The Stranger’s Dominic Holden catches the Seattle Times rewriting a federal prosecutor’s press release on a marijuana conviction. Oops.
Reporters rewrite press releases all the time—usually about restaurant openings or events without much widespread impact. But the war on drugs costs billions a year, kills innocent people in raids, and has resulted in increased drug use. News coverage of any other miserable war would get a some scrutiny after 30 years of empty-handed results. In the service of objectivity, reporters for daily newspapers make a moral virtue of getting “both sides of the story.” The war on pot deserves more than regurgitating government press releases and some scrutiny—at least a fraction the scrutiny our reporters give plastic bags.
And for this they want a tax break?
Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle In US
ww.wizbangblog.com ^ | Feb 7,2009 | Kim Priestap http://www.thefederalregister......04-E9-2488
Posted on Sunday, February 08, 2009 5:18:31 PM by NoLibZone
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order presidential determination allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States. Sure, what can go wrong when we allow hundreds of thousands of people who have been, as Mark Steyn memorably described, “marinated” in a “sick death cult,” who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombings live here and at the American taxpayers’ expense:
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The “presidential determination” which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
President Obama’s decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by “the urgent refugee and migration needs” of the “victims.”
Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Let’s review some of Barack Obama’s most recent actions since he was inaugurated a little more than two weeks ago:
* His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
* His first one-on-one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
* He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
* He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
* He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and
9/11.
* Today we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense.
Anyone else seeing a pattern here?
And here is the promised link: http://www.thefederalregister......04-E9-2488
It occurs to me that the Bush administration devoted far more resources to catching and prosecuting pot smokers than they did to catching and prosecuting Wall Street swindlers.
Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle In US
ww.wizbangblog.com ^ | Feb 7,2009 | Kim Priestap http://www.thefederalregister......04-E9-2488
Posted on Sunday, February 08, 2009 5:18:31 PM by NoLibZone
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order presidential determination allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States. Sure, what can go wrong when we allow hundreds of thousands of people who have been, as Mark Steyn memorably described, “marinated” in a “sick death cult,” who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombings live here and at the American taxpayers’ expense:
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The “presidential determination” which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
President Obama’s decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by “the urgent refugee and migration needs” of the “victims.”
Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Let’s review some of Barack Obama’s most recent actions since he was inaugurated a little more than two weeks ago:
* His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
* His first one-on-one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
* He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
* He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
* He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and
9/11.
* Today we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense.
Anyone else seeing a pattern here?
And here is the promised link: thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
I see a pattern of dissembling on your part. I also see substantial evidence of paranoia. If you think we will be receiving hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, then I’ve got a referral for you for investing, a guy named Bernie Madoff. How do people like you function at all?
@1 If the Bush administration had put as much effort into busting bin Laden as they did pot smokers, he’d have been caught in Tora Bora seven years ago.
I’m hoping Gregoire and the Washington State Democrat Legislators all get arrested for being OPiuM addicts.
Clearly they are addicted to
Other
People’s
Money
Wanna bet the writer is a Democrat? :-)
Roger – can you EVER stay on subject? This has nothing to do with the now defunct Bush administration. Or you will find a way to twist every news story into a rant on Bush I suppose…
The subject of this and every HA thread is, “Republicans Suck”. It’s in the rule book.
You can see now that Roger is always on topic.
Steve – that’s a very small minded approach to life.
proud leftist@3 Sorry dude, you had your chance to answer a question and you passed.
Bernie Madoff is one of your side. Looks like Allen Stanford is another of your side.
Ummmmm uhhhhh good!
Regarding the Palestinians, how do we know any of them are not terraists? Are you checking them?
OBAMA and DEMOCRATIC PARTY are DEADBEATS!!
From today’s Chicago Sun:
February 20, 2009
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com
Government workers are about to be laid off because of the Democrat deadbeats.
shame, shame, SHAME!!
Puddy
Madoff is not of my “side.” He is a swindler. Both parties have them. As usual, you missed my point entirely.
Cynical
You seem to spend your entire existence looking for arguable faults of anyone who might be a Democrat or at least lean in that direction. Get a life, get a freaking life.
Back to the subject of the Seattle Times:
Seattle P.I. cartoonist David Horsey reports from the National Press Foundation’s award dinner. Obviously, he’s a bit depressed as he sees the impending demise of not only his own employer, but also his industry as a whole:
Source: No Bailout for the Truth Tellers
He decries the loss of investigative reporting which he feels will accompany the demise of the urban daily newspapers. In theory, he is correct, but I think a significant part of today’s newspaper’s demise is that when it was most important, from 2001 through 2005, they were asleep at the wheel when important national issues were at stake.
It took the Katrina disaster for the mainstream media to have the courage to actually begin confronting the Bush administration, and to point out the wide discrepency between what the Bush administration said, and the actual facts. When Bush stood up in a press conference and tried to justify days of inaction by claiming that they had “just learned” of conditions which were painfully obvious to tens of millions of television viewers who had been following the disaster and the 24/7 news coverage, the veil was lifted.
If the media had done that much earlier – in 2003 and 2004, for example – we might have been spared many of the problems we now currently face. Instead, the media was largly cowed by the Bush administration’s bullying and threats to brand anyone who didn’t parrot the administration’s press releases as “unpatriotic”. And that would have meant that the public wouldn’t have learned to rely upon Goldy’s blog, among others, to actually report some important facts – such as the fact that the head of FEMA was totally unqualified for his post.
