Media pisses off Supreme Court Justice

Bold emphasis is mine.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Antonin Scalia took the news media to task Thursday for some recent coverage of the Supreme Court.

At a conference of attorneys in Washington, Scalia said news organizations often fail to focus on the text of the laws the court interprets, citing accounts of last month's 8-1 decision that made it harder for consumers to sue makers of federally approved medical devices.

He singled out for criticism a New York Times editorial on the case headlined "No Recourse for the Injured."

The media often make it appear as though the court is reaching policy judgments on its own rather than basing its decisions on the text of the law at issue in a case, Scalia said.

In some instances, said Scalia, the news media leave the impression that no ruling based on the text of a law "is even possible."

Ha ha -- imagine that -- the media "often make it appear" -- and "leave the impression" -- but -- it's all "free speech" -- until they misrepresent YOU, right Scalia?

TROPO expresses, well, outrage over Geert Wilder's video, Fitna

Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh are protesting this video. Jihadi world wide are making death threats. Pakistan blocks YouTube in its country and accidently blocks it for the world. Wait a minute... Bangladesh protests? Don't they have enough problems of their own already? Well anyway, they protested. Click HERE for the article and watch the video that spurred further outrage amongst TROPO. Islam therefore I am.


By the way, TROPO=The Religion Of Perpetual Outrage. UrbanDictionary.com

Jackass makes jackass of self - again

(CBS) Self-avowed "P.R. agent for the planet" Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.

The former vice president and former presidential candidate talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Confronted by Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is man-made, Gore responds: "You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. "That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off," he tells Stahl.

Hey -- Al Gore -- Mr. Nobel Peace Prize -- Mr. Oscar -- Mr. 60 Minutes -- I hate to hurt your self esteem but I have something to tell you. It doesn't matter how many communist organizations tout your idiotic theory. It doesn't matter who is "in the minority" with regard to science. Scientific principles are not up for a vote -- braying jackass.

Hey, Gore -- if you're such a "PR agent" for the planet, howcum you're getting rich selling carbon credits to peckerwoods? It's funny -- if people believe you, you get richer -- isn't that - uh - what do they call it -- oh yeah -- a conflict of interest -- PR man. I sure hope you have to pay all that money back soon.

No, we're not hiring cretinous egomaniacs

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.

"We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located.

So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set in 2006, the company said, adding that it maintains the target.

Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.

"If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn't put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down," he said.
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What's that? Businesses don't want to hire the self-centered illiterate morons that our schools are putting out? Who could have predicted this? Who could have seen this coming? If only we had a clairvoyant genius who could have warned us. Now we've gone and ruined at least two generations with our idiotic education policies.

Well -- at least all the kids have great self esteem ... right? That's right, "I can't read or do math but I'm special ... and I always got one of the trophies in whatever contest I entered."

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More objective jourrrrrrnalism

From Newsbusters:

AP Math:

0.6% Rise is 'Feeble'

0.6% Decline is 'Plunge'

By Noel Sheppard March 27, 2008 - 10:03 ET

Want an even clearer picture of how media are intentionally reporting economic data in a way that makes the public feel things are much worse than they are?

Consider the different adjectives the good folks at the Associated Press use to describe a 0.6 percent change depending on whether or not it's an increase or a decrease.

As reported by NewsBusters two weeks ago, when the Commerce Department announced that retail sales for February had declined by 0.6 percent, the Associated Press declared that a "plunge."

Yet, when the Gross Domestic Product grows by a similar amount, the AP reports it as "feeble" (emphasis added, h/t NB reader Matthew Noll):

The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product increased at a feeble 0.6 percent annual rate in the October-to-December quarter. The reading -- unchanged from a previous estimate a month ago -- provided stark evidence of just how much the economy has weakened. In the prior quarter, the economy clocked in at a sizzling 4.9 percent growth rate.

How do these people look at themselves in the mirror each morning?

Baaaaa - Baaaaaa -- that sure sounds Baaaaaaad to us sheeple. The Republicans have GOT to go. Thank god we can count on the totally objective media to present an unbiased view of "the facts" so we can decide for ourselves.

Democrat group totally "non -partisan"

From Newsbusters:

Newspapers Fail to Recognize Liberal Leanings of Families USA
By Lyndsi Thomas March 27, 2008 - 12:41 ET

From windy Washington, D.C., to sunny Palm Beach, Florida, the liberal print media are refusing to note the liberal bent of an interest group vocal in the health care debate.

