By now, unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you've probably heard about ACORN, a community organization that helps the underserved low-income and minority portions of society get registered to vote. Their efforts have resulted in many, many new registrations for people that wouldn't otherwise have done so.
Obviously, this new influx of dark-skinned people have the Republicans all in a tizzy, going all the way to the top of their ticket with John McCain shamelessly plugging an outright lie on national TV in the last Presidential debate about how ACORN may be attempting to perpetrate the largest outright voter fraud scam in history blah blah blah lie lie lie Swift Boat Swift Boat Swift Boat... I mean, seriously, folks: after being shown in exhaustive detail how the GOP successfully stole the past two Presidential elections, how can anyone actually take what these nimrods say at face value anymore?
So, in response to the quaking-in-their-boots GOP Lying Liars, Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has put together a succint video rebuttal that pretty much cuts the legs out from under the allegations being so casually thrown about by the likes of McCain/Palin and the GOP Liebots:
And if THAT wasn't enough, here's a video of Johnny Mac just a few short years back speaking at an ACORN rally in 2006 - as the keynote speaker - lauding the very same efforts he now seeks to condemn!
What more evidence do you require? I'll say this to anyone who tries to bring it up: show me. Show me your evidence. Show me where not only did someone somehow manage to get past all the safeguards built in place against fraudulent voter registrations, but they were successful in getting past the election officials at the poll and were able to cast their vote in such large numbers as to be any threat to the election itself, then you may have a point worth considering.
What's that, you say? You don't have any?
Color me shocked.
But, get ready, folks - this is the type of shit you can expect from the GOP and all their little minions starting a week from Tuesday. The only way to negate these criminal's efforts is to turn out. Turn out in droves. Make the turnout numbers so big that they can't steal it again, because they're already priming their pumps on the other side for a big fight. For, in the end, what it always comes down to is this:
Republicans can't win these elections honestly, and must resort to suppression, lies and theft in order to "win". They've done it before - successfully - and they're going to attempt to do it again.
For more about the hoax against ACORN, check out the tireless efforts over at the Brad Blog for keeping track of these and all the other voter shenanigans for the past 8 years.
We really made an effort to squeeze as much activity out of our five days as we could, so by the end of the day, we were all BEAT and were asleep as soon as our heads hit the soft, comfy pillows in our lovely rooms at Caribbean Beach.
Here are a few choice gems I've pulled from our cameras so far:
I'm still in the process of getting pics uploaded, but if the few samples I've put up here aren't enough, go over to my Facebook photo album for more!
It seems like it has just come ot of nowhere, but in the last month or so, it feels like everyone and their 4th cousin, 3 times removed has a Facebook account. Some might even call it a viral spread, considering the speed with which this social netwrok tsunami seems to be sweeping across these great Intertubes.
That said, it is pretty cool to be able to find people you haven't seen or spoken to in years and see what they're up to nowadays. I've come across some old high school and college friends I have spoken to in 15-20 years. Some have really changed, some seem exactly the way I remember them. And while we don't necessarily have the same things in common that we did lo those many moons ago, thanks to this technological wizardry, we find ourselves having something new to share together.
There is a dark side to it, however; it's addicting. Now that you've found all these people and you've re-established this tentative new relationship with them, you almost feel obligated to respond in kind when they send you a Flying Karate Monkey or a Water Lily Plant to help save the rainforest. The applications on Facebook aren't perfect, and some of them are downright bug-ridden, but in the end, it's nice to blow the dust off of the braincells that went dormant regarding these folks years ago and have a little fun.
FYI - the chat function is terrible, so I'd recommend sticking with MSN Messenger or Yahoo for that.
Up until now, while I always thought she was kinda cute, I never really got Tina Fey.
Now I do.
Not only is her intonation and look a perfect match for Sarah Palin - to the point where I've had to stop and really look to see which one it was at times - but the fact that she largely uses Palin's own words as the inspirational kick-off point for her parodies.
We just watched tonight's SNL version of the Veep debate and it was truly a work of art. Unfortunately, YouTube hasn't had anybody post it up yet, so until then, here's a bit from her earlier skit with Amy Poehler as Katie Couric in "The Interview":
UPDATE: Here's last night's offering, for those that missed it!
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