Analyzing Cable News Networks Ratings: CNN in the Gutters & Obama Vs Top Rated Fox News; Big-Big Trouble Ahead for the president & Democrats:

Analyzing Cable News Networks Ratings: CNN in the Gutters & Obama Vs Top Rated Fox News; Big-Big Trouble Ahead for the president & Democrats:
By Marc Chamot

The truth is, people aren’t sure about their new president that they have just elected, so they are going to Fox News and other conservative news sources in droves, leaving CNN and other biased liberal Medias in the dust.

This spells big trouble for President Obama and the Democrats. That is why President Obama’s White House blasted, and began a short lived war against Fox News. It was a sign of desperation. And the new cable news network ratings show that.

A new survey of American voters puts healthcare at 17 percent, as the third most important thing for President Obama and the Democrats to take care of. The economy and JOBS is number one, with 41 percent of the voters. The Afghanistan/Iraq war came second at 18 and 17 percent.

Obviously the president’s and these congressional Democrats’ priorities are totally wrong. This is yet another reason as to why Americans are not being heard, or just plainly ignored and that’s why they are turning away.

Fox News has the combined total viewerships of CNN, MSNBC, and others PLUS a whole lot more to spare.

For as long as this president and Democrats’ keep pushing for costly agendas, refusing to address jobs losses, the economy, and the deficit, the war with Afghanistan, and keeping Wall Street under control, people will go to Fox News and other conservative mediums to get the truths.

For that reason President Obama’s popularity and job approval ratings are going down.

Most Americans are seeing Obama as just another politician, one whose promises don’t amounts to squat, quite partisan, left wing driven, and a special interests type of politician, look at the banks and the Wall Street bailouts.

Moderates and Independent voters who fled Obama this past summer, are staying away, and most are not expecting the rebirths of hope and change, because there won’t be any. Like most of us, we’re just hoping to survive the most extreme leftist president that we have ever had in American history.

This president is putting so much energy into healthcare, when it should be done for the economy and jobs recoveries. He’s also standing by letting Afghanistan fall to pieces; where we have lost more soldiers recently, because of his inability to make tough decisions for sending more troops, to crush once and for all the Bin Laden and his terrorists’ thugs.

His priorities are all out of whack, for the proper way in running and maintaining a strong and successful nation. It’s not only at the polls that are showing President Obama’s troubles, it’s in the cable news network media too.

Take CNN, the network who went gangbusters for the then presidential candidate Barack Obama. During the debates, and on election nights during the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination runs, they were breaking viewership records. It looked like a rebirth for CNN; they figured if Obama became president and did well, they would reap off his fortunes.

It was a time when Republicans were unpopular and former President George Bush was despised. Everything looked good for both Barack Obama and CNN, they had a man who was promising change and hope for all Americans, this guy would bring them viewers, and they went hook line and sinker for Obama.

But unfortunately something went wrong with their idea and logic of their plan. It wasn’t CNN’s fault entirely; it was more President Obama’s fault. He wasn’t delivering as president as what most people thought.

Actually, President Obama brought about more suspicion and mistrust on his real abilities to run and manage this nation properly. Throughout my years, I Have never seen Americans so wound up over a leftist president like Obama before. And it’s showing on cable news network ratings.

CNN is down in the gutters, while CNN’s former loony left moved on to MSNBC, and their former Independents and moderates moved on to Fox News. It basically enforces the polls, as to what they’ve been saying about Obama and the Democrats all along.

Polar Opposites: Fox News Seeing Best Ratings, CNN and MSNBC Worst
We’ve written a lot about Fox News’ ratings. Here’s the deal – they’re on pace for their best year of all time in total viewers during prime time and total day.

CNN and MSNBC, on the other hand, are headed the opposite direction. Here’s a look at the ratings from October, which officially came to an end yesterday.

In every category – total day and prime time, A25-54 demographic and total viewers, October has shaped up to be the worst month of 2009 for both CNN and MSNBC. But when comparing the networks, it looks worse for CNN, which, as reported by the New York Timestoday, dropped to fourth on cable news, even behind sister network HLN, in prime time demo.

A CNN spokesperson tells Mediaite:
We couldn’t be more pleased that both our networks (CNN and HLN) are now topping MSNBC in total day and that CNN.com leads all TV news competitors on the web. As we have said for years, we measure our audience across all CNN Worldwide platforms and throughout the day, not just primetime. CNN provides quality journalism and our ratings reflect the news environment more than opinion programming does – especially in primetime.

There’s no dispute that CNN has a broad range of outlets to measure its audience. It has a vibrant international network, a prime web destination and much more (there’s an actual airport network as well). But – and this is important – the ratings drops on CNN during prime time are notably dramatic, and as HLN increases viewership there could be rumblings for a shake up.
Every CNN program is down more than 50% year-to-year in total viewers and the demo, butAnderson Cooper’s 10pmET hour is down 72% and 79%. The top program right now, Larry King’s 9pmET hour, is just the 16th best cable news program for October in total viewers, and 17th in the demo (More on that below).

CNN can say they measure their audience ‘across all platforms’, but lagging A25-54 demo numbers is a bad sign. As Daily Finance notes, although every cabler did well in October 2008 due to the election, CNN is down the most year-to-year in the category. Back in April 2008, for example, CNN President Jon Klein told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “That’s the demographic that advertisers are buying.”

Meanwhile with MSNBC, the cable network is stuck in 4th place in total day in both total viewers and the demo. HLN moves up to #2 in the demo, while CNN is #2 in total viewers. While its opinion programming in prime time has succeeded, the new line-up during the day is not nearly as successful.

Below is the program ranker for October. Fox News had the top 11 programs in the demo and the top 13 programs, again, in total viewers. Some other notes:

• The Nancy Grace repeat on HLN and Keith Olbermann repeat on MSNBC topped Anderson Cooper’s live 10pmET show in the demo.• CNN’s late afternoon Situation Room performed better than both Cooper’s 10pmET hour andCampbell Brown’s 8pmET hour.• Fox News’ 3amET show Red Eye once again beat CNN’s 8pmET show Campbell Brown in the demo.

CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks
CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.
The official monthly numbers will be finalized at 4 p.m. Monday and will include results from Friday. CNN executives conceded that will not change the competitive standing for the month. CNN will still be last in prime time.

That means CNN’s programs were behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but even its own sister network HLN (formerly Headline News.) Three of its four shows between 7 and 11 p.m. finished fourth and last among the cable news networks. That was the first time CNN had finished that poorly with its prime-time shows.

The results demonstrate once more the apparent preference of viewers for opinion-oriented shows from the news networks in prime time.

CNN has steered opinion hosts like Nancy Grace to HLN, while maintaining more news-oriented shows on CNN itself. When news events are not being intensely followed, CNN executives acknowledge, viewers seem to be looking for partisan views more than objective coverage.
Individually, the CNN shows were beaten resoundingly by all the Fox News programs, but also lost to all of the MSNBC programs, including a repeat of Keith Olbermann’s 8 p.m. edition of “Countdown,” which beat the 10 p.m. hour of CNN’s signature prime-time program, “Anderson Cooper 360.”Again that was a first.

Mr. Cooper had 211,000 viewers to 223,000 for Mr. Olbermann’s repeat. That meant Mr. Cooper finished fourth and last in the 10 p.m. hour because, besides being well behind the leader, Greta Van Susteren, who had 538,000 viewers, he was also beaten by a repeat of Nancy Grace’s 8 p.m. show on HLN, which averaged 222,000.

For the month, CNN averaged 202,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 – the group that television news organizations use as their basis of success because of their advertising sales. That was far behind the dominant leader, Fox News, which averaged 689,000. But it also trailed MSNBC, which had 250,000 viewers in that group and HLN, which had 221,000.

The only CNN show from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. that did not finish last was Larry King, which was third, ahead of the new Joy Behar show on HLN. But Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News had a huge lead with 659,000 viewers in that age group. Second was Rachel Maddow on MSNBC with 242,000.Mr. King averaged 224,000 and Ms. Behar 181,000.

At 7 p.m. CNN’s host, Lou Dobbs was fourth, barely beaten by Jane Velez Mitchell on HLN, 166,000 to 162,000. The big winner was Shepard Smith on Fox with 465,000 viewers. Second was Chris Matthews and “Hardball” on MSNBC, with 179,000 viewers.

