Thoughts on Life
The press; a few loose ends
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- Saturday 29th August 2009
1) Is it really reporting if it’s just repeating?
2) Is it really reporting if you’re repeating an out-and-out lie?
3) The Pentagon is profiling reporters based on how how complimentary their writing is. That, of course, is why we fight for the Constitution. Not exactly a free press, more of… a nice press.
Ernie Pyle is turning over in his grave.
4) Is it really reporting if your…
Politics
The health care thing; a few loose ends
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- Saturday 29th August 2009
Trudy Lieberman bringing it every time:
1) Was a public plan ever really in the cards?
2) Who will be at the table? (part XIV)
3) Who will be at the table? (the whole sad story).
4) Nicholas Kristof interviews one of the originators of the “Block Socialized Medicine” shitbomb (he feels bad about it now). Homeboy also spilled his guts to The Hill.
5) Robert Reich thinks the public…
Politics
The torture thing; a few loose ends
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- Saturday 29th August 2009
1) About those torture memos Cheney swore would exonerate his lying ass.
2) Not that the CIA even paid attention to its own regulations, because torturing the people we kidnap is a good thing in and of itself.
3) The CIA and the Bush White House kept tight, hour-by-hour supervision of torture that truly rivals the Nazis; check the record-keeping.
4) Eichmanns For Hire. The only…
Copyright
What if the RIAA had existed in 1915?
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- Saturday 29th August 2009
The “Home Cylinder Duplication Is Killing The Music Industry” refrigerator magnet.
Thanks to Kev at DJ…
Music & Sound
The Duke On A Foggy Morning
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- Wednesday 26th August 2009
Like the pack rat I am, I’ve been carrying around the December 1975 copy of Esquire – the theme of the issue is Great American Things – because it contains a lovely profile of Duke Ellington written by photographer/director/author Gordon Parks, illustrated with his photos. In the mid-1950′s Parks traveled with Ellington and his band (probably for LIFE Magazine), and his reminiscences of that time…
Politics
The guy who runs Whole Foods turns out to be rotten.
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- Thursday 13th August 2009
From Counterpunch, via Undernews:
“John Mackey is a right wing libertarian.
He’s a union buster.
He believes that corporations should not be criminally prosecuted for their crimes.
He has just launched a campaign to defeat a single payer national health insurance system.
And he’s the CEO of Whole Foods.”
The whole story, in an organic nutshell. The guy’s hero is Margaret…
Politics
Well, it was fun while it lasted…
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- Tuesday 11th August 2009
Obama’s speaking at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire tonight. Numerous right wing crazies are already demonstrating outside the hall, waving signs calling for Obama’s death. They’re wearing guns.
Tha NH police are doing nothing but “observing.”
Brownshirts, mob rule, hysteria, and guns. With Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the shrieking heads cheering them…
Music & Sound
“Some lawyer for you on line 3, says it’s important…”
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- Sunday 9th August 2009
Thanks to DJ Food, a video link. Hats off to the Foley and ADR masters who produced this, as well as mostly English.
May this idea…
