Understatement of the Year

From the U.K.’s Times Online:

Top British scientist says UN panel (on Climate Change) is losing credibility.

…ya think?!

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

The African claims could be even more embarrassing for the IPCC because they appear not only in its report on climate change impacts but, unlike the glaciers claim, are also repeated in its Synthesis Report.

This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers.


It’s not just the U.N. Panel on Climate Change that is losing (or has lost) credibility; it’s anybody and everybody who continue to desperately cling to this bogus man-created myth of global warming, er, climate change for the sole purpose of redistribution of our wealth to third and fourth world thuggish dictatorships.

The list of climate change hoaxes are becoming too numerous to catalog in any one post. To the extent the hoaxers have any credibility at all shows how gullible and uninformed some of the masses are. However, the masses are rapidly catching on to the leftist head fake, with each new expose’ which seem to be surfacing almost daily.

Can you say “house of cards?”

(Editorial cartoon from Wizbangblog.com)

February 8, 2010   Posted in: Racism News  No Comments

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Still no hope of common sense in the war against anti-Semitism (Independent)

One would not choose to roll around naked in a field of nettles. One learns that choosing to write on anti-Semitism is just as rash, possibly more so. Protesters and malicious maligners stalk anyone who ventures on to the subject. And for the only Muslim weekly columnist in the country (who knows for how long) to tread into that field is extreme recklessness. Or reveals a worrying proclivity for …

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MSNBC Analyst: Palin Speech a Masterful Exercise in Paranoid Politics (Video)

“She came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile.”
Via Breitbart TV:

But, wasn’t this masterful politician and merchant of hate supposed to be a complete idiot?
Oh gosh.

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Though Judaism Is Not Necessarily Zionism, Zionism Is Judaism

Christopher Jon Bjerknes

http://www.jewishracism.com

http://www.jewishracism.blogspot.com

Stating that, “Catholicism is Christianity,” is not the same thing as stating that “Christianity is Catholicism.” Catholicism is a Christian belief system, but there are Christians who are not Catholics. Zionism is a Judaic belief system, but there are Jews who are not Zionists. However, the fact that there are Jews who are not Zionists does not mean that Zionism is not Judaism; just as the fact that there are Christians who are not Catholics does not mean that Catholicism is not Christianity.

The Judaism of the Old Testament is devoid of spirituality or any advanced Metaphysics. Instead, it posits a creator god who is just like the stereotypical Jew, selfish (Genesis 3:5, 22), jealous (Exodus 34:14), supremacist (Zechariah 14:9), desiring all the gold, silver and jewels of the whole World (Joshua 6:19. Proverbs 1:13-14. Ezekiel 28:13. Joel 3:5. Haggai 2:7-8. Zechariah 14:14), and wanting to rule the World from Jerusalem and impose Jewish law on every human being (Exodus 34:11-17. Psalm 2; 72. Isaiah 2:1-4; 9:6-7; 11:4, 9-10; 42:1; 61:6. Jeremiah 3:17. Joel 3:16-17. Micah 4:2-3. Zechariah 8:20-23; 14:9).

Just as Jews are jealous of others and seek to exterminate them, the Jewish god is jealous of other gods and seeks to exterminate them. Just as the Jews seek to horde all the gold, silver and jewels of the World and bring them to Jerusalem, so too does the Jewish god. Just as the Jews seek to rule the World from Jerusalem, so too does the Jewish god. “As above, so below,” or, “On Earth as it is in Heaven,” says the Jew.

The point is, Judaism is ultimately mundane and political, and the Jewish god is a reflection of the Jewish person. Judaism is a plan for World conquest and a call to the Jew to be racist, segregated and to steal the land of Palestine/Canaan from the native inhabitants.

The fact that there is no distinction between Zionism and Judaism can be easily proven in a simple example, one of a large number of such examples. Consider the fact that the Zionists want to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel and to drive out all non-Jews from Jerusalem.

It is important to note that the Jews were never the native population of Jerusalem, but were instead always genocidal, racist and segregationist invaders. The Jews have only been majority residents of Jerusalem for relatively short periods of time in their history, and never natives. The same is true of the Jewish god, who sought to drive out and exterminate the native peoples and their gods and make Jerusalem an exclusively Jewish city. The Zionists are in the process of making this Judaic quest a reality, not because politics demands that the Jews be absolutely segregated and that no non-Jews ever again be allowed into Jerusalem, but rather because Judaism demands these things of the Jews, in the Old Testament.

