Group Slams Product Placement in Schwarzenegger Ad

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should pull a political commercial off the air that promotes the junk food products of his campaign donors, consumer advocates said.
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The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) called on Schwarzenegger to return the quarter-million dollars he received from companies featured in the ad, and for the corporations to pay the market value of the advertising to the state because it is improper for the governor to use public office to sell corporate products.

The TV ad, released in May, features Schwarzenegger talking to people in a lunchroom, and places Pepsi and Arrowhead Water in prominent spots next to the governor for one-third of the ad.

Donors connected to Pepsi Co. and Arrowhead Water's parent company, Nestle, gave the governor a total of $279,800 in campaign contributions. Also recognizable on-screen are Ruffles, Sun Chips, Cheetos and a SoBe Beverage, all brands owned by Pepsi.
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"Schwarzenegger has turned the governor's office into a vending machine. It is inconceivable that Schwarzenegger didn't know that Pepsi and Arrowhead were in his commercial, or that the free air time and lucrative association with the Governor of California would benefit them. The governor should return their quarter million in campaign cash, and repay the state for misusing his office as a corporate spokesman for his political donors," said Carmen Balber, consumer advocate with FTCR.

Coming in 2008 at the end of a campaign commercial for a President candidate: I'm Jeb Bush and I approve this message... and this beer...mmmmmmmm. That's tax cuteriffic!

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Gitmo

Daily Kos :: Friedman: "shut gitmo down"

Lucky for Friedman, the NY Times op-ed page is still free, so people still care what he writes.

If you want to appreciate how corrosive Guantánamo has become for America's standing abroad, don't read the Arab press. Don't read the Pakistani press. Don't read the Afghan press. Hop over here to London or go online and just read the British press! See what our closest allies are saying about Gitmo. And when you get done with that, read the Australian press and the Canadian press and the German press.

...The conservative John Cole supports the war, I oppose it. But we both have our troops best interest at heart. And it's obvious that these stories of abuse are fueling anti-American terrorism and the resistance in Iraq. Our soldiers need to be seen as selfless liberators rather than sadistic torturers, if not to win the war, at least to take that big freakin' target sign off their backs.

Hewitt and company want to suppress the bad news because it makes their beloved president and the war effort look bad, not because of any concern for the troops. Because no matter how suppressed the news is here at home, the entire rest of the world is discussing our abuses, and not just Al-Jazeera and other Arab media.

So suppression doesn't help our soldiers, rather it hurts them. The word of the abuses is getting out regardless, helping fuel the resistance, fueling anti-American terrorism, and creating new enemies daily.

They want to suppress to bolster the nation's flagging support for the war. Even if, at the end of the day, their efforts help get more of our soldiers targetted, maimed and killed.

More on Gitmo:

Bush Chortles While Navy SEAL Is Hung Out to Dry

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Sign the Letter

John Conyers, Jr. -- The Downing Street Memo

As many of you are aware, a classified memo was recently disclosed in Great Britain that I believe has serious ramifications for the integrity of the United States Government. Dubbed the “Downing Street Memo,” but actually comprising the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair and other top British government officials, the memo casts serious doubt on many of the contentions of the Bush Administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. With over 1,600 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen killed in Iraq, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and over $200 billion in taxpayer funds going to this war effort, we cannot afford to stand by any longer.

Along with 88 of my colleagues, I wrote to the President requesting answers about this grave matter. Thus far, our search for the truth has been stonewalled and I need your help. I believe the American people deserve answers about this matter and should demand directly that the President tell the truth about the memo. To that end, I am asking you to sign on to a letter to the President requesting he answer the questions posed to him by 89 Members of Congress.

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a few days ago it was Monday: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 199

8. St. Jude Educational Institute
Here's a conundrum for conservatives - what do you do with a teenage girl who becomes pregnant, but rather than having an abortion decides to keep the baby, and not only that but goes on to complete high school? Last week, St. Jude Educational Institute answered the question by barring student Alysha Cosby from taking part in her own graduation ceremony because she was pregnant.

