tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post4468354773389414596..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: Tuesday December 15 -- Got news or an update?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-9389010116329584912009-12-15T15:18:28.360-08:002009-12-15T15:18:28.360-08:0011:15, that pretty well sums up everything on MW, ...11:15, that pretty well sums up everything on MW, doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-43604752274028515002009-12-15T11:15:12.784-08:002009-12-15T11:15:12.784-08:00You have no message. You babble juvenile talking p...You have no message. You babble juvenile talking points that have relevant basis or bearing on anything being discussed. Come up with some original thought for a change instead of trolling all day and night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-87843015509869934282009-12-15T10:45:44.026-08:002009-12-15T10:45:44.026-08:00How about responding to the message instead of att...How about responding to the message instead of attacking the messenger?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-22512559552337256392009-12-15T09:05:44.428-08:002009-12-15T09:05:44.428-08:00Amazing how LeftieTroll has to refer to the middle...Amazing how LeftieTroll has to refer to the middle ages to prove his case, but, can't remember the lessons learned from Mao, Stalin, Carter or Allah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-2523048481340777042009-12-15T08:36:32.896-08:002009-12-15T08:36:32.896-08:00//religious intolerance can be found throughout th...//religious intolerance can be found throughout the literature of the left. often disguised as concerns for the "separation of church and state"//<br /><br /> Right, John. No need to be concerned about separation of church and state. There was so much more tolerance in the Middle Ages, when religious leaders appointed political leaders, and vice versa. And what on earth were the founding fathers drinking when they approved the U.S. Constitution's take on religious freedom?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-31988825819827736592009-12-15T05:43:03.590-08:002009-12-15T05:43:03.590-08:00Good Bye Gitmo, Hello Thomson, Illinois (Via Chica...Good Bye Gitmo, Hello Thomson, Illinois (Via Chicago Sun)<br /><br />WASHINGTON -- The White House will announce Tuesday that President Obama will seek to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center in northwestern Illinois to house detainees now held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-79827118442905632682009-12-15T05:39:45.111-08:002009-12-15T05:39:45.111-08:00In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, N...In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communist Participation (NewsBusters) <br /><br />Network journalists who were quick to see racists, haters and extremists amongst the “tea party” protesters were oblivious on Saturday to communists in the “climate justice” march in Copenhagen whose cause they trumpeted -- even as the video they showed included brief shots of marchers waving red flags displaying the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle. <br /><br />“The streets were filled today with tens of thousands of protesters from around the world, demanding action to stop global warming,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt announced before Anne Thompson marveled: “An extraordinary sight in front of Denmark's parliament building: <br /><br />35,000 protesters filling the square, stepping off on a slow march with an urgent plea: Save the planet.” <br /><br />On the CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor touted how “around the world tonight, protesters are creating heat over climate change. <br /><br />In Copenhagen, where UN talks on global warming are under way, police estimate 40,000 activists marched, mostly peacefully, to demand an agreement that produces real change.” <br /><br />Reporter Sheila MacVicar began: “From India to Australia, from China to Copenhagen, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets.” <br /><br />Neither Thompson nor MacVicar mentioned the communist participation obvious from the video that producers ran with their narration, though a Financial Times article included the less-appealing parts of the coalition: <br /><br />“The protesters were a mix of environmental campaigners, church groups and ordinary Danes, many with children, as well as anarchists and communists.”<br /><br />In a post for the Santa Barbara Independent, Ethan Stewart noted: “From Communist groups and Greenpeace to radical vegetarians and a pro-Iranian crew, there were not many activist sub groups without representation in the march.”