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Posted on 09/08/2009 2:25:16 PM PDT by Fudd Fan
Over ONE MILLION copies sold! On the NYTimes Bestseller List for 19 weeks, 12 weeks at #1! “Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.” --Mark Levin in Liberty and Tyranny Welcome to “The Levin Lounge”… Step in and have a virtual FRink.
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sauerkraut
You’re going to be at the DC rally????
You go, girl!
Hey FF, do you eat Chow Chow on your hot dogs?
http://carolinasaucecompany.blogspot.com/2009/03/carolina-sauce-co-chow-chow-relishes.html
When are you leaving? I’m leaving on Thursday from Virginia. I’m so excited. I got my shirt today:
The First Ammendment:
Not just for Liberals anymore
#iamthemob
and #iamthemob is on the front too.
Did I win?
Where ya been, FRiend?
After Djokovic beat Stepanek, Novak was playfully needling Johnny Mac to come down and hit a few shots with him. Anyone who seriously follows knows Novak and John are very good friends and John hits with him all the time.
Next thing you know John has his tie off and is heading to courtside. In the meantime Novak goes into one of his priceless imitations of John, complete with audio...Perfect and spot on, including the short shorts.....
So John comes out in khakis and tennis shoes, holding a racket that looked about as old as I am and they “play” a quick game with the crowd roaring it’s approval!!!
BTW, I didn’t know Stepanek and Monica Seles were at one time engaged. Lucky him!! Now he’s hooked up with that Nicole Vladisova, she’s not bad.....
sauerkraut.....and cheesy poofs!!!
Hmm... Green.
I’ll post it again:
Van Jones: Follow The Money
Before Van Jones entered Obama’s WH, he started several organizations, all geared to receive or help channel government cash into the inner cities. It appears as though some of those may have received stimulus funds Jones was expressly brought in to oversee. Also below in a recent interview, not one from the past, Jones cited profit making enterprises using prisoners - see note below with prisons*. Companies like Starbucks, apparently. The labor is marketed by ... who do you think? Government. My, what a red state Washington is, huh?
State Corrections agencies are even advertising their prisoners to corporations by asking these questions: “Are you experiencing high employee turnover? Worried about the cost of employee benefits? Getting hit by overseas competition? Having trouble motivating your work force? Thinking about expansion space? Then the Washington State Department of Corrections Private Sector Partnerships is for you.”
What the several links below begin to reveal is a liberal infrastructure that manufactured an alleged best seller on green jobs by using their internal mailing lists. That was Jones’ only so called best seller to date. Lastly, what this all amounted to was the same old politics of color, black, not green, that feeds existing corrupt, Democrat urban politcal structures.
When Van Jones came onto the scene he mentioned some specific organizations with which he had been deeply involved. In fact, he started many of them and also used them to sell his book. As for who else helped in that effort, among several other liberal groups, does the Tides Foundation ring a bell?.
Plus, the final version of the bill eliminates the loan guarantees the Senate had included for nuclear and so-called clean coal technology development — false environmental ‘solutions’ that would have made matters worse, not better.
It’s an especially exciting moment for me and my colleagues at Green For All, the Apollo Alliance, the Workforce Alliance and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The stimulus includes $500 million for green jobs training — funding we’ve been trying to get for two years. That means that the recovery package won’t just stimulate the green economy. It will also make sure that the green economy includes pathways out of poverty for low-income people and people of color.
So, what did Jone’s Green For All do? Surprise, surprise ... they helped organizations get the very same stimulus monies Jones was involved with securing and dispersing at the WH.
Okay, so the stimulus bill was packed with a lot of funding for eco-initiatives and green job creation. Old news. But the question still lingers, with most of that money still yet to leak into the economy, how exactly do interested businesses secure funding and create those green jobs?
The nonprofit group Green for All answers that question (and more) with its Capital Access Program, an effort designed to help green-minded businesses secure stimulus funding and enter the clean energy economy. Here’s how it’ll work.
How convenient:
Van Jones, the head of Green for All, has been named special adviser to CEQ for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation. Jones, the author of The Green Collar Economy, has gotten considerable attention recently for his efforts to create “green” jobs to help low-income communities. CEQ also established an associate director position to address climate change.
A group of organizations, including the Tides Foundation, pimped Jones’ book to thier own mailing lists and, lo and behold, an alleged green jobs demand was born based on a book sold to other liberal activists.
Their words were like music to our ears. It felt like a victory for all of our organizations, which have been making this argument for some time. So ... hats off to the Apollo Alliance, Ella Baker Center, Workforce Alliance, Center for American Progress, Sustainable South Bronx, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, 1Sky, Energy Action Coalition, Green For All, and many more. And then yesterday The Washington Post ran a major story on green jobs, Time magazine has taken up the issue, and CNN just featured it on their Situation Room. So it is now official: our demand for “green-collar jobs” has finally broken through!
Here’s how they created a bestseller. It wasn’t done on the open book market.
