Representative King on Pigford: We are not going to pay Slave Reparations UPDATE: Approved

Update: Approved:

UPDATE: On Tuesday afternoon, the Claims Settlement Act of 2010 passed the House on a 256 to 152 vote. The legislation now awaits President Obama’s signature.

Following the vote, Obama said Congress dealt with the funding bill “in a bipartisan fashion to bring this painful chapter in our nation’s history to a close. … Yet, while today’s vote demonstrates important progress, we must remember that much work remains to be done.” The Obama administration “will continue our efforts to resolve claims of past discrimination made by women and Hispanic farmers and others in a fair and timely manner.”

Recall the Black Farmers suit for reparations and the Sherrods? Looks like someone is finally speaking out. Read our earlier post: Senate approves 4.5 billion to Native Americans, Black Farmers and the Sherrods

From Breitbart TV

Already, the number of people who have been paid and are still seeking payment will likely exceed the 26,785 black farmers who were considered to even be operating back in 1997, according to USDA. That’s the year the case initially began as Pigford v. Vilsack(then Agriculture Secretary). Glickman and sources predicted that, at most, 3,000 might qualify.

New Communities is due to receive approximately $13 million ($8,247,560 for loss of land and $4,241,602 for loss of income; plus $150,000 each to Shirley and Charles  Sherrod for pain and suffering). There may also be an unspecified amount in forgiveness of debt.

Reader Dude Meister discovered this information:
An announcement of Ms. Sherrod’s July 2009 appointment to her USDA position at ruraldevelopment.org gives off quite a few clues:

RDLN Graduate and Board Vice Chair Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25. Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families (see below) has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.

This must-read story at Illinois Review and The Washington Examiner also reveals that Ms. Sherrod’s husband is a former honcho in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee back in the 1960’s. You can read more about it in Bill Ayers book “Fugitive Days.” Yes, that Bill Ayers. He was involved in SNCC as well.

 

WikiLeaks: Hill is the Vill

It use to take a village but wow how things have really gone global.  The WikiLeaks fallout hitch Hillary to the mantle of ‘Villain’.   Right now she is bearing the brunt while Obama lingers in the shadows  as in his usual mode of disaffected watcher.  In the meantime the fall out goes on.  But just what will be the results?  In the words of Rahm Emmanual, just wait “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

The demons and the damage done:

-> Government officials tell us that Assange’s act  poses a threat to our national security by undermining America’s foreign policy. One may as well ask: What foreign policy? As American Thinker puts it, this just proves what we know: so-called leaders and politicians are liars, schemers, crooks, egomaniacs, and incompetents. Obama is more of threat to our national security than Assange will ever be.  The media will keep us focused on Assange though away from the details of what Obama is currently doing to us.

-> Calls for Clinton to resign..maybe Obama helped WIKI on purpose to get rid of Hillary as a primary contender?  If he didn’t he certainly must find the situation to his benefit.

-> Provides the Department of Homeland Security with a  security breach to use as an excuse to shut down the internet or limit internet capacity.

Comrade Matrix wonders; “When is WikiLeaks going to leak the list of people with special interests who give them money to selectively leak?”

More important than what is released is who bears the brunt.  Looking behind the leaks is far more interesting than just calls for Assange’s head.

P.S. Assange even says Hilliary must go!

Vote Tally Count Bill Food Safety Passes- UPDATE Back to the House

Number:	Senate Vote #257 in 2010 [primary source: senate.gov]
Date:	Nov 30, 2010 10:09AM
Result:	Bill Passed
Bill:	S. 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

	Totals			Democrats	Republicans	Independents	All Votes
			Needed To Win
Yea:	73	(73%)		56	15	2
Nay:	25	(25%)		0	25	0
Present:	0	(0%)		0	0	0
Not Voting:	2	(2%)		0	2	0
Required:	Simple Majority of 98 votes (=50 votes)  (Vacancies in Congress will affect vote totals.)

More information: Aye versus Yea Explained

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 From Hot Air :

A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.

By pre-empting the House’s tax-writing authority, Senate Democrats appear to have touched off a power struggle with members of their own party in the House. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to the House, but House Democrats are expected to use a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, according to House and Senate GOP aides.

