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I just got the email pasted below this. If anyone here bothers to edit at Wikipedia anymore, it might be nice if you could help the good guys out in this case. 
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

 

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
August 10, 2007
JPFO ALERT: Wikipedia and Misinformation
For those not familiar with the phenomenon, Wikipedia
( www.wikipedia.com ) is a free online encyclopedia of sorts.
Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into
one of the largest reference Web sites.Written collaboratively
by volunteers from all around the world, the articles in
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet,
simply by clicking the "edit this page" link.
Like most other organizations, Wikipedia has an entry for JPFO,
which you can find at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPFO . While
JPFO did not create the original "wiki" page, we have since
added relevant material to the site. Unfortunately, others
have added their own "spin" as well.
Why do we say that? At various times in the page's history
(which you can view by clicking the "history" tab on the page)
the JPFO wiki page contained some highly misleading statements
about JPFO. Volunteers have corrected them, but someone
subsequently erased the corrections while adapting some of our
text to transmit more inaccurate information. Our volunteers
also added additional information about JPFO's products and
positions -- that material was also erased.
Given the nature of Wikipedia, it is likely that those who
are bent on misleading the public can and will continuously
modify Wiki pages to pursue their agenda.
People who want to know more about JPFO can visit our website
at www.jpfo.org or email us at jpfo@jpfo.org. We welcome
questions from anyone on the issues relating to "gun control",
the relationship of "gun control" laws and policies to genocide
and oppression, the analysis of the Second Amendment in the
context of human rights, or any of JPFO's educational products.
We will continue to add to and correct the information on
Wikipedia, supplying links to support our position. It will be
interesting to see how long the accurate facts can sustain on
the wiki before it is again erased or modified by the enemies
of a Jewish civil rights organization that promotes self-defense.
- The Liberty Crew
============================================================
Visit our alert archive at www.jpfo.org/alerts.htm
============================================================
JPFO mirror site: http://www.jpfo.net

...

 

Get this...

http://www.breitbart...

So, "Natural weather variations have offset the effects of global warming for the past couple of years and will continue to keep temperatures flat through 2008, a study released Thursday said."

Do AGW alarmists really expect people to believe this line of fertilizer? For half a decade they've been SCREAMING that we're irreperably damaging the planet, but since the past couple of years, temperatures have trended DOWN, they trot out this gem.

Here's a great nugget from the article:

"Existing global climate computer models tend to underestimate the effects of natural forces on climate change, so for this analysis, Met Office experts tweaked their model to better reflect the impact of weather systems such as La Nina, or fluctuations in ocean heat and circulation."

The presumption naturally being that ANY climate change is due to un-natural forces.

So folks, look out for 2009! I betcha there'll be TONS of hurricanes and floods and droughts and blizzards and heat waves and LOT AND LOTS OF BAD WEATHER!!! Not like this year, though. This is because of natural forces.

Fools.

Kahuna

There are persons...who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy...will be merciful.

Thomas Paine, Dec. 23, 1776

You know it's funny how the

You know it's funny how the gauntlet will never fall before the 2008 elections. There will ALWAYS be just enough time to elect a democrat president before the catastrophe. LOL These guys are so predictable...unlike the weather which is not so much.

You can't save the Earth unless You're willing to make other people sacrifice. Dogbert the Green Consultant summing up the elite left.

heat wave

We're 'suffering' through our first heatwave (3 or more days of 90 degrees in a row) here in the quad-state DE-MD-NJ-PA area this August.

We usually see our first one in late June or early July.

Must be that AGW stuff.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

For us in NJ .

we had a heat wave last month, and the NYC stations were all calling it GW - now that is's been raining, weith cooler temps, that too is GW. When we get the COLD weather in December and January, that too will be due to GW. GW, to be continued.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Weathermen around here...

I don't know how it works where you live, but here in Phoenix when a weatherman says "tomorrow (2008) will be ok, but look out for the next day (2009)," we expect the exact opposite! This prediction that is entirely skipping 2008 makes me want to start building the ark!

 

From the 'Surge

From the 'Surge Derangement' thread...will no one call Ckyburn to the carpet for this statement? Were he my rep, I'd be calling for his ass!

"...we have heard from the House's majority whip, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. He's worried that Gen. Petraeus' good news about the surge might be "a real problem for us" — "us" being anti-war Democrats."

