 | Episode 2 GW '08 Campaign Trail, Day 2 - Bucks County, PA George's better half, Martha, in an attempt to mold the candidate's public image, recruits a press secretary, Amy Taylor-Spinner, with a résumé that can't hold a candle to her libido, and a campaign manager, Earl Grove, who is baffled by his boss's wig-centric platform. http://www.gwforpresident.com |
 | Sonoma-Marin Fair World's Ugliest Dog Contest 2008 Animal Planet TV Show Premiers Oct 25,2008 http://animal.discovery.com/tv/worlds-ugliest-dog/ We REGRET To Report Gus Passed November 10, 2008 http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/11/worlds-ugliest.html http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/uglydogcontest.shtml http://www.socool.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNT_6GI1bbw http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080825/BUSINESS/808250302 A New Champion Crowned !! Stay Tune For More Updates From The 2008 Sonoma-Marin Fair !!! It's Going Viral !!! 26,253 views as of Sunday Morning 6/22 10:28AM 46,900 views as of Sunday Night 6/22 10:44PM 70,176 views 6/23 5:35PM As Many As 2500 Views An Hour As Many As 29 Daily Awards Today As High As #2 In Traffic "Today - YouTube Travel And Events" Number #1 In France For A Couple Of Days 6/23 6:02PM This just in. Gus has appeared in many a news story across the nation (including the next day on The Today Show) and across the world. In addition, it's official, Gus was just named a "Patriot" on "The O'Reilly Factor" 6/25 7:45PM 82,722 Views Getting About 4 Views A Minute For The Last Two Days Click On Statistics And Data To See Some Of This Videos Awards We Are So Excited !!! And We THANK YOU !!! P.S. For more about the positive meaning of The World's Ugliest Dog Contest Visit Elwood's Website "Elwood's life started out a little uncertain but has certainly turned into a FABULOUS LIFE! " Check Out Elwood's Book !!! You may even be able to participate ô¿~ http://loveelwood.com/ EXTREME THANKS TO Brent Farris Beth Ostrosky http://www.yourfair.org http://www.socooltv.com |
 | Soviet Justice in Bulgaria, 1945 Soviet-justice arrives in Bulgaria. Marked here by two events : Bulgarian Communist leader and Komintern-apparatchik Georgi Dimitrov returns from Soviet exile. Andrei Vishinsky pays a visit to Bulgaria's new Communist rulers. Prosecutor General of the USSR since 1935, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vishinsky was the legal mastermind of Stalin's Great Purge. One of the principles of Vyshinsky's theory was that criminal law is a tool of the "class struggle". Vishinsky also served as Soviet Foreign Minister, 1949-53. A colourful episode from one of Vishinsky's visits to the UN. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779334,00.html Monday, Oct. 06, 1947 Vishinsky Meets the Press It was an old U.S. custom, but Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky had never tried it before. Last week, he summoned U.N. newsmen to a press conference at Lake Success. He had discovered the soft underbelly of democratic journalism. He had only to make any charge he wanted, or slander anyone he pleased, and U.S. newspapers would spread his words on Page One. By the time he bounded into the U.N.'s roomy Security Council chamber, more than 300 reporters, delegates and hangers-on awaited him. Wearing a grey suit and a shiny celluloid collar, Vishinsky posed briefly for photographers. Then began a turbulent 2½-hour press conference. While the bored reporters squirmed, Vishinsky read a ten-page manuscript. Vishinsky's Russian was crisp and emphatic; he seemed annoyed at the interpreter's colorless, halting rendition. The statement was a fingerpointing, arm-waving rehash of his attack on U.S. "warmongers" (TIME, Sept. 29). This time, Vishinsky proposed that the "warmongers" should be jailed. He also added three more candidates to his blacklist: upstate New York Press Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies."* Suave or Shrill. Then, picking up a sheaf of questions submitted in advance by newsmen, he tackled them in a manner alternately suave, sarcastic and shrill. Q. (by six U.N. correspondents): "Will the Soviet Union [agree] to curtail the use of the veto?" A.: "I am astonished with this question. . . It needs no answer." Q. (by the six): "If talks on atomic control and disarmament fail, what course will the Soviet Union take?" A.: "The six correspondents are full of great pessimism. I do not wish to join their prophecy." Inez v. Andrei. A few minutes later, with 20 written questions still to go, Vishinsky tried to break off. But Hearstling Inez Robb spoke up. Said she: "Isn't the Russian press comparison of Truman to Hitler a sample of intemperate warmongering?" Vishinsky stalled a minute: ". . . I should know the expressions the Soviet press used." Then, firmly: "Anyone who incites a new war is worthy of being compared to Hitler." Inez kept after him: "Do you include