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The smell from 2885 Brownlee Ave in Columbus, Ohio has a voter fraud odor.
But thanks to the college network Palestra.net, a lot (a whole lot) of the fraud going on in Columbus, OH has been uncovered.
Vote From Home is a get out the vote grassroots organization focused on Ohio. Their volunteers come from around the country. Only issue: they are casting ballots in Ohio. Palestra.net's Shelby Holliday and Tiffany Wilson report.
These activists are leaders of a group called "Vote From Home '08." Their mission statement:
Vote from Home (VFH) is a political action committee formed in response to the change in early voting laws in Ohio. VFH's mission is to educate Ohio voters about absentee and early voting, assist them in the voting process, and track the progress of their votes. Our goal is to secure 10,000 early votes before Election Day. VFH's belief is that a grassroots effort of this kind could significantly increase voter turnout.. VHF's GOTV effort will target all age groups; however, special attention will be focused on the youth vote.
Their team's claim from their site:
Members of the founding team include Marshall, Rhodes, Truman, and Fulbright Scholars, and have extensive experience with political organizing, election administration, and Democratic politics.
However to see what the real mission of this organization's team is please watch this video.
A good idea that most of the US is in favor of. It's also entertaining.
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The first half of this is, I think, a pretty accurate rendition of how we got into our present economic mess with housing. The last half is more political, so you decide.
Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?
My sense is that he is appealing to illegal as well as legal Spanish immigrants. Can anyone translate?
The narrator then says, "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote...and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families. John McCain...more of the same old Republican tricks."
Hilarious!
Post source: FOX News
By now you have probably seen the commercial with Republican oilman T Boon Pickens, and his plan to switch America to wind power to break our addiction' to foreign oil. He is into a project that is putting wind power into four counties of Texas. Well there is a lot that the commercial doesn't tell you.
Pickens hopes that his recent $100 million investment in 200,000 acres worth of groundwater rights in Roberts County, Texas, located over the Ogallala Aquifer, will earn him $1 billion. But there's more to earning such a profit than simply acquiring the water. Rights-of-way must be purchased to install pipelines, and opposition from anti-development environmental groups must be overcome. Here's where it gets interesting, according to information compiled by the Water Research Group, a small grassroots group focusing on local water issues in Texas.
Purchasing rights-of-way is often expensive and time-consuming -- and what if landowners won't sell? While private entities may be frustrated, governments can exercise eminent domain to compel sales. This is Pickens' route of choice. But wait, you say, Pickens is not a government entity. How can he use eminent domain? Are you sitting down?
At Pickens' behest, the Texas legislature changed state law to allow the two residents of an 8-acre parcel of land in Roberts County to vote to create a municipal water district, a government agency with eminent domain powers. Who were the voters? They were Pickens' wife and the manager of Pickens' nearby ranch. And who sits on the board of directors of this water district? They are the parcel's three other non-resident landowners, all Pickens' employees.
A member of a local water conservation board told Bloomberg News that, "[Pickens has] obtained the right of eminent domain like he was a big city. It's supposed to be for the public good, not a private company."
What's this got to do with Pickens' wind-power plan? Just as he needs pipelines to sell his water, he also needs transmission lines to sell his wind-generated power. Rights of way for transmission lines are also acquired through eminent domain -- and, once again, the Texas legislature has come to Pickens' aid.
Earlier this year, Texas changed its law to allow renewable energy projects (like Pickens' wind farm) to obtain rights-of-way by piggybacking on a water district's eminent domain power. So Pickens can now use his water district's authority to also condemn land for his future wind farm's transmission lines.
Who will pay for the rights-of-way and the transmission lines and pipelines? Thanks to another gift from Texas politicians, Pickens' water district can sell tax-free, taxpayer-guaranteed municipal bonds to finance the $2.2 billion cost of the water pipeline. And then earlier this month, the Texas legislature voted to spend $4.93 billion for wind farm transmission lines. While Pickens has denied that this money is earmarked for him, he nevertheless is building the largest wind farm in the world.
So the people in Texas especially, and elsewhere, smile and sing praise to a man while he fleeces them of billions of dollars.
Post source: Business & Media Institute
It is according to House Majority Whip James Clyburn and minority activists.
"Though far less responsible for climate change, African-Americans are significantly more vulnerable to its effects than non-Hispanic whites," the report says. "Health, housing, economic well-being, culture, and social stability are harmed from such manifestations of climate change as storms, floods, and climate variability.
"African-Americans are also more vulnerable to higher energy bills, unemployment, recessions caused by global energy price shocks, and a greater economic burden from military operations designed to protect the flow of oil to the U.S," it says.
The commission Clyburn helped launch claims Hurricane Katrina's impact on New Orleans was a preview of how global warming will affect African-Americans
And the money line.
The report suggested implementing a "fee, tax or allowance auction on polluters," which was meant to "eliminate the financial burden on low-income and moderate-income households.This would pay for efforts to reduce global warming. Hoerner said that although it would cause product costs to increase, under his policy, the revenue from the "fee, tax, or allowance auction payment" would be redistributed to consumers to offset the higher costs.
How shameless the extreme lengths some activists, as well as the politicians they support, will go to. A tax on any business or corporation that pollutes is a tax on everyone. We all, rich or poor, young or old, and of any race are consumers of those industries that pollute.
Denver gives DNC committee pass on gas tax
The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.
"There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me," Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.
State of Colorado gas tax law: Section 39-27-102( 1 )( b ) provides for an exemption for cities and other government entities, but only for a "governmental purpose" and solely for machines owned or operated by the governmental entity.
Partial excerpt with my bold emphasis added.
(b) ..... The exemption shall apply solely to machines owned or operated by the United States or any of its agencies, by the state, or by any town, city, county, city and county, school district, or other political division of the state. ..... Any governmental entity referred to in this paragraph (b) may shall obtain an exemption certificate from the executive director of the department of revenue. Upon receipt of an exemption certificate, such governmental entity may purchase gasoline or special fuel from a distributor without payment of the excise tax imposed pursuant to this part 1 if the gasoline or special fuel is used exclusively by the governmental entity in performing its governmental functions and activities.
So legally the tax is still owed by law, whether by the DNC, the City or whoever, it wasn't paid while the little guy gets hosed.
The spoof political satire of ONN (Onion News Network) always sets me to giggling. This is one of the better one this month.
