TheChronicle Bias Watch

Amazing LTE in today's Chronicle deemed worthy by the censors at the local newspaper titled "Coast Guard ranges may be a political ploy". The writer states that Congressman Hoekstra is in a tight race for re-election. Not true. He then suggests that "After 60 years of relative peace on the great lakes....." the Coast Guard Great Lakes training is a plot by Bush and his minions to scare "us" for political gain. No proof. Just paranoia. TheChronicle commissars printed it (but not on the web).... so it must have some redeeming value...right!

TheChronicle Bias Watch

buried in page 6b, the last page. Bad news not too important if it's the liberal in charge, eh?
mlive.com: NewsFlash - Michigan unemployment rate rises to 7.1 percent: "Michigan's unemployment rate edged up to 7.1 percent in August, state officials said Wednesday.
The latest seasonally adjusted rate was greater than the July rate of 7 percent and remains among the country's highest. The national jobless rate was 4.7 percent in August."

Missed this vote by Stabenaw

Threads2: "'The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment.' Well, I think that's the kind of moderate compromise 'comprehensive immigration reform' package all Americans can support, don't you? "

Asian carp are coming and it will be very bad

Asian carp are coming and it will be very bad: "I just got back from the Redneck Fishing Tournament in Bath, Ill. The flying Asian carp are twice as big and twice as many as last year! Some 78 boats caught 1,840 fish -- not pounds of fish, but fish -- in three hours. Some were 35 pounds! We do not want these things in our lakes and rivers. "

Corn shortage?

Chronicle LTE:
very bad: "Taking food out of our mouths for the gas tank
We are making car fuel out of corn, etc. So now we have cars competing for food that the poor people depend on.
Lord have mercy.
Richard Havens
Muskegon "
This has to be sarcasm.......doesn't it? Wait till they start turning cable TV into car gas........

What about the children?

I'm confused. DeVos isn't elected to any office and he's criticized for not ending the strike? Granholm is criticized. "Children's education" is reasserted as paramount? But there is no mention that this strike is illegal and the teachers are breaking the law? Liberal-think. It's a scary thing.

Chronicle editorial:
disgrace: "Governor needed to intervene in strike
This being an election year, no politician wants to irritate special interest groups friendly to the cause. However, the Detroit teacher's strike wasn't about politics, it was about children's educations.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm was pretty much a non-player in the ongoing dispute, which passed the two-week mark before a judge stepped in and ordered teachers back to work. She needed to knock some heads together early on.
Nor did Granholm's opponent this fall, Republican candidate Dick DeVos, do much better. After days of silence, the DeVos campaign released a candidate statement late last week calling on the Legislature to change the laws on teacher strikes to allow a single parent in any school district to trigger sanctions. That was an extreme overreaction in our book, but at least it was a reaction.
Granholm's reluctance to engage the combatants in this fight could have had unintended consequences. One of the options before Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman was to rule the current state law unconstitutional, leaving districts all over the state once again vulnerable to teacher walk-outs.
With forced negotiations now under way, it's better for teachers, districts and the children they serve to resolve this mess. And the governor needs to stand ready to help out. "

Classic liberal response from The Chronicle

Mayhem on the football field was a local disgrace: "A big problem turned out to be the lack of any security at the field, which should have been a requirement even if there had been no hints of the violence to come. Adding security at public events is a common-sense approach to avoiding potential problems, and is used by most organizations."
No blame to, or even mention of, the parents and thugs. Just blame to the "organization". "Organizations cause riots, not people".

Gas price conspiracy!

Some gasoline price facts for you conspiracy nuts. In every election from 1988 to 2004 (Presidential and off year) gasoline prices increased from June 31 to Oct 31. Except 1988 (no change) and Bush's election in 2000 (big decline in gas prices but not to anyone's real benefit since neither Bush or Gore were incumbents).
See the pattern? Neither do I.

Thank God for experts!

Let's see. Four months ago the experts told us "no way" gas prices will go down. I can't wait till their next prediction.....
Gas prices: No relief in sight - May. 19, 2006: "But given that the economy grew at a robust 4.8 percent in the first quarter, it's unlikely that $3 gas will lower demand enough to push gasoline prices back to $2.50 anytime soon."

