If President Bush had said “corpse man” instead of “corps man” the press would have been all over it. Instead the stenographers in Washington ignore it. I should say, the “Press Corpse” in Washington ignores it.
How appropriate that the President would refer to them as the “Press Corpse” – they are dead to their jobs and let personal biases guide their reporting.
You have to wonder what is going on at the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation. Jennipher Dickens and the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation sent out email this morning (see excerpts below) complaining about the “soul of your [Apple and AT&T] organizations” after a 3rd party wrote an iPhone application called “Baby Shaker.” The application was removed from the iPhone App Store quickly once it was pointed out how stupid it was. But that wasn’t enough for them. It looks like another attempt to shake-down corporations to support their cause. The cause, while certainly sympathetic, isn’t well served with tactics like this in my opinion.
SJB Foundation has demanded a response or is threatening a demonstration outside 15 Apple Stores. Seems like the typical tactic when an opportunity comes up: threaten protests, send out emails to get publicity, get a donation or ten from big companies. For a group that is supposed to be doing good work it is extremely disappointing to see the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation resort to something like this, while I do not doubt their sincerity, shakedowns are not a way to get positive press.
In this case, the “soul of [the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation] organization” seems to be the part lacking. Positive, useful, productive yes, shakedowns of corporations, no. Who is in favor of child abuse? No one in their right minds, but something like this from them? In short, a very disappointing message from the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation. Blaming Apple and AT&T for the actions of individuals who have harmed children and babies is insane.
Excerpts below:
The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation held a news conference today outside the Apple Store in downtown Manhattan releasing the letter below to the Boards of Directors of Apple and AT&T. Just about every television network was represented at the news conference so watch your local evening news tonight for complete coverage. While Apple has removed the “BABY SHAKER” app from its online store, Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson have not issued a personal public apology, Apple has not issued a full accounting of how this was vetted and launched and Apple and AT&T have not offered a significant plan to mitigate the damages they have done to prevent child abuse.
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If we do not receive an adequate response from Apple and AT&T by the time we begin our 15-city American PABI Tour on May 3rd (pabitour.com – to promote awareness and support families who are dealing with PABI) we will hold a demonstration in front of the Apple Store in all 15 cities.
Yesterday (Feb 13, 2009) radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for “some type of enforced media accountability.” Clinton replied:
“Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous….”
For someone who attended law school and was President of the United States to blatantly ignore the First Amendment to the Constitution (not to mention the fact that the Constitution gives the Federal Government no power to regulate the press) is appalling.
When all power is concentrated in Washington and there is no one permitted to speak up for Freedom and Liberty, we can look back on comments such as these and see the steps we took to get there.
“Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses,” Henrietta Hughes told WINK News.(This is the woman who had told President Obama on Tuesday (Feb 10, 2009): “I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in. The housing authority has two years’ waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.”)
Now on Friday she asked where she was “going to get $400 a month.” Henrietta, it is called a J-O-B. You don’t “get” $400 per month. You EARN it for doing WORK that is of VALUE to someone else.
I want to know where I’m “going to get $4 million a month.” The only answer is that I am going to EARN it or I am going to TAKE it from someone else by force. If I come up with an excuse that I *really* *really* NEED $4 million per month, will Washington send it to me?
When you are asking for a hand-out from the rest of us (or worse, taking it at the point of a gun), you better be ready for the strings that come with it.
Barack Obama describes his white grandmother as a “typical white person.” Can you imagine the outrage if Hillary Clinton described someone as a “typical black person” or a “typical asian person”? What if Hillary said something about Obama being a “typical black man”. Geraldine Ferraro was castigated for her comment about “if [Barack] was a white man” Where is the outrage now?
In part he said: “She is extremely proud, and the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away…”
Police in Dallas have released 911 recordings in connection to the killing of two teenage sisters. The girls were found shot multiple times in a cab. Police say their father had threatened one daughter, because she had dated a non-Muslim. (Jan. 17, 2008)
Talk about a sick person.
Power-hungry and abusive police arrest and taser a student asking John Kerry speech:
Look at those little Napoleon police. Pathetic officers.
Capt. Jeff Holcomb of the University Police Department and the officers involved should be fired.
see
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/709180325/1007/NEWS
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1190097717&p=1
“All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed… and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.”
– Attributed to President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933 after making it illegal to own gold [There is dispute about this quotation, but the result was the same.]
2010 Update: Great article on President Roosevelt confiscating – a.k.a. taking or stealing – gold from United States citizens and foreigners (through devaluation).
“Perspectives” , November 21, 2005
“The person on the other side is not evil — they just have a different perspective.” – Chris Mathews, NBC ‘journalist’ (Speech to political science students at the University of Toronto, November 20, 2005)
For anyone who believes that Chris Mathews ever had any credibility his statement Monday should disabused them of that belief. Purposefully killing innocent civilians is evil. It is not a “perspective.” Continue reading Different Perspectives v.s. Evil
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Olbermann’s Errors
MediaMatters.org quotes MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann finding a Family Research Council “flip-flop”. (http://mediamatters.org/items/200504260005). Unfortunately for anyone concerned with facts and truth, Olbermann ignores the ones that get in the way.
The facts missing from the article are quite illustrative of the bias of Olbermann and mediamatters.org. Continue reading MSNBC’s Olbermann’s Errors and Bias