Clipfile - October 30, 2012

(Via: Roberta)

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...we’d be getting stories like these.

If the mainstream media was based in the South:

• "Should we pay to rebuild NYC?”
• "If a Cat 1 does this what is going to happen when it gets hit by a real hurricane?”
• "What were these people thinking building all this stuff right on the coast?”
• "What idiots stayed behind when they were told to evacuate?”

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Why not? After all, they hired Walter Duranty...

Tom Maguire:

(via Glenn)

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Clipfile - October 22, 2012

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Clipfile - October 20, 2012

(Via Maggie, via Bill Quick)

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Naw... can’t be!

Crazy whacked-out conspiracy theory?

Or an October Surprise that went wrong?

Via Doug Ross (who got it from "Kozy”), who adds a link to this:

The news report loops the relevant portion of an exchange between gunmen, in which one can be heard, saying, ‘Don’t Shoot us!  We were sent by Mursi’!

Read ’em all. Feeling paranoid yet?

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January surprise

A reminder, from "Obama’s Retirement Planner”:

Rules Delayed or "Punted” until 2013 by Obama-EPA:

Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Ozone Rule
Florida Numeric Nutrient Criteria
EPA’s Water Guidance
Stormwater Regulation:
Tier III Gas Regulations:
Boiler MACT Rule
Cement MACT Rule:
Coal Ash
316(b) Cooling Towers Rule
Farm Dust Regulations:
Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule

All guaranteed economy-killers.

Sending the Democrats packing is only the beginning.

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Clipfile - October 8, 2012

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Pigeons, roosted

Mike Hendrix:

They’re doing just what you elected them to do...  They haven’t been shy about telling you about it either, but you’re either too stupid or too stubborn to listen...

And you keep right on voting for them.  You deserve everything you’re getting, good and hard, and my sympathy for you isn’t just limited; it’s completely nonexistent.  You’re in a hell of your own damned devising; hope you fucking well enjoy it.

HT:  Bill Quick

Elsewhere:

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Yknow, if every false request cost, say, $50,000...

...this crap would come to a stop really quickly:

Microsoft falsely branded BBC CBeebies, CNN.com and other websites as Windows 8 piracy haunts - and ordered Google to remove them from search results.

Pages belonging to the Beeb’s children’s telly service CBeebies, film reviews site Rottentomatoes and US cinema chain AMC Theaters - as well as web articles by the BBC's technology news department, CNN and The Huffington Post - were among 66 URLs Microsoft wanted to block.  The Windows 8 giant wielded the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to censor the search results.
...
The take-down request appears to have been issued by mistake and the URLs generated by software operating on behalf by Microsoft.   The copyright-infringement-hunting bot coughed up roughly 800 URLs on 27 July...

If you wind up a bot and turn it loose without supervision, you should suffer the consequences when it goes crazy.  This past summer the masters of the universe over at Knight Capital got a schooling, and their example scared their whole industry.  The copyright police need to suffer the same.  For this case, $250,000 seems about right.

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