Author: Papa Giorgio
Pigs[fords] at the Trough
The only problem for thieves like Waters is that there are people who really care about the integrity of our nation and not people getting free handouts. For instance, black farmer Jimmy Dismuke:
The numbers are as off as the Politically-Correct FBI’s handling of this issue. This is yet another example of Illiberal Egalitarianism gone wrong. The people purported to be helped by the bleeding heart liberals in the government are the one actually hurt:
Indeed, as Big Government has already pointed out, the legitimate concerns of many honest, hard working black farmers continue to go ignored, while high power law firms, in some cases linked to the Democrat Party, stand to cash in big. Only in the world of big money and high power politics can an individual like Mike Espy, a former head of the very same USDA he is now suing, now claim to speak for over 15,000 clients alleging discrimination by the same USDA Espy headed up. The mere thought of that is absurd and should function as a red flag for any good government watchdog.
As Big Government will continue to show over the next few weeks, Pigford is a universe of its own filled with crooked politicians, cover-ups, greedy attorneys, and crime rings. And one of the brightest stars in the Pigford universe is Mike Espy:
How many actual farmers with potentially legitimate complaints against the USDA will actually be compensated remains to be seen. But one thing seems abundantly clear, Espy will very likely profit to a degree that far exceeds any potential aggrieved party. That isn’t justice, it is corruption and cronyism writ large to be paraded about in what amounts to an outrageous signing ceremony at the White House today.
In fact, as also reported at Big Government, some of the lawyers now poised to make millions while any aggrieved parties receive a mere pittance, appear to have sabotaged what could have been an expeditious and efficient process to see that it was the genuine victims who were rewarded.
BigGovernment has the best resources and info on this topic in my minds eye. There topic on this issue can be found here, PIGFORD. As you can see in this re-post of a video… we aren’t in Kansas anymore toto:
Ode to American Exceptionalism (Link To Federalist Society Speeches on American Exceptionalism)
Abbot & Costello explain Unions and the Stimulas Plan
A Familys Grief,The Patriot Guard,And A Thank You (*tears*)
Installment Seven: American Exceptionalism
Bush-Era Tax Cut Blunderbust!
Many do not realize how much of a hit Democrats took this past lame duck session. This cutting of the Bush Tax Cuts ~ so-called ~ was a main campaign promise from Obama:
NewsBusters points out, for instance, Rachel Maddow’s cheer-leading for the Democrats that they were finally going to implement a long standing promise… that is, defeating the Bush-era tax cuts. Here you see her on the eve of the big vote she was sure the Dems were geared up to win:
MADDOW (laughing): That, this evidence that you, that we have before us here in you, manifested in Bill Wolff, this phenomenon, being fired up like that, that is the key to the most important thing going on in American politics right now, I am convinced. This weekend Congress is going to be in session, this weekend! On a Saturday! We heard it as breaking news last night during this show, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing that he is not letting the Senate go home, the Democratic leadership is keeping the Senate in Washington over the weekend, because the thing that we have been talking about, the thing that they have been fighting about for months now is finally going to happen, tomorrow, on the weekend. Senate Democrats are finally going to do it. They are finally going to go through with this vote that they’ve been trying to psyche themselves up for on the Bush tax cuts.
Followed shortly after by Wolff donning a tall furry hat and marching off the set while thrusting a baton, as seen in embedded video, while Maddow said this —
MADDOW: This is not a matter of figuring out the policy! That is done. This is not a matter of doing the polling. That’s been done. This is not a matter of doing the math. The math has been done, the argument has been made, the numbers have been crunched, the debate has been worked through. It is a matter of whether or not the Democrats are psyched. It’s a matter of whether or not the Democrats have the fight in them to make this happen.
Hopefully we will see more of this in the next few years. That is, a compromising from the left for what is in the best interest of the country. Not to mention that I LOVE seeing Osama bin Olbermann pissed!
I wouldnt want my readers to miss the musical prowess of Basil Marceaux this Christmas Season
If you do not know who Basil Marceaux is, here is the time to catch up with one of the two wackiest people to run for office in 2010. HotAir h/t:
WikiLeaks Confirm WMDs-Again
This post will be intimately connected with my main post on WMDs as well as its update. ATLAS SHRUGS H/T. WikiLeaks is helping and hurting us… here is a help for the masses:
Many of us have been reporting on Iraq’s WMD for years. But don’t expect the propagandists and left-o-media to revise their lies or deliberate obfuscations to advance their treacherous agenda.
WikiLeaks is confirming Iraq’s WMD. **crickets hospitalized from chirping exhaustion****
RUSSIA moved Saddam’s WMDs- Atlas Shrugs, February 2006
Congress’s Secret Saddam Tapes and WMD – Atlas Shrugs, February 2006
Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved- Atlas Shrugs, March 2006
Iraq’s WMD’s Secreted to Syria – Atlas Shrugs, December 06
WMD in Iraq Crickets Chirping – Atlas Shrugs, March 2006
Iraq: WMD –Do Nukes Count? – Atlas Shrugs, Fevruary 2006
IRAQ’S WMD FOUND AT UN – Atlas Shrugs, August 2007
9/6 REPORT: Saddam’s WMD in Syria – Atlas Shrugs, April 2008
550 Metric Tons Of Yellowcake Removed From Iraq, July 2008
Wikileaks: WMD program existed in Iraq prior to US invasion Jim Kouri, The Examiner
The release by Julian Assange’s web site Wikileaks of classified documents reveals that U.S. military intelligence discovered chemical weapons labs, encountered insurgents who were specialists in the creation of toxins, and uncovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, Washington, DC officials and the news media have ignored this information.
One of the WikiLeaks document dumps reveals that as late as 2008, American troops continued to find WMD in the region.
There are numerous mentions of chemical and biological weapons in the WikiLeaks documents, however the U.S. media appear only interested in those portions of the leaked material that highlight actions that are viewed as embarrassing for the U.S. military such as the accusation that U.S. commanders were aware of abuse and “torture” of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers and police officers.
The U.S. Defense Department continues to demand that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange immediately return the stolen military documents in his possession, including recent documents that created another stir when published, according to Elaine Wilson of American Forces Press Service.
The department also wants the whistle-blowing web site to permanently delete all versions of these documents, which contain classified and sensitive information, from its web site, computers and records, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters during a Pentagon briefing.
WikiLeaks documents don’t reveal evidence of a massive weapons program by Saddam Hussein — the Bush administration’s leading rationale for invading Iraq — or some enormous stockpile of WMD, but do reveal that chemical weapons did vanish from the Iraqi battlefield.
According to the latest WikiLeaks document “dump,” Saddam’s toxic arsenal, significantly reduced after the Gulf War, remained intact. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict and may have brewed up their own deadly agents, according to the WikiLeaks web site.
During that time, former Iraqi General Georges Sada, Saddam’s top commander, detailed the transfers of Iraq’s WMD. “There [were] weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,” Mr. Sada said. “I am confident they were taken over.”
Gen. Sada’s comments came just a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, claimed that Saddam Hussein “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”
in 2004, for example, American special forces members secretly purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard which have been used since World War I. Following testing in a military lab, the chemical was then secured and transferred to a secret location.
So Easy a Child Gets it
Want To Know What Happens When an Alligator Bites An Electric Eel?
The Queen Awards Medals to Soldiers from the Afghan Theatre
From a reader:
That last soldier is a New Zealander serving in a British Infantry Battalion. Apparently approximately 6% of the British forces are made up of service people from out the commonwealth.