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I am my own party, voting for the assholes that are slightly less, or possibly more acceptably asshole-like than the other assholes that run for office of chief asshole. 

Glenn Beck, defender of slavery!

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909230042

Gotta love that Beck guy.  he Kwazy.   

Worst part is that I do feel like some people have no clue what is in the Constitution, but seriously, Beck is of his bleedin nut.

Wait... How was Glenn Beck "right" about ACORN?

From what I recall, the election furor was over so-called "voter fraud".  But ACORN didn't commit voter fraud.  They committed voter registration fraud.  They were getting paid to register people, and submitted false forms so they could get paid for not doing their jobs.  No ballot boxes were stuffed, the election itself wasn't altered.

That's not what Glenn Beck alleged.

Secondly, the video showing ACORN advising a pimp how to play the system for his teenage prostitution ring also has nothing to do with voter fraud.

So, while ACORN has a lot of 'splaining to do, they aren't actually "guilty" of what they are generally accused of.  (They are guilty of many other things, however.)

You are correct.  I should have been more specific.  But he was right in that there is something wrong within that organization.

Where did I claim Heinlein was a social scientist?  Nowhere.  Stop making shit up just because I know your favourite author knows fuck all about the topic in question and has no place in a discussion about it.

I would make a more in depth reply, but I think you were reading someone elses reply or something.  Never said he was a fave author.  but hey man, rant on, no worries here.

I just figured that the poor sod was killed by some right winger who got all hopped up after fapping to Glenn Beck show videos on YouTube and thought he would impress the object of his affection.

God exists, or doesn't.  I fail to understand why Atheists just seem bent on ruining perfectly good holidays with all the quibbling.  Religious folk should be allowed to have their lil get togethers and put up adverts for it and what not.  I could care less what they do as long as they don't try and force me to believe their drivel.  Same with Atheists, the ones I run into seem about as fanatical as the Evangelicals I encounter.  I hope they are both right, and I hope they are both wrong.  I have no idea which it will be, but eventually we will all find out.

That wasn't really my point Cain.  Just because I use the idea doesn't mean that I am saying that Heinlein is some sort of social scientist.  But if that helped you get it off your chest man then it's all cool.

ACORN are an irrelevance.  Goldman Sachs have the government and FBI dancing to their tune, funding their continued existence and arresting enemies based purely on their say-so and you're worried about an organisation with a budget of a few million?

Priorities, people.  Don't worry about how the deck chairs are arranged while the ship is sinking.

Eh, good point...but I like the chairs this way.

No way there would be a coup unless they were ordered to shoot American citizens who were unarmed.  Wouldn't happen, I know too many military folks and grew up around them to think that such a thing would happen.  I mean the kind of things that would be required for such a situation to occur are nigh unto impossible to come together.

On the other hand, if it could happen then we already have a potential map of how things could be.  Just read Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. 

Is he a nut?  Yes.  But he was right about the ACORN organization, though they may not be as corrupt as he makes out, enough offices fell for the worst con I have ever seen that they should be investigated.

The impression I got from the tapes of the ACORN "investigation" wasn't so much that ACORN itself is (necessarily) corrupt, just that they didn't bother to train any of their workers, who retained a very strong in-group out-group mentality where pimps and hos are Our People and the government is the Big Scary Man.

The Government should be considered a big scary thing.  I agree that it is a training issue, but that multiple offices were cool with underage prostitution and, in one case, even offered help in smuggling the children across the border.  add to the fact that multiple states have been investigating them for voter fraud and you have alot of small issues that add up to something that could be much more.  There should be an investigation of such an organization to make sure that they are on the up and up.  These guys have strong ties with our current President, I want them to be cleared because America does not need that kind of issue with its first black president.  I mean it's bad enough these "Birther" nutjobs running about and the "Truthers" calling for a meeting with President Obama. 

i may hate the governmental system currently in place, but I don't need to invent reasons to hate them.  Presidents, or their parties, pushing bills thru without sufficient oversight.  Taxation on issues that the people do not agree with.  I mean why do these talking heads like Beck get all the attention when we should be watching our government so that the people don't need instigators like Beck and Hannity, Olberman and Maddow.

Is he a nut?  Yes.  But he was right about the ACORN organization, though they may not be as corrupt as he makes out, enough offices fell for the worst con I have ever seen that they should be investigated.

I learned alot of my concepts of Zen from reading the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.  It wasn't until later that I read Musashi.  But I think my best summation of my search for Zen in my life is best said as...

I spent years searching for the understanding of Zen before I sat down and closed my eyes.

I don't seem so interested in understanding it now, so much as I simply enjoy the moments of Zen that happen in my life.

22?  I was protecting a retired Army Intel Colonel that had grown extra paranoid in his old age.  He liked me because of the way I handled a firearm...his only reason for wanting me on the job...

I do need more ammo, but it has nothing to do with the supposed threats of the government or something.  I need some ball ammo(about 400, bullets with metal jacketed slugs) for practice and maybe another hydrashok box just to have.

For fuck's sake, is it even legal for me to become bitter and jaded before the age of 20?

I caught myself yelling at some kids to get outta my yard the other day.  I just ended up standing there in a daze and wandered back in the house.