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Tactile graphic production using MS Word presents several speed bumps along the way since Word 2000. The latest one involves Windows 7 and Word 2010. Here's the scoop. In Word 2010, the Select tool in the Edit category on the Home tab is used to select several objects for grouping by dragging with the tool across the objects to group. This feature tool works just fine using Word 2010 with Windows XP.
Now try using Word 2010 with Windows 7, the same process produces different results. The select arrow does nothing. After pulling hair out for a couple of days and reading several listings from groups, the solution finally appeared.
When using Word 2010 with Windows 7, you first save the document as a .doc NOT .docx, which is the default save and the default document type before saving. By doing this the process described above produces the expected results. What a relief because this feature HAS to work for scalable vector (tactile) graphic production. We can all sleep better now…..until the next speed bump.
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Call me Cali.
So California has been treating me well. To start this season of my life off, I've made of this of traits that I want to embrace as I embark on a journey into… Continue reading
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Oh hello! I made some roasted almonds today and thought I would share the recipe! It's incredibly easy. Most of the ingredients, you just need a dash or two – no need to… Continue reading
Things I aspire to do while living in SF as a 21 year old. 1. Seek Adventure 2. Run around the city 3. Find a great coffee shop 4. Explore the beauties of… Continue reading
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Happy one year to one of my favorite couples in the history of ever! Love these two extremely photogenic individuals. They are lovely.
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Watch. Listen. Worship. I've seen this so many time and it just doesn't get old.

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Monona has worked in a variety of roles within social change philanthropy over three decades. Most recently, she directed the Capacity Building Initiative of the Four Freedoms Fund, providing grants, training, shared metrics, and peer learning to strengthen the U.S. pro-immigrant field. As a member of the Four Freedoms Fund team, she helped to raise and regrant over $100 million to 200 organizations. In 2010, Monona co-created and launched the Freedom from Fear Award, a one-time national prize honoring ordinary people for extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees.
Monona has worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She began working in philanthropy as Associate Director of the North Star Fund and Program Officer at the F.B. Heron Foundation. As an activist, Monona is a co-founder and former staff member of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Most recently, she published her mother's memoirs: Riding With The Wind: Three Generations of My Family in China by Fay Hoh Yin. Monona is a graduate of Yale in American Studies and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.


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Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem, An Echo From Willowood, is the poem of the day today in Poemhunter.com. I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that its words seemed to mirror so perfectly the feelings hidden in a photograph I clicked a day or two ago. Quite a strange coincidence indeed!
Now scroll down and take a look at both the poem and the pic.
"Oh Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood"
"…Two gaz'd into a pool, he gaz'd and she,
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Let's start with a card from West Chester, Pennsylvania , U.S.A. It's Longwood Gardens, over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands and meadows, located in Kennett Square. With over 11,000 different types of plants and trees, it is one of the premier botanical gardens in the U.S.
This is another card from Mike and Ashley. In addition to their great postcards , they are really helping me with collecting current U.S. stamps, like the 3 on this card. These are all new to my collection. So let's have a look at them.
First up is the Janis Joplin First Class rate Forever stamp. It was issued in August of 2014. It's from the Music Icons series, along with such greats as Ray Charles, Johnny Cash , Jimi Hendrix and others. Joplin was an icon of the 1960s whose bluesy voice propelled her to the top of rock stardom. I can hear her now belting out "Me & Bobby McGee ". Then we have the Jimi Hendrix First Class rate Forever stamp, issued in March of 2014. Hendrix is considered one of the most important rock guitarists of the 20th century. His sound was a combination of rock, jazz, soul and the blues. I remember well his renditions of "Purple Haze" and "Hey Joe ". And, just below the Joplin stamp is one of four in a Coastal Birds set issued just last month. This one shows the King Eider. The others in the set are a Red Knot, the Spoonbill and a Frigatebird. These are set as Postcard Rate nondenominated stamps and will always be valid for that rate. I guess though the Postcard rate only applies in the U.S.A. itself , otherwise I wouldn't have received Janis and Jimi.
Next is a little pin-up for all you pin-up people out there. Honestly it's a case like this . Back when Playboy Magazine was popular, men often said , "I only read Playboy for the articles ". Well I think I can safely say with cards like this one , "I'm only showing the card for the stamps " But I do agree with her shirt, she 's certainly Unique. The card arrived from a Postcrosser in the Netherlands.
Lorje used 4 different stamps but I'm only going to showcase the larger two on the right. The other 2 are definitives from 2006 and 2003. On the far right is a 2002 stamp issued for Floriade, the international exhibition and garden festival. Held every 10 years, the next one will be in 2022 in Almere, the newest city in the Netherlands. The stamp with the rabbit or hare is just that. I couldn't find any info at all on it. That's the way it goes sometimes.
France, Strasbourg in fact is where my next card originated. It shows the Palace of Europe, the seat of the Council of Europe, since 1977. The Palace of Europe square in shape, 106 metres on each side, with a height of 38 metres (nine stories). Its total working area is 64,000 square metres. It has 17 meeting rooms and a thousand offices for staff of the Council of Europe secretariat. The exterior of the building is red, silver, and brown.
Johan used 1 of 2 stamps issued in 2014 highlighting the European Council, along with a number of definitives . It's also nice to see that they were cancelled at the Council itself.
Now here's a card from 2009 celebrating the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
The festival is a celebration of the March 27, 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo . There are literally many thousands of these trees there now.
Adam used an interesting selection of stamps on this card. The vertical stamp on the left is from 1960 . It commemorates 100 years of a U.S. Japan treaty. Next, the long pink and blue on top is actually 2 stamps from 2012. They commemorate the Centennial of the Cherry Blossoms in Washington. Lastly are 2 U.S. Airmail stamps, not something one sees much anymore. The one on the left was issued in 1948 and the other dates from the 1970s.
Camels in India. I can't say this is something I think about when India pops into my head. Elephants yes, camels not so much. But apparently it's a fairly common sight. I've never been there, so what do I know ?
Indian Camels are about 6 feet long and weigh around 700 kg. It is 7 feet high from its hump. It's tail is 50 cm long. It is characterized by long curved neck, large mouth and high hump. They are usually brown or black in colour. They have thin, long and powerful legs. They have large eyes with long eyelashes and bushy eyebrows.but small ears. Indian camels have broad, flat and leathery pads with two toes on each foot with leathery patches on their knees.
Adrian used 3 copies of a 2008 definitive stamp featuring Indira Gandhi.
O.K. here's another pin-up , this time from Germany. Again, only showing it for the stamps .
Michaela used a small selection of stamps here, including 2 Flower definitives. The larger stamp on the right is a 2015 stamp highlighting the Lindau Lighthouse. It's the southernmost light in Germany , located on Lake Constance. Opened in 1853 , the light is 33 metres tall. Finally we see a 2012 3 Cent Numeral Stamp.
Next and last is a card from China. Not much to say about this card as I really don't know what it's about, or what's written on it. Here it is.
Nika used a recent Heart shape stamp along with a 2015 Year of the Sheep stamp and a 2000 Butterfly stamp.
