Last year, Phyllis Schlafly spoke on the campus of Bates College
where , among other things, she “belittled the feminist movement as
‘teaching women to be victims,’ decried intellectual men as ‘liberal
slobs’ and argued that feminism "is incompatible with marriage and
motherhood." She then went on to top herself by claiming that a
married woman cannot be sexually assaulted by her husband, saying:

"By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think
you can call it rape.”

Needless to say, those views caused a bit of controversy … controversy
that has now reemerged at Washington University in St. Louis when
school officials decided to honor Schlafly with an honorary
doctorate:

Washington University's decision to bestow an honorary degree on
conservative political activist and author Phyllis Schlafly has
stirred outrage among some students and faculty.

Opponents of Schlafly's honorary doctorate formed a group on the
social-networking website Facebook and had 1,023 members as of Monday
evening.

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Indiana’s partisan voter-ID
law, like other recent cases with conservative outcomes, received
generous praise from the Right. “This victory continues conservatives’
good run of Supreme Court decisions dating back to last term,” wrote
Human Events columnist Sean Trende, who called the case evidence that
John Roberts’s appointment as Chief Justice “mark[ed] a sea change” in
pulling the court “rightward.”

Paul Weyrich praised the Court and called objections to the law—which
closes access to the ballot box for many otherwise eligible voters,
primarily minorities and the elderly, in pursuit of the phantom threat
of voter fraud—“overblown and sensational,” adding, “We do not compel
people to vote.” (As Weyrich said in 1980, “I don't want everybody to
vote. … [O]ur leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the
voting populace goes down.”)

And Gary Bauer boldly asserted that “all citizens have photo I.D.s,
and the only people who don’t are illegal aliens, who are, by
definition, not allowed to vote. The only ones disenfranchised by the
photo I.D. requirement are those who should not be voting anyway.”

In a speech last week President George W. Bush touted the plan for his
new Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University calling it
"a place where we get the thinkers from around the world to come and
write about and articulate the transformative power of freedom, abroad
and at home."

Bush expects to raise $500 million for the library making it the
costliest Presidential Library to date. The half-a-billion dollars is
twice the total amount Bush spent on his entire 2004 Presidential
campaign! Just think if public libraries had that kind of kind of
support while he was in office.

Among the contributors to the Presidential Library are:

A sheik from the United Arab Emirates, who contributed at least $1
million.
The state of Kuwait.
The Bandar bin Sultan family.
The Sultanate of Oman.
King Hassan II of Morocco.
The amir of Qatar.
The former Korean prime minister.

Natural selection in action -- the dumbest die out.

-- quote

HOLLY HILL -- Friends of Kevin J. McCarthy were looking for him for
the past two days because they thought he might do something
irrational.

Monday afternoon, the 51-year-old walked into a shooting range on
North Nova Road and after renting a handgun and firing 70 rounds at a
practice target, he fatally shot himself in the temple, police said.
"They thought he was going to do something crazy and they were looking
for him," said Brett Miller, one of McCarthy's friends. Miller said
McCarthy was taken into custody recently for a mental evaluation.

Miller, sitting at the long wooden bar at The Crooks Den on Orange
Avenue in Daytona Beach, has known McCarthy for a year and said the
Massachusetts native had a lot of problems.

"He was a good guy, though," Miller said. That was echoed by a
bartender who mentioned McCarthy was not a customer of the tavern.

Miller and the bartender said McCarthy lived at the Bayview Hotel next
to the bar but had not been seen there since Feb. 1.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun, a Marine veteran, medical doctor, and
certified dingbat has launched a new crusade on behalf of our fine
military men and women. Surveying the dangerous situation abroad, the
progress (or lack thereof) in Iraq, and the ever-increasing number of
American casualties, Broun has, after careful consideration, decided
that the problem is pornography.

"As a Marine, I am deeply concerned for the welfare of our troops and
their mission," said Broun. "Allowing the sale of pornography on
military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the
number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding
the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating
the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad."

So THAT'S what's killed 4,000 GI's. Porn. Of course!

All Mixed Up: McCain Gets His Middle East Wars Confused
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clarified his comments Friday after
suggesting the Iraq war was motivated by U.S.reliance on foreign oil.

His explanation: He was talking about the 1991 Persian Gulf War, not
the current conflict.

At issue Friday was a comment at a morning town hall meeting in
Denver, when he said his energy policy would eliminate U.S.dependence
on Middle East oil and would "prevent us from having ever to send our
young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East."

He sought to clarify his comments after his campaign plane landed in
Phoenix. He said he didn't mean the U.S.went to war in Iraq five years
ago over oil.

"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for
several reasons," McCain told reporters.
'91 war, not Iraq war, was over oil, McCain clarifies - from
Associated Press, The LA Times.

(IJC = Introduction to Journalism Course)
(pi = part issue)
(V = Version)
(A = Addition)

'

Loving People, is:

NOT to believe dictators "who want you to assume 'they are peaceful
towards your country'."

(intro 20080507-V2.1)

'

Hu Jintao is a very, very severely Criminal Mind, and the dictator
of China,

with the kind of dictatorship or "system," that is "conducive to
non-service oriented (simple manufacturing, mining, building and
military) business,"

for as long as the supply of workers lasts.

'

Loving People, however, is:

The Zahid family of Greenwich, Connecticut, owns General Motors
dealerships throughout Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Their business
contacts in those countries think they are Muslims, but they
are Daheshists. They changed their religion from Islaam to Daheshism
back in the early 1970s.

Daheshists are followers of "Doctor Dahesh"; the miracle working
"Prophet" of Lebanon who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus
Christ, Ali ibn Talib, al-Hakim, and Baha'u'llah. His religion,
Daheshism, teaches reincarnation, and that Prophets arose after
Muhammad (SAW), such as al-Hakim, and Dahesh being the
last (but not final) one. Daheshism is very similar to the Druze
religion. There about about 5,000 Daheshists in Lebanon. Before his
death in New York City in 1984, Dahesh appointed the Zahid Family as
the "Trustees" of Daheshism.

Daheshism sees Muhammad (SAW) as a minor prophet, who simply prepared
the way for Ali ibn Talib, the reincarnation of Jesus. Dahesh taught
he was the reincarnation of Jesus and many others. The most high
prophet in Daheshism is JESUS, whom Dahesh claimed to be the most
recent reincarnation of.

In article <1igkdyn.17p9ghz1afpv4lN%%nospam@noway.net>,
nospam@noway.net (Ralph) wrote:

Yeah, and if I buy a Powerball ticket, I'm potentially a
multi-millionaire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7337873.stm

A 4 month baby's name joins the 1000 other names of the dead. 2500
people were injured in the last 4 weeks in Bush's Iraq.

Every day Iraqis are killed, bombed, searched, jailed, wounded,
frightened.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7387960.stm

Baghdad is so war torn that people are leaving now for safer havens.