WAKE UP AMERICA - WHERE'S YOU COMMON SENSE - WHERE'S YOUR JOB ?

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Obama’s Scandal-Ridden Thugs Now Collect Student Loans

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How does one become the recipient of Obama’s cronyism? Apparently, an alternate path to massive campaign donations (à la Solyndra) is being involved in massive scandal. Such is the case with Aspire Resources, who last month became one of the primary collection agencies for government student loans (a trillion dollar industry, before those “greedy” banks handled both the loans and collection thereof). Obama, in what some considered an attack on capitalism, and others a downright unconstitutional act, took over the student loan industry in 2009.

What scandal was Aspire Resources involved in?

With a little digging we found Iowa Student Loans (ISL), the non-profit arm of Aspire Resources, was mired in scandal just months before Obama won the Presidency. 

“A report released last fall by Iowa’s Attorney General Tom Miller demonstrates how ISL officials carried out this strategy. According to the report, the agency’s leaders pursued a concerted strategy to steer students in the state to its most expensive private student loan products. Among other things, the AG found that ISL had provided kickbacks to colleges that recommended its private “Iowa Partnership Loans” to their students; gave financial rewards to their employees based on the number of private loan borrowers they secured; paid bonuses to staff members at the college access centers they managed based on the number of borrowers they brought in; falsely advertised its private loan products as the “lowest cost” options available; and routinely failed to advise students and their families to exhaust their federal student loan eligibility before taking out private loans.”

Maybe Darrell Issa should take a few days off from Fast and Furious and investigate how a scandal-ridden company got a multi-billion dollar contract with the U.S. government.

Special Report: George Soros: Godfather of the Left Liberal billionaire trying to give U.S. a liberal society it can’t refuse

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Say the name George Soros and liberals see dollar signs – literally. The world’s 22^nd richest man, according to Forbes, is now worth $20 billion. But Soros isn’t just noteworthy for the money he has – he’s notable for the money he has given away. Since launching his Open Society Foundations in 1984, Soros has donated more than $8 billion to charities around the world.

But instead of gaining a mighty reputation for his philanthropy, or his investment prowess, Soros is reviled abroad and criticized here in his adopted country. Most everywhere Soros, his foundations or his investing have gone, trouble has followed. He’s helped foment revolutions, undermined national currencies and funded radicals around the world. Soros has been convicted of insider dealing in France and fined $3 million, fined another $2 million in his native Hungary. His “foundations have been accused of shielding spies and breaking currency laws” and his investing strategy has been targeted for harming several national currencies.

Even his support for higher education raises huge red flags. Soros has contributed more than $400 million to colleges and universities, including money to most prominent institutions in the United States. He also helped establish Central European University which, in turn, uses its resources to promote his personal goal of an “open society.”

Here in the United States, Soros money provides the foundation for liberal organizations promoting everything from gay marriage and drug legalization to anti-death penalty strategies. While his charitable giving goes to liberal organizations with close ties to the Democratic Party, his political giving goes almost entirely to Democrats.

That’s not the story the broadcast networks have been telling about Soros for the past five years. There were 29 mentions of Soros during that time but only one gave any hint at trouble, and that was merely to mention he was “still known as the man who broke the Bank of England.” But ABC followed it up with: “That was all legal.” Only a sex scandal with a 28-year-old Brazilian actress gave Soros any negative publicity at all.

Soros Indoctrinates Students Around the World

Left-wing donor George Soros spent more than $400 million world-wide to indoctrinate students and teach them to promote liberal, and in some cases extremist, causes. He has even funded his own university that promotes his own unique philosophy of open society. His reach and influence far surpasses that of the Koch brothers, who have been vilified by the left and the media for their grants to universities.

While the left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brother’s donations to universities, their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times as much. Central European University and Bard College received the most from Soros. One professor at CEU praised the Occupy movement combining environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice. Grants to Bard College for “community service and social action” included a Palestinian youth group and an initiative to educate prisoners across the country. To top it off, all of the Ivy League universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and even religiously-affiliated institutions, were also funded by Soros.

