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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Sunday Round Up of Chattering Monkeys (1/29)

If you missed any of the "news" you can hear it all replayed on C-Span radio beginning at noon at 90.1 FM in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, or streaming on the internet at http://www.c-span.org/Schedules/C-SPAN-Radio-Schedule/

Many shows are also rebroadcast on their own networks (or sister networks like FOX News) later this afternoon and evening. An extremely boring week all round, though Austan Goolsbee did demonstrate that he truly is a whorish liar hoping to be the next James Carville for whomever is in power. NBC continued its superior record of having all white panelists and hosts, from snow monkey David Gregory on down. (ABC and FOX each scored one chatterer of color.)

A synopsis of who was on today:

FOX News Sunday with Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan as guests and Brit Hume, AB Stoddard, Paul Gigot, and Juan Williams as panelists. (9 am)

Spittles Matthews. Time's Mike Duffy, BBCAmerica's Katy Kay, Kathleen Parker and Newsweek's Andrew Sullivan have daily dish. Dufy predicts Obama cannot win Florida; Sullivan predicts that Obama will be re-elected as long as his negatives keep going down (he has a 30% "right track" rating) and the Republican's negatives keep going up. Spittles managed to beat sister NBC show Meet the Flaks by having not only an all white panel, but scoring two blonds and a British homosexual -- you can't get whiter than that!(NBC at 10)

ABC's This Week with Clinton Administration Chipmunk George Stephanopoulus with the ever restful John Boehner as guest. Jake Tapper, the closest thing the DC news hive has to a male model (and in a way the ultimate insider, since he dated Monica Lewinsky before Clinton did). The Clintonian chipmunk was "on vacation," perhaps because last week he made do with interviewing third place finisher Rick Santorum, after the previous week's show where he evaded covering any actual news and analysis for as long as possible, by interviewing comedian Steven Colbert for 15 minutes about his announcement of an exploratory committee to see if he should run for the GOP nomination (Colbert "ran" in 2008 as a Democrat). With a diverse panel of Laura Ingraham, George Will, Austan Goolsbee (as a depilated, non-ENRON employed Paul Krugman), and Donna Brazile. Austan Goolsbee, very fetching in cone bra, garters, lipstick, and high heels, claimed that the size of the federal government had shrunk in the past 3 years. (10 am)

(George Stephanopoulos)

Meet the Flaks. With Fannie Mae lobbyist Beth Wilkerson's hubbie David Gregory. Guests include Rick Santorum and David Axelrod (chairs will be covered in protective vinyl), John McCain (representing Romney) and Fred Thompson (representing Gingrich). Chuck Todd presents stats for the "3" GOP candidates, leaving off Ron Paul; McCain brings up the Libertarian Party. This is McCain's 63rd appearance on Meet the Flaks. which ties him with Bob Dole for the most appearances and tells us a lot about John McCain. Plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin will discuss theft and copying in campaign speeches and advertisements on a typical all-white NBC panel with Joe Scarborough and Chuck Todd. (NBC, 10:30 am)

Independent journalist David Gregory

and Fannie Mae lobbyist wife,

dining at the White House

Deface the Nation. Debbie Wasserman Schultz gives hair tips for medusas and lamias. Reince Preibus gives correct pronunciation of his name. Michele Bachmann gives hair tips for women with normal to good hair. Donald Trump tries to decide whether Bachmann's or Wasserman Schultz's hair tips apply to his case. Panelist Marc Caputo of the Miami Herald and Scott Conroy of RealClearPolitics. (CBS at 10:30)

McLaughlin Group appears to not be on at it's regular morning time. TVGuide reports it will not be on for the next two weeks, which seems odd.

http://bigdecision2012.blogspot.com/2012/01/sunday-round-up-of-chattering-monkeys_4669.html

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Re: Fwd: BigHomo:Barney Frank to wed; spurns the international arms dealer, the hooker, and recently single David Brock, to wed hemp horticulturalist

Hey Greg!

Point......I knew that, but had kind of overlooked that aspect of it. Barn's pension won't be up for grabs if he takes a dirt nap anytime soon......

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:41 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:

Let him wed. The fed that he works for doesn't recognize it. Barney
dies, spouse gets jackshit.

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Gingrich’s billionaire donor investigated for ties to Chinese organized crime

New post on Fellowship of the Minds

Gingrich's billionaire donor investigated for ties to Chinese organized crime

by Dr. Eowyn

When Newt Gingrich's campaign was floundering in Iowa, it was given new life with millions of dollars in donation by billionaire Sheldon Adelson to Newt's SuperPAC "Winning Our Future."

Sheldon Adelson in 2010

Worth an estimated $21.5 billion, 78-year-old Adelson is the 8th richest man in America and has almost single-handedly financed Gingrich's second campaign surge. So far, Mr. Moneybags has given $10 million to Newt's campaign and has promised $20 million more will be forthcoming. Adelson's large donations have allowed Gingrich supporters to buy TV ads in key states, helping Newt to defeat Mitt Romney in the South Carolina Republican primary.

Adelson is the founder and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns the Sands Macau casino and hotel on the island of Macau, China -- the largest gambling mecca in the world. But now he is under federal investigation after a lawsuit claims he has ties to Chinese organized crime.

Sands Macau

Michael Zennie reports for the UK's Daily Mail, Jan. 29, 2012, that the Department of Justice and SEC are investigating whether Las Vegas Sands violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that prohibits bribing foreign officials.

The investigation stems from a lawsuit filed in October 2010 by a former executive at the Sands Macau in China. Steven C. Jacobs claims he was told to keep quiet about investigations of local officials and the possible presence in the casino of Chinese organized crime syndicate The Triads.

Jacobs, who ran the resort, says in his lawsuit that he was wrongly fired from the company after he objected to allegedly illegal actions that he was asked to perform. Among them: Jacobs claims Adelson wanted him to hire a Chinese lawyer to dig up "negative information" on local Macau officials that the company could use as leverage.

Jacobs says he also disagreed with Adelson over increasing the casino's use of junkets -- trips to Macau by groups of high-rolling gamblers organized by third-party groups.

Some junkets in Macau have been organized by members of Chinese organized crime syndicates. Reuters reported in 2010 that alleged Triad crime boss Cheung Chi-tai, who was connected with a junket to the Sands Macau, was running one of the VIP rooms at the casino, according to witnesses. That information came out at a trial of four men convicted of breaking a Sands dealer's arms and legs, allegedly on Cheung's orders.

In his lawsuit, Jacobs says Adelson ordered him to keep Cheung's name and any information about possible Triad involvement secret from the casino's board of directors.

The Las Vegas Sands Corp. has strenuously denied Jacobs' claims and says he was fired for striking unauthorized deals and violating company policy.

Sheldon Adelson, who founded and runs Las Vegas Sands Corp -- one of the largest casino and resort companies in the world -- has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and said the company is cooperating with federal investigators. At a public forum last year, Adelson said the investigation is "not a serious matter" and that "When the smoke clears, I am 1,000 percent positive that there won't be any fire below it."

~Eowyn

Dr. Eowyn | January 28, 2012 at 7:45 pm | Tags: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Las Vegas Sand Corp., Sands Macau casino, Sheldon Adelson, Steven C. Jacobs, Triads, Winning Our Future | Categories: 2012 Election, crime, Republican Party, United States | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-c9y

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2010 FBI statistics destroy CAIR’s claim that ‘Islamophobic’ hate crimes against Muslims are at epidemic levels

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2010 FBI statistics destroy CAIR's claim that 'Islamophobic' hate crimes against Muslims are at epidemic levels

by barenakedislam

As in each and every year since 2001, hate crimes against Muslims not only are not soaring, they are consistently low, despite the incessant whining of terror-linked groups like CAIR.

FBI If any religious group can claim it is under threat, it would be Jews. 65.4% of all reported hate crime incidents in 2010 were against Jews. And that number is more than the total number of hate crimes against all other identified religious groups combined. By contrast, just 13.2% of hate crime incidents were identified as anti-Islamic.

