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Let's forget that Rick Kaplan, Bill Clinton's old pal, is now a news dept honcho at ABC, and is in charge of (among other things) saving This Week's latest failing host, George Steponallofus, former Clinton campaign executive and White House spokesboy, who at present has lower ratings than reruns of the Gong Show. Here is proof that the Clintons don't have to be in daily management for a network to be a joke. (We'll get to Iraq coverage in a minute.) The first openly homosexual bishop in New England's Episcopalian Church was on NBC early Tuesday morning, June 10, 2003. This interview followed Hillary Clinton's. They were, in spirit, identical. Hillary came out of the closet in one of her "I'm an average American mother" pant suits. (Because of the bad reception I have out here in the woods, it was, thank God, impossible to confirm if the bishop was wearing pants, too.) And, of course, in the news breaks, the "journalists" were talking about the "heightening controversy" over the "Bush administration's veracity" because no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. As you might expect we have a reaction to all this. The local (KGW in Portland) reporter said that the Portland Archdiocese of the Catholic church is being sued because a priest who once served as the chaplain at McLaren (detention center for wayward boys) sexually abused some of the inmates perhaps thirty or forty years ago. Putting it all together, here is what we have. The smartest woman in the world claims she believed Bill Clinton when he told her he was not having sex with an intern. While continuing an expose against the Catholic priesthood (all male) for molesting little boys this station celebrated the election of a homosexual (prefers having sex with males) to the priesthood in a Catholic church spinoff. Neither the local NBC affiliate nor the network has ever heard of the Kurds (which were gassed with weapons of mass destruction in and by Iraq), or the United Nations Weapons Inspection Report, Part 1, which condemned Iraq (without a single security council vote in opposition) for failing to meet its Gulf War I peace agreement by providing evidence of the destruction of known supples of its weapons of mass destruction. That's a good one to hone in on. Known supplies of weapons of mass destruction. Agreement by Iraq to destroy them and provide proof of same. No proof ever came. Hussein gasses Kurds. Big Media liberal journalists believe Bush should have risked your family's life by not going in without a search warrent from the U.N.? After 911, we wait for known Middle-East crazies to go boom in our own country but refuse to let eighty year old ladies from Minnesota get on a plane with their knitting needles? If pre-emption is bad, why are we taking the knitting needles away from eighty year old ladies from Gopher Prarie (or is it "prairie"?). Because they might attempt to hijack an airliner and fly it into a bingo parlor? Are all of the people who work for NBC and KGW brain wipes? The greatest treat this morning, however, was when the NBC network interviewer said to the new homosexual Episcopalian bishop, "This is a very important story. It made the front page of the New York Times." It is one thing to be incapable of understanding the truth, and quite another to be willfully stupid. The New York Times? After May of 2003, from the standpoint of journalistic integrity and accuracy, it ranks behind the National Enquirer's last issue about X-T's now running the city of Baltimore. We all owe a debt of gratitude to NBC and KGW for coming out of the closet and openly demonstrating that they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing. (LL)
Media Ferrets Out Job Loss Cause (Heard on a local Portland radio news break on Saturday morning, July 12, 2003. The station was KXL, 750 AM) Oregon's unemployment rate went over 8%. The reason for this is that people can't find jobs. Let's assume for the moment that this is an accurate reproduction of what was said. I didn't believe I heard what I heard at the time, and can barely believe it as I write this, but, let's say that the station records their broadasts and that if they went back and listened to the news breaks from that morning they would hear exactly what I have related here. Unemployment in Oregon is caused by a lack of jobs. This is truly incisive. KXL's crack, award-winning news staff has done it, again. It's like saying rain is caused by