August 14, 2006
Horsing A Round
Wait for the entire screen to load up with all four horses and a fence in front of them. Then click on each horse. Make sure your sound is on. Re-click on any horse to make it turn off or turn it back on again .Try clicking on the horses from left to right then right to left then just one or two at a time... Do them in random order for some weird songs.
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf
Mexican Vacation
http://www.americancomedynetwork.com/FLASH/MexTourism.htm
Nikola Tesla
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Tesla Motors
www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1
University refuses Christian groups
Insists non-believers must be allowed in leadership
August 9, 2006 -University of Wisconsin officials are being warned their refusal to recognize Christian student groups is illegal.
In recent weeks, the University of Wisconsin-Superior has denied recognition of the school's InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has derecognized the Knights of Columbus.
The officials allege the groups violate school's "anti-discrimination policy" by not allowing non-Christians to serve in leadership positions, according to the Arizona-based public-interest legal group Alliance Defense Fund, which notes non-recognized groups are denied access to campus facilities and student funding.
...said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French..."The University of Wisconsin has decided to force campus student organizations to violate their core beliefs, even in the face of controlling federal case law that bars them from doing so," French said.
The lawyer charged the school is engaging in a double standard, marginalizing Christian speech while enthusiastically claiming the First Amendment protects professors such as Kevin Barrett, who claims the government staged the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
...As WorldNetDaily reported, officials at the University of California's Hastings College of Law in San Francisco rejected the Christian Legal Society student chapter two years ago because they believed the group's requirement that officers and voting members subscribe to the group's Christian beliefs constituted "discrimination" in violation of school policy...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51452
Studies Prove
By Thomas Sowell
Part I …Whenever I hear the phrase "studies prove" this or that, it makes me think back to the beginning of my career as an economist at the Labor Department in Washington… More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/09/studies_prove
Part II …My late mentor, Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler, used to say that it could be very instructive to spend a few hours in a library checking up on studies that had been cited. When I began doing that, I found it not only instructive but disillusioning.
A footnote in a textbook on labor economics cited six studies to back up a conclusion it reached. But, after I went to the library and looked at those six studies, it turned out that they each cited some other study -- the same other study in all six cases.
Now that the six studies had shrunk to one, I got that one study -- and found that it was a study of a very different situation from the one discussed in the labor economics textbook…. More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=studies_prove:_part_ii&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=08/10/2006&page=full&comments=true
Part III …Often we hear that "all the experts agree" that A is better than B or that "studies prove" A to be better than B. But one of the reasons for this can be that only people who favor A over B are likely to get the money to conduct studies or be given access to the data needed for a study…. More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/11/studies_prove:_part_iii
The cause for global warming.
See photo and description http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060807.html
Al Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
8/10/2006 The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle" ...Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle."
…Public records reveal that …Gore…and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.)…
…In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy...
...But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. …Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.
...Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.
Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.
Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.
... If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.
Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm
Television news helping Hezbollah
August 8, 2006 HAIFA, Israel – Hezbollah monitors Israeli and international television news footage of scenes from rocket landings inside Israel and has used the broadcasts the past few weeks to more accurately target installations in the Jewish state, a senior terror leader told WorldNetDaily.
Israeli television and international news outlets such as Fox News, BBC, CNN and SkyNews have been regularly broadcasting, many times live, from the aftermath of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel.
"Of course the constant stream of television news is helpful for Hezbollah to know whether they hit targets and the location of strategic facilities. A whole department of Hezbollah [in part] monitors this footage," said Abu Oudai, who is a chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group's rocket infrastructure in the West Bank...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51450
Voter Suppression in Missouri (or fraud?)
New York Times 8/10/06
Missouri is the latest front in the Republican Party’s campaign to use photo ID requirements to suppress voting. The Republican legislators who pushed through Missouri’s ID law earlier this year said they wanted to deter fraud, but that claim falls apart on close inspection. Missouri’s new ID rules — and similar ones adopted last year in Indiana and Georgia — are intended to deter voting by blacks, poor people and other groups that are less likely to have driver’s licenses. Georgia’s law has been blocked by the courts, and the others should be too... more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/opinion/10thu1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The only voter suppression would be the suppression of illegal votes… also the article claims some people are too poor for things like drivers licenses… well if they don’t have to show some sort of positive ID for their welfare checks that needs to be changed too…
AP, N.Y. Times raising the dead?
