...The most recent video -- from a San Bernardino ACORN office -- depicts an ACORN employee claiming to have murdered her husband. But when the Press-Enterprise newspaper caught up with ACORN employee Tresa Kaelke, she told the newspaper she was messing with the filmmakers and making it all up. "They were clearly playing with me," she said "I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me."
Reports the newspaper: "Since she claimed on the video to have killed her husband, two San Bernardino police homicide detectives interviewed her at the office Tuesday. Police said they have been in contact with Kaelke's former husbands and the homicide claims do not appear accurate.
"'At this point, we can't prove that there's anything to her statement,' said San Bernardino police Sgt. Dave Dillon. 'We can't show that ever happened.'...
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The Shooting.
The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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This points out the weakness of the filmmaker's exposures of bad ACORNS. It appears that this woman did nothing illegal in lying. You need to get them to do something illegal. They had a chance in Baltimore with the woman who was going to make up a fake income tax form for them, but they didn't follow through.
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Actually they don't need to get them to do anything illegal. The point is not to arrest someone it is to expose acorn for what kind of organization it really is.
The rest, as we are now seeing, will take care of itself.
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The fourth installment of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's undercover report on ACORN is supposed to drop within the hour at BigGovernment.com and will be aired on Glenn Beck at 5:00 p.m. This time the duo took their sting operation to California, where an employee named Theresa confesses that she killed her allegedly abusive husband, and laid some "groundwork" beforehand. Beck aired portions of the video on his radio show today, and Leslie Sherman of The D.C. Writeup wrote it up:
10:54am: As the audio continues, James divulges his aspirations to run for an elected office someday. In enthusiastic response, Theresa says she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day. She names Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator McCleod, and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter. Theresa says that "Eden's" prostitution money would be an asset to him in his quest to become a Senator or Representative.
11:01am: Regarding the legislators that she speaks with, Theresa says that they (most likely herself and their ACORN office) are lobbying these law makers in behalf of health care reform. Apparently, this "non-partisan" organization that gets government money for housing assistance is using tax dollars for health care lobbying.
11:15am: Theresa discloses that her ex-husband abused her and "beat the hell out of" her. She then continues to confess, "I killed him . . . . I shot him." She notes that she had laid some "groundwork" beforehand. When James and Hannah question her as to whether he was abusing her when she killed him, she says that he was not at that moment, but she knew he was going to, she said, "I knew it was coming."
Should be an interesting video. Will the mainstream media cover the ACORN story now?
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It must have been Tresas first husband that she shot, her second one (Ronald Kaelke) appears to be alive and well with a restraining order against her.
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You got to wonder of this woman was 'just talking big' or had really done these things.
I would hope that someone might take a closer look and the disposition of any of her previous husbands....
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Will the mainstream media cover the ACORN story now?
Sort of. They'll skip all the unnecessary parts. They'll probably sit on their hands as long as they can, and then when the first one cracks they'll all have to jump on the bandwagon.
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1) This woman has a screw (or several) loose.
2) If her former husband was seriously abusive (quite possible) I won't be seriously critical of her killing him (if she did), even if it wasn't at an actual abusing moment.
3) Bragging about it makes me wonder just what she was thinking - either then or when she shot him.
Can you imagine what kind of kids she and Kanye West could have produced?
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Wasn't that husband killing thing brought up in the context of keeping the 'hos' in line by being rough?
From what I heard it sure sounded like that murder was premeditated. Why the hell else would you "lay the ground work"? There's also the guy that she sent these two to see whom she said she could keep in line.
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The bottom line is that this is a confession of murder, and conspiring to conceal that it was a murder. After just a cursory investigation, with warrants obtained, this woman should be arrested and held until it can be determined if indeed a murder had been committed.
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She must have shot him after the divorce because divorce records for both marriages are recorded in Los Angeles. Maybe it was her "husband" and not her husband.
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Pfft. The accusations concerning assisting tax-evasion were far FAR more significant as they potentially reflect on the whole of the ACORN operation and its willingness to help crooks.
A murder for a personal reasons is politically utterly irrelevant though and doesn't reflect on the organization at all.
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If you killed someone, wouldn't you want to keep your mouth shut about it and not go confessing to every guy that walks in wearing his grandmother's fur coat and pretending to be a pimp?
