Tucker Carlson Terrorism

(he calls blowing up a ship and murdering an innocent "vandalism" )

Fire Tucker Carlson

Washington, United states — Greenpeace is a global organization which celebrates freedom of expression. So why is our executive director, John Passacantando, calling for NBC to fire Tucker Carlson?

From "The Situation with Tucker Carlson,”
MSNBC, June 22, 2005

CARLSON: I am objectively pro-France. You know, France blew up the Rainbow Warrior, that Greenpeace ship in Auckland Harbor in the '80s. And I've always respected them...

MADDOW: That made you like them?

CARLSON: Yes. Yes. It won me over.

Passacantando and Carlson Talk

TC: Your letter is wrong. It was vandalism, not terrorism…Your point that I support terrorism is wrong. I don’t support terrorism. It was not an act of terrorism, that is an important distinction. Since you are the head of Greenpeace you should do your research. The French government did not intend to kill anyone, therefore it is not terrorism. This is an important distinction. Vandalizing the ship was impressive on France’s part. I don’t support terror.

JP: Bombing a ship is terrorism. Killing a man is murder.

TC: You should know about vandalism, you guys engage in it all the time.

JP: We are a peaceful organization that does not engage in violence to people or property.

TC: Spraying paint on seals is the same kind of vandalism, blocking entrances with your bodies…
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TC: I am not hanging up. I am returning the handset to the cradle…

Yet again Jon Stewart is proven right Tucker Carlson is a dick.

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GOP defends people who try to prevent voting.
Why does the GOP hate freedom?

GOP Paying Legal Bills of Bush Official

WASHINGTON -- Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.

James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four felonies accusing him of conspiring with a state GOP official and a GOP consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks in November 2002.
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Since charges were first filed in December, the RNC has spent more than $722,000 to provide Tobin, who has pleaded innocent, a team of lawyers from the high-powered Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly.
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The Republican Party has repeatedly and pointedly disavowed any tactics aimed at keeping citizens from voting since allegations of voter suppression surfaced during the Florida recount in 2000 that tipped the presidential race to Bush.

Earlier this week, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, the former White House political director, reiterated a "zero-tolerance policy" for any GOP official caught trying to block legitimate votes.

"The position of the Republican National Committee is simple: We will not tolerate fraud; we will not tolerate intimidation; we will not tolerate suppression. No employee, associate or any person representing the Republican Party who engages in these kinds of acts will remain in that position," Mehlman wrote Monday to a group that studied voter suppression tactics.

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Dear Leader’s Paper Moon
The Washington Times considers North Korea a “gulag state.” But funny thing: The paper’s owner considers it a great place to do business.

The article starts like this:

“[The Reverend Sun Myung] Moon’s speeches foresee an apocalyptic confrontation involving the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and North and South Korea, in which the Moon Organization would play a key role. Under these circumstances, the subcommittee believes it is in the interest of the United States to know what control Moon and his followers have over instruments of war and to what extent they are in a position to in?uence Korean defense policies.”
-- U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee report, “Investigation of Korean-American Relations,” October 31, 1978

Several years ago, the communist dictator of North Korea decided to send a birthday gift to a special friend. The gift was a rare ginseng root, and the recipient, given the ideology of the sender, may seem at ?rst blush to be a surprise: the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, self-proclaimed messiah and proud owner of Washington’s ?agship right-wing newspaper, The Washington Times.

Then it gets even better.

A great article by the host of: Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon?

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I've read about this before, its an interesting part of history that never seems to get mentioned, much like the history of the Bonus Army (which is also mentioned in the piece)

1933: Attempted Coup Against the President of the USA

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Affair charge rocks cleric

The Archdiocese of New York is looking into explosive allegations that a top priest who publicly railed against our "sex-saturated society" had a long-term affair with his married church secretary.

Why anyone would be surprised is surprising.

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Daily Kos: Bush 393,000 Average Jobs per Year; Clinton 2.9 Million

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It's Too Darn Hot
It's Too Darn Hot

Warming hits 'tipping point'
Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting

Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres - the size of France and Germany combined - has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

The area, which covers the entire sub-Arctic region of western Siberia, is the world's largest frozen peat bog and scientists fear that as it thaws, it will release billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere.

It is a scenario climate scientists have feared since first identifying "tipping points" - delicate thresholds where a slight rise in the Earth's temperature can cause a dramatic change in the environment that itself triggers a far greater increase in global temperatures.

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein

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Register with the Pentagon to be free

How 'free' will our 'Freedom Walk' be?

Indeed, the event's organizers (Rumsfeld's Defense Department) have set up an online registration form that explains, "The Freedom Walk is free and open to anyone who registers…. You MUST have your registration number to check-in!"