<br /><br />Holt introduced the Saturday, December 12 NBC Nightly News story:<br />Now to Copenhagen. The streets were filled today with tens of thousands of protesters from around the world, demanding action to stop global warming. <br /><br />Their demonstrations were mostly peaceful, but still hundreds were arrested. Our report tonight from chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson in Copenhagen. <br /><br />From the top of Thompson's report:<br />An extraordinary sight in front of Denmark's parliament building: 35,000 protesters filling the square, stepping off on a slow march with an urgent plea: Save the planet. <br /><br />The four-mile trek to the site of the climate talks was part street theater, part political theater....The marchers have a simple message for the delegates. <br /><br />Stop talking and start acting. <br />[A Danish man] pushed his 10-month-old son, worried about his future and the future of those elsewhere in the world.<br /><br />MAN: I definitely want them to, to make an agreement that's fair also in the third-world countries.<br /><br />THOMPSON: That's what the marchers call climate justice. They want rich countries to help poor countries already dealing with the affects of disappearing natural resources by creating $100 billion fund. But at the negotiating table, rich countries are only talking about a quick-start $10 billion fund....<br /><br />From the CBS Evening News, Jeff Glor set up MacVicar:<br />Around the world tonight, protesters are creating heat over climate change. In Copenhagen, where UN talks on global warming are under way, police estimate 40,000 activists marched, mostly peacefully, to demand an agreement that produces real change. Here is Sheila MacVicar. <br />MacVicar: <br />From India to Australia, from China to Copenhagen, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets. Their point, to drive home demands for binding global agreement on climate change as negotiators, scientists and activists head into the final week of the climate conference. <br />Today, former presidents, top models and a retired arch bishop lent their voices in support of an agreement, any agreement....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-62682847669145269052009-12-15T05:36:48.474-08:002009-12-15T05:36:48.474-08:00Global Warming? Snow Falls Down Under During Austr...Global Warming? Snow Falls Down Under During Australian Summer (NewsBusters)<br /><br />Paging Al Gore!<br /><br />The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2010 could be the warmest year on record. Perhaps they better inform Mother Nature about this since she seems to be having other plans leading into the new year. <br /><br />Not only is the U.S.A. experiencing unusually cold weather but, almost unbelievably, Australia has just had some snowfall two weeks into their summer which officially began on December 1. <br /><br />Here is a report from the Australian Weather Zone about the summer snow:<br /><br />Most people consider summer a time to wear shorts and thongs wherever one pleases, with little thought of ski jackets or snowboards. <br /><br />However Victoria's Mount Baw Baw saw a light dusting of snow, and it's already two weeks into summer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-70787719642160000822009-12-15T05:31:39.853-08:002009-12-15T05:31:39.853-08:00Does Avoidance of ClimateGate Reporting Represent ...Does Avoidance of ClimateGate Reporting Represent MSM Suicide?<br />(NewsBusters)<br /><br />Notice how the mainstream media pretty much avoids the inconvenient scandal of ClimateGate? <br /><br />Although this scandal seems to mark the end of blind faith in the global warming dogma, it could also represent the final act of the long MSM suicide that has been going on for the past few years. <br /><br />That is the assertion made by author, broadcaster, and columnist Gerald Warmer in a fascinating UK Telegraph article: <br /><br />Climategate is a global household name. No cat has ever emancipated itself more completely from the bag. <br /><br />It is a world-wide scandal – thanks to the internet. Yet, as its ramifications proliferate and dominoes continue to fall, the most repeatedly asked question online is: how can the mainstream media ignore this? <br /><br />Well, we know the answer to that: the MSM are in thrall to the leftist consensus. End of story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-42472865624194009202009-12-15T05:26:49.966-08:002009-12-15T05:26:49.966-08:00Billion people's water at risk from melting ic...Billion people's water at risk from melting ice: Gore (AFP) <br /><br />If the ice doesn’t melt, they won’t have any water Al. But then you said, the center of the earth is millions of degrees—what do you expect, you total idiot.<br /> <br /><br />COPENHAGEN — Climate guru Al Gore warned UN climate talks Monday that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive more than a billion people's access to clean water. <br /><br />Adding to an avalanche of bad scientific news over the last two years, the former US vice president cited new research showing that the Arctic ice cap may have shrunk to record-low levels last year. <br /><br />"2008 had a smaller minimum, probably, than 2007," Gore said at the release of a report he co-sponsored with the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store, called Melting Snow and Ice: A call for Action. <br /><br />"These figures are fresh, I just got them yesterday," Gore said, alluding to work led by Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-32244373096841700662009-12-15T05:26:14.578-08:002009-12-15T05:26:14.578-08:00Gore at climate talks: Polar ice may go in 5 years...Gore at climate talks: Polar ice may go in 5 years AP<br /><br />…The Arctic Ocean sea ice has shrunk dramatically, to record low levels, the past several summers. <br /><br />Scientists blame global warming, which has raised temperatures twice as fast in the far north as elsewhere. <br /><br />Gore said polar scientists told him Sunday that the latest data "suggest a 75 percent chance the entire polar ice cap will melt in summer within the next five to seven years."