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A Flood of Fire

Pepe!

We got to see Glacier Nat’l Park and my gosh, that Road to the Sun or whatever it’s called was white-knuckling driving and scary as hell for me as a passenger!

My husband has renamed that road – The Road When I Soiled Myself!

LOL

What’s up with all the casinos in Montana?

Flathead Lake – OMG – that is God’s country!

And isn’t it awesome for as beautiful as Flathead Lake area that it’s not as crowded or as “elite” as Jackson, Wyoming!

Loved it all.
Loved Montana.

And now we’re back to 110+ heat!

» Posted By javaz On August 12, 2010 @ 5:43 pm

I’ve always been a skeptic when it comes to climate change or global warming and I’m still not sure about it all and the “fear” factor.
I’m just so tired of the ‘fear factor’ when it comes to everything.

I’m starting to lean to the “Inconvenient Truth” because I’ve seen it firsthand in the Rockies and in Glacier National Park.

My problem with it all is that yes, okay, we as humans are not helping, plus it is also a natural thing, but what can we do to stop it?

Nothing.

Oh sure, we could pass legislation, but is China and India going to sign on?

No, in reality, NO, they will not.

I remember watching a PBS show about the effects of planes being grounded worldwide after 9-11 and it did cool the earth one degree.

But are we going to stop planes from flying? Or mining? Or drilling for oil?

The answer, realistically, is NO.

I do accept that global warming is happening, but the thing is, what realistically can we do about it?

Unless the whole world acts, nothing is going to stop it and then that’s where we have to believe in science.

Somewhere there must be scientists working on this and that’s where I’m placing my faith.

I can recycle and try to live “green” but there is no stopping what is happening.

» Posted By javaz On August 12, 2010 @ 5:33 pm

The World According to GOP – Vol. 2

AdLib – I don’t have to imagine what it would be like if the Republicans get back into power, because we in Arizona are living it.

Perhaps other Arizonans might disagree with me, maybe those up in Flagstaff or those down in Tucson, but for those of us in Pinal County and Maricopa County, we are living it.

And it’s only going to get worse.

Sheriff Joe already has ads for his re-election in 2012.

Yup, you read that right.

My husband thinks that Sheriff Joe is running the ads for 2 reasons.

First – he’s under a grand jury investigation for abuse of power and he did lose support until Brewer signed the SB1070 and now he’s more popular than ever.

Secondly – in his ads for 2012, he is attacking all of those who are against SB1070 and his infamous roundups, including a former attorney general of the state that is a Republican – Rick Romley – who is now running for Attorney General of Maricopa County – and Romley has never been a friend to Sheriff Joe.

The Tea Party is supposed to stand for Taxed Enough Already – yet Brewer has increased our sales tax, and snuck in an increase in our property tax while giving 2 massive tax cuts to corporate property tax and state tax.

The hate in this state runs high.

Dan Quayle’s son is running and Dan – Mr. PotatoE – lives in Paradise Valley and his son is running and his campaign ad declares Obama the worst president in history.

There is nothing more than that other than him saying that he is an Arizona native and he was raised RIGHT.

There is a bit of fun between McCain and Hayworth, but even though Arizona Republicans still hate McCain for being too liberal and mavericky, they prefer him over Hayworth.

We have the most liberal gun laws in the country and to be fair, so does ‘liberal’ Vermont.

We have Sheriff Joe that arrests Mexicans, legal or not, and the female inmates that are pregnant and who choose to carry their babies to term and deliver – they are chained to the bed during delivery against the doctor’s advise and a male guard stands guard while the woman gives birth.
Because you never know – them Mexicans just drop them babies here and they might take off.

And women in Sheriff Joe’s jails who want an abortion, well, Sheriff Joe withholds taking them to an abortion clinic until they are beyond the 1st trimester and well into their 2nd, so the abortion is more painful, and of course, he has male guards watching the chained prisoner in writhing pain.

You want to know what total Republican rule looks like?

Move to Phoenix.

» Posted By javaz On August 12, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

Friday Music Thread – Nostalgia

And finally, this is the song that is my husband’s and mine –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlShC-GxFNw

We have a hell of a history and am not comfortable in sharing it but we believe that we were FATED to meet and live happily ever after and we are doing just that!

» Posted By javaz On August 7, 2010 @ 6:06 pm

My third date, and believe me, I’ll never forget this one.

