Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media

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  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog

 

 The Dawn of New Media

 

 A New Era of Credibility

 

 

A revolution in news

 

 Bloggers knew!

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.

 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.

 

 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People

 

 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )

 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this

 

  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.

 

  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works

 

 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)

 

 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.

 

 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!

 

 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!

 

 

Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search

 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm

 

  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***

 

  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?

 This CBS story has become a soap opera

 

 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash

 

 A Media Watershed

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media

 

 

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar

Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.

 

 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)

 

 

 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.

 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess

 

 

The Fall Of The Big Media (Joseph Farah's Better Than Dan Rather, Folks)

 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.

 

 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye

 

 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media

 

 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.

 

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Debmented--   More Infestations:

 

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Good morning!

What a strange night we have had in the previous thread.

Moved up the alreat level, but I am considering lowering it again (right Sulla?)

posted by Sinner @ 5:50 AM   40 comments

Start Here

The original Post

 

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Men, and society:

http://theanchoressonline.com/

 

Fausta has a terrific post up - I meant to link to it yesterday, actually - on just how difficult it is to be a man in our society. It’s a long piece that doesn’t “read” long because it is so interesting.  It is a masterful exposition, and I urge you to read it. And then read Maxed-Out Mama’s thoughts on what having gonads actually means. Especially check out her pithy last line. Good reasoning, and good writing, there.

UPDATE: Fausta has followed up her piece with another strong post - this time on what we are allowing to happen to our children, Children and Salvation. Fausta is on a roll, and this is another insightful bit of work. Please read it.
Related: Affection for the Protector Lads and He-Men

Related: Buster concurs with Fausta.

SOWs, and public troughs:

CBC DeProgramming Note

Via reader kdl in the comments;

Gwen Landolt, VP of REAL Women, will be a guest on a call-in show on CBC Radio, Saskatchewan, at 1:00 p.m. on Monday August 28. Last week she was on a CBC Radio show in Ontario. I understand they selected three callers with scripted messages, all in favour of Status of Women funding. Time for some Saskatchewan spontaneity, I would suggest.

Kathy Shaidle has more including a copy of her letter to Minister Bev Oda, and a link to the predictable feminist sqealing over the suggestion they be weaned from SOW.

Speaking of which, the Progressive Bloggers are running an online poll on this question. To preempt any PB complaints that my mention of this poll might be somehow responsible for "rigging" the result, I am not disclosing whether I voted yes or no.

Update - as noticed by commentor "lookout";

Hey, what happened to the poll at Progressive (sic) Bloggers? Last time I looked, it was 67% in favour of defunding SOW and only 32% in favour of funding it. I just checked again. The poll's disappeared altogether. Sore losers?

Not at all. The regressive chauvinists (as someone put it last week) "just had their ass handed to them by a girl."

Posted by Kate at 10:03 AM | Comments (26)

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More Debmania:

 

"You laughed that "he filed a TRO against someone he never met." Well, now, thanks to your out-of-control idiotic behavior, you have handed him a giftwrapped CRIMINAL HISTORY OF STALKING."

 

OttavaRima said...

Deb: Do any of you guys ever worry that you devote so much time to hating someone you've never met? Do you ever wonder if you've hit rock bottom by hanging out here?

No, we don't worry about that all. because we don't hate you.

We just feel really sorry for you, and we're just very determined that you'll never be in a college classroom as our childrens' professor.

 

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Dr. Deb makes an appearance in the "Official Sulla Tribute Thread" (below) and get her rear-end handed to her by more than one of those tricksey VBSers.

God, I love this gang.

(Its not a gang, its a club!)

posted by Sinner @ 7:20 PM   66 comments  

Sulla! Sulla! SULLA!

Discuss.

OPEN THREAD

posted by Sinner @ 5:22 PM   86 comments  

Good morning!

What a strange night we have had in the previous thread.

Moved up the alreat level, but I am considering lowering it again (right Sulla?)

posted by Sinner @ 5:50 AM   164 comments

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Deb infestation: "Come on all you peeps, tawk 2 me."

