Mydriasis

Anyone else hear this yet?

Acorn got caught accepting to help pimps and offered to help transport children from taiwan to america for prostitution?

Isn't this the orginization we gave several billion too in the bail-out?

Or am I reading things wrong?

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Geeno

theres idiot/corrupt employees everywhere

shit happens

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Maturin

4 different employees in 4 different cities suggests more than a couple a bad apples though. It a least shows a poorly run organization with very loose oversight.

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Mydriasis

Pretty much it means their organization was down to do whatever and be "above" the law to make cash... Which kind of makes you wonder why they got any amount of billions from that bail-out, last I checked I never needed an Acorn around...

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Geeno

idk its likely that the times investigators were denied by them, wont be as big of news.

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John F. Kerry

Hot Air Blog Archive Jon Stewart to media on ACORN: “Where the hell were you?”


heres john stewarts expose....

this acorn shit is freaking ridiculous.

Mydriasis

That video cracked me up lol.

That's pretty blatantly fucked up. LOL at the "pimp". Like seriously LOL at that shit wtf.

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DdC

Another Faux infotainment scam. It must take some hard core cowardice to "go after" community groups trying to get homeless off the streets.

Attack Videographer Caught in Manipulation and Lies

ACORN: is simply the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. How fucking low on the scum meter is Glum Bluck passing up volumes of corporate scams and government kick back. Wars for keyrist sakes, based on total Neoshit fabrications for a trillion bucks in their pockets paid by the tax payers, not a shriek about the corporate fictionists stashing their share in Cayman banks. Now this pussy goes after grass roots protesters. A threat to the whiny ass chickenshits, chickenhawks and chicken littles in the drug worrying biz. You stupid fucking lapdog dimwitted ditzo's fortune 700 club diamond mines or corporate trolls, whatever. Oxybaughs terrorizing the most vulnerable and least costly in the short and long term. ER's cost more and preventive care only removes Glummy bears meal teat.

Helping working tax payers by costing less you blind frickin clodhoppers! Here's one of Boosh Inc's charity cases bilking taxes, made up by Tbaggers drunkenly dangling their Tbags in public, mumbling, kicking horseturds, stumbling up the road... Is there even a scale to measure how sick this is to spend such large sums terrorizing a group relying on donations to help those with nothing? Wrestling polio victims from their beds to the floor, for not standing in a WAMM raid was a pretty sad for America, knowing it was tax paid DEAth doing it was even more disgusting. But to protest people helping your own country's citizens, when so many in the world already hate us for Boosh's rape and pillage idiots. To stand with such barbaric moneysluts, aids the terrorists recruiting. Showing Fox (clearly Propagandist) rantings and inciting riots on Americans and even assassinations and lynchings, to a worldwide audience. What the fuck is that message to the kiddies punks?

Insurance Company Profits are Fat and Healthy

Bush's Iraq Oil Grab
By Jim Hightower / June 30, 2008

Out of the question. Don’t be silly. Never was a factor.



EXXON SUCKING UP PROFITS AND SUBSIDIES

The oil giant sucked up $40 billion in 07 profits last year alone.

Exxon Mobil floats on a sea of subsidies, having taken billions in direct payments, tax breaks, rigged regulatory rules, military assistance, and other gimmies. Backing John McCain’s push to give another $4 billion tax break to the five biggest oil corporations.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching
Henry Ford originally made his cars to run on ethanol, so farmers could create their own fuel. He saw farmers really as his customers originally, since nearly all of us were farmers. (thats real farmers, organic, not abortion causing poison pushers for Monsanto.) Along comes John D. Rockefeller, who wants people to use oil. He provides money to the anti-alcohol movement in order to make Prohibition a reality, and stop the ethanol fuel industry and promote the use of fossil fuels.

The documentary is called: Fuel
Trailer is here:

THE OIL WAR OF 1872

Hemp Fuel, Bio Mass/Bio Diesel



Big Money Pulling the Strings of Teabags

Big Money Pulling the Strings of the Drug War

Affordable Housing, Better Schools, Fair Housing, Fair Tax Fees, Foreclosures, Gulf Coast Recovery, Health Care, Immigration, Living Wage, Paid Sick Days, Predatory Lending, Utilities, Voter Engagement.

Oh they all just sound so terrible, helping the poor, what's next feeding the hungry, housing the homeless? it don't take a rocket surgeon to see why the filthy rich traitors want to smear ACORN. Same as NORML or Chavez giving our seniors free heating oil worrying Boosh junior it wouldn't be fair to the freep market. Let em fucking freeze. Better dead than red.

