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This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying.

Heh.

No, the cult that I see as reflecting a true moral failure is the cult of balance, of centrism.

via The Cult That Is Destroying America – NYTimes.com.

LOLZ! That’s right. Stop being centrists. Embrace the correct left… (eye roll)…

Funny that he starts lamenting “centrism”, and gnashes his teeth over the fact that people are calling for a new “centrist” President, and the says the Obama is a “centrist”.

Wait. If “centrism” is “bad”, what does that make Obama again? Confused? So is Krugman…

Defenders of the high tax, high regulation, highly unionized model of state governance that characterizes the blue states like to point to their higher quality of government services as justification for the taxes they pay and the regulations they accept.Let those crackers and hillbillies in the red states wallow in their filth and their ignorance, say proud upholders of the blue state model. We blue staters believe in things like quality education—and that costs money.In theory, perhaps, but in practice the extraordinary achievement of so many red state schools strongly supports the idea that blue state governance is no friend to excellence in education.

via HERE’S A SHOCKER: Republican States Have The Best Public Schools In The Country, By A Long Shot.

Simply more lies that have not been properly vetted by the White House, Think Progress and Media Matters (BIRM). Simply ignore them as we sift through and find highly nuanced positions requiring sub atomic hair splitting to achieve them…

TSA introduces software that uses less-revealing body scanner images – The Washington Post.

The key here is that the operators do not get to see a person’s private areas because the software filters that out for the end user, simply drawing the suspicious abnormality in a box on a silhouette, thereby drawing attention for TSA Agents to focus on. Much less intrusive in the terms of a persons private areas being on display for strangers to look at.

Better. Much better.

Still doesn’t really prevent a terrorist determined to carry out a suicide attack from internally housing an explosive device.. but still adds a layer of security….

Postmaster says days are numbered for Saturday mail delivery – USATODAY.com.

An example of what happens when government tries to be a private business…. they FAIL EPICally…

Important Announcement from the California Bureaucracy! « International Liberty.

Another winner. Sad and true as well..

Bureaucracy Humor, Probably Created by Somebody at Homeland Security or HUD « International Liberty.

Sad and true.

How Obama Blew a Big Debt Deal – Rick Newman (usnews.com).

And please note, the author of this US News report sounds like he’s solidly sympathetic to Obama’s plight, but at the same time not so solidly partisan as not to call him on his failures, declining to search for deeply nuanced excuses for said failures…

This bad….

This is OC Fisher Resevoir.

And the below pictures were taken recently to show that there is almost no water left in the lake. Just a little puddle which was the last refuge of the fish population, and as the puddle shrank, so did the amount of oxygen available in the water I assume.

A close up of the “puddle”, with the dead fish piled up.

Don’t know if the water is red because of some kind of algae, or if it is red because of the buzzards eating the dead fish and allowing the blood from the feast to collectively taint the water…

The guy who took the pictures said that he scared off about 30 buzzards, so I’m thinking they might indeed be contributing to the macabre scene….

We need rain in the worst way….

Retail and Economy: Borders Says It Will Shut Down All of Its Stores for Good – CNBC.

11,000 jobs lost! Holy COW! Anybody smell a bail out here? I mean… if its good for GM……