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Mike..I noticed that too.
and bought some more @1.90. Hopefully this will get into the $2s soon.
Nice pop on this news...
Bankruptcy Court OKs Last Of $82M Just For Feet Settlements
Friday 03/30/2007 3:55 PM ET - Dow Jones News
By Peg Brickley Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
A Pittsburgh bankruptcy judge signed off on the last $1.5 million settlement in a series of deals that raised $82 million from former executives and advisors sued over the collapse of shoe retailer Just for Feet Inc.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Judith Fitzgerald on Thursday approved the $1.5 million pact with former Just for Feet director Randall Haines, the last of 16 defendants to agree to pay to quiet charges of wrongdoing.
Court papers identify Haines as president of Compass Bank-Birmingham, one of the primary lenders to Just for Feet, which ran into trouble after piling up $400 million in debt after a late-1990's acquisition spree.
Just for Feet filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware in November 1999, and a few months later sold its 79 superstores and 23 specialty stores to Footstar Inc. (FTAR) for $69.7 million.
Charles Goldstein, the Chapter 7 trustee charged with finding money to pay creditors of the failed shoe seller, sued Haines, as well as officers and other directors of Just for Feet, and the company's former auditors, Deloitte & Touche LLP.
In a previous deal, Deloitte & Touche agreed to pay $24 million to settle allegations it failed to audit financial statements properly.
About $56 million in settlements came from Just for Feet's leaders, including directors accused of waiting too long to file for Chapter 11 protection.
Goldstein sued the Birmingham, Ala.-based company's leaders in an Alabama court.
-By Peg Brickley, Dow Jones Newswires; 302-521-2266; peg.brickley@dowjones.com
> Dow Jones Newswires
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March 29, 2007
7:26AMPinnacle Digest: Footstar Inc: Fiscal Update
CPHI gonna end up on the minus side today?
after the big run up.
bought some at 1.90
Sputnik
You guys sure are involved with alot of TS pumped companies with no revenues:)
from the RPTN board
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Posted by: Deutsch
In reply to: gktignol who wrote msg# 53 Date:3/8/2007 1:26:13 PM
Post #of 105
GK,
Is RPTN the stock/company that TS is talking about in his most recent advertisement?
Deutsch
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Sputty
do you have a link for that?..thx
Hello.......................
How is everyone on the "I hate Bush/America" forum?
Sputnik
Thanks for ITKG....up 200% in last few days.
who lit the fireworks?
And thanks forkeeping the degenerate dogs in line...they deserve it.
Lenny
<<<Ten minutes is hardly "all day", but then I wouldn't expect you to be able to figure that out. That requires math. Ooops>>>
And I wouldnt expect you to figure out that once again I pulled your strings ...and you danced.
Oh My..................................
What kind of losers spend all day Christmas childishly bickering?
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
Date: December 14, 2005
Contact: Meg Sullivan ( msullivan@support.ucla.edu )
Phone: 310-825-1046
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the(not so) surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
Here's liberal war critic Michael Klare of Pacific News Services writing on 30 January 2003, about 6 weeks before the war in Iraq began.
Quote:
The ouster of Saddam Hussein, the administration claims, will allow the Iraqi people to establish a truly democratic government and serve as a beacon and inspiration for the spread of democracy throughout the Islamic world. But there is little reason to believe that the administration is motivated by a desire to spread democracy in its rush to war with Iraq.
On 8 October 2002, liberal war critic Anthony Arnove wrote about the situation with Iraq, a full 5 months before the war in Iraq.
Quote:
And Bush continued to lie about U.S. motivations for the war. In his speech, Bush claimed that he is motivated by a desire to see democracy in Iraq and by the "non-negotiable demands of human dignity."
"America is a friend to the people of Iraq," he explained.
But the people of Iraq have good reason to feel otherwise.
So essentially the critics bashed Bush for the idea that democracy could take root in Iraq before the war. Now today where there are sure signs of progress made and that vision doesn't seem such a stretch, now they say it wasn't part of his thinking or part of the strategy. Laughable.
Raising money to combat AIDS is a bad thing now???
Liberating 50 million is a bad thing??
Man you guys waste alot of bandwidth.
All I want for christmas is a tinfoil hat.
A tinfoil hat...a tinfoil hat.
Rogue it wont matter much when
the Machines take over the world , and humans become slaves.:)
I want to watch the video Rougue.
Should I wear wear a pot, vegetable strainer ,or my tinfoil hat?....:)
wouldnt the goverment be able to control your mind with the vegetable strainer.. they have holes..not safe forget that
better stick with the tinfoil hat
Sputnik
do you think that plastistuff could replace aluminum.
this seems like a good use for the moldable plastic
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/
There is a real need for this stuff..imo
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/
Major News just announced
In a shocking discovery, the Humorix Vast Spy Network(tm) has learned that the US government has been operating a secret radar system for the last decade capable of tracking individual crackpots wearing tinfoil hats.
"Tinfoil hats produce a very distinct signature when probed by Doppler weather radar," said the researcher who developed the system. "By tracking these returns over time, we can compile an extensive geospatial database of the movements and activities of conspiracy theorists across the country."
