Saturday - April 09, 2011
The One True Voice, Silenced By Soros
Fox News is canceling the Glen Beck show. This was news 2 or 3 days ago, and I just could not bear to write about it. Sorry. There are some news stories that I can hardly even listen to or read, much less sit down and compose something coherent. Go see if EddieBear wrote a post on it, because his usual writing style ( he has a 1 word vocabular ) reflects my feelings on this.
The Fox article sugar coated everything, calling it an opportunity for new creativity for Beck, blah blah blah BS. But what network in their right minds would cancel a 5pm show that pulls in viewer numbers greater than many prime time shows? Beck gets more than 2.2 million viewers a day; his show is the #3 program in all of cable news. He is (or was) making Fox a fortune, and enormously upping their viewership. No way on God’s green earth any network would let that slide.
But they did. George Soros and the left wing silencers killed the show by writing hundreds of thousands of letters full of lunacy to the advertisers. You can look it all up. There are web pages that PROUDLY proclaim what they’ve done, and run a list a mile long of the companies they frightened away. Boycott Beck because he’s a lying liar who lies, he’s a Nazi, he’s a Klucker, he hates the Joooos. And it worked. Damn shame the sponsoring companies never bothered to even watch his show, because he was on every day talking about the Founding Fathers, the American Ideal, the perils of Communism, Socialism, and Progressivism. And how Israel is our one true ally that we must never turn our backs on.
Ok, sometimes Beck was kind of preachy. Sometimes he’s a little mushy. Sometimes he gets weepy. But he does that over the proper things, like the Gettysburg Address. It’s not like he’s friggin’ Geraldo. And he can’t resist mentioning how God was a huge part of the big picture that was in the roots of our nation.
So of course he had to go. Stupid Fox.
If you don’t recognize “Spooky Dude” as a nickname for George Soros, then you haven’t been watching or listening to news commentator Glenn Beck. Beck has been condemned as an antisemite and portrayed as a whacko conspiracy theorist. He is neither.
I am shocked that, like the Jewish State, he has been boycotted, demonized, and has had sanctions used against him. That his voice is being silenced in America’s Main Stream Media is shameful. Here in Israel, I, and many others have in recent months begun watching Beck’s TV shows online. Judge for yourself. Watch a few of his TV shows at: WatchGlennBeck.com
Maybe he’ll still have his radio show. If so, I’m going to have to find it. I might have to break down and buy an actual AM radio for the house if it’s on that band.
I had the TV on Fox yesterday afternoon and heard the guest talking heads say that they were on the last iteration of Kelly’s Court; Meghan Kelly has the mid-afternoon slot at Fox. She’s smart, firey, takes no crap from anyone, and is a quick thinking lawyer. Oh, and of course - this is Fox News you know - she’s drop dead gorgeous. Is her show getting the axe too? I don’t know. But I’m getting the feeling Fox is moving more “to the center” ... my opinion is that they’ve always been slightly Left of center. They’ve never been an actual Conservative news outlet. If they are making such a move, then it is towards a Center that is considerably to the Left of Center. Which means we lose. Again. As always. And Socialism and Progressivism triumph, which is what Beck warned about every day. So yeah, he had to go.
Hosers.
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Permalink • Monday - March 21, 2011
Do We Get A Choice?
An attack on the compound of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday had to be curtailed because of journalists nearby, Fox News has learned.
British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya’s Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.
The curtailment of this mission led to a great deal of consternation by coalition commanders, sources told Fox News, but they opted to call off the mission to avoid civilian casualties.
During a Pentagon briefing on Monday, coalition commanders said the huge compound was targeted due to its air defense systems on the perimeter and a military command and control center. It was not targeted to kill Qaddafi, commanders said.
Meanwhile, U.S. military officials said on Monday that Qatar is sending six planes to Libya to participate in support missions, becoming the third Arab nation to send aircraft to the African nation. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also announced on Monday that its role in Libya is “strictly confined” to the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Libya.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 26, 2011
North By North South?
