by Larry Miller

It’s easy to get caught up in the fight to keep our country free and forget our real purpose on earth. It was outlined when Jesus told his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

We see the shenanigans of the Obama administration and the machinations of SEIU, ACORN, NEA and the whole alphabet soup of other leftist groups looking to pick our pockets and run our lives. But we have to keep in mind who the real enemy is while we follow James Madison’s advice that “Resistance to tyranny is service to God.”

We may not have much of a chance of changing the leaders, but the voters that picked these leaders will only change when they have a change of heart. We see tea parties increasing in influence, but how much better would it be if the values of the founders were internalized once again by the American people? And how much better for them as well if many could be shown the error of the “social gospel” or “liberation theology” ways?

As angry as we can get with Barack Hussein Obama, Andy Stern, John Holdren, Rahm Emanuel and the whole gang leading this country astray, we need to remember the words of Ephesians 6:12 that tells us “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (NIV)

Seeing these people as victims themselves is not falling into the same trap that they are setting for the country by declaring everyone to be some sort of victim in need of governmental assistance. It also does not mean that we give them a pass for their nefarious deeds, but it does somehow mellow the personal aspect of our struggle.

Now being viewed this way will send many of the secular statists of both parties bouncing off the wall, causing them to increase their hostility, yet I believe it is the way we must go. That doesn’t mean we roll over when confronted by their plans to deify leaders and the state. Our task is to put everything we have into the fight, but to keep in mind that the real enemy is spiritual and that is how we need to fight the fight.

We need to fight this battle on our knees, in the state houses, in Washington and anywhere else we have to smack down these intrusions on the liberty of the American people. If we recognize this, we can count on the promise that the battle is not ours, but the Lords. Not only the battle, but the ultimate victory.

Originally posted at Political Christian © Larry Miller

 

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by Larry Miller

First congress votes to cut off funding for ACORN… but not really. It was just a temporary freeze on funding the controversial group. Now a US District Judge has ruled that cutting of funds in any way is not in the publics interest. If it has not occurred to you by now, we are not working in an environment where concepts of right and wrong, as well as honesty are of little or no importance. To the elites running the country, the end justifies the means… and often the ends they seek are not even worthy of virtuous means.

The constitution says congress makes the laws people have to live by. But now, Barack Hussein Obama’s Environmental Protective Agency head Lisa Jackson has proclaimed that if congress does not pass the desired cap and trade legislation her agency would begin their own version of the plan destined to destroy jobs and squeeze more money out of beleaguered taxpayers. Once again, the end justifies the means.

Combine this with the unwillingness of our employees… our elected representatives… to hear us when overwhelming majorities of our citizens tell them we want our borders sealed, we don’t want government tinkering with our health care, we don’t like them looking for ways to take our guns and we don’t want what is euphemistically called cap and trade.

Our country is being degraded into third world status by people who don’t play by the rules our government has recognized from the beginning. Power is what they understand, not constitutional limitations. The toxic actors from the 60’s are friends and confidants of the President. Most everyone knows Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers and his wife Barnardine Dohrn helped get him started in his political career… The work of their inspiration, Saul Alinsky, drives the strategies of the administration.

As they intrude further and further into the lives of average Americans, it is apparent that they are following the logic of Ayers contemporary, Abbie Hoffman, when he said, “Respect for authority will be the downfall of democracy.” We are in a situation where we are doing what we are expected to do… playing by the rules the other side disregards with great regularity, glee and apparent impunity.

It is time we consider how concerned with the political and social niceties we would be if someone were to break into our homes and threaten our children. Conservatives and libertarians tend to just want to be left alone. We have our own agendas and goals. We have no grand ambitions of controlling those around us. We just want the government to leave us alone. It’s not in our nature to raise a ruckus or refuse to comply. We have been conditioned to quietly go along with even unjust laws, in spite of the fact that we may complain from time to time. This must change!

Getting back to the question about someone intruding into your home and threatening to harm your family… this is exactly what is happening. Through their “spend our way out of debt” philosophy, they are destroying the value of your dollars… they are squeezing from your children the inheritance you are working to be leaving them. By working to insert federal bureaucrats into the medical process, they are presenting a very real danger to the health care your family may receive. With their hairbrained cap and trade scheme they are endangering your ability to retain employment and support your family… and along with it, possibly the education you have planned for your children and grandchildren.

This is not a meaningless academic debating exercise. It is about the welfare of your family and country. This is a deadly serious attack on the America we love. The transgressions of this administration and its unelected czars far exceeds those that King George visited upon the colonists in Patrick Henry’s day.

It is our choice to roll over and and play dead or to stop them. Stopping them is the choice… not trying to stop them.

