Stop Sinclair Broadcasting!

You remember Sinclair Broadcasting as the anti-troop organization that refused to air a Nightline episode that featured the names and faces of our troops killed in the line of duty in Iraq - because they claimed that recognizing their sacrifice was "anti-war". Now they are airing a piece of agit-prop that attacks the heroism of a serviceman during wartime. STOP THEM.

The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.

FCC Regulations
BROADCAST PROGRAMMING:
LAW AND POLICY ON SPECIFIC KINDS OF PROGRAMMING

Broadcast Journalism. Under the First Amendment and the Communications Act, the FCC cannot tell stations how to select material for news programs, and we cannot prohibit the broadcasting of an opinion on any subject. We also do not review anyone's qualifications to gather, edit, announce, or comment on the news; these decisions are the stations responsibility.

Political Broadcasting.

• Broadcasts by Candidates for Public Office. When a qualified candidate for public office has been permitted to use a station, the Communications Act requires the station to "afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office." The Act also states that the station "shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast" by the candidate. We do not consider either of the following two categories as a "use" that is covered by this rule:

* An appearance by a legally qualified candidate on a bona fide newscast, interview or documentary (if the appearance of the candidate is incidental to the presentation of the subject covered by the documentary); or

* on-the-spot coverage of a bona fide news event (including political conventions and related incidental activities).

• Political Editorials. Within 24 hours of airing an editorial where the station itself either supports or opposes a candidate for public office, it must transmit the following three things to the other qualified candidate(s) for the same office or to the candidate who was opposed in the editorial: (1) notification of the date and the time of the editorial; (2) a script or tape of the editorial; and (3) an offer of a reasonable opportunity for the candidate or a spokesperson for the candidate to respond on the air.


List of Companies that advertise with Sinclair Broadcasting
(courtesy nutmeg/Dailykos.com)

Halls Fruit Breezers
Sylvan Learning Centers
Kentucky Fried Chicken
ITT Tech *
Ford Motor Company
Yahoo DSL
Isuzu
Hardees
Taco Bell
Toyota
Warner Brothers *
Century 21
Prudential
Zigzagzone.com *
Cnn.com *
General Motors
Geico
Pepsi
Mountain Dew
Titan TV *
Iams
Miller Lite
Ringling Brothers
Oak Express
ABC Solutions
Kentucky Lottery
Florida Lottery
NFL
Lincoln Mercury
H&R Block
Pontiac


Find Your Local Sinclair stations and let them know what you think of this programming choice. then File a complaint with the FCC I did and I feel much better. Complain, complain, complain - to anyone and every one, Make these anti-troop lowlifes pay for their choice. This group a big GOP donor.

thanks to Boycott Sinclair Broadcasting and Tom Tomorrow

Not Fair.

Actor Christopher Reeve has died at the age of 52, a day after lapsing into a coma, his publicist tells CNN.

Watch CNN or log on to http://CNN.com for the latest news.

Weekend

The traffic had been a bitch Saturday morning, they had blocked off all my streets headed where I was going and sent me around Robin Hoods barn to go downtown. I was at red light number fourteen when the mini van in front of me took it upon herself to park. I didn’t see anywhere to park, I guess she was planning to run her van up a street light. I looked behind me to see if I could back up and the whole rear window was full of the grill of the truck behind me. There was no where for me to go and the other van really wanted to run her van up the street light. The car in front kept backing up and I kept creeping back, but the grill was still there and was not disappearing so I really got annoyed and stopped creeping. The backer-upper called over a rent a cop who had been standing there with her thumb up her ass, and had the rental cop ask me snottily, “Ma’am I know you have a lot planned for the day, but take a little bit out of your day to do something for someone else. Back Up”. I told her I couldn’t and at that moment the truck behind me woke up and inched back. The light finally turned green and I escaped.

Another weekend another canvass. 30 more address’ , four more responses. This canvass stands out because the houses in the largest part looked like Easter eggs. Blues, pinks, yellows, greens. Every other house identical. I could pick out seven different available styles but only three or four seemed popular. I half way expected to see My Little Pony’s(tm) ambling about. It was pretty but kind of like living in What Dreams May Come, but without Robin Williams. Without anybody, come to think of it. Several hounded houses in the sub-division but we only saw a handful of people outside and none else seemed to be at home.

The second phase of the canvas was through a very different neighborhood. Every house was different and looked like something out of a seventies Architectural Digest. We found two of our four responses here. One was all Kerry all the way the other an annoyed undecided.

Anyway. I went to see what had been the jam this morning. Well, they had ben something, a run or a walk or something. By the time I was back there it was long over and all that was left of what had been Oktoberfest was handful of men in lederhosen and a few women in dirndls.

I went home and rescued the dogs. Then I made three batches of dog cookies. This took a long time. I learned from trial and error that the cookies aren’t adequately crunchy and too damp when they initially come out of the oven. I have to put them back into the heat for an hour or so on low heat to really dry them out. So for every batch there was an hour of sitting around time. The carrot cookies were not a huge hit. I tried to get the dogs excited by this new taste by feeding them the left over carrot pieces... they weren’t interested . They don’t seem to hate the resulting cookies, but they like the peanut butter and the cheese cookies better.

A back up for the back up?

Please, for the Love of God vote in the right precinct.

HAPPY SUNDAY !!!!!!!

HAPPY SATURDAY !!!!!!

What's the delay with Delay?

Off The Kuff has more Delay news. Why is the sum'bitch still allowed to roam free? I've seen IOIYAR - It's Okay If You Are a Republican , but come on! the man trails slime like a slug, is he going to have to kill a drifter just to see him die, to really get into trouble?

link from Atrios

Friday Funny

Electronic voting, the Florida way...

The Bulging Bush?

This Modern World has interesting data about the square shape under shrubs suit jacket at the last debate. I have seen other references to it, most recently at Wonkette.Com and earlier some rethug blog was talking about cables or wires under shrubs collar and if he was wearing an ear piece or not - but not as well or as fully investigated as by Tom Tomorrow. It explains Shrubs bad posture, speaking out of turn and general crappy performance. Watch for any odd shapes under his jacket tonight. If the dems are smart they will be working to jam every signal in that area code.

Why The Dems are going to lose

"As you know, you are in a heavily AA, heavily Democratic precinct with a history of low voter turnout. These are targeted by the Kerry/Edwards campaign folks and they do not share their activity with us county folks, or even the precinct chair".

Do you know why it has a low voter turn out? The Dems don't have ANY ACTIVITY in the area! They aren't "sharing" beause there is nothing to share. It is up to the county dems to do something and they aren't here either, oh, wait, they are having a "literature drop" two weeks before the election! That'll do it. Not!

Elections are won by hitting more doors then the other guy, by driving more elderly people to the polls then the other guy, having more people VOTE for you then the other guy. Every door the Dems fail to knock on, is one more door for the Rethugs to knock on. That is how you win an election. One door at a time, one street at a time, one neighborhood at a time.

Gawd. Are they losing this on purpose? Does every vote not count? Doesn't KE04 not need every damn vote they can get?! Who is (not) running this show? Gawd. Is it okay because if they don't vote they are also not voting for Bush? Every vote not cast is a vote for Bush.

Sleeping Briefly


a figure is seen asleep in bed. It is 5:30 a.m. and all is quite, save the padding of tiny feet pacing across the floor

Kitty – I smell Dogs. New Dogs. Dogs are in the air. Hateful, stinky dogs. Cat eaters! Mama!

Sleeping Briefly - ZzzzzzzzzZZzzzzzzz

Kitty – Poke, Poke, Poke.

Sleeping Briefly – Humph.

Kitty – head butt, head butt

SB – Zzzzzzznicekittygoawayzzzzzzz

Kitty - jumps from bed to top of dresser, chews electric bill Shred, tear –

SB - Sits up in bed What! No! Are you hungry? lurches from bed Okay. You wanna eat? (thinks to self – Into your box Kitty.)

Kitty – I am hungry! But … No. Okay, are you going to feed me? No!No! not the box hides under bed.

SB – Where is he? Suddenly, I don’t care. goes back to bed ZzzzzZzzz.

Kitty – No! No back to sleep. I wanna talk.

SB – NozzZZZzzzzz.

Kitty - jumps on bed, pounces on SBs chest They’re here!

SB – Wha? Who is here?

Kitty – sworry! Dogs! head butt, head butt There are dogs upstairs. Make them go away. Blinks.

SB – Pretend they aren’t there. Go away now.

Kitty – There are dogs upstairs! In my house! And not Dogger! Alien dogs! They are upstairs on my bed!

