NEW YORK — A television show about members of a Muslim community in Michigan is focusing what may be its second-to-last episode almost entirely on the conflicted feelings that its featured participants have about marking anniversaries of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The episode of TLC’s “All-American Muslim” airs Sunday (10 p.m. EST). The series attracted attention earlier this month when a conservative Christian group called on advertisers to boycott the series, calling it “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”
Two companies, the Lowe’s home improvement chain and travel planning website Kayak.com, announced they were pulling ads. TLC hasn’t said how many companies responded to the Florida Family Association’s call to stop sponsoring the show. The controversy prompted a backlash of people protesting against Lowe’s. Some new advertisers have signed on since then, TLC General Manager Amy Winter said Thursday. Click the following link for the whole story.
‘All-American Muslim’: TLC’s New Show Takes On September 11 Attacks.
Denver Eldridge @ December 30, 2011
| This is suppose to be new revelation about government spending? Ha! We already know but here is the latest, enjoy!
Liberty Counsel “Robot dragons, video games, Christmas trees, snow cone machines, and chocolate. This is not a Christmas wish list. These are just some of the ways the federal government spent your tax dollars this year.” U.S. Senator Tom Coburn wrote that in the introduction to his “Wastebook 2011” report that was just released. This report astounded me, and it didn’t even address immoral uses of tax funds like paying for Planned Parenthood’s abortion services! Now more than ever, Liberty Counsel MUST be able to continue holding our officials’ feet to the fire! See my important year-end message below – Mat. Denver, Senator Coburn said it best when he released his report yesterday… “Over the past 12 months, Washington politicians argued, debated and lamented about how to reign in the federal government’s out of control spending. All the while, Washington was on a shopping binge, spending money we do not have on things we do not need, like the $6.9 billion worth of examples provided in this report. The result: Instead of cutting wasteful spending, nearly $2.5 billion was added each day in 2011 to our national debt, which now exceeds $15 trillion.” Right now, the political volleying taking place on Capitol Hill is both exhausting to observe and impossible to understand: The Senate passed a stopgap measure extending the tax break for 60 days – then left town. The House rejected the Senate plan, passing a bill that extends the payroll tax break for 12 months. Now the Representatives are calling on Senators to come back to Washington to finish their work. Sen. Harry Reid is refusing to return and blaming the House Republicans. President Obama is chiding the GOP. Nancy Pelosi is blaming “Tea Party Republicans” and raising money to shut down the movement. Each chamber appears to be engaged in a contest of one-upmanship – while accusing the other of obstructionism. Yet, in 2011, according to Rep. Coburn, Congress thought nothing of recklessly spending tens of millions of dollars including these examples from his report… • $15.3 million for one of the infamous “Bridges to Nowhere” in Alaska. (The full, sad report is available on Senator Coburn’s website) ++Liberty Counsel is working to stop this fiscal abuse! As we approach the New Year, we are faced with a stark reality: If federal spending is not deeply slashed, America cannot survive. During the three years President Obama has been in office, the national debt has increased by nearly $5 trillion. This kind of profligate spending is totally unsustainable! The actions taken in Congress on fiscal matters and what Americans like you and I do in 2012 will literally determine if America can survive. We enter this pivotal year living on financial life support. ++Every day, we are fighting for moral and fiscal sanity! Our vision is to “Take Back America” by restoring our nation’s core values, love of freedom, individual responsibility, fiscal and moral accountability, sanctity of life and marriage, and our Judeo-Christian heritage. I have shared with you over the past few days that we need to raise $200,000 from our on-line community by the end of December. In order to meet our obligations and stay on target for that goal, we need $75,000 by Christmas. I am pleased to report that we are almost half way toward meeting that $75,000 goal by Christmas! Could you help us get this goal accomplished? Please click here to help Liberty Counsel enter the New Year on firm financial footing: http://www.libertyaction.org/1320/offer.asp ++Liberty Counsel has a powerful influence on public policy! In 2011, Liberty Counsel and our team members called on Congress to balance the federal budget using powerful tools like hand-delivered petitions (in the tens of thousands), our “Fax Barrage” strategy (again, numbering in the tens of thousands for each campaign), and many other efforts. We demanded fiscal accountability from all of our elected officials. We repeatedly messaged Congress warning them of “America’s Curse of Debt.” We called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare. We have consistently called for the removal of ALL loopholes which allow taxpayer dollars to be used to fund abortions – nationally and internationally. ++ ObamaCare is perhaps the greatest financial albatross we face. ObamaCare is the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal and is perhaps the single greatest legislatively-enacted threat to America’s core values in our nation’s history. ObamaCare, if fully implemented, will seal the fate of America by adding trillions of dollars more to the national debt. ObamaCare also represents the biggest federal funding of abortion in history. Liberty Counsel will not rest until ObamaCare is gone, either through the court challenge or through repeal by the legislature! ++Liberty Counsel is fighting for the very soul of our nation! Thankfully, with the support and prayers of our many partners, God has blessed Liberty Counsel with an exceptional number of milestone victories in 2011. This testifies to the fact that there is still hope for America in 2012. But we must not let up. December is a critical month for Liberty Counsel. We need to balance our budget and prepare for the dramatic challenges 2012 will certainly bring. Please consider a substantial gift to help us overcome December’s deficit and begin on a strong financial foundation for the rocky road ahead in 2012: http://www.libertyaction.org/1320/offer.asp As always, I thank you for your generosity, but it is our children and grandchildren that will get the greatest benefit for your thoughtful year-end investment in Liberty Counsel’s many vital efforts. A servant of the Lord and your fellow patriot, Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman P.S. Thanks to many Liberty Counsel partners, we are over half way to meeting our $75,000 goal by Christmas. If you make a gift of any amount in response to this request, we will immediately send you two “2012: America’s Year of Decision” calendar/bookmarks. This will be a very small way for us to acknowledge your patriotism and faithful support of our God-given mission. 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Denver Eldridge @ December 22, 2011