Wednesday, August 14, 2002

New local magazine to hit shelves Sept. 5
I can't find a website for this magazine yet. I will keep my eyes posted for a url, but I will be surprised if one appears anytime soon. I am shocked someone is starting a new magazine, about Cincinnati of all places. I hope it succeeds.

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Bill would limit medical malpractice awards
Why isn't this story, or one like it, in the Enquirer?
Cincinnati School Board Votes To Put Bond Issue On November Ballot
I hope this issue passes, but I doubt this city wants to pay to improve the schools. The only thing going for it is that the rest of County does not get to vote on it.
Comair cites bodyguard's gun, lack of paperwork
This sounds like a valid reason to keep anyone off the plane. I think Comair let this story go on to long without getting this message out quicker. I may have to check the Israeli press for coverage of this explanation.
RADEL: Festival seating too risky
Can we call Cliff the Drama Queen of the Enquirer? Did he read my post on his prior column? I don't know, but he certainly seems to be in line with the Enquirer's School Mum attitude. Cliff seems to be stuck on emotions left over from 1979. He also seems to be stuck in the mindset that any "risk" is too much. I guess the thousands of festival seating deaths since 1979 have convinced him that the ban is completely justified. Oh, what do you say? There have not been thousands or even hundreds of deaths from festival seating? I can't name any other deaths from festival seating at all. I personally have survived 3 Dead shows back in 1989-1991 which all had more than 5 times the number of people in festival style seats. No one died at Live Aid in 1985. There were injuries at the various Woodstocks, but mostly due to the mosh pits. Why doesn’t cliff protest Riverbend's festival seating? I just don't get the misplaced emotionalism.
The Enquirer Sinks to a New Editorial Low
Did the editorial board hire Phil Burress? I think they just read Phil's website, CCV. The Enquirer wants to claim pornography hurts people, and they use the recent arrests of the international child porn ring. 99.9% of pornography is not child porn. Child porn is disgusting, is clearly illegal, and those doing it should be caught and beat on. Child porn is RARE!!!! It is not common. If you read the Enquirer's editorial today you would think that is the only porn people can get. If I use their "logic", I must conclude that every Catholic Priest is a child molester. That would of course be absurd. I must ask the Enquirer to tell me who is hurt by making or looking at hard-core pornography? Child porn does not count, so don't try that again, it is already illegal. Next they might drag out Ted Bundy. I really want to know where they get their support for stating: "Violence and perverse behavior linked to pornography use is documented in research." Whose research??? The CCV? I would bet there is research still out there by some religious nuts showing that masturbation will make you go blind. I also hope that the conservatives who like their porn don't blame this on "liberals" as they blame them for everything else. This is not a liberal method; this is Phil Burress and the theocratic fascists. The Enquirer is to prudish to even put their opinion pages on the web. I guess they think that will keep people buying the paper. And so it goes.

Monday, August 12, 2002

Israeli official kicked off Comair plane
I was correct about it being Comair. This is something I would like to hear a take on from Rabbi Abie Ingber on this occurrence. I miss hearing his commentaries on WVXU.
Vine Street festival sparsely attended
This event got a very different spin from The Cincinnati Post. This is one reason for having two newspapers in town.
BRONSON: A doper's view of the drug war
Is Peter Bronson dead? I don't know wrote this column, but it is not the conservative Peter Bronson. The only thing that might account for this column is that someone slipped some doobage into his cornflakes. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read this. I don't know if I will ever take anything Pete writes seriously again. I know this is a libertarian issue, but if Pete would take the libertarian view on religion, he might not be such a right-winger wanker.

Sunday, August 11, 2002

WLWT has found the Priestly Story on the Web!!!
Yea! They have Internet access; to bad I scooped them!!! I am faster to watch CNN and hit the AP wire.
Jason Priestley seriously injured in crash
Breaking News, I see nothing on local news coverage of this, even though they cover the Kentucky Speedway quite heavily. WLWT is missing the boat, they are on live this morning, but are not providing any remotely large coverage. If CNN is reporting it as breaking news, you would think local news, where the story is really local, would be on the story.
Report: Pilot refuses to fly Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister from Cincinnati
I would guess that the "Delta Air Lines subsidiary" is Comair. This sounds like either a foolish pilot, anti-semitic, or just over cautious.
BRONSON: Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?'
Peter, if you wanted to "let it go", then why did you bring it up again?

