The White House Readies a Stealth Stimulus

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White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett was adamant on Sunday, when asked if President Obama was considering a so-called second stimulus to deal with the rising unemployment rate. “I think it’s too soon. It’s premature to say, ‘Is a second stimulus needed?’ ” she told David Gregory, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press.

But a moment later she said the White House was already looking at tax credits and other measures to further stimulate the economy. “There are a range of suggestions that are being considered right now by his economic team, and we’ll see what we come forward with,” she added. Read the full story

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Is ACORN funding ban unconstitutional?

The hastily passed House ban on ACORN funding last week launched a thousand press releases and a thousand talk radio rants, but it might take a single lawsuit to blow it out of the water. Read the full story

Pelosi warns right of inciting “violence” — invoking Harvey Milk murder

An uncharacteristically emotional Nancy Pelosi is warning Republicans — and other groups getting whipped up over the health care debate — not to incite unstable supporters who might repeat acts of violence that struck San Francisco in the 1970s. Read the full story

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Senate blocks HUD grants to ACORN

The community organization is facing more bad publicity after two conservative activists posed as a prostitute and pimp and videotaped workers’ advice on getting housing and reporting income.

Washington -  The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in voter-registration fraud cases.

The 83-7 vote came as ACORN , which stands for the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is receiving bad publicity related to surreptitious videos. Two conservative activists posed as a prostitute and her pimp, then released a hidden-camera video in which ACORN employees in Baltimore advised the couple on house-buying and how to account for the woman’s income on tax forms. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.

If the House agrees with the Senate, ACORN could not win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages.

Last week, the Census Bureau severed ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group’s help with the 2010 count. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some workers were accused of submitting false registration forms with names including Mickey Mouse.

Last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people on charges that they falsified hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped off authorities to the suspected fraud.

On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but accuses Fox of pumping up the scandal.

In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland’s wiretapping laws.

Fox News spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer said the tapes were vetted editorially before they were aired.

The video was created by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles and posted on BigGovernment.com. Breitbart.com, which owns the website, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Another amazing story about bankers. To think that this person would throw parties in a bank-owned home, when thousands of people suffer at these banks hands. At least we can see where our bailout money is going now….

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58B0DE20090912

Banker lived it up in bank-owned Malibu house: report

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A community watchdog group expressed outrage and Wells Fargo said it was launching an investigation after a newspaper reported that a senior exec threw lavish parties at a beachfront Malibu house owned by the bank. Read the full story

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GrooveMaker is a revolutionary application that allows you to create electronic, hip-hop, and dance tracks in real time like a professional DJ. I was able to put my own DJ skills to work with this fun app and never realized how exciting it could be to create tracks on a device smaller than the 24 inch screen I have at home. Read the full story

Wait…I thought we were in a recession…?

House Orders Three Jets

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“But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.”