You’d think I’d stop being surprised.
It’s official; I’m naive and foolish. Because it actually surprises me - not a lot but enough - that there are politically active, adult American citizens who have no problem taking a great big shit on the Constitution. No problem lying and committing fraud to affect election results. I guess it doesn’t really surprise me that they do it, so much as it surprises me that the rest of us don’t get excited enough about it to completely flip out. We expect them to do it and I think that’s why they get away with it.
I’m talking about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Obama is involved with them - heavily - and they want him to get elected. It’s all very simple.
And they have quite a history.
In 2006, ACORN committed what the Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the “worse case of election fraud” in the state’s history.
In [that] case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes.
Even more than you might think.
ACORN has been implicated in similar schemes in 14 other states - including Ohio, where a worker traded crack cocaine for fraudulent registrations.
Back in the ’80s and ’90s, ACORN’s tactics included trespassing, illegal seizure of private property, physical harassment, intimidation and outright extortion.
For example, in 1985, ACORN illegally seized 25 abandoned buildings owned by New York City and installed squatters as residents. A weak-kneed City Hall eventually gave the group title to the buildings - proving that crime can pay.
That’s just the tip of the acornberg. And the idea of fair elections is the Titanic.
105% of Indianapolis’ adult population is registered to vote.
How about Missouri:
Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.
“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”
Malkin has stuff about the same thing in Connecticut, Wisconsin, Ohio, you name it. Don’t forget Michigan.
I don’t think I even have the bandwidth to link and quote to everything about these assholes. But here’s a good one:
It’s a legitimate question to raise now that the FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states.
The group’s voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records.
In Nevada, state officials say the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, including quarterback Tony Romo.
“Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada,” Secretary of State Ross Miller said, “and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won’t be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4.”
…In Missouri, one ACORN registrant named Monica Rays showed up on no less than eight forms, all bearing the same signature.
Suspicious election officials sent letters to some 5,000 ACORN registrants in St. Louis, asking the letter recipients to contact them.
Fewer than 40 reponded.
In Kansas City, 15,000 registrations have been questioned, and last year four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud.
In addition, ACORN officials have also been indicted in Wisconsin and Colorado. Investigations against others are active in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
ACORN has also been registering convicted felons — including inmates — in Florida and other battleground states. ACORN boasts registering a record 1.5 million new voters so far this election.
…Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)
What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992…
The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.
Sorry, still not done. You wish.
Two voters told MacIntosh they had been dragooned by ACORN activists into registering several times - one reporting having signed up “10 to 15″ times.
ACORN canvassers “would ask me if I was registered,” he said. “I’d say yes and they’d ask me to do it again.”
Tuesday, Nevada officials raided ACORN’s Las Vegas offices as part of a probe into voter-registration fraud - noting that some forms submitted by ACORN workers included the names of Dallas Cowboys players.
Officials in Lake County, Ind. report that fully 1,100 of 2,000 new voter-registration forms delivered by ACORN were “suspicious.”
In Washington state, officials recently closed an investigation into ballot cheating that resulted in prison terms.
ACORN submitted more than 800 phony registration forms in Independence, Mo., with one woman registering 10 times, using three birthdates, four different Social Security numbers and six different phone numbers.
And wanna know what McCain thinks about all this? You really don’t.
John McCain’s campaign says all this “doesn’t pass the smell test.“
No shit, Sherlock? Good god, this is so far beyond not passing the smell test that it’d be funny if it didn’t mean Obama is probably going to be the next president. Just watch. This will all blow over, 95% of Americans will never even know about it because Katie Couric and Jon Stewart sure as hell won’t be talking about it, and when 10 times as many people vote Democrat than ever have before, the Democrats will say it’s because of all the Hope! and Change! that’s a-sweepin’ over the land.
I don’t even know what to say about this shit anymore.
And great. Now there’s a MoveOn.Org ad in my sidebar. Fan-fuckin’-tastic.
Oh and one more thing. Next time some douche yells at me for calling Obama a socialist…
The report provides what appears to be documentary evidence that Obama was a member of the Chicago New Party, a creation of the Democratic Socialists of America — and adds that there has been a determined effort to purge the paper-trail. Another report has since been added, here, which adds (a) another New Party document claiming Obama as a member, and (b) evidence that Obama appeared in 1996 at a Youth Democratic Socialists townhall meeting.
