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Some how the John Edwards adultery news got out, even though the mainstream Liberal media did everything they could to suppress the news. Now that the mainstream media has finally acknowledged their conspiring to block the news from their airwaves and papers, they feign shock at Edwards confession.

Here is a montage of  NBC, CNN, MSNBC, DNCTV, what if Edwards had been the nominee?

COOPER: Had he become the Democratic nominee that could have jeopardized everything for the Democrats.

GERGEN:  If he had been the nominee of the party now, it would have ruined the Democrat's chances.

CARVILLE:  Had he been the nominee, it would be a terrible mess right now.

BREWER:  What if he had become the nominee?

GREGORY:  He could have been the Democratic nominee right now.

DIONNE:  Where we would be right now if John Edwards had won the Democratic nomination.

MITCHELL: What if he would have been the nominee?

HENRY:  He could have become the Democratic nominee.

HOOVER:  This guy could have been the Democratic nominee.

WALLACE:  He could have been the nominee.

CAFFERTY:  What if he had been the nominee?  The whole Democratic Party goes up in smoke.   [this is a significant admission] 

Can you hear (read) the panic in their voices? 

Some might be saying that the mainstream media, the same organizations that dropped any premise that they were unbiased when they joined the "Elect Obama campaign", were not trying to suppress this story. 

Then read the words of David Carr of the New York Times.  He was on Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz on CNN Sunday.  Howard Kurtz asked Carr, "David Carr, this was a story that wasn't reported at all by the major media.  Now it's all over cable and every place else.  What does it say about the old media gatekeepers that this story got out, that everybody found out about this, without our participation?"  

CARR:  “I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is.  I think that's still true, it's news when we say it is, it's just who "we" is has changed.  Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors, they can push and push and push on a story until tends up being acknowledged by everyone.”

So what other news are they keeping from us?

Reports from the Yellow Truck.

In an effort to get closer to the heart of the American people, I have taken off in my big Yellow Truck to chitchat with other American’s and find out what they are thinking. 

My next stop is out of Ohio across state lines to New York City where I have chosen Yankee Stadium and the MLB All-Star game to ask your typical American their views on America. I am stationed in the parking lot and asked Mike from Atlanta to join me in my Yellow Truck Tour interview. 

HT: Hi Mike, who did you come to cheer for tonight?

Mike: Chipper Jones, that boy can hit, and he deserves to be in tonight’s game.

HT: How many tickets do you have?

Mike: [holds his tickets close to his heart guardedly] I could only afford two, one for me and one for my son. With the cost of flying these days we had to leave my wife home to be here. I feel bad for her, being left at home, but she understands. [flashes a sympathetic look me.]

HT: Ouch! Sounds like you have hit some hard times in the Bush economy. Would you mind sharing with me what each ticket cost?

Mike: These here tickets were a steal for four hundred and fifty dollars. [shows me the tickets and the original price of $250]

HT: For the two of them?

Mike: No, no, that was a piece. That’s $450 each.

HT: In the Bush economy, how do you afford such luxuries? 

Mike: Heck, it has been a good year for me and I worked hard to earn these tickets. It is the American dream to works hard and reap the rewards. Too many American’s are sittin’ around waiting for handouts. That isn’t how I was raised though. Work hard, play hard. That’s my way! [Slaps me on the shoulder]

HT: Looks like you are not alone Mike. Tonight’s game is a sellout. Thanks for chatting with me.

Mike: No problem, enjoy the game.

HT: [queue exit banjo music] There you have it. Hard work pays off. That’s it for now from the Yellow Truck Interviews. See ya!

Reports from the Yellow Truck.

 [Intro: Banjo music sets background mood. Narrator: (HybridTalk) introduces the program,]  

In an effort to get closer to the heart of the American people, I have taken off in my big Yellow Truck to chitchat with other American’s and find out what they are thinking. 

My first stop will be at the Starbucks inside the Target in Solon. I make my way to a woman who is holding a number of Target bags filled with goods. She has just ordered a medium Chocolate/Banana Vivanno drink and said I was free to ask her a few questions. Her name is Jen.

HT: Hello Jen, my name is HybridTalk and I was wondering what you thought of the Bush economy?

Jen: It is killing me (rolls eyes) to where I have to cut back on my coffee size [holds out the newly purchased Vivanno]. Gas prices, food prices, they are all out of control.

HT: I see you have some packages from Target. Were you buying necessities for the home?

Jen: Oh yes. Let’s see, I have the new Ipod for my son James. For my daughter I found this great Sony Digital camera, so when she goes to college this year she can take pictures and send them to me. 

HT: So your daughter has a computer?

Jen: Yes, we bought her a Mac Book last month as a ‘going to college’ gift.

HT: And what college is she attending?

Jen: Ohio State. 

HT: Why not send her to a local school and save some money?