On April 19, 1775 the colonists fired the “shot heard round the world” on the village green at Lexington… that was a real musket shot. Let us hope and pray that this time around we do not have a shooting conflict… but the longer we wait to step forward, the more likely this may be. We just need to remember the words of Winston Churchill when he said, “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Editors Note:  For a short video describing the events at Lexington and Concord, check out http://tinyurl.com/2wsfh5.

 

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WASHINGTON — “the federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community-organizing group Acorn, a federal court ruled Friday, saying that the House violated the Constitution when it passed a resolution barring the group from receiving federal dollars.” The Court that this was heard in ruled that by placing a ban on this federally funded group Congress in effect was determining guilt without a trial.

The unfortunate part of this fiasco is that ACORN is a not for profit organization. This means that they are not supposed to make political recommendations and yet they do and have for years. Recently they were caught distributing advice on the better maintenance of a prostitution ring and how to avoid paying a high rate of taxes for this, not in one office or city alone either. This organization is large and holds enough political sway to weather allegations of extreme voter misconduct in the last presidential election.

Terminating funding is not un-constitutional, the bill of rights does not apply to corporate, or non-profit entities it applies to individuals. Terminating funding is actually protecting the people who may receive erroneous or illegal advice from them. Terminating funding is more constitutional than not doing so. Its time people, terminate their funding and stop them from committing illegal acts. As for this judge in the Bronx maybe it is time for his voter base to consider replacing him, of course that would mean fighting his funding that might be occurring through ACORN!

Its time to wake up America, the Constitution is not a toy to be allowed when ACORN is in trouble but ignored when Individual rights are discarded…

 

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While trying to catch up on some blog reading and commenting this morning, I ran across a post over at teresamerica urging people to not donate to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) due to their willingness to donate to ACORN. I agree wholeheartedly.

Wanting a little more info, I came across an article written by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. Donating to ACORN is just the tip of the iceberg.

According to the article, George Soros, an avowed atheist, has been channeling money to certain Catholic groups via his Open Society Institute. The groups receiving funds from Soros have been groups of progressive Catholics who have been on the forefront in the Obamacare debate and the debate on amnesty for illegal aliens.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) has received at least $200,000 from the Open Society Institute. This group backs Pope Benedict XVI’s mission of using religion to further a socialist agenda.

From their website comes this list of things that is in the latest encyclical by the Pope. Hold on to your lunch, folks.

• “Another important consideration is the common good. To love someone is to desire that person’s good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is a good that is linked to living in society: the common good.”
• “If we love others with charity, then first of all we are just towards them. Not only is justice not extraneous to charity, not only is it not an alternative or parallel path to charity: justice is inseparable from charity, and intrinsic to it.”
• “The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner, and that we continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady employment for everyone.”
• “Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which the political community in particular must also take responsibility.”

Now we have an insight into exactly what the Pope thinks of socialism. He’s in favor of it. And since this group supports the mission of the Pope, George Soros and his Open Society Institute will continue to fund them. It’s disgusting to see a religion sell out to anyone let alone liberals.

Also receiving money from OSI is the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), a group who has been on the front lines of having Obamacare cover illegal immigrants. The group was established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1988 and has received at least $530,000 from the Soros-backed OSI.

While celebrating the passage in the House of Pelosicare, CACG had this to say about the whole debacle.

“As Catholics, we applaud the efforts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Bart Stupak, and others who helped extend current restrictions on federal funding of abortion to health plans participating in the public [health] exchanges.”

Not so fast, pal. According to Judie Brown of the American Life League, some of the provisions still in Pelosicare allow for federal funding of abortion and other life issues, something the Catholic Church is supposed to be dead-set against. Please read Mr. Kincaid’s article to see for yourself.

The CACG advisory council reads like a who’s who of leftist groups. Some of the groups that are represented on the advisory council: SEIU, AFL-CIO, Georgetown University, and Boston College. No wonder the Catholic Church has been throwing their support behind card check.

The SEIU representative on the advisory council of CACG is a man by the name of Tom Chabolla, assistant to SEIU president Andy Stern. Prior to this gig, Chabolla served as associate director of programs for CCHD, directing money to ACORN to the tune of $7.3 million over the past 10 years.

The Gamaliel Foundation, an interfaith group with a socialist agenda, still continues to receive money from CCHD. They’ve been pushing hard for continued financial support through CCHD and is citing that it is “under attack from those with a partisan agenda to de-fund groups committed to organizing for social justice.” It says: “Many Gamaliel Foundation affiliates rely on funding from CCHD to serve their communities.” Yeah. ACORN’s done a great job of that, eh?

Gamaliel says on its website that “Barack H. Obama, former Gamaliel organizer, is the 44th president of the United States,” and that this makes the organizing community proud. It also has a story about Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett speaking to a Gamaliel event in Washington, D.C. of 2,500 activists. Jarrett is the official who said that “we” had recruited communist Van Jones to the White House. Another speaker was Melody Barnes, Obama’s Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Before coming to the White House, Barnes was the executive vice president for Policy at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP). Van Jones also worked at CAP before going to the White House. CAP CEO and President John Podesta, who served as President Clinton’s chief of staff, is a major “progressive Catholic” and member of the ACORN advisory council, and served as a professor at Georgetown University.

