Obamaville

I really think many of those construction workers out of jobs should get government jobs in New Orleans, we know illegals are making money there, give these workers the jobs jeeeeeeeeesss.
It must be like a nightmare living in a tent where you can see maybe something you helped build. Totally unacceptable, give that money we want to send to help rebuild the gaza to give these people jobs.

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Why the hell do we need to outsource technology jobs when we have the talent right here?

Submitted by Robert Oak on Fri, 03/13/2009 – 01:31. bribery fraud H-1B Insourcing/Outsourcing Kundra outsourcing Vivek
This is one hell of a story. One week after President Obama announced his new CIO of the United States, the FBI raided the very office where Kundra just held the position of CTO and arrested Kundra’s former CSO and another former employee, for massive fraud and bribes.

D.C.’s top IT security official charged with bribery

Arrested this morning was Yusuf Acar, who currently is the District of Columbia’s acting chief security officer; police said they found $70,000 in cash in his Washington home. Acar’s annual salary is $127,468, according to court documents.

The second suspect arraigned on bribery charges is Sushil Bansal, CEO and founder of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. (AITC), a Washington-based outsourcing vendor that has won a number of contracts from the district’s IT department.

This is where Vivek Kundra was CEO just one week ago. Bansal is on a H-1B guest worker Visa, previously worked also for D.C. city government and magically started his own company for which he is now indicted for fraud and bribery by the FBI.

Now there are multiple questions.

How can someone on a temporary non-immigrant H-1B Visa start a company in the United States in government and in security?

Secondly, how can the Obama administration put someone in a CIO position with these kind of connections and seemingly is promoting offshore outsourcing?

How in God’s name can the government even promote the offshore outsourcing of government jobs? How can the government not realize the security issues in using offshore outsourcing?

How many other government contracts, I.T. security issues do we have these kind of offshore outsourcing agenda, bribes, hand rubbing and so on?

This is not the direction you want to take a ever more critical security area, never mind the fraud, bribery and abuses.

Now even more unbelievable, Bansal was named entrepreneur of the year by the Association of Indians in America.

Ok, the entrepreneur of the year is somehow on a non-immigrant Visa yet seemingly self-sponsoring and forming a company which was pure fraud and bribery all the while offshore outsourcing American jobs.

The relationships of these people being former, close employees of Vivek Kundra at minimum shows incredibly bad judgment. It’s hard to imagine one not being aware this was going on under their nose…

What was Kundra doing in the first place using a H-1B for a government job? There are numerous Americans out of work who have all of these skills and yes, they too can incorporate themselves and manage a firm…and they can do it even without fraud, bribery and abuse!

So, considering those facts, who knows what the FBI will discover, I’m just glad they are looking.

This is government, security issues and that assuredly should require U.S. citizenship so why was anyone on a temporary Visa even allowed to apply or provide any services in the first place?

More to come on the details but at minimum putting someone so close to offshore outsourcing and H-1B Visas as the top CIO sends a horrific message to all U.S. workers.

It’s supposed to be our government….right?

Good morning Murphy and all Pumas everywhere.

Have a great week-end! Wish I was going but
cannot due to $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Peace, love, happiness. Come home safe.

Today, it is beautiful and sunny. Thank God for
a new day.

Very, very sad, what is happening to the American
people.

It is hard to believe that there are so many shanty
towns going up and so many homeless.

Does Washington really care?

Corporate oil booms in low-tax Switzerland

ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) – The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom.

Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland — mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama’s tax-seeking administration.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSL312427120090312?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews&rpc=22

LEGISLATION

H.R. 1262, The Water Quality Investment Act of 2009
Cost per FAMILY OF FOUR : $166 PER YEAR

And

S 2191 Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade proposal
…companies are already preparing to avoid increased level and volatility of American energy prices by setting up factories and partnerships in countries which won’t be subject to cap-and-trade restrictions…proving with real-world behavior of producers that no carbon-limiting regulation can succeed if it is not universal.

Monsanto’s dream bill, HR 875

HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.

The bill is monstrous on level after level – the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, etc.

And

CONGRESS CONSIDERS REGULATING TOBACCO PRODUCTS LIKE A DRUG

More info at 411 on the 111 pumapac forum

http://pumapac.org/forums/411-on-the-111/comment-page-3/#comment-299360

Obama pays tribute to Lincoln, again

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/03/obama_pays_trib_1.html
March 12, 2009

Speech at the dedication of Abraham Lincoln Hall at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

Excerpt:

Quote:
We cannot continue to push the burden on to our military alone, nor leave dormant any aspect of the full arsenal of American capability. And that’s why my administration is committed to renewing diplomacy as a tool of American power, and to developing our civilian national security capabilities. This effort takes place within the walls of this university, where civilians sit alongside soldiers in the classroom. And it must continue out in the field, where American civilians can advance opportunity, enhance governance and the rule of law, and attack the causes of war around the world. We have to enlist our civilians in the same way that we enlist those members of the armed services in understanding this broad mission that we have.

