A post im putting on the Stern Fan Network BB

I want just the Bush fans to respond here to this survey I'm posting...
If you believe in Mr Bush and hes still doing a good job please answer these questions or e-mail me (no need to spam, this account is not my primary so duhh) this is serious and sincere.
For Bush fans only
answer yes or no for these ...
1) Would you consider youself a political junkie (you cant stop watching political shows, FNC, Rush, Hannity etcetera?)
2) Do you think if you admit bush may be wrong, you would appear weak and/or ashamed?
3) Do you believe if Democrats would grow up and/or admit defeat, USA would win in Iraq ?
4) Do you feel wealthier now than 2 years ago?
5) Did you complain about fuel/ utility/ heating prices ?
6) Do you have friends who dont share your political views (not counting this BB)?
These questions are free form answer accordingly
7) Do you exercise
7a) If no, do you wish you had more time to exercise?
8) How many hours do you watch TV a day?
9) how many hours do you listen to radio a day?
10) Do you actively play sports (football, baseball, softball etc)?
10a) If no, are you mainly watching/listening (TV/Radio/Stadium)?
11) List 3 or 4 hobbies that you do at least 1 hour a week
12) Do you collect and/ or a superfan of any sport/tv/show/activity/star ? (example: You are a wrestling or NASCAR fan, have pics, talk all the time about it, collecting things of the activity, plan events around it)
13) Are you a part of any non-political clubs? (VFW, Elks, Moose, Fraternity etc.)
14) Are or have you been a member of a labor union?
15) Are you a member of a political club (young republicans etc)?
16) Did you recently volunteer for you political party (at office, call banks etc)?

Merry Xmas and Why I am a Sternfan

http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.php?d=1134720000

This is a link to the rundown of howards last day on terrestial radio, 12/16/2005
It's a great read and it's a thank you to the fans.

I know there are a few who say he means nothing it's not worth the money. But let me give you a little background on why I even care about him. Why I am a superfan as they might say, why I believe in him.

I first heard Howard by accident in 1984 downstairs in the American Legion Post my dad ran, on WNBC am. My dad is a fan of Soupy Sales (an old time comedian who had a show), Howard came on after him. Howard talked about everyday things. His life and it didnt seem plastic or phony. It was a place where you were listening in and found people like yourself. It was real funny, especially to hear adults have the same type of problems I had. You could say misery loving company. I was hooked. But then, Howard was fired right after that hurricane in 1985. and he was gone. He came back on air in 11/1985 to K-rock but i didnt know about it until early February 1986 when I was in my art class at Xaverian H.S. where Brother Clem let us hear the radio. And there he was... on mornings I was so happy he was there and never stopped listening since. I have been a loyal fan because he is funny and it didn't seem phony. I taped as much as I could over the years and have loads of audio cassettes, pictures, taped the channel 9 shows (1990-1991) and have over 50 tapes of the E shows (apx. 500 shows). Yes I admit there were times where I would stop listening for a while, but I would come back. Yes he is an entertainer, but I have been entertained. Curse words arent enough, and he knows that. Do you realize that until 1999, I did not hear a radio show that was even remotely funny? (That's when I heard Ron and Fez on WNEW-fm they are on XM now and proved me there was a way to be funny without being exactly like howard.) in 1994 I went to the book signing for Private Parts and was so amazed in seeing all those people, and meeting howard for the first time in person. I went to the book signing for Miss America in 1995 and Robins book signing too. It showed me I wasnt alone that there were other people like me and soon after I had friends, real friends not since High School. Howard has been an inspiration in my life to help others helped me in having friends and inspired me on things I want to do and achieve. In 2003, it inspired me to do an internet radio show with Dave to prove to myself if I wanted to do a radio show and with my friends, Dave, Hal, Dave Baskin and Allan and I found out I could do it and loved it. Howard has given me so much, he has shown me people can have fun and be happy.

Thank you Howard and Robin. Bob - a Sternfan since 1984 and very proud of it !!!

PS: of course, I got Sirius. I'm not leaving them now. I can't wait to hear what's next.

Stop listening to the lies, please believe me.

I am tired of these lies. We need to put troops in Afghanistan. We need to keep troops in N Korea. We have to know if Bush is reelected there will be a draft. What commander in chief sent our troops to baghdad without the proper body armor they need?
Music and arts classes are being dropped. Head Start (a program that has worked) is being cut. Transportation funds are being cut (more tolls and fares). Oil prices are rising. The deficit is rising. We haven't gotten Osama Bin Laden yet. Do I have to go on? Please WAKE UP!!!!!

