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Not news; if it is to you, you haven't been paying much attention. :P

American superheros are out of style, and will soon be history. The emasculated administration of our schools are trying to have kids arrested for even thinking about anything heroic.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/03/04/indoctrination-kid-suspended-for-making-a-gun-out-of-a-pastry/

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/20970646/ten-year-old-boy-arrested-after-toy-gun-found-in-his-backpack

Sorry, those are not my main, or favorite sources for news - but the liberal media doesn't seem to like those kind of stories.

I don't know where tomorrow's heroes will come from, but I'm afraid they won't be coming from the United States. Maybe Canada will step up to the plate. I can't imagine the UK taking our place, they already live in Orwelle's 1984. The British guy I work with says he tried to enlist. They hammered him with a psyche test, and one of the questions was, "Why do you want to be a soldier?" His honest answer, "I want to have a gun!" disqualified him. Not only did it disqualify him for military service, but apparently, the shrink came unglued on him.

Sad days ahead, I think, for the US and UK.

Here is the official summary of the episode from Glenn Beck's website:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/09/17/is-the-obama-administration-covering-up-scandalous-details-in-libya-attack/

Note particularly this part at the end:

So what does Glenn think really happened?

- The U.S. government is indeed looking for missiles to recover, so that no one finds out that we supplied them to terrorists
- They find a weapons cache of surface to air missles
- Same missiles we supplied during the revolution to take out aircraft.
- The CIA agents were forced to call in Stevens, our CIA weapons dealer.
- He flies in on short notice and takes an unmarked car to avoid suspicion to meet them
- The meeting goes south, he is taken to the closest safe house, which is why he ends up at the poorly secured consulate building.
- The message Sean Smith sent to the gaming community was really a message to the CIA telling them they needed help.

Audio from the relevant portion of the episode is posted on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/nivdes/glenn-beck-goonswarm-is

"Goonswarm" is the name of the in-game organization affiliated with Something Awful.

TL;DR: It really did happen.

We already know who did it

Here's a "news" flash for you - Beck isn't on Fox anymore. The advertisers all left due to pressure from a campaign led by Change.org, so now he's only on the Roku. But complaining about Beck in this context is pretty ironic, considering that all the other MSM "news" outlets kept mum about it, but Beck was complaining about how bad the bills are.

But of course that's the part that is really disingenuous about Sherman's claim. The MSM completely blacked out the story - they didn't talk about it at all. The bills were already written and ready to go, so the way to promote it is to simply ignore it as a news story, and don't even mention that there may be some controversy over a Congressional moving that's boiling over on the Internet and social media. Note that this isn't typical of them. News and conflicts that arise on the Internet are very often picked up by the MSM television news, so it's not that they didn't know about it. They were, in fact, supporting the bills by proactively ignoring the story.

All of that is true, except Dan Rather never worked for Fox News. And Fox News wasn't the ones pushing the "birther" thing. It headlined MSNBC every single night for weeks. The pundits at Fox News were calling birthers a joke. Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and even Glenn Beck called it a waste of time and every single one of them said Obama was born in HI well before the certificate was ever released.

Some pundits called the birthers a joke. Others let them have a forum to espouse their wild theories. Some like Glen Beck would admit the authenticity of the birth certificate on TV then go on other media like radio and internet and question it: Obama's birth certificate 'horrible forgery'. And that was just a single search.

Sorry but no.

Fox News has been pushing the Birther meme like there was no tomorrow. Glenn Beck has been pushing birther crap for years.

The Hate Radio twerps in my area, especially on a station run by this shithead called Dan Patrick who's managed to get himself elected to state senate, are STILL trying to come up with ways to believe that Obama's not a citizen.

In a world where most of the Retardicans get their "news" from Hate Radio screeds, and eagerly await their daily reprogramming (don't worry, if Rush got something wrong two weeks ago, he'll gleefully just reprogram them all today to believe he never said what he said), the "facts" don't seem to matter much.

Democracy is a very important word. We’re a republic. That’s why they use democracy. Democratically elected, let me give you just a list of a few people who have been democratically elected. Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Hitler, Mussolini I believe was democratically elected, democratically elected. Usually in a progressive world democratically elected comes with a little twist. There’s always something that happens. For instance, Hitler wasn’t the Führer. He was the chancellor, democratically elected. And then he cobbled together a coalition that everybody said, oh, no, that will never happen here. And it did, and he became the F[ührer].

