Sorry, Mr. Franko, but the newspapers are killing themselves. Newspapers live and die on the basis of honesty and trust. And have been failing in that regard. Report the news honestly and completely without fear or favor? Does anyone really believe that to be true any longer? I don't. Let's talk in general first. I have had the privilege of doing business in many parts of these United States. In many cases, one must look at the masthead to find the difference between, say, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Little difference between them in most content -- little more than propaganda and talking points from the most socialist/left wing elements of the Democrat Party. Much of the content is nothing more than copy-and-paste from the Associated Press. Part of that is due to some lousy chains - McClatchy and Gannett come to mind. Why should anyone pay for the privilege of being lied to? When the business model assumes the denigration and mockery of values many, perhaps most Americans hold dear, do you expect success? We had an example right here, not long ago, when the Pope was castigated as a dismal failure for speaking the plain objective truth about condoms as a means of dealing with AIDS in Africa. He was right, and the Vindy was wrong. Again. MANY more examples might be found. People will not pay to be insulted. Now some specifics. I have read the Vindicator for more than 50 years now, my parents had it delivered every day. I've seen the paper estimate what politician was likely to win the election and then come out in support of that one, though the editors HAD to know the person was a scoundrel. I've watched as some of the most disgusting corruption and racketeering to be found, per capita, ANYWHERE in the nation went unreported or glossed over. (until the feds came in and hauled the miscreants off). Everything from zoning changes for sale to the unlicensed bars and gambling joints in Campbell, Struthers, Niles, and the city, to local judges with their own bagmen. You knew it, or should have, and so did a good bit of the citizenry, but it never quite made the pages. This sort of thing is and has been going on all over. People are waking up to it. And realizing that, no matter the high-sounding words, the newspapers and other local media have been cheating us and lying by omission at least. People will not pay for that. And aren't.
Your faith in the UN is astonishing. That cabal of corrupt, kleptomaniacal kakistorcrats should have been shut down and the buldings bulldozed long since, and most of its inhabitants sentenced to long periods of making little rocks out of big ones. The UN just provides a pretty stage for thugs and gangsters, like those from Angola, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, Yemen, China, Argentina, Syria, Iran, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria, to name a few, to strut and preen. With respect to the Pope, I'm not a Roman Catholic. But his statements with respect to human sexuality and condom use were correct. And the Vindy was, as usual, completely wrong on the matter. Restraint, sir, is the answer, not yielding to base impulses. Most of us learn at an early age to control certain of our bodily functions. This sort of self-control pays benefits in other areas as well, sexual conduct being just one of them. I commend it to your attention.
Oh, there are ''five nuclear plants green-lighted''? Hmm. What are the chances that ANY of them will actually be built and put on-line in the next 5 years?? Since I worked up at Grinnell in Warren MANY years ago when the usual gang of screaming idiots shut down nuclear power plant construction, many built using components built right here in the Valley by us, and saw the plant shut down back around 1984, you'll forgive my skepticism. I know about construction projects, some near completion, that were shut down by screaming idiots, shyster lawyers, and judges with delusions of adequacy. Look up the history of WPPS some time. So you'll forgive my skepticism on that score. And having worked in engineering roles with several of the automotive companies, both the OEM's and the parts suppliers, I am far less trusting of the thoroughness of their testing. I've seen test reports within the last month that add to the skepticism.
Again, this mess is ''the answer to the question no one asked''. What may be appropriate for someone whose whole life exists within a relatively small area, may be utterly insufficient to others. Want to have three vehicles just to handle the different needs, or just one that adequately handles all of them? Most people have answered that question already. This entire thing is not a response to real customer demand, it is a bow to the self-appointed 'elites' with large mouths and small foreheads. And you know it.
