ACORN affiliate: We’d like $6 million more in taxpayer money, please

posted at 8:27 pm on September 14, 2009 by Allahpundit

Pelosi’s going to do everything she can to avoid a vote on the Senate measure that passed today so let’s throw as much wood on the fire as we can. Smell that smoke, Nancy:

ACORN Institute has filed two separate applications with the Commerce Department [for stimulus money]. One in the amount of $3,172,042 and the other in amount of $2,999,903.

The grant description reads as follows:

“The Digital Empowerment Project bridges the digital divide in low-income and minority populations by promoting adoption through grassroots outreach, training participants in computer centers; and providing in-home computers and broadband access. This approach is based on research-driven practices and ensures an efficient and scalable effort to facilitate broadband in disadvantaged populations.”…

As The Examiner has previously reported, ACORN remains eligible for over $8 billion in federal funding through stimulus money and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg enjoys the cosmic irony of ACORN becoming radioactive under “their dream president.” I’ve wracked my brain trying to come up with a devil’s-advocate defense of the group and here’s the pathetic best I can do: Hannah Giles looks like a movie star, which makes her about as convincing a prostitute as Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.” If that didn’t set off any alarm bells at ACORN, they must not be used to dealing with pimps and their clientele. Good enough? No, not for me either. Incidentally, I’m hearing through the grapevine that there might perhaps, maybe, possibly, perchance be a few videos from her and O’Keefe still to come. You’ll want to keep your browser pointed right here this week when you log on in the morning.

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CPL310

No. It’s interesting. They are so ignorant/blind to the facts, they still respond using the same word. They devote time to conservative websites and honestly, they are very informative and use facts in their statements. And it does not matter.

I see this all the time.

meMC on September 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM

(I) “will not let the white boys win in this election.”
– Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on the 2000 election

“The old white boys got taken fair and square.” — San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

“There’s no great, white bigot; there’s just about 200 million little white bigots out there.” — USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux

CWforFreedom on September 14, 2009 at 10:14 PM

All-cash business and underage whores;
Honesty you’re in the way.
There’s too much cash in the backyard stash
Look what’s going on inside you.

CHORUS-
Ooh, ooh that smell
Can’t you smell that smell?
Ooh, ooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you.

Yeah.
Light of truth is upon you.
Stuck your foot in your mouth (you, fool, you)
So try another lie, call DC for your guy,
one more lie, tool, will drown you. (hell, yeah)

CHORUS

Now they call you Obama’s darling.
Can’t speak the truth when you’re full of tools.
Say you’ll be alright come tomorrow, but
tomorrow might not be here for you. (yeah, you)

CHORUS

Aw, you, tool, you.
You peddle such lies in your ‘hood
We know, we’re keeping score.

One little problem that confronts you,
got videos of your schemes.
Just one more lie, Lord, might pass you by.
One hell of a risk for you to take down the team. (hell, yeah)

CHORUS 2x

Oh, you, tool, you
Don’t peddle those lies in your ‘hood.
You’re just a tool, just a tool, just a tool

ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM

Say It Loud – I’m Black, Republican and I’m Proud
By HHR | September 8th, 2009

by Steve Nichols

To be liberal or not to be liberal that is the question!!!! Alright we have a black president now so why are idiots like Al Sharpton still running around playing the race card? I believe it’s because he has no real creditials to back up his true civil right beliefs. Reverend ummm- did you know Al Sharpton use to be James Brown’s road manager???

Where did he go to seminary school??? Anyway this isn’t about him, it’s about the far left using the liberal agenda to exploit poor blacks, poor whites, and other poor minorities.

I grew up in the heart of the ghetto my mother was on government housing and foodstamps, as were others in my neighborhood. What I remember thinking was man these people are hopeless, they can’t see the light of day. Poor black people since the late 60’s refuse to believe in the power of education, self governance and family tithes. So as a Republican I want to change this conduct of the liberal media, liberal television, liberal entertainers and idoits like Dr. Phil Clinton, Messy Jackson and Cal Sharpton.

There is a new generation of self governed, well educated and family oriented minorities that have had enough with liberal government control in their communities. Why did so many black people jump on the Obama band wagon, when most black men don’t wanna’ speak well, get a good education and be family men. I don’t know how many times I’ve been told by other black people that I sound proper or “WHITE”, pretty damn sad. Liberals continue to blame conservatives and republicans continue to blame democrats but I blame you, me and every other black person or minority that is not trying to make a difference in their districts.

