Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jun 22nd, 2004
THE DAILY SHOW
I was tucked in bed and fast asleep when it came on, but apparently last night’s Daily Show was a Hall of Famer.
Weekly Standard writer Stephen “Saddan Hussein was SO connected to 9/11″ Hayes was the guest, and it sounds like Jon Stewart laid waste to him.
If only Jon Stewart were running the [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
Tonight’s picture is brought to you by the color blue - and the cotton industry.
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
GOOD TO BE KING
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Our local Congressman from Boeing, Curt Weldon (R-7), is dancing all over the place about the sloppy wet metaphorical kisses he shared with the Reverend Moon - better known, of course, as “humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”
The crowning ritual indeed began as a somewhat normal [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
FIGURES LIE
Billmon has a post about how dumb the Post reporters are about the basics of the economy.
I added this comment:
My theory is, they interpret the data (or seek out data) that seems to support their own experience - i.e., if no one who writes for the Post knows anyone whose wages aren’t keeping up [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE
Talk Left looks at the new SCOTUS decision which rules that failure to reveal identity to the police may be a crime:
Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy said that a requirement to identify oneself is insignificant in the context of a Terry stop. Not so.
Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
COINCIDENCE?
Would they really buy a movie chain just to stop “Farenheit 9/11″?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
District-based investment firm The Carlyle Group is one of three investors that have agreed to buy Loews Cineplex Entertainment from Onex Corp. and Oaktree Capital Management for $1.46 billion.
The buyout is being led by Bain Capital, an [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
YO, JODI
John Kerry, as Ms. Wilgoren reminds us, is merely some high-spending elitist. Bush, on the other hand, is Everyman:
Bush never released financial details of the ranch purchase, but local real estate agents have said the 1,600-acre property is worth $1.2 million, or $800 to $900 per acre. The market value is $988,353, according to [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
NAZIS, NAZIS EVERYWHERE
When last we checked in on Ralph Peters, the New York Post columnist and former Army officer was comparing Dean supporters to Nazis.
Now he’s going after Al-Jazeera:
Al-Jazeera has become the most powerful ally of terror in the world — even more important than Saudi financiers. We’re foolish if we do not recognize it [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
OUR COMMON GROUND
Great piece from In These Times on reviving the commons:
The commons describes the many resources we collectively own that are being mismanaged by government or siphoned away by corporations. Some commons are physical assets, such as the global atmosphere, ecosystems, clean water, wildlife and the human genome. Some commons are public institutions such [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
CUTTING OFF OUR NOSE
It’s so hard to hold onto troops these days. But let’s get rid of the gay ones, anyway:
Even with concerns growing about military troop strength, 770 people were discharged for homosexuality last year under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, a new study shows. The figure, however, is significantly lower than [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
INFLATE HERE
Max speaks:
The Federal Reserve is poised to raise short-term interest rates, in a move to squelch inflation. How much inflation? The latest numbers show a rate of 3.3 over the past three months, as compared to 1.7 over the past year, excluding food and energy. The latter tend not to move in concert with [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
BREAKING NEWS
Iran has seized three U.K. naval vessels.
Feeling safer yet?
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Hmm. Seems like I’m not the only one wondering about this:
The commission’s detailed report notes that after two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and combat patrols were in the air, a military aide asked for shoot-down authority, telling Cheney that a fourth plane was “80 miles out” from Washington. Cheney didn’t [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
SNIPE HUNT
Yet another right-wing plot fizzles out:
Across the country, evangelical Christians are voicing frustration and puzzlement that there has not been more of a political outcry since May 17, when Massachusetts became the first state to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
Evangelical leaders had predicted that a chorus of righteous anger would rise up out of [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
DEFICIT SPENDING
I don’t want to go into the gory details (frankly, it’s humilating enough at my age to be panhandling), but I can use a little help here in SG land. I’m hustling to cover my expenses and I’m making some progress but I’m not all the way there.
Anything you can spare is gratefully appreciated. [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
THE GANG THAT COULDN’T SHOOT STRAIGHT
You know all those big bads we’re holding captive in Cuba? Looks like they might not be all that bad:
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba, June 19 — For nearly two and a half years, American officials have maintained that locked within the steel-mesh cells of the military prison here are some of [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
AH, THE RULE OF LAW
Those who can, do. Those who can’t get nominated to the federal bench by Bush:
Thomas B. Griffith, President Bush’s nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington, has been practicing law in Utah without a state law license for the past four years, according to Utah state officials.
Griffith, the general [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN
In keeping with her neverending battle for substantive journalism, the New York Times’ Jodi Wilgoren comes up with this gem:
NANTUCKET, Mass., June 20 - Thwarted by fog, a flat bicycle tire and a tricky wind, Senator John Kerry spent most of a shortened Father’s Day weekend secluded in his wife’s seaside [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
PRIORITIES
It’s not as if we have anything else to worry about:
WASHINGTON, June 20 - The Bush administration, which cut off its share of financing two years ago to the United Nations agency handling population control, is seeking to isolate the agency from groups that work with it in China and elsewhere, United Nations officials and [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
ANTICIPATION
If we can drag a sitting president into court over a blowjob, seems to me we can manage this:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A lawyer defending a U.S. soldier charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq (news - web sites) said on Monday he would seek to put President Bush (news - web sites) and Secretary of Defense [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
SPREADING
Sy Hersh says the Israelis are in Iraq, helping the Kurds:
Very interesting. Hersh scores yet again.http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040628fa_fact Asked to comment, Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said, “The story is simply untrue and the relevant governments know it’s untrue.” Kurdish officials declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the State Department. [...]
Posted in General on Jun 21st, 2004
FIRST, HARM NO PROFITS
Bob Herbert on malpractice myths:
President Bush has been complaining about “junk and frivolous” lawsuits for years. So it’s interesting to hear the following from the Center for Justice and Democracy, a consumer advocacy group:
“It may be hard to understand why `tort reform’ is even on the national agenda at a time when [...]
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004
Tonight’s deck picture is brought to you by the color pink.
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004
YEP
You simply must check out Julia’s “shorter Maureen Dowd.”
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004
TAINTED
Media Matters points out that the famously vindictive Michiko Kakutani, um, just forgot to mention in her New York Times book review of Bill Clinton’s book how critical he is of the Times’ reporting on the Clinton “scandals.”
Catch the little dig here:
Lies about sex and real estate, partisan rancor over “character issues” (not over weapons [...]
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004
YOU MEAN COLORED PEOPLE CAN VOTE?
Greg Palast on why 1.5 million black votes didn’t count:
While investigating the 2000 ballot count in Florida for BBC Television, I saw firsthand how the spoilage game was played — with black voters the predetermined losers.
Florida’s Gadsden County has the highest percentage of black voters in the state — [...]
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004
DONKEYS IN THE DESERT
Good New Yorker piece on Democrats working in Iraq:
In late April, a group of Americans serving in Iraq sent a letter to John Kerry, appealing to the candidate as both an ex-soldier and a peace seeker. It read, in part, “Put bluntly: we believe you need to get over here, suck in [...]
Posted in General on Jun 19th, 2004
Here’s another shot from my deck. It’s like living in a treehouse, since this is what I look at as I blog. That’s why it’s such a drag that I have to leave this apartment.
Posted in General on Jun 19th, 2004
ANONYMOUS SPEAKS
Spencer Ackerman, filling in for Josh over at TPM, interviews Anonymous, author of Imperial Hubris (the new book that’s attracting so much attention) about the murder of Paul Johnson:
ANONYMOUS: I don’t know if it tells us a lot about their worldwide strategy. It reinforces a lot about what we know about al-Qaeda. al-Qaeda is [...]
Posted in General on Jun 19th, 2004
OH BOY, ANOTHER PERP WALK?
Look who’s finally gonna be fitted for an orange jumpsuit:
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are expected to ask a federal grand jury to indict former Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) chairman Ken Lay within two weeks on charges related to the company’s 2001 collapse, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The [...]
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