DUmmie FUnnies 12-17-04 PM Edition ("At last!!! Bev Shows us the Money!!!!!")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | December 17, 2004 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[kingu]

I'm more than a bit confused. I've done a number of FOIA requests as well. Perhaps it is a difference in what we're requesting - typically my requests come back with hundreds of pages of photocopies (and a tiny segment of the check I sent in.) Are you doing FOIA requests for minimal amounts of data?

[birbear]

If Bev can't be bothered to do it, the IRS & FBI will do it for her. ;)

Actually, if Bev is that ignorant about her money, I'd be more than HAPPY to do her books... even for free.

[hattend]

Hahahahaha

DUmmies are the cwaziest peoples.

[BJClinton]

I had a distant relative die who had a secret account in Nigeria and leave me $13 mil. They just need an account number to deposit it in.

[Happygal]

Cousin? Is that you?

[luvie]

Apparently my cell phone number was being given out over Air America.
Well, whooptido! That should have created very little hardship since they have about 375 listeners!

[luvie]

When the DUmmies start suing each other, does that mean the election is over?
No, actually, when GW won by a huge popular margin and 51+% electoral votes, the election was over! It is only still going on in the tiny minds in the DUmpster!

[Charles Henrickson]

BEV, Inc.

[day10]

tall babe ping

[jellybean]

An explanation of FOIA Request fees...http://www.tncrimlaw.com/foia/VI_D.html

[Charles Henrickson]

My faves from this thread . . .

BEV, Inc.'s comments about the paltry sum "spent or committed" [i.e., not spent] on what the money actually was given for; her repeated references to "infrastructure" [i.e., slush fund]; and the hilarious "off-election funding droughts" [i.e., perpetuating the BEV, Inc. lifestyle]:
Donations tagged to Randi Rhodes show: $23,800
All donations, some of which we have allocated to building infrastructure and off-election funding droughts: About $300,000. . . .
We have spent or committed about $19,000 of the $23,800 . . . for FOIA requests and related legal expenses. . . .
(By "committed" I mean that . . . , so of course we haven't handed over the money yet. . . .)

And the DUmmyRat admission:
. . . we have followed a rat charmer. . . .

[Nasher]

So the story goes something like this?

DUmmies donate 300k with delusions of getting the election overturned. Now they're getting really panicky as the Electors have already voted and the inauguration is fast approaching. (Tick, tock, tick, tock...)

Meanwhile, slick Bev is living the carefree life, basking away down in Florida...courtesy of senseless DUmmies.

When Bev's escapades end in Florida, she's forced to finally hear it from the DUmmies mouthpiece, Err Amerika. The DUmmies want to know where Bev has been hiding for the past month.

Bev thinks that the DUmmies will buy a story that her phone lines were manipulated by a group of Republican operatives. They don't buy it when she has no explanation as to why she also doesn't answer her e-mails - oops!

Bev has to scramble so she puts out a statement on her website. It is liberal speech at it's very finest. (I had the best intentions, don't look at my results and besides...it was someone else's fault)

I had the best intentions - "...our small organization, with just two full time employees and a volunteer, were supposed to bootstrap our way into overturning a presidential election"

Don't look at my results - "The fund raising was specifically for Freedom of Information requests, and was never for the purpose of overturning an election...Some people began to hope that Black Box Voting would reverse the presidential election."

It was someone else's fault - "John Kerry literally ran away from the idea of doing any auditing or recounts...I do believe that the person most responsible for failure to get an accountable election is John Kerry himself"

Some of the DUmmies fall for the good liberal explanation, leave DU to join Bev's message board and continue to fund the gravy train.

This is just too rich!

[cgbg]

PJ--Excellent job.

But...you did miss one rather easy one :-)

I certainly wouldn't just barge in without an invitation

Gee, I wonder if we think hard enough if we could think of an occasion when Bev barged in somewhere without an invitation. ;-)

[cgbg]

The way FOIA requests work are:

(1) You send in your request asking for everything in the government agency filing cabinets.--Cost at that point--0.

(2) After a few weeks they send you back a nice letter telling you what they can do for you and how much it will cost you. Usually there is a cost per page for printing or xeroxing, a cost per hour for research, and a (hilarious and antiquated) cost per minute of computer time.

(3) Then if you were an honest non-profit you would have an exact dollar figure to meet and you could raise funds accordingly.

I am convinced that I could accomplish more working part-time out of my home using my webtv than Bev has done will her 300K or 1M or whatever.

PJ has had her number from day one--she is a total and complete fraud.

[NRA1995]

"I was not asked to go to Ohio and testify, and I certainly wouldn’t just barge in without an invitation."

That didn't stop you from barging in in Florida, did it?

[KSCITYBOY]

Harris is a con and "airhead America" helped her in her con. Liberals let their hatred of Republicans separate them from their money again.

[Budge]

GolllllllyGeeee. Bev was so convincing that I'm tempted to send her my lifes savings --- or maybe what I have in my piggy bank, all eight cents!

< /sarcasm>

[franksolich]

".....DUmmies are a special kind of stupid."

Sometimes some of us (including myself) are incapable of putting the obvious into simple words.

That is so good, so brilliant, so insightful, I may have to change my tag line.

Thank you!

[SCALEMAN]

Let me see if I've got this. Bev makes 60k. Someone else makes ~50k. She has collected over 300k (admitted). Seems she has enough money to float her through to the next elections (off year in '06). After salaries, she will have somewhere near 100k left over through '06.

I especially liked the statement about web hosting costing several thousands. BS. I own a business and have a web site. It costs me less than $300/yr. Bookkeeping expenses. Buy a copy of Quickbooks for ~$200.

[Flux Capacitor]

----I spoke with one of Randi Rhodes’ producers this morning, and had a very good conversation.----

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"Hello, Air America! May I help you?"

Yes, I'd like to speak to Ms. Rhodes, please.

"Would this be about the stolen presidential election that Karl Rove won with his supernatural mind-control powers for that damn idiot George Bush and about how Republicans are inbred hicks who should die die die die die?"

Why, yes! How did you know?

"Lucky guess. Look, Randi would be happy to speak to you, but first I'd like to ask you something. Would you, by any chance, have an extra $150,000 to spare?"

Excuse me?

"Yes, we ask all our callers about that before putting them on the air. As you probably know, Air America has to buy all of its airtime because no stations will agree to carry our shows otherwise. All the potential advertisers we approached when we were setting this thing up said 'thanks but no thanks'. So as you can understand, we're kind of strapped for cash and we have to pick up what we can wherever we can. So, you got that 150 grand on you? We take Visa, MasterCard, American Exp--"

Gosh, I'm sorry, no; I've been unemployed for six years and donated my last twenty bucks to the Spotted-Owl Distemper Awareness Fund....

"Oh well, that's all right then. We'll put you on the air anyway. Just be sure to speak clearly and make your points concise and straightforward. You're going on.... now."

Oh thank you, thank you! Hello, Randi?

(**Dial tone**)