Truman?" A. (hastily): "I did not say that." By then, other questioners were joining in. Asked one: "You charged Bullitt with warmongering. Do you think Stalin is guilty of warmongering in an inflammatory speech which is cited by Mr. Bullitt?" A.: "I cannot answer. If I answered, I would be unpleasant to the questioner." Inez Robb: "Is rudeness a one-way street in Russia?" A.: "I always avoid rudeness. But when I hear rudeness addressed to me I answer twice or three times as rudely, notwithstanding sex. . . ." Then Vishinsky picked up a handy gavel, rapped the desk and stomped out. Last week, the U.S. Government granted a visa to Pierre Courtade, to cover U.N. for the Paris Communist paper L'Humanité, but it attached strings. Courtade could not go anywhere in the U.S. except New York, could only write about the United Nations while here. The U.S. was not borrowing from the totalitarian primer. Reporters of the Soviet agency Tass can still travel where they please in the U.S. The State Department was merely applying its immigration laws. Since the U.N. is an international no man's land, reporters accredited to it can come & go there as they please. But beyond the bounds of U.N., U.S. immigration laws, which bar foreign Communists, still apply. * Winchell to Vishinsky: "If the people of Russia knew the facts, you might be a defendant, instead of a prosecutor." Winchell accepted a sarcastic Vishinsky "invitation" to visit Russia, provided other U.S. newsmen could go along. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to lie ... with so many rivals present." Film episode from Atanas Kiryakov, "The Camps", 1990 |
 | The Adventures Of Jill-Bob: Questionin' The Guv's Motives Jill-Bob is serious 'bout gettin' to the bottom of "Travel Gate". But the press have their questions too! Could Jill-Bob be feeshin' for some free pub? |
 | NASA - Air Safety Report Controversy - VOA Story American news media are reporting that a survey of pilots by the U.S. government found that safety problems involving air carriers happen more frequently than previously known. The reports say the space agency, NASA, conducted the survey, but did not publish the results over fears they could affect public confidence in air travel. Some lawmakers are accusing the government of trying to suppress the results because they might hurt airline profits -- a charge NASA firmly denies. The reports say NASA spent three years developing the questionnaire and three years interviewing 24,000 pilots. But after completing the $8.5 million survey last year, the space agency allegedly refused to publish its results and asked everyone associated with the project to delete their files. The survey reportedly uncovered numerous safety problems from near misses, runway interference, to engine failures. A NASA document obtained by Associated Press says, "The release of the data could affect public confidence and hurt the commercial welfare of air carriers." But Democratic Party Congressman Brad Miller says that is not for the space agency to decide. "It is part of NASA's job to make sure aviation is safe. It is not NASA's job to make airline travelers think that everything is fine or to protect airline profits." Congress has launched a formal investigation. Democratic Congressman Bart Gordon says NASA has been ordered to keep all of its data. "This is a matter of safety," he said. "We need to know that information, the American public needs to know that information." The Federal Aviation Administration says it played no role in trying to suppress the information. FAA acting administrator Robert Sturgell stated, "We are always interested in safety data and the analysis and mining of aviation safety data." NASA administrators have assured Congress the data will not be destroyed, but the agency says it will determine what information, if any, can be released. |
 | More Sarah Palin lies, scandals, and corruption from Alaska Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife. Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post. The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show. In separate filings, the state was billed about $25,000 for Palin's daughters' expenses and $19,000 for her husband's. Flights topped the list for the most expensive items, and the daughter whose bill was the highest was Piper, 7, whose flights cost nearly $11,000, while Willow, 14, claimed about $6,000 and Bristol, 17, accounted for about $3,400. One event was in New York City in October 2007, when Bristol accompanied the governor to Newsweek's third annual Women and Leadership Conference, toured the New York Stock Exchange and met local officials and business executives. The state paid for three nights in a $707-a-day hotel room. October 2007, when Willow flew to Juneau to join the Palin family on a tour of the Hub Juneau Christian Teen Center, where Palin and her family worship when they are in Juneau. The state gave the center $25,000, according to a May 2008 memo. Leighow noted that under state policy, all of the governor's children are entitled to per diem expenses, even her infant son. "The first family declined the per diem [for] the children," Leighow said. "The amount that they had declined was $4,461, as of August 5." The family also charged for flights around the state, including trips to Alaska events such as the start of the Iditarod dog-sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race, a contest that Todd Palin won. Meanwhile, Todd Palin spent $725 to fly to Edmonton, Alberta, for "information gathering and planning meeting with Northern Alberta Institute of Technology," according to an expense report. During the three-day trip, he charged the state $291 for his per diem. A notation said "costs paid by Dept. of Labor." He also billed the state $1,371 for a flight to Washington to attend a National Governors Association meeting with his wife. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008090900325&s_pos= Gov. Sarah Palin...she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency. Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages. Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials. Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records. Professionals were either forced out or fired, Mr. Deuser said. Ms. Palin ordered city employees not to talk to the press. And she used city money to buy a white Suburban...also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral. In addition to the trooper investigation, lawmakers in April accused her of improperly culling thousands of e-mail addresses from a state database for a mass mailing to rally support for a policy initiative. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin |
 | DNC Convention Invesco Tour | CNN Grill | DNCC Media Prep http://zennie2005.blogspot.com/2008/08/dnc-convention-invesco-tour-cnn-grill.html - On the morning of July 31st 2008, I boarded a United Airlines morning flight to Denver to attend the final (?) media walkthrough before the Democratic National Convention, this one at Invesco Field. Unlike my first media walkthrough trip, I ended up renting a Saturn SUV for ground travel. The reason was simple: it was cheap. Cheaper to rent than a Prius and because they were in low demand versus the economy cars. In a way it worked out to a savings of about $25. Invesco Field was only 20 minutes away from the airport, so it was a quick trip for me. I arrived at Invesco at 11:20 and ran into a DNCC employee (who I will not name by request) and who walked me around the stadium (we ended up on the field at one point) and eventually into the main briefing meeting. For security reasons I did not film the main meeting discussion, but focused more on the 'broadbrush" tour and interviews of key media people there. On the way to the main press box, I met "Oreo" who's one of the main contributors at DemConWatchBlog.com -- http://www.DemConWatchBlog.com -- and talked about how the blog came to be and who the writers were. To my surprise, one of them was a person who had his own blog called "Mr. Superdelegate" for a time, and gave all of us political junkies fits trying to figure out who he was. It's become a great resource for DNC Convention news. After talking with Oreo, and heading to the main field, I met Sara Burrett, who's a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. Sara -- who I talked to while tripping all over myself on the Invesco Field sidewalk -- told me that she was a court reporter until this assignment and that her current focus was on the lawsuit the protest group Recreate68 and their leader Glen Spagnuolo, who's known for protesting the Columbus Day Holiday in Denver -- http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/6/challenging_columbus_day_denver_organizers_discuss -- and for whom a split was caused between his group and other protest groups. See, even Democratic PROTESTERS can't get along. But I digress. Sara also pointed out where Senator Obama will stand to give his acceptance speech, which is about on the 50-yard-line of the field used by The Denver Broncos. That about ended that part of the tour. But Oreo and I decided to take a tour of our own making. He drove us over to the Pepsi Center area to see the media tent city in the making. Two construction reps let us in and we parked and walked the grounds. The media tents must be about 25,000 square feet in size each, and there were two made already, one for NBC News, the other we didn't know who was for, perhaps CNN. Writing of CNN, we then walked over to the Brooklyn Grill for a quick lunch. Oreo informed me that the grill was to be transformed into the "CNN Grill" and almost on que, we saw a stencil being used to paint the CNN = Politics logo on the side of the building. They had just got started with this, and we were the first to record the action. The one problem with the CNN plan is the restaurant workers