Obama Eliminates Funding For New York City Police Department Anti Terror Program

This revelation should make the city, devastated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, feel much more secure.

From the nydailynews.com,

NYPD officials have found some troubling fine print in President Obama’s proposed budget.

The budget released Thursday proposes pulling funding in 2010 for the “Securing the Cities” program that the NYPD is using to develop a system to detect and repel radiological or nuclear terror threats.

The NYPD has already received more than $53 million in Homeland Security Department grants for the effort, including $20 million this year.

It has used the money to arm officers and vehicles with radiation detectors and to recruit other law enforcement agencies to form a protective ring around the city.

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Pennsylvania Latest To Pursue Felony Voter Registration Fraud Charges Against ACORN Employees

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Hot on the heels of Nevada filing charges against ACORN, seven Pennsylvania based employees of this infamous group are now in serious trouble for alleged voter registration fraud. Damn, this is like a broken record isn’t it?

It’s a real shame these low level grunts are catching all the heat and facing years in prison for what is obviously a concerted effort by the leaders of ACORN, and their grip of affiliated organizations, to blatantly ignore election laws in order to shoehorn Democrats into political office all the while throwing these ignorant young people just trying to make a few bucks, under the bus.

If only we could get to the bottom of this crooked enterprise, who’s founder hid the theft of a million dollars by his brother while keeping him on the payroll, but we can’t especially when we have Congressional representatives that pretend to do an investigation then turn right around and laughably claim they can find nothing amiss.

From The American Spectator,

It would have been hard Monday for Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) not to understand how Bill Ayers felt the day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. Unforgiving history records that on Sept. 11, 2001, the retired domestic terrorist’s “I don’t regret setting bombs” comment ran in a New York Times profile.

While obviously of a much lesser magnitude, the House Judiciary Committee chairman’s May 4 statement exonerating ACORN couldn’t have come out at a worse time. “Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against ACORN, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time,” Conyers said in a statement aired that night on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

Just hours earlier his fellow Democrats in Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto dropped a bombshell. ACORN and two former senior ACORN employees in the state, they announced, had been charged with a total of 39 felony counts related to voter registrations.

What in the world is Congressman John Conyers (D-Duh) talking about? A hearing on the matter is unwarranted?

Maybe this washed up dinosaur should start reading the wallstreetjournal.com once in awhile!

The Michigan Secretary of State told the press in September that Acorn had submitted “a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications.” Earlier this month, Nevada’s Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller requested a raid on Acorn’s offices, following complaints of false names and fictional addresses (including the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys). Nevada’s Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said he saw rampant fraud in 2,000 to 3,000 applications Acorn submitted weekly.

Officials in Ohio are investigating voter fraud connected with Acorn, and Florida’s Seminole County is withholding Acorn registrations that appear fraudulent. New Mexico, North Carolina and Missouri are looking into hundreds of dubious Acorn registrations. Wisconsin is investigating Acorn employees for, according to an election official, “making people up or registering people that were still in prison.”

Then there’s Lake County, Indiana, which has already found more than 2,100 bogus applications among the 5,000 Acorn dumped right before the deadline. “All the signatures looked exactly the same,” said Ruthann Hoagland, of the county election board. Bridgeport, Connecticut estimates about 20% of Acorn’s registrations were faulty. As of July, the city of Houston had rejected or put on hold about 40% of the 27,000 registration cards submitted by Acorn.

That’s just this year. In 2004, four Acorn employees were indicted in Ohio for submitting false voter registrations. In 2005, two Colorado Acorn workers were found to have submitted false registrations. Four Acorn Missouri employees were indicted in 2006; five were found guilty in Washington state in 2007 for filling out registration forms with names from a phone book.

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Union Thugs Use Direct Line To Obama To Threaten CA With Stimulus Funds

Welcome to the world of Chicago mob politics.

The Service Employees International Union, good buddies with those ACORN folks, cashed in some of its clout with Barack Hussein Obama who has now threatened to withhold from California billions in “stimulus” money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t see to it that unionized home healthcare workers have their pay reinstated to the levels they were prior to reductions due to budget cuts.

