Google is Good

GOOGLE IS GOOD!

GOOGLE IS GOOD!!

GOOGLE IS GOOD!!!

GOOGLE IS GOOD!!!!

Google is good for you!

Google is good for me!

Google is good for mankind!

Google wants the world to have access to information. But some in the world DON’T want Google to succeed in that endeavor – at least not in their country.

Some “news” sources have strayed so far from the “straight and narrow” they should be called “scandal sheets”. And Americans have responded with a “lack of confidence” in those, so called, news sources.

Google has enabled much of the world to send and receive information. It can reasonably be said that Google is not interested in spreading propaganda.

Recently a NEWS CZAR took aim at Google.

Murdoch: Google is mortal and together we can kill it

Or at least tame it

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/murdoch_google_analysis/

And of course the China-Google information censoring has been ongoing for quite some time. But what is it in Australia’s information domain that one should not speak of? Nick Farrell of the INQUIRER has this to say:

Australia attacks Google
Search engine will have to leave Oz
By Nick Farrell
Tue Mar 30 2010, 10:59

IT IS STARTING to look like Google will have to leave Australia if it is going to carry on its anti-censorship campaign.

The Australian government has launched a verbal attack on the Internet search outfit, very similar to those made by the Chinese authorities. The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is apparently furious that Google has dared to question his plan to censor the Internet and protect the citizens of Oz from images of flat chested women.

Speaking to ABC Radio, Senator Conroy was stunned to discover that Google had complained to the Obama administration over his plans to censor the web of anything that offended fair dunkum Aussie family values.

In the next few weeks Conroy is bringing in legislation that will force all ISPs operating Down Under to block a blacklist of “refused classification” websites for all Australians. Most porn is okay but that featuring flat chested women is out because paedophiles apparently use that instead of kiddie porn.

This sort of thing is where Conroy and Google are at odds. Google has discovered that Conroy’s list includes politically sensitive and innocuous material, such as sexual health discussions and discussions on euthanasia.

Conroy has strong views on euthanasia and he thinks Aussies should look after the welfare of their own kids first.

Google also said implementing mandatory filtering across Australia’s millions of Internet users could “negatively impact user access speeds”, while filtering material from high-volume sites such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter “appears not to be technologically possible as it would have such a serious impact on internet access”.…

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1598864/australia-attacks-google

And it is difficult to think about Google without thinking about history and archives and the such. Australia does not want to talk about its history – at least not among civilized nations.

Australia and America during the neocon era were political siblings having the same parentage. Both displayed a strong dislike for the Obama challenge to the neocons. The Prime Minister of Australia, at that time, said that Al-Qaeda would be dancing in the streets if Obama was elected President of America.

Australia holds a dubious title of carrying out one of the most complete cases of genocide known to man. And the Tasmanian children of those murdered parents were “adopted” by the killers of their parents. And as late as the 1940′s, the United Nations was still wrestling with the problem of “stolen children”.

What man does – could be categorized into the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY. Politicians would like the BAD and the UGLY to be filtered out. Google wants FREE SPEECH. And America has heard the FREE SPEECH words somewhere before.

A Nuisance Morning on the Internet

For some reason or another, this morning – the morning of Tuesday March 30th turned out to be a real nuisance morning for my Internet activities.

First there was the nuisance of full page ads on a number of my favorite technical news sites. Since I was in the process of copying my favorites links from one list to another – the new list wound up with fewer entries because I declined to stay and collect the links that showed the full page ads..

And after that I tried to open what is likely the world’s most favorite blog editor. And that “favored” status is likely to give that blog editor considerable leverage with its users. The blog editor decided I must fill out a form requiring personal information. The form demanded to know what I liked in this category and what I liked in that category. I decided I did not want to tell that form the personal information it demanded. The blog program would not proceed to its editor if the form’s questions were not filled out first.

A man’s castle is his home or is it a man’s home is his castle? Anyway you look at it, it’s beginning to look like the word “castle” and the word “home” are no longer a good fit in the same sentence.

