The flat tire on my bike last night just a few minutes into my ride was a bummer. Rather than fix it on the road, I elected the "Call a Friend" option and dropped the whole bike at the shop for two tire replacements and a chain adjustment. The flatted tire was worn down to the carcass and it was the same tire that I had repaired a couple of weeks ago. Too many miles.
It looks like the Feds have decided to take Roger Clemens to the woodshed. Note that the charges are not the act of taking PED's, but rather for him standing up before Congress and lying through his teeth about it. The legislators have no problem lying themselves to the American public, about anything, but they get pretty agitated if they think that someone would stoop so low as to come into their House and lie to one of their own show-and-tell panels. Not that I have much symapthy for Clemens.
AP has put out the word to their writers that they can't use the term "Ground Zero Mosque". If this story isn't the most over-rated event since Geraldo's live excavation of Al Capone's vault, I don't know what is less news-worthy. I'm pretty sure that they have strip clubs in the area. Where's the outrage and controversy on such base and purient use of the hallowed ground? Whatever. Although it is fun to watch the White House gratuitously jump in and just flail away in the midst of the mud-slinging.
There's also been a couple of additions to 3 & 4's blog. Writing is therapeutic for most of us in the fam. Props to 3 for those efforts as well.
I'm off to mow the yard. And pick up the bike so that I'll be able to ride in the AM with @bcbison. Maybe finish that bottle of Tuscan red from last night. I mean, why wouldn't I?
BCOT
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I ran the Clemens story last night.
A person in our newsroom pointed out some AP copy that crossed the wires last night --
NEW YORK (AP) _ Coverage of the last American combat brigade to
leave Iraq put the difference between the cable news networks in
stark display.
MSNBC devoted its entire prime-time coverage to the story Wednesday, with Richard Engel riding with the troops in a specially equipped vehicle. Host Rachel Maddow was stationed in Baghdad, while Keith Olbermann anchored it all from New York.
Meanwhile, Fox News Channel devoted just under 10 minutes to the
story after 7 p.m. Wednesday, much of it in Shepard Smith's
newscast. Instead, the network's lineup spent 45 minutes discussing
construction of an Islamic center near ground zero.
The differing priorities led critics of both networks to suggest
politics was at work.
CNN spent an hour on each story.
For the record -- I don't like the AP.
I'm noticing a lot of "More than 7 years there and what did we accomplish?" coming after the Iraq exit, too.
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