As John concludes: “it appears clear that as of 1996, the New Party and its parent organization the Democratic Socialists of America considered Barack Obama to be their guy — one of a handful of avowed socialists running for office at any level in the United States. It strikes me that Obama has some explaining to do.”
Yeah. But he won’t. Because to ask him to explain himself about anything is RACIST.
Wow Rachel, you should be an investigative journalist. That was awesome. I’m sending this to everyone on my email list, Republican and Democrat.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:35 amESTOh, and check out Obama’s other associations.
BTW, Whittle has new PJTV commentary up.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:36 amESTWell, America was fun while it lasted guys.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:38 amESTAaarrgghhh! I don’t know what is more infuriating - that this stuff is rampant, or that most Americans will probably just shrug it off.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:42 amESTThe biggest problem with all of this is the instant that someone starts complaining about it, they are labeled a RACIST. An evil, hate mongling RAAACIIIST!!
If I were playing Go Fish with Obama, the first card I’d ask for would be the Race Card.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:43 amESTACORN people are all over our state. The local GOP says they’re getting calls and complaints that ACORNS are accosting people in front of supermarkets and on street corners — everywhere.
My own little story: A few African-American male ACORNers personally accosted me and a female friend (“Laaaydees, laaaydeees, laaaydeees!” — I shit you not; that’s how they began - loud voices, weirdly overfamiliar tones) and asked if we were interested in “protecting our voting rights” or some shit.
My friend and I snorted as derisively as possible and waved them off. My friend said “We’re already registered.”
We had to brush BY them, actually.
I then worried for hours that my “leave me the fuck alone you moron” look was no longer as effective as it once was. That, in combination with the t-shirt I was wearing at the time (pro-Palin t-shirt; the one with the side-by-side pics of Palin toting the machine gun and standing next to a dresser motorcycle) made me think the ACORNs are pretty stupid. Persistent, but stupid.
My friend and I still say “LAAAADIES, LAAADIES, LAAADIES!” and laugh about the whole incident. It was so totally off the wall.
OMG I hope my mentioning that they were African-American males doesn’t make me a RACIST. Shit.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:52 amEST“105% of Indianapolis’ adult population is registered to vote.”
As someone who was born and raised in the Chicago area and works in The Loop, I am INSULTED that Nap-town has outstripped us in sham voter registrations. My “toddlin’ town” should at least be good for 110 to 115% of the adult population. And that’s before they start pulling voter names off of tombstones.
(Sadly for you Rachel and all your readers, they’d all be registered Democrats. That’s just The Chicago Way ™ Remember, We ain’t ready for reform)
October 9th, 2008 at 9:53 amESTThey think they’re fighting evil. When you’re fighting evil, anything goes so it’s not surprising at all that they’re breaking laws to get the Lightbringer elected.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:54 amESTNew Party. Great. Awesome. I’m going to make a New Party, call it the “Kick Someone In The Ass If They Think That Socialism Really Works” Party. A buddy of mine was shocked, shocked that I didn’t think that Socialism was the highest ideal. He actually said that it just hasn’t been done right “yet.” There’s hope and change for you.
I wonder if the America I grew up in has the inertia to coast through these times, through to another day when socialism, et. al. isn’t such an “ideal.”
I mean, really - and I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but theory and practice have shown such disparity… aaaaaargh. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:54 amESTSadly, the voter fraud does not make me that mad these days. Heck, I almost expect Democrat pander groups to cheat - it’s all they have. What really makes me mad is the non-response from Republicans. Personally, I think they should let Gov. Palin go after them. That way, when they accuse her of being racist, she could fire back that they are being sexist. The ensuing hysterics would be fun to watch.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:56 amESTRachel,
I follow your blog for its humor and offbeat stories. However,for someone that does not like blogging about politics you sure do a bang up job. Your research and concise writing helps cut through all the bullshit found elswere. This ACORN thing is huge and no one is doing anything about it. They have been pulling this crap for years now and I believe that this year they have the potential to affect the election.
I feel that we have reached the point that we need a top shelf, experienced election monitor to assure a proper(note I did not say legitimate)election outcome. How about Jimmy Carter? He did wonders for the legitimacy of the election of Hugo Chavez. It is now official the US has become a bannana republic. Blame the left? Hardly, you can not blame a snake for being a snake. My outrage is reserved for the right who when elected do nothing about this stuff and then wonder why they have trouble getting elected.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:57 amESTWhere is Jimmuh Cahtuh when we need him most!
edit: dang! Well said,
October 9th, 2008 at 9:59 amESTthunderthiefchickenthief!Dear Rachel,
When The One takes over our glorious new world, will you be starring in Two-Minute Hate?
