BREAKING: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Earmarks $48 BILLION to Pal Who Runs Child Day Care Center From Home With His Wife (Updated)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 7:02 AM
(Updated and Bumped)
On Wednesday it was reported that far left Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) proposed a $48 billion earmark to redistribute taxpayer money to the inner city.
It was the Mother of All Earmarks…
Liberal Rep. Emanuel Cleaver proposed a whopping $48 BILLION EARMARK that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities and gift money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.
Rep. Cleaver will lead the Congressional Black Caucus next year. (CBC Blog)
Now get this…
The $48 billion would go to Cleaver’s friend, a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus who runs the organization out of his Kansas City home.
The Southeast Missourian reported:
Currently Mickens operates this massive proposal out of his home but with Cleaver’s help, this earmark could put him on the road to success.
Cleaver provides a link to a Mickens “manifesto” where a lengthy agenda is outlined — but again with no specifics other than the rich should provide money to the poor so that the poor will have more money to spend.
There’s more…
Lamar Mickens is the President and the Treasurer of Quality Day Campus, Inc.
His wife Cynthia is the Vice President of Quality Day Campus, Inc.
It says so on their handwritten Annual Report!
And get this… It’s classified as a child day care center that he runs out of his home!
This is UNBELIEVABLE!
Rep. Cleaver is asking for $48 billion to donate to his friend’s shady day care center that is run out of a Kansas City home?
Wouldn’t you expect this to be a punishable offense?
Rep. Cleaver has some explaining to do.
UPDATE: Rep. Cleaver also listed an earmark in March 2010 asking for $1,000,000 for Quality Day Campus, Inc.
UPDATE: To the doubters out there. This wasn’t a misprint.
To those that would state that this was not a request from Rep. Cleaver you are 100% incorrect. All you have to do is follow the following steps.
Caesar Rodney added:
1. Go to this website, it is his official .gov site
http://www.house.gov/cleaver/Cleaver%20Green/index.shtml#
2. Then put your mouse over the “legislation” link
3. Select “Appropriations”
4. You will see a link named: FY2011 earmark request……
5. Open it up and go to the last entry on page 25 and ENJOY your ready…..48 BILLION dollar earmark request….straight from the horse’s mouth.
OHHHHH…….did I forget to mention…..this 48 Billion dollar earmark is labeled “(Phase One)”
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HadaAbeche commented:
If the Beaver sez its OK, then its OK with me … !
gus commented:
It’s all OK, because the TEABAGGERS spit on Cleaver at that D.C. rally
soren commented:
Is this propose earmark actually in the bill itself?
gus commented:
This is DEMOCRAT business as usual on TWO FRONTS. MARXIST/SOCIALIST redistribution ideology that believes giving money to failures and other poor can ELEVATE these people to MIDDLE CLASS status. It is so absurd that I literally laughed out loud when I typed it.
AuntieMadder commented:
Hey, Blue, where are you? Come pour some of BS from your bleeding heart onto this discussion thread like you did onto the other post today about Cleaver. Come tell us about how the poor never get a break because of the big business lobbyists. Please, enter this discussion and explain to us how we’re wrong in believing that Cleaver and the others like him are the reason that the poor, poor blacks in particular, can’t get a break because he’s holding them down and using them. We need you to tell us that Cleaver hasn’t been trying to give his friend $48B (a pie from which he was surely planning to get a nice piece), taken from taxpayers not even born yet, by promising that it was to be distributed to “the poor in inner cities.”
BigKahuna commented:
What pisses me off is that the Republicans who are up on the floor or on tv complaining and protesting these bills have about as much passion fighting these as a cat licking its a$$.
Hell they sound like its just another day in Congress. These bills and this legislation is about to take this country down another giant step to bankruptcy and socialism and under the control of extremely liberal, oppressive and financially destructive liberals.
Wake the hell up, throw that freaking bill acrossed the floor of the house and senate and jump down their throats and make them read every damned page out loud in English and spanish. Then threaten everyone who votes for them to be targeted by the entire GOP.
No finacial support period if they vote for these final bills.
Chisum commented:
The biggest part of the scam is that they avoid calling these payouts “reparations”. That way, in the future, they can pick up the “we owe them reparations” cry. And claim that they are still owed them.
This is just the beginning of the rape and pillage to come.
BigKahuna commented:
When is this liberal SOB up for being booted? I mean re election ?
This sounds like the clown should be impeached for stupidity if nothing else
gus commented:
THIS. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_us/us_detroit_corruption Is what has happened to URBAN America.
It is endemic. It is CANCER. We all know it. I AM CLEARLY A RACIST.
Skandia Recluse commented:
Fraud…with a ‘B’…as in BILLIONS and this is only ONE case of many…The Obama administration, and this democrat controlled congress will go into the history books.
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
Take a look on google earth to see the wonderful day care they run. $48 billion of our taxpayers money going to these people?
gus commented:
Ladies and Gentlemen. This is only about ONE of the co-dependent-co-conspirators getting THEIR SHARE of the LOOT. Gays will get theirs. Unions will get theirs. Unions will get more. Unions will get a whole lot more. Abortion lovers! They will get money for more baby killing, Homosexuals will get the right to be in the Military and then they will not serve. Ethanol!!! The SCAM of ETHANOL will get their PAYOFF. IOWA FIRST, then IOWA, then IOWA. (I wonder why). Educrats!! They’ll get nearly as much as Negroes. Or more. STUDENT LOANS??? Who CONTROLS all student loans??? YEP. Who gets STUDENT LOANS??? Yep.
Eco NUTS??? SAVE THE WHALES, SAVE THE POLAR BEARS, SAVE THE BABY SEALS, SAVE THE DOLPHIN SAFE TUNA’S, SAVE THE RAINFOREST and JERRY GARCIA’S ROSEWOOD GUITARS, SAVE THE ANDE’S, SAVE BURMA, SAVE TIBET, SAVE THE ALASKAN CARIBOU, SAVE THE SNAIL DARTER and the DARTER SNAIL!! SAVE THE WOLF, the COYOTE, the GROUND SQUIRREL, save the FOREST, THE MEADOW, and the little CREEK. The RIVER, the LAKE, the POTOMAC ESTUARY, then save the PLANET. LASTLY SAVE GAIA, the GOD of ECOTARDS.
pencilhead commented:
U mean this 1-footd quak congres bil can be passed & voted into some kind a law for the system to autom crank out checks to this greaseball just cause it says $48 Billion & ipso facto-like greaseball’s factory–non-profit of course–finds checks in its mailbox? Legislation shd b mail-order business.
darcy commented:
He has some explaining to do??
Excuse me?? Explaining?
He should be imprisoned for the rest of his life. And he can share the cell with his Kansas City cronies.
No wonder they don’t want us reading their bills.
darcy commented:
We’re not calling it Congress anymore.
We’re calling it what it is: Crooks Haven.
tommy mc donnell commented:
what ever happened to our inalienable right to the fruits of our labor. hear anything from a union leader.
gus commented:
Folks an ANALOGY is in order. There was a FAIRY TALE, that 3 MINNESOTA VIKINGS flew to Hattiesburg MS. In order to convince Brett Favre to come back to the Vikings. OK. SURE.
