RIP-Newspapers’ Collapsing; New Audit Reports Show Largest Drop in Readers Ever:

RIP-Newspapers’ Collapsing; New Audit Reports Show Largest Drop in Readers Ever:
By Marc Chamot & Sources: Michael Liedtke, Barbara Ortutay & David R. Baker

Are they finally getting what they deserve?

The nation’s newspaper circulation is shrinking faster than ever. According to recent ABC Audit of Circulation reports, the nation’s newspapers are in deep trouble.

The average daily circulations at 379 U.S. newspapers have fallen an additional 10.6 percent in the April to September period from last year. It’s been hemorrhaging non-stop for the past few years, a span that has been coinciding with the explosion of online news sources. It’s the largest drop recorded so far for the industry.

Newspapers are trying to recover from massive losses of advertising revenues, their traditional main source of income, and now the readers are sticking it to them hard, and they are leaving for good!

With the worst recession since World War II, and the new age of the Internet, it has combined to make the industry’s ad revenues, 20 Billion dollars less than what it was three years ago. This year alone it was a drop of about 14 percent.

Part of the problem for newspapers, as I had predicted in past articles, that newspapers would someday try to defray the losses on ad revenues on subscribers, and this would eventually kill their circulation and newspapers. Especially when folks, folks like me, who can get all of our news and information on the Net and for FREE.

More bad news for the industry, and not only for newspapers, but for television networks, magazines and radio too.

TNS Media Intelligence, the group that keeps tabs on advertising revenues for mediums, says television lost 10 percent, and magazines lost 20.9 percent, newspapers lost 24.2 percent, and radio lost 24.6 percent, but Internet advertising had risen by 6.5 percent. It’s obvious; we can now see where the advertising money is shifting to, the Internet. The Internet is an untapped source of marketing, and much cheaper, with great unique promotional techniques’ companies can come out like winners!

Being a former newspaper man, I will add my two-cents as to why newspapers are losing their readers in droves.

It’s something that we hear about on the talk radio shows, on network news, ABOUT newspapers like the New York Times, who intentionally have ignored big news stories, just as recent, like the Obama’s former pastor, the Jeremiah Wright racism preaching’s during the campaigns, the ACORN scandals, John Edwards’ affairs, and the Van Jones shady vetting process by the Obama administration.

We’re also discovering that as far back as the eighties and the early nineties, before the Internet became a viable source of information, the media have led us on. They supported many bills in congress, and bad war policies of past White Houses; they knew that all of these were very detriment to Americans, they never warned Americans about the alternatives, and here we are today, screwed as heck.

Americans are discovering quickly about the biases and the cover-ups going on with newspapers. Newspapers and the media are still trying to pull the same jig, knowing full well that it will become a full blown story on the Internet in a matter of minutes or hours. THEY haven’t learned and they WONT, because they are too agenda driven, just like the New York Times.

People nowadays prefer to look for credible news sources on the Net for their factual information, rather than to trust it entirely with daily newspapers. The traditional “Gatekeepers” have failed us big; they were supposed to be our government’s watchdogs, but they rarely BARKED out the truths for the past decades.

Here are some of the Just released figures:

The New York Times stayed in third place at 927,851, down 7.3 percent from the same period of 2008. Its Sunday edition remained the top weekend seller at 1.4 million, a decrease of 2.6 percent.

Sunday circulation at all the newspapers covered in the ABC survey fell 7.5 percent in the latest six-month span.

The circulation numbers are just the latest sign of distress in the shrinking newspaper industry.
Newspapers are trying to recover from a steep drop in advertising revenue - traditionally their main source of money. The worst U.S. recession since World War II and the lure of the Internet have combined to make the industry's annual ad revenue $20 billion less than it was three years ago.

To compensate, many of the nation's largest publishers are raising the subscription rates and newsstand prices for their print editions.

Some newspapers also are planning to charge for access to at least some sections of their Web sites. Besides bringing in more revenue, the online fees could cause more people to keep subscribing to the print editions if fewer stories are available for free on the Web. But it would also threaten to shrink their online audiences, making it more difficult to sell the Internet ads that are gradually replacing some forms of marketing in print.

Although higher prices for print editions alienate some readers, enough of them are footing the bill to funnel more money to newspapers.

For instance, circulation revenue at The New York Times Co. and another major newspaper publisher, McClatchy Co., climbed by 7 percent during the summer, even though they both lost subscribers.

Bringing in more money from readers is now more important than trying to preserve circulation, according to Mark Adkins, president of the San Francisco Chronicle. His newspaper suffered a nearly 26 percent drop in circulation in the April-September period to 251,782. But the remaining subscribers collectively pay the Chronicle more than its much larger audience did in the previous year, Adkins said.

The Chronicle now charges $7.75 per week for home delivery, up from $4.75 in the previous year. Weekday copies sell for $1 on the newsstand, up from 75 cents.

"The new circulation revenue has become an important part of our business model," Adkins said. "We are pretty pleased."