water falling from clouds. Thank God the Oregon media has lots of reporters like these people. Without them, how would we know why things happen? (LL) Any Port in a Storm? The fuss about "turning our ports over to the Arabs" is part genuine concern and part sneaky politics. The greatest danger here is if our government takes over the job. One financial wag suggested that if that happens, the newly created Comissioner of Ports should be Lucky Luciano -- who has better connections with the longshore unions dead than any government official who happened to resemble living tissue. This Oregon Magazine editor recommends that we accept the president's suggestion, and let the company from the United Arab Emirates manage the business aspects of the half a dozen or so ports under discussion, here. Short of new challenges relating to Israel, which could foul the deal, things should work okay. We used to dislike the Japanese and the Germans, too, but have no problem doing business with them these days. And, the China of Mao is now the China of the bourgoise -- and its port of entry is Long Beach, California. (How ya gonna keep 'em down on the commune after they've seen Starbucks?) Zero successful terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 911. Two terrorist nations subdued and holding elections -- real ones as far as we can tell from here. Bush in our opinion has done a good job. The Arabs should be allowed to buy the business that runs those ports. Yes, the Arab firm is a foreign firm. So is the one they're buying the business from. The English have owned that company for years. And, yes, we know the difference between the English and the Arabs. We haven't shot an Englishman for many years. (LL)
Exxon: Biggest Profit in American History Above, the Drudge report headline on the morning of January 30, 2006. It made me wish I had stock in Exxon. There is no better defense against personal financial disaster than the stock of a successful capitalist corporation. Even liberals know that, which is why so many of them own stock in companies they publicly denounce. Ask Al Gore how many shares he has in Occidental Oil. (LL)
Primaries ahead: A Note to Oregon Conservatives Spring is not far away. Primary votes are not far off. The question which hangs in the air is the same which has long hovered there. Why do Oregonians readily pass initiatives of a conservative theme, yet regularly put liberals in political office? One possibility which has not been often considered is that nobody official has offered a viable conservative in recent years. Part of the reason given for that is the first campaign of Gordon Smith. When he next ran, he ran as an Oregon Republican. His den now had a nave with a creche with a statue of Mark Hatfield wearing a toga and a crown of thorns. I believe a an actual living conservative could win in Oregon. I think there were other factors at work in the first Smith run for the federal senate. But, nobody in the Oregon conservative power club agrees with me. I think the Bush administration national unemployment rate which dips below 5% at times means something. I believe that unemployment rates which are much higher in typical liberal states like the upper midwest and right here in the People's Revolutionary Democratic Socialist Republic of Oregon, can be used as informational broadswords to defeat the bloated bureaucratic oligarchy of the Left. The thing is, I can't get anybody in charge to do anything about this. The people who pull the strings are the people who have long pulled the strings. Oregon is like that. A kind of highschool in-crowd state. Whenever I get on this platform, I think of Denny Smith, who used to have a radio program I heard on KUIK, 1360 in Hillsboro. One day he brought in a young party hotshot who had a big future. I called the show and asked how many victories this young hotshot had won. He hadn't won any. I then asked Denny why he was praising a fellow who had lost every election in which he had had a part. Silence. One isn't supposed to ask questions like that. Until one is supposed to ask questions like that, Oregon is not going to change. (LL)
Subject: NO Civil War
They gave me an O to read
at Oil Can Henrys and so I read the front page piece headlined "experts
say civil war is under way" in Iraq, and discovered that only one so-called
expert called it a civil war (which he claimed started two years ago???)
and the others experts mentioned did not say so, in fact two said just
the opposite.