I was asked out by a pot dealer and I would not allow him to meet my parents as he had long hair and a beard, and my good old-fashioned Catholic parents couldn’t handle that!
It’s amazing that they let me go out with him!

I waited out front and he picked me up in an Opal – remember that little shit-shaking car?

He handed me a tin – a small cigar tin – and told me that he had 5 joints from 5 countries and one of them was a killer and it was up to me to choose a joint and whatever we smoked – wouldn’t matter, as we’d smoke them all before the night was through.

I don’t care what anyone says, but pot back in them days was better than the pot available now.
Except for when we were in Amsterdam, and then that pot brought back memories.

We went to a WHO concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit, and we sat in the nose-bleed section, but joints were being passed liberally and the WHO – they abuse their audience – they are assholes but their music is the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE

Funny thing, was that it was so crowded and I had to pee so bad, but jeepers it was so crowded and I was so high.

He then took me to a restaurant afterward, and I had to pee so bad, but was embarrassed for some youthful reason, so I ate dinner while never going to pee and how stupid was that of me?

It was the real WHO we saw and the last concert at in Detroit with the real WHO.

Oh, and he didn’t kiss me then!

Damn.

» Posted By javaz On August 7, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

My second date was YES in Detroit and there’d been a riot, and the guys that we were going with told my boyfriend at that time that he should not bring me, but he did it anyway and god, memories are flooding me – but there weren’t any problems-

» Posted By javaz On August 7, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

My favorite tune from when I was in grade school and when I was dreaming of falling in love and getting married forever –

I was/am such a huge Neil Diamond fan but when he was younger –

My first date ever was a Neil Diamond concert and Albert Brooks was the opening comedian and then – just my luck – we went out for pizza afterwards and he choked on a mint and puked – there was no alcohol or even pot on my first date and needless to say that guy never asked me out again!
LOL
He broke my heart, and I never got my first kiss.

» Posted By javaz On August 7, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

Netroots Nation from Behind the Curtain

I get that, AdLib, I really do.

I can’t verbalize correctly what it is I’m trying to say.

Yes, I always vote Dem, except for one time when it came to the governor’s race in AZ and then both my husband and I voted for Symington and then he was forced to resign!

I’m a believer in that corporations rule and lobbyists are buying our politicians left and right.

There are exceptions – Franken and Grayson stand out in my mind at the moment.

I love Obama so do not get me wrong.

I get the differences in the parties so when I say that Dems and Reps are different sides of the same coin, it has to do with the corporate control.

Does my believing that corporations rule the world make me a conspiracy person?

I truly believe that corporations are running the show – G-8 and what are we up to now? G-20?

When world leaders gather and decide how the world is to be run?

And here’s another thing that I believe and hell, I don’t know what I’m talking about half the time –

But the right has people fired up about Socialism and Marxism and reverse racism.

Meanwhile, the left has us fired up about “fearing” the hate groups and their talk about a race war, civil war and whatever.

Do you ever think that we will ever unite again as we did for a short time after 9-11?

Somehow, imho, we as Americans need to UNITE and stop the insanity.

This is all a game for the corporate masters and corporate media – somehow WE THE PEOPLE must find common ground to fight what is really going on.

Am I wrong about that?

» Posted By javaz On August 7, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

HIYA KES!

» Posted By javaz On August 5, 2010 @ 6:45 pm

Welcome to the Planet!

The thing that always gets me, is that we know what the problems are, but we don’t have an answer.

I am so tired.

That does not mean that I’ll sit out on voting.

I know that you will disagree with me, as will most others, but there really is no difference between the Dems and Reps.

Yes, I know that you hate me for saying that, but they are all crooks as my beloved departed mother used to say, and she was a child from Hitler’s Germany.

You have to be me, when it comes to that.

My father was an illegal from Canada, and he came over illegally from Canada when he was 10 years old, and it’s a long story, but I cherish it.

My father served in WWII and even got a purple heart, silver medal and other awards for bravery under fire.

He had a bullet wound in his arm.
But like that generation, he never talked about it.

It f+cked him up when it came to us kids, and I can understand it all now that I am older.

IMHO, there really is no difference between the DEMs and REPs, as they are the best politicians that money can buy.

