POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Rustles & Glimmers’ Liberal Deprogramming Course 1-24

Short-form deprogramming mantras, suitable for tweeting or as cookie fortunes.

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Trollhammer for Greasemonkey

SBP's new version works for POWIP.

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Moe Lane Profiled

And I get a shout-out! Thanks, Moe.

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Chicago Tribune Op-Ed on ACORN

Hometown paper:

ACORN's close ties to the progressive movement and Democratic Party mean that there will be little public confidence if Holder decides not to pursue an ambitious investigation and ultimately prosecute.

Ironically, ACORN's chief executive officer, Bertha Lewis, strengthens the case for an independent prosecutor with her robust defense of the organization. FOX News, she says, is pursuing her group solely for political reasons. They oppose ACORN, she says, because it is associated with progressive politics, labor organizing and the Obama administration's health-care initiative. Unfortunately for ACORN, Lewis' charges also mean that if the Obama administration decides not to prosecute or to indict only low-level employees, the public will wonder if they are seeing a political defense by ACORN's friends, a coverup rather than a fair-minded, independent decision by the Justice Department.

Holder has compounded these concerns with two recent decisions. In New Mexico, federal attorneys apparently recommended high-level prosecutions in the pay-for-play scandal swirling around Gov. Bill Richardson. Holder's office overrode them and dropped the case. Holder also decided to drop the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, where thugs were caught on tape brandishing clubs outside a voting precinct. In both cases, Holder has refused to explain his actions.

After these decisions and Holder's silence about them, there is simply no reason to hand him another high-profile case with political ramifications. What we have seen on tape cries out for a serious, independent investigation to determine if ACORN and its affiliates are a criminal enterprise, whether they have spent federal grants lawfully, whether they helped taxpayers file fraudulent returns, and whether they violated laws prohibiting tax-exempt organizations from engaging in partisan politics. These are big questions, and the public needs to know that Washington's answers are fair and impartial.

Meanwhile, Obama claims not to have known that ACORN was slated to be a big recipient of federal monies. Considering that he doesn't, apparently, know the name of one of his daughters, that's possibly not as surprising as Donald thinks.

UPDATE: Wow. Holder really has to go.

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Unidentified Panamanian Creature Stoned to Death by Teens

You can view the story, here.

Sadly, the creature kept crying out, "Phone home!" as they battered it with rocks, but none of the kids spoke English. Perhaps there's a new CSI in the making?

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The Grey-Eyed Goddess, Athena

Today is the birthday of my father and my daughter, both of whom see the world grey-eyed, that is, as it is, rather than how they wish it were.

Today, the 20th, is also the birthday of Liz Stephans, whom I revere before all others on the internet. Nobody's sure about the birthday of Pop. We do know that the girl was born at 11:50 on the 19th, in Iowa City. They both love me, for some reason, despite the insanity.

Still, this post is about Liz and her birthday. If you haven't been to breitbart.tv to visit us, you've no idea what I'm talking about, but given the recent attention to Hannah Giles I'll just say that for my money, Liz is much hotter.

If you've not been to visit us, you should.

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Raaaaacism and Other Matters [UPDATED]

Today's my daughter's 14th birthday, so I'll be out and about on various missions of fun with her and, later, her BFFs. Still, I'd like to recommend Ric Locke's reflection on the charge of racism as something to ponder.

It's interesting on its own merits, but perhaps moreso at the moment, after Michelle Obama's apparently impassioned argument that women, in particular, are crushed by the burden of health care. There are some objective ways in which one might inspect the truth value of this statement, but they don't really matter. What's important in this assertion is that women feel more for their fellows, and that constitutes a burden that others---namely, men---simply can't understand. In short, it's a familiar form of special pleading, and an invitation to gender-baiting.

And feelings are important. If I, for example, were to write a piece of literary criticism from a feminist perspective, I'm quite sure that I could do a creditable job from a purely theoretical vantage. But then, if feminist readers knew who I was, they would be able to base their criticism on the premise that the feeling wasn't right.

Whatever the issue is, you can bet that the Obamas will assert a special right based on authenticity to address it, even if that authenticity has to be manufactured with resort to fictionalizaton. And that really is the self-affirming basis of progressivism, which is as artificial and smug an enclave as Hyde Park in Chicago, a place where people are given mid-six-figure incomes for patient dumping, like Michelle Obama, or for slum-lording, like Valerie Jarrett, and that gives them the moral stature to lecture the likes of you and me. In case you're confused about how that works, please refer to this handy flow chart.

Last night, too, I spent some time updating the blog roll, but if I've rudely forgotten you, please let me know. Only, however, if I've done so rudely.

And Jay at Stop the ACLU announces that they're joining the boycott of Politico.

UPDATE: OMFG! We like totally have a sleepover!

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The Madness of King Charles

The Nose On Your Face has a theory.

Stacy McCain takes out a cluebat (keep scrolling).

Effing Cons has a links round-up.

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Oh – Thank Goodness – ACORN is “Unacceptable”

Seems the White House is RUNNING away from ACORN - in asmuch as an A-CORNHOLER can run away from the tree from which it fell. I don't know about you, but I feel much better now...

While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as "unnacceptable."

Is it as "unacceptable" as say a Nuclear Iran or a Nuclear N Korea?

Is it as "completely unacceptable" as the right Revernnnnnd Wright?

One wonders. If Obamacide is really trying to now distance himself from the tree that birthed him - what he seems to need is a squirrel. Or another prime time presentation! Roll out the teleprompter - God knows it needn't be dusted off.

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AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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