News agencies run photographs of 'deceased' who 'appear alive'
August 9, 2006 An Associated Press photograph of a "dead man" who is sitting upright underneath a sheet and a New York Times series that appears to have one man as both rescuer and victim are prompting more questions about U.S. media coverage of the Mideast conflict.
…among the latest U.S. media photographs of the Mideast war to fall under suspicion. Another photograph of a "body" that was described by the New York Times as having been pulled from the dusty rubble of a building, although there was no dust on the body, also was being reviewed.
...And other photographs in a series published that day appear to show the same person walking around and helping as a rescuer, not a victim...
photos at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51456
Services Meet or Exceed Active Duty Recruiting Goals for 14th Straight Month
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2006 – All active-duty military components met or exceeded their July recruiting goals, Defense Department officials announced today, marking the 14th consecutive month the services have met or exceeded their goals. The Army exceeded its goal of 10,450 recruits; it signed up 10,890 new soldiers, for 104 percent of its goal. The Navy and Air Force both came in at 100 percent, with 4,043 and 2,121 recruited respectively, while the Marine Corps hit 112 percent of its July goal, with 3,197 recruits…
...On the reserve-component side, three of the six components made their goals, but all save one are on track to meet fiscal year goals. The Naval Reserve is at 84 percent of its goal for fiscal 2006. Navy officials said the service is having difficulty meeting the reserve mission. Part of this is because active-duty retention is so high. The Naval Reserve gets most of its people from those leaving active duty. Those people who normally go into the reserve are just not getting out of the active-duty Navy, officials said.
All the active-duty components are projected to meet their retention goals for the fiscal year, Whitman said. “Retention is so high, it is inconceivable that they wouldn’t make their goals across all the services at this point,” he said.
Officials said it is still a very difficult recruiting environment. The economy is doing well, with the unemployment rate being around 4.7 percent nationwide. Standards for enlistment remain high, and those that do not meet the standards do not enlist, officials said.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=420
Air America losing altitude in New York
August 3, 2006 -- The liberal radio network Air America is moving to a weaker AM signal in New York due to down ratings and shaky finances, the New York Post reported.
The talk radio network failed to renew its two-year lease with the owners of WLIB (1190 AM), forcing left-wingers such as Al Franken to broadcast from WWRL (1600 AM) -- which has a weaker signal -- beginning Sept. 1, the newspaper said.
"Air America" executives had previously run into trouble at WLIB after the station's owners -- Pierre Sutton and his father, former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton -- discovered the network's financial situation.
Negative publicity involving loans from a Bronx charity to Air America when the network was starting up, helped make the relationship between the two sides more precarious, the newspaper said.
WLIB may be leased next month to Clear Channel's Randy Michaels, who has reportedly shown interest in originating a talk-show network from the station.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060803-092247-2107r
AP Beirut photo faces questionsWoman appears 'mourning destruction of her home' in two photographs allegedly taken two weeks apart in different locations; foreign media remains largely hostile to Israel http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3288406%2C00.html
Podcast on Reuters scandal
Pajamas Media has posted a podcast on the Reuters scandal, featuring Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, Clifford May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, and Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker, in a discussion moderated by Roger L. Simon, co-founder of PJM: see http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5791
more
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
Toy Story
Those of us sorting through the agency photos from Lebanon cannot fail to notice the artfully placed (often pristine) objects in the middle of rubble. The certainty of staging for emotive effect is undeniable, especially as so many trikes and toys just seem to appear so often, improbably placed in piles of war detritus. Slublog has gathered together some of these shots in a montage titled “The Passion of the Toys” see: http://www.slublog.com/archives/2006/08/the_passion_of.html
Elsewhere, Gateway Pundit captures a “corpse” that isn’t dead see:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-york-times-busted-in-hezbollah.html
Clarice Feldman 8 08 06
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5792
UN Resolution Leaves Hizballah Intact
August 14, 2006 - The U.N. resolution designed to end the fighting in the Middle East does not mandate a stabilization force going into southern Lebanon either to disarm Hizballah, or to help the Lebanese government to disarm it. The omission raises concerns that the deal may fail to achieve a long-term peace.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200608/INT20060814b.html
Hunt on for baby bombers
Security sources confirmed last night that alleged “baby bombers” were among those arrested over the plot to massacre thousands by downing transatlantic flights.
