The researchers used a radioactive tracer to be sure that the slugs are actually producing the chlorophyll themselves, as opposed to just stealing the ready-made pigment from algae. In fact, the slugs incorporate the genetic material so well, they pass it on to further generations of slugs.
The babies of thieving slugs retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't carry out photosynthesis until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary chloroplasts, which they can't yet produce on their own.
Thank you so fucking much, Bill Gates. Hope all that money helps you in the reëducation camp.
The private-sector issues affect government security. As a precondition to doing business in China, several years ago Microsoft was required to provide the government the source codes for the company’s Office software. The Chinese State Planning Commission contended that Microsoft's Windows operating system was a secret tool of the U.S. government and demanded Microsoft instruct Chinese software engineers on inserting their own software into Window's applications.
That gave the Chinese Army’s cyberwarfare department what computer hackers dub a “skeleton key,” allowing them access to almost every networked private business, military, and government computer in the U.S. Among the Chinese Army-backed Microsoft attacks, the FBI report includes successful forays against computer systems at the State Department, Commerce Department, the FBI, and the Naval War College, among others.
Come on, when are we going to haul the Redmond Reds before a treason tribunal?
It's going swimmingly for Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller.
Live for close to 48 hrs., & already over 250 emails have been sent forwarding one or another of the fascinating items that have been sitting on the site for the last 48 or so hrs.
Google Threatens Pullout From China After E-Mail Accounts Are Hacked
Google threatened to end its operations in China after it discovered that the e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been breached.
The company said it had detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China." Google says further investigation revealed that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists." Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google says the decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in the country.
Patch sketches a range of threats, from explosives-laden small boats to cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. He particularly emphasizes the danger posed by crafty, bloody-minded extremists. For one, “carrier crew size and diversity would likely allow unfettered access to clandestine infiltrators of almost any ethnicity,” Patch writes.
In other words, because there are so many people on carriers — up to 5,000 — some of them are bound to be brown-skinned. And the presence of brown-skinned sailors could make it easier for Islamic terrorists to sneak on board and sabotage the ship.
So how would one defend against such infiltration? Patch doesn’t say, but the implication, however indirect, is clear: fewer non-white sailors would help. In implying, even vaguely, that racial integration has weakened the carrier force, Patch plays into a sea swell of race anxiety in the Navy that outsiders rarely observe. Many in the Navy are unhappy with what they see as affirmative action gone out of control, to the detriment of our national security. “What core competency of the Navy is a diverse Navy supposed to represent?” blogger CDR Salamander asked.
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2010. There are 353 days left in the year. The UPI Almanac. Ant Farmer's Almanac.Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 12, 1910, at a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, the wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette - it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion. (Some of the other women present who had brought their own cigarettes began lighting up in turn.) On this date: In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died. In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized, in Charleston, S.C. In 1828, boundary disputes were settled between the United States and Mexico. In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. In 1932, after serving the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus, Hattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. (She had been appointed two months earlier to fill the vacancy caused by her husband's death.) In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt re-established the National War Labor Board. In 1943, the U.S. wartime Office of Price Administration said standard frankfurters would be replaced during World War II by "Victory Sausages" consisting of a mixture of meat and soy meal. In 1945, Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended. In 1969, the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
In 1971, a U.S. grand jury indicted the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other people, including a nun and two priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. In 1976, the U.N. Security Council voted 11-1 to seat the Palestine Liberation Organization for its debate on the Middle East. The United States cast the only dissenting vote. Mystery writer Agatha Christie died in Wallingford, England, at 85. In 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, & U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. In 1991, a deeply divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush the authority to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. (The Senate vote was 52-47; the House followed suit 250-183.) In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton asked Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater land deal affair that involved him and the first lady. In 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton and congressional leaders agreed on a bailout package that would give Mexico as much as $40 billion in loan guarantees. After Congress failed to vote quickly on the deal, Clinton invoked emergency authority to lend Mexico $20 billion. In 1998, Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Nineteen European nations signed a treaty in Paris opposing human cloning. In 1999, the baseball that Mark McGwire hit for his record-setting 70th home run of the 1998 season was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder. The Supreme Court limited state regulation of voter initiatives, striking down several methods used by Colorado to police such measures. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer. Forced to act by a European court ruling, Britain lifted its ban on gays in the military. Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills was killed in an automobile crash. In 2001, scientists in Oregon announced the birth of the first genetically engineered primate. The rhesus monkey had a jellyfish gene that caused jellyfish to glow; however, the monkey did not glow. In 2004, President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox forged agreement on the contentious issues of immigration and Iraq, meeting in Monterrey before the opening of a 34-nation hemispheric summit. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, in a harshly critical new book, likened U.S. President George Bush in a Cabinet meeting to a "blind man in a roomful of deaf people." In 2005, a NASA spacecraft, Deep Impact, blasted off on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse of the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system. (The probe smashed into Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005.) Democrat Christine Gregoire, winner of the extremely close Washington governor's race, was inaugurated. Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party. The Southern California death toll from rain, flood and mudslides rose to 19. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that an alien can be deported to a country without the advance consent of that country's government. In 2006, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who'd shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from an Istanbul prison after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist. A stampede broke out during the Islamic hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people. In 2008, President George W. Bush, visiting Bahrain, said he was cheered by news that Iraq's parliament had approved legislation reinstating thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's dissolved Baath party to government jobs. In 2009, Senate Democrats announced they would accept former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's Senate successor. Acting at Obama's behest, President George W. Bush agreed to ask Congress for the final $350 billion in the financial bailout fund. In the final news conference of his presidency, Bush vigorously defended his record but also offered an extraordinary listing of his mistakes - including his optimistic Iraq speech in 2003. Rickey Henderson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot, and Jim Rice made it in on his 15th and final try. Today's Birthdays: Actress Luise Rainer is 100.
Country singer Ray Price is 84. Singer Glenn Yarborough is 80. The Amazing Kreskin is 75. Country singer William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 71. Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier is 66. Rock musician Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) is 66. Singer-musician George Duke is 64. Actor Anthony Andrews is 62. Movie director Wayne Wang is 61. Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh is 59. Actress Kirstie Alley is 59. Writer Walter Mosley is 58. Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is 58. Radio personality Howard Stern is 56. Rock musician Tom Ardolino (NRBQ) is 53. Writer-producer-director John Lasseter is 53. Broadcast journalist Christiane Amanpour is 52. Rock musician Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows) is 50. Actor Oliver Platt is 50. Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins is 50. Actor Olivier Martinez is 44. Rapper TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) is 43. Model Vendela is 43. Actress Farrah Forke is 42. Actress Rachael Harris is 42. Rock singer Zack de la Rocha is 40. Rapper Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan) is 40. Singer Dan Haseltine (Jars of Clay) is 37. Rock musician Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) is 37. Singer Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) is 36. Contemporary Christian singer Jeremy Camp is 32. R&B singer Amerie is 30. Those Born on This Date Include: French fairy tale writer Charles Perrault, author of the Mother Goose stories (1628); British statesman Edmund Burke (1729); American patriot John Hancock (1737); painter John Singer Sargent (1856); novelist Jack London (1876); Nazi leader Hermann Goering (1893); western singer/actor Tex Ritter (1905). Today In Entertainment History January 12 In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit. In 1963, Bob Dylan performed in a radio play for the BBC in London. The play was called "The Madhouse of Castle Street" and he played a folk singer. In 1965, the rock and roll TV series "Hullabaloo" premiered on NBC. Featured acts included the New Christy Minstrels and comedian Woody Allen. [That's Rock & Roll! — Ed.] In 1966, "Batman" premiered on ABC, starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
In 1968, The Supremes appeared in an episode of NBC's "Tarzan." They played a group of nuns. In 1969, Led Zeppelin's self-titled first album was released. In 1971, the TV situation comedy "All in the Family" premiered on CBS.
