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		<title>TIS Video:  &#8216;The Obama Bamboozle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A White Letter To Black America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="wp-caption-text">Crutches Of My Ancestors</p>
<p>Today I heard a story of black America.   It was the story of two friends, one black, the other white, with the black friend always making reference to racial problems and the great injustices endured by black America in cracker-land.  Well, cracker-land is my terminology, but I can say it since I&#8217;m white.</p>
<p>The people in this story will remain anonymous.  What is compelling though is the genuine nature of their friendship and their ability to discuss racial issues openly and honestly.  The impression from my white friend is the black friend is living a life of total apathy.  Blacks have had it so hard, that unless you are black, you will never know how hard they have had it.</p>
<p>Really?   This is news to me.   Does one need to be Daniel in the lions den to appreciate God&#8217;s mercy?   Does one need to be a Jew to understand the holocaust?</p>
<p>So, to blacks-living-in-apathy everywhere, this is my letter to you.</p>
<p>Dear black american,</p>
<p>America inherited the slavery problem.   We didn&#8217;t create it&#8230;. we abolished it. </p>
<p>Jamestown predated slavery in North America.   In 1607, 104 men landed in Virginia at a place they named Jamestown, [Continue...]]]></description>
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<p>Today I heard a story of black America.   It was the story of two friends, one black, the other white, with the black friend always making reference to racial problems and the great injustices endured by black America in cracker-land.  Well, cracker-land is my terminology, but I can say it since I&#8217;m white.</p>
<p>The people in this story will remain anonymous.  What is compelling though is the genuine nature of their friendship and their ability to discuss racial issues openly and honestly.  The impression from my white friend is the black friend is living a life of total apathy.  Blacks have had it so hard, that unless you are black, you will never know how hard they have had it.</p>
<p>Really?   This is news to me.   Does one need to be Daniel in the lions den to appreciate God&#8217;s mercy?   Does one need to be a Jew to understand the holocaust?</p>
<p>So, to blacks-living-in-apathy everywhere, this is my letter to you.</p>
<p><em>Dear black american,</em></p>
<p><em>America inherited the slavery problem.   We didn&#8217;t create it&#8230;. we abolished it. </em></p>
<p><em>Jamestown predated slavery in North America.   In 1607, 104 men landed in Virginia at a place they named Jamestown, marking the first permanent English settlement in North America.   These men sailed aboard three ships; Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.  No blacks were among them. </em></p>
<p><em>Thirteen years later, 102 white settlers arrived at Plymouth Rock aboard the Mayflower.  They were fleeing institutionalized religious persecution at the hand of the Church of England.  Again, no blacks were among them.</em></p>
<p><em>The Pilgrims didn&#8217;t own slaves. </em></p>
<p><em>The first blacks didn&#8217;t arrive until 1619 aboard Dutch and English Privateer ships.  They were traded for food, and were subjected to limited servitude, along with white and indian servants, a legalized status imposed by England.   At the time, anyone who was poor could be placed into involuntary servitude (not just blacks).  Race-based slavery didn&#8217;t come about until the 1680&#8217;s. </em></p>
<p><em>Modern slavery predated America.  My pilgrim ancestors did not bring slavery to North America. </em></p>
<p><em>From that point in history, it took 200 years for a teaspoon full of determined blacks and a barrel full of determined whites to abolish slavery in America, at enormous costs.   This nation endured a civil war to make it happen.  100 years later, a barrel full of black Americans lead this nation through the civil rights movement. </em></p>
<p><em>Democrats were heavily pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, and wrote Jim Crow laws in the South.  Democrat governors forcibly enforced pro-segregation laws.</em></p>
<p><em>Nigga.  Yes, I said it.  Grow up and join the real world.  It&#8217;s OK for others to joke about your race.   The problem is, you have become so extremely sensitive about your race, that the only race jokes are told by you within your own group, and by everyone else outside of your group.   You have excluded yourself from normal human interaction.   Need examples?</em></p>
<p><em>Listen to Sarah Silverman&#8230;. </em></p>
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<p><em>Were you offended?   Odds are you were, since blacks are taught that ethnic slurs under any setting (outside of your own circle)  are a bad thing.   But most Asians were not offended.    <a href="http://asianweek.com/2001_08_24/news_polit_incor.html">Actress Anne-Marie Johnson took offense</a> to the Silverman joke, and she is&#8230; you guessed it&#8230; black. </em></p>
<p><em>Here is another example of how blacks have excluded themselves from normal human interaction.   This dialogue is from the movie Gran Tornino;</em></p>
<p>Martin: That’ll be ten bucks, Walt.</p>
<p>Walt: 10 bucks? Jesus Christ! What are you, half Jew or something? You keep raising the prices.</p>
<p>Martin: It’s been 10 bucks the last 5 years, you hard-nosed, cheap, Polack son of a bitch.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Pbmx9PeYI">(Watch it here)</a></p>
<p><em>There was a reason nobody in the Barber Shop scene was black (Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, NAACP&#8230;).   Without blacks in the scene we were able to see &#8216;real people&#8217; interact about race.   Did you hear the Polacks and Jews screaming about it the next day?   No. (sorry) </em></p>