I saw only one alternative/solution to my problem with the blog editor – remove it from my home, my castle and my computer. I no longer have the use of Windows Live writer on my computer. I regret that – but a man’s castle is his home or is it the other way around?

The Rage Is Not About Health Care

The New York Times

OP-ED COLUMNIST

By FRANK RICH

March 27, 2010

THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe. A few hours later, the perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner revved up his “Hell no, you can’t!” incantation in the House chamber — instant fodder for a new viral video remixing his rap with will.i.am’s “Yes, we can!” classic from the campaign. Boehner, having previously likened the health care bill to Armageddon, was now so apoplectic you had to wonder if he had just discovered one of its more obscure revenue-generating provisions, a tax on indoor tanning salons.

But the laughs evaporated soon enough. There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. And as the week dragged on, and reports of death threats and vandalism stretched from Arizona to Kansas to upstate New York, the F.B.I. and the local police had to get into the act to protect members of Congress and their families.

How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. The weapon of choice for vigilante violence at Congressional offices has been a brick hurled through a window. So far.

No less curious is how disproportionate this red-hot anger is to its proximate cause. The historic Obama-Pelosi health care victory is a big deal, all right, so much so it doesn’t need Joe Biden’s adjective to hype it. But the bill does not erect a huge New Deal-Great Society-style government program. In lieu of a public option, it delivers 32 million newly insured Americans to private insurers. As no less a conservative authority than The Wall Street Journal editorial page observed last week, the bill’s prototype is the health care legislation Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts. It contains what used to be considered Republican ideas.

Yet it’s this bill that inspired G.O.P. congressmen on the House floor to egg on disruptive protesters even as they were being evicted from the gallery by the Capitol Police last Sunday. It’s this bill that prompted a congressman to shout “baby killer” at Bart Stupak, a staunch anti-abortion Democrat. It’s this bill that drove a demonstrator to spit on Emanuel Cleaver, a black representative from Missouri. And it’s this “middle-of-the-road” bill, as Obama accurately calls it, that has incited an unglued firestorm of homicidal rhetoric, from “Kill the bill!” to Sarah Palin’s cry for her followers to “reload.” At least four of the House members hit with death threats or vandalism are among the 20 political targets Palin marks with rifle crosshairs on a map on her Facebook page….

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html?src=me&ref=general

The neocons, who bear little resemblance to pre-neocon Republicans and don’t deserve to be called G.O.P. was called G.O.P. by this author. Otherwise the author seems right on target.

The neocons recognized that America is a “MELTING POT” containing “ingredients” that have not all melted. Focusing on the natural divisions in the melting pot’s mixture,  the neocons hope to be the “COME-BACK” kid. It appears that they have already reached the stage of VERBAL TERRORISTS. It appears that they will do anything to keep the focus away from their twenty-some-odd years of train-wreck performance.

The neocons are the worst political group to hit America’s politics in hundreds of years. With one exception, the neocons are in a class by themselves.

The Neocons and Setting America’s Expectations

Without much doubt, the neocons lowered political performance to levels unseen by modern day man.

After the neocons were booted out of government leadership, their hopes of regaining the keys to America’s treasury did not die. What they apparently decided upon doing was to make the incoming administration look worse than the neocons’ administration.

But making any American administration look worse than the neocons administration would take herculean efforts – something not within the grasp of the neocons.

However the neocons, their mouth-pieces and their TELL-AMERICA press could reset America’s expectations from the depths of the neocon level to an  unreachable level for the incoming political party. It was time for the neocons to set America’s expectations to unreachable levels.

What took many years for the neocons to destroy would be allocated a year or less for the Obama administration to fix.

The year, 2003, saw President George W. Bush focus on America’s economy. In 2003, President Bush described America’s economy this way:

…After recession, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our economy is recovering. Yet it is not growing fast enough, or strongly enough.

With unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open, more companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that says, “Help Wanted.”

(APPLAUSE)…

…Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to employ every man and woman who seeks a job.

(APPLAUSE)…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext_012803.html

It took the Bush adminstration almost five years to destroy a well functioning economy. It is easier to destroy than to build. It is quicker to destroy than to build.

