CBS, NBC and ABC have all refused to run adverts for the DVD of Farenheit 9/11 during news show advertising breaks, citing ‘the closeness of the election’ as their reason.
Conversely 62 Sinclair owned TV stations, a CBS affiliate and a Fox affiliate have no compunctions about inserting heavily biased ‘commentaries’ into news program The Point.
Since [...]
An obsessive compulsive coke head in a sweaty T-shirt, new scientific studies reveal.
According to The Age, Bush may not be able to depend on the Hispanic vote in Florida:
…the new immigrants and children of the exiles, are changing the voting patterns of the nearly one million strong community.
“Cuba is still an issue but it is less important to them,” Mr Hernandez said. “Their sympathies are more with [...]
What does John Ashcroft have in common with Matthew Hopkins, the original Witch-finder General? The similarities are actually quite spooky. Here is a list which includes some quotes from this bio of Hopkins:
Hopkins: Witch Finder General
Ashcroft: Attorney General
Hopkins: Enabled by the Witchcraft Acts of [...]
From the Washington PostA victory for civil liberties, at least until the Witchfinder General gets the appeal in.
A federal judge in New York ruled yesterday that a key component of the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional because it allows the FBI to demand information from Internet service providers [...]
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Results so far confirm recent polls - the world would vote overwhelmingly for Kerry, even the countries that comprise the axis of stupid white men:
USA: 70% for KerryUK: 90% for KerryAustralia: 88% Kerry
Overall, 86% of the world would vote for Kerry.
From The Union Leader via The American Street who got it from Atrios
Extract:
As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration’s decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my [...]
O.K. For the past year. I’ve been told to go to www.fvap.gov for information on my absentee ballot. I could never get the site to come up. Today I find out why. I was right. Is there nothing these sick creatures won’t do? JonP.S. I can get on today…..From: Mother JonesSeptember 23, 2004(Dis)Counting Overseas VotesFull [...]
A form of the deadly poison arsenic that is used as a weedkiller could be used as an alternative to chemotherapy for cancer patients, according to research published today.
Arsenic trioxide is already used on patients who suffer a relapse after initial treatment for a rare type of leukaemia.
But Iranian scientists said that the compound [...]
Rupert JonesWednesday September 29, 2004The Guardian
Hundreds of workers who have lost some or all of their company pensions will stage a demo outside the Labour conference in Brighton today to draw attention to their plight. They plan a march and a “Full Monty” striptease [...]
From the LA Times, an extract:By Yusuf Islam
Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was deported to Britain last week after being refused entry into the United States.
….The most upsetting thing was being separated from my daughter for 33 hours — not knowing how she was or when and where we might be [...]
