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Sunday, November 27, 2005
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'Grieving' Cindy Sheehan, has returned to Crawford, Texas. Her and about 99 others. Below is the update and picture, worth the usual thousand words. Says Power Line; It's Over.
Cindy Sheehan's moment of fame, that is. The Washington Post delivers a surprisingly honest assessment of Sheehan's latest effort in Crawford, Texas:
Unlike [last August], when hundreds came from all over the country for major events at the two campsites named after Sheehan's son, who was killed in Iraq, Sheehan found herself addressing a crowd of only about 100 Saturday afternoon. The large tent where supporters had erected a stage hung with the banner "Speak Truth to Power" was only partially full. In the morning Sheehan signed copies of her new book, being published this week, for an even smaller crowd.
"Even smaller crowd," indeed:
The AP caption reads:
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas.
If any showed up, it isn't apparent from the photos taken by AP and Reuters.
HT: Sweetness & Light, via PoliPundit. [Power Line]
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Credits to Amy Ridenour for this one, The Peace Movement's Moderate Face
As Cindy Sheehan is once again protesting in Crawford, Texas, I thought it a good time to share some pictures that show -- as the mainstream media often does not -- the message of the anti-war protesters.
These photos, of another anti-war rally in which Cindy Sheehan participated, were taken by Joe Roche.
Said Joe about the day he took these pictures:
I wiped myself out by walking in the opposite direction all day through the marches taking pictures of lots of stuff.
The reason I did this was because of an exchange I had with some soldiers after the Sept 11th Freedom Walk earlier this month. There was a counter-protest for that that shocked most of the soldiers. They held up signs that were extremely militant and provacative. The soldiers asked me afterwards if those were Americans. They were shocked, incredulous, when I said yes. Amy & David, there are many people in America who have no idea how radical and militant the Left really is. I think it would shock people to see how bad they really are at events like this weekend's.
Of course, we know this. The same thing happened in 1983 against Reagan, many times against Contra Aid, against the 1991 Gulf War, etc. The thing that infuriates me is how the press/media protect these protests by NOT showing the real militant and radical sides of it. NOTHING like that exists in our pro-US/pro-military rallies, but it ALWAYS is there for the anti-military stuff.
...Every time they hold these protests, the media only shows the sides of things that look normal and nice for America. It is as if they go out of their way to protect the message from the radicals to only show the most mellow side, so that the whole thing comes off acceptable to the "moderates." Notice this photo gallery of Cindy Sheehan's protests this week (Hat tip: League of Extraordinary Conservative Gentlemen). All flags, hugs and crosses. Yet the photos below show another face of the "peace"movement -- one that is not "moderate' at all.
 - Amy Ridenour [Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog]
10:11:47 AM
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Friday, November 25, 2005
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The vote last week to require the President to further explain his Iraq strategy was enough to give former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry a big problem. He voted for it, before he voted against it. After checking with Sen. Edward Kennedy, the principled John Kerry went back and changed his vote. May his political future rest in peace. Kennedy's future has long past.
Iraq a Tricky Issue for Ambitious Democrats (AP). AP - Sen. John Kerry initially voted in favor of a Republican-sponsored resolution calling on President Bush to explain his strategy for success in Iraq. Minutes later, the Democrat changed his vote. [Yahoo! News: Politics News]
3:02:55 PM
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This should dispell all the heated rhetoric from the wacko left complaining how 'the right' has the media in their back pockets, which is patently absurd. Reality demonstrates it is the other way around, this taped conversation is but one example.
"X" Marks the Spot: CNN Staffer Admits to Liberal Bias.
Listen to this tape of a woman who called CNN to complain about the "X" the network slapped onto Vice President Cheney as he delivered a speech. The operator's response? "Tell Bush and Cheney to stop lying." CNN has confirmed the authenticity of the tape and, to its credit, fired the operator. But, yet again, it reveals a liberal ideological mindset that completely pervades American media. [GOP Bloggers]
9:00:38 AM
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Thursday, November 24, 2005
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In the upscale in every way town of Cupertino, California, the educational system there is witness to what has been called 'white flight.' But this time it is not because of deteriorating neighborhoods. He attributes the phenomenon as just another way that society sorts itself, with insight into other social 'problems.' In his article What flight?, Thomas Sowell offers an explanation to population shifts and government efforts to buck the tide. A must read in understanding what is going on in this melting pot called America.
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Or so it appears. What, Muslims don't share a universal message of thanks? Got a problem with assimilation here?
To be fair, I don't know if they were invited or if they needed to be invited. In either case, there does seem to be a problem with assimilation here. Maybe the crux of the problem is, who's problem is it?
Area faithful come together to celebrate graciousness. Area synagogues and Christian churches shared a universal message of thanks Wednesday at an Ecumenical Service in Pensacola. [PensacolaNewsJournal.com - Local News]
9:25:39 AM
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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Who said this? "[I]n any case every person in Europe has the right to choose to die, even if they are not terminally ill." Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas, a chain of killing clinics. A growing chain of killing clinics. One of his clinics killed a woman who was not terminally ill. The doctor who did it then killed himself. I don't even know what to say about this besides I'm glad I'm living in the United States.
1:14:22 AM
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Gas prices drop below $2 in hurricane alley. Who or what is responsible for that? Now everybody is fat, dumb, and happy. See 'analysis' below. Let prices go back up and that will be because of Bush. Isn't that about right for the left? Wasn't because Ted Kennedy increased production at 'his' oil wells.
"I honestly didn't expect for the prices to keep dropping so close to Thanksgiving, but they are," Monroe said. "I'm happy to be proved wrong. I think it's a great thing, especially at a time when travel is up."
Answer: It's the market working like markets work.
Area gasoline prices drop below $2 a gallon. Gasoline prices in the area dipped below $2 for a gallon of unleaded regular at several filling stations on Tuesday. [PensacolaNewsJournal.com - Local News]
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, IE. one Democrat who had seen and had access to all the same intelligence that Bush had, makes a treasonous confession on a Sunday talk show, Fox News Sunday. This is old news now, over a week old. Something else seems to have captured the attention of the biased media; Bush lied. Rockefeller betrayed his country and his responsibility as a member of the Intelligence Committee. Let's deal with something that did happen.
Just 90 days after the attack on 9/11, long before the war began, and 9 months before the President made his case at the United Nations, Rockefeller told Syria's Bashar Assad, Saddam Hussein's bud, that the Americans, no, that Bush will be coming. Remember too that Saddam had kicked out the UN inspectors. With a 14-month heads-up, is it any wonder that Saddam's WMD stuff disappeared? Like into and/or through Syria?
His confession/revelation on Sunday makes the second breach of faith and security in his performance on the most sensitive of committees on Capital Hill, and some action needs to be started. Meanwhile, he should be removed from that committee and lose his security clearance until he has gone through a successful and complete investigation.
Rockefeller must be brought to account for this act, which is a closer cousin to treason than the strategy memo that came to light from his office 8 months after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which described how they planned to politicize the intelligence to hurt the administration. This, from a Senator on the Select Intelligence Committee. And exactly the sort of thing we have seen from Democrats for the last couple years. To use his words, they have 'pulled the trigger.'
12:08:46 AM
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Monday, November 21, 2005
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I think it was Sen. Ted Kennedy who first foisted the Democrat position that Bush lied his way into war with Iraq, and it was for personal reasons that he took us there. Never mind that Ted Kennedy and most other Democrats voted in support of our going into Iraq, but hey, that's nit picking. There were actually seven reasons that the President stated as to why we need to go there, "without illusion and without fear." Let me refresh your memory with this link. And for those that weren't listening or didn't see it, here is the audio link. The video link is on this page. 
2:18:42 PM
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Ralph Peters offers his perspective on the Democrats' current position on the war in Iraq. Based on what they are saying to anyone who will listen, and then some, they want out of Iraq, and they aren't looking forward beyond their nose to the consequences of their position, regardless if it were to come to fruition. Read the whole article, this is how it begins. How To Lose A War.
November 21, 2005 -- QUIT. It's that simple. There are plenty of more complex ways to lose a war, but none as reliable as just giving up.
Increasingly, quitting looks like the new American Way of War. No matter how great your team, you can't win the game if you walk off the field at half-time. That's precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we've made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.
Use this New York Post link for the rest of the story.
1:45:17 PM
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
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Democrats' strategy on the war on terror and Iraq are similar to Bush's plan in an odd and dangerous way. Both agree that we should get out of Iraq. Bush's plan is to get out as the Iraqi defense and security forces can take over to protect themselves. This process is ongoing and takes time. The Democrats also want to get out of Iraq, but with no apparent regard to the readiness of the Iraqi people to defend themselves which is dangerous, if not wreckless.
Under Bush's plan, the prospects for peace in the world are better. Bailing out in six months means that Iraq will very likely return to turmoil, mass graves, and become the world capital for terrorists and terrorists organizations. One can not ignore other countries in the region, like Iran. Today for example, Iran's Parliament approved a bill requiring the government to block inspections of its atomic facilities if the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency refers Iran to the Security Council for possible sanctions. Iran and Syria are both fueling insurgencies in Iraq, which would quickly increase the moment we were to prematurely get out of Iraq.
The result of Bush's plan is the best chance for lasting peace. The result of the Democrats' plan would be leaving the Iraqi people high and dry for slaughter, and the rest of the world open season for the Islamist terrorists. The Ted Kennedys and John Murthas and Harry Reids of the Democrat party are somehow oblivious to the nuance that their words of 'get out of Iraq' is all that the middle east is hearing. Their public opposition to Bush's plan simply amounts to pumping up the enemy, which takes irresponsibility to a whole new level. It's the stupidity stupid, not the patriotism.
10:33:58 AM
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Friday, November 18, 2005
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Representative John Murtha (D,PA) joins Sen. Ted Kennedy's retreat and surrender policy. Only difference is Murtha wants to leave Iraq in six months, Kennedy's plan might take a little longer. First Bill Clinton (D,world), now John Murtha, both of them acting as the tip of the spear in the war on terror, al-Qaeda's spear. And both with the same result. Meltdown in the Arab world, flourishing of terrorist organizations, more mass graves in Iraq, and a less safe world. That, and the realization that the US lacks the will to fight a war that it can't win in 100 days.
I guess these Democrats just won't be happy until our restaurants and subways are getting blown up, because that is guaranteed to happen if they had their way. Maybe this and this are all part of Karl Rove's plan, but I doubt it. Seems to be more like a Democrat plan for retreat and surrender. At the very least, they ought to be bright enough to tell the difference from being unpatriotic and being stupid.
4:30:08 PM
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Right on queue, Al Franken is out of the box calling an increase A CUT. Not only that, but the Republicans are denying food stamps to 220,000 to 250,000 'low income' people. Are there any other 'income people' that get food stamps? It's just one misrepresentation after one lie. And music to the wacko left's ears, and repulsion to the uninformed. When spending increases compared to last year go up 7% instead of 7.3%, that does not constitute a cut. And, dividing that .3% difference into an average cost of a food stamp recipient, that does not take food stamps away from anybody. Al Franken needs to add himself in his next book of liars, and the rest of us will at least know when a cut is a cut.
This morning, House Republicans regrouped and narrowly approved a broad five-year budget plan "that squeezes programs for the poor, for college students and for farmers."
What would the budget plan do? According to the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: The House budget bill would still deny low-income people each month by 2008, and would cut basic food aid by $700 million over five years.
- The House bill still would allow states to impose substantial new co-payment and premium fees on millions of low-income Medicaid beneficiaries, and to scale back substantially the health care services that the Medicaid program provides.
- The House bill still would result in an estimated 330,000 children in low-income working families losing child care assistance in 2010 as a result of the low child care funding levels and unfunded new work requirements in the bill.
[The Al Franken Show | Air America Radio -]
3:49:29 PM
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It used to be that California was a five years ahead of the time in this country. Like trends or some such would start in California, but would take about 5 years before it 'migrated' to the east coast. In a similar migration, albeit a much longer term, Charles Krauthammer says what we are seeing in France is but the beginning of what is to come in Europe. Not the rioting, but a Muslim migration that will overtake Europe. Thanks to GOP Bloggers.
Voila, No More France.
Many people love to taunt the French, but we should not applaud its inevitable decline. Read these two columns about how France is disappearing before our eyes. This is not good for America. First, Mark Steyn.
France faces tough choices and, unlike Baghdad, in Paris you can't even talk about them honestly. As Jean-Claude Dassier, director-general of the French news station LCI, told a broadcasters' conference in Amsterdam, he has been playing down the riots on the following grounds: "Politics in France is heading to the Right and I don't want Right-wing politicians back in second or even first place because we showed burning cars on television."
Oh, well. You can understand why the Quai d'Orsay is relaxed about Iran becoming the second Muslim nuclear power. As things stand, France is on course to be the third. You heard it here first. You probably won't hear it on Mr Dassier's station at all. Second, Charles Krauthammer.
On the one side are the protester-arsonists, many if not most of them Muslim, whom the Interior Minister called racaille (rabble)--young, restless, violent, vibrant, angry, jobless, envious and fecund. And on the other side is an aged and exhausted civilization, the hollowed-out core of European Christendom, static, aging, contented, coddled, passive and literally without faith. Who would you think will win in the end?...
France thus is approaching 10% Muslim. But things do not stand still. Even if there were no further immigration, which is a pipe dream, birth rates alone will soon drastically alter the balance. Muslims have the highest birth rate--three times the rate of non-Muslims--of any demographic group in Europe. The most common name for a newborn in neighboring Brussels is Mohammed. Childbearing rates among non-Muslim Frenchmen are well below replacement levels. The old French, like the rest of Europe, are literally disappearing.
"With current trends," Professor Bernard Lewis has said, "Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population by the end of the 21st century." The future? "Europe will be part of the Arab west, of the Maghreb [Muslim northwest Africa]." Today's rioting youth are just a bit ahead of their time in claiming their upcoming patrimony.
[GOP Bloggers]
3:29:49 PM
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
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Bill Clinton Rewriting History & Lying Again.
The Democrats are lying about pre-war intelligence for political gain. They should not be allowed to get away with such treason. It is the foulest and most heinous slander in Washington in a generation. Look at video of Bill Clinton in 1998, when he ordered an attack on Iraq.
Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons.
I want to explain why I have decided, with the unanimous recommendation of my national security team, to use force in Iraq; why we have acted now; and what we aim to accomplish.
Six weeks ago, Saddam Hussein announced that he would no longer cooperate with the United Nations weapons inspectors called UNSCOM. They are highly professional experts from dozens of countries. Their job is to oversee the elimination of Iraq's capability to retain, create and use weapons of mass destruction, and to verify that Iraq does not attempt to rebuild that capability. The inspectors undertook this mission first 7 1/2 years ago at the end of the Gulf War when Iraq agreed to declare and destroy its arsenal as a condition of the ceasefire.
The international community had good reason to set this requirement. Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade-long war. Not only against soldiers, but against civilians, firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran. And not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq.
The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again. Of course, now he sings a different tune. There used to be a tradition of former Presidents keeping a dignified and respectful silence about their successors. Clinton and Jimmy Carter have eviscerated that tradition, and Democrats spit in the faces of our servicemen for short-term political gain.
[GOP Bloggers]
4:54:18 PM
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Project 21: High Home Heating Bills Disproportionately Harm Minority Households
Project 21 members are speaking out on the topic of oil drilling and energy independence:
Black Activists Support Increased Domestic Oil Exploration
High Home Heating Bills Disproportionately Harm Minority Households
Citing the need for America to achieve energy independence as well as aid poor and minority households already suffering from rising heating bills, activists with the black leadership network Project 21 are speaking out in favor of oil and natural gas exploration efforts under consideration for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
The U.S. Senate approved legislation on November 9 to allow oil drilling on approximately 2,000 acres - or 0.01 percent - of ANWR's 19.6 million acres. The House of Representatives is expected to consider similar legislation as early as this week. Drilling on this small and desolate portion of ANWR is expected to generate $2.5 billion in government revenue, create a significant number of new jobs nationwide and recover between 4.3-11.8 billion barrels of oil. OCS-related legislation in the House would allow states to "opt out" of federal moratoriums that currently prohibit offshore oil and gas production.
A small group of Republican congressmen are attempting to block any provision that would allow oil and natural gas exploration in both ANWR and the OCS.
"Home heating bills are expected to be higher than usual this winter. People can choose not to drive their car when fuel prices are high, but they shouldn't have to choose not to turn on the heat to keep their family warm," said Project 21 member Deneen Moore. "Low-income households unable to afford rising heating bills might resort to unsafe alternatives. Drilling in ANWR, for example, would be essential to helping alleviate the high cost of energy in the U.S., create jobs and help America become less dependent on foreign oil."
If new sources of energy are not found and utilized, minority households will be forced to spend a greater percentage of their budgets to keep their homes warm. The U.S. Department of Energy recently projected that heating costs will soar this winter. The cost of heating a home with natural gas is expected to increase by 32 percent increase; with heating oil, 26 percent.
Based on 2004 median income figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the average black household using natural gas for heat can expect to pay one percent more of their income (from 3.2 percent to 4.2 percent) and Hispanics 0.9 percent more (2.8 to 3.7 percent) for home heating while their white counterparts will only be paying 0.6 percent more (two percent to 2.6 percent). Heating oil users will experience almost exactly the same percentage change but will pay a larger portion of their incomes (4.2 to 5.3 percent for blacks, 3.7 to 4.6 for Hispanics and 2.6 to 3.2 for whites) to stay warm.
This inequity further depresses minority prospects for investing, paying for higher education and contributing to retirement savings plans and further hinders socio-economic advancement.
"The prospect of keeping warm this winter costing so much more than the rate of inflation should offend every American family, but its impact on this country's working poor borders the criminal," said Project 21's John Meredith, who is active in several community-based non-profit groups. "How can a nation so rich and powerful justify forcing families to choose between staying warm and eating? We can't. Opening ANWR to exploration is the only humane thing to do." The full press release can be found here .
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, IE. one Democrat who had seen all the same intelligence that Bush had, makes a treasonous confession on a Sunday talk show, Fox News Sunday. This whole matter will not be on any of the other media, period, than FOX because of how damning it is to Rockefeller and the whole notion of what Democrats are harping on today; Bush lied, etc..
It doesn't take a conservative to realize what a cowboy Rockefeller must have felt like in his junket to the middle east. Just 90 days after the attack on 9/11, long before the war began, and 9 months before the President made his case at the United Nations, Rockefeller told Syria's Bashar Assad, Saddam Hussein's bud, that 'they' will be coming. Remember too that Saddam had kicked out the UN inspectors. With a 14-month heads-up, is it any wonder that Saddam's WMD stuff disappeared? Like into and/or through Syria?
His confession/revelation on Sunday makes the second breach of faith and security in his performance on the most sensitive of committees on Capital Hill, and some action needs to be started. Meanwhile, he should be removed from that committee and lose his security clearance until he has gone through a successful and complete investigation.
Rockefeller must be brought to account for this act, which is a closer cousin to treason than the strategy memo that came to light from his office 8 months after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which described how they planned to politicize the intelligence to hurt the administration. This, from a Senator on the Select Intelligence Committee. And exactly the sort of thing we have seen from Democrats for the last couple years.
3:55:56 PM
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The ruckus that's going on in the Senate is ridiculous. Extending our rights to enemy combatants to whatever extent, poking their nose into alleged 'black sites' where bad guys are held, wanting a timetable for withdrawal (surrender). All of this is up to the President, the Commander in Chief and last I checked, the Senate is not the Commander in Chief.
They need to quit thinking that they can interfere with or otherwise micro-manage this war. That goes for Republicans and Democrats. Has anyone ever heard of a war run by the Senate? Is there any government created program that you can reference that was as successful as this war in Iraq needs to be? I know, I'm being generous. On matters they are responsible for, we have our current educational system that reveres unions over educating children. Then there's the war on poverty. That war is going 40 years now. Where's that exit plan? The energy bill that provides no additional energy, no drilling, no refining, no nuclear plants, and increased dependence on foreign oil.
All of Congress should be behind this war just the same as they were for the first 90 days after 9/11. We could have already been out of Iraq by now had they remained committed. By contrast, by keeping this 'Bush lied' theme going, Democrats today are sending the wrong message to our troops, the wrong message to our enemy (on the side of the enemy), and casting a pall over the Iraqi people who now more than ever, don't want us to leave before they can adequately protect themselves.
You can't be an 'opposition party' when there are people out there who want to kill us. When they only want us dead, we should be together. Anything less will increase the human and all other cost.
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12:49:15 AM
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Monday, November 14, 2005
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Danny Goldberg, CEO of Air America Radio defends AAR's fundraising by comparing it to the 'desperate' right-wing media. Goldberg creates the Air America Associates program that is designed to accept money from listeners to support their programming, a-la PBS or NPR. So he justifies that practice, for a 'for profit' business enterprise by comparing to 'shows' like Limbaugh and O'Reilly. It's laughable on two basic points. First, neither of the 'shows' mentioned need the money from souvenirs or website subscriptions to stay on the air and pay bills. They survive on the free market by advertisers who are supported by listeners. Its called capitalism 101.
Second, he makes this point about O'Reilly:
But no one tops the self proclaimed non-spinner Bill O’Reilly. Bill O’Reilly.com offers a "premium membership" for either $4.95 a month or $49.95 a year. He also offers a "Gift certificate" for $14.95. Products for sale on the Web site include:
-- Radio Factor diner coffee mug available in white or navy blue for $14.95
- O’Reilly Factor keychain for $7.95 "while supplies last."
--Three different "No Spin" tote bags at $14.95 apiece
--Ten different hats at a cost of $16.95 each
--The "no spin" jacket for $79.95
--The " Unisex Black Fleece" embroidered with "The Spin Stops Here" for $39.95
--Several bumper stickers including one that reads "Boycott France" for $2.50
--License plate frame for $18.95
--Three different "No Spin" tote bags at $14.95 each
--An O’Reilly Factor Gear Bag at $64.95
-- "Mens Garment Bag" for $64.95 (sorry ladies!)
--a "Spin Stops Here" organizer briefcase
--A "Spin Stops Here" pen and pad bundle for $19.95
--Two different designs of "Spin Stops Here" doormats for $49.95 and
--Two different "Rain Stops Here" umbrellas at $24.95("Show everyone who protects you from the rain")
Can I be the one to tell him that 100% of all profits from merchandise sales from O'Reilly's website is given to charity? Oh that's right. For Danny Goldberg, Air America Radio is the charity. Mr. Goldberg could show what a good citizen company AAR is by donating all their profits from their product sales too.
And then there's this accusation towards sucessful talk radio shows, who in his mind have "an obsession with stifling debate—even at the cost of using lies and distortions, which is un-American." Right, you mean like this Mr. Goldman?
3:52:20 PM
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Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele is running for the same senate seat as Kweisi Mfume, former NAACP President. Project 21 speaks to the racial comments being directed at Steele, the Republican candidate, who is also black. For Kweisi Mfume to talk the talk (below) is one thing, but unless and until he comments on what his campaign adviser Joe Trippi said about "pointing out the obvious," he will not have walked the walk. It is good to know that Kweisi Mfume does not believe that 'black bigotry' is an oxymoron.
Kweisi Mfume said:
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, who is running for the same Senate seat as Steele, condemned racialist attacks. As reported by the Washington Times, Mfume said: "Racially-tinged attacks have no place in this campaign for U.S. Senate. If they did, I could very well be the object of public racial humiliation, based on my skin color, by people who don't like my politics. "Black bigotry can be just as cruel and evil as white bigotry. There are too many bigots in too many places."
Joe Trippi said:
Some, however, seem unoffended -- in one case, even enthusiastic about -- the racial attacks on Steele. According to the Washington Times, white political consultant Joe Trippi said calling Steele an "Uncle Tom" is "pointing out the obvious." Trippi is a spokesman for Mfume and is best known for his leadership of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean's presidential campaign.
UPDATE: A spokesman for Joe Trippi did respond with a link to a Washington Times correction to what is referred to in this post. But, does it deal with what he saw as 'obvious?' To me, it looks like only half of a correction.
1:15:45 AM
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Sunday, November 13, 2005
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White-Hating Segregationists Master Photoshop and a Few Big Words -- Will Other Skills Follow?
The white-hating segregationists are at it again. Last week, one of their number put Maryland's black Lt. Governor Michael Steele in blackface , crudely attempting to claim that since Steele is conservative he's not truly black but a white man in blackface (it is taken for granted that to be white is to be evil). More significantly, a major metropolitan newspaper claimed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "deserves an asterisk [when he is referred to as 'black'] because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America." This is a leftie j-school graduate's way of screaming "OREO" and "UNCLE TOM" while maintaining a slight pretense of sophistication ("asterisk," you see, has three syllables, while street racists, the j-schoolers no doubt suppose, tend to stick with the two-syllable "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom" epithets). After Project 21 (among others), complained about these racist acts, another of the latter-day segregationists has spoken up. Apparently, this fellow is upset that, in the photo at the bottom right of this page on Project 21's website, Mychal Massie is pictured with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who is (brace yourselves), WHITE. (Yes -- you read that right -- Mychal associated with an evil white person .) So the fellow did what any self-respecting segregationist would do - he photoshopped Mychal Massie's face onto Aunt Jemima, and also on the body of an Italian pizza chef (based on the caption, the latter is apparently a weak attempt to insult Mychal by associating him with white Catholic pro-lifers). You see, in the minds of the segregationists, we just can't have black people and white people working together and getting along. No, that would just be wrong. What would Martin Luther King, Jr. have thought ?
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Buried in the 'Arts' section of the New York Times, the wildly successful, growing by leaps and bounds (what?) liberal talk radio network called Air America Radio, talks of fund-raising campaigns to help pay their bills. The reality is more like this NYT quote "If the Air America network hangs on long enough to reach the next presidential campaign. . ." among the reality that shows and personalities are being trimmed from the roster.
Conservative talker Neal Boortz is doing his part to help AAR avoid this chapter, Chapter 11. And his reasoning is this; if AAR goes down in flames, it will give them and Sen. Tom Harkin all the more reason to challenge free speech in the name of the 'fairness doctrine.' You can expect that the left prefers forced speech than free speech.
New York Times finds new way to promote Air America. The NYT has found a new way to promote AAR, the New York Times reports in Susan Brenna's "They Look... [BoreAmerica]
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