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  Elephant in the Room
The obvious conclusion, and this elephant is huge, Americans, who assume that we have "freedom of the press" and have current information from mainstream outlets are only getting one side of the story convenient to ownership.
This is the notorious elephant that has been scalding the hearts of the common folk, bombarded by politically motivated newspeak, negative advertising scoring them huge media profits, and a gossip chain of talking heads at the expense of scholarship.
Sidebar Elephant: When one political party dominates the landscape of freedom, as the Republicans who control both branches of Congress, the Executive Branch of Government, the Supreme Court and the majority of Governorships in America, then we are no longer a democracy.
whatelephant.blogspot.com   (1177 words)

  
 New Owner for Elephant Room
The Elephant Room, a longtime Roslyn establishment located at 8 Tower Place, is under new ownership.
For a number of years, The Elephant Room was owned by Frederic Carlton, current president of the Roslyn Chamber of Commerce.
Despite the fact that the building has some boiler room violations that are still unresolved, BOT members said that the restaurant is not in violation of village zoning and building codes.
www.antonnews.com /roslynnews/2001/12/21/opinion   (243 words)

  
 Elephant in the Room - America's flawed new antibullying movement. By Ann Hulbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elephant in the Room - America's flawed new antibullying movement.
In a pivotal scene of Elephant, Gus Van Sant's Columbine-inspired film, a couple of handsome jock types in chemistry class lob spitballs at a pale boy sitting in the last row.
Four and a half years after Columbine, there is an elephant in the schoolroom—or rather, a bully and, an even more unnerving presence these days, a bullee brooding on the bully's taunts.
slate.msn.com /id/2090186   (1138 words)

  
 The Anchorage Press, in Anchorage Alaska - coverstoryvol14ed7.shtml   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As elephants were studied more intensely in the 1980s, Katy Payne, an acoustic biologist, discovered that they're capable of sending messages to one another across great distances, at frequencies too low for humans to hear, although the high end of that communication might sound to astute people like a low rumble.
Annabelle, an even-tempered elephant, was a popular attraction at the zoo, particularly known for the Abstract Expressionist paintings she made with a brush held in her trunk, which resembled the work of Willem de Kooning in his decline.
He permanently closed his elephant exhibit and wanted to move its two aging inhabitants, Winky and Wanda, who were already arthritic, to the Performing Animal Welfare Society, a California sanctuary that PETA endorses.
www.anchoragepress.com /archives-2005/coverstoryvol14ed7.shtml   (5269 words)

  
 Austin Chronicle Live Music Venue Guide: Elephant Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Walking the length of the Elephant Room, from entryway to stage, the volumes of conversation and music adjust at inverse proportions.
Up front, by the stage, folks are leaning forward on their seats or settling back in booths, listening hard, watching the hands and mouths on stage intently, unraveling the complex mysteries of jazz.
In the true spirit of a jazz venue, the Elephant is home to a jazz jam every Monday night, hosted by the club's booking agent and trombonist in his own right Michael Mordecai.
www.auschron.com /issues/vol18/issue25/xtra.live_music_guide/feature.elephant.html   (306 words)

  
 Elephant Room Divider
This unique four panel screen actually creates a space rather than hiding it.
Handcrafted this screen will transform any space - perfect as a room divider or decorative accent.
The frame is solid wood with 1 inch thick clay covered with a cheesecloth canvas.
www.greathomeideas.com /w-2207.html   (44 words)

  
 Guest Article — Elephant In The Room: Amnesty And The Rule Of Law, By Gary Endelman - October 28, 2003
Guest Article — Elephant In The Room: Amnesty And The Rule Of Law, By Gary Endelman - October 28, 2003
If we repeat the mistake of 1986 by failing to overhaul our immigration laws at their roots, we are laying the foundation for an even more divisive debate over yet another amnesty that will further erode the social fabric whose unity is so precious to our national welfare.
Immigration is the elephant in the room that cannot be swept under the carpet.
www.visalaw.com /03oct4/10oct403.html   (1869 words)

  
 The Elephant In The Living Room - Part II
Witnesses are the only participants in a grand jury proceeding who are allowed to disclose whatever they wish to whoever they wish, says the Bar Association.
When a witness testifies before the grand jury, however, he or she is not permitted to have his or her lawyer present inside the jury room.
The only people allowed inside the grand jury room during proceedings are jurors, prosecutors, one witness at a time, and a court stenographer.
www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html   (2939 words)

