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A.H. Belo, Initially Considered Candidate To Buy Copley, Reports Big Loss, Layoffs
The Press is the cause of its own death; they failed to protect American rights for far too long, enabling the Aristocracy to rule while placing We The People in grave jeopardy for at least the last sixteen years economically, socially and of course politically. This morning’s U-T provides an excellent case study, on page A1 they headlined robbers of banks, and by most amazing coincidence they headlined robbers of taxpayers on page B1. The U-T Editorial Board fights hard to protect their Aristocracy while encouraging bloodsucking judges/lawyers to charge criminally greedy fees against the taxpayer to protect their out of control corruption and avarice. But that’s life since UCAN Fleece Us has become all too easy today in a NORC society. So once again, former Justice O’Connor’s grave warning about the overthrow of Rule of Law throughout America, allowing judge/lawyer bloodsuckers to bleed taxpayers dry to enrich and empower the Aristocracy against We The People effectively overthrows American Democracy but NORC, not even the Press. So I ask, what good have newspapers been at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century when the overthrow of justice and democracy keeps going further out of control!? The fact is that the Fourth Estate failed the hopes and dreams of our Founding Fathers, while We The People descended into NORC Hell.— July 28, 2008 12:17 p.m.
Note to U-T Employees: You Think You're Angst-Ridden? Look at Your Former Ohio, Illinois Colleagues
Response to post #6 et al.: The worst part is the total waste of lost talent due to corruption and/or incompetence of newspaper owners that have destroyed the Fourth Estate which is supposed to be a cornerstone of American Democracy. The way things are going with Washington encouraging the outsourcing of American wealth and jobs to communist china the only question remaining is how soon will it be before the communist chinese control our news sources also. The Beijing Olympics will provide a whole new dimension of interest to see how much control the communist chinese dictators have over NBC coverage now that Bush is going over there to give them the keys to their America personally. Bush is most certainly the latest version of Manchurian Candidate, a continuation of his Yale and Harvard lifestyle. Thanks for your up close and personal update on the latest lifestyle of the rich and famous in Europe Don, I'll let you put the "sex and mystery" into the evolving story especially if it has anything to do with David Copley and his royal entourage.— July 28, 2008 2:45 a.m.
Note to U-T Employees: You Think You're Angst-Ridden? Look at Your Former Ohio, Illinois Colleagues
Response to post #4: Darn Don, word is that you could buy out the U-T with pocket change on a whim, that you are a actually a multibillionaire as a result of being a financial guru who made the U-T owners and many others fabulously wealthy, that you say you live in Colorado but actually you live in a ski chateau on a Gstaad mountaintop with another estate on the Riviera along with your $100+Million yacht next to other U-T rich and famous. Like Fred suggests, San Diego needs a rich and powerful champion like Don Bauder to come down from Olympus to save the mortals of San Diego. It only takes a minute for you to call the Bank of Switzerland, order them buy out the U-T anonymously for you, and get back to your well earned good life knowing that you have made it possible for San Diegans to live happily ever after.— July 27, 2008 11:19 a.m.
Note to U-T Employees: You Think You're Angst-Ridden? Look at Your Former Ohio, Illinois Colleagues
Don, it's time for The Reader to take action, time for The Reader to champion the restoration of the integrity of America's Fourth Estate by buying the Union-Tribune to restore the future of San Diego for your Gen Y readers.— July 27, 2008 4:33 a.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
JohnnyVegas, the reality is that President Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld (the three headed one) achieved Osama bin Laden's most maniacal dreams, and congress was totally obedient selling out American Democracy to support it. Up until now we have been able to keep foreign policy wars from being fought on American soil, but Bush figured a way to bring destruction to the American economy anyway while selling out America to Chinese communism to achieve the goals of the Neocon Mein Kampf.— July 27, 2008 3:58 a.m.
Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
Response to post #49: Right on Fred, but since I live in O.B. where rastafarians still rule I would hope that Mr. Bauder will locate his new cultural center here. However, all this academic discussion of the future of the American press will become a moot point when Bush goes to Beijing next month to kiss the asses of his new masters and give them the keys to America during the Olympics. As noted in an L.A. Times article "Countdown To Beijing Not all fun and Games" Bush's chinese communist masters have a whole new way of dealing with the press ready to implement in America http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-…— July 27, 2008 3:43 a.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rate for June Leaps to 5.9 Percent; County Lost Jobs Over Last 12 Months
Response to post #8: Don, my highest priority in life is my wife and her joie de vivre is what matters most. You would be of great help to me if The Reader would replace the U-T by carrying their comics and local ads daily. When can you start doing that?— July 26, 2008 12:24 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #39: Yes Fred, we can learn a lot about the fallibility of human nature from Harvard evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson who said: "A general trait of early people was to eat up everything they could get their hands on, and to become conservationist only when finally they realized that it was necessary for their survival." Also, far-off catastrophes engineered by our own species are simply out of the range of human capacity for planning and action. "It doesn't matter that that evolutionary process may be leading an entire species to the precipice --- there is nothing in the species to foresee what will be happening ten generations down the line, only what is happening at the moment." Human beings, he added, "have a hard time reasoning why they should care what might come about 100 years hence." Too bad we could have learned so much from history but even our best educated and most successful (or infamous) most obviously do not care to consider history in their decision making process. The human failure of avarice applies most appropriately to Wall Street and Main Street as Don keeps reporting, but that is a fact of life that drives Wall Street and Main Street, and used to drive capitalism until we were converted to socialism.— July 26, 2008 12:13 p.m.
Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
Response to post #45: Sadly, it's not just Cunningham but all of our elected representatives that have screwed up America. We have allowed madmen like Bush and Cheney to rule as aristocracy for eight years now and they have done so much damage and betrayal to American Democracy that it seems like they've been there much longer. Like ancient Greece, American government and all of our institutions have has oscillated between democracy and aristocracy, enabled by a culture of failure like Davis, Boxer and Feinstein and corrupt/avaracious congressmen like Cunningham. Our congress is now the greatest threat to American Democracy in our history, and it is certainly repeating Greek history, this time selling out America to Communist China for short term profit and greed. Susan Davis has proven that a Berkeley degree is about as valuable a piece of paper as used TP (but then Bush has proven the same thing about Yale and Harvard degrees). But California academia has also failed the State of California causing a culture of failure in Sacramento. And far more newspapers than just the U-T have allowed this to happen with the total failure of the Fourth Estate to protect American Democracy from outrageously destructive excesses and failure by the corrupt and the incompetent, facts that have most certainly led to a major to total loss of credibility by all newspapers and news media in America.— July 26, 2008 11:25 a.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #36: Don, I have taken up restudying history again as a result of all the decline and fall scenarios we are experiencing. One most ironic lesson of history was the Fall of Babylon that many writers today believe should have been considered more wisely before we made our imperial and commercial invasion of Babylon/Iraq today. The decline and fall of states with global ambitions just keeps happening. The overarching fact of life is that We never learn or even seem to care, so our stock market is suffering from that excessive short-term lust to satisfy avarice with total disregard for long-term consequences, and the negative consequences are out of control because Washington has indentured America because leaders of both political parties today really don’t give a damn about anything but their own Duke Cunningham class lusts.— July 26, 2008 5:08 a.m.