tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113408132011-04-21T12:10:45.248-07:00Stories, News, and Thoughts about Popular Culture, National Politics, and life in Los Angeles...TRUTHMISSILEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16266891210183932768noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340813.post-1119331932846507462005-06-20T22:23:00.000-07:002005-06-20T22:32:12.850-07:00

From "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Train 1972" by Hunter S. Thompson..."Once they let you get away with running around for 10 years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about half the time they honestly doubt their own sanity.These are not the kind of people who

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Republican politcians use gullible "pseudo-Christians" only as mindless sheep in the VOTING booths. After the election, they're over - to be placated, but never seriously listened to.Then they pass tort reform, bankruptcy reform, social security benefit cuts, Estate tax cuts for the weathiest 1% - and you're just left to sit there and wonder why your schools are underfunded, your home has been

TRUTHMISSILEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16266891210183932768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340813.post-1116784692160433162005-05-22T10:57:00.000-07:002005-05-22T10:58:12.166-07:00

There is a real possibility that conspiracies can exist. A cospiracy is really nothing more than a few people getting together to create a deception that benefits the select group anyways. For a society so obsessed with celebrity, why hasn't this story been discussed in greater detail - maybe because everyone would be at a loss in world where Tom Cruise may or may not be the person he and his

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Wow - the only station that actually covered the Villaraigosa victory speech LIVE here in Los Angeles was Fox 11 local news. You wouldn't know there was an election going on as the other stations had re-runs of Friends and typical late night dull-a-thons.And how many people live in Los Angeles? 12 million! And these are the final numbers? ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA 260,721 58.66 JAMES

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REPUBLICANS ALLOWED OIL-FOR-FOOD SCAM.. REPUBLICANS ALLOWED OIL-FOR-FOOD SCAM...Then they blast the UN and Kofi Annan on it - imagine if your co-worker accused you of stealing paper clips while he was stealing from petty cash?GALLOWAY has the balls and the ANGER ALL Americans who care about TRUTH should have, but don't!It's about 1600 dead soldiers and their families - and the lies that put them

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."-- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US President, Republican

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I saw this great documentary on the Sundance Channel - UNPRECDENTED - about how brazenly the 2000 Election was stolen in Florida by using DBT to purge the voter rolls of Black Americans. Then consider reports on the 2004 election, like the one by Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair, about suspect machines, etc...the fact is our Democracy is in peril partially because elections are unreliable - and

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Thank GOD!Looking at that link above, many people are rejoicing in the Glory of the God that loves everybody, not just people that vote for one party... This is good news for people who think it's alright for Church going people to vote for who they DARN well please...From the AP... WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A Baptist preacher accused of runningout nine congregants who refused to support

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I just saw the new Star Wars III at a press screening here in Los Angeles, and was thoroughly impressed. It’s not only a tale of morality, but also a metaphor for the Right-wing control of American politics. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, the movie always had a special place in our heart – it’s the greatest modern myth in a culture with no cohesive central identity. The scene of Luke

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Does this bear any resemblance to a "liberal" media?Edit Liberal Paper (1887)Robert Green Ingersoll A LIBERAL paper should be edited by a Liberal man. And by the word Liberal I mean, not only free, not only one who thinks for himself, not only one who has escaped from the prisons of customs and creed, but one who is candid, intelligent and kind -- that is to say, Liberal toward

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It seems the Democrats want to KEEP Social Security as it is because it's their signature issue. On the other hand, Bush wants to privatize it as it will create greater support for the markets, and payback to his campaign backers - Wall Street brokerage firms. It comes down to a simple ideological battle line - does the American public support life before or after the New Deal? If we support life

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The rumor I heard at a dinner once is that Tom Cruise is gay, and dates actresses who need a boost in their career. Think about it - Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Katie Holmes (you can even go all the way back to Mimi Rogers) - but who would want to break this story? The studios making billions off his movies each year, or the TV shows and networks making millions off his image? No one can say

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I just saw Bill Frist's Justice Sunday speech...They don't want Priscilla Owen because she's anti-abortion - it's because she is 100% Pro-Business and Insurance...they can't sell her as a shill for big money lobbyists, so they sell her as "pro-life" - whatever that means...From the AFL-CIO... "...During her tenure on the Texas Supreme Court, Justice Owen’s decisions and dissents have

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"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious

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If you've ever wondered who has created the insanity of modern political discourse, look no further than Frank Luntz...This DAILY SHOW slip is a classic....Luntz Speak is also a great place to see the documents and memos... LUNTZSPEAK ENGLISH “It can be done more wisely and effectively” Or hey, not at all! We’re okay with

