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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Saturday, November 14, 2009
One reason trying holy cockroaches in criminal courts might not be the best idea is the zillions we'll have to spend for security. And who is to say the cockroaches don't have our facilities "cased out"? They seem to have cased out the "supermax" prisons in merrie olde Englande.
What's on your list of things journalists shouldn't do?
Do we have twenty years?
Well, if we're going to do a list:
1. STOP CALLING YOURSELVES "JOURNALISTS".
Do we have twenty years?
Well, if we're going to do a list:
1. STOP CALLING YOURSELVES "JOURNALISTS".
More than 100 million Americans have smoked pot.
Where did that factoid come from, JonBoy? If you're going to be THE NEW ICONOCLASTIC ECONOWIZ! and run such contentious assumptions you should footnote them, or link to a source. But JonBoy probably has no more of an idea what the Internet is than SLIME, except that someone's taking his audience away.
Well, I can link to two factoids with more heft: ZEITGEIST's circ will have been cut in half over two years, and KAPLAN, INC.'s share price has DECLINED BY 57% IN FIVE YEARS.
P. S. The factoid seems to have come from an HHS survey -- and which our intrepid hacks probably got here, from a NORML representative, who says the survey is "highly questionable" but it's accurate enough for us, typical guff from a lobbying group at 1600 K STREET NW.
Where did that factoid come from, JonBoy? If you're going to be THE NEW ICONOCLASTIC ECONOWIZ! and run such contentious assumptions you should footnote them, or link to a source. But JonBoy probably has no more of an idea what the Internet is than SLIME, except that someone's taking his audience away.
Well, I can link to two factoids with more heft: ZEITGEIST's circ will have been cut in half over two years, and KAPLAN, INC.'s share price has DECLINED BY 57% IN FIVE YEARS.
P. S. The factoid seems to have come from an HHS survey -- and which our intrepid hacks probably got here, from a NORML representative, who says the survey is "highly questionable" but it's accurate enough for us, typical guff from a lobbying group at 1600 K STREET NW.
We detect a faint hint of a mischievous smirk in the liberals proclaiming the genius of our legal system.
We do not say this lightly. People of both political dogmas grin inopportunely. PILLHEAD wanted His Omnipotence to "fail" on day one. Had he said it in words less crass it would have been understandable, but it would not have been PILLHEAD. Former VEEP BIG-OIL showed a slight glint of teeth when he said Leon was "inviting" a terrorist attack. We know how the likes of GEKKO KUDLOW suffer extreme angst when businessmen are prosecuted, and heave idiotic sighs of relief when they're able to buy their way out of prison. But the liberals declared the Fort Hood gunman's religion non-existent, and they did so for a cause, and now thanks to the malevolence that comes from political ossification and the elevation of cheap attitude to a virtue on both sides they can smirk mischievously.
We do not say this lightly. People of both political dogmas grin inopportunely. PILLHEAD wanted His Omnipotence to "fail" on day one. Had he said it in words less crass it would have been understandable, but it would not have been PILLHEAD. Former VEEP BIG-OIL showed a slight glint of teeth when he said Leon was "inviting" a terrorist attack. We know how the likes of GEKKO KUDLOW suffer extreme angst when businessmen are prosecuted, and heave idiotic sighs of relief when they're able to buy their way out of prison. But the liberals declared the Fort Hood gunman's religion non-existent, and they did so for a cause, and now thanks to the malevolence that comes from political ossification and the elevation of cheap attitude to a virtue on both sides they can smirk mischievously.
The latest movee B. O. exaggerations denote an audience of extremes. On the one side is a completely mindless audience. There is nothing wrong with escapism; but your typical movee buff is so overwhelmed by promotion and advertising, and is so knotted up by peer pressure, that he will see the filmic equivalent of a refinery explosion and find it entertaining. On the other side are the pretentious thinkers for whom the movee house is a secular temple, and who go for purifying self-flagellation. They too are prone to promotion and advertising, from hacks who yelled "catharsis" to justify dreck and who have carried the notion to its logical conclusion. In between are the vast numbers merely seeking decent entertainment whom the movee biz abandoned long ago, and who gladly return the favor.
This story may not have a happy ending. We can see the no-brains' favorite descending double-digits on Saturday and the cathartics' favorite descending to the level of "disappointment", but no one should ever underestimate the movee buff's desire to burn his money.
