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So apparently Drudge is being desperate. 100 point type on his website, with no sourcing Horror crept through my skull. Turns out she was mugged at an ATM and the mugger mentioned her McCain bumper sticker. This mugging is horrible, awful, reprehensible. But I doubt it has much to do with anything about an election.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 03:08 AM) I happen to like Tim and Eric, thank you. You just have to check in your maturity card at the door. He's just saying that because they ate Brownie Mountain thanks to their second stomach. ToyourhealtH!

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) That's amazing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 10:49 AM) I like the fact that the guy with $90,000 worth of cash in his freezer only comes in at #6. The two congressmen under indictment never cracked the top five. How sad is that?

Maybe it's because Sarah Palin is a secret Democrat. Just look at her scarf!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 07:38 AM) Obama and Palin are close to the same age, but Obama hasn't released a whole lot either except to say he's healthy... but frankly if there aren't any major health concerns I don't really see why they should have to. It's personal stuff. In McCain and Biden's case, one had melanoma and the other had a near-fatal aneurysm a couple decades ago so the voters should know if these guys are healthy enough to do the job, as long as they pass that test they should be good. Biden had two of them actually. But once they're removed, they're removed. They can't hurt you again. The likelihood of a recurrence is less likely than Joe American having a single aneurysm to begin with.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 12:13 AM) Or if zombie Reagan endorsed Obama. He only endorses Brains these days. Him and Larry King.

QUOTE (mreye @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 08:13 AM) I don't like these registration drives by third parties. You should only be able to register at a government entity - state building, county courthouse, DMV, etc. It opens it up to too many questions. I wouldn't have a problem with a third party like ACORN renting a bus and driving these people to a place to get registered. Who knows if actual election fraud is behind this or if it really was people that were too shy to talk to others. And will they know the true answer before the election and will the electorate be happy with the result of the investigation, regardless of the victor? See? Too many questions. Given the nature of how ACORN hires people to register voters, I think its hard to believe that they would be part of a coordinated campaign to register someone. If there were, we'd see something more along the lines of YPM in California. People having their affiliation switched without their knowledge, etc. You don't hire the homeless and crackheads to execute a conspiracy.

Congrats!

So ACORN came to register voters in Lake County, IN. In Indiana, you are required by law to turn in any filled in Voter Registration card. Be it incomplete or obviously fraudulent. They registered a lot of people. Some people working for ACORN faked some cards for their $8/hour paycheck. As a result, some people might not get registered in time to vote. http://www.post-trib.com/news/elections/12...lcacorn.article So, ACORN followed the law. In fact, they did more than follow the letter. According to the Indianapolis Star, they followed the spirit of the law. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...S0502/810180457 As a result of these problems, five of the 82 ACORN staffers working on the Indiana voter drive were fired. So I guess, here's the question. With all the allegation about ACORN fraud, is it institutional fraud? Who was the biggest victim here? McCain? The Lake County registrar who has to do all this extra work now? Or ACORN's bank account, having spent all that money hiring unemployed Gary residents and give them a boot strap to pull themselves up with only to have crap blow right back on the organization?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 11:59 AM) Sure, they are forced to submit them. but to hold onto them until youget a few thousand, and then into those insert the ones you know are fake but otherwise have regular names, and it is easy to get a bunch to slip thru. if the people are busy looking for Donald Duck, they are going to miss John Jones. That's why the woman in Ohio waited to turn in over 200,000 registrations at one time, to hide the ones they really want to hide. The truth is the people suffering the biggest fraud in this is ACORN themselves. They are paying people for voter registrations that are false. These people aren't going to go and vote under those names, and there is absolutely no evidence to point to fradulent voter registrations being used for actual voting. It's some extra work for Secretaries of State to be sure, but the biggest victim is ACORN's bank account. I know what ACORN does when it comes to voter registrations, in terms of how the people who register gets paid. It's very similar to a lot of paid GOTV operations in urban districts. There's no intentional fraud here. Just a chance to give a bunch of people who don't often get the chance to work for money, to get to work for money. And you hope that they do the right thing and get real voters to register. And for the most part, they do. But some people are scammers and are faking the work for their $50, and due to many state's laws, ACORN doesn't get to sift and decide which registrations are real and which are fake.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 11:35 AM) 2000 was more fun because it was unexpected. It was a young team making its first run. I remember going to a Monday night game against Cleveland after a great Sox road trip (they beat the Yankees among other teams) where there was a playoff atmosphere and energy at the park that had been missing for too long. The 2000 playoffs turned out badly, but there was a lot of hope on the horizon. In 2008, it seemed we kept waiting for the wheels to fall off. The end of the season turned out to be incredibly exciting with the Sox winning all of those "win or go home" games, but the regular season was more frustrating due to inconsistency and injuries. All in all, it's great to have enough division championships recently that we can debate which was better! 2008 was the better year, in my mind. Nobody expected us to do anything this year. Myself included. I was hoping for an 81 win team with a manager that I thought should have gotten the s*** can the year before. We outperformed expectations and our manager was doing the right thing more often than the wrong. Yeah, September was scary. But this March, I didn't even think September was going to matter this year.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 12:21 PM) Oh please. That's like saying for every Arod there is a Juan uribe. Those two aren't even on the same planet. It would take about 50 YPM to make up ACORN in just one state. Note, I am not condoning the stuff that YPm may have done, since they haven't been found guilty of anythign yet, but if they did it, they should be punished as much as ACORN shoudl be. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008...ote-fraud-case/ How many Donald Ducks and Mickey Mouses do you honestly think we'll see show up to the polls in November? I'm guessing that number will be awful close to 0. There's a big difference between a crack head turning in a bunch of never to be used fake registrations so that he can get enough money for his daily rock and a guy passing around a petition for a tougher law on sex offenders that wasn't a petition at all, but really having people unknowingly change their voter registration to Republican. That's something that can actually have an effect on things like primary elections. Oh and by the way, those fake voter registration forms that ACORN employees turn in? They're bound by law to submit them, even if they suspect falsified information.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 11:59 AM) What have I done besides post the hate and vitriol that comes from the supporters of Obama? Other than telling Reddy to bite my ass. I am not theone stealing campaign signs. I am not the one hitting women across the face with protest signs. i didn't create a kill obama web page game. i didn't break into any campaign offices. devoted followers of The One have done these things. You also didn't attack an Obama canvasser going door to door in Wisconsin this weekend, or steal Obama lawn signs, or spray paint some lady in Michigan's back windshield black to cover up her Obama sign. For every story of thuggery on one side, there's an equal story of thuggery on the other side. It generally happens in all campaigns, American and otherwise - and by and large is never condoned or accepted or even something that the candidates are aware of. For every ACORN, there's a Young Political Majors. For every intentional extra fraudulent vote, there's an intentionally suppressed legal vote. By and large, with the exceptions of 1960 and 2000, these things don't have an effect on the Presidential campaign in modern history. It's a fringe aspect, and frankly not worth the kind of scrutiny that so many of us place on it. Because the level of scrutiny we give it, only adds to the power that these assholes are trying to get over Joe Voter and don't deserve. Punish them, humiliate them, throw them in jail but don't let them dominate the election discussion.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 11:08 AM) Plus he looks snappy in that jacket. I went and saw him at a rally and he was all like

