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MilitarySmart-KingDumb
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7:43pm
1 review
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, military, politics, news
http://warchronicle.com/DefendOurTroops/StephenKing/MilitarySmart-KingDumb.htm
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From the page:
"Stephen King: Just not as bright"
"Schlock-shockmeister, Stephen King, recently told a group of high school kids, "The fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's not as bright."
Not as bright?
The military requires the ability to read texts at and around the 1200 Lexile mark. For those not in the education field, the Lexile measure is a text difficulty score. The measure is based on semantic difficulty and syntactic complexity. 1200, for instance, is the measure of a novel such as War and Peace.
On the other hand, Stephen King's novels are read by middle and high school students. The Lexile score for his most popular novels average at 895.
The Army or Stephen King? Truth to tell, Stephen King is just not as bright."
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Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva Gre…
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5:44pm
1 review
physics, science, news, technology, astrophysics
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91221-1315292,00.html
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From the page:
"Big Bang Experiment Ready To Go"
"The world's biggest scientific experiment is set for the big switch-on within weeks - and it could answer some of the biggest questions in the universe.
Thousands of scientists have spent more than a decade building the Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre For Nuclear Research in Geneva.
By smashing atoms together, the machine will recreate the conditions just after the 'Big Bang' when the universe was created.
British scientist Mike Lamont, who helped build the experiment, told Sky News: "By going back in time, by recreating, we're exploring the physics, the way the universe unfolded in those first few instances of time."
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Rod Dreher: The company Obama has kept | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, …
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5:34pm
1 review
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obamamessiah
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-dreh...
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From the page:
"Rod Dreher: The company Obama has kept"
"Forty years ago this month, Paris exploded in left-wing student riots that led to a nationwide general strike. The revolutionary fervor of France's soixante-huitards ('68ers) spread widely, including to American campuses. If you're wondering when the Good '60s of peace, love and civil rights gave way to the Bad '60s of anarchy and violence, May 1968 is as good a historical pivot point as any.John McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton at the time. Barack Obama was 6 years old. Yet the restless spirit of '68 haunts this year's presidential campaign, especially the White House bid of Mr. Obama, who, having pretty much missed the '60s " "Civil rights, sexual revolution, Vietnam War. Those all sort of passed me by," he told The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan last year " was supposed to take us beyond those divisive traumas.
It's not working out that way. His former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an unreconstructed '60s radical, a fire-breathing disciple of James Cone's period-piece black liberation theology. Mr. Obama wrote in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, about his attraction to the leftist pastor's church as a vehicle for social change. If black nationalism would uplift the race, he wrote, "then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
That's a remarkable admission of a racialized "ends justify the means" morality. It helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to stick with a crackpot like Dr. Wright. It also might explain why an up-and-coming Barack Obama found nothing particularly wrong with rubbing political elbows with Bill Ayers, the Chicago university professor and onetime fugitive member of the revolutionary, communist Weather Underground."
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The illusion that is Barack Obama | The Australian
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4:57pm
2 reviews
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obamamessiah
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html
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From the page:
""The illusion that is Barack Obama"
"POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.
So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he's done a fair amount of zigzagging.
He engages in doubletalk when, on free trade and Iraq, he tells the yokels one thing and the policy people another. He overstates when he presents his minimal accomplishments in the Illinois Senate as proof of his stature. He engages in systematic deception when he says he doesn't take money from lobbyists.
He presents a lie as metaphorical truth when he says it was the 1965 bloody Sunday attacks on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, that inspired his parents to marry. (They had been married for years already.)
All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional. What makes it different is that there's not just a gap but a chasm between his actions and his professed principles, which would normally kill a candidacy. And because his deeds are so few, the disparity is all the more salient."
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Conservative attack group riling Democrats&-&-&Breaking News, Political News &Na…
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10:27am
2 reviews
activism, liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/NATION/6589593...
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No, no, Nooooooooooooooooo, Republicans are now employing tacts that liberal activist groups do, Moveon.org, acorn.org, etc. This conservative group (Freedoms Watch) is bankrolled by a billionaire (Sheldon Adelson). This is unacceptable, conservatives are barred from fighting like liberals do, George Soros, moveon.org, acorn.org and other leftist loony organizations are permissable, any group that leans to the right must be destroyed. Free speech belongs to liberals only, ask them. Speak the truth about leftists and it's derided as hate speech.
From the page:
"Conservative attack group riling Democrats"
"Democrats are trying to chase from the political playing field a new conservative group expected to spend tens of millions of dollars this year attacking liberal candidates.
Using accusations of links to gambling and "forced abortions," the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is striving to make the group, Freedom's Watch, too toxic for Republicans to stomach.
"House Republicans and Republican candidates need to decide whether they can afford to partner with Freedom's Watch, a group that embodies the Republicans' culture of corruption by consistently breaking the law and is bankrolled by money that is inconsistent with their values," said Jennifer Crider, communications director for the DCCC.
Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson is the principal financial backer for the group, which has taken a major role in attacking Democratic candidates in recent special congressional elections.
