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Big Surprise (not!): Harper Lied

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:13:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hopefully, this will continue the decline of the Conservatives in the polls before the election on the 14th, and maybe we can get a party with at least a small measure of sense back in control of Canada. The Liberals may suck hugely, but they're arms and elbows above the Conservatives.

Clip Source: news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca

Harper recording in Cadman affair intact: expert

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's contention that a tape recording was doctored to implicate him in a bribery scandal involving the late MP Chuck Cadman was contradicted Friday by the very specialist Harper hired to analyze the tape.

Vancouver journalist Tom Zytaruk, author of a book on the life of the late MP Chuck Cadman. (Richard Lam /THE CANADIAN PRESS)

CTV.ca News Staff

A judge ordered an inspection of the tape after Harper launched a $3.5-million libel suit against the Liberal Party of Canada.

However, audio expert Bruce Koenig, a former FBI agent who was hired by the Harper team to check the tape, filed a report on Friday which contradicts Harper's court testimony and finds that the key section of the tape contains no splices, edits or alterations.

quickmustangs

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:46:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The website displays Powerful Ford Mustang Cars, featuring Cobra Mustangs news and Cobra Mustangs photos.

Clip Source: quickmustangs.com

Powerful Ford Mustang Cars

Other Cobra Mustangs Items

Last year it was Corvettes. This year it's Mustangs. Automotive journalist Jerry Heasley's new book ‘Mustang Masterpieces' just came out. Last October was the release of his book ‘Corvette Masterpieces.'

Arizona Shelby Cobras LLC is gearing up to take part in the Men’s Luxury Toy Experience Oct. 24-26 at WestWorld of Scottsdale.

COBRA, powered by nine foreign players, are confident of ending their 10- year drought in the HSBC-COBRA Rugby 10s Championships at the Petaling Jaya Stadium in Kelana Jaya on Nov 1-2.

KUALA LUMPUR: Combined All Boys Rugby Association (Cobra), powered by nine foreign players, are all geared up to go one better in 39th HSBC-Cobra 10s rugby tournament at the MBPJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya on Nov 1-2.

Tags: cobra mustangs, ford mustang, ford mustang parts, mustang engine, mustang gt

Turning Facts Into Speculation

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:41:14 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Let a bisexual woman say for once and all that all women are NOT bisexual. How silly to put up one picture of a man who looks like a player with bad hair and bad jewelry and a huge package swathed in purple and make a statement that all women are bisexual because they found the second picture of the woman to be more appealing. Bisexuality is very complex and most likely a variant. Does that mean there aren't a lot of women who are bisexual and closeted? Of course not. Is attraction based on more than just the image in the retina? YES, YES, YES.
Do I have to post a link to a video of PINK to forget all of this? DUH.

Clip Source: laconicreply.wordpress.com

It seems like every couple days another study is released. At that point the journalism machine spins into overdrive and starts turning facts into speculation, correlation into causation.

A recent example is the an article in the New York Times that summarizes a study on female bisexuality.

the journalist then speculates that all women are inherently bisexual, or at least significantly more so then men. This is a pretty big leap in my opinion.

Attraction is based on more than just the image on my retina.

Just because a select group of women were not as aroused by a certain photo of a naked man as they were by a certain photo of a naked woman does not instantly mean that all women are inherently bisexual.

It’s these sorts of extreme extrapolations that always bother me.

Clearing the Ayers

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:52:43 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: Guilt by association - everybody's involved in something.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Fox News, in a one-hour special on Obama’s associates hosted by Sean Hannity, came up with an “Internet journalist” named Andy Martin who has spent his life running bizarre political campaigns with occasional detours into the clink and filing lawsuits laced with paranoia and anti-Semitism. Based on this expertise, Martin deduced that Ayers was the puppet master of Obama’s rise in politics and that Obama’s community-organizer gig was actually training for “a radical overthrow of the government.”

Keating said he knew a young mother who took her child for a walk while wearing Bermuda shorts. A motorist, overwhelmed with lust at the sight of the back of her uncovered calves, lost control of his car and slammed into them. Everybody was killed, and it was all her fault. We were then asked to sign pledge cards promising to conform to standards of modesty that would have satisfied the Taliban.

