Heath threw up lots of interceptions as an NFL QB as well. Old habits die hard.
LMAO Great one!
The author didn't even mention Harry "I must be in the front row" Reid.
NC ping
NC corruption information. Any names sound familair?
Well written article.
Doesn't the behavior of Dems campaigning on "culture of corruption" against the GOP call into question the intellectual capacity of Dems to recognize reality? We know that they lie consistently, but this campaign tactic tells me that they believe the lies that they tell. It also tells me that we cannot trust them Ever to make a rational decision, based on facts, hence they should Never be allowed to regain the Majority.
We have to improve and fine-tune our GOP politicians, but at least (until the recent actions of Hastert, Boehner and others) I think they have a sense of reality and the real world of their constituents.
"A Web search for articles containing the three words Cunningham, congressman and jail results in 156,000 hits. But, replace Cunningham with Ballance and you get only 890 hits."
Wow. Talk about putting some cold hard numbers to what most have "felt" for a long time. That is great.
What media bias?
Pingers to those of you North of the real Carolina :)
"I am an Italian-American Catholic grandmother," Pelosi said, "very traditional in terms of values."
Hmmm. Since when did traditional Catholic Values include supporting abortion?
This quote is from the May 30th NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/washington/30pelosi.html?ei=5065&en=bb44dc6089c5b70f&ex=1149566400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
The claim that the GOP and not the Dems have a "Culture of Corruption" is a fraud, and most Americans realize that.
Let us not forget Jim Traficant of Ohio. He was Sheriff at one time, and when caught accepting a bribe said he was only conducting a sting. He represented himself in court and won. He then ran for Congress where he developed the "beam me up" refrain. He then was nailed again for something and still languishes in jail.
Try Googling D'Alesandro + Baltimore + corruption and you will get 194 hits. Why D'Alesandro? Well, Nancy Pelosi grew up as Nancy D'Alesandro. She was the daughter of one Baltimore Mayor, Tommy D'Alesandro Sr, and the sister of another, Tommy III. Both Tommys were crooked as a dog's hind leg, but only one ever got charged with anything.
Tommy III was charged with rape as a young man, and charged with bribery as Mayor (along with a City Councilman, Mimi DiPietro. In both cases the charges were dropped when the principal witnesses made themselves scarce. In the bribery matter, the witness surfaced in a Las Vegas hotel connected to the mob, the day after the charges were dropped.
Oh yes, Nancy Pelosi KNOWS the culture of corruption. She grew up in it, though the national press seldom looks backward into anyone's background more than a few years -- unless it is a Republican, in which case everything since birth is examined.
And yes, all these names are well familiar to me. (I was for a brief time the next door neighbor to Nancy D'Alesandro.)
P.S. info. My primary is over, but because of legal and ethical problems, the incumbent may withdraw/be forced out. He is also losing in the latest poll (5/28) to the Democrat challenger. I seek to be the replacement nominee. For more information see my website. I still need your help.
Congressman Billybob
Duh----can you say kickbacks?
A closer examination revealed that Mollohan and his wife had more than $2,000,000 in real estate investments with Mollohan’s former staffer, Laura Kuhns, and her husband.
Kuhns also ran a nonprofit, Vandalia Heritage Foundation, which had received more than $28 million in Congressional appropriations earmarks with Mollohan's help from 2000 through 2005. Kuhns was also on the board of other nonprofit groups which had received over $100 million in earmarks of federal funds during the same period with Mollohan's help.
Mollohan's 2000 Financial Disclosure Report listed his income-producing assets as being worth from $179,012 to $562,000 with liabilities of $170,000 to $465,000. Among the liabilities was Visa credit card debt listed as $45,003 to $150,000. Just four years later, Mollohan's 2004 Financial Disclosure Report showed him with assets worth $6,313,025 to $24,947,000 offset by liabilities in the $3,665,011 to $13,500,000 range. It also showed him owning an oceanfront beach house on Bald Head Island, NC which was valued at $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. NLPC found that Mollohan was renting the beach house during the summer of 2005 for $11,975 a week.
Freedom of Information Act documents revealed thousands of pages of real estate, financial and legal documents. Slowly a picture of Mollohan's finances emerged that was sharply different from the one being portrayed in Mollohan’s Financial Disclosure Reports.
Using NPO's to siphon off monies is a classic swindle. The IRS has documented numerous financial scams by so-called "non-profits" and "foundations." Any number of financial frauds can be hidden in a non-profit (or Foundation) by calculatedly wrapping oneself in high-minded ideals with the intent of engaging in tax fraud.
The IRS should determine whether Mollohan's NPO is properly accounting for all its activities derived from government grants, and whether it is inflating legal costs, and whether it is using government grants for the purposes stated. Taxpayers need to know whether this NPO is engaged in Enron-style accounting and spending practices using government grants---which could be grounds for government fraud charges.
Let's tell it like it is----"earmarking" the practice of adding on to a Congressional appropriations bill ---- funding a Congressman's own NPO is government fraud. Period.
How could this guy miss Jim Traficant (D-OH) who is in federal prison now without his famous toupee?
