Sunday, August 30, 2009

Obama's Frog Legs

Although it's been rumored that frog legs will literally jump out of a hot skillet; if you heat it up slowly before they can jump, they are cooked. Now, you ask, "What does that have to do me?" You are that frog!

The liberal environmental organizations, their lobbyists along with Members of Congress have crafted legislation that contain the most crippling blows to the free market system ever enacted. They accomplished this destruction through restrictive laws, fines and tax punishment.

What is their recipe? Like experienced Chefs, they turn their fiery rhetoric down to a simmer in front of voters, slowly bake up their ideas and plots behind closed chamber doors and then serve hot their fully cooked up entrees to the public.

Their tasty menu includes delicious dishes such as "Cap and Trade" to control industry and individuals' CO2 carbon footprint through a massive energy tax, "Endangered Species Act" to legislate wildlife conservation by confiscating private property deemed to be publicly owned and "Arctic National Wildlife Refuse Act" to prevent drilling "ANWR", the largest single untapped source of American oil on 2,000 sq acres of land for energy U.S. self-reliance. The United States Government has no pro-business National Energy Policies, Obama's only plans are to relegate us down to an also ran country in the New World Order.

By the way, you do know that the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil? You don't? Well, there goes that Obama again, not telling the American public about what he's up to, just going out to do one more thing for his legacy. Sooner or later, LOL, he'll hit on something he can hang his hat on besides our economic ruin. Nah, don't you worry your pretty now! Obama is not financing our tax dollars with any American companies. See, you already feel all better now?

Yeah, the U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance their exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. This corporate foreign aid may strike some as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.

Why not here in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields? Do you think Obama cut any deals a few months back in that Summit of Americas? Hmmn........


Saturday, August 29, 2009

Your COLA is flat?....That's good!

In 2010, for the first time in 35 years, Social Security recipients are not getting a Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) added to their checks. How dare this happen to our seniors? AARP, like liberal organizations and lobbists along with Members of Congress are raising hell and screaming for an investigation into how this COLA is calculated. This politically motivated disturbance is quite creative because it deflects attention and blame away from the actual root cause. After all, the very blatant Obama overspending and liberal government largess has depressed our economic spending in all sectors to cause the CPI to drop.

The COLA is based upon the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which is called an inflation indicator. The current economic downturn created this official measure (CPI) to level and even drop by 2.3%, which means that the real purchasing power of the dollar has risen because goods and services are now cheaper. The seniors at present do not have inflation. Therefore, due to a 5.8% COLA increase awarded for 2009, Medicare Part B premiums freezes during any year their is no COLA, when adding all these savings up with the average Social Security check of $1,160/mo. there is a $612 per person benefit or 4.4% increase.

So, the old saying, "Don't shoot the messenger" is so true here. Calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the bearer of bad news should not be held accountable for it.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

A Silver Lining in HIG

In that executive order, Obama also created the Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies to evaluate US policies on interrogating and transferring detainees. Specifically, it's mission was to analyze whether use of the U.S. Army Field Manual by departments and agencies outside the Army would adequately protect US security, and evaluate US practices on transferring detainees to ensure that those policies don't violate US law or international obligations by handing detainees over to countries where they will face torture.

For interrogations in general, the task force concluded that the Army Field Manual is good enough. Going forward, it is to be used as the guide to how interrogations are conducted by other military and intelligence agencies and departments (this will include the C.I.A.).

As explained by a Dept. of Justice press release, for interrogations of high value detainees, the task force recommends that a High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) be created. This group will be combine expertise from the intelligence community (i.e., C.I.A.), the Department of Defense (i.e., the military), and law enforcement (i.e., the FBI, Department of Justice, etc.). It will coordinate, in advance, teams of experienced interrogators, analysts, subject matter experts and linguists to be deployed when the US has an opportunity to interrogate high value detainees. The goal of these interrogations will be prevention of future attacks. However, improved procedures and the involvement of law enforcement in the HIG are supposed to allow such interrogations to better aid criminal prosecutions as well.

ABC News confirms that President Obama signed an executive order implementing the task force's recommendations.

