Alinsky again

If you don't know what is happening, and like staying focused on the daily diatribe of our country, we really need to take note of the origins of Socialism.

Noted on Glenn Beck yesterday, "Do we really know who Barack Obama is?

One answer, for now, answers the question. In blogs past, I bring up Saul Alinsky, a socialist thinker in the mid-20th Century, with whom Obama studied.

A really good analysis was published on Eagle Forum.

In order for us to know exactly where we are headed, we must know socialism's roots. There are those who have been putting these plans into motion from the beginning of time.

For those who have ears to hear...!

Congress's "power of the purse"

Following the signing of our future away by the 111th Congress, you may have noticed the DOW drop. Now at 2:08 CST, it is still down 356, at 7915.

Toxic billing, toxic government, toxic administration and its defiant attitude, "I won, get over it!"

From Wikileaks a report from the United States Congressional Research Service for members and committees of Congress states:

The federal budget implements Congress's "power of the purse" by expressing funding priorities through outlay allocations and revenue collections. Over the past decade, federal spending has accounted for approximately a fifth of the economy (as measured by gross domestic product--GDP) and federal revenues have ranged between just over a fifth and just under a sixth of GDP.

In FY2008, the U.S. government collected $2.5 trillion in revenue and spent almost $3.0 trillion. Outlays as a proportion of GDP rose from 18.4% in FY2000 to 20.9% of GDP in FY2008. Federal revenues as a proportion of GDP reached a post-WWII peak of 20.9% in FY2000 and then fell to 16.3% of GDP in FY2004 before rising slightly to 17.7% of GDP in FY2008.

The budget also affects, and is affected by, the national economy as a whole. Given recent turmoil in the economy and financial markets, the current economic climate poses a major challenge to policymakers shaping the FY2009 and FY2010 federal budgets. Federal spending tied to means-tested social programs has been increasing due to rising unemployment, while federal revenues will likely fall as individuals' incomes drop and corporate profits sink. As a result, federal deficits over the next few years will likely be high relative to historic norms.

In addition to funding existing programs in a challenging economic climate, the government has undertaken significant financial interventions in an attempt to alleviate economic recession. The ultimate costs of federal responses to this turmoil will depend on how quickly the economy recovers, how well firms with federal credit guarantees weather future financial shocks, and whether or not the government receives positive returns on its asset purchases. Estimating how much these responses will cost is difficult, both for conceptual and operational reasons.

Despite these budgetary challenges, many economists believe that fiscal policy (i.e., federal borrowing and spending) would be the most effective macroeconomic tool under current conditions. Past fiscal stimulus measures, which are being considered as possible options for 2009, have included extensions to unemployment benefits, aid to state and local governments, tax rebates, and expanded infrastructure spending.

Federal loans or loan guarantee programs may help provide liquidity to distressed financial markets and stimulate economic activity, but may also expose the federal government to substantial credit risks.

While many economists concur on the need for short-term fiscal stimulus, widespread concerns remain about the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government. The rising costs of federal health care programs and Baby Boomer retirements present serious challenges to fiscal stability.

Operating these programs in their current form may pass on substantial economic burdens to future generations.

NO sh*t Sherlock!

At the end of post DOW down 405, well Mr. Prez, looks like your henchmen, s'cuse me, Congressmen, know how to restore faith in the economy!

What does religion have to do with the stimulus?

Curious,after the prez's speech last night, I wanted to take a deeper look at this so-called "stimulus plan".

I found a note this morning referencing that no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. Health provisions?

These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Hm mm, but what does health provisions to do with the jump-starting of the economy?

As I scanned the document, I found the following information contained in the bill under the whistle blower portion...

SEC. 1273. CLARIFICATION OF WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS RELATING TO SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER RESEARCH.

(a) In General- Section 2302 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(f) As used in section 2302(b)(8), the term `abuse of authority' includes--

`(1) any action that compromises the validity or accuracy of federally funded research or analysis;

`(2) the dissemination of false or misleading scientific, medical, or technical information;

`(3) any action that restricts or prevents an employee or any person performing federally funded research or analysis from publishing in peer-reviewed journals or other scientific publications or making oral presentations at professional society meetings or other meetings of their peers; and

Now where does religion play in the stimulus bill, notably the whistle blower section?

`(4) any action that discriminates for or against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of religion, as defined by section 1273(b) of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009.'.

