ACORN and Mickey Mouse

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ChrisA

Stolen blatently from Drudge…

Two article in the local paper about ACORN in the last two years by the local liberal paper.

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“Doodad Pro” and “Good Will”

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ChrisA

Contributors to Barack’s election campaign.

Turns out that “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” are not the only phony contributors to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The New York Times finally bestirred itself to apply some basic investigative journalism attention to the Democratic presidential nominee’s donor list. The Times found nearly 3,000 other questionable donors like “Jgtj Jfggjjfgj” and “Dirty West” after what the paper admitted was just a cursory look at the Illinois senator’s September financial filings. But then Times reporters Michael Luc and Griff Palmer revealed an incredible level of naivety by stating “it is unclear why someone making a political donation would want to enter a false name.”


One thing I can conclude for sure, New York Times reporters Michael Luc and Griff Palmer are idiotic, naive nimrods.

Another is that Barack’s fundraising activities are full of people who believe that “winning at all costs” justifies whatever laws they need to break to get there. Just like ACORN, this is an organization that is corrupt from the inside out.

Instapundit comments….

The whole deal does seem rather shady. But it’s amazing what you can get away with when the press is totally in the tank.

Hmmm, the Boulder Daily Camera has two article’s on ACORN in two years? Can you spell “in the tank”?

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Sarah Palin attracts Dem wacko’s

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ChrisA
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Liberal or Lefty ?

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ChrisA

Is there a difference? I had never given much though that there is a difference between the two terms, except that “lefty” could be considered more derogatory, but that both terms referred to the same set of beliefs.

Apparently I was wrong. Read an interesting column on the liberal/lefty difference.

What I want to know is if Boulder is full of liberals or lefties? I vote lefties, I’m sure the Boulder lefties would claim they are “open minded” middle of the road liberals. Of course, that brings us back to the “25 square miles surrounded by reality” thing.

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ACORN: A synonymn for fraud

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ChrisA

These guys are so blatantly stupid it boggles the mind. An organization with such a high profile should be taking steps to control their volunteers/employees from committing this type of fraud.

When ACORN is receiving this type of reporting from CNN you know their corruption is visible to anyone who cares to see it. Of course the local liberal paper, the Boulder Daily Camera, can’t bring themselves to report on the ACORN fiasco. It won’t be long until the DC editors get the go ahead from their liberal friends at the NY Times, Washington Post or SF Examiner. I did a quick search of the Examiner and it’s been covering the ACORN issue what’s wrong DC?

C’mon DC, your constant partisanship, while preaching to your readership… or what’s left of it, in the long run only reflects on your integrity.

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Copyright infringement

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

Well, you simply can’t make this stuff up…

Keene Valley resident Jerilea Zempel was detained at the U.S. border this summer because she had a drawing of a sport-utility vehicle in her sketchbook.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers told Zempel they suspected her of copyright infringement.

She was released after more than an hour in custody at the Houlton, Maine, port of entry from New Brunswick, Canada.

Her release came only after she persuaded border guards she was an artist doing a project that involved a crocheted SUV as a statement against America’s dependence on oil and love for big vehicles.


Was it a slow day? Did these morons not have anything better to do? I mean really, this is disgraceful. How can these U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers go home at the end of the day and admit to their families that they were involved in this episode.

It appears Mr. Zempel may try and turn this thuggary into money…

“Zempel’s adventure began when she was returning from the Cultural Capital Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick, where her submission was an SUV cozy on a rented Hyundai Santa Fe.

I wanted to turn an oversize, macho, gas-guzzling vehicle into a technological ghost by shrouding it in a white, fuzzy cover reminiscent of women’s handiwork from another time, another place.”

After the festival, Zempel headed for home in her own Toyota Prius hybrid and stopped at the border crossing on Interstate 95 in Maine.

“What happened when I re-entered the U.S. made me ponder what my lowly art project could mean in a larger political sphere.

“And it gave me an idea for a title: the Homeland Security Blanket.”


There’s litte doubt in my mind that my politics are opposite of Ms. Zemple’s. That said, I would be happy to buy one of her blankets.

Hat-tip to Radley Balko at the Agitator.

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ACORN corruption

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

Betsy summarizes the NY Post article and Michelle Malkin’s report that ACORN is being investigated in seven separate states. She concludes that the corruption comes from the incentives ACORN offers…

The problem originates from the way that Acorn does business. When people are paid and evaluated based on how many forms they turn in, there is a natural incentive for workers to start falsifying the names on the registration forms. Since election laws require third-party registers to turn in all the forms that they get filled out, even those they think are illegitimate, they end up turning in thousands of registrations to election officials who then have to spend the time verifying each one. Acorn can claim that they’re just as upset as anyone else that there are these fraudulent forms and that they’re cooperating with authorities. But they have set up a system that encourages this sort of fraud. Their workers are hounding people to register even when they’re told that they have already registered. It has happened previously in other elections. The whole system of how these people work needs to be reformed. On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with trying to increase voter participation, but when you’re working with a system that facilitates or encourages fraud then they need to change their system.

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Wrong week CBS – Denver

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA


Their web site has Tennessee playing Auburn in football. That was two weeks ago, this week they are playing Georgia!

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Math is for nerds

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

Joanne Jacobs reports on math being uncool. As the father of two girls I found this factoid disappointing although not surprising…

Girls, especially, are likely to underplay their math interests to avoid being labeled a nerd.


This isn’t surprising either…

The study found, for example, that in the history of the math olympiad, Bulgaria — a country with fewer than 8 million people — has sent a total of 21 girls. The United States has sent three.


And one more factoid that isn’t surprising…

Top math students in the U.S. often are immigrants or the children of immigrants from countries that value math and think everyone can learn it if they try hard enough, the study concluded.


Bold is mine. Count me in on that thinking, although not to an extreme. However, compared to what our schools SHOULD BE teaching our students in math, they are doing a despicable job, aided by parents who believe that math is unimportant.

Just like the national debt and loaning money to people who shouldn’t qualify has come to haunt the United States, the poor state of our math education will do the same. Read the whole post.

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Rezko speaks

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

Political fundraiser Tony Rezko, who helped launch Obama’s political career is spilling the beans. This news is freely available, but if you rely on the Boulder Daily Camera fory our news you may not hear about it. If they can’t report on ACORN why would they reporting on Tony Rezko make it to their readership.

Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.

Rezko also was friendly with Obama – offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko’s trial, there’s no indication there’ll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee – even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.

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Local paper and ACORN

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA
The local liberal newspaper, the Boulder Daily Camera, I should say arrogantly liberal, has had little coverage of the ACORN scandal. A search for the word ACORN on their web site yields 44 hits. Of course 42 of them refer to actual acorns, one ACORN hit is from 2006 and only one, ONLY ONE has anything to do with this years election and is written by their token conservative columnist Bob Greenlee.

Now there’s nothing wrong with being a liberal newspaper, but to be SO, SO biased is beyond reprehensible. For a paper that ceaselessly paints Republicans has clueless morons, perhaps they should turn the mirror, even for a fraction of a second on themselves. How the Daily Camera as a paper can hold themselves out as a source of anything even close to balanced when they refuse to comment on the corruptness in existence in the ACORN organization, either by editorial comment or news reporting boggles the mind.

The Daily Camera staff should be nothing short of embarrassed.

Not likely.

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ACORN and fraud

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

Why does fraud continue to follow ACORN? After all this time, there is only one possible valid reason, it’s rotten from the inside out. From the Oct 10th New York Post is a story chronicling ACORN’s corrupt voter registration attempts in Ohio …

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.

Johnson used the same information on all of his registration cards, and officials say they usually catch and toss out duplicate registrations. But the practice sparks fear that some multiple registrants could provide different information and vote more than once by absentee ballot.


Other blog related stories can be found at Powerline here and here. Instapundit has a number of links as well. Try here, here and here, or just do a search on Glenn’s site. I particularly like this remark from Glenn…

If Baptists were doing what ACORN has been doing, the press would be all over it, 24/7 . . . .

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New stock market definitions

Posted on October 11, 2008 by ChrisA

From the father-in-law…

Subject: New Stock Market Definitions

CEO: Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO: Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET: A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself
for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET: A 6-to-18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife
gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

P/E RATIO: The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market
keeps crashing.

BROKER: What my broker has made me.

VALUE INVESTING: The art of buying low and selling lower.

STANDARD & POOR: Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST: Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT: When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally
between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER: A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION: The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW: The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO: What you yell after selling your online stock to some poor sucker for
$240 per share.

WINDOWS 2000: What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo
at $240 per share

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR: Past-year investor who’s now locked up in an asylum.

PROFIT: An archaic word no longer in use.

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Sell the Market at the close

Posted on October 10, 2008 by ChrisA


Large selling, with the possible exception of Tuesday, on the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close for the last 5 days.

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ACORN

Posted on October 10, 2008 by ChrisA

Why would Barack lie about donating money to ACORN to recruit new voters? Powerline comments…

It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans. Which makes it all the more remarkable that Barack Obama paid ACORN $800,000 to register new voters, and then lied about it, falsely telling the Federal Elections Commission that the $800,000 went to a group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”


Investors Business Daily comments on the corruption throughout the ACORN organization…

Meantime, New Orleans-based ACORN maintains that it has no control over volunteers who are falsifying application forms, that they’re like employees who steal from the store.

But the fraud is widespread and not isolated. It also turns out that some ACORN execs allegedly are involved in a $1 million embezzlement cover-up at their headquarters. Representing them in the case is none other than Michelle Obama’s old law firm in Chicago..


10/17 Fixed block quote such that it was no longer my editorial including statement below:

ACORN’s corruption is not just out in the field, as they claim. There’s a pattern of corruption from the top down.

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Judge “Jamie” Klein

Posted on October 9, 2008 by ChrisA

I assume James Lieberman is referring to Judge James C. Klein in his letter to the editor posted on the Daily Camera LTE blog site? I suspect referring to Judge Klein as Judge “Jamie” in his courtroom might be an issue, and rightfully so I might add.

If I were a Judge Klein supporter, it would occur to me that possibly the best strategy is to “lay low”. Every time they write a column or letter to the editor they just set the plate for Judge Klein’s critics, myself included, who in my opinion have a much stronger case against the Judge then his supporters have for him.

The commenters to James Liberman’s letter haven’t brought up the Irene Gomez case where Judge Klein sentenced her to 20 years probation for having sex with an underaged boy. As you can read here, she continued to have sex with him and her case is thankfully being reviewed.

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Across the border

Posted on October 9, 2008 by ChrisA

Claudia Rosett describes the North Korean/China border at Tumen, China.

Set on the northern bank of the muddy Tumen River, this Chinese border town has one of the saddest backdrops in the world. Just across the river lies North Korea. It is so close that from a room in a local hotel, you can sit by a window and watch North Koreans trudging around the scrawny town of Namyang below the rugged hills on the far side of the river.


To some extent freedom is relative…

And while China by most comparisons is no free country, next to North Korea it is a land of liberty and wealth. On the Chinese side, there are bright street lamps along a river promenade, neon signs in the town of 136,000; restaurants and shops, pedicabs and cars.

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Nerd joke

Posted on October 7, 2008 by ChrisA

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Unemployment rate during FDR reign

Posted on October 6, 2008 by ChrisA

Not a pretty picture.

Hint, the lowest wsa 8.7% in 1930, all the rest were in double digits, ending at 14.6% in 1940. Obama the next FDR?

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What are they afraid of?

Posted on October 5, 2008 by ChrisA

The Boulder County Bar Association weighs in with a column in the opinion section today. Basically it says that a Judges job is very hard and mere mortals can’t understand it.

The best I can tell, the purpose of this column is to supply “cover” for Judge James C. Klein, who should be voted out of his judgeship this November. There are more reasons for Judge Klein to be replaced besides the adverse possession case between Don and Susie Kirlin and the landgrabbers, Dick McLean and Edie Stevens. I’ll have more on that in the next few days.

Judge Klein, here’s hoping you say goodbye to your judgeship. You can count on my vote for you to find a new job.

You can find out more on Judge Klein by scrolling down the left sidebar and selecting the ‘Judge Klein’ and ‘land grab’ labels.

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