gdp's Comments

Big Government : The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:56:20 +0000

pilgrim_shadow in somewhat of the same vein that you point out it would be incredibly useful to publish the names of the people that authorize the federal, state and local monies these groups receive. Publish the congresscritters that earmark the funds these groups receive. Publish the foundations that fund these groups, then track back any govt. funding the foundations receive. Lastly, if these groups are receiving donations it would be interesting to name who is giving these groups their funds provided that the groups actually publicly acknowledge who are their sources of capital.

Big Government : SEIU, Fighting for 'Living' Wages, Enjoys Some Nice Standards of Living

Tue, 10 May 2011 12:25:37 +0000

Baroke Owebama great work! As with other methods of Union management lets see how many of the SEIU execs pull salaries, wages, benefits and other forms of income from affiliated organizations. It would not suprise me if Andy Stern gets several checks per month for his activities from his "local" and other unions, foundations and others. Even more informative would be a listing of their lobbying expenses, after all when Andy is visiting his pal in the White House I am sure that he is also in town spreading the Union's wealth around for sympathetic votes and/or nice regulations to punish the firms his unions is sucking dry. Does Andy get a private jet for his visits? Does Andy get the cheap rooms at Motel6 or is the Mayflower? Taxi or Limo? How close is the Burger King to the Mayflower anyway?

Breitbart.com : Palin explains \'blood libel\' comment

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:42:57 +0000

Pathetic article AP. Crosshairs or edit points or circular target? Bye bye old media and old media meddling. Sadly this will be the end result of this reporting.

Big Journalism : Did Harvard Help Manufacture Alleged LGBT Hate Crime?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:43:32 +0000

Hmmmm, from the Harvard PDreporting two word do stand out.....accidental and spilling...of urine on books. Egad

Big Government : L.A. Parents Pull the Trigger on School Choice

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:46:39 +0000

Holdmynose, sad yes. If retesting is necessary for the children to get an education so what. To ignore that they have yet to receive the necessary knowledge and promote the is the old way of doing things. Just pass them on, no, no and no. Put them back in the grade that they need to repeat and get them back on track. What I am waiting for is the unions to weigh in and subvert the legislation. Will they still have the power to control the new school rules and regulations? You know in your heart that this will be the under the radar battle for the students futures.

Big Government : Parents Revolt in Chicago: Will Big Education Listen?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:42:22 +0000

I think most of us agree that we spend too much money on public schools. Private, charter and magnet schools can and will expel miscreant students whereas the public schools do not or cannot. Public schools have too many laws intruding upon them couple that with teachers unions, unified school districts and politicized school boards and you have an elephant designed by a committee, not to mention the straight jacket of education degrees issued by our universities. Ask yourself this, why can't an accountant teach arithmatic or bookkeeping in a high school but some ed major with a minor in feminist studies can? Break up these huge conglomerate school districts, re-create the local school controlled by it's locality. Take the laws protecting children from being educated in a stern environment off the books and tell the unions (teacher, admin, janitorial) to go fly a kite. Let the local populace control its schools period. If they don't care then they get what they want-a bad school. Our present massive school system with its layer upon layer of complexity, opportunity for graft and corruption and misspent funds does not work.

Big Government : Senate Approves $4.6 Billion to Settle Pigford, Indian Discrimination Cases

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:42:10 +0000

And just how many jobs are the recipients of all of this fraud going to create RetiredSailor1? Sure the tribes just might create a casino to steal from the poor but what about your victims? I'll bet if those "GOP Racists" that you are so familiar with would be creating business after business with their ill gotten gains you would be playing the same side of the coin and denouncing them as racists robbers of the poor. Darn-heads you win, tails I lose. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda just the same old trivial claptrap from the PC Crowd. Hey sailor, if any of the Pigford folks start a business are the Uncle Tom?

Breitbart.tv : Allen West: I'll Join Congressional Black Caucus

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:57:22 +0000

And they still lie to this day!!!!

Breitbart.tv : Allen West: I'll Join Congressional Black Caucus

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:10:18 +0000

The C-B-C- if my memory serves me right kicked Watts out of the business portion of his first meeting and that was the reason that he "did not join'. I am sure that the name calling, don't all libs name call?, did not help matters.

Breitbart.tv : Allen West: I'll Join Congressional Black Caucus

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:03:55 +0000

GoWest. As a nominal worker to help LCol West get elected I am quite happy. The C-B-C- (Congressional Black (D) Caucus), if my memory serves me right, "allowed" former Rep Watts OK(R) to "sit-in" to their meetings but was asked to leave when it was "time to do bidnet" and that was the reason that Watts never joined. Rep. Elect West is correct to point out that the district represented by the C-B-C- have 70% out of wedlock birth rates, 60% high school drop out rates and incarceration rates way too high and have been getting worse since the formation of the C-B-C-. They fought to eliminate the DC school voucher program, they support liberal abortion politics even though black abortion rates are morally way too high and they shovel fed $s to their districts despite the damage done to their people.

