Like in any good slasher movie, the killer refuses to stay dead, no matter how many times you stab or shoot him, or even poke his eyes out with a clothes hanger. He just gets right back up and resumes trying to hunt down and kill the innocent and nubile heroine. (Example provided below the fold).

This seems to be the case regarding the never-ending story about the death of the Seattle P-I. Today we get a two-fer about the former paper. One regards the fate of all the streetcorner newspaper boxes and the other regards the efforts to start up a new online newsish and opiniony thingy (Which has never been tried before…I think they’re considering calling the new operation a “blog,” whatever that means.)

Starting with the now vacant newspaper boxes (I did a post about a single forlorn one found at a trash collection station back in February. Apparently none of you selfish bastards were willing to adopt the poor little thing) Post is here. But it looks like our little red friend is about to gain some company, according to this article from KOMO in Seattle (content squished as usual)

”SEATTLE -- The paper trail (*giggle* - ed) has come to an end for the Seattle P-I, but thousands of its newspaper racks still dot the city's landscape. All over town are the duo of paper boxes -- the blue Seattle Times box offering a digest of daily news, the red P-I boxes empty and collecting rust. Since the P-I's final paper editions were printed last week, the racks have had nothing to do. The Seattle Times is responsible for the boxes. The paper has been collecting thousands of the boxes from as far as Eastern Washington. But the story's still being written on whether the racks will be sold for scrap metal, turned into souvenirs or something else.”

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The woman running the Stalker Chronicles, a blog with the specific mission of tracking down Caruso's stalker, wrote to me to confirm that.

Below, a death threat the woman sent to Caruso, taken from the Stalker Chronicles. Pretty hair-raising.

Incidentally, it doesn't even appear to be a case of Caruso sleeping with a deranged woman who goes all Genn Close on him. She's a, um, severe looking woman, and supposedly the closest the two came to sex was when she made an univited, graphic offer for a sexual act as he was sitting in a restaurant.

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Remember the bad old days when the only reason a President stayed away from flood relief and rescue efforts was because he hated black people?

Yeah, that's out.

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is urging President Obama to stay away from flood areas in North Dakota and Minnesota ... for now.

While the President might want so survey the region first hand, Napolitano told reporters on a conference call Friday that she would advise the president to wait, given the "extraordinary circumstances" facing the area.

"The focus needs to be on taking care of the residents of Fargo, [N.D.,] Moorhead [Minn.,] all those surrounding communities through the most serious part of this flood," she said. "And then we can begin to work on the issues of recovery. But having him come diverts resources -- quite frankly -- from the immediate response to the flood."

Napolitano said she briefed the president on the situation earlier in the day and will again "later this evening."

However, she stressed Obama would be monitoring the crisis closely.

Clearly Obama hates white people Scandis.

This is a very serious situation and a lot of people are in danger of losing everything they own or worse. However, New Orleans and the entire Gulf Cost was in serious trouble after Katrina as well. It's just amazing how the left unabashedly ignores everything they said when Bush was in office now that their guy is in.

For the record Obama, like Bush, is right to stay away and let the relief crews do their jobs.

In other news, we have always been at war with Eurasia.

In all seriousness, best wishes to any morons affected by this. Stay safe.

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Harry Reid goes after John Roberts:

"Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was," Reid said, referring to Samuel Alito, the second Supreme Court justice nominated by President George W. Bush. "But we’re stuck with those two young men, and we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on — I think that will happen."

Harry Reid wasn't tricked by C.J. Roberts about anything, he voted against Roberts' confirmation.

This, along with Bawny Fwank's recent attack on Justice Scalia, are the Democrats' way of laying a foundation to confirm judges who are far to the left of Justice Ginsburg.

The "dire situation" on the Supreme Court will no doubt lead to (more) rumbles about denying Republicans the use of the filibuster.

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Since you, the public, are too stupid to understand bird strike data, we, the FAA are moving to prevent you from seeing any of it...in the name of transparent and open government of course.