Interestingly, Tom Chabolla of the SEIU and formerly of the CCHD was on the dinner committee for the 33rd Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner, which was held on May 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C. One of the winners was none other than Van Jones.

While appealing for more funds through CCHD, the Gamaliel Foundation received $300,000 from OSI in 2008.

Let them continue to go to Soros for their funding as they seem to be of like minds. They’ll see not another dime from me.

Originally posted at The Right Stuff © Denise

 

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MoveOn, the George Soros funded astroturf army of the left, is making an interesting threat.  First, this from FOX News.

Moveon.org has reportedly raised $3,578,117 in contributions to fund primary challenges against ‘any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,’ according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday

A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.

MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million  in contributions to fund primary challenges against “any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,” according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.

The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will “face an enormous backlash from the grassroots.”

There’s a lot to cover here.

First, the goons have been unleashed.  The SEIU and ACORN will not be far behind.  It’s no mystery as to why this email became public.  It is meant as a warning to Democratic lawmakers.  Let’s translate that idea.

CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE TRANSLATION: “Ehh, the Don wants this legislation for his legacy.  He knows most of yous, as well as himself, will be voted out in the next few years, so he wants this done!  Once it’s passed, no one will ever get rid of it, and Democrats can say every election, “Those evil Republicans want to take yous’s health care away so yous’ll DIIIIIIIE!!!!”  If yous don’t cooperate with the Don, our respectable community organizers will make sure unfortunate things happen to yous…yeah “unfortunate,” that’s it.”

“Enormous backlash from the grassroots.”  OK, we know what the Democratic grassroots are all about.  They’ll show up with in buses, be paid, and wearing identically printed shirts and signs.  They’ll spout off the scripts they’ve been given, and “speakers” claiming to be “doctors” at  town halls will be Democratic plants.  Sound familiar?  It was done all this summer in response to the Tea Parties.

3.5 million??  Come on Mr. Soros, you have billions.  Get your minions at the DNC to put in more.  Or, better yet, throw in a 100 million of your own.  It’s for your socialist agenda, isn’t it?  You have enough of a tangled web to launder all of that money so it doesn’t appear to be from you!  Come on now, go all in!  3.5 million is a pittance, only enough to damage one blue dog, if that.

OK, sarcastic ranting aside, Why am I obviously happy with this?  Well, the nation is against ObamaCare, PelosiCare, KilloffGrannyCare, or whatever you want to call it.   The public option is a big reason why.  If the left knocks of Democratic moderates, and puts socialists up against Republicans,  Conservatives, and Independents, they will get annihilated at the polls.  The left, the MSM, and pretty much anyone outside of the “alternative media”  haven’t a clue that there is a change going on out in flyover country.  And yes, it IS a change that we can believe in.

Oh I just remembered…

Isn’t the “extreme” wing of a party attacking nice moderates very, very bad?  I guess it’s only bad when Conservatives do it.

Originally posted at Conservative Hideout 2.0 © Matt Ross

 

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As we all know (in spite of the Media Formerly Known as Mainstream ignoring the story), ACORN workers in several states have been caught on tape advising undercover reporters on how to commit tax evasion, hide income obtained via prostitution, and turning a blind eye to child prostitution.  Several workers have been fired, and ACORN has been kicked out of the Census plan, as well as de-funded by the Congress, and the IRS is dumping ACORN in it’s tax assistance program.

The CEO of ACORN has come forward and promised reform (LOL ).  But then, ACORN has done something right out of Alinsky’s playbook; they are going after the people that exposed them!  That’s right, they have filed a lawsuit against the filmmakers, as well as the owner of the site BigGvoernment.com, Andrew Breitbart.  This from Politico:

In the complaint, ACORN alleges that the filmmakers entered into the organization’s offices in July with a “hidden camera and microphone” and taped employees Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams. Both employees are listed as plaintiffs on the complaint, filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.

The crux of the lawsuit centers around a Maryland law which makes it illegal to tape someone without their consent – ACORN is alleging O’Keefe and Giles did so. ACORN is asking for $500,000 in damages to be awarded to each of the employees filmed by O’Keefe and Giles, and ACORN itself wants $1 million in damages.

So, the fired workers that ACORN seemed to throw under the bus, are named as plaintiffs?  At least on the surface, how far has ACORN really distanced themselves from these workers?  After all, they offered assistance in concealing CHILD PROSTITUTION! I guess the “bad apples” aren’t bad enough to be excluded from the lawsuit.

