WA TIMES: TIMELINE ON NEA'S TRANSFORMATION FROM ARTS FUNDER TO OBAMA'S MOUTHPIECE

THE WASHINGTON TIMES HAS BROKEN DOWN THE TIMELINE OF NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS TRANSFORMATION INTO A MOUTHPIECE FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:

Timeline:

November 10, 2008: Former NEA chief named to Obama transition team. Bill Ivey, NEA head under Bill Clinton, will handle arts and cultural issues in the transition.

January 13, 2009: Arts groups lobby Obama transition team for stimulus money. As part of a larger group, Americans for the Arts, the Literary Network and Theatre Communications Group propose to the Obama transition that more than $1 billion be funneled through the NEA as part of the stimulus plan. All three would later endorse the Obama administration health initiative. Robert Lynch, head of Americans for the Arts, meets twice with transition officials. link 1link 2

Late January 2009: Obama transition official proposes linking NEA grantees to the White House: “I worked hard to try to forge a link between the arts agencies and mainstream policy in the West Wing of the White House. I know that there is serious consideration being given to placing an arts-and-culture portfolio within the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Engagement in the Domestic Policy Council. I worked hard to get that done and I think that will happen,” says former NEA chief Bill Ivey.

Here is a complete list of the recipients...interesting reading:

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2009


February 17, 2009: President Barack Obama signs stimulus bill. Included in the bill are millions for NEA grants.

April 30, 2009: First major NEA grants of Obama administration announced. Groups that would later endorse the Obama health reform plan receive more than $700,000.

Alliance of Artists Communities: $50,000

Arts & Business Council: $10,000

Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (and member groups): $115,000

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (and member groups): $130,000

Fractured Atlas: $20,000

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture: $160,000

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts: $35,000

Society for Arts in Healthcare: $15,000

Theatre Communications Group: $175,000

VSA Arts: $10,000

May 12, 2009: Rocco Landesman nominated to head the National Endowment for the Arts.

June 19, 2009: Obama advisor reveals plan to connect “administration objectives” and “cultural actors.” Obama Transition advisor advisor Bill Ivey is taped saying, “I wanted to see some real connection between administration objectives and the capacity of all the cultural actors in government. I made some progress. I got some agreement.”

July 7, 2009: Obama administration releases first NEA grants from stimulus package. Groups that would later endorse the Obama health reform plan receive more than $1.2 million.

Americans for the Arts: $50,000

Alliance of Artists Communities (and member groups): $725,000

Society for Arts in Healthcare: $50,000

Theatre Communications Group: $50,000

American Association of Community Theatre (and member groups): $25,000

Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (and member groups): $150,000

Association of Writers & Writing Programs: $50,000

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts (and affiliates): $150,000

Aug. 6, 2009:NEA invites arts groups to discuss “United We Serve” initiative. Invitation comes from the email account of Yosi Sergant, director of communications for the National endowment for the Arts. Later when The Washington Times asks Sergant about the email, he lies about his involvement in the conference call.

Aug. 7, 2009: Landesman confirmed as NEA head.

THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING...BIG GOVERNMENT HAS EXPOSED THIS CONFERENCE CALL OF THE WHITE HOUSE USING THE NEA TO PUSH IT'S AGENDA ON HEALTH CARE:

Aug. 10, 2009: NEA holds conference call asking grantees to get involved in politics. NEA Communications Director Sergant makes his wishes clear during the call: “This is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand-new conversation. We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. … So bear with us as we learn the language, so that we can speak to each other safely and we can really work together to move the needle and to get ... stuff done. … I would encourage you to pick something, whether it's health care, education, the environment.... Then my ask would be to apply your artistic, creativity community's utilities. Bring them to the table. … Take photos. Take video. Post it on your blogs. Get the word out. Like I said, this is a community that knows how to make a stink. Do it. Do it within your town. Do it nationally. Call on other producers, marketers, publicists, art -- you know -- artists, people from within our community and get them engaged."

Aug. 12, 2009: 1st press release 'Statement … in support of Comprehensive Health Care Reform.' Two days after the conference call, arts groups endorse the Obama health plan. “We call on congress to pass: A health care reform bill that will create a public health option … There is little time to waste as a broken system continues to leave far too many behind and adds trillions to our national debt.” Sixteen of the 21 groups that signed the press release either directly received grants from the NEA or are affiliated with groups that received NEA grants within 150 days of issuing the endorsement.

