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POPSBarney Frank: Predatory Lender Why is Barney Frank still in charge of the Financial Services Committee? Last years FNMA, FHA (GSE) loans are this years foreclosures. How is that working out for taxpayers. And in addition, lets keep non-paying borrowers in homes for 2 - 3 years without paying. How much is that costing taxpayers. Maybe cheaper to give those borrowers a big Cash for Keys check rather than continue to have a non-paying asset and cost of continuous litigation for a barrage of new federal mandates and state legislation that fuels plaintiff attorneys.
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POPSFarmers Arrested Planting Hemp on DEA Headquarters Lawn Hemp is not a drug and has no capacity to get someone stoned. Currently eight states -- Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia -- allow industrial hemp production or research, but federal law, which requires nearly-impossible-to-obtain-permits to grow hemp, trumps those state laws. A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would allow states to craft their own policies. Some facts from North American Industrial Hemp Council: Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber (textiles and paper) and food. Hemp oil once greased machines. Most paints, resins, shellacs, and varnishes used to be made out of linseed (from flax) and hemp oils. Rudolph Diesel designed his engine to run on hemp oil The products that can be made from hemp number over 25,000.
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POPSThe Acorn 75 Can anyone find the list of the 75 who continue to support ACORN? Not on Roll Call yet. We need to get them all out of office! Saw a piece on Fox that says that their is a gov't funded website that is directing people to support ACORN called serve.gov
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POPSBachmann Demands Investigation and Suspension of Taxpayer Funding to ACORN by Publius 
In order to immediately stop taxpayer dollars from funding ACORN, Bachmann is requesting the IRS revoke ACORN’s tax exempt status; the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) halt any current funding; and the HUD Suspension and Debarment Committee suspend any future access to funding until ACORN cleans up its operation. learn about the 11 ACORN workers arrested for voter registration or click here to view video of the Baltimore prostitution investigation. Text of the letter to the U.S. Census Bureau provided below: September 11, 2009 Mr. Robert M. Grovers Director U.S. Census Bureau 4600 Silver Hill Rd. Suitland, MD 20746 This week the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a current participant in the Census Bureau’s Planning Partnership Program for the 2010 Census, once again made unsavory headlines. On Wednesday, FBI and state authorities charged 11 ACORN employees with voter registration fraud in Miami,
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POPSBarney Frank Wants Cabinet Post Frank talks about how he struggled as a gay man growing up in blue-collar Bayonne, N.J. He dated women throughout high school and college, but knew he was gay at 13. Still, he delayed revealing his sexuality until he had established a foothold in the House. In the 501-page tome " to be released later this month " Frank is described by people who know him well as a masterful legislator, an impatient boss, and “socially handicapped.” One of the most riveting parts of the book is Frank’s recollection of his ethics scandal, when he paid a male prostitute for sex. Various media outlets called for Frank to resign, but he persevered by admitting his mistakes and asking the ethics committee to investigate him in 1989. Many Republicans, including then-Rep. Larry Craig (Idaho), called for serious sanctions against Frank, who was ultimately reprimanded by the House, 408-18. (California Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman both voted against the measure.)
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POPSThe anti-Obama teabaggers can't really pretend they don't attract far-right extremists anymore Most recently, it turns out that the guys who brought those guns to a health-care forum in Arizona in fact were longtime members of the old Arizona Vipers Militia. These were characters who, prior to their arrests in 1996, had stockpiled close to 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and conducted field training exercises, practiced bomb-making, and trained with illegal automatic weapons. Now, all the Fox talkers have been in heavy denial about extremists showing up for their tea-party protests, even making a regular joke out of it by asking the protesters they have on their show if they're Klan members and the like. But it's becoming clearer all the time that, while not everyone at these events is an extremist, the percentages of them keep going up and up. And with them, so does the threat to public safety.
