I have a facebook page connected with this blog. It is called Why I’m Not A Democrat. Please join it and invite your friends to join as well now that you see what we are up against. My reasons for not being a Democrat are: (1) The dominance of Liberalism in the Party (2) Ethical Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Blue Collar Philosophy Discovery Date : 26/06/2011 05:13 Number of articles : 3
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Click here to view this media Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said Sunday that it was “insulting” for a Fox News host to ask if she was a “flake.” “I am very serious about what I want to do,” Bachmann told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “People recognize that I’m serious.” “You say that people saw in the debate, saw you as a serious person,” Wallace noted. “I don’t have to tell you that you have — that the rap on you in Washington is you have a history of questionable statements, some would say gaffes — talking about anti-America members of Congress, to on this show a couple of months ago when you suggested that NATO airstrikes have killed up to 30,000 civilians. Are you a flake?” “Well, I think that would be insulting to say something like that because I’m a serious person,” Bachmann replied. “What I would say is that I am 55 years old. I’ve been married 33 years. I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I worked in serious scholarship and in work in federal tax court. We raised five kids. We’ve raised 23 foster children. We applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. I’ve also been a state senator and member of the United states Congress for five years. I’ve been very active in our business, as a job creator. I understand job creation. But also I’ve been leading actively the movement in Washington D.C., with those who are affiliated with fiscal reform.” “Do you recognize that now that you are in the spotlight in a way that you weren’t before, you have to be careful and not say what some regard as flaky things?” Wallace asked. “Well, of course, a person has to be careful with statements that they make. I think that is true. I think now that there will be an opportunity to speak fully on the issues. I look forward to that,” Bachmann concluded. “This doesn’t really get at the issue of Bachmann’s zero major legislative accomplishments,” Politico’s Alexander Burns observed , “but it does offer at least a hint of how she’ll parry some of the more obviously skeptical, process-oriented questions about her preparedness for the campaign.” Update: Wallace has caved under the pressure of letters from angry viewers and apologized for suggesting Bachmann was a “flake.” “I messed up. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean any disrespect,” he said. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Continue reading …Amanda Knox Trial: Rudy Hermann Guede, Convicted Ivorian, To Testify At Appeal
June 26, 2011 No Comment
ROME — The appeal hearing of American student Amanda Knox against her murder conviction in Italy resumes Monday with all eyes on an Ivorian man also convicted in the slaying, who will testify as a witness for the prosecution. Rudy Hermann Guede is serving a 16-year-prison sentence for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British student who was stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox. Knox and her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, have also been convicted in the murder and are appealing. Guede, who sought a fast-track procedure, was tried separately and has already exhausted all levels of appeals, with Italy’s top criminal court upholding his conviction. He will testify before the court hearing Knox and Sollecito’s appeal at the opening of Monday’s session, lawyers say. Guede, 24, was called by the prosecution to counter testimony by a fellow inmate who testified for the defense and claimed he had information clearing Knox and Sollecito. Convicted child killer Mario Alessi told the court that Guede had confided in him during recreation time at the Viterbo prison that Knox and Sollecito had nothing to do with the killing. Guede in the past has denied talking to Alessi about the case, and he is expected to repeat that when he takes the stand. Whether his testimony will go beyond that remains to be seen. His lawyer Valter Biscotti stressed that Guede’s testimony was admitted in reference to that particular claim, and might be limited to that alone. But he said the presiding judge has some leeway to allow some broader questioning. “He’s got nothing to hide and nothing to be afraid of,” Biscotti said of his client. However, when Guede took the stand during the pair’s first trial, he declined to answer prosecutors’ questions or offer any spontaneous testimony. Knox and Sollecito – the American’s boyfriend at the time of the killing – have been convicted of sexual assault and murder. She was sentenced to 26 years in prison, he to 25. Like Knox and Sollecito, Guede has denied killing Kercher. But unlike them, he has admitted being at the crime scene the night of the murder, Nov. 1, 2007. Speaking at the opening of his appeals trial, Guede claimed that he had heard Kercher and Knox argue minutes before the Briton was slain. He said he was at the house with Kercher when he fell ill and went to the bathroom with his iPod. He heard Knox and Kercher argue over money, then heard a “very loud scream” coming from Kercher’s bedroom, and rushed to it. There, he said, he saw an unidentified man who tried to attack him. Backing down into the hallway, Guede said he heard the man say “‘Let’s go, there’s a black man in the house.’” Guede said he heard footsteps leaving the house and looked out of the window, where he saw a silhouette that he later identified as Knox’s. He said he then tried to rescue Kercher, who was lying in a pool of blood after her throat was slit, taking her in his arms and trying to mop up the blood with towels. But he panicked and left the house. Guede fled Italy, and was found and arrested in Germany about a month after the killing. His DNA confirms there was sexual intercourse with Kercher, while fingerprints and other traces attest to his presence in the house. Knox and Sollecito have maintained they were at Sollecito’s house the night of the murder. Their defense lawyers claim Guede was the killer and acted alone. “We are getting ready for a ferocious cross-examination, though it may not be needed,” said Luca Maori, a lawyer for Sollecito.
