The Political Atlas

Tune in tonight at 7:00pm Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) for The Political Atlas with your host Charlie Kensil.

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The Time Has Come on OpEdNews.com

November 25, 2007

The Time Has Come
by Brian Wolf
http://www.opednews.com/

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

(read the entire article)

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Fight them there... well, you know how that goes...

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The Best of... on Shakedown Street

Be sure to tune in for tonight's broadcast of Shakedown Street, where Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf will be presenting a rebroadcast of his interview with Dan Barker of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (original air date: 06/17/2007)) at 4:00pm Pacific Time (-05:00 GMT).

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Head Man's Mess

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Live!

Today I will be broadcasting Live from America's Highways and Byways with the assistance of my colleague and friend, Saint Lisa Litchfield. That's today at 10:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) on Situation Awareness.

At 11:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) tune in for a Best of... rebroadcast of premier broadcast of The Free World Pub (original air date: 08/11/2007). Be sure to tune in.

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Giving Thanks... and Remembering

While giving thanks for all we have let us remember this date, 44 years ago, and be thankful that, for a thousand days America was led by John F. Kennedy.

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Two Years Since Murtha's Call

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Click here for original post on The Gavel.

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Giving Thanks

Join host Lisa Litchfield as she talks about The Art of Giving on tonight's broadcast of Cry Freedom at 7:00pm Central Time (-06:00 GMT).

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Fox News Porn

For more information visit Fox News Porn dot com.

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None of the Above on Shakedown Street

Join Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf as he interviews William H. White, Director of Voters for None of the Above on today's broadcast of Shakedown Street at 4:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT).

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From the "You can't make this up" category

This, from the official White House Web site:

BUSH: If anybody were to come to this center, they would have to leave inspired and thankful, inspired by the servicemen and women who are recovering from wounds with such courage; thankful that there are instructors and preachers and volunteers who are helping these people get back on their feet...

Thanks to Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 314 for originally posting this gem.

Nope, you can't make this up!

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Today...

... on my program, Situation Awareness: Giving Thanks for All We Have. That's at 10:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT).

Then, at 11:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT), The Free World Pub opens its doors.

That's today on the Free World Radio Network.

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News Update: Change

Regular readers of this blog are familiar with Hans' News Feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News).

While I will continue updating the news feed daily I will be discontinuing this daily update.

My news feed will continued to be featured on the home page of the Free World Radio Network, and is accessible on my personal site, HansMeyer.net.

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Viewing the Bush Administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt

Bush strategist looks back in sadness

By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 14, 2007

Matthew Dowd knows sorrow and loss. He has been divorced twice. A daughter died two months after she was born. And then there is the added heartbreak -- a word he uses -- of his split with President Bush. Dowd, 46, is one of the nation's leading political strategists, a onetime Democrat who switched sides to help put Bush in the White House, then win a second term. He spent years shaping and promoting Bush's policies -- policies that Dowd now views with a mixture of anguish and contempt. (read the entire article)

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The Political Atlas with Charlie Kensil

Tune in at 7:00pm Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) for tonight's broadcast of The Political Atlas with your host, Charlie Kensil.

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Yankee, Go Home

In the Mideast, America Casts an Imperial Shadow
By Rashid Khalidi
Sunday, November 11, 2007; Page B03

Most Americans think that our role as a world power began with World War II, the "good war," and then continued with the similarly noble Cold War. We like to think that the United States acts in the world exclusively in the name of ideals such as freedom and democracy. So it may come as a bit of a shock to learn that the United States has had an uninterrupted military presence in the Middle East for 65 years, dating to 1942. Most Americans would also bristle at the idea that this presence, from the arrival of GIs in North Africa onward, has essentially become a continuation of nearly a century and a half of European military adventures in the region. But history shows a disturbing continuity between what the European colonial powers did in the Middle East, starting with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, and what the United States is now doing in Iraq and elsewhere. Indeed, the United States has managed in a few short years to do more damage in the region than did the hated colonial powers that were finally driven out only a few decades ago. (read the entire article)

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November 14 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Up on deck today we have Bush’s senseless veto of education, healthcare funding (yep, "compassionate conservative").

We definitely need this: IslamoHorowitzism Awareness Week

And, from the of-course-they-do closet there's Right-wing blogs ignore facts to claim ‘liberal bias.’

Happy National Pickle Day!

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Mr. Bean's War On Christmas: Nativity Battle Division

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Special Edition of Shakedown Street

At 5:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT) Blog Talk Radio Featured Host, Brian Wolf, interviews Sean E. Summers, Attorney at Law, representing the family of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder in their successful litigation against Fred Phelps and certain members of the Westboro Baptist Church on this special edition of Shakedown Street.

