Former Commissioner Miller says that selective audits of the conservative groups was not politically motivated, but can’t cite a single progressive group targeted for for additional questioning.
Hmmmm?
Also claims that there was nothing illegal with anything that the IRS did – really?
Hmmmm?
Then way were you fired?
Hmmmm?
IRS ask for the context and prayers, what does this have to do with taxes?
Hmmmm?
I’m sure it’s all just a simple misunderstanding …
The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their name in support of specific campaigns to pass anti-gun legislation such as the March 1995 HCI “Campaign to Protect Sane Gun Laws.” Many of these organizations were listed as “Campaign Partners,” for having pledged to fight any efforts to repeal the Brady Act and the Clinton “assault weapons” ban. All have officially endorsed anti-gun positions.
AARP
AFL-CIO
Ambulatory Pediatric Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Civil Liberties Union
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Medical Women`s Association
American Medical Student Association
American Medical Association
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
American Trauma Society
American Federation of Teachers
American Association of School Administrators
American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
American Counseling Association
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for World Health
American Ethical Union
American Nurses Association
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
American Firearms Association
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Jewish Committee
American Trauma Society
American Psychological Association
American Jewish Congress
American Public Health Association
Americans for Democratic Action
Anti-Defamation League
Black Mental Health Alliance
B`nai B`rith
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Children`s Defense Fund
Church of the Brethren
Coalition for Peace Action
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
College Democrats of America
Committee for the Study of Handgun Misuse & World Peace
Common Cause
Congress of National Black Churches, Inc.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Consumer Federation of America
Council of the Great City Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers
Dehere Foundation
Disarm Educational Fund
Environmental Action Foundation
Episcopal Church-Washington Office
Florence and John Shumann Foundation
Friends Committee on National Legislation
General Federation of Women`s Clubs
George Gund Fun
Gray Panthers
H.M. Strong Foundation
Hadassah
Harris Foundation
Hechinger Foundation
Interfaith Neighbors
Int`l Ladies` Garment Workers` Union
Int`l Association of Educators for World Peace
Jewish Labor Committee
Joyce Foundation
Lauder Foundation
Lawrence Foundation
League of Women Voters of the United States*
Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Manhattan Project II
Mennonite Central Committee-Washington Office
National Safe Kids Campaign
National Association of Police Organizations
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Black Nurses` Association
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Network for Youth
National Assembly of National Voluntary Health & Social Welfare Organizations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Counties*
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers
National Education Association
National Association of Elementary School Principals*
National Association of Public Hospitals
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Children`s Hospitals and Related Institutions
National Association of School Psychologists
National Council of La Raza
National Center to Rehabilitate Violent Youth
National Commission for Economic Conversion & Disarmament
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
National Council of Negro Women
National Association of Community Health Centers
National People`s Action
National Education Association*
National League of Cities
National Council on Family Relations
National Council of Jewish Women
National Organization for Women
National Political Congress of Black Women
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Peace Foundation
National Urban League, Inc.
National Parent, Teachers Association*
National Urban Coalition
National SAFE KIDS Campaign
National Organization on Disability
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Ortenberg Foundation
Peace Action
People for the American Way
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Police Foundation
Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
Public Citizen
SaferWorld
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Council of the Great City Schools
The Synergetic Society
20/20 Vision
U.S. Catholic Conference, Dept. of Social Development