CNN’s performance was worst in the 8 p.m. hour. Bill O’Reilly on Fox News continued his long dominance with the biggest numbers of any host, 881,000 viewers. Mr. Olbermann, with his first-run program, was second with 295,000. Close behind was the first edition of Ms. Grace’s show with 269,000. Campbell Brown on CNN trailed with only 162,000.

CNN executives emphasized that the network continues to draw more viewers than all its competitors except Fox News when all hours of the day are counted.

CNN released a statement Monday saying, “CNN’s ratings are always going to be more dependent on the news environment, much more so than opinion-based programming especially in prime time.”

No Solutions; True Toll of Jobless rate is bleaker & Millions of Jobs Could Be Lost For Ever:

No Solutions; True Toll of Jobless rate is bleaker & Millions of Jobs Could Be Lost For Ever:
By Marc Chamot

Fierce urgency is for jobs, nothing else. President Obama’s famous speech phrase and words “we’ve got a fierce urgency for…,” unfortunately it’s for everything else but jobs.

But that may change soon, because the alarm bells are ringing in the White House and congress. With a mindboggling $1.4 Trillion dollars deficit this year, Democrats have used up their markers for any more stimuli to help bring about job recoveries.

They (Democrats), will have to find other draconian solutions to create new jobs, and to keep American wealth from hemorrhaging abroad, they must figure out how to keep our wealth in this country, or otherwise suffer a huge defeat in 2012.

Over eight million jobs were lost nationwide since the recession began two years ago. This is considered the worst job market since the Great Depression. The average workers have been out of work for 6 1/2 months, average job openings have five applicants or more.

Now some expert analysts are saying that it will take up to seven years and more, of solid growth to get the jobs back to where they were before the downturn. They also say that millions of jobs that were lost will never come back.

Economists are puzzled as to why job growth has declined, “the answer is we don’t know,” says a liberal economist with the Upjohn Institute for employment Research in Michigan.

But Americans know why, and they do not share President Obama and these Democrats congress’ views about any urgency, other than getting people back to work. And these politicians are ignoring people’s pleas so much, to the degree that the president’s and congress’ job approval ratings are dropping further down.

Take for example Democrat Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, new polls showing that he may not be re-elected next term. Harry Reid Trails Republican Challengers in 2010 Election “In what is currently a difficult political climate for Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails two potential Republican challengers seeking to unseat him as he faces reelection next year in Nevada.

The first Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of the 2010 race shows Sue Lowden beating Reid by 10 percentage points, 50% to 40%. Lowden is chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and the preferred candidate of the Republican party establishment.

GOP hopeful Danny Tarkanian beats Reid by seven points, 50% to 43%. Tarkanian is a former basketball player for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the son of a legendary college basketball coach.”

This is the price politicians in the future, Democrats and Republicans will have to pay for. If Washington Democrats in congress haven’t learned from six years of Republicans mistakes, then they will never learn either.

And whether these stubborn politicians know it, or don’t and whether they like it or not, throngs of angry Americans, the American people are taking back their country. It’s happening, it’s going to happen and the bloody 2010 backlash is coming around the corner.

Even Independent candidates are becoming more favorable with voters all over. With Democrat’s fast collapsing popularity, Republicans and independents are making a rebound for the upcoming state governor’s races and for the 2012 U.S. congress and senate races around the country.

But there is more to the grim tales of the unemployment picture than what the government is reporting or wants to report. The true toll of the jobless is much higher than their unemployment figures show. They are not showing the underemployed, folks who work part time and those who are out of the unemployment benefits program.

For example in California, the underemployment rate just hit 21.9 percent in September. Those are millions more Americans out of the economic spending opportunities for consumer goods and retailers. “Underemployment is at its highest levels since 1994, when these records first began to be kept,” says Sylvia Allegretto of the institute for Research on Labor and Employment at U.C. Berkeley.

China is the biggest obstacle for American recovery, not only we’ve got a huge trade imbalance with that country, and almost all of our factories and industries’ have been moving there for the past eight years; they are also artificially inflating their own money to kill the U.S. dollar.

We are exporting billions of our dollars for foreign oil, when we could be drilling, producing our own and keeping all of this money here.

And there is still that inherent bad habit from congress and this president to keep importing cheaper foreign workers, and allowing undocumented aliens to work at the expense of unemployed Americans.

Then we’ve got the government’s love affairs with Wall Street and the banks, where the bulk of the stimulus moneys have been going to, and nothing has come about helping the regular Jane’s and Joes of America.

Those are big topics that this president and this congress’ Democrats don’t have the real “cojones” to tackle and deal with. It will be their ultimate defeat for their failure to deal with our problems personally.

U.S. Sting on Mexican Drug Cartels; Covered-Up by Mainstreams Media and Washington Politicians, Because Arrestees were Criminals Illegal Aliens:

U.S. Sting on Mexican Drug Cartels which Lead to over 300 Arrests; Covered-Up by Mainstreams Media and Washington Politicians, Most Arrestees were Criminals Illegal Aliens:
By Marc Chamot

"BIG Fallout for having an unsecured border."

About five days ago, we just had the largest sting and drug bust of Mexican drug dealers in America's history, and once again this went unnoticed by most of the national mainstream mediums, the Barack Obama White House, and congress, because of the leftist and pro-open border supporters of illegal aliens.

As soon as “criminal illegal aliens” were known to be the members of “La Familia,” Mexico’s most dangerous and violent drug cartel, they were the majority of those arrested for dealing drugs in some of America’s biggest cities. The Media and Washington politicians went into a silent mode.

Not only that, some of these criminal illegal aliens were armed to the teeth.

This is shameful, and this is why the mainstream media is being overtaken by the Internet. Folks don’t trust the media and their politicians to give truthful accounts on everything that goes on in this country anymore.

It’s the normal M.O. of these leftists and pro-open border supporters of illegal aliens, they want to cover up any adverse publicity that will hurt their causes to achieve amnesty and other pro-illegal alien’s perks.

They tried to silence the story, because this story proves and shows that Washington politicians have totally FAILED in enforcing our southern borders and PROTECTING AMERICANS from Mexican criminal elements and their drug cartels.

Largest U.S. sting on drug cartel leads to more than 300 arrests
OKLAHOMA CITY An upstart Mexican drug operation whose tentacles extend from coast to coast and deep into America’s heartland was the target of a massive federal strike this week that netted the arrests of more than 300 people.

Dozens of raids in 19 states, including Missouri, sought to cripple La Familia, which has emerged as the biggest supplier of methamphetamine to the United States and, increasingly, a peddler of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs.

Perhaps more than any other cartel, La Familia projects a Robin Hood image. The Drug Enforcement Administration said the group is “philosophically opposed to the sale of methamphetamine to Mexicans, and instead supports its export to the United States for consumption by Americans.”

Mexican police say the gang uses religion and family morals to recruit. Gang members have hung banners in towns saying they do not tolerate drug use, or attacks on women or children.

One of the gang’s alleged recruiters, detained last spring, ran drug rehabilitation centers, helping addicts recover and then forcing them to work for the gang or be killed, according to Mexico Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna.

La Familia is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the handful of other Mexican gangs that control the flow of drugs into the United States, fueled by Colombian cocaine suppliers. The Sinaloa, Juarez, Gulf and Tijuana cartels have roots that go back many years, even decades.
But La Familia is known as unusually violent, even by Mexico’s standards.

After the arrest of one of its leaders in July in Mexico, the cartel launched an offensive against federal forces, killing 18 police officers and two soldiers over a weekend. In the worst attack, 12 federal agents were slain and their tortured bodies piled along a roadside as a warning for all to see.

“They are one of the most violent, if not the most violent, cartel in Mexico right now,” said Michael Braun, who retired as the DEA’s chief of operations last year.

La Familia operates methamphetamine “superlabs” in Mexico that produce up to 100 pounds of the drug in eight hours, a sharp contrast to small-time labs in the United States that have supplied American addicts, Braun said.

The organization was founded in 2004 and really took off in 2006, Braun said.

