Teabaggers

Yes, I'm doing the same as the NY Times, marginalizing the teabaggers. We all marginalize those who threaten our view of the world and haven't made the same choices we have made in our life. We are never really confident of our own choices, therefore we have to put down other who don't share the same view or have made different choices to feel better of ourselves.

The Day The NY Times Changed, At Least for Me.

Back in the day, we'd all watch network News to "understand" the world around us. Supposedly it was objective. Then about twenty years ago Fox TV/News appeared. News became a point of view. If you don't read or refuse to educate yourself then Fox News confirmed your belief of the world. People who hate change and love fear watch Fox News. The world can be a scary place, indeed, to some. People who love change and try to educate themselves watch other News channels. However, neither is "right". They are just different views of the same world.

In general, hate and fear are stronger human emotions. If human's weren't afraid we'd all be dead. Fear keeps us alive as a species. And that is why Fox News has been so successful. So if you can't beat them join 'em, right. What seems to be selling these day is to offer a view that "confirms" one's beliefs. And it's seems like the NY Times has skipped tracks to do so.

With the recent articles about the Pope and this racist article, it appears that the NY Times is becoming MORE biased. They seem to be writing for it's readers; writing to confirm their reader's beliefs. This formula seems to be working for Fox News and the Huffington Post, right? So, why not the NY Times?

The NY Times has mega financial problems. This is one way to generate revenue. To achieve objectivity in the News readers/watchers now have to read/watch various sources - each source represents a point of view - then we'll have to decide for themselves.

I'm Not the Only One Who Thinks So....

“Cuba does have problems,” said Kirby Jones, a business consultant, stating the obvious at the start of a meeting last week that brought American travel industry executives and Cuban government officials to Cancún to strategize on what might, and what might not, play out in the years ahead.

Mr. Jones urged potential investors to banish certain words from their minds — Bay of Pigs, dissidents, Elián González, hijackers and socialism, for instance — and to focus on the fact that the Cuban government had already joined more than 200 joint ventures with foreign corporations, none of them American.

“Everyone is there, except us,” he told the travel agents, hoteliers, tour operators, charter companies and others with an eye on Cuba. “There are offices and representatives of over 500 companies around the world. Nobody knows when it will open up for Americans, but it will.”

NY Times Reports: Cuba is Changing When I first visited Poland in 1987. It felt like something was happening. Didn't know what, but something. People weren't happy. After visiting Cuba this past year, I believe something is happening. And will happen soon. American companies take notice.

Everybody is watching China these days. The world fastest growing economy - a market economy lead by a communist government. I would be surprised if Cuba follows that model.

Wall Street, but Main Street

Bush Returns

Visiting Haiti. Watch the hand wipe!! Classy.

Yesterday's Mistake

I wore my Cornell T-shirt to the gym. However, I didn't know they were in a tournament...

Well some guy in the locker room goes "oh, I see your wearing your colors". Okay, fine, maybe he graduated from Cornell too. So I inquire. I was expecting him to say yes and ask: what school I attended, or where I lived, or when did I graduated.

No, he says he didn't attend Cornell, but starts talking about Cornell's basketball team. And of course, I had no clue what he was talking about.

AND even after I make it fairly clear I don't follow basketball, he then decides to fill me in on Cornell's ENTIRE SEASON and practically every other team in the tournament.

No more Cornell T-shirt. Thank you.

Dotcom celebrates 25th anniversary

Per the Telegraph:

On March 15 1985, a Massachusetts-based computer make named Symbolics added dotcom to its name. It was followed by Bbn.com and Think.com.

The market for dotcom would not grow significantly for another few years – that year only six dotcom names were registered, compared to the 100,000 now registered every day. In 2008, Google's crawler indexed its trillionth page.

1985 was the first time I wrote a term paper on a computer.

Middle age begins at 35 and ends at 58

Middle age begins in your mid-30s and ends in your late 50s, a new survey finds.

According to a study, the average Briton believes that youth ends at 35 and old age begins at 58. In between - all 23 years - is your middle age.

The news that 58 is "over the hill" may come as a surprise to anyone who has passed the milestone and feels they are not yet in the twilight of their lives.

Dang, I'm middle-aged. Who knew.

What Next?

COMMENTS:

themurge: I'm pretty sure surfing is the last thing an alpaca wants to be doing

afghanistananies: it's not surfing. it falls off every time. lol

aznlilhero: oh, i thought that was a ostrich hahahaha

Spyhunter107: Later in the afternoon, the alpaca took the man to dinner.

Even Pope Approves of Sexually Molesting Kids

NYT Reports

The German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored repeated warnings in the early 1980s by a psychiatrist treating a priest accused of sexually abusing boys that he should not be allowed to work with children, the psychiatrist said Thursday.

“I said, ‘For God’s sake, he desperately has to be kept away from working with children,’ ” the psychiatrist, Dr. Werner Huth, said in a telephone interview from Munich. “I was very unhappy about the entire story.”

The Pope knew a priest in his diocese habitually molested kids and what does he do? He reassigns him to another church. How intelligent are priests? They are idiots! Molesting kids and stealing money from the church seem to be their major focus.

Real Life

It's one thing on TV, but it's another in real life.

At jury duty, I was called along with 90 other people as a potential jurist for a murder case. But because I had two up coming interviews, I pleaded hardship case and the judge excused me. But my hardship was even close to the hardship of the defendant. He was young in his early 20's, standing trial for murder. The judge ask him to introduce himself to up, a group of his "peers". The people who would determine his fate. He said "hey, I'm......".

Then I walked home, pondering about this guy's life - would he get off or would he spend his youth in prison. I entered my home, and then crash. I know the sound of a car crash. At the intersection in front of my house there has been three car crashes in the past year. I've never seen any of them happen, but heard them. Its always a bit surreal, seeing the smashed car sitting still prior to any emergency vehicles arriving. Did it just happen? Is it really an accident? Well, I'm not sure how it happen, but a car smashed into a light pole. The car was demolished, the drive taken away on a stretcher.

It's one thing seeing murders and car accidents on TV and in the movies, but in real life its always a cause for pause, at least for me. Damn, I love living in Newark!

Jury Duty Next Week!

I was looking forward to it. What else do I have to do? Newark. Jury duties. Think of the cultural possibilities. But I got call backs to two interviews. I'll probably cancel. Ugh. Next time.

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