 

Why is it that the left believes that 'the people' noted in the 2nd are somehow different than the 'the people' mentioned elsewhere in our founding documents? Oh , that's right...leftists aren't very American to begin with...nevermind.

Support the troops?

democRATS only 'support' the troops or a war when it benefits them politically. Here we have a situation where 'good news' for the troops and the war equals bad news for the democRATS.

I am sure most of you heard

I am sure most of you heard about the execution style murders which occured in Newark, NJ on Saturday where 3 youths lost their lives and one survived despite being shot in the back of the head and stabbed.

Now it turns out one of the suspects, Jose Carranza, arrested in the case is an illegal immigrant from Peru who was indicted twice this year. In April he was indicted on aggravated assault and weopns charges and in July he was indicted on 31 counts including aggravated sexual assualt of a child younger than 1. Federal authorities are aware of his illegal status. Despite thos fact a judge granted him bail, essentially provding Carranza the opportunity to commit these murders.

Where is the outrage? I wonder what Geraldo has to say about this..

It is ironic these murders occurred the same week NJ's Governor signed and Executive Order establishing a Blue Ribbon Panel on Immigrant Policy. This Panel will examine a number of areas important to New Jersey’s
immigrant population, including education, citizenship status, civil
rights, fair housing, healthcare, language proficiency and employment
and workforce training.

So the Governor of NJ does an end around around the Legislative Branch of Government to appease the left wing of his party and provide sanctuary to those who break our laws by entering our country illegal while further the "rights" and agenda.

Didn't he tak an oath to protect and serve his constituents, the citizens of the State of New Jersey?

Nice!

You are such a racist white

You are such a racist white supremacist hatemonger. All immigrants are in America to do jobs you dumb redneck white people are too lazy to do.

Sorry about that. I  was channeling Tumbler there for a second.

 

Tumbler

How did it feel?  Can you channel Hater?

It was all fine until those stupid conservatives got wind of it....   motherbelt

tumbler?

Where is tumbler? I would love to hear him defend this POS!

gone...

gone...one rant too many.

NJ Murders

*Caution*  Anger showing..

 

Shoot off his legs at the knees, arms at the elbows, and have his a$$ float home. 

 

The American Revolution Continued

If we do that, can we shove

If we do that, can we shove his head up his @$$ and make a donut?

I really think that questioning others' masculinity is a game probably better left to people who haven't had more cock in and out of them than a Tyson Chicken regional distribution center. AceOfSpades 06162007

We shall, hereafter, refer

We shall, hereafter, refer to this Peruvian Illegal as "Bob".

 

;-)

}}---> Peruvian Bob

We can mail him home and call him Bill.

Shouldn't be a surprise .

considering what he said - "I have to say it is beyond comprehension. It is more than statistics and more than a story. It is about a failure of us to be inclusive and holistically look to bring everyone into our society."

He is so out of touch with reality, that there should be a recall, 'cept the dummies who voted for him, think he "looks better in person than on tv" - fquoted from a "town hall meeting" from last night (8/9/07).

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Rant of the day: Of all the

Rant of the day: Of all the "legal experts" on cable news I can't stand, Lisa Wiehl, on FoxNews stands out. She reminds me of the girl in class who always had to try and show she was smarter than everyone else. She has to be a liberal, but even if she's correct on legal issues, this woman is obnoxious. If she's on, Fox goes off my TV...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Chris -- well you know what

Chris -- well you know what they say...

It's the squeaky Wiehl that gets the grease

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

Jack, Ouch. Good one.

Jack,

Ouch. Good one. Although my loathing for her goes to the point I'd like too see a load of grease dumped on her when she gets on her high horse...

 

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Why not give her and her

Why not give her and her intellectually-identical twin "DICK" Morris a show of their own where they can spend an hour convincing the world how they are the smartest people on earth.  Then they'll refuse to go on O'Reilly or H&C because their show is much better, and once they tank and get cancelled we'll never have to see them again.

A quick Shrub

A quick Shrub Report:

Well, it's day 5 of Pennsylvania Drought Watch 2005, and yesterday Pittsburgh broke a 119-year record for rainfall in one day. Good news for drought lovers: It is not supposed to rain at all this weekend!

87 years ago today, the Ottoman Empire was carved up like Thanksgiving turkey. Say hello to Lebanon, Syria, (eventually) Iraq, Armenia, Palestine, (for a while) Kurdistan, and (eventually) Turkey.

Will he go skating away on the thin ice of his 60th birthday today?

Some Steelers news... Was Steely McBeam the best the Steelers could come up with?

 

}}---> Roger Tull?

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?

Or that everybody's on stage and it seems like you're the only person sitting in the audience?

Happy Birthday Rena Sanderone

 

Wonder how long it will take

Wonder how long it will take to prosecute this border patrol agent?

Poor guy just signed his

Poor guy just signed his own death warrant and excommunication from the US. All because he was doing his JOB!!! I can see it now... Border Agent Uses Disproportionate use of Force Against Mexican Tour Guide...despicable. Tell Ramos & Compean I said Hi!

You can't save the Earth unless You're willing to make other people sacrifice. Dogbert the Green Consultant summing up the elite left.

I hope someone with big

I hope someone with big bucks can fund a top lawyer to represent the border agent pronto.

Given the outrageous comments from Mexican government shills and their US flacks, they have already tried and convicted the guy. I feel a potential railroading here.

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

Bad Fairness Doctrine

Extracted from a letter I wrote to a Fairness Doctrine proponent, Why the Fairness Doctrine is totally totally totally unnecessary.

If you look into the industry literature, you will discover that wireless, coaxial cable, and optical fiber offer limitless bandwidth for digital signals. The ability of equipment to encode and compress information in ever smaller slices is the limiting factor. How will the inviolable wireless frequencies be determined? Shall we use the frequency bands that were necessary for 1930’s radio and television technology or those that are necessary now, or those that will become possible in the future? I don’t know whether you are from the US or England or Titan, where I live. When I talk specifics, I will talk about one of these places, and not about the others.

If I were to summarize your argument, it would be: Since the government has allocated frequencies and assigned them at some time in the distant past for far less money than they are worth now, and as the government allows the legal system to have jurisdiction over the property rights, so the government can impose fiduciary and ideological duties on broadcasters even though these duties fly in the face of the First Amendment. You did not mention an ideological duty, but that is plainly the purpose of the Fairness doctrine you favor. The Fairness Doctrine does not require some fiduciary duty to keep a certain level of profit or employment or even to maximize payments to the government, but it does require that any message that a government bureaucrat thinks is ideologically loaded be balanced by some other message with a different ideological content.

Let us posit a fairness doctrine that balances messages ideologically with other messages, using some balancing scheme determined by the bureaucracy. Conservative messages need to be balanced with polygamous transgendered messages. Liberal messages need to be balanced with Communist messages. Spanish messages need to be balanced with Polish messages. Muslim messages need to be balanced with messages from the Voluntary Human Extinction movement. This is balance when fallible people define it. In the end, the meaning of balance depends on the whim of the government bureaucracy that enforces it.

This is only the beginning of the problem.

In your argument you have touched on an important question. Is a licensed radio frequency (a) property belonging to its owner, or is it (b) a government granted monopoly that can be withdrawn at any time for any politically desirable reason, or is it (c) a government monopoly that is run by the government at the whim of the bureaucrats in charge of the monopoly? Under a fairness doctrine, someone has to decide what is fair. That person will inevitably be a government bureaucrat. Thus control of the licensed frequency is actually at the whim of the government bureaucrat. Regardless of who is responsible for paying the bills, and who gets the profits if there are any, the one in control of the frequency is the government bureaucrat. And that bureaucrat can make the business that owns the frequency fail, or he can make it succeed. The owner of the frequency has two choices if he wants to have popular programming, lots of advertising, and a profitable business. He can ban political content from his station and offer the most vapid content possible, or he can undermine the regulatory regime with payments to the government watchdog to treat his business favorably. Instituting a fairness doctrine will produce a defacto government controlled monopoly, vapid content, and corruption of the government bureaucracy. This is the inevitable result of the Fairness Doctrine.

That is the overriding problem with the Fairness Doctrine. It brings the country that embraces it closer to government enforcement of ideological purity, much as in Nazi Germany, North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, and Cuba. The Fairness Doctrine leads to Fascism.