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This guy is an idiot - he's not gonna see a dime...They really believe Bush cares about them like a parent or brother...It's all about money and votes for Bush...If you don't got money in the first place, Bush isn't trying to give you anymore of it...If you're wealthier beyond the dreams of 99% of Republicans, Bush has got Estate tax cuts, Capital gains tax cuts, sending social security into the

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Schiavo results are in... When was it? Name it...LIES...- WMDs weren't in Iraq...- Michael Schiavo DID NOT abuse his wife...- The economy is NOT doing fine...- Armstrong Williams was just one of many paid propaganda outfits selling lies...- The Terror Alerts were just used to scare the public before Election Day...- Social Security privatization is a giveaway of fees to the richest Wall Street

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Wow, this is total bull... Your laws ignore our deepest needsYour words are empty airYou've stripped away our heritageYou've outlawed simple prayer Now gunshots fill our classroomsAnd precious children dieYou seek for answers everywhereAnd ask the question "Why"? You regulate restrictive lawsThrough legislative creedAnd yet you fail to understandThat God is what we need How can people like

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...so why do people in Red States? A simple question...What has the Republican party done for YOU?Tax cuts go to the wealthy. Do you make all your money from Capitol Gains and Estate Tax cuts?They send your children to DIE in WAR to make OIL COMPANIES rich, then make you feel good about being lied to by telling you they saved the Iraqi people. They killed your children, sending them to die in a

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I recall reading an article about a year ago where the GOP outlined their plan for various accusations to be hurled at John Kerry, such as that he's a "flip-flopper," and then went about doing just that (the Dems were so busy cannibalizing each other that had no plan). So today the WaPo is telling us the plan on how they want to manipulate the press coverage of DeLay... "...The Republicans said

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Do you think other mainstream media organizations consider the impact their news stories may have on their advertisers? This is the deal with mainstream news in America - you tell the story about things that don't get me in trouble, and I'll buy ad time and space from you.Isn't that a fundamental conflict of interest?GM is pulling it's ads from the LA Times because...GM spokesman Brian Akre would

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In the Documentary Why We Fight by Eugene Jarecki, that aired on the BBC, a woman who has spent her career working for the Pentagon says this:"...I would never allow my son to join the Army. Why? Today you are not defending the United States of America, you are helping policy makers pursue an imperial agenda."http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/03/1729118.phpIf you ever wondered what people like

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I FEEL PRETTY, WITTY, AND...If there's any doubt as to the sexual orientation of Matt Drudge, responses like this seal the deal...What about the Note, the ABC News political Web site run by Mr. Halperin?Drudge: "Oh, please!" said Mr. Drudge. "That Mark Halperin is like picking lint out of your navel. And really old, nasty lint."Who talks like that? Sashee, Chante - Turn to the RIGHT! Matt's gay,

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there is a BUBBLE, or some huge financial perfect storm coming down the pipe... Confronted with soaring home prices, Californians are adopting a "buy now, pay later" strategy on a massive scale. The boom in interest-only loans — nearly half the state's home buyers used them last year, up from virtually none in 2001— is the engine behind California's surging home prices. But all that

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Like the rest of the world, I'm waiting for the Pope to pass on. His blood has been poisoned due to his urinary tract infection - which means it's a slow death, but I doubt it's painful. They probablyhave him on a morphine drip.I predict it will happen on Sunday morning EST just in time for people on their way to Church, putting the flock in a giving mood.The Catholic Church needs the positive

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John Danforth..."...During the 18 years I served in the Senate, Republicans often disagreed with each other. But there was much that held us together. We believed in limited government, in keeping light the burden of taxation and regulation. We encouraged the private sector, so that a free economy might thrive. We believed that judges should interpret the law, not legislate. We were

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From a Social Security Bamboozlepalooza Townhall Meeting..."...It was a bit shocking to hear Rob Nichols, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department, actually say out loud that U.S. government bonds in the trust fund are just worthless IOUs, causing an uproar from the audience. (This guy works for the Treasury Department!?) He also was emphatic that there would be exactly

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LINK: More than half expect attack by one country on another... "...Most Americans think nuclear weapons are so dangerous that no country should have them, and a majority believe it’s likely that terrorists or a nation will use them within five years." This is a great example of the disconnect between the sentiment of the public, and what our leaders are thinking (and why Noam Chomsky makes the

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And then they both can drop nukes? Great.Today India protested the US allowing the sale of F-16s to Pakistan. So what does Washington do?"After its F-16 offer to Pakistan, Washington tried to sweeten the pill for the Indians, who have fought three wars with their South Asian neighbor, signaling its willingness to sell the planes to India too, along with the more advanced F-18 Hornet."How can

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Jim Wallis is a source of hope for people who care about morality, AND the future of this country. Ian Masters has pointed out for sometime now that tele-evangelists and Evangelical Christianity is just a front for Right-Wing politics. A classic case is Jerry Fallwell - who openly supports the War Industry, while clinging tightly to the Jesus' robe. How can anybody disagree with this:"...Glenn R.

