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Monday, May 05, 2014

Former Secretary of State Rice backs out of Rutgers commencement

May 3, 2014

According to Kristina Wong, writing for The Hill on May 3, 2014, “Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined Rutgers University’s invitation as commencement speaker after some students staged a sit-in protest of her support for the Iraq War. Read more here: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/205115-condoleezza-rice-backs-out-of-rutgers-commencement

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However, Rutgers faculty at its New Brunswick campus approved a resolution calling for Rice to be disinvited to the May 18 ceremony, according to the National Review Online, citing the Bush’s administration’s “effort to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction.”

Students protested with signs calling Rice a “war criminal.”

On May 3, 2014, Secretary Rice said on her Facebook page, “Commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for the graduates and their families. Rutgers' invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the university community at this very special time.

I am honored to have served my country. I have defended America's belief in free speech and the exchange of ideas. These values are essential to the health of our democracy. But that is not what is at issue here. As a Professor for thirty years at Stanford University and as its former Provost and Chief academic officer, I understand and embrace the purpose of the commencement ceremony and I am simply unwilling to detract from it in any way.

Good luck to the graduates and congratulations to the families, friends and loved ones who will gather to honor them.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/205115-condoleezza-rice-backs-out-of-rutgers-commencement Follow @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Chick-fil-A will be celebrating Back to School day on August 18, 2012.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102909357/Chick-fil-A-will-be-celebrating-Back-to-School-day-on-August-18-2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012, Westminster MD - We stopped over at the Chick-fil-A in the Westminster Shopping Center at the corner of Englar Road and Rte 140 in Westminster, MD for dinner Tuesday evening.

Along with our food came a little flyer saying that the local Chick-fil-A will be celebrating Back to School day on August 18, 2012.

I also attached a flyer that we got last December. The Chick-fil-A Trays flyer was discussed at great length at several public safety non-profits, of which I belong.

I know that many of us go out of our way to patronize the local Chick-fil-A, because the restaurant is so supportive of our local community…

Chick-fil-A has excellent food; runs a great restaurant, has excellent customer service, and is very supportive of local firefighters and law enforcement, non-profits and the community.

By all measures, Chick-fil-A is reported to be a good employer, and is a valuable contributor to the local community.

Chick-fil-A, chicken, food, restaurants, Westminster, Maryland, firefighters, law enforcement, public safety, catering,

Chick-fil-A will be celebrating Back to School day on August 18, 2012.

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Celebrate Eat More Chicken ‘Buy-cott’ Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 August 1, 2012 http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5261

Hopefully you and your family will join former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today and be sure to patronize your local Chick fil-A restaurant in honor of ‘Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.’ http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5261

Governor Huckabee organized the event in the wake of the un-American, intolerant, hate campaign being waged against the Atlanta-based restaurant chain after its president, Dan Cathy, told the author of the “Biblical Recorder,” a journal of the Baptist Press, his personal views on gay marriage.

In an article, “‘Guilty as charged,’ Mr. Cathy says of Chick-fil-A's stand on biblical & family values,” writer K. Allan Blume, explains, “Dan Cathy oversees one of the country's most successful businesses.

“As president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Cathy leads a business with 1,608 restaurants that had sales of more than $4 billion dollars last year…

“His father, S. Truett Cathy started the business in 1946… In 1967, his father opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta…

In an excellent article on the matter by Jamie Smith Hopkins, “Chick-fil-A president's words on gay marriage spark tempest,” penned for The Baltimore Sun, Ms. Hopkins reports that Mr. Cathy said that Chick-fil-A is “very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit.”… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5261

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Celebrate Eat More Chicken ‘Buy-cott’ Day – Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle http://tinyurl.com/d8d2s4d

August 1, 2012

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Also see:

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5178

Fighting the Stuff Monster – Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle

June 20, 2012

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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Celebrate Eat More Chicken ‘Buy-cott’ Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/08/celebrate-eat-more-chicken-buy-cott-day.html

Labels: Carroll Co Bus Chick-Fill-A, Dayhoff Media The Tentacle, Food, Free Speech, Restaurants, Westminster Bus Chick-Fil-A

Celebrate Eat More Chicken ‘Buy-cott’ Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 August 1, 2012 http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5261

“As president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Cathy leads a business with 1,608 restaurants that had sales of more than $4 billion dollars last year…

“His father, S. Truett Cathy started the business in 1946… In 1967, his father opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta…

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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Free Speech Freedom Motivator

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/01/freedom-motivator.html

I may not agree with what you say but, but I respect your right to be punished for it.

