The Roanoke Slant
This "blog" is intended to be a very brief "diary" of some examples of the Roanoke Times slant. Comments to: lbhagen@roanokeslant.orgWednesday, June 24, 2009
Obama ABC and New Pravda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.
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The upcoming ABC special infomercial from the White House staring Obama and friends for socialized-medicine (and excluding all others) is a new high-water mark for the Pravdaization of the American major media.
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A free, open, fair and balanced news press has been vital to our national balance of power as implied by the description “the fourth estate”. Because of this history, our courts have even granted the press significant latitudes beyond the first amendment definitions.
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The major news media have indeed lost their professional compass and perspective and many are in financial distress, not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media. It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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Over time the majority of the Russian people (those not in The Party) came to not only reject Pravda but also to despise it. This process is unfolding in America and the worrisome issues are who and what will replace our old Fourth Estate?
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Some examples of the New Pravda:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.
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The upcoming ABC special infomercial from the White House staring Obama and friends for socialized-medicine (and excluding all others) is a new high-water mark for the Pravdaization of the American major media.
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A free, open, fair and balanced news press has been vital to our national balance of power as implied by the description “the fourth estate”. Because of this history, our courts have even granted the press significant latitudes beyond the first amendment definitions.
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The major news media have indeed lost their professional compass and perspective and many are in financial distress, not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media. It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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Over time the majority of the Russian people (those not in The Party) came to not only reject Pravda but also to despise it. This process is unfolding in America and the worrisome issues are who and what will replace our old Fourth Estate?
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Some examples of the New Pravda:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Obama: America not a Judeo-Christian Nation
Obama declared to the Muslim world in Turkey on April 6, 2009 that America is not a Judeo-Christian Nation.
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Watch and listen to Rep Randy Forbes' response and challenge to Obama's declaration:
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More hope and change we can believe in?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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Prior Item:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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Watch and listen to Rep Randy Forbes' response and challenge to Obama's declaration:
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More hope and change we can believe in?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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Prior Item:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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Obama Honeymoon Winding Down
After one long year of the most endearing and intensive honeymoon between Obama and the major media, the reality of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid economic, social and political agendas are starting to be understood by the American people.
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The following blog items summarize some of the disturbing major realities of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid programs that Americans now recognize are not the change and direction they hoped for:
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Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
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Economic Reflections & Revisionism
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Obama Palliative Care : The New Euthanasia
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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Obama's New American System
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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-The following blog items summarize some of the disturbing major realities of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid programs that Americans now recognize are not the change and direction they hoped for:
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Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
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Economic Reflections & Revisionism
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Obama Palliative Care : The New Euthanasia
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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Obama's New American System
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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Friday, June 19, 2009
This week: Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
Obama: N.Korea nuclear program poses "grave threat"
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16270891
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U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From N.Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124535285705228571.html#mod=rss_Today
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The President yesterday denounced the "extent of the fraud" and the "shocking" and "brutal" response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520170103721579.html
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JERUSALEM -- A new poll shows only 6 percent of Israeli Jews see President Barack Obama's administration as pro-Israel,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/poll-israelis-obama-pro-palestinian/
Can you imagine the number of American Jews who are having major buyers-remorse based on the last election investment of their money and votes? Where's Chuck Schumer now?
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Apparently Obama’s Appeasement speeches, his Ich bin ein Muslim speech in Cairo and his pathetic pandering with his “we are bad and you have a right to hate us” pronouncements are not working out well. What next? I just called to say I love you?
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The wheels are coming off the Obama-foreign-policy-wagon! Perhaps a good move and diversion would be a new election for Vice President: Biden vs Cheney. After what we’ve seen, would there be any doubt about the outcome?
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And what’s with the missile defense of Hawaii? Didn’t Obama state he was shutting down the US anti-missile system! See and listen to his commitment to the left-wing fellow-travelers for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And the major left-wing media continues their pronouncements that Obama is heading in the right direction! What map, what GPS and what compass are these losers using? Talk about your Pied Piper and lemmings!
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Prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16270891
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U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From N.Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124535285705228571.html#mod=rss_Today
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The President yesterday denounced the "extent of the fraud" and the "shocking" and "brutal" response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520170103721579.html
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JERUSALEM -- A new poll shows only 6 percent of Israeli Jews see President Barack Obama's administration as pro-Israel,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/poll-israelis-obama-pro-palestinian/
Can you imagine the number of American Jews who are having major buyers-remorse based on the last election investment of their money and votes? Where's Chuck Schumer now?
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Apparently Obama’s Appeasement speeches, his Ich bin ein Muslim speech in Cairo and his pathetic pandering with his “we are bad and you have a right to hate us” pronouncements are not working out well. What next? I just called to say I love you?
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The wheels are coming off the Obama-foreign-policy-wagon! Perhaps a good move and diversion would be a new election for Vice President: Biden vs Cheney. After what we’ve seen, would there be any doubt about the outcome?
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And what’s with the missile defense of Hawaii? Didn’t Obama state he was shutting down the US anti-missile system! See and listen to his commitment to the left-wing fellow-travelers for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And the major left-wing media continues their pronouncements that Obama is heading in the right direction! What map, what GPS and what compass are these losers using? Talk about your Pied Piper and lemmings!
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Prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Economic Reflections & Revisionism
Roanoke Times, 6/10/09, Pg 20: Editorial: Give stimulus time to work, recession was eight years in the making.
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The democrats and their liberal media associates are busy rewriting the economic history of the past nine years. Perhaps it would be prudent to look at the nine year economic index before extending the Obama administration spin beyond all fact and reality.
Note: click-on image for full-size
http://www.roanokeslant.org/EconomicReflection.jpg
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One might also reflect on the government as the primary cause of the current financial crisis through congressional demands on Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight.
To revisit the highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001 click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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The facts are that the stimulus is NOT working and we are accelerating further into difficulty. Unemployment is over 9%. Foreclosures are still increasing; the government (taxpayers) indebtedness is astronomical and growing rapidly. GM is now in bankruptcy after $50 BILLION taxpayer money thrown away and dealerships and suppliers are falling off a cliff.
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The major issue with the “shovel ready” stimulus plan is just that – “shovel ready”. Of all the unemployed, how many run bulldozers, excavators, dump-trucks and jack-hammers? The focus should be on small business stimulation to create and grow private sector real long-term jobs. That’s not being done because the AFLCIO and UAW and other unions may not collect their pay-back from the last election.
It’s also not being done because the team of Obama, Pelosi and Reid are determined to use the crisis to drive the country into a European-socialist economic model that suits their philosophy and cultural vision.
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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The democrats and their liberal media associates are busy rewriting the economic history of the past nine years. Perhaps it would be prudent to look at the nine year economic index before extending the Obama administration spin beyond all fact and reality.
Note: click-on image for full-size
http://www.roanokeslant.org/EconomicReflection.jpg
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One might also reflect on the government as the primary cause of the current financial crisis through congressional demands on Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight.
To revisit the highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001 click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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The facts are that the stimulus is NOT working and we are accelerating further into difficulty. Unemployment is over 9%. Foreclosures are still increasing; the government (taxpayers) indebtedness is astronomical and growing rapidly. GM is now in bankruptcy after $50 BILLION taxpayer money thrown away and dealerships and suppliers are falling off a cliff.
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The major issue with the “shovel ready” stimulus plan is just that – “shovel ready”. Of all the unemployed, how many run bulldozers, excavators, dump-trucks and jack-hammers? The focus should be on small business stimulation to create and grow private sector real long-term jobs. That’s not being done because the AFLCIO and UAW and other unions may not collect their pay-back from the last election.
It’s also not being done because the team of Obama, Pelosi and Reid are determined to use the crisis to drive the country into a European-socialist economic model that suits their philosophy and cultural vision.
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Obama: Ich bin ein Muslim
Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 5: Three kidnapped women found mutilated and slain by al-Qaida in San’a Yemen. Two were German nurses and a South Korean teacher. Also missing are a German doctor, his wife and their three children.
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How could this have happened following Obama’s “Ich bin ein Muslim” Cairo speech that was advertised as being embraced by the radical Muslims who now are supposed to understand that we are nice people and their friends and we’re not at war with them anymore. That was just a Bush thing!
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The nativity of our new leaders is difficult to comprehend and will prove to be like the often repeated processes of appeasement throughout world history.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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How could this have happened following Obama’s “Ich bin ein Muslim” Cairo speech that was advertised as being embraced by the radical Muslims who now are supposed to understand that we are nice people and their friends and we’re not at war with them anymore. That was just a Bush thing!
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The nativity of our new leaders is difficult to comprehend and will prove to be like the often repeated processes of appeasement throughout world history.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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Palliative Care - The New Euthanasia
Roanoke Times, 6/15/09, Pg 1, 14: Va Senator Mark Warner kicks off ObamaCare with law that will limit Medicare funding for late-in-life medical procedures.
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Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 1, 8: Obama presents ObamaCare to Doctors. “Cost of health care is an escalating burden on our families and businesses.”
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Roanoke Times, 6/17/09, Pg 18: Editorial: “Comfort the dying.”
Not since Orwell’s 1984 has one coined such double-speak!
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American’s in general and senior citizen’s specifically don’t need Obama, Warner or the editors of the Roanoke Times to pass laws telling us and our doctors what their medical care should or shouldn’t be! We don’t need rationing or mandated restrictions; we need freedom of choice and an inviolate patient-doctor relationship that is immune to both government bureaucrats and ambulance-chasing-lawyers.
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All we really need is for Congress to enact reasonable and prudent limits on lawsuits and litigation so that hospitals and doctors do not have to continue to practice “preventative-lawsuit-medicine” and also pay tremendous liability insurance premiums that are passed on to the public!
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That is the central core of our medical care and cost problems; however, the-in-charge democrat party is in the trial-lawyer’s pockets and are not about to bite the hand that feeds them. In their view it’s much better to socialize medicine so that the new medical waiting room can be an extension of the motor vehicle office with all the associated implications.
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Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 1, 8: Obama presents ObamaCare to Doctors. “Cost of health care is an escalating burden on our families and businesses.”
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Roanoke Times, 6/17/09, Pg 18: Editorial: “Comfort the dying.”
Not since Orwell’s 1984 has one coined such double-speak!
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American’s in general and senior citizen’s specifically don’t need Obama, Warner or the editors of the Roanoke Times to pass laws telling us and our doctors what their medical care should or shouldn’t be! We don’t need rationing or mandated restrictions; we need freedom of choice and an inviolate patient-doctor relationship that is immune to both government bureaucrats and ambulance-chasing-lawyers.
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All we really need is for Congress to enact reasonable and prudent limits on lawsuits and litigation so that hospitals and doctors do not have to continue to practice “preventative-lawsuit-medicine” and also pay tremendous liability insurance premiums that are passed on to the public!
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That is the central core of our medical care and cost problems; however, the-in-charge democrat party is in the trial-lawyer’s pockets and are not about to bite the hand that feeds them. In their view it’s much better to socialize medicine so that the new medical waiting room can be an extension of the motor vehicle office with all the associated implications.
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Gore Girls Doing Hard Time for Him
The guy who would be president, invented the internet and discovered that we have left the little ice age and are in 250 years of natural global warming has outdone himself.
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Gores holding company, INdTV, owns “Current TV” an independent media company. In March 2009, two of Gores media employees, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested by the North Korean’s for entering their country illegally.
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On June 8 they were found guilty of illegal entry and committing "hostile acts against the DPRK and subsequently sentenced to twelve years of hard labor.
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In the middle of all this, North Korea has been setting off nuclear weapons and firing long range missiles and threatening all people with white-skin and oval-eyes.
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Now would be a good time for Gore to do the honorable thing that Capt. Richard Phillips' of the Maersk Alabama did, trade himself as a hostage in exchange for his two female employees!
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This act would show what a caring and responsible southern gentleman Gore is and at the same time save the world from more of his misdirected activities for the next 12 years.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Gores holding company, INdTV, owns “Current TV” an independent media company. In March 2009, two of Gores media employees, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested by the North Korean’s for entering their country illegally.
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On June 8 they were found guilty of illegal entry and committing "hostile acts against the DPRK and subsequently sentenced to twelve years of hard labor.
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In the middle of all this, North Korea has been setting off nuclear weapons and firing long range missiles and threatening all people with white-skin and oval-eyes.
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Now would be a good time for Gore to do the honorable thing that Capt. Richard Phillips' of the Maersk Alabama did, trade himself as a hostage in exchange for his two female employees!
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This act would show what a caring and responsible southern gentleman Gore is and at the same time save the world from more of his misdirected activities for the next 12 years.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Name the New American System
Politicians and commentators, journalists and pundits are trying to assign a name to the New American System of Economics and Government and Industry that is now deeply involved in Government control of:
Automobile Industry
Banking Industry
Mortgage Industry
Energy Industry
Health Care Industry
Railroad (AMTRAK) System
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Some are using the old and much maligned Mussolini-Fascism term that some define as a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) and that historically focused on government-run industry and minimization of profit-driven competitive systems.
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Historically America has shunned this approach except in times of crisis as when Harry Truman took over (nationalized) the steel industry to break the steel workers strike during WW2.
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Perhaps our major media, and The Roanoke Times, could sponsor a public contest in which all could submit candidate names for the new system; something like Virginia has tried to do for its new state song.
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As an aside, it’s not clear to me what portions of the Constitution support government nationalization of private industry and corporations and companies. Didn't the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that nationalization of private industry in not OK!
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Automobile Industry
Banking Industry
Mortgage Industry
Energy Industry
Health Care Industry
Railroad (AMTRAK) System
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Some are using the old and much maligned Mussolini-Fascism term that some define as a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) and that historically focused on government-run industry and minimization of profit-driven competitive systems.
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Historically America has shunned this approach except in times of crisis as when Harry Truman took over (nationalized) the steel industry to break the steel workers strike during WW2.
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Perhaps our major media, and The Roanoke Times, could sponsor a public contest in which all could submit candidate names for the new system; something like Virginia has tried to do for its new state song.
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As an aside, it’s not clear to me what portions of the Constitution support government nationalization of private industry and corporations and companies. Didn't the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that nationalization of private industry in not OK!
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Friday, June 12, 2009
David “Gutter-mouth” Letterman & Friends
This week David Gutter-mouth Letterman chose to highlight his monologue with a disgusting rant focused on Alaska Governor Palin’s visit to NY and on her 14 year old daughter whom Letterman disparaged with a disgusting sick joke that she was sexually abused by a Yankee ball player.
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This garbage is a youtube item:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5g8kE_g-YA
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Compounding his gross misconduct was the laughter of the audience and the silence of major media, the NOW girls, and the editorial girls at the Roanoke Times.
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Apparently all these media folks who pretend to be keepers of civility and decorum are very politically selective when it comes to articulating their standards of decency and speaking out against this type of abuse directed at women and young girls.
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Prior item on how supportive all these girls were on Hillarie’s behalf:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/01/hillary-and-now-girls.html
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This garbage is a youtube item:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5g8kE_g-YA
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Compounding his gross misconduct was the laughter of the audience and the silence of major media, the NOW girls, and the editorial girls at the Roanoke Times.
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Apparently all these media folks who pretend to be keepers of civility and decorum are very politically selective when it comes to articulating their standards of decency and speaking out against this type of abuse directed at women and young girls.
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Prior item on how supportive all these girls were on Hillarie’s behalf:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/01/hillary-and-now-girls.html
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
College The New Welfare State
USA Today 6/3/09, Pg 1: 4-year colleges graduate 53% in 6 years
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What course of study are you following at college?
I’M UNDECLARED!
And what a convenient major that is and such a nice transition from high school!
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Excuse me if I’m not sympatric and also short on empathy but I did my BS in mechanical engineering in 4 years and an MS in electrical engineering in 1 year despite the fact that I was not nearly as quick or smart as many of my contemporizes.
Apparently there’s something about perseverance, work-ethic and determination that clearly can overcome shortfalls in many areas.
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So, stay in school and search for yourself. Never mind the concept of “Be all you can be”! And with Dad & Mom paying the bill or better yet, the government handing out lots of grant money, there’s no rush to get out there and join the human-race. How about a nice segway from college-welfare to lifetime-welfare and a culture of dependence and entitlement?
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And what about the college view of this? Apparently it’s OK. Lots of additional instructors and seats are required for full permanent growth and accommodation. Big budget increases every year, big increase in tuition every year, no visible or measurable payback in the huge investment in technology over the past 20 years and no thought about fiscal responsibility.
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Ever wonder why our productivity and associated standard of living are slipping away compared to many other countries?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/teachers-short-on-math.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/feed-hungry-beasts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-are-failures.html
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What course of study are you following at college?
I’M UNDECLARED!
And what a convenient major that is and such a nice transition from high school!
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Excuse me if I’m not sympatric and also short on empathy but I did my BS in mechanical engineering in 4 years and an MS in electrical engineering in 1 year despite the fact that I was not nearly as quick or smart as many of my contemporizes.
Apparently there’s something about perseverance, work-ethic and determination that clearly can overcome shortfalls in many areas.
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So, stay in school and search for yourself. Never mind the concept of “Be all you can be”! And with Dad & Mom paying the bill or better yet, the government handing out lots of grant money, there’s no rush to get out there and join the human-race. How about a nice segway from college-welfare to lifetime-welfare and a culture of dependence and entitlement?
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And what about the college view of this? Apparently it’s OK. Lots of additional instructors and seats are required for full permanent growth and accommodation. Big budget increases every year, big increase in tuition every year, no visible or measurable payback in the huge investment in technology over the past 20 years and no thought about fiscal responsibility.
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Ever wonder why our productivity and associated standard of living are slipping away compared to many other countries?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/teachers-short-on-math.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/feed-hungry-beasts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-are-failures.html
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
Dr. Thomas Frieden and Health Malfeasance
Roanoke Times, 6/7/09, Pg 16: Former NY health chief (Thomas Frieden) tapped (by Obama) to head agency (CDC).
A heartwarming summary, with picture, of Frieden’s wonderful accomplishments in NY public health management and his challenges as the nation’s chief public health chief.
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Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg Va 9:
NY HIV+AIDS pandemic at least three times worse than national rate and much higher than documented.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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Clearly Obama is promoting a public health official who has been complicit in not containing the awful HIV+AIDS pandemic. Frieden and NY government have refused to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary. Because of this malfeasance of refusing to implement the same processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives. The ultimate obscenity is to specifically and officially exclude HIV+AIDS from the definition of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and thereby negate the health systems that have been used in their containment. Covering-up the magnitude and extent of the pandemic by never listing AIDS as cause of death is a national public health system disgrace. Frieden’s promotion to head of CDC will ensure that this malfeasance will continue. How pathetic!
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More hope and change we can believe in!
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To view the NY response to this pandemic click-on:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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A heartwarming summary, with picture, of Frieden’s wonderful accomplishments in NY public health management and his challenges as the nation’s chief public health chief.
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Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg Va 9:
NY HIV+AIDS pandemic at least three times worse than national rate and much higher than documented.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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Clearly Obama is promoting a public health official who has been complicit in not containing the awful HIV+AIDS pandemic. Frieden and NY government have refused to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary. Because of this malfeasance of refusing to implement the same processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives. The ultimate obscenity is to specifically and officially exclude HIV+AIDS from the definition of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and thereby negate the health systems that have been used in their containment. Covering-up the magnitude and extent of the pandemic by never listing AIDS as cause of death is a national public health system disgrace. Frieden’s promotion to head of CDC will ensure that this malfeasance will continue. How pathetic!
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More hope and change we can believe in!
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To view the NY response to this pandemic click-on:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Obama's GM the New AMTRACK
Roanoke Times, 6/2/09, Pg 1: Obama: GM’s nationalization only short term. Obama gives Government 60% and Canada 12.5%.
Nicely tucked away back on Pg 16: Obama gives GM an additional $30 BILLION for a running total of $50 BILLION and gives the UAW 17.5% of GM.Stockholders are wiped out and bondholders get 10%. And to think that the government is prosecuting Madoff for his ponzi scheme!
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$50 BILLION and now they go to bankruptcy! What was the $50 BILLION used for?Apparently to pay UAW workers not to make cars. Their reward: 17.5% of the company! What a deal! Sounds like Chavez and the oil company takeovers!
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GM has been on a straight line down from 45% market share in 1980 to 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000 to 22% in 2008. Why didn’t the wonderful Bill Clinton team fix this when it went from 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000; a time when the UAW forced GM to accept a contract giving them 90% pay when they weren’t building cars, a contract still in place!
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So here we are, with a new AMTRACK. A government owed business in which white house aids, senators and congressmen are going to determine, based on politics of course, what dealerships survive, what plants are to be operated and what future car designs should be. What a bargain for America.
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Toyota and Nissan meanwhile are doing what free-market enterprise companies are supposed to do: adapt, innovate, and focus on customer-centric products and service. Why didn’t we think of that?
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Prior Items:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html-
Nicely tucked away back on Pg 16: Obama gives GM an additional $30 BILLION for a running total of $50 BILLION and gives the UAW 17.5% of GM.Stockholders are wiped out and bondholders get 10%. And to think that the government is prosecuting Madoff for his ponzi scheme!
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$50 BILLION and now they go to bankruptcy! What was the $50 BILLION used for?Apparently to pay UAW workers not to make cars. Their reward: 17.5% of the company! What a deal! Sounds like Chavez and the oil company takeovers!
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GM has been on a straight line down from 45% market share in 1980 to 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000 to 22% in 2008. Why didn’t the wonderful Bill Clinton team fix this when it went from 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000; a time when the UAW forced GM to accept a contract giving them 90% pay when they weren’t building cars, a contract still in place!
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So here we are, with a new AMTRACK. A government owed business in which white house aids, senators and congressmen are going to determine, based on politics of course, what dealerships survive, what plants are to be operated and what future car designs should be. What a bargain for America.
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Toyota and Nissan meanwhile are doing what free-market enterprise companies are supposed to do: adapt, innovate, and focus on customer-centric products and service. Why didn’t we think of that?
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Prior Items:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html-
Thursday, June 04, 2009
An Inconvenient Terrorist Attack
Roanoke Times, 6/2/09, Pg 3: Large Heading and five column large article: Suspect is jailed in shooting death of abortion doctor.
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Pg 6: Small heading and small single column article: Arrest made after soldier killed at recruiting center.
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June 3, Pg 5: Almost entire page: Obama’s speech to trek rocky political terrain; The president on Thursday will address a Muslim world where distrust runs deep and credibility of the US is lacking.
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Thousands of Americans killed by radical-Muslims dating back to the early 1980’s culminating in the horrific 911 attack and the authors of this article and the editors of the Roanoke Times are concerned that the Muslims “distrust” us and that we have a lack of “credibility”!
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Reflecting on the Roanoke Times reporting of the two murders and the associated Obama response to them is also a clear measurement of the values and motivations of these two entities.
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A domestic-radical-Muslim shot two US soldiers outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock Ark June 2, 09. One of the soldiers died from his wounds.
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Obama was busy getting ready for his trip to Egypt to kiss the feet of the Muslin world and inform them about all his Muslim background and connections.
What an inconvenient time to express his sorrow for our loss! Not the case when a late-term-abortionist was shot and killed the prior day. That was seized upon as an opportunity for a national press-OP to express a strong message of outrage.
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What a true measure of Obama, the politician, making clear decisions about expressing dismay over the death of an abortionist vs. a young soldier serving his country, killed by one of our sworn enemies in our homeland on our city street.
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Another true measure of Obama’s dedication to our safety is GITMO.
In spite of last weeks vote by both the House and Senate to NOT close GITMO and to NOT bring the GITMO detainees to the homeland, Obama held a new conference and ranted his distain for Congress and the American people and issued an edict that detainees will be brought here and that GITMO will close end of year!
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Much to the chagrin of Obama and Democrats and the liberal media, Americans believe, two to one, that GITMO should not close and that the detainees should stay there. They also believe that GITMO and water-boarding have added to our level of safety thereby siding with Chaney and not with Obama.
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The American people know that as soon as these detainees are brought here the ACLU will find liberal judges who will throw-out all charges and release them into our communities. The “OJ Dream Teams” and Judge Itos are easy to find! At that time Obama and friends will declare: “not my fault”!
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Perhaps Obama and his liberal supporters should start each day reading a brief summary of attacks upon Americas done primarily by the radical-Muslims he is embracing.
This partial list all pre-date George Bush and 911. Apparently it’s not all Bush’s fault!
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April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:
July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.
August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.
August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.
September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.
January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.
November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.
February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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Pg 6: Small heading and small single column article: Arrest made after soldier killed at recruiting center.
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June 3, Pg 5: Almost entire page: Obama’s speech to trek rocky political terrain; The president on Thursday will address a Muslim world where distrust runs deep and credibility of the US is lacking.
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Thousands of Americans killed by radical-Muslims dating back to the early 1980’s culminating in the horrific 911 attack and the authors of this article and the editors of the Roanoke Times are concerned that the Muslims “distrust” us and that we have a lack of “credibility”!
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Reflecting on the Roanoke Times reporting of the two murders and the associated Obama response to them is also a clear measurement of the values and motivations of these two entities.
-
A domestic-radical-Muslim shot two US soldiers outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock Ark June 2, 09. One of the soldiers died from his wounds.
-
Obama was busy getting ready for his trip to Egypt to kiss the feet of the Muslin world and inform them about all his Muslim background and connections.
What an inconvenient time to express his sorrow for our loss! Not the case when a late-term-abortionist was shot and killed the prior day. That was seized upon as an opportunity for a national press-OP to express a strong message of outrage.
-
What a true measure of Obama, the politician, making clear decisions about expressing dismay over the death of an abortionist vs. a young soldier serving his country, killed by one of our sworn enemies in our homeland on our city street.
-
Another true measure of Obama’s dedication to our safety is GITMO.
In spite of last weeks vote by both the House and Senate to NOT close GITMO and to NOT bring the GITMO detainees to the homeland, Obama held a new conference and ranted his distain for Congress and the American people and issued an edict that detainees will be brought here and that GITMO will close end of year!
-
Much to the chagrin of Obama and Democrats and the liberal media, Americans believe, two to one, that GITMO should not close and that the detainees should stay there. They also believe that GITMO and water-boarding have added to our level of safety thereby siding with Chaney and not with Obama.
-
The American people know that as soon as these detainees are brought here the ACLU will find liberal judges who will throw-out all charges and release them into our communities. The “OJ Dream Teams” and Judge Itos are easy to find! At that time Obama and friends will declare: “not my fault”!
-
Perhaps Obama and his liberal supporters should start each day reading a brief summary of attacks upon Americas done primarily by the radical-Muslims he is embracing.
This partial list all pre-date George Bush and 911. Apparently it’s not all Bush’s fault!
-
April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:
July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.
August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.
August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.
September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.
January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.
November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.
February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
For Climate Change Fashion – Go White
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday (5/26/09) with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white. If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure the world's roads and sidewalks were light-colored, it would have the same effect on global warming as taking all the cars in the world off the world's roads for 11 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522411,00.html
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It’s interesting how many of the climate-disaster people cling to their colors and inconvenient truth!
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Back in 1975, after 35 years of significant global cooling, the scientific consensus was that we were entering another “little ice age” and that the best solution was to send crop-duster planes to the Polar Regions to cover the ice and snow with black dust. The black dust would absorb the suns heat instead of having the ice and snow reflecting the suns heat.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20061024143134.aspx
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The major media publicized the coming climate disaster and exploited public fear and anxiety about the natural variations in earth’s climates. Aren’t we glad that that doesn’t happen anymore!
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Time Jun 24, 1974:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
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NewsWeek Apr 28, 1975:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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IT’S A GOOD THING WE DIDN’T FOLLOW THAT CONSENSUS!
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For a realistic view of our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522411,00.html
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It’s interesting how many of the climate-disaster people cling to their colors and inconvenient truth!
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Back in 1975, after 35 years of significant global cooling, the scientific consensus was that we were entering another “little ice age” and that the best solution was to send crop-duster planes to the Polar Regions to cover the ice and snow with black dust. The black dust would absorb the suns heat instead of having the ice and snow reflecting the suns heat.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20061024143134.aspx
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The major media publicized the coming climate disaster and exploited public fear and anxiety about the natural variations in earth’s climates. Aren’t we glad that that doesn’t happen anymore!
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Time Jun 24, 1974:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
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NewsWeek Apr 28, 1975:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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IT’S A GOOD THING WE DIDN’T FOLLOW THAT CONSENSUS!
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For a realistic view of our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
New Qualifications for Supreme Court Judges
Roanoke Times, 5/27/09, Pg 1: Obama hails nominee’s ‘compassion’ (Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court)
Both Va senators (Webb & Warner) praised the Supreme Court nominee’s “personal story”
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Apparently the voters for “hope and change” have directed that the new major qualifications and responsibilities for our highest court are compassion and a moving personal story instead of judicial excellence and intellect.
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It appears that a new oath of office and a new depiction of Lady Justice will also be required to adapt to the new criteria.
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According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath: -"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
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My understanding has been that the oath was reflective and consistent with the symbol of Lady Justice, Justitia. She is depicted wearing a blindfold. This is done in order to indicate that justice is (or should be) meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of identity, power, or weakness: blind justice and blind impartiality.
She also is depicted with a set of weighing scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. She is also often seen carrying a double-edged sword in her right hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.
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Hopefully, during the hearings, the Senate Republicans will conduct themselves in a far superior and professional manner than did a number of vile and nasty Democrats during hearings for Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas. In fact those processes became so nasty and vindictive that the term Borked became part of the vernacular.
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Both Va senators (Webb & Warner) praised the Supreme Court nominee’s “personal story”
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Apparently the voters for “hope and change” have directed that the new major qualifications and responsibilities for our highest court are compassion and a moving personal story instead of judicial excellence and intellect.
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It appears that a new oath of office and a new depiction of Lady Justice will also be required to adapt to the new criteria.
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According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath: -"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
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My understanding has been that the oath was reflective and consistent with the symbol of Lady Justice, Justitia. She is depicted wearing a blindfold. This is done in order to indicate that justice is (or should be) meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of identity, power, or weakness: blind justice and blind impartiality.
She also is depicted with a set of weighing scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. She is also often seen carrying a double-edged sword in her right hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.
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Hopefully, during the hearings, the Senate Republicans will conduct themselves in a far superior and professional manner than did a number of vile and nasty Democrats during hearings for Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas. In fact those processes became so nasty and vindictive that the term Borked became part of the vernacular.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Audacity of Appeasement
Obama: I will talk nice to the North Koreans and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The North Koreans’s fired an intercontinental missile over Japan that can reach US cities and have restarted their nuclear program they began with the Clinton-program.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Iranians and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The Iranians have fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and Europe and they continue to operate thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons-grade.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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Obama: I will stop the US antimissile program because it is a waste of money.
Reality: The US antimissile program is the only hope of defending against incoming missiles with weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Russians about joining me in world peace.
Reality: Not one word said about Russia’s invasion of and occupation of the free and independent nation of Georgia.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The world has seen and experienced other appeasers like Obama. And the result has always been the same.
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
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The lesson: Those who beat their swords into plows
will plow for those who didn’t!
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Reality: The North Koreans’s fired an intercontinental missile over Japan that can reach US cities and have restarted their nuclear program they began with the Clinton-program.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Iranians and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The Iranians have fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and Europe and they continue to operate thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons-grade.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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Obama: I will stop the US antimissile program because it is a waste of money.
Reality: The US antimissile program is the only hope of defending against incoming missiles with weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Russians about joining me in world peace.
Reality: Not one word said about Russia’s invasion of and occupation of the free and independent nation of Georgia.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The world has seen and experienced other appeasers like Obama. And the result has always been the same.
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
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The lesson: Those who beat their swords into plows
will plow for those who didn’t!
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Audacity of Moral Reprimanding
Roanoke Times, 5/3/09, Pg Horiz 1: We can’t let torture destroy justice.
A rambling 220 square inch expose by Mark Danner, a prof. at UCs Berkeley, admonishing everyone for the horrors of water-boarding those nice folks and their associates who have bombed and killed many Americans including 3,000 on 9/11.
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This expose is in addition to almost daily comments by Obama and his associates including selective disclosure of documents that describe the analysis and conclusions by those who were missioned to protect the citizens of America against a vicious organization of terrorists who have and still are focused on killing American people.
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Caught up in all this hindsight and retribution are those who had a sworn duty to protect America but now have selective amnesia and a new moral view. Included is Nancy “The Broom” Pelosi who is third in line for the Presidency. She is now making daily “adjustments” to her recollections about what she knew and when she knew it. Many other Senators and Congresspersons were informed and consistent with their oath of office and their responsibilities to “protect and defend” concluded that water-boarding was not sufficiently abhorrent when measured against the war that had been launched against our people.
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Perhaps it would be reasonable and prudent to relate water-boarding to the daily use by police of “tasering” disruptive people who don’t want to be arrested. Having seen many videos of the use of this tool, and the fact that each year numerous persons die after being “tased” one might conclude that water-boarding to save innocent lives may be a reasonable process and is not “destroying justice” but in fact may be exercising justice.
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Perhaps during a time of war the law of retaliation (lex talionis) is appropriate. This recognized military theory of retributive justice says that reciprocity should be equal to the wrong suffered; "life for life, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. One might conclude that a minute of drowning-fright to save innocent lives is far less retributive than the wrong we have suffered and continue to suffer.
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As an aside; isn’t it interesting that most of these pious moralists are pro-abortionists!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-torture-to-save-democrats.html
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A rambling 220 square inch expose by Mark Danner, a prof. at UCs Berkeley, admonishing everyone for the horrors of water-boarding those nice folks and their associates who have bombed and killed many Americans including 3,000 on 9/11.
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This expose is in addition to almost daily comments by Obama and his associates including selective disclosure of documents that describe the analysis and conclusions by those who were missioned to protect the citizens of America against a vicious organization of terrorists who have and still are focused on killing American people.
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Caught up in all this hindsight and retribution are those who had a sworn duty to protect America but now have selective amnesia and a new moral view. Included is Nancy “The Broom” Pelosi who is third in line for the Presidency. She is now making daily “adjustments” to her recollections about what she knew and when she knew it. Many other Senators and Congresspersons were informed and consistent with their oath of office and their responsibilities to “protect and defend” concluded that water-boarding was not sufficiently abhorrent when measured against the war that had been launched against our people.
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Perhaps it would be reasonable and prudent to relate water-boarding to the daily use by police of “tasering” disruptive people who don’t want to be arrested. Having seen many videos of the use of this tool, and the fact that each year numerous persons die after being “tased” one might conclude that water-boarding to save innocent lives may be a reasonable process and is not “destroying justice” but in fact may be exercising justice.
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Perhaps during a time of war the law of retaliation (lex talionis) is appropriate. This recognized military theory of retributive justice says that reciprocity should be equal to the wrong suffered; "life for life, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. One might conclude that a minute of drowning-fright to save innocent lives is far less retributive than the wrong we have suffered and continue to suffer.
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As an aside; isn’t it interesting that most of these pious moralists are pro-abortionists!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-torture-to-save-democrats.html
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Antarctic Ice Still Hanging in There
Roanoke Times, 4/4/09, Pg 4: Ice shelf could break away from Antarctic coast.
“The beginning of what appears to be the demise ---“
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The message: Be afraid, be very afraid.
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However - the reality is: (not covered in the Roanoke Times – for obvious reasons):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html
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Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
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Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
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A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
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After 250 years of global warming (the little ice age ended in 1750) there is still lots of ice in the Antarctic! However, even if there wasn't -- man-kind has not caused the 250 years of global warming and man-kind is powerless to change it. The Darwin plan - adapt!
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Be afraid -- Be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Prior Items:http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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“The beginning of what appears to be the demise ---“
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The message: Be afraid, be very afraid.
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However - the reality is: (not covered in the Roanoke Times – for obvious reasons):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html
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Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
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Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
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A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
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After 250 years of global warming (the little ice age ended in 1750) there is still lots of ice in the Antarctic! However, even if there wasn't -- man-kind has not caused the 250 years of global warming and man-kind is powerless to change it. The Darwin plan - adapt!
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Be afraid -- Be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Prior Items:http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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Friday, April 17, 2009
The Stimulus Anchor
Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Click on the video to see how the
new captain of our ship is dropping
the anchor of state upon
our small businesses
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We're the government and
We're here to help!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/StimulusAnchor.wmv
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nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Click on the video to see how the
new captain of our ship is dropping
the anchor of state upon
our small businesses
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We're the government and
We're here to help!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/StimulusAnchor.wmv
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
A VT Energy Assessment Challenge
A Virginia Tech. Energy Assessment Challenge
Our state and national leaders have launched massive changes to our national and personal energy systems based on the UN-IPCC group’s hypothesis that: man-made CO2 is causing major global warming that is resulting in catastrophic climate change that will result in the end of life on earth as we know it!
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – also called the UN’s climate panel – was set up in 1988 by the UN’s Environment Programme. They have issued numerous reports documenting the hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming that have become the basis for Mr. Gore’s Inconvenient Truth Program and numerous other supporting and contrarian activities, reports, conferences and legislation.
The changes are currently being implemented by stopping construction of and support for additional current technology power plants (coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear), imposition of massive taxes on energy (directly and through cap-and-trade), limiting supply and diversion of food growing resources to fuels.
As a substitute energy system our leaders are implementing alternative energy systems that have never been scaled-up to this level and that will cost consumers many times more than current energy. It is not clear how or when these profound changes will support the needs of our current population nor the two-plus million people we add to our population every year (equivalent to two cities the size of Boston).
As a leading institution of scientific and business knowledge and analysis, it is fitting and proper that the VT faculty and staff and students should analyze these massive energy changes, the alternative energy substitutions, the impacts to standards of living and the UN-IPCC hypothesis that is driving these decisions. It is appropriate to conduct a series of ongoing seminars of open and inclusive public dialogue to be presented by the major academic departments with participation by all students, faculty and the public.
Engineering: Comparisons between current technology energy systems and current state of the art alternative energy systems including the parameters of cost per kilowatt, energy storage and peak-power supply and demand and distribution. How many wind mills equal one current power plant? How many square miles of solar panels equal one current power plant? How to plan for those time periods when the sun doesn’t shine and-or the wind doesn’t blow?
Economics: Impacts on people’s standard of living caused by the increases in energy, food, and transportation costs and the rationing of energy and the resulting major increases in off-shore and out-sourcing of jobs to China and other countries that are not changing or limiting their energy systems.
Agriculture: Impacts of CO2 regulation and alternative energy on the cost of producing fertilizer, food, amount of tillable acreage to be converted from production of food to ethanol, the impacts to agriculture exports and the impact of the bovine-methane tax.
Civil Engineering: Quantify impacts of CO2 regulation and increased costs to produce concrete and other building materials and increased cost of construction and maintenance and infrastructure.
Political Science: Outline the American political, social, legal and life-style changes that are required to implement the UN-IPCC goals of major reductions in the per capita consumption of energy by means of major increased costs and rationing of energy similar to the processes used during WW2.
Environmental: Analysis of the UN-IPCC hypothesis upon which these self-imposed actions are being taken. Inclusion of contrarian views and conflicting historical and current data. Comparison of man-made CO2 to all forms of CO2 generation. The magnitude of the temperature reductions that are anticipated to result from a 50 percent reduction in US CO2
The Bottom Line: These are the most massive changes to our society and infrastructure since the Industrial Revolution and all VT students and faculty and the public should be fully informed and participate in the dialogue about the causes and effects of these self-imposed massive changes, the basis upon which they are being made and the reasonable and prudent actions that should be undertaken.
Ref: http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
Our state and national leaders have launched massive changes to our national and personal energy systems based on the UN-IPCC group’s hypothesis that: man-made CO2 is causing major global warming that is resulting in catastrophic climate change that will result in the end of life on earth as we know it!
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – also called the UN’s climate panel – was set up in 1988 by the UN’s Environment Programme. They have issued numerous reports documenting the hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming that have become the basis for Mr. Gore’s Inconvenient Truth Program and numerous other supporting and contrarian activities, reports, conferences and legislation.
The changes are currently being implemented by stopping construction of and support for additional current technology power plants (coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear), imposition of massive taxes on energy (directly and through cap-and-trade), limiting supply and diversion of food growing resources to fuels.
As a substitute energy system our leaders are implementing alternative energy systems that have never been scaled-up to this level and that will cost consumers many times more than current energy. It is not clear how or when these profound changes will support the needs of our current population nor the two-plus million people we add to our population every year (equivalent to two cities the size of Boston).
As a leading institution of scientific and business knowledge and analysis, it is fitting and proper that the VT faculty and staff and students should analyze these massive energy changes, the alternative energy substitutions, the impacts to standards of living and the UN-IPCC hypothesis that is driving these decisions. It is appropriate to conduct a series of ongoing seminars of open and inclusive public dialogue to be presented by the major academic departments with participation by all students, faculty and the public.
Engineering: Comparisons between current technology energy systems and current state of the art alternative energy systems including the parameters of cost per kilowatt, energy storage and peak-power supply and demand and distribution. How many wind mills equal one current power plant? How many square miles of solar panels equal one current power plant? How to plan for those time periods when the sun doesn’t shine and-or the wind doesn’t blow?
Economics: Impacts on people’s standard of living caused by the increases in energy, food, and transportation costs and the rationing of energy and the resulting major increases in off-shore and out-sourcing of jobs to China and other countries that are not changing or limiting their energy systems.
Agriculture: Impacts of CO2 regulation and alternative energy on the cost of producing fertilizer, food, amount of tillable acreage to be converted from production of food to ethanol, the impacts to agriculture exports and the impact of the bovine-methane tax.
Civil Engineering: Quantify impacts of CO2 regulation and increased costs to produce concrete and other building materials and increased cost of construction and maintenance and infrastructure.
Political Science: Outline the American political, social, legal and life-style changes that are required to implement the UN-IPCC goals of major reductions in the per capita consumption of energy by means of major increased costs and rationing of energy similar to the processes used during WW2.
