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Choo-Choo-Chooices

Turns out that Amtrak, forced to serve numerous unprofitable and underutilized routes, isn’t making money:

The average loss per passenger on Amtrak’s 44 nationwide routes was more than $32 in FY2008

By my calculations, we pay ~$300 per individual in the entire country to provide the Interstate Highway System. But, by all means, let’s continue treating it as some sort of Heaven-sent resource that we can all use for free while expecting every other mode of transit to earn a healthy profit…or else!

Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to fill those positions. Do you agree or disagree that this presents a threat to free speech?

Zogby poll question

Well, I went to school in Ireland when I was a boy, learned the Three R’s and the Ten Commandments—most of them—made a pilgrimage to the Blarney Stone, received my father’s blessing, and here I am.

William Mulholland, on his qualifications to run the Los Angeles water system

10 categories of warnings now pile up quietly in a single, unified Action Center and don’t interrupt you at all.

David Pogue on Windows 7 new non-nagging security “alert” system. What could possible go wrong with that approach, David?

Nixonian: A Love Story

Let’s review a few items of interests re: the W. Bush Administration:

  1. Paying Armstrong Williams, Michael McManus, and Maggie Gallagher and others for favorable opinions about WH policies or to attack opponents of the WH.
  2. Planting Jeff Gannon to lob softball questions.
  3. Used reporters to out a CIA agent, then sat by and watched reporters go to jail to protect their sources.
  4. Fed reporters misinformation about WMD (with malice aforethought, mind you) on Iraq, then used those reporters stories as corroborating evidence of the existence of WMD in Iraq.
  5. Waged a coordinated campaign against NBC.
  6. The Pentagon Pundit program, which sold the war by planting former military officers on networks.
  7. Staged mock press conferences with FEMA employees pretending to be reporters.
  8. Told America and, specifically, journalists to “watch what they say and what they do.”

But, indeed, Obama’s administration calling out FoxNEWS as a glorified communications wing for the GOP is a yet another example of the President’s outlandish, Nixonian lawlessness. Truly unprecedented.

Call me when FoxNEWS turns over three hours of their vaunted “news time” in the mornings to a former Democratic representative. Likewise when msnbc hires anyone who is remotely like Glenn Beck for their “editorial” hours (which are loosely 7-10pm EST for both FoxNEWS and msnbc).

(Top 8 topics largely via Balloon Juice; links a free value-add for you, the Lemkin reader)

OMFG! Drupal==Teh Communism

Hold on to your hats, everyone!!!!!!!! I just had my staff send me an internet, and in it I found the remarkable truth: the White House, newly shifted to an internet called “Drupal” has actually (and brazenly) installed the Red Chinese Menace. See for yourself what this internet “search” turned up and then watch the LIBERALS try to defy the facts:

Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system ….. DUNN : Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa …

As you can see, the Communist philosopher, Mao Zedong, is “powered” by Drupal. And. So. Is. The. White. House.

But I doubt the State Run Media will report any of it. <!<!<!<!<!<!<Check it out before the GOVENRMENT TAKES’ IT DOWN>!>!>!>!>!.

Tops Fore Bush

  1. I think we all agree, the past is over.
  2. Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
  3. I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
  4. Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!