PBS: Frontline- JFK and the Mob (Nov. 17th 1992)

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Rik Schneider
PBS_ Frontline- JFK and the Mob_ Nov_ 17th 1992

Source:PBS Frontline– Robert F. Kennedy: Attorney General, United States (1961-64)

You can also see this post at The Daily Post, on Blogger.

“PBS Frontline: JFK and The Mafia (November, 17th, 1992)” Originally from Frontline, but the video has since been deleted or blocked on YouTube.

It is clear that the Italian-American Mafia invested in the John F. Kennedy Campaign For President in 1960. And at least to a certain extent got Jack Kennedy elected President of the United States. Especially if you look at their role in Chicago in the Illinois election. And what JFK ever knew about the Mafia’s involvement in his presidential campaign, I don’t think we’ll ever know. But his father Joe Kennedy certainly knew about it and perhaps even reached out to Italian-American mobsters.

But as President of the United States especially because of his Attorney General, who just happened to be his little brother Robert Kennedy, the Italian Mafia didn’t get much if anything for their investment in JFK.

The Kennedy Administration if anything under Bobby Kennedy went harder after the Italian Mafia and put policies in place that essentially eliminated the Italian Mafia in America by the early 1990s. With new wiretapping laws and isolating these crime families and going after their leaders.

So yeah, the Italian Mafia may have stole the 1960 presidential election for Jack Kennedy and I’m not saying that is a good thing and not serious. But they if anything invested in their own demise and help bring themselves down, instead of investing in Richard Nixon for President in 1960, who didn’t have any special plans to go after the mob, or at least didn’t run on them.

So you can’t make the case that the Italian Mafia had bought President John Kennedy, because if anything the opposite is true.

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C-SPAN: Representative Newt Gingrich- Speaking Against the House Democrats Budget (1982)

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Rik Schneider


Source:The FreeState

Back in the day when Newt Gingrich was a Junior Representative in the House and I would argue up to a certain extent even when then Minority Whip Gingrich became Speaker of the House, even though to a certain extent, getting in the bed with the Christian Right, Newt Gingrich was a Reagan Republican. Someone who believed in limited government and that Uncle Sam shouldn’t be telling Americans how to live their lives.

Who believed in decentralizing the Federal Government and balances budgets, tax relief, strong defense, but he was more progressive than President Reagan on welfare policy. He did believe in welfare reform before it became popular. Where President Reagan basically just wanted to gut the safety net. But Representative Gingrich was basically a Reagan Republican in the 80s and 90s.

Three months ago I thought Newt Gingrich on paper anyway would be the best Republican to take on President Obama. Not just in the debates, but Speaker Gingrich would’ve had the Republican base behind him. And had he did a better job in the Florida debate in January. Maybe he’s not the frontrunner right now, but based on how he’s ran this his campaign ever since, it’s almost impossible to make a credible case that he would be the strongest Republican today.

But unlike Mitt Romney, Newt is someone that’s trusted by the entire Republican Party. By Reagan Conservatives, the Tea Party, Religious Conservatives, Neoconservatives. Even Libertarians have a certain respect for Newt. The thing you get with Newt Gingrich, similar to Barry Goldwater, is someone who speaks his mind and is not worried about offending people. Including Republicans, so he’s clearly not a smooth politician. Which is a big reason why he’s fallen down so far. Finishing fourth in one of the primary’s last week.

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Global Freedom Network: Post: Roy Dan Baron: “Liberals are idiot Compassion & Conservatives are Wise Compassion”: An Example of Pure Tea Party Nonsense

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Nonsense
Global Freedom Network: Post: Roy Dan Baron: Liberals are Idiot Compassion & Conservatives are Wise Compassion

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger

I’m going to try to put this in a way that is as accurate as possible, but at the same time isn’t overly insulting and unfair. Because I do respect Roy Dan Baron who at least up to this point I saw as someone who is a real Liberal Democrat in the sense that he believes in liberal democracy and would like to see everyone around the world with the opportunity to live in freedom. Including Americans, which is something I and The New Democrat believes in well. But at the same time his last post about Liberals, Conservatives and poverty is pure nonsense and even Tea Party propaganda. And that point also deserves and should be made.

His first point about Liberals believing in welfare over work. Which is my paraphrase and you’ll be able to see exactly how he put that on this post, and that Liberals believe in creating a socialist state. Well there is a few problems with that. One the obvious is not true. If you are a Liberal, you believe in liberty, the whole point of the word. If you are living off the state meaning taxpayers who support themselves, you are obviously not living in free, are you. Because you are free to support yourself and manage your own affairs.