That's right, in order to participate in a government-sponsored "Freedom Walk" on public streets past public monuments, from one outdoor public landmark to another, you have to give your name address, phone number, and email address to the Pentagon.

Perhaps, you're thinking, there are security concerns. Maybe, but that's not a good reason to "screen" people who want to participate in this walk. DC hosts elaborate 4th of July festivities, with thousands of people going to the exact same places this walk will go, but no one is screened or forced to register. For that matter, people can watch a presidential inauguration and/or inaugural parade in DC just by showing up.

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The free Iraq George Created: Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group and Replaced

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 9 - Armed men entered Baghdad's municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city's mayor and installed a member of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia.

The deposed mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, who was not in his offices at the time, recounted the events in a telephone interview on Tuesday and called the move a municipal coup d'état. He added that he had gone into hiding for fear of his life.

"This is the new Iraq," said Mr. Tamimi, a secular engineer with no party affiliation. "They use force to achieve their goal."

Wow, that is pretty much how it works here in America. Just change "powerful Shiite militia" to "GOP" and "armed men" to "Karl Rove."

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"It's Your Money "
hahahahahahahahahahahaha - cough Sorry.

Pet projects make roads bill a real Lulu of excess

Motorists will pay at the pump to finance:

• $223 million for a bridge linking Ketchikan, Alaska, to an offshore island where only 50 people live.

• $231 million for another locally controversial bridge linking Anchorage to an undeveloped point of land nearby — a bridge the bill names "Don Young's Way," for the Alaska congressman and Transportation Committee chairman who pulled off the boondoggle.

• $5.8 million for a snowmobile trail in Vermont.
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Congress once behaved better. In 1914, the House of Representatives adopted a rule prohibiting legislation funding specific roads, leaving those decisions to professionals. The ban has never been revoked, just ignored.

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Hate the sin, love the sinner, and damn their innocent children to Hell: New slogan in the Canadian Catholic church

The sins of the fathers

Once Canada’s same-sex marriage bill becomes law, Cardinal Marc Ouellet announced, the church could refuse to baptize children of gay parents.
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By now, I’ve long grown used to the hypocritical stance of the Catholic Church toward gay people; Benedict XVI’s latest pronouncements roll off my back just like the bluster of blowhard Jerry Falwell.

But denying children the rite of baptism, which is the first sacrament in the church and symbolically opens the door to enable a person to have a relationship with God, is something entirely different.
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The child of a drug addict can be baptized. The child of a murderer can be baptized. Even the illegitimate child of a fornicating priest can be baptized (and if you’ve studied Catholic history, you know many children of wayward clergy grew up to be cardinals and even popes).

All these children are considered worthy before God. The only exception Cardinal Ouellet and his church would make, based on the circumstance of their birth alone, is the child of a same-sex couple who have made a legal life commitment to one another.

When was the age of enlightment?

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Good God: Helping Boys Become Men, and Girls Become Women: Is My Child Becoming Homosexual?

Evidences of gender confusion or doubt in boys ages 5 to 11 may include:

1. A strong feeling that they are “different” from other boys.

2. A tendency to cry easily, be less athletic, and dislike the roughhousing that other boys enjoy.

3. A persistent preference to play female roles in make-believe play.

4. A strong preference to spend time in the company of girls and participate in their games and other pastimes.

Sounds like he's practicing on being one of them "sensative" types that gets all the chicks in college.

This all sounds funny, but it is also horribly sad - when a dad slaps his boy until the boy died because he didn't want his son to be a sissy and was worried his son might be gay.

This is fear and hate mongering - not family counciling.

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Coming soon to Sex ed in Montgomery County Maryland: Why gays are icky

Turning off gays

July 18, 2005 | Last month, the Montgomery County Board of Education in suburban Maryland settled a lawsuit over sex education in the county's public schools, brought in part by PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays). The group is a branch of a national network of "ministries" that claim homosexuality is a chosen and dangerous lifestyle, and that through "reparative therapy" a gay person can be turned straight -- into an "ex-gay."

PFOX won a restraining order in May and successfully halted the county's new sex ed curriculum, intended, among other things, to promote tolerance toward gays by treating homosexuality as natural and benign. A judge concluded the school curriculum did exclude other views on homosexuality -- namely, those of PFOX. Under the settlement last month, the county agreed to pay $36,000 of PFOX's legal expenses. The group also gets a seat at the table in drafting a new sex ed curriculum for county schools.

Emphasis mine.

You know they probably should include even more views on homosexuality such as the views of some that homosexuality leads to superhuman powers (there is a lot of evidence to back that up too: Wonder Woman, Batman, etc. etc.)

