It's just how men are, it's genetic. If it wasn't you all wouldn't spend so much money on beauty products.
OK You live in West Palm, so you can be forgiven for thinking all women spend gazillions on beauty products... But still, did you ever wonder WHY some of these women don't post their photos??? Like Langley...when she posts her photo her in-box gets flooded....Probably a very attractive girl then, right?????
Oops... I thought we were on topic because of Leno's contention that the media influenced this. But that's all I have anyway. Need to shut down for the night as it is...
This article is from the Society of Professional Journalists...a non-profit group whose mission initially was to largely to maintain ethics in the industry and promote the profession... Hmmm. It's been a long time since I've been to one of their parties. I don't know what the organization is like anymore. But as you read, consider they are quoting NYT "sources familiar with the meeting." It gives you an idea of just how complicated the whole media angle is, and how potentially devastating in terms of National Security, and just how much "Crap-Ola" has to go on behind the scenes.
"On the afternoon of Dec. 15, New York Times executives put the paper's preferred First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams, on standby. In the pipeline for the next day's paper was a story that President George W. Bush had specifically asked the paper not to run, revealing that the National Security Agency had been wiretapping Americans without using warrants. The President had made the request in person, nine days before, in an Oval Office meeting with publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., executive editor Bill Keller and Washington bureau chief Phil Taubman, according to Times sources familiar with the meeting. That Dec. 6 session with Bush was the culmination of a 14-month struggle between the Times and the White House -- and a parallel struggle behind the scenes at the Times -- over the wiretapping story. In the end, Abrams' services were not needed. The piece made it to press without further incident. But the story, which began with reporter James Risen and was eventually written by Risen and Eric Lichtblau, very nearly didn't reach that endgame at all. In one paragraph, the piece disclosed that the White House had objected to the article - "arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations" -- and that the Times had "delayed publication for a year." In fact, multiple Times sources said that the story had come up more than a year ago -- specifically, before the 2004 election. After the Times decided not to publish it at that time, Risen went away on book leave, and his piece was shelved and regarded as dead, according to a Times source. ... According to multiple Times sources, the decision to move forward with the story was accelerated by the forthcoming publication of Risen's book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. By this past fall, according to a source familiar with the matter, Taubman was in a parallel series of discussions: with senior Bush administration officials over the paper's desire to publish the story, and with Risen over the content of the book.
Agreed Ms. Sky. That's why we forgive you your liberal leanings...
Seriously, you may be a Democrat with a little d, but you keep your mind open and you seek the truth rather than blindly accepting party rhetoric. I feel the same. Just want solutions. Would rather do away with the party system completely.
"How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. Bush by a greater than two-to-one margin.
Journalists’ Political Views. Compared to their audiences, journalists are far more likely to say they are Democrats or liberals, and they espouse liberal positions on a wide variety of issues. A 2004 poll by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press found five times more journalists described themselves as “liberal” as said they were “conservative.” The Media Research Center...
I think your theory has some merit. It always seems that the negative people fall into one group and the positive into another. Hmmmm'
In the meantime, the media HAS played a significant roll in this mess, and it's really inexcusable. They have become P.R. practitioners out to INFLUENCE public opinion rather than report the facts. It's really tragic and they are doing us a huge disservice, and anyone who believes everything they read is being seriously mislead.
If you an play in the futures at all, you're doing better than most of us. You'll get no synpathy from this wench!
But seriously, all this talk about the BAD American Corporations and/or how GWB contrived this oil shortage, and our friendly neighbors are over there betting against us and getting rich. No doubt corporate America has it's fingers in the pot, but at least there is a bit of a trickly down theory from them profiting.
It ticks me off to know other countries are spewing the old "Ugly American" myth while they are profiting off our misery.
SPECIAL REPORT: Speculation blamed for one-third of fuel prices Tuesday, June 3, 2008 – A third of the price that American consumers are paying for diesel and gasoline is because of foreign-driven speculation in U.S. oil markets, and a recent attempt to close the “Enron loophole” hasn’t fixed the problem, several economic experts told U.S. senators on Tuesday.
However, those experts said that loophole could be closed by a “single action” of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The economists said that the commission should not allow foreign market exchanges in London and Dubai to police themselves in terms of speculation on U.S. oil products. “They’re trading U.S. oil from West Texas,” Michael Greenberger said. “Thirty percent of the market is an exchange which has no specific limits.”
SPECIAL REPORT: Speculation blamed for one-third of fuel prices Tuesday, June 3, 2008 – A third of the price that American consumers are paying for diesel and gasoline is because of foreign-driven speculation in U.S. oil markets, and a recent attempt to close the “Enron loophole” hasn’t fixed the problem, several economic experts told U.S. senators on Tuesday.
However, those experts said that loophole could be closed by a “single action” of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The economists said that the commission should not allow foreign market exchanges in London and Dubai to police themselves in terms of speculation on U.S. oil products.
“They’re trading U.S. oil from West Texas,” Michael Greenberger said. “Thirty percent of the market is an exchange which has no specific limits.”
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