This story may not have a happy ending. We can see the no-brains' favorite descending double-digits on Saturday and the cathartics' favorite descending to the level of "disappointment", but no one should ever underestimate the movee buff's desire to burn his money.
More of that famous eloquence from His Excellency the Oba Mao, in Tokyo:
"This is where we engage in much of our commerce and buy many of our goods," he said. "And this is where we can export more of our own products and create jobs back home in the process...."
So long as we can export Treasurys we're okay.
Oh, and our masters the Chinese are cracking down on His Omnipotence memorabilia. No word on burning Obamas.
"This is where we engage in much of our commerce and buy many of our goods," he said. "And this is where we can export more of our own products and create jobs back home in the process...."
So long as we can export Treasurys we're okay.
Oh, and our masters the Chinese are cracking down on His Omnipotence memorabilia. No word on burning Obamas.
Friday, November 13, 2009
And bye-bye LEGENDARY and Mrs. WELCH!
The Welch and Bartiromo columns were among the magazine's most popular in readership surveys.
Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's any good. At least the Bloomy boys realize it.
(Via the usual Romy)
The Welch and Bartiromo columns were among the magazine's most popular in readership surveys.
Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's any good. At least the Bloomy boys realize it.
(Via the usual Romy)
And GEKKO KUDLOW has himself a motto:
In bull markets, there is often no clear demarcation between fantasy and progress.
(Via Seeking Alpha)
In bull markets, there is often no clear demarcation between fantasy and progress.
(Via Seeking Alpha)
She’s an idiot. She’s a moron. She’s unqualified. She’s bad. She’s a hick. She’s a know-nothing. She’s a liar. She couldn’t define the Reagan Doctrine. She’s mean to her daughter’s baby daddy....
And a person who can make news just by opening her mouth is a person to be reckoned with, a person who is not going away, a person who is going to play a role in American politics for a long time.
How true, however ironic JPOD tried to make it.
And a person who can make news just by opening her mouth is a person to be reckoned with, a person who is not going away, a person who is going to play a role in American politics for a long time.
How true, however ironic JPOD tried to make it.
It may not seem that way now with G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE a PERMANENT PROSPERITY STOCK and the Wall Street Casino back in FULL GEKKO KUDLOW MODE, but that company's GENIUS-IQ-STUPID interview questions will someday join mahjongg and hula hoops in the historical ash heap.
I think what SUPERADAM!!!!!'s twenty-something interns are telling us (does anyone work for him who's over 30?* No wonder he fired John Simon. Heck does anyone work for him who's paid?) is that Megan is passé. But of course -- create a phenomenon out of zero and in time it reverts to zero. I've said before you could take any of 100,000 pretty girls off the street and make her a movee star.** That's not the same as Lana Turner at the Top Hat Cafe.
*This includes SUPERADAM!!!!! and Effete Edelstein, whose emotional age is closer to six.
**Or a PR0N "star", which is increasingly the same thing.
*This includes SUPERADAM!!!!! and Effete Edelstein, whose emotional age is closer to six.
**Or a PR0N "star", which is increasingly the same thing.
Speaking of overrated:
CNBC's Bartiromo loses her BusinessWeek column [Usual Romy link]
And next door to this Romy ponders the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL unleashed by Pat Bu -- William Saf -- SPIRO T. AGNEW. To which we ask, would that corrupt jackanapes have opened his ventriloquist's yap had UNCLE HHHWALT not courageously lost us the war?
CNBC's Bartiromo loses her BusinessWeek column [Usual Romy link]
And next door to this Romy ponders the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL unleashed by Pat Bu -- William Saf -- SPIRO T. AGNEW. To which we ask, would that corrupt jackanapes have opened his ventriloquist's yap had UNCLE HHHWALT not courageously lost us the war?
The Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with "Oba Mao" T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.
NO COMMENT.
NO COMMENT.
In the continuing saga of JonBoy trying to put his rag out of business KAPLAN, INC. wastes our time with a rock-mu-SICK cri-TICK writing as many words as he can about nothing -- and whose happy ending confirms the reader has wasted his time on nothing:
Oh, and by the way: Pearl Jam’s latest single, “The Fixer,” is the best song the band has released since 1994. Target, here we come.
JonBoy said he was going to make The Econowiz II "iconoclastic." What is iconoclastic about throwing words at your readers and hoping they stick? A revered editor can be asinine in many ways, and to JonBoy's infinite self-credit he seems to have found a new way -- but with luck it won't prevent the old, old story of folding.
