So James O’Keefe has done it again. This time he has taken the time and trouble to fabricate a new business, “Earth Supply and Renewal,” that does nothing more than dig holes in the Earth, by shovel, and then fill those holes in again. He makes it clear that his business accomplishes absolutely nothing, and in fact only creates hazards in order to solve the very problems created by his faux business.
In typical O’Keefe fashion, there are, or should be plenty of clues sufficient for the barely conscience observer to recognize the farce of what our undercover reporters are attempting to pull off. In typical liberal fashion, the bait is swallowed whole, and the star crossed eyes of our organizing thugs see huge amounts of cash which can be bilked from the taxpayer’s cow.
You can find the unedited raw footage of this encounter by clicking here.
One of the reasons our Union Thugs, and by the way an elected County Official, did not catch on to this obviously ridiculous ruse is that there are already multiple examples of this currently in practice literally everywhere around the country. This is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in action. Tearing up roads around the country that were not in need of repair, and then repairing the damage done by the crews whose job it was to do damage to roads in perfectly fine shape.
Our elected official staring in this O’Keefe sting, John Hutchings, informs our young entrepreneurs that their idea is almost exactly like Green Jobs, Green New York. In that $112 Million boondoggle, the citizens of New York received the privilege of paying about $30 apiece for a sufficient supply of 2 packs of cfl bulbs, and had a team of three people enter their homes to have their light bulbs changed for them. Don’t worry though the staggering cost of the new bulbs will be split up over a 3 year period and appended to their electric bill, and all of this on top of the tax burden paying for the light bulb changing technicians hired and then included in the Obama Green jobs accounting.
The other two gentlemen at the table would be Anthony Tocci and his brother Ron Tocci. Anthony is a union leader and Ron is a former politician who now specializes in getting government grants for boondoggle projects, such as the baloney he is being pitched here. They are happy to drop names of influential decision makers that they are chummy with who can help get the gravy train rolling and producing cash. They let it be known that there is plenty of the tax payer’s cabbage to be had, and that getting the money granted to them was the real priority for their bilking operation. How to divide it up amongst the various constituents at the table could be dealt with later.
I once had a debate with a government employee in which I stated that governments create nothing, they only receive their wealth by forced confiscation from those who do produce. He informed me, with confidence by the way, that governments produce happy societies. That happy memory found its way to the surface of my mind while watching this farce.
Kudos by the way to Chris Christie, the Republican Governor of New Jersey, for his state being mentioned as a place where the well of legally stolen tax payer funds has dried up. The opposite of kudos for Chuck Schumer, for being mentioned by our Union crooks as being a one man tax payer’s supplied wealth spigot. His name is offered by one of the Toccis as being their personal ATM for the people’s account. Just to put the cherry on top of this one, there is a picture with one of the Toccis, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer posing for a photo op which is seen on the way out of the building.
What all of this is of course, is the broken window fallacy fat, out of control, and now looming as a menace which threatens to inflict economic collapse upon us by 2027. The mistaken belief that spending taxpayer’s money for no other purpose than to spend tax payer’s money will in some way stimulate the economy has been proven false so many times that I must accuse anyone who posits this belief as being weapons grade stupid. While the theory sounds plausible in college class rooms all around the country, it has never worked, any where at any of the Thousands of times that it’s been tried.
For the, “we just didn’t do it big enough crowd,” like Chuck Schumer, how much bigger than adding $1 Trillion to our baseline budgeting figures would it have to be? That already crushes all previous spending records for the entirety of human history. Yet, somewhere on my television tonight, Paul Krugman will make an appearance to tell me that spending money in preparation for a space alien invasion that will never occur is one of the best ways to stimulate our economy. What’s truly amazing is that this man once one a Nobel Prize for economics. Alfred Nobel must be spinning furiously at the farcical nature with which his memory is now associated.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: James O'Keefe
I have to admit that the Union guys who were bullshitting O’Keefe were, in a macabre sort of fashion, kinda funny….
“weapons grade stupid”
Love it!!
Can I borrow that sometime? Just let me know where to send the royalty check.
Is it just me, or have I seen this thread and the first two comments before? Or is this just deja vu all over again?
Effing internet was down again this morning. Either the internet, the wi-fi network, or both go down for at least a bit every 2-3 days here, at best. Welcome to the Third World, where fuck-all works properly.