Also you can’t be a Liberal and a Socialist, its one or the other. Just like you can’t be both a Neoconservative and as strong believer in the national security state and the military industrial complex and also be a Libertarian. Who puts individual liberty over everything including security. Or be a Religious Conservative who believes in their religious beliefs and their way of life so strongly, that you believe that everyone else should live by your values and even enforce that through law. And also be a Libertarian.

His last point being about “Conservatives believing in the free market over everything else and if government just gets out-of-the-way, everything will benefit from that”. Really? Well maybe someone who is a Conservative in the classical sense, meaning someone who believes in conserving freedom and the Constitution and not subtracting from those things. And that when government and business are combined or interlocked with things like corporate welfare, that is bad for freedom because now you’re putting business in charge of our well beings with our tax dollars subsidizing them.

If that is your idea of a Conservative, than I agree with you and present to you Barry Goldwater who was the real thing when it came to Conservatives and perhaps Senator Rand Paul of today. But the problem with this is that today’s Conservatives as much as they claim to hate welfare, are addicted and in love with what is called corporate welfare. Which is subsidizing business’s and allowing for them to avoid taxes simply because they are very wealthy and successful. When they fail, you bail them out and are Socialists. But when individuals fail, it’s the free market and the best of luck to you. This is not conservative, but it’s what is called corporatist. Which is a huge difference.

I don’t mind debating the differences between Conservatives and Liberals. Actually I love the idea and love doing about poverty which is an issue that both sides care about and even have some thing in common on. But just as long as we are debating the real differences and not throwing bogus charges (to be nice) at each other, but that both sides understand what the other side is about. And honestly and truthfully expresses what they are about and what they believe in.

Global Freedom Network: Post: Roy Dan Baron

“Liberals are Idiot Compassion & Conservatives are Wise Compassion

Liberal Democrats believe in Idiot Compassion which is giving things to help people with welfare giving things to people live off the state and become socialist with no incentive at all to do any work. In other words to become bums of the USA.

Republicans and conservatives believe in what is called Wise Compassion which is NOT giving things away but it’s actually living in a USA country and a system where you don’t have roadblocks to access healthy safety work food clothing shelter community Conservatives enable
free market systems where anybody can go register an LLC and start a company and work hard to be successful

So it’s saying no we’re not going to just give you those things you’re going to have to get out work and work hard and then you can be successful but you also live in a USA country where it’s NOT a socialist country & we are not going to spread wealth all around to everybody and give everything away.

This is a USA society where we have are supposed to have free markets and there’s zero roadblocks and anybody and everybody has 100% equal opportunity to be extremely successful and work hard and do well this is what we call Wise compassion.”

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10 Facts: ’10 Facts About Weed’

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Erik Schneider
10 Facts About Weed

Source:10 Facts– About marijuana prohibition.

Source:FRS FreeState 

“10 facts about weed. This list contains ten facts you didn’t know about the drug cannabis. Do you know interesting, amazing, fascinating and mind blowing things about the marijuana plant? Let us know in the comments…

10. There are over 200 slang terms for marijuana. Some of the more common nicknames include pot, grass, weed, hash and ganja.
9. More than 800,000 people are arrested each year for marijuana.
8. The last four presidents, including Barack Obama, have all admitted to smoking cannabis.
7. After alcohol, marijuana is the most popular recreational or mood-altering drug used worldwide.
6. In 2003, Canada became the first country in the world to offer medical marijuana to pain-suffering patients.
5. One-third of Americans think weed legalization would boost the economy.
4. Legalization would save the United States an estimated $14 billion per year.
3. Marijuana has been proven helpful for treating the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions such as cancer and AIDS and many more.
2. In the history of mankind, no one has ever overdosed or died from smoking too much weed.
1. Legalization has many benefits for the world: medical, crime, industrial, taxes and more.”

From 10 Facts

The idea that we lock people away in prison for several years for smoking, growing or selling pot, when we have overcrowded prisons with two-million people locked up in prison and many of these offenders being non-violent, when we don’t lock up people for drinking, possessing or selling alcohol or smoking tobacco, which are just as dangerous drugs if not more so, but for some reason aren’t considered narcotics, is more dangerous than illegal narcotics itself.