The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats, who sought Tuesday to make the relatively unknown bill a major political issue by sending out numerous news releases trumpeting its passage.

Section 107 of the bill includes a set of fees that are classified as revenue raisers, which are technically taxes under the Constitution. According to a House GOP leadership aide, that section has ruffled the feathers of Ways and Means Committee Democrats, who are expected to use the blue slip process to block completion of the bill.

What a monstrosity– for a great re-cap of a part of this nasty bill, slide on over to “Conservatives on Fire More at S-510 you won’t like Monsanto was behind this little number. Just the highlights:

What many people don’t realize is that the FDA has a list it calls “sources of seed contamination”. To better protect us from ourselves, the FDA has now defined “seed” as a “food”, so now our seeds can be controlled through “food safety”.

The big agriculture giants want to make you dependent on them for any seed, even if it’s heirloom seed. They know that they need the regulatory heft of Big Brother in order to accomplish this. First they need to eliminate seed cleaning equipment. They get the FDA to set minimum “food safety” standards for seed cleaning so that any farmer would need at least a million dollars in structure and equipment to meet the new requirements.

Vote Tally Count: Food Safety Bill moves forward. Vote Today UPDATE: PASSES

Bill Passes link to vote: Final Vote 11/30/

S. 510: the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act passed a cloture vote in the US Senate last night 69-26 and will move forward. Final vote slated for Tuesday morning. CNN  UPDATE:

Purpose: Cloture votes are used in the Senate to end debate and move to a final up-or-down vote on the matter. The Senate cannot move forward until cloture is agreed to. Voting against cloture is essentially a filibuster. Because it takes 3/5^ths of senators to achieve cloture, it is used as a tool by those against the matter to avoid the final simple-majority vote. Read more at Filibusted.us.

Number:	Senate Vote #252 in 2010 [primary source: senate.gov]
Date:	Nov 29, 2010 6:37PM
Result:	Cloture Motion Agreed to
Related Amendment:	S.Amdt. 4715: In the nature of a substitute. amending S. 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

	Totals			Democrats	Republicans	Independents	All Votes
			Needed To Win
Yea:	69	(69%)		54	14	1
Nay:	26	(26%)		0	26	0
Present:	0	(0%)		0	0	0
Not Voting:	5	(5%)		2	2	1
Required:	3/5 of 100 votes (=60 votes) (Vacancies in Congress will affect vote totals.)

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U.S. Senate expected to pass Food Safety and Modernization Act Tuesday:PASSES

UPDATE: Bill PASSES: Final Bill Passes-here is the breakdown of the Vote

Here is a link to the Cloture Bill vote tally count that passed last night to move foward:  November29

Apparently we have not been heard. So Coburn  cuts this deal so he can have his damn earmarks bill. What does that have to do with this bill? Has anyone read it? Looks like we are going to be on the receiving end. What is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce supporting this? Another deal no doubt that sold us out for thirty pieces of silver. Just wait, this congress will be working until the next Congress gets seated. Here is a link to the vote count tally earlier to move this bill forward. Vote Count Tally nov 18

The Senate is expected Tuesday to revamp food safety legislation requiring farmers and processors to keep food free from contamination, officials say

Although the bipartisan bill is supported by the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it allegedly divides those within local food movements and major agricultural concerns because of its provisions.

The measure had been expected to be taken up late Monday but it was delayed until Tuesday after Reid allegedly persuaded Senate Republicans not to block it by agreeing to let them first offer amendments, including one by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to ban earmarks and a substitute provision that pays for food safety, Fox News said. UPI

So just how big an expansion of government does Dingell, Pelosi, and Reid want to inflict on the American people to combat a non-existent food safety crisis? Well, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would require 50,000 domestic and foreign inspections in 2015, compared to just 7,400 in 2009. That is a sevenfold increase in government inspections. And the government would be reaching into a lot of new places as well. The act requires that all food “facilities”—including those home-based businesses that make jam, bread, and cheese for local markets—would be required to undertake periodic hazard analyses and produce “risk-based preventive controls.”

