THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
So Jake thinks the Republicans are de facto racists. Jake makes so much money he would never note that he is merely a different and liberal version of the idiot conservatives who think price gouging is great. Max Boot seems to have written his well-taken polemic on the tone-deafness and hard-heartedness of both our infernal political factions in vain.
Here is why Mrs. Bush's remarks rankle the knee-jerk leftists, despite their obvious good intentions; the jerks have interpreted them as the sniffing of a nose-in-the-air over the peons. Not without reason; the Bushes are a chosen family, as copiously illustrated in a man whose best friends included the detestable Jim Baker and the late unlamented King Fahd, and who gladly sent the amoral Brent "My Favorite Martian" Scowcroft and Lawrence "Whataburger" Eagleburger to suck on the Chinese Communists' shoes. Mrs. Bush meant to say that the Astrodome was a far better outcome than a hole through an attic, or death; I've no doubt that's what she meant. But then the BLATHERERS at NRO unearth three sluglike perfessers who celebrate price gouging, and how can one not think of conservatives and Republicans as snobbish and spiteful and unfeeling, and all but wading in the gold of their own private Fort Knoxes? Sometimes con-SER-va-tives' best weapons are the ones they aim at THEMSELVES.
Francois Truffaut once published a book called ''The Films in My Life." Anyone interested in the books in Pauline Kael's life, or at least the ones about film, can inspect the contents of a sizable alcove on the second floor of Hampshire College's Johnson Library Center. Shelved there are the roughly 3,000 books and periodicals that made up Kael's professional library.
And we'd bet not ONE about RICHARD NIXON.
And we'd bet not ONE about RICHARD NIXON.
One of these things is NOT like the other:
The dank and putrid floodwaters choking this once-gracious city are so poisoned with gasoline, industrial chemicals, feces and other contaminants that even casual contact is hazardous, and safe drinking water may not be available for the entire population for years to come, state and federal officials warned Tuesday.
Some people in five parishes surrounding New Orleans no longer have to disinfect their water because the bacteria level is no longer unsafe, the state health department announced today.
I think I'll believe the people closer to the situation.
The dank and putrid floodwaters choking this once-gracious city are so poisoned with gasoline, industrial chemicals, feces and other contaminants that even casual contact is hazardous, and safe drinking water may not be available for the entire population for years to come, state and federal officials warned Tuesday.
Some people in five parishes surrounding New Orleans no longer have to disinfect their water because the bacteria level is no longer unsafe, the state health department announced today.
I think I'll believe the people closer to the situation.
THE Volcker inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal called for a significant overhaul of the UN yesterday as it prepared to reveal details of "serious instances of illicit, unethical and corrupt behaviour" at the world body.
Thank God the hurricane came along so we could forget that.
Thank God the hurricane came along so we could forget that.
The CUTTING EDGE lacerates the GREAT WHITE WAY -- or, MIKE REIDEL DOES IT AGAIN:
Most of the critics consider Stephen Sondheim God, [I thought that was PINCH! Oh. This is BROADWAY. --ED.] but there's not a lot of excitement about the revival of "Sweeney Todd," in which the cast, including Patti LuPone (as Mrs. Lovett), doubles as the band.
"[The show is] done constantly," says a critic, noting recent productions at City Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington and a televised concert on PBS.
"This is supposed to be a real skeletal production, and anything that's stripped down these days gets credit for being revelatory. But I don't know how much more there is to reveal about 'Sweeney Todd.' "
Another critic, not a Sondheim fan, sneers: "What is this, the 16th or 19th Sondheim revival we've had to sit through in the last couple of years?
"It says something about how dead the musical theater is when Stephen Sondheim is still considered cutting edge.
"And when he dies, we'll have to sit through all these shows again." [And after that you, he AND his shows will ALL be dead. --ED.]
A critic who worships at the Sondheim shrine says: "My goodness gracious me, this production sounds eccentric. I can't wait to see Miss LuPone with a meat cleaver in one hand and a tuba in the other."
It's unfortunate THEA-TAH audiences aren't in the PRODUCE business, or there might be lots of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES to add to the menu.
Most of the critics consider Stephen Sondheim God, [I thought that was PINCH! Oh. This is BROADWAY. --ED.] but there's not a lot of excitement about the revival of "Sweeney Todd," in which the cast, including Patti LuPone (as Mrs. Lovett), doubles as the band.
"[The show is] done constantly," says a critic, noting recent productions at City Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington and a televised concert on PBS.
"This is supposed to be a real skeletal production, and anything that's stripped down these days gets credit for being revelatory. But I don't know how much more there is to reveal about 'Sweeney Todd.' "
Another critic, not a Sondheim fan, sneers: "What is this, the 16th or 19th Sondheim revival we've had to sit through in the last couple of years?
"It says something about how dead the musical theater is when Stephen Sondheim is still considered cutting edge.
"And when he dies, we'll have to sit through all these shows again." [And after that you, he AND his shows will ALL be dead. --ED.]
A critic who worships at the Sondheim shrine says: "My goodness gracious me, this production sounds eccentric. I can't wait to see Miss LuPone with a meat cleaver in one hand and a tuba in the other."
It's unfortunate THEA-TAH audiences aren't in the PRODUCE business, or there might be lots of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES to add to the menu.
All this TYPING, all this TEARING OUT OF HAIR, all this GNASHING OF TEETH, AND...
Instead of a recession, the general consensus emerging is that Katrina will shave growth from the third and fourth quarters's growth rates, but will boost the economy early next year, just when the economy was expected to slow down pre-Katrina.
The net effect will be about zero.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Instead of a recession, the general consensus emerging is that Katrina will shave growth from the third and fourth quarters's growth rates, but will boost the economy early next year, just when the economy was expected to slow down pre-Katrina.
The net effect will be about zero.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Bush to Speak at Rehnquist Funeral
I'd hate to be on Dubya's speechwriting staff. They may be ready to send in the National Guard.
I'd hate to be on Dubya's speechwriting staff. They may be ready to send in the National Guard.
Hard-core video gamers watched 18 hours of TV per week in 2005, down from 22 hours per week last year. However, hard-core players watch more TV than general gamers, the study said.
I have decided it is useless to implore video-game phreaks to GET A LIFE! Narcotizing themselves before a screen IS their life.
I have decided it is useless to implore video-game phreaks to GET A LIFE! Narcotizing themselves before a screen IS their life.
I did not wish to bring this up again, but the cloyingly facetious typings of THE PROFESSOR and THE CORNER forced my hand: a reason so many insist in revering bad sixties sitcoms (aside from the loss-of-innocence-after-our-favorite-assassination angle, surely a piece of junk in itself) is that for years mongrel UHF stations reran the shows ad nauseum, as they had too much time to fill, and more recently some cable networks did exactly the same thing, and combined with the simultaneous burgeoning of pop-culturitis this created a sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where some people loved their cultural tormentors. A country that falls in love with awful sitcoms, however "ironic" that love, may be capable of consigning hundreds or thousands to death in a hurricane, as in both instances it's stuck its head where a head oughtn't to be.
Stupid queston: What became of all those Formosan termites?
The top U.S. disaster official waited hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he proposed to his boss sending at least 1,000 Homeland Security workers into the region to support rescuers, internal documents show.
Part of the mission, according to the documents obtained by The Associated Press, was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.
The Great Seal of the United States of America.
Part of the mission, according to the documents obtained by The Associated Press, was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.
The Great Seal of the United States of America.
There are more excellent shows on the air now then [SIC] at any one time in the past decade.
There are more TV ad-blurb copywriters insisting there are more excellent shows on the air now then [SIC] at any one time in the past decade than in the WHOLE HISTORY of the HACKS' BIZ.
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO U [SIC], DICK!
There are more TV ad-blurb copywriters insisting there are more excellent shows on the air now then [SIC] at any one time in the past decade than in the WHOLE HISTORY of the HACKS' BIZ.
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO U [SIC], DICK!
WE MUST UNACCUSTOM ourselves to the idea of major cities as sinkholes to be skirted. Like everything else, the barbarification of urban America is a national security issue -- because, like everything else, at is core national security is an issue of law and order. Americans -- the privileged and the disaffected alike -- can endure great pressures, and retain a noble spirit. But the suddenness of a breakdown in infrastructure that strips a city's people of drinking water, electricity, and security is sufficient to break the levee that keeps police in place instead of soldiers.
R. EMMETT ran THIS?!?!?
R. EMMETT ran THIS?!?!?
Poll: Most Americans believe New Orleans will never recover
The news hacks take another poll, and shake their heads, and smile -- yes, we can DEFINITELY hear ourselves.
The news hacks take another poll, and shake their heads, and smile -- yes, we can DEFINITELY hear ourselves.
We see it now: untold soldiers pumping out the water and distributing the necessities of life, untold construction and maintenance workers clearing the rubble and the roads and the stench, untold doctors and nurses healing the sick, untold engineers and linemen restoring power, untold carpenters and electricians and plumbers rebuilding homes and schools and businesses.