A 20-mile trip? Under what conditions? Summer? OK. What about in one of our winters? Let's see, running the headlights eats some of that. So does running a defroster. What does that do to your range? How about a drive from, say, Boardman to downtown Y-town, in a February 'freezing fog', leaving out around 6:00am and coming back, with a stop at the grocery, getting in around 6:00pm. Let alone Canfield to Niles. These are not long trips, they are part of 'normal' commutes, and they happen at all hours and in all conditions of weather. Even windshield wiper motors require electricity to operate. You really expect to run all of these things off the battery and have no expectation that it will reduce your travel range?
Now let's talk about charging. Anyone familiar with the term ''demand meter''? Bet there are a few. Want to see the meter spike, and stay there all month? Betcha it will affect your power bill.
Oh, and by the way, there is not sufficient additional capacity on the power grid to service very many of these. If we were allowed to build power plants ..... but of course the sleazy liars of Greenpeace and other propagandists will never permit that.
This vehicle is the answer to a question no one asked. VERY few people will find it to serve their needs.
Is it unworthy of me to speculate that perhaps, just perhaps, the Judge's sense of entitlement did not come from nowhere? Let's be real, if his last name were Jones or Schicklegruber, or if the family did not have longstanding connections to The Party, what are the chances that he would have been appointed/elected to any position of public trust? For that matter, judges have long considered themselves to be the modern day equivalent of feudal barons, answering to no one but themselves. This is just one more example of that.
You expected otherwise? The United Nations is, has been, and always was a truly lousy idea. Close it down. End it. Get the US out, and it out of the US. The world will be a cleaner place without it. Yep, Ban Ki Moon is a dolt. Most of the officials in that kakistocracy have been. Most of the few otherwise were just naive. Either way, it's an expensive way to run a sheltered workshop. Shut it down.
Considering that quite a few members of the Congress are very very much to blame for this ghastly mess, chastising AIG seems silly. When I see Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy and several others doing a 'perp walk' in orange jumpsuits, then perhaps we can jump on AIG. Perhaps we might also go after the members of the Congress who voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Or who voted either for the original Community Reinvestment Act. Or its 1994 update. Or Hank Paulson who pushed the waivers of capital requirements. Or..... The clowns and knaves in the Congress who engaged in this garbage, and who now are pushing what sounds all too much like an (unconstitutional) Bill of Attainder, make one think warmly of tar, feathers, and split rails.
By the way, if we are talking about pay for performance, why are members of the Congress, Mr. Ryan included, being paid at all??
Sigh 'There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see'' has been observable for quite a long time, and the Valley is a chronic infection site.
This is not, and never has been, about science. You think embryonic stem cell research is a winner? How confident are you? Confident enough to put your OWN money on the wager??
Doubtful, as such stuff normally flows from the crowd with big mouths and small forebrains. It's about power, about further degrading the country's moral fiber. You may recall the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party pushed 'science', the excuse for much evil, into interesting experiments involving human beings and freezing water and other uncomfortable circumstances leading to death. Was that excusable under the heading of science, or shall we admit it was despicable and evil. As is this. To be expected, actually, from a person of Obama's low character and consortium with a boatload of rotten people. Leading to this.
This one really should receive some sort of an award, similar to a ''Razzie'', for most deceitful and useless column of the month. Where to start? The phrase so poo-pooed, that embryonic stem cell research requires the dismemberment of human beings is the literal truth. Human beings are in fact being dismembered. Pretending otherwise is known technically as a ''lie''. And this column is a lie. Obama is a liar, and that is one of the more polite terms that I can call him, and all without straying from the truth. Let us be clear. President Bush's executive order never prevented embryonic stem cell research. It prohibited, wisely, the use of taxpayer dollars for this despicable practice. The result of that was, in fact, greater emphases on ADULT stem cell research, research that has in fact had a number of (poorly reported) therapeutic breakthroughs. Not that I would expect the Youngstown Disgracer to mention that inconvenient fact. And, in contravention to certain propagandists, Obamarama's actions have, predictably, subverted medicine and science to the interests of politics. Specifically the all-abortion, all the time push of the national Democrat Party and certain pressure groups that seem to rule its stands.