“The sheer level and depravity of violence that this cartel has exhibited far exceeds what we unfortunately have become accustomed to from other cartels, (and) the toxic reach of its operations extends to nearly every state within our own country,” Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference.

But Holder and other officials also conceded that like a handful of other cartels, La Familia has become too powerful, too entrenched within the political and economic fabric of Mexico — and too popular with Mexico’s citizens — for the arrests to deal the cartel a death blow.

Senior drug officials said Mexico was cooperating but that La Familia’s leaders were too well-insulated to go after, protected not only by their own private army but also by corrupt police and politicians.

“It’s a full-blown military operation to go in and get them,” said one, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of U.S.-Mexico counternarcotics relations.

A Mexican counternarcotics official agreed, saying his country has thrown thousands of troops and police at La Familia.

“They rarely spend two or three nights in the same place, and when they do, they live in these very fortified compounds,” said the official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It is even more difficult for us because they buy not only information but they buy protection from the very guys that are supposed to get them.”

The arrests were made Wednesday and Thursday in 38 cities, with major distribution rings the focus in Dallas, Atlanta and Seattle. No raids were conducted in the Kansas City area.

None of those arrested in the United States was a major figure in the upper echelons of the organization, law enforcement officials said. But authorities said the sheer number of arrests would seriously disrupt the cartel’s distribution system.

In addition, Holder said, the authorities have seized more than $32 million in U.S. currency, 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine, 4,400 pounds of cocaine, 16,000 pounds of marijuana and 29 pounds of heroin. More arrests are expected.

The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune contributed to this report.

While Unemployment Rises, 15 Million OUT of Work & College Graduates Have NO Job Prospects, Obama and Congress Allotting 155,000 H1B & H2B Work Visas

An American Outrage! While Unemployment Rises, 15 Million OUT of Work & College Graduates Have NO Job Prospects, Obama and Congress Still Allotting 155,000 H1B & H2B Work Visas for 2010!
By Marc Chamot

If people are wondering as to why jobs aren’t being filled by Americans, maybe outrageous reasons like these might be the real answer.

Here are jobs that H2B visas are taking away from YOU: Types of H2B Visa Jobs / H2B Work includes:Hospitality workers, Hotels / Motels, Chefs, Resorts and Theme Parks, Ticket Sales, Cruise ships, Construction workers, Maintenance, Janitorial, Ski Resorts, Landscaping, Golf Courses, Water parks, Security, Ride Operators, Restaurants and bars, Warehouse, Retail Stores

While news reports are showing that unemployment has risen in 23 states, and thousands upon thousands of our own college graduates have no job prospects in the near future, our imbeciles’ in Washington are still allotting 66,000 H2B Visas, and 85,000 H1B work visas in 2010 for MORE foreigners to come in and take our valuable JOBS.

This is borderline asinine, folks! Our federal government is still doling out those H1B and H2B work visas to foreigners in large numbers.

American companies are applying for those cheap sources of labor, while Americans are being put out of work and our college graduates have no job prospects. This is the TOTAL DISCONNECT that we’re talking about, and we’re still getting from our federal officials these days, and there is no end in sight.

H-1B Visa and Employment Based Green Card: "The H-1B visa is highly desirable since it allows for "dual-intent"; the applicant may continue to work in the U.S. while, at the same time, apply for a "green card" (lawful permanent residence.) In short, the H-1B is a great way to work, while awaiting approval, of a green card application.

There is currently an annual quota of 65,000. There are also an additional 20,000 visas available, to those individuals who possess a Master’s degree, or higher, from a U.S. academic institution. In 2009, a significant number of H-1B visas remain available. This is a highly unusual phenomenon. The annual quota is usually filled within just a few days, after the visas are initially offered. If you would “

Application For H-2B Visas Re-Opened By U.S
Last Updated: 2009-08-07

"The U.S. has re-opened the applications for H-2B visas to fill temporary non-agricultural positions.

The congressionally mandated annual cap for H-2B visas sought by semi-skilled Indian workers is 66,000, and the government has issued only 40,640 this fiscal year, which ends Sep 30.

"Because of the low visa issuance rate, (US Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS) is reopening the filing period to allow employers to file additional petitions for qualified H-2B temporary foreign non-agricultural workers”, the source said.

The H-1B visas allow foreign nationals to work in U.S for a short period of projects. Whereas, the H-2B visa enable the US nationals to bring foreign nationals to the US to fill temporary non-agricultural positions for which there is a shortage of workers.

The requirement of labour in the areas like construction, health care, landscaping, food service and hospitality can be filled by H-2B visas.

Because of ongoing recession the demand of H-2B visas has been reduced, before, the demand was high.

From past two years, the demand of employers trying to bring foreigners to work permanently in the US has also declined.

The demand for popular H-1B visas among Indian techies has gown down this year.

Till now, USCIS has received approximately 45,000 H-1B visa applications.

The USCIS figures shows the declination in the number of employer-sponsored for work-based green cards applications received by the government, the number is just half of the applications received in previous years.

There were almost 235,000 applications submitted in fiscal 2007, almost 104,000 the following year, and fewer than 36,000 through the first eight months of fiscal 2009.

According to “Department of Labour”, in the fiscal year 2007, most of the applications came from India, Mexico, the Philippines, China and Korea."

For the Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 2010) we are currently accepting applications for H1B visas. "The H-1B is a nonimmigrant classification used by an alien who will be employed temporarily in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model. The filing deadline for H-1B visas for Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 2010) is April 1, 2009. Under current law, an alien can be in H-1B status for a maximum period of six years at a time.

After that time an alien must remain outside the United States for one year before another H-1B petition can be approved. Certain aliens working on Defense Department projects may remain in H-1B status for 10 years.

In addition, certain aliens may obtain an extension of H-1B status beyond the 6-year maximum period. The current law limits the cap of H1Bs to 65,000 as the number of aliens who may be issued an H1B visa or otherwise provided H-1B status. (The numerical limitation was temporarily raised to 195,000 in FY2001, FY2002 and FY2003.)

In addition, all H-1B non-immigrants who work at (but not necessarily for) universities and non-profit research facilities are excluded from the numerical cap. This means that contractors working at, but not directly employed by the institution may be exempt from the cap. H1B Visa renewals and Extensions of stay however do not count towards the annual limits.

Transfers of H1B visas among employers only count when changing jobs from an employer exempt from the limits (academia or research) to one that is not exempt. Therefore, despite the numerical limitations we can prepare and file your case for an extension of stay provided the maximum 6 year has not yet been fulfilled. The maximum allotted visas authorized by Congress are 65,000 new H1B visas per fiscal year with some exceptions.

The first 20,000 H1B visas issued to alien workers who obtained their master's degree here in the U.S. are exempt from the 65,000 cap; H1B visas issued to such individuals subsequent to the first 20,000 are then counted against the overall 65,000 cap.

Some U.S. Senators have proposed increasing the cap, but such legislation is yet to be passed by Congress. Foreign nationals in the U.S. in lawful H1B status who are seeking to extend their visa or change employers are not affected by the annual limit.”

Even President Obama has spoken very favorably about these H1B and H2B work visas, knowing full well that those are 155,000 Americans, most likely college graduates, who are going to be kept OUT from any working opportunities with American companies.

Like these; By Nanette Asimov SF Chronicle: "They feel like failures. Disillusioned, like a runner who trips out of the starting gate.

But many college graduates who've been forced by the worst job market in decades to move back home with Mom and Dad say they also feel, to their surprise, fortunate.

"I've learned to be so grateful," said Genevieve Isola, a University of California graduate who's living in her childhood bedroom in San Ramon and working in a clothing boutique, just as she did in high school.

Isola, 23, earned a sociology degree in 2008 from UC Santa Barbara, part of one of the world's most prestigious university systems. Like most people with a fresh diploma, she saw it as a hall pass to a career in her field. She prowled Internet job sites in search of anything sociology sounding: social worker, youth mentor, classroom counselor.

"You're propelled by all this energy and all this knowledge," she said. "It's a force that can't be stopped."

And then the realities of the recession do stop it, as in brick wall.
There are 7.2 million fewer jobs now than when the recession began two years ago, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Unemployment hasn't been this high in 26 years, with nearly 1 in 10 people out of work across the country.