Oh, and by the way: Pearl Jam’s latest single, “The Fixer,” is the best song the band has released since 1994. Target, here we come.
JonBoy said he was going to make The Econowiz II "iconoclastic." What is iconoclastic about throwing words at your readers and hoping they stick? A revered editor can be asinine in many ways, and to JonBoy's infinite self-credit he seems to have found a new way -- but with luck it won't prevent the old, old story of folding.
It hasn't escaped our notice that news hacks have generally congratulated their activist brethren in supposedly getting Lou Dobbs to resign. It's typical of the hacks that they've only looked at the last six years of his despicable career and haven't considered he WHOLE MAN. For two decades he was a cheerleader for big business. We still recall the "Lollipop Lou" who used his Moneyline as a Chautauqua tent in which to showily parade all manner of CEOs, and ask them softball questions, never demeaning their godhood; he had Chainsaw Al on almost as often as commercials. Where was the driving populist spirit then? For some mysterious reason this changed -- possibly because he saw the future of cable "news" in screaming. (Possibly also he saw that Jim "BOOM! BOOM!" Cramer was specializing in screaming himself and he realized cable "news" couldn't have two business screamers.) And in screaming he was exceptionally well-qualified; no one doubted his prima-donna temper, the littler the target the bigger the tantrum. Surely his conflicts of interest were celebrated; we suspect whenever MOUTH OF THE SOUTH heard of them he jacked up Lollipop's salary. No, Dobbs is an actor and a villain, and that the hacks ignore this and concentrate on their own political happiness shows they're in a realm even more shriveled than Lollipop's. In short, you shouldn't have to be a liberal to be happy about Lou Dobbs.
Or to put it another way: Think of Lollipop as Paul Kangas with an ego and an attitude and it's instantly apparent how silly this debate is.
And the notion that PEOPLE WARNER's waste of bandwidth did this to boost its sudden bonafides as a "centrist network" is absurd on its face -- especially when explained to us by hacks who consider themselves centrists.
Or to put it another way: Think of Lollipop as Paul Kangas with an ego and an attitude and it's instantly apparent how silly this debate is.
And the notion that PEOPLE WARNER's waste of bandwidth did this to boost its sudden bonafides as a "centrist network" is absurd on its face -- especially when explained to us by hacks who consider themselves centrists.
Okay Eric, what if they're found innocent?
And of course complaining about civilian trials is a CONSERVATIVE thing.
Although maybe not:
The President did not appear pleased hours later when he was asked about the decision on an international stage, in a ceremonial room at the Kantei, the office of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama...."This is a prosecutorial decision, as well as a national-security decision," Obama continued, again distancing himself from the plan.
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft!
And of course complaining about civilian trials is a CONSERVATIVE thing.
Although maybe not:
The President did not appear pleased hours later when he was asked about the decision on an international stage, in a ceremonial room at the Kantei, the office of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama...."This is a prosecutorial decision, as well as a national-security decision," Obama continued, again distancing himself from the plan.
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft!
PEOPLE WARNER orders Joe Lieberman to stay away from Democrats!
Lieberman would be wise to remember that the 2010 midterm elections are coming, and some election watchers are predicting the Democrats could pick up one or two more seats.
Oh I'm so sorry for the accidental links; my computer must be acting up.
P. S. Whatever happened to -- I'll think of his name -- Art Carney, uh, Jim Carrey, uh, Joe Carney -- oh yes! Jay Carney?
Lieberman would be wise to remember that the 2010 midterm elections are coming, and some election watchers are predicting the Democrats could pick up one or two more seats.
Oh I'm so sorry for the accidental links; my computer must be acting up.
P. S. Whatever happened to -- I'll think of his name -- Art Carney, uh, Jim Carrey, uh, Joe Carney -- oh yes! Jay Carney?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
We know it will make con-SER-va-tives angry and it IS Democrats "legislating" and we suspect it will backfire but someone somehow has to show God and His disciples they are not above the law anymore.
