NEWS ROUNDUP: CENSUS 2010

Updated by FactReal on June 30, 2010 SELECTED NEWS ABOUT THE 2010 U.S. CENSUS Year 2009 - Why Obama wants control of the Census: Counting citizens is a powerful political tool (Feb. 10, 2009) - Obama Census Plan: Use illegal aliens to redraw the political map and secure a permanent Democrat majority (April 3, 2009) - US Census Bureau links to Obama’s ACORN (Sept. 13, 2009) - KY Census Worker Committed Suicide – The Left had blamed the Tea Party Protesters (Nov. 24, 2009) - KY Census worker killed himself – When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear? (Nov. 24, 2009) - NBC’s “Law and Order” blames conservatives (Dec. 9, 2009) February 2010 - The Super-Sized Census Boondoggle (Feb. 5, 2010) - Indoctrination Watch: Student contest for “best census cheer” (Feb. 5, 2010) - The 10 Census questions (Feb 8, 2010) - Census Bureau blows $2.5 million on reminder to be counted (Feb. 8, 2010) - Another Census survey: The American Community Survey – Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing? (Feb. 10, 2010) - Audit finds US census preparations wasted millions (Feb 16, 2010) - Your tax dollars at work…fortune cookies (Feb. 22, 2010) March 2010 - Foot soldiers for census ease jobless rate (March 4, 2010) - On Census survey answer “American” as your race (March 9, 2010) - Census workers’ true confessions – 1 (March 30, 2010) - The Census: continuing the racial divide (March 30, 2010) - The census plan – proving bureaucracy does not work (Update) (March 30, 2010 ) - Census workers’ true confessions – 2 (March 31, 2010) - Reuters worried that Latinos might shun Census (March 31, 2010) April 2010 - Obama fills out census form; Identifies his race (April 1, 2010) - Why conservatives should fill out the census form (April 1, 2010) - The White House is championing “Queer the Census” (April 1, 2010) - Census workers’ true confessions – 3 (April 2, 2010) - Obama Census Workers Are Sending Out Two Forms to Select Households (April 2, 2010) - D.C. Leader Calls on Illegal Immigrants to Fill Out Census for Taxpayer-Funded Resources. (April 6, 2010) - Census marketing: “Get YOUR fair share from the federal government!” (April 7, 2010) - Obama administration has exploited the census boondoggle for both economic and ideological gain (April 7, 2010) - Census Bureau concerned about head count problems (April 8, 2010) - Left-wing lawyers: Minority criminals have a right to Census boondoggle jobs, too! (April 13, 2010) - Obama’s Census: Why he checked “African-American” and forgot his white mother (April 30, 2010) May 2010 - Census ‘has computer problem’… (May 1, 2010) - U.S. Census Bureau spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on unused promotional items (May 5, 2010) - Census Bureau making up anti-government concerns (May 5, 2010) - Census temporary jobs pad unemployment numbers (May 6, 2010) - Census jobs help Obama’s job numbers (May 7, 2010) - Census worker carjacked, kidnapped by teen (May 10, 2010) - Woman raped by census worker, more (May 11, 2010) - Census ‘to use Internet’ in future counts… (May 14, 2010) - How many “friendly reminders” will the Census Bureau send? (May 14, 2010) - Man bitten in stomach by Census worker’s dog… (May 19, 2010) - Mom recognizes Census taker as sex offender (May 19, 2010) - DHS issues arrest warrant for Census sex offender… (May 21, 2010) - Police kill gun-wielding woman who refused to answer Census questions , more (May 22, 2010) - Census workers become whistleblowers: Census firing & re-hiring to benefit job creation numbers (May 25, 2010) - Libertarian Bob Barr says Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence? (May 27, 2010) June 2010 - Police arrest Census taker (June 1, 2010) - The Census Bureau’s Recent History of Throwing Billions of Dollars Down the Drain (June 2, 2010) - Census Worker Claims Job Numbers Being Inflated (June 4, 2010) - Census Purposely Over-Hired As ‘Cost-Saving Measure’ (June 4, 2010) - Obama cheers Census workers jobs (June 4, 2010) - Census bureau official linked to Blagojevich (June 17, 2010) - WAPO says incidents of hostility, violence against census workers on the rise (June 20, 2010) - Two Census Bureau managers fired for creating 10,000 bogus questionnaires (June 26, 2010) - How the 2010 Census will impact investments (June 29, 2010)

Miami Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary of the Tea Party Movement – 2/27/2010

Miami patriots came to celebrate the first anniversary of the Tea Party movement which started last year in February 2009 to protest against government waste and expansion. We are concerned citizens of every stripe (old, young, Independents, Americans, Hispanics, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans.) We are Americans against the staggering money being wasted by Washington and the control they want to exert upon us. (GatewayPundit, thanks for linking to this post.)

