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11/20/09
The "GlennBeckRaped.... .com" resolution story is actually a great read, and includes the WIPO filings and the personal letter to Beck from the domain-holder:
[techdirt.com]
11/20/09
I'm not sure if you all know this, but apparently feminists take everything to seriously, and have no understanding of the definition of the word. Well, that's what I gleaned from the conversation at least.
11/20/09
It's so silly to get hung up on the meaning of words, isn't it? Sigh.
11/20/09
Oh, wait ...
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#tips
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of the United Rape of America,
and to the Republic for which it rapes,
one raping nation under god,
indivisible, with liberty and rape for all.
Someone give me my own radio show!
08/12/09
That said, you write that that the press could help Clinton by focusing on the actual issues at hand.
Well, Clinton (and Obama) wants to frame her visit as being all about democracy, being tough on corrupt African leaders, helping defenseless Congolese women (I am with Texas in Africa on this). That may be so, but it obscures the larger rationale for Ms Clinton's visit. Which incidentally is not a secret since State Department officials can't stop wanting to tell the media about it, but the media won't report it. That is two things:
By 2025 the US government expects to import at least 25% of its oil suppliers from African sources–Clinton is visiting three suppliers on this trip: Angola, Nigeria, and Cape Verde. Obama visited a fourth, Ghana (they discovered oil in 2007), a month ago. Right now Nigeria is the 5th largest, and Angola the 6th largest exporters of oil to the United States. Oh, and the US is facing competition from China (who operate by a different, easier, set of rules for foreign investment) for African oil and other resources.
[africasacountry.wordpress.com]
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many props to hillary. lotta respect for her as a person & a politician.
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And as soon as all of the TV stations were running this, the newspapers had to pick it up so they didn't look like they were "covering it up," if that makes sense. In the end, everyone gets screwed because reporters got lazy. Grrr.
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Way to roll with the times Ms Brown.
08/12/09
That being said, one of our least-favorite newspeople, Ann Curry, was on the ball this morning. After the Today show ran the same piece everyone else is running, she made a point of explaining why it's so important that Clinton in the Congo and what life is like there. Curry has spent a lot of time in Darfur, and I have a feeling she would like to be reporting on the Congo as well.
08/12/09
I think it was about a reporter asking STUPID QUESTION.
That said, the newborn PR girl in me would have advised Madame Secretary to say something like, Oh, I'm very proud of my husband -- it's wonderful he can keep serving our wonderful nation even though he is no longer in the Oval Office'. Then I would have her re-direct attention onto the issue at hand, saying -- I'm sure he'd like us to focus on blah blah blah blah today.
Reporters can be very easy to pacify in that way.
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You know of any openings in NYC? Message me? :)
08/12/09
My dad is currently in the Congo doing humanitarian work, and the stuff that he sees and that he tells me is going on is just awful. There are so many great people who live out there and who want/appreciate the help, but things are very corrupt and the Congolese soldiers even turn on each other (in one instance one soldier killed another over a concubine). Many of the non-profits that offer humanitarian aid out there show an extreme lack of leadership, don't train their volunteers well enough and don't prepare them enough for all the secutiry issues that they will face and don't offer any/enough psychological support to the volunteers as well to help them deal with what they see everyday. Meaning that alot of volunteers aren't extending their contracts and many of them are actually terminating their contracts early. It breaks my heart to see the state the Congo is in, especially considering the fact that they are the richest country in AFrica, resource-wise, but are in an extreme state of poverty. :(