Month: March 2009

Law/Justice

44 years ago today

On March 25, 1965, the third march from Selma to Montgomery ended triumphantly as 25,000 marchers arrived at the State Capitol building in Montgomery. That moment marked the largest gathering to date of civil rights demonstrators in the south, and the culmination of thevoting rights movement. March leaders delivered a petition for Alabama Governor George Wallace: We have come not only five days and 50 miles, but we have come from three centuries of suffering and hardship. We have come to you, the Governor of Alabama, to declare that we must have our freedom NOW. We must have the right … Continue reading 44 years ago today

So Called Liberal Media2 Comments

Journalism Ethics Panel

Bloggers have undone us all: As of the beginning of last week, The Post had a backlog of hundreds of correction requests, a few dating to 2004. In many cases, readers never heard whether The Post had rejected their request, or why. For them, it was like sending a correction request into a black hole. The newspaper’s process for handling correction requests has not worked properly. In some instances, reporters were never even notified that readers had requested corrections to their stories. There is little statistical analysis to spot trends in errors or to detect reporters (or editors) with high … Continue reading Journalism Ethics Panel

Faith6 Comments

How Dare You, Sir? I Say, How Dare You?!11!OMG!!!BBQ!

Oh, God, now they’re going after Notre Dame. Release the flying monkeys! PERFIDY! The word “perfidy” derives from the Latin “perfidus,” that is, “faithless” or “detrimental to faith”; it is also synonymous with “treachery,” or “violation of allegiance or trust.” The University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Obama as its commencement speaker in May is perfidious and treacherous in the extreme. A. Continue reading How Dare You, Sir? I Say, How Dare You?!11!OMG!!!BBQ!

So Called Liberal Media8 Comments

Department of GIRL NO

Not a wartime correspondent: Bachmann then began to talk about her role as Representative at the nation’s Capitol. Explaining the resources available at her U.S. House website which enable her to communicate what is happening in D.C. to the public, such as her Bachmann Bulletin, Bachmann Blog, and links to her Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace pages, the Congresswoman said, “I’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.” Let me be blunt here. I know, because I usually beat around the … Continue reading Department of GIRL NO

Economy3 Comments

Paying It Back

Some of the bonus money being returned: NEW YORK –New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday that 15 employees who received some of the largest bonuses fromAmerican International Group Inc. have agreed to return the more than $30 million worth of payments in full. In total, AIG employees have agreed to return about $50 million of the $165 million in bonuses awarded earlier this month by the troubled insurer, Cuomo’s office said. Cuomo said he still hopes that more AIG employees will return their bonuses. At most, Cuomo said his office could hope to recoup $80 million of the … Continue reading Paying It Back

Uncategorized1 Comment

Lucky dead duckies

Thistsunami warning system doesn’t seem like the biggestblack swan on Louisiana’s cloudy horizon, but could we get a “thanks but no thanks” from our Christian/”Scientist” Governor, just for the record? The tsunami warning announcement to be broadcast at 8 a.m. on April 2 is no April Fools Day joke. It’s a first-ever test of a new Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico tsunami warning system designed to cue coastal communities of the potential danger of huge waves caused by earthquakes. Patriots should organize a tea party to protest this floatable porkfest! The United States warning system was updated in 2005 after … Continue reading Lucky dead duckies

Congress7 Comments

Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin Need to Talk

About that silly “volcano monitoring” stuff: ANCHORAGE, Alaska(AP) — Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted four times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles high into the air, but the state’s largest city has likely been spared from any ashfall. “The ash cloud went to 50,000 feet, and it’s currently drifting toward the north, northeast,” said Janet Schaefer, a geologist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The first eruption, in a sparsely area across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, occurred at 10:38 p.m. Sunday and the fourth happened at 1:39 a.m. Monday, according to the observatory. The wind patterns … Continue reading Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin Need to Talk

Economy6 Comments

There Is No Crisis

Not any more of one than there always has been for working mothers without six names who don’t get featured in the New York Times Magazine: Now, I’m just as jealous of the yoga-pants-at-9-a.m.-on-Monday-morning crowd as the next frazzled working mom. But, I’m sorry to say, however delicious charting the downfall of the wealthy at-home mom may be, we do have to stop for a little reality check. While the rich, bathed in our attention, are turning necessity into a hand-wringing sociological event, most women in this country are just going about their business, much as they always have. We … Continue reading There Is No Crisis

Of Interest3 Comments

Sunday Linkage

You can’t call yourself cutting-edge. Not now, not ever.Some the job ads on Craigslist and journalismjobs.com hurt my brain. This isn’t 1992 anymore. You can’t be all, “BE WORTHY OF OUR AWESOME YOU PEON.” We’re over it. Dodd strikes back. Virgo sends this over:About TIME you started taking this idea seriously. And look, it’s not that I think this is perfect or a cure-all, it’s that on balance what we got going on ain’t tearing the world up, so let’s try to run this place decently and well. If that means a switch to nonprofit status in order to remove … Continue reading Sunday Linkage

Stupid Republican Tricks8 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – SOB edition

Standard Operational Bullshit, that is.
The Freeperati never venture too far from their preprogrammed world of hysteria, jingoism, xenophobia, and latent feelings for each other, so it can get rather repetitive.
Every time you think you’ve seen it all, however, they find a new way to double back-flip into their own fecal matter.

