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  • Art Stone 9:06 pm on November 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Spot the Bias – a group of emails from a group of climate scientists have been made public after being acquired by “hackers”… The emails show a damning pattern of so-called scientists colluding to cover up the data not matching their models, and how to shut up people who might deny their so-called “science”. Note which headlines focus on the “theft” of email, and which on the science… (The NY Times has confirmed the emails are authentic)

    Computerworld – Global warming research exposed after hack
    NY Times – Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
    Wired – Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
    BBC – Hackers target leading climate research unit
    London Times – Sceptics publish climate e-mails ’stolen from East Anglia University’
    Register – Wrecking CRU: hackers cause massive climate data breach
    (Climate data is secret?)
    DailyTech – Climategate: Stunning Deception and Misconduct at UK Warming Research Center …
    Media Matters – Limbaugh distorts apparently stolen emails to falsely claim global warming is …
    NPR – Climate Change Skeptics Pounce On E-Mails Hackers Got From UK Scientists’ Files
    Guardian (.uk) – Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists
    FOXNews – Climate Skeptics See ‘Smoking Gun’ in Researchers’ Leaked E-Mails

     

  • Art Stone 4:54 pm on November 20, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    NPR is talking up Mniter’s cause of the Washington Times EEOC complaint

     

    • Art Stone 6:07 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      It strikes me that the anger I’m hearing from people is the idea that Reverand Moon has the audacity to hold “weddings”.

  • Art Stone 12:14 am on November 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Fred Thompson is getting a lot of left wing echo chamber noise about saying today that the war in Afghanistan is lost – making comparisons to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s statement that the war in Iraq was “lost” by President Bush

     

  • Art Stone 9:31 pm on November 19, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Oprah’s TV show on Friday will announce that she is quitting TV at the end of her current contract in 2011

     

    • jmyrlefuller 10:06 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      She said that before, too… hopefully she sticks to it this time.

    • KingSlav 11:02 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Is it possible that there’s a single radio listener who cares?

      • Art Stone 11:24 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Oprah has a channel on Sirius/XM radio… so I’m sure the answer is “Yes”.

    • WesternMA 7:58 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Just read on Drudge that Judge Judy beat her…I wonder if she sees the writing on the wall. She’s recently made some tactical errors on her show by failing to realize that people do not want to get their politics from her.

    • WesternMA 8:21 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      National Enquirer has a “Breaking News” piece on a feud between Oprah and Michelle Obama. If she’s being forced out, her minions will rise up with fury.

    • msubobcats 9:14 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I am so depressed now…..Oprah WHO!

    • WesternMA 10:07 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Don’t be depressed, msubobcats…Since she’s leaving in 2011, that will allow her to campaign for Obama for 2012…and with her own Sirius station!

    • blsumner 2:12 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Yet another reason that I like Sarah Palin! I thinks she’s part of the reason that “The Oprah” decided to quit. “The Oprah” has seen the writing on the wall.

  • Art Stone 9:08 pm on November 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    It’s really hard to type long messages on the iPhone!

     

  • Art Stone 8:04 pm on November 19, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Huge warning sign – one of the things that happened last September just happpened again today – the 3 month Treasury BIll interest rate went negative – meaning banks are willing to lend money to the US Treasury and accept back in 3 months less money than they lent. That’s a huge sign something really bad is about to happen.

    As bad as we think the US Dollar is and Glenn Beck talks it down, the smart money is fleeing from some even worse investment

     

    • Art Stone 10:13 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Surveying the day’s news, the most likely explanation is that there is growing awareness in Congress of how Tim Geithner and Goldman Sachs have looted the U.S. Treasury. If they follow through on demanding Geithner’s resignation, I think we’re goinna find a whole lot of fecal matter has been swept under the rug during the past year. Goldman’s bribes of $900 million to pay off small business people with “scholarships” may be a sign they know they are about to get slammed.

      • jmyrlefuller 10:58 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        If indeed Goldman Sachs has to be held accountable for their actions, this is going to change the political landscape quite a bit. Both the Bush and the Obama administrations were involved with GS throughout the whole economic crisis.

        • Art Stone 12:00 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          The other related piece of news is Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve passed over the objections of Barney Frank. The Fed is about to get a proctology exam with a very large pointy instrument.

