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• Hackensack Corruption

  • From: rd200203
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    I know for a fact if you dig deeper you will see all the cover ups of the physical abuse against not just the chiefs wife, but many of the other wives in the department.

    If you dont belong to the good ole boys group, you have to sway from what is right and your morals in order to stay in that department. Many of the officers have been punished or HAVE turn their heads away from what is right to do under the law in order to protect the citizens that happen to be spouses, to keep their jobs.

     

    The officers interviewed are correct in the description of the department.

    I know them both personally for over 20 yrs.

    Hackensack has had officers that have shot their girlfriends, beaten wives, taken evidence home, Taken bribes and payoffs.

    They have a very strong blue wall.  Most of the brass is corrupt.

     

    The Zisa family is known to have the City of Hackensack under their thumb.

    Nobody crosses any of them if you want to keep your job or not be demoted. Its known as "Zisa Town" and that it is not penetrable. The law does not apply to that department, and there are very few that are not turned crooked due to bullying and pressure.

     

    Please break this story wide open and save the families of the 80% BAD Officers and citizens of Hackensack. 

     

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• Hackensack Shakedown?

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    After watching our story, what's your opinion? Who is getting the "shakedown"?

     

    1. Are the officers who don't "play the game," as they say, being intimated by the chief and supervisors?

     

    OR

     

    2. Are the chief and the city victims of a bunch of unhappy cops who are trying to grab control and money from the department?

     

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• FDR's Terrorism Trials

  • From: DickBrennan
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    For those caught up in the debate over bringing terrorists to trial in New York, consider how one of America's greatest presidents handled the terrorists of a different era:
    
    On June 13, 1942 four Germans landed a submarine in Amagansett, Long Island. After a brief encounter with a Coast Guard officer, they took a train to New York City.
    
    Six days later four more Germans landed a sub in Verda Beach, Florida.
    
    Their plan, known as Operation Pastorius, was to place firebombs and explosives in places like hotels, department stores, and train stations.
    
    But the scheme unraveled when two of the plotters got cold feet and one turned himself in.
    
    Soon all eight were in custody, and President Roosevelt took charge.
    
    In his book, "Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage," Joseph E. Persico writes that FDR had been long pre-occupied with sabotage, and had no mercy for suspected saboteurs. He sent his attorney general, Francis Biddle, a memo that said: "The death penalty is called for by usage and extreme gravity of the war aim and the very existence of our American government."
    
    Persico also writes that FDR forcefully insisted on a military tribunal, saying the accused had forfeited any right to a civilian trial because "these men had penetrated battle lines... And were waging battle within this country... I won't hand them over to any United States Marshal armed with a writ of habeas corpus. Understand!"
    
    Interestingly, the men had not yet committed any acts of sabotage, and probably could have gotten only three years for conspiracy in civilian court. Persico's book points out that defense lawyers tried to get the trial moved there. The issue went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the military tribunal.
    
    The verdict was pre-ordained. All eight were convicted and sentenced to death. Roosevelt commuted the sentences of the two who had cooperated.
    
    But the six others were executed in the electric chair. According to Persico, one witness reported "they had gone to their deaths stunned, as if in a trance."
    
    FDR told a friend that his only regret was they had not been hanged.
    
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his cohorts will go on trial in civilian court.
    
    It is quite clear what our 32nd president would do in this case.
    
    As for the 9/11 thugs, let's hope they ask for a change of venue. And let's hope it's granted. To somewhere, say, in the South. Like Texas.
    
    They will no doubt get a fair trial. And a punishment to fit their monstrous crimes.

    Dick Brennan is Fox 5's chief political correspondent. The Queens Courier published a version of this commentary.

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• Botched Laser Procedure

  • From: Andrea_Day
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    Lots of people go into cosmetic spas hoping to walk out looking young again---and there's no shortage of promises!!! Some doctors and staff will do all they can to talk you into getting expensive work done. The big lesson from this story is that you can't necessarily take what you see and hear as the absolute truth.   In this case--the patient actually saw a business card....and a bio online that said "board certified".  She says the doctor said it himself.   But it’s just not true.    She told me she never would have done the procedure had she known the truth.    So don't make the same mistake she did- do your research. Find out the facts and if you don't feel comfortable with what you find, find a new doctor.

