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		<title>I need someone to help me with my history part 1?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.The nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was embraced by many Progressives because a.A large majority of American voters now favored it. b.It could offset growth jingoism and militarism, especially once World War I began. c.The women agitation for it moderated the radicalism of the campaign. d. The higher moral character of women [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.The nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was embraced by many<br />
Progressives because<br />
a.A large majority of American voters now favored it.<br />
b.It could offset growth jingoism and militarism, especially once World War I began.<br />
c.The women agitation for it moderated the radicalism of the campaign.<br />
d. The higher moral character of women would help clean up politics</p>
<p>2.Which statement does NOT accurately compare Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson?<br />
a.Both ran for president in 1912.<br />
b.Both used presidential power to promote pragmatic change<br />
c.    Both took significant symbolic steps to break down barriers to racial segregation.<br />
d.As his re-election Champaign neared, Wilson began advocating programs that fit Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” ideas.</p>
<p>3.“Under the “Roosevelt Corollary” the U.S.:<br />
a.Agreed to abstain from interfering in the internal affairs of the Caribbean nations<br />
b.Declared the canal zone open to all nations<br />
c.Established a system of mutual financial and commercial obligations with Panama<br />
d. Justified intervention in the internal affairs of Caribbean countries.</p>
<p>4.It provided emergency food, clothing and medical care to war refugees including whites’ southerners, and took charge of setting freed people on abandoned land after the civil war.<br />
a.The compromise of 1877<br />
b.The populist party<br />
c..  The freedmen’s Bureau<br />
d.The freedmen’s Act</p>
<p>5.How did the United States pay for the costs of its involvement in World War I<br />
a.Subsidies from Britain and France<br />
b.Reparations from defeated Germany<br />
c.Borrowing from U. S. Citizens<br />
d.Inflationary currency manipulated by the Federal Reserve</p>
<p>6. Characterize the “Fourteen Points”<br />
a.A pragmatic list of specifics undergirding Wilson’s desire to mediate an end to the war<br />
b.An idealistic vision for a postwar world order freed of militarism and selfish nationalism<br />
c. A blueprint for a punitive peace that would prevent any resurgence of German aggression<br />
d. A code of moralistic guidelines for future diplomatic practice</p>
<p>7.The Treaty of Versailles never received Senate ratification because<br />
a.The vast majority of Americans came to opposed it<br />
b.Wilson himself came to oppose i<br />
 c.Wilson could not compromise and appeal to the “mild reservationist Republicans.<br />
d.It would have destroyed U. S. national security</p>
<p>8.The attitudes and public behavior in America immediately after the end of the war have been given the label:<br />
a.The “Red Scare,”<br />
b.“Normalcy.”<br />
c.The “Great Euphoria”<br />
d.The “New World Order.”<br />
9.One of the most important economic transformations in the years after World War I was:<br />
a.The shift from industry’s reliance on railroads to reliance on the automobile.<br />
b The shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services.<br />
c.The move from the Northeast and Midwest to the West Coast as the country’s industrial heartland.<br />
d.A change from a more cooperative to a more adversarial relationship between government and business</p>
<p>10The Homestead Act, did all of the following except:<br />
  a. Provided land to every head of family who was a citizen or who    intended to become a citizen.<br />
b. Provided up to one hundred and eighty acres of public domain.<br />
c. The Homesteaders were required to live for 5years on the land<br />
d. After 6 months on the land, they could purchase it outright for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.</p>
<p>11.The word reconstruction refers to<br />
a.The political process by which the rebel states were to be restored to the union<br />
b.All states were required to a constitutional convention to decide the rate of confederate<br />
states<br />
c.The confederate states were to decide the appropriate time for restoration to the union<br />
d.The appropriate time for the emancipation of the slaves.</p>
<p>12.All of the following states were members of the confederacy EXCEPT<br />
a. Virginia<br />
b. Kansas<br />
a.South Carolina<br />
b.Florida </p>
<p>13.How many states that actually left the union and formed the confederacy<br />
a.9<br />
b.13<br />
c.10<br />
d.    11</p>
<p>14.Which was the last state to be readmitted into the union<br />
a.Tennessee<br />
b.North Carolina<br />
c.Georgia<br />
d.Alabama</p>
<p>15.All of the following were southern states that had agree to the Lincoln Plan, EXCEPT<br />
