Great minds think alike. So, apparently, do twisted minds.
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Okay, this is a little off-track, but I was trying to find a link, so I googled “Rosie Lyles Acorn”, and I came up with this link. Sam, is ACORN Watch one of your sources?
Because I did what I always do when I encounter something kind fishy-looking like that: I went to the about us page.
It kind of comes across like the site is the work of one magnificent crank. I mean, on the one hand his early life comes across like a bodyguard (he mentions being assigned to protect the Shah of Iran, and later meeting four presidents–I suspect as a bodyguard). But his life story just gets more and more amazing, culminating in
This seemed a bit much. So I looked into it.
I encourage you to do the same thing. Bwahahahaha!
Edit: ooh, ninjad by elucidator! Hopefully my latest find will make up for it.
Methinks you misunderstood me. I did not say or suggest that the military is exempt from our laws. Nor do I believe they should not be investigated…they should. Many on the right just felt that the investigations and allegations should not have been made public in the middle of a war. And, being an extension of the federal government, every single policy decision is either decided by Congress or the information is accessible to them. Corruption at the top of the military chain would implicate Congress or the executive branch. Slightly below this level and those involved can be removed by Congress or the executive branch. This is, obviously, a different animal than a non-governmental organization receiving taxpayer dollars.
Oh, and of course we are asking how far up the ACORN chain of command this corruption runs. I find it amusing that the Left seems so willing to dismiss it as the actions of a few bad apples and are perfectly content to see them continue to get taxpayer money without being investigated by the government. Not even one hearing?
This is also the way most criminal enterprises are run. No direct links back to the top guys.
Contrast and compare.
Since it appears we will never again not be in a war, or in a War on Something, this would mean that the charges would never be addressed.
Which is more likely- that ACORN as an organization is all for the idea of child prostitution, or that a few employees overstepped their bounds?
Frankly, I would LOVE for ACORN to get an investigation. I haven’t heard *anyone *say that the situation shouldn’t be investigated- by all means, it should be. The problem is that the Right has already found them guilty- of what, I’m not sure exactly.
But at the same time, I’d like to see Blackwater and the military get investigated for their transgressions- you know, in the sense of fairness. Otherwise, it’ll just look like someone’s on a witch hunt. We wouldn’t want that, would we?
Oh, me too! Even if the whole chain of command gets perp walked off to the slammer, I still want to know how that white bread preppy Bucky Beaver got anyone to believe he was a pimp!
It appears we agree.
What’s your point? The links are not nearly as easy to find but that doesn’t mean they cannot be found and that ACORN should not be investigated.
That is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever heard. I’m updating my CV right now.
“Chain of command” (snicker) Do you actually know any lefties?
Look, go for it! Drag Commissar Soros out nekkid and horsewhip him, just tell me how that vanilla yuppie scum convinced anybody that he was a pimp. I just *gotta *know that!
“Chain of command”! That’s droll, that’s very droll…
“You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat you with ‘til ya understand who’s in ruttin’ command here.”
No. It’s pretty clear which link contains the quoted text. It’s the one immediately preceding the text, separated by a colon to denote the relationship. It’s standard cite notation, really.
Why would your randomly pick a link from his post to associate with a quote when he specified quite clearly where it came from?
Don’t forget to include being one of the Fifty Most Loathsome Americans *every *year. 
Really now, Sam.
A shame we let this opportunity go to waste. It would have been a pleasure to have areas undercounted where those idjits were numerous.
Well, there’s the problem: the wingnuts can create the impression that any organization is somehow dirty. Think that empowering them to determine who is kosher and who isn’t is a Good Thing?
And exactly what power did ACORN have to compromise the Census?
I’m frankly quite pissed at Bob Groves, a statistician whose work I have great respect for, for knuckling under to a bunch of knuckle-draggers.
I didn’t “randomly pick a link”. I clicked the link that immediately precedes the quoted text, and the text he quoted is not there. Which is what I said.
Absolutely. Although I get the feeling that the wingnuts won’t participate in the Census regardless of ACORN’s status. That just gave them an excuse not to do it.
It’s not, and I never said it was a good thing.
Several of the anti-ACORN wingnuts I’ve talked to were under the impression that ACORN-affiliated workers would somehow falsify questionnaires to overcount minorities and the socioeconomic underclass, depriving Decent White Folk of whatever it is Decent White Folk are deprived of. Never mind the fact that enumerators are checked out by the FBI before they go out, and they’re subject to criminal prosecution if they get caught.
The ACORN fiasco is making my job a lot harder. I work for the Census; my job is essentially front-line shill. I get to talk to people in a fairly conservative area, and it’s tough to reach out to wingnuts who Know the Truth, and it’s getting tough to reach out to providers of services to the Hard-to-Count communities because they feel burned by an organization they thought they could trust.
Oooh, look! They caught ANOTHER ACORN OFFICE giving advice to the pimp and ho! Complete with new ways to hide money from the Feds!
If it’s adult prostitution, who gives a shit?
My mistake. Being a naturally curious person, I clicked the ‘Guilty Plea’ link within his cite, and saw the quote text there.