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Association
United States Catholic Conference
United Methodist Church, General Board & Church Society
United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society*
United States Conference of Mayors
War and Peace Foundation
Women Strike for Peace
Women`s National Democratic Club
Women`s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Women`s Int`l League for Peace and Freedom
World Spiritual Assembly, Inc.
YWCA of the U.S.A.
*The national organization only endorses federal legislation.
Suzy Amis – Actress
Louis Anderson – Comedian
Richard Dean Anderson – Actor
Maya Angelou – Poet
David Arquette – Actor
Ed Asner – Actor
Alec Baldwin – Actor
Bob Barker – TV Personality
Carol Bayer Sager – Composer
Drew Barrymore – Actress
Kevin Bacon – Actor
Lauren Bacall – Actress*
Sarah Ban Breathnach – Writer
William Baldwin – Actor
Candice Bergen – Actress
Richard Belzer – Actor
Tony Bennett – Singer
Boys II Men – Pop Group
Jon Bon Jovi – Singer
Peter Bogdonovich – Director
Peter Bonerz – Actor
Albert Brooks – Actor
Beau Bridges – Actor
Benjamin Bratt – Actor
Bonnie Bruckheimer – Movie Producer
Christie Brinkley – Model
Dr. Joyce Brothers – Psychologist/Author
James Brolin – Actor
James Brooks – TV Producer
Mel Brooks – Actor/Director
Betty Buckley – Actress
Ellen Burstyn – Actress
Steve Buscemi – Actor
David Canary – Actor
Kate Capshaw – Actress
Kim Cattrall- Actress
Josh Charles – Actor
Robert Chartloff – Producer
Stockard Channing – Actress
Jill Clayburgh – Actress
Terri Clark – Singer
George Clooney – Actor
Jennifer Connelly – Actress
Judy Collins – Singer
Kevin Costner – Actor
Sean Connery – Actor
Sheryl Crow – Singer
Billy Crystal- Actor
Julie Cypher – Director
Arlene Dahl – Actress
Clive Davis – Writer
Linda Dano – Actress
Matt Damon – Actor
Pam Dawber – Actress
Patrika Darbo – Actress
Stuart Damon – Actor
Ellen Degeneres – Actress
Gavin de Becker – Writer
Rebecca DeMornay – Actress
Danny DeVito – Actor
Michael Douglas – Actor
Phil Donahue – Talk Show Host
Richard Donner – Director
Fran Drescher – Actress
Richard Dreyfus – Actor
David Duchovny – Actor
Sandy Duncan – Actress
Christine Ebersole – Actress
Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds – Singer
Missy Elliott – Singer
Nora Ephron – Director
Gloria Estefan – Singer
Melissa Etheridge – Singer
Mia Farrow – Actress
Mike Farrell – Actor
Carrie Fisher – Actress
Sally Field – Actress
Doug Flutie – NFL player
Fannie Flagg – Actress
Jane Fonda – Actress
Jodie Foster – Actress
Rick Fox – NBA Player
Andy Garcia – Actor
Art Garfunkel – Singer
Geraldo – TV personality
Richard Gere – Actor
Kathie Lee Gifford – TV personality
Paul Glaser – TV director
Brad Gooch – Writer
Elliott Gould – Actor
Louis Gossett, Jr. – Actor
Michael Gross – Actor
Nancy Lee Grahn – Actress
Bryant Gumbel – TV Personality
Deidra Hall – Actress
Ethan Hawke – Actor
Mariette Hartley – Actress
Mark Harmon – Actor
Anne Heche – Actress
Howard Hesseman – Actor
Marilu Henner – Actress
Dustin Hoffman – Actor
Hal Holbrook – Actor*
Helen Hunt – Actress
John Ingle – Actor
Francesca James – TV Producer
Norman Jewison – Director
Lainie Kazan – Actress
Richard Karn – Actor
Jeffrey Katzenberg – Producer
Barry Kemp – TV Producer
David E. Kelley – TV Producer
Diane Keaton – Actress
Margaret Kemp – Interior Designer
Chaka Khan – Singer
Kevin Kline – Actor
Michael E. Knight – Actor
Jonathan Kozol – Writer
Lenny Kravits – Singer
Lisa Kudrow – Actress
Wally Kurth – Actor
Christine Lahti – Actress
k.d. lang – Singer
Ricki Lake – TV personality
Denis Leary – Actor
John Leguizamo – Actor
Norman Lear – TV Producer
Spike Lee – Director
Hal Linden – Actor
Tara Lipinski – Former Olympian
Keyshawn Johnson – NFL player
Rob Lowe – Actor
Amanda Marshall – Singer
Barry Manilow – Singer
Camryn Manheim – Actress
Howie Mandel – Actor
Kyle MacLachlan – Actor
Madonna – Singer
Marla Maples – Actress
Marsha Mason – Actress*
Mase – Singer
Penny Marshall – Director
Prema Mathai-Davis – YWCA Official
John McDaniel – Musician
John McEnroe – Athlete
Brian McKnight – Musician
Natalie Merchant – Singer
Bette Midler – Singer
Mary Tyler Moore – Actress
Michael Moore – Film Maker
Mike Myers – Actor
N Sync – Music group
Kathy Najimy – Actress
Jack Nicholson – Actor
Leonard Nimoy – Actor
Mike Nichols – Director
Stephen Nichols – Actor
Rosie O`Donnel l- Actress/Talk Show Host
Jennifer O Neill – Actress
Julia Ormond – Actress
Jane Pauley – TV Personality
Sarah Jessica Parker – Actress
Mandy Patinkin – Actor
Richard North Patterson – Writer
Rhea Perlman- Actress
Michelle Pfieffer – Actress
Aidan Quinn – Actor
Colin Quinn – Actor
Dennis Quaid – Actor
Elizabeth Bracco Quinn – Actress
Bonnie Raitt – Singer
Debbie Reynolds – Actress
Mary Lou Retton – Former Olympian
Paul Reiser – Actor
Peter Reckell – Actor
Rob Reiner – Actor/Director
Robert Redford – Actor/Director
Anne Rice – Writer
Cathy Rigby – Actress
