NewsQuips? Yes it’s been a long time since I’ve done NewsQuips, also sometimes known as “the speed round”, or by some as “what the heck kind of blogging is that?”. But there are many headlines that need to be quipped today. The deal behind NewsQuips is that I add to them through the day, sometimes (and you can send ‘em in yourself for extra credit!), so you have to come back and see if I added any. That greatly increases my site’s vast profits since you’re more likely to buy a PTBC flag pin the more you come back.
1. “Colin Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda…”
Well that’s odd. The coincidence, I mean. Obama’s numbers were up, Powell sidled-up with Obama. Obama’s numbers down, Powell dumps on him. Weird!
2. “iPhones die in hot cars: Apple blames heatwave for handset breakdowns”
Uh-oh. More failures getting set to blame the “man-made global warming”? Everything else is. Well that and Bush. I’m only amazed Obama’s worsening recession and deficit and debt and unemployment hasn’t been blamed on the “man-made global warming”.
3. “Ignatieff says personal attacks divide Canadians”
And as soon as we all stop laughing at his blatant hypocrisy, maybe he and his Party Of Unity minions will stop bashing the crap out of anybody who isn’t a Liberal-Leftist, or one of the many parties who would join his group of “progressives” to defeat the evil Conservatives once and for all. And maybe Ignatieff will at that point stop being such a thin-skinned and petulant little man of partisan politics, and a whiner. The ninny.
4. “S.C. first lady calls husband’s actions ‘inexcusable’”
Well that’s odd. The media (in the case the CTV News web site’s “POLITICS” section) never reported on the practically legendary and very partisan attack dog, Democratic Party Congressman John Conyers, current chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, whose wife just pleaded guilty to criminal fraud, and will be sentenced to time in jail in the coming days. And she’s a Detroit city council woman. Or she was until she had to quit to go to jail. Maybe it’s excusable on the basis that she’s not a Republican.
5. Next article at CTV: “Columnists give Palin dubious ‘Sitting Duck Award’”
Well that’s odd. Citizens give the liberal media and its liberal-leftist columnists the “Idiotic, Drunken Hunter Award”.
6. “Canada in last place on WWF’s G8 climate scorecard”
They say it like it’s a bad thing.
7. “Obama’s internet monitoring plan moves forward”
Let’s play “Imagine if it were George Bush proposing this!” This obviously isn’t President Bush’s plan, otherwise you’d be going deaf listening to the shrieking liberals and further leftists screaming like hyenas high on crack.
Instead, this (click at left) is precisely what we hear from liberals and their media.
8. We’re not like them! Nope!: State-owned CBC reports on a Chinese “government company”, like this: “Chinese government company spends $1.74B on Teck stock”.
How come they don’t report on themselves that way? Like “Canadian government company (us, the CBC), spends $1.3B mostly consisting of taxpayer cash, on crap, every year.” Or when they bought a 40% stake in Sirius Satellite Radio Canada (an otherwise citizen-owned, private enterprise satellite radio service company which competes against other private Canadian citizen-owned companies, just like the CBC does): “Canadian government company spends $1.74B on Sirius stock”.
9. Fox News Channel reports that Sarah Palin is to address the media in 30 minutes (that’d be 12 noon PDT). Watch for the drunken duck hunters (see #5 above) to shoot wildly, no matter what she says. (My guess: she’s going to tell us she’s not re-running for Gov. of Alaska.)
UPDATE: Apparently not just not running, but also stepping down right now? See separate blog entry
10. “More Canadians in arrears on credit payments”
And not just in rears. More Canadians are also sucking on the big nanny-state government teats. Watch for a government “program”, possibly dubbed “stimulus”.
11. “Vancouver mayor considering pedestrian and cyclist bridge”
I think he’s also considering pulling his head out of his butt.
Note that nowhere does it remind readers, as the Globe and all media certainly would if he were a conservative, that the mayor is politically very far leftist, or as the media would put it if they had to, “left-leaning”, or “regarded as highly intelligent”.
Also see: “DBRS Downgrades City of Vancouver to AA, Negative Trend”, which reads in part:
DBRS has today downgraded the Long-Term Debt rating of the City of Vancouver (the City or Vancouver) to AA from AA (high). The trend is now Negative. The rating action is the result of the recent announcement by the City that it has started drawing on a credit facility recently set up to address the financial problems of the Vancouver Olympic Village (the Village), which is expected to boost debt substantially, along with significant uncertainty regarding the financial outcome of the project.
… More coming as I find ‘em, if I find ‘em.
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