True, none of this really proves that I was responsible for the banking scandals of the 1980s.

Freedom?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:38:57 GMT

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Clip Source: shop.wnd.com

Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation – from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.

For example, few of us realize that the widely revered father of the "sexual revolution" has been irrefutably exposed as a full-fledged sexual psychopath who encouraged pedophilia. Or that giant corporations voraciously competing for America's $150 billion teen market routinely infiltrate young people's social groups to find out how better to lead children into ever more debauched forms of "authentic self-expression."

Tags: morality, sex, children, teens, evil, good, porn

Why Republicans are losing

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:13:53 GMT

clipped by: deb2012
clipper's remarks: opinion of David From, former Bush speechwriter

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

A new book, Comeback, by the conservative journalist and former Bush speechwriter David Frum begins with a bracing chapter entitled “Why We're Losing”.

Nobody wants to vote for a party that angrily disapproves of how they live.

Across the world left-wing parties have accepted capitalism and moderated. This requires conservative parties to move towards the centre to compete.

Conservatives need to show that they can run government, providing services, not merely talking about shrinking them

This is linked to another issue - tax cuts.

Always an automatic crowd-pleaser in the past, it isn't working quite as reliably as it used to

And in America Frum notes a very good reason for this. Mostly it is not the middle class who gain, it is the very well-off.

Frum urges Republicans to abandon their old “read my lips, no new taxes” slogan and impose taxes on fossil fuel consumption.

Tags: politics

Citizen Journalism And Steve Jobbs

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:48:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is simply silly to decry "citizen journalism" because one "citizen journalist" got the story wrong, intentionally or otherwise. Actually, the term "citizen journalism" is silly. It is a way for big media to differentiate themselves from the "citizens".

People say things on the street. People say things in their home, at work, on the train, and in email, Twitter and on their blogs. This is all information. The fact that it continues to be necessary to think about what you hear and run it through filters is no different for any information source.

I certainly would never take a CNN, or Fox or MSNBC news story as gospel. Would you?

Clip Source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com

October 3, 2008, 12:46 pm

Apple Denies ‘Citizen Journalist Report’

By John Markoff

The report raised questions on several blogs about the role of citizen journalism, and there was speculation that the incident would lead to an investigation by securities regulators.

Apple’s shares abruptly declined as much as 5.4 percent after the post on iReport, CNN’s citizen journalist Web site, stated that Mr. Jobs had had a “major heart attack.”

Large dog savaged by killer squirrels

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:30:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: continues:
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack. While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd".

"If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added. Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory. A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year. "The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Large dog savaged by killer squirrels

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute. They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh. A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical. The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people. A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.

"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."

Steve Jobs Heart Attack Rumors False

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:36:01 GMT

clipped by: Brian Caulfield
clipper's remarks: Silly citizen journalists, Steve is indestructible. Lasers shine out of his eyes, and he poops lithium ion batteries.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Steve Jobs has not had a heart attack, says Apple

The story, which eminated from online citizen journalist site iReport, and then quickly spread to other blogs and forums, was refuted by an Apple spokesperson.

"The rumours that he has had a heart attack are untrue," said Apple.

Big Difference in Post-Debate Spin

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:22:53 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: [Jonathan Adler, October 2, 2008 at 12:36pm]
Does Ifill Have a Conflict of Interest?

The internet has been buzzing with charges that tonight's debate moderator, Gwen Ifill, has a conflict of interest because she is writing a book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, that is due to be released on inauguration day in 2009. If nothing else, it creates the appearance of a conflict of interest, much as would a journalist's participation in a political rally or partisan political activity. This is the view taken by the Columbia Journalism Review:

Gwen Ifill has done solid, important journalism. She’ll likely be a good, tough, and neutral moderator to the vice-presidential debate. Let’s set that aside, for now.

Conflict of interest is often about appearances. There appears, to us, to be a conflict in Ifill moderating tomorrow night’s vice presidential debate.

http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1222978481.shtml

Clip Source: volokh.com

I watched a bit of the post-debate spin at FOX News, CBS, and ABC. CBS and ABC couldn't have been more different from FOX. The spin from commentators was pro-Palin at FOX and pro-Biden at CBS and ABC.

