Slog - Comments on The Morning News

Comment by tsm

tsm — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:56:54 -0800

The birds have been confirmed with the H7 strain of the disease, rather than highly virulent H5N1 strain, regarded as a potential threat to human health.

Sorry ECB! No getting to say "I told you so" yet.

Comment by Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:27:52 -0800

Don't forget Peter Weller also played the William Burroughs character in Naked Lunch.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:30:11 -0800

I can't figure out why that NYT blogger thinks he knows red light cameras are bad. He cites a litany of studies that are all over them map: fewer deaths, fewer accidents, more accidents, no change in deaths or accidents, more rear end collisions, and they're so effective they no longer pay for themselves. Who knows which one is right? The real question is why is the methodology so flawed that nobody can agree on whether they work or not?

Comment by PC

PC — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:40:27 -0800

Hey Stranger:

how about a bunch of links to foreign media on Obama? Kenya, UK, SA, Japan etc.?

Pakistan? ISrael? Saudi A.?

We can't include but one link.

Comment by cochise.

cochise. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:56:40 -0800

everything is a conspiracy to you isn't it.

Comment by Sad Comment

Sad Comment — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:00:36 -0800

I just remember a few years ago when a firm contracted by California to run their red light camera program was caught manipulating the traffic lights timing to increase citations. They shortened the timing for the yellow lights to a little more than a blink so that the lights would turn to red with very little warning. The way that it was set up the contractor collected the fines and gave California a small cut. If you tried to refute a ticket it was forwarded to the contractors corporate office where you were immediately denied and they had the muscle of state law enforcement to make you pay up.

Comment by THE SUN IS POWER

THE SUN IS POWER — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:37:43 -0800

Initial results from this experiment are due out in 2010.

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2006/PR14.06E.html

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:05 -0800

#5, everyone knows Obama is just a sleazy Chicago politician who will lie about anything for power and will send his thugs to disenfranchise poor little old ladies. Just read noquarterusa.net, they'll give you all the "facts".

Comment by pox

pox — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:08:37 -0800

Buckaroo Banzai knows what he's talking about.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:23:00 -0800

Hey unPC: You can put all the links you want on your white supremacist blog. Why not put them there?

Sad Comment, you posted without reading.

Comment by Heather

Heather — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:10:36 -0800

The California Supremes just turned down an attempt to delay same sex marriage until November. This will help the cause of equality as same sex unions become a fact of life for 5 months leading to the November election.

Comment by Sad Comment

Sad Comment — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:56:55 -0800

@10

Oops! that is what I get for being too fast on the post. Next time I'll read first, post second and no the other way around.

It had popped in my head because at the time of the CA problem I was living in NC and they were considering hiring the same company to run a similar program there.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:28:48 -0800

Though Luchina Fischer's claim that Angela Jolie's portrayal of a real-life black woman being wrong is apt, her opening objection of Mina Suvari's portrayal a fictional character based on what happened to a real-life is false. True the story is similar to what happened when a black woman ran over a homeless man and left him to die in her windshield, a similar storyline occurred in Stephen King's Creepshow II. I think that if Hallie Berry played the character, people would claim that all black women are bad drivers and would flee from the scene of a hit and run.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:15:35 -0800

@12

S'cool.