The developer of the system contacted the Vast Spy Network anonymously by sending encrypted RFC 1149 packets. He decided to reveal the secret after hearing about this year's annual Connecticut Conspiracy Convention (ConnConCon), attended by several thousand crackpots, many sporting metallic headwear.
"My guilty conscience prompted me to do something to help those poor bastards, who stubbornly believe that a lousy piece of foil can protect them from the government," he said. "But the whole idea behind tinfoil hats was actually planted by the government to make it easier to track these people."
The CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ, TSA, and various other three-letter government "security" agencies all have a vested interest in controlling the burgeoning popularity of conspiracy theories.
"Right now it's fashionable to be a crackpot," said Mennon Black, the chief of Humorix's Vast Conspiracy Theory Research Division(tm). "This could pose a severe threat to you-know-who, especially if the public learns about the government's involvement with the saucer people and reverse vampires. But with the tinfoil tracking system, any conspiracy theorist who tries to divulge the truth will suddenly have a terrible accident involving 300 pounds of sulphuric acid."
More importantly, however, the tinfoil data can be correlated with other anti-privacy databases to produce an accurate computer simulation showing how various conspiracy theories spread. "Does anybody really believe that the government is funding multi-million dollar supercomputers to similate the weather? Oh, please," explained one leading Vast Spy Network crackpot who protects himself from mind-control rays by living 24/7 in a Faraday cage. "The real mission is to study meme propogation, so that the government can subvert the process and spread bogus conspiracy theories that will lead people away from the sinister truth."
Not everybody is buying the tinfoil conspiracy, however. The organizer of the Connecticut Conspiracy Convention said, "This whole thing was obviously planted by a government agent to fool people into thinking that tinfoil hats are bad. Obviously, the government wants people to stop wearing these devices, which will allow mind-control rays to work more effectively. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you with a meta-meta-conspiracy."
THIS IS FOR HUMOR ONLY
Whoooa talk about nutjobs.
Native American Indians Spoke Arabic?
« on: Today at 12:32pm »
Lebanese Cleric Abd Al-Karim Fadhlallah: When Columbus Reached America, He Encountered Arabic-Speaking Natives
Following are excerpts from an interview with Lebanese cleric Abd Al-Karim Fadhlallah, aired on Al-Manar TV on November 20, 2005.
Fadhlallah: The Arabic language, 200 years ago, was a universal language. It's interesting to note that when Christopher Columbus went to America, in what language did he speak with the Indians? It is said that the language they spoke with the Indians – and I have indisputable documentation of this at home... The intellectuals among the Indians spoke Arabic. He took two Arabs with him, to serve as interpreters between the Spaniards and the Indians. He took two of them as translators. So you can imagine the historic and cultural value of Arabic. It's undoubtedly very important.
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=933
A WHOLE 200 years ago arabic was a universal language. Seriously? Even the pro-terrorist/anti Americans that believe anything they read cant believe this crap.
OTC you might like this.
Doc's diagnosis is bad for my health
By RACHEL MARSDEN
Following in the footsteps of intellectual giants like Barbra Streisand and Sean Penn -- who have apparently convinced themselves that standing in front of a camera and reading lines that someone else wrote for you qualifies you to give advice on foreign policy -- world-renowned holistic health guru, Dr. Deepak Chopra, has somehow managed to parlay his ability to cure sore throats into making my blood pressure spike to gasket-blowing levels.
In his Huffington Post column (www.huffingtonpost.com) this week, Chopra advises us to bend over and take our medicine, saying that "becoming used to terror helps (us) defeat it." I wonder if the doctor gives the same advice to cancer patients: Ignore it and it'll go away?
He says President Bush is "wrong ... to keep promoting the initial fear and rage after 9/11," as though anger towards terrorists is attributable to brilliant PR flacking by the man liberals call a "moron," rather than the fact that terrorists are still making threats and blowing people up.
Chopra goes on to say "the need is for patience, professional diplomacy, negotiations, international police work, exchange of intelligence, and so on." That's what France was doing until recently with Muslim rioters -- raising the spectre of France possibly having to surrender to itself. Only since Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced that they were going to start deporting troublemakers have things started winding down.
By extension of Chopra's logic, we all should have just "become used to" what Nazi Germany had in store for us. Former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried appeasement with Hitler, and we know what a spectacular failure that was.
Similarly, George H.W. Bush should have taken out Saddam Hussein during Operation Desert Storm, while America and Great Britain could have saved us the trouble of the Cold War by sticking it to Stalin early on.
Chopra speaks of the terror war like it's a ho-hum M*A*S*H rerun, saying that "just as the hundredth plane hijacking made little impression, another suicide bombing creates smaller headlines." He references the "diluted anger" in the U.S. after the recent Islamic terrorist bombings in Jordan, as though he can't grasp why a bombing thousands of miles away on a different continent doesn't incite the same fear and anger as passenger planes being used to blow up towers in New York City.
Look, when you're dealing with war, less exciting TV coverage and smaller headlines are good things. It means we're winning! Boredom doesn't stem from Chopra's prescribed appeasement -- quite the opposite. The reason we haven't been getting exciting, 9/11-style programming on every channel is because Bush is succeeding in bringing the war to the terrorists. If you want more intense TV, then head over to France -- a country in sync with Chopra's liberal way of thinking. I hear "Survivor: Paristine" is a big hit there right now.