So let me get this straight - if she'd gotten an abortion, she could have participated (or perhaps if she'd gotten comprehensive sex education, but that's another story). But the shame of a pregnant high school graduate was just too much for St. Jude's to bear? Fortunately Cosby decided to take matters into her own hands, attended the graduation ceremony, waited until the last student had been called, and then called her own name and walked across the stage. Props.

Oh, and by the way - in case you were wondering, the male student who got Alysha pregnant was not barred from participating in the ceremony. What a surprise.

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Got this from Eschaton

Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."

The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.

Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, kept the unusual provision in the couple's divorce decree last year over their fierce objections, court records show. The order does not define a mainstream religion.

Neither the father or mother asked for this provision, nor were their any religious issues between the couple. This was put in at the whim of the judge.

Is this an "activist judge." Is freedom of religion now officially only for the "big three?" (Christianity, Islam, and Judism) Sorry Mormons, you're kidding yourselves... outside Utah things won't be looking so good for you (remember that's how you ended out in Utah in the first place - since the 'Christians' can forcing you out of all the other places you tried to set up shop). Unitarians... please. And you aren't getting any Christian soldiers out of the Amish so they're out.

Ahh... the founding fathers would be proud.

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Democracy Dies Behind Closed Doors

Daily Kos :: Patriot Act II to be voted on in SECRET

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Home's retirees sue Rumsfeld

Residents of a historic retirement home for war veterans filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday against Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, asserting that the Pentagon chief has imposed excessive and illegal cutbacks in on-site medical and dental services.
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In their complaint, the home's residents said Mr. Rumsfeld has a ready remedy for the financial problems that led to the cutbacks in services and staffing, but he has chosen not to act.

They said Congress gave the Pentagon authority in 1994 to increase one source of the home's operating funds -- a 50-cent-per-month payroll deduction paid by every enlisted member and warrant officer in the military. Raising it to $1 per month would generate $7 million a year in new revenue, the lawsuit says.

Here's another idea: stop even taking out that 50 cent a month deduction from our troops all ready paltry pay and have members of the Halliburton Board of Directors pay a million dollar a year fine for taking our tax dollars to line their pockets. And as that would only get us 11 million, lets have Mr. Lesar through in and extra 3 million.

They do support our troops don't they?

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Schools ordered to observe "Constitution Day"
Feds set aside Sept. 17 for mandatory lessons on document

Now if only congress was required to take a manadatory lesson on the Constitution...

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Another success in the war against "terrah"

Syria halts cooperation with U.S.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Syrian government has halted all cooperation with the United States in sharing information about the war on terror, Syria's ambassador said Tuesday.

Imad Moustapha told CNN that Syria's decision came in the wake of recent "unfair and inaccurate" statements by U.S. officials that Damascus was allowing foreign fighters to cross Syria's border to aid in the insurgency in Iraq.

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Warning This Textbook May Educate You stickers removed

Evolution theory stickers taken off textbooks

MARIETTA, Ga. - Workers in Cobb County have begun removing controversial evolution disclaimer stickers from science textbooks to comply with a judge’s order.
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The evolution disclaimers read: “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.”
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“It’s a sad day in Cobb County,” said Larry Taylor, a parent who favors including alternatives to evolution in science classes. “I hate to see the stickers go. I thought they were a fair compromise.”

Taylor is still happy that the "Warning: Sex before marriage will make your skin fall off" stickers still on the textbooks.

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Remember this will make you safer

FBI asks US Congress for power to seize documents

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases, to investigate terrorism without first securing approval from a judge.