Soros funded programs and classes at universities around the world promote his radical ideology. Soros’s Open Society Foundations granted $407,790,344 in gifts and commitments to higher education since the year 2000. The Koch brothers were vilified by the American political left for donating almost $7 million to universities while their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times that amount to the same type of groups. Alternet, funded by Soros complained about a “shady deal” that helped the Kochs fund Florida State University. Colorlines, also funded by Soros, said of the same donation: “FSU Trades Academic Freedom for Billionaire Charles Koch’s Money.”

Both Central European University and Bard College received vastly more money from Soros than every penny the Kochs donated to higher education. CEU has received more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the Soros foundations. And Bard has gotten $76 million from them.

Together, CEU and Bard received roughly 75 percent of Soros’s total contributions. Central European University was founded and endowed by Soros, providing an outlet for his own personal lecture series that was turned into a book for students to purchase. His ex-wife’s pet project, Bard Collect, received a new department for her to lead and supports Palestinian social programs.

Central European University and Bard College received specific donations for some of the most liberal courses and programs in the world. One course at CEU incorporated lessons of the Occupy movement and the teacher proudly described how the movement combined feminism, environmentalism, social justice, and the labor movement all under one roof. Programs at Bard include a Palestinian youth group, an initiative to educate prisoners across the country, and various other groups for “community service and social action.”

Ivy League schools to include Harvard, Columbia, and Yale were also well funded through the Soros foundations.  A Harvard documentary on the War on Terror received Soros-funds along with various left-wing projects at other universities to include judicial and journalism initiatives. Programs that teach and promote Soros’s ideology are heavily funded across the board.

Soros Gave More than 50 Times as much as Koch Brothers to Universities, Liberals Still Scream Foul

The left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brothers donating to universities even though their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times as much. With more than $400 million given and pledged to higher education around the worlds, the American political left is still terrified that they aren’t indoctrinating enough.

ThinkProgress detailed the Koch contributions to higher education on May 11 2011, with Koch brothers’ contributions totaling nearly $7 million. That’s not even as much as the Center for American Progress, which operates ThinkProgress, has received from Soros.

ThinkProgress went on to criticize the Kochs, even saying that Charles Koch went on a “spending spree” to “buy academic freedom.” Soros, on the other hand, has spent more than $400 million on universities around the world. He’s not only managed to buy academic freedom, but win the hearts and minds of students around the world and train them to become left-wing activists. 

David and Charles Koch are the libertarian businessmen in charge of Koch Industries. They have donated to libertarian and conservative groups along with medical research, the arts, and various other causes. Even with billions of dollars in funding from Soros, the left feels the need to criticize many of the Kochs much smaller endeavors.

Even major media organizations have gone after the Kochs for their contributions. The Kochs were described as everything from “the ubiquitous Koch brothers: the Zeligs of questionable funding” by The New York Times to the “implacable ideological foes of organized labor” by the Los Angeles Times.

Soros’s Center for American Progress, which received $7.3 million from his foundations, posted a report on their Think Progress blog titled “Koch Fueling Far Right Academic Centers at Universities across the Country.”  In the article, the Koch-hating leftist Lee Fang lists universities that received money from the Kochs to include George Mason University, Utah State, and Brown. Totaling nearly $7 million, grants as small as $100,000 were criticized. A donation of $1.5 million to Florida State University supposedly gave the Kochs “a free hand in selecting professors and approving publications.”

While Charles Koch is referred to as “a dominant player when it comes to meddling with academic integrity,” Soros’s name appears nowhere in the article. Giving 50 times the amount cited by the Center for American Progress is ignored by liberal bloggers that are funded by Soros. 

AlterNet, the unhinged liberal blog, reposted Fang’s report. They are part of the “Echo-Chamber” of liberal blogs created by the Media Consortium, which received $425,000. An additional $495,000 went to the Independent Media Institute, which is the parent-group of Alternet. They went on to describe the Kochs as “megalomaniacal mega-billionaires” and even were scandalized by Charles Koch, claiming that he went on “shopping spree for an invaluable bauble that most of us didn’t even know was for sale: academic freedom.”

Soros-Founded Central European University Rakes in the Cash

2011 marked the 20^th anniversary of the Soros-founded Central European University. Since its inception, the Open Society Foundations have given more than $250 million in gifts and commitments to this European venture. The anniversary website lays out the mission since CEU’s founding in 1991, “The idea was that a multinational university could be a place to study the principles of open society.”

