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FREEDOM WATCH
ARIZONA REPUBLIC - A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted
to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as
long as you keep them to yourself. "As we said to (the boy) when he was
in here, in your heart you may have that feeling, and that is OK if that
is your personal belief," Abraham Lincoln Traditional School Principal
Virginia Voinovich said in a tape-recorded parent-teacher conference.
The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing
a "hate crime" by using the expression "brown people." . . . The
circumstances of the boy's suspension itself raise troubling questions
about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham
Lincoln. According to school officials, the boy made a statement about
"brown people" to another elementary student with whom he was having a
conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase. But
the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was
allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he
"doesn't cooperate with brown people." After that was reported to the
boy's teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly
confess what he'd said. The boy maintains that he never said it; that
the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. . .
When Neve objected to the suspension during the conference, Voinovich
told her that she didn't have any rights; that parents give up their
rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/racism112707-CR.html?34
TOM CURLEY, CEO AP - At long last, prize-winning Associated Press
photographer Bilal Hussein may get his day in court. . . We believe
Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want
its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who
had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even
more of a marked man. In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has
not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a
flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved
to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance. Now, suddenly,
the military plans to seek a criminal case against Bilal in the Iraqi
court system in just days. But the military won't tell us what the
charges are, what evidence it will be submitting or even when the
hearing will be held. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/
AR2007112301208.html
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
POLITICO - As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies
for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the
time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife
Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed
government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under New York's
Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to
do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his
tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments,
aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants. At
the time, the mayor's office refused to explain the accounting to city
auditors, citing "security.". . . The practice of transferring the
travel expenses of Giuliani's security detail to the accounts of obscure
mayoral offices has never been brought to light, despite
behind-the-scenes criticism from the city comptroller weeks after
Giuliani left office. . . But American Express bills and travel
documents obtained by Politico suggest another reason City Hall may have
considered the documents sensitive: They detail three summers of visits
to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan had an apartment.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7073.html
WDBJ TV - If you're planning to vote in Virginia's February Republican
presidential primary, be prepared to sign an oath swearing your
Republican loyalty. The State Board of Elections approved a state
Republican Party request to require all who apply for a GOP primary
ballot first vow in writing that they'll vote for the party's
presidential nominee next fall. There's no practical way to enforce the
oath. Virginia doesn't require voters to register by party, and for
years the state's Republicans have fretted that Democrats might meddle
in their open primaries. Virginia Democrats aren't seeking such an oath
for their presidential primary, which is held the same day -- February
12th.
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=7411021&nav=S6aK
RADAR - As we've all learned, the Republican Party has been infiltrated
by lots of gay dudes. But usually they're in because they hate
themselves and not because they're on a mission to advance the interests
of their master Hillary Clinton. (Or are they?) Either way, a gay
veteran who's a co-chair of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Americans
for Hillary somehow managed to not only get his YouTube question about
the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy broadcast during the
debate, but he also finagled an invitation and featured guest role so he
could personally respond to the candidates. (Does CNN not Google?) And
respond he did, sopping up more air time (and boos) than any other
questioner throughout the night. It apparently wasn't until after the
debate that silver fox moderator Anderson Cooper became aware of Kerr's
allegiances, when former Education Secretary/degenerate gambler Bill
Bennett alerted Cooper to emails he'd received about Kerr's affiliation.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/11/gay-vet-and-hillaryite-
crashes-gop-debate.php#more
ACCORDING TO NBC'S LAURA APPELBAUM, Giuliani got over 16 minutes of
airtime during the debate; Romney 13; Thompson 12; McCain 11; Huckabee
10; Paul 8; Hunter 5; and Tancredo 3.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/486161.aspx
WE HAVE noted the corrupt nature of campaign bundling. nOW, the
Washington Post offers an additional example:
WASHINGTON POST - Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in
Nevada, is so impressed with Ron Paul that he announced plans last week
to put up a collection box at the door. His lawyers advised that
anonymous donations are a no-no, so now he's thinking of starting a PAC:
"Hookers for Paul.". . . The former time-share salesman went back to the
ranch and gathered up his bunnies -- he's got 500 on staff -- and urged
them to donate to the campaign; he's also running a customer special:
"If you come in the Bunny Ranch and say, 'I'm pimping for Paul,' you get
two bunnies for the price of one."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/
AR2007112800147.html
HEADLINE from the Springfield MA Republican that Mitt Romney would just
as much not see: "Massachusetts lags in job creation"
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ECO CLIPS
PETER SCHRAG, SACRAMENTO BEE - If you go by old sea lore, the Cosco
Busan (originally the Hanjin Cairo) was cursed from the moment she was
renamed. Change the name and you have a hard-luck ship. In the six years
since she was built in Korea, she had sailed under two flags, had two
owners and was now nominally owned by one company, registered to
another, operated by a third and chartered by a fourth. She's listed as
being managed by a German firm; her home port is Hamburg, her crew is
Chinese, the owner was identified as Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong, but
Hanjin Shipping, the South Korean company that had chartered the ship,
said it had leased her from Synergy Maritime in Cyprus.
