Posted 11:54 PM by Gene

Shucks, Reginald Van Gleason III and company are sailing to somewhere off the Somali coast, or thereabouts.

You don't suppose the Navy is following them?

(Via several sites)

Posted 7:43 PM by Gene

God yes of course we remember Nick Charles and Fred Hickman. We watched them a lot; we liked their friendly banter; they were good guys. In those days it was them or SportsCenter. They put up a good fight. We miss such rivalries, and if only something had taken their place.

Posted 6:41 PM by Gene

We'd like to amplify on our tantrum of earlier. That story was page-one worthy. But the hacks went beyond reporting to self-celebration. The scribblers should reserve true news celebrations for extremely rare instances, like our (or as the hacks would say, the United States) winning a big war (God forbid we should have to fight one). There's also nothing wrong with hacks celebrating local sports triumphs, keeping in mind they're profit centers. On the obverse side the hacks should save true mourning for revered public figures (HUGH HEFNER and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DYLAN will NOT COUNT) and especially big civic disasters; when an atrocity like 9-11 comes along the press serves a profound civic duty by uniting us in our grief. Nonetheless we still too well remember the shrieks of disbelief when ST. TIMOTHY OF RUSSERT died, awaiting a Second Coming that hasn't happened yet; the hacks mourned for DAYS, all the while letting us know all too well that not only were they our superiors, but ST. TIM was the superior of superiors, his career beyond mere mortality. The whole orgy smelled of the skunk of the news hack's megalomania, and so did this brief but spectacular orgy, and THAT, more than the outcome, is why we got angry.

Posted 6:31 PM by Gene

Today passing a vegan restaurant on our beloved South Street we saw a poster listing lots of famous vegetarians and vegans. Properly administered a vegetarian diet is healthy, but we couldn't help musing about what a sour old crank Bernard Shaw became late in life. Moreover we suspect the ac-TORS among the famous are doing it in part because they believe animals can think. We've said before we'd guess science will ultimately prove some animals have a conscience. Unfortunately lions and tigers eat meat. Cats and dogs eat meat. Some fish eat other fish. Some birds eat worms and insects. Some insects eat other insects. Short a mass brainwashing of all forms of life it will be difficult to square a vegetarian diet in man with a carnivorous one in other life forms. Pursuing vegetarianism is fine, but it ought to be for good reasons.

Posted 12:06 PM by Gene

More aimless typing from the blather center BloomyBizWeek:

Winnipeg Gets Its Hockey Team Back!!!!!

And someone else lost its.

[T]he Manitoban Renaissance is now complete!!!!!

Buoyed by high commodity prices....

TYPING MORONS.

No mention either that, from what I gather, taxpayers built Winnipeg's hockey arena and get nothing back. By running this bull...hockey BloomyBizWeek reminds us it may have been the first PR outlet to boast of THE DONALD'S GREAT WEALTH, and that it did more than any other flack sheet to insist LEGENDARY WELCH was a HERO. That's why I take such guff personally, and why I only wish more bad for the "news" biz.



A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO HONORARY WINNIPEG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVE DAVE!

Posted 10:51 AM by Gene

Both sides have their favorite lawbreakers. We all know about liberals' love affair with the likes of Bill Ayers, and their silence on Muslim terrorists speaks volumes. Con-SER-va-tives do themselves no favors either by referring to Conrad Black's MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE!!!!! Given how long it's taken to get the guy to serve 42 months in prison suggests he can afford justice. And knowing con-SER-va-tives they're angry that Connie was convicted because he was RICH.

P. S. on 6/26/2011 at 12:58 a. m.

The defense argues Black was a model prisoner, noting that the accomplished biographer — whose subjects have included Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon — helped teach inmates American history and economics; and gladly offered advice about business and other matters to prisoners who constantly approached him.

But prosecutors say the defense paints too rosy a picture of Black's prison life.

One prison employee, Tammy Padgett, claimed in an affidavit filed by prosecutors that Black had arranged for inmates — "acting like servants" — to clean and cook for him, to iron his clothes, mop his floor and perform other chores.

Another employee told her that Black once insisted that she address him as "Lord Black," after an honorary title bestowed on him by Britain, Padgett added.

The defense denied both characterizations.

