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ACORN Still Funded

The lamestream media told you:

The Senate voted 83 to 7, and the House voted 345 to 75, to cut off federal funds to ACORN, a controversial and scandal-tainted community organizing group that has supported president Obama, and received support from Mr. Obama, who was their lawyer when working in Chicago before he entered politics.

 The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

ACORN is reinventing itself as CCI -- Community Organizers International, a fact conveniently overlooked by lamestream reporters. No one seems to expect the so-called federal bans against this corrupt community organizer involved in massive voter fraud, promoting prostitution and illegal immigration, tax fraud perps and a black hole for federal cash will stop the new organization, under a revamped business structure, with the exact same leaders, staff and goals.

Specifically, the votes "to deny funding for housing and community grants" take effect if and when the Senate 2010 federal spending bill, and the House student-aid bill to which the amendments are attached are enacted as currently written. How many other types of funding this group gets, and the amounts of the cuts compared to their overall take, is unknown. The $53 million they are known to have received since 1994 does not include unknown amounts from federal block grants. The media, flush with tales of funding cutoffs, neglected to mention the ongoing funding and absence of a real cutoff.

Jones' News Vacuum

The lamestream media told you:

"The White House says president Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones is resigning amid controversy over past inflammatory statements... including comments about Republicans... Jones issued an apology Thursday... White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would say only that Jones, 'continues to work in the administration'."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Self-avowed communist Van Jones, selected by Mr. Obama to be a government czar, has been forced from office by public outcry, proving the crucial principle once again that the public, when sufficiently aroused, can force its will even on the federal government.

Jones reportedly had not passed FBI background checks because he was subjected to them, even though communists are the arch enemy of every good thing America represents. The reasons for the reported absence of a vetting process could not be determined at press time.

The controversy over this Obama-appointed communist raged for weeks on the internet, free radio broadcasts and in person-to-person conversations nationwide. Lamestream reports of the growing political disaster for Mr. Obama were less robust, with independent research from a Nexis search prior to the dismissal showing:

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CNN: 0
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bios/byron-york.html

Perhaps the biggest story in this story is why or how the pillars of the "news" business could so thoroughly suppress a story of such tremendous signficance. It makes you wonder what else they suppress, if a communist eagerly embraced by the administration is completely blacked out.

The Washington Post published a story after the mierda hit the fan, "White House Says Little on Embattled Jones," on page A-3 of its Saturday edition. Other reports immediately after the fact remained abysmal, with the New York Times maintaining silence on the story, along with ABC's "World News" and "NBC Nightly News" for a period too long to qualify as "good journalism." And they wonder why their credibility is in cinders.

Health Debate Irrational

The lamestream media told you:

Democrats are insisting on passing Obama's health care package immediately, while republicans and some democrats are united in resisting a fix to the health care system which is in serious trouble.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

When no one knows what will be in the new or amended bill, before it's released, debate over it is irrational. "News" reporters have consistently failed to note this minor fact.

The old bill, HR 3200, remained the same outrageous jumble of government takeover, breakneck spending, bureaucratic wastefulness and bottlenecks that it was when everyone read it the first time months ago.

Fortunately, Obama's original demand that the 1,100 pages be signed by the end of the week it was released failed, so everyone got to see what was in it, and the outrage broke loose. According to thomas.gov, the last action on the bill was on July 14.

Congressman John Shadegg has a 19-page health-care proposal, HR 3218, that basically gets government out of doctors' faces, removes government restrictions so free markets can provide robust services, and it has received virtually no coverage at all. It allows buying insurance across state lines, setting up private medical coops, tax credits for medical care and more.

LATE BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has released a new health-care bill, no one has had time to read or decipher it, and the debate rages on. The pros and antis are already at it, on the same sides they were before, with the same level of understanding (virtually none), only louder.

The House version has not been released, but so what. The required combined version is not even in the dream stage, but so what.

The Constitution delegates no authority to Congress to take over the practice of medicine. Now THAT'S a big deal.

Obama's Eduspeech Excelled

The lamestream media told you:

The president seemed very presidential as he delivered an inoffensive speech to America's students from grades kindergarten through 12. Despite dire warning from conservatives before they even heard the speech, there was nothing to fear in the short, harmless, encouraging speech.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Obama's speech to America's school children, as finally written and delivered was excellent, it truly was. The best American values were delivered to students nationwide: study hard, you need schooling to succeed, America's future depends on you, being a basketball or rap star is not a career plan. It also proved a crucial point: the public can influence the presidency when they speak loudly enough.