And when one considers that everything the neocons touched, they broke – there is a lot of fixing to do. It could take a lifetime to fix all that the neocons broke!

But yet, there are writers who write that the Obama Administration has not yet fixed the economy. President Obama cannot use VOODOO ECONOMICS to fix the economy. It takes hard work and time to fix a capsized economy. And time is what the neocons, their mouth-pieces and the TELL AMERICA press is rationing to the Obama Administration. They want the economy fixed and they want it fixed now!

These same folks saw the Bush Administration fail to even RECOGNIZE a recession. America’s recession(the last one) started in December of 2007 but was still IN-DENIAL by President Bush in April of 2008.

Setting America’s expectations to unrealistic levels for the party in power while doing all in their power to hamstring that president is unworthy of an American political party.  But the neocons are a special case of American politicians. There has been nothing like them in America’s recent past and America will be well served if there is nothing like them in America’s near future. America is still “ailing”. Only a fool would hire a demolition crew to rebuild anything.

Recreational Drugs Vs Prescription Drugs

Based upon the neocons behavior toward health care for America’s citizens one might think that the neocons never advocated government providing drugs to America’s citizens. But indeed they did. And once again, it appears that the neocons were opportunity driven.

America’s government(neocons) sold crack-cocaine to minority neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California. Wrecking American bodies and souls gave the neocons an opportunity to continue financing their adopted war in the jungles of South America. The American tax-payer had cut off funding for that war.

If the neocons are in charge of America’s government and there is a political opportunity in selling drugs to America, the necons – in the past did indeed sell. If there is a political opportunity in America’s government NOT selling drugs to America’s citizens, the neocons will opt not to sell. The neocons don’t seem to be influenced “too much” by ethics, rules, laws, etc. Political opportunity seems to be the beacon that guides them.

During the 80’s the neocons saw a political opportunity in selling drugs to America’s citizens. Their choice of drugs was cocaine. NEVER MIND THAT A COCAINE HABIT CAN BE DEBILITATING AND LIFE DESTROYING, the neocons saw a political opportunity in selling cocaine in order to fund their adopted war in the jungles of South America. The American tax-payer had stopped financial support of the neocons South American war.

Selling the illegal drug, crack-cocaine is the only “government sponsored” drug sales the neocons have pushed. Since the neocon American government concentrated their illegal sale of drugs to a tiny micro-set of America, they avoided the socialism tag – numbers not big enough.

But there is a neocon problem with the idea of America’s government supporting a program that provides government assistance to “way-too-many people(Socialism?)” and is not likely to produce any 9,000,000 dollar bonuses to those who might “trickle down” some of those dollars to keep the economy “rolling”.

The two biggest money makers in America are Big Oil and Big Pharmaceuticals. Political campaigns are very expensive. There is political opportunity in supporting the causes of those entities.

And not to worry about the American voter. The campaign with the most money wins the election.

After the United States Supreme court opened the “spigot”, BLACK GOLD” can flow into the campaign coffers of those Republicans who have been PURIFIED. And the “purification” mould is fashioned after, of all people, Ronald Reagan. If you shoot for heaven and you miss, gravity might still enable a chance to hit hell.

The neocons, with one exception, are in a class by themselves.

What Happens When Congress Fails to Do Its Job?

Don’t be fooled: The House and Senate still need fixing.

Newsweek

By Ezra Klein | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Mar 27, 2010

In 2008 Barack Obama almost asked Evan Bayh to be his running mate. It was “a coin toss,” recalls David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager. Bayh lost that toss, but the fact that he was a finalist—much as he’d been for John Kerry four years earlier—was proof that he was doing something right in his day job as junior senator from Indiana. His future seemed bright.

Last month he announced his retirement.

There was no scandal. Bayh wasn’t plagued by poor fundraising or low poll numbers. Nor is fatigue a likely explanation: at 54, Bayh is fairly young, at least when you’re grading on the curve that is the United States Senate.

