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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Posted
9:09 PM
by Gene
Oh well, we'll take the REUT's word for it about ConEd, but why is capitalism so often just socialism with a dollar sign?
Posted
9:05 PM
by Gene
SHUCKS! He'd be the PERFECT owner! His FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News/Weekly Standard/NEW YORK POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the CONSERVATIVE EDITION, and His 20th Century Fox/Sun/FX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the LIBERAL EDITION! GO FOR IT!
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8:36 PM
by Gene
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8:16 PM
by Gene
And that's not all. A paralyzed teen in a wheelchair criticized one candidate's stem-cell research stance in New Jersey, records have been distorted in both states, and a $470,000 loan to a politically connected ex-lover sparked accusations of wrongdoing in New Jersey. Spending records were broken in both states, while polls show voters are unenthusiastic.
Here's the nice thing about being a NEWS HACK: you can harrumph and gallumph how AWFUL negative campaigning is and then THANK GOD IT'S HELPING YOUR PAYCHECK. GanNETt is well-positioned: it owns a TV station in Washington and seven newspapers in the two states, so it can reap the rewards of hypocrisy numerous ways.
So! We can have our rancid cake and eat it too! But you'd better gird for some AWFUL numbers from the ABC.
Posted
5:33 PM
by Gene
What an irony this is a YAHOO! link.
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5:19 PM
by Gene
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1:05 PM
by Gene
PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12:55 PM
by Gene
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11:23 AM
by Gene
Which proves his usefulness.
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11:11 AM
by Gene
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10:46 AM
by Gene
And yet ST. WARREN's cherubim will, in typical NEWS HACK fashion, continue to TWIST THE KNIFE in OUR BACK by malignly insisting they ARE SO IMPARTIAL, which makes one hope more than a few of these scribblers will spend some time in the afterlife wedged under a DISEASED TOENAIL.
P. S. We can only wonder what the ratio is of political endorsements in the big papers. SIEG HEIL!
Posted
10:31 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: All the party of Moveon.org has is retreat, withdraw and prosecute. How do Harry "Secret Fundraiser" Reid and Congresswoman Babs expect to win back control of government with loonies on their side?
Posted
9:05 PM
by Gene
PERRYOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) -- A bomb squad blew up a metal pipe that had a battery, wires, rope and an electrical switch, only to realize it was an eighth-grade science project.
"An electromagnetic fishing pole," Allegheny County Bomb Squad Sgt. Robert Clark said, holding the contraption with the battery blown off.
Posted
8:57 PM
by Gene
THANKS A LOT, HANK.
Posted
5:52 PM
by Gene
This may not be KENNETH, but he's getting there.
Posted
5:22 PM
by Gene
This from the men who perfected ACCOUNTING.
Posted
5:16 PM
by Gene
You don't suppose this "nice"-looking, new-looking, expensive-looking jail is why a double-killer escaped?
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5:14 PM
by Gene
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5:08 PM
by Gene
[B]y Bill Gate’s [SIC!] own admission, times are changing. Startup Zimbra has already developed an impressive and full-featured substitute for Microsoft’s collaborative enterprise software. This software gives users all kinds of AJAX “mash-ups,” meaning that different AJAX applications with different features are mixed together making "Frankenstein-type" programs--only they work surprisingly well. For instance, mousing over an address in an e-mail received with Zimbra causes a small Google Maps map of the address to display next to the address. Mousing over a time or date brings up your calendar of that time.
Pretty soon any time you click on anything you'll get a menu with fifty options. Frankenstein may be all too apt.
And Bill's getting into the "portal" biz. Don't we have enough look-alike stations to nowhere?
Posted
5:07 PM
by Gene
You mean it wasn't on television?
Posted
3:12 PM
by Gene
At Wednesday night's black-tie White House dinner for the Prince of Wales and his consort, Camilla, the royal missus committed the selfless act of wearing such a dull ensemble that she made first lady Laura Bush look as though she had stepped from the cover of a glamourpuss magazine. Standing alone, Mrs. Bush looked lovely. But next to Camilla, whose Robinson Valentino blazer and skirt made her look like a large rectangle, the first lady reminded one of a radiant bride shining brightly next to a dutifully bland bridesmaid.
We could say something about squares, but that's too easy. (We like the princie anyway.)
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1:24 PM
by Gene
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12:24 PM
by Gene
It had been better to have this moral suasion, say, 28 years ago, but we'll take it.