CEU is the prime example of liberal extremism funded at the university level. One professor even praised the Occupy movement combining environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice. Soros has used CEU for everything from promoting his books to hosting an economic conference group (that he of course funds) out to change the global economy. The Soros Lectures is one of Soros’s books, which was created from the lectures he gave at CEU. The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) hosted their 2011 conference at the university.

Praise for the extreme views of the Occupy movement came from one program director.

Tamara Steger, the Doctoral Program Director for the Environmental Sciences and Policy, visited Zuccotti Park herself to learn about the movement. A video on the CEU YouTube channel showed Steger in front of a class with a slide behind her that said “How to OCCUPY peoples’ heads with your message…” Earlier in the video, she praised the Occupy movement for combining the environmental, social justice, feminist, and labor movements to talk about issues that “really mattered.”

CEU is dedicated to promoting Soros’s idea of an open society and “that professors and students could be recruited internationally to build a new and unique institution, one that would train future generations of scholars, professionals, politicians and civil society leaders to contribute to building open societies and democracies throughout the region and beyond.”

One of the schools “intellectual themes” for 2011 was “social

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Republicans Outmaneuvered by Obama and Holder

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Republicans Outmaneuvered by Obama and Holder

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Senator John McCain, who lost to Obama in 2008 in part because he did not want to challenge Obama’s personal character or loyalty to the U.S., is now upset over what he calls “…a disturbing stream of articles” that cite “leaked classified or highly-sensitive information…” in an “effort to paint a portrait of President Obama as a strong leader on national security issues…”

McCain’s statements, like his 2008 presidential campaign, are careful not to personally accuse Obama himself of any wrongdoing. McCain’s statements refer repeatedly to the “Obama Administration” or just the “administration,” rather than the President himself. At best, he says that Obama is ultimately “responsible” for the leaks. Obama denies the White House leaked anything and finds the charge that anyone did so “offensive.”

The senator went on to say, “The fact that this Administration would aggressively pursue leaks perpetrated by a 22-year old Army private in the ‘WikiLeaks’ matter and former CIA employees in other leaks cases but apparently sanction leaks made by senior Administration officials for political purposes is simply unacceptable. It also calls for the need for a special counsel to investigate what happened here.”

Here, the senator makes two questionable assumptions: that the administration is determined to aggressively pursue the WikiLeaks matter, and that “senior Administration officials” are behind the recent leaks, not Obama himself.

In the first place, government prosecutors have ruled out the death penalty in the case of Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, the source of the classified WikiLeaks material. This is strange because the leaks constitute the largest release of classified 

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Spin Doctor: Watch What Happens When David Axelrod Is Asked Whether The Private Sector Is ‘Doing Fine’

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OBAMA SIGNED 923 EXEC. ORDERS IN 40 MONTHS

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Obama Has Signed 923 Executive Orders In 40 Months - Video

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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months!

What did Congress do in those 40 months?

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates theof all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
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New Party' Literature Suggests Obama Paid Dues to Join

 

by John Sexton 

In the ongoing discussion of Barack Obama's involvement with Chicago's extremist "New Party," online literature from the Party likely reveals that the young state senator not only was a member but had to commit financially to membership. 

This past week, National Review author Stanley Kurtz revived the question of whether or not Obama was ever a member of the Party. Arguing for the affirmative, Kurtz demonstrates fairly conclusively that it did. On the other hand, Joel Rogers, founder of the New Party, tells Ben Smith that it did not. And documents available online suggest that Kurtz is correct and that Rogers is not being completely truthful.
First, there's a bit more background which is relevant here. Kurtz originally raised the question of Obama's involvement with the New Party back in 2008. At the time, the campaign denied Obama was ever involved and referred to the allegation as a "crackpot smear." Ben Smith, then at Politico, wrote a piece in which he quoted New Party founder Joel Rogers to the effect that Obama had never been a member of the New Party because the New Party didn't have members.
On Thursday, Kurtz announced the discovery of new documents that supported his original claim. In particular, he found minutes of a 1996 New Party meeting which read:

Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.