Valerie Caproni, FBI general counsel, told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee her agency needed the power to issue what are known as administrative subpoenas to get information quickly about terrorist plots and the activities of foreign agents.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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First you couldn't trust NBC, MSNBC, etc because they are owned by GE
(don't want to report anything that might harm our defense contracts you know)

And you couldn't trust CBS because they are owned by Westinghouse
(don't want to report anything that might harm our defense contracts you know)

And you couldn't trust Fox News and The NY Post because how could you?
(nothing more to say)

And you couldn't trust ABC because they are owned by Disney
(wouldn't want to report anything that might get the 'focus on the family' crowd to boycott DisneyWorld)

And you couldn't trust CNN, Time, etc because they are owned by AOL Time Warner
(because they are idiotic wimps... that and they'd really rather not offend, because they really need the new Batman flick to be a big hit)

And you couldn't trust Newsweek, The Washington Post, and all their other TV channels and newspapers, because The Washington Post also owns Kaplan Inc. which had a revenue of over a billion dollars and you just don't want to rock that boat when you have colleges all over the world that you make money from.

Oh and UPI and The Washington Times are Moonie outfits... and Moonie sells subs to the north koreans and calls America "Satan's harvest," citing its loose women and "dung-eating dogs," or gay people. - from Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon (a site that you should read)

Well to make it simple any newspaper, magazine, TV channel, heck probably any website for that matter; that accepts advertising can not be trusted.

Freedom of the Press is no longer limited to just those that can buy a press, it is now limited to those who can buy a press and continue to operate without any income from advertising.

BP INSTITUTES 'AD-PULL' POLICY FOR PRINT PUBLICATIONS

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Days after financial services giant Morgan Stanley informed print publications that its ads must be automatically pulled from any edition containing "objectionable editorial coverage," global energy giant BP has adopted a similar press strategy.

Zero tolerance

According to a copy of a memo on the letterhead of BP's media-buying agency, WPP Group's MindShare, the global marketer has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward negative editorial coverage. The memo cites a new BP policy document entitled "2005 BP Corporate-RFP" that demands that ad-accepting publications inform BP in advance of any news text or visuals they plan to publish that directly mention the company, a competitor or the oil-and-energy industry.

Does mentioning that the Iraqi war was just about oil count?.... just asking

Another magazine executive who had not heard about BP?s policy or of Morgan Stanley?s said his company has unwritten guidelines with advertisers from several industries, including auto, airlines and tobacco, to pull their ads if related negative stories are in the issue. These cases, the executive said, occur more with news magazines than lifestyle ones.

You make money with your advertisers... you were always conscious of that when editing your paper - you don't want to hurt your advertising... so to make it easier - BP now edits your paper for you.

The time has come for a Consumer Reports of News. No advertising. No connection to the government and to any corporation. Just reporters, editors, and articles. Supported only by the price of admission.

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Yeah some of Maher's jokes are duds... but why are they always trying to cancel his shows? Wasn't once enough?

Congressman riled by Maher's military remark

Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., takes issue with remarks on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, first aired May 13, in which Maher points out the Army missed its recruiting goal by 42% in April.

"More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club," Maher said. "We've done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies."

Okay - you may not like that joke, but do you consider it so bad that Maher is bordering on an action that is punishable by death? Bachus thinks so.

"I think it borders on treason," Bachus said. "In treason, one definition is to undermine the effort or national security of our country."
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"I don't want (Maher) prosecuted," Bachus said. "I want him off the air."

Numerous television stations pulled Maher's previous show, Politically Incorrect, from the air in September 2001 after he argued terrorists weren't cowards when they slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center a week earlier. Maher later apologized.

He was arguing that though the terrorists were evil, murderous, slime, he didn't think they were cowards because if so they'd probably not have flown the plane into the building. Seems a reasonable arguement... it got him cancelled.

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What? I was just giving the funds out to cronies and friends of friends, and to a Bush campaign donor or two - no reason to get all critical

Iraq's Handling of Oil Sales Criticized

The International Advisory and Monitoring Board said a new audit also found the now-defunct U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority used questionable accounting practices with money from the Development Fund for Iraq. It also singled out the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for refusing to provide files for contracts that were funded with Iraqi oil revenue.