Those being quizzed included a husband and wife with a six-month-old infant.
The discovery prompted fears that there were fanatical mothers in secret al-Qaeda cells in Britain ready to become suicide bombers — and to die with their tots in their arms.
...The nightmare is that mums carrying tiny tots would provide “very good cover” and not raise suspicions among even the most alert security guards.
...Two female Chechen terrorists blew themselves up on separate flights in Russia two years ago.
An intelligence source said: “Al-Qaeda specialises in attempting the unexpected. What could be more unexpected in Western eyes than women willing to die with their babies?”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006370444,00.html
Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge
Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in their van. Police in Caro arrested the three Palestinian-American men after they allegedly bought 80 of the phones at a Wal-Mart store in Caro.
A pre-paid cell phone can be economical and convenient. But, 22 year old Adham Othman, 23 year old Louai Othman, and 19 year old Maruwan Muhareb aroused suspicion when they allegedly bought 80 phones at the same time. Caro Police Chief Ben Page said they thought “something was wrong here."
When police pulled the men over, they found about 1,000 phones in the van. Many were separated from their battery packs and the chargers were discarded. Michigan State Police Trooper Patrick Sharkey says, “We didn't know exactly what was going on. You hear on the news about these phones being used to detonate IED's."
...The men allegedly traveled to several states to buy pre-paid cell phones, despite policies at many stores limiting purchases to two or three phones at a time. Police in Wisconsin say these three men also bought phones in their state. A clerk who helped them says she suspected something fishy. Barb Bessert, a clerk at a Dollar General store, says, “When they buy more than a couple. Because they are 20 dollars apiece. So, that's like 80 bucks. But, they don't buy the minutes for it. Just the phone."
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=59411
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http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Wait for the entire screen to load up with all four horses and a fence in front of them. Then click on each horse. Make sure your sound is on. Re-click on any horse to make it turn off or turn it back on again .Try clicking on the horses from left to right then right to left then just one or two at a time... Do them in random order for some weird songs.
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf
Mexican Vacation
http://www.americancomedynetwork.com/FLASH/MexTourism.htm
Nikola Tesla
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Tesla Motors
www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1
University refuses Christian groups
Insists non-believers must be allowed in leadership
August 9, 2006 -University of Wisconsin officials are being warned their refusal to recognize Christian student groups is illegal.
In recent weeks, the University of Wisconsin-Superior has denied recognition of the school's InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has derecognized the Knights of Columbus.
The officials allege the groups violate school's "anti-discrimination policy" by not allowing non-Christians to serve in leadership positions, according to the Arizona-based public-interest legal group Alliance Defense Fund, which notes non-recognized groups are denied access to campus facilities and student funding.
...said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French..."The University of Wisconsin has decided to force campus student organizations to violate their core beliefs, even in the face of controlling federal case law that bars them from doing so," French said.
The lawyer charged the school is engaging in a double standard, marginalizing Christian speech while enthusiastically claiming the First Amendment protects professors such as Kevin Barrett, who claims the government staged the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
...As WorldNetDaily reported, officials at the University of California's Hastings College of Law in San Francisco rejected the Christian Legal Society student chapter two years ago because they believed the group's requirement that officers and voting members subscribe to the group's Christian beliefs constituted "discrimination" in violation of school policy...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51452
Studies Prove
By Thomas Sowell
Part I …Whenever I hear the phrase "studies prove" this or that, it makes me think back to the beginning of my career as an economist at the Labor Department in Washington… More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/09/studies_prove
Part II …My late mentor, Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler, used to say that it could be very instructive to spend a few hours in a library checking up on studies that had been cited. When I began doing that, I found it not only instructive but disillusioning.
A footnote in a textbook on labor economics cited six studies to back up a conclusion it reached. But, after I went to the library and looked at those six studies, it turned out that they each cited some other study -- the same other study in all six cases.