Posted
12:05 PM
by Gene
Well, it must be a sitcom. He's a CONGRESSMAN, right?
Following the sale of the script to Joseph Medawar, a little-known producer, Rohrabacher helped introduce Medawar to at least five Republican congressmen and staff members at the House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee in 2004. At the time, Medawar was pitching his latest Hollywood project — a TV series about the Department of Homeland Security. [PFFH-HH-HH!!!!!]
One of those congressmen was former Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), then chair of the Homeland Security Committee. Rohrabacher said he also made calls that helped Medawar and his crew gain access to officials in federal law enforcement agencies who briefed them on the inner workings of the federal government.
It IS a sitcom!
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12:02 PM
by Gene
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11:42 AM
by Gene
"Q" may...be too sophisticated for Vegas audiences, whose tastes generally run to animal acts, Celine Dion and slot machines. [PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!]
And I'd say Warner Bros. should stick to -- movies but all it makes are FRANCHISES.
Posted
11:39 AM
by Gene
Cable news as soft drinks. So who's Fresca?
Posted
11:20 AM
by Gene
You mean ADVERTISING HAS ITS LIMITS?
And here's the awful thing: substitute "any" for "an oil" and you have big business's visceral hatred of America in a nutshell.
Posted
10:29 AM
by Gene
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10:10 AM
by Gene
If "Chicken Little," the first of four computer-generated cartoons from Disney's revamped animation division, is the best the studio can do, it had better continue negotiating with Pixar.
Can you imagine a line like that in a review fifty years ago?
Could anyone imagine the -- MOVIES of today fifty years ago?
Posted
10:06 AM
by Gene
That, in the Democratic Party, is called COURAGE.
Posted
7:25 AM
by Gene
I'm thinking now every time NEWS HACKS have a beef with people in our government they'll call it "un-American." (Oddly and predictably, the word isn't in the article.) I wouldn't do that, St. Warren. The word originated with Communist-hunters, who were (as we all know from your indoctrina -- from your REPORTING) the height of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. Perhaps un-American should be expunged from the NEWS HACK'S vocabulary because it is a firecracker of a word, or maybe a Molotov cocktail, one whose sole purpose is to inflict hurt. Problem is, your firecrackers have a way of boomeranging.
Posted
6:56 PM
by Gene
It is a human trait to sympathize with a noble underdog -- but it is also a problem for a free society. For it amounts to acting on prejudice rather than on principle, which is just what advocates of civil rights should be against.
Charles Payne, a commentator on Fox News and CEO of Wall Street Strategies, this week came to the defense of two groups that liberals just love to hate -- oil and pharmaceutical companies.
Payne, who has been described by the liberal blog Newshounds as "the Fox token-minority-who-supports Bush," (how else are you going to keep minorities in the Democratic camp except through sophisticated racial epithet?) argued on Tuesday that threats, such as Dennis Kucinich's Gas Price Spike Act of 2005 to relieve oil companies of their profits and those against pharmaceutical companies to violate their patents on drugs against such epidemics as avian flu, amount to almost a communist attack on property rights.
One doesn't need to go that far, but there is a tendency to forget what it is that Rosa Parks -- and before her our forefathers were fighting for -- when the "victims" of the theft are not sympathetic. It is why, when such things are proposed, that we need our courts to protect our individual rights, but it is also why we need to ourselves look at cases in their simplest terms -- to seek out the principle that we are acting upon, and recognize the rights we may undermine.
I think it is time to let Rosa Parks rest in peace -- and for DOW 36,000 and his GANG to SHUT UP.
Posted
6:33 PM
by Gene
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6:20 PM
by Gene
And WE'RE the people who can QUESTION IT!
ST. WARREN!! WILL YOU STOP WITH THAT TOENAIL FUNGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
6:16 PM
by Gene
Presumably he knows how to replace all the old folks among his readership who are dying off.
Posted
6:12 PM
by Gene
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
The bad news is it would deprive the world of ART. The good news is the same media who'd deplore it might make money out of it.
Posted
1:30 PM
by Gene
France is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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12:35 PM
by Gene
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11:19 AM
by Gene
The looniest leftists had another mass psychosis yesterday -- and oddly enough we didn't hear of it until we stumbled onto this Trib piece which natch downplays the organizers, who include WACKOS for STALINISM.
Oh well, such is the life of being forever angry -- people take it for granted.