Let's hear from the critics:

Brings looting to the 21st Century! - Paul Wolfowitz

I'd have liked a bigger role for my cousin, but otherwise it was stupendous! - Ahmed Chalabi

I like my new house! - Paul Bremer

It would have been better with more explosions - President Bush

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According to Bush this is a sign that things are going very very well.

Secret UK troops plan for Afghan crisis

ummm.... you may wonder about how having an article on the web qualifies as secret, but this is the British you know, where their best secret agent keeps using his real name everywhere: Bond, James Bond.

DEFENCE chiefs are planning to rush thousands of British troops to Afghanistan in a bid to stop the country sliding towards civil war, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

Ministers have been warned they face a "complete strategic failure" of the effort to rebuild Afghanistan and that 5,500 extra troops will be needed within months if the situation continues to deteriorate.

An explosive cocktail of feuding tribal warlords, insurgents, the remnants of the Taliban, and under-performing Afghan institutions has left the fledgling democracy on the verge of disintegration, according to analysts and senior officers.

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Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally

First they came for the Americans of Pakistani origin but I said nothing because Law and Order was on.

Then they came for Atheists but I said nothing because I don't believe in them

Then they came for the Democrats but I said nothing because O'Reilly said that is what the founding fathers would have wanted.

Then they came for the agnostics but I said nothing becuase I wasn't sure if they had come for me or not.

Peak Oil

All the facts and stuff: Daily Kos :: ExxonMobil on Peak Oil

Exxon makes a statement that blows Cheney's mind:

We have highlighted the need for focus on accelerated efficiency gains - initiatives which extend the life of the world's finite resources, reduce the potential for unwanted emissions and, simply put, just make sound business sense.

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Babtist Pastor: "we won't rest until the entire world thinks southern christians are bigots!"

Church sign sparks debate

A sign in front of Danieltown Baptist Church, located at 2361 U.S. 221 south reads "The Koran needs to be flushed," and the Rev. Creighton Lovelace, pastor of the church, is not apologizing for the display.

"I believe that it is a statement supporting the word of God and that it (the Bible) is above all and that any other religious book that does not teach Christ as savior and lord as the 66 books of the Bible teaches it, is wrong," said Lovelace. "I knew that whenever we decided to put that sign up that there would be people who wouldn't agree with it, and there would be some that would, and so we just have to stand up for what's right."

Seema Riley, a Muslim, who was born in Pakistan and reared in New York, was one of those upset by the sign.

She moved to Rutherford County for the "small town friendly" atmosphere, she said. When she saw the sign on the side of the highway Saturday she felt angered and threatened. [emphasis mine]

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Deliberate spelling mistakes on new ID cards

BRUSSELS – A new Belgian electronic identity card contains typos introduced deliberately to confound potential fraudsters, Belga reported on Tuesday
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According to Luc Vanneste, of the government department in charge of issuing the cards, other errors will be printed on the card to further confound fraudsters.

A similar system has proved successful in the United States.

It is so successful in fact we've gone to the extreme of putting errors into our system of government as often as possible.

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TCS is just a clipping service today - unless Michael has something worthwhile to post - I don't

By the way - Bush's friends aren't just looting Iraq (or confining the looting to that geographic region)

Our treasury is being pillaged right here in the good ol' USA

Audits blast waste in post-9/11 security buildup

"Whenever you try to spend a billion dollars in a hurry, you're vulnerable to people who come to the plate and sell you some things that aren't really well prepared," said Paul Werbos, a computer expert at the National Science Foundation who advises U.S. government agencies. "The biggest concern is that we're going to spend a whole lot of money without getting something useful out of it."

Since fiscal 2001, annual spending on contracts managed by the Department of Homeland Security or its precursor agencies has more than doubled, to $5.8 billion, according to data from Eagle Eye Publishers Inc., a company that analyzes government contracting data.
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At a recent gathering of contractors in northern Virginia, the chief contracting officer for one DHS division said he wasn't sure how his agency had spent $700 million -- more than one-third of its budget last year was listed under "other."

Ahhh... but here's something reassuring:

John Ely, executive director for procurement at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he is confident the money could be tracked.