 

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Monday, August 28, 2006

Little advice for Dr. Deb, re:

positive cash flowing

I am a lot happier today than I was a week ago, peeps. I have come to the realization that my top priority ought to be increasing my cash flow. I am reading want ads in the Register Guard and craigslist eugene. I am going to ad some google ads, amazon links for books and cd's right after i finish this post.

i have created a south(west)paw savings account at my bank oregon community credit union. The routing number is XXX XXX XXX. The account number is XXX XXX. The account is completely separate from my regular account.

It's just like amazon or paypal, only no money gets skimmed by the credit card company, amazon or paypal.
Posted by Deb at 10:47 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

1. Don't count on the big bucks from Google Ads
2. Don't count on the big bucks from Amazon
3. In order get tips, you need readers and "tip worthy" content

Let me know how this plan works out, I may want to try it if you have success.

posted by Sinner @ 11:20 AM   1 comments  

We have seen this before from Dr. Deb, but it bears repeating:

In a real democratic blogosphere, comments would be edited and sick, murderous, on the way to nazi land comments like this would be deleted and the perpetrators reprimanded.

Dr. Frisch seems to think that censorship is Democracy and free speech is "on the way to nazi land".

As has been noted before, this is most certainly only true in DebLand®.

Wikipedia:

Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies.

Oscar Wilde:

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Nazis and censorship:

Once they succeeded in ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media.

I know which side I am on, what side are you on Dr. Deborah Frisch?

posted by Sinner @ 7:49 AM   56 comments  

Good Morning!

Nothing noteworthy at SWP so far, so we get yet another

OPEN THREAD

posted by Sinner @ 5:22 AM   28 comments

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News Aggregator Launched

National Newswatch looks to fill the vacuum left by the retirement of Brian Neale's Nealenews. Large boots to fill, but it's off to a good start, if today's content is any indication. Check them out and add it to your bookmarks.

Posted by Kate at 02:43 PM | Comments (0)

 

http://maxedoutmama.blogspot.com/

Re the posts at Maxed Out Mama's Blog: Holy Sh** Batwoman!! What I'm reading scares the living daylights out of me: totally narcissistic, sociopathic, predatory females who, when a poor, unsuspecting male--at her supposed invitation--wanders into her web/onto her Web is completely humiliated, eviscerated, devoured.

What The Lord Hath Given....

Update: For an example of the effect of the public derision of men has on a real, live person, please see The Anchoress' post and comments regarding her son. He deserves better. End update.

Thank you, Howard!

This is a followup to the post I wrote about an excellent, excellent post by Fausta, touching on the always riveting topic of men and women, in which Fausta expresses her belief that men have it somewhat difficult nowadays. Beth of MVWRC provided the perfect illustration of one of Fausta's points, which was: Now look at Ace of Spades' riff on the Beth find, and contemplate one such woman. You will laugh, and if you're a woman, you'll wince a bit. Every single point Fausta made is illustrated in Ace's post, along with a man's rightful reaction to it.Good golly, Miss Molly! Read Fausta's post, if you haven't read it, and then read Ace's post, and pick up this post of Beth's on some of this "lady's" attitudes.// posted by MaxedOutMama @ 8/23/2006 04:11:00 PM 7 comments links to this post   

 

No Escaping Sexualization of Young Girls

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Because there were no new threads, I assumed DHD had no new "Debborrhea Explosions," but I was wrong- check the: 611 comments 

 

Here:

 

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

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Studying Little Green Footballs

A UK web geek analyzes the viral nature of Little Green Footballs here and here, in a hopeless quest to understand how this site with the freakish name has become ... popular.

But to truly comprehend the LFG drive for world domination, comfortable shoes, and an environment of nearly pure nitrogen, no mere “viral blog theory” will suffice. The truth is far, far more terrible.  link: 93 comments

North Dakota oil patch is booming

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Another TUDD ( the unfortunate Doctor Deb ) sighting:

 

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

 

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

I honestly hoped that it would never get to this point, but I think recent events have forced my hand.

Check the advisory.

(Is there another color hotter than that?)

posted by Sinner @ 9:14 AM   59 comments  

Catching up..

Just got over to the Mothership and found DebDroppings®.

what a GREAT blog! This is so interesting! I am so glad I discovered this place!

