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 And sometimes the punchlines just write themselves
4/30/06 22:40:46
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No heavy lifting of any kind required:
Sen. Alexander to Introduce Senate Resolution on Singing National Anthem in English | | | April 28th, 2006 - WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), former U.S. Secretary of Education, said today he will introduce on Monday a Senate Resolution “giving senators an opportunity to remind the country why we sing our National Anthem in English.
“We Americans are a unique nation of immigrants united by a common language and a belief in principles expressed in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, not by our race, ancestry or country of origin. We are proud of the countries we have come from, but we are prouder to be Americans,” said Alexander.
“That is why our national motto is E Pluribus Unum, one from many. That is why the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag, the Oath of Allegiance for new citizens, and the National Anthem – all important symbols of our national unity – were written in, and should be said or sung in, our common language, English,” he said.
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Michelle Malkin
4/29/06 21:30:03
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So the racist Malkin is pulling up stakes and leaving her home? Because those meanies who invaded her privacy gave her a taste of her own medicine? Shocking. What sort of irresponsible monster would use the power of television or the Internets to go after someone they had a beef with? Only a nut would do such a thing...right?
Or maybe a nutty organization. Or an isolated wag at a nutty organization. Just ask Tucker Carlson.
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Tony Snow
4/29/06 21:22:39
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So the new White House mouthpiece is Tony Snow. To say I was gobsmacked when I heard this news is an understatement.
Yes, yes, I know that there’s been much cynical shoulder-shrugging about this choice, since Fox "News" is seen as the private sector Bush White House publicity house, for which Tony Snow has been working for many years.
That is not, however, the point.
The point is that Tony Snow, cancer survivor and father of young children, is someone who, while ideologically in line (most of the time) with the current administration, is neither insane nor a masochist. The White House press secretary job is considered one of the most difficult - and one of the suckiest - jobs in D.C....horrible hours, constant travel, and massive abuse and scorn from both the bosses and the press corp. So why the hell would Tony leave his nice Fox job to jump feet first into this hell?
I haven’t spoken to Tony for many years, so I can’t say with any degree of certainty why he would voluntarily jump into the vortex of underpaid madness. My theory is that the only way for him to leave Fox without being smeared, insulted and destroyed by the Murdoch/Ailes publicity machine was to go to the one place where he’d be insulated from the indignities suffered by those who dared flee the compound: a high-ranking administration job.
Again, just a thought.
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Speaking of USAT’s shallowness
4/7/06 10:31:47
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..please take the time to check out the blog that McPaper.com’s Executive Editor is all puffed up about, which manages to take the paper’s superficial coverage of mostly trivial events and regurgitate it onto the Web in even tinier morsels. Consider the top three offerings this morning:
Is Hamas ready to compromise? Could be!!
A family survives an avalanche, and ski patrol members die in a geothermal vent.
Judge rules in the Da Vinci Code lawsuit
Now, where the demand for this blog came from is anyone’s guess, since it reads more or less like USAT.com’s home page, only with a bit of meat under a headline. But hey, they’re nothing but on the ball at Gannett’s cash machine, having caught on to the blog phenomenon years after it became established. Well played, USAT. Well played.
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Facelift
4/6/06 19:41:20
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Big doings at McPaper.com:
The new design was guided by research and usability testing that showed the vast majority of our readers were using the higher screen resolutions (minimum 1024x768) that allow for wider display, and that most made little use of the left-hand navigation on our story pages. We’ve added a handy drop-down box at the upper left of our pages with shortcuts to help you navigate to a section’s essential elements.
A variation of the new design is already in use on our blog pages, such as OnDeadline, and has been well-received by readers. You’ll see some momentary inconsistencies in design as the changes are rolled out across different areas of the site this week, but we hope you’ll agree that the new layout makes it even easier to find the information you’ve come to expect from USA TODAY. We welcome your feedback.
Very impressive, but given the crappiness of the content to be posted in USAT’s sleek new templates, this bit of virtual plastic surgery is sort of like widening a boulevard and adding tasteful landscaping to host a parade of Yugos.
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Circling
4/4/06 08:22:49
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The president, previously perceived as spineless and opportunistic, now appears to be hoplessly corrupt. The various and sundry branches of federal law enforcement are at each others’ throats fighting endless turf battles. While the beaurocrats hold meetings, backstab, and make decisions based on political expediency, a nation is at the brink of disaster.
I’m talking, of course, about 24, which has drawn perilously close to jumping the shark.
My beefs are as follows, in no particular order:
-- What is up with CTU essentially deputizing anyone with a pulse who walks into their facility? First it was Tony Almeida, fallen agent (not once, but several times). Then Audrey Raines. One minute she’s strolling in, the next she’s sitting in on conference calls and making major decisions. By whose authority, exactly?
-- Is it really necessary for all the characters at CTU to be such a know-it-alls when it comes to computers?
-- Why is it that Jack does all the heavy lifting, yet gets such a boatload of grief? We’ve definitely drifted into the Dirty Harry/Beverly Hills Cop world of cliche, in which a rogue officer is constantly pissing off the lieutenant back at HQ. OK, I get it, Jack does as he sees fit. You’d think they’d have figured it out by now.
-- Kim Bauer is one of the worst television characters ever created, a pouty, whiny, trouble magnet, whose sole role is to look fetching and helpless for the viewing pleasure of the male audience. Trouble is, she’s annoying as hell. No mas, no mas!
-- At what point will the Chinese figure out that Jack is alive and demand to have him extradicted? I seem to recall this was a major plot sticking point last season.
-- What the hell is up with that secret service guy? Love him, but isn’t it kind of odd for the head of the detail to disappear for long stretches of time and smuggle outsiders onto the Presidential compoung? I’m just sayin’, seems kind of weird.
-- Why is all this top secret business being conducted on cell phones?
-- When Homeland Security comes and takes over CTU, you’d think that al-Qaeda was now in charge. Jeez, dial it down a little people. You all work for the same side (I guess).
And by the way, what the devil is actually happening this season? Can someone explain? Cause I’m kinda lost. Who are these bad guys supposed to be? Who do they represent? What do they want?
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Going, going
4/4/06 08:09:13
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Yes, it’s about that time:
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), a primary architect of the Republican majority who became one of the most powerful and feared leaders in Washington, told House allies last night that he will give up his seat rather than face a reelection fight that appears increasingly unwinnable.
The decision came three days after Tony C. Rudy, his former deputy chief of staff, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges, telling federal prosecutors of a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay’s leadership offices. Rudy’s plea agreement did not implicate DeLay in any illegal activities, but by placing the influence-buying efforts of disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff directly in DeLay’s operation, the former aide may have made an already difficult reelection bid all but out of reach.
I’m sure that this decision wasn’t influenced in any way by this deeply embarrassing piece (which laid out in greater detail a tangled web first unwoven by Raw Story) in the Wall Street Journal, in which the intrepid woman scorned utzes the cad who done her wrong by dropping a helluva dime.
For even an even more cynical perspective, take a look at Matt Taibbi’s Abramoff piece in the latest Rolling Stone.
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