And why don’t major newspapers have a Labor section to balance their Business sections? Just wondering. From the fawning tone of this article, it sounds like the Tribune is strongly in favor of moving high paying white collar jobs overseas. To be fair, this trend seems to have created at least 2 jobs in this [...]
Archive for December, 2003
Get Up with MorningWood!
December 30, 2003
Today on MorningWood, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am every Tuesday! It’s The Best of MorningWood! This is the last show of the year, so I’m gonna play a bunch of crap you’ve probably already heard like 2 or 3 times and call it a “best [...]
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
December 29, 2003
Don’t help the terrorists. Keep your Zodiac secrets secret! FBI Links Almanacs With Terror Planning The FBI (search) is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs (search), cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. …… It urged officers to watch [...]
Tis the season: HARTline to raise fares, cut routes.
December 29, 2003
Continuing a holiday tradition, HARTline plans to raise $150,000 on the backs of Hillsborough County’s poorest citizens while cutting routes they depend on to work and shop. Why does this refrain seem so familiar? The poor could always walk, but there are few navigable sidewalks around here, traditionally one of most dangerous places in the [...]
Stay scared. You’re easier to control that way. French justice and law enforcement officials on Thursday said they found little evidence that terrorists were planning to use U.S.-bound aircraft to launch attacks against American targets over Christmas, despite warnings from the U.S. government that prompted the cancellation of six flights.
Civitas’ Christmas con?
December 24, 2003
Civitas is hoping that no one is paying attention, being that this is the busiest time of the year for many folks. If Ed Turanchik has his way, we will all groggily wake up in February with fuzzy recollections of tipsy holiday land swapping all but forgotten. The Tampa Housing Authority is postponing a decision [...]
Today on MorningWood
December 23, 2003
Today on MorningWood, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am every Tuesday! Today’s MorningWood highlights: The Pledge continues, and is now considered “labor friendly”! I, Norwood, do hereby pledge to play absolutely no holiday songs on MorningWood during this holiday season. These days. we are inundated with [...]
Saddam capture: made for TV, “based” on reality.
December 22, 2003
Remember Jessica Lynch? Breathless reports of a daring rescue, led by brave American troops, and documented by video clips supplied by the Pentagon? Later, it turned out that much of the story of Jessica’s capture was pure propagandistic fantasy. Well, here we go again: Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had [...]
Tort reform scam
December 22, 2003
Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature pushed Medical tort reform on Florida this summer. It’s heating up as a national issue, as W attempts to scare and bribe doctors into signing up, all in the name of “fixing” malpractice rates. Wampum has an excellent post up on the dishonest tactics employed by backers of “med [...]
Keeping the niggers down
December 22, 2003
Jeb Bush has been fighting civil rights groups who are attempting to overturn an archaic racist law that bans felons in Florida who have paid their debt to society from voting. A federal appeals court Friday ordered a trial in a lawsuit that claims Florida’s law barring felons from voting is unconstitutional because it discriminates [...]