CNN Xs Out Cheney It happened the morning of November 21, 2005 during broadcast of a speech by the Vice President. One second Xs appeared and disappeared numerous times over his face. We have long called that network the Communist News Network, in honor of the pure propandistic bias lost with Pravda when the Berlin Wall went down. This is the broadcast equivalent of the front page as unidentified editorial. Common practice by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the L.A. Times and the Portland Oregonian, to name a few, according to all conservative pundits who read those publications. It sickens one to see what has become of America's established media. The awards which they have all received are for journalism which is so much drivel. In this case, CNN just finally came out of the closet. (LL) Judicial Religions Nationally syndicated radio talk and cable television program host, Sean Hannity, on the last Friday of October said that it was nobody's business what the religion of a judge is -- and, in fact, the U.S. Constitution specifically addresses the issue, and agrees with Hannity. No religious tests to be a judge. Bush's new nominee is a Catholic, and would make Catholic number six on that court. I'm not one, but like Catholics. However, I am not sure I would enjoy having as a judge of the U.S. Supreme Court, people who follow some other faiths. A voodoo judge would raise my eyebrows. An animalist would, too. Imagine getting a Moslem judge who believes the only law is the sharia. I am glad all such nominees go through an evaluaton process before reaching that bench. (LL) Saturday Morning Press Cartoons October 1, 2005 -- On Channel two, Portland's ABC affiliate, early this morning some woman who is a psychiatrist or psychologist said that kids who play the choking game (hanging themselves for fun) are not stupid. They just think they know more than they do. She actually said that. Since that means a doctoral degree earned from a fully accredited university is no more indication of intelligence than those which are purchased on the internet, I moved on. Next I ran into KGW's early Saturday progam, Viewpoint, featuring station staffers Russ Lewis and Dave Northfield, Steve Carter of the Oregonian and the guest, Dr. Vicki Phillips, Portland School Superintendant. For a few minutes I listened to the men ask her softball questions. In response, she belched platitudes. Have you noticed lately that liberals seem to have exchanged their brains for a collection of bumper sticker slogans pasted on the inside of their skulls? Some districts in response to defunding tied to declining enrollment by the state people's democratic central education committee of the proletariat, are behaving in local ways. Trying to find the answers to their problems in their own locale. This sort of thing, local control and action, is anti-socialist, and frowned upon by the reporters for Pravda (the Oregonian) and the KGB (KGW). Yet, in Moscow, there is need for more than is required in the Eastern Provinces. Equity without adequacy, the Portland Super intoned. This must be addressed. Equity without adequacy? What, I wonder, does that mean? That the per student allotment is unfair since different districts have dfferent needs? (For example, Portland teachers make a great deal more money and perks than teachers in the sticks.) Yes, the baloney rolled on that program during the few minutes I watched. Catch phrases, diversionary statements, noble generalities, evasions, deflections -- and the usual kissy hugs from Oregon's legendary established media. I don't know what they did in the early part of the program, but can tell you this. Steve Schopp of Wilsonville and Rob Kremer of Portland weren't sitting at the table. That means the program was a total joke. So, I switched back to ABC, where Monica Shuman, national girl reporter, was telling lies about the Bush Administration, and arguing for a "shield law" which would allow journalists to keep secret the names of their sources. This means they could attack anybody they wish, making any claims they wish, without producing the source who provided the damning testimony. For those who don't grasp the significance of this, the creation of a national shield law would be almost identical to ending the defense's right in a court of law to cross-examine a prosecution witness. I cannot think of a more dangerous power to put in the hands of journalists. It would be madness for Congress to do it. Absolute madness. If my defamatory charges are based on claims by sources who will not go public, then I must be willing to go to jail to make the claim. That is the price. Without that price, any journalist in the nation can destroy people, businesses, agencies and organizations without a lick of actual proof. That is the media of Cuba, North Korea and the old Soviet Union. No thanks. (LL) What to do about looters You shoot them. The premise here is that a human life is in some cases of less value than one would imagine. The reason for that has to do with Star Trek's Mr. Spock. A resident of the planet Vulcan, he is the result of a culture which suppresses emotion under layers of logic. In the case of a natural disaster, by definition resources designed to work for normal conditions become stressed, stretched, limited. Looting of anything negatively affects the relief organization effort if for no other reason than that police are distracted to keep an eye on illegal activity and cannot aid the search and rescue side of things. People who kick in store windows and steal a television set are risking lives in the process. As to those stealing food and other items used in daily life, if they are honest, they keep track of their takings and inform the store of their activities when the owner returns. Are there actually liberals in America who think an act of God justifies the theft of private property? The use and replacement (or reimbursment for) I can see -- but to take a man's car and instead of returning it, keeping it after the danger has passed? American liberalism is a sickness. It is anarchy. It is disgusting. They say it takes tough times for some folks to show their true colors. (LL)