The March 26 edition of the Palm Beach Post -- a broadsheet notorious to conservatives for its unbalanced treatment of Rush Limbaugh -- featured not one but two articles which pushed government-run universal health care. In both of them, the Post asserted that Floridians are dying daily due to a lack of health care coverage.

The source for the Post’s assertion was a recent study by the liberal group Families USA. Not surprisingly, the Post described the organization as simply a “nonpartisan” group that advocates for “comprehensive health care” while conveniently leaving out the group’s liberal tendencies, its support of socialist-style universal healthcare and that its political allies include liberal Democratic politicians such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)More here:

Sure fooled the sheeple. Boy do WE look stupid ... AGAIN.

Woopsie -- we forgot -- AGAIN!

From Newsbusters:

AP Ignores Fact Indicted Puerto Rico Gov an Obama Superdelegate
By Ken Shepherd March 27, 2008 - 13:14 ET

Color me unsurprised.

The Associated Press, reporting the indictment of Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila (pictured at right via AFP/Getty Images file photo) failed to note Vila is a Democrat, let alone that he is an Obama superdelegate.

But Vila's party affiliation is hardly a state secret. Indeed, ABC's Jake Tapper noted the Obama connection on his Political Punch blog this morning:

More here:

Way to go, very trustworthy and "totally objective jourrrrnalists."

Er ah -- Er ah -- Under oath?

From HotAir:

Guy mistakes self for The Klown

Found it at Small Bits and Pieces:

Arrest warrant issued for 'God'

A magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to turn up to court because he is "God" and above the law.

Richard James Howarth was remanded to appear in the Ipswich Magistrate's Court to answer a string of traffic offences, including four counts of driving with a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.

However, his lawyers said he failed to appear after having earlier informed them he would not talk to them because he is was the almighty and above answering to Queensland laws.

Sheesh -- somebody is a little full of themselves.

Obama says the Klown should pay

Democrat Barack Obama mocked John McCain on Wednesday for urging government restraint in responding to the mortgage crisis, saying the Republican would "just sit back and watch" as millions of Americans lost their homes.

"We've been down this road before," Obama said. "It's the road George Bush has taken . . . for the last eight years. It's the idea that government has no role at all in solving the challenges facing working families -- that all we can do is hand out tax breaks for the wealthiest few and let the chips fall where they may." Gaaaa - tax breaks for the evil rich.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds dismissed Obama's comments as "old attack and smear tactics."

"John McCain has called for an immediate and balanced approach to provide transparency and accountability in an effort to help homeowners who are hurting, while Barack Obama has made a $10-billion election-year promise that is sure to raise taxes and handcuff an already struggling economy," Bounds said.

In a Santa Ana speech Tuesday, McCain said that he was open to ideas on weathering the crisis, but that government should not reward banks or small borrowers that had acted irresponsibly. More here:

Yes -- after all -- people aren't capable of reading their own contracts -- you know -- since liberals have blocked discipline in classrooms for 2 generations. Now it's a huge surprise when these illiterates are "ripped off" by "predatory lending" practices.

After all -- why should people have to pay attention in school? What benefit do they derive from it ... the ability to earn a living and avoid "rip offs?" Why should they work and study hard ... hell ... if I make a huge mistake, the Klown will gladly pay ... he doesn't mind ... just ask Obama and the libs.

But Klown -- Obama is only going to "tax the rich."

Sure he is -- and the rich will never raise my prices to make up the difference -- right? Let me tell you -- if you ever sit in on a corporate board meeting, you will see -- if expenses (taxes) go up, the corporation MUST raise their prices or cut expenses. If they do not, their profits will decrease -- if their profit decreases the stockholders will start to fire the executives. So -- you end up paying the higher tax FOR THEM ... CAPISCE?

Meanwhile, that McCain, boy -- he sure is a cruel Republican. He's going to let the idiots suffer the pain for their own actions. And when I say "idiots," -- I mean ALL the idiots -- borrowers and lenders.

And then there's this at the bottom of the article:
Obama leads Clinton in delegates won in primaries and caucuses -- 1,621 to 1,499 -- according to the AP. But it is virtually impossible for either candidate to win enough delegates to capture the nomination, so more than 700 superdelegates will decide the race.

