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Murtha does business with Druggies

Jun 6, 2009 Political

Rep. John Murtha, you know the guy with the “Airport to Nowhere”, the same Representative who calls his own constituents “Rednecks and Racists”, just keeps on digging himself deeper, although this situation is not a new one, just recently revealed. But the roots of his newest troubles go back at least fourteen years, as he has steered over 50 million dollars to a firm that allegedly does some sort of work for the Defense Department. That is not necessarily the problem, but the owners of this “business” are convicted felons with a past replete with drug convictions.

Before Bill Kuchera produced electronics and robotic equipment for the Pentagon, he helped run thousands of pounds of marijuana and some cocaine from Miami to sell in Racine, Wis., according to criminal records and accounts of others involved in the drug operation. Bill Kuchera pleaded guilty to a single and lesser felony distribution charge in 1982 after cooperating witnesses implicated other Kuchera family members in helping store drugs at the family home. Ron Kuchera and the boys’ parents were never prosecuted.

Childhood friend Peter Whorley suggested to Bill that he could make more if they teamed up to run marijuana from Miami, according to court and criminal records.

Business was lucrative until Whorley and Bill Kuchera were arrested in 1981, Wisconsin criminal records show. They were sentenced to several years in federal prison. Kuchera served 11 months.

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After the drug convictions, Bill Kuchera worked as a clerk until he asked his uncle if he could enter the family business, Kuchera Industries. This act of kindness by Bill’s uncle would later prove that no good deed goes unpunished.

“He said, ‘I want to make a fresh start,’ ” Michael Kuchera said. “He was family, and I wanted to help. I made him my full partner: 50-50.” The uncle put Bill in charge of running the plant. Ron joined them.

Also fresh out of prison, Whorley provided names of government contracting officials he learned about from fellow prisoners. Whorley said he invested $50,000 in KII for a share of the profits and steered the Kucheras to his contacts at the Census Bureau, where they won federal work.

But Whorley continued selling drugs, earning a 10-year prison sentence with his next federal conviction. He later filed a lawsuit claiming that Bill Kuchera cheated him out of his share of the firm’s profits, but it was unsuccessful.

For a long time, business hummed along. But new tensions arose within KII. Michael Kuchera said he grew upset when customers warned him that Bill had paid them cash “gifts” to retain their business. In 1993, Michael Kuchera said, Bill persuaded his uncle to sell the company to a local buyer Bill had found. Months later, Michael Kuchera said he discovered that he actually had signed over his company to an entity controlled by his nephews. He said he consulted a lawyer, who told him there was little he could do.

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Don’t you just admire the family that has such little love or loyalty, that they stab the uncle in the back, after he had given these brothers not just a job, but partnerships. What a family. It becomes apparent just why John Murtha would be attracted to these people.

Now, along comes Murtha, a Pennsylvania Representative who just loves calling our troops murderers without cause, a man with a troubled past of his own, and an airport that is his pet toy, courtesy of us, the taxpayers.

By 1994, the Kuchera brothers had moved their operations to Windber, Pa., 11 miles east of Johnstown, with hope of winning defense contracts that Murtha said he wanted to bring to the district. They partnered with Hughes Aircraft as part of a Defense Department mentor-protege program. Kuchera Defense Systems qualified as a small, disadvantaged business, because it reported that at least 20 percent of its employees were disabled, meeting the government’s standard. Raytheon became Kuchera Defense Systems’ mentor after it acquired Hughes, a partnership that Murtha’s office said the lawmaker encouraged.

“Without Raytheon and without Congressman Murtha, there would be no Kuchera Defense,” Bill Kuchera said in a 2000 interview.

Kuchera also hired a high-powered lobbying firm, Ervin Technical Associates, whose chairman is longtime Murtha friend and former congressman Joseph M. McDade (R-Pa.). Kuchera employees and their spouses have donated more than $106,000 to Murtha’s political action and campaign committees.

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So, the firm, with taxpayer money, grew larger under the patronage of John Murtha. Trouble was, however, on the horizon, as the Kucera brothers couldn’t begin to justify their billing practices- where did the money go? To Murtha? who knew?

Last year, acting on tips from people with information about company operations, investigators began scrutinizing Kuchera’s billing and whether federal funds had been used improperly, including for renovations and laptops. The investigators also are looking into invoices submitted by corporations run by Kuchera family members and friends, one source said.

In the raid of the ranch, federal investigators confiscated nine guns, Bill Kuchera’s rifles and shotguns. While the Defense Department had signed off on the executive controlling tens of millions of dollars in defense work, his felony conviction made it illegal for him to possess a firearm.

