Saturday, November 12, 2005

Need someone to stab a pier in the back call Anderson Cooper.

I can only wonder how long this has gone on. How long this mean spirited take over as anchor has lived in Anderson's plotting mind. Anderson Cooper would 'fill in' for Aaron Brown when he was out. It was never a great hour then and I never watched it. But, when he finally started his own news hour it was full of 'gimmicks' to enhance it's interest, with 'uplink' and the like. At that time NewsNight with Aaron Brown was based on newspaper layouts. The title of Anderson's show was to mimic 'The Whip Around the World." Anderson Cooper 360. Come full circle around the world. Do we always get what we covet, Anderson? As a matter of fact when my notes are reviewed I noted the similarity years ago. I found it odd then. He was gunning for Aaron. Nice guys finish last, babe. Anderson will never be a valuable professional so much as a valuable commodity. The problem is he is a commodity packaged to incite war and bring 'hero' status to the impoverished young men of this country for enlistment. That is not supporting the country so much as an illegal war. It is partisan propaganda and not a legitimate news hour.

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Indeed, AC, go get 'em.

North Korea. Just what we need from Frankenstein more inflammation of an unstable and nuclear situation.

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On, my the reality of North Korea and how it is never been know before and here we go again with David's "Whip Around the World" without the benefit of pier journalists. When you are someone like Anderson it is completely understandable why one would be afraid to share the screen with anyone else. After all he did it to his pier. Ah, the music should keep anyone on the edge of their terrified seats.

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Frank Cessno - North Korea is starving according to Anderson and we are at an empty field and some cruelty will be carried out, no doubt. The crime is exporting North Koreans to other countries. Human trafficking. Okay. This is not a pleasant subject for anyone. But this is also propaganda at a time when no one needs it. That's right it is nearly bankrupt and there is no doubt Kim feels as though he is walking a line between war and sustaining a nation. These conditions have gone on since the end of the Korean War. As a matter of fact the inflammatory administration of George Walker Bush has made them worse by cutting off essential supplies and creating the 'nuclear crisis' that exists today.

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Sarah McDonald - Anderson you are a fool without an understanding of what is happening within that film. No doubt people are terrified of their government but China does complain to North Korea about border crossings. The USA complains about border crossings as well. North Korea is a third world country and seeks not to anger China by controlling the people rather than the symptoms of border crossings. China has it's problems, too. It has a population of over a billion people. China could be approached about these issues as well, but, they will meet criticism with complaints of drug trafficking and the like. This is completely irresponsible journalism. The tape belongs in the State Department and no place else.

Sarah this is not about 'getting away.' Kim is controlling the people though the only methods he has to stop the crossings to China. This is completely unnecessary. If people are upset about North Korea's law and it's enforcement then it needs to address issues of human rights with DC and the return of funding by the USA to North Korea for them to carry on a quality of life for people. The North Koreans are starving because they no longer get aid from Bush.


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Tom Foreman - Condi went to Iraq at a time when they need to address equity for the Sunnis. Did she succeed? Probably not. So, sell the glitz and glitter of the soldiers surrounding her anyway.

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John King and the usual Neocon support for Bush and Cheney. The Administration did mislead the people of this country. It''s a fact. The WMD were never there in Iraq. Lots of people are dead and it was all a lie. You cannot cover up the fact that there were UN Inspectors on the ground in Iraq when Bush invaded. Every report to the UN Security Council was

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The news secretary. Oh, there you go the secretary and the boss can play with the animal concept and show how compassionate they are when they are interested in nothing but finding their professional weak spots.


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Commercials

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Anderson and the continued identity of the frozen remains of the missing airman.

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A tribute to a soldier by a woman who sounds like or is made to sound like, Rita Cosby of MSNBC. Always the facsimile of and not the real thing. Forensics of unknown and missing soldiers. At least they continue to try to find the identity.

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Anderson without his boy toy automated voice and the 'news review' again.

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Pat Robertson and his doom and gloom outlook. "Intelligent Design" and Pat Robertson only proves this is a theology and not a science. End of discussion.

