New Mexico Spaceport, Where is That?

For those spacenuts or for those with a passing interest about space, here's my new blogsite about the upcoming New Mexico Spaceport where the next X-Prize Cup will take place in 2006. As the date gets closer, more details will be provided. Check out the cool photos of where the spaceport will be located.

Prepped, Staged, Scripted, Coached and Rehearsal.

The words used in the Newsbuster Part 2: Shocked, Just Shocked Net Reporters Hype “Staged” Bush Event with Troops were "prepped," "staged," "Scripted," and "Rehearsed." These is the classic MSM attempt to make this an issue rather than to cover the Iraq's successful voting for the constitution referendum.

Here are the key "shocking" words used to try and highlight this important non-issue coverage one day before the Iraq's historical referendum vote.

Staged, 8 times.
Scripted, 3 times.
Prepped, 1 time
Rehearsal, 3 times.
Coached, 11 times.

The MSM is going nuts over this in such an unprecendented disproportion compared to Gore and Clinton's obviously staged events, which was received with very little fanfare by the MSM.

All this preparation with the soldiers was done before news reporters covering the rehearsals which indicated that nothing was trying to be hidden from the public. How come the MSM don't take a note on that one?

And here's peppy Katie Couric's tongue-in-cheek commentary wondering if this had gone too far:

"Many White House photo-ops are staged events, but did the most recent one go too far? President Bush held a video conference on Thursday with U.S. troops in Iraq. But some eyebrows were raised by what came over the satellite beforehand: A Pentagon aide rehearsing the soldiers' answers."

Maybe bring up Clinton's Normandy beach where he suddenly "found" rocks on the glass smooth sandy beach and made them into a cross, and then he shed a tear or two? Here's one reporter O'Donnell telling Couric about what the White House said:

O'Donnell: "The White House had said the soldier's comments were not pre-screened, expressing only their opinions. The larger context of all this, President Bush has found the war's cost an increasingly tough sell at home. Here he called on soldiers to help make the case."

And why not? Ever wonder why the MSM do not report on anything good that has happened in Iraq? Where many, many, many! good things that were done in Iraq so far that the MSM refuse to touch with a 10ft pole. This is not balanced coverage and the MSM is doing their best to hide the actual going ons in Iraq. How conveniently the MSM ignored the facts of a great many things that took place. It's always a "quagmire." I guess January's vote was a "quagmire"? So was yesterday's historic vote with some 60 - 65% of the Iraqis voting. That's a "quagmire," too, according to the MSM outlets full with Liberals working hard at deceitfulness and half-truths to outright purposeful hiding of positive events.

Major General Rick Lynch in Iraq maintained that “those soldiers yesterday were giving their opinion" in a live interview with Miles O'Brien. O'Donnell makes a point here.

O'Donnell: "Master Sergeant Corine Lombardo said the soldiers had discussed their answers, but knew what they wanted to say, and practiced to appear articulate before the Commander-in-Chief. And a top spokesman for the Department of Defense also put out a statement trying to further clarify what happened. Saying in part [text on screen] 'No one intended to tell them what to think or how to express themselves. Going through likely questions in advance was meant solely to help the troops feel at ease. We certainly regret any perception that they were told what to say. It is not the case.'

And yet, again, nobody during the rehearsal hid their practices from the reporters covering this preparation for a live teleconference with the President. O'Brien continues to try (and sputters) in his feeble attempt to say that words were put into the soldiers' mouths:

Major General Rick Lynch, via satellite from Iraq: "We have absolutely no concern. I’ve got to tell you, yesterday was blown out of proportion. There are technical details that we battle every day here in Iraq. And all we were trying to do yesterday is work through the technical issues of young service members talking to their Commander-in-Chief. None of those service members were coached as to what to say."

O’Brien, talking over Lynch: "No, no, no, there was, but there was–"

Lynch: "None of those service members were coached as to what to say."

O’Brien: "–there was, there was more than technical. There was more than technical. There was editorial content in all of that. It wasn’t just, you know, can you hear me, I can hear you kind of stuff. It was actually, here’s what he’s going to say, here’s what you might want to say in response, right?"

Lynch: "Again, that’s blown out of proportion. Those young men and women were expressing their opinion. If you come over and talk to the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines we have on the ground her in Iraq today, they arevery proud of what they're doing. They're protecting freedom and our way of life and they're proud of that fact and they will express their opinion when asked. Every visitor that comes over that talks to our soldiers leaves with a positive assessment. And those soldiers yesterday were giving their opinion."

And finally, none of the MSM ever interviewed the soldiers who were a part of the teleconference with President Bush. And you know why the MSM won't interview the soldiers for clarification about their teleconference, or even just interview at random about the successes occuring in Iraq on their (the Iraqis) march to democracy and freedom? Because they are afraid of the actual truth and do not like losing. Just like what one clueless reporter hoped it get negative fodder to bash some more on President Bush from the evacuees of New Orleans.

Please, MSM outlets, go and interview those soldiers!!

Again, all this is a non-issue solely designed to take away or minimize the successes of the (then upcoming) Iraq's historical constitution referendum vote. A democracy in action that the MSM is careful not to provide with much fanfare. All throughout the war against terrorism, the MSM has consistently provided negative coverage that was designed to demoralize the troops, America and give aid and comfort to the enemy terrorists by providing them fodder and support for their own murderous agenda against America and freedom loving countries.