I actually had sex ed. in Montgomery County schools. In 5th grade my teacher took all the boys aside as part of the sex ed "class" and proceeded to tell how her son screamed bloody murder when he was circumcized and that boys shouldn't put their hands in their front pockets because it was evil and wrong. No seriously, true story. To this day I don't put my hands in my front pockets no matter how cold it is outside (well actually I do, but I feel bad about it).

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Who's this bud for?

GOP, Dems argue over beer money

In April, Anheuser-Busch Co. -- based in St. Louis, Missouri -- wrote a $5,000 check intended for the state Republican Party.

Instead, the envelope was addressed to the state Democratic Party, which promptly deposited the money.

Now, state GOP leaders say the South Carolina Democratic Party needs to return the beer money they are owed.

Democrats say the check is in the mail.

I don't really have anything to add, but I hope when the GOP gets the funds they at least invite some of the Dems over to the Kegger.

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Bush is not a Christian

Romans 12: Exhortations for Christian Living

14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend [3] to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

And don't say I'm being naive - that's actually good military advice. If we extend the effort at the very beginning of the occupation to employ, to provide health care, to keep the peace (freedom is messy says Rummy as he loots his kitchen fridge - what an ass) we would be in immensely better shape now.

Love is good strategy. Before the Tsunami people of the area were strongly anti-American - after the doctors, the volunteers, the supplies that came in boxes from America - the perception was turned around

For the first time ever in a Muslim nation since 9/11, support for Osama Bin Laden has dropped significantly (58% favorable to just 23%).

65% of Indonesians now are more favorable to the United States because of the American response to the tsunami, with the highest percentage among people under 30.

Those youths are much less likely to become anti-American terrorists in the future.

So here's the lesson:

Invade Iraq: kill thousands, kill our own troops, make the world less secure, bring up a whole new generation of terrorists.
Act with Kindness and concern to people without reservation: Save lives, Make America safer, make the world safer, lower the number of terrorists in the future.

And yet we now live in a country where espoucing the above will get you called unamerican and unchristian, yet following the above advice and make america safer is supporting terrorism.

Helping others is good strategy and is also hardwired into how we are as humans.

Reading Your Baby's Mind

One of the earliest emotions that even tiny babies display is, admirably enough, empathy. In fact, concern for others may be hard-wired into babies' brains. Plop a newborn down next to another crying infant, and chances are, both babies will soon be wailing away. "People have always known that babies cry when they hear other babies cry," says Martin Hoffman, a psychology professor at New York University who did the first studies on infant empathy in the 1970s. "The question was, why are they crying?" Does it mean that the baby is truly concerned for his fellow human, or just annoyed by the racket? A recent study conducted in Italy, which built on Hoffman's own work, has largely settled the question. Researchers played for infants tapes of other babies crying. As predicted, that was enough to start the tears flowing. But when researchers played babies recordings of their own cries, they rarely began crying themselves. The verdict: "There is some rudimentary empathy in place, right from birth," Hoffman says. The intensity of the emotion tends to fade over time. Babies older than 6 months no longer cry but grimace at the discomfort of others. By 13 to 15 months, babies tend to take matters into their own hands. They'll try to comfort a crying playmate. "What I find most charming is when, even if the two mothers are present, they'll bring their own mother over to help," Hoffman says.

We are in the age of the big lie; where many in the media and much of our government espouse a Christianity that isn't Christian, support a national security policy that endangers and weakens us, and display a lack of concern for others that is inhuman.

People honestly believe that Bush can willingly lie to start a war slaughtering thousands of innocents but will still get into heaven solely because he "says" he found Christ in his heart (which I guess is an easy search, his heart being so small), while people like me who support peaceful approaches (and sometimes they don't work, and yes sometimes force is necessary, but suprisingly infrequently) will go to hell because we are not "Christian." Like, whatever dude.

Have we become sick?

Struggle goes to core of ‘who we are’

WASHINGTON — There is a quiet struggle going on in the nation’s capital, and the stakes are the very soul of the Republican Party and this administration.

Three senior Republican senators wrote a small amendment into the defense appropriations bill this summer that outlawed cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of all detainees in American custody.

No one can call Republican Sens. John Warner of Virginia, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina soft on anything, much less terrorism. They constitute the Republican leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee. All three have worn the uniform of our country.

The Bush White House is doing all that it can to stop this legislation from passing.

That isn't for the soul of the Republican party, it is for the soul of America.