HOW THE TEA PARTIES STARTED The tax revolts started in February 2009:
2/16/09 Protesting the Porkulus “Stimulus” Bill, 2/16/09 Seattle Tea Party, more photos	2/17/2009 Denver Anti-Stimulus Rally
2/19/2009 Rick Santelli of CNBC called for a “Chicago Tea Party” leading the charge for calls to revolt against the Obama Administration’s mortgage bailout plan.	Song: God Bless the USA! We are proud Americans who want this nation to remain free. Facts about the Tea Parties
RELATED - 1,500 Rally at St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Anniversary Protest - 1000+ Attendees at the Dallas Tea Party Today - New York City Tea Party One Year Anniversary 2010 (Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs) - British Tea Party Movement to launch on Saturday - LEFTY RACISM: Donny Deutsch calls Marco Rubio a ‘Coconut’ - HYPOCRISY: Democrats love the ‘Nuclear Option’ now, but hated it under Bush …more at FactReal’s sitemap

FLORIDA ELECTIONS 2010: Marco Rubio’s AMEX Expenses Were for Promoting the Republican Party and Raised $12 Million

Marco Rubio, candidate for the U.S. Senate, explains that the American Express charges were incurred while promoting the Republican Party.
- Marco Rubio: The credit card charges of nearly $110,000 in charges over 25 months were for “legitimate travel to promote the Republican Party of Florida, help Republican candidates and participate in county party fundraisers around the state.” - “If you can raise $12 million on $110,000, we all should be that good,” said Sharon Day, the state party’s national committeewoman. - “It’s very convenient that the only one that gets released (is Rubio’s),” Sharon Day said. “This is silly. They want to talk about $110,000 in 25 months when Delmar [Greer's executive director] spent $130,000 in one month.” - “Greer resigned from the party under pressure after reports of lavish spending on jet planes and extravagant meals and entertaining. Greer’s executive director, Delmar Johnson, was given a secret contract that pumped his compensation up to $408,000.” …more at Associated Press (or here)
RELATED - LEFTY RACISM: Donny Deutsch calls Marco Rubio a ‘Coconut’ - FL ELECTIONS 2010: Staffers Abandoning Charlie Crist - FL ELECTIONS 2010: Marco Rubio Gets Standing Ovation at CPAC 2010 - FL ELECTIONS 2010: Marco Rubio on the Census & Immigration (video) - FL ELECTIONS 2010: Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio…and their records

REMEMBERING THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING – February 26, 1993

Islamic terrorists have been attacking Americans long before 9/11. One of those attacks is the 1993 World Trade Center bombing:
“On the morning of Feb. 26, 1993, Eyad Ismoil drove a rented Ryder Ford F350 Econoline truck packed with 1,500 pounds of fertilizer-based explosives into level B-2 of the underground garage beneath the World Trade Center. Ismoil departed, leaving a timing device set to detonate the explosives a while later. At 12:18 p.m., the bomb exploded, killing six, creating a crater 150 feet in diameter that blew a hole five floors deep in the parking garage. The towers, however, did not fall. Killed were John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Smith. Yousef, the mastermind of the plot, later said he had hoped to kill tens of thousands. The explosives were manufactured at a Jersey City apartment, using chemicals ordered from a supply company. They were placed in the truck at a rented storage shed alongside three tanks of compressed hydrogen gas, purchased to enhance the destructive power of the explosives. The plotters, including Yousef and Yasin, built the bombs using manuals brought from Pakistan.”	1993 WTC BOMBING, an Islamic attack
	TERRORISTS Organizations: Al-Qaeda, Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, Liberation Army Fifth Battalion Al Fareeq Al Rokn, Abu Bakr Al Makkee. Terrorists: Ramzi Yousef (Operational Commander), Eyad Ismoil (Attacker). Facilitators: Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin, Mahmud Abouhalima, Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj. Financier: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
SOURCES: - United States vs. Yousef, et. al., indictment. - The 9-11 Commission Report. July 22, 2004. - Global Security - FBI RELATED - Have you forgotten? World Trade Center bombing, 17 years later - LIST OF MAJOR ISLAMIC ATTACKS & PLOTS ON AMERICA…before 9/11