Julia Roberts – Actress
Marc Rosen – TV Producer
Tim Robbins – Actor
Tim Roth – Actor
Renee Russo – Actress
Robin Ruzan – Wife of Mike Myers
Meg Ryan – Actress
Susan Sarandon – Actress
Jerry Seinfeld – Actor
Kyra Sedgwick – Actress
Martin Sheen – Actor
Russell Simmons – Record Producer
Neil Simon – Playwright*
Louise Sorel – Actress
Mira Sorvino – Actress
Rena Sofer – Actress
Britney Spears – Singer
Bruce Springsteen – Singer
Kevin Spirtas – Actor
Barbra Streisand – Singer
David Steinberg – Director
Sylvester Stallone – Actor
Harry Dean Stanton – Actor
Meryl Streep – Actress
Patrick Stewart – Actor
Sharon Stone – Actress
Sting – Singer
Trudie Styler – Actress
Jonathan Taylor Thomas – Actor
The Temptations – Pop Group
Vinny Testaverde – NFL player
Marlo Thomas – Actress*
Uma Thurman – Actress
Steve Tisch – Producer
Mike Torrez – Former Baseball player
Shania Twain – Singer
Dick Van Dyke – Actor
Eli Wallach – Actor*
Harvey Weinstein – Producer
Jann Wenner – Publisher
Sigourney Weaver – Actress
Victor Webster – Actor
Andy Williams – Singer*
Kelli Williams – Actress
Henry Winkler – Actor
Oprah Winfrey – Entertainer
Rita Wilson – Actress
Vanessa Williams – Singer
Herman Wouk – Author
Joanne Woodward – Actress*
Peter Yarrow – Singer
Catherine Zeta-Jones – Actress
Ahmet Zappa -Actor
Diva Zappa -Actress
Dweezil Zappa – Musician
Gail Zappa -
Moon Zappa -Actress
* Denotes membership on
Brady Campaign`s National Committee
National Figures:
Joel J. Alpert M.D. – Pediatrician
Robert Bernstein Ph.D – Pediatrician
Robert E. Brennan – Financier
Bishop Edmond Browning – Espiscopal Leader
James E. Carter – Former President
Marion Wright Edelman – Director, Childrens Defense Fund
Michael Eisner, Former Chairman and CEO The Walt Disney Company
Amitai Etzioni – Teacher
Tom Freston – MTV President
Dr. Lorraine E. Hale – Social Worker
Della M. Hughes – Activist
Ed Koch – Former Politician
C. Everett Koop – Former Surgeon General
Rev. Wallace Ryan Kuroiwa – Clergyman
Gerald M. Levin – Chairman, Time Warner
Davis S. Liederman – Ex. Dir. Child Welfare League
Paul Rabbi Menitaff – Clergyman
Abner Mikva – Former Judge
Richard Parsons – Pres. Time Warner
Steven Rockefeller – Financier
Ellen Y. Rosenberg – Activist
Rabbi David Saperstein – Clergyman
Herb Scannell – Pres. Nickelodeon
Vincent Schiraldi – Dir. Justice Policy Institute
Lyle Elmer Strom – Federal Judge
Joe Volk – Clergyman
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie – Clergyman
The following journalists actively
editorialize in favor of gun control laws:
Steve Benson – Cartoonist
Tony Auth – Cartoonist
Jim Borgman – Cartoonist
Jimmy Breslin – Columnist
Stuart Carlson – Cartoonist
Marie Cocco – Columnist
E.J. Dionne Jr. – Columnist
Bonnie Erbe – Columnist
Tom Fiedler – Columnist
Michael Gartner – Columnist
Mark Genrich – Columnist
James Glassman – Editor
Bob Herbert – Columnist
Bill Johnson – Columnist
Donald Kaul – Columnist
Mike Lane – Cartoonist
Leonard Larson – Columnist
Mike Luckovich – Cartoonist
Jimmy Margulies – Cartoonist
Deborah Mathis – Columnist
Colman McCarthy – Columnist
Jim Morin – Cartoonist
Tom Oliphant- Columnist
Mike Peters – Cartoonist
Robert Reno – Columnist
Frank Rich – Columnist
Cindy Richards – Columnist
Kevin Siers- Cartoonist
Ed Stein – Cartoonist
Tom Teepen – Editor
Tim Toles – Cartoonist
Garry Trudeau – Cartoonist
Cynthia Tucker – Columnist
Steve Twomey – Columnist
Steve Villano – Columnist
Adrienne Washington – Columnist
Don Wright – Cartoonist
American Century Companies
James E. Stowers, CEO
4500 Main St., 4th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 531-5575
www.americancentury.com
Mutual Fund & Stock Investment Company on NYSE
American Multi Cinemas Entertainment, Inc.
Stanley H. Durwood, Co-Chairman, CEO Peter C. Brown, President, CFO
106 West 14th Street, #1700
Kansas City, MO 64141
(816) 221-4000
www.amctheaters.com
Movie Theater Company
Argosy Casino
H. Steven Norton, President, CEO
777 N.W. Argosy Parkway
Riverside, MO 64150
(816) 746-7711
www.argosycasinos.com/
Gambling Casino Company
Ben & Jerry`s Homemade, Inc.
Bennett R. Cohen Chrm. & CEO
Rte. 100, Box 240
Waterbury, VT 05676
(802) 244-5641
www.benjerry.com
Ice cream and frozen yogurt
BJC Health Systems
Fred L. Brown, President & CEO
4444 Forest Park Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63108
(314) 747-9322
www.bjc.org/
Healthcare Company
Blue Cross Blue Shield – Kansas City
John P. Mascotte, President
P.O. Box 419169
Kansas City, MO 64141
(816) 395-2222
Healthcare Company
Brooks Investments-Robert Brooks
Robert Brooks
45 Chesterfield Lakes Road
Chesterfield, MO 63005
Investment Company
Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc.
Philip M. Hawley, Chrm. & CEO
444 South Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 620-0150
Retail clothing and accessories stores
Crown Central Petroleum Corp.
Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr.