You believe that republicans believe in self reliance? you are deluding yourself. The republicans believe in only supporting their business friends and partners. You are not part of the equasion. They only want to care about the bosses and their friends. NOT YOU.

Veteran's vote on Kerry looks bad

On randi rhodes show today she stated how the veteran's vote has changed. Before this swiftwater crap, kerry and bush were even 46% to 46%. Now it is 37% kerry and 55% bush. Are you, the veteran who changed his vote, insane? Pres. Bush had his dad help him from avoiding vietnam. Bush Jr. flew decomissioned planes. Bush may have gone AWOL, no one's sure. These swiftwater people are being paid by a bush supporter. One of them was part of Bush's reelection compaign as a volunteer. Kerry did serve. kerry did get hurt. it was documented. Don't you think it would have been proven if this was incorrect by the military? Please remember the following: Oil is about $50 a barrel, gas prices are rising, Overtime rules are changing which will affect peoples income, 5 soldiers were killed in iraq over this weekend. And you the reader are caring about something happening 25 years ago?? HOW IS THAT GONNA HELP US NOW?

howard stern thinks republicans (other than guiliani) think for themselves

This morning Howard stated that he supported NY Gov. George Petaki. It is rumored he as well as Rudy Guiliani might run for president. Howard has stated he does support Republicans but I have an inherent problem with them. I consider myself a libertarian/centrist. None of the main republicans have openly supported Howard Stern's plight, except for Rudy Guiliani. There is something WRONG where people will not question their leader President Bush. America is a place where you are supposed to be allowed to speak your mind and question authority. If Howard believes any other republican will think for themselves (other than guiliani, but then what will the religious zealots do to him?), he is mistaken. Republicans not talking about issues especially about freedom of speech is one step away from nazism.