Sometimes I swear news stories are published just to scare people. Or to annoy those of us who can actually think. The magnetic north pole has ALWAYS been moving. As nifty as compasses seem when you’re a kid in Scouts, they all have this bit of inaccuracy built in. The truth is that they don’t actually point north. Or to the north pole. Or even to the magnetic north pole. The truth is that the compass needle aligns itself with the local magnetic field, a bit like a homing pigeon flying along a local ley line. And - no shir, Shitlock - those local field lines are not now, nor have they ever been, entirely parallel to the magnetic axis. This is what “magnetic declination” is all about. It’s also what you can avoid by having a GPS, or a device that has one built in. Like an iPad app. In the bad old days, we had to have paper maps available and know how to read them, and how to adjust them. The declination amount was shown at the top of the map. Yeah, an old map would have the wrong value, so you had to get new maps every decade or so. Big deal.
Ordinary Compasses Thrown Off by Changes in Earth’s Magnetic Field
The Earth’s magnetic field is changing at an increasing rate, throwing off airports and altering the aurora borealis—and its effect on ordinary compasses could mean the difference between homeward bound and hopelessly lost.
Earth’s northernmost magnetic point—or magnetic north—is distinct from its geographic North Pole, and scientists have long known that the magnetic poles are on the move.
But the magnetic poles have been moving faster lately, sliding towards Siberia at 34 miles per year at a speed that’s accelerated 36 percent over the last 10 years, according to the United States Geological Survey, or USGS.
Since compasses rely on magnetic north to point you in the right way up the trail, the average $2-dollar model could very well point you in the wrong direction. Depending on location and journey length, unaware hikers or boaters could find themselves hundreds of miles off course if they don’t calibrate for the shift, experts said.
Don’t forget that every once in a geologic while, the magnetic poles actually reverse themselves. It’s always been like that. And unless I missed the fine print statement that says how this is a magical and instantaneous shift, my understanding is that the magnetic pole goes from up to down by moving a little bit all the time.
And just for gits and shiggles, this Scary Science article above forgets to point out one salient fact: the magnetic north pole is moving northward over time:
which means that compasses are actually getting more accurate for most of us, because the distance between the magnetic north pole and the rotational north pole is decreasing. The magnetic pole is not moving directly towards the rotational pole, but it’s many many hundreds of miles closer to it than it was a century ago. See here for more movement history. And don’t let science stories scare you. Half the time they’re pure crap.
For extra fun, know that the movement of the magnetic poles is most probably caused by movement within the molten core of the planet. “Core Flux”. Vast continental sized plumes of molten iron rising and falling and swirling around. That’s the accepted theory it seems. Yet somehow that more energetic core moving about, sometimes closer to the surface, sometimes further away, that vast and incomprehensibly large mass of molten iron sometimes hotter or cooler ... has no impact whatsoever on the temperature of the surface just 50 miles or so above it. No, it’s a microminimal change in the amount of a rare atmospheric gas that causes the surface temperature variations. Uh huh. Right.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 19, 2011
Death Panels? It’s a tough call
Please go read this sad bit of news. A child is dying in a slow and horrible way.
React.
Then go read this short blog post.
React. Then start reading the comments there. Duane’s got a very good discussion going on. It actually stays on topic for more than the first 10 comments, and avoids the mud slinging for a really extended time period. Read the first dozen comments or so. Pick your side. Think about what you’d like to add.
Then stop, and go read another news article on the same situation.
Has this new information changed your reaction? It turned mine around completely. But maybe I’m strange.
Now discuss, here, or back at Duane’s. Because you WILL have something to say. That’s my prediction, not an order. But how can you not? And don’t forget to mention if you have or have had children of your own. I think that may play a role here, but then again, it might not.
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Permalink • Friday - February 11, 2011
Your Foreign Aid Dollars At Work
In an attempt to increase the range of the endangered Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), wildlife biologists have taken to ferrying young adult males and females about to enter estrus across Lake Tanganyika from Tanzania into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to the massive size of the lake, it would take longer for even these long legged creatures to walk around it than their mating season gives them, so the biologists built them their own ferry.