In 1981, "Dynasty" premiered on ABC. In 1991, country singer Johnny Paycheck was released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven-year sentence for shooting a man in a barroom. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted Paycheck's sentence. In 1993, the original members of Cream reunited to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles. The band members were inducted, along with Ruth Brown, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James, Van Morrison, Sly and the Family Stone and Dinah Washington. In 1995, members of Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, along with Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young and Al Green were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa were also honored. [Yeah, better late than never, right assholes? — Ed.] In 2000, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne's wife, announced she was quitting as manager of Smashing Pumpkins. She issued a statement saying she had to resign "due to medical reasons -- Billy Corgan was making me sick!" In 2003, Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees died after having surgery for an intestinal blockage at a hospital in Miami. He was 53. In 2009, French movie actor-writer-director Claude Berri died in Paris at age 74. Thought for Today: "Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." - Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader (1869-1948).
That outburst, by the way, was directed at his wife/enabler Cinderella, before witnesses.
Mittens Romney: McCain routinely called Romney an “asshole” and a “fucking phony.” Giuliani opined, “That guy will say anything.” Huckabee complained, “I don’t think Romney has a soul.”
[…]
Romney found his failure to break through frustrating. “It’s not fair,” he said to his aides. He was being defined as a flip-flopping Mormon—or a Mormon flip-flopper. He couldn’t fathom why the caricature of him was sticking, had no ability to see himself as others might. When Romney’s staff showed him the devastating YouTube video [showing his flip-flopping over the years], his first reaction was, “Boy, look how young I was back then.”
The hell w/ McCain choosing Palin ("Palin was woefully unprepared, and McCain had made a “reckless choice,” Cheney told his friends.") as an example of recklessness. Where does the Republican Party get off allowing a rageoholic & a self-involved ninny anywhere near the nomination?
Not that we don't suspect most of the Democrats at the potential-presidential-candidate level aren't just as screwed up.
We haven't had enough coffee, bacon or heroin to ooze down our "Breaking Now" bog-roll & click The Daily Caller yet, but an Atlantic feature to which we've paid no previous attention has a few choice selections from typists concerning Mr. Carlson's effort.
In our hit & run on the subject we didn't even start on the design. lay-out, look, whatever you want to call it, but all the issues we raised were touched on. Unlike Althouse, we didn't find it necessary to comment on the "breast-wielders," though you may be certain we noticed them. And it appears The Caller was still full of dated news half a news cycle after we looked so many hrs. ago.
A contrarian (We'll assume, as there's really no other explanation for this sort of thing.) jumps on the tea wagon. We've haven't the time, energy, desire, or inclination to pick over it at length (There's telebision to be watched.) but we were given pause by this:
[T]he civic engagement and participation, as demonstrated by the Tea Party movement, seem to be very much like that which the communitarians (Michael Sandel and Michael Walzer) and the social-capital scholars (like Robert Putnam)—not to mention other high-minded and good-hearted men and women of the left—have for decades been calling for.
Where "civic engagement and participation" equal: shouting down elected representatives, laughing at sick people, milling around waving illiterate signs & spouting insanely delusional conspiracy theories, making Hitler & Stalin analogies about health care, etc. Not the participation that too many of the left have been calling for, even w/ ideologies & demographics changed.
Andrew Sullivan pulls paragraphs from The NYT, & as we couldn't have done a better job of extraction, here they are:
On the day of the attacks, Mr. Ailes asked his chief engineer the minimum number of workers needed to keep the channel on the air. The answer: 42. “I am one of them,” he said. “I’ve got a bad leg, I’m a little overweight, so I can’t run fast, but I will fight.
“We had 3,000 dead people a couple miles from here. I knew that any communications company could be a target.”
His movements now are shadowed by a phalanx of corporate-provided security. He travels to and from work in a miniature convoy of two sport utility vehicles. A camera on his desk displays the comings and goings outside his office, where he usually keeps the blinds drawn.
Mr. Ailes said he received frequent threats over the years, but his concerns for the safety of his family were heightened by an incident at his New Jersey home after the 9/11 attacks. There was an intruder on his property, but no arrest was made. In Putnam County, he has bought several properties surrounding his home. A sign outside his house shows an illustration of a gun and advises visitors that it is under video surveillance.
Ha ha. You fat chickenshit. "The Terrorists" would never shut you down, as you're almost literally carrying their proverbial water for them w/ the perpetual fear-mongering of your propaganda channel.
