I awoke to yet another blustery day in the cold northeast and while purusing a variety of blogs, newspaper websites and other internet forums, i discovered what may be a completely disturbing pattern.

Apparently a newspaper in Ohio is losing subscribers faster than the Titanic took on water over their support for a judge who allowed a child-rapists to virtually walk. Most of the comments are centered on the fact that subscriber have cancelled their subscriptions due to the overly "liberal" stance of the paper. Indeed? Some of these subscribers are taking it to the next step and calling the newspapers advertisers.

Being America, it maybe safe to assume that if enough calls are placed to Sandy's Meat Market about their advertising in this paper, capitalism will prevail and Sandy's will look towards saving a few bucks and placing their advertising into other media.

Next we look at the stock of the venerable New York Times, again, sinking, sinking, sinking, lower into the depths of Wall Street. If anyone even reads the print version anymore, one will notice that the advertisers have changed somewhat over the past year. There are fewer new advertisers and some of the mainstays have reduced their ads and/or pulled them altogether. The Times still gets a hefty amount of advertising dollars from Code Pink, PETA and that ilk, but, the question remains: if only 19-20% (Battleground) of the country defines itself as Liberal, then who is reading the Times? It cannot be long before the venerable Times is down to printing once a week and looking more like the Village Voice with every issue. Is there a solution to save this industry? Apparently yes.

It's called Conservatisim!

Visit the Washington Post. They unveiled a new blog recently entitled: Red America. The writing is on the wall and someone is paying attention somewhere. Although every single media person can point to the fact that the President's poll numbers are sinking faster than the New York Times stock (it's a close call), they fail to mention that those same polls show a lack of confidence in the media that is dismal, congress fares a bit worse than the president and that includes both Republicans and Democrats. When it comes to social issues, give the DNC it's due, people tend to think they are more in tune with say healthcare, however, when it comes to protecting the old USA, the Republican party and the president continue to trump all the nay-sayers.

Here's a conspiracy theory for you: No one is challenging the far left, they make ludicrous statements that continue to receive front page; primetime coverage every minute of everyday. The hope that is that if enough people hear that Iraq is Vietnam from the venerable elder Senator from Massachusetts, and believe it - eventually the dreaded conservatives will fall in the polls and out of office.

What they are ignoring is the fact that the RNC, when called, merely chuckles at the suggestion that they run someone against the august Senator from Massachusetts.

That can't be good.

The Washington Post has caught on; now offering, although on the web, a different point of view in their product.

Will others do the same, or is the marignalization of the newspapers industry tied to the DNC?

Just How Bad is the State of These United States?

I grow rather weary of hearing what is wrong with the United States (Having a child in middle school, learning "social studies" via Newsweek), so, I thought, let's see what all the fuss is about and how we stack up against the rest of the planet. We are neither the best, not the worst statistically. However, it is apparent that we have a quality of life and a robust economy that encourages others to either love us or hate us. Of note: one list on which the US does not appear is a startling list of country's which engages in slavery. There are several forms of slavery; but most frequently children and women sold for sex. Facts and Figures courtesy of the US State Department, The CIA Factbook, The United Nations and Unicef. For anyone wishing to move to say, France, be my guest; although you might want to move to Iraq where the quality of life is a bit better. (statistically speaking)

The US ranks 4th in population - behind: China, India and the EU
The US ranks 1st in purchasing power parity followed by: EU, China, Japan and India
The US ranks 157th in Birth Rate
The US ranks 110th in Death Rate *Interesting note: Iraq ranks 181 (lower), while Germany Ranks: 56th. (Ranks based on deaths per 1000 of population)
US ranks 184th in Infant Mortality
US ranks 48th Life Expectancy at Birth (Japan ranks 6th)
US ranks 131 - Total Fertility Rate
US ranks 69th - HIV aids/adult rates
US ranks 10th - People Living with Aids
US ranks 34th - HIV Deaths

US ranks 4th - Labor Force
103rd Inflation Rate
US ranks 49th Unemployment Rates (France Ranks 101st)
US Ranks 36 - Public Debt
US ranks 3rd in Oil Production, ranking 1st & 2nd - Saudi Arabia & Russia
The US ranks 4th in exports
The US ranks 1st in imports

The US ranks 4th in telephones
The US ranks 3 in Cell Phones
The US ranks 2nd in Internet Users
*The EU is first
The US ranks 1st in Military Expenditures followed by: China, Japan, France, United Kingdom, Germany & Italy - Bermuda ranks 166th - the Sundan 67th (spending - 587,000,000) Cuba, 68th (572,000,000) - (France?!!)

