It's the msm's year- they earned it.

I still think Paulson and Bernake should have been on this list but I'll settle for Frank. What a triad of dips---s those guys are.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Dig. [finger]

I am at another IP addy. If I were interesting in swing votes in my direction, I would vote again.

/

re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

English much?

I didn't see Hussein's name anywhere.

The msm truly EARNED this years Fiskie.
Barney, Paulson, and Bernake can be the bridesmaids at this wedding.

Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores

[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]

Bye Bye!

re: #9 Nevergiveup

People losing jobs. Shame.

re: #7 spirochete

I didn't see Hussein's name anywhere.

He's the front runner for 2009.

Good Morning Lizards! It's Frikkin Frigid™ in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

I finally made a decision and voted for Cynthia McKinney.

How are you-all and what are we talking about?

The MSM should win every year by definition. I voted for Frank. If he didn't see it coming, he's an ass. If he did see it coming and did nothing, he's a socialist ass. There is plenty of blame to go around, but "idiotarian"? Frank. No matter how "clever" and rhetorically gifted he is.

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Good [finger] morning

The media deserves a lifetime award for their slavish far-left sycophancy thinly disguised as journalism.

re: #8 notutopia

The msm truly EARNED this years Fiskie.
Barney, Paulson, and Bernake can be the bridesmaids at this wedding.

Poor Barney...always a bridemaid.

re: #9 Nevergiveup

Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores

[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]

Bye Bye!

I guess I should have waited to buy my TV this month as opposed to three months ago. Sucks that folks will be losing jobs but you can probably score some great deals during their liquidation sales.

I heard on the news today that the Red Star (aka The Star Tribune) filed for bankruptcy protection. What am I going to wrap my fish in?

The Discovery Institute is a close second.

re: #5 taxfreekiller

[Link:

I voted for the MSM the first time, for obvious reasons.

I voted for Sean Penn second, because he's not just another Hollywood Liberal. He's a red diaper baby like our new President, and actual Hollywood Communist who Joe McCarthy would be correct in blacklisting... Not to mention his traitorous schmoozing with Hugo Chavez and Raoul Castro, and his proudly calling for Socialism in America on HuffPo.

VOTE MSM

re: #19 godfrey

The Discovery Institute is a close second.

I voted for them twice and the msm once.

re: #9 Nevergiveup

Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores

[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]

Bye Bye!

What? No Bailout? Are these employee's non-union or something? The UAW should go on strike until these folks are bailed out!
/where does it end

re: #18 oronpam

I heard on the news today that the Red Star (aka The Star Tribune) filed for bankruptcy protection. What am I going to wrap my fish in?

Where's the bailout?!

re: #13 godfrey

Frank got one of my votes, too, but the MSM outdid itself in 2008 for 3 reasons:

1. Obama-love
2. Failure to report on the Iraq victory
3. Supporting the Global Warming charade

re: #17 Jetpilot1101

I guess I should have waited to buy my TV this month as opposed to three months ago. Sucks that folks will be losing jobs but you can probably score some great deals during their liquidation sales.

With all these liquidation sales, it seems the good stuff has already gone out the back door by the time they start, and the stuff left on the floor is all beat up?

re: #19 godfrey

The Discovery Institute is a close second.

They get a lifetime achievement award for complete idiocy.

re: #25 VegasRick

They deserved to go out of business; a failed business model, and a cost cutting plan that was based on firing the most experienced and competent floor staff in favor of cheaper help.

Throw in competition from Best Buy, Walmart, Target and online and it was a recipe for disaster.

Why you little bastard...

it's official now. steve edwards, of the los angeles fox morning show just connected the presence of big geese in new york to global warming.

re: #18 oronpam

I heard on the news today that the Red Star (aka The Star Tribune) filed for bankruptcy protection. What am I going to wrap my fish in?

Our greenbacks...if they keep losing value.

re: #28 Nevergiveup

With all these liquidation sales, it seems the good stuff has already gone out the back door by the time they start, and the stuff left on the floor is all beat up?