More returning home
Most of them can't crawl back to the home of their youth, get a hug from long-suffering parents and be served a free hot meal night after night. But plenty of new graduates can - and they're doing it more often, according to a Foster City company called CollegeGrad.com.

They began asking graduates in 2006 if they had moved back home after school. At that time, 67 percent of more than 2,000 respondents said yes. This year it was 80 percent.

Though it's a small sample size, the numbers support anecdotal evidence that as jobs become more scarce, graduates are returning home in greater numbers, said Adeola Ogunwole, who runs CollegeGrad.com.

"It strips away your self-esteem," said Isola, who moved back home in February. "We had this whole purpose, this idea that our education would benefit us and society - and all off a sudden, you're sitting at home searching for a minimum wage job."

Here is yet, just another example of our elected officials’ total disconnects, and their IDIOCIES that we’re getting from these inept Washington D.C. officials. And these politicians keep wondering as to why Americans are getting angry and angrier?

That’s why change is coming soon, and it won’t be the Obama’s and his Democratic/Republican cohort’s type of change, it will be OUR VERY OWN.

Source: H1B Visas for FY 2010 "Employers should also consider that the foreign national who they intend to employ must be in lawful non-immigrant status which must be valid until October 1, 2009 which is the affectivity date of that approved H1B Visa. Should the foreign national not meet this requirement, for example a person in B-2 or Tourist visa may elect to have his/her B-2 tourist visa extended so that they may bridge the gap between the time their authorized stay (I-94) expires until October 1, 2009.

If extending the B-2 tourist visa is not an option, the foreign national may then leave the U.S. and return to their home country before their authorized stay (I-94) visa expires and obtain their H1B visa at the U.S. Embassy in their home country. H1B visas are only issued to foreign nationals employed in a "specialty occupation" or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability.

The U.S. Immigration regulations states that a "specialty occupation" is an occupation that requires theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge and attainment of a bachelor's degree or higher in the specific specialty as a minimum qualification for entry into the United States. Examples of H1B occupations include accountants, engineers, computer programmers, teachers, marketing analyst, etc.

As part of the Labor Condition Attestation all H1B workers must be paid the wages and benefits equal or greater than U.S. workers in the same type of profession or field so that it will not adversely affect the wages and labor conditions for U.S. Citizen workers. H1B workers are subject to a limitation of six years; upon completing six years' employment in H1B status, they must depart the U.S. for one year before commencing new H1B employment but there is a provision under the U.S.

Immigration Law called the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act of 2000 ("AC21" ) which allows H1B workers to extend their employment beyond six years if certain requirements are met. A new memorandum released by the USCIS also clarified that any time spent as an H-4 dependent will not count towards the six-year limitation in H1B status.

This memo also provided that a foreign national who was in the U.S. in valid H1B status for less than the six-year maximum period of admission, but has since been outside the U.S. for more than one year can elect to either: (1) be re-admitted for the "remainder" of the initial six-year admission period without being subject to the H1B cap if previously counted, or (2) seek to be admitted as a "new" H1B alien subject to the H1B cap.

Employers who intend to employ a foreign national on an H1B visa for FY 2010 must begin the process now so that they may timely file the H1B visa petitions on April 1, 2009, the date that filings for initial H1B visas are accepted by the US Immigration Service.

Since the H1B visas has become more and more complex and filings timely is crucial, U.S. employers who intends to employ foreign workers on H1B visas are advised to consult a knowledgeable and experienced U.S. immigration attorney.
But meanwhile, unemployment rates keep on going up and up."

Unemployment Rate Rises in 23 States in September
The Labor Department says Nevada, Rhode Island and Florida in September posted their highest jobless rates on records dating to 1976.

Unemployment rates rose last month in 23 states and fell in 19 as the economy struggled to create jobs in the early stages of recovery.

The Labor Department says Nevada, Rhode Island and Florida in September posted their highest jobless rates on records dating to 1976.

Michigan reported the nation's highest unemployment rate at 15.3 percent. It was followed by Nevada at 13.3 percent, Rhode Island at 13 percent, California at 12.2 percent and South Carolina at 11.6 percent.

There were some bright spots: Ohio and Indiana, two states hit hard by the downturn in manufacturing, reported significant drops in unemployment.

The jobless rate in the Midwest fell to 9.8 percent last month from 10 percent in August. It was the only region where the unemployment rate dropped.

A Cap/Trade Dilemma; California Movement to Stop Democratic Radical Environmentalists is GROWING; Republicans are reaping in Voter Registrations:

A Cap & Trade Dilemma; California Movement to Stop Democratic Radical Environmentalists is GROWING; Republicans are reaping in Voter Registrations:
By Marc Chamot & Source: S.F. Chronicle

When President Barack Obama and his Washington Democrats want to embark on that ever CRAZY economical and jobs killing program like the “Cap and Trade,” and with their restrictive “Global Warming” policies, they BETTER take a hard look to California, because it could be their political death knell for their future careers in American politics.

What happens in a state, when life saving resources such as water, for central valley farms and communities, is being impeded by Democrats in Sacramento and federal judges, with environmentalists just to protect FISH?

California Democrats and the FEDS aren’t learning anything yet about common people.

It seems that their environmentalists’ agendas are getting them in deeper trouble. Just when we thought that it was all over for California Republicans, Democrats are giving them a lifeline once again. California Republicans are seeking political gold, with their water and drought problems mainly in the central valleys areas.

Most American LATINO citizens’ farm workers in these central valleys are now the most affected by the drought. While farm lands are drying up, they are being left as the most unemployed and impoverished. Unemployment is the highest, food banks are busy, and it’s the hardest hit area by the recession.

Stop the Radical environmentalists cries are all over, with their, “save your water and jobs, VOTE Republicans” crusades. “When I saw the registration numbers from that weekend, I almost fell off my chair,” said Johnny Amaral, Chief of Staff for Republican Representative Devin Nunes. “I’ve never seen anything like this!”

The Fresno area unemployment is twice the counties’ 14.4 percent. The answer to the three year old drought is simple, restart the pumps you shut down and just let the water flow to these drying and dying farms.

Sacramento Democrats along with federal judges and their environmentalists have virtually paralyzed all water distribution into central valley farm lands, for the sakes of a small useless fish. Ones that never belonged in the area in the first place, and they NEVER were part of California species of fish before.

Latinos, who were the traditional Democratic voting block, are signing up as Republicans in droves. This is what happens when you have Democratic politicians who are more interested in protecting animal life, over human life, over farming and jobs. “They are using federal judges to kill our JOBS and food consumptions!” “We have federal judges protecting salmon, protecting the smelts, and when will all this end?”

There is no doubt that radical environmentalists are killing our economy everywhere, but in California it’s a bigger deal there, because these environmentalists are thoroughly entrenched in politics, they are now killing its economy and jobs. Californian Democrats know that, but they still want to pursue that same harmful agenda anyway.

California serves as a DIRE warning for the rest of America. This is what these trade and capers, and these pro-global warming believers want to do, with the rest of the country and the world. Just keep an eye on the California 2010 elections; it will foretell what is in store for the 2012 presidential elections, believe me.

Source On Water Story:
State GOP tries to steal Dems' fire over water "Read more:"

"GOP leaders have put water atop their agenda for next year's statewide campaigns. They are expanding voter-registration efforts in the drought-stricken Central Valley, where unemployment is high and food banks are busy, and encouraging candidates to reach out to Latino voters hit hard by the recession.

The strategy was distilled on a 5-foot-high banner at the Republican voter registration table in front of a Walmart store in Dinuba (Tulare County) in August: "Stop the radical environmentalists. Save your water. Save your jobs. Vote Republican."

A Secret Service Double-Standards Because of Race? Obama Death Threats Being Taken More Seriously & Harsher than the Former President’s:

A Secret Service Double-Standards Because of Race? Obama Death Threats Being Taken More Seriously & Harsher than the Former President’s:
By Marc Chamot

A possible fifteen year federal prison stint for a man, who left Obama death threats, but he did it to former president George Bush and Cheney, and was NEVER prosecuted for it.

A Crescent City California man, John Gimbel is sitting in jail, being indicted for leaving a series of e-mails on September 28th, threatening President Obama and his family’s lives.