1. Those characterizations we can believe. 2. They're points in his favor for con-SER-va-tives.

Posted 9:50 AM by Gene

HENRY HONEST!!!!! runs another of his famous intelligence-insulting HOT!!!!! stories on a HOT!!!!! BABE!!!!!, and a reader tells him to chill out:

Modelizer on Jun 24, 4:08 PM said:

As a guy that has dated smoking hot models before, you have to put up with a lot of crap and diva like behavior. They are beautiful and know it, but can be very insecure. I dated one girl that was 110 lbs (5' 10") and she constantly thought she was fat.

Guys hit on them all the time right in front of you. The cab driver hits on her, the waiter, the busboy. It goes on and on. Other girls are jealous of her. ("Oh, she's a bitch!") People look at you and think "how'd he get her?" They are ALWAYS used to getting exactly what they want. It ain't easy.

I've moved on to Broadway singers.

P.S. If you want to date a model, you need to travel in model circles. I worked for a company that hired models for promotions and I just met them all day long. One of them is bound to say, "yeah, sure I'll go out on a date with you." When you work with them you have a lot in common and lots of stuff to talk about.

It's a lot of work to date a girl like this.

Posted 9:14 AM by Gene

And since we've mentioned the budget, and since it is far more important regardless of the deafening cheers of news hacks, let us say neither side has covered itself with glory. The Democrats won't cut anything because of their psychosis that a government program can never be bad; but the Republicans are playing a game of brinkmanship, and their friends in the Wall Street Casino have already shown they can blow up the economy when they want to. Both sides will have to swallow hard. We may not like increased taxes or reduced services but we definitely don't like the Republic collapsing.

One of the few who has shown leadership is Rep. Ryan, and we've meant to discuss his name before, but such leadership speaks for itself. Nonetheless in a nation as mentally and spiritually eviscerated as ours the pandering and posturing of others can drown it out.

Posted 8:48 AM by Gene

As America's luxury news suites are three-inches deep in champagne, let us remember their codes of ethics -- in this case, NPNTR's:

III. Statement of principles

Our coverage must be fair, unbiased, accurate, complete and honest. At NPR we are expected to conduct ourselves in a manner that leaves no question about our independence and fairness. We must treat the people we cover and our audience with respect.

"Fair" means that we present all important views on a subject. This range of views may be encompassed in a single story on a controversial topic, or it may play out over a body of coverage or series of commentaries. But at all times the commitment to presenting all important views must be conscious and affirmative, and it must be timely if it is being accomplished over the course of more than one story. We also assure that every possible effort is made to reach an individual (or a spokesperson for an entity) that is the subject of criticism, unfavorable allegations or other negative assertions in a story in order to allow them to respond to those assertions.

"Unbiased" means that we separate our personal opinions - such as an individual's religious beliefs or political ideology - from the subjects we are covering. We do not approach any coverage with overt or hidden agendas.

"Accurate" means that each day we make rigorous efforts at all levels of the newsgathering and programming process to ensure our facts are not only accurate but also presented in the correct context. We make every possible effort to ensure assertions of fact in commentaries, including facts implied as the basis for an opinion, are correct. We attempt to verify what our sources and the officials we interview tell us when the material involved is argumentative or open to different interpretations. We are skeptical of all facts gathered and report them only when we are reasonably satisfied of their accuracy. We guard against errors of omission that cause a story to misinform our listeners by failing to be complete. We make sure that our language accurately describes the facts and does not imply a fact we have not confirmed, and quotations are both accurate and placed properly in context.

"Honest" means we do not deceive the people or institutions we cover about our identity or intentions, and we do not deceive our listeners. We do not deceive our listeners by presenting the work of others as our own (plagiarism), by cutting interviews in ways that distort their meaning, or by manipulating audio in a way that distorts its meaning, how it was obtained or when it was obtained. The same applies to text and photographs or other visual material used on NPR Online. Honesty also means owning up publicly and quickly to mistakes we make on air or online.

"Respect" means treating the people we cover and our audience with respect by approaching subjects in an open-minded, sensitive and civil way and by recognizing the diversity of the country and world on which we report, and the diversity of interests, attitudes and experiences of our audience.