The Dallas Morning News attributes about half of the 22 percent decline in its weekday circulation to higher prices. The newspaper, owned by A.H. Belo Corp., averaged circulation of 263,810 during the period. Despite the erosion, the Morning News now gets about 40 percent of revenue from circulation, up from the industry's traditional average of 20 percent.

"While we knew our reported circulation would be down, the key was that we were growing circulation revenue significantly," said Morning News Publisher Jim Moroney.

Both the San Francisco Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News say they are investing their additional circulation revenue in improvements aimed at retaining their remaining audiences - with the hope the advertisers will want to connect with a more engaged and loyal group of readers. There's a potential downside, too: If newspaper circulation keeps tumbling, advertisers may demand rate cuts and could even shift more of their marketing budgets to media that reach more people.

Other newspapers such as the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News have curtailed their home delivery schedules to save money. Since March 30, Detroit's two biggest dailies have limited home delivery to Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays - the editions that sell the most advertising. Readers can get electronic versions of the newspapers on the other days or buy a print copy on newsstands.

The Free Press, the bigger of the two newspapers, ended the latest reporting period with average weekday circulation of 269,729, down 9.6 percent from last year.

A few newspapers, mostly smaller ones, added subscribers during the reporting period. Of all the newspapers with a paid circulation of more than 50,000, the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania saw the biggest increase - rising 16.5 percent to 55,370. The newspaper's publisher and managing editor didn't return messages Monday.

Death of Scott Hawkins; Student Beats Student With Autism to Death with Baseball Bat in a Sacramento University Dorm Room:

Death of Scott Hawkins; Student Beats Student With Autism to Death with Baseball Bat in a Sacramento University Dorm Room:
By Marc Chamot

There is one thing that I can’t stand for, is the murder of innocent children. It’s already pretty much known as to what I think, and believe what needs to be done with these perpetrators who commit these types of crimes.

Domestic violence is another topic that gets my blood boiling over, especially when it comes to the physical abuse of women. I have written countless articles on these types of crimes, but there’s one story out of Sacramento State University in California that will leave you in tears.

It didn’t involve any children or women this time, it involved a sweet 23 year old college student who had Asperger’s Syndrome, a higher case of functioning autism, where Scott Hawkins was beaten to death in his dorm room by an insane roommate.

The savagery of the beating from this animal, Quran Jones is beyond any comprehensions. The beating occurred at the American River Courtyard Dormitories. “I want to know the why?” said campus police chief, Dan Davis.

Quran Jones began with his drug laced rage that afternoon, by breaking dorm windows, furniture, and hitting his own head with a baseball bat. But poor, Scott Hawkins walked in on the scene, and got pummeled to death by this animal.

When police arrived they saw Jones brandishing a knife, after Jones refused to drop his knife, the police shot him three times. Though Jones remains in serious condition, his under watchful guard at the hospital, Jones’ foster parents, Kurt and Heidi Kilgore, of San Francisco, say “he’s not a monster.”

Vera Margoniner, Jones’ astronomy instructor says “I can only say good things about Quran (the killer), he’s not a monster, and I can only think that something snapped in him, it could have happened to any of us.”

Hawkins who loved history was pursuing a degree in that field, he had Asperger’s Syndrome. People with this affliction have difficulty interacting socially, repeat behaviors and are often clumsy. Even so, this wonderful kid was able to flourish and study in college, say the bereaved parents. “He was the sweetest, kindest, gentlest person” says his mother, Liz Hawkins. “Kids would ask him if he was retarded, and he would say no, I’m autistic.”

Scott was becoming more self reliant, getting into wider social groups, and he was very religious. Scott also talked highly of Quran Jones, and that he was glad that he was religious also.

Now folks, this is a really truly sad story. I truly feel sad for the parents of Scott Hawkins. They did their best for their handicapped son, and some punk out of nowhere takes his life.

But then there is that thing in me, it keeps bugging me about that drug induced scum bucket Quran Jones.

Number one, at nineteen years old, he should have never been permitted to dorm with a mentally handicapped person. Neither parents are to blame behind this sad tragedy, but the blame should lie squarely on the university itself. The university is very culpable for placing Scott Hawkins in danger, with a person who didn’t have experiences and any knowledge in dealing with handicapped people like Scott Hawkins.

I’ve known a few kids and adults who have autism; they are the gentlest people on earth. They couldn’t harm anyone.

They are the sweetest and most caring people that you will ever meet. They have bigger hearts that normal folks like us. It takes a whole lot of patience to work with these people, and their love is its rewards.

And to that dumb Professor Vera Margoniner, your comments in sympathy for the killer, Quran Jones, that “he’s not a monster and that it could happen to anybody,” you are absolutely wrong. You are idiotically wrong. No one else I know of ever beats up on specially challenged people to death with a baseball bat.

So, what that drug laced punk, Quran Jones did to Scott Hawkins, I’ve got this to say to him. It’s TOO bad that the cops didn’t finish YOU off.

But I’m hopping that YOU will get an early funeral for YOUR hatred and murder of a mentally handicapped person, if NOT, and you do survive, I hope that YOU will be maimed, paralyzed and live to REGRET what YOU did to such a special person like Scott Hawkins. There is no excuse to beat people to death like Scott Hawkins with a baseball bat! There’s just no excuse for this at all.

