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 God edited out of Veggie Tales
NCR intvu with Phil Vischer
Madonna to hang from crucifix
NBC chickens out on Mo toons

 

  

 

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 Sliced and diced ‘Veggie Tales’ - By L. Brent Bozell III - The Washington Times - Article Link 

Just what is this entertainment media obsession with pictures of Tom Cruise’s baby? Is there nothing else of interest out there in Hollywood? Actually, there is — and they’re ignoring it, proving just how disconnected the Hollywood press is from the American mainstream.
    Maybe you’re familiar with the computer-animated cartoon “Veggie Tales,” a video series targeted at children ages 2 to 8, and which features moral and religious tales hosted by Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. Beginning in 1993, the series was distributed on VHS tapes, telling biblical stories like the Battle of Jericho, David and Goliath and the tale of the Good Samaritan. Each show ended with a Bible verse.
    And it’s been a marketing phenomenon. Without any broadcasting or syndication on television, “Veggie Tales” has sold more than 50 million “Veggie Tales” DVDs and videotapes — primarily, but quietly, through big chain stores like Target, Wal-Mart and Family Christian Stores. As their popularity spread, so did “Veggie Tales” T-shirts, plush toys and other products.
    In true Hollywood fashion, the show’s focus on young children and its cutesy vegetable stars made it a frequent target of mockery. The absolute low point came on Comedy Central’s perverse cartoon “Drawn Together,” which satirized the show by having the Larry the Cucumber character go on a murderous rampage, killing nearly all the Comedy Central cartoon’s major characters, shooting most of them bloodily in the head. Behind the killings, a laugh track howled. No one in Hollywood wondered if that might be “offensive,” let along just plain sick.
    Eventually, someone in Tinseltown saw the commercial possibilities. Now, the news breaks that NBC (as well as NBC-owned Telemundo) will begin showing “Veggie Tales” cartoons on Saturday mornings for the new fall season. Maybe this isn’t Earth-shattering news. In a world of 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week cartoon programming on cable and satellite, Saturday morning at the Big Three networks is a forgotten land, and the days where children would get up and watch test patterns on Saturdays in anticipation of cartoons has long passed.
    But here is what should be news. The early word from producers is that NBC has grown increasingly fierce about editing something out of “Veggie Tales” — those apparently unacceptable, insensitive references to God and the Bible.
    So NBC has taken the very essence of “Veggie Tales” — and ripped it out. It’s like “Gunsmoke” without the guns, or “Monday Night Football” without the football.
    Think about this corporate mindset. NBC is the network that hired a squad of lawyers to argue that dropping the F-bomb on the Golden Globe Awards isn’t indecent for children, but invoking God is wholly unacceptable. Or, as one e-mailing friend marveled: “So, saying [expletive] you’ is protected First Amendment speech on NBC but not ‘God bless you.’ “
    The cartoon’s creator, Phil Vischer, posted on his personal Web log the news of NBC’s increasing creative stranglehold. “At first we were told everything was ‘OK’ except the Bible verse at the end. Frankly, that news [never] really surprised me, because, heck, we’re talking about NBC here. [Would they allow] God on Saturday morning? It didn’t seem likely.”
    But it grew worse than that edict, Mr. Vischer reported: “Since we’ve started actually producing the episodes, though, NBC has gotten a little more restrictive.” How so? He said, “We’re having to do a little more editing.” How much? So much so Mr. Vischer implied the God talk is landing on the cutting-room floor. Now, he’s merely hoping people will “maybe wander into Wal-Mart and buy a video with all the God still in.”
    This is one of those moments where you understand networks like NBC are only talking an empty talk and walking an empty walk when it comes to the First Amendment, and “creative integrity,” and so on. They have told parents concerned about their smutty programs like “Will and Grace” that if they’re offended, they have a remote control as an option. The networks have spent millions insisting we have a V-chip in our TV sets. Change the channel. Block it out.
    But when it comes to religious programming — that doesn’t even mention Jesus Christ — just watch the hypocrisy. Instead of telling viewers to just change the channel if they don’t like it, or put in a V-chip for Bible verses, they demand to producers that all that outdated old-time religion be shredded before broadcast.
    It’s truly sad this anti-religious hypocrisy would emerge. Today, no one in network TV fears what the children are watching — unless it makes them think about God.

 This post is a great example of why liberalism is bad for your health.
Liberals are simply incapable of processing positive vibes for their own country.
I believe they actually prefer to be miserable, and depressed while at the same time blaming America for their ills.
Their misery is not even logical or else it’s calculated.
How else can you explain liberal blogs and news sites complaining about the falling price of gas and the signs that the economy is healthy, while at the same time obsessing over the racial thoughts of a lone white guy.
The theme on liberals’ blogs I have read over the past few days is Republicans are trying to scare the American people into voting for them. Do they even process how stupid that sounds?
Liberals are continuing to sink to new lows, I almost feel guilty continuing to bash them,  it’s like kicking a puppy.
However I have way too much contempt for liberalism. Tis far better to analyze them ranting and raving on blogs and news sources rather than having these crazy ass people in power running this country into the nearest iceberg.

 

 

Title: Am I alone in this? Today I feel like I am a woman without a country  
By Diane Silver - From the Blog In This Moment

These are my thoughts from Kansas on a gray morning. I woke up today, and the first thing I thought was: I am a woman without a country.

In the aftermath of yesterday’s Senate passage of the torture-enabling and Constitution-trashing Military Commissions Act, it feels like my country has ceased to exist. I haven’t moved away from my commitment to citizenship and the ideals of the United States, but my country has.

I am in mourning.

The second thing I thought was: I need to post about this.

The third thing I thought was: Is it safe? If I speak so openly about my fury and my disagreement with this president will I someday be said to be aiding terrorists? Will my sentiments be the trigger for an arrest. Is that already possible?

(On second thought: Aren’t I being foolish! America will never do that, but look at the letter of this law. Doesn’t it give the president the right to define who will be imprisoned? The way this is written, no one need or possibly can look over George W. Bush’s shoulder, or am I wrong? I pray I’m wrong, and not just for me, but for thousands of other people and for the soul of my country.)

And then I thought: Should I leave? Is it time to pack up and go to Canada? My brother lives not far from there. Is it time to move near him so we could dash across the border quickly if necessary?

And then I thought: I will be damned if I let George Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Joe Lieberman and all the rest steal MY country.

And then I went over to visit Blue Girl, Red State who lives in Missouri not far from me and found her wonderful post “Rest in Peace America.” Read all of it, but this is just a tiny snippet.

Sleep eludes me tonight, but it is understandable. I lost my country yesterday. It was not a sudden death - we knew it was coming. But that does not assuage the inevitable grief.

She talks about her anger and her promise to work for change. (And yes, oh great inquisitors, we are talking about political change, not violent change.)

It’s time.

Enough is enough.

