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[Warph]

Today, Zimmerman's a Hero

Posted by Matt Purple 

(That sound you hear is the hot air slowly leaking out of Creepy Al Sharpton's Ass)

George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today.

Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of a family of four — two parents and two children — trapped inside a blue Ford Explorer SUV that had rolled over after traveling off the highway in Sanford, Fla. at approximately 5:45 p.m. Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route Route 46, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where Zimmerman shot Martin.

The left has turned Zimmerman into its latest Emmanuel Goldstein, shrieking and punching the air at the mention of his name. They've gone well beyond just arguing for his guilt, turning the Obama-supporting, black-children-tutoring Floridian into a racist villain devoid of character, fueled by a stream of defamatory lies. Now, at least for today, he's a hero. In the 24-hour news cycle, where narratives compete for supremacy, that's a pretty big splash in the water.

Sharpton admitted earlier today that he organized a lot of the outrage surrounding Trayvon Martin's death. I'm sure he'll respond on his show with his characteristic blend of nuance and good taste.

Tonight at 6 pm Eastern, only on MSNBC. Lean Forward.

[jarhead]

Warph, I hope like hell my beloved Corps never kicks God out. In boot camp it was beat into my heads, our allegiance to God, Country, Corps---- ( just not necessarily in that order )
speaking of my Corps, you might enjoy this----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Iranian Ambassador to the UN had just finished giving a speech and walked out into the lobby of the convention center where he was introduced to a U.S. Marine General. As
they talked, the Iranian said, "I have just one question about what I have seen
in America ."
The General said, "Well, anything I can do to help?

The Iranian whispered, "My son watches this show called Star Trek and in it there is... Kirk who is Canadian,

Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, Uhura who is black, and Sulu who is Japanese, but there are NO Muslims. My son
is very upset and doesn't understand why there aren't any Iranians, Iraqis,
Afghans, Egyptians, Palestinians, Saudis, Syrians, or Pakistanis on Star
Trek."The General leaned toward the Iranian Ambassador, and whispered in his ear, "That's
because it takes place in the
future

[Warph]

Delaware's Unclaimed Property Racket:
John Gotti would be proud

by Ross Putin

Who would have guessed that the State of Delaware's third largest revenue source would essentially be a mafia-like combination of extortion and theft? That's certainly how it sounds when you read Douglas Lindholm's article in Forbes magazine entitled "Once A Friendly Locale To Business, The Modern State Of Delaware Is A Bully."


I commend the entire article to you, but the short version is this:

Under the guise of "unclaimed property" laws, the state forces companies to prove that they are not holding unclaimed property, even from 20 or 30 years ago, then fine the companies if they can't prove it.

We're talking big money here, the sort of thing that would make John Gotti proud: "Last year alone, Delaware seized $319.5 million from liquidated property, while returning only $18.9 million of unclaimed property to its rightful owners. The State's estimated General Fund revenue from unclaimed property for FY 2013 is over a half billion dollars."

As if this isn't bad enough, the state pays an auditor on contingency, meaning the auditor has self-serving financial motives to go after the state's business particularly aggressively. And as Lindholm notes, it's working out well for the auditor, Kelmar Associates, which earned $30 million in the second half of 2012: "It is astounding to think that the payout to this one auditor for six months of its 'auditing' was almost twice the unclaimed property returned to all owners all of last year."

This is not entirely a new story: In 2009, Delaware assessed McKesson Corporation $4.5 million dollars when a Kelmar audit – which took six years to perform – came up with four vendors (out of 116 questions) who claimed that McKesson owed them a total of $19,337.

McKesson settled out of court; I do not believe the amount of the settlement was ever made public. To add insult to McKesson's injury, roughly at the same time as the settlement, Delaware amended their unclaimed property statute so that the type of "property" which McKesson was fined for is no longer subject to that law.

According to attorney Scott Smith at the law firm of Baker Donelson, while Delaware is probably the most aggressive state in this area, they are far from alone, and it's becoming a bigger revenue source for many states: "They see it as easy money – even if it's not theirs."

Smith also believes that third party auditor firms like Kelmar are as much the driving force behind the extortion of companies as the states are: "These outfits are really targeting the companies and then marketing themselves to the states." Sounds a lot like a mafia boss offering a lower-level thug protection for a cut of the money.

We can only hope that with a Forbes article and perhaps some help from these pages and elsewhere, Delaware, and other states which are behaving similarly or even thinking about it, will be shamed – or competed, such as by Nevada, Texas, or other states which are making major efforts to attract business – into ceasing their mafia-like tactics.

In the meantime, i encourage any state which uses Kelmar Associates for any services to switch to another provider until such time as Kelmar agrees not to be a co-conspirator in Delaware's extortion. Given that they made $30 million stealing from Delaware corporations in just six months, it's easy to guess their response: Like a mafioso, once you get it, you never get out.

[Warph]

America's Racist God
By Ross Kaminsky

Picking at the nation's racial scab continues to poison American life.

As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god. As a matter of fact, I think he's a white racist god with a problem. —Professor Anthea Butler


This verdict is a crystal-clear illustration of the way white supremacy operates in America...When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasn't because he's a so-called white Hispanic. He's not. It's because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense team — and a swath of society — that supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe. —Aura Bogado


The United States has its first black president (despite Toni Morrison's previously offering that honor to Bill Clinton).

We have two black Senators and are 43 black members of the House of Representatives (including non-voting members from Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands).

Blacks are successful in academia and business, in professional sports and entertainment, and as CEOs of several of America's largest companies such as Merck, American Express, and McDonald's.

There are television stations, radio channels, and newspapers devoted to black audiences, and black characters (treated just like characters of other races) are ubiquitous in major TV shows and movies.

This is not to suggest that there are not large, unsolved problems in black communities across the nation, nor that racism does not exist in the impact of nominally race-neutral policy at every level of government and society from schools to prisons to corporations. I, like everyone reading these words, want all of these situations to improve because a life defined by lack of opportunity or inspiration is not solely a tragedy for that person, but also for his family, neighborhood, state, and nation.

But to our country's true racists, people like University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Religion Anthea Butler or the Nation columnist Aura Bogado, the United States is an irredeemable cauldron of white hatred.

Of course, there are fringe elements everywhere, but these people are teaching in our universities and writing for relatively mainstream (even if on the left of the political spectrum) publications. This means that they are infecting many others, including our future leaders attending highly esteemed American academic institutions (Penn is one of the ten oldest colleges in the country), with the cancer of true racism.

These are people who believe, and encourage other gullible liberals and cynical opportunists, young and old, black and white, to believe along with them, in racist (anti-white) propaganda such as Critical Race Theory and White Privilege.

But this isn't just about harmful-if-silly theories and pseudo-intellectual turns of phrase designed to make the ordinary person feel awed, inferior, and thankful for received wisdom. It's about our nation, and the fact that race-hustlers far beyond just the most famous few are picking at the slowly-healing deep national wound of racism and making a living selling the blood, drop by painful drop.

How am I, who, unlike Navin R. Johnson, was not born a poor black child, able even to begin a conversation with someone who believes that god (following Ms. Butler's use of lower case) is a white racist, implying that she is utterly powerless against the omnipotent evil that I, as a white person presumably hold in my heart (even if I don't know it, apparently)?

How is any well-intentioned white person (which is to say one of the large majority of white Americans) to discuss improving race relations with a person who states publicly that whites in large numbers support the indiscriminate killing of non-whites because we believe ourselves superior? (I wonder what Ms. Bogado thinks the reaction of Jews, like me, will be to her offensive nonsense.)

How is our country supposed to function adequately, even if still imperfectly, among all races with a president who jumps into racially-tinged cases by saying that (white) policemen "acted stupidly" (arresting a black college professor) while admitting a few breaths later "I don't know all the details to the case," or by proclaiming "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"? President Obama shot his mouth off before having the details in that case as well, leading the charge to politicize a case that was unusual only in the sense that 93 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.

But such discussions, conversations, and efforts toward racially-cooperative civil society are, for three main reasons, beyond approach with such people:


First, and perhaps most obvious, they are incapable of believing a white person to be a well-intentioned "honest broker";
Second, their frame of reference is so convoluted, so tinged by hatred, that they are unable to comprehend or accept the true meaning or sentiment underlying the words of someone whose skin is lighter than theirs, as if words have a defining melanin content;
Third, whether it is chasing university tenure, left-wing blog readers, speaking fees, or fifteen minutes of fame on television, or due to the divide-and-conquer group-identity politics that define the modern Democratic Party, they would rather have the argument than even the green shoots of a solution. As radio talk show host Jerry Doyle often says, the money is in the medicine, not the cure.
Few things are more powerful, whether in media, academe, or politics than creating an enemy, even if a man made out of straw, with a demonic expression painted on his face (a white face, obviously).

But — and I can hear the cries of "racist!" already — it's time to call a spade a spade: No group in America is without its bigots, its haters, its fill-in-the-blank-phobes.

In most of society, such people are rightly shunned, ridiculed, and used as examples of what not to be (except when famous white liberals are hypocritically given their "at least he supported Obama" indulgences).

