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Bill O'Reilly fantasized, on the air, about getting his hands on Dr. Tillman

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O'Reilly really wanted to get his hands on Tillman. Media Matters found the clip:


Just a figure of speech? Yeah. Wink, wink.











Bill O'Reilly fantasized, on the air, about getting his hands on Dr. Tillman

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


Bill O'Reilly fantasized, on the air, about getting his hands on Dr. Tillman

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Bill O'Reilly fantasized, on the air, about getting his hands on Dr. Tillman

[Source: October News]

posted by tgazw @ 11:23 PM, ,

WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT GENERAL MOTORS?

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As president of General Motors when Eisenhower tapped him to become Secretary of Defense in 1953, ?SEngine Charlie? Wilson voiced at his Senate confirmation hearing what was then the conventional view. When asked whether he could make a decision in the interest of the U.S. that was adverse to the interest of GM, he said he could.


Then he reassured them that such a conflict would never arise. ?SI cannot conceive of one because for years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.?


Wilson was only slightly exaggerating. At the time, the fate of GM was inextricably linked to that of the nation. In 1953, GM was the world?"s biggest manufacturer, the symbol of U.S. economic might. It generated 3 percent of U.S. gross national product. GM?"s expansion in the 1950s was credited with stalling a business slump. It was also America?"s largest employer, with over 460,000 employees. Its blue-collar workers received (in today's dollars) $60 an hour that year in wages and benefits.


Today, Wal-Mart is America?"s largest employer, the majority of whose employees receive just over $10 an hour. And General Motors is filing for bankruptcy. Wilson?"s reassuring words in 1953 now have an ironic twist. There will be little difference between what is good for America and for GM because it is soon to be owned by U.S. taxpayers who have forked out more than $60 billion to buy it.


But why would U.S. taxpayers want to own today?"s GM?


The answer, after the jump.


--Robert Reich


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WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT GENERAL MOTORS?

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT GENERAL MOTORS?

[Source: Boston News]

posted by tgazw @ 11:14 PM, ,

Boy walks to protest Farc

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Johan Steven Martinez walks 62 miles to raise awareness about his missing father








Boy walks to protest Farc

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


Boy walks to protest Farc

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posted by tgazw @ 11:09 PM, ,

Not To Be That Guy

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by Jesse Taylor


But, pro-lifers, there may be something wrong with your movement when you have to send out press releases making clear that you don’t actually condone cold-blooded murder.



As Ezra and Ann Friedman point out, it is part and parcel of the activist anti-choice movement to proactively interfere with and intimidate people who are in the process of providing or seeking a medical procedure which is protected by law. 



The question I’ve heard over and over again is whether or not the pro-life movement bears responsibility for the murder of George Tiller.  It does.  There is no other “mainstream” political movement in this country which keeps as a part of its bag of tricks the intent to frighten those in the midst of a legally protected activity.



Pro-gun control liberals don’t show up at gun shows and hector attendees.  (And if your response is, “Damn right they don’t, because they’d get shot,” you’re proving my point.) Fundamentalists don’t have to worry about fleets of bike-riding hippies showing up at the entrance to their church every Sunday, telling them that their God is false.  Religious “family planning” clinics don’t live in constant fear of a Molotov cocktail flying through their plate glass window, don’t have to train their employees on how to handle bomb threats, don’t need to worry about their clients’ safety on the way from their car to the front door.  But if you provide abortion services - even if you’re not actually providing an abortion to the person coming in the door, even though it has been repeatedly declared legal - you live in fear. 



This culture of fear was borne and is bred by the way the pro-life movement conducts itself.  They certainly have every right to protest - and I mean that, and I truly believe that.  But freedom of speech and freedom of assembly does not create freedom from responsibility for your conduct.  A movement whose primary focus is intimidation through immediate and overwhelming physical proximity, coupled with hugely dishonest and inflammatory rhetoric cannot escape responsibility when it is embraced by an actor or actors who take that rhetoric to a logical, if extreme, end.  By declaring that “abortion is murder” and premising a movement on preventing that “murder” in increasingly radical and ostentatious ways (while oftentimes failing to propose or advocate for the more logical and responsible methods of preventing the alleged “murders"), the pro-life movement has built up over decades an angry base stewing in its own feelings of oppression and righteousness.  It’s the perfect environment to breed radicalism and violence.