    • HPaws 6:05 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      My knowledge base is less sophisticated than Art’s. My reaction is that the faster we get the Fed to turn it’s head and cough and proclaim loudly the whispered fact that Goldman Sachs (and their ilk) should become pariahs the faster we can set things right. The problem is that the business slime has purchased legal cover from the political slime. When did legal divorce itself from right?

      • Art Stone 4:59 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        There is a signifcant risk if we seperate the twins, the patient may not survive. The US Government funds itself through the proxy of the Fed interacting with a group of what are called “Primary Dealers”. Goldman Sachs is very much part of that process, and can be viewed almost as a quasi-government operation.

  • Art Stone 6:20 pm on November 19, 2009 | 6 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Glenn Beck to announce major change to his TV program in Florida on Saturday.

    He dropped a hint stronger than before that he may be actively looking at leaving New York. Florida or Texas would be the logical choices.

     

    • KingSlav 10:54 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Likely Florida. For a national show he really needs to be based in the Eastern Time zone.

      • Art Stone 11:26 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Why would you say that? His show is on at 5 PM in New York – He would do it at 4 PM from Texas… Most of the Central Time zone basically lives on Eastern Time anyhow (no tape delays like they do in Mountain/Pacific time)

      • Robrrt 11:55 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        FLA is in Central Time. (FLA = Friggin’ Lower Alabama = Pensacola to Apalachicola)

    • WesternMA 8:03 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      FLA is in Central Time Zone??? Did Obama change that too?

    • blsumner 2:08 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Not yet but you need to keep up. FLA panhandle IS in Central Time :)

  • Art Stone 5:01 pm on November 19, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Washington Times expected to cease newspaper publishing…
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116528

    This was on my radar a few days ago from TPM…. apparently, the folks in Korea have had enough red ink and have given up operating the Washington DC area Conservative newspaper. It might continue to operate a web site, though…

    Former editor Richard Miniter filed a religious discrimination complaint with the EEOC this week, claiming he was forced to attend a Unification Church ceremony. John Solomon, the Washington Times Executive Editor quit this week without explanation…. Solomon was a former AP guy who arrived and started issuing rules like “You can’t use the term illegal aliens”)…

    Here is a message from the acting editor on their web site:
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/19/note-twts-publisher/comments/

    WND and the Washington Times are not adversaries – they work closely together on a lot of stories, so when WND says they have inside sources, I believe them.

     

    • Art Stone 1:00 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      TPM has more info about Miniter’s lawsuit here.

      This looks really odd (but I’m not a lawyer)…. he’s claiming an EEOC violation – the remedy to which would be something like getting his job back and getting back wages….but his attorney is seeking an order to freeze the newspaper’s assets and do discovery on the newspaper’s finances, none of which are relevant to his complaint (unless the issue is the newspaper was going to hide all its assets to avoid paying him).

      Weird.

  • Art Stone 4:52 pm on November 19, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    LPFM (Low Power FM) is coming to your neighborhood…. the US Senate committee today unanimously approved loosening restrictions on LPFM radio stations over the objections of the NAB. LPFM stations are up to 100 watts and can be heard up to about 5 miles away. They are similar to college radio stations except they’ll be in the commercial FM radio band and have less FCC paperwork to get started. Most of the existing LPFM stations (which have to be non-profit) are either religious stations or run by community activist groups…. LPFM stations do now appear in this directory, and if this makes it through into law, 1000s more will probably be created

     

    • mitchellc 3:16 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Interesting. I know close to nothing about how this would work – is this something a person could do from their home? At 100 watts would it require the usual gigantic radio tower, or is there some way people can do it on the cheap?

      • Art Stone 5:06 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I can’t speak to “cheap”, but a lot less than a regular radio station, yes….

        http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/lpfm/

        The station needs a sponsoring non-profit organization for the paperwork. Unlike a “real” radio station, it does not have to have a public office or maintain a public file. Since it is low power, there is not much advantage to having an antenna up high, so a small simple antenna will do. You also need an FM frequency where you won’t interfere with existing stations. That change the Senate is working on would allow a station on “third adjacent” channels from existing FM stations.

