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GONZO SUFFERING FROM 'TOTAL CAN'T RECALL' Liars, are to me, a breed apart. And as Lincoln said, " no man has a good enough memory to be flawless liar. " Especially when people who know the facts get together and share information. And don't tell me 'everyone does it.' Everyone does not do it. As my Nana, of blessed memory, used to say ' if everyone is jumping off a cliff, its o.k. for you to do so too?' Gonzalez doesn't remember stuff he testified too just a short time ago. And he's our ATTORNEY GENERAL!? OOPS - Forgot about the Chimp-in-Chief who can't conjugate a verb. I also forgot what boys-club I was dealing with this time. Maybe Gonzo's infectious? Lying has always hit my hot button. I myself, realized years ago I am a HORRENDOUS liar because I have too strong a conscience. So I simply don't lie. And if I would rather not say - I say so. I watch these guys and remember - these guys work for us. THE AMERI...

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO... KABOOM! A friend told me about this, when I first heard it I was stunned. So I went searching around the web and - there it was!! First it was flight school, then Newsweek trying to sanitize them - now this. Yes I know not all Muslims are bad. So how are we to know who is genuine about dating pretty American girls while going to flight school? And who is o.k. to be driving our most precious cargo to school! (of course this is a perfect cover because many parents can't bear the cost of gasoline it would take to drive their children to school every day or the parents work!) When they lie with dogs... fleas ensue. Destruction from within - at the peril of our children. Let us pray. Terrorists – coming to a school near you Police ill-equipped to defend against an American Beslan Authorities fear the school massacre that shook Russia a few years ago may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do in America – only on a grander scale, launching m...

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EDUCATION OR PROPAGANDA? Wait, did I read that right? Israel's EDUCATION Minister approved calling the 1948 War of Independence a "disaster for Palestinians?" What the heck is going on over there? Olmert, Peres and Tamir? There's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out! Mr. Tamir, the Arabs are expressing their feelings quite well - they're call Kassams, Honor Killings and Suicide Bombers... they don't need your help! Likud, NRP leaders call for education minister's dismissal By Or Kashti and Haaretz Staff The leaders of Likud and the National Religious Party Sunday called for the dismissal of Education Minister Yuli Tamir, shortly after Tamir announced that her ministry had approved a textbook for Israeli Arab schools that says the Arabs refer to the 1948 War of Independence as "Nakba," meaning "catastrophe" or "disaster." In an unprecedented move, the ministry has approved a geography text for third-grade children...

Fair and Balanced, My ***! The Bizarre Reality of Fox News By Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer, Nation Books Since this book skewers two of my least favorite things in the media: FoxNews and (PUKE) Bill O'Reilly and is written by the guys at one of my favorite websites: SWEET JESUS I HATE BILL O'REILLY - I am giving it some space on my blog. The following is an excerpt from Fair and Balanced, My ***!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News, by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer (Nation Books, 2007). Well, that's your opinion! Those of us who watch Fox News professionally, or simply to unwind at the end of the day with a few well-earned belly laughs, dismiss the network at our own peril. While there may be a considerable measure of Schadenfreude involved in tuning in to, say, The O'Reilly Factor, it's hard to overlook the fact that he influences millions of people nearly every day. Indeed, watching Fox can be a little like watching Jeopardy! Duri...

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AH! THE STENCH OF HYPOCRISY It's the cheating, stupid Debra J. Saunders SEN. DAVID Vitter, R-La., is a disgrace. Earlier this month, thanks to porn sleaze-meister Larry Flynt, Americans learned that the alleged prostitution ring run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey -- the D.C. madam -- called Vitter five times between 1999 and 2001. Vitter promptly issued a statement apologizing for "a very serious sin" -- then went into seclusion. On Monday, Vitter trotted out his poor wife as he offered "my deep, sincere apologies to all those I have let down" and said he accepted responsibility for his mistakes. A few problems: For one thing, paying a prostitute is a crime, even if authorities cannot prosecute Vitter because of the statute of limitations . For another, Vitter is guilty of criminal stupidity. Vitter entered Congress in 1999 after he won a special election to replace Rep. Bob Livingston, who resigned in the heat of the Clinton impeachment after admitting that he had ha...