So FAVRE got a 7 million dollar raise, and Favre left that day all ready to go back. No wife to chat with, not LAWYERS. HOW DID THIS RAISE TRANSPIRE??? 7 MILLION RAISE???? Were the 3 TEAMMATES given the AUTHORITY for this?? Was their a CONTRACT in their POSSESSION???
THE POINT IS.
All this LIBTARD SCORCHED EARTH LEGISLATION….THOUSANDS OF PAGES…….WASN’T WRITTEN THIS WEEK. Who wrote it??? What kind of GIVE AND TAKE WAS THERE????
The GAYS, UNIONS, ABORTIONISTS, HOMOSEXUALS, EDUCRATS, FEMINISTS and MOST OF ALL ILLEGAL MEXIGRANT LOBBY (SEIU-AFL-CIO-TEAMSTERS) and assorted MEXICAN GRIEVANCE lobbyists… ACTUALLY WROTE THE PAGES OF LEGISLATION.
MHM commented:
Anyone notice this “annual report” was due 8/31/2009 and wasn’t filed until 10/27/2010??
Also, from their MySpace blog: About me:
..In February of 2009, our staff submitted two applications to the House Subcommittee of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development-(THUD) for FY2010 congressional appropriation totaling $45.060 billion dollars. The purpose of this request is to construct the largest project within a major US / city that is “severely underserved” in order to combat, reduce, reverse and or eliminate homelessness, blight, crime, illiteracy, unemployment, etc.. The goal is to transform the area from a blighted / unstable area into a self sustaining, safe, productive and clean community for children and adults.
gus commented:
TOMMY???? I’m surprised at you. The CONSTITUTION is a blank slate, to be filled in by LIBTARD JUDGES. Your MONEY…..your PROPERTY, is only YOURS, until LIBS want it for their purposes.
Governments’ WANT or NEED for YOUR MONEY or PROPERTY…….TRUMPS YOUR OWNERSHIP.
The SCoTUS has already rules as such. A ruling as nonsensical as ARABS wanting PEACE with ISRAEL. But the SCoTUS law of the land none-the-less. Therein lies the EXTREEEEEEEEEEME need to NEVER believe or attempt to COMPROMISE with a LIBERAL. LIBERALS CAN NEVER NEVER be TRUSTED.
gus commented:
MHM. Again, I am shocked at the NAIVETTE.
Who is the CHAIRPERSON of this HOUSE “SUB” COMMITTEE??? Which PARTY does this CHAIRMAN/PERSON belong to.
Being in the MAJORITY has it’s privelges. But MORESO, LIBTARDS….IN POWER…..is DANGEROUS.
LIBTARDS are not rational, logical, reasonable, rational nor TRUSTWORTHY…………EVER.
gus commented:
MHM???? <>
How has this POVERTY PIMPING worked before?? The GOAL is laudable. The METHOD. Is fucXing HILARIOUS. But the entire concept is not a LARK, it’s a JOKE. It’s VOTE BUYING.
The only thing that will not be blighted vis a vis this “PROGRAM”, will be the bank accounts and leased vehicles of the “CONNECTED” Black poverty pimps in URBAN AMERICA.
Rancid commented:
I think we need a new election on March 1, 2011. No professional pols need run.
crosspatch commented:
They’re simply raiding the treasury on the way out the door. It looks like their form of “scorched earth”.
crosspatch commented:
“We’re calling it what it is: Crooks Haven.”
I like that name. Accurate and descriptive.
Khan Krum commented:
That’s Obama’s stash.
Miss Smith commented:
And Boehner won’t do a thing about it.
Ruebacca commented:
RINO’s will compromise and give him 36 billion.
squeaky commented:
[The $60 million dollar request will be utilized to acquire the 13 acre commercial site, which includes four / buildings that total more than 200,000 square feet. The request will also fund employment for more than 800 field and office personnel; including equipment, operations and operational / functions, events and activities relative to the mission-(informational / dissemination). The second request, (2) for the remaining / balance of $48 billion, will be utilized to employ an estimated / additional 260,000 thousand people to plan, construct and maintain the project’s operations and operational / functions.
2,500 people to plan the Epicenter project. Including coordinating current and future / ongoing / educational / awareness-(HOPE / Awareness) initiative. 100,000 thousand skilled, semi skilled and entry level workers to clear / prep site and construct the massive Epicenter project. The remaining 157,500 workers will operate and maintain ongoing functions, programs and services--in relation to the Epicenter project.] get by with a little help from my friends da da [beatles]….all the right connections. who’s the lucky guy sitting on a chunk of real estate that’s gonna get the rent/lease? who are the outside contractors who will get the contracts? rewards for their people…
http://women.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/lamarmickens
squeaky commented:
and we’re supposed to believe a mickey mouse home day care center kindda guy is the front guy to this type operation.
squeaky commented:
[The consolidation and acquisition of the estimated 71 / city blocks in the inner-city / area described in this and other related / documentation as the Eastern Urban Core-(EUC) identified by the city of Kansas City, Missouri to occupy the political district’s 3rd and portions of its 5th district as the Prospect / Midtown area. The area in question is bounded by the following streets: Armour Boulevard-north; Cleaver II Boulevard-south; Brooklyn Avenue-west and Chestnut Avenue-east.] calling all slum lords calling all slum lords – maybe.
didn’t they say that valarie jarrett would have made out financially if chicago won the nomionation for the olympics?
Pittsburgher commented:
EUC estimated / acquisition costs: $1 billion dollars-(estimate)
THE PAYOFF -
Roughly 1 billion dollars to purchase and consolidate the 71 city / block land / tract which translates to nearly $14.09 million dollars per city block. Purchase / estimates includes an estimated 2,000 or more house @ 350,000 thousand dollars each; vacant lots / assorted commercial property acquisition; including relocation fees @$10,000 per person (not family) for tenants who are not property owners, but dwell in these structures.
Site clearance and prep.
To include all actions and activities associate with developmental clearance and prep. Demolition, removal, testing, securing site before, during and after demolition and clearance; including prep. Includes removal and or transplanting any wildlife / animal population if applicable.
Estimated / projected cost: $1 billion dollars.
Andreas K. commented:
Consumer class is produced by people having jobs and working and spending the money they earn, not by making the rich poor and keeping the poor poor.
Marie commented:
These people should go to jail. I am talking about our lawmakers.
gastorgrab commented:
This is a Civil Rights icon?
At best, he’s a Marxist. At worst, he’s an embezzler.
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BigAlSouth commented:
Sadly, this has been tried before in North Carolina in the 70s. The premise was the same: to create a homogeneous black community from scratch, with federal dollars.
For the very predictable results for the Town of Soul City, here ya go:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1772
Can’t make this stuff up.