        One other important difference is you can’t sell the LPFM station. If you get tired of running it, you turn the license back into the FCC… (or the non-profit organization changes its leaders, but no money can change hands).

        Also, a LPFM station is not required to be on the air all the time – from memory, I think the requirement is 35 hours/week, similar to the requirement for college radio stations.

        The LPFM station also has to originate some local programming – it can’t just be a satellite receiver dish…. however, “local” could just mean a computer playiing random music all day from its library.

        One other obstacle is the station has to have an EAS device so that in the event of a national emergency, President Obama can take control of the station. The FCC loves to fine tiny radio stations if their EAS receiver is not working correctly.

  • Art Stone 4:49 pm on November 19, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Walter Isaacson takes over Broadcasting Board of Governors for the US Government. Did you know we had such a thing? The former Time Magazine Managing Editor and CEO of CNN will be leading the board that oversees the US Government’s broadcasting properties – most well known are Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. If the Obama administration did want to set up a “Radio Czar” board to operate bailed out “failed” radio businesses after they go bankrupt for not paying their toxic bank loans, this would be a logical place to do that.

     

    • jmyrlefuller 5:33 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Yes. Specifically, I know they’re banned from targeting their programming to residents of the United States. Hence why VOA isn’t a major noncommercial network on the level of, say, NPR.

      • Art Stone 5:42 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        An administration that can fire the President of GM and take over Bank of America will have no trouble changing that rule.

  • Art Stone 4:22 pm on November 19, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce and Kraft’s Stove Top Stuffing both are made with HFCS – Happy GiveThanksToADM day!

     

    • foyle 4:38 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I firmly believe HFCS is a direct contributor to our obesity epidemic. Our bodies do not process HFCS the same way as cane sugar, thus you can drink 2 liters of Dr Pepper with HFCS and not necessarily feel full, but drink a “real” 12 oz Dr Pepper made with real sugar (available in Texas and in the NC mountains) and you will feel full!

      HFCS is the bane of the American diet — just go through your local grocery and pick up items randomly — tons of HFCS in just about every packaged and canned good! Yuck…

      • Art Stone 5:38 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Fairly recently, Burger King “upsized” its sodas again…. “medium” is now huge – I’m guessing 24 oz – it doesn’t say on the cup anywhere I could find.

        On my trip to the new Whole Foods store (nobody commented on my pretty pictures!), I was on the lookout to see if they were keeping HFCS out of the things they sell, and to the extent I looked (the place was crowded), that seemed to be the case. I’m beginning to notice a few products specifically adding “contains no HFCS” on the label.

        From my reading on the subject, it isn’t just that it’s HFCS… fructose in general doesn’t cause a release of insulin and the hormone that suppresses hunger… but fructose hasn’t been used that much as a general purpose sweetener because of its cost (and its fruity taste) – but with subsidized low corn prices, HFCS becomes more attractive (and the shutdown of sugar production in Florida and tariffs against sugar from Brazil also are a factor).

        Replacing HFCS with another type of fructose doesn’t really change the problem. The big issue was that people didn’t know/realize the significance of it being put into soda. Most “fruit juice” is heavily spiked with pear juice, which is also just tons of fructose…. Fruit juice has a lot more calories per ounce than coca-cola, but you don’t typically drink 24 oz of it at once….

        • jmyrlefuller 5:48 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Fruit juice is also usually spiked with copious amounts of Vitamin C as a tartness enhancer, too. Depending on the flavor, beta carotene (Vitamin A) is also fairly common for coloring.

          Not usually so with most HFCS-sweetened drinks (Sunny Delight and Tang being notable exceptions, but I think Tang uses real sugar).

    • dsrtwillow 5:14 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      It’s in dill pickles! Go figure. Actual food is getting harder and harder to find.

  • Art Stone 3:34 pm on November 19, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    32% tuition increase at California University system – maybe it’s time to stop giving illegal aliens in-state tuition? Not a chance…. layoffs of professors? Bwahaha… Time for a Federal College Tuition bailout program!

     

    • Art Stone 5:16 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      OMG, the students have taken over the buildings! Send in the National Guard.