Good point but I still think you might be able to score some decent prices if you don't mind a set with some minor flaws.

Better late than never... is the bailout even constitutionally permissible?

Don't look for Democrats to stand in the way anytime soon, since Obama will soon be wielding that power and no one on that side of the aisle is going to complain about The 0ne using it.

re: #14 Sharmuta

Good [finger] morning

The elusive and rare, "DOUBLE DING!"

re: #20 ggt

my neck of the woods

re: #33 varmint

it's official now. steve edwards, of the los angeles fox morning show just connected the presence of big geese in new york to global warming.

Beautiful. Has he drawn the dots back to GWB?

re: #35 Jetpilot1101

Good point but I still think you might be able to score some decent prices if you don't mind a set with some minor flaws.

I went out on a blind date like that once?

Some of these candidates are late comers to the nomination. The MSM(or MFM too Mandy), have been long term and time peddlers of misrepresented news. They deserved all three of my votes.

Feature addiction: Pretending to work and trying to keep just one window open for LGF on the top thread without LGF spy on, is now like trying to watch the news with the sound off.

Thought Ban ki Moon deserved a nomination but many deserving others are listed.

Only letting me vote once. I wonder if there are two other lizards at work.

re: #33 varmint

it's official now. steve edwards, of the los angeles fox morning show just connected the presence of big geese in new york to global warming.

Wait till the whining about the environmental impact of a plane in the water, the fuel, the oil, the plastics. It will take the river years to recover!

re: #45 JCM

Wait till the whining about the environmental impact of a plane in the water, the fuel, the oil, the plastics. It will take the river years to recover!

And the fish killed on impact.

re: #31 lawhawk

They deserved to go out of business; a failed business model, and a cost cutting plan that was based on firing the most experienced and competent floor staff in favor of cheaper help.

Throw in competition from Best Buy, Walmart, Target and online and it was a recipe for disaster.

law,
I think you missed my point. I agree that any poorly run business should go away. My point was, what about the big 3, why not them and the UAW that has strangled any chance the big 3 might have.

Did we have a thread on the plane crash/landing in the Hudson?

re: #26 lawhawk

That thought scares me to death, but I can see it happening.

The "Longest Day" is on TV. I missed half of it because I thought it was a preview of the Inauguration at first?

re: #37 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Interestingly enough- I found that pic searching "olberman finger" on google's image search. Since he won last year's Fiskie, I thought it would be appropriate.

re: #18 oronpam

I heard on the news today that the Red Star (aka The Star Tribune) filed for bankruptcy protection. What am I going to wrap my fish in?

"There's the week, there's the weekend, there's the Weekender..."

Until the NYT goes under, the business section is really good for mackerel, salmon and trout. Arts and Leisure works best for tilapia and grouper. The Op-Ed page, however, is not food safe, and should only be used for pet litter and birdcages.

So many choices, so few votes! Well, they most all belong to the Church of Socialist Fantasies and Lollipops for All.

-sk

re: #28 Nevergiveup

With all these liquidation sales, it seems the good stuff has already gone out the back door by the time they start, and the stuff left on the floor is all beat up?

When Lechemere went out of business, the prices went up.
The liquidation company took discounts off of list price.
Back then, Zip drives were list $200, street $150. They started at 10% off list the first week, 20% the next, etc.
I bought a Zip drive at Comp USA for $150.
But just before liquidation, I bought a Pentax zoom lens for 1/2 price. Nice.

re: #33 varmint

it's official now. steve edwards, of the los angeles fox morning show just connected the presence of big geese in new york to global warming.

You.Have.Got.To.Be.Kidding.Me.

Memo to Edwards. There are, and always have been, Canadian geese in the NYC metro area. Always. They migrate through here every damned year, leaving a trail of droppings all over the place.

Are you talking to me?!

I am surprised these names are not on the list: Religion of Peace, DinnerJacket, Associated Press (special recognition)

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

re: #32 Sharmuta

Why you little bastard...