Isaiah 52:1, states:

“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.”

Joel 3:16-17, states:

“16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.”

Zionism and Judaism are indistinguishable, but this does not mean that Judaism must be interpreted as the Zionists interpret it, or that every aspect of Judaism is Zionist. It does, however, mean that Zionism is Judaism. And what is it that prominent Zionists say?

Yehoshafat Harkabi noted that Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote in modern times,

“The Arabs of Israel are a desecration of God’s name. Their non-acceptance of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel is a rejection of the sovereignty of the God of Israel and of his kingdom. Removing them from the land is therefore more than a political matter. It is a religious matter, a religious obligation to wipe out the desecration of God’s name. Instead of worrying about the reactions of the Gentiles if we act, we should tremble at the thought of God’s wrath if we do not act. Tragedy will befall us if we do not remove the Arabs from the land, since redemption can come at once in its full glory if we do, as God commands us. . . . Let us remove the Arabs from Israel and hasten the Redemption (Thorns in Your Eyes, pp. 244-245).”– English translation in: Y. Harkabi, Israel’s Fateful Hour, Harper & Row, New York, (1988), p. 148. Harkabi cites: M. Kahane, Thorns in Your Eyes, New York, Jerusalem, (1980?), pp. 244-245.

Yehoshafat Harkabi noted that Maimonides wrote long ago,

“An affirmative precept is enjoined for the destruction of idolatry and its worshippers, and everything made for its sake. . . . In the Land of Israel, it is a duty actively to chase out idolatry until we have exterminated it from the whole of our country. Outside of the holy land, however, we are not so commanded; but only that whenever we acquire any territory by conquest, we should destroy all the idolatry found there (Hilkhot Avodah Zara, ch. 7:1).”–Y. Harkabi, Israel’s Fateful Hour, Harper & Row, New York, (1988), p. 156.

and,

“It is forbidden to show them mercy, as it was said, ‘nor show mercy unto them’ (Deut. 7:2). Hence, if one sees one of them who worships idols perishing or drowning, one is not to save him. . . . Hence you learn that it is forbidden to heal idolators even for a fee. But if one is afraid of them or apprehends that refusal might cause ill will, medical treatment may be given for a fee but not gratuitously. . . . The foregoing rules apply to the time when the people of Israel live exiled among the nations, or when the Gentiles’ power is predominant. But when Israel is predominant over the nations of the world, we are forbidden to permit a gentile who is an idolator to dwell among us. He must not enter our land, even as a temporary resident; or even as a traveler, journeying with merchandise from place to place, until he has undertaken to keep the seven precepts which the Noachides were commanded to observe (Hilkhot Avodah Zara, ch. 10:8).”–Y. Harkabi, Israel’s Fateful Hour, Harper & Row, New York, (1988), p. 157.

The Jews have been saying, “Next year in Jerusalem” (Leshana Habaa Birushalayim) far longer than the term “Zionist” has been in existence. The Jews have wanted to exterminate the natives of Palestine and make it an absolutely segregated “Jewish State” from the beginning. The Jews want to take Jerusalem and make it an entirely segregated Jewish city, not because Zionism arose in the Nineteenth Century, but rather because the conquest and segregation of Jerusalem means for the Jews that they will then rule the entire Earth, judge and then exterminate the Goyim, which is the ultimate goal of Judaism, and was from the beginning. Christian Zionists know this and support it based on Luke 21:24, which states:

“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

Christian Zionists are traitors to their own nations, traitors who want to destroy all Gentile countries and make the Jews and the Jewish god masters of the World. This is not a new plan. It is clearly stated in the Old Testament, as I have proven, and those Jews who disapprove of the Zionists’ interpretation nevertheless embrace the racism, segregationism and desire for World conquest of the Jewish Old Testament and its god, who is just like them.