  • Art Stone 2:16 pm on November 19, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Charles Murray writes about Glenn Beck – (here). Charles Murray is the co-author of the controversial book “The Bell Curve” about the implications of the correlation between race and intelligence. He is currently at the American Enterprise Institute and concludes his thoughts about Glenn Beck by saying “Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann are brothers”.

     

    • phistar 7:57 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      What does Murray say in his post? Maybe I’m an outlier, but I read it twice and was able to discern next to nothing.

      People with strong, divisive opinions are propagandists? Perhaps the word is abused these days. In my children’s school, they are taught that advertisements are propaganda. Selling deodorant and freezer bags is now on par with “the Jews control the media,” “polar bears are dying from CO2,” and other such tripe. God help us all if we can’t discern and think critically.

      • Art Stone 8:12 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        The essence of what I got was…. “I thought Glenn Beck was an idiot because that’s what people around me said”…. “when I watched his show, I realized he was pretty close to my opinions on government”… but I’m not an idiot, so I’ll find some mistake he made so I can cleanse my conscience that I might actually agree with him.

        In the Bell Curve (which I have on my bookshelf), he and his co-author build up chapter after chapter of hard data presenting the case of the thing that cannot be said, and then wind up saying “but we’re not really saying the thing that can’t be said”.

        Same idea – trust me that the last thing Beck needs is for Murray to endorse Beck’s ideas.

    • WesternMA 8:04 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      After reading Murray’s article I couldn’t quite figure out why he wrote it. Was he just short a story for that day?

      • Art Stone 5:51 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Perhaps the answer lies in what the American Enterprise Institute is and who its friends are. Glenn has mentioned having meeting with some really smart economic type people, and heading in a new direction in January.

        Arthur C. Brooks is the head of the AEI, which seems very much in line with Beck’s view of the role of government and free enterprise. Perhaps Murray was sending a shot across the bow at the AEI….

  • Art Stone 1:16 pm on November 19, 2009 | 6 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    John Batchelor back in Syndication – WABC has officially announced that John Batchelor’s show (9PM-1AM on Saturday and Sunday) will become available for national syndication. For those who listen, the show has been on KNSS for about a month on Saturday (Citadel doesn’t own KNSS – it’s an Entercom station in Wichita, Kansas)

     

    • jmyrlefuller 1:52 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hmm… it ought to be interesting to see how much traction it gets. Bill Cunningham still has most of Drudge’s old affiliates, and I’m sure that there are quite a few stations that would prefer something a little more news-oriented in that time slot.

    • Art Stone 4:33 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      There is an important subtlety about this announcement – the syndication is by “WABC Radio Syndication”, not “Citadel Media” or “ABC Radio”. This spinoff of syndication was telegraphed about a year ago when Tom Taylor disclosed it before the corporate HQ for Citadel was ready (or possibly didn’t even know). This may well be related to whatever the plan is to restructure Citadel in January due to its crushing debt problem

    • jmyrlefuller 11:55 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I also notice, at least according to Wikipedia, WTKK/Boston is also carrying the Saturday show now.

      • Art Stone 11:32 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        That must be within the last month – on 10/17, Monica Crowley was still on the station on Saturday night, unless some tester couldn’t tell the difference :)

    • mitchellc 3:19 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Good. I figure WBT Charlotte will pick this up, since they used to carry Batchelor & Alexander. This will be a huge improvement over Allen Hunt.

      • Art Stone 5:54 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Maybe, maybe not. WBT is no longer owned by Jefferson Pilot – it was sold to Greater Media of Boston. CBS flipped a station there from sports to Conservative talk about a month ago, so there might be a competition :) … but my guess is WBT probably has an edge….

  • Art Stone 12:55 pm on November 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Sirius/XM pushed an iPhone update this morning. It broke the app. Fortunately, deleting and reinstalling the app fixed the problem….

     

  • Art Stone 6:44 am on November 19, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    KPAM radio is running an investigate story on teenage prostitution…. is it sweeps month?

     

    • jmyrlefuller 11:23 am on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Arbitron doesn’t have sweeps…?

      If this were TV, I’d say yes, November is sweeps.

      • Art Stone 1:03 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I don’t own a TV :)

        That’s what was so odd about it – teenage prostitution is a staple of TV sweeps, not talk radio. The promo was clearly to listen to their morning radio show – maybe they are doing cross promotion with a TV station.