“Putting a cage on the barge wasn’t hard” states Mbulati Gahlwana, chief biologist for the Giraffe Project, “but rounding up half a dozen giraffes and getting them all aboard without injury was a challenge. They are very energetic creatures, and a kick from even a young one can kill a man in one go.”
The land and climate in most of the DR Congo is not perfect for giraffes, but the area on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika is moist enough to support the kind of vegetation and cover that these giraffes need. The Giraffe Project hopes to be able to move 4 dozen pairs of Masai Giraffes this year, enough to establish a small breeding population.
“We worry about poachers over there” says Gahlwana, “but if they don’t know the giraffes are around they might not go looking for them.”
The Giraffe Project is funded both by US foreign aid to Tanzania and by the World Wildlife Foundation.
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Permalink • Friday - November 05, 2010
It is to laff!
A prominent US television anchorman, Keith Olbermann, was suspended today for making donations to three Democratic candidates in this week’s midterm elections, in breach of company rules.
US journalistic ethics are extremely strict, barring media employees from donating to political parties or any other political involvement that might cause a conflict of interest.
Although Rupert Murdoch contributed $2m (£1.23m) to the Republicans and commentators from his Fox News network also made donations, papers such as the New York Times, National Public Radio and television channels such as CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality.
Olbermann, host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, made contributions to two Democrats standing in Arizona and the Democrat Jack Conway, fighting for a place in the US Senate in Kentucky against the Republican Rand Paul, a Tea Party favourite.
Olbermann confirmed in a statement to the Politico website that he had given each of the candidates $2,400, the legal maximum for donations.
The MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, said in a statement: “I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC news policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay.” Olbermann has a contract with MSNBC until 2012.
more here
No, Crazy Oblie getting suspended isn’t funny. Nor is MSNBC’s “no campaign donations” policy ... and I’m not entirely sure it’s even legal. What cracks me up is the line “CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality”.
ROTLMAO.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 20, 2010
A laugh before bedtime
Thanks Rich, I needed this one!
Horry Clap, nutjobs to left of me, nutjobs to lefter of me, nutjobs behind, tantrums and hypocrisy!
WASHINGTON — Amplified by the right-wing message machine, Republicans paint President Obama as an unyielding left-winger, an unreconstructed liberal who refuses to compromise. The president’s critics have turned the truth inside out: One of Obama’s greatest political weaknesses has been his stubborn — and unrequited — love for bipartisanship.
The president has made some of his biggest mistakes trying to woo a GOP opposition that has committed itself to frustrating him at every turn. If he had ignored recalcitrant Republicans, for example, his health care legislation might have become law without months of damaging political drama.
In an interview last week in his West Wing office, David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisers, acknowledged that the administration had been surprised by the unified Republican resistance to the president’s agenda.
“I think the Republicans have been diabolically clever about how they’ve portrayed this,” Axelrod conceded. “They stood on the sidelines and made a decision that ‘we’re going to let him wrestle with this mess that we created. And then in two years we can try and hang him with it.’ “
After the stimulus, Obama and his Democratic allies tried to negotiate with GOP leaders on health insurance reform — a decision that gave critics time to mischaracterize the proposal and gin up opposition. Remember death panels? Government-funded abortions? Rationing?
Still, Obama kept going back with proposals meant to lure a few Republican votes for his agenda. That led to his disastrous announcement, just weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, to expand off-shore drilling.
A naïve expectation of bipartisan cooperation hasn’t been Obama’s only mistake. He waited until the last possible moment to try to inspire his base for the mid-term elections. Unlike Ronald Reagan, whose poll ratings were slightly lower than Obama’s just before the 1982 mid-term elections, Obama didn’t take every possible opportunity to pin the economic mess on his predecessor.
Read the rest at the above link, if your stomach is strong enough.
Oh, this essay was written by Cynthia Tucker, PULITZER PRIZE winning journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Remember Cynthia, inhale on the upstroke.
The AJC brings a southern flair to all their hard hitting news stories, like this one about 8 cows that were stolen. Seriously. Front page news. And some of the cows were pregnant.
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Permalink • Saturday - October 16, 2010
sounds familiar
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Permalink • Thursday - October 07, 2010
Oh Gak
Keyboard Kunnilingus at its finest!
