tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51673302009-02-21T05:09:55.951-08:00Red MeatA Web Log written by Ed Moltzen, focusing on events of the day, news and (some) opinion. My email: edmoltzen-at-edmoltzen.com.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comBlogger373125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003674612003-05-31T07:15:00.000-07:002003-05-31T07:15:27.490-07:00
O.K. Folks. I'm moving to a new site. I may maintain this for a few days, but I'm putting stuff into boxes and notifying the post office.
The new site is Late Final.
Hope to see you over there.
Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003579612003-05-29T09:59:00.000-07:002003-05-29T09:59:51.700-07:00
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean just sent out an email saying, among other things, "With the President's proposed budget and the $350 billion tax cut package he signed yesterday, it has become clear what this President is attempting to do, and why we must repeal the entire package of cuts: both those signed today and those passed in 2001."
Bob Herbert in The Times takes his shotsEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003565982003-05-29T05:15:00.000-07:002003-05-29T05:15:45.976-07:00
So all those hours I spent in front of the T.V. playing "Pong" as a child weren't a waste, after all.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003563312003-05-29T02:54:00.000-07:002003-05-29T02:54:26.926-07:00
A note with no links because I heard this last night, and I found it bothersome.
Listening to the radio broadcast of the game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, Yankee Centerfielder Hideki Matsui took his turn at bat. After he hit, the radio announcers paused and did a commercial for Benihana restaurant. Matsui is Japanese. Benihana is a Japanese restaurant. Now, it's apparent thatEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003563132003-05-29T02:44:00.000-07:002003-05-29T02:44:50.406-07:00
Potentially good news in the fight against diseases afflicting minature poodles, as Meryl Yourish explains.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003562792003-05-29T02:25:00.000-07:002003-05-29T02:26:39.000-07:00Andrew Sullivan provides the color commentary on the present flair-up at The New York Times, the resignation of Rick Bragg and fury of other reporters who say they shouldn't be painted with the same brush as he or Jayson Blair. Sullivan notes this quote from Times reporter Tim Egan: "What will come of this infighting, cannibalism, and soul-searching? Hopefully, we'll go back to valuing what we Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003562622003-05-29T02:15:00.000-07:002003-05-29T02:15:10.990-07:00
This Date in Nixon, 1972 - Detente formally begins, with the Nixon and Brezhnev signing the "Basic Principals of Relations Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." The Cold War would last another 17 years.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003516692003-05-28T02:59:00.000-07:002003-05-28T02:59:11.486-07:00
The good guys have captured two more members of the Deck of Cards:
MACDILL AFB, FL – Sayf al-Din al-Mashhadani (#46), Ba’ath Party Regional Chairman for al-Muthanna and Sad Abd al-Majid al-Faysal (#55), Ba’ath Party Regional Chairman for Salah al-Din were captured by Coalition Forces on Saturday.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003516382003-05-28T02:39:00.000-07:002003-05-28T02:39:39.246-07:00
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003516332003-05-28T02:38:00.000-07:002003-05-28T02:38:27.000-07:00Police have finally caught the man they suspect is the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, according to reports. Derrick Todd Lee is 34, and they arrested him in Atlanta. Good.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003436792003-05-27T02:47:00.000-07:002003-05-27T02:47:51.916-07:00
Mickey Kaus continues pounding home some of the real issues behind the various New York Times controversies.
People at The Times seem to forget that the reason you have named bylines and named sources is to provide accountability. Without them, you could have unnamed reporters quoting unnamed sources about important issues. Rick Bragg is in trouble for using unnamed stringers. Jayson Blair got Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003419702003-05-26T12:30:00.000-07:002003-05-26T12:31:58.000-07:00The Baton Rouge Serial Killer task force has a suspect in the case, and they've put out an APB. They've also cautioned that he's dangerous. Derrick Todd Lee, 34, is wanted in connection with the murder of Carrie Lynn Yoder, the fifth and most recent of the women linked by DNA to the same killer.