This should be the motto for the writers at The Tentacle www.thetentacle.com

Hat Tip: to Matthew G. Saroff at “40 years in The Desert” who gave credit to JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS

Labels: Free Speech, Free Speech protesters, Humor, Media The Tentacle, Motivator, Oh Snap, Snark, US Constitution 01 Amend Free Speech, Words of wisdom

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hank Jr. pens song ripping "Fox & Friends," ESPN - CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/10/sports/main20118058.shtml?tag=stack "In the song Williams, son of country music icon Hank Williams, says "Fox & Friends" hosts twisted his words: 'So Fox `n Friends wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around.' He finishes the verse: 'Well two can play that gotcha game you'll see.'"

Hank Jr. pens song ripping "Fox & Friends," ESPN - CBS News

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Country music star cuts new song after his Obama-Hitler analogy on Fox News talk show leads to ESPN and MNF cutting ties

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Friday, July 01, 2011

Washington Examiner Political Digest: Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

According to liberal dogma, last year's Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC was the worst thing to happen to American democracy since Watergate. Hoping to prove that the ruling would allow "unlimited corporate money" to influence elections, Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert announced in March that he would form ColbertPAC, a political action committee. Yesterday, almost three months later, the Federal Election Commission narrowly granted him permission to do so. But that was far from the first obstacle on Colbert's march to undo the evils of the moneyed class in politics.

Examiner Local Editorial: Fairfax's posh subsidized housing features pools, spas

Fairfax County taxpayers are being forced to subsidize so-called "affordable housing" that includes luxurious amenities many of them cannot afford to provide their own families. That's the conclusion of an eye-opening new study by the Springfield-based Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research and education organization.

What the Times didn't tell you about Ian Urbina

By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth

You're Ian Urbina, a senior New York Times reporter. In February and March, you write that hydraulic fracturing, a method of natural gas extraction, is contaminating Pennsylvania drinking water. Your accusations are disproved by government tests.

A huge political storm is stirring over farm dust

By: Ron Arnold

What is the doom of America? To borrow a mystical metaphor from an old Bob Dylan song, "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." And what might that mighty answer be? Farm dust, everyday rural American farm dust.

Obama's stimulus road to nowhere

By: Steve Chapman

Mired in excruciating negotiations over the budget and the debt ceiling, President Obama might reflect that things didn't have to turn out this way. The impasse grows mainly out of one major decision he made early on: pushing through a giant stimulus.

Madison on the Thames

By: Michelle Malkin

LONDON -- Big Labor looks the same wherever you go: petulant, irrational and wholly aggrieved beyond its means. I'm here on vacation with family as some 750,000 public-sector employees strike in protest over modest pension reform proposals. It's a taste of Wisconsin on the Thames. U.K. government teachers are just as shameless and entitlement-mongering as their American counterparts. More than half of England's schools shut down on Thursday as union members took to the streets.

President Richard M. Obama

By: Mona Charen

How many times have we heard awestruck references to Barack Obama's history as a law professor? Many came from the man himself, as when he told a crowd at a 2007 fundraiser, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution."

What if President Obama had said this instead?

By: David Limbaugh

What if -- instead of blaming Republicans, big oil, the "wealthy" and corporate jets -- President Obama had used his recent news conference to say the following?

Washington Examiner Political Digest: Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

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Friday, March 04, 2011

Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: SCOTUS Westboro Decision - A Victory for Free Speech?

March 4, 2011

A Victory for Free Speech?

Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4265

By a vote of 8-1, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a long awaited decision Wednesday over the collision of free speech, common sense and decency and our right to privacy in the case of Albert Snyder v. Fred W. Phelps, Sr., and the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Supreme Court ruled against the father of Westminster native Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, whose March 10, 2006, funeral was picketed by members of the Kansas-based church. Corporal Snyder was 20 years-old when he died March 3, 2006, in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

The irony abounds that the Westboro band of graceless sociopaths have chosen over the years to disparage and heap emotional abuse on families at the funerals of the very men and women in uniform, who have died defending the right of these creeps to exercise their right to free speech.

The controversy that initiated the test of the limits of free speech began shortly after Snyder’s death. In a paroxysmal milieu, the Snyder family is an otherwise unlikely fulcrum for all this drama... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4265

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church FROM ANONYMOUS

In a warning posted by “Anonymous,” the anti-gay, fundamentalist church known as the Westboro Baptist Church, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, was put on notice to “Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites” or “the damage incurred will be irreversible,” and that “neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover…”

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AN OPEN LETTER FROM ANONYMOUS http://anonnews.org/?p=home

February 16, 2011 http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=449

TO THE CONGREGANTS OF WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH:

We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS - the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People - have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.

Being such aggressive proponents for the Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Information as we are, we have hitherto allowed you to continue preaching your benighted gospel of hatred and your theatrical exhibitions of, not only your fascist views, but your utter lack of Christ-like attributes. You have condemned the men and women who serve, fight, and perish in the armed forces of your nation; you have prayed for and celebrated the deaths of young children, who are without fault; you have stood outside the United States National Holocaust Museum, condemning the men, women, and children who, despite their innocence, were annihilated by a tyrannical embodiment of fascism and unsubstantiated repugnance. Rather than allowing the deceased some degree of peace and respect, you instead choose to torment, harass, and assault those who grieve.

Your demonstrations and your unrelenting cascade of disparaging slurs, unfounded judgments, and prejudicial innuendos, which apparently apply to every individual numbered amongst the race of Man - except for yourselves - has frequently crossed the line which separates Freedom of Speech from deliberately utilizing the same tactics and methods of intimidation and mental & emotional abuse that have been previously exploited and employed by tyrants and dictators, fascists and terrorist organizations throughout history.

ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action. Thus, we give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.

Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites, and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover. It is in your best interest to comply now, while the option to do so is still being offered, because we will not relent until you cease the conduction & promotion of all your bigoted operations & doctrines.

The warning has been given. What happens from here shall be determined by you.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS.

WE ARE LEGION.

WE DO NOT FORGIVE.

WE DO NOT FORGET.

EXPECT US.

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CBS Tech Talk: Hackers warn Westboro Church: Stop now or else http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20033942-501465.html … In an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, Anonymous has put the anti-gay, fundamentalist church on notice that "the damage incurred will be irreversible," and that "neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover."

The Westboro Baptist Church is led by Rev. Fred Phelps. It has drawn particular attention for carrying out anti-gay protests at funerals of military servicemen with signs celebrating the deaths of the soldiers with signs like "God Hates the USA" or "Thank God for 9/11." The group operates a website with the URL godhatesfags.com.

And Digg:

http://digg.com/news/technology/hackers_warn_westboro_church_stop_now_or_else_tech_talk_cbs_news - - Hackers warn Westboro Church: Stop now or else - Tech Talk - CBS News cbsnews.com — In an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, a group of hacktivists acting under the banner "Anonymous" has put the anti-gay, fundamentalist church on notice that "the damage incurred will be irreversible," and that "neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover."

20110216 Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church From ANONYMOUS

Westboro Baptist Church, ANONYMOUS

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49177551/Open-Letter-to-Westboro-Baptist-Church-FROM-ANONYMOUS

Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church FROM ANONYMOUS

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian

`The truth will always win’ - Julian Assange writes

The Australian Media Diary | December 07, 2010 | 260 Comments

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian today:

Key lines:

* WikiLeaks is fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

* The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

* (My idea is) to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

* People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations need to go to war, and there are just wars.