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• Sara Palin

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    What was up with Rosana's negative and hateful reaction to Sara Palin this morning? Is Fox News 5 going to become a typical liberal media who hates Sara Palin? Rosana needs to listen to entire comment of what Sara was saying about Katie Couric. I am sure Sara reads many magazines and news papers. WHO REALLY CARES WHAT SHE READS ROSANA.

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• Terrorist getting Tried in US

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    Read below and be worried. Not only should this a Military trail, but it should be held outside of NY for the obvious reasons

     

    Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court.

     

    In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen in a criminal trial, including the right to a fair trial, the right to a taxpayer funded attorney, the right to review all the evidence against him, potentially including classified intelligence matters, the right to exclude evidence against him including, potentially, any confession obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques, etc.

     

    At best, this will be a show trial fit not for the American Republic, but a third world kleptocratic totalitarian regime.  At worse, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will gain access to classified material he can then leak to other terrorists while New York yet again becomes a target for terrorists.  We have already had occasions in this country where terrorists' sympathetic lawyers have conveyed information, orders, and plans to other terrorists.

     

    You can find more details here.

     

    Call your Congressman and Senator right now.  Tell them they should use every tool at their disposal to block this.  The number to call is 202-224-3121.

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• Are you a Victim of this NYC P

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    The NYC parking ticket story

    Monique is a lucky lady. On Sunday night, she finds an empty on-street parking space that is good until alternate-side parking rules take effect on Tuesday morning. She is working at home on Monday, so she doesn't have to move her car until Tuesday.  Life is good.

    Sue is a lucky lady, just like Monique. Same story. She finds an empty parking space on Sunday, that rewards her with a no need to race to the space card until Tuesday morning, when alternate-side parking rules take effect. Sue puts her track shoes away for a day. A very happy lady.

    Natalie posts a comment on our website and asks, incredulously, is it possible to walk out of my home, and find my car missing; when I am sure I parked legally? 

    Monique, Sue and Natalie never met. Unfortunately, they have something in common. 

    The Scam

    All three ladies are victims of a NYC parking ticket scam.  Here's how it works:

    • The parking ticket victim parks her car in a legal on-street parking space
    • A NYC parking ticket is issue to the vehicle; but,
    • A different place of occurrence is inserted on the front of the parking ticket
    • The "different place of occurrence" is an illegal parking space
    • A tow truck operator swoops in, snares the vehicle, and tows it to the pound

    Are these three unrelated incidents?

    Or, is there an organized effort to make some extra cash at the expense of the NYC driving public?

    How do you prove you parked in a legal space, when there is a parking ticket and tow truck operator to testify that you weren't?

    When you are right--FIGHT!

    I am asking any members of the NYC driving public, who have  been victimized by this scam, to share their experiences. If enough people come forward, we can create a groundswell; and make a case with the people who have the power to fix it. 

     

    

     

     

    We need your help. Don't sit back and let the other person do it for you. Lend a hand. It will benefit all of us.

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• Access-A-Ride Questions

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    The truly disabled by law are required to have equal access to most things so that they can live as normal a life as possible. At great expense, the MTA has tried to design buses, subways and trains to accommodate the disabled.
    
    Access-A-Ride comes into play for people who cannot take a bus or subway for all or some of their trips. Those who qualify are provided with door to door service that costs them the normal $2.25 fare but costs the public a total of $66 a trip.
    
    Based on what I've looked into, the MTA has done a fantastic job of trying to make this work. Federal law requires the MTA to provide this service, and the agency has contracted with private providers to coordinate an extremely complex system of picking people up and dropping them off when they request a ride.
    
    The number of people using Access-A-Ride keeps increasing dramatically each year, and the cost to run the program is approaching half billion dollars a year.
    