Posted
10:54 AM
by Gene
Meantime His Loyal Servant WHINY CRYBABY RICHARD wanders into JORDAN (we presume by accident) and opines WE'VE TURNED THE MIDDLE EAST INTO A DISASTER!!!!!
Your Holiness, we know You believe Yourself beyond the laws of man and the Universe (which after all You created), but will the time ever come when You may be WRONG?
Posted
9:23 AM
by Gene
Criticism of media coverage of the Iraq war and the effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books [ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. --ED]....
“I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region.”...
Massing also said the media’s fear of causing a negative reaction from the American public might be responsible for the incomplete coverage.
Which may have something to do, Mike, with our P-Ulitzer-winning WITHDRAWAL FROM INDOCHINA.
Posted
8:51 AM
by Gene
Maybe they're not so fruity and nutty as we think.
Posted
8:36 PM
by Gene
If THE CONSPIRACY were entertaining people well and not getting its jollies from rubbing it in our faces would SUMNER and FIDEL'S FRIEND have to do this?
If I were a betting man I'd wager $100 this will STILL be PC.
Posted
8:25 PM
by Gene
LGF reader Baikal emailed about these upsetting pictures posted by Bareknucklepolitics.com with the title: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. Those readers who were skeptical of the title, it turns out, were correct....
You didn't sound so skeptical when you FIRST POSTED IT, SAM.
One of these days there'll be a big scandal in the blogosphere, maybe not BLATHERGATE, but a lot of people will be embarrassed -- and SAM LITTLE will be at the CENTER of it.
Posted
6:04 PM
by Gene
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5:54 PM
by Gene
THIS looks like a job for -- SU - PERHOOPER!!!!!
Posted
5:45 PM
by Gene
Here's good news: a developer's renovating the Book-Cadillac, the grande dame of Detroit hostelries that has known better days. EDDIE would attribute this to HIS ELIXIR of "GAMING," and HIS RENDELLMINIUMS, but a building like that is just too good to tear down.
Now to see to it that Detroit is no longer a city of the dead building.
Posted
5:29 PM
by Gene
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5:27 PM
by Gene
By rights every Broadway theme park belongs there.
Posted
5:24 PM
by Gene
Strathairn Puffed on Dozens of Cigarettes
Well, it was for a -- NOBLE CAUSE.
Good night, and (COUGH! COUGH!) good luck.
Posted
2:23 PM
by Gene
Senior al Qaeda captive escaped US prison: official
And what peculiar set of circumstances led to this fine mess? Was this an INSIDE job? Or just our government's own smiley-faced brand of carelessness?
Posted
2:18 PM
by Gene
Warner Cuts More Than 5% of Studio Staff
We feel sorry for those who lost their jobs, but every time there are big layoffs in BIGMEDIA the chances of it INFLICTING itself on us do grow microscopically smaller.
Posted
1:23 PM
by Gene
50 says he disagrees with West's infamous [!!!!!!!!!!] statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," proclaimed during a September telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.
"I think people responded to it the best way they can," 50 told ContactMusic.com. "What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from."
Instead, 50 said, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God."
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAH!!!!!! AN HONORARY CON-SER-VA-TIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND HE LOVES GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
1:18 PM
by Gene
We knew what the hacks were up to when they started saying GRIM with a laugh. We know what they're up to with their on-the-spot videos of Baghdad bombings. We know what they're up to when they PERSONALIZE the coverage. Several millions in Southeast Asia might know what they're up to as well, but they're not alive to know, thanks to the AWARD-WINNING EXPLOITS OF NEWS HACKS.
Posted
11:25 AM
by Gene
But moviegoers turned up their noses. Weekly film attendance in 1967, the first year after Hollywood dumped the production code, plummeted to 17.8 million, from 38 million the year before (television had already eroded moviegoing from its late-1940s peak of 90 million a week). “In a single one-year period,” Medved notes, “more than half the movie audience disappeared—by far the largest one-year decline in the history of the motion picture business.” That audience then hovered around 20 million for the next three decades, despite a growing U.S. population.
There’s no mystery why so many stay home. Still dominated by countercultural types, Hollywood keeps churning out “edgy,” envelope-pushing movies—more than half of its films receive R ratings, for example—and Americans keep giving them thumbs-down, as the correlation of profit and ratings shows. Only five of the 50 top-grossing movies of all time have R ratings, and 13 of the top 100. A big 2005 Dove Foundation study examined the 3,000 most widely distributed Hollywood movies from 1989 through 2003 in each ratings category. It found PG- and PG-13-rated films between three and four times more profitable on average ththan R-rated ones—and G films, like this year’s hit nature documentary, March of the Penguins blahblahblah....