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HOME SECURITY WATCHMAN

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U N WANTS TO TAX THE INTERNET AND CONTROL IT

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The UN Thinks It Can Tax American Internet Companies

Written by Gary North on June 11, 2012

The United Nations Organization always wants to expand its power. But it has no power without money. It has to beg governments to provide it with money.

The United States government always ponies up it share. This is a waste of money.

The UN would like to tap into America’s Internet market by imposing a tax. As to how it would be able to collect this tax, it has not said. It does not possess sovereignty inside the USA.

A European lobbying group has come up with a plan. If a U.S-based firm offers hosting abroad, it must pay the tax, says the group.
This proposal would have to be done through the International Telecommunications Regulations. But there have been no changes to its rules since 1988 — before the Web browser was invented. Before Google. Before the Internet went commercial.
The proposal announced this:

“New services enabled by the Internet are changing the economic landscape, and indeed the very nature of the telecoms industry. Revisions of the ITRs should acknowledge . . . the principle that fair compensation is received for carried traffic and operators’ revenues should not be disconnected from the investment needs caused by rapid Internet traffic growth. This should at best be achieved through commercial arrangements between players.”

To which American companies can announce: “Oh yeah? You and who else says so?”
It is not clear how much this tax would collect.
As to what counts as fair, who knows?

“It will be possible to establish new interconnection policies based on the ‘value’ of the traffic (not only on the ‘volume’), enabling new business models and implementing an ecosystem where operators’ revenues will not be disconnected from the investment needs made necessary by the rapid growth of Internet traffic.”

The UN is toothless. It has no way to enforce any of this. No U.S. court needs to uphold any such tax program.

This is one more example of a bunch of bureaucrats pretending that another group of bureaucrats have the power to impose taxes. The UN has no such authority.
I think we can safely shrug this off.
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NY JUDGE RULES AGAINST NDAA. UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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Judge Rules Against Obama-Pelosi-Boehner-McConnell

Written by Gary North on June 11, 2012

A New York judge has ruled against the government on the issue of indefinite detention under the infamous National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). She said that it violates Constitutional liberties: First Amendment and Fifth Amendment
A group of journalists sued the bipartisan political leaders who ramrodded this law through Congress. They said that the law restricts free speech.
The government went into panic mode as soon as she ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. It argued that the ruling applies only to the journalists who filed the lawsuit. That would have undermined judicial precedent.

She has stood her ground. She has released an 8-page memorandum extending her ruling to anyone under her jurisdiction who is arrested and detained by the government under this section of the NDAA.

If the government appeals this ruling, it might wind up in front of the Supreme Court. The Court might uphold her ruling, thereby making this ruling national in scope.

When she asked the government’s attorney to define the conditions under which journalists could be arrested under the law, he refused to specify. This meant that the law was open-ended.

The judge has now killed the provision in her jurisdiction.

Other judges in other districts may have the courage to do what she did. A precedent has been set.

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GOD'S ZEBRA

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A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates... As he enters, he asks St. Peter, 'I have a question that's haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?' St. Peter said, 'That's a question only God can answer.' So the zebra went off in search of God. When he found Him, the zebra asked, 'God, please - I must know Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?' God simply replied 'You are what you are.' The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him, 'Well, did God straighten out your query for you?' The zebra looked puzzled.. 'No sir, God simply said 'You are what you are.'' St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, 'Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes..' The zebra asked St. Peter, 'How do you know that for certain?' 'Because,' said St. Peter, 'If you were black with white stripes, God would have said, 'You is what you is..' WARNING: If you laugh at this, Jesse Jackson, Rev Wright and Obama will be comin after yo white ass!!!

A BAD NIGHT FOR BIG LABOR

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Farmers plead to use their own wells Warn that drought is costing crops, income, tax revenue

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By Jack Minor

GREELEY, Colo. – Lawmakers in Colorado say they want a study of groundwater issues in the northeastern part of the state where farmers have been banned from pumping from their wells for several years.

But farmers and local officials there say this historic drought is an emergency and the governor should use his executive authority to bypass the judiciary.

WND previously reported how farmers in Weld County are facing the possibility of losing their crops because the courts have refused them permission to use water right under their feet, groundwater that is rising and actually seeping into basements.

Now an estimated 200 farmers have met in a show of solidarity, signing a statement to the government that if they are not allowed to turn on their wells and irrigate their crops they will not be able to pay taxes next year.

This year’s snowpack is only 2 percent of average, tying a record low set during another historic drought in 2002.

Over the decades, wells were drilled to supplement low water usage during times such as this. However, several years ago the courts ordered the wells shut down because farmers were not “augmenting” or replacing the water they removed from the ground.

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SOMALI: DEVOUT MUSLIM GROUP OFFERS 10 CAMELS AS BOUNTY FOR OBAMA

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SOMALI: DEVOUT MUSLIM GROUP OFFERS 10 CAMELS AS BOUNTY FOR OBAMA

Sounds fair. Muslims offer 10 camels for Obama. Market value. And two camels for Hillary. Perf!

Somali Islamists offer 10 camels as bounty for Obama   CNN Wire Staff, Sat June 9, 2012

The average cost of a camel in Somalia is $700, according to a university study.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The militant Al-Shabaab jeered a U.S. reward offered for seven of its key members
• A man purporting to one of those wanted by the United States makes a counter offer
• He offers 10 camels as a reward for information on the whereabouts of President Obama
• Hillary Clinton's bounty is two camels

(CNN) -- The United States offers millions for information leading to the capture of the world's most wanted terrorists.

A Somali militant group has purportedly countered with an offer of camels for U.S. officials.

Al-Shabaab has placed a bounty of 10 camels for President Barack Obama and two camels for information on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

An audio statement posted on jihadist websites purportedly from Al-Shabaab jeered news that the United States is offering millions of dollars for information on seven key members of al-Shabaab through its Rewards for Justice program.

The man on the audio claimed to be Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, considered by the State Department to be Al-Shabaab's leading fundraiser. The United States has offered $5 million for information of his whereabouts.

"Whoever brings the mujahidin information about the whereabouts of infidel Obama and the lady of Bill Clinton, the woman named Hillary Clinton, I will give a reward," the man said.

A study by Galkayo University, which looked at the effects of drought on livestock, said the average cost of a camel in Somalia is $700.

CNN can not independently verify the authenticity of the audio recording, which was purportedly made by Khalaf during a speech to followers in the southern port city of Merca.

The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering $7 million for information on the location of Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed, the founder of the Islamist group in Somalia.

This year, he and al Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a joint video formally announcing a merger between the terror groups.

In announcing the bounties on Mohamed and his key associates Thursday, the State Department called al-Shabaab "a threat to the stability of East Africa and to the national security interests of the United States."

The State Department said it is also offering up to $5 million each for information leading to the location of four of Aw-Mohamed's associates, including Khalaf. In addition, it is offering up to $3 million each for two of the terror group's other leaders.

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DO NOT PICK UP A FREE FLASHLIGHT ON THE STREET ?

     FLASHLIGHT COULD BE A:

PHOENIX - Flick the switch on these flashlights and they don't light up. They blow up.

Three of these bombs have exploded within the last month in the Phoenix area, causing minor injuries to five people and raising fears of more serious ones.

Police still have no idea who is behind them and have taken the unusual step of putting up 22 billboards across the sprawling metro area to warn residents about discarded flashlights.

"The nature of the bombings are so random," said Tom Mangan, a special agent at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.

Mangan said the agency has ruled out any connection to terrorism because the targets have been random and there have been no messages or demands.

The ATF said the bombs appear to have been made by the same person or people because their design was identical.

An explosive was placed inside the flashlights with a smaller battery and rigged so that turning it on would send an electrical current that triggered the blast, Mangan said. He declined to identify the explosive material.

The first bomb was spotted by a passerby on May 13 in a suburb just west of Phoenix. It was sitting behind a palm tree in a strip mall and blew up when it was clicked on.

The next day, about 10 miles away, a landscaper found a flashlight in an irrigation ditch. It, too, exploded when he flicked the switch, authorities said.

The third bomb exploded on May 24 at a Salvation Army distribution center near downtown Phoenix and about 11 miles from the first one.