The biggest problem here is that 3 out of the 5 names listed were *not* democratically elected, including Hitler, which Beck specifically (and erroneously) chooses to elaborate on. Hitler was not elected as Chancellor, he was appointed by the President (as was at the time, and still is the case today). For a fascinating read on the history behind that bit of political finagling, see the wikipedia article on the President who appointed him. Also, many of those leaders preside(d) over countries which are (or were at the time) actually republics themselves. It's in most of their names: "the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", "the People's Republic of Iran", etc. Germany didn't have the word republic in their name at the time, but historians (and even Beck himself) refer to the government of that era as the "Weimar Republic". The Weimar Republic was even a Constitutional Republic. Consider other countries that we don't want to be like, which also happen to be republics: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). There are plenty more countries to list. Funny that the sponsor of this Utah bill is doing it specifically to guard against Socialist propaganda... because a republic couldn't possibly be Socialist (?)!

The thing is, we call ourselves a republic, but really we're the only republic of our kind in the world. We're not really a republic in the general sense, at least not according to the modern application of the word. In other words, we're not "a republic". We're the United States' version of a republic.

The other problem with Beck's anti-democracy rant is that our leaders (including our President) are democratically elected. You can make the argument that the electoral college is not a democratic process, but in all reality, the president almost always gets elected according to the popular vote, with very few exceptions. The exceptions (as I've already pointed out in other comments in this thread) are not due to the fact that representatives make the choice for us, but rather due to the fact that small states have more weight per capita than large states. I realize that Beck doesn't like the fact that Senators are now directly elected (as opposed to the original Constitutional process of having them elected by the state legislatures

My Meter is pegged on Noise. Just take a look at his own web sight own web siight. The first sense there reads:

"Glenn brings the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment into your living room."

Lets all go back to Saturday night Live for our news. Where there is more entertainment. and IMHO I think Glenn's enlightenment has burned out.

Who called this news in the first place. Oh Ya Mr. anonymous. I think April First has not yet arrived, save up your stuff until then.

If the attacker turns out to be a tea party paranoid type, then I honestly believe people like Beck hold indirect responsibility for the attack.

You obviously haven't spent much time getting to know Beck.

• He regularly criticizes those on the left who call for violence, and passionately urges his audience to never stoop to that level.
• He requires his associates to sign the exact same Pledge of Nonviolence that Martin Luther King Jr. employed in his organization. What's more, if you go to the link I provided, then click the "VIEW RECENT SIGNATURES" link, you'll see that to date, 93,847 members of Beck's audience have signed that same Pledge of Nonviolence.
• Here is some text written by Beck, that I have just copied from his web site: "pray for the leaders of our country. Pray for their safety."

By "leaders of our country," Beck means people like Rep. Giffords. But here you are, holding someone "indirectly responsible for the attack" on Giffords, who in fact implores people to pray for her safety. You're a real, uninformed, piece of work. When you've promoted nonviolence 1% as much as Glenn Beck has -- which you never will in your lifetime, "chebucto" -- come back here and take some more cheap shots at him.

John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta is BPs lead lobbyist. John is the founder of the Center For American Progress and the former Clinton chief of staff. I know it is from Beck. But DAMN.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42150/

I know Glenn Beck claims that Hitler was democratically elected, but it's not true.

Hitler was appointed Chancellor (as is/was the custom) by the president (Hindenburg) as a result of political pressure.

I'm not disagreeing with you that things like this camera system can and would be abused by someone, even it's not the authorities who originally have it installed, but please don't use blatantly incorrect facts to justify your arguments.

Glen Beck University.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42502/

I thin Glenn Beck is crazy enough to believe himself.

That's scary... it would take some special kind of crazy for that to be true.

Hmmm, what substance gives people delusions of grandeur and eliminates all doubt, even when it's warranted?

Glenn Beck has admitted hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine use.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpVi6JwjjGU

And "excessive or prolonged use, the drug can cause [...] paranoid delusions" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

And even his own official web site says he was "consumed by alcoholism and drug addiction" in at least one era of his life. (ref: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/program/about/)

journalists like Glenn Beck

I think Glenn Beck might disagree with that statement.

