ObamaCare organizer coaches on how to shout down opponents

Just another example. There are so many of these that they're not really even newsworthy any more.



Cliff's Notes on what's been going on for those who haven't been paying attention: Tea Party protesters are as grassroots as grassroots can be. Pro-government "demonstrators" are bused in, paid for, coached, orchestrated. When your government has to stage its own pro-government "protest," it is entering the realm of Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela.

Is Kumar from White Castle the new Joseph Goebbels?

We noted in April that actor Kal Penn, better known as Kumar, was taking a job in the White House propaganda machine. He's officially "associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison."

Look at the recent "liaising" schemes coming out of the White House:

1) Comrades are urged to report their neighbors who spread "disinformation" about ObamaCare.

2) Union members and Craigslist paid "volunteers" are bused in to create the illusion of popular support for ObamaCare.

3) The White House sends lesson plans to schools nationwide encouraging obedience to the President:

"Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?"

"[Students will w]rite letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals."

4) Plan to collect personal information on millions of Americans who use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, including capturing "comments by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information" with "extremely broad secrecy terms preventing the vendor from disclosing to the public or the media what information is being captured and archived"

... and you have to wonder, "Is Kumar the new Joseph Goebbels?"

UPDATE: 5) Having the National Endowment for the Arts direct artists to make pro-Obama propaganda.

Judge Schack the man, he is the law

In an age when Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the President are trampling the law and the Constitution, it's nice to see one judge standing up for the rule of law:

He plucks out one motion and leafs through: a Deutsche Bank representative signed an affidavit claiming to be the vice president of two different banks. His office was in Kansas City, Mo., but the signature was notarized in Texas. And the bank did not even own the mortgage when it began to foreclose on the homeowner.

The judge’s lips pucker as if he had inhaled a pickle; he rejected this one.

“I’m a little guy in Brooklyn who doesn’t belong to their country clubs, what can I tell you?” he says, adding a shrug for punctuation. “I won’t accept their comedy of errors.”

The judge, Arthur M. Schack, 64, fashions himself a judicial Don Quixote, tilting at the phalanxes of bankers, foreclosure facilitators and lawyers who file motions by the bale. While national debate focuses on bank bailouts and federal aid for homeowners that has been slow in coming, the hard reckonings of the foreclosure crisis are being made in courts like his, and Justice Schack’s sympathies are clear.

He has tossed out 46 of the 102 foreclosure motions that have come before him in the last two years. And his often scathing decisions, peppered with allusions to the Croesus-like wealth of bank presidents, have attracted the respectful attention of judges and lawyers from Florida to Ohio to California. At recent judicial conferences in Chicago and Arizona, several panelists praised his rulings as a possible national model.

His opinions, too, have been greeted by a cry of affront from a bank official or two, who say this judge stands in the way of what is rightfully theirs. HSBC bank appealed a recent ruling, saying he had set a “dangerous precedent” by acting as “both judge and jury,” throwing out cases even when homeowners had not responded to foreclosure motions.

Justice Schack, like a handful of state and federal judges, has taken a magnifying glass to the mortgage industry. In the gilded haste of the past decade, bankers handed out millions of mortgages — with terms good, bad and exotically ugly — then repackaged those loans for sale to investors from Connecticut to Singapore. Sloppiness reigned. So many papers have been lost, signatures misplaced and documents dated inaccurately that it is often not clear which bank owns the mortgage.

Justice Schack’s take is straightforward, and sends a tremor through some bank suites: If a bank cannot prove ownership, it cannot foreclose.

“If you are going to take away someone’s house, everything should be legal and correct,” he said. “I’m a strange guy — I don’t want to put a family on the street unless it’s legitimate.”

There's a bailout comin', but it's not for you

... it's for Sheila Bair's FDIC, which guaranteed hundreds of billions in deposits for bad banks whose regulators were as clueless as Meaghan Cheung.

"Obama Youth" army enforcement via Teachers' Union?

Ok, sit down before you read this...
After Obama's national address to students on September 8, 2009, students will be asked to:

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and resistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

That's from the lesson plan for the day, from:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama%E2%80%99s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009

Seriously, does it get any creepier? No need to ask them to contemplate how they can help themselves? Their parents? Their country? Obama seems to think those options are no good. Rather, it seems it's better for the President and his thugs to ask the students to think carefully about what they can do to help one particular politician?

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit's take. And Rosita the Prole and Dana Loesch say, "Parents strike!" The teachers' unions hate that because it deprives them of their filthy lucre based on daily attendance. And our local San Diego Tea Party founder friend Leslie Eastman is all fired up.

Your cash-for-clunkers boondoggle at work

Ford U.S. August sales rise 17%

Chrysler U.S. August sales decline 15%

Hyundai U.S. August sales jump 47%

So we've encouraged the already over-leveraged consumer to trade in his paid-off car for a fat new car payment, and South Korea thanks him for it!

CNBC, you're fired.

We had a good run, but it's over. I was one of the original Maria Bartiromo Fan Club. But CNBC has degraded to the point where it's unwatchable. This happened a long time ago, but I held on. I'm a romantic.

It started with that buffoon Jim Cramer getting his afternoon/evening show where his antics are designed to lure individual investors into hyperactive trading styles sure to blow up their accounts for the benefit of Wall Street. Bear Stearns is not in trouble! BUY BUY BUY!

And the 5pm Fast Money show was a roundtable of egos offering their opinions, but no information. So we watched during market hours, then turned it off. We didn't want to admit it, but the market hours coverage is now just as bad. It's wall-to-wall cheerleading bimbos. And I'm not just talking about the eye candy. Dennis Kneale is the biggest bimbo of all. What on his resume other than playing a bit part in Rent in his high school drama production qualifies him to be a business journalist?

So we're cutting over to Bloomberg TV. They have the eye candy there, too, but they take the news seriously. And they're much more even-handed and even-tempered than the Cheerleading Nitwits Bubble Channel.

I'll miss you, Rick Santelli, and even you, Charlie Gasparino, on your good days. Why don't you go work for a real business news channel?