Now that the six studies had shrunk to one, I got that one study -- and found that it was a study of a very different situation from the one discussed in the labor economics textbook…. More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=studies_prove:_part_ii&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=08/10/2006&page=full&comments=true
Part III …Often we hear that "all the experts agree" that A is better than B or that "studies prove" A to be better than B. But one of the reasons for this can be that only people who favor A over B are likely to get the money to conduct studies or be given access to the data needed for a study…. More at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/11/studies_prove:_part_iii
The cause for global warming.
See photo and description http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060807.html
Al Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
8/10/2006 The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle" ...Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle."
…Public records reveal that …Gore…and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.)…
…In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy...
...But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. …Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.
...Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.
Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.
Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.
... If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.
Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm
Television news helping Hezbollah
August 8, 2006 HAIFA, Israel – Hezbollah monitors Israeli and international television news footage of scenes from rocket landings inside Israel and has used the broadcasts the past few weeks to more accurately target installations in the Jewish state, a senior terror leader told WorldNetDaily.
Israeli television and international news outlets such as Fox News, BBC, CNN and SkyNews have been regularly broadcasting, many times live, from the aftermath of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel.
"Of course the constant stream of television news is helpful for Hezbollah to know whether they hit targets and the location of strategic facilities. A whole department of Hezbollah [in part] monitors this footage," said Abu Oudai, who is a chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group's rocket infrastructure in the West Bank...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51450
Voter Suppression in Missouri (or fraud?)
New York Times 8/10/06
Missouri is the latest front in the Republican Party’s campaign to use photo ID requirements to suppress voting. The Republican legislators who pushed through Missouri’s ID law earlier this year said they wanted to deter fraud, but that claim falls apart on close inspection. Missouri’s new ID rules — and similar ones adopted last year in Indiana and Georgia — are intended to deter voting by blacks, poor people and other groups that are less likely to have driver’s licenses. Georgia’s law has been blocked by the courts, and the others should be too... more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/opinion/10thu1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The only voter suppression would be the suppression of illegal votes… also the article claims some people are too poor for things like drivers licenses… well if they don’t have to show some sort of positive ID for their welfare checks that needs to be changed too…
AP, N.Y. Times raising the dead?
News agencies run photographs of 'deceased' who 'appear alive'
August 9, 2006 An Associated Press photograph of a "dead man" who is sitting upright underneath a sheet and a New York Times series that appears to have one man as both rescuer and victim are prompting more questions about U.S. media coverage of the Mideast conflict.
…among the latest U.S. media photographs of the Mideast war to fall under suspicion. Another photograph of a "body" that was described by the New York Times as having been pulled from the dusty rubble of a building, although there was no dust on the body, also was being reviewed.
...And other photographs in a series published that day appear to show the same person walking around and helping as a rescuer, not a victim...
photos at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51456
Services Meet or Exceed Active Duty Recruiting Goals for 14th Straight Month
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2006 – All active-duty military components met or exceeded their July recruiting goals, Defense Department officials announced today, marking the 14th consecutive month the services have met or exceeded their goals. The Army exceeded its goal of 10,450 recruits; it signed up 10,890 new soldiers, for 104 percent of its goal. The Navy and Air Force both came in at 100 percent, with 4,043 and 2,121 recruited respectively, while the Marine Corps hit 112 percent of its July goal, with 3,197 recruits…
...On the reserve-component side, three of the six components made their goals, but all save one are on track to meet fiscal year goals. The Naval Reserve is at 84 percent of its goal for fiscal 2006. Navy officials said the service is having difficulty meeting the reserve mission. Part of this is because active-duty retention is so high. The Naval Reserve gets most of its people from those leaving active duty. Those people who normally go into the reserve are just not getting out of the active-duty Navy, officials said.
All the active-duty components are projected to meet their retention goals for the fiscal year, Whitman said. “Retention is so high, it is inconceivable that they wouldn’t make their goals across all the services at this point,” he said.
