"The information of the people at large can alone make them safe, as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson 1810noreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 7 Mar 2024 02:07:58 -0500Blogger http://www.blogger.com659125http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2009/07/hgsi-lupusbuy.htmlCELG.Clinical TrialHGSILupusnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:13:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-6044093285787499995this is another dendreon...except its years away from becoming the next Dendreon....better still..this is the next Celgene....when it was a paltry $3.69 (based on Price/Market cap)the results announced today are for a Lupus drug....on the high dose drug 57% of patients improved their symptoms and life.vs. 43% placebo patients....the placebo reading should probably tell you more about Lupus and http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2007/09/internet-is-for-porn.htmlinternetjorgemedia in troublemouropornthe internet is for pornyou tubenoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:47:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-7702384083421834367*This line is from the Broadway musical called Avenue Q.*First, I know. It has been over 1 year. I don't care what you think. You are back and it is partly because I chose a fairly popular search term as my title. OK get it out.......You OK now?Good let me get on with it....I can't believe people are trying to regulate the Internet. There are the Senators that think its a network of tubes or http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/08/lamont-roundup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:53:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115526670795464435Look folks, I was prepared for another one of Stoller's pep talks.I brewed beer and helped run Blue Jersey waiting for someone to say, "hey this is Jersey not CT."When I heard Lieberman's speach I was pretty confused and nervous. I thought, dammit, we are not out of the woods yet. And we AREN'T. People, if you think that this story will die, think again. Think of how everybody in DC loves Joe. http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/fda-shortchanged.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:19:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115348886969678752In the middle of this Lebanon-Israeli shitstorm, a wee story broke on NPR that barely got any attention.David Graham is at it again blowing whistles about the FDA's borderline malfeasance when it comes to approving drugs and keeping them on the market despite data that points to these drugs being unsafe. Yes, this time it is Aventis who pushed through an antibiotic called Ketek. They got approvalhttp://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/whats-missing_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:23:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115323258911111445From this NYTpuff piece on Sen. Lindsay Graham?Just the fact that before his righteous fight for upholding the rights of the Gitmo detainees, and his attempt to legislate the Hamdan decision, he tried to subvert said decision.http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/nina-tottenberg-hearts-lindsay-graham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:33:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115272936118125954It is the only explanation as to why Senator Graham was the only Senator chosen for every soundbite in this story about the Haynes hearings.Which is odd given the sort-of cloud over Sen. Graham's legal ethics.http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/economic-good-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:29:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115263535451350782The headlines are all sunny about the projected $100 billion decline in the Deficit. Swallowing Bush's line that it is due to the tax cuts, and regurgitating it to their open-beaked readers. Luckily, DeLong allows the more discerning open beaked readers (such as myself) a more tasty morsel.In this feast of economic mealworms and such(ok stop with the bird metaphors), he gives us plenty of reasonshttp://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/syd-barret-dies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:48:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115262928241341926Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett dies, and the AP can't get basic facts straight before going to press.Same article:Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, and wrote many of the band’s early songs.So the AP later gets it right, again same article:However, Barrett suffered from mental instability, exacerbated by his use of LSD. His behavior grew http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/07/inskeeping-with-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:12:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115262607383550023This morning Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition talked to Sen. Patrick Leahy about this wee problem of the administration being found guilty of holding folks against domestic AND international laws by the SCOTUS. You see the SCOTUS let the White House know that there is this little thing called Habeas Corpus that is sort of a basic Human Right. Anyway let's take a look at some of the choice http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/06/waste-fraud-and-media-slant_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:42:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-115141574263604144Today's front page of the New York Times boasts this headline: 'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid. It is accompanied by an arial picture of a bunch of trailers, the token of the "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" that accompanied the Aid to Katrina stricken areas. Right in the caption of the picture is this quote:Scams, schemes and bureaucratic bungles after Hurricane Katrina have cost http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/05/return-of-voodoo-economics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Mon, 15 May 2006 09:26:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114769958396277591Finally, a nice clear and concise shooting down of supply side economics. Thank you Sebastian Mallaby.http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/4-20_20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:02:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114554548880375230Happy 4-20.The most wonderful day of the