Thursday, June 9, 2011

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

FED. GOV‘T SWAT TEAM BUSTS DOWN MAN’S DOOR OVER ESTRANGED WIFE’S STUDENT LOANS

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:05 PM PDT

By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze

You may want to go make sure your federal government student loans are in good order right now. That's because, as a Stockton, CA mean just learned, the federal government will bust down your door to get its money. Or even the door of your estranged spouse.

Kenneth Wright was home with his three children early Tuesday morning. He hadn't even gotten dressed for the day yet, and was still in his boxers. That's when he looked outside and got a surprise.

"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright told News10. Then, the SWAT team busted down his door, allegedly grabbed him by the neck and put him in a police car for six hours, and even roused his children (ages 3,7, and 11) out of bed.

But there's just one problem. The police weren't after Wright. They were after his estranged wife. Not surprisingly, they didn't find her.

To read more, visit: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fed-govt-swat-team-busts-down-mans-door-over-estranged-wifes-loans/

Patriotic Millionaires send video message to Congress asking for higher taxes

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:38 PM PDT

By Alexis Levinson, The Daily Caller

The Patriotic Millionaires, a group of millionaires who believe that government should increase the tax rate for millionaires, released a video calling on congress to raise their taxes.

The group, organized by The Agenda Project, seeks to end the Bush Tax Cuts that Obama extended last year, saying that it is unfair to give tax cuts to people in the highest income bracket.

"You decided our country needed less money, and millionaires like me needed more," says the script of the video, read by a series of millionaires who signed the original petition.

"Less money for roads to transfer our products, for high speed internet to build our technology companies, for science research, education, for universities, and research to spark our innovation," they say.

"Rich people are not the cause of a robust economy, they're the result of a robust economy,"

To read more, visit:  http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/07/patriotic-millionaires-send-video-message-to-congress-asking-for-higher-taxes/

NH State Sen. Jim Forsythe chairing Ron Paul’s NH campaign

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:33 PM PDT

From:  UnionLeader.com

A rising state conservative leader was announced today as the chairman of Ron Paul’s New Hampshire presidential campaign.

Freshman state Sen. Jim Forsythe of Strafford is the former chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. He easily defeated Democrat Andrew Hosmer last November to win the District 4 seat previously held by Democrat Kathleen Sgambati.

"Every candidate will be talking jobs, cuts, and taxes, but only Ron Paul has the track record to back up the rhetoric," Forsythe, an entrepreneur and former U.S. Air Force pilot, said in a campaign announcement.

Forsythe actively supported Paul in 2008 but held no formal title. The Paul campaign had no state chairman in 2008 but instead relied on a group of county activists who took on statewide organizational roles.

Is Paul setting up a more traditionally structured organization in New Hampshire this time around?

“We’re at a different starting point this time around,” said spokesman Kate Schackai. “The movement has grown, and our organization is growing to meet it.”

To read more, visit:  http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110608/NEWS0605/110609989

Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:00 AM PDT

By Kristin Burnham, CIO.com

CIO — You know those really unflattering photos on Facebook that you untagged at lightning speed? Now might be a good time to delete them…or at least check up on one new privacy setting.

Yesterday, security firm Sophos issued a warning saying that Facebook rolled out a feature that recognizes your face in photos, prompting your friends to tag you.

Some Facebook users in the United States have had this feature since it was first announced in December. The difference: During the beta, there was no setting to opt-out of appearing in tag suggestions. As of yesterday’s rollout, however, you must now adjust a setting in order to opt-out.

According to Facebook, this facial recognition feature uses a comparison of photos you’re tagged in to suggest that friends tag you in new photos. The site says that this feature is intended to save you time:

Instead of tagging the same friends in 25 photos you just uploaded, you can now apply one label to multiple photos in one step.

Facebook reiterates that only friends can tag you in photos, you’ll be notified when someone has tagged you, you can remove a tag whenever you want and that tag suggestions are based only on photos you’ve allowed yourself to be tagged in.

Here’s how you can opt out of this feature.

Facebook Facial Recognition: How to Opt Out

Facebook has automatically opted you in to this new facial recognition feature, which means your friends will see suggestions of photos in which to tag you, unless you change the setting.

To read more, visit:  http://www.cio.com/article/683779/Facebook_Privacy_How_to_Block_Facial_Recognition

Rollins wants Palin allies for Bachmann

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:56 AM PDT

By: CNN’s Paul Steinhauser and Gabriella Schwarz, Politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Washington (CNN) – Veteran Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins, who signed on to steer Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s looming presidential bid, said his recent criticism of Sarah Palin is not part of an electoral strategy.

Rollins told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade that Palin, who is considering a run for president, has “not been serious over the last couple of years.”

“She got the vice presidential thing handed to her,” Rollins said Tuesday. “She didn’t go to work in the sense of trying to gain more substance. She gave up her governorship.”

On the other hand, Rollins touted Bachmann’s communication skills, labeling her a “leader of the Tea Party.”
But the former CNN contributor said he needs to adjust from “being a political analyst back to being a strategist.”

“I don’t think Palin runs and if she does we will deal with it. There obviously is a trend in the media to link them,” Rollins told CNN. “In the long run we want Palin and her people as our allies.”

In an interview with POLITICO, Rollins said the Bachmann campaign will be “so much more substantive.”

