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1. #201
   On August 27th, 2009 at 4:47 pm, happyscrapper said:

   On August 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm, rambler said: I don’t care that this year the census is only the short form.

   I don’t believe it is.

2. #202
   On August 27th, 2009 at 4:49 pm, happyscrapper said:

   Good luck to your daughter. This program was devised for this very reason

   Thank you. And you can be sure, she will start paying as soon as she possibly can. We would help out, except we are retired, on a fixed income, and our portfolio is shrinking, as you can imagine!!

3. #203
   On August 27th, 2009 at 5:11 pm, FilmLadd said:

   On August 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am, chapoutier said:

   I mean you people REALLY can’t think of ANY non-political reason why more specific demographic information might, just might be useful to policymakers?

   Policymakers? In what country are those elected?

4. #204
   On August 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm, rambler said:

   Don’t believe it’s the short form for the 2010? According to the CB site and sites of organizations which support it, the 2010 census is just the short form, but that doesn’t apply to the ACS, which will continue to be mailed separately to about 250,000 residences per month. So, some will get both the census and the survey during 2010. Another group of lucky people have already gotten a test 2010 census because their area was a chosen test site. The intrusion keeps getting better and better.

5. #205
   On August 27th, 2009 at 5:36 pm, tiredofit08 said:

   another great MM segment on Beck as we speak!!!way to go Michelle…keep the light on the pond scum….

6. #206
   On August 27th, 2009 at 5:59 pm, NDgal said:

   We truly live in a sick world. Gird your loins as ole Joe would say.

7. #207
   On August 27th, 2009 at 6:00 pm, rightwingmom said:

   Happy ~ Praying for your daughter and granddaughter!!!

   Free & Reduced has it place and serves a purpose. My experience was the abuse of the system to maintain / increase Fed. & State $. I was under a liberal principal who was more than happy to lie to get what she wanted. Her students were “entitled” to the funds, one way or another.

   emjem24 ~ Keep up the good fight. I resigned 11 years ago, when I gave birth to my first son. I’m home schooling now. LOVE IT!

8. #208
   On August 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm, Little Ma said:

   The census will count illegal aliens. The count will be used to gerrymander districts to the benefit of the Dim party. I plan to add four nonexistent adults as residents of my house. They want to count heads, I’ll give them heads to count.

   As for stealing the minds of our children: A few years ago, my grandson’s fifth grade teacher was lecturing the children on the evils of smoking. She told them it was their duty to tell their parents and grandparents to stop smoking. My grandson said, “I’m just a kid. I can’t tell grownups what to do!” Dear Teacher insisted it was for their own good, but she failed to convince Will. He thought the very idea was hilarious.

9. #209
   On August 27th, 2009 at 7:50 pm, cheapseat said:

   all i can say is i trust 8th graders to be honest and careful in this count. i’ve never heard of 12 year olds who lied about not doing assigned work, nor have i ever heard of them not doing that work. especially in the ghetto.

10. #210
    On August 27th, 2009 at 8:00 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Little Johnny comes home from school one day. He skips to the kitchen, where his mother is cooking dinner.

    “Hi, Mommy,” says Johnny.

    “Hello, Johnny.” Mother responds, ruffling her son’s hair playfully. “So what did you learn in school today?”

    Johnny smiles, patting his hair back down. “Teacher taught me about the census,” Johnny replies.

    “Oh? The census?”

    “Yeah, Mommy. You know you’re supposed to fill in all the blanks on the census form, right?”

    “Of course, Johnny.”

    “And that when somebody from the census knocks on your door, you’re supposed to answer all their questions, right?”

    “Er, I guess so.”

    “Because if you don’t, families who’re linguini-isticly isolmated won’t get the food and health care an’ stuff they need.”

    “You mean linguistically isolated?”

    “Yeah. That means poor people.”

    “Oh.”

    Johnny gets an anxious look on his face. “And did you know that you gotta do it, Mom? Big Bird says you gotta answer all the census people’s questions, Mom.”

    “Big Bird, huh?”

    “Yeah. You gotta, or else we won’t be counted. You don’t wanna not be counted, do ya, Mommy?”

    “No, of course not, Johnny.”