IT'S TIME TO STOP ACCEPTING BUSH'S FAILURES It's hard to know what to think these days about U.S. security, what with attempted car bombings at Britain's airports, terrorist threat assessments rising in the United States, nonspecific warnings of a possible terrorist attack this summer and President Bush finally facing a serious policy showdown on Iraq. Americans should be miffed when U.S. counterterrorism officials say al-Qaida is revived and reinvigorated and Iraq has made little to no progress toward its own independence and security - and when Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he has "a gut feeling" that the U.S. will be attacked this summer. Nothing specific, nothing factual, nothing credible, mind you, Chertoff says. Just his uneasy gut. Attentive Americans have figured out since Sept. 11, 2001, and the Homeland Security Advisory System of colors was introduced that it always seemed the threat level was raised whenever some otherwise unfav...

IF NO ONE READS YOUR BLOG, DOES IT REALLY EXIST? One thing about blogging is how selfish it is. You assume people are genuinely interested in you, what you have to say or what you are interested in. Yeah, yeah - we all want to "educate & enlighten." We also ask our friends, family, coworkers and people we brush on the street to read our blog. We sign them up for blog catalogs, lists, aggregators, Technorati ... ad infinitum. We check our Sitemeters . We cajole people to get on our mailing list or subscribe to our feed. We look to see our latest position on the TTLB Ecosystem . I have been blogging for 4 years. Until this year I was very quiet about it. Just for fun. The majority of my energy went into my children and my anti-abuse work. I didn't want to think about myself. But as I am working on healing from years of mental & emotional abuse - my therapist told me to start taking my strong opinions to the web. I was systematically taught to squelch th...

Elegant Blessings Living A Life Of Grace Grace exists inside of all of us and around us. It is our inner beauty that radiates outward, touching everyone we meet. It is that unseen hand that comes from the divine, raising us up when we most need it. To be able to live in a state of grace is not based on worthiness, nor is it earned through good deeds, ritual, or sacrifice. Rather it is an unearned favor, freely bestowed and available to all, that is inherent to our birthright. All we must do is open our eyes to its presence and we will find and experience grace everywhere. Grace is in the rain bringing relief to drought-ridden farms, and the unexpected lead for the perfect job opportunity that comes from a stranger. Grace is what happens to someone when they miraculously escape injury; it is even the simple events that happen to us that we call "good luck," like when we don't get a parking ticket after are meter has expired. Grace resides in the love between two people, th...

SAFER? WITH BUSH? NAAH! In the Name of Objectivity, Media Clouds the Reality of Terror Report by Arianna Huffington Here we go again. Another devastating report being spun as a mixed bag -- with the spin dutifully echoed by the media. Another administration brain tumor being "offset" by shiny hair. This time it's the new National Intelligence Estimate report on the threat of terrorist violence against America that is being given the utterly ludicrous "on the one hand... and on the other hand" treatment. A prime example of this came on AC 360, where Anderson Cooper reported that "both sides in the Iraq debate are spinning [the NIE] to support their case." To prove his point, he rolled a video clip of Bush making the case for staying the course in Iraq. Back on camera, he said, "The Democrats, of course, see it differently." "Of course" they do. Not because there are always two sides to every issue, but because the facts are different...

Dual Loyalty And The New Republic Supporting Israel becoming litmus test for the left. by Jonathan Mark Eric Alterman, the media analyst, has always been sensitive, touchy even, on the question of “dual loyalty,” the belief that somewhere an anti-Semite is keeping tabs on the extent to which an American Jew’s support for Israel justifies Jew hatred. Few anti-Semites, though, have been as persistent, even merciless, in exploring dual loyalty as has Alterman, a Jew who admits to a dash of dual loyalty all his own. A columnist for The Nation, and a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, in 2003 he essayed a column on Iraq in which he was concerned that the “primary intellectual architects” of the Iraq war “are all Jewish neoconservatives. So, too, are many of its prominent media cheerleaders,” prompting “the ‘Jews control the media’ problem.” Jewish “hard liners” on Iraq appeared, said Alterman, “at least from a distance, to be behaving in accordance with traditional anti-Jewish ste...

Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees (on today's landmark hearing - a must read!) By Andrew G. Bostom The bicameral Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC ) will hold a landmark hearing on Thursday July 19th regarding the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee their communities in the Arab Muslim nations as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Oriental Jews suffered profound violations of their basic human rights under the Islamic regimes throughout North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf Region. This persecution -- including pogroms and expropriations -- caused their subsequent flight despite longtime residences in these countries. The Congressional Human Rights Caucus, under the auspices of its Chairman, Congressman Tom Lantos, will hear testimony from legal experts on the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries as well as from "living witnesses'" -- Oriental Jews who will testify as to their plight in, and flight from, the Arab countries ...