A few months back the CEO (or whatever his title is) of Thomas Jefferson University had a tantrum. Jeff (as we locals call it, with some disgust) has turned a whole big thriving chunk of Center City into a dead zone with ugly brick boxes. (Ironic, too, for an institution named after an ARCHITECT, although evidently not that ironic.) Anyway, this tantrum -- and there was a tantrum -- probably involved hundreds of staffers (including the MARKETING DEPARTMENT if it has one, as I suspect it does) and lots of buzzwords, like BRANDING. The result was two glary signs atop a fine old Beaux Arts building opposite the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Electric's former HQ, now JEFF!!!!!'s HQ (it's called the Edison Building, but why it is not called the JEFFERSON!!!!! Building is beyond me). The signs remind me of how full of it EDDIE!!!!! is when he and like no-brains insist that HEALTH CARE!!!!! and EDUCATION!!!!! will save his precincts, forgetting that HEALTH CARE!!!!! and EDUCATION!!!!! are MOSTLY GOVERNMENT, and more HEALTH CARE!!!!! and EDUCATION!!!!! merely means a glorified welfare state. And Philadelphia has enough HEALTH CARE!!!!! and EDUCATION!!!!!
(Cropped from photo posted here. As someone wrote on that site, "While Jeff is rightfully regarded as one of the nation's best hospitals, something we can all be proud of, their conduct as an urban neighbor the last few years has not been such a point of pride." That's putting it mildly.)
Now that more banks are preparing to repay billions of dollars in TARP money, what is the government planning to do with it?
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Asia Thursday that the government will be able to pay down more debt and borrow less than initially expected because more banks are repaying money to the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. He added that he expects "substantial repayments" by banks in the coming weeks.
The Obama administration is still debating that idea, the Wall Street Journal reported, saying some officials would like to keep some of the unspent money in case of emergencies.
I think we know what that means!
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Asia Thursday that the government will be able to pay down more debt and borrow less than initially expected because more banks are repaying money to the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. He added that he expects "substantial repayments" by banks in the coming weeks.
The Obama administration is still debating that idea, the Wall Street Journal reported, saying some officials would like to keep some of the unspent money in case of emergencies.
I think we know what that means!
Even MORE excitement in the music biz:
Schwartz Debuts New Lyrics for Bernstein's Mass at Northwestern Nov. 12
Schwartz Debuts New Lyrics for Bernstein's Mass at Northwestern Nov. 12
As long as YOUNUHVERSUHTEES come up with excuses to pay zillions to football and basketball CEOs, so long as they look the other way at the crime committed by their athuhlete-students and others who wander onto their campuses, so long as they act as vacuums for Federal dough and disgorge dubious research to return the favor, so long as they think Israel should be eradicated, and so long as they think truth is a "construct" of dead white European males, they will endorse PR0N out of all sides of their money-swallowing mouths.
This time when I posted:
This time when I posted:
I think PVT. ZELL's typists are trying to tell us that the WINNER of the COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION'S ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AWARD!!!!! can't sing, but they have to be cute about it, which reminds us that Mike Royko once worked in PVT. ZELL's neighborhood, and he might not have been so dainty.
A British broadcaster is going to crash-land an (UNOCCUPIED) passenger jet for a reality documentary program.
These people must be desperate.
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These people must be desperate.
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Enough!
Enough!
Three University of Tennessee football players were arrested early Thursday for allegedly trying to rob three men outside a Knoxville convenience store.
This might be the cue to relaunch our "PLAYER ARRESTED" gag.
AS IN:
Arizona State senior cornerback Terell Carr has been arrested on suspicion of three misdemeanors and booked into a Maricopa County jail.
OR:
UW Badgers football player Maurice Moore was arrested early Sunday for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
OR:
A University of Minnesota football player was arrested late Sunday and charged with obstructing the legal process and minor consumption of alcohol.
The possibilites are ENDLESS.
This might be the cue to relaunch our "PLAYER ARRESTED" gag.
AS IN:
Arizona State senior cornerback Terell Carr has been arrested on suspicion of three misdemeanors and booked into a Maricopa County jail.
OR:
UW Badgers football player Maurice Moore was arrested early Sunday for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
OR:
A University of Minnesota football player was arrested late Sunday and charged with obstructing the legal process and minor consumption of alcohol.
The possibilites are ENDLESS.
The whole world is scratching its head over what we should do in Afghanistan, and you'd think with all that headscratching someone could come up with an idea -- not least His Omnipotence.
And speaking of greed, financial know-nothings like Kirk Kevork -- KERKORIAN and Mr. Bew-KES are about to waste umpteen zillions on United Artists, with Kirk buying one of its "logos", and we can't help thinking, do people think Kirk's a genius for the same reason they think St. Warren's a genius?
