Rathergate update

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow: 'Former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line and ultimately clear his name'...

In the event of a lawsuit, Mr. Howard has told associates that he would like to see Moonves put under oath to talk about his own roles in the network's stubborn, hapless defense of the flawed segment on President Bush's National Guard service.

Howard has also indicated to colleagues that he would subpoena specific CBS documents, including the e-mails of top executives.

Developing...

XX WAR INSIDE CBSNEWS XX

Hat tip Polipundit

and all i have to say is...hehe

Looks like we bloggers may be taking some more folks down in cbs

Wow San Fransicko may have set a new standard for idiocy

from Drudge

San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to charge drivers just for driving in its chronically congested downtown under a sure-to-be controversial proposal being aired today.

Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, chair of the San Francisco Transportation Authority, will ask the agency to study a downtown toll zone -- whereby drivers would need to purchase a daily pass to drive in The City's most congested streets -- as a potential solution to the Municipal Transportation Agency's woeful budget problems.

"The key issue here is if we can kill three birds with one stone -- relieve congestion, clean up the air, and give money to Muni -- we would have hit a home run," McGoldrick said.

yes because clearly forcing many many many more people to use public transit will save its budget problem

but now we can't just say they "Left their brain in San Fransicko"

here

Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."

Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea.

"Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that," says engineer David Kim.

.....

The new tax would be charged each time you fill up. A computer inside the gas pump would communicate with your car's odometer to calculate how much you owe.

The system could also track how often you drive during rush hour and charge higher fees to discourage peak use. That's an idea that could break the bottleneck on California's freeways.

hopefully if both these idiotic ideas happen we will see an exodus from the left coast

What a Maroon

You see, by doing this thing... you are going to have so many copy cats now trying to throw this in your face... You're just asking for trouble. Me I am doing my part for solidarity with my brother in pajamas

batesline.. i support ya bra

More "studying" of homosexuality by leftyblogs

bill at indcjournal is on the case

Important news from Al-Press

I am just going to cut out the key data so we are all clear of what Al-P is hiding

Lebanon - A massive bomb tore through the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who resigned last fall following a sharp dispute with Syria, killing him and at least nine other people Monday.

Hariri, 60, left office in October but had the wealth and the prominence to maintain some independence without defying Lebanon's main power broker, Syria, which keeps about 15,000 troops in the country and influences virtually all key political decisions.

Syria dominates Lebanon politically and militarily, and Hariri was careful to avoid openly defying Damascus, although his stature could have been a formidable opponent. New elections are expected in April and May, but no date has been set.

In Paris, Lebanon's most prominent exile, former army commander Gen. Michel Aoun, blamed Syria for the bombing and what he called the "feeble regime imposed by Syria" for the assassination.

thats the tall and short right there

Gannonquiddick Update

Warning the above link carries barely censored pictures from various gay websites

Ok... After googling several websites We see a bunch of Photo's that sorta look like Jeff Gannon

oooooh Big story

and Jeff Gannon, nor the special prosecutors office have linked him to the utterly bogus plame case.

So Some one who looks vaugely like Jeff gannon ( a few pictures are so poor in quality it looks nothing like him) and has the same last name did some gay escourt sites

Now... We can only confirm a few of those sites go back to Jeff because only a few have pictures

sooooooooooooo what exactly? a whore (maybe) asked the president soft ball questions

thats kinda cheesy but not news

Talon news ( at best) runs gop press releases as news stories... so we have no proof gannon did any reporting to speak of

good job lefties.. keep googling all that gay porn to umm "find" his secret

El Update

Another lefty



Questioned why Scott Ritter was treated to a different standard then Gannon ( a worse Standard)

Sex With a Minor: always wrong
Prostitution: not as wrong

any questions?

Yes because Giving north korea free stuff worked so well

Whit and wisdom of joe biden

plagerised from John Failure Kerry

illin

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More blogging that is totally gay

Could marriage, qua legal status, accommodate polygamous relationships? No! How would divorce be handled in polygamy? Could two "spouses" oust a third? What about property ownership -- could three out of seven spouses own property jointly apart from the others? Can a spouse in one polygamous marriage enter into another polygamous marriage without the consent of all the spouses of the original and the new marriages? What about inheritance? Tax returns? Child support? Powers of attorney? Right-to-die decisions?

Hey here is something funky.. did you know people asked several ( if not all) of those questions about gay marriage .. ;-) yeah they did funny that

The legal implications of the status of marriage require, metaphysically, that it be between two and only two people. But those same legal implications do not require, metaphysically, that it be between a man and a woman.

