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Yeah, baby, yeah! Maybe it's because I grew up in a house where there was always some groovy Burt Bacharach hit on the record player, but I love anything from the '60s. So when I walked into Harry's Bar at the Magnolia Hotel, I fell instantly in love. This place looks like Dr. Evil put it in a deep-freeze forty years ago and then brought it to Denver by time machine to fight the malevolence of minimalist black-and-white bars. It's only missing one retro standard: cigarette smoke, since Harry's is smoke-free. As a result, you have no problem seeing the shagadelic decor, which is as irresistible as catnip and features every possible shade of orange. The diverse crowd of drinkers is colorful, too: To quote Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, this joint "puts the grrr in swinger." As does my favorite classic '60s cocktail, the Sidecar ($7), made with Korbel Brandy, Cointreau and sour mix. For an even sweeter memory of simpler times, there's the Chocolate-Covered Cherry Martini ($8), a mélange of Effen Black Cherry Vodka, Godiva liqueur and a splash of cream. Harry's nefarious scheme of global domination includes a daily happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. (5 to 7 p.m. on Sundays), with live music on Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you've lost it, this just might be the spot to find your mojo.
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July 8th, 2012, 22:26
I hadn't played any of Vogel's games before shameful, I know. With my pc being away for repairs, I decided to take the chance to rectify that, so I finally started playing Avadon on my iPad.
Why Avadon? Because it was the only one available on the iPad when I bought it a few months back. Why I bought it for the iPad? Because for some reason I just don't feel like playing a game like that (simple to use and visually humble) on pc anymore. Why? Because I'm weird like that.
Without having payed anything else the game still feels very familiar: it's pretty much exactly what I expected. I see where the criticisms about it come from as well but, to be honest, it all just fits together, the game just works. I find it intriguing, with good pacing, solid atmosphere and overall very enjoyable. In fact I can't even remember when was the last time I enjoyed an RPG as much.
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I heard the word this morning that the pyscho crazy Fred Phelps and Family from Westboro Baptist church (which includes ONLY Phelps family members and a couple of stragglers) is getting 16K in legal expenses after being sued by the family of slain soldier Matthew Snyder, who was murdered by terrorists in Iraq.
Phelps organized a protest at Matthew's funeral. Something about queers and God's revenge. I never did understand what this insane man is preaching.
All I know is that Phelps is going to hell, and so is the Fourth District Court of Appeals who found in favor of Phelps.
Via MichelleMalkin.com
My stalwart friends at the American Legion have stepped up to raise funds to cover the legal expenses of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's family. As you all know, Snyder's funeral was targeted by the evil miscreants of the bogus Westboro Baptist Church. The Snyders took the protesters to court. In October 2007, a jury awarded the Snyders $2.9 million in compensatory damages, $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress. It was thrown out on appeal by the Fourth Circuit. Federal judges have now ordered the family to pay $16,510 to ringleader Fred Phelps as they pursue a Supreme Court case. SCOTUS agreed earlier this month to hear the Snyders' appeal.
Regardless of how you feel about the merits of the Snyders' suit, the Snyders deserve to know that Americans are forever grateful for their son's heroism and for the family's sacrifice. We shouldn't stand by and watch them bankrupted.
MOTHAX at The American Legion Burnpit tells me the group's National Adjutant is seeding a fund-raising effort for the Sndyers with his own funds. The group will also be submitting an amicus brief in the Snyders' case and intends to raise enough money to cover the court-ordered legal expenses and any other expenses incurred by the Supreme Court appeal.
They need your help.
Go here to donate now — and spread the word.
via Instapundit.com
Last night an reporter from CNN travelling with the Tea Party Express showed up at our shop to talk about the Tea Party Express that was coming through Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah today. (I was the local organizer for the Provo event). I gave him a tour through our shop and then took him for a drive up the canyon in one of our cars. We talked the entire time. We ended up speaking for about 4 hours. At the end of our conversation, he dropped a bomb, "You know, I decided to come and find the facts about you guys for myself. The facts are the facts. Keith Olberman is way out in left, crazy field! You guys aren't anything like the media has portrayed you." I replied, "I know." He told me he was then going to write a story on the "real" Tea Party people he met on his travels through Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
This morning the Tea Party Express stopped in Provo. We had about 500 people show up. I introduced Mayor John Curtis who was just elected to office (off-year elections for the cities here). He inherited a 5 million budget shortfall. The first thing he did was cut funding for the Miss Provo Pageant. He said they were welcome to have the pageant–just not on the city's dime. He then asked the city employees to pick 5 guys from each department to figure out where they could save money in the budget–and they DID! He balanced the budget without raising taxes a penny, just like he promised before he was elected. He left his business to run for mayor. He obviously brought his business skills with him. There are some great ones out there.
The comment of the day (Provo) came from a reporter who asked me, "I am trying to take a picture of a counter protester's sign and I can't find one. Do you know where any are?"
In Salt Lake over 1000 people attended. A total of 2 counter protesters showed up. They left after 10 minutes.
I spoke with several media people today. This morning I was on KSL radio, in the afternoon I was on PJTV (coming soon, I gave you a shout out!) and tonight I was on ABC Channel 4 News. The Channel 4 News anchors were most respectful and exceptionally nice both on the air and off the air. Throughout the day I spoke with more print journalists than I can remember. I have hopes all these flared emotions of late will temper. It was a great day.
Last night an reporter from CNN travelling with the Tea Party Express showed up at our shop to talk about the Tea Party Express that was coming through Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah today. (I was the local organizer for the Provo event). I gave him a tour through our shop and then took him for a drive up the canyon in one of our cars. We talked the entire time. We ended up speaking for about 4 hours. At the end of our conversation, he dropped a bomb, "You know, I decided to come and find the facts about you guys for myself. The facts are the facts. Keith Olberman is way out in left, crazy field! You guys aren't anything like the media has portrayed you." I replied, "I know." He told me he was then going to write a story on the "real" Tea Party people he met on his travels through Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
This morning the Tea Party Express stopped in Provo. We had about 500 people show up. I introduced Mayor John Curtis who was just elected to office (off-year elections for the cities here). He inherited a 5 million budget shortfall. The first thing he did was cut funding for the Miss Provo Pageant. He said they were welcome to have the pageant–just not on the city's dime. He then asked the city employees to pick 5 guys from each department to figure out where they could save money in the budget–and they DID! He balanced the budget without raising taxes a penny, just like he promised before he was elected. He left his business to run for mayor. He obviously brought his business skills with him. There are some great ones out there.
The comment of the day (Provo) came from a reporter who asked me, "I am trying to take a picture of a counter protester's sign and I can't find one. Do you know where any are?"
In Salt Lake over 1000 people attended. A total of 2 counter protesters showed up. They left after 10 minutes.
I spoke with several media people today. This morning I was on KSL radio, in the afternoon I was on PJTV (coming soon, I gave you a shout out!) and tonight I was on ABC Channel 4 News. The Channel 4 News anchors were most respectful and exceptionally nice both on the air and off the air. Throughout the day I spoke with more print journalists than I can remember. I have hopes all these flared emotions of late will temper. It was a great day.
Here's a pic from Salt Lake City.
Dear Friends,
After a health scare that brought me home from Washington D.C. and my dream job, I decided to throw myself into a campaign to take back our great country from the liberals who are trying to destroy it. My heart is with our men and women who serve our country in uniform, as always. That is just one of the reasons that I have joined Chuck DeVore's campaign for U.S. Senate in California.
I am going all out for Chuck DeVore's campaign to oust liberal tax-and-spender Democrat Barbara Boxer. The No. 1 reason: Because he is a TRUE conservative and he can beat Boxer.