There is little doubt the budget woes in that state have been caused by a Democrat dominated legislature in conjunction with a liberal governor, who masqueraded as a cost cutting Republican in order to get elected, that simply spends far more money than they have coming in and they have been doing this for years. The burden of supporting the highest illegal alien population in the country, estimated at some three million, certainly doesn’t help matters either in a state struggling with a 10% and climbing unemployment rate.

It’s bad enough all this stimulus money came with a whole slew of Obama administration strings attached to begin with when politicians all over the country agreed to accept the funds but to make up retroactive rules because union thugs have a direct line to the White House is unbelievable. I take that back, nothing is unbelievable with this bunch that has infected our White House.

The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers approved in February as part of the budget.

Schwarzenegger’s office was advised this week by federal health officials that the wage reduction, which will save California $74 million, violates provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Failure to revoke the scheduled wage cut before it takes effect July 1 could cost California $6.8 billion in stimulus money, according to state officials.

The news comes as state lawmakers are already facing a severe cash crisis, with the state at risk of running out of money in July.

The wages at issue involve workers who care for some 440,000 low-income disabled and elderly Californians. The workers, who collectively contribute millions of dollars in dues each month to the influential Service Employees International Union and the United Domestic Workers, will see the state’s contribution to their wages cut from a maximum of $12.10 per hour to a maximum of $10.10.

The SEIU said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration for the ruling.

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Friday May 8th

Porno ‘actress’ thinking of running for U.S. Senator out of Louisiana.

Stormy Daniels strode onstage at a downtown Baton Rouge restaurant in a tight black blouse with a plunging neckline and a knee-length skirt in the popular purple of Louisiana State University. She introduced herself with a warning. “For those of you who don’t know who I am,” she told the lunch crowd at The Roux House, “I’d suggest that you don’t Google that until you get home from work.”

Germany freaks out over idiot that shot some of his high school classmates, bans paintball games.

The German government wants to tighten gun laws and ban paintball games in response to a school shooting in which 16 people were killed in March, coalition sources said on Thursday. Experts from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners had agreed to ban paintball games, in which players shoot at each other with pellets containing paint, the sources said. The governing parties say games like paintball trivialise violence and risk lowering the threshold for committing violent acts, the sources said.

British police are told to stop searching suspected knuckleheads on the street lest the Muslims become offended.

Scotland Yard is scaling down its use of controversial powers which allow officers to stop and search people without reasonable grounds for suspicion. Stung by criticism that the practice has alienated ethnic minorities, the Metropolitan Police is changing its policy on when Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 can be employed. In future its use will be restricted to policing ‘iconic’ or strategically important sites, such as Buckingham Palace and Parliament, and to specific operations.

For the first time since 9/11 people will be able to roam around inside the Statue of Liberty’s head come July 4th. May want to hurry up and get in line before Obama sends the thing back to France.

The Statue of Liberty’s crown will open to the public on July 4 — providing access to the top of the famed landmark for the first time since the 9/11 terror attacks, federal officials announced today. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement this morning on NBC’s “Today Show” as he stood inside the crown. “Today we’re announcing that on the Fourth of July we will open up the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the entire people of America,” Salazar proclaimed.

Santa Barbara California fire continues to rage, 3500 acres burned, 75 buildings lost, only 10% contained.

It was a night to remember for residents and firefighters in the hills around Santa Barbara Calif. after heavy winds caused a stubborn wildfire to more than double in size and send 6,000 more people out of their homes and into the smoke-filled darkness. “Last night all hell broke loose,” Santa Barbara Fire Chief Andy Dimizio said today. “We saw the fire spread laterally across the top of the city..to almost five square miles.”

If you are planning to pull a bank heist consider leaving your ID at home. Of course my advice is just a little late for this guy.

A Kansas City man was charged with robbing First Federal Bank after being identified by the driver’s license in the wallet he left at the bank. Albert Vincent Perkins is accused of walking into the bank on Thursday, handing the teller a plastic bag and ordering her to give him all of the $100 bills. The teller says she put more than $3,100 into the bag and the suspect walked out of the bank – but left his wallet sitting on the counter.

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Obama Eviscerates Fund For Families Of Officers Killed In Line Of Duty

And he will backtrack on this incredibly stupid decision in three…two…one….

The Obama administration wants to cut almost in half a benefits program for the families of slain police and safety officers.