SSBN 627(B) commented:
This is how things are done in Nairobi/Homeland. On our way to becoming just another Third World Thugocracy. Thanks, all you Hopey-Changey idiots…
RedBeard commented:
So Cleaver is going to lead the Congressional Black Marxist Caucus, huh? It will be interesting to see how things go in that cesspool of corruption if Col. West joins up. I’m hoping for fireworks, but then I’m just a troublemaker.
Noah commented:
Why is it that the majority of Black politicians are dirty. Try giving that money to white inner city people and see how fast the Black Caucus screams racism… Why do these people need this money.
Do they not have the same advantages in education then White People in some instances they have more advantages. It makes me so angry that we keep letting this happen.
I don’t have White Guilt. I have to earn my money the hard way. pay for school the hard way because Grants and everything else went to Minority students. It’s bull and I’m tried of it.
No one is more deserving then anyone else… Stop making it so. i HATE THIS GOVERNMENT.
Inner city people need to get off their welfare collecting A%%.’es and get jobs pay for their own schooling feed their own kids and stop making the rest of us pay for you.
Baraq Hasan al-Bama commented:
Daz ma stash!!!
gastorgrab commented:
It’s a bailout for another failed socialist policy. Social engineering doesn’t work.
The Democratic party has controlled inner cities for 100 years, and inner cities have been kept poor and stupid for 100 years.
This is like trying to put out a fire with a flame thrower!
.
forest commented:
48 billion.
The greediest, most evil, most profitable corporation in the world netted 19.2 billion in profits last year.
Bobbi commented:
In the proposal, they want to pay “professional lampreys ” $45/he and” semi-skilled laborers” $25/hr
Silver Bullet commented:
I wonder how large of a freezer they’ll need to stash $48 billion?
donh commented:
We are witnessing the reason WHY the Republican DC establishment worked so hard to keep Christine O’Donnell out of the Senate. She would have upset all their well laid plans to enable the passage of grotesque corrupt legislation in the lame duck session.
olm commented:
This earmark thing is infuriating to me. Correct me if i’m wrong but aren’t we broke? Running trillions in deficit and literally owned by China?
Congess needs to be shutdown they are out of control and that election meant nothing, absolutely nothing.
yomotley commented:
Thank you for this information!! Thankfully someone linked it to another site, where I was at
http://honeytrail.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/call-to-action-omnibusdream-acttax-compromise/
Blue commented:
I’m here, Auntie M. I told you yesterday that this would never pass, and guess what? It still won’t. $48B to the poor doesn’t happen in this country, no matter the circumstance.
I noticed, however, that noone – including you – had the intellectual courage to stand up and confront the casually racist dreck being shared by your fellow posters.
LogicalUS commented:
Let face reality, very little is going to change in that house of vipers UNTIL a few of them are hanging from the lampposts on the steps leading to the chambers as a constant reminder.
.Little else seems to getting thru….
BigSky commented:
This sort of earmark is a Congressional ethics violation.
mmc commented:
This is nothing more than money laundering…..where is the oversight?? Will the folks who get this $$ claim it on their taxes?? Listed as a gift from our govt (you and I) I guess not.
mmc commented:
Who do we call on this one Issa??
daryl commented:
mmc commented:
“This is nothing more than money laundering”
Dims don’t launder money. Hell, they just print more!
Why wash it when you can spend brand new, hot off the presses,
gazillion dollar bills?
Grayrider commented:
Huh? Whaaaaaaaaaat???!!!
behonest commented:
http://women.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/lamarmickens
This is where it started back in feb 2010
olm commented:
Oh this is rich. This money is supposed to rebuild a slem to combat homelessness. Did I read that right?
OK so isn’t that what the thug in DC, Valerie Jarrett and friends did in Chicago and now it is a falling down slum that they were hoping for the Olympics to bring in more cash?
We are broke. Broke. This is criminal and these losers in Washington DC need to fund these projects themselves, have bake sales or something.
The Congressional Black Caucus is racist, is that your point, Blue? If so, you’re right.
BigAlSouth commented:
#49 December 16, 2010 at 8:58 am
Blue commented:
. . .
I noticed, however, that noone – including you – had the intellectual courage to stand up and confront the casually racist dreck being shared by your fellow posters.
=================
Blue: Casually racist dreck is usually in the eyes of the beholder. Why doncha take a stand and quote which dreck you be talkin bout.
Then we’ll chat.
mmc commented:
All this loot is probably for the war chest for 2012 remember they buy votes….this is criminal.
RedBeard commented:
Racist dreck, Blue? Oh, you must mean things like the racially segregated CBC, right? Or do you find that sort of overt racism to be justified?
Conservative to the Core commented:
According to the latest Census Bureau reports 79.219% of Americans live in “urban” areas.
martha commented:
I would like nothing better than to see all these corrupt congressmen and senators frog marched out of the building come January 6 2011.
The best stimulus money spent would be that which houses them in whichever federal penetentiary they end up in for the rest of their natural lives
Blue commented:
#58: For your reading pleasure:
#17: “$ 48 billion for the freeloading moochers of a certain color who need more money to buy big screen TVs and presson nails”
#22: “Plenty of crack to go around.” (Followed by #67: “I thought it but you had the cojones to post it.”
#24: “This is just great. Give them 48 billion to buy more drugs”
#39: “More Socialist Blacks looking for a back door for reparations.”
#70: “More and more I catch myself damning the entire black race as freeloaders, misfits and lazy people that don’t want to work any harder than opening a mailbox every few weeks.”
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/unbelievable-democrat-asks-for-48-billion-earmark-to-redistribute-wealth-to-inner-cities/
Henry Hawkins commented:
DAMMIT, I only got S16.2 billion for my dog-walking business last year. I SHOULDA AST FER MORE!
Chisum commented:
Ho Ho Ho!
Let’s play “Who’s The Racist?”, shall we.
James Meeks Tries to ‘Clarify’ Comments on Women, Hispanics and Asians Not Being ‘Minorities’
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/politics/senator-james-meeks-chicago-mayor-racial-minorities-women-business-contracts-mwbe-20101215
BigAlSouth commented:
Blue: Can a white guy comment on the inner city murder rate of Black-on-Black crime without being called a racist? Casual or not?
OK. Let’s seek some common ground in honor of Pres. Obama’s Tax Rate capitulation. Can we agree that a group of African-American/Black/Non-Caucasian elected representatives of a homogeneous color seeking taxpayer dollars for inner cities has a certain “racist” element to it?
Let’s chat.
RedBeard commented:
Poor Meeks, hoist with his own racist petard.
Andreas K. commented:
Blue, come to Europe. Really. Get here and work. And then watch how the government takes more and more of your money to feed the “poor”. The poor here are the people who REFUSE to work, because, hey, why work 40 hours per week for 900 Euros when you can get 1,000 Euros from the government for not working?
It’s not going to work.
It starts with the rich and in the end everybody will pay taxes out of their collectives butts because it’ll be the only way to finance the welfare state, at least for five minutes.
Because, in reality, such welfare states are impossible to finance.
Don’t believe it?