Supreme Court Nominees A note to the White House and congress: July 1, 2005 -- Sandra Day O'Conner is leaving the court. Liberals are crying that her seat is a moderate seat and must be filled by a moderate. The constitution does not require that. It is amazing that it does not, since this lack indicates a failure of the founding fathers to recognize the future importance of American liberals. However, it is the recommendation of this magazine's editorial staff that the current president of the United States and the Republican majority which controls congress continue to fail to recognize the importance of American liberals. In so recommending, we realize that Oregon's Ron Wyden and Peter DeFazio, plus the overwhelming majority of Oregon's academic, legal and journalistic figures will find great fault with us. In spite of the grief this rejection will generate, we have to hold to our position. No matter how many tears we shed, their displeasure must be accepted if America is to continue its recovery from the evils of "social justice." The national elections of recent years are the only poll we need to justify this path. They are clear evidence that the people have noticed that LBJ's War on Poverty was a three or four trillion dollar failure, the way to a better world isn't appeasement of foreign fanatics and that it is ridiculous to reject the cultural, economic and religious principles which founded this nation and caused it to become a place people die trying to get to instead of trying to get away from. One last point. If G.W. folds on this, the key constituency of his party will retract their support, and the next president will be a Democrat. The nominees to that court are that important to the base. And, if he holds true, but the Republicans in the Senate cave to the liberals, then in the next election control of both houses will return to the Democrats for the same reason -- departure of the base. Mark my words. How this is handled is that important. (LL) Washington Judge Needs Repair June 6, 2005 -- A judge in the state of Washington today declared that the governatrix, Miss Christine, shall remain in power. This is based on his (the judge's) reasoning what while sixteen hundred illegal ballots from the recent election have been discovered, it is not the job of the court to do anything about the situation. He said the voters should fix the problem via their legislature. (Make it illegal to count illegal ballots, I suppose.) You read that right. A judge, given the job of judging an election, was given evidence of fraud in that election, and then denied that illegal ballots represent election fraud. Having publicly admitted the existence of such evidence he went on to say that he would do nothing about the problem. The Republicans have appealed to the state supreme court. (Correction: Rossi ended the fight around 6 PM, several hours after this posting.) In Oregon, that would have meant that the judges would screw the legal voters. I do not know what the Washington state supreme court is like, but it is located on the same coast as the Ninth Circuit of Appeals (San Francisco), which in the past has with rare exceptions flushed America down the old commode every chance they got. It's all moot, now, however. Rossi has folded his campaign tent. (LL) Media Morons Moon America Friday, April 29, 2005, 7:50 AM -- ABC's early show staff did not turn away from the camera and drop their pants. They interviewed a frog-sized intellect apparently named Paris Hilton. Thank God I cannot confirm this. I have no idea what Paris Hilton, whoever that is, looks like. This was a slim, pretty, vacant-eyed blond with a soft voice. When Gibson and Sawyer asked her how she felt about the network cutting off the President's news conference to get to television about her, her response was a delighted affirmative one. We learned she is moving in with her boyfriend and is in a new movie about her walking through woods which smell bad. Her boyfriend is named Paris, too. The naturally witty ABC folks suggested that when Paris and Paris got married, they could honeymoon in Paris, at the Hilton. I have not seen the latest broadcast audience ratings, but have heard that at least two of the networks have suffered audience declines. If there is any justice, ABC was one of them. It was their casual contempt for the President of the United States, at the moment trying to communicate the components of a pending national disaster (Social Security) which is also the largest public financial ripoff the Democrats ever managed. It was their wasting of the time of their audience, mostly women, many of whom have children. If anybody should understand what Bush is trying to explain, it is women with children -- assuming American women care about their children's future. Watching ABC, and support of various types of quotas, suggests they do not, but there is one other possible reason which would explain the puzzle. It may be that millions of American women watch Charlie Gibson and Dianne Sawyer in the morning because these millions of American women are stupid. It is eerie to think about that. More eerie than Paris Hilton walking through a woods that smells bad. It smacks of the people watching the Big Brother propaganda screens in Orwell's socialist world. (LL)
