Poor ACORN, nobody wants to deal with them anymore. After the pimp/ho videos hit the airwaves, a bunch of corrupt ACORN nuts were fired for their conduct. Then the US Census Bureau dumped them. Then Congress passed a motion saying there would be no more government booty for them.

Now their main bank, Bank of America, is suspending operations with them until a full audit into their actions can be performed.

In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has “suspended current commitments” to Acorn Housing, an affiliated group, and “will not enter into any further agreements with Acorn or any of its affiliates,” pending assessments by the bank of the organization’s operations.

“Bank of America takes recent allegations made against Acorn and Acorn Housing Corporation employees very seriously,” the bank said in a statement.

A.C.O.R.N. really oughta mean Audacious Chicago Organization of Radical Negroes. Just sayin’.

Gotta love Russian news. An accidental fireworks thing went off at a mall and killed nine people. Police however evacuated and searched the whole mall for other explosive devices. I guess those malls have hidden boxes of fireworks all over the place that can just go off at any time.
Other news sources say its gang turf wars. Russian news is notorious for lack of facts and truth. It is a good bet an explosion killed nine. that much is safe.

9 Injured in Blast in S. Moscow
2008-12-21 03:05:19 Xinhua
At least nine people were injured Saturday in an explosion occurred at a market in southern Moscow, Russian news agencies reported.

The incident, which occurred on Saturday afternoon in a street market near the Prazhskaya metro station, injured nine people, including a child, RIA Novosti cited a police source as saying.

The blast was caused by an unknown explosive device, the source said, adding that the remains of the explosive device have been already discovered.

However, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry said the explosion was caused by fireworks that went off accidentally.

According to a Moscow police spokesman, people have been evacuated from the market and police have inspected the market for other possible explosive devices.

While I was out today, the story of the RCMP investigation into the Human Rights Commission’s illegal use of a citizen’s wireless IP address broke. I was over at Kathy’s when the word came out about it being on CTV news, and she read her emails about it out loud to me.

This is a huge step forward in our fight to show the rest of Canada just how illegally the HRC’s operate. They have no codes of conduct, no oversight, and a seemingly limitless supply of arrogance that they are doing the right thing (by way of Trudeau’s work). Their policing of thought to build a utopia is social engineering that even Margaret Sanger would be appalled by. And their blatant disregard of this country’s other laws - real laws - are a worldwide embarrassment.

The victim of the CHRC’s illegal hacking, Nelly Hechme, told reporters that she was “completely shocked” by the CHRC’s conduct. Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, who has jurisdiction over the CHRC, is now investigating the matter.

But not even the CHRC’s most passionate critics could have imagined that the Mounties would be investigating the CHRC.

According to this letter written two weeks ago by the Ottawa Police Service, a criminal complaint filed against the CHRC by Marc Lemire has now been referred to the RCMP’s Integrated Technological Crime Unit. Here is the key excerpt from that letter:

After a full consideration of all aspects of the matter, it is our opinion that this matter falls within the jurisdiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We have discussed this matter with the RCMP and the matter has been assigned to Cpl Stephane Turgeon.

I expect that the RCMP will be in touch with you…

This investigation will blow the lid off the criminality at the CHRC, expose Richard Warman as a con artist who has made his living playing the “hurt feelings” lottery system and off the Commission’s payouts; and it most likely expose the infamous Ann Cools post that led the the lawsuit against Ezra, Kate, Kathy, Jonathan Kay and the Fourniers.

It has taken the work of bloggers, and of course Mark Steyn and his publisher Ken Whyte of Maclean’s Magazine, as well as the tireless Ezra Levant to push the HRC’s out of the shadows and into the light.

We sat silent when the HRC went after neo-Nazis and Holocaust-deniers who lived in relative obscurity, even though their hateful speech should have stood for itself, exposing those people as the idiots they are. But we will not sit silent while the supposed “Human Rights” Commissions threaten to shut down press freedom - including the freedom formerly allotted to bloggers such as myself - in our democratic nation.

Or their raises. While Toronto crumbles under the corruption of Mayor Miller and his union-pandering henchmen, private industry is ensuring that Torontonians can get home safely after partying hard on New Years Eve.

The Toronto Transit Commission will be offering people a free ride New Year’s Eve thanks to a generous donation from a credit card company.

Capital One has donated $85,000 to the TTC to help it provide the service to party revelers from midnight until 4 a.m.

Though other transit systems in other municipalities regularly offer free rides on New Year’s Eve, the TTC hasn’t offered the service for 30 years.

The donation is roughly equal to the revenue the TTC will lose by offering the service. About 100,000 people are expected to take advantage of the offer.

Toronto police can preach the “don’t drink and drive” message all they want, while other major cities across Canada and around the world offer free transportation to back it up. But Toronto’s corrupt mismanagement means that it would be impossible were it not for Citi’s publicity stunt.

I hope Miller at least gave his kids something nice for Christmas with my money.