(b) Definition- As used in section 2302(f)(3) of title 5, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a)), the term `on the basis of religion' means--

(1) prohibiting personal religious expression by Federal employees to the greatest extent possible, consistent with requirements of law and interests in workplace efficiency;

(2) requiring religious participation or non-participation as a condition of employment, or permitting religious harassment;

(3) failing to accommodate employees' exercise of their religion;

(4) failing to treat all employees with the same respect and consideration, regardless of their religion (or lack thereof);

(5) restricting personal religious expression by employees in the Federal workplace except where the employee's interest in the expression is outweighed by the government's interest in the efficient provision of public services or where the expression intrudes upon the legitimate rights of other employees or creates the appearance, to a reasonable observer, of an official endorsement of religion;

(6) regulating employees' personal religious expression on the basis of its content or viewpoint, or suppressing employees' private religious speech in the workplace while leaving unregulated other private employee speech that has a comparable effect on the efficiency of the workplace, including ideological speech on politics and other topics;

(7) failing to exercise their authority in an evenhanded and restrained manner, and with regard for the fact that Americans are used to expressions of disagreement on controversial subjects, including religious ones;

(8) failing to permit an employee to engage in private religious expression in personal work areas not regularly open to the public to the same extent that they may engage in nonreligious private expression, subject to reasonable content- and viewpoint-neutral standards and restrictions;

(9) failing to permit an employee to engage in religious expression with fellow employees, to the same extent that they may engage in comparable nonreligious private expression, subject to reasonable and content-neutral standards and restrictions;

(10) failing to permit an employee to engage in religious expression directed at fellow employees, and may even attempt to persuade fellow employees of the correctness of their religious views, to the same extent as those employees may engage in comparable speech not involving religion;

(11) inhibiting an employee from urging a colleague to participate or not to participate in religious activities to the same extent that, consistent with concerns of workplace efficiency, they may urge their colleagues to engage in or refrain from other personal endeavors, except that the employee must refrain from such expression when a fellow employee asks that it stop or otherwise demonstrates that it is unwelcome;

(12) failing to prohibit expression that is part of a larger pattern of verbal attacks on fellow employees (or a specific employee) not sharing the faith of the speaker;

(13) preventing an employee from--

(A) wearing personal religious jewelry absent special circumstances (such as safety concerns) that might require a ban on all similar nonreligious jewelry; or

(B) displaying religious art and literature in their personal work areas to the same extent that they may display other art and literature, so long as the viewing public would reasonably understand the religious expression to be that of the employee acting in her personal capacity, and not that of the government itself;

(14) prohibiting an employee from using their private time to discuss religion with willing coworkers in public spaces to the same extent as they may discuss other subjects, so long as the public would reasonably understand the religious expression to be that of the employees acting in their personal capacities;

(15) discriminating against an employee on the basis of their religion, religious beliefs, or views concerning their religion by promoting, refusing to promote, hiring, refusing to hire, or otherwise favoring or disfavoring, an employee or potential employee because of his or her religion, religious beliefs, or views concerning religion, or by explicitly or implicitly, insisting that the employee participate in religious activities as a condition of continued employment, promotion, salary increases, preferred job assignments, or any other incidents of employment or insisting that an employee refrain from participating in religious activities outside the workplace except pursuant to otherwise legal, neutral restrictions that apply to employees' off-duty conduct and expression in general (such as restrictions on political activities prohibited by the Hatch Act);

(16) prohibiting a supervisor's religious expression where it is not coercive and is understood to be his or her personal view, in the same way and to the same extent as other constitutionally valued speech;

(17) permitting a hostile environment, or religious harassment, in the form of religiously discriminatory intimidation, or pervasive or severe religious ridicule or insult, whether by supervisors or fellow workers, as determined by its frequency or repetitiveness, and severity;

(18) failing to accommodate an employee's exercise of their religion unless such accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the conduct of the agency's operations, based on real rather than speculative or hypothetical cost and without disfavoring other, nonreligious accommodations; and

(19) in those cases where an agency's work rule imposes a substantial burden on a particular employee's exercise of religion, failing to grant the employee an exemption from that rule, absent a compelling interest in denying the exemption and where there is no less restrictive means of furthering that interest.

(c) Rule of Construction- Nothing in this section shall be construed to create any new right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.

Well, looks like we really need to be "a-reading this here" information a lot more closely.

Does it matter? How close are we to finding out how our "representatives" have screwed us into oblivion? Whose pen is actively working to get this into law and why?

No one is reading this junk and laws are being set that folks will scan over it in their employee handbooks, not questioning, just blindly obeying...

After all, it is the law! There is a change coming. Are we ready for it?

Beware! It is coming!

Wishingtonia has a problem...it has NEVER held a real job. However, there is a real insanity taking place in the home of our guvment. No wonder they have HR 645 - the `National Emergency Centers Establishment Act'. Are we to believe that those of us, who don't agree with the elected officials, won't spend time recovering from an "national emergency (civil unrest, ie. displeasure with the crap they attempting to shove down our throats)" in these camps?