Using a Web-based, viral marketing strategy, Jones and Green For All, an environmental organization he recently founded, worked to get the word out about his book far and wide. The result was a place — number 12 to be exact — on the New York Times best sellers list in the book’s first week. “Everyone is stunned,” Jones told the Huffington Post. “Usually to get to number 12 the first week as a new author you’ve got to spend a million bucks or be on Oprah.” Through a combination of emails and phone calls to friends, bloggers, and a network of activists, Jones estimates that the viral campaign he and his co-workers launched resulted in emails being sent to millions of people, many of whom surely forwarded it along. The initial commercial success of “Green Collar Economy” proves that Internet buzz combined with online activism can push a book onto the best sellers list.
You see, capitalists actually create prisons in Jones’ view - and these aren’t old views, they’re currently held. Update: Jones’ view is actually that Republicans like prisons as a source of cheap labor. So, the suggestion that corporations create prisons is a correct interpretation of his views.
Often these are for-profit, privatized prisons; U.S. corporations use prisoners for labor and undermine union jobs. But when a prisoner is released, the same corporation that used his labor in prison won’t even hire him—because now he is an “ex-felon.”
I did find an instance where a Workforce Alliance received ten million in stimulus funds. But these are complex organizations, so I’m not sure what is and isn’t the same for now. I have other work to do, as well. Bloggers might want to start looking into what organizations linked to Jones received stimulus funds.
Green For All, the Apollo Alliance, the Workforce Alliance and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
And the final point one should understand is that this was never about the environment first, this is the same old failed urban entitlement myth we debunked in the Eighties dressed up in a different color to make it sell. It will ultimately funnel money into the same old failed and corrupt Democrat establishment of our urban centers and do little to help black youth achieve on their own in the end. They don’t even embrace capitalism, for heaven’s sake.
A growing cadre of young black activists is using the Internet in an attempt to eclipse traditional civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and hit the refresh button on the civil rights movement. Bloggers with names such as the Cruel Secretary, and blogs called What About Our Daughters? and the African American Political Pundit, have railed against groups in the “black-o-sphere,” saying they do not understand young black Americans, are behind the times and react too slowly to incidents involving the younger generation.
The leaders of the fledgling movement — Van Jones and James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org — may not be familiar to many, but their work is. They circulated a letter and a petition last week promising that the Democrats will pay a “political price” if they overturn the will of black and young voters and choose Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y) as the party’s nominee over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
* Jones is citing private corporations who use prisoners for labor here. How much would you like to bet as to which parties constituents mostly employ this practice?
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/09/van-jones-follow-the-money.html
Mark, this gateway thing you have for streaming......
it really sucks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
September 8, 2009
Wall Street Journal
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
The president’s proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.
By SARAH PALIN
To be a SERVANT to our PRESIDENT????????
WTH???
Green and communist propaganda: comparison
Snip:
Let me now try to identify some basic common features of the propagandistic algorithms of both ideologies; it won’t be too hard:
They try to convey the message that the opposition doesn’t exist
If the opposition exists, it is composed of unsuccessful or dead bodies who have been defeated decades ago
The members of the opposition are painted as being controlled by others, usually by demonized sources of power, with hints of corruption; a connection - even indirect connection - with these ultimate “sources of evil” is presented as a complete proof of wrongness
Opposition gets badges that are meant to be derogatory - capitalist, Zionist, deniers, renegades, contrarians, reactionary, burgeoisie, oil-funded etc.
Opposition is presented as being against all the people - and all the people should agree and do agree with that; statements that everyone agrees and everyone keeps on supporting the official position are repeated all the time
The opposition members are criticized for their very existence and for the tiniest deviations from the official ideology, to assure everyone else that one simply can’t join them if he wants to survive
Opposition is claimed to misinterpret words and facts even though it is pretty obvious that it is the official party who is doing that
The opposing individuals are deconstructed one by one by carefully crafted ad hominem attacks
The propaganda openly states that a debate or a dialogue itself is unacceptable and no details of the opponents’ opinions are ever analyzed
Whenever it’s possible, the opponents must be fired or otherwise harassed; a penetrating analysis of skeptics’ personal lives and attempts to find anything questionable - even if it is completely unrelated to the dispute - is a standard tool of the propaganda
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/06/green-and-communist-propaganda.html
Communism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes monopolies, depressions, and exploitation of workers by capitalists. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the benefit of the working class and the Socialist State. Capitalists and landowners must be exterminated for the benefit of the proletariat.
Nazism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes racial impurity, national decline, and exploitation of German workers by Jewish capitalists. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the good of the Aryan master race and the National Socialist State. Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs must be exterminated for the benefit of the German Nation.
Environmentalism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes global warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the good of other species—our “fellow biota”—and for the good of the planet, under the auspices of international treaties and a nascent Global Socialist State: the UN. Most of the human race must be exterminated for the benefit of exploited species and the planet. (This is what the environmentalist “extremists” already openly say. The “moderates” merely want to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent and thereby reduce the American standard of living to that of a third world country, with a third world country’s infant mortality and life expectancy.)
I’m on WINK. It doesn’t use Gateway.
Isn’t that sweet???
So that more people can walk into my store and tell me the best part of welfare is the $600/month in free food they get!!!
That’s what Stupid wants, more drones sitting on their asses bowing to the One!!!
Around here it’s a condiment. And a food group. Sauerkraut on a pepperoni pizza is tasty. Can also be used to sterilize and dress wounds, but it stings a little.
Look at those effing losers....ALL OF THEM!!!!
Byron York : When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings ...when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991... ... Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush’s speech — they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue. ... With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”
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