An employee detonated the device while sorting through donations, forcing 120 people in the store to evacuate. Jon Bierd, production manager at the facility, said the worker suffered a small abrasion to his forehead.

The Salvation Army stopped accepting donations of flashlights. Since the explosion, employees have not seen any flashlights matching the yellow one seen on the billboards.

"If we have a flashlight that's heavy or is not empty, then I'd call the Phoenix Police Department. No matter where it is, we do not touch it," said Bierd, who is setting aside any flashlight that is donated.

In addition to the billboards, police are offering a $10,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest or conviction.

Police have received dozens of calls reporting possible flashlight bombs that either turned out to be false alarms or hoaxes, including one from a Goodwill store.

Meanwhile, the bombings have stopped, though it is unclear whether there are more flashlights out there.

The attention may have scared them off or they may gain confidence and strike again as the investigation stretches on without an arrest, criminal profiler Gregg McCrary said.

Details of the case lead the former FBI agent to think the culprit is either a man or two men, with one of them being a dominant leader and the other a follower.

As for motive, whoever is responsible may be bombing at random for various reasons, said McCrary, who teaches at Marymount University in Virginia.

"Typically these things are about wanting to feel superior and smarter than other people," he said, adding that they also might revel in the news coverage.

"There'll be a vicarious thrill or excitement watching news coverage, and it's kind of like: `Look what I've done.' It's a sense of empowerment that `I made all this happen,'" he said.

Mangan said the remnants of the bombs are at a laboratory and being studied for fingerprints and other DNA evidence. The ATF said it will try to trace the materials used in the bombs to see where they were bought.

Mangan said his agency and others are concerned that the bombings will resume, possibly in a different container. They're also worried that the injuries won't be so minor next time.

"Anytime any individual uses a bomb, their purpose is to create fear in the community and also to inflict serious injury or death," he said.

WORD GAMES KEEP SPEED SCAM ALIVE

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Enough schoolboy excuses=== Word games keep speed-camera cash grab alive in Maryland

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A speed camera on Iverson Street in the Hillcrest Heights area of Prince George's County stands ready Wednesday to catch motorists who exceed the posted speed limits. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

If speed cameras were truly dedicated to the noble cause of saving lives, the people who run the programs would operate in an above-board fashion. They don’t. That’s why camera-operator deceit became the center of attention Tuesday in Maryland’s highest court.

Judges for the Court of Appeals, Maryland’s equivalent of a supreme court, heard oral arguments in a case that will determine whether Montgomery County and a number of municipalities are brazenly violating a provision of state law prohibiting for-profit corporations from operating cameras in such a way that they receive a financial reward for churning out more citations.

This attempt at motorist protection was added to the 2006 bill authorizing the county’s cameras to assuage members of the General Assembly who wavered in their support of the camera measure, which then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich had vetoed as a blatant cash grab. Seven Republicans ultimately betrayed their governor in overriding this veto.

Despite the law, Montgomery County, Gaithersburg and Rockville are paying Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Xerox subsidiary, $16 for each ticket the company issues. With the logic of a school boy attempting to avoid detention, these jurisdictions re-wrote their contracts in 2009 to affirm that ACS does not “operate” the speed cameras, since the law only bans “operators” from receiving per-ticket compensation. ACS and other similar firms install, own, maintain and calibrate the cameras. They take the photographs, determine who’s guilty, prepare evidence for court trial, mail out tickets, collect the fines, pursue those who don’t pay and run public-relations campaigns to defend the program.

The only thing of consequence that local governments do is press a button to approve the tickets sent over by the vendors. Lawyers representing the counties and cities insist this phony, rubber-stamp process ensures there is no way for the private company to make a few extra bucks by issuing more tickets because government employees retain the final say.

Judge Lynne A. Battaglia pointed out there would be no reason to provide a performance incentive to the vendor if there truly were no way for the company to improve its performance. “Why have a bounty system if everything is being done by the county?” the liberal jurist asked.

Timothy Leahy, the attorney representing ticket recipients, was similarly unimpressed by the word games used to avoid paying a flat fee to camera contractors. “It reminds me of former President Clinton saying ‘it depends on what the definition of is is,’ ” Mr. Leahy told The Washington Times. He’s optimistic the court may feel the same way in a final ruling that could come as early as August.

