Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/madcactus.rss Furl archive. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:18:26 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/30445475/forward http://www.furl.net/item/30445475 Completely false OpEd piece regurgitating the oft heard false talking points against Barack Obama. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:58:28 GMT Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Kansas A couple years ago, President Bush thought it would be a good idea to turn over control of one or more vital seaports in the continental United States to an Arab-owned conglomerate. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth including from me. How could this be? we asked. In the aftermath of 9/11, as we now remember it, that would be like handing the keys of New York City to Osama Bin Laden. I believe there are some of you who remember who he is? The hue and cry was deafening. To suddenly find our seaports our points of entry, our gateways to the world in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists was not only abhorrent, but also frightening. Even with countless reassurances from Bush administration officials, Arab corporation executives, et al, there was no convincing us this was a good idea for us or for the future of America. That dog don t hunt. Well, now comes another bad idea ... maybe even worse. The Democratic Party actually intends to put a Muslim fundamentalist in the White House. Yes, you read it right. They want to put a man of Muslim origins in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama hit the campaign trail from nowhere and continues to gain momentum as his political handlers crank out generic catchphrases to lure the unsuspecting voter with words like hope and change. Now there s nothing wrong with hope or change. It has been our tradition as a nation that when we get tired of something or someone, we exercise our constitutional rights and throw them out. That s why we asked our representatives for term limitations. But to even consider turning over the reins of government to a Muslim fundamentalist would be, as my grandmother used to say, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Some Web sites suggest Obama will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He refuses to wear an American flag lapel pin. He will not face the flag during the playing of the National Anthem nor will he sing it or even mouth the words. [Editor s note: Other reputable Web sites refute each of those claims and show Obama leading the Pledge of Allegiance in the Senate.] I know, there are some of you out there right now who are ready to say these are only symbols: Icons of days gone by; Relics of the past. You want change. We should all remember that these relics, symbols and traditions are not just representative of some coffee clache or sewing circle. These are traditions handed down from father to son, mother to daughter. They represent the deep-seated patriotism that brave men and women have given their lives to uphold for more than two centuries. To elect Barack Obama to the highest office in the land would be nothing less than spitting on the graves of the victims of 9/11, as well as the memory of the countless thousands of American loyalists who have pledged and given their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in defense of those tired old symbols and icons of the greatest nation on earth. In many cases, these things are all that is left to families of American heroes who heard the call and stepped forward and defended not only their heritage, but the legacies of millions in foreign lands. Hold fast to these symbols and icons, I say. Hold them up every day and pledge that they are still important to us all. Keep reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Sing the National Anthem. Place your hand over your heart in remembrance of all those who gave their lives so that we all may do so. Remember that they are the very fabric of which our nation is made. Our flag is not just a symbol.  It is representative of our soul as a nation. It embodies all the hopes, dreams and aspirations of those who have gone before us, those who are defending freedom today and those who will choose to do so in the future. Beware of wolves in sheep s clothing, it s been said. Don t betray your heritage simply for the sake of change. Heed the voices of your fellow Americans, past, present and future who call upon you to uphold the principles of the United States and protect them from pretenders like Barack Hussein Obama. Gary Sillett is a Princeton resident and a pressman at The Ottawa Herald. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/30445440/forward http://www.furl.net/item/30445440 Edited version of the completely fabricated OpEd hitpiece against Barack Obama, using the oft heard false talking points. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:56:49 GMT Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Kansas A couple years ago, President Bush thought it would be a good idea to turn over control of one or more vital seaports in the continental United States to an Arab-owned conglomerate. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth — including from me. “How could this be?” we asked. In the aftermath of 9/11, as we now remember it, that would be like handing the keys of New York City to Osama Bin Laden. I believe there are some of you who remember who he is? The hue and cry was deafening. To suddenly find our seaports — our points of entry, our gateways to the world — in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists was not only abhorrent, but also frightening. Even with countless reassurances from Bush administration officials, Arab corporation executives, et al, there was no convincing us this was a good idea for us or for the future of America. That dog don’t hunt. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29968615/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29968615 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:33:22 GMT Science Space Antimatter Antimatter, which annihilates matter upon contact, seems to be rare in the universe. Still, for decades, scientists had clues that a vast cloud of antimatter lurked in space, but they did not know where it came from. The mysterious source of this antimatter has now been discovered — stars getting ripped apart by neutron stars and black holes. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29968182/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29968182 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:52:30 GMT Music Trent Reznor Saul Williams Niggy Tardust Saul Williams chuckles when asked about the word "disheartening." That's the word Trent Reznor chose to describe the sales generated by William's new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, which the two men collaborated on. The public has the choice of obtaining the digital release for free or pay $5 for a higher quality download. Reznor, the artist behind the band Nine Inch Nails, ignited wide debate about the effectiveness of Radiohead-esque giveaways and the value of music when he revealed last week that 80 percent of those who downloaded the album were unwilling to pay. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29967958/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29967958 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:31:15 GMT 2008 Presidential Campaign Finances The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain -- the bid to succeed President George W. Bush will be the most expensive race in history. The cost of the last presidential campaign in 2004, considered a peak for its time, was 693 million dollars. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29967892/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29967892 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:25:48 GMT George W Bush 2008 Recession Wall Street Wall Street ended a painful week with another decline Friday as skittish investors unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy drew little comfort from President Bush's stimulus plan. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29967840/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29967840 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:21:24 GMT Steven Howards Dick Cheney Secret Servicegate The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in Iraq might have seemed, at the time, no more than a blip on the vice president’s schedule. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29966196/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29966196 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:48:42 GMT Mike Huckabee Bigots Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee. Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience." 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29957316/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29957316 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:16:36 GMT NIN Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor Humor Blah blah blah. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29953237/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29953237 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:59:02 GMT Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Media Hillary Clinton MLK LBJ JFK Bill Clinton The political press, this past week, engaged in an epic game of Telephone: hear the whisper, spread the word. It started last Monday, when Hillary Clinton was interviewed on Fox News and, trying to highlight her experience working within that labyrinth known as Washington, noted that it took a president -- LBJ -- to codify the work of MLK. Then, on Sunday, BET founder Bob Johnson introduced Clinton at a South Carolina campaign event, during which he compared Barack Obama to Sidney Poitier's Dr. John Prentice in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ("I want to be a reasonable, likeable Sidney Poitier") and alluded -- glibly and unmistakably, though the Clinton camp tried to spin it otherwise -- to Obama's teenage experimentation with cocaine. 3