And then there is the wasteful spending that accompanies every liberal expansion of government: grants to schools for allergy management ($107 million); food safety training, education, outreach, and technical assistance ($21 million); and food safety participation grants for states and tribes ($83 million). Heritage Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy Diane Katz writes: “The Reid bill clearly contradicts the message sent by voters just two weeks ago: Americans do not want and cannot afford yet more unnecessary regulation and expansion of government. This proposal constitutes a costly and ineffective answer to a manufactured crisis.” From Heritage

Summary of the Bill

WikiLeaks: Website for those who wish to leak secrets..

Shortly after getting WikiLeaks off the ground, Assange flew to Kenya to attend the World Social Forum — a yearly symposium dedicated to the redistribution of wealth and the eradication of capitalism — where he delivered a presentation about his new website. (Tempting for me to do my Kenyan-Obama rant but will spare my regulars!) Newbies- its here! Obama Kenya thingy story

Hacking remained an obsession for Assange throughout his late teens; the excitement he derived from it was only amplified by his knowledge that federal authorities were doggedly trying to catch him and his fellow “Subversives.” This self-dramatization continues today, as Assange constantly moves from place to place, maintaining no real home, because he fears that international governmental agencies, particularly those in the U.S., may have targeted him for reprisal for the leaks he has orchestrated.

At his final sentencing, the judge went easy on him: “There is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what’s the expression—surf through these various computers.” Thus Assange escaped with the lightest of penalties — the payment of a small fine.

Much more here at Front Page Mag

Update: Hot Air reports  Wikikileaks under attack and down . They are carrying great updates.

Here is a repost of our June 15:

For all those left wingers who would like to do us in by giving out government secrets, here is your chance–Take a look. Considering all of the radicals in the Whitehouse– with thousands having clearance to secrets, I guess we know the outcome. Love of country be damned.

There are two distinct ethical problems at play here. One is old: it requires you to define the public good before you determine what kinds of information should be made public. As the Economist recently noted, this is complicated by the fact that the leaker and his audience may not agree on the logical import of the leaked information. There are unintended consequences to transparency given that people have different interpretative frameworks and values for processing such information. An ethics of publishing that is blindly absolutist simply begs for all sorts of painful, unintended consequences .

Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Worked With Wikileaks Informant

Form August 2

No surprise here, we figured it. But we can only hope a little sunshine on this activity might capture some attention. The problem with all of this, is the intention. That is the danger of this road we are on. Benevolent intentions easily become malevolent, depending on motivation of the “minder,” similar to the process of North Korea.

A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers,” researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal government about the alleged source of a controversial video of civilian deaths in Iraq leaked to whistle-blower site Wikileaks in April.

Chet Uber, the director of Fort Pierce, Fl.-based Project Vigilant, says that he personally asked Lamo to meet with federal authorities to out the source of a video published by Wikileaks showing a U.S. Apache helicopter killing several civilians and two journalists in a suburb of Baghdad, a clip that Wikileaks labeled “Collateral Murder.” Lamo, who Uber said worked as an “adversary characterization” analyst for Project Vigilant, had struck up an online friendship with Bradley Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who currently faces criminal charges for releasing the classified video.

Read more here at Forbes

Bernadine Dohrn on who the real terrorists are

Just a reminder of who hangs out near the Whitehouse. Bernadine, wife of Bill Ayers. Of the SDS, Weather Underground fame. She recently surfaced with an interesting vid. You tell me who we have to fear. Bernadine- time for us to take a ride in our “way-back”  machine for a “refresher” on reality.

Declaration of War – Aired on KFPK radio – spoken by Bernadine Dohrn in her own words. Just in case we weary, this should help us stay focused. Declaration of War – Aired on KFPK radio – spoken by Bernadine Dohrn in her own words.

Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers– perfect together. Here is a great link to the storied past of these fine folks and their good friends at the Whitehouse. The later years appear to be well researched, though I leave it up to you as to its validity. Yes, who are the Terrorists?

From Buds Blog: Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn-the early years Dohrn’s recent comments:

Homeland Security seizes domain names -Websites being shutdown.

