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Mass Media is Dead
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Randall Stephenson, the chairman and CEO of AT&T made an appearance with current Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes to promote the merger of AT&T and Time Warner.
Stephenson pledged an “independent” CNN, one of Time Warner’s properties, should the merger proceed.…
And we can believe them, because, there's no need to fiddle with the Communist/Clinton News Network anyway.
10:04am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
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1960s - less with us
Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. He was 76.… “Chicago 7” .…married actress Jane Fonda .… lost campaigns for U.S. Senate, governor of California and mayor of Los Angeles.… served a total of 18 years in the Assembly and state Senate…
History Marches On
Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, October 23, 2016.…
(No, it isn't.)
…On this day last year the big news was almost $5B had been allocated, almost all of it to heavy Democrat States, for setting up Obamacare programs and yet there was no record of how those funds were spent and only a small amount returned. …
Vic's history lesson for the day, or yesterday, or something.
12:18pm CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
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Free Expression
WikiLeaks Director Gavin MacFadyen, the 76-year-old Wikileaks diirector and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism has died.… passed away from “a short illness.” The line about the “short illness” was removed and no further word has been given on his exact cause of death. However, postings indicate he may have been ill in the days leading up to his death.…
Hmm
10:35am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
Breitbart is Here
Tom Hayden … A Legacy of Treason…
A Rolling Stone Says No Mas…
Even On Skid Row, Where There's Life There's Hope…
Select news headline links
12:16pm CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
New Climate-Friendlier Coolant Has a Catch: It’s Flammable…
Bill Gate eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day…
Young couples are holding 'vasectomy parties' to celebrate the start of a childless family, and ask guests to name their CAR instead…
News headline links, with snark
10:28am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
French police are preparing to dismantle the notorious “Jungle” migrant camp near Calais. In anticipation of their eviction, the residents of the shantytown have started rioting and burning things.
In other migration news, the Italian coast guard has rescued 2,400 migrants in a single day. It also pulled fourteen bodies from the ocean.…
News summaries with links
10:20am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
French Police: We Can Not Even Protect Ourselves…
UK : Pedophile Migrants Target Little Girls In New Muslim Grooming Scandal…
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech…
News summaries and links from the weekend
10:00am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW
US Election 2016
Back in the summer Donald Trump pointed out that Hillary Clinton wants her supporters to declare “I’m with Her.”
But he doesn’t want us to be with him. Instead, Donald Trump made it clear that he is with us, the American people.
That’s not just semantics. It is a significant distinction between the two candidates.…
10:32am CDT Mon 2016 Oct 24 :MW