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It's about money, like everything else in America...From USA Today... "...John Pecarek, a court-appointed guardian for Terri, described her husband as "a nursing home administrator's nightmare," adding, "I believe that the ward (Terri) gets care and attention from the staff of Sabal Palms (nursing home) as a result of Mr. Schiavo's advocacy and defending on her behalf." Mary Schindler

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He's talking to some English dude at the Sunday Herald...Interesting, I note, that though his face is on the magazine’s cover, his name is nowhere to be seen in the piece. “Oh, no, no, no,” Chomsky says, grinning at my naivety, “you can’t mention it. You can’t mention anything. You can’t read anything. All you can do is report gossip . So you heard some gossip saying that I was in favour of Pol

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One of the better recent Jim Anchower op-eds in the Onion...March 2, 2005 Hola, amigos. What's the deal? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I've been having a heaping helping of problems. First off, the bill collectors from the hospital have been on my ass about the money I owe them for fixing up my leg earlier this winter. I didn't have insurance, so I owe them a shitload.

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From an article in the NYT..."...Nobody can know whether the housing boom of the last decade will end as the dot-com frenzy did. But the parallels are raising alarms among many economists, even those who acknowledge that there are important differences between homes and stocks that significantly reduce the chances of another meltdown. For one thing, houses are not just paper wealth: you can live

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A Letter From H.O.P.E."...I was at the dances, I was at the parties, the malls, junior high and high school, reading the AOL instant messanger profiles of friends and foes alike who displayed the lyrics of N'Sync, the Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, Britney Spears ... but it didn't end there. Equal to that was Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, Korn ... and Puff Daddy, Mase, Usher ... it was all the same

TRUTHMISSILEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16266891210183932768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340813.post-1111737926350187622005-03-25T00:02:00.000-08:002005-03-25T00:05:26.353-08:00

From LAT...Kennan was a diplomat and Architect of the U.S. Cold War Policy..."I am startled to note the bleakness of the impressions of my own country.I view the United States of these last years of the 20th century as essentially a tragic country, endowed with magnificent natural resources which it is rapidly wasting and exhausting, and with an intellectual and artistic intelligentsia of great

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While the Economy is falling apart, inflation is on the march, we're in the middle of a War with no end, sick people die because of no health care , bankruptcy rates increase, the housing market bubble gets bigger and bigger - and gasoline prices are going through the roof...Our President, his brother, and Congress worry about a woman in a "vegetatitve state" at some hospice in Florida.You

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Juan Cole weighs in the the Schiavo case..."...Republican Hisba ("Hisba signifies a case filed by an individual on behalf of society when the plaintiff feels that great harm has been done to religion") will have the same effect in the United States that it does in the Middle East. It will reduce the rights of the individual in favor of the rights of religious and political elites to control

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I remember seeing the video of this guy buying cocaine on televison when I was a kid...John DeLorean was an interesting man. He started off as a gifted engineering student, and worked his way through GM: "It was at GM that DeLorean's career — and his reputation for creative thinking and bold marketing — began to soar. In 1961, he was named chief engineer at GM's Pontiac Division,

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Greg Palast of the BBC has a new report about plans for Iraqi oil well before 9/11...The BBC report from Newsnight can be seen here."President Bush was planning to invade Iraq before the September 11th attacks and was considering two very different plans about what to do with Iraq's oil. The plans sparked a political fight between neoconservatives and big oil companies and may help explain the

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From Frank Rich in NYT...Things can only go on as long as everyone is fooled by the lies, but eventually people figure it out, and that's when the shit hits the fan. I'll predict right now 8:34 AM on 3/21/05 - one day soon "The Bush Administration" will be regarded the same disgust, contempt, and mockery as Americans have cast upon Enron and Ken Lay. Just today, "a survey of U.S. businesses shows

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From a Yahoo post: "Lets recount his success just as Governor of Texas:Besides higher crime in Texas, more poverty, more kids without health insurance, more ex-kids without health insurance, higher teen pregnancy rates, Bush became America’s execution King, worse pollution, higher dropout rates, poorer highways, more crumbling bridges, more political operatives under indictment, more politicians

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While the HOUSE GOP gets their followers worried about Schiavo's tube, they're REALLY trying to turn Social Security over to Wall Street, change Bankruptcy law so Credit Card companies make more money, change the rules so the Insurance Industry makes more money, make sure criminal companies are free from lawsuits, and make sure the richest 1% pay as little taxes as possible by cutting Estate amd