We Americans, have elected, not hired these idiots. Had they been hired, they would be more responsible in providing for the welfare of their families at home, the United States of America.

Obviously, when a "father" goes to work, he is expected to bring home the bacon...not the pork.

The idiots, who are elected have gotten it all wrong. They think their job is to "yack, yack", giving away their family's birthright to lobbyists, labor unions and special interest groups. Scary ain't it?

What's happening right now? Sixteen congressmen are secluded, in an attempt to spend America into a debt to stimulate jobs. Huh? Does that make any sense? Can their attempt to disgrace themselves bring us out of this depression?

What are they thinking? They aren't, and we are at the "lawmakers" stripping future generation's wallets. Is this any way for a "parent" to take care of its home.

What is happening? We have lost sight of who is taking care of the home front. It is not those that were hired to take care of us.

Thinking in business terms, what company would keep those folks hired who kept spending the precious profits in order to grow waterparks? You have to manage assets carefully.

So who of these wishingtonians are managing our assets correctly? With a possibility of them adding more to their bailout, not unemployed Americans pocketbooks.

Is one trillion dollars going to re-employ nearly 5 million folks? I doubt it and so do some of our hired help attempting to make the case.

Politics, not a real job, but a cushy one.

How did we get out of the last depression...WWII.

Are you ready for this? We go to war with Mexico. It's already begun, in fact, many years ago, folks elsewhere, namely wishingtonia, haven't discovered it yet. But the again, maybe they have and we are headed in the direction of no return.

Expect the unexpected. WWIII, America vs. Mexico. But you say, "That's not a world war." Oh really?

Let's see, add Cuba, Chavez, Russia to the mix and what do you call that? Remember the ships that were visiting Cuba via the Gulf of Mexico?

And where are we heading? Can you spell socialism? Hey, a war will put folks back to work won't it, and quick.

It is coming!

And by the way, the all night vigil to correct the "wrongs" in the bailout bill, in order to pass it...at 9:45 central, it was announced that they had decided to go home. I guess when the prez leaves town, its time for a vacation.

Hiding in the shadows

the real power behind the throne?
Good ole Alfred E. Newman?

It's not...Just my imagination

in print today
Remember the song...Just my imagination, wasn't it, running away from me? Yes, it's just my imagination...

This morning down in the left column of Drudge, I read about over-saturation of the new presidency and how it might demystify Obama's attraction to the masses. However, when I went in to read further, it was an article written by Peggy Noonan in today's Wall Street Journal.

Blah, blah, blah...then the revelation that no, I haven't been imagining something, others are waking up as well...

People are getting the mood of the age in their in boxes. How many emails have you received the past few months from acquaintances telling you in brisk words meant to communicate optimism and forestall pity that "it's been a great ride," but they're "moving on" to "explore new opportunities"? And there's a broad feeling one detects, a kind of psychic sense, some sort of knowledge in the collective unconscious, that we lived through magic times the past half-century, and now the nonmagic time has begun, and it won't be over next summer. That's not the way it will work. It will last a while.

Biden to head middle class task force to assess how to help us make it through, to the other side...power and the lack thereof...
Now this is scary...Mr. Gaff himself, given the task to help us out? After all, Biden was so happy to be living in Public Housing now. Who are we kidding here? The middle class is being eliminated. We have been destroyed, as Noonan states here...

There's a sense among many, certainly here in New York, that we somehow had it too good too long, a feeling part Puritan, part mystic and obscurely guilty, that some bill is coming due. Hard to get a stimulus package that addresses that.

blah, blago
Isn't this a sign of the times when the powerful, think they can get away with anything? Power, and the pot calling the kettle black...all those Senators making judgment calls that, "Yes, you are eliminated!"

Personally, I think Blago may be guilty, but he gave us a telling sign when he said that "they knew how politics was run"...hey, that sure was honest. It scared them as they knew they had to go along with the crowd, but how have they performed in similar circumstances.

I have to give it to Blago, he's real smart, but not smart enough...who wanted him out of office and why? Was he too greedy and power mad?
Noonan's take

(The guilt was part of the power of Blago. He's the last American who doesn't feel guilt. He thinks something is moral because he did it. He's like a good-natured Idi Amin, up there yammering about how he's a poor boy who only wanted to protect the people of Chicago from the flu. You wish you could believe it! You wish he really were what he is in his imagination, a hero battling dark forces against the odds.)

Noonan's diagnosis

I think there is an illness called Goldmansachs Head. I think it's in the DSM. When you have Goldmansachs Head, the party's never over. You take private planes to ask for bailout money, you entertain customers at high-end spas while your writers prep your testimony, you take and give huge bonuses as the company tanks. When you take the kids camping, you bring a private chef. Goldmansachs Head is Bernie Madoff complaining he's feeling cooped up in the penthouse. It is the delusion that the old days continue and the old ways prevail and you, Prince of the Abundance, can just keep rolling along. Here is how you know if someone has GSH: He has everything but a watch. He doesn't know what time it is.

