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ACORN employees caught in those undercover videos advising a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to break the law acted unprofessionally and inappropriately, but did nothing illegal, an independent report has found.

While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers.

The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles's comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.

So, this has been going on, quietly, below the surface for a while now. Acorn, of course, had nothing to do with any of it, and, as was brought up over and over again, the "producers" of the file were entrapping the Acorn employees. And once again, FOX News has used partisan editorial leanings to influence actual reporting, and has damaged a social organization that did much good.

And where are the mea culpas? Why, nowhere to be found, of course...

Someone decided to make a post about the Pearl Harbor attack. Unfortunately, he seems to have had a stroke and forgotten a great deal about how to use English (he also seems to have lost any understanding of history as well).

68 years ago today the naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territorial holding of Hawaii, 1959 it became a state, which would become the catalyst for the United States entering into the global conflict we call World War Two.

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Death Valley Scotty's Castle

Instead of sharing the pics I recently took of Death Valley, and Scotty's Castle here, I decided to create a page especially for them. I did it this way, because it would have greatly slowed down this journal.

Seems like the cock roaches continue to come out of the wood work for the adulterous Tiger Woods.

I've looked at these women's pics, and find them to be as unattractive as can be, and will never understand how Tiger could have found any of these one night stand gold diggers attractive, when he had a gorgeous, and faithful wife at home. All these women knew that Tiger Woods was married, so I not only blame Woods for whoring around, but all of them, too. My point is, if a woman knows a man is married, then why does she give him the come on, when there are so many single men available? And why do the majority of married men stray?

Although, I've never been into golf, I once held the utmost respect for this man.

A woman who obviously had concentual sex with Woods has surfaced and has hired a lawyer. Why a lawyer?


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Guys, could you please help me with one word, I don't know if it's right to say so, but the situaion is a guy has recently divorced and his wife wants more money and he doesn't know what word to use being in the court by saying to her that she has no CONSIENCE or what? I know the word consience in this case is not appropriate but what word IS?

Guys, could you please help me with one word, I don't know if it's right to say so, but the situaion is a guy has recently divorced and his wife wants more money and he doesn't know what word to use being in the court by saying to her that she has no CONSCIENCE or what? I know the word conscience in this case is not appropriate but what word IS?

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I have a confession to make and... it's not pretty and it's one I don't like having to admit to having. But I'm terrified. Absolutely terrified about something. And that something is... Sarah Palin. I know I spend a lot of time here and over on my Facebook mocking and trashing her but in the back of my noodle, I'm terrified that she could wind up as our new president in 2012. Is it likely? No. But it is possible. There is a scenario that's really not that far outside the realm of possibility that makes it possible. Granted, it would take a ginormous clusterf**k, a perfect storm of poo to bring it to fruition, but it could happen. And that thought is enough to give me cold sweats in the middle of the night.

I know, I know... I'm getting my knickers in a twist over nothing, right? I'm sure that's what most people say. But two things... I know a little bit about politics... and I've come to never underestimate the stupidity of the American people... I won't bang on "the people" too hard for the 2000 Supreme Court appointment of Dubya, but the man certainly got a lot of votes... but in 2004 after 4 years of insane policies, out-of-control spending, 2 disastrous wars he obviously had no real plans for and rampant corruption and incompetence... and he still gets re-elected? That's why I never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. We elected the man we'd "rather have a beer with" rather than the man that would have done a better job for this country.

So... leaving people's stupidity aside for a moment, there is a war raging within the Republican party these days. It's an absolute war of attrition in which the more moderate (read: sane) voices are being driven out of the party and the hard, hard right-wing... the religious fundamentalists, xenophobic/racist, warmongering, bigoted elements of the party are winning. This ain't your daddy's Republican party anymore. Ronald Reagan, the paragon of virtue and decency to Republicans everywhere would never be elected by this party and somebody like Barry Goldwater would be pilloried as a flaming, wild-eyed liberal. The GOP has taken about as extreme a right turn as they possibly could have with people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck leading the charge. And it doesn't appear that it's going to get any better (read: sane) anytime soon. And this new "mainstream" of the Republican party makes up Palin's base. They LOVE her (if you ask me, they love her much in the way the Branch Davidians loved Koresh or how the People's Temple loved Jim Jones)... regardless of that though, these hard-right nuts, freaks and kooks totally heart Sarah Palin. She is a dynamic figure... the only dynamic figure in a party desperately searching for an identity and a leader and she absolutely energizes them.

During last year's campaign and election, the country was energized and motivated. Voters... especially new voters turned out in droves for Obama. Judging by recent polling I've seen, that energy, that motivation is flagging. It's possible that as the 2012 elections near, that energy will get ramped up again but I'm not so sure. I think a lot of people... typically apathetic when it comes to politics, got out there to be a part of history and nothing more. I'd hoped that the sudden awakening of the electorate last year was the start of something, that we were turning a corner where we'd see more involvement and activism but a recent poll I saw shows that nearly 40% of Democratic voters have no plans to turn out for the 2010 mid-term elections... an incredibly important election where we stand to lose a lot of seats if the people really don't turn out. And if we thought the Republican stall and obstructionist tactics were bad now, imagine what they'll be like if we don't have clear and convincing majorities. Or if we lose one or both houses of Congress altogether.