By the reckoning of StopBigBrotherMD.org, Old Line State speed cameras generated $77 million last year. Keeping that sizable revenue stream alive is the primary motivation of those who depend on this loot. The Court of Appeals needs to come down hard on this greedy use of deceit to rob commuters.

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Obama Accused Of Sexual Harassment While at Harvard Law Review

I am not surprised with this president.

(Free Republic) During Barack Obama’s tenure as the president of the Harvard Law Review in the late 1980s, at least two male student editors complained to colleagues and senior university officials about inappropriate behavior by Obama, ultimately leaving their positions at the journal, multiple sources confirm to THE KANSAS CITIAN.

The men complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Obama that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the university that gave them financial payouts to leave the journal. The agreements also included language that bars the men from talking about their departures.

In a series of comments over the past 10 days, Obama and his administration repeatedly declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of sexual harassment at the journal. They have also declined to address questions about specific reporting confirming that there were financial settlements in two cases in which men leveled complaints.

THE KANSAS CITIAN has confirmed the identities of the two male journal editors who complained about Obama but, for privacy concerns, is not publishing their names.
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REPUBLICAN PARTY FISCAL CONSERVATIVES WORST ENEMY

Posted By Woody Pendleton

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1.6 Trillion Dollars More Debt: Fiscal Conservatives Have Been Raped By The Republican Party

What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it. Back in 2010, the Tea Party was riding high and a flood of new Republicans was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in one of the greatest landslides in U.S. political history. On election night 2010, more House seats changed hands than in another other election since 1948. It was the greatest defeat for any sitting president in a midterm election since 1938. After the election, the Democrats were left with fewer House seats than at any other time since 1946. Needless to say, it was an absolutely historic election. The Tea Party completely dominated American politics that night, and they sent the Republican Party a clear message that they wanted government debt to be brought under control. So what has changed since then? Not much. The U.S. government is still running trillion dollar deficits every single year. I have previously spent a lot of time blaming Barack Obama and the Democrats for this, but the truth is that they could not have spent a single penny without the approval of the U.S. House of Representatives. So the Republican Party is complicit in this crime against the American people. If there was ever a mandate to take a stand against runaway government debt, it was after the 2010 election, and the Republican Party has failed miserably. So what are fiscal conservatives supposed to do now?
As CNS News recently pointed out, the U.S. national debt has increased by approximately 1.6 trillion dollars over the past 15 months. This Congress has added more to the national debt than the first 97 Congresses combined....

When Boehner became speaker on Jan. 5, 2011, the federal government was operating under a continuing resolution that had been passed on Dec. 21, 2010 by a lame-duck Congress. That CR expired on March 4, 2011.

On March 1, 2011, Boehner agreed to a new short-term spending deal with President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders to keep the government running past the March 4, 2011 expiration of the old CR. Since March 4, 2011, federal expenditures have been carried out under a series of CRs approved by both the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate and signed into law by President Obama.

At the close of business on March 4, 2011, the total federal debt was $14,182,627,184,881.03, according to the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Public Debt. At the close of business on May 31, 2012, it was 15,770,685,085,364.14. That is an increase of $1,588,057,900,483.11—in just 15 months.

We should expect Democrats to act like this. They don't seem to even care that they are plunging our nation into financial oblivion.
But Republicans are always giving speeches about how bad the national debt is. They are endlessly promising us that they are going to stand up to Barack Obama.

Sadly, they never seem to deliver.

Most Republican politicians seem to have absolutely no backbone.

If the Republicans had wanted to stop these trillion dollar deficits they could have done it.

They could have said no to anything but a balanced budget.

Not a single penny of government money can be spent unless it is approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Republicans have total control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

So why are we still running trillion dollar deficits?

Why does our national debt chart still look like this?....

The Republican Party is a poor excuse for a political party at this point.

They can't even stand up for the most basic things that the party is supposed to stand for.

Why should anyone give them any money? Why should anyone volunteer to work on their campaigns? They never do the things that we send them to Washington D.C. to do.

If they are not going to work for us, then why should any of us ever work for them?