        If this keeps up, some radio person will start doing bits where really hot actresses come on the radio show and take off their tops and show their boobs on the radio. Oh wait – baba booey!

  • Art Stone 8:56 pm on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Palin/Beck in 2012? I like that idea just because of the visual image of Keith Olbermann’s head exploding from fake outrage…

    [Obermann was a rank of officers in Hitler's SS corps - don't confuse Olbermann with Obermann]

     

  • Art Stone 8:20 pm on November 18, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Snarky humor or stupidity? The LA Times so-called newspaper has this blog article about how the author watched Oprah on Tuesday and was disappointed that Sarah Palin was a “no show”.

    Of course, Sarah Palin was on Oprah’s show on Monday.

    What’s your vote? Is he that stupid or is he comparing Sarah Palin to a porn star?

     

    • jmyrlefuller 10:36 pm on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Haha… as the old meme goes, epic fail.

    • 3tooz 9:10 am on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Im surprised that someone actually reads the LA Times.

    • rosegrower 10:12 am on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I vote that the reporter really was that stupid. If not, then he’d better stick to his day job and forego any future attempts at humor.

  • Art Stone 6:44 pm on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    CDR Financial – add it to your clipping service news feeds. They are at the center of a corruption probe involving swap contracts sold to government agencies as a way to hide kickbacks. Most of the big banks have been notified they are the subject of criminal and civil investigations. GE capital, Goldman Sachs… The mostly govt owned Bank of America is cooperating with government investigators.

     

  • Art Stone 6:18 pm on November 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Heard at Wal-Mart – I look to Wal-mart as a barometer of how things are going in the ecoonomy – both what they are stocking and how many and what types of people are there.

    With 6 checkout lanes active and not enough customers to keep 2 busy, my cashier (a probable future SEIU member and Obama supporter) was complaining to the next door cashier about all the overtime, worrying about Black Friday, how management was so stupid, and the kicker… “if anyone wants this job, come and take it”…

    I’m seeing lots of signs that people are really getting the message how deep in trouble we are… doctor and dentist offices around here have been pretty empty… people are hunkering down – it reminds me of being in Michigan in 1982 when you could stand in the middle of the main street and not worry about being hit by a car.

     

    • msubobcats 10:30 am on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Oh no, we have been told by our fearless leaders that it is turning around. Yeah RIIIIIGHT! The unemployment in our county in Northern California is somewhere in the neighborhood of 20%……And here in the area there are business’s CLOSED down and a few more getting ready to close…..

  • Art Stone 8:22 am on November 18, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    NPR News – the median age of listeners is 52. I can’t figure out why people in their 20s wouldn’t be spellbound by Fresh Air

     

    • msubobcats 10:20 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The last time I listened to npr news I thought I had the flu. Then I realized it was just npr.

    • rosegrower 10:40 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The vocal tone of the erudite newsreaders at NPR reminds me of Captain Kangaroo telling a story to the kiddies and inevitably puts me to sleep.

  • Art Stone 7:06 am on November 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    NY Times misses the real story – NY Times is running a sob story about an unemployed union roofer losing his house in Philadelphia (Story), painting Bank of America as the bad guy, and the City of Philadelphia as the good guy with its anti-foreclosure program.

    On the third page, the facts come out. His mortgage is $63,000 (after he “pulled money out” of his 4th generation family house in the 1990s)…. but his mortgage payment is $950 a month… It doesn’t mention the rate on his mortgage, but let’s guess it is 8%. That would be $420 a month…. what is the other $530 a month? City Property Taxes and insurance. Even if the interest rate was 0%, he can’t afford the house on an $800/month unemployment check.

     

    • Art Stone 8:27 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thinking a bit more – all of these programs to suspend foreclosures means escrow accounts to pay taxes are going to be unable to cover the tax bill – which will fairly quickly put the City as the bad guy forcing foreclosure.

      Why in all of this talk aren’t the cities offering to renegotiate property tax rates? (Yes, that was a rheturical question)

  • Art Stone 5:02 am on November 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Anti-fraud executive order on the way from President Obama – sounds like there will be an anti-fraud czar overseeing each department,

     

    • rosegrower 10:42 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The Obama administration issuing an anti-fraud executive order is like Chairman Mao issuing an order to protect human rights.