a. Virginia<br />
b.Tennessee<br />
c.Arkansas<br />
 d.Louisiana16. </p>
<p>16. This Act  in 1917, exempt met under twenty-one from the draft<br />
a.         Selective Service Act<br />
b.      The Sedition Act<br />
c.The conscription Act<br />
d.        The War Intervention Act</p>
<p>17.In 1920, led by Roger Baldwin, this organization was formed to guard against a repetition of shameful chapter in American Judicial History<br />
a.The workers Union<br />
b.The American Freedom Union<br />
c.The Industrial Workers of the World d The American<br />
d.    Civil Liberties Union<br />
<br />1) A, A large majority of American voters now favored it.<br />
2) IDK.<br />
3) A, Agreed to abstain from interfering in the internal affairs of the Caribbean nations<br />
4) C, The Freedmen’s Bureau<br />
5) A, Subsidies from Britain and France<br />
6) A, A pragmatic list of specifics undergirding Wilson’s desire to mediate an end to the war<br />
7) A, The vast majority of Americans came to opposed it<br />
 <img src='http://www.rac2002.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> D, The “New World Order.”<br />
9) IDK<br />
10) D, After 6 months on the land, they could purchase it outright for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.<br />
11) A, The political process by which the rebel states were to be restored to the union<br />
12) B, Kansas<br />
13) D, 11<br />
14) A, Tennessee<br />
15) D, Louisiana<br />
16) A, Selective Service Act<br />
17) D, Civil Liberties Union</p>
<p>I hope this help.(:<br />
Fan me, so I may be able to help you in the future.(:</p>
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		<title>I Need Deffinitions for all of these?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conditional Convention Articles of the confederation Federalist Individualist Revolutionary war Bunker hill Sara toga Lexington/concord Three fifth compromise Constitution Bill of rights Electoral collage The executive branch Judaical branch Legislative branch Frederick douglass 13th Amendment 15th Amendment Freedman&#34;s bureau Jim crow laws Great migration Progressives Upton sinclair Meat inspection act/ Pure food &#38;drug act Suffrage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conditional Convention<br />
Articles of the confederation<br />
Federalist<br />
Individualist<br />
Revolutionary war<br />
Bunker hill<br />
Sara toga<br />
Lexington/concord<br />
Three fifth compromise<br />
Constitution<br />
Bill of rights<br />
Electoral collage<br />
The executive branch<br />
Judaical branch<br />
Legislative branch<br />
Frederick douglass<br />
13th Amendment<br />
15th Amendment<br />
Freedman&quot;s bureau Jim crow laws<br />
Great migration<br />
Progressives<br />
Upton sinclair<br />
Meat inspection act/ Pure food &amp;drug act<br />
Suffrage<br />
19th amendment<br />
Labor unions<br />
Laissez faire<br />
A Monopoly<br />
<br />You are aware that your text book has a glossary in the back, correct?</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to use that, then look it up on google or something to that affect.</p>
<p>Slacking off in high school will not get you anywhere, it&#8217;ll only make it 10 times harder when you hit college.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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		<title>Place to send e-mail to complain about Civil War reenactment being cancelled in St. Charles, MO.?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found out that after 20 years, the City of St. Charles will no longer be hosting the Civil War reenactments at Frontier Park. This event has been going on for the last 20 years and has always been very enjoyable &#8211; not to mention that the hospital is close by in the event [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently found out that after 20 years, the City of St. Charles will no longer be hosting the Civil War reenactments at Frontier Park. This event has been going on for the last 20 years and has always been very enjoyable &#8211; not to mention that the hospital is close by in the event that any reenactors got injures (this happened about 3 years ago). I tried accessing the city and the convention bureau website and was not able to locate an e-mail address to write and complain about the cancellation. This has always been a great event that my husband and I have looked forward to attending as reenactors. Any ideas or suggestions on who I can contact and how to get in contact with them? There are several of us that would like to give a piece of our mind to someone about this decision.<br />
<br />I&#8217;m so glad it is cancelled.  I&#8217;ve done seen enough of war firsthand!<br />
Read a book.</p>