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State Subsidized Radio Station Makes Trailer on Future Murder of Politician

The subsidized radio station FunX has prepared a trailer for a movie as yet unmade in which the right-wing PVV party leader Geert Wilders is being murdered. The trailer, which is being shown on a website linked to the radio station, also shows people mourning Wilders’ death and wreaths with pictures of him. The PVV party has asked the minister of education how a subsidized station can show such programs and why the taxpayer must finance this.
www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Binnenland/article/detail/461345/2010/02/04/PVV-Smakeloos-filmpje-over-moord-op-Wilders.dhtml

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AP Publishes AWFUL Hit Piece on Sarah Palin

This was horrible.
Look at this picture–

The AP published an absolutely disgusting hit piece on Sarah Palin tonight after her talk at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
Here’s one quote:

“Let us not get bogged down in the small squabbles. Let us get caught up in the big ideas,” she said, though she offered few of her own.

Founding Bloggers has the story.

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Liveblogging SARAH PALIN At the Nashville National Tea Party Convention (Video)

HERE WE GO–
Andrew Breitbart just introduced tonight’s speaker SARAH PALIN.

Mindy and Madison were excited to hear Sarah Palin. They blogged this weekend, too.


I gave them a few pointers before dinner.
Mike Kadela Founding Bloggers

Sarah Palin

Mike Kadela Founding Bloggers

PJTV was livestreaming the entire speech.

At National Tea Party Convention Sarah Palin tells the crowd, “We need a Commander in Chief not a law professor.”

Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention spoke about President Obama’s national security policies. She told the president that our military is to be applauded not apologized for.

Sarah gave a great speech to her tea party supporters tonight in Nashville. She offered plenty of red meat mixed in with her common sense free market message. Sarah makes a great spokesman for the movement in that she represents your typical hardworking, patriotic, sincere, God-fearing American that is so often overlooked by the media elites and our “betters” in Washington DC. It was an historic evening and Sarah put on a great show.
What a great time.

Sarah Palin urged tea party protesters to help reshape and rebuild the Republican Party. She would make a great GOP chairperson if she wanted the role.

Founding Bloggers has more photos.

UPDATE: Graycen C. sent these terrific photos.


Glenn Reynolds has amazing photos from behind the stage during Sarah’s speech.

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Anne Karpf: Anti-Semitism is at the limits of irony (Independent)

Is the closed season on Jews over? Are English Jews facing rising levels of violence and abuse? Anthony Julius certainly thinks so. The lawyer, best known for representing the late Diana, Princess of Wales in her divorce, but also the author of a book on T S Eliot and anti-Semitism, has written a capacious history of anti-Semitism in England, Trials of the Diaspora, out next week. In it he …

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National Tea Party: Media Calls for a Protest Showdown But Only 4 People Show

It was almost a dream come true.
The media reported that a group of a National Tea Party Convention counter-protesters were going to flock to the Opryland Hotel for a showdown.

But only 4 people showed up.
The mainstream media, of course, swarmed them.

The protesters belonged to the Tennessee Tea Party Coalition. They told the media they represent 35 of 44 tea party groups in Tennessee and they were upset with the event this weekend.

Right Wing News posted the group’s press release.

They stayed for a while and spoke with the media. They said they didn’t hold a grudge against those who attended this weekend’s event but they were upset that the convention cost so much. They wanted to hold the rally in a larger venue so more people could come.


It wasn’t much of a counter protest. It will be interesting to read how the media spins this.

Founding Bloggers has more photos from the convention.

February 6, 2010   Posted in: Racist News  No Comments

Barack Obama: George Bush Is the “Real Outrage”

Barack Obama blasted former President George W. Bush today saying his administration was the “real outrage.”

George Bush didn’t do this.

He didn’t triple the deficit in one year… And then joke about it.

The Daily Caller reported:

Speaking at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting at the Capitol Hilton in snow-drenched Washington today, President Obama touted new figures from the Labor Department showing a 0.3 percent decrease in the unemployment rate and took a few shots at former President Bush.

Faced with mounting national opposition to his party’s platform, the president reminded voters the real reason the trillion-dollar stimulus package still hasn’t reduced unemployment to 8 percent as promised: Bush did it, and it’ll take a lot of time to undo it.

“The country cannot return to the “dereliction of duty that helped deliver this recession,” Obama said. He added that the previous administration’s role in the economic meltdown was the “real outrage.”

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Obama Can’t Resist – Will Appear on TV Super Bowl Sunday

He just can’t help it.
Barack Obama will be on the Super Bowl pre-game show.
The Politico reported, via FOX Nation:

With ABC landing the past three Obama interviews among the broadcast networks, CBS is now striking back.