So arguing metaphysics to deprive a polygamist of his natural rights, and rejecting metaphysics when it impacts your natural rights.. intresting tactic

there is a fundamental right to marry under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the state would have to show a "compelling interest" in restricting a particular form of marriage. Clearly the sheer impossibility (not difficulty, but impossibility) of implementing legal polygamy qualifies.

yes, because clearly we don't have any unresolved legal issues from gay marriage

like a formerly hetrosexual dies and leaves his child to his SO... the wife, who is a biological parent objects due to her moral values, and right as a parent

no cause i mean courts, and legislatures don't go around ironing out flaws in the legal system... that never happens.

and, lets not forget in the past we have had men with multiple commonlaw spouses.. so there is a precident for sorting this matters out. Also how legal rights work for wives of illegal polygamists

fun from a a stich in haste he has a good blog but the fact real world polygamists are advancing as slowly as the first cases for gay marriage proves him wrong on this point

Hehe.. A new blog to me with a funny message

Gay Orbit helped pus all put the Howard Dean election In the proper context

Woah

I am on the OmbudsGod's blogwole and Ankle Biting Pundits

Sweeeet

it came from Vodkapundit

Columbia Journalism Review's Steve Lovelady made another choice comment and reading the work on Vodkapundit's page I was reminded of something

2 --In the 2003 New York Times op-ed piece written by Jordan in 2003, he did not " admit that CNN had decided not to broadcast stories unflattering to the Iraqi government during the time Iraq was ruled by Saddam Hussein."

He did admit that he had withheld individual stories on specific atrocities precisely for fear that airing them would be the equivalent of a death sentence for his people in Saddam's Iraq. And he expressed relief that finally these stories could and would come out.

Ok... He was saying he was afraid Hussein would target his workers, two things that i found problematic with these coments

#1) As many Journalists At the time rightly attacked Jordan for, He didn't have to be In Iraq. CNN had a near exclusive deal with the Thugacrocy of Saddam. CNN on his watch made the choice to be there, that other news organizations were not doing

and

#2) He also fails to mention that Saddam Brutally tortured CNN employees anyway. This was something Eason Jordan had to know as well. To me the fact my soft shoe for Saddam was failing would have had me yank my organization outside the area. He didn't

you should read the rest of this post and watch lovelady get owned

I’m From the UN and I’m here to Help

(Note my use of a Star Wars fan film in the link is not an endorsement whatsoever)

“The UN: We also Rape Children.” That’s the reality and it is getting more and more obvious every day. The UN aides and abets in the theft of money meant to feed starving Iraqi’s. Sexual Harassment of employees and the list goes on and on.

I’ve heard from former UN employees tales of the peacekeepers selling themselves to rival factions as mercenaries... this issues of corruption are nothing new, what is new is the United States and many other nations are tiring of it.

We’ve heard tales of piecemeal reforms coming from the desk of Kofi Annan, but I think piecemeal isn’t going to cut it. It’s not going to make these wounds heal.

I think we need a New UN. We need a UN with some degree of balance. We need to have both equal representation for Nations, but some thing to weigh the realities to the power bases of the Nations in the world. We need to see to it that Nations who commit on a regular basis crimes against humanity are not put in charge of setting the standards.

We need to put in rules and safeguards which prevent Nations like Israel from being singled out, while neighbors get away with the same and worse.

The religon paper that has been consuming me since tuesday

http://larry-blogs-god.blogspot.com/


If you are intrested

More proof of why we need McCain Feingold

Last year, Democrats spent $61 million on TV ads in Ohio.

Republicans, on the other hand, spent $39 million, on such ads, or 36 percent less than their Democratic opposition.

Yeah man.... And John Kerry won by 36% of the vote right? Oh.. Oh He didn't

All i have to say is wow

"I tried to explain that Iran was not like the Soviet Union, that the mullahs were deeply unpopular but unlike their predecessors over the last 150 years they were not in the hands of the British or the Russians or the Americans," said François Heisbourg, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "She gave no proof that Iran was totalitarian, because she didn't have any. It was scary. Unless there is some give on the American side we are heading for a real crisis."

So.. its not enough that a group of unelected people can have you arrested, tortured, and killed

What kind of proof do the frogs want?

No Pasaran for the hat tip

A scandal for Howard the Dean?

Newsmax seems to think so

to me its proof socialist care only has a greater cost explosion to show for their work

It came from the email box

Sad conclusion in the Eason Jordan affair (see below the New
York Times article), sad day for the freedom of expression in
America and sad day again for the future of blogging

When did some one say we needed to have freedom from responsibility to have freedom of speech?

Eason Jordan spoke freely, and will I am sure continue to do so again.

