Tom Sweet Radio Show

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April 18, 2005 show

 

SOUND and VIDEO CLIPS

 

1.   O'Reilly on Obama's 'Like it or Not, We're a Military Superpower'

 

2.  White House Science Czar: U.S. Can’t Expect to Be No. 1 in Everything Indefinitely

      Dr. John P. Holdren said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

 

3.  Willie Nelson Reaffirms ‘Truther’ Convictions

 

4.  Willie Nelson Confesses Pre-Show Pot Use to Larry King

 

5.  Obama Mocks Tea Partiers: ‘You Would Think They’d Be Saying Thank You’

 

6.  Tea Party Leader Blasts Geraldo Rivera Over Anti-Tea Party ‘Hit Pieces’

 

7.  NBC Reporter Quizzes Black Man at DC Tea Party: ‘Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?’

     Media Research Center: “There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events,”

NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man

at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she

chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions:

“Have you ever felt uncomfortable?” Postell rejected her loaded premise that race must

divide Americans: “No, no, these are my people, Americans.”

 

8.    Report: Lawmakers Could ‘Fix’ Health Law So They Can Maintain Current Coverage

NY Times: “It is unclear whether members of Congress and Congressional staff who are currently

participating in F.E.H.B.P. may be able to retain this coverage,” the research service said in an

8,100-word memorandum. And even if current members of Congress can stay in the popular program

for federal employees, that option will probably not be available to newly elected lawmakers, the report says.

 

9.    Maher Describes Palin and Bachmann as MILFs – Morons I’d Like To Forget On Hardball with Chris Matthews

"They're attractive especially to the Republican Party, which is not known as a party that really does well

with the opposite sex. Usually they're doughy white men and I think they look on Michele Bachmann and,

and Sarah Palin, as you know, M.I.L.Fs and I agree, they're Morons I'd Like to Forget."

 

10.   Champaign IL Mayor Schweighart says Obama is not an American citizen

This was filmed in West Side Park in Champaign, IL. Mayor Jerry Schweighart claims Obama is not an American citizen.

 

11.  Bill Maher Defends Woman Who Sent Adopted Child Back to Russia

 

 

NEWS ITEMS,   THIS AND THAT

 

12.  American capitalism gone with a whimper PRAVDA

 

13.    Pasco family mourns newborn as pit bull put to death

 

14.  Incentives Not to Work

Larry Summers v. Senate Democrats on jobless benefits.

 

15.  Lawyer: Laptops took thousands of images

 

16.  NYC to close 'rubber rooms' for teachers

 

17.  Boy, 3, tells how he 'saw grandmother in Heaven' before being brought back from the dead after falling into pond

 

18.  Cancer survivor barred from NHS treatment for paying private doctor to ease her spinal pain

 

19.  Facebook to target ads based on users’ trail

Facebook has laid the ground for a new system that would track its users’ behaviour as they visit other sites around the internet,

 using the information to deliver highly targeted advertisements to them on the social networking site.

So-called “behavioural targeting” is widely used by companies such as Google but, on Facebook.com,

 the move is likely to provoke a new round of criticism over incursions into users’ privacy.

 

 

20.  UPI Odd News

 

     a.  Police help freeway-crossing ducks

 

     b.  Cookbook typo: Use 'ground black people'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

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