Archive for October, 2008

Voter Registration Fraud is Not Equal to Voter Fraud

October 17, 2008

The current mountain out a molehill from the McCain Campaign is that somehow, ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is perpetrating massive voter fraud that “threatens the very fabric of democracy”.
Baloney.
What is happening is that ACORN hires people, sometimes lazy people, who sometimes make up names instead of actually registering voters.  The [...]

Oh No She Di’int!

October 2, 2008

I was watching the Vice Presidential Debate this evening and I was immediately struck by Governor Palin’s illiterate use of “nu-kew-ler” –the way W says it — instead of the real word, nuclear — as in \ˈnü-klē-ər.
To me, she didn’t have an impressive performance because it was obvious that she was avoiding real, non-scripted [...]