Today I went to the unemployment office to re-open my claim (hopefully the study and Wednesday’s interview will make it semi moot).
Because of some things at the house the plan to get there before it opens was shot so I was ready, I had my Palin book and my Ipod and was prepared for a two hour wait like the last time…
…they had me taken care of in 15 minutes. Apparently the claim re-opening is the easiest thing in the shop, but 15 minutes with the place packed? That is one serious miracle.
As a believing Catholic I’m prepared for miracles but wasn’t prepared for that.
However some things are almost a miracle too far, like the New York Times covering the hacked Global Warming Documents:
And as a nice sequel of sorts to our previous post on leftwing cognitive dissonance, Orrin Judd spots this staggering moment of hypocrisy from the New York Times’ Andrew C. Revkin of their “Dot Earth” blog on Friday:
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
And they don’t contain any obvious state military secrets as well, unlike say the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War or more recently, the secrets of War on Terror, or any of a number of other leaked documents the Times has cheerfully rushed to print.
Back in 2006, when his paper disclosed the previously confidential details of the SWIFT program, which was designed to trace terrorists’ financial assets, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller said on CBS’s Face the Nation, “one man’s breach of security is another man’s public relations.” Of course, much like the rest of the media circling the wagons with ACORN, it’s not at all surprising that the Times circles the wagons when it’s necessary to save the public face of their fellow liberals.
After all the release of this information won’t put American soldiers lives in danger or risk national security so of course it’s not worth printing.
You know eventually if they don’t just fold the paper might decide to just market strictly to their niche liberal market. If that happens then watch it become even worse.
When I first started reading Instapundit there was a blub at the top that said “The NY Times of Bloggers”. I think the Times if they had any brains would set a goal to be called the Instapundit of Newspapers.
If they set that as a goal and acted accordingly what a change that would be.
Update: Investigations come to the fore.
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