Jen: Well the local schools are not as good as OS and the cost is negligible. In the end it will be worth the investment.

HT: So you have hope for your daughter’s future?

Jen: Heavens yes. This IS the greatest country in the world and he hope all our children will do better than their parents did. 

[Sudden interview interruption by Local law enforcement]

Police: Hey buddy, is that your big yellow truck parked in the handicap zone? Move it now or I tow it. 

HT: Um, ok, [queue exit banjo music] that’s it for now from the Yellow Truck Interviews. See ya!

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Use the site listed above to send a care package to our American Troops.

Many in Congress and in the Media have tried to send defeat to our American Troops and special goodie bags to Ameirca’s enemies (Like Constitutional rights…thanks Liberals on the Supreme Court). This can be a way to give to America’s Troops.  

The package contains:  

Personal Comfort Pack" - Care Package Includes:  

       Containers of SPF30 Ultra-Sweatproof Sport Sunblock
       Delon Intense XL Deodorant Sticks
       ChapX Lip Balms
       Packs of 100ct. Baby Wipes with Aloe and Lanolin
       Insect Repelling BugButtons
       Maxi Mini Fan with belt clip and break-away neck rope $39.99 supplies two of our wonderful soldiers, so show your patriotism, and send the Troops a message you support them, and remember them.

On Memorial Day, we had the usual family members visit us as we had the big outdoor barbeque. It looked like rain in the morning, but by noon we knew it would be a day blessed by our Lord Jesus. This is the Day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24).

As family members arrived they seemed to split into two groups. One group congregated indoors and the other was outside with me. I had the lawn chairs positioned around the grill under the shade trees. Soon I was joined by one of my uncles. I love this old guy and he has some great stories, in spite of the posttraumatic stress disorder he suffered from. He was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz, and then came home and spent six months in an attic. My aunt said he didn’t eat or drink much that whole time. He just contemplated the meaning of life. 

Then my father-in-law arrived and he joined us on the solemn day. He greeted my uncle and me and then told us the details of his trip from 'Sioux City’ South Dakota and we caught up on family business. 

Last to arrive was my cousin and her husband. She had just returned from fourteen months in Iraq and was trying to adjust to civilian life. Her stories were guarded but she ensured us that the tide had most certainly turned and the enemy was on the run.

Before dinner, we prayed for the fallen members of the military who gave their lives for our freedom and our country. My uncle noted that he saw some of the fallen among us, and we all looked at each other, remembering the months he spent in the attic. 

Thank you Lord for the freedom you give us to freely live and freely worship you in the great country. Protect us from foreign enemies, and the enemies within our own boarders. Protect our troops O God, and help to defeat the enemy who opposes freedom, and opposes you and your truth. Jesus is truth. May our lives honor you, and may Your Kingdom Come. -- Amen

My wife wanted to put an effort into Earth day last week, so she came up with some new ideas to save energy and give back to the earth. 

First, she came up with this new method of cooking. It costs absolutely nothing in energy. I came home and she was outside with two steaks on the picnic table. She hovered over them with a magnifying glass, moving the hot spot generated by the glass over the steaks.

“I’ve been out here since noon cooking these things, but I think they are about done, and it didn’t cost us a dime! I hope you like your meat rare.” said my wife.

As a side dish, we were having raw potatoes, washed in cold water. They had been wrapped in foil and left out on the table in the sun. They were warm, but not quite what I would call cooked. But even with the unpalatable texture of the cuisine we swallowed hard, knowing that we were doing better than others this week, saving energy.

Then there were raw carrots and cucumbers for a veg.

To drink, my dear one served up some Sun Tea. Now this was good and really helped swallow those potatoes.

How did it come to this? Liberals are pro-choice on a woman’s decision to kill her unborn child, but not the light bulbs she uses. 

Thanks to Congress led by radical Liberals, by 2012, incandescent light bulbs will be no more. This is why the Founding Fathers limited the power of government. It can become a reign of terror against the citizens it is supposed to serve.

Enter a piece of legislation introduced this month by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.

Titled the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act," the bill seeks to repeal the nationwide phase-out of conventional light bulbs, the kind that have been used for more than a century -- pretty much since the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

Bachmann, a first-term Republican, is challenging the nation's embrace of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights, saying the government has no business telling consumers what kind of light bulbs they can buy.

As a Conservative Democrat, I would cross party lines and join Rep. Michele Bachmann in this legislation. The Governement has no right telling us what light bulbs we should or should not own. We should have the CHOICE.

Mercury disposal an issue!

The mercury content of fluorescent light bulbs has long been a concern of federal and state regulators. Minnesota is one of a handful of states that ban the disposal of fluorescent lights as general waste, and Xcel Energy, the state's biggest utility, actively reimburses many customers for recycling them.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) outline a series of steps that homeowners should take to clean up broken fluorescent lights: Open windows, use rubber gloves, dispose of all material in sealed bags and remove it to a hazardous waste facility.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/house
/17002506.html

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal."