We know all about Hollywood's ATTITUDE, and how it thumbs it nose at the profit motive along with its audience, but isn't this the same Brian C. Anderson who had to make himself famous as the #1 FAN of SOUTH PARK?
Posted
9:33 AM
by Gene
Also the company's being investigated for playing TWX with its magazine circulation. Given that it's a prime member of THE CONSPIRACY we'll say GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
Posted
9:31 AM
by Gene
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8:50 AM
by Gene
Well! That's a lot of "value for the money" -- and EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Posted
8:38 AM
by Gene
US terrorism specialists Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon have reached a stark conclusion about the war on terrorism: the United States is losing.
Despite an early US victory over the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, President Bush's policies have created a haven for terrorism in Iraq that escalates the potential for Islamic violence against Europe and the United States,
the two former Clinton administration officials say.
Wait a second, Dave: shouldn't that be insurgency, or militancy? Or do we get a special dispensation when a REPUBLICAN's in the White House?
PLUS IT'S A PLUG FOR A BOOK. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD (MILITANCY DIVISION) TO DAVE!
P. S.
US fortunes could improve, the authors say, if Washington took a number of politically challenging steps, such as bolstering public diplomacy with trade pacts aimed at expanding middle-class influence in countries such as Pakistan.
TRANSLATION: We're DEMOCRATS -- and we don't have THE FOGGIEST NOTION WHAT WE'RE DOING.
Posted
7:26 AM
by Gene
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7:12 AM
by Gene
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6:57 AM
by Gene
As an aside, union spokesman Bob Bedard asked for "a little forgiveness" from the public for the inconveniences caused by the strike.
But Bob, both sides wanted this strike! The longer the better! Still, as I said, when it's over around February or March, you'll face worse than anger, you'll face indifference -- and if there's any justice the incompetents at SEPTA will lay off a few of your lazy buddies as a present.
Posted
7:23 PM
by Gene
They're always welcome to OURS.
Posted
6:41 PM
by Gene
FREE ENTERPRISE CON-SER-VA-TIVES! YOU MUST PROTEST THIS OUTRAGEOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE! WHO SAYS LIBERALS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN PROTEST? ORGANIZE "CITIZENS FOR GRASSO"! THOUSANDS would sign up! Like LARRY "GREED" KUDLOW, and DOW 36,000, and, uh, er...
THE STAFF OF REASON!
Posted
6:27 PM
by Gene
NOW the CEOs will NEVER STOP THEIR HECTORING.
Posted
6:24 PM
by Gene
Another free thinker exercising his First Amendment rights, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Posted
5:59 PM
by Gene
Roger Ebert's Current Reviews
• G (R)
• The Legend of Zorro (PG)
• The Night of the Hunter (Not rated)
• Nine Lives (R)
• Prime (PG-13)
• Shopgirl (R)
• Three... Extremes (R)
• The Weather Man (R)
• Where the Truth Lies (Not rated)
Not counting The Night of the Hunter -- an old film and a "classic" film and therefore from another galaxy -- let's do the math: 23.5 stars divided by 7 movies equals 3.357 stars. It is foolish to judge reviews by star ratings -- they only obscure matters, which is why movie ad-blurbists love them -- and maybe Rog has been in a
mood lately, but obviously he thinks we're in a MEGA-PLATINUM AGE OF MOVIES. I've long believed Rog and ESPECIALLY his late unlamented partner in millions GENE raved three-quarters of the movies they "reviewed," and judging that GENE's widow put his condo up for $8.25 million I'd say they did well by it. Whether WE'VE done well by it is, natch, another matter.
Posted
5:49 PM
by Gene
Today is Stale.com's day; now this analyst has just posted about how Steve's video iPod will allow "darker" television and promote shows with "cult followings" -- proof that MIT, alas, has dummies too.
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5:48 PM
by Gene
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4:19 PM
by Gene
So why did you have to deliver a lecture on bad movie-blurb writing in Stale.com?
Honestly, some schools should fire their professors and just be athuhletic programs.
Posted
4:03 PM
by Gene
To quote the last line of the story:
"You know, the Hicks Street people [i.e., the people doing the complaining] should really recall an old proverb: Be careful what you wish for."
Posted
3:59 PM
by Gene
Unless Harry Reid needed his security crib.
