Comments on: The State of the News

By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:45:34 +0000

Dusty,

I’ve been reading you for quite some time, and was quite pleased that you chimed in on these ‘pressing’ topics.

Loved what you said, and completely agree with it.

Here’s to us all hopefully not being jealous of the bystanding turds that we live with.

High respects sir.

By: theCDP.

theCDP. — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:06:15 +0000

Perfect.

By: mikeymike

mikeymike — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:26:18 +0000

uh jill… you might look back at the AI article and notice it is written by Phil (i don’t play the drums) Collins. the same guy who wrote the 4/10 post and the 3/27 post… guest blogger, dusty calls him.

good read, dude…

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:43:37 +0000

ok…totally off subject, but I just read the most recent AI (the one about your nose) and you mentioned “your wife.” So, did you married “The Skirt” and not tell us or what?
I’m so confused.

By: groundloop

groundloop — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:56:37 +0000

Oh, yeah.
At least Smart Alec finally and unequivocally stepped dead center in his own turd. Equally fitting.

By: groundloop

groundloop — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:53:19 +0000

Just dropped in to see what your take on the latest insanity via our dipshit media was since tiring of the airheads in OTD at RCG and their equally exhausting and predictable political BS. Figures you’d lay it out in plain fricking english so that even those dimmies could understand it all.
Well done amigo on a typically refreshing point of view.

By: Waddley

Waddley — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:12:55 +0000

The last thing that I will ever agree with is censorship. But the next time an anchor asks the victim of a true tragedy ( anguish over Anna-Nicole’s “unremarkable anus” doesn’t count!!) “How that made them feel” to be there I say we all collectivly raise the turd and beat them about the head and shoulders with it!! Gimmie a break!! It would be great to find a way to buid a truly non-sensational, wholly objective and condierate media!! They came up with a v-chip for kids…how bout an ethics chip for anybody that goes into TV news!! The second that an anchor decides to take a story to the n-th degree it causes them to piss themselves and forget who they are for an hour.
Dusty, I’ve been an avid reader for years and I find your writing to be intelligent, entertaining and needed. Please, for all of our sakes, keep it up!
Bravo!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:24:23 +0000

“The only reason it is a big deal at all is because it was directed at a minority and everyone wants to overstate it to avoid being called a racist.”

True story: middle schooler is suspended and investigated for a hate crime for leaving a ham steak on a cafeteria table frequented by (Somali immigrant) muslims. Not two weeks before at the same school, another middle schooler asked the cafeteria workers if they had any non meat entrees, it was Good Friday and his religion forbade him eating meat. He was laughed at by students, teacher/monitors, and the caf workers, one of whom told him to get a life. So it’s okay to ridicule white Catholics, just don’t offend the Muslims. Frickin double standards. And why is Jesse (“Hymietown”) Jackson crabbing about Imus?

By: dusty

dusty — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:34:38 +0000

I had the same thought (and I agree that some cases demand a more aggressive response), but for the most part, the people who claim we should have gone in with guns blazing are the same ones who would cry the loudest if an innocent kid was accidentally killed by a police bullet, even if it saved a dozen others. We wouldn’t have the luxury of quantifying how many were saved, only how many died.

Police procedure has been honed to great extent by litigation-happy special interest groups, and there are good points and bad points to it. This is one of the bad points.

By: TLee007

TLee007 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:41:07 +0000

Well Dusty, there’s not much that I can say to that, other than BRAVO!!

Only thing that bothered me with the whole VA Tech thing is that the SWAT team waited to break in until seconds after he shot himself. Does this not seem circumspect to anyone but me? I’m left to wonder what exactly the cops were thinking when they took so long to respond. They could have killed him anytime before that, but they didn’t because the door was chained shut… CHAINED SHUT!! How the hell is it that no one could knock that door down?? They have CARS… CARS!!! They could have ran into the building with a car, and then fled in behind it, guns blazing(metaphorically speaking, of course). I think it’s just ridiculous that they stood around for so long.

If there was one thing they could have done better, it was responding with some sense of urgency to the situation.

Thus ends my rant… for now.

TLee007