[Politico] Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) awarded three scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to his stepdaughter and wife's niece between 2003 and 2005, according to records from the nonprofit group.
Bishop is the second Democrat found to have funneled CBC Foundation scholarship funds to relatives, threatening to turn the program into a larger political problem for the party. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) recently paid back $31,000 to the foundation for scholarships that she improperly awarded to various relatives and children of a top staffer.
Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), chairman of the CBC Foundation, has promised an "extensive audit of the scholarship program" run by the organization.
Bishop, though, also appears to have favored family members with CBC scholarships.
In 2003, Emmaundia Whitaker, the niece of Vivian Creighton Bishop, who is Bishop's wife, was awarded an education scholarship. She was also given a similar award in 2005.
And in 2003, Aayesha Owens Reese, the congressman's stepdaughter, was granted an education scholarship as well.
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In other shocking news, water is wet.
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Little new here, simply another example of the cultural mind set of entitlement.
"Reparations do not go far enoough."
Presidential candidate Barack Obama
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I no longer have any patience for this issue. The answer to this is simple. Deport every illegal we find back. First though, collect their DNA, fingerprints, retina scan, etc and let them know that if they are caught again, they go in the organ banks, no questions asked.
Honestly, I don't understand why a formal state of war doesn't exist against Mexico.
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why a formal state of war doesn't exist against Mexico
Because we, the people, no longer possess the WILL to fight such a war. Or any war which requires killing of lots of poor, pathetic people. We'll commit demographic suicide first.
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Because we, the people, no longer possess the WILL to fight such a war.
Um...no. Our Politicians lack the will, I personally, along with a bunch of folks I know would be more than glad to wage war against those invading our country. And, the ones allowing it to happen.
I like the organ bank idea, we could just skip step one and do that now.
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Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country. - Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution
Of course el Presidente is upset. He's part of the purer Spanish blood class that has been systematically dumping their mestizo y indio population on the US to avoid reform and integration and power sharing. Time to call them on it without apology. And time to point out the real racists in the US who aid this program.
Your state's recent decision not to comply with the mil voter act is disappointing. The very men and women from your state that are out there defending our democratic process now have the potential to be excluded from the process. You as the governor have the ability to correct this wrong and insure the true hero's of your state get their votes heard. Please don't sit idle or play politics with our soldiers, they give too much to us for this behavior top be allowed.
Thank you for your time and please fix this.
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Why am I not surprised at either the DOJ or the State of Wisconsin.
[GoErie.com] Former Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, endorsed GOP nominee Pat Toomey during a news conference today in State College. Toomey, a former congressman, is running against Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak.
"Voters across Pennsylvania are rallying to Pat's vision for creating jobs and bringing fiscal responsibility to Washington,'' Ridge said in a statement.
"I am endorsing Pat today because he is an honest, principled leader who is unafraid to stand up for what's right. As a member of Congress, Pat consistently fought for taxpayers, and in today's economic climate, that trait is more important than ever,'' Ridge said.
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Mighty big of you there, Tom. Bush the Younger did the commonwealth a favor by naming Ridge his first Homeland Security guy. It got him out of the Governor's mansion. Schweiker was a much better executive if you ask me, even if his name is impossible to spell without a reference.
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Sixty two percent of the respondents agreed that "no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse." Majorities agreed with that statement in all demographic and partisan groups, with even Democrats showing a 53 percent agreement figure.
These results are consistent with other measures of public skepticism compiled in recent months by Rasmussen, who notes:
"The only exception is the nation's Political Class. Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress can always make it worse, but 63% of the Political Class disagree (see more on the Political Class-Mainstream divide).
"Other recent results have found that 60% believe most members of Congress don't care what their constituents think. Also, voters are evenly divided as to whether a group randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress.
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Also, voters are evenly divided as to whether a group randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress.
my take:
Deep down inside... okay maybe not that deep.... I believe the way we practice electing people is fundamentally flawed.
It is designed so the worst possible people make it to the top and are owned by the top 100 or so richest jerks and companies on the planet.
Think about it. Anybody that seriously believes they are the one to lead a nation as large as us is either seriously insane or a crook.
Our current parties are a joke and serve as an opiate to the political masses and are despise by the rest of us. Why do you think only %27 or so show up for a vote. Nobody is addressing the issues of the rest and the media seeks to turn them into barbie doll idiots... Shades of the book Fahrenheit 451....
Now we have a party's dirty tricks actively squelching political discussion on the internet. Identifying it with companies like Cyveillance and then ruining the parties by misusing the legal system with scum like Righthaven.
So back to my original surmise. Only the insane or crooks. So.. on the average insane or crooks have spent years in training learning the ropes to get to their beautiful position where they can wreck their maximal harm.
That means compared to the average idiot off the street these individuals, there owners and their parties will always fleece us blind no matter whom wins.
So... there is a better system. The original democratic election: "The Blackball". You know the poor Joe stuck with the black ball and then the up or down vote. (see ancient Greek history) I would suggest an update....
1) Outlaw all political parties.
2) As is done for a jury select some subset "n" (say n=10) people randomly from any given electoral domain of registered voters.
Next, no opt outs.
Then, publish everything from any and all databases and other records (including sealed ones) as official bio's on these folks
do a 1 to n proportional vote.
then a run off of the last 2.
NO Campaigning at all permitted (for or against)
after running once they are out of the selection pool for that position. They have fulfilled their duty to the country.
So why a random person?
Well, for one thing chances are that they have not learned how to game the system and will be rank amateurs easily caught. That means its unlikely they can cause as much damage as our current party trained jerks. So before day one you already have a more responsible government.
Next.....
Aides.... Aides should only be able to serve one term with the elected official and need to revert to private practice afterwords. That removes a party and corruption back door..
The next problem is bureaucracy and civil service (or dis-service as the case may be).
The agencies are bloated pondering beasts.....
I suggest that leaving them in D.C. and playing musical chairs as we currently do with mid and lower echelons accomplishing nothing positive...
If every, say 10 years, an agency was moved to a different city far away AND no moving expenses were offered employees at any level... then you would only have dedicated employees moving with the bureaucracy. Most would not. So every 10 years an agency could be born again in a new city from a new pool of workers and not polluted with full time bureaucrats.... Rebirth is a good thing....
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Water Modem: You have been selected through a secret algorithemic formula to move to Bisbee, Arizona (or other site as you see fit) and begin the task of building a new governement. Unfortunately, no relocation allowance is provided. The hand-off date has been established as 2 January 2011. President Obama has been notified.
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The Texas State Legislature meets only every other year for 140 calendar days, although the governor may call special sessions of not more than 30 days. We like to think this limits the damage...
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Time to replace our joke of a political class. Here's a start:
1) forbid any relative or spouse of an elected officeholder from running for office-- for life
2) replace closed with open primaries
3) ban on all lobbying by any officeholder for not less than five years after leaving office
4) provide public funding for all candidates, thereby encouraging non-career pols to run-- esp people who have real jobs to which they expect to return after public service, eg doctors, small business owners, farmers etc
HT to Weasel Zippers. No mention of Islam? I can hardly contain my loathing and disrespect for this lying apologist. Read the WZ link first - the comments are scathing
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For someone so "sorry," they killed some 100 times their number and inflicted billions of dollars worth of property damage.
If our only problem is an incredibly small fragment of the societies they live in, why is it taking us so much blood and treasure to defeat them?
I do not believe we are at war with "Islam" as a whole or all Moslems.
BUT: trying to say the problem is only "Al Qaeda" or "The Taliban" without acknowledging the existance of other enemies, especially in the despotic governments of the region, serves to greatly undermine that position.
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.