Indeed, given the constant drum-beat of terror plots and incitement perpetrated by Muslims against Americans, it is astonishing just how little anti-Muslim backlash there actually is.

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

What's more, the data demonstrates that America is actually a 'mecca' of integration, considering America's huge population and vast territory. This is a stark contrast to the endemic intolerance levels in the Islamic world, where persecuting and slaughtering its own minorities (especially Christians) is rampant and growing. The only reason there are very few anti-Jewish hate crimes in places like Egypt, Syria and Iraq, is because these Muslim countries have already massacred and thrown out virtually all the indigenous Jews who had been living in those countries since before Islam even existed.

barenakedislam | January 29, 2012 at 3:25 am | Categories: Islam in America | URL: http://wp.me/p276zM-F8H

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A Redistricting Veto for the Voters By New York Governor Cuomo

A Veto for the Voters
Published: January 27, 2012
This week, New York State lawmakers unveiled proposed legislative
district maps, based on the 2010 census and required in time for this
year's elections. The maps, as expected, are entirely designed to
protect party interests for Republicans who control the State Senate
districts and Democrats who run the Assembly.

These maps are so self-serving and politically skewed that Gov. Andrew
Cuomo's office has said they are "simply unacceptable." He has
repeatedly vowed to veto maps that were not drawn by an independent
commission — and he should keep that promise.

The legislative task force that created these maps will soon hold more
public hearings and offer a final version to the Legislature for
approval. Some lawmakers assume the revised maps will be less
flagrantly gerrymandered. That's a vain hope. The proper solution is
to start over.

Here are a few examples of redistricting gone wrong:

¶In three new Senate districts, Republicans forced incumbent Democrats
into the same district to run against each other. State Senator
Michael Gianaris, a powerful Queens Democrat, found that his block was
carefully excised from his present district and tucked into the
neighboring district of Senator José Peralta, another Democrat.

¶Republicans also manipulated redistricting formulas created in the
late 19th century to add a 63rd Senate seat. And instead of putting
that new district in New York City, where the population justifies an
addition, they carved up Albany County to create a new seat for a
favorite Republican assemblyman.

¶Democrats in the Assembly have also drawn new districts unfairly. On
Long Island, for example, Democrats altered four Assembly districts so
that instead of one Democratic and three Republican seats, at least
one of the Republicans could easily lose to a Democrat.

This kind of redistricting is deeply undemocratic, making it hard to
take on incumbents and their parties. Legislators focusing on their
own districts have also failed so far to release Congressional
district maps. Federal District Court Judge Gary Sharpe added to the
urgency on Friday by ruling that the state's Congressional primaries
will be held on June 26 instead Sept. 11.

Common Cause New York has shown that it is possible to draw
straightforward and fair maps of Congressional and state legislative
districts by keeping communities intact and respecting local
jurisdictional lines.

The goal is to have districts that promote competition and serve
communities fairly. The solution may have to come from the courts,
since these maps are likely to be the subject of litigation. In the
meantime, Governor Cuomo must prepare to veto this scandalous mess and
not settle for any compromise that fails to correct the Legislature's
gerrymandered product.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/opinion/a-veto-for-the-voters.html?scp=1&sq=cuomo%20veto&st=cse

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Re: Fwd: BigHomo:Barney Frank to wed; spurns the international arms dealer, the hooker, and recently single David Brock, to wed hemp horticulturalist

Let him wed. The fed that he works for doesn't recognize it. Barney
dies, spouse gets jackshit.

On Jan 28, 6:14 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Barney frank
> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
> Subject: BigHomo:Barney Frank to wed; spurns the international arms dealer,
> the hooker, and recently single David Brock, to wed hemp horticulturalist
> To: majors.br...@gmail.com
>
> Barney frank has sent you a link to a blog:
>
> Blog: BigHomo
> Post: Barney Frank to wed; spurns the international arms dealer, the
> hooker, and recently single David Brock, to wed hemp horticulturalist
> Link:http://bighomocon.blogspot.com/2012/01/barney-frank-to-wed-spurns.html
>
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