In my district I had Laura Richardson(D) booo! Another liberal democrat caught up in the slave masters mindset that, “Da’ governement gon’ save us ya hear naw”! I don’t have a problem with blacks or other minorities being democrats I have a problem with them not bearing the knowledge as to why they’re democrats. Last point I’m going to make is this; during the 1920’s African Americans were making progress we had Harlem, we had the Black Wall Street in Oklahoma, we had black doctors, lawyers and dentists, black educational institutes and most of all we had the black family. What went wrong?

Well we saw suffering in the south and we united with our kin folk to rid the country of bigotry and segregation but, in the process we allowed to many unlikely liberal sources drive us away from Martin Luther Kings, Jr., words of, “Free at last free at last thank God almighty we are free at last”. As in the words of Frederick Douglas, ” I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

~Steve Nichols is a blogger and Republican who lives in Signal Hill, CA

CWforFreedom on September 14, 2009 at 10:18 PM

SNL White Like Me

John the Libertarian on September 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM

I like the one where he plays a convict, Tyrone Green, selling poetry from behind bars.

Lanceman on September 14, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Murphy was awesome on SNL.

Mr. Robinson’s Neigborhood, James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub, Gumby, Buckwheat, “the camera so easy even Stevie Wonder can use it”…

malclave on September 14, 2009 at 10:19 PM

What’s the source for the LBJ quote? OUCH! That’s gonna leave a mark.

smellthecoffee on September 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM

Anyway to give you a clue, i worked for one of the big 4 for 3 years.

No, you didn’t.

Good Lt on September 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM

Quite frankly, i could careless whether you believe me or not. I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s. Don’t worry I did my part and worked twice as hard compared to most of my co-employers while i was a full time auditor. Something that has helped me tremendously in my career.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

smellthecoffee on September 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM

Ronald Kessler’s Book, “Inside The White House”…Johnson was talking to two governors.

CWforFreedom on September 14, 2009 at 10:25 PM

Today, the House/Senate passed a resolution commemorating…

Do ya think Congresscritters spend more time reading these legislative bon-bons than bills that overturn significant sectors of the economy?

ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM

. Don’t worry I did my part and worked twice as hard compared to most of my co-employers while i was a full time auditor. Something that has helped me tremendously in my career.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

And just how do you quantify that? I suspect you are making it up. Again why do you feel a need to defend a party that has enslaved far too many poor to a life of government dependency?

CWforFreedom on September 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM

S/he’s got no response for other lengthy critiques of his/her bullsh!t, either.

CPL 310 on September 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Anyway to give you a clue, i worked for one of the big 4 for 3 years.

No, you didn’t.

Good Lt on September 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM

I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s.
Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

No he meant he could not believe that you a liberal gay white woman was a CPA

CWforFreedom on September 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM

CWforFreedom
Unfortunately, the party has taken the route of promoting government dependencey as a priviledge entitlement. They are owed something. Make the gov pay.

meMC on September 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM

Meant to type co-employees in my last post. Anyway cons off to bed now. Some of us have to pay taxes that you guys are trying to avoid paying.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM

Meant to type co-employees in my last post. Anyway cons off to bed now. Some of us have to pay taxes that you guys are trying to avoid paying.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM

That’s very racist of yuo, calling Obama’s cabinet “cons”.

malclave on September 14, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Anyway cons off to bed now. Some of us have to pay taxes that you guys are trying to avoid paying. I have no response to any of the lengthy factual critiques of my fundamentally flawed mindset, so I’ll just ignore them because it’d be a blow to my fragile identity that’s so based on ideology. I’ll make a last personal attack using Rule:5 Ridicule – because it’ll boost my self-esteem, and then run away, because I’m an intellectual coward and ideological fraud.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM

FIFY.

CPL 310 on September 14, 2009 at 10:36 PM

I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

Bro–it isn’t difficult. We all know black CPA’s. We all know black CEO’s. We all know black ministers, social workers, psychiatrists, restaurateurs, dentists, doctors, lawyers, actor, writers, poets, college professors, high school teachers, athletes, architects, interior designers, chefs, entrepreneurs–OK? News flash. The president of the United States is even black. It isn’t the 1950′s anymore, guy. Get over it.

smellthecoffee on September 14, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Must be hard for Afrolib with that chip on his shoulder. Most people succeed no matter the color of their skin because of will and drive.

It must suck to always analyze people by the color of their skin and judge his own failures in the same way. Sad life. Pathetic really.

meMC on September 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM

Anyway cons off to bed now. Some of us have to pay taxes that you guys are trying to avoid paying.

silly goose. I’m a JOOOOOOOO. I don’t pay taxes.

mjk on September 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM

You and I are probably the only ones on this thread that saw ‘The Big Lebowski’.