Now, that the voting was a smashing success, the MSM will use this "staged" story as a way to upstage the freedom-loving Iraqis who risked their lives to vote with the minds made possible only because America recognized the value of freedom.

How ironic. MSM values their own freedom but bash other countries that are trying to achieve their own freedom. Edward Daley has more on this ridiculousness. And here is a video of the Iraqis celebrating their freedom and democracy yesterday that the MSM refuse to cover (hat tip: Iraq the Model).

Tapscott on Oklahoma University Bombing Incident

Read Mark Tapscott's blog as he continues to delve into the suspicious nature of the Hinrichs' suicide (or accidental) bombing at Oklahomo University with more questions than there are answers. Also, he was on CNN yesterday discussing the case with a retired FBI agent who said:

Interesting day. I taped two sessions, the latter with host Aaron Brown and Pat Demuro (SP?), a former FBI agent who seemed almost as unconvinced as I am of the lone suicide scenario that has been the official explanation since only a few hours after Hinrichs died.

The thing is this, you have a suicide bombing (unless it was an accidental one but not likely if the bomb was strapped to his chest, kiddies) here in the United States, which is very, very rare. Even rarer if the bombing suicide took place in the venue of a public place only yards away from the OU football stadium where 84,000 fans were there. Plus surrounding incidents as wanting to buy a large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at a feed store. Has a Pakistani roommate. The quantity of bomb-making materials found in Hinrichs apartment with enough explosive power to jolt the city of Norman, Oklahoma. The city itself has a history of terrorists residing there. Mosques. And lots more.
One cannot simply say, oh, he was a loner and acted alone, and leave it at that. A dangerous follow through for anybody not concerned where this may lead to. Not acting on these questions could result more innocent Americans getting killed. Foolhardy for Liberals to even suggest letting this investigation go. We need to know the where, the how, and why he did this. Was he inspired by terrorists and acted alone? Are there other connections? Why near a public venue for this suicide? Etc...etc...

Even the FBI is not denying nor confirming that there are terrorist connections. It's too early to say. The investigation continues. Read Tapscott's blog to get the latest update. A good read.

Will the Moonbats Rise Up Again to Protest Iraq's Vote on the Constitution Referendum?

Remember this famous photo below after the hugely successful January 3o, 2005 Iraqi election? Even some of the Europeans were actually praising the successful election.




And also the sacrifices and dangers that the Iraqi people were willing to face to have this precious freedom that Americans take for granted to vote whomever they want.


Remember this one in the photo below when anti-freedom Liberals protested in March of 2005 about the successful, freedom loving Iraqis who voted willingly without coercion for the past 35 years?


I blogged this ugly detail back in March to recap on my January 2005 blog prediction that people will come out to protest the Iraqi vote in of all places, America. Lt. Smash has more on that Moonbatty day of anti-freedom Liberals that were out in force that day after Iraq's first successful vote in January 2005.



Numero uno! Viva la freedom! October 15, 2005. Iraq.

And now, the next victory photo seen above is from today's voting results in Iraq on the constitution referendum from Lt. Smash live-blogging on this historic event.

What will the anti-freedom Liberals say next after this election? It is expected to be just as a successful turnout as the one back in January 2005. More dour faced anti-freedom Liberals to protest this (a freedom they have here in America) successful voting process in Iraq? More purple middle-fingered anti-freedom Liberals hawking the street to protest this historic freedom loving event? What else?

They are certainly and hoping desperately to see Iraq fail rather than support this freedom for Iraqis from oppression, tyranny and despair when they have so much freedom here in the United States to protest such a concept over in Iraq. How ironic. Much of these Liberals would rather have Saddam Hussein back!

No. Freedom is what the Iraqis want. The Janaury 2005 election proved just that. And this election will prove it even more.


UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has more.

As polls closed at 5 p.m. (10 a.m. EDT), people in Baghdad fired guns into the air in celebration. Some Iraqis passed out sweets in the street, just ahead of the end of the day's Ramadan fast. Insurgents attacked five of Baghdad's 1,200 polling stations with shootings and bombs, wounding seven voters, but there were no major attacks reported as U.S. and Iraqi forces clamped down with major security measures around balloting sites. The United States hopes the constitution will be approved so Iraqis can form a permanent, representative government and secure the country so Washington can start withdrawing its 150,000 troops.

Indeed. Only 5 out 1200 polling stations were affected by attacks. No need to speak for the small minds of Islamic terrorists.

The Meaning of the Word "Staged"

Ah, the old stage trick in getting people to believe on what is going on but really isn't. Let's start off with the der Slickmeister stage trickster, Bill Clinton, whenever photographers are around.



From Rush Limbaugh:

But Bill Clinton with cameras up on the hill overlooking the beach decided to take a stroll as a lone man; out there on the horizon, a lone battleship. Bill Clinton strolling along in pensive, sensitive, deep-caring thought. All of a sudden Clinton stops. He looks down; he notices something. Why, it's a pile of rocks, on a beach where there are none! Bill Clinton, with tear now beginning to stream from his eye, kneels down and arranges, with the photographers and TV cameras all focused from atop the hill, overlooking the beach. Bill Clinton kneels down and places those stones, which had to be put there by somebody, into the shape of a cross. The battleship is in the background. He knew exactly where to stop. The battleship was told where to be, stones were placed so that he would be right in the line of fire for those cameras shooting the beach and the Clinton leaned down and placed those stones. This is the man who wrote once of having "loathing the military." It was an entirely, purely staged event.

