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I was gonna come on here and post my usual riffraff about how the day was going, Happy Solstice to my Pagan homies, the weather, birds, Hula, yadda yadda, but I've been following the Iran "election" fallout and it was making me feel horrified. Then I saw that video with the girl "Neda" dying in the street and anything I could say after that is just frivolous. I don't want to link to it or anything, because what are you gonna do? Just look? What else can you do? But what does watching it actually accomplish other than to make you feel sad and give you nightmares? Not much.

But anyway, that's where I am right now.

I do hope, however, that we priveledged bunch are enjoying the Summer Solstice. And if you are, then I hope you can really appreciate it, and know that your life, overall--like mine--is pretty good.

ETA:

And I really, really, really don't mean for this to be didactic; I am totally not trying to school anyone. I am more or less talking to myself. That even as I'm sitting here bitching to myelf about this crappy-ass old computer that hardly works, and oh my hard drive blew up, I just can't wait till I get my new Mac, and gee I'm in so much debt and won't this rain ever stop so that summer can get here, etc., at least no one is shooting me in the street just because they can.

(no subject)

I was gonna come on here and post my usual riffraff about how the day was going, Happy Solstice to my Pagan homies, the weather, birds, Hula, yadda yadda, but I've been following the Iran "election" fallout and it was making me feel horrified. Then I saw that video with the girl "Neda" dying in the street and anything I could say after that is just frivolous. I don't want to link to it or anything, because what are you gonna do? Just look? What else can you do? But what does watching it actually accomplish other than to make you feel sad and give you nightmares? Not much.

But anyway, that's where I am right now.

I do hope, however, that we priveledged bunch are enjoying the Summer Solstice. And if you are, then I hope you can really appreciate it, and know that your life, overall--like mine--is pretty good.

ETA:

And I really, really, really don't mean for this to be didactic; I am totally not trying to school anyone. I am more or less talking to myself. That even as I'm sitting here bitching to myelf about this crappy-ass old computer that hardly works, and oh my hard drive blew up, I just can't wait till I get my new Mac, and gee I'm in so much debt and won't this rain ever stop so that summer can get here, etc., at least no one is shooting me in the street just because they can.

Faux News

I very much apologize for double-posting today.I hope I'm not being an LJ pest to my f-list. But this doesn't belong with my last post, and I still wanted to post it because it's important and I know a few of you on my F-list are interested in knowing things like this. Probably most of you, actually.

The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdock, successfully argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.

In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated" by the verdict.


What the HELL? It's "only a policy?" Oh, well I guess that makes it all right then. I want to spit in Bill O'Reilly's eye (actually I would love to do much more than that, involving a fishbat,) but hey, that's just my "policy."

Faux News

I very much apologize for double-posting today.I hope I'm not being an LJ pest to my f-list. But this doesn't belong with my last post, and I still wanted to post it because it's important and I know a few of you on my F-list are interested in knowing things like this. Probably most of you, actually.

The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdock, successfully argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.

In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated" by the verdict.


What the HELL? It's "only a policy?" Oh, well I guess that makes it all right then. I want to spit in Bill O'Reilly's eye (actually I would love to do much more than that, involving a fishbat,) but hey, that's just my "policy."