Aug. 13, 2009: 2nd press release 'Coalition of Arts Groups Issues Urgent Call to Congress for Healthcare Reform.' The next day, the groups release a new version of the statement. “As national arts service organizations representing thousands of nonprofit arts organizations at the state and local level … we call on Congress to pass a health reform bill,” the groups write. The statement is published on the Americans for the Arts web site.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT...I AM WATCHING CNN, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, CBS...WAITING FOR THEIR REPORT ON THIS...

STILL WATCHING.....

STILL WAITING..................................................

DR

HOUSE VOTES TO DEFUND ACORN

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 718

H R 3221 RECORDED VOTE 17-Sep-2009 2:06 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions
BILL TITLE: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009


Ayes Noes PRES NV
Democratic 172 75 2 6
Republican 173 5
Independent
TOTALS 345 75 2 11




---- AYES 345 ---

Ackerman
Aderholt
Adler (NJ)
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Austria
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baird
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boccieri
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Capps
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castle
Chaffetz
Chandler
Childers
Chu
Clay
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Dahlkemper
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
Davis (TN)
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Driehaus
Duncan
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emerson
Eshoo
Etheridge
Fallin
Farr
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gordon (TN)
Granger
Graves
Grayson
Green, Gene
Griffith
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Harper
Hastings (WA)
Heinrich
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holden
Hoyer
Hunter
Inglis
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilroy
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Kosmas
Kratovil
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (NY)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Luján
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Maffei
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McMahon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Minnick
Mitchell
Moore (KS)
Moran (KS)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Myrick
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Nye
Oberstar
Obey
Olson
Ortiz
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Pence
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pomeroy
Posey
Price (GA)
Putnam
Quigley
Rehberg
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schauer
Schiff
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shea-Porter
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Skelton
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Souder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Sutton
Taylor
Teague
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walden
Walz
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Weiner
Welch
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)



---- NOES 75 ---

Baldwin
Becerra
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Engel
Fattah
Filner
Fudge
Green, Al
Grijalva
Hinchey
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lynch
Markey (MA)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Meeks (NY)
Mollohan
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Nadler (NY)
Neal (MA)
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Polis (CO)
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sánchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Towns
Tsongas
Velázquez
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Wexler
Woolsey



---- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 2 ---

Hastings (FL)
Watt



---- NOT VOTING 11 ---

Abercrombie
Barrett (SC)
Clarke
Connolly (VA)
Costa
Frank (MA)
McHugh
Nunes
Paul
Radanovich
Tanner

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H/T: BIGGOVERNMENT

DR

September 11, 2001 NEVER FORGET!

We will remember





Never forget





9-11

PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE MURDERED...WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? WHERE IS THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED-MEDIA ON THIS??

GOOD LUCK FINDING THIS STORY ANYWHERE ON THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED-MEDIA...

IT IS JUST DISGUSTING HOW THE LIBERALS IN GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED-MEDIA CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR JOURNALISM, INSTEAD OPTING FOR BEING PROPAGANDA TOOLS...

Pro-Life Advocate Murdered Outside Michigan School While Protesting Abortion

Owosso, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Local officials and state police are confirming that a pro-life advocate was shot and killed outside a high school in this Michigan town. The person, who is described as well-known but whose identity has not been released, was shot multiple times while protesting abortion outside Owosso High School.

Officials say the shooting occurred at 7:30 a.m. local time and most students were inside the school building at the time of the incident.

State police have also confirmed they apprehended a suspect about 8:15 a.m. at the suspect's home in this small community northeast of Lansing.

The shooting did not take place on school property but officials have locked down the school and taped off most of the front portions of the school grounds.

Now, local police say there has been a second, possibly related shooting, in Owosso that they are now investigating. The suspect in custody may have been involved in the second shooting that took place at a gravel company and officials say they are looking for other suspects who may have been involved.

"We have two murders," Shiawassee County sheriff George Braidwood told the Argus Press. "We believe they are related and we have a suspect in custody.