From the vantage point of the hacks and the pols and the pundits, all is gloom and doom with a smirk, and the chance for grand larceny and oppression of one's fellow man an eternal hope. But how can one doubt, as these cretins recede into their richly-deserved nothing, that this catastrophe has become a story of unprecedented HEROISM. We will have redeemed ourselves, if only we knew.
From the vantage point of the hacks and the pols and the pundits, all is gloom and doom with a smirk, and the chance for grand larceny and oppression of one's fellow man an eternal hope. But how can one doubt, as these cretins recede into their richly-deserved nothing, that this catastrophe has become a story of unprecedented HEROISM. We will have redeemed ourselves, if only we knew.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Repairs to I-10, the road across Lake Pontchartrain, may begin next week.
And as I predicted for this week, power is back on in a few portions of New Orleans.
Way to go!
I guess I WAS wrong about the Superdome, however. It's hard to see now how it won't be replaced -- especially with all that wasteful money pouring in.
And here's our Picture of the Day:
Sherri Locke, a registered nurse from Wichita, Kansas, checks on and plays with Jai Lynn Butler on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome today. Locke came to Houston from Kansas to help the evacuees.
Good job, Steve Campbell of the Houston Chronicle!
And as I predicted for this week, power is back on in a few portions of New Orleans.
Way to go!
I guess I WAS wrong about the Superdome, however. It's hard to see now how it won't be replaced -- especially with all that wasteful money pouring in.
And here's our Picture of the Day:
Sherri Locke, a registered nurse from Wichita, Kansas, checks on and plays with Jai Lynn Butler on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome today. Locke came to Houston from Kansas to help the evacuees.
Good job, Steve Campbell of the Houston Chronicle!
CNN:
House Government Reform Committee will begin holding hearings next week into what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More soon.
THE PREENING BEGINS, THE POSTURING BEGINS, THE FINGER POINTING BEGINS. ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY -- NEVER.
AND NOW DUBYA, WORRIED FOR HIS PR, ACCELERATES THE FLOW OF MONEY INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
Meantime, IN SPITE OF IT ALL:
On Tuesday, the Corps said the area under water had fallen to about 60 percent.
THIS IS PROGRESS, NO THANKS TO POLITICIANS OR PUNDITS.
House Government Reform Committee will begin holding hearings next week into what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More soon.
THE PREENING BEGINS, THE POSTURING BEGINS, THE FINGER POINTING BEGINS. ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY -- NEVER.
AND NOW DUBYA, WORRIED FOR HIS PR, ACCELERATES THE FLOW OF MONEY INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
Meantime, IN SPITE OF IT ALL:
On Tuesday, the Corps said the area under water had fallen to about 60 percent.
THIS IS PROGRESS, NO THANKS TO POLITICIANS OR PUNDITS.
Bob Denver was a harmless symbol of the genuinely despicable men who took over television in the sixties and seventies and helped turn it from a vast wasteland to a vaster sewer - the James "The Cobra" Aubreys, the Fred Silvermans, the Aaron Spellings, the Chuck Barrises, men so eager to put ratings and advertising dollars above everything that they sacrificed the public to their overweaning ambitions -- but as time went on the public increasingly refused to be thrown into their burning pit. Denver merely starred in a very bad sitcom on their way to perdition, and made a nice living from it, and we hope he died peacefully.
MR. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH of TOENAIL.COM TYPES AGAIN:
[A]re "better movies" a realistic alternative for the New Hollywood? The most prolonged decline in Hollywood's history, from 1963 to 1973, in which the weekly audience dropped from 43.5 million to 16 million, was not stemmed by such critically acclaimed films as Mike Nichols' The Graduate, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, George Lucas' American Graffiti, George Cukor's My Fair Lady, and Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. More than $1.4 billion in theater admissions a year were lost. Nor would such quality movies bring in the popcorn consumers on whom the multiplexes now depend.
Given the RANK STUPIDITY of the moviegoing crowd we have no doubt that last sentence is true. Shrewdly MR. MOVIE ECONOMICS does not QUITE emptily echo the arrant idiot PETER BISKIND by citing a box-office decline despite GENIUS and including movies like My Fair Lady and Doctor Zhivago in his list from this particular PLATINUM AGE -- perhaps the real insiders have come to realize how much BISKIND'S TOTAL CW STINKS -- but in the sixties and early seventies there were surely far more BAD movies than in previous decades, owing to the growth of cheapie B-movie factories like American International. Today, the whole BIZ is B movies.
[A]re "better movies" a realistic alternative for the New Hollywood? The most prolonged decline in Hollywood's history, from 1963 to 1973, in which the weekly audience dropped from 43.5 million to 16 million, was not stemmed by such critically acclaimed films as Mike Nichols' The Graduate, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, George Lucas' American Graffiti, George Cukor's My Fair Lady, and Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. More than $1.4 billion in theater admissions a year were lost. Nor would such quality movies bring in the popcorn consumers on whom the multiplexes now depend.
Given the RANK STUPIDITY of the moviegoing crowd we have no doubt that last sentence is true. Shrewdly MR. MOVIE ECONOMICS does not QUITE emptily echo the arrant idiot PETER BISKIND by citing a box-office decline despite GENIUS and including movies like My Fair Lady and Doctor Zhivago in his list from this particular PLATINUM AGE -- perhaps the real insiders have come to realize how much BISKIND'S TOTAL CW STINKS -- but in the sixties and early seventies there were surely far more BAD movies than in previous decades, owing to the growth of cheapie B-movie factories like American International. Today, the whole BIZ is B movies.
The pea-brained hyperpolitical ninnies are out. The left blames the ineffectual Dubya because he's a Republican; the right blames a fool mayor and governor because they're Democrats. That many people lost lives and property matters not ONE IOTA to PEA-BRAINED HYPERPOLITICAL NINNIES.
Waters recede, fears rise
Then again, we may NOT need TELEVISION for an absence of context and continuity.
Then again, we may NOT need TELEVISION for an absence of context and continuity.
Even though this IS Jack Shafer, he elucidates well the reasons we've stopped watching news on television -- such as the music, the "video wallpaper," "the absence of context and continuity" (a highfalutin media-critic way of saying they can't see beyond their noses and when they do see they need bottle-bottom glasses), and above all the "dishonesty" of "24/7 coverage." Hey, isn't dishonesty what TV news is about?
Four alleged bigwigs come up with ideas on how they'd IMPROVE (!) THE PAPER OF RE-CORD. One comes up with coffee shops. A second mentions "hierarchy." A third says turn it into a tabloid. A fourth (with GE BANCORP) mentions "hierarchy" while saying put it on a piece of electronic plastic and charge for it with micropayments.
None, it would appear, has a CLUE.
None, it would appear, has a CLUE.
"It's going to wake the nation up again," Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday.
Sorry Mayor Noggin. 9/11 woke America up for a couple of days before it went back into a deep, DEEP SLEEP.
Sorry Mayor Noggin. 9/11 woke America up for a couple of days before it went back into a deep, DEEP SLEEP.
The jellyfish-like Beeb effuses that the HACKS got their SPINE back.
Sure their SKULLS aren't getting thicker too?
Sure their SKULLS aren't getting thicker too?
Why we DESPERATELY need NEWS HACKS -- and ESPECIALLY CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES:
Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
"I've already said enough. Mr. Sulzberger will be calling in."
The FORMER president knows who the REAL president is.
Plus he's just moonlighting. His real job is GOD.
The FORMER president knows who the REAL president is.
Plus he's just moonlighting. His real job is GOD.
Doctors May Be Helping Sick Kids Die
Isn't that the HUMANE thing to do?
Hey JOHNNY! When do we find the RIGHT in the LIVING CONSTITUTION?
Isn't that the HUMANE thing to do?
Hey JOHNNY! When do we find the RIGHT in the LIVING CONSTITUTION?
Many of the 500,000 displaced by Hurricane Katrina may never return to what was home; country hasn't seen such mass movements of refugees since Southerners fled Civil War armies.
The Dust Bowl?
History? What's history?
The Dust Bowl?
History? What's history?
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the HACKS' intransigence may owe something to the Web and talk radio: the biz can claim it's merely counteracting a powerful conservative influence. The idea that there is a HIGHER TRUTH, indeed that there's any TRUTH at all other than what WE call truth, seems quite passe these days in the luxury news suites.
JOKE OF THE DAY:
The mainstream media’s lack of interest in [ST. CINDY's] little verbal grenades is astonishing. According to a computer search, not one of them made it into news coverage by the New York Times. The Times has a public editor, or ombudsman, who might want to ask why.
A public WHAT?
JOKE OF THE DAY:
The mainstream media’s lack of interest in [ST. CINDY's] little verbal grenades is astonishing. According to a computer search, not one of them made it into news coverage by the New York Times. The Times has a public editor, or ombudsman, who might want to ask why.
A public WHAT?
ROMY's worried that we're losing a WHOLE GENERATION of YOUNG IDEALISTS to the PR BIZ.
I don't think we should worry, Romy. It's just another way to lie for big bucks.
I don't think we should worry, Romy. It's just another way to lie for big bucks.
Monday, September 05, 2005
Assuming we can believe this, there's good news for the back-slapping pickpocketing Babbitts and their accomplices in flipping: house prices could REALLY go nuts. (Presumably this includes zillion-dollar condos in New York, which may not be made of timber.)
