:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 ::

More from 55KRC - THE Talk Station

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? THE NATION'S LARGEST POLICE UNION, THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, HAS ENDORSED PRESIDENT BUSH? DID IT MAKE THE NEWS? WAS THEIR A HEADLINE? WERE ANY OF THE "TALKING HEADS" GUSHING? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE F.O.P.'S HISTORY THAT IT MADE A UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT! THEIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JIM PASCO SAID, "NOT ONLY ARE WE STRONGLY SUPPORTING BUSH, WE'RE MAD AT KERRY. OUR MEMBERS FEEL HE TREATED THEM WITHOUT RESPECT....318,000 COPS." WHY ARE THEY MAD? WHY ARE THEY ENDORSING BUSH OVER KERRY? THE F.O.P. SENT EACH CANDIDATE A QUESTIONAIRE TO FIND OUT HOW THEY FELT ON KEY ISSUES. I MEAN, IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO FIND OUT HOW THE PERSON YOU WOULD VOTE FOR, STANDS, WOULDN'T IT? WELL, THE OLD "FLIP-FLOPPER" JOHN KERRY WOULDN'T BE CAUGHT FLIPPING AND FLOPPING THIS TIME....HE TOTALLY IGNORED THE QUESTIONAIRE FROM THE F.O.P. BUSH DID NOT. THEREFORE THE INTERNATIONAL F.O.P. ENDORSED PRESIDENT BUSH. MR. PASCO SAID "KERRY HAS GALVANIZED OUR BASE AGAINST HIM....IT'S JUST STUPID!" THE REASON I OPENED THIS EDITORIAL WITH THE QUESTION..(HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?)..IS THAT THE NEWS MEDIA INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY IGNORED THIS IMPORTANT ENDORSEMENT BY OUR NATION'S LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY. WHEN THE INTERNATIONAL FIREFIGHTERS UNION ENDORSED KERRY THE NEWS MEDIA COULD HARDLY HOLD BACK THEIR EXCITEMENT IN MAKING THE ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT, REMEMBER, THERE IS NO BIAS IN THE NEWS REPORTING IN THE U.S.A. IS THERE?

JERRY THOMAS

:: Mark 2:10 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I just got home from work - and would have been home sooner -, but I had to stop on the side of the road at 5:00 P.M. until I could stop laughing.

Our local CBS radio afilliate announced at the top of the hour that "Due to the recent controversy involving CBS news, we will not be airing the CBS News with Dan Rather."
In it's place, they ran a musical montage featuring Three Dog Night's "Liar" and similarly themed songs.

The Dan is soooooo toast on this.

:: Mark 5:47 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Washington, DC—RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke made the

following statement today:

"Bill Burkett, Democrat activist and Kerry campaign supporter, passes information to the DNC; Kerry campaign surrogate Max Cleland discusses "valuable" information with Bill Burkett; Bill Burkett talks to "senior" Kerry campaign officials; an apparently unsuspecting news organization uses faked forged memos and an interview with Ben Barnes at the same time the Democratic National Committee launched Operation Fortunate Son; and Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill was among the first to call Ben Barnes and congratulate him after his interview. The trail of connections is becoming increasingly clear."

Just what is it that you are trying to say, Director Dyke? Hmmmm?

:: Mark 2:22 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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The Richmond TimesDispatch reports on what it call's The Grand Deception:

Kerry arrived in Vietnam on November 17, 1968, with a strong anti-war bias and a self-serving determination to build a foundation for a future political career. Even a most casual review of his biography, Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley, will reveal that Kerry entered the Naval Reserve as a "vain intellectual" with contempt for military authority.

In hindsight, his obvious objective was to emulate his idol, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, serve as short a time as possible, and escape Vietnam unscathed but with sufficient credentials and decorations to portray himself in heroic terms. To achieve his goal, Kerry stooped to scamming an after-combat reporting system that was based on trust, promoting himself for a handful of medals regardless of their dubious merits, so he could "bug out" of the war zone early.

His propensity for gross exaggeration and lying was legend to those who knew him, even early on at Cam Rahn Bay, his first duty station in Vietnam. In Tour of Duty, Kerry recounts the story of the seas being so rough during the monsoon season that sailors came in "pissing red and that several people have broken bones" - a ridiculous story that was totally unsubstantiated.

Ouch.

:: Mark 8:28 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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One more remarkable can-DUH-date for public office.

A City Council candidate who once brought a hatchet to a Planning Commission meeting got the attention of Secret Service agents because he distributed fliers advocating the assassination of President Bush.

:: Mark 2:33 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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For shame! There is no valid excuse for this.

More here.

:: Mark 8:24 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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This one speaks for itself.
Rather: "Prove I'm Not Queen of the Space Unicorns"

NEW YORK -- For the fourth time in as many days, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather interrupted his telecast tonight to reiterate his claim that he has been crowned Queen of the Space Unicorns.

:: Mark 8:21 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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I guess that this candidate is no more or less nuts than many others.

Bilyeu claims the federal government implanted a device in her head in the 1970s during an operation at a military base in Arizona. She claims the government has sent her messages -- mostly "put downs'' -- through the alleged device for years to annoy her.

:: Mark 12:12 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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You go read this and decide for yourself on the issue of John F. Kerry's silver star.

:: Mark 1:33 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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This one is a "must read" for all of us.OpinionJournal - Written on Water

Neither the commission, the president, nor the Democratic nominee has a clear vision of how to fight and defend in this war. Partly this is because so many Americans do not yet feel, as some day they may, the gravity of what we are facing.

:: Mark 11:24 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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I am an 'Idiot'

:: Mark 5:30 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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This is what we are fighting against.

"Those children who remained in the school, in general, did not suffer. The ones who suffered were the children in the group which ran from the school and on whom the fighters opened fire," the official was quoted as saying.

Fearless, brave, heroic, "freedom fighters" shooting school kids in the back as they run.
When will the world in general - and the press specifically - end the pitiful charade and call these "militants" and "insurgents" what they are - terrorists.

:: Mark 12:49 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Dick Cheney gets into the act.

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them how do you think I got the job?

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On Iraq, Senator Kerry has disagreed with many of his fellow Democrats. But Senator Kerry's liveliest disagreement is with himself. His back-and-forth reflects a habit of indecision, and sends a message of confusion. And it is all part of a pattern. He has, in the last several years, been for the No Child Left Behind Act and against it. He has spoken in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement and against it. He is for the Patriot Act and against it. Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual, America sees two John Kerrys.

:: Mark 8:40 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Zell Miller has it right.

Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive America. Fainthearted, self-indulgence will put at risk all we care about in this world.

:: Mark 8:37 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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