Glenn Beck and NewsBusters Expose Global Warming Bullies

Last week, the BBC ran an article talking about how global temperatures haven't increased since 1998--an objective fact. But facts don't matter to the environmentalist wacko crowd. Angry about the article, an activist threatened the BBC reporter who caved almost immediately and censored himself.

Video is of NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard on the April 8, 2008 edition of "Glenn Beck" on CNN Headline News discussing media bias on global warming.

I can hear lefty heads exploding across the land as their lies become exposed, and you can expect their attempts at censorship to only increase. That is, until they can open their Stalinist Re-education Camps!

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(Blogburst) Morning Update

I'll be on the road for the best part of the day, so here is something to keep you occupied in my absence. A brief roundup of what's on teh intertubes, from the right and the left, and even (at the end) an enemy website:

WNC

Podcast Appalachia: "Mountain Religion"

Joe Dunn Speaks at Citizens for Change

Mumpower Stands Firm, Vindicated on Campaign Signage

Mumpower TV Ads

(the rest of you candidates should get an RSS Feed!)

Thought Experiments - Campbell, Armor, and Mumpower

Meeting Between Eastern Band, Cherokee Nation Broadcast on Web

Limbaugh Joins Earth First and the Merry Pranksters

Mad Tea Party: The Documentary

Gaze Into The Mind of a Moron

Brio Concert Series Presents The Opal String Quartet April 20



NC News

Michelle Obama Courts Voters for Obama

Catching Up With Phone Bills

Michelle Obama Visits Harrisburg

Richard's Pal by Ed Kennedy

Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick!

Stepping Up In America NC-03

Sublime, Meet Ridiculus

Bank Lending: Ka-Boom!

Obama on the Issues


National News

Bomb Squad Finds Explosive Device, Weapons in Home - Newton, MA

Video: 'The Palestinian' Candidate for President

Liberalosis: The Newsroom Disease

Obama Monkeys With Racism

Obama vs Obama

Why Wright's Outrages Don't Turn Off Obama Supporters

The slick trick behind global frauding

17 Iraq Combat Veterans Are Running for Congress as Republicans

World War IV News

US Intel Officials: al-Qaeda Nuclear Attack in Planning Stages

Iraq By The Numbers: April 2008

IED weapons making facility destroyed in Diyala

Saddam Transferred WMD's to Syria

Decline and Fall in Four Simple Steps

EUSSR Grows Bolder (sorry for linking to GoV twice)


The Battle Over Iraq

General Petraeus' Congressional Testimony

audio of above testimony

Ambassador Crocker's Congressional Testimony

Video: The Presidential Candidates Question Petraeus, Crocker on Iraq

Standing Down From Iraq Will Not Make the Iraqis More Likely to Stand Up

Crooks and Liars on Petraeus

Petraeus to Delay July Troop Withdrawals

McCain on Petraeus and Supporting the Troops

Secret Plan for US Troops to Stay in Iraq

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Emotional Maturity (Or Lack therof)

I found this quiz at Hillbilly Politics:

You Are 65% Grown Up, 35% Kid

Congratulations, you are definitely quite emotionally mature. Although you have your moments of moodiness, you're usually stable and level headed.

How Emotionally Mature Are You?

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Hendersonville Debate Is On

I'll mark it down as a point for the good doctor.

Check it out.

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Another Liberal Newspaper Cuts Employees

The "team" responsible for tossing litter onto my lawn every so often grew smaller today. Seattle Times to Cut Approximately 200 Employees via The Stranger "Seattle's Only Newspaper"

A memo just promulgated onto the web by the odious "Stranger" details the reasons for the mass sackings -- 45 from the newsroom. [Full text after the jump] The money shot is right up on top with

Our circumstances are in line with the newspaper industry nationally, which continues to see steep declines particularly in areas of Classified ad revenue and also a slowing of online revenue growth.

Translation: 1) Craigslist bites deep in high-tech metro areas these days, so deep that large bleeding chunks of staff are now being torn from the news body. 2) Online revenue ain't making it either since who wants to go to the website of a dead-tree product they don't read in the first place? And even if they did, the money sites get from ads online just isn't at all in the realm of what they get for print ads.

Online ad revenues, often touted by blathering publishers with "a vision", never have and never will replace the revenue lost to the print edition.

Of course, the real elephant drooling in the room of newspapers like the Seattle Times these days is "the forgotten reader." These are the potential readers who, because of the unremitting liberal tone and slant of the Times in both the news hole and on the editorial page, loathe the Times and the whole sector of Seattle society it represents.

