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September 19, 2008
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Is It Just Wall Street? The news so far on Wall Street today is better than yesterday's dramatic drop in
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 Girls Against Porn is sending a letter, co-signed by organizations, to American Airlines, stating it is in the airline's best interest to filter porn as part of its in-flight Internet. The leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants voiced concern over being designated "moral police" of the in- flight service. They want it filtered. Blogs and complaints from the public concur. Porn is indecent; hardcore pornography can be prosecuted under federal obscenity laws.
The coalition letter expresses concern for children and passengers who are exposed to pornography. Seating is already confined. It isn't fair if someone has to sit next to someone viewing porn. In fact, many passengers will not tolerate this! Flight attendants and customers have already complained. This leads to the risk of security issues aboard a flight given that confrontations will arise.
The letter details, "the airlines are taking a risk, opening themselves up to lawsuits from customers who are exposed to porn or the effects." American Airlines has already been sued for $200,000, by a passenger who alleges while sleeping woke up to find a substance in her hair, from another passenger masturbating. Porn and masturbation go hand in hand and the airlines run the risk of having this happen repeatedly if Internet isn't filtered. In January 2007, the family of an 11 year old girl sued Delta Airlines alleging she was molested by a male passenger.
The letter states, "If passengers who view porn, decide to act upon that, if there is a child flying in that row, airlines have opened the door for traumatic experiences and lawsuits." Airlines should be taking precautions to protect passengers from similar incidents. Concerned citizens will be supporting airlines that have taken the passenger safe stance by applying filters, such as Jet Blue, Continental, and Qantas.
This is a call to the public, and parents, who should e- mail American Airlines Communications: corp.comm@aa.com, or call AA headquarters at, 817- 963-1234, and press 0. Tell them to correct this mistake and insist they apply filters to Internet services immediately. |
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| There's been a lot of finger pointing going around on the economy craziness -- most of it (of course) is
 aimed at George W. Bush and John McCain. Who's really to blame? Glenn takes a look at the real culprits and what those culprits were saying back in the mid-90s -- the line they were feeding the public at the time will blow your mind.
GLENN: Today I want to lay the case out to you, because we have to know what happened to the economy. You have to know that they are printing money as we speak at the Treasury. You have to know what you know and know who caused it, how did it start, and you've got to bring yourself up to speed rapidly to be able to share with your friends the truth so they know how to make a decision on which one of these candidates, if either of them, was responsible. Which one of these candidates can help us get out of the mess.
Yesterday Barack Obama said, and I quote: Senator McCain bragged about how as chairman of the commerce committee in the Senate he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, I can say to Senator McCain, nice job, nice job. He was in Vegas and he said, quote: I will crack down on predatory lenders, the all too often target the African American community, the one that targets the Hispanic community with tough new penalties that treat mortgage fraud like the crime that it is. And the crowd went wild.
It is important that you hear, "I will crack down on predatory lenders." Have you heard that before? The people that often target the African American community, target the Hispanic community with tough new penalties. Got it? Okay.
Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. |
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It's another election season, so that means it's time for Democrats to start uttering wild malapropisms about the Bible to pretend they believe in God! In 2000, we had Al Gore inverting a Christian parable into something nearly satanic. Defending his nutty ideas about the Earth during one of the debates, Gore said: "In my faith tradition, it's written in the book of Matthew, where your heart is, there is your treasure also." And that, he said, is why we should treasure the environment. First of all, people who say "faith tradition" instead of "religion" are always phony-baloney, "Christmas and Easter"-type believers. Second, Jesus was making almost the exact opposite point, saying: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on Earth," where there are moths, rust and thieves, but in heaven, because, Jesus said, "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." I guess that's the kind of mix-up that can happen when your theological adviser is Naomi Wolf. Then in 2004, Democratic presidential candidate and future Trivial Pursuit answer Howard Dean told an interviewer that his favorite part of the New Testament was the Book of Job. The reporter should have asked him if that was his favorite book in all three testaments. 
New Way to Sue In 1999, flush with more than a three billion dollar windfall from tobacco lawsuits, plaintiffs’ lawyer Ron Motley reset his crosshairs onto another “deep-pocketed” industry: companies that had ceased the manufacture and sale of lead-based paint 30 years ago or more. So certain he could bring the entire industry “to its knees,” Motley vowed to give away his prized 120-foot yacht if he and his firm, Motley Rice, did not prevail. Motley thought he earned his first big payday in the state of Rhode Island when, in 2007, a jury ruled that paint companies were responsible for the effects of the lead paint they manufactured before it was banned. But now he will have to look for a legal victory elsewhere. This past July, the Rhode Island Supreme Court unanimously reversed the ruling and tossed out the multi-billion dollar lawsuit, stating that the case “should have been dismissed from the outset.” The court agreed with the defendants who had been correctly arguing for nearly a decade that the plaintiffs’ twisted use of the public nuisance legal theory in the case was bogus. Public nuisance — an 800-year-old legal concept, today used to settle disputes such as neighborhood quarrels over loud rock music — is a legal standard intended to apply to unreasonable interference with public rights. 
share prices after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the venerable brokerage firm. The new hard line of non-intervention by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve is reverberating throughout the global economy, with the news now spreading to the troubles facing the insurance giant American International Group. Clearly, the turbulence isn't over, and it seems as if Uncle Sam is determined to let the bad medicine hit the body politic in force rather than ease the pain with dose after dose of intervention. Because we're in the midst of a national campaign, the political rhetoric is certain to fly as each of the major parties blames the other (e.g., "It's the Bush Administration's fault!"; "Look who's been running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Democratic insiders!") for the debacle and the fallout. The truth, however, is always larger. As Cassius says in Julius Caesar, "The fault . . . is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Near-trillion dollar failures involve the bad economic decisions of millions of people, including government officials, lobbyists, fund managers, and, yes, borrowers and investors. As Proverbs points out, "The borrower is servant to the lender," and our nation has seen far too much of living today on what has been borrowed from tomorrow. Reported by Tony Perkins