Environmental: Analysis of the UN-IPCC hypothesis upon which these self-imposed actions are being taken. Inclusion of contrarian views and conflicting historical and current data. Comparison of man-made CO2 to all forms of CO2 generation. The magnitude of the temperature reductions that are anticipated to result from a 50 percent reduction in US CO2
The Bottom Line: These are the most massive changes to our society and infrastructure since the Industrial Revolution and all VT students and faculty and the public should be fully informed and participate in the dialogue about the causes and effects of these self-imposed massive changes, the basis upon which they are being made and the reasonable and prudent actions that should be undertaken.
Ref: http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
GM Sinking With Our Tax Money
GM Sinking With Our Tax Money
USA Today, 4/14/09, Pg M1: GM stock sinks amid fears of bankruptcy; Automaker seeks more government loans.
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GM & Chrysler are operating on a combined $17.4 BILLION in government (that’s us!) loans, and the two have asked for $21.6 BILLION more from us!
The wheels are coming off the “plan” to have French-Fiat take over Chrysler.
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THIRTY-NINE (39) BILLION DOLLARS of tax payers money into two Obama, Pelosi, Reid sink-holes that are going under with no hope of recovery of taxpayer money.
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-mr-goodwrench.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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USA Today, 4/14/09, Pg M1: GM stock sinks amid fears of bankruptcy; Automaker seeks more government loans.
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GM & Chrysler are operating on a combined $17.4 BILLION in government (that’s us!) loans, and the two have asked for $21.6 BILLION more from us!
The wheels are coming off the “plan” to have French-Fiat take over Chrysler.
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THIRTY-NINE (39) BILLION DOLLARS of tax payers money into two Obama, Pelosi, Reid sink-holes that are going under with no hope of recovery of taxpayer money.
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-mr-goodwrench.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Unsafe at any Speed II
USA Today 4/14/09, Pg M1: Tests show gas savings can risk safety.
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Crash-test scores drop when small cars are in collisions, but they get good gas mileage if you don’t mind the potential injuries and-or death.
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Deja Vu all over again! For all you who don’t remember or weren’t around in the 1950’s, there’s a list of “small fuel efficient American made cars” that include: Corvair, Henry-J, Crosley and others. Imports included the VW-bug, Renault, MG and Triumph.
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Why did we (the American car manufacturers) stop making them?
Pick up a 1965 book titled “Unsafe at any Speed” and read the same type of results that the current crash-test results are showing now for “today’s small” cars.
This book made Ralph Nader a multi-millionaire, a left-wing celebrity, a perennial presidential candidate and killed Detroits efforts to continue development of small fuel efficient cars.
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There are basic principles of Physics and Mathematics that apply to objects that are in collision. The ultimate example would be a motorcycle impacting with a car.
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Legislation increasing the fuel-mileage requirements for cars results in reducing the weight of cars that results in less protection for the passengers.
It would be “truth in advertising” for the government to be honest with consumers and tell them of the increased risks. Isn’t that what the government requires of manufacturers? Why should they be held to a lesser standard?
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Perhaps this is why Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in such a hurry to enact socialized nationalized medicine!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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Crash-test scores drop when small cars are in collisions, but they get good gas mileage if you don’t mind the potential injuries and-or death.
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Deja Vu all over again! For all you who don’t remember or weren’t around in the 1950’s, there’s a list of “small fuel efficient American made cars” that include: Corvair, Henry-J, Crosley and others. Imports included the VW-bug, Renault, MG and Triumph.
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Why did we (the American car manufacturers) stop making them?
Pick up a 1965 book titled “Unsafe at any Speed” and read the same type of results that the current crash-test results are showing now for “today’s small” cars.
This book made Ralph Nader a multi-millionaire, a left-wing celebrity, a perennial presidential candidate and killed Detroits efforts to continue development of small fuel efficient cars.
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There are basic principles of Physics and Mathematics that apply to objects that are in collision. The ultimate example would be a motorcycle impacting with a car.
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Legislation increasing the fuel-mileage requirements for cars results in reducing the weight of cars that results in less protection for the passengers.
It would be “truth in advertising” for the government to be honest with consumers and tell them of the increased risks. Isn’t that what the government requires of manufacturers? Why should they be held to a lesser standard?
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Perhaps this is why Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in such a hurry to enact socialized nationalized medicine!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Brown Polar Bears at Risk
Roanoke Times, 4/12/09, Pg 18: Melting of sea ice picking up speed. Arctic sea ice could be gone in 30 years (according to complex computer models of weather and climate).
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Apparently these models couldn’t predict the current 250 years of global warming, 35 years of cooling from 1940 to 1975, nor the past ten years of no net global temperature change nor what caused the little ice age to arrive no less stop in 1750.
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The picture of a forlorn polar bear resting on the ice was a nice touch.
As a contrast click to view three of the 2100 happy bears in Greenland’s Davis Straight:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/Gore-Bear-Graph.jpg
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http://eteam.ncpa.org/commentaries/polar-bears-on-thin-ice-not-really
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Ah yes – only 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of artic ice this winter.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/ArticSeaIceMar2009.jpg
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But be afraid – it’s mostly new ice and new ice isn’t good ice unless you’re making a cocktail.
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Our climate is changing – our climate has always been changing!
The glaciers will continue to retreat and ice will continue to melt until the 250 years of natural global warming abates and then either stabilizes or we once again enter a cooling period. Click the link to view the factual recorded data that somehow seems out of reach of the “complicated be-afraid models.”
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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An interesting point is that the polar bears are not a unique species but instead are grizzly brown bears that have adapted to cold climates. As our natural global warming continues, Darwin would expect future generations to adapt once again to more open water and land vegetation environments or perhaps as Darwin so well describes – they may not.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears-in-depth/evolution/
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A light-hearted optimistic view might be a quote from Thor Hammer: speaking of homework.... what's really going to be funny is how the polar bears will evolve once global climate change really kicks in -- they'll evolve BACK into the grizzly bears from whence they came. They won't drown. They'll simply walk away and switch to Pepsi.
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Have you noticed how liberals love to quote Darwin when they’re Jesus-bashing, but show them a snail-darter or a spotted owl and they suddenly never heard about Darwin and instead scream that we must save yet another endangered species.
They’re so selective!
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Be afraid – be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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Apparently these models couldn’t predict the current 250 years of global warming, 35 years of cooling from 1940 to 1975, nor the past ten years of no net global temperature change nor what caused the little ice age to arrive no less stop in 1750.
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The picture of a forlorn polar bear resting on the ice was a nice touch.
As a contrast click to view three of the 2100 happy bears in Greenland’s Davis Straight:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/Gore-Bear-Graph.jpg
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http://eteam.ncpa.org/commentaries/polar-bears-on-thin-ice-not-really
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Ah yes – only 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of artic ice this winter.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/ArticSeaIceMar2009.jpg
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But be afraid – it’s mostly new ice and new ice isn’t good ice unless you’re making a cocktail.
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Our climate is changing – our climate has always been changing!
The glaciers will continue to retreat and ice will continue to melt until the 250 years of natural global warming abates and then either stabilizes or we once again enter a cooling period. Click the link to view the factual recorded data that somehow seems out of reach of the “complicated be-afraid models.”
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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An interesting point is that the polar bears are not a unique species but instead are grizzly brown bears that have adapted to cold climates. As our natural global warming continues, Darwin would expect future generations to adapt once again to more open water and land vegetation environments or perhaps as Darwin so well describes – they may not.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears-in-depth/evolution/
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A light-hearted optimistic view might be a quote from Thor Hammer: speaking of homework.... what's really going to be funny is how the polar bears will evolve once global climate change really kicks in -- they'll evolve BACK into the grizzly bears from whence they came. They won't drown. They'll simply walk away and switch to Pepsi.
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Have you noticed how liberals love to quote Darwin when they’re Jesus-bashing, but show them a snail-darter or a spotted owl and they suddenly never heard about Darwin and instead scream that we must save yet another endangered species.
They’re so selective!
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Be afraid – be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Obama, North Korea Missiles & Nuclear Weapons
Obama warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then Hillary warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then the North Koreans fired their missile!
And the bad things that happened?
A resolution of condemnation by the UN! Ooooooh!
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North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and has material for more. Upgrades and repackaging to fit into the nose of their missile is just a matter of time.
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This is just a continuation of the Clinton-North Korea history in which the US gave them money, fuel and a nuclear plant in exchange for a promise to not develop nuclear weapons! We all know how that turned out!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220137,00.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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However, that’s not the bad news! The bad news is that Obama has pledged to disarm the US antimissile defense program in order to play nice with others:
Unilateral Disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And he has promised to eliminate the US nuclear arsenal:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/05/obama-pledges-lead-world-nuclear-free-future/
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The lessons of history are clear:
Those who beat their swords into plows will plow for those who didn’t!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Then Hillary warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then the North Koreans fired their missile!
And the bad things that happened?
A resolution of condemnation by the UN! Ooooooh!
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North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and has material for more. Upgrades and repackaging to fit into the nose of their missile is just a matter of time.
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This is just a continuation of the Clinton-North Korea history in which the US gave them money, fuel and a nuclear plant in exchange for a promise to not develop nuclear weapons! We all know how that turned out!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220137,00.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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However, that’s not the bad news! The bad news is that Obama has pledged to disarm the US antimissile defense program in order to play nice with others:
Unilateral Disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And he has promised to eliminate the US nuclear arsenal:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/05/obama-pledges-lead-world-nuclear-free-future/
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The lessons of history are clear:
Those who beat their swords into plows will plow for those who didn’t!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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The Audacity of Groveling
Prince Obama Bows to Saudi King Abdullah
Not found in the Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
Obama’s foreign trip was not only filled with pathetic apologies and groveling to the world but the ultimate embarrassment was his obnoxious display of US subservience to Saudi King Abdullah with his grotesque 15th century bow to the monarch.
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And the Democrats and Liberal press are so quiet you can hear the notes fall due down at the bank!
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Could someone please tell Obama that America is not subservient to any king anywhere and that we fought a Revolutionary War to ensure that we do not bow to monarchs.
Especially ones who have and are fleecing the American people and from whose country 19 of the 21 - 911-terrorists were outsourced.
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And all this silence by the Democrats and Liberal Press after spending 8 years whining about the alleged close relationship between Pres. Bush and the Saudi’s.
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For those nonbelievers that this happened – click on the youtube video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-war-funding-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The President of unilateral disarmament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Not found in the Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
Obama’s foreign trip was not only filled with pathetic apologies and groveling to the world but the ultimate embarrassment was his obnoxious display of US subservience to Saudi King Abdullah with his grotesque 15th century bow to the monarch.
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And the Democrats and Liberal press are so quiet you can hear the notes fall due down at the bank!
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Could someone please tell Obama that America is not subservient to any king anywhere and that we fought a Revolutionary War to ensure that we do not bow to monarchs.
Especially ones who have and are fleecing the American people and from whose country 19 of the 21 - 911-terrorists were outsourced.
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And all this silence by the Democrats and Liberal Press after spending 8 years whining about the alleged close relationship between Pres. Bush and the Saudi’s.
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For those nonbelievers that this happened – click on the youtube video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-war-funding-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The President of unilateral disarmament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Friday, April 10, 2009
The Audacity of War Funding Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times 4/10/09, P g8: Obama seeks billions for Iraq, Afghanistan military operations.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/09/obama-seek-b-war-spending/
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Did Obama the US Senator not oppose and vote against this same funding a year ago and did he not campaign against these operations and funding as a candidate for President?
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The real hononable people I know who take a strong position on a subject and then do a total reversal make the effort to explain to their associates and constituents why they were originally wrong or how there has been major changes in the situation to cause such a major change.
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Obama does neither – he simply takes major contradictory positions without any consideration for veracity or creditability. This works well for him because the liberal and leftwing media do not hold him accountable for anything!
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Is this not insulting the intelligence of the American People?
Apparently not – no one is complaining at ABC, NBC., CBS. CNN, or MSNBC or the Roanoke Times!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/09/obama-seek-b-war-spending/
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Did Obama the US Senator not oppose and vote against this same funding a year ago and did he not campaign against these operations and funding as a candidate for President?
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The real hononable people I know who take a strong position on a subject and then do a total reversal make the effort to explain to their associates and constituents why they were originally wrong or how there has been major changes in the situation to cause such a major change.
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Obama does neither – he simply takes major contradictory positions without any consideration for veracity or creditability. This works well for him because the liberal and leftwing media do not hold him accountable for anything!
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Is this not insulting the intelligence of the American People?
Apparently not – no one is complaining at ABC, NBC., CBS. CNN, or MSNBC or the Roanoke Times!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Sunspots Climate and Claptrap
Sunspots Climate and Claptrap
Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees.
NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
NOAA director Bogdan says solar activity should be increasing “anytime now”.
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These are the chief scientists of the US who are primary operators trying to invent data to support the Gore-Hypotheses that man is responsible for global temperatures and climate changes!
“We don’t know what causes this BUT it should change anytime now!”
These are two of our top climate scientists?
They sound like Abbott & Costello!
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Be afraid, be very afraid! Not of global warming but of high-paid guys like this who are spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to build a story to support the flawed heifer-dust behind the Global Warming Hysteria
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees!
That’s 60% of the amount of Global Temperature increase in 70 years (since 1939):
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This takes us back to before any significant atmospheric CO2, natural or man-made.
Click to view past 100 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click to view past 10 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click-on the link to view the graphic showing a much closer association between sunspots and global temperature than atmospheric CO2 and global temperature. There is a very long and voluminous history and data on this phenomena dating back to Galileo, the inventor of the telescope.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Sun-CO2-Temp.jpg
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Anyone who enacts any laws, rules or mandates based on the scientific consensus
of guys like this should be removed from office before they vote, not after, and these guys should go out the door with them! Talk about putting politics ahead of science!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunspots-climate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/roanoke-times-climate-scientist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/yet-another-nasa-self-serving-study.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees.
NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
NOAA director Bogdan says solar activity should be increasing “anytime now”.
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These are the chief scientists of the US who are primary operators trying to invent data to support the Gore-Hypotheses that man is responsible for global temperatures and climate changes!
“We don’t know what causes this BUT it should change anytime now!”
These are two of our top climate scientists?
They sound like Abbott & Costello!
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Be afraid, be very afraid! Not of global warming but of high-paid guys like this who are spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to build a story to support the flawed heifer-dust behind the Global Warming Hysteria
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees!
That’s 60% of the amount of Global Temperature increase in 70 years (since 1939):
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This takes us back to before any significant atmospheric CO2, natural or man-made.
Click to view past 100 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click to view past 10 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click-on the link to view the graphic showing a much closer association between sunspots and global temperature than atmospheric CO2 and global temperature. There is a very long and voluminous history and data on this phenomena dating back to Galileo, the inventor of the telescope.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Sun-CO2-Temp.jpg
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Anyone who enacts any laws, rules or mandates based on the scientific consensus
of guys like this should be removed from office before they vote, not after, and these guys should go out the door with them! Talk about putting politics ahead of science!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunspots-climate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/roanoke-times-climate-scientist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/yet-another-nasa-self-serving-study.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
The Roanoke Times Climate Scientist
Roanoke Times, 4/4/09, Pg 15: Opinion by Editor and Self-proclaimed Climate Scientist Dan Radmacher who out-of-hand rejects contrarian views about the extent and causes of our current 250 years of global warming in his lame slam at comments by George Will.
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It’s interesting that Dan refuses to address or publish the NASA data on this subject but instead hides behind the cloak of “a consensus of UN scientists” who have never taken a public recorded vote amongst all scientists qualified to express their collective consensus.
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The use of the Orwellian 1984 double-speak is a nice touch too!
If you believe in global warming you therefore believe it’s man-made and it’s your fault!
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The fact we’re not still in the little-ice-age is certainly an indicator that we have had 250 years of global warming. The factual scientific recorded data clearly shows that CO2 has not played and is not playing a significant role in this warming and all the hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent trying to develop simulators to show the connection has been in vain.
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To view some data on this subject simply click-on these links because you certainly will not see factual data in the Roanoke Times:
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NASA 100 year and 10 year scientific record:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 10 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 100 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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A glacial view of our 250 years of global warming
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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For the scientific reports by a consensus of other highly qualified Climate Scientists peruse The second International Conference on Climate Change March 10, 2009 in New York City the theme "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?"
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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It’s interesting that Dan refuses to address or publish the NASA data on this subject but instead hides behind the cloak of “a consensus of UN scientists” who have never taken a public recorded vote amongst all scientists qualified to express their collective consensus.
-
The use of the Orwellian 1984 double-speak is a nice touch too!
If you believe in global warming you therefore believe it’s man-made and it’s your fault!
-
The fact we’re not still in the little-ice-age is certainly an indicator that we have had 250 years of global warming. The factual scientific recorded data clearly shows that CO2 has not played and is not playing a significant role in this warming and all the hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent trying to develop simulators to show the connection has been in vain.
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To view some data on this subject simply click-on these links because you certainly will not see factual data in the Roanoke Times:
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NASA 100 year and 10 year scientific record:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 10 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 100 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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A glacial view of our 250 years of global warming
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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For the scientific reports by a consensus of other highly qualified Climate Scientists peruse The second International Conference on Climate Change March 10, 2009 in New York City the theme "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?"
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Obama = Mr. Goodwrench
Obama is now your car guy!
Buy an American car and when you have problems – bring it to the White House for warranty service!
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Obama fired the GM CEO and is now “the GM guy in-charge”.
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How can he do this you ask – easy – he has an unlimited line of credit from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – he can call Bubba and Junior to fix-up your car for free!
Well -- not exactly for free – it actually will be charged to the tax-payers!
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So – if you bought a Toyota or Nissan because they require less maintenance, guess what, you now get to pay for all those GM problems you wanted to avoid.
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More hope and change you can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Buy an American car and when you have problems – bring it to the White House for warranty service!
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Obama fired the GM CEO and is now “the GM guy in-charge”.
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How can he do this you ask – easy – he has an unlimited line of credit from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – he can call Bubba and Junior to fix-up your car for free!
Well -- not exactly for free – it actually will be charged to the tax-payers!
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So – if you bought a Toyota or Nissan because they require less maintenance, guess what, you now get to pay for all those GM problems you wanted to avoid.
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More hope and change you can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Obama’s Afghanistan War
Roanoke Times, 3/28/09, Pg 1: Obama: 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
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The Roanoke Times and the AP present this as a great new Obama move.
Apparently they have developed severe journalistic-amnesia since last year to wit:
No mention of an EXIT strategy.
No mention of the number of US troop planed build-up.
No mention of a plan to get Pakistan to either clean-out their border area or let US clean it out.
No mention that Russia has undone our airbase of support in Kyrgyzstan making support and re-supply of our troops difficult and dangerous.
And most important of all:
No mention of number of NATO forces to deploy to and throughout Afghanistan.
Isn’t NATO Responsible for Afghanistan
Didn’t the RT announce that back in May 2006!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
Roanoke Times, 5/5/06, Pg A7: NATO takes over responsibility for Afghanistan.6,000 NATO troops move into south-Afghanistan.US to reduce 19,000 foces starting in August.
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Why isn’t Obama and Clinton using this current trip to get NATO to fulfill their responsibilities and commitments and “direct” Russia to not interfere with our military bases and supply lines?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-hope-and-change.html
4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama – commander of unilateral disarmament:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl-
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The Roanoke Times and the AP present this as a great new Obama move.
Apparently they have developed severe journalistic-amnesia since last year to wit:
No mention of an EXIT strategy.
No mention of the number of US troop planed build-up.
No mention of a plan to get Pakistan to either clean-out their border area or let US clean it out.
No mention that Russia has undone our airbase of support in Kyrgyzstan making support and re-supply of our troops difficult and dangerous.
And most important of all:
No mention of number of NATO forces to deploy to and throughout Afghanistan.
Isn’t NATO Responsible for Afghanistan
Didn’t the RT announce that back in May 2006!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
Roanoke Times, 5/5/06, Pg A7: NATO takes over responsibility for Afghanistan.6,000 NATO troops move into south-Afghanistan.US to reduce 19,000 foces starting in August.
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Why isn’t Obama and Clinton using this current trip to get NATO to fulfill their responsibilities and commitments and “direct” Russia to not interfere with our military bases and supply lines?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-hope-and-change.html
4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama – commander of unilateral disarmament:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl-
Raise or Lower Auto Fuel Mileage?
Roanoke Times 3/27/09, Pg 6: Environment: White House to raise fuel efficiency standards
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Great Slant! Back to 1984 double-speak (again).
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The Obama team is REDUCING the new fuel efficiency standards from the levels the Bush administration proposed to Congress last year!
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You only get this message if you read the really fine print four paragraphs down the text!
Only a slant-meister could write the RT’s headings!
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The Obama folks explain this by saying they only had two months to work on this item!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Great Slant! Back to 1984 double-speak (again).
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The Obama team is REDUCING the new fuel efficiency standards from the levels the Bush administration proposed to Congress last year!
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You only get this message if you read the really fine print four paragraphs down the text!
Only a slant-meister could write the RT’s headings!
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The Obama folks explain this by saying they only had two months to work on this item!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Obama’s Street Army
Not Found in The Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
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This week, 3/28/09, the Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a devastating new bill – the so-called Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education Act (S.277) – that would allow politicians to funnel billions of tax dollars to leftwing organizations that they could then use for political purposes
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It's being done under the guise of enabling Barack Obama to build his “volunteer” youth corps – “just as powerful, just as strong” as the U.S. military, as he promised during his campaign speech in Colorado Springs:
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"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Can you imagine how the Democrats and the left-wing liberal media would have related to such a move by the Bush Administration?
This is very disturbing because we have seen this before in world history.
The Robber-Barons had their Brinks thugs.
Jimmy Hoffa had his head-busters.
Hitler had his brown-shirts.
Mussolini had his black-shirts.
Obama is establishing and funding with our public tax money his green-shirts!
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If the so-called GIVE Act is passed in its present form, groups like ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH will receive multi-million-dollar grants of YOUR TAX MONEY for lobbying, community organizing, protests, strikes – and just about any other activity they believe would further their hard left agenda-Support the DeMint Amendment that would prohibit “advocacy” groups or groups co-located with advocacy groups from receiving any assistance under the Act. The DeMint Amendment would automatically prohibit any organization “engaged in legislative advocacy” – or working hand in hand with such organizations -- from receiving assistance under the GIVE Act.
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More Hope and Change we can Believe In!-
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This week, 3/28/09, the Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a devastating new bill – the so-called Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education Act (S.277) – that would allow politicians to funnel billions of tax dollars to leftwing organizations that they could then use for political purposes
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It's being done under the guise of enabling Barack Obama to build his “volunteer” youth corps – “just as powerful, just as strong” as the U.S. military, as he promised during his campaign speech in Colorado Springs:
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"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Can you imagine how the Democrats and the left-wing liberal media would have related to such a move by the Bush Administration?
This is very disturbing because we have seen this before in world history.
The Robber-Barons had their Brinks thugs.
Jimmy Hoffa had his head-busters.
Hitler had his brown-shirts.
Mussolini had his black-shirts.
Obama is establishing and funding with our public tax money his green-shirts!
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If the so-called GIVE Act is passed in its present form, groups like ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH will receive multi-million-dollar grants of YOUR TAX MONEY for lobbying, community organizing, protests, strikes – and just about any other activity they believe would further their hard left agenda-Support the DeMint Amendment that would prohibit “advocacy” groups or groups co-located with advocacy groups from receiving any assistance under the Act. The DeMint Amendment would automatically prohibit any organization “engaged in legislative advocacy” – or working hand in hand with such organizations -- from receiving assistance under the GIVE Act.
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More Hope and Change we can Believe In!-
Thursday, March 26, 2009
More Clinton Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 3/26/09, Pg 7: Clinton: US shares blame for Mexican drug wars;
“Because of “our” demand for drugs!”
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Perhaps the words and deeds of our national leaders are important.
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Perhaps making jokes about personal illegal drug use has an impact on impressionable young people. Maybe that’s why major advertisers targeting young people use highly visible personalities.
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So – Bill Clinton smoked marijuana, but didn’t inhale!
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Obama smoked marijuana – and did inhale – that was the point!
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Cute pandering to the hemp-heads and yuppies for votes!
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Then Hillary shows up at the Border and declares “we’re all to blame”!
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No girl, we’re not ALL to blame! And your hypocrisy is disgusting!
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Just secure the border instead of continuing to embrace the illegal immigrant traffickers in your disgusting pandering to the 12 million illegal immigrants for future votes!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrats-sink-immigration-bill.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/American.jpg
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“Because of “our” demand for drugs!”
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Perhaps the words and deeds of our national leaders are important.
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Perhaps making jokes about personal illegal drug use has an impact on impressionable young people. Maybe that’s why major advertisers targeting young people use highly visible personalities.
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So – Bill Clinton smoked marijuana, but didn’t inhale!
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Obama smoked marijuana – and did inhale – that was the point!
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Cute pandering to the hemp-heads and yuppies for votes!
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Then Hillary shows up at the Border and declares “we’re all to blame”!
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No girl, we’re not ALL to blame! And your hypocrisy is disgusting!
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Just secure the border instead of continuing to embrace the illegal immigrant traffickers in your disgusting pandering to the 12 million illegal immigrants for future votes!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrats-sink-immigration-bill.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/American.jpg
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
More Hope and Change
1. The team of Obama, Pelosi, & Reid who demanded an open border with Mexico and who pushed for amnesty for illegal immigrants are now sending large numbers of marshals and soon National Guardsmen to help secure the Mexican border. Apparently the illegal cross-border traffickers’ really were and are a serious problem as the Bush administration stated.
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2. Turns out the carbon-credit-trading-scam that’s making Mr. Gore heaps of money now have a direct Chicago connection to Obama who is pushing to force it onto the entire country through mandatory laws intended to limit and ration energy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/25/obama-helped-fund-carbon-scheme/
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3. Obama the Pied Piper Uniter of the World has now alienated the European Union members with his “stimulus” plan and criticism of the EU’s approach.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510445,00.html
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Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market."
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He slammed the U.S.' widening budget deficit and protectionist trade measures — such as the "Buy America" — and said that "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell."-"We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way," he said.-"Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the stability of the global financial market," said Topolanek.
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4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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2. Turns out the carbon-credit-trading-scam that’s making Mr. Gore heaps of money now have a direct Chicago connection to Obama who is pushing to force it onto the entire country through mandatory laws intended to limit and ration energy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/25/obama-helped-fund-carbon-scheme/
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3. Obama the Pied Piper Uniter of the World has now alienated the European Union members with his “stimulus” plan and criticism of the EU’s approach.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510445,00.html
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Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market."
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He slammed the U.S.' widening budget deficit and protectionist trade measures — such as the "Buy America" — and said that "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell."-"We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way," he said.-"Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the stability of the global financial market," said Topolanek.
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4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Yet Another NASA Self-serving Study
Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 3: NASA study: Ozone disaster avoided.
“A” NASA study presented by “A” NASA scientist says his computer simulation of the ozone-hole reduction shows that eliminating the old-Freon air-conditioning chemical has saved the world from a horrible disaster. We would all be fried by now from a large ozone hole if the changes hadn’t been made!
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This is very interesting because other recent studies have concluded that natural forces have had a major effect on the ozone-hole and that it hasn’t shrunk no less gone away.
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The current NOAA graphic data clearly shows the last 10 year history does not support the conclusion that eliminating the old-Freon has made a major change.
In fact the data shows that the 2006 & 2008 hole is larger than the 10-year average for 4 out of the 5 tracking months shown.
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NOAS web site:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png
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An interesting footnote to this subject is that the current NOAA view is that IF the ozone-hole becomes significantly smaller – Global Warming will INCREASE!
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-agu.html
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Don’t you just love all the conflicting stories and data and simulations?
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And these are the folks that are telling our government to make major changes to what we do and how we do it because their simulation-models know what’s going to happen years into the future.
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Perhaps they should join the wall-street crowd and the mortgage folks and tell us how they saved us from a financial melt-down! Talk about global warming!
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Prior similar items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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“A” NASA study presented by “A” NASA scientist says his computer simulation of the ozone-hole reduction shows that eliminating the old-Freon air-conditioning chemical has saved the world from a horrible disaster. We would all be fried by now from a large ozone hole if the changes hadn’t been made!
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This is very interesting because other recent studies have concluded that natural forces have had a major effect on the ozone-hole and that it hasn’t shrunk no less gone away.
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The current NOAA graphic data clearly shows the last 10 year history does not support the conclusion that eliminating the old-Freon has made a major change.
In fact the data shows that the 2006 & 2008 hole is larger than the 10-year average for 4 out of the 5 tracking months shown.
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NOAS web site:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png
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An interesting footnote to this subject is that the current NOAA view is that IF the ozone-hole becomes significantly smaller – Global Warming will INCREASE!
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-agu.html
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Don’t you just love all the conflicting stories and data and simulations?
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And these are the folks that are telling our government to make major changes to what we do and how we do it because their simulation-models know what’s going to happen years into the future.
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Perhaps they should join the wall-street crowd and the mortgage folks and tell us how they saved us from a financial melt-down! Talk about global warming!
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Prior similar items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Monday, March 23, 2009
No New Energy Jihad
Roanoke Times, 3/22/09, Pg 6: Democrat Ca Senator Feinstein opposes using Mojave Desert to produce energy.
3/22/09, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Conservation of energy could offset need to build 40 new coal electric power plants
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Is there anyone anywhere who does not recognize that these articles and their authors, in addition to the examples of the Kennedy-Nantucket Wind Farm and the Virginia Highland Wind Farm represent a “No New Energy Jihad” movement?
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The short-term objective is to stop enhancements of and-or remove current power systems wherever possible and to stop any new power systems however green.
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The overall objective is to reduce availability of power thereby driving up its costs and enabling a government rationing system to control its use.
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The membership of this movement is dedicated to the premise that only the Federal Government should control all energy resources from the source to the end users and that will then become subservient to the UN as the ultimate control authority.
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The UN-IPCC climate change hysteria is currently the vehicle that is being utilized by these organizations to support the contention that this Jihad is required in order to “save the planet”.
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Not included in this scenario is who will save us from “big brother”?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/weed-in-green-garden.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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The Kennedy’s, Walter Kronkite and the Nantucket Wind Farms
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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3/22/09, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Conservation of energy could offset need to build 40 new coal electric power plants
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Is there anyone anywhere who does not recognize that these articles and their authors, in addition to the examples of the Kennedy-Nantucket Wind Farm and the Virginia Highland Wind Farm represent a “No New Energy Jihad” movement?
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The short-term objective is to stop enhancements of and-or remove current power systems wherever possible and to stop any new power systems however green.
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The overall objective is to reduce availability of power thereby driving up its costs and enabling a government rationing system to control its use.
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The membership of this movement is dedicated to the premise that only the Federal Government should control all energy resources from the source to the end users and that will then become subservient to the UN as the ultimate control authority.
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The UN-IPCC climate change hysteria is currently the vehicle that is being utilized by these organizations to support the contention that this Jihad is required in order to “save the planet”.
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Not included in this scenario is who will save us from “big brother”?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/weed-in-green-garden.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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The Kennedy’s, Walter Kronkite and the Nantucket Wind Farms
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Bonus Countrywide Dodd
Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 5, House bill would tax bonuses for execs of bailed-out firms.
Page 17, Editorial: Bonus rage
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Both the lengthy “news” article and the editorial missed some very important “news” items. Perhaps missed is the wrong word. An act of slantful omission might be more correct. After all how could you write hundreds of words about this without mentioning Democrat Senator Dodd?
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The key Democrat in this Democrat Senate in collusion with the Democrat Treasury who is personally responsible for inserting the “bonus’ are OK” clause in the AIG bailout Bill was none other than:
Chris Bonus Countrywide Dodd, Democrat of Conn., Head of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Dodd initially pointed the finger (you know which one) at Treasury Sec. Geitner, but then when the heat hit he was forced to admit “it was me”. Not exactly the “cherry tree” story.
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We remember Dodd – he’s the Senator who got a sweet-heart mortgage from Countrywide (the company at the epicenter of the mortgage mess that precipitated the current financial crisis).
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Dodd is also the top recipient of campaign cash from AIG employees over the years.
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The Congressional vote on taxing the bonuses is an act of malfeasance on top of malfeasance! Every member of Congress knows that the Bill is unconstitutional and a gross act of patronizing a population who are enduring a major problem and who will be paying for the next 20 years the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR per year debt of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi budget and bail-out mess.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Page 17, Editorial: Bonus rage
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Both the lengthy “news” article and the editorial missed some very important “news” items. Perhaps missed is the wrong word. An act of slantful omission might be more correct. After all how could you write hundreds of words about this without mentioning Democrat Senator Dodd?
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The key Democrat in this Democrat Senate in collusion with the Democrat Treasury who is personally responsible for inserting the “bonus’ are OK” clause in the AIG bailout Bill was none other than:
Chris Bonus Countrywide Dodd, Democrat of Conn., Head of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Dodd initially pointed the finger (you know which one) at Treasury Sec. Geitner, but then when the heat hit he was forced to admit “it was me”. Not exactly the “cherry tree” story.
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We remember Dodd – he’s the Senator who got a sweet-heart mortgage from Countrywide (the company at the epicenter of the mortgage mess that precipitated the current financial crisis).
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Dodd is also the top recipient of campaign cash from AIG employees over the years.
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The Congressional vote on taxing the bonuses is an act of malfeasance on top of malfeasance! Every member of Congress knows that the Bill is unconstitutional and a gross act of patronizing a population who are enduring a major problem and who will be paying for the next 20 years the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR per year debt of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi budget and bail-out mess.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Not Weird Just Wrong
Roanoke Times, 3/16/09, Pg 15: Commentary by K. Parker: Weird new media world. Ms. Parker laments the downward spiral of print media and blames bloggers, right-wingers and ignorant youths for the problem. She worries that a free press is vital to a free society.
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Ms. Parker is right on the importance of a free press to a free society. However, the rest of her messages are misdirected and way off target.
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The “free press” has been hijacked by liberal and left-wing ideologues that are using bias and slant to further an economic, political and socialist agenda.
This blog contains over 1,000 items that details many examples of this wrong behavior by the Roanoke Times and their associates.
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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For an outrageous example of the views and beliefs of a major leader of “free press” read the commencement address to the graduating teachers of New Paltz College by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060522115623.aspx
With that level of publicly pronounced bias and venom, how can he or any of his subordinates represent a fair, balanced and free press?
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If the NY Times declares Chapt 11 this year, it’s not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media.
It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility! People vote with money and their attention and not just with ballots!
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In fact, this referenced commentary by Ms Parker is itself lacking the responsibility to face-up-to the realities of the cause-and-effect of this problem and by failing to make a focused appeal to her fellow journalists to report the news in a fair and balanced manner so that the reading public can regain trust and confidence in the media.
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How many of the media are even qualified to apply for a Tim Russert medal?
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www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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Ms. Parker is right on the importance of a free press to a free society. However, the rest of her messages are misdirected and way off target.
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The “free press” has been hijacked by liberal and left-wing ideologues that are using bias and slant to further an economic, political and socialist agenda.
This blog contains over 1,000 items that details many examples of this wrong behavior by the Roanoke Times and their associates.
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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For an outrageous example of the views and beliefs of a major leader of “free press” read the commencement address to the graduating teachers of New Paltz College by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060522115623.aspx
With that level of publicly pronounced bias and venom, how can he or any of his subordinates represent a fair, balanced and free press?
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If the NY Times declares Chapt 11 this year, it’s not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media.
It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility! People vote with money and their attention and not just with ballots!
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In fact, this referenced commentary by Ms Parker is itself lacking the responsibility to face-up-to the realities of the cause-and-effect of this problem and by failing to make a focused appeal to her fellow journalists to report the news in a fair and balanced manner so that the reading public can regain trust and confidence in the media.
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How many of the media are even qualified to apply for a Tim Russert medal?
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www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
No New Energy Jihad
Roanoke Times, 2/4/09, Pg Va 9: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa: Wind power needs regulation.
Roanoke Times, 3/12/09, Pg 19: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa (AGAIN) Wind project deserves no stimulus
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The highland wind-farm project has been in the Virginia regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the smoke has settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” are hung-on are the numbers of bats and birds that may fly into the blades. Apparently akin to the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What are we doing about the hundreds of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats and other animals and birds of prey? What are we doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”? Apparently Mother Nature has her own blades.
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy? Are our birds and bats less risk averse than theirs?
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Prior Roanoke Times opinion articles gloss over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. For perspective, suppose you apply for a home building permit and the building inspector tells you that “you can build the house, but, every week there will be an inspection and if more than two birds per week are killed by flying into your windows and glass doors, you will have to tear down the house”. Would anyone build under those conditions, and would any bank provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Apparently there are lots of green-power proponents who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required. When you blow away their smokey wind, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself and a commitment to the Jihad of no more power development of any kind no matter how green.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Roanoke Times, 3/12/09, Pg 19: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa (AGAIN) Wind project deserves no stimulus
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The highland wind-farm project has been in the Virginia regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the smoke has settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” are hung-on are the numbers of bats and birds that may fly into the blades. Apparently akin to the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What are we doing about the hundreds of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats and other animals and birds of prey? What are we doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”? Apparently Mother Nature has her own blades.
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy? Are our birds and bats less risk averse than theirs?
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Prior Roanoke Times opinion articles gloss over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. For perspective, suppose you apply for a home building permit and the building inspector tells you that “you can build the house, but, every week there will be an inspection and if more than two birds per week are killed by flying into your windows and glass doors, you will have to tear down the house”. Would anyone build under those conditions, and would any bank provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Apparently there are lots of green-power proponents who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required. When you blow away their smokey wind, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself and a commitment to the Jihad of no more power development of any kind no matter how green.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Federal Employee Civil Disobedience
Dr Jim Hansen, a NASA employee, apparently is a self-proclaimed major player in today’s, March 2,2009, mass civil disobedience action in Washington DC.
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Hansen is a key player on the Gore-hypothesis team while at the same time being paid by the taxpayers to be an independent and unbiased scientist tasked to explore the scientific facts associated with our 250 year global warming situation.
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It is very disturbing that he does not have the professional integrity to resign from his government position in order to pursue the Gore-agenda.
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What other Federal employee could promote an outside interest to the extent of fomenting mass civil disobedience without being terminated?
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Apparently more change we can believe in!
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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
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http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/
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Dr. James Hansen on coal, civil disobedience
March 2nd, 2009
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Hansen is a key player on the Gore-hypothesis team while at the same time being paid by the taxpayers to be an independent and unbiased scientist tasked to explore the scientific facts associated with our 250 year global warming situation.
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It is very disturbing that he does not have the professional integrity to resign from his government position in order to pursue the Gore-agenda.
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What other Federal employee could promote an outside interest to the extent of fomenting mass civil disobedience without being terminated?
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Apparently more change we can believe in!
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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
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http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/
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Dr. James Hansen on coal, civil disobedience
March 2nd, 2009
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Obama Economics
Roanoke Times, 2/24/09, Pg Bus 9: Bigger stakes in shaky banks (40% in Citigroup)
2/25/09, Pg 1: Obama address to congress -- there will be a brighter day "tomorrow" after we spend $2 Trillion dollars we don't have.
Has Obama read the Pelosi-Reid “bailout” and “stimulus” bills yet?
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Some Highlights of the “plan” that he should read:
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We’re in trouble because people were spending money they didn’t have, so, the government is going to spend lots more of your money that you don’t have and never will have.
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People aren’t buying cars, so, we’ve been to paying the UAW union workers $7,000 per month to not make cars and we intend to keep doing it!
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We’re going to have a Whitehouse bureaucracy-team define what new cars are going to be made by which car companies. Toyota and Nissan have “opted-out” of the plan.
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We’re going to insert Billions into banks that are “too big to go into Chap 11”. Unlike the Pennsylvania Railroad System in 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
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We’re extending the “too big to fail” policy into the “too big to jail” with our friend Bernie Madof.
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We’re going to take money from folks that are paying their mortgages to “supplement” those who aren’t paying their mortgages.
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We’re going to help folks who are getting some termination money from their employer by calling that money “earned income” so that both the federal and states can tax it and take at least 40% away in “income” taxes.
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We’re going to include in the “economic recovery” packages all the “pork” that we’ve been saving up for the last 10 years. That’s a nice thing about pork, you can smoke it, salt it, or cure it and then keep it ready for that special opportunity.
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We’re going to inject as many Billions into Citi-bank as Bob Rubin wants:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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After all, he was Clinton’s Treasury Sec. and he knows all about economics:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Our left-wing friends have been lamenting the debt our next generation has been committed to. The silence now is deafening isn’t it! Apparently the liberals have determined that our children and grandchildren can pay for the Pelosi-Reid bill.
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Watching Hillary on her knees before the Chinese leaders begging them to buy our paper IOUs was reminiscent of the old Clinton Whitehouse.
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It’s interesting that not one member of the new administration or congress have pointed to a single positive thing that our billions of already spent stimulus dollars have accomplished.
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Suggestion: to immediately improve our unemployment situation by 5 million jobs --- deport 10 million illegal immigrants!
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/audacity-of-extravagance.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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2/25/09, Pg 1: Obama address to congress -- there will be a brighter day "tomorrow" after we spend $2 Trillion dollars we don't have.
Has Obama read the Pelosi-Reid “bailout” and “stimulus” bills yet?
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Some Highlights of the “plan” that he should read:
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We’re in trouble because people were spending money they didn’t have, so, the government is going to spend lots more of your money that you don’t have and never will have.
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People aren’t buying cars, so, we’ve been to paying the UAW union workers $7,000 per month to not make cars and we intend to keep doing it!
-
We’re going to have a Whitehouse bureaucracy-team define what new cars are going to be made by which car companies. Toyota and Nissan have “opted-out” of the plan.
-
We’re going to insert Billions into banks that are “too big to go into Chap 11”. Unlike the Pennsylvania Railroad System in 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
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We’re extending the “too big to fail” policy into the “too big to jail” with our friend Bernie Madof.
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We’re going to take money from folks that are paying their mortgages to “supplement” those who aren’t paying their mortgages.
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We’re going to help folks who are getting some termination money from their employer by calling that money “earned income” so that both the federal and states can tax it and take at least 40% away in “income” taxes.