Spokesman Brendan Daly said Pelosi believed "it would do great harm to the Democratic Party if superdelegates are perceived to overturn the will of the voters. This has been her position throughout this primary season, regardless of who was ahead at any particular point in delegates or votes."

Ok -- I have to ask a question of this idiot lib. Hey -- idiot lib -- if the superdelegates are supposed to vote exactly the same as the regular voters -- then why have superdelegates? Answer that, shitforbrains.

Dung catapult to target vandals

A former stuntman has warned would-be vandals they face being fired at with a catapult loaded with chicken manure.

Former stuntman Joe Weston-Webb, 70, said his offices in Kegworth, Notts, have been attacked by arsonists and he was fighting back with the weaponry.

Mr Weston Webb said: "There's no way anyone will get caught...so I thought I would set up my own defence."

A police spokesman said they would give "practical security advice" but warned against using "unreasonable force".

Warning sign

Mr Weston-Webb, who supplies flooring to hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, said he will also use a cannon, which once shot his wife Mary across the River Avon in a circus show, to fire a railway sleeper at intruders.

"I have put up a sign warning anyone who enters the property that they could get hit with a railway sleeper or chicken poo.

"I have got all this old kit and I am going to put it to some use and stop it rather than letting it rot in a field."

Mr Weston-Webb said the arsonists had caused £2,000 of damage to his offices. More here:

Yes -- a catapult full of chicken shit -- that ought to smell for days.

Hey Klown -- what is a railway sleeper?

I had to look it up -- but it's another name for a railroad tie. I guess he was going to put that in the cannon. I guess that would kill an arsonist in a grisly way. Put ME on the jury please.

Hmmmmmm

By KOMO Staff & News Services

SEATTLE -- A parachute unearthed in Southwest Washington could explain whether D.B. Cooper survived his leap from a plane 36 years ago.

The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.

In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out of the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes and the money strapped to his body. He was never seen again, alive or dead.

Cooper's crime has kept investigators guessing over the decades. But the parachute, which was recently dug up by the children of a Clark County farmer in the area where the mysterious skyjacker likely landed, has raised new questions.

"It's fragile to the touch, and it's obviously been in the ground for some time," agent Larry Carr said of the canvas.

Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute sticking up from the ground this month in an area where their father had been grading a road.

Carr says they pulled on the fabric as much as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors. They had seen recent media coverage on the D.B. Cooper case and urged their dad to call the FBI. More here:

Communist jackass hates McCain

Chavez says U.S. relations could worsen with McCain

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a socialist and fierce U.S. critic, warned on Tuesday that relations with Washington could worsen if Republican candidate John McCain wins this year's presidential election.

Chavez said he hopes the United States and Venezuela can work better together when his ideological foe, U.S. President George W. Bush, leaves the White House next year, but he said McCain seemed "warlike."

"Sometimes one says, 'worse than Bush is impossible,' but we don't know," Chavez told foreign correspondents. "McCain also seems to be a man of war."

Chavez -- who has called Bush "the devil", "a donkey" and 'Mr Danger" -- accuses the United States of having imperial designs in Latin America and says the White House has plotted his overthrow. More here:

Pipe down, Chavez -- dumbass. Go back to seizing private businesses and price controls and creating shortages of food in your stores -- you're much better at that. Of course, I don't like McCain either -- he's Mr. Amnesty and for a few other reasons, but I shallna digress. If YOU hate him, suddenly, I like him better.

El Al comes under fire for finding a system that actually works- racial profiling

Israel's renowned airline security faced a legal challenge Wednesday from a civil rights group charging that its practice of ethnic profiling is racist because it singles out Arabs for tougher treatment.

Arabs have said over and over that they want to kill jews... that it's their mission... their right... their duty... and they back up their words with actions... over and over and over again... so the Jewish airline decides it's going to defend itself and now THEY'RE the racists? Next thing you know, uttering "I feared for my life" won't absolve you of murder because there will be no longer be such a thing as self-defense.

CLICK HERE for entire article.

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School principal = candyass

By ALLIE SHAH , Star Tribune Forest Lake High's principal said the decision was spurred by concerns that the presentation was more political than educational.

A national tour featuring decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won't be stopping at Forest Lake Area High School today as planned, after school leaders abruptly canceled the visit.