He is facing 15 years in Federal prison for these threats.

The threats are littered with racial epithets; his e-mails targets included Vice President Joe Biden and numerous congressmen. Over thirty e-mails were sent out.

But here’s the problem, this same lunatic was known to have sent former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney numerous death threats also, he threatened that “he would decapitate them with axes,” but the Secret Service did nothing about it.

He was visited by the Secret Service back around 2007 for his President Bush/Cheney tirades, and there were no arrests then.

But now that President Obama is getting the brunt of these hateful e-mails, they are throwing the book at him.

The guy was a former service man, and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

What I really think is that the U.S. Secret Service is working on double racial standards here.

Why didn’t they make an effort to prosecute this same man after his George Bush death threats?

Making any death threats against the president of the United States is extremely illegal.

That policy should have been enforced when President Bush was president. Does that mean that the Secret Service COVERED up a lot of Bush threats, and now are they going after the Obama threats without abandon?

What are they saying to us, that Obama is MORE valuable than George Bush? Are all whites RACISTS? Are we going back to that Obama racial divide again?

President Bush could have been in danger too, these NUT-CASES are not all racists, for whatever reason, they hate Washington politics.

To me, it’s nothing more than a RACE based double-standards that we KEEP on getting from this government, and were seeing it in living color.

Crescent City man indicted for Obama threat
SAN FRANCISCO — While crowds cheered for President Barack Obama as he raced to a Democratic fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco on Thursday evening, a Crescent City man sat behind bars for e-mailing threats to kill the president and his family.
John Gimbel, 59, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in The City after making dozens of threats against Obama and other public officials in e-mails that spanned more than two years, according to court papers.

Gimbel sent his latest e-mail on Sept. 28 to Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, a newspaper and about 70 other individuals. The threats are littered with racial epithets and claims to kill not only Obama, but his wife and children in front of him.

In an affidavit for a warrant to search Gimbel’s home, U.S. Secret Service Agent Russell Miller chronicles about 30 threatening e-mails sent to journalists and congressmen targeting Obama, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

The Secret Service visited Gimbel’s home on Sept. 7 and told him that he could be arrested for threatening the president’s life. Gimbel responded by saying the Constitution guaranteed him the right of free speech, according to the affidavit.

“He said he didn’t intend to harm the president, but only wanted to draw attention,” Miller wrote. “When advised that his language was threatening and that his communications were causing fear in the recipients, Gimbel said, ‘Sticks and stones.’”

Federal authorities visited Gimbel in 2007 as well, after he threatened to “kill Bush and his family. Decapitate them with axes.” During the visit, Secret Service agents interviewed one of his sisters, who said Gimbel was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was troubled after being discharged from the military. Documents also note that Gimbel owns several guns.

Gimbel is accused of three counts: threatening the president; threatening the president’s immediate family; and transmitting the threats through a medium of interstate communication. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years.

U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Jack Gillund said he could not give any details about the case.
Obama’s visit was brief, allotting for only enough time for a dinner and reception to raise money for Organizing for America, the president’s political arm of the Democratic National Committee.
Air Force One touched down at San Francisco International Airport at 4:53 p.m. Thursday. The president did not make any public appearances during his stay, and was scheduled to leave The City this morning.

Troubling timeline
John Gimbel has a record of threatening to kill government officials:
April 2004: Gimbel is accused of making threats in an e-mail complaining about a $5 parking ticket, saying he would deputize “all of the citizens of Crescent City. ... Grab those high-powered deer rifles, each and every, and get in groups of 50 and more and go breeze away to dust the skull of the police chief."

May 1, 2007: Gimbel sends an e-mail to NBC Universal to “kill Bush and his family.”
May 7 and 13, 2007: Gimbel sends e-mails to 80 U.S. representatives and senators asking them to kill President George W. Bush.

May 14, 2007: The Secret Service visits Gimbel at his Crescent City home. He tells them he is “harmless.” He said, “I just make ugly comments.”

June 2007-June 2009: Gimbel sends more than 20 threatening e-mails.
Sept. 7: Secret Service once again visits Gimbel.

Oct. 13: Gimbel is indicted for threatening President Barack Obama.
Source: U.S. Secret Service search warrant affidavitbbegin@sfexaminer.com

Who are these Warmongers? How American War Machines are manipulating the Mainstream Medias & Politicians in Time of War:

Who are these Warmongers? How American War Machines are manipulating the Mainstream Medias & Politicians in Time of War:
By Marc Chamot

The old famous adage after World War II, it takes a WAR to revive an economy, is totally FALSE and misleading. It didn’t happen after Korea, nor did after Vietnam and any other wars after that.

It took the United States seven to eight years after the Vietnam War, and President Ronald Reagan to turn America into an economical powerhouse.

Anybody who’s been following my blogs, pretty much know that I have a serious dislike for the mainstream press, mainly newspapers. I should know, I’ve been involved with daily newspapers for over thirty-years, and I’ve seen their dirty cover-ups.

They have not been forthright in keeping us informed throughout our history. As I had posted before, newspaper Medias are to blame for the current state of affairs that we’re in now.

From car dealerships to furniture stores, all major high paying ADVERTISERS to newspapers usually get the carte blanche treatments, even if it means that they are committing public FRAUD.

While the Better Business Bureaus are stacking up with customer complaints, these newspapers are taking their BIG ad dollars, to keep silent.

Numerous of times newspaper readers have complained to advertising about dealerships repair scams, but they went ignored, because these auto dealers would fill up 2 full pages and more of ads, worth thousands of dollars for their newspapers.

Complaints of false advertising and fraudulent loans from unscrupulous furniture stores went largely ignored also.

Having said all of this, then the same formula would apply to the major TV Networks, and major dailies like the New York Times, Washington Post and the LA Times. When it comes to going against their Wall Street and American corporatism structures, which could cause them to lose millions of dollars in advertising, they STAY QUIET no matter how WRONG things are.

The FACT is; the American war machine is the second most powerful industry in America next to BANKS, we’re talking about their occupying every aspect of Wall Street industries, they are all in one way or another tied in to massive armament productions, as well as for civilian uses, AND many are major multi-million dollar fundraisers for American POLITICIANS, and advertisers FOR these newspapers and TV Networks.

So when a war breaks out, 100 percent of the time, (they), the Medias do not speak negatively against these wars nor do they tell the truths.

There is a sad track record that prove this, the 1989 George Herbert Walkers Bush's Panamanian Invasion, the forced removal of Manuel Noriega. Americans were KEPT in the dark during the beginning of this war.

This was an absolute illegal war; all it accomplished was the deaths of over 3,000 innocent Panamanians’ civilians, Latin American scorn, and the loss of lives for twenty of our own. President George Herbert Walker Bush used this war to follow on this line of thinking, that a war stimulates an economy.

Had the press told the truths about Manuel Noriegas’ as being a CIA paid informant and his involvement with the Reagan’s arms to Nicaragua debacle, this invasion would have never happened.

Regardless of what the reasons were, all T.V. Networks, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the LA Times endorsed this war. Former U.S. Attorney General Wesley Clark condemned the war, and SAID, “If there were a new form of media in America, this may never happen again.”

Well, the Internet age has arrived folks. Within the next decade the Internet will be a real necessity to all Americans, like what the telephone, light, and water is. There is now a second voice of opinions where Americans can go to, rather than being scammed and hoodwinked by the mainstream media. What happened in Panama, SHALL NEVER AGAIN re-occur in the United States.

Here is a very interesting stat that I have compiled. I was curious to know, which political party was the MOST war mongering amongst us? I selected a few major wars that were pretty questionable as to how and why we got involved in the first place. 11 wars were started by Republican presidents, and 6 by Democratic presidents, an almost a two to one ratio by Republicans.

When Theodore Roosevelt was asked, why was he in Panama? His arrogant reply was "For the present, I am out here because I can.” The U.S. president has TOO much war powers that need to be put in check.

According to the U.S. Constitution, The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) was a United States Congress joint resolution providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat.

The War Powers Resolution requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.

There’s NO DOUBT that former President George Herbert Walker Bush took advantage of these war power clauses over Panama.