1. The classroom materials distributed before the speech outraged the public, and rightly so. Mr. Obama planned an indoctrinating piece of propaganda swamped in political overtones. It is obvious the speech was rewritten after the uproar, because it didn't match the pre-release materials. The media uniformly failed to mention this, acting as if rewriting is some alien concept, or that it didn't occur.

2. Although the delivered speech was steeped in decent American values, it broke the ice on the idea that Mr. Obama can directly address children too small to understand what's happening. The appropriate timing would be during family hour so kids could watch at home with parents.

3. Children do not attend school voluntarily in America anymore -- we have a compulsory and sequestered system with harsh penalties for failure to comply for the majority of the public. Forcing a politician's speech on them under these circumstances is flat out wrong. If president Bush had attempted such a thing we know what the media response would have been. Instead of the gushing media praise we have come to expect for anything Obama, we would have vitriol and invective -- which would have been proper for the concept -- though it would have no doubt been aimed at the man.

4. By breaking the ice on Obama addresses to young children, the public must now be extremely vigilant for future speeches which may already be planned, and messages that are nowhere near as mellow as the one the public forced the president to change this time around. Don't expect advance leaks on the next speech. Extreme vigilance in protecting our children is no vice.

5. Because Mr. Obama's insiders made the mistake of distributing materials ahead of time, the public was alerted and able to assert itself in time. It also established the crucial principle that parents can have their kids opt out of nationally planned agendas in mandatory schools.

6. None of the news media picked up on this. They a) belittled the concern voiced ahead of the brazen speech plan, and b) failed to recognize that the delivered content was changed to soothe the angry pitchfork-wielding mobs who objected to an effort to solicit support of young kids into an Obama corps.

Presidential Student Indoctrination?

The lamestream media told you:

In a historic first-ever address by a president, Barack Obama will address every student in government school all at the same time. Conservatives are upset at the speech even before it has been given, the fools.

 The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

While the president had planned on delivering "worshipful" civics messages (the term used by school superintendent Tom Horne), school students' understanding of real history and civics is at deplorably low levels, as measured by a simple Goldwater Institute poll.

Its report: "A Survey of Civic Knowledge Among Arizona High School Students," reveals only 3.5 percent of Arizona high school students have learned the basic history, government and geography necessary to pass the U.S. Citizenship test.

Here are the survey questions, the correct answers, and in parentheses the percentage of government-school students providing the correct answer.

1. What is the supreme law of the land?         
Answer: The Constitution (29.5%)

2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: The Bill of Rights (25%)

3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Answer: Senate and House (23%)

4. How many Justices are on the Supreme Court?
Answer: Nine (9.4%)

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson (25.3%)

6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
Answer: Atlantic (58.8%)

7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?
Answer: Democratic and Republican (49.6%)

8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
Answer: Six (14.5%)

9. Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington (26.5%)

10. Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?
Answer: The President (26%)

Only 40 students passed, out of 1,140 (3.5%). It isn't clear what, if anything, Arizona students are learning in these classes, but it is abundantly clear what they are not learning -- U.S. civics, history and geography. Mr. Obama's address was not expected to improve the situation. Dr. Matthew Ladner, vice president for research at the Goldwater Institute, conducted the study. http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org

Fairness Doctrine Redux

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

 The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

President Obama has appointed Mark Lloyd as chief diversity officer to the FCC. According to early reports in this breaking story, he will have the power to manage talk radio content as diversity czar, accomplishing the goals of the Unfairness Doctrine, which has been essentially abandoned as not enactable.

Using the power of the FCC, this unelected czar could threaten the licenses of broadcasters, and, according to his earlier statements, essentially force broadcasters to subsidize their competition at a rate that could bankrupt them.

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have covered the sketchy details of this blockbuster, but the lamestream media has remained mum, a travesty as far as keeping the public informed is concerned. A simple Google search fills in some of the blanks, or you can start with this brief piece: http://tinyurl.com/nezxhj

The Internet's ability to keep the public informed represents such incredible political power that the powers-that-be must eventually look into control and censorship of the web. That has begun, with a bill designed to give the president an off switch for the entire Internet, usable during an undefined technology emergency. It hasn't passed yet, though technologists have known for years that the web can be shut down by fiat with ease.