year!http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/4-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:02:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114554535710747067Happy 4-20.The most wonderful day of the year!http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/military-subordination-to-civilian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:44:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114537149488336195Is it just me, that finds it completely Ironic, that retired Generals are speaking against the civilian leadership (or lack thereof) about a war that was conceived by the civilian leadership?The fear that military folks get upset about the civilians they take orders from is valid during peacetime. It is a valid consern for the fairly obvious Strangelovian reasons. However, in today's world. Thehttp://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/tear-down-wall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:33:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114441680923619169Hey Krauthammer, great idea! Its a hiuge jobs program this wall of yours. It would be a great subsidization of and an enormous economic boon to the South! Tax dollars would flow freely to the contractors that will be building this wall of yours.One problem.WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BE ACTUALLY BUILDING THIS WALL?http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/hey-rubes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:48:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114425928817638759Josh points us to the WaPo article that tells us that Tom Delay basically hung around to get MO money for his Legal fees:An additional impetus for putting off the resignation until now was suggested by John Feehery, a former aide to DeLay and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). "He needed to raise money for the defense fund. That was the bottom line," Feehery said. "He wanted to make sure http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/04/big-gain-for-rich-seen-in-tax-cuts-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:49:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114424135629739220A.K.A. - George Bush's America.http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/divided-democrats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:09:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114381416335919082So the Washington Post takes this Immigration bill which passed the Judiciary Committee with all Democrats voting AYE, and puts this picture up:NICE! HUH?So I click through the caption and this is what I find.Of all the Democrats that are supposedly divided on this issue. You know, cuz every time I turn on the radio they keep saying it is the Republicans that are divided. You know cuz the bill http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/where-is-your-race-card-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:37:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114364305516002834A while back Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) was quick to pull the race card on Democrats threatening to vote against Sam Alito:[They] think they own the Italian-American vote all up and down the East Coast. They don’t, but they think they do. If they become offensive against somebody with the qualifications of Sam Alito, Judge Alito, then I think it’s going to be held against them. They’re going to have http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/lets-try-enforcing-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:47:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114347082011540682So saideth Tom Tancredo on This Week. Go watch the video.Yes! Indeed Tom Tancredo! Ye are the keeper of the Rule of Law! Here is exactly what he said:We don't need another law on the books, no law is necessary if we actually enforce the ones we have on the books today. ...It is Amnesty... You can't do that without our permission. When you reward one person ... for doing it illegaly, then it is a http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/cartoons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:15:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114323134838151757In lieu of Democrats recent wave of going back to their tried and true ways of loosing the base by running from Russ Feingold's Censure, and netroots candidates, etc. etc. We now know that Democrats need no help from Republicans or their media operatives to paint them as loosers or (insert congruent adjectives here). I think Ward Sutton puts it nicely in this cartoon:http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/write-bill-keller-letter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:30:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114314221229556611Click here to do it. Why?This just landed in my inbox:For two years, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has courageously traveled where few other reporters have gone to describe the brutal genocide in Darfur.Through Kristof's reporting - and that of others at the Times - we have read of the tremendous suffering that has befallen the innocent people of Darfur - at the hands of their very http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/shorter-national-association-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:59:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114313675224884135Global Warming is Good for us!http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/find-constuctionist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:06:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114312638749677803ZAAAAAAAAAAAP!!! The blog is now back to life.Sorry for the absence, but get used to it. The more I read other blogs hitting national issues, the less I feel like writing on those issues myself. Mainly because everytime I get an idea, someone else gets the same idea and posts it before I do. Anyway, enough chatter, check out this NYTimes article about the latest opinion from the SCOTUS. You know http://mediaintrouble.blogspot.com/2006/03/roman-clef.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Market-Mouro)Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:49:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434634.post-114140455642883683Once in a while, we get a great example of just how stupid the right is and how misguided their tirades are against us on the left. Exhibit 1,863Charles Krauthammer's "Oscars for Osama." Krauthammer decides that once again by choosing to honor such violent terrorist boosting films as Paradise Now, Munich, and Syriana, Hollywood and the liberalism it represents is hurting America by emboldening