Posted by aconservativeedge on July 12, 2009
Ira Sorkin Got Paid… For What?
What exactly did Bernie Madoff’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, actually do?
Madoff turned himself in. Sorkin didn’t try Madoff’s case. Sorking didn’t prepare for trial; sort through boxes; have armies of associates write motions and writs; prepare witnesses; hire priviate investigators; and, for good measure, pad bills.
Sorkin had to fight to keep Madoff out on bond. How many hours of work does that require?
The latest news is that Madoff is not going to appeal his 150-year sentence.
Story here. This means Sorkin won’t have to write any appellate briefs. Unless Madoff starts filing prisoner Section 1983 suits, Sorkin’s work is done. Thus, now is the time to start asking questions.
It’s time for an audit. So far as I can tell, Sorkin got paid with money that belonged to victims of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. After all, what money did Bernie Madoff have that wasn’t tainted by his fraud? How much work did Sorkin actually do? How many millions was Sorkin paid? How many of these millions should be returned to Madoff’s victims?
No one is asking any of these questions. Why not? Is there some sort of buddy-buddy arrangement that Sorkin has with the trial judge or prosecutor? I’m far away from New York; so maybe I am missing something obvious. Perhaps Sorkin has an “in” with everyone.
I did some Googling and did not see, as is usually the case, any evidence that the prosecutor tried preventing Sorking from getting paid. If so, that would be highly unusual. Whenever a defendant is charged with a crime, prosecutors freeze assets. Prosecutors, as a matter of strategy, try preventing rich defendants like Madoff from spending money on lawyers.
Unless I’m obvlivious to something obvious: Something funny is going on.
Posted in Hillary "Cattle Futures" Clinton, Right on the News | Tagged: audit, bernie, fees, fraud, ira, lawyer, madoff, money, paid, ponzi, show me the money, sorkin | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 12, 2009
Massive Internet Scrub In Progress Yesterday’s item, “Fight the Smears Disappears,” documented the changes that have recently been made to Obama’s high-profile Internet site, “Fight the Smears,” and also to the Internet Archive, also known as the “WayBackMachine.com” — Obama has removed his bogus Certification of Live Birth from the Internet — at the same time, the Internet Archive just happened to “lose” its archived copy.
What’s really ironic is that FactCheck.org is so invested in their defense of Obama’s bogus bona fides, that they just can’t dig themselves out of the hole they dug themselves into. FactCheck now stands alone as a defender of the indefensible.
In the last 24 hours, further evidence of an, organized, massive scrubbing of the Internet has been discovered.
Evidence of this extraordinary campaign was posted on this site on June 18th. Sometime between June 8, 2009, and June 18, 2009, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) changed the requirements for identification that they maintained for over 100 years. All of a sudden, Hawaii will now accept Certifications of Live Birth (COLB) as proof of identification and residency, and will no longer require the certified “Certificates of Birth” — although Hawaii says that they will still take the traditional birth certificates.
On June 7th, this website reported that the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu posted on its website
a letter on White House stationery dated January 24th (since scrubbed), in which Obama wrote, “As a beneficiary of the excellence of Kapi’olani Medical Center — the place of my birth — I am pleased to add my voice to your chorus of supporters” — even though Obama himself has previously claimed to have been born at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, a claim backed up by his sister Maya.
Until June 7th, even United Press International (UPI) and Snopes.com contained statements that Obama was born at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. Here is a screen capture from Snopes.com that says, “Barack Hussein Obama was born at the Queen’s Medical Center.” Today, Snopes.com claims that “Barack Hussein Obama, was born on 4 August 1961 at the Kapiolani Medical Center.” Snopes claims they made the change because Wikipedia made the change.
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Posted by aconservativeedge on July 12, 2009
Mr & Mrs Obama US President Barack Obama is expected to announce a major foreign policy for Africa during his historic two-day visit to Ghana, beginning Friday, July 10, 2009.
Although Mr Obama has made foreign policy pronouncements for some parts of the world since assuming office in January, this year, he is yet to make one for Africa, and his visit to the country, which the White House describes as “one of our most trusted partners in sub-Saharan Africa”, is expected to be used as a platform to unveil his foreign policy for Africa.
“It is expected that President Obama will make a major foreign policy statement on Africa”, Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, told the Daily Graphic.
For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.
The Air Force One, carrying the 44th American President, his wife, Michelle and two daughters, as well as a retinue of senior US government officials, is expected to touch down at the Kotoka International Airport at 8:30p.m. tomorrow amid tight security by US and Ghanaian security agents.
