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[xforge.livejournal.com]

::yawn to death::

The pimp-and-ho team were plants, conservative reporters posing as a pimp and a ho to try to trap ACORN into doing something stupid. For the most part they failed miserably. Their only success was at one local chapter and even that never went anywhere.

Anyone who was caught registering people who don't actually exist were turned into authorities BY ACORN ITSELF. Any prosecution or investigation of ACORN impropriety is due to the organization reporting fraud on the part of people they hired - and really emphatically NOT the organization itself.

Also, you're pathetic. In case no one's told you lately.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Under fire, Democrats abandon ACORN in droves
By: BYRON YORK
Chief Political Correspondent
September 18, 2009

(AP File)
Back in February, during the Democrats' frenzied rush to pass the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, Republican Sen. David Vitter offered a simple, 28-word amendment: "None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used directly or indirectly to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now." Vitter's amendment was shot down, 51-45, with all the votes coming from the Democratic majority.

At about the same time, GOP lawmakers introduced similar measures in the House. Those, too, were defeated by Democratic majorities.

Fast-forward to Monday, Sept. 14. A Housing Department appropriations bill was moving through the Senate, and Republican Sen. Mike Johanns offered an amendment that was nearly word-for-word identical to the one Vitter introduced back in February, barring all federal housing funds for ACORN. This time, the ACORN-defunding amendment passed, 83-7. The winning total included 50 -- yes, 50 -- Democrats. Liberals like Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin, Charles Schumer and others who supported ACORN back in February all changed their votes to approve the cutoff of funds.

That was just a preview of what would happen on Thursday, across the Capitol in the House of Representatives. Just 48 hours after Republican Leader John Boehner introduced the "Defund ACORN Act," which would ban all federal funds for the group, the House Democratic leadership agreed to a vote on the bill. Boehner's measure passed 435-to-75, with 172 Democrats voting to cut off funds for an organization that had long worked on behalf of Democrats nationwide.

It was an absolutely mind-blowing turn of events, a total collapse of longtime Democratic support for ACORN. Republicans had worked for years to reduce ACORN's influence, with little success. Now, in the span of a few days, the GOP scored major victories.

Everybody knows why. None of this would have happened had it not been for undercover videos, released on the new Web site BigGovernment, which caught ACORN employees in Baltimore, Washington, New York City and California in the act of encouraging tax fraud and prostitution, including prostitution involving underage girls. The videos, which were ignored by most big media organizations other than Fox News, had a huge effect on Capitol Hill.

The BigGovernment videos came in the wake of news that arrest warrants had been issued for 11 former ACORN workers in Florida accused of forging hundreds of voter registration applications. In light of those revelations, lawmakers who once felt confident voting on ACORN's behalf were forced to reconsider; a vote for ACORN was no longer safe. In literally hours, years of Democratic sponsorship of ACORN virtually disappeared.

There are still many steps ahead. Johanns and others have introduced a new bill, the "Protect Taxpayers from ACORN Act," which would do the same thing as the total-defunding bill in the House. If it passes, there will be a conference committee to reach agreement on a final version of the bill, which will then have to pass the House and Senate before winning President Obama's signature. At any point along the way, Democrats might reverse themselves and again take up ACORN's cause.

Then there is what Republicans see as Part Two of the process. For the GOP, the goal is not just to cut off ACORN's federal money. It's to get to the bottom of all the allegations of corruption at ACORN and affiliated organizations around the country. On Tuesday, Johanns sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging a Justice Department investigation into the full range of ACORN allegations. Rep. Lamar Smith in the House made a similar request. No word yet on what Holder will decide.

There's no way to know how it will end. But it's now a fact that there are on-the-record votes of large majorities of Democrats favoring the total cutoff of federal funds for ACORN -- a virtually unheard-of possibility just one week ago. What a difference a video can make.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Editorial.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

??? An opinion article about how people are listening to idiotic rightwing spin and being the wonderful little buttpuppets the conservatives know they all are?

Greeeeat proof of... whatever it was you were trying to prove, there, Lather. Teee-riffic. Yeah.

[chasovschik.livejournal.com]

"For the most part they failed miserably. Their only success was at one local chapter and even that never went anywhere"

LOL

I wish I fail like this every day.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

You do, chaosvchik, you do.

[chasovschik.livejournal.com]

Sometimes. Never on that scale, though. God, they got lucky - not everybody is blessed with such a stupid target.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

When able to organize at this level you are, look as good as they, you will NOT.

[chasovschik.livejournal.com]

I admit that my English is not good enough to understand what you're saying. I suspect, though, that you're saying something really stupid.

God, I love this community. What a set of characters.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I was riffing Yoda; I figured it might give you a little trouble, sorry about that. I dunno how Yoda came across in other languages but in English he sticks the subject out in front of the verb, and the qualification in front of the phrase it qualifies, so "when nine hundred years old YOU are, look this good YOU will NOT."

yawn

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Get ready for it, folks... ACORN is the new Michael Vick?

Both give lather an excuse to be angry about a certain "jive ass" segment of the population. Isn't that funny?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Black people scare him.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

Guess what? (http://mediamatters.org/research/200909160039)

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

[xforge.livejournal.com]

And Jay Leno saying something is supposed to prove... what, other than his new show is the lamest thing in the entire Universe and in this Universe that's really saying something?

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

I wonder who won't qualify as a true Italian in his eyes this time.

Moar recipes

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

I like this one, it unifies the last recipe thread and has a poignant whiff of Vick.



Stewed Dog (wedding style)

Recipe By : Joe Sweeney
Serving Size : 30 Preparation Time :3:00
Categories : Ethnic Lamb
Philippines

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
3 kg dog meat -- * see note
1 1/2 cups vinegar
60 peppercorns -- crushed
6 tablespoons salt
12 cloves garlic -- crushed
1/2 cup cooking oil
6 cups onion -- sliced
3 cups tomato sauce
10 cups boiling water
6 cups red pepper -- cut into strips
6 pieces bay leaf
1 teaspoon tabasco sauce
1 1/2 cups liver spread -- ** see note
1 whole fresh pineapple -- cut 1/2 inch thick

1. First, kill a medium sized dog, then burn off the fur over a hot fire.
2. Carefully remove the skin while still warm and set aside for later (may be
used in other recpies)
3. Cut meat into 1″ cubes. Marinade meat in mixture of vinegar, peppercorn,
salt and garlic for 2 hours.
4. Fry meat in oil using a large wok over an open fire, then add onions and
chopped pineapple and suate until tender.
5. Pour in tomato sauce and boiling water, add green peper, bay leaf and
tobasco.
6. Cover and simmer over warm coals until meat is tender. Blend in liver spread
and cook for additional 5-7 minutes.

** smooth liver pate will do as well.


Suggested Wine: San Miguel Beer
Serving Ideas : Rice, naturally.

[deadpansev.livejournal.com]

I like the second cartoon.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Talk about a broken record. As if it wasn't stupid enough the first time.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

ACORN should have known better, a white kid wearing a fur coat is clearly a hipster, not a pimp.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Timothy McVeigh was a republican.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/03/29/profile.mcveigh/

Obviously this means that all Republicans were in favor of the Oklahoma City bombing.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I find your logic to be persuasive.

[donolectic.livejournal.com]