OOH - You have Ace of Spades on your “blogs of honor”

Ace is lying. The hombre is a 3 of clubs AT best.

Comment by elvis — August 28, 2006 @ 10:38 am

Glad you like it "elvis"! Too bad you don't like Ace, he's a funny guy and one "hombre" I wouldn't like mad at me, but then again you are a dead pop singer...

I pity my daughter’s generation of women, real men will be hard to find by the time she is ready to start dating (about 40 years from now).
—
I pity your daughter, having a dad like you.
Comment by deb — August 28, 2006 @ 10:42 am

I pity you because, clearly, you didn’t have a dad like me. If you had, you would have been taught right from wrong, respect for others, a solid work ethic, and how to behave in public. When I go home tonight my daughter will run to me yelling “daddy!” and fling herself into my loving arms. If you were to leave your shack, what would be there to greet you when you return?

Hmmm. I am “between jobs” and living on a 5 acre spread that I own in Eugene - an 1800 3 BR/3 bath main house and a cute little writing cabin where I blog, procrastinate working on my book, etc.

You’re an itinerant something or other - grad student?

How exactly are you better than me, sinner - man?

I just don’t get it.

Comment by deb — August 28, 2006 @ 10:40 am

Deb, you really don't want to go there. I mean REALLY.

Without giving too much away, I own multiple residences, in multiple states. I have a job that pays somewhere between 3 to 4 times your best-ever year, I have published books that are commercially successful. In my games career, I have published over 100 titles and had multiple top ten hits.

I am currently living in rental digs because I am on a three-year contract. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to buy a place in the middle of po-dunk-nowhere when I am moving on to yet another high-paying and spiritually rewarding gig in less than 2 years. At that time, the contract could get renewed (my decision, I haven’t made up my mind yet) or I could be going back to one of my homes and start a slow-down toward retirement. My net worth allows me the freedom to semi-retire in my 40s.

Well, I could go on, but I think I have made my point.

Update: Dr. Frisch doesn't know when to quit, that's why we love her so...

warriordumot said...

hi sinner - glad you saw my comments at your other pathetic blog! looks like you're a bit hot under the collar!

maybe you could go visit mr. goldstein and you guys could cum fort each other.

hehehe.

8:14 AM

and

warriordumot said...

Ooh, looks like the other sicko, pathetic, possibly child-molesting daddy-o is mad at me!

So you make more money than me sinner because you had a career in "games."

Whoopie phuquing do.

You are an idiot and a moron and a sissy and totally pathetic for creating a stalker blog.

You are friends with pedophiles like Jeff Goldstein, thugs like ace of spades and the dishonorable former navy SEAL matthew heidt.

you hang out with the cesspool of the blogosphere.

i repeat: i feel sorry for your daughter. not as sorry as i feel for satchel, of course, but pretty gosh darn sorry.

8:18 AM

That's right, dance monkey dance!

Never mind that your slime trail is being monitored, never mind that you have been served (in more ways than one). Just keep up teh crazy®.

Pull the String!

Also from the comments, something to lower my Anger level:

And sinner continues to beat up on Deb like a cheap piñata.

Thanks Muse!

posted by Sinner @ 5:53 AM   64 comments

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#3

Pastorius  8/29/2006 09:07AM PDT

 

The Left Wages A Jihad Against Atlas Shrugs --the left can't sit with the simple explanation that Pamela is a good journalist, with connections, who lives in New York, and that these things account for the fact that she gets the interviews she gets. No.

Instead, they have to invent an alternate narrative. They have to invent a whole other Pamela. They say she is a drunk, that she's stupid, and that she is incoherent. That she gets the interviews because she is too stupid to ask the questions. That she is just a pawn in a bigger game controlled by larger forces behind the scenes.

Is this sounding familiar? Doesn't this sound eerily similar to what they say about George Bush?

All The News That's Fit To Fake

A fauxtography update - Powerline looks at the photos of the alleged Israeli strike on a Reuters news van.

And at LGF;

The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos.

Is someone getting a little too close to the truth?

That someone is Zombietime.

Related discussion at Michelle Malkin.

Don't miss Mary Katharine Ham in Townhall, either;

The mainstream media’s response to the allegations from blogs has been more along the lines of Greg Mitchell’s, editor of Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine whose mission it is to cover “all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.”

