Posted on 07/02/2004 7:55:34 PM PDT by The Sailor
Thank You! Somebody asked me recently whak kind of music I liked. I couldn't quite put my finger on a style. THIS IS IT! All of it!
LOL! I've done the same thing. Sounds like you are multi-multi-multi-tasking.
Hi, 75thOVI! Welcome to the Canteen! Wanna buy a burka?
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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 03:
1423 Louis XI king of France (1461-83)
1567 Samuel de Champlain explorer (Lake Champlain)
1731 Samuel Huntington (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 John Singleton Copley Mass, finest colonial American artist
1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1854 Leos Jan cek Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite)
1861 Peter Jackson heavyweight, boxing hall of famer
1874 Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1883 Alfred Korzybski Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 Franz Kafka Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1886 Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1893 Mississippi John Hurt, Played the straight natural Blues
1906 George Sanders Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1909 Earl L Butz US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1913 Dorothy Kilgallen Chic Ill, columnist (What's My Line?)
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] Bronx NY, actor (Some Like it Hot)
1930 Pete Fountain New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1935 Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17)
1937 Tom Stoppard playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)
1940 Fontella Bass St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1941 Gloria Allred feminist attorney
1943 Geraldo Rivera aka Gerry Rivers, nosey newsman (Geraldo)
1943 Norman E Thagard Marianna Fl, MD/astronaut (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42)
1945 Michael Cole Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1948 Paul Berrere rocker (Little Feat-Truck Stop Girl)
1949 Jan Smithers N Hollywood Calif, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1951 Jean-Claude 'baby Doc' Duvalier deposed Haitian president-for-life
1962 Tom Cruise Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Color of Money, Rainman)
1979 Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1997)
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma
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'FAHRENHEIT 9/11': Film fits definition of propaganda
This is in reply to a letter regarding the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 and the opinion that we should "consider Michael Moore's point of view."
Moore is entitled to his opinion, and I am entitled to look at all the facts and totally reject his opinion in the formulation of mine.
Moore's profession doesn't entitle him to have a bigger say in the future of this country than me or my next door neighbor. The public is also entitled to know the truth of his agenda, which he has acknowledged: defeat of George W. Bush for re-election in November.
Moore has participated in a concerted effort with the anti-Bush group, MoveOn.org, to drive up the attendance of the film to make it No. 1.
Movie critics of print, cable, and broadcast media have properly reviewed this film and collectively said the film contains half-truths and out-of-context information framed in a manner to ridicule the president.
However, the liberal-slanted entertainment box office "media hypers" have assisted Moore and proclaimed Fahrenheit 9/11 the largest opening weekend attendance of a documentary ever. Truth be told, the film more closely fits the definition of "propaganda."
Propaganda is the "systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause; material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda."
The letter writer expresses that his source of news consists of Fox News, The Florida Times-Union and The Wall Street Journal. He goes on to discard the news he receives from Fox as "tools of the party," yet he states that he has read the same information in the Times-Union and The Wall Street Journal. (Fox is owned by News Corp. and has no connection with any political party whatsoever and, according to Nielsen ratings, is the most watched cable news channel across the country).
The fact is that Moore is no more a documentarian than Leni Reifenstahl, the producer who made the Adolf Hitler propaganda movie 70 years ago, glorifying Hitler and the Third Reich.
Moore made a propaganda film that endangers the lives of our brave young servicemen and servicewomen who are in harm's way today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moore should be tried for sedition.
Great Letter!
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