Schreiner's Media Landscape

More News People Arrested At Republican Convention

Ken Schreiner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:18:32 +0000

Amy Goodman wasn’t the only journalist rounded up in the mass arrests in St. Paul for the crime of doing their job and excercising their First Amendment rights. I guess this is part of the “change” McCain, Palin and the GOP’s other goons are promising.

New Lawn Mower Emissions Standards: EPA Does Something Right

Ken Schreiner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:13:16 +0000

I like to give credit where credit is due, especially when it’s someone who repeatedly disappoints and angers you. So congrats to the Bush EPA who finally did something good for the environment: tightened emissions standards for gas-powered lawn mowers. This is no small feat as fossil-fuel burning lawn mowers produce more pollution than vehicles, according to a famous Swedish study.

Me? I’m still using my now two-year-old Ken-powered mower though I’ve nearly beaten it to death and am a little disappointed that it wasn’t more durable. My next mower- solar-battery powered.

Republican Convention in One Word: Creepy

Ken Schreiner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:52:58 +0000

I did something this year that I did four years ago with great success: I did not watch either the Democrat or Republican Conventions on TV. Instead, I relied on independent observers’ accounts: blogs, newspapers, websites, and my favorite, word-of-mouth. Having attended both parties’ conventions in 1992, I have experienced the phony, Hollywood-style atmosphere first-hand. But this year, I think the creepiness has totally permeated the events to the point where they are utterly unpalatable even from a cumulative distance of several thousand miles.

Having not seen the GOP picnic, I’ll let someone else sum it up in the way that most corresponds to my observations, Tom Shales, media critic of the Washington Post. Bottom line: George Bush was in charge but someone else sneaked into Washington back in 2001 and f**ked everything up. The Republicans certainly had nothing to do with any of it. And guess who’s the right party to fix everything that got mysteriously screwed up over the past seven years? That’s right- the people who screwed everything up over the past seven years.

Apparently, the Republican Party thinks the American people are grotesquely stupid and suffering from severe memory loss. Reading some of the remarks of people attending the shindig, maybe they’re right.

Sarah Palin: “God’s Will” is to Allow Republicans To Destroy God

Ken Schreiner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:07:09 +0000

Irony is lost on the born-again- not to mention truth, facts, what’s really in the Bible and whose side God is on. But despite the Radical Christian Republican Party’s lack of a sense of humor, the bizarre and utterly groundless religious statements coming from their Twin Cities tent service are so sad they’re funny. Sarah Palin and the Republicans are now basing their efforts to make the oil companies richer, pollute and destroy the Earth even faster and further, and usurp the rights of innocent people in Iraq on “God’s Will.”

IS THIS IN THE BIBLE? DID I MISS IT? WHERE DOES GOD SAY THAT ANYWHERE? HOW DOES A FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN AND ATV DEALER KNOW THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS?

If I was God, I’d sue.

Utah Company Admits Poisoning Great Salt Lake

Ken Schreiner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:51:18 +0000

It’s always interesting when someone vehemently and convincingly claims innocence of a crime for years then abruptly admits they indeed committed the offense and want to get the punishment over with as quickly as possible. That’s what’s happened in the case of a West Valley City mining operation that finally ‘fessed up that they dumped deadly selenium into some of Utah’s signature waterways including Great Salt Lake.

There are a number of environmental criminals still running around free and claiming innocence: chief among them Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray. But as independent media coverage, resulting public outrage and political pressure grow, hopefully more of these liars, thieves and environmental murderers will meet justice.

Now let the investigation of the Bush Regime into its protracted efforts to destroy America’s natural places begin. And so too- the claims of innocence.