Entries from May 2007 ↓

Rain.

When it rains. You don’t drive a Ferrari F430 or a Porsche Carrera GT. They slip and slide too easily. We’ll have another event with the cars. Sorry they won’t be there.

“The best things to ever come out of Yahoo, as far as I’m concerned, have been the work of individuals. Not of some hyperbolic purple and yellow machine, but from people, strong-willed individuals willing to buck the bureaucracy. And all the worst stuff the company has done has come out of committees. If Microsoft buys Yahoo, a huge (huge) number of talented people will be even richer than before and will almost certainly walk away.” - Seth Godin

Don’t forget the most important part about this story. “WSJ: Yahoo, Microsoft talks no longer active.”

If you look at Mitt Romney’s donations, most of them come from the 84604 zip code (that’s Provo, Utah).

Surprised?

Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton both got most of their donations from New York City. The interesting part is that Clinton’s top five zip codes were all in New York City whereas Giuliani’s were much more diverse. Barack Obama’s third highest donating zip code was the same as Clinton and Giuliani’s No. 1 . . . I have a feeling Clinton is in for a suprise.

Remember the “extra stuff” added to the bill that’s getting all this attention because Bush said he was going to veto?

Remember the $25 million earmarked for California spinach growers? ($3.7 billion in total for agricultural relief in California and the midwest) Remember how Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is at the forefront of pushing this bill? Remember how Harry Reid (who is also at the forefront of pushing this bill) has $20 million earmarked for killing crickets in his state? Remember how Nanci Pelosi tried to add minimum wage into this bill? (If it passed, Dems could tout passing a (forced) minimum wage bill. If it didn’t they could blame it on the Republicans).

I’ve chimed in on the minimum wage issue before with “Socialism is one of the Democrat congress’ top priorities”

Keep in mind there’s another hot-button issue here as well. The bill also includes $10 billion for body armor that would protect the troops. Essentially, it sounds like a ploy to make the president look like an a-hole because they know it won’t pass. The Dems can then say that Bush rejected $10 billion in gear to protect the troops, and people will buy it. (Does it really cost $10 billion to protect the troops if they were to all come home by October 1? No.)

A final thought
Do any of us really like turning on the television to see soldiers dying in Iraq? Do we really like to hear that hundreds of people die each month from suicide bombers? No. Aboslutely not.

But, don’t blatantly lie and decieve the American people into believing that this is only about President Bush vetoing a bill that brings home the troops with a timeline and protects them in the meantime. This bill is so full of pet projects that the media isn’t reporting about that they are doing an incredible disservice to our country. President Bush should absolutely veto this bill because it’s a sheep in wolves clothing.

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OMBWatch

Somehow, Utah keeps bucking national trends with its newspapers seeing an increase in readership.

Papers in Utah see rise in readers

Weekday circulation at 745 U.S. daily newspapers fell 2.1 percent in the six months ended March 31 compared to the same six-month period a year ago, the report said. Sunday newspapers saw circulation decline 3.1 percent for the six months ended in March.

via DesNews, quoting a Newspaper Agency Corporation poll.

Daily Herald - +2.3%
Deseret News - +1.2%
Salt Lake Trib - +

The rest of the story
Big media is still the place to be. If someone starts preaching how old media is dead, they don’t know what the heck they are talking about. You can still reach more than 2.2 million people a day in USA Today or the Wall Street Journal. Digg, blogs . . . they can’t touch that (besides the fact that Digg has very little cred because it gets gamed so often).

“This is still a hell of a profitable business,” said John Kimball, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of NAA. “It’s not like newspapers are losing money. While the profit margins are not as high as they were three to five years ago, they are still extremely enviable compared to most businesses.”