Or The Paper of Re-CORD's, which will seem especially mirthful on a day like this:

15. The Times treats its readers as fairly and openly as possible. In print and online, we tell our readers the complete, unvarnished truth as best we can learn it. It is our policy to correct our errors, large and small, as soon as we become aware of them.

16. We treat our readers no less fairly in private than in public. Anyone who deals with readers is expected to honor that principle, knowing that ultimately the readers are our employers. Civility applies whether an exchange takes place in person, by telephone, by letter or online. Simple courtesy suggests that we not alienate our readers by ignoring their letters and e-mails that warrant reply.

Always remember that ethics codes are nothing but self-serving whitewashes for bad behavior. Witness Congress. And especially in their "implementation" always remember the words Mary McCarthy applied to Lillian Hellman apply to them: their every word is a lie, including "and" and "the".

We thunder over this because news hacks live for the days they can pull one over on their inferiors -- just as they did appointing our current "president"; and they are hardly disinterested bystanders here, rendering their PR even more florid. Thankfully the "news" biz' recent history shows that in practical terms its enemies have gained a huge measure of revenge, and they must not stop seeking it. (We would note too that Yahoo!, America's most densely CW news source and Huff 'n' Puff's archrival in the panem et circenses trade, has put the budget atop its list of top stories on its home page [though not the ones with the visuals and not on the News page], meaning perhaps some algorithm somewhere recognizes the hacks can go too far.)

Posted 9:01 PM by Gene

The Wall Street Journals Con-SER-va-tive Edition thinks Ben was WRONG?!?!?

Oh, maybe it's because he's "liberal", or something.

(Via NRO)

Posted 7:43 PM by Gene

MORE great originality from Branson East: A HONEYMOONERS MUSICAL!

This forgets the all-black movie-version bomb -- and the fact that Jackie Gleason did musical versions himself, which, like this, were unnecessary, but which, unlike this, had no chance to be smash hits with blue-rinsers and expense-account freaks.

It also forgets you CAN'T revive THE GREATEST, ART CARNEY, AUDREY MEADOWS AND JOYCE RANDOLPH.

(Via All That Chat)

Posted 7:24 PM by Gene

ROMY has launched into an irrelevant debate over whether newspapers should have opinions. Both sides miss the point (and we suspect with some of the debaters it may be intentional): the best opinions are those that work their way into news copy through the weasel word, the sly attribution, the crafty omission, the nifty last graf -- and they're better still if they express the same opinions. Newspapers will give us their mostly unwanted opinions long after the last pundit would be fired, which will be never.

Posted 5:13 PM by Gene

With his tousled dark-brown hair, a cheap cigar wedged between his fingers and his lived-in tan raincoat, the endearingly likable lieutenant was as unprepossessing as the faded old Peugeot he drove.

Indeed, when Columbo brought up the subject of men's clothing and male vanity in one early episode, guest star Suzanne Pleshette, as the segment title's "Witness to a Murder," pointedly looked at the disheveled detective and remarked: "Some men, Lieutenant, do not want to look like an unmade bed."

The show often made light of Columbo's lack of fashion sense. Taking note of the detective's tatty attire, a suspect once asked him, "Are you undercover?" Replied Columbo, "No, underpaid."

In another episode, a nun at a soup kitchen where Columbo was interviewing a witness took one look at his worn raincoat, mistook him as a vagrant and insisted on finding him a better coat in the shelter's used-clothing collection.

Columbo: "Y'know, I appreciate what you're doin', I really do, but I've had this coat for seven years."

Peter Falk, like his character, is now up there with the immortals.

Posted 2:22 PM by Gene

When I saw this from Ben Shapiro I thought, uh, oh, con-SER-va-tive movees. Thankfully he doesn't seem to like very much.

Posted 11:00 AM by Gene

Bernanke Public Approval Falls to Lowest Level

Don't tell me HE's running for president!

Why does He have to when He runs the Wall Street Casino?

Posted 10:42 AM by Gene

Speaking of not-so-funny, the arrest of a former university president for being buddies with that jolly electronic professor-pimp makes you wonder how far the rot has set in on our life. I'd say very deeply but then I'm not one of those making excuses for us.

Posted 10:40 AM by Gene

I think the LulzSec caper is on the verge of turning not-so-funny.

