OK. Now the newspaper guys have lost their friggin' minds ! http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050729091309990004
A newspaper writer (See the link to the story), who covers dirty politicians and such has been fired for recording a conversation with a politician who committed suicide shortly thereafter. They fired him for recording the conversation with the man, without his permission.
Two words. Huge story.
Two more words. Friggin' stupid.
Two additional words. No guts.
In their zeal ( read on the advice of guess what, a lawyer !) to appear ethically proper, they said he violated the law by not obtaining the mans permission first before taping.
Ridiculous rubbish. No violation can occur ex-post facto. The violation can only occur and can only be treated as a break with law if the man complains.
Obviously he can't do that because he is dead. Poof, bullet wound, departs earth. Bye bye now.
Sounds more like they are afraid of a lawsuit from the mans family and took the easy cheap out to protect their own butts. In this case, I am glad I do not subscribe to their paper, however I wish I did in a respect, so I could cancel on their candy-assess.
I can see it now . "Hello from CBS news. Our top story tonite, dirt is dirty and water makes it mud". Thats going to be the kind of reporting we see from now on. No tough subjects, no exposes, no digging in for the truth because No reporter in their right mind is going to stick their neck out anymore since all the junk has happened in the past month or so.
Has anybody ever really read the constitution who makes these kind of stupid bassackwards decisions? Sign the online petition and get behind decent journalism at http://www.journalistsfordefede.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Hurricanes
I just hate the thought of another hurricane season. So many lives disrupted and so many news stories about damage and despair. So many mobile homes turned into tornado food.
Why does somebody build a million dollar home 200 yards off the ocean anyhow? I have a hard time feeling sorry for them. One big wave and whoosh, no house. Easy to see. Like living in house that leaks, the answer is "GET OUT" or better yet, don't move in , in the first place.
Yesterday in the news was a story about a 71 year old man who had lived in his house for 39 years , had no flood insurance, had never been flooded, and even though he lived in a big city (Atlanta) , he got flooded out of his house after a foot of rain fell. House basically destroyed, life shattered. Homeless after working his butt off all his life. He and his wife were OK, and they made it out alive , but still thats gotta suck. Now him, I feel sorry for. What a raw deal.
The moron who builds a house on the side of a mountain in California and gets clobbered by a mudslide or the guy who builds a big house in the middle of a forest and it gets burned down I have no sympathy for. Mountains slide, forest burn. Life goes on.
But a place that basically has never flooded gets inundated by a foot of rain from the leftovers of a hurricane and you lose everything in 20 minutes ?
Momma never said life was fair I guess.
Why does somebody build a million dollar home 200 yards off the ocean anyhow? I have a hard time feeling sorry for them. One big wave and whoosh, no house. Easy to see. Like living in house that leaks, the answer is "GET OUT" or better yet, don't move in , in the first place.
Yesterday in the news was a story about a 71 year old man who had lived in his house for 39 years , had no flood insurance, had never been flooded, and even though he lived in a big city (Atlanta) , he got flooded out of his house after a foot of rain fell. House basically destroyed, life shattered. Homeless after working his butt off all his life. He and his wife were OK, and they made it out alive , but still thats gotta suck. Now him, I feel sorry for. What a raw deal.
The moron who builds a house on the side of a mountain in California and gets clobbered by a mudslide or the guy who builds a big house in the middle of a forest and it gets burned down I have no sympathy for. Mountains slide, forest burn. Life goes on.
But a place that basically has never flooded gets inundated by a foot of rain from the leftovers of a hurricane and you lose everything in 20 minutes ?
Momma never said life was fair I guess.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
I love driving with morons !
I just love driving with morons. They make me want to be fully awake and functional at all times. It is an absolute thrill to need to SLAM on your ABS braking system and make sure they work because some idiot wants to occupy the 6 foot space between you and the car in front of you during rush hour traffic. I have always wanted to see if my car could really dive forward enough to touch the bumper on the ground.
You haven't lived until you have driven in a major metropolitan city. I used to be a long distance truck driver for about 5 years and have drove in every major city the US has multiple times , New York city included as well as Los Angeles and Chicago and my opinion is the stupidest drivers in America live and drive in metropolitan Atlanta Georgia.
Every day I see men and women, talk on the phone, eat, shave, apply make up, write and also attempt to drive on the 6-7 lane interstate (any of them) while weaving in and out of traffic at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour , blissully unaware that the car spinning off into the grass behind them was not giving them a place to drive, they took it !
And they smile at you with the famous southern charm and wave and say Thank you. At least in New York or LA you knew they meant to put you in the ditch as they gave you the finger, waved a fist out the window, blew the horn at you for 10 miles or some other subtle sign that American drivers have to convince you that they are angry and you are their intended target.
Seems funny to me that in a city of almost 3 million or so, that there would be more cops than there are and enforcement would be tougher, but HEY ! If you've ever driven in Atlanta , you'd know the cops are the ones leading the pack !
-bigmike
You haven't lived until you have driven in a major metropolitan city. I used to be a long distance truck driver for about 5 years and have drove in every major city the US has multiple times , New York city included as well as Los Angeles and Chicago and my opinion is the stupidest drivers in America live and drive in metropolitan Atlanta Georgia.
Every day I see men and women, talk on the phone, eat, shave, apply make up, write and also attempt to drive on the 6-7 lane interstate (any of them) while weaving in and out of traffic at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour , blissully unaware that the car spinning off into the grass behind them was not giving them a place to drive, they took it !