But among the American left and far too much of the black (and other minorities') intellectual elite, evincing the sort of seething antipathy for Americans of other skin tones which Andrea Butler, Aura Bogado, and many, many others in even more prominent places have demonstrated in recent days is somehow a badge of honor, courage, and intellect.

Their behavior, were the races reversed, would bring cries of "bigot," "racist," or even "Nazi." Yet they are routinely rewarded with more teaching hours, column inches, media minutes, and even votes.

The American public, including blacks, are coming to recognize (or at least believe) that blacks are (by proportion, not necessarily degree) more racist than whites. While this represents an important insight into American society and a partial explanation for the existence of people like Butler and Bogado (though Bogado is not black), and while it might make some whites feel better, it is no more good news than it would be that some other large group of Americans is, or is perceived to be, hateful of their fellow countrymen.

The same poll suggests that slightly more Americans think race relations are getting worse as think they are getting better. Again, not the sign of a country on a path of healing, and particularly unfortunate in a nation with a black president. But, with such feverish written and spoken words from black leaders and pundits and their white liberal accomplices as we've seen since the Zimmerman verdict, it is not surprising that the public can self-diagnose a national infection of anti-white racism.

If our nation is ever to become truly the United States, it is time for liberals and liberal institutions to stop giving cover to people like Butler and Bogado, to stop sanctioning their mindless, hateful divisiveness, and to try to get Americans of all races to understand that most people of each and every color want to treat others, and be treated by others, according to two great statements from American political history, one written by a white man and one by a black man:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Unfortunately, for too many within the American left and its race-hustling subsidiaries — including the Obama administration — racial harmony poses a threat to their personal gains and professional advancement. Until more people in places of prominence are willing to call out that obvious truth, America's racial scab will continue its slow, painful bleeding.

[Bullwinkle]

      I worked delivering prescriptions back in the 70's. I went into housing projects that were totally black, all on welfare, ( the early days of that sham). I experienced parents telling their kids to " spit on that white boy" while I was delivering their free drugs, usually so-called diet pills,( speed) to their free apartments that were full of young men waiting for the delivery so they could go out and sell it on the street. I realized then that the government was clueless, and\ or didn't care.

    With that kind of mentoring by their parents, it doesn't surprise me what that generation is doing now.

   That is what the welfare system has given us, and it is more abused and getting bigger every day. There are several HUD projects right here in Howard and one would be surprised who is living in them, many able bodied young people who, I guess, decided if the black population can do it , so can they.

    We also have elderly people, some handicapped, that maintain their own home and aren't able to get assistance because they own their home or have some money. I had one customer on my route back then, that was blind, owned her home and was denied assistance because of that. She paid cash, I don't know where she got it, while a neighbor in her twenties handed me a welfare card, with a dozen kids listed on it, all with different last names. To me that is sad, backwards, and just plain wrong.

[Patriot]

...She paid cash, I don't know where she got it, while a neighbor in her twenties handed me a welfare card, with a dozen kids listed on it, all with different last names. To me that is sad, backwards, and just plain wrong.

AMEN!

This is what the Progressive Movement pushed by Democrats, Republicans in Name Only & so-called 'moderates' of all affiliations have done with the prosperity and opportunity inherited by us and purchased by our forefathers with their very lives. 

[Warph]

POS Obuma Guts Welfare Reform

by Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley
July 12, 2012 at 4:10 pm


Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203

The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the reform law. The Obama directive bludgeons the letter and intent of the actual reform legislation.


Welfare Reform under Clinton

Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.

The welfare reform law is often characterized as simply giving state governments more flexibility in operating welfare programs. This is a serious misunderstanding. While new law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) did grants states more flexibility in some respects, the core of the act was the creation of rigorous new federal work standards that state governments were required to implement.


The welfare reform law was very successful.http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/02/the-continuing-good-news

In the four decades prior to welfare reform, the welfare caseload never experienced a significant decline. But, in the four years after welfare reform, the caseload dropped by nearly half. Employment surged and child poverty among affected groups plummeted. The driving force behind these improvements was the rigorous new federal work requirements contained in the TANF law.


Obama's Trick to Get Around Work Requirements...

Today the Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).

Section 1115 states that:"the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements" of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, "mandatory work requirements"). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable.

In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority. They did not want the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law, only one is listed as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402:

Section 402 describes state plans—reports that state governments must file to HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in the other sections of the TANF law.

The new Obama dictate asserts that because the work requirements, established in section 407, are mentioned as an item that state governments must report about in section 402, all the work requirements can be waived. This removes the core of the TANF program; TANF becomes a blank slate that HHS bureaucrats and liberal state bureaucrats can rewrite at will.