The Evolution of PBS On the March 28, 2005 edition of the Lehrer News Hour, PBS once more portrayed the evolution vs. God debate as being an argument between rational scientists and educators, and an American "sub-group" of right wing Christians trying to sell a fairy tale. The show focused on what it considers the latest bogus attempt to bring God into public schools. This is known as "intelligent design." The suggestion that considering the complexity of life, the odds of it happening by accident are too long to be believeable. Here is the truth. The Big Bang scientists believe began the universe was the explosion of a super-giant black hole. By their own definition (the rules of both quantum and Einsteinian physics) the laws of the science used to describe the universe break down within a black hole. Thus, no scientist can say what happened. Stephen Hawking, who holds Isaac Newton's old physics chair at Cambridge, said that. Mr.Hawking has better credentials in this field than PBS and the scientists and educators the News Hour used to make their fallacious and scientifically incorrect point. He said that those who choose intelligent first cause instead of some one-time, inexplicable accident are just as likely to be correct. Once more, PBS is shown to be what conservatives call it -- a liberal fraud, uninterested in the truth. (LL)
Educational Child Abuse During February, various liberal groups, including teacher's unions, organized a large march on the state capitol. The demand was for more money for education. If you want an example of how our schools are run, click on Oregon School Funding Mess But, foolish spending habits aren't our specific complaint, here. In their effort to bully legislators into spending more unnecessary money, the demonstrators brought children with them. Oregon's liberal media loves to show and quote children at such demonstrations. In our opinion, children holding signs demanding more money for schools is just another example of educational system child abuse. Like liberals, they don't know what they're talking about, but unlike liberals it's because they haven't been alive long enough to have a valid opinion on a subject like this. They are just being used, and we don't like children being used no matter which side is doing it. It's one thing to see kids at a political convention, wearing funny hats and enjoying the balloons. It is another thing entirely to put them on the streets or on camera, taking sides in a serious adult controversy. (LL) OPB Sex Abuse Coverage January 22, 2005 -- Lee Hochberg of OPB, for the national network, did a piece, this evening, that criticized Catholic parishes for their penurious attitude toward the victims of sex abuse -- he calls it "priest abuse." It is a perfect line for whiplashing a politically incorrect religion. Catholics don't support "choice." (In this case, the term "choice" means the right to execute small humans without a trial.) Priest abuse. Let's examine that. All the priests and every victim quoted or listed were males The priests were adult males at the time of the abuse and the men relating the crimes were boys at the time of the abuse. Heterosexual males do not look to boys for their pleasure. Not once did I hear anybody use the standard English words which describe these acts. These abuses are the result of "homosexual pedophilia." Predator "gay" adults molesting male children. Mr. Hochberg often does reports for the News Hour. By accepting this one as is, Jim Lehrer is supporting a kind of cultural coverup. From the standpoint of the damage it does, it doesn't matter if it's a conscious coverup or not. Call it inaccurate journalism generated by moronic stupidity, or protective bias, as you wish. What it does is hide the actual crime under a generic blanket of political correctness. Reading the PC code here tells us that PBS, consciously or unconsciously, wishes to condemn Catholic priests while protecting homosexual pedophiles. (Man-boy love, NAMBLA calls it.) By not properly identifying the actual criminals, public broadcasting condemns the whole priesthood while leaving unnamed a protected group which by definition was specifically at fault. What could be a more dramatic example of journalistic misfeasance? Public broadcasting at all levels is rife with this kind of crap. When I see volunteers from Oregon manning the OPB phone banks at pledge time, I just shake my head. Ignorance, indeed, is bliss. Why does Oregon's federal senator, Ron Wyden, defend this kind of journalism? If you give money to public broadcasting, I hope their protection of certain population groups does not come to haunt your home. It would be hell to actually pay to have that done to your own children. Because of its tax status, you already are forced to subsidize it, but to voluntarily give them a check would be something else entirely. (LL) KGW-TV Exposed to Infection.
