attainder

Funny clip regarding ACORN and bills of attainder (See here)

Child prostitution, both real and imagined

Over the last few weeks, as you probably know, short youtube style videos have been coming out that seem to show ACORN employees offering tax advice to two undercover conservatives disguised with dime store pimp-and-ho outfits.

Over the last decade, at least two defense contractors have been investigated over involvement with foreign child sex slaves. Others have cases of rape, debauchery, more debauchery, and coverup. Some notables are Dyncorp from Bosnia, Blackwater(Xe), KBR(a former Halliburton subsidiary), and ArmorGroup(this one is the most comical).

(Is it coincidence that the Armorgroup and ACORN scandals, which happened to be the ones with funny pictures and videos, received substantial puiblicity, while the others much less? Or is it some sort of sign of the reality-teevee times we live in?)

Last week, as the ACORN videos were gaining prominence, both the Senate and the House voted to cut off all federal funding for ACORN, and the DoJ is launching an investigation.


Congressional actions to cut off funding for pretend child prostitution: 1
Congressional actions to cut off funding for real child prostitution: 0


An Update: It turns out that I was wrong, and the legislation meant to end ACORN funding actually cuts off funding for any organization that has been charged with certain misdeeds. Turns out if it is enacted, it will de-fund the entire private defense establishment. Can it be re-written or re-interpreted to apply only to ACORN? If it is then it may be a 'bill of attainder', which would then be unconstitutional. Heavens, what a pickle!

Election Fraud

Look here for an interview with Mark Crispin Miller on voter fraud and acorn.

Voter purging and provisional ballots seems a far bigger concern than Mickey Mouse and the Dallas Cowboys.

In the last debate McCain tried to tie Obama with acorn who he said was "perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." After making such a serious proclamation, he never mentioned it again. The biggest fraud in history and destroying democracy, yet on ly worth one mention, and that mention was to tie Obama to it and not to argue about what should be done about this greatest fraud in history and the end of democracy. Has this supplanted radical islam as the greatest threat to our democracy? If McCain loses I have no doubt he will say it has.