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Hopefully the House gives the big middle finger to the Senate in conference.

FNC O'REILLY 2,105,000 FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,666,000 FNC GRETA 1,494,000 FNC HUME 1,341,000 FNC SHEP SMITH 1,215,000 CNN KING 885,000 CNN DOBBS 702,000 CNN BLITZER 592,000 CNN COOPER 590,000 CNN ZAHN 527,000 CNNHN GRACE 487,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 471,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 406,000 Maybe Olbermann should nominate himself as worst person of the world daily. O'Reilly doesn't seem to be bothered by it. And hardball's non-stop erection with the Libby case is proving a ratings coup.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ May 21, 2006 -> 11:05 PM) A Job Americans Won't Do, Even at $34 an Hour An interesting read from the L. A. Times. But it turns out there's a tiny bit more to the story that the LA Times isn't telling you. Reader Christopher L. wrote this morning to point out that a simple Google search shows that Cyndi Smallwood is president of the Orange County chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association, and is a member of the association's "Immigration Task Force." The activist group opposes the "Punitive Immigration Reform Bill Proposed by Rep. Sensenbrenner." An all too common form of hack journalism consists of going to an interest group, finding a useful character for an anecdotal lead and conveniently passing the source off as though they’re just a regular citizen on the sidelines of the debate. It’s a dirty little secret of journalism, but most hack journalists who do it at least have the decency to slip in a mention of the person’s affiliation. In this article the Times goes a step further, inserting obviously false language suggesting — no, actually stating outright — that Smallwood is ambivalent about immigration reform. The suggestion is that this is a regular person, so you shouldn’t discount what she’s saying as you might if she was someone pushing an agenda. Smallwood was on Laura Ingraham's show this am. What the LA Times didn't report was the $34 per hour job was the prevailing wage on state contract projects, and she had two (yes two) openings for that high paying position, which requires (per Smallwood) 2-5 years experience in landscape construction, the ability to read plans/blueprints and the ability to operate a bobcat, ditch witch or similar ditch digging equipment. From my listener's perspective, she was reasonably forthcoming when questioned by Ms. Ingraham, so I can only assume she would have been forthcoming to the Times writer if the same questions were asked. That, of course leads to two conclusions: (1) the Times staffer was too lazy to ask simple questions; or (2) the piece was an agenda-driven article...never mind-knowing the Times, it was likely both.

I think the ACLU has just recruited another member or future employee. :puke

I think to be fair we all should start posting in Spanish, so as not offend any illiterates Tex.

Thomas Friedman: "The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time." (New York Times, 11/30/03) "What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war." (CBS's Face the Nation, 10/3/04) "Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile." (New York Times, 11/28/04) "I think we're in the end game now…. I think we're in a six-month window here where it's going to become very clear and this is all going to pre-empt I think the next congressional election—that's my own feeling— let alone the presidential one." (NBC's Meet the Press, 9/25/05) "We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together."(CBS's Face the Nation, 12/18/05) "We're at the beginning of I think the decisive I would say six months in Iraq, OK, because I feel like this election—you know, I felt from the beginning Iraq was going to be ultimately, Charlie, what Iraqis make of it." (PBS's Charlie Rose Show, 12/20/05) "The only thing I am certain of is that in the wake of this election, Iraq will be what Iraqis make of it—and the next six months will tell us a lot. I remain guardedly hopeful." (New York Times, 12/21/05) "I think that we're going to know after six to nine months whether this project has any chance of succeeding. In which case, I think the American people as a whole will want to play it out or whether it really is a fool's errand." (Oprah Winfrey Show, 1/23/06) "I think we're in the end game there, in the next three to six months, Bob. We've got for the first time an Iraqi government elected on the basis of an Iraqi constitution. Either they're going to produce the kind of inclusive consensual government that we aspire to in the near term, in which case America will stick with it, or they're not, in which case I think the bottom's going to fall out." (CBS, 1/31/06) "I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq." (NBC's Today, 3/2/06) "Can Iraqis get this government together? If they do, I think the American public will continue to want to support the effort there to try to produce a decent, stable Iraq. But if they don't, then I think the bottom is going to fall out of public support here for the whole Iraq endeavor. So one way or another, I think we're in the end game in the sense it's going to be decided in the next weeks or months whether there's an Iraq there worth investing in. And that is something only Iraqis can tell us." (CNN, 4/23/06) "Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months—probably sooner—whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out." (MSNBC's Hardball, 5/11/06) Damn that NEXIS! (Hat tip: FAIR.) Posted at 11:10 AM How many days are there in six months????? Not only is the world flat, but so too is Friedman's math.

Senate Stops [Kathryn Jean Lopez] to go see Al Gore's movie. AP: Former Vice President Al Gore debuted his global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Wednesday night to a Washington audience that included members of Congress and Queen Noor of Jordan. When he found out when the Washington screening was scheduled, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he told Gore, "I'll make sure we're not going to have any votes tonight so we can come see your movie." Reid said the Bush administration has made a number of mistakes but that "nothing is comparable to his ignoring the death of our planet." Posted at 10:48 PM I think i'm goona cry.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2...0813.shtml?s=lh Where's the compassion??? Maybe the ACLU will take their case.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 16, 2006 -> 03:04 PM) I've got another idea. Hire the extra border patrol and customs agents. Have half of them go after the businesses hiring illegals. Fine the s*** out of the guilty businesses to fund the department. You can call them the "Border Revenue Patrol". I'm only joking about the name - serious about the rest. I like it. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 16, 2006 -> 04:26 PM) No, not at all. Just don't look the other way and pretend that the problem can be fixed for free. The fact that we've spent 20 years sitting around ignoring the problem is the reason why it'll cost so much to fix it now. Ah 20 years since the last amnesty program. that worked well. QUOTE(Texsox @ May 16, 2006 -> 04:31 PM) We don't collect taxes to pay for anything, we collect, or don't collect taxes to stimulate the economy. Let's cut taxes 25%, borrow a couple hundred billion from China, and get after this problem. We cut taxes to fight the war in Iraq, let's cut taxes to fix the border. make sure you tip your waitresses on the way out.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 15, 2006 -> 08:51 AM) It seems to me they are getting warrants. It's just so routine it is hardly mentioned. Anyway, they are investigating a specific person. I don't think it's the expectation of privacy, it's the government now starting off with the notion that we are all guilty until proven innocent. If we have to give up freedom of speech, search and seizure laws, maybe torture a few people, to keep giant sharks from invading Utah, I think we should do it. If we try and save our freedoms and rights, the terrorists will take them away. I don't know where the balance is, perhaps we are too free. Perhaps innocent until proven guilty is a quaint notion from a long gone era and we should just turn our lives over the to government for scrutiny. Last someone from a terrorist task force know our every move, perhaps tell them before it happens. After all, if it saves just one life, it's worth it, isn't it? I'll bet terrorists will have guns, why don't we start by having police track everyone with a gun in this country? Perhaps, for the privilege of owning a gun, and being a part of a well armed militia, the government should be allowed to enter your home, anytime, and check on them. After all if it stops one terrorist attack. I have nothing to hide, I'll be the first one. I'm innocent, and anyone who doesn't agree with this, must have something to hide. Very Rational.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 14, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) I'd rather the occasional bombing than having my freedom curtailed. Because the occasional bombing is going to happen whether or not we track everyone on camera and tap phones at will. Just ask the folks in London. This sort of stuff stops nothing, ultimately, and its a greater reliance on technology and not actual human intelligence that gave us the intelligence problem we currently have in the first place. Wasn't the bombing a result of not monitoring these s***bags? QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 14, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) One day after the Washington Post poll you mention came out, Newsweek also came out with a poll on the subject, and got results in the opposite direction. It's probably also worth noting that the Washington Post only was able to poll 502 people, as they did their poll in a rush in 1 night. The Newsweek poll is over 1000. That means the WaPo poll is more likely to be either biased or just off by within 5 percentage points by random chances. They also asked entirely different questions.

Fw: Really have to love this guy. "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan "Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan "The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