Mitchell’s response to accusations from bloggers—instead of answering the charges and refuting evidence—was to get very defensive, claim that “rightwing bloggers” were only attempting to smear photojournalists as a group, and then proceed to smear rightwing bloggers as a group for daring to point out the dishonesty of some photojournalists, and raise questions about how business is conducted in the Middle East.

[...]

Instead of addressing concerns and refuting evidence, Mitchell calls bloggers a bunch of Grassy Knoll-ers intent on discrediting “the media as a whole.” This is not the way to win trust with your audience.

Mitchell then went on to discredit himself within the space of just a couple hours.

On Friday, the Confederate Yankee blog brought attention to a column Mitchell had written in 2003, in which he confessed to making up news as a young reporter. He had been sent out to do a story on Niagara Falls, and found himself unable to talk to tourists to get quotes. So, he sat on a bench and made the quotes up. He confessed his journalistic sin in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.

Many other blogs picked up on the 2003 column, suggesting that Mitchell might be sympathetic to faked news because he himself had been a faker.

Several hours after Confederate Yankee’s post went up, that blogger noticed the text of the 2003 article had been changed.

Posted by Kate at 10:06 AM | Comments (6)

Laugh And The World Laughs With You

Whine, and the world laughs at you ...

First, the Liberal Party killed Youth for Volpe.

Last week, 'Liberals for Hezbollah' mysteriously went offline.

Now, this site's ISP has received a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada, full of imaginary legal violations (Slander? Has a HezboLiberal Broadway-style musical opened somewhere?) and veiled threats.

My ISP has been great and has given every indication that they would stick by me through this. But, I have decided to take down the website to save them further hassles.

If the Liberal Party ever wants to repair its reputation, it has to learn that it can't censor, threaten ordemand that Canadians 'shut up.' There are too many of us, and it is too easy for us to communicate these days for that sort of tactic to work anymore, in a free society.

If the Liberal Party doesn't like what it sees on blogs and on the Internet, it has to stop doing stuff so outrageous and offensive that someone would spend an entire day building a website just to mock it.

Until that happens, you are going to have to learn to live with it.

Sincerely,
HezboLiberal.com

When the New York Times used this tactic against Robert Cox a couple of years ago, the blogosphere responded by mirroring his spoof page a dozen times over.

You know, I'd hate to see that happen in this case. Lawyers letters cost money.

h/t Maz2

Update - Well, this didn't take long... apparently, a zip file is available for anyone who wants to duplicate the site.

Screenshot

Posted by Kate at 10:27 AM | Comments (54)

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

DHD Book Club

Deb has a new post up, "Being John Nash," and how her life somewhat resembles a mix of A Beautiful Mind and Being John Malkovich.

Since she mentions her difficulty getting obsessed with math, I thought it makes a nice segue to Prime Obsession, by John Derbyshire of National Review.

In the case of this book, people are obsessed with the riddle posed by Bernhard Riemann, and less by the man Reimann himself (though Derb goes a long way toward appreciating him).

There's even a Turing reference in the book, to keep things relevant.

My first thread is for sharing books you've read (or written, but you can couch it as one you've read to retain your privacy if you choose) and the impact they've had on you.

posted by Sulla @ 2:00 PM   6 comments  

Since I am having connection troubles, I am giving the keys to DHD to our very own Sulla!


Welcome our new overlord.


(May God have mercy on his soul)

posted by Sinner @ 12:10 PM   103 comments

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Debba-DebbaLand®:

 Found this tidbit through Technorati.

Here's a crucial part of the difference: Ward Churchill and, to an even greater extent, Deb Frisch, are quite literally nobodies. OK, Churchill is an academic, but very few people knew who he was until his elevation by the right. But Frisch is just another internet kook.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

DHDU

With Labor Day fast approaching, it's time to mothball the seersucker and break out the argyle.

SWP is inaugurating its Learning Annex, so why not launch our own Don't Hire Deb University.

For our decision analysis text, this book shows promise. I particularly recommend Chapter 13, which you can read by logging into Amazon.

