apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic The burqa ia nothing but a big umbrella....
SondraK, Lympian Slayer In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.
A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.
Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.
Light – who e-mailed an identical missive to this reporter on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown – would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity, although she did say she wasn’t a former co-worker of this reporter’s who had a similar name.“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”
We are headed down to Washington on Monday where Diane will interview President Obama. We have had a long standing request to talk to the President before his State of the Union speech Wednesday night and it comes after arguably the most difficult week for his administration.
There is a lot of ground to cover—that controversial crack-down on the big banks Obama proposed yesterday, the current level of unemployment, and the feasibility of healthcare reform. I also expect Diane will ask him about the state of our mission to fight terrorism overseas.
The interview will air on Monday’s “World News” which Diane will anchor from Washington. There will be more on “Nightline,” Tuesday’s “Good Morning America,” ABCNews.com and ABC News Radio.Please let us know what questions you want us to ask via Twitter and Facebook....
An international human rights organization has criticized a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about election spending in America.
The criticism comes from a senior official of the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe....
On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. But even after receiving criticism for giving little coverage to the devastating earthquake in Haiti on its top-rated programs, Fox News did not preempt its programming and air the benefit concert…
noteable...I had to dig to find a reference to this ...
Corporate America offers help to Haiti
News Corporation, the parent company of FOX 35 has also announced that it will pledge $250,000 to the Haiti relief effort to be divided between the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
In addition, News Corporation will match—dollar for dollar—contributions made by United States-based employees, up to $250,000 for the next four weeks to the following organizations: American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Real Medicine, Salvation Army, UNICEF, Save the Children and Yele Haiti.
“It’s my hope you will once again join me in supporting an effort to bring aid to those who so desperately need our help,” wrote News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in a memo sent to employees on Thursday.
“Why aren’t we laughing at terrorists? Because we didn’t know how to, until now.”
one o’ *them*—not them...
A Memphis man accused of shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas last June has written the judge
calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and calls the shooting “a Jihadi Attack” in retribution for the killing of Muslims by American troops. .... Muhammad, 24, a Muslim convert from Memphis, spent about 16 months in Yemen starting in the fall of 2007 ... married a woman from south Yemen ... imprisoned for several months ... overstayed his visa ... holding a fraudulent Somali passport ... Yemen deported Muhammad January 2009 ... used a semiautomatic rifle to gun down two soldiers standing outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock
Guess he’s one ‘ them “homegrown ex-treemist terrorists” like, yanno, a “tea-bagger” or sumpthin’—not one o’ them ”overseas people”…
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 01/22 at 07:37 PM •
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Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, the favorites for ice-dancing gold in Vancouver, wowed the crowds with their routine at the European Championships. They sit in the lead after their original dance, a tribute to Australian Aborigines.
Except, Aboriginal leaders don’t see it as a tribute. They don’t really see how it has anything to do with their culture at all…
MikeG
In Elyria, Ohio, today, the president’s motorcade made an unscheduled campaign-styled stop…
When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother’s Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, “Did someone blink?” No one had. “I thought the camera was broken!” Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked “bug-eyed,” the messages stopped.
life is wild and wooly in Teh Desert...
It stormed today. Well, thunder/ligntening, followed by a deluge, followed by more wind and a tornado down the road. [no, srsly—tornado. tore off quite a few power poles]
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 01/21 at 10:33 PM •
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