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Life in "Progress" City

I know the first thing I do when choosing a restaurant for the Gekko's to go to is make sure they have enough bouncers on staff.

OK, I'm kidding. See, out here in Redville, we don't need bouncers in restaurants, that's a creation exclusively for those "progressive" areas of town.

But, you know, we do lose something for entertainment in Redville. We don't get to witness bouncers being shot outside of the restaurant...

A patron shot two bouncers late Tuesday outside Vito’s restaurant, 7750 Reading Rd., Cincinnati police said.

The bouncers asked two customers to leave after some sort of dispute inside the foyer area about 10 p m., said Sgt. Calvin Johnson.

The patrons left the restaurant, but one of them retrieved a gun from a vehicle and fired at the bouncers. One was shot in the foot, and the other was grazed in the arm, Johnson said.

Yeah, call me a wimp, but the next time I take the lovely Mrs. Gekko out for Italian, I think we'll just go to Bravo's out here in Mason where we don't have to worry about gunned downed bouncers.

The good news is, with an Obama presidency and a democratic congress, the whole US can be as "progressive" as the inner city.

The United States of Marxism

It's a sad day indeed when we need to go to the Canadian press for clear and accurate reporting our US politics.

None the less, a nice analysis of a future Obama presidency....

Communism has never worked in any country in which it has been tried. In practice, Communism—the ultimate goal of liberalism—affords everything to and for the power elite and little to nothing for everyone else. It also does away with the concept of meritocracy—unless of course one is a member of the aforementioned power elite. However, more and more this is what Democrat presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama seems to be proposing.

On Monday 13 October, Barack Obama was asked by an Ohio plumber: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” Obama answered him with: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around [AKA wealth redistribution], it’s good for everybody.” We have to imagine that Karl Marx would be extremely proud.

We already have the set-up for a USA-Communist government in place. The Democrats—via their organizations Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and ACORN (to be fair to other Democrats ACORN is actually almost solely Obama’s group)—have pretty much brought the world’s financial institutions and its people to their knees and on their way to complete destruction. Similar to what Hugo Chavez has done to Venezuela, Democrats are first going for nationalization of financial institutions, which will be followed by Democrat’s takeover of other industries. Does anyone out there still remember California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters’ threat to take over US oil companies?

Electing Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America will pretty much finish the Democrats’ job.

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Morris on our little ACORN

Dick Morris on the little ACORN sprouting that big Obama tree of corruption...

As Obama lengthens his lead, the Republicans are praying that the election becomes close enough for the Democrats to steal. But, meanwhile, ACORN, the radical community group, is becoming an embarrassment for Obama. It is not as if its shenanigans are likely to tip the result, with the Democrats so far ahead, but as they are raided by the FBI in state after state (11 so far) they are becoming identified as the electoral equivalent of Greenpeace — extremists who will stop at nothing to get their way.

What makes ACORN particularly embarrassing for Obama is that he used to be one of them. He served as general counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed), and has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group's activities. For this emolument, ACORN has registered voters 15 times over, canvassed the graveyards for votes and prepared to commit electoral fraud on a massive scale.

With friends like this, Obama doesn't need enemies. As their radical activities make headlines every day, Obama's intimate involvement with these radicals becomes more and more of a political liability.

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Rep. Waters Speaks About Obama at ACORN

Hi, We're ACORN and we're gonna beat McCain down

Terry Tate - Office Linebacker

If Obama gets elected, I'm hiring this guy to increase productivity.

From a little ACORN a big Obama sprouts

It's bad enough that the Obama campaign is stealing votes through their surrogates; now they're actually stealing money....

A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.

Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Larman's say they don't want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.

They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.

"(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this," said Steve Larman. "It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations."

The Larman's don't want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.

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Richard Cooey RIP

I'll never pretend to know everything, but I do know one thing for certain; Richard Cooey will kill no more.

Hopefully he received more mercy from his creator than he gave to his victims.

For you anti death penalty folks who would like to think Cooey was no threat to society. Tell that to the family of Robert Vallandingham who was killed by a pack of death row inmates during the Lucasville riots.

Obama and the Plumber - Spread the Wealth

The Professor of Socialism 101 explains it to a plumber.

Spoken by a man who never had to get a cash advance on his credit card to take care of the "people behind him".