San Francisco Police Accused of Impeding ICE Investigations on Dangerous MS-13 Gangs Because of City’s Sanctuary Policies:

San Francisco Police Accused of Impeding ICE Investigations on Dangerous MS-13 Gangs Because of City’s Sanctuary Policies:
By Marc Chamot & Source SF Weekly

Do sanctuary cities work in favor for the criminal illegal alien’s advantage? Absolutely it does if it’s in loony San Francisco.

This was one big surprise to me; I usually support law and order, and most of our police officers around. I thought that the SFPD were into law and order also? But when it comes to cops, and their wanton disregard for our local safety, and then going around protecting criminal illegal alien GANGS, it’s another story for me.

Last October, federal, ICE and local officials, with U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello, and former dysfunctional police chief Heather Fong summoned the press to announce about their big bust, the rounding up and arrests of 29 members of the violent Latino gang MS-13.

Now, a year after the arrests, in recent court filings in that case have revealed San Francisco sanctuary policies made the San Francisco Police Department drag their feet to being un-cooperative in the taking down of some of the most dangerous criminal gangs.

Presiding court judge, William Alsup wrote that San Francisco’s sanctuary policies and protocols caused bureaucratic nightmares, “stonewalling” by San Francisco police. The cities’ sanctuary policy forbids any city employee from cooperating with federal immigration officials.

Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE) agent Christopher Merendino, testified that SFPD gang officers DENIED him access to “Alpha Files,” comprehensive summaries of suspects’ gang activities and their histories for TWO MONTHS, until ICE had to obtain a grand jury subpoena to force the police to turn over the documents.

San Francisco police were also accused of not helping or assisting in executions of search warrants requests on MS-13 gangs. San Francisco police also refused to help ICE with field operations’; in 2007 police declined an ICE request to stake out a gang meeting.

So San Francisco police’s IDIOTIC reasoning behind all of this? We were very concerned ABOUT contacts with the ICE acts, in the sanctuary POLICY. And the community, (ILLEGAL ALIENS’) negative feelings about ICE. What???

Folks! Need I say more about the lunacy of sanctuary policies, how in the NAME is San Francisco police going to protect one of the largest, and most dangerous criminal illegal alien gangs around? The mayhem, the killings, and the safety factors for the community at large are being breached, by these IDIOTIC and undignified morons.

But recently this nutty board of supervisors VOTED to expand their sanctuary policy to keep arrested criminal illegal alien youths, from being reported to ICE! No sanctuary for supes' immigrant youth law “The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed legislation requiring that undocumented youth be turned over to federal immigration officials for possible deportation only after they're convicted of a felony - not upon their arrest.

he 8-2 vote, enough to override an expected veto from Mayor Gavin Newsom, prompted loud cheers from scores of immigrant rights advocates, clergy and high school students who packed the board meeting - but the jubilation may not last long.

Newsom will give no credence to Supervisor David Campos' legislation, according to the mayor's spokesman, Nathan Ballard. Instead, the mayor will continue to direct law enforcement officials to turn youth over to federal officials as soon as they're arrested on felony charges.

"The Campos bill isn't worth the paper it's written on - it's unenforceable and he knows that," Ballard said. "We are not going to put our law enforcement officers in legal jeopardy just because the Board of Supervisors wants to make a statement."

Ballard said the mayor's office will work closely with the city attorney to ensure probation officers aren't forced to break federal law for the sake of abiding by the legislation.

Campos, who briefly left the meeting after the vote to celebrate with a joyful crowd outside chanting "Yes we can!" said the mayor can't pick and choose which city laws to follow.

"We expect the mayor's office to follow the laws of the city and county of San Francisco - that's his job," said Campos, who himself arrived in this country as an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. "If he refuses to do that, the board will have to figure out what our options are."

It’s time for someone to put an end to this idiocy, let’s get an attorney, or a citizen to come into San Francisco and sue the legality of its sanctuary policies once and for all. This is madness folks, and the drafter of this horrendous bill, he’s a former illegal alien himself, David Campos, Contact by email: Now do YOU see how some of these IMMIGRANT politicians are ruining OUR country?

David Campos:
City Hall1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244San Francisco, Ca 94102-4689(415) 554-5144 - Voice(415) 554-6255 - FaxDavid.Campos@sfgov.org

Oh my! Oh my! Bruce Brugmann my man, are you getting drunk off the Kool-Aid, or just visiting one too many San Francisco’s cannabis clubs?

Oh my! Oh my! Bruce Brugmann my man, are you getting drunk off the Kool-Aid, or just visiting one too many San Francisco’s cannabis clubs?
By Marc Chamot

If the current issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s and Bruce B. Brugmann’s prized left-wing newspaper rag is any indication, then Left-Wingers are raging mad and are fighting back against conservatives.

This current issue is an acid laced attack on conservatives, calling it the “California Nightmare”and“the Right-Wing Agenda that wrecked California is still alive and well in the United States.” Plus: Inside the GOP attack Machine. The Bay Guardian’s brunt of attacks includes former President Ronald Reagan.

