The Propaganda Machine In View

I saw the following comparison of headlines and searched the internet for a source only to find countless blogs carrying this information. Lest any of you doubt it, the Main Stream Media (MSM - aka "liberal media") have been pushing public opinion on par with Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine. If you read this and don't know what I'm talking about, how do you think Hitler got all those Germans to be complicit in the evils of Nazi Germany? I had a friend in the Marines named Linda. She was an older lady who went to the base chapel with me. Linda was a German immigrant and had been a youth in Berlin during WWII. She described Hitler's propaganda to me and how it affected the way she thought even to the day I knew her. This kind of distortion of the truth is passed off as merely news, but the intent to color our opinions and inform our worldviews. Be careful that you don't fall prey to those who would be the only source of your information about this world and exploit you to fuel their own geopolitical goals.


Headlines January 19, 2005

• “Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees”
• “Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times”
• “Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft”

Headlines Today:

• “Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million”
• “Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party”
• “Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate”
• “Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration”

Where'd the Bread and Milk Go? 'Snow-where to be Found

It's that special time of year in North Carolina where you hear about a presidential inauguration and have to find a few tens of thousands of porta-potties. Okay, wrong story...

Let me try again:

It's that special time of year in North Carolina where one feels compelled to go to the grocery store to stock up on bread and milk only to find that everyone else already beat you to it. Okay, either the stores have gotten wise to this trend and stocked up for the rush or people finally realize that they're not really going to run out of bread and milk. Because it wasn't that bad today when Lois sent me to the store for a few groceries - including bread and milk.

It's also a time when an inch means that everyone not self-employed wakes up hours early to watch the big three networks see if their place of business will be open. Actually, it does sound like the inauguration, except that because of the economy fewer people will be waking up early to see if they need to go to work.

You know, I'm less and less excited about this with each paragraph. (Yes, I just used a neo-Kennedyism.)

But this news is something that is not too common in North Carolina. I'm originally from Ohio so I know how it is. My friend, Kim, just informed me that it's not snowing in New York...

...but in NC there is SNOW!!










Hey! I hear you guys from the north laughing at this piddly amount of snow, and I agree. But we'll have the last laugh. It'll probably all melt by noon tomorrow (like it usually does) having raised our spirits and gone away on it's own...

...completely unshoveled! Yes!!!



I wish I could say the same for the government.