The president’s proposed budget calls for cutting the Public Safety Officers’ Death Benefits Program from $110 million to $60 million.

Justice Department budget documents say the reduction is being made because “claims are anticipated to decrease” because the number of officers killed in the line of duty has been decreasing.

The proposal is being made just days before Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to attend ceremonies in Washington honoring slain officers.

“It makes us kind of nervous. While we aren’t panicking, it certainly has increased our concern, coming a week before National Police Week,” said Suzie Sawyer, executive director of Concerns of Police Survivors, a group taking part in next week’s events.

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CIA To Nancy Pelosi–You Lie! America To Nancy Pelosi–Goodbye!

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As a follow up to this posting here on just-a-regular-guy.com, the generally left leaning washingtonpost.com is reporting this evening that the CIA has finally released documentation reinforcing earlier claims that Nancy Pelosi was indeed well aware of the techniques the agency had intended to or were already utilizing while interrogating terrorists in U.S. custody.
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CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.

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(Full listing of the Congressional attendees to these CIA interrogation briefings here>>>)

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Small Town Cops Robbing Minorities With Assist From District Attorney

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Because operating budgets are shrinking rapidly in these sluggish economic times many cities and towns are looking for innovative ways to continue to fund essential government services for their residents. Some cities reduce staff, cut hours, hold off hiring new employees and many even resort to asking folks to take unpaid time off in an attempt to make ends meet. What has probably not entered the minds of most government officials is the thought of adding to city coffers by robbing minority motorists who happen to be driving through their locales. Most that is, but certainly not all.

Driving while black or brown through the small town of Tenaha Texas a mere two miles an hour over the speed limit can cost you big time if you get pulled over by an armed criminal sporting a shiny badge and handcuffs. By the way if you get nailed you can forget about an assist from the district attorney, a sworn officer of the court, who it seems is a major part of this scam.

You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana state line if you’re African American, but you might not be able to drive out of it — at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.

That’s because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: Sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.

More than 140 people reluctantly accepted that deal from June 2006 to June 2008, according to court records. Among them were a black grandmother from Akron, Ohio, who surrendered $4,000 in cash after Tenaha police pulled her over, and an interracial couple from Houston, who gave up more than $6,000 after police threatened to seize their children and put them into foster care, the court documents show. Neither the grandmother nor the couple were charged with or convicted of any crime.

Officials in Tenaha, along a heavily traveled state highway connecting Houston with several popular gambling destinations in Louisiana, say they are engaged in a battle against drug trafficking, and they call the search-and-seizure practice a legitimate use of the state’s asset-forfeiture law. That law permits local police agencies to keep drug money and other property used in the commission of a crime and add the proceeds to their budgets.

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College Student Shoots–Kills Armed Party Crasher

Had this incident turned out differently the usual anti Second Amendment loons would have come pouring out of the woodwork appearing on most of the cable news shows demanding more ‘common sense’ gun control. Since the good guys came out on top and saved their lives by using a firearm to defend themselves you won’t hear a peep from the mainstream media and this story will simply fade into obscurity.

A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment. Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident. “Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey. Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.

“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department. Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey. That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

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Thursday May 7th

Three year old Missouri boy found after being lost in the boonies for some 50 hours.

Thirsty, dirty and tired after spending two days and nights barely clothed in the wet, chilly woods of Mark Twain National Forest, 3-year-old Joshua Childers was ready to go home. The boy was lying on the ground of a hollow near a creek bottom Wednesday afternoon when a volunteer searcher spied his bare bottom. “Hey, bud!” called out Donnie Halpin, a 57-year-old construction worker from nearby Fredericktown, who wasn’t sure whether the grimy figure was even alive. But Joshua sat right up and grinned at his rescuer. “You ready to go home?” Halpin asked. “Yeah,” said Joshua.

If you are going to sell a hard drive on ebay try scrubbing the data on the damn thing first so that top secret missile defense and other important information isn’t found on it.

Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defence system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. The test launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) ground to air missile defence system, used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. The disk also contained security policies, blueprints of facilities and personal information on employees including social security numbers, belonging to technology company Lockheed Martin – who designed and built the system.

