at around 7 o’clock with my friend.  When we arrived at the All Stream Center with our signs protesting Al Gore, we were met by a security guard who told us about an incident with protesters earlier on and that, if we did not leave immediately, we would be arrested,” Eddy Ashton told Canada Free Press (CFP) photographers on the scene.

Sawing a Woman in Half

As Doug Henning would say, “It’s Maaagic!”

We Pay Them to Lie to Us
By John Stossel – Real Clear Politics

When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician.

President Obama insists that health care “reform” not “add a dime” to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow “$900 billion over 10 years” has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit.

It’s amazing how precise government gets when estimating the cost of 10 years of subsidized medical care. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill was scored not at $850 billion, but $849 billion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her bill would cost $871 billion.

How do they do that?

The key to magic is misdirection, fooling the audience into looking in the wrong direction.

Obama’s Granny and Propaganda Tool makes the Hajj.

Dropping in on the rock is a requirement for islamic minions if they are of good health and can afford it. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with exploiting the elderly for propaganda purposes. At 87, granny is not capable of walking around mohammed pet rock once – much less seven times. The hajj is full of stupid ceremonies designed to keep the insane from figuring out that islam is a sham. The unwritten story is who paid for grannies trip and why?

Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) – The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the ‘Hajj’ or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama’s cousin, Omran.
-Made trip-check, male relative escort-check, propaganda that the obama’s are pious mulsims-check.

On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.

Obama, the mother of the American president’s father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
-Well now we know whom but why? Could it be as simple as encouraging more tourist dollars-nah, not that simple. Anothor question-why didn’t obama pay for the trip? He has money. He let grandma down; at 87, she should be done with this requirement. It seems obama takes about as good of care of his family as he does our country.

Florida Store Manager Shoots Armed Robber

Ah, yes.  I love reading stories like these:

Store manager shoots robber
BY KAUSTUV BASU • FLORIDA TODAY • November 25, 2009

COCOA — A store manager shot and wounded an armed man during an attempted robbery at a Chevron gas station near U.S. 1 and Peachtree Street on Tuesday night.

At about 9:20 p.m., a man entered the store and pointed a large-caliber handgun at the store manager and demanded money. The store manager, Sowann Suy, 40, instead pulled out a gun from below the counter and started firing.

The man was shot once in the abdomen. He did not fire his weapon and immediately left the store, collapsing in the parking lot, where Cocoa police found him when they arrived a few minutes later. Suy called 9-1-1 right after the shooting.

Police did not release the suspect’s name.

No other customers or store employees were in the station at the time of the incident.

The man, 40, was flown via helicopter to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, where he was undergoing surgery at press time. His condition was critical but stable, said Officer Barbara Matthews, police spokeswoman.

Suy is a member of a family that has owned the gas station for about five years, police said.

“He absolutely had the right to defend himself,” Matthews said.

[...]

Source Code ‘Fudge Factor’ is THE Smoking Gun in Climategate!

While I’ve been busily scratching my head while playing with the raw data sets from the CRU files on and off for the past few days, Marc Sheppard has been digging into the CRU Code that was used to generate the graphs used by the Asinine Global Warmists.

Being a physicist, myself, it has been drilled into my head that any filtering of data MUST be referenced in any published papers.  Now, you don’t need to include your source code, but you MUST include the formulas you used to filter the data sets.  Well, after reading the following article on CRU’s source code, I now understand why I was having no luck with the raw data sets:  I didn’t have a program that automatically put a “fudge factor” algorithm into the mix!

Note:  I have shortened the following article so as to concentrate on the fudge factor:

CRU’s Source Code: Climategate Uncovered
By Marc Sheppard – American Thinker

[...]

One can only imagine the angst suffered daily by the co-conspirators, who knew full well that the “Documents” sub-folder of the CRU FOI2009 file contained more than enough probative program source code to unmask CRU’s phantom methodology.

