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why?

May 5, 2008 – 4:55 pm

Why do we allow speculators to raise the price of commodities like food and oil by betting on how expensive those same commodities are going to be in the future?
Doesn’t that seem a bit suicidal, like betting against yourself, doubling down each time?
India may be on the right track: India considers suspending trade in food [...]

By slim | Also posted in Corporate control, Economic justice, Money Party | Comments (1)

Spotlight on Media Military Analysts

April 20, 2008 – 11:23 am

Most of the mainstream media seem to have dropped any pretense of impartiality.I listened to an NPR piece about the cease-fire talks in Israel and both guests were pro-Israel, American Enterprise Institute members, who gave no mention of the Palestinian people’s complaints. To make matters worse, few Americans know who these frequently sourced or featured [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Middle East conflicts, Military | Comments (0)

If ABC Covered the Lincoln/Douglas Debates

April 19, 2008 – 12:33 pm

Publius brings the funny:

LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Excuse me, did an Elijah H. Johnson attend your church?
LINCOLN: When I was a [...]

By Rich | Comments (0)

email your complaints about the worst debate ever

April 18, 2008 – 10:10 am

Jill kindly provides the email addresses to let ABC/Disney and the debate sponsors know exactly how you feel about their reprehensible bread and circuses performance Wednesday:
Disney:
albert.cheng@disney.com,
alex.wallau@disney.com,
andy.bird@disney.com,
anne.sweeney@disney.com,
brent.woodford@disney.com,
David.K.Thompson@disney.com,
gary.marsh@disney.com,
gary.wilson@nwa.com,
george.bodenheimer@disney.com,
george.mitchell@dlapiper.com,
jestrin@packetdesign.com,
jewell.engstrom@disney.com,
john.bryson@edisonintl.com,
john.chen@sybase.com,
kevin.mayer@disney.com,
mike.shaw@disney.com,
monica.lozano@laopinion.com,
nicole.nichols@disney.com,
patti.mcteague@disney.com,
paul.lee@disney.com,
preston.padden@disney.com,
rich.ross@disney.com,
Robert.A.Iger@disney.com,
Ronald.iden@disney.com,
sean.cocchia@disney.com,
tom.staggs@disney.com,
zenia.mucha@disney.com
ABC:
abcaudr@abc.com,
abcnews.storyideas@gmail.com,
abcradio@abc.com,
anne.x.sweeney@abc.com,
brian.frons@abc.com,
charles.a.gallo@abc.com,
charles.gibson@abc.com,
erin.felentzer@abc.com,
frank.valentini@abc.com,
heidi.b.oringer@abc.com,
investor.relations@disneyonline.com,
jonathan.hogan@abc.com,
Julie.carruthers@abc.com,
netaudr@abc.com,
Patrick.k.preblick@abc.com,
steve.jones@abc.com,
stossel@abc.com
Give them what for.

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By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election | Comments (0)

i’m glad i was in tkd practicing breaking techniques

April 17, 2008 – 12:52 pm

instead of home watching the debate last night; otherwise, I think I would have put a flying sidekick through my teevee.
Judging from the transcript, all I learned is that Charlie Gibson is a fatuous douchebag, George Stephanopoulos is still afraid of Hillary Clinton a decade after leaving the inner circle, Clinton is still doggedly slinging [...]

By slim | Also posted in 2008 Election | Comments (0)

Charlie Gibson loses the debate

April 17, 2008 – 10:29 am

According to the audience response and a viewer survey conducted afterwards, it was clear that ABC News lost the Presidential candidate debate in Philadelphia last night. The pivotal moment that most pundits declared was the turning point was the question presented to one of the contestants candidates about not wearing a lapel pin. [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in 2008 Election | Comments (1)

Robbins broadsides the broadcasters

April 16, 2008 – 2:25 pm

Image via WikipediaThe lack of a free and unbiased press has been a big issue of mine for too many years now. I remember when the media ended a pointless war and drove a corrupt President out of office. But those days are long gone and our lamestream press in this country now [...]

By bushtool | Comments (0)

Countdown’s Worst Person In The World: McSame, The Big Dick and Billo

April 12, 2008 – 11:49 pm

http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/uploads/countdown_worst_person_041108.wmv


By bushtool | Comments (0)

a silver lining?

April 11, 2008 – 10:45 am

Our son L. knows how I cherish my few weekly hours with Sam Seder on Sunday afternoons by the way he has to beg to get me out of the house or car. Losing Morning Sedition and the Majority Report was bad, but when AAR put Sam into Al Franken’s morning slot it was [...]

By slim | Comments (2)

hey, columbian: are you trying to make me bulemic, or what?

April 9, 2008 – 9:30 am

First we had a two-headed kitten, then a two-faced kitten. This morning? An infant with two faces, in full color on A8.
She’s from India, with no connection to Vancouver, or Washington or even the U.S. There is no reference to treatment or screening for genetic anomalies, or lifesaving medical breakthroughs that might [...]

By slim | Also posted in AP, Columbian, The | Comments (0)

it’s shark summer all over again

March 27, 2008 – 10:19 am

Note to The Columbian:
Unless there’s some epidemic I’m unaware of, updates on women hospitalized after years being adhered to their toilet seats are not page A3 material.
And Richard Widmark may have been the shizzit back in the 50s, but for FSM’s sake he died at age 93 after decades in retirement. Is he really [...]

By slim | Also posted in Columbian, The | Comments (0)

fuck the troops, i’ve got a mortgage to worry about

March 25, 2008 – 11:38 am

PZ on our national vegetative state:
I don’t get it.
As a nation, we stand atop a pedestal of bones and ruined lives. The disruption of families is ongoing, and our honor has been thrown away by the greed and ignorance of our leaders. And yet we carry on as if nothing is happening, nothing is wrong, [...]

By slim | Also posted in Culture, Iraq | Comments (4)