Alcohol and tobacco are both very addicting and can cause of serious diseases, including addiction. But also heart disease, liver disease, lung cancer, diabetes and others. Plus, the problems alcohol and tobacco bring to the society with our economy with people being less productive because they are sick from drinking too much. Or have clothes that smell like nicotine.And so many other issues facing this country, with multiple economic problems, seems very ironic to me,

This tells me the reason for marijuana prohibition is about politics and ideology and not policy. That politicians can’t come out on favor of marijuana legalization because they are worried about looking “soft on crime”. And if we legalize marijuana: “That could lead to other drugs”. Really? See that actually that happens with alcohol and tobacco. Again both legal.

If we legalized with regulation and taxation of marijuana and treat it like alcohol, what happens: fewer people going to jail and prison who didn’t hurt anyone. Which saves us a lot of jail and prison space. Money that could be spent on other priorities. We now spend more on our corrections system than our education system. More tax revenue would be collected because of the sales tax on marijuana. More well-paid jobs would be created, producing, growing and selling marijuana.

With these workers paying taxes off of their income. Instead of making all of their money on the black market not paying taxes, unlike people working in the alcohol and tobacco industry’s. We would save money on law enforcement because instead of going after people for marijuana activities, they could spend their time and resources on actually going after dangerous criminals. Who are actual threats to society.

I’m not arguing that we legalize marijuana today and let the chips fall where they may. What I’m saying is that we treat like alcohol. And give the marijuana industry no special advantage over the alcohol or tobacco industry. 21 or over to smoke, sell or produce marijuana. Licensed to sell or produce marijuana. No driving or flying or operating any vehicle under the influence of marijuana, etc. A significant tax on marijuana, because we are not talking about spring water here. Marijuana does have negative side-affects. This would be a much better approach than prohibition.

Just look at alcohol prohibition of the 1920s and 30s, that didn’t work either. Because if people want to do something bad enough, they’ll find a way to do it and the hell with the consequences. If you’re a true believer in limited government and a true disbeliever in big government, then you are for legalization with regulation and taxation of marijuana. Because support letting people live their own lives, as long as they are not hurting anyone else with their freedom protect everyone’s freedom.

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The New Republic: Jamie Holmes: ‘Why Some People Can’t Escape Poverty’

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Republic

Source:FRS FreeState

“During this week’s Congressional Black Caucus special order hour on “Lifting Americans Out of Poverty”, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ explained the base causes that keeps many struggling American families at or under the poverty line.”

Source:U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries

If you look at why some people do very well in America, professionally, economically and most other things and why some people do well in these areas and why some people do OK, get by, but with not a lot of financial security and why some people are barely surviving and why some people can’t get by and fight and struggle for their survival everyday and need a lot of public assistance just to struggle to get by, it is about education.

It gets to education, because the better you’re educated and the more skills that you have to offer in the workplace and in other areas, the better you’re chance of doing well in life. It’s also about personal choices that people make. Do they finish school or drop out especially in high school. Which is generally a free ticket to poverty. Do they have kids when they are financially and emotionally ready to raise kids or not. Or do they have kids before they are ready to raise them well.

And before they have the skills that they need to make a good living in life. And do their kids have two parents that are both in their lives and raising them. Or do they have one parent without the skills and tools to raise them well in life. And do their kids finish school and get themselves the skills that they need to get a good job or not. Your level of education and the personal choices that people make in life, is the best indicator of how well they’ll do in life.

Whether people are self-sufficient or do they need public assistance to survive. Because they don’t have the skills that they need to get a good job and be self-sufficient. Wealthy, upper middle class, middle class people do well in life because they are well-educated. And have the skills that they need to get a good job. People in poverty in a lot of cases don’t have these skills and in most cases have to go back to school.

Because they didn’t finish school, to get the skills that they need to get a good job. And become self-sufficient, which is why education is so important especially public education in America. And why people need to be able and go to good schools so they can get the skills that they need to be successful in life. Going forward the way to finally win the War on Poverty in America.

A war that was declared back in 1965, instead of just talking about it, will be about education, empowering people in poverty to go back to school or go to school and get the skills that they need. To move themselves out of poverty and will be about reforming our public schools. So we are producing enough workers in America, so people don’t have to live in poverty as adults in the first place. Thats how we finally win this war.

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A&E: Shipping Wars- Sexy Cowgirl Jennifer Brennan

Posted on September 15, 2014 by kireschneider

Shipping Wars_ Horse Ranch _ A&E

Source:A&E– Sexy Cowgirl Jennifer Brennan from A&E’s Shipping Wars.

Source:The Daily Times

“Jen visits her aunt’s horse farm and talks about her love for horses.

