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For years I have held the Associated Press in high regard.  I thought that the AP was less biased than many of the major news outlets.  However, this morning after reading an AP account of Governor Mike Huckabee’s gaff on Obama I have to change that opinion.

When I log out of my Yahoo email I am dumped to Yahoo News page.  I don’t normally go to Yahoo for my news, but sometimes there is a headline that catches my eye and I will read it.  This morning there was a news item there titled, “FACT CHECK: Huckabee claims Obama grew up in Kenya.”  Governor Huckabee made a statement in a radio interview saying, that since Obama was raised in Kenya his view of the British was very different than the average American.  About mid article there is a reference to Obama’s removing the bronze bust of Churchill from the Oval Office and returning it to the Brits. The author of the piece, Phillip Elliot, went on to say;

“He failed to note that Obama replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.”

I remembered reading an article some time ago about Obama returning the bust in the Telegraph so I went searching for it.  Mr. Elliot should check his facts.  According to an article in the Telegraph, Mr. Obama did in fact return the bust to the possession of the UK.  According to the Telegraph the bronze bust now resides in the residence of the British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald in Washington, just down the street from the Vice President’s residence.

Governor Huckabee may be wrong on where Obama was raised,  (maybe) but his point about the President’s attitude toward the British is pretty well right on.  I have read several articles about President Obama being influenced by his Kenyan father’s anti-colonial feeling toward the British.  Surely that has a lot to do with Obama returning the bust of Churchill to the British, not to mention his less that warm relations with the UK.

Dinesh D’Souza explains Obama’s motivation very well in this book The Roots of Obama’s Rage.  Mr. D’Souza states that,  “Obama is motivated by inherited rage — an often masked, but profound rage that comes from his African father; an anticolonialist rage against Western dominance, and most especially against the wealth and power of the very nation Barack Obama now leads.”

My point?  It is now very difficult to tell “News” from “Opinion” in the media.  When you read something that sounds like news, it may be flavored with opinion, so do your own research.

As Kermit the frog used to sing, it isn’t easy being green. In a short article from the San Francisco Chronicle it seems the city’s push to have low flow toilets installed has caused some unintended consequences.

San_Francisco’s big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink. Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.

The city has already spent $100 million over the past five years to upgrade its sewer system and sewage plants, in part to combat the odor problem.

Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite – better known as bleach – to act as an odor eater and to disinfect the city’s treated water before it’s dumped into the bay. It will also be used to sanitize drinking water.

That translates into 8.5 million pounds of bleach either being poured down city drains or into the drinking water supply every year.

Not everybody thinks it’s a good idea.

A “Don’t Bleach Our Bay” alert has just gone out from eco-blogger Adam Lowry who argues the city would be much better off using a disinfectant like hydrogen peroxide – or better yet, a solution that would naturally break down the bacteria.

As for whether the supposedly environmentally friendly, low-flow toilets are worth the trouble? Well, according to Jue, they have helped trim San Francisco’s annual water consumption by about 20 million gallons.

Union supporters have been picketing in front of the Georgia capitol building for the last few days in support of their Union comrades in Wisconsin.  This weekend they were joined by the Georgia Tea Party in a counter demonstration.  The Tea Party supporters were across the street from the Union supporters.  Sunday, one of the Union thugs crossed the street and waded into the Tea Party folks and started throwing them around.

If you believe the main stream media, (then you are not in touch with reality) the Tea Parties are potentially violent.  In this clip you can see that the unions are in fact the violent ones!

Would you say this guy is Overclocking his machine, just a bit??

Overclocking??

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything.

No one earned anything…

However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a “stimulus package” works.