Crittenden has also just "drunk-blogged" the SOTU. His comments are apt and he used Rolling Rock in moderation.
I thoroughly enjoy his blog.
I thought the address the President just finished giving was more fodder for suckers.
A year along and he promises and promises and blames and blames.
Then he had to throw some folks under the bus so he used the Supreme Court, among others.
Is there, other than simply class and decorum, some level of threat from the Chicago style machine which would concern those who hold the separation of powers dear?
(Just checked Instapundit. No doubt Althouse will have some notions on this as well...and here it is and she does. She has the video already as well, it is below. The President can say what he wishes. So can I and all of us fortunate enough to reside in the great republic. There are more pressing matters. I hope this does not become the circus distracting everyone and providing cover for politicians from more difficult questions.---just watched it again. Oh Lord, is that Holder who stands up? A corrupt bigot Holder is, no link here. There is so much out there on that toadie. It turns out that Eric Holder Traitor has a better return than Eric Holder Toadie.)
Wow do I feel it embarrassing seeing the whole corrupt and shameless menagerie together, the Dem and Repugly alike, applauding their horrific failures and sellouts on their feet, and promising to do more, more, more.
We know that the journalistic class will support it all...
I had the discouraging task of reading the freshest Newsweek in which Meacham says that Obama is so post partisan and centered that he can't adjust for any failure, we will just have to come to our senses and be blinded by his greatness.
Meacham, ugh.
So, back to the truly compelling video which did indeed cover, and well, the future of newspapers and computers regarding technology. This is fascinating:
For the record I was long ago anticipating having a subscription to the now failed New York Sun if they had made it this far for delivery, and looked forward to it. It was tiny but showed potential.
A modest fee for a news organisation's delivered product would be a delight if they had some of the better content of the NYTimes and the WSJ and some SCOOPS!!
The journalists are in bed with the politicians and it's making everyone sick and selling no papers or magazines. They won't investigate or report on corruption or scandals of liberals.
Here is a snippet of transcript from Meacham on Charlie Rose.
It is a restatement of his sentiments from his little pamphlet this week.
(formerly a widely distributed but never intellectual magazine, shallow and cheap even, which he retooled to limit readership but entice and retain the truly brilliant--oops, wealthy--- readers and thinkers, how's that going?)
Do yourself a favor and don't buy it, save some trees, Meacham would want that no doubt.
Poke around at the older barber shops and you can, no doubt, find one that has half of the chairs full and an unstoppable lifetime subscription which they wrote off as an expense years and years ago.
A couple of buzzcuts and touchups between you and the Sweeny seat will be enough to read it thoroughly.
It's unbelievable. The foreign coverage at the beginning entices a piss-shiver of sympathetic humiliation for those involved in the magazine's production.
Here is a piece on the Malay situation involving Christians using the term "Allah" for God...Actually I will just copy and paste the entire article.
It's fairly involved, the ethnic and religious backstory and the complicated political and economic realities which must be outlined to describe Muslims torching 10 Christian churches because they use a word those Peace loving Muslims don't like, no?
Newsweek just culled their idiot cheap herd so they can support more involved analysis provided to readers who are knowledgible and up to the erudite rigors, no?
Here is the entire article from the online Newsweek, I believe there is more here than in the pamphlet I read earlier today:
"The Fight Over ‘Allah’
Published Jan 22, 2010
From the magazine issue dated Feb 1, 2010
The interethnic chaos Malaysia has long feared moved closer to reality this month when 10 churches were at-tacked around the country. The attacks followed a civil-court ruling on New Year's Eve declaring that a law prohibiting non-Muslims from using the word "Allah" to describe their God was unconstitutional. Strangely, though, Christians have been using "Allah" for "God" in East Malaysia since the 1920s without much controversy. So why the sudden spate of violence in a nation long viewed as a model of tolerance in the Muslim world?
The answer is that beneath Malaysia's outward glow of progressive moderation, racial and religious consciousness has risen steadily among Muslim Malays, who make up 60 percent of the population. That creeping conservatism has been fanned by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), seeking to revive support that is slipping amid rampant corruption and other forms of misrule. Rather than trying to quell misgivings among Malays who felt that the use of "Allah" to describe the Christian God would sow confusion, the government appealed the decision, saying that Muslim sensitivities must be respected to protect the fragile ethnic balance. Then UMNO leaders, including Prime Minister Najib Razak, said the government could not stop planned protests against the ruling, though he has often opposed the exercise of free speech in the past. Critics charge the government with institutionalizing racism and emboldening Muslim hardliners. Whatever the case, the church attacks are the clearest sign yet that Malaysia's racial-religious compact is unraveling.
During the 1980s and 1990s Malaysia transformed itself from an agrarian-based economy to a manufacturing one. More recently it has struggled to shed its low-value-added, low-wage structure. Private investment, now at 11 percent of GDP, is down more than two thirds since the late 1990s at least in part because of investor concern about the social tension. Efforts to create a high-tech innovation economy have been set back by the flight of talent: opposition leader Lim Kit Siang says 300,000 "top brains" have fled to Singapore since the last general election. Now Malaysia's reputation for stability is under threat, and investors are jittery amid reports that Malaysia saw the biggest foreign-exchange outflows in Asia last year. Though some an-alysts give Najib high marks as a liberalizing economic reformer, sectarian unrest won't help, and could well thwart the country's aim of becoming a fully developed nation by 2020.
The church attacks also threaten regional stability. Indonesia's Muslim leaders have cautioned Muslims there not to take their cue from Malaysia. The U.S. government issued a travel advisory warning that the court ruling could trigger criminal or terrorist attacks on foreigners in Malaysia's eastern Sabah province, which borders the southern Philippines, home to the Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf. And so it is that in a few short weeks Malaysia has gone from pointing the way for Muslims in neighboring countries to joining the list of regional hot spots.
Last week the government took a step to undo the damage, saying Christians may use "Allah" in the states of Penang, Sarawak, and Sabah, and in the Federal Territory, which includes Kuala Lumpur. That, along with Malaysians' tendency to avoid racial confrontation, may stave off wider violence. But it hardly addresses the festering racial resentments that precipitated the attacks.
Almost 40 years ago the government introduced a policy of positive discrimination for Malays, a move that helped reduce income disparities between the Malay majority and the big Chinese and Indian minorities. But it also heightened communal identification, restricted educational and economic opportunities for non-Malays, and bred dependency among the Malays. Until now, all that was hidden by political sloganeering, tightly controlled media, and billions spent on eye-catching infrastructure projects in-tended to make Malaysia appear both modern and progressive. But the at-tacks have blown the cover off the myth of racial harmony. Now Malaysia must get down to the nitty-gritty of building a truly pluralistic society. As the church bombings make clear, it can't afford not to.
Gatsiounis is a Malaysia-based journalist and author, most recently, of Velvet & Cinder Blocks, a story collection detailing a planned attack on a Christian landmark in Malaysia."
I certainly gain the sense that the author was under space restrictions, and I also get the sense that he was edited even further.
What's left is worth a Fisking.
Newsweek is all that is wrong with journalism, elitism, politics...and on...and on...
but so tiny!
Which brings us back to the technology.
Newsweek has shrunk and distilled it's self important garbage, now that's improvement!
Take a look if you get a chance, but don't buy...
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