Mike C. wrote:
Butch and Sundance agree. My internet was working fine this morning but my water was off. Busted main about a mile up the highway. Fortunately I also have a water well and am able to fill buckets to flush the toilets.
The BHO Admin recently gave “green’ money to a solar
comany that filed bankruptcy within six months of
start up.
Anybody else think that it was nothing but as scam
& a faux company founded to get taxpayer cash &
launder back to Obama etal?
Mike C. wrote:
Was replaced b’cause of the Aurora shooting.
Alleged movie theater shooter worked at Jewish summer camp
RIX wrote:
That’s what he did with about 75 percent of the money (according to some sources)
Guggi wrote:
yeah and?
brookly red wrote:
nothing “and” only an information.
Guggi wrote:
Oh, I thought there was more… nevermind
@ Guggi:
The MSM tried to ginn up outrage over Bush clearing
brush at his ranch.
Obama loots the treasury and scams a cheap money laundering
operation & they swoon over his fabulousness.
RIX wrote:
perhaps congress might investigate how much was steered to the MSM,Hmmm ?
Guggi wrote:
How long before some genuis on the Left twists it
into a sinister Zionist plot?
@ RIX:
@ brookly red:
There is so much corruption and skullduggery in the 0-Regime that it would take years to investigate it all. However, that would be raaaaacist and it won’t happen. I think that everyone will probably just breath a sigh of relief when he’s R U N N O F F T .
RIX wrote:
seems the innuendo has already started…
RIX wrote:
Speaking of sinister plots, did you see this?
Iranian Terror Assets Inside the U.S. are Poised for Attack
RIX wrote:
Better you get the information from a Jewish source than from some anti-Zionist idiots.
huckfunn wrote:
don’t worry Janet has it covered…ownhall.com/tipsheet/townhallcomstaff/2012/07/19/great_tsa_allows_25_illegal_aliens_to_attend_flight_school_owned_by_illegal_alien
shoulda been
sheet/townhallcomstaff/2012/07/19/great_tsa_allows_25_illegal_aliens_to_attend_flight_school_owned_by_illegal_alien
huckfunn wrote:
Obama is shielded by his race. He is judged by a different
stadard.
Geraldine Ferraro committed truth.
@ brookly red:
Predictable.
@ huckfunn:
And being on the terrorist watch list does not bar
someone from taking flying lessons in the US.
Guggi wrote:
Facts don’t seem to matter n=much anymore.
It’s all about agenda.
that was the link I tried to post above… the freakin flight school was operated by an illegal
Oh, zero is going to Colorado today… let’s see how many times he says “I” when he gives his gun control speech.
well now I will give this on 48 hours but someone is linking the Aurora shooter to Occupy San Diego
http://blog.doodooecon.com/2012/07/former-occupy-san-diego-member-attacks.html
lets see if this has legs.
brookly red wrote:
This is around since the first hours. No proof until now.
brookly red wrote:
Oh that’s perfect./
Breaking News!!!!!!!!!
Just reported on FNC that Maichael Jacksons mother
is missing! But she may be with relatives.
Say what?
Guggi wrote:
well they did say former member… may or may not be true.
@ Guggi:
He thinks he’s in a movie.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t think he is gonna like the ending…
@ brookly red:
He really believes he’s the Joker.
Rodan wrote:
or else he is working on an insanity defense… but he is crazy either way.
this Mike Olbinski is an amazing photographer
http://www.mikeolbinski.com/prints/
he captures some incredible pix and vids of the arizona dust storms.
RIX wrote:
Missing but safe. One way to safely get publicity I guess
brookly red wrote:
I believe the part of Aurora where the shootings took place is in Arapahoe County (Aurora is spread across 3 counties).
If his trial is held there (Littleton) he’s toast.
lobo91 wrote:
he may not be competent to stand trial
brookly red wrote:
Then he can sit through it. I’ll bet the nurse can find his arteries
@ brookly red:
There’s something about the Joker that makes people crazy. When I went to go see the 1989 Batman with Michael Keaton I saw an incident. I was leaving the theater and there were police and paramedics in the lobby. I saw a man dressed in a Batman Costume bleeding from the gut. Then I saw a person dressed as the Joker in handcuffs. He Joker imitator stabbed the Batman imitator.