In fact, there are hundreds of IDL and FORTRAN source files buried in dozens of subordinate sub-folders.  And many do properly analyze and chart maximum latewood density (MXD), the growth parameter commonly utilized by CRU scientists as a temperature proxy, from raw or legitimately normalized data.  Ah, but many do so much more.

Skimming through the often spaghetti-like code, the number of programs which subject the data to a mixed-bag of transformative and filtering routines is simply staggering.  Granted, many of these “alterations” run from benign smoothing algorithms (e.g. omitting rogue outliers) to moderate infilling mechanisms (e.g. estimating missing station data from that of those closely surrounding).  But many others fall into the precarious range between highly questionable (removing MXD data which demonstrate poor correlations with local temperature) to downright fraudulent (replacing MXD data entirely with measured data to reverse a disorderly trend-line).

In fact, workarounds for the post-1960 “divergence problem”, as described by both RealClimate and Climate Audit, can be found throughout the source code.  So much so that perhaps the most ubiquitous programmer’s comment (REM) I ran across warns that the particular module “Uses ‘corrected’ MXD – but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.”

What exactly is meant by “corrected” MXD, you ask?  Outstanding question — and the answer appears amorphous from program to program.  Indeed, while some employ one or two of the aforementioned “corrections,” others throw everything but the kitchen sink at the raw data prior to output.

An Email from Climategate that Seems to Have Been Overlooked by Many

Hmmm, even I missed this one while trying to sift through all those emails:

H/T – HyperConservative

(From the searchable online database HERE)

From: gjjenkins@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
To: p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, deparker@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: 1996 global temperatures
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:23 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: llivingston@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, djcarson@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, ckfolland@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

Phil

Remember all the fun we had last year over 1995 global temperatures,
with early release of information (via Oz), “inventing” the December
monthly value, letters to Nature etc etc?

I think we should have a cunning plan about what to do this year,
simply to avoid a lot of wasted time.

I have been discussing with David P and suggest the following:

Must Watch Video: Hide the Decline

Too funny!  Climategate’s Mr. Hockey Stick, Michael Mann, gets “checked” in this hilarious new video:

GlaxoSmithKline Ponders Recalling Batch of H1N1 Vaccine After Severe Side-Effects Reported

Gee, I don’t recall the Lame Stream Media telling us about these reports of anaphylactic -like reactions.  Of course, they’ve probably been given orders to not report on such things.  Wouldn’t want to create a panic, now would we?

BTW – You might consider reading the comments to that link above by CLICKING HERE.

Canada’s doctors told to stop using swine flu vaccine
BBC

GlaxoSmithKline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine, amid reports of severe side-effects in some patients.

The batch of some 170,000 doses was put on hold because of the reported higher than usual number of patients having anaphylactic reactions.

This may include breathing problems, raised heart rate and skin rashes.

The pharmaceutical company said it was investigating the reports, which could lead to the withdrawal of the batch.

The reports say one in 20,000 people suffered adverse reactions to the batch of GlaxoSmithKline’s Aperanix vaccine.

This is five times the expected number. None of the patients reportedly suffered long-term ill-effects.

Navy Seals Accused of Assaulting Murderer of 4 Blackwater USA Security Guards

What bunch of PC Libtard BS!  The little terrorist punk is lucky I didn’t get ahold of him!  This is what the little SOB did:

Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 – FoxNews

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7.

Fresno Homecare Workers Blow the Whistle on SEIU’s Thuggery

Remember, Obama is a big fan of the SEIU:

Rival union accuses SEIU of election pressure
By Brad Branan / The Fresno Bee

A competing union has accused the Service Employees International Union of changing ballots and threatening to report workers to immigration officials in a contentious battle to represent more than 10,000 home health-care workers in Fresno County.

The National Union of Healthcare Workers filed charges Nov. 6 with the California Public Employment Relations Board.

SEIU’s United Health Care Workers-West narrowly defeated NUHW in a June election, winning the right to represent workers in the county’s In-Home Supportive Services program. NUHW wants the board to throw out the victory.

