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Desperate Newswhores
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Published 9/07/2006 01:30:00 AM
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Nice graphic, Wraith. (Uhh... ’scuse me just a sec... uuurrp. Ewww!)
For more on this ABC/Disney swift-boating and propaganda:
Matt Stoller has lots of information here (including Democratic National Committee Executive Director Tom McMahon’s letter, and the letter from House Dems Conyers, Dingell, Harman, and Slaughter to ABC), and there are links for taking action.
Protest and boycott all Disney’s holdings!
Excuse my ignorance, but who is the creature in the graphic?
He.
Good Morning Dark Wraith:
I must soon go back into the kitchen to refill my coffee mug, most of the previous cup having been blown out my nose and onto the keyboard (note to self: bring back a towel). The only thing I have to add is that unfortunately this will not be a last fling for these guys. They will be at it and on it from now until November. Although I must say there is a certain ADD quality about the shifting nature of their attacks; the constant racheting up of the rhetoric and probing shifts of target points while looking for the "nerve" gives a flailing, frantic edge to their message. They've already tried some of the tried and true ploys, arresting some bozos and calling it a broken terror ring, oops didn't work; orjacking up the security at airports in response to another questionable terrorist ring; which mainly made people mad. Then I noticed that, for the first time in recent memory, on a Labor Day Weekend, the price at the gas pumps actually fell. BP's field and pipeline are in disrepair, the situation in Iran is decidedly unstable, the Sudan volitile and prices at the pump went down.
I'm stocking up on Reynolds Wrap® today, it's going to be a tinfoil hat election cycle for sure.
Check out the editorial cartoon in today's Boston Globe (by Dan Wasserman).
Then, while this is totally OT, EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS. It will come as no surprise to the academics, especially the Wraith, but nonetheless.........
- oddjob
Um, ew?
Good afternoon, Chet.
Yes, that seems to be the concensus. Sometimes, art isn't pretty, even to the artist. I shall admit that I did have to hold my lunch down as I completed the skin-tone matching. The shoulders and the neck were tough.
And I'm not joking in the least that I couldn't get that man's face to change skin tone worth a darn. It was actually weird. I had to give up and make the body match the face, and the only way I could get it done was literally to drain about 60% of the color. It wasn't the original photo of him that was badly colored, either: I linked above to the original picture, and the colors of the flag behind him are fine. It's the guy's face!
Creepy.
The Dark Wraith should probably wash his Photoshop program before using it again.
Good afternoon, OddJob.
Thank you for putting up the link to that article on college graduation rates. I am all too familiar with this issue: some college administrators are, on the one hand, pretending the problem isn't much of an issue; but on the hand, the issue is filtering down, and it's likely to get a little ugly.
I was in a committee meeting at the local community college last semester, and the director of education was talking about something or other and, out of nowhere, just happened to mention that the administration had somewhere along the line set a target retention rate to be reached by the 2008/2009 academic year of 80%. His little nugget almost got by without a word, but in my usual stupidity, I requested that we rewind the blather and return to that 80% thing for just a minute. I asked about when we were going to get a general announcement about it and how, precisely, we were going to get there from a retention rate in the low 60-percent range where we are now.
I learned that the announcement is still pending a few last-minute decisions; then everyone in the room had to suffer a pretty nice little dance about accomplishing the goal. Unfortunately, that little dance number included some pretty predictable stuff about 'empowering faculty' to find 'innovative' methods to reach the students and 'invite' them to stay and 'learn about and enjoy the benefits' of a college education.
Oh, but not to worry. The administration is doing its part, too: it was there that I heard for the first time that the school is going to start fielding competitive sports teams.
It's for the students, mind you. They'll like it.
The Dark Wraith needs to stop before he has a fit of hysterical laughter.
BIG SIGH........................
- oddjob
What bothers me most about it, as I mentioned at Shakespeare's Sister, is that this is an empirical demonstration of a society that is devolving. It is objective evidence of our post-supreme era beginning.
- oddjob
Thanks - it was the hair that threw me.
Evenin DW,
OMG Is he wearing one of Ann Coulter's dresses???
LMAO
Good evening, elf.
Now that you mention it, that does look like a little number that harpie was wearing in one of her supposedly "seductive" photos!
Yeesh.
My graphic is actually based upon this promo for the ABC television show Desperate Housewives.
Trust me, by the way, when I tell you that it isn't easy creating a good spoof graphic; it is, however, worth it.
Not that the American Broadcasting Company needs any help, now, in degrading what remained of its reputation.
The Dark Wraith was never a fan of Mickey Mouse anyway.