It's an amazing combination of stupidity and poor impulse control.
Police investigating the death of Christopher Kelly, a former top fundraiser for ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich, interviewed Kelly's girlfriend Monday as more details emerged about their relationship and Kelly's final hours.
Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans met with Clarissa Flores-Buhelos at her attorney's Chicago office and afterward would only say Flores-Buhelos was "cooperating, but the investigation continues."
Kelly, 51, who was facing heavy pressure by Blagojevich prosecutors to cooperate in the corruption case against his former close friend, died Saturday morning just hours after authorities say Flores-Buhelos brought him to a suburban hospital with signs of a drug overdose.
On Monday, sources filled in some of the gaps in the events surrounding Kelly's arrival at Oak Forest Hospital shortly after 11 p.m. Friday and his transfer early Saturday to Stroger Hospital in Chicago, where he was pronounced dead hours later.
Oak Forest Hospital is a county facility on the far south side of the county. It is NOT an acute care facility, it is a chronic care / rehab / LTAC / SNIF, and a former TB sanitarium. It's a scandal in and of itself, as any Chicagoan could tell you, but if you've chugged a few bottles of aspirin, don't go to Oak Forest Hospital.
If you fail to heed my advice and go there anyway, don't then go in transfer to 'Stroger' (the former Cook County) Hospital. That's at Harrison and Polk just west of the downtown, and is about a one hour ambulance ride from OFH. There's plenty of good hospitals along the way for someone who's in critical condition from salicylate poisoning -- for example, Christ Hospital, Little Company of Mary Hospital, or University of Chicago Hospital. UCH even has a helicopter and will pick you up.
Flores-Buhelos brought Kelly into Oak Forest in a wheelchair, sources said. Sometime later he became very combative and had to be restrained. During this time, the sources said, Kelly made a reference to having taken a large amount of painkillers.
Hospital officials declined to comment about what happened at Oak Forest, citing federal health privacy laws. But the sources said Kelly eventually calmed down, was stabilized and that a treating physician at Oak Forest traveled with Kelly by private ambulance to Stroger Hospital so he could receive a higher level of care.
Dumb-da-dumb-dumb. Again, OFH isn't an acute care facility, so that ANY level of acute care would be higher. Treating physician went along? That doesn't happen unless one is critically ill, and if that's the case you go from OFH to Christ or UCH.
An autopsy was inconclusive, and toxicology tests are pending. Police have said Tylenol wrappers and a large container of pills were found in Kelly's SUV.
Tylenol? That's not salicylate poisoning, of course, that's acetaminophen poisoning -- just as bad as it whacks the liver good and hard (RAB, pay attention here).
Kelly had pleaded guilty last week to tax and mail fraud charges in a kickback scheme at O'Hare International Airport and was scheduled to report to prison this week. As part of the federal investigation, authorities were looking at money Kelly gave Flores-Buhelos as an investment for a Logan Square nightclub, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
The source said that Kelly recently went to the nightclub at 2047 N. Milwaukee Ave. and wanted to check on the club's financial books. A club owner, though, refused to allow Kelly to see the books, angering Kelly. The two allegedly exchanged words, the source said.
Wonder if the club owner had a bottle of Tylenol aspirin, a funnel and four bouncers handy ...
Surely people aren't that evil in real life these days?
In the course of following up on Kelly and his finances, the FBI recently went to the club and asked about it. It was at that time that the owner repeated the story and said Kelly had threatened the owner, the source said.
That information sheds more light on happenings in federal court last week, the last time Kelly appeared at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. There, federal prosecutors moved to ensure Kelly was not allowed to visit the club or have contact with three individuals.
Norma Martinez, a representative of Aragon Entertainment Center and the nightclub, said last week that Kelly had an altercation at the club with another co-owner, whom she declined to identify. She said Kelly had no ownership in the club.
On Monday, an attorney for the club, Carlos Vazquez, said Flores-Buhelos worked in a non-managerial position "for a month or so" in the club's first-floor restaurant. "Neither Clarissa nor Chris Kelly were owners or investors," Vazquez said.
On Monday, meanwhile, Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch said investigators were prepared to hold news conference Tuesday to release details and a timeline of Kelly's death.