A serious case of "don't get it".

Maybe it's because it's their job to make those decisions?
Message to editor: Don't insult readers: "GOP, Van Woerkom don't trust the voters
I don't think our state Sen. Gerald Van Woerkom trusts me, and neither do his fellow Republicans in the Senate. In fact, they don't seem to trust any of us. Why else would they suddenly decide to repeal the Single Business Tax (without much discussion or making any provisions for replacing the money) instead of putting it before the voters?
The SBT made up a large chunk of the state's operating fund, giving money to the public services we all use and depend on. This wasn't the first time the Republican-dominated Legislature has pushed through legislation that may or may not be a good idea.
I want a state senator in Lansing who is working for us, caring about us, acting on behalf of constituents, not in lieu of them. I'm voting for Julie Dennis in November.
Gordon Gutowski
Muskegon "

What a combo!

My Way - Sports News: "Roger Federer and Tiger Woods broke open two bottles of Dom Perignon and toasted - to a growing friendship, greatness and Grand Slams.
With his new best pal watching from a corner box, Federer rocketed a final forehand past Andy Roddick, then fell to his knees and flopped onto his back. He'd won his third straight U.S. Open title in convincing fashion, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 Sunday.
When it was over, Federer returned to the locker room, cracked open the champagne and spent an hour with perhaps the only other athlete on the planet who understands such sheer domination. "

Didn't see this in the Chronicle

Dick DeVos For Governor: "While Alticor makes products in Michigan and sells them in 80 countries and territories around the world, Governor Granholm's Small Business Jobs Recruiter owns a factory in China that exports products to the U.S.
Under Governor Granholm, Michigan buys Chinese-made Keno pencils for the Michigan lottery. (Detroit News; 6/26/05)
The Governor also supports MEGA grants that give incentives to Ford and GM while they are expanding operations overseas.
Because she has no political motivation to attack these Michigan companies, she only attacks Dick DeVos and Alticor. "

ITB Graduation Speech by LTC Randolph C. White Jr.

With 9-11 anniversery coming up how can we not feel safer knowing these fine men will protect us. Pass this one on.
Infantry Videos
I've watched it many times. What a leader!

Special election to fill DeLay seat set for Nov. 7

Sounds like the GOPers trumped the happless Demos once again.
Special election to fill DeLay seat set for Nov. 7: "Gov. Rick Perry ordered on Tuesday a special election for the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay to coincide with the general election Nov. 7, when only two months will remain on DeLay's term."

They wonder why we don't trust them any more...

Not the hole truth Herald Sun: "It's bad enough that friends of Hezbollah terrorists could trick so many journalists with just a tall story and a rusty Lebanese ambulance.
Worse is that some of those journalists seemed so eager to believe this ambulance was indeed wickedly blown up by an Israeli missile fired straight through the big red cross on its roof -- leaving not even a scorch mark.
But worst is that even now that this hoax has been exposed, none of the countless writers and commentators who fell for it have admitted to passing on as fact the propaganda of terrorists. "

"Hey, it's just a first draft!"

The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay: "From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and 'Jeopardy' comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30. "

Granholm, terrorist enabler?

Chilling! Read the entire report.
Debbie Schlussel: "That is, unless you believe tourists take a bevy of photos of grates of a bridge, showing the bridge supports below, as reported by skilled WJRT-TV Flint investigative reporter Jeff Piechowski. Tourism photos? Hardly. So why did the Michigan State Police Chief lie? All politics. He works for Michigan lefty Governor Jennifer Granholm, who is in the back pocket of Michigan's Islamofascist community"

Another dumb #%^&%** pilot...caught on tape!

Be sure to have the sound on and watch all the way to the amazing end as this corporate jet becomes a jet-boat!
YouTube - Citation Runway over shoot into Atlanta Bay

Ethanol a fraud?

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BLOG - Solar-Energy-Wind-Power.com: Is Ethanol / E85 Fuel the Solution?: So is E85 fuel the answer to America's (and the world's) addiction to oil?"

American Taliban

Inside Higher Ed :: Throwing in the Towel: "The constant calls, the people frightening his children, and the demonstrations in front of his home apparently became a little too much."