There you have it. Thanks for cards go out to Mike & Ashley, Lorje, Johan, Adam, Adrian , Michaela and Nika.
Thanks for dropping by , see you next time. Take care.


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Raimond van der Gouw believes Jose Mourinho would restore the confidence of the Manchester United players if he replaced Louis van Gaal as manager.
Mourinho has been linked to the top job at Old Trafford after Van Gaal's United dropped out of the top four and exited the Champions League.
Mourinho is understood to be interested in taking over at United if Van Gaal is sacked and Van der Gouw thinks appointing the former Chelsea manager could be a wise move.
"I saw the last game (a 2-1 home defeat to Norwich), and the players are out of confidence," the former United goalkeeper told BBC Radio 5 Live.
When asked whether Mourinho would bring the confidence back to the team, Van der Gouw said: "I think so. The manager is always responsible, but the players will have to look at themselves. It's not the manager who is kicking the ball, t hey can do much better."
Van der Gouw suggested that Van Gaal's assistant Ryan Giggs, who was interim manager after United sacked David Moyes, lacked the experience to take the job on a permanent basis.
"It is a possibility, he did it last season for a few games," said the Dutchman, who won four major trophies during a six-year spell on the playing staff at United.
"He does have a lot of experience as a player, he has a little experience as an assistant manager, but to do the Manchester United job is a massive job."
Although many critics have been quick to point the finger at Van Gaal, his compatriot Van der Gouw believes United have become a victim of the narrowing gap between the biggest and smallest clubs in the Premier League.
He said: "Manchester United are not playing the way we expected, but you need to look at the whole season.
"Most top clubs are not the same anymore, smaller clubs are making the gap much smaller.
"It's not the same as a couple of years ago, it's not just a couple of clubs, (leaders) Leicester are doing really well."
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What data do we have on cancer in the Middle East?
- Unfortunately, there is not enough data on cancer in the Middle East to be able to make a solid analysis of the cancer situation in the region.
- Over half the countries in the Middle East are considered low-to-middle-income countries, and as such are part of the developing world.
- However, most of the countries in the Middle East – both rich and poor- struggle with the same issues as other developing countries with regards to cancer, and are each at different stages of cancer control.
How developed is cancer care in the Middle East?
- Some countries have absolutely no infrastructure for cancer treatment; some have infrastructure but no system to deliver comprehensive cancer care; others lack the human resources and knowhow to provide effective treatment.
- Overall, there is a deficit of experienced cancer specialists with many local talents seeking more lucrative positions in Europe and North America.
- As with most of the developing world, the Middle East struggles with the high costs of cancer drugs.
Why has cancer become such a big problem in the region?
- The region is also faced with a very strong stigma where cancer is concerned.
- Most governments and policy-makers avoid dealing with the issue of cancer head on comprehensively through prevention, early detection, treatment and palliation, either because they are simply unaware of the gravity of the situation or because they find the cancer crisis too big and complicated an issue to address with the all too common perception that the cancer epidemic cannot be resolved.
- However, by 2020 there will be over 360,000 new cancer cases in the Arab world each year and so clearly, action is needed now.
Are there any regional statistics available on cancer rates?
As mentioned before, there isn't much comprehensive data available on cancer in the region, however some figures are available, such as the chart below:
Source: CIA Online World Fact book, All Country Background Data


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Tuesday, July 26
7:00 p.m.
Common Good Cafe
(Downstairs at the University Temple United Methodist Church)
1415 NE 43rd St.
Seattle, WA 98105
This week's meeting will feature a discussion about Magonismo, an anti-capitalist revolutionary current that first developed during the Mexican revolution. Ricardo Flores Magón's concept of revolution was based on the idea that Mexican workers on both sides of the border had the potential to be the instruments of transformation through their own self-activity. We recommend reading the article Magonismo and the Roots of Revolutionary Internationalism from the International Socialist Review to get an overview of this history. Join us to learn more about this tradition and discuss what it can offer for our movements today.
We will also be devoting some time to a continuing discussion of our movement work in Seattle.


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Hello everyone! I am up on the My Favorite Things blog today with my final guest design post for this month. It was such an honor and joy to spend the month with the MFT. I hope you can join me there!
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The tweetest snow angel
Hello friends! Today I have card featuring the Tweet Holidays stamp set from My Favorite Things. This set has the most adorable birdies all decked out for winter in their hats and scarves (because of course they are). I thought that this particular birdie was posed just right for making snow angels. On a piece … Continue reading The tweetest snow angel
MFT Guest Design: In Which I Try Interactive Cards
Hello again! I am back on the My Favorite Things blog with more cards using the fabulous October release. I thought, why not make some cards that move! I hope you join me!
MFT Guest Design: Watercolors and Die Cuts
Hi everyone! I am up on the MFT blog today with my first guest design post! Be sure to hop over and check out the cards I made using some of the awesome die sets from the October release!
MFT & Friends October Release
Hello friends! Exciting news! I am joining the awesome peeps at My Favorite Things this month as a guest designer! I can't wait to show you the cards I made using items from the October release. Today I am participating in the MFT & Friends release replay. The October release is full of fun images … Continue reading MFT & Friends October Release
MFT: Fall Friends
I don't know about you, but I love fall. Well usually. Ours has gotten off to a wet start with a weekend of solid rain. Perfect conditions for crafting, actually. I knit all day Saturday, and spent Sunday coloring this little gal. I used the new Fall Friends stamp set from My Favorite Things (see … Continue reading MFT: Fall Friends
MFT sketch challenge #400
Hi friends! Today I am sharing a card I made for the latest sketch challenge over on the My Favorite Things challenge blog. Sketch #400! Check it out below: I've been wanting to play with The Greatest Show stamp set for awhile. Now, I've never actually seen the movie that inspired this set (gasp, I … Continue reading MFT sketch challenge #400


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A 23-year-old woman was in critical condition today after being struck by a car on Providence Road early this morning.
Shortly after 1 a.m., the woman attempted to cross Providence from west to east near Stewart Road, but not at the intersection crosswalk, Columbia police spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden said. Jacob T. Schneider, 19, was driving the 2007 Mercury Milan that struck the victim, who hit the hood and windshield and landed on the ground.
Doctors said the victim, who police believe is a University of Missouri student and employee, possibly fractured her skull and spine during the incident, Haden said. She was taken to University Hospital, where she was in the intensive care unit. Her name was not being released this morning because family had not yet been contacted.
A witness told police Schneider was traveling southbound on Providence and stopped at its intersection with Stewart, Haden said. When the light turned green, he drove through the intersection, and when the victim began to cross, he attempted to stop but could not.
Two 21-year-old passengers were in Schneider�s vehicle, and no one in the vehicle was injured. Alcohol was not suspected to be a factor.


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Coaches Q and A with Andy Brandi and Harold Solomon: Training On Clay
I'm happy to introduce the second installment of a new feature on zootennis, which will tap the professional expertise of Andy Brandi and Harold Solomon of the Harold Solomon Tennis Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
It's fitting that today's question: "How much should I train on clay?" is answered by Harold Solomon, a 1976 French Open singles finalist and one of the best clay court players of his generation.
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At our Institute we have made the decision to train our students on clay as much as possible. We think that one of the reasons American juniors and professionals are lagging behind in today's game is that they are for the most part not exposed to clay from a young age. Here are five reasons we think clay training is vital to development:Do you have a question for Andy or Harold? If so, please send it to clewis[at]zootennis[dot]com with the phrase Coaches' Q and A in the subject line. Next they will address a reader's question on how to deal with nerves when playing in national events against tougher competition.
Court Positioning
In order to be effective on clay, a player has to develop the skill of working the point instead of going for outright winners from anywhere on the court. Since clay is one of the slower surfaces and because most clay court specialists are very adept at sliding (which enables them to get to more balls with less effort), it is necessary to learn how to maneuver opponents out of position in order to set up the opportunity to go for a high percentage winner or finish off the point at the net.
Shot Variety and Selection
Most clay court players have become very skilled in the use of heavy angled top spin balls, slice backhands, high top spin drives and drop shots. Clay court players are often more aware of hitting the ball with greater clearance over the net and not quite as close to the lines. Being effective on clay demands that a player develop patience; it is not uncommon for there to be rallies or 20 or 30 balls at the French Open before one player decides to "pull the trigger".
Playing well on clay requires a higher degree of physical fitness since rallies and matches last longer. Since players generally can't end the point with one swat of the racket they have to develop the ability to "see the court differently".
Strategic Thinking
When a player begins to understand the clay court game the court begins to look like a giant chess board. Often a player is able to think one shot ahead, which means that they recognize the ramifications of the shot that they are hitting and how it will lead them into the next opportunity to get their opponent out of position.
Skills translate to other surfaces
This basic understanding of the game and the court leads to a higher level of competency on all surfaces. The ability to hit more balls consistently in the court gives the player a much higher level of self confidence especially at crucial times in matches.
Given all of the above we think that juniors should spend at a minimum 50% of their time training on clay, no matter what style of play they intend to develop for the future.


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I'm just a couple of days into Lent. I never like it per se, but I always try to make it productive and helpful in my spiritual growth. Lent is about Fasting, in other words, sacrificing in some way for God, focusing on prayer more, and alms-giving, or generosity. I initially decided to give up coffee because I Really. Love .Coffee. I figured out that it costs about $2 to buy a cup of coffee, and since Lent is forty days, I'll give $80 to a charity through our church.
Then I realized I could do a few other things. I play this dumb game, 2048 on my phone. I realized that I spend kind of a lot of time on it, just when I have to wait, or whatever. I didn't realize just how much time I spend playing it. So I cut that, too. Then I realized that I spend an awful lot of time "curiosity questing," which basically means watching a lot of lectures and what not on YouTube, or listening to several hours worth of podcast episodes. I cut that, too. I went a little hard-core this year.
It feels awkward, but somehow I'm finding it easier than expected. On Wednesday after work I ran into the question "Uh… what do I do now?" I could have read, but at the moment, I'm reading The Divine Comedy, which requires the capacity to think. My brain was sort of shot at that point, so I had two options: video games, or prayer. I opted for the latter. For the record, it's not because I'm some holy woman. It's because I didn't feel like playing any of the games I have. I actually ended up checking out some stuff from FORMED. I realized, maybe a bit too slowly, that it's basically Catholic Netflix.
I ended up checking out a series called "Into The Desert." It's actually quite good, and it's about a type of prayer called Lectio Divina, or Divine Reading. Basically, there are four steps to it, but one is supposed to start by simply reading a bit of Scripture, meditating on it, and then praying with that in mind. I've been working on that over the past couple of days. There aren't too many episodes, and they're not too long, so I figure I'll watch the rest of these and see where things go. A suggestion I read for something to do over Lent is to carefully read the Gospel of Mark since it's the shortest and most concise. I'm trying to use what I've learned so far while reading the Gospel. I think it's been a fruitful experience.
I also decided a while ago that I'd commit to praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary every day during Lent. I woke up around five this morning, and couldn't fall back asleep, so I read and prayed for a while. Sometimes I do the Rosary with a recording that uses Scripture verses. I got to the verse where Pilate says to the crowd, "I'm innocent of this righteous man's blood. See to it yourselves." I thought, "If you don't do anything to stop something bad from happening to an innocent person when you very well could, you're definitely guilty." It then hit me that I'm guilty, or at least I've been guilty.
I know I've probably been there. I know there have been times where I could have stopped something bad, or at least inconvenient from happening to someone, and I did nothing. The thing is, I can't think of any concrete examples. I think we're blind to it. I can think of a time recently when I did do something. I'll be getting a new wheelchair soon, so my dad and I went to the hospital recently to meet with someone who needed to show me some features, figure out exactly what I want, and get some measurements. While we were in the waiting room, there was a woman with a fussy kid in a stroller. She was the kind of kid who would drive any normal person, myself included, crazy.
My inclination was to ignore them. The kid was seriously bored and whiney, and refused to indulge in any of the things her mom offered her to alleviate the boredom. I was bored, too. We had to wait I while. I didn't have my phone, or it was dead, so I asked my dad to help me get my Rosary, which I normally have in my bag. Apparently I had left it at home. The kid's mom, I could tell, was getting frustrated, so I said, "Hey, kid… you want a ride? You can ride on the back of my wheelchair, or sit on my lap if you want." The kid didn't respond, and her mom kindly declined, but I could tell she was at least vaguely relieved and grateful for some offer of help. Thus we commiserated.
Sometimes commiseration is all you can offer, but commiseration, I know from experience, is better than nothing. I sometimes wonder why Saint John or Mary–Jesus' Mom–never said anything while standing by the cross. They couldn't have said, "It'll be okay." He was dying. Yeah, He was going to rise from the dead, and Mary probably knew that, and maybe John kind of knew that, at least in theory, but the fact of the matter was that He was dying. All they could do was stand there so He knew, and could see that somebody cared enough to stand there.
In the video I watched today, Dr. Tim Gray talked about how prayer is about relationship, and intimacy with God. He said that God is love, and if we are to converse with, and know God–know Love–we have to know how to love. He said that before Jesus taught His disciples how to pray, He talked about alms-giving; charity; generosity. After He talked about prayer, He talked about fasting. Particularly, when talking about fasting, He explains that we're not supposed to look miserable and whine about it while we're doing it so that people will see that we're doing it and believe that we're holy by default.
In fact, Jesus says that we're meant to be discreet about what we do when it comes to fasting, charity, and prayer. We're not supposed to brag about it, and we're not supposed to whine about it. Realistically, the things I dropped this Lent were just habits that can be broken or adjusted. I think I'll permanently drop 2048. I'll definitely be having a cup of coffee on Easter, though. The "curiosity questing" just needs to be monitored better, so this will certainly help with that. I'm glad I'm really cutting all of it down, though because I'm already, just within the past two days, praying a lot more, and I think, being more thoughtful about it. Anyway, that's it for now.


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Yahoo – 37%, ESPN – 25.0%
The Seattle Seahawks simply are not the same team on the road as they are at home. In their five games on the road they have scored over 16 points once (24 against the Lions in Week 8). Otherwise they have put up point totals of 16, 13, 16 and 6. Quarterback Russell Wilson has 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in home starts, but just four touchdowns and eight interceptions in games on the road.
Those are stark numbers, and it is not like Miami's defense is terrible with 27 sacks and eight interceptions on the year. They also handle the run pretty well (96.8 yards per game, four touchdowns). If they can bottle up Marshawn Lynch, putting even more pressure on Wilson and the passing attack, the Dolphins could be in store for a good day.
While they obviously have some risk involved, if I had to gamble on a defense this week Miami would be my top choice.
Arizona Cardinals vs. St. Louis
Yahoo – 38%, ESPN – 22.3%
The Cardinals have actually produced defensively this season:
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- 14 interceptions
- 8 fumble recoveries
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But the duo ran into problems because the person they were looking for didn't live there, police department spokesman Capt. Robert Myles said.
The incident occurred shortly before 11 p.m., after the residents of the home and their 2-month-old infant returned from church. Someone knocked at the door and two men later identified as Marcio Andrade, 34, and Marcelo Silva, 29, rushed inside, according to police.
Andrade raised his shirt to show he had a pistol in his waistband, but the pair left after a few minutes after being satisfied the person they were looking for wasn't there, police said.
Meanwhile, the police had been called, and officers stopped the two men as they drove away. They found a black BB pistol in the car, according to police.
Andrade and Silva were both charged with breach of peace, risk of injury to a minor, possession of a weapon in a vehicle, first-degree burglary and threatening. Andrade was also charged with carrying a dangerous weapon and driving without a license.
A subsequent records check revealed Andrade was in the country illegally after twice being deported, Myles said. He was being held for immigrations officials.


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As it was already promised in my article in 2013, I have created the vacation planner for the coming year 2015. With this planner you, as a boss, employee or a person responsible for vacation planning, can easily capture all the vacation dates of your colleagues and quickly determine if they could overlap or be available for your employees.
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Concluding the XM-Sirius Merger Debate...
Yesterday, the Justice Department approved a merger between the only two satellite radio companies - XM Radio and Sirius Radio. The merger won't be complete until the FCC approves it as well, but this nevertheless signals a fundamental shift from previous policy, and should be applauded, but with caution.
The two companies have been pushing for this merger almost since they were created. Such a marriage between the only two companies offering satellite radio services would create a de facto monopoly affecting more than 17 million subscribers and worth nearly 5 billion dollars. The government, consumer groups, and broadcasters have opposed it in the past because they believed the would-be monopolist "will force up prices and reduce the programming now available from the two competing systems". The reasoning is quite clear: having two companies in competition with each other helps keep prices down and the amount and quality of services up; while eliminating that competition by granting a monopoly would raise prices and diminish the level of service.
On the other hand, XM and Sirius argue that the "monopoly" that would be created by a merger is essentially meaningless. Their logic is quite clear as well: satellite radio programming competes directly with traditional radio and television broadcasters, internet programming, and various other forms of media, therefore a merger would only enhance their ability to compete with more established actors. Prices would be held in check because otherwise consumers would simply drop the service and flock to terrestrial radio, TV, or the internet.
What's really at issue is how to define market competition in the Digital Age. Is satellite radio a distinctive market, or is it merely one part of a larger New Media market? How this is framed is crucial because that will ultimately determine the scope of governmental regulation.
The Justice Department has, at least for now, fallen on the side of the latter, asserting that the merger should be allowed to proceed because satellite radio is only one part of a larger New Media market. Consumer reactions initially seem very positive, as judged by the comments left on Digg. At least in the short term, many perceive the merger as providing them the ability to purchase more programming options, so that, for example, they no longer have to choose between Howard Stern, Oprah Winfrey, Major League Baseball, and the N.F.L. There are, however, intelligent calls for, among other things, not requiring existing customers to buy new equipment and to offer a la carte programming, meaning that people should be able to choose and pay only for the stations they actually want, and not be forced into buying bundled packages (as is the case with cable TV).
Fallout from the Justice Department's decision will also be felt in cyberspace. As the YouTubes, podcasts, and assorted other webcasters of the world gain in prominence and make better use of faster bandwidth connections, a ruling that asserts the primacy of a single large New Media market, defining market competition in broad terms, should produce unintended consequences for decades to come. Make no mistake about it, the very development of the internet itself is at stake by such regulatory decisions.
In the end, assuming the F.C.C. also approves the merger, consumers of satellite radio will be better off. But in order to ensure that market competition flourishes in New Media, the government must tread carefully and make sure not to regulate webcasters out existence, as it has occasionally attempted to do in the past.


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we all need a new look!
I had no intention of making this page today!
I was working on something else when I came across this dress pattern..............it just yelled Hallowe'en dresses to me and so the page developed!
Still the best dressed skulls, debutantes of course! i can't wait to see their dates!!
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Forum to discuss Vivbot. Simple enough.
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The dashboard's visuals have been updated. The update is mostly focused on layout and animations/flow. I am still experimenting with colors, but I didn't want that to delay the update.
The old dashboard is available at vivbot.com/dashboardold
Major changes:
* You can change the position of the chat column to be on the right.
* Work In Progress (WIP) Black theme. It's quite incomplete, but I can already provide it as an option so why not.
^ You can enable these right at the beginning of the Settings section.
* All the "tabs" are now on the same page and you can scroll through them. Click on a section title to minimize it.
* A clear indicator that dashboard is not connected.
* Chat width now matches the width on twitch.
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WND (originally an initialism for WorldNetDaily, or as it was affectionately known to its fans as WingNutDaily or WhirledNutDaily) is a far-right website founded by the impressively mustachioed Joseph Farah in 1997 as a project of his "Western Center for Journalism".[1][2] The site espouses a fundamentalist, Christian, creationist worldview with a healthy dose of jingoism. WND's coverage provides multiple sides of issues: the very conservative viewpoint and the ultra-conservative viewpoint. WND makes Fox News look positively moonbatty in comparison. Managing editor David Kupelian claims the site "serves as your watchdog on government 365 days a year. We guard your priceless freedoms by aggressively exposing corruption and evil everywhere, and by championing good."[3]
While they present themselves as news, WND is basically a tabloid for radical right-wingers. Their publishing standards are rock-bottom, and they have run stories from extremely questionable sources on many, many occasions.[4][5] It's also one of the earliest and longest-running publishers of Ann Coulter's insipid columns, as well as editorials from such august political analysts as Chuck Norris, Pat Boone, Andy Schlafly, and Charlie Daniels. The addition of editorials by disgraced baseball bigot John Rocker[6] and an obsession with so-called "black mob violence" marked a shift from their less-than-subtle dog whistles into more overt racism.
The scary thing is, this bilge is actually slightly influential, with its made-up bullshit making its way out the mouths of wingnut congressmen and cable TV pundits far too often. Most notably, WND became ground zero for the Birther movement during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.[7]
- 1 Corporate structure
- 2 Website contents
- 3 Videos
- 4 WND Superstore!
- 5 Obama birth certificate "controversy"
- 6 Racism
- 7 And that's not all
- 8 WND Books
- 9 Mailing list
- 10 Eating their own
- 11 See also
- 12 External links
- 13 Notes
- 14 References
Corporate structure[edit]
Although its website lists Washington, D.C. as the location of its corporate and marketing headquarters, WND is actually headquartered in Medford, Oregon, which it lists as the location of its accounting office. For decades, Medford has been a mecca for survivalists, conspiracy theorists, and others of the paranoid-unhinged persuasion; it is also candidate to become the capital of the State of Jefferson, should that state ever become a reality. The other offices listed are an "operations" office in Long Beach, California, and a "customer service" office in the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs, Missouri; in 1999, it was incorporated in the tax haven state of Delaware. In fact, the address in Washington, D.C., that WND claims is their corporate headquarters is actually a UPS store.
Website contents[edit]
While WND obviously has to pay its costs somehow, advertising on the site is done in a particularly tacky way. Entire articles and editorials are nothing more than promotions for books and tours. When an article isn't solely dedicated to selling crap from their store, you can be sure it'll contain at least two hypertext links to the store disguised to appear as links to other relevant sources. Ads are placed on the front page using the same sensationalist headlines, fonts, and formatting as articles, making it difficult to distinguish them from actual content. One of the best examples of this was in November 2011, when, under the banner of "WND Exclusive", was an article titled "Obama hasn't destroyed 'that time of year,' at least not yet..."; clicking on this apparent "shocking" headline led you to an article plugging WND Superstore's Christmas selection.[8]
Banner advertising on the site falls into two broad categories: passive weight-loss techniques and survivalism-related products. Basically, advertisers think WND's readers are nothing but fat slobs who want to lose weight without effort, or paranoid nut jobs who think America is going into a second dark age and that the only way to survive is to preserve your own food and generate your own power. The power generation issue is especially ironic, given that WND criticizes Google for solar-powering their premises (except for the server cluster), but flogs kits to build your own system for $100.
Commentary and columnists[edit]
""I really should send Joseph Farah a gift for putting together a publication that goes above and beyond the call of duty to provide me with maximum fodder for this blog.
|—Ed Brayton[9]
Farah writes
endlessly daily on his three favorite topics: how the media is liberal, how the liberal media is ignoring his latest venture, and defending his latest venture from the media's attacks... because they're liberal. He also frequently brings up how he has been in the media for thirty years, and that when he started out, the media "just reported the truth" and similar fantasies. As of 2019, Farah's daily editorials are exclusively focused on begging his readers for money and attacking social media.[10][11] Farah appears to be upset that "news" stories from his wholly unreliable and completely biased tabloid no longer appear on the first two pages of a Google search.[note 1]
The list of former and current weekly columnists reads like a Who's Who of the wingnut set:
- Matt Barber
- Theodore Beale
- Pat Boone
- Pat Buchanan
- Herman Cain
- Jerome Corsi
- Ann Coulter
- Charlie Daniels
- Larry Elder
- Brigitte Gabriel
- Pamela Geller
- Linda Harvey
- Victoria Jackson
- Alan Keyes
- Scott Lively
- Michelle Malkin
- Christopher Monckton
- Roy Moore
- Chuck Norris
- Ted Nugent
- Jesse Lee Peterson
- Janet Porter
- Dennis Prager
- John Rocker
- Rick Santorum
- Michael Savage
- Andy Schlafly
- Ben Shapiro
- John Stossel
- Tom Tancredo
In 2010, WND temporarily ceased publishing Ann Coulter's columns and disinvited her from a conference over her involvement in the gay Republican event HomoCON. Farah went on a gay radio show(!) to accuse Coulter of believing that "sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle", and stated he no longer considered himself a conservative due to what he perceived as the right's "embrace" of homosexuality. In response, Coulter called him a "swine", a "publicity whore", and a "fake Christian".[12] Despite all of that, WND quickly resumed publishing her columns, and Farah is as much a wingnut conservative than he's ever been.
Email to the Editor[edit]
This section[13] is basically a chance for readers to tell Farah how right he is. On rare occasions where they do post letters disagreeing with their editorial stance, it is usually threatening and offensive, reflecting poorly on the letter's writer. They post five letters a day, and it's not hard to believe they receive a lot more than that, so they are obviously choosing only the ones they want.
Unfortunately, there's no archive or permanent links to emails, so we can't show you any highlights. However, to give you an idea on the well-informed views you're missing out on, one day we had: a long, ranty, birther letter; a comparison of healthcare reforms to Soylent Green; a letter saying that all socialists are Nazis; a letter complaining that Robert Gibbs starts sentences with "The American people want..." despite the fact that Tony Snow also used that phrase;[14] and a person fawning over how great their columnist Burt Prelutsky is.
The best batshit craziness is to be found on the "forums" of the site. They're only called "forums" because that's only the name WND has given them, even though they're actually a comments thread on a blog without a blog piece to comment on. These are started by the site admins rarely, and there is no ability to link to posts. Annoyingly, the newest post goes first, and to follow any conversation, you have to work backwards, trying to connect the blue quote text to the original post. Forum moderators are easy to spot, as they are the only ones with a signature, and it is about 15 lines long, trying to explain how their convoluted forum system works. There are actually only fifteen threads on the forums, currently available for commenting, not counting the polls, which are a lot more fun.
WND runs polls daily, which typically never have fewer than eight options, running the full gamut of the political spectrum from far-left to far-right, as well a few wingnut options that lie nowhere in the spectrum (or reality). Occasionally, the truth sneaks in with options such as, "No, this is all just sour grapes from right-wingers", but they receive few votes. Polls are mildly restrictive, since you have to register before you can participate. However, you may view the embarrassing results without registering.
Previous poll results include the following:
- Is Obama's eligibility issue a concern to you?(link) - 17 options. Top result, 36%: Yes, he's already proven he's not qualified. Now let's find out if he's eligible. (The top 8 results were variations on yes, totalling 99% of the votes).
- Why do you think the national media avoided the July 4th tea parties?(link) - 15 options. Top result, 70%: They're driven by ideology and are completely in the tank for Obama and the Congress.
- Do you believe mankind evolved from lower species?(link)[note 2] - 13 options. Top result, 63%: No, I believe the Bible account of creation.
- Where exactly do you think President Obama was really born?(link) - 10 options. Top result, 72%: Kenya.
- What would you like to give Obama for Christmas?(link) - 25 options. Top result, 25%: A court ruling booting his ineligible self from office.
- Who's your pick for 2012 GOP presidential nominee if you could vote today?(link) - 27 options. Top result, 21%: Ron Paul. Second, 19%: Sarah Palin.
- What do you make of the recent spree of earthquakes?(link) - 10 options. Top result, 35%: It's the beginning of the end-time birth pangs, as the Bible puts it.
- Sound off on Michelle Obama's comment that Barack's 'home country' is Kenya.(link) - 15 options. Top result, 62%: She spilled the beans. Barack was really born in Kenya, his home country.
- Sound off on evangelical leaders pushing amnesty for illegal aliens already in U.S(link) - 20 options. Top result, 22%: Unless their churches and ministries - rather than the taxpayers - are on the hook for the added costs of their pious platitudes, they're advocating robbing Peter to pay Pablo.
WND also hosts several video series, but they're all tragically awful and should be avoided like the plague. Here are just a few:
For The Record[edit]
By amateur filmmaker Jason "Molotov" Mitchell.[15] Some of the videos surpass WND's usual standards of offensiveness, such as when Mitchell actually argues in favor of the Ugandan law making homosexuality a capital crime, citing a commandment in the book of Leviticus as his reason. (Molotov admits to having a Christian tattoo, apparently ignoring Leviticus 19:28[16], wherein the Lord explicitly forbids tattoos.)
News! News![edit]
A painfully unfunny "Weekend Update" knock-off produced by "Molotov" Mitchell and hosted by D.J. Doulce (basically an ersatz Christina Hoff Sommers). Every episode ends with the line "That is all the time we have for this week's News! News!, next week we may all be dead". Only if there is a merciful God.
The Ultimate Jew[edit]
The newest member of the The Avengers Hosted by stand-up comedian and living fossil, Jackie Mason. Not funny, just kind of preachy. Imagine Krusty the Clown's father repeating all the current conservative talking points.[note 3]
Living Waters[edit]
Ray Comfort and his
life partner young ward Kirk Cameron ambush college co-eds to ask deep philosophical questions. When their startled victims fail to provide irrefutable proofs for answers, our two heroes declare that atheism and evolution are proven false... or something. Who knows? What do you expect from these two?
Just the Facts[edit]
Probably the driest of the five(!) series hosted by Richard Rives. His videos usually focus on Christianity and how the founding fathers were Christians (protip, Richy Rich: many weren't), and he seems to be anti-established churches.
The Heavens Declare[edit]
David Rives, son of Richard Rives, is an amateur astronomer and young Earth creationist whose videos present all the usual arguments for a 6000-year-old universe, with a focus on irreducible complexity. Rives also appears to believe that most (if not all) modern scientific discoveries were predicted by the Bible. Dave comes across as a wimpy Ray Comfort.[17]
Red Elephant's Cafe[edit]
A "drama" series about a small town in US called Liberty. The villain of the piece is the government, the characters talk in Tea Party talking points, and everything will be better if, um... God.
WND Superstore![edit]
Everyone knows how to make money on the web, right? You give away stuff free and sell T-shirts on the back of it. They have bibles! They have other books! They have a Reagan Store! They have their WorldNetWeekly magazine! (All material you could have read free on the site every day!) They have CDs and DVDs! They have a Tea Party store! They have a Birth Certificate store! And of course, they have T-shirts.
WND's store also features a "Preparedness" section, where the intrepid doomsday prepper can find low prices on items like 36 buckets filled with nearly five-thousand servings of vacuum sealed meals, the "Ebola Survival Handbook", and an authentic Russian gas mask.[18]
Obama birth certificate "controversy"[edit]
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 really sent Farah and his cronies over the edge.[19] During the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, the vast majority (if not all) of WND's headlines were about the so-called "birther controversy"; it was willing to post any article that could possibly point to Obama being ineligible to be president, regardless of its absurdity. Despite the fact that a high quality picture of Obama's birth certificate is readily available on the Internet[20] and there is no doubt at all about his mother's citizenship, WND still believes he is ineligible, because:
- He was born in Kenya, his Grandma said so.[note 4]
- He was born in an unnamed hospital in Hawaii, which does not claim credit.[21]
- They only showed his birth certificate to a "select few media outlets", not to us, so it could still be fake.[22]
- Even if it is real, that certificate is a "Certificate of Live Birth" not a "Birth Certificate", so it proves nothing.[23]
- Even if he has a "long-form" birth certificate, he lived in Indonesia for some years and gave up his American citizenship.[note 5]
- Even if he lived in Indonesia without giving up his US citizenship, his father was Kenyan and so does not meet
ourthe Constitution's definition of "natural born citizen", because both parents have to be US citizens.[note 6]
Just to show their determination to
get that black Democrat out of the White House uphold the Constitution, they claim to have raised more than $65,000 to erect billboards around the country with the message, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" Interestingly, WND was mostly silent[24] on the eligibility of John McCain, who caused a slight stir due by being born in the Panama Canal Zone.[25]
Farah has also expressed doubts as to who Obama's mother really is. Appropriately, Ed Brayton quipped that the next step would be for Farah to declare his belief that Obama is actually a reptilian (David Icke, take note!); Farah was sure to come up with something just as silly if a lizard-man vibe strikes him as being inappropriate for his birther conspiracy theory of the week.[26]
In addition, Jerome Corsi has also used WND to spread rumors that Obama is secretly gay, used to frequent Chicago gay bars, and is secretly married to a former male roommate.[27][28][29]
Proving that stupidity is frequently non-partisan, the eligibility of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (a dominionist wingnut tailor-made for WND) was occasionally questioned by WND columnist and noted crazy person Larry Klayman.[30] Seeing as Cruz was the son of a Cuban refugee and born in Calgary, Farah stuck to his guns as a seeker of constitutional truth, and... endorsed Cruz in the Republican Primaries for the 2016 election.[31]
Difficulties with the truth[edit]
WND has had some difficulties telling the truth over the birth certificate controversy. On August 2, 2009, when Orly Taitz presented them a photograph of what was reportedly Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, they clearly stated in their article:
However, the birth certificate turned out to be a fake based on an Australian birth certificate.[34] WND was caught doing what is commonly called lying,[35] and was not helped by the fact that they defended glaring errors in the document, such as Kenya not being a republic at the time, which were pointed out before the hoax was exposed.[36]
In August 2010, WND published an article claiming that then-Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had helped to cover up Obama's birth certificate. In fact, they had only found nine Supreme Court cases mentioning Obama and Kagan (considering she was US Solicitor General]] at the time, meaning her entire job was arguing cases before the Supreme Court, that was perfectly normal), none of which had anything to do with the birth certificate controversy, most of which were filed well before Obama became President and merely "carried over", and only one of which was even related to the election.[37] So WND took the action of any brave journalistic organization and deleted the story without explanation.[38] The link remained broken for days, but WND eventually reactivated the links, replacing it with a story that had only a small connection to the original and an acknowledgement of their initial error.
WND regularly runs stories engaging in base racism, typically focusing on their readers' (i.e. racist white people) fears of "violent" brown people. The site regularly features the work of journalist and alleged human being Colin Flaherty, who has "done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse". Some choice articles from Flaherty and other people who can type who were employed by WND include:
- "White Girl: I'm Tired of Being Looked At Like Prey."[41]
- "Take a stroll, wake up in hospital thanks to black mob"[42]
- A scoop that "Corpulent women of color" in the TSA are molesting white people as revenge for the murder of Trayvon Martin.[43]
- "Combat soldiers no match for black mob ...[45]
- "Black Mobs Plague Nightclubs Coast to Coast"[48]
- "It's only new if you have been aggressively ignoring the epidemic of black mob violence."[49]
- "Whistleblower: Philadelphia flooded with black mob violence."[50]
The site also advertises Flaherty's book White Girl Bleed a Lot, which argues that "groups of black people have been roaming the streets of America – assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, even raping and killing."[51]
It got to the point where Google Ads cut off service to them and labelled them as a "hate site".[52]
And that's not all[edit]
In addition to claims that Obama is actually a Kenyan who gay-married a Muslim and that hordes of African-Americans are rampaging in your neighborhood and/or spreading Ebola, WND has advanced plenty of other sanity-deprived ideas.
- The attack by Anders Behring Breivik was invented by the Norwegian Labour party in order to gain sympathy. "This is likely a fabrication of the Labour Party, who needs to hold onto power to enforce their multi-culturalist, Muslim-favoring, anti-nationalist views", according to Michael Savage.[53]
- Soybeans and soy milk will make your penis shrink and turn you gay.[54]
- Obama is planning on building a Death Star.[55] Seriously.
- Whenever WND uses the word gay or gay marriage, they employ scare quotes.
- Obama will not leave office after 2016.[56]
- Editor and Gene Shalit impersonator Joseph Farah blamed the Sandy Hook massacre on secularism and the removal of mandatory prayer from public schools, and warned that if gun control measures were established, God would punish us more.[57]
- WND published a highly hagiographical report about a visit of Peter Popoff to Washington, D.C.[58]
- A minute-by-minute recounting of the execution of Saddam Hussein [59]
- Burt Prelutsky even once made an article calling for the Ka'aba to be nuked.[60]
Is Barack Obama the Devil?[edit]
A reoccurring theme at WND is just asking the question "Is Barack Obama literally, non-metaphorically, Satan?" With stories about Obama's similar appearance to a guy who played the Devil on TV[61], the fact that a fly landed on his face at some point[62] or that a
lens flare demon was recorded with him while in Kenya[63], the only conclusion a moron regular reader of WND could come to is: yes, Barack is probably Old Scratch.
WND Books[edit]
Under the WND Books imprint, WND publishes IMPORTANT INFORMATION on subjects relevant to its informative mission. Along with being an outlet for Farah's fine volumes, it also prints books by such intellectual greats as Ray Comfort, Ken Ham, and of course, Chuck Norris. Mostly, though, the authors are WND staff writers producing hyper-partisan screeds against liberals and RINOs.
You would have to be blind to miss the latest WND Books release, since there are advertisements for it all over the site. There is usually an interview with the author, an article on how well it is selling on Amazon and an article by Farah complaining about how nobody wants to interview his author. Any story that can possibly be linked to the book is, and will dissolve into a plug for the book by the time you pass the annoying flashing GIF advertisement in the middle.
In December 2015, WND proved their publishing standards are equal to their journalistic standards by acquiring the rights to crank pseudohistorian David Barton's wholly discredited book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson. The book was pulled from shelves by its original (conservative) publisher, Thomas Nelson, after a group of ten evangelical Christian professors from prominent U.S. universities released a report calling assertions made in the book "unsupportable" and that Barton was frequently guilty of taking statements and actions out of context.[64] The History News Network voted it "the least credible history book in print".[65] WND.com columnist Michael Thompson
advertised editorialized that Barton's evangelical critics are simply not conservative enough to correctly interpret history, despite being actual historians with fancy stuff like advanced degrees and decades of study. Barton's only degree is a bachelors in Christian education from Oral Roberts University.[66]
Joseph Farah notes the wide respect accorded to WND's publications in the mainstream media:[67]
""Never, ever contact me again.
| —Jeffrey Kluger,
senior writer, Time magazine
""This is sensational rubbish that is of no interest to any legitimate publication.
| —Rana Foroohar,
deputy editor, Newsweek
""Ridiculous crap.
| —John Oswald,
news editor, New York Daily News
""Absolute crap.
| —Evelyn Leopold,
Huffington Post, formerly of Reuters
""Remove me from your list.
| —Nancy Gibbs,
editor-at-large, Newsweek
""Seriously, get a life.
| —David Knowles,
political writer, AOL
Mailing list[edit]
WND maintains a mailing list of readers who have signed up to have their mailbox filled with the same sort of crap that the website is filled with. Various organizations have rented the WND list, including the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)[68] and more significantly, the Republican National Committee. Right-wing blogger Jon Henke, who considers birtherism and its conspiracy theory "hideously embarrassing" for sane conservatives, contacted the latter and got a complete non-answer as to why the Republicans would wish to rent the email list of a fringe group of loonies like WND.[69][70][71] This may be because WND-reading nutjobs are now the Republican base…
Eating their own[edit]
WND has a long history of sloppy accounting, being chronically late in paying bills, ripping off authors, and and high-level executives making personal purchases off of the company credit card.[72] All of this mismanagement primarily hurts the people that support it: kooks, Christian fundamentalists, and co-grifters. WND seems to be in a downward spiral, with the book publishing arm devolving from free publishing for authors with unfulfilled promises of royalties to stright-up vanity publishing via World Ahead Press ($10,000 up front from the author to get published).[72] Farah blames WND's dire financial situation on the lack of promotion of the site's fake news stories by Google/Facebook/Twitter (who he calls the "Digital Cartel"), rather than WND's complete lack of journalistic standards and long history of conspiratorial and inflammatory content.[73] Remaining WND devotees can prepare for WND's end times, when the wingnut comes unscrewed, by buying a Russian gas mask on the WND website when the stink of internal rot becomes more apparent.[18]
See also[edit]
- Fake news
- The Blaze: WND with Glenn Beck as the editor. Slightly less racist, significantly more sanctimonious.
- Breitbart.com: WND with a more populist slant.
- Infowars and PrisonPlanet: WND with the insanity turned up to 11. Run by Alex Jones
- The Daily Mail: The marginally less insane British version
- Globalresearch.ca: The left-wing, moonbat version
- Robert Beale: a former financial backer turned gibbering tax crank
- Self projection as god: a favored tactic
- Zion Oil: A biblical petrochemical(!) company heavily promoted by WND
External links[edit]
- The site in question.
- What's WorldNetDaily Hiding on Obama Birth Certificate?, Terry Krepel, Huffington Post, 2 July 2009.
- The Ten Most Absurd Stories at Rick Santorum's New Home, WorldNetDaily, Rightwingwatch, 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Most wingnuts have moved on from Birtherism, WND's raison d'être during the Obama presidency, and the site has little original content to offer that isn't already covered by nominally more reliable right-wing sites like Breitbart and the Daily Caller. This, the blacklisting as a result of Colin Flaherty's racist articles and Google/FB's attempts to counter fake news are the likely causes for WND's reduced traffic following the 2016 election.
- ↑ Actually even a person who supports evolution as the best explanation for the biodiversity present on Earth would answer no to this question: in evolutionary biology there is no such idea as "higher" and "lower" species.
- ↑ Mason voiced Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky in the classic ""Like Father, Like Clown" episode of The Simpsons
- ↑ This is what we were told she said based on a translation. Even if the translation was true, the question she was reportedly asked was "Which city in Kenya was Barack born"? This is begging the question. Also, her son's name was Barack Obama, so once asked about the Kenyan-born Barack Obama she may have assumed they were talking about her son, not grandson.
- ↑ This topic does not receive much coverage on WND. If this did apply (which it doesn't; even if Obama had become an Indonesian citizen this would not involve giving up his American citizenship, as American citizenship is quite obviously not subject to foreign nations' laws), it would be difficult to rebut as we would have prove a negative and find evidence that Obama did not become an Indonesian citizen. The absence of such a record will not be satisfying to WND as they don't believe in a certificate that does exist, never mind the one that doesn't exist.
- ↑ In point of fact the nationality of one, or for that matter both, of Obama's parents is simply irrelevant. Anybody who is born on US soil is automatically a US citizen.[See Snopes on Obama's birth]. The only mention of what constitutes a citizen in the Constitution is in the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Given that Obama's mother was a natural born US citizen, and he was born in the US, this would cover most, if not all, legal definitions of "natural born" with various legislatures in the US. This is actually a political controversy among anti-immigration activists, some of whom feel that the 14th Amendment should be partially repealed so as to stop the scourge of "anchor babies"; you'd think a far-right site would know about this.
- ↑ WorldNet Daily Continues to Pump Out Outrageous Propaganda, Leah Nelson, Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, Fall 2012.
- ↑ WorldNetDaily Southern Poverty Law Center
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=23640/
- ↑ In which WND gets nailed by Snopes.
- ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/thunderer/article659904.ece
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/john-rocker-to-pitch-rhetorical-fastballs/
- ↑ http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/11/joseph_farah_wnd_misinformation/index.html
- ↑ The Worldnutdaily Pimps Christmas Junk — Freethoughtblogs, Ed Brayton, November 17, 2011.
- ↑ Thank You, Joseph Farah. Thank you. - Dispatches from the Culture Wars, July 17, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2018/08/google-facebook-the-speech-code-cartel/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/save-free-speech-free-press-freedom-of-religion/
- ↑ http://www.mediaite.com/online/wnd-ceo-takes-to-gay-radio-to-slam-ann-coulter-for-homoconflict/
- ↑ WND:Emails to the editor
- ↑ http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-9.html
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120417
- ↑ RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Leviticus#Leviticus_19:28
- ↑ David Rives WND.com Video Archive. Enjoy!
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 New Russian Gas Masks/New NBC Filters/New Carry & Storage WND Superstore (archived from April 3, 2019).
- ↑ Farah responding to claims he is obsessed about this, only giving himself another excuses to go over it again.
- ↑ That could belong to anyone named Barack Hussein Obama II born to a Caucasian woman and an African man on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu
- ↑ A typical WND article on this topic. This of course ignores that he was born at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children, which Obama thanks in a congratulatory message to them. There was some confusion with people claiming he was born at Queen's Medical Center, but Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children being named after Queen Kapi'olani may be the source of this confusion. Two days after this was posted here, WorldNetDaily ran an article on the letter, as per usual, WND used the fact that it is against federal law to release private information to insinuate Obama is hiding his place of birth. Eventually the issue of this letter descended into a farce. When the letter was removed from the website WND accused them of participating in a cover up and of course they ran a poll on it. They were eventually satisfied of the existence of this when they got to see it, although they insisted on saying it was "allegedly" written by Obama.
- ↑ This is irrelevant, the website chosen was due to its neutrality and professionalism.
- ↑ Birth Certificates and Certificate of Live Birth are the same thing. There is in fact not any document issued by the state of Hawaii with the title of "Birth Certificate". A longer version of the one on the net is on record, but even his short one says he was born in Hawaii.
- ↑ I searched for John McCain's eligibility, not Obama's, stupid liberal search engine...
- ↑ In fact, Obama co-sponsored a bill to ensure the legal definition of natural born citizen would cover McCain. "Those who serve and sacrifice for their country, like John McCain and his father, deserve every honor and privilege that our nation can possibly provide, and that includes the ability to run for the highest office in the land" - Obama
- ↑ Farah Takes Birtherism to Whole New Level, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- ↑ Claim: Obama hid 'gay life' to become president, World Net Daily
- ↑ World Net Daily Dredges Up Ancient 'Obama Gay' Rumors
- ↑ World Net Daily's Corsi Asks: "Was Obama Married To A Man?", BuzzFeed
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/rubio-cruz-ineligible-and-phonies/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/vote-for-ted-cruz/
- ↑ WND - Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth? (retrieved 18th of August 2009)
- ↑ Picture in case anything happens to it.
- ↑ http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/04/australia_certificate/
- ↑ ConWebWatch - WorldNetDaily Does Not Do Journalism (retrieved 18th of August 2009)
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106016
- ↑ Snopes.com article debunking the WND story
- ↑ Link to where the WND story was before they deleted it.
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/was-this-really-the-funniest-news-of-2014/2/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/buffoons-of-the-year/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/white-girl-im-tired-of-being-looked-at-like-prey/]
- ↑ [http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/take-a-stroll-wake-up-in-hospital-thanks-to-black-mob/#BJcQvZBWSd0molTD.99}
- ↑ The TSA's Trayvon Martin revenge, WorldNetDaily
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- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/now-black-mobs-plague-nightclubs-coast-to-coast/#kkhVX0vMvAetz7i1.99
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ [6]
- ↑ [7]
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/google-accuses-wnd-of-hate-speech/
- ↑ Savage: Norway Terrorist Attacks A Left-Wing Conspiracy, RightWingWatch. Original on WND has been blanked, with just the title left.
- ↑ Soy is making kids 'gay', WorldNetDaily
- ↑ Will Obama build a Death Star next?, WorldNetDaily
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/will-obama-even-leave-office-after-2016/
- ↑ Expect more Sandy Hooks, not fewer, WND
- ↑ Peter Popoff Ministries Visits Washington, DC, WND.
- ↑ [8]
- ↑ [9]
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/why-does-devil-in-the-bible-look-familiar/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/jumpin-beelzebub-obama-buzzed-by-fly-again/
- ↑ http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/video-is-this-a-demon-racing-in-front-of-obama/
- ↑ http://www.worldmag.com/2012/08/the_david_barton_controversy
- ↑ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/and-the-worst-book-of-history-is/
- ↑ It's WND: Gird your loins before entering "Anatomy of an American Book Banning"
- ↑ Farah's ramblings - May 6 2010
- ↑ Organizing Against WorldNetDaily, The Next Right
- ↑ The RNC responds, but will not distance itself from WorldNetDaily, The Next Right
- ↑ The RNC responds, but will not distance itself from WorldNetDaily, The Next Right
- ↑ WorldNetDaily, the RNC, and the mainstreaming of extremist ideas, Crooks and Liars
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 Inside the spectacular fall of the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites by Manuel Roig-Franzia (April 2, 2019 at 1:26 PM) The Washington Post.
- ↑ See nearly every editorial Farah has written since 2016
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