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"Nixon broke into an office and eventually resigned from office, Bush broke into a nation, and no one cares..." Howard Zinn was on the radio today...The show is called Alternative Radio, it's a weekly series of speeches and interviews with people like Howard Zinn, who are never recognized in their time, but 10 to 20 years from now will be fully appreciated as prophets and truth tellers. Actually,

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Dispatch from Iraq aka Mesopotamia... "We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the world. All experts say that the labour supply is the ruling factor in its development. How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton, and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and

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Krugman says that the world has rejected deregulation, which tends to favor a small group of the well connected, leaving the rest of the country to pick up the bill. No better case against deregulation can been made than the energy crisis in California back in the summer of 2000."...Dogmatic views about the universal superiority of free markets have been losing ground around the world. Latin

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Professor Juan Cole makes the case for what's really going on in Iraq, Syria, Lybia, and the spread of Democracy in the Middle East...and it's not what we're getting brainwashed to believe:"...First, it must be said that Washington's Iraq policy, contrary to its defenders' arguments, is not innovative. In fact, regime change in the Middle East has often come about through foreign invasion.

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From Kevin Drum... Bush: Private accounts in which people assume the risk of investing their retirement savings is a must. Everything else is on the table. Democrats: Guaranteed minimum retirement benefits are a must. Everything else is on the table. That's pretty clear, isn't it?

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From a letter by Doug Wead in March 14, 2005 USA Today...Even George W. Bush was sometimes amazed at the ongoing process. In her 2002 pop art campaign film Journeys With George, Alexandra Pelosi sat down with the candidate at the front of the bus for a final interview. "OK," she said, "if you get elected president, what are you going to do for the little guy?" "The little guy?" he

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I couldn't agree more...the moderate Democrats have lost every goodamn thing they have touched. It's like the the girls pop warner football team in the Superbowl against the Patriots. People like it when you stand for something, and fight tooth and nail to get it. The Republicans believe in increasing the wealth of the top 1% of America, and do everything in their power to make it happen...the

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From an article in the Financial Times... "...Instead, along with the nomination last week of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Bush has put forward two men who have been the most passionate advocates for the view that if the US leads, the rest of the world will follow and fall into line. "Wolfowitz has been seen as a symbol of the go-it-alone approach of the Bush

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who said..."I spent 33 years...being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.... "I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American

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What else do you expect the Ashcroft or Gonzalez "opinion" to be ?... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Wednesday that the U.S. government's practice of sending packaged news stories to local television stations was legal and he had no plans to cease it. His defense of the packages, which are designed to look like television news segments, came after they were deemed a form of covert

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A must-read article in the NY Times this past Sunday..."Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the

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I strongly feel there was a very cold political calculation to the Iraq War...If you think about what motivated Bush other than the obvious giveaways to his campaign donors in the Oil and War Industries; it was re-election. His plan was simple, do what his Dad couldn't do, and run as a conquering hero.A President who took out a Dicatator (weakened by a decade of sanctions) was assured re-election

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"What if this is as Good As It Gets?" From this article:"The advantages of a college degree "are being erased," said Marcus Courtenay, president of a branch of the Communications Workers of America that represents technology employees in the Seattle area. "The same thing that happened to non- college-educated employees during the last recession is now happening to college-educated employees.""...

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"Up in Smoke" is a classic. When it's on Comedy Central, it's one of those movies you just have to drop everything and watch. It shows Los Angeles in a simpler time, a Roxy on the Sunset Strip well before the Hustler Store, when bands would battle for supremacy, and air conditioning systems allowed giant trucks made of marijuana to release smoke into clubs unfiltered.There's a certain child like

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Vanity Fair has a great article this month (the one with the Russian models on the cover) on Halliburton and KBR. Basically, the more money Halliburton/KBR spends, the more they can make. Sounds insane, right? It's because KBR has a non-competitive cost-plus (an x-percentage) contract - which is defined as:"...If the contract is a "cost-plus" contract, then the general contracting fee is

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Just watched the Rather retrospective on CBS....Dan Rather was at every great news event in the past 40 years - JFK Assasination, The Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, 9/11, etc - and one of the two final lines that struck me were:"When they don't let a Reporter in, they're not letting YOU, the Citizen in...""I just want to be remembered as a great reporter."There is

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Right now the results for Idol are coming in, the top 12 - it looks like Anwar has made it. He is my pick to go all the way to the end.There is something so genuine about this guy. He's a music teacher, so it's clear he has a real passion for singing beyond the trappings that may or may not come with a singing career. He sings with a passion and intensity that is such a joy to listen to. He can

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Intellectually, mainstream America is barren. Our TV shows are mindless, our literature is self-absorbed and narcissitic, and our news media is a dancing monkey for the wealthy elite that feeds the rest of America peanuts. This is not comfortable for me one bit.I just spent an hour listening to Tariq Ali talk about Iraq and the current state of America on the radio - to me that is stimulating,

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