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I am sure by now you have heard about the beauty queen who couldn’t even give any kind of coherent answer to why so many American students can’t find the United States on a map.

Some of you may have even watched the 20/20 show called “Stupid in America” (click here to watch it if you haven’t).

I’m beginning to think that this is a deliberate effort, what put me over the edge was learning that there are teachers in United States public schools that don’t even speak English, don’t teach classes in English and these are the teachers that are supposedly teaching the children English (see article here).

The public school system seems to want to hire “native Spanish speaking” teachers, regardless of whether they are going to teach Spanish, for some strange reason that makes no sense to me, other than encouraging U.S. citizens to become Mexicans, which given that Mexico has some really strong laws that favor Mexicans more than the U.S. laws seem to favor U.S. citizens, that might be better than what we currently have.

Unfortunately Mexico doesn’t want U.S. citizens to become Mexicans. So all that learning of Spanish isn’t going to help U.S. citizens become Mexicans. And it’s not going to help reduce the trade deficit with China, good instruction in reading, math and science would do that.

But the science that is “commonly” accepted as true isn’t even always a consensus. For instance, less than 50% of all peer reviewed scientific papers blame global warming on the factors that Al Gore claims are the cause (see link here), yet rather than teach real science students are taught politically correct platitudes (which, like Mao’s little red book, won’t feed them). Unfortunately students in America today are taught to be dependent morons who can do little more than dress themselves and use a computer to print out a poor excuse for resume.

It might be a great way to ensure that we won’t need a draft, because we’ll have a nation full of people too stupid to do anything but join the military (and barely able to do that), especially since we’ve shipped all the manufacturing jobs to China (and there isn’t a big focus on teaching Chinese in schools).

With all the billions of dollars that the United States spends on education, these trends show that Ron Paul is on the right track when he says that we should eliminate the department of Education, because what we really need is for parents to be able to have real choices, not for more centralized nightmares.

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Some people have said to me that Ron Paul sounds ok, but he is pro life and they are not.

Here is a good response from the Badger Herald:

Although I don’t doubt a Paul presidency would be, on the balance, good for the nation, his libertarian philosophy isn’t perfect. It would give states the right to craft their own abortion laws, which would result in a massive and entirely unregulated underground abortion industry. Nothing is black and white in this world, and some of our government’s reaches into state sovereignty have been for the greater good. Despite this, liberals and conservatives must remember that concession is the meat of compromise.

Basically, even if you disagree with Ron Paul on one issue, the point is he is honest and principled and you know what you are going to get.  You can’t really say the same about the majority of other politicians who pander to this crowd or that.

Make a stand for integrity.  Vote to restore the constitution, vote for Ron Paul.

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By way of LewRockwell.com:

Ron Paul	30%	772
Mitt Romney	23%	581
Fred Thompson	18%	470
Rudy Giuliani	10%	266
Sam Brownback	7%	168
Mike Huckabey	5%	127
John McCain	4%	110
Duncan Hunter	1%	34
Tommy Tancredo	1%	15
Other	1%	24
Total	100.00%	2567

Of course if you listen to the Faux News people you will get a different version of reality, one not based in fact apparently.

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According to Fred Caplan, there is a growing gap between the battle tested junior officers and the REMFs who have been running the war. Even some senior Army officers are vocalizing this, as noted by:

Col. Don Snider, a longtime professor at West Point, sees a “trust gap” between junior and senior officers. There has always been a gap, to some degree. What’s different now is that many of the juniors have more combat experience than the seniors. They have come to trust their own instincts more than they trust orders. They look at the hand they’ve been dealt by their superiors’ decisions, and they feel let down.

Which is true, for instance Col Colpol was made Chief of Staff at West Point in 2004, even though, according to MilitaryCorruption.com, he had never been stationed outside the continental United States.

The army continues to play politics, but then again before the Iraq War Part II, the White House did pass over a lot of generals to get the kind of officer who would say and do what the White House wanted, so maybe it’s not a big surprise.

And who wants to stay in the Army for years, when Blackwater is expanding their role worldwide, and pays much better, with no real accountability (I know some people who are career military, and they are fine upstanding people, so I hope they take this the right way). Sure “Duty, Honor, Country” are great goals, but when it comes down to it very few live their lives by it, especially when highly respected veterans like Commander Ward Dean are punished by the current regime when they take a stand based on the law and the constitution.