Indeed. Uber staged.



Here's Al Gore in his oh-so-obvious staged attempt to look more "environmentally friendly" by getting the dam to release 4 billion gallons of water worth over $7 million dollars just so he could float his canoe for the photogs. All this was done during a drought, too. And all this just to provide Gore a photo-opportunity to highlight the $100,000 grant to the Connecticut River Joint Commission. This was dubbed as "Floodgate." You do the math. $7 million dollars just to highlight a $100,000 grant. What an absolute waste.





Here's Mr. and Mrs Clinton "dancing" to the music (in the minds) for a great "get together" photo op for the presses during their New Year's one-day vacation in the Caribbean made headlines. It was reported that the two were physically affectionate during several recent White House functions in 1998.

Mrs Clinton is said to be in "fighting mood" and the first round of her battle was fought outside a Washington church on Sunday. She was seen walking arm in arm with her husband. It was the first time the couple had appeared in public since allegations surfaced that he had an affair with the White House aide Monica Lewinsky and then asked her to lie about it.

Walking in arm in arm? Apparently staged without Hillary Clinton in on about his secret-secret love affair with Monica Lewinsky. A really sickening photo knowing that der Slickmeister knowingly had an affair when the photo was taken. Paparazzi it ain't.

If you want a classic staged event from President Clinton, then look no further when he shed miraculous crocodile tears in 7 short steps at the Ron Brown funeral as he got out of the limo. Clinton spotted the cameras pointing at him and realized suddenly that he was smiling as he got out of his limo. So, in 7 steps he was able to shed a tear or two with a pouty lip. Bad save of the day, I'd say.

And, oh, about the so-called "staged" event with President Bush and the soldiers? Well, one of the soldier who was a part of that gave a piece of his mind to the MSM outlets for their dishonest reportings.

Here's the blogsite belonging to that same soldier who was a part of the teleconference rebuts nicely in his own blog about the MSM's claim of a "staged" event.

If you want a real staged moment from a soldier asking questions then look no further than the time with Rumsfeld.

Edward Daley of Renew America has this to say:

Of course, what every one of these stories left out was the fact that ALL such media events are planned in advance, and that the people participating are always screened beforehand, no matter who the President is, or what party he happens to belong to. Furthermore, the "rehearsal" period amounted to Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary, Allison Barber, asking the troops simple questions concerning the order in which they would answer questions, and making sure that unsightly debris was cleared from camera shot.

This sort of activity is so routine in terms of arranging a television shoot, that to even mention it as part of the story being covered is patently ridiculous, and the only reason why the press has gone to the trouble to do so, is because most journalists HATE George W. Bush. There is no other logical explanation for it.

The fact of the matter is that none of the troops who appeared on camera were "coached" to say anything. They were only informed of the sort of questions that the President would be asking them, so that they could mentally prepare to give their responses. Their words were entirely their own, and the media parasites covering the event knew that, yet they have gone out of their way to give the American people the false impression that the whole thing was some sort of put-on.

Edward gives lots of examples of MSM dishonesty in his links. It is obvious how the MSM attempt at every turn to try and use certain political frame of event be used AGAINST President Bush. Why? Because they hate losing to President Bush and would do so even if it means demoralizing U.S. troops and America to the benefits and advatages of Islamic terrorists everywhere.

See where this is going kiddies? Do you understand what "staged" means now?

Good.

I hope so. Still confused? Check out Generation Why? blogging on the meaning of the word "staged."

A "Staged" Soldier Makes a Rebuttal Against the MSM

An addendum to my earlier post ("When MSM Ignores Its Own") where Michelle Malkin reports of a soldier that was part of the "staged" press conference in Iraq that the MSM are losing their heads over:

Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID's Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond to what most of the mass-media has dubbed as, "A Staged Event."

First of all, we were told that we would be speaking with the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, President Bush, so I believe that it would have been totally irresponsible for us NOT to prepare some ideas, facts or comments that we wanted to share with the President.

We were given an idea as to what topics he may discuss with us, but it's the President of the United States; He will choose which way his conversation with us may go.

We practiced passing the microphone around to one another, so we wouldn't choke someone on live TV. We had an idea as to who we thought should answer what types of questions, unless President Bush called on one of us specifically.

President Bush told us, during his closing, that the American people were behind us. I know that we are fighting here, not only to preserve our own freedoms, but to establish those same freedoms for the people of Iraq. It makes my stomach ache to think that we are helping to preserve free speech in the US, while the media uses that freedom to try to RIP DOWN the President and our morale, as US Soldiers. They seem to be enjoying the fact that they are tearing the country apart. Worthless!

Indeed! See how the MSM want to side with the terrorists and not the United States of America only because George W. Bush is the President of the United States? Read my earlier blog about one famously and well known Iraqi blogger's discussion on the preciousness of freedom in Iraq. And check out the many, many, many! good things that were done in Iraq so far that the MSM refuse to touch with a 10ft pole. And we know why. They don't like losing. Shame on you guys for supporting such irresponsible MSM outlets and not question their political motives or agendas.

