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martensitic writes "Yahoo! posted this positive AP review of the newest version of a third-party PC app designed to compete with TiVo and Microsoft's Media Center. SnapStream 's 'Beyond TV 3' (sounds like something Fox would produce) allows streaming to standard web browsers for watching on other computers in your home, and promotes automatic commercial break recognition that has been downplayed in other products. (Previously mentioned here.)"
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"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons" - Michael Moore's acceptance speech at the Oscars. Lets face it, Michael Moore is an idiot and we should take back his Oscar. Where does he get off calling our President fictitious...moreover, sending a quarter of a million troops into war for "fictitious reasons." Moore along with the Dixie Chicks, should pack their bags and make a b-line for nearest communist country. Their personal attacks on our beloved President are cowardly and utterly disrespectful. Mr. President Bush, if you ever read this article, take peace in knowing that while the majority of Hollywood is not taking sides with you, the majority of America supports your cause as it is in the best interest of national security. God Bless your soul, God Bless the troops in Iraq, God Bless America! I'm glad I voted for you. And just in case if any of you out there are wondering what party I am? I'm not a republican, but an independent. Remember, most of what Moore says are lies. Including elements that are included in his movies. To find out the truth please visit MOORE WATCH.
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Since quitting the Navy six months early at age 27 so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform, John Kerry has built a political career on his service in Vietnam. His unsuccessful 1970 congressional bid lasted only a month, during which it proved impossible for even he to get to the left of the winner, Robert Drinan, but it forged a conflicting political persona - one hammered out between his combat medals earned in the Mekong delta and the common cause he made with the enemy upon his return home.
Now, at age 60, the junior Democratic senator from Massachusetts is milking his veteran status once again in an effort to show that he's tougher and more patriotic than the man he seeks to replace, President George W. Bush. And, as unrepentant as ever for his pro-Hanoi activism, he is just as conflicted in 2004 as he was in the 1960s.
If there is any consistency in Kerry's political career, it is his in-your-face use of that four-month stint in Vietnam. He enlisted like many other young men of privilege, trying to serve without going to the front lines. When in 1966 it looked like his draft number was coming up during his senior year at Yale University, and already having spoken out in public against the war, Kerry signed up with the Navy under the conscious inspiration of his hero, the late President John F. Kennedy. As a lieutenant junior grade, Kerry skippered a CTF-115 swift boat, a light, aluminum patrol vessel that bore a passing resemblance to PT-109. He thought he'd arranged to avoid combat. "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," he later would tell the Boston Globe. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling, and that's what I thought I was going to do."
Soon, however, Kerry was reassigned to patrol the Mekong River in South Vietnam, a formative experience for his political odyssey. The official record shows that he rose to the occasion. It was along the Mekong where he first killed a man, aggressively fighting the enemy Viet Cong and reportedly saving the lives of his own men, earning a Bronze Star, a Silver Star for valor, and three Purple Hearts in the process.
Kerry opted for reassignment to New York City, where - as a uniformed, active-duty officer - he reportedly began acting out the antiwar feelings he had expressed before enlisting. Press reports from the time say that he marched in the October 1969 Moratorium protests - a mass demonstration by a quarter-million people that had been orchestrated the previous summer by North Vietnamese officials and American antiwar leaders in Cuba (see sidebar, p. 27). Kerry had found his purpose in life. The New York Times reported on April 23, 1971, that at about the time of the Moratorium march, Lt. Kerry had "asked for, and was given, an early release from the Navy so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform from his home district in Waltham, Mass."
For Kerry, politicizing the nation's war effort for partisan purposes was the right thing to do, in contrast to the violent revolutionary designs of colleagues who were out to destroy the system. Kerry didn't want to take down the establishment. He wanted to take it over. His aborted, monthlong 1970 congressional campaign was a victory for him politically, as it landed him on television's popular Dick Cavett Show, where he came to the attention of some of the central organizers of the antiwar/pro-Hanoi group known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
VVAW was a numerically small part of the protest movement, but it was extremely influential through skillful political theater, the novelty of uniformed combat veterans joining the Vietniks, and a ruthless coalition-building strategy that forged partnerships with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), its Trotskyite rival, the Socialist Workers Party, and a broad front that ranged from pacifists to supporters of the Black Panthers and other domestic terrorist groups.
Kerry signed on as a full-time organizer and member of th
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RUSH: Here's Kim, Phoenix, Arizona.
CALLER: I'm still laughing. Dittos, Rush, from a second-generation listener. My dad used to listen to you in Sacramento.
RUSH: Thank you, Kim, nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Well, I have good news for you. I just want to tell you how I think Bush's tax cuts are helping me. I did our taxes this week and I do them on TurboTax, and at the end TurboTax does a comparison of last year's versus this year's taxes, how much you paid, how much you're getting back, blah, blah, blah. And I was ecstatic to notice that although my husband and I made $5,000 more in taxable income this year, that our actual tax bite went down by $1500.
RUSH: Yeah, and you know something, this is going to be happening all over the country. When do you think you're going to be getting your refund? Or do you get a refund? Do you get a refund, do you do it that way?
CALLER: I'm getting a refund much bigger than I anticipated, and we're going to spend it!
RUSH: Well, but I mean you haven't gotten it yet. The point is, you recently filed, this refund, yours and everybody else's are going to start pouring in a few weeks and it is going to make a huge difference. The reality of these tax cuts already shows up in people's withholding but when these refunds start coming in it's going to show up even more, and that way the real size and impact these tax cuts is going to be illustrated. And at the time people have more money in their pockets, the only thing the Democrats can do is accuse them of being selfish. The only thing the Democrats can do, "Well, yeah, you may be getting a bigger refund, but kids are starving out there, people's Social Security is going to have to be cut." The Democrats, the only thing they can do to people like you, Kim, is try to make you feel guilty for getting that refund because they can't praise it, they can't praise the tax cut, they can't think it's neat, so they've got to somehow criticize it, and the way they'll do it is to criticize you, try to make you feel guilty for it.
CALLER: Oh, I won't feel guilty. In fact, I earned it. You know, I don't know why I have to give it up all the time. I can't understand why anyone would want to vote for a man who wants to take this back. I just think that's an absolute ludicrous thing.
RUSH: Well, let me tell you who. Let me tell you who. There are, and I've talked to them. There are some seasoned citizens in this country who only have their Social Security, and if the Democrats go out there and say, "Hey, you know, these people are getting your increased Social Security benefits," then you're going to have people out there who are going to get very upset at these tax cuts, and that's how the Democrats will do it, make no mistake about it. Keep a sharp eye. It's going to be an interesting thing to see because it's going to be a great in-hand, in-pocket illustration.
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