Couldn’t Help But Notice (112007)
Does the Plain Dealer Editorial Board have any idea how incoherent this editorial is? –
Strickland’s deeds on school finance fall well short of his words
School finance was a hot issue for candidate Strickland, but as governor he has backed way off – and that’s good
Yeah, as long as campaigning with a sense of educational reform urgency and governing with absolutely none is okey-dokey.
Dear PD: It’s not.
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From Mark Morford, the guy who brought you this in 2003 …..
These are the final days of peace in America. Please remember to turn off the lights and lock up when you leave.
These are the last days of relative calm before we start bombing and massacring hundreds of thousands of people and in so doing enter into what many believe will a very long, drawn-out, insanely expensive, volatile, destabilizing, completely unwinnable war against a cheap thug of an opponent who has negligible military might and zero capacity to actually harm the U.S. in any substantive way. U-S-A! U-S-A!
There’s this in 2007 (HT Dearborn Underground):
It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually dare to think that, in less than one year’s time, Dubya will begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a “Mission Accomplished!” sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history.
I wouldn’t make book on Mark Morford’s prescience.
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Part of Morford’s problem noted in the previous item may be that he’s been reading too many bias-laden, misleading, terror-sympathizing dispatches involving the AP’s Bilal Hussein, a stringer-photographer who will face criminal charges involving cooperating with the terrorist enemy in Iraq.
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This is NOT OK in Oklahoma:
A veteran political activist is facing 10 years in prison and a hefty fine for attempting to petition government for redress of grievances. The latest news from Pakistan? No, this is happening in Oklahoma.
Last month Paul Jacob, the former head of U.S. Term Limits and current head of Citizens in Charge, was led out of an Oklahoma City courtroom in handcuffs after pleading not guilty to charges that he conspired to defraud the state. Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who’s overseeing this bizarre prosecution, has accused Mr. Jacob and two fellow petition organizers–Rick Carpenter of Oklahomans in Action and Susan Johnson of National Voter Outreach–of bringing out-of-state petition gatherers to Oklahoma to collect signatures.
If Ohio has a law like Oklahoma’s, and if it had been enforced in 2005, there wouldn’t have been enough jail space in the whole state to accommodate the George Soros-backed out-of-state-dominated Reform Ohio Now crowd. Thankfully, their misguided initiatives all went down to crushing defeats.
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Here we go some more:
“A TOP aide to (New York Gov. Eliot) Spitzer involved in the Dirty Tricks Scandal angrily threatened to ‘professionally kill’ a top utility executive for opposing the governor’s energy policies, sources have told The (New York) Post.”
JammieWearingFool notes: “Shocking perhaps, but not surprising, considering Pope works for a guy who claims to be a ‘f—ing steamroller’ and is a notorious bully.”There was a time when the Post’s Gotham rival, the New York Times, would have reacted to being continually scooped. But a search on “Sptizer Pope” (not in quotes) at the New York Times indicates that they could care less. Being in the tank for Spitzer is apparently more important. At least the New York Daily News is doing a decent job of playing catchup.
