No More Incumbents

Send All Those Collection Calls Straight to Voice Mail with Google Voice

March 10th, 2010 | Author: Brett Bumeter

This recession has been dubbed as possibly one of the worst in history, maybe even worse than the recession experienced during the Great Depression in economic terms. Therefore it is becoming more and more common for people that previously had great credit, great jobs, great income and even a great deal of savings to suddenly find themselves on the other end of a barrage of collections calls.

With collectors getting access to not only home and work number but also cell phone numbers, the calls can seem to come at 15 minute intervals all day long. This ironically makes it very difficult to get any work done, find a job, drum up new business or even think straight.…

Article syndicated from Home Loan Focus.

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: bankruptcy, collections calls, Google Voice, tools to manage collectors | No Comments »

Sky Blu of the Group LFMAO Describes Mitt Romney as Assaulter on Plane (in underwear)

February 19th, 2010 | Author: Brett Bumeter

Posted in Anti-War, Communicating the Message | Tags: Airplane Assault, Mitt Romney, Vulcan Gripped Politicos | No Comments »

Open Letter to Attorney General Holder from our Friends at VoteToImpeach.org (Bush Impeachment)

October 8th, 2009 | Author: brettbum

Open Letter to Attorney General Holder
We, the undersigned, are writing to request that you hold firm against any attempts by former Vice President Dick Cheney, the CIA directors, and the media to silence those who demand that the United States hold accountable those who have committed and authorized torture.
We call on you to appoint a special independent prosecutor who is not part of the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute all those who ordered, approved, justified, abetted or carried out the torture and abuse. The people who are held accountable should not be limited to low-level operatives.
We are particularly disturbed by the efforts of the reporters at the Washington Post to distort the facts and ignore the illegality of torture. They cited anonymous sources who allegedly said that torture works; these “reports” contradict the newly released report of the CIA’s Inspector General.
Cheney’s claim that your decision to open an investigation into the conduct of the CIA is a politicization of this issue is shameful. If anything, political pressure has led to your office taking too narrow an approach to the investigation.
The world community has expressed its revulsion at the use of torture in any form. Torture is illegal under all circumstances. The prohibition against torture is considered in international law on par with laws against genocide, slavery and wars of aggression. Under the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, it is a crime against humanity.
The United States is a party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and the Geneva Conventions. Both treaties expressly require the United States to either extradite or initiate prosecution of persons who are reasonably accused – this is a legal obligation. The U.S. Torture Statute that Congress passed to fulfill our obligations under the CAT outlaws torture committed outside the United States. The U.S. War Crimes Act punishes torture as a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. In 2006, the Supreme Court affirmed in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that all prisoners in U.S. custody are protected by the Geneva Conventions.
There are many who claim we should ignore the facts and the law and refuse to hold accountable all those responsible for the use of torture. Whether actionable intelligence was gained is not the issue. Nor is the morale in the CIA.
We believe the oath of office you took requires that you not pick and choose those laws you will enforce.

Please make an urgently needed donation so that our movement can continue to mushroom all over the country.

Posted in Anti Bush, Democracy Under Fire, Impeachment | Tags: Above the Law?, Attorney General, Bloggers Unite, geneva convention, prosecution of torturers, torture | No Comments »

Upcoming Re Launch of No More Incumbents September 2009

August 5th, 2009 | Author: brettbum

We will be reconfiguring this site and relaunching this fall. The site was originally intended to enable people from across the country to explore the potential of additional party options while understanding the corruption that plagues our two party system, especially as that relates to incumbents. Over the last couple years, the site has moved further away from a community effort and more directly into a blog effort. That happened in part as we trained a number of writers that each took up their own projects.