“SEIU not only tolerated but encouraged people to break the law, intimidate people and harass people,” said Sal Roselli, NUHW president.

[...]

In a telephone interview, former SEIU employee Carlos Martinez said that he changed the ballots of health-care workers after pressuring them to vote for SEIU. He said he was told to change the ballots by SEIU superiors.

In written statements sent to the Public Employment Relations Board, IHSS employees said the SEIU pressured them to change their votes and then marked their ballots to reflect the change.

The SEIU pressured workers by telling them they would lose their jobs, wages and benefits if they voted for the NUHW, Martinez said. They were also told, if they were illegal immigrants, that the NUHW wouldn’t protect them from deportation like the SEIU had, he said.

According to the complaint filed with the board, IHSS worker Patricia Barbosa Rodriguez said an SEIU representative asked her whether she were in the country legally, and “if not, immigration might find out and I could be deported.”

[...]

It’s Official: FDIC is Broke, Broke!—To the Tune of 8.2 Billion Dollars!

Uhm…  I’m keeping an eye on my bank!  The moment they show up on the FDIC’s list of problem institutes, I’m outta’ there!

DIF Balance (In Millions)
3/06 49,193
6/06 49,564
9/06 49,992
12/06 50,165
3/07 50,745
6/07 51,227
9/07 51,754
12/07 52,413
3/08 52,843
6/08 45,217
9/08 34,588
12/08 17,276
3/09 13,007
6/09 10,368
9/09 -8,243

Banking sector back to profit, insurance fund in red: FDIC

(AFP)

WASHINGTON — The US banking industry returned to profit in the third quarter, but the government insurance fund went into deficit for the first time since 1992, regulators announced Tuesday.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said commercial banks and thrifts earned a collective 2.8 billion dollars in the third quarter.

This came after a collective 4.3 billion dollar loss in the second quarter, and the profit was well above the 879 million dollars the industry earned in the same period in 2008.

But the sector is still feeling the effects of the deep financial crisis triggered by a collapse of the US housing market and global credit crunch.

“Today’s report shows that, while bank and thrift earnings have improved, the effects of the recession continue to be reflected in their financial performance,” said FDIC chairman Sheila Bair.

More than 26 percent of all insured institutions reported a net loss in the latest quarter, and total loan balances declined by the largest percentage since quarterly reporting began in 1984, the FDIC said.

As projected in September, the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund balance fell below zero for the first time since the third quarter of 1992.

The fund balance of negative 8.2 billion dollars reflects a 38.9 billion dollar contingent loss reserve that has been set aside to cover estimated losses over the next year.

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Sues NASA for Refusal to Release Documents Requested Under Freedom of Information Act

In case you haven’t yet downloaded your copy of the Climategate emails and data, you should be aware that NASA’s James Hansen was actively corresponding with CRU’s Asinine Global Warmists:

“Climate Gate” Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA
By Chris Horner on 11.24.09 – American Spectator

Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies’ refusal – for nearly three years – to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding “ClimateGate” scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries’ freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. Numerous informed commenters had alleged such behavior for years, all of which appears to be affirmed by leaked emails, computer codes and other data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UK’s East Anglia University.

All of that material and that sought for years by CEI go to the heart of the scientific claims and campaign underpinning the Kyoto Protocol, its planned successor treaty, “cap-and-trade” legislation and the EPA’s threatened regulatory campaign to impose similar measures through the back door.

Obama Hits New Low in Approval Index!

11-Year-Old Given Homework Assignment: Draw a Picture of an Ejaculating Penis

This kind of crap really burns me up!  Can you imagine if a parent told their 11-year-old child to draw a picture of an ejaculating penis?  I do believe Family Services, backed by the entire police department,  would be knocking down someone’s front door…  So, why are teachers—who, let’s face it, are complete strangers—given immunity by the government?

