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TV ad features Obama mocking BibleCandidate's 'Fight the Smears' site tries to bury video documentationA television commercial showing clips of Sen. Barack Obama mocking the Bible has prompted backlash from the candidate's "Fight the Smears" website, which falsely accuses the ad's creator of trying to scam Christians out of their money by promising to air a spot that will never be broadcast. Under the heading "Scamming the faithful," Obama's official website says of the man who made the commercial, "The trickster's claims about Barack's faith are every bit as false as his claims that this amateurish video is really a...

Gone now... CBS boo-hooed over the use of Ms. Perky. ("copyright complaint")

Poltical Advertisement Idea.... 1. Camera zooms in on American school yard, children playing sounds of laughter...... slight ticking sound in the background.... 2. Bell rings children line up to file back in school entrance. ... ticking gets louder... 3. cut to Al-Qaida terrorist training video... 4. cut back to school kids are all sitting behind their desks teaching in front of classroom.... ticking louder still.... 5. Cut to front entrance of school van pulls up and 5 terrorists jump out wearing suicide bomber vests.....and run into the school... Ticking abruptly stops.... Scroll... We need a leader that takes the threat...

...In June, the Times was in high dudgeon -- it knows no other degree of dudgeon -- about the Supreme Court's refusal to affirm a far-reaching government power to suppress political speech. The court ruled that a small group of Wisconsin residents had been improperly refused the right to run an issue advocacy ad urging the state's two senators not to filibuster the president's judicial nominees. Less than three months after the Times excoriated the court for weakening restrictions on issue ads, the paper made a huge and patently illegal contribution to MoveOn.org's issue advocacy ad. The Times, a media...

"Head On - Apply Directly To The Forehead." This commercial drives me crazy! Tell me I'm not alone!

Idaho nudists leave their clothing at the gate 04:39 PM MDT on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Associated Press WORLEY -- For those who want to take it all off, a northern Idaho nudist resort may be the place for you. This week, four-year-old Sun Meadow resort near Worley, Idaho, is holding the 61st annual convention of northwest nudists. About 200 people are at the 75 acre resort -- for activities such as nude bocce, volleyball, music and tamale making -- all done with a little courage and ample strategically applied sunscreen. Terri Capshaw, an Idaho nudist who built a home...

<p>"I'm New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and I should be dead."</p> <p>Those are the first 11 words of a public service television advertisement released today, six weeks after Corzine, 60, was critically injured in a car accident in which he wasn't wearing a seat belt.</p>

A novel based on the "Star Trek" series "Enterprise" is dedicated to U. S. Army officer Ehren Watada, who was court martialled for failing to deploy to Iraq, calling it an illegal war. It should be noted that the novel's authors dedicated their last novel to Cindy Sheehan.

This is a Rube Goldberg dream come true!!!! Be sure to read the info first, then watch the clip. And you thought those people that set up roomfuls of dominos to knock over were amazing. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it. The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was over,...

Budweiser advertisement which supports our military! You will love this if you haven't seen it.

Some Columbus radio stations have rejected as insensitive an advertisement for a car dealership that invokes Islamic references. The general manager of the dealership, though, says the promotions — which he called "tongue-in-cheek" — will air on some stations beginning next week. In the spot, Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi talks about "launching a jihad on the automotive market." Sales representatives "will be wearing burqas all weekend long," the ad says. One of the vehicles on sale "can comfortably seat up to 12 jihadists in the back." "Our prices are lower than the evildoers’ every day. Just ask the pope!...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A car dealership's tongue-in-cheek radio advertisement declaring ``a jihad on the automotive market,'' will not be changed, the company said, despite drawing sharp criticism that the ad's content is offensive. Several stations rejected the spot from Dennis Mitsubishi, which boasts that sales representatives wearing ``burqas'' head-to-toe traditional dress for Islamic women will sell vehicles that can ``comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back.'' The Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations decried the ad as disrespectful. ``Using that as a promotional pitch when so many are dying from the criminal activity of suicide bombers, that's not...

SECOND - You can win a chance to appear on television in the next Move America Forward TV ad!! Move America Forward will select 5 of our supporters/members to appear as an extra in this upcoming ad. You'll need to have your own transportation to our studio facilities in Rancho Cordova, California (just outside the city of Sacramento, California).To have a chance to be selected for this exciting opportunity, send an email to: television@MoveAmericaForward.org Be sure to include your name, address, telephone number, and a recent photograph in the email entry you send. This television ad will be shot...

