Wednesday, June 03, 2009
City Of Brotherly Love
11 year-old girl gets raped. Police release name of "person of interest." Neighbors proceed to beat him nearly to death.
There's no justification for vigilante justice like this, in large part because of the whole innocent until proven guilty thing, but at the very least I do hope the police fingered the right guy...
Someone could write a dissertation on the comments to that story.
There's no justification for vigilante justice like this, in large part because of the whole innocent until proven guilty thing, but at the very least I do hope the police fingered the right guy...
Someone could write a dissertation on the comments to that story.
Big Train
Senator Merkley mentioned this at the conference yesterday. Good that we have a functioning domestic streetcar producer.
Hopefully they can become big and powerful enough that they can successfullybribe lobby to build cars for nation's highest restoration priority, the #23 SUPERTROLLEY.
An Oregon company marked a major milestone Wednesday, with a $23 million order from the City of Tucson for seven streetcars. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.
Oregon Iron Works took a gamble that it could be the first U.S. company in 60 years to build a streetcar. That gamble now seems to be paying off.
Hopefully they can become big and powerful enough that they can successfully
That Time Already?
Monthly government jobs report comes out Friday, and the private ADP guess at that number came out today.
If the number comes in that low, which is still pretty damn high, I'll take it as a small positive sign.
Private sector jobs in the U.S. fell by 532,000 slots in May, according to a national employment report published Wednesday by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers.
The expected loss is less than the 550,000 drop forecast by economists in a Dow Jones Newswires survey.
If the number comes in that low, which is still pretty damn high, I'll take it as a small positive sign.
Condos, Cheap
Developers had crazy ideas about what people would be willing to pay for condos. You can still get a whole house for comparable prices.
Price break on luxury condos in striking glass tower in Center City. Best offers over $250,000 considered.
That's the strategy for moving 40 of the 178 units still unsold at the Murano at 21st and Market Streets, to be sold at auction for sums 50 percent below their original list price later this month.
Take the 1,405-square-foot, 23d-floor unit originally listed at $995,000. It could go for $485,000, less than what it would cost to build today, said Jon Gollinger, president of Accelerated Marketing Partners, of Boston, which is handling the sale for Murano's developer, Thomas Properties Group Inc.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Journamalism
Do any journalists care that Pat Buchanan basically gets to make stuff up? I mean, I know that they aren't all responsible for each other, but plenty of people appear with him on MSNBC giving him validation.
Opportunity Knocks
Mission accomplished.
Declaring that "California's day of reckoning is here," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today the state should turn its dire budget straits into an opportunity to make government more efficient.
Speaking to a rare mid-year joint session of the Legislature and other constitutional officers, Schwarzenegger acknowledged the billions of dollars in spending cuts he has proposed to close a $24.3 billion hole in the budget will be devastating to millions of Californians.
The Full Wingnut
This was my first thought when I heard about Pawlenty not running for re-election and probably running for president. My second thought was that our media, which has basically ignored Coleman's silly attempt to delay Franken being seated, will think that it's perfectly normal.
The Very Liberal MSNBC
Pat Buchanan demonstrated long ago that there's nothing he could say which would cause MSNBC to remove his cot from the green room.
Shorter Richard Cohen
Because some poor people from the Bronx projects have managed to succeed, it's ridiculous to be impressed by any of them.
Not even going to link to it. You can find it on Fred Hiatt's crayon scribble page.
Not even going to link to it. You can find it on Fred Hiatt's crayon scribble page.
FHLB
As I've written a few times, about a year and a half ago I met someone in the mortgage broker business. He said that all the action had just moved to the FHLBs. As the big financial players started getting spooked and stopped buying up mortgage-backed securities, the FHLBs stepped in...
Not over yet.
Not over yet.
Good Luck With That
The genius who runs our local newspapers, last seen trying to expand circulation by hiring John Yoo and Rick Santorum, is going to start charging for online access. I actually mean "good luck" in the sense that if he can make it work I'm all for it, but I bet all the people in online ad sales are ready to kill themselves.
As for this:
Uh, good luck with that. Next you can sue Craig Newmark for unfair competition or something.
As for this:
Tierney also said he plans to take on Google over the possibly getting money for Philadelphia Media Holdings content that resides on the popular search engine's site.
Uh, good luck with that. Next you can sue Craig Newmark for unfair competition or something.
Good Luck With That
The AP thinks you need to pay them for the privilege of talking or writing about what they report.
If you read the whole thing you can tell they're really just confused. They want more people to pay them money and they looking for rationalizations for it. Have fun RIAAing yourself out of existence...
"There are commercial websites, not even bloggers, necessarily," Bridis added, "that take some of our best AP stories, and rewrite them with a word or two here, and say 'the Associated Press has reported, the AP said, the AP said.' That's not fair. We pay our reporters. We set up the bureaus that are very expensive to run, and, you know, if they want to report what the AP is reporting they either need to buy the service or they need to staff their own bureaus."
Bridis did acknowledge the importance of fair use. "Because we do it too, necessarily," the AP news editor conceded. "If the New York Times has a story, we may take an element of it and attribute it to the Times and build a story around it."
If you read the whole thing you can tell they're really just confused. They want more people to pay them money and they looking for rationalizations for it. Have fun RIAAing yourself out of existence...
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