White House Violates Anti-lobbying Statues

It took a while, but the administration finally came clean. Not so clean that you'd want to eat off of them, but they removed a bit of their murky mud to admit that they actually were behind the unsolicited email that flooded the internet on behalf of their radical health care reform agenda. According to a Fox News report:

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them.

The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.

It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services.

If taxpayer cabbage was used for this obviously agenda-driven e-barrage, then we are looking at a clear violation of anti-lobbying statutes.

The Oval Office is trying to pass of the whole sordid affair as a mistake on the part of Govdelivery massive mailings, but as reported by Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air, who took time off from his Marriage Encounter weekend to dip back into the truth (I hope his wife understands), Govdelivery is not taking the fall and dropped this exchange on their website.

Q: Where do GovDelivery clients get the email addresses and mobile phone numbers used to reach the public through the GovDelivery digital communications platform?

A: GovDelivery’s clients can offer updates on specific topics through their websites, and often include a subscription sign-up (opt-in) form. Some GovDelivery clients serving a similar audience cross-promote content (topics) from related government agencies by offering subscription items from other agencies (think of this as ‘one stop shopping’ for government information that is of interest to a particular citizen). Finally, GovDelivery allows clients to upload existing contact lists into GovDelivery. …

Q: Does GovDelivery ever share one GovDelivery client’s contact list with another organization?
A: No. GovDelivery does not share contact information collected and stored by one client with any other clients under any circumstances.

In other words, the address list of recipients for this taxpayer-funded spam was provided by the White House. Oops.

Marion Barry Arrested Again

• 1990: While Mayor of Washington D.C., Marion Barry is arrested after being caught on camera smoking crack during an FBI sting operation.
• 1994: Barry wins mayoral re-election, reinforcing the Constitutional wisdom of not giving Washington D.C. an actual vote in congress.
• 2002: Barry arrested after traces of cocaine and marijuana are found in his car. Barry claims the drugs were planted, probably by the same person who planted those rocks in his crack pipe back in 1990.
• 2004: Barry elected to a seat on the D.C. Council (which he still holds), reinforcing the intuitive wisdom of every American who decided not to live in Washington D.C. among the brain-dead voters.
• 2005: Barry placed on probation for not filing or paying income taxes for several years. .
• 2006: Barry stopped by the police for driving too slowly, prompting him to accuse authorities of targeting him . . . and prompting America to wonder why they don't target him more often.
• 2009: And just yesterday, Barry is arrested again after a woman flagged down police to complain that he was stalking her.

With this resume how has this guy avoided a position in the Obama administration?

Stimulus Scams

I admit that I've fallen for my share of scams. I've adopted a few Nigerians, purchased "green" cleaning products, and went on a blind date with "a really hot babe, Khaki, trust me." But even I'm starting to see through the swarm of snake oil salesmen that have swooped into our lives via the government stimulus package.

It seems that every day I get a call from some "mortgage company" that just doesn't know what to do with all the free stimulus money that the government has given them so they want to hand it over to me. Or I open a letter from a "financial institution" that wants to give me some of the bailout money that Washington piled into their pockets. Of course, all of these offers eventually have strings attached that will cost money.

Sadly, I never hear a word from the Nigerian children that I've adopted -- ungrateful kids.

Scam artists across the country are apparently sure of one thing: nobody understands the government stimulus package so they have a golden opportunity to make a perverse profit. Simply throw out some bait using the word "stimulus" and wait to reel in the hapless slugs in society who are looking for a handout.

Part of me wonders if momma government is going to step in to stop some of these fraudulent scams meant to take advantage of people who want to take advantage of Obama's promised redistribution of wealth. But then, since the actual pork-laden stimulus package put together by the current administration is little more than a fraudulent scam on the grandest scale . . . what's the point or prosecution?

