Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Zedonk - Pippi Longstocking
With her mother’s ears and father’s stripes, this zedonk, a mix between a donkey and a zebra, is the first such mix born in Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in decades.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Media Focus: Truth vs. Propaganda | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Media Focus: Truth vs. Propaganda | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
LISTEN
LISTEN
Through the battlefield smoke of the Wikileaks reports and the fresh news out of federal court in Arizona, a story from last week keeps ringing through the news business. The misrepresentation of Shirley Sherrod as a racist – and her sudden firing, then rehabilitation – has put the media, the news media itself, on trial. What has happened to the quality of this country’s national information flow? Is it poisoned? Is it now, really, propaganda? And whose?
This hour On Point: charges of propaganda in the news.
- Tom Ashbrook
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Guests:
Charles Madigan, presidential writer in residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago where he teaches classes focused on journalism and politics. For forty years, he was a reporter, editor and columnist at the Chicago Tribune and a foreign and domestic correspondent for UPI.
David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization. He served as Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew. Southern Regional Political Director for George Bush’s 1980 presidential race. Senior Advisor to former senator Bob Dole in 1988 and advisor to Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign.
E. J. Dionne, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers’ Group and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. On Monday, the Washington Post published a column of his titled, “Enough Right-Wing Propaganda.”
Closing segment:
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
americana BBC: A view from the South
americana_20100726-1130b.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
25 July 2010: A view from the South
Mon, 26 Jul 10
Duration:
28 mins
Former New York Times Editor and Alabama native Howell Raines discusses the weight the southern vote can carry and what history can teach Democrats about winning southern favour as the midterm elections approach. The state of South Carolina is gaining attention for its Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin M. Greene. Greene was an unknown political entity until he swept in to win the Democratic Party's spot. With less than $200 in his bank account and 100 days until the election, he describes his campaign strategy and hopes for becoming a senator of South Carolina. Award winning author Richard Ford, perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Awarded book "Independence Day," debunks the myths of antebellum southern literature. Boar hunter Chris Jaworowski takes Americana to visit the rural expanses of Alabama to explain the efforts in place to limit the aggressive boar.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
crazy quote
"I think (short of documentary evidence to the contrary) that if people are not crazy, they get themselves out of crazy situations, so I have never been able to buy the notion that it was my father's drinking which led her to the sanitarium. Nor do I think she led him to the drinking".
Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald
Friday, July 23, 2010
U.S. Losing Ground In College Graduation Race : NPR
U.S. Losing Ground In College Graduation Race : NPR
"The study doesn't single out any one cause, in part because there are so many, but it does cite students' transition from high school to college as a major issue. For example, the commission found that more than a quarter of college students require remedial classes in reading, writing and math."
On The Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt 1826 essay
"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others."
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Beaver shot in suspected payback killing - The Globe and Mail
Beaver shot in suspected payback killing - The Globe and Mail
The Canadian Prairies may soon regret human incursion into a matter that didn't involve them.
Whatever happened was between that dog and that beaver.
But things are escalated.
An inquest is in order.
Beaver: This rodent is the symbol of hard work and staying focused on the job. However, beavers actually spend most of their waking hours playing. They aren’t the sharpest teeth in the woods: About one in every five trees that they gnaw down, they just don’t know what to do with. A beaver’s calls are a series of pained grunts and moans. It mates for life, which always looks good. When European explorers arrived, beavers were active by day. Now they are mostly nocturnal. They have learned something over two centuries.
Sherrod's steadfast motto: 'Let's work together' - CNN.com
Sherrod's steadfast motto: 'Let's work together' - CNN.com
They meant it for evil, but good prevailed.
Kaboom! Whale Crash-Lands on Boat
A whale leapt out of water and crashed on a boat off the coast of South Africa.
Sarah Palin busy ‘refudiating’ English words - BostonHerald.com
Sarah Palin busy ‘refudiating’ English words - BostonHerald.com
"She can sit in Wasilla and see deep into the hearts of all us heartlanders. But she can’t quite persuade daughter Bristol to stay with abstinence a bit longer and ditch baby daddy, Levi - at least until he gets his GED."
"She can sit in Wasilla and see deep into the hearts of all us heartlanders. But she can’t quite persuade daughter Bristol to stay with abstinence a bit longer and ditch baby daddy, Levi - at least until he gets his GED."
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Mrs. Susie Key Robinson (more than 100)
ROBINSON, Mrs. Susie Key, a resident of Hardaway, AL died Friday, July 9, 2010 in Hardaway, AL. Funeral serivces will be held Friday, July 16, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. from Damascus Baptist Church with Rev. Leon Baker, officiating. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery with The Peoples Funeral Home directing. Survivors include a dedicated daughter and granddaughter, Mary (Albert) Daisie and Susan (Shaffief) Alamin; step-daughter, Cozetta Hill; special grandson, Jeffery Johnson; two great- grandchildren, Sharrief and Imani Alamin; special nephews, Odell Key, James Key, John Key, William Key, Paul Hill, Alonzo Austin, Henry, Mark, and Terrence Frank and Reginald Pitts; special nieces, Earnestine Steele, Cynthia Hector, Loren A. Hopson, Beverly Frank, Cheryl Williams, Emma Frank, Juanita Upshaw, Velma Crayton, Doris Grimes, Mary. H. Frank and Mary L. Frank; one very caring neighbor, Dorothy Hooks, and many other caring relatives, neighbors, and friends. Visitation will be Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. at The Peoples Funeral Home Chapel.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ...
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often […] we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
June 11, 1962
Monday, July 12, 2010
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