Slashdot Mirror

Other alternatives have popped up in recent years...in particular, Fox News Channel doesn't have the far-left tilt that infects most other media outlets.

Yeah, I'd hate my "conservative news" to have a shred of honesty and accuracy

Just go to FAUX NEWS and enjoy the lies. They delude, I deride. http://www.fair.org...

You trust that FAIR gets any of its stories right? They're nothing more than a mouthpiece for lefties...apologists for Dan Rather and his ilk. They tried to skewer Rush Limbaugh a few years back, but failed miserably due to their (typically) poor grasp of the facts. If you really want to get some idea of what the media don't want you to know, I'd suggest the Media Research Center or Accuracy In Media. I suspect that the truth may be a bit too much for you, though.

As for Fox News, I guess the fact that they don't accept as gospel every word from the Democrats and their fellow travelers must make them "members of the vast right-wing conspiracy." I would wear that label myself as a badge of honor, but Fox doesn't want to be known as leaning either way. Those of us on the right might gravitate toward them because the left-wing bias isn't there, but if they were the conservative news outlet that you say they are, what are the odds that they would've hired left-wing apologists such as Geraldo Rivera (as a war correspondent, no less)?

What implications between the Bush administration and Enron?

Some Enron execs called cabinet members and INFORMED then that Enron was about to tank. Was there a bailout? No, nobody did anything, which is exactly what should have happened.

Clinton is the one who took donations and then used his presidential power to help Enron construct a power plant.

It looks like Enron has done nothing illegal. Immoral, cheap and underhanded certainly, but not illegal. Besides, what kind of MORON puts 70-100% of their retirement plan in ONE STOCK. Those kind of morons don't have any right to complain when that stock tanks. I feel no sympathy for that kind of stupidity. Diversity is the name of the game when it comes to life savings.

Try this this if you want the other side of the story from what you've been reading and hearing in the mainstream media. (Yes, it's ultra-right-wing, but almost everything else is ultra-left-wing.) Balance is good.

Phathead

Check it: http://rushlimbaugh.com.

Do we sacrifice our freedoms for security, or do we build on our freedoms? These are not easy answers. That's why the level of commitment behind them is so important. Our freedom is who we are and what our nation is founded on. Our freedom is the fabric of our success as a country. Our freedom is an essential element within each and every one of our spirits - the American spirit - and it is what we must hold onto during this time of what feels like unbearable shock.

For this country to be put back together and resume its lofty place, for this country to become even stronger than what it was, is going to require the people of this country doing what they've always done in the past during times like this. We must band together and defend our freedom, which is what separates us from our enemies. Our freedom was attacked and our freedom will be defended. On that, my friends, I am utterly confident - you can stake your life on it.

And there's nothing wrong with that mentality either. Computers are tools. My machine takes like a minute to boot the OS... how many other tools or appliances take that long to boot? What if your TV took 60 seconds before it could perform its task?

(I speak from experience...when I was a kid (and no, I'm not that old...we're talking mid-70s to early 80s here), we had a 13" B&W TV, tube-based and probably of early-70s manufacture, in the kitchen. It took half a minute or so for it to get going.)

Even today, the radio on which I listen to Rush at home is a fifty-year-old RCA that I rebuilt a few years ago. It takes some time to warm up as well.

Why should America apologize for China's outrageous behavior? I think Rush Limbaugh's Apology to China should suffice.

If anyone should apologize it should be the Chinese. This is the game they play. They are still pissed about the US accidentally bombing their embassy in Belgrade. Besides, they are testing the resolve of the new administration. They'll release the crew when they feel they have enough information from the plane. Hopefully the crew had time to destroy anything sensitive before the PLA captured them.

Im a young male puertorican in college and i agree with you 100% percent. Its unfortunate that the argument we share would have us branded as Uncle Toms by our own people.

One of my life goals is to find like-minded people and help spread this message.

I see no FM here.

Another troll decimated and flushed down the crapper. Ba-WHOOSH!

Face it, without hate and racism, what would Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan do for a living? They'd be out of a job, so naturally they don't want racism to end. They need "hate", for their continued existance. And it it's not there anymore, they'll create it themselves.

innocent white people

Yup, that's why I had "who should all be trained with firearms" on there...It's always fun explaining the facts to people like el_chicano who are too busy jerking their knee to do research.

Monica's view of Bill Clinton.

If you want more Spanish on internet sites & in tech jargon, then have more Spanish speaking people &/or companies come up with devices & give them Spanish names & slowly let it infiltrate into mainstream tech jargon.

If you *live* in the U.S. you *NEED* to learn English, not expect Americans to learn Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, etc...

We simply cannot learn that many languages to accomodate so many foreign cultures, but the immigrants can afford to learn one language if they choose to live here!

When you move to another country, they aren't required to adapt to you at all, but if you want to have *ANY* hope of fitting in & making a life for yourself, you *MUST* learn at least their language & a lot of their customs (as long as said customs don't compromise your values).

And for any who might be lame enough to say it, *NO*, learning a new language is not compromising values.