When it comes to power, cultural impact means as much as money and political influence.
Forbes’ power lists are synonymous with moguls and movie stars, heads of state and captains of business. One look at the 2010 World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list and it is clear that we’ve come up with a new ranking of the female power elite that reflects the New Order of now.
When we set out to identify this year’s list, we decided it was time to look up and out into the broader culture. Our assessment is based less on traditional titles and roles and more on creative influence and entrepreneurship. These power women have built distinctive companies and brands and championed weighty causes, sometimes through unconventional means; in other cases they have broken through gender barriers.
“weighty causes” hur hur hur. Forbes tips their hand a few paragraphs early by making an oblique Let’s Move reference.
We divided our power women candidates into four groups: politics, business, media and lifestyle (that is, entertainment, sports and fashion). We ranked the women in each group, and then group against group. Not easy, but that’s today’s reality: an unpredictable, diverse mash-up of hard power (currencies and constitutions) and dynamic power (audience and audacity).
At the top of our list, First Lady Michelle Obama is a true change-maker since taking lodge in the White House in 2008. The first African-American in the post, she’s changed the face of the office (literally), and with consistently high approval ratings, she’s given a new generation of girls and women around the world a role model. A former private attorney and public servant in Chicago, her interest in working with young people and advocating for healthy eating, among other issues, is evidenced by her Let’s Move! campaign, which aims to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
Credibility gap much? They came right out and said it, veiled reference to the regime included: they turned themselves inside out, changed all their values, and reworked their entire system so that FLOTUS, the head wookie, would be the winner. Where is this magazine published anyway, Chicago? Good grief, look at their reasoning: in an age wherein women can do anything, where no glass ceilings exist anymore, where women head nations and zillion dollar corporations, M.O.’s first stated “power attribute” is that she “literally” changed the face of the oval office. Yeah, by redecorating. Ladies, that’s how real power is expressed in these non-traditional role days, thank you so much.
Forbes full list is available in picture gallery form right here. On the heels of Michelle Antoinette are Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, Oprah, Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, and Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga?? How about that, a sideshow freak entertainer is only slightly less potent than the world’s most powerful diplomat and the leader of a corporation that out-earns Big Oil. ... oh the times, they are a changin’.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 30, 2010
double mulligan?
“According to opinion polls at the time taken directly after Tet and a few weeks after Tet, the American people wanted to escalate the war,” Robbins says. “They understand that the enemy had suffered a terrible defeat, so there was an opportunity if we had taken concerted action to actually win this thing.”
In fact, a majority of those polled after Tet considered themselves “hawks,” Robbins found. He adds that in the summer of 1967, hawks outnumbered doves on college campuses. “The notion that young people were long-haired dope smoking draft resisters in 1967-68 is not true. The ‘Forrest Gump’ view of history is wrong.”
One of Tet’s flaws, Robbins says, was that the North Vietnamese believed that if they attacked countrywide in the south with their tripwire forces, the south would rise up in revolt against Saigon and join the communists.
“And the reason they believed that was because they were reading the New York Times,” Robbins says.
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To Robbins, the Vietnam narrative must be reclaimed from the “ruling class of hippies and leftists, who went from protests to the U.S. Senate in some cases” and those who “went from dope-smoking teach-ins to teaching from tenured positions on college campuses.”
Yes, there’s a whole book about it too.
h/t to Roger
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 21, 2010
Be Afraid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Massachusetts company wants to market a genetically engineered version of Atlantic salmon, and regulators are weighing the request. If approval is given, it would be the first time the government allowed such modified animals to join the foods that go onto the nation’s dinner tables.
Ron Stotish, chief executive of AquaBounty, said at Monday’s first of two days of hearings that his company’s fish product is safe and environmentally sustainable.
Food and Drug Administration officials have largely agreed with him, saying that the salmon, which grows twice as fast as its conventional “sisters,” is as safe to eat as the traditional variety. But they have not yet decided whether to approve the request.
Critics call the modified salmon a “frankenfish” that could cause allergies in humans and the eventual decimation of the wild salmon population. An FDA advisory committee is reviewing the science of the genetically engineered fish this week and hearing such criticisms as the agency ponders approval.
