Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Tea Party Plaintiffs: IRS-Gate Evidence Leads To Obama; Smoking Out Rats
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Excerpts via the amended complaint: In stark contrast to how the IRS, with the encouragement of the President, Democrat members of Congress, and many in the media treated Plaintiffs, organizations with mission statements that are plainly political in nature, and which openly admit to the electioneering nature of their mission, had their applications for tax-exempt status approved by the IRS in a matter of months. For example, Missourians Organizing for Reform has as its mission “[s]upport [for] progressive politicians.” Missourians Organizing for Reform’s application for tax-exempt status was granted after nine months.
An even worse example of the disparate treatment of Plaintiffs and organizations like them is the IRS’s approval of the Barack H. Obama Foundation (the “Foundation”), which from its establishment in 2008 until May 2011, solicited tax deductible contributions yet had never filed either a tax return, a form 990, or an application to be treated as a tax-exempt organization. When this Foundation finally filed for tax-exempt status, its application was granted in only six weeks and, amazingly, made retroactive to April 30, 2008, the date of its incorporation. The favorable determination letter for the Foundation was signed by Defendant Lerner.
The Foundation did not qualify for any of the exceptions that are required to be present when retroactive tax status is granted. Moreover, the Foundation engaged in activities in a foreign country (Kenya) and had the name of a presidential candidate in its name, both factors that would ordinarily have triggered requests for additional information from the IRS rather than an expedited determination. [...]
Subsequent to the issuance of the Interim Report, the House Committee discovered that Defendants Shulman, Lerner, Ingram, Flax and Kindell repeatedly used nonofficial, unsecure, personal email accounts to conduct official IRS business, including sending tax return information and official classified documents to non-agency email addresses, and that Defendant Lerner alone accumulated more than 1,600 pages of emails and documents related to official IRS business in a nonofficial, unsecure, personal email account, including almost 30 pages of confidential taxpayer information. [...] - Full amended complaint here. More details here. Previous reports here.
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Man has spent $10,000 on coffee for cancer patients
(CBS News) DETROIT -- It all began with a coffee craving. It all began with a tall, cream-and-sugar-haired guy named Dan Dewey and this urge he got back in 2006 for a grande, black, bold roast.
The Starbucks was just down the road from St. Joseph Mercy hospital outside Detroit, where his dad was getting a chemo treatment. Dan was sitting with his dad and some other patients, when Dan announced, "Anyone want a coffee? I'm buying."
Man has spent $10,000 on coffee for cancer patients
Seven years have passed. His dad beat cancer and stopped coming here long ago. So why, then, is Dan still taking orders?
Man has spent $10,000 on coffee for cancer patients
"It's the best job I ever had, and I have to pay to do it, that's what I tell people," he says. "Somebody says, 'Can you afford that?' I say, 'No, but I never had any money, anyway, so why not share it?'"
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Steve Hartman
Video: Bill O'Reilly Talks Obama and Birther Issue; Obama In Nixon Territory
Video: Bill O'Reilly Talks Thin-Skinned Obama & Birther Issue; Obama In Nixon Territory...
O'Reilly opened his Fox News show tonight saying Obama is on a mission to destroy conservatives and those that question Socialist Obama's birth certificate. Referencing IRS-Gate O'Reilly stated Obama is in Richard Nixon territory using the federal government to harm his political opponents. Brit Hume dodges...
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NSA took 70.3M French phone records in 30 days
The National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md.
As Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris, the French government summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain extensive spying on a close ally.
PARIS — The U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, according to a newspaper report that offered new details of the massive scope of a surveillance operation that has angered some of the country's closest allies. The French government on Monday summoned the U.S. ambassador for an explanation.
The report in Le Monde, co-written by Glenn Greenwald who originally revealed the NSA surveillance program, found that when certain numbers were used, the conversations were automatically recorded. The surveillance operation also swept up text messages based on key words, Le Monde reported, based on records from Dec. 10 to Jan 7.
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Scottish Power agrees £8.5m penalty after misleading customers
ScottishPower (SP) is to pay back £8.5m to customers after an investigation by the energy regulator found that employees working for the "Big Six" energy supplier had misled customers.
An investigation by Ofgem into ScottishPower's doorstep and telephone selling techniques found the company had failed to give customers "accurate estimates of the annual charges that customers would pay and comparisons with their current supplier if they switched to SP" and that as a result, "unreliable information" was often provided to customers.
Inadequate training had "resulted in misleading claims being made during face to face and telesales marketing activities", Ofgem added.
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Author: By Szu Ping Chan, and Theo Merz
Small group of 2nd Amendment protestors, complete with AR 15's slung on their shoulders, hold protest at site where President Kennedy was murdered with a rifle 50 years ago.
About a dozen people carrying rifles protested in Dallas Saturday morning at the sight of one of the most infamous gun crimes in United States history.