Applying Chopra's loony liberal logic to our political problems here at home is like seeing a perfectly proportionate reflection in a funhouse mirror: Maybe defeating crime in Toronto means giving the criminals a break. Time to elect a sensitive, lefty city council that will negotiate with pistol-packing hooligans and feel their pain.
And if Canadians want to clean up government, we should put up with the federal Liberals, despite AdScam, until we just get numb to being screwed over. Only when they succeed in being re-elected again and again, after repeatedly attempting to bribe us with our own money in yet another pre-election budget, will we have finally rid ourselves of the stench.
The fact Canada's political reality happens to perfectly reflect Chopra's flaky logic should be a troubling wake-up call.
Ha...Ha...Ha.
Heard that one at least 100 times, but the original joke was about Clinton and they are using his clock in jet engines
Love at first write...an old artical
A Bad Week for Terrorists, Saddam, Liberals and G.I. Joe
Rachel Marsden
Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime were symbolically toppled with this week’s free vote in Iraq. Meanwhile, back in America, Democratic Party sweetheart, Senator Hillary Clinton, fell down and went boom at an event in Buffalo, New York. No doubt, it’s been a pretty tough week for terrorists, Saddam, and their liberal cheerleaders.
The terrorists pulled off an election-day homicide bombing by strapping a bomb to the back of some guy with Downs Syndrome. I think this is the terrorists’ way of giving a shout-out to all the liberal infidels in America, by demonstrating that they’re committed to non-discriminatory recruiting practices. Enrolment must be down. I guess blowing yourself up isn’t the career of choice anymore, particularly now that there are better things to look forward to over there--like the possibility of a McDonalds on every corner. People who aspire to wear those Grimace, Ronald McDonald or Mayor McCheese outfits don’t tend to go blowing themselves to smithereens.
Post-election, terrorists in Iraq put up a picture on one of their websites of what they claimed to be a US soldier being held hostage. As it turns out, it was a dummied-up photo of a military doll with a fake machine gun to its head. Not quite “Farenheit 9/11” caliber propaganda, but definitely an “A+” for effort. The accompanying statement announced that they were holding others hostage, too. I guess they mean G.I. Joe, Barbie, all the Smurfs, and Bob the Builder. If the terrorists capture Tin Tin, then maybe the French will actually start fighting?
Things are obviously looking a little grim at the moment for the terrorist movement in Iraq. Not bad spin, though. I hear there are a few new vacancies at CBS. These guys might want to apply.
Sixty percent of Iraqis turned out to vote, even as newscasts reported that terrorists were threatening to blow up polling stations. Remember Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (a.k.a. “Comical Ali” or “Baghdad Bob”)--the Iraq Information Minister who insisted that “there are no infidels in Iraq”--all while American soldiers were basically standing behind him waving to mom and dad? Well, Saddam doesn’t need Bob anymore, now that he has some of these folks on the left in America looking out for him and fighting against a democratic Iraq.
I’m talking about the same people for whom none of the following reasons were apparently good enough to go to war: murder, oppression, Saddam’s gaming of the Oil-for-Food program so he could get economic sanctions lifted and restart his WMD programs in full-force, The Duelfer Report stating that Saddam retained the capability of making WMDs, weapons inspector David Kay telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Iraq posed an imminent threat”, Saddam paying $25,000 to families of suicide bombers--and the list goes on.
They’ve been attacking Bush’s efforts in Iraq and defending Saddam Hussein from the get-go. These are the same people who you probably see on airplanes screaming like banshees as soon as they feel a little turbulence. They quickly assume the “kiss your butt goodbye” position, convinced that the whole tin can will soon be plunging out of the sky.
Every bump in the road to a free, democratic and independent Iraq is a “quagmire”, and a reason to look for an exit ramp. Instead of seeing success in a peaceful election that represents a move from dictatorship to primitive democracy in less than two years, it’s just another opportunity for them to will President Bush to fail. Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun asks, “Will today's elections...mark the dawn of genuine Mideast democracy, as U.S. President George W. Bush claims, or be another step deeper into the bloody quagmire in Mesopotamia?” He goes on to say that “Iraq, like Humpty Dumpty, is broken and may never be put together.”
It’s tough to get through a column like this without feeling the urge to down a Costco-sized vat of Prozac. Leftist journalists are constantly comparing Iraq to Vietnam (a war that saw 58,000 US military deaths, compared with 1,400 in Iraq), as though they’re endlessly wanting for it to be so. Meanwhile, the Mayor of Baghdad--thrilled with the elections in his country--is calling for a statue of Bush to be built to commemorate his efforts.
The ballots in Iraq hadn’t even been counted yet when Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy called for the immediate withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Iraq, saying in a speech that the US military “has become part of the problem, not part of the solution.”
History provides us with examples of post-war disasters that occurred when short-sighted ignoramuses like Ted Kennedy got their way. When Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford caved to public pressure and yanked U.S. troops out of Vietnam and the Democrats who ran the Congress refused to follow through on the promised military aid, the North steamrollered over the South and slaughtered the supporters of the South Vietnamese government. Meanwhile, the communist Khmer Rouge moved into Cambodia and committed mass genocide.
