Deadwood

I decided to take an un-official look into how bad the language really is on HBO's series called Deadwood. The curse counter tallied 129, or what I considered curses (four words only) in roughly 49 minutes. Trying to count the curses actually made the show more fun to watch, and the episode went by pretty quickly. I jumped over to the PTC website before I realized that they don't rate HBO. I did see that Monk got a yellow rating because it uses foul language (son of a bitch” has been used on many occasions )

New study shows FOX is biased

via AmericaBlog

Big surprise there.

Fox News was the most one-sided of all major outlets....

There are clear differences between Fox versus its cable rivals. Fox News stories contain more sources and reveal more about them than those of its competitors, but its stories are also more one-sided and are more opinionated.

Indeed, Fox journalists offer their own opinion in seven out of ten stories on the news channel, versus less than one in ten stories on CNN and one in four on MSNBC.

via Josh Marshall:

www.stopfakenews.org

On Sunday, March 13th, The New York Times broke a major story outlining how the Bush administration has used millions of dollars of taxpayer money to produce and disseminate fake news programs that support a partisan political agenda.

These government-produced segments have frequently aired on broadcast TV stations across the country without proper disclosure.
Not only is this unacceptable, it is also illegal.

Fill out the form.

We see it all the time in Washington: if Republicans don’t like the rules, they try to change them--like the time House Republicans changed the rules so their beloved Tom DeLay could keep his leadership post should he be indicted in Texas.

Now a state senator in Nevada is trying to change the law to benefit her own wallet. According to the Reno Gazette Journal, Senator Sandra Tiffany "has introduced legislation that would allow her to run an online auction business for surplus government vehicles without obtaining a state permit."

Republican lawmaker, used care saleswoman—it’s hard to trust either one, much less a person who is both.

Is Mansquito the worst horror movie title of all time?

We have other plans for Mansquito as well.

via NY Times Magazine: AARP's Antagonist

Sens. Ben Nelson & Lincoln Chafee appeared on Meet the Press, and discussed Social Security.

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Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Connecticut debated Social Security on Late Edition

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Dodd seems to have a firm grasp on the issue, and exposes the problems that Trent Lott and the Republicans have over Social Security. He easily explains a solution to Social Security without private accounts.

Dodd:...It's dead on arrival...It's not just democrats that you mentioned, there's a lot of republicans who will never vote for this, and that's why this president hasn't even put it on paper yet, will all due respect to a democratic proposal, where's the presidents?

If you just reduced the president's permanency of the tax cuts from over 11 trillion dollars to 9 trillion over the next 75 years, pick up 2.2 trillion dollars, you've solved the solvency problem..

Notice the rhetoric has changed now from the republicans. No mention of "we are in a crisis" and Social Security is going "bankrupt."