The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Rush Limbaugh. Fvck him.

[innerSpaceman]

Sorry to go back to ACORN for a moment, but to respond to sceagles ... I heard one of the tapes, and yes - technically - it could be called lending assistance (by giving sage loophole tax advice that any H&R Block would also give, and thus be guilty of "fraud") to people involved in illegal activities ... which I daresay is a good chunk of the people ACORN serves, aka poor people. I love how we shoehorn desperately poor people into lives of crime (underage Guatemalan girls, as but one example), but then can't do anything to assist them lest we be accomplices in crime. Lovely Catch-22. And, oh the outrage of the ruling class! How appropriate.



This is not to say that ACORN didn't get caught with its pants down doing something absolutely inappropriate. But "outrageous?" Pu-fvcking-lease.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

This is not to say that ACORN didn't get caught with its pants down doing something absolutely inappropriate. But "outrageous?" Pu-fvcking-lease.

I would regard any assistance to a pimp who wants to bring in underage girls for a prostitution ring outrageous. Yes. I do not apologize for that.

[SacTown Chronic]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I have no words.

Get that angry mob some sunscreen! And to the dude with a cross on a wheel: That's not how Jesus would do it, you lazy cheater.


What's with all the signs about spending? Did Obama inherit and piss away a budget surplus while I was sleeping?

[Alex]

No, but spending money on credit is mostly immoral only when you're not the one doing it.

[JWBear]

Re: ACORN (again)...

I’m sorry, but the outrage is ridiculous. A couple of employees in one office screwed up, and were fired (as they should have been). That doesn’t mean the whole organization is bad, just those employees. The same filmmakers tried the same entrapment scam in several other offices without success.

Does this mean that if someone at your company screws up (and generates bad press) your company should be shut down? No. ACORN did what it should have done. Fired their asses.

I am deeply annoyed at Congress for cutting their funding. It pisses me off that, yet again, the Democrat controlled Congress caves in to right-wing fauxrage.

[JWBear]

You know... I kept wondering what the right’s problem with ACORN is. It’s an organization that devotes itself to helping minorities and the poor get ahead. It helps them with legal and financial issues, and works to get more of them to register to vote.

Then it hit me… DUH!

[scaeagles]

Because everything is racism. Yawn. Offensive.

And it wasn't one office. It was five offices. If only one office, yeah, some people screwed up and were fired, case closed. Five offices is a completely different problem.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Because everything is racism. Yawn. Offensive.

Yawn. Dismissive.

Are you really denying that the right is afraid of more minorities voting?

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Because everything is racism. Yawn. Offensive.

And it wasn't one office. It was five offices. If only one office, yeah, some people screwed up and were fired, case closed. Five offices is a completely different problem.

But, if I read this correctly, only ONE out of the five offices did anything wrong. At the other four, the sting didn't work, yes? Am I wrong here? (I haven't got any research time available to me at the moment.) If that is the case, then sca, your response here makes no sense. (I'm happy to be updated with further data about those other four.)

Anyway, sca, you yourself said that what happened here would not meet Obama's approval (duh), so, it's pretty irrelevant to the topic of Obama's politics or integrity. Even in the campaign, his much-touted "connections" with Acorn amounted to nothing, and hey, didn't McCain speak at Acorn functions too? The whole Acorn deal was beyond a nontroversy.