When Britain pulled troops out of India too soon in 1948, genocide between Hindus and Muslims ensued.
People seem to forget that it hasn’t even been two years since Saddam’s dictatorship was overthrown. There may be a long way to go before democracy looks as great in Iraq as it does in the USA. But as far as liberals are concerned--thanks to Bush, Diebold voting machines, and various other crackpot conspiracies--democracy doesn’t really exist in America either.
The only glass that Ted Kennedy seems to enjoy seeing ‘half full’ is the one that’s holding his scotch.
This guy dont know ZIp about money
Posted by TheCooler
I guess you didn't bother to read the entire article....
Try picking up the phone.....calling the company....and achieving 12 percent average annually......that's not going to happen....
The article clearly states that mutual fund managers who get 2-3 percent a year are considered financial geniuses*(he believes it).....these are the guys who get paid many millions of dollars a year to be the best at what they do......*12 percent is virtually impossible without some kind of priviledged information.....
Seasoned ecomomists will tell you that corporate insiders normally outperform the market by 6-7% annually......Insider trading is not a secret at all....it's a commonly known fact.....just because it happens all the time.....doesn't make it legal.....securities fraud is rarely prosecuted.....the fact that senators consistently outperform even the corporate insiders is considered impossible to do......legally....
How much proof do you need?....it seems to me that senators are the ultimate insiders....
You tell me that any experienced broker can get me 30% per year average on my money?.....point me in the direction of this broker.....please....I'll hire him now.....no questions asked....
You also tell me that ImClone......the company involved in the Martha Stewart case.....is not available to the public.....You're wrong there....It's traded on Nasdaq.....I can buy it tomorrow if I want for about 30 bucks a share.....Martha could not have owned it in the first place if it wasn't available to the public....
The founder of that company.....Sam Waksal....was sent to prison for over seven years on charges of bank fraud....securities fraud.....perjury....and conspiracy to obstruct justice....
The reason that they're going after Bill Frist is because he was too obvious in his crime......just like Martha.....High profile people like this....who have enemies that are looking to take them down.....need to be more careful than most people when breaking federal laws....
I hate to disagree with your assumptions....because I know that at the ripe old age of 23....you must have a wealth of investing knowledge under your belt.....
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My Reply
Once again insider selling is not a crime..get it
Insiders can buy and sell their stock as they please as long as the papers are filed ahead of time.
Being a senator doesnt make you an insider, Senators can be everyday investors like anyone else.
Monkeys throwing darts at a stock sheet on a wall could get 2-3 percent. Why would anyone invest in stocks for 2-3% when thet could get that from a bank with NO risk of losing their money.
I never told you Imclone was not availible to the public. I told you Martha sold her stock based on info the was not availible to the public, by the time it became availble to the public the stock dropped 30%. Martha was long gone by then..thats illegal insider selling
30% impossible??? thats Laughable.
Also untrue that you cant own stock in a company unless it is trading on a big board market like Nasdaq.... If little Suzy want to incorporate her lemonade stand, she has a right to sell stock in said corporation.
Bill Frist did nothing illegal, matter of fact I checked his transactions which are public info. He sold his stock at $45, the stock is now $48, So he lost money because he sold too soon. Is losing money a crime??
I dont make assumptions I only deal in facts. Yes I do have a wealth of investing experience, I could dwarf you with what I know about investing.
Once again insider selling is not a crime..get it
Insiders can buy and sell their stock as they please as long as the papers are filed.
Monkeys throwing darts at a stock sheet on a wall could get 2-3 percent. Why would anyone invest in stocks for 2-3% when thet could get that from a bank with NO risk of losing their money. I never told you Imclone was not availible to the public. I told you Martha sold her stock based on info the was not availible to the public, by the time it became availble to the public the stock dropped 30%. Martha was long gone by then..thats illegal insider selling
30% impossible??? thats Laughable.
Bill Frist did nothing illegal, matter of fact I checked his transactions which are public info. He sold his stock at $45, the stock is now $48, So he lost money because he sold too soon. Is losing money a crime??
I dont make assumptions I only deal in facts. Yes I do have a wealth of investing experience, I could dwarf you with what I know about investing.
Posted by TheCooler
I guess you didn't bother to read the entire article....
Try picking up the phone.....calling the company....and achieving 12 percent average annually......that's not going to happen....
The article clearly states that mutual fund managers who get 2-3 percent a year are considered financial geniuses.....these are the guys who get paid many millions of dollars a year to be the best at what they do......12 percent is virtually impossible without some kind of priviledged information.....
Seasoned ecomomists will tell you that corporate insiders normally outperform the market by 6-7% annually......Insider trading is not a secret at all....it's a commonly known fact.....just because it happens all the time.....doesn't make it legal.....securities fraud is rarely prosecuted.....the fact that senators consistently outperform even the corporate insiders is considered impossible to do......legally....
How much proof do you need?....it seems to me that senators are the ultimate insiders....
You tell me that any experienced broker can get me 30% per year average on my money?.....point me in the direction of this broker.....please....I'll hire him now.....no questions asked....
You also tell me that ImClone......the company involved in the Martha Stewart case.....is not available to the public.....You're wrong there....It's traded on Nasdaq.....I can buy it tomorrow if I want for about 30 bucks a share.....Martha could not have owned it in the first place if it wasn't available to the public....