Reagan LIES?
"Reagan's stands typify the temper of the cause," the Nov. 7, 1966 editorial stated. "He is on record, at various times, in opposition to the progressive income tax, Social Security, Medicare, the anti-poverty program, farm subsidies, the TVA, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, public housing, federal aid to education, and veterans hospitalization for anything other than service-connected disabilities. How can a man or a movement govern the state of California with such a political philosophy?"

Here are more examples of their noxious and visceral attacks in; Killing the Dream, The lesson of California and Attack of the right-wing nuts; “Twelve years later, it was all falling apart. Eight years of Gov. Ronald Reagan and then the passage of Proposition 13 launched a very different kind of movement out of the West, a movement that sought to dismantle the public sector and the social safety net, to treat government as the enemy, and to use culture wars to convince working-class Americans to vote against their own economic interests.”

And now California is being described as the nation's first failed state. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the second Republican actor to hold that role — has driven the state to the brink of bankruptcy. The University of California is drowning in red ink, raising fees and turning away students.

The state's water system is a mess; cities and counties are in fiscal collapse; the economy's in the tank; and nobody seriously talks about a California dream anymore.

"Reagan's stands typify the temper of the cause," the Nov. 7, 1966 editorial stated. "He is on record, at various times, in opposition to the progressive income tax, Social Security, Medicare, the anti-poverty program, farm subsidies, the TVA, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, public housing, federal aid to education, and veterans hospitalization for anything other than service-connected disabilities. How can a man or a movement govern the state of California with such a political philosophy?"

Prop. 13 emerged from a state in the middle of a massive growth spurt and a heated political cauldron of money, race, and Legislative failure. Howard Jarvis, a Republican landlord lobbyist who hated taxes, hated government, hated public schools, and disdained most Californians — "63 percent of [public school] graduates are illiterate" and would have no need for public libraries, he once quipped — took advantage of a gaping hole in political leadership and set off a movement that would cripple the United States of America.

The measure marked the final, fatal end in California of the era known as the '60s — a period when the left was ascendant, when taxes on the wealthy funded education, infrastructure and programs for inner cities, and when economic and cultural liberalization seemed to be spreading across the nation.

Prop. 13 set off a national movement to cut taxes — and riding that wave, Reagan was elected president in 1980. He immediately set about attempting to slash taxes on big business and the wealthiest Americans, and eliminate environmental, workplace safety, and employment regulations.

You can see the results in California — and across the nation. The very strategies that emerged in this state and that the right has supported over the years have come very close to destroying the United States economy, leaving millions out of work — while the gap between the rich and the poor has risen to unsustainable levels.

Much of the right-wing agenda that has thrown this nation into economic chaos can be traced back to what was once called the Golden State.

The tax revolts that started here under Gov. Ronald Reagan and continued to sweep the country and the world under President Reagan never abated. Indeed, they have only been strengthened by the big business power that created and benefited from them.

The tax revolts that started here under Gov. Ronald Reagan and continued to sweep the country and the world under President Reagan never abated. Indeed, they have only been strengthened by the big business power that created and benefited from them.

But now that California is showing signs of being the country's first failed state — caught in fiscal freefall and mired in political gridlock as a generation's worth of neglected problems surge to the surface — this state has become a cautionary tale for that anti-government ideology.

In April 2006, with the approval ratings of President George W. Bush plummeting, his senior political advisor, Karl Rove, began discussing a plan to turn things around.

His strategy: attack progressive organizations that were registering low-income people to vote and helping them fight corporate power — and claim it was about voter fraud.

The main White House target, newly released records show, was the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). By the end of 2006, Rove would oversee the removal of eight U.S. attorneys, including two who refused to press bogus charges against ACORN in New Mexico and Missouri, and a third under similar suspicions in Washington state.

ACORN made a convenient target for Rove and his gang — and the well-orchestrated attacks on that group, which have exploded into the headlines this year, provide a compelling case study in how the right wing operates in this country.

Although it was the GOP that removed tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters from the rolls in the 2000 and 2004, the Republicans and their allies were able to make the issue of voter fraud all about ACORN, using a handful of isolated problems to undercut an organization focused on giving a voice to poor people.

As The Nation put it, these successes made ACORN "something of a right-wing bogeyman."

So it’s a blame Republicans and former President Ronald Reagan type of affair, while forgetting that they want to adamantly support over 5 million California illegal aliens, with what? Thank you, OUR freakin’ TAXPAYER dollars.

They support the refusals to turn over criminal illegal aliens youths to ICE for deportations. They are just dead set against Law and Order.

THEY talk about Republican corruption, while they forget their OWN party’s corruptive activities.

Another FACT that the Bay Guardian wants to ignore, ACORN has been involved in numerous criminal activities, yet the Bay Guardian wants to ignore these FACTS. They are criticizing the fact that people aren’t PAYING more taxes, that’s JUST insane folks! How much more do they want us to pay?

They also FORGET that the SEIU and other government employees’ unions are deeply entrenched in California politics; they want to be the ONES that survive the economical storms in unemployment’s, while the rest of us are going down the gutter with job losses. So they WANT taxpayers to pony up the money to save their OWN JOBS.