America is better than this.

Carter: Bush has brought U.S. ‘international disgrace’…
Clinton: ‘Incalculable Damage Done’…
Stone: ‘I’m ashamed for my country’… 

BY GLENN THRUSH
Newsday Washington Bureau - Article link 

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took a backhanded swipe at Democratic National Committee boss Howard Dean Thursday, saying Dean’s long-term party-building efforts should take a back seat to fundraising for the midterm elections.

“The [Republican National Committee] is pouring tens of millions of dollars into races and we’re not matching that,” Clinton said during a DNC fundraiser in Washington.

“We’re doing investments, you know, in ground and other efforts which will be very beneficial, but the RNC has about $60 million to $70 million waiting to drop on our candidates,” she added.

To boost Democratic coffers, Bill and Hillary Clinton will host a million-dollar fundraiser for party committees on Oct. 4 at their Washington mansion, Whitehaven.

The senator also plans events in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, and will host an event for Virginia senatorial hopeful Jim Webb, who has been gaining ground against stumbling incumbent Republican George Allen.

Many Democrats, including Clinton advisers, are frustrated with Dean’s “50-state strategy,” which accentuates grassroots organizing at the expense of election-specific cash-grabbing.

The Democrats’ Senate and House fundraising committees, led by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.), have had banner years, while Dean’s DNC has lagged with about $11 million on hand compared to the RNC’s $39 million in the bank.

Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis said the senator’s remarks weren’t meant to be critical of Dean, calling them “a positive reference to the 50-state strategy and also a recognition that we still need to raise money for Democrats.” Clinton hopes to help raise an additional $5 million for candidates; several insiders predicted the Clintons might generate as much as $2 million at next week’s fundraiser.

Clinton, who accused the GOP of having “shredded” the Constitution by accepting weakened torture restrictions, told the DNC crowd she’s been surprised by an influx of Republicans at her fundraising events.

“I have a little ceremony where they can go through absolution,” she quipped.

Despite defining herself as “the most paranoid campaigner you can find,” Clinton is confident she’ll beat underdog GOP challenger John Spencer this fall, freeing her to travel.

“Senator Clinton, the Arkansas traveler, is on the road once again campaigning for president,” said Spencer spokesman Rob Ryan.

Senator Clinton says her “husband” (doesn’t call him that much, anymore) — The Bill — with the same information Bush had about bin Laden, would have taken terrorism more seriously than the current president or his national security team.

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Now if you libs can find evidence that Allen is bumping to Prussian Blue harmonizing racist lyrics then you might have something.  

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media.  

Last October, ABC News profiled 14-year-old twin sisters Lamb and Lynx Gaede and their white supremacist band Prussian Blue. It branded them the new musical spokes-kids for white supremacy — which ignited rage and disgust in their hometown of Bakersfield, California.

The sisters’ mother said she wanted a whiter place to live, and moved to Kalispell, Montana. That didn’t quiet the furor. A group of enraged townspeople are now circulating flyers headed, “No Hate Here” and demanding that the family pack up and leave.

That may or may not be a good thing. After all, as odious as their hate message is, the twins and their mom have the right to say and sing what they want. But even if they were given the swift boot from town, their music and the influence they may have over some impressionable and naïve white 13 to 19-year-old teens (their target audience) can’t easily be booted away.

Prussian Blue pumps their music through the 24-hour Internet Radio White and other websites. The sites feature more than 5000 youth-oriented white supremacist songs on their playlists. They market their songs through record labels and websites.

The twins cleverly mix personal, introspective, giggly teen chatter in their lyrics, along with patriotic appeals to fight for freedom, to a stomp-down toe-tapping rock beat. That appeals to the musical tastes of many youth. The songs can easily be slipped into an MP3 player and listened to away from the prying ears of adults.

In “I Will Bleed For You,” for example, they make a plea for pride and dignity: “Have you no pride in your heritage, and no pride in your name. I’m glad that I’m not like you. I know my children are proud of me. Mine will always stay free.”

White supremacist groups quickly spotted a good thing in Prussian Blue. A critic on the National Vanguard website gushed over the release of the group’s second album, “The Stranger.” He hailed it as the first white nationalist album that appeals to young (white) girls. The potential tap of the mainstream alternative rock market potentially could translate into millions of listeners and thousands of sales.

The twins’ lyrical deception is crucial in order to sell their race-baiting ideology to teens. Much of the public frowns on the crude racism and anti-Semitism of the old Klan. Racial and gender slurs and assaults against minorities, women, gays and feminists are considered publicly impolite. And white supremacist groups have adjusted to the times. They borrow the technique politicians perfected during the past quarter century to win white votes. They use racial and gender-inferred double speak, code words and code concepts.

In the 1960’s, it was law and order, crime in the streets, rampant permissiveness, and out-of-touch federal bureaucrats. In the 1970’s it was high taxes, crime and OPEC. In the 1980’s and 1990s it was heavy-handed government, welfare cheats, drug dealers and gang bangers.

The federal government is an omnipresent force for Americans. White supremacist groups have transformed the government into an evil instrument that wrings hard earned tax dollars from the shrinking incomes of the white middle-class. The money, they rail, goes to subsidize welfare scamming women, crime prone-blacks and Latinos and assorted social and gender deviants. Many white males are gripped by the ultra-paranoid delusion that the government conspires with minorities, women and the poor to marginalize them.

Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, punched all the code buttons in angry letters in 1992. He railed against crime, high taxes, corrupt politicians, government mismanagement and the “eroding American Dream.” McVeigh made only a passing comment on race and nothing on gender. It wasn’t necessary.

The new breed white supremacist groups are also helped by the storehouse of dodge tactics many Americans employ to mask racism. They accuse blacks of always “making an issue out of race.” They avoid having any physical or personal contact with blacks. They get angry or defensive when racial issues are raised. They resist programs for ostensibly non-racial reasons that they perceive directly or indirectly benefit minorities.

The immigration reform battle has created a fertile new field for white supremacy groups to slip in their race- coded bigotry, and corral new recruits. They play on the anxiety and fears of many American over illegal immigration, and cloak their message of white purity in a call to defend the borders and halt an alleged alien invasion. The Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks 700 hate groups, in its latest Intelligence Report notes a jump in the number of threats and outright physical attacks on Hispanics. The Klan, Neo-Nazi and racist skinheads have also staged anti-immigration rallies and marches. The twins appeared at one of those rallies and sported “Stop Immigration” t-shirts.

Prussian Blue’s disarming lyrics and soft-sale marketing has touched off warning bells among the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that monitor hate groups. They warn school officials to be on the alert for sneaky efforts by the hate groups to recruit youth through catchy rock songs. The popularity and deadly innocence of two 14- year-old singers give the warning even more urgency.