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ATLANTA — Nick Charles, the former taxi driver who became CNN’s first sports anchor and served in that role for nearly two decades, died Saturday after a two-year struggle with bladder cancer, the cable network reported. He was 64. He died peacefully at his New Mexico home, wife Cory told the network. Nicholas Charles Nickeas grew up in Chicago, working late-night jobs in high school to help his family, according to CNN. He eventually went to Columbia College Chicago to study communications and drove a taxi to help pay his tuition. He was still driving taxis in 1970 when he landed his first gig with WICS in Springfield, Ill. That’s when he adopted the name Nick Charles at the urging of his news director, the network said. Charles later left Springfield to work at local stations in Baltimore and Washington and then began at Atlanta-based CNN on the network’s first day on June 1, 1980. He made his name before a national audience teaming with Fred Hickman for almost 20 years on “Sports Tonight,” a daily highlight show that battled with ESPN for viewers. Charles became such a popular TV personality that Topps put his face on a trading card, CNN reported. “We just clicked from the very beginning,” Hickman told CNN. “In television, you always have personality conflicts. Nick and I never had one. Nick and I have always had a tremendous relationship.” Hickman said Charles was a “great inspiration” to him, and described his former colleague as a “tremendous storyteller.” “He could literally do a story about a horse and make you think this horse was like a person,” Hickman said. “He could take boxing and turn it into something poetic.” Charles told CNN recently that boxing was “one of my loves,” whether reporting on Muhammad Ali’s later years or covering the ear-biting incident involving Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield. With his well-coiffed, curly black hair and sharp-looking suits, Charles brought GQ-like style to CNN’s broadcasts. But he also was known as a skilled interviewer who related easily to subjects while not being shy about asking tough questions. “I think when people look back on Nick in years to come, they’re going to remember – the hair,” former CNN sports anchor Jim Huber quipped to the network. “He loved that hair. It used to just drive us crazy. But in all seriousness, I think they’re going to look back on one of the great sports journalists of all time.” CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton said Saturday that Charles helped put CNN on the map. “He brought intelligence, style and heart to his work – qualities that translated to our company and inspired those of us who were fortunate to work alongside him,” Walton said. “His passing is a loss to CNN, to the sports world and to the fans and friends everywhere who were with him to the end of his extraordinary life. In recent months, Charles served as an inspiration to many as he openly discussed his battle with cancer, with which he was diagnosed in August 2009. He made video diaries for his five-year-old daughter Giovanna to see in years to come. “I’m a forward looking person but also a living-in-the-moment person,” Charles recently told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whose special report “Nick Charles: No Regrets, Lessons from the Fight” will re-air at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. “So I wake up every day expecting to have a good day. It may sound trite, Sanjay, but life as you get older is about 20 percent of what happens to you and about 80 percent how you react to it.” Charles also is survived by three grown children from two previous marriages In an interview in March, he told the network his message was to “never give up on life” even though it’s imperfect and filled with huge adversities. “People won’t remember who you are or what you said. It’s really about: Are you going to be remembered as a good person?” he said. “That’s victory to me. That’s success.”
Continue reading …Obama’s Talban Peace Partners Send Husband and Wife Suicide Team to Blow Up Police Station
June 26, 2011 No Comment
Taliban uses husband and wife suicide bombers to kill 10 people at a police station in northwestern Pakistan. The AP reported: The Pakistani Taliban said Sunday the group had sent a husband and wife suicide squad to carry out an … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 26/06/2011 15:26 Number of articles : 2
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FOX News Sunday host asked conservative presidential candidate Michele Bachmann today, “Are you a flake?… “ Really, Chris? This was a shameful attack. So pointing out that there are anti-American members of Congress proves you’re a flake? Wallace owes Michele … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 26/06/2011 16:27 Number of articles : 3
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FOX News Sunday host asked conservative presidential candidate Michele Bachmann today, “Are you a flake?… “ Really, Chris? This was a shameful attack. So pointing out that there are anti-American members of Congress proves you’re a flake? Wallace owes Michele … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 26/06/2011 16:27 Number of articles : 3
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Davey Johnson was named manager of the Nationals on Sunday, three days after Jim Riggleman’s sudden resignation. He’ll take over on the bench Monday.