Also, in most other areas hit by hurricanes, populations returned to normal. Let's not write New Orleans off YET.
P. S. Why didn't we hear that "the four hurricanes that hit Florida last year...damaged about 2.5 million homes"? Where were all the displaced people then?
P. P. S. The oil biz is revving up.
Also, in most other areas hit by hurricanes, populations returned to normal. Let's not write New Orleans off YET.
P. S. Why didn't we hear that "the four hurricanes that hit Florida last year...damaged about 2.5 million homes"? Where were all the displaced people then?
P. P. S. The oil biz is revving up.
Why couldn't the Sun-Times have folded when it got in its mess? It employs three of the biggest P-Uiest loudmouths in the news biz: BOB, ROGER and THIS GUY. Why must newspapers have star turns? Why can't these clowns encourage more than a handful of high-paid mucky-mucks to contribute? Why is a hack most contented when he imagines "PROFIT CENTERS" in the likes of a scheming glorified fixer, a studio-owned millionaire raver of movies and a PC defender of rotten "music"?
Just as the race thing has become the guiding principle on the left regarding the hurricane, so we have an embellishment of a theme in the con-SER-va-tive CW: that the National Guard's response was GREAT and that to have had them in position before the storm would have meant untold casualties. Well we seem to have done well enough on the death-and-destruction front, haven't we? And why is it GREAT to take a WEEK to move 50,000 soldiers? We know all about the logistical problems of D-Day. Unfortunately there were no Germans in cement bunkers in Louisiana and Mississippi.
And while the National Guard rearranges the rubble, soon enough the BUREAUCRATS will be rearranging THEIRS.
AND PRESIDENT -- ER, SENATOR RODHAM WANTS TO HELP.
AND PRESIDENT -- ER, SENATOR RODHAM WANTS TO HELP.
Stung by critics who say its sluggish response compounded the suffering and cost lives, the Bush administration rolled out a public relations offensive.
If it's THE PAPER OF RE-CORD, it's another way of getting back at the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL Dubya. If it's DUBYA, it FIGURES.
If it's THE PAPER OF RE-CORD, it's another way of getting back at the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL Dubya. If it's DUBYA, it FIGURES.
I am astonished to learn from the POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that Adrian Karsten, an ESPN personality, was found guilty of tax evasion, and has killed himself. He reminded me quite a bit of Durward Kirby, a smooth, easy-going type, and Kirby would be the last imaginable person to do this.
And in what under other circumstances might be termed INCEST:
A study by the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers unearthed some positive news about the differences in viewing levels of TV programs and commercials: The audience falloff, on average, is only 5 percent, far less than some previous projections.
WHEW! We thought we were wasting money.
Here's the rub: Advertisers have to pick their venues with care, because there are huge variations among individual programs. For some telecasts, the audience falloff during commercials is greater than 50 percent.
STOP US BEFORE WE ADVERTISE AGAIN!!!!!
P. S. CAVEAT in the following graf:
But according to the study, which analyzed Nielsen Media Research data for two periods in 2004 (in the spring and fall), only about 4 percent of the 15,585 telecasts monitored lost 20 percent or more of their audiences. Forty-five percent of the shows, however, lost between 5-20 percent of their audiences when commercials aired.
It's news that people use their TVs as bug repellants and night lights?
A study by the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers unearthed some positive news about the differences in viewing levels of TV programs and commercials: The audience falloff, on average, is only 5 percent, far less than some previous projections.
WHEW! We thought we were wasting money.
Here's the rub: Advertisers have to pick their venues with care, because there are huge variations among individual programs. For some telecasts, the audience falloff during commercials is greater than 50 percent.
STOP US BEFORE WE ADVERTISE AGAIN!!!!!
P. S. CAVEAT in the following graf:
But according to the study, which analyzed Nielsen Media Research data for two periods in 2004 (in the spring and fall), only about 4 percent of the 15,585 telecasts monitored lost 20 percent or more of their audiences. Forty-five percent of the shows, however, lost between 5-20 percent of their audiences when commercials aired.
It's news that people use their TVs as bug repellants and night lights?
Forgetting it's not a holiday overseas:
"Prices peaked immediately after the hurricane because nobody had an idea of what the damage would be,'' said Richard Savage, global head of commodities research at Bank of America in London. Traders "factored in a worst case scenario. It's difficult to see how things can do anything but improve. Refineries are coming back and the IEA will release reserves of crude and products."
Brent crude oil for October settlement fell as much as $1.63, or 2.5 percent, to $64.43 a barrel on London's International Petroleum Exchange, the lowest price since Aug. 24. The contract was down $1.32 at 1:03 p.m. local time. Brent reached a record $68.89 on Aug. 30, a day after Katrina struck. Prices have gained 59 percent from a year ago.
Okay, maybe it's too soon to tell, but do you suppose all that talk of ECONOMIC COLLAPSE may have been a bit PREMATURE?
"Prices peaked immediately after the hurricane because nobody had an idea of what the damage would be,'' said Richard Savage, global head of commodities research at Bank of America in London. Traders "factored in a worst case scenario. It's difficult to see how things can do anything but improve. Refineries are coming back and the IEA will release reserves of crude and products."
Brent crude oil for October settlement fell as much as $1.63, or 2.5 percent, to $64.43 a barrel on London's International Petroleum Exchange, the lowest price since Aug. 24. The contract was down $1.32 at 1:03 p.m. local time. Brent reached a record $68.89 on Aug. 30, a day after Katrina struck. Prices have gained 59 percent from a year ago.
Okay, maybe it's too soon to tell, but do you suppose all that talk of ECONOMIC COLLAPSE may have been a bit PREMATURE?
The CLEM KADIDDLEHOPPERS of the CIA in MOUNTAIN VIEW are BACK TO THEIR OLD, SLOW, LAZY, DO-NOTHING WAYS.
BLITHERING IMBECILES: "Burger King Corp., Nestle, Kellogg Co., Volkswagen of America, JP Morgan Chase and Toshiba" have produced a movie. If their purpose is to produce a movie -- and with the maker of $10 cereals it definitely is -- why don't they start production companies? If their CEOs are so gung-ho about pestering their subordinates for weeks about all the HOLLYWOOD types they know, why don't they just live in Tinseltown FULL-TIME?
BONUS POINTS: "[GE BANCORP] has linked with Kellogg and Nestle for some children- and teen-centric promotions on cereals and candy bars" for an R -- PG-13 movie. Not only do these MORONS want to be in MOVIES, they want to engage in SOCIAL ENGINEERING using JACK'S SECRET-RECIPE ALPHABET SOUP.
P. S. This will probably be the kind of huge hit the BIZ needs in order to feel good about making rotten movies again, because the GET-A-LIFE crowd is worked up, but the last time so many companies linked up in a promotion like this it was AUDREY'S MONSTER -- from the SAME COMPANY -- and NOT a BOFFEROO HIT.
P. P. S. Why am I hoping $500 gazillion of CGI will prove less impressive than Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen?
BONUS POINTS: "[GE BANCORP] has linked with Kellogg and Nestle for some children- and teen-centric promotions on cereals and candy bars" for an R -- PG-13 movie. Not only do these MORONS want to be in MOVIES, they want to engage in SOCIAL ENGINEERING using JACK'S SECRET-RECIPE ALPHABET SOUP.
P. S. This will probably be the kind of huge hit the BIZ needs in order to feel good about making rotten movies again, because the GET-A-LIFE crowd is worked up, but the last time so many companies linked up in a promotion like this it was AUDREY'S MONSTER -- from the SAME COMPANY -- and NOT a BOFFEROO HIT.
P. P. S. Why am I hoping $500 gazillion of CGI will prove less impressive than Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen?
The NEW CW: The HACKS sounded the clarion call for New Orleans to do SOMETHING. The problem with this is even if a dozen five-part articles appeared in the last three or four years they would have been drowned out in the news noise, and people could easily dismiss them as "what-ifs." With some probing we could find half-a-dozen or more stories warning of Osama's cockroaches, and here there is even less excuse for the hacks' indifference because all humanity was at risk, not a town or two. Five hundred such series would not rouse INCOMPETENTS -- do we need proof? -- but news hacks can still delude themselves into thinking they perform a PUBLIC SERVICE. What is more, the Times-Picayune, so heroic at the moment, is owned by SI, whose news inclinations lean more toward PARIS than New Orleans.
NBC: Bush taps Roberts to succeed Rehnquist
Given the last week we may wonder if President Rove knows what he's doing.
Is placating SEN. FATSO GLUB-GLUB worth the cost?
Given the last week we may wonder if President Rove knows what he's doing.
Is placating SEN. FATSO GLUB-GLUB worth the cost?
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Jonny Alter has Einsteined solutions for New Orleans, and he's come up with four brilliant ones: 1. "'Build communities from scratch that don't just warehouse people.'" 2. Bring back tourism. 3. Don't go the way of Camden, N. J. 4. Don't do tax cuts or other "glib [i.e., conservative] ephemeralities."
TRANSLATION: Jonny Alter hasn't a clue.
TRANSLATION: Jonny Alter hasn't a clue.
