good thing ACORN is P.I.M.P. friendly...

[prole]

YEAH SO WHAT IF ACORN PROMOTES FRAUD AND PROSTITUTION - THEY ARE GETTING OUT THE VOTE!

 

You are such a tool, j_b

 

You're the fuckin' tool, Gomer.

 

[video:youtube]

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

You're the fuckin' tool, Gomer.

 

I'll take plastic bags, thanks.

[prole]

 

You're the fuckin' tool, Gomer.

 

I'll take plastic bags, thanks.

 

If this is in response to the question of how you were able to get laid driving around in a ten year old Ford Escort, it's in the other thread.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

You're the fuckin' tool, Gomer.

 

I'll take plastic bags, thanks.

 

If this is in response to the question of how you were able to get laid driving around in a ten year old Ford Escort, it's in the other thread.

 

Never mind, I'll take paper bags Prole. And be quick about it, I don't have all day to spend in Safeway.

[prole]

Yeah, I know you need to get those Hot Pockets back to your work cubicle, sorry, your Spray cockpit, but fuck you, I'm on a union-sanctioned smoke break.

[Fairweather]

Senate votes to cut off ACORN funding:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/14/senate-votes-cut-acorn-housing-funding/

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Yeah, I know you need to get those Hot Pockets back to your work cubicle, sorry, your Spray cockpit, but fuck you, I'm on a union-sanctioned smoke break.

 

Sorry to disappoint, but I prefer a good old ham and swiss on rye, which I make myself. Now bag it and STFU.

 

 

[ivan]

Senate votes to cut off ACORN funding:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/14/senate-votes-cut-acorn-housing-funding/

i somehow doubt this will be the last time HUD has problems w/ corruption

 

has there been a time in its 40 year history when it wasn't fucked?

[j_b]

In the meantime, Blackwater/Xe still gets 100's millions worth of federal contracts despite all the "collateral damage" over the last 6 years and probably much worse: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?page=1&id=8258915 .

 

But of course, hounding a large community organization for the poor/ethnic minorities with a few bad apples is the agenda of the fox noise machine and a number of posters here.

[Fairweather]

Fucking little communist crybaby.

[ivan]

Fucking little communist crybaby.

'cuz that's an erudite response to a damned valid complaint - handing out federal cash to hookers is less fucked than handing it to killers

 

that said, i'd be happy if we could cut off both the corrupt titties.

[j_b]

Fucking little communist crybaby.

 

the McCarthyist thug comes out when you find nothing to say?

[Fairweather]

Speaking of hired killers; what do you think about Obama signing the warrant for that little Somalia operation yesterday? Technically, he ordered the killing another human being. Who knows what this man is capable of!!

[ivan]

Speaking of hired killers; what do you think about Obama signing the warrant for that little Somalia operation yesterday? Technically, he ordered the killing another human being. Who knows what this man is capable of!!

uh, is history short of democrats ordering hits in on the evil-doers? shit, even carter tried it!

 

calling folks communist crybabies is the exclusive province of your side though

[j_b]

Speaking of hired killers; what do you think about Obama signing the warrant for that little Somalia operation yesterday? Technically, he ordered the killing another human being. Who knows what this man is capable of!!

 

Although I have huge problems with Obama's foreign policy that I have detailed in part before, wacking off some murderous nutjob may not be one of them (though, I reserve final judgment until I know more), and it certainly doesn't compare with wanton murder or whatever else Blackwater/Xe are accused of doing.

[Fairweather]

(though, I reserve final judgment until I know more)

 

Except for contractors, right?

[j_b]

hum, no. Lots is known about Blackwater mercenaries being poster boys for out of control violence, including killings of innocents, whereas I don't know anything about the case you're talking about or whether I should take at face value what is being said about it.

[StevenSeagal]

Prole and KKK's exchange just above might be one of best recent spray sessions in a long time. And the term "spray cockpit" for cubicle...priceless

[tvashtarkatena]

I gotta second the 'Spray Cockpit' thumbs up. Brilliant.

[billcoe]

LAWSUIT ON! - Like the vampire that keeps rising form the grave, this story looks to have some spark yet.

 

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27501.html

 

 

"ACORN filed suit today in Maryland against conservative filmmakers James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and conservative Web site Breitbart.com for secretly taping the organization’s employees at its Baltimore office.

 

In the complaint, ACORN alleges that the filmmakers entered into the organization’s offices in July with a “hidden camera and microphone” and taped employees Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams. Both employees are listed as plaintiffs on the complaint, filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.

 

The crux of the lawsuit centers around a Maryland law which makes it illegal to tape someone without their consent – ACORN is alleging O’Keefe and Giles did so. ACORN is asking for $500,000 in damages to be awarded to each of the employees filmed by O'Keefe and Giles, and ACORN itself wants $1 million in damages.

 

Breitbart.com, one of the suit’s defendants, is run by conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, whose Web site BigGovernment.com first posted most of O’Keefe and Giles’ videos. Breitbart has appeared on television with the filmmaking duo, and has a content-sharing relationship with the Drudge Report."

 

 

[prole]

Like the vampire that keeps rising form the grave, this story looks to have some spark yet.

 

As long as you keep bringing the defribrillator paddles, that is. CLEAR!!!

 

Let me know when ACORN starts lynching people.

 

[ivan]

i'm imagining htis maryland law doesn't apply to the po-po? so, to be in bounds of the law, the film-makers needed to do a tape-less dry run, then get the cops in on it? sure does seem to cut the legs out of investigative journalism. does the freedom of the press take precedence over the right to privacy?

 

the acorn thing does seem small potatoes - corruption is a constant in the human experience - the news, if its doing its job well, identifies outbreaks, especially bad ones, and the public system cleans it out - repeat cycle - this example doesn't seem too pernicious, certianly not enough to throw the whole organization out, afterall, it sounds like the journalists found many more employees who did the right thing than not

[j_b]

Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud

 

by Ryan Grim

 

Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately -- but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.

 

The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.

 

In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.

 

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.

 

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between them, and the longer list is a Who's Who of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors.

 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/23-0

[ivan]

Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud

 

by Ryan Grim

 

Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately -- but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.

 

The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.

 

In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.

 

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.

 

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between them, and the longer list is a Who's Who of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors.

 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/23-0

if it were to go down this way, perhaps we could shed a tear for acorn and remember them as martyrs on the altar of freedom?

[billcoe]

the acorn thing does seem small potatoes - corruption is a constant in the human experience - the news, if its doing its job well, identifies outbreaks, especially bad ones, and the public system cleans it out - repeat cycle - this example doesn't seem too pernicious, certianly not enough to throw the whole organization out, afterall, it sounds like the journalists found many more employees who did the right thing than not

 

 

Sure thing and agreed - have you seen the Sibyl Edwards thing Ivan?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds

 

link added

Edited September 24, 2009 by billcoe