Now, I would be remiss if I forgot to mention that this homework assignment was issued by a teacher at a Massachusetts school.  Why do I think that’s important?  Do any of you remember Christine McCallum from earlier this year?  She was a Massachusetts teacher who had sex with a 13-year-old student (now 16) more than 300 times over a three year period!

All the more reason to homeschool your children:

MA Education Committee hears lurid testimony from mother of 11-year-old, and others. But legislators barely interested

MassResistance

Angry parents  and others joined MassResistance at the Massachusetts State House on Oct. 13 to testify before the Joint Education Committee in support of the David Parker Parents Rights Bill (H406 – written by MassResistance) and against the Planned Parenthood compulsory sex-ed / homosexuality / abortion counseling bill (H3434) – both of which would affect children in the public schools.

Much of the testimony was shocking and explicit. But most of the committee, dominated by left-leaning politicians, seemed uninterested and even hostile.

A Jamaica Plain mother (see video above) testified that her 11-year-old daughter had been given a homework assignment to draw an erect penis ejaculating. The mother described how this deeply affected the entire family. The only reaction from the committee was a question by House Chairman Martha Walz (D-Boston) who blandly asked the mother if she had been properly notified according to the current law. (The mother said: absolutely not.)

There was more hardcore MassResistance testimony as David Parker came and testified with Brian Camenker [...]

The Parkers made national news over his elementary school’s refusal to notify him or allow an opt-out when teaching his son in Kindergarten about homosexuality and transgenderism. The family filed a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit over the matter. But the federal judges said that Parker has no rights under current Massachusetts law over what their children are taught or even to be notified of it.

CLICK HERE to read this in its entirety over at MassResistance.

NRA Fights Back Against Bloomberg’s Gun Control Coalition

Let us be honest, Americas first politicians wanted guns available to the people because they did not trust future politicians. Nothing has changed, every politician I know has an armed security force protecting him or her but many want us defenseless. I want the same thing our founding fathers wanted, armed American’s capable of protecting themselves from power hungry politicians, criminals and thugs. Ok, all of those are one and the same but you get my drift.

by Arun Venugopal, WNYC
NEW YORK, NY November 23, 2009 —Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a known gun control advocate, and has built a national platform to stem the flow of illegal guns into cities and towns. The group he co-founded in 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has grown from 15 to 526 mayors. Its success has raised the ire of gun rights groups, most notably the National Rifle Association.
-I suggest all of those Mayors hang a sign in front of their homes proudly proclaiming “this is a gun free home”.

The showdown between the NRA and Mayors Against Illegal Guns is playing out across the country: in blogs, on the editorial pages of newspapers, and at countless gun clubs. At the Ridge and Valley Rod and Gun Club, in Coopersburg, Penn., Rick Hubrich is getting a little target practice. He says he loves animals and never hunts, but he does think gun owners help maintain the law. Today he’s brought his tricked-out, AR-15 semi-automatic to the outdoor range, as well as a pistol fitted with a silencer.

“It’s disgusting that any one man can cause so much turmoil,” Hubrich says.
Hubrich sees Mayor Bloomberg as the poster boy for gun control.
-He is a hypocrite, guns protect him and his family but people like him want me and you to use a large 4×4 and a few pit bulls (my backup plan) to defend our homes. I could do it with that but I suggest the rest of you buy guns, lots of them, big guns, small guns, short guns, long guns and just for fun get a city map with the mayors house circled on it. Leave it somewhere it can be found, maybe then they will want a gun.

“It’s disgusting because he never speaks the truth — he always twists a little bit,” Hubrich says. “He’s good at it. I’ll give him credit. He’s good at that. Once the more educated mayors and sheriffs see what he’s doing, they back out. Because they know it’s a lie.”

In fact, 15 of Pennsylvania’s mayors have quit Mayors Against Illegal Guns since the NRA began a campaign in September. That’s out of about 150 mayors who are part of the coalition, the most of any state.

The NRA’s anti-Bloomberg campaign followed its failure in passing the Thune amendment in Congress. That measure would have let gun owners cross state borders with their weapons, even if they received their licenses in states with weak gun laws. The mayors group opposed the amendment, and in the end they won.

