John Masters, Author at Deep Something

So Long to JetBlue-Caves to O'Reilly

July 22, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 546 Views 2 Comments Fox News, DailyKox, JetBlue, O-039Reilly, YearlyKos, Airline

JetBlue sponsored, among many other things, YearlyKos. This is a grass roots convention of progressive bloggers and activists. JetBlue shows Fox News in flight, Their new CEO contributed $2,100 to Mitt Romney’s campaign, and they advertise on Fox. Yet when Bill O’Reilly finds they sponsored a progressive convention, he attacks…so JetBlue. And instead of standing up for their sponsorship, and pointing out how much they support Fox, they cave in and have their logo removed from the YearKos website.

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And Away Goes the Fifth Amendment

July 19, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 498 Views 1 Comment Terrorists, Fifth Amendment, Guardian, Secretary of The Treasury, Treasury Department, Terrorism

President Bush unveiled an executive order that allows the administration to block bank accounts and any other financial assets that might be found in this country belonging to people, companies or groups that the United States deems are working to threaten stability in Iraq.

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Vitter Has Double Standard-Big Suprise There, He's a Senator

July 17, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 505 Views 0 Comments David Vitter, family values, Victim, sex, Prostitution, U S Senate, Bill Clinton

Senator David Vitter is the United States Senator who was on the phone records for the D.C. Madame. He went into exclusion for a while, then came to give a brief statement, have his wife pimp for him, and then duck out the back door as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty shameful display.

Politics War

Chertoff's Gastric Distress

July 13, 2007 B. John 470 Views 1 Comment Iraq, war on terror, Homeland Security, Chertoff

We’re pumping billions into the new Homeland Insecurity Department, yet it appears we’re relying on DHS Secretary Micheal Chertoff’s gastric rumblings for our intellingence. Suddenly he’s appearing on the news circuit saying he has a gut feeling, we’re going to be attacked again.

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Holsinger Confirmation Hearings

July 13, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 476 Views 0 Comments senate, Homophobe, Bush Administration, James Holsinger, Surgeon General, confirmation

Some of you may know that James Holsinger has been nominated by Bush to be Surgeon General. So who is this goober (and a goober he is)? He’s the chairperson of the Methodist Supreme Judicial Committee that ruled it was OK for a Methodist minister to keep a gay person from joining his church.

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News for The Week of July 15, 2007

July 13, 2007 B. John 400 Views 0 Comments florida, Police, 711, Bob Allen, Brevard County, Desecration, Flag, Titusville

This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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AWOL

July 13, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 471 Views 0 Comments Plugins, Upgrades, testing, Worpress

I have been working on planning for a major upgrade to the software that runs this site. They’ve made some major changes to the functionality, so most all the plugins will have to be updated. We use a lot of those here at Deep to give you the best possible experience, so that has all take some time.

General Culture

A Very Cool Distraction

July 12, 2007 B. John 384 Views 0 Comments Music, Art, Performance Art, Ray Charles

This is a six minute Youtube, but it is a great break in your day, and well worth watching to the end.

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Where Have I Been?

July 7, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 435 Views 0 Comments Swimming, Fireworks, July 4th, 4th of July

Well, I realize it’s been quite some time since there were last updates to this blog. I apologize for the absence, but it was due to work. The previous several weeks involved some very long days, and most of those were spent writing proposals…so by the time evening came around, I was tired of writing. There hasn’t been a ton of news to report anyway on the personal front.

Movies Politics

Shooter

July 7, 2007 B. John 504 Views 0 Comments Thriller, Mystery, Mark Wahlberg, Antoine Fuqua, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Shooter, Action

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

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Sicko

July 7, 2007 B. John 482 Views 0 Comments healthcare, Documentary, Insurance, Michael Moore, Sicko, Universal Healthcare

Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.