Come to Europe, see how all the great welfare states are essentially BANKRUPT. No, we’re not? I wouldn’t call 6.2 trillion Euros national debt (and growing), like Germany has it, “working as planned”. I wouldn’t call 70% of the GDP as national debt (and growing, 75% by 2012), like Austria has it, “working as planned”. I wouldn’t call the mess in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, etc, “working as planned.”
Well, it’s working as planned if the plan was to destroy the countries’ finances for good.
Oh and, these national debts don’t come from fighting wars or the “evil banks” or other stuff like that. They come from DECADES of wasteful spending. Thanks to the welfare states.
In Germany the welfare state in 2001 ate up roughly 30% of the annual budget. In 2010 it ate up almost 50% of the annual budget. German budget for 2010 was 320 billion Euros. 80 billion were new, additional debt. 150 billion were only for the welfare state.
That is not working.
You want to make the rich poor and keep the poor poor. That’s all there is to this BS called “redistribution of wealth.”
You want wealth?
GET. A. JOB.
But you have NO right to take MY money.
Oldpuppymax commented:
He has some “explaining to do??” TO WHOM??!!! The media is sure as hell not going bring it up. And do you really believe our limp-wristed, frightened-to-death-of-charges-of-racism republican leadership will say a WORD??!!
Jen commented:
Blue – Are you saying only blacks smoke crack, or wear press-on nails?
Sounds like you’re the racist one….
GLM In Ohio commented:
Well said, Andreas K.
Blue won’t understand any of it though …
Finncrisp commented:
Anway, this looks like a home based business that really pays. An pays. And pays. To think you just need one little house to dole out 48 Billion. Don’t forget Acorn had dozens of business in one funeral home for their operation in New Orleans.
valerie commented:
“casual racism” my a$$. This thread are about corruption.
Guys? You do realize that if the amount had related to millions instead of billions, it would have passed without comment, don’t you?
mercadorudy commented:
#15 I love it. Better ” The Crooks on the Hill” all of them. Republicans better get a backbone or it will be war in the streets pretty soon, just exist. I for one ain’t going peacefully and they ain’t taking whats mine, without a fight. They will earn what they get from me. Better keep your powder dry, as they say.
Blue commented:
BigAl, let’s work from the premise that racism is context-dependent. I don’t think that this is a controversial stance, but I’m sure you’ll let me know if you disagree. To answer your first question, yes, white people have the ability to weigh in on “black-on-black” crime without being called a racist, provided that you actually do so thoughtfully. If you say something along the lines of “that’s just the way those people are” then that’s racist. But there’s ways to discuss the issue that don’t tread on this kind of meaningless territory.
As for your second question, whether African-American representatives seeking money for largely-African American neighborhoods has a racist element to it, my answer is no. The reason why is that they’re pursuing the interests of their constituency. Do you consider it racist that white GOPers are fighting for tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans who as a group are largely white? Are pols who represent Indian communities seeking money in the Tribal Affairs committee acting with a racist element? Of course not.
Contrary to popular conservative belief, liberals like me believe that African Americans can be racists too. We do exist. But trying to get money from the people you represent? Not racist-y. Calling inner-city African Americans lazy or saying things like “if we give them money they’ll just go buy drugs with it”? Racist as hell.
wanumba commented:
The problem is: politicians don’t pass huge chunks of money to buddies like that unless they expect to get some back in return.
Thus, with so much money involved, any corrupted politician has a vested interest in getting it passed, who cares what the public thinks. One can live like a king on even a small % of billions of $$.
valerie commented:
Oh, yes. Let’s criticize THE WAY people talk about obviously racist actions. “First, cast the log out of your own eye.” — loose translation from a jewish guy.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2010/12/16/#005910
Let’s all get diverted to talking about HOW people talk about racist action, because we don’t want to talk about the ugly, unjust, destructive, prejudice-based actions that gave rise to the controversy.
Chisum commented:
Valerie,
Excellent point.
Blue, the Drama Queen Troll, is trying to hijack the thread.
Don’t fall for it.
wanumba commented:
#77 December 16, 2010 at 11:18 am
Blue commented:
BigAl, let’s work from the premise that racism is context-dependent. I don’t think that this is a controversial stance,
……………
Say what?
Wasn’t it the Liberals who were the ones whinging and whining and caterwaulering about “Black Flight” from the inner cities, conjuring up all sorts of “keep ‘em there social policies” so black families wouldn’t transplant to the “white” suburbs?
The LEFT, the DEMOCRATS didn’t want morally-functional families fleeing high-crime, drug-corrupted neighborhoods so that black families could be part of the upwardly mobile middle class in the suburbs, send their kids to good, violence-free schools and off then to college.
Insetad of letting people choose their living options, the Democrats pushed BUSING kids out of their neighborhoods adding hours of transport drudgery a day into the suburbs just to be sure the families wouldn’t move out, like everyone ELSE does when the neighborhood goes bad.
mercadorudy commented:
Why is it that liberals always want to seem to be the voice of reason, no matter how wrong they are? I would rather they say what they really feel and show their true colors. I think all would see how they are just like everybody else and that they are just as racist as they believe evryone else is.
olm commented:
Blue, I don’t really give a poop what color the inner city residents are, the politician here trying to get 48 B for this project that will become a very expensive slum. The country is broke. The slums can stay how they are or they can raise their own money to build anew. Handing them a pot full of money for absolutely no committment is nuts no matter what color they are.
You know what, all they really need to do for money is claim they are a black farmer (maybe you don’t have to prove you”re black, you sure don’t have to prove you’re a farmer and you deffinitely don’t have to prove you met with anyone, you just have to know a name) and they can get reparations/cash that way. The money is already there. Although there is not Billions for the individual and may not be enough for this particular group.
Really Blue, I would think this would disgust anyone.
Loulou commented:
Was that not THE Cynthia McKinney’s name (ex-Congresswoman commie from GA) on that form.
Tom commented:
@ Blue; Saying “that’s just the way those people are” is not racist, it’s a stereotype, in the fashion that “all baseball players spit” or “All football players scratch their nuts.,” perpetrated down the line that all of them do it, even though some don’t.
Secondly, I don’t care whether you are pink, blue, red, or green, you do not hand over that kind of money without oversite and certainly not to a “day care center” operator. The fact that “handing out” money just to hand it out isn’t going to work. If it did, inner city Detroit, Chicago, Bronx, Harlem, etc would be thriving right now. It’s just a fact that you just don’t throw money at something and it makes it all better. For instance, studies have shown that if you give a teenager a car, it will last 1/4 of the time a car will last if the child earned the money and bought it himself. Why? Because when you earn something, you take care of it and appreciate it more.
Lastly, If, and this is a big if…The democrats wanted to pass the tax increase along to wealthier Americans, they could have a long time ago. Why didn’t they? They knew they would get hammered in the elections. Hell, it might have been a 100 seat turnover then. But as it is, it was only 63. You seem like an educated person, which is why I don’t see why you can’t seperate race from common sense. If you have a job, and want to give away more taxes, then by all means do. The IRS is more than willing to take it from you. But 50% of all Americans don’t pay taxes, of the other 50%, the top 1% pay 40% of all taxes, and the top 5% pay almost 70% of all income taxes. How are they avoiding paying taxes? That means that 95 % of the people who do pay taxes, pay only the other 30%. Now if that isn’t class warfare, I don’t know what is.