Steve Massey, the school principal, said the decision to cancel was prompted by concerns that the event was becoming political rather than educational and therefore was not suitable for a public school.

He said the school had received several phone calls from parents and others, some of whom indicated that they may stage a protest if the event took place.

"The event was structured to be an academic classroom discussion around military service. We thought we'd provide an opportunity for kids to learn about service in the context of our history classes," Massey said. "As the day progressed, it became clear that this was becoming a political event ... which would be inappropriate in a public setting.

"We decided to cancel," Massey said. Organizers of the National Heroes Tour then scrambled to relocate the event to the American Legion building in Forest Lake. The visit, which U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, had been scheduled to attend, is sponsored by Vets for Freedom, a national organization run by Pete Hegseth, a 1999 graduate of Forest Lake Area High School who served with the 101st Airborne in Iraq in 2005-06.

"I think it's extremely unfortunate that a school would bow to the political pressure of outside groups and not bring in a veterans organization," Hegseth said. "Are we saying that patriotism and duty and honor have no place in our public schools?" More here:

Yes, Mr. Principal -- and what are you teaching your students by folding? Are you teaching them that the military is bad? Are you teaching them to fold and give up under the slightest bit of pressure? Are you teaching them that 15 people with signs and shit-for-brains can dictate the school's agenda? Are you teaching them to avoid controversy at any cost? Are you teaching them that there really is no difference between right and wrong? RESIGN, BRAYING JACKASS, I don't want you teaching kids a damn thing.

I wasn't going to pound it -- sheesh

By ANTHONY CORMIER
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Published: March 25, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.

In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to take him to trial in April.

Milio, according to police records, tried to pay $20 in November to an undercover officer on 14th Street West.

Milio recently told the Herald-Tribune he was only flirting with the woman.

"I haven't had that in years," he said. "Ninety-three is kind of old."

Carlos Underhill, 93, will not be charged, although he does not deny stopping to chat with the "good-looking girl" who made eyes at him and turned out to be an undercover officer.

Police say Underhill was willing to pay $30 for sex and that he promised to come back a few hours later to consummate the deal.

Prosecutors say that they cannot move ahead with the criminal case because there is no way to prove Underhill planned to come back.

Underhill was fined $150 for trying to pick up a prostitute in 1990, when he was 75. In the latest case, he says, he was not cruising Tamiami Trail for sex: He just wanted to chat with the buxom woman who smiled at him as he drove past.

"All I was going to do was talk," he said Monday. "It wasn't for sex. I am 93, you know."

Yeah -- lay off -- he wasn't going to pound it -- he just wanted to chat. LMAO. Wait -- The Klown is getting a psychic message -- it says "HE WAS GOING TO POUND IT TO DEATH."

Objective jourrrrrnalists make "mistake"

From Newsbusters:
By Brent Baker

Two weeks since the ABC and NBC evening shows took multiple days before getting around to informing viewers that disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer belonged to the Democratic Party -- after every ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news program last year immediately highlighted the party of Republican Senators David Vitter and Larry Craig -- Monday's broadcast network evening newscasts all failed to note, verbally or on-screen, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's party.

ABC anchor Charles Gibson announced on World News: “Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged today with felonies that could cost him his job and 15 years in prison.” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams relayed how “Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick...was indicted on perjury and other charges in the wake of a sex scandal there.” (NBC also refused to tag Kilpatrick in a full story aired Friday night.) Over on Monday's CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Harry Smith introduced a full story: “In Detroit, a sex scandal led to criminal charges today against the Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, a married father of three.”

Hahahaha. They fooled us -- boy, do WE look stupid.

Gaaaa - I thought he was dead

By Mark Tomasik

U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, whose district includes much of Martin and St. Lucie counties, is hoping he won’t have to attend the Democratic Party national convention in Denver in August.

If he does go, that will mean the Democrats still haven’t decided a nominee for the presidential election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement.

“If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket,” Mahoney said.

A compromise candidate could be someone such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week during a meeting with this news organization’s editorial board.

If either Clinton or Obama suggested to a deadlocked convention a ticket of Gore-Clinton or Gore-Obama, the Democratic Party would accept it, Mahoney said. More here:

Pic from The Onion - "Al Gore, caught warming globe."