ACORN? AGAIN?
I must just be in denial but it seems so patently unfair to me to target ACORN as a somehow subversive or criminal organization but categorize what happened across the country in the town hall meetings as merely the spontaneous narodnik expression of the people's will. In my day ACORN was chided for being way too mainstream and basically irrelevant. They were centered on reformist poverty issues as a form of empowerment for the poor and did not deal, we said, with the problems endemic to the system. That's all well and good, but how do you explain the fact that they keep coming back up as a news item? Well, if you believe folks like Rachel Maddow it seems that ACORN hasn't just "appeared" on the radar but has been the focus of a long running purposeful vendetta. Well, wait, though, don't just listen to the pinko commie, let's hear what David Iglesias has to say about it. Iglesias is the former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico who was purportedly fired for refusing to prosecute ACORN for voter fraud.

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AND YET ANOTHER, BUT FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE AND WRITTEN YESTERYEAR

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Wall Street's Near-Meltdown Gave Rise to New Lies About the Economy, All Designed to Blame Anyone But Those Responsible | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet

PASSING THE BUCK
If the economic meltdown was caused by a bunch of poor people who bought McMansions we could have solved it much more cheaply in a couple of days in late 2008 by simply providing borrowers with additional capital to reduce their loan principals. It would have cost about 3 percent of what the entire bailout wound up costing with comparatively similar risk.
(ALTERNET)

Mayoral candidates lobby for gay vote | ajc.com

GAY POWER
Within hours of an Atlanta police raid of a popular gay Midtown bar this month,all four leading mayoral candidates had sent statements urging city officials to conduct an investigation into a raid at the Atlanta Eagle and punish any police officers found to have violated the bar patrons’ civil rights. Another candidate went to a rally at the bar the following Sunday to protest what demonstrators argue was police misconduct.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION)