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MIAMI, Florida (AP) — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected, politicians will “legislate sin,” including abortion and gay marriage.
Harris made the comments — which she clarified Saturday — in the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention, which interviewed political candidates and asked them about religion and their positions on issues.
Separation of church and state is “a lie we have been told,” Harris said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion and politics is “wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.”
Electing non-Christians allows ‘legislating sin’
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.
Her comments drew criticism, including some from fellow Republicans, who called them offensive and not representative of the party.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, who is Jewish, told the Orlando Sentinel that she was “disgusted” by the comments.
Harris’ campaign released a statement Saturday saying she had been “speaking to a Christian audience, addressing a common misperception that people of faith should not be actively involved in government.”
The comments reflected “her deep grounding in Judeo-Christian values,” the statement said, adding that Harris had previously supported pro-Israel legislation and legislation recognizing the Holocaust.
Harris’ opponents in the GOP primary also gave interviews to the Florida Baptist Witness but made more general statements on their faith.
Harris, 49, faced widespread criticism for her role overseeing the 2000 presidential recount as Florida’s secretary of state.
State GOP leaders — including Gov. Jeb Bush — don’t think she can win against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in November. Fundraising has lagged, frustrated campaign workers have defected in droves and the issues have been overshadowed by news of her dealings with a corrupt defense contractor who gave her $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions.

 
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being made to watch his appearance in cult cartoon South Park while he is behind bars.
The deposed leader on trial in Iraq was featured in the movie spin-off as the lover of the devil. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut featured Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said US Marines guarding the former dictator during his trial for genocide were making him watch the movie “repeatedly”.
“I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie last year. That’s really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy,” Stone said.

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 Although this is a local issue, it does have national significance as more and more states crack down on sexual offenders.
I started to comment on the LJ World site because I frankly found the arguments from the people boo hooing the pain the poor slob in the story suffered entertaining.
I’m glad the registry exists because I am so sick of hearing about these sick fucks screwing up the lives of young kids particularly girls. The glaring white light of scrutiny is a bitch huh?
If you want to keep your sick ass off this list, stop molesting little babies, young teens, your step daughters. Stop kidnaping and murdering. 
I find it hilarious how many links there are from people who thinks the registry is unfair, that there needs to be some distinguishing between the various offenses. Naw not me, screw em.
The more and more defending I read that only tells me that there are more and more sickos out there that need to be scared straight.

“The law is too tough and vague, I too want to screw my neighbors 10 year old daughter without consequences”

“I should be allowed to flash kids on their way to school”                                               

 “I though it was ok to pat kids on the butt when they got an answer correct”

“what’s wrong with playing Santa Claus with the kids in July”

The excuses are asinine. From reading about how perverts are scanning My Space looking for young love to watching NBC’s Dateline watching perverted fucks from all walks of life seeking to take advantage of young girls.
I read one sob story back east about two dudes 57 and 24 who were blasted after their names were posted. Boo fucken hoo, if you are a sex offender you should be scared. If you are sleeping with your kids and playing Michael Jackson you should be scared. If you are some college age prick screwing with some 12, 13 or 14 year old, you should be scared.
I know one motherfucker, if I had the money and resources……backing away from keyboard…
Stay away from kids and your mug shot stays off the web.

The article… 

State system makes no distinction between rapists and molesters and young men in a relationship

The other day, Brad Totman says, his wife came home nearly in tears.
Some neighborhood children who play with the couple’s 3-year-old daughter had said they couldn’t play with her anymore because Totman might “touch them.”
The reason: Totman is a registered sex offender, and his picture recently had been published in the local paper in Pittsburg near his home in Mulberry. His crime, which happened in the late 1990s, was having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 19.
That girl is now his wife, Kristal. They have been married three years.
Kansas has had an “offender registry” since the mid-1990s, designed to alert the public to the presence of dangerous criminals — mostly sex offenders — in their midst. Offenders must register with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and keep their name, current address and photo on a public site.
But Totman says it’s not fair — and misleading to the public — that the registry paints people like him with the same brush as it paints, say, someone who grabbed a child off the street or broke into a home and raped a person. He says the registry instills fear in the public, without providing any meaningful information about what a person actually did to land himself on it.
“It’s lumping you in with pedophiles and rapists, when in fact it’s a consensual thing, especially when you have a continuing relationship with the person,” Totman said. “I want to make waves. I want to see changes.”

‘Way out of proportion’

Sex offenders garner little sympathy in the public eye, and conventional wisdom is that no politician would ever brag about passing laws to make life easier for such a population.
This year, in fact, the Legislature made life harder for people like Totman. The much-touted “Jessica’s Law” didn’t just increase penalties for child molesters; it required all registered offenders to start visiting their county’s sheriff twice a year and paying a $20 fee each time, in addition to the pre-existing requirement to verify their address every 90 days through the mail.
The change, which took effect July 1, also increased the penalties for violating the registration law — for example, by failing to send back a letter. That crime is now a level 5 felony that calls for prison time, on par with violent crimes such as involuntary manslaughter.
The changes concern Ron Stegall, Douglas County’s chief executive probation officer. He pointed out that the penalty for failing to register was far more serious than that handed down for many of the crimes that required someone to be on the registry in the first place.
“I’m certainly not suggesting there should be no penalty for failing to register,” he said. “To me, the penalty is way out of proportion to the crime itself.”

A ‘wide net’

Totman, for example, was convicted of “lewd and lascivious behavior,” a misdemeanor. But if he makes a paperwork mistake, he could go to prison for nearly three years.
Another concern of Stegall’s is that the registry makes no distinction between what he called a “really, really bad guy,” and a “not-such-a-bad guy” who made a youthful mistake. He’s not suggesting that sex with an underage person should be legal — just that the state needs to make a distinction between types of sex crimes.

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I KNEW THIS FUCKER WAS FULL OF SHIT.

Dude is just a pedophile groupie.
The media seriously looks like a bunch of jackasses

Day of protests: Jewish community concerned, but acknowledges First Amendment rights
By Heather May
The Salt Lake Tribune 
 
 
Salt Lake City will allow local defense attorney Robert Breeze to hold a “Death to Israel” demonstration Wednesday despite concerns from the Jewish community.
The permit will be approved next week, after the city and Breeze finalize where the demonstration, one of several planned for that day, will be held. It will run from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Breeze, 52, said his goal is to protest “the torture and murder inflicted on Muslims by Israel and the penetration of the U.S. media by Israeli intelligence.”
While he said his group - the Center to Prevent Corporate Media Lying - has other members and financial donors, Breeze wouldn’t name them. And he acknowledged some of his past protests against media coverage of the Iraq war that he held in front of the KSL studios included paid participants from the homeless shelter.
Some demonstrators Wednesday also may be paid.
“They’re called ‘vicarious protesters,’ ” he said.
When asked if he wants to see the elimination of Israel, Breeze said: “The President of Iran has an excellent idea. . . . I would like to see them move Israel to Virginia and put all the current Virginians in a concentration camp. Then we’ll see how popular Israel is [in the United States].”
Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” to the condemnation of several world leaders.
Bill Tumpowsky, chairman of the Jewish Community Relations 
Council, said he expected the city would grant the permit. He and others remain concerned.
“We collectively stand in tremendous support of the First Amendment,” he said. “This has many members of the Jewish community frightened. When you say, ‘Death to Israel,’ it speaks death to Jews. We’re deeply saddened to see that form of ugly bigotry express itself here in Salt Lake City.”
He encouraged people who oppose Breeze’s message to express their opposition Wednesday.
City Attorney Ed Rutan said the city wasn’t forced to grant the permit. “You may not like somebody’s speech but it’s equally protected under the First Amendment.” Breeze - who won a lawsuit last year against Salt Lake County after sheriff’s deputies told him he couldn’t bring a flier supporting polygamists Heidi Mattingly Foster and John Daniel Kingston into the courthouse - denied he is anti-Semitic.

PAY ATTENTION YOU PIGS! NOTE MIC CORD..

IGNORE THE LEGS, IGNORE THE LEGS, FOCUS PEOPLE!

Mechanics scavenge parts from outdated planes to go on others the Air Force wants to retire but can’t. Congress has ordered that they remain in service.

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — It is only 7 a.m., but John Nimrichter has been pulling parts from outdated military airplanes for an hour already. “These things get sizzling hot,” he says, looking up at a 1950s-era B-52 bomber sitting on the baked desert just south of Tucson. “You’ll lose your breath.”

Driving up and down endless rows of mothballed fighters, bombers, helicopters and cargo planes, Nimrichter and a crew of 63 fellow Air Force mechanics mine them for replacement parts for aircraft still in use.

Many pieces go into planes on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, a cheaper way to repair them than buying new parts. But increasingly, the salvaged parts from the Arizona installation known as “the boneyard” are keeping together aircraft the Air Force doesn’t want anymore: B-52s produced in the 1950s; cargo planes from the ’60s; in-air refueling tankers dating to the 1950s and ’60s.

Even as the Air Force is struggling to find money for new fighters, bombers, tankers and cargo planes, it estimates it will spend close to $1.6 billion over the next five years just to maintain aircraft it wants to jettison. It can’t get rid of them — and free up money for new aircraft — because often the older aircraft have been given special protections by Congress.

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From Newsmax 

Equating their movement to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, a group of conservative pastors from across the nation endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell on Monday.
The religious leaders included senior Pastor Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in Maryland, a Democrat; Bill Owens, director of the Memphis-based Coalition of African-American Pastors; and Pastor Russell Johnson of the 4,000-member Fairfield Christian Church, who chairs the politically vocal Ohio Restoration Project.
The pastors, who say they support Blackwell’s conservative message, including his anti-tax position and his opposition to abortion and gay marriage, have formed a group called Clergy for Blackwell, which includes both black and white ministers.
Blackwell, who is black, is struggling in the polls against Democratic opponent Ted Strickland, a U.S. congressman from Lisbon and a former minister.
Johnson is the subject of an IRS complaint filed by liberal ministers alleging he has violated federal law by supporting Blackwell, Ohio’s secretary of state.
As coordinator of Monday’s event, Johnson said he and the other ministers were well within the IRS law that limits political activity by nonprofit organizations.
“We are citizens who believe the stewardship of our citizenship means something, and that every one of us as ministers have not given up our citizenship. We can stand for a candidate we believe in,” Johnson said.
We Believe, a second organization of liberal ministers that sprung up in the wake of the complaint, said in a statement that it will not endorse any candidates in the governor’s race.
The group intends to press all gubernatorial candidates to address “issues that are critical to God’s people,” the statement said, such as poverty, jobs, access to health care, living wages, and adequate housing.
“We believe that individuals do have a right to support political candidates of their choice,” the statement said. “Yet we believe that clergy have a higher obligation to work for the values transmitted for centuries through diverse religious traditions.”

 I found the following post (Why reading Ayn Rand is bad for your gonads) via Pandagon (Post Link), I thought I would post and sick El Borak on her, he he he…have fun!

If you think libertarian views on the markets are simplistic and maddening, what’s really astonishing and fun is watching said libertarians apply those views to sex and dating. A couple of readers have sent me some libertarian blogging on sexuality and the heightened levels of self-delusion that feed this political, ahem, philosophy would be sad if not so funny.

First off is this blog by this libertarian blogger who is obsessed with Playboy, because the female half of the ubermensch equation is airbrush and two dimensional. And that’s possibly too deep an interpretation, because even though the guy who writes it insists that he’s extraordinarily intelligent and intellectual in every post, he’s not smart enough to really grasp that there is nothing that screams “Loser” like a man who is obsessed with Playboy. I’ve tried not to read his blog since it’s been brought to my attention, but seriously, there’s just a train wreck quality to it. Like his latest post, where he congratulates himself for being a workaholic.

READ FULL POST HERE

Accused Hezbo TV guy Javed Iqbal
Iqbal search warrant (PDF)
Coalition Against Terrorist Media
Al Manar designated terrorist group
Beacon of Hatred * Blood libel
Al Manar soars * Survives

WATCH VIDEO HERE

From World News Daily 

Most types of congressional pork merely transfer money from the taxpayers to some favored constituency. Other types of pork are more nefarious: They also trample on individuals’ property rights. Regrettably, Sen. George Allen’s (R.-Va.) “Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act,” which is co-sponsored in the House by Rep. Frank Wolf (R.-Va.), is an example of the latter.

The Allen-Wolf initiative seems harmless at first glance, save for the wasteful spending. It appears to only divert federal dollars to a local special-interest group for the stated purpose of promoting heritage tourism, thereby allowing politicians like Allen and Wolf to boast about the project in their stump speeches.

If only it were that simple.

For those who may be unfamilar with them, national heritage areas are federally-designated, heavily-regulated land areas over which special interest groups and federal employees are given special powers and federal resources to help them steer land-use decisions. Property rights frequently are curtailed.

Allen’s bill, which would create a new national heritage area covering large parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, would create a “management entity” for the region comprised of federal employees and preservationist interest groups—many of the latter having a history of anti-property rights agendas. This new management entity would be required to create an “inventory” of all property to be “preserved,” “managed,” or “acquired.” The new management entity would be granted the authority to disburse federal funds to encourage restrictions on local land use and the acquisition of private property.

Citizens of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania might look to property owners caught within the boundaries of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in Arizona to catch a glimpse of their possible future. A report about the Yuma Heritage area from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources states:

“When the Yuma Crossing Heritage Area was authorized in 2000, the public in Yuma County did not understand the scope of the project and was surprised by the size of the designation… Concerns were raised by citizens about the size of the designation and the potential for additional Federal oversight. The fear of adverse impacts on private property rights were realized when local government agencies began to use the immense heritage area boundary to determine zoning restrictions.”

Considering some of the groups that would round out Sen. Allen’s management entity, property owners caught within the boundaries of “Hallowed Ground” could fare much worse that those in Yuma. One of the groups pushing for the Allen bill is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, whose senior vice-president, Peter Brink, currently serves as vice-chairman of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership. The Partnership would join the federal government in managing the Heritage Area, should Allen’s bill become law. The National Trust is an organization with a clear record of hostility toward property rights. For example, last year a Louisa, Va., man who wanted to renovate his home ran into opposition from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Emily Wadhams, a National Trust vice president, argued against the rights of the homeowner in a hearing on Capitol Hill, declaring, “[P]rivate property rights have never been allowed to take precedence over our shared national values and the preservation of our country’s heritage.”

It is curious that an organization claiming to be a guardian of history would so casually revise it.

The National Trust also has worked to defeat state ballot initiatives designed to restore the private property rights of landowners. Recently in Oregon, the National Trust and various environmental groups fought passage of a measure that would fairly compensate property owners when government takes their property rights and devalues their land. In 1995, the group helped bankroll the opposition to a similar property rights referendum in the state of Washington.

Last year’s unpopular U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London sparked a national outcry for stronger protections for property owners—not for more legislation that further tramples property rights. The uproar over the “bridge to nowhere” shows that many taxpayers are fed up about funding pork. Unfortunately for property owners within the proposed Hallowed Ground Heritage Area, some members of Congress still have not gotten the message.

Sen. Allen has always been quick to invoke the names of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan when describing his political philosophy. Yet Jeffersonian principles and Reagan-era conservatism do not allow for federal boondoggles like his National Heritage Area.

“The irony in this week of coverage will be that but for the incompetence of local and state officials in Louisiana, all of whom were Democrats, the media would not have much ammunition to fire at the Bush administration.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“As this week begins, the media and Democrats will begin expanded coverage of Bush bashing. They will highlight the many things they perceived that President Bush did, or rather, that President Bush did not do in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. They will do their best to drive down his poll numbers in advance of September 11th.’

READ FULL POST HERE FROM REDSTATE.COM

Found via RedState.com 

According to left-of-center but pro-market Sebastian Mallaby:

According to a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research by Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag, neither of whom received funding from Wal-Mart, big-box stores led by Wal-Mart reduce families’ food bills by one-fourth. Because Wal-Mart’s price-cutting also has a big impact on the non-food stuff it peddles, it saves U.S. consumers upward of $200 billion a year, making it a larger booster of family welfare than the federal government’s $33 billion food-stamp program.

How can centrist Democrats respond to that? By beating up Wal-Mart and forcing it to focus on public relations rather than opening new stores, Democrats are harming the poor Americans they claim to speak for. 

Clintonian “third way” politics is gone. And that’s the main thing that will stop Democrats from being in the majority in 2007.

 Biden is the poster child illustrating why Washington is so fucked up right now and until these crazy old white dudes are replaced by more thoughtful, sane, reasonable individuals.
These crazy old country club moronic fucks shoot themselves in the mouth on a daily basis now. These people are just turning senile.
If I were the advisor for these dudes I would just say shut the fuck up, smile and wave.    

 

 WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Biden says he can hold his own in a 2008 presidential primary against Democratic contenders from the South, noting that his home state of Delaware was a “slave state.”

Biden dismissed the notion that he was a “Northeastern liberal” who would have a poor showing in the South against other likely contenders such as Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and former Sen.        John Edwards of North Carolina, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee.

“Better than anybody else,” Biden said, when asked on “Fox News Sunday” to rate his chances of winning Southern states.

“You don’t know my state,” he said. “My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.”

The last three Democrats to win the presidency —  Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson — came from the southern states of Arkansas, Georgia and Texas, respectively.

 FROM HOT AIR - Video Link

This looks like a case of awful timing more than awful taste (and yes, we’re aware it’s a Lost parody); nevertheless, it’s going to be a night to remember for NBC, the Emmys and Conan O’Brien.

On the other hand, if the Comair crash had happened on the Left Coast, would NBC have gone through with the skit?

Update: Lexington’s NBC affiliate reacts:

WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.

“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”

Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity.

Update: Mary Katharine Ham nails it.

The Kentucky plane crash happened at 6 a.m. There was plenty of time to alter the intro of the Emmys to something more respectful. It wouldn’t have been polished and post-produced, but it would have been polite.

NBC has armies of writers and producers on a show the scope of the Emmy Awards. They could have come up with something to replace the Lost sketch, and if it was really lame a simple explanation that they had replaced a plane crash sketch out of respect for those lost in the Comair crash would have been right and classy.

Update: Associated Press via Breitbart.com–”Emmy Plane Crash Skit Called Insensitive.”

Update: Ace of Spades uses Google Maps to speculate which runway the Comair plane might have taken off from.

By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

It’s a sign of just how hot an issue pork-barrel spending has become that the biggest game in political Washington this summer is trying to smoke out the senator who is blocking a bill to create a searchable database of federal contracts and grants.
    The bill has the support of the Bush administration and activists on widely divergent sides of the political spectrum. It also passed a Senate committee without any objections, so the unknown senator is annoying many people.
    Sponsored by Sens. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, and Barack Obama, Illinois Democrat, the bill would require the administration to create a searchable Web site that would list the name and amount of any federal grant, contract or other award of money amounting to $25,000 or more.
    Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, tried to win speedy passage just before the Senate left for its summer break, but at least one senator objected anonymously.
    Now Porkbusters.org, a Web site dedicated to exposing wasteful government spending, is conducting a public campaign to smoke out the obstructor or obstructors, while blogs on both sides of the political spectrum have weighed in, demanding action on the bill. Mr. Frist has also vowed to get into the act, promising to try to pass the bill again when Congress returns from its break next month.
    ”For reasons of policy and politics, many bloggers are rightly outraged that S. 2590 was shot down when I attempted to bring it up for a vote prior to the August recess,” Mr. Frist wrote in an entry last week on the blog of Volpac, his political action committee (www.volpac.com).  READ THE REST

 Posted by John Armor - On Newsbusters

You would think that Reuters learned its lesson about publishing to the world photos doctored to create a false image. After all, they were caught with multiple false photos from Lebanon, and had to take down more than 900 images from one stringer. Reuters promised it would have “experienced editors” look at all such photos in the future.

Has Reuters kept that promise? Apparently not.

Today, 26 August 2006, Reuters ran a photo captioned: “A French United Nations vehicle drives past a photo of Hizbollah leader …. Nasrallah, in Tyre….” The power of the photo is that the poster-sized image of a smiling Nasrallah is looking right at, and smiling at, an apparently white flag flying on the French vehicle.

But that impression is false. The flag isn’t white. As bloggers have noted, the contrast on this photo has been punched up to turn light blue into white. The UN helmets which are actually light blue, seem white with slight shadows. The “white” flag is actually a back-lit, blue, UN flag. Confirmation of the doctoring of this photo is that the background of the poster in the upper right has entirely disappeared, so its black words seem to float in a “white” sky.

Did the “experienced editors” at Reuters simply miss the doctoring of this photo, to create a scene different from what the photographer was supposely capturing? Did the Reuters editors spot the doctoring, but let the photo go through so a false photo that agrees with that many Americans think, would balance off the dozens of prior Reuters photos with an opposite bias?

Either way, it doesn’t work. Reuters is still publishing photos that offer compelling images, which on close examination turn out to be false. The learning curve of Reuters editors seems to be flat.

Park Day School is throwing out gender boundaries.

Teachers at the private Oakland elementary school have stopped asking the children to line up according to sex when walking to and from class. They now let boys play girls and girls play boys in skits. And there’s a unisex bathroom.

Admissions director Flo Hodes is even a little apologetic that she still balances classes by gender.

Park Day’s gender-neutral metamorphosis happened over the past few years, as applications trickled in for kindergartners who didn’t fit on either side of the gender line. One girl enrolled as a boy, and there were other children who didn’t dress or act in gender-typical ways. Last year the school hired a consultant to help the staff accommodate these new students.

“We had to ask ourselves, what is gender for young children?” Hodes said. “It’s coming up more and more.”

Park Day’s staff members are among a growing number of educators and parents who are acknowledging gender variance in very young children. Aurora School, another private elementary school in Oakland, also is seeing children who are “gender fluid” and hired a clinical psychologist to conduct staff training.

Children with gender variant behaviors feel intensely that they want to look and act like the other sex. They prefer toys and activities typical of the opposite gender. Signs usually start appearing between the ages of 2 and 4.

For some children, it’s a passing phase. Some grow up to be heterosexual, some gay. Some children insist they are the opposite sex although they might have a hard time explaining it. One nurse therapist said a boy once told her, “I think I swallowed a girl.”  READ THE REST

 Union warns of drug-taking truckers, unsafe rigs on planned trade routes

WASHINGTON – The NAFTA superhighway, a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S., would mean U.S. truckers replaced by Mexicans, more unsafe rigs on American roads and more drivers relying on drugs for their long hauls, charges the International Brotherhood of Teamsters – the latest group to weigh in against the Bush administration plan.

The August issue of Teamster magazine features a cover story on the plan for an enlarged I-35 that will reach north from the drug capital border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1,600 miles to Canada through San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Duluth, while I-69 originating at the same crossing will shoot north to Michigan and across the Canadian border.

Public proposals for the superhighway calls for each corridor to be 1,200 feet wide with six lanes devoted to cars, four to trucks, with a rail line and utilities in the middle. Most of the goods will come from new Mexican ports being built on the Pacific Coast – ports being run by Chinese state-controlled shipping companies.

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By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — A group of New York City officials blasted CBS and its hit series”Survivor”on Thursday, a day after the network announced that the teams on the new season of the reality show will be divided by race.

Saying that the setup will promote divisiveness, the officials called on CBS to reconsider its plans.

“The idea of having a battle of the races is preposterous,”said City Councilman John Liu.”How could anybody be so desperate for ratings?”

For the first portion of the 13th season of”Survivor,”which premieres Sept. 14, the contestants competing for the $1 million prize while stranded on the Cook Islands in the South Pacific will be divided into four teams _ blacks, Asians, Latinos and whites.

Liu, who is Asian-American, said he was launching a campaign urging CBS to pull the show because it could encourage racial division and promote negative typecasts. He and a coalition of officials, including the council’s black, Latino and Asian caucus, planned to rally at City Hall on Friday.

In a statement, CBS Entertainment, which is part of New York-based CBS Corp., defended the ethnic twist, saying it follows the show’s tradition of introducing new creative elements and casting structures that reflect cultural and social issues.

“CBS fully recognizes the controversial nature of this format but has full confidence in the producers and their ability to produce the program in a responsible manner,”the statement said.”`Survivor’is a program that is no stranger to controversy and has always answered its critics on the screen.”

Last season, the show divided contestants into groups of older men, younger men, older women and younger women.

The show’s host, Jeff Probst, said the network was aware this season’s race ploy might offend viewers.

“It’s very risky because you’re bringing up a topic that is a hot button,”he told asap, The Associated Press service for younger readers.”There’s a history of segregation you can’t ignore. It is part of our history.

“For that, it’s much safer to say, `No, let’s just stick with things the way they are. Let’s don’t be the network to rock the boat. Let’s not have”Survivor”try something new,’”he said.”But the biases from home can’t affect you. This is an equal opportunity game.”

 Why did this fool open his mouth, I swear this is one ignorant bastard.

 ARTICLE LINK FROM CBS.COM

“You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”

 USA today article - New Orleans’ recovery slow and slippery process

(CBS) Confronted by accusations that he’s taking too long to clean up his city after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended himself by remarking on New York City’s failure to rebuild Ground Zero.

Nagin made the remarks in an interview conducted by CBS News National Correspondent Byron Pitts which will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. EDT.

On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public property and it’s mainly private land that’s still affected – areas that can’t be cleaned without the owners’ permission. But when Pitts points to flood-damaged cars in the street and a house washed partially into the street, the mayor shoots back. “That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”

Nagin is confident New Orleans will be whole again and will even be able to withstand another hurricane of Katrina strength, pointing out that taller and stronger levees are being built. It will take time.

“We’re into a five-to-seven-year build cycle … . At the end of the day, I see the city being totally rebuilt. I see us eliminating blight, still being culturally unique,” Nagin says.

One example of new development Nagin points to is a 68-story Trump Towers condominium complex, a project that makes some critics wary that New Orleans will lose the heritage that made it unique.

“I think you are looking at basically a town that will be a playground for the rich for the next 40 years,” Leonard Moore, a professor of African-American history at Louisiana State University, tells Pitts. “I look at the post-Katrina piece as a game of musical chairs….Once the music gets turned off, the white folks have a place to sit down, a place to sleep, a place for their children to go to school. We’re going back to a trailer.”

Nagin says he is looking out for the poor, mostly black, residents who are dispersed all over the country, some of whom are waiting to return to the city.

“What I do have a problem with is some entrenched interests that are looking and salivating over certain sections of the city,” Nagin says.

The mayor says these interests want him to keep those poor people from coming back so they can get rich developing the land.

“I don’t think that’s right,” Nagin says.

But before any rebuilding can take place, the clean-up and restoration of the city’s infrastructure must be complete and it will be Mayor Nagin, recently re-elected, who leads the efforts.

“Should things have happened quicker? Yes. But everyone has their own style of leadership, and right now our political leader, our political father is Ray Nagin,” says Oliver Thomas, New Orleans City Council president.

“So for the next four years, we’re going to sink or swim with him,” Thomas tells Pitts.

  Illegals drive up highway deaths as U.S. hits new highs for unlicensed, uninsured motorists

                    TRUE, BUT YOU LOST!!!

WASHINGTON – Marcos Ramos Medina was driving his 1997 Chevrolet Lumina erratically, according to witnesses, swerving several times across the center line, causing a tractor-trailer rig to jackknife in Yakima, Wash., Aug. 4, 2005.

That was before his car plowed into the 2000 Lexus driven by Peggy Keller, 53, dean of distance education at Yakima Valley College, who was killed in the head-on crash.

Prosecutors in his vehicular homicide trial contended Medina was coming down from a methamphetamine high. When Russell T. “Todd” Sharpe, a six-year Washington State Patrol officer, testified that Medina fought against his restraints while being taken to the hospital for a blood alcohol test and refused to answer questions, the case against the Mexican national with a criminal record who had twice been deported was declared a mistrial because his constitutional right to remain silent had been violated.

“It pains me greatly, but in this case I must exercise an abundance of caution,” explained Judge James P. Hutton.

Little caution, critics say, is being exercised when it comes to preventing mayhem on America’s highways as the country witnesses record high numbers of unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured drivers – millions of whom are illegal aliens like Medina.

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When I first heard about Spike Lee’s documentary on the Katrina disaster, I expected it to be this anti-Bush bashing Michael Moore esk propaganda attack flick blaming whitey, I’ll admit, it was none of that.
The good thing was that Lee was virtually invisible throughout the program because the pictures and the testimonials is all that was needed to tell the story.
No fancy graphics, no music, no parade of leftist pretending to give a shit about black folks. His 100 interviews of subjects exploring the tragedy of the event was honest and rivetingly.
Make no mistake, what happened was off the charts fucked up for a number of reasons.
This disaster illustrated the colossal failures of big government and more than adequately displayed why big government is almost always doomed to failure.
This is a program everyone must see, there are some powerful images, but what I came away with was just how broken black America has become.
As sad as the images were I could not help to feel angry at how black America was portrayed.
Black folks were portrayed as weak, inferior, helpless and ignorant. This was not about strong, proud resilient folks, the type of individual traits that were from generations past.
All of the struggles suffered by Black Americans through slavery, segregation and constant and consistent racism many in this documentary kept asking the question, “where was OUR government.” I’m thinking you people already thought the government was racist and corrupt, what made them think they would be coming to their rescue?
More than that, black folks from around the country watched as events unfolded, I’m thinking during this documentary, where were these peoples families, their friends, their churches.
If we are going to look at this documentary as an indictment on America we as black folks sure as hell should be looking in the mirror.
Forget the government for a moment, I concede they screwed up, I’ll even take Nigga Nagin off the hook for his utter stupidity and lack of leadership, and I’ll take idiot Governor Blanco off the hook.
But back in the day, when black folks got in trouble, black folks rallied on their own to help their own.
Lets put the spotlight on just where the aid did not come from and why NOLA still looks like shit today despite more than $100 billion in aid sent to the area.
Who are some of our wealthiest athletes and some yearly earnings, keep in mind this is a little dated: Tiger Woods $76,673,413,  Shaquille O’Neal, $40,517,858, LeBron James  $39,018,920, Kevin Garnett, $36,000,000, Kobe Bryant Basketball L.A. Lakers $25,498,000.
What about some net worth for some hip hop artists and entertainers P. Diddy $346 Million, Jay-Z $340 Million, Russell Simmons $325 Million, Dr. Dre $150 Million
Ice Cube $145 Million, 50 Cent $100 Million, Nelly $60 Million.  
What about some wealthy black Women: Sheila Crump Johnson 1.5 Billion BET; Doris Fisher $1.4 billion Gap Inc.; Marian Illitch $1.3 billion Lil Caesar’s Pizza Inc.; Oprah Winfrey $1.0 billion Harpo Productions Inc.; Meg Whitman $800 million E-Bay Inc.; Marcey Carsey $610 million Carsey-Werner Marion Sandler and $550 million Golden West Financial.