Posted 7:50 PM by Gene

In an outrage the AHT world is no doubt bansheeing as the greatest act of CENSORSHIP!!!!! since -- since -- since Robert Mapplethorpe got bullwhipped, The Brooklyn Museum has buckled under to CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE NAZIS and will NOT franchise that MASTERPIECE graffiti -- pardon, AHT exhibit in LA. Never mind if the NAZIS include New York's Daily News and a member of the City Council, no, this is INTOLERANCE, INTOLERANCE of AHT, and must be fought with every SCREAM and every FOOT STOMPING TANTRUM in the AHTISTS' arsenal! Maybe they should GRAFFITI the NEWS! Or the Councilman's office! Or...

Or maybe they should shut up, because in addition to being intolerant effete snobs such AHTISTS condone criminal acts and the violent gangs that often commit them.

And count on The Church on Eighth Avenue to spread the good word. This fight may not be over.

Posted 10:11 AM by Gene

Hey hacks, before you hug yourselves because WOODSTER THE PERV's latest is a HIT!!!!!, remember, it's a hit in relative terms only, and far more people don't want to see his movies, and just because he can work Wittgenstein into his scripts doesn't mean they're ADULT. How could they be when he STILL harbors delusions he can be a romantic lead? Pfooey!

Posted 9:45 AM by Gene

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW:

Poor financial decisions with a Chicago futures brokerage firm lost an alleged al-Qaida operative with links to Osama bin Laden some $20 million dollars in just eight months, according to a lawsuit filed recently in Chicago by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Federal officials said Abu al Tayyeb, through an associate, deposited nearly $27 million — earned from a "Saudi Arabian-based investment scheme" — into an account with Chicago-based R.J. O'Brien & Associates in 2005. But because of a "poor trading position adopted" by the associate, the money dropped below $7 million less than a year later.

Boo-hoo!

Posted 9:41 AM by Gene

Slowly, very slowly, extreeeeeemely slowly, common sense has finally invaded the TSA.

Posted 9:28 AM by Gene

The Washington Post's Jason Horowitz wrote about the Rasmussen Reports founder last June:

A co-founder of the sports network ESPN and former play-by-play broadcaster, Scott Rasmussen is an articulate and frequent guest on Fox News and other outlets, where his nominally nonpartisan data is often cited to support Republican talking points. In October, he hired his own communications director to handle the daily deluge of press calls.

Yes, we know about Ras's slant, but ROMY, you took six hours yesterday to post on that illegal-immigrant story because it didn't fit your template. You're in no position to make underhanded asides about peoples' politics. What's more, DIMWIT, you confirm the hed of YOUR story: "Survey: Voters think most reporters are liberal, try to help candidates they favor". SHUT UP, ROMY.

Posted 9:12 AM by Gene

We're all weary after eight years of war, but His Incompetence has abdicated His foreign-policy role. When a CW outfit like The Econowiz comes out from the starting gate blasting His precipitate withdrawal of the surge forces from Afghanistan we are yet again reminded He does not know what He's doing on international matters, nor, apart from appeasing His base, does He care.

Posted 8:39 AM by Gene

Oh oh, NOW they've done it: LulzSec's attacked SLIME!

Posted 8:36 AM by Gene

The maker of Bejeweled -- you've no doubt played that game -- a company with maybe $150 million in revenues, is supposedly selling out for $1 BILLION!!!!!

Another tip of the BENNY to BEN!

(Via DVFORBESLIESTBLOG)

Posted 8:30 AM by Gene

I have tried all the combinations suggested. The problem is still there.

Where is the code that is checking URLs and reporting a failure?

Or, help please!

Isn't it annoying when you can't delete old posts? Pfffffffffffffffffffffft!!!!!

Posted 8:27 AM by Gene

“Men in Black III” has been a slog from the start; Production was broken into two shooting segments and filmed in two separate calendar years (starting in November of last year) to take advantage of tax rebates in Manhattan. The unorthodox schedule was also meant to allow for work on the script.

It certainly didn't make the film less expensive.

A reliable individual told TheWrap that the movie will net out at a cost of about $215 million, after allowing for all the tax rebates. That’s nearly twice the cost of "Men in Black II."

Sony would not confirm the budget figure.

