Artwork of the economic crisis

Posted on October 9th, 2008 by bile Tags: , , , , , , , 3 Comments »

From Politico (H/T LRC blog):

Also from LRC blog:

CNN choice of photo for their front page this morning is interesting

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by bile Tags: , , , , , , ,

Must not have had any other clear photos of her.

I commented to xyz last night that when they were saying the Pledge of Allegiance or maybe it was the national anthem that someone would have made the big LED panel display these:

H/T to xyz for the heads up on the pic.

Call for Serf City articles, photos, cartoons, ads

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by bile Tags: , , , ,

http://manhattanlp.org/

Now that petitioning season is over, it’s time once
again to get busy on another issue of Serf City. All
submissions must be libertarian in outlook, preferably
NYC/NYS-oriented, but we’ll accept articles on
national issues. The deadline is Sept. 8.

Please email any articles, photos or cartoons. And ads
– we especially need ads. Rates and ad dimensions can
be found at http://serfcity.us.
Thanks,

Jim

You can send submissions to me or Jim Lesczynski (editor of SerfCity)

Environmentalist photographer lies about lost tribe to gain attention

Posted on June 24th, 2008 by bile Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91536

Even in an age when cynical sleuths can hyper-analyze stories for truth and accuracy, the occasional hoax still slips through the cracks. Such was the case with a so-called “lost Amazon tribe.”

A few months ago, mainstream news outlets (including, ahem, Yahoo!) reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim.

As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain’t “lost.” In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910. The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group.

The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.

How totally not surprising that they will lie in order to drum up attention.

Ron Paul gets 16% in Pennsylvania Republican primary

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 6 Comments »

http://www.cnn.com/…

With 99% of the precincts reporting:

McCain: 73%

Paul: 16%

Huckabee: 11%

It’s unfortunate that Huckabee was still on the ballot as I bet at least half of those voters would have supported Paul. Pretty good turnout though given the continued media blackout. His highest turnout in a primary. They aren’t even showing the Republican results on CNN this morning in their automatic animation at the bottom of the screen. With a good 30ish% of the Republicans not voting for McCain and likely more than that not happy with him as the presumptive nominee… I wonder what November’s numbers are going to look like. Will they stay home expecting the Democrats to win anyway or will they rally to McCain in an attempt to stop the D’s from winning or if we are lucky will some of them jump over to a 3rd party?

Clinton beat Obama 55% to 45%. The arrogance of Clinton is really awesome. This morning on CNN I watched as Clinton bragged how badly she beat Obama. It was 10% damn percent lady! It’s hardly a landslide. You’ve got less delegates still and it’s going to be difficult to overcome Obama lead.

I just noticed that on Paul’s CNN page he’s listed as “2nd place in total delegates” yet on the main election 2008 page Huckabee is shown in second. Also noticed that if you look at all the default photos of the candidates on the Republican side the only one not of the candidate smiling is Ron Paul who looks out of it in his particular photo. On the Democrat side it’s Biden, Dodd and Gravel they give bad photos to.

NYPD: Squad car 4182 double parked

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, , , , , , , , , ,

On my way to midtown today:

NYPD squad car 4182 double parked while the cops grab something to eat. I ran out of space on the camera so I couldn’t get a good shot of the 5 or so officers standing on the sidewalk in front of the grease truck. How much does one want to bet they’d ticket anyone else who double parked like that?

You can find more agents of the government of NY breaking the law over at JimmyJustice’s YouTube page. He’s annoying but does good work.



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