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Bo (woof) In Commentary: I haven’t been happy with the sound my stereo has been putting out for quite some time now; plus it’s a bitch to turn on. The sound was as if I was listening to my old vinyl records…not the 33 LPs but my 78s…on Edison’s original phonograph. I went online and did my research for a stereo that was easily switched on by a tail. Once found, all I needed was a set of speakers to reproduce highs well outside of human hearing range. Well lookie what I found. (This is functional kitsch; the wrong becomes...

CINCINNATI, March 12, 2008 – Scores of students at the University of Cincinnati will be surprised today to find their history courses taught by servicemembers in uniform instead of their familiar tweed coat-clad professor. For the second consecutive semester, History Professor Tom Lorman will yield the lectern to participants of the Defense Department’s “Why We Serve” outreach program, which places military speakers before audiences at venues across the United States. “The speakers will provide the students insight into what makes a warrior a warrior,” said Lorman, whose accent reveals his English upbringing. “You can’t hear from warriors of past,...

Austrians pay a premium for native English speakers By Katie Binns Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 19/01/2007 Here in Austria nobody bats an eyelid when they see I have a degree from a redbrick university that has a good reputation at home and abroad. Nor do they care that I studied languages. Nor does translating my CV and adapting it to the local style seem necessary. If I want prospective employers to look at me twice I reveal my greatest talent – that my mother tongue is English. Being an English native speaker in Vienna offers job opportunities and a chance...

...U.S. Census Bureau data make it impossible to say how many American residents are of British descent. What we do know is that by 2050, the proportion of non-Latino whites in the population will likely drop from 70% to 50%. In 1947, just under 90% of the population of Australia was identified as "Anglo-Celt" (of English, Irish or Scottish ethnic origin). Today, that figure is 70%, and by 2025, it could be as low as 62%. The story is similar in New Zealand, where "Europeans" are projected to decline from 79% of the population today to 72% by 2016. And...

Saturday June 24th in Courtyard Square in Santa Rosa, CA brought about 300 people to our local Support The Troops Rally.There were a number of great speakers, many from the Military. Soldiers, Marines and family members with loved ones serving in Iraq and around the world.Colonel Louis "Pete" Peterka gave a very moving talk which I will go into later. His Daughter was there and her son (his Grandson) Kevin is serving in Iraq at this time. That's Kevin's Mother in the center of the next picture. He was close to one of the events we have heard a lot...

'Back to the Future' iPod speaker May 30, 2006 4:37 PM PDT Here's a must-buy should you decide to take a "Back to the Future"-type trip the 1950s and want to bring your iPod along: Speck Products, maker of the iGuy, has announced its new SpeckTone Retro tabletop iPod speaker system. It comes in a high-gloss lacquered wood cabinet that makes you want to put on your saddle shoes and hit a sock hop. SpeckTone Retro ships June 15, costs $149.95 and comes in green, white or black. It has analog circuitry "for rich, deep tone," a 4-inch subwoofer and...

Posted on Thu, Oct. 27, 2005 Clovis speakers discuss man's origins in the United States MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - A University of Texas archaeologist opened the highly anticipated "Clovis in the Southeast" conference at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Thursday by rejecting the premise on which many experts once based their theories on man's North American origins. At the meeting, sponsored in part by the University of South Carolina, Michael Collins called the idea that the first inhabitants traveled by way of a land bridge from Asia "primal racism." Instead, Collins said, they arrived by water, because...

MILLION MOAN MARCH: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SPEAKERS By Michelle Malkin October 15, 2005 12:21 PM ***135pm EDT update...Al Sharpton calls President Bush "evil...James Crow Jr., Esquire...broken levees are weapons of mass destruction...Our people are dying in Iraq and being drowned in New Orleans...We'll be in Baton Rouge on the 29th...this is the beginning of the regeneration of the movement for our people..."*** If you tune into C-SPAN right now, you will hear a lot of angry bloviating and blaming. The 10th anniversary of the Million M[o]an March is here and Farrakhan's fulminators have seized the day in D.C....

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2005 – A new Army National Guard program is helping attract young people with native language skills and cultural expertise into the military to support the global war on terror. The new program focuses on recruiting native speakers in 20 languages and dialects, most spoken in the Middle East, into the Army's 09L "translator aid" career field, Army Capt. Bill Greer, national program manager, said during an interview today with the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service. The active Army began seeking out native Middle Eastern recruits two years ago to help support the war on...