They are starting to make their move. What does DHS have to do with shutting down websites? By what authority? Of course this would happen on a Holiday weekend. No sense waiting for Congress which has a bill before it. -DHS and North Korea have a lot in common. I thought we had something called Due Process. Watch for the FCC to make their move on Net Neutrality. George Bush gave us the DHS and the TSA. The Terrorists are winning.

The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websi tes that facilitate copyright infringement.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, according to TorrentFreak.
ICE appears to be targeting sites that help Internet users download copyrighted music, as well as sites that sell bootleg goods, such as fake designer handbags.
The sites are replaced with a note from the government: “This domain named has been seized by ICE, Homeland Security Investigations.”

The effort come as Congress considers the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Critics, including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) say it is too heavy-handed. He has vowed to put a formal hold on the bill. The Hill

“ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,” said Cori W. Bassett, a spokeswoman for ICE, in a statement. “As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time.”

Recall a couple of days ago?  Senate Committee Approves Controversial IP Bill

In short COICS allows censorship without due process The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial IP protection bill introduced by U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

According to Computerworld, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would require domain registrars and Internet service providers to block access to websites the U.S. says is involved in copyright infringement. As the article explains:

In essence, COICA would allow the [Department of Justice] to file a civil, in rem action to seek a preliminary injunction against any website it determines is peddling copyrighted material and/or counterfeit goods.

IT Business Edge

Obama, the Delusional Narcissist

Charles Krauthammer has mentioned more than once that Obama was a “Malignant Narcissist”. I have tried not to think about it too much. I  had enough Pysch Courses in College to know that this is not a good thing at all. Narcissists tend to decompensate, fragile ego’s do not accept rebuke or criticism well.

At first I thought it was a spoof when Valerie Jarrett came out and said how bored he was.. after all, his brilliance needed to be challenged. But now the Vid… scary stuff.

Charles Krauthammer, a Psychiatrist, had diagnosed Obama as early as July of 2008.  “The Audacity of Vanity  from the Washington Post 7/17/08 :

Americans are beginning to notice Obama’s elevated opinion of himself. There’s nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?

After all, in the words of his own slogan, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” which, translating the royal “we,” means: ” I am the one we’ve been waiting for.” Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule — it was pointed out that he was not yet president — induced him to take it down.

It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history — “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” — when, among other wonders, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, “Moses made the waters recede, but he had help.” Obama apparently works alone.

In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

Now when I saw this vid, it is chilling. The White House and its inhabitants are living in a delusional state. Keep an eye out as “the one” accepts his important mission to save us from ourselves.

Rectum Scanning Started at UK Prisons

Rectum Scanner

I caught this over at Sweetness and Light – thanks for a good one!–just too perfect for today’s world. Wait until Big Sis hears about this gadget…Coming to our airport soon.

This is from February 2009, via the UK’s Telegraph,

Bottom scanners to be introduced in prisons

Prisons are set to introduce bottom scanners in an attempt to stop prisoners smuggling mobile phones into jail.

By Chris Irvine 02 Feb 2009

The £6,500 [$10,276] chairs are being put in 102 jails across Britain aimed to tackle a surge in phone smuggling.

Prisoners will have to sit on the chairs, called Body Orifice Security Scanners (Boss), which bleep if they have a phone hidden inside them. (Janet would like that nice long name)! Yepper.

They are then scanned in a non-intrusive manner and can also be used to detect drugs and weapons.

The mobile Boss chairs have three sensitive sensors which can detect metal items as small as a pin.

Resembling an electric chair, they have a metal detector on the seat and audio and visual alarms are activated when metal is carried into the magnetic field.

The person being screened positions their chin near the oral sensor and then sits momentarily in the chair. The entire procedure takes a few seconds.

So far two of the Boss devices have helped detect 21 mobile phones in just months at Woodhill prison, in Milton Keynes…

As Sweetness and Light say:

‘First they came for the cell phones up our rectums. But I didn’t have a cell phone up my rectum…’

Still, we have nothing to worry about. Like so many things we see happening in Britain, it can’t happen here. We have Constitutional rights which will prevent these sort of things.