Freedom Friday's Show Plan 6/20/2008
Quickpoll: should the legislature pass new laws to punish faith healing parents? Predictable response. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/121393411035210.xml&coll=7
Founders Quote: "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family."
Thomas Jefferson (letter to Francis Willis Jr., 18 April 1790)
False impression from O article claiming MZ 49 is a success: Buried deep in the article is the truth. Of course less houses are being built because the wild and unrealistic projections by Portland based land use organizations. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1213932316307280.xml&coll=7
Mortgage loan fraud: Feds get tough. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1213932333307280.xml&coll=7
Culture War: Teen girls in Mass make pact to get pregnant because they are of low esteem? How about a pact to stay a virgin and wait until marriage to have kids? And don’t blame this on lack of birth control because even if they had access to them it wouldn’t have mattered if they wanted to do this. Is the media to blame for hyping up Jamie Lynn Spears and others? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PREGNANCY_PACT?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Obama flip flops: Spin all you want but people are just smarter than this: He doesn’t represent any change at all. Same old same old. http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/20/obama-abandons-pledge-seeks-donor-funds/
Congress strikes deal on wiretapping terrorists: Why now? It’s an election year!!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20fisa.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Illegal alien watch: Mexican smugglers making US lands unsafe according to US travel alert. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200806/NAT20080620a.html
Offbeat:
Russian spa opens a monument to the enema: Don’t think I am going there for a visit. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_ENEMA_MONUMENT?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Salem man cuts water, pulls wire from Marion Co jail: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_JAIL_VANDAL?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Skunk found aboard AA flight: delays were inevitable. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_PLANE_SKUNK?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Dumbest criminal award: Parole takes stolen car to parole hearing: This is why we lock people up. I wonder if counseling helps idiots like this? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_PAROLEE_STOLEN_CAR?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