<p><em>Black America has put themselves into a box and nailed the lid shut.  The box is chained to racist organizations by name:  NAACP, BET, BlackNews.com, eBlackStudies Organization, the Internet Black pages, Black Career Women, Blacks In Government, Black Data Processing Associates, Congressional Black Caucus, Malcom X Institute For Black Studies, National Association Of Black Journalist, National Brotherhood Of (Black) Skiers, National Society Of Black Engineers, Organization Of Black Airline Pilots, Organization Of Black Designers, Union Of Black Episcopalians, United Negro College Fund&#8230; (<a href="http://www.aawc.com/aao.html">to name just a few</a>)</em> <em>Black this group, black that org, black this, black that&#8230;.</em></p>
<p><em>Number of &#8216;White&#8217; professional organizations by name:  zero.</em></p>
<p><em>You can continue to segregate yourselves from the very segregation your grandparents rallied and marched against.   Ironic that you would exchange one form of segregation for another of your own making. </em></p>
<p><em>As a white man who is routinely labeled a &#8216;racist&#8217; by you for my political views, my support of Arizona&#8217;s law to enforce Federal Immigration Law, and for my support of the Tea Party movement, allow me to make one final point.   Have you, or any of your black friends adopted a child outside of your own race?    Is there a black Madonna or a black Angelina Jolie among you?   Have you ever considered using the term &#8217;American-of African Descent&#8217; instead of &#8216;African-American&#8217; as a ethnic label?     Have you ever admired America for abolishing slavery?  Or for conquering pro-segregation southern democrats?  Or for producing the greatest document of governance, our Constitution?  To those that openly do (the few black conservatives) thank you.  I admire your courage for enduring cries of &#8216;uncle tom&#8217; from the black liberal left.</em></p>
<p><em>The great melting pot that is America will always be off kilter until you wake up and join the rest of us.  We&#8217;ll be waiting.   Until then, keep hobbling along on those pathetic crutches.  And please, take a tissue&#8230;</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>One day&#8230; with any luck that your children will leave your apathy behind&#8230;. America will be united in race, speaking as one, transparent in the blackness of newsprint and whiteness of newspaper.   Not afraid of words.  Able to laugh at a racial joke.  Able to get along as real men should.  When we are all one another&#8217;s brother. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Will that day ever happen in America?  Hard to imagine it ever will in the race-baiting society of what (once was) the land of the free and the home of the brave.  For in the words of one honest, hard working and respected black American&#8230;. &#8216;this ain&#8217;t America no more&#8230;.&#8221;</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Now you tell me.  If it ain&#8217;t America no more, then what is it?</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>(Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight) </em></p>
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		<title>Top Scientist:  New Ice Age To Begin In 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Stock up on your thermal underwear.  The Head of Space Research at St. Petersburg, Russia, is predicting the dawn of a new Ice Age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In his capacity of the head of the Russian-Ukrainian project &#8220;Astrometria&#8221; on the Russian segment of the International Space Station, Habibullo Abdussamatov is conducting additional research to refine his prediction that a new Little Ice Age will begin in 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;If the Astrometria project is developed in time,&#8221; Abdussamatov said, &#8220;we will be able to develop a more precise forecast of the duration and the depth of the approaching new Little Ice Age and to understand the reasons of cyclical changes taking place in the interior of the sun and the ways they affect the Earth and various scopes of human activity.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abdussamatov&#8217;s theory is that &#8220;long-term variations in the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the whole mechanism of climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice Ages to the big glacial periods.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In his speech&#8217;s conclusion, Abdussamatov took on advocates of the theory of man-caused warming who want to diminish human use of hydrocarbon fuels. He contended, instead, that a reasonable way to combat [Continue...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Stock up on your thermal underwear.  The Head of Space Research at St. Petersburg, Russia, is predicting the dawn of a new Ice Age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In his capacity of the head of the Russian-Ukrainian project &#8220;Astrometria&#8221; on the Russian segment of the International Space Station, Habibullo Abdussamatov is conducting additional research to refine his prediction that a new Little Ice Age will begin in 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;If the Astrometria project is developed in time,&#8221; Abdussamatov said, &#8220;we will be able to develop a more precise forecast of the duration and the depth of the approaching new Little Ice Age and to understand the reasons of cyclical changes taking place in the interior of the sun and the ways they affect the Earth and various scopes of human activity.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abdussamatov&#8217;s theory is that &#8220;long-term variations in the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the whole mechanism of climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice Ages to the big glacial periods.