    Little Johnny looks relieved.

    “Man, so this is what they’re doing with our tax dollars.”

    “Whuzzat, mommy?”

    “Oh, nothing, dear.” Mother decides to change the subject. “So what else did you learn today, Johnny?”

    “Oh, we learned that abortions are good for you.”

    “What?!”

    “Yeah, abortions are healthy. You should have an abortion, Mommy. They’re really safe now. Not like the old days when they used to do it in back alleys with coat hangers n’ stuff.”

    Mother pulls her son towards her. “Johnny, this is important now. What else did your teacher teach you today?”

    “Oh, she taught me lots,” Johnny says. “I didn’t quite get all of what she was sayin’, but I got the idea that babies kinda suck. They’ll eat all our food and breathe all our air when they grow up. An’ I bet they really hurt when they come out of your vagi—”

    “Honey! We’ve got a really big problem here!”

    “Hey, Daddy! Can you show me how to put on a condominium?”

    [What you have just read was a scenario that will never, ever occur. And if it does, parents should take no issue with being lectured by the others through their children. Nor should they take issue with their children being taught about the birds and the bees by people who can do the job better and in a more timely manner than parents can.]

11. #211
    On August 27th, 2009 at 9:50 pm, Marie said:

    I just watched Disney’s “Pinocchio”.
    Moral of the story…. follow a liar and turn into a donkey….. We have a lot of donkeys now….acorn, union slugs…

12. #212
    On August 27th, 2009 at 11:31 pm, Vntnrse said:

    I also wanted to say, Incredible job on Beck today, Michelle! Keep shining the light of truth on the corruptocrat cockroaches!!!

13. #213
    On August 28th, 2009 at 1:45 am, love2rumba said:

    They will get a number from me. And that is all. That’s the only CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THEY ARE ENTITLED TO.

    Exactly Atheling.

    I do find it disturbing that they are trying to use school-age children whom the democrat-run teacher unions have (for quite a few hours a day) have such control and influence over. It also has been noted that over the years the questions that have been asked have become more and more intimate aprt from the information mandated by the US Constitution-I still remember the Clinton Administration attempt to collect info with adults-using the census- on who has guns and who does not, for example, keeping in mind the Clinton Administration was extremely hostile to Gun Rights as a rule, so that the idea idea of intimate information collected from people by the US gov’t being used agisnt people of a certain political stripe is not far-fetched.

    The obama Administration has already been caught using email lists that they acquired illegally to use to influence support for his Obamacare, and then use our tax money to lobby for something he wants. They cannot be trusted.

    Think: How would the left feel if members of anti-abortion groups were specifically targeted to become enumerators, and the gov’t wanted to know about the sexual habits of the inhabitants to prevent aids, abortion, etc.? I’m certain they would go ape-sh%t to have a million Randall Terrys knocking on liberal doors.

    What I see here is a two step process by the Obamanuts: 1. Lower the requirements of who can be an enumerator to allow people who can be influencd and controlled by the left, and /or have vested interest in left-wing causes (school children, ACORN, etc.) to do the task of enumeration.

    and, 2. Asking questions that are extra-constitutional, and which have nothing to do with determining how many people reside in a geographic region who are legally citizens to determine representation, and then mandating your cooperation at the threat of gov’t punishment, like in 2000 over guns.

14. #214
    On August 28th, 2009 at 4:10 am, love2rumba said:

    CO2 Producer said:

    That is so da#n funny! LMAO!

15. #215
    On August 28th, 2009 at 8:18 am, CO2 Producer said:

    Thanks, l2r. Pardon the typos—I counted at least three.

16. #216
    On August 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm, chotii said:

    It bothered me a lot when a “census worker” came around my street, standing on every front porch and noting the exact GPS location of each house on a special GPS computer.

    It makes me want to hook my house to a big truck and drag it somewhere. *Gah*

    I’m sure there will be “consequences” for people who refuse to fill out all the information being asked in this census, even if it’s unconstitutional and frankly an invasion of privacy (or is this a case of, if the *Government* wants to know, there’s no such thing as privacy?)

    I’m nearly at the point of withdrawing to blissful ignorance. Knowing all this stuff, and being helpless to do anything about it, is torment.