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McCain - A Joke too bad to print

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:10:35 GMT

clipped by: dewitte

The fact that McCain had made the tasteless joke was reported in major newspapers, as was the vain attempt by his press secretary to initially deny what McCain had done. But in several major newspapers, the joke itself was kept a secret. When McCain subsequently apologized to President Clinton, the Washington Post, in its personality section, noted the apology but said the joke "was too vicious to print."

The joke did appear in McCain's hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, and the Associated Press did report the joke in full, so everyone in the press had access to McCain's words. But by censoring themselves, the Post, the Times and others helped McCain deflect flak and preserved his status as a Republican presidential contender.

Salon feels its readers deserve the unadulterated truth. Though no tape of McCain's quip has yet emerged, this is what he reportedly said:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

Tags: mccain, clinton, reno

Democrats have done what in 2 years?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:00:06 GMT

clipped by: The REAL Napster
clipper's remarks: They can lambast all they want about the 'past 8 years' Truth be told the Democrats have effective control of the house and senate as well as a majority of the governorships in the U.S. since November, 2006. We already know that the 'Speaker of the House' is a sad joke. And Congress actually has as low (if not lower) approval rating than the current president. So, I ask- democrats already have control, now what have you done with it? Nothing. Same as usual.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The 2006 United States midterm elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and many state and local races. The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured the House of Representatives, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party won a majority of the state governorships^[3] and the U.S. House and Senate seats each for the first time since 1994, an election-year commonly known as the "Republican Revolution." For the first time in the history of the United States, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat.^[4]

Tags: 2006 general elections, democrats, republicans

AIDS and the truth

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:18 GMT

clipped by: pjnasser

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

It is clear that HIV has remained largely confined to people following recognised high-risk behaviours, rather than being, in the mantra of the AIDS bureaucracy, a condition of poverty, gender inequality and under-development. Yet they also accept the argument, characterised by Chin as ‘political correctness’, that it is better to try to terrify the entire population with the spectre of an AIDS epidemic than it is to risk stigmatising the gays and junkies, ladyboys and whores who feature prominently in Pisani’s colourful account.

Tags: pc, health

Information Clearing House Publisher Threatened

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:09:11 GMT

clipped by: Maxwell_Smart
clipper's remarks: If we are not willing to die for the truth, the truth will surely die with us. Jesus said, "unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone." When He was captured and taken before Pilate he said, "For this purpose I was born, to bear witness to the truth..." He loved the truth more than Himself. Socrates was the same way. John, one of Jesus' disciples, went on to write about how he was in darkness until Jesus came. He was trained by Jesus and followed in his footsteps. As a result the teachings of Jesus remain to this day. The forces of evil and its darkness did not prevail. Jesus' strategy works. By God's grace I hope to follow.

"Buy truth, and do not sell it, get wisdom and instruction and understanding." ~ Solomon Prov 23:23

Clip Source: www.thetruthseeker.co.uk

My friend Tom Feeley is in Big trouble. He runs the web site informationclearinghouse.info which updates "news you won't find in the corporate media" every day. The site is strongly anti-war.

Tom has gotten his share of death threats over the years, but what happened this week is a lot more serious.

Two days ago, Tom's wife found three well dressed men in their kitchen. The man who did all the talking, told Tom's wife (I won't give her name) that Tom must "Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!" As crazy as it sounds, he pulled back his lapel and showed her a gun of some kind which she could not identify.

Tom's wife is hysterical and has not returned to the house since the incident. She contacted the FBI but the FBI said their was nothing they could do. Tom and his wife separated recently after a 30 year marraige, so he is publishing from a different location.

The well-dressed man told Tom's wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of

Jon Stewart Speaks Truth to Media Power

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:54 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Jon Stewart, Fox News Trade Barbs

Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News as "an appendage of the Republican Party."

Wearing a gray T-shirt and a healthy stubble, the "Daily Show" host told reporters that Fox's fair-and-balanced slogan is "a (expletive) you to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves that network from slapping on a bumper sticker . . . Barack Obama could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster."

Tags: jon stewart, faux news

Gaddafi son says Lockerbie families were 'greedy'

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:50:39 GMT

clipped by: sinkbreath
clipper's remarks: But Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was one of the 270 people killed when Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, said the compensation received by relatives could never make up for the loss of loved ones.

He said: “I just wish that the needs of the relatives, namely a thirst for the truth and for justice would be attended to, rather than an alleged hunger for money. So far as many relatives I know would say, we would gladly repay any ’compensation’ money if we could just have our loved ones back.

“Financial ’compensation’ must remain in its inverted commas. Money cannot buy our families back.”

In a letter published in The Herald newspaper today, Dr Swire said the Libyan government’s admission of guilt for the Lockerbie bombing had allowed its economy to recover while giving the West access to the country’s oil industry.

“The Libyans have achieved what they want and Western commerce has got what it wanted too

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son has accused relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims of "trading with the blood of their sons and daughters” in their demands for compensation.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, who is seen as the leading candidate to succeed his father as Libyan leader, said that the Lockerbie families were "very greedy” during negotiations over payouts for the deaths of loved ones.

Mr Gaddafi also told BBC2’s The Conspiracy Files that the Libyan government had only taken responsibility for Britain’s worst terrorist attack in order to get international sanctions lifted.

“You have to ask the families of the victims,” he said. “The negotiation with them, it was very terrible and very materialistic and was very greedy. They were asking for more money and more money and more money.”

He continued: “I think they were very greedy and I think they were trading with the blood of their sons and daughters.”

