cainmark

This comment I made (once it's approved) should show up after this link:

http://huntsvilledevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/09/housing-authority-shifts-to-lowe-mill.html

here;s the comment with irritating mispellings included:

That's not good. not good at all. Lowe Mill is already benefiting. It's already gone from alternative underground with the Flying Monkey Arts Center to above-ground with the Lowe Mill stuff aroudn it.

this happens againa and again ins city after city. The creative class risks going through and living in a rougher part of town, makes it more interesting and the new "cool" place to go and the upper crusts wants to kick out the pople who already live there? Let's not let Huntsville make the same mistake and instead work with people who need help instead of shuffling them off where some people dont' want to see them because it makes them "feel uncomforatble".

George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 15:47 The pundit class-"Like Holocaust deniers as it's happening all around them." #

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That's interesting:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487

It explains why my videorecording of that 60 minutes segment was mostly a parking lot.


Definitely not just theories anymore.

UPDATE:

WHNT re-broadcast it at a sane hour during their 6:00pm broadcast.

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/whnt-re-airs-60.html

Good for them. Finally.

Here's a link I missed:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/media-blackout-update-pakistan-and-alabama/index.html?ex=1361682000&en=f74ecfb0dce41cfd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I left this comment at the last link:
"I live in Huntsville. It’s a great city, really. And Alabama is a great state. It’s just very unfortunate that the publicity we get is from our loudest, not necessarily brightest. And we have very, very bright people here, especially in Huntsville, the Rocket City.

That being said, the coincidences are way too much for these to be just theories. Again, NYT hasn’t owned WHNT since May2007. There’s a link in the comments to the Republican crony who does. Follow the money, think critically, and ask yourself who stands to gain.

Seigelman was definitely railroaded unjustly.

I don’t think he was a very good Governor, and Riley has surprised me in a actually being the best Republican governor this state could hope for. He is good for this state. His party and the current administration are and have been disasters for this country.

What bothers me the most is the attempt to dismiss this as one little station in a city in a state, when what’s going on has much farther reaching consequences. But Britney or a flash of Janet’s boob during the Superbowl or crimes in sports are more important and worthy of outrage and attention than crimes by our city, state and federal judiciary? Why the heck is that?

Thank goodness the internet hasn’t been locked down yet (but oh, how they are trying.)

— Posted by cainmark"

Who stands to gain? and Follow the money. are things to keep in mind when such "coincidences" happen.

Stuff like this, just, aaargh! Unjust, unfair, and that girl is still dead. Cracks in this system need to be fixed.

http://phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-01-24/news/the-wrong-driver/

"For years this ban has held back large media companies from owning both the newspapers and major television stations in the same media market. For you, this means fewer choices for your news, fewer voices in the local media, and news programming that gets worse and worse."

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/659309295?z00m=11868629

Just finished watching The CNN Youtube debates. I really like this format. These were real questions from real people and not what journalist just *thought* real people would be asking.

Anderson Cooper said they were overwhelmed by questions about health care, so they just combined a few videos about it. Obviously that's an issue that's very important that's on most people's minds.

One of the questions was from a lesbian couple asking if the candidates were elected if they would allow that couple to get married. Kucinich was the only one who said yes. The others who were given the time to answer said they would favor civil unions with the same rights under the law. To me, that goes back to "separate but equal" which was found to be wrong in Brown vs. the Board of Education (Which was removed recently but that's a whole other issue I'm ticked about).

Hillary and Obama got waaay too much time on the air. Mike Gravell rightfully pointed out that he wasn't getting much time at all. But his core saying should be on everyone's mind in dealing with current political issues, "Follow the money."

I really liked Richardson's idea of a portable 401K that would follow the person when they changed careers.


Kucinich (who actually got some airtime in this debate) is still the candidate who matches my personal experiences, philosophies, and thoughts the best. My devilgirl said he'd never win, no matter how correct he's been about the issues for years. Because he's short and ugly. But mainly because he's short. Because he's not marketable. And that right there is the problem. Our national system of politics should not be based on who is the most marketable, because then it becomes about who has the most money.