The NY Shootings: A Gun Beats 911 Every Time

All of us are reeling after a man identified as Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, walked into the American Civic Association center and opened fire on a roomful of immigrants taking a citizenship class before killing himself. Tragically, 13 people were killed a several more are hospitalized, some in critical condition.

Now we can expect the anti-gun crowd to use the dead bodies as a platform to push their agenda. They'll tell you that we need to ban guns to prevent incidents like this. What they won't tell you is that if guns were outlawed it would not stop psychos like Jiverly Wong because they aren't really interested in obeying laws (as illustrated by their shooting sprees). What they won't tell you is that if somebody in that building had been legally armed, we wouldn't have been watching a standoff on CNN, we would have been watching the scumbag's body bag.

The hero of this story is a receptionist who played dead, then crawled under a desk to call 911. God bless her courage and cool head to break the paralysis of fear and take action. But what if she'd been armed and trained. What if a couple of the good people in that building were carrying. Calling 911 is fine, but calling on 9mm is faster. Lives would have been saved. And psychos would have received a message that public places are not shooting galleries where you can achieve a high score for CNN & MSNBC.

ACORN & Obama's Campaign Fraud

The New York Times tried to keep it submerged, but the evidence keeps bobbing above the surface of the media cesspool to expose that ACORN and Obama committed fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Less then 100 days into his presidency and we're finding out that Barack Obama is about as real Nancy Pelosi's tightly pulled skin and more radical than Tony Hawk on a half pipe.

Snooper Who Snipered Joe The Plumber Resigns

Oh, how the Democrats hated him. He became "everyman" to the country, which meant the left needed to treat him as they tend to treat every man by attempting to crush any apparent adherence to self-reliance. Lordy how they hate folk who don't need them.

Joe the Plumber became public enemy number 3 (even this brash baldy couldn't pass Dubya and American Values atop the liberal hit list). Joe Biden ridiculed him, the media investigated him and SNL attempted to become funny again through incongruous "Joe the Plumber is invisible" jokes. The left would stop at nothing to discredit the man who cleverly tricked Obama into revealing his distribution of wealth ideology . . . cleverly tricked him asking the chosen one a straight question for which he hadn't scripted an answer yet. So they would "stop at nothing," and that included the illegal procurement of Joe's records.

Ah, but no foul deed goes unpunished and the heat applied by bloggers and a very, (very) few in the main stream media did result in some fallout from the attacks. According to Michelle Malkin:

Lead Ohio government snooper Helen Jones-Kelley resigned from her job and two of her cohorts were canned as a result of their plundering through Joe the Plumber’s records.

So, we have the resignation. Dare we hope for incarceration?

SOLD! Illinois Senate Seat

I know how stunned we all were to learn that there was more government corruption in Illinois . . . which is to say, it was about as stunning as when George Michael was jerked out of the closet. They've got Tony Rezko, Christopher G. Kelly, a long and storied tradition of Democratic Lazarus voters, why this state makes "earn $1,000 a day from home" scams seem legit.

Now we find Governor Rod Blagojevich, who should have been locked up years ago for that cheesy smile, under arrest for trying to sell the Senate spot vacated by Barack Obama. Perhaps he thought fair is fair since Obama recently bought the White House.

According to Fox News:

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on Tuesday accused Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of participating in a "political corruption crime spree" that was a blatant effort to sell the state's U.S. Senate seat in the latest "pay-to-play" scheme in Illinois politics.

"He has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree," Fitzgerald said in a news conference to announce the charges against the governor and his chief of staff. "This is a sad day for government. It's a very sad day for Illinois government. Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low."

Usually Senators are the ones being bought, but never let it be said that an Illinois politician can't think outside of the box. So how much does a Senate seat go for these days?

The 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was taped conspiring to sell or trade Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife, including an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000 at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

Ol' Abe Lincoln would be spinning in his grave, if he wasn't actually from Kentucky.

Pastor Beaten While Decorating The Church

A couple of thugs jumped Pastor Dennis Warman at his parish, the Church of the Valley in Highland, out in California (where reality often intersects unreality) and beat him nearly to death for . . . his wallet? ABC covered the story.

