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ACORN, It’s Not Over Yet!

September 14, 2009 2 comments

8:54p PST – A tip from an anonymous post at BigGovernment.com promises:

Gobomama · 2 hours ago
MORE COMING!!!!! Hannah was on Hannity just now (w/Breitbart) and the [sic] said more is coming tomorrow. And it is going to be explosive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The rumor is another set of videos, this time from California.  Should be interesting to say the least!

Silly me, I thought these kinds of things only came in three’s!  Seems they’re saving the best for last.  *grin*  Stay tuned…story STILL developing!

(ETA)  Report tally as of 15SEP2009:  Who’s talking about ACORN?

• FOX News: 133
• CNN: 90
• MSNBC: 10
• ABC: 2
• CBS: 1
• NBC: 2
• The New York Times: 17
• The Washington Post: 10
• Wall Street Journal: 5

9/12: From someone who was there.

September 14, 2009 Leave a comment

From a message board I frequent:

I’M BACK FROM THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON!!!

….and let me tell you, it was INCREDIBLE!!! I have never felt SO proud to be an American as I was standing in that sea of people on the Read more…

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ACORN: 3 Strikes, YOU’RE OUT!

September 14, 2009 2 comments

UPDATE: Senate votes 83-7 to cut housing funds to ACORN!

Just when you think it can’t get any better…CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY! James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles have released yet another set of videos Read more…

ACORN. Not just Nuts, Nuts with Federal Funds

September 13, 2009 Leave a comment

Federal funding:

In a written statement made by Bertha Lewis,  ACORN’s chief organizer claims the following:

” I am appalled and angry; I cannot and I will not defend the actions of the workers depicted in the video, who have since been terminated. It is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist ‘filmmaker’ O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was — our lawyers believe a felony — and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators,” she said.

I have a couple of questions for Bertha:  You fired four employees over “doctored video”?  That doesn’t sound very fair, or legal.  Are you then expecting to be sued for wrongful termination by the people you fired?  You say that technically, no law was broken…that may be true as no papers were signed and no one shook hands on a deal however, please explain the following activities witnessed and video taped in two of your offices: Read more…

2010 Census breaks up with ACORN

September 11, 2009 Leave a comment

ACORN UPDATE!  (Big thanks to michellemalkin.cachefly.net)

ABC is the only major network (other than FOX who has been following this since yesterday morning) reporting on this right now.

The Census Bureau has CUT TIES WITH ACORN! Check out the .pdf copy of the letter by Robert M. Groves (Director) to the president of ACORN in which he states:

“Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership.

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Nobody Panic! ACORN is launching an internal investigation!

September 11, 2009 2 comments

*Whew!*  We can all breathe easy now!   ACORN, that paragon of morality and ethics but exactly what kind of morality and ethics remains to be seen in it’s entirety, is on the case!  But then, so is Rep. Boustany (R-LA) who has also called for an investigation of the organization:

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ACORN Part II…a.k.a. Tip of the Iceberg

September 11, 2009 Leave a comment

Investigate Now!

Just in case you think the “Baltimore incident” was an isolated one…you really owe it to yourself to watch the following:

Washington, DC ACORN Video: Child Prostitution Investigation

by James O’Keefe

And then, we drove down to DC…

“DC incident” videos this way…

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I think we need a new name for the ACORN acronym.

September 10, 2009 14 comments

ACORN, you know, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.  It needs to be changed to better reflect the nature of their organization. Here’s a likely list of candidates:

  • Assistance for Con-artists Organizing Repugnant Nonsense
  • Artistic Configuration Of Reprobative Nefariousness
  • Altruistic Corruption Of Responsible Necessity

It’s not enough that ACORN is

Here is hidden camera proof of their corrupt policies in action:

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Quest for Chickenosaurus!

September 2, 2009 Leave a comment

“Quest for what-a-whatus?”

“Chicken. O. Saurus.”

“And what, pray tell, is that?  Sounds like a bad horror movie, lol!”

“Well, actually…the idea does come from a movie, but real scientists are involved.”

“You can’t be serious.”

“Oh, but I am.  They say that “by flipping certain genetic levers at the appropriate point in a chicken embryo’s development,” they believe they “can instill features that disappeared from birds millions of years ago. They also say they “should be able to regenerate or essentially make the genetic program mimic the way it was at say, 150 million years ago, and grow a longer tail, change its plumage to something a little bit more primitive, have three-clawed fingers, some teeth.” You know…something like Jurassic Park!”

“O_o   Uh…who are ‘they’, exactly?”

They are the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs program and National Geographic…specifically though, American paleontologist Jack Horner who, oddly enough, served as technical adviser for the Jurassic Park films.”

“Um…I hate to point out the obvious here…but uh, things went kinda sideways in Jurassic Park…aaaand in Jurassic Park II…aaaaand in Jurassic Park III.”

“That’s fiction!!! LOL!!  And they don’t intend to actually HATCH the embryos yet! What could possibly go wrong?”

“Isn’t that the million dollar question. *smirk*”

PSA: So, you think you can text and drive..

August 25, 2009 Leave a comment

There are two things my oldest daughter (almost 14) reminds me of daily:

  1. She “needs” a cell phone, like, yesterday (WITH texting, thank you very much).
  2. She will be driving next year.

There are few things in this world that terrify me more than the thought of one of my beautiful girls having a momentary lapse in good judgement that will end in a tragedy like this (warning…video below is most definitely graphic, bear in mind it is a recreation, however, it was produced by the Gwent police department in Wales, England who see these kinds of accidents with frightening regularity):

(YouTube has been removing this video repeatedly because of it’s graphic nature. That is why I simply uploaded to my site – don’t want it disappearing any time soon. Ironically, if anyone ever actually gets into a really bad accident like the one depicted above, it’s going to be way more graphic than what the special-effects team created there. I mean, waaaaaay more graphic. Compound fractures, the works.)

Texting and driving.  Here are some facts from a couple of recent studies:

  1. You increase your risk of serious accident by 23% when you text while driving.
  2. An experiment this year with Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman revealed that texting while driving had more of a negative impact on driver safety than being drunk:
    -Unimpaired:  .54 seconds to brake
    -Legally drunk:  .54 seconds PLUS 4 feet to brake
    -Reading e-mail:  .54 seconds PLUS 36 feet to brake
    -Sending a text:  .54 seconds PLUS 70 feet to brake
  3. Despite the acknowledgement of the dangers of texting behind the wheel, about half of drivers 16 to 24 say they have texted while driving, compared with 22 percent of drivers 35 to 44.

It’s something to seriously consider.

Texting while driving worse than DUI?
Ban on texting while driving to be discussed Thursday
Cellphones and driving: no
Texting And Driving Worse Than Drinking and Driving

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