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/507366.html
TREE HUGGER - In an attempt to get more Britons out of their cars and
into carbon neutral two wheeling, employees in the UK are able to access
a bicycle for work commuting that saves them about 43% against the
normal Value Added Tax.
Managed in a similar way to employees who have a company car . . .
employers can give their staff a voucher to purchase a bicycle. . . The
employer owns the bike, but the staff member gets its use for commuting
and after hours recreational use. At the end of the Cyclescheme lease
period the employee may buy the bicycle at fair market value.
http://www.treehugger.com/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . . .
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL - bronze Fonzie sculpture is expected to be
unveiled in downtown Milwaukee next fall, with two-thirds of the funds
raised for the project. Visit Milwaukee, a nonprofit group that promotes
the city as a tourism and convention destination, says it has raised
$57,000 of the $85,000 needed to commission a life-size sculpture of
"Happy Days" TV show character Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli.
HOW TO PET YOUR CHICKEN EVEN IF YOU'RE MILES AWAY
http://www.mixedrealitylab.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=26&Itemid=60
CBC - College students at Montclair State University are all talking
about a new requirement that will require students to have a cell phone.
. . First-year student Vuocolo said 'School Phone' -- as in a Sprint-
operated cell phone -- is now mandatory for all students. It's the first
program of its kind in the country. The cost: $420 a year for a base
plan which is bundled into the tuition bill.
http://wcbstv.com/technology/cell.phone.montclair.2.595976.html
STUPID NYC COP TRICKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/nyregion/28about.html?_r=3&oref
=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
GALLERY: SQUARE AMERICA
http://www.squareamerica.com/
GREAT TRUCKS IN JAPAN
http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/2007/02/bling_trucks_or_dekorota_in_ja.php
GREAT TRUCKS IN PAKISTAN
http://www.pakistanphotos.co.uk/pakphotos/index.html
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FREEDOM WATCH
ARIZONA REPUBLIC - A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted
to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as
long as you keep them to yourself. "As we said to (the boy) when he was
in here, in your heart you may have that feeling, and that is OK if that
is your personal belief," Abraham Lincoln Traditional School Principal
Virginia Voinovich said in a tape-recorded parent-teacher conference.
The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing
a "hate crime" by using the expression "brown people." . . . The
circumstances of the boy's suspension itself raise troubling questions
about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham
Lincoln. According to school officials, the boy made a statement about
"brown people" to another elementary student with whom he was having a
conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase. But
the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was
allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he
"doesn't cooperate with brown people." After that was reported to the
boy's teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly
confess what he'd said. The boy maintains that he never said it; that
the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. . .
When Neve objected to the suspension during the conference, Voinovich
told her that she didn't have any rights; that parents give up their
rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/racism112707-CR.html?34
TOM CURLEY, CEO AP - At long last, prize-winning Associated Press
photographer Bilal Hussein may get his day in court. . . We believe
Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want
its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who
had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even
more of a marked man. In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has
not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a
flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved
to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance. Now, suddenly,
the military plans to seek a criminal case against Bilal in the Iraqi
court system in just days. But the military won't tell us what the
charges are, what evidence it will be submitting or even when the
hearing will be held. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/
AR2007112301208.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
POLITICO - As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies
for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the
time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife
Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed
government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under New York's
Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to
do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his
tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments,
aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants. At
the time, the mayor's office refused to explain the accounting to city
auditors, citing "security.". . . The practice of transferring the
travel expenses of Giuliani's security detail to the accounts of obscure
mayoral offices has never been brought to light, despite
behind-the-scenes criticism from the city comptroller weeks after
Giuliani left office. . . But American Express bills and travel
documents obtained by Politico suggest another reason City Hall may have
considered the documents sensitive: They detail three summers of visits
to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan had an apartment.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7073.html
WDBJ TV - If you're planning to vote in Virginia's February Republican
presidential primary, be prepared to sign an oath swearing your
Republican loyalty. The State Board of Elections approved a state
Republican Party request to require all who apply for a GOP primary
ballot first vow in writing that they'll vote for the party's
presidential nominee next fall. There's no practical way to enforce the
oath. Virginia doesn't require voters to register by party, and for
years the state's Republicans have fretted that Democrats might meddle
in their open primaries. Virginia Democrats aren't seeking such an oath
for their presidential primary, which is held the same day -- February
12th.