AND THEY support ALL pro-Democrat environmentalists AGENDAS, those that are killing California businesses and JOBS. So who’s the REAL Jackass here? Who’s truly killing California? It’s definitely NOT the Republicans or former President Ronald Reagan.

Fox in Obama’s Hen House; a News War that this President Will Surely Come OUT Losing in the End:

Fox in Obama’s Hen House; a News War that this President Will Surely Come OUT Losing in the End:
By Marc Chamot

Some people say just about the dumbest things. When President Obama’s’ White House compared Fox News as being the propaganda Arm of the Republican Party, they hypocritically forget that CNN news networks is the propaganda arm of the left-wing Democratic Party, Obama’s OWN apologists and where the Democratic Party agendas’, and their propaganda bully pulpits reside.

White House: Fox News is ‘arm of the Republican Party’ “The White House's communications director says that Fox News is little more than a wing of the Republican Party.

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," Anita Dunn told CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday. "And it’s not ideological. I mean, obviously there are many commentators who are conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that.

What I think is fair to say about Fox is — and certainly the way we view it — is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican Party."

So Americans and the world are laughing out loud, while seeing the most powerful man in the world taking on the most powerful cable news network, laden with hypocrisy behind it. This is exactly what disgusts many Americans about politicians, they think that we’re all a bunch of dummies and that we can fall for their lines of deceits, but were only getting smarter.

Obama and his White House cronies are forgetting one thing, this president’s poll numbers and CNN viewership are tumbling down, while Fox News viewership’s and ratings are skyrocketing upwards. See, Fox News and MSNBC enjoy ratings gains, but CNN drops “With gloomy economic news dominating the headlines, Fox News and MSNBC posted substantial audience increases in the last four weeks compared to the same period last year, while CNN shed a large share of its audience.

Top-rated Fox News drew an average of 2.4 million viewers in prime time between Jan. 26 and Feb. 22, a spike of 28%, according to Nielsen Media Research data. CNN held onto second place with 1.2 million viewers but dropped 30% from last February, while MSNBC posted an average of 949,000 viewers, up 23%.”

While we're on the subject about rockets, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the math don’t match, and Obama is way above his match against Fox News and its viewers.

President Obama needs to worry more about the populist anger on the right, which is spreading like cancer to other groups, disaffection in the middle, the old Clinton supporters, and for the potential disillusionment on the left, his base.

President Obama also needs to worry about our failing economic situations and lack of new job creations, and worry about his crazy pro-environmentalists ideas that will kill even more jobs. He also needs to worry more about coming out with a decent deficit friendly and affordable healthcare reforms for all Americans. Rather than wasting his precious TIME going after Fox News.

Is Your BOSS a Bully & a Real Jerk-Off? According to New Study, it’s Because of their Insecurity, Lack of Competence & Inadequacies:

Is Your BOSS a Bully & a Real Jerk-Off? According to New Study, it’s Because of their Insecurity, Lack of Competence & Inadequacies:
By Marc Chamot & Source SF Chronicle

And those companies, who keep on HIRING these incompetent managers, worry ABOUT work place VIOLENCE?

It’s something I’ve always suspected about some of my former bosses in the past. They seem always eager to HIRE you, then you work your butts off for them, and then they begin to get jealous, aggressive and begin to demean you, until you quit or get FIRED.

With this new study, bosses who feel incompetent are more likely to bully YOU. A new study published in the Journal Psychological Science, titled “when the boss feels inadequate.” Psychologist Serena Chen of U.C. Berkeley and Nathaniel Fast of U.S.C. say that bosses who are over their heads, tend to resort to browbeating to protect their egos. “If people feel incompetent and they happen to be in high powered position and that is when the aggressions kick in.”

Citing a survey commissioned by the Work Place Bullying Institute, an advocacy group that tracks the issue, they estimate that more than one-third of all employees have been SABOTAGED, YELLED at, and belittled by their bosses. "They took out their feelings of threat on someone else"

The phenomena are even worse today because of the economy, and these poor workers are stuck with these scummy bosses.

I can’t help remembering my two worst newspaper bosses in recent times, Jim (Play with your Jolly) Tolly of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in Fayetteville and the then FIRED, David (NY Giants Fan) Singer of the Muskogee Daily Phoenix in Oklahoma. This MO fits them both to the tee. SO SUE ME!

No wonder American businesses are going to hell. Not only they are inept in hiring good qualified managers, they are losing valuable employees because of them, companies usually hire those who like to KISS their butts the BEST.

See Full Story Here: Insecure bosses likelier to bully, study says

The Institute, which maintains a Web site (links.sfgate.com/ZIJF) to help bullied workers cope, argued in a recent opinion article that the phenomena has gotten worse during the recession because it's harder for employees to get out from under a bad boss' thumb.
The research paper by the two psychologists focused on the narrow issue of linking a boss' self-perception of incompetence to domineering behavior.

The researchers did not actually observe workplaces but rather asked volunteers - mainly working people ranging from secretaries to managers - whether they were high or low in the pecking order and how secure they felt about their job performance, and ranked them with questionnaires and exercises designed to measure aggressive tendencies and behaviors.