One North Central Street Box 1168
Baltimore, MD 21203
(301) 539-7400
Refiners and marketers of petroleum products, convenience stores
Development Specialists – Chicago
70 W. Madison Street, #2300
Chicago, IL 60602
(312) 263-4141
Earthgrains – St. Louis
8400 Maryland Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63105
(314) 259-7000
www.ironkids.com/Pages/Earthgrains.html
National Bread Company
General American – St. Louis
Richard A. Liddy, CEO
P.O. Box 396
St. Louis, MO 63166
(314) 843-8700
www.genam.com
Life Insurance
Hallmark Cards
Irvine O. Hockaday, President & CEO
P.O. Box 418307
Kansas City, MO 64141
(816) 274-5111
www.hallmark.com
Greeting Card Company
Health Midwest
2316 East Meyer Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64132
(816) 751-3000
www.healthmidwest.org
National Healthcare Company
ICN Biomedicals
Adam Jerney, Chrm. & CEO
3300 Hyland Avenue
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 545-0113
www.icnbiomed.com
Pharmaceutical products
James B. Nutter Co. – Kansas City
James B. Nutter
4153 Broadway
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 531-2345
Investment Banker
Kansas City Chiefs
One Arrowhead Drive
Kansas City, MO 64129
(816) 924-9300
www.kcchiefs.com
Pro Football Team
Kansas City Royals
David Glass, CEO
P.O. Box 419969
Kansas City, MO 64141
(816) 921-8000
www.kcroyals.com
Pro Baseball Team
Kenneth Cole
152 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(800) 536-2653
www.kennethcole.com
Clothing retailer
Lamar Advertising Company
Lamar Outdoor Advertising
5551 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 2-A
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
P. O. Box 66338
Baton Rouge, LA 70896
(225) 926-1000
Fax (225) 926-1005
www.lamar.com
Levi Strauss & Co.
Robert D. Haas, Chairman
Philip Marineau, CEO
Peter A. Jacobi, President and COO
1155 Battery St.
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 501-6000
FAX (415) 501-3939
www.levistrauss.com
Clothing
Mallinckrodt, Inc. – St. Louis
C. Ray Holman, President & CEO
675 McDonnell Blvd, Box 5840
St. Louis, MO 63134
(314) 654-2000
www.mallinckrodt.com
Clothing Starch Company
Michael Douglas Foundation
3550 Wilshire
Los Angele, CA 90010
MNC Financial, Inc.
Ten Light Street Box 987
Baltimore, MD 21203
(301) 244-5000
Banking, financial services
Sara Lee Corporation
Sara Lee Foundation
Three First National Plaza
Chicago, IL 60602-4260
Phone: 312-726-2600
www.saralee.com
Fax: 312-726-3712
Silver Dollar City
Peter Herschend
One Corporate Drive
Branson, MO 65616
800 475-9370
www.silverdollarcity.com
Amusement Parks
Site Oil Company – St. Louis
Alvin J. Siteman, President
50 S. Bemiston
St. Louis, MO 63105
(314) 725-4321
Oil Company
Southland Corporation
Masatoshi Ito, Chrm.
2711 North Haskell Avenue
Dallas, TX 75221
www.7-eleven.com
Convenience stores
Southwestern Bell Telephone- St. Louis
One Bell Center
St. Louis, MO 63101
(314) 235-9800
www.swbell.com
Telecommunications Firm
Sport & Health, Inc.
Don Konz, CEO
1800 Old Meadow Rd.
McLean, Virginia 22102
(703) 556-6556
www.sportandhealth.com
Health clubs and fitness centers
Sprint Corp PAC
William T. Esrey, Chrm., Pres. & CEO 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Westwood, KS 66205
913 624-3000
www.sprint.com
Telecommunicaitons Firm
SSM Health System – St. Louis
477 N. Lindbergh
St. Louis, MO 63141
(314) 994-7800
Healthcare Company
St. Louis Rams
One Rams Way
Earth City, MO 63045
(314) 982-7267
www.stlouisrams.com
Pro Football Team
St. Louis University
Rev. Lawrence Biondi, President
221 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63103
(314) 977-2222
www.slu.edu
Private Catholic University
Stoneyfield Farms Yogurt
Mr. Gary Hirshberg, CEO
10 Burton Drive
Londonderry, NH 03053
(603) 437-7594
Yogurt
Sverdrup Corp.
Richard E. Beumer,
Chairman & CEO
13723 Riverport Drive
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
(314) 436-7600
www.sverdrup.com
Engineering Firm
Time Warner Inc.
Gerald M. Levin, Chrm. & CEO
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
(212) 364-8300
www.pathfinder.com/corp/
Publishing, film and music recordings
TMP Worldwide/Monster.Com
Andrew McKelvey, CEO
1633 Broadway, 33rd Fl.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-977-4200
Fax: 212-956-2142
www.tmpw.com
www.monster.com
online employment service
Unity Health – St. Louis
1650 Des Peres Road #301
St. Louis, MO 63131
(314) 909-3300
www.smhs.com/unityheath.html
Healthcare Company
Working Assets
Peter Barnes, Founder
701 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California 94111
(415) 788-0777
www.workingassets.com
Blue Chip Stamps
15801 S. Eastern Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90040
(213) 720-4600
The Christian Publishing Society
The Christian Science Monitor
One Norway Street
Boston, MA 02115
(508) 586-6200
Columbia Broadcasting Service
CBS Television Network
51 W. 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 975-4321
Corporation For Public Broadcasting/ PBS Television
1320 Braddock Place
Alexandria, VA 22314-1698
(703) 739-5000
(703) 739-0775 – Fax
Cox Newspapers
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Credibank Towers, Suite 400
2800 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33137
(305) 576-7678
Gannett News Service
USA Today
1000 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22229
(703) 276-5806
Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
Ebony Magazine
820 S. Michigan avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-2190
(312) 322-9250
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Detroit Free-Press
321 W. LaFayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48231
(313) 222-6400
Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132-1683
(305) 350-2111
Los Angeles Times
Times Mirror Square
Los Angeles, California 90053
(213) 237-4511
(213) 237-7679 – Fax
McCall`s Magazine
110 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017-5603
(212) 463-1000
Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine
Emap PLC
6420 Wilshire Blvd., Floor 17
Los Angeles, California 90048
(323) 782-2000
National Broadcasting Company
NBC Television Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
(212) 664-4444
Newsweek, Inc.
