Few Viewers for Infancy of Fox Business (NYT)

How many people are watching the new Fox Business Network? About
6,300, on average, on any given weekday, according to early estimates
compiled by Nielsen Media Research. By contrast, Fox Business's chief
competitor, CNBC, attracted about 283,000 viewers each weekday from
Oct. 15 through Dec. 14, the first two months that Fox Business was on
the air, according to Nielsen's calculations.

Wonder how many Fox Noise retards will crow about their fake business
network's dismal numbers?

And I wonder how many of those 6,300 even own a share of stock? if
you've ever watched their programming, it's abysmal. I think Murdoch
blew it even trying this one... if he tries to tie it in to the WCJ,
watch the WSJ circulation drop like a rock...

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com

How high will the newly-launched criminal investigation into the CIA's
destruction of interrogation tapes go? And will it eventually target Vice
President Cheney?

Cheney has been the administration's central figure on all things related to
torture. It was Cheney who pushed so hard for "flexibility" in
interrogations of terrorist suspects. Former secretary of state Colin
Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, has long argued that it is
"clear that the Office of the Vice President bears responsibility for
creating an environment conducive to the acts of torture and murder
committed by U.S. forces in the war on terror."

In the weeks proceeding the November 2005 destruction of the torture tapes,
Cheney was pulling out all the stops in a failed lobbying effort to get
fellow Republicans on the Hill to exempt the CIA from a proposed torture
ban. Cheney's arm-twisting was so unseemly that a Washington Post editorial
dubbed him the "Vice President for Torture." (When the law passed, Cheney's
office authored a " signing statement" for Bush, in which he reserved the
right to ignore it.)

FOX News Couldn't Defeat Iowa or Obama
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1788
A. Alexander, January 4th, 2008

In case folks missed it, during the lead up to Iowa's caucus, FOX News had
two messages for the American people: First, the network doesn't especially
like Iowa and the second message was that it desperately wants Hillary
Clinton to win the Democratic nomination. Rightly or wrongly, FOX News
believes that Hillary Clinton is the Republican Party's only hope of holding
onto the White House

source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/the_other_jihad_islams_war_on.html

...The roots of this jihad on the Indian sub-continent began in 1947,
when the British departed South Asia and granted independence to the
sovereign states of India and Pakistan. India chose to establish...

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:03:32 -0000, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS" yahoo.com> wrote:

Well DUH! Who has denied it?

It does? In what universe does that ridiculous statement reveal
anything but your infantile understanding to global politics?

Israel has had sophisticated, deliverable nuclear weapons for a long
time

How long will the CIA torture tape investigation last? (Hint: when's the
next inauguration day?)

By Weldon Berger

Created Jan 3 2008 - 3:04pm

Newly confirmed attorney general Michael Mukasey has announced a Justice
Department probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos showing
the torture of terrorism suspects. The reaction from some people who would
like to see someone-anyone-in the Bush administration pay for
something-anything-the administration has done is one of cautious optimism,
with emphasis on the nature of the federal prosecutor heading the
investigation, John Durham, who has apparently never lost a case [1] and has
experience dealing with federal agencies.

That optimism, however cautious, is misplaced.

For Progressives Seeking Change the Bill-Hillary Team is not the Answer

By Bill Hare

Created Jan 3 2008 - 2:18pm

Early in her presidential effort Hillary Clinton made it abundantly clear
that husband Bill would play a major role in her administration should she
be elected to lead America. This should come as no surprise and would double
the danger potential of progressives seeking change.

One of the pivotal Bill Clinton appearances came not in America but in
England, when he attended a Labour Party conference. After the British
people had made a strong statement by mounting the most impressive
grassroots demonstration I ever saw, a massive demonstration at Hyde Park
involving people coming from all around the United Kingdom, Labourites took
notice.

At an historic party conference where the members resisted Tony Blair's
effort to continue longer in office, Labour members closed tightly around
him, left no breathing space, and dictated his early departure.

School, Mall and Workplace Shootings: Why So Many? No, Why So Few?

By Russ Wellen

Created Jan 3 2008 - 12:41pm

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion
by Mark Ames
Soft Skull Press, 2005
360 pages, $15.95

In April 2007, when a Virginia Tech student killed 32, it was one of the
worst ever, to coin a phrase, "social shootings." Earlier, in February, five
were killed in a Salt Lake mall and then, in December, nine in an Omaha
mall.

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion by Mark Ames was published by Soft
Skull Press back in 2005. But the continued popularity of school, mall, and
workplace shootings as a practical solution for troubled souls obligates us
to revisit this essential work.

When social shootings first burst upon the scene, they seared the national
psyche like a wildfire. Though since overshadowed by 9/11, Iraq, and
Katrina, the regularity with which they flare up keeps them from slipping
off our radar.

No Matter What Happens In Iowa, We're Already Winning

By David Sirota

Created Jan 3 2008 - 12:03pm

I'm just back from a long vacation in which I tried to stay away from
political news as much as possible. I find that stepping away from the
day-to-day always helps ground me in reality - and realize just how idiotic
much of American politics really is.

So, with my mind cleared, let me just offer these few thoughts as the voting
in Iowa begins:

1. The media (and, to a lesser extent, the blogosphere's) obsessive focus on
presidential politics to the exclusion of almost anything else is, to put it
mildly, vomit-inducing. I reached my personal vomit...

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

By Bob Patterson

Created Jan 3 2008 - 11:47am

In the TV series The Fugitive, it was never explained how Dr. Richard Kimble
(David Janssen) was able to pay for meals in the coffee shops or travel from
city to city. Did he carry a bag of money around? Did he use a credit card?
If so, the police would have had a "trail" and caught him much sooner. How
did he pay for things?

In On the Road, Jack Kerouac described how expenditures for meals were made
after consulting the amount of funds available. It's obvious that
hitchhiking was an economical way to travel, but the beats needed some
money. Crash pads help cut the expenses, but the old comedy bit about
washing dishes as a way to pay for a meal when the money was gone was
unrealistic. Kerouac knew that money talks and anything else would land you
in trouble with the law.

Any attempts to go "on the road," had to be proceeded by some careful
economic planning, usually involving a job and a savings account because it
seems that there isn't a mother in the United States who doesn't teach her
kids the old (and unattributed) wisdom that "Money doesn't grow on trees."