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Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I slept the day away in hopes that I would feel better, but, today’s Ten Post Round-Up tells me I probably should crawl back into bed:
1: Shameful: US servicewomen more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than killed by enemy fire…
At War With Ourselves: Battling Sexual Violence in the Military–AlterNet
2: Not A Surprise: Teenage girls adopting eating disorders from healthy eating messages at school…
3: ACLU comes out in defense of polygamist ranch…
4: Florida fire hydrants to begin multi-tasking as spyware…
5: Smart: Bush sneaks into New Orleans, Not So Smart (?): To discuss expanding NAFTA…
6: Grandma’s weird Depression-era recipes are beginning to look good, now…
7: Oh, but flip-flops are so comfy, aren’t they?….
McCain: That was then (flip). This is now (flop).–Hypocrisy.com
8: Un-frak-ing-believable…
Judges deny some crack convicts legal help on sentences–McClatchy
9: Put this in perspective: The Army and Marines are recruiting individuals who would otherwise not be able to purchase or possess guns as civilians or be able to live in neighborhoods with a school nearby…
Army doubled felony waivers for recruits in year of Iraq surge–Raw Story
10: Oklahoma sheriff (D) works to up the ante of sexual predators vs (R)s…
272 días hasta el final de un error…
Peace.
Planned Parenthood Bilks $180 Million From California Taxpayers.
Planned Parenthood is a profit making company (with a “non-profit” attached) that gets the majority of its annual revenue by billing federal, state and local taxpayers for such things as birth control pills and abortions. Admittedly its structure is a cleverly convoluted but that’s the bottom-line. In California it’s facing a lawsuit brought by a fired executive who claims, according to the LA Times, it bilked those taxpayers out of $180-million. The former executive says the fraud started in 1990 and continued until at least 2004 and when he blew the whistle he was fired. Virginia has cut all funding to Planned Parenthood, and a federal judge in Mississippi has ordered its funding stopped because it violates that state’s constitution.
THAT’S A LOT OF TACOS AND UNION MEMBER DUES
Billionaire financier George Soros is contributing $2.5 million to a new political organization that promotes Democrat Party causes in the 2008 elections. The Fund for America, was organized by Taco Bell heir Rob McKay, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and Anna Burger of the Service Employees International Union.
The SEIU, which is a major union representing 1.9 million public service workers, nurses, hospital staff, nursing home and home care providers, building services and security guards, used members dues to match Soros’ contribution. Fund for America is expected to air television ads and take other political action designed to help Democrats win the White House and retain control of Congress the New York, Los Angeles Times and Newsmax are reporting.
NAACP and Prop 94-95-96-97
The Sacramento Bee reports the president of the California NAACP has been paid more than $40,000 in consulting fees — and the NAACP itself has received $60,000 — from the coalition of Indian tribes at the same time the civil rights group has endorsed Propositions 94-95-96-97 pushed by its tribal benefactors.
Money if fungible and flows freely in the Democratic agenda as well as the Republican agenda.
This was Seen in Snopes. Is it True?
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton’s last-minute amnesty spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convi
ctions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate…won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate…then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. His new job? Ready for this? YOUTH COUNSELOR!! — as seen on Snopes.com