If that is for me; I bow to your superior fingering.

Uncle
(bows head in respect)

American Painter Andrew Wyeth Dies at 91

Andrew Wyeth, the popular American painter of rustic landscapes, farmhouses and plain country folk whose pictures evoked a range of feelings and emotions and a nostalgic vision of times past, died in his sleep early today at age 91.

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

Cognito?

Andrew Wyatt, Painter Died at 91.
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
RIP Mr. Wyatt.
[Link: www.arts.gov...]

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Cognito?

HA!

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

And the buzzards begin to circle...

heh

re: #52 gearhead

"There's the week, there's the weekend, there's the Weekender..."

Until the NYT goes under, the business section is really good for mackerel, salmon and trout. Arts and Leisure works best for tilapia and grouper. The Op-Ed page, however, is not food safe, and should only be used for pet litter and birdcages.

The problem is, the editorial pages are already so full of shit that they can't absorb any more.

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Cognito?

Good one!

re: #46 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

And the fish River Kittens killed on impact.

Didn't you get the latest memo from PETA? :)

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

When Lechemere went out of business, the prices went up.
The liquidation company took discounts off of list price.
Back then, Zip drives were list $200, street $150. They started at 10% off list the first week, 20% the next, etc.
I bought a Zip drive at Comp USA for $150.
But just before liquidation, I bought a Pentax zoom lens for 1/2 price. Nice.

IIRC, Liquidation Company buys the inventory for cents on the dollar and then sells it. Prices have nothing to do with the bankrupt company's previous selling practices. It's a whole 'nother scam.

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

When Lechemere went out of business, the prices went up.
The liquidation company took discounts off of list price.
Back then, Zip drives were list $200, street $150. They started at 10% off list the first week, 20% the next, etc.
I bought a Zip drive at Comp USA for $150.
But just before liquidation, I bought a Pentax zoom lens for 1/2 price. Nice.

Yeah I never thought the prices at some of these liquidations were so great and it was like shopping in the Old City.

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Brilliant!

re: #48 ggt

A couple yesterday.

re: #48 ggt

Did we have a thread on the plane crash/landing in the Hudson?

What crash?

/

Uh, yes, as it was ongoing.

A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a 'Save the Whales' hat and a 'To Hell with Bush T-shirt,' was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.

As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.

As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. 'I give you my blessing for your brave actions!' he told them. 'I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true.'

As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies 'Who was that guy? 'It was the Pope,' another replied. 'He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom.' 'Well,' the logger said, 'he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn't know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Seattle and get another one?'

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

Olberman is too obvious.
The print media can't because they're all out looking for jobs.
Which leads me to David Gregory or the Ladies of "The View"

re: #55 lawhawk

You.Have.Got.To.Be.Kidding.Me.

Memo to Edwards. There are, and always have been, Canadian geese in the NYC metro area. Always. They migrate through here every damned year, leaving a trail of droppings all over the place.

Are you talking to me?!

Same in Chicagoland. They migrate to our area and don't go any further.

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

I'll be working and my policy that day is to charge Liberals double and give conservatives a 50% discount.

I voted for Barney Frank. I really think he deserves it.

Just a note about the UPI story - it's probably already been posted - but they have corrected the blog name.

Still haven't corrected the rest of the story, though.

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

I'll be busy practicing capitalism while all the slackers swoon and gush.

re: #70 Sharmuta

Brilliant!

*ladylike blush*

re: #78 reine.de.tout

Post it please reine.

re: #51 Sharmuta

Interestingly enough- I found that pic searching "olberman finger" on google's image search. Since he won last year's Fiskie, I thought it would be appropriate.

Well here's a tribute to one of our late politicians. :)

re: #76 Nevergiveup

I'll be working and my policy that day is to charge Liberals double and give conservatives a 50% discount.

Good, I'll take a double.