Love,
October 9th, 2008 at 10:00 amESTSheep
I lost over $100,000 in the stock market years ago because I had invested in solid companies like Enron, MCI WorldCom and Global Crossing - all their books were “prepared” (cooked) by Arthur Anderson. After that debacle I realized that there is no way to protect yourself from that kind of fraud so I stayed out of the market. I figured it would be best to invest in real estate. So I have this historic building that I have been rehabbing for 3 years. If I were to sell it now, I’d lose another 200 grand due to the dive in the real estate market. (I do not have a mortgage, I do everything in cash, so I am in no way responsible for the meltdown caused by sub-prime BS). But the market decline in real estate is due to more fraud - this time through such idiotic things as the Federal governments rules forcing banks to count welfare checks as income - well, I found this out too late…
October 9th, 2008 at 10:03 amESTI was just about moved in to my newly rehabbed home 2 weeks ago and one night I got burglarized - the bastards took my flat screen TV and a bunch of AV equipment and damaged and cut wires that were built into the wall. I GUARAN-FUCKIN-TEE that the thieves do not vote Republican. They’re the types who just think they deserve free stuff.
So I figure in the last 7 or 8 years that I’ve lost well over $300,000 through the fraud of accounting firms, the fraud of Wall Street CEOs, the fraud of socialist democrats in the federal government, and various dickless weasels who scour the hood looking for a target (like me) who might be trying to (foolishly) improve the community.
And now I get to have my taxes raised so I can bail out the same asses who caused this problem in the first place. Bail out the rich CEOs, bail out the poor moochers who walked out on their mortgages, while covering the asses of the douchebag congressmen who caused this huge financial disaster. And my vote counts no more than the thief’s vote who kicked in my door…
This is why I, like Thomas Jefferson, despise democracy - it’s simply the tyranny of the majority.
Yes, seriously, I believe in having standards for intelligence, work ethic, and property ownership before you can vote. This ACORN stuff is simply more of the same infuriating socialist bullshit which is designed specifically to destroy the republic. America is history.
I’m disgusted beyond measure. I can’t wait to have president Obama remind me of why I, and all my hard-working conservative friends are at fault for the country going to shit.
It doesn’t shock me at all…though it does still piss me the hell off.
Here in Washington we have dead people and dogs voting. So what else is new? Acorn folks were prosecuted here. But it doesn’t stop them. They’re martyrs for the cause.
Most counties here vote absentee and then we have King County which is in the hands of corrupt officials. Dino won twice last election and then they magically “found” more absentee votes to swing it for Gregoire.
It’s really hard to have faith in the voting system with all this crap. But what can I do? Not much … except do my part to vote and volunteer for the GOP team here.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:04 amESTACORN is three moves ahead of this scandal. This is just a blip on their radar and won’t deter them one bit.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:06 amESTYa know
At 3AM, its not the phone I’m worried about
Its the knock on the door by the ACORN brown shirts Truth Squad that has me a lil sleepless
I mean, do you answer the door or wait for them to bust it in.
Thats the CHANGE I can be terrorized by. KGB anyone?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:06 amESTYou should wait until the bust in the door, that way when you shoot them (numerous times until they quit twitching)the police will have to label it as self-defense. Except in Illinois. Or in D.C. Sorry if you live there…
October 9th, 2008 at 10:12 amESTThe folks at Rotten Acorn have a map of fraudulant activity (needs updating, but Good Lord!):
They’ve been at this for years — and yes, it amazes me as well. I don’t get these people, but then I wouldn’t steal a yard sign, either.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:18 amESTI heard that Obama’s plane stinks, too, and his staff is disorganized and unhelpful.
His plane stinks because he’s a chain smoker. I guess since the press hid JFK sleeping around on his wife, they can hide Obama’s smoking.
Funny thing, the CBS reporter who called Obama’s plane “stinky” is being called a racist. Heh.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:24 amESTAnd remember, the original “bailout” bill provided a slush fund for these f******s!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:28 amESTAnd ACORN’s just the tip of the social services iceberg. Even your most trusted “social services” type of charities, with impeccable creds, are still all about creating clients in order to keep creating jobs for their own.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:40 amESTGood, Lord, Rachel. NO ONE says it like you do. I only wish you had an extra seven or eight hours in your day - you could post more for us!
