A long time ago, I was a “journalist” myself. I worked for a major Fornicalia radio station and was sent to any number of events in order to cover them. My reports didn’t include personal biases because I had actual Editors. Any personal “bias” was simply removed. I was limited to facts and reality.
Today, that paradigm has changed entirely. “Journalists” are nothing more than parrots and copiers of whatever fecal material stems from DC and White House press releases.
In a sentence: the AMM are in the tank for Mr Obama and his wife Michelle.
The most recent facts in evidence? Glad you asked!
ABC is defending its decision to edit out an apparently erroneous claim by Michelle Obama in its broadcast of the first lady’s interview on Good Morning America today, saying it made the changes “solely” for the sake of time.
Michelle Obama said, regarding a Chicago shooting:
“She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids…grew up, where our house is. She had just taken a chemistry test. And she was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” she said. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.”
So-called “automatic weapons”?
Uh, no. I call bullshit. And I smell it though my nose is predominantly ineffective. A massive lie.
In fact, Chicago Police reported Pendleton was shot by a man who “opened fire with a handgun before fleeing in a waiting car,” according to the Associated Press.
But, of course, the American Media Maggots can’t be seen to report accurately as to Michelle Obama’s inaccuracy, her bias, her ineffectiveness, her anti-Gun agenda, her transparent Leftist leanings.
The “so-called ‘truth’ ” on ABC?
ABC News commented on its editing choice this afternoon, telling Mediaite, “The full story was posted to our website in advance of the interview being broadcast. The edits made to Robin’s interview with the First Lady were made solely for time.”
Senate approves Hagel for Defense secretary after historic nomination fight
After Republicans blocked the nomination earlier this month, they ultimately allowed for an up-or-down vote on Tuesday. The margin was historically close, with 58 senators supporting him and 41 opposing in the end.
The Left and Demorats are celebrating today, patting the backs of the four Republicans who joined them in confirming Hagel: Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, Richard Shelby of Alabama and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Of course, the Republicans signed off on the cloture vote. So, once again, they cave. Plus, we have those four RINOs who actually voted for Hagel. Hagel didn’t deserve an “up or down” vote because he didn’t even deserve the nomination. Hagel, in fact, isn’t much interested in doing anything for the military; one could make the argument that Chuck Hagel eminently dislikes the military. Lovely. An antisemite as our Secretary of Defense.
“The political reality is that the Jewish Lobby intimidates a lot of people around here.” — Chuck Hagel, 2006
The US acts like a “schoolyard bully.” — Chuck Hagel, 2007
“But all kidding aside, I think the American people have moved — Democrats, Republicans, independents. They know that the possibilities for this country are immense. They’re no longer traumatized by what was a traumatizing event, the great collapse in 2008. They’re no longer worried, I think, about our economy being overwhelmed either by Europe writ large, the EU, or China somehow swallowing up every bit of innovation that exists in the world. They’re no longer, I think, worried about our economy being overwhelmed beyond our shores.”
Americans are no longer worried about the economy? Really? You think that’s true?
I think that’s not just a fabrication, but a bald-faced LIE.
Retail is — on many levels — starting to become moribund.
You can see that music stores are apparently the most greatly impacted with employee and store outlet loss, followed by camera and computer stores.
I’m sure you can see the results of retail outlet closures in your own community — no matter where you are, on the east coast, the west coast, north or south.
The retail paradigm is changing, and it is changing not unlike the replacement of the horse with the car, or the steam locomotive with the diesel-electric locomotive.
So-called Mega Malls are changing; so are regular malls. Stores are closing. Chain stores are closing.
You are responsible. I am responsible. And yet, I certainly very much miss my local Borders book stores. They closed. There are only two Barnes & Noble stores in Sacramento — the capital of Fornicalia — and both of them are incredibly inconvenient for me. Yet, I go there, because that’s how I become aware of new books.
I can see them, I can hold them, I can smell them, I can read their covers, suss out their basic premise, and scan a few pages to see if I like the writing itself.
I step back: there was a small and wonderful music store in Grass Valley, on Mill Street, in the mid-1990s, where you could walk in and sit at a counter and ask to see a specific CD. You could hold it in your hand, check out its cover, place the CD into a player and, with headphones donned, listen to the content. If you liked it, you bought it. I was generally the oldest bastard in the place, where the chicks were tattooed and pierced and dyed but here is where I found out about the groups Material, Bill Laswell, Bill Nelson, Deep Forest, Blue Man Group, and any number of artists who otherwise wouldn’t have been displayed on my musical radar screen. My musical expanses were challenged and exploded. I loved it.
But — moreover — what does the “end of retail” mean for younger people? I expect: much.
We see a large and growing gap between unemployment and the employment-population ratio. There are numerous micro explanations here.
One possibility, however, is that the relatively weak growth in shopping center employment relative to retail sales since 2000 and especially recently is driving down overall teen employment levels.
However, because teenagers are especially suited to shopping center employment they are dropping out of the labor force in response. That is, the End of Retail is causing a permanent shift in teenage employment because there are no substitutes for retail jobs.
This is a true structural downturn because it means that the production function is changing such that the productivity of teenage labor cannot meet the reservation wage.
When that happens a factor of production simply goes out of use. It also implies that for a time the economic gains from productivity enhancements will be muted. E-commerce means more efficient shopping but because we are not repurposing teenage labor but losing it completely, the measured gains are less than they otherwise would be.
Retail work — for me, possibly for you — was essentially a Rite of Passage in the 60s and 70s. You worked for a retail store and you learned how to deal with people and you learned how to work with a boss and you learned how to work with a time card and you learned how to show up at a specific time or you simply wouldn’t get paid.
You learned how to open a store, or you learned how to close a store. You learned how to prep a store for the next day. You cleaned up. You mopped the floors. Or you learned how to prep the register with cash for the coming day. You learned how to make a night deposit. You learned how to make change. With no calculator except that of your brain.
I worked for the JC Penney store on Watt Avenue. I knew 35mm photography. I sold the greatest amount of cameras. I helped my customers. I cleaned their lenses, I told them how to change their ISO, I sold them SX70 cameras. I worked in retail and I worked on a very basic and meager salary but with commission. My commission was generally the greatest of everyone else, for the three months I worked there.
Those days — these days — are apparently dying.
Amazon and any number of .com websites are making it so.
Any thoughts of yours? What are you seeing — if anything — in your community?
David Codrea has revealed that President Obama has so little regard for the United States Marines risking their lives under his command life that they were forced to dismantle their already empty parade rifles for his second inauguration parade. This is nothing less than a slap in the face of the Corps:
“Didn’t know the Marines had to take the bolts out of their rifles for the Inaugural,” an email forwarded to Gun Rights Examiner from a United States Marine Corps source observed. “Wonder if someone can explain why [they] would be marching in the inaugural parade with no bolts in their rifles!”
The email linked to a YouTube video of the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade, embedded in this column, featuring Bravo Company Marines from the Marine Barracks Washington. Sure enough, the observation in the email is confirmed by watching the video, with screen shots provided in the photo and slide show accompanying this article.
Question for you: do you think that was a decision made at a USMC level, or was it a decision made at an — ahem — “higher” level? I’d like my military readers to weigh in. I know what my thought is. . .
A long time ago, I was a “journalist” myself. I worked for a major Fornicalia radio station and was sent to any number of events in order to cover them. My reports didn’t include personal biases because I had actual Editors. Any personal “bias” was simply removed. I was limited to facts and reality.
