Month: October 2012

You have to be a special kind of crazy to look back at the past four years and say, "damn, I want four more years of that!"

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) October 31, 2012

Wow, our esteemed Veep is a real piece of work, isn’t he?

I know he makes me feel good to be an American.

BuzzFeed isn’t normally my cup of tea, but this article caught my eye –

There was no shark in Brigantine and certainly no beached seal in Manhattan. The NYSE trading floor did not flood, and the 10 or more Con Edison workers trapped at a damaged plant turned out not to exist. These rumors were briefly and embarrassingly juxtaposed in users’ Twitter timelines with real and often devastating stories about lives and property that had been destroyed, people in need of help, and a city’s infrastructure buckling under the weight of a historic storm.

But more important, perhaps, we already know they’re false.

Twitter’s capacity to spread false information is more than cancelled out by its savage self-correction. In response to thousands of retweets of erroneous Weather Channel and CNN reports that the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded with “three feet” of water, Twitter users, some reporters and many not, were relentless: Photos of the outside of the building, flood-free, were posted. Knowledgeable parties weighed in.

Twitter may end up being the most accurate news source available- especially since the MSM has apparently totally abdicated any responsibility beyond being a left-wing cheerleader and meme-perpetrator. Just be sure to apply the 24- and sometimes 48- hour rule to anything that isn’t immediately verified (and cheer-leading “me too” responses don’t count)- pictures or video or it didn’t happen.

As always, though, YMMV.

I scoured these from Twitter’n’other places- all rights reserved to those who took them, natch.

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Looks like NY just had their very own Katrina.

And still don’t feel like posting on it. But there’s this –

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Weekly Standard:

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

(Emphasis mine)

Ace:

No one… in the CIA.

Hmm. Who would be in a position to order the stand-down, who’s not in the CIA?

Hmmmm…

It would have to be someone very high ranking in the chain of command, obviously.

Not military — I don’t think the military can order the CIA.

So, someone high ranking who is not military and also not in the CIA, but who gives orders to the CIA.

I give up. I can’t solve this mystery.

Can you?

Would be funny if not so sad- our people died because the Lightbringer froze. All you folks from 2008- are you proud now?