This also puts into context the recent uproar over Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination.  She has made a mission of bringing to light racial injustice, particularly as it relates to Hispanics.  Her efforts are not designed to hold down white people, or designed to invalidate their experiences, but instead to bring to light the full range of experiences available in America.  She is not a radical, she is not a racist, yet the same movement that is rushing out to make clear that they don’t want people to murder just because it might seem like they want people to murder is trying to tar her some sort of Latina conquistador, rampaging through our suburbs in order to take away our Constitutional right to white dudes in power.  This same sort of decontextualized radical rhetoric is being used over and over again to stir up hatred and resentment so that Tony Blankley and Rush Limbaugh and Grover Norquist and the rest of their ilk can make millions off of this razor’s edge.  People must be angry - angry enough to act, but not angry enough to lash out; hopeful for a “better” future, but unwilling to accept anything but the total domination of their enemies as a victory. 



Lacking that, you’ll be able to make a pretty penny off of teaching every abortion provider in this country how to set up their speed dial for the bomb squad.  Never let it be said that terrorism doesn’t stimulate the economy.





Not To Be That Guy

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


Not To Be That Guy

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posted by tgazw @ 10:41 PM, ,

ABC News analyst: 50-50 chance that explosion brought down Air France jet from Rio to Paris

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John Nance, the former FAA administrator, and now an aviation consultant to ABC News, says that there's a 50-50 chance that the missing Air France jet went down in an explosion. The story was just on ABC. They tended to downplay Nance's comments, but I have to admit, i was wondering about the possibility of terrorism as well. Obviously, it's too soon - and it's suspicious that no terrorist group is claiming credit, since they're usually not very shy about such things.











ABC News analyst: 50-50 chance that explosion brought down Air France jet from Rio to Paris

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


ABC News analyst: 50-50 chance that explosion brought down Air France jet from Rio to Paris

[Source: International News]


ABC News analyst: 50-50 chance that explosion brought down Air France jet from Rio to Paris

[Source: Cbs News]

posted by tgazw @ 9:54 PM, ,

Japan University Gives Away iPhones To Nab Truants

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A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.



Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That's verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.



Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of Internet and computer technology in society.



The gadget will work as a tool for studies, but it also comes with GPS, a satellite navigation system that automatically checks on its whereabouts. The university plans to use that as a way check attendance.



Students who skip class could still fake attendance by giving their iPhone to a friend who goes to class. But youngsters aren't likely to lend their mobile phones, which are packed with personal information and e-mail, according to the university.



U.S. universities use the iPhone for various, other purposes. At Stanford University, students have developed iPhone applications in a course. At Duke University, the gadget is used to get around the campus and find information about course listings and other events.



Aoyama Gakuin signed a deal earlier this month with Softbank Corp., the exclusive vendors of the iPhone in Japan.



The number of students using the iPhone is expected to reach 1,000 in the program -- the first time the iPhone is being used on such a scale at a Japanese university.



The iPhone will be used to relay course materials, lecture videos and tests. The university hopes students will develop software applications and other lifestyle uses for the cell phone.





Japan University Gives Away iPhones To Nab Truants

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


Japan University Gives Away iPhones To Nab Truants

[Source: Market News]


Japan University Gives Away iPhones To Nab Truants

[Source: Duluth News]

posted by tgazw @ 9:48 PM, ,

What American "Socialism" Looks Like

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Obama's only been in office a few months in a steep depression but the ideological right already sees socialism here. For a little reality check, here's a chart from Conor Clarke of government control of the economy (click the link for the details):

Socialism chart





What American "Socialism" Looks Like

[Source: Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati]


What American "Socialism" Looks Like

[Source: Cbs News]

posted by tgazw @ 7:52 PM, ,

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