New Media Fallout

Kids post pictures of drinking parties on Facebook - Consequences

eric — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:40:36 +0000

I remember when I was doing my underage drinking. We didn’t have Facebook, or the internet for that matter. I don’t think we’d have posted evidence of our wrong-doing if we had. I think we understood if you tell the world about doing something wrong, the people you want to hide your misdeeds from will find out.

Why are kids so stupid these days?

Video from the Chicago Tribune — chicagotribune.com.

I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT - Nealz Nuze on boortz.com

eric — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:34:06 +0000

Boortzs asks a great question about Obama’s feint at being open to the idea of doing what is proven to fix the economy - cutting taxes. President Obama has said he wants to discuss the idea of lowering corporate taxes over time in exchange for elimination of loopholes. Boorts asks:

“Over time?” What’s this? Don’t’ we have an economic crisis? If it was so important that Obama and the Dems get their trillion-dollar stimulus bill by President’s Day, why in the world can’t they cut corporate taxes just as fast?

Lkely nothing more than the proverbial smoke being blown up our collective ass. Does he really think this posturing will satisfy those of us who know that earmarks and propping up dysfunctional parts of the economy is a recipe for further disaster while getting out of the way of the productive elements always suceeds?

How about wealth redistribution over time? Oh wait, that’s what we’ve been doing - and sinking in.

via I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT - Nealz Nuze on boortz.com.

Iraqi Journalist gets off with only three years

eric — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:21:50 +0000

One thing to know about this story is its an AP story. That means liberal bias. The article is full of blame Amercia first code language. For example, when the AP says “many Iraqis” they mean a few discontents - the ones who won’t even acknowledge what the typical American liberal will acknowledge if pressed - that Iraqis are far better off today under their own elected government than they were under the Hussein regime.

But defense lawyers said the judge showed leniency because of Mr. Zeidi’s age and clean record. Many Iraqis consider Mr. Zeidi a hero for defiantly expressing his anger at a president who they believe destroyed their country after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Thousands across the Muslim world took to the streets to demand his release.

Defense lawyers said they would appeal because they believe the action was a legitimate political protest and didn’t merit prison time.

via Iraqi Journalist Sentenced for Throwing Shoes at Bush - WSJ.com.

Girl charged with identity theft for Craigslist ad calling on strangers to talk dirty to her ex

eric — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:00:50 +0000

Some people just can’t take a joke I guess… At least not at work…. When it involves other men talking dirty to you…

Placing a fake Craigslist ad for random strangers to call your ex-boyfriend at work to “talk dirty to him” may be funny, but it can now also get you charged with identity theft.

Kari Heath learned this the best way you can learn something: by doing. She appears in court March 19.

via Pranks: Girl Gets Random Guys on Craigslist To Call Ex-Boyfriend, Talk Dirty To Him.

YouTube - CPACKIN

eric — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:00:37 +0000

I like this guy… He talks about Alan Keyes, but…, that’s ok.

He compares liberals to Nazism and Rush Limbaugh to Malcom X and makes sense while doing so. Priceless.

via YouTube - CPACKIN.

Presidential Gift Exchange Drama

eric — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:54:23 +0000

The President of the United States gave a foreign leader - out closest ally - a box set of DVDs as a gift.

“Here, go home and watch these, and quit trying to steal my thunder.”

Via: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama the Cheapskate: 25 DVDs for Gordon Brown?.

Video: Taxpayers Clearinghouse

eric — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:15:42 +0000

They’re running around giving money away. What could be the problem?

Via Michelle Malkin » Priceless video: “Bailout Prize Patrol” confronts AIG, Geithner, Sen. Snowe.

Missing white woman of the week: Chandra Levy redux

eric — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:21:32 +0000

I hadn’t realized the whole “missing white woman of the week” media-filler thing had been going on this long, but if I recall it had already began going strong in 2001.

Calousness aside, it was a sad thing - like all the other missing white women of the week since, she was a beautiful young person, and her loss was indeed a tragedy.

Why the Levy case earned so much attention is a lot more easy to explain with the connection to the philandering congressman, but so many of the cases since seem to have no rhyme or reason as to how they float to the top. Who knows how many women are victimized every week, but the ones that end up occupying dozens of hours a day on the networks and cable news all seem to be white and good looking.

Anyway - there’s a better post on the Levy thing at the link below.

Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog: Chandra Levy Case: The Great White Defendant or the Usual Suspect?.

Another example of misreporting

eric — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:37:04 +0000

No excuse for this. Apparently to stir up fear among the christophobics (not a word, I know, you get the idea) this amateur at Politico says:

…a conservative third-party group is countering with a provocative new commercial using Jesus Christ to emphasize the scale of the $787 billion package.

Translation: “no need to pay attention to these particular facts, they were stated within 20 seconds of the utterance of the name “Jesus.”

The video simply says that if you spent $1 million from the day Jesus was born until now it still wouldn’t be $800 billion.

VIDEO: Group counters stimulus with Jesus in TV ad - Jonathan Martin - Politico.com.

Helen Thomas - moral equivalency

eric — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:42:47 +0000

What is this woman doing with a microphone pointed at her? What is she doing in the White House?

Ed Morrissey points out how simply innacurate the woman is:

The Taliban in Pakistan cross the border into Afghanistan to fight the government and NATO; they are primarily Pakistanis, not Afghans. Osama bin Laden is neither — he’s a Saudi of Yemeni descent who runs a network of mostly foreign fighters comprising Uighers, Uzbeks, Chechens, and Arabs out of the FATA, and who by the way attacked the US on 9/11 and not any of the aforementioned countries. “Their own country” is as ignorant as it gets.

Ignorant indeed. Like Thomas says at the end - “we (she) needs some intellectual honesty.”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Helen Thomas: We’re all terrorists.