The tax breaks -- New York rebates 30 percent of production costs incurred in the state -- are vital for the film. Producers needed to start shooting in 2010 in order to qualify.

TRANSLATION: GUVMENT has found another boondoggle to finance!

Posted 5:38 PM by Gene

FINALLY -- SIX HOURS AFTER VULTURE!

Posted 3:20 PM by Gene

Romy's italicized everything but still no word on that illegal.

If ED MURROW had announced some PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST needed PSYCHIATRIC HELP....

Posted 2:59 PM by Gene

"Jackass" star Ryan Dunn had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit for drivers when he and a passenger died in a fiery one-car crash this week, according to a toxicology report.

The report said Dunn's blood-alcohol level was 0.196 at the time of the crash early Monday morning. The legal limit for drivers in the state is .08.

The report was released Wednesday by West Goshen Township Police.

Sorry, THUMBS® was RIGHT.

Posted 2:48 PM by Gene

At his press conference, Bernanke gives himself a pat on the back, pointing out payroll growth in the months since his Jackson Hole QEII speech is more than double that of the months prior.

And 9.1 percent of America's potential work force gives you a STANDING O!

Posted 1:39 PM by Gene

Sen. Harry Reid's top aide received $1.2 million from Comcast Corp. after he began working for the Senate majority leader, joining a long list of congressional staffers who have collected money from past employers after starting on Capitol Hill.

"COMCAST DID NOT KNOW THAT DAVID KRONE WAS GOING TO HARRY REID'S OFFICE OR TO ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT OR REGULATORY AGENCY!!!!!" when his separation agreement was negotiated, according to company spokesman John Demming. [Plausibly deniable overemphasis added]

Sure Bud, that's what they all say.

Some people familiar with the matter say the company wanted to make sure that he didn't harbor any ill will after leaving, given his connections. As a heavily regulated cable and media company, Comcast has a lot at stake in Washington.

I think John...fudged the truth, to put it mildly.

(Via Politico)

Posted 1:09 PM by Gene

The world's millionaires continued to recover in 2010 from the recent financial meltdown, with their population and assets climbing back past the 2007 pre-crisis peak.

THANKS AGAIN, BEN!

But the group remains cautious: at the end of 2010, high-net-worth individuals globally still held a significant amount of their assets in more conservative instruments such as fixed-income and cash and equivalents....

Even they don't trust him?

Posted 12:09 PM by Gene

Proof ROMY hears only what he wants to: VULTURE's run a blurb on a piece by a P-Ulitzer winner admitting he's an illegal immigrant -- and Romy hasn't said a THING (but he did run a nice squib about Poetry magazine as it must be a daydream).

Posted 9:58 AM by Gene

From USAOKAY!!!!!, surprise number two:

NCAA drug testing shows increase in pot use

How would it not with all those tattoos?

Posted 9:56 AM by Gene

From USAOKAY!!!!!, surprise number one:

Taliban behind most Afghan civilian deaths

That would seem their strong suit.

The coalition's figures on responsibility for civilian deaths approximate an earlier independent estimate by the United Nations. A U.N. report blamed the Taliban for 75% of 2,777 deaths and 78% of 4,343 injuries in 2010.

Yes, they're very good at that.

Posted 9:47 AM by Gene

And while Hillary gets on bended knee pleading with the makers of our luscious petroleum repast to please, pretty please, let women drive, the Arab tyrants conduct business as usual.

Posted 9:39 AM by Gene

"[W]hen something goes he wrong [SIC], he punts to ‘I’m a comedian.’”

Someone lets ED MURROW justly have it, though the someone be with FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS.

(Via, oh well, NRO. We don't know how that "he" worked in there because it doesn't appear in other sites.)

P. S. at 11:55 a. m. Apparently the whaaaaaaaambulance is shrieking that PILLHEAD calls Himself an "entertainer" -- but from our experience it's His enemies who call Him that (usually as a code phrase for AIRHEAD NAZI), and besides, we hold PILLHEAD and ED MURROW in EQUALLY low regard.

Posted 9:33 AM by Gene

We are very sorry to learn Glen Campbell has Alzheimer's. We were about to say at that age? but he is 75. (Shows you what we know.) We will hear such stories more often until that distant day beyond most of our lifetimes when people can hear them less often.