Now you may say, in a town as overwhelmingly liberal as Seattle, "Screw those troglodyte, Republican morons!" Well, you can say that but then you will, sooner or later, fire 200 of your employees. And that will be only the start.

Why? Because in an "overwhelmingly liberal town" you are talking about, at most, around 55% of the potential readership that agrees with you. This means you are leaving about 45% of potential readership out of the equation altogether. King County has about 2 million people. That means that 45% of potential readership is not at all a trivial number, and yet the Seattle Times takes every opportunity to alienate them. Result: Mass sackings and many millions lost.

And yet the Seattle Times, as well as numerous other newspapers now dying in the US, never ever cops to its point of view as the reason why it is failing.

Source: American Digest

Commentary

I think I last purchased an Asheville Citizen-Times about 6 months ago because I was increasingly fed up with the left-slanting news in it's pages. Not just in the news it reported, but the news it failed to report. If 15 lefties had a meeting and were upset about something, you could could bet on the AC-T and WLOS to be there with breathless coverage. (I don't watch WLOS either---too many syrupy puppy stories and lefty newscasting).

A conservative crowd of over a hundred couldn't buy coverage the lefties were getting.

If the AC-T could be counted on to have a few news articles written from a conservative perspective, I'd pick it up more often. Also, if they had a real regional and state news section, it would be another incentive. And longer stories would be nice, too. It seems like they've decided to become a copy of the abominable USA Today. (Yes, I know Gannett now owns the paper).

My local papers, the Franklin Press and Macon News are basically the same way, and I rarely purchase the Press, but since the News is free, I pick it up nearly every week, whether I intend to read it or not. It's main value is a very strong Community Calender. If people are meeting or a candidate for office is speaking, it will be there.

What the author of the article didn't mention is that there is another reason papers or local TV don't give coverage from a conservative viewpoint...the cries of protest from the intolerant lefties who cannot tolerate a whisper of conservatism from news outlets.

Remember the outcry when the New York Slimes hired William Kristol as a Op-Ed columnist? Look at this article in Think Progress and be sure to read the comments by your typical "multi-cultural" lefty. Not very tolerant of another's opinion, eh? It appears that lefties want blacklists filled with conservatives.

That is a case of a hard left news outlet hiring a conservative to pen opinion pieces for them.

Ever hear of Fox News? Find your neighborhood lefty and ask them what they think about Fox News. Just be sure to be ready for a healthy helping of hate to be heaped out, pressed down, and heaped on again. Just imagine how they would react if a real conservative news network were to start broadcasting! (I call Fox RINO News)

So where does that leave us? If the papers continue to report lefty news...conservatives by and large won't buy their paper, and lefties will continue to use Craig's List, and the papers will continue their downward spiral.

If they throw conservatives a bone, the lefties start frothing at the mouth.

Where does that leave us? I don't really know. I suspect that it will give citizen journalists a foot in the door and leverage to squeeze out the regional and perhaps even the local papers. Anyway, I do get a kick out of lefties attacking their own institutions, though. Keep the popcorn coming!

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General Petraeus' Opening Statement

In case you missed it, here is General Petraeus' opening statement before Congress this morning. I would have had video if I had remembered the **cough** on switch **cough**.

Luckily, I had a backup audio recorder recording for the soundtrack...and here it is:




General Petraeus
It is around 21 minutes in length.

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Vets For Freedom Press Conference LIVE 8.30 AM on Blog Talk Radio

**update** 11.43am The Event is over, and I have lifted a very short segment of the program for you to hear.





You can listen to the whole thing archived.

**update** 2.43pm This Ain't Hell was there, and took photos and video of the event. I will steal one video to embed here, and you'll have to go over there for the rest:



Vets For Freedom will have a Press Conference this morning, and here is the schedule of appearances:

Pete Hegseth @ 0830
David Bellavia @ 0833 (introduces Sen McCain) (NOTE: possible run for Congress by Sgt "Bell"
Sen McCain @ 0835
Sen Lieberman @ 0850
Sen Graham @ 0852
Sen Inhofe @ 0854
Sen Leadership remarks TBD @ 0856
Sen Bond @ 0858
Rep Marshall @ 0900
Rep Sam Johnson @ 0905
House Leadership remarks TBD @ 0907
Marcus Luttrell @ 0910
Steve Russell @ 0915
Press Palsy Ends @ 0920

We March On DC @ 1000

And A Newt One will have LIVE coverage for two hours beginning at 8.30 (8.00 I was wrong) AM on Blog Talk Radio, and people on the scene, so this is your link to Listen.