 - Martin Luther King Jr.

John Jay (1745-1829)

Elected to the First Continental Congress in 1774, John Jay would later become the group's fifth president. He was one of three Americans who negotiated the Treaty of Paris that helped end the American Revolution, and later, when he was Secretary of Foreign Affairs, his Jay Treaty helped avoid a second war between England and America. During this crucial period of American history, Hay played other important roles. Together with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Jay helped to turn public opinion toward this powerful document.

Later he would serve as First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1789-1795) and he even spent two terms as governor of New York. Trusted by many to fill crucial positions during our nation's founding, Jay was known as a man of honor and his word. He was a man of God's Word too, as he'd been the president of the American Bible Society. And nowhere in God's Word could he find any defense for upholding the practice of slavery. Yet still it remained, a lawful policy of the land. For the time, John's own opinion of the matter was stated most concisely: "We have the highest reason to believe that the Almighty will not suffer slavery and the gospel to go hand in hand. It cannot -- It will not be."

Yet he still regretted not pushing harder during the framing of the Constitution to formally declare an end to the hateful institution. His antislavery group, the New York State Society for Promotion the Manumission of Slaves, had been prepared to petition the Constitutional Convention, but when colleagues as sympathetic as Benjamin Franklin, who presided over the Pennsylvania Antislavery Society, warned that such a move would jeopardize the group's brittle unity Jay held his sharp pen and the constitution moved forward with slavery still intact.

The Jay family story told that they knew what persecution was and the value of freedom -- his ancestors were Huguenots who'd settled in :a Rochelle, France. Henry IV's Edict of Toleration still held the land, and despite their Catholic neighbors, they practiced their religion in freedom, in quite peace. But then came Louis XIV, whose wife insisted that the heretics living in her country be punished.

Near the end of his life, John Jay might have expected that turning the tide of slavery would come swiftly, although he would never see it. Certainly the legacy he left would never stop fighting for freedom for all until it was realized.

Did you read about this?

 In-Laws’ Political Dispute Ends In Stabbing

UPPER PROVIDENCE, Pa. (CBS 3) ? The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is investigating a politically motivated stabbing that left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison. Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honey Locust Court in Upper Providence.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hillary-fan-s
tabs-obama-supporting-in-law

Whew! – You Clinton fans think it is getting tough? Ha! Us Conservatives have been contemplating using the knife too; on our selves! (Sarcasm warning) Who wants to live in a world where either Obama, Clinton, or McCain is the President. Lord, take me now. I think it’s the BIG ONE. - HybridTalk

Clinton May Garnish Wages to Achieve Universal Health Care

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation
/archive/200802/NAT20080204b.html 

[Did you hear about this? Hillary is going to force American’s to be in her health care program, and if someone refuses, she may garnish the wages of the dissenter to help pay for the program. If her program is going to be SO GOOD for everyone, why would anyone want to opt out of the program? But Hillary will have her Health care Gestapo in place to force the unwilling to participate. - HybridTalk ] 

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
February 04, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Will Sen. Hillary Clinton garnish the wages of people who can afford health insurance but refuse to buy into her universal health care plan? Maybe.

The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama is warning voters that Clinton's plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it. "And if they cannot afford it, then the question is what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fine them? Are you going to garnish their wages?" Obama asked Clinton at one of their debates.

Clinton said the "key point" is to implement universal health care. She said the mechanism by which it is achieved -- "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment...whatever the mechanism is, is not as important as...the fundamental commitment to universal health care..."

[ Spoken like a true Marxist. Don’t worry about the mechanism we use to achieve our goal of equality. What is important is that we mandate equal mediocrity across the nation. Everyone must have the worst possible health care, though it will be equally terrible for everyone (except for those who are more equal than the others).

[Did you hear about this? Liberal’s have stirred the pot of ‘anti-FOX-hatred’ with their words. With all the preaching they do to others about how words can stir up anger and hatred, they sure seem to like stirring the pot of hate. We know that Liberals are unhappy that other views than their own are being spoken. But for Liberals to commit Hate Crimes against others just because they have different views is wrong. These liberals are the ones who get in your face telling you they are defending the Constitution. They are the ones demanding freedoms and rights not defined in the Constitution or Bill or Rights. Liberal presidential candidates were fearful of going on FOX news for debates because they feared the light of truth might be shined on them, and Americans would understand that when Liberals talk about Conservatives acting like goose stepping Nazis, they really mean that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts is having their budget cut by 2%. These folks are crazy. – HybridTalk]

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Bill O’Reilly says all Fox News employees are now “cautious” after several run-ins during coverage of the New Hampshire primary that were fueled by “anti-Fox hatred.”