Officials said it is still a very difficult recruiting environment. The economy is doing well, with the unemployment rate being around 4.7 percent nationwide. Standards for enlistment remain high, and those that do not meet the standards do not enlist, officials said.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=420
Air America losing altitude in New York
August 3, 2006 -- The liberal radio network Air America is moving to a weaker AM signal in New York due to down ratings and shaky finances, the New York Post reported.
The talk radio network failed to renew its two-year lease with the owners of WLIB (1190 AM), forcing left-wingers such as Al Franken to broadcast from WWRL (1600 AM) -- which has a weaker signal -- beginning Sept. 1, the newspaper said.
"Air America" executives had previously run into trouble at WLIB after the station's owners -- Pierre Sutton and his father, former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton -- discovered the network's financial situation.
Negative publicity involving loans from a Bronx charity to Air America when the network was starting up, helped make the relationship between the two sides more precarious, the newspaper said.
WLIB may be leased next month to Clear Channel's Randy Michaels, who has reportedly shown interest in originating a talk-show network from the station.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060803-092247-2107r
AP Beirut photo faces questionsWoman appears 'mourning destruction of her home' in two photographs allegedly taken two weeks apart in different locations; foreign media remains largely hostile to Israel http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3288406%2C00.html
Podcast on Reuters scandal
Pajamas Media has posted a podcast on the Reuters scandal, featuring Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, Clifford May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, and Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker, in a discussion moderated by Roger L. Simon, co-founder of PJM: see http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5791
more
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
Toy Story
Those of us sorting through the agency photos from Lebanon cannot fail to notice the artfully placed (often pristine) objects in the middle of rubble. The certainty of staging for emotive effect is undeniable, especially as so many trikes and toys just seem to appear so often, improbably placed in piles of war detritus. Slublog has gathered together some of these shots in a montage titled “The Passion of the Toys” see: http://www.slublog.com/archives/2006/08/the_passion_of.html
Elsewhere, Gateway Pundit captures a “corpse” that isn’t dead see:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-york-times-busted-in-hezbollah.html
Clarice Feldman 8 08 06
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5792
UN Resolution Leaves Hizballah Intact
August 14, 2006 - The U.N. resolution designed to end the fighting in the Middle East does not mandate a stabilization force going into southern Lebanon either to disarm Hizballah, or to help the Lebanese government to disarm it. The omission raises concerns that the deal may fail to achieve a long-term peace.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200608/INT20060814b.html
Hunt on for baby bombers
Security sources confirmed last night that alleged “baby bombers” were among those arrested over the plot to massacre thousands by downing transatlantic flights.
Those being quizzed included a husband and wife with a six-month-old infant.
The discovery prompted fears that there were fanatical mothers in secret al-Qaeda cells in Britain ready to become suicide bombers — and to die with their tots in their arms.
...The nightmare is that mums carrying tiny tots would provide “very good cover” and not raise suspicions among even the most alert security guards.
...Two female Chechen terrorists blew themselves up on separate flights in Russia two years ago.
An intelligence source said: “Al-Qaeda specialises in attempting the unexpected. What could be more unexpected in Western eyes than women willing to die with their babies?”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006370444,00.html
Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge
Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in their van. Police in Caro arrested the three Palestinian-American men after they allegedly bought 80 of the phones at a Wal-Mart store in Caro.
A pre-paid cell phone can be economical and convenient. But, 22 year old Adham Othman, 23 year old Louai Othman, and 19 year old Maruwan Muhareb aroused suspicion when they allegedly bought 80 phones at the same time. Caro Police Chief Ben Page said they thought “something was wrong here."
When police pulled the men over, they found about 1,000 phones in the van. Many were separated from their battery packs and the chargers were discarded. Michigan State Police Trooper Patrick Sharkey says, “We didn't know exactly what was going on. You hear on the news about these phones being used to detonate IED's."
...The men allegedly traveled to several states to buy pre-paid cell phones, despite policies at many stores limiting purchases to two or three phones at a time. Police in Wisconsin say these three men also bought phones in their state. A clerk who helped them says she suspected something fishy. Barb Bessert, a clerk at a Dollar General store, says, “When they buy more than a couple. Because they are 20 dollars apiece. So, that's like 80 bucks. But, they don't buy the minutes for it. Just the phone."
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