Tell me again why ACORN is a bigger deal that this?

ACORN helps dark people. That make Baby Jesus weep bitter tears.

Blackwater kills dark people. That makes Baby Jesus smile.

I hope this has been helpful.

I'd pay Condoleeza Rice and Stephen Hadley to stay the hell away from me.

"It seems that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is getting dumber as times goes on."

You act like you are surprised, Steve! LOL

Here's an opinion piece in my hometown paper on the health care reform bills:

http://tinyurl.com/y865zwe

I found it to be singularly impressive distillation of the debate.

OK -- don't know how I screwed up the tinyurl thing, but here's the original (long) version:

http://www.gobogalusa.com/articles/2009/11/11/opinion/columnists/doc4afadee0c1c3c781687697.txt

Purely for entertainment: another Republican official has trouble with sexual boundaries and issues of control.

The Anti-Defamation league isn't happy with Republican officials' tolerance of right-wing activists and their misuse of Holocaust imagery.

Nice of them to wake the eff up. They were silent all summer about the townhalls while the Southern Poverty Law Center did the heavy lifting. Guess it had to get pretty bad before the ADL felt it reached the level of Dick Durbin's innocuous statement of a couple years back.

Camille Paglia is the bizarro poster child for Steve's blog. She falls for every single Republican shill-meme that Steve is constantly warning against. If you look up "wrong" in wikipedia there's a picture of Paglia.

http://salon.com/news/opinion/camille_paglia/index.html?story=/opinion/paglia/2009/11/10/pelosi

"Officials said that while Admiral Mullen and Mrs. Clinton were generally in sync with Mr. Gates in supporting an option of about 30,000 troops, there were variations in their positions and they were not working in lock step."

What in the hell is NOT lockstep about that? Withdraw!

* A tragic story of a Greek Orthodox priest, visiting the U.S., who got lost in Tampa. He asked Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce for directions, and Bruce allegedly beat him with a tire iron, suspecting the priest of being an Islamic terrorist.

Jeez. Is Kurt Vonnegut still writing? So it goes.

Continuing the Af-Pak War is an egregious decision on the part of the Obama administration. They might not all be lock steppin' but they are all goose steppin' -- there is no military strategy that 'wins' this situation.

Regional leaders need to help organize an internal settlement of differences -- a diplomatic solution advocated by experts on the region for years. Pity the Obama admin is as deaf to this as BushCo was...and i caint understand why...

According to Bill Gorman at tvbythenumbers, Lou Dobbs may be leaving CNN. Announcement coming Weds. according to two network employees.

Nobody cares about Blackwater because last time I checked America was a free country where businesses could make an honest buck. It's called "free enterprise," people. Also, the people they killed were dark-skinned.

/snark

Instead of writing Happy Veterans Day it should be written "Thanks for your service." There was nothing "happy" about being in a wartime theater or going to war.

Great blog/website!! Keep up the good work.

from Wikipedia:
'A spokesperson told The Hartford Courant in 1994 that Lieberman received an educational deferment from the Vietnam War draft when he was an undergraduate and law student from 1960 to 1967. Upon graduating from law school at age 25, Lieberman qualified for a family deferment because he was already married and had one child, Matt.'

For Lieberman, no congratulations on this Veteran's Day. No Thanks needed for a wiggling, slithering, draft deferred, Republicrat, lawyering, termite mound sucking, representative of all that's wrong with American politics.

Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN.

Tell me again why ACORN is a bigger deal that this?

ACORN, supposedly, was a non-partisan group that received federal funding. It turns out that it was overwhelmingly supporting Democrats and overwhelmingly corrupt and slated to help with the census. It was also caught with its pants down: helping undercover reporters dressed as a pimp and an underage prostitute.

I can only imagine the "help" they gave low-income earners on their tax forms and their mortgage forms - not to mention their voter registration records.

All of this while receiving a heaping of federal aid.

Blackwater is a private company that receives no federal aid.

Tell me why Blackwater is lumped in with ACORN?

I tried to like Dollhouse. I really did. It turned out to be just a bit too ponderous for me. Try again Joss. I hope Buffy (which I didn't watch) isn't your last success.

Jayson, you are just ignorant!

And in a related story! (And I'm surprised Steve hasn't posted it)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011196.html?categoryid=14&ref=ra&cs=1

Wow!

Tell me again why ACORN is a bigger deal that this?

Because they have less money?

Per Jayson:
"Blackwater is a private company that receives no federal aid." WTF ???!!!
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Yeh, right. Not a penny... all earned the hard way... killing Iraqis and pilfering military dollars.

What next... the Afghan War is winnable. Jayson... please unplug your computer before you get hurt.

"Blackwater is a private company that receives no federal aid."

Only if you exclude the billion+ dollars in mostly no-bid contracts that Blackwater received from the US gov. Our tax dollars at work.

Thanks, PaminBB, @19:48.

It's "funny"... I anticipated Jayson's blandly misleading "angle" (without knowing who'd offer it) and had the same answer. Even *now* the State Dept (supported by the taxpayers' money) is employing Xe and funnelling our bucks to its (Prince-ly) coffers, with no free-market bidding war in sight...

Jay, son... You're all wet. Perhaps a diaper change would help?

* A tragic story of a Greek Orthodox priest [...] -- Steve Benen

Well... They all look the same -- lots of hair and and funny, sissy (long bathrobes), clothes. And, if you ever heard them, their mournful howls (aka chants) are very much alike, too. How's a true -- Fox Mews fed -- American to know the difference?

