A Voice for Freedom

I found this little game on Rebekah's site. I'm going to participate because it was interesting to me to see that not ONE of the TV shows she marked was one we had in common. Intriguing to find out that two people with such similar views of politics can differ so much on things like pop culture.

Instructions: Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Bold and italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
3rd Rock from the Sun
7th Heaven
Adam-12
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Allo Allo
Amazing Race
American Idol /Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol
America’s Next Top Model/Germany’s Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Being Served? (had to add this one)
Arrested Development
Babylon 5 (a GREAT show for libertarians)
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
The Ben Stiller Show
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
The Bob Newhart Show
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
China Beach
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (new Who)
Doctor Who (series 1-26)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Eight is Enough
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Falcon Beach
Family Ties
Fantasy Island
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Fear Factor
Felicity
Firefly (very anti-government...wonderful...)
Frasier
Friends
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls (yeah, I know they like Hillary...this is my guilty pleasure!)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Acres
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Grounded for Life (well, it was on after Reba...)
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Head of the Class
Highlander
Hill Street Blues
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invasion
Iron Chef (Japan)
Iron Chef (USA)
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Jeopardy
Joey
John Doe
Kath and Kim
LA Law
Laugh-In
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order
Law & Order: SVU
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Leave it to Beaver
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H (yes, ALL 251 episodes)
MacGyver
Magnum P.I.
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
Mary Tyler Moore
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Family (whoever put this on the list, I love you)
My Favorite Martian
My Life as a Dog
My Mother the Car
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mysterious Cities of Gold
NCIS
Newhart
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psyche
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
Reba (how was this NOT on the list??)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell (HELL YEAH!!)
Samurai Jack
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
Spaced
Sports Night
Square Pegs
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1 (yep, all ten seasons)
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teletubbies
That Girl
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone (my favorite show)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flying Nun
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Real World
ROAR
The Shield
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
thirtysomething
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Upstairs, Downstairs
Veronica Mars
Wildfire
Wings
What Not To Wear (US)
What Not To Wear (UK)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Witchblade
Will and Grace
Wonderfalls
Xena: Warrior Princess
Young Hercules

I guess you've all heard about this by now: it came to light yesterday that we had likely been less than a week away from a terrorist attack the scale of which could easily have outmatched 9/11. The plan was to smuggle liquid explosives aboard aircraft bound for the United States from the UK, and ignite them mid-flight using any available source of power - a cellphone or discman would have done the trick. Ten aircraft were to be targeted.

British Airways flies 747s, 767s, and 777s on its international flights. The Boeing 747-400 can carry more than 500 passengers; a 767-300 can take 375, and the 777-300 can accomodate over 360. Even if we assume the smallest aircraft and no full flights, we're still easily talking about over three thousand deaths. At maximum, there would have been over five thousand people killed.

If anyone out there needed a wakeup call, you've had it.

And I would like to point out that just the day before this all came to light, I read an article about a pro-Hezbollah rally in Quebec. It made me sick at the time, and it makes me weep now to realize that the attitudes of those in attendance are unlikely to change just because a few thousand innocent travellers were nearly killed this week.

Terrorists are not victims. They are evil, they are murderers, they are inhuman.

They are target practice.

Marjayoun, Lebanon. Lebanese government claims 40 deaths due to Israeli airstrike. Actual death toll: 5.

Qana, Lebanon. Government claims 54 dead. Actual count: 28 dead, 13 missing.

Things like this are bad enough from the Lebanese government, but we now have evidence that Reuters, one of the most pervasive wire services in North America, has been essentially spreading propaganda.

They ran several photos that were either doctored or set up to greatly increase the impression of civilian carnage in the wake of Israel's counterattack against Hezbollah. Reuters probably (I stress the word "probably") didn't know anything, but this incident certainly undermines their credibility and, unfortunately, the reliability of all photojournalists, 98% of whom are perfectly honest.

My question at this point is this: what happens to Adnan Hajj, the photographer in question? Obviously, he should be fired. Just as obviously, he should be arrested for.....something. Is propaganda a legal offense in the United States? Whatever...point is, this bastard has intentionally misled millions, possibly billions of people for the purpose of inspiring sympathy for terrorists and turning the world against the country said terrorists are attacking.

That's not something he can be allowed to get away with.