Posted in A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, Didn't Get The Memo | Tagged: africa, birth, born, citizen, continent, ghana, ghanaian, kenya, natural, obama, president | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 12, 2009
Misspellings continued to plague the Obama administration on Thursday, after two more releases containing errors were sent to reporters in the last 24 hours.After misspelling the president’s name as “Barak Obama” yesterday on an official document sent to reporters, the General Services Administration messed up another message when announcing it had awarded an $18 million contract to redesign the website keeping track of spent stimulus dollars.
“Recvoery.gov Version 2.0 $18 Million Contract Awarded,” the release’s subject line read. (”Recovery” was spelled correctly in the body of the email.)
Posted in Nazi-onalized Education | Tagged: administration, barack, ebonics, errors, misspellings, obama, obonics, president | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 12, 2009
http://www.wnd.com
The man President Obama has chosen to be his science czar once advocated a shocking approach to the “population crisis” feared by scientists at the time: namely, compulsory abortions in the U.S. and a “Planetary Regime” with the power to enforce human reproduction restrictions.
“There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated,” wrote Obama appointee John Holdren, as reported by FrontPage Magazine. “It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”
Holdren’s comments, made in 1977, mirror the astonishing admission this week of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
In 1977, when many scientists were alarmed by predictions of harmful environmental effects of human population growth, Holdren teamed with Paul R. Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb,” and his wife, Anne, to pen “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.”
Holdren’s book proposed multiple strategies to curb population growth, and, according to the quotes excerpted by FrontPage Magazine, advocated an international police force to ensure the strategies were carried out.
Posted in But under the name of Liberalism, Nazi-onalized Healthcare | Tagged: abortion, administration, advocate, compulsory, crisis, czar, forced, holdren, obama, population, science | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
Breaking — At 7 AM, Fox News reporter, Major Garrett, reported that Obama has banned the foreign press from his press conference today in Italy. The foreign press is furious. It is clear to me that Obama is afraid that he will not be able to manage the foreign press like he does the fawning sycophants in the American press corps. Did you know that reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend?
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Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
On June 24, in a classified hearing, Mr. Panetta produced so-called new information about CIA counterterrorism efforts in the months after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. We’re told that he informed the Members that the agency had considered, then abandoned, a major covert antiterror program. (Our sources wouldn’t say what it was.) Bush-era CIA officials didn’t tell Congress because it never got off the ground. But this is the “at least one case” Mr. Reyes claims his committee was “lied to” about in the Bush years.
House Democrats have set out to hobble the CIA and further handcuff the executive branch. Republicans, naturally, were frozen out. At Speaker Pelosi’s insistence, gone would be the right of the President to limit disclosure of sensitive information to the so-called Gang of Eight — the House Speaker and Minority Leader, Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chairmen and ranking Members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. This authority would pass to Congress. The bill would also expand disclosure requirements for all sorts of intelligence activities.
This is a recipe for more leaks and more compromised CIA operations. Congress claims it needs to better monitor Presidential intelligence decisions. But the real lesson of the last few years is that Congress wants to know about, and often second-guess, intelligence decisions without being responsible for the result.
Posted in Fellow Travelers, Right on the News | Tagged: attacks, bush, cia, congress, counterterrorism, gang of eight, lie, panetta, pelosi, pentagon, program, secret, world trade center | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
Are Pacers too white? No, all Bird cares about are finding guys who can playIn Indiana, and in many other parts of the NBA-watching world, it’s the giant white elephant in the middle of the room.Is Pacers president Larry Bird specifically trying to build a team dominated by white players?
It’s an uncomfortable question to ask in these politically correct days, but how do you ignore a roster that includes Mike Dunleavy, Troy Murphy, Josh McRoberts, Travis Diener, Jeff Foster and now, first-round pick Tyler Hansbrough?
In a league where little more than 10 percent of the players are white Americans, the Pacers roster is racially split down the middle, making them one of the whitest teams in the league.
“I don’t see race at all,” Bird said recently.
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Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
New Poll Shows Americans Continuing to Move Toward Pro-Life Position on Abortion
86 Percent Favor Significant Restrictions; Majority Believes Abortion Hurts a Woman Long-Term
The American people continue to move to the pro-life perspective on abortion according to the latest Moral Compass survey by the Knights of Columbus and Marist Poll.