Saturday, August 10, 2002

Tenants have new lawyer, want to cancel agreement to move
The race baiters have moved on to the next target. On the Buzz this issue has already taken a racial tact, which for Buzz callers is the rule, not the exception.
Fla. dog lost in '96 found here
Is Mike Allen going to prosecute the dog-nappers?
Fake attack tests local rescuers
This kind of attack would never happen from foreign sources, but domestic sources are possible.

Friday, August 09, 2002

CityBeat: Letters (2002-08-08)
A typical letter from one who finds blame, but can't seem to find the specifics as to what the problems are.

The Truth Is out There
I would like to respond to Mark Wagner's comments in last week's letters section Blacks Part of the Problem issue of Aug. 1-7). How dare he blame the black community for the problems in Cincinnati? Does he know who he really should blame for the racial problems in Cincinnati? Here's the real truth.

First of all, go down to City Hall and confront your arrogant mayor, your clueless city manager and your airheaded city council members, who wouldn't even know how to run a marathon let alone a city. Then, go to District One headquarters, the most corrupt and evil organization in this one-horse town, and confront Police Chief Tom Streicher.

Why doesn't Wagner and people with his thinking accept the fact that Cincinnati, Ohio USA is an overly and ridiculously conservative, racist city? Cincinnati doesn't believe in change, progress or justice for all. That's why there is a boycott in this city.

Now, before Wagner points his finger at the black community, he should take a good damn look around and see the racism and injustice in this God-forsaken city. That's the real truth!

And if you can't handle the truth, my advice is don't mess with it.


-- Fredrick Malone fredrick.malone@worldnet.att.net


Freddie needs to get a clue. Show me the racism. Write it down and publish the incidents. I will then ask you to listen to 1230 the Buzz on a given weekday, and then write down the regular callers who spout the vilest racist dogma I have ever heard. They at times eclipse the worst KKK idiot. They are allowed to do this everyday, and some of them are even guest on the weekends or one even has his own radio show. The hosts on the weekday shows emote veiled shock at their comments, while giggling at the controversy it gins up. You can't compare anything that you hear on WLW to the racism and constant bigotry that WDBZ has on its airwaves on a regular basis.
CityBeat: Learning How to Struggle (2002-08-08)
Ok, am I living in Cincinnati, or I am living in some kind of neo-Russian Transitional Soviet Republic circa 1917? How can this reporter write this stuff with a straight face? Charging at windmills can be a noble endeavor, but when your alternative is nothing but either a totalitarian state or a neo-anarchistic collective of contradictorial Zapatistaism, you really don't have much credibility with anyone with more than a degree in "International Movements." Me and my degree in Finance from Mother Miami find this to be laughable. I even lived on Western Campus for a year, but these kids are just beyond the fringe. City Beat is beyond being liberal. I am a liberal. City Beat is Progressive Populist. I wish all of the conservatives could tell the difference, but like these Progpops, they paint with a wide brush.
CityBeat: Watching the Detectives (2002-08-08)

Another advocacy Column posing as a news article from City Beat. I voiced my opinion in the letter to Greg Flannery the writer below:

Greg,

If Copwatch is so great and is so needed, then why has it taken them a year to produce one video, which they have not yet released? If the Police are just the racists they are made out to be, then why have they not produced dozens of video incidents? If they have not been able to obtain video of these incidents, then why not have a log of them on there website for the whole world to read. They could update it daily with new reports of police wrongdoing. I don't see that happening. I have visited their website several times and I have not seen it updated yet.

"Police brutality is going on and is being ignored," he says.

The he above is Islord Allah mention in your article. I have to ask, where's the beef? If they are documenting these incidents, why are they not posting each one on their website? If they want people to know what is going on, they have to tell them, and provide at least some basic facts. Generalities "reported" by biased "activists" are not going to win any support from the mainstream resident. I wish your "news" article would have had a few objective observations in it, instead of a PR piece for the group it appears you support.

Brian Griffin
CityBeat: Porkopolis (2002-08-08)
Flannery is beating on the City of Cincinnati for losing new development to Newport. I have to wonder how he thinks the boycott is helping Cincinnati attract new development? That would be the same boycott his newspaper promotes in every issue, he promotes in nearly every column he writes.