Meantime, as ever more self-obsoleting electronic JUNK ACCRETES in our LIVING ROOMS:
For the foreseeable future, the only certainty is that all these mighty companies will continue to preach interoperability while pursuing proprietary hegemony. This could lead to several scenarios. One is that one company, or camp, wins. The digital home, unified by the winner's standards, might then become a reality in the mass market. For this to happen, however, several companies and industries would first have to make huge strategic mistakes, and consumers would have to accede, in effect, to a repeat of the "Wintel" (Windows and Intel) near monopoly in the PC industry today.
Another possibility is that the technology wars end with a truce, perhaps brokered by industry consortia that push open standards. This would be infinitely preferable for consumers and would probably make the digital home a reality much sooner, since it would mean that consumers could shop incrementally for new gadgets, all of which will fit with the others. The catch for providers is that this is much less exciting for their own bottom lines.
There is a third possibility. This is that the wars continue, but consumers continue not to care. As John Barrett, research director at Parks Associates, says, "it seems that we've concocted a new variant of the ‘paperless' office." This, you recall, was the consensus a decade or so ago among technophiles (but almost nobody else), that computer technology would save our forests by freeing us from having to read and write on paper. Today's variant, says Mr Barrett, is "no more tapes, CDs, DVDs, discs." In other words, expect them to be around for a very long time to come.
(Linked, oddly enough, on Slashdot, where the true believers don't seem to care.)
For the foreseeable future, the only certainty is that all these mighty companies will continue to preach interoperability while pursuing proprietary hegemony. This could lead to several scenarios. One is that one company, or camp, wins. The digital home, unified by the winner's standards, might then become a reality in the mass market. For this to happen, however, several companies and industries would first have to make huge strategic mistakes, and consumers would have to accede, in effect, to a repeat of the "Wintel" (Windows and Intel) near monopoly in the PC industry today.
Another possibility is that the technology wars end with a truce, perhaps brokered by industry consortia that push open standards. This would be infinitely preferable for consumers and would probably make the digital home a reality much sooner, since it would mean that consumers could shop incrementally for new gadgets, all of which will fit with the others. The catch for providers is that this is much less exciting for their own bottom lines.
There is a third possibility. This is that the wars continue, but consumers continue not to care. As John Barrett, research director at Parks Associates, says, "it seems that we've concocted a new variant of the ‘paperless' office." This, you recall, was the consensus a decade or so ago among technophiles (but almost nobody else), that computer technology would save our forests by freeing us from having to read and write on paper. Today's variant, says Mr Barrett, is "no more tapes, CDs, DVDs, discs." In other words, expect them to be around for a very long time to come.
(Linked, oddly enough, on Slashdot, where the true believers don't seem to care.)
Already the NEWS BIZ has an OPINION:
[O]nly two hours after the announcement of Rehnquist’s death, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., issued a statement that suggested that Democrats would try to pressure Bush to nominate to the chief justice opening a non-conservative acceptable to them — not Scalia or Thomas, but someone along the lines of Justices David Souter or Sandra Day O’Connor — a nominee who, they argue, could “unify” the nation.
"In the midst of great loss and great tragedy, it is a time for America to come together," Kennedy said.
He also hinted at delaying consideration of any nominee. "Our first priority must be to remain focused on relieving the suffering of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding those lives, those cities and those communities," Kennedy said. "With Justice O’Connor committing to stay until her replacement is named, we can and should remain focused first on protecting our citizens who need help the most...."
We shall refrain from any further discussion of dead bodies in water.
[O]nly two hours after the announcement of Rehnquist’s death, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., issued a statement that suggested that Democrats would try to pressure Bush to nominate to the chief justice opening a non-conservative acceptable to them — not Scalia or Thomas, but someone along the lines of Justices David Souter or Sandra Day O’Connor — a nominee who, they argue, could “unify” the nation.
"In the midst of great loss and great tragedy, it is a time for America to come together," Kennedy said.
He also hinted at delaying consideration of any nominee. "Our first priority must be to remain focused on relieving the suffering of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding those lives, those cities and those communities," Kennedy said. "With Justice O’Connor committing to stay until her replacement is named, we can and should remain focused first on protecting our citizens who need help the most...."
We shall refrain from any further discussion of dead bodies in water.
I've gotten around to the HONORARY TENTH FINGER'S obituary, and she says "[h]is majority opinions could be cryptic, sometimes only hinting at the legal reasoning, let alone the broader context or implications of the ruling," which makes me wonder just how groundbreaking his court was. But no denying he was a truly honorable man.
Rehnquist Death Puts Stevens in Charge
With an 85-year-old now nominally the boss we must brace for a third replacement Finger. We must also contemplate TERM LIMITS.
With an 85-year-old now nominally the boss we must brace for a third replacement Finger. We must also contemplate TERM LIMITS.
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Poll: Bush Not Taking Brunt of Katrina Criticism
See? I told you some IDIOTS were taking a POLL!
And what I especially LOVE about pollsters is they're always trying to split us. You mean it's absolutely NOT possible for a Republican to criticize Dubya -- or the other way around?
Poll: Bush Not Taking Brunt of Katrina Criticism
See? I told you some IDIOTS were taking a POLL!
And what I especially LOVE about pollsters is they're always trying to split us. You mean it's absolutely NOT possible for a Republican to criticize Dubya -- or the other way around?
I've noticed lately the FOR-PROFIT CIA OF MOUNTAIN VIEW puts me on Next Blog for only a HALF-HOUR. WHY?
WHY JERNALISM STINKS:
For cub reporters eager to hit the big time in Washington, there has always been a secret fast track, few more legendary than the research assistant network run years ago by the late James Reston, the former New York Times bureau chief. Do well there, and the well-connected "Scotty" Reston did the rest. Just ask Steven Roberts, a former Times and U.S. News reporter and author of a new memoir, My Fathers' Houses. "Every day," he says, "Reston did something to help me. He shaped my whole life."
Now, 40 years later, Roberts is following Reston's lead with a much-expanded mentoring network based out of George Washington University, where he has taught politics and journalism since 1991. Pass his course, and Roberts might hook you up with jobs he learns about from former students now working at places like Fox, CNN, and several Washington newspaper bureaus. "Steve is that lucky break for so many people," says Heather Clapp, who produces CNN's shows at GWU. "He just asks that you help someone else someday." Roberts's students also fill a Who's Who list of spokespeople sprinkled throughout the White House, Capitol Hill, and K Street, many in top GOP jobs--ironic, they think, because of Roberts's liberal leanings. "That's where the jobs are," he shrugs. The Roberts network also extends beyond schools and jobs: He officiates at weddings as the "designated substitute" rabbi.
TRANSLATION: A new clique plays the same old practical jokes on the PUBLIC.
P. S. This is Cokie's husband, and judging from this blurb Steve intends to get as much out of us turnips for his family's ELEVEN HOUSES as he can.
For cub reporters eager to hit the big time in Washington, there has always been a secret fast track, few more legendary than the research assistant network run years ago by the late James Reston, the former New York Times bureau chief. Do well there, and the well-connected "Scotty" Reston did the rest. Just ask Steven Roberts, a former Times and U.S. News reporter and author of a new memoir, My Fathers' Houses. "Every day," he says, "Reston did something to help me. He shaped my whole life."
Now, 40 years later, Roberts is following Reston's lead with a much-expanded mentoring network based out of George Washington University, where he has taught politics and journalism since 1991. Pass his course, and Roberts might hook you up with jobs he learns about from former students now working at places like Fox, CNN, and several Washington newspaper bureaus. "Steve is that lucky break for so many people," says Heather Clapp, who produces CNN's shows at GWU. "He just asks that you help someone else someday." Roberts's students also fill a Who's Who list of spokespeople sprinkled throughout the White House, Capitol Hill, and K Street, many in top GOP jobs--ironic, they think, because of Roberts's liberal leanings. "That's where the jobs are," he shrugs. The Roberts network also extends beyond schools and jobs: He officiates at weddings as the "designated substitute" rabbi.
TRANSLATION: A new clique plays the same old practical jokes on the PUBLIC.
P. S. This is Cokie's husband, and judging from this blurb Steve intends to get as much out of us turnips for his family's ELEVEN HOUSES as he can.
Meantime the NEWSRAGS are full of politically-motivated gloom and doom, blaming Bush for the hurricane under their breaths. What we get from NEWS RAGS on such occasions is the what the hacks always give us, but with the sort of drawn-out excessive detail that makes their efforts a chore to read, plus pictures to further assist the padding. Besides these clowns seem to have completed their tasks before the more optimistic turn over the weekend. There is no denying the disaster, and there is no denying, as always, the NEWSRAGS are FULL OF IT.
William Rehnquist was supposedly a conservative justice, but his too-long stewardship of his court was in some ways an extension of Warren Burger's, as the Nine Fingers continued to make law out of thin air, and to improvise their way around the Constitution. His landmark ruling is Bush v. Gore, and whatever one thinks of its merits it was the sound of justice flailing. That we now view the Fingers as a superlegislature owes to their intellectual torpor of the last thirty-five years. The Chief Justice gallantly tried extending his rule through terminal cancer, but his pride and stubbornness merely put off the inevitable, an inevitable that would have been better served with retirement. Still, he was exceptionally cultivated, a man of real dignity, with a surpassing love of the law, and he almost overcame what his court amounted to. RIP.