Continue reading …DARPA’s XC2V FLYPMode crowd-sourced combat vehicle revealed, now in desert khaki (video)
June 26, 2011 No Comment
Okay, so perhaps the specific color here is up for debate, but one thing is clear: the XC2V FLYPMode is one imposing looking vehicle. Also known as the Experimental Crowd-derived Combat Support Vehicle, DARPA has billed this mean machine as the “first crowd-sourced, militarily relevant vehicle design.” After being selected as the winning entry to DARPA’s design-the-next-Humvee competition, Local Motors tricked out the XC2V FLYPMode in just 14 weeks. For now, it is but a “proof of principle project,” meaning we probably won’t see this thing riding dirty in the desert anytime soon, if ever. You can, however, see at least a portion of the beast’s birth in a time-lapse video after the break. Continue reading DARPA’s XC2V FLYPMode crowd-sourced combat vehicle revealed, now in desert khaki (video) DARPA’s XC2V FLYPMode crowd-sourced combat vehicle revealed, now in desert khaki (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Chris Wallace Strikes Back At Jon Stewart: Hannity and O’Reilly’s Viewers Better Informed Than Daily Show’s
June 26, 2011 No Comment
Chris Wallace told Don Imus Thursday he intended to fully respond to the fallout from last week's interview with Jon Stewart. True to his word, at the conclusion of the most recent “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace struck back at Stewart's claim that Fox watchers are the most misinformed media viewers by demonstrating that folks who watch “Hannity” and “The O'Reilly Factor” were actually better informed than “Daily Show” viewers (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Now, the surprising fallout from our interview last Sunday with Jon Stewart. I figured it would get some reaction, but not that it would light up the internet. One of Jon’s arguments was that the bias of the mainstream media is not to push a liberal agenda. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JON STEWART: The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: The Huffington Post seemed to approve that Sunday afternoon when it ran this headline that seemed more appropriate to a declaration of war. Then on Monday, Stewart led his show by complaining about the editing of our interview. True, we did cut our 24-minute conversation down to fourteen. But we posted the full interview on our website. That's the only reason you could see it. I was more surprised by Jon’s claim we left out the take-away moment: the moment where I gave away the game. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEWART: Do you believe that Fox News is exactly the ideological equivalent of… WALLACE: I think we're the counterweight. STEWART: …of NBC News? WALLACE: I think we're the counterweight. STEWART: You believe that? WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda and we tell the other side of the story. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: But I made exactly the same point in the interview we ran on the air. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: I don't think our viewers are the least bit disappointed with us. I think our viewers think finally they're getting somebody who tells the other side of the story. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: Jon seemed to think that was a big deal, that I said we tell the other side of the story. While I wish I had said the full story, here is what I meant. As we showed today, we don’t go easy on Republicans. But we try to provide a fuller perspective. For instance, pointing out the strengths and some of the problems with ObamaCare before anyone else did. But let me give you a classic example of what “fair and balanced” means to me. After Hurricane Katrina, the mainstream media piled on FEMA for the failure to respond to the crisis. And the federal government did a lousy job. But it was Fox News that started reporting on the failure of the first responders, the city of New Orleans, and the state of Louisiana to help people. Yes, we reported FEMA’s problems, but we also told the other side of the story. And then there was the most heated moment of the interview. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEWART: Who is the most consistently misinformed media viewers, the most consistently misinformed? Fox. Fox viewers. Consistently. Every poll. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact looked into that statement, and on its Truth-O-Meter it rated Jon’s claim false. But the details are even more interesting. In a survey called “Misinformation in the 2010 Election,” people were asked a series of fact questions like which president signed tarp? But the poll also asked questions like this. “As you know, the American economy had a major downturn starting in the fall of 2008. Do you think that now the American economy is ‘a,’ starting to recover or ‘b,’ still getting worse?” “Starting to recover” was the so-called right answer. If you said, “still getting worse” you were officially misinformed. And if you questioned whether climate change is occurring or whether ObamaCare will add to deficit, you were also mistaken. Then there was last year's Pew Poll which asked four fact questions like what job did Eric Holder have? It turns out Fox News scored better, not worse, than MSNBC, CNN, the network evening news and the network morning news. As for individual shows, 31 percent of “Hannity” viewers got all four questions correct. 29 percent for “O'Reilly.” And all the way down near the bottom viewers of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” at 22 percent. So folks, all that talk about you’re the most consistently misinformed viewers? I guess the joke is on Jon Stewart. Indeed it is. Bravo, Chris! Bravo!
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