(This broadcast was rescheduled for today due to technical difficulties last week.)

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Reagan and Racism

November 13, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Righting Reagan’s Wrongs?
By BOB HERBERT

Let’s set the record straight on Ronald Reagan’s campaign kickoff in 1980. Early one morning in the late spring of 1964, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, her husband, Robert, and their 17-year-old son, David, said goodbye to David’s brother, Andrew, who was 20. They hugged in the family’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Andrew left. He was on his way to the racial hell of Mississippi to join in the effort to encourage local blacks to register and vote. It was a dangerous mission, and Andrew’s parents were reluctant to let him go. But the family had always believed strongly in equal rights and the benefits of social activism. “I didn’t have the right,” Dr. Goodman would tell me many years later, “to tell him not to go.” After a brief stopover in Ohio, Andrew traveled to the town of Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a vicious white-supremacist stronghold. Just days earlier, members of the Ku Klux Klan had firebombed a black church in the county and had beaten terrified worshipers. Andrew would not survive very long. On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. Their bodies wouldn’t be found until August. All had been murdered, shot to death by whites enraged at the very idea of people trying to secure the rights of African-Americans. The murders were among the most notorious in American history. They constituted Neshoba County’s primary claim to fame when Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1980. The case was still a festering sore at that time. Some of the conspirators were still being protected by the local community. And white supremacy was still the order of the day. That was the atmosphere and that was the place that Reagan chose as the first stop in his general election campaign. The campaign debuted at the Neshoba County Fair in front of a white and, at times, raucous crowd of perhaps 10,000, chanting: “We want Reagan! We want Reagan!” Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, “I believe in states’ rights.” Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable. Commentators have been trying of late to put this appearance by Reagan into a racially benign context. That won’t wash. Reagan may have been blessed with a Hollywood smile and an avuncular delivery, but he was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon. Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair. Whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans — they all knew. The news media knew. The race haters and the people appalled by racial hatred knew. And Reagan knew. He was tapping out the code. It was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you. And Reagan meant it. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered. As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. And in 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. Congress overrode the veto. Reagan also vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Congress overrode that veto, too. Throughout his career, Reagan was wrong, insensitive and mean-spirited on civil rights and other issues important to black people. There is no way for the scribes of today to clean up that dismal record. To see Reagan’s appearance at the Neshoba County Fair in its proper context, it has to be placed between the murders of the civil rights workers that preceded it and the acknowledgment by the Republican strategist Lee Atwater that the use of code words like “states’ rights” in place of blatantly bigoted rhetoric was crucial to the success of the G.O.P.’s Southern strategy. That acknowledgment came in the very first year of the Reagan presidency. Ronald Reagan was an absolute master at the use of symbolism. It was one of the primary keys to his political success. The suggestion that the Gipper didn’t know exactly what message he was telegraphing in Neshoba County in 1980 is woefully wrong-headed. Wishful thinking would be the kindest way to characterize it.

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November 13 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

No doubt Olberman could repeat this each week: Countdown’s Worst Persons: Clueless Republicans Edition

And, along the same lines there's Conservatives Are Stupid (Newsbusters Edition)

Next up: What’s a day without a Republican sex scandal? Next up: Ozwald Balfour!

“Media Watchdog” Brent Bozell Criticizes Movie He Admits He Never Saw (isn't that the usual MO?)

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Government sidesteps morality, accountability

Torture and Profit
Government sidesteps morality, accountability
By Andy Opel
Originally published November 13, 2007