There are thousands of people not on this listing of course. Not to mention the absence of groups like the NEW Black Panthers, The Urban League, NAACP, the Christian Leadership Conference, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all of the black newspapers, Magazines, media stars and headliners.  

My point is all of the people that want to point the finger at whitey for screwing those poor black folks stood around and let them do it. Well to do black folks could have come together and helped the situation before and after.
Some rich nigga could have sent a plane down there to get those people out. Shit they have no problem flying their entourages around on gambling, shopping and hoe fest parties.
You mean not one rich nigga who either lived, was from, or had ties to NOLA could not shell out some dollars to provide vehicles and busses to get those people out.
All of these black churches around the nation nobody was willing to step up to the plate and say “what do you need mayor”. Remember THEY HAD MORE THAN A WEEK TO PREPARE!    
If any of you, watched the events of Katrina unfold and stared at the pictures and sat on your ass and kept yelling at the TV saying “where is the government”, well you obviously wanted someone else to take responsibility for those poor souls.
Liberal Democrats following the disaster cried racism, but nobody has been down there to see the progress or lack thereof since.
How come Hilliary, Kennedy, Jessie, Sharpton, Dean or any other Democrat have not been making regular trips to right the wrongs of the evil racist Republicans.
Former Presidents Bush 41 and Clinton did not immediately have some crusade for the victims, but then why should they, those are white guys, why would they give a fuck about some poor ignorant black folks.
But even more than that, the one dude who was interviewed who had to leave the body of his dead mother behind, where the fuck was his family?
If my mother lived in NOLA and I had MORE THAN A WEEKS NOTICE that a hurricane was coming, I’m down there getting my family and friends the fuck out of there.
When hurricane Ivan was coming towards Alabama, my brother flew from California and I drove from Kansas, secured the house, gathered their important papers, box some other items of importance, got my mother and grandmother to a shelter, the local church was prepared with a weeks worth of food and supplies, while my brother and I took watch at the house.
Where were the churches, any damm denomination, to come to the aid of those people?
Those people were not just let down by the government and whitey, they were fucked by a selfish society and selfish negros, and when your guilt got to you, folks started pointing fingers at the easiest scapegoat, the president and the government.
The other weakness of the documentary was not explaining that there was an evacuation plan, that hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars were sent to Louisiana over the years and those levees looked like they were constructed by some third world nation.
What the fuck did Louisiana do with OUR money?
All of the elected officials who have served in NOLA and the state of Louisiana over the past 35-40 years, (many of them black, including the crook congressman William “ice box” Jefferson knew of the pending doom and knew that the federal monies dedicated to the wetlands and the levee systems were being diverted to other uses, that is the tragedy. Niggas and rednecks were both complicit in the deception and corruption.
So while you might shed tears at the horrors depicted in Spike’s documentary, remember every damm body failed those people. And in true American style some people (black and white) will profit on the suffering of others.
Spike says someone should go to jail, shit, we don’t have enough jail space for all the folks who are guilty of wrongdoing. The politicians, the media, the families, city, county, state and federal governments, but neglectful families, friends, churches and the niggas with the dollars that could have come to the aid of those people.
But in today’s world it’s every nigga for themselves, just blame whitey. “I’ve gots to get my hair did.”  Niggas on rooftops can wait.

From Neal Bortz 

AIRLINE PASSENGERS TAKING CONTROL

Since it has become apparent that governments around the world aren’t really going to do anything about the threat posed on airplanes by Islamic terrorism, the airline passengers have taken control of things.  Sadly, the TSA (and its counterparts all over the globe) don’t want to engage in racial profiling.

But the people who have to fly on these airplanes…that put their lives on the line and actually want to live until they reach their next destination, are beginning to take action.  Two recent incidents illustrate this perfectly.  The first involves a situation that took place on a flight last week from Spain to the UK. 

Two Muslim students were acting in a suspicious manner.  The news coverage doesn’t say exactly what they were doing, but it was enough to bother the passengers…and that’s when it started.  Some of the passengers informed the flight crew of what was taken place, then a bunch of the passengers stormed off the plane.  The suspicious fliers were removed from the plane at gunpoint and the flight was on its way.  The kids turned out to be clean, but who cares.  Since nearly every airplane hijacker in the last 30 years has been an Arab Muslim, these passengers were simply playing the odds.

The second case involves something that took place yesterday.  A Northwest flight from Amsterdam to India was escorted back to the airport by Dutch F-16’s and 12 passengers were arrested for suspicious behavior.  These passengers were of Middle Eastern origin and were passing around a cell phone on the plane, something that’s not allowed.  The other fliers weren’t having it, so the plane was sent back and those in question were marched off by air marshals.

The message from government regarding airline security has been clear:  because of political correctness, they are not going to do anything to prevent a repeat of 9/11.  It’s nice to see the passengers taking the matters into their own hands.

 By Jack Kemp - Townhall.com

The liberal press is reporting that the seesaw battle for control of the Kansas Board of Education just teetered back to pro-evolutionists for the second time in five years. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the movement to allow criticism of evolution are grossly exaggerated.