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In his speech&#8217;s conclusion, Abdussamatov took on advocates of the theory of man-caused warming who want to diminish human use of hydrocarbon fuels. He contended, instead, that a reasonable way to combat coming cooling trends would be &#8220;to maintain economic growth in order to adapt to the upcoming new Little Ice Age in the middle of the 21st century.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 2003-2005, Abdussamatov predicted a reduction of sunspot activity that would reach a new minimum in 2042, resulting in a deep global temperature minimum in the years 2055-2060.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;My predictions are looking better and better with each passing year,&#8221; Abdussamatov declared.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In Part 2 of the video, Abdussamatov further explained that through 2014 the earth will go through a series of unstable variations in which global temperature will oscillate around the maximum reached in the years 1998-2005.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Over the past decade, global temperature on the Earth has not increased; global warming has ceased, and already there are signs of the future deep temperature drop.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abdussamatov concluded Earth is no longer threatened by the catastrophic global warming forecast by some scientists, since warming passed its peak in 1998-2005.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=155225">Courtesy WorldNetDaily</a></p>
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		<title>NYT:  Benedict Specter Loses Pennsylvania Senate Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Former Republican, turned traitor Arlen Specter, has lost his fight to hold onto the senate seat he has held since 1980.   Winning the democratic primary was his challenger, Joe Sestak.</p>



Benedict Specter Gets The Boot


<p style="text-align: justify;">Specter, 80, lost his bid for a sixth term despite the backing of a wide swath of the Democratic Party leadership, from Mr. Obama and the White House to Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Specter is the latest in a series of candidates that Obama has hurt by campaigning for them.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Specter, 80, lost his bid for a sixth term despite the backing of a wide swath of the <a style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Democratic Party" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/democratic_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Democratic Party</a> leadership, from Mr. Obama and the White House to Gov. <a style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Edward G. Rendell." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/edward_g_rendell/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Edward G. Rendell</a> of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Specter is the latest in a series of candidates that Obama has hurt by campaigning for them.</p>
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		<title>UCLA:  Mexican-American Teacher Calls For Revolution Against Capitalism and Whites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 23:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">This video was taken last week at a La Raza rally at UCLA.  The speaker is a teacher.  The video is proudly titled &#8220;Defense of La Raza!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Notice that he is standing in front of a banner which reads &#8220;Hate Speech is not Free Speech!&#8221;   (Ironic since all he uses is hate speech)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few gems of the anti-americanism spoken by this U.S. teacher and self proclaimed revolutionary.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;This is not just about Mexico, its a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;(California) is stolen, occupied land from Mexico.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;We want to bring a revolution..&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Why is it that these Frail, Racist, White people want to keep us out of this country?&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8216;At the forefront of the revolutionary movement is La Raza.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Borders are LIES&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;La Raza is the Northern Front to the revolution&#8230; 40 million strong North of the Rio Grande&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;We are professionals, teachers, students&#8230; we are a culture of revolutionaries.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez&#8230; our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;If you  are serious about making change&#8230;. don&#8217;t read books&#8230; &#8220;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">This video was taken last week at a La Raza rally at UCLA.  The speaker is a teacher.  The video is proudly titled &#8220;Defense of La Raza!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Notice that he is standing in front of a banner which reads &#8220;Hate Speech is not Free Speech!&#8221;   (Ironic since all he uses is hate speech)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few gems of the anti-americanism spoken by this U.S. teacher and self proclaimed revolutionary.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;This is not just about Mexico, its a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;(California) is stolen, occupied land from Mexico.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;We want to bring a revolution..&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;Why is it that these Frail, Racist, White people want to keep us out of this country?