Newsweek Magazine
444 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022-6999
(212) 350-4000
Rolling Stone Magazine
Jann Wenner, Chrm. & CEO
745 5th, Avenue
New York, NY 10151
(212) 758-3800
The New York Times Corporation
The New York Times
229 W. 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 556-1234
Time Magazine
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020
(212) 522-1212
Times-Mirror Corporation
The Los Angeles Times
Times Mirror Square
Los Angeles, CA 90053
(213) 237-3000
The Baltimore Sun
501 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21278
(301) 332-6300
The Tribune Company
Chicago Tribune
435 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 227-3000
Washington Post
1150 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20071
(202) 334-6000
Compiled by:
NRA Institute for Legislative Action
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
So what if he’s an unrepentant criminal? He can read song lyrics off a teleprompter!
I wandered into a nuance-free zone on Tuesday, reading the first wave of letters (there were 14) that the public sent to a federal judge regarding the July 1 sentencing of Jesse Jackson Jr. and wife Sandi.
People who know the couple are asking for leniency. Folks who only know of them — a onetime congressman and former alderman who looted $750,000 from campaign funds to bankroll a seven-year indulgent spending spree — want them shown no special mercy.
There were no in-betweens.
Eight of the letters argued for a break. The most prominent advocate for Jesse Jackson was Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Fudge wrote that even though she and some congressional colleagues in hindsight saw signs of his bipolar illness “during the last 4 to 5 years,” nevertheless, he was a “tireless advocate for the poor and underserved.” He was also the charming “highlight of our karaoke nights.”
Maybe he should have given some of that stolen loot to the “poor and underserved.” We also wonder if any white people were invited to the CBC karaoke nights?
Police say 28-year-old undergrad threatened herself with rape in Facebook hoax
A student at the University of Wyoming has been charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page that she would like to engage in angry sexual intercourse with someone named “Meg Lanker Simons.”
The University of Wyoming Police Department now says the posting was a hoax written by — wait for it — Meghan Lanker-Simons.
So I was curious what does someone that threatens to hatefuck themselves while trying to blame it on a imaginary conservative male look like … I pictured in my minds eye a pastie, homely, overweight, big mouthed hag that no conservative male would want to hatefuck or even see naked or even be in the same room with or admit to even knowing … well I found a actual photo of Meghan Lanker-Simons and guess what … I was right on the money ….
It’s liberalism folks, it’s a mental disorder and only knowledge will cure them.
I haven’t posted much lately because well… I have better things to do than to bang my head against the freaking wall and that is all it feels like anymore … however since the Boston bombing I’ve heard several media outlet and liberal politician talking about how it was probably some conservative right wing nut job specifically a Tea Party Member because the bombing was on tax day… really? A right winger is going to set off a bomb at a marathon because it’s tax day? You’ve got to be freaking kidding me! Now I’m not going to walk you through every example and every statement and there wishful dreams of a right wing bomber but suffice to say that it is a sad an pathetic that the media and the liberals would first go to other Americans as the attacker …
So do you need another reason not to trust the liberal media and it’s nearly every media outlet? Have they not showed their bias enough yet? Their agenda? They weren’t thinking like a normal sane Americans that some terrorist had bombed us… no, no, no they were thinking like a partisan hack so full of rage and hate against anyone that doesn’t agree with them that someone on the other side of the political aisle had bombed us … seriously does bombing a bunch of civilians at a marathon sound like something a right wing Tea Party member would do? I don’t think so! Does bombing anything sound like a right winger? NO! That’s not their MO, it’s not their style … every example of domestic act terrorism performed by a American I can think of can be traced directly back to the left winger and a member of the Democrat, but I didn’t hear those on the right pointing fingers at those on the left out of the box, no they were saying looks like a terrorist attack, smells like a terrorist attack and damn if it wasn’t a terrorist attack by of all things a couple of Islamic nut sacks.
And since it’s a terrorist attack it accomplished want it set out to do… it created terrorism and is altering the American way of life. More restrictions on sporting events, less freedom for you because of these terrorist the government will use this as an excuse to take more of your freedom! Never let a good crisis go to waste!
Don’t doubt me and the media like willing lap dogs will support and promote the government’s power grab and go right back to trying to find some evil write winger while calling a jihadist terrorist attack a lone wolf and ignore their Islamic terrorism ties.
I’m sick of them all … this two terrorist have been in this country since they were small children and said they had no American friends? Well who’s fault is that? Where did they learn to hate America and it’s people? Who’s fault is it that they failed to assimilate into our culture? Well it’s their fault and it’s the fault of the overly liberal school systems for teaching that our country is bad and guilty of domineering other countries, that America should be guilty of it’s prosperity and that America over all is a bad place … we no longer teach American pride, American exceptionalism, we don’t encourage or promote the America culture and all the things that make America great! No we have liberal socialist and many times racist teachers, teaching white guilt and some mythical white privilege and to except other cultures here as superior to the domestic American culture. They fall to teach the greatness of America, national pride and founding and struggle to rise from nothing to the greatest nation known to man … no these liberal asshats teach that kids should be ashamed to be American and if you don’t think this played into the mindset of these two terrorist – well then you are as clueless as the teachers that taught them.
