Up With Anthony W, Down With O'Reilly

Sex is good, hate is bad.........

Hello and how are you today?

I could care less about phone sex between two willing adults, married or not............but I do care about public hatred on display.

Does anyone know what to do about the horrible hatred of Bill O'Reilly?

I like to write about O'Reilly and Reverend Sharpton and it is probably obvious that I am a dem and I really like President Obama.

I sometimes watch O"Reilly for comic relief but lately with this whole idea of the President Obama talking about Trayvon Martin and the national conversation on race has really set O'Reilly off into many rants, as you well know and have reported, about race and I guess he feels he can solve the issue in 15 minutes.

But now, his endless rant on Al Sharpton is becoming disgusting--I can't stand it.  He is bordering on insanity.  I think, just my opinion, he has a deep hatred and disrespect for everything of color and he is definitely a racist.  I think he was always code for racism but now his very true colors are showing.  I don't know if he will eventually go off the edge completely but I suspect not because he loves the podium of his show.

I almost can't watch him any longer--even for writing material.  He's gone insane--and his hate for Al Sharpton is so over the top he almost makes me sick.  It is like he is taking his whole hatred for everything of color, including Muslim, and piling it all on Al Sharpton.  His exuberance in deriding Al Sharpton is really getting too much for me to handle--I'm cringing when I watch him.

The thing is, if you actually listen to Rev. Sharpton he has very soothing words, as a Reverend would,  and he tries to be encouraging without violence.  Last evening he cited Ghandi and Martin Luther King and humbly stated he is still evolving.

It's like he doesn't even want Al Sharpton to talk--he just wants him to go away just like the one juror describing Trayvon Martin--he should have just gone home.

I've been at the dinner parties at the rich neighbors, the ROWGs that love Rush, and heard the comments between martini sips about what should happen to different cultures; it's not very nice and I won't repeat it here but I do know what some people think--I used to hear it from my grandfather, too.

Well, what do you think?  Can anything be  done about this guy--he is so full of hatred.  

Just my idea for a story or what, I don't even know, but I think something should be done.  Maybe President Obama should say something like he did to Rush over Sarah Fluke--that stopped him in his tracks.  Maybe people should approach the advertisers of Fox News re: the O'Reilly show.

Not to mention he is laying waste to the republican party and encouraging racism in the United States and misrepresenting us to all the advanced nations of the world--it's embarrassing.

Another thing--Bill went on CBS and tried to say he is the only one looking out for the average folks.  He can't seem to understand the average folks are a beautiful coat of many colors.  That is and always has been the history of the United States.  If anyone is speaking to the average folks it is Reverend Sharpton.  During those horrible events in Cleveland the neighborhood watch men were being interviewed on Politics Nation by Reverend Al.  Oh  my gosh, they just started talking to him as if they knew him forever.  Seriously, Reverend Al is the person looking out for the average citizen, not Bill O'Reilly.  

I really don't think that O'Reilly understands that President Obama won the election and he is of color and that is the make up of our country now; different people, other that Bill types are in power and have representation is high positions, such as Eric Holder, and more fair laws will eventually come to pass.  

I guess like all bigots Bills is little and afraid, but it is starting to show in a way that is very uncomfortable to me.

Anyway, thank you for your time, I really do appreciate it and your very respected website and I do feel strongly about what I said--I think something definitely needs to be done but I do not know what and I hope you do.

Sincerely,

Chloe Louise, the ronnie republic

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Al Jazeera America--Getting It All Together........

AL JAZEERA, REVOLVING DOOR

David Shuster To Join Al Jazeera America

By Alex Weprin on July 22, 2013 9:18 AM

Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster will be joining Al Jazeera as an anchor, a network source confirms to TVNewser. Shuster will likely anchor in the evenings, although a timeslot has not been confirmed. Shuster’s hire was first noted by Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post.

Shuster has been a regular on radio in Washington DC, and appeared frequently on Current TV after leaving MSNBC in 2010. MSNBC suspended Shuster in April of 2010 when it learned that he taped a pilot for CNN. The pilot never went anywhere, but MSNBC still felt compelled to lock him out until his contract with the network was completed.

At AJAM, Shuster is joining a bevy of TV news veterans, including former CNN anchors Ali Velshiand Soledad O’Brien and former HLN anchor Richelle Carey.

AJAM still does not have a chief executive or a head of programming, two roles that it should probably fill before it launches in a month’s time.

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The Rolling Stones, Hyde Park, London, July 13, 2013-The View From Here-Uncut

THE VIEW FROM HERE

The Rolling Stones, Hyde Park, London, July 13, 2013

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We find ourselves in the wrong bar by mistake. Arriving at Hyde Park for this second London show on the Stones' 50 & Counting tour, we're issued with numerous coloured plastic wristbands that are intended to identify where we can travel around the site. There is this bar, that tier, this restaurant, these toilets... one of the first questions we're asked as we enter the site is whether we have a dinner reservation.

It seems that Hyde Park has been demarcated into various heavily corporatised areas in much the same way I imagine the Ottoman Empire was partitioned after World War 1. Which is how we've found ourselves in this nice little bar, ushered in here by a kindly steward who seems to have misread one of the wristbands strapped to our wrist.

The bar itself is peaceful, shaded from the sun by a marquee and modestly decorated with plastic chairs and tables. There are no more than 20 people here. The beer is free – if a little flat – and on tables dotted throughout the marquee there are glass bowls full of coloured lollipops and extremely good fudge. We suspect something is a little rum when Mick Taylor pads through in a dark suit and scarf saying the odd hello as he passes; then bassist Darryl Jones, in dark shirt and bandana, stops by at the bar to share a laugh with some folks he clearly knows very well. It transpires that we’re in the Rolling Stones’ own bar, reserved for the band’s family and close friends – an area we discretely leave (after one more drink, of course) and head out for what Mick Jagger informs us later from the stage is “the last show of the tour”: the end of the Rolling Stones’ 50 & Counting manoeuvers.

The Rolling Stones take the stage on the dot of 8.30pm, their arrival heralded by news footage from the band’s original 1969 free Hyde Park concert spooling across giant screens that are wrapped around the stage. A burst of heavy percussion blasts from the speakers – perhaps a nod to Ginger Johnson’s African Drummers who enlivened “Sympathy For The Devil” at the Stones’ 1969 show – before fireworks and... here they are, the Rolling Stones, Keith in that extraordinary simian crouch playing the opening riff of “Start Me Up”. We're off. “It’s a hot time in the old town tonight,” Keith says later and, yes, it certainly is.

They follow “Start Me Up” with “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)”, accompanied by black and white images of Bob Dylan, Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker and James Brown on the giant screens. I’m not sure whether Mick fluffs the intro to tonight’s sashaying version of “Tumbling Dice”, but he seems to be caught in the middle of one of his “How’s everyone doing?” moments when the rest of the band start playing. The set so far is identical to last week's Hyde Park show, but while then they followed “Tumbling Dice” with “All Down The Line”, tonight we get “Emotional Rescue”, surprisingly only the first time the band have ever played it live in Europe. “Don’t you love this set here?” says Jagger, gesturing at the Oz-like forest of giant trees that frame the stage, their plastic branches intertwining over the heads of the band. “It’s like a tree house for Boris Johnson to live in.”

Then it’s into “Street Fighting Man”, a song whose counter cultural thrill isn’t dampened despite the event’s byzantine levels of corporate tiers, luxury restaurants, sponsored bars and credit card branding. It builds to a fantastic and protracted climax, swiftly followed by an energetic “Doom And Gloom” – arguably the band’s best single since “Start Me Up” – and then a tremendous 1966 vintage double whammy of “Ruby Tuesday” and “Paint It, Black”. The Stones really are on peerless, unstoppable form now. It’s striking how much difference there is between “Ruby Tuesday” and “Paint It, Black” – the former described by Jagger as “something romantic”, and which comes with some lovely, empathic acoustic guitar playing from Keith and Ron. Meanwhile, “Paint It, Black” is thrilling and nihilistic – eternally connected to the band's darker, lysergic impulses – driven by Charlie Watts’ pummelling beat and a powerful, hypnotic guitar attack from Keith and Ron.