In its zeal to portray evolution critics in Kansas as dumb, rural fundamentalists, a New York Times Page 1 story misquoted Steve Abrams (the school board president who had steered Kansas toward allowing criticism of evolution) on a basic principle of science. The newspaper had to correct its error.

The issue in the Kansas controversy was not intelligent design and certainly not creationism. The current Kansas standards state: “To promote good science, good pedagogy and a curriculum that is secular, neutral and non-ideological, school districts are urged to follow the advice provided by the House and Senate Conferees in enacting the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.”

This “advice,” which the Kansas standards quote, is: “The Conferees recognize that quality science education should prepare students to distinguish the data and testable theories of science from religious or philosophical claims that are made in the name of science. Where topics are taught that may generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum should help students to understand the full range of scientific views that exist, why such topics may generate controversy, and how scientific discoveries can profoundly affect society.”

The newly elected school board members immediately pledged to work swiftly to restore a science curriculum that does not subject evolution to criticism. They don’t want students to learn “the full range of scientific views” or that there is a “controversy” about evolution.

Liberals see the political value to teaching evolution in school, as it makes teachers and children think they are no more special than animals. Childhood joy and ambition can turn into depression as children learn to reject that they were created in the image of God.

The press is claiming that the pro-evolution victory in Kansas - where, incidentally, voter turnout was only 18 percent - was the third strike for evolution critics. In December a federal judge in Dover, Pa., prohibited the school from even mentioning intelligent design, and in February, the Ohio board of education nixed a plan to allow a modicum of critical analysis of evolution. But one strikeout does not a ballgame win. Gallup Polls have repeatedly shown that only about 10 percent of Americans believe the version of evolution commonly taught in public schools and, despite massive public school indoctrination in Darwinism, that number has not changed much in decades.

Intelligent judges are beginning to reject the intolerant demands of evolutionists. In May, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision by a Clinton-appointed trial judge to prohibit the Cobb County, Ga., school board from placing this sticker on textbooks: “Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.”

Fortunately, judges and politicians cannot control public debate about evolution. Ann Coulter’s new book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism” (Crown Forum, $28), has enjoyed weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Despite bitter denunciations by liberals, funny thing, there has been a thundering silence about the one-third of her book in which she deconstructs Darwinism. She calls it the cosmology of the Church of Liberalism.

Coulter’s book charges that evolution is a cult religion, and described how its priests and practitioners regularly treat critics as religious heretics. The Darwinists’ answer to every challenge is to accuse their opponents of, horrors, a fundamentalist belief in God.

Although liberals spent a lot of money to defeat members of the Kansas school board members on Aug. 1, they are finding it more and more difficult to prop up Darwinism by the censorship of criticism. The polite words for the failure of Darwinism to prove its case are gaps in the theory, but Coulter’s book shows that dishonesty and hypocrisy are more accurate descriptions.

Evolutionists are too emotionally committed to face the failure of evidence to support their faith, but they are smart enough to know that they lose whenever debate is allowed, which is why they refused the invitation to present their case at a public hearing in Kansas. But this is America, and 90 percent of the public will not remain silenced.

 Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown.

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By Vickie Welborn - The Shreveport Times

COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials.
Superintendent Kay Easley will meet with the family members in her office this morning.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also is considering filing a formal charge with the U.S. Department of Justice. NAACP District Vice President James Panell, of Shreveport, said he would apprise Justice attorneys of the situation this week. He’s considering asking for an investigation into the bus incident and other aspects of the school system’s operations, including pupil-teacher ratio as it relates to the numbers of white and black children, along with a breakdown of the numbers of black and white teachers employed.
“If the smoke is there, then there’s probably fire somewhere else,” Panell said in a phone interview from New Orleans. “At this point, it is extremely alarming. We fought that battle 50 years ago, and we won. Why is this happening again?”
Easley would not comment much on the allegations Wednesday, saying it is a personnel issue. She acknowledged that she has investigated the claim. And she confirmed that the bus driver did not run her route Wednesday, nor would she today.
Asked if the driver would work for the rest of the year, Easley said, “I’m not going to answer the questions. “» You’re getting all that you’re going to get from me. I’m sorry.”
Red River Elementary School Principal Jamie Lawrence tried to rectify the seating situation when it was brought to her attention. But it was ultimately handled at the Central Office, Patricia Sessoms said.
Sessoms aunt, Iva Richmond, is the mother of two of the children, ages 14 and 15, and foster parent to three others, ages 5, 6 and 10. Janice Williams, who is the mother of the other four children, is Richmond’s neighbor. All nine children catch the bus at a stop on Ashland Road.
Sessoms will join Richmond and Williams in their meeting with Easley today. Sessoms said they would ask for bus driver Delores Davis’ immediate termination. Davis, who originates her bus route in Martin, has called Richmond to apologize, Sessoms said. A message left on Davis’ answering machine late Wednesday afternoon was not immediately returned.
After Richmond and Williams filed complaints with the School Board, Transportation Supervisor Jerry Carlisle asked Davis to make seat assignments for her passengers, Sessoms said.
“But she still assigned the black children to the back of the bus,” she added.
And the nine children had to share only two seats, meaning the older children had to hold the younger ones in their laps.
A new solution reached Monday by School Board officials has a black bus driver driving across town to pick up the nine black children.
“I think the whole school system needs to be reviewed in Red River Parish,” Sessoms said.
Sessoms, who has two children at Red River Elementary, said she has no problems with her bus driver. “I have a wonderful bus driver,” she added. Sessoms’ request to have her young children sit near the front because of their ages was granted.
School Board member Gene Longino said Wednesday evening that he had not heard about the situation involving the nine children.
“I don’t know anything about that. “» Until something formally comes to the School Board members through the superintendent, we don’t know the details,” Longino said.
School Board President Ricky Cannon was at work Wednesday evening and unavailable for comment. Board member J.B. McElwee also was not at home. Calls to the homes of Cleve Miller, Kassandria Wells White, Karen Womack and Jessie Webber were not answered.

Should American taxpayers be forced to pay for a self-segregating school that teaches children to hate the United States? That is apparently what is happening in Los Angeles.