I don't like vanity posts but here goes anyway. I just saw a great commercial on Fox news from a Kurdish group thanking the US for their freedom. I was stunned, pleased and thought it worthy of a vanity post. Hopefully others here have seen it and can provide some context.

Stealth firm plays reversi with VoIP codeChinese software developers have reportedly reverse engineered Skype's internet telephony software to develop a clone. The unnamed company has developed a software client using the same protocol and encryption technology used by Skype. This software, which is still in the early stages of development, was used to call Charlie Paglee, co-founder of Voice over IP startup Vozin Communications. Although the software lacks features that indicate whether someone is online or instant messaging technology, Paglee reports that the mystery firm involved plans to add these features (along with stability improvements) and release a stable version...

President Carter, on January 23, 1980, gave the US oil market demand to OPEC. The Democratic Congress, on March 27, 1980, passed the Domestic Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax which was fatal to the US domestic oil producing industry. Cheap US oil production has been declining rapidly for 20 years. Expensive foreign oil has been replacing declining US oil production for 20 years. Expensive foreign oil has been causing gasoline prices to rise for 20 years.

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A GERMAN newspaper has apologised for accidentally placing a utility company advertisement for "the gas of tomorrow" inside a full-page story on the Nazi killing of Sinti (Gypsy) people in Auschwitz concentration camp. The Landeszeitung Lueneburg said on its website today it had not noticed that the article about a local exhibition describing the fate of the Sinti in Hitler's Germany appeared on the same page as an advert for utility company E.ON which read: "E.ON is taking care of the gas of tomorrow, today." The Nazis used poison gas for mass killings in World War II. It is estimated...

I just found the link to a national survey which just started about intelligent design and whether or not it should be taught in public schools. The survey also asks about teaching religous philosophy in public schools as well. Very smart questions.

A man reads an Italian newspaper with a Playstation advertising campaign featuring a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan 'Ten years of passion' in Rome, September 30, 2005. (Tony Gentile/Reuters) Sony (6758.T) has apologized for an advertising campaign for its PlayStation game console which featured a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan "Ten years of passion." Some Catholics were outraged by the adverts, which ran in newspapers and magazines to celebrate the product's tenth anniversary. "This time they've gone too far," said Antonio Sciortino, editor of Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family), a...

by Eric Scheske Other Articles by Eric ScheskeContact this Author The Ad Man Cometh 08/24/05 Marlboro Man, meet Pastor Phil. On August 30th, the United Methodist Church will start a four-week, $4 million effort to market its church. In order to make sure they don’t waste their money, “they're turning to those who know how to sell cars, houses, and other commercial products.” It’s part of a trend. “The church in more ways than not is mirroring Wall Street and the world and Madison Avenue," said a representative of Focus on the Family. "We're [lagging] behind them to a certain degree,...

The nation's largest Islamic civil rights group plans to launch a public relations campaign on Thursday, to tell Americans that terrorism is incompatible with their religion. At a news conference in Washington, D.C., the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will unveil public service announcements, to be aired nationwide, highlighting the Muslim community's condemnation of terrorism and rejection of those who carry out terror attacks. The campaign is called "Not in the Name of Islam," and it includes an Arabic-subtitled version of the 30-second public service announcement. "We often hear claims Muslims don't condemn terrorism and that Islam condones violence," American...

Tom Cruise's high-profile trashing of psychiatry should come as no shocker to anyone familiar with his religion. Scientology's position regarding most of psychiatry is comparable to official Catholic teachings about abortion. Scientology says that all psychological ills are a result of a particular kind of psycho-spiritual wound, and that medications and other tools of modern psychiatry, notably electroshock therapy, are useless and harmful. What kind of religion sets up a psychological theory as sacred doctrine? A thoroughly modern one. The Church of Scientology — no relation to Christian Science — is barely 50 years old. Founded in America, it stands...

CONCORD, N.H. - Six newspapers in New Hampshire have agreed to stop running real estate ads that suggest children aren't welcome at the properties following complaints that the ads violated federal law. Several dozens landlords and real estate agents also agreed to stop placing ads targeting adult tenants and to submit future ads to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for review. Federal law prohibits landlords from discriminating against children. The ads included promotions like "one mature person," "quiet adult location" and "great for a single person." They are discriminatory because they make it harder for families to...