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=7411021&nav=S6aK
RADAR - As we've all learned, the Republican Party has been infiltrated
by lots of gay dudes. But usually they're in because they hate
themselves and not because they're on a mission to advance the interests
of their master Hillary Clinton. (Or are they?) Either way, a gay
veteran who's a co-chair of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Americans
for Hillary somehow managed to not only get his YouTube question about
the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy broadcast during the
debate, but he also finagled an invitation and featured guest role so he
could personally respond to the candidates. (Does CNN not Google?) And
respond he did, sopping up more air time (and boos) than any other
questioner throughout the night. It apparently wasn't until after the
debate that silver fox moderator Anderson Cooper became aware of Kerr's
allegiances, when former Education Secretary/degenerate gambler Bill
Bennett alerted Cooper to emails he'd received about Kerr's affiliation.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/11/gay-vet-and-hillaryite-
crashes-gop-debate.php#more
ACCORDING TO NBC'S LAURA APPELBAUM, Giuliani got over 16 minutes of
airtime during the debate; Romney 13; Thompson 12; McCain 11; Huckabee
10; Paul 8; Hunter 5; and Tancredo 3.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/486161.aspx
WE HAVE noted the corrupt nature of campaign bundling. nOW, the
Washington Post offers an additional example:
WASHINGTON POST - Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in
Nevada, is so impressed with Ron Paul that he announced plans last week
to put up a collection box at the door. His lawyers advised that
anonymous donations are a no-no, so now he's thinking of starting a PAC:
"Hookers for Paul.". . . The former time-share salesman went back to the
ranch and gathered up his bunnies -- he's got 500 on staff -- and urged
them to donate to the campaign; he's also running a customer special:
"If you come in the Bunny Ranch and say, 'I'm pimping for Paul,' you get
two bunnies for the price of one."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/
AR2007112800147.html
HEADLINE from the Springfield MA Republican that Mitt Romney would just
as much not see: "Massachusetts lags in job creation"
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECO CLIPS
PETER SCHRAG, SACRAMENTO BEE - If you go by old sea lore, the Cosco
Busan (originally the Hanjin Cairo) was cursed from the moment she was
renamed. Change the name and you have a hard-luck ship. In the six years
since she was built in Korea, she had sailed under two flags, had two
owners and was now nominally owned by one company, registered to
another, operated by a third and chartered by a fourth. She's listed as
being managed by a German firm; her home port is Hamburg, her crew is
Chinese, the owner was identified as Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong, but
Hanjin Shipping, the South Korean company that had chartered the ship,
said it had leased her from Synergy Maritime in Cyprus.
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/507366.html
TREE HUGGER - In an attempt to get more Britons out of their cars and
into carbon neutral two wheeling, employees in the UK are able to access
a bicycle for work commuting that saves them about 43% against the
normal Value Added Tax.
Managed in a similar way to employees who have a company car . . .
employers can give their staff a voucher to purchase a bicycle. . . The
employer owns the bike, but the staff member gets its use for commuting
and after hours recreational use. At the end of the Cyclescheme lease
period the employee may buy the bicycle at fair market value.
http://www.treehugger.com/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . . .
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL - bronze Fonzie sculpture is expected to be
unveiled in downtown Milwaukee next fall, with two-thirds of the funds
raised for the project. Visit Milwaukee, a nonprofit group that promotes
the city as a tourism and convention destination, says it has raised
$57,000 of the $85,000 needed to commission a life-size sculpture of
"Happy Days" TV show character Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli.
HOW TO PET YOUR CHICKEN EVEN IF YOU'RE MILES AWAY
http://www.mixedrealitylab.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=26&Itemid=60
CBC - College students at Montclair State University are all talking
about a new requirement that will require students to have a cell phone.
. . First-year student Vuocolo said 'School Phone' -- as in a Sprint-
operated cell phone -- is now mandatory for all students. It's the first
program of its kind in the country. The cost: $420 a year for a base
plan which is bundled into the tuition bill.
http://wcbstv.com/technology/cell.phone.montclair.2.595976.html
STUPID NYC COP TRICKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/nyregion/28about.html?_r=3&oref
=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
GALLERY: SQUARE AMERICA
http://www.squareamerica.com/
GREAT TRUCKS IN JAPAN
http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/2007/02/bling_trucks_or_dekorota_in_ja.php
GREAT TRUCKS IN PAKISTAN
http://www.pakistanphotos.co.uk/pakphotos/index.html
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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
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Editor: Sam Smith
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