GM loses $6 billion in first quarter of 09. They WILL declare bankruptcy and the taxpayers WILL eat the billions Obama poured into the company (many will say the unions), the very same scenario we are going through with Chrysler.

General Motors disclosed Thursday that it was running through its cash reserves faster than ever as it barrels toward a June 1 deadline to cut debt and expenses or else file for bankruptcy protection. G.M. said it lost $6 billion in the first quarter as its sales around the world fell 40 percent and revenue was cut nearly in half. But the most concerning number is the $10.2 billion in cash that G.M. depleted in three months, the equivalent of $113 million a day. That is nearly twice the company’s rate of cash burn in the fourth quarter.

Multi billionaire Rupert ­Murdoch says he will begin charging a fee to read his online newspapers within a year.

Rupert ­Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation’s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ­”malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an “epochal” debate over whether to charge. “That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal’s experience,” he said. (snip) “The current days of the internet will soon be over.”

Loony leftists in Hawaii pass “Islam Day” resolution to honor this so called religion of peace. You won’t find any Islamic legislature anywhere in the world declaring a “Christian Day.”

Hawaii’s state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate “Islam Day” — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001. The Senate’s two Republicans argued that a minority of Islamic extremists have killed many innocents in terrorist attacks. “I recall radical Islamists around the world cheering the horrors of 9/11. That is the day all civilized people of all religions should remember,” said Republican Sen. Fred Hemmings to the applause of more than 100 people gathered in the Senate to oppose a separate issue — same-sex civil unions.

Los Angeles Unified School District pays more than 160 teachers and other employees nearly $10 million dollars a year….to do nothing and in some cases to just stay home. Some have been collecting these stay at home paychecks for years!

About 160 instructors and others get salaries for doing nothing while their job fitness is reviewed. They collect roughly $10 million a year, even as layoffs are considered because of a budget gap. For seven years, the Los Angeles Unified School District has paid Matthew Kim a teaching salary of up to $68,000 per year, plus benefits. His job is to do nothing. Every school day, Kim’s shift begins at 7:50 a.m., with 30 minutes for lunch, and ends when the bell at his old campus rings at 3:20 p.m. He is to take off all breaks, school vacations and holidays, per a district agreement with the teacher’s union. At no time is he to be given any work by the district or show up at school.

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US Capitol Accepts Out Of State Gay Marriage. Firearm Permits Not So Much?

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Unlike many others I don’t get excessively wound up over the gay marriage issue. My personal beliefs on the subject wouldn’t change a thing in the course of the future of this country and that is something I am fully aware of. That said, I am a huge believer in states’ rights and if the voters of a particular state determine they wish to allow same sex couples the opportunity to get married then so be it. The price you pay for freedom is having to accept things you may not be all that excited about every once in awhile.

What does bother me is the reaction of the militant gays and left wing moonbats that refuse to accept the will of the people and begin attacking anyone who doesn’t share their views. Case in point would be the response these clowns had to California voters approving a Constitutional amendment stating marriage is between a man and a woman and what Miss California, Carrie Prejean, has gone through since answering a question posed by an absolute idiot during the Miss USA beauty pageant. The left wing whacks have been viciously attacking supporters of California’s Proposition 8 and Prejean ever since the November election and the moment she stated that her opinion ran concurrent with the voters who passed Prop. 8 and coincidently, Barack Hussein Obama.

So this leads us to the announcement today that the Washington D.C. Council has voted 12-1 to accept and recognize gay marriages consummated outside the U.S. Capitol although the legislation stops short of allowing gays to marry within the city.

The District of Columbia Council approved legislation Tuesday to recognize same-sex marriages preformed [sic…ed] in states, a decision that could add fuel to the national debate over gay marriage, because Congress has authority to review all District laws and intervene.

The 13-member council voted 12-1 in favor of the legislation, which doesn’t authorize same-sex marriages in the District. The legislation now heads to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who is expected to sign it.

While Congress has oversight over the District, it has largely relegated governing responsibilities to local officials. Congressional Democratic leaders support statehood rights for the District, but the legislation remains stalled.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) issued a statement Tuesday implying she would not seek congressional intervention in the matter. “I have long believed that Congress should not interfere with internal decisions made by the District of Columbia’s elected representatives,” she said.

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