[Those Mouseketeers were too darned perky and perfect-looking for my taste, especially since I was a little ugly fatboy.]
Good evening, Mr. Goat.
The hair definitely could throw people off. It looks good on him, though: it sets off well against his pasty skin.
The Dark Wraith will not, however, be doing a graphic to actually prove he's a redhead underneath it all.
Fantastic Dark Wraith!
Oddjob,thanks for the article on how we are turning out less college grads.
America is no longer number one in anything except propaganda and obesity.
Europe is out pacing us on the Research Front.
That's what happens when you have a President who doesn't believe in Evolution and encourages the teaching intelligent design while simultaneously cutting research money and increasing faith based initiatives while opposing such things as stem cell research.
I won't get started here..it's a sore subject.
Let alone now that the average college grad is now graduating with at least 30K of DEBT. Right out of the gate you owe. At the same time salaries are stagnant while inflation goes up.
So you graduate college and you make 40K a year (good luck) and you owe 30K and somehow you are expected to be able to buy a home, get married, and raise a family.
"Uniquely American" as Bush would say.
Good evening, Dark Wraith.
Interesting artwork. I was under the same impression as Elf. I thought it was Ann Coulter's dress.
Funny.
Good evening, Old White Lady.
Even for the sake of art, I'm not sure I'd want to even so much as touch lingerie worn by that woman.
Not without a HazMat suit on, anyway.
The Dark Wraith knows when safety procedures are called for.
(If indeed "she" of the prominent adam's apple is indeed a woman......)
- oddjob
Good morning all. After drooling over that ravishing vixen rolling around in apples (why come they ain't one stuck innis purty mouth?) Oddjob's sharp stick in the wound (thx, enrollment/graduation obstacles are a pet peeve of mine) OT link was just the thing to wake me from my semi-comatose state.
(Ann): "Hmmm...haz mat suit."
"Oh, Karl..."
(she breaks into song)
"Sweet mystery of Life at last I've found you."
9/09/06
Quoth the Dark Wraith:
For eight long years, Bill Clinton kicked the sorry asses of the Right-wingers who tried their best to destroy him and his Presidency, and to this very day, they and their media allies persist. In recognition of that, here's some sound advice for them:
Get OVER it, already!
On April 21, 2005 Henry Hyde (R-Adulterer, Hypocrite) admitted to Andy Shaw on Chicago’s ABCNews-7 that Clinton was payback for Nixon.
Well, at the rate they're going they're going to need payback for Bush, too (if there is any justice in the universe, that is.........)
- oddjob
"The blood stays on the blade."
—Priest Vallon
Gangs of New York (2002)
good evening my friends:
the axe forgets. the tree remembers.
taza, peace chief of the chiricauau
Mostly OT, and while I doubt this is news to the Wraith, I hadn't considered the pension or insurance problems in this light before and so I found this both educational and quite fascinating.
- oddjob
Thanks again, Oddjob. As a retired union man w/national pension plan, and having worked at Bethlehem steel during the mid-seventies, I am grateful to you for that link. Man, I learn sumpin ever' time I check-in to this site.
Good evening, OddJob.
Thank you for that article. I plan to use it as a class assignment. Although the piece starts off with an incredibly wrong-headed idea about how demographics work—and especially how the political, social, and scientific environments of a country intersect with demographics—the author gets his feet under him incredibly well after a couple of paragraphs. There's a little more to it than merely the dependency ratio, of course; and saying that health care costs rise linearly with age is a woeful over-simplification, but I can and do deal with that in class. (One of the issues has to do with the old insurance problem of "frequency versus severity," by the way.)
The bones of contention aside, I am grateful that writers are trying to sound the alarm about the pension fund crisis, and I am genuinely glad to see a writer who doesn't represent the health-care angle as being either private insurance or nationalized health care. Getting over the rhetoric about "socialist" solutions versus "free market" solutions takes us a long way toward dealing with the crisis in rational terms.
Again, thank you for the link.
The Dark Wraith is now, unfortunately, thinking almost obsessively about this whole subject, though.
LOL!
Oops!
- oddjob (BTW, I hope to have that new email address for you tomorrow.)
ps: I agree that getting a case of the vapors over nationalized health care only blinds people to the realities of it all. I didn't used to think that way about that topic, but then sometime in the last year I heard a radio talk show host on one of the local stations here point out that as long as you guarantee care to anyone (even the destitute, and there are few who would tolerate walking by dead bodies of the homeless on the streets), you already have universal health care.
You just have the most expensive version of it......