Whether the public will have an appetite for it is another matter. Genetic engineering is already widely used for crops, but the government until now has not considered allowing the consumption of modified animals. Although the potential benefits — and profits — are huge, many people have qualms about manipulating the genetic code of other living creatures.
Genetically engineered — or GE — animals are not clones, which the FDA has already said are safe to eat. Clones are copies of an animal. With GE animals, the DNA has been altered to produce a desirable characteristic.
In the case of the salmon, AquaBounty has added a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon that allows the fish to produce their growth hormone all year long. The engineers were able to keep the hormone active by using another gene from an eel-like fish called an ocean pout that acts like an on switch for the hormone, according to the company. Conventional salmon produce the growth hormone only some of the time.
Hey, what the heck. Grow them on farms in the middle of the prairie. No live ungutted fish can leave the premises; no eggs would be released into the wild. But the MSM wants you to be afraid of everything all the time, so this is the big fear story for today. So take note, and immediately look at what Obama is up to! These fear stories are often used as smoke screens.
OTOH, should they meet by accident and a few cocktails, it’s likely that an Atlantic salmon could breed with a Chinook salmon. The Chinook is a fish that likes really cold water, as is the Ocean Pout. Both those fish grow all the time. Chinook salmon, which can reach 100lb, are just as conventional as any other salmon, they’re just a bit rarer. Chinook have been introduced into the Great Lakes, the waters of Patagonia, and lakes in New Zealand. And no tales of evil blood-sucking vampire salmon have come from any of those places. Probably because there were no survivors!!!
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Permalink • Friday - September 10, 2010
Nobody Will Hear You Tommy
Political Fables in today’s Town Hall
In case you don’t have it all memorized by now, Sowell points things out in today’s Town Hall online magazine, debunking a number of media myths and shooting a few sacred cows.
The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama “inherited” the big federal budget deficits and that he has to “clean up the mess” left in the economy by the Republicans. This may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under scrutiny.
No President of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress before Barack Obama became president. The deficit he inherited was created by the Congressional Democrats, including Senator Barack Obama, who did absolutely nothing to oppose the runaway spending. He was one of the biggest of the big spenders.
The last time the federal government had a budget surplus, Bill Clinton was president, so it was called “the Clinton surplus.” But Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, where all spending bills originate, for the first time in 40 years. It was also the first budget surplus in more than a quarter of a century.
The only direct power that any president has that can affect deficits and surpluses is the power to veto spending bills. President Bush did not veto enough spending bills but Senator Obama and his fellow Democrats in control of Congress were the ones who passed the spending bills.
He also reminds us that it was Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd behind the subprime mortgage fiasco. With the full support of the Witch’s Chorus.
Most of those who pushed the lowering of mortgage lending standards were Democrats-- notably Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd, though too many Republicans went along.
At the heart of these policies were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who bought huge amounts of risky mortgages, passing the risk on from the banks that lent the money (and made the profits) to the taxpayers who were not even aware that they would end up paying in the end.
When President Bush said in 2004 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be reined in, 76 members of the House of Representatives issued a statement to the contrary. These included Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel.
A fair amount of Republicans were part of this too, either supporting it wholeheartedly or by their silence.
Remember these names in NOvember.
If we are going to talk about “the policies that created this mess in the first place,” let’s at least get the facts straight and the names right.
The current policies of the Obama administration are a continuation of the same reckless policies that brought on the current economic problems-- all in the name of “change.” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still sacred cows in Washington, even though they have already required the biggest bailouts of all.
Why? Because they allow politicians to direct vast sums of money where it will do politicians the most good, either personally or in terms of buying votes in the next election.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 21, 2010
Sometimes you need the MSM
I get most of my news from the internet. I hardly watch television news at all.
