Friday Morning Reading...

The President speaks out of the other side of his mouth.

After weeks of telling us how bad the economy is, we have this new gem after three days of a Bear Market rally or maybe that's a "Barely" Market rally. President Barack Obama on Thursday, declared the national crisis is "not as bad as we think" and his plans will speed recovery.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96SP30G5&show_article=1


1st Amendment Under Attack by Left

Free speech is under attack from the left as never before. Yesterday, at the University of Massachusetts, Don Feder, a former Boston Herald writer, was shouted down and generally harassed by protesting leftest students who made hateful comments about him and his daughter. How ironic the speech Feder was about to give was on the subject of hate speech. He had been invited, and the event was paid for, by the campus Republican Club. He spoke for less than five minutes before his voice was silenced by the protesters who were interspersed in the crowd. They carried signs but that didn't seem to be enough for them. they turned their chairs around so their backs were to the speaker and even that wasn't enough. They shouted him down and all patted themselves on the back at his exit. How sad for our society to loose one of our most basic rights. The right to disagree. The left was putting their 1st Amendment rights to use but it wasn't allowed for Mr. Feder. because he had a different view.
Video: http://tommydevine.blogspot.com/2009/03/shocking-video.html
Article: http://www.dailycollegian.com news/feder_s_hate_crime_speech_cut_short_by_protests-1.1604850


ACORN is on the March! again...

Looks like the re-education of America is starting with a grassroots effort by ACORN to "change" legislators minds through re-education...er..forums. No problem, they are on the receiving end of more than 200 million dollars from the Porkulus bill that was just rammed through congress. Just a quick shot from their website.

Love the legislative members who are going to be re-educated.

...and then there is ACORN involvement in the housing crisis. They are truly begging for TARP fund to "help" foreclosed homeowners squat. Homeowners of color and low-income homeowners are being targeted to stay in homes they couldn't afford in the first place. Among their wish list for "reform" are:

• Require principal write-downs, in other words, if you bought a $500,000 house you only have to pay back $300,000 or some arbitrary dollar amount to be determined by the courts.
  
• Convene a summit with Treasury, HUD, regulators to establish new industry standards. "Oh yeah, I want ACORN writing my government regulations".
• Authorize $25 billion of the TARP funds to insure against re-defaults.
• Eliminate 90-day delinquency and bankruptcy requirements for Fannie, Freddie assistance.
• Improve assistance by fixing affordable interest rates, reducing principal. "Sure, not only can judges reduce your mortgage but so can some other government entity".
  

and the list goes on and on in the pamphlet put out by ACORN entitled: Housing for America, a Roadmap Out of the Crisis. Interesting reading and frightening. Union manipulation, housing fraud and voter fraud are the stock-in-trade of this "community activist" association.