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AKA "Prime's Worm Hole," formerly "The Borg Conspiracy"
This seems to be a minefield for Obama. Not even Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi seem to be on on board on this one. And as usual, the stated purpose is but another example of the camel's nose under the tent.
If this law gets passed, it won't be a year before it is amended to allow debt collectors to harass everyone else.
To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.
The change "is expected to provide substantial increases in collections, particularly as an increasing share of households no longer have landlines and rely instead on cellphones," the administration wrote recently. The little-noticed recommendation would apply only to cases in which money is owed the government, and is tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan the president submitted to Congress.
Despite the claim, the administration has not yet developed an estimate of how much the government would collect, and critics reject the logic behind the recommendation.
"Enabling robo-calls (to cellphones) is just going to lead to more harassment and abuse, and it's not going to help the government collect more money," said Lauren Saunders of the Boston-based National Consumer Law Center. "People aren't paying their student loans because they can't find a job."
Whatever the impact on the budget deficit, the proposal has aligned the White House with the private debt collection industry -- frequently the subject of consumer complaints -- at a time when the economy is weak, unemployment is high and Obama is embarking on his campaign for re-election.
Democrats in Congress who frequently support the president, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, declined through aides to say whether they favor or oppose the plan.
How much does it cost taxpayers to fly First Lady Michelle Obama, her two daughters and her mother, a niece and a nephew, a hairstylist and makeup artists to South Africa and Botswana to give a few speeches, meet Nelson Mandela, and enjoy a safari on a private game preserve?
Nearly half a million dollars, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) concerning Obama's June 21-27 journey.
Judicial Watch said the U.S. Air Force provided a C-32 - a Boeing 757 modified by the military for the purpose of flying big-wigs around the world - to fly the First Lady and her entourage to and from Africa, at a cost of $424,142. Another $928.44 was listed as the cost of providing 192 meals for the 21 people who made the trip
The Obama daughters were listed on the manifest as "senior staff."
Hank Williams Jr. never compared Obama to Hitler. The comparison was the example of an analogous metaphor. But never mind that! The liberal twist immediately sees what they want to see and hears what they want to hear. No, what they are upset about, is that Hank Williams Jr. called out Obama and Biden as the enemy. They are just using the old fallback of Hitler to justify their actions. Like the man said, if you don't want to hear the truth don't ask.
So Bocephus has been booted from Monday Night Football? Let's see how long this plays in the heartland before the voices rise and demand that he be reinstated.
Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous asking millions of football fans whether they’re ready for some football, has been pulled from tonight’s broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.
Williams, who sings the lead-in song to the game each week, criticized the president for his golf summit with House Speaker John Boehner this summer.
“It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu,” Williams told “Fox & Friends.”
USA Today, among others, picked up the quote, speculating on whether the comparison would get Williams booted from the broadcast.
This afternoon, ESPN released a statement to the affirmative:
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend were acquitted of murder today. Her conviction for defamation of police was commuted to time served. So, all is right with the world.
Amanda Knox acquitted of murder
PERUGIA, Italy - American student Amanda Knox, who was convicted by an Italian court for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, was acquitted today by an appeals court.
Her murder conviction in the 2007 slaying of her roommate Meredith Kercher was thrown out by the jury, and she was ordered immediately released from prison after nearly four years of detention.
Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict was read out Monday.
Her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was also found not guilty.
This means what? Aside from those lauding the wonders of how justice has prevailed, Ms. Knox will now be whisked away from Italy and back home to America where she will pick up her life. Starting with some reminiscing with family I would imagine. And I wonder. How long before the book and the movie come out. As I said, all is right with the world once again.
Another staged moment in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama just had to get out to Target to do a little shopping last week. But, before the shopping run the White House tipped off AP photographer Charles Dharapak so that he would be at the store to memorialize the moment.
Michelle Obama checks out at Target. That’s her assistant behind her carrying the bags. (AP)
At least she wore a shirt that is reportedly from Old Navy(?) and not a designer T-shirt like she wears out when she paints community centers.
As I have watched the Occupy Wall Street protests over the past week, it suddenly struck me of a similarity of time and space. It struck me of a re-kindling of the radicalism of the 60's in progress. An almost 'Deja Vu' similarity of observation. Something only those of us who lived through the 60's might recognize. These are not just hippies and college kids involved in today's protests. What we are seeing rising in America involves an entirely new level of organization and orchestration aside from what occurred forty five years ago.
As an example, seven hundred airline pilots showed up last week in uniform on Wall Street to join these 'spontaneous' protests occurring nationally. Who is behind that? Who is orchestrating it? More importantly, who is guiding it and for what ultimate purpose? Here's a hint. (unions).