There is also a Gathering of Eagles Counter Protest planned for Charlotte this weekend. More later on when things firm up.

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Dutch Court Clears Geert Wilders

A Dutch court has ruled that a highly-critical film about Islam is legal, and its maker is allowed to exercise his freedom of expression. The film is called "Fitna", which can be translated from Arabic as "strife". It compares Islam to fascism and the Prophet Mohammed to a barbarian.

Islamic groups in the Netherlands had asked the court to ban such comments, arguing they would incite hatred and violence. Muslims were outraged at Dutch MP Geert Wilders' film. It also accuses the Koran of condoning violence, by intercutting verses from the book with images of terrorist attacks.

Source: Israel Matzav, who also has video.

And here is the film the Islamists don't want you to see:

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Ben Bernanke and Bear Stearns (part one)

I recorded the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on the Federal Reserve action regarding Bear Stearns last month. It has been a very busy week, and weekend, and I am just know getting around to processing the video. Here is Bernanke's Opening Statement.

It is my intention to go go and post each individual Senator's Opening Statements, but I wanted to get Bernanke's Statement out there first because I noticed that no one else had done it already (or they made it hard to find). I did find about a hundred Paultard videos of Ron Paul's drive-by appearance. All of the Bernanke videos were just excerpts put out by nuts to support their own viewpoint.

It is my opinion that the Federal Reserve made the correct call in this situation. What I am concerned about is the Democrats will use it as an opportunity to gain even more government control over our Financial Institutions.

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The Falling Man

September 11, 2001 was hard day. I watched the second plane hit from a lobby in Terre Haute, Indiana with a group of mostly strangers, a few co-workers, and passers-by drawn in by the need to get to a TV Set. There were four of them in our lobby, all turned to a different channel. One stayed on CNN, another stayed on Fox News, and the other two were used to find different angles, different video feeds, until one became fixed on a Spanish station, which had better coverage than any of the American channels. It is there we saw the jumpers, people who had slipped, fell, or jumped to their death.

Now, Esquire Magazine has an article about the search for the identity of the person in one of the iconic images (to me, anyway) of that day. It is an alien concept that there would be people who wanted to ban these images.

Here is an excerpt:

In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. He does not appear intimidated by gravity's divine suction or by what awaits him. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered. His left leg is bent at the knee, almost casually. His white shirt, or jacket, or frock, is billowing free of his black pants. His black high-tops are still on his feet. In all the other pictures, the people who did what he did -- who jumped -- appear to be struggling against horrific discrepancies of scale. They are made puny by the backdrop of the towers, which loom like colossi, and then by the event itself. Some of them are shirtless; their shoes fly off as they flail and fall; they look confused, as though trying to swim down the side of a mountain. The man in the picture, by contrast, is perfectly vertical, and so is in accord with the lines of the buildings behind him. He splits them, bisects them: Everything to the left of him in the picture is the North Tower; everything to the right, the South. Though oblivious to the geometric balance he has achieved, he is the essential element in the creation of a new flag, a banner composed entirely of steel bars shining in the sun. Some people who look at the picture see stoicism, willpower, a portrait of resignation; others see something else -- something discordant and therefore terrible: freedom. There is something almost rebellious in the man's posture, as though once faced with the inevitability of death, he decided to get on with it; as though he were a missile, a spear, bent on attaining his own end. He is, fifteen seconds past 9:41 a.m. EST, the moment the picture is taken, in the clutches of pure physics, accelerating at a rate of thirty-two feet per second squared. He will soon be traveling at upwards of 150 miles per hour, and he is upside down. In the picture, he is frozen; in his life outside the frame, he drops and keeps dropping until he disappears.

*****

Source: Esquire Magazine
Hat Tip: Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Commentary

I have video recorded from September 11, 2001 and bring it out and watch it every once in a while to remember those who died that day. Those who died because of where they worked, what flight they were on that day, and those who sought to save others that day.

To me, it matters little whether someone chose to jump that day or fell. What matters is those who put them in that horrible place on that day.

The Radical Islamists. We need to never forget as long as there is an America with Free People. They need to be introduced to the Old Hickory of our National Consciousness.

The Andrew Jackson persona who would crawl naked through broken glass to remind these people that to kill Americans in such a manner will be answered. With or Without Government Approval.

That Day Will Come.

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Blogs4Borders! 040708

Our weekly vlog podcast on illegal immigration and border security issues. In this weeks edition:

Importing Mexico? Where is the roughest neighborhood in Mexico? LA!

Reconquista the musical! Mexican rapper demands amnesty makes threats!

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

Download for your ipod here.

You can watch the entire El Chivo ‘Si Si Puede’ video here.