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We’re going to include in the “economic recovery” packages all the “pork” that we’ve been saving up for the last 10 years. That’s a nice thing about pork, you can smoke it, salt it, or cure it and then keep it ready for that special opportunity.
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We’re going to inject as many Billions into Citi-bank as Bob Rubin wants:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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After all, he was Clinton’s Treasury Sec. and he knows all about economics:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Our left-wing friends have been lamenting the debt our next generation has been committed to. The silence now is deafening isn’t it! Apparently the liberals have determined that our children and grandchildren can pay for the Pelosi-Reid bill.
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Watching Hillary on her knees before the Chinese leaders begging them to buy our paper IOUs was reminiscent of the old Clinton Whitehouse.
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It’s interesting that not one member of the new administration or congress have pointed to a single positive thing that our billions of already spent stimulus dollars have accomplished.
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Suggestion: to immediately improve our unemployment situation by 5 million jobs --- deport 10 million illegal immigrants!
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/audacity-of-extravagance.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Nation of White Cowards
It is very disappointing that Eric Holder, the new black US Attorney General (AG), has chosen to engage in Al Sharpton style race-baiting public statements.
It is particularly intimidating and disturbing because he is the chief cop of the US.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/holder-calls-nation-cowards-race-matters/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/holders-remarks-ignites-debate-race-relations/
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Apparently he is labeling white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
It’s not clear if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racial sermons meet with his approval.
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Could it be that this cowardly behavior has been imposed by the politically-correct PC-police who attack those who are not in PC-compliance on race, homosexuality, God, abortion, feminism, Gore-hypothesis and many other liberal social issues?
Perhaps that’s why we just cower-down and cling to our guns and Bibles?
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Today anyone who openly and frankly discusses race issues is subject to being labeled a bad person and whose livelihood may well be at stake.
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The vicious racial attacks upon Bill Cosby stand as a primary example:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Someone I personally know was investigated and her government job placed in jeopardy because she said at work that “a joke she had hear was ‘black humor’”. One can only imagine the person who brought forward the formal complaint and investigation.
Please click if you are one who doesn’t understand the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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She now is a confirmed coward, one of multitudes of people who are totally intimidated by the PC-Police.
Actually, I would not even think about writing this blog if I still worked for my old employer.
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If this is the “Change we can believe in” – it certainly proves that all Change is not Progress!
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Some prior blog examples of our PC-police environment supported and assisted by our liberal media:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/quayle-vs-brown-revisited.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-year-anniversary-eviction.html
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It is particularly intimidating and disturbing because he is the chief cop of the US.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/holder-calls-nation-cowards-race-matters/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/holders-remarks-ignites-debate-race-relations/
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Apparently he is labeling white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
It’s not clear if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racial sermons meet with his approval.
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Could it be that this cowardly behavior has been imposed by the politically-correct PC-police who attack those who are not in PC-compliance on race, homosexuality, God, abortion, feminism, Gore-hypothesis and many other liberal social issues?
Perhaps that’s why we just cower-down and cling to our guns and Bibles?
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Today anyone who openly and frankly discusses race issues is subject to being labeled a bad person and whose livelihood may well be at stake.
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The vicious racial attacks upon Bill Cosby stand as a primary example:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Someone I personally know was investigated and her government job placed in jeopardy because she said at work that “a joke she had hear was ‘black humor’”. One can only imagine the person who brought forward the formal complaint and investigation.
Please click if you are one who doesn’t understand the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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She now is a confirmed coward, one of multitudes of people who are totally intimidated by the PC-Police.
Actually, I would not even think about writing this blog if I still worked for my old employer.
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If this is the “Change we can believe in” – it certainly proves that all Change is not Progress!
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Some prior blog examples of our PC-police environment supported and assisted by our liberal media:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/quayle-vs-brown-revisited.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-year-anniversary-eviction.html
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Google-Gore Partnership?
The Feb 16, 2009 Google-Earth view of the Artic around Greenland shows no sea-ice, just open blue water.
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Apparently not only has Google-Earth embraced the Gore-hypothesis but it appears that they've turned up the heat and melted 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of sea-ice just in time for Mr. Gore's show in Washington!
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Talk about your global warming! And these folks are just programmers!
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Click to see the graphics and the disappearing ice:
Double-click the image for full size
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Google-Gore.jpg
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View a site that presents current data:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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Apparently not only has Google-Earth embraced the Gore-hypothesis but it appears that they've turned up the heat and melted 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of sea-ice just in time for Mr. Gore's show in Washington!
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Talk about your global warming! And these folks are just programmers!
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Click to see the graphics and the disappearing ice:
Double-click the image for full size
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Google-Gore.jpg
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View a site that presents current data:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Weed in the Green Garden
Roanoke Times, 2/12/09, Pg 17, BIG opinion article with BIG Graphic:
“Mandate renewable energy” by Al Weed, former Democrat candidate for Congress in 2004 & 2006. Al is the Public Policy Virginia organization with intellectual assistance by Bobbie Joe Gardner.
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“Virginians want immediate government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Survey by UVA found that 55% of (Virginians who see man-made CO2 as a problem) strongly support mandated renewable power.
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That’s 55% of what number? Oh, it’s the 30% who believe the Gore-hypothesis that current warming is caused by people! So that’s really like 16%! And that’s without asking them if they are willing to double their electric bill!
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“Back in 2007, it became clear that deregulation was not going to bring down the cost of energy in Virginia”.
Perhaps that’s because Virginia has some of the lowest electric rates in the East based on hydro-power and coal-power and good companies like AEP!
Rates in the northeast are well above 15 cents while here in Franklin Co they’re about 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. It is very clear that stopping the use of coal and introducing renewable sources will be much more expensive than today’s costs.
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“If Virginia is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, the rules must be changed to MANDATE development of renewable energy.”
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If so, let there be green on earth and let it begin with Mr Weed and his Public Policy Organization and his wine business interests. Also let’s start with the Roanoke Times a major manufacturing facility with a very big carbon-footprint.
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Here’s how to start Mr. Weed:
1. AEP allows and supports net-metering. That means if you generate power at your site you can not only displace AEP electricity, you can utilize your excess electricity to run your electric meters backwards, thereby getting utility credit. What a deal!
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2. AEP also supports a “green pricing” program. You, Mr. Weed, and your friends at the Roanoke Times and associates in The Virginia Vineyards Association can all purchase “green energy” from AEP! The program is targeted at environmentally conscious customers who want to put their money behind the renewable energy movement.”
Basically they means: put-up or shut-up!
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After you have implemented these programs, you clearly should be able to make the case to the residents of Virginia that this is the way to go without resorting to USSR MANDATES!
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In the meantime perhaps you can talk to your buddy Tim Kaine and have him address the gross hypocrisy of the regulatory roadblocks he is supporting that prevents building the green and renewable Virginia Highland Wind Farm.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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“Mandate renewable energy” by Al Weed, former Democrat candidate for Congress in 2004 & 2006. Al is the Public Policy Virginia organization with intellectual assistance by Bobbie Joe Gardner.
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“Virginians want immediate government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Survey by UVA found that 55% of (Virginians who see man-made CO2 as a problem) strongly support mandated renewable power.
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That’s 55% of what number? Oh, it’s the 30% who believe the Gore-hypothesis that current warming is caused by people! So that’s really like 16%! And that’s without asking them if they are willing to double their electric bill!
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“Back in 2007, it became clear that deregulation was not going to bring down the cost of energy in Virginia”.
Perhaps that’s because Virginia has some of the lowest electric rates in the East based on hydro-power and coal-power and good companies like AEP!
Rates in the northeast are well above 15 cents while here in Franklin Co they’re about 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. It is very clear that stopping the use of coal and introducing renewable sources will be much more expensive than today’s costs.
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“If Virginia is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, the rules must be changed to MANDATE development of renewable energy.”
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If so, let there be green on earth and let it begin with Mr Weed and his Public Policy Organization and his wine business interests. Also let’s start with the Roanoke Times a major manufacturing facility with a very big carbon-footprint.
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Here’s how to start Mr. Weed:
1. AEP allows and supports net-metering. That means if you generate power at your site you can not only displace AEP electricity, you can utilize your excess electricity to run your electric meters backwards, thereby getting utility credit. What a deal!
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2. AEP also supports a “green pricing” program. You, Mr. Weed, and your friends at the Roanoke Times and associates in The Virginia Vineyards Association can all purchase “green energy” from AEP! The program is targeted at environmentally conscious customers who want to put their money behind the renewable energy movement.”
Basically they means: put-up or shut-up!
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After you have implemented these programs, you clearly should be able to make the case to the residents of Virginia that this is the way to go without resorting to USSR MANDATES!
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In the meantime perhaps you can talk to your buddy Tim Kaine and have him address the gross hypocrisy of the regulatory roadblocks he is supporting that prevents building the green and renewable Virginia Highland Wind Farm.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Global Warming Theory LTE
An Open Letter to: Mr Dave Woolley, Huddleston, VA
Re: Your Open LTE, Roanoke Times, 2/13/09, Global Warming is no theory.
I certainly agree with you that we are 250 years into a global warming cycle. The issue at hand for most people is not that we have warmed-up since 1750, but, what has caused it and what to do about it. I have been very interested in the global warming discussion for a number of years. During a trip to Alaska, the subject came into sharp focus while visiting Mendenhall Glacier at Juneau.
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The Mendenhall data is very clear that we have been in a warming cycle since 1750, the end of the little ice age. I have also visited Nisqually Glacier in Wa and two more glaciers in southern Norway. These glaciers, in addition to hundreds more, have all been studied and documented by Cambridge in London and by numerous other scientific groups and universities and all share a very similar footprint.
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The 150 years of massive melting and retreat between 1750 and 1900 clearly indicates that our current global warming cycle was not the result of man-made CO2 as alleged by the Gore-hypothesis. Also, the global temperatures since then have not tracked against the published atmospheric CO2 as alleged.
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For the first half of my life, from 1940 through 1975 there was a major cooling period that resulted in a scientific consensus that we were reentering another little ice age.
The articles in Newsweek Apr 28, 1975 and Time Jun 24, 1974 describe the coming climate and food crisis with the primary recommendation that the US government use planes to dust-cover the polar ice with dark powder to increase heat absorption. Apparently it’s a good thing we didn’t do that!
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The published NASA global temperature data graphs also clearly show that we have experienced only one (1) degree warming in the past 100 years and no net temperature change in the last 10 years. This data is in stark contrast with the intense and hysterical media-hype about the imminent global warming disaster.
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There is a large body of professional and learned scientists who strongly disagree with the Gore-hypothesis and have well documented that our current global warming cycle is not the result of man-made CO2. These studies and data are indeed not visible in the Roanoke Times.
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March 8 to 10 will be the 2009 international conference on climate change in Times Square in NYC. http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
Some of the most distinguished scientists in the world will be presenting the most current data and studies that contradict the Gore-hypothesis. I’m sure that this also will not receive any coverage in the Roanoke Times or the media community they are partnered with.
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Clearly we have an energy crisis. It is the crisis of energy independence. We need to free ourselves from our dependence upon our enemies and to stop the major flow of wealth out of our country and economy. Green and renewable energy will play an increasing role, however, for at least the next 20 years we need significant additional domestic energy supplies to be brought online to satisfy our current total demand and support the two-plus million new people we add each year to our population (we have added 2+ million people every year since 1945).
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Not only are we paralyzed relative to conventional power development, but here in Virginia we can’t even support the Va Highlands Wind Farm, the primary “ready to go” green energy project in Virginia that has been in a regulatory swamp for 5 years.
Click for a summary of the Va Wind Farm Regulatory Debacle:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Click for a summary of some non-Gore Global Warming and Climate Change data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a view from a moon-walker:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493624,00.html
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Re: Your Open LTE, Roanoke Times, 2/13/09, Global Warming is no theory.
I certainly agree with you that we are 250 years into a global warming cycle. The issue at hand for most people is not that we have warmed-up since 1750, but, what has caused it and what to do about it. I have been very interested in the global warming discussion for a number of years. During a trip to Alaska, the subject came into sharp focus while visiting Mendenhall Glacier at Juneau.
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The Mendenhall data is very clear that we have been in a warming cycle since 1750, the end of the little ice age. I have also visited Nisqually Glacier in Wa and two more glaciers in southern Norway. These glaciers, in addition to hundreds more, have all been studied and documented by Cambridge in London and by numerous other scientific groups and universities and all share a very similar footprint.
-
The 150 years of massive melting and retreat between 1750 and 1900 clearly indicates that our current global warming cycle was not the result of man-made CO2 as alleged by the Gore-hypothesis. Also, the global temperatures since then have not tracked against the published atmospheric CO2 as alleged.
-
For the first half of my life, from 1940 through 1975 there was a major cooling period that resulted in a scientific consensus that we were reentering another little ice age.
The articles in Newsweek Apr 28, 1975 and Time Jun 24, 1974 describe the coming climate and food crisis with the primary recommendation that the US government use planes to dust-cover the polar ice with dark powder to increase heat absorption. Apparently it’s a good thing we didn’t do that!
-
The published NASA global temperature data graphs also clearly show that we have experienced only one (1) degree warming in the past 100 years and no net temperature change in the last 10 years. This data is in stark contrast with the intense and hysterical media-hype about the imminent global warming disaster.
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There is a large body of professional and learned scientists who strongly disagree with the Gore-hypothesis and have well documented that our current global warming cycle is not the result of man-made CO2. These studies and data are indeed not visible in the Roanoke Times.
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March 8 to 10 will be the 2009 international conference on climate change in Times Square in NYC. http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
Some of the most distinguished scientists in the world will be presenting the most current data and studies that contradict the Gore-hypothesis. I’m sure that this also will not receive any coverage in the Roanoke Times or the media community they are partnered with.
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Clearly we have an energy crisis. It is the crisis of energy independence. We need to free ourselves from our dependence upon our enemies and to stop the major flow of wealth out of our country and economy. Green and renewable energy will play an increasing role, however, for at least the next 20 years we need significant additional domestic energy supplies to be brought online to satisfy our current total demand and support the two-plus million new people we add each year to our population (we have added 2+ million people every year since 1945).
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Not only are we paralyzed relative to conventional power development, but here in Virginia we can’t even support the Va Highlands Wind Farm, the primary “ready to go” green energy project in Virginia that has been in a regulatory swamp for 5 years.
Click for a summary of the Va Wind Farm Regulatory Debacle:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Click for a summary of some non-Gore Global Warming and Climate Change data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a view from a moon-walker:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493624,00.html
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More Kaine Green Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 10/24/08, Pg Bus 8 & 7: Wind power sees gust of development. Wind turbines are no longer a “marginal player” in the country’s energy grid. Industry expects faster growth. Picture of 210 ft windmill tower in Pa.
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Roanoke Times, 1/13/09, Pg Va 1: Kaine pushes “green jobs,” renewable energy sources. The governor said creating renewable energy sources would help ease the economic crisis.
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Roanoke Times, 1/14/09, Pg Va 10: Same content as 1/13 but with Highlights of “green jobs” plan with offers of taxpayer give-away money.
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How can the Roanoke Times and their associates continue to wrap Kaine in a shroud of green hypocrisy when they know that both Kaine and Gov Warner before him have buried the major real-green Virginia project in a regulatory swamp?
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Click through the following blog items to view what Kaine does verses what he says and then draw your own conclusions. Real journalists would be asking Kaine to either put-up or shut-up on his support for clean green energy.
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Click for the dismal story of Virginia’s green energy initiative:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/halt-wind-farm.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/birds-bats-blades.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/wind-turbines-and-bats.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/wind-power.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/clouding-wind-energy-debate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Tucker Mills, West Virginia, Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Roanoke Times, 1/13/09, Pg Va 1: Kaine pushes “green jobs,” renewable energy sources. The governor said creating renewable energy sources would help ease the economic crisis.
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Roanoke Times, 1/14/09, Pg Va 10: Same content as 1/13 but with Highlights of “green jobs” plan with offers of taxpayer give-away money.
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How can the Roanoke Times and their associates continue to wrap Kaine in a shroud of green hypocrisy when they know that both Kaine and Gov Warner before him have buried the major real-green Virginia project in a regulatory swamp?
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Click through the following blog items to view what Kaine does verses what he says and then draw your own conclusions. Real journalists would be asking Kaine to either put-up or shut-up on his support for clean green energy.
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Click for the dismal story of Virginia’s green energy initiative:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/halt-wind-farm.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/birds-bats-blades.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/wind-turbines-and-bats.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/wind-power.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/clouding-wind-energy-debate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Tucker Mills, West Virginia, Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Hiding a Democrat Senator’s Perjury
Roanoke Times, 2/15/09, Small print back on Page 15: Burris confirms request for donation to Blagojevich. The disclosure is at odds with Burris’ under-oath testimony.
Burris is the Illinois senatorial replacement for Obama.
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Once again the Editors at the Roanoke Times are working overtime slanting the news to cover-up for their political friends and associates.
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“The disclosure is at odds” -- Can you say FELONY PERJURY?
Isn’t that what the law calls someone who does not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when testifying under oath, especially for something as important as an appointment to US Senator?
And by the way – the amount the RT editors couldn’t remember is $10,000!
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One can only imagine the large print front page story IF Burris was a Republican!
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Why are the RT editors wondering why their business is in a funk?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/throw-emanuel-under-bus.html
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Burris is the Illinois senatorial replacement for Obama.
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Once again the Editors at the Roanoke Times are working overtime slanting the news to cover-up for their political friends and associates.
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“The disclosure is at odds” -- Can you say FELONY PERJURY?
Isn’t that what the law calls someone who does not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when testifying under oath, especially for something as important as an appointment to US Senator?
And by the way – the amount the RT editors couldn’t remember is $10,000!
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One can only imagine the large print front page story IF Burris was a Republican!
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Why are the RT editors wondering why their business is in a funk?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/throw-emanuel-under-bus.html
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hiding Pelosi & Reid Again
Roanoke Times, 2/11/09, Pg 20: Large cartoon, drunken elephants,
Title Message: 8 years of GOP Rule
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Eight years of GOP rule?
Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006?
Does the House and Senate not establish and control the budget?
Does the House and Senate not establish the laws controlling how funds are spent?
Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances for last two years?
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Are the editors of the Roanoke Times trying to insult their reader’s intelligence, or, is it just working out that way?
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Click to review the time-line leading up to the current financial train-wreck:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/democrats-crash-burn-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/journalist-dishonesty-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-reforms.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/11/congratulations.html
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Title Message: 8 years of GOP Rule
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Eight years of GOP rule?
Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006?
Does the House and Senate not establish and control the budget?
Does the House and Senate not establish the laws controlling how funds are spent?
Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances for last two years?
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Are the editors of the Roanoke Times trying to insult their reader’s intelligence, or, is it just working out that way?
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Click to review the time-line leading up to the current financial train-wreck:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/democrats-crash-burn-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/journalist-dishonesty-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-reforms.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/11/congratulations.html
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Sunday, February 08, 2009
False Positives & Negatives
Roanoke Times, 2/8/09, Pg Horiz 2: Editorial: Protect food safety. A long and accusatory knee-jerk reaction to the current peanut butter salmonella recall based on almost no factual data. The editor’s message is that the manufacturer is criminal.
“Astoundingly, the inspectors’ report states that in each case, after the firm retested the product and received a negative status, the product was shipped “
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Some rational and nonjudgmental points to consider:
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Consider any test in which a positive outcome indicates the product in not okay (red light comes on) and a negative outcome (red light does not come on) indicates the product is okay.
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1. Every testing regimen is subject to false-positives and false-negatives. False negatives (red light didn't come on but should have) result in bad material being shipped with the belief that it’s good.
2. False positives (red light came on but shouldn't have) are identified by retesting those failures and achieving negative outcomes on the follow-up tests.
3. A good process requires that testing be done by a second testing facility to minimize testing error (apparently that was done in this case).
4. The current US commercial food products are the safest in the world. We are feeding 300 million, 3 meals a day with very few serious issues. Where there are issues there is prompt and comprehensive analysis for the cause-and-effect relationships. Most times when there are food poisoning issues, it is the end preparer that has caused the problem.
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As the RT editors eat food products sold at the downtown farmers market and at produce stands along the highway and eat dinners prepared by social and religious organizations perhaps they should question what testing processes these food items have been subjected to.
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Perhaps the RT editors should just take a deep breath and cover the facts of these stories without the emotional tripe and unsubstantiated criminal accusations. In other words: just report the news -- don't help make it!
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Let’s just view this as one more RT false-positive (slant) that needs lots more testing.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-poop-stupid.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-poop-on-ecoli-and-organic-foods.html
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“Astoundingly, the inspectors’ report states that in each case, after the firm retested the product and received a negative status, the product was shipped “
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Some rational and nonjudgmental points to consider:
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Consider any test in which a positive outcome indicates the product in not okay (red light comes on) and a negative outcome (red light does not come on) indicates the product is okay.
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1. Every testing regimen is subject to false-positives and false-negatives. False negatives (red light didn't come on but should have) result in bad material being shipped with the belief that it’s good.
2. False positives (red light came on but shouldn't have) are identified by retesting those failures and achieving negative outcomes on the follow-up tests.
3. A good process requires that testing be done by a second testing facility to minimize testing error (apparently that was done in this case).
4. The current US commercial food products are the safest in the world. We are feeding 300 million, 3 meals a day with very few serious issues. Where there are issues there is prompt and comprehensive analysis for the cause-and-effect relationships. Most times when there are food poisoning issues, it is the end preparer that has caused the problem.
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As the RT editors eat food products sold at the downtown farmers market and at produce stands along the highway and eat dinners prepared by social and religious organizations perhaps they should question what testing processes these food items have been subjected to.
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Perhaps the RT editors should just take a deep breath and cover the facts of these stories without the emotional tripe and unsubstantiated criminal accusations. In other words: just report the news -- don't help make it!
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Let’s just view this as one more RT false-positive (slant) that needs lots more testing.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-poop-stupid.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-poop-on-ecoli-and-organic-foods.html
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Friday, February 06, 2009
The Audacity of Extravagance
Roanoke Times, 2/6/09, Pg 7: Obama finally able to break in AF-1, Takes House Democrats to Williamsburg for dinner.
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Fine print, page 7! What a departure to the big RT 12/10/08 article with big political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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And taking AF-1 for the trip – what a gross act – talk about the auto execs coming thousands of miles to DC in small corporate jets!
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AF-1 is the biggest passenger plane in the world! And MapQuest says the trip is:
Estimated Drive Time: 2 hours 37 minutes Estimated Distance: 152.35 miles!
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And this at a time when Obama is telling us our entire economic system is collapsing and that burning fuel is causing CO2 that is destroying the world!
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Has anyone seen a better example of hypocrisy?
And the coverage/response by the Roanoke Times is yet again more gross-SLANT!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-and-real-fat-cats.html
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Fine print, page 7! What a departure to the big RT 12/10/08 article with big political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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And taking AF-1 for the trip – what a gross act – talk about the auto execs coming thousands of miles to DC in small corporate jets!
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AF-1 is the biggest passenger plane in the world! And MapQuest says the trip is:
Estimated Drive Time: 2 hours 37 minutes Estimated Distance: 152.35 miles!
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And this at a time when Obama is telling us our entire economic system is collapsing and that burning fuel is causing CO2 that is destroying the world!
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Has anyone seen a better example of hypocrisy?
And the coverage/response by the Roanoke Times is yet again more gross-SLANT!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-and-real-fat-cats.html
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Wind Power Regulatory Swamp
Roanoke Times, 2/4/09, Pg Va 9: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa: Wind power needs regulation.
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Yes Rick, and regulation they have. The highland wind-farm project has been in the regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the heifer-dust settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” were hung-on was the number of bats and birds that would fly into the blades.
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You know – like the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What is Rick and associates doing about the tens of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats? What is Rick doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”?
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Rick glosses over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. Suppose Rick applied for a home building permit, and the building inspector told him he could build the house, but, every week there would be an inspection and if more than two birds per week were killed by flying into his windows and glass doors, he would have to tear down the house.
Does anyone think Rick would build, and does anyone think that the banks would provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Rick is apparently typical of the green-power folks who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required.
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When you blow away the smoke, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Yes Rick, and regulation they have. The highland wind-farm project has been in the regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the heifer-dust settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” were hung-on was the number of bats and birds that would fly into the blades.
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You know – like the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What is Rick and associates doing about the tens of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats? What is Rick doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”?
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Rick glosses over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. Suppose Rick applied for a home building permit, and the building inspector told him he could build the house, but, every week there would be an inspection and if more than two birds per week were killed by flying into his windows and glass doors, he would have to tear down the house.
Does anyone think Rick would build, and does anyone think that the banks would provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Rick is apparently typical of the green-power folks who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required.
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When you blow away the smoke, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Iran Winning BIG
The Bush Administration and Israel had the data that Iran was concluding work on both nuclear weapons and long-range rockets to deliver them
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The Democrats and Left-wingers told Bush they would impeach him if he or Israel launched preemptive strikes to cripple Iran’s nuclear or rocket development.
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Today – 2-3-09 - Iran put a satellite into earth orbit!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487126,00.html
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For the folks who don’t yet have their GED – that means that very soon Iran can place a nuclear weapon into such a satellite, launch it into orbit, and on command cause it to plunge to earth and detonate above any city that ImAnutJob decides to annihilate.
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When ImAnutJob calls Washington and makes his non-negotiable demands, what will Obama and his “Smart Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton have to say then?
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Obama has already committed to stop development of our anti-missile system development and deployment - the only systems that have any chance of protecting the American people --- click for his youtube words in-person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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YET MORE CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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The Democrats and Left-wingers told Bush they would impeach him if he or Israel launched preemptive strikes to cripple Iran’s nuclear or rocket development.
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Today – 2-3-09 - Iran put a satellite into earth orbit!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487126,00.html
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For the folks who don’t yet have their GED – that means that very soon Iran can place a nuclear weapon into such a satellite, launch it into orbit, and on command cause it to plunge to earth and detonate above any city that ImAnutJob decides to annihilate.
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When ImAnutJob calls Washington and makes his non-negotiable demands, what will Obama and his “Smart Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton have to say then?
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Obama has already committed to stop development of our anti-missile system development and deployment - the only systems that have any chance of protecting the American people --- click for his youtube words in-person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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YET MORE CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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Yet Another Obama Tax Cheat
Latest web news:
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Obama's selection, Nancy Killefer, has withdrawn herself to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, because of issues with her tax-paying history, the White House announced Tuesday.
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No wonder Obama and the Democrats are for ever-higher taxes.
Apparently they don’t pay them!
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Chief Performance Office indeed, apparently Obama is the one having performance issues!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/03/white-house-performance-czar-nancy-killefer-withdraws-candidacy/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Obama's selection, Nancy Killefer, has withdrawn herself to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, because of issues with her tax-paying history, the White House announced Tuesday.
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No wonder Obama and the Democrats are for ever-higher taxes.
Apparently they don’t pay them!
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Chief Performance Office indeed, apparently Obama is the one having performance issues!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/03/white-house-performance-czar-nancy-killefer-withdraws-candidacy/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Duck and Cover to Minimize Fallout
Roanoke Times, 2/3/09, Pg 6A –Heading – Mortages: Senator to separate from troubled lender ---- (small print; back-end of Pg 6; mortages? Separate?)
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Another outstanding SLANT job by the editors of the Roanoke Times. Let’s republish as if “the Senator” was a Republican.
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Page 1: Large Heading:
Democrat Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, after 6 months of stone-walling, will try to minimize his major ethical conflict-of-interest by refinancing through a newly nationalized TARP-bank.
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Democrat Senator Dodd, who oversees the Home Loan Industry, received a secret personal sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial, the company that was at the epicenter of the current housing and financial crash that has thrown the US economy into recession.
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Rumors have it that he will form a Democrats for Ethics in Government Group with friends: Rangel, Geitner, Daschle, and Richardson
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Another outstanding SLANT job by the editors of the Roanoke Times. Let’s republish as if “the Senator” was a Republican.
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Page 1: Large Heading:
Democrat Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, after 6 months of stone-walling, will try to minimize his major ethical conflict-of-interest by refinancing through a newly nationalized TARP-bank.
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Democrat Senator Dodd, who oversees the Home Loan Industry, received a secret personal sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial, the company that was at the epicenter of the current housing and financial crash that has thrown the US economy into recession.
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Rumors have it that he will form a Democrats for Ethics in Government Group with friends: Rangel, Geitner, Daschle, and Richardson
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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More Inconvenient UnTruths
More Inconvenient UnTruths
There we had Mr. Gore, yet again, lecturing the less learned members of congress on the Gore-hypothesis of man-made global disaster. The following article addresses Mr Gore’s latest bait-and-switch insult to all those who have a GED in earth science. Isn’t it interesting that no one in the major media ever calls Mr Gore to account for his false and misleading hyperbole!
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Perhaps the major media people are afraid of confronting Mr Gore because of the old axiom: don’t ever argue with a fool because bystanders may become confused!
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Click for some prior items in this blog:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/positive-steps-at-roanoke-times.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485064,00.html
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Al Gore and Venus Envy
Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Steven Milloy
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Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it’s simply out of this world.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore. It’s hard to know whether the hearing’s lovefest was simply an example of the Senate’s exaggerated sense of collegiality, appalling ignorance and gullibility about environmental science, or fear of appearing to be less green than Gore.
It is true that atmospheric CO2 warms both Venus and the Earth, but that’s about where the CO2 commonality between the two planets ends. While the Venusian atmosphere is 97 percent CO2 (970,000 parts per million), the Earth’s atmosphere is only 0.038 percent CO2 (380 parts per million). So the Venusian atmosphere’s CO2 level is more than 2,557 times greater than the Earth’s. And since the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing by only about 2 parts per million annually, our planet is hardly being Venus-ized.
Gore’s incorporation of Mercury in his argument is equally specious because Mercury doesn’t really have any greenhouse gases in its atmosphere that would capture the radiation it gets from the Sun. As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations.
The significance of Gore’s testimony is that the Venus scenario seems to be his new basis for claiming that CO2 drives the Earth’s climate and, hence, his call that we must stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. At no time did he refer to his two An Inconvenient Truth-era arguments concerning the relationship between CO2 and global temperature -- that is, the Antarctic ice core record that goes back 650,000 years and the 20th century temperature/CO2 record. There’s good reason for his apparent abandonment of these arguments -- presented fairly, both actually debunk global warming alarmism. (Note: This YouTube video that I produced explains this point.)
Gore seemed to “wow” the Senate Committee with images and projections of environmental and even political upheaval allegedly already caused and to be caused in the future by climate change, such as melting glaciers and the 2007 fires in Greece that, Gore says, almost brought down the government. Gore repeatedly said that global warming threatens the “future of human civilization” and could bring it to a “screeching halt” in this century. Gore said that we are on a fossil fuel “rollercoaster” that is headed for a “crash.” We are near a “tipping point,” he said, beyond which human civilization isn’t possible on this planet.
Such melodrama, of course, is necessary to conceal and distract from the fact that there is no scientific evidence indicating that manmade emissions of CO2 are having any detectable impact, much less any harm, on the Earth’s climate or its population.
During his testimony, Gore invoked the specter of James Hansen, NASA’s global warming alarmist-in-chief, to bolster his climate claims. But like the ice core and 20th century temperature records, Hansen may soon have to be dropped from Gore’s presentations.
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.”
Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realistically simulate the climate system … some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results … This is clearly contrary to how science should be done … Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”
The same could be said for Gore and his slide shows.
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Venus envy? Yeah, why not? There’s no Al Gore there.
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There we had Mr. Gore, yet again, lecturing the less learned members of congress on the Gore-hypothesis of man-made global disaster. The following article addresses Mr Gore’s latest bait-and-switch insult to all those who have a GED in earth science. Isn’t it interesting that no one in the major media ever calls Mr Gore to account for his false and misleading hyperbole!
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Perhaps the major media people are afraid of confronting Mr Gore because of the old axiom: don’t ever argue with a fool because bystanders may become confused!
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Click for some prior items in this blog:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/positive-steps-at-roanoke-times.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485064,00.html
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Al Gore and Venus Envy
Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Steven Milloy
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Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it’s simply out of this world.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore. It’s hard to know whether the hearing’s lovefest was simply an example of the Senate’s exaggerated sense of collegiality, appalling ignorance and gullibility about environmental science, or fear of appearing to be less green than Gore.
It is true that atmospheric CO2 warms both Venus and the Earth, but that’s about where the CO2 commonality between the two planets ends. While the Venusian atmosphere is 97 percent CO2 (970,000 parts per million), the Earth’s atmosphere is only 0.038 percent CO2 (380 parts per million). So the Venusian atmosphere’s CO2 level is more than 2,557 times greater than the Earth’s. And since the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing by only about 2 parts per million annually, our planet is hardly being Venus-ized.
Gore’s incorporation of Mercury in his argument is equally specious because Mercury doesn’t really have any greenhouse gases in its atmosphere that would capture the radiation it gets from the Sun. As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations.
The significance of Gore’s testimony is that the Venus scenario seems to be his new basis for claiming that CO2 drives the Earth’s climate and, hence, his call that we must stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. At no time did he refer to his two An Inconvenient Truth-era arguments concerning the relationship between CO2 and global temperature -- that is, the Antarctic ice core record that goes back 650,000 years and the 20th century temperature/CO2 record. There’s good reason for his apparent abandonment of these arguments -- presented fairly, both actually debunk global warming alarmism. (Note: This YouTube video that I produced explains this point.)
Gore seemed to “wow” the Senate Committee with images and projections of environmental and even political upheaval allegedly already caused and to be caused in the future by climate change, such as melting glaciers and the 2007 fires in Greece that, Gore says, almost brought down the government. Gore repeatedly said that global warming threatens the “future of human civilization” and could bring it to a “screeching halt” in this century. Gore said that we are on a fossil fuel “rollercoaster” that is headed for a “crash.” We are near a “tipping point,” he said, beyond which human civilization isn’t possible on this planet.
Such melodrama, of course, is necessary to conceal and distract from the fact that there is no scientific evidence indicating that manmade emissions of CO2 are having any detectable impact, much less any harm, on the Earth’s climate or its population.
During his testimony, Gore invoked the specter of James Hansen, NASA’s global warming alarmist-in-chief, to bolster his climate claims. But like the ice core and 20th century temperature records, Hansen may soon have to be dropped from Gore’s presentations.
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.”
Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realistically simulate the climate system … some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results … This is clearly contrary to how science should be done … Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”
The same could be said for Gore and his slide shows.
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Venus envy? Yeah, why not? There’s no Al Gore there.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Yet More Change We Can Believe In?
Roanoke Times, 1/31/09, Pg 6A, Obama’s choice for Pentagon is a defense lobbyist.
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How can that be? Didn’t Obama sign an executive order to preclude lobbyists from serving in his administration after making that one of his campaign promises?
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And Obama’s appointment to Health and Human Cabinet post, Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and leader of the US Senate, apparently received $220,000 from health care groups. And that’s in addition to his lapse in $130,000 in unpaid income taxes.
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Of course Obama just appointed Tim Geitner, the guy who hasn’t paid his income taxes to be Secretary of the Treasury (parent organization of the IRS).
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Apparently not paying taxes, getting a quarter million from advocacy groups and being a lobbyist is not a problem if Obama wants you on his team! So much for campaign promises and executive orders!
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Yet More Change we can believe in?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/bill-habla-esponaol-richardson.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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How can that be? Didn’t Obama sign an executive order to preclude lobbyists from serving in his administration after making that one of his campaign promises?
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And Obama’s appointment to Health and Human Cabinet post, Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and leader of the US Senate, apparently received $220,000 from health care groups. And that’s in addition to his lapse in $130,000 in unpaid income taxes.
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Of course Obama just appointed Tim Geitner, the guy who hasn’t paid his income taxes to be Secretary of the Treasury (parent organization of the IRS).
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Apparently not paying taxes, getting a quarter million from advocacy groups and being a lobbyist is not a problem if Obama wants you on his team! So much for campaign promises and executive orders!
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Yet More Change we can believe in?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/bill-habla-esponaol-richardson.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Volvo Layoffs and Strikes
Roanoke Times, 1/28/2009, Pg 1: Volvo to lay off at lest 650 workers
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A large multipage article about the layoffs at the Volvo Dublin Va truck plant.
Not mentioned was the UAW 2008 strike supported with vigor by Jim Webb who eagerly walked the picket lines as part of his campaign game.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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Also not mentioned was the 2006 national “clean-air” regulations driving up the cost of engines by 10 thousand dollars.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/hoping-for-payback.html
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Perhaps the UAW union leaders and members who work at Volvo, GM, Ford and Chrysler may someday get the message that we are in a new world-wide economic system that will not support the UAW’s insatiable appetite for never-ending major increases in wages, benefits and work-rules.
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The drop in Volvo Dublin employment from 3170 in Nov 2006 to a projected 1000 by May 2008 should be a wake-up call for all who don’t give a hoot about productivity and business competition and the constraints of worldwide markets.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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A large multipage article about the layoffs at the Volvo Dublin Va truck plant.
Not mentioned was the UAW 2008 strike supported with vigor by Jim Webb who eagerly walked the picket lines as part of his campaign game.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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Also not mentioned was the 2006 national “clean-air” regulations driving up the cost of engines by 10 thousand dollars.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/hoping-for-payback.html
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Perhaps the UAW union leaders and members who work at Volvo, GM, Ford and Chrysler may someday get the message that we are in a new world-wide economic system that will not support the UAW’s insatiable appetite for never-ending major increases in wages, benefits and work-rules.
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The drop in Volvo Dublin employment from 3170 in Nov 2006 to a projected 1000 by May 2008 should be a wake-up call for all who don’t give a hoot about productivity and business competition and the constraints of worldwide markets.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Monday, January 26, 2009
MovinOnUp From GITMO to San Quentin
Roanoke Times, 1/26/09, Editorial: Obama doing good closing GITMO.
Since Obama and staff do not have any plan for what to do with the terrorists at GITMO it appears their best approach politically and legally is to move them to San Quentin.
San Quentin is a good choice because:
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1. It’s within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court – the most liberal Court in the US
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2. It’s in California, the most liberal state in the US.
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3. It’s in San Francisco, the most liberal city in the US
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4. It’s in a state that hasn’t been hit by terrorists and has been far too busy with their own self-indulgence to have noticed what has happened elsewhere. No ill will there!
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5. It’s in Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district which makes it convenient for her to stop by and commiserate with these poor abused children of Allah.
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6. It’s near SFO which makes it convenient to fly these folks to better places. Suggest half go to Oslo Norway and the other half to Stockholm Sweden. Those folks can then ensure they have a pleasant environment in which to do business.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-war-expands.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Since Obama and staff do not have any plan for what to do with the terrorists at GITMO it appears their best approach politically and legally is to move them to San Quentin.
San Quentin is a good choice because:
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1. It’s within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court – the most liberal Court in the US
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2. It’s in California, the most liberal state in the US.
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3. It’s in San Francisco, the most liberal city in the US
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4. It’s in a state that hasn’t been hit by terrorists and has been far too busy with their own self-indulgence to have noticed what has happened elsewhere. No ill will there!
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5. It’s in Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district which makes it convenient for her to stop by and commiserate with these poor abused children of Allah.
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6. It’s near SFO which makes it convenient to fly these folks to better places. Suggest half go to Oslo Norway and the other half to Stockholm Sweden. Those folks can then ensure they have a pleasant environment in which to do business.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-war-expands.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Positive Steps at the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 1/25/09, Pg A3: Study: Antarctica joins rest of globe in warming.
It has ramifications for sea level rise, as scientists had counted on the continent cooling, not warming.
Western Antarctica has warmed at a rapid rate over the past 50 years; eastern Antarctica also has warmed, but more slowly.
Picture of mother penguin feeding young with caption: “region’s climate has warmed by 1 degree since 1957.
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After all this scary lead-in headline hype, if one reads the detail, it was refreshing to see the RT actually printed some reasonable material that puts the above information in perspective:
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1. The research found that since 1957, for the entire continent of Antarctica has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit, albeit that the temperature is 50 degrees below zero.
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2. The study does NOT point to man-made climate change, acknowledging that some of the effects could be natural variability.
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3. It is hard to make data where none exits. (An included comment on the lack of measuring points and data and veracity of the “study”).
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As a novice skeptic I would add the following:
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1. Most folks acknowledge that we are in a global warming cycle that began in 1750 at the end of the “little ice age”. The three key issues are: 1. What are the causes and 2. What are the effects and 3. Is this a crisis and can man influence it?
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been 1 degree warming in the last 100 years.
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there was a major 35 years cooling period from 1940 through 1975.
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3. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been no net warming in the last 10 years.
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4. 16,000 years ago the Atlantic Ocean was 400 feet lower than it is today. The Outer Banks were 50 miles east (out to sea) from where it is today. The Atlantic has been rising about 1+ foot per hundred years for hundreds of years (long before man-made anything).
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Having given the supporters of the Gore-hypothesis lots of “good press coverage” perhaps the Roanoke Times will now give some equal coverage to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to be held March 8 through 10 in NYC, perhaps not.
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http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
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Click for global warming insight:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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It has ramifications for sea level rise, as scientists had counted on the continent cooling, not warming.
Western Antarctica has warmed at a rapid rate over the past 50 years; eastern Antarctica also has warmed, but more slowly.
Picture of mother penguin feeding young with caption: “region’s climate has warmed by 1 degree since 1957.
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After all this scary lead-in headline hype, if one reads the detail, it was refreshing to see the RT actually printed some reasonable material that puts the above information in perspective:
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1. The research found that since 1957, for the entire continent of Antarctica has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit, albeit that the temperature is 50 degrees below zero.
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2. The study does NOT point to man-made climate change, acknowledging that some of the effects could be natural variability.
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3. It is hard to make data where none exits. (An included comment on the lack of measuring points and data and veracity of the “study”).
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As a novice skeptic I would add the following:
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1. Most folks acknowledge that we are in a global warming cycle that began in 1750 at the end of the “little ice age”. The three key issues are: 1. What are the causes and 2. What are the effects and 3. Is this a crisis and can man influence it?