• technical discussions like Dr. Dobb's Technetcast
• Geeks in Space
• Financial planning programs like MoneyTalk
• Non-computer technical support programs like Car Talk

Dave Aiello

Bush = BAD

For days we've heard about how there were 19,000 double-punched ballots that were thrown out in Palm Beach county. This story seems to come up right after mention of the confusing "butterfly ballot", with the implication that about 19,000 people:

- got confused when trying to vote for Gore,
- punched the Buchannan hole
- realized they goofed and punched the Gore hole
- turned the ballot in, and
- the computer kicked it out as dobule-punched, so
- their vote didn't get counted, and
- Gore lost most of those 19,000 votes.

Well, it turns out that's NOT what happened.

It seems that Mary Matialin (a conservative commentator) got suspicious. So she actually CALLED the poll workers and ASKED what this was about.

It turns out that the 19,000 "spoiled ballots" were ACTUALLY people who:

- mispunched their ballot (in ANY way at all),
- realized they'd goofed,
- took the ballot to the election officials and said "I goofed. Please give me a replacement.",
- were told "Sure. Here",
- punched that one,
- (maybe screwed it up too ... loop until they're happy with one), and
- turned it in.

So if any of these 19,000 ballots was a Gore supprter, Gore GOT the vote in question. (He might have missed some votes if the voter didn't realize until after they'd turned it in that they'd screwed up. But there aren't 19,000 worms in THAT can.)

You won't hear about this on the establishment media, of course. But Mary talked about it, and Rush Limbaugh picked it up, and put it on both his show and his web page. Here is the link.

(The page also makes an anaecdotal claim about Palm Beach county being a hotbed of Buchannan support, which could also explain its outlier status in the Buchannan count.)

(Again I'm not claiming to have checked any of this myself - just posting the reference for your perusal. Enjoy!)

Correction: This is the ballot, the other must have moved..

If you want to take a peek, here's the Ballot. Doesn't look too confusing to me. This morning, I heard Bob Dole say that the voters must take some responsibility. I'd have to agree. If Gore loses Florida because some voters in Palm Beach made a mistake, then they have no one but themselves to blame.

<rumor> I'm under the impression that the form was designed by a democrat. He said that the form was designed as such so that it would fit all the candidates on the page with sufficiently large enough print so that everyone could read the ballot. </rumor>

They are on Rush Limbaugh's site, because that is the only link I have handy (a republican friend of mine sent it to me). Here it is

And I agree. What? You can't follow an arrow?

http://rushlimbaugh.com/home/today/PALMBALLOT.html

Here is a picture of the Palm Beach ballot. The election official, who is a democrat, said that she was trying to improve the readability of the ballot for older voters in the district. She also said that they sent sample ballots to all voters and no one complained before election day.

I read that message and couldn't figure it out either. A libertarian going to Gore?!? Heck, why not go all the way and vote Nader?

He is what those of us on the right would call a "seminar caller." Such an individual is one who calls a talk show (let's use Rush Limbaugh as an example) and usually claims to be a Republican (especially a "moderate Republican," a species also known as "RINO," for "Republican In Name Only") who has some misgivings about the conservative candidate du jour. After some back-and-forth dialogue between Rush and the caller, it's readily apparent that the caller is really a pinko Democrat who's been put up to the call by his party bosses; he's been coached on the things to say that (they believe) will get the caller on the air (never mind that most decent talk shows welcome opposing points of view as a way for the host to play off the caller and look good by comparison :-) ).

It would seem that /. has been visited by what we could thus call a "seminar poster." Claiming to be a Libertarian is a new twist. As I see it, on many (most?) of the issues that matter, Libertarians usually track closer to Republicans than to Democrats. Hell, I've even voted for a Libertarian candidate or two (usually to avoid voting for a RINO, though the usual unfortunate effect is that the Democrat wins), and on the previously mentioned Presidential Candidate Selector, the candidate they said tracks closest to my views was Howard Phillips at 63%. (Dubya and Dick Cheney were close at 53% and 60% respectively, vs. Algore and Holy Joe at 18% and 28%. Go ahead and call me the Anti-Nader, too, as he placed dead last at 5%. Amusing stuff, that candidate selector, even if the results weren't much of a surprise.)

I also believe in it. I'm going to vote Bush, because Rush is Right, but geez! I think every person on the ballot should be getting to speak!!! I mean, news is so biased (er... well I guess so is Rush hehe), and all of the candidates don't get nearly as much time. Just because they're not viable? I don't believe it. I'd like someone to step up to the plate, but at this point the umpire is calling them out before they get there.

----

You might try checking this web site, which I thought was his (and only recently came into existence), but on my Netscape with JavaScript disabled, I get an empty document, so maybe I've got the wrong URL there.

Anyway, if you can find his web site, supposedly there are transcripts of shows (maybe the last few months since it went on-line?) -- try searching for "libberish".

BTW, a problem with "libberish" is that perhaps some could take it for "libertarian gibberish".

Oh, and the equivalent term for conservative ideas these days is "shrubbish".

(Okay, I admit, I just made that one up all by myself. Apologies to the next President. ;-)