no big deal, just felons at your door with your personal information

Yahoo! News - Felons Paid in Voter Registration Drive

A review of federal campaign finance and state criminal records by The Associated Press revealed that the names and hometowns of dozens of ACT employees in Missouri, Florida and Ohio matched those of people convicted of crimes such as burglary, forgery, drug dealing, assault and sex offenses.

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ACT does not believe the felons it sends door to door pose a threat to the public, said Mo Elleithee, a Washington-based spokesman for the group.


"We believe it's important to give people a second chance," Elleithee said. "The fact that they are willing to do this work is a fairly serious indication that they want to become productive members of society."

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Citing security concerns for the public and the felons, the Missouri Department of Corrections in April banished ACT from its pool of potential employers for parolees in its halfway houses in Kansas City and St. Louis, department spokesman John Fougere said. Five ACT employees lived at the Kansas City Community Release Center and two others at the St. Louis Community Release Center earlier this year.


"From a public safety standpoint, we didn't want offenders to be in a situation where they would be handling that information," Fougere said. Officials also were concerned the door-to-door campaign would put felons at greater risk of false accusations, he said.

Simple question: Do you suppose this is a Democrat get-out-the-vote effort, or a Republican one?

Is it any surprise that compromising your safety by giving personal information to felons is not considered to be compromising your safety? It is considered to be giving felons 'a second chance'.

Awww..

Let's install Saddam Hussein as President of France - he needs a second chance.

There is no slippery slope there is no slippery slope

Just keep saying it and it'll be true, right?

Allowing people to vote without having to verify their identity by any means, allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses, setting up waystations for illegal aliens to be refreshed before violating the law day after day after day as 'day laborers', preventing any sort of legal action against anyone who is likely to be an illegal alien unless we can pretty much absolutely prove it beforehand - none of these things lead in any way to outrageous suggestions such as allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS to vote for school boards.

S.F. may give non-citizens school board voting rights

Well, in any case, that's not even enough:

"``The idea here is not so radical,'' said Matt Gonzalez, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and author of the proposal. ``Ultimately, we'd like non-citizen voting in all municipal elections. This is a starting place.''"

Yeah, there's really no difference between liberals and conservatives. Everybody's corrupt. Everything is just a shade of gray.

There's really no point in participating in the elections process...

unless, of course, you're NOT A CITIZEN -

they'll be glad to handle your voting for you from now on.

I am going to be sick from ingesting stupid TV personal interest shows

Unmuting my TV after blogging, I discover some late night personal interest show with two attract 'anchors' (this is a very good approximation of their dialogue):

So, chick one says, "You're so into movies and you saw this.. Supersize Me."

Chick two interrupts, "And it was a great film. I had no idea what this was - what to expect. It's like about McDonald's and this guy eating only McDonald's every day for 30 days. It's extreme."

Chick one, "But you know there are some people who do that. They eat fast food every day. I eat fast food all the time."

C2: "I used to eat fast food nearly every day."

C1: "I probably eat some kind of fast food every day."

C2: "Well, this movie will change your life. He first goes to three doctors before he does this, and then afterwards he's gained 25 pounds; they tell him his blood is basically toxic, that his liver is poisoned - that he could.. die.. if he doesn't stop. Just a great film."

C1: "Wow."

C2: "But it's tough to find here in the valley. I saw it in the little theatre... the Harkins."

C1: "The one by Fashion Square."

C2: "But I REALLY want to see Fairenheit 9/11 when it comes out. That's going to be a GREAT film."

So we go from obscure extreme film 'Supersize Me' to it being a great film that everyone should see that actually applies to quite a few people and, based on that 'documentary' we can reasonably tangent to actually endorsing Michael Moore's left-wing propaganda before it even comes out.

Yeah, these films are really just insignificant - no reason to get all upset about them and act as if it's a big deal that people use massive exaggeration and distortion packaged as documentary filmmaking in order to sell liberal ideas to the public. I mean, it's not as if people's opinions are really going to be affected by this stuff, right?

I love the word pastiche

The New York Times on the Clinton memoirs:

The New York Times: The Pastiche of a Presidency, Imitating a Life, in 957 Pages:

"But while Dan Rather, who interviewed Mr. Clinton for '60 Minutes,' has already compared the book to the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, arguably the most richly satisfying autobiography by an American president, 'My Life' has little of that classic's unsparing candor or historical perspective. Instead, it devolves into a hodgepodge of jottings: part policy primer, part 12-step confessional, part stump speech and part presidential archive, all, it seems, hurriedly written and even more hurriedly edited.
In fact, 'My Life' reads like a messy pastiche of everything that Mr. Clinton ever remembered and wanted to set down in print; he even describes the time he got up at 4 a.m. to watch the inaugural ceremonies for Nigeria's new president on TV."

I can't help but get some satisfaction out of this - and especially when the book will sell so well anyway; it'll be funny thinking how many books will prove to be mere paperweights once they have served the purpose of raising Clinton's stature via Nielsen bookscans.

Oh yeah, any president at all would be just as effective - sure....

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Raid in Saudi Arabia Kills Suspected Al Qaeda Chief:

"The killings and arrests are part of an aggressive anti-terror campaign that began after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, carried out by 19 Arab hijackers, most of them Saudi. The campaign gained momentum following bombings in Riyadh last May that killed 51 people. Saudi and U.S. officials have blamed both those attacks on Al Qaeda.
Since the Riyadh bombings, police have arrested Islamic militants and seized weapons, set up roadblocks and bolstered security around embassies, government buildings and foreigners' housing complexes."

There is simply no rational way to claim that anybody who was in the White House would have approached the terrorist threat after 9/11 as George W. Bush did. And it is precisely because of Bush's approach that we have this kind of effective crackdown on terrorists occurring. It cannot be unrelated that we have forced Al Quaeda out of its holes in Afganistan, Iraq, Britain, America, and any other nation we can find them in, forcing them to be more exposed when they try to carry out terrorist plans.

So it is also not unrelated that Saudi Arabia managed to already have killed the killer of Paul Johnson:VOANews.com: US Praises Saudi Arabia for Action Against Alleged Hostage-Takers:

"The U.S. Ambassador in Riyadh Saturday praised Saudi Arabia's authorities after the killing of four wanted militants involved in the beheading of an American hostage. But he cautions that the battle against terrorism will be a long one."

D%$@ed straight it's going to be a long one. And that makes it OUR responsibility as Americans to vote for someone who is going to PROACTIVELY protect this nation without fear of the French and the Germans not liking us. It makes it OUR responsibility to care about our elections, because it is one man, more than any in the last 20 years, who is responsible for preventing terrorist attacks in this country and for wiping out - WIPING OUT (see above) - terrorists where they hide. And he got voted into office by the slimmest of electoral majorities.

Don't leave this stuff up to emotional hand-wringers who don't want any responsibility for anything - pay some frigging attention.