GLENN: Now remember, I'm not a journalist. They always make fun of me: Glenn Beck, he's a pseudojournalist. No, I'm not a journalist. I never claimed to be a journalist. I am an opinion person.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/24124/

Laugh

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/08/08/

then cry

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42502/

then get back to me that the Glenn Beck U motto really reads:

TYRANNIS OBSEQUUM, SEDITO DEO

(tyrant compliant , dissension god)

John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta is BPs lead lobbyist. John is the founder of the Center For American Progress and the former Clinton chief of staff. Hopefully they can discuss in court just how much BP stock was traded in the 4 weeks before DWH blew up when it was known by BP/USGC/MMS to be an out-of-control well, by whom, and why! I now know why Obama didn't talk with the BP CEO for so long. John Podesta's FUCKING BROTHER is BPs lobbyist.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42150/

That was amusing. I haven't watched him on TV (that I can remember) so I didn't realize how he acted. On the Radio, the few times I heard him, he says things like he's been a customer of their long before they were a customer if his and crap like that. He makes it clear that he has an interest in selling gold and selling it through this company. He also states that you need to review everything for yourself and make your own informed decision.

As for the FEAR and other shenanigans, that's sort of like yelling "see, she floats, I told you she was a witch". He has been clambering about that crap for a long time before selling gold. About the only thing which has changed is the subject or names of the people he complains about. He would trash talk Bush too and complain about both sides of the isle as well as other countries. I just checked and it appears that Goldline has been around since 1960 in some form or another and became goldline in 1986 so it is possible that his entire career of bashing politics and complaining about how the country was being run has been about creating fear so gold would increase in costs. I find that improbable though. However, he does admit to having an interest in gold when pawning it out there.

What would be interesting is seeing the full context of the clips cut together that Stewart used to show Beck creating or instilling Fear. On his radio program, he usually cites verifiable facts and is clear about something just being his opinion verses someone else'. I just went to http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tv/ and watched the first video on the page, they removed any commercials but it's similar to his radio program where he attempts to cite what he claims and railed about something forever. You should give it a watch and decide for yourself.

As I said, I don't listen to him much, I have a car I use for long trips and the engine puts on some terrible electrical whine in the radio if it is not on a strong AM station so if he on, I listen. I've attempted to fix the whining noise but I think replacing the radio is the last option and that would probably cost more then the car is worth.

Here's yet another spin. Something bad happens and corrective action is urged. In fact it's so bad, that corrective action must be mandated because of the scale involved. The powers of the wealthy status quo don't want corrective action because they perceive it as cutting into their whiskey and Thai sex tour money. So they spend their money to create front groups to stall and question the there really is anything bad happening at all. They spend their money on politicians and talking heads to create "controversy," and spreading hokum about how that the bad thing is actually good, and how the people that want to stop the bad thing actually just want to steal all your money, piss on your Bible, round your family up into the UN mandated concentration camps, make you dig your own grave, and then machine gun you to death. Predictably the bad thing gets worse, and because of the unwarranted delay will take more effort now to not to prevent (since at this point we've passed well beyond the tipping point) but rather to just mitigate compared to the amount of effort required at the very beginning. So now the status quo proclaims that the bad thing must not have been so bad, because now the opposition doesn't want to stop it, just slow it, and anyway now they want more money, so obviously it must have been a fraud in the first place. Meanwhile the status quo forces continue to rake in the cash.

But no. This doesn't make sense because right-wing motivations are always pure as the driven snow, and only when those who I politically oppose argue for something that I already believe, are their motivations pure and conclusions correct, because I'm Right(tm). I know I'm right, because it's in my name, and I'm right. I'm a winner, and winners aren't wrong, so I'm right. If I was wrong, I'd have to change, but change is for losers, and I'm a winner, so I don't have to change, and because I don't have to change I'm right.

You can bet that if a left-winger says that global warming is so bad that he wants nuclear power, he's sincere about it. If he says that global warming is so bad that he wants taxes and regulation, he could be sincere, but might be using the global warming as an excuse, since he wants those things anyway.

