Islam Advertises On Conservative Talk Radio Now?

I just learned today that WhyIslam.Org has been conducting an advertising campaign on conservative talk radio. This afternoon I jumped into my truck and the radio came on as I turned the key. The dial was tuned to the news on my regular AM talk station. Then, an ad came on for WhyIslam.com. It was a bit disconcerting to hear an ad promoting Islam on of all places, conservative talk radio. Isn't that just a bit odd? It is kind of like NPR carrying an advertisement promoting A Michael Savage or Ann Coulter book. Just imagine the frothing at the mouth and wails of protest from the left if that were to happen.

WhyIslam.org has been conducting a two-week radio ad campaign on two radio stations that I listen to. They are KFBK 1530AM, and KSTE 650AM. Both broadcast out of Sacramento, about 80 miles from where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can only guess at the serious lack of conservative talk stations in the SF Bay Area market. Aside from KSFO 560AM, there is not a whole lot to choose from. I digress.

WhyIslam.Org began its ad campaign on August 18. The campaign was to last for two weeks. I can only hope the campaign is over and will not start up again. As one who listens to conservative (KSTE AM 650) talk radio, I found this to be quite offensive in light that the anniversary of 9/11 is coming up and of the CAIR attacks upon Michael Savage.

Is this some prelude to Obama's FCC enforcing some kind of fairness for advertising only on conservative talk or Christian radio? Are the adherents of Islam testing the waters to see who they can impose their advertisements on with a little Obama administration and Dem dominated Congress muscle backing them? One can only guess.

I find it interesting that Clear Channel Communications, Inc. the owner of KSTE and KFBK sold the ad time on the two talk radio stations that carry one or more of the following talk show hosts: Clark Howard, Dr. Laura, The Savage Nation, Armstrong & Getty, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Talk about a slap in the face to their listeners!

A suggestion to WhyIslam.Org; Take it to the Air America Radio Network where they are very desperate for the advertising revenue. Besides, Air America's Kool Aid drunken audience (All 9 listeners, nationwide) is far less discriminating in what and whom they listen too. Maybe WhyIslam.Org would find a more receptive audience at Air America, and they would get more bang for their buck, too.

Dear Ms. Pelosi

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What Is Best For America Isn't What Is Best For Congress? Congress Exempts Itself From National Healthcare

Radio show host Glen Meakem on his website asks: If the healthcare overhaul legislation currently being considered in Congress will provide increased care and lower costs for everyone, then why have members of both the U.S. House and Senate exempted themselves from any resulting public option?

Representative John Fleming (R-LA) responded to this question by sponsoring H. Res. 615, a resolution that encourages “members of Congress who vote to create a government-run health insurance agency to give up their own comprehensive health insurance plans to join the new the public option they advocate for others.”

To learn more, read Matt Cover’s article, “Congressmen Who Vote for Government-Run Health Care Agency Should Be Its First Customers, Legislation Says,” CNSNews (July 9, 2009).

As of August 11, 2009, 69 House Representatives have signed on to this bill and all of them are Republicans.

Dr. James David Manning Continues His Tirade Against Obama

Obama Appointed Panel Says NASA Underfunded; Can't Accomplish Goals.

Friday’s Miami Herald carries a story that a panel reviewing NASA's current plans for human space flight reports that there is no realistic way to return to the moon by 2020 -- or even 2028. This is the conclusion by The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, appointed by President Barack Obama. The committee has searched for a way to put together a realistic plan for America’s goal to place men back on the moon. Under current budgeting for NASA, former President Bush’s proposed goal of returning men the moon by 2020 is seen as unrealistic and may not be possible until well after 2030. NASA’s annual budget is 9 billion a year. The panel reports that meeting the goal of a renewed presence on the moon will not be possible unless a $50 billion gap in NASA’s budget can be resolved.

President Obama ran for election with promises of stimulating the economy to build jobs in the United States with the hopes of pulling this nation out of its current financial crisis. Not investing more money in NASA and its efforts to place men on the moon and beyond will not allow the type of innovation and development that could really stimulate the economy to take root. The scientific breakthroughs and technology that could be spawned by a renewed push into space exploration could mean more stimulation for the economy as new consumer goods derived from technological innovation for the space program begin to enter the marketplace.

Our government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to bailout banks and the auto industry for their mismanagement and failures. Acorn, a favorite “non-profit” organization of President Obama’s will receive over 8.5 billion in tax payer’s dollars this year; an amount which is just shy of NASA’s annual budget.

With all the money Capitol Hill and the President are throwing around in corporate welfare and in paying back political favors, or in just ensuring more bought votes in exchange for a few “free” taxpayer dollars, the vision has been lost for truthfully stimulating the economy. The money the President and our representatives are so freely spending belongs to the taxpayer. So, why not throw a little money NASA’s way, which in turn would stimulate the economy and do us all some good?

If our government was to fund NASA with a budget adequate enough to quickly establish a full-time presence on the moon and for missions beyond; imagine what the potential could be for new innovations that could be developed while supporting a more robust space program? Imagine the positive economic effects as new innovations cross over to the private sector? There would be a substantial infusion of new jobs, manufacturing and new industries created for the next generation to take advantage of. Why wouldn’t Washington want to increase funding for NASA?

Past experience has shown that investment in a robust space program brings new industry and economic growth. Of course, the reality is that our lawmakers and our president are determined to shower special interests and community organizing groups with stimulus funds to secure their own political future over the future of, and the economic well being of the American taxpayer, who’s on the hook for all of Washington’s pet projects and boondoggles.

It’s becoming quite apparent that President Obama and Capitol Hill have no interest in stimulating the economy to benefit the American people when refusing to invest in true science and exploration by investing in NASA. Perhaps President Obama and Capitol Hill fear that investing in NASA and the building of a robust space program would cause trickle-down economics, an economic concept that truly works. The only economy our politicians are interested in is more of a trickle-up poverty kind of economy. Perhaps our political leaders are only motivated to benefit their own power base and personal economies by filling their own bank accounts and those of their cronies and special interest groups with stolen taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, they see a poor and inpoverished underclass as a citizenry dependent on the federal government, which ensures their grip on power.

Perhaps it is time we demand that our tax money be used to invest on our future as a nation, rather than the future of the elites in Washington D.C.. As a nation, we need to demand that NASA gets stimulated with some generous funding as a means to further fix our economy.