Forcing American citizens, by force or threat of force, to hand over their wallets in order to fund practices that they KNOW to be evil may be many things. But one thing it is not, the proper relationship of the State to the Citizens.
Well, actually, John McVain was a terrible candidate. Could have guessed that from his sponsorship of the wretched (and, in my humble opinion, unconstitutional) McCain-Feingold Anti Free Speech and Incumbent Protectin Act. He's not my candidate, and never ever was. And, by the way, W's assent to that awful thing was just one of my many disputes with him. But does anyone imagine that any of the top-level Donkey Party apparatchiks would have applied the veto?
Like many others, I did forecast many of W's failures, such as his near-criminal refusal to enforce the borders and to push summary removal of ALL the illegal aliens in this country. Including Obama's illegal alien aunt. He just looked better, by comparison, to his rapist predecessor, or either of the two fools who ran against him in 2000 and 2004. Surely both parties can do better!
Look, Obama is just more of a statist than even W is. Both of them want the federal government involved in a host of matters that it has zero legitimate interest in, and certainly no constitutional brief for. I commend to your attention the 9th and 10th Amendments, something to which neither major party seems to pay the slightest attention.
Obama is not a failure because his programs and ideas have not worked, however you define that. He is a failure because his programs and theories are wrong from the outset. We are suffering from too much government, not too little. His remedy is ever more, and more expensive, of the same. Wrong! Stop. Get out of the matter. Start by shutting down about 80% of the federal government, and repealing the Community Reinvestment Act. Felony charges against Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin, and Barney Frank would be a good move. What the nation needs is a line of mournful, sad, UNEMPLOYED bureaucrats, and empty government building in D.C. Turn the buildings into bordellos if you wish, that's essentially what they are anyway.
Posted on April 4 at 9:21 a.m.
Sorry, Mr. Franko, but the newspapers are killing themselves.
Newspapers live and die on the basis of honesty and trust. And have been failing in that regard.
Report the news honestly and completely without fear or favor? Does anyone really believe that to be true any longer? I don't.
Let's talk in general first. I have had the privilege of doing business in many parts of these United States. In many cases, one must look at the masthead to find the difference between, say, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Little difference between them in most content -- little more than propaganda and talking points from the most socialist/left wing elements of the Democrat Party. Much of the content is nothing more than copy-and-paste from the Associated Press. Part of that is due to some lousy chains - McClatchy and Gannett come to mind.
Why should anyone pay for the privilege of being lied to? When the business model assumes the denigration and mockery of values many, perhaps most Americans hold dear, do you expect success? We had an example right here, not long ago, when the Pope was castigated as a dismal failure for speaking the plain objective truth about condoms as a means of dealing with AIDS in Africa. He was right, and the Vindy was wrong. Again. MANY more examples might be found. People will not pay to be insulted.
Now some specifics.
I have read the Vindicator for more than 50 years now, my parents had it delivered every day. I've seen the paper estimate what politician was likely to win the election and then come out in support of that one, though the editors HAD to know the person was a scoundrel. I've watched as some of the most disgusting corruption and racketeering to be found, per capita, ANYWHERE in the nation went unreported or glossed over. (until the feds came in and hauled the miscreants off). Everything from zoning changes for sale to the unlicensed bars and gambling joints in Campbell, Struthers, Niles, and the city, to local judges with their own bagmen. You knew it, or should have, and so did a good bit of the citizenry, but it never quite made the pages.
This sort of thing is and has been going on all over. People are waking up to it. And realizing that, no matter the high-sounding words, the newspapers and other local media have been cheating us and lying by omission at least. People will not pay for that. And aren't.
Posted on March 30 at 12:47 p.m.
Your faith in the UN is astonishing. That cabal of corrupt, kleptomaniacal kakistorcrats should have been shut down and the buldings bulldozed long since, and most of its inhabitants sentenced to long periods of making little rocks out of big ones. The UN just provides a pretty stage for thugs and gangsters, like those from Angola, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, Yemen, China, Argentina, Syria, Iran, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria, to name a few, to strut and preen.