On ACORN vs. Blackwater -- why indeed, why indeed. Both of my senators here in New Mexico voted to defund ACORN. I have written responses from both of them explaining their support of "Defund ACORN" with platitudes about spending federal money on agencies accused of serious malfeasance. !!! No letters, emails, or phone calls to their offices, asking why they do not apply the standard to Blackwater or Wackenhut has yielded a coherent answer.

Continuing the Af-Pak War is an egregious decision on the part of the Obama administration.

$50 says the announcement of the Afgan surge comes in the Wednesday evening before TG news dump.

"And to those who wear, have worn, or will wear the uniform, Happy Veterans Day."

Thank you, Steve. If it was not our pleasure, it was at least our duty.

RiceHadley = AdviseBadly

I wonder if they'll encourage Shrubwit to polish up his resume and try for a spot in their new endeavor. Between motivational gigs of course.

It would be such a daily thrill for Condi to work with her husba.... former boss again.

"Tell me again why ACORN is a bigger deal that this?"

Because ACORN helps poor people of color and Blackwater is a corporate crony of people in power.

Silly.

Thanks, shortstop, for pointing out the good work of the SPLC. I've been a supporter for many years, dating back to their founding in the early '70s.

(Dating myself there, I guess.)

Jayson. Another data point in the argument that modernization has circumvented Darwinism.

"Well... They all look the same -- lots of hair and and funny, sissy (long bathrobes), clothes."

Well at least they wear manly plain black unlike the glitter and gold and red Prada shoes the Roman Catholics sport. But then it's pretty obvious the RC's are gay.

Maybe Rice and Hadley can poach some of Browie's clients.

You lose, disputo. Late breaking news is that the Big O sent everybody back to the drawing board. And it comes out that our ambassador to Afghanistan was strongly opposed to sending any more troops under current conditions there. (Speculation is that he means Karzai is just plain crazy. As in mentally ill.)

So instead of registering the less fortunate to vote, ACORN should had killed them, then the wingnuts would be happy?

Okay - I'm getting a jump on tomorrow.

So Lou Dobbs has left CNN. Which do you think will happen: He shows up on FOX News as an anchor, he shows up on FOX News as an "expert", or he shows up on FOX News because he becomes a Republican politician?

Either way, methinks CNN just got a whole lot better.

In case anyone is interested in an intelligent U.S. Muslim take on things e.g. Fort Hood, here's an excellent group blog I happened upon a couple days ago (I can't think of any easy way to not make that sound like spam, but it really isn't):

http://talkislam.info/

About time. Elie Wiesel used to go ballistic if one dared to compare the Holocaust to the Cambodian killing fields or the Armenian genocide. Now the R's get to routinely compare the holocaust to health care - go figure.

Herr Schicklegruber originally picked “National Socialism” as a marketing ruse to compete with International Socialism, even though he was selling something completely different. It was always sort of a transparent ploy that only fooled the weak minded. Interesting how it is more effective today than it was in the 1930’s.

Hey, something I can comment on with some knowledge:

Dollhouse was, unfortunately, not very good at all. I had to give up on it two episodes into the second season. If it hadn't been a Joss Whedon show, I couldn't have been forced to watch more than four episodes.

It didn't make much sense, the characters were lifeless, the dialogue did not have the wit Whedon has brought to his other shows. None of it was up to Whedon's par, or at all close to it. Fox probably gave it longer than they should have, I suspect as a make-up call for Firefly. Too bad Joss couldn't make more of it.

SUB-ROSA NEWS

Some of the News
That may be True

LOU DOBBS TO QUIT CNN

Late night comics may joke about Dobbs pursuing a new career at a Mexican TV station, but this is not so. The truth is that just after the first of the year Lou Dobbs and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will begin a nationwide speaking tour.

homer www.altara.blogspot.com

* A tragic story of a Greek Orthodox priest, visiting the U.S., who got lost in Tampa. He asked Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce for directions, and Bruce allegedly beat him with a tire iron, suspecting the priest of being an Islamic terrorist.

Jasen? JasEn? With a moran (sic!) name like that you can already tell what kind of education this guy has received.

... and endorsed additional medical research involving marijuana.

I think Jayson already participated in a few clinical trials ...

First a question: did US tax dollars play any role in the hush money paid by Blackwater ?
Then a suggestion: Blackwater could clean up their image by renaming themselves to Whitewater.

"Tell me why Blackwater is lumped in with ACORN ?"
You're absolutely right. The folks at Blackwater are a bunch of overzealous killers. They are in a class by themselves, for sure.

I think Jayson already participated in a few clinical trials ...

I think Jason would be less of a boring dick if he engaged in a few clinical trials.

Jayson, are you saying that Blackwater received NO federal aid???!!! Are you serious??? The only reason that they exist is to live off of federal aid. They have received millions of dollars in federal aid. Without federal aid, they would be going through the dumps looking for aluminum cans to recycle.

It wasn't mentioned but I saw an article about Goldman Sachs' charity work. It seems that their foundation has something under $500,000,000 in capital, and the person in charge tried to get them to boost the amount.

"he had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Goldman to give $1 billion to charity.

At the time, he said that Goldman executives rejected the idea because of concerns about shareholder reaction."

But the same Goldman executives approved $17 billion in executive bonuses for nine months because obviously the shareholders wouldn't mind that. There is a reason that studies have shown that the people who get into high executive positions are almost invariably sociopaths.