From a little ACORN a big Obama sprouts

A piece in the WSJ on The Messiah's connection to ACORN... (HT Darke blog)

Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for "a living wage," for "affordable housing," for "tax justice" and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting "strikes" against banks so they'd lower credit standards.

But the organization's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), Acorn has been on the federal take since 1977. For instance, Acorn's American Institute for Social Justice claimed $240,000 in tax money between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Its American Environmental Justice Project received 100% of its revenue from government grants in the same years. EPI estimates the Acorn Housing Corporation alone received some $16 million in federal dollars from 1997-2007. Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an "affordable housing" provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to Acorn.

All this money gives Acorn the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real.

Do you think we can get a presidential candidate with the balls to call this out?

One down about 60,000 to go...

From the NY Post

Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.

The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN's voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.

Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.

When will they vet this?

I wonder when the NY Times will vet this.....

It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.

John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.

I guess the Times will get to it as soon as they expose Piper Palin for still wetting the bed.

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Obamamania - Catch it

How to make your city a dump

You start with sprinkling criminals into your police force......

Keovongsa Siharath was arrested in Henry County on charges he punched his stepfather.

Jeffrey Churchill was charged with assault in an altercation with a woman in a mall parking lot.

Calvin Thomas was taken into custody in DeKalb County on a concealed weapons charge.

All three are now officers with the Atlanta Police Department.

More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, according to a review of their job applications. The arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and more than half of the recruits admitted using marijuana.

“On its face, it’s troubling and disturbing,” said Vincent Fort, a state senator from Atlanta. “It would be very troubling that people might be hitting the streets to serve and protect and they have histories that have made them unqualified to serve on other departments.”

But Atlanta police say it’s not so simple. Officials have been trying without success for more than a decade to grow the department

to 2,000 officers, an effort hurt by this year’s budget crisis. With competition for recruits intense among law enforcement agencies, Atlanta has had to make concessions.

“We would like, in an ideal world, to see every applicant with a clean record, but obviously that’s not reality,” said Atlanta police Lt. Elder Dancy, who runs the department’s recruitment unit. “I don’t think you’ll find any departments who hire only applicants with squeaky-clean records.”

Three decades ago, a police officer with a criminal record was much less common than it is now, said Robert Friedmann, a criminal justice professor at Georgia State University. But times have changed and many agencies have had to relax their hiring policies, Friedmann said.

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ACORN's Dispicable Efforts Continue to Pollute Democracy

Guilt By Participation

Consequences for failure? why bother.

Somehow, the Seattle Public Schools must have been infiltrated with some common sense republicans.

Why?

For the first time in seven years, Seattle public high-school students who do poorly can receive a failing grade on their report cards.

Since 2000, not a single student has received an E, a mark more commonly known as an F. High schools instead handed out N's for "no credit," which didn't affect a student's grade-point average and took much of the sting out of failure.

But the E is back — effective immediately.

The reason, the district says, is a technical one. In a larger review of high schools, a district committee recently realized that the exclusive use of N's violated School Board policy.

The change, however, has been welcomed by many principals and teachers who believe that students should face more consequences for failure.

Don't worry kids, when you get to be an adult, you won't have to worry about consequences for your failures.

Unplanned pregnancy? We got you covered.

Fail to get an education? Got it.

Buy a house you can't afford? Got it.

Steal an election? here's more money.

Shoot someone in cold blood? You're covered.

Bengal jokes

It's a premature fall for Bengals jokes. For the past couple of years we've at least been able to wait until November to tell them.

The Ohio State Police are cracking down on speeders heading into Cincinnati.

For the first offense, they give you two Cincinnati Bengals tickets. If you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.

What do you call 47 millionaires around a TV watching the Super Bowl?

The Cincinnati Bengals

What do the Cincinnati Bengals and Billy Graham have in common?

They both can make 70,000 people stand up and yell 'Jesus Christ'.

How do you keep a Cincinnati Bengal out of your yard?

Put up goal post.

Where do you go in Cincinnati in case of a tornado?

To Paul Brown Stadium...they never get a touchdown there!

What do you call a Cincinnati Bengals player with a Super Bowl ring?

A thief.

What's the difference between the Cincinnati Bengals and a dollar bill?

You can still get four quarters out of a dollar bill.

How many Cincinnati Bengals does it take to win a Super Bowl?

Nobody knows and we may never find out!

What do the Bengals and a possums have in common?

Both play dead at home and get killed on the road