One experiment put subjects in a role that allowed them to act in a bullying manner, by supposedly setting the volume on a buzzer that would ring if an imaginary subordinate gave a wrong answer to some made-up questions. Fast said the experiment was designed to determine whether people with a sense of power, coupled with feelings of inadequacy, set the volumes louder, which turned out to be the case.

"They took out their feelings of threat on someone else," he said.

Another experiment showed that volunteers with high power but low confidence were nicer after writing about something that made them feel good. It didn't matter whether they wrote about their kids or their cats; if it made them feel better, potential bullies were less aggressive, Fast said.

Chen said their conclusion was that workplace bullying grew out of a sense of insecurity. "Our data suggest it's ultimately about self-worth," she said.

Liberal & Gay Assembly Member Tom Ammiano’s “You Lie” & “Kiss my Gay Ass” Comments to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Liberal/Gay Assembly Member Tom Ammiano’s “You Lie” & “Kiss my Gay Ass” Comments to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:
By Marc Chamot

Fruitier than a fruitcake? A Pissy-Polly-Prissipants and Gay Democrat, Tom Ammiano, is why I’m being reminded AGAIN as to why I can’t stand, and despise San Francisco LIBERALS and their left winged politicians.

What’s his BEEF with the governor? Here’s an example of a typical left-winged Democrat’s, WARPED, and insane MIND, it’s all about the governor’s and Republicans’ refusals to INCREASE PEOPLE’S TAXES during a down economy, JUST to save Unions and their state and local employees’ JOBS!

It’s FINE with Ammiano and his friends, for the rest of us, the folks who work outside government to be losing OUR jobs, but oh no! When it comes to THEIR precious VOTERS and their fundraisers, like the unions and its employees, it’s all hell broken loose with these GUYS!

Former San Francisco supervisor and “gay,” Tom Ammiano is known to be the most arrogant, honorary, and two FACED, fouled mouthed and nastiest piece of human crap, I have ever seen in any American politician.

After these Liberals, the Nancy Pelosi’s and other scummy San Francisco minions who were once railing on about the Joe Wilson’s, with the Obama “You Lie” affairs, they go deeper into the world of incivility, with improper decorum’s of behaviors on how to treat with respect a Republican governor of the state.

That’s why people don’t respect the far left, they are all two faced, and hypocritical piece of crap that we have to put up with in American politics.

And these people are wondering as to why we don’t vote for “gay marriages,” and SUPPORT their gay issues? And then they call us as being discriminative and insensitive towards their issues??

This is the TRASH we have to live, and put up with, on a daily basis in this BROKEN state of California, with some of these politicians. That’s why people are talking about cessations all over. People are just getting sick and tired of their filthy trashy mouths and politics.

Long live Joe Wilson! You’ve JUST been vindicated my man.

Ammiano to Schwarzenegger: "Kiss my gay ass"
"Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is lambasting what he calls "highly inappropriate" behavior by San Francisco Democrats Wednesday who greeted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with a hostile reception during a surprise drop-in at a San Francisco Democratic Party fund-raiser.

But outspoken State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, who shouted "You lie!" to Schwarzenneger during the event at the Fairmont Hotel -- and didn't deny reports he walked out with a quip of "kiss my gay ass" -- said the GOP governor's "cheap publicity stunt" earned a very appropriate show of political theater, San Francisco-style.

Schwarzenegger, in a statement this morning, aimed to laugh it all off, saying of his SF Democratic reception that "compared to the reaction I got in Hyannis Port when I told the Kennedys I was marrying Maria, it was fantastic."

An entertaining eyewitness account comes from Brian Leubitz and his crew at Calitics, who were there to celebrate with the Dems -- and who had the fascinating blow by blow today, complete with cell phone photos.

Here's the back story from some of the insiders:
"Before (Schwarzenegger) showed up, people were talking about how unfortunate it was the Governor...was so missing in action on issues so important to San Francisco," Ammiano told us this morning. "Then I noticed the dye job out of the corner of my eye.''
Ouch.

Ammiano: "This isn't a chamber where someone suffers through. This is our house -- and it's like someone came in and took a big dump. He showed up; it was rude, he got up there and it felt to us that he was trivializing all the issues we care about. You have a few options, and along with the labor people, we walked out."

And that "kiss my gay ass" comment?

"That I don't really remember," laughed Ammiano, "but I've said that before...and if it was attributed to me..."

Still, the Assemblyman insists Schwarzenegger got what he deserved. "It was a cheap publicity stunt and I think this guy has a problem distinguishing between movies and reality," Ammiano said. "You don't come uninvited and you don't devalue what the Democratic Party stands for."

But Brown, who introduced Schwarzenegger to the crowd, told us he was angered at the behavior and that the governor didn't come uninvited.

He and former President Bill Clinton -- at the Fairmont for the President's Cup golf tournament -- were invited to attend the Democrats' event "by the hosts...the fundraiser organizers," Brown told us. Clinton declined the invite; Schwarzenegger accepted.

