Angelus ,'Damage'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
One criticism I've heard about ACORN is they pay their volunteers by how many registrations they bring in.
Well, they pay them by the hour -- but who knows what would motivate people to fill out the forms funny. Even so, the Mickey Mouse point holds. Every voter registration drive in history has had some bad forms in it; there's no evidence that any of those people have ever been officially enrolled or succeeded in voting.
They pay them by the hour, but their job is to get voter registrations. So if they walk in with too few registrations too many days in a row they get fired, even if there is no explicit quota. And voter registration is damn hard work. So you will always get a percent of people who take the job and then decide it is easier to pull names out of the phone book than to stand on a Supermarket corner, or go door to door collecting registrations.
Acorn has evolved over the years; their controls were much tighter this year than in the past. Out of over a million new registrations, about 30,000 have turned out be problems 3%. (As someone who has done volunteer voter registation that is not unreasonable - one in 30 is someone who thinks it funny to fill out a form with smartass answers.) And apparently 90% of those were caught by acorn and turned in flagged. So that leaves .3% Acorn failed to catch.
Anyone ever have one of those days when you're just too stupid to be trusted with anything, including work?
AUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Why must people be SO STUPID?!?
(Not directed at anything election related, actually)
ETA: And not Dana. Because I suspect Dana is far, far more capable than the idjits I'm currently dealing with.
Anyone ever have one of those days when you're just too stupid to be trusted with anything, including work?
Yes. Today I'm afraid to trust most of what I'm doing (took me three tries to type that sentence if that is any indication of my abilities today).
Why must people be SO STUPID?!?
Fluoridated water
I am approximately one hour from being on vacation!!! Needless to say, I'm not getting shit done. (Working from 7 this morning doesn't help that either....)
Well, sure. Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
I'm taking another half-day off this afternoon (took one yesterday, have another one coming up on Friday), so I'm outta here in 20-30 minutes. I've gotten some mindless tasks done, but that's about it.
Well, sure. Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
Clearly, we should all stop drinking water. From now on, I'm on an all beer and Fernet diet. Take that, The Man!