Monday, June 6, 2011

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Democratic activists urged to be aggressive at Rep. Allen West town hall meetings

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 10:00 PM PDT

By GEORGE BENNETT, The Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach County Democratic activists got some coaching last week on getting loud and getting ejected when U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, holds another town hall meeting Thursday in Boca Raton.

“Make your voice heard. Get angry. Get upset – because you are .. .Attend every single town hall and get loud. That’s the only way the media’s going to pick us up,” Craig Borkon of the liberal group Organize Now told the county Democratic Executive Committee.

When one of the roughly 100 partisans mentioned getting tossed out, Borkon said: “Let them throw you out. Finally maybe the media will put something in the paper saying he’s throwing everybody out that disagrees with him.”

Since voting for House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s spending blueprint and its controversial Medicare overhaul plan, West has been confronted by some shouters at each of his town hall meetings. Some were escorted out, and liberal talk radio host Nicole Sandler was arrested after being removed from a meeting in Fort Lauderdale. Charges against Sandler of “trespassing after warning” were later dropped.

County Democratic Chairman Mark Alan Siegel characterized Sandler’s behavior as extraordinary “help” that others needn’t replicate.

“If they ask you to leave, you leave,” Siegel counseled. “The one person who was cuffed was cuffed because she continued to dispute into the lobby and was trying to help us make news that day by getting herself arrested. And she did.”

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Tea Party to Back Any GOP Nominee— Including Romney

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 09:11 AM PDT

By Lexi Stemple, FOXNews.com

The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination – - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That’s the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.

Kremer told Fox News on Saturday, “whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement.”

Kremer went on to say the Tea Party is “completely neutral,” adding that it “just wants to see the cream rise to the top… If Romney is the nominee I believe that we want to defeat Barack Obama.”

Her confidence comes while some Tea Partiers, including some at FreedomWorks, a leading voice in the Tea Party movement, set their sights on stopping a Romney nomination.

Kremer also wants to put to rest the idea the Tea Party would support a third party candidate, insisting the Tea Party can work from within the democratic and republican parties.

“There is no way that we are going to support a third party candidate. It would split the vote and it would guarantee reelection for Obama, and we need to crush Obama we have to get him out of the White House,” says Kremer.

Kremer also believes the Tea Party movement will have a “massive impact just as we did in 2010.”

In fact, she feels the Tea Party and its elected representatives are responsible for the failure of a clean debt ceiling vote in congress this week.

“We are still having an impact here in Washington. I really believe that if it weren’t for the Tea Party movement they would already raised the debt ceiling and the spending would continue to be out of control… The democratic party was completely split.

To read more, visit:  http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/06/04/tea-party-back-any-gop-nominee-including-romney

10-year-old boy gets ticket for not wearing seat belt properly

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 09:05 AM PDT

By Miguel Liscano, AMERICAN-STATESMAN

ROUND ROCK — On his way home Tuesday from Jim Plain Elementary School in Leander, fourth-grader Marshall May, sitting in the passenger seat of the family minivan, was ticketed for not wearing his seat belt properly.

Problem is, Texas law says a person must be at least 15 years old to commit such an offense. If a child isn’t properly secured by a seat belt, the adult in the car would be at fault, according to the law. But Marshall’s aunt, Ashley Arredondo, 19, who was driving, didn’t receive a ticket.

“I was really scared, I could tell you that,” Marshall said Thursday. “I didn’t know what to do.

“He made me sign my signature, but I don’t have a signature because I’m 10 years old.”

Instead, Marshall printed his full name.

By Thursday, the story landed on Austin talk radio, and reporters began asking questions.

Interim Leander City Manager Robert Powers said Thursday that Marshall should not have been ticketed.

“I think it was just a mistake,” Powers said. “It wasn’t anything egregious or malicious.”

The Police Department has taken procedural steps with the city’s municipal court that will likely lead to the ticket’s dismissal, Powers said. It will be up to the court to dismiss the ticket.

“I don’t know if they requested it be dismissed or if they asked that it be taken into consideration, but that’s certainly the intent,” Powers said.

Marshall was in the passenger seat when he decided to stick his head out the window for some air, he said. As he stretched, the seat belt slipped up toward his neck and shoulder area, he said.

To read more, visit:  http://www.statesman.com/news/local/10-year-old-boy-gets-ticket-for-not-1515754.html

Hackers gather around the globe to fight “climate change”

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 09:02 AM PDT


By Alden Mahler Levine, CNN

When you hear the word hacker, you probably don’t picture someone dedicated to solving the problems of global development.

But this weekend, self-proclaimed hackers around the world will gather at “hackathon” events to tackle disaster-risk management and climate change. The occasion is the semiannual Random Hacks of Kindness global conference, which seeks to leverage Internet data to address world problems.

Gatherings will be held in cities around the globe, from Atlanta to California’s Silicon Valley and from Basel, Switzerland, to Bogota, Colombia. The conference is the result of a 2009 collaboration by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, which founded Random Hacks of Kindness. (Both the organization and the events it organizes are known as RHoK.)

The group solicits “problem definitions” from organizations in the field of disaster preparedness, relief and climate change and puts them before “tech-savvy do-gooders,” according to Elizabeth Sabet from SecondMuse, RHoK’s global operational lead.

It’s this synthesis between subject-matter experts and computer hackers that makes RHoK effective, its leaders said.

To read more, visit: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/06/03/hackers.fight.climate.change/

Delinquent Homeowners to Get Mortgage Aid from Obama admin

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT


By Reuters, CNBC.com

The Obama administration wants to help more struggling Americans stay in their homes by reducing the amount they owe on their troubled mortgages, a top Treasury official said Saturday.

“We are very definitely trying to facilitate more principal reductions,” said Timothy Massad, Treasury’s acting assistant secretary for financial stability. “It is a very important piece of the overall solution,” he said.

The administration is trying through taxpayer-funded programs to prevent homeowners from losing their homes. Nearly $50 billion has been set aside from the $700 billion bank bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, to help distressed homeowners.

Persistently high unemployment and a weak housing market pose a threat to President Obama’s re-election prospects next year.

So far, one of the programs has helped some 670,000 distressed homeowners win lower mortgage payments. But that has done very little to help the overall housing market, which remains depressed even as other parts of the economy have started to recover.

A glut of houses for sale, foreclosures, tight credit and little demand have impeded the housing recovery. Recent data showed that home prices dropped below the low seen in April 2009 during the financial crisis.

To read more, visit:  http://www.cnbc.com/id/43281199
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