] As part of the ongoing vendetta against the country music
] group Dixie Chicks, two disc jockeys were suspended from
] a Colorado Springs, Colorado radio station for locking
] themselves in the studio while they took listener
] requests for the band%u2019s music. DJs Dave Moore and
] Jeff Singer were suspended May 5 for violating a boycott
] imposed by the management of KKCS 102 FM. The ban has
] been in place since group member Natalie Maines made a
] comment hostile to George W. Bush at a March concert in
] London just prior to the US invasion of Iraq.
]
] The station%u2019s General Manager, Jerry Grant, declared
] in a media release justifying the reprisals against Moore
] and Singer that the Dixie Chicks were censored because
] the station had to be sensitive to its listening audience
] in a city with five military bases. He claimed that
] listeners wanted the music pulled until last week, when
] %u201Cthe tide began to turn%u201D in favor of the
] proscribed group.

Colorado disc jockeys suspended for protesting Dixie Chicks' ban

] CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2003--Salem
] Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:SALM), the leading
] radio broadcaster focused on religious and family themes
] programming, announced today the acquisition of two radio
] AM stations.
]
] The Company will be acquiring WAMG-AM in Boston,
] Massachusetts, from Mega Communications for approximately
] $8.6 million.
]
] Edward G. Atsinger III, President and CEO, commented,
] "It is increasingly difficult to find quality radio
] properties at appropriate prices in the large markets,
] specifically the top 10. WAMG-AM has a good quality day
] and night signal and will allow us to launch our
] conservative news/talk format in the Boston market, as
] part of an integrated three-station cluster."
]
] Salem Communications will also be acquiring KKCS-AM
] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from Walton Stations -
] Colorado, Inc. for approximately $1.5 million. The
] station will be part of a three-station cluster and will
] broadcast a conservative news/talk format

Colorado station KKCS purchased by Salem Communications Monday (DJs Banned for playing Dixie Chicks Songs)

] Two radio DJs in the US have been suspended after playing
] Dixie Chicks songs, after their statio banned the group
] for its comments about President George W Bush.
]
] DJs Dave Moore and Jeff Singer played two tracks by the
] country pop group on Colorado station KKCS on Monday,
] after a discussion over whether to reinstate the group.
]
] Dixie Chicks songs were banned by the station after
] singer Natalie Maines told a London audience, days before
] the start of the Iraq war, she was "ashamed" President
] Bush came from her home state of Texas.

DJs stir Dixie Chicks row

] GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A sold-out crowd cheered, clapped,
] danced and sung along during the Dixie Chicks' summer
] tour kick-off concert, showing little concern for the
] controversy that has surrounded the band since a member
] criticized President Bush over the war with Iraq.
]
] The show marked the first time the group has performed in
] the U.S. since lead singer Natalie Maines told a London
] audience on March 10: ``Just so you know, we're ashamed
] the president of the United States is from Texas.''

Dixie Chicks fans cheer at S.C. concert

] The city's library board announced yesterday that it
] would print and distribute bookmarks warning borrowers
] about the law that allows federal investigators to demand
] the names of patrons and the lists of books they read.
]
] The USA Patriot Act, passed by Congress a month after the
] terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001, gives agents the power
] to obtain medical, business and library records after
] obtaining a court warrant.

City library to warn users about Patriot Act

] OLYMPIA -- The state's powerful teachers union is backing
] a proposal to expand gambling in the state to pay for
] cost-of-living raises for teachers and other education
] priorities.
]
] In an unusual alliance, the Washington Education
] Association and the Entertainment Industry Coalition have
] joined forces to make a case for expanded gambling when
] the Legislature reconvenes for a special session May 12.
]
]
] Read more legislative news
]
]
]
] The EIC approached the teachers union in the final days
] of the regular session that ended Sunday, dangling the
] prospect of between $200 million and $300 million in new
] gambling revenues to help fill a $2.6 billion budget
] shortage.

the fed gov. raged war with iraq because the end justified the means.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ndr/255264.html

And now other community facets are using the same fuzzy logic to get what they need. I feel so out of whack with what the main stream media considers right and wrong. I’m like in a bad thought pool in a canoe without a paddle.

Legislature 2003: Teachers join in push to expand gambling

] To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush
] administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
] mass destruction, but some officials now privately
] acknowledge the White House had another reason for war
] %u2014 a global show of American power and democracy.

Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins. But U.S. forces will find some, they say. On Thursday, President Bush raised the possibility for the first time that any such Iraqi weapons were destroyed before or during the war.

If weapons of mass destruction were not the primary reason for war, what was?

ABCNEWS.com : Officials: 9/11 Was Main Reason for War

] Federal authorities in Portland, Ore., filed charges
] against an Intel Corp. contract worker Monday, accusing
] him of trying to enter Afghanistan to help al Qaeda and
] Taliban forces a month after the Sept. 11, 2001,
] terrorist attacks.
]
] Maher Mofeid Hawash, 38, faces three charges: conspiracy
] to levy war against the United States, conspiracy to
] provide material support and resources to al Qaeda, and
] conspiracy to contribute services to al Qaeda and the
] Taliban, according to an affidavit filed in federal
] court.
]
] Hawash, a Palestinian-born software engineer who became a
] U.S. citizen 15 years ago, was taken into custody by the
] FBI on March 20. He has since been held in solitary
] confinement as a "material witness."

Intel worker charged with helping al Qaeda / He's 7th in Portland to be accused of terrorism

] It's been more than a month since Dixie Chicks' lead
] singer and Lubbock-native Natalie Maines made
] controversial remarks about President Bush. But the
] country trio is still one of the hottest topics in
] Lubbock.
]
] The phone lines at 99.5 The Bear was jammed with callers
] Thursday, wanting to voice their opinion on the group.
] "I'm kind of disappointed they are from Lubbock because
] you don't go off into London and do a concert right
] before the war and say something like that," was the
] opinion of one of the callers.

Lubbock Radio Stations Refuse To Play Dixie Chicks' Music

] American officials tried to discredit the work of
] inspectors in Iraq to further their own case for war, the
] chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has charged.
]
] In an interview with the BBC, Mr Blix said American
] officials leaked suggestions that inspectors had
] deliberately suppressed information to the media in an
] attempt to undermine their work in Iraq.

He (Mr. Blix) also reiterated his disquiet at how documents the International Atomic Energy Agency "had no great difficulty finding out were fake" managed to get through US and UK intelligence analysis.

Also disturbing, he said, was the question of who was responsible for the falsification.

(If you are not Familiar with the fake documents, check out the story in the New Yorker.)

WHO LIED TO WHOM?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH - The New Yorker
Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?

The forgery became the object of widespread, and bitter, questions in Europe about the credibility of the United States. But it initially provoked only a few news stories in America, and little sustained questioning about how the White House could endorse such an obvious fake. On March 8th, an American official who had reviewed the documents was quoted in the Washington Post as explaining, simply, “We fell for it.”

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030331fa_fact1

Blix: 'US undermined inspectors'