I ask these questions of myself and those who may read this, because I am aware of the quantum shift that has occurred in a relatively short period of time politically in this country. I am also aware of what caused it and who was/is behind it. This is a political shift that has escalated class warfare on a level never seen before and which found it's present voice in the political power struggles of Chicago and "New Party" politics a decade ago. And the New Party rearing of a socialist candidate in Chicago and then propelling him to the nation's highest office in less than ten years (start to finish) was not by chance..
There is more to it than one man in my opinion. There were those who tried to warn us four years ago. There were those that voiced the history and the associations with radicalism and the direct ties to anti America hate, not to mention Muslim sympathies and allegiances. And there was a complicit media who ignored truth and reason and pushed the false story line for the sole belief, that electing America's first black president would be the catharsis needed to usher in Nirvana and eliminate all injustice in the world.
The organizing, the unions involvement and the throw back speeches to the civil rights movement presently being made by this president to his base are by design. This is not by chance. Class warfare is the creed and manifesto of socialism and it's evil cousins are anarchy and ethnic cleansing. Some might recognize that last term by another name, race warfare.
Look around. See if you can explain the flash mobs of black youth who have been rampaging all across this nation over the past year. Explain the random attacks specifically aimed at white people by black youth gangs and the orchestrated thefts from businesses. Then try and explain why the media in this country simply stands by like light blinded deer and blink in the face of it.
I believe the same influences and goals of socialism that were seeded in the 60's are once again afoot and controlling what we are presently seeing forming in the streets of America today, but there is a difference. So called community organizing is occurring at the molecular level if you will, but not for the betterment of communities or society et al. or for any altruistic reasoning. No, the more sinister purpose here goes much farther in my opinion.
The purpose behind these protests is an attempt to galvanize and seize upon a new wave of force, to counter and combat the recent rise of those who have awakened from their own ignorance and media induced stupor of the last four decades. Pain and deprivation and loss of economic standing tends to do that. Economic collapse and loss of jobs and homes and families and futures tend to tweak that "ignorance is bliss" way of doing business that most Americans believed to be the norm over the past forty years as it concerned who was leading their country.
Now, with jobs lost by the millions, millions of homes foreclosed, thousands of businesses shuttered, inflation stalking and no prospects for recovery, many millions of Americans are finally awakening to the reality of cause and effect. Specifically socialist cause and effect and how it affects us all.
These new American patriots have educated themselves through their shared experiences and their shared misery and they are now refusing to drink the Kool Aid and they are refusing to swallow the propaganda being hustled by this new age version of socialism. And because they are standing up for their rights, they have become a threat to those presently in control and supposedly elected as 'representatives of the people.' Those in power have long known the best way to combat and defeat these newly awakened patriots, is by directly attacking the institutions that can potentially finance their cause against the socialist anarchy that they see behind their misery.That and demonizing them as racist are the two favored tools.
Make no mistake, these attacks on Wall Street are directly attributable to those who have awakened to the Fabian socialism of our present leader's regime and they have seen his intent on destroying them and this nation demonstrated. Yes, they supported him four years ago, because that was the media inspired thing to do, but now they have seen and lived the consequences of the ill placed campaign financing from Wall Street that once was and has now dried up. Once those on the street let it be know that they would not be backing this horse again? That is when the orchestration of marches and protests against them began.
What we are witnessing is a crisis of looming anarchy that has been designed and is now being propelled to conclusion by the premeditated collapse of western capitalism via a full on socialist assault. And those responsible, have absolutely no intent of giving up the ground that they have gained. And if they can no longer dupe the financial powers that be into continued suicide, then they will launch full force frontal attacks against them. (and they have). Their object always has been to destroy them and now that they are no longer useful tools, they are aiming to do just that.
So.....have a look at the photographs below while listening to a little Buffalo Springfield. I promise, it will bring back memories for many.
Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the
Congressional investigation into the ATF "Fast and Furious" gunwalking
scandal.
The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special
Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell - who led Fast and
Furious - and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly.
Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct
communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House
national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional
investigators looking into Fast and Furious. Newell has said he and
O'Reilly are long time friends.
ATF agents say that in Fast and Furious, their agency allowed
thousands of assault rifles and other weapons to be sold to suspected
traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. At least two of the guns turned up
at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December.
A scandal like this in any other administration? I think we know the answer to that question.
So now there is a paper trail that clearly connects the White House to yet another example of political forced perspectives and politics and policies off the radar to the American people. And the complicit media is being as quiet as a church mouse about the entire affair.