In his syndicated column out this week, O’Reilly described attacks on Fox that border on violence.

“I saw the anti-Fox hatred first-hand when I traveled to New Hampshire. Fox News vehicles have been vandalized; FNC reporters cursed; and all Fox News personnel are cautious,” the cable news star writes.

O’Reilly also detailed in his column an encounter he had at a Barack Obama rally, which was aired on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly described an Obama staffer’s attempt to block his camera crew “a blatant assault on press freedom.”

O’Reilly says the anger towards Fox is due to the network’s ratings success, which has created “a bitterness unprecedented in the U.S. press.

“So it comes as no surprise that Fox News, which gives equal time to conservative thought, is despised by many in the liberal press."

O’Reilly said that Democratic presidential candidates have refused to take part in debates sponsored by Fox News because “the far-left Web crazies told them to do it. Sites like the Daily Kos and Media Matters made it clear to the Democrats that anyone dealing with Fox would be punished.”

O’Reilly added: “Note that the GOP candidates haven’t played that game, appearing on ultra-liberal MSNBC and every other news network.”

SEE: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/fox_vandalized/2008/
01/11/63628.html?s=sp&promo_code=42E5-1

Herman Wouk wrote a book called “This is my God” and one of my friends who is an Orthodox Jew suggested I read the book to get a good feel on what Judaism is about.

I thought the book had a lot of insights to help me learn, but the one thing that really caught my attention was Wouk’s comments on why Christian’s should celebrate Hanukkah. This book was orthodox in his views on Judaism, and still Wouk was inviting Christians to celebrate Hanukkah.

His reasoning was that without the celebration of Hanukkah, there could be no Christmas. Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of the Maccabees in 165 BCE against the Syrian-Greek forces that had been occupying the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

The king over the Jews, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, wanted to have the Jews assimilate into the Syrian culture. Had he succeeded, there would no longer have been a people known as the Jews. All their rich history from God calling Abram and delivering them from Egypt and giving them a good and prosperous land and promising a Messiah would have been for nothing.

Then Wouk added his thoughts on why Christian’s should celebrate. If  Antiochus IV Epiphanes had succeeded in assimilating the Jews into his culture, there would have been no Jews around for when Jesus, the Christian Messiah arrived. He would have no people or culture to relate to that would have understood his coming. 

This really struck me, that I was reading this book on an orthodox view of Judaism and the author gave me material on how to celebrate a Jewish holiday because without it, the Messiah would not have a people to save… 

So as a Christian, I celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, giving thanksgiving that God is able to save His people, and make His history, all for His purposes.

[More bad news for Democrats in Congress. Americans are finding out the truth about the “surge”.]

U.S. Public Sees Sharp Improvement in Iraq 

Pew Research Poll reports U.S. public opinion on military progress in Iraq has improved “sharply” since the start of the surge in February.

Military effort is going very/fairly well: 

FEB 2007: 30% 

NOV 2007: 48% 

Military is defeating the insurgents: 

FEB 2007: 30% 

NOV 2007: 43%

Public opinion has improved across party lines: 

Republicans: 51% said things were going well in FEB 2007. The percentage is 74% in NOV 2007. 

Democrats: expressing a positive view of the Iraq effort has doubled since February (from 16% to 33%). 

Independents: went from 26% positive view of Iraq in FEB 2007 to a 41% in NOV 2007. 

This doesn't reflect the significance and quantity of the progress in Iraq, but maybe Americans are catching on a little.

Stem-Cell Success Story

Today’s papers bring news of an enormous advance in stem-cell research. Scientists in the United States and Japan have managed to turn regular human skin cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells — achieving what they’ve sought until now through the destruction of embryos, but without the need to use embryos, to use cloning, or to use eggs.

It is, to begin with, an extraordinary scientific achievement, with immense scientific potential. The new technique is much easier and cheaper than the use of embryos in research, and will likely bring about an explosion of new work on pluripotent stem cells and their applications.

How did this happen? Was President Bush impeached? How can any advancement in science be made when Bush is in office? Next thing you will be reading in the news is that Surge is working in Iraq and al Qaeda is on the run.

This weekend my wife and I went shopping for a new Christmas tree and a large Nativity set. After 25 Christmas’s our old tree had taken on the attributes of a real tree by leaving tree needles on the carpeting. 

We had great success finding a new tree, but no one seems to carry Nativity sets anymore. Or if they do, they are really cheap (and probably loaded with Chinese lead). 

I asked a few sales clerks where I could find their Nativity sets and was told that they either didn’t carry them, or the clerk didn’t know what a “Nativity set” was.

While any of you weekend shoppers were out and about, did you see any Nativity sets available? I know the A.C.L.U. has banned their display in public, but not private use. I’m looking for a set that is about 18" tall and made of either wood, ceramic or plastic.

Thanks.