18:11 Greece doesn`t allow U.S. boat carrying ammunition for Israel to dock (Reuters)

Are the youts still rioting in Greece?

re: #81 notutopia

Post it please reine.

Okey-dokey.

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

Let the team of Keith Obermann and Chris Mathews accept the award.

Good morning, Lizards.

re: #86 jorline

Let the team of Keith Obermann and Chris Mathews accept the award.

Good morning, Lizards.

Good morning, Jorline!

I suggested Cognito.
But I like Olbermathews too.

Well I agree with the MSM choice (that's one of the ones I voted for) but really thought Cynthia McKinney would make a better showing!

re: #83 faraway

Good, I'll take a double.

OK but you do know I'm a Dentist? Which 2 teeth do you want me to "FIX"?

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

I'll be busting my ass at work while the rest of the Obamatons take the day off so crown their new emperor (who incidentally has no clothes).

re: #39 DeafDog

he never had time, the weather bimbo cut him off and started talking about shoes.

the media are becoming so sadly predictable. people were joking about blaming this on global warming ten minutes after the crash. so, whoever had friday about 8am in the pool, you win.

re: #76 Nevergiveup

I'll be working and my policy that day is to charge Liberals double and give conservatives a 50% discount.

You tell the liberals they're paying extra to buy green credits. As in "greenbacks". They'll pay even more.

re: #88 realwest

Well I agree with the MSM choice (that's one of the ones I voted for) but really thought Cynthia McKinney would make a better showing!

It was indeed a tough decision.

re: #87 reine.de.tout

I think the honor should go to Mr Spellcheck.

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Cognito?

Excellent choice, reine. Throw my suggestion in the trash.

re: #85 reine.de.tout

Hey, they fixed the LGF name, but they still missed this typo:

"The family said the boy and a 14-year-old cousin were playing on their roof when they were by a missile fired by an Israeli drone supplied by the United States."

re: #5 taxfreekiller

[Link:

re: #90 Jetpilot1101

I'll be busting my ass at work while the rest of the Obamatons take the day off so crown their new emperor (who incidentally has no clothes).

[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]

The so-called Iranian unit of Hamas that trained with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been destroyed in fighting with Israel, Palestinian officials said

Most of the Iranian-trained unit's members were killed in clashes in Gaza's Zeytun neighborhood, Haaretz reported Friday.

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

2. Working overtime to try to make up for the ones economic policies.

re: #85 reine.de.tout

Okey-dokey.

Little Green Footballs has lost it's Field!

re: #45 JCM

Wait till the whining about the environmental impact of a plane in the water, the fuel, the oil, the plastics. It will take the river years to recover!

As nasty as that river is, it probably made the plane unrecoverable or usable as replacement parts.

re: #96 jaunte

Hey, they fixed the LGF name, but they still missed this typo:

heh.
I didn't notice that.
A case of me seeing what I expected to see, rather than what really was there.

Sorta like what the MSM does on a regular basis.

re: #96 jaunte

Hey, they fixed the LGF name, but they still missed this typo:

They need a guy to check to see if they any words out, for sure.
BBL (need a reboot)

re: #103 reine.de.tout

Plausible deniability. UPI: "We never said they were killed or wounded!"

re: #96 jaunte

So many, many words to proof. [still lmao, btw]

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

ooh ooh I know...Rosie O'dumbass

re: #106 Sharmuta

Heh heh.

re: #73 maddogg

you might appreciate this. i figured what the world needs is a children's book telling the story of "grizzly man" from the bear's perspective...

[Link: www.attackanimation.com...]

just keep clicking next.

re: #48 ggt

Did we have a thread on the plane crash/landing in the Hudson?

Doesn't matter, it can be summed up thusly:
1) pilot was given a shiite sandwich on takeoff during climbout.
2) pilot see that Tetersboro(?) airport is out of the question after about 15 seconds.
3) pilot makes a command-level decision that that water is the ONLY place to put her down, does a hard bank to the left, and
4) pilot makes a picture perfect ditch landing!