UPDATE: Seems that DNA taken from Lee on May 5 matches DNA taken in connection with the Yoder case, Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003409352003-05-26T06:02:00.000-07:002003-05-26T06:02:34.063-07:00
This date in Nixon, 1969: "He will be the youngest member of the Cabinet, but one very experienced in all the responsibilities he will have." -- RN, commenting on the swearing in of Donald Rumsfeld as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003408922003-05-26T05:38:00.000-07:002003-05-26T05:38:08.643-07:00
Rich people love good scandal. I mean, really love it. If you don't believe me, read David Patrick Columbia's account of the Rudy Giuliani-Judith Nathan wedding at Gracie Mansion.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003406652003-05-26T03:06:00.000-07:002003-05-26T03:06:55.573-07:00
Some members of the Ku Klux Klan go on to be elected United States Senator. Others don't go that far.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003391142003-05-25T11:51:00.000-07:002003-05-25T11:51:27.700-07:00
President Bush has a 66 percent approval rating across the country, according to the latest Gallup numbers. While his ratings have declined slightly since the Iraq war has ended, they're still higher than before the war.
Ironically, Bush's recent approval ratings reached their highest point when the anti-Bush and anti-war rhetoric also reached their highest point. (The rhetoric has cooled down Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003385012003-05-25T06:12:00.000-07:002003-05-25T06:12:50.050-07:00
This date in Nixon, 1973 - Nixon presides over the swearing-in of Attorney General Elliot Richardson, saying he expected Richardson to be one of the finest attorney generals. Five months later, Nixon fires Richardson for refusing to sack Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003383082003-05-25T03:57:00.000-07:002003-05-25T03:57:40.023-07:00
Coalition soldiers have taken $500 million worth (or thereabouts) of gold bars off a couple of guys in a Mercedes in Iraq. More evidence of what a smashing success the U.N. oil-for-food program was.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003362102003-05-24T07:32:00.000-07:002003-05-24T07:32:12.190-07:00
Richard Johnson in the New York Post has this item (which I found via Drudge) on more problems at The Times. In any event, a public portrait is being painted of very important things being treated in a very cavalier way at a very important newspaper. Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003361992003-05-24T07:24:00.000-07:002003-05-24T07:24:57.496-07:00
It's bad enough having to flip the dial past those annoying Matthew Lesko commercials on cable. Now I'm getting his spam three or four times a month. Enough already. If I want money from the government, I'll file a mental health disability claim.
Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003361882003-05-24T07:18:00.000-07:002003-05-24T07:18:58.146-07:00
Another New York Times' "Editor's Note" of interest in today's edition. Basically, the paper reported a U.S. reconstruction official in Iraq was leaving his post, but its reporters never bothered to call, or try to call, the official. The reconstruction offical says he's staying on for his full, 90-day term, which is under contract.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003358252003-05-24T04:36:00.000-07:002003-05-24T04:48:16.000-07:00We introduce a new feature at Red Meat, "This Date In Nixon."
On this date in Nixon, 1972: In a message read by Under Secretary of State John Irwin to the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the 25th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, Nixon said:
Now, on this anniversary, we face a new world and new tasks. With restored strength in Europe and Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003357982003-05-24T04:20:00.000-07:002003-05-24T04:20:51.773-07:00
Police in the Baton Rouge Serial Killer case released a sketch yesteday of a new "person of interest" in their investigation. The New Orleans Times Picayune says it could be "a break" in the case.
Some cautionary notes: Police sketches in high-profile cases are notoriously off on many occasions. (Son of Sam, The Oklahoma City bombing case, to name two.) Also, this latest "person of interest" Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003313692003-05-23T03:08:00.000-07:002003-05-23T03:09:56.000-07:00A curious correction in today's New York Times. (The one with the Apalachicola dateline)
The reporter involved was named about two weeks ago in a Drudge item that was live on Drudgereport.com for about 15 minute and taken down right away. This doesn't seem like any issue that needs to be put on a corrections page, but is probably being done so the reporter can continue working with a clean bill Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167330.post-2003313172003-05-23T02:39:00.000-07:002003-05-23T02:39:59.736-07:00
When Jerry Brown ran for president in 1992, he refused to take PAC or corporate contributions, and he also refused to take any contributions of more than $100. And he did this before the World Wide Web made grass roots contributing online possible. Still, Brown beat out many other well-financed Democratic candidates that year in the primaries, and, out of a field of about 8 candidates, finished Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942875872623319476noreply@blogger.com