I’m telling you liberal want to point fingers? Look in the mirror libtards and you’ll find the accomplish to the crime.
I’m sorry I read this piece from the UK Daily Mail and I thought I’d make a comment, but the more I read the more I thought it needed to be taken apart… normally the UK Daily Mail is OK but they are off the rails in the majority of this story …
The number of Americans living in poverty has spiked to levels not seen since the mid 1960s, classing 20 per cent of the country’s children as poor.
It comes at a time when government spending cuts of $85 billion have kicked in after feuding Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a better plan for addressing the national deficit.
The cuts will directly affect 50 million Americans living below the poverty income line and reduce their chances of finding work and a better life.
Bullshit … no they won’t
Before spending cuts kicked in on March 1st, 49-year-old Antonio Hammond became a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore – one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul people out of poverty.
In this Maryland port city, one of four residents is considered poor by U.S. government standards.
Hammond says he ended up in Baltimore three years ago, addicted to crack cocaine and snorting heroin, living in abandoned buildings where “the rats were fierce,” and financing his addiction by breaking into cars and stealing copper pipes out of crumbing structures.
Eighteen months after finding his way to Catholic Charities via a rehabilitation center, the Philadelphia native is back in the work force, clean of drugs, earning $13 an hour cleaning laboratories for the Biotech Institute of Maryland and paying taxes.
OK great what does this have to do with sequester cuts? It’s not like the taxpayer got him on crack cocaine and snorting heroin …. he had money for drugs and didn’t spend it on housing which is why he was living in abandoned buildings where the rats were fierce. Boo Hoo Hoo crackhead, no one forced you to do drugs, your bed you sleep in it.
Catholic Charities, which runs a number of federally funded programs, spent $18,000 from privately donated funds to turn around Hammond’s life through the organization’s Christopher’s Place program which provides housing and support services to recovering addicts and former prisoners.
Such success stories are in danger as billions in federal government spending cuts begin squeezing services for the poor nationwide.
How? What Federal funded programs …. they said right there that spent privately donated funds – so which is it? Private money or taxpayer money? I bet it was money given to them by poor people … and it wasn’t federal money so how does the sequester effect that?
They are hitting as the U.S. slowly climbs out of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
“All I wanted to do was get high,” Hammond said. “I didn’t even know any more how to eat or clean myself.”
Now he lives with two other men in housing subsidized by the charity, got his driver’s license and bought a car. What he marvels at the most is that he has been accepted after a 20-year absence by some of his nine children. That’s the best part, he said. “At least I know now they might not hate me.”
Again private money … I still ask what does this have to do with sequester or Federal spending? Not a damn thing …
The U.S. Census Bureau puts the number of Americans in poverty at levels not seen since the mid-1960s when President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the federal government’s so-called War on Poverty.
So this war is lost to quote Harry Reid – it’s time to get out of it, time to wrap it up and call it done, no ground has been gained and over NINE TRILLION DOLLARS has been spent on a lost cause. Just think of what better things that could have been done with $9,000,000,000,000.00 …
As President Barack Obama began his second term in January, nearly 50 million Americans — one in six — were living below the income line that defines poverty, according to the bureau. A family of four that earns less than $23,021 a year is listed as living in poverty.
The bureau said 20 percent of the country’s children are poor.
Although it is far from the country’s poorest city, Baltimore’s poverty rate far outstrips the national average of one in six.
Oh the second term of Jimmy Carter and LBJ wrapped up in one … seems Obama is failing and his programs are failing and his ideas are failing and thank to his poor leadership America is failing too. More Americans are on food stamps, disability, welfare, unemployment than ever before and those numbers were a reality before the sequester was put in place … notice how the Mail left those inconvenient truths out of the story.
Catholic Charities of Baltimore is a conduit for state and federal money for programs designed to help the poor. The charity plays a major role in administering Head Start, a federal program that provides educational services for low-income pre-school children and frees single mothers to find work without the huge expense of childcare.
The spending cuts, known as the sequester, are going to hit Head Start especially hard.
“Before the sequester only half of the need was being met. Now, after the cuts fully take effect, there will be 900 children already in the program who won’t be able to take part,” said William McCarthy, executive director of Catholic Charities.
How long has Head Start been around and yet they are kids graduating from High School that can not read and write? As high as 80% in some places are sending illiterates into the world with a diploma. A lot of good a head start did them as they fall further behind. Head Start is actually a low income preschool funding, but I’d called government funded indoctrination.
There is no question the national belt-tightening “will deepen and increase poverty,” said McCarthy, citing the cuts in long-term care for poor seniors including assisted living and nursing care, and fewer low-income housing spaces, among other ripple effects.
Under the spending cuts, Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano said his agency faces a $25 million shortfall in funds to help poor people with housing.
Funny how these people don’t whine about how Obama and Biden and their families go on vacation after vacation after vacation spending million of dollars of taxpayer money … what would that money do to help the huddled masses and downtrodden if the Obama girls just spent one spring break at home or Michelle skipped a few meal and shopped at K-Mart or if Barry would forgo a few games of golf or even if Obama admitted he’s not a athlete and stopped trying to act like one? How many of the poor would that help and where is their concern over that?
There are 35,000 people on the waiting list. He also lamented cuts that will hamper the city’s efforts to clean up or demolish blighted neighborhoods.
Baltimore has 15,000 vacant and abandoned structures as a result of a steep population decline over the past half century.