    The advocates for the disabled community are among the most vocal and politically active in the city. They rightfully speak up if the think they are being denied access. However, this puts the MTA under great political pressure not to make waves or offend anyone. It's a tough position to be in considering the agency has a disastrous financial mess on their hands.
    
    There are two ways to tighten things up:
    

    1. Be stricter in the process that qualifies people for access a ride. Right now it's a very subjective judgment call by contracted health professionals. The have to determine if a person really needs Access-A-Ride for all or some of their trips because for some reason they can't take the subway or bus. People who are denied are allowed to appeal and the disabled community and politicians become outraged if the MTA tries to tighten this process up. The end result is that some people who really don't need the service wind up with what amounts to a very expensive $66 a trip taxi ride at the public's expense.
    2. Raise the fares for Access-A-Ride; any attempt to increase the fare has been met with tough political opposition.

    This is a touchy subject and we'd love to hear from you.

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• Justice Dept. Asked For News S

  • From: Zcats
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    *Another "bully tactic" from the White House....

     

    In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

    The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

    Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department's subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward "promoting social and economic justice" and "social change.")

    The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from http://www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

    "I didn't think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention," Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.

    Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that "no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media" without "the express authorization of the attorney general" – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be "directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter."

    Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: "We have no comment." The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.

    Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.

    Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison's office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena -- claiming it "may endanger someone's health" and would have a "human cost."

    Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn't stand up in court: "If you get a subpoena and you're a journalist, they can't gag you."

    Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. "I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter's privilege says, 'Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general's office'... I'm willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking."

    Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there's no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.

    EFF's Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston's plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.

    But the Justice Department never replied. "This is the first time we've seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site," Bankston said. "That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights."

    This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia -- a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party's convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.

    Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. "Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they're legally baseless," Bankston says. "We're telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence."

    http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt

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• What's wrong with Capitalism?

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    Let's look at Capitalism like it was a ladder. Everyone who's fresh and green starts at the bottom. Those who inherit a high rung did so by their family members working hard so they wouldn't have to start at the bottom. Is that fair? I think so. I've seen those who have inherited that rung lose it just as quick for not being humble for the quick start their family earned for them. Others have moved up to a higher rung just through gratefulness and brilliants. The base that the ladder stands on is equally important and not to be taken lightly. For these are the building blocks to us all pulling and pushing together. There is lots of greed in this picture, but it is far out ranked by the hard work most do to get up another rung each and every day.

    Socialism on the other hand is meant to have people be in need of borrowing a much smaller ladder to get only so far up in the scheme of things. That dependency is for the purpose of those in charge to keep everyone, but themselves down at a level where they need the "government" to succeed at nothingness. We all have seen this at work over the past 9 months. Friends, we all need to help others ourselves by doing good deeds and opening doors for those who aspire to work hard to get to that door. It's worked for Americans for more than 60 or so years. Bill Gates is one great example of how some one took the bull by the horns and ran with it. There so many great stories that came from Capitalism. Big money makes for growth and growth leads to success that other will aspire to. Vote, call and write your representatives, help one another, open that door for some one who has worked hard to get in front of it. Be humble for what you have. Hold your head up high as we are a rare breed of humans called Americans and for us anything is possible. Turn that TV off and make sense of what is going on around you and if it ain't right by God.... speak up!

     

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• Beware: NYC parking ticket Sc

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    Have you ever felt the sting of a parking ticket warrior's scanner for parking in front of a pedestrian ramp located mid block on the long street of a 'T' intersection? The price tag is $165, ouch! The DOF does not offer a reduction of your fine for this violation in exchange for pleading guilty.  The horrors of the NYC parking ticket wars.

    Have you ever thought to yourself in a quiet moment, or when you are screaming in the shower about this injustice, that it really makes no sense to prohibit parking in front of a pedestrian ramp in the middle of the block, with no crosswalk markings or traffic devices controlling the flow of traffic? Why would anyone cross the street at this location. It is dangerous.