The followup investigative piece Portland's NBC affiliate did on the James Jahar Perez incident was a remarkable piece of journalism. Instead of sucking up to the mob mentality extant in the city's black community, but rather risking the condemnation of the dominating Oregon liberal establishment, of which they have been a principal supporter for lo these many decades, the news staff actually performed as journalists, and dug out the real story. Regular readers of this magazine will find it hard to believe, but I saw the piece during the Saturday morning report anchored by Kelly Love, on April 10, 2004. I would be shocked to hear that Miss Love had anything to do with the segment, but some reporter and some editor at that station did, and whoever they were they should be considered reputable. In all the years I have been doing this magazine, I have never once applied that term to a television journalist in Oregon, let alone Portland. They looked at the Perez rap sheet and it was a fat one. They looked at specific examples of his abusive and intemperate behavior, including a white woman who in one of his moments of rage he kicked in the chest. (There is something particularly sick about somebody who would do that. Should I ever witness such an event, I would happily shoot a creep like that.) What didn't appear here was a major part of the reason for the unthinking reaction in N.E. Portland -- the rabble rousing by blacks, some local and some from elsewhere, who make their way in life, their fame and their living, by using events like this shooting as fodder to maintain a state of hoplessness in the hearts of those of their own race. Whether or not their protestations have any basis in truth is unimportant to them. The station can be forgiven for this omission. It is arguably part of another segment and there is a limit to how fast and how far lifelong liberals can go in any given piece. I do not know if this report ran at any other time than Saturday morning, which probably has a small audience. It is logical to assume that this electronic posting of the piece back on the broadcasting equivalent of page 43, below the fold, could be considered proof of KGW's longstanding misinformational history in cases like this. Nevertheless, they posted it, and I willingly grasp at this straw of hope. Eventually, the people at KGW-TV are going to have to address the deeper fallicies of liberalism if they actually do give a damn about the lives they affect with their reporting, but for now, Oregon Magazine is proud of them for having the guts to deal with the facts of the Perez case in that one report. If they do that enough times, and retain a wish to tell the truth to their viewers, an understanding of the underlying causes will come -- and with that, reporting which exposes those causes. But, what, one asks, could cause something like this specific sign of professional maturation? In our opinion it was the honesty virus. Somebody at KGW wasn't properly cleansed at J-school. Even prifessors with PhD's in journalism must miss a deep-seated infection of truth in a student now and then, it seems. It's a dangerous disease. If it spreads, all sorts of odd things could happen in Oregon. Perhaps far in the future another big state budget flap will arise, and for the first time in living memory, KGW-TV will do what no Portland television station or historically important newspaper has done for decades. Not tell their audience that an increase in the state education budget is a cut. Some of you may think me a fool for believing that possible, but what they did with this followup report on the Perez incident suggests to me that somehow, some way, this dangerous infection of politically incorrect journalism has contaminated KGW-TV's news department. Subsequent reports -- for example concerning the downtown march of idiots after the grand jury decision not to indict the officer -- indicated the forces of evil are fighting back at the station, but who knows? Truth is terrifyingly powerful. A germ.of it is extremely dangerous to liberals. I honestly believe that that infection, if not quickly brought to a halt by liberal spin doctors, could result in a plague of truth at that station, and from there might even spread to Oregon's axis of bias, the Oregonian, itself.. The senior staff there is diseased beyond cure, of course. Most of them could write for the new O-frankenstein Hot Air America radio network with only the addition of a few foul adjectives. But, some of the newer staff may sense what is happening in American journalism, these days. They could catch this disease, and in time cease feeding the citizens of Oregon a load of liberal crap. After that, the citizens would cast their votes based on factual reporting and logical analysis, and I could learn how to tango and maybe even get lucky. Well, that may be going too far, but at least I'd have more time to go flyfishing. (LL)