According to the Associated Press, in the spot where the protester stood, a black car is parked and a portable oxygen tank is lying next to a sign with a picture of an unborn child and the words life.

NBC 25 is reporting that interim school superintendent, Susan Wooden says the person is a well-known local pro-life advocate -- a man who frequently stands in high traffic areas with the sign to protest abortion.

LifeNews.com has learned that the pro-life advocate is James Pullion and the local Argus Press newspaper in Owosso has confirmed that to be the case. He was reportedly shot multiple times.

Gary Sheph, a local resident who lives near the high school, told the paper, he was sleeping when he heard “four shots and tires squeeling.”

“I just saw several people that I knew who were medical officials working on (Pouillon) and giving him CPR,” Shepherd said. “It's a pretty sad day when somebody shoots someone over a political agenda that he had. He was always known as the ‘sign man.' ... This country is based on freedom of speech.”

Father Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, has commented on the shooting in an email to LifeNews.com.

"We do not know the motive yet. But this is a time to console one
another, and to renew our determination to organize peaceful protests," he said. "It is no time for fear."

Pavone called on abortion advocates to comdemn the shooting.

"And I am waiting to hear the abortion advocates condemn this killing," he said.

The shooting follows on the heels of the killing of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller of Kansas, who had been under investigation by the state medical board for allegedly doing illegal abortions.

Abortion advocates came down hard on the pro-life community for allegedly bearing responsibility for the shooting even though it appears the alleged assailant, Scott Roeder, has no official connections with any pro-life groups.

Leading pro-life organizations are expected to condemn today's shooting and call on pro-abortion groups to do the same.

DR

BALTIMORE ACORN PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION

BREITBART'S BIG GOVERNMENT HAS BLOWN THE COVER OFF ANOTHER OF ACORN'S ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES...





HERE IS THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF ACORN WORKERS ASSISTING A MAN AND A WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE INVOLVED IN A PROSTITUTION RING, ENCOURAGIING THEM TO LIE TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND PROVIDING GUIDANCE ON HOW TO CLAIM UNDERAGE GIRLS FROM SOUTH AMERICA, FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION, AS DEPENDENTS TO CLAIM CREDITS ON THEIR THE PIMP'S TAX RETURN...

ACORN HAS RECEIVED MILLIONS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND IS SET TO RECEIVE BILLIONS FROM THE STIMULUS PACKAGE...YET THEY SEEM TO BE IN THE BUSINESS OF INSTRUCTING PEOPLE ON HOW TO RUN ILLEGAL BUSINESS...CHEAT ON THEIR TAX RETURNS....LAUNDER MONEY...UNDERREPORT INCOME...WITHOUT ONE CONCERN FOR THE CHILDREN THAT ARE GOING TO BE FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION...

DR

DEAR LEADER TO INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN - TEACHERS GIVEN 'TO-DO' LIST

UNBELIEVABLE!...OR IS IT?

PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities:
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education September 8, 2009


Before the Speech:

Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions: Who is the President of the United States? What do you think it takes to be President? To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking? Why do you think he wants to speak to you? What do you think he will say to you?

Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

During the Speech:

As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following: What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.

After the Speech:

Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.

Students could discuss their responses to the following questions: What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President?

Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.

On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a 2
video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via www.ed.gov
.
Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.

Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.

Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.

Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.

Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.

Graph student progress toward goals.

H/T: DRUDGE REPORT

DR

AMERICAN CITIZEN "THIS USED TO BE AMERICA!"; POLICE OFFICER "IT AIN'T NO MORE, OKAY?"

YES! YOU READ THAT RIGHT!! IN THIS UNBELIEVABLE EXCHANGE BETWEEN AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND A POLICE OFFICER, THE POLICE OFFICER DIDN'T LIKE THE CITIZEN'S POSTER AND THREATENED HIM IF HE HELD IT UP AGAIN...

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN COULD NOT GET AN EXPLANATION ABOUT WHY HIS POSTER WAS NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED AT THE RALLY...AND FINALLY SAID "THIS USED TO BE AMERICA!"...THE POLICE OFFICER ACTUALLY SAID "IT AIN'T NO MORE, OKAY?"

AND NOW, HERE IS THE AMAZING VIDEO:




THANKS TO RIGHT KLIK

DR