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Assault on PBS Continues
by Akaoni
First Ken Tomlinson, the chairman of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
decides to make PBS more "fair and
balanced." Now the House Appropriations
Committee decides to scrap it. Or at least
cut the funding, that's just as good.
According to an article in the Washington
Post:
- A House subcommittee voted
yesterday to sharply reduce the
federal government's financial
support for public broadcasting,
including eliminating taxpayer
funds that help underwrite such
popular children's educational
programs as "Sesame Street,"
"Reading Rainbow," "Arthur" and
"Postcards From Buster."
In addition, the subcommittee acted
to eliminate within two years all
federal money for the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting -- which
passes federal funds to public
broadcasters -- starting with a 25
percent reduction in CPB's budget
for next year, from $400 million to
$300 million.
In all, the cuts would represent the
most drastic cutback of public
broadcasting since Congress created
the nonprofit CPB in 1967. The
CPB funds are particularly
important for small TV and radio
stations and account for about 15
percent of the public broadcasting
industry's total revenue.
If it doesn't conform to your
message it must be slashed. Of
course it's not really Big Bird and
Co. that they're aiming at, rather,
it's any media that doesn't conform
to their idea of what the media
should and should not report. It's
about control, pure and simple.
Wisconsin's David Obey gets it right:
"Americans overwhelmingly see
public broadcasting as an unbiased
information source," Rep. David
Obey (Wis.), the ranking Democrat
on the subcommittee, said in a
statement. "Perhaps that's what the
GOP finds so offensive about it.
Republican leaders are trying to
bring every facet of the federal
government under their control. . . .
Now they are trying to put their
ideological stamp on public
broadcasting."
The Republican assault on the
"reality based community"
continues. Someone needs to stand
up and stop this.
Via. Talkingpointsmemo
via. Democracycellproject.
Coverage on June 12, 2005 Page here
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by babblemur
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| 14 June 2005 Pink Triangles by Akaoni You'd think that you would have to make this kind of nasty bigotry up, sadly we don't. According to this article from www.365gay.com some in the Christian right are now proposing that homosexuals wear "warning labels." According to the article:
smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports," said Rev. Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition. I don't know where to start with this. The so-called "revered scientific journal" Psychological Reports is simply the mouthpiece for discredited psychologist and anti-homosexual crusader: Paul Cameron, and his nasty Family Research Institute (Check out the site for yourself, they damn themselves more than I ever could.). You can see a sample of what kind of faulty and misguided research he is churning out here. Regardless of the validity of his work, do these people know whose company they are keeping? Do they know who previously had the idea to label homosexuals? I think that images are probably more eloquent than I could ever be. Here is a nice little image of the coding system the Nazis came up with. Homosexuals are the column second from the right: |
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It's sadly ironic, thay these people who have been hyperbolically referred to as Nazis are now looking more and more like the real thing. This site is a good place to learn more about homosexuals and the Holocaust. I borrowed the first two images from them. |
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welcome, I feel no concern
from it; but I should suffer the
misery of devils, were I to
make a whore of my soul..."
-Thomas Paine
Green Party :
"Impeach
Bush"
The Green Party of the United States
has repeated its July 2003 call to
impeach George Bush. "The Downing
Street Memo confirms what we
already knew -- that a conspiracy to
deceive the American people led us
into the war, and that this conspiracy
constitutes 'high crimes and
misdemeanors' according to the U.S.
Constitution." Said David Cobb.
Some information on this below:
"The 'I' word"
By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese
The Boston Globe, May 31, 2005
Reprinted on common dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/views
05/0531-23.htm
Letter to Pres Bush Concerning the
"DowningStreet Minutes"
From Rep. John Conyers
http://www.johnconyers.com
"Hold Bush Accountable If He Lied
About Iraq"
By Mark Dunlea (Green Party of
New York State)
The Albany Times Union, July 9,
2003
http://www.commondreams.org/views
03/0709-04.htm
Sensenbrenner is
clinically insane
by babblemur
F. James Sensenbrenner, House Republican
representing the Wisconsin 5th
Congressional District and Chair of the
House Judiciary Committee, has now
demonstrated that he is divorced entirely
from reality and likely clinically insane
(paranoid schizophrenia with delusions of
grandeur and/or apocalyptiosis as likely
diagnoses.)
His latest escapade as Chair of the House
Judiciary Committee involved suddenly
gaveling to a close a hearing on the USA
Patriot Act after witnesses began to
denounce Bush’s war on terror and the
status of detainees at Guatanamo Bay. After
attempting to rush both witnesses and
Democratic House members, Sensenbrenner
finally just closed the hearing and walked
off, followed by the other Republican
legislators, as Democrats, their microphones
turned off, continued to question witnesses,
who continued to testify.
Sensenbrenner’s demonstration of a refusal
to hear anything that conflicts with a pre-
determined “reality” without extreme
reaction is a classic symptom of paranoid
schizophrenia.
This follows a number of very peculiar
actions by the 25 year Congressional Veteran
from Menomenee Falls, WI, notably:
- Rewriting Democratic Legislator’s
amendment descriptions to read that
they support the ability of child
molesters to transport children across
state lines; (Read about it here) - Pushing through the Real ID Act,
which will make it a complete pain in
the ass to get a drivers license, and
essentially creates a National ID card,
as prophesied in the Book of
Revelations. Now your identity can
be stolen by merely hacking into the
notably weak DMV to get your social
security, birth certificate, and other
information; and if the government is
too tough, the information will have
already been sold to Accenture,
LexisNexis, and ChoicePoint. - H.R. 1528: Defending America’s
Most Vulnerable : Safe Access to
Drug Treatment and Child Protection
Act 2005 is a sweet piece of
Sensenbrenner ‘tough love’. In this
piece of legislation, if you know of
someone that either sold drugs, tried
to buy drugs, or used drugs, if you
don’t rat them out to the police within
24 hours you are committing a felony
and could serve jail time. Say What
(the Fuck)? It’s the George Orwell
Act. (Read about it here)
This is just skimming the obvious surface of
Sensenbrenner’s recent behavior. Word on
the street is that the Democrats intend to run
Bryan Kennedy against F. James again in
2006. Sensenbrenner won 67% of the vote
in 2004 against Kennedy. Is there anyone
else available, or will Kennedy have the
advantage of not having Kerry on the ticket
with him? Does having Doyle on the ticket
improve things or make them worse?
In short, what is it going to take to get rid of
this madman Sensenbrenner?