Does ACORN realize that filing this suit threatens to leave themselves open to discovery?  I mean, the defendants can ask for all sorts of information, and can present a ton of it in court, which makes it public, does it not?

ACORN hasn’t realized that the right has read “Rules for Radicals.”  We know what they are doing.  This is nothing more than an attempt to punish the people that exposed ACORN.  Clearly, ACORN is more upset about being caught than they are upset about any wrongdoing.  They’ll likely lose, but the general idea is to make the targets expend a ton of money in defending themselves.  It is also intended to send a message to others that would attempt to expose them. The thugs are going out with the only method they know. They’re being thugs!

I don’t think that they realize that their organization is now known for being the fraudulent joke that it is.  Each action that they take adds to that view.  In this attempt to punish the people that exposed them, they are just proving their opponents correct.  Keep it up ACORN, you’re accelerating your own downfall, which makes most of us very happy.

That being said, we have to start watching for the next group that picks up communist flag in terms of thuggery, voter registration fraud, and general Cloward-Piven nonsense.  For the left, the job needs done, and I don’t think they care who does it.  The question is, will another larger organization take over these functions, or will there be a bunch of smaller organizations?  Will ACORN break up into many smaller organizations with different names, but the same funding stream?  We will need to watch, learn, and communicate about who or what takes the place of ACORN…and expose them!

© Matt Ross

Originally posted at Conservative Hideout 2.0

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World Net Daily has done an excellent job of outlining Dear Leader’s ties to the corrupt organization known as ACORN. While most of us have always known that he’s been capitulating to their every whim, this article really ties it all together nicely and shows just how far BHO has been willing to let ACORN stick it in.
Click here for the entire article.

1990s: Obama meets ACORN

ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, first noticed Obama when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project. A March 2, 2008, Los Angeles Times article by Letta Tayler and Keith Herbert, titled “Obama Forged Path As Chicago Community Organizer,” explored Obama’s pre-law school days as a community organizer in Chicago and his efforts to build a partnership with Chicago’s “Friends of the Parks.”

“Obama’s task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement,” the Times article explained.

1993: Woods Foundation

In 1993, Obama joined the board of the Woods Foundation, a non-profit foundation which declares its goal to “increase opportunities for less advantaged people and communities by giving money primarily to not-for-profit groups involved in housing, the arts and other areas.” Obama served along with Bill Ayers and remained on the board until 2002.

Pajamas Media reports that during Obama’s time there, ACORN received grants of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002) and $40,000 (2002) from the Woods Fund.

1994: Buycks-Robinson v. Citibank

As WND reported, in 1994, Obama, a graduate of Harvard Law School then fresh from his Project Vote! experience, represented ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank case, in which ACORN pressed for Citibank to make more loans to marginally qualified African-American applicants “in a race neutral way.”

After obtaining a settlement in the Citibank litigation, ACORN used its subsidiary organization ACORN Housing, a nationwide organization with offices in more than 30 U.S. cities, to push the group’s radical agenda to get subprime home buyers mortgages under the most favorable terms possible.

1995: ACORN attorney in Illinois lawsuit

In 1995, Obama was hired as a lawyer for ACORN in a major lawsuit. As a lawyer with civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “motor voter” law.

Also in 1995, as WND’s Jerome Corsi reported, Bill Ayers co-founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $50 million grant program for the Chicago public schools. Ayers selected Obama to be the first chairman of the board of the Annenberg Challenge, a position Obama held for eight years, until 2003, a period during which Ayers remained active with the Challenge.

In his Wall Street Journal article, Stanley Kurtz wrote that the Annenberg project funneled money to through various far-left community organizers, including ACORN.

Obama’s FIght the Smears website claims Obama “never organized with ACORN”

1996: New Party ties

As WND reported, newspaper evidence shows Obama was a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda. While running for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the New Party, according to confirmed reports during last year’s presidential campaign.

Barack Obama pictured in New Party publication (Courtesy New Zeal blog)

According to Democratic Socialists of America documents, the New Party worked with ACORN to promote its candidates.

1997-2004: Illinois state senator

Obama meeting with ACORN leaders as an Illinois Senate candidate

In 1997, Obama became an Illinois state senator. ACORN national board member Toni Foulkes bragged of ACORN’s long-standing relationship with Obama prior to his election in the 2003-2004 issue of Social Policy.

2005: U.S. senator

In 2005, Obama became a U.S. senator.

2007: From Obama’s own mouth …

He was asked, “If elected president of the Unites States, would you agree, in your first 100 days, to meet with the delegation of representatives from these various community organizations that campaigned for community values? Could they count on you in your first 100 days to sit down with them?”

Obama responded, “Yes. But let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we’re going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We’re going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.”

2008: ACORN endorses Obama

On Feb. 21, 2008, the Acorn Political Action Committee endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, insisted they had nothing to do with ACORN after the inner-city advocacy group became engulfed in controversy over voter-registration fraud.