I believe that Barack Obama best represents my interests as an American. Although he is not a true supporter of marriage equality, he is miles ahead of most other politicians in this regard, at least offering many of the same rights and responsibilities to same sex couples as current married couples. I also, have come to believe that Senator Obama will act in a level headed way and make responsible decisions when it comes to issues of foreign affairs, primarily by using diplomacy first and foremost when acting with other state actors, and doing what's necessary to keep America safe when fighting against hostile rogue actors (terrorist organizations.) I believe that Barack Obama will take steps to bring us back to a situation where respect for the law is something shared by both the people and government, although I don't think that he will take all the steps necessary in the end. I believe that Obama will be a flexible leader and willing to work with both sides of the aisle to get things accomplished. To me, Obama's candidacy represents giving Americans a seat at the table again when it comes to issues that concern us. And that's a value we haven't seen in decades.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 07:23 PM) I think that it's all that processed cheese that they eat. And they even know its not real cheese. They call it "cheese food." "Cheese food?" Seriously? If you can't give Cheddar or even some Havarti some love, no wonder you so angry all the time. We all know that it's cheese that shares the love. What kept the Golden Girls together? Cheesecake. I rest my case.

That's how they get so much hate done at once.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Eagles fans booed Santa. No, they threw batteries at Santa.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 17, 2008 -> 09:09 PM) http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_updat...ty_of_boos.html Classy stuff, but common. Now, let's be fair. This is Philly. Ain't nobody nice to noone there.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 12:59 PM) But if you are registered in 73 different places......depends on traffic how many times you can vote. Except, by all accounts, the people that registered to vote 20+ times weren't faking addresses or anything like that, they were just registering to vote, thinking that they were helping someone get paid. The truth is, if you want to register in 73 different districts for an election, you don't need ACORN to do it. You just need 73 stamps.

QUOTE (Steff @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 02:05 PM) FWIW he appears to be FOS and his concerns were all an act. He also doesn't pay his taxes as he is in arrears to the State of Ohio for about $1200 in taxes. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?i...7360&page=1

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 01:33 PM) Call me crazy, but it makes me wonder when after screaming about election/voter fraud for seven years, the Democrats are suddenly OK with it. They seem to now be OK with everything they accused Bush of just a few short years ago. The best part of all being there is really no way to see how much fraud is in the system because there is no way to check for it at the polls. Plus if they do disquailfy votes, there is always the "disenfranchisement" arguement. Its a win-win. Then again, I didn't register to vote 73 times, so I don't have a problem with some checks and balances in our electoral system. If you're registered to vote 73 times in the same place, you'll still only get to vote once.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) $3M does not sound like a -lot. I would think the GOP would want to counter this.... They don't really have the money to, that's the problem. And frankly, it won't be terribly effective. Obama's campaign really has taken a page from Bush's playbook in the 2004 election. Having a luxury of resources allows them to do odd things that might attract fringe votes. In Obama's case, its the infomercials and the two minute loop on DirecTV. One of the things Bush did in 2004 that was genius was Traffic and Weather sponsorships. It got the person doing the reporting to parrot off the two sentence commercial like a live read.

I spent the last six days on a ship. The only consistent news source I had was Fox News. I was actually afraid after four days that Obama was losing. So I went to the super expensive internet service to check. And nothing had actually changed in the race really.