know nothing about it. They don't know if they will be paid double-time or who will get to work the shifts, or anything and they're getting a little nervous about the whole deal. Then, on the way out, Oreo, who lives in Denver, pointed to where the DNC Media Party was to be held over at an amusement park nearby. In all, the Democratic Party is working overtime to make the DNC Convention work. The objective is open-ness. The main issue now is still scheduling. Contrary to reports, many of the speakers and speaking days have not been fully set. Speculation that Hillary Clinton will not be the VP choice because of the Tuesday "Women's Day" event is faulty at best. On the way back to the airport, I turned in my rental car and then forgot my iPhone in it. Alamo Rent-A-Car got it back to me very quickly and for that I give thanks. |
 | Presidential Flasher http://www.tmtgirls.com Sheila finds her way to the White House Press Room to confront the President about his ogling a flasher |
 | WHO TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT 2008 1/9 Why does everything keep getting worse? We keep voting in the same people. Both major parties want war and vote that way. Both major parties have caused a $10,000,000,000,000.00 national debt. Neither party supports life. It is time for change! Vote third party. IN PART 1.... The Republican/Democrat duopoly has, for far too long, ignored the most important issues facing our nation. However, alternate candidates Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader agree with Ron Paul on four key principles central to the health of our nation. These principles should be key in the considerations of every voter this November and in every election. We Agree Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations. Privacy: We must protect the privacy and civil liberties of all persons under US jurisdiction. We must repeal or radically change the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, eliminations of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the people for the benefit of the government. We must reject the unitary presidency, the illegal use of signing statements and excessive use of executive orders. The National Debt: We believe that there should be no increase in the national debt. The burden of debt placed on the next generation is unjust and already threatening our economy and the value of our dollar. We must pay our bills as we go along and not unfairly place this burden on a future generation. The Federal Reserve: We seek a thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationships with the banking, corporate, and other financial institutions. The arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests must be ended. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies. Corporations should be aggressively prosecuted for their crimes and frauds. (Via the Campaign for Liberty) |
 | SoCooL - Sonoma-Marin Fair World's Ugliest Dog Contest 2008 http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/uglydogcontest.shtml http://www.socool.com A New Champion Crowned !! We REGRET To Report Gus Passed November 10, 2008 http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/11/worlds-ugliest.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369829,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=1644029&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749 Today Show Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbxom7s2ys Press Democrat / Argus Courier Video http://www.petaluma360.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=MEDIA360&bcpid=824731266&bclid=824006674&bctid=1612773767 It's Went Viral !!! The Original Video Posted At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YTy2KeAzI Had 26,253 views as of Sunday Morning 6/22 10:28AM 46,900 views as of Sunday Night 6/22 10:44PM 70,176 views 6/23 5:35PM As Many As 2500 Views An Hour As Many As 29 Daily Awards Today As High As #2 In Traffic "Today - YouTube Travel And Events" Number #1 In France For A Couple Of Days 6/23 6:02PM This just in. Gus has appeared in many a news story across the nation (including the next day on The Today Show) and across the world. In addition, it's official, Gus was just named a "Patriot" on "The O'Reilly Factor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNT_6GI1bbw 6/25 7:45PM 82,722 Views Getting About 4 Views A Minute For The Last Two Days 7/12 12:01PM 93,515 etc. We Are So Excited !!! And We THANK YOU !!! P.S. For more about the positive meaning of The World's Ugliest Dog Contest Visit Elwood's Website "Elwood's life started out a little uncertain but has certainly turned into a FABULOUS LIFE! " Check Out Elwood's Book !!! You may even be able to participate ô¿~ http://loveelwood.com/ EXTREME THANKS TO Brent Farris Beth Ostrosky http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org http://www.socooltv.com |
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