March 18, 2005
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Good day for ColoradoPosted by jbholston at 11:22 AM
Budget Pals;
In a strong show of support, lawmakers from both parties, business leaders and college officials were among the few hundred people who turned out for what some called an unprecedented announcement.
For the record, we're only starting to pull Colorado up from the state ranking pits because control of the legislature turned over to the Dems. The GOP, in entire control for years prior, only defunded everything, constantly...
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Depravity ...Posted by jbholston at 09:51 AM
Anyone with a shred of decency has to be disgusted by this;
GOP Summons Terri Schiavo ...
What's next? Lawmakers hauling your mother's carcass to the capital, before you implement her dying wishes? Forced chemo?
There is NOTHING they won't do to you and your family to force their agenda forward...
I really can't think of words sufficient to condemn this inhuman and un-Christian exploitation ...
Just one front in their war on the vast majority... how about this, in South Dakota;
Extremist right-wing forces are using South Dakota as a testing ground for their efforts to intimidate women considering an abortion. Gov. Mike Rounds signed into law yesterday a measure that will require "doctors, before performing abortions, to have their patients sign a statement acknowledging that they are terminating the life of 'a whole, separate, unique, living human being.'" The statement also "tells a woman that she has 'an existing relationship with that unborn human being' and the relationship is protected under the US Constitution." If the doctors were to perform an abortion without having a woman sign the waiver they could face "30 days in jail."
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March 16, 2005
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Drilling the Alaskan wilderness...Posted by jbholston at 06:26 PM
WSJ:
The 51-49 vote capped a long struggle with environmentalists and, while some hurdles remain, ticked another item off business's wish list in an era of Republican domination.
SF Gate:
Senate Votes To Drill Arctic
Democrats, GOP moderates fail in bid to keep oil companies out of Alaska wilderness.
Three Dems crossed to make this happen; Landrieux of Louisiana, and both Senators from Hawaii who presumably wanted to pretend this would mean something for that state's exploding gasoline prices...
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Bill 'o goods...Posted by jbholston at 04:31 PM
Fineman on MSNBC:
Of the two major political parties, which one is spending money like water, creating new welfare entitlements, rapidly expanding the power of the federal government and launching idealistic wars of liberation around the globe?
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Enron cooked?Posted by jbholston at 12:16 PM
Isn't the main implication of the Ebbers' verdict that anal operators like Enron's Jeff Skilling or Qwest's Nacchio are going down? Vs. more-removed managers, like Ken Lay?...
...the judge's instruction that the jurors could find Mr. Ebbers guilty if they believed that he strongly suspected something was wrong and intentionally avoided finding out about it. In the instructions to jurors, Judge Jones said that in order to find the defendant guilty, it would suffice to determine that he turned a blind eye to the fraud, even if he did not partake in it directly.
Or perhaps all of 'em...
"I think Ebbers pretty much hung himself," said Salina Strong, juror No. 4. "How could he be up that high in a company that he started and then he says I didn't know anything?"
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March 14, 2005
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Vulpine Propaganda NetworkPosted by jbholston at 01:48 PM
As if you didn't know:
Fox was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox journalists were more opinionated on the air. The news channel was also decidedly more positive in its coverage of the war in Iraq, while the others were largely neutral. At the same time, the story segments on the Fox programs studied did have more sources and shared more about them with audiences ... Fox journalists were even more prone to offer their own opinions in the channel's coverage of the war in Iraq. There 73% of the stories included such personal judgments. On CNN the figure was 2%, and on MSNBC, 29%.
The same was true in coverage of the Presidential election, where 82% of Fox stories included journalist opinions, compared to 7% on CNN and 27% on MSNBC.
Those findings seem to challenge Fox's promotional marketing, particularly its slogan, "We Report. You Decide."
Progressive aren't competing until they have their own Fox Net. Gore's 'Discovery Channel -- But More Serious' ain't the way...
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