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2008-06-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

AP: Everything seemingly is spinning out of control

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Posted by tu3031 2008-06-23 09:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Damn! If we just had legal assisted suicide in Kentucky, none of this would be a problem.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-23 10:28|| 2008-06-23 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Even so, a battered public seems discouraged by the onslaught of dispiriting things. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll says a barrel-scraping 17 percent of people surveyed believe the country is moving in the right direction.

Sounds like cause for a Mission Accomplished banner in the newsrooms.

Posted by Grenter Protector of the Geats4975 2008-06-23 10:47|| 2008-06-23 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Is everything spinning out of control?

It's all a matter of perspective. From a different take, it's not too bad. Personally, I don't live in newsrooms with editors or producers looking for the next big scare, hype, or that Pulitzer for Fiction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-23 10:51|| 2008-06-23 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 From the title, I thought this was going to be about the AP's relationship with bloggers and how the Drudge Retort fiasco blew up in their faces.

Posted by RWV 2008-06-23 11:07|| 2008-06-23 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 If I worked for a newspaper or the AP I'd be depressed also. There truly is no hope.

Posted by DoDo 2008-06-23 11:18|| 2008-06-23 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 This a headline worthy of The Onion.

Posted by Ebbeamble Bourbon6576 2008-06-23 12:07|| 2008-06-23 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Cleary attributable to the Bush-Cheney axis.

Posted by Highlander 2008-06-23 12:29|| 2008-06-23 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Man bites dog - so what?

If creative pessimism was bull shit we would be able to grow bio-fuels in the Sahara.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-23 13:35|| 2008-06-23 13:35|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL. But wait a sec... maybe they're right. We're about to elect Obama. That's about as much of a yawning abyss of chaos as I can imagine.

Posted by Mad Eye Uleque1385 2008-06-23 14:08|| 2008-06-23 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I haven't seen this much pure bullshit since I last had to clean out my uncle's barn, 40 years ago. AP needs to be renamed: American Pulp Fiction (APF). Most of the midwest levees are holding (the New Orleans mayor wasn't there to siphon off the upkeep funds). Gas prices are being manipulated by muslims in Iran and Sudan, plus increased demand from China, India, and Latin America (people aren't paying much attention to what's going on south of the border, but there are places where things are booming). The two wars AP is hyping as "never ending" are pretty well won, with some cleaning up to do. But news programs have been doing everything they can to preach doom and gloom, and then wondering why people are responding. Take the whole herd out and shoot 'em - they're infected with "mad (insane predisposition to negative) reporter disease".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-23 14:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-23 14:10|| Front Page Top

#11 By ALAN FRAM and EILEEN PUTMAN, Associated Press Writers. How can we get a hold of these idiots? Hey, why isn't the government handing out credit cards to the folks in Iowa and Missourri? I wonder if they took a survey 1000 years ago whe there was storms, tornadoes, floods, etc.? Oh, I forgot. No global warming back then.

Posted by Art">Art 2008-06-23 14:40|| 2008-06-23 14:40|| Front Page Top

#12 "Midwestern levees are bursting."
Flashback to The Great Midwest Flood of 1993. Did midwesterners learn anything from that?

"Polar bears are adrift."
Al Gore is adrift.

"Gas prices are skyrocketing."
Skyrocketing? High, but not skyrocketing. I don't know anyone who has stopped driving. I'm not even convinced that many have cut back.

"Home values are abysmal."
21 years in the same home and I'm not planning to move, so no big deal. But it's a good market for buyers, isn't it?

"Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable."
We still consume air travel, college, and health care at record levels.

"Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism."
Apparently these AP reporters believe AP's spin.

"natural disasters around the world"
That's new?

"1,000 days after the storm, entire neighborhoods remain abandoned"
Maybe they prefer higher ground.

"In the U.S., rice prices tripled."
Last I looked at the local Asian market, a 20 pound bag was about $20. Do you have any idea how many servings of rice that makes?!

"...some airlines now charge to check luggage."
$15 -- oh, the humanity.

What a sorry excuse of an article. These two writers need to go back on their meds and their editor needs to be fired for indulging them in this crap.

Posted by Darrell 2008-06-23 15:06|| 2008-06-23 15:06|| Front Page Top

#13 The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight; somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Posted by tipper 2008-06-23 15:32|| 2008-06-23 15:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Leave it to an Irishman...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-23 17:34|| 2008-06-23 17:34|| Front Page Top

#15 BIRTH PANGS of OWG-NWO aka "GLOBALISM".

Compare wid TOPIX > GLOBAL WARMING: SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORLD IS UNPREPARED FOR CATASTROPHIC CHANGES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-23 20:00|| 2008-06-23 20:00|| Front Page Top

#16 FOX NEWS > CAL THOMAS [paraph] > Between POLAR BEARS + GAS PUMP PRICES, AMERICANS WILL CHOOSE THE LATTER ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.

IOW, GENTLE BEN to 'CUZIN PAULEY BEAR > HA HA, ALL YOUR SALMON AND SEALS NOW BELONG TO ME AND GRIZZLY ADAMS - ASTA LA VISTA, BLANCHE BRUIN!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-23 20:06|| 2008-06-23 20:06|| Front Page Top

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