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		<title>Are Indegenous Mexicans, First Nations, and Native Americans the sole and real owners of North America?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples (CDI) there are 9,854,301 indigenous people reported in Mexico in 2000, which constitute 9.54% of the population in the country. The CDI identifies 62 indigenous language groups in Mexico although certain languages have multiple dialects each of which is unique and may be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples (CDI) there are 9,854,301 indigenous people reported in Mexico in 2000, which constitute 9.54% of the population in the country. The CDI identifies 62 indigenous language groups in Mexico although certain languages have multiple dialects each of which is unique and may be mutually unintelligible.[19] The majority of the indigenous population is concentrated in the central and southern states. According to the CDI, the states with the greatest percentage of indigenous population are:[20]<br />
Yucatán, 59%<br />
Oaxaca, 48%<br />
Quintana Roo, 39%<br />
Chiapas, 28%<br />
Campeche, 27%<br />
Hidalgo, 24%<br />
Puebla, 19%<br />
Guerrero, 17%<br />
San Luis Potosí, 15%<br />
Veracruz, 15%</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
There are three distinctive groups of North America indigenous peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35.[20] Under the Employment Equity Act, Aboriginal people are a designated group along with women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.[151] They are not a visible minority under the Employment Equity Act and in the view of Statistics Canada.[152]<br />
The 2006 Canadian Census enumerated 1,172,790 Aboriginal people in Canada, 3.8% of the country&#8217;s total population.[1] This total comprises 698,025 people of First Nations descent, 389,785 Métis, and 50,485 Inuit. National representative bodies of Aboriginal people in Canada include the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis National Council, the Native Women&#8217;s Association of Canada, the National Association of Native Friendship Centres and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.[153]<br />
Indigenous people assert that their sovereign rights are valid, and point to the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which is mentioned in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, Section 25, the British North America Acts and the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (to which Canada is a signatory) in support of this claim.[154][155]</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
Population<br />
In 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that about 0.8% of the U.S. population was of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. This population is unevenly distributed across the country.[199] Below, all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, are listed by the proportion of residents citing American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry, based on 2006 estimates:<br />
Alaska – 13.1% 101,352<br />
New Mexico – 9.7% 165,944<br />
South Dakota – 8.6% 60,358<br />
Oklahoma – 6.8% 262,581<br />
Montana – 6.3% 57,225<br />
North Dakota – 5.2% 30,552<br />
Arizona – 4.5% 261,168<br />
Wyoming – 2.2% 10,867<br />
Oregon – 1.8% 45,633<br />
Washington – 1.5% 104,819<br />
Nevada – 1.2%<br />
Idaho – 1.1%<br />
North Carolina – 1.1%<br />
Utah – 1.1%<br />
Minnesota – 1.0%<br />
Colorado – 0.9%<br />
Kansas – 0.9%<br />
Nebraska – 0.9%<br />
Wisconsin – 0.9%<br />
Arkansas – 0.8%<br />
California – 0.7%<br />
Louisiana – 0.6%<br />
Maine – 0.5%<br />
Michigan – 0.5%<br />
Texas – 0.5%<br />
Alabama – 0.4%<br />
Mississippi – 0.4%<br />
Missouri – 0.4%<br />
Rhode Island – 0.4%<br />
Vermont – 0.4%<br />
Florida – 0.3%<br />
Delaware – 0.3%<br />
Hawaii – 0.3%<br />
Iowa – 0.3%<br />
New York – 0.3%<br />
South Carolina – 0.3%<br />
Tennessee – 0.3%<br />
Georgia – 0.2%<br />
Virginia – 0.2%<br />
Connecticut – 0.2%<br />
Illinois – 0.2%<br />
Indiana – 0.2%<br />
Kentucky – 0.2%<br />
Maryland – 0.2%<br />
Massachusetts – 0.2%<br />
New Hampshire – 0.2%<br />
New Jersey – 0.2%<br />
Ohio – 0.2%<br />
West Virginia – 0.2%<br />
Pennsylvania – 0.1%<br />
District of Columbia – 0.3%<br />
Puerto Rico – 0.2%<br />
<br />They were the original inhabitants so yes.</p>
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		<title>Can a hotel charge you an extra night when you&#8217;re not even booked for that night?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a notice today from a hotel that they are charging me an extra night at $102 + tax for the 23 of May. However, I booked the room for the 27th and the 28th and that&#8217;s it. I reported it to the Better Business Bureau to see if this was against the law. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got a notice today from a hotel that they are charging me an extra night at $102 + tax for the 23 of May. However, I booked the room for the 27th and the 28th and that&#8217;s it. I reported it to the Better Business Bureau to see if this was against the law. I had reserved a room for a convention at the convention rate this letter I received went out to all con goers who reserved a room under the special rate. Is this legal in the state of North Carolina or the U.S. because I don&#8217;t see why we have to pay for a room 4 days in advance from our actually booked date.<br />