Posted 9:19 AM by Gene

Rushrushrush, scribblescribblescribble, passpasspass....

Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid

SPENDSPENDSPEND!

What else don't we know about?

Posted 8:29 AM by Gene

Saturn, Pontiac owners reject GM

Who can blame them?

Posted 8:20 AM by Gene

Fed Frets Over U.S. Fiscal Recklessness

THE POT....

With “stock prices (a favorite of Bernanke as rising prices induce the wealth effect) under pressure and commodities hav[ing] sold off,” Bernanke’s more dovish policy approach could spark a “Jackson Hole Moment Part 2.”

Forced to uphold the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and full employment, Bernanke will have to balance the risks of acting and not acting in the current environment. Specifically regarding the dual mandate, unemployment has ticked up to 9.1% and it’s all but confirmed that growth projections will be lowered. Fate could be twisted the bearded academic’s hand this time: “there is the possibility that Bernanke has a Jackson Hole Moment: Part 2 and conveys a more dovish policy approach relative to April, basically signaling ever so coyly additional bond purchases.” [Emphasis added]

THE POT....

Posted 11:24 PM by Gene

TWO from ESPNCORP NETWORK NEWS:

1. With each passing day NEWT grows hoitier and toitier.

2. This program of spending millions photographing billboards was so embarrassing even Ray LaHood had to stop it.

Posted 7:18 PM by Gene

Greece's embattled government survived a confidence vote on Wednesday that was crucial to avoiding a sovereign default, as thousands of protesters chanted insults outside parliament.

GOD'S SERVANTS ARE SAFE! DOW 80 BILLION TRILLION ZILLION QUADRAQUINTILLION!!!!!

Posted 5:44 PM by Gene

They wouldn't be that desperate for publicity, would they?

Posted 2:54 PM by Gene

"We have made clear our views that women everywhere, including women in the kingdom, have the right to make decisions about their lives and their futures," Clinton said. "They have the right to contribute to society and provide for their children and their families. ... Mobility, such as provided by the freedom to drive, provides access to economic opportunity, including jobs."

What did we have to do in exchange?

Posted 2:46 PM by Gene

And now sing after me: It's a GEKKO KUDLOW KIND OF A DAY....

Meaning THE RICH GET RICHER....

Posted 2:41 PM by Gene

JPMorgan to pay $153.6M to settle civil fraud charges over complex mortgage investments

Eh, just another cost of doing BU$INE$$.

Posted 2:28 PM by Gene

The bad news:

Gannett laying off 700 more workers amid ad slump

The worse news: they're likely printers, delivery people, support staff -- not THE GANG OF 27 and NOT EIGHT-DIGIT KEYBOARD THROWERS.

The worst news: The Wall Street Casino's celebrating!

Do you think The Daily Kaplan will report on this one?

(Via Finviz)

Posted 1:43 PM by Gene

As too much of the world knows too much by now ED MURROW has pointed with pride at Himself over how "smart" He and His BLANKETY-BLANK VIEWERS are. This latest excuse for partisan screaming (we thought Rep. Giffords BANNED IT) begs the point: The question isn't how much you know about current affairs -- any serious Web denizen should know a lot, and there's no excuse in its presence for ignorance -- but how you use the knowledge; and we wouldn't be any more sanguine in ED's eggheady presence than in the REV. DR. BECK's, or any of the other TV loudmouths.

Lest we forget ED and FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS are "entertainment" -- and little more.

Posted 1:33 PM by Gene

We were reluctant to read this at first as TheAtlantic.com has striven to be as in with the show-biz in-crowd as Grate.com, but it sounds just about right: "Noir" TV is CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED TV, and thus needn't concern itself with pleasing an audience; all it need please are the producers and their navels. The more it meanders the more pleasing it gets to no one but them.

Posted 12:05 PM by Gene

Say! Jon's launching a new hotel chain!

Hey Jon, why didn't you get the folks who designed the O?

Posted 11:52 AM by Gene

Incompetents on 9/11, incompetents today.

(Ironically we found this because HENRY HONEST!!!!! linked to the Herald's copy of the Bergen Record's story of a prof who ran a prostitution ring, making it official: HENRY HONEST!!!!! is a timewaster.)

Posted 10:43 AM by Gene

If his name's New Tiger he sure has the same old ratings.