Lanceman on September 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM

That’ll be “no” for $400, please, Alex!

Loved the scene near the end when the German nihilists continued to demand that the Dude, Walter and Donny pay ransom despite the fact their kidnapping scheme was blown: “Iss not fair!“

ya2daup on September 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM

Quite frankly, i could careless whether you believe me or not. I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s. Don’t worry I did my part and worked twice as hard compared to most of my co-employers while i was a full time auditor. Something that has helped me tremendously in my career.

Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

Oh geez, not the old “I had to work twice as hard” canard.

Maybe you just weren’t as bright as your co-workers and had to put in more hours to compensate for that.

David2.0 on September 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM

You and I are probably the only ones on this thread that saw ‘The Big Lebowski’.

Lanceman on September 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM

Not true. Own it on DVD.

David2.0 on September 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM

I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s.

No, it’s difficult to believe that idiots have the capacity to be a CPAs.

Again, you’re the one seeing race. I’m the one focusing on your ability – in this case, you can’t string a coherent argument together or cite evidence supporting your idiotic claims, so you’re an idiot.

Is that clear, or should I say it again with crayons?

Some of us have to pay taxes that you guys are trying to avoid paying.

HAHAHHA Who is Tim Geithner? Who is Tom Daschle? Who is Charlie Rangel?

Again, you’re not a CPA. CPAs actually care about people who don’t pay taxes.

Don’t worry I did my part and worked twice as hard compared to most of my co-employers while i was a full time auditor.

I worked three times as hard as you did to get where I am. Race has nothing to do with it. Get that chip off your shoulder, child, and grow up.

Something that has helped me tremendously in my career.

Hard work helps?

Tell it to the Democrats’ entitlement mobs who are attached to the welfare rolls – with the help of criminal rackets like ACORN – by your favorite Democrat politicians in the name of “compassion.” And don’t you dare suggest to them that they have to work their asses off to get ahead in AMerica. That makes you “racist.” So you can’t tell somebody to work hard, because that’s racist. You can’t not tell them to work hard, because ignoring them is also racist.

In other words, everything is racist and nothing is racist.

Hence, I don’t believe you’re a CPA. You’re an idiot. Idiots don’t become CPAs.

Good Lt on September 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Loved the scene near the end when the German nihilists continued to demand that the Dude, Walter and Donny pay ransom despite the fact their kidnapping scheme was blown: “Iss not fair!“

We don’t care. We takes the money, Lebowski!

Good Lt on September 14, 2009 at 11:47 PM

We all know black CPA’s. We all know black CEO’s. We all know black ministers, social workers, psychiatrists, restaurateurs, dentists, doctors, lawyers, actor, writers, poets, college professors, high school teachers, athletes, architects, interior designers, chefs, entrepreneurs–OK? News flash. The president of the United States is even black. It isn’t the 1950’s anymore, guy. Get over it.

Yup.

Get over it.

He can’t. And it’s your fault.

This is ante-bellum South we’re living in. It’s just “hidden” in our culture or something.

Because, uh, afrolib says so.

Good Lt on September 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM

WHY in the world should he care or listen to a bunch of ppl who are praying for his death and will never vote for him?
laughable!

TruUSA on September 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM

“My father taught me many things here – he taught me in this room. He taught me – keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” – “Michael Corleone”, in The Godfather Part II (1974).

Any good thug knows that!

ExpressoBold on September 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM

ExpressoBold on September 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wrong thread … sorry.

ExpressoBold on September 15, 2009 at 12:41 AM

On Hannity last night, the girl who posed as the hooker said there’s another video hitting the fan today. And maybe another. LOL

This girl should be hired by Fox. Bet she will be. Just watch.

I also liked the “pimp” dressing as the modern version of Huggy Bear. Damn. What an outfit. All he needed was an Escalade to make him current.

bradley11 on September 15, 2009 at 5:34 AM

I know it is difficult for you to believe blacks can be CPA’s.
Afrolib on September 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM

No, it’s impossible to believe white mental patients can be black.

TMK on September 15, 2009 at 5:51 AM

I think the idea of smoking hot hooker is slightly more probable in New York than anywhere else.

Speedwagon82 on September 15, 2009 at 7:08 AM

NOT ONE MORE DIME……..

adamsmith on September 15, 2009 at 7:21 AM

As Glen said this morning, we can’t let it die here:

~Defunding ACORN is the first step.
~Then prosecute Acorn for misuse of federal funds and for recovery of federal funds that were previously granted.
~Third, most important step, is a full and open investigation of ACORN and affiliates to root out the corruption.

petefrt on September 15, 2009 at 7:46 AM

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