  
 Jim's Blog (miscellaneous rants): Elephant in the Room
Schwarzenegger made it sound like teachers were responsible for all the state's shortcomings in education.
The greater insult would be for the governor to ignore the state's "elephant in the room" and the extraordinary impact illegal immigration has on the composition of the classroom, the overall performance of the students, and the continuously declining quality of education in a state that once boasted award winning schools.
Just another ranter with a voice and an opinion, kind of reminds me about the old joke about opinions being just like your butt - we all have one and they all smell...
jimliesen.blogspot.com /2005/01/elephant-in-room.html   (1228 words)

  
 FORWARD : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"It is the proverbial elephant in the room," wrote liberal columnist Michael Kinsley in the October 24, 2002, edition of the online journal Slate.
Kinsley was referring to a debate, once only whispered in back rooms but lately splashed in bold characters across the mainstream media, over Jewish and Israeli influence in shaping American foreign policy.
In recent weeks, in fact, the Israeli-Jewish elephant has been on a rampage, trampling across the airwaves and front pages of respected media outlets, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, the American Prospect, the Washington Times, the Economist, the New York Review of Books, CNN and MSNBC.
www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.02.28/news4.html   (1284 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: The elephant in the room by Michelle Malkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Townhall.com :: Columns :: The elephant in the room by Michelle Malkin
Immigration enforcement is the six-ton elephant in the room.
Barely two sentences were devoted to border control in the first presidential debate, despite the fact that the major issue of the showdown was leadership on national security.
www.townhall.com /columnists/michellemalkin/mm20041006.shtml   (820 words)

  
 Blog, blog, blog : AlterNet: The Elephant in the Room
"The Elephant in the Room: "Americans have been ignoring the elephant in the room.
Even its opponents direct little attention to the elephant itself; at best they tend to describe its various parts.
Its ears are deregulation, its trunk trickle-down economics, its mouth media consolidation, its tail a pre-emptive war in Iraq, its legs record deficits, and its feet cutbacks in education, social security, America's safety net, even veterans' benefits.
askhoudari.blogspot.com /2004/06/alternet-elephant-in-room.html   (364 words)

  
 Poem: The Elephant in the Room, Crisis Intervention Resource Manual   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.
We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
But we don't talk about the elephant in the room.
www.bartow.k12.ga.us /psych/crisis/elephant.htm   (127 words)

  
 Shame: the elephant in the room -- Davidoff 324 (7338): 623 -- BMJ
Shame: the elephant in the room -- Davidoff 324 (7338): 623 -- BMJ
"elephant in the room": something so big and disturbing that we
Re: Syphilis: the "elephant in the room" of AIDS?
bmj.com /cgi/content/full/324/7338/623   (864 words)

  
 Rommshare available in a fiendly houseshare - Borough - Elephant Castle - room share offered: south London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We have a place available to share a room in our beautiful house share.
The house is very well located, just off Kent Road, 10 min walk from Elephant Castle and Borough tube stations, both in Zone 1.
Lounge, two bathrooms (both with bath and shower) and a third separate toilet.
thegumtree.ie /london/98/2677998.html   (230 words)

  
 Sri Lankan Elephant Room | MetaFilter
This page has a lot of interesting information about Elephants with an extensive picture section of the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, located in Sri Lanka.
I rode on an elephant in Thailand a couple years ago.
It's a very touristy thing to do, and I don't know how good it is for the elephants, but it was an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/38092   (155 words)

  
 The Elephant In the Room - Newsweek Columnists - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
By then Richard Clarke was, as one member of the 9/11 commission said, "the elephant in the room." He'd been preceded by a new book and its attendant publicity, both ripping the Bush administration for a lackluster interest in terrorism before Al Qaeda struck the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
When he was cross-examined by a Republican member of the group about his support for the president when he was in the White House and his criticisms once he had left, he replied coolly, "It's a question of politics."
That was the real elephant in the room, the extent to which policy was trumped by politics, making the world less safe for American citizens.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4615816   (953 words)

  
 The Elephant in the living room
But in the meantime, we have to live with the elephant in the living room.”
It’s like an elephant in the living room.
It moves around, takes up an enormous amount of space, loudly trumpets, bumps into us, knocks things over, eats a ton of hay, and smells like an elephant.
www.natureofcreation.org /articles/elephant_living_room.htm   (535 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004 - Issue 117
The emphasis on the evangelical vote is a smokescreen motivated by the attempt by Republicans (and conservative Democrats) to move the country rightwards.
Meanwhile, most pundits, left and right, refuse to squarely face the white elephant in the room: race.
Bob Wing is national co-chair of United for Peace and Justice (www.unitedforpeace.org) and was the founding editor of War Times newspaper and ColorLines magazine.
www.blackcommentator.com /117/117_racewire.html   (2956 words)

