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Most densely populated country William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-6-15
Jim Huish of the Tennessee band Amber’s Drive has recorded a video of The Cup Song made with firearms as the musical instrument.
The Cup Song, also known as When I’m Gone, was made famous in the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect.
Below is the Huish version. It was made in Utah during a spell of global warming. It was placed on YouTube on Dec. 28 and already has 2.2 million views
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The Tea Party movement has been accused of being run by racists and bigots and sexists and homophobes. Its members have been accused of being anti-science who don’t care if the world is burning to the ground.
The charges are false. In fact, when one looks at those making them and then follows the money, well, it is more often than not welcome to the Tea Party.
The spark for the movement was obviously Obamacare, the disaster that was predicted and is now coming to pass.
But there was plenty of kindling and maybe the biggest pile of it was the housing bust sparked by the misue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fannie Mae is the Federal National Mortgage Association which is a financial services corporation created by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to expand the secondary mortgage market by securitizing mortgages. The nickname comes from its acronym (FNMA)
Freddie Mac is Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) It is also a “government-sponsored enterprise” and was created in 1970. Freddie Mac buys mortgages on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as a mortgage-backed security to investors on the open market.
In 1992, the Housing and Community Development Act was passed and this mandated Fannie Mae to provide mortgages to low-income people who would otherwise be considered bad credit risks, which were then pooled by Freddie Mac.
Under the Clinton administration, these risky loans boomed. Now, Fannie and Freddie while “government sponsored” are publicly traded, although both are now over the counter as they were delisted by the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. Their officers are not government employees.
The expanded loans made it look like they were just doing great when it was doing anything but.
Harold Raines was the CEO of Fannie Mae. He made about $90 million in salary and bonuses. J. Timothy Howard was CFO and Leanne G. Spencer was controller. They also made money.
In December 2006, U.S. regulators filed suit against them seeking to recoup $115 million in bonus payments along with $100 million in penalties. In 2012, the suit was dropped. They got away with it.
Pretty good heist, right?
The bad loans at Fannie and Freddie cost the U.S. taxpayers between $224 and $360 billion in bailouts.
Bernie Madoff was a piker to these guys and he’s going to die in prison.
And that is just one more reason why there is a Tea Party and people are angry and suspicious of those running government.
Considering that the House of Representatives’ vote for the speakership comes up Tuesday a reminder as to what is at stake can be made to us all. The House of Representatives can stop the wannabe deity and sovereign rule of Obama, if they care to. Things look pretty grim when newly elected Mia Love is already, so shortly after an outstanding conservative victory in the recent midterms, talking about reelecting the current speaker.
It is up to us.
Call your Representatives and remind them today 202-224-3121 of your expectations and their vote.
Let us allow our first President, George Washington be our voice today as he was that day in 1776 to the continental army before the battle of Long Island:
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die”
One must accept here that today’s liberalism is the antithesis of freedom; for if we today’s brave resistance, the new resistance, accept the oppression of one set of people for the benefit of others, then we do not have freedom at all.
Dare then to pray and ask God for his help and then ask your earthly representatives for theirs.
Contact Pat on twitter at @HonestConservat
Springfield Commissioner Bob Layden with some of the rally participants
A crowd of well over a thousand stretched along the north side of Baltimore Pike in Springfield, Pa. from Bishop Avenue to past West Avenue this afternoon, Jan. 4, to let police know they were appreciated. They held signs featuring a thin blue line across a black ground. Some wore shirts saying “all lives mattered.” Motorists honked their horn in support and gave thumbs up. A quad-copter drone flew overhead, presumably recording the event.
The mood was festive and all seemed in a good mood. Springfield Police Chief Joseph Daly walked through the crowd shaking hands. New 26th District State Sen. Tom McGarrigle was on hand as were Springfield commissioners including Bob Layden of the 6th Ward.
The rally was the idea of Amanda Viglione, a Delaware County deputy sheriff, and organized by herself and Bill Ruane of Clifton Heights.
It was in response to riots and demonstrations inspired by the deaths of Michael Brown on Aug. 9 in Feguson, Mo. and Eric Garner on July 17 in New York City during attempts to take them into custody.
Demonstrably false but inflammatory claims were made regarding police behavior which were spread uncorrected by news media and public figures. The hate this caused for those who wear the badge resulted in the deaths of at least two officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were executed, Dec. 20, while they sat in their car in New York City. The hate-filled coward who murdered them took his own life soon afterwards.
New State Sen. Tom McGarrigle with rally participants.
The scene on Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pa., Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4. The event started about 2 p.m. and lasted past 4 o’clock.
We have heard some sad news. Old friend Harvey Pollack was in a car accident, Thursday, in Philadelphia.
As of Friday night, he was in critical but stable condition at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Harvey is director of statistical information for the Philadelphia 76ers and wrote the Through the Hoops column for the Press Newspapers of Delaware County.
He is a member of the NBA Hall of Fame entering in 2002 as winner of the John Bunn Award.
Harvey is 92. He is a great guy. Remember him in your prayers.
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Jon Cassidy at Watchdog.org has an article explaining how state laws seeking to expose the rich donors of political causes are being used to stifle local activism.
He cites as an example a community group in Colorado that was sued under such a “dark money” law for opposing the annexation of a neighborhood by a larger community.
The community group consisted of about a half-dozen neighbors and spent about $1,000 for yard signs and literature.
Karen Sampson, the woman who organized the group, fought the suit and won with a federal court declaring the law unconstitutional. It took four years, though, and the Democrat-controlled Colorado legislature has failed to bring the law into line with the court ruling.
“I’m ashamed to say, that if I’d known we would be sued, and now knowing how absurd Colorado’s campaign finance laws are, I would think twice about getting involved in an issue ballot,” Ms. Sampson said.
The Colorado law requires any two people who spent $200, or 30 percent of their budget, on an issue appearing on a ballot had to register as a political committee and comply with the complex web of regulations meant for political pros, Cassidy says.
It’s just one more thing to keep your eye and to fight if you love freedom.
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