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It's not about news - its entertainment - A great Sunday night show

Greta Van Susteren Cleans Up in Aruba

NEW YORK (AP) - Bringing a microphone and camera crew to the gates of an Aruba landfill this past week, Greta Van Susteren returned to the island that her nightly Fox News Channel program has figuratively called home recently. Van Susteren's "On the Record" has relentlessly followed the mysterious disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Alabama while on a graduation trip to Aruba in May.

Critics find it an obsession bordering on the bizarre, twisting traditional notions of news judgment and becoming Exhibit A in the media's fascination with missing people - as long as they happen to be young, white, female and pretty.

But while doing this, Van Susteren has been rewarded with her biggest audiences since making the switch from CNN three years ago.
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"I'm always happy when the viewers are happy," Van Susteren said. "I obviously don't program for the people in the newsroom or my friends or the people I went to law school with. I program for the viewers."

News isn't informing the viewers, news isn't educating the viewers, news is all about what the viewers want: Dead girls in Aruba. Van Susteren is a vulture. (no offense to the Holloway family though, I wish everything could work out for them, I hope there is hope)

Maybe we should all just turn off cable news and watch Network instead:

I love it. Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hitmen, automobile smash-ups: "The Death Hour." A great Sunday night show for the whole family. It'd wipe that fuckin' Disney right off the air.

Another great quote.

I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. The way I see the series is: Each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism taken on the spot, in the actual moment. Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage. That's your job, Ms. Hobbs. You've got to get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network can't deal with them directly; they are, after all, wanted criminals.

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Raise your hand if you are surprised!

Raise your hand if you are an idiot! (wait - don't take down your hand)

9/11 Group Says White House Has Not Provided Files

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - The White House has failed to turn over any of the information requested by the 10 members of the disbanded Sept. 11 commission in their renewed, unofficial investigation into whether the government is doing enough to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil, commission members said.

The members said that the Bush administration's lack of cooperation was hindering a project that was otherwise nearly complete.

Thomas H. Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey who led the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission, said he was surprised and disappointed that the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other executive branch agencies had failed to respond to requests made two months ago for updated information on the government's antiterrorism programs.

Kean actually isn't an idiot... he just plays that whole "surprise" bit because he's a smart republican politician, saying "but I'm not surprised Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about our national security," might not be helpful to any future plans he may have, though it would be the truth.

"It's very disappointing," Mr. Kean said of the administration's failure to cooperate with the group. "All we're trying to do is make the public safer."

Oh, wait he did just say "Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about our national security," he just said it in polispeak.

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So underneath their gruff exteriors lay sad little boys just wanting to wear comfortable shoes?

Men overcompensate when masculinity threatened

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher.

"I found that if you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to support the Iraq War more and would be more willing to purchase an SUV over another type of vehicle," said Robb Willer, a sociology doctoral candidate at Cornell. Willer is presenting his findings Aug. 15 at the American Sociological Association's 100th annual meeting in Philadelphia.

"Masculine overcompensation is the idea that men who are insecure about their masculinity will behave in an extremely masculine way as compensation.

Is anyone suprised or do you honestly think that the guys didn't know what the wordHummer was slang for when they came up with a nick name for the Humvee (second definition(s))?

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What's old is new again

Iraqis Accuse Kuwait of Stealing Oil

Does that headline sound familiar? Oh yeah, that's what Saddam used to say before he invaded Kuwait - it was his excuse really. I guess Iraq is returning to normal.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi legislators accused Kuwait of stealing their oil as well as chipping away at their national territory on the border -- allegations similar to those used by Saddam Hussein to justify his invasion of Kuwait that began 15 years ago Tuesday.

An Iraqi delegation was scheduled to head to Kuwait on Wednesday discuss the incidents along the Kuwaiti border

''There have been violations such as digging horizontal oil wells to pump Iraq oil,'' legislator Jawad al-Maliki, chairman of the parliament's Security and Defense Committee, told the National Assembly on Tuesday.

In such horizontal wells, instead of drilling straight down, Kuwaitis would drill at an angle either going into subterranean Iraqi territory or sucking oil out of pools from Iraqi territory. He also said Kuwaitis have taken territories up to half a mile inside Iraq.

The angeled drilling was the same thing Saddam complained about too.

But remember Kuwait is our friend and is a monarchy and has no freedom and we're in Iraq to free the Iraqi's and - oh the hell with it.

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OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster...

It is for this reason that I’m writing you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught in your schools, along with the other two theories. In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you do not agree to do this, we will be forced to proceed with legal action. I’m sure you see where we are coming from. If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.

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ummmm... I had a post here.... but now it is gone.

Oh well.... I'll be posting here again more regularly later this week, in the meantime here's some good advice from The Flaming Lips.

Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
The best they can
- Waitin' for Superman / Flaming Lips

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