BOOT CAMP FOR RADICALS
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305420655186700

Sorry, link didn’t post right. Trying again.

Boston Globe: Many Boston teens surveyed say Rihanna is at fault for assault
The Boston Globe published a horrifying article today titled “Many Boston teens surveyed say Rihanna is at fault for assault”. The article reports the results of a survey conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission.
Here are a few quotes:
” Nearly half of the 200 Boston teenagers interviewed for an informal poll said pop star Rihanna was responsible for the beating she allegedly took at the hands of her boyfriend, fellow music star Chris Brown, in February.”
“Health counselors are specifically concerned with teenagers’ views of the controversy. Of the teens questioned, more than half said both Brown, 19, and Rihanna, 21, were equally responsible for the assault. More than half said the media were treating Brown unfairly, and 46 percent said Rihanna was responsible for the incident.”
Comment on the Boston Globe article here. (Need to counter the few idiotic comments posted there).

Ammunition:
Apparently there are even worse videos and evidence here that you can utilize (scroll down their blog to find the post on this): http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/

“Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth”

“Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date.
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A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration’s policies and their impact on peoples’ lives.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html

(Sorry if someone already posted these poll results. I lose track of polls.)

Chris Brown and Rihanna Record a Duet

Even with a criminal case pending, Chris Brown and Rihanna are making music together.

Brown, 19, who is charged with two felonies in the alleged beating of Rihanna, recently recorded a duet with her, the song’s producer, Polow Da Don, tells PEOPLE. “My heart goes out to both Chris and Rihanna for what has happened in the past,” says Polow. “They are both great artists to work with, and I wish them well.”

To the shock of friends and family, the pair reconciled days before Brown’s court appearance and have now spent time together recording a song that, a source tells PEOPLE, is “sweet and sentimental” and “expresses the challenges of a love relationship.”

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Challenges?

from NoQ

Video:
Sean Hannity (Yet Again) Makes Sense [Update]
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/03/13/hannitys-segment-moved-me-so-much-with-the-power-of-its-history-the-words-of-fdr-and-the-cogent-analysis-following/

(FDR vs. Oblow)

Giving The Fingerprint: Home Law Raises Concern

Sellers Will Be Required To Provide Thumbprint Before Deal Is Approved

Real estate certainly has its risks and fraud is a growing problem, but now there’s a new law that’s supposed to protect buyers. As CBS 2′s Mike Puccinelli reports the new law will also place an unusual burden on the seller.

Fingerprinting is something we often associate with crime. So the fact that Cook County home sellers–and homeowners across the state–will soon have to provide a thumb print left some people shocked.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Mike.Puccinelli.fingerprint.2.957819.html

my oh my…. dear GOD

Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores ‘corrective’ attacks

The partially clothed body of Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa’s acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found in a creek in a park in Kwa Thema, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Simelane had been gang-raped and brutally beaten before being stabbed 25 times in the face, chest and legs. As well as being one of South Africa’s best-known female footballers, Simelane was a voracious equality rights campaigner and one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian in Kwa Thema.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/eudy-simelane-corrective-rape-south-africa

the video is heart wrenching and maddening.

NewOrleansPuma, Good luck at the Doctor’s today, I’ll send you some REIKI & hope everything’s O.K.

Hi Kat, that Geithner article is scary! TGIF to you, too, btw!!

NBC now has the gruesome story highlighted by taggles #25.
South Africa gangs using rape to ‘cure’ lesbians.

Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will “cure” the women’s sexual orientation, an aid agency said Friday.

NGO ActionAid said in a report titled “Hate Crimes: the rise of corrective rape in South Africa” lesbians were increasingly at risk of rape, particularly in South African townships where homosexuality is largely taboo.

South Africa has one of the world’s most progressive constitutions and became the first country in Africa to allow gay marriage in 2006, but homosexuality is still widely frowned upon and same-sex unions are often decried as “un-African.”

That homeless story is shocking. I hope something will be done about it.

The story of the rape and murder in South Africa is horrifying. I can’t bring myself to watch the video though.

So angry about the sickness of that story I am speechless now.

taggles1 03.13.09 at 11:34 am As a victim, that video makes me tremble with shock, fear and sorrow, anger, and rage. They should have acid poured on their genitals and then stoned and skinned alive..

kat in your hat 03.13.09 at 11:21 am

Other FAQ: Will there be cupcakes?

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I will bring extra cupcakes for us kat………..a dozen!