I have called twice the rooms director that sent out the email never returned my call. I call the same day I got the letter</p>
<p>Did you call and ask them why?<br />
Doesn&#8217;t make sense to me either and I&#8217;m guessing you will be getting an apology email soon.</p>
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		<title>Barry put more pacalolo power in states hands and he is checkmated now can he help save lives by&#8230;.?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[reversing anschlingers UN heist? The campaign against marijuana 1930-1937 Main article: Legal history of marijuana in the United States Restrictions for cannabis as a drug, often called Indian Hemp in documents from 1900 to 1930s, started in District of Columbia 1906 and was followed by state laws in other parts of the country in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reversing anschlingers UN heist?<br />
The campaign against marijuana 1930-1937</p>
<p>Main article: Legal history of marijuana in the United States<br />
Restrictions for cannabis as a drug, often called Indian Hemp in documents from 1900 to 1930s, started in District of Columbia 1906 and was followed by state laws in other parts of the country in the 1910s and 1920s. The early laws against the cannabis drugs were passed with little public attention. Concern about marijuana was related primarily to the fear that marijuana use would spread, even among whites, as a substitute for the opiates. In 1925 United States supported regulation of Indian hemp, Cannabis for use as a drug, in the International Opium Convention.[2] Recommendations from the International Opium Convention inspired the work with The Uniform State Narcotic Act between 1925 and 1932. Harry J. Anslinger became an active person in this process from about 1930.[3][4]<br />
Anslinger received as head of The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) (from his point of view) an alarming increase of reports about smoking of marijuana in 1936 continued of a spread at an accelerated pace in 1937. Before, smoking of marijuana had been relatively slight and confined to the Southwest, particularly along the Mexican border. The Bureau launched two important steps. First, the Bureau prepared a legislative plan to seek from Congress a new law that would place marijuana and its distribution directly under federal control. Second, Anslinger ran a campaign against marijuana on radio and at major forums.[5][non-primary source needed]<br />
Some of his critics allege that Anslinger and the campaign against marijuana had an hidden agenda, DuPont petrochemical interests and William Randolph Hearst together created the highly sensational anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor. The credibility of this theory is weakened by the fact that hemp never managed to become a competitive alternative to wood pulp or nylon in any country in the twentieth century, see Hemp. Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure (1934), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign, aimed at alarming the public, became his primary focus as part of the government&#8217;s broader push to outlaw all drugs.[6][not in citation given]<br />
Members of the League of Nations had already implemented restrictions for marijuana in the beginning of the 1930s and restrictions started in many states in U.S years before Anslinger was appointed. Both president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Attorney General publicly supported this development in 1935.[6][non-primary source needed]<br />
<br />Not likely</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t you agree with Conservatives that same-sex marriage is also an economic issue, so we must be against it?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters) &#8211; Tourism operators in Fort Lauderdale are hoping that New York&#8217;s gay marriage law will bring new business to the sunny Florida city. This week, they stepped up efforts to promote Fort Lauderdale as a honeymoon destination for same-sex couples from New York. &#34;This is a great opportunity,&#34; said Richard Grey, the owner of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reuters) &#8211; Tourism operators in Fort Lauderdale are hoping that New York&#8217;s gay marriage law will bring new business to the sunny Florida city.</p>
<p>This week, they stepped up efforts to promote Fort Lauderdale as a honeymoon destination for same-sex couples from New York.</p>
<p>&quot;This is a great opportunity,&quot; said Richard Grey, the owner of the Royal Palms Resorts and Spa. The 50-room luxury hotel, whose clients are exclusively gay men, launched the Royal Bliss honeymoon package on Monday.</p>
<p>For $6,400 the Royal Palms will treat guests to a six-day vacation that includes limo pick up at the airport, spa treatments and champagne lunches by the pool.</p>
<p>Some of Gray&#8217;s local competitors are also promoting honeymoon packages that celebrate gay marriage in New York. The Preferred Pride package at the Atlantic Resort and Spa offers oceanfront rooms starting at $159 per night.</p>