Suits on, everyone.

My first offering – Freepers deeply concerned that the eeevil Dems will bring down the internets just to keep them from planning the revolution they aresure that someone else is gonna start.

Freepers make plans to break out crystal radios!‏

Freepers have to plan for the day when the internet is disabled or shut down

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Posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 11:40:37 AM byGeorge from New England
Edited onFriday, March 06, 2009 12:19:26 PM byAdmin Moderator.
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We need to learn of local ham/amateur radio operators and us ham
operators need to have a pre-established network with designated
frequencies to get our message out and around.
Don’t wait for
the day that either due to martial law or other catastrophic events,
our communication paths are severed or greatly blocked.
I
suspect there are many ham license holders that are freepers as well.
We need to know about each other before the day when we wished we had
done this.
George, KJ4AQM, Dade City, Florida

To: George from New England
The Internet can’t be shut down, especially
since the folks you fear will do so need it to get the word out to all
their ACORN chapters and others—recall how they used the Internet to
call on people to flood radio shows with phone calls.

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posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 11:43:44 AM
byDarkwolf377
(Behind enemy lines in Boston and Cambridge)

These guys are so used to“Freeping” things that they think everybody does it.
It never enters their tiny little minds for a moment that people call radio shows to state opinions, and that most peoples’ opinions differ from theirs.

Occam’s razor is extremely dull in the hands of a Freeper.
Come to think of it, so are the Freepers.

To: George from New England
Great idea. Also good would be to publish a SW freq for those of us who aren’t operators.

5
posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 11:44:05 AM
bytgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger …)

That’s a good idea, brainiac. People who aren’t HAMs will getso much use out of a posted shortwave frequency.

To: George from New England
we need to form cells. So that we can stay in communication. We can have secret meetings and GPS drops.

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posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 11:49:30 AM
byGeronL
(Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)

All right! We can form cells! And then we can fight the communists! Who invented cells!
I dunno – it all seems to tie in together somehow…

To: All
Yeah, but how would the ‘caption this’ threads work over the airwaves?

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posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 12:03:24 PM
byJustaDumbBlonde
(America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)

Yeah! And how will the “quote” feature work on a shortwave radio?
This thread’s kinda funny because the usual hyperventilating about how the “libtards” are gonna shut them down (as if they were some kind of threat rather than a source of amusement) has gotten bogged down in a discussion of a technology they don’t know anything about.

Best post of the thread:

To: George from New England
You mean the day when someone posts “Am I logged in?” and the answer will be “No”.
I guess we’ll have to go back to using bathroom walls, carrier pigeons, etc.

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posted onFriday, March 06, 2009 11:46:35 AM
byB-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)

“For a paranoid time, call 555-123-4567
Ask for ‘Larry C’ .”

And you guys are definitely gonna need this to keep your super-sekrit He-man woman haters club going:

OvaltineDecoderRing

More Freeper silliness after the jump.

C’mon – you know you want to…

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – SOB edition”

Uncategorized2 Comments

Quitting Time Booster Shot

As I watch yet another 12 pound the crap out of another 5 seed, here’s the QTBS for the day… – Wow. I didn’t even need a reason, butthanks for the excuse! Funny story that goes with this: A student who used to babysit for us tells this story about a family she used to nanny for. The 4-year-old was at school and being told she needed to eat her lunch, especially the peas. When the kid was pressed one too many times by the lunch lady, the girl turned to her and said, “I don’t want any more fucking … Continue reading Quitting Time Booster Shot

So Called Liberal Media9 Comments

CHILL

I have hidden your keys: If mere numbers of journalists are considered an indicator of quality, the growth of journalist employment from 1970s to 2000 should have made journalism extraordinary in the 1980s and 1990s. No one should have been surprised by the savings and loan debacle, the Soviet Bloc collapsing, the international debt crisis in developing nations , U.S. aid to governments in central America and the Iran-contra affair, child labor in the developing world, the explosive growth of Chinese economy, or rising domestic and international terrorism. But we were surprised and journalists didn’t forewarn us. Obviously, the attention … Continue reading CHILL

Games3 Comments

The Value of Madness

Don’t give me a pill or send me to a shrink. It’s just the Madness. I’m fine. Each year about this time, I nestle into the couch with an over-sized box of Wheat Thins and 923 cans of Diet Coke. I’ve got the TV, laptop and computer all humming as I scour the monitors for the sign of the next greatest game. Eventually, The Missus will come downstairs and say something like, “For God sakes! Open a window and let some of this radiation out of here!The Midget’s pet rabbit is starting to mutate!“ March Madness cuts a wide path … Continue reading The Value of Madness

Economy3 Comments

Bad Faith

Via Balloon Juice, we learn that anyone sticking up for Dodd wants Obama to fail and isjust as bad as Rush Limbaugh OMG !!11! And there’s a constituency for this type of garbage (which is not really that different than or morally superior to the Glen Beck or Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh inverse poutrages on the right): primarily some folks that supported Senators Clinton or Edwards in the primaries against Obama and, like Limbaugh, they “hope he fails.” And what faster hope could they have to make him fail than to seek to remove Obama’s Treasury … Continue reading Bad Faith