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-26713726708575026872009-12-15T05:25:29.079-08:002009-12-15T05:25:29.079-08:00Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole s...Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up (UK Press Catches Gore in a Fib) (TimesOnline.com (UK) <br /><br />There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. <br /><br />The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. <br /><br />Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. <br /><br />In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” <br /><br />“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” <br /><br />Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore. <br /><br />The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-21223036439477630192009-12-15T05:24:38.674-08:002009-12-15T05:24:38.674-08:00Al Gore arrives in Copenhagen (Politico)
COPENHAG...Al Gore arrives in Copenhagen (Politico)<br /><br />COPENHAGEN — As international climate talks appeared in danger of disintegrating, Al Gore arrived to a rock star’s welcome in Copenhagen today. <br /><br />If Copenhagen is the enviros' Woodstock, then Gore is The Who, the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival as a one-man band. <br /><br />The former vice president drew such a big crowd that security had to shut down access, with hundreds of unhappy activists left outside. <br />Inside the mobbed room, Gore watched as Danish and Norwegian officials presented a new scientific report that the sea levels are rising much faster than previous estimates. <br /><br />snip <br /><br />The former vice president has scrapped a $1,200-a-head fundraiser for 3,000 guests scheduled for later in the week, to the dismay of Danish organizers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-34223170984502899462009-12-15T05:23:32.254-08:002009-12-15T05:23:32.254-08:00Charlie Gibson Says He's Leaving Because Objec...Charlie Gibson Says He's Leaving Because Objectivity's Passe -- But He Loved Puffing Ted Kennedy? (NewsBusters)<br /><br />Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz presented quite a paradox in a Charlie Gibson profile Monday. <br /><br />The retiring ABC World News anchor said that "it’s time to move on" since objectivity is "less of a marketable commodity." (WTF)<br /><br />But Kurtz also underlined how Gibson dared to keep airing live coverage of Ted Kennedy’s funeral until they were able to broadcast the reading of Ted Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict. <br /><br />These passages came late in the article: <br /><br />Gibson worries whether broadcast networks will be able to support sizable editorial staffs in an era of declining audiences, when cable news channels are louder -- and more profitable. <br /><br />"Objectivity -- or the extent to which we strive for objectivity -- is less of a marketable commodity," he says. <br /><br />"People seem to want to hear news presented according to their own beliefs, and I don't understand that."<br /><br />"I'm so much of a traditional, over-the-air broadcaster. I'm aware that it's changing, and I'm not adapting fast enough with it. <br /><br />Having hit the perfect arc of this business, I think it's time to move on."<br /><br />A few paragraphs before was this Gibson tidbit of "defiance" to insure more glowing, dramatic tributes to Ted Kennedy: <br /><br />As a political junkie, the highlight of his tenure was chronicling the 2008 campaign. <br /><br />While he also liked John McCain, Gibson says that for Barack Obama, "there was just a tide of history in the election, extraordinary to behold and to cover."<br /><br />He recalls the day of Ted Kennedy's burial, when the evening procession crawled toward Arlington National Cemetery and he was left with 90 minutes to fill. <br /><br />It was too dark to see much when the casket reached the burial site, and his producers "were screaming, 'Get off! Get off!' Why would you get off when you've just done this hour-and-a-half preamble? So I just stayed on. <br /><br />They can't cut you off in mid-sentence." Gibson felt vindicated when his defiance led to the network airing the dramatic reading of the late senator's letter to the pope. <br /><br />The reading was performed by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. I doubt Gibson would have balanced that liberal spectacle with the Vatican official quoted in Time magazine: "Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody." <br /><br />This is hardly the way he acted when it was his turn to be a Palin-terrogator. <br /><br />For a review of other episodes of Gibson's liberal bias, see our Profile in Bias page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-65752221406227609702009-12-15T05:21:33.636-08:002009-12-15T05:21:33.636-08:00New GMA Host George Stephanopoulos Lobbies for Mor...New GMA Host George Stephanopoulos Lobbies for More Taxes; Axelrod Points Out George’s Lib Roots (NewsBusters) Just like McClatchy, liberal media for liberal viewers <br /><br />On his first day as the new co-anchor of Good Morning America, former Clinton aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos lobbied for a windfall profits tax on the bonuses of bankers. <br /><br />Also on Monday’s program, senior White House advisor David Axelrod reminded viewers of Stephanopoulos’ liberal background. [Audio available here.]