From Bortz

Looks like we’re about to put the myth of the “student” athlete to rest.  At least at the University of Georgia.  We now have the stats in for the graduation rates of NCAA Division 1 men’s teams, and UGA isn’t looking all that hot.  Let’s go through the numbers:

• Football,  Georgia is last in the Southeast Conference for graduation rates.  Only 41% of football players who enrolled in the late 1990’s got a degree within six years.
   
• Baseball?  Somewhat better. There we have a 48% graduation rate.
   
• Then there’s basketball.  The graduation rate for The University of Georgia?  Only 9%. 

I think it’s safe to say that in the great pecking order of college and professional sports, basketball players are the the true “dumb jocks.”  When you hear professional athletes interviewed, basketball players usually come out sounding the most illiterate.

Oh .. and how did rival Georgia Tech do?  Tech beat Georgia in every sport.  Forty-two percent of Tech basketball players from the same time period graduated.  That’s 42% to 9%.  In football it was 55% to 41%, and baseball was 65% to 48%.

National numbers?  In Division one schools the average is 59% for basketball players. 

So … can we put this “student athlete” moniker to rest now.

Oh … by the way.  I didn’t graduate from Texas A&M within six years of entering either.  In fact, I never graduated from undergraduate school at all.  Yet I’m a lawyer, and not doing all that poorly.  These studies just track graduation rates, they don’t track business success after school.  So … maybe none of this really matters.

Jihad Watch
Vatican stands firm
Remembering Sister Leonella
al Qaeda vs. the Pope

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FOLLOW THE THREAD OF word and deed from leading Democrats since 1968. It isn’t hard to see a philosophy of appeasement at work. They would easily fit Churchill’s definition of “acts of submission, not merely in pride and sentiment, but in material matters.”

* 1968 — Minority Plank defeated at Democratic Convention calls for withdrawal from Vietnam.

* 1971 — A young John Kerry testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “we cannot fight Communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.” He goes on to accuse his fellow soldiers of a long list of “war crimes.”

* 1972 — Senator George McGovern proposes unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam.

* 1975 — Democratic Congress ends funding of Vietnam War, American troops leave Southeast Asia. Years later Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program reports that between 1975-1979 1.7 million people were murdered, 21% of the Cambodian population. A Senate Committee headed by Democrat Frank Church of Idaho investigates the CIA, an investigation described by then-President Gerald Ford as “sensational and irresponsible.” Others charge Church with crippling the agency.

* 1977 — President Jimmy Carter, safely elected after campaigning as an Annapolis graduate/Navy officer, tells America it has an “inordinate fear of communism.” While the Cambodian genocide proceeds, the Soviets invade Afghanistan and set up a puppet regime in Nicaragua. American hostages are held in Iran for over a year. Carter cuts the defense budget so badly that Reagan’s incoming Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger recalled not being “entirely over [the] shock at the weaknesses in our own military capability” Carter had left behind.

*1983 — New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro joins the Democratic chorus opposing President Ronald Reagan’s decision to send troops to Grenada. In spite of Reagan’s rescue of American medical students and halting a Communist takeover, she charges, according to the New York Times, that it was “an inappropriate and precipitous use of military force.” A year later Ms. Ferraro becomes the Democratic nominee for Vice-President. Her chief foreign policy adviser, according to the Times, is future Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

* 1983 — Senator Edward Kennedy leads Democrats in disparaging Reagan’s idea of shooting down nuclear tipped missiles from space as “Star Wars” — fighting a system that only this year was invoked as a way to save the West Coast of the United States from a North Korean missile attack.

*1984 — Walter Mondale campaigns for president on the idea that America should have a “nuclear freeze” with the Soviets. He vows to stop the “illegal war” in Nicaragua “in my first hundred days,” accuses Reagan of wanting to “turn the heavens into a battleground,” and ginning up an “arms race” with the Soviets. Dismissing Soviet aggression in Afghanistan, Central America and Communist treatment of Jewish dissidents, Mondale pleads for arms control. The concept of victory and ending the Cold War is never discussed.

* 1985 — Reykjavik Summit: When Reagan walks away from a bad deal he is sharply criticized by Democratic Congressman Ed Markey for giving up “a chance to cash in on Star Wars” by refusing to trade away the entire SDI program. Later, it is this refusal that is credited with winning the Cold War.

*1988 — Michael Dukakis runs for president opposing efforts to defeat the Communist government of Nicaragua, saying his election would not be about “overthrowing governments in Central America.”

* 1991 — By a five-vote margin the Democratic-controlled Senate votes to force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait after he invaded the country. The majority of Democrats vote no. This includes now-Senator John Kerry, who said the U.S. was “once again willing to risk people dying from a mistake.”

For five decades now, beginning with that hot August Chicago night in 1968, the modern Democratic Party has adopted the attitude, philosophy, policy and practices of appeasement. All of this — and much more — was well before Bill Clinton even got near the Oval Office. An office he won only when Americans understood the Cold War was finally over, believing that there were no serious threats on the horizon. Only then did a modern Democrat once again live in the White House.

In context, with this history, it just isn’t hard to understand why so many Americans don’t buy Clinton’s defense of his failure to get Osama bin Ladin. It’s also why the demands to “get out of Iraq” from Democrats, combined with impeachment threats, are increasingly understood as just the latest in a very long — and now self-evidently very dangerous — pattern.

A pattern of acts of submission.

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 Special Report: Acts of Submission
By Jeffrey Lord - The American Spectator

WEST POINT, N.Y., Sept. 26 — They remember Emily Perez in her many bursts of motion: the diminutive young woman calling out orders to the freshman cadets on the castled military campus of West Point.

They see her sprinting the third leg for Army’s 400-meter relay team. Or in the school’s gospel choir, filling her lungs and opening her mouth to sing.

Emily J.T. Perez, a determined 23-year-old from Prince George’s County, rose to the top of her high school class and then became the first minority female command sergeant in the history of the U.S. Military Academy.

Now she has another distinction. The second lieutenant was buried Tuesday at the academy, the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq. Perez, a platoon leader, was killed while patrolling southern Iraq near Najaf on Sept. 12 when a roadside bomb exploded under her Humvee.

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Any white man who says they have never used the word NIGGER, (I don’t have to be politically correct) is a fucken liar. PERIOD.
Joslyn Elders when making the point about men masturbating, said “90 percent of men do it and the other 10 percent lie about it.” Same damm thing.
So Webb failing to come clean about such a basic issue proves he is a real fucken liar.
All of these liberals writing about this crap is stupid as if someone using the term NIGGER is some breakthrough revelation.  
This is the dumbest BIG STORY I have followed since I have discovered and read blogs.
If Allen is a racist look up his voting record and judge there.
The fact that Allen has been endorsed by a black Democrat must piss off liberals even more.   

Racial Slur Overshadowing All Else in Contest

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer - Article Link
RICHMOND, Sept. 27 — Democratic Senate candidate James Webb on Wednesday sought to explain remarks he had made a day earlier, in which he refused to say whether he had used the “N-word,” but he insisted he has never used it as a racial epithet aimed at anyone.

