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First link in my files:
The Hunt For Red November (Reprise)
"Fred Thompson and the Hunt for a Red November."
 
Age:
Is 70 the New 50?
A majority of people in their sixties and seventies report being healthy and in control of their lives -- and as happy as many respondents in their 40s, according to a survey conducted for HSBC of 21,000 people in 21 countries and spanning four age groups, each decade from age 40 to age 80.
 
Questions about Fred Thompson--Most of your questions have been asked and answered numerous times. Nevertheless, I'll provide some links for you to research.
 
FRED THOMPSON: "Some people think that power should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on 'the authorities' for protection. . . . Whenever I've seen one of those 'Gun-free Zone' signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago."
http://abcradio.com/article.asp?id=389928&SPID=15663
 
 
Definition of Political Courage (Fred Thompson Alert!)--" Anyone who has taken the time to read all of Fred’s pieces will realize Fred says out loud what regular politicians won’t. "
That's because being a career politician is not the most important thing to Fred Thompson.
He does not have the desire to become a career politician, nor crave, nor lust for power to be the President of the USA, all he wants is to serve and to do what is right and good for our country, so Fred has nothing to lose if he speaks his mind.... which is refreshing.
I think that his attitude and message will resonate with most of the average American people, and once he enters the race, he will leave the rest of the pack behind him in the dust.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821192/posts
 

Thompson: 'charisma out of his ears'

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 4/1/7 | Knox Calling

A LOOK AT FRED THOMPSON and "the actor factor:"

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/NEWS08/704010349

Hodding Carter III, who advised Jimmy Carter in the 1976 campaign and is an expert on Southern politicians, said he believes Thompson is "blessed" with the kind of exposure that other candidates have to spend months, even years, building.

Fred Thompson Quotes

"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."

"You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you."

"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."

"Is it really in our country’s best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesn’t such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?"

"I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges."

"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody."

"You know, marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that."

"I'm against gun control generally. You know, you check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue."

"The court [by overturning the D.C. gun ban] basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."

"We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them. I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world."

"I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million [illegal immigrants]. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary."

"If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today."

"Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now."

"I'd do it [pardon Scooter Libby] now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice."

"We've got an entitlement program that's bankrupting us. We've got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us."

"They're [the Red Chinese] still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan."

Impeacnment:

I support FDT's analysis on why he voted to acquit Clinton on perjury and that would launch such a poster in to hyperdrive hysteria. And then I would ask did you even bother to read the analysis of this great legal intellect in the person of Senator Fred Thompson?

http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/trial/statements/thompson.shtml

Fred on illegal aliens:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjhkYzZiNTAxZjAyZTNjNzkxNjA2ZTNmNDBhNjhlYWU=
 
Fred's voting record is strongly pro-life.
http://postpolitical.com/ppblog/2007/03/19/fred-thompsons-voting-record-by-issue-category/

Also found this article from a more credible source than the blog source on this thread:
http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr070600.html
 
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The best endorsements:
 

A FRED THOMPSON RUN GETS praise from Thompson's ex-girlfriend Lorrie Morgan.

As I've noted here before on several occasions, it pays to stay on good terms with your ex-girlfriends. Sometimes I even get blogging from them!


6,987 posted on 06/06/2007 9:36:27 AM PDT by backhoe (Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Thompson Raises $220K Online in 18 Hours
 
Fred Thompson coming to Israel
 
Giuliani leads, Thompson 2nd in new GOP Poll
 
Kos Kid on Fred Thompson: "We gotta stop this guy."
 
"Where's The Fence?" campaign - Rep. Steve King Press Conference Capitol Hill Weds 1:15pmEST
 
AMNESTY BILL UPDATE - 6 June 2007--“This blanket amnesty will destroy this republic and send a clear message: go ahead and invade America, steal jobs, murder and rape America’s children, kill them while driving drunk and by all means, terrorists welcome!”
 
RASMUSSEN POLL: Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls to 23%, 49% Prefer No Bill At All
 
$6 Billion a Year for Mexican “Anchor Babies?”
 
Immigration deal survives GOP threat (barring felons amendment fails, rival amendment passes 66-32)--I don’t think they believe us when we say they are going to pay for this...who in their right mind is actually in favor of allowing felons to become legal?
 
Should the government take your job away? (Immigration Bill)
 
Courting Illegality: [immigration bill would reverse court orders]
 
My Letter to President Bush--Good letter, but it stops short on one issue.

The current amnesty bill (let’s call it what it is) not only falls short on border enforcement and illegal immigrant law enforcement, but it opens a floodgate for immigrant citizenship. As it’s currently conceived, this bill could result in as many as 60 MILLION mainly Latino new American citizens within only a few decades.

Let me make something very clear, because a large segment of our population is eager to apply the label of ‘racism’ with a broad brush. I am not a racist. When I deal with any individual, I do it purely on the individual merits (or lack thereof) of that individual. However, what we’re dealing with here is a mass importation of poorly educated people with a completely different culture from mainstream America. One must ask oneself these questions:

1) Will the immigration plan increase or decrease America’s global competitiveness?
2) Will it result in increased or decreased government costs through entitlements? (Just as we’re approaching Social Security and Medicare crises...)
3) Will it make the electorate better able to vote on important issues affecting America’s future?
4) Will it increase or decrease our national security?
5) Finally, and really most importantly, will it forever alter America’s national character in a negative way?

My view is that the American people deserve far better than they’ve gotten on the illegal immigration issue. I saw my home town go steeply downhill in Southern California because of mass migration from south of the border. I live in South Carolina now, and the situation here reminds me of California about 30 years ago.