Scary stuff, that Hopechange Hussein Obamessiah is going to be our next POTUS because Acorn got away with this crap!!!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:00 amESTObama is attempting to deny his ACORN connections! Go to the Corner and look for Kurtz’s post at 10/08 02:07 PM.
edit: Hmmm — lessee if the filter will filter an edit bwahahahaaaa!
Here’s the link.
It worked!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:02 amESTEnnyhoo, which is scarier, the way the Socialists are screwing up the country, or the way they seem capable of chucking the evidence down the memory hole??
In 2004, “Harry Quick” came to live with me. I guess he was my older brother. Of course he was registered Democrat (as if I’d let one live under my roof). I’ve since moved out of county, but “Harry” still gets mail from people like AARP (evidently the county sells you to the highest bidder). I hope I’ve finally convinced TPTB that “Harry” doesn’t exist…they sent me a note saying that “Harry” hadn’t voted, and did he want to re-up. You have to have ID now in Ohio, so it’s more a waste of everyone’s time, and a way to have “disenfrachised” to complain for, than a real threat to the integrity of the system.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:14 amEST“that there are politically active, adult American citizens who have no problem taking a great big shit on the Constitution”
how do you figure that they’re adults?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:21 amEST“Thats the CHANGE I can be terrorized by. KGB anyone?”
thats what the 2nd amendment is for
October 9th, 2008 at 11:23 amESTI’m shocked, shocked to learn that the vote is being rigged by the left! Who knew?!
While this shit pisses me off I also realize that election/voter fraud has been part of the equation from the beginning. We just learn of it more readily now.
I may be naive, but I do not fear for “America” because we are the most inventive, ornery, ungovernable group of people on the planet.
That we are evenly divided between to opposing political philosophies is a safeguard of sorts, and that our side are heavily armed free thinkers.
While effete lefties have stuck their noses in the air and rejected military service; our side has been recruiting the best trained, equipped military in the world (who are also pretty pissed off by voter fraud). They will not act against or fire upon their own. Ain’t. gonna. happen.
So the Kumbayah crowd may think they have it in the bag, but they have no idea how angry the sleeping majority will become when seriously prodded and this stupid lard-laden bailout is the first jab.
Also, the beauty part of our system is that the individual can pretty much live outside the law if they put up a facade of respectability (see William Ayers).
A considerable percentage of the economy is off the tax radar in the “cash economy” as are unregistered guns, drugs, full flush toilets, etc.
The nanny-ninnies cannot regulate/ban what they cannot see; and there are not enough police to um, police us all.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:45 amESTBut remember, folks: Only Republicans steal elections.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:50 amESTSSG King wrote:
I’m sure a number of the are physically adult. Mentally? Probably another story.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:52 amESTRachel & other readers:
I propose a meetup on Election Day, before the crushing hand of Socialism reduces us to gulag dwellers — bring lots of boooze and smokes.
What do you guys think?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:58 amESTLike they care about a little thing like the Second Amendment. I fully expect him and his Attorney General (probably Bernardine Dohrn, knowing him) to find every way they can to make the Second Amendment null and void. The only people who will be able to own and carry a gun in 0bamastan are bodyguards for the rich and useless, gangsta thugs and hundreds of thousands of government types…
This really sucks, and McCain is acting like he wants to lose and retire. Damn…
October 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pmESTwe elected a gang of idiots to give away the store, and now we have to pay. we get the government we deserve. and we’re about to get it good and hard.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pmESTOT – a little comic relief from the Gaffer:
Thank you, Delaware!
October 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pmESTHeh. I was making my wife sick last night. I told her the scenario that the Right is hoping for is that McCain wins, then resigns after slightly over 2 years for “health reason”, so that not only would Sarahcuda fill out the rest of the term, she would be eligible to be elected TWO times after that.
She said if ‘Cuda were to become President, she would sell everything she owns and move to Sweden.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:24 pmESTCheck out TNOYF’s latest video.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:24 pmESTOne of the Wattenbergs had a good column in 2000, making the point that a little fraud, as in most things American, is a way of life. Inner-city precincts for example are 90% democrat, all the election workers are democrat, you get the idea. Several precincts in Philadelphia had 100% turnout. Nobody had the flu the first week of November.