But in August 2008, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that the Obama campaign paid $832,598.29 to ACORN “offshoot” Citizens Services Inc. for “get out the vote” projects from Feb. 25 to May 17.

The newspaper revealed that Obama’s payments to CSI for services were unusual: “For example, CSI received payments of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent with other organizations was $558.82 per check on more than 1,200 entries classified as advance work.”

(Anita Moncrief, former ACORN insider)

According to the report, Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans. A 2006 ACORN publication describes Citizen Services Inc. as “ACORN’s campaign services entity.”

2009: Criminal case against ACORN

According to the results of a congressional investigation done in July, ACORN was found to be rife with criminal activity.

A report from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform states that ACORN “has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud. Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate.”

Since 1994, ACORN has received more than $53 million in federal funds, according to the report.

“Under the Obama administration, ACORN stands to receive a whopping $8.5 billion in available stimulus funds. Operationally, ACORN is a shell game played in 120 cities, 43 states and the District of Columbia through a complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators. Structurally, ACORN is a chess game in which senior management is shielded from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act,” the report said.

So there you have it. BHO may be calling ACORN’s recent exposure a travesty, but make no mistake about it. He agrees with and has supported every illegal activity this organization has been a part of.

Birds of a feather…

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Connecting More Dots: SEIU

The other day, I posted a timeline, courtesy of World Net Daily, that showed the relationship between ACORN and the current occupant of the White House. It sparked my interest, so I decided to do some more research online. The corrupt dealings of this administration just keep coming and coming and coming…

Glenn Beck has done a stellar job of reporting the corruption by the organization who receives millions of OUR tax dollars every year. In fact, I feel that Beck should be sharing a Pulitzer Prize with the two undercover filmmakers who videotaped all the crap that has come to light in recent weeks.

Beck has recently called the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), headed by president Andy Stern, the sister organization of ACORN. If they are the sister organization, this is a relationship that is more incestuous than any from the hills of Appalachia.

Recently, the SEIU has made the news by using thug tactics at Tea Party protests across the country. Intimidation and physical force are their weapons of choice.

While we now know about the ties between the Oval Office and ACORN, what about the ties between ACORN and the SEIU?? Let’s take a look.

The Union Label Blog has connected the dots. Keep in mind that while being associated with ACORN, the SEIU has the ear of BHO.

SEIU Locals 100 and 880 share the same address: 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. Just up the street is the ACORN office at 1016 Elysian Fields Avenue. Wouldn’t be that far to walk, eh?

The unions are to file disclosure statements regarding finances with the Department of Labor. According to Local 880′s 2005 financial filings with the DOL, there’s been some closed-door dealings going on. Loans and payments have been made to ACORN-run organizations.

• A loan receivable from SEIU Local 100, which started the year at $11,500 and ended the year at only $500—a note shows the loan wasn’t repaid in cash, but rather “reduced to in-kind service”
• “Gifts” totaling $151,694 to the L880 Political Action Committee, which is run out of ACORN’s Louisiana office
• Local 880 received $36,425 as a “contractual fee” from the L880 Political Action Committee
• Representational activities included $6,388 in non-itemized payments to the Chief Organizer Fund (Chief Organizer is Rathke’s title for most of his positions) at ACORN’s office and $66,870 in non-itemized payments to Citizens Consulting Inc., ACORN’s multi-use organization
• $177,430 paid to Citizens Consulting for “Accounting and Administrative Support” and non-itemized transactions for “General Overhead”
• $10,102 paid to Citizens Consulting for “Union Administration”

Local 100′s financial filings reveal even more corruption.

• $8,098 in overhead paid to Citizens Consulting
• $9,523 paid to the “Peoples Equipment Resource Corp,” which is registered to Rathke at ACORN’s headquarters
• $6,300 to the Elysian Fields Corporation
• Accounts payable records show $73,984 to the Elysian Fields Corporation; $34,241 to Citizens Consulting; $13,795 to the Fifteenth Street Corporation; and $9,072to the 4415 San Jacinto Corporation—all of which are run out of ACORN’s New Orleans headquarters
• Loans payable included its original $11,500 debt to Local 880 and $8,907 to the Association for the Rights of Citizens—a group run by Local 880 and ACORN.48 Loans to these two organizations were reflected as early as 2000, with as much as $47,000 of money from members in Local 880 being used to support its less-successful sibling.

ACORN appears to have been hired by the SEIU to assail Wal-Mart for not unionizing their employees because the SEIU headquarters sent two installments totaling $500,000 to the “Wal-Mart Organizing Project.” The checks were sent to 1016 Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans: ACORN’s Big Easy Office.