"Ammiano conducted himself somewhat similar to Joe Wilson,'' Brown said, referring to the GOP congressman who incurred Democratic wrath when he shouted "You lie" to President Obama during a speech to Congress.

"It was inappropriate to invite anyone in and shout at them, I don't care who it is. It could be George Bush," said Brown. "You don't do that. If you don't wish to be in their presence, then don't invite them."

When it was all over, Brown added, "I went out and found the governor in the bar area...and spent another 45 minutes with him. We didn't even talk about that nonsense in the other room. And all I could think about is (state Sen. Mark Leno's) bill for Harvey Milk Day. Why would you think you impress him into signing that bill by insulting him?"

"You're talking about utter stupidity," Brown said. "I would have been trying my best to try to figure out how to get him to sign it."

Leno, who was also in the room, said this morning, "I don't think (the governor) entered the room imagining it was not going to cause a dramatic stir. So he did it with his own full flair."

But on the issue of his bill to create an official state day of recognition for late San Francisco supervisor and gay rights leader, Leno said, "I would not disagree with Mayor Brown...which is why my mouth was closed when the governor entered and left the room."

He did speak out -- and forcefully, on the governor's cuts on Wednesday, saying the party activists' reaction "was not a personal slap at him. It was a visceral reaction to his budget actions...that are causing serious pain and are at the core of the response."

Looks like a good time was had by all."

Republican Version of Obamacare; Darrell Issa & Jon Kyl’s HMO’s With a Twist Façades; they are Still NOT Listening to US!

Republican Version of Obamacare; Darrell Issa & Jon Kyl’s HMO’s With a Twist Façades; they are Still NOT Listening to US!
By Marc Chamot

The San Francisco Examiner put out a paid political advertisement for California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, contact # 1-202-225-3906, and Republican Senator House Minority Whip, Jon Kyl’s, contact # 1-202-224-4521 for their own Republican backed proposals for Universal Healthcare, called HMO with a Twist.

Basically it calls for “yes to healthcare reform, and NO to Obamacare. It urges for Americans to put their foot down, to help push and support their bill.

It calls for Americans to say enough is enough and tell members of congress at 1-202-224-3121 or at 1-202-225-3121 to stop spinning their wheels. No deal and no more negotiations. Get the Obama care off the table right now; it’s rotten to the core.

Then they come out with their very own proposal called, “What the People Need, What the People Want.”

Looking through this proposal is good, but there are some unanswered questions. The very same issues that brought Obamacare into question are being re-addressed by these two Republicans.

While their number one proposal bringing back patient care to doctors, where these medical industries will call the shots. While keeping insurance companies around while also providing affordable healthcare for folks sounds great.

They also come up with a 3 payer’s health plan formula, where Medicaid, employers and state medical programs, will all share in helping cover the uninsured and unemployed including those who are employed and have no healthcare plans. It proposes to charge a 1% state sales tax to finance this plan, which is fine by me.

Every person has inalienable rights to it. Healthcare is seen as a right not a privilege is good also. And inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, universal healthcare will be extended from cradle to grave to every men, women and children in the United Sates, with NO EXCEPTIONS and NO EXCLUSIONS.

Okay folks, once AGAIN they are NOT listening to us, first the Democrats tried to pull this crap on securing illegal immigrants with medical insurance, and now these TWO Republicans are at it again with their proposals!

What is it going to take for these people to listen? Only citizens and legal Americans with work permits here should ONLY be covered, period. WE shouldn't be paying for Illegal alien’s medical care; for starters it will open up the FLOODGATES of them pouring into this country for our FREE healthcare! This alone will bankrupt this country. They better listen to us NOW, if they don’t want to catch any more heat about it.

Their plan also covers every imaginable healthcare provisions for people which is fine, it also includes a dollar monthly fee paid by HMO’s for every person on health plans to help raise millions more to fund the program. Everything is based on set fees, with no insurance pools.

Their plan charges by age, from $10 a month to a high $70.00 a month for seniors. It’s set up with open enrollments according to zip codes, including using the medical facilities of your choice within a thirty mile radius, with low co-pay and no deductibles, no COBRAS, no coordination of benefits, no dual coverage’s, no birthday rules and so forth.

Here is the sticky PART AGAIN, folks. Their plan also covers LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Will it pay for sex changes? This was YET another big issue with voters on Obamacare, about taxpayer funding unneeded sex changes for people. If people want them, it should be at their OWN cost OUT of THEIR pockets, just like face lifts, and breast jobs for women are.

And the plan doesn’t address poor Americans, those who are out of the loop, and those who cannot afford to pay for the plans because they are out of the unemployment benefits game. They still have no plan for uninsured Americans like ME.

Even though in part it’s a good plan, both Jon Kyl and Darell Issa need to get back to the drawing board, because their plan sounds much like Obamacare that we DON’T WANT, but in another NAME.

