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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: ACORN
Occupy and the Great Pool Jump
Occupy didn’t go away. MoveOn.org, just one of several big name organizations now swept up in Occupy, is training people in civil disobedience. I have to say I saw this coming, and began advocating for it the moment I witnessed … Continue reading
Assault On Planned Parenthood Follows ACORN Template
If you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention. When ACORN became the victim of a smear campaign by right-wing media, many people shrugged. It seemed to them that ACORN had somehow “asked for it” in the way rape victims … Continue reading
Nonviolent Activism
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, on his organizing work with ACORN:
The Riddance Of James O’Keefe
James O’Keefe the turd third has a new agit-prop hit piece up at YouTube (link is wearing a condom). This time, O’Keefe has infiltrated the US Census (by getting a job) and found government waste (training timesheets). The fraud-who-would-be-called-journalist extrapolates … Continue reading
Breaking: James O’Keefe Arrested for Attempted Wiretapping of a Senator
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that James O’Keefe, the “filmmaker” responsible for the ACORN “sting” videos, was arrested by Federal Marshals yesterday after attempting to tap phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office — inside a federal building. Federal codes are … Continue reading
ACORN Baltimore
These are supposed to be the most damaging videos by O’Keefe and Giles. Made in the Baltimore offices of ACORN, they fit the disturbing pattern I’ve noted in the San Diego and New York videos. Not only are they edited … Continue reading
John Stossel Is A Tool
John Stossel is happy in the Faux Noise toolbox. While skimming the article at Daily Beast I came across this passage tucked in between paeans to the prescience of Ayn Rand: Now, before you could be a TV repairman, you … Continue reading
Contracts and ACORN
So the wingnutosphere has its panties all twisted over the news that the Department of Justice has ruled the Obama administration must continue to pay ACORN for services rendered under contract. To be clear, this is the DoJ answering a … Continue reading
