ACORN fired by Census bureau. Mainstream media scrambles.
That’s three this week.
Is There Nothing That Community Organizing Can’t Do?
The other shoe drops…
One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.
The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman’s professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Charles Krauthammer, Sept. 11, 2009;
One Obama administration source told ABC that Jones hadn’t read the 2004 petition carefully enough, an excuse echoed by [DNC Chairman Emeritus] Howard Dean.
“The most interesting theory that I’ve heard so far — which is nothing more than a theory, it can’t be proved — is that [President Bush] was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?”
“Remembering a Future That Many Feared”
While forgetting the President who prevented it from happening.
Via Instapundit, (where there’s a full roundup of 9/11 commemorative links.)
Victor Davis Hanson – Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia
Today one-third of Democrats believe that President Bush was involved in the planning of September 11. Best-selling books have alleged that 9/11 was a planned government operation. Novels were published and movies screened envisioning the assassination of George W. Bush. Politicians as diverse as Robert Byrd, Al Gore, and John Glenn all compared the president or his policies to Nazis or Brownshirts. All that was in response to the losses in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo, in addition to the partisan advantage sought by discrediting the Bush presidency.
Now, on the eighth anniversary of the assault, the world has changed almost beyond belief — even if many circumstances that led to the attack on America have not. The Taliban regime and Saddam are still gone. Democracies still function in their place. America remains safe from attack. Yet rarely do we credit anyone for such facts.
Be It A Bridge At Chappaquiddick, Or 100 Million Corpses
It’s better to focus on the good people do!
The title — “monument to the victims of totalitarian communism” — has already been changed once. In the first proposals, one by a non-profit group called Tribute to Liberty, the other by Open Book Group, it was to be called “monument to the victims of communism.”
After beginning discussions with the NCC in March 2008, the groups had back-and-forth discussions with a committee of experts who suggested that the title be changed because it could be perceived as “unduly critical of Canadians who might associate themselves with communism,” Egan said.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Ian Anderson and
Jethro Tull performing Living In The Past ¤ in 1969 (3:17).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
A year on Fox, and he has more scalps than Bob Woodward.
70 Years Ago Today
Another milestone in Canadian history goes unmentioned.
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
Heh.
Related: CBC shocker! Libs shocked by shockingly obvious!
Not Watching For The Asteroid
“The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican.”
Via Drudge
Is There Nothing That Community Organizing Can’t Do?
“Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.”
Update – the transcript. (sorry – link fixed !)
That’ll Teach Him
“You can tell from the general run of incidents that the proprietors feel they need to take some actions to ensure the long-term credibility of the papers…”
The “actions” include reinstating Jamie Irving as vice-president a mere six weeks after using the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal to launch a fabricated political hit piece.
h/t Mississauga Matt
The City Of Calgary Requests Your Input
Help save Calgarians from the heartbreak of dandelions.
17 Million Fewer Uninsured!
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
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Reader Tips
Tomorrow is the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Tonight we present Montreal boy Leonard Cohen singing the elegiac On That Day, from his 2004 album Dear Heather.
You are invited to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“There are Nazis all over Canada??!!”
News to me. Quick, Dawg, grab your gun and join me in fighting them today. You and I will fight the Nazi menace the only way that works: through physical force. In 48 hours, I can get a dozen people with guns, who each know another dozen people with guns, who will happily do an Inglorious Basterds on their asses.
I’m (deadly) serious.
Are you…?
Oh wait: you don’t believe in private gun ownership, which leaves you pretty dickless in this fight.
Unless there’s no need to have such a fight.
Because you and I both know you’re just talking smack about “Nazis all over Canada.”
You can’t have it both ways. If they’re real, let’s get ‘em. They’ve got to be destroyed. I’m ready. Call me. I’m in the phone book.
But they aren’t real. This fake Nazi menace is as real as those “mass graves” you keep looking for, and “fire doesn’t melt steel”, and Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t a communist, and that “DDT kills babies” shit and all the other self-aggrandizing BS you people have been foisting on us for the last century.
You’re just a moral exhibitionist with way too much time on his hands.
All that said: the minute you get in HRC shit, I, like Jay, will be there to help you out too.
Gee, we seem to be doing all the heavy lifting on our side, huh?
“We simply must accept the fact that Captain Kirk is no longer alive”*
Another celebrity has thrown his Hollywood clout behind animal-rights activists who want the Edmonton Valley Zoo to move Lucy, a 33-year-old ailing Asian elephant, to a sanctuary.
Canadian-born actor William Shatner, best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on Star Trek , sent a letter to Mayor Stephen Mandel requesting that the beloved pachyderm be retired to “better circumstances.”
Via Sean, who suggests – “I’m thinking that we should let the elephant go if Shatner agrees to take her place. It’s not like anyone will notice much of a switch, except for the fact that the new elephant eats nothing but All Bran cereal and takes bigger dumps.”
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What Would We Do Without Thomas Friedman?
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China’s leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.
“But while the news didn’t make major headlines…”
Is China going to make good on its recent threat to repudiate derivatives? Well, if you were going to make good on that threat, you would want to be sure that the counterparty was not holding on to your stash of bullion. Getting your thousand-year-old ducks in a row would probably include moving your gold out of London to Hong Kong.