Academia Semillos del Pueblo (ASDP), a charter school partially funded by the Los Angeles Unified School District, claims it only wants to help disadvantaged Latinos to earn a quality education. The school’s true agenda, however, is far more radical and far more dangerous. Judicial Watch recently launched an investigation of the ASDP by filing a California Public Records Act request. Here is a small sampling of what we’ve uncovered so far:

• The school’s principal, Marcos Aguilar is a Mexican revolutionary radical who allegedly led a group of Latino students to seize a faculty lounge at UCLA in 1993 and set it on fire, causing $50,000-$100,000 in damages. In 2003, he told an interviewer with UCLA, “Ultimately, the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.”

• The ASDP’s 8th Grade U.S. History class is called, “A People’s history of Expansion and Conflict,” which includes, “A thematic survey of American politics, society, culture and political economy; Emphasis throughout on the nations the U.S. usurped, invaded and dominated; Connections between historical rise of capitalism and imperialism with modern political economy and global social relations.”

• The school received a founding grant from the radical organization, National Council of La Raza (The Council of The Race). The NCLR, along with other members of the “reconquista” movement, reportedly intends to reclaim much of the Western United States, which they call, “Aztlan,” a fictional ancestral homeland occupied by the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America.

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Post courtesy of Right Wing News, he mentions this stupid poll from the Impeach Bush crowd, these people need a drink or some quality meds. 

The Democratic Underground Poll Of Day: Impeach And Imprison Bush!

The Democrats have been trying to downplay the fact that one of the first things they’ll do, if they regain control of Congress, is try to impeach George Bush. But, what you have to understand is that impeaching Bush is right up there with supporting abortion, cutting and running in Iraq, and raising taxes on the liberal agenda. If the Democrats run Congress, there is a 100% chance that they’ll try to impeach Bush because their base will absolutely insist on it.

If you want to get an idea of how strong the pro-impeachment sentiment is on the left, just take a look at this poll from the Democratic Underground: “Poll question: Do You Support Impeachment Of George W. Bush?”

 

 

In the initial post, there’s not even a reason listed for impeachment because, quite frankly, they hate George Bush so much that any excuse to impeach him will do.

Would it really be good for the country, in the middle of a war, to have the Democrats trying to impeach the Commander-In-Chief for purely political reasons? If Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the other liberals in the Democratic leadership gain control in November, we’re certainly going to find out the hard way.

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Alexandria, VA—After insulting his employers and others at the NFL Network through another program, HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” former NBC reporter Bryant Gumbel may now be fired, according to the Aug. 22 Washington Post. Outgoing NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue noted that things Gumbel “said about Gene Upshaw and the [NFL] owners are about as uninformed as anything I’ve read or heard in a long, long time and quite inexcusable because they are subjects about which you can and should be better informed.”

Concerning this, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell said: “Bryant Gumbel has a long history of making outrageous, hateful, and left-wing statements that bear little relation to reality. Here at the MRC we’ve documented Mr. Gumbel’s absurd propaganda and grossly biased reporting for years. Because of his poisonous, vindictive statements, Mr. Gumbel failed as a journalist and has hopped from job to job, and now it looks like he may lose his NFL Network gig. Good riddance.”

Some of Bryant Gumbel’s incendiary comments over the years have included the following:

• For the Olympics, “try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.” – Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Feb. 7, 2006

• “The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. While no one’s suggesting right-wing radio jocks approve of violence, the extent to which their approach fosters violence is being questioned by many observers, including the President. … Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: detail a problem, blame the government or a group, and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden and encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.” – Today, April 25, 1995.

• “You called Gingrich and his ilk, your words, ‘trickle-down terrorists who base their agenda on division, exclusion, and fear.’ Do you think middle class Americans are in need of protection from that group?” — Today, to newly elected House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Jan. 4, 1995

• “You’re aligned to a party which owes many of its victories to the so-called religious right and other conservative extremists who are historically insensitive to minority concerns. That doesn’t bother you?” — Today, to U.S. Rep.-elect J.C. Watts (R-Okla.), Nov. 9, 1994

• “George Bush has been at the focal point of incidents that have exacerbated race relations in this country….the Willie Horton affair, for example. Making affirmative action a front-and-center proposal. Constantly discussing welfare as a problem in this country. Things that really separate the races rather than bring them together.” – Today, May 18, 1992

• “We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they’ve been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.” — on the Los Angeles riots, April 30, 1992, Today (Gumbel refused to condemn the rioters)

• “Blacks have looked at the past eight years and seen [the Reagan] administration retreat from civil rights, retreat from affirmative action … foster a spirit of racism that hasn’t been seen in 20-plus years.” – Today, Jan. 19, 1989,

 by L. Brent Bozell III - From Media Research

Hillary Rodham Clinton is featured in a flattering black-and-white photo on the cover of Time magazine this week - the 10th cover story for Hillary Clinton since she appeared on the national scene hitched to Bill Clinton’s wagon in 1992. That’s got to be a record of sorts. But one thing was very different this time. The headline featured a poll question with two little boxes to check: “LOVE HER” or “HATE HER.”
What? Someone might not love her? This must be the handiwork of Time’s new Managing Editor, Richard Stengel. He’s made a public fuss about his desire to see Time be a major player in the shaping of America’s opinions.
This newest cover story is a departure from the norm, the royal covers she’s so often received, with titles like “Ascent of a Woman,” “Turning Fifty,” “Hillary In Her Own Words,” and the late-Lewinsky-scandal classic, “‘It’s Nobody’s Business But Ours.’” The normal Time magazine Hillary cover could be mistaken for the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal. (There was one exception. One cover in 1996 carried the caption “The Truth About Whitewater” and featured a harshly spotlighted Hillary, but it wasn’t advertising a Time article inside, but a book excerpt from James Stewart’s “Blood Sport.”)
Time treats Hillary Clinton like she was America’s Princess Diana, someone we’re all supposed to root for because she never got that storybook marriage with the Prince of Arkansas. There’a big problem with the metaphor, however. For all her hatred of land mines, Lady Di never aspired - craved? — to rule England with an iron fist.  READ MORE HERE