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This just begins to underline the problem here, and why people don’t trust the government- because we have s***bags like John Murtha giving millions of tax dollars to drug runners for God knows what. When you add to this the airport with the 80 million dollar radar no one knows how to operate, or the $150,000 repaving job done on the runway- a runway that handles around twenty people  a week, all from Washington, you have to wonder at the character, or lack thereof of this alleged “Representative” of the people, John Murtha.

And you damn sure have to wonder at the company he keeps.

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Hypocrisy is a Liberal By-law

May 17, 2009 Political

Everybody who hasn’t been in a soundproof room for the last couple of weeks has heard of the dust-up between Nancy Pelosi and the CIA, where she adamantly (and stridently, sometimes incoherently) denies that she knew anything about EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) and claims that it was the CIA who lied. It must have been her ritalin talking to say something rash like that.

But she is not the only one who has problems on that side of the aisle, oh no. The list is almost as long as the membership of the Democrat party is itself. I think, because they are SO unused to power, that they have literally forgotten that they are accountable to the people of the United States for their egregious behavior and criminal attitudes.

Let’s begin our tour with Charlie Rangel, who has more than enough on his plate concerning whether he should pay taxes on several rent properties he actually owns. Yes, Chuckie- it is taxable. Then there are the expenses for leased cars, and owned cars, and it gets complicated, he says- but you see, he is part of the committee that writes the tax code, so he should know- that IS supposed to be his job. Is he incompetent? One might think so.

Little Timmy Geithner, former head of the New York Fed, a person who has been in on EVERY aspect of the generational theft we have been suffering under since the TARP fund was created, has tax problems- you would expect that the head of the Federal Reserve could at least PAY HIS TAXES- the rest of us common folk are expected to. This tax thing seems to be a problem with Dems- Dashle, Killefer, Dodd, Reid, all of these and more have not been able to reconcile their taxes.

This leads to a perception that Liberals just can’t do math- and yet they are managing our economy? This should not be, but the libs have been really good at subterfuge- look at how easily they fooled us with a smooth talker. We just didn’t know at the time that he can’t speak coherently without his tele-prompter. It is his best friend, and he takes it everywhere- I think I saw it even when he was ordering a burger one day, with Joe Biden.

Skinny B probably has a Secret Service guard on the tele-prompter, with orders to save the prompter, not Biden. There have to be priorities, after all. Amtrak Joey is expendable, after all, but the prompter is not.

Some people have a dashboard Jesus- Barama has a dashboard Prompter, so he can give directions to the driver.
It would be justice if, since the Dems started this financial mess, they could clean it up, but as I said before, obviously they can’t do math- when Skinny B claims that he inherited a deficit of 1.2 trillion dollars, but by increasing it to 4.6 trillion over the next three years he is reducing the deficit, I have to wonder if perhaps he has been into Pelosi’s Meds- and you can tell from HER expression that those are potent meds.

Harry Reid has some really questionable land deals in Nevada, Chris Dodd has legal mortgage questions concerning sweetheart deals with Countrywide, a company that took govt. money. Jack (all our soldiers are baby killers) Murtha has his own airport, which the government has paid over 150 million dollars for. Now, he is getting a runway resurfaced for 150,000 dollars. That airport serves twenty people a week, and he’s got the stones to criticize Republicans? He’s no better, and probably worse, than Ted (Bridge to Nowhere) Stevens was. Now his good for nothing nephew gets a no bid contract from the government to do nothing? Hypocrisy.

If Republicans were doing even half of these things, they would be tossed out of office, because at least Republicans have some shame, but the Dems act like they are immune to the stigma of criminal behavior, as if they deserve to be able to act this way. There is just no shame to these wastes of space. When Duke Cunningham was accused, he was out of office before he was convicted. Ted Stevens, out. Larry Craig, out. The conservative wing has some shame, and we take responsibility for our actions, unlike the serial deniers on the liberal side.

The one saving grace is that Barama can not possibly do what he says, monetarily. There is just not enough money to do this without a punishing tax hike on everybody, top to bottom. This is when their fake “class warfare” hype will collapse from the weight of the accumulated lies, and the people will finally see the faker and his thieving party for the criminals they are. The hypocrisy party will be over.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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Murtha’s Nephew Gets Awarded No-Bid Contract

May 5, 2009 Political

I have read time and again the liberal meme about no-bid contracts and how the evil Republicans handed them out as favors to their buddies. The name Halliburton is screamed every time the liberals want to make a point about no-bid contracts. Halliburton, the libs believe, get no-bid contracts because Dick Cheney was once employed there and somehow he profits from those contracts.