“I don’t think that there’s anyone who grew up around the South that hasn’t had the word pass through their lips at one time in their life,” he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Tuesday. “If you read ‘Fields of Fire,’ that word and a lot of other words are in the book.” “Fields of Fire” is a novel Webb wrote about the Vietnam War.

Spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd said Webb, an author and former Marine, “did not want to make any blanket statements that he has never, ever uttered the word. Jim has not used the word directed at another person. He’s never used it himself as a racial slur.”

Allegations about race continued to roil Virginia’s Senate race this week, as Webb and his opponent, George Allen (R-Va.), confronted fresh accusations and their campaigns struggled to shift the conversation to other subjects.

Political scientists who specialize in the history of the South said Webb’s careful comments about the N-word, and the controversy over its alleged use by Allen, reflect the word’s transformation from a common political term to the third-rail of electioneering.

“The Voting Rights Act transformed that word. It eradicated it,” said Jack Bass, a professor of humanities and social science at the College of Charleston. “The crowd that [used it in the 1970s] either quit using it or they were gone. Blacks were voters by then.”

Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia, said that “in much of the South, there was this tremendous transformation from a time when it was a term widely used by politicians making successful appeals to now where it is something that no politician would dare utter.”

Webb’s comments to the Times-Dispatch prompted Allen campaign officials to direct a reporter to Dan Cragg, a former acquaintance of Webb’s, who said Webb used the word while describing his own behavior during his freshman year at the University of Southern California in the early 1960s. Webb later transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Cragg, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Webb described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his ROTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.

“They would hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts with these buddies of his,” Cragg said Webb told him. “They would take the rifles down there. They would call then [epithets], point the rifles at them, pull the triggers and then drive off laughing. One night, some guys caught them and beat . . . them. And that was the end of that.”

Cragg said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Cragg, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later.

Webb, who is in Texas for fundraising events, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Todd said Webb denied the allegations in a conversation with her.

“He said it’s not true. It’s not even close to being true,” Todd said. She quoted Webb as saying: “In 1963, you couldn’t go to Watts and do that kind of thing. You’d get killed. So of course I didn’t do it. I would never do that. I would never want to do that.”

Todd condemned the allegations as politically motivated by the Allen campaign.

“They are pathetic individuals. They are beneath it. They are slime,” she said. “Here we are trying to talk about the issues. They are completely and totally desperate.”

Cragg, a former Army sergeant major, described himself as a longtime friend of Webb’s who worked for him when he was assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan. Cragg said he approached the Allen campaign through a friend after hearing Webb’s answer to the Times-Dispatch reporter’s question about using the N-word.

“The fact is he has. He used it in my presence,” Cragg said. “I don’t think he’s a racist any more than George Allen is. But he’s not frank in admitting that he grew up in a culture where that was common and he used it.”

Allen campaign officials declined to comment on Cragg’s story. But political adviser Chris LaCivita responded to Todd’s criticism. “They wouldn’t know an issue if it hit them square in the face,” he said.

Cragg’s accusations come as Allen continued to battle charges he used the same racial epithet during college and was racially insensitive.

On Monday, a college football teammate, Ken Shelton, said Allen used the N-word referring to black people. He also said that he, Allen and Billy Lanahan, another teammate, once cut the head off of a deer and, at Allen’s urging, stuffed the head into a black person’s mailbox.

Lanahan is dead. But his former roommate came forward Wednesday to say that he recalls Lanahan telling him the story without mentioning that the mailbox was a black person’s.

“He told me they went hunting,” said George Beam, 53, who lives in Charlottesville. “All he said was we cut the deer head off and stuck it in somebody’s mailbox.”

And late Wednesday, Allen’s campaign launched a multimedia barrage against Webb that included testimonials from former female midshipmen at the Naval Academy. The women, who came forward several weeks ago, said an article Webb wrote in 1979 created a hostile environment for academy women.

“It was demoralizing from a perspective that only a woman could understand,” one of the women says in the ad.

Todd called the ad “completely erroneous” because Webb created opportunities for women as secretary of the Navy.

By Ann Coulter - Human Events

It’s just like old times. Bill Clinton delivers an impassioned speech, and within 24 hours the Web is bristling with documentation, establishing that nearly every sentence was a lie.

The glassy-eyed Clinton cultists are insisting their idol’s on-air breakdown during a “Fox News Sunday” interview with Chris Wallace was a calculated performance, which is a bit like describing Hurricane Katrina as a “planned demolition.” Like an Osama tape, they claim he was sending a signal to Democrats to show them how to treat Republicans. Listen up, Democrats: Let’s energize the undecideds by throwing a hissy fit on national television!

The Clintonian plan for action apparently entails inventing lunatic conspiracy theories, telling lots of lies, shouting, sneering, interrupting, and telling your interlocutor, “(Y)ou’ve got that little smirk on your face and you think you’re so clever” — all for asking a simple question. To wit: “Why didn’t you do more to put bin Laden and al-Qaida out of business when you were president?” The only thing Clinton forgot to say to Wallace was, “You’d better put some ice on that.”

Let me be the first to welcome Chris Wallace to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy! If the son of Mike Wallace is a member, can Chelsea be far behind?

According to Wallace, Clinton’s aide, Jay Carson, demanded that the interview be stopped a few minutes into Clinton’s tantrum — just before the part where he threw the lamp at Wallace. The last time Clinton got that red in the face, the encounter ended with a stained dress. Even Muslims thought Clinton overreacted. But the Clinton Kool-Aid drinkers tell us this was a masterfully planned set-piece by their leader.

I also think Jessica Savitch’s slurred, incoherent broadcast on “NBC Nightly News” in October 1983 was intentional. Others say it was drug-addled breakdown that ended her career, but obviously Savitch intended to speak in garbled gibberish on air as a brilliantly executed prelude to her death in a ditch weeks later.

And when Stephen Colbert did a routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner that bombed, I think he planned it that way.

Then there was Capt. Joseph Hazelwood’s meticulously planned off-loading of 11 million gallons of crude oil off the Exxon Valdez.

Clinton shouted so many lies during his televised meltdown, only the World Wide Web can capture them all. These are just a few.

Clinton yelled at Wallace: “What did I do? What did I do? I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since.”

This is so crazy it’s worthy of an Air America caller. Clinton has consistently misrepresented the presidential directive about political assassinations. Clinton did not order bin Laden assassinated. He did not even lift the ban on intelligence agencies attempting to assassinate bin Laden.

What he did was lift the ban on political assassinations — provided that assassinating bin Laden was not the purpose of the mission. So if U.S. forces were engaged in an operation to capture bin Laden, but accidentally killed him, they would not be court-martialed.

