We all know there are far too any media outlets out there fighting for our attention. That's why some of them are so partisan...
Since the internet became more widely accessible, the vast majority of news outlets knew they had to adapt with the times and move online. As a result, most people now get their news from digital sources, with even bigger majorities getting their news from social media, where those digital sources can be viewed and shared. But there has been plenty of growing concern about the spread of misinformation and bias in the news that goes viral online, especially among Gen Z and millennials - the young idiots too smart for their own good.
Us old guys know something the young pups don't. We don't believe anything the first time we hear it. We're smart enough to - as ole' Uncle Ronnie liked to say - 'trust but verify'.
The reason I ask if I'm part of the problem is simple - and selfish. The only reason I started doing this was because I didn't want to interject my feelings about stuff - political or otherwise - on to my Facebook shit. The blog gives me an opportunity to vent, and to show off, but mostly to share stuff I hope you'll enjoy. I never want to be just another 'media-whateverthefuck' in that big mix. I hope ya get my drift here...
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Maybe the worst joke that came out of the whole tragedy came out within almost minutes of it happening. New Hampshire high school teacher Christa McAuliffe was onboard, and it was her voice that was heard last on the flight data recording asking 'What's this button for?'
A Woman - possibly the salon owner -peers through a gated doorway during the riots in Newark, NJ, July, 1967. The sign in the window is to alert her fellow 'Brothers' that they shouldn't burn her business down because she's 'one of them' - a soul Brother.
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A word of advice from a wize old sage - me:
Whenever you're putting on new underwear, always plant one cheek against a wall or something solid. It also helps if you put your socks on first, for which you should be sitting.
And when putting your pants on, it's always best to be sitting down rather than standing and trying to
balance on one leg. In that manner, you'll reduce your chances of a floor/face plant exponentially.
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He's the Mayor of Pasadena, Califoria. That explains that.
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Welcome back to Theater of the Absurd...
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Babs was still teaching back then (inner-city Paterson, NJ) and one of her students said he has a 'Space Shuttle Joke', so she let him say it in class. The kid said 'What color Miss McAuliffe's eyes was? Blue. One blue here, the other blew there'.
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At the time of the riots, we were living in North Newark, a basically Italian/Irish enclave with few non-white residents, so the riots didn't reach our part of town.
Anyway, there was this one -off-the-boat Italian guy who didn't speak good english and owned a small grocery store in the neighborhood. He didn't know what the whole soul thing meant, so he put a sign in the window that said 'Soul Brother', thinking it would spare his store from problems. Somebody from the neighborhood put a rock through the window about five minutes after he closed the store that day. Like I said, the riots didn't reach in to our neighborhood - for very good reasons...
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Your furnace has been cranking all winter.
It's a good idea to change you HVAC filters.
Find the size you use here ...
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Valentines Day is coming up soon.
She'd probably love to have these.
They're only $20.00 with free shipping.
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As of early 2026, China leads the world in wind power, accounting for over 45% of total global installed capacity and approximately 70% of new global wind turbine installations. The country’s wind power capacity reached over 600 gigawatts by late 2025, maintaining the top global position for 15 consecutive years.
ReplyDeleteKey details:
-Capacity Share: China controls nearly 46% of the global cumulative wind power capacity as of late 2025.
New Installations: In 2024, China added 79.8 million kW of new capacity, contributing roughly 70% of the world's new wind power.
-Offshore Power: China's offshore wind capacity constitutes about half of the global market share.
-Generation: While holding a massive portion of capacity, China's actual electricity generation share is also growing rapidly to meet a 33% renewable energy target by 2025.
While we fight windmills a la Don Quixote China is leapfrogging us.
Trump's obsession with wind power generators has to be one of his dumbest.
Somewhere down the line he's gonna blame China for stealing our windmills. Jeez we got sum dumb ones in our midst smiling while rolling coal. China will overtake us eventually, antagonising everybody is not helping us delay that.