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been 1 degree warming in the last 100 years.
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there was a major 35 years cooling period from 1940 through 1975.
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3. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been no net warming in the last 10 years.
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4. 16,000 years ago the Atlantic Ocean was 400 feet lower than it is today. The Outer Banks were 50 miles east (out to sea) from where it is today. The Atlantic has been rising about 1+ foot per hundred years for hundreds of years (long before man-made anything).
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Having given the supporters of the Gore-hypothesis lots of “good press coverage” perhaps the Roanoke Times will now give some equal coverage to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to be held March 8 through 10 in NYC, perhaps not.
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http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
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Click for global warming insight:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Obama Attacks Rush Limbaugh
Roanoke Times, 1/24/09, Not a word! The silence of the lambs!
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Can you imagine the Roanoke Times Editorial Staff reaction if George Bush had directly and specifically attacked one of the liberal news figures --- telling key Congressional Democrats that if they wanted to participate in government that they must stop listening to the myriad of left-wing journalists and commentators.
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Is this what the CHANGE is all about?
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This is the new bipartisan approach to government?
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No -- this is clearly the Audacity of Arrogance!
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click for the details:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/23/obama-quit-listening-rush-limbaugh-want-things/
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today (thurs 1/22/09) that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Can you imagine the Roanoke Times Editorial Staff reaction if George Bush had directly and specifically attacked one of the liberal news figures --- telling key Congressional Democrats that if they wanted to participate in government that they must stop listening to the myriad of left-wing journalists and commentators.
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Is this what the CHANGE is all about?
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This is the new bipartisan approach to government?
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No -- this is clearly the Audacity of Arrogance!
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click for the details:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/23/obama-quit-listening-rush-limbaugh-want-things/
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today (thurs 1/22/09) that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
GOD and Government
Today, 1/20/09 was a wonderful day!
There was yet again a peaceful and pleasant transfer of power within the most wonderful and powerful country the world has ever known.
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The GOD and Government wonder of the day is that the crazy and nasty people of the world were not able to do something bad in Washington today! A major thank you to the many security people who devote their lives to our well being, and to the Almighty entity that looks over them.
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I'm sure that the ACLU and their friends and associates and supporters would not give credit to a Divine entity for today's peaceful exchange of administrations, however, those of us who are not as sophisticated and intellectual as those folks, are saying a prayer of thanksgiving for today's peaceful outcome.
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It's clear that God loves ordinary people, because he made so many of us!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-3-12-inches-high-x-9-wide.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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There was yet again a peaceful and pleasant transfer of power within the most wonderful and powerful country the world has ever known.
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The GOD and Government wonder of the day is that the crazy and nasty people of the world were not able to do something bad in Washington today! A major thank you to the many security people who devote their lives to our well being, and to the Almighty entity that looks over them.
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I'm sure that the ACLU and their friends and associates and supporters would not give credit to a Divine entity for today's peaceful exchange of administrations, however, those of us who are not as sophisticated and intellectual as those folks, are saying a prayer of thanksgiving for today's peaceful outcome.
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It's clear that God loves ordinary people, because he made so many of us!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-3-12-inches-high-x-9-wide.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
A Rose Among The Thorns Leaves the Briar Patch
Roanoke Times, 1/18/09, Pg Va 1: Farewell column by Shanna Flowers
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Shanna Flowers has indeed been a Rose among the thorns and briar patch of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times.
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Her articles have been fair, balanced and delivered in a professional manner. This is the hallmark of a real journalist who understands that journalism has both great power and great responsibility and strives to achieve an honorable balance.
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I will miss both her message and her smiling image with each article.
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I wish her the best in her new career. I’m sure she will continue to be a Rose wherever she travels and whatever she does.
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Godspeed Shanna!
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Shanna Flowers has indeed been a Rose among the thorns and briar patch of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times.
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Her articles have been fair, balanced and delivered in a professional manner. This is the hallmark of a real journalist who understands that journalism has both great power and great responsibility and strives to achieve an honorable balance.
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I will miss both her message and her smiling image with each article.
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I wish her the best in her new career. I’m sure she will continue to be a Rose wherever she travels and whatever she does.
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Godspeed Shanna!
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Obama Declares End of War on Terror
With his appointment of Leon Edward Panetta, a purely political operative with absolutely no background in intelligence or homeland security, to be head of the CIA, Obama has declared that the War on Terror is over.
Obama and his Clinton team will apparently revert to the way attacks on our people were handled by Clinton during his term. In fact they may well bring back Jamie (the wall) Gorelick who so proudly generated the Clinton directive that the FBI and the CIA could not collaborate on investigations, thereby allowing the 911 terrorists to enroll in pilot training in Florida.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/cia-director.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/waving-that-finger-again.html
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During his introduction, Obama’s challenge to Panetta is to lead the CIA back to being politically correct and in a favorable light with the caring and sensitive people of the human rights groups who have done so much to stop bad things from happening in the world.
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One might have thought the number one priority of the President of the US should be: “Never Again”! No more terrorist strikes against Americans wherever they may be!
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Obama’s next declaration was to close Guantanamo. What a stroke of leadership! No plan on what to do with the folks there who were killing our people, apparently they will just disappear and become nice people.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end military tribunals for terrorists. Apparently the major work done by Congress and the Federal Courts to arrive at a reasonable and just process is not OK. No word on what a replacement might be. Perhaps Judge Ito and the OJ legal system might be available again.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military homosexual rule that was put in place by Clinton. Apparently that will substantially enhance our military combat readiness and morale and make the battlefield a more friendly work environment.
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Just the beginning of the change we can believe in! Many of my friends who voted for Obama are already having second thoughts, and he hasn’t even taken office yet!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama and his Clinton team will apparently revert to the way attacks on our people were handled by Clinton during his term. In fact they may well bring back Jamie (the wall) Gorelick who so proudly generated the Clinton directive that the FBI and the CIA could not collaborate on investigations, thereby allowing the 911 terrorists to enroll in pilot training in Florida.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/cia-director.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/waving-that-finger-again.html
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During his introduction, Obama’s challenge to Panetta is to lead the CIA back to being politically correct and in a favorable light with the caring and sensitive people of the human rights groups who have done so much to stop bad things from happening in the world.
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One might have thought the number one priority of the President of the US should be: “Never Again”! No more terrorist strikes against Americans wherever they may be!
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Obama’s next declaration was to close Guantanamo. What a stroke of leadership! No plan on what to do with the folks there who were killing our people, apparently they will just disappear and become nice people.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end military tribunals for terrorists. Apparently the major work done by Congress and the Federal Courts to arrive at a reasonable and just process is not OK. No word on what a replacement might be. Perhaps Judge Ito and the OJ legal system might be available again.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military homosexual rule that was put in place by Clinton. Apparently that will substantially enhance our military combat readiness and morale and make the battlefield a more friendly work environment.
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Just the beginning of the change we can believe in! Many of my friends who voted for Obama are already having second thoughts, and he hasn’t even taken office yet!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Bill Habla Espanol Richardson
Roanoke Times, 1/5/09, Pg 1: Richardson withdraws bid for cabinet. Aides said a grand jury investigation would have delayed his confirmation as commerce secretary.
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No – that’s not it! He was chosen, selected and announced by Obama to be Obama’s Commerce Secretary. He was not at Sotheby’s bidding on anything. And what’s with the “delay”? The guy just might be going to jail – some delay! Who writes these RT headlines and why is it so hard to type “Democrat” for bad news bears and so easy to type “Republican”?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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It was noteworthy that he chose to accept the Obama appointment-elect in Spanish several weeks ago. Apparently he didn’t withdraw in Spanish! Wonder why not?
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Click back through these links for a more complete picture of Bill Richardson who was a key Clinton operative and who had a major responsibility for enabling North Korea to become a nuclear-rogue nation at our expense and who totally dropped the ball on American energy independence 15 years ago!
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And he represents Change we can believe in?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/presidential-candidate-pot-man.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/should-have-didnt-too-late-now.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/richardsons-experience.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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No – that’s not it! He was chosen, selected and announced by Obama to be Obama’s Commerce Secretary. He was not at Sotheby’s bidding on anything. And what’s with the “delay”? The guy just might be going to jail – some delay! Who writes these RT headlines and why is it so hard to type “Democrat” for bad news bears and so easy to type “Republican”?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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It was noteworthy that he chose to accept the Obama appointment-elect in Spanish several weeks ago. Apparently he didn’t withdraw in Spanish! Wonder why not?
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Click back through these links for a more complete picture of Bill Richardson who was a key Clinton operative and who had a major responsibility for enabling North Korea to become a nuclear-rogue nation at our expense and who totally dropped the ball on American energy independence 15 years ago!
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And he represents Change we can believe in?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/presidential-candidate-pot-man.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/should-have-didnt-too-late-now.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/richardsons-experience.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
What's 3-1/2 Inches High X 9 Wide
Roanoke Times, 12/31/08, Pg 1: Major Heading and leading article: Council prayer stokes e-mailer’s ire. More inside pg 8. Roanoke’s vice-mayor hit a hot-button issue by opening a city meeting with a prayer that referred to God’s son.
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WOW! What a major front page story to ring-out the old year!
A person (as in one) wrote an email complaining about a council member mentioning God.
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Has anyone ever written so much about so little in journalistic history?
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At first folks focused on the VICE-mayor title and thought Roanoke had some real excitement in process, but alas, that was not to be.
It’s just the frustrations of a disgruntled person who is a kindred spirit to the editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal associates and friends at the ACLU.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-spell-christmas.html
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I hardly think the founders of the Constitution, who prayed at every opportunity, would consider this prayer a transgression or problem or even an issue. In fact they clearly would have expected a more robust expression of our religious heritage at this holiday season.
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I note that the RT uses the date of 2008. What do they think that date represents?
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WOW! What a major front page story to ring-out the old year!
A person (as in one) wrote an email complaining about a council member mentioning God.
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Has anyone ever written so much about so little in journalistic history?
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At first folks focused on the VICE-mayor title and thought Roanoke had some real excitement in process, but alas, that was not to be.
It’s just the frustrations of a disgruntled person who is a kindred spirit to the editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal associates and friends at the ACLU.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-spell-christmas.html
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I hardly think the founders of the Constitution, who prayed at every opportunity, would consider this prayer a transgression or problem or even an issue. In fact they clearly would have expected a more robust expression of our religious heritage at this holiday season.
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I note that the RT uses the date of 2008. What do they think that date represents?
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Mr Gore's Problem With The Data
Roanoke Times, 12/30/08, Pg Va 9: Commentary: A slow approach to warming by Jay Ambrose of Scripps Howard New Service. KUDOs to the RT for publishing this article.
Mr Ambrose expresses doubts about global warming magnitude and cause and effect and what if any government actions are appropriate.
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Why do so many good people doubt Mr Gore’s hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing major increases in atmospheric temperature that he says will very soon cause catastrophic environmental and human damage?
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Mr Gore, as the salesman for the UN’s IPCC group, went so far outside the “truth and reality box” with his presentations and movie that many people now doubt his entire hypothesis. His PR campaign enveloped the concepts of: global warming: man-made CO2 and adverse climate change without any regard for the natural forces that has dominated earth’s environment for millions of years. This structure was designed to give his hypothesis the broadest possible coverage of any weather event anywhere and cloud the facts between regional weather events and fossil fuel use and global changes and natural causes and variations.
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Mr Gore and the IPCC knew that their infamous charts showing CO2 causing major temperature variations occuring hundreds of thousands of years ago are patently false and not accepted earth science theory.
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Many good, reasonable, prudent and intelligent people question that man-man CO2 has caused the warming that has occurred since the end of the “little ice age” in 1750. Mr Gore and the IPCC refuse to explain their time line of current warming starting in 1750. Clearly the first 150 years of major land-based glacier retreat occurred before any significant man-made CO2.
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They question the exaggerated forecasts of huge rises in sea levels due to arctic sea-ice melting because they all have watched ice melt in a grass of soda without overflowing and they know that the north-west-passage has been open before.
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They know that one component for increasing atmospheric CO2 is natural increased global temperature from whatever cause. Even youngsters have watched the CO2 escape from a bottle of chilled soda as it warms up.
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They know that there was a significant global cooling for the 35 years from 1940 through 1975 in spite of the major CO2 releases from WWI, WWII, Korea and accelerated world-wide fossil fuel consumption.
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They know that there has been only one degree warming in the past 100 years and NO global temperature increase during the past 10 years in spite of the increased level of atmospheric CO2.
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They know that the significant global warming that occurred during the medieval period did not result in catastrophic disaster. In fact, it was the following “little ice age” that produced major negative impacts.
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They know that only those who are hiding the truth would mount a campaign to silence the questions about their hypothesis and not participate in meaningful and professional dialogue.
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They know that Mr Jim Hanson, prophet of man-made global warming and paradoxically the keeper of the official government temperature data, has continually published faulty data that were only corrected due to scrutiny by doubting-bloggers.
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And so these skeptics and doubters and deniers continue to ask for the truth and nothing but the truth about the global and regional changes we observe and measure and what part if any man-made actions are contributors. Perhaps that’s what everyone should be seeking including Mr Gore and his associates at the IPCC. The debate about the causes and effects of regional and global changes are clearly not over and the current data does not favor Mr Gore or draconian government actions that will cripple our countries economic systems and infrastructure.
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Click for global warming data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Mr Ambrose expresses doubts about global warming magnitude and cause and effect and what if any government actions are appropriate.
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Why do so many good people doubt Mr Gore’s hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing major increases in atmospheric temperature that he says will very soon cause catastrophic environmental and human damage?
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Mr Gore, as the salesman for the UN’s IPCC group, went so far outside the “truth and reality box” with his presentations and movie that many people now doubt his entire hypothesis. His PR campaign enveloped the concepts of: global warming: man-made CO2 and adverse climate change without any regard for the natural forces that has dominated earth’s environment for millions of years. This structure was designed to give his hypothesis the broadest possible coverage of any weather event anywhere and cloud the facts between regional weather events and fossil fuel use and global changes and natural causes and variations.
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Mr Gore and the IPCC knew that their infamous charts showing CO2 causing major temperature variations occuring hundreds of thousands of years ago are patently false and not accepted earth science theory.
-
Many good, reasonable, prudent and intelligent people question that man-man CO2 has caused the warming that has occurred since the end of the “little ice age” in 1750. Mr Gore and the IPCC refuse to explain their time line of current warming starting in 1750. Clearly the first 150 years of major land-based glacier retreat occurred before any significant man-made CO2.
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They question the exaggerated forecasts of huge rises in sea levels due to arctic sea-ice melting because they all have watched ice melt in a grass of soda without overflowing and they know that the north-west-passage has been open before.
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They know that one component for increasing atmospheric CO2 is natural increased global temperature from whatever cause. Even youngsters have watched the CO2 escape from a bottle of chilled soda as it warms up.
-
They know that there was a significant global cooling for the 35 years from 1940 through 1975 in spite of the major CO2 releases from WWI, WWII, Korea and accelerated world-wide fossil fuel consumption.
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They know that there has been only one degree warming in the past 100 years and NO global temperature increase during the past 10 years in spite of the increased level of atmospheric CO2.
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They know that the significant global warming that occurred during the medieval period did not result in catastrophic disaster. In fact, it was the following “little ice age” that produced major negative impacts.
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They know that only those who are hiding the truth would mount a campaign to silence the questions about their hypothesis and not participate in meaningful and professional dialogue.
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They know that Mr Jim Hanson, prophet of man-made global warming and paradoxically the keeper of the official government temperature data, has continually published faulty data that were only corrected due to scrutiny by doubting-bloggers.
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And so these skeptics and doubters and deniers continue to ask for the truth and nothing but the truth about the global and regional changes we observe and measure and what part if any man-made actions are contributors. Perhaps that’s what everyone should be seeking including Mr Gore and his associates at the IPCC. The debate about the causes and effects of regional and global changes are clearly not over and the current data does not favor Mr Gore or draconian government actions that will cripple our countries economic systems and infrastructure.
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Click for global warming data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Can You Spell CHRISTMAS?
Roanoke Times, 12-25-08, Pg 1: Heading: Happy holidays
12/26/08, Pg A3: Christmas now official holiday in Iraq
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Apparently Dec 25th is Christmas in Iraq, but not at the Roanoke Times!
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It’s disappointing that the liberal press, who boast of their “inclusiveness”, find it so difficult to say “Merry Christmas”. What a sad and forlorn group that have given up their independence in order to serve on the altar of “political correctness”.
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Click for Prior Items:
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Christmas at Arlington
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-at-arlington.html
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Roanoke Times, 12/17/06, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Christian bullies manufactured this “War on Christmas”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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12/26/08, Pg A3: Christmas now official holiday in Iraq
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Apparently Dec 25th is Christmas in Iraq, but not at the Roanoke Times!
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It’s disappointing that the liberal press, who boast of their “inclusiveness”, find it so difficult to say “Merry Christmas”. What a sad and forlorn group that have given up their independence in order to serve on the altar of “political correctness”.
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Click for Prior Items:
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Christmas at Arlington
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-at-arlington.html
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Roanoke Times, 12/17/06, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Christian bullies manufactured this “War on Christmas”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
LTE Writer Takes Gloves Off
Roanoke Times, 12/25/08, Pg Va 14: Letters to Editor by Peter T. Sarjeant, Bedford, Va.
Radmacher (RT Editor) finds no bliss in ignorance.
“The article, “Efforts to clean coal’s image won’t work.” (Dec.21 commentary), in the Horizon section by Dan Radmacher is the most negative, biased, bilious baloney I have ever read in the Roanoke Times.”
“Has he ever visited on of the coal-burning power plants to witness what is being done to “clean” the coal? He simply copies the tripe that is generally spouted by anti-coal mongers in the free press. It is totally useless information, largely fabricated and without any scientific foundation whatsoever. A real Scroogy attitude.”
“Poor man. He lives in an ignorance that has no bliss.”
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My, My! And the editors of the RT think that my blog items here in the RoanokeSlant.org are unnecessarily harsh and qualify as “roughing the quarterback”!
I don’t know Mr. Sarjeant, but apparently we have a similar view of many of the RT’s editorial board pronouncements.
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This blog contains over 1,000 items that highlight the one-sided liberal views expressed in the RT both as comment and as “news”. I felt compelled to include Mr. Sarjeant’s LTE as yet another blog item reflecting a valid contrarian view of the RT's Editorial Board.
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Some Sample Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-want-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/roanoke-going-green.html
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Radmacher (RT Editor) finds no bliss in ignorance.
“The article, “Efforts to clean coal’s image won’t work.” (Dec.21 commentary), in the Horizon section by Dan Radmacher is the most negative, biased, bilious baloney I have ever read in the Roanoke Times.”
“Has he ever visited on of the coal-burning power plants to witness what is being done to “clean” the coal? He simply copies the tripe that is generally spouted by anti-coal mongers in the free press. It is totally useless information, largely fabricated and without any scientific foundation whatsoever. A real Scroogy attitude.”
“Poor man. He lives in an ignorance that has no bliss.”
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My, My! And the editors of the RT think that my blog items here in the RoanokeSlant.org are unnecessarily harsh and qualify as “roughing the quarterback”!
I don’t know Mr. Sarjeant, but apparently we have a similar view of many of the RT’s editorial board pronouncements.
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This blog contains over 1,000 items that highlight the one-sided liberal views expressed in the RT both as comment and as “news”. I felt compelled to include Mr. Sarjeant’s LTE as yet another blog item reflecting a valid contrarian view of the RT's Editorial Board.
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Some Sample Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-want-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/roanoke-going-green.html
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Throw Emanuel Under the Bus
Roanoke Times, 12/21/08, Pg 1: Past ties to Ill. Governor a liability for Emanuel.
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A carefully crafted AP hedge-paper setting the stage for Ram Emanuel’s ejection from Obama’s Chief of Staff position should the government wiretaps be embarrassing of Emanuel discussing Obama’s “up for bid” vacated senate seat with Ron Blagojevich. The inference is that Obama wouldn’t have had any idea that was going on!
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Click for Blago-Obama-Daley and fun times in Chicago.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Blago-Obama-Daley.jpg
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Exactly how dull does the AP think people are, and what a difference with their handling of the Plame-Wilson-Libby situation. The AP and the liberal press were so into that story that they have even refused to publish the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear weapons material discovered in Iraq and then moved by the US to Canada.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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Regardless how this particular incident turns out, the public is well aware of the history of Chicago politics and are just now starting to get an insight into Obama’s history within that political swamp.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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A carefully crafted AP hedge-paper setting the stage for Ram Emanuel’s ejection from Obama’s Chief of Staff position should the government wiretaps be embarrassing of Emanuel discussing Obama’s “up for bid” vacated senate seat with Ron Blagojevich. The inference is that Obama wouldn’t have had any idea that was going on!
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Click for Blago-Obama-Daley and fun times in Chicago.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Blago-Obama-Daley.jpg
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Exactly how dull does the AP think people are, and what a difference with their handling of the Plame-Wilson-Libby situation. The AP and the liberal press were so into that story that they have even refused to publish the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear weapons material discovered in Iraq and then moved by the US to Canada.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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Regardless how this particular incident turns out, the public is well aware of the history of Chicago politics and are just now starting to get an insight into Obama’s history within that political swamp.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Big Out of State Student Tuition Reduction
Apparently the Va Election Board directed local election officials to not require ID as a requirement for voting in the 2008 general election Nov 4.
As a result it appears that many out of state students successfully voted as state residents at the polls near their school.
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It now appears that a large number of these students will be using this Virginia Government certified residency to apply for in-state-tuition at all Virginia Public Colleges and Universities. Resistance to these applications will constitute the basis for a class action law suit to enforce these rules.
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Seems like a proper and simple followup activity. However, there may be significant economic implications for the schools and the state.
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It turns out there are 28,234 out of state undergraduates enrolled in Virginia Public four year institutions.
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It also turns out that there is approximately a $10,000 per student per year fee charged to out of state students.
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That will result in $282.3 MILLION dollars per year that these students will save!
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Not clear how that reduction will relate to state and school budgets.
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Perhaps Gov Kaine will address that in his upcoming budget.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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As a result it appears that many out of state students successfully voted as state residents at the polls near their school.
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It now appears that a large number of these students will be using this Virginia Government certified residency to apply for in-state-tuition at all Virginia Public Colleges and Universities. Resistance to these applications will constitute the basis for a class action law suit to enforce these rules.
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Seems like a proper and simple followup activity. However, there may be significant economic implications for the schools and the state.
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It turns out there are 28,234 out of state undergraduates enrolled in Virginia Public four year institutions.
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It also turns out that there is approximately a $10,000 per student per year fee charged to out of state students.
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That will result in $282.3 MILLION dollars per year that these students will save!
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Not clear how that reduction will relate to state and school budgets.
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Perhaps Gov Kaine will address that in his upcoming budget.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Kaine Steers Va into Green Something
Roanoke Times, 12/12/08, Pg Bus 8: Kaine steers Virginia in direction of “green jobs”. Virginia has the potential to create tens of thousands of green jobs by 2025, Kaine said.
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia GREEN Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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What are these green-jobs going to produce that will be greener than wind power on the Va-WVa highlands?
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Based on his total lack of leadership to support the highland wind farm, how can anyone, even someone from the Roanoke Times, take this political hot air seriously?
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To put the total hex on anything that could possibly be done, the article quotes Glen Besa of the Sierra Club as saying he hopes to be supportive of Kaine’s initiatives. Since the Sierra Club has not been supportive of any energy project I have ever heard of, one wonders what new invention he is talking about?
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The bottom line is:
1) We have increased our US population by 2 million persons per year for over 50 years. Every one of these people need and use energy.
2) The Democrat party and the so called “environmentalists” have not supported any additional energy sources in the last 20 years.
3) Our current dependence on foreign energy has created massive financial and security issues for our country.
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We look forward to these new green-jobs that the Sierra Club endorses.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/drill-but-dont-really-drill.html
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia GREEN Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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What are these green-jobs going to produce that will be greener than wind power on the Va-WVa highlands?
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Based on his total lack of leadership to support the highland wind farm, how can anyone, even someone from the Roanoke Times, take this political hot air seriously?
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To put the total hex on anything that could possibly be done, the article quotes Glen Besa of the Sierra Club as saying he hopes to be supportive of Kaine’s initiatives. Since the Sierra Club has not been supportive of any energy project I have ever heard of, one wonders what new invention he is talking about?
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The bottom line is:
1) We have increased our US population by 2 million persons per year for over 50 years. Every one of these people need and use energy.
2) The Democrat party and the so called “environmentalists” have not supported any additional energy sources in the last 20 years.
3) Our current dependence on foreign energy has created massive financial and security issues for our country.
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We look forward to these new green-jobs that the Sierra Club endorses.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/drill-but-dont-really-drill.html
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90 Million Shoes
Roanoke Times, 12/17/08, Pg A 11: Yet another AP and liberal media gleeful and festive article on the shoe thrown at Pres. Bush at a Bagdad news conference.
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It’s interesting that AP and the major media don’t talk about the 90 million Iraqi shoes that are now free from the terror of Sadam and Usay and Kuday. No one threw shoes at them because everyone knew their feet would be cut-off and then their head and then the heads of all their family members would be cut off just like journalist David Pearl who the liberal media has chosen to forget. No liberal media medal of honor for him!
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On the subject of liberal media gross slant and bias, please advise if anyone has ever seen a significant liberal media article on the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear bomb making material the US army removed from Iraq and sent to vaults in Canada for safe keeping.
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All this shoe hype wouldn’t be a part of the ongoing media effort to keep folks from asking about Obama’s ChicagoGate issues, would it? Perhaps reporters should be throwing shoes at him until he comes clean on this scandal and the corrupt Democrat machine!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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It’s interesting that AP and the major media don’t talk about the 90 million Iraqi shoes that are now free from the terror of Sadam and Usay and Kuday. No one threw shoes at them because everyone knew their feet would be cut-off and then their head and then the heads of all their family members would be cut off just like journalist David Pearl who the liberal media has chosen to forget. No liberal media medal of honor for him!
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On the subject of liberal media gross slant and bias, please advise if anyone has ever seen a significant liberal media article on the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear bomb making material the US army removed from Iraq and sent to vaults in Canada for safe keeping.
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All this shoe hype wouldn’t be a part of the ongoing media effort to keep folks from asking about Obama’s ChicagoGate issues, would it? Perhaps reporters should be throwing shoes at him until he comes clean on this scandal and the corrupt Democrat machine!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Audacity of Transparency NOT
Where are the media cries for the Obama promised and advertised openness of the new administration relative to communications between the “Office of the President Elect” and Blago, the Democrat Gov. of Illinois who has been busy selling a US Senate seat to the highest bidder.
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Obama told us (on TV) that neither he nor his team have been involved in discussion with Blago “about this subject”.
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Turns out: Ron Emanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, had lots of discussions and now there’s silence until “the team” figures out what’s recorded on tape and what they have to “fess up to” and how to spin the story. What a refreshing new approach to transparency and the media just rolls over and lets it roll by! Wouldn’t want to spoil the start of the Obama Honeymoon.
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Certainly a far cry from how the major media have handled all the items that have surfaced during the Bush term and the media feeding frenzy focused on Gov. Palin.
So much for fair and balanced!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/13/report-obamas-aide-discussed-senate-job-blagojevich/
“Communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps, a source confirmed for the newspaper.
Another source told the newspaper that contact between the Obama camp and the governor's administration over the Senate seat began the Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, when Emanuel called the cell phone of Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris.
Emanuel delivered a list of "acceptable" candidates, the source told the newspaper. The list named Obama adviser Valerie Jarrert, Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source told the Tribune.
After the election, Emanuel called Harris back to add the name of Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the approved list, the source said.”-
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Obama told us (on TV) that neither he nor his team have been involved in discussion with Blago “about this subject”.
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Turns out: Ron Emanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, had lots of discussions and now there’s silence until “the team” figures out what’s recorded on tape and what they have to “fess up to” and how to spin the story. What a refreshing new approach to transparency and the media just rolls over and lets it roll by! Wouldn’t want to spoil the start of the Obama Honeymoon.
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Certainly a far cry from how the major media have handled all the items that have surfaced during the Bush term and the media feeding frenzy focused on Gov. Palin.
So much for fair and balanced!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/13/report-obamas-aide-discussed-senate-job-blagojevich/
“Communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps, a source confirmed for the newspaper.
Another source told the newspaper that contact between the Obama camp and the governor's administration over the Senate seat began the Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, when Emanuel called the cell phone of Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris.
Emanuel delivered a list of "acceptable" candidates, the source told the newspaper. The list named Obama adviser Valerie Jarrert, Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source told the Tribune.
After the election, Emanuel called Harris back to add the name of Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the approved list, the source said.”-
We Want You?
Roanoke Times, 12/14/08, Pg Horiz 1: Extensive editorial about “joining the RT reader panel”.
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Article should read: we want your input if you’re like us! And we’ll make that decision!
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Very interesting! Back on 1/7/06 the RT launched a similar effort to:
“we’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for thoughtful conservatives who can present views that differ from the Roanoke Times editorial board.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/searching-for-whom.html
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That diligent search brought us articles by folks like Ray Stubble, yet another clone of the left-wing and liberal editorial board of the RT, hardly a contrasting view of anything.
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Good news RT editors: There are over 1,000 items in this blog that should fulfill your objectives of having reasonable, prudent and contrasting views of the material presented in the RT with the author clearly identified and not receiving any compensation for anything. All this great stuff and free too!
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Your search is over! What a Holiday gift! Just link to this blog and you’ll get the feedback you deserve.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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Article should read: we want your input if you’re like us! And we’ll make that decision!
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Very interesting! Back on 1/7/06 the RT launched a similar effort to:
“we’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for thoughtful conservatives who can present views that differ from the Roanoke Times editorial board.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/searching-for-whom.html
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That diligent search brought us articles by folks like Ray Stubble, yet another clone of the left-wing and liberal editorial board of the RT, hardly a contrasting view of anything.
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Good news RT editors: There are over 1,000 items in this blog that should fulfill your objectives of having reasonable, prudent and contrasting views of the material presented in the RT with the author clearly identified and not receiving any compensation for anything. All this great stuff and free too!
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Your search is over! What a Holiday gift! Just link to this blog and you’ll get the feedback you deserve.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Obama and the Real Fat-Cats
Roanoke Times, 12/10/08, Pg Va 8: Political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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Good cheap shot. Of course those dollars will go to support jobs and taxes here in rural Virginia.
Now for fairness and equity: how about a cartoon roasting the Coronation of Prince Obama.
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After buying the election for over $700 MILLION DOLLARS his jesters are now selling tickets to the coronation ceremony for $50,000 per ticket. (not found in the RT!)
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/12/g-buys-day-presidential-inauguration-trip/
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times would try to portray the Republicans as the fat cats of politics given the facts of the 2008 primaries and elections.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/those-poor-democrats.html
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Good cheap shot. Of course those dollars will go to support jobs and taxes here in rural Virginia.
Now for fairness and equity: how about a cartoon roasting the Coronation of Prince Obama.
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After buying the election for over $700 MILLION DOLLARS his jesters are now selling tickets to the coronation ceremony for $50,000 per ticket. (not found in the RT!)
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/12/g-buys-day-presidential-inauguration-trip/
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times would try to portray the Republicans as the fat cats of politics given the facts of the 2008 primaries and elections.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/those-poor-democrats.html
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere
Roanoke Times:
12/10/08, Pg A7: Big bailout ($14 BILLION) has GOP stalling
12/08/08, Pg A7: Key senator calls for GM chief to resign
12/09/08, Pg A6: Congress, White House craft auto aid plan, key item: “car czar”
12/12/08, Pg A6: Auto bailout talks collapse over union wages
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The Alaska “bridge to nowhere” was actually designed to connect Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, to the airport that services that city and to the only land available to expand that city.
View that in contrast to the Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere that will pump billions of tax dollars into the failing car companies and their pack-man UAW union workers who get 90% of their pay weather they’re making cars or drinking coffee!
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The key to Democrat support for this bill is the “pay back” for their funding and votes during last months elections. The Obama $700 MILLION dollars certainly didn’t come from $5 internet donations.
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Key senator calls for GM chief to resign. This from Democrat Sen Chris Countrywide Dodd the guy who got a secret sweetheart mortgage deal from THE major player in the current financial collapse. What’s his opinion worth these days?
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And what’s with all the discussions about a “car-czar”? Does anyone remember what happened under the last real czar – and – what happened to him and his family? How about our past czars for health, drugs, and poverty. There is a car-czar! His name is Katsuaki Watanabe and he’s the CEO of Toyota Motors.
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In order to get out of this swamp, The United Auto Workers (UAW) Union leadership and membership must accept the fact that the “new world economic reality” will no longer support the outlandish contracts that they have extracted from the US auto industry through coercion and intimidation. They can either adjust or perish.
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere should not be built with tax dollars. The parties involved must construct a new business and product model. This will take years, not months!
In the mean time the big-3 are making lots of money off-shore. Interesting!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
12/10/08, Pg A7: Big bailout ($14 BILLION) has GOP stalling
12/08/08, Pg A7: Key senator calls for GM chief to resign
12/09/08, Pg A6: Congress, White House craft auto aid plan, key item: “car czar”
12/12/08, Pg A6: Auto bailout talks collapse over union wages
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The Alaska “bridge to nowhere” was actually designed to connect Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, to the airport that services that city and to the only land available to expand that city.
View that in contrast to the Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere that will pump billions of tax dollars into the failing car companies and their pack-man UAW union workers who get 90% of their pay weather they’re making cars or drinking coffee!
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The key to Democrat support for this bill is the “pay back” for their funding and votes during last months elections. The Obama $700 MILLION dollars certainly didn’t come from $5 internet donations.
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Key senator calls for GM chief to resign. This from Democrat Sen Chris Countrywide Dodd the guy who got a secret sweetheart mortgage deal from THE major player in the current financial collapse. What’s his opinion worth these days?
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And what’s with all the discussions about a “car-czar”? Does anyone remember what happened under the last real czar – and – what happened to him and his family? How about our past czars for health, drugs, and poverty. There is a car-czar! His name is Katsuaki Watanabe and he’s the CEO of Toyota Motors.
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In order to get out of this swamp, The United Auto Workers (UAW) Union leadership and membership must accept the fact that the “new world economic reality” will no longer support the outlandish contracts that they have extracted from the US auto industry through coercion and intimidation. They can either adjust or perish.
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere should not be built with tax dollars. The parties involved must construct a new business and product model. This will take years, not months!
In the mean time the big-3 are making lots of money off-shore. Interesting!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
Can you say "DEMOCRAT"
Roanoke Times, 12/13/08, Pg A5: Defiant Illinois Governor not stepping down
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Those rightwing guys at Fox news were lamenting that after this story broke none of the major media morning shows ever mentioned that Blagojevich was a DEMOCRAT. I was skeptical.
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However here we have the Roanoke Times article with the major headline, the sub-headline the description under the Blagojevich picture with no mention that he's a DEMOCRAT.
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In fact, the first time the word DEMOCRAT is printed is in the third column where it's dropped as the AG "also a Democrat" etc.
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Sure a different approach to coverage of folks like Ted Stevens (AK) where it's made very clear right up front and over and over that he's a Republican!
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And the RT and major media continue to insist that they don't have any slant and bias! These folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-blind-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/roanoke-times-and-bloggers.html
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Those rightwing guys at Fox news were lamenting that after this story broke none of the major media morning shows ever mentioned that Blagojevich was a DEMOCRAT. I was skeptical.
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However here we have the Roanoke Times article with the major headline, the sub-headline the description under the Blagojevich picture with no mention that he's a DEMOCRAT.
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In fact, the first time the word DEMOCRAT is printed is in the third column where it's dropped as the AG "also a Democrat" etc.
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Sure a different approach to coverage of folks like Ted Stevens (AK) where it's made very clear right up front and over and over that he's a Republican!
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And the RT and major media continue to insist that they don't have any slant and bias! These folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-blind-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/roanoke-times-and-bloggers.html
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Calling In Heterosexual Today
Roanoke Times, 12/9/08, Pg A 4: Homosexuals urged to “call in gay” today.
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Not clear why one would call in to tell their boss they’re not coming to work based on their sexual preference.
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It’s also not clear what they expect their boss to reply to that statement.
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Perhaps we all should just handle our sexual preference the same way we handle other personal things that other folks don’t have a “need to know” and that really shouldn’t matter for most situations.
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Perhaps “don’t ask – don’t tell”, is good advice for all of us!
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Not clear why one would call in to tell their boss they’re not coming to work based on their sexual preference.
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It’s also not clear what they expect their boss to reply to that statement.
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Perhaps we all should just handle our sexual preference the same way we handle other personal things that other folks don’t have a “need to know” and that really shouldn’t matter for most situations.
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Perhaps “don’t ask – don’t tell”, is good advice for all of us!
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Sunday, December 07, 2008
TWO DAYS THAT LIVE IN INFAMY
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
No Real Vote Recount
Roanoke Times, 12/2/08, Pg Va 8: Editorial: Goode won’t get a real recount. Without a paper trail in the 5th Dist. Officials can only double-check their arithmetic.
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The Editors are correct – for all the wrong reasons!
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The major issue with the recount is not adding up the numbers of votes in each precinct whether cast by paper, mechanical incriminators, terminals or colored marbles.
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The real BIG issue is who is registered to vote, are they valid voters and who actually voted under their name.
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The Roanoke Times and their friends find nothing wrong with the ACORN voter registration activities and they adamantly oppose requiring valid voter ID at the polls. They also oppose asking people to fill-out provisional ballots for cases where the poll workers have doubts about a voter’s qualification to vote.
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These are the real issues why our voting system is not valid and why a recount won’t be “real”!
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The lack of valid ID was a major issue in the 9/11 attack, many of the terrorists had invalid Virginia ID and the 9/11 Commission directed that all states implement a proper personal ID system. It’s been seven years since 9/11 -- why hasn’t that been done?
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It is sad indeed that the very basis of our system of government is being undermined by people who claim to hold high our constitutional values.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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The Editors are correct – for all the wrong reasons!
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The major issue with the recount is not adding up the numbers of votes in each precinct whether cast by paper, mechanical incriminators, terminals or colored marbles.
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The real BIG issue is who is registered to vote, are they valid voters and who actually voted under their name.
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The Roanoke Times and their friends find nothing wrong with the ACORN voter registration activities and they adamantly oppose requiring valid voter ID at the polls. They also oppose asking people to fill-out provisional ballots for cases where the poll workers have doubts about a voter’s qualification to vote.
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These are the real issues why our voting system is not valid and why a recount won’t be “real”!
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The lack of valid ID was a major issue in the 9/11 attack, many of the terrorists had invalid Virginia ID and the 9/11 Commission directed that all states implement a proper personal ID system. It’s been seven years since 9/11 -- why hasn’t that been done?
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It is sad indeed that the very basis of our system of government is being undermined by people who claim to hold high our constitutional values.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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Monday, December 01, 2008
The Audacity of Blind Slant
USA Today, 12/1/08, Pg Money Sect B Pg 1: “Obama’s actions perk up Wall St. Investors respond to a clear strategy. NY: Pres.-elect Obama hasn’t even moved into the White House yet. But Wall street is already showering him with praise for injecting confidence into the battered psyche of investors and working quickly to hatch a plan meant to jolt the economy out of its worst funk in decades.”
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Hatch a plan – NOT – hatch an egg is more like it!
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The DOW on Monday 12/1, the date of the above big headline story, DROPPED -680 points or – 7.7%, one of the biggest drops in history!
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The left-wing liberal media is still going strong as if the election wasn’t even over!
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Exactly how much bias and spin and heifer-dust is the liberal media going to continue to feed us until they settle down and start reporting the real news? And this piece in the front page of the “USA Money News” section of a national paper that should be practicing professional journalism! What a sad sack of losers!
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Hatch a plan – NOT – hatch an egg is more like it!
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The DOW on Monday 12/1, the date of the above big headline story, DROPPED -680 points or – 7.7%, one of the biggest drops in history!
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The left-wing liberal media is still going strong as if the election wasn’t even over!
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Exactly how much bias and spin and heifer-dust is the liberal media going to continue to feed us until they settle down and start reporting the real news? And this piece in the front page of the “USA Money News” section of a national paper that should be practicing professional journalism! What a sad sack of losers!
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
The World War Expands
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Roanoke Times, 11/30/08, Pg 1: Mumbai rampage has ended.
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Who writes these headlines for the Roanoke Times? A rampage? Hundreds killed and wounded by a major coordinated military attack by the Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) is not a rampage, it’s yet another 911-type of attack upon innocent civilians.
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This massive attack by Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) on the people of Mumbai
India demonstrates the naivety of the Obama Campaign, the DNC and the US Major Media all of whom spent the last year telling the world that the risk from the MRT was minimal and that the “war on terror” was a hoax and a waste of time, money and blood.
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Included in that massive denial program was the total lack of public visibility of the 550 tons of yellow-cake removed from Sadam’s Iraq nuclear weapons program and sent to vaults in Canada for safe-keeping. Sadam’s nuclear weapons effort is now being continued by our enemies in Iran. But not to worry, Obama’s going to talk to them!
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Clearly the MRT World War exists and is a clear and present danger to whomever the MRT decides to target.
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Our liberal left-wing judges are now busy directing our military that GITMO members of the MRT be released on the streets of America! This is our judicial system that served OJ so well and is now busy representing and assisting members of the MRT. I’m sure that these same people are now worried that the captured MRT terrorists from the Mumbai attack that has killed and injured hundreds of innocent people are now being water-boarded to get information about the leaders of this attack. Sure wouldn’t want to put them under duress to get information vital to saving other innocent lives.
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How quickly the media totally forgot the video of Daniel Pearl’s demise by the hands of these same MRT animals and have put their political goals above our national security and the best interests of our people.
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Perhaps it would be fitting that on Dec 7th we should all reflect on the stark reality that the Muslim Radical Terrorists that have declared war upon us are still determined to destroy us and are pursuing a World War.