Posted
3:57 PM
by Gene
Unless it's G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE hitting another NEW RECORD HIGH.
Posted
12:38 PM
by Gene
Just remember, Larry and Sergey: what's happening to DELL could someday happen -- to YOU!
Posted
12:37 PM
by Gene
FORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
9:39 AM
by Gene
Thank you for your timely charitable donation -- of OUR money.
Posted
7:04 AM
by Gene
This from the second most monotheistic paper in America.
HEY ST. WARREN! WHAT'S WITH YOUR OBSESSION WITH TOENAIL FUNGUS?
Posted
5:57 PM
by Gene
The future is a la carte over the WEB, whether the media tyrannies and THE CABLE CONSPIRACY LIKE IT OR NOT.
Posted
5:47 PM
by Gene
Do I hear con-SER-va-tives going BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA?
Well, all we can say is LIBERALS HAD THEIR CHANCE.
Posted
5:39 PM
by Gene
On Friday, the svengali-like CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animated Studios lashed out at author Fredric Alan Maxwell after he sent Jobs a 4,000-word article he wrote for Fast Company magazine about the untold story of Jobs' biological father, a Syrian immigrant and political science professor named Abdulfattah Jandali.
"Are you a nut case?" Jobs demanded, signing the oneliner "Steve."
Maxwell fired back: "Are you?"
Just A problem: one of these nut cases is worth ZILLIONS.
Posted
4:18 PM
by Gene
STERNO!!!!! YOU'RE ALMOST AS POWERFUL AS YAHWEH!!!!!
Dell said sales in its American consumer and British business customer lines was partly to blame for the shortfall....
ALMOST? AS POWERFUL!
Posted
4:05 PM
by Gene
Who'd have THOUGHT THE CONSPIRACY capable of such MENDACITY? Who'd have thought THE PAPER OF RE-CORD capable of such GULLIBILITY?
Not US!
Posted
3:53 PM
by Gene
Don't the people in Battle Creek realize this is no time for BIGMEDIA stocks?
Posted
12:16 PM
by Gene
• Truck hits hayride, killing 4
• Woman falls after dangling from hot air balloon
• Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism
[Fourth through sixth listings in "More News" on the home page]
News hacks should apologize for doing everything they can to avoid hard news, replacing it with misfortunes, bias and selling.
Posted
11:39 AM
by Gene
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9:28 AM
by Gene
Is Drudge "over"?
He was over when the SPYWARE entered the HOLE IN HIS HEAD.
Posted
9:00 AM
by Gene
Instead of the most risible?
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7:14 AM
by Gene
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO PAT!
We sorta liked it better when you were behind the wall.
Posted
7:01 AM
by Gene
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6:48 AM
by Gene
Look folks, there was little "culture" before Osama. What your neighborhood needs is what it used to have -- jobs, commercial jobs, retailing jobs, not all sorts of jobs knocking America or sitting on its behinds or pleasing THE LORD GOD PINCH.
Face it, doesn't New York have enough ARTS as it is?
Posted
6:41 AM
by Gene
Conservatives and Republicans must learn to rule America WITHOUT the help of NEWS HACKS and their FRIENDS, because they can do NOTHING to please them, and EVERYTHING to ANNOY them. And if NEWS HACKS and their FRIENDS scream and cry and tell mommy -- so be it.
Posted
1:21 AM
by Gene
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1:05 AM
by Gene
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12:32 AM
by Gene
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7:38 PM
by Gene
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7:12 PM
by Gene
Can't we just forget about politics and let the kids exercise their imaginations?
[I]ts sometimes-dark imagery - and the gory movies and masks that go along with it - mean that some Christian and Muslim families keep their kids at home that day.
I think this merits a special THANK YOU to DR. EVIL!!!!!
Posted
5:15 PM
by Gene
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4:19 PM
by Gene
The eulogy for the comic book.
Posted
4:06 PM
by Gene
Reid: Apologize
That's right Reid, APOLOGIZE.
Well taken, USAOKAY!!!!! (Pffh-hh-hh!)
Posted
2:01 PM
by Gene
Don't forget about all the fraudulent clicks ey... It seems like they're having [joelonsoftware.com] a [webpronews.com] lot [webpronews.com] of [cnn.com] problems [theregister.co.uk] with those...
I remember, a day or two after Katrina, trying to track down a few friends who had fled New Orleans, and when reading my email thread in gmail I was offered a great deal on a travel package to the historic French quarter. :)
It figures that one of the most sophisticated AIs ever developed would find its use in advertising.