DeleteI think what you do is great. Don't change a thing.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Christie tell her husband before launch. "You feed the kids, I'll feed the fish."
dw Jenks, ok
China has the most wind power of any country, where do you get all this crap from you post?
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China
I find it hilarious: I think a lot of these cartoonists believe that the magazine on top of the fully-opened and safed Sig is somehow mounted on the top like a scope. Just because of the picture of it on the car seat where they are laying together. These people wouldn't know a pistol from a banana.
ReplyDeleteVery true on "Growing Up"
ReplyDeleteI don't know why you'd think expressing yourself would be selfish. We all need that and msm doesn't listen to anybody that isn't a politician. And politicians don't listen to anybody that doesn't have lots of money. I come here and a few other small sites to express myself. I don't argue because it doesn't change anyone's mind. If not for sites like yours where would we go?
ReplyDeleteWho paid for that trust in news survey? I don't trust any of them which is why I come here and other internet sites to get the truth. They bash the internet as misinformation but citizen journalists are superior at telling the truth. Which is why they want to control every word on it.
ReplyDeleteTelling the truth or telling you what you like hearing?
DeleteMore often than not the truth is not nice or matches our preconceived notions.
Balancing on one leg has health benefits and determines how long you live. Let the snark begin but it's true.
ReplyDeleteIf I see a story on the internet I will wait to see if anyone else is covering it. A lot of times something appears once and you never see any follow up by anyone else.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that there seem to be more outlets on the left side of the chart than on the right side. Also outlets on the left seem clustered closer to the center while outlets on the right extend further out into the right side than left side outlets. Right leaning outlets reach 6 units to the right while left leaning reach 4 units to the left.
ReplyDeleteI personally don't trust any outlet that is more than 1 unit left or right of center. Everything that is more than 1 unit removed from center is wildly biased and partisan. Fox News, Daily Beast, Breitbart, Vox are all crap and the further out you stretch the worse they are.
Don't believe any of the outlets in the extremes. They are just peddling propaganda. Daily Wire, Epoch News, The Blaze are pure unadulterated propaganda that makes you feel good (often aligns with your preconceived notions) but designed to divide and erode the country
Good thought (and disclaimer) on the role of blogs in this world.
ReplyDeleteI must be older than the person who drew that graphic. I'd put the center right of where he puts it, and some of those news outlets much, much further out on the left.
And putting the Defender next to the Enquirer is just plain mean. The Defender gives a fair hearing to some people whose beliefs about their health or their relatives' health are probably wrong, but what it reports are facts, for those who know what facts are. That is, it's a fact that a lot of scientific studies have shown that contaminated vaccines can harm people, and it's a fact that a small but vocal minority of people believe the radiation from their cell phones harms them.
Local newspapers? Generally true or at least well-intentioned; likely to print honest mistakes like "Call 555-1239" when the correct number is 555-1234. They can't afford any independent coverage of anything beyond the local area and, these days, aren't even bothering to subscribe to AP or Reuters. They mostly report what people tell them to report--may send a real live reporter to a town council meeting, sometimes, but report their main content, the births, weddings, funerals, police and court reports, real estate sales, classified ads, government messages, school awards and sports events, and of course always a puff piece about at least one local business, just as the affected parties send it to them. The most controversy they tolerate is electioneering.
ReplyDeleteTelevision? They don't make the time to cover anything in any depth, just repeat a little loop of first-paragraphs-of-real-news-reports over a two-hour cycle. They think the main content is the visuals and then, quite often, the visuals are staged rather than reported live, because they weren't there when any unexpected event happened. They don't often report enough news even to repeat outright lies, though that's happened---but they can't be trusted to report enough to tell us anything, either.
The NY Times, Washington Post, and other signatories of the Trusted News Initiative don't deserve attention, much less money, any more. I don't know how accurately they reported the popular vote in 2020. Trump lost the electoral college and should have accepted that. I do know that TNI signatories pledged not to report on the hazards of Bayer's, Lilly's, Merck's, and Pfizer's most profitable products, all of which have killed human beings. Feh.