<p>Hotels are not the only businesses seeking to profit from the hundreds of daily wedding celebrations that began to take place in New York on Sunday.</p>
<p>Wedding planners, cake bakers and jewelry makers in New York City and throughout the state, have already reported healthy trade.</p>
<p>But Fort Lauderdale is one of the first cities outside New York State, to try to cash in on the Marriage Equality Act.</p>
<p>On Sunday its tourism bureau placed an ad in the style section of the New York Times.</p>
<p>&quot;After Your I Do&#8217;s Consider Our Proposal,&quot; it said, encouraging readers to visit the city&#8217;s official visitors site, for the chance to win a free Fort Lauderdale honeymoon.</p>
<p>The move underscores the importance of gay travelers &#8211; and New York tourists &#8211; to Fort Lauderdale. The city of 165,000 has more than 30 guesthouses that cater to homosexual visitors, and a vibrant gay community centered in Wilton Manors. There is also a large population of retired New Yorkers.</p>
<p>&quot;Most hotels have a romantic package (for same-sex couples) of sorts,&quot; said Jessica Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center and Visitors Bureau. &quot;With the fact that a large part of our customer base comes from New York, this is a great opportunity.&quot;</p>
<p>Local tourism officials estimate the city hosted 1 million gay travelers in 2010. New York to Fort Lauderdale is the busiest air route in the country with more than 8.5 million passengers per year.</p>
<p>A COMPETITIVE MARKET</p>
<p>Wesley Combs, a market analyst who helps companies to tap into the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) market, said that Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Hawaii and San Francisco are also well positioned to provide honeymoons to New York&#8217;s newlyweds.</p>
<p>Combs said some hotels in these cities are making the effort to celebrate gay relationships just like they celebrate heterosexual weddings. They picture homosexual couples in ads and teach staff to cater to the needs of LGBT couples, avoiding awkward moments when a same-sex couple checks in.</p>
<p>Combs&#8217;s firm, Witeck-Combs Communications, conducted a nationwide survey of gay households with Harris Interactive earlier this year. It found 65 percent of gay and lesbian adults planned to take a leisure trip this summer.</p>
<p>Cities most likely to attract gay honeymooners, Combs said, are those where there is a tolerant atmosphere.</p>
<p>&quot;A simple act of holding a hand for a gay couple can be viewed as inappropriate&quot; he said.</p>
<p>&quot;When you celebrate something as momentous as a honeymoon, you want to make sure you are free to enjoy who you are, without any fear of stress, or any kind of repercussions, because you&#8217;re trying to express your love and affection for your significant other.&quot; he said.</p>
<p>David Paisley, an analyst for Community Marketing Inc, predicts that New York City will be the top honeymoon destination for LGBT couples from other parts of the United States.</p>
<p>New York ranked as the number one leisure destination in Community Marketing&#8217;s 2010 survey of gay travelers. Nineteen percent of respondents said they visited the Big Apple last year.</p>
<p>&quot;It&#8217;s the place that&#8217;s been number one (on the rankings) for a decade,&quot; Paisley said. &quot;The fact that people can get married in New York now and have their honeymoon there is very attractive.&quot;<br />
<br />Have you really learned nothing in your life?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doin a report on SF CVB (San Francisco convention and visitor bureau and need some help. I would like to know: 1. what it&#8217;s current IT infrastructure. 2. Does it use any cloud based application? if any, what are those applications. 3. does provide any could based services in general? If you can also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m doin a report on SF CVB (San Francisco convention and visitor bureau and need some help.<br />
I would like to know:<br />
1. what it&#8217;s current IT infrastructure.<br />
2. Does it use any cloud based application? if any, what are those applications.<br />
3. does provide any could based services in general?</p>
<p>If you can also refer me to a good recourse I would really appreciate that.<br />
I looked at their website but didn&#8217;t get much out of it.<br />
<br />This sounds too much like work. I do enough of this during the day.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t research to this degree for free.</p>
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		<title>Is Faux News a disinformation factory?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[bama a Socialist? Fox News Exec Said So, but Didn&#8217;t Believe It by Howard Kurtz Info Howard Kurtz Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast&#8217;s Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN&#8217;s weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bama a Socialist? Fox News Exec Said So, but Didn&#8217;t Believe It</p>