Although I would not want to be on that flight, I would have loved to have been there to see the landing and the rescue. Textbook perfect!

JAFLW

re: #105 jaunte

Plausible deniability. UPI: "We never said they were killed or wounded!"

hahaha!

The kids were "by a missile". Anything coulda happened, including nothing at all.

lol

re: #107 Texas Heathen

ooh ooh I know...Rosie O'dumbass

Nah, she isn't really a part of the msm anymore. How about Joy Behar?

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

my drinking team has a bowling problem so that's where I will be.

re: #111 Iron Fist

Man, I just want my bailout. I'm a hell of a lot cheaper, at a mere five million dollars, that all of these other bailouts. They run in the billions for their bailout. All I want is a measely five mil.

I'd be ok with a measly 50k

re: #112 reine.de.tout

hahaha!

The kids were "by a missile". Anything coulda happened, including nothing at all.

lol

And yet it's more believable than cnn's video!

My 1000th post.

/where's the 7 step program?

re: #116 Sharmuta

And yet it's more believable than cnn's video!

It is indeed!

re: #109 varmint

Brilliant!

I see UPI finally corrected its article from last night...

But IsraelNN.com said Charles Johnson's U.S. blog Little Green Footballs uncovered several alleged discrepancies:

re: #117 DaddyG

My 1000th post.

/where's the 7 step program?

Add another 0 or two and we'll talk

re: #112 reine.de.tout

hahaha!

The kids were "by a missile". Anything coulda happened, including nothing at all.

lol

Because if the kids were HIT BY a missile, there wouldn't have been enough to do CPR on.

re: #102 saberry0530

As nasty as that river is, it probably made the plane unrecoverable or usable as replacement parts.

The clean up and repairs to make it flyable would be cost prohibitive. A few years a go a restored Boeing 377 Stratocruiser ditched in Elliot Bay (salt water). Given it was the only one left it was restored. It is now at the Udvar-Hazy part of the Air and Space museum in DC.

re: #113 Ford_Prefect

Nah, she isn't really a part of the msm anymore. How about Joy Behar?

I. Cannot. Stand. Joy. Behar.

She is mean-spirited, discourteous, rude, crude and socially unacceptable.

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

Nah-- Mr. Dan "Fake but Accurate" Rather will accept it.

He knows what to do with it...

JAFLW

re: #55 lawhawk
ROTFL! Too bad you couldn't have photoshopped DeNiro's face on that goose! LOL!

Ted Turner, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and Phil Griffin. The heads of CNN, the NYT, and MSNBC. They should all hold hands and accept the Fiske together.

how do we get to the anti-idiotarian awards?

re: #112 reine.de.tout

I pointed this out yesterday... but we were all laughing so hard, I think the tears running down our faces obliterated the other gaffes on this article.

In honor of the Rooster.

While singing along, substitute rooster for lion and city for jungle.

OK...EVERYBODY SING!

re: #86 jorline

Let the team of Keith Obermann and Chris Mathews accept the award.

Good morning, Lizards.

At the acceptance speech:

Mathews: "Oh the thought of winning this award sends a tingle up my leg"

Obermann: "That's me pissing on your leg dumb-ass"

The only consolation I've had over the last eight years of MSM Bush bashing, war is lost doom saying, and Obama will be king opining is knowing they will be extinct some day.

have a great day all!

re: #120 Killgore Trout

I see UPI finally corrected its article from last night...

ahem.

re: #78 reine.de.tout

Just a note about the UPI story - it's probably already been posted - but they have corrected the blog name.

Still haven't corrected the rest of the story, though.

You're a little late to the party.

We've moved on to those things that still have not been corrected.

re: #120 Killgore Trout

I see UPI finally corrected its article from last night...

I love the ...alleged...part.

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

2. NOT turning on the TV, or the radio.

JAFLW

Re the miracle crash..I'd love to see some lawsuits against the enviro wackos who lobby to protect those f***ing Canada geese.

i

re: #120 Killgore Trout

I see UPI finally corrected its article from last night...