Clinton said, “All the right-wingers who now say I didn’t do enough said I did too much — same people.” As proof, he cites his humiliating withdrawal from Somalia, claiming, “They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in ‘Black Hawk down,’ and I refused to do it.”

He added, as if it mattered, “There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with ‘Black Hawk down.’”

In fact, what Republicans objected to was Clinton’s transforming a U.N. mission in Somalia to prevent mass starvation into a much grander “nation-building” exercise — something the Democrats now hysterically support in Darfur and oppose in Iraq.

Democrats long to see American mothers weeping for their sons lost in a foreign war, but only if the mission serves absolutely no national security objectives of the United States. If we are building a democracy in a country while also making America safer — such as in Iraq — Democrats oppose it with every fiber of their being.

When Clinton’s “nation-building” in Somalia led to the brutal killing of 18 Americans, some of whose corpses were then dragged through the streets, Clinton did what the Democrats are currently demanding we do in Iraq: He cut and ran.

Republicans didn’t like that either, and it had nothing to do with whether it was al-Qaida we were running from. It could have been Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, al-Dawa or the Viet Cong. We ran, and the terrorists noticed.

Osama bin Laden told “ABC News” in 1998 that America’s humiliating retreat from Somalia emboldened his jihadists: “The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat.”

If this is the message that Clinton is hoping to telegraph to the American people, I hope the voters are listening.

NIE key judgements
Gary Hart’s tinfoil blog post
Rangel would defund the war
The shameless NYTimes

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Anyone who reads “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It,” Juan Williams’ angry indictment of what ails America’s black community, will never again accuse the NPR and FOX News journalist with being a knee-jerk liberal. Elaborating on Bill Cosby’s controversial 2004 scolding that blacks are their own worst moral, cultural, political and economic enemies, Williams says blacks must return to the time-tested basics if they want to fully share in the American dream. They should stay in school as long as possible; work any job to get ahead; marry later in life and then have babies; and practice better parenting. I talked to Williams Sept. 20.

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Have you turned into a “black conservative”? 

Williams: No. I think I’ve been pretty consistent. I’ve always been a guy who has a strong belief in family values, the church, a strong belief in Christ. I’ve got to say, when it comes to education, I’ve always said education is Number One. These are not things that have just come to me. A lot of people have always said I’m a conservative. It’s interesting: On Fox, black people say to me, “Gee, you’re pretty conservative.” White people say, “Oh, you’re the liberal on Fox.” I’m sitting there next to Brit Hume and Bill Kristol, and I’m to the left of them. But in my life and even on National Public Radio, people say, “Yeah, you can be pretty conservative.” So I think it’s a lot about where people are coming from and not my political beliefs.

Can you give us a 60-second synopsis of your book?

Williams: “Enough” is a real call to arms. It’s a real charge to the American people to pay attention to what is going on — especially with our young people and particularly with our young black people. At the moment we have a 50 percent dropout rate among young black Americans. We have 70 percent of them born out of wedlock. At the same time there are about 25 percent of white children born out of wedlock and 50 percent of Hispanic children. This is a real crisis that is tearing apart the foundation of our society — the family. When Bill Cosby spoke on the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision and said these things, it really was a clarion call to me. I thought it was a prophetic voice. He was attacked and I thought it was necessary then to do some reporting, to do some research, and substantiate what Cosby had to say. That’s what “Enough” was about.

Why was what Bill Cosby said so important to you and to the black community?

Williams: This is a time when, unfortunately, there are too many black leaders who focus on grievance. The only time you see these guys on TV is when they say somebody has been racist or the police department has done something wrong. All they are doing is complaining and it leads young people to a victim mentality, where they don’t think they can succeed in America. They don’t think they have a chance. They hear from their leaders that if you’re black or Hispanic, you don’t have a chance.

This message from Cosby said, “You know what” — and I’m almost quoting here — “the lower end of the economic scale — poor people — have not been holding up their end of the deal.” They have not been stepping through the doors of opportunity that have been opened since the Brown decision, since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the passage of the Voters Rights Act.

So here was Cosby saying, “You have the power to do it.” That’s in the great tradition of leaders from Frederick Douglas, to W.E.B. Dubois, to Booker T. Washington to Doctor King. It’s an important message, an important message from Cosby, and an important message that has not been delivered to this generation.

And that message is …

Williams: That message is that you have it within your power to succeed.

And it’s primarily, stay in school, don’t get married until you’re older and have a job…?

Williams: The way I would say it, is this: Let’s start with the basics: You have a 25 percent poverty rate in black America. It’s about 12 percent nationally. It’s of course higher when you look at black children. So the question becomes, how can you help these people? Lots of people say that nothing can be done — especially if they live in bad neighborhoods, or they come from a broken family, there’s no dad around, or there’s criminality in the neighborhood and these are the role models they have. I say, “Wait a second.” In “Enough,” I say there are some basic principles that people can follow and they can make sure their children are aware of these principles as they try to go forward.

Number One, graduate from high school. Don’t listen to anybody who says “Oh, that’s not a great school. You can go out and be a rapper or a basketball player or stay on the corner and sell drugs.” Forget it. Graduate from high school. In a global economy, where there is competition and jobs are being outsourced, you must have an education — certainly a high school education. I prefer you have more, but you must have a high school education.

The second thing, once you graduate from high school, stay in the job market. Don’t listen to people who tell you “Oh that job is demeaning or you’ll just be flipping burgers.” Stay in the job market, build a resume, get the job experience and that will lead you to come into contact with people who know about other jobs and other opportunities — and then you’ll be prepared when those job opportunities come your way.

The third thing is, don’t get married until you’re in your twenties. And then, finally, don’t have a baby until you’re married, because obviously if you have a baby when you are single or when you are a young person and not fully mature, you’re not ready for that responsibility and maybe, worst of all, you’re not ready to be a parent. And parenting and families, for me, are the foundation of what carried African-Americans, white Americans — everybody — through every storm.

Most blacks agree with Cosby’s prescription for success, but has his “wake-up call” been heard?

Williams: When Cosby says things, it’s like a signal. Everybody pays attention. But the polls that you were talking about are interesting. I think you’re right. There’s such widespread agreement — not from the black leadership; not from the civil rights leaders, not from the academics, these so-called intellectuals. They all condemn him as a stupid comedian who doesn’t understand the power of racism or a self-hating black man who is blaming the victim. But if you look at the polls, the polls say most black Americans believe that black people are better off in this generation than ever before. They believe that black or white, you can make it in this country. They believe that to be dependent on the government at this point is wrong and that there are too many people who are overly dependent on the government, and as a result, it is killing their spirit. These are facts. This is an “Amen corner” for Cosby.

Twenty six years ago, black conservatives like Thomas Sowell were saying essentially the same things — that racism was no longer a significant obstacle to black progress. Did you not believe them back then or have you changed?