Ginger commented:
Some one send this to Megan Kelly! PDQ…. she can air this scandal.
Blue commented:
#84: I never said that I supported this legislation. I started this conversation by saying that it wasn’t going to pass because the poor never get a break, especially not a $48B break.
#79: I’m not criticizing the way in which people talk about racism. I’m saying that certain discussions become racist depending upon the way they are discussed. In other words, I’m not advocating turd-polishing, I’m trying to make clear a distinction about the way in which context determines meaning.
Finally, to Andreas K, #69. To deny that European welfare states are struggling is to deny that the sky is blue. Obviously they are in over their heads. But what the hell do you expect? There is a worldwide economic disaster underway, and European economies aren’t magically exempt from the rules of the market.
But let me bounce this idea back to you: what glamorous free-market kingdom would you hold up as a good counterexample of effective economic leadership through the Great Recession? Dubai? Chile? Argentina? South Korea? Taiwan? Singapore? All of these neo-liberal Friedmanite enclaves are in just as much trouble as Greece or worse! Everyone is currently in the exact same sinking boat (except China…you know, RED China), the only difference is that people in welfare states at least have a decent safety net.
No doubt about it, Europeans are facing a pretty tough winter for the next few years. But they will come out of this crisis better than the completely “free market” economies.
RedBeard commented:
That “safety net” – who pays for it?
Ginger commented:
Blue
Chicken little … sweet heart is that you?
mmc commented:
FOIA for the Quality Day Campus lets see those books !!!
olm commented:
Blue, this has not a damn thing to do with the poor. The poor will not see this money. You have your head in the sand.
Is that racist?
bg commented:
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hey Blue this is for you..
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Joel commented:
Turn on the stove and start heating the water! We’re going to have a huge tea party for the next election!
wanumba commented:
#91 December 16, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Blue commented:
Everyone is currently in the exact same sinking boat (except China…you know, RED China),
…………
Boy howdy, you know squat about what’s going on in China.
What IS it with the Left’s idol-worship of the communist Chinese? If Mao was so brilliant why did he “have” to murder so many millions of his fellow citizens for “change”? China didn’t recover anything remotely close to adequate functioning until AFTER Mao died.
What a coincidence. Maybe Mao was really a murderous, economic draining, socially destructive SOB.
The Left thinks China is “exotic” compared to what they consider the “boring ” USA, but from a Chiense persepctive, America and anything AMerican is wonderfully and fantastically exotic.
Anyone is the USA able to name a Chinese TV show? A Chinese pop song? A Chinese pop SINGER? A Chinese classic novel? Popular movie? In contrast, how many Chinese croon Dolly Parton’s “I have always loved YOUUUUUUUUU?” Doubt it? CHeck youtube.
What music do Chinese students practice at piano lessons all week? A Chinese composer or Mozart? How many Americans are struggling with years of learning the cumbersome CHinese writing versus how many Chinese are in the USA learning English and that phenomenally useful and versatile phonetic alphabet system?
Ever see how Chinese treat Africans? Uh OH!!!! It’s shocking. It shouldn’t be, given how badly the elite Chinese communist party thugs under Mao’s egotistical leadership treated who they thought were lesser Chinese than themselves. If the Chinese communists could reduce their own citizens, decent men, women and children to sub-human category treatment, simply for disagreeing with the “program” then what hope do non-Chinese have to be treated as fellow human beings?
But Lefties just swoon and blather on and ignore reality, promoting a phony, shallow stereotype of what they IMAGINE the Chinese communists to be, assuming superhuman capabilities like being immune to corruption, bias, covetousness, hatred and LYING about their progress, prowess and production. A blatently racist stereotype that everyone is supposed to accept without questioning the validity of it.
It was very evident that all isn’t right in the kingdom when the earthquake hit that that region a couple of years ago, effectively wiping out the child population. Chinese families put their ONE CHILD into communist party schools. The earthquake hit, the corrupt communist contracted built-government schools collapsed on the children. Devestated parents, their family lines WIPED OUT, the end of their generations smashed under tons of rubble, and they rioted. The communists had taken EVERYTHING from them and they had nothing left to lose, so they went berzerk.
Yuh. But, hey the Olympics were soo wonnerful, elicting tearful sobs of awe from our assinine MSM, but the Chinese government couldn’t even trust their citizens to sit in the seats to watch the sports.
wanumba commented:
#94 December 16, 2010 at 12:29 pm
mmc commented:
FOIA for the Quality Day Campus lets see those books !!!
………..
It says A LOT right there:
Lamar Mickens: president/treasurer
Talk about a red flag … with strobe lights, horns blaring and barking dogs?
RickZ commented:
None dare call it reparations.
Why take reparations off the table?
squeaky commented:
a look back – from 1986 the comprensive employment program……
[For 25 years, government programs have warped work ethics, helped disillusion generations of disadvantaged youth, and deluged America with fraudulent statistics. After spending over a hundred billion dollars on manpower programs[1] we have learned].
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa077.html
RedBeard commented:
I want my reparations. My family members were horribly treated, exiled, even murdered by various European and British governments a few hundred years ago. Who do I see for my check?
What’s that you say? I’m not eligible because I wasn’t personally harmed? And those who perpetrated the crimes against my relatives are long dead? Golly, I guess that almost makes sense!
bg commented:
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RedBeard #102
ah, but they aren’t long dead, they’re still alive & still slave trading..
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Stuart commented:
Blue, your faith that the EU will come out of this crisis in better shape than the free market economies is touching. I got one word for you PIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.
Oh did I mention “Poor little Belgium tried and true” to quote the Irish poets. Then there is Italy.
Where are you going to get the money to bail out these losers, Germany? I got news for you pal the French aren’t interested in assuming any more debt to bail out the EU
So, of course, the burden falls to the Germans, that worked out so well the last time they tried it.
Here’s a fate which could befall us.
Deutchland , Deutchland Uber Alles.
money gets votes commented:
This is pure insanity! They have turned congress and the white house into DC with Mayor Barry as the President. And we ALL know why. They have moved into the neighborhood and will destroy it–and the non nuts will flee…and rebuild. The nuts idiots are in charge. They are really insane, insane. We need a champion who knows how to fight dirty–beat them at their own game!!!! I would investigate every CZAR including the President for a TOP SECRET clearance—and if they fail–let the public know WHY. National Security under title 18 state they must be cleared to have CLASSIFIED information. I would throw my OWN 2000bill declining denying every page of THEIR bill–I would demand midnight hearings–I would pull every trick in the book!!! I would hire IG after IG–they must be investigated!!
wanumba commented:
Isn’t this attempt solidly within Nation of Islam goals? To demand reparations to make black-only enclaves?
Malcom X was murdered by NOI for discovering the truth about NOI, and it’s NOI which disrespects Martin Luther King as an “Uncle Tom.” NOI wants “reparations.” NOI wants segregation.