    Great Decision

    In December, 2008 the pedestrian ramp parking rule was amended. The NYC driving public is now permitted to park in front of a pedestrian ramp located in the long street of a 'T' intersection. Here is the amended rule as set forth on the DOT Website:

    "Effective December 2008, the New York City Traffic rules have been modified to allow parking at some "T" intersections, those without traffic signals or all-way stop signs or crosswalk markings. These locations have caused confusion in the past, as they were not clearly delineated as spaces for pedestrians or cars. The rule change has enabled the Department to put them in the category appropriate for each location, making it clearer for motorists, pedestrians and enforcement agents. Parking is now permitted at those "T" Intersections where the adjacent (major) street is not marked with a crosswalk and not controlled by all-way stop signs or traffic signals, even if there is a curb cut at that location."

    The Scam

    The problem is that some of the parking ticket warriors are still issuing parking tickets for this "former" violation, knowing full well it is no longer a parking violation. What makes matters worse is that many members of the NYC driving public continue to pay the hefty fine. 

    Why is this scam allowed to continue?  Take a guess. Here are three choices:

    • The offending warriors were all on vacation in December, 2008 and  missed the class about the change in the pedestrian ramp law?
    • Revenue
    • Revenue

    A call to action

    Shame on these warriors, shame on the DOF and shame on the DOT for allowing this nefarious practice to continue. Stop this bad behavior immediately!

    

     

    If you have suffered the sting of a warriors scanner unjustly for this "former" violation, please let me know the details. I will send this evidence to a multitude of news outlets, the DOF and DOT, and do my best to continue to publicize this scam.

    Do not pay the parking ticket. It is no longer a violation. When you are right, FIGHT!

     

     

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• Are you all tired of the lies.

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    What can I say, but I want some answers. Both my parents are passed and I guess I just feel the sense that every body’s parents are all our parents. You know what I'm saying? These folks cooked dinner for the guy that built the Skyscraper some corporate guy got to sit to tall in the sky, in. Here's the truth...those guys are going to throw your Mom under the bus.  Then they’re going to give that hip to a million dollar, revenue making, Pro Golfer.

     I heard all about these things, things that were going to change? It appears other than losing a tremendous amount of jobs in the private/middle class sector, I haven't seen anything that's monetarily changed for the little guy. I' saw my neighbors hurt. Heard of people who haven't paid their mortgage in a year plus...

     I remembered when “they” said it was real bad. I remember reading that George Bush had created like 450 thousand-plus jobs, a month for 11 months or better from 05 to 06. Then I remember the Democrats taking over congress and... quite a strong hold on all government through lobbyist. All except for the Supreme Court itself.

    I urge every one to pay mind to the real freedoms we’ll lose for sure. Get up and vote against this party who has been working constantly since 1950 something to slice away at our every moral thread. TV, Media and Print have ruined these United States Of America.  We all know that. We’re blind to the idea that they, which we employ to blind us from reality, every night are taking our freedom away by blinding us. LOL Night after night, we’ll watch Sitcoms, Buffy the Raum Emanuel slayer or whatever. We see us in these fictional, society-breaking-down characters and emulate them by day. It does sound whacky but it’s real. Take a look around today and notice those who are on that side. "They", believe in nothing you can bite your teeth into.

    I’m on a rant here. I have no answer either accept vote no to socialism and let the big shots go Bankrupt like our neighbors had to. Or, include us in the pay-off. I want to go bankrupt will you lend me 500, 000 dollars to stay afloat. I think not.

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• Obama Can't Be Bothered By Isl

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    Obama can't be bothered by Islamic terrorism

    by Ralph Peters

    Posted: 12:29 AM, November 8, 2009

    In the wake of the terrorist strike on our soldiers at Fort Hood, one individual’s still missing in action: Our commander in chief. The massacre’s 51 casualties, including 13 dead, were insufficient to drag President Obama away from the White House Happy Hour.

    We just saw the worst terror attack on America since 9/11. And Obama couldn’t adjust his schedule to support our grieving troops.

    Instead, we got his subtle defense of the perp: Unwilling to use the word “terror,” let alone the phrase “Islamist terror,” Obama warned us not to “rush to judgment.”

