Silly kids.

From the AP today:
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal-based electricity in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power.
On Wednesday, students at the University of Missouri and other schools nationwide mounted a Sierra Club-led campaign targeting coal-based power at [...]

Obama bails on Poland & Czech Republic.

From today’s AP report:
PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech prime minister says President Barack Obama has told him that the U.S. is abandoning plans to put a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.
Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters in Prague on Thursday that Obama phoned him to say that Washington has decided to scrap [...]

Behind the Times.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tied to the whipping post, and oh Lord I feel like I’m dying.
Here’s another daft NY Times reporter who thinks that the entire history of the world began on the day she graduated J-school.
Countering criticism of another Jewish building project planned for Sheik Jarrah, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, [...]

Morocco challenges Mideast Holocaust mind-set

The craziest thing is that the AP is attempting to appear even handed and open minded…which is great….except when the topic is the Holocaust….in which case anyone who “argues” that it didn’t happen isn’t really “arguing”…but “ranting”…and should be treated with the “respect” any sane person would ordinarily accord a slug…or an empty beer can…or [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report:
The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat [...]

“Hurray! I’m for the other team!”

The NY Times doing its’ usual cheerleading:
WASHINGTON — Badly outnumbered and months behind in the debate on energy and climate change, House Republicans plan to introduce an energy bill on Wednesday as an alternative to the Democratic plan barreling toward a House vote this month.
How’s that for a lede? The Republicans have a plan, but [...]

Fleet Scribbler.

Here’s Jonathan Weisman from the Wall Street Journal this past Saturday:
WASHINGTON — Republicans launched a political offensive against President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy after weeks of reticence, emboldened by Friday’s report of a surging unemployment rate.
Political strategists have been pushing GOP lawmakers to attack Mr. Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan and to challenge [...]

About those “torture” memos.

From NRO:
The memos tell a different story from the one the Obama administration and the press are pushing. Detailed and carefully reasoned, they make it clear that neither the CIA nor the Justice Department was trying to “define torture down,” but were instead determined to locate and avoid crossing the legal line at which coercive [...]

But what do readers think?

It seems that the NY Times is retiring its stand-alone “City” section–an event which inspired a sentimental retrospective in yesterday’s NY Observer.
Last week New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that the paper would be restructuring its Sunday Metro section to incorporate pieces that previously would have appeared in the stand-alone City section, and [...]

About face.

Variations on the anti-establishment theme that seems to be obsessing me a bit today. This from Bob Krumm:
This is the speed of the modern internet.  Instead of needing the establishment to give credibility to a movement–be it political or cultural–the establishment needs those movements to keep them relevant.
Let’s be bipartisan here.  Before there were Tea Parties [...]

Susan Roesgen.

In case you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look now because my blood is boiling and I can’t hold it in anymore:

Lots going on here so let’s take them one by one.
First, isn’t she supposed to be a reporter? For any of you holding out hope that CNN (substitute [...]

There’s a lady who’s sure…

So all that glitters is not gold, apparently. I always like studio performances anyway. Too bad we didn’t get the album version of Born to Run at halftime instead of the old guy running around like a buffoon.
Turns out Jennifer Hudson’s performance of the anthem on Sunday was lip-synched.
I guess I’ll get over it. It’s [...]

Everybody do the dinosaur.

Not that its anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle [...]

Out of his league.

This from Reuters today:
[Former Senator George] Mitchell, who helped to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict, was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week to lead U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mitchell’s tour will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Britain. He said he would later [...]

Obama’s new politics of the echo chamber.

As Obama said at the inauguration, we’re about to be governed by the One, not the many. Say goodbye to petty grievances…despite the fact that our nation was founded under the precept that all of our grievances matter and are entitled to voice. Why bother electing all those congressmen and senators from all those “petty” [...]

Conspicuous Consumption.

Barack Obama’s inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history | World news | guardian.co.uk.
President Barack Obama’s inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush’s inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton’s in [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy.
On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, and [...]

And another one gone, and another one gone…

Star Tribune files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
I know, I know, it isn’t gone yet. Just on the gravy train in that direction. With biscuit wheels.

Stimulating.

Here it is.
Check out that opening line: “The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression.” If it’s true, we’ll just have to take their words for it. We’ve heard a lot of this kind of talk recently, as Obama and his fleet of nincompoops pound us into stunned submission in advance [...]

Coming to a theater near you!

NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama is on his way to the big screen, thanks to a deal between MSNBC and Screenvision that will put the news channel’s inaugural coverage in 27 theaters around the country.
Free tickets are being handed out via MSNBC.com to see the inauguration and parade from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET at [...]

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Amazon Newsstand’s Blog: Mr. Obama, You Have the Newsstand Permalink.
All Obama all the time.
But I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence. They don’t harbor any inappropriate feelings for the man they’re expected to objectively report on for the next 4 years.
Not at all.

Do you hear what I hear?

WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the [...]

Israel cleaning house.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Witnesses say Israeli ground troops are advancing into crowded residential areas of Gaza City and thousands of terrified residents are fleeing their homes.
Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy guns thrust deeper into the city than ever before Thursday to seek Hamas fighters, they said.
It wasn’t clear [...]

“You won’t like me when I’m angry.”

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) – Wildlife officials said a rhesus monkey known to throw feces when mad is on the loose in Tampa Bay. Authorities have been trying to capture the primate since Tuesday afternoon, but it managed to evade a bucket truck and tranquilizer dart.
Gary Morse with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says [...]

In which the AP once again leaves us grasping for the point.

Sexually spread diseases up, better testing cited.
ATLANTA (AP) – Sexually spread diseases—for years on the decline—are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government health officials said Tuesday.
The increase in chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women, is likely because of better screening, experts said. In [...]