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-Roanoke Times, 11/30/08, Pg 1: Mumbai rampage has ended.
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Who writes these headlines for the Roanoke Times? A rampage? Hundreds killed and wounded by a major coordinated military attack by the Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) is not a rampage, it’s yet another 911-type of attack upon innocent civilians.
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This massive attack by Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) on the people of Mumbai
India demonstrates the naivety of the Obama Campaign, the DNC and the US Major Media all of whom spent the last year telling the world that the risk from the MRT was minimal and that the “war on terror” was a hoax and a waste of time, money and blood.
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Included in that massive denial program was the total lack of public visibility of the 550 tons of yellow-cake removed from Sadam’s Iraq nuclear weapons program and sent to vaults in Canada for safe-keeping. Sadam’s nuclear weapons effort is now being continued by our enemies in Iran. But not to worry, Obama’s going to talk to them!
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Clearly the MRT World War exists and is a clear and present danger to whomever the MRT decides to target.
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Our liberal left-wing judges are now busy directing our military that GITMO members of the MRT be released on the streets of America! This is our judicial system that served OJ so well and is now busy representing and assisting members of the MRT. I’m sure that these same people are now worried that the captured MRT terrorists from the Mumbai attack that has killed and injured hundreds of innocent people are now being water-boarded to get information about the leaders of this attack. Sure wouldn’t want to put them under duress to get information vital to saving other innocent lives.
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How quickly the media totally forgot the video of Daniel Pearl’s demise by the hands of these same MRT animals and have put their political goals above our national security and the best interests of our people.
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Perhaps it would be fitting that on Dec 7th we should all reflect on the stark reality that the Muslim Radical Terrorists that have declared war upon us are still determined to destroy us and are pursuing a World War.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
THANKSGIVING
Picking Quality Economic Advisors
Roanoke Times, 11/18/08, Pg Bus 1: Citigroup to cut 53,000 more jobs after cutting 22,000 jobs this year. Citi lost another $2.8 BILLION in third quarter.
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Who’s a key Citigroup executive? Bob Rubin, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary that led us into the Clinton Recession.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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So why has Obama made Rubin one of his closest economic advisors?
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
Based on Rubins’ head-in-hand posture – apparently he’s wondering the same thing!
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Is this what “change we can believe in” means?
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One may wonder how many of the 75,000 laid-off Citi employees are reflecting on how their job loss relate to the economic crisis initiated by Congressional Democrat leadership demands upon the lending industry to “include” people who couldn’t afford home ownership in their mortgage portfolios.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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And now Pelosi and her court of jesters want to use taxpayer money to keep these ill-equipped people in these houses they can’t afford.
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One may also wonder how many of the 75,000 ex-Citi employees will now loose their homes that they were qualified to own before the Democrat’s were so benevolent with the banking industries funds. Of course Democrats like Chris Dodd is in good shape after getting a sweetheart-mortgage from his friends at Countrywide.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/clintons-treasury-secretary.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Who’s a key Citigroup executive? Bob Rubin, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary that led us into the Clinton Recession.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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So why has Obama made Rubin one of his closest economic advisors?
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
Based on Rubins’ head-in-hand posture – apparently he’s wondering the same thing!
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Is this what “change we can believe in” means?
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One may wonder how many of the 75,000 laid-off Citi employees are reflecting on how their job loss relate to the economic crisis initiated by Congressional Democrat leadership demands upon the lending industry to “include” people who couldn’t afford home ownership in their mortgage portfolios.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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And now Pelosi and her court of jesters want to use taxpayer money to keep these ill-equipped people in these houses they can’t afford.
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One may also wonder how many of the 75,000 ex-Citi employees will now loose their homes that they were qualified to own before the Democrat’s were so benevolent with the banking industries funds. Of course Democrats like Chris Dodd is in good shape after getting a sweetheart-mortgage from his friends at Countrywide.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/clintons-treasury-secretary.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Raising Rates
Roanoke Times, 11/18/08, Pg 1: Large headline: AEP to raise rates
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Not found anywhere is the 10% increase in the cost of the Roanoke Times!
From $31.60 to $34.88 for 8 weeks home delivery.
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Perhaps an appropriate household budgeting approach would be to cancel the RT subscription and use that money for electricity.
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Not found anywhere is the 10% increase in the cost of the Roanoke Times!
From $31.60 to $34.88 for 8 weeks home delivery.
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Perhaps an appropriate household budgeting approach would be to cancel the RT subscription and use that money for electricity.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Drill! But-- Don't Really Drill!
Roanoke Times, 11/14/08, Pg Va 5: Government to study drilling off Va. Coast
The Democrats are “considering” off-shore oil drilling but want a 50-mile buffer.
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Apparently the Virginia Democrats including Governors Warner and Kaine want off-shore oil drilling the same way they support wind-power. Say you support it in such a way that it’s not going to happen. We’re for it, as soon as pigs fly!
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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The plan for off-shore drilling to achieve energy independence is receiving the same kind of Democrat non-supportive double-speak that Virginia wind-power has received.
There are those who say it will take ten years to get off-shore oil into production. Judging from the wind-power project and the following graphic on the realities of the east coast continental shelf, it’s clear that it will never be done and we will continue to be held hostage by foreign extortionists.
So much for change we can believe in!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/OffShoreOilDrill.jpg
Click on graphic to enlarge.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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The Democrats are “considering” off-shore oil drilling but want a 50-mile buffer.
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Apparently the Virginia Democrats including Governors Warner and Kaine want off-shore oil drilling the same way they support wind-power. Say you support it in such a way that it’s not going to happen. We’re for it, as soon as pigs fly!
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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The plan for off-shore drilling to achieve energy independence is receiving the same kind of Democrat non-supportive double-speak that Virginia wind-power has received.
There are those who say it will take ten years to get off-shore oil into production. Judging from the wind-power project and the following graphic on the realities of the east coast continental shelf, it’s clear that it will never be done and we will continue to be held hostage by foreign extortionists.
So much for change we can believe in!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/OffShoreOilDrill.jpg
Click on graphic to enlarge.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
DeUnionize GM & Ford
Roanoke Times, 11/8/08, Pg Bus 10: GM and Ford want Billions in Bailout money to save UAW union jobs.
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The price for US automaker bailout should be to deunionize the industry.
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Unions have been a primary cause behind the poor performance of the US auto-industry and lack of competitive position in the world market.
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Deunionization would provide the opportunity to restructure and retool and redesign a totally new and competitive US auto industry.
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Why bailout the UAW so that they can utilize their feather-bedding work-rules and strikes to continue to cripple the companies they are supposed to work for?
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The price for US automaker bailout should be to deunionize the industry.
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Unions have been a primary cause behind the poor performance of the US auto-industry and lack of competitive position in the world market.
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Deunionization would provide the opportunity to restructure and retool and redesign a totally new and competitive US auto industry.
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Why bailout the UAW so that they can utilize their feather-bedding work-rules and strikes to continue to cripple the companies they are supposed to work for?
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Monday, November 03, 2008
Roanoke Times Awash in Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 11/2/08, Pg Horiz 1: A self-conversation by Dan Radmacher.
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Dan is lamenting that the RT doesn’t get enough input from some folks, like me, to offset the wonderful, meaningful and correct input from liberal, socialist and left-wing admirers who enthusiastically support his views.
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Apparently Dan was moved to this self-serving reflection about the RT’s fair and balanced reporting due to the negative feedback about publishing a number of pro & con LTE’s in which there was only one in support of McCain and a dozen in support of Obama.
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This lack of input in support for McCain seems very strange based on the 16,000 folks who showed up for a Palin rally in Salem last week! Apparently the inference is that only one of these 16,000 was literate enough to write to the RT or that writing to the RT is akin to wasting good trees that are needed to consume the CO2 that the RT emits.
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The highlight was Dan’s proud statement that the RT wasn’t going to endorse any candidate this year. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that the RT has been running a continuous endorsement of Obama for months? Is Dan trying to insult the reader’s intelligence with this tripe or is it just working out that way?
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Perhaps if Dan and the other members of the Roanoke Times wish to peruse some contrarian comments about the RT’s views and distortions of news they could simply read the RoanokeSlant blog that contains over 1,000 items that challenge their material.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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http://www.roanokeslant.org
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Dan is lamenting that the RT doesn’t get enough input from some folks, like me, to offset the wonderful, meaningful and correct input from liberal, socialist and left-wing admirers who enthusiastically support his views.
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Apparently Dan was moved to this self-serving reflection about the RT’s fair and balanced reporting due to the negative feedback about publishing a number of pro & con LTE’s in which there was only one in support of McCain and a dozen in support of Obama.
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This lack of input in support for McCain seems very strange based on the 16,000 folks who showed up for a Palin rally in Salem last week! Apparently the inference is that only one of these 16,000 was literate enough to write to the RT or that writing to the RT is akin to wasting good trees that are needed to consume the CO2 that the RT emits.
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The highlight was Dan’s proud statement that the RT wasn’t going to endorse any candidate this year. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that the RT has been running a continuous endorsement of Obama for months? Is Dan trying to insult the reader’s intelligence with this tripe or is it just working out that way?
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Perhaps if Dan and the other members of the Roanoke Times wish to peruse some contrarian comments about the RT’s views and distortions of news they could simply read the RoanokeSlant blog that contains over 1,000 items that challenge their material.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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http://www.roanokeslant.org
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Tale of Two Bad Guys
Roanoke Times, 10/26/08, Pg 1 & 17: William White of Roanoke, a self-described radical, is in jail because of violent items he wrote in his on-line web pages.
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Not in jail, but a college professor and associate to the presumptive next president, Sen. Obama, is Bill Ayers, a leader of a radical group that didn’t just talk about violence but set-off bombs that killed and hurt people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
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Based on the news coverage of these items, somehow the Roanoke Times and the liberal media seem totally OK with how this story is playing out! That’s particularly interesting based on their rabid defense of their view of and their exercise of the 1st amendment.
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Apparently if you’re associated with Sen Obama it really doesn’t matter what you say or do, it’s OK, and if covered at all, it’s in small print buried in the back pages.
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A few, of the many, prior items of the RT’s fair and balanced journalism – NOT:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/race-trumps-character-judgment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
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Not in jail, but a college professor and associate to the presumptive next president, Sen. Obama, is Bill Ayers, a leader of a radical group that didn’t just talk about violence but set-off bombs that killed and hurt people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
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Based on the news coverage of these items, somehow the Roanoke Times and the liberal media seem totally OK with how this story is playing out! That’s particularly interesting based on their rabid defense of their view of and their exercise of the 1st amendment.
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Apparently if you’re associated with Sen Obama it really doesn’t matter what you say or do, it’s OK, and if covered at all, it’s in small print buried in the back pages.
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A few, of the many, prior items of the RT’s fair and balanced journalism – NOT:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/race-trumps-character-judgment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
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Classroom Colors
Roanoke Times, 10/21/08, Pg Va 9: The classroom isn’t the place for partisanship, by Becky Mason a teacher in Roanoke area schools.
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Ms Mason’s commentary is in response to the head of the Virginia teachers association who apparently sent out an email to all teachers in the VEA that they should show their support for Obama by wearing blue ribbons in school classrooms. Clearly this was an inappropriate and unprofessional directive.
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Ms Mason’s response was fair, reasonable, responsible and totally consistent with the ethical standards we expect from those to whom we entrust our children’s education.
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Her bottom line was priceless and cannot be improved upon:
If you’re going to wear a ribbon in the classroom, it should be red, white and blue!
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Ms Mason’s commentary is in response to the head of the Virginia teachers association who apparently sent out an email to all teachers in the VEA that they should show their support for Obama by wearing blue ribbons in school classrooms. Clearly this was an inappropriate and unprofessional directive.
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Ms Mason’s response was fair, reasonable, responsible and totally consistent with the ethical standards we expect from those to whom we entrust our children’s education.
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Her bottom line was priceless and cannot be improved upon:
If you’re going to wear a ribbon in the classroom, it should be red, white and blue!
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Vote Early
Roanoke Times, 10/22/08, Pg Va 10: Editorial: Vote early in Virginia. Election officials want Virginia voters to consider casting an absentee ballot. Good Advise.
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There’s two major things wrong with this article.
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First is the fact that Virginia law requires one to “certify” that there is a “legitimate” reason why one cannot vote in person on Election Day. Therefore those who promote this action without changing the law are aiding and abetting a crime.
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Second is the total hysteria the editors of the Roanoke Times expressed over absentee voting in Gate City in 2005. They were shocked and appalled that having absentee paper ballots given to people to be filled out in advance was so shocking that the voting registrar should have been removed from office. Their view was that absentee voters were extremely likely to be unduly influenced by shady politicians. Apparently that won’t happen in this election!
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What changed? Oh yes, we now have the acorn nuts registering every name they can think of on behalf of the Obama campaign. And, the registration deadline is extended for absentee paper ballots.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-nuts-fall-close-to-tree.html
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Now combine that with the Roanoke Times crusade for no voter-ID
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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And we have a greatly increased opportunity to elect the candidates supported by the editorial board of the Roanoke Times to further their personal agendas.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/apparent-conflict-of-interest.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/elections-voter-friendly.html
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There’s two major things wrong with this article.
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First is the fact that Virginia law requires one to “certify” that there is a “legitimate” reason why one cannot vote in person on Election Day. Therefore those who promote this action without changing the law are aiding and abetting a crime.
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Second is the total hysteria the editors of the Roanoke Times expressed over absentee voting in Gate City in 2005. They were shocked and appalled that having absentee paper ballots given to people to be filled out in advance was so shocking that the voting registrar should have been removed from office. Their view was that absentee voters were extremely likely to be unduly influenced by shady politicians. Apparently that won’t happen in this election!
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What changed? Oh yes, we now have the acorn nuts registering every name they can think of on behalf of the Obama campaign. And, the registration deadline is extended for absentee paper ballots.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-nuts-fall-close-to-tree.html
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Now combine that with the Roanoke Times crusade for no voter-ID
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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And we have a greatly increased opportunity to elect the candidates supported by the editorial board of the Roanoke Times to further their personal agendas.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/apparent-conflict-of-interest.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/elections-voter-friendly.html
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Yet Another Personal Slant Best for the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 10/21/08, Pg 1 & 6:
“Page 1: Folks in the heart of the Appalachia aren’t amused that Pres. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, has redrawn Appalachia’s geographic boundaries in a way that could take federal money away from some of the poorest communities in the US.”
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Wow! Just how mean is this guy? And just in time for Scrooge too!
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But wait – there’s more in tiny little print back on page A 6:
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“Page 6: Pres. Bush recently signed a measure increasing the counties eligible for federal funds set aside for poor mountain communities. Counties added (10)”
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Are the editors at the Roanoke Times trying to insult our intelligence or is it just turning out that way? Trust me, they’re trying real hard! Just read the other 1,000 items in this blog.
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Moral of Story: just because you went to journalism school, doesn’t mean you can be a good journalist.
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“Page 1: Folks in the heart of the Appalachia aren’t amused that Pres. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, has redrawn Appalachia’s geographic boundaries in a way that could take federal money away from some of the poorest communities in the US.”
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Wow! Just how mean is this guy? And just in time for Scrooge too!
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But wait – there’s more in tiny little print back on page A 6:
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“Page 6: Pres. Bush recently signed a measure increasing the counties eligible for federal funds set aside for poor mountain communities. Counties added (10)”
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Are the editors at the Roanoke Times trying to insult our intelligence or is it just turning out that way? Trust me, they’re trying real hard! Just read the other 1,000 items in this blog.
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Moral of Story: just because you went to journalism school, doesn’t mean you can be a good journalist.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Race Trumps Character & Judgment
Roanoke Times, 10/20/2008, Pg 1: Gen Powell endorses Obama, he touted Obama's economic abilities.
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What economic abilities? He accomplished virtually nothing in his 140 days as a senator. As a state official his primary contribution was to vote "present". He never has held a finance job and there's no evidence he can even balance his checkbook.
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Bottom line:
Gen. Powel endorsed Sen. Obama this weekend
Not exactly a surprise!
What else could he do?
One might even go so far as to observe that this didn’t qualify as a ribbon for a “profile in courage”.
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An interesting view is that as an army commanding officer, Powel would never approve a Secret clearance for someone to serve in a nuclear weapons unit whose profile indicated he had 20 years of close association with people who include those who are racist, anti-American and anarchists.
Clearly Powel would have concluded that this person lacks the character and judgement to be in a position of critical importance.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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What economic abilities? He accomplished virtually nothing in his 140 days as a senator. As a state official his primary contribution was to vote "present". He never has held a finance job and there's no evidence he can even balance his checkbook.
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Bottom line:
Gen. Powel endorsed Sen. Obama this weekend
Not exactly a surprise!
What else could he do?
One might even go so far as to observe that this didn’t qualify as a ribbon for a “profile in courage”.
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An interesting view is that as an army commanding officer, Powel would never approve a Secret clearance for someone to serve in a nuclear weapons unit whose profile indicated he had 20 years of close association with people who include those who are racist, anti-American and anarchists.
Clearly Powel would have concluded that this person lacks the character and judgement to be in a position of critical importance.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
ACORN - nuts fall close to tree
Roanoke Times, 10/18/08, Pg A5: Challenge to ACORN thwarted. The US Supreme Court said the GOP in Ohio lacks the standing to sue the voter registration organization.
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What a total and obnoxious suppression of the critical issues of this situation.
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WHAT WOULD THE ROANOKE TIMES PG 1 HEADLINE BE FOR THIS STORY?
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200,000 names for the 2008 Virginia election that the Republicans registered to vote have been determined by Gov. Kaine to not match the state data base of social security numbers and driver license numbers for these names.
Gov Kaine has decided not to share this data with county election officials.
Kaine said at a news conference:
“This is a test! Let the counties find out for themselves who is legally OK to vote, and I am reminding them again, that voter ID is not required to vote at the polls!”
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What a change in attitude and actions that would bring at the RT!
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It’s disturbing that the editorial board members of the Roanoke Times would participate in suppressing and slanting information that is key to the basis of our form of government. Clearly they view the end of electing their favorite candidates is more important than the integrity of our voting system.
What a sad example of journalists.
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Prior Items and Examples:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-fraud-is-not-important-to-roanoke.html
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What a total and obnoxious suppression of the critical issues of this situation.
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WHAT WOULD THE ROANOKE TIMES PG 1 HEADLINE BE FOR THIS STORY?
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200,000 names for the 2008 Virginia election that the Republicans registered to vote have been determined by Gov. Kaine to not match the state data base of social security numbers and driver license numbers for these names.
Gov Kaine has decided not to share this data with county election officials.
Kaine said at a news conference:
“This is a test! Let the counties find out for themselves who is legally OK to vote, and I am reminding them again, that voter ID is not required to vote at the polls!”
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What a change in attitude and actions that would bring at the RT!
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It’s disturbing that the editorial board members of the Roanoke Times would participate in suppressing and slanting information that is key to the basis of our form of government. Clearly they view the end of electing their favorite candidates is more important than the integrity of our voting system.
What a sad example of journalists.
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Prior Items and Examples:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-fraud-is-not-important-to-roanoke.html
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Vote Fraud is not Important to the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 10/16/08, Pg A12: GOP rails against group’s (ACORN) missteps in voter registrations.
Editorial, Pg Va 8: Vote fraud rarely amounts to much
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The RT editors have a history of marginalizing voter fraud if it’s done by their friends. In this set of articles they make this out to be just GOP bad-guys trying to keep poor and downtrodden people from the polls and even if that’s happening, it’s not such a bad thing.
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Not covered is the fact that the attorneys generals in twelve states (including both Democrat and Republican AG’s) now have ACORN under criminal investigation and that Obama has major financial ties and contributions to ACORN.
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Even CBS news has covered this very inappropriate relationship among other.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/02/opinion/main4145761.shtml
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Also not covered is the fact that the original bailout bill the Democrats supported included massive amounts of taxpayer money to be sent to ACORN per the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745181676698197.html
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It continues to be difficult to understand how the Roanoke Times can continue to present itself as a professional news organization.
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Prior Roanoke Times and Democrat Party coddling of voter fraud:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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Editorial, Pg Va 8: Vote fraud rarely amounts to much
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The RT editors have a history of marginalizing voter fraud if it’s done by their friends. In this set of articles they make this out to be just GOP bad-guys trying to keep poor and downtrodden people from the polls and even if that’s happening, it’s not such a bad thing.
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Not covered is the fact that the attorneys generals in twelve states (including both Democrat and Republican AG’s) now have ACORN under criminal investigation and that Obama has major financial ties and contributions to ACORN.
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Even CBS news has covered this very inappropriate relationship among other.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/02/opinion/main4145761.shtml
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Also not covered is the fact that the original bailout bill the Democrats supported included massive amounts of taxpayer money to be sent to ACORN per the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745181676698197.html
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It continues to be difficult to understand how the Roanoke Times can continue to present itself as a professional news organization.
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Prior Roanoke Times and Democrat Party coddling of voter fraud:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Biden Debate Winner of mis&disInformation
Roanoke Times, 10/4/08, Pg A7: Polls indicate Biden clear debate winner (Biden was the more knowledgeable)
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Sen. Biden made at least 10 major factual errors in his statements.
Can someone win a debate with mis&disinformation? Apparently so!
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1.Sen. Biden stated that in Article I of the US Constitution, it describes the duties of the Vice President.
FACT: The Vice President is not discussed in Article I of the Constitution, that is about the Legislative Branch. The Executive Branch is in Article II. It is usually a good idea when you are applying for a job, to know where your job description is listed.
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2. Joe Biden stated that both John McCain and Barack Obama voted for the tax increase for anyone making over $46,000.
FACT: Senator McCain voted AGAINST raising taxes on anyone making more than $46,000.Yet another sign of how Senator McCain always stands up for the average American.
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3. Sen. Biden stated that both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama voted for cutting off funding for the troops..
FACT: Senator McCain opposed an amendment for a time-line, NOT the bill itself. Sen. Obama voted to cut off desperately needed supplies to our fighting men and women. He attempted to deny them the tools they need to protect us.
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4. Senator Biden stated he supported Clean Coal Technology.
FACT: Sen. Biden DOES NOT support Clean Coal Technology. In the comment he made at a rally, he stated, "No Coal Plants in America, if you are going to build them, build them over there." The only person taking Biden's comments out of context is himself. It is evident the Obama/Biden Administration would not utilize our rich and abundant Energy resources here at home.
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5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.
FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.
Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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6. Sen. Biden stated, "It would take ten years to produce oil here at home."
FACT: Off-shore drilling rigs can be operational in two years, which would help to reduce America's addiction to foreign oil.
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7. :Sen. Biden stated that, "John McCain support tax breaks for oil companies."
FACT: It was Senator Obama who voted for the energy bill that was loaded with goodies for the oil companies. It was Senator McCain, who stood up for the American taxpayer and said, NO.
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8. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama stated he would meet with tyrannical, dictatorial leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
FACT: Sen. Obama stated in a September 2007 news conference that he would meet with Ahmadinejad WITHOUT preconditions. Another sign that Obama's misguided understanding of foreign policy is a dangerous prescription for America.
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9.Sen. Biden claimed that the Iraq Resolution was not a Resolution for Military Action.
FACT: The 2002, resolution, that Sen. Biden voted for, was indeed a resolution to authorize the President to take military action against Iraq.
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10. Sen. Biden claims that the current 250 year Global Warming is caused solely by people.
FACT: Click-on link for factual data on our current 250 year Global Warming:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/global-warming-vp-debate.html
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Sen. Biden made at least 10 major factual errors in his statements.
Can someone win a debate with mis&disinformation? Apparently so!
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1.Sen. Biden stated that in Article I of the US Constitution, it describes the duties of the Vice President.
FACT: The Vice President is not discussed in Article I of the Constitution, that is about the Legislative Branch. The Executive Branch is in Article II. It is usually a good idea when you are applying for a job, to know where your job description is listed.
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2. Joe Biden stated that both John McCain and Barack Obama voted for the tax increase for anyone making over $46,000.
FACT: Senator McCain voted AGAINST raising taxes on anyone making more than $46,000.Yet another sign of how Senator McCain always stands up for the average American.
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3. Sen. Biden stated that both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama voted for cutting off funding for the troops..
FACT: Senator McCain opposed an amendment for a time-line, NOT the bill itself. Sen. Obama voted to cut off desperately needed supplies to our fighting men and women. He attempted to deny them the tools they need to protect us.
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4. Senator Biden stated he supported Clean Coal Technology.
FACT: Sen. Biden DOES NOT support Clean Coal Technology. In the comment he made at a rally, he stated, "No Coal Plants in America, if you are going to build them, build them over there." The only person taking Biden's comments out of context is himself. It is evident the Obama/Biden Administration would not utilize our rich and abundant Energy resources here at home.
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5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.
FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.
Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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6. Sen. Biden stated, "It would take ten years to produce oil here at home."
FACT: Off-shore drilling rigs can be operational in two years, which would help to reduce America's addiction to foreign oil.
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7. :Sen. Biden stated that, "John McCain support tax breaks for oil companies."
FACT: It was Senator Obama who voted for the energy bill that was loaded with goodies for the oil companies. It was Senator McCain, who stood up for the American taxpayer and said, NO.
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8. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama stated he would meet with tyrannical, dictatorial leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
FACT: Sen. Obama stated in a September 2007 news conference that he would meet with Ahmadinejad WITHOUT preconditions. Another sign that Obama's misguided understanding of foreign policy is a dangerous prescription for America.
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9.Sen. Biden claimed that the Iraq Resolution was not a Resolution for Military Action.
FACT: The 2002, resolution, that Sen. Biden voted for, was indeed a resolution to authorize the President to take military action against Iraq.
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10. Sen. Biden claims that the current 250 year Global Warming is caused solely by people.
FACT: Click-on link for factual data on our current 250 year Global Warming:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/global-warming-vp-debate.html
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Global Warming & the VP Debate
It's interesting that the Al Gore section of the Democrat Party and the liberal media have not made a big item about the difference between the Global Warming positions of Sen Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Click for a view of the data that clearly supports Gov Palin's position and makes the Sen Biden position patently false.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PalinAlaskaGW/
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/gross-weather-politics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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Click for a view of the data that clearly supports Gov Palin's position and makes the Sen Biden position patently false.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PalinAlaskaGW/
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/gross-weather-politics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
The Youth Vote
Roanoke Times, 10/1/08, Pg 1 & 9: Hungry for change at VT.
Radford voter registration issues.
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Not found: Ohio simultaneous register-vote this week with no opportunity to validate the legality of the registration.
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The overwhelming front page expose about VT student voting is clearly a free ad for Obama and should carry his footer “I’m Obama and I approve the Roanoke Times”.
Even the pictures of students involved are amazingly biased and slanted.
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The two key issues with youth voting that are conspicuously avoided are:
1) Where is their legal residence? Usually a person’s driver’s license is the basis for residency. Apparently current convention is that you live where you say you live.
2) Most young college voters (18 – 21) have not held an ongoing job and therefore have no appreciation for the tax burden on working taxpayers. After many of these early voters are in the work force for awhile they will have a much better understanding of the cost of government and the trade-offs of politics.
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My first vote was at 21. I had had very significant summer jobs during college and was very aware of what “deducts” are all about. I was in the Army and voted military-absentee-ballot.
It’s easy to remember because it was the election in which Daley’s Chicago and LBJ’s Texas “delivered” the election to JFK the day after.
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A very interesting perspective about the maturity of college age folks involves the national minimum drinking age. Apparently all 50 states and the national government agree that young people are not responsible enough to drink until 21. It’s interesting that people would think that they’re responsible enough to select a president at 18!
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Radford voter registration issues.
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Not found: Ohio simultaneous register-vote this week with no opportunity to validate the legality of the registration.
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The overwhelming front page expose about VT student voting is clearly a free ad for Obama and should carry his footer “I’m Obama and I approve the Roanoke Times”.
Even the pictures of students involved are amazingly biased and slanted.
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The two key issues with youth voting that are conspicuously avoided are:
1) Where is their legal residence? Usually a person’s driver’s license is the basis for residency. Apparently current convention is that you live where you say you live.
2) Most young college voters (18 – 21) have not held an ongoing job and therefore have no appreciation for the tax burden on working taxpayers. After many of these early voters are in the work force for awhile they will have a much better understanding of the cost of government and the trade-offs of politics.
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My first vote was at 21. I had had very significant summer jobs during college and was very aware of what “deducts” are all about. I was in the Army and voted military-absentee-ballot.
It’s easy to remember because it was the election in which Daley’s Chicago and LBJ’s Texas “delivered” the election to JFK the day after.
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A very interesting perspective about the maturity of college age folks involves the national minimum drinking age. Apparently all 50 states and the national government agree that young people are not responsible enough to drink until 21. It’s interesting that people would think that they’re responsible enough to select a president at 18!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Democrats Crash & Burn Again
Roanoke Times, 9/30/08, Pg 1, 5 & Va 8 Editorial: Bailout burns out!
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So after two weeks of Democrats Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and their friends telling us that they had a plan (NOT the Bush plan!) and that they had the votes to pass it, what happened?
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The Roanoke Times was busy as usual with their Democrat cover story.
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Not one word about the Democrats being IN CHARGE of Congress and the Senate.
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Not one word about the miserable state of Democrat Congressional leadership.
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Not one word about the fact that the Democrats have enough votes to pass anything they want to pass in Congress (235 of which they only produced 140 of the 218 required).
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---------------------- YES ----- NO ---- TOTAL --- REQD TO PASS
Democrats ---------140---------95 ----- 235 -------- 218
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And where’s Obama's strong and forceful support for his team's Bill?
Voting a virtual PRESENT again!
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And what are the Democrats doing about the energy crisis?
They’re not going to address that until next year!
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And now the Roanoke Times and their friends want to give all three branches of government to the Democrats!
What are they thinking?
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Apparently just because you went to journalism school, doesn't qualify you to be a journalist.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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So after two weeks of Democrats Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and their friends telling us that they had a plan (NOT the Bush plan!) and that they had the votes to pass it, what happened?
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The Roanoke Times was busy as usual with their Democrat cover story.
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Not one word about the Democrats being IN CHARGE of Congress and the Senate.
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Not one word about the miserable state of Democrat Congressional leadership.
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Not one word about the fact that the Democrats have enough votes to pass anything they want to pass in Congress (235 of which they only produced 140 of the 218 required).
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---------------------- YES ----- NO ---- TOTAL --- REQD TO PASS
Democrats ---------140---------95 ----- 235 -------- 218
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And where’s Obama's strong and forceful support for his team's Bill?
Voting a virtual PRESENT again!
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And what are the Democrats doing about the energy crisis?
They’re not going to address that until next year!
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And now the Roanoke Times and their friends want to give all three branches of government to the Democrats!
What are they thinking?
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Apparently just because you went to journalism school, doesn't qualify you to be a journalist.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Roanoke Going Green
Roanoke Times, 9/24/08, Pg Va 4: A meeting sought ideas from guests to help the city reduce its carbon footprint.
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Going Green is a major component of moving toward sustainability.
Roanoke leaders and employees should be commended for their efforts in these activities.
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A very puzzling item is: “where are the Roanoke Times Green efforts”?
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The RT is a major manufacturing business with a large carbon footprint that starts in the lumber forests and extends through distribution and recycling.
The RT likes to write about other people’s greenness or lack thereof, however, there is a total lack of visibility into their calculation of their carbon-footprint or their plans and actions to become a member of the Green Community. How sad!
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Click to view prior RT items on this subject; seems like something should have happened since the Dec 2006 blog item was sent to them:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-isnt-roanoke-times-turning-green.html
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A good way for all of us to participate in going green is to support and attend:
AECP 9th ANNUAL GREEN LIVING AND ENERGY EXPO
November 7 and 8, 2008
Roanoke Civic Center (Special Events Center)
Roanoke, Virginia
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Going Green is a major component of moving toward sustainability.
Roanoke leaders and employees should be commended for their efforts in these activities.
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A very puzzling item is: “where are the Roanoke Times Green efforts”?
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The RT is a major manufacturing business with a large carbon footprint that starts in the lumber forests and extends through distribution and recycling.
The RT likes to write about other people’s greenness or lack thereof, however, there is a total lack of visibility into their calculation of their carbon-footprint or their plans and actions to become a member of the Green Community. How sad!
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Click to view prior RT items on this subject; seems like something should have happened since the Dec 2006 blog item was sent to them:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-isnt-roanoke-times-turning-green.html
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A good way for all of us to participate in going green is to support and attend:
AECP 9th ANNUAL GREEN LIVING AND ENERGY EXPO
November 7 and 8, 2008
Roanoke Civic Center (Special Events Center)
Roanoke, Virginia
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Watching the NY Times
If you like some of the items in blog roanokeslant: http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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You're going to love the NY Times Watch blog: http://www.timeswatch.org/
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A good current example would be a current view of the slant and bias of the NY Times relative to the McCain-Obama race:
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http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080923111052.aspx
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Prior NYT items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/democrat-media-smear-machine.html
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You're going to love the NY Times Watch blog: http://www.timeswatch.org/
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A good current example would be a current view of the slant and bias of the NY Times relative to the McCain-Obama race:
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http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080923111052.aspx
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Prior NYT items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/democrat-media-smear-machine.html
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Obama & Ayres: Team Teaching
Wall Street Journal, 9/23/08, Opinion by Stanley Kurtz
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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This insight into the Obama-Ayres relationship is far more disturbing than the Obama-Wright relationship.
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“Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.”
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“The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.”
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“The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.”
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Click-on to read this complete and informative article:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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It’s condemnation by deeds and actions, not by associations!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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This insight into the Obama-Ayres relationship is far more disturbing than the Obama-Wright relationship.
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“Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.”
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“The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.”
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“The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.”
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Click-on to read this complete and informative article:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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It’s condemnation by deeds and actions, not by associations!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Monday, September 22, 2008
More Vicious Nasty Liberal Garbage
The Saturday Nite Live show continues to be another left-wing garbage vehicle for the liberal media and the moveon.garbage crowd.
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Last Saturday nite was a new low in attacking Gov. Palin and her family with allegations of family incest during prime time TV.
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/22/snl-palin-incest-joke-falls-flat-in-sketch-lampooning-new-york-times/
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In Saturday Night Lives’ second attempt to mock this year’s vice presidential race, a sketch lampooning The New York Times as out of touch has instead touched off a firestorm by casually throwing out a much more insidious inference — incest — between Todd Palin and his pregnant, teenage daughter, Bristol.
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In the sketch, New York Times reporters are sitting around an assignment meeting discussing what about Palin to investigate next.-One reporter asks: “What about the husband? You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It’s Alaska.”
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Guest host James Franco, who played the assignment editor, sets up the joke of proving a negative, saying, “He very well could be. Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, but on the other hand, there is no convincing evidence to the contrary. And these are just some of the lingering questions about Governor Palin.”
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It’s difficult to understand how good and decent Democrats can embrace this whole segment of the radical left that is key to the fundraising and support for Obama!
What are they thinking?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/desperate-democrat-anti-palin-attacks.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/yet-more-nasty-obama-stuff.html
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Last Saturday nite was a new low in attacking Gov. Palin and her family with allegations of family incest during prime time TV.
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/22/snl-palin-incest-joke-falls-flat-in-sketch-lampooning-new-york-times/
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In Saturday Night Lives’ second attempt to mock this year’s vice presidential race, a sketch lampooning The New York Times as out of touch has instead touched off a firestorm by casually throwing out a much more insidious inference — incest — between Todd Palin and his pregnant, teenage daughter, Bristol.
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In the sketch, New York Times reporters are sitting around an assignment meeting discussing what about Palin to investigate next.-One reporter asks: “What about the husband? You know he’s doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It’s Alaska.”
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Guest host James Franco, who played the assignment editor, sets up the joke of proving a negative, saying, “He very well could be. Admittedly, there is no evidence of that, but on the other hand, there is no convincing evidence to the contrary. And these are just some of the lingering questions about Governor Palin.”
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It’s difficult to understand how good and decent Democrats can embrace this whole segment of the radical left that is key to the fundraising and support for Obama!
What are they thinking?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/desperate-democrat-anti-palin-attacks.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/yet-more-nasty-obama-stuff.html
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The Financial Domino Effect
Roanoke Times, 9/21/08, Pg 1 & 7: US tosses convention, history aside in bailout.
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The Financial Domino Effect: from home mortgages to those who can’t afford them to financial institutions and banks who hold these defective and defaulting loans to the taxpayers left holding this bag of garbage.
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How did this start? Just look at the Expanding American Homeownership Acts of 2006 and 2007 in which Congressmen and Senators spearheaded action to extend mortgages down to “borrowers who are underserved”! They cajoled and harassed the lending institutions with public-hearing accusations of being bigots and racists because the housing boom was not reaching down the economic ladder far enough!
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The House Bill HR 5121 passed the House 415 to 7
The companion Senate Bill S3535 (109th) is in Sen Chris Dodd's (D-Conn) Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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Yes folks – that means those whose credit and income are not consistent with paying for home: down payment + monthly mortgage payment + home insurance + monthly utility bills + property taxes + maintenance & repairs.
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But the new left-wing liberal movement is that everyone “deserves” homeownership and they will now make that a reality by forcing the government (taxpayers) to hold and subsidize these mortgages for all those who by any reasonable standard should be renters and not owners.
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The RT pg 7 picture on this subject is Sen Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. In this capacity Dodd has not only been key to causing this problem but he’s still in charge even after accepting special mortgage treatment by none other than Countrywide, the #1 villain in handing out these bogus mortgages! Sen. Dodd is now in charge of S 3535. Just how gross is that!
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-EXPANDING AMERICAN HOMEOWNERSHIP ACT OF 2006 H.R. 5121 (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that-- (1) one of the primary missions of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) single family mortgage insurance program is to reach borrowers who are underserved, or not served, by the existing conventional mortgage marketplace;
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http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=006142253321+0+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
- (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are-- (1) to provide flexibility to FHA to allow for the insurance of housing loans for low- and moderate-income homebuyers during all economic cycles in the mortgage market;
- FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE REFORM ACT OF 2007
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http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=006141253531+8+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
- “What I would say is that we both have the same intent, affordable housing for as many Americans as possible. That should be the intent with this legislation, and I think it does, in terms of the reforms implemented for the government-sponsored enterprises that we are
talking about today.”
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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The Financial Domino Effect: from home mortgages to those who can’t afford them to financial institutions and banks who hold these defective and defaulting loans to the taxpayers left holding this bag of garbage.
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How did this start? Just look at the Expanding American Homeownership Acts of 2006 and 2007 in which Congressmen and Senators spearheaded action to extend mortgages down to “borrowers who are underserved”! They cajoled and harassed the lending institutions with public-hearing accusations of being bigots and racists because the housing boom was not reaching down the economic ladder far enough!
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The House Bill HR 5121 passed the House 415 to 7
The companion Senate Bill S3535 (109th) is in Sen Chris Dodd's (D-Conn) Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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Yes folks – that means those whose credit and income are not consistent with paying for home: down payment + monthly mortgage payment + home insurance + monthly utility bills + property taxes + maintenance & repairs.
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But the new left-wing liberal movement is that everyone “deserves” homeownership and they will now make that a reality by forcing the government (taxpayers) to hold and subsidize these mortgages for all those who by any reasonable standard should be renters and not owners.
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The RT pg 7 picture on this subject is Sen Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. In this capacity Dodd has not only been key to causing this problem but he’s still in charge even after accepting special mortgage treatment by none other than Countrywide, the #1 villain in handing out these bogus mortgages! Sen. Dodd is now in charge of S 3535. Just how gross is that!
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-EXPANDING AMERICAN HOMEOWNERSHIP ACT OF 2006 H.R. 5121 (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that-- (1) one of the primary missions of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) single family mortgage insurance program is to reach borrowers who are underserved, or not served, by the existing conventional mortgage marketplace;
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http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=006142253321+0+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
- (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are-- (1) to provide flexibility to FHA to allow for the insurance of housing loans for low- and moderate-income homebuyers during all economic cycles in the mortgage market;
- FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE REFORM ACT OF 2007
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http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=006141253531+8+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
- “What I would say is that we both have the same intent, affordable housing for as many Americans as possible. That should be the intent with this legislation, and I think it does, in terms of the reforms implemented for the government-sponsored enterprises that we are
talking about today.”
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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Can You Say 60,000?
Roanoke Times, 9/22/08, Pg 8A: VP pick campaigns in safe GOP territory (The Villages, Fl).
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RT editors, can you say or type 60,000? That’s how many folks attended this Palin political function! Every other media coverage I checked headlined this number! Apparently you were just not able to find the number keys for this article.
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And given the current history of Florida voter registrations and election results, it’s amazing that the RT editors would describe Florida as “Safe GOP territory”.
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Apparently the RT editors and their liberal associates will spare no slant to minimize and marginalize this very significant woman. That’s very interesting given the amount of estrogen that pervades the RT editorial staff. So much for having a real interest in being fair and balanced to other women who are not in their flock.
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On the other hand, they just love women like Nancy Pelosi who has proved to be a very dull choice for “leader” of the House and only two heart-beats away from being President and Commander-in-Chief (talk about your worst nightmare scenario).
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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RT editors, can you say or type 60,000? That’s how many folks attended this Palin political function! Every other media coverage I checked headlined this number! Apparently you were just not able to find the number keys for this article.
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And given the current history of Florida voter registrations and election results, it’s amazing that the RT editors would describe Florida as “Safe GOP territory”.
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Apparently the RT editors and their liberal associates will spare no slant to minimize and marginalize this very significant woman. That’s very interesting given the amount of estrogen that pervades the RT editorial staff. So much for having a real interest in being fair and balanced to other women who are not in their flock.
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On the other hand, they just love women like Nancy Pelosi who has proved to be a very dull choice for “leader” of the House and only two heart-beats away from being President and Commander-in-Chief (talk about your worst nightmare scenario).
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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Ike Damages Energy Assets
Ike destroys energy assets
Roanoke Times, 9/21/08, Pg 12A: Ike destroys 49 oil platforms across Gulf, 3800 production platforms remain shut down, 12 refineries remain shut down, five gas transmission pipeline systems damaged
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The Roanoke Times now has Gov. Kaine trying to figure out and investigate why the price of gasoline increased after the hurricane!