While in Canada recently, I saw the new film “Rendition” about the same time I watched Condoleezza Rice testify about the U.S. government policy of extraordinary rendition. Here is a basic summary of real life: The U.S. government has a program in which foreign nationals suspected of terrorist connections can be secretly detained and flown to countries around the world that are known to practice torture. The CIA then works with local interrogators, who perform the actual torture. The documented torture techniques include beating, electrical shocks and waterboarding. And, yes, waterboarding is torture according to our laws, going as far back as 1902. In the Hollywood version, Omar Metwally plays Omar El-Ibrahimi, an Egyptian-born engineer who is married to Reese Witherspoon's character and lives happily in Michigan with their child. This American dream is burst when El-Ibrahimi is detained while returning home from a business trip in South Africa. The film then details the torture he endures in an unidentified North African prison while a CIA officer, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, supervises the interrogation. The scenes are graphic and disturbing, but in the classic Hollywood tradition, the injustice is corrected and audience members can leave the theater relieved that the wrongly accused were tortured for only a short time. Unfortunately for audience members and U.S. citizens, the real story is not a happy ending and the process depicted in the film continues day after day, paid for by our tax dollars and supported by government policy. The night after viewing the film, I watched Rice testify before the House Foreign Relations Committee about Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained in New York, flown to Syria and tortured for 10 months before being released without charge. The film “Rendition” is said to be loosely based on the Arar case, so the timing of was particularly chilling. All Secretary of State Rice was willing to admit was that the U.S. “mishandled” the case, and that the U.S. does not send people to countries where they will be tortured. The Canadian government has apologized and paid Arar $10 million for its role in working with U.S. officials. The U.S. continues to keep Arar on a do-not-fly list and refuses to let him into this country to visit his extended family. Time magazine in April named Arar one of the 100 most influential people, and Jimmy Carter cites Arar's story in his 2005 book, “Our Endangered Values.” The blurring of fact and fiction between the film and Rice's statements raises troubling questions for Americans who still believe in the rule of law. Why would we send a Canadian citizen to Syria when we often refer to Syria as part of the axis of evil? How many other people have been “disappeared”? Who are the companies involved in this process and how many of our tax dollars are going into the pockets of private contractors hired to fly terror suspects to torture destinations? What we do know is that Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a Boeing subsidiary, has flown more than 70 flights for the CIA. Closer to home, The New York Times reports that a Florida-based company, Presidential Aviation, leased the Gulfstream III jet that flew Arar from the U.S. to Syria on Oct. 2, 2002. The flight is estimated to have cost the U.S. government more than $100,000. By using private jets, the CIA is able to evade scrutiny of public officials and leave families wondering, “Where did Dad go?” because the other side of this story is the wall of government denial that families face when they try to understand where their husbands and fathers have gone. The work of Jeppesen, Presidential Aviation and others who are accepting money to serve this program is a new form of war profiteering, what we can now call torture profiteering. As we privatize the war and allow more transactions to occur that are outside the reach of public accountability, we see new levels of complicity with illegal and immoral government policies. These are not the actions of civilized people leading the world toward a more democratic future. Secrecy, denial, torture and international detention are the hallmarks of dictatorships, governments we spent the 20th century fighting to overthrow. To abandon the rule of law during during trying times is to admit a fundamental weakness in our justice system. If we can honor civil rights only during times of peace, then we are no better than the tyrants and butchers who rule through fear and pain. We have a choice in these matters, and the choice begins with calling our own government to account and holding everyone to the rule of law, including the president. (read the original article) Andy Opel is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Florida State University. He is working on a book, "Preempting Dissent," about the changing contours of civil society. Contact him at aopel@fsu.edu.

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NOTE: Dr. Opel is scheduled to appear on the December 1st broadcast of Situation Awareness.

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Cry Freedom Tonight

Join host Lisa Litchfield as she explains why Goodwin Is Wrong.

That's tonight at 7:00pm Central Time (-06:00 GMT) on Cry Freedom.

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Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War

Curveball, Swing and A Miss

By George F. Will
Sunday, November 11, 2007; B07

From the article:

But others became invested in Curveball's credibility, and soon they could not back down without risking personal mortification and institutional disgrace -- both of which came, of course, after the invasion. Then some of Curveball's Iraqi acquaintances were located and identified him as a "congenital liar" who was not a scientist but a taxi driver.

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November 12 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Honoring those who served with:

• Giving Vets Their Due


• Anti-war Iraq vets banned from Veterans Day parade.


• The VA's Claim Dodge

The gift which keeps on giving: Giuliani Buddy On Wrong Side of Law. Again.

From the obvious file: Krugman v Brooks and Reagan’s ‘Mistaken’ Legacy of Racism.

And, if it is Monday it is time for another Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 314.

Happy National Pizza With Everything (Except Anchovies) Day!

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Bob Schieffer’s Commentary On Pat Robertson, God And Rudy Giuliani

Original post on Crooks and Liars

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November 11 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Once again, Oliver Willis picks a good one with Ronald Reagan's Racism.

Chaos is the plan (part of the drown-it-in-a-bathtub plan).

Getting Myself Into Trouble Again (Way to go, Rev. Darko!).

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Today on Shakedown Street

Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf welcomes Actor, Musician, Writer and Producer Bill Mumy on today's broadcast of Shakedown Street, at 4:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT).