  
 Darn Floor: The Elephant in the Living Room
Darn Floor: The Elephant in the Living Room
The elephant in my mind's living room is this: "Why does God allow these things to happen?" I can't give an answer.
In fact, I'd be skeptical about any answer that didn't boil down to Job's response to God.
darnfloor.blogspot.com /2005/01/elephant-in-living-room.html   (690 words)

  
 Shame: the elephant in the room -- Davidoff 11 (1): 2 -- Quality and Safety in Health Care
Shame: the elephant in the room -- Davidoff 11 (1): 2 -- Quality and Safety in Health Care
Shame is the "elephant in the room"—something so big and
and may it help to capture and tame the elephant in the room.
qhc.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/11/1/2   (1121 words)

  
 Chris Linfoot - The elephant in the room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Any of these three could be made to work, but technically all have severe obstacles in their way.
And however worthy they may well be, all of these sender authentication mechanisms are simply ignoring the elephant in the room which is this: There are 4 billion IPv4 addresses in the world.
This won't be immediate, as trackbacks are validated on a scheduled basis.
chris-linfoot.net /plinks/CWLT-5ZAL3H   (973 words)

  
 San Antonio Spurs Blog: The Elephant in the Room
San Antonio Spurs Blog: The Elephant in the Room
A happily transplanted Spurs fan blathers on about the Spurs, the NBA and things that piss him off.
You don't have to be inside the locker room to know this.
nbaspurs.blogspot.com /2005/03/elephant-in-room.html   (620 words)

  
 Marketing Your Children's Manuscript
Marketing is the elephant in every writer's room -- unless you have an agent, then you don't need my help.
Take it from me: you don't have to love marketing to be good at it.
In the Indian folktale "The Blind Men and the Elephant," when six blind men approach an elephant from their own perspectives, they all disagree about how to describe it.
www.writing-world.com /children/elephant.shtml   (1860 words)

  
 Creatif Hotel Elephant DOUBLE ROOM + EXTRA ROLLING BED Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Creatif Hotel Elephant DOUBLE ROOM + EXTRA ROLLING BED Details
Creatif Hotel Elephant DOUBLE ROOM + EXTRA ROLLING BED Room
Each room has 3 bed(s) and will accommodate up to 3 guests of which 3 may be adults.
www.findhotel.co.uk /creatif-hotel-elephant-munich/room3.htm   (62 words)

  
 Incumbent factor: the other elephant in the room | csmonitor.com
Incumbent factor: the other elephant in the room
Incumbent factor: the other elephant in the room
Kerry's "Believe in America" tour competed with distractions, such as a new terror alert, and presidential visits to the same towns on the same days.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/0820/p01s03-uspo.html   (983 words)

  
 Elephant Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Elephant Room is your African 'home from home' with its ethnic artwork and furnishings ….
It consists of a large room with an extra length Queen size double bed, a large shower-en-suite, a private veranda and entrance.
Home - Elephant Room - Garden Apartment - Garden Cottage - Gallery - Links - Contact Us
www.mjvn.co.za /shepherdsfoldbb/elephant_room.htm   (64 words)

  
 No Longer Elephant in the Room, Global Warming Takes Center Stage
The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.
(CSRwire) NEW YORK - In the Cinergy Corp. (NYSE:CIN) 2004 annual report released on March 29, 2005, CEO Jim Rogers writes,” It (global warming) has become the ‘elephant in the room’ in the debate on comprehensive environmental legislation.” Rogers who leads Cincinnati-based Cinergy Corp., one of the largest coal-burning utilities in the country should know.
He lists six signposts in his shareholder letter that convince him of the inevitability of a carbon-constrained world.
www.csrwire.com /article.cgi/3688.html   (537 words)

  
 HomeWork Elephant - The Staff Room
A bit like HomeWork Elephant but no elephants and only English.
TEP offers teacher resources and practical down-to-earth support for teaching technology in all parts of the UK Agony Elephant
Go on - help someone out there - Pop along to the Agony Elephant Question forums and answer some poor lost souls question.
www.homeworkelephant.co.uk /teachers.shtml   (719 words)

  
 Blue Elephant London | Dining Room
Charming semi-private dining rooms from 14 to 120 persons
For more prices information on exclusive use of semi-private room
Phone: +44 20 7385 6595 Fax: +44 20 7386 7665
www.blueelephant.com /london/diningroom.html   (58 words)

  
 Rox Populi : The Elephant in the Room
Rox Populi : The Elephant in the Room
Primarily because there's no room left for us to move as it is. Also because the GOP is making no attempt to hide their fascist ways.
Now is the time to remember that most of America agrees with us on nearly every issue.
roxanne.typepad.com /rantrave/2005/03/the_elephant_in.html   (7611 words)

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