FACTS: ALL of these unnecessary wars WERE undeclared wars by the U.S. Congress, where American presidents took it on their OWN to engage this country into these wars.

If people are WONDERING as to why Central Americans and Caribbean nations hate our guts? So we’ve got Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George H. Walker Bush to thank.

It PROVES that American corporate structures and their SPECIAL INTERESTS run American politics and its war machines, especially with the Republican Party.

Note: I did not include the war with Afghanistan; it was a well deserved war for what they did to us on Sept. 11th 2001. The Iraqi war was approved by our U.S. congress, it was a declared war.

All of these were UNDECLARED WARS by our U.S. Congress, initiated by American presidents for Special Interests purposes.

Sources: List of American presidents, at Answers.com and Wikipedia.org List of wars involving the United States
· Banana Wars:
o United States occupation of Nicaragua, 1907-1933 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) (1901–1909)
o United States occupation of Honduras, 1907-1933 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) (1901–1909)
o United States overthrow of Guatemalan Government, 1907-1933 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) (1901–1909)
o Intervention during Panamanian Election, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) (1901–1909) o United States occupation of Cuba, 1912 William Howard Taft (Republican) 1909-1913
o United States occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) 1913-1921
o United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1917-1924 Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) 1913-1921
· Korean War, 1950 - 1953 Harry S. Truman (Democrat) 1945-1953
· Operation Powerpack, Dominican Republic, 1965 - 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat) 1963-1969
· Vietnam War, 1962 - 1973 (time span of United States involvement) John F. Kennedy (Democrat) 1961-1963
· Contra War, El Salvador, 1981-1990 Ronald Reagan (Republican) 1981-1989
· Invasion of Grenada, Grenada, 1983-1984 Ronald Reagan (Republican) 1981-1989
· Iran–Iraq War, 1987 - 1989 George Herbert Walker Bush (Republicans) 1989-1993
· United States invasion of Panama 1989 - 1990 George Herbert Walker Bush (Republicans) 1989-1993
· Persian Gulf War, Iraq, 1991 George Herbert Walker Bush (Republicans) 1989-1993
o Operation Desert Shield, 1991
o Operation Desert Storm, 1991
· Somali Civil War, 1992 - 1994 George Herbert Walker Bush (Republicans) 1989-1993
o Operation Provide Relief, 1992
o Operation Restore Hope, 1992 - 1994
· Yugoslav wars, 1994 – 1999 NOTE: This was a NATO war. Bill Clinton (Democrat) 1993-2001
o Bosnian Conflict, 1994 - 1995
o Kosovo Conflict, 1997 - 1999

America’s Favorite Sheriff, Joe Arpaio Stripped of Illegal Immigration Authority by DHS & Illegal 501-Non-Profit Latino Groups Want Lou Dobbs FIRED!

They Want America! America’s Favorite Sheriff, Joe Arpaio Stripped of Illegal Immigration Authority by DHS & Illegal 501 c-Non-Profit Latino Groups Want Lou Dobbs FIRED!
By Marc Chamot

Here we go again, the Department of Homeland Insecurity stripped America’s TOUGHEST sheriff in the authority to crack down on rampant illegal aliens that keep on crossing his county in Arizona.

But screw the Feds.

According to the U.S. Constitution, the county sheriff is the highest law and order officer of the land, elected by the people.

NO ONE, not even the loony left-winged, pro-immigration LOVERS in Washington can LEGALLY keep this sheriff or any other sheriffs from enforcing American LAWS.

Whether they are local, state and federal laws, they are BY LAW to enforce ALL laws, regardless of what these obstructionists do or say. Illegal immigration is illegal by any standards of laws, and Joe Arpaio is OBLIGATED to enforce these laws without any obstruction from the Feds and from any judges, federal, or state, none of them can KEEP him from doing his job.

Joe Arpaio, in their faces is telling the Feds, Hell No and SCREW YOU! And he’s pursuing the fight unfazed.

Now these open borders criminals and their pro-illegal aliens groups are coming down hard on others. Some are using 501 c, non-profits to do their dirty deeds. They want Lou Dobbs FIRED! CNN Lou Dobbs is feeling the weight of these criminal groups, who support open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.

But the war is on folks, it’s time to fight back and let’s give it to them…..

Some of these groups are using 501 c’s and may be violating laws themselves.

According to IRS 501 non-profits regulations, we are required and HAVE the RIGHT to know who their financial SPONSORS are. But some are intentionally hiding their financial sponsors, because of a "backlash" and that’s a NO-NO.

Democracia Ahora is being run as a 501(c) (4) and it’s ILLEGAL to hide sponsors and source of fundraisings. Their sources of funds are hidden. Democracia Ahora.org is not reporting any of that.

Here is their info. “This page contains information from Democracia Ahora, a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization. This site is owned and operated by Democracia USA. Content on this page cannot be attributed to Democracia USA.”

Democracia USA.org:
Support Hispanic Civic Engagement!
"Yes, I want to help increase the prominence and participation of Hispanics in the American democratic process. Please put my support to work immediately to fund the Democracia USA program.

If you would like more information, please contact:
Jenna NarayananDevelopment Director2915 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 210Miami, FL 33137Phone: (305) 573-7329Fax: (305) 573-6551Email: jenna@DemocraciaUSA.org

Contributions to Democracia U.S.A. — a 501(c)(3) organization — are tax-deductible."

File complaints with IRS here, on any of these groups that are VIOLATING 501 LAWS; IRS Complaint Process For Tax Exempt Organizations

FS-2008-13, February 2008
The Internal Revenue Service gives serious consideration to complaints made alleging the abuse of the tax exempt status granted to certain organizations.

When reviewing filed complaints, the IRS carefully follows special procedures designed to assure the public of the IRS’s objectivity in the treatment of tax-exempt organizations. These procedures ensure that the IRS operates in an unbiased and appropriate manner and that its compliance programs are not improperly influenced by outside intervention.

The responsibility for administering these procedures belongs to the Exempt Organizations (EO) function, which is part of the IRS’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities Operating Division.
Complaints (Referrals)

A complaint (also called a referral) is any communication alleging that a tax-exempt organization is in potential noncompliance with the tax law. EO receives complaints from the general public, members of Congress, federal and state government agencies, as well as from other parts of the IRS.

Filing a Complaint
A referral of an exempt organization may be made by submitting Form 13909, Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) Form, downloadable from IRS.gov.Form 13909 and any supporting documentation may be submitted in a variety of ways. They can be sent via:
Mail to IRS EO Classification, Mail Code 4910DAL, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242-1198,
Fax to 214-413-5415, or Email to eoclass@irs.gov.

Latino Group Takes Aim at Lou Dobbs
By Don September 18, 2009

Latino's upset with CNN host Lou Dobbs who has become a leading voice in fighting illegal immigration is the target of a Hispanic group who wants CNN to rein him in.
From the Politico

One of the country’s leading Hispanic organizations is launching a campaign designed to pressure CNN to rein in host Lou Dobbs.

The organization behind the campaign, Democracia Ahora, is kicking off the effort Friday with the release of a report based on interviews with 100 Hispanic leaders about the impact of Dobbs’ evening show.

The results of the report are not surprising – 90 percent of the interviewees believe Dobbs is helping create a negative image of Hispanics, with his frequent criticisms of illegal immigration.

But Democracia Ahora is hoping the report inspires a grassroots movement aimed at executives at CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, to draw attention to what the group calls “frequent negative portrayals of Hispanics on the Lou Dobbs show.” It is using its release to start a national campaign, “Enough is Enough!” that will be carried out through a Web site, http://www.tellcnnenoughisenough.com/, that goes live Friday.

“We’re asking CNN, the alleged ‘most trusted name in news,’ to really hold Lou Dobbs to the journalistic standards he should be held to,” said Jorge Mursuli, president of Democracia Ahora, who expressed frustration with Dobbs’ reports that immigration contributed to thousands of new reported cases of leprosy and of a ‘superhighway’ from Mexico to Canada.

“CNN needs to take responsibility for what he’s saying,” he said, adding, “We want CNN to insure that Lou Dobbs is going to stick with the facts. He can have his opinions but he can’t present his opinions as facts.”