It's official: the GREED IS GOOD GANG is back at the auction house!
And the gang who'll pay umpteen gazillions for Andy Warhol -- ANY Andy Warhol -- couldn't offer a good reason except that he's sexy.
Now why can't these clowns and the clowns driving up stocks pass some of their largess on to the rest of us?
And the gang who'll pay umpteen gazillions for Andy Warhol -- ANY Andy Warhol -- couldn't offer a good reason except that he's sexy.
Now why can't these clowns and the clowns driving up stocks pass some of their largess on to the rest of us?
ED MURROW!!!!! finds FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS fakes video footage and SEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "apologizes", and a hard-core leftist from the peanut gallery applauds ED.
I'm sure everyone involved would agree: just so long as MY ox isn't gored.
(Links via MediaBistro -- and by the way, AttyTOOD "works" for the Daily NOOZ)
I'm sure everyone involved would agree: just so long as MY ox isn't gored.
(Links via MediaBistro -- and by the way, AttyTOOD "works" for the Daily NOOZ)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I have some childhood memories of Monopoly myself and a lot of them involve everybody walking away from the game long before it was finished.
Thankfully a lot of readers will turn away from this glorified plug before they're finished.
Alas, we know the outcome: a new game.
Thankfully a lot of readers will turn away from this glorified plug before they're finished.
Alas, we know the outcome: a new game.
God must be smiling: not only is He paying himself and His cronies big bonuses -- he and said cronies are reducing pay at the bottom of their organizations!
Day FOUR of THE SECOND MASSACRE RALLY! IDIOTS!
Day FOUR of THE SECOND MASSACRE RALLY! IDIOTS!
In a way the dying off of the veterans' organizations is a good thing; it means we're not sending as many soldiers off to wars. (It also means we can do a good job defending ourselves with fewer soldiers, which isn't such a bad thing either.) This does not justify the shameful neglect that too often comes the veterans' way, but whatever perks accrue with having served in the armed forces we can never begin to repay their service.
We see His Omnipotence did mention the victims, but heck His staff probably did that, and the rest of the oration; regardless His speeches are pure Him, and will stay that way.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Speaking of news hacks, here's a definition they'll agree to in private: The only good conservative is a dea -- a turncoat.
The exact opposite would apply except that former conservatives tend to be adamant about it.
The exact opposite would apply except that former conservatives tend to be adamant about it.
Even a TWXSTER must confess that moments of staged national unity such as our Bloviator-in-Chief had to face today are "hollow", they're hollow because we've come to expect so little from such moments, and our dwarfish leaders live down to them -- and then there are "the television commentators [who can] hardly stop talking" -- in short, the WOLF BLITZERS -- and lots of THEM work for PEOPLE WARNER TOO.
And the conservatives are correct to blast His Omnipotence's extreme rhetorical fastidiousness, His refusal to endorse certain shared truths that offend Him, His willingness to descend to phony, hollow words to cover up for the fact, and His surpassingly glib ability to acknowledge those who disagree with Him without acknowledging them. And when does He apologize for Hiroshima?
Our only solace is that we remember how quickly the friendly buffoon Dubya became irrelevant, and Slick before him, despite his popularity polls.
And to repeat one other thing, given that obvious aside to WOLF: Does the IDIOT JEFF BEW-KES watch or read ANYTHING of His company's?
And the conservatives are correct to blast His Omnipotence's extreme rhetorical fastidiousness, His refusal to endorse certain shared truths that offend Him, His willingness to descend to phony, hollow words to cover up for the fact, and His surpassingly glib ability to acknowledge those who disagree with Him without acknowledging them. And when does He apologize for Hiroshima?
Our only solace is that we remember how quickly the friendly buffoon Dubya became irrelevant, and Slick before him, despite his popularity polls.
And to repeat one other thing, given that obvious aside to WOLF: Does the IDIOT JEFF BEW-KES watch or read ANYTHING of His company's?
In other P-Ulitzer-winning typing:
Pending execution reopens wounds for D.C.-area sniper victims
And these keyboard bangers want OUR money?
Pending execution reopens wounds for D.C.-area sniper victims
And these keyboard bangers want OUR money?
Obama pressed into role as healer, inevitably
Is this going to become his shtick as it was with Dubya?
Is this going to become his shtick as it was with Dubya?
Shucks, that Omnipotence's factotum who said something stupid about Mao is leaving. What will He do about FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News now?
