Daily Archives: May 4th, 2007 «

 

Why did it take Don Imus to ‘wake up’ Al Sharpton and the hip hop community?

Posted by: ST on May 4, 2007 at 9:45 pm » 7 Comments

I was just reading this story in the NY Daily News about how Al Sharpton is on a crusade of sorts now to get record companies to stop allowing the use of the “b” the “n” and the “h” words in rap music, and my first thought was, “Wow, look at Al Sharpton – he’s [...]

 

Want to help an Iraqi man immigrate to the US?

Posted by: ST on May 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm » 5 Comments

ST reader Karl blogs about an Iraqi man who worked as a translator in Iraq, helping the US understand and interrogate Iraqis, who wants to immigrate to the US but is running into some red tape: A prime example is Alaa, a young Iraqi whom Bryan Suits (KVI 570am) spent a lot of time working [...]

 

The countdown to Sarko versus Sego

Posted by: ST on May 4, 2007 at 5:30 pm » 6 Comments

I wrote back in November 2005 that a “French connection” friend of mine told me to keep my eye on French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy – that Sarko was the ‘man to watch’ whenever the French elections rolled around. Looks like my source was right on, because Sarko is the favorite to win this Sunday’s [...]

 

Republican debate transcript

Posted by: ST on May 4, 2007 at 11:53 am » 4 Comments

MSNBC has the transcript to last night’s debate posted. It looks a lot smoother than it actually was. Lots of blogger/pundit reax linked up to at Memeorandum. There are a lot out there saying Romney won, because he looked the most presidential and sounded the most prepared, while others are saying that Fred Thompson won [...]

 

Creep

Posted by: ST on May 4, 2007 at 10:27 am » 8 Comments

Saw this link at Drudge’s site: MILWAUKEE — A former alderman and controversial radio talk show host said he’s happy the mother of his radio rival is dead. Michael McGee Sr. made the comments during his radio show on WNOV-AM Thursday morning. Charlie Sykes is a radio talk show host on WTMJ-AM. Sykes’ mother, Katherine [...]