They usually ignore the fact that Halliburton is the only company that is capable of doing what they are contracted to do. Sure, they have been involved in overcharging but those things get investigated.

I want to know if my liberal friends (you know who you are) will jump in here and scream about the no-bid contract that a company named Murtech received. I want to know if they will stop by here and discuss how this company, that is headed by Jack Murtha’s nephew, received a no-bid contract. It is obvious that Murtha ensured that this was awarded to family. Given Murtha’s history of corruption there can be no doubt. The fact that there is no evidence that the business even does anything makes it all the more suspicious.

The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 loading bays at the back of the building.

Yet last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech’s most striking feature is its owner — Robert C. Murtha Jr., 49. He is the nephew of Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has significant sway over the Defense Department’s spending as chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee. [emphasis mine] Washington Post

Well, well. It seems that some of them there Democrats are involved in the no-bid contract game and it is obvious that this is a payment to a family member. When people mention Cheney and Halliburton they cannot be persuaded that Cheney does not profit and he does not have any influence in the contracting process (Bill Clinton’s administration awarded a no bid to Halliburton). So let’s hear what they have to say about this obvious crime.

Where are you liberals? Where is your voice proclaiming the culture of corruption.

Who will be the first liberal to defend Murtha.

Come on, I am waiting.

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The Pandemic of Liberalitis

Apr 28, 2009 Political

Day One-Today, another subject, Person S. succumbed to an inexplicably virulent strain of Liberalism, and fell to the floor twitching uncontrollably, talking in a rambling fashion about class warfare, hiking taxes and controlling the “dumb racists and rednecks” that they claimed were running the world. The preliminary diagnosis is Liberalitis, complicated with Murtha’s Syndrome, an apparent virulent variant of Tourette’s Syndrome.

Only when presented with a teleprompter, was the subject able to enunciate a lucid thought, and the subject appeared to calm somewhat. This condition is still being evaluated at this time, as the subject has sealed himself in a pod where the metamorphosis will be completed. Evaluation will continue.

Day Two- Subject awoke screaming “Stimulus! Stimulus!” so we were forced to trank him in order to strap him down for observation. He is still foaming at the mouth, moaning, “Master, Master- I serve you- I shall sleep at your feet, and worship the Marine One you fly in on.”- There was more, but we are still having the translators work on it. We believe the language to have some proto- Hawaiian or African roots. It’s really too early to tell. Poor creature. He’s obviously lost his soul.

Day Three-Subject S. appears to be calmer for the moment, but rapid eye movement from side to side betray his madness. He speaks of a “Super- Majority”, and how he will bring about the End. There is also an obscure reference to thirty pieces of silver- how odd. Now he’s singing J-E-L-L-O, and yelling something about “Betrayal you can believe in”. I fear his mind has been consumed in self delusion, and we are too late to help this wretch. We can only observe, and pray to God to help preserve his immortal soul from the One Who Prattles Overmuch.
We are afraid that we might not have the strength or skill to draw him back from the Dark Lord.

Day Four-All our skill has proven futile- Subject S. has given his soul to the One in exchange for not having to actually go into the real world and face Life After Politics, apparently a horrendous fate for a man with no skills and very limited intelligence, combined with the natural tendency to have severely atrophied and shriveled morals, caused by the overuse of ethical waffling. Oh- lets not forget Murtha’s Syndrome.

The case is hopeless, common sense can not be restored- we have tried mightily, but in the end, political survival and rampant equivocation has overcome morality, common sense, and an intelligent choice.

Nothing more can be done for this poor soul- we shall have to let him loose and hope he finds his way home, and that his crippling dementia doesn’t make him keep veering to the left, perpetually going in circles.

It’s probably for the best that Subject S. has already emasculated himself. We could not, in good conscience, allow this DNA into the gene pool. Now, we have to keep attention to the spreading of Liberalitis, and its toxic effects on civilization as we know it. Our very survival may, in fact, rely on our vigilance in curbing this vicious virus, as it could spread through the population quickly, converting many of us into non- working entitlement monkeys, who will wantonly suck all money from the few who can resist this virus and continue to work.

If you are feeling as if people owe you a living, and that you should earn as much as your boss, if you begin to believe wacky things that have no roots in the real world, you are hallucinating. Stop where you are, go to the nearest lamppost, and slam your head into the post until you feel pain. This should take your mind off of ridiculous theories and faulty logic. See your nearest parent. Talk with them. They CAN help.

