The iPad is taking away American jobs

The iPad is taking away American jobs

Comment: The car killed the carriage, the PC killed the typewriter, etc.

Apple does not fall far from the tree!

Rep. Jackson: I did nothing wrong but 'deeply sorry' over 'social acquaintance

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U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said Tuesday he is “deeply sorry” for having “disappointed some supporters” regarding his relationship with a female “social acquaintance.”

But the congressman vowed to stay in office in the wake of a Chicago Sun-Times report that a major political fund-raiser has told federal authorities that Jackson directed him to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment for Jackson to the U.S. Senate, to succeed President Obama.

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The Sun-Times reported on Tuesday that sources said Nayak told authorities that on Oct. 8, 2008, Jackson directed him to offer Blagojevich $6 million in exchange for the Senate appointment.

Sources said Nayak also told authorities that Jackson asked him to pay to fly a Washington, D.C., restaurant hostess named Giovana Huidobro — described as a “social acquaintance” of the Democratic congressman — to Chicago to visit him. Nayak did so twice, according to the sources.

Jackson didn’t address Nayak’s allegation involving payment for those flights, which could raise ethical questions under the U.S. House of Representatives’ gift ban act.

But Jackson acknowledged knowing Huidobro and that the relationship was something he an his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, have had to deal with.

“The reference to a social acquaintance is a private and personal matter between me and my wife that was handled some time ago,” Jackson said in his statement. “I ask that you respect our privacy.

Comment: He learned "the shakedown" from Daddy ... also apparently the womanizing!

Dah .... WHAT!???

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Compares Public Health Care To Post Office

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A public (or "government-run") healthcare option for Americans would function similarly to the way the post office does, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) suggested Tuesday night.

Jackson, in an appearance on CNN, said that just as the government-run post office keeps private mail carriers honest in their prices, so would the public option keep insurers honest.

"Look at it this way: There's Federal Express, there's UPS, and there's DHL," Jackson told CNN host Larry King. "The public option is a stamp; it's email. And because of the email system, because of the post office, it keeps DHL from charging $100 for an overnight letter, or UPS from charging $100 for an overnight letter."

Comment: Guess we need the government to have grocery stores, build cars (OK ... they do own Government Motors), too!

# 5 offered up to $ 1M for Senate seat

Emissaries for Senate Candidate 5 offered Blagojevich up to $1m for the Senate seat

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According to the FBI affidavit in the case, emissaries for Senate Candidate 5 offered Blagojevich up to $1m for the Senate seat.

Describing the offer in an October 31 conversation recorded by the FBI, Blagojevich said: "We were approached 'pay to play'. That you know, he'd raise me 500 grand. An emissary came. Then the other guy would raise a million, if I made him [Senate Candidate 5] a senator."

Comment: Of course ... innocent until proven guilty! Who is # 5? See yesterday's post.

The Chicago political culture: "where money and government power seem especially fungible"

The Chicago Way, on Tape: This wiretap was golden

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The Governor's comments were taped in court-approved wiretaps and include such self-incriminating classics as: "I've got this thing [the power to appoint Barack Obama's Senate replacement] and it's [expletive] golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there." We recommend the entire 76-page FBI affidavit for every high school civics course as proof of the need for political checks and balances.

Comment: 76-page FBI affidavit & Dept of Justice press release. If you have Acrobat Reader - search for "Candidate 5" in the 76-page FBI affidavit. Think "son of shakedown". More from the Wall Street Journal editorial:

If convicted, Mr. Blagojevich would be the second consecutive Illinois Governor to be found guilty of a felony, and the fourth in 35 years. We'd ask if it's something in the water, but that would be unfair to the Chicago River. It is certainly something in the Chicago political culture, where money and government power seem especially fungible.

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Now would be a good time for the President-elect to say that Mr. Blagojevich and his cronies should have nothing to do with naming Mr. Obama's successor. And that, given the taint of corruption that now hangs over any choice, the state should hold a special Senate election.