It’s a sad commentary that so many people in the military seem to want to emulate people like Gen. Earnest Robbins (ret) rather than Maj. Gen Smedley Butler (deceased) or even Gen Raymond Davis. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that because of the corrupt leadership (I’ve read that more people believe in UFO’s than trust congress) of the United States, that the leaders in the military just don’t want to buck the system. After all, better to be high speed, low drag, than to be tossed under a bus.

Of course, it’s a challenge for a serving officer to stand up to utter stupidity, they will probably be cast out into the darkness at best.

Maybe they can all just continue to help support Ron Paul?

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According to SoftVelocity, Clarion 7 is due to be released soon as a release candidate by Softvelocity, the announcement states that:

 On the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend (Sept 4th), we’ll be sending out emails to all CSP owners with download instructions for Clarion 7.

There is more at their website.

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According to Ooxmlisdefectivebydesign, the proposed Microsoft so called Office Open XML spec is defective by design. One example is:

The relevant XML in the corresponding part xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml is :

<row r="2" spans="3:5">
 <c r="C2">
  <v>10</v>
 </c>
 <c r="D2">
  <v>20</v>
 </c>
 <c r="E2">
  <f>SUM(C2:D2)</f>
  <v>30</v>
 </c>
</row>

Pretty simple XML. Now say we want to edit cell E2 and set a constant value of
40 in place of a formula. But instead of doing that with Excel 2007 interactively, we are going to do it manually :

• unzip the file
• grab a zip part known as xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml
• make the edit described below
• put the updated zip part back in the zip package

The corresponding valid (and carefully changed) XML for setting the constant
value of 40 in cell E2 is :

<row r="2" spans="3:5">
 <c r="C2">
  <v>10</v>
 </c>
 <c r="D2">
  <v>20</v>
 </c>
 <c r="E2">
  <v>40</v>
 </c>
</row>

Now open the file in Excel 2007. You get a blocking error message….

There are many more examples, and I am sure that more will come to light as time goes on.  This is a spec written to work with one product in a specific manner, and good luck trying to get consistent results using a different product.

In any case, the OOXML is being proposed as an open standard, but it appears to be a standard that only Microsoft can really have any input on, or even really understand. This is Microsoft’s competing proposal to the Open Document Format, which has already been embraced by companies such as IBM, SUN, et al.

Microsoft likes to claim that it plays by the rules, but what it doesn’t say is that it exerts special influence to make the rules favor Microsoft.

The question then becomes, will approving OOXML as an ISO spec discredit the whole ISO process, which is apparently fraught with questionable conduct according to Rob Weir who says:

I just received an email from someone in a national standards committee considering the OOXML ballot, concerning false information given to his committee which suggested the Sept. 2nd ballot deadline was not real, that they actually had 30 more days to decide. I’m not going to name names in this post, but I will say that this isn’t the first note I’ve received regarding such tactics.

And you wonder why the U.S. still uses miles and inches?

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Apparently someone thinks that IBM should be responsible for servers that get dumped on the ground by the workers at other companies.  According to Information Week:

Federal contractor T.R. Systems says its workers were moving the server from a freight truck into its warehouse in Alexandria, Va., when the mishap occurred. “The rear wheels of their forklift hit the raised surface at the entry door of the warehouse, causing the forklift to rock, and subsequently causing the server to rock,” T.R. Systems says in court papers filed last month.

“As a result of the rocking motion, the base of the pallet and the crate broke and the crate fell onto the curb, damaging the server packed inside,” the contractor states in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.

So you drive the forklift over a “raised surface” (could it be the curb mentioned in the next paragraph), and when the forklift wobbles, it’s not your fault for driving around a 1.4 million dollar server with reckless abandon, it’s the fault of IBM.

I’d say good luck, but I think that when a company wants to litigate by press release against IBM, they better take a look at the Caldera that was/is SCO.

This looks like it would be an interesting case.  Too bad that it’s going to be rather limited in scope.  Of course it does raise more questions about the handling practices of T.R. Systems than it does about IBM’s shipping practices (the server did make it to T.R. Systems in one piece).  After all we don’t know what evidence supports T.R. Systems version of events yet.

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From a comment on Groklaw:

PJ, you wrote: “Here’s what I know. If ever I am in any litigation that Morrison & Foerster is involved in, please God, don’t let them be on the other side.”

