Semi Truths A highly irregular weblog dedicated to Truth, Justice, and American Cheese…!

May 10, 2006

SEEING CINDY SHEEHAN

Filed under: Charlottesville,Politics — semi @ 3:38 am

Semi Truths began with a single mission: to change the world.

No, obviously not, but I am afraid that too many of my fellow bloggers substitute their WRITTEN OUTRAGE for any actual action. It’s easy to sit in front of a computer and type “Bush Sucks!”. It’s more difficult to get up and actually go out into the world and start a dialogue.

A few months ago, I attended a Town Hall Forum on Iraq, sponsored by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice. There, I met David Swanson, a powerful man driven by great passions who has the ability to pull people into his own gravitational field. David invited me to join the CCPJ’s Speakers Committee, which is how I found myself helping to bring Cindy Sheehan to Charlottesville on May 17th and, improbably, why I will be up on stage M.C.ing the event…!

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MOURNING SEDITION

Filed under: Politics — semi @ 12:42 am

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer only a few days after CBS’s 60 Minutes dubbed him “half Renaissance man, half rodeo cowboy”. The governor came to Charlottesville in an appearance sponsored by the UVA Center for Politics  to talk about biodiesel and alternative energy. I liked him immediately.

He is a Democratic Governor in a Red state with less than one million residents, and with a Republican Lt. Governor. He is a rancher and an agricultural scientist. He has built roads in Africa and irrigated croplands in Saudi Arabia. He may be “the next best hope of the Democratic Party“, and now he has done something else great.

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May 1, 2006

GO NUKE!

Filed under: Politics,Satire — semi @ 11:15 pm

I would like to suggest a proposal regarding the Iran nuclear situation that, to my knowledge, has not yet been put forward.

The Administration is worried that Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear power generation are just a guise for developing nuclear weapons. Pundits are proclaiming that, once it is a nuclear power, Iran will threaten Israel. The International community favors diplomacy, the White House prefers saber rattling, and the rest of us think this all sounds awfully familiar and wonder whether the U.S. is going to invade Iran tomorrow or wait until the weekend…

I say: let ‘em have The Bomb.

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October 8, 2003

“WE REPORT, YOU RECLINE”

Filed under: Media,Politics — semi @ 11:10 am

It’s Official! FOX “News” viewers are certifiably dumber:

GOOD JOURNALISM VS. BAD. Supporters of Fox News like to argue that, by virtue of being more balanced and playing it down the middle, the network gets it right where other news outlets, mired in liberal bias and opinioneering, get it wrong. But a new study out from the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland suggests (among other things) that Fox News viewers are literally less well-informed about some basic facts than viewers of other, putatively slanted news sources.

And quoting from the report (Misperceptions, The Media and The Iraq War, available in PDF form):

Fox News watchers were most likely to hold misperceptions — and were three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions. In the audience for NPR/PBS, however, there was an overwhelming majority who did not have any of the three misperceptions, and hardly any had all three.

Of course, the NEOCONPOOPS© will just dismiss this is liberal media bias, which is why I am grateful that we have Young Republicans college students setting the record straight:

“I think he’s a person of morality. I’d rather have a good man be president than a smart man, hands down…He’s far from stupid. He’s your average Joe American. It would be great if you were the smartest guy in the world and a really moral person. But you’re not going to have that.”

— UW-Madison freshman on “President” Bush and in celebration of stupidity.

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