Dear Fellow American: For many decades we here in the United States thought of terrorism as something that happened “overseas.” It was something that our borders – two oceans and two “friendly” countries – shielded us from. We were being naïve. The devastation of the attacks on September 11th was the result of years of preparation and the conglomeration of resources by thoroughly evil minds. Their brand of wickedness had been experienced before yet for whatever reason we chose to place little heed in the message being delivered – “We want you dead!” 1983 - Sixty-three people, including the...

The Republican Party's electoral dominance of the South is due to its willingness to employ "racial politics," according to a University of Maryland professor who also referred to the region as the "Old Confederacy," during remarks Friday at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. Gar Alperovitz, said the Republican Party represents "the dark side," and has been able to exploit southern states because "a radical shift has occurred in racial politics, a radical shift. "It isn't simply the moral issues. It is the fundamental implicit and explicit racial division of the working class" that allows Republican victories...

Political theorist Benjamin Barber, actor Warren Beatty, columnist Maureen Dowd, rock critic Greil Marcus, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are among the speakers at this year's graduation ceremonies at the University of California, Berkeley. The Class of 2005 selected Barber as the keynote speaker for Commencement Convocation, to be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the Greek Theatre. He is a Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and founder of The Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit think tank. Barber, who has lectured frequently at UC-Berkeley over the years, said he plans to address the role of...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An upstate New York college is being urged to cancel a speaking engagement by a man who has compared victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Nazis. Hamilton College has invited Ward Churchill to take part in a panel discussion next month. Churchill is chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he called the victims "little Eichmanns," comparing them to Adolf Eichmann, the architect of Hitler's plan to eradicate Europe's Jews. In his essay, the professor said the victims worked for a "mighty...

I got a pair of unused infinity speakers which are 4 years old from my father in law. They no longer make this style and I want to sell them, but I have no idea what price is reasonable for eBay. I know they're quality speakers. They are Infinity Reference 2000.3 series, here is a pic: (speaker size: 16"x8"x7") (Trader Joe's bag not included) Any suggestions?

"Fulfilling America's Promise: Building a Safer World and a More Hopeful America"Contact: Leonardo Alcivar (212) 356-2300NEW YORK - The 2004 Republican National Convention today announced an initial schedule of podium speakers, program participants and entertainers for the five official convention sessions at Madison Square Garden on Monday, August 30 through Thursday, September 2. Additional announcements and program details will be released in the coming days. "The outstanding lineup of Republican Party leaders, elected officials, and entertainers who will take to the stages of the Garden this week are a testament to the strong leadership of President George W. Bush and...

Yup, Savage was right: he predicted last week that the media would go overboard covering a missing woman, and sure enough .. sadly, but sure enough .. here comes a missing woman in Utah and a suspicious husband. They are purposely avoiding discussing the acts of possible treason and theft of classified documents by the Bergler ..even Geraldo .. it's disgusting. ""When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded." Sandy Berger A very telling Washington Times editorial, posted on...

Suggested Speakers for the Dems' Convention Marianne M. Jennings July 21, 2004/ http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | John Kerry is a dead man. Not inviting Hillary Clinton to speak, and then flip-flopping to have her introduce William Jefferson was a faux pas of Marie Antoinette proportions. Hell hath no fury like a pant-suited former first lady relegated to introducing her eight-timing (Pacific Time) husband. John Edwards, Kerry's new gravitas running mate, and former Partridge Family member, must have had his trial-lawyer-punitive-punishment-feelers on hiatus. Where was Kerry's mind and what was he thinking? Perhaps Mr. Kerry wanted to distance himself from the Clintons. Perhaps...

As the debate about resisting the expulsion of Gaza's Jews heats up, some who vehemently oppose the 'illegal order' to transfer Arabs are calling the same opposition to the transfer of Jews "incitement." Pressure is being placed on Attorney-General Meni Mazuz to put on trial right-wing figures who mention the word "rodef" in their public statements regarding the disengagement plan. A "rodef" is one who is about to murder or cause the wrongful death of a person, thus leaving himself open to be killed by anyone who can stop the murder. Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl recently quoted, in a public forum,...

(CNSNews.com) - A civil liberties group is asking a federal appeals court to allow the case of a Christian motivational speaker to proceed to trial. The case involves a man who was invited to give a non-religious address to Montana middle school students -- until the school board, fearing that he might express his Christian views, rescinded the invitation. The Rutherford Institute says Dillon, Mont., school officials discriminated against Jaroy Carpenter because of his religious beliefs. Carpenter was asked to take part in a Dillon, Mont., middle school assembly, after several students died in suicides and car crashes. Concerned Dillon...