posted May 20, 2005 09:12 AM            

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

posted May 21, 2005 01:44 PM            

How do you find all these things out!!!!

WOW!!! Seriously your awsome!!!

Solane Star

posted May 21, 2005 04:43 PM            

It was an interesting thread you started. Everyone should know who the outright crooks, cheats, abusers and con artists are in Congress. Some would say they all fit into one category or another but I don't believe that's true.

posted May 21, 2005 06:31 PM            

I don't use anything more than the AOL search engine but I also checked MSN and got the same results. This is the way I search and did search in this case. First the subject, Congress. Then the event/bill/timeframe/whatever I'm searching for...29 accused of spousal abuse, 7 arrested for fraud...which comes out looking like this in the search window:

Congress, 29 accused of spousal abuse, 7 arrested for fraud

posted May 22, 2005 12:26 AM              

Don't you think you're perspective maybe too onesided or biased if you're only getting sources from AOL and MSN??

posted May 22, 2005 07:29 AM            

Thanks again jwhop for asking and caring.

posted May 22, 2005 04:38 PM            

"Google workers ponied up over $200,000 to federal candidates in 2004, USA Today reported on Monday, with almost all the cash - 98 percent - going to Democrats."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/15/70624.shtml

The other aspect of why Google is at the top of my s-list is the development I spoke about earlier. All the far left media in America are losing influence, readers, viewers and advertising dollars based on circulation and Neilson ratings. Most Americans finally get it that they are not to be trusted to either deliver the news...in that they regularly kill stories which cast the left in a very dim light...or, they slant their coverage and attempt to influence elections...as they did in 2000 and 2004. They have become known as a wing of the radical left democrat party and a platform from which they spew their nonsense.

So, now Google has decided to make it their business to decide which sources are "reliable" and a search for a story or point of view will find these same unreliable media sources at the top of the search list.

Internet readers have all but abandoned the old news sources as their primary source for news but Google plans to cram them down everyone's throat by hiding blogs and online news sources...which a lot of people read...hiding them behind countless pages of traditional media sources and stories. Screw Google.
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/05/google-news-to-favor-corporate-media.html

My sources of information are in no way restricted. AOL has no internal proprietary news. There is a news page which includes sections for stories from the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today and stories, national, international and political from Reuters and Associated Press. The only conservative source listed is the Wall Street Journal....and sometimes, I wonder about them.

posted May 23, 2005 02:33 PM            

I hope it works out well for you and your family.