What has historically rendered this irrelevant is the Electoral College. As long as a little good-natured fraud is within the margin, we can afford to let the babies have their bottle. But when elections get as close as this one is likely to be, suddenly it really matters.
And ACORN goes waay over the line. They affected the outcome in the Washington governor election in 2004, and Chris Gregoire owes her time in office to them. She got 1500 more votes in King County (Seattle) than the number of registered voters. A democrat judge refused to deal with it. Eventually, Nine of ACORN’s brass hats were indicted for felonies, and most of them went to jail.
But Gregoire is still governor, and fighting dirty to keep her job. Dino Rossi prefaces his latest ad with ‘My family has lived here 150 years,’ because it’s been suggested that he’s Italian and who knows if he has mob ties?
Good thing democrats are incapable of racism.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pmESTI always bitch about England going into the crapper, but this kind of stuff, unless heavily prosecuted, will send us there too.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pmESTACORN got its start with Cloward & Piven.
Read here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967
Very bad - they are part of a group that intends to bankrupt America and bring Socialism.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pmESTBJM, of course (probably) our regular military forces won’t fire on their fellow citizens. The oath they swore was to “protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution - not whoever happened to be POTUS. However, you might wonder at the ultimate purpose if the obamassiah’s “civilian national security force” that will be as well-equipped and as well-funded as the regular armed forces. Ostensibly, the purpose of the cnsf is to assist in times of natural disasters and be a stabilizing influence in neighborhoods across America. Why that would necessitate the most modern small arms, tanks and APCs, attack helicopters, etc., I don’t know. Unless, of course, it’s because hussein doesn’t trust the military to carry out his communist agenda for him; and he needs a large group of 0400 door-kickers.
If that clown gets in, we are well and truly screwed, people!
Buy ammo!
October 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pmESTFuck oprah - with letterman!
Fuck the Undecideds, too!
2 years for McCain is too long. My plan calls for 90 days, i.e., the “turnover” period of the presidency.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pmESTBill:
Take a deep breath and relax. If it comes to dealing with 0400 door-kickers, there’s plenty many of us no longer under the strictures required of military service personnel that still hold our oath to be binding for life.
Believe me. Lots of eyes are watching and ears listening.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pmESTAccording to the Constitution, if McCain doesn’t serve at least 2 years of his term then the remainder of his term would count as Palin’s first elected term and would only be eligible to run for 1 more term. If he were to hit the halfway mark then she would be eligible for 2 complete terms of her own, for a total of 10 years.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmESTWayneB…how in the world are you married to an Obama supporter? *shudder* I can’t even imagine.
Unfortunately, my mom is one but at least I don’t have to live with her.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pmEST> She said if ‘Cuda were to become President, she would sell everything she owns and move to Sweden.
Yeah, and Susan Sarandon is moving to Canada or Europe to go live next door to Alec Baldwin…
:-/
A lot of BS noise.
Point out to your wife that she’s far more likely to be raped by Muslim Thugs in Sweden than here, and the police won’t do jack about it because she “was asking for it”. See how eager she is to move after that…
October 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pmESTThe Democrats learned their lessons well from Mexico’s PRI. They ruled for 71 years, and their methods of voter fraud are textbook. I sometimes think that those of us who have seen this shit in the past [and now] said nothing or won’t say anything because the chorus from the combined forces of LLL media/entertainment/academia shouting “Racist!” would drown us out.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pmESTI see a bad moon rising …
It certainly makes life interesting. I think she’s appalled that our oldest boy is trending Conservative/Libertarian, though the younger one is her little hippie boy.
She just wouldn’t believe me. But you’re right, she’s about as likely to actually move as I am if BO wins.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pmESTSheesh…WayneB you must have the patience of a Saint.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pmESTWhat is most disheartening to me is that democrat voters don’t care about this. They don’t care about Obama’s connection to ACORN. They don’t care that he has ties to the “New Party.” They don’t care about his relationships with Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Michael Pfleger, and God knows how many others. All they know is: Democrat=Good, Republican=Bad. They will vote for the Democrat ticket no matter how sleazy, dishonest, socialist, racist, hubristic, narcissistic, and anti-American it might be.