Posted 10:38 AM by Gene

GUVMENT's mandating GROSS!!!!! pictures on cigarette packs so it can say, "See? We NEED government!" We'd guess in time GROSS!!!!! will be as readily ignored by smokers as the warnings, and we would not be surprised if the coffin-nail makers win in court -- especially a con-SERRRR-va-tive court. That does not make their products any less detestable.

Also, why is it necessary to upset little kids to make this point? GROSS!!!!! will hit them the hardest -- and it won't stop peer pressure from getting them to smoke. It also makes it ever less likely we can drive crud from TV and the movees.

(Second link posted 10:53 p. m.)

Posted 9:38 AM by Gene

The Lord God Steve was so SURE His Holy Devices could never ever EVER be tampered with He forbade His tech-support peons to talk about it!

PRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAISE THE LORD!

Posted 9:29 AM by Gene

So Microsoft and BBDO get together to tell CEOs what they already know: for Hollywood schmoozing, you can't beat television.

We can be sure at both outfits there is endless talk about thinking outside the box. This is especially laughable as the Bugmeisters built theirs of reinforced concrete.

(Via I Want Media)

Posted 8:55 AM by Gene

Shucks, it appears Reginald Van Gleason III has been arrested.

P. S. at 11:40 a. m. Evidently -- not yet. REGINALD VAN GLEASON III LIVES! Pfffffffffffffffft!

(First link via DVFORBESLISTBLOG! Second link via NEWSER!)

Posted 7:45 PM by Gene

You don't suppose Corporate America may be preparing to redefine treason again, do you?

(Via NEWSER!)

Posted 7:41 PM by Gene

A straw poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research showed that 80 percent either approve or strongly approve of the president more than a year before voters head to the polls to decide whether he deserves a second term.

Did the show-biz and media trade unions just have a big pow-wow?

(Via WeeklyStandard.com)

Posted 7:22 PM by Gene

Now we know this Nine Fingers ruling for Walmart must be bad: GEKKO KUDLOW ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTS IT.

Hey GEKKO! Isn't it time for some more porridge for GOLDILOCKS!!!!!?

IT RALLIED STOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Rallying overemphasis added)

Wall Street ends higher, but weak volume a warning sign

This is a rally?

Posted 7:15 PM by Gene

We're sure why The Paper of Re-CORD ran this -- a writer swiped a CONSERVATIVE. Unfortunately this isn't any ordinary religious hack. In his relative favor he isn't even religious. Christopher slammed Mr. F-Word's book because, as we'd have half-suspected, he speaks in platitudes. Perhaps devoting his life to the love and feeding of the F-word has starved all the other words in his vocabulary. There's no better explanation why someone can say FDR "DISMANTLED THE FREE MARKET, AND SO, THE ECONOMY!!!!!" (dismantling overemphasis added) without giggling.

Posted 6:52 PM by Gene

The death of this...JACKASS and the CONCAST NETWORK PLEDGE CONTROVERSY are related -- VERY related. If THUMBS's tweet is typical there is enormous resentment over the man -- a no-talent wastrel who made millions thanks to SUMNER, and died a drunk driver, taking another's life with him. This scum is lucky he didn't take more, as drunk drivers do; had he and there'd have been no checking the anger. Such anger, we further state, is an expression of the anger over an industry that refuses to do better and makes huge profits from above-the-law CEOs.

As for the PLEDGE -- we would like to believe it was unintentional. But any business so completely in advertising does NOT do things unintentionally. And we know the superliberals who abound in it, and made His Incompetence our king. This is precisely the sort of thing Attorney General and Chief Social Engineer Effete Q. Snob might have done. One of the superliberals may have tried to make a statement. If so, he should have his head handed to him on a very royal platter.

And here's where these two stories are related -- the scum worked for CONCAST.

P. S. We know, WE KNOW, "under God" was added in 1954, but it STILL reeks.

Posted 7:52 PM by Gene

Who was more important: Andrei Sakharov's widow Elena Bonner, a courageous human rights fighter (423 Google News links) or THIS SIDEMAN FOR THE BOSS!!!!!!!!!!! (2347 LINKS!!!!!)?

Posted 7:43 PM by Gene

Eight strokes zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....