Congressional Research Service: "There Are No TANF Waivers"

In a December 2001 document, "Welfare Reform Waivers and TANF," the non-partisan Congressional Research Service clarified that the limited authority to waive state reporting requirement in section 402 does not grant authority to override work and other major requirements in the other sections of the TANF law (sections that were deliberately not listed under the section 1115 waiver authority):

Technically, there is waiver authority for TANF state plan requirement; however, [the] major TANF requirements are not in state plans. Effectively, there are no TANF waivers.
Obviously, if the Congress had wanted HHS to be able to waive the TANF work requirements laid out in section 407, it would have listed that section as waiveable under section 1115. It did not do that.


Define "Work"...

In the past, state bureaucrats have attempted to define activities such as hula dancing, attending Weight Watchers, and bed rest as "work." These dodges were blocked by the federal work standards. Now that the Obama Administration has abolished those standards, we can expect "work" in the TANF program to mean anything but work.

The new welfare dictate issued by the Obama Administration clearly guts the law. The Administration tramples on the actual legislation passed by Congress and seeks to impose its own policy choices—a pattern that has become all too common in this Administration.

The result is the end of welfare reform.

[Warph]

San Antonio Seeks To Ban Anyone Who Opposes Homosexuality
From Running For City Council, Being Appointed To A Board

(No way this is constitutional)

Via OneNewsNow:

The San Antonio City Council is doing some housecleaning to combine all of its anti-discrimination rules and ordinances into one. The consolidated ordinance states a desire to adopt a "comprehensive and expanded non-discrimination policy with revisions to outdated terminology."

According to Pastor Charles Flowers of Faith Outreach International, the city leaders want to add two categories to the policy: sexual orientation and gender identity.

"The ordinance also says that if you have at any point demonstrated a bias – without defining what a bias is or who will determine whether or not one has been exercised – that you cannot get a city contract," he tells OneNewsNow. "Neither can any of your subcontractors [who have demonstrated a bias] sign on to the contract."

Moreover, according to a draft of the revised policy, no one who has spoken out against homosexuality or the transgender lifestyle can run for city council or be appointed to a board. Flowers says the Arizona-based legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom has taken a look at the ordinance.

"They said they've never seen this kind of language in any other ordinance in any other city that they've dealt with," the pastor shares. "It is unprecedentedly wrong – and of course the citizens of San Antonio must stop it."

Flowers maintains the ordinance violates state and federal constitutions in terms of freedom of speech and religion. He is inviting people throughout the U.S. to call the members of the San Antonio City Council to politely voice their opposition.

[Warph]

NY Times Publishes Scathing Editorial Calling On
Anthony Weiner To Drop Out Of Mayoral Race

(This is gonna leave a mark on 'the Weiner')

Via NY Times:
At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told.

In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City.

Mr. Weiner, who resigned from Congress two years ago after sending lewd messages and photos of his crotch to women he had not met, was forced to revisit the issue on Tuesday, and so were we all. A Web site called The Dirty had another woman's story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner's penis. The startling news was that this new episode apparently took place last summer, only a few months before Mr. Weiner was to begin another run at public office. The marital trauma that Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, had said was behind them was not as far behind as we thought.

When the first texts were revealed two years ago, Mr. Weiner lied about it, saying he had been the victim of hackers.

Then he owned up, tearfully abandoned his office and retreated into private life. Then he was back, telling the world that therapy and his wife's forgiveness had turned him around and that he was ready to begin a new chapter. That turned out to be the mayor's race, which he entered in May. What he did not say then, and what voters did not realize until Tuesday, was that his resignation had not been the end of his sexual misconduct.

The timing here matters, as it would for any politician who violates the public's trust and then asks to have it back. Things are different now, he insists. "This behavior is behind me," he said again on Tuesday. He suggested that people should have known that his sexting was an unresolved problem well into 2012.

That's ridiculous and speaks to a familiar but repellent pattern of misleading and evasion. It's up to Mr. Weiner if he wants to keep running, to count on voters to forgive and forget and hand him the keys to City Hall. But he has already disqualified himself.

[Warph]

White House Official: Obuma And McRINO Are In Love

(I'm sure everyone is shocked to hear McRINO is "The One" Obuma has been looking for
to help pass his lib agenda  )

Via Politico:

Barack Obama, to hear his advisers tell it, has finally found The One he has been looking for: John McCain.

"We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up," a White House official said. West Wing aides say they now talk with McCain roughly every other day.

McCain, to hear fellow Republicans tell it, has finally found The Two he has needed to make such conversations worth the bother: Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who can actually get things done in the Senate, and Denis McDonough, a White House chief of staff who actually cares what senators say and think and do.