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"Pants-pisser" defined

It is said that a "pants-pisser" is someone so afraid of something that they urinate on themselves. You can easily spot them: They're the people who exaggerate easily identified and understood threats, elevating them to mythic status. They're like a child who overhears a frightening news story on the television and translates that into the boogeyman under the bed or in the closet.

An example of a "pants-pisser" in action will easily illustrate this point. Here's a post by "bowa," on the blog, The Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs:

"I beleive (sic) that Islamo-fascism is as great a threat to the US and the World as Nazism and Communism was last century." Posted by bowa at 2007-11-10 10:21 PM

Paul Krugman does an excellent job of dispelling the whole "Islamofascism" nonsense:

For one thing, there isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The term came into vogue only because it was a way for Iraq hawks to gloss over the awkward transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t. And Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 — in fact, the Iranian regime was quite helpful to the United States when it went after Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan. (read the entire article)

But more importantly, in the same article Krugman sarcastically answers these "pants-pissers" directly:

Yep, a bunch of lightly armed terrorists ... pose a greater danger than Hitler’s panzers or the Soviet nuclear arsenal ever did. All of this would be funny if it weren’t so serious.

Do you suppose "pants-pissers" like "bowa" understand what Krugman is saying?

Or do they actually enjoy the feeling of urine in their pants?

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November 10 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Two stories on the same important subject: CA Health Insurer Paid Big Bonuses For Cancelling Sick Policyholders and How Sicko: HeathNet Awards Bonuses For Dropping Ill Patients.

In a classic Clinton Deflection (Bill, that is): Giuliani blames Clinton for overstretched military (who does the morally challenged, cross-dressing, adulterous, thrice-married Republican Rudy Giuliani think has been president for the past seven years?).

Michelle Malkin Is Clearly Too Dumb To Breathe (of course she is).

Rest in peace, Norman Mailer.

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Highlights from the first 100 broadcasts

Today's broadcast of the Free World Pub was a very special occasion. I want to thank my friends Rev. Damien Darko, Lisa Litchfield, Brian Wolf, Charlie Kensil and Michael Silliman for making it so memorable.

Here are some of the highlights from the network's first 100 broadcasts:

Debut shows: The Dark Side on 03/03/2007 Cry Freedom on 04/28/2007 Shakedown Street on 05/06/2007 Situation Awareness on 05/18/2007 The Free World Pub on 08/11/2007 The Political Atlas on 10/26/2007 =============== Top 5 Rated Broadcasts: 5. Cry Freedom on 11/06/2007 Special Guest: Mike Farrell 1,092 listeners 4. The Dark Side on 05/25/2007 The Other Side of The Dark Side 1,130 listeners 3. Shakedown Street on 05/27/2007 Who is the Dalai Lama? 1,387 listeners 2. The Dark Side on 05/11/2007 The Dark Side will keep you safe 1,502 listeners 1. The Dark Side on 05/18/2007 The Dark Side Blazes Up 1,662 listeners =============== FWRN Firsts: 05/04/2007 The first guest host (Hans Meyer on The Dark Side) 05/25/2007 The first interview (Randy Wooden on The Dark Side) 07/13/2007 The first on-location broadcast (The Dark Side of Conformity) 07/13/2007 The first co-host shows The Dark Side (Hans Meyer joins Rev. Damien Darko); and, 07/14/2007 Cry Freedom (Rev. Damien Darko joins Lisa Litchfield) =============== Guest Interviews: 05/25/2007 Randy Wooden on The Dark Side 06/17/2007 Dan Barker on Shakedown Street 06/22/2007 Peter David on The Dark Side 08/26/2007 Frank McEnulty on Shakedown Street 09/07/2007 Rogers Cadenhead on The Dark Side 09/23/2007 Professor Juan Cole on Shakedown Street 09/29/2007 Dr. John R. Moffett on Situation Awareness 10/07/2007 Joe Bageant on Shakedown Street 10/14/2007 Doug Hudson on Shakedown Street 11/04/2007 Dr. Kevin Barrett on Shakedown Street 11/06/2007 Mike Farrell on Cry Freedom

Additional information on these highlights can be found on the Free World Radio Network's About page, Highlights section, and the History and Archive page.

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100th Broadcast of the Free World Radio Network

Please join us today for the Free World Radio Network's 100th broadcast on the Free World Pub at 11:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT).

I'll be tending the bar, and will be joined by my colleagues and fellow hosts, Rev. Damien Darko, Saint Lisa Litchfield, Brian Wolf, Michael Silliman and Charlie Kensil.