@ lobo91:
So even if they do a psycho analysis of him and it turns out he really thinks he’s the Joker, he can still get the death penalty?
Rodan wrote:
maybe it’s the lipstick… have you noticed crazy ladies always smear on too much? Maybe I can get a grant to study this…
Rodan wrote:
I don’t believe so let me google
@ brookly red:
Ford v. Wainwright136 that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the state from carrying out the death penalty on an individual who is insane,
Rodan wrote:
I seriously doubt that he’ll succeed. He’s working on a PhD, and he spent months planning the crime. And he wore body armor, which indicates that he knew someone might shoot back with real bullets.
He’s not Jared Loughner.
Rodan wrote:
There’s something just weird about “adults” who dress up in costume to go watch a movie. Dunno. Maybe I’m the one who’s weird. I’ve been in a movie theater just once in the past decade.
lobo91 wrote:
either way he is never going to the drive through at taco bell again
@ huckfunn:
When I went to see the New star Trek a couple of years back, I saw people dressed up as Vulcuns and Klingons. The fact people go to movie dress up in costumes sdays, they are mentally not all there.
I saw Dark Knight Rises last night. It’s the most anti-Leftist/Communist movie I have seen. I recommend every Conservative or Libertarian sees it. The Left is in a frenzy over the film. The Guardian and Salon have called it “Radical Conservative Propaganda.”
@ lobo91:
So this whole Joker in a movie thing is a cover so he try to claim insanity then it seems.
@ Rodan:
Of course, they also think Obama is a moderate, so you can take that for what it’s worth…
@ huckfunn:
Last movie I saw in a theater was “Saving Private Ryan” towards the end of it’s initial run. I might have been the youngest guy in the place.
Rodan wrote:
oh for crying out loud! haven’t you ever heard of the little shop of horrors?? people have been dressing up for movies for YEARS! millions of people make a party of it. they are not all mentally lacking. they are simply making a party of it.
this shooter guy is evil, not crazy.
Rodan wrote:
Yep. Just bizarre. Another weird thing about that incident was there was a 6 year old girl and 3 month old infant at the midnight show. I wonder what the hell that was all about?
Rodan wrote:
Yea he needs a smart warden to explain he doesn’t believe him and it won’t do him any good starting now. Continue and get deloused.
Mike C. wrote:
Probably not too many folks in costume at that showing.
Rodan wrote:
That would be my take on it, from 7,000 miles away and not having met him.
I haven’t heard anyone who knew him coming out and saying that he was nuts or anything, and he was apparently a top student.
And it’s not like he just “snapped” or something, with all the planning and preparation.
@ lobo91:
I saw the movie myself. It’s very anti-Leftists. They mock illegal immigration (Bane’s army are East European mercenaries who snuck into America), Soros (there’s a shady Billionare with a political agenda), OWS, Gun Control and defends Capitalism.
I am still stunned that movie was blatantly anti-Leftist.
@ lobo91:
It was too well planned.
@ Kirly:
No, the shooter is crazy.
I disagree with you here on this subject Kirlz.
Rodan wrote:
well hollywood is a bunch capitalists after all no matter what they say to the little people
huckfunn wrote:
A lot of very old guys with VFW hats… It was a Saturday matinee.
I never consider any murderer crazy or insane. I consider them murderers
Calo wrote:
shooting strangers is crazy for sure, but crazy and legally incompetent are 2 separate matters.
@ brookly red:
I agree.
Jared Loughner is a whackjob. He clearly belongs in a psych ward.
But this guy is just evil.
Assault rifle supposedly jamemd
The university is going to have to explain their MSDS handling of materials which allowed him to buy the stuff for his booby traps.
@ lobo91:
The Joker was not crazy, he was evil. That’s why this guy choose the to emulate the Joker.
huckfunn wrote:
stupidity on the part of the parents. i could see someone stretching logic into thinking that the 3 month old would just go to sleep, but a 6 year old? it is stupid to take a 6 year old out in the middle of the night.
Mike C. wrote:
A neighbor of mine has been after me for years to join the local VFW. I finally relented and joined. I told him that I’ve always thought of the VFW as a bunch of old farts with, gray, balding heads, big bellies and goofy hats. I told him that I have everything but the hat. Now I’ve got the hat.
@ Kirly:
That’s a valid point, i didn’t think of it like that.
