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Is this a one time shot or will this become regular, and if it is regular does it hurt the membership?

Anyways here is Rush Limbaugh on YouTube from yesterday:

and part 2

and part 3

and part 4

and part 5

and part 6 which ends the first hour

There are 10 parts I won’t post them all. It will be interesting to see if this continues. Is the idea for a “Rush” youtube channel to go viral and counter the old media through the new one? Time will tell.

Good Form all ’round

Posted: June 9, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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Ed Whelan has apologized for outing Publius. In the end that is good form. It’s hard to admit you are wrong publicly. Doesn’t change what was done but is the best corrective.

Publius has accepted the apology, even better form. He could have certainly decided to reject it since the act cant be outdone but it showed good form to take it and consider the matter dropped.

Good form all around.

The UK Daily Mail reminds us of the reality of what is going on:

This year, it’s been a game of cat and mouse to evade the secret police and the surveillance cameras so we can meet the survivors of the Tiananmen massacre and hear what happened to them.

It shouldn’t be. Last year, the Chinese announced during the Olympics that foreign journalists would be free to work anywhere in the country – they needed only to apply for a ‘ journalist visa’.

We applied – as a BBC documentary team – but heard nothing for months. Our only option was to travel on a tourist visa.

Just beyond the border crossing at Shenzhen, policemen shouted, yelped into their radios and waved white-gloved hands in the camera lens: clearly, old habits die hard.

Arriving at our hotel in Chengdu in western China, I spotted a man beetling through the front door towards us, talking into his radio. A friendly porter? No, he interrogated our driver about our plans.

The next day I realised that the authorities were going to be really persistent when two plainclothes policemen popped up in the middle of a field of brilliant yellow rapeseed, focusing their binoculars on us from just a hundred yards away.

China can pretend that this never happened and can repress any who wish to talk about it, however the fact that China is a bloody repressive state is a fact and until the day comes when China acknowledges that this will be so.

House of cards

Posted: June 2, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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Well its been a few weeks now since everybody told us that Dick Cheney out front was a bad idea, lets see how that’s worked out

Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.

By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn’t be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.

There is only one conclusion to make