 
Truther Morons Harass Rudy Giuliani Again

The Truther morons have settled on Rudy Giuliani as a very visible target, and will now apparently harass him at every public appearance. Last night it was one of the nitwits from InfoWars.com.  link: 93 comments

#51 gwillie  6/06/2007 9:08:12 am PDT

This whole "Rudy was told" lie is based on a misleadingly edited video on Prison Planet dot com. I expose the whole this on my blog after the first ambush on Rudy.

Nice work, if you can get it (Pelosi's son gets cush 'job')
 
 
Docs blame rash of injuries on 'heeling' sneakers
 
US - How the Government Creates Jobs
 
The Coddling of America - Michelle Malkin
 

Amnesty Lobby Is Funded By Foundations

June 6th, 2007

From the Washington Times:

Foundations bankrolling advocates for aliens

By Sean Lengell

June 6, 2007

Wealthy philanthropic foundations are helping bankroll the pro-immigration movement, while groups advocating for tighter control of U.S. borders say they take a more grass-roots approach to raising money.

The Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and Democratic activist George Soros are among the liberal funders that have donated millions of dollars to pro-immigration groups, as the Senate continues its debate on a contentious bill that would overhaul the nation’s immigration policy.

Three of the nation’s biggest and most influential pro-immigration groups — the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) — collectively received more than $3.25 million from Ford Foundation since 2005.

The three advocacy groups generally support the proposed Senate bill which would give many of the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. a path to citizenship. The bill also would allow aliens here to bring close family members into the country…

But groups supporting stronger immigration policy and tighter border control say they rely more on small donations from individuals than large foundations.

NumbersUSA, which says it has 366,000 members, saw its membership grow 50 percent since Jan. 1 and 18 percent in May, spokeswoman Caroline Espinosa said. Two-thirds of the group’s financial support comes from private people, with the average donation being $40.

“Contrary to what might be popular belief is that the grass-roots aspect is more on our side than the [pro-immigration] side,” Mrs. Espinosa said. “They have more of these organized, established types of groups funding them and driving their activism.” …

A complete list of funders isn’t available, as these lobby groups are not legally required to report their funding sources. But many major philanthropic institutions make at least part of their donor lists public, showing a strong pro-immigration bias in their donating.

The Open Society Institute, run by Mr. Soros, has given $825,000 from 2002 to 2004 to the National Immigration Forum.

Mr. Soros, who donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President Bush’s bid for re-election in 2004, also has donated $525,000 to NCLR and $325,000 to MALDEF during the same period.

The Ford Foundation, with assets of more than $9 billion, is known to favor liberal causes. The foundation was significantly criticized in 2003 after it gave millions of dollars worth of grants to Palestinian nonprofit groups that later were accused of conducting terrorist activities.

The Carnegie Corporation has contributed almost $7 million collectively to the National Immigration Forum, MALDEF and NCLR since 1994.

NCLR also collected almost $2.2 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 2003 to 2005 and $425,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation since 2004.

The Rockefeller Foundation since 2004 also have given more than $1 million to MALDEF and $300,000 to the National Immigration Law Center.

About one-third of NCLR’s budget comes from foundations, NCLR spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete said, noting, however, that her group cannot use money from tax-exempt foundations for political purposes, but rather uses it to support its other functions.

“Foundation money is used strictly for policy purposes and research work,” she said. “We keep a strict line on that.”

Less than 2 percent of NCLR’s budget is used to promote its immigration agenda, she added.

“We’re a Latino advocacy group. What we do is much broader than just immigration,” Ms. Navarrete said…

Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the funding the illegal alien advocates receive.

Just look at who supplies the signage, transportation, lunches and walking around money for the next illegal alien rally.

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Hues Of The News: Burman On The Hot Seat

Politics Watch

The head of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News faced questioning from Conservative MPs on Parliament Hill Tuesday about what they called a "doctored photo" that appeared in April on CBC's news website.

The public broadcaster's news web site carried an altered stock photo of the Toronto skyline that was noticeably darkened and made the smog and atmospheric haze appear much worse than in the original photo.

The altered picture of the skyline accompanied a story about the Kyoto accord and was first noticed by a Canadian conservative blogger.

During a meeting at the Commons heritage committee, Conservative MP Chris Warkentin accused the CBC of publishing a "doctored photo" that misled the public.

The CBC official was appearing before the committee as part of its study of the role of the public broadcaster in the 21st century.

"It was a complete misrepresentation," he said. "It speaks to the sensitivity that you have to engage in at CBC. Of course it wasn't intended, you ensure us, to mislead Canadians but in fact it did mislead people because it was there to support an opinion that was being brought forward with the article that it was published along with."

Tony Burman, editor in chief of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld, CBC Radio and Television, said the use of the darker photo of the Toronto skyline was the result of a "process error" and not indicative of any editorial bias at CBC.

"What happened then is that a photo was retouched," he said. "It wasn't retouched for use on air . . . It got misfiled . . . It was inadvertently pulled out and used."

"It was a very subtle difference. In fact it looked very similar. We did check it. It was immediately pulled when we were aware of it. It was an inadvertent error."


Of course it was. "Inadvertent error" is the usual manner in which an original stock photo is first cropped, run through a "warming filter" to achieve the desired tone, saved with a new file name, and then uploaded to the CBC web server, before being randomly selected to illustrate a "news" item featuring a report on the economic impact of meeting the Kyoto protocols.

Someone's finger slipped.

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Jesse Jackson Calls For Weapons Ban-- ban semi-automatic weapons.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6,988 posted on 06/06/2007 1:21:39 PM PDT by backhoe (Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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