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Cant Make an Omelette commented on the blog post Woodward and Bernstein Join Rich Tradition of Blaming the Internet for Everything
Woodward’s remarks are disappointing and poignant. He sounds as out of touch as Ted Stevens. I can appreciate his anxiety over the state of journalism as he knows it. But I don’t know why he wouldn’t acknowledge Paul Kiel, Marcy Wheeler and David, among others, unless he just doesn’t *know* about you. The internet is vast and diffuse. He doesn’t know where to look.
Also, the influence of SEO is vaguely unsettling. Maybe he got stuck looking at a website that purported to be news, but was actually part of the horrid SEO underbelly – word salad. If you don’t have the right lens to “read” something like that and know to disregard it, it just seems vaguely wrong, and could amplify a person’s preconceived wish to say “it’s all crap” about the thing that sort of comes after you.
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Cant Make an Omelette commented on the blog post Bank Transfer Day a Resounding Success for Move Your Money Movement
About David’s point that the CU may be less convenient, my credit union (SF Firefighters) has a lovely feature where they refund ATM fees from any ATM. The effect in terms of convenience and how it feels is that it’s possibly even *more* convenient than my B of A days – use any bank, use any network, use the one in the convenience store, no fee.
I realize it’s not “free”, and I’m sure the program has a cost for the credit union, which I don’t know the details of but assuming for a moment that they find it sustainable, I hope CUs that have this program will make sure to speak up about it. Maybe more ambivalent people or people who are on the fence will make the leap if they find out that they might not have to go out of their way or adapt their routines.
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Cant Make an Omelette commented on the blog post On Maddow, Schneiderman Delivers Eloquent Defense of the Rule of Law
As people are gauging whether to read or listen to you, alicewolf, it would be helpful if you would announce that you’re with LaRouche.
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Can’t Make an Omelette commented on the blog post The Next Bailout: BofA Moves Derivatives Into Insured Institution
It would be a really helpful bit of disclosure if you’d start your comment like this: “Hi, I’m alicewolf and I’m with the LaRouche people. On top of this the FED opened a…”
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Can’t Make an Omelette commented on the diary post George Will Comes Out for Stimulus, At Least When It Is Military Spending by Dean Baker.
There actually was recently something on this. I happened to watch the DN interview with Neta Crawford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCMqTwCKytsI think Andrew Bacevich is involved.
They specifically call out the costs of taking care of veterans.