Right now, Obama does. The few things I dislike about Obama are also the ones that give him a really good shot at the presidency. Though, I still think Hillary has a better chance than him. I thought she was my least favorite, until I heard Biden. I respect what he's done in the Senate, but don't think he's make a very good president.

Just my humble opinion.

If you weren't afraid before, now you can be. Because this would be fine if all they used it for was going after real, actual threats. How much you wanna bet they're using it for much, much more?

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/special_operations_prepared_fo.html?nav=rss_blog

Why I really don't like AT&T, and why I am glad I dropped them and Bellsouth like a hot potato.

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/13/iDontBelieveInTheDeathPena.html

Fix the FCC, if we have to have it anyway.

http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3034169.html

K-Law_Copyfight

"Don't Break Citizen Broadcasting on the Internet!"

http://www.dearwipo.com/petition

http://ipaction.org/survey.html

"It is *NOT* illegal to film the police. The organization CopWatch is based on that freedom. In fact, it is legal to film your public officials at any time. (Well, maybe not in the bathroom). When a public citizen on public land is told to turn off her or his camera, it is called cohesion, and is illegal."

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2050212&from=rss

"Help Uncover the FOIA Secret-Hold Senator"

http://www.ireporter.org/2007/05/help_uncover_th.html

Voting analysis

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/evotinganalysis

Find Habeas Corpus

http://findhabeas.com/

"John Stewart: When Comedians Start Asking the Tough Questions"

http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2007/05/when_comics_do_.html

Bill Moyers has a great interview with John Stewart

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_stewart.html

Mark Shuttleworth sums up a lot of what I used to love about America's ideals it used to be striving for:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/120

Helen Thomas. Journalism. We need more like her.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5856298

I have felt this way sometimes. Maybe why I'm such a story addict:

"They would have heard Vartan Gregorian, then head of the New York Public Library, talk about how "in a big library, suddenly you feel humble. The whole of humanity is in front of you. It gives you a sense of cosmic relation, but at the same time a sense of isolation. You feel both pride and insignificance. Here it is, the human endeavor, human aspiration, human agony, human ecstasy, human bravura, human failures - all before you. And you look around and say, 'Oh, my God! I am not going to be able to know it all.'""

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021307A.shtml

We need more journalists like Bill Moyers. Desperately.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021307A.shtml

New public domain collection up at the Internet Archive Moving Images section.

Movie Theatre Newsreels

Tom Toles amazes me with how consistently good he is.


Slowpoke is al good one this week.


Cheney moves to take control of development coffers through his main man



Some Creditors Make Illegal Demands on Active-Duty Soldiers

Oooh. Good one on separation of church and state by rall

"All this media consolidation and tightening control is strategically aligned with deregulation, privatization, social program-gutting deficits and free trade regimes. They are all convergent tactics to enforce corporations' full spectrum dominance over democratic humankind. If your progressive or conservative instincts bid you to arise against this coup, standing with our 9/11 widow is a good place to start. Her name is Ellen Mariani, her lawyer is Phillip Berg and their complaint is now online at http://www.nancho.net/911/mariani.html & http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00224.htm . Read it and weep, wail, or whack out a dozen letters to the editors around your town, but for god's sake make some noise. When 9/11 bombshells fall silent in the corporate media's forest it's up to us to make them resound."

Good overview aobut how screwed up this administration's foreign policy is:

Devil's Dictionary for the Bush era


From Hero To Homeless

Good solution for the fox channel bias

The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier this month.


K-Law

Morons, freakin, bloody morons!! "Capitol bill aims to control ‘leftist’ profs
THE LAW COULD LET STUDENTS SUE FOR UNTOLERATED BELIEFS." The bill makers and the students who would use such a stupid law