Tags: gaddafi, sicko, disgusting

Did Agatha Christie Set Up Her Own Murder?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:12:54 GMT

clipped by: flinstoneking

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED

On a chilly December night, Agatha's car was found at the bottom of a chalk pit some distance from her home. Although it was cold, her fur coat was still in the car. There was no driver in sight, and the car was turned off - indicating that someone had pushed it into the pit. Police suspected foul play.

THE SUSPECT

Agatha's husband, Colonel Archibald Christie, was immediately questioned by the police. Where had he been that night? At a dinner party. What was the occasion? The Colonel, abashed, admitted that it was a party to announce his engagement to his new love, Nancy Neele. Had he and Agatha been getting along? No. In fact, he had recently told her that he was having an affair and wanted a divorce. They'd even had a screaming battle about his infidelity the morning before she disappeared.

Agatha claimed that her very unusual case of "amnesia" obscured the complete truth for her for the rest of her life

Tags: murder

Naomi Klein on Obama: MoveOn is not Anti-War Anymore

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:32:25 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: video at source.

Clip Source: therealnews.com

August 26, 2008

Naomi Klein on Obama

Klein speaks about Obama and the intellectual and political integrity of the progressive movement

KLEIN: What will the people who helped win his historic victory ask of Obama now? I hope that we, that you, will demand that he earn the incredible trust that he has been given, because the hard truth is this: Obama may have the energy and the anger and the networks of the antiwar vote, but he does not have a plan to get us out of Iraq. What he has is a plan to downsize the occupation of Iraq, not to end it. He may have the very real rage at the income inequality that has opened up in this country and around the world, but I am sad to say that he does not have a real plan to close that gap. And he may have the incredible, inspiring idealism of young environmentalists who are terrified about the future of this planet, but he does not have a green agenda that is a match to our climate crisis.

Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:31:44 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Truth is most major corporations move away from their core competence and when they realize it, the damage is done...

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

Photo: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947. (Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs)

After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab.

Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software.

"In the new innovation model, research needs to keep addressing the need of the mother company," he says.

Still for fundamental physics research there will be life after Bell Labs, though it will be dependent on the whims of the federal government.

yet another chapter in its storied history of comes to a close

being just another research arm of a major corporation

Tags: bell labs, physics, research, technology, computer science, electronics, nanotechnology, alcatel-lucent, semiconductor

The Moment Of Truth

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:57:36 GMT

clipped by: Karlitod

Clip Source: www.spoki.lv

The Moment Of Truth

The secret of Obama's mystique

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:56:05 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Classy, cool, hip, glamorous, even sexy—all these words have been used to describe the presumptive Democratic nominee. He has excited the young, the disenfranchised, the traditionally cynical and apathetic:

And yet we're still not satiated. Or perhaps, more accurately, we're not satisfied: for all we've seen, and read, and been told, both by and about him, there are some things we're still trying to figure out.

But the truth of the matter is that seen up close, the attraction of Barack Obama as a candidate has less to do with the cut of his suits or the fact that he's championed by hip rock singers than with an almost geeky earnestness, a decency and sobriety that he projects when speaking to a crowd. A large part of his mystique lies in his insistence on his message, and on the complexity of that message; and in his old-fashioned, almost stern will to cut the flim-flam and, in a way so retro it's almost novel, to actually address the issues.

Tags: obama, personality, politics

Sermon Index . Net

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:56:01 GMT

clipped by: sonofjohn
clipper's remarks: Words of truth

Clip Source: 109.gmodules.com

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. (Matthew 5:42)

Clip Source: 152.gmodules.com

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Clip Source: 153.gmodules.com

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties.

Clip Source: 99.gmodules.com

Rom. 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Doing Jobs Americans Won't Do? Nope...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:02:24 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: Americans will work the same jobs as the illegals if truth be told... it's just that the industries didn't hire them....they hired the illegals.

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

ICE agents on Monday seized 595 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. Several workers, who did not identify themselves, said Tuesday they were working and trying to keep the plant operational in the wake of the sudden loss of co-workers.

It’s an idea that maddens Samantha Stevens, 18, of Heidelberg, who was among those who pulled up to Avenue A across from the plant’s entrance throughout the day. She said she has been unable to find a job since she graduated from Heidelberg High School in the spring and blames, in part, the willingness of companies to hire illegal workers.

Gwendolyn Watkins, 40, of Stonewall said she drove 40 miles to Laurel to fill out an application with the electronics maker. She worked at Tower Automotive in Meridian as a production worker for eight months before job cuts in June left her unemployed.

Quotes 20080828 10:02 AM

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:43 GMT

clipped by: ricardoviana

Clip Source: www.google.com

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Thomas Sowell

Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:19 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Cont...

There has been much talk among western politicians in recent days about Russia isolating itself from the international community. But unless that simply means North America and Europe, nothing could be further from the truth. While the US and British media have swung into full cold-war mode over the Georgia crisis, the rest of the world has seen it in a very different light. As Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's former UN ambassador, observed in the Financial Times a few days ago, "most of the world is bemused by western moralising on Georgia". While the western view is that the world "should support the underdog, Georgia, against Russia ... most support Russia against the bullying west. The gap between the western narrative and the rest of the world could not be clearer."

And that has the neocons scare witless!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Russia's defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior's new world order - not before time

If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia's leaders reject their parliament's appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response: President Medvedev announced Russia's recognition of the two contested Georgian enclaves.

The Russian message was unmistakable: the outcome of the war triggered by Georgia's attack on South Ossetia on August 7 is non-negotiable - and nothing the titans of the US empire do or say is going to reverse it. After that, the British foreign secretary David Miliband's posturing yesterday in Kiev about building a "coalition against Russian aggression" merely looked foolish.

Tags: russia, us, empire, georgia, history, hegemony