RAPSHEET: Democrat Tom Harkin

From L to R: Democrat John Kerry, Tom Harkin, Harkin's wife, Marxist Nicaraguan Dictator Daniel Ortega	Democrat Tom Harkin supported the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The photo: Harkin and John Kerry aided Marxist Sandinista Dictator Daniel Ortega while Ortega was enslaving the Nicaraguan people. “…in April 1985 Harkin and fellow neophyte Senator John F. Kerry (D-Massachusetts) flew to Nicaragua…to give propaganda support to its Marxist rulers only days before a scheduled congressional vote on President Ronald Reagan’s requested aid for Nicaragua’s anti-Communist freedom fighters. After embracing Daniel Ortega in front of news cameras, Harkin and Kerry flew back to Washington with a document signed by Ortega in which the latter claimed to be “non-aligned” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. (But years earlier Ortega’s brother Humberto had declared: “We [Sandinistas] are anti-Yankee, we are against the bourgeoisie…we are guided by the scientific doctrine of the revolution, by Marxism-Leninism.” Humberto Ortega also had said that the Sandinistas intended to “crush” all who dissented from their rule.)
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, lobbied by Harkin and Kerry, voted against giving aid (as requested by President Reagan) to the anti-Communist Contras…[T]he very moment the vote against President Reagan’s request was taking place, Daniel Ortega was aboard a Soviet airliner flying to Moscow to pledge his allegiance to the Soviet Union.” …more about Tom Harkin Fake war hero Tom Harkin

OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT: Campaign Theater, Oba-Kabuki, ShamWoW Infomercial, Dog-and-Pony show

SHOULD REPUBLICANS TRUST OBAMA AND GO ANYWHERE WITH HIM?	Democrat Confirms Socialist Trick
During the Show: - ObamaCare Summit Show: live via c-span 2/25/2010 at 9:45am - Live Health Care Dog & Pony Show From the Blair House (Video Link) - Blowhard-a-thon at Blair House: Health care summit open thread - Heritage liveblogging After the Show: - Highlights: The best freak-show moments from the health-care freak show	Senator Sanders confirms that reconciliation is the foot-in-the-door strategy for more socialist programs.
ShamWow Summit: “Designed to obfuscate this truth and devoid of any attempt to establish a shared, bi-partisan principle for reform, the Obama Administration’s summit constitutes a ShamWoW! infomercial for incrementally socialized medicine that threatens Americans’ health care; imposes double taxation on most Americans who are responsibly trying to save for their future during this painful recession; devolves private health insurance companies into government-dictated utilities; and further erodes the public’s waning faith that their government institutions are truly representative. …the Republican leadership has no choice. It must NOT accept the administration’s disingenuous summit invitation to “negotiate.” To accept would abet a deceit upon the people; and violate the principle that transparency in government exists to reveal the truth and promote the public’s confidence in their representative institutions, not to foster misperceptions and subvert the public’s confidence in their representative institutions.”
Will They Unmask the Liar: “President Obama has a habit of making false statements, and getting away with them. At a Republican conference in Baltimore last month, for example, he denied that his budget nearly triples the national debt over 10 years. He got away with it because he didn’t face follow-up questions or objections. It’s not easy to criticize a president face to face…The presidency commands respect. Americans expect the president to be treated with dignity and deference, making criticizing him to his face politically risky. But it’s necessary, because Mr. Obama is basing his health-care pitch on the false premise that he can drive down health-care prices by creating a pricey new entitlement. He also maintains that he can do this without creating a mountain of federal debt or a bureaucracy that will determine when Americans can receive care.”
Ronald Reagan Spoke Against Socialized Medicine: “Back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas,…said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. …One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. …this foot-in-the door philosophy…“If we can only break through and get our foot inside the door, then we can expand the program after that.
…Well, let us see what the socialists themselves have to say about it. They say once the…bill is passed this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population. Now we can’t say we haven’t been warned. …and behind [this bill] will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Norman Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism…[and] we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.”