Countrys by Tier - Human Trafficking, Includes Trafficking for sex slaves, children, and women as well as trafficking for slaves (work) 3 being the worse case.

Tier 3
Belize
Dominican Rep.
Kazakhstan
Suriname
Bosnia & Herzegovnia
Georgia
Liberia
Turkey
Burma
Greece
North Korea
Uzbekistan
Cuba
Haiti
Sudan


Tier 2 (Disapproving of, but not necessarily effecting change)
Albania Croatia Laos Saudi Arabia
Angola El Salvador Latvia Senegal
Armenia Equatorial Guinea Lebanon Serbia & Montenegro
Bahrain Estonia Malawi Sierra Leone
Bangladesh Ethiopia Malaysia Slovak Republic
Belarus Finland Mali Slovenia
Bolivia Gabon Mexico South Africa
Brazil The Gambia Moldova, Rep. Sri Lanka
Brunei Guatemala Mozambique Tajikistan
Bulgaria Honduras Nepal Tanzania
Burkina Faso Hungary Nicaragua Thailand
Burundi India Niger Togo
Cambodia Indonesia Nigeria Uganda
Cameroon Israel Pakistan Ukraine
Canada Jamaica Philippines Venezuela
China, Peoples Rep. of Japan Qatar Vietnam
Congo, Dem. Rep. of Kenya Romania Zambia
Costa Rica Kuwait Russia Zimbabwe
Cote dIvoire Kyrgyz Rep. Rwanda

Excuse me but...

On Friday, March 4, 2006, University of North Carolina college newspaper reported an incident involving an Iranian Graduate Student who rented an suv and ran down 10 pedestrians in the name of "Allah". Apparently, these were no ordinary pedestrians because they were students gathered off the main thoroughfare; not intended to be accessible by motorists.

Two points: The student interviewed about the incident was quibbling about whether or not the injured individuals were technically pedestrians and there was no mention of a terrorist attack on progressive (collegiate) soil....anywhere outside of University of North Carolina's newspaper website..and some conservative blogs who thought this incident might be of some import.

March 6th, Monday: the first national coverage is seen on cable news networks.

Two points: North Carolina Campus arguing that this was a "tragic" incident, not a terrorist incident and no one is mentioning the fact that a terrorist attack has taken place on United States soil; specifically the soil owned by a state college. (There are broader implications here)

Tuesday, March 7th: Still no local (Western Massachusetts) news regarding the terrorist attack in the name of "Allah" on a North Carolina Campus. Foxnews.com changes headlines to: UNC Grad Student in court on alledged hit and Run. There is no indication of an incident in North Carolina on either CNN.com and or in the New York Times.

What is the big deal about this Iranian graduate student running down his peers in the "Name of Allah"? Is this terrorism, or simply an unfortunate in incident?

First, the student, graduated from UNC last May. Secondly, the student rented a van to run down American's because "Muslim's are being poorly treated in America". All in the "name of Allah".

First, this means that former VP Al Gore's message to the Arab world that their fellows are being mistreated in the United States apparently has gotten through to the right people. As a reminder Mr. Gore made these statements in Saudi Arabia. There was little to no coverage of this on US news outlets, but plenty on Arabic television as well as Arabic newspapers. Mr. Gore is the new poster child for Al Queda.
Meanwhile the US newspapers and other media outlets were focused on a hunting incident involving VP Cheney.

An act of violence designed to make an ideological statement and to change policy is:
Terrorism

Secondly, this Iranian student did not attempt to kill American lawmakers, the President, the Vice President, a Senator a Congressman or a homemaker. He chose to run down students. Colleges are generally the most progressive institutions in our nation. Progressives and other liberals who despise the government that keeps this nation together (they prefer socialism), are, of course, playing down or totally ingorning this story.

France, 1936: Find a comparison to the attitude of the French prior to their alliance with a gentleman named Hitler and today's US Progressive movement.

Is this an isolated incident and will the next rental car, backpack, bicycle or modped be packed with enough explosives to insure a 72 virgin suicide? When will the US government grow a background and label seditious and treasonous speech just that?