&#8217;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8216;At the forefront of the revolutionary movement is La Raza.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;Borders are LIES&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;La Raza is the Northern Front to the revolution&#8230; 40 million strong North of the Rio Grande&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;We are professionals, teachers, students&#8230; we are a culture of revolutionaries.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;Our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez&#8230; our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>&#8220;If you  are serious about making change&#8230;. don&#8217;t read books&#8230; &#8220;</strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Where is CNN and MSNBC?  FBI?   UCLA board of directors?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is what the Obama administration is allowing within our borders.  By willfully ignoring Federal Immigration Law, their inaction has emboldened nuts like this teacher, pro-Hugo Chavez revolutionaries, within this country.  And what is being done about it?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This administration has one goal.  It is to destroy the foundation of America, using any means, including willful disregard of the law to accomplish their radical agenda.    Facilitated by UCLA.</p>
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		<title>Is Supreme Court Nominee Kagan Really Mike Myers in Drag?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 225px"><img title="MM" src="http://www.laineygossip.com/pics/mike%20myers%201%20apr08.jpg" alt="Mike Myers" width="215" height="340" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Mike Myers</p></div>
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		<title>Danny Glover: &#8216;I&#8217;m not the only one who doesn&#8217;t place my hand over my heart&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Logan »  Utah State University&#8217;s 123rd commencement ceremony Saturday, featuring keynote speaker Danny Glover, will likely be remembered more for the actor&#8217;s controversy than his celebrity.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">During the color guard presentation of the American flag, a spectator yelled across the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, &#8220;Put your hand above your heart, Glover!&#8221;</p>
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<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The five-time Emmy nominee told The Salt Lake Tribune after the ceremony that he doesn&#8217;t typically cover his heart during flag ceremonies and he meant no disrespect.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;I was listening to the national anthem and paying attention,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I probably wasn&#8217;t the only one in there who didn&#8217;t put a hand over their heart.&#8221;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;"><strong>Logan » </strong></span><strong> </strong><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/D=g/ci_15046518">Utah State University&#8217;s 123rd commencement ceremony Saturday</a>, featuring keynote speaker Danny Glover, will likely be remembered more for the actor&#8217;s controversy than his celebrity.</p>
<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">During the color guard presentation of the American flag, a spectator yelled across the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, &#8220;Put your hand above your heart, Glover!&#8221;</p>
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<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The five-time Emmy nominee told <em>The Salt Lake Tribune </em>after the ceremony that he doesn&#8217;t typically cover his heart during flag ceremonies and he meant no disrespect.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;I was listening to the national anthem and paying attention,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I probably wasn&#8217;t the only one in there who didn&#8217;t put a hand over their heart.&#8221;</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><img title="Glover" src="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site297/2010/0508/20100508__USUGrad_050910~1_GALLERY.jpg" alt="Im not the only one!" width="220" height="229" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&#39;I&#39;m not the only one!&quot;</p></div>
<p>Danny is right.  He isn&#8217;t the only one who was never taught as a child to place his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem when the flag is displayed.   Danny follows the tradition of a sitting President who practiced Muslim traditions in Muslim schools as a child, and who sat through 20 years of &#8216;God Dam America&#8217; speeches from Reverend Wright.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><img title="Obama" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/R7OonhVC_RI/AAAAAAAAE0o/D287PDKt9XI/s400/080213-obama-not-saluting.jpg" alt="What is that... a flag?" width="220" height="203" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;It&#39;s a Black thing&quot;</p></div>
<p>Pulling Danny&#8217;s inflammatory string a little bit further, he isn&#8217;t the only one to embrace Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, either.    Naturally, Danny meant no disrespect to the United States by embracing a sworn enemy.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><img title="glover chavez" src="http://sadredearth.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Hugo_Chavez_R_Danny_Glover_200705311610260000_afp.jpg" alt="Lets get a room" width="220" height="195" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Lets get a room&quot;</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><img title="obama chavez" src="http://neoavatara.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ObamaChavez.jpg" alt="Hugo... this is what we call a BRO-Shake" width="220" height="208" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&#39;Hugo... this is what we call a BRO-Shake&quot;</p></div>
