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How My Local Once Again Beat the Boston Globe
My Local Beat the Boston Globe.... AGAIN
WTF, readers? HOW can it be that the BIG-CITY BOSTONIAN is SO MUCH WORSE than my rink-a-dink local?!!!
It does raises the questions like a) WTF is the Boston Globe NOT telling us everyday, and b) what is up with what they are telling us. I come on here, and you have no idea how DEJECTED I am day after day when I realize the preeminent paper of New England is nothing but a lying sack of obfuscating scitte.
Let me give you today's LENGTHY LIST of articles the Globe either OVERLOOKED or CENSORED (note: Boston Globe owned by New York Times, so there is no way they would NOT KNOW of the stories).
"US drops plan to put diplomats in Iran
The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, in part over fears it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling, The Associated Press has learned."
Yeah, the Globe wouldn't want any news of peace in their Zionist-controlled pages -- even a false one.
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The Justice Department finalized on Friday an overhaul of rules that will give the Federal Bureau of Investigation freer rein to begin investigations into the possibility of terrorism, even without evidence of wrongdoing. Among the most controversial aspects of the guidelines is a section that allows F.B.I. agents to open so-called threat assessments to look into general patterns or suspicions about terrorist activity without any specific evidence of wrongdoing.
No need to notify the populace of the slithering descent into totalitarianism, either.
"Despite Ruling, Detainee Cases Facing Delays
Some of the arguments made by the Justice Department appear to challenge the Supreme Court’s conclusion that the federal courts have a role in deciding the fate of the detainees. One Bush administration argument asserts that only military officials — not federal judges — have the power to decide how to conclude wartime detentions.
A first test of a judge’s power in a federal habeas case may come on Tuesday during arguments in a case involving 17 detainees who claim a right to immediate release. The path to court has been slow for the habeas cases, and most seem unlikely to reach resolution until well into the next president’s administration, lawyers say. In some cases, government lawyers are adding new grounds for holding the men, supplementing or replacing the accusations made during Guantánamo hearings four years ago. Lawyers say some of the government’s arguments could create grounds for years of new appeals by the Justice Department."
"US airlines contract 70% of maintenance
Nine major U.S. airlines are farming out aircraft maintenance at twice the rate of four years ago and now hire outside contractors for more than 70% of major work, the government says. Contractors overseas handled one-quarter of the outsourced maintenance. At the same time, U.S. oversight of repair facilities is lagging, the Transportation Department's inspector general found.
In airlines' efforts to lower costs, the report said, they continue to shift heavy airframe maintenance from in-house mechanics and engineers to hundreds of repair companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico and countries in Central America and Asia. Also, 27% of that work was performed at foreign repair facilities."
Next!
"Bailout Votes and the Economy Threaten to Overwhelm Other Issues
Members of Congress headed home this weekend to try to persuade constituents that they did the right thing on the economic bailout plan, a momentous vote that injected an unpredictable new element into the climactic final weeks of the campaign season.
They think anything those traitors say will sell back home? The American PUBLIC was OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST this thing, and it was only put through for the MONEY MEN who CONTROL CONGRESS!! Judging by my rhetoric on this blog lately (unapologetic, because I have been proved right and the rage is justified), they ain't gonna have a welcome reception.
Will lawmakers who supported the plan that initially sparked public outrage be pummeled or praised? Will those who nearly doomed the initiative and sent the markets spiraling down suffer at the hands of Americans whose portfolios took a hit, or be rewarded as guardians of tax dollars? Will those who switched their votes during a frenzied week be labeled as flip-floppers or lawmakers who saw the error of their ways?
Democrats will point to a hike in the minimum wage, an increase in auto mileage standards, expansive new veterans benefits, education aid and intensified oversight of the Bush administration as evidence of success. In some ways, the perception of this Congress has been shaped more by its angry tone than its actual record. Even the accomplishments were produced in a highly charged partisan atmosphere that drove down public approval and that can be traced to deep divisions over the Iraq war and a poor relationship between Democrats and a White House loathe to consider the priorities of the new power on Capitol Hill....