To read more, visit:  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/08/rollins-wants-palin-allies-for-bachmann/

66% Say Private Sector Employees Work Harder Than Government Workers

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:52 AM PDT

From: Rasmussen Reports

Most Americans still believe government workers work less and make more money than those employed by private companies. Yet while the majority also thinks government workers enjoy more job security, they're less convinced of that than they were a year ago.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 11% of Adults think those employed by the government work harder than workers in the private sector. Sixty-six percent (66%) say those employed by private companies work harder. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Still, that's a little less negative view of the government work force than Americans have expressed in the past. Seventy-one percent (71%) felt those in the private sector work harder in December 2009.

Fifty-two percent (52%) now think the average government worker earns more annually than the average private sector employee, down from a high of 61% last April. Twenty-six percent (26%) disagree and say government workers do not earn more, while 22% are not sure.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of Americans also believe that government workers have more job security than those employed in the private sector, a number that's been trending down from 77% in surveys since April 2010. Fifteen percent (15%) say government workers have less job security, and 14% say the level of job security is about the same.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

To read more, visit:  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/jobs_employment/june_2011/66_say_private_sector_employees_work_harder_than_government_workers

Piers Morgan Asks Ann Coulter if Tea Party is Modern Version of Hitler and Mussolini’s Followers

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT

By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters.com

Conservative author Ann Coulter stopped by CNN studios Tuesday to discuss her new book “Demonic: How The Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.”

During a somewhat rambling interview, host Piers Morgan asked, “Where is the similar mob to Mussolini's and Hitler's in the modern democratic era…Tea Party?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Where is the similar mob to Mussolini's and Hitler's in the modern democratic era?

ANN COULTER: Well, I would say that there are a lot of similarities. The French Revolution.

MORGAN: Tea Party?

COULTER: No. No, no, no.

MORGAN: Nearest thing to it?

COULTER: No, they’re much closer to the original Tea Party, which, and actually not as, not as much of a rabble as the original Tea Party, which as I point out, the Founding Fathers weren’t wild about the original Tea Party curiously enough because they were so against mobs.

To read more, visit:  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/06/08/piers-morgan-asks-ann-coulter-if-tea-party-modern-version-hitler-and-

The Light Bulb Police

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:42 AM PDT

From: FOX Nation

On January 1, 2012, seven months from this week, Washington will effectively ban the sale of conventional 100 watt incandescent light bulbs that Americans have used nearly since the days of Thomas Edison. Instead we will all be required to buy compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs. We’d like to believe that when the government decrees what kind of light bulbs you can screw into the lamp in your own bedroom, even liberals would be nervous about the nanny state.

Yet Republicans have so far shown little interest in voting on the “Bulb Act” cosponsored by Republicans Mike Enzi of Wyoming in the Senate and Joe Barton of Texas in the House.

To read more, visit:  http://nation.foxnews.com/light-bulb-ban/2011/06/07/light-bulb-police

Facebook Turns on Facial Recognition, Sparking Fresh Privacy Complaints

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:36 AM PDT

From: FOXNews.com

Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world’s top social networking service.

The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded from the United States to “most countries,” Facebook said on its official blog on Tuesday.

Its “Tag Suggestions” feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labeling friends and acquaintances that appear in photos posted on Facebook.

The company’s rollout of the technology has raised eyebrows in some circles. Internet security consultant firm Sophos published a post on its company blog on Tuesday saying that many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the facial recognition option in the last few days without giving users any notice.

“Yet again, it feels like Facebook is eroding the online privacy of its users by stealth,” wrote Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos.

Facebook, which announced in December that it planned to introduce the service in the United States, acknowledged on Tuesday that the feature was in fact now more widely available.

To read more, visit:  http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/08/facebook-turns-on-facial-recognition-tech-sparking-fresh-privacy-complaints/

States Objecting to Health Care Law to Get Day in Appeals Court

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:33 AM PDT

By Lee Ross, FOXNews.com

For the third time in five weeks, the Obama administration’s legal point man for defending the president's health care overhaul will walk into a federal appellate courtroom Wednesday to defend the controversial measure as an appropriate and proper exercise of the government’s power.

Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal has steadfastly argued the law, passed in March 2010, is a necessary and reasonable response to halt the increasing costs of medical care despite claims by 26 state governments and the largest small-business group in the nation that the law’s requirements are unconstitutional.

Katyal is expected to tell three judges of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the law is a valid exercise of congressional power to regulate commerce and tax.

He’ll try to convince the court that U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson’s thorough repudiation of the law was incorrect. That January ruling striking down the entire law energized its detractors, who agree with Vinson’s conclusion that the provision requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance, known as the individual mandate, is an impermissible attempt by lawmakers to regulate people’s lives.

“In enacting this provision, Congress made detailed findings establishing a foundation for the exercise of its commerce power,” Katyal wrote in his brief to the court. He went on to write that Vinson’s ruling “impermissibly substituted (his) own judgment for that of the elected branches in declaring that an insurance requirement cannot be imposed until people actually seek medical care.”

Wednesday’s case originated in Florida and was brought by 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and two individuals. The plaintiffs argue the powers granted to the government under the Commerce Clause are limited to the regulation of interstate activity. Former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement, representing the states, says the law pushes the government’s constitutional powers too far by trying to regulate inactivity.

To read more, visit:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/07/states-objecting-to-health-care-law-to-get-day-in-appeals-court/
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