» Posted By javaz On August 5, 2010 @ 6:29 pm

Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 2: Baltimore & Philly

Awesome photos, Khirad!

When we were back east, we didn’t make it to Philly or Baltimore, and it sounds like we didn’t miss much in Baltimore, but wish we could have made it to Philly.

I can’t find the first installation from your trip – it’s our laptop that has problems and really, we’re lucky that we can even log on and do what we do!

But the Christ Church in Philly looks like the Christ Church in Boston.
(did you go to Boston?)

I also love Poe and have a collection of short stories in both English and French – both languages in one book that you flip for one language or the other – from our travels in France that were left in hotel rooms and patrons urged to take.

You don’t sound snooty or like an elitist for being wary of rundown areas.
It’s always wise to err on the side of caution.

Beautiful diary, Khirad, and I look forward to reading more once we get home!

» Posted By javaz On August 3, 2010 @ 3:58 pm

Intolerance Takes a Holiday

And the younger Sheriff Joe from AJ and Pinal County – and both Babeu and Joe are from Massachusetts, go figure – and to make things even better for those of us in Pinal County is that Babeu’s nephew is running for Justice of the Peace.

And you know what that means – easier access to search warrants.

Arizona Sheriff:

» Posted By javaz On August 3, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

Sheriff Joe update – Toughest Sheriff?
(yeah, right)

Joe Arpaio’s Latest Bogus Death Threat

All it takes is a cell phone text and bit of garbled audio to get Sheriff Joe Arpaio running around like a chicken sans head.

“America’s toughest sheriff”? Puh-lease.

As was reported by Fox 10 back on July 29, and is now being regurgitated by The Drudge Report and the Associated Press, a text mail version of what they used to call a chain letter was received by a Valley dude.

It essentially said that a Mexican drug cartel was “offering a million dollars for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head and offering a thousand dollars for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel.”

Couple of points here: If some Mexican cartel kingpins wanted to off Arpaio, they’d just do it. They wouldn’t circulate a dumb text mail about it.

Secondly, Arpaio is good for cartel business in Arizona. When’s the last time you’ve ever heard of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office going after cartel operations here in Sand Land?

Nah, Arpaio, true to his nickname “Nickel Bag Joe” would rather round up undocumented car washers, maids and workers at the Sizzler (literally). Arpaio doesn’t mess with organized crime, and organized crime doesn’t mess with him.

So the MCSO stays focused on the small fry, and everyone’s happy. That is, everyone who is corrupt.

This $1 million joke is only the latest in a long line of bogus death threats that our geriatric gendarme has milked for publicity.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/08/joe_arpaios_latest_bogus_death.php

Joe Arpaio in Non-Compliance, U.S. Department of Justice Threatens To Sue MCSO

Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez has sent a letter to Sheriff Joe’s legal counsel, threatening to sue the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office if it does not comply with the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into allegations of civil rights violations against the agency.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/08/joe_arpaio_in_non-compliance_u.php

Salvador Reza Released, Prosecutor Admits No Probable Cause for Arrest

As civil rights leader Salvador Reza stood in stripes before a night court judge around 3:30 a.m. this morning at the Fourth Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix, the county prosecutor made an eye-popping admission.

“This is really my review,” he stated cautiously of a statement from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office before him. “I did not see that this rose to the level of probable cause.”

Reza’s attorney Robert Pastor immediately pounced.

“Your honor,” said Pastor, “I just heard the prosecutor tell the court that there’s not enough evidence here to suggest that Mr. Reza committed a crime. I ask that the charge be dismissed and he be released immediately.”

Of Reza’s bogus charge for “obstructing a judicial proceeding,” the judge herself seemed skeptical.

“I do not have enough information to find probable cause in this matter, sir,” she told the county attorney.

She declined to dismiss the charge, but she released Reza on his own recognizance and set his next court date for August 18.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/07/salvador_reza_released_prosecu.php

» Posted By javaz On August 3, 2010 @ 4:38 pm

I still have my files on Sheriff Joe, B’ito.
He fascinates me because he gets away with so much.

He’s responsible for so many deaths and hardships from his jails and his actions cost the taxpayers of Maricopa County millions of dollars, yet people still love him because he hates Mexicans – legal or not.

I’m on vacation, and have been taking a break, but I can never take a break from Sheriff Joe.

He’s such a prick and a racist prick, and not only that, but he gets away with far too much.

He’s had the New Times reporters arrested wrongfully for investigating his land deals.
The taxpayers of Maricopa County had to pay the New Times 60G’s for wrongful arrest.

And the thing with Mexican females that were pregnant, and they had to give birth while restrained with handcuffs and a deputy in the delivery room – it’s just too much.

George Wallace must be proud of Sheriff Joe.

Joe is 78 years old, and he’ll never give up.

He’s evil, like Cheney, so when they say only the good die young, that’s true.

» Posted By javaz On July 30, 2010 @ 2:13 pm

Has anyone mentioned that a civil right’s lawyer, who just happened to be a black woman, was arrested for unknown reasons?
She was an observer.
Also, a photographer for the Arizona Republic was also arrested?

Sheriff Joe is on a rampage, flexing his Republican muscles, and he’s regained his popularity now.

I don’t know how to do a link with the problems we’ve been having with our laptop, but check out the Phoenix New Times if you’re interested and azcentral.com.

Sheriff Joe is still under a Federal grand jury investigation for abuse of power, but the grand jury only meets once a month, so it’s a long process.

Sheriff Joe has been encouraged by the SB1070 popularity and he did another raid in a part of Chandler yesterday that is heavily Hispanic.

I can’t explain it correctly ever when it comes to SB1070, but there is not one American that supports illegals that are drug runners, coyotes or human smugglers or criminals.

Heck, I’ll even go as far as to say that I do not support illegals that come over and stay.

It’s a complicated issue.

The thing that I am against when it comes to SB1070 is the racial profiling.

We worked with legal Mexicans.
Actually, we worked with Mexican Americans that were children born from legal immigrants.
Way back when Sheriff Joe did one of his first roundups of illegals, they snared 2 of our engineers that were 3rd and 4th generation legal Mexicans.
They were stopped, and this happened back in the 90’s, and were arrested.
These were 2 men that had driver’s licenses, but it wasn’t enough to save their dignity.

They were released once their wives brought in their birth certificates.

This is the United States of America, and we as Americans should never be asked to show our papers, whether we are white, black, brown or any other color.

That original roundup in Chandler by the way, is still in the courts when it comes to settlements.

The last I read about Sheriff Joe was that some judge and certain county officials ordered that the county would no longer cover Sheriff Joe’s legal expenses for when he is sued for wrongdoing, but he must cover the cost personally.

For those of us that are Arizonans, we should support, imho, Rick Romley, and yeah, he’s a Republican, but he has never taken any shit from Sheriff Joe.

» Posted By javaz On July 30, 2010 @ 1:35 pm

First off – Greetings from Ronan, Montana!

Am I the only person that saw the article about Michael Bloomberg – the mayor of New York – joining together with CEOs of major corporations and gasp! Rupert Murdoch demanding amnesty for illegals?
Or maybe it was worded the “path to citizenship”?

The corporations, imho, are going to let this madness only go so far before they call a halt to it.

Corporations want illegals – read “Think Progress” about Target supporting Republicans because of minimum wage – they want to eliminate minimum wage.

That’s not news.

I’ve been unable to read the news or even see the news, and that’s a good thing, but am catching up when we can get WIFI and the tee-vee.

SB1070 has made Brewer, who was despised when she first took over when Napolitano was appointed the head of DHS.

Brewer was hated by Arizonans (I’ve lost my spellcheck somehow, so please forgive me) because she couldn’t even work with the majority of the state’s legislature, which is Republican.

She raised our property taxes, and did a ballot initiative for an additional penny sales tax, which brought us in AJ up to ten cents per dollar.

She cut taxes for the rich and corporations, while raising our taxes and cutting funds for the schools and poor, and laying off state workers, teachers and police and firemen.

She was despised, until SB1070, and now she is the most popular governor (and she’s not elected yet) not only in the state, but in the country.

She will win the election for governor on SB1070 alone.

Two of her close consultants are lobbyists for Corporate owned prisons – read TPM for that bit – so, SB1070 is not only a racist bill, but it has the potential to make private prisons very rich.

When we were camped at our last site, I met a young man from Chicago, and he was very dark-skinned.
He asked me about SB1070, and I told him that I was against it and then we talked about gun laws and how Arizona has the most liberal gun laws in the nation while Chicago and Mayor Daly are striving to have the strictest.

He actually asked me if he were to visit Arizona if he would be stopped and asked for his papers.
The man had the Chicago accent and was an American, and my reply to him was that I could not promise him that it wouldn’t happen.

Those of us in Arizona that are Liberals, Progressives or Democrats like to say –

Welcome to Aryanzona – it’s a dry hate.

» Posted By javaz On July 28, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

Adlib’s Netroots Nation Blog

I would refudiate that poll, b’ito!

» Posted By javaz On July 26, 2010 @ 7:25 pm

Book Alert – Forgotten Heroes and Villains of Sand Creek

BT, hiya.

» Posted By javaz On July 14, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

Hiya Kes!

» Posted By javaz On July 14, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

Hey BDM – it’s good to see you.

And congratulations to Carol for having a book published!

» Posted By javaz On July 14, 2010 @ 3:47 pm

Morning Blog-12-09-10

B’ito!

While skimming through this thing before I could reply to a thing, I noticed that YOU are in charge of something, and everyone was congratulating you and kissing ass for whatever it is that you are now in charge of doing!

First off – congratulations for whatever

Second – BIG smooch

Thirdly – It’s just always a pleasure to see you

LOL

» Posted By javaz On September 21, 2010 @ 6:13 pm

Kalima!

I just logged in and saw you asking about me, and I thank you so very much for that!

I’ve missed you all so very much, too.

We took off for the White Mountains and Show Low the day after Labor Day, and we’ve not had access to the Internet and the only TV station we could get was FOX, and let me just say, that we both are much more stupid and ignorant and hatin’ on everything and everybody!
LOL

I went through Internet withdrawal, and it has it’s good moments and bad moments, but mainly good, except for being forced to watch FOX from Phoenix, and all their stupid shows, except for the NFL Sunday.

We had to get out of the heat, and our electric company is STILL up here working on the lines and that’s unbelievable.

I guess when they said it would take 6 to 8 weeks they meant it, and we got so tired of losing our power in 110+ heat that we took off, yet they are still here, and then we find out that it hit 111 last Sunday, and that is record-breaking for this time of year!

The good news is, is that while we were gone, they paved our road!
YAE!

Well, they didn’t do the entire road, as we are rural and you would not believe how people fight and call the sheriff and hire lawyers over inches of land.

It’s the Hatfields and the McCoys, and I kid you not, all over 2 to 4 inches of land.

But the county did pave our road to the edge of our property line and even a bit beyond, but since our neighbors right below us, who are former NYC cops and currently deputies of Maricopa County, and they own 2 and 1/2 acres of land, and they cause so many problems for us all and it’s a long story.

But they have been against paving our road and are always involving the courts and the Pinal County sheriff, and it’s all so stupid and silly, yet we are grateful that they like us because we do not care if they infringe onto our property, and like I said, it’s all so complicated and so stupid-silly.

My gosh, it is good to be back home, except it’s sad that SRP is still not finished with doing whatever it is they are doing, but at least our road is paved in front of our house and the temps are supposed to be going below 100 degrees.

We are so happy to be back so that we can watch corporate news other than FOX, as FOX really can make a person stupid and that’s not even cable, but broadcast TV and NOT HDTV.

Except for NFL Sunday, we couldn’t bare to watch FOX much, so we resorted to buying newspapers and that was fun, even if newspapers in AZ are right-wing, they still did have opposing viewpoints.

And as for the radio stations up in Show Low – they are all Clear Channel – which is FOX, so we are just trying to regain our gray brain matter and trying to stop hatin’ on everything and everybody!

LOL

Needless to say, we enjoyed the pines and the lake, and when we wanted music, we listened to CDs and when we wanted to watch something, we watched DVDs.

My husband caught 3 fish, which he released, and we spent lots of time outdoors enjoying nature until the mosquitoes made it impossible.

I had 67 emails in my inbox, and most of those were jokes from friends, some right-wing crap from right-wing friends, and spam for penis enlargement and Viagra.

It’s time for me to turn the computer over to my husband and time for me to put things away and do a load or two of laundry.

I’ll be back!

LOL

Take that as a threat or promise!

LOL

I need to catch up with all the articles here on the Planet, and as long as we have power, I’ll be here.

» Posted By javaz On September 21, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

I love the word lallygagging!

It reminds me of when we lived in France and my husband was at work there, and the word of the day for them one time was lackadaisical.

English is the language of business worldwide and when he worked there they had a board and they’d do an English word of the day and a French word of the day.

One of my favorite memories was when the Americans tried teaching the French the word “prick”.

LMAO

My husband said that the French people never quite grasped that word and they’d greet him – “Bonjour, dr’graz, you “prick”.

LMAO

Maybe you had to be there, but it was funny especially with the accent.

» Posted By javaz On August 14, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

Friday Music Thread – The 4th of July

Our friend B’ito – did you not get my email telling you what was going on?

Thank you for the warm greeting.

» Posted By javaz On July 8, 2010 @ 3:15 pm

This song has nothing to do with the topic of conversation but it’s an awesome song and very fun to play –

She’s Not There by the Zombies –

» Posted By javaz On July 8, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

Operation Sunburst

Tesla is a partner of Toyota, so I’ll take the Chevy, if I could afford it.

I do like the sleek lines of the Chevy and hopefully they will come down in price so that more of us can afford it.

We could easily do the solar roof panels here, but sadly, even with the government tax credits, it’s still out of our league.

On a good note though, a few of our neighbors are doing the solar panels and one neighbor that has a lot of property has an entire field set with panels and those people actually get some sort of kick-back from the electric company because they can sell it back.

We did do the panels on another house we owned back during the Carter Administration, as it was more affordable back then with both of us working.

» Posted By javaz On June 10, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

Sex, Dough and Talkin’ Trolls

((((((((((HUGS)))))))))) B’ito!

Welcome back!

» Posted By javaz On June 10, 2010 @ 5:02 am

The amount of money politicians spend on elections is disgusting and immoral.
These multi-millionaire or billionaires certainly do not reflect ‘We The People’.

Here’s a good article on Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman and their not so stellar performance as CEOs.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16294/carly_fiorina_meg_whitman_could_gop_do_worse_tcot?source=rss_blogs

Sharron Angle sure sounds like a crazed Tea Partier – being against alcohol and wanting to bring back prohibition especially in Nevada, and in Las Vegas in particular doesn’t seem like a winning platform, but she did win the primary.

And then what in the heck is going on in South Carolina?

Alvin Greene is unemployed, lives with his parents, never campaigned, and was arrested last November and charged with a felony?
Yet he came up with $10,400.00 to get his name on the ballot and he won the Democratic primary!

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/south-carolina-dems-call-on-greene-to-drop-out-of-senate-race.php?ref=fpb

DeMint is giddy and will coast easily to a landslide victory.

» Posted By javaz On June 9, 2010 @ 6:39 pm

Rejection or Election Day?

Was it Voltaire that said people get the government they deserve?

When it comes to the good old USA, not enough people vote.

GROW needs to get out the word and register people to vote.

Hispanics are registering as Democrats in Phoenix –

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/06/08/20100608arizona-immigration-law-backlash.html

» Posted By javaz On June 8, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

Free Speech! Supplies Are Limited!

My first reaction to this was the same thing concerning ‘freedom of speech’ but then I read Nellie’s replies and do agree with her POV.

But wasn’t Ms. Thomas’s comments not as a reporter, but a reporter or whoever, asking her opinion?

She wasn’t in reporter-mode, but she spoke as a person, right or wrong.

And I do believe that her reply was a knee-jerk reaction to the heavy-handedness of Netanyahu’s government and the flotilla raid.

I understand that FOX pundits and Pat Buchanan and Glenn Beck are not real journalists but there does seem to be a double standard when Beck can promote a book – “The Red Network” – written by an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer and there is no outrage from any Democrats or Republicans for that matter.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201006070053

We all like to dismiss Beck as a nutcase but there are people who actually believe his every word, just as so many believe that FOX is the only fair and balanced network that fights the good fight against Liberalism and Socialism.
(the two are synonymous now)

The woman is 89 and will be 90 years old in August, so God bless her for being lucky enough to live that long and be able to work as long as she has and she deserves to retire.

I fear that she may leave us soon though, now that she’s been forced to retire.

But my gosh, what a life she has had, and if I could live to be 90 and still getting around as well as she did and still have her mind – I’d consider myself very lucky indeed.

» Posted By javaz On June 8, 2010 @ 2:31 pm

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