<br /><br />After the rookie GMA host asserted that Axelrod "has an office right next to the President," the Obama official retorted, "Used to be your office, George." A laughing Stephanopoulos quickly spun, "That’s right. A long, long time ago." <br /><br />The journalist clearly hasn’t lost the habits of a Clinton-era Democrat. <br /><br />He pressed Axelrod for new taxes on the bonuses of bankers: "David, why not tax the bonuses? Britain last week announced that they're going to have a big windfall tax, a one-time tax on these big bonuses this year because the banks got so much help. <br /><br />Why not do that?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-77545444184785171752009-12-15T05:20:01.771-08:002009-12-15T05:20:01.771-08:00Shocker… Liberals Dominate in Top 10 Most FAIL Mom...Shocker… Liberals Dominate in Top 10 Most FAIL Moments of 2009(GatewayPundit)<br /><br />Democratic and liberal kooks dominated the years Top 10 Most FAIL moments.<br /><br />Kanye “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” landed on the top of the list this year for stealing the moment from country singer Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.<br /><br />Top 10 Most Memorable FAIL Moments of 2009:<br /><br />1. Kanye West’s Outburst at the Video Music Awards 37%<br /><br />2. Bolivian Newscast Airs “Lost” Scene as Flight 447’s Last Moments 13%<br /><br />3. Richard Heene’s Balloon Boy Hoax 11%<br /><br />4. Photo Opportunity for Air Force One Mistaken for Terrorist Attack 8%<br /><br />5. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Tries to Sell Obama’s Senate Seat 7%<br /><br />6. Northwest Flight to Minneapolis Overshoots Airport by 150 Miles 7%<br /><br />7. Gordon Brown’s Hand Shake Fail 4%<br /><br />8. Christian Bale’s Freak Out on Terminator Set 3%<br /><br />9. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Affair with Argentinean 3%<br /><br />10. White House Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi 2%<br /><br />They forgot Barack Obama’s entrance into the White House window.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-11106124800212405472009-12-15T05:18:52.772-08:002009-12-15T05:18:52.772-08:00RASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Job Approval Falls to New Lo...RASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Job Approval Falls to New Low at 44%... Developing... (Drudge)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-84335281846130312662009-12-15T05:18:04.076-08:002009-12-15T05:18:04.076-08:00Obama’s -19 crash: a tale of two Rasmussens one Am...Obama’s -19 crash: a tale of two Rasmussens one America’s leading pollster, one a Euroweenie (The Collins Report)<br /><br />Barack Obama’s Copenhagen trip reminds us there are two Rasmussens. <br /><br />Both are talking about Obama, but one counts to real Americans the other only to socialists in and out of the media trying to destroy America. <br /><br />Rasmussen One is Scott Rasmussen. He’s telling the world Americans don’t like their hero so you have to search to find his reports. <br /><br />Rasmussen Two is a Euroweenie trying to get his hand into our pocket so media types love him and show him on television. <br /><br />RASMUSSEN ONE:<br /> <br />America’s Rasmussen tracks the approval levels of Obama as determined by American voters, which is a powerful indicator of his actual status. <br /><br />Rasmussen One compares Obama’s “strongly approve” versus “strongly disapprove” numbers and reports Obama has slipped to a -19 points since his +25 high in January. <br /><br />He also says among Independent LIKELY voters from January to today Obama’s approval rating has capsized falling from 55/42 to 35/65. <br /><br />RASMUSSEN TWO:<br /> <br />In Copenhagen this week Obama is in his element surrounded by fellow Leftists. He’s the prize pig in an international butt kissing hoedown, meeting and greeting clammy handed Leftists begging for American dollars. <br /><br />The generally anti American media has been eagerly showing a video of Rasmussen Two, the Danish Prime Minister puckering up for a “twofer” and saying, “Compared to the last presidency, I must say that the new American president has, .., changed gear and made huge progress..” <br /><br />Obama may appeal to this butt mooching socialist with his obligatory swipe at George Bush for resisting Europe’s attempts to fleece America with the Climate change fraud, but in the end he doesn’t count for squat. <br /><br />So there you have it: two Rasmussens, One is kicking Obama’s rear end, the other kissing it. <br /><br />Is there any wonder we hear about Rasmussen Two but nothing about Rasmussen One?