The task force also studied U.S. rendition practices, by which detainees have been rendered to foreign countries where they face torture. In short, renditions will continue, but with requests for monitoring the treatment of detainees by countries whose assurance against torture the US accepts. There may still be hope that we torture the bastards in to talking! Hmn...........Obama has one program that might still work! LOL!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy, "A Lion in the Senate"

Senator Ted Kennedy, who died today, was described by many of his colleagues as "A Lion in the Senate". Boy, that certainly was the truth! Ted Kennedy was always "a lying in the Senate." His socialistic programs never told of his prevarications to evade the truth to the American Public on how they did not work but also about the waste, fraud, abuse, and inequities over the years to further promote Teddy's liberal agenda to garner more votes.

It is appears unseemly that anyone should be castigated on the day he dies. However. when so many have so much to say as to sweep multiple travesties under the carpet to hide them is equally wrong too. I will respect Teddy's untimely death today and not mention his numerous misadventures. More so, it is hardly an honorable thing for Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi to propose on the same day a couple of hours after the Senator's death that her dead Public Option Health Bill could be paired up with Senator Ted Kennedy, another corpse, by naming the bill posthumously for Teddy Kennedy.

I am watching and listening carefully as Barrack Hussein Obama is crafting his speeches to raise Senator Teddy Kennedy higher than his flaming funeral pyre to exalt him to Sainthood. His Holiness Obama must anoint Teddy and name the dead Public Option Health Bill for Teddy Kennedy.

Just wait until the last spade of dirt is turned into Teddy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The new onslaught is on with Community Organizers International, COI, ACORN's new moniker, and the Union organizers leading the way with their own staged "Healthcare Debates" for the new Kennedy Health Insurance Bill. LOL!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Oops, Mr. Obama goofed again! Another $2 Trillion and now it's $9 Trillion??

Well, Obama is off to a week-long vacation in Martha's Vineyard at his $35,000 a week getaway. Hmn.....glad someone has got the bucks to spend that kind of money without figuring out where his next house payment or groceries monies are coming from now.

Oh, I forgot, he doesn't have any house payments or groceries bills now, LOL! Anyway, it is better to stay away out of Washington, DC while the new budget figures come out tomorrow. "Someone" screwed up again, again! LOL! Oh well, our President is no where around to be seen when this happens. Whew! (Just wondered who screwed up?)
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Have a great week Mr. President, I am sure the American voters will need the vacation from you too!



Sunday, August 23, 2009

ONE Single Payer System - The Musical

You have to see and hear this musical featurette.

A musical to brighten your day.................
Click here: ObamaCare: The Musical « Grand Rants

Only 45 Words Long, What's the Big Deal?

Though only 45 words long, the First Amendment broadly protects religious liberty, free speech, a free press, and the right to hold protests and complain to the government. Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.

The proposed "Fairness Doctrine" in radio broadcasting is an attack on every citizen on both sides of the aisle and to all political parties. This will affect everyone, not just one side. Alan Combs, a well known liberal talk show host, said about it, "Better be careful for what you wish for." We need a bi-partisan call for the "Broadcaster Freedom Act" to be enacted. It permanently bans the "Fairness Doctrine". Groups like Media Research Center, UnfairAir.org and DontTouchMyDial.com are organizations that can give you more information.

A recent University of Connecticut study found that 45 percent of high-schoolers believe the First Amendment goes too far in protecting such rights as freedom of speech and the press. Do you think these kids are getting any U.S. history or U.S. government classes to appreciate what democracy is all about? Take a look at school books today and you see a lot of diversity and little national pride taught.

I was watching C-Span this morning and caught the tail end of an interview with Brian Jennings about his new book. I have seen it at the bookstores prominently displayed and it intrigued me. Below is a brief bio of who Jennings is and about his book.

This week veteran Talk radio programmer Brian Jennings is returning to broadcasting’s front lines to head up programming for a trio of Portland, Oregon radio stations. Brian Jennings has enjoyed success and national notoriety as the author of the bestselling book, Censorship: The Threat To Silence Talk Radio.

According to Jennings' interview, Obama is not going to the voters head-on and will attempt an end-play to get his "Fairness Doctrine" implemented. So, Obama has honed his peculiar skill of perception or discernment of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. He is the consummate chess player who recognizes patterns, memorizes them and uses them to put his opponent's King in check before the game begins.

The "Fairness Doctrine", through its implementation of Local Programming Advisory Boards, officials will mandate to the broadcasting stations what is appropriate programming. The details were not clear whether those board members were elected or appointed. Hmn... Obama has won before you moved your first piece.
As Obama said, "Check, Check-Mate!"


Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Object of My Affection

George Clooney, Sr., a columnist of the Cincinnati Post, father of George Clooney Jr., is a paid announcer for the liberal National Public Broadcasting Channel to solicit new donations for more private taxpayer funds for the Federally funded television stations with an obvious Left Wing bias .

Tonight, George Sr. sang during a "station Break" to the tune of "The object of my affection can change my complexion from white to rosy red anytime she holds my hand and tells me that she's mine" by Pinky Tomlin. I had to really, really laugh out loud! George had NO clue that he had teamed up with an ultra- conservative Republican! How rich is that?

I knew that musical composer and was present in his home down the street from mine in Westwood Hills, CA when Pinky Tomlin, an ardent Republican, allowed my mother to rewrite his lyrics to use them in the Nixon for Governor race in California in 1962 . I personally sat in Pinky Tomlin's living room as he strummed on his guitar and sang the lyrics.

Pinky sang, " You are the object of my affection when you can change the state's complexion from Brown (Democrat Governor Edmond G. "Pat" Brown, Sr.) to crystal clear, you don't need the "New Frontier" (Referring to JKF's New Frontier Campaign) , Dick Nixon is just fine." Obviously, this is many years ahead and before the Watergate scandals, but others were still on the horizon too. (Hello?, "I did not not have sex with that women.") LOL!

Times haven't changed over the last 46 years, just the names, Hello?, Barrack Hussein Obama!

King Obama Rx for Health-Care Bill

After Labor day, Senate leaders will review their options including a 60% chance to use the split-bill tactic. Democrats also have intraparty differences. Liberals call it a "public option", the White House calls it a "preferred option" and the Finance Committee calls it a "bad idea". Whatever it is called, there will be little, if any, Republican support.

Showing wisdom like King Solomon, Obama's Rx is to "cut the bill in two" and proceed under the reconciliation process that lets legislation pass with a filibuster-proof 51 votes.

And now, in Obama's own political world, here will come Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, with the official spin to this story, "In what is surely a tribute for Obama's bold decision, voters will reward Obama with reelection as he rules "with wisdom and discernment in great measure, with understanding as vast as the sands of the seashore" and that quote comes right out of the Bible, so you can really believe it!"

So, the Judgment of Solomon, it turns out, should be held up not as a paradigm of splitting the difference but of using political maneuvering to flush out posturing and do what's right. If that happens, then the term can be used in the sense of its dictionary definition—"showing wisdom or discernment." But until then, we shouldn't dress up Obama's compromise as the Judgment of Solomon when, in the end, it's just politics as usual, again.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Federal Health Plans - Pride goes before a fall...

The proverb "pride goes before a fall" is thought to sum up the modern definition of hubris. Hubris denotes a person's overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; it is often associated with a lack of humility, not always with the lack of knowledge and often implies that suffering or punishment will follow them. It is the perfect plot for an ancient Greek tragedy....or could that happen now?

The interesting syllogy above forms deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, Pride goes before the fall, the major premise, Obama boasts Hubris, the minor premise, therefore, Obama will fall, the conclusion.

With hubris, Obama promises his cure-all remedies of the "Public Option Plan" choice for patients who are now currently insured can keep their private plans. Obama now brags up the "Socialized Federal Health National Co-Op Plan" choice as the alternative panacea for all of those forgotten "Pre-existing conditions" patients and "Uninsured" patients.

What Obama does not explain to these sub-par inferior patients is that they are about to be thrown away into the National Insurance Industry's dumping grounds. The quality of this new "Socialized Federal Health National Co-Op Plan" is set much lower with single payer rates for all their services. This means less doctor services, less medicine dispensed, less diagnostic tests done and less medical procedures performed. Well, how else can Obama pay for these new patients and services anyway? You have to keep the patient expenses in check to keep those costs down. Pay MORE taxes? Duh, that is a given too! Anyhow, WHO are you to question anything Mr. Obama so beneficently does for you anyway, Huh?

Now wait until the other current patients "under private plans" find out they will be forced into this new "Socialized Federal Health National Co-Op Plan" too! It is going to happen in the blink of an eye!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

"Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama said.

"Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama said to Wisconsin Democrats. "'I have a dream' -- just words. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -- just words. 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' -- just words. Just speeches." Now, about those pesky little words.......

Did you know that Audacity has TWO dictionary definitions? -- Just words? But, it is telling of a man's true demeanor especially as it reflects on his character.

1. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, a book by Senator Obama boasted of his daring or willingness to challenge assumptions or conventions or tackle something difficult or dangerous. A book written with all talk, no walk as they say.

2. The
Audacity of Impudence: Lack of Respect in One's behavior towards Other Persons. Witnessing the shoddy respect that the President of the United States has for anyone who opposes him by negatively labeling them as misfits and worse, Obama has earned this title for Audacity.

I propose a third definition:

3. The Audacity of Irrogance: Attitude of Superiority manifested in an overbearing manner. There is the other side of the coin, the other side of the street, the other guy's opinion and in Obama's Playbook for Life the other side doesn't count in the least.

Case in point: Obama listened to Republican responses about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders in January 2009 - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. Obama's answer back? "I won", Obama noted matter-of-factly. How Presidential was that? End of discussion, game over.

So, do you really think that Obama and the Democrats are going to look for any bi-partisanship support for their Healthcare Bill? They better look for new jobs come next election and, by the way, has term limits legislation reared its ugly head again? LOL!




Health Care Babble Made Simple in 3 1/2 Minutes

07/17/2009 - Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C

He explained in 3 1/2 minutes what Obama has been babbling about for 3 1/2 months.

We need more Congressmen like U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan-08 District, to explain it so clearly what this Government Run Health Plan is all about.

Save time and listen: (3.5 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc&feature=player_embedded


07/31/09 - Mike Rogers: Health Bill Breaks President’s Promise

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, MI-08, released the following statement today after the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted along party lines to report to the full House a health care bill that will force millions of Americans off their health care plan:

“Today’s vote broke a crucial promise of President Obama. Under this bill, if you like your health plan, you are almost certainly not going to be able to keep it. More than 100 million Americans with health insurance through their employers will be forced onto a government plan. Over 10 million seniors could lose their high-quality Medicare Advantage plans. And over 8 million Americans with Health Savings Accounts will surely see their plans outlawed by the federal government. The bill will even ban most private insurance within five years unless it is a government-approved plan.

“Worse, this legislation hurts seniors by cutting more than $400 billion from critical Medicare benefits, including hospitals, home health services, nursing homes and hospice. It also gives government bureaucrats the authority to come between you and your doctor. I offered common sense amendments to protect seniors and patients, but my amendments were rejected by the Democrat majority.

“I hope over the August recess the American people have a chance to actually read what is in this bill. What they will find is an unprecedented government takeover of American health care that will do nothing to improve access to high quality, affordable care. Congress should start from scratch in the fall and use American innovation and ingenuity to come up with a real solution that lowers costs for everyone and provides assistance to the truly uninsured.”

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Reasons Why the 2010 Elections are So Important

The CakeLog received this email that points out the unregulated compliance issues about the Obama Programs to Federally control all of the United States Economy with total disregard to the Constitution. Read these eleven points below and ask yourself, How many times has Obama achieved his liberal goals without any resistance?


MOST ALL OF THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

What would you say if I gave you 11 reasons why the elections in 2010 will be the most important in the history of the United States ?

1. What if I had told you in October 2008, before the last presidential election, that before Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, the federal government would be in control of both the mortgage and the banking industries? That 19 of America 's largest banks would be forced to undergo stress tests by the federal government which would determine if they were insufficiently capitalized, so they must be supervised by the government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America ."


2. What if I had told you that within Barack Obama's first 100 days in office the federal government would be the largest shareholder in the US Big-Three automakers: GM, and Chrysler? That the government would kick out the CEO's of these companies and appoint hand-picked executives with zero experience in the auto industry and that executive compensation would be determined, not by a Board of Directors, but by the government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"


3. What if I had told you that Barack Obama would appoint 21 Czars, without congressional approval, accountable only to him, not to the voters, who would have control over a wide range of US policy decisions. That there would be a Stimulus Accountability Czar, an Urban Czar, a Compensation Czar, an Iran Czar, an Auto Industry Czar, a Cyber Security Czar, an Energy Czar, a bank bailout Czar, and more than a dozen other government bureaucrats with unchecked regulatory powers over US domestic and foreign policy.

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

4. What if I had told you that the federal deficit would be $915 billion in the first six months of the Obama presidency - with a projected annual deficit of $1.75 trillion - triple the $454.8 billion in 2008, for which the previous administration was highly criticized by Obama and his fellow Democrats. That congress would pass Obama's $3.53 trillion federal budget for fiscal 2010... That the projected deficit over the next ten years would be greater than $10 trillion.

