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number 90 for 12-16-05:
Terri Hatcher
On a basic level, the ineptitude of the newsmedia astounds me. Whether it's focus on human interest over actual hard, important reporting, schewing stories to a political bias without rational reason, or even the simplest things, such as spelling mistakes.
Well, hell, I guess it is a common misspelling to make a first name of Teri Terri. I do it with Kristin Kreuk all the time, making it Kristen. In print, no less.
But what about the lead sentence of an article about Robert Novak?
These people are paid. Seriously.
That didn't really phase me, though. Any idiot can make a spelling or grammar error. It takes a TRUE waste of flesh to write an article that states that an island with dinosaurs and giants apes can't exist, and then go on and say WHY. No shit. Check it out.
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There are a ton of stories. It's amazing, some days, there's nothing, other days, more than I can print, even on the internet. But why not?
First off...torture. I've been saying for over a year now that the fact that we torture in secret is abominable, that the evidence is ample, and I've questioned why no one gives a shit. Answer? American Idol. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
Yesterday, McCain successfully passed a bill against torture.
Fucking A. Good.
And then, today, the senate defeated the measure to increase and prolong the powers and term of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Fucking A. Good.
You'd think that's the end, right? Me saying good, and it's over.
Yeah, but it's not, at least with the torture ban. Because the ban on torture leaves a little loophole that says anyone who says they were ordered to torture can't be prosecuted for doing so.
But there is reason to hope. Along with the denial of the PATRIOT Act, the house also called on Bush to explain the secret detention facilities. Yeah, right, on a cold day in hell.
They've threatened to filibuster the PATRIOT Act, but it looks like, at least for now, it's dead.
This is a victory for liberty, for freedom, and for expression. Far more than Iraq. Far more than Afghanistan. The pace for the other emerging democracies in the world is measured by how well we keep ours.
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Now, if they'd only stop wiretapping and sending NSA goons to peace activist meetings, I might believe the government really means to step out of our expression, our privacy, and our freedom.
But they're not. BUSH HIMSELF has authorized spying on American citizens on three dozen separate occasions, it's now been revealed.
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Not a big deal, you say?
Well, I contend that it's an impeachable offense. Another writer has put it better than I could already, so I'll direct you to his explanation.
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The basic gist is this: If you wiretap outside of an emergency, or order a wiretap outside of an emergency for longer than seventy-two hours, you are violating the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
The New York Times sat on this wiretap story for a YEAR. An entire YEAR. That's unconscionable, and after the whole affair with the Plame source, I don't know that I can trust them as a news source any more. They obviously held this back for a reason. Cowardice.
It's a crazy nation right now.
Babies are being prevented from boarding flights because their names mistakenly make it onto the no-fly list.
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Eleven million Americans are functionally illiterate.
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Ten percent of Americans in cars are, at any given time, on a cell phone. One nearly kills me in an accident each day.
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The first same-sex civil union, the example by which all others were to follow, shows the strength of American marriage by dissolving. With a smile in the picture, no less.
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The greenhouse effect drives temperatures up, and up, and up, and yet we continue to say it only needs more study.
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And people aren't paying attention to this shit? You know why?
Teri Hatcher won her sex suit, Lance Armstrong is being called into court, and someone put up a joke holiday display of Rudolph being gutted, proving definitively that there is a war on Christmas.
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Turning the other cheek so we don't see things has never been this easy.
Merry Christmas.
Final note. Fox News? Fair? Balanced? Completely two sided on all of the issues?
Then why did they just hire the entire right wing arm of CNN, Robert Novak? The man they fired because he said bullshit on television. The man who outed a covert CIA Agent.
G. Gordon Libby, Oliver North, Robert Novak, Geraldo Rivera...when you want assholes talking heads who scandal follows giving you partisan news, choose Fox News.
Yeah, Wolf Blitzer's beard is fucking gay, and that white haired asshole is as bland as starch on starch, but fuck, at least they're not lying to you and telling you how to think. They're inept, but there's no agenda.