Newseum | Today’s Front Pages | Map View.
The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. Slide your mouse over the orange dot on the map, which you can chose or move to, for the front page from there. Click on it, to expand the view in a new page – Very cool
S/Y Legacy, apparently not wanting to leave Key West thanks to a stubborn keel that slipped and was troublesome to raise, was finally persuaded to lift her 40-ton appendage to a workable height. More about the history of Legacy
Below is a piece that I posted on Huffingtonpost.com yesterday. About ten minutes after it went on line, the metropolitan editor of the New York Post emailed me about running it and it’s on page four in Saturday’s paper. The piece has reacted in a full range of opinion, from overwhelmingly positive to outrage. I’m trying to understand why some people are so upset. And as soon as I have a full grasp on this I’m going to publish again at Huffingtonpost.com and put it in my personal blog as well. (Thanks to Randy Marks)
via THE WAGES OF WEALTH.
One had the sense this week that our entire political class is playing Frisbee on the edge of a precipice, that no one is being serious enough, honest enough, that it’s all too revved, too intense, and yet too shallow.
As to what they will do about the crisis, Mr. Obama will raise taxes on the rich and help us weatherize our homes, while Mr. McCain favors “energy independence” and buying up mortgages. On the causes of the crisis they spoke of insufficient regulation, or high spending.
But these were not the great causes. Neither party has clean hands. Or rather, both parties have dirty hands. Here is the truth, spoken by the increasingly impressive Sen. Tom Coburn: “The root of the problem is political greed in Congress. Members . . . from both parties wanted short-term political credit for promoting homeownership even though they were putting our entire economy at risk by encouraging people to buy homes they couldn’t afford. Then, instead of conducting thorough oversight and correcting obvious problems with unstable entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, members of Congress chose to . . . distract themselves with unprecedented amounts of pork-barrel spending.” That is the truth. Declarations – WSJ.com
Pictures of Madonna leaving a kabala center in New York City on Friday, July 25, 2008, incited commotion on the blogosphere and tabloids.
Madonna turns 50 next month and is gearing up for her Hard Candy tour, which begins Aug . 23.
China Media Project » Blog Archive » China’s early press coverage of “secret weapon” He Kexin
Click on the link above for original China publications and their translations. China’s female Olympic gymnastics team is now coming under intense pressure as evidence mounts that champion gymnast He Kexin (何可欣) is below the age of eligibility for Olympic competition in the event. The evidence against He’s eligibility includes online news coverage by China Daily and the official Xinhua News Agency, which Chinese officials are now saying is inaccurate.
But as Berkeley’s China Digital Times has noted, a number of Chinese newspaper articles last year and early this year reported He’s age as 13. In trying to build a credible case for the gymnast’s eligibility, Chinese officials will find themselves denying a series of independent Chinese news reports.
Here is the link to the China Daily web page that revealed her true age, that has since been taken down by the embarrased government.
More Documents found on-line by Mike Walker
Blowback From Bear-Baiting – HUMAN EVENTS
American charges of Russian aggression ring hollow. Georgia started this fight — Russia finished it. People who start wars don’t get to decide how and when they end.
Russia’s response was “disproportionate” and “brutal,” wailed Bush.
True. But did we not authorize Israel to bomb Lebanon for 35 days in response to a border skirmish where several Israel soldiers were killed and two captured? Was that not many times more “disproportionate”?
Russia has invaded a sovereign country, railed Bush. But did not the United States bomb Serbia for 78 days and invade to force it to surrender a province, Kosovo, to which Serbia had a far greater historic claim than Georgia had to Abkhazia or South Ossetia, both of which prefer Moscow to Tbilisi?
Is not Western hypocrisy astonishing? Americans have many fine qualities. A capacity to see ourselves as others see us is not high among them. -Patrick Buchanan
Continue reading “Georgia started this fight — Russia finished it”
Op-Ed Columnist – Where’s the Trauma and the Grief? – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
Click on the NY Times link for interviews with Chinese survivor’s stories. No Kartina whiners here.
These were weird, unnerving interviews, and I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on in the minds of people who have suffered such blows and remained so optimistic. All I can imagine is that the history of this province has given these people a stripped-down, pragmatic mentality: Move on or go crazy. Don’t dwell. Look to the positive. Fix what needs fixing. Work together.
I don’t know if it’s emotionally sustainable or even healthy, but it raises at least one interesting question. When you compare these people to the emotional Sturm und Drang over lesser things on reality TV, you do wonder if we Americans are a nation of whiners.
Jamaica Gleaner News – Missing sand found – Tuesday | August 12, 2008
Some of the estimated 500 truckloads of sand stolen from a 64-acre property in Coral Spring, Trelawny, has been found at two hotel developments on the island’s north coast.