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-47174847434686062602009-12-15T05:16:10.875-08:002009-12-15T05:16:10.875-08:00Rasmussen: ObamaCare support at 40%; 56% Oppose (1...Rasmussen: ObamaCare support at 40%; 56% Oppose (19% strongly support, 46% strongly oppose)<br /> <br />Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters now oppose the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. <br /><br />That’s the highest level of opposition found - reached three times before - in six months of polling. <br /><br />The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 40% of voters favor the health care plan. <br /><br />Perhaps more significantly, 46% now Strongly Oppose the plan, compared to 19% who Strongly Favor it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-46855509034890311412009-12-15T05:15:07.159-08:002009-12-15T05:15:07.159-08:00Barack Obama Gives Himself a B+ For Tripling Defic...Barack Obama Gives Himself a B+ For Tripling Deficit & Nearly Doubling Unemployment in One Year (GatewayPundit)<br /><br />So what would an “F” look like? <br /><br />Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey last night that he deserved a B+ for the year.<br /><br />After all...Obama and Democrats only tripled the national deficit in less than one year.<br /><br />Obama increased the national debt to $12 Trillion. <br /><br />And he nearly doubled the unemployment rate since the Bush years with his failed Stimulus Plan.<br /><br />If his goal was to destroy the US economy then a B+ would fit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-72722288426159358472009-12-15T05:14:34.285-08:002009-12-15T05:14:34.285-08:00Cindy Sheehan Writes Letter To Obama (Wants some o...Cindy Sheehan Writes Letter To Obama (Wants some of his Nobel Prize money) (peaceoftheaction.org)<br /><br />Dear Mr. Obama, <br /><br />I hear that you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently in Oslo, Norway and that, in addition to that spiffy medal, it comes with 1.4 million tax-free dollars that you are going to "donate to charity." <br /><br />I just want to let you know that there are still some of us in the US who oppose the wars, even though you are president, and its nothing personal, but I vehemently oppose your wars and especially oppose the escalation of troops to Afghanistan and the fact that there has been no de-escalation from Iraq. <br /><br />It has been super-tough being a peace activist since you took office, because a lot of my colleagues supported your candidacy and gave you a "wait and see"and "give him a chance," while I have been working against these policies since Bush was president and have never stopped. <br /><br /><br />But why is it Now The State Run Media’s love affair with Cindy is now long over?<br /><br />Remember when she was a star on NBC? Remember when NBC says she has the moral authority over Bush? <br /><br />OHHH those days...thrown under the bus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-92060009958510884452009-12-15T05:12:15.900-08:002009-12-15T05:12:15.900-08:00Obama Gives Britain the Cold Shoulder (Wall Street...Obama Gives Britain the Cold Shoulder (Wall Street Journal) <br /><br />Britain is the only European country President Barack Obama can really count on to respond positively to his plea for NATO to provide extra forces for Afghanistan. <br /><br />So why is it, then, that the Obama administration can barely conceal its disdain for a nation that, by its deeds, time and again proves itself to be America's staunchest and most reliable ally? <br /><br />Shortly before Mr. Obama's Afghan policy speech at West Point earlier this month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Britain was sending another 500 troops to that beleaguered country, bringing the total number of British troops to around 10,000<br /><br />Yet the president never mentioned Britain's support—even though, unlike most other European countries, British soldiers are prepared to undertake combat operations, and have incurred significant casualties in so doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-87669203246243791902009-12-15T05:11:41.671-08:002009-12-15T05:11:41.671-08:00Job Market Worsens For Recent College Graduates (6...Job Market Worsens For Recent College Graduates (67% Voters 18-29voted for Dear Leader) (LATimes) Welcome to the world of Obamanomics, kids. I sense a whole lot of young Republicans in the making. Nothing shakes one’s liberalism like a cold dose of reality!