Williams: Have I changed? Well, I think my thinking is more mature now. But here’s the thing: I think that racism still persists, make no mistake about it…. I’ve changed in this regard, though. To my eyes, we have a larger black middle class in America today. We have more success in black America today…. African Americans are in prominent positions. The opportunity to succeed is greater than ever and I recognize that. To not recognize it is a ploy used by too many black leaders who prefer to say they are playing on white guilt or attacking racism, when in fact they are abandoning young people to this mentality that they are always going to be victims and losers. It’s exactly a poisonous, paralyzing message, and I won’t have anything to do with it.

What are the long-term solutions? Is it a back-to-basics thing? Is it to get away from the so-called helping hand of government that conservatives have always said has hurt blacks in many ways?

Williams: I think the key here is that if you are waiting for a government program, if you are waiting for another Martin Luther King or whatever, you are going to be waiting and wasting time and I don’t know if it’s ever going to happen for you. That’s a mistake and we can see where that’s been a mistake.

We can see where government policies have not always been supportive of the family or providing good schools to educate our children. That’s why I say what you have got to do is empower yourself as an actor. Use your political leverage: vote for both the Democrat and Republic party. Make them compete for your vote and your attention. Thoroughly empower yourself by educating yourself and preparing yourself for opportunities. That’s what’s imperative for this generation. That’s the civil rights movement of the 21st century.

 Good interview. She mentions that the White House called the interviewer back and chastised her for “breaking the ground rules”, when none were set. Sound familiar?
I like the line she used at the end of this “you don’t compromise your principals for access”
Clinton expected this lady to kiss his tired ass because he is (was) the president.  
He called her station. She asked good tough questions.
I wonder if many of these liberal bloggers who have been coming to his defense recently has heard this interview. Interesting stuff considering what is going on today. Its 35 minutes but worth the time. 

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Former President Clinton’s memoirs have hit bookstores across the country. All three editions of the 1,000-page book - the abridged, the large print and the regular version - are in the top-ten bestseller list of online bookseller Amazon.com.

The cable networks have already begun their orgy of Clinton-bashing with Clinton’s affair with Monica their main thrust.

A one-hour appearance on Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes” kicked off the media extravaganza. The interview was promoted for days with a clip about Lewinsky and the program was watched by an estimated 15.4 million viewers.

In an interview airing tonight with Britain’s BBC television, Clinton reportedly loses his temper with host David Dimbleby when he is repeatedly quizzed about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton’s outrage at the line of questioning is being billed as the first time that the former president has been seen to publicly lose his temper in an interview.

But it did happen before. Four years ago in an interview for Democracy Now! We rebroadcast that interview Amy Goodman conducted on Election Day 2000 with the then-sitting president. They discussed many topics you won’t likely hear raised this week: Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraqi sanctions, the death penalty, Ralph Nader and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At one point Clinton accused Amy of being “hostile and combative.” On the next day the president’s aides threatened to ban Amy from the White House. Amy and her brother David Goodman wrote about the interview in their new book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.

On Election Day 2000, I was in the Democracy Now! office at WBAI on Wall Street when I received a call minutes before going on the air at 9:00 a.m. The caller said, “Hello, I am calling from White House Communications.” Things get very frantic moments before broadcasting, and we get a fair number of unusual calls. White Horse? That’s the famous tavern in Greenwich Village where poet Dylan Thomas was said to have drunk himself to death. Even the White Horse has a PR agent?

Then the caller said that the president would like to speak to me. I said, “The president of what?” We were on the air in less than a minute. “The president of the United States.” Oh, please. “He’d like to call in to your radio program.”

“Yeah, right,” I said. “Whatever.”

I ran into the studio as the theme music for Democracy Now! was playing. Our producers were Brad Simpson, a history grad student, and Maria Carrion. Maria had produced Democracy Now! for two years before moving home to Spain, and had flown back just to help out for the election. That was supposed to mean three days, but this was the election of 2000. She ended up staying five weeks-from the night before the election to the day after the final “selection” of George W. Bush. I could hardly tell Maria and Brad as they were frantically putting the finishing touches on the election show that the president was calling in, especially because I didn’t believe it myself. But as the music swelled, I said, “By the way, that was the White House on the phone. They said the president might call in.” “Yeah, right,” Maria said. I left it at that.

When Democracy Now! finished, we were about to head out for coffee when someone began shouting from master control, “President Clinton is on the phone!” Maria ran in, took the call, and yelled for me to get into master control immediately. Gonzalo Aburto, the host of the Latino music show that followed Democracy Now! on Tuesdays, was at the control board.

I ran into the studio and heard, over the blasting Latino beat, the disembodied voice of President Clinton saying, “Hello, hello, is anyone there? Can you hear me?” The faders on our microphones were all the way down, and the music was all the way up. I practically dove over the master control board and pulled down the music, put up all of our mikes, and welcomed the president to WBAI.

“For Clinton it was supposed to be two minutes of get-out-the vote happy talk with a progressive radio show and then: Gotta go,” The Washington Post later wrote of the encounter. The story continued, “In this insider media age when oh-so-serious reporters measure status by access to the powerful, Goodman is the journalist as uninvited guest,” wrote Michael Powell. “You might think of the impolite question; she asks it. She torments Democrats no less than Republicans.” There was no question this was President Clinton’s voice, so we just launched in: Watch 256k stream       Read Transcript

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According to a Dallas police report obtained by News 8, Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide Tuesday night.

The report says Owens, 32, was depressed and reportedly took prescription pain pills. Owens broke his right hand in a Sept. 17 game against the Washington Redskins.

A woman told police she observed Owens putting two pills in his mouth.

According to the police narrative, the woman said the prescription of 40 pills was filled on September 18 and—until Tuesday—Owens had taken only five pills.

The police report said Owens was asked if he had taken the rest of the prescription; Owens said, “Yes.”

According to the report, police also asked if he was trying to harm himself. Owens answered, “Yes.”

Owens was treated at Baylor University Medical Center.

“This is stunning news; obviously and incredibly surprising that a man in this position would reach this level of depression,” said WFAA-TV sports director Dale Hansen. “There’s something terribly wrong here, and hopefully we’ll find out as the day goes on.”

Hansen said a source at the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch headquarters told him that doors to all offices were closed.

A Dallas Cowboys spokesman told News 8 the team has no comment on the police report, nor is any news conference scheduled.

The player’s publicist didn’t immediately return calls for comment.

Owens, one of the league’s top receivers during his 11-year NFL career, is best known for wild stunts on the field and other publicity-seeking antics off it.

When the Cowboys signed him to a $25 million, three-year deal in March, they said their background checks indicated no red flags. In fact, team consultant Calvin Hill—who mostly deals with troubled players—said during training camp that his department was not involved with Owens because he didn’t have a history of those kinds of problems.