For a swaggering “Honky Tonk Women” – which made its debut in this park 44 years ago – Mick pulls out a Mr Fish style smock (“I found this out the back”), much as he did last week. The band intros follow, with Charlie - "the Wembley Whammer" - coaxed down from his drum kit by Jagger to address the crowd. He manages a brief “’ello” - "He speaks!" laughs Mick - which draws one of the loudest cheers of the night. Then Keith takes over vocal duties for a dusty “You Got The Silver” and an avuncular “Happy” – accompanied by some terrific pedal steel guitar from Ron. Then there’s a bouncy “Miss You”, before Jagger introduces Mick Taylor for “Midnight Rambler”.

The gradual reintroduction of Mick Taylor into the Stones – a process that began when he was invited in 2010 to contribute to the Exile On Main Street deluxe reissue – seems to have invigorated the band. On the strength of his slot tonight, it’s a shame he’s not on stage for longer: of the nineteen songs the band play, Taylor appeared on six of the studio versions. It’s interesting watching his interactions with the the rest of the group – at first he’s bunched together with Keith and Ron, the three of them locked in a complex groove of solos and riffs, then he moves out to meet Jagger – he's the only musician to enter the singer’s personal space all night – and he and Jagger do a kind of call-and-response, with Jagger on harmonica and Taylor on guitar. Incidentally, Jagger is a terrific harmonica player – it’s a shame he doesn’t get to play the Jew’s harp tonight, another instrument he excels at. But as the two Micks duel on and on, and the song shudders and dies, only to be brought back to life by Charlie’s crisp, precise drums, I’m reminded of the brilliant footage in Crossfire Hurricane of the Stones playing “Midnight Rambler” at Madison Square Garden on the 1972 STP tour, and it seems like with Taylor on board they're reaching back and channeling that same level of energy and danger.

The main set draws to a thundering close with “Gimme Shelter”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Sympathy For The Devil” – sampled conga introduction aside – and “Brown Sugar”. Since Ron got the first solo of the night way back on “Start Me Up”, I’ve kept a tally of guitar solos. During the first half of the set, Ron had a healthy lead on Keith by four to one, but since the sun went down, Keith – ha, ha – seems to have stirred into life, and his solos on the last four songs here are dirty and glorious – in particular his bristling solo on “Sympathy For The Devil”. The encore, then, is a lovely “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Satisfaction” before the final bows, with Mick Taylor in the middle – symbolically, at least, back in the very heart of the Stones. The last thing we see up there on the giant screens is Keith putting his arm round Charlie as they walk off stage into the wings, swallowed up by the blackness.

The Rolling Stones played:

Start Me Up
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
Tumbling Dice
Emotional Rescue
Street Fighting Man
Ruby Tuesday
Doom And Gloom
Paint It, Black
Honky Tonk Women
You Got The Silver (Keith vocals)
Happy (Keith vocals)
Miss You
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Gimme Shelter
Jumping Jack Flash
Sympathy For The Devil
Brown Sugar

Encore
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)

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I Love Google Art--Maria Mitchell Astronomical Girl Power

Google Doodle honors Maria Mitchell, first American female astronomer

Today's Google Doodle honors Maria Mitchell, a pioneer in both astronomy and women's rights.

By Elizabeth Barber / August 1, 2013

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In October 1847, Maria Mitchell perched on the roof of the Pacific National Bank in Nantucket, Mass., where her father worked as a cashier. There, through a telescope, she saw a comet that would go on to join a roster of celestial objects and earthly buildings named for her and her work.