When Iraq Takes a Step Closer to Freedom

Read what Mohammed, an Iraqi blogger in "Iraq the Model" blogsite, has to say. He lives in Bagdad and he wrote up a nice piece about the upcoming referendum vote in Iraq this coming Saturday.

Only hours separate us from a major historic day for our nation (too many historic days for Iraq in these two years!). Tomorrow will draw a line that would mark the beginning of a new era in Iraq; a constitutional Iraq will become reality.It’s only a beginning since there will be more steps to go but it’s the right beginning because it’s a transition from temporary laws to a permanent-though amendable-constitution on which the people will assume control through their elected representatives and through their own direct votes.

I suppose the MSM will cover this as lightly as possible and possibly eve less so should there be another earth shattering number of voters supporting the referendum on approving the draft constitution.

It is really amazing how things have changed in Iraq; three years ago Saddam “won” 100% of the votes in a pathetic referendum that he designed in order to give legitimacy to his reign while yesterday even security detainees were allowed to express their opinion on the constitution through voting and the government and parliament are almost begging the 15 million plus voters to say ‘yes’!And although many signs indicate that the document is on its way to be ratified, no one can say it is until the people decide which checkbox to tic tomorrow.Some people would say “Is that all you won, after more than two years of war and violence? That’s only one basic right” well, that is the point; we’ve secured one key right that can help us secure the rest.

And yet, freedom is never free without sacrifices.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has more on the historic Iraqi constitution vote.

When MSM Ignores Its Own

Michelle Malkin has the story about how the MSM are going nuts over President Bush' "staged" (ie. rehersed) meeting with his troops via satellite. This has been going on for years and years with the military and their troops whenever it involves the press or television. This is what the MSM do when it comes to undermining our national security in favor of news by supporting more on the terrorists side rather than to protect our own soley because many of the MSM presses do not like President Bush. Or for that matter, America.

If you want real staging, look no further than when President Clinton was on the smooth sandy beaches of Normandy in rememberance of D-Day. The beach was blocked off for several hours so both Clintons can walk idylicly on the beach and then to suddenly find large gravel-sized rocks [strike]and decided[/strike] and with his prepared planning arranged them into the shape of a cross, in view of a battleship sitting in the background for the photogs to snap up this obviously staged event. And lo and behold he looked at the cross he made and with a poignant look.....for the cameras... a la Ron Brown funeral fake-tears episode.... on his face goes to great effect as a photo-opportunity that smacks with sweet gagging.

If anybody knows anything about physics and geomorphology on how rocks and sand are transported by water, it's impossible to have cobbles on the beach. In short, the rocks were put there by somebody and Clinton knew about this ahead of time for a photo-op.

When Liberals Forget History on Presidential Ratings

Oh, now everybody screaming that President Bush' number on approval rating is so bad, he ranks as the all time lowest. Yet, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's low, but not the lowest. According to President Bush' average approval rating, it stands at 39.5% approval. But compare to past U.S. Presidents, President Bush 2 does not even get lower than President Clinton's lowest approval rating at 37%. Or his Dad at 29%. Or even Democrat Carter at a ball bustin' 28%. Or even Republican Nixon's criminal low of 24%.



Yes, that's right, kiddies. Every president since 1963 (after Kennedy) has had approval ratings, at one time or another during his administration, at least five points lower than Bush's current nadir. Now, if President Bush is a "failure" because of his approval rating of 39.5% (even hitting a low of 37% in only one poll recently in the CBS poll) and yet Clinton's lowest approval rating was at 37%, then what does that make President Clinton? An utter and disastorous failure? However you'll say it about President Bush on approval ratings, you'll drag President Clinton into it as well. Kind of a lose - lose proposition here.

Thomas Simich Jr's Delusions

Aside from Thomas Simich Jr's other delusions mentioned here, psychiatrist adds more to his delusional claims that "caused" or "led" to the murders of his deaf sister and her deaf huband:

Police said Simich, who is deaf, was apparently upset that his sister had suggested that he move out of the house. But the psychiatrist testified that Simich is deluded and believes, among other things, that the Bergmans were members of a cocaine-dealing cartel.

"Hearing" voices saying he'll be the last person on earth according to the Bible and believing that the Bergmans (Simich Jr's deaf sister and her deaf husband, Mr. Bergmans) were members of a coaine-dealing cartel??

So, those are reasons for murdering them?

What else will he come up with? Is he digging himself a hole?

Stay tuned...

Did the Oklahoma Sooner Boomer Try to Enter the Stadium?

Seems that word is getting out that Joel Hinrichs III tried to enter the Oklahoma Sooner's stadium with his back pack ladened bomb and was turned away by security when he refused to let them search the pack.

There is evidence that he sought to enter the game and was turned away by security after refusing to allow his backpack to be searched. Some minutes later, that backpack, containing the chosen explosive of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London subway bombers, exploded, killing Mr. Hinrichs as he sat on a bench.

Generation Why, Michelle Malkins, GOP Bloggers and others are asking more quesitons whether if Hinrichs' motive was to kill as many people as possible rather or was it just a simple self-suicide only meant to kill himself? And how the MSM continues to neglect those stories. You can tell whose side the MSM is on....the side of the terrorists and not inform the public at large of these string of potential bombing efforts in the United States at football stadiums that could mean terrorist activities at work, or not.

Why ignore such details as those when innocent lives are in the balance? This is what happens when Liberal ideology gets in the way in reporting news that could be life saving by providing important information to the public.

New Research Says HIV Destroys Certain Parts of the Brain

Via the Drudge Report comes a study that proves that HIV viruses do destroy certain parts of the brains cells since drugs used to counter the viruses cannot access the brain barrier where the viruses can easily wreak havoc on those grey matters.

By using high-tech scanners, researchers from two American universities found that the brains of HIV patients were 15 percent thinner in areas that control language, planning and movement. It didn't matter if the patients were on a drug regimen known as HAART, which often allows infected individuals to keep the virus from destroying the immune system.

"The drugs clearly aren't stopping the destruction of brain tissue," said study co-author Paul M. Thompson, a neuroscience researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.

HIV is no laughing matter since

A large percentage of HIV patients suffer from neurological problems; one study put the number at 40 percent.

Be smart. Don't take unnecssary risks.

Shia, Sunni and Kurdish Agrees on Final Draft of Iraqi Constitution

Good News! The leaders of Shia, Sunni and Kurdish all agree to support the final draft of the Iraqi new Constitution to be voted on this upcoming Saturday. At least one Sunni group has announced that it will support the Constitution in this Saturday's ballot vote.

Keep an eye on Iraq the Model. They should have something to say about it soon enough.

Condi vs Hillarity

Interesting book to come out called "Condi vs Hillary." The author surmises that Condi would be the person to beat Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential race. Of course, this makes much sense because of the excellent background of Condoleeza Rice's.

"There is one, and only one, figure in America who can stop Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State Condoleezza 'Condi' Rice," they write.

If elected, Clinton would "reinvent what we have called the secret police to destroy those who stand in her way."

"Hillary has a sense of entitlement that leaves her vulnerable to the temptations of financial misconduct," they write.

Clinton is not just "untested" by crisis, the authors write, but the former First Lady is a crybaby who "often succumbs to tears in times of adversity."

By contrast, Rice "never needed to exaggerate her record or credentials" and is an even better Christian than Clinton, according to the authors.

"Hillary has been embroiled in scandal after scandal, ever since she entered public life," they write. "In stark contrast, Condi's past is without blemish."

The authors also argue that Rice's chances would be better because she is single.

They even make this claim: "Her success has never been a matter of hitching her wagon to the political fortunes of any powerful man."

How true. Vote for Condi!

Americans Playing Risky Game of Sexual Roulette: Survey

Via from the Drudge Report today, comes a survey about how many Americans, including Deaf Americans and any Americans, are playing a risky game of sexual roulette. I had the unfortunate and blinding experience of somebody telling me in another person's blog and hearing it for the first time about a personal experience of bending over for some stranger in a closed bar. A well versed and certainly not blind gay person said that "HIV is not a laughing matter." How true. No matter how much a person thinks that condoms will do the trick, it is never 100% preventative and effective. Especially more scary is doing it with strangers on a frequent basis increasing the risk for infection of STDs or even HIV.

And when it does happen, the only person to blame is the person him/herself who insisted on having that risky lifestyle.

An Update about the DPN protest

Go here to see the update of my DPN blogging. Scroll down at the bottom to see the latest update. Apparently I had to make a few more clarifications for a few whiners who pleaded ignorance in their emails (boy, that was quick!) to me (who, also, didn't have the fortitude and gonad to even make their comments in my blog instead) and one blogsite owner by making a few obscene complaints about my recent blog on the unspoken history of DPN protest.

Geez, people. Don't go hiding from the truth, now.

Der Slick Willy and His Presidential Library

Here’s a story, richly ironic that anybody with a sense of smart would question this.

Here's the story. The Clinton Library cost $200 million to build making the other 11 Presidential libraries looking a bit on the frugal side. This makes Bill Clinton's presidential library the most expensive in presidential history. And, oh, the Clinton Library is built in the flood zone right along a river in Arkansas.

Yet, people protecting Bill Clinton will not divulge the donor’s list of those who donated money to the library's construction effort.

Any demand for a list of our donors would be flagrantly violative of the First Amendment and we would resist it. – David Kendall, Clinton foundation attorney, 2001.

Now, let’s put things into perspective here. How did Clinton come up with $200 million dollars considering that both Bill Clinton and George Bush 41 raised $100 million for the tsunami relief fund? They were doing Public Service Announcements, got themselves on Larry King Live, went onto other shows, and doing golf tourneys where you can play one hole out of 18 hole round with those two former presidents for something like $30,000. Don’t you find it a bit odd that Clinton was able to hit up for $200 million but could only must $100 million with George Bush’ help? Was Bill Clinton down on his knees kissing the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's rear end?

Or perhaps was it from very, very rich people that President Clinton pardoned back in 2001 right before he left office.

The former wife of the fugitive financier controversially pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office had donated $450,000 to his presidential library fund, according to reports in Washington.

and

The pardon freed one of the world's richest men from prosecution on more than 50 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, income tax evasion and illegal oil trading with Iran.

Der slick Willy has been attempting (and continues to do so) at evading the truth and rewriting history as much as he can so he can look good right before he dies of old age. A false legacy is his dream.

But the blue-stained dressed spattered with your semen on Lewinsky's dress isn’t going to go away, Bill. Oh, yeah, you're not going to add that historical note in your Clinton Library, will you Bill?

There are two million photographs in the new Clinton presidential library. Not one of them is of Monica Lewinsky.

The name of the woman at the centre of Bill Clinton's impeachment trial appears only twice in 80 million documents.

Her face can be glimpsed only once, briefly, in a video of Mr Clinton greeting supporters. But the last, critical scene, where he reaches over the rope to hug her, has been cut.

Mr Clinton's decision to practically erase Ms Lewinsky from his history was the subject of controversy when the library in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday. Library director David Alsobrook acknowledged that many wouldn't be satisfied.

"His supporters will say, 'Oh, why did you give this so much space?' " Mr Alsobrook said. "But his detractors will come up and say, 'Dave, where is the blue dress?' "

The dress refers to a frock Ms Lewinsky wore during one of her trysts with Mr Clinton. Stained with semen, it provided irrefutable DNA evidence of an affair.

The dress was returned to Ms Lewinsky after Mr Clinton's impeachment trial. She said she was going to burn it. Instead of the dress, visitors can see three of Mr Clinton's saxophones, an armoured Cadillac limousine he used to drive around in, and his stuffed cat, Socks

Of course not. You wouldn't want to ruin your legacy with that stain of yours in your Presidential library.


*splat!*

*splat!*

The Unspoken Side of Deaf President Now Protest

There is this romantic notion of what Deaf culture is suppose to represent and what “Deaf President Now” protest was all about, which was quite good benefiting to just about every Deaf (and deaf) people nationally and internationally. What is the most amazing thing is that DPN story tellers hardly ever acknowledged the fact that several laws, even Federal laws, were broken during the whole protest interim.

Deaf protesters were never addressed on some of the crimes, nor were they charged or arrested as a result of their emotional passion and zeal to put Deaf culture on a pedestal for the world to take notice in the hope of putting up an culturally-Deaf president. But instead, to the disappointment of some Deaf students, teachers and staff, got I. King Jordan. A man who was not born deaf but a man who became deaf at the age of 21 in a motorcycle accident. He is a man who did wonderful things for Gallaudet University.

Protest of this nature was a highly charged event that appealed mostly to the revved up emotions of students and staff. No official acknowledgements from Gallaudet University officials, students or staffs that laws were indeed broken during the protesting days. Philosophy classes may have discussed these moral events. But they would rather ascribe such a relatively famous event as being the “equivalent” to the days of the civil rights movements during the Montgomery bus boycott era when “quiet” and peaceful civil unrests was the preferred method even though laws, backward as they were, were broken back then. The laws of DPN now were certainly not backward by any means.

The DPN stories are told or re-enacted each year about how the protest began but never stating the obvious that illegal actions have occurred. These law-breaking events were celebrated during Gallaudet University’s 10th DPN anniversary. The re-enactment was described in Gallaudet University’s public relation website by linking to one news clipping taken from the Rochester, New York “Democrat and Chronicle” March 10 article titled “Gallaudet Celebrates Day of Dignity”:

“Two of the university's school buses were also brought to the gate yesterday for effect. Ten years ago, the buses blocked the entrances and had their tires flattened.”

First off, during the first day of the DPN protest protesters needed buses to block the gates at the entrance to the university campus. In order to do that they needed drivers with “specialized” skills to start the buses (i.e. “hot-wiring”) without using bus keys since they certainly could not ask Gallaudet University bus drivers do an unlawful act nor could they break into the maintenance building to steal the keys to the buses. They needed to find a way to move university's buses over to the entrance gates and then purposely deflate the tires so that busses would remain stationary by creating a roadblock in front of the gates. A crime has to be committed in order to move those buses in front entrances of Gallaudet University's gates. The only way that this could be done was to hijack and steal those buses.

Now, stealing a Gallaudet University bus, which is a Federal property, could only be done by hot-wiring it. Once the engine was turned on the protesters drove the buses to key gate locations to effectively block any attempts by staffs or teachers who wanted to report to work. During this 10th DPN anniversary nobody publicly acknowledged that these illegal activities occurred in the sense that buses were hijacked, hot-wired and stolen.

The stories about the buses blocking the gates are routinely talked about among the Deaf circle every year during the DPN anniversary. Even at the California School for the Deaf (CSD) protest stories of DPN were told to Deaf students and the people who were listening in during a “Community Outreach Day” to celebrate “Deaf PAH!” day by inviting Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, one the four important Deaf student leaders of DPN.

The CSD described the protest by saying in their website:

“When the protesters needed busses to block the gates to the university, drivers with specialized skills were needed to start the buses without using keys. They deflated the tires to the right tire pressure so that the busses would remain stationary and create roadblocks.”

A person who has the ability to hotwire automobiles is a person with “specialized skills.” What a nice way to mince words here. What they needed was somebody willing to commit a crime by hot-wiring a Federally-owned buses. Never did Mrs. Bourne-Firl or others mentioned the fact that laws were indeed broken in the process in order to get into those buses and move them to the desired locations around the campus gates. The university buses on the campus of Gallaudet University were Federal properties to begin with. In order to enter a bus without authorization, one has to break into one.

That is a breaking and entering charge.

Unauthorized driving of Federally-owned university bus is stealing charge. Another law broken.

Never did they say that the busses’ tires were deflated so as to prevent the police or anybody else from moving the busses away from the blocked gates of the campus of Gallaudet University - a charge of obstruction or interfering with police business.

The DPN protesters knew that the D.C. police would never purposely damage Federal property, even moving the university buses tires with the tires deflated. What they did was mince words here in their website rather than telling the full truth of the story that laws were indeed broken in order to fulfill the DPN agenda and goals.

Even one famous DPN protester, Tim Raurus, recounted wistfully the days of DPN protest in Gallaudet University’s “In Your Own Word” website chronicling in great details about how several Federal properties (e.g. Gallaudet University busses) were stolen and driven over to the gates around the campus of Gallaudet University. The person commented by saying:

“To prevent the police from breaking through the Gallaudet gates, we needed to put a Gallaudet bus next to them because we knew the police wouldn't damage the school vehicles which were Federal property. We didn't have the key to the bus I was working on. We were in a hurry. One Gallaudet student approached me... I'd never met him before... he was "oral" and hadn't mastered ASL. He had on a black leather jacket and long hair and was from New York City. He told me he could "hot wire" the Gallaudet bus and that he did.”

A picture is shown in the "In Your Own Word" website with a caption identifying the deaf “oral” student from New York who was dressed in a black leather jacket and pants wearing a white head band, a look of a typical gang, standing next to a bus owned by the Federal government.

Another law was broken when the protesting students took to the streets of Washington DC. The students marched onto the street to the Capitol steps. DC Police tried to use their megaphones to get them to stop marching but megaphone shouts fell on deaf ears, literally. This would have been political suicide had the police gathered Deaf/deaf protesters by handcuffing them with their hands behind their backs. How would these Deaf/deaf protesters communicate with their hands tied behind their backs? But the bottom line is that the DPN leaders and Deaf/deaf protesters broke more laws by not getting a protest and marching permits from the city of D.C..

Stories like these were repeated often and play-acted at every DPN anniversary or whenever DPN is discussed. These moments in Deaf history repeat a very important point about Deaf people and the opportunities they richly deserve. In an eloquent statement by a famous protester, Tim Raurus, in the same article interview:

“I tell this story because before DPN, I was not one to interact with deaf people who were not culturally deaf like myself. Deaf people have a history of fighting among themselves. Yet, during DPN, we all worked together for that common goal: a deaf president. Never mind the mode of communication our president would choose or his background, as long as he was deaf. And together we accomplished that goal.”

How quaint. Refusing to interact with those not of their kind or who were not culturally Deaf but Deaf students were willing to use them to achieve their goals to break local and Federal laws in the process.

Stories like these are told often to willing listeners or readers who are not familiar with some of the illegality that took place given that they are unable to have that opportunity when such stories are put on the pedestal by keeping some of the ugly truths aside. But laws were indeed broken and therein lies the problem among the people tightly ensconced in their Deaf culture.

Deaf DPN leaders never acknowledged publicly that some of the laws were broken and that crimes were committed in the process. They would rather focus on the historical and widely successful protest event than to acknowledge that criminal behaviors were indeed committed. But Greg Hlibok, the main leader in the DPN movement, had this to say when he recalled the experience he had as a leader during DPN:

The Deaf President Now movement was an experience where I had to use my faith to get through. It lasted for one week. The school closed. Many people would ask me if we should go and do things like break windows to get attention, but I said no. I wanted to continue in a nonviolent way. I wanted a peaceful solution. There were reasons for this. The deaf community is small. The TV media was watching. I didn’t want people to see the deaf community as violent at all. First impressions can last a long time. In any crisis situation, it is important to regulate your anger. Then, you can have a peaceful solution.

But one thing Greg failed to see is that some laws were indeed broken and crimes committed. It is, however, understandable that during a highly charged and emotional event people would sometime overreact using intimidation to goad others to join the protest or prevent others from doing their jobs like keeping the gates open or staff trying to enter to go to work. Some verbal threats were hurled at students or even staff members or teachers who had to push their way through protesting students blocking the gates. Even to the point that DPN leaders had to intervene telling protesters not to get violent with those who were physically trying to get in. Also, Gallaudet University officials never announced officially that the campus was officially shut down. Protesters may have to a large degree prevented staff members and teachers from going to their offices but food and supplies had to be delivered. Understandably so. Protesters cannot starve at a critical time as this.

Of course, aside from verbal threats and derisive shouts, physical threats toward at least one Galladuet University student who did not want to participate (like many others who chose not to) or help with the protest were supposedly one of the very few isolated incidents that have occurred during DPN protest. Incidents like these clarified the fact that there were deaf or hard of hearing students who were not completely familiar or understood what this Deaf culture was about on the campus of Gallaudet University.

Each year many deaf or hard of hearing students attend the “New Signers Program” to learn how to sign, an important indoctrination into the Deaf culture by getting them assimilated into a virtually unknown culture. Many students simply did not want to participate in DPN. While many, many more did contribute to this historical protest.

This points out to the fact that there were deaf or hard of hearing “non-conformist.” They would surely get the short end of the stick with chidings, belittlements, harassments and even the possibility physical threats from Deaf people when such “non-conformist” actions do not jive with their Deaf culture’s ideals, expectations or norms.

However, DPN was more of a peaceful civil disobedience rather than an all-out law-breaking protest event resulting in damage to Federal or private properties, causing injuries from physical actions or threats. Of course, in one case, a Gallaudet University student came close in getting physically assaulted from one of the few rabid Deaf protesters when they asked the student (as well as others) to join the protest. The student refused. They then signed that they will beat up that student if they ever the student again.

All in all, the DPN protest was a relatively and amazingly “smooth” protest with the usual up and down chaotic and emotional moments resulting in very little, if any, or no damage to Federal and private properties. It was a highly successful and momentous event in Deaf American history. However, many people not familiar with the protest or Deaf culture would see that Deaf people have the ability to hold other people “hostage” to their ideals in the name of Deaf culture to an almost “cult-like” status.


Oh, btw, I was there observing the whole thing and "participated" right up to the Capitol steps, learning as I went along like lemmings before a cliff.

UPDATE: If you have a complaint about me critizing DPN then you have a bigger problem than I thought. Good as the results that came out of the historical protest in opening people's eyes, it is not without fault. Those who refuse to acknowledge that laws were indeed broken and crimes committed also refuse to see the whole historical context of the DPN in its entirety and truth. If you were there, like I was in the protest from the begining to end as an observer, participant and student, then certainly you know what went on. If you weren't a part of the DPN protest, then you certainly have not partipated in an important history. But with the links I have provided prove that laws were broken and crimes committed. People, especially Deaf people who were DPN participants, MUST acknowledge that some crimes were committed. This had to be done in order to open people eyes. You CANNOT ignore the facts about illegal activities that took place and pretend it didn't happen. It did. The DPN protest could not have been done without violating some local and Federal laws. Ignoring or refusing to see the facts makes you a dishonest person in trying to hide the unspoken side of Gallaudet University's DPN protest as if it never happened. It did. Get over it.

This is an important philosophical question or even a political study to discuss whether some of the illegal activities were warranted for their DPN protest. A few classes I am aware of at Gallaudet University did in fact discuss political protests with DPN being one of them. The professors discussed and asked the students whether any of the protests were warranted, even if it means breaking local or Federal laws. This is how people are forced to think. You cannot hide from the truth when people, magazines, internet and televisions have recorded the DPN event, incriminating some of the protesters that laws they broke. Had it not been a DPN protest and instead we had a few wild Deaf students who did those things I described above, they would have been summarily arrested and charged by the D.C. police. Just because it was a DPN protest does not excuse the fact that many people broke local and Federal laws to achieve their protest goals at DPN.

Criticize if you want in trying to cover up some of the illegal activities, I have the links, the history, and the witnesses on my side. I dare anybody to come up to me and say that no laws were broken during the DPN protest. If you believe that DPN was a crime free protest, then certainly you do not want to face the truth. It was a good and important protest. The DPN protest was warranted, even it if means breaking a few laws (as long as nobody got hurt). But you CANNOT ignore and shove aside the facts that some laws were indeed broken in the process. Doing so makes you a dishonest person.


Don't hide from the truth. Be honest about it. Don't be ashamed about it.

Gay and Lesbian Donate Nearly a Million Dollars to the American Red Cross

From the American Red Cros Colorado Website:

The Gay And Lesbian Fund for Colorado has announced a $1 million matching grant to the American Red Cross that will bring a total of $2 million in aid from Coloradoans to help those affected by the recent hurricanes and thousands of other disasters across the country each year through the National Disaster Relief Fund. The grant will match individual donations from Coloradoans up to $250 dollar for dollar thus doubling the effect of every donation. Donate Now! Dollars Matched So Far:
$944,879.48

Almost a million dollars! Kudos!

Yep. They're in such an outrage that the American Red Cross discriminate against gays and lesbians that they won't donate money to the Katrina Relief to the American Red Cross. The thing is, the American Red Cross does not discriminate because of sexaul orientation but rather it is that the FDA that want to err on the safety of our nation's blood supply to ensure that the blood supply won't get contaminated. Until the time comes when technology has the ability to detect all kinds of blood borne pathogens, then everybody can donate their blood and not feel rejected if their blood gets thrown out after determining it to be unsafe in some laboratory.

Quit yer whinning, fools.

Donate what you can to help hurricane victims. I have. Have you?

Bill Clinton is NOT the President!

In Newsmax it reported on what the ex-President (note the stress on "ex") Bill Clinton said regarding Iraq and U.S. involvement where one spokesman for Bill Clinton continued to help him on his delusional grandeur that he's still the President of the United States:

Clinton spokesman Jay Carson immediately sought to tone down the ex-president morale-busting remarks, telling the New York Daily News:

"President Clinton has always been clear that there are reasons for optimism and that there clearly are reasons for concern with the current situation in Iraq. But no one has been clearer than President Clinton about the necessity of winning now that we are there."

Hello! Jay Carson! Bill Clinton is NOT the President of the United States. And you had to say it twice! Bill Clinton WAS the President of the United States. So, please don't call him "President Clinton" and feed his delusional ego thinking he is still in office when it is George W. Bush who is currently the President of the United States.