Clearly you have never heard of James Lovelock and have no knowledge of the modern environmental and anti-climate change movement beyond what Glenn Beck tells you, since your "insight" is little more than a simplistic maligned caricature. But I'm sure you sleep well at night because it never enters your mind that you're premisses, let alone your conclusions, just might be wrong.

Olbermann he is ONE OF THE VERY FEW that attacks BOTH sides. (can you produce 3 videolinks of FOX news or glen beck criticizing bush ?)

Well, I'm no fan of Beck, but, well... yea:

• Beck
• Transcript can't find the video of this
• Fox News anchor slams Bush on SCHIP

Yea, so what?

You could just do like I plan: Listen to Glenn Beck's online election coverage.

I almost can't believe I am responding to this, but in the interest of accuracy:

1. No one in the administration ever said or implied that "Saddam" had anything more than passing ties to anything related with 9/11. No one in the administration ever said Iraq (or Saddam) was responsible for 9/11. Yes, they looked for evidence immediately after 9/11. It appeared that Al-Qaeda *could* have had meetings with persons related with Saddam's government. Ultimately, the strategy after 9/11 was to institute political change in the Mideast, and Iraq was a nation-state for which the most expeditious case could be made. Centrally located, relatively secular, recent history with the American populace, and so on.

In short:

"When [Bush talks] about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East, and that's the only way we can prevent future 9/11's, you're getting to the heart of why this administration is fighting that war in Iraq."

That's why 9/11 and Iraq were intermingled. Not because Saddam was responsible for 9/11. But because changing the face of the Mideast, starting with places like Iraq, was seen as the way to PREVENT future 9/11's, over a long period of time. The fact that X% of Americans believed Saddam was involved in 9/11 only speaks to their ignorance, because it was blindingly clear and repeated thousands of times in the days, weeks, and months following the attacks that the perpetrator was a Saudi, and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi.

2. WMDs.

First: UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Read it carefully.

Second: Since quite a large amount (in the hundreds of tons) of the WMD Iraq was known to be in possession of was still not accounted for in any way, shape, or form, in 1998, it was reasonable to believe Iraq to still be in possession of WMD. Saddam himself believed Iraq to have a nascent nuclear weapons program at the time of the invasion.

Third: Iraq was in material breach of several binding Chapter VII UN Security Council resolutions. (I note Chapter VII because someone will always say, "What about all the resolutions Israel violated?" Sorry, those are General Assembly resolutions, which do not carry the weight of force, as do Chapter VII Security Council Resolutions.)

Fourth: Just for fun: What did the Democrats say about Iraq's WMD?

Also, all of this is a hell of a lot more complicated than you seem to think it is. There are armies - literally and figuratively - of analysts and experts in all manner of fields responsible for formulating and executing this strategy. The WMD situation was not at all clear cut, and before 2003, the only thing that was clear cut was that Iraq still had hundreds of tons of WMD it couldn't account for. The fact that inspectors (with whom Iraq never fully cooperated at any point in the prior twelve years) couldn't immediately uncover anything didn't mean weapons that were known to exist at some point and which had no final, provable disposition suddenly ceased to exist.

WMD may have only been the putative reason for initiating the Iraq action; the actual strategy was much more broad and far-reaching. But that still didn't change the fact that WMD was a valid emergent reason to use at the time. Indeed, many planners were dumbfounded that we didn't actually find the caches of WMD that were expected.

Okay, lets be clear. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in a court of law where he was being sued for sexual harassment. He lied about having sex with a subordinate which is very pertinent to a sexual harassment case.

If Bush LIED about WMD's in Iraq he had lots of company. http://www.glennbeck.com/news/01302004.shtml

Personally I am not defending Gonzales but when you go off on an unrelated tangent to bash someone you should at least put things in perspective or risk losing your credibility.

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." - President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." - President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction." - Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton. - (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

Start with this, that has not been reported, or under-reported:
http://www.glennbeck.com/realstory/iraq-video.shtm l

Keep in mind they are trying to not to have another tet offensive. Not the battle, (that we won) but the news coverage that we lost.

