Don’t forget that he left the door open for autism/MMR vaccine conspiracy theorists.
(Also don’t forget what I’ve hammered him on more than once – his announced plans to EXPAND President Bush’s generally untested faith-based initiatives.)
December 29, 2008
December 28, 2008
More mall buildings to stay empty next year
Many retailers are retrenching for 2009, even if not extremely close to bankruptcy, especially if they have large outstanding lines of credit, I’m guessing.
That means some older malls where tenants have been vacating may have spots remaining vacant.
It also probably means that brand-new places, like Uptown Village here in Cedar Hill, suburban Dallas, where not all the store sights have been filled yet, may well also have sites remain vacant throughout the coming year.
Oh, and the 2005 bankruptcy law changes that got so many consumer activists riled? They affected the ease with which retailers can file, too, especially regarding real estate holdings. Per the Journal, bankruptcy attorney Lawrence Gottlieb saidonly two retailers have successfully emerged from bankruptcy proceedings since the 2005 changes.
For more and more retailers, like Linens 'N Things formerly here in Cedar Hill, that means liquidation instead of bankruptcy restart.
That means some older malls where tenants have been vacating may have spots remaining vacant.
It also probably means that brand-new places, like Uptown Village here in Cedar Hill, suburban Dallas, where not all the store sights have been filled yet, may well also have sites remain vacant throughout the coming year.
Oh, and the 2005 bankruptcy law changes that got so many consumer activists riled? They affected the ease with which retailers can file, too, especially regarding real estate holdings. Per the Journal, bankruptcy attorney Lawrence Gottlieb saidonly two retailers have successfully emerged from bankruptcy proceedings since the 2005 changes.
For more and more retailers, like Linens 'N Things formerly here in Cedar Hill, that means liquidation instead of bankruptcy restart.
‘Trainers’ – didn’t we hear that word in Nam?
Obama’s Clintonesque words on Iraq
Of course we did, and even if Obama isn’t old enough to remember that personally, he knows better. Ted Rall joins me in exposing Obama’s hypocrisy in “relabeling” troops who he intends to keep in Iraq long past the middle of 2009, and probably long past the end of 2011 if he can get away with it.
Rall also notes Obama NEVER voted against a supplemental funding bill.
Of course we did, and even if Obama isn’t old enough to remember that personally, he knows better. Ted Rall joins me in exposing Obama’s hypocrisy in “relabeling” troops who he intends to keep in Iraq long past the middle of 2009, and probably long past the end of 2011 if he can get away with it.
Rall also notes Obama NEVER voted against a supplemental funding bill.
What's the 'new journalism model'?
Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine wants to know, and says people like Glenn "Instadoofus" Reynolds are full of crap in heralding the rise of "citizen journalism."
He says it would help if fewer people would stop spelling "pundit" with an extra "n."
He says it would help if fewer people would stop spelling "pundit" with an extra "n."
Winger talking point for 2009 – no global warming
Here in the U.S., attacking the Employee Free Choice Act as undemocratic may well remain conservative blogosphere Point No. 1. But, denying man-made global warming lets wingers from around the world weigh in, like Christopher Bocker at the Telegraph across the pond.
He, like other global warming denialists, make two basic errors, so basic a sweating pig in a forest could correct him.
First, 2008 was an average y ear within the last decade. So, it didn’t seem hottER than previous years because it wasn’t.
Second, they (usually willfully) conflate weather and climate.
It snowed in New Orleans? Well, to them that means anthropogenic global warming is a lie.
I counter that it got up to 85 degrees in Big Bend National Park the day after Christmas, so global warming is VERY real.
He, like other global warming denialists, make two basic errors, so basic a sweating pig in a forest could correct him.
First, 2008 was an average y ear within the last decade. So, it didn’t seem hottER than previous years because it wasn’t.
Second, they (usually willfully) conflate weather and climate.
It snowed in New Orleans? Well, to them that means anthropogenic global warming is a lie.
I counter that it got up to 85 degrees in Big Bend National Park the day after Christmas, so global warming is VERY real.
Bristol Palin now one week overdue – and her 'preggo' pics?
Hello, Wasilla, Alaska, it is now Dec. 28. And, still no official sign of the little child that is allegedly to be born to the still-unmarried Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson. Yes, first children can be overdue, but, still, no comment from anywhere in Palinland?
So, maybe even Bristol's grandparents can lie, no matter what they told a fluff-story writer in their Grandparents interview.
Makes you wonder where the Sarah Palin dysfunction, and her own apparent lying, started from? Is any of this dysfunction related to her attending half a dozen different colleges?
But I digress.
I want to look at two pictures, courtesy of Gryphen.
The picture at left is identified as being when Bristol allegedly would have been four and a half months pregnant; the one below is from early November, when she would allegedly have been seven 4and a half months pregnant. Gryphen comments on how little weight she appears to have gained in the later months of her pregnancy after putting on so much weight early on. But, I have a different possibility, which I'll discuss immediately below.
What if that weight from this fall, rather than Bristol at four and a half months pregnant, is weight she never lost from having Trig? Some women have a more difficult time of losing weight than others do. I don't know if age of first pregnancy has anything to do with it but, per the second pic, snarfing down junk food before, during and after pregnancy certainly would.
So, we have either a fake pregnancy in toto or a fake due date. Audrey at Palin’s Deceptionsand the PD blog says she has been interviewed by the Anchorage Daily News, with the story supposedly coming out any time now.
So, maybe even Bristol's grandparents can lie, no matter what they told a fluff-story writer in their Grandparents interview.
Makes you wonder where the Sarah Palin dysfunction, and her own apparent lying, started from? Is any of this dysfunction related to her attending half a dozen different colleges?
But I digress.
I want to look at two pictures, courtesy of Gryphen.
The picture at left is identified as being when Bristol allegedly would have been four and a half months pregnant; the one below is from early November, when she would allegedly have been seven 4and a half months pregnant. Gryphen comments on how little weight she appears to have gained in the later months of her pregnancy after putting on so much weight early on. But, I have a different possibility, which I'll discuss immediately below.What if that weight from this fall, rather than Bristol at four and a half months pregnant, is weight she never lost from having Trig? Some women have a more difficult time of losing weight than others do. I don't know if age of first pregnancy has anything to do with it but, per the second pic, snarfing down junk food before, during and after pregnancy certainly would.
So, we have either a fake pregnancy in toto or a fake due date. Audrey at Palin’s Deceptionsand the PD blog says she has been interviewed by the Anchorage Daily News, with the story supposedly coming out any time now.
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