From Blood Sweat and Tears song, "does anybody really know what time it is?"

For several months I have included information from George Ure's site www.urbansurvival.com and for good reason.

As stated many times before, there is a computer program developed and used by a friend of his, Cliff, referencing "predictive linguistics." Basically, taking all the "words" flying in the ether, somehow, a future knowledge comes forth and wallah, you see in advance what will occur. Who said knowledge is power...and having a small glimmer of what is coming, opens many eyes.

When I see it, I will bring it, cause "I will be a looking!"

HOPE!
And just on Fox at 4:12pm Eastern time, Michael Steele, former Lt. Governor of Maryland, has been elected GOP Chairman. From his brief speech, I believe he will bring back a strong and conservative winning team of Republicans to our country.

have a great weekend!
oli

Change in style

Today begins a new line of posting. As there are so many topics that need attention, mine and yours, I have been working on a new style, including more links to full stories and attention to more information...my cynicism still in tact, but also glimmers of hope.

close to home
Once again, elected officials, namely a mayor on our Gulf Coast and his wife, took advantage of FEMA, HUD and other agencies, who are providing homeowners help in rebuilding after Katrina.

Yesterday, the US Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Mississippi handed down a 16 count indictment accusing Republican Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr and his wife Laura Warr of illegally obtaining grant monies for personal use. If convicted on all counts, they each face a total of 210 years in federal prison and up to $4 million in fines. This has been a cooperative investigation between the FBI, HUD, Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, the US Attorneys Office and State Auditor Stacey Pickering’s office.

Yall Politics offers more links to indictment of alleged crooked dealings of rising star of Republican Party in Mississippi.

We need SUM $$$
I can only imagine what all this spending will do to our economic future. To date, 4.7 million Americans are now unemployed. These figures do not include those already receiving extended benefits.

California is bankrupt for all intents and purposes. It looks as though some of the money, $25,000,000 allotted in this recovery package, written by Pelosi and friends, will go to build ATV trails. Gosh, that will provide ATV vehicle owners fun time while looking for employment. Wonder where the fuel, to have fun, will come from?

Wishingtonia
Somehow I think all this spending will make problems for our new President. However, once elected, he had promises to keep. Unfortunately, our system has provided a way to get access to the highest office in the land when one wants it bad enough to go to the highest bidder. The brazen statement, "Get over it, I won," doesn't play well with conservatives.

Alinsky - model of a new Amerika
Remember the Saul Alinsky model for CHANGE...oops...Rules for Radicals
Rule 13. Pick the target (Rush Limbaugh), freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.' ... When you 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments and carry out your attack.... One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angles are on one side and all the devils on the other."

Hmmmm...Jest thinking

H.R. 645:
111st Congress

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `National Emergency Centers Establishment Act'.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.

(a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations.

(b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure--

(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;

(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders;

(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and

(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

In the viral community of the net, there have been many conspiracy theorists who have alluded to FEMA Internment Camps, made to hold "dangerous" or "large groups of people" who need to be removed in case of "civil unrest".

In November, a study done by a "think tank" in Washington, namely, The War College, offered a "what if" scenario of national civil unrest or national emergency.

So what does this bill actually mean? As we now have a bill before Congress in its initial phase to establish these camps, consider Biden's and others proclamation of how this administration would be TESTED in the first six months.

history lessons
Bush 2 - 911, USS Cole
Clinton - Waco, Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge, World Trade Center

No really memorable state-side terror, other than those of radical extremist groups and lone wolves, has gone un-noticed by terrorist watchmen of the "state".

What evidence do we have that the "camps" will be needed sooner rather than later.

However, the gloom surrounding this year’s World Economic Forum descended into confrontation yesterday as international labor leaders launched a withering attack on the 1,400 business executives and 41 heads of government at Davos Switzerland over what the labor leaders alleged was their failure to respond effectively to a deepening crisis of their own creation.

Guy Ryder, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, said that the current financial world turmoil had triggered a social time bomb that would lead to deepening civil unrest and soaring crime.

As strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers erupted across France and Germany, Ryder said,“We are on the road to serious social instability, which could be extremely dangerous in some countries to democracy itself.”

Notably, what happens over there, will happen here, especially the social unrest, should another national emergency like Katrina occur...not to mention increasing earthquake clusters on the west coast.

Hey, its got to fall off sometime, 2012 is coming and we need camps to put rioters, survivors, and radical extremists into.

Das comrade, can you say Gulag?