It's so stupidly simple though. WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. Why would we take the risk and do something that would cause trouble in the other direction? Of course everyone wants cleaner fuels, water, and air. The air has been getting cleaner for at least 10 years or more. Did you know that scientists were telling us we needed to cover the arctic circle with soot because we were in the middle of a global cooling crisis? This was only just back in 1975. Don't believe me? Check out this NewsWeek article from 1975 on GLOBAL COOLING: http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

We just need to stop being so shrill about all of this. Our technology is getting cleaner and so is our planet. Everyone is so quick to jump on the "OMG IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW!!" bandwagon.

(Of course there are thousands of you here that will just read the URL instead of the actual PDF that it links to, and complain that GlennBeck is a conservative.)

Also good to note that the science hasn't changed much since 1975, but the politics has. Yet somehow our science was telling us something completely different in 1975.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

Also note this newsweek article from 1975. Or has the data changed so much in 30 years? We track hundreds of years worth of data, but toss out our findings that we so recently swore by?

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

They have published claims. Or has the "evidence" changed since 1975? I mean if we're using models that go back as far as we claim, we should have no problems using articles like this:

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

A conservative approach would be: "Since a volcano can spew more CO2 than all of the internal combustion engines ever invented, we should probably just hold back a little on end of the world talk."

Also, note the complete 180 in the "scence" area since 1975.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

Funny how their tune changes when the science hasn't.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

Read for yourself. Newsweek. 1975.

Nice ad hominem post. You could try to find flaws in the "shill's" arguments instead.

How about the fact that all of the climate change scientists were telling us the complete oposite in the 70's?

Read for yourself:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

Funny that they were completely backwards back in the 1970s.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-cooling world.pdf

Perhaps because Bush never said anything that wasn't said by Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, Kerry, etc.
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/01302004.shtml

Bush simply has the cojones to actually take action in a post-911 world.

Well, you seriously have to take the fight to the source. Am I talking ozone depleting chemicals? No. Am I talking burning coal and adding more particles to the atmosphere? No. Am I talking about getting rid of the human race? Definitely not.

The solution is to destroy the sun . The sun is getting hotter so we need to make sure we put it on ice. Those solar flares are reaching out farther than ever and what do we do? We blame ourselves. Either we get rid of the sun and get used to a long cold winter (forever) or we get used to hotter days. ...if not for us....for our children.

Dude, comedy is best when it is self mocking. That's why I'll take Glenn Beck when he is doing is "Evil Conservitive" bits over posers like Colbert. The whole "This is what Lefties think of Righties" is old hat, and the "This is where Righties know we've gone too far" is the new poo!

Time for another Religious Zelot Update!

PDF Warning!
The Day After Tomorrow Looks Pretty Darn Cold! So Let's Get Busy and Find Some More Oil!

-Democratic forms get tossed in the trash, but not Republican forms...

If that is what happened. All that is certain is that some forms were brought to the FBI that had been ripped in half. We don't know who did the ripping, or why. Maybe these were duplicates - people filling out two forms. Maybe the people turning in the forms to the FBI did it. Who knows?

-It's Texas Republicans who are Gerrymandering in their redistricting efforts...

Both parties have done this forever. It's wrong, but you should see the Congressional districts in Democrat-controlled Illinois. Also, the minority party always cries gerrymandering to get leverage. Whether it's happening in Texas, and what effect it finally has, who knows.

-Sinclair wishes to put an obviously anti Kerry Docuganda on TV...

You can't ignore the overwhelming mainstream media bias. Besides, Mr. Kerry is proud of his service to the country in Viet Nam. Those who served with him recall it differently. There are other groups who do honor his service, though.

-Flordia 2000 -- Black voters are disenfranchised by the thousands. Guess which way they lean?

Ah yes, the 'disenfranchised Florida voter' myth. Here is the reality:

Prior to the 2000 election (in the race for Miami Mayor), there was a scandal about convicted felons voting. The Miami Herald ran a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning stories about the Florida voter rolls having thousands of felons and deceased voters. In response to the public outcry, Florida Legislature mandated that the Secretary of State clean up the voter registration rolls.

Anybody who's ever maintained a list of names and addresses knows that they are error-prone. Complicating this, some states don't bar felons from voting, while Florida does. A felon moving from a voting-felon state should continue to vote, while a felon shouldn't be able to move from a non-voting-felon state in order to vote. (Can you say "reform"?)