People following Kelly's shocking death would be both "pleased and a little surprised" by police's findings, Welch said, declining to elaborate. Welch had previously identified Flores-Buhelos as Kelly's girlfriend and accused her of having "lawyered up" and not cooperating with police. Her attorney, Terry Gillespie, angrily responded by calling Welch's comments "unconscionable grandstanding." The police chief met with Flores-Buhelos at Gillespie's office; the attorney declined to comment afterward.
Earlier, Welch said police were seeking the cell phones for both Kelly and Flores-Behelos because the two had been sending text messages back and forth before Flores-Buhelos found Kelly slumped over the wheel of his 2007 Cadillac Escalade in a lumberyard in Country Club Hills Friday night. He said the messages were key to piecing together the events leading to Kelly's death because Kelly told her he wanted to kill himself.
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Yeah. A bottle of tylenol and a funnel is what I had in mind. Always look at who gets the benefit from these strange situations!
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I think we should all see that club's books. Sounds Mob-ish to me, but might be some embarassing campaign contributions in there, given Kelly's background. And why in the world would checking some financial books be anyone's priority just before heading off to prison (answer: to get bargaining data to swap for time off of sentence.)
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They can always decline to serve government healthcare patients. Right? After all, it's a plan designed to compete with the free market, not a government funded means to take it over.
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
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The American diaspora begins. It's the Oakland -Detroit factor on a national scare. Most will not quit their profession, but rather move offshore. Good doctors and skilled professionals are needed everywhere.
1) 45% of my colleagues won't quit. They might want to but they'll stick it out. They have tuition, mortgages and car payments to make, and the market for ex-physicians who want six figure salaries is not elastic.
2) Those physicians instead will become increasingly cynical (yes, there's still some room for us!). They'll work less hard. Weekend and evening coverage will be more spotty. Waiting times for appointments will lengthen. Service will be less personal.
3) The government, in response, will turn to non-American doctors and to physician extenders such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners. PAs and NPs are good people within the boundaries of what they do, but those boundaries will have to be extended.
Because of both 2 and 3, quality will go down, but costs will not.
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Steve:
I've worked in Healthcare for forty years and you are spot on. We can look back to the nurse shortage in the eighties and project the same type of problem with Doctors in the future.
A troubling stat in the article is the trend in the ratio of physicians to population. For every 1% the population grows the physician count grows only 0.8%. Add to this the baby boomers and their increased use of medical services. Pile on top of that the newly insured National Health patients.
I suspect we will see shortages of doctors, closed practices and possibly an even greater dependancy on Emergancy Rooms.
Of course the illegals will still be treated through some form of Medicaid. Or worse, the "ID" check to qualify for National Health will be something as weak as Motor Voter. Someone will make the case that requiring an ID will discourage people from getting treatment like they are discouraged from voting.
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Yep, we'll be importing importing doctors to cover the short fall.
I seem to recall some American medical students in a place called "Grenada". I remember too, the MSM dragging them through the much as somehow "not up to American medical standards". Now watch for the MSM to start in on the meme of how foreign trained doctors are jsut as good if not better than physicians trained in the US.
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I wonder what percentage of practicing physicians would say health care overhaul must start with tort reform.
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What came first, the chicken or the egg. Why do we need tort reform....because the profession doesn't clean its own house as effectively as it is perceived it should. You can cap rewards in suits, but does that do anything to remove those who shouldn't be practicing? Presently, it seems to be one of the motivating factors to 'encourage' such practitioners to move along from the immediate area. If people perceived that the profession did indeed clean its own house effectively enough, the awards probably would never reach the levels they have.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > OBAMA FACING RESISTANCE FROM WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY OVER AFGHANISTAN.
PDF POSTERS > the Bammer's celebrated "TROOP SURGE" occurred only in Baghdad, and seemingly has done little or nothin to destroy Islamist influences in Iraq's countryside away from
Baghdad???
IOW, REALITY > THE ISLAMIST INSURGENTS CAN RETURN TO IRAQ, ETAL. ANYTIME THEY WANT TO FIGHT AND CHALLENGE THE IGA + ARMY, + MORESO NOW THAT THE US IS ALSO UNILATER DOWNSIZING ITS MIL PRESENCE.