They musta fixed the spellchecker.

re: #111 Iron Fist

Man, I just want my bailout. I'm a hell of a lot cheaper, at a mere five million dollars, that all of these other bailouts. They run in the billions for their bailout. All I want is a measely five mil.

And that's why you're not going to get a bailout. You're not thinking high enough. If you demanded billions, you might actually get it...

The MSM is definitely responsible for a lot of destructive things in 2008 and every year for the last few decades, but giving them a Fiskie is like spitting into a hurricane. There is no donkey upon which to pin the tail. No one individual really stand head and shoulders in the race for ass-hattery (although Chris Matthews does to some extent).

Barney Frank's ass-hattery is just so exceptional. There are poltroons-aplenty in the Congress, but he was not only the loudest and most conspicuous in the development of the mortgage debacle he has had the gall to crank up the volume with his finger pointing and denial as markets were swamped. That is why he has gotten all three of my votes.

re: #93 reine.de.tout
Hi {reine} - Yup and Cynthia's worked so HARD for it too! But all it all, I reckon the MSM do deserve it more.
Problem is the MSM deserves it EVERY YEAR!

re: #140 realwest

Hi {reine} - Yup and Cynthia's worked so HARD for it too! But all it all, I reckon the MSM do deserve it more.
Problem is the MSM deserves it EVERY YEAR!

Good morning, RW.

re: #102 saberry0530

As nasty as that river is, it probably made the plane unrecoverable or usable as replacement parts.

Not at all, it landed in "fresh" water (as opposed to salt water), so all they have to do is dry out the fuselage and bolt new engines on...

Sounds simple, don't it?

JAFLW

(Yes, it will be used for parts. SOP for airplanes that go swimming!)

re: #111 Iron Fist
No, no, no - ya gotta ask or demand MUCH MORE THAN THAT - then "settle" for $5 million - you'll make the Feds actually feel good that they "beat you down to $5million" !

re: #142 jorline
Hey good morning my friend - how are ya feeling today?

"This does look like an honest mistake,” Tom Brokaw said on the “Today Show.

Not paying your taxes, then being reimbursed for those same taxes supposedly made and still not paying them. Trying to write-off your child's summer camp. This must be the stupidest Ivy League grad in the country.
How come no penalties? The MSM and the 0 establishment, honesty is just nostalgia.

I'm back to my original view - putting the MSM in as a category is a mistake. It makes no sense, as no specific element or personage is singled out. Many of the stories and links that are posted here to illustrate anti-idiotarian points are from the 'MSM'. It's not the homogenous ideological monoculture that is sometimes portrayed. If by MSM, you really mean Katie Couric, then nominate and vote for Katie Couric.

re: #143 just another four-letter word

Not at all, it landed in "fresh" water (as opposed to salt water), so all they have to do is dry out the fuselage and bolt new engines on...

Sounds simple, don't it?

JAFLW

(Yes, it will be used for parts. SOP for airplanes that go swimming!)

There is a history of the Boeing company I read awhile ago (can't remember the title). Boeing has "tiger teams" to do emergency repairs to damaged planes in the field. Back in '70 when Pan Am 93 was hijacked to Cairo. (there's another pilot hero, got his plane to Cairo and all the passengers off). The terrorist blew the cockpit off. The tiger team took a new cockpit off the assembly line and grafted it on the fuselage.

They put a new tail number on the plane so passengers wouldn't be nervous flying a "fixed" plane. However the Pan Am crews where also nervous about the plane. So the re-number it again. Sometime later the Tiger team was border a Pan Am flight and the Pilot said no would fly the fixed up plane. The tiger team nodded and said they understood the pilots concern then boarded for the flight.