Make a donation today of $25, $50, $75, or $100
That's the $64,000 question that many Republicans are asking today after Ms. Fiornia ducked the debate at Brandman University in Irvine, CA, this evening. http://www.oclnn.com/orange-county/2010-03-30/california/debate-spurs-controversy-among-candidatesAccording to the story, "Initially, Fiorina said she could not participate because of a scheduling conflict, according to [Fiorina spokeswoman Amy] Thoma." But then, says Thoma, "We felt the proposed moderator [Dr Mike Moodian, an assistant professor of social science at Brandman,] would not be fair and impartial so we declined." And what did Dr Moodian do to create this impression? According to the story, "Thoma accused Moodian of 'bullying' Fiorina by including reporters on reply e-mails regarding the debate negotiations."Yep, the spokeswoman for Carly Fiorina, would-be United States Senator and challenger to Barbara Boxer, says Carly feels bullied via e-mail by an assistant professor of social science. That surely portends effectiveness in Washington, D.C.Now, let's be absolutely clear: the Fiorina campaign's victimhood smokescreen is exactly that. Carly Fiorina is dodging this debate because she wants to debate as little as possible. She does poorly in these uncontrolled settings where she may be freely challenged, as exemplified rather painfully in the March 5th radio debate on KTKZ. For a prime example, go to this URL, and scroll down to the clip entitled, "Chuck confronts Carly Fiorina on her foreign policy experience," to hear Chuck DeVore provoke Fiorina into spluttering anger on an otherwise minor point: http://chuckdevore.com/n/news.asp?artid=256Carly Fiorina is simply unequipped, in temperament or training, for an aggressive exchange of views and open skepticism of her claims. That's why she won't debate this evening. It's an act of self-preservation for her campaign -- but for an aspirant to the world's greatest deliberative body, it's a shameful evasion.
Thousands converge in Searchlight, Nev., for the Tea Party Express cross-country bus tour kickoff.
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The wind whipped off the desert floor, but the chill seemed to light a fire beneath the Tea Party activists, 35,000 strong, who showed up in Searchlight, Nevada this weekend to send a message to Harry Reid: YOUR FIRED.
I was honored to be able to introduce Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, and the petite dynamo who dominates conservative politics.
I was also thrilled to be able to introduce to the crowd my friend Chuck Devore, who is running for U.S. Senate in California, who is the only true conservative candidate in a three way Republican primary run-off.
While traveling on the Tea Party Express bus, some of Senator Harry Reid's supporters showed their true colors by assaulting us with eggs. They were union thugs from the SEIU, of course. They went after my friend Andrew Breitbart, who was stuck on the street corner accidentally. Fortunately, he escaped their clutches. Boy, is he pissed.
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Joe Garofoli wrote about the tea party, and the coverage was actually fair. Imagine that.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
(03-28) 04:00 PDT Searchlight, Nev. --
Organizers described this gathering Saturday of thousands of Tea Partiers minutes from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's home in desolate Nevada scrub as a "conservative Woodstock."
But instead of gorging on LSD, free love and Jimi Hendrix, thousands of attendees binged on seething anger at Washington and swooned to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Tea Party Express kicked off a 43-city cross-country bus tour that's intended to rouse voters to their cause.
"We're sending a message to Washington," Palin told the crowd that exploded in chants of "Sarah! Sarah!" when she took the stage.
"The big government, big tax Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending spree is over," she said, referring also to the president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco. "You're fired."
Midterm preview
Days after the passage of the health care reform law, the gathering outside the 749-resident town about 60 miles south of Las Vegas previewed the bare-knuckles way the 2010 midterm elections will be fought in California and elsewhere.
The test now is whether the street energy of the anti-tax, small-government message of the Tea Party movement can translate from mad-as-hell gatherings like this into a broader force that can generate electoral change.
But before they can take on vulnerable Democrats like Reid, who is facing a tough re-election battle, the Tea Partiers are going after Republicans deemed insufficiently conservative for their liking. Four Republicans vying to challenge Reid in November appeared before the audience Saturday in a voters forum.
The political pinata of the day was Reid. A giant billboard in Searchlight, close to where Reid and his wife frequently share a booth for dinner at the Searchlight Nugget Casino, said "Will Rogers Never Met Harry Reid."
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Hey folks, this is my last blog posting before I hit the road to Searchlight. Stacy McCain from The Other McCain has little jewel. (P.S. I just heard from a little birdie that Brian Williams of NBC News is shooting a story about the kick-off of the Tea Party Express.)
Did the news that I'm coming out West provoke this frenzy?
Whenever hundreds of vehicles and dozens of buses unload passengers in a town with fewer than 1,000 people, traffic is bound to be a problem. It's magnified when few roads lead into town.Welcome to the Tea Party Express stop in Searchlight.The strategy of law enforcement officials and rally organizers for Saturday's noon event is basically to ensure attendees arrive and depart safely and to alleviate as much chaos as possible in town.State Department of Transportation spokesman Bob McKenzie said his agency's primary concern is to keep traffic along U.S. Highway 95 moving smoothly. The rally site is a quarter-mile off the highway, potentially making it a logistical challenge to keep buses and vehicles from backing up at the side-road turnoff. . . .
Whenever hundreds of vehicles and dozens of buses unload passengers in a town with fewer than 1,000 people, traffic is bound to be a problem. It's magnified when few roads lead into town.Welcome to the Tea Party Express stop in Searchlight.The strategy of law enforcement officials and rally organizers for Saturday's noon event is basically to ensure attendees arrive and depart safely and to alleviate as much chaos as possible in town.State Department of Transportation spokesman Bob McKenzie said his agency's primary concern is to keep traffic along U.S. Highway 95 moving smoothly. The rally site is a quarter-mile off the highway, potentially making it a logistical challenge to keep buses and vehicles from backing up at the side-road turnoff. . . .
All this, just for me? Or is it Andrea Shea King? Well, OK, there's also Andrew Breitbart, Joe the Plumber, Wayne Allyn Root, Dick Armey, Roger Hedgecock, Melanie Morgan and a certain former governor of Alaska . . .
Hey Everybody!
I am super excited to be heading out for Searchlight, Nevada tomorrow.
Join me and dozens of others, including Sarah Palin, Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live fame) and many other talk show hosts including Andrea Shay King in Searchlight, Nevada (Reid's hometown) this weekend for the kick-off of the Tea Party Express III.
I am honored to be introducing Governor Palin and standing with thousands of you as we channel our outrage over loss of our liberties in America.
Tonight, Andrea will have a special show talking to organizers and participants. Click onto the show you don't want to miss!
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor blamed top Democrats for "fanning the flames" regarding threats to members of Congress — and says his office in Richmond was shot at earlier this week.
Cantor, a Virginia Republican, said the heads of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are using allegations of harassment and threats to Democrats nationwide for political purposes.
Cantor said he doesn't release information about the incidents of threats against himself to the media because it would only ratchet up violence. But he did say a bullet shot through the window in his campaign office in Richmond on Monday evening, and he has received threats because he is Jewish.
According to a statement by the Richmond Police department, the bullet struck the window in a "downward direction" and broke the window, but did not penetrate the window blinds – suggesting that it was not a point blank shot at Cantor's office window.
"There was no other damage to the room, which is used occasionally for meetings by the congressman," the statement reads.
"[I] have deep concerns that some, DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine in particular, are dangerously fanning the flames by suggesting that these incidents be used as a political weapon," Cantor said.
Democrats and Republicans today moved to distance themselves from the violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said "we all reject" any derisive language used by protestors Sunday in the lead up to the health care vote. The top House Democrat said protesters and those engaging in violence and threats should not be lumped together.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said that the "violence and the threats are unacceptable." Tea party organizers across the country have also condemned the threats and vandalism.
(via Instapundit.com)
JOHN STOSSEL: They Fly First Class: "Will you and your family put off a vacation this year because you can't afford it? Too bad, because you have paid for some terrific trips — for government bureaucrats. The Washington Times reports that last year $13 billion in tax dollars was spent to pamper 'public servants' on trips that double as vacation junkets." Like I say, I don't want to hear any lecturing about my carbon footprint from these people.
ARRRRGGGGHHH (this comment reflects the editorial opinion of - JUST ABOUT EVERYONE.)
Pete Wehner at Commentary Magazine sums up my thoughts on this travesty that has taken place in the halls of Congress.
Basically, he and others are saying ...we're screwed.
Until November, that is.
Join us for the biggest Tea Party Express national tour to date. Starting March 27, 2010 with a Mega Rally in Searchlight, NV (hometown to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) we will take this message across the nation all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 15th:
"You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken. We're taking our country back!"
Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010as we tell Congress and the White House: "Enough!"
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As America's largest grassroots pro-troop organization, Move America Forward has been privileged to support our troops and their mission against Islamic terrorism. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin , Dr. Laura and so many other talk show hosts have given unselfishly to this noble cause.
From time to time they are attacked, usually by leftist anti-war extremists, but sometimes even conservatives make the mistake of joining the circular firing squad against one of their own. There have recently been unfair attacks against Sean Hannity, but we know he has been a total champion in supporting our troops and we are honored to stand with him.