You reminded me of a meeting I attended with IBM’s General Counsel, who was telling some war-stories about earlier IBM litigation.

He said that, after IBM had squashed an opponent in a lawsuit, that the opposing counsel came up to him and gave him a gift. He opened it, and inside was a knife.

Opposing counsel said, “I want you to have this, and if I ever am stupid enough to sue IBM again, I want you to use it to cut my throat.”

I thought it was funny considering that IBM hasn’t even really begun to dissect SCOX yet. SCOX (aka SCO) had claimed that IBM owed SCOX billions of dollars based on the wacky claim that SCO had the copyrights to UNIX (but a judge ruled otherwise) and that SCO could unilaterally revoke IBM’s license to AIX & Dynix (which the judge also said no to) in a different case, that SCO had brought against Novell (which holds whatever copyrights there are to UNIX and has the final say in UNIX licenses according to Judge Dale Kimball).

In any case, senior officials at SCO have reportedly said that they would continue with these lawsuits to “their utter destruction” so there might be some more fun news out of this charade.

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It’s almost becoming a daily occurrence some government agency or other crying that we need to start (or more accurately legalize) monitoring every person on the internet.  Down in Australia they just put into place an $84-million internet porn filter.  According to Crimes and Corruption:

Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, told News Ltd newspapers it took him about 30 minutes to break through the government’s new filter, released on Tuesday.

But maybe this is the point because then the government can claim:

Family First senator Steve Fielding, a cyber safety campaigner, said cracking the software highlighted the need for compulsory filtering by internet providers.

“You need both. You need it at the ISP and at the PC level,” Senator Fielding said. “The Government has not listened to common sense and it leaves kids exposed.”

Remember to support censorship, it’s for the children.  But at what point does speech become something to be censored?  According to some police departments handing out a christian tract in the United States is a crime, according to WND.COM:

A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a 67-year-old Georgia man who was arrested, held in jail for two days and convicted without being given access to a lawyer for passing out Gospel tracts on a public street.

Remember this is in the United States, a supposedly “christian” nation, but a nation that where the police feel free to arrest people on a whim, knowing that the judges (for the most part) will nod and wink at the arrest.  When police are allowed to arrest people for carrying signs, handing out literature, when you have state Senators like Illinois Senator Dan Rutherford, who after having a lackey grab a sign out of Ron Paul supporter’s hands and then stand on it, has the police remove the Ron Paul supporters from the Illinois GOP straw poll area because, according to him, the Ron Paul supporters were causing an incident  (Video here).

Remember people when the government crooks politicians  cry about protecting the children from some speech or writings, they are going to stem the free flow of ideas.

But heck, I am sure that you will still be able to participate in the “Stupidest Coach Potato in America” reality show.

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According to KWTX, Border patrol Chief Carrillo said:

At a town-hall meeting, Carrillo said, “The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop narcotics … The Border Patrol’s mission is not to stop criminals. The Border Patrol’s mission is to stop terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering this country.”

So if you have been wondering what the job of the border patrol is, the answer isn’t in it’s mission statements, it’s what the agents are told it is.

Which is to stop the “terrorist threat”.

Nice to know that drug smuggling isn’t a priority for the border patrol.  Why not let all the non-violent drug offenders out of jail then?

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According to BoingBoing:

DRM bites again: the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage servers (which every XP and Vista install phones home to) all failed sometime earlier today.The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Installations which are flagged as counterfeit switch to a “reduced functionality mode” which results in features like Aero and DirectX being disabled.

This is the reason why I am moving away from promoting Microsoft products.  Nothing like having your operating system start accusing you of stealing when you need it most.  I am sure that Microsoft will eventually get these systems back on line, but WGA has caused me enough grief in the past that I wouldn’t buy any system that needs to phone home all the time to work properly.

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While the summer rolls on, up in Canada the meetings between Canada, Mexico and the United States about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) have been going on.   The SPP is designed to harmonize the laws of the three countries, similar to the EU, but the leaders of the countries claim that it won’t ever become like the EU. Unlike most United States denizens, the people of Canada went to have a peaceful protest, but there were these masked men with boulders in their hands.

When they were confronted by the peaceful protesters, the men got belligerent and then fell back into the police line where they were “arrested”.