The U.S. national debt is not some small issue.
It is the greatest debt in the history of the world and it threatens to destroy the future for all Americans.
Right now, the United States already has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain does. How much worse does it have to get before we all start screaming at the top of our lungs?

When Ronald Reagan was elected, the U.S. national debt was less than a trillion dollars.

Now it is almost 16 trillion dollars.

And the Republican Party had control of the White House most of the time that debt was being run up.

Shame on the Republican Party! Most of them are just a bunch of watered-down Democrats when it comes to fiscal issues.
Sadly, the American people are not even being told how bad things really are. If the federal government used GAAP accounting standards, the real federal budget deficit for last year would have been 5 trillion dollars instead of 1.3 trillion dollars.
A recent USA Today article explained how this number was arrived at....

Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.
A U.S. household's median income is $49,445, the Census reports.
The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.

Yes, we should definitely blame the Democrats for this. The Democrats are absolutely horrible.

But where are the Republicans?

They could have blocked all of this if they wanted to.

Right now, the federal government is stealing approximately 150 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren.

Just think about that for a while.
By the end of this hour, the federal government will steal 150 million dollars from future generations.
Then they will do that again next hour.
And the hour after that.
And the hour after that.

The Republicans could stop this nightmare but they refuse.

And you know what?

If Mitt Romney is elected he is not going to stop it either.

According to a recent article in the Washington Times, Romney admitted that he has absolutely no plans to balance the federal budget in his first year during a recent campaign stop....

"My job is to get America back on track to have a balanced budget. Now I'm not going to cut $1 trillion in the first year"

So why aren't fiscal conservatives howling in outrage?
It is because they are so scared of another term for Obama that they are willing to go along with just about anything.
They are even willing to vote for Mitt Romney.

During that same campaign stop, Mitt Romney went on to explain why he does not plan to balance the budget....

"The reason," he explained, "is taking a trillion dollars out of a $15 trillion economy would cause our economy to shrink [and] would put a lot of people out of work."

And you know what?
Mitt Romney is right about that.
Sucking a trillion dollars out of the economy would make the economic statistics look absolutely horrible and would guarantee him a one way ticket out of the White House in 2016.
Our politicians don't want to ever cut the budget significantly because it will hurt the economy and make them look bad. If they look bad then there is a good chance that they will not be elected again.
So we continue to steamroll down the same path that Greece has gone.

In the end, our financial system will be absolutely destroyed.

Things did not have to turn out this way.

The Republican Party could have taken a stand.

But they didn't. The cowards in the Republican Party always gave in.

So now we all get to pay the price.

The greatest debt bubble in the history of the world is going to burst and America is going to be completely devastated.

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WORLD'S SHORTEST BOOKS

Posted By Woody Pendleton

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World's Shortest Books MY BLACK GIRLFRIENDS By Tiger Woods ____________________________________________ THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY COUNTRY By Jane Fonda & Cindy Sheehan Illustrated by Michael Moore Foreword by George Soros ________________________________________ MY CHRISTIAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS & HOW I HELPED AFTER KATRINA By Rev Jesse Jackson & Rev Al Sharpton ______________________________________ THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL By Hillary Clinton _________________

Sequel: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HILLARY

By Bill Clinton

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THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD

By Bill Gates

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THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY

By Dennis Rodman

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THINGS WE KNOW TO BE TRUE

By Al Gore & John Kerry

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HOW TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

By Dr. Jack Kevorkian

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TO ALL THE MEN WE HAVE LOVED BEFORE

By Ellen de Generes & Rosie O'Donnell

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GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE

By Mike Tyson

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THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY

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MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS

By O. J. Simpson & Casey Anthony

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HOW TO DRINK & DRIVE SAFELY

By Ted Kennedy

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MY BOOK OF MORALS

By Bill Clinton

With introduction by

The Rev. Jesse Jackson

and foreward by

Tiger Woods with John Edwards

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HOW TO WIN A SUPERBOWL

BY THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS

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AND, JUST ADDED:

My Complete Knowledge of Military Strategy

By Nancy Pelosi

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And the shortest book of them all.......................

THINGS I DID TO DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

by Barack Obama