Month: October 2005

With so many Republican scandals in DC these days, it’s hard to keep on top of all of them. The latest one that’s flying under the radar comes to you via real news, not propaganda.

Remember WH propagandist Armstrong Williams who pushed No Child Left Behind while being paid for it via a contract he had with the Dept of Education and Ketchum? Well, that major faux pas is far from being old news. Senator Frank Lautenberg has been on the case and he’s gotten results.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Inspector General of the Department of Education has informed United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) that he has referred the investigation into the payments by the Bush Education Department to journalist Armstrong Williams to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The U.S. Attorney is now actively investigating the matter. The request for the IG to specifically investigate potential fraud in the contract was made by Senator Lautenberg.

Ironically (or not), it has also been announced that the Dept of Health and Human Services has just given Ketchum a big, juicy contract to manage the Bush Medicare Drug Benefit campaign. Ketchum – the company that not only spawned Williams but also produced those fake news reports last year with Karen Ryan. Ketchum has promised not to cross the line this time. It must be nice to be so blatantly corrupt and still get millions of taxpayer dollars as a result. I sense a pattern here.

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Hi. I just created an account here. I recognize many names here from the old Billmon blog. I’d like to know up front–based on what I say below, is it safe for me to try to seek community here?

I was very active on various blogs from 2001 to early 2005, but on Easter Day this year I got nuclear- obliterated on Daily Kos (under another user name) when I tried to argue for a pro-life perspective on the Terri Schiavo tragedy. I had been a regular there for years, with thousands of “4s”, but I got zero-rated so bad it would take 1,000 years to recover.

I was so shocked and angered by the vicious reaction that I registered as an “Independent” when I moved in May to Carroll County, Maryland. But I’m changing that back very soon! I stayed away from the blogs for a long time, but I returned during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and I can’t leave during the current implosion of the evil Bush regime.

I’ve been a Yellow Dog Dem for more than 30 years and I contribute regularly to lefty causes. I gave several thousand dollars to John Kerry’s campaign.  (And I think the election was stolen in Ohio.) But I’m also a believing Catholic and I definitely disagree with the Democratic consensus on a few hot issues.

Is it safe for someone like me here, if I stay polite? Thanks for any responses!

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First it was Teletubbies. The SpongeBob Squarepants.  Now, it is the American Girls line of dolls.  Apparently the doll manufacturer has hooked with Girls, Inc. to do some a bracelet promotion and Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association is urging a boycott.

Wildmon claims that Girls, Inc. is “a pro-abortion and pro-lesbian advocacy group.

Here is the article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_re_us/american_girl_protest

Here is a link to the Girls, Inc. home page. http://www.girlsinc.org/ic/index.php

It looks very subversive, wanting girls to be empowered.  It must be stopped before girls start to think for themselves.  

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The latest installment of “Tales from the Oiligarchy”… In this issue Bush Dismisses Criticism over Soldiers’ “Teleconference”, and Capitol Hill Pranksters Draw Ire of the President… cross posted at UNCONFIRMED SOURCES plus “Today’s Topical Limericks… Illustrated!

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