But Where Can We Get One!

post from TPMmuckraker on 19 September 2007 06:19:51 PM. © TPMmuckraker

The Anchorage Daily News has what we've all been waiting for, new information on the imfamous "> "Corrupt Bastard Club" hats the FBI seized last year when they raided the offices of half a dozen...

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Giuliani Spins Reasons For Quitting The Iraq
Study Group, Says ‘It Was A Mistake To Join’

post from Think Progress on 19 September 2007 06:18:00 PM. © Think Progress

On Monday, MoveOn.org launched a new TV ad slamming former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for quitting the Iraq Study Group last year, saying that even though he’s “a big fan of George Bush’s war in Iraq,” he went “AWOL” when he “had the chance to actually do something about the war.”

In an interview with CNN’s John King today, Giuliani responded to the ad, claiming that he quit because he didn’t want to “politicize” the report with his presidential ambitions:

I knew, that ultimately, I could very well be running for President of the United States. I wasn’t sure at the time. And had I stayed on that group, their report was put out just around the time I announced for President, and I would have totally politicized it. It was a mistake to join in the first place.

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Giuliani already tried this line out in June after Newsday reported the details of his departure from the panel. But it was quickly debunked.

As TPM’s Greg Sargent noted at the time, Giuliani’s role on the Iraq Study Group was anounced in March 2006, but as early as October 2005, he was touting himself as a potential presidential candidate. “I will be considering it next year,” Giuliani told the AP.

Additionally, “several” members of the bipartisan commission told NBC’s Tim Russert in June “that presidential politics never entered the discussion, it was all about Giuliani’s schedule and commitments versus showing up for the Iraq Study Group”:

RUSSERT: The Giuliani campaign said part of the equation is he was considering to run for president at that time and his presence on the group may pose a potential conflict. Several commission members said to me that presidential politics never entered the discussion, it was all about Giuliani’s schedule and commitments versus showing up for the Iraq Study Group.

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Alaska Gov Wants Ben Stevens Out Of Republican
Leadership

post from TPMmuckraker on 19 September 2007 06:12:11 PM. © TPMmuckraker

Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin wants Ben Stevens to give up his seat as the national committeeman for the Alaska Republican Party now that former Veco CEO Bill Allen testified to bribing...

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Welcome to September

post from Eschaton on 19 September 2007 06:10:00 PM. © Eschaton

Everything sure did change, with that Webb amendment getting the same number of votes it got last July.

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O'Reilly: Tasered UF student "biggest wimp in the
United States of America"

post from Media Matters for America on 19 September 2007 06:08:39 PM. © Media Matters for America

During the September 18 edition of his Fox News televisionshow, while discussing the recent incident involving University of Florida studentAndrew Meyer, who was shocked with a Taser after a confrontation with policethat began while he was asking questions of Sen. JohnKerry (D-MA) during a September 17 campus forum, Bill O'Reillyasserted: "I've been tasered for a story, and all I can say is: He is thebiggest wimp in the United States of America." O'Reilly added: "And I don't[...]

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Republican mayor of San Diego says daughter is
gay, will support same-sex marriage

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 19 September 2007 06:05:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Neat story.

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Kent Hovind Is A Friggin' Ass

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 19 September 2007 06:03:57 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

Many of you may not be familiar that there is a notable "atheist movement" consisting of a collection of atheist YouTube video bloggers (vloggers). The tribulations of this "community" of atheist video loggers and film makers has had many twists and turns I could go into, but right now I speak only of Kent Hovind, the DCMCA, and Creation Science Ministries.

Creation Science Ministries is the organization behind the Creation Science Museum, in which biblical dinosaurs are the focus, Kent Hovind the mastermind of a young earth creationism. You may remember a Redstate Update video I posted satirizing the Museum. Kent Hovind is also in Federal prison spending the first years of a 10 year sentence for evading taxes.

At the center of this controversy is a DMCA request to remove the video below from Youtube based on copyright violation. It was in fact removed by YouTube but has been re-uploaded by many angry atheists. Note: of course the "Free Through Express" into is not a part of the video, just the intro this youtuber uses for their videos.

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Two problems, one, the video doesn't seem to include any copyrighted material AND, as this video described, Creation Science Ministries materials are public domain.

At least Youtube Atheist one user, RabidApe has been banned, an event he responded to by asking as many people as possible to download and reupload the video. That's worked pretty well, it remains available. Also banned in related chaos, YouTube Atheist group, the RapidResponseSquad, complains they are being harrassed by false DMCA takedown notices, as blogged here at wired.

I find the atheist angle interesting myself, but what is really interesting is that CSE openly encourages use of its videos, even advocating editing parts "you don't like", and placing all their lectures and works in the public domain... has NO COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL in this video... but still submits a successful DMCA notice to YouTube, who received a lot of them and acts, evidently, in a knee jerk way about them.

Scary.

Except for the fact that the net understands, and interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

Before I go, check out Kent Hovind on the Ali G Show...

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Addendum:
This is a small documentary on the opening of the Creation Museum, made by three high school students:

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This is the Redstate Update on the Creation Museum:

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Creation Science Museum Advert:

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Breaking newsanti-abortion protestors preventing
Planned Parenthood Clinic from Opening

Planned Parenthood has built one of it’s largest medical clinics to date in the the southwest Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois. This is a comprehensive health care facility. The next nearest Planned Parenthood clinic is a 70 mile round trip[...]

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Breaking: Webb amendment fails.

The Senate just voted 56 to 44 on Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) amendment “requiring that active-duty troops and units have at least equal time at home as the length of their previous tour overseas.” The bill failed to garner the 60 votes needed to move forward.

When the legislation was considered in July, the vote was 56 to 41. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and David Vitter (R-LA), who didn’t vote in July, today voted against the legislation. Sen. John Warner (R-VA) switched his July vote, also voting against the bill today. Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) voted “yea.”

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NY Post contradicts itself,
misrepresents what Clinton said about proof of health insurance

A September 19 New York Post article on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) proposed health-care plan bore the headline: "Hill Care-ried Away: Employees Must Prove Insurance" and reported that Clinton said "everyone eventually would have to prove they have health insurance when they apply for a job." But in the next sentence, Post correspondent Geoff Earle quoted Clinton saying that "she could envision a day when 'you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a[...]

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