A&E leads the cultural conversation through high-quality, thought provoking original programming with a unique point of view. Whether it’s the network’s distinctive brand of award-winning disruptive reality, groundbreaking documentary, or premium scripted drama, A&E always makes entertainment an art. Visit us at aetv.com for more info.”

From A&E 

Let’s just be honest: I posted this photo of Cowgirl Jennifer Brennan because it’s really sexy. She’s a cowgirl from Texas (or some Southwest state) whose always dressed like a cowgirl in her skin-tight t-shirts or tank tops, skin-tight, denim jeans, and cowgirl boots. With a beautiful baby face and body. It’s really that simple.

Shipping Wars

Source:A&E– Sexy Cowgirl Jennifer Brennan on A&E”s Shipping Wars.

I gotta be honest as a guy, (for a change) I’m not a fan of Shipping Wars on A&E. But I do watch the show occasionally (like when I have nothing better to do and I’m wide awake) and I do like Jennifer Brennan. She’s I guest one of the contestants on the show, but they really aren’t playing. They do this for a living, they buy stuff online that people have to sell and perhaps getting rid of. And they make their money by selling what they buy online for a profit. But they have to compete with each other in order to see who gets to buy and then try to sell the purchase. Sort of like an online auction.

Jennifer Brennan plays or I guess is this cowgirl or cowgirl wannabe who lives I believe in the South. Who is into a lot of Western style I guess products. And she looks like an acts like a cowgirl with the style, the way she talks, what she drives and how she carries herself. She’s also highly annoying and adorable as the other players on the show would probably tell you. But very entertaining at the same time, and very attractive and sexy which makes the show (at times) worth watching for me.

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Sam Thomas: Ysave Chen

Posted on September 15, 2014 by kireschneider

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Source:Sam Thomas– Sexy woman, in jeans in boots

Source:The Daily Times

“Ysavè in Jeans and Thigh High Boots”

From Sam Thonas

For the last ten years or so we’ve seen a lot of women going out at night and partying in tight denim jeans. Because they like to show off their tight bodies, no better way of doing that with pants than tight denim jeans. Especially tight dark wash denim jeans, while not being naked or wearing a mini skirt or short shorts. Clothing that might not be practical in cold winter weather in the Northeast and Midwest.

But tight denim jeans are practical all year around especially at night. But even as sexy as they are seeing a sexy women in tight denim jeans are from a guys point of view. I doubt for women they are very comfortable in hot humid summer weather that’s very common in the Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Mid South and Midwest. But they are still very common even in that weather as well.

They last 5-6 years we’ve also seen tight denim jeans on women worn with what I would call sexy boots. Leather boots and suede boots, especially leather boots with their tight denim jeans. We’ve seen women wear their boots over their jeans and under their jeans. The boots under tight denim jeans look has been around for over thirty years. With women and men, but the tight jeans in boots look for women, which was popular in the late 70s and early 80, came back into style around 2005-06.

Sexy women love this look, for one its very stylish, but also its very sexy. It’s a great way for women, especially well-built women with tight curves. To show off their legs and butt and to get guys attention. Because of how tight they are and how they highlight women’s bodies. And as a guy I thank sexy women for this everyday for being willing to show men what they are working with.

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ESPN 30 For 30: The Band That Wouldn’t Die

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The Daily Journal

If you look back at the Baltimore Colts, their last few seasons, especially in the early 1980s, up until 1984, when they relocated to Indianapolis, it was very dark very gloomy. The team was bad and they weren’t drawing, playing in an aging stadium, that was basically designed for baseball, where the Orioles play. Playing in a rough area in North Baltimore. I know, I went to Orioles games there and went to a Stallions game there as well. Like the stadium, as far as watching games there.

But Baltimore Memorial Stadium, it wasn’t the right stadium for NFL football, as far as allowing a franchise to be profitable there. By 1984 when the Colts left, there were probably more reasons to not go to a Colts game, then there were reasons to go to a Colts game, to the point, that this is also an interesting story and I won’t go very far into it but the Colts actually drafted John Elway in 1983. Elway being the smart guy from Stanford that he is, knew that the Colts by this point were one of the worst franchises in the NFL. Decided that he didn’t want to be part of a long-term rebuilding project, especially for a team that might be relocating and told the Colts he wouldn’t play for them.