Already the HACKS are SMILING:
Bush’s weaker political standing may nudge him another way now, toward someone like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, an African American or a woman like appellate court Judge Edith Clement.
TRANSLATION: Another David Souter or Anthony Kennedy, a man the HACKS can put in their WEEDY GREENHOUSE to GROW in OFFICE. Well, maybe. Or maybe not.
Already the HACKS are SMILING:
Bush’s weaker political standing may nudge him another way now, toward someone like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, an African American or a woman like appellate court Judge Edith Clement.
TRANSLATION: Another David Souter or Anthony Kennedy, a man the HACKS can put in their WEEDY GREENHOUSE to GROW in OFFICE. Well, maybe. Or maybe not.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Qatar offers $100M in hurricane aid
Given that Qatar offers THE OSAMA CHANNEL it's the LEAST it can do.
Given that Qatar offers THE OSAMA CHANNEL it's the LEAST it can do.
THE TWXSTERS' COVER HERO FORCES A WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON RACISM!!!!!
Sort of.
Cummings said that while the race issue was discussed, the issue consumed only about seven minutes of the two-hour meeting.
In the Beltway, that qualifies as the beginning of maturity.
Sort of.
Cummings said that while the race issue was discussed, the issue consumed only about seven minutes of the two-hour meeting.
In the Beltway, that qualifies as the beginning of maturity.
It takes a PUNDIT like LARRY SABATO to tell us the HACKS aren't paying ONE DIME'S WORTH OF ATTENTION OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS.
What did I say YESTERDAY?
Hey Mr. President, do you think maybe it's time to send some people around BILOXI?
What did I say YESTERDAY?
Hey Mr. President, do you think maybe it's time to send some people around BILOXI?
NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! finds another con-SER-va-tive CAUSE:
Al Sharpton: Looters Were Angry Taxpayers
Hey JONAH! Think we can run THIS football in for a TOUCHDOWN?
Al Sharpton: Looters Were Angry Taxpayers
Hey JONAH! Think we can run THIS football in for a TOUCHDOWN?
It appears the New Orleans crime wave is thankfully over -- and they're finally fighting the fires there too.
This will sound really boneheaded, but don't you think someone could have found a use for all that WATER?
This will sound really boneheaded, but don't you think someone could have found a use for all that WATER?
This article confirms that already the powers that be in New Orleans think their salvation lies in RENDELLIFYING. The Crescent City's glories are in its past, and with RENDELLIFICATION, they get paster.
Here's a dose of reality for folk like Mayor Noggin who might try to revive the city by making it a high-end theme park.
Here's a dose of reality for folk like Mayor Noggin who might try to revive the city by making it a high-end theme park.
More clear writing from the nation's CRUSADING PRESS:
Hundreds of newly arrived National Guard troops patrolled the lawless streets of New Orleans yesterday, beginning the task of wresting control from thugs and looters and restoring order in a city that had all but surrendered to death and disorder after Hurricane Katrina. Their numbers were unknown, but the head of the city's emergency services said there were only about a thousand, far fewer than needed.
"Their," of course, refers to the "National Guard troops"; but with the lazy construction of this graf it could just as well describe the "thugs and looters," of whom a thousand probably would be far fewer than needed.
Hundreds of newly arrived National Guard troops patrolled the lawless streets of New Orleans yesterday, beginning the task of wresting control from thugs and looters and restoring order in a city that had all but surrendered to death and disorder after Hurricane Katrina. Their numbers were unknown, but the head of the city's emergency services said there were only about a thousand, far fewer than needed.
"Their," of course, refers to the "National Guard troops"; but with the lazy construction of this graf it could just as well describe the "thugs and looters," of whom a thousand probably would be far fewer than needed.
Here's a pic the HACKS can play up: a soldier "pointing" his armament at the BLACK kid -- only he's not pointing at the kid (he's standing a few feet off), and the kid is minding his business; but if the last several years have taught us something it's the HACKS are capable of ANYTHING.
Con-SER-va-tives just will NOT lay off their GREED-IS-GOOD shtick.
Hey you want to help Kos demagogue, Katie? Run fifteen more of them!
Or in the words of your earlier post:
WHERE'S THE COMPASS?
Hey you want to help Kos demagogue, Katie? Run fifteen more of them!
Or in the words of your earlier post:
WHERE'S THE COMPASS?
Water continues to recede, Corps officials say
Water continued to recede from New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain Saturday morning, Major Gen. Don Riley of the Army Corps of Engineers told CNN. “Water is flowing out of the city into the lake...The lake levels are about a foot below what’s in the city,” he said.
The Corps of Engineers continues to bring in generators to operate the city’s drainage pumps, Riley said. We’re also tapping into the natural gas lines in the city...to run some of the pumps."
You mean it might NOT take TEN YEARS to dry it out?
Water continued to recede from New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain Saturday morning, Major Gen. Don Riley of the Army Corps of Engineers told CNN. “Water is flowing out of the city into the lake...The lake levels are about a foot below what’s in the city,” he said.
The Corps of Engineers continues to bring in generators to operate the city’s drainage pumps, Riley said. We’re also tapping into the natural gas lines in the city...to run some of the pumps."
You mean it might NOT take TEN YEARS to dry it out?
This informative Q&A pretty well sums up what happened: EVERYONE screwed up. But note this question:
Q: Why did the levees fail?
A: While there has been discussion about Washington under-funding corps requests for levee improvements, the 17th Street levee that broke had recently been upgraded with concrete walls on the top.
So maybe Dubya WASN'T ENTIRELY to blame for that.
Q: Why did the levees fail?
A: While there has been discussion about Washington under-funding corps requests for levee improvements, the 17th Street levee that broke had recently been upgraded with concrete walls on the top.
So maybe Dubya WASN'T ENTIRELY to blame for that.
SHUCKS:
By yesterday, as gas prices exceeded $3 a gallon in many areas, images of motorists waiting in line to buy gas conjured memories for many adults of the worst times in the 1970s, when sharp reductions in oil supplies helped send inflation and interest rates soaring, contributing to deep recessions.
Forecasters do not foresee a replay of such turmoil today, largely because the economy is much more energy-efficient than three decades ago, and is based more on providing services and less on manufacturing products. The country requires half as much oil to produce a dollar's worth of output as it did in the 1970s.
This was far down in the story. I increasingly question the purpose of the hacks. We can often guess the outcome of news events for ourselves. Moreover, there are only so many variations of people suffering. With every passing day the HACKS' myopia becomes so pronounced they're making US blind.
By yesterday, as gas prices exceeded $3 a gallon in many areas, images of motorists waiting in line to buy gas conjured memories for many adults of the worst times in the 1970s, when sharp reductions in oil supplies helped send inflation and interest rates soaring, contributing to deep recessions.
Forecasters do not foresee a replay of such turmoil today, largely because the economy is much more energy-efficient than three decades ago, and is based more on providing services and less on manufacturing products. The country requires half as much oil to produce a dollar's worth of output as it did in the 1970s.
This was far down in the story. I increasingly question the purpose of the hacks. We can often guess the outcome of news events for ourselves. Moreover, there are only so many variations of people suffering. With every passing day the HACKS' myopia becomes so pronounced they're making US blind.
In the continuing saga of professional college sport and PC:
NCAA takes Utah off banned mascots list
Grand and noble DIMWITS.
P. S. The high mucky-mucks of politically-correct professional college sport are giving their flooded-out charges down south "flexibility" -- as if the NPCPCAA had any SENSE.
NCAA takes Utah off banned mascots list
Grand and noble DIMWITS.
P. S. The high mucky-mucks of politically-correct professional college sport are giving their flooded-out charges down south "flexibility" -- as if the NPCPCAA had any SENSE.
Why we DESPERATELY need NEWS HACKS -- and ESPECIALLY CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES:
Jobless Rate in Gulf Coast Likely to Surge
Jobless Rate in Gulf Coast Likely to Surge
Shameful: Only 25 Nations Offer Help to the U.S.
Oh for God's sake, STOGIE, er STOGEL, we're rich enough to help ourselves. The rest of the world knows it. If anything it should be a mark of pride that we needn't be a basket case for anyone else.
Oh for God's sake, STOGIE, er STOGEL, we're rich enough to help ourselves. The rest of the world knows it. If anything it should be a mark of pride that we needn't be a basket case for anyone else.
The question is, do we build up to the shoreline again, so that all sorts of expensive houses can get ripped up -- AGAIN?
One other thing: we spotted the other day that Cokie Roberts's family lost its estate, with eleven houses. This is quite sad, but should GUVMENT pay for these very rich people's loss?
One other thing: we spotted the other day that Cokie Roberts's family lost its estate, with eleven houses. This is quite sad, but should GUVMENT pay for these very rich people's loss?
Alas, the screaming has started:
In a statement, NBC said, "Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks.
"It would be most unfortunate," the statement continued, [this is Little Jeffy talking -- not that he knew, or would have cared -- ED.] "if the efforts of the artists who participated tonight and the generosity of millions of Americans who are helping those in need are overshadowed by one person's opinion."