Katie Couric, who’s been in the news already today, will interview President Obama live during Sunday’s Super Bowl pre-game show, according to the network.

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Andrew Breitbart at National Tea Party Convention to Media: “It’s Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It’s You That Sucks” (Video)

Andrew Breitbart raised the roof at the National Tea Party Convention this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking to the dozens of reporters assembled in the back of the room, Andrew said this:
“It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.”

Andrew finished his speech with this warning to the media:

“If you don’t start reporting the truth I will organize a protest in New York City on Madison Avenue and you won’t be able to escape to the Hamptons for the weekend.”

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Poll Shows Americans Favor Tim Tebow Ad By 2-1 Margin

Americans support the Tim Tebow commercial produced by Focus on the Family that honors Tim Tebow and his family for their pro-life convictions by a 2-1 margin.
LifeNews reported:

When CBS airs a Super Bowl commercial produced by Focus on the Family that honors Tim Tebow and his family for their pro-life convictions, the ad will have the support of a majority of Americans. By a 2-1 margin, a new Marist College poll finds strong support for the commercial.

The Super Bowl ad, and a second more revealing one that will air four times during the pre-game coverage, will focus on the story of Tim Tebow’s birth.

As most Americans know by now, Pam Tebow suffered from dysentery and entered into a coma during her pregnancy with Tim. She refused a doctor’s advice that she consider an abortion because of the medication she was receiving.

Tebow was born and he went on to take the Florida Gators to the national championship and win the Heisman Trophy.

The poll surveyed 1,003 Americans and asked: “A pro-life, pro-family commercial sponsored by the advocacy group Focus on the Family will air during the Super Bowl. It features a Heisman Trophy winner, Florida Gators Quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother. Do you agree or disagree with the decision by CBS to air this commercial during the Super Bowl?”

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MSNBC Palin-Hater Schultz Will Cover Palin Speech Tonight

MSNBC announced this week that far left Palin-hater Ed Schultz will cover the Palin speech tonight at the National Tea Party Convention. This is the same guy that called her “political sliime” just last year.
NewsBusters reported:

MSNBC on Friday continued to mock and deride the “controversial” tea party movement. Host David Shuster commented on the group’s Nashville convention and asserted that it’s “full of workshops, meetings, funny outfits and speeches.” Setting the tone for how the conventioneers would be portrayed, Shuster introduced the segment by playing a clip of an unidentified woman.

“I just couldn’t sit down anymore and not do anything, because it reminded me of what happened during the reign of Hitler,” the woman asserted. Couldn’t MSNBC have found someone complaining about spending or the size of government? Reporter Domenico Montanaro dismissed keynote speaker Sarah Palin. He wondered if “she’s a politician first or a political celebrity first, now.”

…Shuster closed the segment by informing viewers that far-left host Ed Schultz would anchor MSNBC’s live coverage of Palin’s keynote speech on Saturday night. This is the same person who, on his June 16, 2009 show, trashed Palin as “political slime.” Is this MSNBC’s idea of balance?

We’ll be here to watch the media meltdown in person.

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Obama: St. Louis Campaign Supporter Died of Breast Cancer – Says She Couldn’t Afford Exam – But Breast Exams Are Free to Poor in St. Louis (Video)

Unreal. There really is nothing they won’t do or say to get this nationalized health care bill rammed through Congress.

Obama says a St. Louis supporter who died of breast cancer because she didn’t have insurance and put off having the kind of exams that she needed. Obama said she will be buried in an Obama T-shirt.
Even the audience laughed at this story – But not Obama:

It’s just too bad this woman didn’t call St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Louis. They offer free breast exams to women who are in need of assistance.
I suppose that’s Bush’s fault, too.

UPDATE: Donna found this out on the deceased woman who was buried in the Obama t-shirt. I suspect there is more to this story than is reported here.

“Melanie had health insurance coverage. Sort of. Back in 2005 she was an entrepreneur struggling to grow her small business. She could only afford a catastrophic health insurance policy with co-pays and deductibles nearing $10,000.

So when the lump came, denial seemed the most pragmatic option. When diagnosis finally followed, the cancer had spread through her body to bone, lungs and liver. It was Stage 4 breast cancer.

At this point, Melanie had some coverage, in the form of Missouri’s Medicaid program – a public option, if you will. And she got better, for a spell. But then her private carrier denied coverage for a treatment her oncologist had recommended. She appealed, to no avail.”