The Frank Luntz focus group results were stunningly strong for Palin.

At CBS, on the other hand, the instant poll of "uncommitted" voters showed 2-to-1 reporting that Biden won.

Once again, we need to integrate newsrooms politically to get truly balanced reporting.

By the way, I thought that, by conventional measures, Biden won the first third fairly clearly, while Palin was even or ahead in the last two thirds of the debate. If I had to pick an overall winner, I would lean slightly toward Biden, though Palin exceeded expectations more clearly than Biden.

So if a near-tie in the first presidential debate was spun as a win for Obama, then should a near-tie in the vice presidential debate be spun as a win for Palin?

Tags: debate, media spin, fox, cbs, abc

The Debate "Moderator" Revealed

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:56:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think the GOP should pull out of this debate unless the "moderator" is replaced. Can you imagine (I can) that her questions are already in the ZerObama camp and Hairplug Biden has been working on his responses to these specific questions? These dice are loaded and Sarah/GOP should not play.

Clip Source: www.worldtribune.com

My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.

Random House, her publisher, is already busy hyping the book with YouTube clips of Ifill heaping praise on her subjects, including Obama and Obama-endorsing Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. The official promo for the book gushes: “In ‘The Breakthrough,’ veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. …

Tags: cheating lying loony left

Slowing down in a world built for speed

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:50:40 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: couldn't clip the video, please see at source.
Think it is a worthwhile watch.

Clip Source: www.ted.com

Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives.

Journalist Carl Honore is best known for his advocacy of the Slow Movement. His book In Praise of Slowness dissects our speed-obsessed society and celebrates those who have gotten in touch with... Full bio and more links »

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Ryder Notes: The Doc & Yamaha Clean Up

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:04:36 GMT

clipped by: crazy_witch

Clip Source: www.superbikeplanet.com

He won today with a Norrick Abe sticker on his helmet, a tribute to the Japanese 500cc race winner who died almost a
year ago in a traffic accident. A Japanese journalist asked him about the tribute and received as elegant, human and
charming an answer as you could hope for. Vale explained how when he first came to the 125s there was a gang of fast
Japanese riders who he liked and was great friends with, and how he was so happy to see them this weekend - Ueda,
Tokodume, Sakata and 'my teacher' Haruchika Aoki. But it was the Japanese GP of 1995 that made the young Rossi a
Norrick fan - he nearly wore out the video of that race. With typical attention to detail Vale's helmet sticker
showed a red bike with the green numbers - that was the Honda that Abe rode in that famous wild-card race , not the
Yamaha of his fulltime GP career.

Tags: valentino rossi, norick abe, motogp

Of spooks and scoops

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:12:45 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: A fine article if you want to know about freedom of the press in Australia. If the paper doesn't have Murdoch et al to keep you to the right of Atilla the Hen, the Fed cops will be set onto you.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

PHILIP DORLING has been a journalist for just three months. He's made quite an impact. So much so that when he and his wife were about to wrestle their two children out of their Canberra house and into the car last Tuesday morning, eight agents from the Australian Federal Police lobbed on their doorstep armed with search warrants.

Dated September 17 and signed by the Australian Capital Territory's Chief Magistrate, Ron Cahill, the warrants authorised the agents to search the journalist's home. For the next five hours they went through his house and his rubbish and took away a laptop, a mobile phone, a diary, a few random documents and a copy of The Canberra Times dated June 14 — more than three months earlier.

Its front-page story by Dorling — "Revealed: our spy targets" — triggered Tuesday's raid. The story embarrassed the defence and diplomatic establishments by revealing that Australia was focusing its espionage efforts against allies Japan and South Korea, as well as China and Nort

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Robert Fisk: ‘The Middle East Is Not a Complex Place’

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:10:07 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

Robert Fisk: ‘The Middle East Is Not a Complex Place’

Posted on Sep 26, 2008

The acclaimed journalist stopped by our offices this week, where he told Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer that the Middle East is a lot less puzzling than it’s made out to be: “It’s we who are there, not the other way round. ... It’s not our land. It’s not our religion. Our soldiers are in the Muslim world and they should not be there.”

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