The DemocraPs and their "accomplishments?" Puh-leeze!!! If GIVING BUSH EVERYTHING HE WANTED is "SUCCESS," then they are the the most "successful" Congress in history!!! How's that turd taste, DemocraPs?
Iraq — an effort Democrats failed at repeatedly. Despite the persistent partisan tensions, the leaders of the two parties came together in the final days of the session to put together the bailout measure at the behest of the Bush administration. The fact that the party hierarchy and both presidential candidates came down so clearly in favor of the bailout could dilute its impact in the Congressional races."
Translation: the ELECTIONS have been RIGGED!!!!
"Senior British commander in Afghanistan says decisive military victory impossible
Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in Afghanistan was quoted as saying Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Brig. Mark Carleton-Smith as saying that "we're not going to win this war." He also reportedly said a deal with the Taliban might be on the table.
On Saturday, the British government denied a claim that the U.K. believes the military campaign in Afghanistan is doomed to failure, after a French newspaper reported that London's ambassador to Kabul had said foreign troops added to the country's woes. France's weekly Le Canard Enchaine published on Wednesday what it said was a leaked French diplomatic cable recounting talks between Britain's Ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles and a French official.
The newspaper said the French cable reported that Cowper-Coles had said Afghanistan might best be "governed by an acceptable dictator" and that the cable quoted him as saying foreign troops were adding to the country's problems by helping shore up a failing government in Kabul.
(Blog author sighing in outraged exasperation)
Cowper-Coles was quoted as saying that "the American strategy is destined to fail" and that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan was "part of the problem, not the solution." The prospect of a dictatorship "is the only realistic one and we must get public opinion ready to accept it," the report quotes the alleged cable as saying."
Oh, that one is self-explanatory. There is NO WAY a lying, obfuscating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, occupation-endorsing, Zionist-controlled, AmeriKan War Daily would want you to KNOW about PEACE TALKS with the TALIBAN!
So ALL THOSE PEOPLE MURDERED for a LIE was a HUGE WASTE of TIME, huh? Because now they want to TALK?!!! Oh, oh, MY HEART!!! TEARS FLOWING!!! O', Afghanis (and Pakistanis), can you EVER FORGIVE US!!!!!
Meanwhile, to wrap up on the home front:
"Three Weeks After Storm, a Grim Task of Recovery
"BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Tex. — Jerrith Baird last spoke to his grandmother by telephone the night Hurricane Ike swept away most of the houses on this narrow spit of land.The grandmother, Jennifer McLemore, 58, who worked at a local hospital, had holed up with her dog in a newly built beach house on stilts. She giggled with nervous fear, as she described to her grandson how three neighboring houses were being carried away in a flood, along with a trailer home she owned.
Then her cellphone went dead. The next day Jerrith, 17, kayaked from High Island, where he lives, over to the town of Gilchrist, then waded through debris to where Ms. McLemore’s house had been. Nothing was left but a couple of pilings sticking up from a concrete slab. Her car was half underwater in the bay. No one has heard from her since.
“To me,” Jerrith said, “the worst part was thinking what may have went through her mind.”
Three weeks after Hurricane Ike hit Texas, at least 34 people from the Bolivar Peninsula, where the storm did the worst damage, are missing and some are presumed dead, said Galveston County officials and the Laura Recovery Center, a nonprofit organization that has tracked missing people for the county.
I think it is WAY MORE (see final comments below).
All last week, volunteers and state rescue workers combed miles of debris on the peninsula and in the marshes on the east side of Galveston Bay, using dogs trained to find human cadavers. The volunteers say it is slow going, wading through salt grass and brackish gullies, full of the detritus of ruined lives — broken houses, boats, cars, machinery, appliances, toilets, bicycles, toothbrushes, vases, tools.
Two bodies of people from the Bolivar Peninsula have been recovered so far. On Sept. 24, Gail Ettinger, 58, a chemist who worked for oil companies, was found dead, face down in a marsh on the mainland, about 10 miles from where her house in Gilchrist succumbed to the floodwaters. Three days later, Herman Mosely, a carpenter in his 40s who was last seen in a local bar, was found on a small uninhabited island in Galveston Bay.