Faced with the group's deep pockets, the DCCC has fired off mail and broadcast ads highlighting Mr. Adelson's gambling interests and ties with China, which they argue is "a country notorious for forced abortions." Democrats this week filed a third legal challenge to the group with the Federal Election Commission (FEC)."
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American Thinker: Wellness Über Alles
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9:34am
2 reviews
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, liberties, socialism, rights
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/wellness_ueber_alles.html
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From the page:
"Wellness Uber Alles"
"A new battlefront in the war to erase politically incorrect civil liberties is taking place across corporate America under the innocuous-sounding banner of "Wellness." Wellness certainly sounds nice; what kind of person is against wellness? That sounds as crazy as being anti-hope, or standing in the way of change.
Obviously we all want to be well, but now it appears you won't have much choice in the matter. Be well or face consequences beyond the state of one's health. But always remember: We're doing this for your own good.
The latest thing that's in our best interest is a renewed focus on quitting smoking, or as they say in more sophisticated circles, smoking cessation. And I'll take a brief time out to recognize that, indeed, quitting smoking is in a smoker's best interest, however, what's different this time around are the tactics employed.
Before we discuss them, let's do a review of liberal social engineering programs from inception to execution. These steps should prove generally predictive of smoking cessation efforts currently underway.
* A group of individuals anoints themselves as better-informed than the rest of us. They base this largely on the fact that they listen to the same programs on NPR and consistently vote Democrat.
* The self-defined elite group comes to an agreement that the rest of us are not as enlightened as they. This is expressed in many ways, usually involving code words such as "clinging", "mean-spirited", or "greedy". If you hear these words being applied to you or your associates, this is a clear indication that you are not one of the elites.
* The elites begin to develop a sense of responsibility for their lessers. This is often expressed in statements like, "It's just makes me so sad to see them like that. I wish there were something we could do to..."
* The elites form a plan. The plan generally involves making everyone else behave like them. As enthusiasm rises, what were once "differences" become "problems" and finally metamorphose into a "crisis". When the word "crisis" appears, this usually signals the end of planning phase. The Plan predictably contains the following elements: coercion, moral superiority, lack of debate and voting, and a succession of "experts" who testify on its behalf.
* The plan is imposed. If the legislative branch refuses, the judiciary is prevailed upon to conjure up a constitutional justification.
* The plan begins to fail. This step is usually followed by demands for more resources to "properly implement the plan", (see the War on Poverty), and angry accusations at non-elite groups for their mean spirited, clingy refusal to change.
* The plan fails.
* The elites meet to form a new, better plan.
The smoking cessation plan seeks to turn recalcitrant smokers -- those so far unaffected by health education, high taxation and appeals to self-interest -- into non-smokers through the imposition of a "smoke free campus". What this means essentially is that no one is allowed to smoke anywhere on company property. Not content with banning smoking indoors and segregating it outdoors, it is now banished entirely like some wayward cleric in 13th century Europe, (or in the case of Islam - 21st century Europe). In many cases, these smoke free campus programs make it a company offense to even retire to your own vehicle and smoke a cigarette with the windows rolled up. The justification: your car is parked on our property and we don't approve of smoking!"
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"It's a little concept called liberty. And by the way, it's the cornerstone of the Enlightenment, and a document known as the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers were very fond of liberty and fought a couple of wars with England on the very subject. Ditto a whole lot of civil rights workers in the 50's and 60's.
Freedom is the right of emancipated adults to make choices for themselves and accept the responsibility for the consequences. Don't think that the good intentions of the elites stop at the point of preventing you from putting smoke in your mouth. There are all those bad choices people make about what to eat just begging for correction."
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A Presidet Barack Obama would force American taxpayers to compensate &victims of…
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May 10, 7:27pm
1 review
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obamamessiah
http://www.pr-inside.com/a-presidet-barack-obama-would-force-r85048.htm
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A barack obama presidency will heal race relations as much as the evil kkk did.
From the page:
"Barack Obama: Is America Ready for Reparations? A Presidet Barack Obama would force American taxpayers to compensate "victims of slavery"
"Barack Obama quietly supports reparations for slavery; at least that is what his closest supporters believe
Is America ready to pay reparations for slavery? What is that you say, "Doesn't Senator Barack Obama oppose reparations
for slavery?" Well, no. He doesn't.
In fact the reparations crowd in Washington and Chicago is salivating at the prospect Obama might stumble into the White House and put them on track for a reparations gravy train for slavery which took place centuries ago.
To tackle the topic, first, a simple question: is Obama opposed to reparations? Indeed, the question is not so simple. Nothing is ever simple and straightforward where Barry Obama and words come together. Obama's pirouettes on the question of reparations would enchant any balletomane; his position always depends on who is asking and who is listening. And who is watching.
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004 Obama opposed reparations for slavery. After his election, Obama subtly changed his view, stating he was against "just signing over checks to African-Americans," leaving open the possibility of other forms of reparations would be acceptable to him "
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Israpundit & Blog Archive & Obama's Black Nationalist Politics, In His O…
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May 10, 7:07pm
1 review
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obamamessiah
http://www.israpundit.com/2008?p=985
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From the page:
"Obama's Black Nationalist Politics, In His Own Words"
"This is why Obama embraces Al Sharpton, was reluctant to distance himself from Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, and why he has such contempt for "bitter" [and largely white] small town Pennsylvanians who "cling to guns and religion."