Oh, good, Anderson get in the statement about homosexuality and satan. This is sick junk. How much do we have to digest the ranting of an OLD man that cannot get out of his own way but only apologize for his own stupidity while those big Religious Right bucks keep rolling in. So Old Men are welcome on AC360 so long as the 'toe The Party line,' huh? Interesting. More of do what I say but not as I do. Good, Anderson. Very moral.

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The news secretary

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Anderson and Old Age pregnancy.

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Vaine Vergee - more baby stuff. Oh, this unfortunate accident. At least everything turned out okay. Baby, baby, baby. This is getting to be a rut. Bad information Anderson. The baby wasn't hurt. The mother IS fine. They are not in danger, Anderson. You stated, "…they are doing fine right NOW." as if that could change. You are enflamming people's emotions and hopefully women for no reason except to incite terror and fear. Bush's Culture of Fear, right AC? SOP for AC360.


Vaine Vergee - more baby stuff. Oh, this unfortunate accident. At least everything turned out okay. Baby, baby, baby. This is getting to be a rut. Bad information Anderson. The baby wasn't hurt. The mother IS fine. They are not in danger, Anderson. You stated, "…they are doing fine right NOW." as if that could change. You are enflamming people's emotions and hopefully women for no reason except to incite terror and fear. Bush's Culture of Fear, right AC? SOP for AC360.

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There is Anderson and his focus of 7PM in the West. Wouldn't it be great to convert California, too. These people are delussional. Ah, there is Frankenstein, the automated mate of AC to reduce costs while posing no threat to his control of the stardom he has worked so hard to achieve.

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The Vote for the war was in trust to the information Bush had that the Legislation did not have. Who are you trying to kid. You know Judith Miller acted as a stenographer to Bush because she never filtered the propaganda and politics with 'the truth' and good fact finding. Anderson is a stenographer and not a journalist but that is true of FOX as well.

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Steven Avery and the murder of a woman. This should not danger the prospects of others pending hearings for release due to false imprisonment. This is a separate crime and he was exonerated for the rape. This is a shame. From what I have read it's overwhelming evidence. A little surprising he is still out and about.

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Nic Robertson - Zarqawi. The mosque he belonged to. Oh, you weren't welcome inside the mosque. The people of the town do not believe Zarqawi is not the problem and the USA has a campaign against him without reason. Nic is taking a great risk to be doing this journalism by asking questions that are unpopular. That is typical of Nic Robertson. He is an incredible journalist who seeks to satisfy the people he interviews as much as the viewers in the USA.

The entire set of circumstances in the Middle East is a paradox that is not soon to resolve. Thank you, Nic.

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Amman. Al Zarqawi. Jordan is a moderate nation. They feel very differently than others in countries that surrounds Jordan. We could get into how they became a moderate nation but that is fruitless. Jordan's sophistication has increased and continues to strive to solve the problems of it's citizens in the face of far less national income. King Abdullah has taken a stronger appearance of Islam, especially since this past Ramadan. I think that is fine. He has been a leader of peace and more than likely feels his identity to Islam is better overt so there is no question about his faithfulness among people who would follow him.

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Commercials - and to think I was going to take the night off.

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The bank robber. My only question is she doing this under duress. The cell phone might be a link to the well being of perhaps her child or someone she cares about. Then again maybe not.

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The news secretary.

This is nothing you will ever hear from this news hour.

Arrests begin as Amman blasts are tied to Iraq
By Ed O'Loughlin, Herald Correspondent in Amman
November 12, 2005
The Jordanian Government says at least one of the suicide bombers who murdered 56 people in Amman this week spoke Arabic with an Iraqi accent, linking the country's worst domestic terrorist attack to events in its war-torn neighbour.
Officials said a number of people - Jordanians and foreign Arabs, including Iraqis - have already been arrested as King Abdullah's security forces sweep for those behind Wednesday night's co-ordinated attacks on the Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels in Amman.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/arrests-begin-as-amman-blasts-are-tied-to-iraq/2005/11/11/1131578234393.html?oneclick=true

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Commercials with promise of talking about babies and pregnancy some more. Same old nasty woman in the control booth. Tease them in with gender issue of loving children and themselves and terrify them while they are watching in tender emotion. Real good. Predatory, minimally.


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New Orleans and it's citizen complaints. Construction Fraud. The problem surrounds the allowed degradation of the wetlands as well. Almost more so than the condition of the levees. What a mess.