And don't forget to Rate The Instructors. (h/t Hawksp)

posted by Sulla @ 9:07 PM   45 comments  

To honor and support our valiant Hosedragger, who churned out more words on a scary topic in one day since Stephen King woke up yesterday, we launch the first-ever Technical Support thread.

Ask, and answer, computer questions here.

Separate thread for other discussions on the way.

posted by Sulla @ 9:05 PM   48 comments  

If it's good enough for Atrios...

Open Thread

posted by Sulla @ 7:29 PM   147 comments  

Hosedragger has been a filking tsunami today. (That's a compliment, not a typo.)


Not that never-ending threads are always a bad thing, but...

Open Thread

posted by Sulla @ 5:53 PM   125 comments  

DHD Book Club

Deb has a new post up, "Being John Nash," and how her life somewhat resembles a mix of A Beautiful Mind and Being John Malkovich.

Since she mentions her difficulty getting obsessed with math, I thought it makes a nice segue to Prime Obsession, by John Derbyshire of National Review.

In the case of this book, people are obsessed with the riddle posed by Bernhard Riemann, and less by the man Reimann himself (though Derb goes a long way toward appreciating him).

There's even a Turing reference in the book, to keep things relevant.

My first thread is for sharing books you've read (or written, but you can couch it as one you've read to retain your privacy if you choose) and the impact they've had on you.

posted by Sulla @ 2:00 PM   145 comments

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blogs:

FEC Kills Political Speech During Elections

As expected, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act has forced the courts to issue a prior restraint against political speech during an election campaign. Mark Tapscott caught the story out of Washington, and laments the corrosive effect that the McCain-Feingold bill has had on freedom of speech:Posted by Captain Ed at 08:48 PM | Comments (15)

Reader Tips

CNN's Kyra Phillips - skirt down, mike open.

Hitchens on the whimpering demise of Plamegate.

In his July 12 column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak had already partly exposed this paranoid myth by stating plainly that nobody had leaked anything, or outed anyone, to him. On the contrary, it was he who approached sources within the administration and the CIA and not the other way around. But now we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like Robert Novak's—long been a byword in Washington. It is particularly satisfying that this admission comes from two of the journalists—Michael Isikoff and David Corn—who did the most to get the story wrong in the first place and the most to keep it going long beyond the span of its natural life.

When a Liberal talks about a "national food policy", think "Canadian Wheat Board For Everything".

Stanley Kurtz - Our Fallout Shelter Future, in National Review.

Comments are open for yours.

Posted by Kate at 08:50 PM | Comments (10)

 

CATHY YOUNG COUNTS THE WAYS that welfare-reform critics turned out to be wrong.

 

http://ace.mu.nu/

The State of the Nanny State - AnalogKid

– Ace

Bobby Jindal eviscerates the corruption and waste that characterizes the Katrina clean up effort ...

That type of waste is the result of government paying $175 per square for tarps to cover broken roofs, while the contractor repairing the roof is paid $5 a square for the work — $170 dollars per square lost in the layers of subcontracting for “management” fees. Even more telling, other local companies have told the government that they could replace the damaged roofs permanently for the same price we are spending on band-aid fixes.

Continue reading

Has anyone else noticed this? When I was a boy (and I'm in my thirties), you'd see three guys getting the road fixed, the roof repaired, etc. Now it takes three people to fix the hole, and 23 to make sure they're safe. Oh yeah, you too. They keep the civilians safe too.

I've noticed that any rebar sticking up at work sites now has to be capped with bright orange or yellow plastic things. This is just in case you or your buddy should feel the urge to throw themselves from the half-demolished retaining wall into the forest of steel that is seducing you like Scylla and Charibdis.

Child safety seats are now strongly recommended for children under 4'10. First infant seats, then toddler seats, then three levels of booster seats. My wife is 5'2 - I'm getting her the booster seat for 12 year olds.

The government even spent $17 million on a permanent morgue for disaster victims that closed three months after it opened.

Rounding off the total deaths to 1,000, that's $17,000 per body. That doesn't even inter them, buy a coffin, or anything. It stored the bodies. You could have rented refrigerated storage for far less, and gotten the u-pack-it box kit for free.