Bonnie: Obama’s plane stinks? This is the first I’ve heard of this. Although it figures.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pmESTI think Obama’s followers/worshipers are scarier than Obama himself.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pmESTHere’s a link found via Instapundit about press complaints about O.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/07/politics/fromtheroad/entry4507703.shtml
You’d think this would be a hint at his treatment of people once he’s the “dear leader”…but will the press share? Nope. I’m shocked that CBS is reporting it at all.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:25 pmESTHey Rachel, O/T, if you like listening to dorky science songs, these might help you out studying for bio:
October 9th, 2008 at 2:37 pmESThttp://www.science-groove.org/Now/
I was certainly tickled when I heard about the raid here in Las Vegas. Even better, they charged 40 some-odd people with voter registration fraud after sifting through some of the gleaned evidence.
WOOHOO!!! Keep it up!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pmESTObama’s latest denial/hit ‘n run inspired me to do a little Photoshoppin’ and demotivatorin’
October 9th, 2008 at 3:00 pmESTWayneB -
Kind of OT…your wife’s name wouldn’t happen to be “Jane” would it?
Your scenario sounds so similar to a friend I have known since kindergarten.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:06 pmESTNope. Wasn’t us.
She didn’t used to be so bad, either (even though she made campaign stuff for Carter when she was in grade school), but the more I try to point out that the things she believes in personally are closer to Conservative than Liberal, but I think she’s moving the other way in fear that I might be right.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pmESTIt’s not that they don’t care, Cattus, they actively support this bastard’s agenda. They know full well about his dealings and his leanings — that’s how he got to the top of his ticket and everywhere else in his Manchurian Candidate life. Half the voters in this country actually hate the America you and I love. This is not so much about spiking stories, it’s about a vast number of people who think the same way — that Marxism and transnationalism is best for everyone. These are dangerous, dangerous people, my friend.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pmESTTwenty! That’s the number of “smears” Obama’s fightin’ over at http://www.fightthesmears.com. And he’s fighting them by telling outright, balls to the wall LIES. He claims he’s not involved with ACORN. (Except for the time he worked for them and the $800,000 he gave them during this campaign for a “get out the vote” effort.) Also, Ayers is just some guy in the neighborhood. (A guy who happened to hire him to help funnel over $1,000,000 to leftist organizations under cover of “education reform”.) Obama doesn’t take advice from Fannie Mae executives. (He just takes their money and blocks legislation to regulate them. Oh, and also, Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines were advisors to his campaign.) The list goes on and on….I can’t believe people will actually vote for this douchebag. Real people that is, not the people dug up (literally) by ACORN. But, then again, what do I know? According to Obama, I’m just a bitter, racist hilljack who’s a-clingin’ to my guns and bible. And my Jack Daniels. I’m afraid I’m gonna be needin’ all of them come Nov. 5th.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pmESTMy wife refuses to let me buy and keep a gun in the house. Maybe if I hide it in the garage?
At this rate I may have to transform the garage into a frickin’ Transformer or something to patrol the neighborhood and keep everyone safe from marxist thugs. And no matter what anyone says, if it starts to the point where we go all wobbly like the Brits, I AM arming myself and taking us all someplace that isn’t New Jersey.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:50 pmESTNightfly, my husband is not keen on me getting a gun either, what with having a 2 year old in the house…
October 9th, 2008 at 5:01 pmESTWhile you’re at it, here’s one! (”The Elements” by Tom Lehrer — to the tune of “Modern Major General”)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/elementsong.html
October 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pmESTAt first, my husband hesitated about, uh, allowing me, to keep a gun in the house…untill I enformed him of my background, training, shooting expertise, and told him I would not allow anyone to deny me of my God given and constitutional right to protect my self and my family.
He is going with me to the range this weekend. Heh.
And no, we don’t have young children, but my 27 year old went through the gun safety course as a child, (she was 10 )and now shoots competively. Mighty fine shot she is, too!
October 9th, 2008 at 5:07 pmESTWell, I’m going to be a Poll-watcher on election day. Just got the call telling me to pick up my credentials in a couple of weeks. From what I’ve read here, I guess I better bring a nutcracker (a/k/a ACORN Smasher) along with me.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:15 pmESTACORN: Absolutely Corrupt Obama Revering Nitwits
October 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pmEST“Well, I’m going to be a Poll-watcher on election day. Just got the call telling me to pick up my credentials in a couple of weeks. From what I’ve read here, I guess I better bring a nutcracker (a/k/a ACORN Smasher) along with me.”
personally,I’D take along my Mossberg 500
October 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pmEST“I was certainly tickled when I heard about the raid here in Las Vegas. Even better, they charged 40 some-odd people with voter registration fraud after sifting through some of the gleaned evidence”
footage of those raids should be in McCain ads,nationwide
October 9th, 2008 at 6:35 pmEST“Take a deep breath and relax. If it comes to dealing with 0400 door-kickers, there’s plenty many of us no longer under the strictures required of military service personnel that still hold our oath to be binding for life.