<p>We get it Danny.   Just following the leader&#8230; we get that, too.</p>
<p><em>Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight</em></p>
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		<title>Laura Bush Commencement Speech, Students Seek Traditionally White Colleges</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">When Laura Bush addressed Southern Methodist University, she told the almost 2,000 students in SMU&#8217;s packed Moody Coliseum about the historical tribulations of Dickinson College.   Founded by Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and named after fellow Declaration signer, John Dickinson, it was America&#8217;s first college chartered on 9 September, 1783, five days after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the revolutionary war.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Laura Bush transcript excerpts,</p>

<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">From the day you arrived as freshmen, you have taken all this school has to offer and made it your own.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">And in doing so, you&#8217;ve become part of a proud tradition &#8211; one that began 225 years ago, within a decade of the revolution, on that September day when the Dickinson college first opened its doors.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Things [Continue...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">When Laura Bush addressed Southern Methodist University, she told the almost 2,000 students in SMU&#8217;s packed Moody Coliseum about the historical tribulations of Dickinson College.   Founded by Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and named after fellow Declaration signer, John Dickinson, it was America&#8217;s first college chartered on 9 September, 1783, five days after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the revolutionary war.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Laura Bush transcript excerpts,</p>
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<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">From the day you arrived as freshmen, you have taken all this school has to offer and made it your own.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">And in doing so, you&#8217;ve become part of a proud tradition &#8211; one that began 225 years ago, within a decade of the revolution, on that September day when the Dickinson college first opened its doors.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Things were very different back then.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">There were no lecture halls or dorm rooms, no athletic facilities or libraries.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">The first campus was little more than a run-down frame house in desperate need of repairs.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">The first class consisted of just a few students, some of whom could barely read at a first grade level.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Life was full of uncertainty for these students.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Think for a moment about those first students.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">They arrived here at a time when newly freed people had few opportunities beyond taxation without representation, when oppressive &#8220;british codes&#8221; still limited their freedom, and terror and mob violence were facts of life.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">They had been raised in a society that viewed them not as potential students, or professionals, or even citizens &#8211; but as subjects &#8211; unfit for, and undeserving of, an education.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">But something inside of them rejected that notion.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Somehow, they were able to see beyond what they had been told.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Somehow, they held fast to their own vision of themselves &#8211; as scholars, as future teachers, as human beings with something worthy to contribute.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">And that same defiant courage, that same spirit of self-determination, has fueled the success of countless students in every generation since.</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">And what would become of the signers who made this first college possible?</p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; border: initial none initial;">Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or the hardships of the Revolutionary War.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">People in the audience said they hope her appearance draws more attention to historically white colleges.</span></span></p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Students from across the country seek out this university because they want to attend a traditionally white college. The band has students from as far as California and Florida as well as neighboring states.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">&#8220;She (Bush) is reaching out to a lot of states by doing this,&#8221; a college spokesman said.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/08/michelle-obama-commenceme_n_569078.html">Full Transcript Courtesy Huffington Post</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight</em></p>
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		<title>TIS:  Democrats Ban Bottled Water Sales in Concord, Mass.</title>