Some enterprising fellow needs to open up a pit Bar-B-Que in the ex-permanent morgue and call it Morgue's - where everything is fresh.

In contrast, the private sector and faith-based organizations have stepped up where government has failed and have begun the process of demolishing and clearing neighborhoods of homes and debris that remain almost a year later. A national faith-based construction group uses volunteers to offer free demolition of homes in areas affected by the hurricanes. This group, that claims to be able to clear more than 100 homes a day, even includes removing the concrete slab, a service not provided by FEMA.

Reading between the html lines leads me to the conclusion that even after all of the money spent, the job(s) still aren't done, leaving the real work to volunteer organizations.

THE U.S. - Not just a Nanny State; A really crappy Nanny State.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 01:03 AM | Comments (17)

 

Who's Working the Control Room?

Mainstream media screws up, big time: Oops! CNN Airs Anchor’s Girltalk Over Bush Speech.   link: 78 comments  She seems like a nice gal. Bright, hardworking by her resume. Too bad that it looks like she was hung out to dry by some cnn hack.  Oh, and the left hates her. And she's no bubble headed newsreader.

Deborrhea - Frisch's rants using teh crazy®.--The Lexicon is growing. (Shadenfrisch - perfect.)

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California Adopts HillaryCare

The California Assembly passed a bill on a party-line vote yesterday that would eliminate private health care and force Californians into a single-payer state-run medical system. It now falls to Arnold Schwarzenegger to determine whether he will reverse his previous stand against state-run health care or adopt the Golden State version of HillaryCare: People around the country may shrug this off, figuring that it's just California. However, don't be surprised to see utopians in your neighborhood heralding the coming Brave New World in the Golden State and agitating for the same system where you live.

Posted by Captain Ed at 06:17 AM | Comments (28) | TrackBack (1)

 

Breaking The Welfare Cycle

Mickey Kaus reacts to reporting on new poverty numbers out in the US;

Crude initial reaction: The purpose of welfare reform wasn't to lower the poverty rate. It was to move people from welfare to work--out of an isolated, non-working subculture that had all sorts of bad social effects (fatherless families, crime, segregation, etc.). If welfare reform could have done that with a small increase in the poverty rate, that would have been a price worth paying. If reform had accomplished this goal--a near-60% reduction in the families getting welfare**--with no increase in the poverty rate, that would be a victory. That the poverty rate has actually fallen a full point from 1996 (13.7% then to 12.6% now--an 8% reduction) is a significant success. ... P.S.: The black poverty rate has fallen from 28.4% in 1996 to 24.9% in 2005, a 12% drop. In 1993, when Clinton took office, it was 33.1%. Since then it has dropped by more than a third. ... P.P.S.: And think what the poverty numbers might have looked like without the arrival of millions of hard-working, unskilled illegal immigrants bidding down the wages of those $7 and $8 an hour jobs....

This bears repeating - "The purpose of welfare reform wasn't to lower the poverty rate. It was to move people from welfare to work."

Just don't expect the "social justice" advocates to embrace any such nonsense!

Posted by Kate at 11:36 AM | Comments (9)

 

Condi Derangement Syndrome

By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 30, 2006 02:14 PM

It's not just a Middle East thing. Here's a CDS sufferer in Salt Lake City yesterday, via Yahoo/AP:

Nazi symbol. Check.
"Blood for oil" rap. Check.
9/11 conspiracy-mongering. Check.

All that's missing is a liberal racist insult and the Mercedes Benz peace sign.

[abb]

Hoe, take a look at this one...

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060830/opcom30.art.htm
Lieberman, ‘Snakes' and the seductive mythology of the blogosphere

By Bruce Kluger

If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month.

On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary, a triumph widely credited to the rah-rah racket produced by pro-Lamont armies stationed along the Internet.

Indeed, the bloggers had scored big. They had helped vault a local politician to national prominence and cemented the Iraq war as Issue No. 1 in the congressional elections. Not a bad day.

But their victory was short-lived. Even before the primary, Lieberman announced that, should he lose, he'd still run in November as an independent. This electoral chutzpah effectively rope-a-doped the bloggers and recharged the senator's fabled Joe-mentum. Lieberman's still the man to beat in the general election.