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POPSObama Health Care Endorses Cannibalism
who energetically supported a plea from a 1972 Andes airplane crash survivor where 16 soccer team mates lived after 72 days of dining off the corpses of their companions until help arrived. Obama embraced survivor Jose Louis "Coohe" Inciarte in his efforts to promote organ donation as a key stone of his revolving health care plan. "No longer will you have to lament the humane death of your grandma," the President said, " for her heart will live on!" A Fox news reporter was shouted down when he attempted to link this comment with tribal Zulu warriors practice of eating the raw heart of vanquished enemies killed in battles. Outside the front yard was filled with protesters with hastily made signs proclaiming "Don't Eat My Grandma"....and other signs commenting " Eat Shit, But Not My Sister!" Rahm Emanuel was said to have jumped all over the opportunity to promote the new policy, in part encouraged by the recent arrest of New Jersey Rabbis accused of trading in fresh kidney
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POPSAnother Dubious Democratic 'Doctor' at HealthCare TownHall I’m indebted to a number of bloggers, including Kate McMillan, for drawing my attention to the fact that Dr. Leavitt is no stranger to local politics or to prefabricated “talking points.” In fact, at one time in the recent past, her own car was covered with them. As one reporter wrote in 2005: You could call Sheila Leavitt a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie who home-schools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat. She is, of course, a vegetarian. I see her as one of those rare people who puts their convictions on parade, then faces uneasy consequences. Like the beefy, mad, middle-aged guy who followed her around the Esplanade yesterday, before dawn, tearing down her “Impeach Bush” posters as fast as she put them up.
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POPSAdventures in being Proselytized: LaRouchePAC
LaRouche followers will tell you the only way to learn their ideas is to buy a DVD. The DVD is $25. The conversation you are likely to have with a member of LaRouchePAC on the street is aimed at getting you to either sign up or buy something. They will tell you that the knowledge they have has the potential to prevent a Major Disaster. If they have a solution to save the entire country, isn’t it immoral to charge money for the solution? If you are making the whole thing up, then why are you selling us lies? The most interesting thing about the LaRouchePAC is that despite this immorality and despite the crazy nature of LaRouche’s ideas, he manages to get loads of young people to support him and peddle his weird Nazi-accusations. LaRouchePAC is nothing more than a cult. The outlandish nature of LaRouche’s claims create an us vs. them mentality among his followers. When they face arguments, they turn to other members for support and validation The very core of a cult.
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POPS NOT N.I.C.E. (criticism of NICE has been ceaseless) saw nothing wrong with running this unabashed love-letter to a health-care system, in effect, ruled by death panels (See my post on this last Friday, or Tom Maguire's Sunday item for more). Now, suddenly, to even suggest such a possibility is McCarthyism " now called Palinism " according to Richard Cohen. What drives me crazy about liberal complaints about conservative tactics these days is how selective they are. Obama, Barney Frank, Jacob Hacker, and others have said that they want these reforms " specifically the public option " to lead to single payer. But when conservatives take them at their word, suddenly it's outrageous misinformation and "fishy" stuff. When the wind is at their backs, liberals look way off to the horizon, like Obama at a podium, dreaming of a future of European-style statism. But when conservatives use this to their advantage, suddenly it is outrageous to even consider the possibility of a road to hell being paved with good intentions. . . .
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POPSBarney Frank Gets Destroyed at His Own Townhall in Dartmouth, MA I really can’t believe that even in a libtard heaven, basically San Francisco east that Barney Frank would get roasted like he did at his townhall today. I don’t know, maybe he and other libtards can accuse the “evil right wing machine” of bussing in people to this townhall, or something. Watch this video as people at the banking queen’s townhall aren’t bowing at his feet and begging for government controlled healthcare. Also watch the ironic part in which Barney Frank yells back at people saying “STOP YELLING!”