The JournoList story is breaking - blooming, blossoming - now ... and it’s no news at all to the folks who read BMEWS. Geez, what a surprise: vast numbers of professional journalists, the ones who gin up the stories you see on TV and read in the newspaper, were all members of a private internet forum, where they discussed the issues of the day, and generally reached the agreement that they would do whatever it takes to get Obama elected. Whether that meant burying stories about his birth certificate, ignoring the reverend Wright thing, calling any and every Conservative racist, or blackballing any individual (Joe the Plumber anyone?) who dared to question his messiahness in the slightest ... the fix was in. And now, nearly 2 years after the election, when Oshithead’s poll numbers are tanking, his approval rating falling like a meteor into a manure pile, and a large part of the 52ers waking up and looking for someone to blame for “making us” vote for this assclown ... now it’s coming out that the MFM had their playbook written up and signed off on way in advance. No shit Sherlock. Tell us what we don’t know. Conservatives have been aware of an extraordinary media bias ever since Walter Cronkite single-handedly lost the Vietnam War. Even though our troops won the Tet Offensive, even though they were caught by surprise, they battled back across a front the size of South Vietnam, and put that bad dog down but good. But Uncle Walter said the war was unwinnable, and at that point the die was cast. From there, through Rathergate and beyond; eventually the Right woke up and called foul. Which made us crazy people, racists, and the lunatic fringe. Except that finally - and don’t expect to see this on TV, not even on “Faux News” - it’s coming out that there was deliberate collusion.
You can’t trust the press. Period.
But sometimes you need them. While the internet is a great thing, it’s also a GREAT thing - there are hundreds of millions of web sites - and it’s just too much of a pain to try and filter through even the necessary several hundred to find out what’s really going on. Sometimes, you need TV and radio news.
Today was one of those days for us. Even though we have two rather large reservoirs here in Clinton, the water in them is not for us. We get our water from artesian wells. It turns out that the water department found e. coli bacteria in one of the wells 3 days ago, and just bothered to tell us about it today. And golly, if they keep finding e. coli in the well water, they’re going to do the right thing and take that well off-line until they can get it treated. Yeah, a little too little and a little too late.
How did I find out? The oldest old fashioned way: one of the former board members of the condo association I live in came around door to door and told us. After that I looked stuff up online, and it was not an easy find at the time. He’d heard about it on the semi-local TV news. We have a little NJ station, and we also have an even smaller north eastern PA station. Both of them are now carrying the story that Clinton NJ has e. coli in the water. The story was not running on the NYC (50 miles away) based MSM. Maybe it is now. And I’m finding more stories on the internet news sites. But it was TV news that broke it ... and they do still have the power to reach more people faster and easier than any given website. So we’ll have to boil water for a couple days, and hope that’s enough.
Town of Clinton Water Department issues E. coli warning; boil water advisory
WALTER O’BRIEN • STAFF WRITER • July 21, 2010
CLINTON TOWN — A water well test has indicated the presence of E. coli; the water department warns customers to boil water before drinking or using for personal use.
The Town of Clinton Water Department water system on July 19 tested positive for the E. coli bacteria in water sample in Well #11 before treatment. The department warns customers not to drink the water without boiling it first, or to use bottled water for personal uses.
Bring all water to a boil, let it boil for at least one minute and let it cool before using. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation until further notice. Boiling kills the bacteria and other organisms in the water.
The positive test of the water indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes. Microbes in these wastes can cause short-term health effects, such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, some of the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems.
The symptoms above are not caused only by organisms in drinking water. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. People at increased risk should seek advice from their health care providers about drinking this water.
The department said that repeated samples will be taken before treatment of the water to confirm the continued presence of the indicators of contamination. If any are detected, the well will be taken out of service until the problem is resolved.
The department will inform the public when tests show no presence of E. coli in the water. At that point you will no longer need to boil your water. The department anticipates resolving the problem within 3-5 days.
CLINTON — Customers of the town water system today were warned to boil the water before drinking it.
According to a notice from the town water department, water testing detected a fecal indicator (E. coli) in a Well 11 raw water sample.
Water from the Clinton system is distributed in the town itself, as well as to parts of Lebanon and the townships of Clinton, Franklin and Union. The sample was taken Monday.
The town urged people to not drink the water without boiling it first.
