As I go over things today, there are of couple of things on my mind: the impending FCC hearing on media consolidation and 'how much safer do you feel now that the war with Iraq is over(?!).'

One of the reasons I write this blog is to get information out that is not being reported on your TV or in most of your newspapers. If the FCC goes ahead with its plan, all media (TV, radio, print) in your market could be owned by the same company. How many different opinions do you expect to get from that type of media consolidation? Anyone who wants to get informed about this should check out moveon.org's Showdown at the FCC. It has a nice description of why you should care and quite a bit of information on this issue. I also recommend subscribing to moveon.org's bulletins. These e-mail bulletins are on different subjects, but full of good info.

Is it just me or was there a terrorist attack every day last week? It sure seemed like it. I know I feel safer since the war is over! This is an interesting slant on the Saudi bombing, plus you will learn a new word, Sutling. From what this article says, the terrorists are not necessarily targeting innocent civilians but employees of companies that help train the militias in these countries. (I'll bet you haven't heard about that in the liberal media!) In other words, they are not attacking Americans but secret American businsses. So, now we are going to use our public army to protect private American business interests that don't even pay taxes in the US. That sounds kind of like facism to me.

So where do we got from here? Maybe one thing to do is to try to expose this mess as best we can. If you're not familiar with this picture, look who your Secretary of Defense was shaking hands with in 1983. One question to ask yourself every time you see something like this is, what would happen if Clinton was still in office? I believe there would be all kinds of hearings and media outcry. Remember: $40 million was spent on Whitewater and $3 million has been allocated for the independent commission to investigate September 11th. Makes you go....hmm....

Couple of fun things:

Ari's gone.

Bushisms. For the former English major in all of us.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 10:56 AM