just took a vacation down in Missouri to go fishing.

They have some pretty wild commercials down there, stuff you would never see in the Chicago area. Really RED STATE PROPAGANDA.

It's a whole ''other'' country down there, and FOX appeals to them.

FOX is filling a niche for these people who wouldn't know JOURNALISM if it slapped them upside the head.

FOX wants to keep Americans ignorant and uninformed.

FOX is as UNDEMOCRATIC as you can get and should not exist in the journalistic realm.

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Please show your journalistic superiority by locating and publishing that enemies list. Until then, I can only conclude that you are spreading innuendo and are not much better than Fox (sorry to say!)

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It is hard to say that one bunch of crooks is better than another. Fox and Acorn are a fair match for each other and we can only hope that they burn each other out and not bother the rest of us.

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the existence and needs of the lower classes and those who don't have a voice in what becomes of them. It is not a perfect organization. But, can any of you name a perfect organization?

Our congressional representatives and senators is the most corrupt organization in our history. Their manipulations and sidestepping to defund Acorn is a national disgrace. Their purpose in doing this is to make sure that the disenfranchised stay that way. Only those with money or influence and power have any value to those employed to establish a government that runs efficiently and satisfies the needs of the majority of the American people.

I would like to see these people who have so much political power and so few brain cells be exposed as what they really are: bigots who take pride in their ability to capture corporate money and the power to disrupt an honest process of government.

Further, I would like to have consequences for improprieties and obstructionism in office spelled out. They have a job...they should be doing it. No business in this country would put up with the shenanigans of our congressional wanna be prima donnas and drama queens. They would have been fired in a New York minute.

Acorn did fire those employees who were entrapped in wrong doing. Their funding needs to be restored.

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PLEASE?

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I don't think the far right has ever been more loud and clear about its message, which is:

We HATE poor people!
We HATE democracy!

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I just wrote down what Paul Weyrich in all serious fury said in this clip:

"They want everybody to vote.
I don't want everybody to vote.
Elections are not won by the majority of people.
They never have been, from the beginning of this country, and they are not now.
As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Setting aside – which you actually can't – the fact that "this country" didn't "begin" with the invasion of the first illegal armed immigrants who then proceeded to massacre the native inhabitants, selfrighteously naming the "right to LIVE in freedom" as their defence for murdering those who had the chuzpe to have already been living there. . . . . .

So OK he could / should have said "From the beginning of our self-government as the USA".

Now check out his stunningly sincere words again:

"I DON'T WANT EVERYBODY TO VOTE.

ELECTIONS ARE NOT WON BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.

THEY NEVER HAVE BEEN, FROM THE BEGINNING OF (I paraphrase; OUR MURDEROUSLY SELFISH, GREEDY, GRAB-ALL BUNFEAST) AND THEY ARE NOT NOW.

Now there's a true word! And YIPPEE, AMEN! Says foxy Murdoch with his cohorts.

What immediately struck me is that the USA religiously sends observers to all the 3rd world countries TO MONITOR THEIR ELECTION PROCESSES – AND ADMONISH THEM FOR FAILING TO BE FAIR AND FREE.

So my question is double-edged:
Either:
How do you know what fair and free elections SHOULD look like when you have on your own demand and proud admission never had one yet?
Or:
If you actually DO know what the words "fair" and "free" mean when talking about elections,
Why don't you – first – admonish yourselves?

And – second – get your act together:
Register ALL US citizens automatically.
You know who and where they are when you want to collect taxes from them.
Voting takes place on the (?) first SUNDAY in November.
Postal voting functions everywhere else, why not in the USA?
Polling stations are schools.
(Transport is available for the kids on weekdays, the buildings and the buses are available because Sunday is not a school day.)
Ban all financial contributions from everybody;
– the government should be able to finance itself by now.
If it can't, get out of Afghanistan and use those funds.
Each party gets equal or per capita funding, within a decent limit
Each party gets equal time on all networks/newspapers which accept political statements.
(Either a network/newspaper gives each party equal time/space or it gives nothing at all to any of the parties.
Media which claims to publish news MUST publish ALL party statements.)

