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  1. The point is that organized crime is not a reflection of unchecked capitalism, it is the result of regulation. But I guess your Obama goggles are too thick to see the truth.

     

    Im glad you've found a collective identity. BUT, No I think you and SHAL are offended because you masturbate to your Obama posters above your bed at night. But Im glad you read my post.

  2. "Obama and Hitler both have displayed a penchant for eliminating “undesirable” infants. Hitler’s case is well known; he believed he could create a master race through selective breeding, mandatory sterilization of “undesirable parents” and abortions. Obama’s methods lack the scope of ambition but the end result is similar – Obama has legalized the murder of already-born infants.

     

    In 2002, an important bill known as the “Induced Infant Liability Act” cropped up in the Illinois senate. The purpose of the bill was to protect infants who had been born alive after a failed abortion from being “aborted” after birth. In the United States, the second a person is born, they become a U.S. citizen. Taking the life of such a citizen is murder. That is something both pro-choice and pro-life advocates can agree on. Even the most pro-abortion lobby in the country, NARAL, did not oppose it nor the federal version of the law.

     

    Obama on the other hand, did oppose it, TWICE. In doing so, he helped establish the legality of murder of infant Americans in his state."

  3. Organized crime typically deals in the black market, which is in response to the restrictions government has placed on trade. For example, marijuana, or Prohibition, gambling, prostitution, etc.

     

    If for some reason your offended by the truth about Obama and his socialist agenda I don't give a fuck. With the government funding abortion, the take over of private enterprise, the desire to control health care, the unregulated spending, gun restrictions, numerous war fronts, and the increase in taxes it seems to me that we should all be concerned about his goals. If you want to cheer lead some political power then good for you. Obamas desire to be in power, his indoctrination by a religious fanatical preacher, association with proclaimed socialists, black nationalists, bankers, his professed disdain for the American Constitution. Do you really think that he is different than George Bush? Don't tell me you fell for all of those well coordinated speeches? They reminded me of Hitler rousing up the crowds, but maybe that's just me.

     

    When the Nazi's took over they did things very similar to what the government is doing now. My great grandfather owned a factory in Germany and the Nazis wanted to take it over for government use. When he refused he was murdered. To me it seems that the government is doing this same thing in a very "friendly" way. The parallels of Obama and Hitler can be made, the book writing, government take over of industry, expanding the war efforts, etc.

     

    “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

    — Adolf Hitler

  4. THE seeds of today’s financial meltdown lie in the Community Reinvestment Act – a law passed in 1977 and made riskier by unwise amendments and regulatory rulings in later decades.

     

    CRA was meant to encourage banks to make loans to high-risk borrowers, often minorities living in unstable neighborhoods. That has provided an opening to radical groups like ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to abuse the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in “subprime” loans to often uncreditworthy poor and minority customers.

     

    Any bank that wants to expand or merge with another has to show it has complied with CRA – and approval can be held up by complaints filed by groups like ACORN.

     

    In fact, intimidation tactics, public charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansion have enabled ACORN to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and contributions from America’s financial institutions.

     

    Banks already overexposed by these shaky loans were pushed still further in the wrong direction when government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began buying up their bad loans and offering them for sale on world markets.

     

    Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster.

     

    ONE key pioneer of ACORN’s subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott – an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae’s mortgage policies.

     

    Long the director of Chicago ACORN, Talbott is a specialist in “direct action” – organizers’ term for their militant tactics of intimidation and disruption. Perhaps her most famous stunt was leading a group of ACORN protesters breaking into a meeting of the Chicago City Council to push for a “living wage” law, shouting in defiance as she was arrested for mob action and disorderly conduct. But her real legacy may be her drive to push banks into making risky mortgage loans.

     

    In February 1990, Illinois regulators held what was believed to be the first-ever state hearing to consider blocking a thrift merger for lack of compliance with CRA. The challenge was filed by ACORN, led by Talbott. Officials of Bell Federal Savings and Loan Association, her target, complained that ACORN pressure was undermining its ability to meet strict financial requirements it was obligated to uphold and protested being boxed into an “affirmative-action lending policy.” The following years saw Talbott featured in dozens of news stories about pressuring banks into higher-risk minority loans.

     

    IN April 1992, Talbott filed an other precedent-setting com plaint using the “community support requirements” of the 1989 savings-and-loan bailout, this time against Avondale Federal Bank for Savings. Within a month, Chicago ACORN had organized its first “bank fair” at Malcolm X College and found 16 Chicago-area financial institutions willing to participate.

     

    Two months later, aided by ACORN organizer Sandra Maxwell, Talbott announced plans to conduct demonstrations in the lobbies of area banks that refused to attend an ACORN-sponsored national bank “summit” in New York. She insisted that banks show a commitment to minority lending by lowering their standards on downpayments and underwriting – for example, by overlooking bad credit histories.

     

    By September 1992, The Chicago Tribune was describing Talbott’s program as “affirma- tive-action lending” and ACORN was issuing fact sheets bragging about relaxations of credit standards that it had won on behalf of minorities.