It is a matter of record that Tim Russert, who was joined by Hillary Clinton in his third attempt, had to ask Barack Obama three times whether he "rejected" the endorsement of the prominent racist, anti-Semite, and Catholic-hating bigot Louis Farrkhan. Since Obama's camp keeps accusing Clinton and her supporters of smearing him, we will let his own book, Dreams From My Father, speak for him. Obama's own words suggest the real reason he is so reluctant to denounce Farrakhan (and his hate-spewing pastor, Jeremiah Wright): he probably agrees with them. Here is Barack Hussein Obama in his own words, not those of Hillary Clinton or his other detractors.
'I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan's "The Final Call" from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister's [Farrakhan's] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments ("Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today").
Dreams From My Father, p. 201
What is particularly telling here is that, while Obama does not praise The Final Call's hate speech, he does not condemn it either. He then goes on to discuss the Nation of Islam's POWER toiletries such as toothpaste, which were part of a strategy to keep Black money in Black communities. "It seems that many who enjoyed Minister Farrakhan's speeches continued to brush their teeth with Crest," Obama complains on the same page while calling this racist, anti-Semite, and Catholic-hating bigot "Minister" and saying nothing at all to condemn the hate speech he says he saw in The Final Call "just as he must certainly have read and heard Jeremiah Wright's hate-spewing editorials and sermons. When we put this image together with other material from the book, we get a very disturbing picture of an individual who is heavily into Black Nationalist politics: the African-American counterpart of the Stormfront "White Pride World Wide" White Nationalist Community."
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American Thinker Blog: Obamas odd coincidence?
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May 10, 3:39pm
2 reviews
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obama
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/obamas_odd_coincidence.html
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From the page:
"Obama's odd coincidence?"
"A Chicago pol's wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife's employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?
Apparently not, because the candidate in question is running on a platform of change, and he seems like such a nice fellow. Leon H. Wolfe of Redstate is being awfully judgmental here isn't he?
'Barack Obama, allegedly decent guy and agent of "change" in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the hospital where his wife works. Said hospital, by the way, gave Michelle Obama a huge raise (nearly $200,000, more than doubling her salary) in 2005 after Barack got elected to the United States Senate. Now, I know that there are lots of ways to talk about transactions like this involving public officials - quid pro quo, etc., but I prefer to call a crook a crook and just say that we're dealing with good, old fashioned, public corruption here.'
I am sure that Barack Obama will be able to distinguish between his acts here and the actions that landed Randy Cunningham in jail. But like Wolfe, I am curious about what he would have to say. Of course that would require a media willing to ask tough questions, and probably be branded as a racist for their trouble."
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URQMedia.com
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May 9, 8:20pm
1 review
liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, news, obama
http://www.urqmedia.com/proft/contentview.asp?c=212163
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From the page:
"Will Obama Get "Swift-boated"?"
"While Archimedes-in-a-pantsuit tries to rewrite the laws of mathematics, the rest of the nation has properly begun to weigh the Presidential contest between Sens. McCain and Obama.
Obama has, however, learned a valuable Clinton trick from this protracted primary--how to obliquely reference the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" to misdirect people's attention away from glaring, personal deficiencies.
During his victory speech in North Carolina on Tuesday night Obama said, "We know what's coming...the same names and labels they (Republicans) pin on everyone who doesn't agree with all of their ideas."
Actually, we have some new names and labels thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Obama's own words and ideas, as well as the Senator's cozy relationships with corrupt influence peddlers, domestic terrorists, and a hateful, bile-spewing spiritual advisor.
That right-wing conspiracy shtick--being "Swift-boated"--is going to work out about as well for Obama as it did for Clinton and for the same reason-because it is without merit.
"Swift-boated" has been added to our political lexicon by the Left to lament the alleged unfair attacks to which John Kerry was subjected in the 2004 Presidential race.
And yet, it was John Kerry who made his military service an issue. He sought to use his service to distinguish himself from President Bush and to characterize both Bush and Cheney as reckless chicken-hawks.
It was John Kerry who saluted the nation nearly four years ago and said, "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." It was John Kerry who brought several of those with whom he had served in Vietnam on stage at the Democrat National Convention to show them off to the country.
On the contrary, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were effective with their anti-Kerry message because it was a substantive one. The facts were on their side. The fact was that Kerry's entire chain of command, every officer under whom Kerry served in Vietnam, questioned his fitness to be Commander-in-Chief. Many Kerry detractors were Democrats but they were also proud and decorated veterans who believed that Kerry had acted dishonorably and that his campaign was being run disingenuously. Theirs was a legitimate perspective for the country to hear.
Similarly, it is Barack Obama who has presented as his core argument that he possesses the superior judgment to be President. That demands a thorough examination of both his personal history and professional record.
The process demands and will extract the same from John McCain."
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