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It was not only untrue, it was demonstrably untrue

Tom Tomorrow: The age of disinformation

One of the top stories on right wing talk radio yesterday (with mentions on NPR and in the New York Times) was the fact that Hillary Clinton did not leave a tip at a restaraunt. I suspect that this has now been enshrined into conventional wisdom on the right, and will be one of those anecdotes which the candidate will never, ever be rid of. Well, big effing surprise: like pretty much everything else you might hear on right wing talk radio, it was not only untrue, it was demonstrably untrue. It’s a strange age we live in. To paraphrase Mark Twain, in the time it takes the truth to boot up a browser for a Google search, a lie can circle the globe several times over.

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November 09 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Just when you though it was safe... O’Reilly’s Contrived ‘War On Christmas’ Is Back.

A Navy Interrogater: Waterboarding is torture! (why is it that everyone knows this... except for Bush and his apologists?)

The age of disinformation (which I will cover separately).

Mukasey's New Office a Big Splash hehehehe! (I already posted this!).

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Mukasey's New Office a Big Splash

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November 08 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

The Right-Wing Book Publishing Ponzi Scheme continues with Regnery.

Rogers Cadenhead weighs in on Dr. Paul's fundraising skills with Ron Paul: The $4.2 Million Dollar Man, with an additional comment Comment of the Day: Why Paul.

From the stating-the-obvious category there's Abstinence-only programs still don’t work.

And an interesting item from Slashfood: White Castle recipe contest winner.

Happy National Harvey Wallbanger Day!

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Two broadcasts tonight!

Tonight at 7:00pm Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) join host Charlie Kensil for News and Views by Charlie on The Political Atlas.

Then, at 5:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT) Blog Talk Radio Featured Host, Brian Wolf, interviews Sean E. Summers, Attorney at Law, representing the family of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder in their successful litigation against Fred Phelps and certain members of the Westboro Baptist Church on this special edition of Shakedown Street.

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Diet Water

You just knew this was bound to happen, sooner or later:

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November 07 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

(my news feed was missing yesterday due to the problems with Blogger)

First up today: A Good Night For Dems in 2 States and Virginia Is for Democrats (a sign of things to come 52 weeks from now?).

From the isn't-karma-wonderful category there's Right-Wing Book Publishing Ponzi Scheme Coming Apart.

Finally, there's Pat Boone Is Just So Goshdarn Butch.

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Last night, on Cry Freedom...

...host Lisa Litchfield interviewed actor, activist, writer and biker Mike Farrell.

It was, without a doubt, a spectacular broadcast of Cry Freedom, Blog Talk Radio and the Free World Radio Network.

Congratulations, Lisa!

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Problems with Blogger

It would appear that the problems with Blogger, which started Monday evening, have been fixed.

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November 05 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

nTwo stories give us a glimpse into what we can expect next year: When In Last Place, Gay Bash (from Kentucky), and Anti-Gay Anti-Muslim Campaign Mailers in Virginia (different day, same sh*t from the party of "family values").

To answer the "waterboarding isn't torture" fairy tale there's Rights and Liberties: Waterboarding Used to be a Crime and McCain slams Giuliani’s waterboarding comments.

And, if it is Monday it is time for another Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 313.

Happy National Doughnut Day!

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Simple Answers To Unasked Questions

Of course waterboarding is "repugnant"

And that’s why they like it.

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November 04 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

The GOP campaign heats up with Fred Thompson put me back to sleep: Tries to explain his “bunch of kids with IED’s” comment LOL!

Bill Moyers on What’s Wrong With Our Media - Moyers always gets it right!

Rudy Giuliani Vs. Blacks (typical racist Republicans)

Happy National Candy Day!

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Today on Shakedown Street

Join Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf as he interviews Dr. Kevin Barrett, coordinator of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth on today's 4:00pm (-08:00 GMT) broadcast of Shakedown Street.

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300 in 3

This post is number 300 on this blog... in 3 months!

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An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said

Isn't It Interesting How War Supporters Always Want To "Move Past" How This Country Was Duped Into War? By Oliver Willis on November 3, 2007 1:56 AM Intriguing as hell, says I. The Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn't the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in Germany, a new report says. "Curveball" is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS' "60 Minutes," which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source. Although known publicly only by his code name, Curveball has been repeatedly discredited by investigations of the United States' faulty prewar intelligence and became an embarrassment to U.S. spy agencies. A presidential intelligence commission found that Curveball, who mostly told his stories to German intelligence officials who passed them on to the U.S., was a fabricator and an alcoholic. An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said. Perhaps this explains some of the skepticism about "Iran's nuclear program" by fifth columnists like myself?

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