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Just how dull are these people?
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Oil%20Rig.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/second-guessing-gas-prices.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/stop-speculators.html
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Roanoke Times, 9/21/08, Pg 12A: Ike destroys 49 oil platforms across Gulf, 3800 production platforms remain shut down, 12 refineries remain shut down, five gas transmission pipeline systems damaged
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The Roanoke Times now has Gov. Kaine trying to figure out and investigate why the price of gasoline increased after the hurricane!
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Just how dull are these people?
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Oil%20Rig.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/second-guessing-gas-prices.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/stop-speculators.html
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Pelosi Insulting Our Intelligence Again
The Roanoke Times, 9/18/08, Pg Va 8: Editorial: Democrats drill for political cover. House Democrats passed an offshore drilling bill that won’t lead to much drilling.
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http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/177252
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KUDO’s to Editor Dan for getting this story right!
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This bill is a total sham and clearly confirms what most folks know: the Democrats are primarily responsible for our energy dependence and expense and associated national security problem and they still don’t get it and refuse to work on a meaningful fix.
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Who’s going to drill over 100 miles from shore, off the continental shelf, in super deep water and if oil is somehow found, build an underwater 100 mile pipeline to get the oil to shore?
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As an added thought about Pelosi – right now she’s just two heart-beats away from being President of the United States and Commander-in-chief!
Perhaps the media should be “vetting” her instead of Gov Palin. You think?
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Click for Prior Energy items and those in denial:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/177252
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KUDO’s to Editor Dan for getting this story right!
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This bill is a total sham and clearly confirms what most folks know: the Democrats are primarily responsible for our energy dependence and expense and associated national security problem and they still don’t get it and refuse to work on a meaningful fix.
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Who’s going to drill over 100 miles from shore, off the continental shelf, in super deep water and if oil is somehow found, build an underwater 100 mile pipeline to get the oil to shore?
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As an added thought about Pelosi – right now she’s just two heart-beats away from being President of the United States and Commander-in-chief!
Perhaps the media should be “vetting” her instead of Gov Palin. You think?
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Click for Prior Energy items and those in denial:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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Singing for Supper
Couldn’t find coverage of the Obama dinner and song fest in LA Sept 17th. Apparently the Editors of the Roanoke Times didn’t want all the poor and down and out folks in Martinsville:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-in-martinsville.html
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to know that Obama’s Hollywood friends spent $28,500 for dinner and then an extra $1,500 to hear Babs sing to Obama.
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It’s noteworthy that the meal was worth 20 times Babs’ song fest!
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So much for the poor Democrat little people and the rich fat cat Republican people!
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As an aside: The (4) four richest Congressmen are Democrats! How can that be?
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1. John "Heinz" Kerry (how many houses does he have?)
2. Jay "Oily" Rockefeller (fits in well with West Va folks?)
3. Herb “Prada” Kohl (only rich folks shop in his stores?)
4. Jane "Rich Hubby" Harman (why make money when you can marry it?)
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-in-martinsville.html
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to know that Obama’s Hollywood friends spent $28,500 for dinner and then an extra $1,500 to hear Babs sing to Obama.
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It’s noteworthy that the meal was worth 20 times Babs’ song fest!
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So much for the poor Democrat little people and the rich fat cat Republican people!
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As an aside: The (4) four richest Congressmen are Democrats! How can that be?
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1. John "Heinz" Kerry (how many houses does he have?)
2. Jay "Oily" Rockefeller (fits in well with West Va folks?)
3. Herb “Prada” Kohl (only rich folks shop in his stores?)
4. Jane "Rich Hubby" Harman (why make money when you can marry it?)
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Second Guessing Gas Prices
Roanoke Times, 8/16/08, Pg 1 & Editorial Pg Va 8: Puzzling prices, Roanoke area more expensive than Virginia average.
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First of all, US gas is amazingly cheap and has been so for all of my 70 years. Europe and Japan, for example, pay three and four times as much as US car drivers. In july I paid $12 per gallon in Norway, the number 3 exporter of oil in the world.
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Second: if you operate a gas station, you must base your price primarily on what you will have to pay to replace the fuel in your tanks, not just on what you paid for the fuel that’s now in your tanks.
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With a major hurricane damaging and shutting down major fuel facilities in the gulf, what would you, as a local dealer, guess will be the cost of your next tractor trailer load of gas going to be?
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How are you going to buy the next load of $5 gas if you sell out the gas you now have for $4 a gallon? A wrong guess could put you quickly out of business!
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The downward movement of costs and prices is much less risky AFTER it happens.
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Instead of crying “foul” and berating these businessmen, perhaps the writers and editors should buy gasoline futures on the open market and show us how well they can guess what future prices are going to be.
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Ref: 49 platforms damaged by storm:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425061,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/oil-price-and-storm.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Oil%20Rig.jpg
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First of all, US gas is amazingly cheap and has been so for all of my 70 years. Europe and Japan, for example, pay three and four times as much as US car drivers. In july I paid $12 per gallon in Norway, the number 3 exporter of oil in the world.
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Second: if you operate a gas station, you must base your price primarily on what you will have to pay to replace the fuel in your tanks, not just on what you paid for the fuel that’s now in your tanks.
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With a major hurricane damaging and shutting down major fuel facilities in the gulf, what would you, as a local dealer, guess will be the cost of your next tractor trailer load of gas going to be?
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How are you going to buy the next load of $5 gas if you sell out the gas you now have for $4 a gallon? A wrong guess could put you quickly out of business!
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The downward movement of costs and prices is much less risky AFTER it happens.
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Instead of crying “foul” and berating these businessmen, perhaps the writers and editors should buy gasoline futures on the open market and show us how well they can guess what future prices are going to be.
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Ref: 49 platforms damaged by storm:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425061,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/oil-price-and-storm.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Oil%20Rig.jpg
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
You Can't Fix Stupid
You can fix a broken arm or leg. You can fix a cataract. You can fix ulcers.
BUT YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!
Roanoke Times, 9/14/08, Pg 1 & 8: Tens of thousands of people failed to heed officials’ warnings of Ike’s danger and are now stranded, some perhaps dead.
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However disturbing the print media description of these people, the TV one-on-one coverage with the “I’m riding it out people” was truly gross.
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And now it’s government’s responsibility to put rescue personnel in harms way to “save” these people!
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Stupid is as stupid does! Now CNN and all the TV bobbling-heads will demonstrate how poor our government services are and how they “let down” these poor and depressed people.
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Perhaps all people living in Galveston should have been required to have a tattoo on their arm as a memorial to the 6,000 people who died there in the hurricane of 1900!
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Every adult with a pet should be charged with animal cruelty.
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Every parent should be charged with child abuse.
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Every adult should be required to serve a minimum of 6 months of community service.
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There must be something bad about eating crayfish more than twice a week instead of using them for bait.
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"Life is tough -- it's even tougher if you're stupid" -- John Wayne
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/rick-horowiz-wetland-developer.html
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BUT YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!
Roanoke Times, 9/14/08, Pg 1 & 8: Tens of thousands of people failed to heed officials’ warnings of Ike’s danger and are now stranded, some perhaps dead.
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However disturbing the print media description of these people, the TV one-on-one coverage with the “I’m riding it out people” was truly gross.
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And now it’s government’s responsibility to put rescue personnel in harms way to “save” these people!
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Stupid is as stupid does! Now CNN and all the TV bobbling-heads will demonstrate how poor our government services are and how they “let down” these poor and depressed people.
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Perhaps all people living in Galveston should have been required to have a tattoo on their arm as a memorial to the 6,000 people who died there in the hurricane of 1900!
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Every adult with a pet should be charged with animal cruelty.
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Every parent should be charged with child abuse.
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Every adult should be required to serve a minimum of 6 months of community service.
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There must be something bad about eating crayfish more than twice a week instead of using them for bait.
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"Life is tough -- it's even tougher if you're stupid" -- John Wayne
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/rick-horowiz-wetland-developer.html
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Vote Right Bumper Sticker
Friday, September 12, 2008
Presidental Technology Required
CLICK FOR OBAMA vs McCAIN TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PresidentalTechnology
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PresidentalTechnology
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Quayle vs Brown Revisited
Roanoke Times, 9/12/08, Pg 1 & 8: Growth in out-of-wedlock births ripples in society. One scholar warned that the burgeoning number of such families presages “disaster.” Taxpayers spend thousands on unwed moms.
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How could the liberal media even think about publishing this stuff, no less on the front page?
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Seems like only yesterday the liberal media lambasted, broiled, cooked and deep-fried VP Dan Quayle for having the gall to question the wisdom of the media hyping and showcasing and glamorizing the wonders of single woman Murphy Brown having a baby out-of-wedlock.
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In fact, even now, it’s difficult to type no less say the totally politically incorrect term “out-of-wedlock”! I’m sure the PC-police will be rolling into my driveway any minute!
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What happened to totally change the landscape? Oh yes! Gov. Palin’s unwed daughter is pregnant and intends to keep her baby!
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Another example of how lame and hypocritical and totally dull these liberal media folks and their NOW girlfriends really are!
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How could the liberal media even think about publishing this stuff, no less on the front page?
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Seems like only yesterday the liberal media lambasted, broiled, cooked and deep-fried VP Dan Quayle for having the gall to question the wisdom of the media hyping and showcasing and glamorizing the wonders of single woman Murphy Brown having a baby out-of-wedlock.
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In fact, even now, it’s difficult to type no less say the totally politically incorrect term “out-of-wedlock”! I’m sure the PC-police will be rolling into my driveway any minute!
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What happened to totally change the landscape? Oh yes! Gov. Palin’s unwed daughter is pregnant and intends to keep her baby!
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Another example of how lame and hypocritical and totally dull these liberal media folks and their NOW girlfriends really are!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
9/11 Reflection and Recognition
Click-on to view a tribute to 9/11 and those who serve for us
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/AmericaAtWar.htm
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/AmericaAtWar.htm
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Desperate Democrat Anti-Palin Attacks
The 9/11/08 Roanoke Times Editorial calls McCain and Palin liars and worse. Sounds like it was written by Howard Dean himself. What a poor excuse for a professional journalist group and certainly clears up any hint of being impartial.
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Apparently the post GOP convention polls and the 23,000 folks that showed up in Fairfax for a McCain-Palin rally have the Democrats and their friends in the left-wing media in a mad panic.
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Some responsible media editors focused their editorials today on the reflections of 9/11 and the personal losses and national economic and social impacts of that dastardly and cowardly attack and the major successful effort to thwart additional attacks.
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The RT editors rebuffed the “lipstick-pig” issue as just ordinary rhetoric everyone uses when referring to a female governor. That fits in well with the announcement by
The Chairman of the South Carolina Democrat Party that” “Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's top qualification seems to be not having had an abortion.”
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Of course the RT editors didn’t address this in their news or editorials. Part of their get Obama elected at any cost crusade excuses or excludes the Democrat smear campaign and totally avoids his history of associations with people totally outside the American mainstream and his anemic record of accomplishment and experience.
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Obama’s mantra: not nice, not ready; probably never will be!
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The Editors of the Roanoke Times mantra: we're not proud or professional, we're just dedicated to getting Obama elected at any cost.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/yet-more-nasty-obama-stuff.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/gov-sara-palin.html
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Apparently the post GOP convention polls and the 23,000 folks that showed up in Fairfax for a McCain-Palin rally have the Democrats and their friends in the left-wing media in a mad panic.
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Some responsible media editors focused their editorials today on the reflections of 9/11 and the personal losses and national economic and social impacts of that dastardly and cowardly attack and the major successful effort to thwart additional attacks.
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The RT editors rebuffed the “lipstick-pig” issue as just ordinary rhetoric everyone uses when referring to a female governor. That fits in well with the announcement by
The Chairman of the South Carolina Democrat Party that” “Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's top qualification seems to be not having had an abortion.”
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Of course the RT editors didn’t address this in their news or editorials. Part of their get Obama elected at any cost crusade excuses or excludes the Democrat smear campaign and totally avoids his history of associations with people totally outside the American mainstream and his anemic record of accomplishment and experience.
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Obama’s mantra: not nice, not ready; probably never will be!
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The Editors of the Roanoke Times mantra: we're not proud or professional, we're just dedicated to getting Obama elected at any cost.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/yet-more-nasty-obama-stuff.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/gov-sara-palin.html
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
More Green Virginia Jobs?
Roanoke Times, 9/10/08, Pg Bus. 1: Push for ‘green’ jobs earns area support.
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How can any ‘Virginia-green-advocate’ say with a straight face that they ‘support’ green power in Virginia.
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For over four years the Wind-turbine project in Highland County has been hogtied by the greenes, the Sierra Club, and every no-anything activist group in the state.
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It’s clear that the so called ‘environmentalists’ are dedicated to the premise that no new or additional energy systems are to be developed anywhere, in spite of our increase of two million people per year for the past 50 years.
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These groups and their left-wing political friends have been so successful that now we find ourselves short of energy and being blackmailed into the biggest transfer of wealth out of our country in the history of the world.
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When will we see the local and state officers of the Sierra Club stand up and publicly support major green-megawatt facilities and then exert their lobbying, legal and financial resources to make it happen?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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How can any ‘Virginia-green-advocate’ say with a straight face that they ‘support’ green power in Virginia.
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For over four years the Wind-turbine project in Highland County has been hogtied by the greenes, the Sierra Club, and every no-anything activist group in the state.
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It’s clear that the so called ‘environmentalists’ are dedicated to the premise that no new or additional energy systems are to be developed anywhere, in spite of our increase of two million people per year for the past 50 years.
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These groups and their left-wing political friends have been so successful that now we find ourselves short of energy and being blackmailed into the biggest transfer of wealth out of our country in the history of the world.
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When will we see the local and state officers of the Sierra Club stand up and publicly support major green-megawatt facilities and then exert their lobbying, legal and financial resources to make it happen?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Yet More Nasty Obama Stuff
Obama drew a pig analogy when describing his opponents before a Lebanon, Va., crowd Tues Sept 9th.
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“But you know … you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You know, you can … wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
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McCain’s campaign called Obama’s comments “offensive and disgraceful” and said he owes Palin an apology.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/10/pig-fight/
Isn’t this the guy who was going to rise up above personal attacks?
Sounds like the garbage that comes from Rev. Wright!
http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Is this the type of thing that makes Michele proud?
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/experience-comparison.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/moose-mom-bites-and-kicks.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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“But you know … you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You know, you can … wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
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McCain’s campaign called Obama’s comments “offensive and disgraceful” and said he owes Palin an apology.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/10/pig-fight/
Isn’t this the guy who was going to rise up above personal attacks?
Sounds like the garbage that comes from Rev. Wright!
http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Is this the type of thing that makes Michele proud?
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/experience-comparison.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/moose-mom-bites-and-kicks.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
The Experience Comparison
THE EXPERIENCE COMAPRISON
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John McCain--------26 YEARS--------22 YEARS
Obama--------------143 DAYS---------- 0 (Zero)
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Just think how great a professional of any kind you could be with only 143 days of experience!!! People want change so badly? . . . . maybe we should lower the experience requirement for doctors, lawyers, airline pilots, etc. This would cause some change!
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Obama’s 143 Days of Senate Experience
Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory Committee, he logged 143 daysof experience in the Senate. That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. The one single Senate committee that he headed never even met once.
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After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
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Think about it....143 days -- 20.4 weeks -- 4.7 months Our children spend more time in pre-school getting ready for kindergarten
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John McCain--------26 YEARS--------22 YEARS
Obama--------------143 DAYS---------- 0 (Zero)
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Just think how great a professional of any kind you could be with only 143 days of experience!!! People want change so badly? . . . . maybe we should lower the experience requirement for doctors, lawyers, airline pilots, etc. This would cause some change!
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Obama’s 143 Days of Senate Experience
Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory Committee, he logged 143 daysof experience in the Senate. That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. The one single Senate committee that he headed never even met once.
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After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
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Think about it....143 days -- 20.4 weeks -- 4.7 months Our children spend more time in pre-school getting ready for kindergarten
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Monday, September 08, 2008
Who are the bad guys?
Roanoke Times, 9/7/08, Pg A13: Rhetoric from the Bush administration and John McCain suggests rising tensions with Kremlin.
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Who wrote this biased and slanted headline, Howard Dean?
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Let me get this straight. Russia launches a major armored attack and invasion of the independent and democratic country of Georgia, and is still occupying that country.
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Did I miss the 17 UN resolutions condemning Georgia for something and giving Russia approval to attack that tiny country of four and one-half million?
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Bush and McCain publicly state that the Russian action is unacceptable and must be dealt with by the international community.
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And the Roanoke Times headlines that Bush and McCain are the cause of rising tensions!
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The editorial staff of the RT is either
A) Totally brain-dead or
B) They are incredibility partisan and irresponsible.
C) All of the above
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Who wrote this biased and slanted headline, Howard Dean?
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Let me get this straight. Russia launches a major armored attack and invasion of the independent and democratic country of Georgia, and is still occupying that country.
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Did I miss the 17 UN resolutions condemning Georgia for something and giving Russia approval to attack that tiny country of four and one-half million?
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Bush and McCain publicly state that the Russian action is unacceptable and must be dealt with by the international community.
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And the Roanoke Times headlines that Bush and McCain are the cause of rising tensions!
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The editorial staff of the RT is either
A) Totally brain-dead or
B) They are incredibility partisan and irresponsible.
C) All of the above
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Two of the Nastiest Flushed
MSNBC announced Monday that Olbermann and Chris Matthews have both been booted as co-hosts on political night coverage in favor of David Gregory, whose White House press corps experience may make him better suited to deliver sober and less opinion-driven assessments of the news.
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/08/msnbc-hosts-olbermann-matthews-booted-from-political-night-duties/
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At last MSNBC got the message that vile and nasty people do not deserve a place of major media visibility and prominence on a “news” program.
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The only comment one might have is:
WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/08/msnbc-hosts-olbermann-matthews-booted-from-political-night-duties/
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At last MSNBC got the message that vile and nasty people do not deserve a place of major media visibility and prominence on a “news” program.
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The only comment one might have is:
WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Moose Mom Bites and Kicks
After several weeks of incredibly offensive attacks upon Governor Sarah Palin and her family by the Democrats, MoveOn.garbage and shameless liberal media, she had an opportunity to respond at the Republican National Convention.
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Her direct and straightforward responses to her critics were very effective and professional.
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She has clearly demonstrated that she is an articulate, sharp, experienced and real person who has and will honorably serve the public cause.
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Ridiculing and belittling and marginalizing her in the major media, before she even had an opportunity to introduce herself to the American people has been shown to be totally without merit and downright nasty.
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It’s now clear that she is just as or more qualified to be president as Obama and without the 20 year history of close associations with incredibly racist and anti-American people like Rev. Wright and his church of the “God Damn America Congregation”!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/gov-sara-palin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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Her direct and straightforward responses to her critics were very effective and professional.
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She has clearly demonstrated that she is an articulate, sharp, experienced and real person who has and will honorably serve the public cause.
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Ridiculing and belittling and marginalizing her in the major media, before she even had an opportunity to introduce herself to the American people has been shown to be totally without merit and downright nasty.
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It’s now clear that she is just as or more qualified to be president as Obama and without the 20 year history of close associations with incredibly racist and anti-American people like Rev. Wright and his church of the “God Damn America Congregation”!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/gov-sara-palin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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Gross Weather Politics
As I watched the Weather Channel Monday night from the RNC Convention in Minneapolis I couldn’t believe what the “on the site” weatherman blurted out in a gross Freudian slip:
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“This (Gustav) is not the hurricane we needed”!
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It has been obvious that the “new owners” of weather channel were in Al Gore’s pocket; however, I couldn’t believe that they would actually be disappointed that Gustav wasn’t catastrophic enough to cancel the Republican Convention.
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It is shocking that these kinds of people have hijacked this media resource that is so important to our people.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080303175301.aspx
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Hopefully there are people who will react appropriately to this gross misuse of an important national media resource.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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“This (Gustav) is not the hurricane we needed”!
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It has been obvious that the “new owners” of weather channel were in Al Gore’s pocket; however, I couldn’t believe that they would actually be disappointed that Gustav wasn’t catastrophic enough to cancel the Republican Convention.
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It is shocking that these kinds of people have hijacked this media resource that is so important to our people.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080303175301.aspx
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Hopefully there are people who will react appropriately to this gross misuse of an important national media resource.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
AIDS+HIV Pandemic Worse Than Reported
Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg Va 9: Very good article by Pam Meador: AIDS prevention depends on knowing who has it.
Major and very disturbing data of reported increasing cases in Virginia. The CDC reporting the pandemic is worse than previously known.
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http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/174997
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Fox news HIV+AIDS article that NY has 3 times the national rate
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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NEW YORK — New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.“The city health department said Wednesday that almost 4,800 New Yorkers were infected with HIV in 2006. That number represents 72 of every 100,000 residents, compared to a national rate of 23 per 100,000.The figures pinpoint when people became infected with the virus, not just when they were diagnosed.Health officials attribute the city's relatively high rate of new infections to its large populations of gay men, blacks and other groups on whom HIV has traditionally taken a heavy toll.Assistant health commissioner Dr. Monica Sweeney says the figures underscore the continued need to promote HIV testing and prevention.”
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This awful pandemic that strikes people of every category continues because our government refuses to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary.Until “we” implement the processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives.
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Click back through the following links for a brief summary of just how much talking has been done and how little action has been accomplished.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Major and very disturbing data of reported increasing cases in Virginia. The CDC reporting the pandemic is worse than previously known.
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http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/174997
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Fox news HIV+AIDS article that NY has 3 times the national rate
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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NEW YORK — New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.“The city health department said Wednesday that almost 4,800 New Yorkers were infected with HIV in 2006. That number represents 72 of every 100,000 residents, compared to a national rate of 23 per 100,000.The figures pinpoint when people became infected with the virus, not just when they were diagnosed.Health officials attribute the city's relatively high rate of new infections to its large populations of gay men, blacks and other groups on whom HIV has traditionally taken a heavy toll.Assistant health commissioner Dr. Monica Sweeney says the figures underscore the continued need to promote HIV testing and prevention.”
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This awful pandemic that strikes people of every category continues because our government refuses to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary.Until “we” implement the processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives.
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Click back through the following links for a brief summary of just how much talking has been done and how little action has been accomplished.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Gov. Sara Palin
Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg 1 & 4: McCain takes a gamble with Palin.
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The Roanoke/AP spin and slant on the very first day:
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“She is younger (44 vs 47) and less experienced than Obama --- A governor for just 20 months following two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Ak. Where the biggest civic worry is whether there will be enough snow for the dog-mushing race.
She served in her statehouse 20 months. Obama served in his statehouse for eight years.”
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Some anti-spin anti-slant views:
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Sara Palin was elected and served as the chief executive officer of a city and then the governor and chief executive officer of the state of Alaska.
Gov. Palin is the commander of the Alaska National Guard.
Gov. Palin is the chief executive of the state containing the major source of US energy.
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Obama is one of 100 senators who have no direct personal responsibility or accountability for anything and who has served in that seat for 140 days with no visible or documented significant accomplishments.
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It’s clear that the Republican VP nominee (Palin) is more qualified to be chief executive officer of the country than the Democrat presidential nominee (Obama).
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In retrospect, Dan Quayle who served in Congress and the Senate was more qualified for national office than Obama.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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The Roanoke/AP spin and slant on the very first day:
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“She is younger (44 vs 47) and less experienced than Obama --- A governor for just 20 months following two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Ak. Where the biggest civic worry is whether there will be enough snow for the dog-mushing race.
She served in her statehouse 20 months. Obama served in his statehouse for eight years.”
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Some anti-spin anti-slant views:
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Sara Palin was elected and served as the chief executive officer of a city and then the governor and chief executive officer of the state of Alaska.
Gov. Palin is the commander of the Alaska National Guard.
Gov. Palin is the chief executive of the state containing the major source of US energy.
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Obama is one of 100 senators who have no direct personal responsibility or accountability for anything and who has served in that seat for 140 days with no visible or documented significant accomplishments.
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It’s clear that the Republican VP nominee (Palin) is more qualified to be chief executive officer of the country than the Democrat presidential nominee (Obama).
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In retrospect, Dan Quayle who served in Congress and the Senate was more qualified for national office than Obama.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-race-card-again.html
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Playing the Race Card Again
The Roanoke Times, 8/29/08, Pg 1: Obama acceptance speech at Democratic Convention.
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“I don’t fit the typical pedigree of a presidential candidate.”
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This after: I don’t look like the guys on the American money.
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Obama’s selection by the Democrat party is indeed a major milestone in American history; however, apparently he just can’t get through a major speech without playing the race card!
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Obama’s lack of management and government experience and solid proposals that will improve our national issues are being hidden behind this ongoing game of appealing to the guilty consciences that all good and decent voters are supposed to have.
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Perhaps Obama is also trying to divert voters attention away from what many feel is the game that has already been established by his 20 year immersion in Rev. Wright’s church of the “God Dam America” congregation.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Senator Obama, you are much more likely to achieve your goals by focusing on solid achievable proposals to improve our country than to continue to follow this divisive and diversionary tactic.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-in-martinsville.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-executive-and-obama-college.html
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“I don’t fit the typical pedigree of a presidential candidate.”
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This after: I don’t look like the guys on the American money.
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Obama’s selection by the Democrat party is indeed a major milestone in American history; however, apparently he just can’t get through a major speech without playing the race card!
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Obama’s lack of management and government experience and solid proposals that will improve our national issues are being hidden behind this ongoing game of appealing to the guilty consciences that all good and decent voters are supposed to have.
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Perhaps Obama is also trying to divert voters attention away from what many feel is the game that has already been established by his 20 year immersion in Rev. Wright’s church of the “God Dam America” congregation.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Senator Obama, you are much more likely to achieve your goals by focusing on solid achievable proposals to improve our country than to continue to follow this divisive and diversionary tactic.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-in-martinsville.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-executive-and-obama-college.html
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Obama in Martinsville
Roanoke Times, 8/21/08, Pg 1 & 8: BIG Coverage: 2” X 8” HEADLINE with a 9” X 10” article with BIG PICTURE! ECONOMY KEY DURING OBAMS’S VIRGINIA TRIP
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Wow – talk about your ROCK STAR COVERAGE! But what about the substance?
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Obama: “I’m not saying that every job is going to come back to Martinsville just because I’m elected president”
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There are three things wrong with that statement:
First:
No where was it mentioned that the jobs that have been lost were the direct result of DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton’s NAFTA legislation.
Second:
When McCain indicated in Detroit that many of the rust-belt jobs would not come back, the Left-wing liberal media when postal. Nary a whimper on this occasion!
Third: We are now on our second DEMOCRAT Governor and the job losses continue. What have Warner and Kaine done to stop the bleeding?
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Obama: “But what I can do is I can say that I’m going to wake up every day thinking about you and thinking about how to make your life a little bit better.”
Incredible! Sound like something that the number three Democrat presidential contender, John Edwards probably said to his girlfriend!
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But the left-wing liberal editors and writers are not deterred in their enthusiastic support for this guy who has served just 140 days in the US Senate.
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Wow – talk about your ROCK STAR COVERAGE! But what about the substance?
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Obama: “I’m not saying that every job is going to come back to Martinsville just because I’m elected president”
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There are three things wrong with that statement:
First:
No where was it mentioned that the jobs that have been lost were the direct result of DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton’s NAFTA legislation.
Second:
When McCain indicated in Detroit that many of the rust-belt jobs would not come back, the Left-wing liberal media when postal. Nary a whimper on this occasion!
Third: We are now on our second DEMOCRAT Governor and the job losses continue. What have Warner and Kaine done to stop the bleeding?
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Obama: “But what I can do is I can say that I’m going to wake up every day thinking about you and thinking about how to make your life a little bit better.”
Incredible! Sound like something that the number three Democrat presidential contender, John Edwards probably said to his girlfriend!
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But the left-wing liberal editors and writers are not deterred in their enthusiastic support for this guy who has served just 140 days in the US Senate.
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Biden and the Dead Cat Bounce
Not found in the Roanoke Times in spite of incredible amount of free political advertisement in every copy every day.
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Obama picks Joe Biden as his VP
Obama outspends everyone in history,
The National Democrat Convention starts
and then:
Gallup does an update to their poll and the results are:
Obama drops 3 points to below McCain
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Clearly there will only be one poll that counts, however, it’s certainly clear that this news doesn’t make Michelle proud!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-executive-and-obama-college.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Obama picks Joe Biden as his VP
Obama outspends everyone in history,
The National Democrat Convention starts
and then:
Gallup does an update to their poll and the results are:
Obama drops 3 points to below McCain
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Clearly there will only be one poll that counts, however, it’s certainly clear that this news doesn’t make Michelle proud!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-executive-and-obama-college.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Clinton's Treasury Secretary
Not found in the Roanoke Times in spite of their extensive coverage of the current economic issues (all Bush’s fault of course)
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Remember Clinton’s financial wizard and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin. He landed a big job with Citigroup and then copiloted that corporation into the ground!
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4th Qtr 2007 – 10 BILLION LOST
1st Qtr 2008 - another 5 BILLION LOST
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“Business News: 8/25/08
Citigroup changed former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's title at the financial conglomerate to "senior counselor" and dissolved the board's executive committee. Citi said the responsibilities of the executive committee mainly involved calling special meetings. Previously Rubin served as chairman of the executive committee.”
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How can anyone really believe the Democrats have the answers to our economic issues?
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Prior Rubin items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Click for the Clinton Recession that the major media cannot bear to acknowledge.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Remember Clinton’s financial wizard and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin. He landed a big job with Citigroup and then copiloted that corporation into the ground!
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4th Qtr 2007 – 10 BILLION LOST
1st Qtr 2008 - another 5 BILLION LOST
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“Business News: 8/25/08
Citigroup changed former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's title at the financial conglomerate to "senior counselor" and dissolved the board's executive committee. Citi said the responsibilities of the executive committee mainly involved calling special meetings. Previously Rubin served as chairman of the executive committee.”
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How can anyone really believe the Democrats have the answers to our economic issues?
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Prior Rubin items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Click for the Clinton Recession that the major media cannot bear to acknowledge.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
McCain the Executive and Obama the College Philosophy Professor
The sort-of debate Sat night Aug 16, 2008 made very clear many major differences between McCain and Obama.
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Obama presented himself as a walks-the-walk and talks-the-talk salesman of fine and polished things, carefully parsing out and finessing the controversial and politically incorrect issues. His polished Harvard Law school training was there for all to see. His major advisors are wife, mom and grandma.
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McCain presented himself as an executive who sees issues as challenges to be addressed and solved. His major advisors are outstanding people in the fields he sees as very high on the presidential to-do list. He confronted head-on all the controversial issues of our time with a what-you-see is what-you-get directness and openness.
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On the issues Obama went directly down the standard old left-Democrat path.
On the issues McCain showed true political diversity, supporting the paths he feels is right for the country and the future.
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The choice is clear, we can have a smooth left-wing talker or we can have a middle-of-the-road doer!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/blindly-following-obama-and-change.html
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Obama presented himself as a walks-the-walk and talks-the-talk salesman of fine and polished things, carefully parsing out and finessing the controversial and politically incorrect issues. His polished Harvard Law school training was there for all to see. His major advisors are wife, mom and grandma.
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McCain presented himself as an executive who sees issues as challenges to be addressed and solved. His major advisors are outstanding people in the fields he sees as very high on the presidential to-do list. He confronted head-on all the controversial issues of our time with a what-you-see is what-you-get directness and openness.
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On the issues Obama went directly down the standard old left-Democrat path.
On the issues McCain showed true political diversity, supporting the paths he feels is right for the country and the future.
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The choice is clear, we can have a smooth left-wing talker or we can have a middle-of-the-road doer!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/blindly-following-obama-and-change.html
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Roanoke Times & AP Playing the Race Card
Roanoke Times, 8/13/08, Pg 1 & 6: Pollsters unsure of white-people’s answers
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The jist of this extensive article is that in the Va. Gov. Doug Wilder and the LA Mayor TomBradley elections and now with the Obama election, white folks lie to pollsters about who they will vote for.
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This clearly is a not so subtle way of accusing white folks of racism. However, instead of racism, perhaps we have brow-beat people into the behavior that being Politically Correct is more important than being forthright and honest. Especially when talking to someone from the media.
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Thank goodness black people are being honest. They say there are voting for Obama and by golly 95% are. Good for them! Honesty beats bias every time.
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To avoid being labeled racist by focusing on color instead of content, here is my approach to the upcoming election.
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I will reflect on Booker T. Washington. This is easy to do since I was a visiting professor of electrical engineering at Tuskegee University and now live 7 miles from his birthplace.
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I will reflect on MLK and his love for his country in spite of the awful treatment he and many black people experienced during his time.
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I will reflect on Bill Cosby and his message of personal responsibility and self-empowerment.
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I will reflect on General Colin Powel and his service to his country as an army officer and later as a statesman.
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I will reflect on Ms Condelisa Rice and her success and contributions to our country in spite of the significant challenges of being both black and a woman.
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I will then reflect on Barak Obama and his proposed First Lady. I will think about the people they associated with for the past 20 years, I will think about her master’s thesis at Princeton and her inability to be proud of her country. I will think about his lack of experience and avoidance of taking principled stands during his time in state office. I will think about his record of being the most liberal left-wing senator in our government. And I will think about his incredible abdication of responsibility for our national defense as so clearly articulated in his YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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I will reflect on all of this and then in a totally non-racist and non-biased and non-partisan manner:
I WILL VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/blindly-following-obama-and-change.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/very-dull-cartoon.html
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The jist of this extensive article is that in the Va. Gov. Doug Wilder and the LA Mayor TomBradley elections and now with the Obama election, white folks lie to pollsters about who they will vote for.
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This clearly is a not so subtle way of accusing white folks of racism. However, instead of racism, perhaps we have brow-beat people into the behavior that being Politically Correct is more important than being forthright and honest. Especially when talking to someone from the media.
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Thank goodness black people are being honest. They say there are voting for Obama and by golly 95% are. Good for them! Honesty beats bias every time.
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To avoid being labeled racist by focusing on color instead of content, here is my approach to the upcoming election.
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I will reflect on Booker T. Washington. This is easy to do since I was a visiting professor of electrical engineering at Tuskegee University and now live 7 miles from his birthplace.
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I will reflect on MLK and his love for his country in spite of the awful treatment he and many black people experienced during his time.
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I will reflect on Bill Cosby and his message of personal responsibility and self-empowerment.
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I will reflect on General Colin Powel and his service to his country as an army officer and later as a statesman.
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I will reflect on Ms Condelisa Rice and her success and contributions to our country in spite of the significant challenges of being both black and a woman.
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I will then reflect on Barak Obama and his proposed First Lady. I will think about the people they associated with for the past 20 years, I will think about her master’s thesis at Princeton and her inability to be proud of her country. I will think about his lack of experience and avoidance of taking principled stands during his time in state office. I will think about his record of being the most liberal left-wing senator in our government. And I will think about his incredible abdication of responsibility for our national defense as so clearly articulated in his YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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I will reflect on all of this and then in a totally non-racist and non-biased and non-partisan manner:
I WILL VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/blindly-following-obama-and-change.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/very-dull-cartoon.html
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Blindly Following Obama and Change
Blindly following change has been going on for a very long time
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Click for one of the classic examples:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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Click for one of the classic examples:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-slipping.html
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Roanoke Times News Blacked Out Again
Not found in the Roanoke Times although wildly covered in other media is the latest John Edwards embarrassment. (no, not the guy from Roanoke! THE John Edwards)
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It was reported in other media that Sen Edwards was intercepted by news people while he was "visiting" a lady friend in a high-class hotel in the middle of the night. This while his wife is very ill at home.
But that's not the bad news! The bad reported news is that he purportedly has a child by this friend.
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Apparently, in-addition-to his other short comings he suffers from the ignorance about safe-sex due to Pres. Bush's abstinence sex-ed program.
Seems to be a pervasive political-Democrat problem - click for more insight.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/your-daughter-has-vd-and-president-is.html
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It appears that this story and the discovery of and shipment out of Iraq of 550 TONS of "yellow cake" nuclear material do not meet the Roanoke Times criteria for publication. They're so selective you know!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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One might wonder how the RT would have handled the news if it involved one of the three finalist in the Republican presidential primary process?
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Don't you just love fair and balanced reporting?
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It was reported in other media that Sen Edwards was intercepted by news people while he was "visiting" a lady friend in a high-class hotel in the middle of the night. This while his wife is very ill at home.
But that's not the bad news! The bad reported news is that he purportedly has a child by this friend.
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Apparently, in-addition-to his other short comings he suffers from the ignorance about safe-sex due to Pres. Bush's abstinence sex-ed program.
Seems to be a pervasive political-Democrat problem - click for more insight.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/your-daughter-has-vd-and-president-is.html
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It appears that this story and the discovery of and shipment out of Iraq of 550 TONS of "yellow cake" nuclear material do not meet the Roanoke Times criteria for publication. They're so selective you know!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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One might wonder how the RT would have handled the news if it involved one of the three finalist in the Republican presidential primary process?
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Don't you just love fair and balanced reporting?
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Obama Slipping
Roanoke Times, 8/6/08, Pg A 9: Poll shows Obama losing hold on core groups and has lost his national poll lead.
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Familiarity breeds contempt! Especially when the behavior is contemptible.
20 years under the influence of Jeremiah-Bullfrog Wright and other members of the radical-left.
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And now we are told by all the major media and the DNC that we are to follow the "pied-piper of change”
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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Perhaps symbols are an indicator of what change to expect:
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Like the symbols on his campaign plane:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPlane.jpg
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And the change in the national anthem that his supporters are promoting:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Perhaps as voters are getting to know Obama better, they are recognizing a charlatan when they see one.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/very-dull-cartoon.html
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Familiarity breeds contempt! Especially when the behavior is contemptible.
20 years under the influence of Jeremiah-Bullfrog Wright and other members of the radical-left.
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And now we are told by all the major media and the DNC that we are to follow the "pied-piper of change”
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPiedPiper.jpg
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Perhaps symbols are an indicator of what change to expect:
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Like the symbols on his campaign plane:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPlane.jpg
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And the change in the national anthem that his supporters are promoting:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Perhaps as voters are getting to know Obama better, they are recognizing a charlatan when they see one.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/very-dull-cartoon.html
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Very Dull Cartoon
Roanoke Times, 8/4/08, Pg Va 6: Cartoon comparing Obama' resume to Ronald Reagan's.
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Perhaps the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their cartoonist should compare Obama's total lack of experience and accomplishments with Reagan who was Governor of California, 1967 to 1975, a state of 20 million people, governing more than twice the populations of countries like: Portugal, Belgium, and Austria. And more than three times the populations of countries like: Switzerland, Libia, Denmark and Finland.
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Other than 20 years of close association with people like Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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and hiding from controversial votes in his state elected office and being a water-person for Harry Reid for the past several years, it's not clear what Obama can state in his resume that even comes close to Ronald Reagan.
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Of course, Obama does have a lock on being a post-turtle and it's nice that his wife is now, for the first time in her adult life, proud to be an American!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-post-turtle.html
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Some Ronald Reagan references for the RT editors and their friend:
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http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_33.html
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/timeline/index_2.html
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Some Prior Obama Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-for-fisa.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-to-iran-please-stop.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/life-is-all-about-choices.html
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Perhaps the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their cartoonist should compare Obama's total lack of experience and accomplishments with Reagan who was Governor of California, 1967 to 1975, a state of 20 million people, governing more than twice the populations of countries like: Portugal, Belgium, and Austria. And more than three times the populations of countries like: Switzerland, Libia, Denmark and Finland.
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Other than 20 years of close association with people like Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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and hiding from controversial votes in his state elected office and being a water-person for Harry Reid for the past several years, it's not clear what Obama can state in his resume that even comes close to Ronald Reagan.
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Of course, Obama does have a lock on being a post-turtle and it's nice that his wife is now, for the first time in her adult life, proud to be an American!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-post-turtle.html
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Some Ronald Reagan references for the RT editors and their friend:
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http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_33.html
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/timeline/index_2.html
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Some Prior Obama Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-for-fisa.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-to-iran-please-stop.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/life-is-all-about-choices.html
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Obama - the Post-Turtle
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
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Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle.'
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
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The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.
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The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.
'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there in the first place.'
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Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle.'
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
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The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.
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The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.
'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there in the first place.'
250 Years of Natural Global Warming
Ref: From The Sunday Times, August 3, 2008
Captains’ logs yield climate clues
Records kept by Nelson and Cook are shedding light on climate change
Jonathan Leake
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It’s interesting that as every week goes by there is yet another significant scientist and scientific study that demonstrates that we are experiencing a natural global warming cycle that started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age, and that it has very limited connections to human activity.
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Can all these scientists be kooks, nuts, and disaffected politicos? Apparently NOT!
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Clearly the debate is not over and Mr. Gore and his fraternity of UN experts are loosing credibility everyday in spite of their $300 Million dollar advertising campaign and Mr. Gore’s $250,000 speaking fee.
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The following are excerpts from the latest news article:
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4449527.ece
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“The logbooks kept by every naval ship, ranging from Nelson’s Victory and Cook’s Endeavour down to the humblest frigate, are emerging as one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data.”
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“A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s.
Many scientists believe storms are a consequence of global warming, but these were the coldest decades of the so-called Little Ice Age that hit Europe from about 1600 to 1850.
Wheeler and his colleagues have since won European Union funding to extend this research to 1750. This shows that during the 1730s, Europe underwent a period of rapid warming similar to that recorded recently – and which must have had natural origins. “
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-warming-mis.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/arctic-ice-melting-from-bottom.html
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Captains’ logs yield climate clues
Records kept by Nelson and Cook are shedding light on climate change
Jonathan Leake
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It’s interesting that as every week goes by there is yet another significant scientist and scientific study that demonstrates that we are experiencing a natural global warming cycle that started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age, and that it has very limited connections to human activity.