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POPSBarney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, invokes Godwin's law. CRAZY LADY: "Why do you continue to support a Nazi Policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy, why are you supporting it?" BARNEY FRANK: "When you ask me that question, I"m gonna revert to my ethnic heritage and answer it with a question: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" You want me want me to answer the question? Yes, you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase healthcare to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the 1st Amendment that this sort of vile, contemptible nonsense is free to be propagated. Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a dining room table, and I have no interest in doing it. Reductio ad Hitlerum from LYNDON LAROUCHE .
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POPS'Public Servant' My Butt So instead of calming people and listening to what they were saying, Frank decides to insult and argue with them. Has anyone noticed yet that the posters that are professionally produced belong to supporters, while the hand made signs belong to the 'mob'? Instead of ignoring, inflamming, and antagonizing the constituents that they are supposed to represent - ALL OF THEM - people like Frank should shut up and listen.
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POPSObamacare Myths and Facts MYTH: Obamacare will make me wait weeks or months for necessary medical procedures. FACT: If you’re waiting that long, then obviously a qualified individual like Barney Frank or Nancy Pelosi decided the procedure wasn’t necessary. MYTH: Obamacare will be financed by cutting Medicare. FACT: Obamacare will be financed by eliminating Medicare recipients. MYTH: While many people will be forced onto the substandard public option, members of Congress will get a separate, much better plan. FACT: They will be on the same plan, but on a much much higher tier than will be made available to the hoi polloi. MYTH: Obamacare will be extremely costly and result in putting the country even further in debt. FACT: There is no confirmation of this, as the solar-powered calculator Obama tried to use to calculate the cost only allowed numbers up to the tens of billions.
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POPSUncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance "I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process..." Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS admitting his Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS HEALTH CARE GOAL IS A PUBLIC OPTION THAT WILL ULTIMATELY ELIMINATE PRIVATE EMPLOYER PROVIDED INSURANCE (Obama S.E.I.U. forum on health care 3/24/07, Barney Frank, Jan Schakowsky all admitting a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business) NAKED EMPEROR NEWS (Hat tip to Morgen at Verum Serum for the 2003 clip)
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POPSObama: Said He Wanted to Eliminate Private Health Insurance Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) July 27, 2009: I think that if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer, and that's the best way to reach single payer. Yet, the way media are reporting this issue, those who want to stay with private insurance -- which is the vast majority of Americans -- will be able to do so. Will these new revelations about what Obama really wants make it to a news outlet near you? Stay tuned. For more videos like this, please visit Naked Emperor News. "Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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POPSBarney Frank Calls Barack 0bama a Liar single-payer is to fool voters with "a public option". And he flatly states that the public option will overwhelm and eradicate private insurance plans. Now Barack Obama's been saying for weeks that the public option won't hurt private insurers, which everyone knows is a bald-faced lie. Mr. Obama dismissed the idea of a government takeover of health care, saying a public insurance system would complement, not replace, private companies. “It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your (private) insurance if you’re happy with it,” he said. You're not going to get to keep your private insurance -- and everyone knows it. And Barney Frank just confirmed it, calling Barack Obama a liar. At an AARP-sponsor townhall event, Obama was also confronted -- stunningly -- with a direct question about rationing care for the elderly. You and your doctor make the decisions on your treatment. If you have insurance, you will try
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POPSBarney Frank Admits Overloaded the Schedule, Conyers Cant Read Bills = Aliinsky Rule # 8 - Overwhelm Its amazing what small things you pick up when you actually PAY ATTENTION to the Government as they cover up their tracks. Aside from the Obvious story re: the Transparency and Vision of the Federal Reserve, Cross reference this with another story that dovetails into this one. CHUCK TODD, W.H. Correspondant describes a principle Rahm Emmanual Learned about HOW TO PASS Bills in D.C. "Dont just deal with one big issue.. Any bill Can be killed if you give opposition time to unite and organize around it." ~ Chuck Todd, , political Dir. and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, on Rahm Emmanuel's learning experience from Clinton healthcare crash, and how he intends on fixing that mistake.
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