The founder of that company.....Sam Waksal....was sent to prison for over seven years on charges of bank fraud....securities fraud.....perjury....and conspiracy to obstruct justice....
The reason that they're going after Bill Frist is because he was too obvious in his crime......just like Martha.....High profile people like this....who have enemies that are looking to take them down.....need to be more careful than most people when breaking federal laws....
I hate to disagree with your assumptions....because I know that at the ripe old age of 23....you must have a wealth of investing knowledge under your belt.....
Nah no need to explain, it get your point.
According to Lentinman.
Facts are facts.
The source is irrelevant.
But those rules only apply if the source is pro liberal.
This is funny too, you will love it.
The writer is Canadian.
By RACHEL MARSDEN
Recent events in American politics suggest liberals are clowns with zero sense of perspective. No wonder Americans don't elect them anymore. Canadians need to wise up and get in on the joke.
Last week, the liberal media fell over itself as a U.S. special prosecutor charged vice-presidential aide "Scooter" Libby with lying, during the investigation of a non-crime, about whether he first heard a CIA operative's name from a reporter or from somewhere else.
Who cares? We've got the president of Iran rapping like Eminem about "wiping Israel off the map," and the liberal priority, as articulated by Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid, is: "When is (President George Bush's chief of staff) Karl Rove going to resign?"
Next: "Does that cloud look like Elvis?"
As Iraqis risked being fragged by terrorists and participated in their second democratic vote, liberals predicted failure of the constitutional referendum. When it succeeded, many of them found God for the first time with cries of "theocracy."
Now they're bracing for "civil war." How about focusing on the political one you're losing at home, instead of doing pom-pom routines with the terrorists?
We don't need liberals. Not only do these perpetual pessimists consume valuable oxygen which, as they keep telling us, will be gone soon enough, but they're like kiddies sitting at the short table, thrashing out gems like "Bushitler!" and "no oil!" while the grownups try to get things done.
On the eve of CIA-leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's charges last week, liberal bloggers celebrated "Fitzmas" -- their own version of Christmas. It's as if things are so bad that they need to invent more reasons to drink.
Conservatives are capable of opposing themselves quite effectively. And that's a reason to vote them in to office, not to keep them out like we do in Canada. Democrats didn't eviscerate Bush's Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers -- Republicans did.
From Watergate to Iran-Contra, liberals got ahead in America by sitting around waiting for conservatives to screw up while getting things done. Just as a dog knows whether it has been kicked by accident or on purpose, so do voters. Except, apparently, if you're a Canadian and still vote Liberal.
We don't need the liberal media anymore, either. CBS President Les Moonves seemed to clue in to that fact recently when he put some tight-end from the sports division in charge of developing a "new vision" for CBS News. Wasn't last season's Rock Star: INXS winner available?
Media liberals are generally so useless that they need to slope the playing field to score a win. Our own CBC does long interviews with conservatives and then hacks them up into five-second clips, surrounded by editorializing like, "This is Rachel. She hates health care."
U.S. liberal radio host and author Al Franken has resorted to staging Jerry-Springer-style fights against fake conservative opponents. In a recent promotional video for his new book, he breaks a stool over the back of some actor hired to play a conservative critic, and then knees him in the bod-rod.
Canadian liberal clowns are no different from American ones. Thanks to them, gays can now get married and you can read more Canadian content in split-run magazines. Big whoop. Meanwhile, violent crime is on the rise in big cities like Toronto.
Of course, if you believe liberal propagandist Michael Moore's movie Bowling for Columbine, Toronto is apparently so safe that no one even locks their doors.
Re FOX
You will never guess who wrote this.
"You see, this is how it works. Facts dictate bias. Bias then becomes SOP.
Like I say, the SOURCE is irrelevant. That is the thing that emotionalites of your ilk just cannot seem to comprehend. FACTS are the only thing that matter. But, when you can't fight the facts, you fight the source. Though rampant in society, that is illogical and won't hold up here."
Found this on another board, it has a basketball twist to it.
Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban Now Jihadist Propaganda Producer
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2005/10/the_war_within.html
Mark Cuban's Film for Terror
Front Page Magazine ^ | October 14, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel
Timing is everything. But for some things, no time is ever the right time.
And that applies to "The War Within," in nationwide release Friday. No time is ever the right time for a movie sympathetic to homicide bombers and terrorists.
Given last week's rumors--hoax or not--about possible bombings of the New York subways and this summer's actual bombings of London subways, "The War Within" is especially loathsome now.
Someone needs to tell Executive Producer and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban that.
World's Most Annoying Sports Fan Now Jihadist Propaganda Producer
The movie, about a Pakistani Muslim homicide bomber who blows up New York's Grand Central Station, is especially frightening because the goal is to get you to like the terrorist, Hassan (played by Ayad Akhtar). Hassan does not have a scary-looking Mohammed Atta-esque visage. He is a laid back, very likeable, devout guy, with regular values that could be those of the religious Christian or Jew next door.
And that's the point. Producers want you to sympathize with Hassan, understand his point of view. At the end of the film, viewers may find themselves actually rooting for this hail-terrorist-well-met to blow up Grand Central.