That's great of course but does calling him another Tiger because the game's falling apart really make him so?

Posted 7:20 PM by Gene

We imagine tomorrow PILLHEAD will be in a rage because of THIS SOCIALIST ATTACK ON FREE ENTERPRISE blahblahblah.... But if those of us appalled by this story have reason for hope it's Dean Foods's stock price the last four years. What say to that, PILLHEAD?

P. S. In this lunkhead CEO's defense his company has grown tremendously through acquisitions, "from $150 million in 1994 to $12 billion in 2010", something our intrepid reporter mentions in passing in the 46TH GRAF:

[The company] was on the Fortune 500 by the late ’70s and remains there today. It grew then and more recently through acquisition.

This is the mark of sloppy writing and indifferent editing. It is also a variant of what The Paper of Re-CORD did to the RICHLY deserving GE BANCORP by failing to note the mitigating factors in its finance unit. That said Dean Foods could have saved itself lots of grief by letting its CEO talk and not treating news hacks as trespassers. This is PR at its worst -- pardon, by the biz' standards, BEST.

And too many CEOs are still greedy SOBs, and too many con-SER-va-tives are still ready to excuse them solely for making money.

Posted 6:25 PM by Gene

Is raising the debt ceiling about to become a game of kick the can?

Posted 5:51 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:

1. Lord Springer and SUMNER have fashioned a real cosmetics firm from a fictional one on a soap opera.

This looks like a job for LULZSEC! (Sorry.)

2. Raise your hands: How many people believe changing widgets at the high administrative end of a consumer products firm can help sales? Somebody? ANYbody??

INDRA!!!

3. Kids Flock to Social Nets, but Few Advertisers Dare to Follow

Kellogg, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, PEPSICO, Mattel, Hasbro, Mickey Starbucks -- gee, I can't imagine ANY reasons WHY!

It's not just kids' understanding of advertising that's a lightning rod of controversy for social networks, which mainly rely on virtual and real goods and subscription business models. It's the public perception of how advertising affects kids. Besides law enforcement and the government watching over anyone working with kids online, pediatricians are getting in on the act. A March report by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests doctors ask kids how much time they spend online and warn parents and children about social media including kids' obsession with popularity and status, sleep deprivation, social anxiety, depression, bullying -- and interactions with advertising.

Here's someone who could advertise to kids on Facebook: PFIZER!

Posted 4:49 PM by Gene

One of the fiercest tools in the news hack's arsenal is the anecdotal report. The hack can take an anecdote or several and create a trend. Whether or not the trend exists is irrelevant. Anecdotal reporting cements the hack as the final arbiter, not to be overruled even by an act of God; as we've said too often before, news hacks are Gods. Some people -- think MORT ZUCK and the clowns at the DAILY MAIL...and also at The Paper of Re-CORD -- are addicted to anecdotal reporting, usually on prurient topics. We take little comfort that news outlets most prone to anecdotal reporting may also be most prone to outright lying.

Posted 1:18 PM by Gene

Look at that fellow, suitably meekly in the lower left-hand corner. Does he not look like a rising executive at PEOPLE INC., or maybe a budding vice-president for Mr. Bewkes? No, he's the star of a sickly green comic book movee that landed with a $52.6 million thud. Now if $52.6 million deposited itself in our lap we would not reject it, but considering PEOPLE WARNER's marketing budget for this splat aspired to equal Moon 'n' Stars' for the year we'd say they didn't get very much for their green. Heck when Mogul's Friend of all people likens the pic to KING JAMES THE NOTHINGTH you KNOW it BOMBED.

Posted 1:00 PM by Gene

ED MURROW DOES A BOMBING RAID OVER ENEMY TERRITORY!

We've said it before, we'll say it again: The people who watch FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS get the guff they want to hear, and thus with the people who watch ED MURROW. Let us never again say either organ pursues the truth.

Posted 10:33 AM by Gene

From what little we know of him Jon Huntsman strikes us as a technocrat and a plastic man (no pun intended) at best, an empty suit and a professional campaigner at worst. Why do we want a man whose chief interest seems to be creating jobs in China -- and who stands for nothing else?

Plus, surprise, he has ethics problems, as if a Republican friend of The Lord would not.

News hacks think the guy's a good "Republican"?