Concerning the bin Ladin Memo Richard Ben-Venista of Watergate fame is the stalking horse for the Democrats. After all those thousands of hours, he and Bob Kerry have come up with one memo, generously released by Bush. No other president has ever been that open. In fact, no other president's top security chief has ever testified under oath and in public before such an investigation. Here's what you need to know about that bin Ladin memo. It said he wanted to attack the U.S. It was old news, just as Condoleeza Rice said. . Why? Because he already had, during the Clinton Administration. That the witch hunters mentioned above can claim this memo is news is a tribute to the real coverup here by the American liberal press community, and the generally short memory of U.S. citizens where such matters are concerned. We find it odd that nobody in this group asked similar questions of Clinton when on his watch various towers and buldings were bombed, the U.S.S. Cole was blown up and that chapter now known as Blackhawk Down played out in Africa. Where was the demand for Clinton's memos? Where, indeed was the independent investigation of these events? I can tell you that during the Y2K era, there was a Senate Committee. Oregon's Gordon Smith was on it. Richard Clarke (that's right, the famous one) refused to testify under oath before it. This is known as hypocrisy. But as germaine as all this may be, there is yet another point about this Osama memo at the center of the present donnybrook. You are seeing it in isolation. If you want to duplicate G.W.'s experience, write an additional hundred such memos about risks facing America coming from every corner of the globe, and put them on your desk. Then, wipe 911 from your memory and decide for yourself what is going to happen tomorrow or next week or next month. Hell, the Clinton Administration didn't even know what happened in Waco after the fact -- and they did it! (LL)
Media Bias Grotesque June 28th, 2004, Cute and cuddly Katie Couric and her pet sidekick, a fellow who looks like Andre Agassi and acts like Lassie, proved a point this morning. They announced the pending release of "new information" about Princess Diana. Six days of Ronald Reagan, who just weeks ago left us, was excessive to American liberal journalists. Princess Diana passed to her reward long ago and far away, and we do not yet have our fill of her? If one wishes to compare deaths, Reagan got a disease and dealt with it bravely, while Princess Diana was in a limo full of booze and drugs, heading for the next party. Reagan was a two term president of the United States, Princess Diana a divorcee once connected to the purely ceremonial British monarchy. Our glorious big media can handle years, yea decades, of the latter and perhaps a fortnight of the former. But, that’s normal for the Left, these days. Millions marching for Christ is unsettling, thousands protesting the freeing of a nation are noble. It is "torture" reviewed daily that happened to "insurgents" (Islamo-fascists) in (we’ll spell it) Abu Grabh prison, yet the beheading of non-combatants by "insurgents" is described, not shown, and soon forgotten. Farenheit 911, a pack of lies, is called a "documentary," while Bush, the straight-shooter, is called a liar. Some of us who work in this alternative (truth instead of lies) media on the Right, wonder when the millions who follow the mainstream media will wake up. One assumes in spite of all the massive propaganda, even if they can't tell the difference between rude treatment and real torture they can surely tell the difference between Princess Diana and Ronald Reagan. Even after attending our public schools, the citizenry should still be able to do that. But, perhaps I am underestimating our school system. LL/OrMag
The Critical Importance of Learning a Useless Language “We are the last link to the fluent languages in our tribe. When we are gone, they are no more,” Edith McCloud said. “When we don’t have our language no more, we’ll be Indian no more.” Boy Scouts June 14, 2001
The Community Thumbs down on the nuisance ordinance Culture Waking Up To The Naive Fifties Elections The Florida Election Fraud was Committed by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission July 1, 2001
Energy June 5, 2001
Health Posted June 15, 2001
AFRICAN AIDS AND INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS – The gigantic $2.50 New York Times Hypocrisy Man vs. Nature Klamath Falls - Aug 2001
The Next Ice Age Will Be Caused By Global Warming Media Monday, Juy 23, 2001
Political Correctness State Legislature Moves to Ban Squaw Mountain Racist Language to be Removed From the Oregon Constitution Politics Second Amendment Out of Victims' Cold, Dead Mouths Transportation June 1, 2001
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