Immoral Values13 Comments

There’s Always Somebody Ruining the Fun for the Rest of Us

Lady, if you don’t want him, we’ll take him: Rick likes that he can be there for their 7-year-old daughter, but Eleanor says, “I don’t like coming home and seeing him in my apron.” Eleanor says she doesn’t know if she can learn to respect her husband if he can’t find a job because, “that’s one of the basic things that little girls grow up thinking, that the man is going to put a roof over her head he’s going to support the family.” All sexist crap aside, what the hell is going on? There are places to go for … Continue reading There’s Always Somebody Ruining the Fun for the Rest of Us

Happy Democrat Photo1 Comment

LOLDEMOCRATS

Telegraph doesn’t get the joke, News At 11: Andrew Rasiej, founder of the political technology site Personal Democracy Forum, said too many messages consist of warbling monologues that miss the point. Other postings, including one by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, were said to be too eccentric or random to resonate. In a minute-long video, Mrs Pelosi showed footage of her life behind the scenes in the Capitol Building through the eyes of two pet cats. Making matters more bizarre, the minute-long film was captured to the strains of Rick Astley’s disco hit, Never Going To Give You Up. … Continue reading LOLDEMOCRATS

Stupid Republican Tricks4 Comments

Oh My God Nuking Chicago Is So Funny!

I’m laughing so hard, you guys! Though I suppose I should be nicer to Bolton, he did give rise to two of my favorite Eschaton threads ofall time: Biden: Kicked Bolton’s ass. Dodd: Kicked Bolton’s ass. Kerry: Put on some sexy glasses, and kicked Bolton’s ass. Voinovich: Boy, this Bolton chap sounds like a douche. Chaffee: Maybe we shouldn’t vote. Lugar: Fuck all y’all, we’re voting. — Allen reminds me of the jv cheerleader asking if a two-point conversion wins it when his team is down by 3. — Sen. Allen: I am a freshman senator, please explain the rules … Continue reading Oh My God Nuking Chicago Is So Funny!

Faith5 Comments

How To Tell You’re About To Be Unemployed

You work for the Pope and you go around Scotland saying shit like this: Brother Consolmagno, who was due to give a speech at the Glasgow Science Centre last night, entitled “Why the Pope has an Astronomer”, said the idea of papal infallibility had been a “PR disaster”. What it actually meant was that, on matters of faith, followers should accept “somebody has got to be the boss, the final authority”. “It’s not like he has a magic power, that God whispers the truth in his ear,” he said. First Draft needs its own astronomer. Via ONTD_Political. A. Continue reading How To Tell You’re About To Be Unemployed

Geek Cred1 Comment

No, really, seriously

Link to video from yesterday’s specialBattlestar Galactica panel at the United Nations. The video’s two hours long, in RealVideo format, no embedded portions up anywhere that I can find yet. According to theUN Public Information Departmen, the discussion explored: some of the themes that are of importance to both the United Nations and the critically acclaimed television show: human rights; terrorism; children and armed conflict; and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faiths. The panel will be moderated by Academy Award-winning actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg. Oscar-nominated actress Mary McDonnell, Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos, and Battlestar … Continue reading No, really, seriously

Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – GOP Steele cage deathmatch edition

Is it Monday again already? The weekends seem to stream past like blips in a Starfield screen saver.Before we crack open the airlock door to the home of the freep, I have to share something with you: Like you didn’t see THIS coming… Ok – enough Levi-ty. Let’s see what’s bubbling up in the seventh circle of Hell. First up –They really, really , really don’t get it. Southern California mayor to resign after e-mailing picture of watermelons on White House lawn The Mercury News ^ | 2-27-09 Posted onFriday, February 27, 2009 2:32:35 PM byJustaham LOS ALAMITOS, — The … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession With The Freeperati – GOP Steele cage deathmatch edition

Economy11 Comments

Memo to the Man I Voted For in the Presidential Primaries

Yo. CHRIS. What, it was like a secretary? Clearly, the administration flunky or whoever asked you to do this, dude, is not going to stand up and name him- or herself. “Yeah, it was me, my bad, I’m positively eager to take responsibility and become the most hated person in America right now, whoopsie daisy, sorry ’bout that.” Clearly that is not going to happen, so who was it? TALK. I also reiterate my point of earlier today that once we started bailing out these people, knowing they were fuckups, we really had no right to begin expecting them not … Continue reading Memo to the Man I Voted For in the Presidential Primaries

Uncategorized2 Comments

Not Exactly News, But…

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, asserts, on the record, thatDick Cheney is “evil.” Like I said, that’s not exactly news. However, Wilkerson made another point last night — cretins like Cheney (and Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al) might ‘inspire’ any number of dead enders to truly ugly acts…dead enders who, he noted, made up a not insignificant portion of attendees at McCain and/or Palin rallies. Wilkerson described these people as frightening. I think that’s an accurate assessment. Continue reading Not Exactly News, But…