    A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our government, coolly buys weapons, heads to a military facilityhe knows will be packed with unsuspecting soldiers, waits for the crowd to thicken, then shouts, “Allah is great!” and guns down 51 patriots, calmly reloading among the dead and dying.

    But don’t rush to judgment.

    Imagine if, instead of Fort Hood, the massacre had gone down at a mosque in Detroit — carried out by a maddened Christian or Jew. Obama would’ve been aboard Air Force One before the pilots had time to file a flight plan and he would’ve been on site before the gun smoke cleared, hugging and boo-hooing and dispensing stirring rhetoric for the evening news.

    But go out of his way to rally our butchered troops? Not a chance. It’s not like they’re real human beings with Ivy League degrees. When Obama got word of the attack, he didn’t even lose his fabled cool.

    Obama may be shamed into visiting Ft. Hood at some point, but his priority since Thursday has remained socializing American medicine. What happens in Texas, stays in Texas.

    Move on? Yes we can!

    Of course, this act of Islamist terrorism has been an inconvenience to a president whose administration insists there’s no such thing. Those dead and wounded soldiers are such an embarrassment. If only a Baptist or Lutheran had been the shooter, things would’ve been so much tidier.

    What’s next? The White House is going to bring heavy pressure on the FBI, through Attorney General Eric Holder, to play down investigative results confirming that Maj. Nidal Hasan was motivated by his Muslim beliefs.

    Instead, we’ll hear even more about the “harassment” Hasan suffered as the media toe the line laid down by the vile lead editorial in Saturday’s New York Times and how this calculating terrorist contracted PTSD from his patients.

    Let me kill the harassment myth right now: Political correctness rules in today’s Army. We even protect our enemies these days. Had any soldier harassed Hasan because of his Islamist nuttiness, that soldier would’ve disappeared faster than a Franklin on a Times Square sidewalk.

    Any snarky remarks directed toward Hasan — if there were any — would’ve come in reaction to his railing against our government, our military’s mission and the monstrous injustice that, after grabbing an education in psychiatry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from our military, he might have had to do his duty.

    Far from being harassed himself, this creep was allowed to harass the soldiers he treated for stress disorders. According to colleagues, Hasan not only argued with his patients about our wars, but preached Islam to those under his care. (Just what troubled vets needed, no doubt.)

    Prejudice? You bet. In this terrorist’s favor. Nobody in Hasan’s chain of command had the sense of duty to weed this pervert out. Why? Hasan would’ve accused them of discrimination. And the officer who brought charges against Hasan would’ve been the one whose career suffered.

    Since writing on this travesty in the Post and speaking out on Fox News, I’ve been deluged with supportive messages — many from soldiers outraged at the politically correct treatment of this terrorist by the media, by senior military leaders — and by the president.

    How many more Americans have to die, at home and in war, before our president admits that there is, indeed, such a thing as Islamist terror? Will he ever admit that it played a role in the tragedy at Fort Hood?

    Not a chance. Islam’s a religion of peace. America’s the problem. And don’t you forget it.

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_can_be_bothered_by_islamic_loKKYSELYC4rtNFCDtot9M

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    Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
    A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.

    By ROBERT A. GEORGE
    Updated 8:06 AM CST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009

    President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

    After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

    But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

    Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur.

    Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.

    Did the president's team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on -- and the initial words coming out of their president's mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.

    It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before. The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that the president and his political team couldn't produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where the president won by 15 points one year ago). And now this? Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.

    If the president's communications apparatus can't inform -- and protect -- their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president's party and supporters.

    All the president's men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.

    New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thoughts. Follow him on Twitter.

    http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html

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• Carmine , Brooklyn

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    You're scratching the bottom of the barrel with this story John. I don't see the press chasing stories on the bus nor do I see them parking their news vans in legit' parking spots. 

     

     

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• MTA Car

  • From: Johndeutzman
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    Little things can lead to bigger things. We started out on this story with a tip that a garage on Greenwich St. in lower Manhattan had several MTA cars in it.
    
    The tipster wanted to know how much the parking was costing the taxpayers. While checking things out, we noticed that some MTA employee (who turned out to be Joseph Smith, the MTA bus boss) got a weird chauffeured ride a few blocks to work one morning. It was enough to keep us watching.
    