If I was in charge, that well would have been shut off within seconds of the bacteria being found. Run the test a bunch of times, but better safe than sorry. This seems more than a bit lackadaisical by the water department, although what comes out of the pipe every day smells like it has more chlorine in it than a community swimming pool. Will there be “why did you take 3 days to act?” repercussions? I hope so, but I don’t really care. As long as I don’t come down with 8 days of nonstop bloody diarrhea, I’m happy.
Oh, the “JournoList” situation. See here. Lots of other places too, Pajamas Media etc. But Daily Caller broke the story I think. If you can understand it all, good for you. Some of it is very “meta”, using far too many insider terms and understandings. I think I caught the real essence: the media is a total whore for Obama, a $2 trick, willing and eager to lie, cheat, and kill if necessary to do his bidding. Which isn’t news at all to any of us here, but to my surprise is shocking news for lots of other folks. I guess millions of people live under rocks, instead of in those nice McMansions I see everywhere. I suppose that the only real news part is that the scribblers involved actually were in active knowing well communicated collusion. I guess I assumed that as Kool-Aid drinkers the “professional” journalists had all just picked up on the meme by smelling the breeze and run with it. Not so! I gave them way too much credit for skills they don’t have. They got together and planned the whole thing. And now the word is leaking out.
(Fred Barnes, ever the gentleman
)
Now, after learning I’d been targeted for a smear attack by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I’m inclined to amend my response. Not to say there’s a media conspiracy, but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism.My guess is that this and other revelations about JournoList will deepen the distrust of the national press.
Elegant and under-spoken as always. More here.
And here! Everywhere in the VRWC actually. On ABC news? Ha!
Sean Hannity says that journalism died in 2008, when the mainstream media discarded even the pretense of professionalism and objectivity for the sake of installing an unqualified, ultra-radical community organizer in the White House. Judis’s words make a perfect epitaph for the headstone:
NOW IT IS ONLY TACTICAL
How’s our supply of wooden posts and blindfolds? We may need more.
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Stupide Dems Can’t Even Pretend Properly
Don’t know how I missed this one the other day, but hey, better late than never.
You know, because making a budget is only their ... primary responsibility!!
House Democrats ‘Deem’ Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget ‘as Passed’
by Connie Hair
07/02/2010Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.
The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.
Never before—since the creation of the Congressional budget process—has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) warned this was the green light for Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending virtually unchecked.
“Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked for the coming fiscal year,” Ryan said. “The so-called ‘budget enforcement resolution’ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our looming fiscal crisis.”
Was this all over the news 3 days ago, discussed ad-nauseum by all the talking heads, then jeered at and allowed to fall by the wayside? Because I wasn’t really watching too much news over the holiday weekend, and I’m certain that Congress “deeming” themselves a PRETEND BUDGET would be earth-shattering news that would zoom to the top of the news cycle and stay there for at least ... 72 hours? But I personally haven’t heard a single peep. Not even on Fox. Wazzup wit dat?
I looked up the vote, and along with the numbers, all it told me was
H RES 1500 YEA-AND-NAY 1-Jul-2010 8:02 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 4899) making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010
So I’m a bit befuddled here.
But Paul Ryan (R-WI) seems to understand the dealio and is more than a bit miffy:
“Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office rang the latest fiscal alarm with the release of The Long-Term Budget Outlook,” Ryan said. “Today, Congress again hit snooze. To avert a fiscal and economic calamity, Washington needs to wake up.”
“It is unclear how many more fiscal alarms need to go off before Washington takes action to avert our looming debt crisis,” Ryan said. “Earlier in the month in testimony before the House Budget Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke emphasized the urgent need for a ‘fiscal exit strategy.’ Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen warned that our debt is ‘the biggest threat we have to our national security.’ Over the weekend, Europeans lectured us at the G-20 summit on the unsustainability of continued profligacy. [Tuesday], the CBO reiterated what all but Washington Democrats understand: we are careening off a fiscal cliff.
Lucky for me the GOP put out a helpful pamphlet explaining that this was all smoke and mirrors, even though the smoke is a clear indication of an actual bonfire, and the mirrors are busy hiding the flames from people’s vision. Oh look, over there, a shiny unicorn! Ooooh, aaaah!