“It’s very, very disheartening. We take a couple of steps forward and then fall back at least one. The private sector isn’t going to fix these neighborhoods. I view these things as investments, not expenditures. These things are an investment in the future that bring returns many times over,” he said.
Yeah the private sector can fix them and do a better job, faster job and do it cheaper … here’s an idea … sell the property to private investors and let them tear it down! Crazy idea huh? The city makes money and gets rid of the buildings/property. If they need cleaning up or refurbished give the buildings to private investor on the condition they clean them up and a portion of them have to be low income housing for a given number of years … make sure people know this going in so they aren’t whining that evil capitalist are kicking them to the curb when their housing obligation is up … oh who am I kidding they will still whine, they’re liberals and it’s all they know how to do is whine and cry that it is happening … so forget that, just sell them at fair market value and use the money made selling other property to fix up a few yourself. See this is not hard to figure … but it’s easier to whine and bitch that do something.
While the U.S. economy is slowly recovering, improvements for those deep in poverty do not keep pace with the cuts now in place.
Recovery? What recovery? Listen Daily Mail … you are in England try living here and see how great this recovery is … you bloody clueless limies.
The spending reductions going into effect will hit hardest at Americans whose prospects are not directly tied to the economy — people like Antonio Hammond and children in the Head Start pre-school programs.
Whoa, whoa, whoa … Former crackhead Hammond was help with private charity money you said so yourself a few paragraphs ago, think we forgot that by this point in this sad sack story? And as I said Head Start is really nothing more than Federally funded indoctrination program design to provide daycare for those that keep pumping out babies for a gum’ment check.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Baltimore depends on federal grants and funding for 12 percent of its budget.
The austerity cuts “to housing programs_as well as those to public safety, health, and education_will have an adverse effect on Baltimore and throughout the country,” she said.
The cuts, which will also hit U.S. defense spending, were designed two years ago as an incentive for lawmakers to avoid a standoff over the federal debt and a potential government shutdown.
Really then why is Baltimore and their mayor offering over a $100 million in tax breaks to the Harbor if they are so broke and “housing programs as well as those to public safety, health, and education will have an adverse effect”? Answer that genius?
The measures were seen as so onerous as to force Republicans and Democrats in Congress to reach a compromise spending plan. But compromise proved impossible before the March 1 deadline, and what were once seen as unthinkable cuts automatically went into effect.
Democrats want a deficit reduction plan that includes some spending cuts and tax increases on the wealthy. Republicans balk at any more tax increases and insist the problem should be addressed solely by reigning in spending. That feud continues as the two sides battle out future fiscal issues.
Republicans want to see even more cuts in next year’s budget, reductions that would, by and large, return military spending to pre-sequester levels and provide big tax benefits to wealthy Americans.
A 2014 budget plan proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, the vice presidential candidate on the unsuccessful Republican presidential ticket last year, would be particularly tough on social safety net programs.
His plan would slash $135 billion over the next decade from the program that provides food aid for low-income Americans. Nearly three-quarters of households receiving help from the program include children, who, census figures show, are the group hardest hit by poverty.
Ryan’s plan would also turn the government’s Medicare health insurance program for Americans age 65 and over into a voucher system, providing direct government payments to seniors who would then try to buy insurance on the private market.
Like how they write that … “slash $135 billion over the next decade from the program that provides food aid for low-income Americans” …. $135 billion over 10 year … or $13.5 Billion a years in a budget of $3.7 TRILLION! It’s chump change in government terms! It fact it’s only 0.003% of the budget and that is SLASHING!!! OMG GRANDMA IS GOING TO DIE!!! That’s not even trimming.
Ryan defends his drive for austerity as necessary to begin shrinking the country’s $16 trillion national debt.
“If we never balance the budget, if we keep adding deficit upon deficit we have a debt crisis like Europe has.
That means seniors lose their health care benefit, that means the people in the safety net see the net cut and they go in the street.
That means you have a recession. These are the things we prevent from happening by balancing the budget.
Balancing the budget is but a means to an end. It’s growing the economy, it’s creating opportunity, it’s getting government to live within its means,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
OH here is what got the Mail’s panties in a wad … Paul Ryan compared Obama’s spending and our debt to Europe … granted England claims they aren’t part of Europe … but we know there are. They are as broke as the rest of the EU.
Obama backs increasing taxes on the wealthy while instituting smaller government spending cuts, a plan that would reduce deficit spending but more slowly. He and most fellow Democrats argue that European-style austerity has not worked there and will harm the U.S. recovery from the Great Recession.
It’s an ideological fight that dates back decades. Republicans work from the premise that by unleashing the private sector and removing government controls, all Americans will prosper along with the economy and benefits will flow down to lower-income earners.
Democrats insist there is an essential role for government in putting a floor under the poor and helping local governments with problems that the private sector cannot or will not shoulder.
Translation take from everybody that has any money (i.e. a job) and increase government spending to continue to keep the poor in the slavery of the dole and voting for their democrat masters.
Some worry the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. will keep widening under the austerity measures.
According to a report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service late last year, “U.S.
income distribution appears to be among the most unequal of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the nations experiencing the greatest increases in measures of income.”
Are the rich really getting richer or is it just the poor getting poorer under Obama? Rising energy, food, medical cost are going to naturally effect those at the bottom more so than those ate the top. I know some rich people and I know they aren’t making more money.
Mary Anne O’Donnell, director of community services at Catholic Charities of Baltimore, said increasing income inequality has shown itself dramatically during the U.S. downturn.