I am sure Eason Jordan will even write a book about how he was mistreated ( and a lot of folks will be buying this book)

he defense
of the US army honor seemed more important to some bloggers
than the defense of reporters' work (and sometimes life)!

A man who ordered covering up for a dictator to get CNN access to his atrocious regime. I think if anything this is showing the world the work of Eason Jordan outside the bounds of the media fraternity

Nevertheless, there is one advantage in this story: masks are
fallen! Within the honest community of bloggers, some of them
claimed to be the "sons of the First Amendment", they just were
the sons of Senator McCarthy. And this is very worrying to see
this new wedding between self-proclaimed citizen's media and
mainstream journalists scalps' hunters.

You see we've been lied to

we've been lied to for a long time by folks like Eason Jordan. They have controlled, spun, and manipulated everything we know.

that's why the Scalp hunter mentality is out there amongst bloggers, along with the "we actually pushed him to resign" euphoria which will in time go away

folks like Eason Jordan have been smug and arrogant in how they treat the masses, but now the masses can respond to their treatment by their overlords... A new status quo will have to emerge

but Calling us McCarthites is not the way to get there ( and further perpetuates historical inaccuracies about McCarthy)

Fifty years ago, it was
enough to be communist to be fired, today, it is enough to raise
questions about the Bush administration policy in Iraq to be
denounced as "anti-American".

Mr. Eason didn't question Bush administration policy. he spun an innuendo ( at best) or a lie ( at worst) about Us Soldiers. And then he backed down when he was caught in the act. This reminds me of why i liked Congressman Frank back in my early days of watching C-Span he is a man of political integrity and honesty.

Maybe the only difference is that
you are not fired, but that you must dismiss! What's my
conclusion? Real promoters of citizen media would have to take
some distance with those who have fueled and organised the
Eason Jordan hatred. If not, the "new era of journalism" opened
by the blogosphere will appear as the old clothes of American
populism.

So you hold that no one should be responsible for their words? I'd love to see you apply that same rule to a politician

According to the New York Times, "Eason Jordan, a senior
executive at CNN who was responsible for coordinating the cable
network's Iraq coverage, resigned abruptly Friday 11 February,
citing a journalistic tempest he touched off during a panel
discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
late last month in which he appeared to suggest that United States
troops had deliberately aimed at journalists, killing some.
Though no transcript of Mr. Jordan's remarks at Davos on Jan. 27
has been released, the panel's moderator, David Gergen, editor at
large of U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview last
night that Mr. Jordan had initially spoken of soldiers, "on both
sides," who he believed had been "targeting" some of the more
than four dozen journalists killed in Iraq. Almost immediately
after making that assertion, Mr. Jordan, whose title at CNN had
been executive vice president and chief news executive, "quickly
walked that back to make it clear that there was no policy on the
part of the U.S. government to target or injure journalists," Mr.
Gergen said."

He walked it back after being CONFRONTED

thats a huge difference. What if Congressman Frank wasn't there? would anyone with that position of authority who was there forced Eason Jordan to walk it back?

the coverage also fails to note how Arab Journalists praised him for "speaking the truth" the same journalists who make inuendo and lies about the US government on a regular basis

In a memorandum released to his colleagues last night, Mr.
Jordan, 44, who had worked at the network for more than two
decades, said he had "decided to resign in an effort to prevent
CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over
conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming
number of journalists killed in Iraq."
Bret Stephens, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial
board who attended the session in Davos, wrote in Thursday's
Journal that Mr. Jordan had "made a defamatory innuendo" but
added: "Mr. Jordan deserves some credit for retracting the
substance of his remark, and some forgiveness for trying to weasel
his way out of a bad situation of his own making."
Source: New York Times. See also the first posting on 28 January
2005 about the Eason Jordan affair: it was posted by Rony
Abrovitz on forumblog.org, the official weblog of the World
Economic Forum.

something my mother taught me that Eason Jordan should have remembered

Its not the crime that always gets you, but lying about it most certainly will

Media Bias, Advertisers, and the Free Press

Media Bias, Advertisers, and the Free Press

I’d like to start this off by saying I am not a member of the Press… I am just some guy in pajamas (currently scrubs) and I got my words to say here.

Look at what’s happened at CNN (tailwind, two scandals from Eason Jordan), CBS (the TANG memos, phony Vietnam vets claiming atrocities), the NYTs (Jayson Blair), USA Today ( umm with whomever the guy there was) and probably the next case of bias from another media outlet. This was not about republicans out to get democrats or big money against the little guy…. This is about an industry that long ago realized that to make money they have to generate viewers. And they have chosen a way to make money. Fox has chosen bias in another way ( as had rush, hannity, etc)

These biases are about selling a product to people. Why does fox work? Because a lot of folks out there in TV land knew just by a careful eye and ear was spun and twisted. Thus the Product of Fox News sold well to those people. That is one of two ways that the media companies serve their advertisers (targeting). Talk Radio and Fox use this method very well.