@ brookly red:
@ Kirly:
in 2008 when the Dark Knight came out, I went to midnight showing. There were kids there. Their parents are probably fanatical Batman fans. As someone whose into the whole Batman franchise, I can tell you. Many Batman Fans are fanatics and would sit through a burning movie theater just to finish the movie.
I am dead serious. I’ve seen heated arguments erupt at Batman conventions that led to fights. I don’t see it with other super hero/sci-fi stuff.
see my #42.
Leaving aside the fact that there’s no such thing as a “semiautomatic assault rifle,” he made the same mistake Loughner did: buying cheap high capacity magazines. Probably Chinese crap.
I guess we should be thankful for incompetent mass murderers…
@ Rodan:
if the movie is appropriate for children, then the parents should be adults about it and take the kids in the morning. this taking a child to a midnight showing is, imo, all about the parents wanting to be the first to see it.
I learned today that it’s pretty damn hard to clean car windows when it’s 122 degrees.
I had to clean them in little sections, before the Windex would evaporate
Has anybody else noticed that the picture of the shooter that’s been up on Fox for at least 48 hours appears to show him wearing Spock ears and a faux Star Treck shirt?
@ lobo91:
“Police have said that a 100-round drum magazine was recovered at the scene and that such a device would be able to fire 50 to 60 rounds a minute.”
I am the furthest thing there is from a firearms expert, but even I know that 50-60 rounds per minute is not a high rate of fire. I could probably beat that with a bolt-action rifle if I was not concerned with accuracy.
The important fact about a large capacity magazine is that it enables a shooter to maintain a moderate rate of fire for a full minute or more, which is a Hell of a long time in a situation like that.
@ Kirly:
Kirly, isn’t it Rocky Horror Picture Show that folks dress up for? Or do they do it for Little Shop of Horrors, too?
I don’t see any harm in going to a movie dressed in costume, but I think it would be wise to have special showings where costumes are permitted, and ban them at other times.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
It is if your on the wrong end of it…
@ brookly red:
One round a minute is a high rate of fire, if you are on the receiving end. One round in a lifetime is a high rate of fire, if it’s a fatal round.
What I am objecting to here is the way the MSM, aided by incompetent cops, try to make out that the perp is spraying bullets like water from a fire hose. You can see the anti-gun agenda at work.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Yeah, you could empty a 100 round drum from a semi-auto AR in less than a minute pretty easily, if you didn’t care about where you were shooting.
And if it didn’t jam.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Particularly if you’re sitting in a crowded movie theater.
Well, it’s time for me to head off to bed.
Later…
@ lobo91:
Good Night Lobo.
Sleep well….
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
i think you’re right and that i wrote the wrong movie.
lobo91 wrote:
I say he IS. The motherfucker SMILED in his Mug Shot!
Macker wrote:
i heard just 2 hours ago that his mugshot hasn’t been released. are you saying it has been now?
Rodan wrote:
If it is Jack Nicholson, Andrew Koenig, or Heath Ledger, I would agree, he is EVIL.
I would NOT put Cesar Romero in this category…he’s pure Camp.
Kirly wrote:
I seem to recall seeing one yesterday. Perhaps I’m mistaken that this isn’t from Arapahoe County?
@ Kirly:
And they get their costumes at “The Little Shop Of Rocky Horror Picture Shows”.
Macker wrote:
I don’t think that’s a mugshot. No booking number, etc. I think that’s a school pic maybe, or off a social networking site. Robert Stacy McCain has some interesting info this am, apparently police are now looking at a second “person of interest” from the same school Holmes attended, an Asian guy who called in a threat to the PD saying there would be more violence if Holmes was not released. The st
rail against ridiculous taxes and fees….
periodically, i look at all those fees and taxes on my electric bill. today, i find that, in my bill for $279.85, about half is for the actual electricity. over $70 is administrative charges -- these bastards actually seperate out the Customer Account Charge of $7.85 and they even charge me to send me a stinking bill! nearly 40 is pure bullshit like Environmental benefits surcharge, Federal envionmental improvement surcharge, System benefits charge, Federal transmission and ancillary services (ancillary?? what? like enjoying the benefits of a refrigerator and air conditioning?? damn!), Federal transmission cost adjustment. and another $31 for Regulatory assesssment, state, county, city sales tax, and a Franchise fee.
now that i’ve bored you to tears with all that bullshit what i want to know is why the hell are we allowing this???
ok, back to your regularly scheduled commenting.