Senate votes no 55-40 to secure border first before then allowing amnesty. These Repubs. will start to listen when there asses are back home whining about the Dems. There is no quid pro quo here people. Brownback, Chafee, Craig, DeWine, Graham, Hagel, Lugar, Martinez, Murkowski, Shelby, Snowe, Specter, Stevens, and Warner should be proud of themselves.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 16, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) How about a 1% tax increase across the board? Or cutting back of some of those $10's of billions in subsidies to farmers and oil companies? Or allowing Medicare to actually negotiate prescription drug prices downwards? No to tax increaes. But yes to the rest.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 16, 2006 -> 02:38 PM) Personally, I think the border patrol is better suited for patrolling the border. Of course, it would have really been nice if we had opportunities in recent years to expand the border patrol so that we wouldn't have had to use the Guard? Man that would have been convenient. How about cutting 5% from entitlement programs to hire 100,000 border patrol agents?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 16, 2006 -> 01:16 PM) It's neither a felony nor a misdemenor. Basically you're picked up and sent home, there's no punishment phase at all (which, if we did that right now, would require jailing another 15 million folks, of course). Do we have tents that big?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:17 PM) Smart family. Bushes= OIL FAMILY Gores= SMART FAMILY LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 10, 2006 -> 03:00 PM) This Kennedy is not a "big" Democrat. In 30 years he will as fat and red as his father.

Agreed.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 10, 2006 -> 08:06 AM) Just for the sake of me not jumping to conclusions, please elaborate on this. How many pills was he taking? Who prescribed them? Why wasn't he given a sobriety test? Why was his first statement that night: Alcohol played no part in this accident. But the following day he says he does not remember even getting into his car? Just a few questions the MSM also would not ask if this were a Repub. representative. It seems to me that the MSM would want to cover this story after Kennedy was involved in another accident several weeks before the Washington accident. I guess the press is not allowed in Camelot.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 8, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) just because michael moore says something in his faux documentaries does not make it true. if bush had gone to rehab for using blow, i think we could make this comparison only then. admittedly, kennedy jr. and rush have tons in common. Coverage of the story by MSM not being one of them.

W.Va. Firms Footed Mollohan Trip By John Bresnahan Roll Call Staff May 8, 2006 Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), his wife and two top aides took a five-day trip to Spain in June 2004 that was paid for by a group of government contractors for whom Mollohan steered tens of millions of dollars in earmarked funds, according to travel records and other documents. I am glad this is still only a Republican problem.

Percent Rank Item (100%) 1: Sen. George Allen ® Information (98%) 2: Sen. Sam Brownback ® Information (95%) 3: Rep. Tom Tancredo ® Information (90%) 4: Ex-Rep. Newt Gingrich ® Information (90%) 5: Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist ® Information (85%) 6: Sen. Chuck Hagel ® Information (83%) 7: Sen. John McCain ® Information (77%) 8: Gov. George Pataki ® Information (74%) 9: Sec. Condoleezza Rice ® Information (69%) 10: Gov. Mike Huckabee ® Information (67%) 11: Gov. Mitt Romney ® Information (66%) 12: Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani ® Information (55%) 13: Ex-Gov. Mark Warner (D) Information (51%) 14: Sen. Evan Bayh (D) Information (51%) 15: Gov. Bill Richardson (D) Information (31%) 16: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) Information (29%) 17: Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) Information (28%) 18: Ex-Sen. John Edwards (D) Information (24%) 19: Ex-VP Al Gore (D) Information (22%) 20: Sen. Joseph Biden (D) Information (18%) 21: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D) Information (17%) 22: Ex-Gen. Wesley Clark (D) Information (16%) 23: Sen. John Kerry (D) Information (11%) 24: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) Information (1%) 25: Sen. Russ Feingold (D) Information

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 09:18 AM) Yeah, for a paltry 215 days. The amount of oil that could be recovered from ANWR would be so negligible on oil and gas prices that it'd be a complete waste. If you want massive amount of oil, it's in our own backyard in the form of Candaian oil sand and shale, anyways. But, wait, a few days ago everyone hopped aboard the alternative fuels bandwagon and now is up for drilling in ANWR. SHOCKING. LMAO

BYE BYE URANIUM PIE [Michael Ledeen] This just in from one of my musically inclined correspondents: Long long time ago, When you took hostages for show, You believe Allah told you to, Blame everythin' on those "evil" Jews You're a fascist and a nut, Must hang the queer, and stone the slut, You're insecure and narcissistic, Trying to make nukes to go ballistic The U.N. won't do nothing, But go around huffin and puffin, China, Russia have your back, That is until the U.S. attacks We know your plan and intentions, To disavow all Conventions, Threatenin the world with suicide martyrs, Wrong administration, this aint Carter's Bush's numbers may be south, So Mahmoud just runs his mouth, But when the hour comes to pass, The U.S. is gonna kick your ass And you'll be singing Bye Bye Uranium Pie, Thought the world would just turn a blind eye, Ayatollahs send out their suicide guys, Chanting "Allah Tells Me to Die"