The Secret Lives of Magnetic Fields

Via Bouphonia, a movie (too big to embed) that reveals the terrifying truth about magnetic fields, which are peppering your genitals with stray electrons and impaling you even as you sit on your couch.

Comments

[Sebastian Koppehel]

@Don:

Obama was an ACORN organizer before entering politics

No, not really. But the real question is, why are there voter-registration drives in the US anyway? Why doesn't the government just send you a postcard a few weeks before the election? Oh right – because Meldepflicht is the first step towards fascism -_-

[Andrew]

Hello Frederik -- Here's my $.02, since you asked for it.

ACORN gets flogged by Republican campaign operatives every four years, and is then promptly forgotten. Between elections, it's an activist umbrella group which operates mostly in low-income communities, working on issues like tenants' rights, payday loan regulation, living wage issues, union organizing, etc. As a non-profit group, it's forbidden from endorsing specific candidates. You could call it left-wing, but that's mainly a function of the fact that most of the people who decide to earn small salaries by spending a lot of time in dangerous neighborhoods working for poor peoples' interests are unlikely to have right-wing political views.

When elections come along, ACORN mounts voter-registration drives in low-income minority neighborhoods. ACORN also does a lot of get-out-the-vote, knocking on peoples' doors on election day and driving them to the polls. This works against Republican interests, since these neighborhoods lean heavily Democratic. Thus all the sinister allegations of "voter fraud" and the ads with the scary music.

No doubt some ACORN volunteers have gone overboard from time to time, but there's no evidence of systemic voter fraud, and the organization itself is legit. The accusations against ACORN are all a normal part of the (often-vicious) "ground game" skirmishing that happens before any Presidential election. The ACORN stuff will have zero effect on the election, since (1) the small minority of voters savvy enough to actually know what ACORN is have already made up their minds, and (2) people have much bigger problems on their mind right now than obscure allegations of "voter fraud." Everyone will have forgotten about ACORN in a month.

[Don]

The ACORN scandal is about the activities of a left-wing 'get-out-the-vote' group which is very agressive in registering potential Democratic voters. ACORN is nothing new - it was controversial in 2000 and in 2004 for some of the same reasons cited today.

ACORN is alleged to have registered one man 72 times. If all those registrations were allowed by local authorities that means that man (or others more likely) could vote 72 times.

Obama was an ACORN organizer before entering politics, so yes this could hurt him if this tkes off. I don't think it relly will - not enough to beat him. What it could do is reduce his margin of victory, I think.

[Frederik]

First i thought you were talking about the Band. It was quite funny. Now that i have written it down, it doesnt seem to be that funny anymore.

And a political Question (If you got the time): Whats this ACORN-Voter-Fraud thing? Could it hurt Obama (like the Swiftboat campaign?)