The Colts traded John Elway to the Denver Broncos in 1983. Dan Reeves the Broncos head coach/general manager ends up getting a steal in this trade. The most talented QB in the NFL, on a team that was already a playoff contender, but as it so happens, the Broncos end up playing the Colts at Baltimore Memorial Stadium, week 1 of the 1983 NFL Season. Baseball is still going on at this point, the Orioles are still playing, so the football field, half of it is dirt, for the baseball field. (The other half is dirt for the football field also, ha ha)

Week 1 in Baltimore in September and in Maryland at this point it’s still summer time, a very hot humid day in Baltimore, temperature in the 90s, plus add-on the humidity very common late Maryland summer weather and the Colts take their frustration out on John Elway, beat up the rookie QB, the whole game, pounding him into the hot dirt field the whole game. This one game in 1983 against the Broncos, sums up the state of the Colts at this point. After the Colts leave Baltimore in 1983, Baltimore football fans, had one goal and one mission at this point and only one mission.

Was to land another NFL franchise, to prove to the NFL they can support an NFL franchise, even if that means building a new stadium, which is what you see in the beautiful Ravens Stadium, that opened in 1998. Which is how they got the Baltimore Stars of the United States Football League and won the USFL Championship in 1985. With players like running back Kelvin Bryant who ended up playing for the Washington Redskins, how they were able to get NFL preseason games and draw big crowds for all of those games.

In the early 1990s, how they got so close to landing an NFL expansion franchise in 1993, with a plan for a new stadium. How they landed the Baltimore Stallions of the CFL in 1994 and won the Eastern Conference Championship in 1994 and the Grey Cup in 1995. And how they landed the Cleveland Browns in 1995 over to Baltimore for the start of the 1996 season and of course they became the Ravens.

If you want something bad enough, you basically have to do anything (you know that’s legal and perhaps within in other limits) to get what you want, to show whoever you have to prove to, that you are not only willing, but able to support whatever transaction you are trying to land. Thats how Baltimore and the State of Maryland felt about pro football, they were pissed off over losing the Colts and decided to use that anger to get the Ravens.

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Reuter: The Trail With Samuel P. Jacobs: Rick Santorum vs. Mitt Romney

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Ederik Schneider


Source:FreeState Now

Alabama has already been called for Rick Santorum by NBC News and now CNN. Rick Santorum has been been holding a slim but steady lead over Newt Gingrich. Whose actually in 2nd Place in both states, not Mitt Romney whose the GOP frontrunner. Mitt has called Rick Santorum “desperate”, calling someone desperate whose about to win two more States in the deep South.

The deep South is an area the Republican nominee is going to have to win overwhelmingly. In order to have any shot of beating President Obama in the general election. And their frontrunner has yet to win a state in this region. Unless you want to include Florida, that politically more looks like California than Alabama or Mississippi and their frontrunner is in third place in two of these States.

Mitt is the overwhelmingly favorite to win the Republican nomination for President. I believe even the Santorum Campaign would acknowledge that at least in private. But the point of these Southern primaries, is that the GOP race goes on. And Mitt is going to have to continue to raise and spend money. To spend against Rick Santorum, a big government Republican. Who’s on the fringe in American politics and will never be President of the United States. Because of this, money Mitt needs to spend against President Obama in the general election.

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Newt Gingrich, Where is the GOP Headed (1984)

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Rik Schneider


Source:The FreeState

Not really Newt Gingrich himself, but his movement and followers represented where the Republican Party was headed post Ronald Reagan. Not George H.W. Bush who succeeded President Reagan as President, but didn’t offer a vision other than maybe on foreign policy. Of where he would take the GOP with him. President Bush was more of an operator or pragmatist as President.

George H.W. Bush took issues and problems as they came up, but not having a set of ideas and policies, or direction where he wanted to take the Republican Party. Whereas Newt Gingrich and his Conservative Opportunity Society group had a vision where they wanted to take the Republican Party. That later became known as the Contract with America in 1995. Shortly after being elected to the House in 1978, December, 1978, Rep. Elect Newt Gingrich when House Republicans were still in the minority.

The House GOP had around 160 or so seats during the Carter Administration. They put together working groups that would work on bringing a House majority for the GOP. Raising money recruiting like- minded candidates, putting together and agenda. That they would try to pass, that later became the CWA of 1995-96. But it took them sixteen years to get there. But only he and his group believed they had any shot of taking back the majority. This was back in the day when the House Republicans had for the most part had around 160-180 seats, the late 1970s and 1980s.

And House Democrats controlled the House since 1955. I don’t agree with Newt on much and he has personal characteristics that I don’t like, but I respect him a lot as a political strategist. Probably the best we’ve had since Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. He could see things happening that no one else could. Because he knew how to get there and deserves a lot of credit for that.

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