@ Macker:
that isn’t his mugshot.
@ Kirly:
You gotta admit, it’s still creepier than shit. BTW, sorry about all that bullshit on your ‘lectric bill.
@ The Osprey:
FNC had the guy who took the call on today. said it was very difficult to understand the very gutteral (sp?) speaking. i think it’s probably a prank/hoax which might get the caller in some trouble.
Macker wrote:
yep. that photo immediately reminded me of loughner. i mentioned it on DoD. it’s “Teh Crazy”.
it’s insane. nearly a third of the bill is BS fees and taxes. the state, county, and city charging me a tax for a service should be illegal -- isn’t that like triple jeopardy??
Kirly wrote:
you probably don’t want to read the line items on you cell phone bill for that mater…
Rodan wrote:
Yes, people went nuts over both the Nicholson and Heath Ledger Jokers. I think there is kind of a “cult of craziness” among many- dare I say it- younger people today who have an affection for these types as “rebellious heroes against the system”. It’s been building since the 60′s and has only gotten worse.
brookly red wrote:
i know. it’s pervasive.
Radical writer Alexander Cockburn dead at 71
(My sorrow is limited.
Reports: ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Earns $160M
@ Macker:
If he was planning to feign insanity for his defense, that’s exactly what he would be expected to do.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
This guy is a true Idiot if he thinks his acting is doing anything other than making the Prosecution’s job of hanging his sorry ass easier.
The familiy mus t have known that he has mental issues otherwise his mother wouldn’t have told ABC
@ Da_Beerfreak:
If only they would hang him. What they will do, after several decades have elapsed, is stick a needle in his arm and administer enough sedatives that his heart stops (Coles Notes version).
Same as one does with their loyal dog or cat when it gets a debilitating terminal illness. Crap!
I want these assholes killed with prejudice. We don’t have to torture them to death, but the means of execution should be swift, certain, and a little brutal. Hanging is good. So is a gunshot to the brain.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
The Death Penalty has become a cruel joke in America.
Justice delayed, is Justice denied.
If cruel and brutal is what you’re looking for try out my favorite.
Breaking on the Wheel.
This is what the Founders found to be Cruel and unusual punishment when they wrote the 8th Amendment to the Bill of Rights.
Warmongering McRINO: Lack of U.S. Military Aid To Syrian Rebels “Shameful”…
waldensianspirit wrote:
they appear not to need anyones aid
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Note that punishment needs to be both cruel and unusual to be un-Constitutional. The purpose of the Amendment is to prevent certain individuals being singled out for outrageous punishment because of their status in society or lack thereof. So, hanging a guy because he keyed your car, while the guy who keyed mine gets a $200 fine, is right out.
Hanging people for murder is undeniably cruel, but as long as it’s the usual punishment for murder, or a particular subset of murders, it’s not un-Constitutional.
One problem I could see with death by lethal injection, is the possibility of a corrupt penal system faking an execution; faking it well enough to fool the witnesses, even. Give the condemned enough drugs to put him in a deep coma, let the witnesses watch him “die” from behind a window, and then revive him when the “corpse” is hauled off for the mandatory “autopsy”.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
I still think the CEO of Enron, Kenneth Lay, is still alive
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
wronged partie’s family… PMIF
@ brookly red:
I am good with that. And if the firing squad is made up of volunteers, not people drafted into the job, I think you could dispense with the blank cartridge.
And if you cannot get any volunteers for a particular execution, then maybe, just maybe, you should revisit the trial. I know I would willingly volunteer to pull the trigger on that James Holmes puke, or Nidal Hasan, for example, but if a crooked court railroaded George Zimmerman into a death sentence, I wouldn’t answer the call.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Rule .303.
@ waldensianspirit:
Seriously though, I think the whole thing about the one blank cartridge came about when armies were executing their own soldiers for desertion or cowardice. Nobody wanted to be on a firing squad, killing one of their buddies, so the blank cartridge was used to give the squeamish a sop to their conscience.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
You didn’t know if you hd a live round before you
shot, but you knew after you fired.
New Thread.
RIX wrote:
@ RIX:
Something about physics eh
@ waldensianspirit:
Exactly, different kick.