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September 20, 2006
Near Perfect Army Times Graphics for Military Deaths
Army Times has assembled an assortment of graphics portraying 3,000 US military casualties in Iraq.
Starting with a map of the United States, it shows what parts of the country have felt the losses most acutely. There are also graphics for age, race, service, cause of death, the regions where they died in Iraq and other breakouts. The states with the greatest losses: California with 301, Texas at 250 and New York 148.
Now let's see graphics for the 20,000 military injuries and the losses among civilian contractors (somewhere around 600 dead) who are providing services the military once provided before the responsibilities were privatized.
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September 13, 2006
American Airlines Prepared to Pull Ads From ABC
Ooops.... Bad research and fact checking at ABC leads to advertiser concern for the recently aired, slanted movie, The Path to 9/11. American Airlines may pull its advertising!
The film in both its first and second parts appears to suggest that chief hijacker Mohammed Atta was flagged as a security risk at Boston's Logan Airport by American Airlines personnel. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, that incident occurred earlier that morning, in Maine, and the airline was U.S. Airways.
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Just in Time for the November Election
Crude oil fell to $63.76 a barrel at the close, down nearly 3% from yesterday, as the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Information Administration both cut global demand projections for the rest of 2006 and 2007.
Who has more influence over oil prices? George Bush and his Saudi friends or Nancy Pelosi and her socialite buddies?
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September 07, 2006
ABC, bin Laden, Clinton and Monica
It figures that ABC would be bending current events for reasons beyond my understanding. Ratings? Politics? Ass kissing to the current administration?
Who knows? Perhaps, it's just typical corporate incompetence.
On January 21, 1998, ABC's Jackie Judd was the first network reporter to broadcast the allegations about President Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the accompanying Paula Jones freak show relating to sexual harassment complaints. Judd saw it all the way through, thanks to her pipeline to Kenneth Starr's engineered leaks and his seven-year, $70 million investigation of the Clinton's stupidity.
The end result? Starr found a semen-stained dress and helped spark the impeachment of a president.
What could be more decadent than for an entire Congress to be consumed by such an event? How about a news media that found easy pickings in headlining the steamy details of a president with an unzipped pecker and a willing intern on her knees?
My theory is that the Republican Congress was simply following the headlines.
So, let's have a docudrama about TV news executives and their decision making during the Monica Lewinsky days while Osama bin Laden was laying plans for attacking US embassies (257 people were killed and over 4,000 wounded) and the USS Cole (17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured).
I worked at ABC and my managers were on the brink of masturbatory delight over how many ways to describe an Oval Office blow job for family viewing. Every morning, they would look at the viewer ratings and chant "Monica, Monica, Monica."
The constant drumbeat drove a president to impeachment and when the Clinton Administration bombed Afghanistan and Sudan to hit bin Laden, ABC managers mused that it was to distract people from impeachment.
Oh, and my stories on terrorism and bin Laden? One news manager called them "thumb suckers."
I am sure he is still a consummate ass kisser.
Then again, thumb sucking, cock sucking and ass kissing is just just business. Some just make better news.
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