     

    And Talbott continued her effort to, as she put it, drag banks “kicking and screaming” into high-risk loans. A September 1993 story in The Chicago Sun-Times presents her as the leader of an initiative in which five area financial institutions (including two of her former targets, now plainly cowed – Bell Federal Savings and Avondale Federal Savings) were “participating in a $55 million national pilot program with affordable-housing group ACORN to make mortgages for low- and moderate-income people with troubled credit histories.”

     

    What made this program different from others, the paper added, was the participation of Fannie Mae – which had agreed to buy up the loans. “If this pilot program works,” crowed Talbott, “it will send a message to the lending community that it’s OK to make these kind of loans.”

     

    Well, the pilot program “worked,” and Fannie Mae’s message that risky loans to minorities were “OK” was sent. The rest is financial-meltdown history.

     

    IT would be tough to find an “on the ground” community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

     

    When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago, Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.

     

    He returned to Chicago in the early ’90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. Chicago ACORN sought out Obama’s legal services for a “motor voter” case and partnered with him on his 1992 “Project VOTE” registration drive.

     

    In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN’s up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott’s drive against Chicago’s banks.

     

    More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago’s Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation’s board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers – and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.

  5. Casek hasn't yet figured out that this is the strategy of the extreme right wackos... it's like that SNL sketch with Morgan Fairchild:

     

    "My friend and I were just sitting here arguing about how to pronounce the word rural, see, he says rurALL and I say rurrrl, and then he said you have 'crazy eyes' and I said you didn't but then you said that stuff about the Jews..."

     

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    "You couldn't buy it cheaper from a drinken Indian!"

     

    Extreme Right Wackos?

     

    Do you even know what the hell your talking about? Do you get your talking points from MSNBC or something?

     

    The Presdient Pro Tempe of the US Senate, Robert Byrd, a life long Democrat and once "Exalted Cyclops" of his loval KKK, is your idea of Left Wing Sanity?

     

    And I quote " “ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”

    — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944

  6. Just fishing. I think the gestapo image is meant to be controversial, not necesariily turthful. I believe this is were the idea of gestapo arose from.

     

    Although the notion of spending the amount of money on the Peace Corp as we do the military is far fetched and seems like it was just another attempt by Obama to get more votes.

     

    "He plans to double the Peace Corps' budget by 2011, and expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program, and the Senior Corps. Plus, he proposes to form a Classroom Corps, Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans Corps, Homeland Security Corps, Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs Corps. Here a corps - there a corps - everywhere a corps corps."

  7. Care to explain how Obama is like the gestapo?

     

    Or is it just some scary word?

     

    You have the floor.

     

     

    A July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential cadidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

     

     

    "That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

    Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado in which he called for expanding the nation's foreign service.

    "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

  8. Really? So in your little brain you assume that if someone doesn't agree with your narrow minded view that they are automatically some sort of G. Bush cheerleader? And then I guess if you don't like Obama then your a racist? How conclusive of you! did you figure that one out on your own or did Rachel Maddow help you with that?

     

    YOUR problem is that you ignorantly adhere to some political agenda that you don't understand and cheer a president who is corrupt and a liar.

     

    So you excuse corruption by saying its been done before? Explain to me how this is justifiable? Then you ASSUME that some wage was set, with out any evidence?

     

    THEN you exclaim that millions of Americans that disagree with a political agenda are racist and categorize them as being Tea Part Kooks? So I guess we should all fall in line with what the government tells us, pay our taxes and shut the fuck up. Let the president jet set around the world, let his wife spend millions of dollars on personal care and wear a shit eating grin the whole time?

     

    Tell me shai on what brainwashed planet do you live?

  9. O NO!! CHICAGO LOSES 2016 OLYMPICS

     

    What an embarrassment! He had his wife, Oprah and Valerie (his top advisor) to push for this and they thought the world will just fold for their magnificence! What a waste of tax payers money and not to mention their carbon foot prints going their with their private jests. They even had Michelle Obama wearing Gold!

     

    You're Tax Dollars hard at work!

     

    UPDATE: Just FYI, the flight to Copenhagen takes about eight hours, so at a cost of $56,518 per hour (according to a 2006 report) to fly Air Force One, the cost to taxpayers for this trip is roughly $904,288.

    Since Michelle Obama is traveling separately, she has separate costs...

  10. The White House is open for business and as such the first lady, Michelle, has hired roughly 25 staff members that report directly to her. This is a break from the previous two first ladies’; Hillary Clinton managed three employees, while Laura Bush had just one employee.

     

    The magnitude of the first lady’s staff comes at a staggering taxpayer cost of $1.75 million per year. This number doesn’t include federal benefits, this cost is undisclosed.

     

    The salaries rage from $172,200 at the high end to $36,000 on the low end. While most Americans suffer from the global-sized recession, the White House doesn’t seem to be too frugal with its spending practices.

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