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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A federal audit questions the handling of millions of dollars awarded the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department.
The audit of several grants – awarded 2006-2009 – sharply criticizes staffing decisions, the caliber of people assigned to report progress to U.S. Department of Justice and lack of attention to details.
Several paragraphs in the report are devoted to $197,466 in the 2006 federal budget for a city program to teach 1,200 young people conflict resolution skills. Atlanta recruited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to run the program.
The report said the SCLC spent $106,500 of the money on salaries and benefits. The SCLC also reimbursed its executive director $1,835 for gas bought at stations between Atlanta and her home in Opelika, Ala.
“It is unclear to us how the gasoline purchases helped the city achieve the program goal to teach conflict resolution skills to 1,200 city of Atlanta youths," the report said.
An SCLC spokeswoman said incoming President Dr. Howard Creecy would speak to the AJC Wednesday evening.
Progress reports on the program claimed 756 people attended conflict resolution programs on June 30, 2008, and 257 were at the session Aug. 30, 2008.
“We received one sign-in sheet showing that 19 youths attended conflict resolution training on June 2, 2007,” the auditors wrote. “No additional sign-in records were provided to us.”
The audit also found fault with how Recovery Act funds -- awarded to create jobs -- and those meant to improve public safety, were used.
Federal auditors examined records concerning more than $9.2 million in federal grants for law enforcement. According to the report, those funds were included in $16.9 million Atlanta has received under the 2009 Recovery Act.
Some specific complaints include:
-- The city incorrectly reported the number of jobs saved or created because of the grants.
-- At least $191,161 in expenditures did not have information supporting the expenditure or the money was spent on something the grants did not allow.
-- Reports were issued late – in some cases by at least a year – or not at all.
-- There were not enough staff experienced with handling grants so money from three grants still had not been claimed 14 months after it was approved. The report did not detail how much money those three grants represented. Typically, grant money is distributed in several quantities as the funds are need.
The city's explanations for the short-comings were offered to auditors during visits or in a letter dated July 23, 2010, after the auditors' findings were released to the city.
They included:
-- A computer password was lost.
-- High staff turnover.
-- Untrained grant officers who were “learning by doing.”
-- Some expenses were charged to the grant “in error.”
The city said some problems were ameliorated by “the hiring of competent staff.”
The auditors, who looked at two grants from 2006, two from 2007, two from 2008 and one from 2009, concluded: “We are concerned that the city of Atlanta may not be able to properly manage the $16.9 million it has been awarded under the 2009 Recovery Act.”
If you didn't read it, here's what it says:
Federal blacks gave money to their homies in the city of ATL. The ATL crewz gave other black friends in the area a hookup. Then white people wondered where all of the money went. All the blacks put their 'fros together to write up some reports. The reports were wrong.
Moral of the story: Don't give black people money.
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Cracker: Moral of the story: Don't give black people money.
they'll just steal it if you don't. at gunpoint.
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Most of the stimulus money went to a friend of a friend of a friend black person. Let's just be honest about it. That's why there are no jobs to show for it.
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And when we say “stuff,” we’re not talking about their shoes and sox and Kobe Bryant jerseys. We’re talking about their junk. Their packages. Oh, what the hell, let’s not beat around the bush any more. We’re talking about their genitals.
CNSnews has the details from the baloney pony express:
Rub-a-dub-dub, bud
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011.
“NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications,” the grant abstract states. “We propose to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene study among men unwilling to be circumcised in Orange Farm, South Africa.”
Before you rush to judgment, please remember that this program created or saved 1,000,000 jobs. Maybe more.
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They had to be taught how to bathe properly? Jesus Christ.
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Black people smell funny. They should shower at least twice a day if they want to be around white people.
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http://www.notsosilentthoughts.com/2011/...acorn.html
This story is about ACORN members finally being charged with voter registration fraud in Nevada. Apparently they PAID the ACORN folks to register voters (hence voters like Mickey Mouse and NFL players). It also explains why Obama's campaign paid ACORN's parent company over $850,000 after he was elected.
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And why I fucking hate Democrats: (Guess who your new DNC director is? What, an ACORN guy? Why, yes, of course.)
Welcome back to the electoral process Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
That’s the message some critics say is being sent by President Obama, who has dispatched one of his top political advisers, Patrick Gaspard, to serve as the new executive director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Obama and Gaspard’s affinity for the discredited community-organizing group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), which in recent years tried unsuccessfully to register the Walt Disney characters and National Football League to vote, has political observers on heightened alert for questionable voting practices in the next election.