    The next time we went down to the garage, we saw the guy who give Smith a ride, take Smith's official car on a one hour journey to fill it with gas. We thought it was odd that the same agency that seems obsessed with telling us to take mass transit was practicing some rather bizarre and seemingly wasteful uses of an official MTA car.
    
    Then we saw Smith take his official car, park it in the taxi stand, and have a beer at a bar.
    
    Probably the most interesting outcome of all this is Smith's own admission that taking his buses around town is sometimes not the most efficient way to do things.
    
    As for the parking garage, it's owned by the MTA. The MTA leases it out and makes money on it, so the original tip was off -- but it led us to other stuff.
    
    There are signs in the subways that ask us to report waste and inefficiency in the MTA. We were just doing our civic duty with this one.
    
    I'd love to hear from you.

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• After A Flurry Of Stimulus Spe

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    The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:

    - $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

    - $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

    - $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

    - $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

    - $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.

    - $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

    - $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

    - $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

    - $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

    - $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

    - $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

    - $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

    - $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

    - $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.

    - $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.

    - $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.

    - $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

    - $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

    - $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.

    - $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.

    - $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

    - $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri

    - $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.

    - $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.

    - $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle's energy efficiency.

    - $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.

    Sources: News reports, Office of the Senate Minority Leader, Office of Sen. Tom Coburn

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• Homeless in Orlando

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    The Homeless Shelters say they have no vacancies . . . The Housing Authority say they have no units available . . . The Division of Children & Families say they can not help with housing or sheltering . . .

    THIS IS OUR STORY:

         Although, I was steadily employed in Medical Administration for over thirteen years and my husband in and out of contract work as an IT Consultant, we struggled financially in New Jersey for many years trying to support our two small children. We tried numerously, but were unable to get the necessary assistance from the state that we needed, because they claimed that my income alone was always too much. My brother knew of our situation and although I had lost touch with him for about two years, he insisted on helping us and told us to move in with him.

         I was skeptical and a bit fearful of making the move for a number of valid reasons, but my brother spent over six months convincing us that it would in fact be the best move for our kids and constantly offering to help! He offered to get my husband a job at his company and said that we could stay with him as long as it took for us to get on our feet. Given an offer we could not refuse, relieved that someone offered to help us and desperate, we trusted him and moved into his Florida apartment on August 13, 2009. It was suppose to be the beginning of a new life for us . . . or so we thought.    

         For reasons unknown, he moved out of his own residence a few days later. He claimed that the apartment was now overcrowded, but that he would still come around each day to take my husband to work, which was two and a half hours away on a bus. He left us in the apartment with no food or household necessities, so we had to live off of the little money we had in our savings. On my husbands first day of work, my brother took him there four hours late and continued to do so everyday after that.

         On several occasions my husband did not go to work at all because my brother told us that it was inconvenient for him to pick him up. On those days, without our knowledge, he was telling the boss that my husband just could not make it in, then he would call and tell us that he just would not be coming by at all. To make a long story short, after a mere two weeks at the commissioned based job, in which my husband never made a dime, my husband ended up finding out that the job was illegal and was let go without reason or notice . . . yet, my brother continues to work there.

         On the very same day my husband was fired from the job, my brother came by that night to tell us that he had helped us enough and that we had five weeks to leave the apartment. He and I exchanged a couple of heated words, in regards to the fact that he never told us that the job was illegitimate and me questioning him why we had to leave so suddenly! By this point in time we had already depleted half the funds we had, therefore, we did not have the money necessary to get back to New Jersey and even if we did, we had already given up our home and my job. We would have been left with no where to live and with noone really to turn to . . .

         He does not seem to understand, that had we known any of this, we would of never took him up on his offers. We would have just stuck it out in New Jersey with the little we did have and never of moved to Florida in the first place. He stated that it was none of our business if the job was illegitimate or not, that he said he would get my husband a job and he did! Furthermore, he stated that he had done enough for us is the two week period that we were here. Basically, the ending result of the three hour conversation was the same . . . he still wanted us out in October.