What drove Bayh from office, rather, was that he’d grown to hate his job. Congress, he wrote in a New York Times op-ed, is “stuck in an endless cycle of recrimination and revenge. The minority seeks to frustrate the majority, and when the majority is displaced it returns the favor. Power is constantly sought through the use of means which render its effective use, once acquired, impossible.”

The situation had grown so grim, Bayh said, that continued service was no longer of obvious use. Americans were left with a bizarre spectacle: a member of the most elite legislative body in the most powerful country in the world was resigning because the dysfunctions of his institution made him feel ineffectual. “I simply believe I can best contribute to society in another way,” Bayh explained, “creating jobs by helping grow a business, helping guide an institution of higher learning, or helping run a worthy charitable endeavor.”…

http://www.newsweek.com/id/235560

And in addition to the above, Mr. Klein focused his reader’s attention on this:

In the months leading up to the health-care-reform vote, there was much talk that Congress is broken and serious reform is necessary. Some would say the bill’s passage is a decisive refutation of that position. They are wrong.

What we have learned instead is that even in those rare moments when bold action should be easy, little can be done. Consider the position of the Democrats over the last year: a popular new president, the largest majority either party has held in the Senate since the post-Watergate wave, a 40-seat majority in the House, and a financial crisis. Congress has managed to pass a lot of legislation, and some of it has been historic. But our financial system is not fixed and our health-care problems are not solved. Indeed, when it comes to the toughest decisions Congress must make, our representatives have passed them off to some other body or some future generation.

With the second part of this “piece” a reader has enough “data” to form an opinion of the writer.

Why do we believe?

Sometimes we “believe” in order to be kind to a speaker or writer.

Sometimes we “believe” because the speaker or writer is “one of us”

Sometimes we “believe” because it’s too “hard” or time consuming  not to believe – even when the common-sense tool is all that’s required.

The author went a long ways into his post before he got to the real topic of his post – health care for America. The author admonished his readers not to be fooled and then went on his way to fooling them.

He started out by focusing on the departure from Congress of Senator Bayh. Being a Senator from Indiana in a Tea Party environment would require a good deal of determination in an election and during daily Congressional “discussions” there was likely to be some “potty mouths” to be heard. The neocons have lowered the bar everywhere they “performed”.

Common-sense ought to break-in here and ask – why doesn’t the Congress, after twenty-some-odd years of neocon control, display neocon “features”?

And the truth is – that it does! Congress rode “shotgun” for the Executive Branch as the Executive Branch went on a law-breaking spree. The Executive Branch broke America’s laws and the Legislative Branch remade the laws to agree with the Executive performance.

Although America’s founding fathers decided upon a “three branch” government structure, the legislative and the executive branches, during the hey-day of the neocons almost functioned as one.

Congress is not just coming under scrutiny. Congress should have impeached President George W. Bush. If there ever was a Congressional job that did not get done, it was the impeachment of President George W. Bush. And the lack of impeachment action against the Bush administration  introduced America to a double standard in the impeachment category. A Democratic President was impeached by the neocons(with help from the TELL AMERICA press) for improper touching while a neocon president got away with very serious war crime accusations.

joejolly wrote many posts questioning why the House of Representatives never brought impeachment charges against President Bush and his staff. Was this author’s congressional sensors working back when the neocons were the majority?

And listen to this again:

What we have learned instead is that even in those rare moments when bold action should be easy, little can be done. Consider the position of the Democrats over the last year: a popular new president, the largest majority either party has held in the Senate since the post-Watergate wave, a 40-seat majority in the House, and a financial crisis. Congress has managed to pass a lot of legislation, and some of it has been historic. But our financial system is not fixed and our health-care problems are not solved.

Does this man really think that President Obama can fix in a year what it took the neocons many years to break? Was this man put-aback by the lack of Mr. Bush to even say the word “R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N”?

The author seems to want America to believe that the democrats are a homogeneous bunch. They are not. Not in the life-time of most of us have they been. Still, the Democrats do not even entertain the neocon idea of party-purity. After selling crack-cocaine to American citizens and slicing the penis of terror suspects – perhaps the neocons should consider the  REPENT word not the PURITY word.

What happens when Congress fails to do its job?