On the fixed up plane.

re: #144 realwest

No, no, no - ya gotta ask or demand MUCH MORE THAN THAT - then "settle" for $5 million - you'll make the Feds actually feel good that they "beat you down to $5million" !

there you go thinking like a normal person again.
You ask for 5 million and settle for 8 billion that's how the govt. does it.

re: #148 JCM

There is a history of the Boeing company I read awhile ago (can't remember the title). Boeing has "tiger teams" to do emergency repairs to damaged planes in the field. Back in '70 when Pan Am 93 was hijacked to Cairo. (there's another pilot hero, got his plane to Cairo and all the passengers off). The terrorist blew the cockpit off. The tiger team took a new cockpit off the assembly line and grafted it on the fuselage.

They put a new tail number on the plane so passengers wouldn't be nervous flying a "fixed" plane. However the Pan Am crews where also nervous about the plane. So the re-number it again. Sometime later the Tiger team was border a Pan Am flight and the Pilot said no would fly the fixed up plane. The tiger team nodded and said they understood the pilots concern then boarded for the flight.

On the fixed up plane.

The National Geographic channel showed one of these repairs on "Worlds Toughest Fixes". A 767 had been backed into a blast deflector, and they needed to replace the tail cone and rear pressure bulkhead. Fun to watch.

re: #57 Mich-again

So who will accept the award on behalf of the MSM? Tough call.

I would hope that Dan Rather accepts on behalf of the MSM.

re: #9 Nevergiveup

Oh God, first CompUSA and now this. What's a gadget freak to do?

re: #148 JCM

There is a history of the Boeing company I read awhile ago (can't remember the title). Boeing has "tiger teams" to do emergency repairs to damaged planes in the field. Back in '70 when Pan Am 93 was hijacked to Cairo. (there's another pilot hero, got his plane to Cairo and all the passengers off). The terrorist blew the cockpit off. The tiger team took a new cockpit off the assembly line and grafted it on the fuselage.

They put a new tail number on the plane so passengers wouldn't be nervous flying a "fixed" plane. However the Pan Am crews where also nervous about the plane. So the re-number it again. Sometime later the Tiger team was border a Pan Am flight and the Pilot said no would fly the fixed up plane. The tiger team nodded and said they understood the pilots concern then boarded for the flight.

On the fixed up plane.

In this case, I'm sure Boeing won't be involved, since it was an Airbus A320.

re: #153 Macker

In this case, I'm sure Boeing won't be involved, since it was an Airbus A320.

Airbus has similar teams. Planes are too, a lot of things happen to planes that make them unflyable, but still very fixable. Awhile back a hail storm ground every plane at an airport in South Africa. Airbus and Boeing sent teams over to replace the skin on the tops of all the wings.

I voted for Barney Frank this time. Lately, anything that pisses me off gives me a hot flash. When I looked at Barney's name, it got really hot in this office. So there you go.

I voted for the Mainstream Media because if they didn't pay attention to these goofballs and provide the widest possible coverage to their socialist utopian views, we would never have heard about them.

Fortunately, people are paying less attention to the old media. I had the pleasure a few years ago when I canceled my subscription to the New York Times (one of my kids was *required* to subscribe for a college class).

The whining NYT employee in a strong New York accent insisted that I tell her why I was cancelling. I politely told her that I was now subscribing to the Wall Street Journal and that I thought it was a much better paper. Yes, I forgot that you don't have to polite to New Yorkers. She then offered me a discount, I think it was for half off. I told her that even if the paper was free, I wasn't interested. She sounded so deflated as she cancelled my subscription that I almost felt sorry for her.

-sk

re: #55 lawhawk

You.Have.Got.To.Be.Kidding.Me.

Memo to Edwards. There are, and always have been, Canadian geese in the NYC metro area. Always. They migrate through here every damned year, leaving a trail of droppings all over the place.

Are you talking to me?!

Canadian bacon in their droppings?

I would have voted for Jimmy Carter if I could have.

re: #33 varmint

it's official now. steve edwards, of the los angeles fox morning show just connected the presence of big geese in new york to global warming.

What a total ass.
Not only are the geese normally there, the engine manufacturers study the effect of bird ingestion. It is expected and the engines are designed to have the best chance of eating a bird and still operating.