Initially the police denied any involvement, but after video was posted on youtube, and television news reported the event, the police admitted that there were some undercover agents, but they were only observing (with rocks in their hands and confronting people, I guess that’s considered observing compared to hitting people over the heads).

Here’s the link to the latest news article.

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Apparently Microsoft is starting to enforce a little noticed clause in some of their products, the clause is:

“You may not work around any technical limitations in the software” (search via google)

There is a story of a person (Jamie Cansdale) who got the Microsoft MVP recognition for working around some limitation in Visual Studio express, and now Microsoft wants him to no longer distribute the product for Visual Studio express.

It’s actions like this that make people act as if Microsoft was radioactive waste, not because it doesn’t have some good products (it does), but because once you agree to some EULA that’s 60 normal pages long, they are after you like SCO was after IBM, only you aren’t IBM and they aren’t SCO.

The problem is that schools are like drug pushers, pushing Microsoft products like crack cocaine on unsuspecting students who are then bound by licensing terms that make credit card companies look like saints.

I can’t entirely fault Microsoft, the corrupt politicians who want to curry favor with Microsoft and their pals in the movie business are anti freedom in my opinion, and the sad thing is that people keep putting them back in office.

The problem really is that political offices are, and may have always been, up for sale in America, and the more corrupt you are, the more likely you are to be elected.

And that’s good for businesses, because when a law like the DCMA is pending it helps to have malleable stooges, who will sell your future out.

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For most of the people of Illinois, it was just a rainy Thursday, but it was also Republican Day at the Illinois State fair in Springfield. So a couple of weeks ago, the Illinois GOP decided, heck why not add a straw poll to the event.

I have to say that the Illinois GOP seemed fairly nice, there was a lunch, free beer, free lemonade, and free tea. Too bad it was raining so hard that you could hardly see 10 feet at times.

In any case it seemed to me that there were more people walking around with Ron Paul signs than anything else, but Romney did bus in loads of people, and then bused them out again, so it’s not that there weren’t people supporting Romney, just that they were well organized, not surprising since former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, Dennis Hasert, is actively supporting Romney.

In any case, I wasn’t happy with the totally electronic voting, with no paper trail, but such is the new world order that we live in, so I presented my government issued id, had it scanned in by the Illinois GOP (sidebar: if these political parties are, as the Judge in Iowa has said, private organizations, why do they have access to all these government databases?) and after it “verified” me, I voted away.

As I said it was raining heavily, so the only people that really showed up were people likely to vote, and the voting was in a far corner of the state fairgrounds, but even so I was a little disappointed with the turnout, only 922 people voted. The results, according the WeAreIllinois.org (Illinois GOP website):

Final Results:

1. Mitt Romney – 40.35%
2. Fred Thompson – 19.96%
3. Ron Paul – 18.87%
4. Rudy Giuliani – 11.61%
5. John McCain – 4.12%
6. Mike Huckabee – 3.04%
7. Sam Brownback – 1.08%
8. Duncan Hunter – .65%
9. Tom Tancrado – .33%

I was surprised about the Fred Thompson showing, but heck, it’s a completely secret counting system, and Ron Paul did come in at about 19%, which is 17% higher than the expensive, paid for, so called scientific polls have him, so I really don’t have much room to complain.

I do want to point out that there was no way a Ron Paul person would have been able to vote more than once (remember, the private organization called the Illinois Republican Party scanned in the id cards and had access to the state computers), so if you want to decry vote fraud, go ahead, just remember that you are smearing the GOP, not someone who came in third. Also I can tell you that democrats in Illinois seemed to avoid the Republican event as though it were the plague.

I for one, think that most of the Illinois Republicans are honest people. The Illinois GOP had picked Alan Keyes to run for Senate in the past, I have met Mr. Oberweis at events after he had been marginalized by the Illinois GOP and he seemed like a decent guy (he was serving free ice cream to people).

I think that the Illinois GOP did a decent thing with the straw poll, and had a nice event, though they did a horrible job of promoting it, but they have been beat down in the last couple of years.

Hopefully, enough of the conseratives who supported Alan Keyes for Senate, will step up and realize that Dr. Paul is similar to Dr. Keyes in many respects, and wake up from thinking that the best way to defend a country is to send the military far away while leaving the borders undefended, and throwing border patrol agents into jail.