In media notes provided by the movie's publicists, Director and Co-Writer Joseph Castelo's answers to questions are mortifying. "How are we ever going to understand what's going on right now if we don't see these people [homicide bombers/terrorists] as human beings?" Is he asking or telling us?
His "Director's Statement" is the written definition of chutzpah:
"I understand the reluctance to extend sympathy to those who wish to do us harm. But I am a firm believer in the power of empathy. Whereas a sympathetic portrayal would imply an affinity, either emotional or intellectual, with Hassan, our protagonist, an empathetic depiction implies a more complex and potentially enlightening dynamic: that of coming into an awareness of the experience of another."
Huh?
Empathy. Sympathy. Whatever. It's a distinction without a difference, and this absurd psychobabble to justify rooting for terrorists is flat-out disgusting.
No film should ever have a homicide bomber as its "protagonist." Period.
And then there is the story of the "protagonist" Hassan, and why he chose to become a terrorist. When the movie begins, we see Hassan on the streets of Paris, a secular Muslim speaking on the phone about going to the movies. Then, he is called several obscene names and violently nabbed by American agents. We next see secular, innocent Hassan in a dark Karachi, Pakistan dungeon--questioned, tortured, and mutilated. Throughout the film we are treated to views of his various ugly scars and his flashbacks of the torture.
Yes, predictably, it's the Americans' fault. We turned this nice guy into a terrorist through torture.
Exactly how many of the '93 World Trade Center or 9/11 hijackers fit this description? Was the Blind Cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman kidnapped from Egypt to the tax-funded Alkifa Refugee Center/mosque in Brooklyn, which he used to plot the '93 attack?
Was Mohammed Atta tortured before he commandeered planes into buildings? No, as I recall, he was ignored by a clueless bank employee when he told her he was going to take over Washington and wanted her photo of it. Were Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi tortured by America? Actually, they spent a life of luxury in sunny, balmy San Diego, courtesy of Saudi Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, who paid their rent. How about the hijackers who went to Vegas to gamble and drink, patronized strippers at South Florida's "Pink Pony," and visited prostitutes? Was that American-inflicted torture?
The Lackawanna Six Qaeda cell? Were these mostly-American born jihadists tortured? Some say the tough winters they suffered in Buffalo might qualify. You get my drift.
It's not the drift of the creators of this movie. In promotional materials, Castelo said, "You know I'm not ever going to sit here and just go off on the US government; I'll let people arrive at their own conclusions about what's going on." The conclusion he wants movie-goers to "arrive" at are quite obvious.
Who is the dummy at the New York Transportation Authority or Mayor Bloomberg's office who let this guy shoot the film at Grand Central? How to use bombs hidden in New York cab car batteries and how easy it is to blow up 42nd Street and other important New York sites...yeah, that's what we need more movies about.
"The War Within" goes to great lengths to tell us the "true meaning" of jihad, which they claim is a mental and religious struggle, not the violent one against non-believers that it really is. Ironically, the Imam who delivers this sermon is played by Kamal Marayati, the real-life brother of Salam Al-Marayati, head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. That's significant because not only was a prominent MPAC officer tied to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group, but Laila Al-Marayati -- Salam's wife -- recently had to shut down her KinderUSA charity because it was laundering money to Hamas martyrs' families. That's the real meaning of jihad.
In case there is any doubt, the filmmakers provided movie critics a bibliography for the film. Listed are books by Palestinian terrorism supporting academics Edward W. Said and Raymond William Baker, Seymour Hersch's "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib," and most notable, the work of Sayyid Qutb. Qutb was the father of modern extremist Islam and Osama Bin Laden's spiritual leader.
In a metaphor repeated during the movie, Hassan tells the young son of his friend that Muslims are having their homes seized by others who want the land for oil (or whatever), and they must live in the backyard. Hmmm . . . so, who was it in Saudi Arabia who had their land and oil wells seized and nationalized? Not Muslims: Americans. Nice metaphor; doesn't match reality.
The other terrorist in the film is played by Charles Daniel Sandoval, who also starred in "West Bank Brooklyn," about "how hard it is" for Palestinians to live in Brooklyn among Jews. Interesting. Jews out of Gaza, today. Brooklyn, tomorrow. I think I know whose house was taken and who has to live in the backyard doghouse. It's not the Muslims.
Last week, the movie was screened in Dearborn, Michigan (the heart of Islamic America) and, not surprisingly, well received. Unfortunately, there was no "War Within" that audience to oppose this anti-American, pro-homicide bombing film.
Unfortunately, "The War Within" is but one of a new chic genre of nouveau terrorism cinema not-so-verite. Coming up next: "Paradise Now," the Palestinian version of this same old "empathize"-with-the-terrorists trash. Same plot, different setting.
"The War Within" is executive produced by the Danny Bonaduce of the NBA: Dallas Mavericks' owner, failed reality TV star, and loudmouth billionaire Mark Cuban. His HDNet Films, Magnolia Pictures, and 2929 Entertainment developed, financed, produced, and distributed the movie. Landmark, Cuban's chain of artsy-fartsy theaters, is showing the film nationwide.
On his blog, Cuban urges:
"And because you all know I have to plug and promote. [sic] Our movie, The War Within [sic] came out this week and got off to a good start in NY and [sic] expands Friday to multiple cities . . . GO SEE IT. It's intense."