Going forward we will be returning to our roots of building up a community around this topic and how to explore and balance it out. We welcome any site requests, recommendations, complaints, feedback etc. We will strive to incorporate valuable critiques and criticisms to make the future site even more useful.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

President Obama picks Sonia Sotomayor

May 26th, 2009 | Author: Michael Hayne

Posted in Presidential Race | Tags: hispanic, judge, racist, reverse | Comments Closed

From our Friends at IndictBush Pushing for Prosecution of US War Criminals from Bush Administration

May 6th, 2009 | Author: brettbum

We continue to applaud the efforts of our friends at IndictBush. We must have accountability if we are ever going to be able to get responsibility out of our current or future leaders. More importantly, this is imperative if we are to wind the war over the hearts and minds abroad, and doubly imperative to protect our own citizens and soldiers around the world.

The investigation and prosecution of Bush era officials must inevitably lead to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and other high officials.
When she was confronted by a student questioner last week, Condoleezza Rice defended torture with these words: “[By] definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

That argument will never hold up in court and it is not holding up with Stanford Alumni and students either. They nailed a petition to the door of the president of the university that read:

“We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (included ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities.”

Bush’s Hall of Shame

George W. Bush raised $100 million in the 100 days since he left office for his presidential library. He and his cronies are racing to remake his legacy and fend off prosecution for his crimes. With your help, we will stop him.

Please make an urgently needed donation to help this movement continue to grow.

This is part of the swelling grassroots movement for prosecution. The people, young and old, are taking action. This will create an irresistible political force.

Please make an urgently needed donation to help this movement continue to grow.

IndictBushNow and others are holding demonstrations, rallies, press conferences, engaging in lobbying, taking out newspaper ads, and mass circulating the petition calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor. We are providing leaflets and petitions to people around the country.

We are printing 20,000 leaflets and posters for the upcoming June 25 demonstration at the Justice Department that will call on Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor. All of this takes money. Please make your donation today.

It was high Bush officials who ordered the torture. The Justice Department lawyers must be held accountable for their obscene and sadistic “legal memos,” but they are lower rung figures. They are the lawyerly equivalent of the guards who tortured and savagely humiliated the prisoners at Abu Ghraib. They too were following the orders of even bigger criminals.

Spain’s top investigative judge Baltazar Garzon has decided to pursue a new criminal investigation of those responsible for authorizing, planning and executing the U.S. torture program. The case could lead to arrest warrants in countries throughout Europe and it will put new pressure on the Obama administration to appoint a Special Prosecutor.

Congratulations to everyone who is working so hard in this pursuit of justice. Be sure to keep telling your friends to sign the online petition calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor. Sending the petition is easy to do by clicking this link.

– From all of us at IndictBushNow

Posted in Presidential Blunders, Presidential powers | Tags: Torture is Not the Answer | 4 Comments »

The ramifications of North Korean missile launch

April 5th, 2009 | Author: Michael Hayne

Posted in Presidential Race | Tags: dprk, format, launch, north, returning, talks, unnecessary | Comments Closed

There can be no Accountability in the Future if there is no Accountability for the Past

March 31st, 2009 | Author: brettbum

From our friends at Indict Bush

Spanish Court May Indict Bush Officials
The indictment and prosecution of Bush administration officials is becoming a reality.
"A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials," the Associated Press confirmed.

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Click this link to make a donation to support the ongoing work of the indictment movement.

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, and Pentagon lawyer William Haynes are under scrutiny for sanctioning torture in violation of the Geneva conventions. Under Spanish law, the courts have jurisdiction to prosecute war criminals and torturers anywhere in the world. A judge has already called on prosecutors to review the charges.
Clearly, millions of people worldwide stand with the mission of IndictBushNow and all those who are fighting for accountability. Click this link to make a donation to support the ongoing work of the indictment movement.
This world wide movement will lead to criminal prosecution for the crimes committed by Bush, Cheney and others. This first step is a direct result of the pressure brought by you and millions of other people in the United States and around the world.
You can help make this movement grow by encouraging your friends to sign the referendum calling for the indictment of Bush and Cheney at http://www.indictbushnow.org/. Join with signers from all over the United States and all over the world. Spread the word by circulating this email, and putting the web button on your blog, MySpace or facebook page.
Your donation provides the support needed to power the demand to Indict Bush into a national and worldwide force. Please click here to support these efforts with a generous donation now.
– All of us at IndictBushNow.org

