Bob Morris @ Apr 28th 2005 08:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
As reliably reported in multiple mainstream newspapers
Visitors to parks in the German city of Hamburg were warned yesterday to watch out for exploding toads.
Several thousand have so far mysteriously and spontaneously blown up, sending entrails and body parts over a wide area.
Bob Morris @ Apr 28th 2005 08:44 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Sue, who is a CPA.
How it works (or doesn’t work):
The Rigas family returns $1.5 billion (95% of its assets) to Adelphia. This means they keep 5% or roughly $79 million. Perhaps they need this money for attorneys fees and court costs, and side lawsuits we haven’t heard about. Or maybe they get to keep the paltry $79 million, poor things. (sniff)
Adelphia gets the $1.5 billion, which is added to the bankruptcy pot. Debts are restructured and partially satisfied. At the end of bankruptcy, the company gives $715 million to compensate its shareholder victims.
Let’s see … $79 million to one family … versus $715 million to thousands of shareholders and their class-action attorneys. Not bad for a Rigas family member’s day’s work.
Bob Morris @ Apr 28th 2005 08:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Schwarzenegger has now broken virtually all his campaign pledges, a key member of his administration, Dick Riordan, is resigning, and the wheels are falling off. Once the Hollywood glitz bully boy exterior fell apart, well, there’s just not much there. He appears to have little actual interest in politics and no political skills at all beyond winning through intimidation. And that ploy isn’t working any more.
Gov. relents on sped-up remapping
Schwarzenegger drops a demand that political districts be redrawn by next year.
Deal on cheaper medicines unravels. Senate panel rejects governor’s plan
Critics said the plan would have relied on drug companies to voluntarily discount prices for low-income people without penalizing firms that refused.
After reneging on his promise to schools, Schwarzenegger’s marks slip
Riordan quitting as Education Secretary
Bob Morris @ Apr 28th 2005 08:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn’t always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He’d been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: “They’re gonna make it look like suicide,” he said. “I know how these bastards think . . .”
Bob Morris @ Apr 28th 2005 08:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s this simple: the problem is NOT a dearth of smart women bloggers… or talented minority bloggers. There are plenty of them.
The problem (if you agree there is one) is that the MSM (mainstream media) primarily points to A-list white male bloggers when they’re talking about the blogosphere. Why? It’s an unconscious bias. It’s what MSM reporters (who tend to be white males) “see” when they scan the blogosphere.
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