Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
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FCC and Indecency Dear Friend, http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/11bf9c892b83649e Did
you know that the four major television networks have declared war on
decency by suing the FCC for the right to air profanity and nudity at
any time of day? We do have a counter attack but the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act (S. 1780) is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate. The
Act (S. 1780) would reaffirm Congress' support for vigorous enforcement
of the existing broadcast decency laws and the importance of protecting
the public airwaves from indecent content. In
order to ensure the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ability
to fine broadcasters over "fleeting" instances of profanity or nudity,
S. 1780 needs to be voted on by the full Senate. If S. 1780 does not
pass, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act passed two years ago will
be rendered essentially meaningless. Recently, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia threw out a $550,000 indecency fine levied against CBS for the infamous 2004 Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction." CBS also allowed profanity during Big Brother 10, which airs during prime time. We
are in a pivotal time regarding the ownership of America's broadcast
airwaves. The law says these airwaves belong to the American people,
but the networks are trying to take them over and turn them into a
toxic sewer. Now is the time to fight back! Right to life still a BIG issue, why move to left on this? http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=223514 Obama has been loosing ground lately. The economy ceases to be the #1 issue on voters minds. Obama's trip to Iraq and Europe revealed his lack of Deception on infant protection still haunts Obama http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=223514 Barack Obama continues to be dogged by claims that he
is misleading people about his past opposition to a bill in the
Illinois legislature protecting babies who survived late-term abortions.
New
audio reveals that while arguing against the Born Alive Infant
Protection Act (BAIPA) in the Illinois Senate in 2002, state lawmaker
Obama suggested two doctors tending to a baby who survived a botched
abortion would be too much of a burden to the child's mother.
"And that essentially adding an additional doctor -- who then has to be
called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments
-- is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the
woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion," he
stated.
Jill Stanek is an Illinois pro-life activist and columnist who has
written extensively about Obama's record on abortion. She says the
Democratic presidential hopeful "definitely does not have one iota of
concern" for the baby.
"He only cares about the doctors, making sure they get enough sleep --
and the mom, making sure that even though her pregnancy is terminated,
that she can have the dead baby that she wanted," says Stanek. "So
that's apparently his goal with abortion."
Obama has claimed that he opposed the Illinois infant protection bill because it threatened Roe v. Wade
and that he would have supported it if it had included language
identical to the federal bill. However, the bill did contain language
identical to the federal measure -- and Obama still opposed it.
Last week the pro-life group National Right to Life produced
legislative records it claimed proved Obama had "blatantly
misrepresented" his opposition to BAIPA. After Senator Obama returned
from his Hawaiian vacation, his campaign finally admitted the two bills
contained identical language.
Stanek says Obama owes her and National Right to Life an apology for
accusing them of lying about his record. "He misrepresented for four
years the fact that he had voted the way that he did," she says. "As
recently as Saturday night, he was denying that what was true was true."
Columnist Brian Fitzpatrick notes
that major media outlets have virtually ignored the fact that the Obama
campaign admitted he has misled the public on the matter since 2004.
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