Shouldn't this posting be titled: Smarter Google Ads Targets Stupid People Better.
And there will be MORE, to be SURE, but I don't have all day with SLASHDOT.
Posted
1:55 PM
by Gene
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1:41 PM
by Gene
Now we'll confess we like sexy babes as much as the next man, but is it, er, REALISTIC to expect to find them on a Web dating service?
Posted
1:34 PM
by Gene
Also, it appears six of the top ten may not earn back their production costs. BETTER!
And SHUCKS, DOOM went down ONLY by 73.8 PERCENT. How ya gonna bring Goodthings to THAT number, PLASTIC MAN?
Interesting: CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGE doesn't mention it, thus once again practicing that SUPREME NEWS-HACK DICTUM: If the PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW, it DOESN'T HAVE TO KNOW.
P. S. THE UNDER-17-UNACCOMPANIED-BY-A-PARENT SLIME.
Posted
1:21 PM
by Gene
I confess I'm of more than two minds about the reconstruction of that magnificent church in Drseden. On the one hand it's a grand thing to know it's been rebuilt; on the other hand the church's very "pockmarks" and the dark ghostly presence of an original wall must remind people that it has been rebuilt, and therefore it's not quite the same. And I suppose with 60 years hindsight we should probe our consciences that we destroyed such a landmark. On the other hand, that scum like "Doctor Death" still evades justice tells us why we had to do it. Nonetheless its very reconstruction after too long is a symbol of reconciliation -- and reunification -- with the hope that never again will Europe be bombed by the sons of Europe, or anyone else.
Posted
12:56 PM
by Gene
Consider the case of Brent Scowcroft. According to last week's New Yorker, former president Bush has tried to arrange a meeting between his old national-security adviser (and best friend) and his son. But after Scowcroft wrote a 2002 op-ed piece titled "Don't Attack Saddam," the president has consistently refused his own father's request. Now we know that Bush's lack of curiosity has proved fatal.
SO -- the guy who licked the Chinese shoes after Tiananmen is now a GOOD GUY. Yep, one or two more scribblings like this and we WILL make fun of your HAIR.
Posted
11:53 AM
by Gene
Two American soldiers have been charged with allegedly assaulting two detainees at a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan, the military said Sunday.
But goshdarnit, not EVERYTHING can go the HACKS' WAY:
The announcement came 10 days after the U.S. military launched an investigation into allegations that some American troops allegedly burned the bodies of two Taliban rebels slain in battle, an act that purportedly was caught on video by an embedded freelance cameraman and broadcast on television.
Cremation of corpses is banned in Islam and the alleged desecration sparked outrage in Afghanistan. Some Islamic clerics warned of a violent anti-American backlash, but so far there have no demonstrations.
JEEZ, you'd think the AFGHANIS would KNOW BETTER. They'd get LOTS OF SUPPORT from NEWS HACKS.
Posted
11:41 AM
by Gene
In recent years, the Skoll Foundation, which shares Participant's commitment to social change (though it has no direct ties to the film company), has had its own encounters with the fast food industry - as an investor. According to its tax statement for the year ending Nov. 30, 2003, the foundation's $161 million in assets included $1.3 million worth of shares in fast food companies and their suppliers. Holdings included Yum! Brands (which claims to be the world's largest fast food restaurant company and includes Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell and other chains), Kraft Foods, Cadbury-Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Bottling Group, and Aramark, a vending machine company.
Mr. Skoll, who is the foundation's chairman as well as the founder and chief executive of Participant, said, "I don't see a conflict between these investments and our intent with 'Fast Food Nation.'" The film, he said, is "intended to educate consumers about industry-wide practices, not pick on the practices of any specific company."
The foundation's president and chief executive, Sally Osberg, defended the foundation's investment strategy. "It's only inconsistent on the surface," she said.
So long as our MOUTHS are in the right place.
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8:50 AM
by Gene
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8:31 AM
by Gene
I wouldn't do that, RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PAPER OF RE-CORD could always come back at YOU -- and YOU'RE OLDER.
And for all THAT:
Indeed, not one person interviewed for this article thinks he'll be forced to offer up anything more severe than the "culpas" already dispensed.
ONCE a GOD, ALWAYS a GOD.
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7:48 AM
by Gene
War blamed as 6,000 quit Territorial Army (UK's National Guard - What's with Murdoch's Press?)
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7:40 AM
by Gene