For some members of the gun club, like Bob Hermida, the growth of the mayors group shouldn’t be seen in isolation, but as part of the White House agenda: “Obama has the support on the Hill because he listened to his constituents, saying hey, calm down. But meanwhile, he’s whispering in Bloomberg’s ear: push the issue.”

FBI Terrorism Task Force Charges 5 “Lebanese” Men in Sting Operation

Of course, the FBI is noticeably  mum on which religion of peace these Lebanese entrepreneurs hail from:

FBI sting nets five in Philly bust
By John Shiffman
Inquirer Staff Writer – Philly.com

The FBI terrorism task force in Philadelphia has charged five men of Lebanese origin following an extensive international undercover sting in which one of the men allegedly tried to purchase 100 Stinger missiles designed to shoot down aircraft.

The central figure in the case planned to use the anti-aircraft weapons and 250 machine guns in the Middle East, and asked to have them exported to Iran or Syria for use by “the Resistance,” according to an FBI affidavit unsealed today. The “Resistance” group was not further identified.

The case began in June 2007 as a stolen goods case in which an undercover agent in Philadelphia began selling purportedly stolen goods – laptop computers, cell phones and video games – to one of the conspirators in Slovakia.

But the FBI says the investigation soon evolved into a case involving weapons systems.

In March, Dani Nemr Tarraf of Trnava, Slovakia, asked an undercover FBI agent in Philadelphia if he “could acquire missiles or rockets that were capable of shooting down airplanes or helicopters,” according to the FBI affidavit.

Senator Inhofe Vows to Call for an Investigation into Climategate

The Climategate story is starting to snowball:

From epw.senate.gov

Transcript From Inhofe Radio Interview

Monday, November 23, 2009

Senator Inhofe: This is a huge issue and of course we have the Gitmo issue and we have the, of course, cap-and-trade is now taking a new turn.  Jed, if I could…

Jed Babbin: Yeah.

Senator Inhofe: Would you let me make one sentence?

Jed Babbin: Please.

Senator Inhofe: This is out of a speech that I made, Melanie, back on the floor of the Senate, and it was repeated, John Gizzi picked it up and put it in Human Events. This was 4 years ago, in talking about the science, cooking the science. I said I would discuss the “systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by which an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective science assessment in the world on the subject of climate change, the United Nations IPCC.”  Now that was four years ago; so we knew they were cooking the science back then, and you’ve been talking about the, you know, what’s happened recently with the bloggers coming up with what they did, what they…

Viscount Monckton Weighs in on Climategate

I’ve been eagerly awaiting Monckton’s comments on Climategate.  The wait is over, and he doesn’t hold back in labeling the Asinine Global Warmists as criminals:

 

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’
November 23, 2009 – by Christopher Monckton – Pajamas Media

This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.

Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.

Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

I am angry, and so should you be.

What have the mainstream news media said about the Climategate affair? Remarkably little. The few who have brought themselves to comment, through gritted teeth, have said that all of this is a storm in a teacup, and that their friends in the University of East Anglia and elsewhere in the climatological community are good people, really.

No, they’re not. They’re criminals. With Professor Fred Singer, who founded the U.S. Satellite Weather Service, I have reported them to the UK’s Information Commissioner, with a request that he investigate their offenses and, if thought fit, prosecute. But I won’t be holding my breath: In the police state that Britain has now sadly become, with supine news media largely owned and controlled by the government, the establishment tends to look after its own.

At our expense, and at the expense of the truth.

ACORN Dumped Thousands of Documents in Wake of Scandal

Destroying relevant documents ahead of an investigation denotes guilt.  In legalese, this demonstrates a “consciousness of wrongdoing,” which is essential in convicting criminals:

BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal
by Derrick Roach

On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.

Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed.

Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.

Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.”

Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what’s going on.”

Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.

CLICK HERE to read the entire article at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government.