Speaking of declining ratings, more from our hero -- JUT-JAW:
[C]ompetitors have struggled to attract the TV homes NBC surrendered when the network replaced its 10 p.m. dramas. While some shows including ABC’s “Private Practice” have added viewers, most of the 1.82 million young adults NBC lost have scattered -- to the hundreds of cable channels available, or to the Web, or they are watching programs on digital-video recorders.
Likely most of them are still watching junk TV in one or another form, but that so many of the most gullible in the audience can give up TV brings hope that ever more people will give up TV, and that TV will have to give up.
(Via IWantMedia)
[C]ompetitors have struggled to attract the TV homes NBC surrendered when the network replaced its 10 p.m. dramas. While some shows including ABC’s “Private Practice” have added viewers, most of the 1.82 million young adults NBC lost have scattered -- to the hundreds of cable channels available, or to the Web, or they are watching programs on digital-video recorders.
Likely most of them are still watching junk TV in one or another form, but that so many of the most gullible in the audience can give up TV brings hope that ever more people will give up TV, and that TV will have to give up.
(Via IWantMedia)
Okay Beltway LUNKHEADS, you've all been on TV. What part have YOU played in sending our country into the toilet?
Politico.com can be EXASPERATING.
Politico.com can be EXASPERATING.
The only "solution" to the "problem" of exploding professional college sports' coaching salaries is to thoroughly professionalize the teams (i.e., pay the players) and completely delink them from any notion they have anything to do with academics. Then they would become self-supporting profit centers owned by the universities for the purpose of helping finance an inferior education.
Keep in mind too professional college sports is a glorified subsidiary of BIGMEDIA, and anything even partly owned by BIGMEDIA will have its priorities skewed.
And if we know the paper of the SUPER BOWL AD BOWL this new annual survey will backfire as it will provide the impetus for an increased "arms race" in salaries.
Keep in mind too professional college sports is a glorified subsidiary of BIGMEDIA, and anything even partly owned by BIGMEDIA will have its priorities skewed.
And if we know the paper of the SUPER BOWL AD BOWL this new annual survey will backfire as it will provide the impetus for an increased "arms race" in salaries.
Monday, November 09, 2009
A very -- unique offering from Econowiz.com:
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A U.S. official says the Fort Hood shooting suspect reached out to communicate with a radical imam overseas who came under scrutiny in the past for possible links to terror groups.
Maybe he was seeking his opinion on religious diversity.
Maybe he was seeking his opinion on religious diversity.
ARCHDaily!
Not only can STARCHITECTS come up with pretentious buildings, they come up with pretentious reasons:
The big dilema [SIC] of this kind of project in the city is the public space, most of the times only approached at ground level. Francisco Mangado’s strategy includes public program along the tower, as a vertical boulevard.
After the residences on the first levels, we find a public lobby on floor 27th, with public services and restaurants, where the tower varies in section as you can see on the drawings below. We find more public facilities at the top, continuing with this openness of the program as the tower develops.
TRANSLATION: The sky's the limit if they're selling condos -- and how many of the owners will want the PUBLIC in on their fun?
Not only can STARCHITECTS come up with pretentious buildings, they come up with pretentious reasons:
The big dilema [SIC] of this kind of project in the city is the public space, most of the times only approached at ground level. Francisco Mangado’s strategy includes public program along the tower, as a vertical boulevard.
After the residences on the first levels, we find a public lobby on floor 27th, with public services and restaurants, where the tower varies in section as you can see on the drawings below. We find more public facilities at the top, continuing with this openness of the program as the tower develops.
TRANSLATION: The sky's the limit if they're selling condos -- and how many of the owners will want the PUBLIC in on their fun?
It will sound morose and self-pitying but I wish someone who types on the Web would write for me, would care for me. Not one of the self-important Beltway royalty in this screaming match cares for me.
As for the lunkhead Newt's notion, is His Omnipotence not going to Berlin a TRAGEDY!!!!!!!!!!? No. It might have been nice for him to go, but this Force believes foreign affairs are a net minus, and he can't speak on the topic without the veritable equivalent of Porky Pig's stutter.
Which is another way of saying a plague o' both your houses -- and ALL the screamers.
(Why no permalink, Politico?)
As for the lunkhead Newt's notion, is His Omnipotence not going to Berlin a TRAGEDY!!!!!!!!!!? No. It might have been nice for him to go, but this Force believes foreign affairs are a net minus, and he can't speak on the topic without the veritable equivalent of Porky Pig's stutter.