A year after the start of the financial crisis in the US, President Barack Obama warns of "complacency" that might lead the country to an economic standstill.
Speaking on Monday in the US financial hub, Wall Street, to mark the first anniversary of the latest US economic downturn sparked by the collapse of one of America's oldest commercial banks -- Lehman Brothers -- Obama called for an imminent launch of regulatory bodies in order to implement 'effective' oversight of America's Treasury on the financial industry without holding back capital market and enterprises.
The US president told financial executives present at New York's Federal Hall that the old appeals to the unregulated free market system have jeopardized the US economy, putting it on the verge of "collapse."
He defended his controversial economic reforms that favor more government spending to help move the clogged credit market and called for "strong" regulations intended to discourage creditors who lend without specifying loopholes set in their loan contracts.
Obama urged the nation to learn from past lessons of Lehman Brothers and other fiscal institutes that filed for the so-called chapter 11 bankruptcy protections and called on the financial sector to join efforts with the federal government in an attempt "to update the rules and regulatory structure to meet the challenges of this new century."
Obama also made a reference to the insolvency of Lehman Brothers and noted that "history can not be allowed to repeat itself." The 150-year-old bank went down on September 15, 2008 only a day after Merrill Lynch, a global financial services company, was taken over by Bank of America, the largest US commercial bank.
The US president stressed that his major overhaul bids to fully restructure US economic statutes are meant to bring "transparency and accountability" to the broader financial system.
He warned financiers against 'recklessness' in their transactions and held out the olive branch to those observing the law.
Obama blamed the current economic woes on both the US citizens for their indiscretion in seeking the so-called easy credit without considering the consequences and creditors "who did not always tell the truth."
He informed the US public of the instigation of 'Consumer Financial Protection Agency' capable of curbing deception in the financial market.
Obama went further to secure large banks against risks by introducing new 'Resolution Authorities' along the Federal Reserve and the Treasury in a bid to stave off fiscal hazards that might threaten pillars of US economy such as the large insurance group known as American International Group (AIG).
He also asked world leaders to pitch in with his economic revamp polices in order to prevent another economic meltdown.
The US president rejected charges of promoting a leftist agenda in his economic plans and called on the Congress to pass his financial overhaul bids.
Meanwhile, economists say that Obama's efforts to fix the US economy would push the country's liabilities to its limits as the government has spent public money on bailout schemes and debt defaults instead of being invested in productive projects.
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It's amazing how much Obama claims to know without having investigated much of anything. Here's a story from the early FDR administration about a Sicilian prosecutor who made Wall Street an offer it couldn't refuse: subpoenas. The result was a relentless investigation, 12,000 pages of transcripts that laid bare abuses on Wall Street and failures of Washington to adequately regulate the nation's financial system. Pecora's efforts provided a basis for reforms that would alter Wall Street and maintain relative stability in the banking industry until the recent crisis. Unfortunately the article doesn't cite the laws passed as a result of Pecora's and other investigations, that were later repealed, followed by the recent crisis. I'm with Karl Denninger, who said yesterday: This is just more mealy-mouth BS.
I'll get impressed when I see indictments, clawbacks, honest balance sheets, the end of unsustainable housing lending by Fannie, Freddie and the FHA, a bill to reimpose Glass-Steagall, the enforcement of anti-trust laws already on the books and more.
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The mind-numbing hypocrisy and demogoguery of Obama blamed the current economic woes on both the US citizens for their indiscretion in seeking the so-called easy credit without considering the consequences and creditors "who did not always tell the truth." is truly frightening to behold.
Not a word about he and Barney et.al. forced banks to make all those bad loans. And not a word about the wink, wink pledges from the Feds Frannie and Freddie about backing them up.
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Actually the financial collpase occured on Bush's watch and his team was the one who initialited the bailouts and Obama took it over and it was needed. It's wallstreet's fault. Wake up!
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Actually the financial collpase occured on Bush's watch and his team was the one who initialited the bailouts and Obama took it over and it was needed. It's wallstreet's fault. Wake up! http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
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It's wallstreet's fault. Wake up! http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
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No Politics: You were sent to the Burg to observe and report, NOT participate. Your statement is indefensible, and besides, we have whores to worry about this week. Please get back to observing and reporting.
