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No one has ever come close to this man. He was the last of the greats who transformed the way that America, and the world, received their daily news. He was in favor of giving the American people what they needed to know, not what they wanted to hear.

Along with Cronkite, tonight I’ll raise a toast to:

John Chancellor
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Edward R. Murrow

I hope that the posers who currently hold the anchor chairs at all the networks reflect on just how pathetically they measure up to these giants.

And for the venom-spitters here: Shame on all of you. Shame.

She turned down 28.6 million of 931 million in federal aid. 0.3% of the total. Woo-hoo!!

Crap? Oh--you mean like when she opens her mouth.

Go to YouTube and watch her own response to the question "What have you done on a personal level, NOT a governmental level to help people in the Lower Yukon...?"

Palin's press releases are not known for accuracy in situations where her actions are being questioned. Besides, she's the GOVERNOR. It's her JOB to know what's going on.

Ramras went to the private sector, asked for donations of material and transportation, gotten it delivered to people who really need it, all without governmental intervention and he's the one who's catching all the bad press? This is what Palin's done so far--"The Departments of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, Health and Social Services, Education and Early Development, Fish and Game and Public Safety and other organizations are continuing to work jointly to ensure residents living in the affected areas have access to all state assistance programs that are available." http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=1628

Sometimes the misinformation is just too much to ignore.

You have your politicians confused:

Jay Ramras has put together a coalition of churches and businesses who’ve collected and sent thousands of dollars of fuel and supplies to the some of the hardest hit villages.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/680025.html

Palin’s the one who’s been “sitting there and talking smack.”

The reason Palin’s got crap at both ends is because she’s so full of it, she’s leaking.

1. He had a heart attack.
2. All went black

Fixed.

Jerk.

aww, poor Minnie. I see why you believe this statement; it reminds me of your cowboy hero:

"Al Qeda in Iraq chose this actor to portray him as the leader of the “Islamic State in Iraq” so they give their terrorist movement and Iraqi face." (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934850/posts?page=65#65)

I suggest you pay more attention to poster 69 in this thread. But, that's not the news you want to hear, so you won't buy it, will you? No matter what the source is, if it doesn't fit your POV, it's not real, is it? So get ready to attack the source and ignore the message. How's that working for you?

Gee, the lead article in this thread is from...the Associated Press! Golly, good thing that you pointed out its biases....

RE: "worthless, unfounded point" This from the Associated Press today:

Iraq says it can't handle refugee influx

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Iraq's government acknowledged Tuesday that it cannot handle a massive return of refugees, as the U.N. announced a $11 million relief package to help the most vulnerable Iraqi families trickling back to their war-ravaged homeland.

The return of refugees is a politically charged issue in this country, where the embattled government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is eager to point to recent military gains against al-Qaida in Iraq and other militants as evidence that Iraq is now a relatively safe place.

But the U.S. military has warned that a massive return of refugees could rekindle sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites and that some returnees have found their Baghdad homes occupied by members of the other Muslim sect.

"In reality, the ministry cannot absorb a return on that (large) scale," Iraqi Migration Minister Abdul-Samad Rahman told a news conference. "If the influx is huge, then neither the ministry nor the entire government can handle it."

Read the whole story here: http://tinyurl.com/268ndy

Never bought into the Reagan myth. Nice to see you picked up on the reference, though.

Yeah! This is so great!! 800 people per day going home!!!

2.2 million refugees divided by 800 divided by 365 means it’ll only be 7.5 YEARS before everyone gets home.

Of course, once they get there, they’ll still have to deal with the squatters in their houses and businesses, along with the infrastructure problems....

How do you reconcile his stated position on immigration with his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and their “Building a North American Community” document which recommends opening up the border he wants to secure? Given that his Senate experience in foreign policy was short (Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1995-1996) and primarily trade-related (Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, 1999-2002), what leads you to believe he’s so well-equipped to deal with the fractured socio-political situation that exists in Russia, especially with the economically depressed youth? Bush may indeed be clueless, but I’d like to hear about Thompson’s abilities in this arena.

Just because a character he once played said, “Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan,” doesn’t mean he’s got a good handle on foreign policy.

It is vitally important to find out why eight people in the government were fired seven years ago.

Actually, they were fired eight *months* ago, on December 7, 2006. At least, seven of them were--one of them held out until December 20.

No one is arguing the fact that presidents have the right and ability to dismiss at will. What's at stake here is that the replacements were direct appointments by the Attorney General--not the President-- and that they were not subject to Senate confirmation hearings, through a loophole in the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act which has since been closed by Senate bill, "S-214, filed in January 2007, to rescind the no-term-limit interim U.S. attorney provision was approved by very large majorities in both the Senate and the House, and was signed into law by the President on June 14, 2007, designated Public Law No: 110-34 and called the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007."

Wolves have been known to carry off small children and make a prolonged meal out of them.

I've been here since '71 and that is flat not true. Read this report. Page 34 mentions rabid wolves attacking a ten-year-old (in 1943) and a 72-year-old man (in 1942) who both died from the disease. The last attack on a human was in 2000, and the boy survived. Villagers are more concerned about sled dogs killing kids than wolves.

"On Oct. 23, 1994, when 2-year-old Tracy Ann Ishnook was playing outside her house in Koliganek. Her parents were installing insulation in the house and believed their daughter was outdoors with other children. But Tracy had wandered into a relative's dog lot. When her father, Wassillie Ishnook Sr., found her, a sled dog had torn her nose nearly off and was attacking her legs. ''Her face was all bloody, her leg was torn -- and when I saw her leg, I thought we'd lost her,'' Ishnook said." "Outside of the village, the horror of the Koliganek attack struck people with as much impact as a death. Yet it was hardly an isolated case. A boy had died only a few months earlier in the Yukon River village of Pitkas Point in a mauling by a loose sled dog. A girl in the Brooks Range village of Ambler had been scalped by a dog that was secured." - Doug O'Harra, Anchorage Daily News, November 3, 1996

"A 2-year-old girl in a southwest Alaska village lost her leg and was badly bitten in the face last weekend after wandering into a sled dog lot. A week earlier in a village near Kotzebue, a dog tore the scalp off a 4-year-old girl. The two maulings are the latest examples of what public health officials describe as a serious, long-standing threat to children throughout rural Alaska dogs." - Tom Bell, Anchorage Daily News, November 4, 1994

"A village toddler who set out for a short walk to his grandmother's house was found an hour later near his uncle's dog lot mauled to death by a sled dog." - Natalie Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, June 10, 1997

"A 3yearold Talkeetna boy died Saturday afternoon after being attacked by a HuskyMalemute sled dog that had broken its tether. The youngster, Jerry Lee Cornell, was declared dead at Valley Hospital in Palmer. The dog, belonging to musher John Barton, was taken by animal control officers." - Larry Campbell, Anchorage Daily News, May 7, 1990

I don't know, LW, check the photos found here ; they look pretty real to me....

Abuse? I called you on a bullsh*t source. I quoted verifiable government and NGO sites; you responded with an individual who posts nothing about his political credentials and who seems to be more concerned with RPGs and comic book paraphernalia. Suck it up.

Which kitty picture am I going to get, I wonder.... Guess I’ll never know.

Cooking the books on infant mortality.

Gee. That’s what I call a quality source. Do *you* have a DC Superfriends Batmobile, too?

Thanks for the laughs.

No, the magic number is 10—per capita GDP.

Still waiting for sources, especially for this gem:
“Furthermore, there are numerous ways to cook life expectancy statistics - and the worse the country, the more likely they are to do so.”

You jumped on someone for spouting an unsubstantiated opinion, yet you continue to do the same. Odd....