With respect to the Pope, I'm not a Roman Catholic. But his statements with respect to human sexuality and condom use were correct. And the Vindy was, as usual, completely wrong on the matter. Restraint, sir, is the answer, not yielding to base impulses. Most of us learn at an early age to control certain of our bodily functions. This sort of self-control pays benefits in other areas as well, sexual conduct being just one of them. I commend it to your attention.
Posted on March 29 at 9:36 p.m.
Oh, there are ''five nuclear plants green-lighted''? Hmm. What are the chances that ANY of them will actually be built and put on-line in the next 5 years?? Since I worked up at Grinnell in Warren MANY years ago when the usual gang of screaming idiots shut down nuclear power plant construction, many built using components built right here in the Valley by us, and saw the plant shut down back around 1984, you'll forgive my skepticism. I know about construction projects, some near completion, that were shut down by screaming idiots, shyster lawyers, and judges with delusions of adequacy. Look up the history of WPPS some time. So you'll forgive my skepticism on that score.
And having worked in engineering roles with several of the automotive companies, both the OEM's and the parts suppliers, I am far less trusting of the thoroughness of their testing. I've seen test reports within the last month that add to the skepticism.
Again, this mess is ''the answer to the question no one asked''. What may be appropriate for someone whose whole life exists within a relatively small area, may be utterly insufficient to others. Want to have three vehicles just to handle the different needs, or just one that adequately handles all of them? Most people have answered that question already.
This entire thing is not a response to real customer demand, it is a bow to the self-appointed 'elites' with large mouths and small foreheads. And you know it.
Posted on March 29 at 5:28 p.m.
A 20-mile trip? Under what conditions?
Summer? OK. What about in one of our winters? Let's see, running the headlights eats some of that. So does running a defroster. What does that do to your range?
How about a drive from, say, Boardman to downtown Y-town, in a February 'freezing fog', leaving out around 6:00am and coming back, with a stop at the grocery, getting in around 6:00pm. Let alone Canfield to Niles. These are not long trips, they are part of 'normal' commutes, and they happen at all hours and in all conditions of weather. Even windshield wiper motors require electricity to operate. You really expect to run all of these things off the battery and have no expectation that it will reduce your travel range?
Now let's talk about charging. Anyone familiar with the term ''demand meter''? Bet there are a few. Want to see the meter spike, and stay there all month? Betcha it will affect your power bill.
Oh, and by the way, there is not sufficient additional capacity on the power grid to service very many of these. If we were allowed to build power plants ..... but of course the sleazy liars of Greenpeace and other propagandists will never permit that.
This vehicle is the answer to a question no one asked. VERY few people will find it to serve their needs.
Posted on March 21 at 3:38 p.m.
Is it unworthy of me to speculate that perhaps, just perhaps, the Judge's sense of entitlement did not come from nowhere? Let's be real, if his last name were Jones or Schicklegruber, or if the family did not have longstanding connections to The Party, what are the chances that he would have been appointed/elected to any position of public trust?
For that matter, judges have long considered themselves to be the modern day equivalent of feudal barons, answering to no one but themselves. This is just one more example of that.
Posted on March 19 at 8:27 p.m.
You expected otherwise?
The United Nations is, has been, and always was a truly lousy idea. Close it down. End it. Get the US out, and it out of the US. The world will be a cleaner place without it.
Yep, Ban Ki Moon is a dolt. Most of the officials in that kakistocracy have been. Most of the few otherwise were just naive. Either way, it's an expensive way to run a sheltered workshop. Shut it down.
Posted on March 19 at 8:22 p.m.
Considering that quite a few members of the Congress are very very much to blame for this ghastly mess, chastising AIG seems silly. When I see Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy and several others doing a 'perp walk' in orange jumpsuits, then perhaps we can jump on AIG. Perhaps we might also go after the members of the Congress who voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Or who voted either for the original Community Reinvestment Act. Or its 1994 update. Or Hank Paulson who pushed the waivers of capital requirements. Or.....