“In the last three years, there’s been a great change in the kinds of people we are serving. There are increasing numbers of people who owned a home, lost their jobs, end up living in their car and are coming with children to our soup kitchen,” she said.
Her organization spent $126 million in the last fiscal year feeding the poor, helping them find jobs and housing, running nursing homes and putting men like Hammond back on their feet.
Of that figure, $98 million came from various programs funded by the city, state and federal governments. Those now face the big cuts as politicians in Washington fail to find a compromise.
Yeah but at the top of this article the Catholic Charity said that they were helping people with privately donated money … I’m pretty sure that this privately donated money isn’t coming from the poor. So keep kicking the rich and those that give to charity and they’ll close their checkbook and wallets faster than you can say “community organizer” and then who is to blame.
Stop spinning Daily Mail you’re better than that – do something novel and do some honest reporting.
I guess you know there is a Supreme Court case going on about gay marriage – personally I don’t care about it one way or the other as there are bigger problems in the country right now … like the fact the a MAJORITY of the voters in California upheld Prop 8 banning Gay Marriage and the left and the Democrats and the majority rule hypocrites only choose to accept that the majority wins only when it agrees with them.
Granted not every Liberal is pro gay marriage nor every Conservative anti-gay marriage – this is not about gay marriage. Gay Marriage is the shiny object blinding the masses from the bigger story. So I’m not going to get into the ramifications of the redefining marriage and how you’ll open the door to multiple partner marriages, people marrying animals, objects, things, children, you name it … it’s a slippery slope and I’m sure you can figure it out without me wasting a lot of time on the details. Of course the liberals will say no that’s not what it does … really? When you erase the line and redraw the line then who is to say where the line should be? Like I said slippery slope … and not the subject at hand.
But this is what really pisses me off about the looney left (and it’s mostly the left) – that want to cite polls and data all day long that this group or that group or this stat or that stat supports their case but the very second something doesn’t support their case, or a vote doesn’t go their way, or a decision doesn’t go their way they want to file a lawsuit and force everyone to accept their view no matter what the majority says or decision says. So forget gay marriage … put in it’s place anything, any cause, any law, any regulation that that the majority of people’s opinion differs from the libtard looney left they will immediately file a lawsuit citing discrimination and that everyone is a racist, bigot, homophobe want dirty air and dirty water push grandma over a cliff for not agreeing with them. It’s boring, it’s worn out get a new argument. .
These idiots will stop at nothing to get their way, just like spoiled children – they will throw a hissy-fit until someone finally gives in and say OK you can have it this time. We have to stop spoiling the left with their idiotic demands and hyperbolic arguments and they need to learn NO means NO. Like I said, I don’t care about gay marriage it’s nothing more than watch this hand while the other hand robs you – but the majority of people in California said NO … in California mind you not exactly the Bible belt – grow up pro-gay marriage people and except it and try again later after making a better argument for your case. Stop running to the courts every time you don’t get your way! (Al Gore 2000)
It just pisses me off to no end how these whiners on the left cannot accept other opinions and just deal with it … oh everyone suppose to except their opinion about gay marriage, global warming, climate change, animal right, everything real or imaginary they buy into, but you… YOU have to accept their opinion, their position or they will cry like children while suing you..
It really gets old and it’s time they grow up.
First of all the way business has been in my little depressed area I’d call $246.90 a week a good week and I’m not joking … but I digress.
So let’s say you make only $246.90 a week … but you are spending $379.55 a week and you owe the bank $1,673.20 – I’m guessing you’d say you had a problem! After all you are spending $132.65 more than you make and according to the bank you’ve been doing it for a while and not making any effort to pay down your debt.
You’ve asked your boss for more money, but your boss is tapped out and you just can’t keep putting it on a credit card, so what to do?
Cut your expenses right? You start spending less, you look at the places you are wasting money and you stop because you know your debt is a ticking time bomb.
Well that is the Federal government, I’ve just moved the decimal points to make the numbers a little graspable … we take in $2.469 Trillion in revenue… the government is spending $3.795 Trillion and we have $16.732 Trillion in debt and the tax payer (i.e. the boss) is tapped out … after all the bosses expenses has gone up and they’re not making more money so it’s not possible for them to share the wealth … there is none to share.
But Obama and many in congress including some Republicans don’t see this deficit spending as a problem and sadly the numbers are so big that most people can’t get their minds around it. After all there was a report recently that 80% of the kids leaving high school can’t effectively read and write, how do you expect them to grasp trillion dollar debts and trillion dollar spending and that in reality this money has to be paid back and that you just can’t declare bankruptcy and start over without a complete collapse of the system.
So what to do? They will not spot spending, raising taxes will do nothing but kill the economy deader than it is now… perhaps it’s time we just stop giving them money. Treat them like a crackhead and cut them off from their addiction. I think it’s getting to the point to where that is all they will understand.
LOOK! Up in the sky it’s ULTRATARD! Seizing your sodas, regulating your salt, hiding your cigarettes … it’s Ultratard! Nanny to the masses incapable of thinking for themselves… yes Ultratard reeling in the shadow of Mayor Rudy and feeling second rate to the street cleaning mob busting mayor, Ultratard tries desperately to find something to be proud of while the appeals court shoot him down… WHAT’S THAT I HEAR? Why it’s sweet Polly Crackhead passed out cold from a large sugary drink … Ultratard away!!!!
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