Baron Von Counterculture

Re: No "Mass elects a republican senator, tips the senate, kills the healthcare bill" thre http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/?resubmit_is_broken=true :rolleyes:

Bump Sumo, good to see...

What a surprise, it was all bullshit... SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Attorney General Jerry Brown determined Thursday that ACORN broke no criminal laws, after reviewing videotapes that sparked a recent political firestorm. Brown's office said it would not pursue charges against the now-defunct community organizing group. But it said ACORN engaged in inappropriate behavior that may prompt other state agencies to take a look, such as dumping 500 pages of confidential records into the trash and failing to file a state tax return. "A few ACORN members exhibited terrible judgment and highly inappropriate behavior in videotapes obtained in the investigation," Brown said in a statement. "But they didn't commit prosecutable crimes in California." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Brown last year to investigate ACORN after employees were seen in video segments appearing to advise a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute. ACORN staff told the couple to lie about the woman's profession to get financial help. The hidden-camera videos created a political firestorm when they were released, and tarnished the once-mighty ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization folded last month. Brown, a Democrat running for governor, said the tapes were highly edited. Rather than give advice on prostituting underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes, the attorney general's office found ACORN members at times caught on to the scheme and called the police in the portions of the videos that were cut. "Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor," Brown said. To obtain the full tapes, Brown's office agreed not to prosecute conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the pimp and prostitute in the video, even though the report found they likely violated state privacy laws. In California, O'Keefe used hidden cameras on visits to ACORN offices in San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. State law requires both parties to give consent before a conversation is recorded. ACORN could not be reached for comment because the group has disbanded, and phone listing for O'Keefe and Giles could not be found. Besides not filing taxes and throwing away confidential papers, the attorney general's report found four instances of possible voter registration fraud by ACORN in San Diego accompanying the 2008 election. Brown raised a concern that a successor group to ACORN in California is "run by the same people." O'Keefe is now facing charges in New Orleans on a federal case involving an attempt to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu's office. Federal authorities initially accused O'Keefe and three others of trying to tamper with Landrieu's phones, but now say they planned to pretend to test the phone system.

I wondered too, until i saw this...

jacked from the MSK thread...

bump putos and skat...

haters gonna hate, painters gonna paint. not the greatest style around but dudes have fun with it and are probably more up than you... play on...

"I politely request you continue with your alloted exercise warrior" Is it really like this now?

A bit early but you can also get ready for the holidays:

Always found this funny. Now you can teach your kids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjtlLKPEWg Stolen from wiki: "Patois is any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant. Class distinctions are embedded in the term, drawn between those who speak patois and those who speak the standard or dominant language used in literature and public speaking, i.e., the "acrolect"."

Yes, the government/rail authority is a hater... thanks for the insight Sherlock....

Douchebag above also posted this: "Don't worry its not my leg ppl, trust me" it's clearly nowhere near the quality of his back...

Caption: "Well thats 6 hours out of the way...5 more hours"

check your PM iDULE...

Re: Great Pictures~ I was wondering 'whys he got his hand outside the cage?' when i first saw this but on a second look I'm guessing the shark probably hit it so hard it pushed it backwards... either way, i'm pretty sure i'd be trying to keep my limbs inside at all time!

3 more zeros....

Re: Great Pictures~ 'he's right behind me isn't he?'

Shouldn't you be freaking out about the two cops from your middle of nowhere town busting you for painting some rusted out freight that only you and your ten cousins/sisters/mothers (it must get confusing for you inbred rednecks) will see? Or maybe you are some fuckwit hipster cunt from 'frisco' (fuck you cunts are gay, you probably place emphasis on the end of hawaii like some surfer douche) go get some more diamond/knuckleduster/script tattoos on your neck, it will make it funnier when you find jesus and write a book about your fucked up youth when you are 40... Meanwhile aussies are out smashing real transit systems and not running their mouths about this that and the other country... But seriously, surely a place with 'ugly graff' is the best for someone like you because your such a king of style, you can go over everybody. Or are you just a dickrider who gets off on watching your 'heroes' actually paint while you sit around and bitch on the net? :rolleyes: american people

^^shown in the afterschool timeslot as well, thank you syndication! I grew up in australia in the 80's wanting a general lee...

Re: Great Pictures~ Whats the story behind this one? Attempted squat eviction?

I had someone hack my paypal account, then drain the bank account it was linked to. Eventually got the money back, had to go through a whole ton of ID verification bullshit (faxing in copies of a whole range of things, it was like getting a passport!) which wasn't the easiest as I was overseas at the time. Don't link bank accounts, maybe link a credit card. At least if Paypal takes your cash, I think in most cases you can claim an unauthorised transaction through your card company.

maybe a language barrier obscured the nature of this subtle comment....

Re: Great Pictures~ not sure how this fits in the awesome wildlife (of which some are undoubtedly great) vs actual great photos debate, mostly because it's the first time one of these has been photographed, which imo, makes it great. the story: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/24/all-black-penguin-discovered.html