Matthew Vadum, senior editor at the Capital Research Center, describes Gaspard as a stealth bomber of political sorts whose tactics are “thuggish” and often “hidden from the public.”
“Patrick Gaspard will be in the perfect position to tell this organization what to do,” said Vadum, who has written a book on ACORN and its affiliation with Obama that will be published later this year.
ACORN found itself embroiled in scandal in 2009 after some employees were shown on videotape advising an independent filmmaker disguised as a pimp how to obtain tax-free property to use as a brothel, in at least one case for underage prostitutes.
But what captured the attention of Beltway insiders were earlier reports that ACORN chapters in 14 states were under investigation on charges they registered thousands of fraudulent voters.
The Economist wrote on Oct. 16, 2008, that ACORN signed up 1.3 million voters, but “thousands of their voter-registration applications are fakes,” including those from a 7-year-old girl from Connecticut and an Ohio man who admitted he registered 70 times in exchange for money and cigarettes. In one Indiana County, ACORN turned in 5,000 voter applications, 2,100 of which were identified as fakes, the magazine said.
The article has Republicans “crying foul” over the practice, and points out that “the plot thickens: Mr. Obama led training sessions for the group back in his Chicago community-organizer days, and his campaign has had some dealings with it.”
One year later, John Fund wrote in the Wall Street Journal that ACORN’s relationship to the Obama campaign is a matter of public record.
“Last year, Citizens Consulting, Inc., the umbrella group controlling ACORN, was paid $832,000 by the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote efforts in key primary states. In filings with the Federal Election Commission, the campaign listed the payments as "staging, sound, lighting," only correcting them after reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review revealed their true nature,” Fund wrote.
“Mr. Obama distanced himself from the group's scandals last year, saying, ‘We don't need ACORN's help.’ Nevertheless, he got his start as a community organizer at ACORN's side,” Fund wrote.
“In 1992, he headed a registration effort for Project Vote, an ACORN partner at the time. In 1995, he represented ACORN in a key case upholding the new Motor Voter Act—the very law whose mandated postcard registration system ACORN workers use to flood election offices with bogus registrations,” Fund wrote.
According to Vadum, Gaspard came to the White House from ACORN’s favorite labor organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, where as a political officer and protest organizer he donated $15,000 to ACORN in 2007 and $25,000 in 2008. At one point ACORN founder Wade Rathke claimed that Gaspard was the political director for the group’s New York branch, Vadum said, but later said he was mistaken and removed the comments from his website.
The White House has denied that Gaspard has had any involvement with ACORN. But Vadum maintains there is a connection.
“He is a radical community organizer, just like President Obama, and he believes in [ACORN’s] thuggish tactics,” Vadum said.
Vadum pointed to a March 2005 protest staged by ACORN at the headquarters of Liberty Tax Service in Virginia. Fox News reported that more than 100 protestors were bused in and that the rally against perceived predatory lending practices turned into a riot. Several months later, ACORN stormed a meeting of the National Paint & Coatings Association in Cleveland and demanded $30 billion to remove paint-containing lead from housing in poor communities, the network reported.
“He is going to use the same slimy tactics ACORN uses that are entirely dishonest and dishonorable. He will engage in smear tactics. This is what ACORN is all about, not peaceful activists expressing themselves as part of the democratic process. They are outside of the democratic process,” Vadum said.
“This is why people should be alarmed that someone like Pat is going to be running the day-to-day operations of the DNC. It ought to send a chill down your spine,” Vadum said.
DNC Chairman and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine welcomed the native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the committee in a Jan. 20 message and called him “a great person.”
“He understands the importance of grassroots politics and team-building,” Kaine said.
Despite some criticism of Gaspard in Republican circles and in the blogosphere, Doug Heye, former spokesman for the Republican National Committee, views Gaspard aside from his past associations and says he will work well for the national party.
“Everything that I’ve heard about Gaspard is that he is effective and he will do a good job,” Heye said. “ACORN is something that we will expect to hear and read about in blogs, but we just don’t know how it will be won or lost.”
“This is the Democrats’ constituency," Heye said. "It’s their base."
