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  • There's a Difference

    What I don't hear anyone asking is whether or not the problems with the voter registration are situational or institutional. Follow me for a moment. According to the news, it has been proven that there are people who, under the employ of ACORN have, like idiots, forged voter registration cards. I think we can all agree that this is BAD. ...
    Posted to Explainer by justicepsych on October 12, 2008

  • Why no mention of the ACORN embezzlement scandal?

    How can someone write an article entitled ''How did ACORN become such a controversial organization in national politics?'' and not mention ACORN's embezzlement scandal? If you are not familiar, here are the basic facts: 1) Dale Rathke, the brother of Wade Rathke the founder and head of ACORN, embezzled about $1 million from the ACORN and its ...
    Posted to Explainer by MnZ on October 11, 2008

  • Facts About ACORN

    Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field, but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic. Fact: ACORN flags incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in, but these warnings are often ignored by ...
    Posted to Explainer by Nancy Cronk on October 11, 2008

  • Governor Palin

    Can't wait till tomorrow night. Biden is ''the walking gaffe machine'' and Governor Sarah Palin is for the people- Country First. The lefties can go on about- she's not from Harvard (eletist), She has no experience ( Barry has No Executive experience) and HE'S running for President! Votes ''present'' - doesn't show up, grandstands - It's the ...
    Posted to The Good Word by CoolPillow on October 1, 2008

  • RiscOS patience

    In the UK on Acorn's old RiscOS machines; RiscOS was the first multitasking GUI, and it took a bit of getting your head around as a programmer. Factor into that the fact that the ARM chips were RISC processors - ie. they had a reduced instruction set, and were also 32 bit processors not the more familar 16 or 8 bit; then people found it a bit hard ...
    Posted to Procrastination by captainfun on May 19, 2008

  • Truth About ACORN

    Excerpt from Train Wreck at the Justice Department by John McKay. Full article at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1028545 (See footnote six)At least one U.S. Attorney, the author of this Article, observed this exchange between Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Attorney General Gonzales with complete dismay. After a flurry of phone calls among the ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by Cheryl Cotterill on May 8, 2008