But isn't that the point, GE Bancorp -- to let the world know how wonderful we are and to broadcast to the world WE ARE THE SENTINELS OF TRUTH?
"IT'S JUST A MAN-MADE DISEASE IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT WAS PLACED IN AFRICA JUST LIKE CRACK WAS PLACED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO BREAK UP THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Yes, I think we know why all those IDIOT AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS ADORE YOU.
In a statement, NBC said, "Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks.
"It would be most unfortunate," the statement continued, [this is Little Jeffy talking -- not that he knew, or would have cared -- ED.] "if the efforts of the artists who participated tonight and the generosity of millions of Americans who are helping those in need are overshadowed by one person's opinion."
But isn't that the point, GE Bancorp -- to let the world know how wonderful we are and to broadcast to the world WE ARE THE SENTINELS OF TRUTH?
"IT'S JUST A MAN-MADE DISEASE IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT WAS PLACED IN AFRICA JUST LIKE CRACK WAS PLACED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO BREAK UP THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Yes, I think we know why all those IDIOT AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS ADORE YOU.
We're not at normal -- it will be some time before we get there -- but at least we're pulling quickly away from abnormal.
Now -- when do the NEWS HACKS more vigorously turn this into a Jim-and-Bob-screaming-meemie-Battle-of-the-Teeny-Tiny-Pigmies rage fest?
Now -- when do the NEWS HACKS more vigorously turn this into a Jim-and-Bob-screaming-meemie-Battle-of-the-Teeny-Tiny-Pigmies rage fest?
Friday, September 02, 2005
Wanna bet today -- at this very moment -- some IDIOT NEWS ORGANIZATION is doing a POLL?
This should help:
Entergy Corp., Louisiana's largest utility, has restored electricity to a majority of the refineries that lost power after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.
Hey con-SERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-va-tives! BloomyLite has GREAT news for you!
The profit margin for turning a barrel of crude oil into gasoline and heating oil is $22.849, based on futures prices in New York. That has almost doubled from Aug. 26 and is almost four times higher than a year ago.
This isn't price gouging! It's FREE ENTERPRISE.
Entergy Corp., Louisiana's largest utility, has restored electricity to a majority of the refineries that lost power after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.
Hey con-SERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-va-tives! BloomyLite has GREAT news for you!
The profit margin for turning a barrel of crude oil into gasoline and heating oil is $22.849, based on futures prices in New York. That has almost doubled from Aug. 26 and is almost four times higher than a year ago.
This isn't price gouging! It's FREE ENTERPRISE.
If the HACKS are doing such a BRILLIANT job covering this disaster why is it nearly every dispatch is from CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES?
Memphis takes in refugees.
There's another kind of New Orleans. How many such poor tourist traps ARE there in the south?
There's another kind of New Orleans. How many such poor tourist traps ARE there in the south?
Here's predicting that, rather than killing off New Orleans, the dread hurricane causes its RENDELLIFICATION! Consider: most of the poor people in town have left. Many will not come back. Most of the more affluent people will -- and they may buy up adjacent properties and extend their own reach! Plus the Saints will soon be screaming for a new stadium -- there's a $5 billion playpen for the RICH! And we can get more casinos in! There's the ticket to prosperity! Maybe turn the French Quarter into even more of a theme park! Plus if he's shrewd (not likely) Mayor Noggin can sell the town as the Riviera of America! And the best thing is, the poor will be poorer and more marginalized than ever! But hey, they can work in the casinos. Go for it, New Orleans! GET RENDELLIFIED!
I figure this isn't any more stupid than what OTHER people have said.
I figure this isn't any more stupid than what OTHER people have said.
The cavalry arrives -- about four days too late.
"Thank you, Jesus!"
And a big AMEN to that one, even if His help came four days late.
"Thank you, Jesus!"
And a big AMEN to that one, even if His help came four days late.
"A Sound of Thunder" is, at least, not a dull, mediocre genre exercise. (If you want one of those, please help yourself to "Underclassman," also opening today.) Instead, this picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity. You almost - please note that I said almost - have to see it to believe it.
Don't you ad-blurb copywriters already encourage ENOUGH people to see ENOUGH bad movies?
Don't you ad-blurb copywriters already encourage ENOUGH people to see ENOUGH bad movies?
And if Gordon Russell of the Times-Picayune is right, some tiny bit of order IS returning.
There are SOME people who work in this business, and most are in the vicinity of NOLA.COM!
There are SOME people who work in this business, and most are in the vicinity of NOLA.COM!
Well at least the COAST GUARD has ITS rear in gear.
AND we learn that chemical-depot blaze is NOT an ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD. Aren't WE RELIEVED!
AND we learn that chemical-depot blaze is NOT an ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD. Aren't WE RELIEVED!
I think if we took some confetti from those old IBM punch cards, threw it up in the air, picked numbers at random and called ourselves by some fancy name like, say, RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, we could make ourselves famous too!
RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS? MEET DANNY!
RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS? MEET DANNY!
Economically speaking, Katrina is no 9/11. It may be much worse.
TRANSLATION: Danny hasn't budged from his office since he started writing for TOENAIL.COM.
TRANSLATION: Danny hasn't budged from his office since he started writing for TOENAIL.COM.
USAOKAY's getting into TELEVISION!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Question: how will we tell the commercials from the COMMERCIALS?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Question: how will we tell the commercials from the COMMERCIALS?
Here's one pundit who's impressed with the response -- and we should be impressed with HIM because he's a "senior fellow in national-security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council [AND] a trustee for the Leaders for Liberty Foundation":
The New York Times has called the military response “a costly game of catch up.” Catching up compared to what, one wonders. National Guard units were mobilized immediately; 7,500 troops from four states were on the ground within 24 hours of Katrina — a commendable response given the disruptions to the transportation infrastructure.
Don't you love crystal-clear writing? Within 24 hours of what? Of the Weather Service spotting it? Of landfall? If it's landfall that's disaster -- it should be obvious even to an NRO writer what a hurricane can do in 12 hours. THE PAPER OF RE-CORD is RIGHT. Let's end these costly catch-up games with A PERMANENT HURRICANE CORPS.
P. S.
A disaster of this magnitude is certain to be politicized....
That is true; we've had faint inklings of it. But the other side can politicize it too, especially in a not-too-carefully disguised attempt to defend THE MISSING PRESIDENT.
Hell, even HE doesn't like it.
The New York Times has called the military response “a costly game of catch up.” Catching up compared to what, one wonders. National Guard units were mobilized immediately; 7,500 troops from four states were on the ground within 24 hours of Katrina — a commendable response given the disruptions to the transportation infrastructure.
Don't you love crystal-clear writing? Within 24 hours of what? Of the Weather Service spotting it? Of landfall? If it's landfall that's disaster -- it should be obvious even to an NRO writer what a hurricane can do in 12 hours. THE PAPER OF RE-CORD is RIGHT. Let's end these costly catch-up games with A PERMANENT HURRICANE CORPS.
P. S.
A disaster of this magnitude is certain to be politicized....
That is true; we've had faint inklings of it. But the other side can politicize it too, especially in a not-too-carefully disguised attempt to defend THE MISSING PRESIDENT.
Hell, even HE doesn't like it.
No, let's put it more bluntly: this story's becoming SUPERDOME AND $3 GAS. NEWS HACKS! COME OUT FROM YOUR HUGE SALARIES!!
KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!
Vietnam Marks 60 Years of Independence
Communism? Wal-Mart? INDEPENDENCE?
Vietnam Marks 60 Years of Independence
Communism? Wal-Mart? INDEPENDENCE?
The SENIOR CLUNKER BROTHER, which doesn't know what a COMPUTER is, let alone the WEB (although they have these big things for crunching employee discounts and PENSIONS) does some MARKETING:
In the Impala campaign, the brand's digitally embedded logo will appear for roughly eight seconds in the background of the CBS shows.
Hey CLUNKER BROTHER! I've got an idea: why don't you put BUGS on the screen? You know, for TIVO? That would REALLY goose sales!
TiVo? That's a high-tech video recorder. WHATS A VIDEO RECORDER?!? Never mind.
In the Impala campaign, the brand's digitally embedded logo will appear for roughly eight seconds in the background of the CBS shows.
Hey CLUNKER BROTHER! I've got an idea: why don't you put BUGS on the screen? You know, for TIVO? That would REALLY goose sales!
TiVo? That's a high-tech video recorder. WHATS A VIDEO RECORDER?!? Never mind.
Indeed it now seems the HACKS are pulling the same gag down south they're pulling in Iraq -- not for politicial reasons, yet; they're merely displaying the kind of smug misanthropy rip-roaringly celebrated in pieces of "comedy" junk like The Front Page before knee-jerk liberalism gave it that extra added spice of poison.
We do agree, Bob: "The Front Page is the play that never ends."
I wonder too if we're beginning to see the kind of SMIRKY SMILE the hacks shone on us during the LALA -- REBELLION.
We do agree, Bob: "The Front Page is the play that never ends."
I wonder too if we're beginning to see the kind of SMIRKY SMILE the hacks shone on us during the LALA -- REBELLION.