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

5. What if I had told you that the Obama Justice Department would order FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high-value detainees captured on the battlefield and held at US military detention facilities in Afghanistan . That Obama would order the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility with no plan for the disposition of the 200-plus individuals held there. That several of the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo would be sent to live in freedom in Bermuda at the expense of the US government. That our returning US veterans would be labeled terrorists and put on a watch list.

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"


6. What if I had told you that the federal government would seek powers to seize key companies whose failures could jeopardize the financial system. That a new regulatory agency would be proposed by Obama to control loans, credit cards, mortgage-backed securities, and other financial products offered to the public.

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!"


7. What if I had told you that Obama would travel to the Middle East, bow before the Saudi king, and repeatedly apologize for America 's past actions. That he would travel to Latin America where he would warmly greet Venezuela's strongman Hugo Chavez and sit passively in the audience while Nicaraguan Marxist thug Daniel Ortega charged America with terrorist aggression in Central America .
Would you have said,
"C'mon, that will never happen in America !!"


8. Okay, now what if I were to tell you that Obama wants to dismantle conservative talk radio through the imposition of a new "Fairness Doctrine." That he wants to curtail the First Amendment rights of those who may disagree with his policies via internet blogs, cable news networks, or advocacy ads. That most major network television and most newspapers will only sing his phrases like state-run media in communist countries?

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!!"

9. What if I were to tell you that the Obama Justice Department is doing everything it can to limit your Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. That the federal government wants to reinstate the so-called assault weapons ban which would prohibit the sale of any type of firearm that doesn't require the shooter to pull the trigger every time a round is fired. That Obama's Attorney General wants to eliminate the sale of virtually all handguns and ammunition, which most citizens choose for self-defense.

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!!"


10. What if I were to tell you that the Obama plan is to eliminate states rights guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment and give the federal government sweeping new powers over policies currently under the province of local and state governments and voted on by the people. That Obama plans to control the schools, energy production, the environment, health care, and the wealth of every US citizen.
Would you say,
"C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

11. What if I were to tell you that the president, the courts, and the federal government have ignored the US Constitution and have seized powers which the founders of our country fought to restrict. That our last presidential election may have been our last truly free election for some time to come. That our next presidential election may look similar to the one recently held in Iran .. (And maybe under review by ACORN.)

I know, I know what you will say. "That will never happen in America !"


If we don't do everything in our power to stop this madness in 2010...

May God have mercy on our worthless souls.

Pass this on to every freedom loving American you can.

Thank you.

Monday, August 17, 2009

It's All Over Except the Shouting!

"The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be" - Napoleon Hill


It is absolutely amazing how the American Public has been misled by Obama into these national debates to believe that he is fighting off the big, bad, insurance companies and their greed. He is actually doing the side show routine to distract you while the stage is set for the final act. In fact, you have nothing to do with the outcome of this final act. You are there to only clap and applaud at the end that it was a job well done.

Instead, while you read the following article, it shows how big government has already cuts its deals far in advance of when the "final" decisions are to be made in the senate. Why hasn't Obama mentioned these deals in his town hall meetings?

This article was published back on August 6, 2009. And you ask, why bother having any town hall debates? It's because of the Shouting!......because that's all there's left to do. Wait a little later on and everyone can howl at the moon! Do you feel a little foolish and used yet?

The Health Insurers Have Already Won. Read on how UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit.

As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more of the battle than most people realize is already over. The likely victors are insurance giants such as UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), and WellPoint (WLP). The carriers have succeeded in redefining the terms of the reform debate to such a degree that no matter what specifics emerge in the voluminous bill Congress may send to President Obama this fall, the insurance industry will emerge more profitable. Health reform could come with a $1 trillion price tag over the next decade, and it may complicate matters for some large employers. But insurance CEOs ought to be smiling.

Executives from UnitedHealth certainly showed no signs of worry on the mid-July day that Senate Democrats proposed to help pay for reform with a new tax on the insurance industry.

Instead, UnitedHealth parked a shiny 18-wheeler outfitted with high-tech medical gear near the Capitol and invited members of Congress aboard. Inside the mobile diagnostic center, which enables doctors to examine distant patients via satellite television, Representative Jim Matheson didn't disguise his wonderment. "Fascinating, fascinating," said the Democrat from Utah. "Amazing."