And we were too kind to Sullivan. He should have used this paragraph too, which encapsulates the "heartland" conservative's driving forces: resentment & suspicion.
Joe McGinniss, who wrote about Mr. Ailes in his 1969 book, “The Selling of the President 1968,” keeps in touch with him. “Success never made that chip on his shoulder go away,” Mr. McGinniss said. “He holds onto what he envisions to be the values of the heartland and is suspicious of people on either coast.”
Today is Monday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2010. There are 354 days left in the year. The UPI Almanac.Today's Highlight in History: Seventy-five years ago, in 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. On this date: In 1757, American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.
In 1785, the Continental Congress convened in New York City. In 1787, William Herschel discovers two moons of Uranus. They are named Titania and Oberon. In 1805, the Michigan Territory was created by an act of Congress. In 1815, Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1861, Alabama seceded from the Union. In 1908, the Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. (It became a national park in 1919.) In 1913, the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York. In 1942, Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies. In 1943, the United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China. In 1949, Los Angles noted its first recorded snowfall. [Our last one so far, we believe. — Ed.] In 1964, U. S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health. In 1972, East Pakistan was renamed Bangladesh. In 1973, owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule. In 1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a $10 million award to the family of Oklahoma nuclear worker Karen Silkwood, who died in 1974. In 1990, martial law, imposed during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, was lifted in Beijing. In 1995, 52 people were killed when a Colombian airliner crashed as it was preparing to land near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena. In 1999, President Bill Clinton and House Republicans clashed in impeachment trial papers, with the White House claiming the perjury and obstruction allegations fell short of high crimes and misdemeanors and GOP lawmakers rebutting: "If this is not enough, what is?" In 2000, whittling away more of the federal government's power over states, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that state employees cannot go into federal court to sue over age discrimination. The British government declared Chile's Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain. The ruling cleared the way for the former dictator to avoid charges of crimes against humanity. Carlton Fisk and Tony Perez were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2001, the Army acknowledged that U.S. soldiers killed an "unknown number" of South Korean refugees early in the Korean War at No Gun Ri. In 2004, Democrat Howard Dean defended his record on race in the last debate before the Iowa caucuses, as he was forced to acknowledge that no blacks or Hispanic had served in his cabinet during his 12 years as governor of Vermont. In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated federal judge Michael Chertoff to be homeland security chief, succeeding Tom Ridge. Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time that parts of Iraq probably wouldn't be safe enough for people to vote in upcoming elections. In 2006, a Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in 2005 with a grenade in Tbilisi and sentenced him to life in prison. In 2007, English soccer star David Beckham announced a five-year deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Florida upset Ohio State for the College Bowl Series championship and, three months later, beat Ohio State again for its second consecutive NCAA basketball title. In 2008, Bank of America said it would buy Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion in stock in a deal rescuing the country's biggest mortgage lender. Authorities in Jacksonville, N.C., found the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach in the yard of Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean, a comrade she had accused of raping her. (Laurean, who fled to Mexico, was arrested last April and charged in Lauterbach's death.) Former Olympic track gold medalist Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and her role in a check-fraud scam. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in Auckland, New Zealand, at age 88. In 2009, in a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. A passenger ferry sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing some 230 people. Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement with the European Union that paves the way for resumption of natural gas deliveries. The Russian utility Gasprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in a back payment dispute and, as a result, to Eastern European countries such as Poland and Bulgaria in the midst of bitter cold weather. Today's Birthdays: Producer Grant Tinker is 85. Producer David L. Wolper is 82. Actor Rod Taylor is 80. Composer Mary Rodgers is 79. The former prime minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, is 76. Actor Mitchell Ryan is 76. Actor Felix Silla is 73. Rock musician Clarence Clemons (E Street Band) is 68. Movie director Joel Zwick is 68. Country singer Naomi Judd is 64. Golfer Ben Crenshaw is 58. Singer Robert Earl Keen is 54. Musician Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) is 52. Actress Kim Coles is 48. Actor Jason Connery is 47. Contemporary Christian musician Jim Bryson (MercyMe) is 42. Rock musician Tom Dumont (No Doubt) is 42. R&B singer Maxee Maxwell (Brownstone) is 41. Movie director Malcolm D. Lee is 40. Singer Mary J. Blige is 39. Musician Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers) is 39. Actor Marc Blucas is 38. Actress Amanda Peet is 38. Actor Rockmond Dunbar is 37. Those Born on This Date Include: Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph company and Cornell University, (1807); psychologist and philosopher William James (1842); feminist lawyer Alice Paul (1885); South African novelist Alan Paton ("Cry, the Beloved Country") (1903). A Day of Less Than Nothing in Entertainment In 1963, the Whisky A-Go-Go club opened on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Doors are among the bands that got their start there. In 1969, Jethro Tull's debut album, "This Was," was released. In 1984, Michael Jackson was nominated for a dozen Grammy Awards. At the time, his "Thriller" album was becoming the best-selling album of all time. Jackson went on to win eight Grammys. In 1992, Paul Simon became the first international star to perform in South Africa following the end of the United Nations cultural boycott. Simon opened a concert tour in Johannesburg. In 1993, singer Jesse James Dupree of the band Jackyl was arrested for mooning an audience in Cincinnati. The band was touring with Damn Yankees, who also had some trouble. Damn Yankees' guitarist Ted Nugent shot a flaming arrow, which was a violation of Cincinnati's fire code. Dupree was released on bond. Nugent paid a fine. In 2000, Gary Glitter was freed from prison after serving half of a four-month sentence for downloading pornographic pictures of children. Also in 2000, authorities at an airport in Hawaii say they found a half-ounce of marijuana in Whitney Houston's bag. She caught her flight before she could be arrested. In 2005, James Griffin, founding member of the 1970s pop group Bread, died in Franklin, Tenn., at 61. In 2009, the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" won four Golden Globes, including best drama; the late Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for "The Dark Knight" while Kate Winslet received two acting awards for "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader." Theater and movie director Tom O'Horgan died in Venice, Fla., at 84. Thought for Today: "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803-1882). Thought for Today: "The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order." — Edith Wharton, American author (1862-1937). A thought for the day: William James said, "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
Sweet Blood of Jesus, TBogg reminds us that Tucker Carlson's frozen-tee-vee-dinner of a website is now available to the mindless dead worldwide.
So let's see. Jim Treacher. Andy Breitbart. S.E. Cupp. "Ask Matt LaBash." Huh?
We'll assume they haven't had too much time to get a whole lotta crap in their pipeline, but as of right now, half the stories are a wk. old, & there are six items repeating in the "BREAKING NEWS" crawl.
But nothing exceptionally stupid or otherwise remarkable, damnit.
Good luck to your operation, Tuck, you repugnant little creep. (We say that only because we need more inane source material, & w/ the full realization that were the Daily Caller to wind up a smoking pile of rubble for insurance purposes following a spectacular failure, Tucker "Can't Keep A Tee Vee Job" Carlson will still have idjits lining up to to give him money & exposure.)
We've no idea if the following, identified as "Extras," were part of the 13:14 piece that aired. If you have the patience to figure it out, let us know, 'K?
UPDATE (Later): They were (mostly) left on the cutting room floor. The second one is fun.
Editor’s Comment — It’s always struck me as odd that the expression “parasite on society” is so often applied to society’s least fortunate members. On the contrary, it is those who like bloated ticks engorge themselves at the host’s expense who are surely the real parasites.
Frank Rich picks the right metaphor, yet at this time America’s nemeses far from being hunted down by the US government have instead repeatedly been provided with a safe haven.
Should we make any distinction between those who harmed us and those who now give them protection? Indeed we should because it is the banking bandits who should be brought to justice. Indiscriminate rage against government simply helps the culprits stay in hiding.
Still, there is one caveat I would add before getting completely carried away with this populist vent: the greed on Wall Street is not an aberration — it simply represents one of the most extreme expressions of American values.
The titans now reviled were until quite recently revered as models of American success, for in society at large we still too often measure success by the outcome — how much gets accrued — rather than the path that led there. We value rewards above accomplishments.
Wall Street couldn’t wreck America if America didn’t have a propensity to wreck itself.