They fling raw, frozen chickens at engines in the lab and film the event nd look at every engine part afterwards.

Good comments Lizards, at the UPI "story" on Little Green Fields Footballs and the Mads Gilbert Show. Looks like even Cognito went over there to b***hslap these UPI tools.

re: #9 Nevergiveup

Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores

[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]

Bye Bye!

Just great, more people losing their jobs...:(

re: #59 JCM

Prayers are with his son Jamie and the rest of that uber-ly talented - yet underappreciated by the snobbish, effiminate NY/Euro art elite- family.

One of the best museums ANYwhere, IMO, is Brandywine, the Wyeth museum in the best part of metro Philly , the Brandywine region.

In a way it's a shame that Chris Matthews has so few votes, but then again, the MSM vote and the Matthews vote are really the same vote. He's just their poster boy.

I'm disappointed:

As an avid gamer I'm confident Jack Thompson surely deserves at least a spot on this list.

Furthermore I'm fully confident that neither Phelps (the insane preacher), Ron Paul, Michael Moore or that demented landwhale that thinks that fire has never melted steel (I'm not sure whether I remember her name or her TV alias from the series) will not consume their yearly ration of feet.

While the MSM certain deserves scorn and my contempt, especially for the 2008 election coverage, I had to go with Barney Frank. While Chris Matthews may have felt a tingle up his leg upon hearing Obama speak, and the coverage of the McCain/Palin ticket was overly hostile (except for Greta and Hannity), Frank is still my choice. Not only did Congressman Frank royally screw-up by putting pressure on GSEs without thinking of the consequences, but, when those consequences became painfully known to all, Barney Frank had the gull to blame "free trade," President Bush and Republicans (some of whom had, in fact, years ago tried to raise the issue of GSEs like Fannie and Freddie only to be shot down by Frank) for the blow to the US economy.

Congressman Barney Frank for Fiskie 2008

The MSM is not a person. I think the award should go to an individual. PAt Buchanan is my first choice.

re: #156 Spar Kling

I voted for the Mainstream Media because if they didn't pay attention to these goofballs and provide the widest possible coverage to their socialist utopian views, we would never have heard about them.

Fortunately, people are paying less attention to the old media. I had the pleasure a few years ago when I canceled my subscription to the New York Times (one of my kids was *required* to subscribe for a college class).

The whining NYT employee in a strong New York accent insisted that I tell her why I was cancelling. I politely told her that I was now subscribing to the Wall Street Journal and that I thought it was a much better paper. Yes, I forgot that you don't have to polite to New Yorkers. She then offered me a discount, I think it was for half off. I told her that even if the paper was free, I wasn't interested. She sounded so deflated as she cancelled my subscription that I almost felt sorry for her.

-sk

Too bad The New York Sun closed late last year.

re: #87 reine.de.tout

Good morning, Jorline!

I suggested Cognito.
But I like Olbermathews too.

Good point - the whole MSM lineup - Olbermann, Shuster, Matthews, and Maddow should share it like a joint World Series MVP award.

re: #31 lawhawk

They deserved to go out of business; a failed business model, and a cost cutting plan that was based on firing the most experienced and competent floor staff in favor of cheaper help.

Throw in competition from Best Buy, Walmart, Target and online and it was a recipe for disaster.

Ah Circuit City. They took over Lafayette Radio where I worked in the summer of 1973 during my school days for $2.25 an hour.

re: #26 lawhawk

Where's the bailout?!

The Minneapolis Star Tribune along with the Seattle Post- Intelligencer (as dumb as a Post as James Taranto of the WSJ always says) are both going under.

re: #69 faraway

We need a poll: What will you be doing Tuesday Jan 20th?

1. Start drinking again

My work has actually decided to set up a projection TV in the cafeteria to show the "festivities". But we're as liberal a company as you an get. (and paying for it to boot)

re: #171 janir

Probably a good day to call in sick.