Different name

Same corruption.

MINNEAPOLIS - http://www.startribune.com/local/49441167.html in the metro area hope to set up a temporary multi-city unit this week to keep investigations going while the Metro Gang Strike Force is suspended.

Healthcare, the new tax

Is that how he got the providers on board? "If I force people to buy your service, will you back my plan?"

Constitutional Violations

and institutional corruption on a scale we have never seen in this country.




Found via Chris.

Spread the power-hungry corrupt culture of the MPD.

This is a great idea.

The second in command at the Minneapolis Police Department may soon lead federal law officers in state.

New Cabinet

Larry's got a great summary of the new list of Presidential appointments.

So how is Barack going to run the country? I don’t know, but we can probably get some clues by who he is surrounding himself by.

His Global Warming (sorry, since it isn’t actually warming, we’ll call it Climate Change now, so it can still be a big crisis) Czar is a card carrying member of the Socialist leadership. Literally. That’s not exaggerating. And even then, her husband is a lobbyist for big oil companies, because in typical liberal tradition, there’s no such thing as hypocrites.

Eric Holder was a lousy #2 to the worst Attorney General in US history, and was the architect of such Justice Department highlights as kidnapping Elian Gonzalez with a SWAT team. As the new boss of the ATF, I’m sure that will be just awesome.

Timothy Geithner is going to be the new Treasury Secretary, which after George Bush’s idiotic bailout nonsense is now the most powerful person in Washington. I feel extra warm and fuzzy about this because Geithner doesn’t like to pay his taxes either, but then again, I’m not the head of the IRS. It’s okay though, because he’s apologized for not paying $34,000. I’m sure if I ‘accidentally’ didn’t pay $34,000 in taxes, the IRS will totally be cool with an apology and I’ll get a pass.

Rahm Emanuael as Chief of Staff? Sure, why the heck not? This was a man so slimy that Bill Clinton found him personally distasteful. He comes from the same political machine where half of their governors from the last 50 years are either serving time, or soon will be.

And Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State… Well, at least she’s tougher than Barack, so when Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez are sexually violating the US over the next few years, she’ll totally stand up for us… unless there’s some good money to be made from Indonesian coal bribery or something. Nope, our foreign affairs are in fine hands.

Oh, and buy his book. It's worth it.

Franken Update

Franken effort to short-circuit the election process failed. To all of the idiots trying to "punish" Coleman(I was tempted) and to all of the morons who liked Franken(You know you actually exist!), this is the kind of lawmaker you asked for. Not one who has problems catering to his base, but one who will break any law, bend any scruple, screw any constituent to get his way.

Thank you for this drama.

Franken's Position on Democracy

Franken hopes to convince the three-judge panel that state law conveys limited authority for courts to review congressional elections. A court can verify the math of the recount and other technical decisions of the Canvassing Board, but it cannot explore claims of irregularities or election law violations, Franken's lawyers wrote.

No oversight of the democratic process? So, Mr. Franken, you disapprove of a legal election? I thought politicians were supposed to be smart enough not to say crap like that in public.

The Poor Baby

However will she survive?

She hasn’t shown up for work very regularly over the last year or so, so when Michelle Obama’s $300,000 job was cut at the University of Chicago Hospitals, it may have been hard to notice the difference. Crain’s skipped the part about the incoming First Lady, must have been an oversight in their expert analysis of Chicago Business, because we know Crain’s is “Not show business. All business”.

So, when she was whining about how hard it was to pay off her student loans, she was pulling $300,000 per year? She's got my sympathy. Who can live on that?

Is it a coincidence that this hospital also received a ton of earmarks from the man soon to be President? Chicago politics in the White House will be...interesting.

Corruption, Part 2

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher* can keep a secret.

He kept a $300,000 probe of groups planning to agitate the Republican National Convention secret from the people whose permission he needed to spend the money, it was revealed Tuesday.

Funny, isn't that theft. Of course, his reaction is priceless:

Fletcher said he was glad he kept it secret. "We chose not to have the (St. Paul) city attorney aware of what we were doing," Fletcher said. "Look at what happened after: You had one City Council member vocal in his opposition to what we did. I don't want him knowing."

Translated: "I broke the law by not telling my bosses what I was doing, because they wouldn't have let me have my way. I am special and you can go to hell."

*This is, of course, the same Sheriff Fletcher who has a stack of extra-legal requirements for issuing carry permits, because he feels the rules don't apply to him. His was also the subject of and FBI investigation into corruption, with 2 of his aides failing an 'integrity test'.

Corruption

Al Franken wants to circumvent the legal process to get placed in the Senate.

Here's how it works: The states are in charge of their electoral process. If state law says any lawsuits need to be resolved before someone can be seated, that's it.

I'm really unimpressed by someone trying to become a lawmaker by skirting the law.

Hmm, issues so far:

• 25 precincts have more votes than voters.
• Some precincts, the canvassing board decided to use election night numbers. Some precincts were recounted.
• There were damaged ballots miscounted. In Minnesota, a damaged ballot is supposed to be copied, marked, and segregated. There are ballots that were only copied. Without being marked or segregated, that's a double vote.
• Franken convinced the board to count rejected absentee ballots, but there is a stack of rejected absentee ballots that the board has refused to count.
• All contested ballots are public, along with the board's ruling. The rulings are hardly consistent.

A lawsuit is hardly inappropriate, even if Coleman did promise to abide by the canvassing board's decision.