Which is another way of saying a plague o' both your houses -- and ALL the screamers.
(Why no permalink, Politico?)
I just caught one of HENRY HONEST'S HACKS belching a platitude:
Thus if America's best days are truly ahead, the S&P500 could revert to delivering the kind of returns it has over the long-term.
The Dow didn't go up a thousand points during the FIRST MASSACRE RALLY due to patriotism, and it won't go up during this SECOND MASSACRE RALLY due to patriotism either. Your typical GOD'S WORKER doesn't care where the country's going so long as he gets his. Yes, patriotism truly is the last refuge of a scoundrel, especially if the scoundrel resides on Wall Street.
Thus if America's best days are truly ahead, the S&P500 could revert to delivering the kind of returns it has over the long-term.
The Dow didn't go up a thousand points during the FIRST MASSACRE RALLY due to patriotism, and it won't go up during this SECOND MASSACRE RALLY due to patriotism either. Your typical GOD'S WORKER doesn't care where the country's going so long as he gets his. Yes, patriotism truly is the last refuge of a scoundrel, especially if the scoundrel resides on Wall Street.
Decisions, decisions:
[H]ow deftly the Fed navigates from its present policy matters for the world as well as the United States. If it's too fast, it may kill the economic recovery; if it's too slow, it may spawn bubbles -- and kill the recovery.
One thing is clear: whatever the decision, God's Men will win.
[H]ow deftly the Fed navigates from its present policy matters for the world as well as the United States. If it's too fast, it may kill the economic recovery; if it's too slow, it may spawn bubbles -- and kill the recovery.
One thing is clear: whatever the decision, God's Men will win.
Rupert Murdoch could ban Google access to his newspapers' content
It's official: SLIME is having a senior moment.
It's official: SLIME is having a senior moment.
Dionne: Why Don't Democrats Talk More About the Perils of Too Little Government? »
I don't think we have to worry about that, E. J.
I don't think we have to worry about that, E. J.
Simon is ASTONISHED!!!!! to learn NIKKI!!!!! "ZEIGFIELD" FINKE!!!!! is NOT immortal.
Why do such obvious things come across to hacks as Zeusian thunderbolts?
And I didn't need GAWKER!!!!!, unlike a high-powered CRAINIAC.
Why do such obvious things come across to hacks as Zeusian thunderbolts?
And I didn't need GAWKER!!!!!, unlike a high-powered CRAINIAC.
A playwright -- a playwright -- admits "We've got to get away from the idea that it's good to go to the theatre....It isn't church. There's nothing innately good about it. Most theatre is still really bad." A PLAYWRIGHT!
What is the point of thea-TAH but to spend too much money on tickets, bad meals and valet parking?
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)
What is the point of thea-TAH but to spend too much money on tickets, bad meals and valet parking?
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)
The excuses for the Fort Hood massacre come from the same luxury news suites as this kind of press release, and they show the same raw naked contempt for the public. Never have the hacks been more intent on spinning and selling. Never have they been more intent in treating their audiences as idiots. Unfortunately it appears this NEW MASSACRE RALLY is about to save them. We cannot put enough of these cretins out of work; we must treat them with the same brazen disrespect they treat us.
And THE ONION "reported" on "pre-traumatic-stress syndrome" THREE YEARS AGO.
And THE ONION "reported" on "pre-traumatic-stress syndrome" THREE YEARS AGO.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
"We better not see you on again."
His Omnipotence has been SO busy obsessing over FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News no wonder He won't make up His mind about that non-existent country somewhere east of Iran until the middle of His third term.
His Omnipotence has been SO busy obsessing over FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News no wonder He won't make up His mind about that non-existent country somewhere east of Iran until the middle of His third term.
The more I reflect on this nauseating piece about Goldmine...Government...God's Man...Goldman Sachs the more I wish it were brimming with good old-fashioned public-be-damned types. Indeed the cuter they get about their type-A zillions the more I wish it. There's nothing more despicable than a great malefactor of wealth being jes folks.
When someone like Jim "MURROW!!!!!" Fallow [SIC] says mass shootings have no meaning, he's looking for one that does. This is just an oblique expression of all the excuses liberals have for Muslim violence. We are still not sure whether this was terrorism or the act of an already deranged man who found an excuse, but an awful lot of people like Jim Fallow are willing to excuse it.