Day: March 25, 2005

Death Threats for Inventor of “Fox Blocker”

Jon Ponder

Sam Kimery is the proud inventor of a device that rids your television of Fox News infestations. “Fox Blocker” is a small silver device that attaches to the back of the TV. Once installed – poof! – no more Hannity, O’Reilly, Shep or those three yokels in the morning who look like they’re doing a local news in Des Moines.

Sales have been slow, so far. Kimery, a former GOP precinct captain from Tulsa, has only sold about 100 units. This doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a lot of interest in Fox Blocker, however. Kimery says he has received “thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary — as well as a few death threats.

“‘Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don’t share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience,’ said Kimery, 45.”

The reaction of the Fox official who commented on the story is classic: “The channel’s [high] ratings speak for themselves.” Meaning: We’re popular. So that fact that we’re no better than Tass, the Kremlin’s propaganda channel back in the Soviet days, is irrelevant.

Order yours today – www.foxblocker.com

A Lot Can Happen in Two Years

Trish

At least, that’s probably what George W. is thinking.

Reuters is reporting our supreme allied commander has extended by two years the time a government panel can take to release their findings on links between the CIA and the Nazis.

The bill approved by Congress would extend the group’s life through March 2007.

The Nazi war crimes act requires federal agencies to provide the working group with all documents pertaining to Nazi war criminals for possible declassification and release.

The CIA, which has already turned over an estimated 1.25 million pages of documents, refused to release hundreds of thousands more — many dealing with its postwar ties to Nazis who have not been accused of war crimes.

The U.S. spy agency relented this month and agreed in principle to release more documents after Republican Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a prominent backer of the legislation, demanded CIA Director Porter Goss explain the CIA’s position at a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Let’s see…any Bush relatives likely to be implicated in anything here? Well, W’s grandfather Prescott and great-grandfather Herbert Walker Bush had assests taken under the “Trading with the Enemy Act” for financing Nazis. And then there are the voluminous links between the Bushes and the CIA, most recently George Sr. heading up the agency.

There’s just too much online for me to track down the best and most succinct on this, but if you’re interested and don’t already know about it, I recommend you start searching. If you’re already familiar with the particulars, go ahead and groan now.