Believe me. Lots of eyes are watching and ears listening”
theres millions of us ex military guys watching this
October 9th, 2008 at 6:37 pmEST“Like they care about a little thing like the Second Amendment. I fully expect him and his Attorney General (probably Bernardine Dohrn, knowing him) to find every way they can to make the Second Amendment null and void. The only people who will be able to own and carry a gun in 0bamastan are bodyguards for the rich and useless, gangsta thugs and hundreds of thousands of government types”
then we’d just have to USE the 2nd amendment,would’nt we?
October 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pmESTGang of One,
I agree with you that Obama has those supporters that are prepared to lie, steal, and cheat to advance their agenda. And they are truly sinister. These are the type that like to hang Che Guevara posters in the Obama campaign office. But I believe that Obama has a large group of passive supporters as well. This group isn’t very politically inclined. These are the people who glance at the New York Times, and watch the evening news and then get on with their lives. They’re not Marxists or transnationalists and they haven’t really investigated any real political philosophy. But they have been convinced that conservatives are for the rich and want to trample the little guy. They’ve been convinced that conservatives are Jesus-obsessed prudes who hate homosexuals and can’t wait to get their hands on an assault rifle. They’re convinced that conservatives dream about living in the pre civil war south and bombing abortion clinics. They think Obama’s a nice guy with nothing but good intentions. But don’t get me wrong: these people are dangerous because they will vote for Marxists. I don’t believe that they’re really radical leftists, I believe that they don’t pay attention. I think they are politically, and philosophically lazy. They just buy whatever the MSM sells. I think they’ve just got the wrong idea about the conservative persuasion. I’m pretty sure they could be reasoned with. It would take an enormous amount of time, and I wouldn’t hold my breath, but they’re not too far gone . . . . right? . . .
October 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pmESTToday I sat through training for being an election official here in VA, I’ll get to the polls before 5 am on election day and won’t get to leave at all until probably 10 pm. If the ACORN bullshit pisses you off - contact your local election supervisors and volunteer - with turnout as high as it’s projected to be, I know you’re needed.
That said, ACORN can register all the fake registrations they want - from what I can tell it actually results in all of those people being registered multiply times from being able to vote at all. At every poll I’ve ever been to, there is a list of names of registered voters, if you’re not on that list it’s hard to vote. No, it’s not impossible, but lying on the affidavit you sign saying you’re you in order to vote is a felony.
Yes, I’m pissed at ACORN, but not surprised. They are being investigated, it’s at least in the news this far in advance of election day. It could be worse.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:18 pmESTAw, John. McCain could truly fuck things up in two years. Not sure if we have that long.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:20 pmESTBeth–
Speaking from the point of view of a former election judge, you’re wrong. All the Democrats have to do is bus in some homeless derelict who claims the identity of a deceased voter. You can’t ask for an ID anymore–that is racist and violates their civil rights. It’s also incredibly easy to vote by affidavit.
A felony? Sure it is. Look at what’s happening and tell me you really think that matters. Do you honestly think those votes will be challenged? How? If even the slightest attempt is made, there will be so much screaming of “racism” that even the doughtiest conservative will back off. I’m not speculating; it’s happened before.
Signing off from the People’s Republic of Illinois.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:29 pmESTFelicity, thanks for the RottenAcorn info. Not surprised at all to see PA on the map. Before I moved, I kept getting answering machine messages from the metropolitan area ACORN. I didn’t know who they were but the messages made me uneasy. I’m convinced I was getting messages because of my phone number’s exchange–not as well-off an area as where I live now. Funny thing about that.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:33 pmESTTrish - in VA we are going to ask for ID - Voter Registration Card, SS, Driver’s License, any govt. id, or work id with name picture and company name. Then it’s checked against the voter registration list. If they are not on that list, they cannot vote without signing a legal affidavit.
Can fraud still be committed, sure. But I don’t see that it would be easy to do.