Since the beginning of our organization in 2004, Move America Forward has been a pro-troop grassroots organization that has worked tirelessly to give our troops a voice and serve them as best we can. It is a difficult and often frustrating endeavor, and there is never enough money to help the many brave men and women in America's armed forces who need and deserve our assistance. Sean Hannity has been a friend to our organization and has helped us greatly in serving our troops and their families.
His generosity in supporting our troops is legendary. He personally gave $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation and over $200,000 to the Freedom Alliance. When we had a group of Gold Star Parents who had lost a son in Iraq, Sean provided the funding so we could take them to Iraq and see where their children died in the cause of protecting American freedom. They could see with their own eyes the progress that had been made in turning Iraq into a democratic country that would no longer harbor terrorists or threaten peace.
Socialized medicine, just as predicted by my late father-in-law 40 years ago.
(photo courtesy of MichelleMalkin.com)
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Black Congressmen play race card - and video proves that they lie!
Sean Hannity – A Stalwart Champion for our Troops
Don't Listen to His Detractors
As America's largest grassroots pro-troop organization, Move America Forward has been privileged to support our troops and their mission against Islamic terrorism. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin , Dr. Laura and so many other talk show hosts have given unselfishly to this noble cause.
From time to time they are attacked, usually by leftist anti-war extremists, but sometimes even conservatives make the mistake of joining the circular firing squad against one of their own. There have recently been unfair attacks against Sean Hannity, but we know he has been a total champion in supporting our troops and we are honored to stand with him.
Since the beginning of our organization in 2004, Move America Forward has been a pro-troop grassroots organization that has worked tirelessly to give our troops a voice and serve them as best we can. It is a difficult and often frustrating endeavor, and there is never enough money to help the many brave men and women in America's armed forces who need and deserve our assistance. Sean Hannity has been a friend to our organization and has helped us greatly in serving our troops and their families.
His generosity in supporting our troops is legendary. He personally gave $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation and over $200,000 to the Freedom Alliance. When we had a group of Gold Star Parents who had lost a son in Iraq, Sean provided the funding so we could take them to Iraq and see where their children died in the cause of protecting American freedom. They could see with their own eyes the progress that had been made in turning Iraq into a democratic country that would no longer harbor terrorists or threaten peace. Again in 2007, Sean and Jill Hannity wrote a check for $15,000 to send care packages to our troops through Move America Forward, quietly, without expectation of anything in return.
The attacks against Sean have been leveled by Ms. Debbie Schlussel, who has been a tireless fighter against Islamic terrorism. But, Debbie has missed the mark in her attacks. She assaults Sean Hannity as well as the organization Freedom Alliance for paying transportation costs and hotel stays related to Hannity's blockbuster "Freedom Concerts". But that simply isn't true. Sean pays for his own transportation and hotel rooms.
She doesn't understand that in addition to his generous financial support for pro-troop causes, Sean gives the most valuable thing he has to the pro-troop movement: his time and reputation. Hardly an hour of his syndicated radio and TV show goes by without Sean saying something supportive of our troops. You cannot find anywhere a better friend or ally to the men and women of the United States military.
Many of you have probably been to his Freedom Concerts, which provide a huge morale boost to our troops and patriotic Americans back home. They do cost a lot of money to produce, but they also produce so much good. The time he spends personally with the troops and their families is of immeasurable in value. Just ask any of them who have attended.
Much like Ronald and Nancy Reagan when our POW's were released from Viet Nam, Sean has quietly reached out to our troops in ways that the public will never know. In addition to these acts of kindness, they don't even know about his various acts of generosity. Among his many gifts, he personally contributed thousands of dollars to the Move America Forward Troopathon – the 8 hour telethon broadcast on the internet so that we could send care packages to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Move America Forward has shipped over 168 tons of care packages to troops overseas, and yet we continually feel as though we haven't done enough. There are so many more troops who deserve our thanks and gratitude. With the help of celebrities like Sean Hannity, we are closer to reaching out and touching all of our deserving troops overseas.
For the record, Sean Hannity, we know to be a tireless worker, and a selfless supporter of our troops. Sean has visited wounded troops at military hospitals, he has organized several trips to Iraq, and most importantly he has consistently honored our troops and their missions in the War on Terror and defended their honor whenever those on the fringe left trash our brave men and women.
It is easy for people to criticize. Ironically, the harshest critics are the ones that have little to show in support for our troops. The pro-troop community knows who our friends are. Sean Hannity is our friend, and Americans are grateful for his continual dedication and generosity towards our troops.
Melanie Morgan, co-founder and Past President, Move America Forward
Sal Russo, Chief Strategist Move America Forward
Debbie Lee, Gold Star Mom and Military Outreach Director, MAF
Danny Gonzalez, Communications Director, MAF
Catherine Moy, former Executive Director, MAF
Frum Forum:
Debbie Schlussel posted a long piece last evening about a charity that Sean Hannity is affiliated with, accusing them of malfeasance and mismangement.
Frum Forum has done an exhaustive investigation of the charity in question, Freedom Alliance, and found enough evidence to substantially rebut each of Schlussel's claims. I'll approach them one by one.
Schlussel Accusation: Sean Hannity improperly benefited from Freedom Alliance by charging private jets, hotel stays and luxury cars.
Freedom Alliance's press release today stated categorically that they have "never provided planes, hotels, cars, limos, or anything else to Sean [Hannity] … to be clear Sean pays for all his own transportation, hotels, and all related expenses for himself and his family and friends and staff." We are satisfied that this is true.
It is true that Freedom Alliance spent $60,000 on aviation services in 2006, but there is no evidence that this was for Sean Hannity's benefit, and it seems unlikely that the money was used to lease a Gulfstream 5. Rates for G5 aircraft average around $8,000 an hour. $60,000 would not buy much at that rate.
We have also been able to confirm that Sean Hannity has no operational control over the organization. Nor is he even a member of the group's board.
If Schlussel stands behind her statement, then she will have to do better than a quote from a blind source, who is, as she admits, a friend of a friend.
Schlussel Accusation: Too Little of Freedom Alliance's Spending Has Gone to Program Outcomes.
Frum Forum has intensively investigated Freedom Alliance's 990 Forms, which have been submitted to the IRS and checked by an independent auditor.
Debbie Schlussel alleges that only $1 million of the organization's $8.8 million in revenue was going to soldiers and scholarships in 2008. This figure is the product of a misleading and selective reading of the organization's tax forms.
The numbers that Schlussel cite refer to direct financial transfers to individuals – that is, if there is a direct grant that Freedom Alliance gives to a soldier. This does not include all the positive work that doesn't involve a direct grant.
Freedom Alliance also spends money on non-cash benefits for military families, involving things like taking soldiers to sporting events and sending care packages to troops.
The highest paid employee earned $152,000 in 2006. The second highest paid employee earned $83,000. In 2007, Freedom Alliance spent about $1 in $7 on salary and benefits.
Total staffing costs may seem high, but they are not out of line with what is spent at many other charities. For example, the Armed Services branch of the YMCA spent about $1 in $2 on salaries and benefits in 2008.
Be sure to read the whole thing here.
Live Feed from Fox News for Tea Party Rally to Stop the Obamacare efforts from Washington, D.C.! Man the phones!
Photo courtesy of Ann Althouse
photo courtesy of Andrea Shay-King
Okay, so I'm not really shocked. But it is disgusting that my former employer for 24 years whips out a checkbook and pays 200 grand to an accused child killer - for ratings.
And I can't begin to tell you how many times an indignant lawyer or spokes parrot for ABC denies that such a pure, journalistic endeavor would ever pay for news - only the tabloids do that, you know.
What a bunch of liars.
"...New evidence was released Thursday in the Casey Anthony murder case, including the amount of money she received from a television network, as well as conversations she had with other inmates.
Anthony's defense team told Judge Stan Strickland that she no longer has funds to pay for the trial. Her attorney testified ABC News paid Casey Anthony $200,000, but that those funds are now gone.
Strickland is deciding whether to approve the declaration of Anthony being indigent, which would make the state pay for her defense.
A transcript of conversations Anthony had with a fellow inmate was also released, stating that "an Orange County Corrections officer may have facilitated the communication once the friendship had begun."
Casey Anthony remains jailed on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee, who was last seen in June of 2008. Caylee was not reported missing until a month later. The little girl's remains were found in a wooded area near the family's home on December 11, 2008. Investigators say the toddler's body was found with duct tape over her mouth."