<p>by Howard Kurtz Info<br />
Howard Kurtz</p>
<p>Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast&#8217;s Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN&#8217;s weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.<br />
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<p>Bill Sammon, who’s responsible for the network’s Washington coverage, linked Obama to socialism many times during the 2008 campaign, but didn’t believe the allegation, he acknowledged.</p>
<p>In the final stretch of the 2008 campaign, a Fox News executive repeatedly questioned on the air whether Barack Obama believed in socialism.</p>
<p>Article &#8211; Kurtz Sammon Bill Sammon, managing editor of Fox News Washington, at the Democratic National Convention in 2000, when he was a reporter for The Washington Times. (The Washington Times / Landov)</p>
<p>Now it turns out he didn’t really believe what he was saying.</p>
<p>Bill Sammon, now the network’s vice president and Washington managing editor, acknowledged the following year that he was just engaging in “mischievous speculation” in raising the charge. In fact, Sammon said he “privately” believed that the socialism allegation was “rather far-fetched.”</p>
<p>These remarks, unearthed by the liberal advocacy group Media Matters, raise the question of whether Sammon, who oversees Washington news coverage for Fox News, was deliberately trying to sabotage the Democratic presidential candidate. He has come under fire before for memos he sent to the network’s staff that have seemed less than fair and balanced.</p>
<p>Sammon’s admission came on a 2009 Mediterranean cruise—cabin rates ranged as high as $37,600 per couple—sponsored by conservative Hillsdale College. Here is what he said, according to an audio recording:</p>
<p>Click Below to Listen to Bill Sammon&#8217;s Speech</p>
<p>“Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to ‘spread the wealth around.’ At that time, I have to admit that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched.”</p>
<p>That he did—on several occasions.</p>
<p>On Oct. 14, 2008, Sammon said on the air that Obama’s “spread the wealth” remark “is red meat when you’re talking to conservatives and you start talking about spread the wealth around. That is tantamount to socialism.”</p>
<p>On Oct. 21, he told Greta Van Susteren: “I have read Barack Obama’s books pretty carefully, and he in his own words talks about being drawn to Marxists… Now all this stuff’s coming out about whether he’s a socialist. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by it, because if you read his own words and his sort of, you know, orientation coming up as a liberal through college and a young man, it’s not a huge shock.”</p>
<p>Sammon, a former Washington Times reporter, also made sure his troops got out the word. On Oct. 27, he sent an email to staffers highlighting what he described as “Obama’s references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists” in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father.</p>
<p>In an interview, Sammon says his reference to “mischevious speculation” was “my probably inartful way of saying, ‘Can you believe how far this thing has come?’” The socialism question indeed “struck me as a far-fetched idea” in 2008. “I considered it kind of a remarkable notion that we would even be having the conversation.” He doesn’t regret repeatedly raising it on the air because, Sammon says, “it was a main point of discussion on all the channels, in all the media”—and by 2009 he was “astonished by how the needle had moved.”</p>
<p>Sammon notes that in the same talk on the cruise, he pointed out that George W. Bush had his own stimulus package and had spent half the TARP bailout money: “I was talking about both sides being big spenders.” (True; he also told the cruise guests that “when it comes to spending money, Obama makes Bush look like a piker.”)<br />
<br />we all know it is. this guy said it well : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_CjOSCyCU&amp;feature=</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Destination marketing firms, such as tourism offices and convention and visitor bureaus, distribute information to travelers. and this? A group of businesses that encompass travel/transportation vendors is called the hospitality industry. no, visitor bureaus do not give out any information. There function is the opposite &#8211; collect information about the visitors. yes, transportation is provided [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Destination marketing firms, such as tourism offices and convention and visitor bureaus, distribute information to travelers.</p>
<p>and this?</p>
<p>A group of businesses that encompass travel/transportation vendors is called the hospitality industry.<br />
<br />no, visitor bureaus do not give out any information. There function is the opposite &#8211; collect information about the visitors. </p>
<p>yes, transportation is provided by hospitality industry</p>
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