Ukrainian vice-premier on humanitarian and social issues, Nikolay Tomenko, charged the State Consumer Standard, the Ministry of Justice and the State Committee on Broadcasting with coordinating of the draft "On changes in the act 'On the advertisement" and submitting it to Verkhovna Rada for consideration, the press service of the vice-premier reported. The draft must provide for banning of alcohol beverages and tobacco advertising by the outdoor advertisement and broadcasting. Explaining the reason of such action, Tomenko said that "the practice proved that the legislative restrictions and demands concerning such advertising were not executed or just ignored by the advertisers....

Magazine Admits Writer Paid By U.S. Agency By Anthony Thornton The Oklahoman The Outdoor Oklahoma article read like an advertisement for a federal wetlands program, and with good reason: It was. In the September/October edition of the state-owned publication, former Oklahoman Dave Smith heaped accolades on the government's Wetlands Preserve Program, administered by the National Resources Conservation Service. Turns out, the eight-page article was among five Smith was hired to write by the conservation service, a division of the U.S. Agriculture Department. This week the Agriculture Department, in response to Freedom of Information requests, made public a September 2003 contract...

I listen to country music in S. Florida. The station is owned or managed by Clear Channel. I was aghast yesterday when they aired an ad for the newer show, the "L" word on Showtime. For those of you who don't know, it's a Lesbian soap opera. Okay, is it just me living in the old-fashioned era I choose to, or is this absolutely insane and disgusting? My country music station promoting a lesbian soap opera????? What is up with that? I emailed Clear Channel a letter of disgust, but have received no reply. I just wanted to vent basically.

February 26, 2005 -- For a car that can go from zero to 60 in less than three seconds, the Saleen 7 is one hot set of wheels. But at a shriek-inducing $559,500, it's hardly a hot seller. The S7, which tops Forbes magazine's list of high-priced autos, is a race car that's been "tamed" for the billionaire impulse shopper. Unfortunately, no one's biting.

Rolling Stone agrees to Bible ad Rolling Stone reverses itself, says religious content isn't banned 08:29 PM CST on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Rolling Stone magazine has reversed itself and agreed to accept an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible. After first rejecting the advertisement, Rolling Stone sent the publisher, Zondervan, a contract for a half-page ad in the music magazine's Feb. 24 issue, said Doug Lockhart, executive vice president of marketing at the nation's largest Bible publisher. Lisa Dallos, a spokeswoman for Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media LLC, said Tuesday that...

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When I was growing up in DC, there was no such thing as a nursing home that I was aware of, anyway. My Grandparents and Dad died without their existence being known to them. My Mom died in one, in 1981, and it was a place I didn't like to visit. Nursing homes came into existence as a virtually new business, when Medicaid and Medicare came on the scene in the late 1960's, and have flourished ever since. They're expensive. Very expensive, and today, a really nice one goes for maybe $1,000 a week or even more. We all get...

That's what I want to know. Their featured advertisement today reads "Secrets Of Millionaire Conservatives Revealed", so I decided to take a peek out of curiosity. It turns out to be Mike Litman promoting some new book that claims to change lazy procrastinators into overnight (or 30-day) successes by giving them the "secrets" of the rich. Notable quotables: "just reading of the table of contents would be enough to shake the laziest person alive from their deepest slumber." "Look, no one knows more than me that some people hate to read. I hear you. So what I’ve done is give...

Food cops who think your weight is their business are bent on slimming Americans down by any means necessary. That includes happily ignoring such commonplaces as evidence, logic, and common sense. Reaching deep into their toolbox to hammer companies that advertise food to children, they're now invoking the "precautionary principle" -- a bizarre theory that insists everything should be banned until it's proved absolutely safe. Susan Linn, two-time speaker at the obesity-lawsuit-pushing Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and dedicated opponent of all forms of advertising, recently told Obesity Policy Report: "I think that we need to take a leaf from...

Pundits have cast around for the reasons behind President Bush’s remarkable victory. Some have seized on moral values, or a poorly run Democratic campaign, even Kerry’s personality. One cause most overlooked in the mainstream media is a small group of Vietnam veterans, a bunch of political amateurs, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who redefined the central issue of the election. The Swifties, as they call themselves, made the election a referendum on character. Their ads, and best-selling book Unfit for Command, said that Senator Kerry is a man who lacks the character to be Commander-in-Chief. He gamed the system...

Internet Explorer, you're fired. That should have been said a long time ago. After Microsoft cemented a monopoly of the Web-browser market, it let Internet Explorer go stale, parceling out ho-hum updates that neglected vulnerabilities routinely exploited by hostile Web sites. Not until August's Windows XP Service Pack 2 update did (some) users get any real relief.