<br /><br /><br />Reporting from Washington - The unemployment rate dropped last month for men and women, blacks and whites, lifting hopes that the long dry spell in the jobs market may be coming to an end. <br /><br />But for recent college graduates and other young adults, the labor situation didn't just remain dire -- it got worse. <br /><br />For 20- to 24-year-olds, the jobless rate rose four-tenths of a percent to 16% in November, even as unemployment nationally slipped to 10% from 10.2%. <br /><br />And data from the Labor Department show that the unemployment figure for college graduates in that age group was 10.6% in the third quarter -- the highest since early 1983 and more than double the rate for older college-educated workers. <br /><br />Kyle Daley, 22, of Walnut Creek, Calif., provides a grim case study. In June, Daley graduated from UCLA, one of the country's best universities. <br /><br />He received a degree in political science. His grade-point average: a solid 3.5. <br /><br />Since January, he has applied for about 600 jobs, mostly entry-level positions such as office assistant, junior analyst and marketing associate. <br /><br />He has reached out to small firms and Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, entertainment, finance and government, from Alabama to Washington state.<br /><br /><br />And kids, remember that it is important to know what the candidate actually stands for. <br /><br />This is best determined by looking at his or her PAST record, not what he or she says he WILL do.<br /><br />It is also good to vote for a candidate who wants to promote industry, not punish it. <br /><br />Also young folks, it is probably best to vote for the candidate who actually loves America and wants to see better days for this country, not the candidate who seems to be COOL.<br /><br />Lastly, vote for a candidate based upon his character, not the COLOR OF HIS SKIN! But, but...“We got to vote for the cool black guy and be a part of an historic election!”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-24904178310936331652009-12-15T05:10:10.396-08:002009-12-15T05:10:10.396-08:00Feds (workers) owe Uncle Sam $3Billion in unpaid t...Feds (workers) owe Uncle Sam $3Billion in unpaid taxes (WTOP.com Washington) timmy and charlie lead the way!<br /><br />At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation's history, Uncle Sam is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from its own employees. <br /><br />Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to Internal Revenue Service documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe $3,042,200,000. <br /><br />The IRS tracks the voluntary compliance rate of federal employees and retirees each year, and each year feds come up short. <br /><br />The one bright spot in this year's report is that after several years of a steady increase, the amount owed by feds is down from the previous year. <br /><br />Federal employees and retirees owed $3,586,784,725 in unpaid income taxes in 2007. <br /><br />The documents show delinquent employees from nearly every federal agency with more than 25 employees. <br /><br />Based on percentages, the Department of The Treasury, which includes the IRS, has the best compliance rate. Fewer than 1 percent of Treasury employees didn't pay their taxes in 2008. <br /><br />The IRS is the only federal agency where employees can be fired for not paying their taxes. The non-compliance rate for IRS employees in 2008 was 0.76 percent -- down from 0.89 percent in 2007. <br /><br />The agency with the most tax scofflaws is the U.S. Postal Service, with 28,913 employees who owe $297,933,756. <br /><br />But that is still a dramatic improvement from 2007 when more than 54,000 employees owed more than $407 million.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-52158189775195206212009-12-15T05:09:10.053-08:002009-12-15T05:09:10.053-08:00Editor & Publisher, R.I.P. (Investors.com)
Me...Editor & Publisher, R.I.P. (Investors.com)<br /><br />Media: By now the decline of the newspaper industry has become, well, yesterday's news. <br /><br />Small wonder the industry's own trade publication would eventually close its own doors. But there's a little more to the story. <br /><br />Last week Editor & Publisher magazine, aged 125, finally ended its run as newspaperdom's principal trade pub when owner Neilsen Business Media announced it no longer fit in with the company's reformulated plans. <br /><br />Journalists who had long since ceased reading the print edition offered nostalgic tributes — online. <br /><br />That their posts appeared on the Internet itself tells much of the story. <br /><br />In recent years both circulation and advertising revenues have migrated to the newer media as eyeballs preferred screens atop keyboards to inky pages. Only the most innovative newspapers survive. <br /><br />E&P reflected a bygone era when publishers thumbed through its pages in search of the latest press equipment and itinerant reporters, on the prowl for more attractive and better-paying jobs, flipped to its classifieds. <br /><br />The magazine, which a few years back shifted from weekly to monthly while developing a daily Web site, never positioned itself as the guardian of High Church Journalism, as the Columbia Journalism Review and other critical journals would. <br /><br />And yet, it did its part in creating a pantheon of Fourth Estate saints — from John Peter Zenger through Woodward and Bernstein — all the while genuflecting to the First Amendment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com