And they smile at you with the famous southern charm and wave and say Thank you. At least in New York or LA you knew they meant to put you in the ditch as they gave you the finger, waved a fist out the window, blew the horn at you for 10 miles or some other subtle sign that American drivers have to convince you that they are angry and you are their intended target.
Seems funny to me that in a city of almost 3 million or so, that there would be more cops than there are and enforcement would be tougher, but HEY ! If you've ever driven in Atlanta , you'd know the cops are the ones leading the pack !
-bigmike
Sunday, July 10, 2005
London et al
Well now we have Spain, The U.S., Bahrain, Egypt, various island nations (Philippines etc), Baghdad , and now London and who knows where else to add to the latest round of attacks by the "other culture". And no, before you get all crazy about tolerance, acceptance and sensitivity I am not talking about Muslims. This really has nothing to do with Muslims.
My opinion is that you can be crazy and an extremist and be any religion or any culture and live anywhere. Shoot, we got our own brand of stupid right here or anywhere else , anybody ever heard of the Unibomber or Eric Rudolph (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4441239.stm), the I.R.A.? How about Timothy McVeigh or the abortion crazies? Crazy doesn't understand time zones, or dilpomatic solutions or need them. Tell me please what the difference is between a nut like Rudolph (who was bombing for his religion) and the latest flavor of crazy who thinks they go to heaven for it ? The only real difference is a matter of degree. One group burns a clinic, one blows up a federal building and the other three airliners, two office towers and the pentagon.
You ever notice though when they get caught, even though they profess to reject civilized methods of prosecution and our society that when push comes to shove they all "lawyer up" ?
The weak kneed and the extreme liberals seem to think if we negotiate and go through a bunch more diplomatic nonsense that we can somehow come to an understanding with these people. What would be the point of the negotiation ? What exactly is it we would be talking about with them? You can sit around singing "Kum-bay-yah", holding hands and praying for peace all you care to and the number of attacks and bombs won't decrease one bit.
Poor old London just keeps getting the crap knocked out of it decade after decade. Guess that gun control thing is a hit ain't it ? Nobody got shot, just blew the hell up !
I think we have to solve this by being a little bit crazier than they are. Yeah, I know, we don't want to sink to their level, but hey! If the price they would have to pay for their actions would escalate incremently as they grew bolder then would they have the nerve to continue ? It is reaaly too bad their isn't an "Al Quieda" city, so we could level it isn't it? Is this what is called heated rhetoric?
Rhetorically the issue really is international cooperation. If every nation on the earth said to them, "Start crap like this and here is the response...", and then would act on it we wouldn't have to put up with this nonsense. The price would be too high to pay. It'll never happen though because the N.I.M.B.Y. factor takes precedence. (Not In My Back Yard). Thousands more will die because we won't act as one. Politics and elections get in the way.
That is their one real advantage. We elect our leaders and they annoint theirs.
My opinion is that you can be crazy and an extremist and be any religion or any culture and live anywhere. Shoot, we got our own brand of stupid right here or anywhere else , anybody ever heard of the Unibomber or Eric Rudolph (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4441239.stm), the I.R.A.? How about Timothy McVeigh or the abortion crazies? Crazy doesn't understand time zones, or dilpomatic solutions or need them. Tell me please what the difference is between a nut like Rudolph (who was bombing for his religion) and the latest flavor of crazy who thinks they go to heaven for it ? The only real difference is a matter of degree. One group burns a clinic, one blows up a federal building and the other three airliners, two office towers and the pentagon.
You ever notice though when they get caught, even though they profess to reject civilized methods of prosecution and our society that when push comes to shove they all "lawyer up" ?
The weak kneed and the extreme liberals seem to think if we negotiate and go through a bunch more diplomatic nonsense that we can somehow come to an understanding with these people. What would be the point of the negotiation ? What exactly is it we would be talking about with them? You can sit around singing "Kum-bay-yah", holding hands and praying for peace all you care to and the number of attacks and bombs won't decrease one bit.
Poor old London just keeps getting the crap knocked out of it decade after decade. Guess that gun control thing is a hit ain't it ? Nobody got shot, just blew the hell up !
I think we have to solve this by being a little bit crazier than they are. Yeah, I know, we don't want to sink to their level, but hey! If the price they would have to pay for their actions would escalate incremently as they grew bolder then would they have the nerve to continue ? It is reaaly too bad their isn't an "Al Quieda" city, so we could level it isn't it? Is this what is called heated rhetoric?
Rhetorically the issue really is international cooperation. If every nation on the earth said to them, "Start crap like this and here is the response...", and then would act on it we wouldn't have to put up with this nonsense. The price would be too high to pay. It'll never happen though because the N.I.M.B.Y. factor takes precedence. (Not In My Back Yard). Thousands more will die because we won't act as one. Politics and elections get in the way.
That is their one real advantage. We elect our leaders and they annoint theirs.
Friday, July 8, 2005
Somedays are just MONDAY !
Have you ever noticed that Monday can happen several times a week ? Irks me to no end when a day starts off like a normal kind of day and then , WHAM ! Monday sets in all over again.
(By definition MONDAY is the day of the week where nobody knows whats going on, everybody needs 5 minutes and you start off the day behind, no matter how organized you were before the day began!)
(By definition MONDAY is the day of the week where nobody knows whats going on, everybody needs 5 minutes and you start off the day behind, no matter how organized you were before the day began!)
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