The Mainstream Media
Actually we have not gotten a “never mind” out of the mainstream media yet in the case of Valerie Plame. The mainstream media will probably never tell the true story behind Joe’s grand frog marching fantasy. It is an incredible story really -- amazing that so many in the media regurgitated Wilson’s conspiracy theories as if they were fact. It is amazing that the story took off at all in spite of contradictory statements from Bob Novak from the beginning, who claimed that Plame’s identity did not come from a partisan gunslinger and was only offered in response to his question about why Wilson might have been chosen for the Niger trip. Amazing that it continued in spite of revelations that those 16 words were not incorrect after all. Amazing that even after Joe Wilson’s statements were found to be inconsistent with documentation uncovered by a Senate committee, that the story remained the same.
from the onion
WASHINGTON, DC—In a nationally televised address Monday, President Bush urged all citizens, regardless of race, creed, color, or political affiliation, "to quiet down for just one minute" so he could have "a chance to think."
He was here yesterday and the usual comedy ensued. I gald I took Tom Tommorrow’s advice and just blamed Katrina on Bush that makes it so much easier and I don’t have to expect anything out of my state or local politicians or my self for that matter.
Today there is a nation wide protest at all housing projects to show solidarity with the former residents of the projects in NOLA. They say they want all the projects opened back up for the old residents to return. That stupid Bush wants Raciest mixed income housing. Did he ever stop to think that some people like to be concentrated by income level?
One thing that the Cartoonists and President Ahmadinejad have worng. It’t not the Bush hates Black People it is just that he really hates Jazz.
You call em Housing projects. I call em econimic concentration camps. I meet lot of African Americans on my space and I have not found one yet that does not suspect that the Feds blew up the leveees. They always volenteer this information to me. I feel so sorry when I hear this and know that they mostly mean it. It makes me really sad. Not sad because they are dumb or tools but because they really think that the CIA or the dam Freemasons or whatever wants to whiten up the city. Did you know that the people in the 9th ward can get $150,000 for their property no matter if they had insurance or not? They can rebuld in the 9th ward or move anywhere in the sate they want too.
It’s not exactly God’s country next to the industrial canal. The sad part is that under the current supreme court if the government wants your land for a industrial plant or a shopping mall they can just take it under Condemnation via eminent domain. . It’s like people know enough to fear the Government but they get hoodwinked in to worring about the wrong part.
This myth about blowing up the levees comes out again after every hurricane since 1926.
Senator Labels Bush Iraq Policy 'Disaster,' Lieberman Bid 'Huge Mistake'
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted a fellow Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.
"I'm concerned that [Lieberman] is making a Republican case," Kerry told ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" in an exclusive appearance.
Kerry accused the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of "adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney," on the issue of Iraq.
"Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut," Kerry added, insisting Lieberman's stance on Iraq, "shows you just why he got in trouble with the Democrats there."
Of his own views on Iraq, Kerry stated forthrightly, "The course of this country in Iraq is making the world more dangerous."
Kerry, the Democrat's nominee for president in 2004, supported the 2003 Senate resolution that ultimately led to the invasion of Iraq, and was criticized throughout his White House bid for then opposing a measure funding continuing operations in that effort. The Bush campaign seized on what they described as Kerry's wavering views on Iraq, which in part led to the senator's 2004 election defeat.
Since 2004, Kerry has steadily sharpened his opposition to the Iraq war, calling for a steady withdrawal of U.S. troops beginning last year.
Kerry told chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos, "Iraq is not the center of the war on terror," while also asserting, "Iraq is in a civil war; of course it's in a civil war."
Kerry said he supports the efforts of Senator John Warner, R-Va., to introduce a second resolution on Iraq if and when the country descends into outright civil war. Kerry believes that moment has come and reiterated, "We have to set a date for the withdrawal," before concluding, "The absence of diplomacy is putting our troops at greater risk and is reducing our ability for success."
National ACLU accuses black mayor of Jackson, Miss., of racial profiling
JACKSON,
Miss. - The national American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday
accused the city's black mayor of civil rights violations including
racial profiling in his crusade to stem crime in Mississippi's capital
city.
The accusations against Mayor Frank Melton and police are
based on complaints from people who say they were pulled over on the
basis of their race and searched without probable cause, the ACLU's
national racial profiling coordinator, King Downing, said at a news
conference.
"For me to leave my office and come into one of the states
means that there is a very serious problem," said Downing, who is based
in New York. "There are problems here that it's going to take the
attention of the nation in order to solve."
Downing said the mayor's race should make him "more sensitive to the problems this is creating."
However, Melton said in an interview Tuesday that he wasn't
interested in the ACLU's complaints against him or the police, and
denied he had violated anyone's civil rights.
"We have 26 people that have been killed in Jackson this
year. We have 300,000 people killed across America each year. The
majority of them are African-American and it's time to do something
different," Melton said. "I want to know what the ACLU wants to do
besides criticize."
Melton took office last July after winning 88 percent of the vote on a tough-on-crime platform.
Melton declared a state of emergency last month to attack the
city's escalating crime problem, basically adopting a stricter curfew
for teenagers and homeless people. He also continued his practice of
riding with police officers on patrol or at roadblocks.
The city's population of 184,256 is nearly 71 percent black, and 23.5 percent live below the poverty level.
Since his election, federal authorities have told him to quit
packing his pistol on commercial airline flights, Mississippi Attorney
General Jim Hood told him to stop wearing police gear, and Faye
Peterson, the district attorney in Jackson, has said the mayor was
breaking the law by impersonating a police officer.
Melton criticized the ACLU's plan to hold meetings in Jackson
to inform residents of their rights if they're stopped by police.
"I hope they don't obstruct justice and give people false
information because if they do, then we'll be focusing on them and
we'll come after them," Melton said.
Snopes.com says this is for real and not an internet rumor. I can't imagine an American politician being this honest without being called a raciest by several organizations. I don't know if that happened in Austraila or not but there would be an uproar here. Let's all try to be honest about the challanges we face and not try to make the constitution in to some kind of susicide pact. As it is pointed out this is not a love it or leave it argument. It is a question of vaules and what the country is about.
The July 2005 London Tube bombings raised domestic terrorism concerns in countries with large immigrant Muslim populations, such as Australia. The following month, Australian prime minister John Howard held a two-hour summit with moderate Muslim leaders in Canberra to work on a national strategy for addressing intolerance and the promotion of violence, during which issues such as the curriculum of Islamic schools and suggested measures for vetting imams were discussed. The Christian Science Monitor noted of the event:
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