ACORN Death Watch; No Legal Leg to Stand on Behind their Fraudulent & Illegal Lawsuits:

ACORN Death Watch; No Legal Leg to Stand on Behind their Fraudulent & Illegal Lawsuits:
By Marc Chamot

There are other reasons as to why ACORN cannot sue defendants:

ACORN doesn’t have a leg to stand on behind their fraudulent lawsuits. Whether their lawsuit is unconstitutional or not, they have been operating as non profits, and they have also been recipients of millions of taxpayer moneys, this alone disqualifies them from being able to sue anybody.

You have to look at what is public and what is private when it comes to civil lawsuits of libel and slander.

Libel and slander laws only protect private individuals, those who are not politically involved, and those who do not accept taxpayer funding. It’s been proven in court, time after time.

Some government employees, mediums and politicians, non profits, and churches, all who accept federal funding, they all lose some of the libelous and slanderous laws protections that private citizens enjoy.

So in essence, the ACORN lawsuit against the video defendants and Fox News’ is DOA, or just null and VOID.

"Some states have made it illegal to record phone conversations, but legally, if it’s your own with someone else, they can’t do IOTA about it. The worst that can happen, recordings may not be admissible in their state courts."

This is another prime example of leftwing organizations trying to bully and victimize those who expose the truths involving their political corruptions.

Defendants in ACORN Suit Could Be Protected by Constitution

The courts should vindicate the First Amendment rights of the reporters and media outlets involved in breaking the ACORN scandal wide open. And they should strike down the oppressive and absurd Maryland law that makes it a crime to record someone’s conversation without their knowledge.

ACORN and two of its workers caught on those now-famous tapes have sued those reporting on their chicanery for millions of dollars. The bad news is that the Maryland law at issue may well outlaw the taping and airing of that footage, but the good news is that the law should be declared unconstitutional in this case. And so the fight begins.

The intrepid duo of independent reporters James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, working undercover, caught ACORN workers in Baltimore and other locations across the country on tape, talking about these workers’ willingness to help the undercover pair engage in tax fraud, housing fraud, prostitution, and even smuggling in underage girls from abroad to be prostitutes in a brothel that would be obtained with ACORN’s help. The news Web site BigGovernment.com, launched by media innovator Andrew Breitbart, broke the story nationwide, and other media outlets quickly picked up on the story.

These tapes are so incriminating that they created a national backlash against ACORN, with the Congress voting overwhelmingly to terminate federal money to ACORN and the U.S. Census telling ACORN that the group would have no role in the 2010 census. It was a devastating and potentially fatal blow against ACORN, which is already under investigation in 19 states, where at least 30 ACORN workers have pleaded guilty to crimes.

But there’s a problem. Maryland has a shockingly-broad law that makes it a crime—a felony, if fact—to record someone’s conversation without their knowledge. It then makes it a separate crime to disclose that conversation to a third party if the person disclosing knew or had reason to know that the conversation was illegally recorded.

Although the Baltimore prosecutor hasn’t filed charges, ACORN and the two workers caught on tape advising the reporters on how to carry out the underage sexual exploitation scheme have had the audacity to sue the reporters and Breitbart.com. They can do this because § 10–410 of the same Maryland wiretapping law also gives private parties the right to personally sue those who record or disclose such conversations.

So ACORN and these two workers, instead of being mortified for engaging in these shameful and disgusting conversations, are suing those reporting on them to the tune of two million dollars.
This, despite the fact that in a desperate damage-control stunt, ACORN’s CEO Bertha Lewis recently praised the reporters for bringing these facts to light, so that ACORN could clean its house. The hypocrisy and audacity here are so profound that it shocks the conscience.
This Maryland statute is insane. But it’s not only ridiculous, it could also be unconstitutional as applied to these defendants.

Our Founding Fathers knew that America desperately needed a media that could freely report without fear, and for every person to freely be able to share important information with others and discuss matters of public importance. These concerns are even more important when they involve the actions of government, such as giving millions or even billions of dollars to an organization. (ACORN has received $53 million, and is eligible to get $8.5 billion of stimulus money.) Those concerns are at the heart of the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and free press.

The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment confers special protections. One of these is the overbreadth doctrine: A law targeting certain types of speech violates the First Amendment if it also burdens a substantial amount of speech that should be constitutionally protected. The court declares the law “overbroad,” and then strikes it down.

There are far fewer Free Press Clause cases, but generally the courts extend and apply free speech doctrines to cover the media as well. If anything, the media has additional protection, as it exists to inform “We the People” and enables “We the People” aka us to hold government accountable, as well as private entities.

So the defendants here should make sure their legal team includes experts in First Amendment law, and immediately raise a First Amendment defense. Having raised a federal issue, they should then remove this case from Maryland state court to the federal district court in Maryland.
If they don’t prevail in district court, they must take it on appeal to the Fourth Circuit appeals court. And, if not successful there, should petition the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

Laws must be obeyed in a nation under the rule of law. But such laws are null and void if they violate the Constitution. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press is essential in American society, serving the critical role of bringing newsworthy information to light for the American people. That’s exactly what happened in this ACORN scandal.The courts should vindicate the First Amendment rights of these reporters and media outlets, and strike down this oppressive and absurd Maryland law. They’ll be protecting all of us in doing so.

Ken Klukowski is a fellow and senior legal analyst with the American Civil Rights Union.