It's true that Obama's approval ratings have slipped since he first took office. He's still above 50% appproval, but that's a far cry from the 60% + that he enjoyed early on in his term. Add to that, the massive discontent over his recently announced strategy for Afghanistan as well as on various other issues and we start getting into dicey territory. I'm not thrilled with his Afghanistan strategy but I'm hardly surprised by it... and I'm honestly perplexed that so many others seem to be. But if things in Afghanistan go badly, if his strategy flops and things get even more unstable over there, his approval ratings will plummet and I foresee many people viciously turning on him.

And you can't ignore the Faux News factor... they didn't sling this much crap at Clinton. But they turn anything and everything they can, be it a legitimate story or not, into some massive breaking scandal. They are doing everything they can to dumb down the American people even further by feeding them a steady diet of lies, manipulations and distortions... and most people are either too busy or too apathetic to care about finding out the truth of things. Should sentiment in this country really sour on Obama, Faux News could certainly pump out enough garbage to inflame the people's anger even more. And what if there really were a scandal of some kind? Can you even begin to imagine what the fallout of that kind of sh*tstorm would look like?

So yeah... that's the path to a Palin presidency as I see (and fear it)... an energized and batsh*t crazy GOP, an apathetic and unmotivated Democratic base, massive anger over policy issues especially in regard to the conduct of the war, the specter of some scandal that rocks his administration, the ever present propaganda machine that is Faux News and of course, the stupidity of the American people. I realize that's a lot of things that have to come together all at one time. Like I said, it's not "likely" but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

I think it goes without saying that a Palin presidency would spell doom and disaster for this country. If we thought Dubya was an incompetent boob that was supremely unqualified for the post, Palin would make him look like Thomas freaking Jefferson by comparison. If by some off-the-wall chance she actually wins in 2012, I'm going to be hoping and praying that the Mayans were right and the world just implodes on December 21st. I think that would be far more preferable than enduring even a single minute of her reign.

Is there a word for the opposite of cross-eyed, when the eyes kind of point outwards? There is a kitty on my tissue box that has just such a look.

So I am back in the Great State of Montana-- snow ice and it is –17 F you know it has been so long I almost forgot how to Journal ;o) lol

So first off My University of Montana Grizzlies are in the finals of the Division 1 football playoffs and still undefeated ;o) Go Grizz!
And My Boise State Broncos are undefeated too and on the way to the fiesta Bowl with TCU they are undefeated as well it should be called the national championship but you know politics, I even went to two games when I was down in Boise this last month,

Now I cannot forget my Colts they are still undefeated too so It kind of looks like my teams are doing great this year too. Lets think Super Bowl =) wink wink

My Quote of the day:

"The important thing was to love rather than to be loved."
W. Somerset Maugham

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
Kahlil Gibron

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
Friedrich Nietzsche

Well time to say good night still tired from my trip

Can anyone name some positive sociological/clinical attributes of Dr. House, from the TV show House?

It would really help me in writing this paper for my Practice Skills Final.

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Brazilians couldn't be more perplexed at the country being the target of an unbelievably rude, irresponsible, and unjustifiable attack by an accomplished asshole named Robin Williams, who missed a golden opportunity of keeping his big mouth shut while being interviewed by David Letterman. It was an appalling thing to happen and understandably the press is giving it a lot of space. Nobody knows what got into this idiot (to say the least) to do a thing like that.

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Okay, so, I'll just put all of the ones by Peter Paradise in this entry.

( queens & kings oh my! )

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. I can't even begin to describe how ridiculous and horrible it is.

Have any of you read Road to Serfdom?

I'm halfway through it right now, and I have to say that I'm impressed by the fact that he acknowledges that laissez-faire shouldn't be an end in itself, but the freedom of opportunity for all, and thus implying (or just stating outright) that the state needs to lay down the law to ensure competition and impartial fairness for all. I'm always surprised when I read that people like Reagan were influenced by Hayek, people really warp what he said.

You don't seem to hear cogent and even-handed arguments such as that purported by today's "liberals" or "conservatives".

RIP Classical Liberalism

For Tiffany's birthday recently we went out to a bar and had a ton of fun.

Laura & Travis moved to Colorado this summer and we miss them terribly.

So we took a picture of the bunch of us, with a note that said "we miss you Laura and Travis!"

Here's some of my core group of friends here in Boston.

( group shot! )

Brought to you by Peter Paradise

( you may've heard of me, I play in a band called Nirvana )

There's a few full-body ones I'm waitin' on...

and the shots I took are on this entry.