In Britain, Joe Biden is known, if at all, as the only man in America crazy enough to try to become president by plagiarising Neil Kinnock (the stuff about being the only Kinnock, er, Biden, in a thousand generations to go to college). But in America he is, believe it or not, still a powerful Democratic senator and these days just about every ten minutes somewhere on your radio or TV dial you can hear him re-telling a pompous little anecdote in which he explains how he
It Never Stops The NY
It Never Stops
The NY Times has a guest op-ed piece in today’s paper titled Why the West Is Burning, written by Roger Kennedy. For whatever reason I read it, even though I am not usually interested in this sort of issue. I figured the blame would be put on government intervention where it should not be, and environmentalists blocking controlled burns or underbrush removal. I was wrong. I will let Mr. Kennedy explain the error of my logic:
The killer fires in our history started on private land, and the worst of these disasters came amid the slash and dry tinder left by commercial lumbering.
Silly me. I should have known that it would be those damned private property owners and greedy capitalist timber companies who were to blame for all the fires.
Real remedies, of course, will cost money up front and be preventive
James Lileks discusses Islam, ‘the
discusses Islam, ‘the Peaceful Religion,’ in a way that only he is capable.
NY Times watch, cont. Dow
NY Times watch, cont.
Dow is up 180 points or 2.2%. No headlines on the front page proclaiming “Stock prices Rise as Investor Confidence Rebounds.” What a surprise. Like I said the yesterday, they only try to report the bad financial news, so they can get a few seats in November. Filthy bastards.
On the financial front page, this headline and preview of the article:
Stocks Close Higher on Volatile Day
Stocks swooped higher in late afternoon trading during a see-saw session on Wednesday as some investors took advantage of earlier losses to grab some beaten-down issues.
That was a Reuters dispatch, though. Why waste a Times reporter on good news, when they can be out there investigating aresnic in water or Bush’s arrogant unilateralism, or creating new fictional reasons why a war in Iraq would be disastrous.
Even funnier though, is that the NY Times uses both AP and Reuters. Go to the Yahoo business section, and you will see that the Reuters introduction is exactly the same. However, the AP headline states this:
Dow Soars With 182-Point Gain
A burst of buying swept across the stock market Wednesday, giving the Dow Jones industrials their second straight triple-digit gain for the first time in nearly three months.
Can anyone guess why the NY Times chose to use the Reuters story over the AP story on the same subject. Oh, yeah. AP frames the market activity positively.
It is now so blatant and transparent what the Times is doing that it is not even funny. No wonder they were aginst the ground war in Afghanistan. They were learning a lot from the Taliban Ministry of Information.
YEEHAW! I can now order
YEEHAW!
I can now order my copy of Band of Brothers on DVD. At least that is what it said in the email I got today. Can’t seem to find BoB on the Amazon website.
In Defense of John Rocker
John Rocker was involved in another ‘incident’ the other day. Rocker, for those of you who have forgotten, is the unrepentant redneck who slurred and sulked his way through the 2000 baseball season, having the nerve to insult NY fans. At any rate, Rocker is now alleged to have called a homosexual couple ‘fruitcakes.’
This is an incident worthy of NATIONAL NEWS COVERAGE? Let’s throw out the issue of whether the taunting was provoked or not- that really does not matter to me. What matters to me is that this big, burly, strapping redneck reached down to the bottom of his insult barrel, fished around, and came up with…. Fruitcake?. Rather than being annoyed, these hypersensitive homosexuals should have burst out into laughter. I mean, c’mon. Fruitcake?
Only the professionally sensitive nitwits in America would think this is a big deal, or let alone, a hate crime. This is everyday life. If you think calling someone a fruitcake is a criminal event, you would lock me up for yelling what I yell when I am cut off in traffic. Or from muttering what I do when some blue-haired geriatric parks her cart in the middle of the grocery aisle and sits there for 10 minutes. You would be absolutely mortified to hear the stream of obscenities I emit during a football game.
And, btw, you should hear some of the things I have said to my former roommate and good friend who is gay (I don’t mean just slightly gay, but queer as a football bat) and who I love like a brother. I can honestly say that I never called him anything as refined as a ‘fruitcake.’
Why is it that every
Why is it that every time the DOW is down triple digits at lunchtime, the NY Times has a huge Headline that states “Stocks Drop Sharply,” but when they are up 300 points at lunch the Ny Times is quiet?
I don’t really need to answer that question, do I?
**** UPDATE ****
It is now 3:10 pm, EST, and the DOW is up 360 points now, yet there is still no glaring headline about stocks being sharply up. I guess they only like to scare investors during a slide, not encourage them during rallies.
There is, however, this article on the front page: “Economy Stirs G.O.P. Worry in House Races.”
Does anyone think the NY Times has any credibility?