If this wasn't enough to drain the effervescence from the blogger bubbly, America's noisy Web wags were dealt an even more sobering blow 10 days later when Snakes on a Plane opened nationwide to a decidedly flat $15.3 million box office.

Before its premiere, Snakes had been the latest blogger darling, as swarms of online film geeks prematurely crowned it the summer's big sleeper. This hyperventilating fan base even convinced Snakes' distributor, New Line Cinema, to up the movie's rating to R, to ensure a gorier, more venomous snake fest.

But all that clapping and yapping couldn't put enough fannies in the seats. Ticket sales for Snakes' debut barely topped those of Talladega Nights, which was already in its third week.

Although Connecticut and Hollywood are a continent apart, the two events speak volumes about the capriciousness of the blog culture.

-snip-

[backhoe]

Thanks for the link and synopsis.

[shield]

I know this is great...but the internet has let loose the loons and the dim loons in congress [they definitely should be ashamed of their selves] are latching on to some of the wildest conspiracy theories...I've ever seen.

This could be good...cause it's showing the sane world how insane that world is.

[backhoe]

 

Merry Frischmas everyone:

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Nevermind(er)

Dr. Deborah Frisch's latest post includes this encounter:

Yesterday, she joined the chorus of friends and family members suggesting that I am loco in the coco and should seek psychiatric counsel and/or medication. I gave her my standard reply - I'm opposed to synthetic psychoactive drugs.

Then she went and tried to get Bayesian on me. She argued that the fact that I believed I was not crazy was evidence that I was crazy! Now of course, in general, this is a crazy argument. If you, dear reader, believe you are not crazy, should that count as evidence that you are crazy? Probably not.

But if I really, truly think I am fine when friends, family and foes all think i m nutz....maybe that is a symptom of loconess in the coco. When Harvard psychologist and happiness expert Dan Gilbert dinged me on the jdm list, I wrote a snarky post about him (that has since been edited) and he sent me an email saying something very terse like "You're crazy." There are other signs as well, such as multiple pending litiginous matters vis-a-vis verbal aggression, lack of employment, etc.

If someone calls me a drunk when I take a sip of my weekly quota of one Bud Lite, and I deny it, my denial is not itself proof that I'm an alcoholic.

If Andy and Barney have cut me my own keys to the Mayberry dry-out tank, where I keep my office supplies, and someone calls me an alcoholic, and I deny it...

Perhaps it's the optimist in me. I see posts like this from Dr. Deborah Frisch as a positive development.

This Mr. Bayesian is one smart cookie.

posted by Sulla @ 12:07 PM   27 comments

[backhoe]

I know this is great...but the internet has let loose the loons and the dim loons in congress [they definitely should be ashamed of their selves] are latching on to some of the wildest conspiracy theories...I've ever seen. This could be good...cause it's showing the sane world how insane that world is.

Thanks for looking.

I've always subscribed to the "English Soapbox in the Town Square" model of letting information out- that it's better to let everyone have their say, because the nuttier people will become apparent to most folks from their ravings.

See "Deb Frisch," upstream...

[backhoe]

 

 Deb Frisch Affair Wikipedia Entry

 

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Because this place makes crack look like Sanka (h/t Dennis Miller)...

Night Owl Thread

posted by Sulla @ 8:58 PM   64 comments  

Quick Bites

1. It's been relatively quiet today at SWP. Keep your fingers crossed. (So sue me - I'm a softie.)

2. The SWP tip jar is growing, and at an accelerating rate. (Three tippers, $15. Hey, that's two more Lincolns than John Wilkes Booth managed to drop.)

3. Weird Al Yankovic (MP3 download link) enters the Frischmas Eve poetry slam. (For you RIAA types out there, he's made it freely available. I buy his stuff twice just to ensure Al gets paid.)

4. Will Hosedragger's laptop survive last night's invasive surgery with files intact, or will we be forming a "Don't Hire James2of3" website? (Fair warning, James: we've seen Hosedragger's freckled muse. You want to keep him happy.)

5. Drudge has a cheesecake shot of Rosie O'Donnell and the ladies from The View. Curse him.

6. Denny Crane!

posted by Sulla @ 5:14 PM   159 comments

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