Kevin Mooney at the Washington Examiner had more information that had been posted at The Other McCain. A 2007 LM-2 (financial disclosure form) shows SEIU Local 880, which is active in Illinois and Minnesota, donated $60,118 to ACORN for “membership services.” Organized labor has kicked it back in the form of gifts and grants to ACORN totaling $2.4 million, the LM-2’s reveal.
When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) decided to cut the pay of home health workers by two dollars an hour during the state’s last budget crisis, saving $74 million. These workers are SEIU members. What was the union’s reaction? They pressured the Obama administration to withhold $6.8 billion in stimulus funding in retaliation. In fact, SEIU representatives were invited by Obama to negotiations between federal and state government officials that were held via a conference call. Why is a union being asked to participate in negotiations between government officials when they hold no such position? A SEIU spokeswoman later defended the call as “an example of transparency.” Yeah…right.

How does this tie to the White House other than the ACORN link? Obama appointed Craig Becker, the associate general counsel of Andy Stern’s SEIU, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Becker is radical on the issue of unions, and his opinions are very well known within the political circle.
Mr. Becker wants to implement his radical unionism on the American capitalist society. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, he explained that traditional notions of democracy should not apply in union elections. He wrote that employers should be barred from attending NLRB hearings about elections, and from challenging election results even amid evidence of union misconduct. He believes elections should be removed from work sites and held on “neutral grounds,” or via mail ballots. Employers should also be barred from “placing observers at the polls to challenge ballots.”

More extraordinary, Mr. Becker advocated a new “body of campaign rules” that would severely limit the ability of employers to argue against unionization. He argued that any meeting a company holds that involves a “captive audience” ought to be grounds for overturning an election. If a company wants to distribute leaflets that oppose the union, for example, Mr. Becker said it must allow union access to its private property to do the same.

With all of this political favortism coming to the surface, how can Dear Leader distance himself from ACORN and SEIU when he is chin-deep in the muck?

Someone’s getting thrown under the bus.

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Originally posted at The Right Stuff © Denise

 

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

President Barack Obama, you’ve overwhelmed “We The People.” Since you were given the prestige of the highest office in the land, there has not been one day of peace or tranquility for the citizens of our country. Many Americans are feeling frustrated and angered, and rightfully so.

One could say you’ve eroded away the last of the American people’s trust, respect, and patience. You’re now threatening to intrude into every facet of our daily lives, and enough is enough.

Thou shalt not bear false witness

We see you as the “number one” community organizer sitting in the White House. The members of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and union thugs are being mobilized to counter the truth at public gatherings. They are sent out for the sole purpose of confronting, threatening, intimidating, and maligning your opponents, including those among America’s elderly who’ve come to stand up for their rights at town hall meetings. — View YouTube)

Very few believe you anymore. Only those who refuse to listen to reason remain gullible. Their minds are still open to your deceptive lies. You used cunningly-crafted words and theatrics during the 2008 election to con half of America into thinking you were a special and decent man of integrity, but even your Democrat constituents are becoming aware of what you are. You and your political cronies are corrupt to the hilt, like the rest of the Daley Chicago political machine.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me

America’s citizens are patriots, and they are no longer willing to remain silent. Now they are fighting for their lives — literally — and for the future of generations to come. Indeed, your godless health care policies pose a threat to every man, woman, and child living in this country.

You caught many of us off guard, but today we have no intention of turning back or being quieted down. Our eyes have been opened. The greatest threats facing us today have come from within our own government, and from you, playing God.

The old saying “the buck stops here” is certainly applicable in your case. It’s your administration’s recent actions — not the actions of protesters — that are un-American. You appear less and less presidential as you shake that scornful finger in our faces.

Who would ever have believed there would be a snitch website set up in America to turn in fellow citizens who disagree with your ungodly policies, or that the White House would spam personal e-mails with propaganda? This is Orwellian lunacy, and profoundly immoral.

Honor thy father and thy mother

President Obama, your entire administration has shown us nothing less than disdain. To use words right out of the mouth of the First Lady, it is “downright mean-spirited.”

Many of the same senior citizens you are now deriding voted for you. Now, without any regard for the voices of the American public, you’ve moved us into a battlefield over “Advanced Care Planning.” No one wants to give big government the latitude to rummage through our personal health care records, and we definitely do not want government in charge of our bodies. — View YouTube)

According to America’s Affordable Health Choice Act of 2009, Section 1233 of “Advanced Care Planning,” every five years patients would be reviewed and re-evaluated. The intent is to have seniors standing in front of an admission office that would send them right into a nursing home facility, a long-term care facility, or a “hospice program.”

How dare you presume to make these decisions for our loved ones and families? We are not a euthanasia-embracing country, and we intend to remain that way.

Thou shalt not steal

Mr. President, you’ve gone down a path that only a small, twisted minority of Americans condone. How many ways do we have to say “no” to big government and your so-called social-justice philosophy? We do not want any form of socialism embedded into or replacing our republic.