Of course, there is that part of the Illinois GOP that supported Judy Barr Tipenka, so who can say what course the Illinois GOP will take, the path that it’s been on to destruction, or the path back to it’s roots, and supporting Dr. Paul.

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Secret ballots are supposed to let you vote without being held accountable by anyone for voting against your boss/friend/whatever, however the problem with secret ballots is that the results can be cooked.

According to Jim Conduit, he believes that vote fraud occurred in the Iowa Straw poll and he is asking for the people who voted for Ron Paul to sign affidavits to  show that more people voted for Ron Paul than the Iowa GOP gave him votes for.

Now many people point out the Jim Conduit is not affiliated with Ron Paul, and in fact that Jim Conduit cares more about fair elections than getting Ron Paul elected, so we shouldn’t get too hung up on Jim Conduit’s issues, and I think that is correct, to a point.

Obviously if the people who voted for Ron Paul want to sign affidavits, that’s fine, and I think that’s a good idea, but the Iowa straw poll doesn’t count for that much, and I think that better energy would be spent moving forward, and focusing on building momentum, not crying about a non-binding straw poll that has been historically questionably administered, and was, according to the judge in Iowa, a private event in any case.

Even though disInter has a nice breakdown of the exit polls and their correlations with the actual results, which are very close for everyone but Romney, Paul and Brownback, I think that it’s more important to focus on where we can go from here, not what is done at some private event that is more a starting point than anything.

That said, Ron Paul supporters need to work HARDER than ever to get out their message, because things are going to get challenging  as the pundits feel their power slipping away, they will villify, slander and otherwise attempt to destroy Ron Paul, because if Ron Paul wins, the war racket gravy train that has been paying them is going to slow down.

And it’s not easy to get a real job after you’ve been a war shill for years.

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Once upon a time (i.e. before August 2007) Google video would let you purchase videos supposedly for ever, however now Google says “After August 15, 2007, you will no longer be able to view your purchased or rented videos”.

Opps.  So much for forever, Ars Technica has this to say:

Needless to say, this could happen with any player. Google could float its store if it wanted to, but it is exiting the business. What happens when Amazon does the same? Or Apple, or the next guy?

If this isn’t further proof that parts of the DMCA should be gutted, at the very least it is a strong sign that the Library of Congress needs to address this issue. Congress should be thinking about this brave new world of “unproperty” where you’re charged good money to “buy” products that, in reality, you’re only renting until AverageCorp gets bored of the business.

Meanwhile the RIAA is demanding that Copyright infringement be treated with the severity it (supposedly) deserves, one greater than Bank robbery.  Once again, Ars Technica says:

Cotton and his Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy are seeking to change federal law enforcement emphasis so that intellectual property crimes are given priority over other kinds of crime… a realignment, to play off Cotton’s statement. Battling organized crime is hardly objectionable, and we hope the coalition sees success in taking down the profiteers of piracy. Offending the public with yet more lies and hyperbole isn’t going to curry much favor, however.

So you won’t be able to read or view your electronic documents after a service is shut down, and if you do figure out a way around DRM, the RIAA with it’s storm troopers want you to be treated worse than a Bank robber.

How’s that freedom treating you today?

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Over at WND.com there is an article about a woman who was arrested for writing on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk, the police say it’s a valid arrest because:

“If she would have stopped, I don’t know if he would have made the arrest. That’s what forced the issue,” Pecci said. “When we tell someone to stop doing something and they say no, it becomes a battle of the wills, and our will will always win.”

That about sums up the whole problem with the police today, is that they feel that they have the right to tell you what to do whenever they feel like it, even if no one is threatened, and what you are doing isn’t even a crime.

The difference between this and the issues where people back down, is that this brave person didn’t back down when the police told her to stop her (in my opinion) legal exercise of her first amendment rights. There was no danger to the public, no permanent damage to any structure, just a chalk message.

Next the police will arrest people for messages in the sand.

Which won’t be surprising, because people have been arrested for internet postings, which are really messages in sand (see Raisethefist.com for an example) , even when no person was threatened.

As the congress debates instituting better tracking on the internet, and a more Chinese style internet, China is reciprocating by starting to adopt their version of the real id act, of which only Ron Paul has taken a stand against of all the people running to be ruler of the world president of the united states.