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UnitedHealth wowed the pols with its high-tech mobile diagnostic center.

Impressing fiscally conservative Democrats like Matheson, a leader of the House of Representatives' Blue Dog Coalition, is at the heart of UnitedHealth's strategy. It boils down to ensuring that whatever overhaul Congress passes this year will help rather than hurt huge insurance companies.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Five Minutes Until its Gone

FFC LOCALISM DOCTRINE - SAVE TIME & LISTEN!

UPDATE: Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin read this piece in nearly its entirety on his show recently. To save you time in reading this below, take time to Listen to Mark Levin who can be clicked on here. (It will take ONLY Five Minutes to Listen)

Everyone:

We are FINALLY HERE. We HAVE LOST our Free Speech! You think I am kidding?

Hugo Chavez in Venezuela just closed 34 radio stations for "license violations". Guess Obama just got done reading that book "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Industrialized Nations" (like the USA) that Hugo gave him during a session of the summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Obama, got any new ideas? Hmn....LOL!

NEWS FLASH.....
As of July 29, 2009, with no public fanfare, Obama did anoint Mark Lloyd your new Federal Communication's Czar. He will dictate all terms through Official Executive Federal Orders issued without any consultation of the American People who are expected to obey without their approval for total Federal Controls of all Communications Airwaves and its content.

Welcome to the People's New World Order! (And, it all happened under your noses in the blink of an eye!)



The complete Mark Lloyd transcript to read with active hyperlinks appears below:

(For those not familiar with the Active Hyperlinks, if you pass over them and click, they will take you to additional support documents for detailed explanations and materials.)

NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center

New FCC 'Chief Diversity Officer' Co-Wrote Liberal Group's 'Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio'

By Seton Motley
August 6, 2009 - 18:47 ET

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a new "Chief Diversity Officer," communications attorney Mark Lloyd.
But Doctor of Jurisprudence Lloyd is far more than merely a communications attorney. He was at one time a Senior Fellow at the uber-liberal Center for American Progress (CAP), for whom he co-wrote a June 2007 report entitled "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio."
Which rails against the fact that the American people overwhelmingly prefer to listen to conservative (and Christian) talk radio rather than the liberal alternative, and suggests ways the federal government can remedy this free-market created "problem."
  • Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
  • Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
  • Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.
These last two get perilously close to the use of "localism" to silence conservative (and Christian) radio stations, about which we have been warning for quite some time.
"Localism" is a nebulous FCC regulatory requirement that radio stations must meet to get and keep their broadcast licenses. How it is defined and enforced is wide open to the interpretation of whomever is doing the enforcing. It can mean something benign like airing local public service announcements, or it can be used as a weapon by activists to punish, harangue and ultimately shut down stations they don't like.
In a follow-up essay to the CAP report entitled "Forget the Fairness Doctrine," Lloyd specifically instructs liberal activists to do the latter - use the "localism" requirement to harass conservative stations by filing complaints with the FCC. The FCC would then assess these stations fines, with the money going to (very liberal) public broadcasting.
Or worse - the FCC would rescind these stations' broadcast licenses. In other words, shut them up by shutting them down. Thus, as Lloyd says, no need for the mis-named "Fairness" Doctrine.
From Lloyd's piece:
To be fair, even some progressives are confused about the Fairness Doctrine. A recent news story reported that the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC for short, has asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine—even as the same article reports on a speech to LULAC by ABC News correspondent John Quinones, who spoke of his work bringing to audiences a hard-earned perspective to the long-running immigration debate.
Quinones told the LULAC audience that he got his start because a San Antonio community organization threatened that if the stations didn't hire more Latinos, the group would go to the FCC and challenge their licenses. "Thank God for them," Quinones said. "I wouldn't be here."
Equal opportunity employment policies. Local engagement. License challenges. Nothing in there about the Fairness Doctrine.
"Community organizations" (run one would think by community organizers) threatening the licenses of stations with whom they do not agree politically.
Or making them pay hefty fines, which would be added to the public monies already being given to liberal public broadcasting.
The other part of our proposal that gets the dittoheads (i.e. Rush Limbaugh fans, meant here by Lloyd to more broadly refer to fans of all conservative talk) upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don’t want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.
Lloyd's instructions to Leftist activists are clear: use the FCC to pummel conservative talk radio. With fines, or entirely out of existence.
And now Lloyd works for the FCC.
—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center.