So complete was the devastation on the peninsula that county officials and local firefighters fear some hurricane victims may be lost at sea or hidden in the vast marshes of Chambers County, just east of Houston.
“Some people will never be found,” said Colin Rizzo, the county official overseeing the search.
Scores stayed behind or found themselves trapped in their houses, either because they believed they could weather the storm or because they were too old and infirm to escape, residents and family members of the missing said.Survivors told terrifying stories. A local welder spent the night in a lifejacket with his hand clamped on a flashlight, watching the floodwaters flow just beneath his deck while the winds ripped away at his house. Another man ended up naked in a tree a hundred yards from his demolished home. Two others floated across the bay, clinging to floating debris, and washed up the next day in Chambers County.
Michael Clow, a 53-year-old handyman, said he swam to a neighbor’s house after his cinder-block home broke to pieces around him. Struggling in water far above his head, Mr. Clow floated on a cooler in which he had stuffed two kittens, some cigarettes and a stash of beer.
“I said you are either going to die or you are going to get to that house,” he recalled, sitting like a shipwrecked sailor in the wreckage of his home.
Residents here fear that most of the people who are still missing were not as fortunate. Sandy Walton, a 54-year-old employee at the Rancho Carribe golf course, was caught in the storm surge with her boyfriend, Bob Anderson, as they left her office the afternoon of Sept. 12. She was swept out to sea as he watched helplessly, the authorities said.
The storm also caught several elderly and disabled people off guard. Dolores Brookshire, a 72-year-old part-time cashier, called her niece, Joann Mier, at 5 a.m. on the day the outer bands of the storm arrived. She had no car and lived in a house in Port Bolivar with her son, Charles Allen Garrett, 42, who used a wheelchair.
Ms. Brookshire told her niece that the street was already filling with water and that a neighbor who had promised them a ride to Dallas had never shown up. “She says, ‘I’m calling you to tell you that I love you and to tell you bye,’ ” Ms. Mier recalled, “and I said, ‘Why? Where are you going?’ and she says ‘Nowhere. Me and Allen are going to drown.’ ”
Then Ms. Brookshire told her niece she was going to try to push her son through the rising water to a brick grocery store where she worked. They have not been seen since. “Her house is just completely gone,” Ms. Mier said. “They are going to have to search through the debris and all of those little gullies along there.”
Oh, man, I can't take to many more stories like this!! First the Afghanis, and now our own citizens!! But there is MORE!!!!!
Angie Moore of Dallas also received word the morning of Sept. 12 that her relatives in Port Bolivar — a cousin, an aunt and her grandmother — were about to leave the peninsula.
Her aunt, Magdalena Strickland, a 49-year-old nurse, called at about 6:15 to say they were setting off in a car and a truck, but they never arrived, Ms. Moore said. The two vehicles were later found in Gilchrist, pushed off the road by floodwaters, she said. One was nearly submerged in sand; the other was thrust into brush on the roadside.
Since then, Ms. Moore has frantically called shelters run by the Red Cross and state agencies, trying to find her relatives. But Ms. Strickland remains missing, along with her mother, Marion Arrambide, 79, a retired nurse, and her son, Shane Williams, 33, a college student.
With each passing day it becomes more difficult to believe they are alive, Ms. Moore said. “It’s not easy,” Ms. Moore said. “We are going on three weeks and — all three of them — we have heard nothing from any of them.”
(Blog author can not describe the sadness he is feeling at this moment, and it is hard to type through tears)
Oh, readers, is the MSM EVER COVERING UP the DEATH TOLL and of IKE!!!
See: AmeriKan MSM Hiding THOUSANDS of DEAD From Hurricane Ike
They just don't tell the truth about anything, do they?
Or it is all HALF-TRUTHS and 180-degree spin, isn't it?
Maybe I should buy a LOCAL PAPER for LESS tomorrow, rather than the ATROCIOUSLY AWFUL Boston Globe, readers?
Check this space tomorrow for the answer.