Big Journalism : Classy Sharron Angle Responds to Hateful Joy Behar with... Flowers

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:38:48 +0000

Joy Behar thinks class is something that she skipped in High School rather than a manner of conducting one's self.

Breitbart.tv : Out-of-Control City Councilwoman Bullies, Intimidates and Shouts-Down Citizens

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:56:11 +0000

Sorry, jpalm I am new to this forum.
Sure theman had a point. Yet, it appears that the Mayor pointed out to him that his address was not to the item at issue therefore he should speak to the issue. Additionally, when the man singled out an individual council member that was against the bylaws of the meeting. My guess is that this had been going on for some time, the violation of meeting rules. The Councilwoman finally put her foot down.It appears that although the Mayor felt sympathetic to the speaker he also correctly applied the rule and gaveled him down. Rules are made for a reason. The man has a right to address the Council, not an individual member of the Council.

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Big Government : Democrats' Michigan Meltdown

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:34:15 +0000

Back when I was a youngster in Mi we were the industrial center of the world, producing more product than any other area in the world. I have seen cities and towns vote for ever greater union contracts despite the fact that their employers told them they are too expensive and will move production elsewhere. Well the third world is thankful to Michigan greed. Today there is almost nothing left of the huge machine tool, automotive, defense, electronic component production. Last time I drove up there, I drove across the country, and the worst roads I came across were in Ohio and Michigan. They can't even keep up their roads even though tourism is a major source of income. To the poster about Dingell and Ann Arbor a simple question. What did AA spend their money on rather than repairing their own bridge?

Big Government : Dem Clerk Who Disenfranchised 1300 Military Voters Has a History of Voter Suppression

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:18:48 +0000

Reading the comments from the Chicago papers I read one comment over and over...."It's the Chicago Way." We need to get serious about this and have the courts take over this monstrosity. Just like they did to the south after the equal rights amendments. No local control of voting procedres and the actual voting process in Illinois for the next 50 years. Nothing less will work to put a stop to this. They cannot be allowed to violate the sacntity of the voting right.

Big Government : Dem Clerk Who Disenfranchised 1300 Military Voters Has a History of Voter Suppression

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:14:53 +0000

Move on has the SOS project where they target Secs. of State in all fifty states. When you control thatOffice you control the process and whether or not anything gets investigated.

Big Government : Reason.tv: Boondoggle in the Motor City - Detroit's Train to Nowhere

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:39:36 +0000

As a former resident of Detroit I must correct the author of this article. The original train was christened the People Mover but after two months it was renamed.....THE MUGGER MOVER!

Big Government : What We Believe, Part I: Small Government and Free Enterprise

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:01:13 +0000

Kudos Mr. Whittle. A point that I have made to liberals too many times is about taxation and government jobs and they never quite understand. It usually starts out when they tout government jobs. The government is funded by tax dollars. Everyone the government employs are paid by tax dollars then the government taxes its employees. So why does the government tax its employees when the money was taken from others tax bills? Now take it a step further, if the government pays some of its employees less than the effective taxable rate government workers take tax dollars but do not pay any taxes while others do pay taxes. Private sector workers that pay taxes actually create the wealth that pays govt. workers who consume that wealth but the government takes their tax payer income.

Big Government : Holiday Open Thread: Columbus Edition

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:14:40 +0000

. Reading through the posts has been fun. Who, or which nationality, first? Lemme see the Norse/Vikings, some Jewish folks digging burial mounds in the Ohio Valley, our Italian shyster or perhaps the Chinese who sailed all the over here, took a look around and said a collective NATCH (or whatever the ancient Chinese was for that or judging by Chinese history were those intrepid souls speaking Mongolian?), Then there is Erik Von Danegan with Kon Tiki. Somehow those pesky redskins got here earlier just walkin' an' talkin' across the Berents ice bridge. I never did read who was the governmental beauracrat that signed off on that one. So, when are we to pay reparations to the Mongols? This PCCrapola can be fun! We Conservative/racist/homophobe/gunlovin'/biblethump'/killthebabieswithleadinthewater bigots can have some fun too!

Big Government : Holiday Open Thread: Columbus Edition

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:14:31 +0000

Oh gosh oh golly the PCers have really gotten under our collective skin. I never knew about thier revisionism until, way back when, they sailed the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria reproductions into the World Financial Center dock. Wow were they in high PC dudgeon what with all of that Italian shyster. After all, Columbus, suckered Ferdie and Isabella into believing that he could sail to India by crossing the Atlantic. My kinda guy

Breitbart.tv : Out-of-Control City Councilwoman Bullies, Intimidates and Shouts-Down Citizens

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:00:22 +0000

jpalm, the mayor pointed out that the man's address was not an agenda item, therefore it was not appropriate to that item and he should address the item not an unrelated item of his own making.