  • Art Stone 4:01 am on November 18, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    recovery.gov – give it a look…. notice how almost all of the “projects” to “create or save jobs” are government entities or community groups.

    The hospital in my town got an award for $380,000 to study whether Swedish Massage is helpful to people with arthritis….

     

    • WesternMA 8:14 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Recovery.gov is one of the funniest websites I’ve ever seen, and all for only 18 million dollars! Massachusetts has gained four new Congressional districts.

    • msubobcats 10:18 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      And didn’t D. C. have jobs created in 35 Congressional districts…..

  • Art Stone 3:29 am on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Chicago School Board Prez commits suicide (Story). Bill Ayers and President Obama have a lot of past history with the Chicago School system… the President of the Chicago School Board “committed suicide” this week. The police and coroner came to the “suicide” conclusion immediately based on the type of gunshot wound. (Doesn’t Chicago have very tight gun control laws?). Wonder if he knew Vince Foster….

    That article links to an earlier story in which his close friends Mayor Daley and Jesse Jackson were “shocked” by the news of his suicide. The African American community in Chicago seems to doubt the suicide story. Police are looking for security camera footage in the area to see if the “suicide” was caught on tape.

    The only theory put forth is that he was involved with a real estate deal that would have benefited if the Olympics had come to Chicago in 2016.

    My theory is he is despondent at how terrible the Chicago Public Schools have become with the high dropout rate.

     

  • Art Stone 2:35 am on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    NYC newspapers raided by police (Story). The offices of union leaders at the circulation plants of the NY Times and the NY Post were searched by police as part of an investigation. The article states pretty bluntly that NYC newspaper delivery is controlled by organized crime. (Does the SEIU want to take over newspaper delivery?)

     

  • Art Stone 3:37 am on November 17, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    NY times so-called news story. Subject is people who look for typography mistakes in movies and TV shows – using fonts that didn’t exist at the time the movie/show is set (kind of like Dan Rather’s problem)…

     

    • msubobcats 8:07 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Kind of like the New York Times as a so-called newspaper.

  • Art Stone 12:54 am on November 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Sarah Palin on Rush – 1pm Tuesday…. Rush is breaking format to air an interview with Sarah Palin. When you read the tidbits coming out, it’s clear Sarah Palin is very familiar with Conservaative Talk Radio without having aides tell her what it is. That’s probably the source of some of the friction with the McCain folks. She would talk to Rush, Hannity, etc…. without working through the McCain “handlers”.

     

  • Art Stone 12:22 am on November 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Michele Bachmann has caught the eye of the so-called Guardian newspaper in London.

     

  • Art Stone 10:50 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    About AIG bailout – NY Times is carrying a summary of the report from the TARP overseer about how the government screwed up with AIG.

    The most interesting point is that because the government was already on the hook for $85 billion that would likely be wiped out by a bankruptcy (ala CIT), Goldman Sachs knew the Fed didn’t view an AIG bankruptcy as an option, which is why they demanded and got 100 cents on the $1 for their swap contracts. That $85 billion was given to AIG by Paulson while Bush was still running the show.

     

  • Art Stone 9:02 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    9 injured by gunfire at concert organized by Clear Channel’s KMEL-FM in San Francisco. The station is an urban hip-hop station. Who could have guessed that? Doesn’t San Francisco have gun control laws?

     

  • Art Stone 8:57 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    KQAM-AM – Disney’s AM music station in Wichita Kansas is being sold for $350,000 and will become a news/talk station.. The population of Wichita is abour 330,000…

     

  • Art Stone 8:32 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    ObaMao t-shirts – this year’s hot Christmas gift

     

  • Art Stone 8:03 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    Happy Fox Business News hasn’t caught on yet that the stock market is going up because the US Dollar is going down, not because the U.S. Economy is recovering…

     

  • Art Stone 7:44 pm on November 16, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment

    AOL to be spun off from Time/Warner in December
    CEO of GMAC fired by the board of directors (aka Tim Geithner) – replaced by Board Member from the bankrupt CIT….

     

    • Art Stone 5:56 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Preparing for the spinoff, AOL has fixed 1/3 of its employees. How’s that hope and change working out?

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