Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Six more week of winter, says the groundhog.
As an aside, I was listening to the top-of-the-hour Fox News Radio news on KBND this morning where they had this story, and I found it quite hilarious that after the newscaster read the story about the winter prediction he said “Stupid rodent” right before signing off. Even the folks in the KBND newsroom were laughing at it when they came on the air.
As we all know, the quality of the content on Bend.com has pretty much gone downhill since Barney left. They went from the leading source of breaking news in the area to nothing but a press release dumping service. And while I looked there a great deal in the past for news, I rarely visit them anymore, as what gets posted is rarely news and when it is actually newsworthy, it’s a straight press release dump from the source, with no additional editing or reporting. I’d rather get the full story from other local media outlets, thank you.
Not only that, but Spencer Dahl, Bend.com’s president/CEO/owner/whatever seems to like to pick fights and instead of using appropriate channels he picks an entry of mine that’s nearly two months old and posts a comment about how my pagerank is zero — like I didn’t already frickin’ know that (why do I have this feeling that he may have had something to do with it?). You can read our exchange in the comments here, and feel free to add to the conversation if you feel the need to (or just comment here).
A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of “The Jerry Springer Show.”
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The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two oldest knocked on the door of a neighbor, who called police.
All I can say is I’m glad that the kids have been taken away from these morons.
Especially after reading some of this transcript (fixed the question so it read clearer, but Bush’s statement is verbatim). Read it out loud for full enjoyment.
QUESTION: I don’t really understand. How is it the new plan is going to fix that problem?
THE PRESIDENT: Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There’s a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those — changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be — or closer delivered to what has been promised.
Does that make any sense to you? It’s kind of muddled. Look, there’s a series of things that cause the — like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate — the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those — if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.
I don’t know about you, but I’m confused.
Thanks Barn for the tip.
AT&T/SBC/whatever is running an a watermarked ad as wallpaper of this news site. It makes it impossible to read the stories and browse the page. Readers of the site are obviously miffed. Links via Morph.
The Blacksmith’s Meatloaf is famous thanks to an article on the AP wire (my guess is somebody down there knew a reporter who owed them a favor). I’ve never been to the place and have no motivation to after hearing from several people I know that it’s totally overrated.
That would be George W. Bush, referring to our Constitution, which is a pretty important piece of paper that his administration feels like burning. Thanks to Will for the link.
It’s probably a fake ad, there was a woman on a Craigslist posting (that’s since been removed) that was apparently looking to do just about anything to get an Xbox360. And while she didn’t mind selling herself to get a video game system, she apparently had some standards: “I’m looking for the PREMIUM system, not the ****ty watered down one.”
Now radio stations are selling the naming rights to their newsrooms. Thanks Barn for the link.