There used to be a saying that as Russia becomes more capitalistic, America will become more socialistic. America, like Russia in the past, has become a country where the constitution has become more , according to former Congressman Henry Hyde (R-Il), ‘anachronistic’ than something that the government actually follows.

While there are a multitude of voice deriding the constitution as being historically flawed in many ways, and casting derision on those who advocate binding the government with the “chains of the constitution” because we have gone so far on this path that there is no turning back, the question is where does this path lead?

Does it lead to the same place that Rome went? Are we headed to a period of hyperinflation? Even the so called mainstream media seems to realize that they have been selling people a load of horse manure, with Newsweek coming out with a mea culpa about their global warming hysteria.

The point of this is that the police are trained to be enforces of the “status quo”, and are supported in this by the media, with the almost religious devotion to the war on drugs, and other predatory policies that disenfranchise millions of Americans for political offenses.

The police have military equipment, that often rivals the equipment that the soldiers in Iraq have, and unlike the soldiers in Iraq, they are often applauded for using deadly force (unless the officer happens to be a border patrol agent) . I still remember turning around in my house to see four police officers pointing their pistols at me because I had forgotten to lock my front door, unlike some people, I managed to not get shot.

In reality most people will are more likely to have to pay extortion because of a police action (the extortion is called fines, such as the $3500+ fine for speeding in Virgina) than they are to be robbed of $20.

The mafia had nothing on the so called voluntary system that we have with the IRS and state agencies that will hound a person even after they are dead.

And unfortunately too many police are willing to support this because according to Officer Pecci:

“…our will will always win.”

Police even complain when Prosecutors try to do their job and demand evidence, as shown by an article in the Victoria Advocate:

The DA says that he is just holding law enforcement to a higher standard and that the agencies aren’t providing the evidence he needs to prosecute.

“If you cannot do your duty, you need to resign and give the duty to someone who can,” Tyler said.

A job of a prosecutor is, according to the U.S. Supreme court, to see justice done, not just to get convictions, too bad that standard is more often ignored and people like Mike Nifong, are the supposed guardians of justice.

But the blame lies partly with the people who sit around and do nothing but watch their televisions and memorize batting averages.

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Apparently “Journalism” is the art of being a sellout, according to Alexia,

I actually started off my college career pursuing a journalism degree. I was taught that it was ok to sell out ideals for corporate ad dollars, and that the well-paid editorial writers were more important to the system than simple “reporters.”

So the journalists are taught to be sell outs. I can’t say that I blame them, who wants to scrap by when you can make millions for saying what the puppet masters corporate clients want you say.

While there are cries that there is a media bias, the real bias in the media is to favor corporate interests, rather than truth.

Of course there is the famous statement by Pilate “What is truth?”, so maybe I should say that journalism is the art of selecting facts to create the semblance of truth. Examples abound in other areas besides the Ron Paul blackout, the famous SCO [SCOX] v. IBM case with lots of shills shouting how SCO was going to collect money from millions of people, when SCO didn’t even have a valid copyright transfer statement from Novell.

The sad truth is that most of what is served up to the public as reality is little more than slick marketing passing as truth. And while many people feel that politicians lie, they have a hard time believing that almost everything that they see on the news is carefully scripted to serve a purpose (not a lie perhaps, but not the whole truth).

At what point does withholding vital information from the public become the same as lying?

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According to LewRockwell.com, Fox News is again continuing the trend of “We Decide, you obey” , even though Ron Paul beat out Thompson, he is excluded from both the video and audio reports.

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Even though Ron Paul didn’t come in first in Iowa, many people are saying that it was a win for him.  Over at LewRockwell.com, James Ostrowski says:

[Ron Paul] quadrupled his “scientific” poll numbers–how scientific are they anyway?

And this is really the point to remember, how can these scientific polls be accurate if they are off, not by 5% but 4 times?  These polls are little more than paid advertisments, that serve to promote whatever agenda that the entity paying for the polls wants.  Let’s face it, if you pay a polling company, you don’t want to publish the polls that don’t say what you want.

Of course, Ron Paul needs to continue to build momentum, and obviously looking to so called conservatives like Laura Ingraham to be fair about Ron Paul isn’t going to get positive results.  War is a profitable racket, and pays some people very well, so being against a war has always been derided.

Here’s a thought, why not have news stations report the news and let the people actually decide, rather than claiming that is what you are doing?

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