So five months before the election, the Secretary of State sent the state purge list to the counties. They keyed on full name, since that's the only common field in both databases. They also gave the aliases that the felons were known to have used. Apparently at least one county election official was on the list! As a result of the flaws in the state list, many counties continued to get their lists from the courts, illegally ignoring the official state list.

People were given an chance to re-register if they could show that they were not a convicted felon or dead, but merely had the same name. From glennbeck.com, (conservative site, but the figures are in the ballpark, anyway):

Research revealed that 239 [of] the 4,678 African Americans on the Miami-Dade felons' were eventually cleared to vote which represented 5.1 percent of the total number of blacks on the felons list. Of the 1,264 whites on the list, 125 proved to be there by mistake-which is 9.9 percent of the total. The error rate for whites was almost double that for blacks.

Most of the people who were made to re-register did so without difficulty. There were a handful of people who didn't get themselves re-registered for various reasons.

While that is a hassle for those handfull of people, and it's clear that the system is flawed, it certainly doesn't represent a systematic effort to disenfranchise Democratic voters, African-American or otherwise.

As

-Democratic forms get tossed in the trash, but not Republican forms...

If that is what happened. All that is certain is that some forms were brought to the FBI that had been ripped in half. We don't know who did the ripping, or why. Maybe these were duplicates - people filling out two forms. Maybe the people turning in the forms to the FBI did it. Who knows?

-It's Texas Republicans who are Gerrymandering in their redistricting efforts...

Both parties have done this forever. It's wrong, but Texas is not the only place where redistricting efforts have been charged with foul play. You should see the Congressional districts in Democrat-controlled Illinois. Also, that's what the out-of-power party always says, in an effort to get leverage. Whether it's happening in Texas, and what effect it finally has, who knows.

-Sinclair wishes to put an obviously anti Kerry Docuganda on TV...

What about CBS-ABC-NBC-CNN? You can't ignore that media bias. Besides, Mr. Kerry is proud of his service to the country in Viet Nam. There are others who served with him who recall it differently. There are other groups who honor his service, though.

-Flordia 2000 -- Black voters are disenfranchised by the thousands. Guess which way they lean?

Ah yes, the 'disenfranchised Florida voter' myth. Here is the reality:

Prior to the 2000 election (in the race for Miami Mayor), there was a scandal about convicted felons voting. The Miami Herald ran a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning stories about the Florida voter rolls having thousands of felons and deceased voters. In response to the public outcry, Florida Legislature mandated that the Secretary of State clean up the voter registration rolls.

Anybody who's ever maintained a list of names and addresses knows that they are always filled with errors. This was complicated by the fact that some states don't bar felons from voting, while Florida does. A felon moving from a voting-felon state should continue to vote, while a felon shouldn't be able to move from a non-voting-felon state in order to vote. (Can you say "reform"?)

So five months before the election, the Secretary of State sent a list to the counties to use to purge their individual voter registration lists of felons and the deceased. They keyed on full name, since that's the only common field in both databases. They also gave the aliases that the felons were known to have used. Apparently at least one county election official was on the list! As a result of the flaws in the state list, many counties continued to get their lists from the courts, illegally ignoring the official state list.

People were given an chance to re-register if they could show that they were not a convicted felon, but merely had the same name. From glennbeck.com, (conservative site, but the figures are in the ballpark, anyway):

Research revealed that 239 [of] the 4,678 African Americans on the Miami-Dade felons' were eventually cleared to vote which represented 5.1 percent of the total number of blacks on the felons list. Of the 1,264 whites on the list, 125 proved to be there by mistake-which is 9.9 percent of the total. The error rate for whites was almost double that for blacks.

Most of the people who were made to re-register did so without difficulty. There were a handful of people who didn't get themselves re-registered because they couldn't wade throught

Can it fold money to find Hidden Images of 9-11?

The reason for the search term "Miserable failure" giving Michael Moore's site as the most pertinent result is based on the way Google PageRank works, I beleive. I remember reading that an American radio host, Glenn Beck, asked his audience to get the search term "Miserable failure" to give Michael Moore's site as the first result. If my memory is not failing me, the way Google searches for the most pertinent results is by searching for the terms in the links. For example, Glenn Beck asked his audience with a website to write this link in their website:

Michael <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a> Moore

I'd just like to add Glenn"Miserable Failure" Beck

Have a nice day ;-)

Huh?