Stupid is, as stupid does. Does anyone really wonder why the Tea Party movement exists?
Anyone, anyone?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State Assembly Speaker John Perez wasn't the only one who received a pay raise when he assumed the leadership post at the start of the month.
The Sacramento Bee reported Monday that the Los Angeles Democrat boosted pay for eight of his staff members on March 1, the day he was sworn in. The newspaper obtained the information under the state public records law.
Perez spokeswoman Shannon Murphy says the speaker's staff is taking on a "tremendous amount of additional new work" now that he is leader of the 80-member body.
Perez's salary grew from $95,291 to $109,584 when he assumed the speakership.
A Commentary By Michael Barone
Monday, March 15, 2010
The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders.
Some on the left attack them as fascists or racists, though evidence of that is sorely lacking. David Brooks in The New York Times compared them to the New Left campus radicals of the 1970s, which comes closer to reality but doesn't quite ring true.
Some tea partiers, citing the Declaration and the Constitution, compare themselves to the patriots of 1776 and the founders of 1787, which has some validity but seems overly self-congratulatory.
In terms of their immediate effect on conventional politics and their potential for continued influence, I think the tea partiers bear an uncanny resemblance to the antiwar activists in the Vietnam War period.
Like the tea partiers, the antiwar folk did not start off affiliated with one political party. They campaigned against an incumbent Democratic president and his political heir in 1968. Four years later, some supported Rep. Pete McCloskey's antiwar primary challenge to Richard Nixon. The tea partiers have plenty of corrosive things to say about the Republican politicians of the last decade, and at least some of them may support likeminded Democrats.
But if they stay involved, the tea partiers are likely to gravitate to the Republican Party, just as the antiwar folk gravitated to the Democratic Party, on which they had a long-lasting and pervasive effect.
Not all of that effect was positive. Antiwar Democrats beat hawks in primaries and then lost general elections to Republicans. The disarray of the 1968 Democratic national convention helped beat Hubert Humphrey, and the antiwar 1972 nominee George McGovern lost 49 states. Some antiwar folks voiced an anti-Americanism that turned off ordinary voters.
But antiwar Democrats supplied energy and impressive recruits to their party. Many Democrats who were motivated by dovish views and supported by dovish volunteers and contributors won breakthrough victories in 1974, enabling the party to hold congressional and legislative majorities for much of the next 20 years. And even as Democrats lost support from white Southerners and blue-collar men, their antiwar tendency helped them win support from affluent and culturally liberal suburbanites who now, despite Democrats' workingman rhetoric, form the dominant part of the party base.
You can see the intellectual influence of the antiwar people in the speeches of Democrats opposing the conflicts in the Gulf in 1991 and Iraq in 2002. Their arguments are a better fit for the facts of the Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964 than for the facts on the ground in 1991 and 2002.
Like the antiwar activists of 40 years ago, the tea partiers include many good citizens moved to political involvement because of intellectually serious concerns about public policy. Similarly, they include a much smaller number of cranks, conspiracy theorists and congenital malcontents.
Tea partiers have caused some internal party splits (see the New York 23 special election), and some may launch primary challenges or third-party efforts that will elect Democrats. Any time a large number of motivated people inject themselves into electoral politics, they cause a certain amount of chaos.
They also add a lot of energy, political creativity and enthusiasm into a moribund and dejected political party, like the Democrats of 1968 and the Republicans of 2008. New people change the positions and focus of their parties. The Democrats before 1968 were a pro-Cold War party. Since 1968 they have been, with occasional exceptions, a dovish party. Hawks need not apply (ask Joe Lieberman).
The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful pivot, given the emergence of a Millennial generation uncomfortable with crusading cultural conservatism.
It's not clear whether the tea partiers' influence on Republicans will last as long as the antiwar cohort's imprint on Democrats. But their concern -- the fact that government spending is on a trajectory to increase far beyond revenues -- seems likely to persist. In which case a spontaneous movement that no one predicted and that no one person led could end up, again, reshaping one of our great political parties.
Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner.
As many of you know, I'm hosting the third annual Troopathon, a live web broadcast featuring many of my friends in the talk radio world and from Hollywood to raise money for thousands of care packages to our men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is a year round project, and I thought I would share with you a letter Move America Forward received from the desert of Iraq and here is another.
And remember to join us live on the web at www.moveamericaforward.com on July 1st.
Here's some great news: the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is entering the political fray and supporting the cause of Tea Party conservatives.
How do I know this?
Alan Colmes, well-known liberal talk-show host is indignantly decrying her right to free speech at his website, where I found this post.
***Note to Alan Colmes - Justice Clarence Thomas is entirely capable of making up his own mind without the influence of his wife. You demean both by suggesting otherwise. I have been trying for YEARS to inflluence my liberal husband - without any luck.
March 14, 2010, 11:59 AMET • 17 Comments »
Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has started something called Liberty Central Inc because of President Obama's "hard-left agenda." (h/t The Political Carnival)
"I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda."
An "ordinary citizen", that is, whose husband just happens to be a justice of the United States Supreme Court. An "ordinary citizen" who is able raise big corporate cash for her new concern because of a recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, where her husband voted in the majority. An "ordinary citizen" who has consulted the heavily-funded conservative Heritage Foundation.
In 2000, while at the Heritage Foundation, she was recruiting staff for a possible George W. Bush administration as her husband was hearing the case that would decide the election. When journalists reported her work, Thomas said she saw no conflict of interest and that she rarely discussed court matters with her husband.
Mrs. Thomas is quite fond of the tea partiers.
"I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country," Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great."
The move by Virginia Thomas, 52, into the front lines of politics stands in marked contrast to the rarefied culture of the nation's highest court, which normally prizes the appearance of nonpartisanship and a distance from the fisticuffs of the politics of the day.
And the tea partier is quite fond of certain conservative bloviators.
Her biography notes that Thomas is a fan of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, author of "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America."
"She is intrigued by Glenn Beck and listening carefully," the bio says.
If Wonkette says I'm a loser, then I'm a loser. Right? I believe EVERTHING that the whack-jobs on the Left print, so I better re-set my self-esteem button.
Look at these ten losers — just absolute losers, these people, the Tea Party celebrities — with their cartoon video about going to Harry Reid's empty bumfuck hometown to make catcalls about his critically injured family or whatever, and maybe have a few brews. And when stunts like this manage to knock the tepid, center-right, pro-life elderly Mormon majority leader out of office, we'll be thanking these losers for saving us from Socialism and Communism. [YouTube]
Hey Everyone! I'm borderline excited about my get fired up speech I'm giving tomorrow for the Tea Party Express III at the California Republican Party convention in Santa Clara, California.
I hope you'll be there and join me, Andrew Breitbart, and many others at the Santa Clara Hyatt, 5101 Great American Parkway.
I'll start lipping off at 2:00 or thereabouts.
Read more: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/10/30/tea-party-bus-stopping-at-fairgrounds-today/#ixzz0i0rjPISg
Meanwhile, cast your eyeballs on this article from SFgate.com and political writer Joe Garafoli and what he has to say about our wing ding.
"...More than a year after taking a beating at the ballot box, the California Republican Party is energized by "Tea Party" revivals and declining Democratic poll numbers as it heads into a three-day state party convention this weekend, charged up and "on the offense" for the statewide and mid-term elections.
That's the official mantra as nearly 1,000 California Republican activists, candidates and officials gather at the Santa Clara Hyatt starting today to hear from statewide candidates - including those in crucial gubernatorial and U.S. Senate contests - and to prepare for fundraising and get-out-the-vote activities in this year's elections.
"This convention marks the shift from the GOP being on defense to going on offense," state party chair Ron Nehring said Thursday.
"A year ago, Barack Obama's approval ratings were up and (Democrats) had a commanding lead in congressional ballot strength" and in the number of voters who identified with their party, he said. But "what a difference a few government-owned automobile companies, a multibillion-dollar federal stimulus plan and a takeover" of health care "can do for the political environment," he said.
With Republican statehouse victories in Virginia and New Jersey, and in the Massachusetts Senate race this year, "here in California, we're taking the next step," Nehring said.
Less than three months before the June primary, the GOP's gathering this weekend serves as an important election-year marker because it provides a key platform for candidates to connect with party activists - and their success can go a long way toward building enthusiasm and donor bases heading into the elections."
Tom Campbell is a very nice fellow, a highly experienced politican, and a man with a polished resume on the Republican side. I know Tom Campbell. I have interviewed Tom Campbell, and debated Tom Campbell several times.
He is too liberal for my taste, but he seems quite reasonable when you talk to him and very likeable.
But Tom Campbell has a deeply disturbing problem which threatens to de-rail his nascent Senatorial campaign.
The former Congressman from the South Bay is seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate against Chuck DeVore, the conservative standard bearer and Carly Fiorina, the establishment GOP'er (and McCain supporter) but he can't run away from a record of supporting a known supporter of terrorism.
The Chuck DeVore campaign writes: "In brief, both Seema Mehta of the Los Angeles Times and Michael Zapler of the San Jose Mercury News have written excellent stories on Campbell's provably false assertions -- made in Friday's debate with Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina -- about his past affiliation with convicted terrorist supporter Sami Al-Arian."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-senate9-2010mar09,0,7419294.story http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14643078
This is a huge problem for Campbell.
Due to some severe computer problems, I didn't get a chance to post the Groupapalooza media pick-ups from Mill Valley, California on Sunday.
For those of you who are reading from around the country and may not know it, Marin County is the liberal belly of the beast. Some beastly individuals tried to silence, shut-down, shout over and strip conservatives of their right to free speech and assembly for a Tea Party event, while calling us names and generally acting like dopes.
Didn't happen.
Take a look at this article from MarinMore.com and marvel! Congrats to organizer Sally Selikovsky and Brian Sussman from KSFO Radio, and others who pulled it together for a HUGELY successful 600 person event!
The Mill Valley Community Center was awash in red, white and blue as hundreds of Republicans, Independents, Libertarians and self-described conservatives gathered for a rousing networking event on Sunday afternoon to promote their brand of change.
The so-called Groupa-Palooza event, was billed by sponsor Bay Area Patriots as the "largest gathering of conservatives in the Bay Area" and when we arrived shortly after 1 p.m., there were at least a hundred people lined up outside waiting to get into the already jam-packed event. There were a few colorful characters sprinkled among the flag-wearing grandmothers and preppy business types, but overall it was a pretty sedate bunch.
Not so sedate were the handful of Lyndon LaRouche supporters who waved Hitler-style Obama posters while shouting anti-Obama slogans at the crowd.
Sally Zelikovsky, the event organizer and founder of Bay Area Patriots was quick to point out that although "they're exercising their right to free speech, they're not with our group."
What was missing in this very liberal county, was the opposition. Nary a protest or Democrat sign to be seen anywhere. Sitting nearby, however, was Deborah Phelan, a local Progressive Party organizer who had waged a one-woman fight against the conservative event.
"The decision was that we were not going to protest," said Phelan, "Because we don't give any credence to the people who are sponsoring this event."
"The decision was that we were not going to protest," said Phelan, "Because we don't give any credence to the people who are sponsoring this event."
Terry Inscoe an Independent from Ross, who was standing in line, was one of those who gave the event credence.
"I'm not with any particular group," he said, "I wanted to hear what peoples views are. I'm concerned with deficit spending and I prefer a small government to big government and I don't like the health care bill."
"I'm not with any particular group," he said, "I wanted to hear what peoples views are. I'm concerned with deficit spending and I prefer a small government to big government and I don't like the health care bill."
Inside, political groups ranged from the traditional like the 72-year-old California Federation of Republican Women to the more fringe My Liberty San Mateo 9.12 Project a group inspired by Glenn Beck. If there was a unifying theme at the event, it was a preponderance of buttons and placards reading "Reset 2010." It is the rallying cry of conservatives everywhere as they make the push for a change in the political makeup of Congress with next November's election.
"It's a clean sweep in November," said Hubbard, "And for Harry Reid come November, the only thing he's going to be pushing through the house, is a broom."
"It's a clean sweep in November," said Hubbard, "And for Harry Reid come November, the only thing he's going to be pushing through the house, is a broom."
(We assume he meant 'house' not House as Reid in in the Senate.)
Party faithful pitched their particular passion; heath care reform, guns, taxes or immigration. There were speeches and tributes, and a particularly beautiful a-Capella rendition of the national anthem sung by a quartet of schoolgirls.
There were also a lot of political candidates pushing their platforms from the well known (Carly Fiornia for U.S. Senate) to the lesser known (Doris Gentry for State Assembly, 7th District). Everyone was giving away some kind of swag--hats, buttons, pencils and postcards but if you wanted the hot item of the day, a "Reset 2010" button, that set you back two bucks.
Speaking pointedly about the Democratic leadership in Congress, Zelikovsky echoed the reset theme as she addressed the crowd-
"And remember, you'll all be eating humble pie in November when we reset the Congress in 2010- and debug the political system that has been corrupted by politicians like Reid and Pelosi."
"And remember, you'll all be eating humble pie in November when we reset the Congress in 2010- and debug the political system that has been corrupted by politicians like Reid and Pelosi."
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Gap between Federal Workers and Private Sector Workers is a whopping $38,548
By Dennis CauchonUSA TODAY
Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.
Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, some $7,645 below the average pay for federal workers.
However, these salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal worker vs. $9,882 per private worker, a difference of $30,903 per worker in 2008, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
"The data flip the conventional wisdom on its head," says Cato Institute budget analyst Chris Edwards, a critic of federal pay policy. "Federal workers make substantially more than private workers, not less, in addition to having a large advantage in benefits."
Federal pay has become a hot political issue in recent months because of concerns over the federal budget deficit and recession-battered wages in the private sector.
US Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., made federal pay an issue in his successful campaign to fill Edward Kennedy's seat, and is fighting for a federal pay freeze.
USA TODAY used Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data to compare salaries in every federal job that had a private-sector equivalent. For example, the federal government's 57,000 registered nurses working for Veterans Affairs and elsewhere, were paid an average of $74,460 a year, $10,680 more than the average for private-sector nurses.
The BLS reports that 216 occupations covering 1.1 million federal workers exist in both the federal government and the private sector. An additional 124 federal occupations covering 750,000 employees (air-traffic controllers, tax collectors and others) did not have direct equivalents, according to the BLS.
This is perhaps the sickest antiwar advertisement I've seen in some time. Can you imagine troops getting blown up on video used to sell the radical left's global warming agenda? The clip's below, from the Soros-backed VoteVets. Note how the spot's running as a click-thru web-ad at Daily Kos, where it reads, "TELL CONGRESS TO DEFEND AMERICA BY PASSING CLEAN ENERGY CLIMATE LEGISLATION" and "OIL MONEY IS FUELING TERRORISTS AND FUNDING OUR ENEMIES" (screencaps here and here)
We send $1 billion a day in oil money overseas -- often to nations that don't like America very much. Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorists and funds deadly attacks on American forces, like EFPs specially designed to piece our armor.This is what our troops are up against, everyday ...
At the VoteVets entry we find a link to George Soros' Center for American Progress, "Quadrennial Defense Review Should Spark Interagency Climate Conversation."
Actually, VoteVets doesn't care a bit about Middle East oil dependency. Founder John Soltz has been in the news before. Melanie Morgan attacked him and VoteVets in 2007 for supporting al Qaeda in Iraq. See, "VoteVets.org Scam Exposed," which links to this Wesley Clark ad:
The Stop Iran War website is still up.
... let me also say that I certainly would hope that the Democrats, if they're planning their strategy meetings with people like Mr. Soltz and MoveOn.org, others who are meeting daily in telephone conference calls, which we are not, by the way, on our side, that al-Qaida is listening to their results, as well ....
And by the way, please keep Melanie Morgan in your prayers. She's fighting the good fight against thyroid cancer. See, "I Ain't Dead Yet, Says the Cowgirl."
Thank God for Liz Cheney and Andrew McCarthy. They are talking, talking and talking every single day about a subject that Left wing activists and Obama administration officials wish would just disappear: The Al Qaeda Seven. In fact, they won't shut up about the volunteer lawyers who represented terrorists - and now are employees at Eric Holder's Department of Justice. Talk about a conflict of interest!
Normally, I would never even consider linking to the New York Times, but this blog is too important to miss.
The Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum.
While it's unclear whether it's been Dick Cheney's health problems or relatively low profile in recent weeks, but the left side of the blogosphere hasn't had much to say about its Republican bête noire lately. So imagine the relief when another member of Cheney family decided to step into the breach:
"Nine top political appointees at the Justice Department previously worked as lawyers or advocates for 'enemy combatants' confined at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prompting new questions from Congress and conservative critics about the integrity of the administration's handling of detainees," reports Richard A. Serrano of The Los Angeles Times. "One of the sharpest critics is a group called Keep America Safe, run in part by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. It has derided the unidentified appointees as the 'Al Qaeda 7,' and in a video on its Web site Tuesday asked, 'Whose values do they share?' "
Should we worry that the Justice Department hired lawyers who had defended terrorist suspects? Or are their critics the real threat?
Well, not Liz Cheney's apparently, and we can assume her father and probably her mother are of the same opinion. But what about the nation's 78 million other families?
Chez Glenn Greenwald, we find displeasure. "It's the type of McCarthyite act which would, if we had any minimal standards in our political culture, result in the shunning of Cheney and Kristol by all decent people … This slander encompasses scores of American military lawyers, who have vigorously, passionately and often successfully defended numerous Guantanamo detainees, including those accused of being Al Qaeda operatives."
Read more here.
Lloyd Marcus, an unhyphenated black American responds to attack on Mark Williams, spokesman for the Tea Party Express, by Dylan Ratigan at MSNBC:
"..As a black proud Tea Party patriot, I am extremely offended by MSNBC TV show host Dylan Ratigan's baseless accusation that the Tea Party Movement (my white brother and sister fellow patriots) embraces Nazis and racists. Ratigan's attack epitomizes the liberal media's commitment to protect Obama and his radical agenda at all costs. They have a genuine disdain for freedom, capitalism and We The People."
And more attacks are coming towards Tea Party Patriots like Sally Zelikovsky, a stay-at-home Mom of three who is organizing a conservative political candidates forum and Tea Party event in Mill Valley, California this weekend.
Deborah Phelan, a former Mill Valley resident and Associated Press reporter, is demanding that the city shut down the event, silence the participants, and run them out of the county...being the nice progressive that she is.
Fat chance, baby.
"...Christine Sansom, director of the Mill Valley Department of Parks and Recreation, said that so far, Phelan has been the only person to object to the Bay Area Patriots' use of the community center.
"Our building is a rentable building, and we don't discriminate against renters as to what their political beliefs, or religious beliefs are," she said. "I can't. There is freedom of speech."
Way to go, Christine! Even the dopiest liberal (usually) understands the concept of Constitutional freedom.
If you live anywhere in the greater Bay Area, it's a great idea to scamper over to the Mill Valley Community Center on Sunday and meet some great pariots, talk to your fellow conservatives, and hook-up with the conservative community.
Tell them Mel sent you.
A Study of the Tea Party movement just released today at www.BigGovernment.com and it's fascinating reading!
"The Early Adopters" Report uncovers that most oppose a third party, many are new to politics
CHICAGO, — A new study released today reveals that Tea Party activists are motivated by feelings of responsibility to future generations and belief in America's founding principles, but still struggle with questions of leadership and identity. The study conducted by Sam Adams Alliance, The Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves, also reveals that Tea Party activists are a diverse group trying – often for the first time – to change the political landscape by holding elected officials more accountable. The results of the full report can be found at www.activistinsightsreport.com.
The Sam Adams report offers the first-ever insights into the Tea Party movement that include a survey sample made up entirely of recognized Tea Party activists.
"A lot of surveys have focused on the Tea Party movement, but they've been about what others think of them, and don't reveal the motives of actual Tea Partiers," said Sam Adams Alliance chairman Eric O'Keefe. "We decided to learn what the Tea Party leaders are up to the old fashioned way: We asked them."
The findings confirm that a large number of Tea Party activists are politically involved for the first time. 47 percent of activists surveyed said that they were "uninvolved" or "rarely involved" in politics before their participation in Tea Party groups.
Three political issues stood out as being the most important to Tea Party activists. When asked which issues were "very important" to them, 92 percent said "budget," 85 percent said
"economy," and 80 percent said "defense." No respondents listed social issues as an "important direction" for the movement.
Other findings of the study include:
86 percent oppose the formation of a third-party.36 percent support a 2012 Sarah Palin Presidential candidacy.81 percent have a website for their organization.90 percent cited "to stand up for my beliefs" when characterizing their initial reason for involvement.62 percent identified as Republicans, 28 percent as Independents, 10 percent as "Tea Party"
Full story here.
Shocking Must See TV today at PMSNBC where a new host is apparently challenging Keith Olbermann for Ugliest TV Anchor SubHuman.
"I don't want to continue with this. You're wasting valuable oxygen. Can we cut off this man's microphone? It was offensive. You're offensive. Your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propaganda, ignore my questions - offensive. And an indication of what is wrong with the dialog in this country - period. Not to mention a group that would accept Nazis and racists," says Dylan Ratigan to Mark Williams, spokesman for the Tea Party Express.
The Lefty's there just can't help themselves when they angrily demonize the Tea Party activists like my friend and fellw talk show host Mark Williams, who handled himself responsibly and with great aplomb in the face of sheer insanity. Really. Watch Dylan Ratigan's face (the TV Host who compares Tea Party people to Nazi's and Racists.)
MUST SEE TV at MarkTalk.com for the video and MichelleMalkin.com for the comments.
Un. Freaking. Believable.
(Mark Williams, Melanie and Wife Holly)
More from Breitbart.TV
It's a Breast Cancer Awareness event for men and women and I want to see you!
I am extending a personal invitation for all of you to join me at the Palace of Fine Arts at the end of the month.
Because my good friend Rosie Allen, formerly of KGO Radio and current member of the Board of Directors for "Friends of Faith" charity in the San Francisco Bay Area is working very diligently on a spectacular event planned for March 29th at 6:00 p.m.
It is a Breast Cancer Awareness event that features former Secretary of State Condi Rice (both being interviewed and performing the piano for us!).
I'll be attending and I hope some or all of you can too! Buy tickets now! It's a great cause that raises money for cancer victims and their financially stricken families who need our help and support.
With Love,
http://www.xumri.com/friends_of_faith.php (which also contains ticket info)
and Ticket info @:
WashTimes Continues To Shrink - 3/1 - DCRTV hears about another cut at the Washington Times. A source tells us that the paper's marketing manager was let go on Friday. "She was at the paper less than a year and had relocated from Minnesota," we hear. "When you think about it, one could argue that there is not really a lot to 'market' at the Times these days. Talk amongst employees, both current and former, is about the severance package she was given." Also: As DCRTV has told you, there are more rumblings that the Times could sever its relationship with its morning radio show, "America's Morning News," which is heard on WTNT (570 AM). Syndicator Talk Radio Network could seek a new media partner for the show, we hear.....
Lee emailed me this Sunday expressing astonishment at how many people have contacted him or read my postings here at this little ole website expressing their emotions about the changes at KSFO in San Fancisco.
And did you notice Walter E. Williams even posted in the comments section? The most handsome black man in the country (according to himself) and the thougtful economist who has been a frequent contributor to the Lee Rodgers show? That was nice.
Google Alerted me that another piece is out today in cyberspace from Uncovered.net.
Settle in for an interesting read.
Lee Rodgers
On Thursday, February 18, one minute before the conclusion of his four-hour morning radio show on KSFO in San Francisco, conservative talk show host Lee Rodgers was fired. Rodgers was under contract until July, but it didn't matter. Rodgers wasn't allowed to gracefully say good-bye to his listeners. The next day, KSFO evening host Brian Sussman had taken over the morning job. Rodgers' 40-plus years of radio broadcasting career, is over, at least for now.
While it may sound like just another cupboard-clearing in the cut-throat broadcasting business, the undignified jettisoning of Lee Rodgers is troubling on many levels.
KSFO is a prickle in the liberal paw of the San Francisco bay area. It is a highly-rated conservative news/talk format which has been proudly dealing the left fits, with Rodgers at the morning-drive helm, for decades. Rodgers' curmudgeonly mix of small-government, strong Israel, pro-military, anti-jihad, tax-cutting missives, and his interviews with conservative authors, columnists and newsmakers are not meaningfully available on any other station in this liberal California market.
Rodgers' demise was heralded about a year ago, when his co-anchor Melanie Morgan, was abruptly fired in much the same fashion as Rodgers. The morning radio partners are credited with initiating the statewide investigations into the use of cancer-causing MTBE gasoline additive, which leached into the state's groundwater after it was trumpeted by liberal environmentalists as a way to reduce air pollution. Rodgers and Morgan also launched the statewide petition drive to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. Ms. Morgan was a pro-military, anti-radical Islam activist who flew more than once to the troops in Iraq and personally confronted anti-military activists at protests in the Bay area. Both hosts were under constant barrage by liberal bloggers. KSFO's advertisers were pressured to withdraw.
Liberty lost important voices when Morgan and Rodgers were fired.
Read the whole article here.


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Hot Water Heater Installation Cost
I am a student at the University of Georgia, and I am doing research for my senior thesis. As part of my research, I need to find out how much the cost of installing hot water heaters varies across America.
I am interested in how much it costs for the hot water heater itself plus the labor to install the unit (the total cost to the consumer). This is for replacing a hot water heater, so all piping is already in place. I know the cost varies widely based on a number of factors, but I am only interested in an average cost for the unit plus labor.
If you work for a company that installs hot water heaters, could you please give me an estimated average cost to the consumer for your company to replace their hot water heater? I do not need to know the name of your company, but please include what state you work in.
Thank you so much for your help!
-Phil Stewart
Water heaters range from $200 for a cheap small one to over $2500 for a tankless and extra venting.
You want prices you will have to be more specific unless you want to compare apples and oranges.
Let me try to narrow my question. I know there are cheap and expensive extremes, but I am looking for the most common cost. If you had to choose one level of hot water heaters that the average family in a three bedroom home has installed, how much do you charge for its installation? Let me know if I need to further clarify, and I appreciate your input!
A 50 gallon average recovery with electronic ignition, gas model, plumbing already in with venting. Just push the old one out and put in the new one.
$525 for the average tank and $300 for install including hauling off your old tank. Total is $825.
So Phil...let me get this straight, your thesis program will allow you to take random comments from random individuals through a moderated message board and use a valid statistics for your research? YIKES!
I have to admit that's one of the most creative ways of asking the question of the users here what's the price for "X" since most here don't just toss that info out. Generally speaking there are too many variables for any given installation, to just toss out a number.
I'd suggest that if you're in need of a hot water heater, you call your local plumber and inquire. If you're planning on doing it yourself...ask away. If your truly doing research for your thesis...then get on the 'net, locate plumbers across the nation and survey them.
Good luck with your "thesis"....I would of sworn UGA had higher standards....
I would think that a better way for you to do this would be to come up with a hypothetical situation, such as that listed by marvinGarden, and then ask people here to give you the name and number of shops located in their area for you to call and ask for an estimate. Even better would be if you could find a few pictures representative of the water heater to be replaced, so that they could better estimate it, and everyone would be estimating on the same thing.
I would have to say that if you continue with your initial attempt at data collection, the validity of your results would be the same as me telling you the world is flat cause my level says so. You need to control certain aspects of your test (water heater size, model, previous condition and installation location, etc) before you can validly compare the prices for differing areas.
"A 50 gallon average recovery with electronic ignition, gas model, plumbing already in with venting. Just push the old one out and put in the new one"
Is it now possible to provide an estimate?
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Beset by rivals and record labels, Spotify plots path to profit
By Mia Shanley
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify is a household name, with more paying users than any other music-streaming service in the world. But it doesn't make a penny.
Those 30 million paid subscribers help it rake in almost half the revenues in the global industry. But most of the money goes to record labels and artists, while the privately owned Swedish company faces growing competition from Apple APPL.O with its deep pockets and massive iPhone user base.
To reduce its dependence on labels and stand apart from rivals, Spotify is broadening beyond its music library. It is making its own videos, such as interviews with artists, and producing other content like pop-ups that explain lyrics. This drive is being led by a senior executive poached from YouTube.
The company is also looking to capitalize on its mobile app's dominant subscriber base - and expand it - by investing in algorithms that "learn" users' tastes and by offering personalized services such as concert recommendations and artist memorabilia.
How the 10-year-old company fares with this drive in coming years could determine whether it can stay independent, and perhaps go public, or go the way of many other European tech start-ups and be swallowed up by bigger Silicon Valley fish.
Its success or otherwise will be a test of whether Spotify's "freemium" business model is viable - most of the firm's 75 million users listen for free with commercial breaks.
It could also point to a wider reality of whether music streaming can survive as a standalone business, or must simply be one of the services offered by a big diversified tech company like Apple, Google (GOOGL.O: Quote) or Amazon (AMZN.O: Quote).
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Robag Wruhme, techno legend, to play first Colorado set on May 20
Robag Wruhme
The upcoming Robag Wruhme appearance at Cluster Studios is something special in more ways than one. Wruhme was part of the lauded Wighnomy Brothers before immersing himself in his solo career, and the Brothers' wide-spanning sets were the talk of DEMF (Detroit Electronic Music Festival) every year they played.
Mother Earth Sound System -- best known for throwing full-moon outdoor parties during the summer, plus a spring equinox and Day of the Dead bash -- leaped at the chance to throw a just-because event, just because Wruhme was available and willing to play his first-ever Colorado set. "I guess, without going into hyperbole," notes event co-organizer and Mother Earth collective member Scott Everett, "he's pretty legendary in the minimal-techno world."
Everett and John Templeton (of Emote Music) will open for Wruhme. "It's really all about Robag," Everett points out. "He's going to play at least a three-hour set -- we're hoping for a four-hour set. And I would say that is noteworthy, inasmuch as the trend has become to pack in as many DJs in as they can, and it turns into a "greatest hits" parade. It's kind of a lost art to let a DJ play as long as they want, build up a mood and just go with it. We try to do that when people are in town.
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"They're very playful," he adds. "They're just fun. They're not for the chin-scratching, intellectual-style hipster crowds -- he definitely has a fun approach to it, and it's not serious. He'll bounce between genres, but what he does really well is have that flow together. It's not a mash-up, it's very well-programmed, and that's where the long set time comes into it. He has time to take something and run with it."
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Wael Somouni was digging into the ruins of his house trying to retrieve the body of his 17 year old daughter even after four hours of digging had yet to uncover the body of his wife. "tis is because of the rockets, this is because of Hamas. This is what they promised us when they were elected, just destruction." Shawqi Sultan has lost trust in anyone at this point after the massive destruction to his land. "The ceasefire gives us nothing. If one rocket falls, an Israeli says they will kill hundreds and destroy more. Israel has destroyed our area, killed our people, and we got no political result. Zakia Dabor says, "we haven't benefited from the war and seeks some sort of permanent truce. She is cleaning up her house which is partly in ruins while the remaining part shows signs of Israeli soldiers who defecated and urinated in her rooms.
Ironically, Hamas and Israel now share a common perspective on life and death. Each believes to be endowed with the truth and each believes since they know the truth, anything is allowed in pursuit of it. Hamas and Israeli soldiers share an equal belief that rules of war simply are not part of their interpretation of how to conduct a war.
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A private memorial service is scheduled for a later date on Donald L. Torres, 60, of Roswell, who passed away on Jan. 2, 2013.
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Donald married Billie Black on June [auth] 15, 1974, in Albuquerque. She survives him at the family home.
Donald attended Sandia High School in Albuquerque. He was a police officer for the Roswell Police Department for 18 years. He was a member of the Chaves County Sheriff Posse. He was of the Baptist faith.
He is survived by a son Clayton Torres, of Roswell; daughter Jennifer Schettini, of San Diego, Calif.; his parents also survive him in Albuquerque; two brothers, Mike and Doug Torres, both of Albuquerque; two sisters, Lori and Tommi, both of Albuquerque; and three grandchildren.
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Soundgarden is the latest band to get the lullaby treatment from Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, the company that specializes in soothing child-friendly arrangements of songs from famous rock acts. Lullaby Versions Of Soundgarden is due out on August 19th and features renditions of "Black Hole Sun," "Fell On Black Days," "Burden In My Hand," "Spoonman" "Outshined," "The Day I Tried To Live," "Rusty Cage" and Temple Of The Dog's "Hunger Strike."


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Townsend, Tennessee - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Welcome to the Fishing Report. It is a bright sunny morning here in Townsend. Today is supposed to be warm again but showers are coming tonight followed by some cooler temperatures. It is always hard to say what that will do to the fishing over the weekend. Cooler weather will be nice. It is too early for it to be in the 80's. Spring is supposed to be long sleeve shirt / light jacket weather. We have plenty of time later on for shorts.
People have been doing well fishing in the Smokies. Little River continues to fish well. Middle Prong ( Tremont ) is doing good too. There has been a big variety of bugs hatching. We have been seeing mayflies like the Quill Gordons and Blue Quills starting to slack off. Red Quills, Hendricksons, and March Browns are starting to take their place. Elk Hair Caddis have been working well. Nymphs continue to do well all day long.
This is a great time of year to fish droppers. Conditions are great for it. The dry flies are large, making them an excellent choice to holding a nymph. Also, many of the mayflies will hatch below the surface and then swim to the top to emerge. Wet flies and soft hackle flies are excellent at imitating this.
Cades Cove is opening early. I believe it is to open next weekend on the 24th. I can't imagine how bad the traffic will be that weekend. If I really wanted to do the Loop on opening day I think I'd take my bike and zip past the sitting cars.
Have you thought that you would like to learn more about the aquatic insects that you hear about in fishing reports and see along the banks of the streams? Our class Aquatic Entomology for Anglers would be perfect for you. It is a one day course coming up on Saturday July 17, taught by Dr. Brad Cook. The class is held here at the Shop in the morning where you will learn the basics of aquatic entomology in a classroom setting. In the afternoon you will head to the river for some hands on insect collecting and identification. The cost of the class is only $100 which includes lunch. The class is limited to 10 students so sign up ASAP so you don't miss out.
Byron is off to the annual turkey hunting trip. He is locked, loaded and licensed and fully intending to shoot a bird this year. When he gets back I know we'll get to hear the stories.
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To those who have bought banquet tickets online you may have noticed your charges didn't show up on your credit card statement. Bill and Sheila handle the transactions and mail the tickets to you from their home. According to the hand written directions give to them by the credit card processer, the maching would upload automatically every night. It didn't. So they know now to do it manually after making entries. Your charges will show up now. Though you are buying your tickets from our shop's website for security reasons, the actual charge will be deposited in and will show on your statement as the Little River Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
Troutfest banquet ticket sales are picking up. It's time for you to buy yours.
You can buy them online by clicking HERE. Or call 865-448-9459 and we'll send them to you.
More volunteers are signing up to help at Troutfest but we could use some more. If you are interested in helping send an e-mail to RONNIE BECKER our Volunteer Coordinator. Please include your t-shirt size. You will be getting a special Troutfest Volunteer T. You can sign up for 4 hours. Your volunteer time is counted as Park Service Fisheries volunteer time. Those hours are leveraged to obtain matching funds. Pretty slick huh?
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Those Monsters: Monster Cable sues Monster Transmission
Monster Cable is nothing if not aggressive. The company rabidly peddles overpriced wiring products to purchasers incapable of analysis, and Monster Cable is just as obnoxious about suing everything in sight that uses "Monster" in its name. What kind of copyright infringement might Monster Mini Golf be foisting upon a company that charges way too much for wire that offers dubious, if any, performance advantage? While the issue with Monster Mini Golf has been settled, Monster Cable is now going after another totally unrelated business. While the company says it's over any issues with Monster Transmission of Florida, the shop says the story is not yet over. While Monster Cable seems bent on copyrighting the word "Monster," the businesses they're harassing are engaged in actual commerce, some even building class-leading products, you know, like the type Monster claims it makes (and charges for). We're off to stock up on lamp cord to hand out as part of an overpriced interconnect recovery package.
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A new hatchery to be built on the Nechako River is giving the endangered white sturgeon a chance at survival.
Construction will begin immediately on a conservation centre in Vanderhoof that will be owned and operated by the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. It will cost approximately $10-million to build and operate for the next decade.
The number of white sturgeon in the Nechako River has declined from 5,000 in the sixties to fewer than 300 today. Many people in the community blame the alarming drop on the construction of the Kenney dam, which was built on the river in the fifties.
"Where hydroelectric development has taken place around the world, sturgeon are impacted very significantly," Don Peterson, president of the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C., told The Globe and Mail on Thursday.
The fish have struggled to reproduce because of habitat changes, including extra silt in the river that is caused by the dam, Mr. Peterson said.
The genetically unique fish have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. They can grow to be six metres long and can weigh more than 600 kilograms. And they can live to be 100.
"They're iconic," Mr. Peterson said. "They're the largest freshwater fish in Canada, they're the top predator in the system and they're an indicator of environmental health."
John Rustad, the MLA for Nechako Lakes, said that if the community doesn't take action, it will not be able to save the species. "We need enough genetically unique adults to have breeding stock."
The new facility aims to release as many as 12,000 sturgeon into the river each year to help rebuild the population. The fish will be tagged to monitor their survival rate and behaviour.
A three-year pilot program has already been met with success, Mr. Rustad said. "We've already proved that this kind of project could be possible by releasing between 5,000 to 8,000 juvenile sturgeon a year using temporary facilities."
Similar programs on the Kootenay and Columbia rivers have also been successful, Mr. Peterson said.
However, he said the conservation centre is only a temporary solution. "We want to solve the habitat issue so the fish can return to a self-sustaining population, as they have been for thousands of years."
The program aims to release the first batch of juvenile sturgeon into the river next year.
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Oh My Frikkin WORD!!!!!!!!
He paid $85,000 for the entire company!!!!!!!!!
Talk about an opportunity!
We are one of PSC's creditors!
We bought our Pacific Seacraft 40 in April 2003. It was delivered to England with a liturgy of problems neccesitating refunds from PSC and warranty claims, all of which were accepted by Don Kohlmann, the MD at the time. Despite making contact to the various management teams since put in place, all we received were promises and "financial difficulties" mooted as an excuse for the delay in reimbursing us.
In 2005, we wrote to yachting press in the UK and US advising that they warn prospective buyers to investigate a builders financial position before making a committment; and at the very least to ensure they purchase the hull to ensure ownership in case of insolvency. None did this, although we were put directly in contact with Nigel Calder and suggested he include a section on due dilligence in his articles on his Malo build. I can therefore empathise with the concerns of buyers whose hulls were transferred to the new owner at a fraction of the amount they have paid to date!
We have just ended our sailing season and had booked flights to California to confront PSC personally - unaware of recent developments. We will still make the journey and if anyone can provide more information on whom to contact regarding creditor's claims, we would be most grateful.
On a positive note - over the summers since 2003 we have sailed Bali Blue 5000nms from England around the northern countries of the Med and she is now overwintering in Cyprus, where we live. She is beautiful to sail and live in and although better suited to Blue Water cruising, she has seen us safely through the sharp seas and various winds of the Med and commands a lot of attention wherever we go.
Peter and Carol,
As a fellow PSC owner, I am very sorry to hear of the difficulties you experienced with warranty issues on your boat. The former MD, Don Kohlmann, departed the company three or so years ago when some new owners took over. It sounds like your warranty claim difficulties coincide with his departure and their arrival. Many owners experienced a serious decline in customer service at that same time. Not surprisingly, it was under those new owners that the company was eventually forced into bankruptcy and subsequently auctioned. You are absoluteley right about the importance of doing due diligence prior to placing an order on a new boat -- and I commend you for taking your bad experience and trying to help others by sharing what you learned.
Unfortunately, I do not see any point in flying to California to demand satisfaction. The company that was there is GONE. All the ASSETS (but not the liabilities) were sold at bankruptcy auction, and subsequently moved to North Carolina, where different owners have incorporated anew with the hope of reviving the brand. Whether you have any further legal recourse for your warranty claims is a question for an attorney. But I'm fairly confident that the new owners have no financial obligation to you and that your claims should go to the bankruptcy trustee. Note how little they got for the assets at auction -- I doubt there's much to share given the number of creditors.
That is not to say that the new owners might not be sympathetic to your predicament.
Best of luck to you, and if you would like to confer with a broader group of Pacific Seacraft owners including many PSC 40 owners, I would encourage you to join Sailnet's PSC e-mail list-serve, found here:
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Low Overhead!
Talk about no overhead! The guy sells a couple new boats and he's already in the black. I wonder how this will affect the purchase price of new and used boats?
I have been looking at the 34 for years now and would never be able to afford a new boat, and if I could why buy new when I could get a 80's model for a fraction of the cost. I prefer a tiller steered deep draft cutter anyway.
I'd love to see A no frills bare bones winches on the mast no electronics version of the 34 for a discounted price. I think the new boats were well overpriced.
Maybe this would be a good time to upgrade the mold a little. I myself prefer the current canoe stern 34, but it would be nice to see a little lighter version with a more modern sten, and a little more sail area. Get the DLWL to 280-300 by extending the waterline a little.
I can't wait to see some more news and would like to go see the new plant and operation. GoodLuck PSC. Brandon
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