Mike's Blog Roundup
Beggars Can Be Choosers: $10 billion Pentagon program fails to defeat IED threat in Iraq
Immigration Prof Blog: Business is fighting tough measures on immigration. Who didn't see this coming?
Ice Station Tango: If Karl Rove isn't in prison by then, he and John Edwards will have a debate at the University of Buffalo on on September 26.
The KC Blue Blog: Looks like the ol' Southern Strategy is alive and well in Missouri
Calculated Risk: More trouble in bank paradise
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The Media brought me donuts...A sterling example of why Mr. Sheri Annis is such an important 4th Estate Lawn Jockey...ABC: Agent Backs Cheney...Fighting the shock-jocks...The Atlantic Monthly continues to decline...Journalism without journalists...The ubiquity of inanity...At Last! A good, issue-driven Health Care Story...And NPR did one, too!...Taken for a ride in Miami...Fox moves from eccentric to weird...This explains a lot...CBS aired a portion of Floyd Brown's attack ad, failed to report Obama is not a Muslim...
Merriam-Webster has added 100 new words.
None of them obscene (s**t!!!)
One of them is wingnut.
They define as someone who takes extreme views, a radical
But no mention of conservatism.
Bugliosi's book " The Prosecution Of GWB for Murder" has sold 130,000 copies even though MSM has virtually blacklisted it. A documentary based on the book is almost finished. It was financed in Canada because no one in this country would support it. Are we a country of wusses?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008035063_bugliosi070.html
"Are we a country of wusses?"
Well duh, look at the sterling examples we have in congress!
Comrade Rou @ 2:
The Bug was great on democracynow.org a few weeks back ...
He stated since he is the highest profile Prosecutor in the country, it's proof of a blacklist that he has never been on any CorporateMedia program ...
....for this book ..
Rove? Thats one little piggy thats never going to prison ...
earl @ 4:
Yeah, caught that one along with his interviews online. Looks like we might be having a Michael Moore moment. The book is making money and the MSM can't ignore it. IMO this is big..
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1226275217
Love to see Karl miss that debate date, wearing cuffs.
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization... "has relied excessively on technology."
and it isn't working? whaaaa? this is sh-sh-shocking!
sad and pathetic. and the victims are our soldiers/marines/etc... nice.
maybe, just maybe, the "leaders" will get a friggin clue someday. how many more people will die before that happens though?
Ruth @ 8:
"I bought my 'cuffs'...did you say debate? ...I thought you said date? ..."
----Karl
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It's clear that the U.S. military's $10 billion program to defeat the IED threat isn't working. The program (officially called the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization) was launched by the Pentagon in 2005 to foil IED attacks.
and the grieving father of a son killed by an i.e.d. has devised one that works for a fraction of the cost. imagine that:
At 275 pounds and about 4 feet long, Black-I's LandShark looks like a dune buggy without a seat for a human driver. Hart hopes to make them available for commercial sale to law enforcement next year, with expectations that the cost would be $65,000 to $85,000 per robot, including the chassis and add-on bomb-disposing equipment.
The vehicle can pull tilling equipment to plow up soil where an explosive or trip wire may be hidden. Or it can drop off "disrupters" that can be maneuvered near a bomb and set off, with jets of water disabling the bomb.
Hart contends LandSharks will be far less expensive than many of the Pentagon's current bomb-disposing robots, including models made by two larger Boston-area companies, iRobot Inc. and Foster-Miller Inc. Those models have more sophisticated electronics, but also are more fragile than LandSharks, which use car batteries rather than lighter and pricier lithium-ion batteries.
"We want to make robots affordable, so that a private first class or a lance corporal could get this equipment," Hart said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/06/tech/main4235307.shtml
ysbaddaden @ 1:
Did they add "Shillary Cultist"?
the last add on was obamalusionists!
swampfox @ 14:
Looks like a case of Baracknophobia
If Mike's Blog Round-Up has Annals of Journalism
Does the MSM have Round-ups of Anals of Journalism?
ysbaddaden @ 16:
Yes, and they report daily on the things going on in the Offal Orifice.
♠Bangkok Bob♥ @ 17:
By the way, nice to see you again ysb.
13 Dr. Hussein Matt
Oh brilliant...clap...clap...clap
Like that is so going to convince me to vote for Obama.
18 ♠Bangkok Bob♥
I'm on vacation this week so only have my dial-up, and get shut-out a lot.
However I've finally gotten back to my horror novel. I retyped the first three chapters, unfortuantely it has around 32.
I started it in 1992 finished the initial version in 1995, and haven't touched it sense.
Some of it's original elements are no longer so original.
I even have people in phone booths, remember them?
And since I started conceptualizing the story in 1982 that means it's been in development for 26 years.
Can't make a living that way.
I heard the NPR piece on Germany's healthcare system.
The doctor's it was said, as I recall, are making 1/3 of what they did previously yet they are still the highest paid professionals.
Were we to do a similar system the entrenched elite would be crying bloody murder. They could make 1/3 of what they do now and still be at the pinnacle.
Could it happen here? I'm not optimistic, our Congress is too easily bought and paid for. Greed is fundamental to human nature, or so it seems in this country.
Witness FISA.
Rove in cuffs?
Ivory cuff links maybe.
Alice X (Chomsky Nader) @ 21:
Fact is a single payer system would be more efficient. Our current system is simply an exploitation of the middle class and the poor by the greedy ruling class.
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/4/24/amy_gooodmans_new_column_the_...
"Merriam-Webster has added 100 new words."
...and impeach has been removed.
Howard Kurtz typically supplies the conservative blog roundup, but in the past few weeks he's really gone after Obama. There's been at least one item he's writen per column worthy of strong criticism.
RE: IED threat: I get the impression the Pentagon doesn't know what the word improvised means.
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