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ACORN: About That Journalistic Integrity Thing

Sad, but too bad, LA Times. Now, if it had been a conservative source, how many additional confirmations do you think they would have wanted? My guess is at least one solid one. Oh, but progressive Commie types? We know they never lie because they care so much!

Yeah, ... right.

In September, L.A. Times columnist James Rainey wrote a column in which he uncritically quoted ACORN worker Lavelle Stewart suggesting that she had turned Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe out of her office:

LMAO: Mail Carrier Of The Year Announced!

The stupid just keeps pouring off of the wires tonight. A female mail carrier, drunk, breaks into a home and plops down on the kitchen floor to eat some leftover noodles?? You can't make this chit up. Too bad we don't have guvmint health care, yet. They'd probably just transfer her to the critical care ward to help reduce costs. She wasn't even fired on the spot. You watch, it'll be rehab and back to work delivering mail to your house. Help her out and keep some warm noodles on the porch for when she stumbles past. ha ha ha

MARION, Iowa (AP) -- Police in Marion and postal authorities are investigating the case of a mail carrier who was allegedly found drunk inside a residence while on the job. Police said the postal worker, 46, was charged with public intoxication Nov. 3 after she was found sitting on the kitchen floor of 95-year-old woman's house, eating leftover noodles from her refrigerator.

Police Lt. Steve Etzel said Tuesday that the woman apparently entered the home through an unlocked front door. He said she was in uniform and had mail and a mail-carrying bag with her.

The woman, a 17-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service, was taken to the Linn County Jail. Marion Postmaster Rick Leyendecker said the woman is currently on unpaid leave.

Couple Calls Police Over Pot Theft

Nah, smoking too much dope doesn't make you, like, uh, dumb, or anything. And within 1,000 yards of a school?? lol Morons like this don't deserve to get high.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A man and woman who reported to police that robbers stole their marijuana are now facing charges themselves. The 32-year-old man and 29-year-old woman told police five armed men came to their Wichita apartment late Monday night and took marijuana.

Police said one suspect accidentally fired his gun and spooked the other suspects. They ran from the apartment to a white Cadillac, dropping marijuana along the way.

Police found more marijuana inside the apartment.

The couple were booked on suspicion of various drug charges, including selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school.

Cold Cash Jefferson Gets 13 Years

Thirteen years in prison. We'll see what he serves, but it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa. The sentence handed down in suburban Washington was far less than the nearly 30 years prosecutors had sought for William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans for nearly 20 years.

Feds Ignored Medicare Fraud Warnings For Years

Isn't this fun stuff to read. One can only imagine the sharks lining up to get their portion from any new health care reform. Medicare fraud is thought to be in the area of $60 Billion a year. Despite repeated warnings in some cases, the Feds managed to ignore it for years. Yes, please do take more of our money only to manage it as if it wasn't your own. Oh, that's right! It isn't. Which has proved to be one of the biggest problems facing government as long as it has existed.

America should be outraged over this. Instead, many Americans will simply gloss over it as business as usual when it comes to the Federal Government. Because they're looking after us, right?  What a sad joke.

MIAMI (AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors over three years during the Bush and Obama administrations but didn't respond to half of them, even after repeated letters, according to records provided to The Associated Press by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley's office.

A July 2008 warning said organized crime had infiltrated the system and was costing more than $1 million dollars for each phony Medicare provider license the crooks obtained. The letter got no response, Grassley said.

Bill Sparkman: Census Worker's Death An Insurance Scam?

Talk about another shoe dropping, geez.

Dang, those Right Wing fanatics will stop at nothing in the pursuit of profits. No wonder capitalism is dying! And why has the Left stopped paying attention to this story? Don't they actually want to get to the bottom of it after having used up a political non-talking point? Don't they actually care about Census workers? Who would have guessed?

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A census taker found hanging from a tree had named his son as his life insurance beneficiary, and investigators are looking into whether the father manipulated the death scene to make a claim possible, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press Thursday.
 
In an interview with AP, Josh Sparkman said he found paperwork for the private life insurance policy among his father, Bill Sparkman's, personal files but wasn't sure of the amount or when it was taken out. He said authorities have told him nothing about the case or produced a death certificate, which is usually needed to make an insurance claim.

Two law enforcement sources, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case, said investigators are trying to determine if Bill Sparkman manipulated the death scene, so his son could collect.

ACORN: We Have A Constitutional Right To Steal Taxpayer Money

Why don't these idiots go out and get real jobs. Breitbart's video busts told us what they do best. The pathetic part in all this is that they were not just allowed, but encouraged to run wild on taxpayer funding by corrupt liberals, including Obama. They should all hang together if you ask me. How long will it be before corrupt Democrats find a way to back door them the money? I bet they're accustomed to the back door. Maybe Barney Frank should spearhead the effort? After all, he ran a whorehouse at his condo once, too. Now that I think of it, I wonder if he bought it on ACORN dollars?

NEW YORK (AP) - ACORN has filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a law cutting off federal funding to the organization.
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on ACORN's behalf Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. It claims the law was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.

Messages for comment left at the White House and the federal agencies named in the suit were not immediately returned.

San Fran Wants More Illegal Immigrant Felons

This is what you get when progressives are in control. Illegal immigrant Edwin Ramos had been charged with felonies while a minor. City policy prevented him from being deported. As an adult, he shot and killed a man and his two sons. But it didn't end there.

A measure was enacted to officially prevent authorities from turning over an illegal immigrant minor to immigration until he was convicted. That's right, prevent, not encourage. Not so fast, said Newsome, so he vetoed it. That meant they could be turned over. However, that didn't sit well with city supervisors, they overturned the veto.

Evidently they want to hold on to illegal immigrant criminals as long as they can, even if it means they kill someone one day. How utterly irresponsible and bizarre. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco supervisors have overturned the mayor's veto of a controversial ordinance involving how the city deals with illegal immigrant minors facing felony charges.

After Mayor Gavin Newsom last month vetoed a measure that would prohibit local authorities from turning over minors to immigration officials until the minors have been convicted, city supervisors on Tuesday voted 8-3 to override the veto.

Newsom and city supervisors have been at odds over the issue since the mayor ordered a change in the city's policy in 2008 after Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant, was charged with the fatal shootings of a man and his two sons.

Ramos had been charged with felonies as a minor, but the city's policy prevented him from being deported.

Extra Crispy: John Allen Muhammad Burns In Hell

Extra crispy, please.

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Holder Cares About CAIR

Please tell me this idiot isn't the AG of the US of A?

What, no Black Panther conferences this month and he feels an urge to talk? Great.

Just how exposed do you think these clowns are going to leave the nation with this incessant need to reach out to religious extremists? Oh, what am I saying. Obama is the protege of a religious extremist as in Reverend Wright.

And the circle closes as the first un-American, looking more like anti-American presidency in history rolls on much to the disgrace to the very office Obama works in every day. What's next? Is Commerce going to start pushing a bring a jihadist to work day? That ought to be a real blast!

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech next week to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed contacts with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization.

On Nov. 19, Holder is scheduled to speak in Detroit to the first annual awards banquet of Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, a coalition of several dozen law enforcement and community groups. An online registration form for the event includes the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan on a list of “official & participating organizations.”

A spokeswoman for ALPACT confirmed that CAIR is a member of the coalition.