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We need impeachment hearings NOW!

This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.

The Post's story today on Obama's jobs bill is headlined "O gives jobs 'clip' service; $447B 'tax hike' plan bound by chintzy fastener," and its first two paragraphs attack Obama for his choice of document fasteners:

How dare that anti-American, mooslim, socialist traitor use a paper clip! He should have gone the much more costly route of having the bill professionally bound. I guess that’s what the right considers “cutting government waste”, instead of spending a few cents on a paper clip, you should spend a couple of bucks on binding.

This really serves as a reminder of how hated President Obama is by the right, including their media outlets. It’s like “feet on the desk gate” all over again. Remember that? How dare President Obama put his feet on the desk in the Oval Office, even though every other President had done the same thing before.

The propaganda station is at their usual old tactics in swaying public opinion:

On the February 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade brought on a panel of guests to discuss the ongoing protests in Wisconsin, sparked by Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut benefits and eliminate most collective bargaining rights for some public employees. While talking to Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman, Kilmeade discussed the results of a recent USA Today/Gallup poll to falsely claim that "61 percent" of those polled are "in favor of taking [collective bargaining rights] away."

The poll Kilmeade is talking about is here, complete with this graphic:

As if this comes as any shocker:

Corporate America finished the second quarter with "near-historic" profits, largely by cutting costs, laying off employees and streamlining operations, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Profits for companies in the S&P 500 soared 38 percent from the same period last year, hitting $189 billion, the WSJ says, the sixth-highest quarterly total ever. S&P analysts expect the trend to have continued in the third quarter.

Since 2008, corporate profits increased 10 percent -- but revenue was down 6 percent, the WSJ says. To achieve the impressive quarterly results, companies have had, as the WSJ puts it, to "streamline" their operations. This means firing workers, outsourcing labor and shuttering

This amounts to a Republican Mecca of capitalism ; the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. And while the poor are eating from hand to mouth, the Tea Partiers want to increase this dangerous economic disparity by doing such things as eliminating the minimum wage.

The thing that drives me crazier than anything though is the minions who by into this “let the corporations rule” meme the right pushes. So many are in the middle class and one down sizing or out sourcing away from hitting hard times. Reality is a myth to these people.

A lot of people are saying that the IPad will change the way we access the internet. After 15 years of web development and over a quarter century of software development, all I can say is “here we go again”.

Apple has put some amazing technology into the IPad, but overall it is still a tablet – a device that has been out for over a decade. The IPad is also lacking on some key features, like the ability to display Flash objects. That is going to be one of the biggest killers, especially with similar devices, like Microsoft’s Courier and HP’s Slate, supporting the technology that has turned the web into a media streaming device.

Flash has always been in the middle of a war when it comes to the internet. The code behind web sites, HTML, has a new standard making its way into browsers – HTML5. HTML5 supports embedding videos without the need for the third party Flash. A lot of people are seeing that it will kill Flash, but again that is something I’ve heard before. Flash offers features the HTML5 doesn’t, or aren’t so easy to put in. One of those is delivering video ads, known as pre-rolls. There are ways the pre-rolls can be added into HTML5, but it is rather clunky and still not as feature rich as the Flash alternative, and pre-roll ads are a big money getter for network video sites such as Hulu and MSNBC.

Then there is the fact that Apple loves to stay tethered to AT&T. This first wave of IPads won’t notice it because they can only connect via WiFi, but the next ones coming out will have 3G support, but that’s only if you live in an area served by AT&T. I know the area I live in doesn’t have AT&T coverage, and that’s with a rather large university down the road. Even if you do have good AT&T coverage, who wants to fork out the $30 a month for the device that doesn’t even make phone calls?

Last month news broke that the 108 year old Editor and Publisher was shutting down. Yesterday that news was put to rest with some good news. Editor and Publisher has been sold and is now back in business:

Editor & Publisher, the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business, has resumed publication in print and online following its sale Thursday to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, Calif.-based magazine and newspaper publisher.

The announcement came exactly two weeks after the closing of E&P, the acknowledged "bible of the newspaper industry," which can trace its roots back 126 years.

Duncan McIntosh said he knew immediately when Nielsen announced in December the closing of E&P that he wanted to keep the magazine and its digital newsgathering properties going.

"Such a critical information source for a newspaper industry so desperately in need of help should not go away," McIntosh said. "I've been a reader of E&P over the course of 30 years and know its incredible value to readers and advertisers."

Welcome back Editor and Publisher. Hopefully you will continue the trend that made you great the past century.

Where would Sarah Palin be making enemies now? How about at her own book signings. Here is video of people booing Palin as they waited for autographs and she pulled away.

Then we also have comments being left on Palin’s Facebook page:

Lu Paletta Part I: No Sarah Palin wristband yesterday. Got a bookplate w/fake signature; was told it was as good as a band. Part of overflows that was next in line; group had real camaraderie in cold/rain for >15 hours. Folks from all over with 1 goal, see someone who speaks for us. The bus arrived, a crowd of 500 outside, 1000s inside. A roaring welcome, Gov Palin & Trig, a few remarks, few pictures and on to Barnes&Nobles;.

Read more here.

Good times indeed. Exit question time. Do these people really think Sarah cared enough about them to wait and sign all their books? Of course not – she is an attention whore. You just helped feed her habit. Great job!

Who Would Jesus Torture?

The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom or never" go to services agreed, according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.

The people that believe we should torture and call themselves Christian are really a class act. If they truly believe in their religion then they must not fear an eternity spent in fire and brimstone.

This story is from Saturday and I haven’t seen much mention of it:

The bank has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website.

Florida-based Mr Morgan began a blog entitled "Facts about Goldman Sachs" – the web address for which is goldmansachs666.com – just a few weeks ago.

“The Bank” is non-other than Goldman-Sachs, a TARP recipient. So why is a company, which needs our tax dollars to survive, spending big money to try and silence a citizen of this country? Something just doesn’t seem right with that.