* The Gillard government (Australia) is trying to shoot the messenger because it doesn’t want the truth revealed.

Text follows: http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia, was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the

Iraq

and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations need to go to war, and there are just wars. But there is nothing more wrong than a government lying to its people about those wars, then asking these same citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the line for those lies. If a war is justified, then tell the truth and the people will decide whether to support it.

If you have read any of the Afghan or Iraq war logs, any of the US embassy cables or any of the stories about the things WikiLeaks has reported, consider how important it is for all media to be able to report these things freely.

WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the

embassy cables. Other media outlets, including Britain ‘s The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables…

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

20101207 The truth will always win Julian Assange writes

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian on December 7, 2010

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Some brief thoughts on Joe Scarborough suspended over political donations

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40277217/ns/politics-decision_2010/

Msnbc TV host contributed to eight candidates in violation of NBC ethics policy

msnbc.com 11/19/2010

Kevin Earl Dayhoff Take a memo: I don’t really give a flying fudge cookie about the blue and red - left and right thing. That’s just an artificial wedge device for lazy minds. What I care about is free speech and the war on journalists – especially for saying things some folks do not like.

From: November 8, 2010 http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/11/nbc-suspends-olbermann-for-political.html

“Contractual considerations aside, I’m on the other side here. I do not believe that Don Imus, Helen Thomas, Dave Weigel, Rick Sanchez, Juan Williams, or Keith Olbermann should have lost their jobs.

“I believe in free speech.

“I do not, for the record, agree with, or like, hardly anything the above group of journalists said or did to cause them problems with their jobs. I do not care nor am I surprised that Olbermann contributed to Democrats….

“My contract says I am not allowed to contribute to any candidates and I like my job and I honor that clause.

“However, I have grown exhausted with the war on journalists and I’m especially tired of the war on the commentary segments of Fox, CNN, MSNBC, et al. If you don’t like – don’t watch it.”

At my advanced age, I can recognize political(ly correct) silliness when I see it.

I’m just saying.

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NEW YORK — Msnbc TV host Joe Scarborough was suspended without pay for two days Friday for making eight campaign donations to Florida political candidates, in violation of NBC News ethics policy.

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The suspension was first reported Friday by Politico.com.

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When Olbermann, host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," was suspended Nov. 5…

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Griffin said in a statement that Scarborough informed him Friday that he had in fact made eight contributions

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In his own statement Friday, Scarborough he had "recently" been made aware of the contributions and told Griffin about them himself.

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Scarborough's reaction was in sharp contrast to that of Olbermann, whose suspension ignited a firestorm of protest from supporters who created an online petition that attracted more than 250,000 signatures. Olbermann apologized to his supporters but not to NBC News and broadcast a commentary objecting to having been punished "without a hearing."

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Steve Berryman, Frederick News-Post: Enigmatic Frederick

Steve Berryman
Enigmatic Frederick
Originally published July 09, 2010

To have ventured downtown to Frederick 's celebration of Independence Day was to become enmeshed with real Americana, despite your political bent. To call it the Fourth of July celebration is to embrace political correctness, in my humble opinion.Giant American flags hung from the world's most expensive construction cranes and firetrucks, but my gut tells me that there was no incurred expense in that, as to be patriotic in display

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Chief of Police Kim Dine personally patrolled on his two-wheeled Segway scooter. Mayor Randy McClement was found at the most critical juncture of the event, judging WFMD's chili cook-off along with some city aldermen, including Kelly Russell and Michael O'Connor.

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Strategically situated between the band's high "db" harangue at the main stage, the chili, and the Marines' beer garden I found colleague Rick Weldon, city administrator. He was in a most philosophical mode, as we spent a few moments solving the region's problems, and enjoying our common ancestry writing for the Web journal The Tentacle.

The free-form style and "anything goes" nature of the most respected Tentacle site had gotten Rick into some hot water of late, as his opportunistic critics had cried foul over some obviously sarcastic commentary

... http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=sBerryman&storyID=107098#postComments