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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52052)	10/18/2008 11:33:56 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224896

Chicago's Farrakhan is psyched(and psycho): cbs2chicago.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52052)	10/18/2008 11:47:41 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224896

First honest post in a long time.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52052)	10/18/2008 1:04:29 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224896

Whoever gets elected, hard times are coming. --- We can thank six years of Bush getting what he wanted and two years of him vetoing what he didn't want. So who are the geniuses who believe an old salt like McCain is going to suddenly learn some new tricks? Time for redemtion at age 72? We should all be glad a man like Obama, who has demonstrated character rarely seen in politics and on a personal level, is still willing to take on the job.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52052)	10/18/2008 3:08:53 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224896

ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls." "Participation in our electoral process is a fundamental right, and the foundation of our democracy," said ASDF ASDFG, a spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Imaginary People, one of the groups named as plaintiffs in the class action. "We will not be silent when government denies people access to the polls on the basis of color, or sex, or existential status." The new suit was prompted by a series of law enforcement raids of ACORN offices in 10 states over the past week, as well as a reported Justice Department investigation. Federal and state officials say they were acting on tips of fraudulent voter registration forms, after election officials reported a flood of unusual applications submitted by ACORN canvassers. In Las Vegas the Clarke County election commission reported thousands of registrations signed by the Dallas Cowboys, while in St. Louis officials discovered thousands of others signed by Power Rangers, Menudo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline. "I'm proud that Ida County can boast of a 114,312% voter registration rate, but I'm not sure if I can get all of them processed by Monday," said Ballard. "I've got a pilates class in Sioux City." After the raids, ACORN officials initially blamed the problems on rogue volunteers. "We are in the midst of our most successful signup ever, registering over 7 trillion new voters in the last week alone," said ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson. "It's impossible to have 100% quality control, and a few misspellings might have fallen through the cracks." On Tuesday, ACORN said it would dismiss any workers suspected of fraud, and would outsource 40% of voter registration jobs to Bangalore Registration Industries. "The quality control is better in India, and we can save over $35 per metric ton," noted Jackson. After consultation with attorneys, however, ACORN -- which has received $800,000 from the Obama campaign for registration efforts -- filed a suit claiming the increased legal scrutiny was driven by a political agenda. Amicus briefs were added from several Imaginary Rights groups, adding civil rights violations to the list of complaints. "Whether we are obituary notices, hallucinatory giant rabbits, or strings of random keyboard strokes, it's time for the chimera community to stand up and claim our rights as citizens," said ASDFG. "We will no longer be silent and invisible. Okay, maybe invisible." In addition to $3.2 jubajillion in damages and free federal mortgages for homeless spectres, the suit also seeks enforcement of the Americans with Dimensional Disabilities Act. The Act requires voting places to make accommodations for existentially-challenged voters who have trouble completing ballots written in standard 3-dimensional reality. The accommodations include multiple site registration, time travel, and allowances for alcoholics to cast ballots for dependent D.T. phantasms. "Many of our community inhabit the Tapioca subluster of the 11th Dimension, and it's hard for them to find a convenient spacehole to make it to the local elementary school," explained ASDFG. A ruling in the suit is expected later this week from St. Louis federal appelate judge Fwinklezorg the Hydragoat. iowahawk.typepad.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52052)	10/18/2008 3:18:32 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224896

Whistleblower" Civil Suit Filed Against Bank in Rezko Land Deal October 18, 2008 2:29 PM A civil suit was filed against Mutual Bank Corporation this week regarding the Rezko-Obama land deal that has called the Democratic candidate so many headaches. Kenneth J. Conner filed a $4.2 million suit against his former employer this week in Cook County Civil Court (see the suit HERE) alleging the bank was engaged in systematic fraud. Conner used to perform real estate review and analysis for the bank and he says that in June 2005 Amrish Mahajam, the president and CEO of Mutual, approved a loan to Rita Malki Rezko so she could purchase a 9,090 square foot vacant parcel of real estate adjacent to land being purchased by Sen. Barack Obama, D-ill. As part of the loan underwriting process, Adams Valuation Corporation estimated the property was worth $68.76 per square foot, and Mrs. Rezko closed on the property at a price of $625,000 with a loan for $500,000 from Mutual. When Mrs. Rezko entered into an agreement with Barack and Michelle Obama to sell a ten-foot strip from the property, ultimately for $104,500, the Rezkos requested that Mutual Bank release its first collateral position to the ten-foot strip parcel transferred to the Obamas. Conner was asked to perform an appraisal review of the original appraisal, and he found that the Adams appraisal overvalued the lot by a minimum of $125,000. Conner claims that he was later fired from the bank after alerting authorities that his appraisal had been removed from the bank's files. What does Obama have to do with this? Nothing directly, as far as I can tell from reading the lawsuit. But it does bring back into the news the Rezko mess, which the Obama campaign would rather just vanish. The New York Daily News and the Washington Times have more. -- jpt blogs.abcnews.com October 18, 2008