The poll mirrored findings of other recent surveys, showing that more Americans identify as pro-life than as pro-choice, and that the vast majority of Americans favor restricting abortion.
Among the key findings:
· 86 percent of Americans would significantly restrict abortion.
· 60 percent of Americans would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother – or would not allow it at all.
· 53 percent of Americans believe abortion does more harm than good to a woman in the long term.
· 79 percent of Americans support conscience exemptions on abortion for health care workers. This includes 64 percent of those who identify as strongly pro-choice.
· 69 percent of Americans think that it is appropriate for religious leaders to speak out on abortion.
· 59 percent say religious leaders have a key role to play in the abortion debate.
· 80 percent of Americans believe that laws can protect both the health of the woman and the life of the unborn. This includes 68 percent of those who identified as strongly pro-choice.
Posted in Choose Life | Tagged: americans, incest, life, marist poll, moral compass, poll, pro, pro life, rape, save life of mother, survey | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
- $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
- $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
- $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $90,000 – Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
- Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
- $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
- Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
- $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
- $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
- Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
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Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
The Los Angeles Police Department’s online crime map intended for public use has failed to include nearly 40% of serious crimes reported in the city, a Times analysis has found.
The omissions, which date back at least six months, include thousands of crimes known to LAPD officials and are included in their official crime statistics.
Among the 19,000 incidents between Jan. 1 and June 13 that do not appear at
lapdcrimemaps.org:
* 26 homicides
* 137 rapes
* 10,766 personal, vehicle or other nonviolent thefts
In one of those rapes, a man hid in the back of a woman’s car, forced her to drive to an abandoned North Hollywood apartment and assaulted her. It was the kind of incident that residents of the neighborhood around Sherman Way and Kester Avenue would have wanted to know about.
Posted in Nudged | Tagged: angeles, california, crime, data, database, lapd, los, map, omissions, omit, serious, statistics | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
“I want to minimize my legal exposure,” said Luke Nichter, the Texas A&M professor who runs Nixontapes.org, and who dropped two audio files from his Web site after receiving threats from Dean demanding that they be removed.
“It’s an incident of a much broader pattern that this is how Dean treats people who present information contrary to his views.”
Nichter had posted a 1989 phone call in which Dean disavowed the accuracy of his memoir, “Blind Ambition,” the national bestseller that helped establish the public’s view of the conspiracy to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972.
“What happened is, the editors got real excited, interesting, wanted to make it more intriguing. That’s why all that shit got in there,” Dean said in the phone call, referring to material in his book he said was inaccurate. “I never actually went back and re-read my testimony when I was writing my book.” The recording is still available at Watergate.com.
And common law copyright wouldn’t cover the informal conversation in the 1989 phone call, said Professor Tyler S. Ochoa of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. Even if it were applied in court, “it is outweighed by the interest in free speech,” he said.
“To the extent that the Web site used the speech to comment on or criticize Dean, it may well have a strong fair-use argument,” said Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney with the Electric Frontier Foundation. That would allow Nixontapes.org to provide a portion of the audio without Dean’s authorization.
Posted in Bill Clinton School of the English language, Sandy "Burgle" Berger | Tagged: audio, blind ambition, dean, fair-use, files, historian, john, nixon, president, recordings, sue, tape, threats, watergate | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 11, 2009
An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.
President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage.
According to civil society groups, the law, which regulates the personal affairs of Afghanistan’s minority Shia community, still includes clauses which allow rapists to marry their victims as a way of absolving their crime and it tacitly approves child marriage. The law sparked riots in Kabul. Hundreds of Shia women took to the streets in protest. They were attacked by mobs of angry men who launched counter demonstrations outside the capital’s largest Shia madrassa.
It is due to be ratified by parliament, which first passed the legislation in March with hardly any debate.
Posted in Bill Clinton "I did not have sex with that woman", It`s a Jerry Springer life | Tagged: afghanistan, dead, feminism, husbands, kabul, legislation, shia, starve, wives, women | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 9, 2009
Posted in Right on the News | Tagged: birth, born, cache, citizen, google, hospital, natural, obama, page, queens | Leave a Comment »
Posted by aconservativeedge on July 9, 2009
Kapi'olani
Posted in AKA OBAMA AKA Soetoro AKA Dunham AKA God, It is the Past That Changes, The Dots Get Connected Here | Tagged: birth, born, center, certificate, citizen, constitution, kapiolani, medical, natural, qualified | Leave a Comment »