And to the dimwits in GUVMENT, you had a few days to prepare for this. Longer -- I have seen no fewer than three stories prophesying the misfortune. Here's a suggestion: have a permanent gaggle of National Guard and other soldiers and relief workers on call during the hurricane season, from Massachusetts to Texas, and put them into position BEFORE LANDFALL. This may entail spreading out the bases of operations and some needless moving back and forth, but chances are they'd be in place when the big one hits, and there'd be less talk of disorder and inefficiency. But no, you CLOWNS will do things the usual way -- under your desks.
Indeed we wonder how miraculous the hacks' coverage is as they make us forget this disaster ruined parts of three states, not one; and though raging crowds and the occasional telegenic corpse floating in the water may get our competitive juices flowing (and New Orleans's troubles were all but inevitable given its horrid poverty) we note that much progress has occured in bringing utilites back, and the oil business is on its way to recovery; we should not be surprised if even the Underwater City gets some small amount of electricity by next week. All in all, preeners, you aren't THAT good.
PAT YOURSELVES ON THE BACK FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!!!!
So what? Misery loves company, and news hacks love misery. Among the photogenic stories there's surely been a LOT of filler and speculation and HUMBUG. And once this disaster abates (sorry hacks, it WILL), it's back to the old spinning and selling, and the blip of good reputation disappears off the radar screen -- until the next attack of MISERY.
So what? Misery loves company, and news hacks love misery. Among the photogenic stories there's surely been a LOT of filler and speculation and HUMBUG. And once this disaster abates (sorry hacks, it WILL), it's back to the old spinning and selling, and the blip of good reputation disappears off the radar screen -- until the next attack of MISERY.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
"Flood control has been a priority of this administration from Day One," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters.
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BRING BACK ARI FLEISCHER!
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
BRING BACK ARI FLEISCHER!
Stupid:
Gap Closes Two Popular Internet Stores
Why do you shut down a link to your customers -- especially when they're more likely than others to shop on the Web?
Gap Closes Two Popular Internet Stores
Why do you shut down a link to your customers -- especially when they're more likely than others to shop on the Web?
We hope the Times-Picayune does not mind our posting this in full:
500 eggs, 60 men in blue
Thursday, 4:25 p.m.
By Eva Jacob Barkoff
Staff writer
NEW IBERIA -- Around 5 a.m. today, Mary Tripeaux received a call that members of a search-and rescue-team from Phoenix, Ariz., were on their way for breakfast at Victor's Cafeteria on Main Street. Soon the crew arrived and filled themselves with coffee, grits, biscuits, bacon, potatoes and sausage -- and more than 500 eggs.
"There are 180 eggs in one case and we went through at least three cases," Tripeaux said. "And by around 9 a.m., we had run out of sausage. They had eaten it all."
After breakfast, about 60 men in blue uniforms from Phoenix's Urban Search and Rescue Team held a meeting under a gazebo across from Victor's to go over final details of their mission. They wouldn't discuss details with a reporter.
The men had arrived in several trucks and two 18-wheelers filled with equipment. Also along were three Labrador retrievers.
"We have a lot of equipment here to try and do what we can to help," one of the men said.
Before leaving for New Orleans, he reflected on breakfast at Victor's and concluded: "That was the best meal we have had in 48 hours."
P. S.: Electricity slowly coming back in southern Mississippi -- and the world's biggest guitar still stands.
500 eggs, 60 men in blue
Thursday, 4:25 p.m.
By Eva Jacob Barkoff
Staff writer
NEW IBERIA -- Around 5 a.m. today, Mary Tripeaux received a call that members of a search-and rescue-team from Phoenix, Ariz., were on their way for breakfast at Victor's Cafeteria on Main Street. Soon the crew arrived and filled themselves with coffee, grits, biscuits, bacon, potatoes and sausage -- and more than 500 eggs.
"There are 180 eggs in one case and we went through at least three cases," Tripeaux said. "And by around 9 a.m., we had run out of sausage. They had eaten it all."
After breakfast, about 60 men in blue uniforms from Phoenix's Urban Search and Rescue Team held a meeting under a gazebo across from Victor's to go over final details of their mission. They wouldn't discuss details with a reporter.
The men had arrived in several trucks and two 18-wheelers filled with equipment. Also along were three Labrador retrievers.
"We have a lot of equipment here to try and do what we can to help," one of the men said.
Before leaving for New Orleans, he reflected on breakfast at Victor's and concluded: "That was the best meal we have had in 48 hours."
P. S.: Electricity slowly coming back in southern Mississippi -- and the world's biggest guitar still stands.
It's all well and good that the FDA's joining in the relief effort, but do you think we can bring in a few more CONTRACTORS and ENGINEERS?
And while we're at it, a few more SOLDIERS?
This is probably the Potemkin President's idea -- if he has one.
And while we're at it, a few more SOLDIERS?
This is probably the Potemkin President's idea -- if he has one.
We may wonder why anyone would bother subscribing to The Econowiz at $500 per annum (or whatever it is) when it calls the increasingly festering Mayor Daley "hugely successful." I suppose hugely successful is defined as not posing with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It may also be defined by having built such monuments to civic vanity as the Millennium Park and Spaceship, er, Soldier Field. Success isn't measured by losing jobs and corporate headquarters like Sears's. No, we suspect his "success" as measured by a VERY CW publication is EDDIE's, who made Philly feel good as the city got it bad.
But we forget, all those CEOs don't READ The Econowiz, they boast of it and Bill Gates and themselves in the same breath, while whapping their underlings with it.
P. S. I now discover The Chicago Ebert ran a FIVE-PART SERIES on its FAVORITE MOVIE, which means here's another town deserving ONE NEWSPAPER -- if THAT many.
But we forget, all those CEOs don't READ The Econowiz, they boast of it and Bill Gates and themselves in the same breath, while whapping their underlings with it.
P. S. I now discover The Chicago Ebert ran a FIVE-PART SERIES on its FAVORITE MOVIE, which means here's another town deserving ONE NEWSPAPER -- if THAT many.
THE PAPER OF RE-CORD touts a FEARLESS, HILARIOUS COMEDY about TERRORISM:
While the script's heroes are ostensibly out to kill and paralyze Americans with fear, the running joke of "The Cell" is that they quickly fall in love with Americans and Americana. They order Domino's Pizza and heat up Hot Pockets, and get weak-kneed over super-sizes and double coupons and sexy college women. They become Chicago Cubs fans - these are hapless terrorists, after all - and derive their cultural literacy straight from television and the movies: their secret password is "Kelly Ripa."
...so why does it sound like the SAME OLD SAME OLD?
While the script's heroes are ostensibly out to kill and paralyze Americans with fear, the running joke of "The Cell" is that they quickly fall in love with Americans and Americana. They order Domino's Pizza and heat up Hot Pockets, and get weak-kneed over super-sizes and double coupons and sexy college women. They become Chicago Cubs fans - these are hapless terrorists, after all - and derive their cultural literacy straight from television and the movies: their secret password is "Kelly Ripa."
...so why does it sound like the SAME OLD SAME OLD?
The Invisible President of the White House says we should rebuild New Orleans. The President of the House says we shouldn't.
No wonder GUVMENT'S going in circles.
P. S. BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH:
Hastert's press secretary, Ron Bonjean, said Hastert was not suggesting New Orleans should be abandoned or relocated. "The speaker believes that we should have a discussion about how best to rebuild New Orleans so as to protect its citizens," he said. "What he is saying is that rebuilding the city in the same way is not sensible."
We do not forget his predecessor now serves for THE CONSPIRACY, so we know how much truth there is to HIS words.
No wonder GUVMENT'S going in circles.
P. S. BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH:
Hastert's press secretary, Ron Bonjean, said Hastert was not suggesting New Orleans should be abandoned or relocated. "The speaker believes that we should have a discussion about how best to rebuild New Orleans so as to protect its citizens," he said. "What he is saying is that rebuilding the city in the same way is not sensible."
We do not forget his predecessor now serves for THE CONSPIRACY, so we know how much truth there is to HIS words.
Congress is about to proclaim how awful this tragedy is, and write a few bills, and spend a few billions of which much will be wasted.
I repeat, they don't need money so much as machines to unflood the flooded zone and the men to rebuild it. Giving money by the billions is a guarantee of corruption, especially in a state as morally incontinent as Lousiana.
I repeat, they don't need money so much as machines to unflood the flooded zone and the men to rebuild it. Giving money by the billions is a guarantee of corruption, especially in a state as morally incontinent as Lousiana.
And further on the subject of DR. EVIL, some multi-millionaire hack named FINEMAN is IMPRESSED by His ANALOGIES.
I suppose if somebody invented an animal out of thin air I'd be impressed by him to.
Howie, why don't you do some reporting. It would be your first in decades.
I suppose if somebody invented an animal out of thin air I'd be impressed by him to.
Howie, why don't you do some reporting. It would be your first in decades.
With a few changes of words this piece of -- typing could justify cigarette smoking. This is precisely the too-clever-by-half stuff that makes conservatives look like greedy calculating ogres, and it is not surprising that it was co-authored by someone whose only life experience is in the fantasy world of sociology.