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Republican Scott Brown Sworn In As US Senator (Video)

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown was finally sworn in as US senator today in Washington DC. Senator John Kerry stood with him as he began his career in the nation’s capital.

The AP- Republican Scott Brown took over the seat of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday, vowing to be an independent voice in a bitterly divided Senate.

Meanwhile… The labor leaders are fuming that Scott Brown assumed his position in the US Senate today.

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Dow Drops Below 10,000 Amid Job Market Worries

The Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time today since November amid worries about the US job market. The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly again last week. The rise is the fourth in the last five weeks.
CNBC reported:

The Dow fell below 10,000 Thursday for the first time since last November amid worries about the US job market and Europe’s ability to get a grip on its debt.

In the final, hair-raising minute of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below that 10,000 mark, before popping back up a few points to end at 10,002.18.

When the dust settled, the Dow lost 2.6 percent, led by Bank of America, Merck and JPMorgan. Just one of the 30 Dow components was higher — Cisco.

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Erick Erickson Has a Change of Heart at National Tea Party Convention (Video)

Early in January RedState blogger Erick Erickson slammed the National Tea Part Convention. Erickson compared the convention organizers to Nigerian scam artists.

Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number.

I am led to believe a number of the sponsors who lent their names early on have grown wary of the event. That lines up with what I am hearing.

The tea party movement was always about the unorganized masses of concerned, passionate Americans uniting together with a common voice to protest the direction of the country. From that passion, others have sought to make money off the tea party movement. Some have done it for good. Many have not. And more and more we are seeing some people rise up to claim the mantle of “leader” of the tea party movement. Many of us who have been around for a while just want to know who the heck these so called leaders are.

But Erick Erickson had a change of heart. Today he is not as suspicious of the event. The RedState blogger actually was impressed with the convention and thinks it may bode well for the future of the tea party. We caught up with Erick earlier tonight:

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Senate Confirms Smith as the Nation’s ‘Workers’ Lawyer’

AFL-CIO Now Blog
by Mike Hall, Feb 4, 2010

By a 60-37 vote, the U.S. Senate this afternoon confirmed M. Patricia Smith as the solicitor of labor. The solicitor of labor oversees enforcement of the nation’s most important labor laws and sets enforcement priorities that have a major impact on workers and their lives.
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) described the solicitor general’s job as “the workers’ lawyer.” During her confirmation hearing last year, Smith said she would bring to the job a “philosophy of proactive enforcement.” Says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:
At a time when working families are bearing the brunt of the economic recession and violations of workplace rights are rampant, Ms. Smith’s commitment to strong, fair and effective enforcement of our workplace laws is crucial.

Full Story: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/02/04/senate-confirms-smith-as-the-nations-workers-lawyer/

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Diversity a Winner in NFL Head Coach Hires; Minorities Gaining Modest Ground in College Ranks

Diverse Issues in Higher Education
by Lois Elfman , February 5, 2010

When the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts take to the field this Sunday for Super Bowl XLIV, there will be what has become a familiar sight on the sidelines: a Black head coach. Jim Caldwell became head coach of the Colts after Tony Dungy, the first Black coach to win a Super Bowl, retired in January 2009.
A year ago, when Mike Tomlin led the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Super Bowl, it seemed to some like a non-issue. Diversity seemed to be an increasing reality in the pro game. On the other hand, college football continued to be under fire for its blatant absence of head coaches of color.
It’s telling that Caldwell, the fourth African-American to lead a team to the Super Bowl, is the only one of the four to have held a head coaching job in the college ranks given that the odds of a minority becoming a head NFL coach over the past several years have been greater than attaining a Division I-A head football coaching position. Caldwell, the first African-American head football coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference, led the Wake Forest University team from 1993 to 2000. Each of the four – Caldwell, Dungy, Tomlin, and Lovie Smith – worked as assistant coaches for college teams early on in their careers.

