Posted on 01/03/2011 10:47:18 AM PST by Starman417
2010 brought us lots of notable events... some legitimate news, with proper and balanced coverage on the events... i.e. the drama and joy of the Chilean miner rescues, the eruption of the Iceland volcano that brought many a Euro airport to a standstill, Kagen's nomination to SCOTUS, N. Korea torpedoes a S. Korean warship, McChrystal's resignation following his Rolling Stone interview, and Juan Williams getting canned from NPR.
But when you have 24/7 cable news channels... most just replaying the same storylines but with different talking heads... there are other stories, hyped up to a dull roar to fill the slow times, then dropped off the face of the earth as a flibbertigibbet media turns it's flakey attention elsewhere the moment some politico pulls their strings. So, at risk of riling a ton of you up on this fine New Year's Eve... LOL... here are my Top Ten Hyped Up, Then Abandoned, 2010 news stories.... in no particular order.
1: The Deepwater Horizon explosion, the Gulf oil spill. This one had something for everyone. Conspiracists had a field day with the who's and how's of deliberate sabatoge. Anti-Obama types were delighted that his administration proved themselves to be woefully inadequate and behind the eight ball at every step. And the environmentalists gleefully whispered of Armaggedon. The EPA did more to hinder the clean up than help, while the O'Dept of Energy and Obama further exacerbated the economic woes by issuing a moratorium on not only deep water drilling, but slamming the doors shut for shallow water drilling permits as well. Actor Kevin Costner got press on his better than the average bear centrifuges, BP bought them and put them to work... but nary a blip on the media screen was to be seen as a follow up on the clean up successes.
Needless to say, Armaggedon will have to wait for a new year, the Gulf oil rigs are gone but who cares because no one can afford to drive around without good reason because of high unemployment. Naturally, with demand down, gas prices are rising, which delights an administration, bent on shoving the nation into electric cars made by Government Motors. And the flibbertigibbet media doesn't bother following up on the economic repercussions of Obama's moratorium, or the return of the fishing business in the Gulf. That would be oh so inconvenient after all the public handwringing of gloom 'n' doom.
2: The earthquake in Haiti: Truly a sad story of those who have yet to recover from Mother Nature's fury. But while the press tired of the poverty and tragedy, and performers no longer wanted to push a popular cause, the Haitians and their plight simply fell off the face of the earth for the western press... until, of course, for a few days while they screamed "plague". What happened to all the charitable donations? How about those poisoned wells? zip.... not newsworthy, I guess.
3: Scott Brown wins Kennedy's seat in MA: ah yes, the tea party darling was all the rage for awhile. Despite warnings from some of us that he was, after all, just another MA RINO cut from the Mitt Romney cloth, he was hoisted on GOP and tea partiers shoulders. Mind you... is it worthy of an atta boy just because a GOP actually won a Kennedy seat? Certainly. I'd celebrate if Miss Piggy won the seat. But Brown was never going to be able to live up to the tea party criteria, so the not-so-much-a-rumor-mill spin has it that they're looking to challenge him in the 2012 primaries. But it seems both GOP and conservatives alike are laying low on post election criticisms, and not saying much about their misplaced support for yet another RINO.
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“[Rael:]
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
Till I came upon this dirty street.
I’ve never seen a stranger crowd;
Slubberdegullions on a squeaky feet,
Continually pacing,
With nonchalant embracing,
Each orifice disgracing
And one facing me moves to say “hellay”.
His skin’s all covered in slimy lumps.
With lips that slide across each chin.
His twisted limbs like rubber stamps
Are waved in welcome say ‘Please join in.’
My grip must be flipping,
Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
My hopes keep on dipping
And his lips keep on smiling all the time.
[Slipperman:]
“We like you, have tasted love.
Don’t be alarmed at what you see,
You yourself are just the same
As what you see in me.”
[Rael:]
Me, like you? like that?”
I do not know why this link does not work. It is from “The American Thinker.”
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