Check out this page which is promoting bombing Michael Moore. I use this page as it is a nice antithesis to the Bush search. I don't care whom it refers to, just that it is wrong.

From the site:
Once you have signed up construct a simple website, fill it up with your shopping list, a log of what you had for lunch or whatever, it doesn't matter (or how about a nice Glenn Beck fan site, but please

When you update your website, which should be a couple of times a week, be sure to include the following HTML at some point:

Michael <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a> Moore

These people are clearly Not providing content, but Are Tricking Google. And they(Google) Should do something about it.

In 2002, radio host Glenn Beck did a War of the Worlds radio broadcast on Halloween. I only heard exerpts, but it was pretty cool. At one time, you could listen to the two hour show online from the web site.

I was waiting for this kind of comment. I work in radio, and not for Clear Channel. I don't like what they've done to radio in many respects. But what you're saying is nonsense. I've heard hosts on Clear Channel stations talk about Patriot 2. The reason DMCA doesn't get alot of press is because it's hard for most people to comprehend at first. It's not an easy talk radio subject, like say, abortion or the death penalty.

Clear Channel's profitibility is suspect. Why? I'm not quite sure. But their solution for every problem they've got seems to be to acquire more things. Take a look at their financials, and you'll see that they're a paper tiger right now, having taken out something like ten billion dollars in debt to make their acquisitions.

Clear Channel is not destroying this country. If you don't like their stuff, don't consume it. Convince your friends to do likewise. But the people who work for CC aren't bad, and don't have dubious motives. I see them as just competition...sure, they've got more bucks backing them, but the audience will decide ultimately.

...you can give the money you saved from buying a mac for Glenn Beck's New Car.

Note: just buy a mac. It'll look MUCH MUCH better than this, and it will run OS X, the best UI to BSD ever created... ever. The only drawback: you won't have a few dollars for Glenn Beck.

>>Little off the norm for Slashdot, but it's interesting since computers have vastly simplified forgery."

The first major remake of the 20 dollar bill was supposed to prohibit forgery, yet forgery increased, probably due to counterfeiters capitalizing on the newness of the bills.

Many stores now use the gold detector pens. Those pens actually work sometimes, try them on different papers.

I have worked as a cashier and these bills look worse than some pictures printed off a computer.

In fact one method of counterfeit detection is to look for the ink runs, the glitter ink that comes of, misalignments, poor quality paper, etc. The others methods are on that chart showing an absolutely perfect bill, but if I follow the chart they are all counterfeit.

Forgery prevention through quality mismanagement is just plain wierd.

Oh, and they stink too, the smell is just nauseating. A rather poor showing by printers of the most collected product in human history.

ObURL: The mysterious link between the 20 and 9-11

There must be a new conspiracy in the making.
See if you can find the next planned disaster. It's fun for the whole family.

Probably everyone has already seen this. But it's worth posting... I hope it can also be done with the new bills.

Simple origami

More on it

But what we are really talking about here is all the protestors of the last year that think we shouldn't be attacking Iraq. And they think that just because they are protesting in the streets, and the policy hasn't changed, they are being dealt some great injustice.

So... they start breaking the law, laying in the busy downtown streets of New York with the intention of causing economic hardship to New York. These people are the minority, were allowed to vote in the National elections, and are being dealt no injustice at all. We have an all voluntary military force, where objectors to the war can be relieved of duty after filling out a simple form. And just because 25 people protest somewhere against the war doesn't mean they are representing some underlying unrepresented majority.

The facts remain:
As far as rallys and protests go, those against the war are far less attended than those who support the war.
Poll after poll after poll has shown an overwhelming support for the President and the war.
The war protestors are in a clear minority, are being dealt no injustice, and want to circumvent the political process with violence and economic disruption. This should be very illegal. All of these protests you mentioned were heald because there was no other way of correcting an injustice. The law-breaking done by anti-war protestors is the result of a minority wanting to write foreign policy, undermine the current elected government, and force the will of the minority on the rest of the people. That's the difference.