Mike's Blog Roundup
The Center For Public Integrity: For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially "alarming information" as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
TomDispatch: Laura Flanders suggests we take a breath and consider where change is really coming from and whether it will ever actually arrive.
Shapely Prose: Body hatred: not just for fat chicks anymore
Jeff Frankels Weblog: Fiscal Stimulus: What do Ronald Reagan and Joseph Stalin have in common? (h/t Make Them Accountable)
Working Life: Ho-Hum, another Bush hack casts an ugly shadow
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Don't answer that...How Big Media Hides the Real Economic News...How about a candidate debate on science?...It's the stupidity, stupid...New owner of the Tribune Company, Sam Zell, says 'F*ck You' to his journalist, but he's a bit more enlightened on other subjects...Fox terrorizes its audience with a non-terror story...Sure, the NYT reviewed a vacuous, Internet-bashing book, twice, but they also cater to people's ignorance...Why do Peggy Noonan, George Will, and David Brooks favor Obama?...Swallow...A film depicting actual Bush administration activities is considered too "controversial" by the Discovery Channel...One way of telling what you're reading isn't government or corporate propaganda...Hannity Meltdown
So Did He Snort Or Not?
Heh heh heh, Annals. Heh, heh heh.
What Siegel really should have written about is the strange and disabling effect (perhaps it would make a good History Channel segment) the internet has on the Irony Lobe of some web bloggers. One could not possibly read that review in the Times as anything other than dismissive of the shows and the hokey pseudo science behind them ...
Well, I say no one, but apparently someone could read and misinterpret it. And as it was a whack at the dread MSM, this silly reading gets recycled by youse.
Take a look at this concluding paragraph of that review and see if it fits the purported framework:
"Mr. Birnes and his colleagues add to the campy feel of the series by not being very good actors, trying in vain to make the discoveries that they no doubt researched ahead of time appear spontaneous on camera. Their awkwardness is good. It gives the show license to indulge in all sorts of spurious revelations and disingenuous teasers, and it relieves the audience of the responsibility of taking any of it seriously."
Actor - just read your post on your blog. The problem is posting a comment to your thread. Not an easy thing to do.
Hows your savings holding up?
The U.S. Government’s total downstream liabilities and unfunded commitments (including Medicare, Social Security, Public Debt, Pensions, etc.) have now exceeded $53 trillion dollars (according to David Walker, the U.S. Comptroller General and Head of the Government Accountability Office). $53 trillion translates into a de facto debt of $455,000 for every American household.
L.A. Confidential @ 5:
Hell no we won't pay!
It used to be Hell no we won't go when the VN draft and war was sucking our souls dry.
What did we get for our own use with a $455,000 debt? I don't own my home. I have already paid for my 2 vehicles.
L.A. Confidential @ 5:
To show an actual truth about debt you have to use the accountants method of balancing debt with assets. Whatcha got that's worth anything? Hey I know, if the US is in that much financial trouble, why not do like GM and throw some of those tanks and artillery on Ebay!!!!!!
Ron @ 7:
You got a stellar government in which, just like my nation, you are allowed to change the figurehead leaders every 4 years, while the REAL government (civil service) continues doing whatever they want because they really answer to nobody. I know civil servants, and they laugh at their job security, because unless they go postal and make the MSM headlines, they have their job for as long as they want it.
ConcernedCanuck @ 9:
They still aren't getting their money's worth. They are getting screwed and just don't know it. Soon their jobs will be sold to a private company and they will be fired too.
Ron @ 7:
Your not alone. I'm planning on the money that was promised won't be there when I need it. That way the shock of realizing they are only going to give out 30% (take it or leave it) won't flatten my psyche.
Bastards
From the "Hannity Meltdown" article:
Amazingly idiotic analysis. Yea, it's only the fringe left that would oppose a man who campaigns for the other party.
Ron @ 10:
My suspicion is taxes will have to be raised so high to make up for the Bush years everyone is going to have to go back to work or take on second jobs just to "get buy" or maintain what they have.
The end of leisure.
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
The end of comfort and certainty.
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
I think you are right. I think every nation that has lived like this is in for a shock. No more Whoppers or Big Macs on a continual basis. World trade agreements have changed the world for a long time to come, and add into that the Bush freespending economy and ouch. We're all in for a shocker.
The Discovery Channel backing out of showing a Oscar-nominated, important documentary such as Taxi to the Dark Side is both sadly unsurprising and utterly shameful.
Thanks for the linky love, Mike honey. The f-bomb is probably overused in the blogosphere, but it's always worth some thoughtful analysis. xo
http://seaton-newslinks.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-do-peggy-noonan-george-...
That's exactly what I've been saying.
IF no one is questioning why all the conservatives are rooting for Obama, and the same media that's given Bush cover the past 7 years is hyping Obama...There's something wrong there...
Comments are closed on this entry