If you operate a patriotic business, website, blog or are simply a generous individual with a patriotic bent who would like to see our borders secured and would like to sponsor a show you can contact us about that here.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, deportation, open borders, pedophile, california, mexico, vlog, podcast, 287g, el chivo, kinto soul, reconquista, racist, the minutemen, si si puede,

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Peace Thugs

Don't fall for the lie that anti-American War Protesters are peaceful people. They are not, and will commit acts of violence to support their cause.

In an effort to expose these thugs for peace, a website has been launched, called (appropriately enough) Peace Thugs.

Like the example below:


John Meicht, Vietnam vet, Retired teacher and peace activist, who enjoys reading, history, travel, music and slapping female bloggers.

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UAV Helicopter "Hummingbird Warrior"

Helicopters are familiar sights in the sky, and recent years have seen a variety of unmanned helicopter options introduced into the market. Boeing’s entry lays a breathtaking challenge before the field: what could the military do with a helicopter-like, autonomously-flown UAV with a range of 2,500 nautical miles and endurance of 16-24 hours, carrying a payload of 300-1,000 pounds, and doing it all more quietly than conventional helicopters? For that matter, imagine what disaster relief officials could do with something that had all the positive search characteristics of a helicopter, but much longer endurance.

Enter the A160 Hummingbird Warrior...




Paint these fellas a bluish color and they'd be almost invisible...and hiding places few and far between for the bad guys.

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Rice for Veep, Just Say No One RINO on the Ticket is Enough

I'm hearing noises about Condi Rice being considered for Veep, and some conservatives are cheering. Idiots. Rice is NOT a conservative.

She is a RINO, and is pushing for the destruction of Israel by giving in too much to the Paleostinkians. She has been captured by the evil bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom.

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The John Batchelor Show for April 6th

It's Sunday night, and that means it's time for John Batchelor!


If you can't listen to him over the air, you can listen to him from 7pm to 10pm Eastern Devil Time on WABC.

The main WABC Stream is not working this week, try this one.
Another backup is here.

Then, he switches over to KFI for the 10pm to 1am Eastern Devil Time slot.

His blog.

Enjoy!

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The Patriarch of the 2nd Amendment Has Passed

Charlton Heston (1923-2008)



The Heston family issued the following statement:

"To his loving friends, colleagues and fans, we appreciate your heartfelt prayers and support. Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played. Indeed, he committed himself to every role with passion, and pursued every cause with unmatched enthusiasm and integrity.

We knew him as an adoring husband, a kind and devoted father, and a gentle grandfather, with an infectious sense of humor. He served these far greater roles with tremendous faith, courage and dignity. He loved deeply, and he was deeply loved.

No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country. In his own words, "I have lived such a wonderful life! I've lived enough for two people."

A private memorial service will be held. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund:

MPTF
22212 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
www.mptvfund.org




And the Full Version (3 video playlist):

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Paxten Mitchell Has Passed

cross posted on WNC Citizens Blog:

After 18 months of battling his personal dinosaur, Paxten Andrew Mitchell passed at 7:28AM. I cannot find the words to express my feelings.... He fought throughout the night and morning. We love him so much and he will be sorely missed.

Source: Paxten Mitchell's Journal

My condolences go out to the family and friends of Paxten. You are in my prayers.
All I can say to the family of Paxten is that Paxten had an impact on the rest of us in the short time the LORD lent him to us, and you will see him again.



Previously:

Latest Cancer Treatment Fails Paxten

Paxten Mitchell Donation Fund

Paxten Mitchell and the City of Asheville

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(BSG) He That Believeth in Me

This is the first episode of season Four (4x03) entitled "He That Believeth in Me" and takes off at the end of Season Three's cliffhanger, "Crossroads, Part Two". The direct-to DVD episode "Razor" counts as the first two episodes of the fourth, and final, season.

You can find more streaming programs at Hulu, the online site where you can watch NBC and Universal Programming, I've been a member since the program was in Beta.


You can purchase the episode at Amazon Unbox.

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Paul Purdue Campaign Website Online

Paul Purdue is running for NC House #115, and has the beginnings of a website up and running, and will be adding more as time goes on.

I look forward to visiting his website to find out what is going on in his run for office. His opponent is Bruce Goforth.

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Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica

This is my favorite show right now (thanks to iTunes since I don't have TV service) even though Universal and NBC raped the concept by not allowing it to continue through a fifth season. Universal has become almost as stupid as Paramount Studios.

This is why BSG will not be able to replace Babylon 5 as the greatest Science Fiction TV Series ever.

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