BurmaShave commented:
I hope and trust that the Black Caucus is outraged about this, and will exert it full force and prestige (such as it is) to refutiate this massive abuse of the US treasury.
Just as with ACORN, which is history, I am sure there is nothing whatsoever racial about this.
PS: I can just imagine the folks at Goldman Sachs thinking “D***! Why didn’t we think of that!” Well, they are mighty colorful, but still not colorful enough to pull it off.
Simon Owens commented:
Jim, this post is in need of a retraction since Cleaver didn’t propose the earmark:
http://phenobarbarella.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/how-andrew-breitbarts-bs-machine-works/
Chisum commented:
At the link it says this:
Editor’s note: According to Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, the $48 billion project cited below was not “proposed” by him. He explains that he lists all earmarks requested by his constituents on his website — but not those he actually decides to support. His office says it will consider listing those projects he actually supports in the future.
Bwahahahahaha!
gus commented:
Blue is CHKN SHT. Same LIBTARD talk in circles dishonest immoral crap.
Yep. That’s him.
AuntieMadder commented:
Blue, wtf are you here for? To police these discussions for political correctness? Well, police this: Go screw yourself.
Chisum commented:
OMG!!!!!
Jim cross posts at Breibart’s Big Government!
OMG! OMG!! OOOOOOOMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone get Simon Owens some smelling salts! Quick!
Caesar Rodney commented:
To those that would state that this was not a request from Rep. Cleaver you are 100% incorrect. All you have to do is follow the following steps.
1. Go to this website, it is his official .gov
sitehttp://www.house.gov/cleaver/Cleaver%20Green/index.shtml#
2. Then put your mouse over the “legislation” link
3. Select “Appropriations”
4. You will see a link named: FY2011 earmark request……
5. Open it up and go to the last entry on page 25 and ENJOY your ready…..48 BILLION dollar earmark request….straight from the horse’s mouth.
OHHHHH…….did I forget to mention…..this 48 Billion dollar earmark is labeled “(Phase One)”
AuntieMadder commented:
23 December 15, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Blue commented:
Wow Mr. Goodwrench, that’s classy…and I’ll bet you were utterly indignant when the NAACP dared to suggest that there’s some unsavory racist elements on the right out there.
But none of you should get worked up about this, because there’s a reason the press isn’t following this story: this earmark won’t pass because the people who would receive it have no political power. NONE. Corn merchants, defense contractors, oil companies, and financial brokers all come to beggar the government – and the people it represents, mind you – for quantities vastly outpacing this, with need far less than the put-upon city dwellers this earmark hopes to aid. And they get it every single time because they can bleat and wail and shell out the cash to get their way. The poor? Not so much. This earmark will die before this bill ever passes, and you can be sure a couple of “socialist” Democrats will help land the killing blow. It will die, and no politician of either party will suffer consequences for it.
So sleep easy. The poor won’t get relief. As usual.
#91 December 16, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Blue commented:
#84: I never said that I supported this legislation. I started this conversation by saying that it wasn’t going to pass because the poor never get a break, especially not a $48B break.
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Sure as hell could have fooled me into thinking you supported it, Blue or ChickenFeet or BlueChickenTurd or whatever-the-hell you are.
Chisum commented:
Simon Owens,
Are you familiar with the term “You can’t polish a turd”?
You may wish to ponder that.
bg commented:
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Chisum #110
is that something like this?? /s/
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bg commented:
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via RBO
$48 billion earmark? Not really. It’s all about reparations
[Update: Gateway Pundit has a 2009 Missouri annual report showing
Mickens runs the day care center out of his home here. Mickens is both
president and treasurer; his wife, Cynthia, is v.p. They also serve as the
whole board of directors.
In February 2006, Mickens’ organization was identified as “a
group assembled to create a strategy to save the urban core.”
So. How common is the name Lamar Mickens? This is mystifying: The
African National Congress Washington, D.C. Mission Records includes:
[An undated] Letter to [Nelson] Mandela from a Lamar Mickens offering
“military support,” “the removal of present Deklur [sic] Government,” and
the establishment of “new foreign relations with US and other countries.”
. . .
But this is not. It speaks volumes — if this is the same Lamar Mickens
of Kansas City, Missouri. In response to a March 2008 blog post, “why
reparations are bullsh*t,” lamarmickens writes:
Take 10 million people; multiply that by 400 years; divide that by murder, rape adn other inhumanities–and you still won’t have a clue about whats really going on my friend!
I’m going to post something in a little bit. Its kindda lengthy… It’ll take
about five to ten miutes or so to read. I’m gonna ask you to take that
long to understand what’s wrong with the thinking and ideology in this
country.
I know you know who Dr. Martin Luther
King is… But do you knwo what he did?
Reperation would bring a social, cultural and economic balance into this
country–righting 4 centuries of injustice. When you say “blacks” are at
fault (exemployee) your’e saying that you really don’t know and really
don’t care…
This is the America-(this type of thinking) that goes on
everyday and noone seems to know or care… But I do.]
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bg commented:
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okay, is/was there a problem with my post, i didn’t see
it, so when i tried to repost, it stated it’s a duplicate??
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daff commented:
Well, it seems Lamar Mickens is not shy about getting money from the government, and is posting in forums all over facebook about his “non-profit” leaving no stone unturned when it comes to getting gov monies. Why would he classify his “non-profit” as a child day care center though? Maybe some sort of ACORN way?
Ginger commented:
It is money being funnelled for others! I bet they will have seperate books! Fox all day long has gone through a lot of pork but……no mention of this one! Why? 48 BILLION
Ginger commented:
Any one contacT Issa? That has to be stopped!
Joe Camel commented:
Cleaver is “my congressman.” That being said, before him I had Ike Skeleton, who was a extreme right winger compared to Cleaver. We were of course gerrymandered into Cleavers district, so he could never be voted out of office; and the inner city folks would always be “represented” by a minority voice as we were told. Same in the district that William Clay (another minority.)
One thing I can say for Cleaver, he is consistent in his thoughts and actions. His movement to the top of the CBC shows that he is also probably more corrupt than anyone possibly could have known or guessed about him. There are a ton of tales about him and his under handed dealings for years. You could not possibly convict him of anything, as that would result in rioting in the streets, much like the 60′s saw here. Back then, the folks knew if they left the city, they would not return to it alive, so they stayed and burned their own neighborhoods. Ah, history.
bg commented:
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re: #119
The War On Poverty
[The paradoxical result is that more people will have houses, but fewer people will be able to have any real mobility, both physical and social. This social reengineering of American life will leverage government control of housing to recreate the worst Soviet experiments in artificial neighborhoods and cities.]
which reminded me of this:
ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities
[If you thought the New Left was dead in America, think again. Walk through just about any of the nation’s inner cities, and you’re likely to find an office of ACORN, bustling with young people working 12-hour days to “organize the poor” and bring about “social change.” The largest radical group in the country, ACORN has 120,000 dues-paying members, chapters in 700 poor neighborhoods in 50 cities, and 30 years’ experience. It boasts two radio stations, a housing corporation, a law office, and affiliate relationships with a host of trade-union locals. Not only big, it is effective, with some remarkable successes in getting municipalities and state legislatures to enact its radical policy goals into law.