"Don't think because we don't know what that is, we couldn't find out," Ely said March 31. But first, he said, he'd need to triple his contracting staff.

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Reality is even more horrifying then what your mind conjures up when you read the title of this editorial

Herbert: The Rumsfeld Stain

Much of what has happened to the military on his watch has been catastrophic. In Iraq, more than 1,600 American troops have died and many thousands have been maimed in a war that Mr. Rumsfeld mishandled from the beginning and still has no idea how to win. The generals are telling us now that the U.S. is likely to be bogged down in Iraq for years, and there are whispers circulating about the possibility of "defeat."
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The military spent decades rebuilding its reputation and regaining the respect of the vast majority of the American people after the debacle in Vietnam. Under Mr. Rumsfeld, that hard-won achievement is being reversed. He invaded Iraq with too few troops, and too many of them were poorly trained and inadequately equipped. The stories about American troops dying on the battlefield because of a lack of protective armor have now been widely told.

The insurgency in Iraq appeared to take Mr. Rumsfeld completely by surprise. He expected to win the war in a walk. Or, perhaps, a strut.

Now the military is in a fix. Many of the troops have served multiple tours in Iraq and are weary. The insurgency remains strong, and the Iraq military has proved to be a disappointing ally.

A senior American officer, quoted last week in The Times, said that while he still believed the effort in Iraq would succeed, it could take "many years."

As if all this were not enough, there is also the grotesque and deeply shameful issue that will always be a part of Mr. Rumsfeld's legacy - the manner in which American troops have treated prisoners under their control in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. There is no longer any doubt that large numbers of troops responsible for guarding and interrogating detainees somehow loosed their moorings to humanity, and began behaving as sadists, perverts and criminals.

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Hallelujah!

Some Christians seeking to put the Christ back in American Christianity (and taking out the Bush... not that Bushianity won't be the next big thing)

Bush gets mixed reception at Christian college

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Reuters) - President Bush on Saturday championed faith in American society, but ran into some criticism as courted his Christian base in a commencement speech at a Michigan college.
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But anti-Bush ads that ran in the local newspaper, protests outside the event and buttons worn on graduates' robes made clear that many students and faculty objected to Bush's policies.

"We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq," said a letter signed by about one-third the college's 300 faculty members and published in Saturday's Grand Rapids Press.

"As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers and to initiate war only as a last resort," it said.

The letter criticized economic policies that it said favored the wealthy over the poor, and faulted Bush for mixing religion and politics and exhibiting and "intolerance" for others' views.

It cited "conflicts between our understanding of what Christians are called to do and many of the policies of your administration."

Enough to restore my faith in faith (well no - but I thought that was a cute sentence).

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Ha

Daily Kos :: Senate: Galloway who?

The website for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has removed testimony from UK MP George Galloway from its website.

All other witness testimonies for the hearings on the Oil for Food scandal are available on the Committee's website in PDF form. But Galloway's testimony is the only document not on the site.

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Sign

Not that the irreparable harm to system of government wouldn't be exciting water cooler confersation.

Emergency Petition to Save the Courts

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John Marburger Now looking for another job

Creation Museum Sparks Evolution Debate

Among Ham's beliefs are that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, a figure arrived at by tracing the biblical genealogies, and not 4.5 billion years, as mainstream scientists say; the Grand Canyon was formed not by erosion over millions of years, but by floodwaters in a matter of days or weeks and that dinosaurs and man once coexisted, and dozens of the creatures - including Tyrannosaurus Rex - were passengers on the ark built by Noah, who was a real man, not a myth.

Although the Creation Museum's full opening is still two years away, already a buzz is building.

"When that museum is finished, it's going to be Cincinnati's No. 1 tourist attraction," says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, nationally known Baptist evangelist and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. "It's going to be a mini-Disney World."

Respected groups such as the National Science Board, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association strongly support the theory of evolution. John Marburger, the Bush administration's science adviser, has said, "Evolution is a cornerstone of modern biology."

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