1. A president who should have been impeached – was not

2. A president whose administration sold crack cocaine gets away

3. A president who told less than the truth about WMDs gets away

4. Male terror SUSPECTS  gets their penis sliced if they are high ranking

5. A false WMD assertion starts a war

It is truly pitiful what America has to believe.

Why DO you believe? Is it because a BIG brain is talking to a little brain?

Josh Saint Jacque Responded to My Post, “It’s Hard to Believe this is America

My Post

It’s Hard to Believe this is America

The neocons complained more about President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize than they did about President Reagan’s crack-cocaine.

The neocons complained more about President Obama’s health-care for America’s citizens than they did about President George W. Bush’s Iraq war.

It is hard to believe this is America – until you realize that:

With one exception, the neocons are in a class by themselves.

Josh Saint Jacque responded:

The “neocons” by definition did not exist during the Iran-Contra scandal, if that’s what you are referring to by “Reagan’s cocaine.” But, as far as our issue about the Nobel prize it was simply that the President had not actually done anything yet. It was clearly pre-mature to give the man a prize for efforts to create peace when he had not done anything to create peace, and really hasn’t been able to do anything since.

The neoconservatives(neocons) were “at work” long before the Iran-Contra Affair. The neocons existed before, during and after the Iran-Contra Affair. From the post “The Age of the Neocons”, we see this:

…In 1973, the socialist leader Michael Harrington dubbed people such as Kristol and Moynihan as neoconservatives. The label stuck. Harrington could just as easily have named them neoliberals or neolibertarians, for their agenda shared more with American liberalism and libertarianism than with conservatism. Kristol said of his turn to the right that he was “a liberal who was mugged by reality”….

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2102/stories/20040130000506400.htm

And next, looking at wikipedia’s  the Iran-Contra Affair, we see:

Iran–Contra affair

Participants

Ronald Reagan, Robert McFarlane, Caspar Weinberger, Hezbollah, Nicaraguan contras

Date

August 20, 1985 (1985-08-20) – March 4, 1987 (1987-03-04)

The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای مک‌فارلین, Spanish: caso Irán-contras) was a political scandal in the United States which came to light in November 1986, during the Reagan administration, in which senior U.S. figures agreed to facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, to secure the release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan contras.

The affair began as an operation to improve U.S.-Iranian relations. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to a relatively moderate, politically influential group of Iranians, and then that the U.S. would then resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of six U.S. hostages, who were being held by the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

We see the Iran-Contra Affair was a war-related opportunity for the neocons – who love wars.

Ronald Reagan was the original neocon. His “movement” started after he was elected president in 1980. William Buckley Jr, undeniably an American icon, was said to have supported Reagan’s campaign. But what that “movement” morphed into was not to William Buckley’s liking. And William Buckley Jr. was a conservative.

The Reagan years put America in the crack-cocaine selling business. America sold crack cocaine to its own citizens in order to fund an adopted war in the jungles of South America.

Lets look at a declassified top secret document from the National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2. It’s called “The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.

…This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive, including the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort, and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included.

Special thanks to the Arca Foundation, the Ruth Mott Fund, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, and the Fund for Constitutional Government for their support.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm

The neocons not only existed during the Iran-Contra Affair – but it could easily be said that the neocons were the Iran-Contra Affair.

…

Did President Obama do anything to deserve his Nobel Peace Prize?

Absolutely!!!

It all starts in the mind. President Barack Obama changed the mind-set of America’s government from WAR to PEACE. And that was a major break with the war-mongering neoconservatives.

Picture yourself, living in a country where your President(George W. Bush) casually drops the verbal idea of using a third world war to settle a regional Middle East conflict. And add to that a Vice President, a heart-beat away from the man who verbalized WWIII, saying America’s President can start a nuclear war without concurring with anyone.

We are not talking about the ramblings of a “banana republic” leader. We are talking about public statements of one of the greatest powers on earth. And that kind of talk coming from the war-mongering neocons, is scary!

President Obama cannot undo existing wars. He cannot make it look like Iraq’s oil was not a major reason for the neocons’ Iraq war. But President Obama can say, “PEACE BE STILL” and hope for a world less inclined to saber rattling – more inclined to diplomacy.

The British have proved that the SUN must set on one’s empire. And Adolf Hitler proved that trying to kill-off those who didn’t agree with his  “life-style” or those who failed his  race-test may not be a good idea – in spite of what the Zionist Jews are doing.

President Barack Obama is taking America off the road to continuous wars and threats of wars. Until the neocons, America was not out-front “hooping and hollering” about wars – America spoke softly and carried a BIG STICK. The war hysteria of the neocons helped enrich many – but not enough to be called SOCIALISM.

President Obama has lowered the decibel count of war making noise from a very, very powerful country. He is working to END wars that seemingly did not have a planned ending. Quite a-while ago, several of my posts predicted that:

“the Iraq war will end – when the last barrel of Iraq oil is sold or when the last American soldier – standing in Iraq – falls”.

President Barack Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize and the thanks of the world. It is an American tragedy that America’s neocons and the world’s terrorists seem to have similar objectives against the Democratic party.

It’s Hard to Believe This is America

The neocons complained more about President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize than they did about President Reagan’s crack-cocaine.

The neocons complained more about President Obama’s health-care for America’s citizens than they did about President George W. Bush’s Iraq war.

It is hard to believe this is America – until you realize that:

With one exception, the neocons are in a class by themselves.

The Republicans Have Promised ‘Bruising’ Politics For the Next Political Campaign

During the last Presidential campaign the topics were not remotely related to politics.

There are still political questions that have gone unanswered by the neocons. Serious political questions remain on the rein of the original neocons(1980- 1988) and also on the latter-day neocons(2000-2008). Thus, the neocons have a great deal of political PERFORMANCE to bring to bear against a political opponent.

The Original Neocons and the Sale of Crack-Cocaine

Who was involved in the initial planning, acquiring and the selling of crack-cocaine in minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California?

What were the plans?

When did the planning take place?

Where did the planning take place?

Why was there a need for such a plan?

How was the plan implemented?

The original neocons left a performance legacy that the latter-day neocons could certainly bring up in their “show-down” with the Democrats.

The latter-day neocons could explain to the American people how firing 11,000 control tower workers made sense.

The latter-day neocons could explain to the American people why they don’t disavow Reaganomics after it has brought nothing but “pain and suffering” to the American economy.

And the latter-day neocons have plenty of their own performance to throw at the Democrats.

The latter-day neocons could take the upcoming campaign as an opportunity to finally reveal why they attacked Iraq.

At this time the attack on Iraq looks bad for America and the neocons. It looks good for BIG OIL. BIG OIL and BIG PHARMACEUTICALS are the biggest money-makers in America.

A political campaign would be an ideal time for the latter-day neocons to explain why the name of one of the biggest money-makers in America was handed Iraq’s oil reserves. And it has now been revealed that Iraq’s oil reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves.

What is fascism?

The First “W” of Journalism – WHO?

CBS wrote a story about a terrorist who attempted but failed to blow up an America passenger plane. This was the second attempt of a lone terrorist to blow up an American passenger plane. The first attempt, the shoe bomber, happened on the neocons’ watch. I saw no “art-work” connected with the shoe bomber attempt.

But for the attempt that happened on the watch of the Obama administration, I did see a CBS news-story with attached artwork. The news-story was embellished with “art-work” that was supposed to relate to the news-story.

It was the picture that caught my eye. The picture was some kind of a MASH-UP. Somebody put two photographs together and made one MASH-UP or a collage or something. So, it was possible that a person reading the story could associate terrorism with President Obama’s administration at best and a personal relationship between President Obama and the terrorist at worst. In any case, this picture went beyond what one normally expects of journalists. Artists – yes, journalist – no.

Did the below “art-work”  “add value” to the CBS text?

The old joejolly’s post can be found here.

Could this artwork answer the “WHO” question of the 5 W’s? 

WHO? President Obama and the terrorist!

The CBSNEWS Political Hot Sheet story can be found here.