Yes, intensely sickening.
Thursday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. No word on whether Cuban attended a synagogue to repent for the sin of making this outrageous movie.
E-mail Mark Cuban about his production choices. Post notes against this irresponsible movie on his blog.
Forget the Knicks
scratch them from my prediction and put in Chicago.
Detroit and the Spurs in the finals.
Champion will be Detroit.
Get used to hearing the name Darko Milicic, this is his coming out year. And no not out of the closet. lol.
East
1 Detroit
2 Indiana
3 Miami
4 NJ
5 76ers
6 Cavs
7 Knicks
8 Orlando
West
1 Spurs
2 Rockets
3 Phoenix
4 Mavs
5 Seattle
6 Lakers
7 Denver
8 Kings
OTC too bad about the Stros.
But at least KS had to stare at George and Barbara behind home plate all night long.
"I don't know anyone else on VMC that I don't like except you (well, and Betababe)"
Does this mean we should cancel the wedding plans?
I am crushed......
Oh come now KS
it is well known that you and lentinman are the same person. LOL
Bird Flu Epidemic is a Hoax
A draft of the government's plan to combat a potential super-flu estimates a death toll of up to almost 2 million Americans. The plan is being rewritten to designate who will run the country during a possibly chaotic period that could follow a mutation of a bird flu in Asia.
The draft is based on the last century's three pandemics, and states that in the best-case scenario, about 200,000 people could die.
The government currently has enough of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu to treat 4.3 million people, and $100 million worth of bird flu vaccine is being manufactured. The draft indicates that tens of millions more doses of each would be necessary, far more than can be manufactured quickly.
USA Today October 8, 2005
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Dr. Mercola's Comment:
If you have been viewing the media you must have seen the scare the media and the president are seeking to orchestrate on you and the public. According to a draft of the government's plan to fight a potentially cataclysmic pandemic, this new bird super-flu could kill nearly 2 MILLION Americans.
But I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as I was flying back from a conference in Ft. Lauderdale when I read that in the BEST-case scenario, only 200,000 people might die.
Then they post the frightening picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to heighten the fear. It just amazes me how they can get away with this type of reporting that is so obviously manipulated by the government and drug companies to scare you into taking the flu vaccine.
The popular media continues to reinforce this unbased fear. In the editorial section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Henry Miller, former director of the Office of Biotechnology at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeks to frighten the U.S. public by telling us that the bird flu virus can jump from birds to humans and produce, and is a fatal illness in 50 percent of those infected.
Ah, there's the rub.
A 50 percent fatality rate sounds pretty scary to me. What Dr. Miller and the other experts fail to explain is how these numbers were derived. Did they examine everyone who contracted the bird flu and use those numbers, or did they examine the sickest of the sick who had come down with the bird flu and determine the mortality rate from there?
Of course, it was the latter, and from the 60 people who have died from this in THIRD-world countries we are being told that anywhere from 200,000, AT BEST, to 2 million people at worst will die from the bird flu.
This is shoddy science at best and beyond belief that any reputable scientist could get away with such nonsense.
Daily Show Parody
Fortunately, contemporary comedians can see right through this nonsense. Here are the links to Jon Stewart's scathing and brilliant Daily Show piece on bird flu. But I have to warn you that it may cause you to hurt yourself from laughing so hard, especially the World Health expert comments on the bird flu killing 150 million people and even funnier comment of George Bush on bird-to-people transmission.
Quicktime Link (106 MB) MP3 Link (6.7 MB)
What Happened to Common Sense?
The bird flu epidemic hoax reminds me just how uncommon "common sense" is. Folks, where is the sound basic science here? How do they make the giant leap of faith that 60 deaths will translate to 2 million or even 200,00 deaths in the United States from a virus that does NOT readily spread from birds to humans, or humans to humans?
Most of the people who acquired this infection were bird handlers who were in continuous contact with these sick birds. Does anyone in their right mind envision similar circumstances in the United States?
Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did not strongly support some ulterior purpose.
What might the purpose of these scare tactics be you ask?
Well how about the United States purchasing huge quantities of antiviral drugs and an increase in flu vaccine production, along with purchasing 20 million doses of the highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how much one treatment of Tamiflu costs? Give yourself a slap on the back if you guessed $100.
So those 20 million doses the government has authorized will cost U.S. taxpayers $2 BILLION.
If you haven't yet read the lead story about Donald Rumsfeld in this issue. please do as you will where a significant portion of those funds are being directed to.
Now I think very few of us would mind if this drug actually worked and prevented even a few people from dying. But does it do that? Not really. About all anyone can expect from this drug is that it might make the symptoms a bit less severe. On the downside, (aside from setting you back $100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in her Flu TeleClinic last week that Tamiflu can actually cause the virus to mutate into a more dangerous and potent viral strain.
Recently, U.S. Congress asked Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, to suspend its patent and have others make it because they could not likely keep up with the demand, but of course Roche refused saying Tamiflu is hard to make and it would take another company three years to "get up to speed."