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<p>This is totally insane&#8230;</p>
<p>WCVB TV 5, Boston: The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011.</p>
<p>&#8220;We only have one planet and I just don&#8217;t want to see it spoiled,&#8221; said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord&#8217;s Town Meeting.</p>
<p>&#8220;Water is something we can get from the faucet. You can&#8217;t turn your faucet on and get soda,&#8221; said Selectwoman Virginia McIntyre, explaining why other plastic bottles would not be banned.</p>
<p>Boston:  CONCORD — For years, Jean Hill has been reading about the environmental consequences of the countless plastic bottles filling landfills and polluting local waters. She has watched as other towns around the country have cut purchases of bottled water, which she views as a wasteful, environmentally damaging alternative to tap water.</p>
<p>This week, after lobbying neighbors and local officials for months, the 82-year-old activist persuaded them to take more drastic action than perhaps any other municipality in the country: At Town Meeting on Thursday, Concord residents voted to ban all sales of bottled water.</p>
<p>Environmentalists heaped praise on the community and declared the vote a call to action for similar moves in Massachusetts and across the country.</p>
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<p>This is totally insane&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23320994/detail.html">WCVB TV 5, Boston:</a> The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011.</p>
<p>&#8220;We only have one planet and I just don&#8217;t want to see it spoiled,&#8221; said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord&#8217;s Town Meeting.</p>
<p>&#8220;Water is something we can get from the faucet. You can&#8217;t turn your faucet on and get soda,&#8221; said Selectwoman Virginia McIntyre, explaining why other plastic bottles would not be banned.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2010/05/01/concord_fires_first_shot_in_water_battle/">Boston:  CONCORD</a> — For years, Jean Hill has been reading about the environmental consequences of the countless plastic bottles filling landfills and polluting local waters. She has watched as other towns around the country have cut purchases of bottled water, which she views as a wasteful, environmentally damaging alternative to tap water.</p>
<p>This week, after lobbying neighbors and local officials for months, the 82-year-old activist persuaded them to take more drastic action than perhaps any other municipality in the country: At Town Meeting on Thursday, Concord residents voted to ban all sales of bottled water.</p>
<p>Environmentalists heaped praise on the community and declared the vote a call to action for similar moves in Massachusetts and across the country.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Concord MA is heavily democrat, voting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/19/us/politics/massachusetts-election-map.html">62% for Martha Coakley</a> during the senate election for &#8216;the peoples seat.&#8217;  So it really comes as no surprise that a heavily democrat area would do something this stupid.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Seldom have I accused people of being outright idiots.  But in this case I digress.     Concord MA is the armpit of liberal idiocy, the new environmentalist democrat idiot Capitol of the World.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These liberal environmentalist democrats are dismissing the value of recycling water bottles, and have placed the entire population of Concord at the mercy of government help in times of natural disaster, when tap water isn&#8217;t running freely.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And what about the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of Concord who prefer their favorite bottled water over tap?     Is making them drive to another town good public policy?   Or is this just a ridiculous symbolic measure with punitive consequences?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The City of Concord dismisses Haiti relief efforts, where Fiji Water alone <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/fiji-water-donates-drinki_n_430757.html">donated 136,000 liters of bottled water</a> to help people in dire need of clean drinking water.    They also dismiss the hundreds of thousands of water bottles that were used during the 2004 Tsunami relief effort.   World-wide, PET water bottles are used every day to purify water through a process known as<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection"> SODIS</a>.     But none of this matters to the environmentalist democrat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Apparently, everything is always pure in a democrat utopia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of this extreme legislation, did the Concord City Council inform FEMA not to deliver any bottled water should Concord lose its tap water supply?   Of course not, because hypocrisy (and lunacy) rules the mind of a democrat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This only adds credence to the rising belief that environmentalist have hijacked the democratic party.   A party that now frowns upon individual preparedness encouraging individuals to store bottled water at home in times of emergency.   &#8216;No need&#8230; you have tap.&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Their actions have no logical thought process, because when applied universally, Haitians would have been dying in droves due to water born diseases, as would many other people throughout the entire world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Environmentalism is a disease in and of itself that offers no viable solutions beyond banning &#8216;your means&#8217; to satisfy &#8216;their end,&#8217; no matter how extreme:  <em> Plastic bottles are bad for the planet, who cares if plastics are good for people, we must ban them to save the planet, who cares if banning them kills the people. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What is next, Concord?    Banning rubber tire sales?   Or would that be pushing your own symbolic hypocrisy too far, as if that is even remotely possible.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight</em></p>
