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| longstop | Sep 6 2008, 08:47 AM Post #16 |
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An example of a UK where this kind of thing is already in place by left wing city councils. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052962/Schoolchildren-recruited-councils-spy-neighbours-drop-litter.html |
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| lec | Sep 6 2008, 09:00 AM Post #17 |
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Victoria Peterson is a community organizer. |
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| genny6348 | Sep 6 2008, 10:49 AM Post #18 |
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I don't think I'd call Victoria a community organizer, she's a publicity seeker. I don't think she's smart enough to write grants to support her activities and she certainly adds no value to the community other than contributing to the drama. I may have seemed to harsh in my post last evening, there are people who do it the right way and are sincere, but I was so disappointed to find the methods used by many career 'organizers' that add no value and are only looking for a paycheck I may never 'get over it'
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:15 AM Post #19 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Faith-Based_and_Community_Initiatives Apparently, like, say Jesus, you can be a community organizer. And Pontius Pilate can be a governor. I guess that's more grist for the mill in the "Celebrity" department. It looks to me that the biggest reason Hillary and McCain ridicule Obama's celebrity status is that they never thought in a hundred years that someone would trump their "first woman candidate" or "Vietnam POW" schticks. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:22 AM Post #20 |
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. Don't forget Husband Palin is a Fisherman! |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:25 AM Post #21 |
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Yes, but who is going to handle the loaves? The price of flour is way up, you know. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:27 AM Post #22 |
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. Hillary makes Water into Whine. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:30 AM Post #23 |
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True - but she won't have a shotgun wedding in Cana. |
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| brittany | Sep 6 2008, 11:40 AM Post #24 |
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And Obama walks on water. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:43 AM Post #25 |
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It's a heady personal ride to be a "Celebrity" candidate and or the "first woman candidate." How many of us wish we could change places with them in a minute! Not many of us have have endured a five year "Vietnam POW schtick." Nor would many of us trade five years of torture to put that "schtick" on our resume. That the Left must sneer and demean THAT to prop up their community organizer candudate is a sad commentary on what "matters" to them. By the way , in the terribly needy city near me, I know plenty of folks who make a fulltime job out of community service. They are called "volunteers" not "community organizers" because they take no money for it..or if they have a spouse making what Michelle Obama was pulling down in her job...they donate the money back. The Left , one suppoese, would sneer at folks like that too. . |
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| brittany | Sep 6 2008, 11:44 AM Post #26 |
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Mary an unmarried woman was pregnant with Jesus. She was bethroed to Joseph . |
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| mike in houston | Sep 6 2008, 11:46 AM Post #27 |
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http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/09/when-americas-c.html What do community organizers do? As you know, Americans today are struggling with problems. These problems include rising unemployment, energy cost, alienation, animosity, corporations, and increased death. Like no other time in our history, Americans are staring into an abyss of a hellhole of helplessness. And this is where community organizers like me come in and provide needed solutions. Specifically, America's community organizers: reach out and work with communities in various ways. liaison with, and for, community agencies for service within affected areas. fight to make a difference. raise awareness. deal with community issues. raise awareness in the community of how we are making differences about undealt-with issues . when necessary, refer inquiries to outreach coordinators. Help coordination agency administrators identify and address outreach opportunities. model timetables and conceptualize benchmarks. issue guidelines for poster contests and interpretive dance festivals. Gather voter registrations, win valuable prizes. And that's just the beginning. Let me give you some specific examples of how community organizer organizations like CFBH are making a difference right here in Majestic Oakewoods, a subdivision off exit 242. As you know, in the year since I moved here my community has experienced a rash of crime, despair, and abandoned homes. To address these community problems, I reached out to local groups of disaffected dropout youths who were struggling with unemployment. During a rap-session kegger at my home, I spoke with them about ways they could get involved with the community and help protect the environment. Together we organized an innovative free community bicycle / metal recycling program. I am proud to say that it has been so successful that our private sector partner, Kyle's Salvage, has encouraged us to create an expanded free community car program. I am also proud to report that my outreach efforts have also helped get local disadvantaged youths involved in the community through politics. We met with local elected officials and showed them how successful programs piloted by ACORN in Chicago and Milwaukee could be adapted to keep local youths off the streets. The result is CFBH's wildly popular Beer and Smokes for Votes program. But it's not just young people who benefit through community organizing efforts. For example I also make frequent visits to Whispering Acres, the senior assisted living center across from Hy-Vee. Like many elderly people across America, the residents there often struggle with forgetfulness and confusion. As a community organizer, I listen to their concerns and boring, meandering stories about the Depression. Then, when they eventually fall asleep, I help by checking their mail and storage areas and medicine cabinets to see what needs organizing. If they suddenly wake back up, I enjoy helping them fill out various legal and financial forms, and voter registrations. I'm proud to say that through efforts like these, many of these seniors have come to think of me as family. And dude, I mean totally convinced. |
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| mike in houston | Sep 6 2008, 11:48 AM Post #28 |
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Tom Wolfe on Community Organizers in the 1970s "Everybody but the most hopeless lames knew that the only job you wanted out of the poverty program was a job in the program itself. Get on the payroll, that was the idea. Never mind getting some job counseling. You be the job counselor. You be the "neighborhood organizer." As a job counselor or a neighborhood organizer you stood to make six or seven hundred dollars a month, and you were still your own man. Like if you were a "neighborhood organizer," all you had to do was go out and get the names and addresses of people in the ghetto who wanted to relate to the services of the poverty center. That was a very flexible arrangement. You were still on the street, and you got paid for it." |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 11:53 AM Post #29 |
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Joan - that's completely unfair. Every candidate has a hook - I called it a schtick. Forgive my language if it was offensive in any possible way. Hillary was the first woman candidate, Obama the first black, McCain the POW, Edwards the milltown boy, Palin the gun shooting, moose dressing mom of five. Some work, some don't. It's part of the game, and it's more than obvious. It's what often gets ripped here as a metanarrative. They all have one. |
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| genny6348 | Sep 6 2008, 12:03 PM Post #30 |
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These were my personal observations of the technical aspects, maybe I was in the 'wrong'communities? 1) Identify a group or need in the Community 2) Identify benefactors who want to help this group or address this 'need' - philanthropists, foundations, the government 3)Devise a Plan of how to address this 'need' 4) Write a grant for lots of money to implement the plan: specifying clear objectives and expected outcomes and how the money will be spent 5) Deposit the check in the bank - (never answer questions about the money again) 6) Have lots of meetings and appear busy implementing the plan, spending a little money on the first couple obectives, make sure that you and your friends get paid. 7) Write a report to the funding source explaining why it didn't work and why you need more money. Make up stuff if you have to. Nobody will check, certainly not even the funders. 8) Repeat process as often as necessary - it guarantees the 'need' will never be changed and certainly not improved but you will always get paid. |
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