What they were really saying is they could care less about the public. What their primary focus was on was to not share their windfall profits mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Worthless Flu Shots
Of course, let us not forget the flu shots that many will get when they confuse bird flu with the regular flu. Please understand, even if you believe the flu shots work, the flu shot you can now purchase is in no way, shape or form designed to protect you against the bird flu. They are completely different strains. (Bird flu is H5N1 strain).
But rest assured the makers of flu vaccines will not lose this unusal opportunity to rape the American public for even more profits. Recently we learned that those getting the flu shots may see a 25 percent increase in prices at clinics, doctors' offices and medical centers because of increases in the wholesale cost of the vaccines.
History Repeats Itself
Investigative journalist Ida Honorof for decades published a consumer newsletter and broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof received a first prize award from Associated Press for investigative journalism. The Los Angeles Times and other publications credited her with breaking some of the biggest horror stories of our time.
Ida Honorof wrote, "The most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy" ever and added that it was proposed by the President "and his coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress" eager to make the nation's "health" a bipartisan concern.
The above quote was not written about the bird flu epidemic but the 5 million swine-flu vaccine program of 30 years ago. The hastily contrived program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis victims as well as countless deaths for a flu pandemic that never materialized.
The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate is more than 3,000 percent greater than that of 30 years ago! Has your paycheck increased 3,000 percent in the last 30 years?
Practical Options
First step for anyone caught up in this bird flu hype nonsense is to take a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you are a full-time bird handler in a third-world country who has a seriously challenged immune system you probably have a much better chance of wining the lottery than dying from the proposed bird flu epidemic.
Review the simple lifestyle measures I outlined earlier this year that will serve to boost your immune system to not only address any form of the flu but also other infectious illness like the cold. When you have a healthy lifestyle and follow basic steps of the Total Health Program, for the most part you just don't get sick.
This is the routine surprised comment that most patients tell me after they have been on the program. The Total Health Program works for me, most of my patients and can work for you. Just give it a try and let's stop enriching the drug companies for toxic alternatives that don't solve the problem.
For more information about the bird flu you can obtain the Flu TeleClinic I did last week with Dr. Tenpenny.
What You Can Do
Meanwhile, the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005" (S. 1873), recently passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the bill "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." This bill, spurred by bird flu fears, will broadly eliminate corporate liability for vaccines and drugs. This bill will soon go to the full Senate for a vote.
After reading the information below, please write to your own Senator and your own member of Congress in protest of this bill. Pass this alert to your family, friends, and other organizations you are involved with, and go to the NVIC website to take action right now.
The proposed legislation, nicknamed "Bioshield Two," is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives. It will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if they are harmed by a drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of authority within the government for research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks. BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public.
This proposed legislation is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all citizens to use, while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur.
For more information on this, go to www.NVIC.org.
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How Did the Flu-Shot Shortage Become a Surplus?
Flu Vaccine Now Officially Documented as Failure
CDC: Flu Season Has Declined
WTF is thisPoor little ipygenia (aka djstarzki)
Lets talk Facts
You have had at least 5-6 aliases removed from MF for attacks on others.
Kahginet.........profile deleted
djstarzki........profile deleted
notyourbusiness..profile deleted
lilacsandroses...profile deleted
theoldcrone......profile deleted
thats just off the top of my head.
How many of my aliases have been removed.....?
ZERO
You are most likely the most obnoxious, distruptive, confrontational posters who has EVER posted on MF.
My attacks???
remember when you attacked Raven ....that was low.
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by notyourbusiness(aka iphyginia)
Raven, I truly feel sorry for you. You will one day get back what you sow threefold. Sadly, I'm afraid, you will end up in an abusive relationship as you do not see fit to look at reality
Oh, and finally, don't believe Raven's wonderful mother act. I know from talking to some mutual chatters, that she does chat... very often. Or at least she did. And I also know a few other things... So, take it for what it is worth, but just don't always believe everything anyone says on these places. It is way too easy to lie, isn't it Raven and Phan?
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Like I said you get back what you give.
I have NEVER attacked anyone unless first attacked by them.
and 90% of the time I just ignore you're ilk.
poor little thing you..if anyone wants to see facts they can click on that little link on you're messages that says "ALL POSTS" to see how you go from board to board being obnoxious.
You never learn your lesson do you?
MODERATOR AND ########## staff
I am sorry for wasting bandwidth on your forum..But Iphygenia has been stalking and harrassing me for years.
I have asked her politely not to address me, however her OBSESSION with me wont allow that. As you can see by the name calling and bickering she has been doing on this forum.
Sorry to disappoint you..
But No I am not the paid basher and naked shorter who was known as Yart.
Dunk tank or drunk tank?
Thats it...thats how they keep the PR guy sober.
I should have fiqured it out.
Take care sput
Sputnik what gives????
Those are not recipes, I need some recipes for the salmonfest this weekend.
This is a good oportunity to get together with chief, quackdaddy, michmed, PK, danlboone, cpim, and all the other loyal longs.
I hope BillR brings some plas-a-ma-what-cha-call-it.
Its a shame that poor bill cooper always has to be in the dunk tank. though.
PS you are going to be there right?
Sputnik
What happened to all you're great Salmon recipes?
Ksuave is only where he is in that contest because of BSM and he stole that from Donovan at ADOTISLE.
Ksuave would not know a valuemicrocap if it jumped up and bit him on the lentinman.