We’re fed up with life-changing and comprehensive policies shoved down our throats without any input allowed. The stimulus bills have done nothing but stifle America’s free-market system. What you have done to a once-thriving economy (including what you did before you became president) is almost unforgivable. We know what took place during the Fannie and Freddie housing debacle. We understand who was to blame. You and your party have further compounded our fiscal problems, and now you seek control over our very lives — and death.

Americans find themselves forced to fend off your insidious attack on our health care system. Well-Informed people do not want rationed health care foisted upon them in what is nothing more than a power grab that will steal our God-given liberty and freedom. We have the very best medical care in the entire world. Don’t destroy it.

Thou shalt not kill

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the “Special Advisor for Health Policy” for your administration. Emanuel has the unmitigated gall to criticize the physician’s Hippocratic Oath. It appears that he believes it’s overused and possibly outdated. The American people are telling you to leave our doctors, nurses, and heath-caregivers alone. These dedicated men and woman are not interested in Emanuel’s strange eugenics obsessions.

Physicians usually take some form of the Hippocratic Oath, committing to use their power to help the sick to the best of their ability and judgment. They try to do everything they can for the patient. However, Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond individual human needs and consider “social justice.” Within his twisted mindset, it’s perfectly humane to suggest that doctors center their focus on hard, cold calculations that place more value on bureaucratically-defined budgets than people. The money could be better spent elsewhere, they are told. — View YouTube

Presumptuously, Dr. Emanuel believes that communitarianism is above reproach. It should guide decisions on who gets care. Such detached opinions lead him to say that medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. For example, he would not provide health services to patients with dementia and other serious mental challenges.

Excerpts from The American Thinker: “Manufactured Healthcare Crisis,” by Jim Simpson —
“These are perilous times. Last November’s election of Barack Obama and a filibuster-proof majority of Democrats in both houses allowed a virulent cabal to capture our nation’s seat of power. As with the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006, it was a disaster of epic proportions. With one shocking, enormous, blatantly partisan, self-serving and destructive proposal following on the heels of another, the sheer enormity of their power grab defies description. But as each new proposal moves forward, the hand of the Crisis Strategy becomes clear.

“If there were ever any doubt that Barack Obama personifies the Crisis Strategy, it should long since have been removed for anyone with a mind. Since so many Americans seem to have lost theirs, I address this to the rest of you. For with “God’s help,” it is you and I, not our gutless, hapless, corrupt politicians, nor our sleeping populous that will save this country or allow it to fall. Full Article

Thou shalt not covet

Because our power-hungry president seems so anxious to impose ill-considered “change” on our nation, he might want to think about puttering in the wife’s victory garden, or finding a hobby of his own besides shooting hoops. That would be much more constructive than continually wreaking havoc with our personal lives and destroying everything we hold dear — including the land we love.

“We The People” are rightfully enraged; Obama’s intention to transform this magnificent country for the worse is finally being exposed. Our president’s anti-American, Saul Alinsky-based ideals are not compatible with the Founding Fathers’ vision or the Constitution, which has stood the test of time.

Mr. Obama, “We The People” reject your schemes and your Marxist ideology, which has been cleverly put to use to collapse our country’s monetary system.

We voted you into office, and we can show you the door. Your job, and your comings and goings, are at our pleasure. Stop spending taxpayers’ hard-earned money — immediately. “Spreading the wealth around” is socialism; understand that we want none of it. You are more than welcome to take up residency with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or Cuba’s Fidel Castro; or you can convince us that you don’t covet what they possess: dictatorial powers over teeming, subservient masses.

May God watch over and protect America.

Song: YouTube — Feet To The Fire By Lloyd Marcus

Marie Jon is a political/religious-based writer and founder of www.DrawingClose.org — a sister website to RenewAmerica. Marie extends her hand of welcome; visit DrawingClose and receive your free gift of salvation by taking an online Bible study.
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While watching the nightly Fox News Channel programs cover the healthcare/mob/Pelosi/Hoyer/townhall debate, it dawned on me. There are people like Terri Schindler Schiavo who are icons of the dark side of Obamacare.

Terri Schiavo was the young Florida woman who went into a debilitative state after her heart stopped briefly in 1990. The heart stoppage was caused by a potassium deficiency brought on by a bout with bulimia. Terri’s brain was deprived of oxygen, and she was of limited capabilities from that time.

A long legal battle was waged in the weeks before her death. Her husband, Michael, had insisted that Terri never wanted to live in such a state and petitioned to have her feeding tube removed and water withheld. Her family argued that Terri did respond to environmental stimuli and deserved to live. They begged Michael to sign Terri over to them, but to no avail. On March 18, 2005, Michael Schiavo won the right to remove Terri’s feeding tube. She died 13 days later.

The issue of Terri Schiavo begs the question: What if this had occurred under the present administration? We can almost write the script.