Looks like two more tickets punched for the hell express.

Meanwhile, In The Wayne County Jail

Kwame Kilpatrick sits.

While I spent another Sunday trying to wrap my arms around watching Brett Farve toss the ball to Jets players on purpose, the former mayor of Detroit was sitting in his cell in the Wayne County jail, probably having the same thoughts about Farve.

What a waste. Not Brett Farve going to the big apple (that seems to have worked out for him), but Kilpatrick's fall from promise to prison. When he first took office many of us were filled with optimism, thinking this bright, charismatic leader would bring Detroit into a new era where the city and the suburbs worked together to give America another bustling metropolis along the lines of Chicago. But instead Kilpatrick turned out to be just another power-hungry politician who would use race, position, friends and even a skank skulking pager to grab and maintain power. What a terrific waste.

The former mayor is now serving 120 days behind bars and now it appears that one of his partners in crime, Christine Beatty, is about to strike a plea of her own (one that does include the phrase "yes, I want you too"). According to the Detroit News, Beatty is considering a guilty plea to reduce potential jail time and help all of us to take another step away from this embarrassing episode in the history of a proud city.

Please, Christine, take whatever they offer. Trust me, you are not only one who wants to put this whole sordid affair behind you.

Video Proof: Democrats Covered Up Fannie & Freddie

The "media" is treating the truth about the Fannie and Freddie debacle the way I treated my parents when they showed up at McDonald's after homecoming. But ignoring the truth doesn't mean it won't get out there.

Here is another MUST WATCH, a video record of congressional denial:



Spread the truth!

And another H/T to Z for his great work in tracking this corruption on geeeeeZ! (and for linking to Social Sense for the above video gem!)


UPDATE: "I am the only member of the congressional gay spouse caucus. On Capitol Hill, Barney [Frank] always introduces me as his lover." Herb Moses wrote in the Washington Post in 1991. Oh, did I mention that Herb Moses was Fannie Mae's assistant director for product initiatives. Can Frank enunciate "Conflict of interest"?

Render Unto Caesar That Which Is Caesar's

And render unto Obama that which is the Law's. He hath called for change and change hath he wrought. Change to truth. Change to civility. Change to accountability. How, then, should laws apply to this prince of change?

Yet, RightMichigan.com is breaking a story challenging the right of change:

Rallies by Hollywood singers "Will I Am" and Tatyana Ali for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign at Ferris State University and Central Michigan University were run through student spin-off groups in an attempt to circumvent a state law prohibiting public resources from being used for partisan political purposes.

Both rallies are in violation of Michigan law because they are being held in state-owned, taxpayer-funded facilities.

The Obama campaign was allowed free use of taxpayer-funded facilities because students turned in the reservation requests for the venues.

Using Students for Barack Obama as a front group to save a couple dollars might have seemed like a good idea to the Obama campaign, but now it could cost both the campaign and the two universities.

According to the Obama website, both events are partisan rallies with campaign staffer Ted York listed as the coordinator.

This contradicts the claim by Students for Barack Obama that they were organizing and coordinating the events, which are being marketed as "voter registration drives."

Read the entire post here: BREAKING: Obama campaign hosting illegal rallies at FSU and CMU

Man Found Guilty Of Planning Super Bowl Slaughter

According to an AP report:

Authorities alleged the 36-year-old [Kurt] Havelock bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition from the Scottsdale Gun Club on Jan. 30. The documents say Havelock wanted to kill people at the Feb. 3 Super Bowl in Glendale and was armed when he reached a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium where pre-game activities were happening. However, Havelock had a change of heart. He called his parents, and they persuaded him to turn himself in to Tempe police.

While it's horrific that somebody would air his grievances by planning a massacre at football's premiere game, at least I know my Detroit Lions will always be far away from any danger involving the Super Bowl.