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(02-23-2011, 09:07 PM)Cracker Wrote: http://www.notsosilentthoughts.com/2011/...acorn.html
This story is about ACORN members finally being charged with voter registration fraud in Nevada. Apparently they PAID the ACORN folks to register voters (hence voters like Mickey Mouse and NFL players). It also explains why Obama's campaign paid ACORN's parent company over $850,000 after he was elected. Hit the nail right on the head, Cracker!I was at a few anti-war protests in DC countering them with Vet groups and many knew that ACORN was working to get that fucker in office.Another group working for O'bama was Code Pink.Ever heard of George Soro's?I'm sure you have.They all tie in together in their intentions and activities.You would not believe the kind of shit Soro's funds and is associated with and what he would like to have happen to this Country.
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Is he the Center for American Progress dude that is really running this country? I've heard of him.
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(02-23-2011, 08:41 PM)Cracker Wrote: And when we say “stuff,” we’re not talking about their shoes and sox and Kobe Bryant jerseys. We’re talking about their junk. Their packages. Oh, what the hell, let’s not beat around the bush any more. We’re talking about their genitals.
CNSnews has the details from the baloney pony express:
Rub-a-dub-dub, bud
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011.
“NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications,” the grant abstract states. “We propose to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene study among men unwilling to be circumcised in Orange Farm, South Africa.”
Before you rush to judgment, please remember that this program created or saved 1,000,000 jobs. Maybe more.
Why are you so interested in the cleanliness of black mens genitals?
Most of the stinky people I come across in life are fat white people.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.
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(02-25-2011, 04:35 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: Why are you so interested in the cleanliness of blacks mens genitals?
Most of the stinky people I come across in life are fat white people.
How many quid did the UK pony-up?
For black or white?
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(02-25-2011, 04:40 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: How many quid did the UK pony-up?
For black or white?
The current Conservative/liberal coalition government (i.e the retarded leading the fucking blind, deaf and dumb) is currently cutting spending all across the board.
Public sector workers are being fired left right and centre (including unimportant posts like policeman and fireman, and unimportmant buildings like courts of law, public lavatories and libraries.)
While allowing Barclays bank to make billions upon billions of profits while paying just one percent in taxes into the coffers due to illegal offshore tax loopholes, the con/lib coalition would rather save money by having only one public lavatory in use for the whole of the city of Manchester.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.
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(02-23-2011, 09:32 PM)Cracker Wrote: Is he the Center for American Progress dude that is really running this country? I've heard of him. Negative.
Here is a link to some info about his connection to ACORN and ACORN's connection to O'Bama.
Soros is also involved with many Socialist or Progressive groups but a few are more familiar to most folks than some others.
I will get you a link to another more prominent name you may know...
http://www.dogpile.com/clickserver/_iceU...ceUrl=true
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This guy had to resign after stealing money from a lady at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (because we have to have an airport named after TWO black guys to represent!):
LC is right. If you don't give some people money, they will steal it.
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(02-25-2011, 05:16 PM)Misguided Wrote: (02-23-2011, 09:32 PM)Cracker Wrote: Is he the Center for American Progress dude that is really running this country? I've heard of him. Negative.
Here is a link to some info about his connection to ACORN and ACORN's connection to O'Bama.
Soros is also involved with many Socialist or Progressive groups but a few are more familiar to most folks than some others.
I will get you a link to another more prominent name you may know...
http://www.dogpile.com/clickserver/_iceU...ceUrl=true
"In 2005, billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70 super-rich liberal donors in Phoenix to evaluate why their efforts to defeat President Bush had failed. One conclusion was that they needed to step up their long-term efforts to dominate key battleground states. The donors formed a group called Democracy Alliance to make grants in four areas: media, ideas, leadership and civic engagement. Since then, Democracy Alliance partners have donated over $100 million to key progressive organizations."
Let's start an organization.
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"Moral of the story: Don't give black people money."
google, Halliburton fraud
Old white rich republicans have defrauded the American taxpayer more than this group of nogs... be mad about that, not some lunch money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton
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Lay it on me.
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It's all George Bush's fault.
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(02-27-2011, 06:12 PM)Duchess Wrote:
It's all George Bush's fault.
no, more so of Cheney's
'Duchess Wrote:Yes, I like apples, so do my horses & so do the deer that I buy apples for because they have stripped my fruit trees bare.
Lay it on me.
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Gogo, that's just something I say whenever the opportunity arises. It makes me laugh, kind of a private joke sorta thing, it only amuses me.
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