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		<title>TIS:  Natural Ich Cure for Fresh Water Aquarium Fish</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max Venom</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">TIS is a conservative political blog.  So what does a Ich Cure have to do with conservative politics?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everything.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last week my 11 gallon aquarium played host to Ich, a menacing white parasite that is very deadly and contagious to fish.   Almost overnight it claimed a Red Wag and a Blood Fin Tetra, and had coated another Red Wag struggling to survive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This was my first experience with Ich.   Our Red Wags were a new addition, so the disease most likely came with them, even though they looked healthy.   As I discovered, Ich is fairly common and can thrive in fresh water aquariums wreaking deadly havoc.   In my research of how to rid my tank of Ich, everything was telling me buy formalin treatment, raise the tank temperature, and increase aquarium salts.   All of this together would kill the parasite.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But I had another idea.   Formalin treatment doesn&#8217;t exist in the wild.   UV radiation does, in the form of sunlight.  And UV rays kill bacteria.   But would UV rays kill Ich?    I didn&#8217;t know.   The principle that UV radiation (natural direct sunlight) kills [Continue...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">TIS is a conservative political blog.  So what does a Ich Cure have to do with conservative politics?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everything.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last week my 11 gallon aquarium played host to <a href="http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2160&amp;aid=2421">Ich</a>, a menacing white parasite that is very deadly and contagious to fish.   Almost overnight it claimed a Red Wag and a Blood Fin Tetra, and had coated another Red Wag struggling to survive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This was my first experience with Ich.   Our Red Wags were a new addition, so the disease most likely came with them, even though they looked healthy.   As I discovered, Ich is fairly common and can thrive in fresh water aquariums wreaking deadly havoc.   In my research of how to rid my tank of Ich, everything was telling me buy formalin treatment, raise the tank temperature, and increase aquarium salts.   All of this together would kill the parasite.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But I had another idea.   Formalin treatment doesn&#8217;t exist in the wild.   UV radiation does, in the form of sunlight.  And UV rays kill bacteria.   But would UV rays kill Ich?    I didn&#8217;t know.   The principle that UV radiation (natural direct sunlight) kills pathogens and bacteria is well documented.   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection">SODIS</a> (Solar H2O Disinfection) is a free and effective process for treating water in many third world countries making contaminated water safe to drink.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Would SODIS kill parasites?    I was determined to find out, and so were my fish.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So I cut the top off a clear plastic one gallon water bottle (PET), filled it with clean water, added 1 tbs aquarium salt, and placed my fish inside.  Next, I placed the fish outside in direct sunlight and let them sit all day (outside temp 75 degrees).  After 6 hours of direct light, the white spots on their scales had started to break away.  The fish were getting more active.  So I changed the water and repeated the process the next day (outside temp 84 degrees).  By the end of the second day there were no visible traces of Ich, and the fish were active.  UV radiation had killed the Ich.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">During this time the filter, tank and its contents were cleaned thoroughly with boiling water (no soaps!) and refilled with fresh water.    1 tbs of aquarium salt was added per gallon of water.   And a UV light to prevent future outbreaks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now for the political moral to the story&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We live in a dynamic planet, where mother earth creates its own diseases and its own cures.   When man messes up the natural order of things, as my aquarium did for my fish, the first reaction of man is to produce a cure (Ich medication) so that people will buy into the fallacy of a static fix.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Compare that to Cap &amp; Tax.   Man needs to convince us that government holds the cure for global warming.  If we don&#8217;t buy in, the polar ice caps will melt and rising sea levels will submerge coastal cities and our homes.  They want us to forget this occurs naturally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sea levels rise and fall all the time, weather and plant life cleans our air, dirt and gravel purifies water, C02 is good for green plant life, and natural sunlight kills Ich.    Just a few examples of naturally occurring dynamic solutions that steadily renew and heal our planet.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight</em></p>
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