         My brother stated that he was paying the rent for September because he had to, due to being on a lease, but that by October, job or no job, home or no home, children homeless or not, that we still had to be out, so that he could move back in! I just could not fathom why he was doing this to us? We did not ask to come here or ask for his help! He was the one who offered . . . but why offer . . . to do this to us? We may have been living paycheck to paycheck up north, but we still had a home and a job! We gave up the little we did have, based on his word, based on his offerings and hopeful that we would have a better life.

         Throughout the month, we desperately searched for work (which we still have been unsuccessful in obtaining), applied for unemployment (which has been denied), out of desperation applied for state assistance (which is still pending after two months) and all while being verbally harassed by my brother constantly. He repeatedly reminded us of our deadline and repeatedly told us that we had to leave the apartment. He continuously told us how our situation was not his problem, as I just continued to beg him for more time.
        
         After hours of threatening text messages and phone calls, my brother came to the apartment on October 13, 2009 and told us that we had to leave now. I pleaded with him that we had nowhere to go! He left the premises and returned ten minutes later with four officers stating that we did not let him in. The Sheriff’s department basically told us that even though my brother had willingly let us live in his apartment, although he was not staying in it himself and although my family had established residency there, that because my brother was the only person listed on the lease and was breaking his own lease, that we were now considered trespassers and had to leave. We were given the option to either leave willingly or by force.

         So that my brother could end up looking like the good guy to whom ever found out what was going on, he dumped us in a dirty old motel/efficiency for a week and offered my husband another commission job somewhere else. We do not trust accepting this employment from him because of what happened the first time. He told us that we were now on our own and that he was cutting all ties; therefore he would not be accepting any calls from us, or anyone else in our estranged family.

         I told him that we had no money for food so that if he could atleast please leave us something? On the ride to the motel he wanted to make it clear to us that he sleeps just fine at night working at his illegitimate job, stealing from the rich and giving to himself the poor, as he stated. He showed me a four thousand dollar pay stub for that week but left us with thirty. He told us that we should be grateful and appreciative that he was still willing to help us by dumping us in a motel for a week with thirty bucks! Who would think that someone in your own family would do something like this to you . . .    

         We understand that half of america's families are in similar or worse situations then we are in. We posted our story on a blog solely as an attempt to connect with those other familes who understand what we are going through and may be able to provide us with any helpful resources that we may have missed. We thank you for taking the time to listen to our story and we sincerely appreciate any job offerings or suggestions you may have to offer us. Please leave them @

          HTTP://HOMELESS-IN-ORLANDO.BLOGSPOT.COM
    
          "Our blog was discovered by Reporter Alsy Acevedo, whom chose to meet with us and write about our story in this Saturday's Orlando Sentinel, in hopes that it will assist us in getting the help we so desperately need . . . Thank you Alsy"

     

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• A MUST SEE ON FOX TODAY

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    FOX WLL BE CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSH LIMBAUGH TODAY AT 2PM. ALL THIS RUSH BASHING BY THE LIBERALS, HATE TO BREAK THE NEWS BOYS AND GIRLS RUSH IS RIGHT AND SINCERE ABOUT WHERE WE ARE HEADED.

    Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Friday said health care reform is just the first step to government regulation of all sectors.

    In an exclusive interview to air this Sunday, Limbaugh said if passed this will be "the biggest snatch of freedom and liberty that has yet occurred in this country."

    "This is not about insuring the uninsured this is not about health care. This is about stealing one sixth of the U.S. private sector and putting it under the control of the federal government," Limbaugh told Chris Wallace host of FOX News Sunday.

    "When they get this health care bill if they do, that's the easiest fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior because it will all have some related cost to health care - what you drive, what you eat, where you live what you do and there will be penalties for violating regulation" he added.

    Rush also talks about President Obama, Afghanistan and himself.  Watch the entire interview with Rush ..

    http://fns.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/exclusive-preview-rush-on-health-care/

    http://fns.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/exclusive-preview-rush-on-health-care/

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