Terri would be labeled an unproductive citizen of society. Government bureaucrats would order her medical care withheld as soon as she was accepted as a resident of the hospice. The euthanasia crowd would physically block her family from trying to save her.

Numerous accountants funded by George Soros would study the cost-effectiveness of Terri’s care down to the last bed sheet used. When their reports were filed, her family’s wishes and willingness to assume all responsibility for her care would matter not. Pro-death supporters would be on hand to verbally assault the family and call them fascists for wanting her to live.

Their cries of “greedy family” would become the battle cry of the left.

The media would be on hand to make sure that all the pro-lifers were painted as a bunch of nuts with swastika tattoos. The SEIU and ACORN would be called upon to rough up those who dared speak out in defense of a brain-damaged woman who was being starved to death. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC would have a 24/7 live feed to the White House and Supreme Court to be able to identify those protesting Terri’s demise.

As the end draws near, a call is made to the White House. Obama, never one to let a good crisis go to waste, boards Air Force One and flies directly to Tampa. Surrounded by Secret Service, the faithful left genuflect and lay down palm leaves during his walk to the entrance of the hospice. He steps inside as members of the Black Panthers quickly block the entrance.

Minutes later, the press is called to the entrance of the hospice. They quickly jockey for position in the rush to get first coverage of the events about to unfold. As they wait, prayers and hymns can be heard from the pro-life crowd who had been ordered to stay three blocks away. Suddenly, the doors open.

Obama steps to the podium full of microphones with a look of sadness on his face. He begins to speak.

“Fellow Americans, WE WON!” he says as he breaks into a smile.

The media no longer restrains their glee as Dear Leader raises his hand to the heavens while clutching a copy of the legislation responsible for this whole chain of events.

[UPDATE: I've been told about the story of Barbara Wagner and her dealings with the Oregon health system. It's a microcosm of what the left wants to implement nationwide. Thanks to Clay and Teresa for bringing it up!]

© Denise

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In Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels was appointed the Minister of Propaganda. Today, we have George Soros filling his shoes.

For those of you who may not know who George Soros is, let me give you a brief biography. Soros is a billionaire who acquired his wealth through hedge funds and stock speculation. He has since used his wealth to further liberal agendas around the world, including throwing millions of dollars to efforts to try and unseat George W. Bush in 2004. ACORN and moveon.org have him tagged as one of their top donors. He is a member of the Bilderbergers and also of the Carlyle Group. The man defines the word “leftist.”

According to worldnetdaily.com, the Associated Press has agreed to allow free publication by four nonprofit groups: the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica. All of these groups are funded by George Soros. AP will also distribute the material to their 1,500 subscribing newspapers.

Pro Publica is a group founded by a $10 million yearly grant. Herbert and Marian Sandler, the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, were the people backing the grant. Currently sitting on the board of Pro Publica is none other than Henry “Beer Summit” Gates, Jr. Last year, the Sandlers sold their business to Wachovia for an estimated $26 billion, a deal that had their personal shares at $2.4 billion.

The Sandlers are major donors to the Democratic Party and are top funders of ACORN, MoveOn.org, the American Civil Liberties Union and other far-leftist groups like Human Rights Watch.

In 2008, the Sandlers were behind two controversial California Political Action Committees, Vote Hope and PowerPac.org, which spent about $5 million in pro-Obama ads in that state. The two groups were run by the Sandler’s son-in-law, Steve Phillips, the former president of the San Francisco School Board.

The journalistic integrity of Pro Publica has been called into question on more than one occasion. The Capital Research Center issued a report concluding that Pro Publica “churns out little more than left-wing hit pieces about Sarah Palin and blames the U.S. government for giving out too little foreign aid.”

CPI, another nonprofit group being helped by AP, is funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute.

CPI churns out regular partisan pieces. One widely debunked CPI study from last year, covered extensively by the AP, claimed it found President Bush and top administration officials had issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq as “part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”

Richard Poe, a writer for the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, concluded CPI and other Soros-funded so-called watchdogs “have a long history of coordination with Soros and his Shadow Party. They are beholden to Soros personally for his financial support. His influence often shows in their choice of targets.”

The AP itself has called the arrangement to distribute pieces from the Soros and Sandler-funded nonprofits a six-month experiment that could later be broadened to include other investigative nonprofits and to serve its nonmember clients, including broadcast and Internet outlets.

“It’s something we’ve talked about for a long time, since part of our mission is to enable our members to share material with each other,” said Sue Cross, a senior vice president at the AP.

She added the development in 2006 of an Internet-based system for members to receive AP material made it easier to do this kind of sharing and to offer new products like the investigative service.

Now we know that Jeffery Immelt isn’t alone in all of the Obama hype and hysteria. The man behind the curtain is none other than George Soros.

© Denise

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