Krauthammer: Health Summit Campaign is ‘Theater’	The Stage: “White House health reform summit has been designed to preserve President Obama’s home court advantage. The president, Vice President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will get the first word on every topic during Thursday’s meeting.” “Participants will be seated at tables in a hollow square setup.” Obama’s Kabuki Theater The Props The Setup: Taxpayer funded media event designed to setup passage ObamaCare 2.0 Bipartisanship?…No love from Democrats
RELATED - CBO Can’t Score Obama Plan, No Details - Obama’s Proposal – Myths Versus Facts - FACTS: OBAMA-CARE 101 – Why Americans Oppose It

RUSH LIMBAUGH vs. GLENN BECK: Who Spanked Whom (video)

Rush’s Spanking: If you hate Limbaugh and if you love him, you’ll like this video
	Caller scolds Limbaugh for not ripping the Republicans enough and for criticizing Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech (where Beck again equated Republicans with Democrats). Limbaugh responded with an actual spanking…watch video…very funny. Rush loves to use irony and parody to show how ridiculous a point is, i.e., “Republicans are like the Democrats.” When Republicans have failed is when they behaved like Democrats/progressives/liberals/leftists. In the Republican Party those are the RINOs (Republicans-In-Name-Only). RELATED - GLENN BECK FULL SPEECH AT CPAC – The Good, the Bad,…and the Wrong - UNLIKE GLENN BECK, Conservatives see Difference between Republicans and Democrats

FLORIDA ELECTIONS 2010: Marco Rubio Answers To Credit Card Charges

Updated by FactReal on Feb. 26, 2010 SUMMARIZED EXPLANATION: Marco Rubio’s $110,000 AMEX Expenses Were for Promoting the Republican Party and Raised $12 Million “If you can raise $12 million on $110,000, we all should be that good,” said Sharon Day, the state party’s national committeewoman.
MARCO RUBIO’S LETTER: U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio explained his American Express credit card charges during his time as Florida House Speaker. Via MarcoRubio.com: “During my leadership at the party, my efforts focused on promoting a strong conservative agenda and raising more than $12 million dollars to protect Republican seats. In order to accomplish these goals, I had an American Express card from February of 2005 through November of 2008. While that card is commonly referred to as an “RPOF AMEX,” it was in fact secured under my name, my Social Security number, and my personal credit through the Corporate Division of American Express. On its website, Americanexpress.com, the company clearly outlines the billing practices for the corporate card as follows: “Each Cardmember submits an expense report in accordance with your company policy. Your company issues a single check to American Express for all authorized charges, streamlining your payment process. Cardmembers can pay American Express directly for unapproved and personal charges.” In accordance with this procedure, each month, the RPOF would approve and pay only those expenses related to my role with the Republican Party. When it came to incurring expenses, I erred on the side of caution and maintained two operating principles: If it was questionable as to whether the expense was state or Party related, I tried to err on the side of saving taxpayer money by charging that expense to the Party. If it was a question between Party expenses or personal expenses, I tried to err on the side of protecting Party money by paying personally for those charges directly. During the 25-month period covered by the leaked documents, the Party authorized and made payments of $109,618.45 for my charges directly related to my work for the Party. As you will see, 89% of my Party expenses were for travel, lodging, fuel, car rentals and meals related to my official work for the party. During this time I crisscrossed the state countless times for Lincoln/Reagan dinners, GOP fundraisers, and other party business. In all, more than half of my expenses were transportation costs: 40% for commercial airline travel and 14% for car rentals, tolls, parking and fuel. As a point of reference, during this time period, the charges on my card amounted to approximately 3% of the Party’s total American Express expenditures. In fact, I had fewer expenses in two years than my opponent’s handpicked RPOF Executive Director spent in just one month. During the period in question, there was no formal process provided by the Party regarding personal charges made on an AMEX account. At no time during my four years as a cardholder did the party ask me to provide additional information about, or personally pay, any of the charges I submitted for payment. I always took it upon myself to identify and directly pay American Express for all non-official expenses. During the two-year period in question, I made $16,052.50 in direct payments to AMEX to cover non-party related expenditures. To the greatest extent possible, I made sure the Party never paid for any personal charges. In fact, all of my statements were- at least I certainly hope they were- reviewed and approved by former Chairman Jim Greer or others designated by him.”
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