The Traditional media party is still working the Muckraker card. “Everything is horrible; the world is going to end unless you do exactly what we tell you to.” They are targeting the fact people do see *gasps* problems in the real world. So the bigger the problems that the media shows to the general public, the bigger their draw of viewers and readers. That’s part of the “Liberal Media Bias”. And with this part, you can say all manner of things that P*** off your advertising base, but the numbers of viewers will still come in and you still sell. This is how shows like Married with Children last out moral controversies. This method can be risky but it has a big pay day.

And the advertisers? Sure they can get mad but if their ad reaches the most profitable and maximum cross section of the audience the greedy little piggies will keep eating it up. Controversy ( such as boycott campaigns) can work if something is marginal. But if it has roots (Married with Children, the WWE) it won’t work. Advertisers go for the demographics that ensure their success. So the corporate defense just doesn’t work. If the New York Times, USA Today, or CNN keep pumping out the people, they will keep getting in the Ad revenue.

Now they aren’t. Because they long ago stopped caring about the product they put out. Was the Scott Peterson trial more important then the brutalizing of poor people in the Congo by UN personnel? Not by any rational definition of the word Important. Should wall to wall coverage be given to any high profile trial, while the vast majority of people in North Korea are living on a starvation diet do to the criminal behavior of the government? Again no. they don’t want to do the stories that are meaningful from a muck raking standpoint, they simply want to do the ones that get them their bang for the buck

Do we see Journalists going after the incestuous relations between the scientific research community and many of the very industries who would make their ideas real products? Where are the Journalists questioning foreign governments who opposed the Iraq war, and were the bulk of pre and post sanction Iraqi trade? The journalists don’t see those things as problem because of the second byproduct of bias

Journalists, all of the national elite live in a small pond. Most of them go to the same parties, the same restaurants, the same social functions. Many of them live in close proximity or vacation in close proximity to each other. For the Media to stand as the 4th estate over the rest of the world they would have to go there.

This is not a problem that is republican or democrat in origin. As Rush Limbaugh is likely in orbit of the same clutches of geography as Hillary Clinton. The people with power are largely centralized in the same community, and as such they have the same environmental concerns dictating how they see the world.

Now at many of the local newspapers this was not the case till they were consolidated and corporate group think enforced upon them. Bias is about environment. They don’t see what they are doing is wrong. And bias is about roping in us plebes into buying their product and the other people who totemize their product. Except when I was a kid I can’t think of a time advertising on TV, newspapers, or radio influenced me to get a product. It’s because it’s just a box or a paper... its no more important then that.

And my mother always taught me not to believe everything you hear or read. So media has failed to snare me, and they will continue the road to bias.

New levels of lawyering

Testifying from france, to a court in england, against a US plaintif

*ahem*

Charles' younger brother, Prince Edward, announced in 2003 that his newborn daughter would not receive the HRH, nor would any more children he and his wife, Sophie, might have.

which is all well and good if he had the power to do that

HRH Queen Elizabeth II does and oh yeah she hasn't

i mean it is sure great he can say that.. but i can say i am the king of siam but it isn't true

good gravy

the guy claiming to be behind the hoax of John "Cody" Adams may have himself been a hoax

Oi

(praise to the confederate yankee)

Abu Mazen Actually living up to his word

Now if this isn't a new card in the Cairo Plan color me impressed

Oh like i didn't know this

In the "Duh" moment of the news day North Korea announced it had nukes

I have on word from two former Department of Navy personel whom I know would have been in a position to know factually the Status of North Korea's Nuclear program

according to both of these individuals they have had Nuclear weapons since AT LEAST 1996

so the North Koreans are fibbing

NASA: Not good at Math

To determine if the Earth is warming or cooling, scientists look at average temperatures. To get an "average" temperature, scientists take the warmest and the coolest temperatures in a day, and calculate the temperature that is exactly in the middle of those high and low values. This provides an average temperature for a day. These average temperatures are then calculated for spots all over the Earth, over an entire year.

I thought that was the Median temperature.. i thought the average was the total temperatures in a given sampling divided by the total numbers of samples taken

if the bulk of the day was at 70* F but part of the day for 2 seconds was at 0* F and 100* F that doesn't mean the average temperature was 50

go back to Math class nasa