I'm thinking too much; have to split my text
To be continued in Part II

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After you have got your act together,

Then – third – get your act cleaned up:

Knowingly lying or spreading negative rumours about a person or party carries an automatic $10,000 fine for EVERY TIME the statement is broadcast, by whatever means, payable by the broadcasting medium (TV, Internet, newspaper, town-hall meeting etc.)

The fines go to a charity named by the damaged party.
They shall not benefit him or her personally.

(Would-be) Politicians who knowingly spread falsehoods or repeat rumours automatically disqualify themselves from office.

No party is allowed to say negative things about the others.

Each party must state specifically what it is going to do for the public good, and how this will be achieved.

These promises shall be binding.

The personal, private lives of public persons are irrelevant and not for publication – UNLESS THEY ARE CRIMINAL OFFENCES.

In which case the perpetrator has
– NO FORM OF IMMUNITY from prosecution or conviction consequences,
– NO RIGHT OR OPPORTUNITY to retain his/her seat or position,
– NO ENTITLEMENT TO ANY FORM OF PENSION or golden handshake attached to that position.

ABUSING THE POSITION (e.g. by granting no-bid contracts, fabricating reasons to get others out of office, lying about voting rights and venues etc. etc.) IS A CRIME.

LIBEL IS NOT ONLY AN ABUSE OF FREE SPEECH.
IT IS ALSO A CRIME.

And what has all that got to do with ACORN?

Right now US officials – and military – are in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and I don't know how many other countries, officiously telling THOSE people how to live decent, uncorrupted lives.

ACORN is working harder than any Republican to help AMERICANS live decent lives, free from corruption, in America . . . .

And ACORN is being shot down by those who should be giving them Blackwater's funding, financed by the immediate termination of Blackwater's contract.

Getting your own act cleaned up is a first step on the road to being accepted by and welcomed in the world as credible advisors in the future.

YOUR future. And mine, because my life is influenced by everything you do.
And because I love all the good things you stand for.

I permit myself to dream, and to wish my dream were possible . . . . .

ACORN is among the very best in America today - and that funding cancellation is one bill for which President Obama SHOULD use the "signing statement" privilege.

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It is amazing to me that the very same people who would vote to let KBR enforce their right to confidential binding Arbitration on that poor girl who was raped and held prisoner see fit to defund Acorn .
KBR has been determined to have overcharged the government and to have performed shoddy workmanship . GI's being electrocuted in showers and polluted water being provided to our troops . Nevertheless THEY continue to get Government Contracts and seemingly suffer no consequences for their actions .
Someone mentioned Blackwater as another organization that should be looked into .Their actions in killing of Iraqi civilians has been more than documented . We are using them as troops but they are paid considerably more and are not subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice
In addition the founder views this as a CRUSADE to destroy Islam . An attitude that guarantees we will be creating more "terrorists" . I am reminded of Gandhi's quote concerning Christians he siad "I like your CHRIST , it your Christians I have problem with "

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The DeFund ACORN Act is a bill of attainder.

What's bill of attainder?

Definition: A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/glossary/"

Article 1, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution states:"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed."

The right likes to make the claim it loves The Constitution. Yet on the on the other hand a few libertarian-Ayn Rand-cultist bloggers whine that legislative limits on, say, AIG executives getting $165 million in bonuses after excepting $170 billion in taxpayer money is itself a bill of attainder, as if bonuses were the only source of income for the poor widdow CEOs.

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It is not just all the voting fraud charges pending around the country, or the embarrassing video tapes. In addition to that several ACORN board members willingly covered up a $1 million theft/embezzlement of ACORN funds by the founders brother, Dale Rathke. They covered it up for several years too.

Rathke was eventually fired (after it became public), but he was never prosecuted. And two former board members who were honest were fired when they demanded an internal audit to find out how much was really stolen.

Nope... it would be foolish for the left or democrats to try and defend the indefensible. If they do most people (voters) will assume they are just as much to blame as the ACORN leadership for the fraud and gross mismanagement.

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