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Barry - "It's MY Prophecy and I'll do everything I can to make sure it comes TRUE!"
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Damn, the trolls these days are absolutely pathetic. Murat would run circles around this "No Politics" and then steal his lunch.
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Bloomberg: From a guy who's been there & done that:Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman whos an economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, today renewed his call for a limit on the activities of banks that are considered too big to fail. Since January, Volcker has advocated that regulators should prohibit financial companies whose collapse would pose a risk to the economy -- those considered too big to fail -- from engaging in certain types of trading and investing activities
I see no evidence that 0 has been carrying out any of Volcker's advice.
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Bloomberg: A collection of advice that 0 and his henchmen have ignored: Sec Treas Geithner asked Camden Fine, the president of the trade group Independent Community Bankers of America what should be done, on the day after he took office: Fine advised that behemoths such as Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. were a menace.
They should be broken up and sold off, Fine, 58, said he declared, as Geithner scribbled notes before thanking him for his time and ushering him out into the January chill.
The Treasury secretary didnt follow through on Fines suggestion, just as he didnt act on the advice of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head Sheila C. Bair, or the dozens of economists and politicians who pressed the White House for measures that would limit the size or activities of U.S. banks...Does anyone think its a coincidence that less than 10 years after they repealed Glass-Steagall, the financial markets collapsed? said Fine of the community bankers group. He called current rules for banking a recipe for a Molotov cocktail.
All this ignored advice I've been citing is from people with way better track records than 0, Geithner or Larry Summers have.
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Soros is right because CDS allowed the true credit risks to be hidden behind apparently risk spreading swaps that were nothing more than a shell game.
And Buffet who played this shell game big time and is now paying out big time.
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The Wall Street Journal has a hilarious version of Ambrose Bierce's 'Devil's Dictionary' today:CREDIT-DEFAULT SWAP, n. loose translation from the original Latin "ubi mel ibi apes," or "where there's honey there are bees." 1. A complex financial instrument vital to the functioning of a modern economy in the way it spreads risk among consenting parties. (Greenspan, A., pre-Sept. 2008.) 2. A complex financial instrument that nearly destroyed modern capitalism (Greenspan, A., post-Sept. 2008)
The world's biggest food company Nestle could leave its homebase Switzerland if Bern imposes a cap on executives' salaries, the group's chairman said in remarks published on Sunday. "It would be the beginning of an end," Peter Brabeck told Swiss newspaper Sonntag, in reply to a question about calls for the federal government to impose salary ceilings.
Asked what kind of consequences such a move might have on Nestle, a national corporate icon, Brabeck replied: "Then we must ask ourselves whether Switzerland is still the right location for us."
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No blood for chocolate!
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That's ok with me, Hersheys has Nestles beat all hollow.
Nestles is bitter.
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Maybe the Swiss should just ask for the same level of proof they ask the surviving family members of the Holocaust with Swiss accounts before allowing the executives to move any personal money from the country. That should tie it up nicely for forty years.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A House ethics panel says it is investigating allegations against three lawmakers, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who allegedly launched a "public campaign" to be appointed to President Obama's former Senate seat in Illinois.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Illinois, earlier said he's "eager to answer any questions" in the House ethics probe.
The preliminary investigation into Jackson's activities by the Office of Congressional Ethics became known in April.
At the time, Jackson, a Democrat, issued a statement saying he was cooperating and was "eager to answer any questions and provide any information to the OCE about my actions related to last year's vacant Senate seat."
In a statement Tuesday, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said it had received a referral on the matter from the ethics office.
Transcripts of recordings from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich "contain statements that an 'emissary' from Representative Jackson had offered to raise money for Blagojevich and provide 'money up-front' if Blagojevich nominated Representative Jackson to the [U.S.] Senate seat vacated by President Obama," the ethics office report said.
"If this 'emissary' acted either at the direction of Representative Jackson or with his knowledge and acquiescence, Representative Jackson may have violated federal law and House rules."
The other two lawmakers are Reps. Maxine Waters, D-California, and Sam Graves, R-Missouri. The committee issued separate statements for each of them. The statements do not disclose the allegations under investigation.
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Given that they haven't done anything about Rangel, and the Senate ethics committee gave Dodd a clean bill of health, I doubt Jesse, Jr. has anything to worry about.