Community organizing among the urban poor has been an honorable American tradition since Jane Addams’s famous Hull House dramatically uplifted the late-nineteenth-century Chicago slums, but ACORN and Addams are on different planets philosophically. Hull House and its many successors emphasized self-empowerment: the poor, they thought, could take control of their lives and communities through education, hard work, and personal responsibility. Not ACORN. It promotes a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor. As a result, not only does it harm the poor it claims to serve; it is also a serious threat to the urban future.
[..]
ACORN’s bedrock assumption remains the ultra-Left’s familiar anti-capitalist redistributionism. “We are the majority, forged from all the minorities,” reads the group’s “People’s Platform,” whose prose Orwell would have derided as pure commissar-speak. “We will continue our fight . . . until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom . . . . We have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor”—claptrap that not only falsifies the relative comfort of the poor in America but that also is a classic example of chutzpah, given ACORN’s origins in a movement that undermined the work ethic of the poor.]
The ACORN Reader
which in turn, reminded me of this:
please click on nothing to see here, move along.. links for info..
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Blue commented:
wanumba (#99): I don’t really have much regard for Chinese culture (if only because as far as life under authoritarianism is concerned, culture is a one-word oxymoron). My point was about China’s survival of the economic crisis.
Auntie M. You asked why I’m here. Generally speaking, I’m here because I disagree with you. I am strongly liberal, but I don’t think that you’re monsters or fascists or idiots (even though I know many of you don’t return the favor). But I also think you’re plainly wrong, and I’m going to check you when you say things that are demonstrably false or engage you when I think the point you’re making is invalid. Honestly, I don’t read conservative blogs regularly (this time I came because I was linked from Memeorandum), but as a matter of intellectual development and stimulation, I like having my beliefs challenged periodically and the only way to do that is to speak up. I like to take on the challenge of testing what I believe, and while I may not like what you had to say, I’m secure enough in my beliefs that I don’t feel the urge to act like a ill-mannered 9 year old when I hear something that doesn’t square with my worldview. [See: #94, 112, 113]
Why am I (still) here specifically? Because nobody was stepping in to say the obvious: there was some out-and-out racist garbage being said on this topic [See: #65] and nobody, NOBODY had anything to say about it. If you want to put that crap out on the internet, that’s fine. It your right. But it’s my right to shame you for saying it, and brother, you had better expect that I will.
It’s a pity, actually, that given the opportunity to respond to my posts (#65 and 92) that nobody actually took a moment to respond to the substance of them.
Oh wait, let me guess your response: “that’s because there wasn’t any, LOL.”
Lady Liberty commented:
wanumba (#99): I don’t really have much regard for Chinese culture (if only because as far as life under authoritarianism is concerned, culture is a one-word oxymoron). My point was about China’s survival of the economic crisis.
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Chinese survival of the economic crisis?
You mean like this>
http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-chinese-ghost-cities-2010-12?%3Futm_source&utm_medium&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign=fanpage#one-of-many-shocking-aspects-of-the-biggest-growth-spurt-ever-20%23ixzz18Jq9Dqtg
AND THIS?
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-more-mindblowing-facts-about-china-economy-2010-4?slop=1#slideshow-start%23ixzz18JptvqAu
bg commented:
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re: #126
oh okay, worry wart me will post all 3, so you can clearly see
how they not only connect to one another, but to Obama..
New World Order Depopulation Plans Exposed,
Agenda 21 Club of Rome EnvironMentalism
The Greens
[First organized as the Green Committees of Correspondence, The Greens/ Green Party USA is the oldest, continuously active Green organization in America. It was our organization that originated the Green Ten Key Values which are now accepted by nearly all Greens in the United States. The Ten Key Values when correctly understood point to a new society and way of life based on Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Cooperation and Non-violence. The Ten Key Values point to a world entirely different from our present world of violence, corporate greed, and ecological destruction.]
Platform of the Greens/Green Party USA
[For the Greens, therefore, the fights against racism, sexism, class exploitation, bureaucratic domination, war, and all other forms of social domination and violence are central to the movement for an ecologically sustainable society. In order to harmonize society with nature, we must harmonize human with human.]
to be continued..
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bg commented:
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#129 continued..
Breaking The War Mentality
by Barack Obama
March 10, 1983
[In 1933 the German establishment thought it could use Hitler to restore a modicum of order to the confused and confusing Weimar Republic. In fact, Hitler did strengthen the German establishment, but not exactly in the way the bankers and businessmen had wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is clear who was using whom. Nevertheless, the Western World did not complain in 1933 because Hitler, though a fascist and a totalitarian, was seen, like countless American puppet dictators today, as someone who leaves the established order in place.
Not so the Greens. If a group of young, anti-establishment pacifists wiith unusual ideas and uncomfortable answers to hard questions terrifies us more today than Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels did back in 1933, our terror says more about us than it does about the Greens or the Germans. It indicates that we have failed to comprehend the meaning of Nazism and blind obedience to authority in their full horror, and that we, unlike the Greens, have yet ourselves to learn the democratic lesson that we have taught the Germans so well.]
scroll down or more..
btw, there are even more connections via the Global Warming Swindle..
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bg commented:
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Lady Liberty #128
coming soon to an ObamaCare Planned Parenthood chop shop near you..
global child-bearing “cap and trade”
system to combat climate change..
“People who abhor the China one-child
policy are dumb-dumbs” ~ Ted Turner
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GLM In Ohio commented:
Breaking news! FOX News is reporting that Reid just withdrew the Omnibus Spending Bill and will be submitting a two-month stop-gap spending bill. Apparently, the threats to force reading of that entire disgraceful piece of crap worked. We won another battle folks! Republicans will now be able to draft a responsible spending bill when they re-convene in January….
On to the next front!
bg commented:
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GLM #132
Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3T spending bill
sorry, but something still smells fishy to me, especially McCain..
ie: [The turn of events was a major victory
for earmark opponents like Sens. John McCain,]
oh really??
[“I’ll vote for it, but it’s not what the people said
they wanted on November 2,” McCain said.]
then why did he sign it?? gah!!
more here..
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bg commented:
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re: #134
not to mention “i’m too old for my role” McConnell.. uhg!!
[McConnell had earlier quietly backed the effort to produce the legislation,
which had significant input from Republicans on the Appropriations panel.
But release of the bill on Tuesday sparked an outcry among the GOP's conservative political base. Senate Republicans held two combative closed-door meetings in which the rank-and-file turned up the heat on those few Republicans who were considering voting for the bill.]
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Contessa61 commented:
WHY isn’t any “reputable” news source reporting on this???
Is this guy another Obama buddy like Kwame Kilpatrick?
JaneLovesJesus commented:
how many more times is this guy going to be re-elected?