What House Democratic leaders call a “budget enforcement resolution” is in fact just another “deeming” scheme – one that concedes they cannot meet their most fundamental governing
responsibility: writing a congressional budget. They have created a masquerade that only advances their spend-as-you-go philosophy, accelerating the march toward a fiscal and economic crisis. They are doing so because a majority of rank-and-file Democrats cannot vote for a budget with trillion-dollar deficits. As even House Budget Committee Chairman Spratt has acknowledged: “You can say that that’s a lack of courage.”The analysis below makes the following points:
* This is not a budget. The measure fails to meet the most basic, commonly understood objectives of any budget. It does not set congressional priorities; it does not align overall spending, tax, deficit, and debt levels; and it does nothing to address the runaway spending of Federal entitlement programs.* It is not a ‘congressional budget resolution.’ The measure does not satisfy even the most basic criteria of a budget resolution as set forth in the Congressional Budget Act.
* It creates a deception of spending ‘restraint.’ While claiming restraint in discretionary spending, the resolution increases non-emergency spending by $30 billion over 2010, and includes a number of gimmicks that give a green light to higher spending.
* It continues relying on the flawed and over-sold pay-as-you-go [pay-go] procedure. Paygo – which Democrats have used mainly to raise taxes, and have ignored when it was inconvenient – does nothing to reduce deficits or restrain spending growth in existing law. The pay-go statute adopted in this resolution does not correct its fundamental flaws.
* Outsourcing fiscal responsibilities. The measure is another hand-off by the Democratic Majority of Congress’s power of the purse – this time relying on the Fiscal Commission created by the President to do Congress’s job.
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Since enactment of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the House has never failed to mark up and pass its own budget resolution. The “budget enforcement” measure conjured up by the Democratic Majority cannot hide their unprecedented collapse in congressional budgeting. It creates skepticism in global financial markets that the U.S. government is even capable of managing its fiscal affairs. The uncertainty it creates inhibits job creation and economic growth.This is far more than a failure of procedure or politics. It is an abdication of a fundamental responsibility by a Majority that is losing both its will, and its ability, to govern – and it is threatening America’s prosperity in the process.
What, so Obama’s Fiscal Commission is actually going to come up with the budget? Great! Since that’s Congress’s main job, we can do without them then. You’re all fired! Think of how much money that can save.
While Democrats try to claim their “enforcement resolution” is the “full equivalent, the full complement of a budget,” it is in fact a façade that attempts to hide their failure in the most basic function of government: passing a budget. This is not a budget, even in the most commonly understood terms.
* It does not set priorities, or account for spending demands. Like any budget, a congressional budget resolution is a blueprint for allocating resources among the government’s major activities. It is the only legislative vehicle that views government spending, taxes, and borrowing comprehensively: everything else is piecemeal. This “enforcement resolution” offers no blueprint for budgeting. It does not show how the House intends to meet the government’s major obligations – such as national defense, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, and so on – as laid out in a budget resolution. It
makes no choices among the broad categories of spending – which ones should get more funds, and which less. It leaves all the budgeting to someone else.* It does nothing to control entitlement spending. The biggest problem in the budget outlook is uncontrolled entitlement spending – and this resolution does nothing to address it. The Democrats already have worsened the entitlement crisis, first by ignoring it, then by adding their $2.6-trillion health care program, among other things. The “enforcement resolution” simply endorses an already reckless spending binge.
* It makes no attempt to align spending, tax, deficit, and debt levels. The resolution fails to show how government spending in fiscal year 2011 will be financed – how much by taxes, how much by borrowing – and thereby ignores the alarming deficits and debt run up by this President and Congress. Under the President’s budget, debt held by the public doubles in 5 years (compared with 2008) and triples in 10 years; and by doing nothing, the Democratic leadership is endorsing that path.
Ok, so this is all Democrat shenanigans, and the Republicans are calling them on it. Wouldn’t that be news too? I mean, WTH, it’s only another trillion plus of new debt. It’s only our future. Isn’t anybody listening anymore? Don’t any of these journalists even want to tell this story?
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