Posted in Presidential powers | 2 Comments »

New Jersey Gubernatorial Primary Elections

March 18th, 2009 | Author: cmp

Current Governor Jon Corzine’s approval ratings are dropping. Currently, 46 percent of New Jersey State residents disapprove of the job the Governor is doing, while 40% approve. Corzine will face a tough election in November, IF he is successful in winning the Primary Election in June. Here are the current candidates for Governor and their websites:

Democrats

Republicans

Posted in New Jersey | Tags: Democrats, New Jersey Executive Branch, Republicans | No Comments »

Want to Work in the Obama Administration – Don’t Pay Your Income Taxes (by accident)

March 3rd, 2009 | Author: brettbum

Let me start by stating that I have a master’s in international tax. I do not believe that anyone should stop paying their taxes. For that matter, I am also a whistleblower for the IRS, and turned in my former company for income tax evasion and money laundering. You could say that I put my money where my mouth is.

So it is with irony and satire that I say that if you want to work for President Obama, that you should not pay your income taxes in a way that gives you something remotely close to plausible deniability of any intent to defraud the IRS. I say this because we are now looking at the 4th or 5th nominee (depending on how you count) that has a serious tax issue. Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk owe’s almost $10,000 in back taxes (that is back taxes from deductions he was not allowed to take or from income he did not report. This infers that he had income of more than $100k that didn’t get taxed appropriately.

Now Ron Kirk is not your average blue collar democrat. He earned more than a $1 million in fees last year working as a lawyer. A lawyer with a million dollars worth of earnings can pay for a very good tax preparer and tax attorney for that matter. These types of mistakes are not made by accident. Someone made the decision not to report that income and someone made the decision to try and deduct season tickets for the NBA.

A lawyer that can easily afford the services of a tax lawyer, and a politician to boot, should not get a free pass for this type of mistake. Mistakes do happen, but this smells a lot like a person that stepped heavily into the gray zone on purpose knowing that they would not be audited, and only getting caught when their ego pushed them into a political job that brought them into the light of transparency.

Aides to the Senate Finance Committee uncovered Kirk’s tax shortfall during weeks of vetting. Kirk, a lawyer and the Texas Democratic Party’s 2002 Senate nominee, will file amended tax returns for the last three years and pay the Internal Revenue Service $9,975 plus interest. That pales beside the lapses of some Obama Cabinet picks, though independent tax experts agreed that Kirk had made some "careless" errors. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner paid $43,000 in back taxes before his confirmation. Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader who withdrew his bid to lead the Health and Human Services Department, paid $128,203 in back taxes, plus interest, for failing to report as income the car and driver a friend had provided to him.

Cabinet-pick Kirk owes $10,000 in back taxes

Oh and by the way, how come the Obama team still can vet a nominee to save their lives?

Is the pool of Democratic cabinet members so corrupt that these dead beat tax payers are the cream of the crop?

Posted in Democrats, Presidential Blunders | Tags: Democrats, Economy | No Comments »

Send All Those Collection Calls Straight to Voice Mail with Google Voice

Sky Blu of the Group LFMAO Describes Mitt Romney as Assaulter on Plane (in underwear)

Open Letter to Attorney General Holder from our Friends at VoteToImpeach.org (Bush Impeachment)

Upcoming Re Launch of No More Incumbents September 2009

President Obama picks Sonia Sotomayor

From our Friends at IndictBush Pushing for Prosecution of US War Criminals from Bush Administration

The ramifications of North Korean missile launch

There can be no Accountability in the Future if there is no Accountability for the Past

New Jersey Gubernatorial Primary Elections

Want to Work in the Obama Administration – Don’t Pay Your Income Taxes (by accident)