Category Archives: American Politics

Who is George Galloway?

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Art Stone

For a few months, I’ve put answers in the “polls” that are preposterous – they are intended to identify people who are deliberately answering the polls with the goal of creating useless results or just selecting every answer without reading … Continue reading →

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A time of great peril

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Art Stone

So I tune to Michael Savage for a few minutes, and he’s talking about the same topic I’ve been using the last week to alienate everyone who reads this blog… He in the same sentence asserts that “The Country was … Continue reading →

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JournOlism 101

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Art Stone

The Washington Post has a “news” article today on its politics pages that is extraordinary. Story In the first phrase, they throw away any pretense of objectivity: The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is … Continue reading →

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Fidel Castro agrees with Alex Jones

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Art Stone

or vice versa… AP/Yahoo News story The secret is out.   It can’t be denied any more.   The Bilderbergers are the secret group that does actually run the world. Mr Castro also believes that 9/11 was an inside job and that … Continue reading →

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Welcome your new FRB overlords

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Art Stone

The Federal Reserve bank is not part of the US government, but thanks to the “Restoring Financial Stability Act of 2010”, the Federal Reserve now has jurisdiction over “gift cards”, even if they aren’t issued by a bank and the … Continue reading →

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Tom DeLay – innocent

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Art Stone

NY Times AP One of the really stupid things the Republicans did when they had control of Congress was to agree than in the event a leader was indicted for a crime, that leader would have to give up any leadership role … Continue reading →

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Giving the Boot the Boot

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Art Stone

NY Times story So London has decided to dismantle the practice in Great Britain that allows private companies to tow away cars that are illegally parked…. So what is the NY Times angle for why this is a newsworthy story? … Continue reading →

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Blago guilty on 1 count

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Art Stone

The only count that the jury could agree on was one count of lying to federal investigators.    The rest of the charges were a hung jury.  Obama’s justice department will immediately appeal. No word on whether Jesse Jackson Jr will … Continue reading →

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Radio One down for the count

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Art Stone

Radio One is the biggest radio station owner that completely targets its programming at African Americans. Company Profile on SRGuide The company has an interesting history – it engaged in some of the more aggressive practices of the late 1990s … Continue reading →

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Divine Right of Kings

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Art Stone

Glenn Beck’s speed reading of history apparently hasn’t yet found Jacques-Benigne Bossuet.   He advanced the theory of the “Divine Right of Kings”.  It’s the theory that some Kings (King Louis XIV specifically) were chosen by God, therefore their Divine authority was … Continue reading →

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No Jesus in our mall!

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Art Stone

Here is an interesting news story NewsMax account Westfield, one of the country’s largest mall operators made a rule that “You may not approach a person you don’t know to chat, unless it is about the mall or its tenants”.   … Continue reading →

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Israeli is not a synomym for Jewish

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Art Stone

The AP has now gotten around to realizing that the man accused for a string of stabbings in Flint Michigan and Virginia is a Palestinian Arab AP news coverage The story says he is from a Christian Arab village, which … Continue reading →

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Everything you think you know is wrong

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Art Stone

I heard Dr Dean Edell mention this on his little blurbs some stations run.   Those of you who know my medical situation and opinions will especially get the significance of this. Swedish study concludes consuming milk fat REDUCES the risk … Continue reading →

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Sugar with your Tea Party?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Art Stone

NY Times story about Florida Everglades Any time I go to the NY Times, I try to figure out their motivation for writing a story, especially one that has nothing to do with New York. Florida Governor and U.S. Senate … Continue reading →

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The Pig consumed by China

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Art Stone

Call it a sign of the times or the future. KPIG (The Pig) was the creation of the son of a California billionaire who made his fortune in Cable TV.   His son wanted to “be in radio” so he could … Continue reading →

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