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Ms. Mitchell, the first female American astronomer, was born 195 years ago today, and her major contributions both to astronomy and to women’s rights are remembered in a Google Doodle. Today’s doodle follows one last month honoring Rosalind Franklin, the British biophysicist who contributed enormously to the discovery of DNA, and joins a number of Google Doodles celebrating pioneering women in science.

Mitchell’s Nantucket world was a seaside one, where time and direction were measured in the stars. As she grew up, she too looked to them – looked up, and found a comet, and then another one.

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That first comet, named "Miss Mitchell's Comet,” won her fame – and gold prizes from King Frederick VI of Denmark. In the years following, she became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She then went on, in 1865, to become a professor of astronomy at Vassar College, as well as the director of the Vassar College Observatory.

Throughout those years, Mitchell was a major participant in the women’s suffragist movement – women would not get the right to vote in the United States until about 30 years after her death. In 1881, a profile in The Boston Herald called her “one of the practical advocates of women’s rights, showing in her work and life what a woman can do.” She was, that profile said, a women full of – and not afraid to show – a kind of fierce determination that had long been associated with men and deemed unattractive on a woman: when an apple tree obstructed her view at her Vassar observatory, she ordered it cut down. And then "continued and closed her work with great satisfaction."

And that determination, that commitment to hard work, was what she hoped to inspire in her young students. In 1890, an obituary in the New York Times wrote that “her advice to young people was never to repine, never to long for the impossible, but got to work and make the best of the opportunity offered.” Do that, and, maybe, its possible to reach the stars.

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Alan Dershowitz vs. Gilad Atzmon

Alan Dershowitz vs. Gilad Atzmon

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A Talmudic DeliberationEthnic cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz is campaigning today for the release of arch spy Jonathan Pollard. In a commentary published on the repulsive Jewish media outlet The Algemeiner, Dershowitz argues “the time has come…for the United States to do the right thing with regard to Jonathan Pollard.”

Dershowitz’ argument is amusing as usual. “Pollard poses no continuing danger to America, since he has not had access to our secrets for nearly 30 years.”

Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, should know that people occasionally remain locked behind bars for the crime they committed in the past rather than the crime they may not commit in the future.

For some peculiar reason Dershowitz also equates between Pollard and the Palestinian freedom fighters (whom he calls ‘murderers’), due to be released by Israel. “Unlike the Palestinian prisoners who are to be released, he (Pollard) has expressed regret over his actions and has sought forgiveness.”

Dershowitz obviously fails to realise that freedom fighters and political prisoners don’t tend to ask for forgiveness. Their action is the outcome of a legitimate struggle against oppression. However, Pollard, who was involved in an act of treason, falls into a different category altogether. Dershowitz and Pollard should accept that the act of asking for forgiveness doesn’t necessarily lead to a pardon.

Dershowitz believes that the USA should release Pollard in an attempt to persuade the Israelis to ‘vote for peace.’ “The Israeli public will have to vote for any deal struck between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators,” contends the ‘best Jewish Lawyer in the world.’

The Talmudic reasoning is quick to follow - “the outcome of such (Israeli) referendum will depend on whether Israeli voters believe that their security has been assured and that the United States continues to stand behind them.” So here we are, America should let off an arch Israeli spy so the Israelis can vote for peace.

I think that Dershowitz’ Talmudic orientation is indeed very impressive. However, being myself a product of Talmudic upbringing, I would actually go along with Dershowitz’ suggestion.

I would propose that the USA releases Pollard immediately under a strict provision – If the Jewish State votes peace as Dershowitz promises, Pollard would remain free. But if the Israelis fail to provide, if they vote against peace (as they usually do), then Pollard would be locked behind bars again as stipulated by his life sentence.

Such a condition would make the Israeli spy into a negotiation bargain for peace. If the Israeli people really want Jonathan free, as Dershowitz insists, they would have to choose peace for the first time.

I would love to know how Dershowitz can rescue his troubled case now.

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