Neal Fox's "On the Backs of the Few" Video

Neal Fox just made a video for his song "On the backs of the Few."



It's on his recent album Songs for the New Revolution, along with the beautiful "We're All Gonna Be There (When She Dies)" and the catchy call-to-arms "F$%^ the Fed."

"We're All Gonna Be There" just won honorable mention at the Doing Dylan songwriting contest.

Go on, buy the record. It's a bargain at $10.50 for a CD or $4.50 for a digital download.

Greg Mitchell's Editor & Publisher bites the dust

Yesterday brought the news of the death of Editor & Publisher, a 100-year-old news industry journal.

Where have we heard about E&P recently? Oh yeah, when its editor Greg Mitchell wrote an arrogant and oblivious defense of John Edwards' marital fidelity and trashing of the National Enquirer's reporting, then disappeared his embarrassing column down the memory hole.

The National Enquirer had the story nailed, and survives today. The arrogant Mitchell's E&P doesn't. Maybe if Editor and Publisher had practiced real journalism like the National Enquirer does, it would still be around.

Good riddance.

UPDATE: Ed Driscoll has found what appears to be the full text of Mitchell's Edwards post, copied contemporaneously into a comment on Godlike Productions. It lines up with this contemporaneous partial post on Yahoo Buzz.

In a shocking update, The National Enquirer is reporting today that not only do John Edwards and Rielle Hunter have a "love child," their secret baby has two heads and may have been produced when the couple was kidnapped by aliens last year and taken to a UFO in the backwoods of North Carolina.

The tabloid says it has obtained proof, in the form of pictures of the baby, who reportedly has unusually large googly eyes. But the paper has not yet released the pictures. It promises "updates."

Edwards and Hunter have not denied the story, lending credence to the report. The fact that the bombshell emerged with the release of the new X-Files movie also adds to its credibility, some claim.

Charges from conservatives and blogosphere that the press has a double standard in not reporting on the "love child" are sure to now grow. Some have already pointed to the massive coverage of Sen. Larry Craig's scandal last year -- and he doesn't even have any children with an alien pedigree (although it has been said that Craig himself often let his own "second head" lead him astray).

The Los Angeles Times has ordered its bloggers to ignore the bombshell, proving the media conspiracy. Slate has covered it but says it stands ready to apologize if it doesn't pan out.

The alien visitation was allegedly arranged by a mutual friend of Edwards, Hunter and the visitors.

Edwards' aides are reportedly "spitting mad and furious" about the revelation. It is certain to doom his chance for the vice-presidential nod on an Obama ticket.

Yes, the National Enquirer has a history as a trashy tabloid. It's a shame that Greg Mitchell and the rest of the groupthinkers in the "respectable" press have abandoned the practice of journalism and left it to the likes of the National Enquirer and bloggers.

Blog comments

Comments all got blown away- haloscan is shutting down. I have the old comments archived and if there's an easy way to reattach them to the correct posts, I'll do it. For now, we're starting fresh using blogger comments.

I, for one, welcome our new government employee overlords

This is what the struggling middle-class taxpayers are supporting amidst the worst recession since the Great Depression:

Federal Pay Explodes

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector. [...]

The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.

And that's before benefits, which include massive pensions and top-of-the-line cradle-to-grave heath care, which most private sector workers don't get.

HT: T-Dub

Chinese Market Punishment

In the United States if you are part of a scheme to steal billions of dollars from the government and the taxpayers you are rewarded with hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts and you get to keep your job and bonus.

In China you steal as little as $13.8 million and you get a bullet to the head.

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A former senior trader at a Chinese securities company was executed yesterday for embezzlement and misappropriating 94.5 million yuan ($13.8 million), the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing court documents.

Can you imagine if you applied Chinese financial fraud law to the USA? It would be a holocaust and we'd have a population crisis!

Breaking Tiger News

Tiger responsible for the AIDS epidemic!

No, seriously.

Rolling Stone Magazine - Obama's Big Sellout Matt Taibbi

This is a must read:

...What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.

How could Obama let this happen? Is he just a rookie in the political big leagues, hoodwinked by Beltway old-timers? Or is the vacillating, ineffectual servant of banking interests we've been seeing on TV this fall who Obama really is?

Whatever the president's real motives are, the extensive series of loophole-rich financial "reforms" that the Democrats are currently pushing may ultimately do more harm than good. In fact, some parts of the new reforms border on insanity, threatening to vastly amplify Wall Street's political power by institutionalizing the taxpayer's role as a welfare provider for the financial-services industry. At one point in the debate, Obama's top economic advisers demanded the power to award future bailouts without even going to Congress for approval — and without providing taxpayers a single dime in equity on the deals.

How did we get here? It started just moments after the election — and almost nobody noticed.

That's just the introduction. On Citibank's theft of taxpayer dollars:

It is bad enough that one of Bob Rubin's former protégés from the Clinton years, the New York Fed chief Geithner, is intimately involved in the negotiations, which unsurprisingly leave the Federal Reserve massively exposed to future Citi losses. But the real stunner comes only hours after the bailout deal is struck, when the Obama transition team makes a cheerful announcement: Timothy Geithner is going to be Barack Obama's Treasury secretary!

Geithner, in other words, is hired to head the U.S. Treasury by an executive from Citigroup — Michael Froman — before the ink is even dry on a massive government giveaway to Citigroup that Geithner himself was instrumental in delivering. In the annals of brazen political swindles, this one has to go in the all-time Fuck-the-Optics Hall of Fame.
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Left unnoticed, however, was the fact that Geithner had been hired by a sitting Citigroup executive who still had a big bonus coming despite his proximity to Obama. In January 2009, just over a month after the bailout, Citigroup paid Froman a year-end bonus of $2.25 million. But as outrageous as it was, that payoff would prove to be chump change for the banker crowd, who were about to get everything they wanted — and more — from the new president.

It's painful to have been so right at the time of his appointment, that Geithner is the worst possible appointee for the Secretary of the Treasury other than the Evil Lord Blankfein.

But really the point is - where is the change? This is more of the same times 10. I guess as long as the Democrat crooks get their cut, they are all for it. Washington is tremendously corrupt and the country will fall because of it.