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Can all these scientists be kooks, nuts, and disaffected politicos? Apparently NOT!
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Clearly the debate is not over and Mr. Gore and his fraternity of UN experts are loosing credibility everyday in spite of their $300 Million dollar advertising campaign and Mr. Gore’s $250,000 speaking fee.
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The following are excerpts from the latest news article:
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4449527.ece
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“The logbooks kept by every naval ship, ranging from Nelson’s Victory and Cook’s Endeavour down to the humblest frigate, are emerging as one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data.”
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“A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s.
Many scientists believe storms are a consequence of global warming, but these were the coldest decades of the so-called Little Ice Age that hit Europe from about 1600 to 1850.
Wheeler and his colleagues have since won European Union funding to extend this research to 1750. This shows that during the 1730s, Europe underwent a period of rapid warming similar to that recorded recently – and which must have had natural origins. “
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-warming-mis.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/arctic-ice-melting-from-bottom.html
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Monday, August 04, 2008
If I Die Before You Wake
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Take a minute to watch, listen and think!
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http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm
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http://www.lars1.com/Kubasak/6Monument/Some.htm
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/freedom-is-not-free.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-won-iraq-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hanoi-janes-friends-are-back.html
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Take a minute to watch, listen and think!
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http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm
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http://www.lars1.com/Kubasak/6Monument/Some.htm
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/freedom-is-not-free.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-won-iraq-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hanoi-janes-friends-are-back.html
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Proud-American Anecdotes
When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.
He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American.
During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying
'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?'
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A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly:
'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people;
they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities;
they have three cafeterias wth the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day,
they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day,
and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.
We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?'
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Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'
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..You could have heard a pin drop.> > >
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Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. 'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously . Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.' The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.' 'Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !'
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The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. 'Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American.
During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying
'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?'
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A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly:
'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people;
they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities;
they have three cafeterias wth the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day,
they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day,
and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.
We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?'
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Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'
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..You could have heard a pin drop.> > >
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Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. 'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously . Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.' The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.' 'Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !'
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The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. 'Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.'
..You could have heard a pin drop.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Oil Problem Can't be Fixed
Roanoke Times, 7/15/08, Pg 1: Bush lifts oil-drilling ban. Says this means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the US Congress.
The Roanoke Times editorial-news then goes on to state: “Experts agree that it would take at lest seven years before benefits from overturning the ban were evident”.
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Did these same “unnamed experts” say that if Bill, Al, Hillary and Richardson had developed our energy resources when they were in office 16 years ago, things would be great now? We would have a nuclear power plant coming on-line every month, we’d have oil independence (not dependence) from our own assets; renewable solar, wind and energy start-ups would be coming on-line every month in volume, we’d be driving fuel-efficient vehicles made in the USA and our economy would be humming not hurting. What a shame they were such losers and laggards and let us all down!
The Roanoke Times forgot to fill us in on these simple truths on the way to more Bush-bashing.
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Also, if we got serious tomorrow about drilling and energy independence, OPEC and other countries would increase production and reduce prices the next day. Why? Because it would make it more difficult for us to justify developing our domestic production. Sure way to kill the start-up competition, and then make up the shortfall later with another price increase.
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It now appears that by November, the average American voter will well understand who has refused to develop our resources, who continues to stone-wall development and thereby continues to keep us in harms way. Your Democrat Congress at work!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/04/energy-challenge.html
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The Roanoke Times editorial-news then goes on to state: “Experts agree that it would take at lest seven years before benefits from overturning the ban were evident”.
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Did these same “unnamed experts” say that if Bill, Al, Hillary and Richardson had developed our energy resources when they were in office 16 years ago, things would be great now? We would have a nuclear power plant coming on-line every month, we’d have oil independence (not dependence) from our own assets; renewable solar, wind and energy start-ups would be coming on-line every month in volume, we’d be driving fuel-efficient vehicles made in the USA and our economy would be humming not hurting. What a shame they were such losers and laggards and let us all down!
The Roanoke Times forgot to fill us in on these simple truths on the way to more Bush-bashing.
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Also, if we got serious tomorrow about drilling and energy independence, OPEC and other countries would increase production and reduce prices the next day. Why? Because it would make it more difficult for us to justify developing our domestic production. Sure way to kill the start-up competition, and then make up the shortfall later with another price increase.
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It now appears that by November, the average American voter will well understand who has refused to develop our resources, who continues to stone-wall development and thereby continues to keep us in harms way. Your Democrat Congress at work!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/04/energy-challenge.html
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Welcome to the Republican Party
I was talking to this little girl Catherine, the daughter of some friends, and she said she wanted to be President some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats were standing therewith us - and Iasked Catherine - 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
Catherine replied - 'I would give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow - what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.' I told her,
'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in my back yard and I will pay you $10 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $10 dollars to use for a new house.'
Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied,
'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can just pay him the $10 dollars?'
And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party".
(author unknown -- but very smart)
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Both of her parents, liberal Democrats were standing therewith us - and Iasked Catherine - 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
Catherine replied - 'I would give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow - what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.' I told her,
'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in my back yard and I will pay you $10 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $10 dollars to use for a new house.'
Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied,
'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can just pay him the $10 dollars?'
And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party".
(author unknown -- but very smart)
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Roanoke Times and Bloggers
Roanoke Times, 7/13/08, Pg Horiz 2: Editorial: Bloggers on the take
Once I got past the title, I found this editorial to be the best so far this year. Many of the points made were valid and presented in a fair and profession manner. Kudos to the editor!
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There clearly was some defensiveness about bloggers passing themselves off as “journalists” and perhaps some condescension relative to some blogs being “little more than virtual diaries.”
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The core premise that “Real journalists follow strict rules about conflicts of interest” is more a matter of opinion than fact. I would argue that over 80% of the mainstream media has a major interest in promoting platforms and candidates of the Democrat party and I submit that includes the editorial staff of the Roanoke Times. There are approximately 1,000 items in this blog. About 80% address specific items in the Roanoke Times by name and page. I contend that an “impartial person” (wherever one might find such a rare bird) would conclude that my premise is correct. I of course am of the opposite persuasion; however, I do not have a journalist obligation to present complete, fair and balanced “news”. I can just be an old “kibitzer”.
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The major concept behind this blog as stated in the original home page is:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/Purpose.html
THE ROANOKE SLANT
After reading the Roanoke Times newspaper for 15 years it is clear to me that their "slant" on the information they publish is not even close to neutral or balanced on many economic, social and political issues.
The Roanoke Slant "blog" is intended to be a very brief "diary" of some examples of their slant by contrasting it with an opposing view.
Some of the Papers slant methods include:
not covering a story,
blatant in-your-face slant,
subtle shades of gray, size and content of headlines,
area and location of coverage
Upon review of these items, over a period of time, one might conclude that there is an undeniable pattern of behavior. This may be helpful in the future by enabling objective vs subjective discussions.
To peruse this information please "click-on" the following link:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com
(book-mark or short-cut this link to return for a regular update)
(to read off-line just use the file and save-as buttons)
Your comments and input are requested
lbhagen@roanokeslant.org
L.B. Hagen, Retired Smith Mountain Lake,Va
Member Media Bloggers.org
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Once I got past the title, I found this editorial to be the best so far this year. Many of the points made were valid and presented in a fair and profession manner. Kudos to the editor!
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There clearly was some defensiveness about bloggers passing themselves off as “journalists” and perhaps some condescension relative to some blogs being “little more than virtual diaries.”
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The core premise that “Real journalists follow strict rules about conflicts of interest” is more a matter of opinion than fact. I would argue that over 80% of the mainstream media has a major interest in promoting platforms and candidates of the Democrat party and I submit that includes the editorial staff of the Roanoke Times. There are approximately 1,000 items in this blog. About 80% address specific items in the Roanoke Times by name and page. I contend that an “impartial person” (wherever one might find such a rare bird) would conclude that my premise is correct. I of course am of the opposite persuasion; however, I do not have a journalist obligation to present complete, fair and balanced “news”. I can just be an old “kibitzer”.
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The major concept behind this blog as stated in the original home page is:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/Purpose.html
THE ROANOKE SLANT
After reading the Roanoke Times newspaper for 15 years it is clear to me that their "slant" on the information they publish is not even close to neutral or balanced on many economic, social and political issues.
The Roanoke Slant "blog" is intended to be a very brief "diary" of some examples of their slant by contrasting it with an opposing view.
Some of the Papers slant methods include:
not covering a story,
blatant in-your-face slant,
subtle shades of gray, size and content of headlines,
area and location of coverage
Upon review of these items, over a period of time, one might conclude that there is an undeniable pattern of behavior. This may be helpful in the future by enabling objective vs subjective discussions.
To peruse this information please "click-on" the following link:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com
(book-mark or short-cut this link to return for a regular update)
(to read off-line just use the file and save-as buttons)
Your comments and input are requested
lbhagen@roanokeslant.org
L.B. Hagen, Retired Smith Mountain Lake,Va
Member Media Bloggers.org
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Obama's Naive Youthful Followers
Little Suzy had a box of very small kittens that she was tryingto give away, so she had them out on the street corner with a sign 'FREEKITTENS' next to them.
Suddenly a long line of big black cars came upwith a policeman on a motorcycle in front. The cars all stopped and atall man stepped out from the biggest car. 'Hi, little girl, what do you have there in the box?' he asked. 'Kittens' Little Suzy says. 'They're so small, their eyes are not even open yet.'
'What kind of kittens are they?' he asked. 'Democrats' says Little Suzy. The tall man smiled, returned to his car and they drove away. Sensing a good photo opportunity, Sen. Obama called his campaign manager and told him about the little girl with the kittens. It was planned that they would return the next day, have all the media there and tell everyone about these 'democrat' kittens.
The next day, Little Suzy is standing out on the corner with her box of kittens with the 'FREE KITTENS' sign and the big motorcade of black cars pulled up with all the vans and trucks from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Everyone had their cameras ready and then Sen. Obama got out of his limo and walked up to Little Suzy. 'Now don't be frightened,' he said, I just want you to tell all these nice news people just what kind of kittens you're giving away today.'
'Yes sir,' Suzy said, 'they are all REPUBLICAN kittens.'
Taken by surprise, Sen. Obama said, 'But yesterday you told me they were DEMOCRATS.'
Little Suzy says, 'Yes, I know. But today, they have their eyes open.'
Suddenly a long line of big black cars came upwith a policeman on a motorcycle in front. The cars all stopped and atall man stepped out from the biggest car. 'Hi, little girl, what do you have there in the box?' he asked. 'Kittens' Little Suzy says. 'They're so small, their eyes are not even open yet.'
'What kind of kittens are they?' he asked. 'Democrats' says Little Suzy. The tall man smiled, returned to his car and they drove away. Sensing a good photo opportunity, Sen. Obama called his campaign manager and told him about the little girl with the kittens. It was planned that they would return the next day, have all the media there and tell everyone about these 'democrat' kittens.
The next day, Little Suzy is standing out on the corner with her box of kittens with the 'FREE KITTENS' sign and the big motorcade of black cars pulled up with all the vans and trucks from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Everyone had their cameras ready and then Sen. Obama got out of his limo and walked up to Little Suzy. 'Now don't be frightened,' he said, I just want you to tell all these nice news people just what kind of kittens you're giving away today.'
'Yes sir,' Suzy said, 'they are all REPUBLICAN kittens.'
Taken by surprise, Sen. Obama said, 'But yesterday you told me they were DEMOCRATS.'
Little Suzy says, 'Yes, I know. But today, they have their eyes open.'
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Obama for FISA?
Roanoke Times, 7/10/08, Pg A8: Obama shifts to middle by surveillance bill support by voting for it.
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What a classic piece of Roanoke Times slant! Shifting to the middle! Is that what you call a total capitulation on a major issue he has opposed and that has consumed hundreds of square feet of ranting-print in the Roanoke Times over the past three years!
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The highlight of the article slant – the RT didn’t even mention that this is the FISA bill. Yes friends, the bill the liberals have been telling us sucks the freedom out of our system and proves that Pres. Bush is an absolute monster and dangerous dictator!
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And how about the nice touch of small print buried back on page A8!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/democrats-spying-on-you.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ConnectDots.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/08/pre-911-info.html
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What a classic piece of Roanoke Times slant! Shifting to the middle! Is that what you call a total capitulation on a major issue he has opposed and that has consumed hundreds of square feet of ranting-print in the Roanoke Times over the past three years!
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The highlight of the article slant – the RT didn’t even mention that this is the FISA bill. Yes friends, the bill the liberals have been telling us sucks the freedom out of our system and proves that Pres. Bush is an absolute monster and dangerous dictator!
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And how about the nice touch of small print buried back on page A8!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/democrats-spying-on-you.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ConnectDots.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/08/pre-911-info.html
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Obama to Iran - Please Stop
Roanoke Times, 7/10/08, Pg 1: Major front page story: Iran sends message to US, Israel with missile test.
Obama: “What this underscores is the need for a clear policy that is putting the burden on Iran to change behavior.
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Sounds like something spoken to a school teacher by the parent of a disruptive juvenile delinquent student. Is this guy for real? Does he have any understanding of what will happen when Iran puts a nuclear bomb in the nose-cone of one of those vehicles? Can he envision an Iranian freighter cruising to within 500 miles of the US coastline with these weapons of mass destruction ?
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Apparently NOT! Obama’s latest “national defense policy statement” includes his pledge to “stop all work on our anti-missile defense system!”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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How can this person be the nominee of the majority US political party for President of the United States?
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What has happened to the once proud and responsible Democrat Party?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama: “What this underscores is the need for a clear policy that is putting the burden on Iran to change behavior.
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Sounds like something spoken to a school teacher by the parent of a disruptive juvenile delinquent student. Is this guy for real? Does he have any understanding of what will happen when Iran puts a nuclear bomb in the nose-cone of one of those vehicles? Can he envision an Iranian freighter cruising to within 500 miles of the US coastline with these weapons of mass destruction ?
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Apparently NOT! Obama’s latest “national defense policy statement” includes his pledge to “stop all work on our anti-missile defense system!”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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How can this person be the nominee of the majority US political party for President of the United States?
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What has happened to the once proud and responsible Democrat Party?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
When the Trickle-down Slows-down
Roanoke Times, 7-8-08: Service persons tips are way down, housing starts are meager, sales of homes are tepid and The Glebe Retirement facility is financially stressed.
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The oil and housing/financial problems have clearly squeezed the financial growth spigot to a trickle.
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Darn, those financially-successful people who have discretionary money to spend are being squeezed and aren’t spending. Discretionary, that means after all taxes and necessary bills are paid, there’s still some money left for what they want to do beyond what they need to do.
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These are the bad dudes that the Democrats want to hammer with lots of additional taxes so that these folks won’t be able to buy new houses, cars, boats, electronic gadgets, eat out, and go on vacation.
The Democrats refuse to acknowledge that when financially-successful people spend discretionary money they create jobs and opportunities for lots of other folks.
This refusal is a key element in their election class-warfare strategy that is ingrained in their culture.
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Clearly the key to improving our financial situation is to increase our domestic energy supply and stimulate small businesses to generate lots more financially-successful folks so that the Trickle-down becomes a stream helping all our people.
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Even old folks are impacted. Today it’s hard to sell a home you’ve lived in for many years so that you can roll the money over into a retirement facility. Retirement facility occupancy rates are key to the quality of life that they can afford to deliver to their residents. The vacated home represents an opportunity for new folks to enter into home ownership.
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A major opportunity for growth is also associated with the over 2 Million people we have added to our population each year since 1945. Expansion of private and corporate industry is vital to their growth and development and success.
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It would be constructive if the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their Democrat associates read and followed the 10 Cannots of Rev. William J.H. Boecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._H._Boetcker
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"The 10 Cannots"
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker, 1916
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The oil and housing/financial problems have clearly squeezed the financial growth spigot to a trickle.
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Darn, those financially-successful people who have discretionary money to spend are being squeezed and aren’t spending. Discretionary, that means after all taxes and necessary bills are paid, there’s still some money left for what they want to do beyond what they need to do.
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These are the bad dudes that the Democrats want to hammer with lots of additional taxes so that these folks won’t be able to buy new houses, cars, boats, electronic gadgets, eat out, and go on vacation.
The Democrats refuse to acknowledge that when financially-successful people spend discretionary money they create jobs and opportunities for lots of other folks.
This refusal is a key element in their election class-warfare strategy that is ingrained in their culture.
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Clearly the key to improving our financial situation is to increase our domestic energy supply and stimulate small businesses to generate lots more financially-successful folks so that the Trickle-down becomes a stream helping all our people.
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Even old folks are impacted. Today it’s hard to sell a home you’ve lived in for many years so that you can roll the money over into a retirement facility. Retirement facility occupancy rates are key to the quality of life that they can afford to deliver to their residents. The vacated home represents an opportunity for new folks to enter into home ownership.
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A major opportunity for growth is also associated with the over 2 Million people we have added to our population each year since 1945. Expansion of private and corporate industry is vital to their growth and development and success.
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It would be constructive if the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their Democrat associates read and followed the 10 Cannots of Rev. William J.H. Boecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._H._Boetcker
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"The 10 Cannots"
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker, 1916
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Sadam's Yellow-cake
Not found in the Roanoke Times! Wonder why not?
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The US moved 550 Tons (that’s over one Million pounds) of Sadam’s nuclear Yellow-cake from Iraq and moved it to Canada.
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That’s the nuclear bomb stuff that Joe Wilson and his trophy-CIA-wife said Sadam didn’t have, isn’t’ it?
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Perhaps Joe Wilson wasn’t the right person for his wife to send out to find out where Sadam was getting this stuff! Perhaps wifey should have sent Joe out for more mundane stuff – like milk and eggs!
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What’s the media and their sponsors in the Democrat party going to cook-up to explain this?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_yellowcake_mission
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376747,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/plame-wilson.html
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The US moved 550 Tons (that’s over one Million pounds) of Sadam’s nuclear Yellow-cake from Iraq and moved it to Canada.
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That’s the nuclear bomb stuff that Joe Wilson and his trophy-CIA-wife said Sadam didn’t have, isn’t’ it?
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Perhaps Joe Wilson wasn’t the right person for his wife to send out to find out where Sadam was getting this stuff! Perhaps wifey should have sent Joe out for more mundane stuff – like milk and eggs!
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What’s the media and their sponsors in the Democrat party going to cook-up to explain this?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_yellowcake_mission
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376747,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/plame-wilson.html
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We WON the Iraq War!
How do I know that?
1) The Democrats just passed a fully funded military budget that expends well into 2009.
2) The Democrats and the liberal press have stopped 24-7 coverage of the war.
3) Obama is “reconsidering” his position on the war.
4) We just moved 550 metric tons of Sadam’s nuclear "yellowcake from Iraq to Canada.
5) The media’s issues are now reduced to carping about how the Iraq government is handling contracts.
6) There are big increases in the projections for Iraq oil production.
7) US personnel and Iraq citizen casualties are way down.
8) Iraq has placed a major order for new Boeing passenger planes.
9) Al Satyr is staying holed-up in Iran.
10) The Democrats want us all to forget their track record for the past 3 years.
11) The enemy is trying to make a come-back in Afghanistan.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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1) The Democrats just passed a fully funded military budget that expends well into 2009.
2) The Democrats and the liberal press have stopped 24-7 coverage of the war.
3) Obama is “reconsidering” his position on the war.
4) We just moved 550 metric tons of Sadam’s nuclear "yellowcake from Iraq to Canada.
5) The media’s issues are now reduced to carping about how the Iraq government is handling contracts.
6) There are big increases in the projections for Iraq oil production.
7) US personnel and Iraq citizen casualties are way down.
8) Iraq has placed a major order for new Boeing passenger planes.
9) Al Satyr is staying holed-up in Iran.
10) The Democrats want us all to forget their track record for the past 3 years.
11) The enemy is trying to make a come-back in Afghanistan.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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The G8 & Current Natural Global Warming
Roanoke Times, 7/6/08, Pg A11: G8 summit and Pres. Bush will tackle oil, global warming by Tom Raum AP:
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“Atop the agenda is reducing the pollution that causes global warming”.
Albeit that reducing pollution and implementing green-energy is a good thing; the Roanoke Times and their friend Tom seem stuck on stating conjecture that suits their cause instead of publishing facts.
There is no scientific proof that establishes the basic cause of our current 250 year natural warming cycle:
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1. The current 250 year natural global warming started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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2. There was 200 years of natural global warming before any significant man-made CO2:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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3. The NASA published data clearly states that there is one (1) degree of warming during the last 100 years, that there was significant cooling during the 30 years (1940 – 1975) (directly after the massive pollution of WW1 and WW2 and Korea) and that there has been no warming during the last 10 years in spite of increased atmospheric CO2.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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4. There are over 30,000 signatures of scientists and engineers who have signed a petition stating that they do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. That’s a lot of highly educated “hacks and apologists” that certainly have infinitely more intellectual horsepower than the RT Editorial Staff and their friend Tom at the AP
http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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5. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors are prime supports of Senator Reid and Congressperson Pelosi who’s only misguided attempt to solve our energy issues is to mandate burning our food in our vehicles.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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“Atop the agenda is reducing the pollution that causes global warming”.
Albeit that reducing pollution and implementing green-energy is a good thing; the Roanoke Times and their friend Tom seem stuck on stating conjecture that suits their cause instead of publishing facts.
There is no scientific proof that establishes the basic cause of our current 250 year natural warming cycle:
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1. The current 250 year natural global warming started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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2. There was 200 years of natural global warming before any significant man-made CO2:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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3. The NASA published data clearly states that there is one (1) degree of warming during the last 100 years, that there was significant cooling during the 30 years (1940 – 1975) (directly after the massive pollution of WW1 and WW2 and Korea) and that there has been no warming during the last 10 years in spite of increased atmospheric CO2.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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4. There are over 30,000 signatures of scientists and engineers who have signed a petition stating that they do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. That’s a lot of highly educated “hacks and apologists” that certainly have infinitely more intellectual horsepower than the RT Editorial Staff and their friend Tom at the AP
http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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5. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors are prime supports of Senator Reid and Congressperson Pelosi who’s only misguided attempt to solve our energy issues is to mandate burning our food in our vehicles.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Gloom, Despair & Agony
Roanoke Times, 7/6/08, Pg 1: Headline story about how bad things can get
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Gloom, Despair & Agony - Is this article about?
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1) Dem. Pres. Jimmy Carter and his malaise and 18% interest rates
2) Homer & Jethro’s Heehaw routine (if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all!)
3) Readers of the Roanoke Times who actually paid $1.50 for the paper
4) The situation we’ll be in if Obama gets elected
5) All of the above
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Correct answer – you got it right --(#5)
That’s “right” NOT Wright!
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Gloom, Despair & Agony - Is this article about?
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1) Dem. Pres. Jimmy Carter and his malaise and 18% interest rates
2) Homer & Jethro’s Heehaw routine (if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all!)
3) Readers of the Roanoke Times who actually paid $1.50 for the paper
4) The situation we’ll be in if Obama gets elected
5) All of the above
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Correct answer – you got it right --(#5)
That’s “right” NOT Wright!
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Life is all About Choices
A great new book about choices:
Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint
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Senator & Mrs Obama could have chosen to follow and utilize the philosophy of black leaders like Bill Cosby and Dr. Poussaint.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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http://www.amazon.com/Come-People-Path-Victims-Victors/dp/1595550925
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Instead they chose 20 years of the radical and racist Jeremiah Wright (until it became politically embarrassing for a general nationwide election)!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Exactly what CHANGE are we choosing again?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/racist-statistics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/bomb-juan.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint
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Senator & Mrs Obama could have chosen to follow and utilize the philosophy of black leaders like Bill Cosby and Dr. Poussaint.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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http://www.amazon.com/Come-People-Path-Victims-Victors/dp/1595550925
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Instead they chose 20 years of the radical and racist Jeremiah Wright (until it became politically embarrassing for a general nationwide election)!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Exactly what CHANGE are we choosing again?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/vote-for-change-national-anthem.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/racist-statistics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/bomb-juan.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
HIV+AIDS Pandemic Continues
Roanoke Times, 7/5/08, Pg A 6: Second-wave AIDS epidemic underway. Young homosexual men infection rate at 12%. Young black men at highest risk.
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This pandemic will not be solved until the media and the government combines efforts to implement the basic public health processes used for all other highly communicable diseases.
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This is not rocket science! These processes and procedures were developed as a result of Typhoid-Mary in 1907. Why do we continue to let thousands of our people get horribly ill and die from this plague? Why indeed?
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And no Rev Jeremiah Wright – HIV+AIDS is not a white conspiracy to kill blacks and your racial rants are not helpful in solving this major problem that plagues your people.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/14/obamas-spiritual-adviser-questioned-us-role-in-spread-of-hiv-sept-11-attacks/
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Click for prior items that have been left unanswered, which The Roanoke Times and their associates in the liberal media ignore at the peril of others.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/fine-tuning-hivaids.html
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This pandemic will not be solved until the media and the government combines efforts to implement the basic public health processes used for all other highly communicable diseases.
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This is not rocket science! These processes and procedures were developed as a result of Typhoid-Mary in 1907. Why do we continue to let thousands of our people get horribly ill and die from this plague? Why indeed?
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And no Rev Jeremiah Wright – HIV+AIDS is not a white conspiracy to kill blacks and your racial rants are not helpful in solving this major problem that plagues your people.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/14/obamas-spiritual-adviser-questioned-us-role-in-spread-of-hiv-sept-11-attacks/
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Click for prior items that have been left unanswered, which The Roanoke Times and their associates in the liberal media ignore at the peril of others.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/fine-tuning-hivaids.html
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Friday, July 04, 2008
A Housing Adjustment?
Roanoke Times Editorial, 6/29/08, Pg Horiz 2: Congress heading for a housing bill being sponsored by Democrat Cris Dodd.
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A housing adjustment, indeed! What a colossal miscarriage of governmental and media responsibility and stewardship!
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This editorial and the front pages of the Roanoke Times should be totally focused on the gross inappropriate relationship between Democrat Sen Dodd and Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Countrywide is at the epicenter of the housing and financial crisis in this country and they have secretly given Democrat Sen Dodd and others special financial deals on loans he has made from them.
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Democrat Sen Dodd is one of the primary government oversight characters in the “new improved ethically-clean and sterilized majority Democrat Congress”.
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And what happens? Instead of being suspended from his position and under investigation as any Republican Senator would be, he sponsors a bill that helps Countrywide! And then what happens – the editorial staff of the Roanoke Times writes a two column editorial supporting and endorsing this bill and hides this scandal in fine print in the back of the paper!
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Apparently not only does this group lack professionalism, they and their Democrat friends in Congress appear to have serious issues understanding ethical standards when it applies to their political team. So much for a fair and impartial press!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/nancy-broom-pelosi.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-ethics-standard.html
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A housing adjustment, indeed! What a colossal miscarriage of governmental and media responsibility and stewardship!
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This editorial and the front pages of the Roanoke Times should be totally focused on the gross inappropriate relationship between Democrat Sen Dodd and Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Countrywide is at the epicenter of the housing and financial crisis in this country and they have secretly given Democrat Sen Dodd and others special financial deals on loans he has made from them.
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Democrat Sen Dodd is one of the primary government oversight characters in the “new improved ethically-clean and sterilized majority Democrat Congress”.
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And what happens? Instead of being suspended from his position and under investigation as any Republican Senator would be, he sponsors a bill that helps Countrywide! And then what happens – the editorial staff of the Roanoke Times writes a two column editorial supporting and endorsing this bill and hides this scandal in fine print in the back of the paper!
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Apparently not only does this group lack professionalism, they and their Democrat friends in Congress appear to have serious issues understanding ethical standards when it applies to their political team. So much for a fair and impartial press!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/nancy-broom-pelosi.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-ethics-standard.html
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Freedom is not free
Click for a view of freedom is not free
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http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh289/Impish_Dragon/?action=view¤t=Untitled.flv
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http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh289/Impish_Dragon/?action=view¤t=Untitled.flv
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Stop the Speculators
Vital commodity up 64% this year!
What to do? what to do?
Democrats want to nail the speculators!
Go get'em Nancy and Harry!
Oh -- what's this?
It's corn that's up 64% this year !
gasoline is only up 43% - about half as much as corn!
What to do? What to do?
Perhaps Nancy and Harry should rethink their mandate
that we must burn our food in our vehicles!
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New news just in:
The major speculators are the massive retirement
funds for the public-employees unions!
They're major backers of the Democrats aren't they?
Dang! What to do now?
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Prior Items:+
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/pounding-our-food-into-fuel.html
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What to do? what to do?
Democrats want to nail the speculators!
Go get'em Nancy and Harry!
Oh -- what's this?
It's corn that's up 64% this year !
gasoline is only up 43% - about half as much as corn!
What to do? What to do?
Perhaps Nancy and Harry should rethink their mandate
that we must burn our food in our vehicles!
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New news just in:
The major speculators are the massive retirement
funds for the public-employees unions!
They're major backers of the Democrats aren't they?
Dang! What to do now?
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Prior Items:+
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/pounding-our-food-into-fuel.html
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Obama and Faith - Again
Roanoke Times, 7/2/08, Pg A9: Obama would expand faith-based programs.
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Yes indeed! And as a starter let’s have three new faith-based cabinet positions headed by certified Christian ministers:
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Al Twana Sharpton as Secretary of Ethics in protecting young black girls
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSharpton.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/13/brawley.verdict.02/
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Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright as Secretary of God blessing America
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/preaching-to-obscene-choir.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Jessie Rainbow Jackson as Secretary of Extracting money from corporations
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/obama-and-faith.html
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What a renewal of faith this would be for America!
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Yes indeed! And as a starter let’s have three new faith-based cabinet positions headed by certified Christian ministers:
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Al Twana Sharpton as Secretary of Ethics in protecting young black girls
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSharpton.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/13/brawley.verdict.02/
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Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright as Secretary of God blessing America
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/preaching-to-obscene-choir.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Jessie Rainbow Jackson as Secretary of Extracting money from corporations
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/obama-and-faith.html
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What a renewal of faith this would be for America!
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Vote for Change! The National Anthem?
Roanoke Times, 7/3/08, Pg A2: Rene Marie, a Roanoke native, shocks Denver with her version of national anthem. I pulled a switcherroonie on them she told the Denver Post.
What an interesting choice of wording the Roanoke Times editors chose: “Her version of the national anthem”.
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A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem with those of the “Black National Anthem” during the annual State of the City address this week. Rene Marie (a Roanoker) was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, and without prior disclosure, she sang the lyrics of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — a hymn commonly referred to as the “Black National Anthem” — to the tune of the national anthem.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,375164,00.html
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Vote for Change! Too bad Michelle wasn’t there, they could have sung a duet that would have made Michelle proud one more time. Perhaps Denver (site of the upcoming Obama-DNC convention) should learn the words to the “new” national anthem before August. The rest of us have until Jan 20, 2009!
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This all fits in well with Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s master’s thesis at Princeton University (entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community). That thesis has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November. What a nice touch, can’t say Princeton doesn’t support their alumni and so much for the transparency concept.
However – much of the thesis is on the internet and will be read and discussed by lots of folks. Some have already reached the view that the race-based focus and tenor of the thesis explains her “haven’t been proud of my country” comment.
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bitter-elitist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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What an interesting choice of wording the Roanoke Times editors chose: “Her version of the national anthem”.
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A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem with those of the “Black National Anthem” during the annual State of the City address this week. Rene Marie (a Roanoker) was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, and without prior disclosure, she sang the lyrics of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — a hymn commonly referred to as the “Black National Anthem” — to the tune of the national anthem.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,375164,00.html
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Vote for Change! Too bad Michelle wasn’t there, they could have sung a duet that would have made Michelle proud one more time. Perhaps Denver (site of the upcoming Obama-DNC convention) should learn the words to the “new” national anthem before August. The rest of us have until Jan 20, 2009!
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This all fits in well with Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s master’s thesis at Princeton University (entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community). That thesis has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November. What a nice touch, can’t say Princeton doesn’t support their alumni and so much for the transparency concept.
However – much of the thesis is on the internet and will be read and discussed by lots of folks. Some have already reached the view that the race-based focus and tenor of the thesis explains her “haven’t been proud of my country” comment.
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bitter-elitist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Arctic ice melting from the bottom
New evidence deep beneath the Arctic ice suggests a series of underwater volcanoes have erupted in violent explosions in the past decade.
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Robert Reeves-Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts and his colleagues discovered jagged, glassy fragments of rock scattered around the volcanoes, suggesting explosive eruptions occurred between 1999 and 2001.
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The eruptions discharge large amounts of carbon dioxide, helium, trace metals and heat into the water over long distances, he said.
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The research, detailed in the June 26 issue of the journal Nature, was funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation and WHOI.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374542,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/greenland-ice-melts-from-bottom.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Robert Reeves-Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts and his colleagues discovered jagged, glassy fragments of rock scattered around the volcanoes, suggesting explosive eruptions occurred between 1999 and 2001.
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The eruptions discharge large amounts of carbon dioxide, helium, trace metals and heat into the water over long distances, he said.
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The research, detailed in the June 26 issue of the journal Nature, was funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation and WHOI.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374542,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/greenland-ice-melts-from-bottom.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Hanoi-Jane's Friends are Back
Roanoke Times, 6/29/08, Pg 1: The Hanoi Hilton was a nice place, American POW’s were treated nicely, there was no torture there, and the AP and The Roanoke Times used a major part of the front page to give us this “news” update. The key source for all this “good” news is none other than a North Vietnamese prison guard who would like to vote for John McCain.
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Apparently The Roanoke Times will soon follow-up this gross misrepresentation of history with an interview of some SS guards from Belsen and Dachau who will describe how nice the concentration-camps were and that they wished they could vote in the upcoming Israeli elections.
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Based on this big front page article, one could conclude that the editors of the Roanoke Times must just love the photo of Hanoi-Jane on the enemy anti-aircraft gun simulating shooting down American planes.
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The Hanoi Hilton from an American POW’s view”
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http://www.vietnamwar.com/powhonorbound.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/just-say-no-to-hanoi-jane_114333244888761117.html
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http://www.26thmarines.org/janefonda.html
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Apparently The Roanoke Times will soon follow-up this gross misrepresentation of history with an interview of some SS guards from Belsen and Dachau who will describe how nice the concentration-camps were and that they wished they could vote in the upcoming Israeli elections.
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Based on this big front page article, one could conclude that the editors of the Roanoke Times must just love the photo of Hanoi-Jane on the enemy anti-aircraft gun simulating shooting down American planes.
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The Hanoi Hilton from an American POW’s view”
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http://www.vietnamwar.com/powhonorbound.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/just-say-no-to-hanoi-jane_114333244888761117.html
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http://www.26thmarines.org/janefonda.html
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Save the Trees?
Roanoke Times, 7/1/08, Pg A3: California choosing which lightning-started forest wildfires to battle.
Yet again millions of fine healthy mature trees are burning. Trees that should have been harvested for lumber and fiber except the “environmentalists” wanted to “save” them.
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I wonder how many spotted owls have been cooked? They probably taste like chicken anyway.
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Also, can’t fight the fires because logging roads have been banned! Apparently we don’t want access to the peoples-forest and we sure wouldn’t want to have fire-breaks!
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Exactly how dull are we that we let people like the sierra club establish these ignorant public forest-management policies? However, soon the major media will be telling us how nicely the forest is recovering as they did when Yellowstone burned. Wouldn’t the forest recover just as nicely if we had harvested these mature trees instead of letting them burn?
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And talk about CO2 and global warming. Weren’t all these trees breathing in CO2 and breathing out Oxygen? Nice move “environmentalists”!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/save-trees.html
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Yet again millions of fine healthy mature trees are burning. Trees that should have been harvested for lumber and fiber except the “environmentalists” wanted to “save” them.
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I wonder how many spotted owls have been cooked? They probably taste like chicken anyway.
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Also, can’t fight the fires because logging roads have been banned! Apparently we don’t want access to the peoples-forest and we sure wouldn’t want to have fire-breaks!
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Exactly how dull are we that we let people like the sierra club establish these ignorant public forest-management policies? However, soon the major media will be telling us how nicely the forest is recovering as they did when Yellowstone burned. Wouldn’t the forest recover just as nicely if we had harvested these mature trees instead of letting them burn?
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And talk about CO2 and global warming. Weren’t all these trees breathing in CO2 and breathing out Oxygen? Nice move “environmentalists”!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/save-trees.html
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Obama - Commander-of-Unilateral Disarmament & Retreat
Click the youtube link for the most amazing declaration of defeatism that has ever been proposed by a major party candidate for President of the USA
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It is difficult to comprehend what Democrat Caucus group he was addressing and how he could have been somewhere where the American flag was on display.
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Two quotes come to mind:
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1. I never learned to fright for freedom. I was too busy enjoying it to bother.
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2. Those who beat their swords into plows, will plow for those who didn’t.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-for-homeland-insecurity.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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It is difficult to comprehend what Democrat Caucus group he was addressing and how he could have been somewhere where the American flag was on display.
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Two quotes come to mind:
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1. I never learned to fright for freedom. I was too busy enjoying it to bother.
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2. Those who beat their swords into plows, will plow for those who didn’t.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-for-homeland-insecurity.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Rick Horowiz - wetland developer
Roanoke Times, 6/26/08, Pg Va 9: Commentary: Rick Horowitz. The flood last time- and still.
Rick laments about the state of neglect in the New Orleans lower 9th ward post Katrina.
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Wake-up Rick! The lower 9th ward was a wetland since Thomas Jefferson bought it from Napoleon in 1803. It should never have been developed for housing. It is and should be what it is: a wetland! Clearly taxpayer money should be, and has been, focused on property that meets basic development criteria.
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By the way Rick, if you think that the 9th ward wetland is such a nice place, why don't you buy a hundred acres as an investment?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/still-stuck-on-stupid.html
Rick laments about the state of neglect in the New Orleans lower 9th ward post Katrina.
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Wake-up Rick! The lower 9th ward was a wetland since Thomas Jefferson bought it from Napoleon in 1803. It should never have been developed for housing. It is and should be what it is: a wetland! Clearly taxpayer money should be, and has been, focused on property that meets basic development criteria.
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By the way Rick, if you think that the 9th ward wetland is such a nice place, why don't you buy a hundred acres as an investment?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/still-stuck-on-stupid.html
Teachers short on math
Roanoke Times, 6/26/08, Pg A3: Elementary school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
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That's not the bad news. The bad news is that this council found the programs, within colleges and universities, spend too little time on elementary math topics.
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Elementary math topics. Is that what these council wizards think universities should be focused on at $20,000 per student per year?
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Taxpayers are spending well over $100,000 per graduating high school student. Perhaps having every graduating student proficient in algebra should not be too much to ask for that amount of taxpayer investment.
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Perhaps non-math teachers should be "sitting-in" and "auditing" math classes with the students. Also, let's put the calculators away and learn our tables and fractions and basic functions. Punching keys we don't understand is not education!
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/roanoke-students-lag.html
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That's not the bad news. The bad news is that this council found the programs, within colleges and universities, spend too little time on elementary math topics.
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Elementary math topics. Is that what these council wizards think universities should be focused on at $20,000 per student per year?
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Taxpayers are spending well over $100,000 per graduating high school student. Perhaps having every graduating student proficient in algebra should not be too much to ask for that amount of taxpayer investment.
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Perhaps non-math teachers should be "sitting-in" and "auditing" math classes with the students. Also, let's put the calculators away and learn our tables and fractions and basic functions. Punching keys we don't understand is not education!
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/roanoke-students-lag.html
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EXXON GETS OFF FREE
Roanoke Times, 6/26/08, Pg 1 & 6: Court slashes punitive award in Exxon oil spill. Supreme court cut punitive damages from $2.5 Billion to $500 million.
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What a great example of AP and RT slant.
What is totally smoked-over is that those who had losses were paid over $500 million by Exxon!
This is not about peoples losses! This is about punitive damages, ie: let's sock it to them because they're big and rich! Let's not talk about the fact that the company had a professional and licensed crew in charge of the tanker. Let's not talk about the coast guard controllers who were responsible for radar-guiding and directing the tanker safely out of the harbor. Let's not talk about the drug and alcohol tests these coast guard controllers failed after the accident.
Let's just spread more heifer-dust from your left-wing news outlets as part of their anti-business crusade.
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What a great example of AP and RT slant.
What is totally smoked-over is that those who had losses were paid over $500 million by Exxon!
This is not about peoples losses! This is about punitive damages, ie: let's sock it to them because they're big and rich! Let's not talk about the fact that the company had a professional and licensed crew in charge of the tanker. Let's not talk about the coast guard controllers who were responsible for radar-guiding and directing the tanker safely out of the harbor. Let's not talk about the drug and alcohol tests these coast guard controllers failed after the accident.
Let's just spread more heifer-dust from your left-wing news outlets as part of their anti-business crusade.
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Tim Russert was a professional
After reflecting on the many articles and programs praising Tim Russert since his death, one might wonder what other ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, and Roanoke Times personalities measure up to Tim’s performance.
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Tim was a rank Democrat! He worked for years for Senior Dem NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and then for Dem Gov. Mario Cuomo. He was firmly planted in the Democrat briar-patch during his formative and developing years.
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However, when conducting his duties as a reporter and moderator, he showed great restraint and was clearly different than the bias and slant used by most of the left-wing media. He made a real effort to present and deliver the news, not be the news.
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He also abstained from using “flaming” catch words and phrases so common in the lexicon of the major media. Instead he focused on significant specific statements made by targets and then let them explain their positions or changes in positions. He made a real and visible effort to treat all his targets fairly.
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Perhaps the “bobbling heads” of the major media should reflect on all the praises and accolades being laid at Tim’s feet and ask the simple question: “how will people reflect on my passing”?
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The following blog item clearly reflects a major difference between the performance of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times and Mr. Russert.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/unprofessional-roanoke-times-editorial.html
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That blog item concludes:
We do not need guidance or direction or advice from a team of people who are not willing to address the facts, develop plans for their own improvement, are unwilling to standup for what they say they support and who in their final act of frustration must resort to name-calling.