@12 “Cynical
You seem to spend your entire existence looking for arguable faults of anyone who might be a Democrat”
Oh, he balances that out by completely ignoring his and his own party’s faults. His is a classic case of someone who acts like his own shit doesn’t stink. He’s become both tiresome and boring. Perhaps he should go back to focusing his lunatic ravings on calling us all Godless heathens or telling us how Republicans are real Christians and Democrats aren’t. I find that still entertaining.
14
I suppose I should feel sorry for someone who sees the world through such a partisan lens. I don’t, though. Though his divorce from reality is pretty tough punishment, he doesn’t get it, so I won’t cry for him.
@15 I imagine that the only person to weep for Marvin is his mother.
@#2
aside from being wildly off-topic (not unusual here, I know) it is complete bullshit!
There is nothing in the Obama order that provides for anyone settling in the US, let alone hundreds of thousands of palestinians.
Total. Bull. Shit.
Proud Leftist, if you made a point all would have found it…
Which explains why steve is so bitter.
@19 Yes, I am oh so bitter as I laugh at your continued stupidity, you ignorant twit.
I don’t know you personally, that is how you come across on this blog.
If it’s just an act, no need to be concerned.
Another rich white man is going to profit off the generational theft act, also known as the stimulus bill.
Obama Stimulus Saves Microsoft Billionaire Hundreds Of Millions
Billionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers.
And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he’s also about to be as much as a billion dollars richer.
Change and hope?
You can hope for change.
Change – not this time either.
I knew all we had to do to solve global warming was put a democrat in office.
Every week there is new news about computer models not being accurate, bad data and a whole host of other problems popping up.
Now we have a bad sensor problem.
A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
Another few months and global warming will just be another fad, much like pet rocks or the hulahoop.
In 2012 when a republican is in the white house, no doubt global warming will once again become a problem.
Change.
With a democrat in office, CHANGE.
This time you can believe the pentagon is telling the truth.
A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concludes that the prison complies with the humanitarian requirements of the Geneva conventions
…
was widely seen as an effort by the new administration to defuse the power of allegations during the Bush administration that there were widespread abuses at Guantánamo, and that many detainees were suffering severe psychological effects after years of isolation.
Change.
Change the way you believe the same people you didn’t believe before obama took office.
@3
“I see a pattern of dissembling on your part. I also see substantial evidence of paranoia.”
I don’t blame you for not beliving the Federal Regeister. Anything that Obama has his fingers in needs to be futher investigated.
I don’t like getting into childish slams bucko.
did you goto the link? Only one other HA joins your spew that reflects the truth.
Do some reading before attacking.
Marvin–
Steve is a bitter dude.
All he could rant & rave about for months is goat fornication.
He never posts anything of value to promote discuss.
Just anti-Right lunatic ranting and raving.
And BTW, I’m not a Republican…I’m a Conservative. Like President, errr I mean Governor Jingal of Louisiana.
@26 Yeah, like I could give a shit what an lying, America-hating, self-loathing perv like yourself thinks about me.
steve–
Why do you have to be so mean?
That is the persona he has created for himself. Like I said earlier, I don’t know steve personally so I don’t know for a fact if he’s bitter or just trolling.
His strength. Reading his posts about other subjects don’t show the same depth of knowledge.
Maybe he believes his lunatic ranting and raving is of value.
@29: I understand Steve’s frustration with the low IQ of the right wingnuts that come on here. At first I was tolerant and tried to engage in a two way conversation, but now I have seen that these people (cynical, Stamn) are really just brick throwers. They jump on anything wrong about democrats – yet refuse to acknowlege their hypocrisy and the corruption-laden republican party.
They go ballistic over the stimulus package but can’t point out any pork, there are no earmarks and they ignore the over 1 trillion wasted in Iraq or the banking bailout written and promoted by Bush/Paulson.
I just get tired of the right wing hypocrites – you post all the time but have so little to actually say. All that talk radio had gone to your head. Anything liberal MUST be bad. The economy was “sound” – until Obama took over. What a bunch lying, hypocritical fools.
CNR – It’s a good sign: Stupes, Stamn and Cyn have been driven totally insane by the failure of their ideology.
The walls of reality are just crushing in on them day by day.
Hypocrisy???
Mama’sBoy (aka lee, thehim) talking about why this blog doesn’t acknowledge the failures, screwups, crimes, etc. of democrats.
Because this is a partisan blog that takes on Republicans. He would be disgusted by the Democrat and what he did, but he wouldn’t write about it here.
Since the democrats here refuse to acknowlege their hypocrisy and the corruption-laden democrat party why can’t we.
Isn’t that fair? You are in favor of things being fair aren’t you.
@28 Cynical wails: “Steve- Why do you have to be so mean?”
Because it’s fun, you stupid twit.
Anybody else here notice that, if you shorted any stock that Cynical buys, that you can make a ton of money while Cynical loses his ass?
JRCC? From $72 to $4. BOOM? From $40 to $10. WFC? From $25 to $10.
Want to make easy money in the market? Just do the opposite of Cynical.
Marvin, It’s good to see you reinforce what Puddy placed on this blog about Paul Allen. BTW Paul loves the Democratic…
Considering paul is going to become 1 billion $ richer under obama, I thought that pointing out his support of the democratics would have been too redundant.
Thanks for pointing out my oversight. I forget that the drinkers of steve’s stupid solution are ignorant of facts that don’t appear in the daily cussing points on dailypus.