Full Story: http://diverseeducation.com/article/13520/diversity-a-winner-in-nfl-head-coach-hires-minorities-gaining-modest-ground-in-college-ranks.html

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Following US Labor Department investigation, administrative law judge finds Bank of America discriminated against African-American job applicants

U.S. Department of Labor
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
OFCCP News Release: [02/02/2010]
Contact Name: Michael D’Aquino, Michael Wald, Jesse Lawder or Mike Volpe
Phone Number: (404) 562-2076 or (202) 693-4676
Release Number: 10-0126-ATL

WASHINGTON — A protracted case that started with a U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) investigation has resulted in an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) recommended ruling that Bank of America discriminated against African-American job applicants for entry level positions in Charlotte, N.C., in 1993 and from 2002 to 2005.
“The Labor Department is committed to ensuring that all workers — including African-Americans — are treated fairly by federal contractors in decisions concerning hiring, promotion and compensation,” said OFCCP Director Patricia A. Shiu. “Further, contractors cannot use litigation as a means to obstruct OFCCP’s ability to conduct its authorized investigations and pursue relief for victims of discrimination.”
The ruling by ALJ Linda Chapman arises in a case that began in 1993 when OFCCP requested information from NationsBank (the bank’s previous name) as part of a compliance review to determine if the bank, as a federal government contractor, treated its employees without discrimination as required by Executive Order 11246. After OFCCP advised the bank in 1995 of its findings of discrimination, the bank challenged — in federal court — OFCCP’s authority to conduct the review as a violation of the bank’s Fourth Amendment rights. After the challenge failed and Labor Department attorneys filed an administrative complaint, the bank pursued that challenge in the administrative forum. The department’s Administrative Review Board ruled in 2003 that if the bank had consented to the review, there was no Fourth Amendment violation. The ALJ subsequently held that the bank had, in fact, consented, and department attorneys were able to address the discrimination claims.
After that hearing, ALJ Chapman held that the bank intentionally discriminated against African-American clerical, administrative and teller applicants at its Charlotte facility. The ALJ also held that the bank’s failure to retain records as required by law without justification did not lessen the statistical disparities found by OFCCP’s expert. Chapman now will hold a hearing to determine what remedies should be provided by the bank. After the ALJ issues a recommended decision on a remedy, the case will proceed to the department’s Administrative Review Board for a final agency decision.
OFCCP enforces Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA), 38 U.S.C. 4212, that prohibit employment discrimination by federal contractors. The agency monitors federal contractors to ensure that they provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, disability or veteran status. Information is available at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/.

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Changes happening at Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)

All Federal contractors should be aware that OFCCP is making dramatic changes under the leadership of Patricia Shiu. Desk-audit procedures are being changed behind the scenes and while formal documentation on any policy change has yet to be released, here is some of what we are seeing at Biddle Consulting Group (BCG):

• There has been a surge in the number of desk audits being converted into formal on-site reviews. OFCCP has stated that on-site reviews are now “Standard” and provide a more efficient audit process. It is unclear if OFCCP is attempting to make every audit an on-site although that would seem to be unwieldy for both the OFCCP and the contractor. BCG is attempting to get a response from OFCCP national office to determine any changes in policy.

• OFCCP is focused on job postings, specifically postings for veterans and the disabled. OFCCP is often asking for evidence of job postings in addition to the results of those postings. Related to postings, OFCCP is being very aggressive about Action Oriented Programs (AOP’s) and how successful they have been for contractors. OFCCP is even asking for documentation of the AOP’s listed in the narrative.

• Recent requests for extensions on the 30-day delivery of the AAP after a desk audit letter has been received are being rejected at a seemingly higher rate. While some are still being granted, there has been an increase in rejections. In previous years, rejections were virtually unheard of. Also, OFCCP has threatened very low tolerance for plans not submitted on time.

• One of the more difficult areas that OFCCP is focusing on is data reconciliation. OFCCP is comparing plan data at the beginning and at the end of the plan year to see if the transaction counts result in the expected number(s). For example, if there were ten (10) people in a job group at the beginning of the year, and there were no hires and two (2) terminations in the job group, then OFCCP expects there to be eight (8) people in the job group in the new AAP. This form of data management can be very tricky because people move into and out of job groups and plans for many reasons beyond the basic hire, promotion, or termination. For instance, a transferred or merger related employee may not be noted in one of these types of transactions.

• Since the new leadership has taken over at OFCCP, the number of audits closing has seemed to slow to a crawl compared to the brisk pace of audit closures at this time last year. Whether this is a coincidence or not is unknown.

• While OFCCP continues to focus on hires analyses where possible, BCG is seeing more questions about layoffs and terminations. Even small sample sizes are being scrutinized.

