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Using Public Funds to Bribe and Reward

The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | The Faith-Based Fraud | Ari Berman

In 2003–according to White House data reported by the Los Angeles Times–Bush doled out $1 billion to hundreds of faith-based groups through a little-noted executive order. More importantly, the Bush Administration used the grants to sway influential African-Americans in key battleground states and reward longtime political supporters at taxpayer expense.

For example, after the Rev. Herb Lusk II delivered the invocation at the 2000 Republican convention, his Philadelphia church received $1 million in federal funds. Bishop Harold Ray, who offered the invocation at a rally for Dick Cheney in Palm Beach, Florida, got $1.7 million for his South Florida ministry. In 2002 Bush personally visited Milwaukee’s Bishop Sedgwick Daniels–who voted for Clinton and Gore–and later awarded him a $1.5 million grant. This fall, Daniels’s face appeared on Republican Party fliers in Wisconsin, endorsing Bush as a man who “shares our views.”

The faith-based initiatives likely played a crucial role in increasing Bush’s take of the black vote, especially in targeted swing states. Funnily enough, the campaign held grant-writing workshops in St. Louis in September (when Missouri was still in play) and Miami in October.

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The Real Inaugural Address

Greetings from Richmond, Virginia, the Capital of the Confederacy. My name is Jefferson Davis and I am here to accept my mandate — the people have spoken! It was never red versus blue states; it was always Blue versus Gray.

Brothers and Sisters, it has taken nearly 150 years to win our war against Northern Aggression. A lot of Yankee blood has watered our gardens. Now, we are triumphant. We have beaten the Beast and we can savor the bankrupting of the immoral Federacy. No longer do we have to accept their dominance — they are toast, my friends, relegated to the ashheap of history.

Now, the North must acknowledge our great culture. Our music, our stories, our family values, our moral fabric so stained by northern filth. Now, we can restore our economic greatness again — cheap labor makes men rich! Guns keep us free! Obedience to God benefits the State!

Many of you want to call the liberal North a bunch of fools, but that’s not our way. We are as genteel as we are resolute. We will treat the treacherous North with greater civility than they ever treated us. They don’t know what it is like to be subjugated, defeated, humiliated, bled. To be forced to accept a culture that has no moral compass, that puts science above God, justice above wealth, equality above property rights. They don’t know what it is like to have your entire society crushed, even burned to the ground. But we know. It has made our blood boil for 150 years, that northern arrogance, that Federal invasion. Now we will dismantle the Federal government and undo all the wickedness forced on us in the Sixties.

Let us not revel in vengeance against those who took everything from us. Instead, let us work toward solidifying our power for generations to come. Then the North, the Democrats, the Liberals, the Queers will all recognize they are nothing but a minority to be tolerated — to a point. Do not push us beyond that point, as you have so many times in the past. Do not dare think this great nation is yours any longer. It is ours, we’ve won it, we’ve earned it, we’ve paid dearly for it. We own it all. Now we are masters again. God bless US. mjh

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Lightbulb Joke

Best of the Blogs

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb. It’s improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?
posted by Vicki Meagher

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Deep Thoughts from the Right

Social Security Panel Tells Truth [Free Republic] By Stephen Moore

Social Security is the last vestige of the New Deal era of creeping socialism that the left wants to preserve and expand upon rather than modernize.

I have always believed that Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state. If Social Security can be made private, the rest of the architecture of the income redistributionist ideology of the left will soon come crumbling down behind it. …

If workers start demanding that the chains of Social Security be unshackled, soon they might demand financial independence in so many other areas of their lives.

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‘likely to mislead the public’

FactCheck.org Does Social Security Really Face an $11 Trillion Deficit?

Bush and Cheney say yes. But actuaries say the figure is “likely to mislead” the public on the system’s true financial state.

Summary

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have told audiences that Social Security faces an $11 trillion shortfall if nothing is done to fix the current system. But they fail to mention that this is over the course of the “infinite future.” Over the next 75 years — still practically a lifetime — the shortfall is projected to be $3.7 trillion.

The “infinite” projection is one that the American Academy of Actuaries says is likely to mislead the public into thinking the system “is in far worse financial condition than is actually indicated,” and therefore should not be used to explain the long-term outlook.

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Another Conservative denounces the Bill of Rights

The End of the Rights of Association and Assembly:

Christian Taylor, Free Republic: “ANSWER and some of the other protest groups like Code Pink have allied themselves with the terrorists and with Saddam Hussein. So for them to get permitted demonstration spots along the parade route is akin to giving Sadam Hussein and the terrorists their own cheerleading section.”

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Living in the Christian Nation of America

Newspaper shouldn’t print Liberal voices

Why does The Daily Independent print the degenerate views of poisonous Liberals who hate freedom?

[T]he glorious Constitution is there to protect the rights of Christians to profess their faith. This country was founded by good Christians and the Constitution guarantees our right to express our religion.

It just is completely beyond me how we have allowed Liberals to deny us this guaranteed right. …

The Founding Fathers were God-fearing men and never intended the first Amendment to promote other superstitious beliefs. …

Liberals hate people who have managed to raise their station in life, and instead insist on giving money away to the irresponsible….

No one can serve two masters, either your are a good conservative with God or you are not with God. Remember: A bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

B.M. [really!]
Ridgecrest, California

[updated with a second letter 2/4/05]

Ridgecrest Daily Independent: Letter To The Editor

Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:37 PM PST

Editor:

I must apologize for the letters I’ve written to the Editor.

I didn’t use the right words and didn’t intend the way it sounded. I’ve talked about the letters in the editorial section with some dear and supportive friends and realize how offensive some of the points I made could be.

I also learned some insights from my church group and with their help think I understand the points made earlier by other contributors as well as what the Bible means.

Jesus was tolerant and loved everyone – especially the poor and outcasts. As a couple of other letters pointed out, I now see that in some ways Jesus Himself was not very like a modern conservative and that has me thinking. I also see that all who are religious have equal rights and no religion can be held above the others, whether in school or anywhere else.

I understand now that I offended many people who I had no right to offend and I am sorry.

Billie Miller
Ridgecrest

[via The Daily Aneurysm at jabartlett.com]

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams