The Glade 4.0

Washington Times article regarding a ~$1 million grant to ACORN from DHS.... some choice quotes from the article:




This absolutely reeks of political payback.

And how does ACORN respond..




And for those that haven't been following the news, the reference to the embezzlement charges, which we have discussed on these boards before as direct evidence of criminal activity at ACORN, can be found here in this Reuter's article from 2008 and catch up on the lates claims that the embezzlement was actually ~$5 million, not the ~$1 million previously admitted.

Good times!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Arguably, that money probably better served the taxpayers, as it was likely spent on frivolous purchases, and might have saved a job or two at a boat building company or a construction company. ACORN would have surely wasted it on something that would have likely cost taxpayers even more money.

KBR lost something like 20 billion dollars. It just went poof. They also prevented their employees from reporting sexual assaults. One of their female employees was gang raped, and then chained in a shipping container for days.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

There was these two guys who broke into a house in my hometown that had two young couples in it. They raped the women and tormented them all for several hours and then took them out to a field and shot them all. Luckly one of the women survived and walked several miles in the snow, naked, to get help.

Oh wait...you mean this isn't a thread to recount bad things that people do? It was specifically about ACORN and other stuff like this isn't really relevant? Sorry, I got confused after Monty's post.

Truman dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not once... but TWICE!

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Holy shitsnacks!

KBR serves some pretty good chow.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Oh, crap - you're right. Nevermind, then, what ACORN is doing is OK.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer ... ses-kicked

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And again...

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I can only find articles at small news agencies about it, but I've read that ACORN is only losing its funding for one month. So basically they get to continue state-sponsored, tax-payer funded corruption.

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The Dude abides.

As for that $20 billion figure for KBR, the company has far from a clean record, but I don't see anything that even approaches that amount of money. I also don't see that any money just "went poof" or was "lost".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

So wait. Montegue brought in a "point" which was unsubstantiated and near fiat in nature and ultimately ended up being irrelevant regardless?

I think the technical term is "par for the course".

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I'm sure the people who did the fliming of ACORN will release their videos in a timing to keep them in a negative light. It's gone from exposing corruption to making ACORN an albatross to hang around Obamas neck.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

9 billion lost in Iraq, 2005

KBR wastes billions

I did get my wires crossed. In fairness, it was pretty difficult to tell the prvious administration's fumbles apart from their pet company's.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Funny part about your statement is that it can extend to Obama and his pet ACORN.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Isn't this a thread about ACORN and their corrupt nature?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Wow, so ACORN is corrupt in it's nature because a few of their employees are corrupt?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Is blackwater/xe corrupt because a few of their employees are corrupt? Or are their actions an indicator of a problem within the organization that needs to be investigated?

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

In the case of Blackwater, the corruption began at the top. I think it's one thing to say an organization is corrupt all the way through and another to try and make that case based on selected videos of a few employees.

Furthermore, Blackwater and ACORN are different on many levels, but the most glaring difference is the raw size of the organization. ACORN boasts 400,000 people. Of *course* you are going to find all kinds of idiots and what not in an organization that large.

Blackwater? They are a group of for-profit killers. Why they can get away with that and a hit man can't, I'll never understand. I just don't see much of a comparison there.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

The same reason the Army can get away with killing people and a hitman can't.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

No, in fairness, you invented a number that was more than twice the actual number and didn't even apply to the company you said it did.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The Army is not a private, for profit organization. At least, not in theory. Our military is controlled by our civillian government, which is elected by the people. They have a duty the country, not to their bottom line. That is why they are different.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

So, the fact that they lost/wasted more than the amount that I originally claimed is completely lost on you?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Ycompletely wrong. Blackwater is different from a hitman because they kill with legal sanction. A hit man doesn't. Money isn't what matters; there's lots of murderers in jail that never got a dime.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

You originally claimed 20 billion. The number your revision indicates is 9 billion. Don't bother editing the post now, either.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."