Truth seeker commented:
Wow. The ignorance on display here is astounding. The truth is that Cleaver did NOT submit this request, one of his constituents did. Cleaver refused to even consider it. It is listed on his website along with all of the requests made by constituents. Anyone can contact a congress rep and ask for funding for a pet project. That’s all that happened here. Try doing a little research and educating yourselves before freaking out. It’s better for your blood pressure to gather the facts before jumping to conclusions.
Joan commented:
Come on, folks! We have the computer at our fingertips, resources are abundantly available, and conducting research has never been easier, yet so many are too lazy to vet (or research and confirm/rebuke) rumor.
Rep. Cleaver NEVER requested or proposed the reported $48 billion earmark. It was Lamar Mickens of Kansas City who submitted a request to Rep. Cleaver for such an earmark. All such requests are posted on Rep. Cleaver’s web page, just as they are for many politicians. Cleaver, however, never submitted any proposal for such a rediculous request! This claim is false!
The Oregonian newspaper runs bipartisan “PolitiFact.com” stories, unveiling the truth on such rumors. The claim is FALSE. Either call the Oregonian or check for a web posting after today (the post was printed in today’s newspaper, but such posts may experience delays in being published online.)
lamar mickens commented:
On or around December 15th 2010 an article was posted on several blog sites concerning a congressional earmark request for $48 billion dollars to fund an initiative called the War On Poverty. An initiative conceived by our organization, Quality Day Campus Inc., but was utilized ( our assumption) by a “band of media groups” to create and circulate a vicious smear campaign against Congressman Emanuel Cleaver.
A campaign-(smear) that also angered and outraged many over blog sites as well as caused damage to the creditability to our organization and possibly damaged the potential support that could have been gardened for the initiative, had these individuals responsible had taken professional care in researching the truth concerning our efforts, the involvement of the congressman’s office and caused further distrust between the American people, political officials and the private sector, namely organizations, such as ours.
Our intent for submitting these appropriations request annually was to bring to the attention of the congressional subcommittees our request as well as congress in the hopes that they (congress or congressional subcommittees) would consider our alternative measure for support. We (our organization) is trying to stop government from the corrupt practices of wrongful spending / mismanagement. Its time the American people take back control of their government and not at the expense of a few naysayer’s running amuck in the media community making trouble with lies, falsehood and innuendoes…
However, in light of these events surrounding the congressman as a result of a willful misguided few, I can only hope that their efforts at sabotage have not truly hurt our right and freedom of “expression.” One that has caused no harm to anyone, nor infringed upon any rights or civil liberties. The same cannot be said for those who masterminded and partook in these shameful acts–that I can only surmise as selfish and grossly negligent.
A negligence that I must now call upon the honest and decent American people to discover for themselves to witness by visiting these sites and seeing first hand for themselves at the depth and callousness through the responses by citizens that these blogs triggered. From racially charged slurs and innuendoes to others too dire for me to mention.
Our organization feels that there should be some sort of formal inquiry as to ascertain whether this was a staged and or deliberate attack politically, aimed at Congressman Cleaver, the CBC-(which was named in one blogger’s comment) or our organization for proposing such a request.
Or was it possibly “racially charged” due in part to the fact that members of our organization as well as Congressman Cleaver ourselves are minorities. We hope that there is an investigation into the matter in order to ascertain if this was an act by an individual or group acting out in malice politically, organizationally or racially. Time will tell…
Our organization has already started talks with two of the online media sources responsible for these slanderous attacks. We have asked the following conditions and if these conditions are not met, we will be pursuing legal action against them and others that we uncover in our investigative wake.
Written letters of apologies to our organization, Congressman Cleaver and the American people whom were affected in these attacks.
Removal of these slanderous and disturbing blogs from their sites
Posting of these written letters of apologies on your blog site in place of the blog that caused the damage.
Suspension and or firing of anyone involved in the planning and propagation of these slanderous and false allegations.
I urge you the readers to look back on these blog sites such as the one your are reading and others and you will see that I have responded and challenged them to respond back…If the have not responded back, ask yourself “why?” And then ask them yourselves…And also check all their other blogs by going to your search engine and typing in “48 billion dollars Cleaver,” or “$48 billion dollars Emanuel Cleaver” and you will see that I have posted a response or two…..If you find one that I have not posted a response, please email at quality day.campus@sbcglobal.net…..American is a land of opportunity and free speech. I stand on my word, let’s see if they’ll stand by their lies….If any of you have questions please email at my email address….I have nothing to hide…And by chance if any of these writers respond to you…Ask them how come they will not respond to me….I owe you the American people an answer to their lies…I owe them nothing for telling them. But I will meet them face to face or in blogshpere…Their choice… I thank you…Lamar Mickens
lamar mickens commented:
What I want the readers to understand that this attempt to undermine the work my organization is attempting to do was in our opinion, a vicious, cowardly, maniacal / political attempt to deliberately “smear congressman Cleaver” by a bunch of so called writers, bloggers and journalist —of non / mainstream media. Instead are aggregation media sites. How come TIME, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and others didn’t pick up on the story and it went viral? Because in my opinion, they (mainstream media) knew exactly the type of people who put this kind of “fluff” out there are nothing more than sensationalistic people who want readership and revenue, at the expense of deceiving the American people.
So who here really knows what the War On Poverty is all about? I see a lot of comments, innuendoes, guesses, anger–but no real answers…..
lamar mickens commented:
Thank you AuntieMadder….Words well spoken…
Chisum commented:
Gee, Mr. Mickens goes from zero to accusations of racism. Didn’t see that coming.
lamar mickens commented:
# 28 posted this:
[The $60 million dollar request will be utilized to acquire the 13 acre commercial site, which includes four / buildings that total more than 200,000 square feet. The request will also fund employment for more than 800 field and office personnel; including equipment, operations and operational / functions, events and activities relative to the mission-(informational / dissemination). The second request, (2) for the remaining / balance of $48 billion, will be utilized to employ an estimated / additional 260,000 thousand people to plan, construct and maintain the project’s operations and operational / functions.
2,500 people to plan the Epicenter project. Including coordinating current and future / ongoing / educational / awareness-(HOPE / Awareness) initiative. 100,000 thousand skilled, semi skilled and entry level workers to clear / prep site and construct the massive Epicenter project. The remaining 157,500 workers will operate and maintain ongoing functions, programs and services--in relation to the Epicenter project.] get by with a little help from my friends da da [beatles]….all the right connections. who’s the lucky guy sitting on a chunk of real estate that’s gonna get the rent/lease?
Unfortunately #28, this is the only part you got wrong…I give you a 96 out of a 100….Now if #26 found this, how come Mr. Hoft and his band of “merry folk” couldn’t find this?
#28 this is teh only part you got wrong:
“who are the outside contractors who will get the contracts? rewards for their people…”
lamar mickens commented:
#28…Make that 90 out of a 100….You gotthis part wrong too…
who’s the lucky guy sitting on a chunk of real estate that’s gonna get the rent/lease?
But you still did far better than the “merry folk.” Someho I don’t think you are a writer or a journalist…But you would make a great researcher…
lamar mickens commented:
Thank you Joan…All it takes is searching the net!!!