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Tim was a rank Democrat! He worked for years for Senior Dem NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and then for Dem Gov. Mario Cuomo. He was firmly planted in the Democrat briar-patch during his formative and developing years.
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However, when conducting his duties as a reporter and moderator, he showed great restraint and was clearly different than the bias and slant used by most of the left-wing media. He made a real effort to present and deliver the news, not be the news.
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He also abstained from using “flaming” catch words and phrases so common in the lexicon of the major media. Instead he focused on significant specific statements made by targets and then let them explain their positions or changes in positions. He made a real and visible effort to treat all his targets fairly.
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Perhaps the “bobbling heads” of the major media should reflect on all the praises and accolades being laid at Tim’s feet and ask the simple question: “how will people reflect on my passing”?
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The following blog item clearly reflects a major difference between the performance of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times and Mr. Russert.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/unprofessional-roanoke-times-editorial.html
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That blog item concludes:
We do not need guidance or direction or advice from a team of people who are not willing to address the facts, develop plans for their own improvement, are unwilling to standup for what they say they support and who in their final act of frustration must resort to name-calling.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Democrats for Homeland Insecurity
The Supreme Court on Monday June 23, 2008 turned down a plea to NOT waive laws and regulations in order to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas without doing an in-depth environmental impact assessment. Congress authorized in 1996 and 2005 laws that cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way of fence construction.
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The case rejected by the court involved a two-mile section of fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz. The section has since been built.
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"I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said. "This waiver will only prolong the department from addressing the real issue: their lack of a comprehensive border security plan."
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Thompson chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. He and 13 other House democrats — including six other committee chairs — filed a brief in support of the appeal.
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Isn’t it comforting to know that the new Democrat majority in Congress are vigilant in defense of our border security and immigration laws? What a bunch of pathetic losers!
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370205,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ConnectDots.htm
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas without doing an in-depth environmental impact assessment. Congress authorized in 1996 and 2005 laws that cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way of fence construction.
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The case rejected by the court involved a two-mile section of fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz. The section has since been built.
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"I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said. "This waiver will only prolong the department from addressing the real issue: their lack of a comprehensive border security plan."
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Thompson chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. He and 13 other House democrats — including six other committee chairs — filed a brief in support of the appeal.
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Isn’t it comforting to know that the new Democrat majority in Congress are vigilant in defense of our border security and immigration laws? What a bunch of pathetic losers!
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370205,00.html
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ConnectDots.htm
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Boogeyman drilling for oil near Florida
Roanoke Times, 6/21/08, Pg Va 7: Editorial: Give the China boogeyman a rest. E. Strother proudly writes that VP Cheney is wrong – China is not NOW drilling for oil 60 miles off Florida.
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Cuba's state oil company, Cupet, has issued exploration contracts to companies from China, India, Canada, Spain, Malaysia and Norway, according to Western diplomats.
Oil companies from these countries are now “exploring” for oil within 60 miles from Florida.
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I wonder what they’ll do when the first drill hits oil? They’ll probably call Ms. Strother at the Roanoke Times and ask her if it’s OK to start production-runs or just cap the hole and go home.
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Talk about dull! Cuba has let the contracts! Foreign oil units from other countries, including China, are at our doorstep! We’re exporting massive amounts of our money for massive amounts of imported oil and Ms. Strother is mincing words about at what point in the very near future exploration holes becomes production holes.
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The left-wing obstruction of domestic energy development of oil, natural gas and nuclear power is obscene and it appears that the average citizen now understands those facts!
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How many kilowatts and BTU’s have Ms. Strother and her friends and associates developed and delivered to the marketplace to accommodate the two million additional people added to our population each and every year since 1945?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-warming-mis.html
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Cuba's state oil company, Cupet, has issued exploration contracts to companies from China, India, Canada, Spain, Malaysia and Norway, according to Western diplomats.
Oil companies from these countries are now “exploring” for oil within 60 miles from Florida.
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I wonder what they’ll do when the first drill hits oil? They’ll probably call Ms. Strother at the Roanoke Times and ask her if it’s OK to start production-runs or just cap the hole and go home.
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Talk about dull! Cuba has let the contracts! Foreign oil units from other countries, including China, are at our doorstep! We’re exporting massive amounts of our money for massive amounts of imported oil and Ms. Strother is mincing words about at what point in the very near future exploration holes becomes production holes.
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The left-wing obstruction of domestic energy development of oil, natural gas and nuclear power is obscene and it appears that the average citizen now understands those facts!
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How many kilowatts and BTU’s have Ms. Strother and her friends and associates developed and delivered to the marketplace to accommodate the two million additional people added to our population each and every year since 1945?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-warming-mis.html
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Global Warming Mis&DisInformation
Roanoke Times, 6/8/08, Pg A10, Leaders in Congress fume. Senate Democratic leaders couldn’t overcome Republican opponents who managed to block the carbon-trading bill.
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This RT/AP story is beyond slant! Nowhere in the article does it state that the Senate vote was 48 to 36-against. This is the new Democrat Senate! They have a majority! The issue isn’t 60 votes -- they couldn’t get 51 votes to pass the bill! What a sad sack of losers and then to publish this slant about the outcome is disgusting!
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The management of carbon limits for all our hydrocarbon fueled systems and the associated payment and credit systems will produce the biggest socialistic bureaucratic system ever seen in the world outside the old Soviet Union, and with minimal payback to our society or our standard of living. This program would not generate a single additional BTU or Kilowatt but instead increases the expenses and burdens and costs of our current over-burdened energy systems that are being held hostage by our new improved Democrat Congress.
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For some Global Warming FACTS click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/unprofessional-roanoke-times-editorial.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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This RT/AP story is beyond slant! Nowhere in the article does it state that the Senate vote was 48 to 36-against. This is the new Democrat Senate! They have a majority! The issue isn’t 60 votes -- they couldn’t get 51 votes to pass the bill! What a sad sack of losers and then to publish this slant about the outcome is disgusting!
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The management of carbon limits for all our hydrocarbon fueled systems and the associated payment and credit systems will produce the biggest socialistic bureaucratic system ever seen in the world outside the old Soviet Union, and with minimal payback to our society or our standard of living. This program would not generate a single additional BTU or Kilowatt but instead increases the expenses and burdens and costs of our current over-burdened energy systems that are being held hostage by our new improved Democrat Congress.
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For some Global Warming FACTS click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/unprofessional-roanoke-times-editorial.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Unprofessional Roanoke Times Editorial Staff
Roanoke Times, 6/2/08, Pg Va 6: Editorial: Give consumers a green power choice.
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In their effort to promote green energy the RT Editorial Team found it necessary to disparage those who do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that our current global warming cycle is caused by man-made CO2.
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Their unprofessional and childish-bulling name-calling included: “only the worst industry hacks and political apologists – ect”
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Perhaps these RT people should click-on the link that their parents should have consulted:
http://www.parenting-advice.net/forum/advice/89-name_calling-0.html
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Instead of resorting to immature and ignorant name-calling the RT editorial team should be addressing the basic facts of our current 250 year natural warming cycle:
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1. The current 250 year natural global warming started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NaturalGlobalWarming.htm
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2. There was 200 years of natural global warming before any significant man-made CO2:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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3. The NASA published data clearly states that there is one (1) degree of warming during the last 100 years, that there was significant cooling during the 30 years (1940 – 1975) and that there has been no warming during the last 10 years in spite of increased atmospheric CO2.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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4. There are over 30,000 signatures of scientists and engineers who have signed a petition stating that they do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing global warming.
That’s a lot of highly educated “hacks and apologists” that certainly have infinitely more intellectual horsepower than the RT Editorial Staff and all their staff and supporters. Perhaps that’s why they feel the need to resort to name-calling.
http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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5. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors are prime supports of Senator Reid and Congressperson Pelosi who’s only misguided attempt to solve our energy issues is to mandate burning our food in our vehicles.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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6. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors represent a large manufacturing organization that has a huge carbon-footprint that they refuse to acknowledge or document or quantify or improve.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-isnt-roanoke-times-turning-green.html
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7. The RT Editors have also saw fit to avoid taking a positive proactive position in support of any development of clean or green or independent energy including the only application for a wind-farm in Virginia. How incredibly hypocritical is that!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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We do not need guidance or direction or advice from a team of people who are not willing to address the facts, develop plans for their own improvement, are unwilling to standup for what they say they support and who in their final act of frustration must resort to name-calling.
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/100000-dead-and-its-your-fault.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/mass-persuasion-exercise.html
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In their effort to promote green energy the RT Editorial Team found it necessary to disparage those who do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that our current global warming cycle is caused by man-made CO2.
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Their unprofessional and childish-bulling name-calling included: “only the worst industry hacks and political apologists – ect”
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Perhaps these RT people should click-on the link that their parents should have consulted:
http://www.parenting-advice.net/forum/advice/89-name_calling-0.html
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Instead of resorting to immature and ignorant name-calling the RT editorial team should be addressing the basic facts of our current 250 year natural warming cycle:
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1. The current 250 year natural global warming started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NaturalGlobalWarming.htm
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2. There was 200 years of natural global warming before any significant man-made CO2:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalCO2.jpg
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3. The NASA published data clearly states that there is one (1) degree of warming during the last 100 years, that there was significant cooling during the 30 years (1940 – 1975) and that there has been no warming during the last 10 years in spite of increased atmospheric CO2.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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4. There are over 30,000 signatures of scientists and engineers who have signed a petition stating that they do NOT subscribe to the hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing global warming.
That’s a lot of highly educated “hacks and apologists” that certainly have infinitely more intellectual horsepower than the RT Editorial Staff and all their staff and supporters. Perhaps that’s why they feel the need to resort to name-calling.
http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
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5. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors are prime supports of Senator Reid and Congressperson Pelosi who’s only misguided attempt to solve our energy issues is to mandate burning our food in our vehicles.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethanol-burning-our-food.html
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6. It’s also interesting that the RT Editors represent a large manufacturing organization that has a huge carbon-footprint that they refuse to acknowledge or document or quantify or improve.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-isnt-roanoke-times-turning-green.html
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7. The RT Editors have also saw fit to avoid taking a positive proactive position in support of any development of clean or green or independent energy including the only application for a wind-farm in Virginia. How incredibly hypocritical is that!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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We do not need guidance or direction or advice from a team of people who are not willing to address the facts, develop plans for their own improvement, are unwilling to standup for what they say they support and who in their final act of frustration must resort to name-calling.
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/100000-dead-and-its-your-fault.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/mass-persuasion-exercise.html
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Yet Another Free Political DNC Ad by the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 5/18/08, Pg Horiz 1: Bush’s great war sacrifice? A 50 square inch, five thousand dollar, free advertisement hawked by Dan R. and the editors of the Roanoke Times in support of Howard Dean and the Democrat Party.
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A portion of this tripe dealt with critiquing what the President has been doing personally during the Iraq War including cutting brush at his ranch. Dan didn’t say much in his article about Abraham and Mary going to plays at the theatre during the bloodiest conflict in American history. Also haven’t seen Dan’s exposes about FDR hanging out at Warm Springs with his favorite mistress during the second bloodiest conflict in history or Bill doing phone-sex with Monica during the conflict in Bosnia.
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The real interesting part is his totally warped view of the start of the Iraq War and who supported removing Sadam from power, stopping him from once again using poison gas on Iraqi civilians, and development of long-range missiles with nuclear war-heads.
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Dar R, the RT editors and their associates at the DNC need to review what the positions of major Democrat leaders were leading up to the war. Democrat Leaders like:
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Madeleine Albright
Pres. W. Clinton
Howard Dean
Sandy Berger
Nancy Pelosi
Sen Jay Rockefeller
Sen Joe Biden
Sen Harry Reid
Sen Hillary Clinton
Sen Evan Bayh
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Click on the following link for a video of their positions.
10 Meg wmv video file
Requires 15 seconds to load with hi-speed internet
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/DemocratPositionOnIraq.wmv
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Click to view Democrat Joe Liberman’s view of the dismal performance of the Democrat Leadership in this War.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/surrender-game-iwo-jima.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/december-7th-america-at-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/surrender-quick-before-we-win.html
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A portion of this tripe dealt with critiquing what the President has been doing personally during the Iraq War including cutting brush at his ranch. Dan didn’t say much in his article about Abraham and Mary going to plays at the theatre during the bloodiest conflict in American history. Also haven’t seen Dan’s exposes about FDR hanging out at Warm Springs with his favorite mistress during the second bloodiest conflict in history or Bill doing phone-sex with Monica during the conflict in Bosnia.
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The real interesting part is his totally warped view of the start of the Iraq War and who supported removing Sadam from power, stopping him from once again using poison gas on Iraqi civilians, and development of long-range missiles with nuclear war-heads.
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Dar R, the RT editors and their associates at the DNC need to review what the positions of major Democrat leaders were leading up to the war. Democrat Leaders like:
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Madeleine Albright
Pres. W. Clinton
Howard Dean
Sandy Berger
Nancy Pelosi
Sen Jay Rockefeller
Sen Joe Biden
Sen Harry Reid
Sen Hillary Clinton
Sen Evan Bayh
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Click on the following link for a video of their positions.
10 Meg wmv video file
Requires 15 seconds to load with hi-speed internet
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/DemocratPositionOnIraq.wmv
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Click to view Democrat Joe Liberman’s view of the dismal performance of the Democrat Leadership in this War.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/surrender-game-iwo-jima.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/december-7th-america-at-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/surrender-quick-before-we-win.html
Friday, May 09, 2008
100,000 Dead and it's YOUR Fault!
Former vice president tells NPR's 'Fresh Air' host Terry Gross, May 6, that the Myanmar cyclone is example of 'consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.'
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
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According to Mr Gore the 100,000 died because YOU drive your car, use electricity, heat and air-condition your house and breath-out, thus causing man-made CO2 that results in global warming that results in climate change.
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Mr Gore and his associates continue their fear-mongering and money-making exploitation of data that clearly does not support their hypothesis and claims.
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Our current warming cycle started at the end of the little ice age in 1750 well before any man-made CO2. Published NASA data states that we have had one (1) degree of warming in the last 100 years, most of which occurred before World War 2, and no (zero) warming during the past 10 years.
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Mr Gore’s claims are not only false but appear to represent irresponsible behavior for the purpose of personal, political and monetary gains.
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Click on and browse through for a factual, non-emotional and proper view of global warming:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/purging-deniers.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
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According to Mr Gore the 100,000 died because YOU drive your car, use electricity, heat and air-condition your house and breath-out, thus causing man-made CO2 that results in global warming that results in climate change.
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Mr Gore and his associates continue their fear-mongering and money-making exploitation of data that clearly does not support their hypothesis and claims.
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Our current warming cycle started at the end of the little ice age in 1750 well before any man-made CO2. Published NASA data states that we have had one (1) degree of warming in the last 100 years, most of which occurred before World War 2, and no (zero) warming during the past 10 years.
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Mr Gore’s claims are not only false but appear to represent irresponsible behavior for the purpose of personal, political and monetary gains.
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Click on and browse through for a factual, non-emotional and proper view of global warming:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/purging-deniers.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Stop The Executions
Roanoke Times, 5/8/08, Pg 1 & 8: 1981 killer of two shoots two more people
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For some reason the Roanoke Times Editorial Board chose not to use their typical headline for this type news story: “Stop the Executions – no more death penalty”.
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Perhaps it’s because executions are happening all the time, it’s just that the bad guys are doing the executing and in this case it’s the same killer striking for a second time along the Appalachian Trail.
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The RT Editors are very upset with the recent Supreme Court decision that the current death penalty process is OK. It would be appropriate for the RT Editors to comment on how humane Randall Smith performs executions and whether or not his victims experience pain.
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Perhaps the editors could do a follow-up story comparing this Randall Smith situation to the poster-boy for life imprisonment multiple killer Lemuel Smith.
CLICK:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/12/lots-of-virginia-executions.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/bet-farm-lost.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-virginia-executions.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/03/escaped-from-death-row.html
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For some reason the Roanoke Times Editorial Board chose not to use their typical headline for this type news story: “Stop the Executions – no more death penalty”.
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Perhaps it’s because executions are happening all the time, it’s just that the bad guys are doing the executing and in this case it’s the same killer striking for a second time along the Appalachian Trail.
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The RT Editors are very upset with the recent Supreme Court decision that the current death penalty process is OK. It would be appropriate for the RT Editors to comment on how humane Randall Smith performs executions and whether or not his victims experience pain.
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Perhaps the editors could do a follow-up story comparing this Randall Smith situation to the poster-boy for life imprisonment multiple killer Lemuel Smith.
CLICK:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/12/lots-of-virginia-executions.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/bet-farm-lost.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-virginia-executions.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/03/escaped-from-death-row.html
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Purging the Deniers
The debate is over and all those who do not sign-up to the Al Gore view that global warming is a crisis and is caused by man-made CO2 are to be banished, shunned and driven out of their jobs and positions of public exposure.
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Here in Virginia, no better example could be used than that of Prof. Patrick Michaels, a distinguished scientist and faculty member at VT and UVA who has been personally attacked by Gov. Kaine and who has even been banished from appearing before the governor’s climate change commission.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/hypocritical-left-wing-media.html
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We haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Pope isolated and vilified Galileo.
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And now the University of Colorado is falling in line with the Gore-machine with their treatment of Prof. Bill Gray, the most experienced and qualified hurricane scientist and forecaster in the USA.
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Hurricane Expert: School Silencing me over global-warming views
FOX News Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children," claims that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views.
Gray complained in a memo to the head of Colorado State’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences that "this is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department's capitulation to the desires of some (in their own interest) who want to reign [sic] in my global warming and global warming-hurricane criticisms," the Chronicle reports.
School officials denied that Gray’s stand on global warming was an issue, and said that they are cutting back on media support for his forecasts due to the strain it places on the school's lone media staffer.
"It really has nothing to do with his stand on global warming," Sandra Woods, dean of the College of Engineering at CSU, told the Chronicle. "He's a great faculty member. He's an institution at CSU."
In the fall of 2005, Gray passed lead authorship of the yearly hurricane forecasts to his former student Philip Klotzbach, but he continues to head the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU.
CSU will continue to publicize Gray's yearly forecasts as long as they are co-authored by Klotzbach, officials told the Chronicle last week, but will end their support if Klotzbach, who recently earned his doctorate, moves to another institution.
"It seems peculiar that this is happening now," Donald Wright, a professor on public relations at Boston University, told the Chronicle. "Given the national reputation that these reports have, you would think the university would want to continue to promote these forecasts."
One friend said Gray's views highlight the politically charged atmosphere that surrounds global warming research in the United States.
"Bill Gray has come under a lot of fire for his views," former director of the National Hurricane Center Neil Frank, currently chief meteorologist at Houston's KHOU-TV, told the Chronicle. "If, indeed, this is happening, it would be really sad that Colorado State is trying to rein in Bill Gray."
The Chronicle noted that Gray's views on global warming had become increasingly personal, with characterizations of former colleagues and students who disagreed with him as "medicine men" and a "Gang of Five" conspiring to promote the idea of man-made climate change.
Gray contends it's all a hoax contrived by scientists hungry for research funding, media professionals thirsting for Pulitzer Prizes and foreign powers seeking to create a single world government.
In fact, he says, the warming cycle will soon end, and the Earth will begin a period of temporary cooling.
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To view the latest NASA Global Warming Data Graphic that clearly calls into question the Gore-hypothesis:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/mass-persuasion-exercise.html
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Here in Virginia, no better example could be used than that of Prof. Patrick Michaels, a distinguished scientist and faculty member at VT and UVA who has been personally attacked by Gov. Kaine and who has even been banished from appearing before the governor’s climate change commission.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/hypocritical-left-wing-media.html
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We haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Pope isolated and vilified Galileo.
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And now the University of Colorado is falling in line with the Gore-machine with their treatment of Prof. Bill Gray, the most experienced and qualified hurricane scientist and forecaster in the USA.
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Hurricane Expert: School Silencing me over global-warming views
FOX News Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children," claims that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views.
Gray complained in a memo to the head of Colorado State’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences that "this is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department's capitulation to the desires of some (in their own interest) who want to reign [sic] in my global warming and global warming-hurricane criticisms," the Chronicle reports.
School officials denied that Gray’s stand on global warming was an issue, and said that they are cutting back on media support for his forecasts due to the strain it places on the school's lone media staffer.
"It really has nothing to do with his stand on global warming," Sandra Woods, dean of the College of Engineering at CSU, told the Chronicle. "He's a great faculty member. He's an institution at CSU."
In the fall of 2005, Gray passed lead authorship of the yearly hurricane forecasts to his former student Philip Klotzbach, but he continues to head the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU.
CSU will continue to publicize Gray's yearly forecasts as long as they are co-authored by Klotzbach, officials told the Chronicle last week, but will end their support if Klotzbach, who recently earned his doctorate, moves to another institution.
"It seems peculiar that this is happening now," Donald Wright, a professor on public relations at Boston University, told the Chronicle. "Given the national reputation that these reports have, you would think the university would want to continue to promote these forecasts."
One friend said Gray's views highlight the politically charged atmosphere that surrounds global warming research in the United States.
"Bill Gray has come under a lot of fire for his views," former director of the National Hurricane Center Neil Frank, currently chief meteorologist at Houston's KHOU-TV, told the Chronicle. "If, indeed, this is happening, it would be really sad that Colorado State is trying to rein in Bill Gray."
The Chronicle noted that Gray's views on global warming had become increasingly personal, with characterizations of former colleagues and students who disagreed with him as "medicine men" and a "Gang of Five" conspiring to promote the idea of man-made climate change.
Gray contends it's all a hoax contrived by scientists hungry for research funding, media professionals thirsting for Pulitzer Prizes and foreign powers seeking to create a single world government.
In fact, he says, the warming cycle will soon end, and the Earth will begin a period of temporary cooling.
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To view the latest NASA Global Warming Data Graphic that clearly calls into question the Gore-hypothesis:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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Prior Items:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/mass-persuasion-exercise.html
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Preaching to the Obscene Choir
Jeremiah Wright was welcomed (4/27/08) to the meeting of the National Press Club with a rousing standing ovation; this after a warm reception by the mayor of Detroit and receipt of an award by the Detroit NAACP.
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Instead of trying to somehow explain or atone for his radical, racial, hateful sermons, Jeremiah chose to expound upon his vile positions as proper and appropriate and proposed that anyone who is disturbed by or speaks out about his behavior is against black-churches!
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The real underlining and very disturbing problem that has been revealed here is the attitude and behavior and beliefs of the Detroit NAACP, the mayor of Detroit and the National Press Club.
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In defending Wright, these people have publically proclaimed that they support his views and statements that are very similar to the radical Muslim Madras schools that have resulted in violent behavior by many Muslim-terrorists.
In this country we have seen similar behaviors from the followers of Malcolm-X the Black Liberation Army and Louis Farrakhan.
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Jeremiah Wright should be shunned until he rejects racism and hatred, not applauded and praised. That’s what happened to David Duke and the KKK and that is what should happen to all those who follow that destructive path.
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Instead of trying to somehow explain or atone for his radical, racial, hateful sermons, Jeremiah chose to expound upon his vile positions as proper and appropriate and proposed that anyone who is disturbed by or speaks out about his behavior is against black-churches!
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The real underlining and very disturbing problem that has been revealed here is the attitude and behavior and beliefs of the Detroit NAACP, the mayor of Detroit and the National Press Club.
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In defending Wright, these people have publically proclaimed that they support his views and statements that are very similar to the radical Muslim Madras schools that have resulted in violent behavior by many Muslim-terrorists.
In this country we have seen similar behaviors from the followers of Malcolm-X the Black Liberation Army and Louis Farrakhan.
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Jeremiah Wright should be shunned until he rejects racism and hatred, not applauded and praised. That’s what happened to David Duke and the KKK and that is what should happen to all those who follow that destructive path.
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Voter ID Required
In conflict with the editors of the Roanoke Times and their friends at the DNC and the ACLU, the Supreme Court has ruled that states and the federal government may require that voters provide photo-ID when voting.
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AP Story: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to deter fraud.
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A “splintered ruling”! Only the AP and their associates would call a 6 to 3 vote splintered. Others would call it a clear mandate for fair voting and elections.
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How is it democratic and fair to have people voting who are not eligible to vote?
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It takes ID to buy beer! It takes ID to buy cigarettes! It takes ID to get on a plane!But requiring ID for voting is not OK?
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Why would left-wing liberals want persons to vote who are not eligible to vote?
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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AP Story: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to deter fraud.
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A “splintered ruling”! Only the AP and their associates would call a 6 to 3 vote splintered. Others would call it a clear mandate for fair voting and elections.
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How is it democratic and fair to have people voting who are not eligible to vote?
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It takes ID to buy beer! It takes ID to buy cigarettes! It takes ID to get on a plane!But requiring ID for voting is not OK?
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Why would left-wing liberals want persons to vote who are not eligible to vote?
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Mass Persuasion Exercise
A $300 million dollar “Mass Persuasion Exercise” has been launched by Al Gore’s organization, “The Alliance for Climate Protection”, in order to influence public opinion about man-made CO2 impacts on global warming and climate.
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This major propaganda effort is based on a UN group’s (IPCC) hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing a global warming and climate crisis. However, the IPCC states in their documentation that there is NO scientific proof that man-made CO2 causes global warming or climate change. Instead, they (the IPCC) rely on an ever evolving consensus of opinion that their latest conjecture is scientific fact.
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A reasonable and prudent first step for Mr Gore and his group would be to address and explain the global temperature data published by NASA:
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click-on graphic to enlarge:
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This major propaganda effort is based on a UN group’s (IPCC) hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing a global warming and climate crisis. However, the IPCC states in their documentation that there is NO scientific proof that man-made CO2 causes global warming or climate change. Instead, they (the IPCC) rely on an ever evolving consensus of opinion that their latest conjecture is scientific fact.
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A reasonable and prudent first step for Mr Gore and his group would be to address and explain the global temperature data published by NASA:
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click-on graphic to enlarge:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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References:
The Chairman of the Board, Al Gore: “The Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise” http://www.climateprotect.org/about
“The Alliance will initially spend $300 million over three years, although Zoi said more could be spent in the future.” http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/31/gore.environment.ap/
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Prior Items:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/va-govs-commission-on-climate-change.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/ill-defined-commission-and-objectives.html
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Welcome to the Republican Party
As I listen to all the media-talk about young people registering as Democrats, I remember that I became a Republican after looking at all the deductions listed on my first pay day check-stub.
Attached from an unknown author is another lesson that might apply to those who have not yet earned their first pay check.
Father-daughter (son) talk.... A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. Her father responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying. Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.' Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.' The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'
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'Welcome to the Republican party.'
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Attached from an unknown author is another lesson that might apply to those who have not yet earned their first pay check.
Father-daughter (son) talk.... A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. Her father responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying. Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.' Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.' The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'
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'Welcome to the Republican party.'
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Va Gov's Commission on Climate Change
Click- on each of the following two links to view my view of the key issues and primary objectives of this Commission that has been sent to each member.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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Prior Item
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/ill-defined-commission-and-objectives.html
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Governors Commission
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/info/climatechange.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/LtrGWcomm.htm
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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Prior Item
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/ill-defined-commission-and-objectives.html
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Governors Commission
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/info/climatechange.html
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Obama: the bitter elitist
Having difficulty finding coverage of the latest foot-in-mouth Obama “bitter elitist” debacle in the Roanoke Times (wonder why?)
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It appears that there’s nothing like getting with your soul-mates in a fund-raising situation in which you think your words are never going to see the light of day to say what you really feel and think!
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It also appears that Obama said what he thought Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, Ted Turner, George Soros and the other elitist fat-cat community of radical left-wing anti-American extremists in California would like to hear?
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I have a life-time hunting-fishing-big-game license in two states and I have been both a Deacon and an Elder in my Christian Church.
About the only thing I’m bitter about is the way most of the media has degenerated into a highly biased left-wing propaganda mess.
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In 1982 Ed Koch, mayor of NYC, ran for governor of NY. At some point he publicly commented that small-town upstate folks were so simple that all they did was drive their pick-up trucks down town to Sears to buy Searsucker suits. Koch lost the election primarily by loosing big the upstate vote!
Perhaps small-town folks are smarter than some “sophisticated” people give them credit for!
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/13/politics/politico/main4011791.shtml
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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It appears that there’s nothing like getting with your soul-mates in a fund-raising situation in which you think your words are never going to see the light of day to say what you really feel and think!
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It also appears that Obama said what he thought Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, Ted Turner, George Soros and the other elitist fat-cat community of radical left-wing anti-American extremists in California would like to hear?
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I have a life-time hunting-fishing-big-game license in two states and I have been both a Deacon and an Elder in my Christian Church.
About the only thing I’m bitter about is the way most of the media has degenerated into a highly biased left-wing propaganda mess.
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In 1982 Ed Koch, mayor of NYC, ran for governor of NY. At some point he publicly commented that small-town upstate folks were so simple that all they did was drive their pick-up trucks down town to Sears to buy Searsucker suits. Koch lost the election primarily by loosing big the upstate vote!
Perhaps small-town folks are smarter than some “sophisticated” people give them credit for!
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/13/politics/politico/main4011791.shtml
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-jeremiah-bullfrog.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Lincoln, Hero or Despot
Today, on April 14, 1865, while watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater with his wife, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated from a gunshot wound to the back of the head at point-blank range by John Wilkes Booth.
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History has been very kind to Pres. Lincoln, but not so those who were his contemporaries in both the north and the south in the media and the body politic. Surely when news of the shooting spread, over half of the country celebrated.
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Today’s actions by the Democrat party and most of the media relative to Pres. Bush and the Iraq War and the War with Radical Islam is very similar to the environment Pres. Lincoln faced from 1861 until his death.
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Some of the key items of similar Democrat & Media focus then and now:
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* Disregard for the Constitution
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus
Lincoln had war ships fire on the New York City draft rioters
Lincoln had Union Troops quell protesters in the north with deadly force
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* Disregard for the Press
News people arrested and organizations seized by Federal Troops:
NY Tribune; NY Express, NY Herald; NY Sun
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* Crimes against Humanity
Warfare launched against civilian populations in the Shenandoah Valley,
The siege of Vicksburg, the burning of Atlanta and the genocidal march
To the sea by Sherman.
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* Crimes against Rules of War
The inhumane treatment of prisoners at Union prison of war camps with
Rampant abuse and starvation.
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* No plan to win the war
The plan was to suffer tremendous casualties over four years with a revolving
List of generals, searching for a leader who could win by out-killing the opposition.
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* No exit strategy
The exit strategy was to WIN whatever it took, however long it took
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* No post victory (occupation) strategy
The post victory actions became a horrible legacy that endures today
A Reconstruction that resembled primeval survival of the fittest
The Posse Comitatus Act that enabled 150 years of the KKK terrorists
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* Totally ignoring the public (media) opinion
Lincoln’s answer to the public out-cry for stopping the slaughter:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural address
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Given how nicely historians have treated Pres. Lincoln, I wonder how history will view Pres. George Bush and his distracters.
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History has been very kind to Pres. Lincoln, but not so those who were his contemporaries in both the north and the south in the media and the body politic. Surely when news of the shooting spread, over half of the country celebrated.
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Today’s actions by the Democrat party and most of the media relative to Pres. Bush and the Iraq War and the War with Radical Islam is very similar to the environment Pres. Lincoln faced from 1861 until his death.
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Some of the key items of similar Democrat & Media focus then and now:
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* Disregard for the Constitution
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus
Lincoln had war ships fire on the New York City draft rioters
Lincoln had Union Troops quell protesters in the north with deadly force
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* Disregard for the Press
News people arrested and organizations seized by Federal Troops:
NY Tribune; NY Express, NY Herald; NY Sun
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* Crimes against Humanity
Warfare launched against civilian populations in the Shenandoah Valley,
The siege of Vicksburg, the burning of Atlanta and the genocidal march
To the sea by Sherman.
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* Crimes against Rules of War
The inhumane treatment of prisoners at Union prison of war camps with
Rampant abuse and starvation.
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* No plan to win the war
The plan was to suffer tremendous casualties over four years with a revolving
List of generals, searching for a leader who could win by out-killing the opposition.
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* No exit strategy
The exit strategy was to WIN whatever it took, however long it took
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* No post victory (occupation) strategy
The post victory actions became a horrible legacy that endures today
A Reconstruction that resembled primeval survival of the fittest
The Posse Comitatus Act that enabled 150 years of the KKK terrorists
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* Totally ignoring the public (media) opinion
Lincoln’s answer to the public out-cry for stopping the slaughter:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural address
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Given how nicely historians have treated Pres. Lincoln, I wonder how history will view Pres. George Bush and his distracters.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Textbook has conservative bias
Roanoke Times, 4/13/08, Pg A12: Government text draws high school student’s fire for conservative bias.
Some stuff in the book is just plain wrong says a NJ teen. Agreeing with the teen is The Center for Inquiry at Amherst, NY, think tank that promotes science and which has issued a scathing report about the textbook.
The main issue item is: “science doesn’t know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the (CO2) greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all.”
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Since when is stating facts a “conservative bias”? The global temperature for the past 100 years published by NASA shows less than one (1) degree warming during the past 100 years and no warming during the past 10 years.
Also well established data that the IPCC publishes is that 95% of the greenhouse effect is caused by water-vapor and that man-made CO2 contributes less than 5% of 5% which is approximately 0.25%.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/manhattan-declaration-on-climate-change.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/ill-defined-commission-and-objectives.html
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It would appear that the Center for Inquiry should inquire into the NASA 100 year temperature data and into the IPCC data on the amount of greenhouse effect that can be attributed to man-made CO2. Perhaps a real “think tank” would do that!
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It also would appear that the “they say” who are quoted as the source of the stories’ label of “conservative bias” is another gross slant by the AP and their friends at the Roanoke Times.
Perhaps the RT and their friends should publish the facts and leave the “they say” in the clippings on the editorial floor where they belong and present headlines in a factual manner. Something about professional publishing and editing that is taught in journalism 101.
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Some stuff in the book is just plain wrong says a NJ teen. Agreeing with the teen is The Center for Inquiry at Amherst, NY, think tank that promotes science and which has issued a scathing report about the textbook.
The main issue item is: “science doesn’t know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the (CO2) greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all.”
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Since when is stating facts a “conservative bias”? The global temperature for the past 100 years published by NASA shows less than one (1) degree warming during the past 100 years and no warming during the past 10 years.
Also well established data that the IPCC publishes is that 95% of the greenhouse effect is caused by water-vapor and that man-made CO2 contributes less than 5% of 5% which is approximately 0.25%.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlobalTemp1880-1998-2008.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/manhattan-declaration-on-climate-change.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/ill-defined-commission-and-objectives.html
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It would appear that the Center for Inquiry should inquire into the NASA 100 year temperature data and into the IPCC data on the amount of greenhouse effect that can be attributed to man-made CO2. Perhaps a real “think tank” would do that!
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It also would appear that the “they say” who are quoted as the source of the stories’ label of “conservative bias” is another gross slant by the AP and their friends at the Roanoke Times.
Perhaps the RT and their friends should publish the facts and leave the “they say” in the clippings on the editorial floor where they belong and present headlines in a factual manner. Something about professional publishing and editing that is taught in journalism 101.
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We're Known by the Friends we Keep
NY Times, Pg A14, 12/29/07, Sen. Obama embracing Al Twana Sharpton
It is amazing that Sen. Obama, who presents himself as the new and improved generation of young leaders, could even be in the same room with Al Twana Sharpton.
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We are known by the friends we keep and in this case the association paints a very poor image of Sen. Obama who should be repudiating Sharpton and everything he represents!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSharpton.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/racist-begot-racist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/03/brawley-sharpton.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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It is amazing that Sen. Obama, who presents himself as the new and improved generation of young leaders, could even be in the same room with Al Twana Sharpton.
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We are known by the friends we keep and in this case the association paints a very poor image of Sen. Obama who should be repudiating Sharpton and everything he represents!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSharpton.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/racist-begot-racist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/03/brawley-sharpton.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Precipitous Withdrawal
USA Today, 4/9/08, Pg 1: “Nobody’s asking for precipitous withdrawal!”
A direct quote by Sen. Obama to Gen Petraeus during senate hearing on Iraq war status.
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“Yet Another Obama Audacity of Insulting Our Intelligence Again”!
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“Nobody’s asking for precipitous withdrawal”? Where has this guy been for the last 3 years? Apparently his amnesia is so bad he can’t remember his own public statements! Did this guy forget to take his medicine or what?
Click to view the top Democrat leadership team and their quest to determine who can name a shorter time table to “cut and run”:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/surrender-game-iwo-jima.html
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Is this the “change” he has been preaching?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/buying-treasonous-votes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-enough-news-to-fill-page-1.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/giving-aide-and-comfort-to-enemy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/homeland-insecurity.html
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A direct quote by Sen. Obama to Gen Petraeus during senate hearing on Iraq war status.
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“Yet Another Obama Audacity of Insulting Our Intelligence Again”!
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“Nobody’s asking for precipitous withdrawal”? Where has this guy been for the last 3 years? Apparently his amnesia is so bad he can’t remember his own public statements! Did this guy forget to take his medicine or what?
Click to view the top Democrat leadership team and their quest to determine who can name a shorter time table to “cut and run”:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/surrender-game-iwo-jima.html
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Is this the “change” he has been preaching?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/buying-treasonous-votes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-enough-news-to-fill-page-1.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/giving-aide-and-comfort-to-enemy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/homeland-insecurity.html
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Are these really "toxins"
Roanoke Times,3/28/08, Pg Va 1 & 4: Toxin levels higher than reported. A seven (7) column expose' on new news about Radford Arsenal TOXIC chemical releases.
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I had to read through six columns of really scary descriptions of these horrible TOXINS before I found out that they are primarily nitrogen and nitrates.
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Nitrogen is 79% of the atmosphere and nitrogen and nitrates are the primary content of fertilizers aren't they? Those are the primary products put into the soil by legumes and crops like alfalfa aren't they?
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Al Gore and our government now think that CO2 is a toxic substance. That's what we breath out and green-plants breath in isn't it?
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Why is it so easy to become cynical about what's going on these days?
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By the way, if you know of anyone who has ever gotten ill or died from PCB's or DDT or formaldehyde, please send me their name.
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I had to read through six columns of really scary descriptions of these horrible TOXINS before I found out that they are primarily nitrogen and nitrates.
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Nitrogen is 79% of the atmosphere and nitrogen and nitrates are the primary content of fertilizers aren't they? Those are the primary products put into the soil by legumes and crops like alfalfa aren't they?
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Al Gore and our government now think that CO2 is a toxic substance. That's what we breath out and green-plants breath in isn't it?
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Why is it so easy to become cynical about what's going on these days?
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By the way, if you know of anyone who has ever gotten ill or died from PCB's or DDT or formaldehyde, please send me their name.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Thank You To All Our Service Members
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Obama & Jeremiah-Bullfrog
Click for latest on the Paster-disaster and
Obama's Audacity of Plausible Deniability
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Obama's Audacity of Plausible Deniability
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-plausible-deniability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Audacity of Plausible Deniability
Roanoke Times, 3/27/08, Pg 4A: Obama wants people to forget pastor’s words
Roanoke Times, 3/27, 08, Pg 6A: Saddam paid 2 million barrels of oil for three Democrat Congressmen to visit Iraq as the UN passed the 16th resolution of condemnation.
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Obama’s answer to his pastor-disaster is that he didn’t know that his pastor was an anti-American racist fanatic who turned his church into the equivalent of a madrassa type of facility full of anger instead of Christian-love.
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Senator Obama, are you trying to insult our intelligence – or is it just turning out that way?
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Saddam’s paid trip for three Democrat Congressmen: Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California resulted in their support for his continued position of power in Iraq and his continued gassing of Kurds in his own country and many other well documented atrocities by Saddam and his sons and his regime.
The Senators deny knowing who paid for their trip. Who did they think paid for their trip and why did they think that was OK whoever it was?
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What a sad sack of losers!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Roanoke Times, 3/27, 08, Pg 6A: Saddam paid 2 million barrels of oil for three Democrat Congressmen to visit Iraq as the UN passed the 16th resolution of condemnation.
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Obama’s answer to his pastor-disaster is that he didn’t know that his pastor was an anti-American racist fanatic who turned his church into the equivalent of a madrassa type of facility full of anger instead of Christian-love.
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Senator Obama, are you trying to insult our intelligence – or is it just turning out that way?
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah.html
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Saddam’s paid trip for three Democrat Congressmen: Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California resulted in their support for his continued position of power in Iraq and his continued gassing of Kurds in his own country and many other well documented atrocities by Saddam and his sons and his regime.
The Senators deny knowing who paid for their trip. Who did they think paid for their trip and why did they think that was OK whoever it was?
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What a sad sack of losers!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Obama's Rev Wright Very WRONG
Major News Item – but, not found in Roanoke Times
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/14/obamas-spiritual-adviser-questioned-us-role-in-spread-of-hiv-sept-11-attacks/
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Apparently Senator & Mrs Obama’s pastor and close advisor and associate for many years is not a nice person and certainly has very negative views of our country. He has also been a close associate of Louis Ferricon, (another not nice person)!
Perhaps this explains the negative attitude about our country that Mrs Obama has publicly expressed during the campaign.
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Some quotes from an available for sale DVD include:“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
In a Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
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Perhaps there are some things we need to learn about the Obama’s and their close associates before we elect them to the White House. You think?
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/14/obamas-spiritual-adviser-questioned-us-role-in-spread-of-hiv-sept-11-attacks/
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Apparently Senator & Mrs Obama’s pastor and close advisor and associate for many years is not a nice person and certainly has very negative views of our country. He has also been a close associate of Louis Ferricon, (another not nice person)!
Perhaps this explains the negative attitude about our country that Mrs Obama has publicly expressed during the campaign.
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Some quotes from an available for sale DVD include:“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
In a Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
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Perhaps there are some things we need to learn about the Obama’s and their close associates before we elect them to the White House. You think?
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