SB – They were here before. You know these dogs. They are not Bed dogs. They are Carpet dogs. Mama’s tired. Go away now. rolls over

Kitty – Nooooooo! The house smells funny now!

SB – The little dog peed on my coat. Think happy thoughts.

Kitty – Bad dog smells!

SB – Dogger peed on the floor. Talk to her about it. Go away now. puts head under pillow

Kitty – I hear them!

SB – And they hear you too! I bet they smell you as well. You know where you can feel safe? Go to the basement and play with your bugs! It won’t be for long looks at clock, I’ll be awake in thirty-five minutes.

Kitty - whinning Noooo! There are dogs upstairs!

SB – Go lick yourself!

Kitty – Dogs! There are Dogs!

SB – So don’t go upstairs! Leave me alone!

Kitty – Dogs!Dogs!Dogs!

Dogger – from down the hall Dogs?

SB – Good. You woke up Dogger!

Dogger - Where are the Dogs! Can I play with them? Dogs!Dogs!Dogs!

Alarm goes off.

Later

SB – Kitty? Come see me! Come see Mama!

Kitty – No.

SB - picks up Kitty and makes him see Mama Hows my itty bitty kitty?huh? hows my baby!.

Kitty – You smell like them! Let me go.

SB – No chance. Mama’s little snuggly wuggly! Ohhhhhhh, what a sweet baby! You are so cuuttteee!

Kitty – Unhand me.

SB – No. Aww the squishy kitty baby….

Kitty – Let. Me. Go.

SB – Ow! Damn it! Kitty jumps away I’m bleeding now. Owwww!

Kitty – You still smell like them.

Later

SB – I’m trying to read the paper. Go away.

Kitty - sniffing you smell like them! sniffing

SB – I’m reading go away.

Kitty – Must. Sniff. Everything.

Lather, rinse, repeat

Michigan GOP prefer new voters that “go commando”


"Although we are a small prosecutor's office, we are extremely busy prosecuting serious criminal activity," Burdick said in a letter addressed to Greg McNeilly, executive director of the state Republican Party. "...I choose to devote our resources to prosecuting those who are delivering cocaine to our young people rather than underwear."

Burdick was responding to the Michigan Republican Party's request that he be prosecuted for offering underwear and food to college students in exchange for their promise to vote.

Moore is touring the country and imploring "slackers" who usually don't vote to head to the polls this year, saying they could make the difference in the presidential race. During each program, habitual nonvoters are invited on stage to pledge to vote. First-time student voters are offered gag prizes such as clean underwear.

Full story Here

I mean, that Michael Moore. He is so much worse then Delay! Offering underwear for votes! Doesn't he know that the best way to buy votes is with influence peddling and money laundering? What an amateur! It's not that the Rethugs have a problem with vote buying, they just don't want Moore around lowering the property values. Rethugs have to make a living you know. Funding for illegal, politically motivated Gerrymandering doesn't grow on trees like it did once.

Fun with the Security Guard

Me - I'm here to return a video.

SG - Are you a state employee?

Me - Yes.

SG - Where is your Work ID?

Me - In my building we don't have to wear them.

SG - You left yours at your office?

Me - No.

SG - Were you issued one?

Me - No.

SG - So, you don't have an ID?

Me - Yes.

SG - Well...clip this numbered tag on, Fill this form out, print your name, sign your name, write the badge ID number and note the time, put where you are going, when you get back put the time you return. Ya know, the funny thing is, I'm here because the other guy is out getting his ID. We just took over this building 1 October.

Me - Okay.

FYI

Dear New Guy,

Re: The "men's" room

It has come to my attention that you have not been properly inserviced as to proper bathroom etiquette. In this office, when we enter the bathroom we lock the door, both girls and boys. We have found that this makes for a much more pleasant experience as well as keeping unexpected guests at bay. Along those same lines, we knock on the door before we try to enter, then we try to knob, if the door is open it means the room is not occupied! If the bathroom is occupied, the door will be locked and the knockee waits his or her turn, thus far this has worked out very well for us.

You may have also noticed that we have approximately four men in the building and sixty-seven women. The concept of "men's" room is a fluid one, if you are in the bathroom it is considered a "men's room", if I am in the bathroom it is a "ladies room". Just because it says "Men" on the door it does not mean it is always a "men's room".

So to review:

We always knock first before entering the bathroom, both genders,yes, even the guys!
We always lock the bathroom when it is in use, both genders - yes! Even the guys!


Sincerely,

File Girl.