Wednsday's IHOP

Remember that line in that movie "I am Sam?"

I think of that line every Wednesday when I have to read the Fishwrap.

Housing slump persists
Credit crunch fuels drop in sales, prices in 6-county region
By Roger Showley
STAFF WRITER
October 17, 2007

Credit crunch, credit crunch, credit crunch, yeah, if I repeat that enough, I'll start to believe it. It can't have anything to do with a BUBBLE (inflated by greedy moneylenders who lent money to people that didn't understand what kind of crazy balloon payment they were going to be stuck with after a couple of years) that fucking had to pop sooner or later, right?

Staph 'superbug' infections on rise
More than 90,000 cases seen in U.S. each year
By Lindsey Tanner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 17, 2007

Bush-era Justice officials shift focus
Less emphasis on mob, environment, civil rights
By Dan Eggen and John Solomon
THE WASHINGTON POST
October 17, 2007

Dot-com zeal raises specter of bubble bust
By Brad Stone and Matt Richtel
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
October 17, 2007

So, OK today wasn't so bad, most of the stories came from other papers. I didn't figure it would take me long to find an article in the Fishwrap that make me wonder what was missing from it.

Ummmm, yeah.

State shares its notes on quagga mussels
By Terry Rodgers
STAFF WRITER
October 17, 2007

...Quagga mussels are native to Russia and Ukraine. They were first found in North America 18 years ago in Lake Erie, having hitchhiked to the the United States in the ballast water of oceangoing ships....

Hmm, I've heard that if you have an invasive species that is taking over the native species one of the ways to control it you find out where it came from and go back and look for a natural predator. I figured one of these links would do that.

umm, not here

no, not here either

nope, not here

Frustrated with the links, I Googled what preys on quagga mussels?

I mean Jeeez, how much chlorine can you pump into the water before it's just not drinkable?
And you lazy boaters, drain your damn boats.


My progressive talk radio station is switching to sports talk.

Get a load of some of the comments. I'm a liberal, or one of "the libs" as one cretin comments. I have to deal with these people every day. *Sigh*

So the interests who fund the fishwrap got their way. They want to control the only media in San Diego, they are not used to having to explain themselves to the rabble, and they certainly don't want the rabble to have a microphone.