Ted Kennedy Dies

The lamestream media told you:

U.S. Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy died shortly before midnight Aug. 25, at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. "He was one of history's most towering senators, a skilled lawmaker who crafted scores of statutes that helped how children learn, how doctors treat the sick, and how workers are paid and protected," according to a national news release from McClatchy news service.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

It was unclear at press time whether America's Founding Fathers would have considered a senator who crafted scores of statutes that "helped how children learn, how doctors treat the sick, and how workers are paid and protected" was "towering." A review of the U.S. Constitution finds no delegated authority whatsoever for any such things, but no arrests have been reported. Yet.

Ted (not his real name) Kennedy, a dedicated and at times vicious anti-rights advocate on Second Amendment issues, is expected to be praised incessantly in left-wing lamestream media, without mention of his well-known role in fighting against the fundamental human right of self defense.

If he is emblematic of liberalism and progressivism, as the "news" has reported, then a perhaps narrow but certainly deep hatred of one of America's most fundamental rights and defining characteristics infects a significant portion of the nation. Such people should have little role indeed in guiding our national defense or personal self defense.

CIA Interrogators Probed

The lamestream media told you:

"Washington -- Despite president Obama's desire to avoid revisiting Bush-era interrogations, attorney general Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor Monday to determine whether CIA officials or contractors should be criminally investigated in the suspected torture of terrorism detainees," according to Marissa Taylor and Warren Strobel, reporting for the McClatchy news service.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Anyone who understands how these things work knows the AG does not go off and pursue a witch hunt like this if his boss (the president) doesn't want it. This story merely provides cover for Mr. Obama, who desperately wants to satisfy his supporters and seek blood in attacking his predecessor, the hated president Bush, who for seven and a half years prevented radical Muslims from attacking the U.S. homeland, while they destroyed people and property all over the rest of the globe.

Spontaneous Demonstrations -- Not

The lamestream media told you:

Some group or other is having a demonstration at the White House, where our reporter is covering the situation live as it unfolds, including the arrest of two of the protesters.

 The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Noted scholar and friend Dave Hardy writes to clarify:

"From 1982 to 1992 I worked for the legal branch of the Interior Dept in Washington. Across the hall were the attorneys for National Capital Region Parks. A lot of their work dealt with demonstrations, since the White House premises, the park across the street from it, and similar places were within their jurisdiction.

"One day at lunch with them one attorney is telling his boss of some leftist group (I forget which or what cause)... Twelve of them will be in the tour group that enters the White House at 10 a.m. At 10:15, they will leave the tour group, cross the line into the area where entry is forbidden on the White House lawn. Park police will demand that they leave at 10:30. Ten will comply, and the remaining two will be arrested.

"In some surprise I asked how he knew all this with such detail in advance. He responded that it had been negotiated out. It was easier on everyone. Park Police could arrest two instead of twelve, and the two would be quickly released. Park Police knew exactly when to show up. The demonstrators could tell the media exactly when to be there, so they didn't waste time in the hot sun waiting for Park Police to show up and make arrests.

"The attorney said this was SOP for White House demonstrations. Call the right office, come in, and work out terms. And the media knows it, because they're beneficiaries."

The media damn well knows it. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Tzars Overrunning America

The lamestream media told you:

Obama has appointed a car czar to handle the automobile companies the government took over.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Tzars are helatious tyrannical dictators detested the world over, and most were ousted or killed early last century. As of July 1st -- all beholden solely to Mr. Obama -- America is now infested with these unregulated pests, and the media just blandly reports that a few new ones have come on board.

1. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra.
2. Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
3. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet. .
4. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
5. Car Czar: Ed Montgomery.
6. Terrorism/WMD Czar: Gary Samore.
7. Health Care Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle.
8. Education Czar: Not appointed yet.
9. Economic Czar: Paul Volcker.
10. Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet.
11. Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Adolfo Carrion.
12. Guantanomo closure Czar: Danny Fried.
13. Great lakes Czar: Cameron Davis.
14. Stimulus accountability Czar: Earl Devaney.
15. Cyberspace Czar: Not appointed yet.
16. Border Czar: Alan Bersin (Former US attorney).
17. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair.
18. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein.
19. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
20. Iran Czar: Not appointed yet.
21. TARP Czar: Herb Allison.
22. Middle-East peace Czar: George Mitchell.
23. Science Czar: John Holdren.
24. Green jobs Czar: Van Jones.
25. Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke.
26. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration.
27. Mideast policy Czar: Dennis Ross.
28. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra.
29. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley.
30. Faith-based Czar: Joshua Dubois.
31. Climate Czar: Todd Stern.

INSIDER STUFF: This from a ranking Republican in the machinery, preliminary to a statement about tzars you may be seeing soon: