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Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Dealing with the bigotry from the left”

Posted by Mark on January 6, 2009

Barack Obama has created a controversy, not on the right, but on the left, for choosing Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration. Warren is the pastor of Saddleback Church in California, where he hosted a forum for Obama and John McCain back in August. Obama has defended his choice of Warren because he wants the event to reflect diverse views.

That’s all well and good, but the left has reacted to Obama’s choice of Rick Warren with indignation. You see, liberals have this great fear that Rick Warren will utter the name of “Jesus Christ” during his invocation, and that prospect has them tied in knots. Back in 2001, Reverends Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were criticized for invoking Christ at George W. Bush’s inauguration, and even prompted a lawsuit from infamous busybody atheist Michael Newdow, who is better known for attempting to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

But there is another reason why Rick Warren is being targeted by the left. It has to do with the fact that he favored California’s Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that limits marriage to one man and one woman. Voters approved Proposition 8 on Election Day by a 52-48% margin, and gay rights activists haven’t gotten over it.

The Human Rights Campaign, which the Associated Press calls “the nation’s largest gay rights organization,” says Warren’s opposition to gay marriage is a sign of intolerance.

Pot, meet kettle.

Gay rights activists, in the aftermath of the Proposition 8 vote, have written the book on intolerance. But it’s typical of liberals to demand tolerance for all manner of debauchery, while showing zero tolerance toward those who have different beliefs.

Within days after California’s passage of Proposition 8, gay rights activists were so distraught over losing at the polls that some of them actually threatened violence against churches and those who supported the constitutional amendment.

After it was learned that California’s black voters helped push Proposition 8 over the top (yes, the same black voters who voted 95% for Obama also voted 70% for the marriage amendment), actress and liberal activist Roseanne Barr wrote on her blog that “[Black voters] showed themselves every inch as bigoted and ignorant as their white christian right wing counterpartners who voted for mccain-palin and bush-cheney.”

The anti-Proposition 8 crowd ended up taking the brunt of their fury out on the Mormon Church, which heavily supported the amendment, but Christians have been targeted, too.

One individual who attended a gathering of Christians in San Francisco’s Castro district — a gathering that had nothing to do with Proposition 8 — just days after Election Day, describes how they were treated by a mob of gay rights activists (as cited on MichelleMalkin.com):

“Then a crowd started gathering. We began to sing ‘Amazing Grace,’ and basically sang that song the whole night. (At some points we also sang ‘Nothing but the Blood of Jesus’ and ‘Oh the Blood of Jesus.’) At first, they just shouted at us, using crude, rude, and foul language and calling us names like ‘haters’ and ‘bigots.’ Since it was a long night, I can’t even begin to remember all of the things that were shouted and/or chanted at us. Then, they started throwing hot coffee, soda and alcohol on us and spitting (and maybe even peeing) on us. Then, a group of guys surrounded us with whistles, and blasted them inches away from our ears continually. Then, they started getting violent and started shoving us. At one point a man tried to steal one of our Bibles. Chrisdene noticed, so she walked up to him and said ‘Hey, that’s not yours, can you please give it back?’ He responded by hitting her on the head with the Bible, shoving her to the ground, and kicking her. I called the cops, and when they got there, they pulled her out of the circle and asked her if she wanted to press charges. She said ‘No, tell him I forgive him.’”

What happened to Margie Christoffersen is another example of the type of “tolerance” gay rights activists show toward those who believe differently. Christoffersen was a manager at El Coyote, a Beverly Boulevard landmark restaurant that used to enjoy a large clientele. Many of those customers were gay, and Christoffersen, a devout Mormon, donated $100 in support of Proposition 8. She never advertised her politics or religion in the restaurant, but her donation eventually showed up on a donor list, and El Coyote became a target. A boycott was organized on the Internet, with activists trashing El Coyote on restaurant review sites. Then came protesters, some of them shouting “shame on you” at customers. The police arrived in riot gear one night to quell the angry mob.

Says Christoffersen, “I’ve almost had a nervous breakdown. It’s been the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Even though liberals made a clean sweep on Election Day, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in both the House and Senate, they’re just as angry as ever. So when gay rights activists scoff at Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration invocation because of his intolerance toward them, just remember that gay rights activists, and liberals in general, demand tolerance for themselves, but have proven themselves wholly unwilling to show tolerance toward others.

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Where are the right-to-privacy nuts?

Posted by Mark on January 5, 2009

Whereas Congress is considering raising the federal gasoline tax in order to “offset” declining fuel demand, the state of Oregon is considering a slightly different approach. Namely, the left-coast state would tax mileage instead of gasoline by using a GPS. Of course, the government would also always know where you are. Nice.

As I wrote back on January 2:

What is it government and global warming alarmists have been telling us? To drive less and buy more fuel efficient cars, which I refuse to do, but enough Americans have done as they were told that we are buying noticeably less gasoline, which has cut the stream of tax revenue to government, and since government can NEVER do with less, there is a movement underway to increase the federal gasoline tax.

Only in this case, it’s not a higher fuel tax, but an actual tax on mileage. Thus, if you were an obedient subject and bought your hybrid or a tin-can-on-wheels, thinking you were saving the planet in the process, the joke’s on you. You might be using less gasoline, but you’re not going to save on taxes. You did exactly as you were told by government, and the thanks you get comes in the form of higher taxes.

Oregon looks at taxing mileage instead of gasoline - Yahoo! News.

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Brett Favre, please do the sports world a favor and retire

Posted by Mark on January 5, 2009

In the wake of the once high-flying New York Favres (er, I mean, New York Jets) late-season collapse, several Jets’ players have come out and more or less called Favre a prima donna. Most of us knew this before Favre even went to the Jets right before the start of the season, but it is refreshing to hear it said by his own former teammates.

Favre retired from the NFL a year ago, but then un-retired shortly before the start of the season. He tried to come back with the Green Bay Packers, but the Packers sent him packing, and so he settled on the Jets. The thing I resent most about Favre has more to do with the media than with Favre. The media treat Favre like a god. Everything he does, even text messages he sends to his agent, gets preempted on ESPN (right in the middle of baseball season) as though there’s no other sports of interest going on.

Brett Favre has his Super Bowl ring, and will go to the Hall of Fame. He deserves it. Wonderful. Now retire and give the rest of us a break, because there are other quarterbacks in the NFL besides Brett Favre — plenty of quarterbacks who are actually team players and not one-man media hogs. Go away. Shoo. And stay retired this time.

The Favre welcome mat has been pulled - Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports.

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Where are the race police?

Posted by Mark on January 5, 2009

Senator Harry Reid says he is not going to seat Roland Burris, who was appointed by Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama’s vacated senate seat. Roland Burris, of course, is black. If Harry Reid were a Republican, we all know that the Democrats, the media, and the self-appointed race police — a couple of reverends come to mind — would be screaming racism, that the racist Republicans are trying to keep the black man down.

But Harry Reid isn’t a Republican. He’s a Democrat. And Democrats, as we all know, are the only people keeping blacks from being re-enslaved. Democrats routinely get 90% of the black vote. Harry Reid is supposed to represent the Great White Hope to black people, yet he is refusing to seat a black man legally appointed to the U.S. Senate. So come on, race hypocrites of the left, be consistent. Call Harry Reid a racist for turning away a black man.

Defiant and upbeat, Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris said Monday that upon arriving in Washington, he plans to tell Democratic leaders: “I’m here to take my seat.”

But Burris faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill, where his fellow Democrats have pledged not to confirm anyone appointed by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the seat left vacant by Barack Obama’s election as president.

“I am the junior senator according to every law book in the nation,” Burris said Monday, chalking up the controversy swirling around him to “politics and theater.”

Burris says he’s ready to take US Senate seat - Yahoo! News.

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Last game before conference play

Posted by Mark on January 3, 2009

The Memphis Tigers play host to Lamar this evening. It’s the last game before the Tigers begin games against teams from Conference USA. Memphis (9-3) is not ranked in either the AP or ESPN poll, but they are currently #18 in the RPI, with the #4 strength-of-schedule, meaning they have played the fourth-toughest schedule in college basketball. That number will gradually fall as teams enter conference play, since the Conference USA schedule is sort of a cakewalk for the Tigers.

The pre-conference schedule was a little disappointing for Memphis. We knew coming in, after losing three players to the NBA, that we weren’t going to be as good this year. But still, the Tigers have not beaten a ranked team out of three tries, and that’s how we earn our RPI points. After today, the Tigers have two non-conference games left later in the season: at Tennessee and at Gonzaga. Both are very difficult places to play for an opposing team. And you wonder if the Tigers can go through conference play undefeated for a third-straight season. I’d say the odds are against it. At some point, someone is going to sneak up and beat us. Perhaps it will be UAB, or Houston, or UTEP. At any rate, this is still a good Tigers team. A fourth-consecutive elite eight appearance is probably a longshot, but they have three good, young players (Tyreke Evens, Roburt Sallie, and Wesley Witherspoon) who will be even better the more they play, so who can know what will happen in March?

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Why am I not surprised?

Posted by Mark on January 2, 2009

Those of us who know global warming to be a hoax have made numerous comparisons between the global warming movement and organized religion. I won’t rehash them all here, but I did run across a story out of the UK a couple of days ago that goes a long way toward bolstering the religion comparison.

The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore’s environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.

On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith reported that in late September the Commissioners had placed the funds with Gore’s boutique management firm which follows an “environmentally sustainable global equities mandate.” Funding for the investment came from “cash and Treasury bills”, he said, and not from the sale of UK equities as initially planned.

What is it that the left keeps telling us? That you’re not supposed to mix politics and religion?

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Posted by Mark on January 2, 2009

What is it government and global warming alarmists have been telling us? To drive less and buy more fuel efficient cars, which I refuse to do, but enough Americans have done as they were told that we are buying noticeably less gasoline, which has cut the stream of tax revenue to government, and since government can NEVER do with less, there is a movement underway to increase the federal gasoline tax.

Charles Whittington, chairman of the American Trucking Associations, which supports a fuel tax increase as long as the money goes to highway projects, said Congress may decide to disguise a fuel tax hike as a surcharge to combat climate change.

Transportation is responsible for about a third of all U.S. carbon emissions created by burning fossil fuels. Traffic congestion wastes an estimated 2.9 billion gallons of fuel a year. Less congestion would reduce greenhouse gases and dependence on foreign oil.

“Instead of calling it a gas tax, call it a carbon tax,” Whittington said.

What is I’ve been telling you? That global warming is nothing more than a hoax designed to grow government and raise taxes. Indeed, motorists have done exactly what we’ve been told to do as far as conserving energy, and government is lamenting that we have obeyed. And they are going to “reward” our obedience by raising taxes.

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Set a trap, liberals walk right into it

Posted by Mark on January 1, 2009

Tennessee Republican Chip Saltaman is in a bit of trouble after recently distributing a CD containing the parody song “Barack the Magic Negro.”

The uproar over the song, which Saltsman defended as political satire of a 2007 column in the Los Angeles Times that used “Magic Negro” in the headline and text, shows evidence of a double standard, Saltsman said Saturday.

“Liberal Democrats and their allies in the media didn’t utter a word about David Ehrenstein’s irresponsible column in the Los Angeles Times last March,” Saltsman said in a statement e-mailed by his spokesman, Stephen Smith. “But now, of course, they’re shocked and appalled by its parody on The Rush Limbaugh Show.”

Limbaugh, of course, picked up the line and ran with it, knowing the media and liberals would express outrage over the apparent racism on the right. After all, liberals are always outraged over something, and so the Maha Rushie wanted to prove a point — that the left would ignore the Magic Negro line when it was created by a liberal, but would become indignant once it was parroted by a conservative. Sure enough, the left fell for it. And so the joke is on them.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin has a great deal more on the parody flap and the hypocrisy of the left.

www.tennessean.com | Nashville Local News | The Tennessean.

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Hilarious cat video

Posted by Mark on January 1, 2009

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Can’t even enjoy a good celebration

Posted by Mark on December 31, 2008

Most people enjoy doing something special on New Year’s Eve, unless you’re a reporter with the liberal media. In that case, New Year’s Eve is just another reason to find that rain cloud to stand other and proclaim misery.

Economy puts damper on New Year’s Eve celebrations - Yahoo News.

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I get by with a little help from Al Gore

Posted by Mark on December 31, 2008

Climate Audit has a hilarious spoof on Al Gore, which actually lends credibility to ”The Gore Effect,” where he brings with him record cold weather wherever he visits.

Long ago 2006, in the bad old days before IPCC AR4, Toronto got its lowest snowfall in a century. Lake level declines were sure to follow. Would water supplies for lattes be threatened? Even the unthinkable now seemed possible and even likely.

Nobody knew what do. Except for one little girl. Hey, its a story. She wrote to a famous ju-ju man in the South asking him to come north and cast a magic spell and make the snow return.

The ju-ju man heard the plea of the little girl. He quickly decided that the situation was far worse than even the little girl thought. This needed his most powerful magic and, so in 2007, he visited Toronto not just once, not just twice but three times.

The magic worked Soon Toronto was covered up in winter snow. The ju-ju man could only save part of the 2007 winter, but by 2008, his magic was in full force. Yesterday’s snow made 2008 snowfall the highest since 1883, with a few days still on the clock.

And it was all due to that one little girl.

As for me, my arms ache from shoveling snow. I think that the ju-ju man might overdid his spell a little. Id have been OK with just one incantation.

How Al Gore Saved Christmas « Climate Audit.

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I’m not buying this for a second

Posted by Mark on December 31, 2008

A couple of former advisors to President Bush appear to be taking the Scott McClellan route by selling out the 43rd president in order to win favor with the mainstream media.

Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster.

“Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. “The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didnt matter. Legislative initiatives? It didnt matter. P.R.? It didnt matter. Travel? It didn’t matter.”

Oh, really? I would argue that President Bush enjoyed three major political accomplishments — all in the face of withering criticism from the left — AFTER Hurricane Katrina: John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and the troop surge in Iraq. But President Bush will leave office with low approval numbers — not as low as Congress’ approval numbers, but still low — and so the easy way out is to simply jump on the anti-Bush bandwagon.

Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina - Yahoo News.

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More controversy over Rick Warren

Posted by Mark on December 31, 2008

The tolerance police continue to stir up trouble over the choice of Rick Warren to deliver Barack Obama’s inauguration prayer, with liberals worried sick over the prospect that Rick Warren might invoke the name of Christ during his prayer. These are the same people, of course, who demand tolerance from everyone else.

Evangelicals generally expect their clergymen to use Jesus name whenever and wherever they lead prayer. Many conservative Christians say cultural sensitivity goes way too far if it requires religious leaders to hide their beliefs.

“If Rick Warren does not pray in Jesus’ name, some folks are going to be very disappointed,” Caldwell said in a recent phone interview. “Since hes evangelical, his own tribe, if you will, will have some angst if he does not do that.”

Advocates for gay rights protested Obama’s decision to give Warren a prominent role at the swearing-in. The California megachurch founder supported Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in his home state. Obama defended his choice, saying he wanted the event to reflect diverse views and insisting he remains a “fierce advocate” of equal rights for gays.

The thing is, gays already have equal rights in the U.S. — even the right to marry. Any gay man can marry any woman who agrees to it, and vice versa, which is the same right heterosexuals enjoy.

Warren’s inauguration prayer could draw more ire - Yahoo News.

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Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Taxing the functions of farm animals”

Posted by Mark on December 30, 2008

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles amount to air pollution. That was all the Environmental Protection Agency needed to issue a report that may lead to the federal government taxing smelly farm animals who emit too much methane. Methane, of course, is a greenhouse gas. Cows and hogs give off lots of it. They always have. It’s part of their natural biological function. So leave it to the federal government to consider taxing it.

It’s all part of the global warming hoax. Since the beginning of time, created beings have given off methane, with the planet suffering no side effects. But now, suddenly, in the 21st century, what has always occurred naturally is destroying the planet.

There are two things you need to know about global warming. First, those who espouse the theory that man is altering the climate adhere to global warming with religious-like faith. You have to have faith in global warming, because factual analysis destroys it. Second, global warming is nothing more than a hoax that liberals and bureaucrats are using to grow government and raise taxes.

To illustrate just how global warming alarmists would micromanage our lives, let’s look at a few examples:

In Great Britain, where the global warming hoax has become far more ingrained than here in the U.S., the Energy Saving Partnership has taken out a patent on Heatseekers, thermo-imaging vehicles which, at full potential, have the capacity to identify 1,000 properties an hour, or 5,000 properties a night, that are leaking carbon. Once the property has been scanned, a dedicated team of energy advisers will visit householders to show them the thermal image scan of their homes.

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, asserts that people should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change. Dr. Pachauri said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.

And if the addition of carbon police and eating less meat weren’t enough, we would see carbon crimes if the left ever had its way. You see, Stephen Hockman, a deputy High Court judge, has proposed a body similar to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to be the supreme legal authority on issues regarding the environment. The court would enforce international agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, fine countries or companies that failed to protect endangered species or degraded the natural environment, and enforce the “right to a healthy environment.”

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Airport Commission has recently authorized a program that would enable enviro-nitwits to assuage their guilt over making too big a carbon footprint. The general idea, officials say, is that a traveler would approach a kiosk resembling the self-service check-in stations used by airlines, then punch in his or her destination. A computer would calculate the carbon footprint and the cost of an investment to offset the damage. The guilt-ridden traveler could then swipe a credit card to help save the planet. Travelers would receive a printed receipt listing the projects benefiting from their green “investment.”

Really, what kind of an idiot would fall for such a scheme?

Despite the hysteria, 2008 will end up the coolest year of the decade. If you’re worried about the environment, this should be good news. Indeed, everything liberals have told us is a lie. We enjoy such a high level of prosperity that we’ve had the time and the luxury to create our own crises, and global warming is an invented crisis. Global warming is a political movement built upon changes in the weather, and “global warming” has even morphed into “climate change” to cover any and all meteorological changes. Whether it’s hotter, colder, wetter, or drier, it can all be blamed on human activity now. The global warming alarmists have stacked the deck so they cannot possibly be wrong, even when their entire premise is a hoax.

It is supremely arrogant to believe that man can alter nature by eating meat, driving cars, and using incandescent light bulbs. It is just as arrogant to believe we can cool the atmosphere by switching to hybrids, taxing smelly farm animals, using curlicue light bulbs, and buying carbon credits. (You’re actually better off throwing your money away on the lottery, because with the lottery, you at least have a one-in-a-million shot at a payoff, whereas global warming is a 100% hoax.)

Likewise, politicians who endeavor to “save the planet” do so out of an inflated sense of self-importance. Democrats (and some Republicans, too) honestly believe they can change the climate merely by passing legislation that micromanages the lifestyles of everyone else. In reality, global warming alarmists would loot the wealth of individuals and private businesses who stand falsely accused of contributing to global warming. Indeed, looting wealth produced by others is a hallmark of liberalism.

It has been said that ignorance is the most expensive “commodity” we own. Global warming proves it, because if the left ever gets its way, the global warming hoax is going to cost taxpayers a great deal of money and loss of individual liberty.

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Big win for the Memphis Tigers

Posted by Mark on December 29, 2008

The Memphis Tigers took to the basketball court for the first time since the Roses were there a week ago. Tonight, it was our Big East rival, the Cincinnati Bearcats, visiting the FedEx Forum, with the Tigers winning 60-45 in front of a near-sellout crowd of more than 18,000. The game was a defensive bloodbath, as neither team shot well, but especially Cincinnati, which made just 12 baskets the entire game. The big story for the Tigers were turnovers and rebounding, as Cincinnati committed 20 turnovers to the Tigers’ 14, and the home team winning the battle of the boards 40-30.

Memphis was led in scoring by hot-shooting senior Antonio Anderson, who had 18 points, followed by senior Robert Dozier, with 17 points, and freshman Tyreke Evans, who scored 14.

Cincinnati, which came into the game 10-2 and #50 in the RPI, owned Memphis back in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, but has now lost each of the past four years to the Tigers, who finally beat a Top 50 RPI opponent this season after losing their first three against such opponents. Memphis came into the game 7-3, #37 in the RPI, and had a #15 strength-of-schedule.

The Tigers have just two more games until the start of conference play. Memphis is 56-1 in Conference USA the last three years, with their last conference loss coming near the end of the 2005-2006 regular season at UAB. Since then, the Tigers have won 42 straight.

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I try to give credit where credit is due

Posted by Mark on December 29, 2008

Barack Obama says he is committed to giving those middle class tax cuts he promised during the campaign. I’m all for tax cuts. It doesn’t matter whether Democrats or Republicans enact them. Tax cuts are tax cuts. The only problem I have is that Obama seems to be content to let the Bush tax cuts expire, then enacting a new round of tax cuts aimed at the middle class. He says the net effect would still be a tax cut. I would simply make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Making high earners bite the bullet while giving the middle class a tax cut is simply a transfer of wealth. Instead, let’s make government bite the bullet. President Bush has already proven that cutting tax rates from top to bottom actually increases revenue to the treasury, so government would also benefit from making the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Obama adviser: Slowing economy wont halt tax cuts - Yahoo News.

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Oh, spare me

Posted by Mark on December 27, 2008

Caroline Schlossberg, who is campaigning to fill Hillary Clinton’s senate seat in New York, says 9/11 and Barack Obama motivated her to seek public service. Please. There aren’t too many liberals who seek political office purely out of a desire to serve the people. By their nature, liberals instead are motivated by a thirst for political power and a desire, out of their elitism, to micromanage the lives of others.

Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service - Yahoo News.

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The Battle of Shiloh

Posted by Mark on December 27, 2008

Today’s featured Wikipedia article is on the Battle of Shiloh, a site that I lived just a few miles from during part of my childhood, even spending several hours on a bicycle riding through the national park that now preserves the historic battlefield.

Battle of Shiloh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Despite the current economic woes, 2008 does not compare to 1932

Posted by Mark on December 27, 2008

Any comparison of the economic conditions in the U.S. at the present and those that existed during the Great Depression are disingenuous, require some measure of ignorance in order to believe, and simply do not reflect the depravity that existed during that era.

In the Great Depression, many Americans lined up for food and soup. In the current economic crisis, many Americans line up to shop for bargains.

Although political and economic leaders have told us the current recession is America’s greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the two events are not comparable. And the differences are particularly acute at Christmas time.

Lloyd Mitchell, 90, of Oklahoma City said he felt fortunate to get some fruit in his stocking when he was growing up as the son of a tenant farmer in far southwest Oklahoma. Mitchell’s father grew cotton on hardscrabble land in an era of drought and record low prices.

Economists, survivors say Depression can’t compare | NewsOK.com.

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The most underreported stories of 2008

Posted by Mark on December 27, 2008

World Net Daily is compiling a list of the most underreported stories of 2008, and has links to Top 10 lists from previous years, as well.

What did the mainstream media miss in 2008?

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