The crowd carried AR-15s, old military rifles and one Texas flag with the “Don’t tread on me” slogan at Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago . They said they were there to peacefully show that carrying firearms is legal in Texas and that the people who do it aren’t dangerous.
“We are law abiding citizens exercising our rights,” said Brad McClain, one of the organizers of the event.
McClain said he understood the significance of the site where they were protesting, but said they mostly picked the location because it was high-profile.
“It’s visible, it’s historical and the landscape is perfect for photo ops,” he said.
Seriously why don't these assholes just by a t-shirt that reads "I am a douchbag?"
Their lack of sensitivity alone makes me thing they should not have access to weapons. I mean clearly they do not respect the memories of those who died at the hands of gun violence, nor do they consider the feelings of the normal people who have to watch them strut around with their metal penis extenders hanging around their necks in public.
In a completely unrelated story, a two year old girl celebrated her parents 2nd Amendment rights by shooting herself to death with their unsecured handgun:
A two-year-old girl has died after accidentally shooting herself with a handgun she found lying around her home.
The toddler - named by neighbors as Coco - got hold of the 'unsecured' loaded weapon at the home in North Carolina, police said.
Hey, it's all about freedom right?
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Ted Cruz believes that the Republicans could have won the fight to defund Obamacare if they had just been willing to accuse the Democrats of holding children with cancer hostage.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that Republicans could have won the fight to derail President Barack Obama’s health care law by shutting down the government if they had just accused the Democrats holding children with cancer “hostage.”
In an interview that aired on Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Cruz if he was bothered on a “human level” that so many colleagues in his own party were angry at him for instigating the shutdown.
“Not remotely,” Cruz insisted. “I work for 26 million Texans, that’s my job to fight for them. I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington… The reason people are frustrated all over the country is that far too many people get elected and they think they’re there to be part of the club.”
The Texas senator observed that things could have turned out differently if Senate Republicans had “marched into battle side by side” with House Republicans to defund Obamacare.
But Bash noted that Democrats had the successful strategy in the end.
Cruz, however, reminded Bash of an exchange she had with Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) about a Republican plan to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other selective parts of the government during the shutdown.
A controversy had erupted at the time when Bash asked Reid if it would be worth it if he could help “one child” with cancer.
During the interview that aired on Sunday, Cruz said that Reid showed Democrats were “vulnerable” and that Republicans should have used children with cancer as a pressure point to win the fight against health care reform.
“President Obama and the Democrats’ position throughout this is, ‘We will not negotiate, we will not compromise, shut it all down.’ That’s not a reasonable position,” he explained. “If Senate Republicans had united and supported House Republicans, if we had 46 Senate Republicans on television every day, in the media every day making the point, ‘Why won’t they fund the VA, why are they holding our veterans hostage? Why won’t they fund the NIH, why are they holding kids with illnesses hostage?’”
“That’s a fight we could win because their position was unreasonable.”
"Unreasonable?" It might be worthwhile to point out here that those children are now receiving those services denied to them by the government shutdown. As are the veterans. While police are also now being paid, national parks are being opened, and the government is back up and running. And instead of picking and choosing who is worthy of receiving assistance or their paychecks, and who is not, the government is simply now able to do its job.
All of its jobs.
THAT was what the Democrats were fighting for. That and taking the power away from a handful of domestic terrorists who wanted to hold, not just cancer stricken children, but the entire country hostage.
And do you know what? Now that the Tea-borg has failed to beat the President they have turned their anger toward those who have not yet been absorbed into the collective.
This from Politico:
Hard-line conservatives aren’t just sticking it to the national GOP by shutting down the government and bringing the nation to the brink of default — they’re also refusing to pony up to help their party defend the House in 2014.
With a little more than a year until the midterm election, many leaders of the shutdown strategy have yet to donate to the National Republican Congressional Committee, records show. At least eight of the debate’s 20 or so most outspoken figures have not given any money to the NRCC, and others have forked over token amounts.
Their refusal to contribute to the House GOP’s political arm, coming as Republicans are getting thumped by Democrats in the money race, is causing heartburn and frustration among Republican strategists charged with laying the groundwork for next year’s races. They say it is reinforcing a perception of the conservative gang that they’re out only for themselves and don’t much care about advancing the party’s larger cause.
Yes, they are eating their own now.
So for those who thought that Palin's crazed diatribe against the Republican party yesterday, meant that she had gone all "mavericky," and was not longer taking orders from the Koch brothers and Heritage Foundation, it appears such is not the case.
She is simply among those GOP insurgents who are determined to either completely reshape the Republican party or destroy it from within.
There is a part of me that simply wants to sit back and watch the fun, but then I imagine a GOP run by the likes of Ted Cruz, a man who would have gladly used cancer stricken children as pawns in a power play against the Democrats, and I realize I really do have a dog in this fight.
And it is a dog that might be willing to live in harmony with others, NOT a rabid cur growling and snapping at everything, and everyone, who approaches, and is not similarly afflicted with their sickness.
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