Better schools are a threat, what would the message be to the kids?Can't push them factory farmburgers with a edukashion. Geeks make lousy tackles. Need cheap labor especially with them ACORN's trying to get Americans a living wage and not pop speed holding down two jobs.

Fair housing would remove the deterrent homeless from our daily views reminding us to keep mum, reporting corruption might be a risk to ending up at the soup line with them.

Triple-digit interest rates on tax refunds, now who would want money that bad? Junkies or the poor. And you think the drug war is after zero tolerance? Like cops Banksters and Korpses love the civil some drugs war on darker shaded citizens.

Foreclosures providing more desperate, on the streets willing to slave labor to put food on the tables. These faux slimeball jerkoffs don't even bat an eye and are the first to jerk that plastic and Amend the Constitution to prevent the pissed off from melting it. How bout an Amendment against homelessness and Americans going to bed hungry? Get out of here you nazicratic idiots, we can take care of ourselves if we don't have to pay for the rich lazy greedy cowards.

Gulf Coast Recovery should have been dealt with after the storm and preps for the future and it still is an issue but not enough funds after the first two bailouts to repair, just enough for Biraq to keep Obomban.

Health Care, and its one two three what are we fighting for, fox newts and fascist whores, lets start another war. and its five six seven open up the gates of hell, well there ain't no time to wonder why, its the bottom line. Pitifuckingful display for an American to act in public, shame shame shame.

Immigrations ok til the cheap labored veggies are picked, Jimdandy yabetcha when the motels need cleaning or dishes need bused. So many things they cross deserts to do for a few bucks and toxic waste and not even a legal stance. But the GOPerverts like em if they're quiet. Once they start wanting health care for their babies. Machomice damn sure ain't crying about Exxon' $40 billion profit, getting welfare subsidies. Paying for their AK cleanup, 1 cent on the dollar, tax payers get the 99 to make up. Or the waste from locking up sick peoples pot growers for thousands a year... and whoooosh there goes BO'Really Handshitty and Bluck pushing fatass oxyboy with his giant forehead, racing right past the costlier bucket holes.

Gots to spend millions on airtime stigmatizing and out yelling rational discussion or fixing the real problems. Obstructing the war machine saved lives in Nam, freeing Ganja and Hemp is for anyones benefit. Obstructing sick kids health care is 1941 Berlin. Living Wages as stated stimulate the economy without neglecting the kids because both parents have to work, Paid Sick Days is a decent thing to do for dedicated workers. Why punish tax payers for getting sick when they are sick? For the two percent of the boosh inc fan club getting refunds paying far less percentage than minimum wages? Oh blucky boyz will always ball their eyes out over the rich taxes in dollar amounts. Never percentage ratio's to what they bring in. The workers will make it up.

Predatory Lending, another worry of oxyrush conjobs, suck em in buyer beware read the fine print even if your illiterate. Hire a lawyer to fight the read it for you, on minimum wage, in this day and age. Classism and greed, selfish brats and hooligans. Pussies and punks, with family money. Cheats liars and crooks having kids protecting their stash they ripped off from the workers too boozed up to give a rats ass just fire them up and point to the darker shades and ragid clothing. Sign an autograph, send em a picture. Ditzo idiots and G-20 masters.

Utilities keep fighting to charge what they want and slash all the safeguards keeping lower incomes without heat, in the dark, Who ya gonna call, a teabagger? Blaming them for, being poor? Do you even know this is unacceptable behavior in any free society let alone the wealthiest nation on the planet?

Voter Engagement is what really bugs them, behind a lot of this fear mongering bullying racism tossed in mostly as a red herring. They'd do the same to any shade trying to be fair to all and not just the maggots on Wall St. Voting sends shivers up their spineless backs. 1/2 can't vote, 1/2 of that don't register, 1/2 of them don't pull the levers, leaving 1/16th plus one to take it. Boo you silly fossil fools!

ACORN Announces Major Steps to Address Issues Raised by Videos
September 16, 2009

In response to recently released videos of frontline ACORN staff, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis made the following announcement Wednesday morning:"As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN's Executive Committee1, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review. I have also communicated with ACORN's independent Advisory Council, and they will assist ACORN in naming an independent auditor and investigator to conduct a thorough review of all of the organizations relevant systems and processes. continued...



Affordable Housing
ACORN is working to make affordable housing available so people in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods can be homeowners.

Better Schools
All children deserve a quality education. The better their education is the more likely they will be able to enjoy a great quality of life.

ACORN Fair Housing is a federally funded program through the Office of Housing and Urban Development’s(HUD) Fair Housing Initiatives Program ( FHIP) grant. It is our mission to prevent and eliminate discriminatory housing practices. ACORN Fair Housing Organization works to ensure equal housing opportunity by providing a variety of services through outreach, education and enforcement. ACORN Fair Housing, while an independent organization , has it’s beginnings as part of ACORN, a 38 year old community activist organization.

Fair Tax Fees
For the last two years ACORN members have been waging a campaign against Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs).

Foreclosures
Predatory lending has ignited a wildfire of foreclosures across the United States.

Gulf Coast Recovery
Hurricane Katrina's winds had hardly subsided before ACORN began organizing New Orleaneans to rebuild their beloved city on their own terms. Today, ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans houses more staffers than ever and ACORN members are fighting to ensure the city's recovery.

Health Care
Some 45 million people across the U.S. have no health insurance, with many more lacking adequate coverage. ACORN members are working to achieve affordable health care for all.

Immigration
The signs displayed in last year’s immigration marches said it so powerfully: We are America.

Living Wage
ACORN’s 2006 election campaign, "Raise the Minimum Wage," represented unprecedented victory for working families.

Paid Sick Days
Most people believe that U.S. workers have the right to paid sick days, yet according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost half of full-time, private-sector workers have no sick days at all. Government data also shows a national trend toward a reduction in paid sick days.

Predatory Lending
Predatory lenders target low-income and minority homebuyers, capitalizing on buyers’ lack of understanding of the complicated transactions or use outright deception to close loans that inevitably lead to a loss of equity or foreclosure.

Utilities
ACORN won reforms of utilities service practices nationwide in 2006, which helped low-income customers pay their bills and avoid service disruptions.

Voter Engagement
Registering to vote is one of the first steps toward becoming a full participant in American democracy and a citizen who can influence change in a community.

Member Profile: Alicia Russell
President, Arizona ACORN
Phoenix, Arizona
Following her brother's footsteps

When her brother Erasmo Villavicencio died in September 2005, Alicia Russell wasn't an ACORN member yet. She knew about Erasmo's ACORN work – that for over two years he had worked on neighborhood improvements like speed bumps, and he fought passionately to raise Phoenix’s minimum wage – but she had not yet joined the cause. "After my brother died, when I was going through his things, I collected a whole bag full of his notes about ACORN's minimum wage campaign," Ms. Russell explains. "Then I decided to join ACORN and carry on his work."

Ms. Russell steadily increased her work with ACORN. In July 2006 she became an ACORN Precinct Action Leader, or APAL, and began registering and engaging a network of voters in her neighborhood.

As an APAL, Ms. Russell helped 43 friends and family members register to vote, and then enlisted them to register others. Her daughter assisted students to register to vote on the campus of her community college, while Spanish-speakers in Ms. Russell's APAL network reached out to West Phoenix's Latino population.

Click here to read more about Alicia and other ACORN members



Attack Videographer Caught in Manipulation and Lies

(San Bernardino, CA) -- Today the videographer James O'Keefe's hidden camera "interview" with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke, airing repeatedly on Fox "News", including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com, has been caught out in an obvious set of lies and manipulations.

When the actors approached Ms. Kaelke with their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios.

"They were not believable", said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors. "Somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors. I didn't know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen Colbert does – saying the most outrageous things with a straightface." While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario afterfalse scenario and the videographer ate them up.

For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp, she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true) and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and living near Barstow, CA.

However, this is taken as the gospel truth, not just in the film itself, but also by several "news" personalities,indica ting that no journalistic standards were applied to making the video or vetting it for broadcast.

Further, as the actors repeatedly noted how nice she was being, Ms Kaelke responded, also repeatedly, that her"niceness" was just her, not ACORN. "My supervisor would shoot this down like faster than a bat out of hell."

When the actors talked about bringing 12-13 year olds in from another country, supposedly because they needed a lot of money fast for a political campaign, Ms. Kaelke said, "You are going to need it for a lawyer!"

These exchanges, which do not appear in the edited film put on BigGovernment.com, call into question the journalistic standards of the film and of any purported news organization that chooses to run them.

Ms. Kaelke, who did not know she was being filmed, is appalled that her defensive attempts to deal with a troubling experience have been manipulated into an attack on her work helping low- and moderate-income families fight the foreclosure crisis, work for needed health care reform, and face the economic crisis in San Bernardino.



New Video: ACORN and the Fight Against Voter Suppression

flappy

Seeing how people laugh about it and then get into a anti-Bush rant, etc. shows how corrupt we all have gotten.

Mydriasis

DDC that was a ridiculous post edit. First it was just a picture of bush naked with some other dude, which made no sense. Now it's a bunch of jargen...

How is it a "Another Faux infotainment scam. It must take some hard core cowardice to "go after" community groups trying to get homeless off the streets."? Some kids went in dressed like pimps and hos and that's what the people fucking said. It's not a scam dude...

How is getting homeless people off the street justifiable by making their illegal actions, seemingly legal? "Oh he's poor he can sell crack, we just need to call him an 'organic trade person'. ".

I think this company is obviously corrupt. Weren't the videos done in 4 different places? I mean it's not a "local" issue with a "few" bad employees. I also wouldn't be surprised if this company committed voter fraud after this...

Also your video has little to nothing to do with this issue... This is about prostitution and supporting it through an organization.

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dude Dcd is one of those people like marc emery i think, hes probably runs some alex jones style blog where he has all these old pictures of ridiculous things. and every post he makes looks like it came off some page that he just copied and pasted it into the thread.... whatever tho , u just gotta take him with a grain of salt.

John Fund: Acorn Should Not Get Federal Funds - WSJ.com

acorn is done, they finally did it, stupid fucking idiots. now they're fucked.


Fox news has so far in this administration brought down Van Jones and gotten 20 Acorn employees fired and the US census bureau to stop working with Acorn...

good work fox. but wait if all fox tells is lies then how r these things happening!?!?!?!?!

Mydriasis

Fox news had nothing to do with this bust though. It was just some kids with a hidden camera. Fox covered it after the fact though.

I think fox is pretty biased, but name a news station that isn't?

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yea im with u there, i dont think its not biased. but i guess its just absurd how abc and the other main stream networks and cnn etc dont even care when obama and his agents do fucked up shit. it takes the network with the anti-obama bias to expose his mistakes ....is that the era we're in now? where journalists only write stories if they mesh with their overall worldview? wtf? journalists are suppsoed to report wHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENZ!

cantSEEme

all news media outlets (@ least american media) have owners that have their hands in political pockets and vise-versa. there really is no such thing as unbiased american news coverage imho. you just have to take in all accounts from all sources and go by personal opinion. during the last few months of bushs admin., fox admitted to being the white house spin machine for the bush admin..

back on topic, i have been hearing alot lately about acorn, and tbh, i really dont know what it's about. as far as i can understand, they are a non-profit organization trying to help the homeless, but at the same time, prostituting children? is that about right?

John F. Kerry

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seriously, if u wanna pay for the people who dont have health insurance just end the subsidies to pay for ghetto lawyers working at acorn and advising prostitutes how to avoid taxes on their "income".

DdC

No ones "picking" on republicans or just Boosh. Just Fascism and Fascists suckering beer gulping blind faith teabags. Just because most of them are Boosh lickers isn't my fault. Stipid cowards just seem to find it more comfortable I reckon. Remember do your part and dunk a teabag!

Past fascism included Janet Edgar Hoover from Reno, and Klintoon intervening with the higher courts, Al Gore Occidental oil under those dead Indians burial grounds in Colombia. By partisan fascism with the same church concordance. Rahm Emmanual still buzzing in Obomba ears like Karl my dads a nazi Rove. Divide and Conquer seems right except I would not include clean air and human rights a "political" goal. I think anyone who prefers profits to breathing clean air should simply stop breathing.

"No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. ....the 63% of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, HOWEVER TEMPORARY, to stamp it out."
-William L. Shirer, author;
"The rise and fall of the Third Reich" p.259

THE POLICE STATE COMETH by Rep.Ron Paul

"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America."
--Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, MSNBC/Nixon

TV Networks ABC, CBS, Fox Reject Medical Marijuana Ads
Two new TV ads featuring medical marijuana patients have been rejected by ABC, CBS and Fox television stations.

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue,
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93

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wow exactly what i would have expected you to post.

Center

DDC, you fucking loony.

Instead of admitting that these people associated with Acorn are facilitating this shit you have to attack the messenger and the intentions. Just stfu with your babble. Of course the right side of the political spectrum has waged obscene media wars (among other) to smeer people or organizations. Of course thats whats happening now! However, part of that reality is that in four major cities, an organization with major public backing from the President is obviously involved in what is widely considered to be among some of the most disgusting moral practices one can take part in. Human trafficing.

Now, their are many more corrupt organizations that most likely partake in illegal activies potentially far worse then Acorn (at least what we know so far) but that IS NOT THE ISSUE in this thread.

Do you agree that these people are doing anything wrong? I'm curious about your stance because your reaction had put me off.

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Mydriasis

How am I picking on the poor? They got a 5.4 billion dollar bail-out this year, and 40% of their total income comes directly from the government, Acorn is not poor...

If you think me putting down acorn is me putting down homeless people. Well I've been homeless, not for a long time. But still was. Also check my bank-account, I have 12 dollars, so... ... ?

Maybe you should read threads before you spam and call names... Watch the movie by Jon Stewart in the link provided on the first page. Then maybe you'd understand what this thread is about...

Edit - also I'd like to know your stance on it as well DDC. Did they do anything wrong?

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DdC

The post shows who is ripping off taxes, not the poor, the rich. Helping the poor get housing means less taxes when they're on the street. I don't think they did anything wrong other than try to get poor people off the street while scumbag killers and pissant teablots like Mydriasis just spew nonsense. You lie about figures and neglect the multi billion dollar corporate bailouts. Lowlife scum as I said. Busting someone for stealing bread isn't even a crime compared to stealing treasury's or customers. Just paying all that money to stigmatize the most vulnerable sick seniors and poor minorites is the act of a pussy coward wimp call it what you will. Your ad hominem towards me is without any back up just mouthfarts from idiots bravely saving us from poor old ladies. How do your kids hold their heads up in school knowing their father is such a coward? Now go fetch some more poor stealing candy bars and let Boosh cheney's trillion dollar police action alone. Wind em up and point, such lapdogs all wrapped up in plastic. Fuck off. Read the info or bring some non nazi propaganda. your word is shit.

random samples about Anti-American Teabog lemmings lapping up cultural genocide by Fox Infotainment Korpses... Cutting off their Brownoses to spite their two faces. Pitifuckingful cowards picking on the sick seniors and homeless kids. At least most of the stoner community knows these same degenerate assholes are behind the reefer madness rhetoric and corporatist lies. Same whiny spoiled brats sucking up to corporate profits over poor children and their parents. Placing their own children in jeopardy of health risks just so Exxon "morans" can spew dioxins and pocket $40+ billion. Weak lilly livered yella bellies is what I say these neonazi racist clowns be! Pitifuckingful!



I worry about these lunatics, and using that word isn't something I say lightly, trying to hurt President Obama. They are more then protesting a cause. Hate causes good people to get killed because of people like them.



Lets throw their "Patriot Act" back at them. Their words and actions against Obama constitute very real threats to the 'health, safety, security, and 'freedom'' of the Nation and its citizens.

They are 'anti-american.' Are there any 'lawyers' out there with any kind of fortitude? Lets have some 'prosecution' towards these anti-patriotic actions.

I won't hold my breath. Unless they can see money. or increased social/political status in it, it won't happen.

Unfortunately, we are just going to have to actively ignore them, going on about the business of initiating freedom, but keeping a wary eye on their antics so we know if and when to duck.



I find it very hard to watch the news these days. Hatred isn't a motivating factor in anything I do so why would I twist my own brain watching them? I wait for Republican leaders to rebuke them but they don't. I know when McCain told the lady she was wrong calling Obama a Muslim that I felt kindly towards him. What is wrong with political leaders that don't tell their followers to act with civility?

Glum Blucks Teabags Steeping Onto the Streets of DC
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One of the whines I heard over and over after the election is how unfair it was that 95% of African-Americans voted for Obama, and that they were racist for voting for Obama just because he was black and he wouldn't have won any other way.

Instead of just ignoring this nonsensical sore loser rhetoric, I had to counter their nonsense with a dose of truth.

When pressed to answer "do you believe that at least 10% of white voters voted for McCain because he's white?," they all readily accept the plausibility of that scenario.

That's when I drop a little fact bomb to my highly ignorant family about African-American voters.

In 2000, 90% of the African-American vote went to Gore. That means that only 5% more African-American voters voted for the Democratic candidate Obama than for Gore, possibly one the "whitest" Democratic candidates (along with Kerry) in recent memory.

The only difference right now is that these nuts have the freedom to speak out that we were robbed of by Bush threatening to make us disappear forever without trial.

We must not let these ignorant nuts, no matter if they are family, prevail against the progress we've made.

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