Mursuili said Democracia Ahora will be coordinating petitions and encouraging other Hispanic groups to make phone calls and write letters to CNN asking the news station to “to cease the daily drum roll of misinformation and offensive commentary about the Latino community on the Lou Dobbs Tonight show.”

Democracia Ahora has not disclosed the names of all 100 of the individuals whose responses make up the results of the study. It describes them as “political figures, business leaders, heads of civic and community organizations, and journalists and academics.”

Among those surveyed were Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, and Dan Restrepo, a member of President Obama’s National Security Council, who Democracia Ahora says was interviewed while he was a director for the Americas Project at Center for American Progress. Others taking the survey included Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.).

The survey included questions such as, “Many Hispanics are offended by the news content of Lou Dobbs’ show and regard him as a demagogue who is helping to create a negative image of Hispanics. Do you agree or disagree with this assessment?” according to a copy of the report obtained by POLITICO.

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the National Security Council and representatives for Menendez, Grijalva and Roybal-Allard did not respond to requests for comment.

The survey was conducted by the Miami-based polling firm Bendixen and Associates. Communications for “Enough is Enough!” are being handled by another Miami-based firm, Balsera Communications, which is run by Freddy Balsera, who coordinated Hispanic media for the Obama campaign and is co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s National Hispanic Leadership Council.

The real reason Democracia Ahora wants CNN to curb Dobbs' comments on immigration is because he has been so effective at exposing the true motives of those that support illegal immigration and what will happen to this country if Obama's reform plan passes through Congress.

As long as Dobbs draws ratings and advertiers it is unlikely that this effort to stifle free speech by the left will succeed.
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Feds strip Arpaio of immigration authority

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has stripped Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of his authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status.

But Arpaio said Tuesday he plans to continue his controversial “crime suppression operations,” despite DHS’s decision to not renew an agreement that would allow the sheriff to continue immigration enforcement on the streets.

“It’s all politics,” said Arpaio, who spent much of an afternoon news conference Tuesday wagging his finger, waving his arms and snarling at reporters.

Arpaio will have some immigration powers under an agreement signed Friday. His 60 detention officers in the county jails will still have the authority to check the immigration status of people they book.

The Editor's Desk blog: Arpaio's swipe at the Tribune
Reasonable Doubt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning special report
Franks rips Obama administration for Arpaio move

But the agreement that would allow street patrols was signed Sept. 21 and then rescinded, and a top-level DHS official from the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs personally told him the federal agency wasn’t going to accept the agreement, but he “didn’t really give a good reason,” Arpaio said.

“We’re being looked at by the Justice Department and all that.”

Arpaio said he believes DHS made the changes to stop his “crime suppression operations,” which are saturation patrols in designated areas where deputies would find illegal immigrants by stopping them for traffic infractions and minor violations.
The Department of Justice and other federal agencies are investigating the sheriff’s office on accusations of racial profiling during the crime suppression operations.

In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series published in July 2008, the Tribune found the sheriff’s office’s illegal-immigration sweeps violated federal regulations intended to prevent racial profiling. The five-part series also found that the sweeps diverted resources from core law-enforcement functions, which in some cases caused response times to increase.

Vinnie Picard, a spokesman for the Phoenix office of ICE, said his agency won’t comment on pending agreements until after Oct. 14, the deadline for signing them.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on accepting the jail portion of the agreement Wednesday.

“If they (the board) don’t sign it, there will be no more 287(g) in the jail,” Arpaio said.
Under 287(g) agreements, ICE trains local police and detention officers on immigration law and give them access to immigration databases.

Arpaio said he will be able to still conduct the crime sweeps under state human smuggling laws and an obscure federal law that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants.
“Now I’m not under their control,” Arpaio said. “Nothing changes; that’s the irony of all of this.”

He will conduct one in two weeks “with a new twist.” Arpaio did not go into further detail about what that means.

Arpaio first signed a 287(g) agreement in 2007 and since then dozens of agencies throughout the nation have entered into similar agreements.

Arpaio said ICE conducted an audit of his office’s use of the program, but DHS refused to release it.

Arpaio said his office managed to get a copy recently through the “back door.”
A summary of the audit said the working relationship between the sheriff’s office and ICE was good, and there were no deficiencies found after a review of case files.

“It came out perfect,” said Arpaio, citing that as the reason DHS refused to release the audit.
DHS, headed by former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, announced July 10 the agency was standardizing the agreements and giving police that were operating under previous agreements the option to either sign new ones or lose their authority.

The new agreements specify the priorities of DHS, one of which is to go after “criminal aliens” — illegal immigrants who have committed a state crime.

The local agencies would also have to “pursue all criminal charges that originally caused the offender to be taken into custody.”

DHS said that provision was included because there were concerns that police were using minor infractions to get illegal immigrants deported.

Is the San Francisco Bay Guardian a Real Blog Killer? A Critical Article on Publisher Results in Mass Defections of Readers:

Is the San Francisco Bay Guardian a Real Blog Killer? A Critical Article on Publisher Results in Mass Defections of Readers:
By Marc Chamot

San Francisco Liberal Supervisor John Avalos NOW hates my guts, he really does. He’s an all-right guy, but he dislikes me, just as I dislike his politics.

A few months’ ago, a good Filipino friend of mine introduced me to supervisor John Avalos at a coffee shop. I talked to him a little bit about politics, and I told him that I used to be a one time political insider in San Francisco, that I had once allied myself with the progressive left, to go after my former politically corrupt, and boss, the Fang family.

I told him to talk to Supervisor Chris Daly, and to former supervisor and board president Aaron Peskin, “they know me, they may think I’m nuts, but they know me well.”

The San Francisco Chinese Fang families’ were owners of numerous weekly newspaper enterprises, which they used their publications for corruptive means, and mainly for the campaigns of former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown and his gangs of thugs.

I sort of became the whistleblower, the “Snitch;” I wanted nothing more than to put these corruptive people OUT of business, forever.

So I struck up an unusual alliance with the majority progressive board members at time. They were the enemies of the Sacramento Democratic Political Machine controlled by Mayor Willie Brown and John Burton.

Before I started blogging, I was pretty well known around San Francisco political message boards and discussion boards. I had to tread the waters in my political views carefully, because if it strayed just a bit from their progressive views, I would get my postings deleted, or banned by moderators. In essence, I couldn’t be the conservative that I wanted to be, and I had to keep my political views basically to myself.

But this alliance worked well, for as long as I played by the RULES, and I was allowed to speak about San Francisco corruptive politics openly, on what I knew, it helped bring about these political players’ demise. I was instrumental in exposing years of San Francisco political money launderings into San Francisco political campaigns and into local propositions. I had exposed links to the former, and now infamous, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown’s “Pay to Play Schemes” FOR his political buddies and DONORS.

I had followers and lots of followers on these boards. Most of the time, when I posted my threads, they generated heavy viewership and traffic; sure, I was a one time prolific writer and snitch and people thrived on what I wrote. They all knew it was all true, and I had tons of facts to back up my stuff. They rarely disputed what I had to say, except by getting dirty and insulting.

A Five and a Half Years Internet War:

It took me five and a half years of writings on the Net and San Francisco discussion boards to finally bring these Sob’s DOWN.

After the demise of these San Francisco corruptive characters, I got fed-up with the administrators’ censorings of my contents, and curbing my moderate right point of views. I finally got sick and tired about it, with the banning and all; I had finally discovered the art of blogging.

So my followers, and regardless whether they were liberals or leftists, they all began to read my new blog. My blog started out to be a San Francisco blog, but after a while, I discovered that I was out of the political LOOP. So I went into the national scenes.

Unfortunately for me, one of my former friends and allies with this war also happened to be Bruce Brugmann Publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

The ordeal was all about Bruce Brugmann’s insistence in supporting the San Francisco DA Kamala Harris’ EXPUNGING criminal illegal alien youth’s records from ICE and the federal government. His support for new San Francisco policies to shield criminal illegal aliens and illegal Asian massage parlors prostitutes, those working in massage parlors illegally, they want them kept from ICE and the feds.

Regardless of my views, my blogs kept the San Francisco readers entertained. Even though they were mostly through feeds, and coincidently, I happen to run across a SEO tool, just by chance.