from sylvia

Fahrenheit Lie #1National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is depicted in the movie telling a reporter, “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11.” The scene deceptively shows the Administration directly blaming Saddam and his regime for the attacks on 9/11 by taking her comments out of context. Now read the entire statement made by Ms. Rice to the reporter: “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11. But if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that led people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.” (CBS News, November 28, 2003 Interview) Fahrenheit Lie #2 In the film, Moore leads viewers to believe that members of bin Laden’s family were allowed to exit the country after the attacks without questioning by authorities. The September 11th commission, on the other hand, reported that 22 of the 26 people on the flight that took most of the bin Laden family out of the country were interviewed and found to be innocent of suspicion. (Sumana Chatterjee and David Golstein, “Analyzing ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’: It’s Accurate To A Degree,” Seattle Times, 07/05/04) The commission reported that “each of the flights we have studied was investigated by the FBI and dealt with in a professional manner prior to its departure.” Fahrenheit Lie #3Moore claims that James Bath, a friend of President Bush from his time with the Texas Air National Guard, might have funneled bin Laden money to an unsuccessful Bush oil-drilling firm called Arbusto Energy. Bill Allison, managing editor for the Center for Public Integrity (an independent watchdog group in Washington, D.C.), on the other hand, said, “We looked into bin Laden money going to Arbusto, and we never found anything to back that up,” (Sumana Chatterjee and David Golstein, “Analyzing ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’: It’s Accurate To A Degree,” Seattle Times, 07/05/04)Fahrenheit Lie #4The movie claims that the Bush administration “supported closing veterans hospitals.” “The Department of Veterans Affairs did propose closing seven hospitals in areas with declining populations where the hospitals were underutilized, and whose veterans could be served by other hospitals” (Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, “Fifty-nine Deceits In Fahrenheit 9/11,” http://i2i.org/ Accessed, 07/11/04) But Moore’s film fails to mention that the Department also proposed building new hospitals in areas where needs were growing, and also proposed building blind rehabilitation centers and spinal cord injury centers (News Release, Department of Veterans Affairs, www.va.gov, 10/24/03) Fahrenheit Lie #5Conspiracy theories abound about the reasons for the War on Terror, but none is more outlandish than the one propagandized in Moore’s film: that the Afghan war was fought solely to enable the Unocal company to build an oil pipeline (the plan for which was abandoned by the company in 1998). Moore “suggests that one of the first official acts of Afghan President Hamid Karzai … was to help seal a deal for … Unocal to build an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. It alleges that Karzai had been a Unocal consultant.” (emphasis added) (Sumana Chatterjee and David Golstein, “Analyzing ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’: It’s Accurate To A Degree,” Seattle Times, 07/05/04) Unocal spokesman, Barry Lane, says unequivocally, “Karzai was never, in any capacity, an employee, consultant or a consultant of a consultant,” and Unocal never had a plan to build a Caspian Sea pipeline. (Sumana Chatterjee and David Golstein, “Analyzing ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’: It’s Accurate To A Degree,” Seattle Times, 07/05/04) Moore mentions that the Taliban visited Texas while President Bush was governor to discuss a potential project with Unocal. While Moore implies that then-Governor Bush met with the Taliban, no such meeting occurred. The Taliban delegation did, however, meet with the Clinton Administration on this visit. (Matt Labash, “Un-Moored From Reality; Fahrenheit 9/11 Connects Dots That Aren’t There,” Weekly Standard, July 5-July 12 Issue) Fahrenheit Lie #6Even readily available figures are exaggerated for effect in Fahrenheit 9/11. The claims have a basis in reality, making them believable, but are false nonetheless. In the film, Moore asks Craig Unger, author of House of Bush, House of Saud, “How much money do the Saudis have invested in America, roughly?” to which Unger responds, “Uh, I’ve heard figures as high as $860 billion.” The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy reports that worldwide Saudi investment approximated $700 billion – a figure much lower than Unger alleges the Saudi government to have invested in the U.S. (Tanya C. Hsu, Institute For Research: Middle Eastern Policy, “The United States Must Not Neglect Saudi Arabian Investment,” www.irmep.org, Accessed 07/11/04) The Institute reports that 60 percent of that $700 billion – roughly $420 billion, less than half of what Unger “heard” – was actually invested in the United States by the Saudi government.Fahrenheit Lie #7“Moore’s film suggests that [President] Bush has close family ties to the bin Laden family – principally through [President] Bush’s father’s relationship with the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm. The president’s father, George H.W. Bush, was a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group’s Asian affiliate until recently; members of the bin Laden family – who own one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction firms – had invested $2 million in a Carlyle Group fund. Bush Sr. and the bin Ladens have since severed ties with the Carlyle Group, which in any case has a bipartisan roster of partners, including Bill Clinton’s former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt. The movie quotes author Dan Briody claiming that the Carlyle Group ‘gained’ from September 11 because it owned United Defense, a military contractor. Carlyle Group spokesman Chris Ullman notes that United Defense holds a special distinction among U.S. defense contractors that is not mentioned in Moore’s movie: the firm’s $11 billion Crusader artillery rocket system developed for the U.S. Army is one of the only weapons systems canceled by the Bush administration.” (Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, “Fifty-nine Deceits In Fahrenheit 9/11,” http://i2i.org/ Accessed, 07/11/04) “There is another famous investor in Carlyle whom Moore does not reveal: George Soros. But the fact that the anti-Bush billionaire [Soros] has invested in Carlyle would detract from Moore’s simplistic conspiracy theory.” (Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, “Fifty-nine Deceits In Fahrenheit 9/11,” http://i2i.org/ Accessed, 07/11/04) Fahrenheit Lie #8Not revealing relevant facts is dishonest enough. But to paint the Bush Administration as sympathetic and friendly to the Taliban prior to September 11, is not only dishonest, but maliciously so. Moore shows film of a March 2001 visit to the United States by a Taliban delegation, claiming that the Administration “welcomed” the Taliban official, Sayed Hashemi, “to tour the United States to help improve the image of the Taliban.” But the Administration did not welcome the Taliban with open arms. In fact, the State Department rejected the Taliban’s claim that it had complied with U.S. requests to isolate bin Laden. To demonstrate even further the Administration’s contempt for the Taliban and its illegitimacy, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher – on the day of the terrorist regime’s visit – said, “We don’t recognize any government in Afghanistan.” Fahrenheit Lie #9Moore does more than simply downplay the threat posed to the U.S. by the former Hussein regime in Iraq. He goes so far as to assert that Saddam “never threatened to attack the United States.” If by “attack the United States” one interprets this claim to mean that Saddam never threatened to send troops to the United States, then Mr. Moore has a point. But Saddam Hussein clearly sought to attack the United States within his own sphere of influence, even though he didn’t have the resources to attack U.S. soil from his side of the world: o On November 15, 1997, “the main propaganda organ for the Saddam regime, the newspaper Babel (which was run by Saddam Hussein’s son Uday), ordered: ‘American and British interests, embassies, and naval ships in the Arab region should be the targets of military operations and commando attacks by Arab political forces.’” (Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, “Fifty-nine Deceits In Fahrenheit 9/11,” http://i2i.org/ Accessed, 07/11/04)In addition, “Iraqi forces fired, every day, for 10 years, on the aircraft that patrolled the no-fly zones and staved off further genocide in the north and south of the country,” (Source: New York Times, 12/1/03). Saddam Hussein also provided safe haven to terrorists who killed Americans, like Abu Nidal; funded suicide bombers in Israel who certainly killed Americans; and ran the Iraqi police, which plotted to assassinate former President George Bush.