By the way John, everybody in New Orleans seems to have a gun. Isn't that GOOD NEWS?
P. S. Sorry for the previous wrong link, if anyone cares.
By the way John, everybody in New Orleans seems to have a gun. Isn't that GOOD NEWS?
P. S. Sorry for the previous wrong link, if anyone cares.
This is what I love about MARKETWATCH (aka DOW JONES' THIRD-RATE WEB SITE FOR CHEAP SLOBS WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE WALL STREET JOURNALS ONLINE): it will run a hed like this:
Wall St. in retreat
...at the very moment the market's going up.
Wall St. in retreat
...at the very moment the market's going up.
Well, I guess there are worse things: we could have set fire to some hotel curtains before hiding the matches in the sporran of our kilt.
What is a sporran?
A leather or fur pouch worn at the front of the kilt in the traditional dress of men of the Scottish Highlands.
Thank you.
What is a sporran?
A leather or fur pouch worn at the front of the kilt in the traditional dress of men of the Scottish Highlands.
Thank you.
I wish there were an alternative to blogging. It is bad enough typing into the ether; it is worse making a fool of yourself doing so. Plus these last few days it's done no good for my nerves. I think we all need a punching bag on occasion, but the problem with blogging is that sometimes you aim the punches below your own belt.
We must not forget, one reason this is worse than it should be is that New Orleans and Biloxi are not exactly teeming with millionaires; after all, both cities have CASINOS, the panaceas of dirt-poor towns.
"I guess when you've served almost 39 years, a ring-tailed orangutan can be called a legend," [DR. EVIL] said.
WELL PUT!
The attitude embodied by the continued oohing and aahing of "A RING-TAILED ORANGUTAN" is why WASHINGTON CANNOT AND WILL NOT HELP THE HURRICANE VICTIMS.
And count on the "ring-tailed orangutan" of the Beltway not to know what the hell he's talking about; there IS no such creature. There is, however, a ring-tailed lemur, but when we think of DR. EVIL we're more in mind of CROCODILES, or SCORPIONS -- OR VIPERS.
WELL PUT!
The attitude embodied by the continued oohing and aahing of "A RING-TAILED ORANGUTAN" is why WASHINGTON CANNOT AND WILL NOT HELP THE HURRICANE VICTIMS.
And count on the "ring-tailed orangutan" of the Beltway not to know what the hell he's talking about; there IS no such creature. There is, however, a ring-tailed lemur, but when we think of DR. EVIL we're more in mind of CROCODILES, or SCORPIONS -- OR VIPERS.
Speaking of, the UNIONS in Boston are in a FURY that the company would even THINK of opening there.
I'm not crazy about Wal-Mart either, but I'm not crazy about pouting intransigents who'd hold back needed retailers -- meaning YOU.
I'm not crazy about Wal-Mart either, but I'm not crazy about pouting intransigents who'd hold back needed retailers -- meaning YOU.
I am tired of the all-enveloping aura of doom, gloom and despair. To be sure, I wrongly made light of this disaster early on thinking it little more than wind and a very heavy rain, but now we're the exact oppoisite of cockiness: a PARALYSIS seems to have gripped America; we can't do ANYTHING about this because the problem is INSUPERABLE!!!!! Doesn't anybody remember our HISTORY? Why are people sitting around feeling sorry for themselves? And GUVMENT isn't helping at all because you figure at this point the chief incompetents are merely devising new organization charts. If this is our national attitude maybe the terrorists of 9/11 were right -- we're nothing but MARSHMALLOW INSIDE. It is up to the strong and the brave to prove them wrong.
I've been thinking of contributing my two cents to the relief, but what the people down south need right now is MANPOWER, and MACHINES. That's something only GUVMENT can do.
WAL-MART's reopening.
I've been thinking of contributing my two cents to the relief, but what the people down south need right now is MANPOWER, and MACHINES. That's something only GUVMENT can do.
WAL-MART's reopening.
Here is why Gov. Babbler and Mayor Noggin are flooded over: as I've said before, most mu-ni-CI-pal authority roles are largely ceremonial, going to town meetings and lavish banquets and generally making an amiable fool of yourself; but when something HAPPENS and the people need LEADERSHIP, these handshakers have nothing to fall back on, so they all but have a nervous breakdown like Gov. Babbler, or they take two days to decide maybe looting's not such a good thing, like Mayor Noggin. Given that transparent ectoplasm in the mansion on Pennsylvania Ave. it's a wonder America doesn't fall apart -- or isn't sacked TOTALLY.
P. S. I looked up Mayor Noggin's last name in Google Images and the first entry in was this. I must bookmark it. (But beware the pop-ups.)
P. P. S. Tearing myself away from this beauty I find Mayor Noggin was a NEW DEM OF THE WEEK:
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin unveiled a plan last fall to fully reinvent the city's Office of Workforce Development. With newfound purpose and well-defined goals, the new program -- renamed Job 1 -- has since become a top priority of the mayor's office. It aims to help workers better market themselves, respond to the need of small businesses, and develop a strong, stable, and educated workforce for the future. Nagin is confident that Job 1 will create new opportunities not only for individuals and businesses, but ultimately, for the entire local economy.
"We are offering new strategic solutions on how to deal with and tackle old problems." Nagin said. "This is a comprehensive approach to strengthening our workforce."
Comprehensive approach, all right.
P. S. I looked up Mayor Noggin's last name in Google Images and the first entry in was this. I must bookmark it. (But beware the pop-ups.)
P. P. S. Tearing myself away from this beauty I find Mayor Noggin was a NEW DEM OF THE WEEK:
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin unveiled a plan last fall to fully reinvent the city's Office of Workforce Development. With newfound purpose and well-defined goals, the new program -- renamed Job 1 -- has since become a top priority of the mayor's office. It aims to help workers better market themselves, respond to the need of small businesses, and develop a strong, stable, and educated workforce for the future. Nagin is confident that Job 1 will create new opportunities not only for individuals and businesses, but ultimately, for the entire local economy.
"We are offering new strategic solutions on how to deal with and tackle old problems." Nagin said. "This is a comprehensive approach to strengthening our workforce."
Comprehensive approach, all right.
It is a measure of how power-packed entertainment is that someone can make a brief thing of how Paul Lynde died twenty-three years after the fact. We can understand how such flamboyant gays can make enemies, especially with a Liz, who wanted all the flamboyance for herself. Oh well, we liked him, and but for such memories we'd collectively have nothing.
'PRESIDENT RUDY' DECISION ON HOLD
But not for long with an INVISIBLE PRESIDENT blending in with the White House.
But not for long with an INVISIBLE PRESIDENT blending in with the White House.
Happily, the people disorganizing the relief efforts have their PRIORITIES straight. (See upper-right-hand corner, please.)
Draining the billions of gallons of water that have inundated New Orleans could take three to six months, substantially longer than some experts have expected, the Army Corps of Engineers said late Wednesday.
Col. Richard Wagenaar, the corps' senior official in New Orleans, said that the estimate was based on planning done as Hurricane Katrina approached and that it remained the corps' best estimate. He is directing the agency's recovery efforts.
Did he have any experience with the NEW YORK SUBWAY SYSTEM?
Public officials, meanwhile, were furious over the corps' delays. Mayor C. Ray Nagin blistered officials on television for what he called their inaction. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco scowled in irritation, saying, "I'm extremely upset about it."
So let's scream and cry some more, and say our city's dead. YOU haven't shown the world such a great face YOURSELF, GOV. BABBLER.
Col. Richard Wagenaar, the corps' senior official in New Orleans, said that the estimate was based on planning done as Hurricane Katrina approached and that it remained the corps' best estimate. He is directing the agency's recovery efforts.
Did he have any experience with the NEW YORK SUBWAY SYSTEM?
Public officials, meanwhile, were furious over the corps' delays. Mayor C. Ray Nagin blistered officials on television for what he called their inaction. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco scowled in irritation, saying, "I'm extremely upset about it."
So let's scream and cry some more, and say our city's dead. YOU haven't shown the world such a great face YOURSELF, GOV. BABBLER.
At 8 a.m., mortars and Katyusha rockets slammed into two neighborhoods near the shrine, killing 15 and injuring about 30.
An hour later, victims of poison - apparently in the free food and water available along the pilgrims' route - trickled into hospitals, according to Iraq's Health Minister. A leading Shiite politician alleged that 100 people were killed by poison.
So evidently it wasn't ENTIRELY our fault.
An hour later, victims of poison - apparently in the free food and water available along the pilgrims' route - trickled into hospitals, according to Iraq's Health Minister. A leading Shiite politician alleged that 100 people were killed by poison.
So evidently it wasn't ENTIRELY our fault.
Signs of Israeli Diplomatic Thaw with Muslim World
Maybe that unilateral withdrawal is starting to pay off -- but now it's the MUSLIM WORLD's turn.
I'd say things are more hopeful in the Mid-East than in NAWLANS, which says a lot about US.
Maybe that unilateral withdrawal is starting to pay off -- but now it's the MUSLIM WORLD's turn.
I'd say things are more hopeful in the Mid-East than in NAWLANS, which says a lot about US.