• OFCCP is publicizing their high profile hiring case against Bank of America. See here for details: http://www.dol.gov/_sec/newsletter/

• The OFCCP website has changed to http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/index.htm and readers should note that many of the answers under the Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) section have been updated. Including a broad answer regarding the use of a compensation “Trigger” test.

February 6, 2010   Posted in: Affirmative Action News  No Comments

That Didn’t Take Long… ABC Reporter Attacks National Tea Party Convention Leaders During Press Conference (Video)

You just knew before this weekend was over that the mainstream media would insert itself into the story.


The presss conference was packed today at the National Tea Party Convention but not everyone acted like they were glad to be there.

The media elites could only sit on their hands for so long. After biting his lip for twenty minutes New York-based ABC reporter John Berman ripped into the National Tea Party Convention leaders at their press conference today. John was visibly upset after attending former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s speech last night at the conference. Instead of confronting Tancredo, Berman attacked the organizers of the event and demanded they speak for the former representative. Berman also attacked organizer Mark Skoda for not listing the names of the board members of a newly formed organization after Skoda said he would have the names listed by the end of the week… Funny, Berman’s never been this hard on Team Obama?

John Berman did not look happy to be there today:

He kept that scowl on his face for most of the meeting.

February 5, 2010   Posted in: Racist News  No Comments

Liveblogging National Tea Party Convention – Friday AM

Businessman, democracy activist and Memphis Tea Party organizer Mark Skoda was one of the opening speakers this morning in Nashville.

Smart Girl Politics led a breakout session this morning on “Conducting a Voter Registration Drive.” One of Smart Girl Politics goals is to focus on educating conservative women. As part of that goal, SGP members members Michelle Moore (r) and Bridget Blanton led the meeting.

Michelle Moore, SGP Director of Technology, and Bridget Blanton, SGP National Voter Registration Coordinator, led the training session at the event focusing on Women in Politics and Voter Registration. Michelle Moore will be tweeting the conference this weekend. The Smart Girls give a voice to smart, strong, well-informed conservative women. The Smart Girls are the women who will take back this country.

Smart Girl Politics is committed to providing a conservative community for women to express their opinions and ideas in an open and welcoming environment. SGP is dedicated to reaching out into the community to engage, educate, and empower conservative women to take a more active role in politics. And finally, we will debate and develop clear positions that encourage conservative activism in order to counter the negative activity of popular culture that is often found in the main stream media.

Michelle opened up the session and was terrific. She made St. Louis proud. Michelle said she found a home in Smart Girl Politics. She says she is inspired and empowered by the strong women of this movement.


Bridget Blanton stressed that to build on the success of the recent conservative wins in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts voter registration and get out the vote efforts will be critical in this year’s elections. We need to get people registered and out to the polls. We need people on the ground. We need a consistent voter registration in each community to promote your group, tea party and increase the number of local supporters. A positive message of freedom and limited government led to the wins in recent months. We must be courageous and stand up for what we believe and we can do this with voter registration. It is important for conservatives to get active today. Bridget has been registering voters for years and knows how it is done. She has spent hours and hours out attending community events in California signing up voters. Bridget is a real conservative hero.

February 5, 2010   Posted in: Racist News  No Comments

Breaking: Unemployment at 9.7% – New Counting Method Saved or Created 541,000 Jobs

US Loses Another 20,000 Jobs But Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%

BB sent the latest unemployment graph.

It’s an Obama world. Up is down. Square is round. Trucks are jokes. And, losing 20,000 jobs actually brings down the unemployment rate.

The US lost another 20,000 jobs in January but the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%. The new counting methods saved or created 541,000 jobs.
The AP reported:

The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly in January to 9.7 percent from 10 percent while employers shed 20,000 jobs, the government said Friday.

The rate dropped because a survey of households found the number of employed Americans rose by 541,000, the Labor Department said. The job losses are calculated from a separate survey of employers.

The report also included an annual revision to the estimates of total payrolls, which showed there were 930,000 fewer jobs last March than previously estimated. The department also revised down its estimates for April through October of last year, adding another 433,000 job losses.

The November figure was revised higher, however, to show a gain of 64,000 jobs.

All told, the Great Recession has eliminated 8.4 million jobs, the department said. That’s the most of any recession since World War II as a proportion of total payrolls.

Hat Tip Sliderblaze

February 5, 2010   Posted in: Racist News  No Comments