http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=116585

Which amounts to only 0.47% of his total campaign contributions for that 2010 election. Hell, the Concerned Realtors Committee and the Wisconsin Realtors Association between them over doubled that.

I expect stories to emerge about how Walker is now the tool of the Housing-Industrial Complex in 3…2…1…

Yep. Gov. Scott Walker – bought and paid for.

President Obama, speaking at a rally in Philadelphia, said “the American people deserve to know who is trying to sway their elections” and raised the possibility that foreigners could be funding his opponents.

“You don’t know,” Obama said at the rally for Senate candidate Joe Sestak and other Democrats. “It could be the oil industry. It could even be foreign-owned corporations. You don’t know because they don’t have to disclose.”

Not to mention the utter hypocrisy…  Remember this?

Plus, from the Washington Post: Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations. “Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged.”

More here. “Then there’s the question of whether foreign nationals are contributing to the Obama campaign. There is more than enough evidence to warrant a full-scale investigation by the Federal Election Commission, including the $32,332.19 that appears to have come from two brothers living in a Hamas-controlled Palestinian refugee camp in Rafah, GA (that’s Gaza, not Georgia). The brothers’ cash is part of a flood of illegal foreign contributions accepted by the Obama campaign.”

Of course you don’t.  Oh, and it’s obviously Bush’s fault.

“Tell the Bush crowd and the Chamber of Commerce: Stop stealing our democracy,” the ad says.

Told ya.

Downloadable in large size on our signs page.

A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption, and for other purposes.

Well, as I see it, this is another thing that, on the surface, makes sense to a majority of folks.  After all, the .govs out there need to be protected in case of some kind of massive hack attempts by the Chinese, right?  And all the bank files need to be safe don’t they? We do own them now anyway, right? But Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air gets it right when he says

Section 14 may be a bigger problem.  It essentially revokes all privacy safeguards on Internet use for all networks.  The Fourth Amendment would go straight out the window with the explicit inclusion of “private sector owned critical infrastructure information systems and networks.”  While Section 18 limits jurisdiction to federal networks, Section 14 allows the government to go after private networks without search warrants.  The section also doesn’t limit the jurisdiction to acute attacks, either.  That jurisdiction exists at all times.

That’s right folks.  This administration wants to be able to control, search, seize, or shut down private internet networks, like the one we have with our hosting company, or you have with yours, without so much as a hint of a thought of an actual warrant.  Or, let’s just say you want to read about hydroponic farming because you, like us here at the Raffles, are under severe water restrictions.  Your internet address, the server you used, the sites you visited, etc. might possibly be added to a database of people who are growing pot in their houses because obviously only criminals would need that kind of information according to Skippy the civil servant.  Or maybe you want to buy ammo in bulk from an online ammo store, can we trust Skippy not to freak out because in his mind there is no reason for anyone to need to buy a thousand rounds of ammo at a time unless they were going to go all clock towery?  In response, Skippy shits down the website, shuts down the hosting company that has that site on its servers (thereby shutting down thousands of that company’s other client sites), and puts your name on the list of folks who need to be ‘interviewed’.  All in the name of national security, of course.  And all without a warrant, possibly without even some supervisor giving the OK.

The bill is asking for “a cadre of information technology specialists” to do this work, so we have to assume that means civil servants and all that it entails.  Low paid, disgruntled individuals who weren’t good enough to get an IT job with a private company, and their bosses who may not even know how the WWW works, let alone how to put together a search string on Google.

Now, one more thing…

How, if at all, does this bill (introduced on April 1) relate to the bill (introduced Jan 7) HR266, the Cybersecurity Education Enhancement Act of 2009?

To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to award grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment or expansion of cybersecurity professional development programs, and for other purposes.

Is this a way for the Fed to be able to grow their own little e-nerds and funnel cash to lib universities at the same time? Otherwise, why would it be under the Sec of HS instead of say, Education?  If they do relate to each other, isn’t it odd that the oh-so-vaunted ‘transparency’ doesn’t seem to be in effect?

Like we’ve said folks, it isn’t just the Dems, it isn’t just this administration.  It is the culture of D.C.  They want subjects, not citizens.  They want to be a huge Uncle Sam who has control,  subtle for now, over every aspect of your lives that they can touch.  Do Not Fall For This.  The first bill will violate your First and Fourth amendment protected rights to free speech and due process.  The second one, which was actually introduced first, will give them the drones to pursue the policy.

Thanks to Byron Wolfsong who originally emailed this subject to us while we were off enjoying our weekend stimulating the economy.

I wonder if that tax-free status thing is still looking good to anyone?

Thanks to Gateway Pundit, who got it from Sean Hannity.