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Oliver Thomas, Council President. Corruption. You aren't protected alone by the levees. You are protected by the pumps. The plan was supposed to be 17 feet and not 10. COASTAL EROSION. Now you are on the right tract. The levees will never be Cat 5 without the return of the wetlands. Even if you build levees 17 feet high that won't stop a storm surge of 20 feet. Besides I thought the levees were higher than 10 feet. I thought it was 15? Maybe not. That is a true statement, the Republicans would love to have New Orleans die. Complaints about Delta. I agree. They chronically reschedule passengers on flights. Anderson is embarrassed by the bad publicity for Delta. Not interested in the complaint or a bonding with it so much as trying to fend it off. Yeah, he is a real advocate for people alright. As long as it is scripted.

This is an ongoing resource by Wikipedia.

Levee and flood wall failure in New Orleans (following hurricane Katrina)
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Hurricane Katrina caused extensive failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana. The subsequent investigations by civil engineers are attempting to find the underlying reason for the failures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_and_flood_wall_failure_in_New_Orleans_(following_hurricane_Katrina)


There is an interesting entry at November 10, 2005.

"According to the analysis, they've got the soil strength test. It doesn't show exactly the input for the analysis, but assuming they used it and came out with factors of safety, it's showing the numbers are safe. So it leaves an open-ended question as to why the flood wall failed."
The original design for the steel sheet foundations for the flood walls showed a proposed depth of 10 feet, and the design documents show calculations were made with the wall base at 12.8 feet. According to a New Orleans engineer, the depth was apparently increased later, to 17-foot depth, and this is what was built. However, on November 10 an article in the Times Picayunne reported that investigations using sonar by a forensic engineering team from the Louisiana State University show that at one point near the 17th Street Canal breach the piling extends just 10 feet below sea level, 7 feet shorter than the Corps of Engineers had maintained.
"The corps keeps saying the piles were 17 feet, but their own drawings show them to be 10," van Heerden said. "This is the first time anyone has been able to get a firm fix on what's really down there. And, so far, it's just 10 feet. Not nearly deep enough."
According to Professor Robert Bea, a geotechnical engineer from the University of California, Berkeley, it is likely that the Katrina storm surge created unusual subterranean pressures under the walls. Those pressures appear to have made soil under the sheet pile weaker so that it gave way, moving the steel sheet-pile-and-concrete walls along with it. But engineers studying the levees also say that other, unknown factors, including structural problems in the walls, could also have contributed to the breaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_and_flood_wall_failure_in_New_Orleans_(following_hurricane_Katrina)

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Pregnancy and the biological clock. ANXIETY. Oh, no, deteriorating eggs. Don't you mean ovum. Frozen gametes.

Fertility Science is always tenative. That's right there are no guarantees.

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Rude America - the interactive of AC360. And let's stroke our ego while filling in for Regis. You won't be taking over that show next, will you, Anderson? Maybe! You might be better off there. No journalistic content.

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Pregnancy and the biological clock. ANXIETY. Oh, no, deteriorating eggs. Don't you mean ovum. Frozen gametes.

Fertility Science is always tenative. That's right there are no guarantees.

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Rude America - the interactive of AC360. And let's stroke our ego while filling in for Regis. You won't be taking over that show next, will you, Anderson? Maybe! You might be better off there. No journalistic content.

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Rude, This isn't "under the radar' yet, right? I think that is rude. I think you are rude, Anderson. Ah, poor Anderson, an ackward moment. See, American has developed rudeness in life because 'RUTHLESS' people like yourself exist and it's difficult to deal with ''your mess' and it is far better and emotionally efficient to state 'F you!' At least we communicate and understand the communication.

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Etiquette - it's interesting to have a news network who helped put the most corrupt president in history in office to actually value proper social behavior when they took lessons from Rove pre-ethics sessions.

This explains Anderson's focus on pregnancy and getting that way. The definition of etiquette - the conduct or procedure required by GOOD BREEDING. What would we do without Anderson and his insight to social ills?

Ah, oh, more threats of taking back the 7PM hour as well.

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Anderson on Anderson. He does love himself. "I could not think of a thing I wanted to know. Good thing Kelly is a pro." I agree.

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That's it. At least the radar was turned off. Maybe it always is.