Now this is funny…

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones visits the the New York Times’ offices to find out why the last of a dying breed prefers “aged news” to today’s news.

Now, I ask you. Which of these front pages right now loads faster and has headlines to more stories that you are actually interested in reading?

New York Times
Washington Post
Locust Fork News-Journal

Yesterday, the Washington Post had blow out coverage on the shootings at the Holocaust Museum, understandable because it is a local story in DC. But yesterday and today, the Times has scant mention of it, which is odd considering the history of the paper.

In a phone conversation with a lawyer today, the subject came up of the story about a majority of Alabama citizens not being online at work or home. It was in the headlines recently, but we had it up well before the story appeared in print. That’s just one example of how we have today’s news today. In the paper, it’s yesterday’s news.

Another thing people may not realize. So you say we just link to the stories of other news organizations. Have you seen a newspaper lately? Is any newspaper filled with all original content? No. Most papers are full of AP and Reuters wire stories, stories from the New York Times wire, cheap syndicated columnists. Hmmm. That’s sort of what we have here, and you don’t have to sign up and it’s FREE!

Do you think you still need that dead tree edition, the “aged news?” Think about it…

Southern Poverty Law Center Quoted on MSNBC

Rush Limbaugh claims the right-wing nutjob who shot and killed the Holocaust Museum guard was a “leftist?”

I really do need to get a laugh track for this blog. Saying LOL (for Laugh Out Loud) or Hahaha! just doesn’t fully express how funny this idiot is on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, the 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn was charged with murder Thursday, a day after officials said he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then gunned down a security guard, Guard Stephen T. Johns, who opened the door to let him in.

Holocaust Denier Charged in DC Museum Shooting

Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court is so qualified with so much experience that the Republicans want to delay her confirmation. What?

They need more time to dig for dirt and raise money by drumming up a fake controversy. That’s what’s going on people. Don’t be fooled.

Funny, our very own Jeffry Sessions, who is slated to be the lead attack dog on Sonia Sotomayor during the confirmation hearings, has been strangely quiet of late. Do you think he knows we are investigating him? Ask his good friend Terry Everett, who decided not to run for another term in Congress when we wrote about his ethics here.

Nah, the Web Press has no influence around here…

Of course the Republicans want to stall…
GOP Rips Dems for Supreme Court Rush

But the Democrats are pushing forward…
Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings to Begin July 13

Daily Rant
by Rowland Scherman

Dear Mr. President:

As you must recall, when the Bush Administration came into power, they ignored or trashed evreything that the Clinton Administration had done. They wanted nothing to do with anything having ties to Clinton. The results of their ignorance and pride are what you now have before you — a country in peril.

For you to maintain, in any way, any facet of the Bush agenda is to invite an unstable base upon which to fulfill any plans, progressive or not, that you campaigned to enable.

When I read that “Obama maintains Bush plans for (fill in the blank)”, I cringe. Republicans will continue to thwart your efforts unless you show them that the manifest vicissitudes (I use a gentler word than necessary) they compiled will be dealt with in compliance with the rule of law. They must face the consequences. Otherwise they will never be drawn to your ideas, because you will have looked weak.

I hope this is not the case. Not “looking back,” I fear, will embolden future governmental miscreants. Not only that, but allowing a free pass to the likes of Cheney makes you look complicit — and that cannot bode well for you.

Perhaps some democrats are also involved. That makes no difference. They, too must face the scrutiny afforded, and demanded, by law.

You told us you wanted transparency in your administration. So far, that hasn’t been the reality. Your first act should have been to abolish the PATRIOT Act, which was the antithesis of “patriotism.” Yes it was a dire time for the country and many signed it without even reading it, but that time is passed, and the unfortunate document has been shown to be based on a tapestry of lies.

The country was in a perfectly adequate position to thwart the 9/11 attack, but the characters involved failed. Cheney, Rice, and the rest let us down with a lackluster performance of their duties. Then they tried to show strength and resolve by changing the rules — to enhance their own power. That is what really scared this country.

My best to you. I hope you get to see this note.

Rowland Scherman
Orleans, Massachusetts