Dallas police officials said they were planning a news conference later Monday, but did not immediately release a time. A hospital spokeswoman said early Wednesday there was no patient registered as Terrell Owens, although federal privacy laws allow people to block their name from being released.

Well, while they were busy packing their belongings (and some that didn’t belong to them) on their way out of the White House — the Clinton Administration found time to send a 45,000-word report over to Congress. The December 2000 document, “A National Security Strategy for a Global Age,” was Clinton’s final policy paper on national security.

Why wasn’t somebody — like Sandy Burglar — dispatched on a mission to burgle every copy of this report from every congressional archive? I mean, after all, lesson one from the Clinton White House: You deal with inconvenient truths by making them simply disappear, no matter who are what they are. Somebody goofed here, folks!

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) - A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.

The temporary injunction comes in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. The ACLU argued that the Kentucky law went too far in restricting freedom of speech when it barred protesters from saying hateful things to mourners at military funerals.

“Certainly the Commonwealth has an interest in showing respect and compassion for the deceased and for their families, but we cannot allow lawmakers to trample upon the First Amendment in the process,” said ACLU of Kentucky staff attorney Lili Lutgens. “Today, the federal court recognized that even speech that most people find distasteful is still protected by the Constitution.”

Distasteful speech is at the heart of the case. A Topeka, Kansas, group calling itself the Westboro Baptist Church has been traveling to military funerals around the country, telling mourners that “God hates fags” and that “God has irreversibly cursed America” for its tolerance of homosexuality.

The group says the deaths of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen in Iraq is God’s punishment for an immoral America, and that’s the message it brings to military families mourning the loss of their loved ones.

The taunts aimed at grieving military families have prompted Kentucky and other states to pass laws barring protests within a certain distance of military funerals. Even Congress has passed a law barring protests at military funerals in federal cemeteries.

But in her ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote that the 300-foot buffer zone “is large enough that it would restrict communications intended for the general public on a matter completely unrelated to the funeral.”

Westboro Baptist Church reportedly issued a statement Tuesday night saying that its members will now picket the funeral of a Kentucky National Guard soldier who died last week in Iraq.

The ACLU argued in court papers that the new laws are so broad, they could make it a crime to whistle while walking down the street within earshot of a funeral or to stop for a conversation on a public sidewalk adjacent to a funeral home or place of worship while a funeral service is in progress.

According to the ACLU, the laws may even prevent groups like the Patriot Guard Riders, a group of pro-military bikers, from being close enough to support the families of soldiers who have died in Iraq during military funeral protests.

On its website, the Westboro Baptist Church includes a list of the military funerals it plans to picket in the weeks ahead. It “thanks God” for dead American troops and wishes for many more deaths in Iraq.

What would the conservative media be saying if Limbaugh was sent a letter like this? The NY Post: “POWDER PUFF SPOOKS KEITH”

Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who’s a frequent critic of President Bush’s policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick. The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post’s Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann’s pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn’t enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn’t known. Olbermann had no comment. 

You can be sure that it would be front page news for The Post with pictures of Limbaugh going to the hospital–including interviews with the police and anyone one else they could find to make a statement. Then there would be a tidal wave on FOX News–you know the drill.

This is a new low for the right wing media of this country. Since Keith didn’t go public with the story, obviously he was doing what the police wanted and made sure not to cause a scene. He took the correct measures to ensure his safety as anyone of us would.  It’s an outrage that in these times, a public figure would get a threatening letter and take it seriously, and then the right wing media would make a joke of it.

Paula Froelich only serves to encourage the wackos on so that they’ll continue this behavior. What a total disgrace.

Here’s a public email if you want to send Paula your thoughts  paula.froelich@nypost.com (please show more class than Paula)

I wonder if Keith will be speaking out about this tonight? 

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Seniors at UC Berkeley, the nation’s premier public university, got an F in their basic knowledge of American history, government and politics in a new national survey, and students at Stanford University didn’t do much better, getting a D.

Out of 50 schools surveyed, Cal ranked 49th and Stanford 31st in how well they are increasing student knowledge about American history and civics between the freshman and senior years. And they’re not alone among major universities in being fitted for a civics dunce cap.

Other poor performers in the study were Yale, Duke, Brown and Cornell universities. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was the tail-ender behind Cal, ranking 50th. The No. 1 ranking went to unpretentious Rhodes College in Memphis.

The study was conducted by the University of Connecticut’s department of public policy and the nonprofit education organization Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Researchers sampled 14,000 students at 50 schools, large and small.

The aim was to determine how well the colleges are teaching their students the basics of government, politics and history — the bedrocks of good citizenship.

Beyond the rankings, the study found that across the board — from elite universities to less-selective colleges — the typical senior did poorly on the civics literacy exam, scoring below 70 percent. This would be a D or F on a basic test using a conventional grading scale.

That shows, the researchers said, that the students don’t have — and the universities generally aren’t teaching — the basic understanding of America’s history and founding principles that they need to be good citizens.

It is a crisis, the report warns.

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By Newt Gingrich - Human Events
You may be wondering what the vicious, anti-American rhetoric in the United Nations last week really means — not to mention the troubling silence that followed from our leaders. Let me give you my analysis of what it could mean if we allow our enemies to occupy the moral high ground:

One day Americans may watch North Korean-designed, Iranian-built missiles being installed in Venezuela. We would be left wondering if these missiles are carrying Iranian or North Korean nuclear warheads. We will then better understand the meaning of last week’s speeches.

For those of you who are unconvinced, here are three statements that every American should know and think about. They are from the three men — three very dangerous men — who spoke to us last week.

“The devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today.”

– Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, referring to President Bush,
on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly
“To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.”

– Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“No army in the world is strong enough to disarm us.”

– Hezbollah terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, last week to
a “victory rally” of thousands of Hezbollah supporters.
So my question to you is this: If these aren’t the words of dictators preparing for war, how can you explain them? READ THE REST

 Indicate U.S. far advanced in constructing bureaucracy united with Mexico, Canada

Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a “shadow government” with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.

The documents, a total of about 1,000 pages, are among the first to be released to Corsi through his FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, which describes itself as an initiative “to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation.”

“The documents clearly reveal that SPP, working within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is far advanced in putting together a new regional infrastructure, creating a ’shadow’ trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure,” Corsi said.

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Nothing better proves my contempt for liberals than them drum beating this bullshit about Allen and his NIGGER comments.
Salon has this bullshit:   

WASHINGTON — Three former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.

“Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where ‘blacks knew their place,’” said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. “He used the N-word on a regular basis back then.”

A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word “nigger” to describe blacks. “It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used,” the teammate said.

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And a blog that I usually hold up to a bit higher standard JABBS has this bullshit:  

Another Day, Another Person Alleges Sen. Allen Used NIGGER!

  

Christopher Taylor, an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told the New York Times yesterday that in the early 1980s, he heard Sen. George Allen (R-VA) use the “N-word” to describe black Americans. 