I’d been wondering for months as to why my Alexa.com ratings were dropping? And even though Google shows me a steady growth of traffic into my blogs, it also shows a whopping increase for the past two months that I never had before, but Alexa.com is still showing me nose diving. Why?? Was it because of President Barack Obama? Poor Obama! I was blaming him all this time and I was totally WRONG.

Interestingly it began back around July 6th 2009, and I wondered for CRYING OUT LOUD, what the hell DID I WRITE about to cause such massive defections of feed readers from my blog?



Well Holly-Toledo and behold, here it is! July 6th 2009, Monday, July 6, 2009
Unfit to Publish; San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Bruce B Brugmann’s Still Peddling Sex and More Leftwing Pro-Criminal Illegal Aliens Vitriol:
“Yeah, yeah, I know old Bruce B Brugmann, the publisher and owner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, commonly known as the San Francisco “Gay” Guardian and he knows me well too.Bruce B Brugmann is that zany, loony, and idiotic psychotic left-wing liberal that tries to make some sense about politics goings on, and when he comes out with his publication he makes as much sense as a drugged up poodle.”

Oh yes! And Now I know, I pissed off a whole lot of San Francisco left-wing liberals, my one time allies, and my VERY own former readers, by blasting their political darlings and its political newspaper.

Oh well, it’s a lesson learned folks, some people don’t like to hear the blunt end of a stick of truths, being placed on their political views, and especially when someone criticizes their BELOVED leftwing newspapers and their leaders.

I am now FREE to express myself:

So the lessons being learned here today is, okay, I lost my San Francisco readers, but now what? I am getting new ones, and better ones, and those who are more loyal, than the Bruce Brugmann and Supervisor John Avalos and lefties. To them all, I have this to say: “Just take it ALL and SHOVE IT!”

Democrats’ Political Agendas and Philosophies Dooming Economic & Jobs Growths; 3 to 1 Odds against their Chances for Improving American Jobs by 2011:

Democrats’ Political Agendas and Philosophies Dooming Economic & Jobs Growths; 3 to 1 Odds against their Chances for Improving American Jobs by 2011:
By Marc Chamot

Why are we losing so many jobs these days? Why can’t Democrats improve our economic situation? What’s going on with our jobs situation? Those are questions that are being asked by folks all over these days.

First the Michael Moore saga: "Michael Moore is using his public muscle to muscle on the Democrats to do his dirty bidding for Obama’s public healthcare."

One of my Internet buddies brought up this Michael Moore story on his blog. I found it quite fitting and intriguing to talk about it first. Actually it will play up to my piece that I’m fixing to write about, JOBS and the Democrat’s future in the U.S. congress.

Michael Moore Is Comin To Getcha !
“Moore said “Find your spine, read the polls, see us coming, we will come after you!”

Moore thinks that Democrats can do whatever they want, and he claims that if they do not get the single payer system passed, he will hit the primaries, and get them out of office.”

Should Democrats really be scared of Michael Moore? It really depends as to what type of Democrats they are. If they are these typical liberal Democrats, in liberal areas like San Francisco where the Nancy Pelosi’s, Feinstein’s and the Barbara Boxers’ are, absolutely they should. But these liberals aren’t the problem for Moore.

The Blue Dog Democrats are. And there is nothing that Michael Moore can do to the conservative leaning blue dogs. Most Blue Dogs are in conservative Republican leaning districts, and one endorsement from this “tub of lard,” would be OVER but the crime, for ANY Democrat who took his endorsement.

So to believe that in one way or other that this leftist buffoon may have some sway over Blue Dogs in an election is only a pipe dream.

Naturally, the left leaning Democrats are going to vote for the Obamacare, and regardless, because they will still be elected by their liberal leaning districts. But there’s a bigger problem than healthcare for moderates and conservative Democrats, the jobs situation in this country is virtually unsolvable.

Our economy is in shambles and there is no relief in sight. Vice President Joe Biden recently popped off again, blaming the former Bush administration and the Republicans in power 1994-2006, over the senate and house, as culpable to the current disasters in economic and jobs situations in America.

I will agree with him only to a point.

After blogging around for over two years, I’ve had the big opportunity to study and research my topics that I write about, and the economic disasters comparing them with the U.S. congress’, senate and the U.S. presidencies recent contrarian bills, and archaic laws pushed since 1995 is a subject that I know a whole lot about.

Actually it’s a topic that I’ve had a whole lot of credibility in writing about. Even though I am a conservative Independent, I had gotten a tremendous review from the very liberal Daily Kos, they called my blog, "This is a great progressive blog about free trade and outsourcing"

During the two and a half years studying, researching and writing, I came up with the THREE key points about our economic turmoil’s and heavy job losses, which will completely destroy the Democratic Party’s chances to stay in power beyond 2010.

Going back to Joe Biden, putting the blame on former President Bush and the Republicans, yes it holds some truths.

They, (the Republicans,) 2001 to 2006 exploited the WTO’s with China, and NAFTA with Mexico to the fullest, where we began to have massive closures of American factories and industries, accompanied along with millions of unemployed workers, just because American companies were taking their businesses to both China and Mexico for CHEAPER labor. It’s estimated over 3 million to five million jobs were lost to China.

A Chinese Man Made Disaster:
Actually, China has become kind of like; we Americans will boost your industrial inputs and profitability, over the expense of unemployed Americans, then in turn we will borrow BILLIONS from you to help finance our wars. Then basically our politicians hocked this country to China, regardless if China is considered the WORST VIOLATOR on free trades agreements.

President Obama briefly took on China and imposed tariffs on tires. As soon as he did it, it saved our tire making industries and its workers were blessed with extended job futures. President Obama needs to take on China even more; there are many other industries out there which China has completely ruined by flooding our markets with their cheaper and inferior products. And this president is MISSING the boat on this one.

This is ONE BIG factor that Republicans are to blame for our current economic demise and job losses abroad, mainly to China. And that’s why they are very unpopular with the people these days.

BUT! They are to be blamed only up to 2006 when the Democrats took back full control of the senate and the house. It’s been THREE years since then, and nothing has improved economically and employment wise, actually things has worsened for everyone. What are going to destroy the Democrats are the other 3 FACTORS, which are destroying the American economic recovery and jobs.

First, the illegal alien situation, it’s now becoming an epidemic. They ARE now occupying approximately 7 to 8 million jobs that Americans can do. Imagine folks, 15 million Americans out of work, and 7 million of these jobs are being occupied by illegal aliens, if they were to be suddenly freed up; it would leave about 8 million unemployed Americans. As we get further unemployed, people are going to look at these facts.

Want more Proof about ICE raids benefitting American workers? When the meatpacking companies were raided by ICE a few years back in the Midwest, unemployed AFRICAN AMERICANS were the recipients of these JOBS! The minority group that is the most underemployed, they BENEFITED the most by the removal of illegal aliens.

Secondly, there is another Democrat problem that will ensure that there will be no more new jobs being created, because of their associations with environmentalists, the global warming, and carbon footprints loonies. All of these are JOBS killer. Take a look at what they have done to California. These environmentalists’ extremists have killed the California economy, SEE With Pro-Environmentalists, Anti-Business & Job Loses & Left-Wing Agendas/Policies; Dooming Obama/Democrats with VOTERS & GOP Fundraisings 2 to 1: “ A recent California economical congressional report showed that California’s pro-environmentalists, with their politicos in Sacramento, with their anti-business and far left leaning policies and regulations, their inept policies have cost the state of California dearly. 500 billion dollars’ in lost tax revenues, with massive exoduses of businesses and 4 million lost jobs.” This is a HARD FACT that Democrats will have to contend with.

Thirdly, it’s their love affairs with the labor unions and especially those who represent local, state and federal employees. Democrats are so beholden to these groups, which they cannot deviate from their support, even during economic tough times, while regular folks out in Main Street are losing their jobs, these people let their politicians keep their OWN JOBS SAFE and SECURE in addition to all of the “sweetheart” health benefits and lucrative retirement deals at the expense of big tax increases.

Odds are 3 to 1 against the Democrats finding their way to fix and repair the current economic downslide and they don’t have the ability to create new jobs, especially when their philosophy and mindset is totally against job creations.