There are all kinds of people, from both political parties, at every princinct keeping an eye on things. I guess until I see otherwise I’m going to be optimstic and trust the system in my little part of the country.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pmESTYes, there is much truth in this, Cattus. I am thinking specifically about the Jews from the Conservative Movement and even some Orthodox Jews. During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services [which I was late going to today] I hear them talking about voting for Obama because they have never trusted the Republicans. These are wealthy, educated people, but there is something not clicking in their mind. I know too many Jews who are not so assimilated into the secular humanist America speak the same idiot DNC talking points. The rabbi at the synagogue I go to was an ardent Hillary supporter [but he is wary of this Barrack Hussein character]. It is not just being ignorant or lazy, it is a willful blindness, Cattus. And this is not unlike Wiemar Germany in the 1920s — evil is not a stylized, caricatured Hollywood villain; it is banal and it triumphs when good people do nothing.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:02 pmESTGang of One,
Yes, I too was just thinking this situation is not unlike Wiemar Germany. And I cannot fathom why any Jew would support Obama after the world found out about Rev. Wright! He’s blantantly antisemitic! But people finds lots of ways to excuse outrageous behavior. Either that or they are willfully blind. You are correct about the banality of evil. It must seem benign to get anywhere. At the beginning of the presidential race, I thought it was just like that South Park episode where the choice for a new mascott was between a douche and a turd sandwich. I can’t make that analogy anymore. Obama is showing his true colors and it’s scary to those who are paying attention. McCain is far from my first choice for the GOP nominee, but in him, I don’t see a capacity for perniciousness. But with Obama: I think it’s pretty damn likely.
Happy Yom Kippur!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:01 pmESTBeth–
It might not be easy in Virginia. It’s easy in Michigan. It’s easy in Ohio. It’s easy in Pennsylvania. And it’s par for the course in Illinois.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:26 pmEST“then we’d just have to USE the 2nd amendment,wouldn’t we?”
SSG King:
It’s kind of amazing how many folk tend to fall over and capitulate just on the idea that some POS criminal in legislator clothing gets a law passed.
Do you want to remind the good folk here of the requirements when confronting illegal orders?
All enemy. Foreign AND domestic.
Semper Fi
Ad Triarios Redisse!
October 10th, 2008 at 2:07 amESTOnce McCain loses, you count on the Dems/MSM to go after Palin to make sure she loses in 2010 re-election bid. She’s the only real threat to lightbringer in 2012 and she must be extinguished politically before then. Her popularity rating is already down to 68% from 80-90%.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:43 amESTAmerican Jews, about 75% are afflicted with self-hatred and general insanity when it comes to anything but their profession. I’m in the 25% that voted for GW Bush in 2004. However, I’m hearing that it’s going to be less this year for McCain, which given Obama-Wright is breath-taking in its insanity.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:45 amESTI amazed, and for the first time pleasantly so, that the MSM has actually been reporting this. Last night I can’t remember who I watched by they reported “tens of thousands in several States” were found by their respective voting commissions. They even had it within them to report that ACORN was tied to Obama. Pray hard, y’all. This thing’s far from over. They also said it was a felony. People who were dogged (as they say) into registering several times are coming forward.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:20 amESTThis ACORN fraud thing is looking so gigantic now that there is basically no way that I could believe, really and truly believe, that Barack Obama was legitimately our President no matter how many votes he’d gotten by nightfall on Election Day. However many more votes he gets than John McCain, I’ll be thinking that ACORN found a way to stuff that many fake votes into the ballot boxes and voting machines throughout this country so that their guy can hijack the Oval Office and play Commander-in-Chief with real soldiers for four years.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:56 amESTAt this point, our best bet is to get our base energized. Make sure that they know that this election will decide whether or not they continue to have political and religious freedom for the next four years.
Most evangelicals don’t vote. Most Catholics vote the way their grandparents did, not really looking closely at the issues (most Americans don’t really look closely at the issues).
If that would change, if we could get the Catholics to see what is at stake, if we could get the evangelicals out to vote in droves, we could defeat even the dead people and multiple voters.
We need sound poll-watchers *everywhere*. If we can institute the purple-finger method of preventing multiple votes that was used in Iraq, all the better.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:40 amEST“All enemy. Foreign AND domestic.”
my thoughts exactly
October 10th, 2008 at 1:49 pmEST