Taylor, who is white and was then a graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said the term came up in a conversation about turtles in a pond near Allen’s property.

According to Taylor, Allen said that “around here” only the black Americans — whom he referred to by the epithet — “eat ‘em.” Taylor told the Times that he was “kind of taken aback” by Allen’s language because it was their first meeting. “Most of us are antiracist,” Taylor said.

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By itself, it has all the makings of a he-said/he-said tale.

But Taylor’s story is hardly an isolated one when it comes to Senator “Good Ol’ Boy.”

It comes just a day after three former teammates of Allen’s at the University of Virginia told the liberal online journal Salon that Allen “repeatedly used” the “N-word” and demonstrated racist attitudes toward black Americans during the early 1970s.

As JABBS noted last week, Allen tried to shrug off questionably racist things on his resume to NBC’s Tim Russert, suggesting those were “rebellious, anti-establishment” things he did as “a kid” — even though such episodes occurred well after Allen turned 40. (Click here to read a partial list of events.)

Will more stories be revealed as we get closer to election day? And will Virginians simply accept Allen’s denials of wrongdoing as either fictional accounts by one-time friends, or “rebellious, anti-establishment” things he did “as a kid” of 25, 32 or 41?

Come clean, Sen. Allen. Things can only get worse.

Ok this is really getting old, I usually find the posts of you liberals as amusing, I at first thought that this was a legitimate conversation topic. But you liberals are so transparent it’s pathetic.
This man has been in public life for quite some time, and NOW you white liberal folks want to make a big deal out of this?
Let me tell you people something, regardless of what side of the political spectrum you reside, a great deal of white people have referred to black folks as Niggers.

For you liberals to keep beating this dead horse, is just over the top. If I were to hold all white people responsible who called black folks the niggers, I would hate damm near all white people.
If you want proof that liberals don’t care about race and Allen’s use of this term, virtually none of the articles bother to interview black people asking for their opinion. In black newspapers, and magazines this is a non issue.
As a black individual does this raise white flags, yes, but pathetic racist ass liberals are so afraid that Allen is such a threat at taking the White House, this is your ONLY weapon.
Now people are being paid to come out of the trees to say Allen used the Nigga term.
Did it not occur to you people that if he did say it to these folks that THEY themselves likely did not have a problem with him using the term. Hmm I bet they thought it was funny. 
Who are you people kidding, when I was a kid white kids threw this term around all the damm time. Some of your parents and grandparents shouted at black kids going to school, cussed at the fact that black people were moving in your neighborhoods.
Hell they did it to my family in Oakland California in 1971. Called us niggas, threw eggs at our house, I was not allowed to go into any white kids house for the first couple of years after I moved to the neighborhood.
This particular topic and the fact that JABBS and other prominent blogs keeps posting about it, only keeps proving what I have said about white liberals all my adult life. You are the true racists.
You people on the left are in serious trouble, YOU CAN’T WIN WITHOUT THE BLACK VOTE PERIOD, so what do you do, post this crap about Allen every week
saying see, we don’t use those terms on our side. You mean to tell me, Dean has not said it, Clinton, Kennedy? Pick any political individual on either side, you mean none of them has ever said NIGGER!? Get real!
White people every damm day utter this crap, this is a racist ass society, that is obvious, but the question is do you care about his use of the term or it’s effect on our society.  

Oh well, now my little home town want to join the list of America’s nuttiest cities but putting a referendum on the ballot about the Iraq war.
This is just another of many reasons why I can’t take liberals seriously because they come up with such stupid shit while truly believing they are doing something. 

Article from Lawrence-Journal World 

The next theater for the war in Iraq may be Lawrence.

City commissioners are set to decide tonight whether to place a question on the November ballot allowing voters to call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

The request — made last week by the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice — is advisory in nature, but it already has sparked debate about what role the city should play in voicing its opinion about one of the more controversial issues of the decade.

“I’m wrestling with it,” City Commissioner Boog Highberger said. “I think it would be good for our elected officials to know what Lawrence residents think about the issue, but I’m struggling with whether it is the role of city government to conduct an opinion poll.

“I’m afraid it could be awfully divisive for the community, and not accomplish much.”

The issue may have a tough time winning the necessary three votes to be placed on the November ballot. Highberger was one of three commissioners who said last week that he was willing to consider the issue. Commissioner David Schauner was another, but he said Monday that he’s now leaning against putting the issue on the ballot.
 
“It is such a complicated issue, it may not be appropriate for a referendum,” Schauner said. “This is the most complicated issue you could ever ask to be flattened into an in-or-out type of decision.”

That hasn’t stopped other communities from doing it, though. The Wisconsin Green Party successfully placed a similar question on the April ballot of 32 communities in that state. Twenty-four of the communities, including Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin, voted to call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

In Vermont, 56 communities had town hall meetings in March where citizens voted on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. More than two-thirds of the communities approved of a withdrawal.

In 2004, San Francisco became the largest community to speak out on the issue. Voters there approved a referendum calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by a 2-1 margin. Milwaukee has scheduled a similar vote for the Nov. 7 election.

Allan Hanson, a member of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, said Lawrence has the chance to become part of an important national movement.

“This is a good way to get public opinion expressed in this country,” Hanson said. “If we are the only community in the country that does it, nobody will notice. But if we are part of a groundswell, it can make a difference.”
“It seems like it is much more of a federal issue,” said Lawrence resident Gary Patterson. “It is not something you just simply decide to bring the troops home. Besides, our vote wouldn’t matter.”

Denise Diamond, Lawrence, has a nephew who is about to deploy to Iraq.

“He might be mad if the city did something like that, but I would support a vote on it,” Diamond said. “I want us to do something to get the troops home. My nephew is 18 years old, and I don’t think he has any idea what he’s getting into.”

Members of area veterans organizations said they had some concerns about calling for a public vote on the issue.

“All I can tell you is that I do know that what we’re doing over there is the right thing,” said Paul Benner, commander of Lawrence’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post and a veteran of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. “I don’t have a lot of tolerance for uninformed people, and these folks calling for this seem to be pretty uninformed.”

MY COMMENT ON THE ISSUE:

After someone called my attention to this my first thought was to come up with some comment that could adequately convey my dismay with the very idea that the city of Lawrence would even consider doing this.
“Considering” doing this tells me all I need to know.
But I just don’t care. If the city of Lawrence wants to be in the category of “liberal city of buffoons” then go ahead. Maybe Perky Katie will come to Lawrence and do her news broadcast from here. Air America can host a show from Liberty Hall. Bill Clinton can do a safe interview with someone on the channel 6 news staff, John Kerry might actually stop the damm train this time!
Laughing stock or not I love Lawrence. If you libs want to feel like you did something, by all means vote on the issue. Dedicating time and money to meaningless crap is what you do best, right!