Here's a new ad the Security Moms will be placing in Ohio and Florida. (BTW they need donations too)If I put this in the wrong categories, someone let me know.

A man standing in front of a small motel says, "I am a small business man and I employ 8 people." The scene then shifts to a woman standing in front of a dry cleaner shop and she says, "I am a small business woman and I employ six people, the scene then shifts to a farmer standing in front of some workers milking dairy cows in Wisconsin, and he says, "I am a samll business man, and I employ 20 people." Then a split screne shows all three and the one in the middle looks at the camera and...

The wounds Kerry inflicted continue to pain Vietnam veterans. Dexter Lehtinen felt so strongly about Kerry that he paid for a full page ad in the Sept 6th Edition of the Army Times.

In a new ad entitled "George Bush is up to his old tricks" Kerry launches a counter attack to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads. The ad shows John McCain excoriating Bush for "standing beside' a veteran who claimed the McCain had abandoned the Vietnam Veterans. My first impression is that the ad is a very effective response, making it look as though George Bush orchestrated the attack against McCain and is doing the same to Kerry now. However, I believe that is not the case. Standing beside someone is not attacking McCain. It sounded like a bit of...

August 6, 2004 -- Despite enormous pressure from Democratic and pro-Kerry sources (including DNC and Kerry lawyers), only one TV station has caved in, deciding not to run the blistering anti-Kerry ad produced by the Swift Vote Veterans for Truth. The now well-known ad counters Sen. Kerry's Vietnam "War Hero" status. The sole station to refuse the advertisement from the “527” group is WBAY, ABC Channel 2, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a key battle state. In an interview with HUMAN EVENTS, WBAY President and General Manager Don Carmichael confirmed that the station will not be running the ad "on advice...

The Club for Growth has released a hilarious and very effective ad knocking Kerry flip-flops. View it hereJeffBlogworthy.com

"This ad illustrates why George W. Bush is facing the worst poll numbers of his presidency and losing the confidence of the American people. It's as if he doesn't understand the depth and breadth of the terrorism challenges we face. In the nine months before September 11th, this President didn't have a single cabinet-level meeting on terrorism. But four years before September 11th, John Kerry wrote a book on the impending threat of international terrorism and how to take it on. The facts speak for themselves." ------ BUSH-CHENEY AD FACT CHECK Long Before Bush Became Governor or President, John Kerry...

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[Action!] Congressional Candidates for Terrorism. Congressional candidates are advertising on a website that has expressed support for the murder of Americans! Many of you already know that the Daily Kos, a liberal blogger named Markos Zuniga who has around 100,000 daily readers, recently endorsed the murder of American contractors in Iraq. In response to the murder of four Americans and the mutilation of their bodies by terrorists in Fallujah, Iraq, Markos Zuniga refused to condemn the action, then later expressed support for their murders. In case you haven't seen it, here is Markos' original post: Every death should be on...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Orion, the Big Dipper and Andromeda could be joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a Russian inventor's device catches on. Alexander Lavrynov, a spacecraft designer, said he has patented a device for advertising in space that would be seen from Earth, Interfax reported Wednesday. He said the satellites would be visible in the night sky by employing sunlight reflectors, with multiple satellites linked together to create a message large enough to be seen. "People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see...

Staff Writer While liberal advocacy groups are spending millions of dollars on television ads attacking President Bush, David N. Bossie has launched a far more modest venture in the president's defense.

The Bush/Cheney team came under heavy criticism recently for "politicizing" the September 11 terrorist attacks by using Ground Zero images in a campaign advertisement. The anti-Bush crowd cried loud and long that the use of September 11 for political gain is unconscionable. How, exactly, is that an inappropriate action? There is no bigger issue than national security in this "new era" as we all like to call it. September 11 and the War on Terror that followed are the ultimate leadership issues and ought to be central in the battle for the White House. But, if John Kerry and the...

Politics is a blood sport. If you cannot take the heat, it is best to avoid the political arena altogether. The level of intensity and the ferocity of the attacks increase with the level of the office. For months, the Democratic Presidential candidates have been fighting to represent their party next November. Their attacks have not been limited to their current opponents; they have also taken every possible opportunity to take the offensive against the current President. Here are some examples from the September 4, 2003 Democratic Presidential debate: Joe LiebermanNo planning was done by this administration. I believe it's...