You CAN get through this. You do NOT have to be like Subject S.

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Filthy little Piggies, Doing Piggie Things, democrat

Apr 25, 2009 Political

The feeding at the public trough has commenced in earnest- if it ever really stopped, that is. I believe the feeding slowed just enough for the piggies to change places, but boy oh boy, these Democrats are really showing an appetite here, now that they know they will not be pulled back from the trough by any little thing like ethics, or a sense of moral outrage. Don’t anybody reach in, you’ll draw back a stump- piranha have better manners.

And it just keeps getting better and better, when you are a Democrat and you know the media’s got your back.

First, we have Jack Murtha, a lush who likes, for some reason, to slander our veterans with no evidence, and who pours over 100 million dollars to an airport in his district that services maybe twenty people in a day.

Yeah, Jackie- that’s real good use of our money- do you even have a brain? Twenty people a day? Oh- one of them may be you? Well, that’s OK then, because we wouldn’t want to keep you from all of those wonderful speaking engagements where you call your constituents “Rednecks and racists.” Your’e real classy.

And then, on the other side of the country, there is Senator Diane Feinstein, one of the five richest members of the Senate, a person who is not even on a banking committee, steering federal funding of more than 100 billion with a B dollars to the FDIC. OK so far, but then…

Enter her husband’s firm, which had a competitive bid in with the FDIC to handle foreclosed homes, where this firm could make from 8- 30% of the sale on these homes.

Guess who gets the contract- that’s right, Diane’s hubby, who adamantly maintains that he didn’t know a thing about this, despite the fact that he is the board Chairman.

Does ANYBODY really believe this? Perhaps in a bizarre X-Files moment, but in real life?  Really, you mean to try and say that this husband and wife didn’t mention anything about all of this- it just came together like the random atoms liberals say was the beginning of life? Just a sort of financial Big Bang, right? 

I have to say, if  Richard Blum, Sen. Feinstein’s husband  says he didn’t know this, and people believe him, these same people should also believe Jeffery Skilling, Bernie Madoff, Richard Stanford, and all the other heads of companies who maintain that they did not know what was happening. Or, for that matter, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, and anybody else who offers an explanation, because it will have become painfully evident that the explanation doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to be said, and, you know, we will believe ANYTHING.

It borders on science fiction to even try to say that all of this is coincidence- call a spade a spade, and admit that Sen. Feinstein and her hubby were stealing from the taxpayer, just as Jackie “our Army is murderin’ scum” Murtha has been stealing from the taxpayer for years. 100 million dollars for what is really an Air Park? It now has a state of the art radar facility that NOONE USES. That is correct- there is no one manning this multi million dollar radar facility. There it sits, grass growing around it, because Murtha just can’t stop spending our money.

And of course, there are many more, but it’s kind of like getting beaten- after awhile, you sort of get a little numb to all the body blows. 

The Democrats are very good, some might even say world- class at stealing tax money. They have been doing that since Roosevelt. Of course, there are the bone heads, like William Jefferson (who was one last name away from feeling like  a president), who thought a freezer was a fine place to store cash. (Why no, officer, I don’t think it’s odd, do you? Doesn’t everyone keep cash there? I thought the roaches would eat it if I left it out, and besides, it was going to be a present, yea, that’s it, that’s the ticket.)

Not to mention John Conyers, who has the gall to try and accuse Dick Cheney of crimes, while he himself is under investigation, or Charlie Rangel, who, in spite of being the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which oversees our tax code, can’t seem to figure out why he can’t exempt himself from the tax laws he oversees with regard to either his many rental properties (Charlie,it’s income, you have to declare it) to the cars he rents or owns.

Look, I know there are Republicans who do the same things- the media are all over them, but here’s the hypocrisy- the story about Sen, Feinstein was reported by several papers, almost all of whom had the same story, virtually word for word, like a press release, with no follow up. The story effectively has died, because when you have no one with the huevos to follow up, it’s like it never even happened.

Further, the original story actually began on Oct. 30, with  the timeline horribly skewed,and nobody questioning why Richard Blum knew about the awarding of the contract on Nov. 26, while Sen. Feinstein said she didn’t know about it until Jan. 21? Don’t you think that maybe her husband, during one of the Senate’s MANY vacations, might have said,” Honey, guess what? My company has been awarded a 10 million dollar bid to sell foreclosed homes. How fortuitous, and lucky we must be. The stars must have aligned themselves just right for us, for surely this could not have been planned.” Uh Huh.

And some wonder why we don’t trust liberals.

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