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Paris Hilton

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:52:32 GMT

clipped by: Lvaman

CNN is sooo correct to do this, I mean like. Paris Hilton is the most inspirational like um person that all beautiful teenage girls should be, like you know? I mean like, she is such a hero and stuff, a great rolemodel for this generation and how they should act and stuff you know? I mean DUI, whatever! Anyway I just pray for her.

/sarcasim

Tags: paris hilton, airhead, rolemodels, teenagers, cnn

VOTERS FEAR

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:22:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Half a century of research has shown that fear is one of the most politically powerful emotions a candidate can tap, especially when the fears have a basis in reality; jihadists, of course, are indeed bent on suicide bombings. Candidates who exploit voters' fears and anxieties grab attention in a way that other appeals, such as those to experience, competence, vision or even anger (a close second to fear in its power to move voters) do not.

Four days later, the president won re-election

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:15:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

In the final days of the race, most polls showed Kerry leading Bush by about 2 percentage points nationally and edging ahead in such key states

On the Friday before voters went to the polls, however, the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera broadcast excerpts from a videotape of Osama bin Laden speaking into the camera to Americans, proudly taking responsibility for September 11 and patronizingly explaining "the best way to avoid another Manhattan." Clips of the diatribe were broadcast repeatedly on American stations over the weekend and described in newspapers. Four days later, the president won re-election

Tags: bush, 2004

Bush asked America to "imagine

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:05:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Words that evoke images rather than abstractions are powerful triggers of fear, too. When making the case for invading in 2003, asked America to "imagine with me this new fear"—as he raised the specter of the mushroom cloud, as LBJ had. "The key to emotional language is its simplicity and clarity," says Republican pollster Frank Luntz. "It has to be immediately believable and authentic. If it requires you to think, it's less powerful; if it requires you to explain, it's less powerful." The most effective fear-inducing language and images speak to the amygdala, not the cortex.

Tags: bush, fear, imagine

FEAR AND POLITICS

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:01:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

George W. Bush's media strategists used imagery to evoke fear effectively in the closing weeks of the 2004 campaign when they aired the "wolf" ad. It showed a pack of hungry-looking wolves in a dark forest, apparently about to attack,

There is no question that raising primal fears of weakness, and scary carnivores with big teeth, pushed voters' fear buttons much more effectively than a straight-on recitation of Kerry's voting record would have.

Tags: fear, bush, strategy, 2004, wolf

nefarious deeds of an evil empire—

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:55:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

If global warming were caused by the nefarious deeds of an evil empire—lofting military satellites that deliver carbon dioxide into the stratosphere, say, rather than the "innocent" actions of people heating their homes and driving their children to school—"the war on warming would be this nation's top priority," Gilbert wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

The Repulican Party name1850

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:24:38 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The party's founding members chose the name "Republican Party" in the mid-1850s in part as an homage to Thomas Jefferson (it was the name initially used by his party).^[46]^[47] The name echoed the 1776 republican values of civic virtue and opposition to aristocracy and corruption.

Tags: republican, government, jefferson, aristocracy, corruption, virtue, values

Government is the Problem. R. Reagan '81

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:01:37 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In his 1981 inaugural address, Republican President Ronald Reagan summed up his belief in limited government when he said, "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

President George W. Bush is a proponent of the unitary executive theory and has cited it within his signing statements about legislation passed by Congress.^[6] The administration's interpretation of the unitary executive theory was called seriously into question by Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, where the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that the President does not have sweeping powers to override or ignore laws through his power as commander in chief^[7], stating "the Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails."^[

Tags: reaganm, bush, government, court, lawlessness

threat to your liberty and privacy

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:41:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ronpaul2008.com

their patrons.

I have fought this fight for many years. I sponsored a bill to overturn the Patriot Act and have won some victories, but today the threat to your liberty and privacy is very real. We need leadership at the top that will prevent Washington from centralizing power and private data about our lives.

Tags: ron paul, threat, liberty, privacy, government

Congress that created this danger

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:38:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ronpaul2008.com

To date, the privacy focus has been on identity theft. It was Congress that created this danger by mandating use of the standard identifier (currently your SSN) in the private sector. For example, banks use SSNs as customer account identifiers because the government requires it.

Tags: government, ssn, theft, idenity, bank

heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:36:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ronpaul2008.com

We must stop the move toward a national ID card system. All states are preparing to issue new driver’s licenses embedded with “standard identifier” data — a national ID. A national ID with new tracking technologies means we’re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. I voted against the Real ID Act in March of 2005.

Tags: freedom, 2008, id, driver's licenses, real id

What Does Freedom Really Mean?

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:33:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ronpaul2008.com

What Does Freedom Really Mean?

“…man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
Ronald Reagan

Tags: ron paul, freedom, government, liberty

Hear of Goog-411

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:41:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm as mad as hell!

Clip Source: www.parislemon.com

Wow, sometimes you just have to stand in awe of the genius that is Google. They've hyped up a service, GOOG-411, making people think it for the betterment of man to have a free 411 service - when in actuality it was always all about getting vocal samples from people to perfect speech-to-text technology!

Tags: big businss, government, freedom, rights

Just how educated are we?

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:35:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sntp.net

But every once in a while an educator forgets himself or does not realize that the rest of us are listening. William H. Seawell, professor of education at the University of Virginia, got caught in that position in 1981. He said, "Public schools promote civic rather than individual pursuits" and, "We must focus on creating citizens for the good of society." But most startlingly, he said, "Each child belongs to the state." There was no outcry from the public. Of course, the coercive power of govemment lies behind all such utterances.

Tags: education, politics, children, the higher good

Mediocracy

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:02:59 GMT

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Clip Source: inversions-and-deceptions.blogspot.com

Of course it is all nonsense, and demonstrates why you cannot have education provided by the state. A welfare state will never restrict itself to duplicating the services offered by the private sector (which roughly correspond to what people actually want). So not only is the actual real teaching provided by state schools rubbish, because it is completely immune to market forces. You don't even get decent education being aimed for, but rather some vague nebulous programme of making things fairer, improving chances, promoting inclusion. To the extent this comes out as anything other than mere chaos and anarchy, it means indoctrinating children with pro-state ideology.

Tags: education, welfare, children, chaos