The clowns and knaves in the Congress who engaged in this garbage, and who now are pushing what sounds all too much like an (unconstitutional) Bill of Attainder, make one think warmly of tar, feathers, and split rails.
By the way, if we are talking about pay for performance, why are members of the Congress, Mr. Ryan included, being paid at all??
Posted on March 13 at 8 p.m.
Sigh
'There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see'' has been observable for quite a long time, and the Valley is a chronic infection site.
This is not, and never has been, about science. You think embryonic stem cell research is a winner? How confident are you? Confident enough to put your OWN money on the wager??
Doubtful, as such stuff normally flows from the crowd with big mouths and small forebrains. It's about power, about further degrading the country's moral fiber.
You may recall the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party pushed 'science', the excuse for much evil, into interesting experiments involving human beings and freezing water and other uncomfortable circumstances leading to death. Was that excusable under the heading of science, or shall we admit it was despicable and evil.
As is this. To be expected, actually, from a person of Obama's low character and consortium with a boatload of rotten people. Leading to this.
Posted on March 11 at 9:46 p.m.
This one really should receive some sort of an award, similar to a ''Razzie'', for most deceitful and useless column of the month.
Where to start?
The phrase so poo-pooed, that embryonic stem cell research requires the dismemberment of human beings is the literal truth. Human beings are in fact being dismembered. Pretending otherwise is known technically as a ''lie''. And this column is a lie. Obama is a liar, and that is one of the more polite terms that I can call him, and all without straying from the truth.
Let us be clear. President Bush's executive order never prevented embryonic stem cell research. It prohibited, wisely, the use of taxpayer dollars for this despicable practice. The result of that was, in fact, greater emphases on ADULT stem cell research, research that has in fact had a number of (poorly reported) therapeutic breakthroughs. Not that I would expect the Youngstown Disgracer to mention that inconvenient fact.
And, in contravention to certain propagandists, Obamarama's actions have, predictably, subverted medicine and science to the interests of politics. Specifically the all-abortion, all the time push of the national Democrat Party and certain pressure groups that seem to rule its stands.
Forcing American citizens, by force or threat of force, to hand over their wallets in order to fund practices that they KNOW to be evil may be many things. But one thing it is not, the proper relationship of the State to the Citizens.
Posted on February 28 at 3:54 p.m.
Well, actually, John McVain was a terrible candidate. Could have guessed that from his sponsorship of the wretched (and, in my humble opinion, unconstitutional) McCain-Feingold Anti Free Speech and Incumbent Protectin Act. He's not my candidate, and never ever was. And, by the way, W's assent to that awful thing was just one of my many disputes with him. But does anyone imagine that any of the top-level Donkey Party apparatchiks would have applied the veto?
Like many others, I did forecast many of W's failures, such as his near-criminal refusal to enforce the borders and to push summary removal of ALL the illegal aliens in this country. Including Obama's illegal alien aunt. He just looked better, by comparison, to his rapist predecessor, or either of the two fools who ran against him in 2000 and 2004. Surely both parties can do better!
Look, Obama is just more of a statist than even W is. Both of them want the federal government involved in a host of matters that it has zero legitimate interest in, and certainly no constitutional brief for. I commend to your attention the 9th and 10th Amendments, something to which neither major party seems to pay the slightest attention.
Obama is not a failure because his programs and ideas have not worked, however you define that. He is a failure because his programs and theories are wrong from the outset. We are suffering from too much government, not too little. His remedy is ever more, and more expensive, of the same. Wrong! Stop. Get out of the matter. Start by shutting down about 80% of the federal government, and repealing the Community Reinvestment Act. Felony charges against Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin, and Barney Frank would be a good move. What the nation needs is a line of mournful, sad, UNEMPLOYED bureaucrats, and empty government building in D.C. Turn the buildings into bordellos if you wish, that's essentially what they are anyway.