Is "son of shakedown" candidate # 5

Sources Say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is 'Senate Candidate #5'

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Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the anonymous "Senate Candidate #5" whose emissaries Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

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According to the FBI affidavit in the case, Blagojevich "stated he might be able to cut a deal with Senate Candidate 5 that provided ROD BLAGOJEVICH" with something "tangible up front."

Comment: Seems like the kind of "change" we are getting in Washington is corruption! The phrase "The apple never falls far from the tree" applies to Jesse Jr. More on "father shakedown":

• Shakedown: Exposing The Real Jesse Jackson
  
• Book: Shakedown: Exposing The Real Jesse Jackson
  
• Jesse Jackson – for blacks or himself?
  

Excerpt from Jesse Jackson – for blacks or himself?:

How many blacks can truthfully say they tangibly benefited from Jackson's shakedown of Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Paine Weber?

Many in the media know the merger of Clear Channel Communications and AMFM, Inc. was threatened by Jackson with trumped-up accusations of racism ... that is until they forked over 46 stations, worth $2 billion to minority owners – minority owners who just happened to comprise the support base for the non-profits that pay his bills and organize his travels. (See "Rainmaker Redux" by H.W. Jenkins Jr., Wall Street Journal, Jan. 24, 2001)

Noah Robinson, Jackson's half brother, was the principle beneficiary of Jackson's Coca-Cola shakedown. Jackson successfully strong-armed the Cola giant to award lucrative distributorships to minorities. The recipients were once again those associated with his non-profit supporters. I am certain that all of Robinson's fellow inmates (it seems he was sentenced to life imprisonment for hiring gang members to kill three business associates) are especially appreciative of Jackson on those hot, humid days of summer. After all, time "goes better with Coke."

How many blacks benefited from the hundreds of millions Texaco paid to settle a discrimination lawsuit even though a "smoking gun" tape proved there were no racial slurs voiced by company execs?

Jackson's Wall Street Project takes in approximately $10 million yearly. How much of that goes to blacks outside of his narrow network?

How many of the jeering black faces Jackson uses as backdrop benefited from his 1997 shakedown of Viacom? Once Viacom agreed to pay $2 million with Jackson as the principle recipient, all opposition disappeared.

How much benefit was Jackson's extortion of the SBC and Ameritech merger to blacks in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Harlem, Cincinnati or Chicago? We know Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund was pledged $1 million by the named mergers. We also know that Jackson's "gumba" Chester Davenport, with no prior telecommunications experience, made off with a cellular business as a result of the deal. As Don King would say: "Only in America."

We cannot point to a black NASCAR team or driver, but we can point to a black con-man who made off with a quarter million NASCAR dollars under the guise of producing the same.

We can point to the financial wizardry (spelled t-h-i-e-v-e-r-y) of Terry McAuliffe vis a vis Global Crossings, and Hillary Clinton vis a vis the futures market, but even they pale in comparison to Jackson.

Jackson claims to have an annual salary of $1 – but his plush lifestyle includes limousines, three lavish homes, sweetheart stock deals, big private bank accounts, first-class travel, private schools and the best universities for his children. ("Shakedown" by K.R. Timmerman)

This may be viewed as an acceptable way for corporate America to assuage their collective consciences. It may also be acceptable to blacks who would rather blame "whitey" and be the master's pets waiting for handouts, than to realize they can obtain (what today passes for) education at free schools, learn trades, open shops, go to the best colleges they are not qualified for on scholarship
(even if they can't run, jump or throw) at the expense of someone who is.

Even Jesse James and Al Capone gave away many times that which they kept of their stolen fruit. But Jackson funnels his ill-gotten gains through his Citizenship Education Fund to his wife and children who serve as board members, while paving the way for his mistress to obtain a lucrative consultant job. And let us not forget his sons' – Yusef and Jonathan – lucrative Anheiser-Bush distributorship.

To all of the Jackson sycophants, I ask you the same question: Name 10 things that Jesse Jackson has done to tangibly help individual black Americans.