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He may be down, but don't count him out. Former Democratic congressman James Traficant, fresh off completing a seven year prison term for a bribery and racketeering conviction, says he has not ruled out running for Congress again.
"I'm not sure at this point," Traficant told CNN on Monday when asked if he would seek reelection. "Both parties would not want to see me in Washington, believe me and I was very controversial down there."
Traficant, known for his flamboyant appearance and fiery political speeches, served nine terms representing Ohio's 17th congressional district. He was convicted in 2002 and later expelled from the House of Representatives .
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House Democrats dealt South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson a formal rebuke Wednesday, taking the rare step of passing a resolution of disapproval for his famous "you lie!" outburst last week in the House chamber.
Did they include Pete Stark?
The vote was 240-179, falling almost exclusively along party lines.
While Democrats said they were defending the rules of the House and enforcing the traditional decorum of the chamber, Republicans mounted a fierce attack on the resolution, saying it was a waste of time after Wilson had duly apologized to President Barack Obama for his outburst during a joint address to Congress. While a resolution of disapproval is little more than a slap on the wrist, a formal roll call vote like this -- permanently entered into the Congressional Record -- is extremely rare.
"What's at issue here is of importance to the House and of importance to the country," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer proclaimed during the hour-long debate preceding the vote. "This House cannot stay silent."
Wilson himself was defiant to the end, calling the action unnecessary and a waste of time. He also used his floor speech to criticize the Democratic health care plans and government spending in general.
"The challenges this country faces are greater than any member of this House," Wilson told a packed chamber. "...When we are done here today, we will not have taken any steps to improve the country."
According to a C-SPAN count, 11 Democrats voted no on the resolution, and seven Republicans voted yes.
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Yet, you LIE Obama. And none in your corrupt party say so.
They booed President Bush with no kickback.
Corruption and Hypocracy is a democrat party hallmark.
Bless Joe Wilson, He seems humble enough for the work from what I heard.
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While a resolution of disapproval is little more than a slap on the wrist, a formal roll call vote like this -- permanently entered into the Congressional Record -- is extremely rare.
It makes it easier when they create their own 'lists' for later use. Just like the Stasi rat informer files. Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are marked by the extensive records they maintain of their activity.
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Democrats defended the move, saying that Wilson had violated the Houses rules of decorum and needed a formal reprimand.
The resolution was clearly a partisian dog and pony show. Its another example of the politics of vendetta that has gripped the legislative branch. With that said; Rep. Wilson did indeed violate the Houses rules of decorum. Moreover, he was out of line and his actions displayed disrespect for the office of the President as well as the House. Therefor he should have manned up and apologized to both parties and avoided this entire embarressing episode.
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An emperor of a prosperous city who cares more about clothes than military pursuits or entertainment hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or unfit for his position. The Emperor cannot see the (non-existent) cloth, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing stupid; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they dress him in mime. The Emperor then goes on a procession through the capital showing off his new "clothes". During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "the emperor is naked!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession.
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My kids would say, "Truth Hurts Don't it?" No one likes to look themselves in the mirror after embrasing a lie. Congress is rationalizing their guilt and anger. Wilson is being set up by the Dem to be our next Vice Prez! He will be known as a man who speaks the truth and calls liars on the spot! Honorable...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jake Tapper, "Political Punch," ABC News
The fourth installment of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's undercover report on ACORN is supposed to drop within the hour at BigGovernment.com and will be aired on Glenn Beck at 5:00 p.m. This time the duo took their sting operation to California, where an employee named Theresa confesses that she killed her allegedly abusive husband, and laid some "groundwork" beforehand. Beck aired portions of the video on his radio show today, and Leslie Sherman of The D.C. Writeup wrote it up:
Police investigating the death of Christopher Kelly, a former top fundraiser for ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich, interviewed Kelly's girlfriend Monday as more details emerged about their relationship and Kelly's final hours.
He may be down, but don't count him out. Former Democratic congressman James Traficant, fresh off completing a seven year prison term for a bribery and racketeering conviction, says he has not ruled out running for Congress again. 
House Democrats dealt South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson a formal rebuke Wednesday, taking the rare step of passing a resolution of disapproval for his famous "you lie!" outburst last week in the House chamber.