...It's bad enough some citizens are under suspicion of being terrorists every time they board a plane. But despite the Obama administration's pledge of government transparency, the FAA thinks the public is too stupid to understand the data...

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OUSTED Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says he was inspired by rock group AC/DC when he mocked Barack Obama's economic stimulus plans as a "road to hell".
Mr Topolanek criticised Washington's anti-crisis spending in a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday.

"AC/DC played here (in Prague) last week. And their cult song Highway to Hell might have led me in that very improvised speech to use the phrase 'road to hell'," Mr Topolanek was quoted by daily Lidovy Noviny as saying.

On the other hand, Old Europe is so lame, they probably spend their time trying to turn Enya's songs into relevant sociopolitical philosophies.

Word to the wise, though, Prime Minister Topolanek. Now that you've invoked AC/DC to criticize Teleprompter Messiah, I hope you are prepared to have "Back in Black" raised to rebut your argument. I'm just sayin' it's good to be prepared.

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As a follow-up to Clay Shirky's excellent essay on what will replace newspapers, which we discussed a few weeks ago, this essay is too good to pass up; go read the whole thing. A newspaperman identifies three guys who led the papers to their current dire straits. Here is the editor's note to whet your curiosity:

The following essay was written by the late John Walter, who served as executive editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was a founding editor of USA Today. A few months after Walter died due to complications from surgery last September, his wife, Jan Pogue, found this essay on his computer. With her permission, Poynter has reprinted an edited version of it here.

He concludes "Newspapers are dying. Journalism will go on, but the thing in the blue bag is over. These guys did it."

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So, if you had Duke winning it all...ooops. I knew better than to take Duke but I did have Memphis making it to the championship game (and getting beat by NC), so thanks for nothing Cal.

The AoS pool got a little crazy with the Dukies and Memphis getting the ax.

1 Yamblin' Yams 44 of 52 68
2 deuce of spades 42 of 52 67
3 Columbia Crazies 40 of 52 66
3 Dixie Chickens 41 of 52 66
3 bill the winner 43 of 52 66
3 Fa Cube Itches 42 of 52 66

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An Ace of Spades commenter, for a time. I think.

...an Austrian woman accused of stalking and threatening to kill CSI: Miami actor David Caruso is in custody in Vienna, after being arrested in Mexico several weeks ago on immigration charges and deported back to her homeland. If convicted, she could spend up to three years behind bars.

The alleged stalker, identified only as a female in her early 40s, reportedly sent more than 100 letters to the star of the CBS crime show, then sent death threats when he refused to give her an autograph. A court-appointed psychiatrist subesquently testified that the suspect has a "profound personality disorder." A trial date had not yet been set.

I'm posting this because I think this woman was haunting this site for a time. I was on an anti-Caruso kick, and this woman began posting vile crap about him. For a few minutes I appreciated the alleged dirt, and then I realized she was making seriously libelous (and dubious) claims.

She linked her own David Caruso Hate-Site and I could see she was nutters.

Plus, while I like bashing Caruso for being a ham and cheese corndog, it's not as if I actually hate him personally. I was saying stuff like "What a cheeseball Diva Caruso is!" and she would up the ante with, "Yeah! Right! And he raped all my children too!"

That escalated quickly, as they say in Anchorman.

Another woman came in to tell me the woman was psychotic and had been issued TRO to stop her from stalking Caruso and her family.

Not 100% sure this is the same woman -- I didn't know she was Austrian, for example -- but how many deranged female stalkers could Caruso possibly have?

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Spain tried the same destructive plan Obama is pushing. Indeed, Obama specifically cites Spain as his northstar.

So how did their garden of green jobs grow?

Based upon the Spanish experience that President Oprompter expressly cited as a model, if he succeeded in his (oddly floating) promise to further intervene in the economy to create 3 million (or is it 5 million?) "green jobs," the U.S. should expect to directly kill by the same programs at least 6.6 million (or as many as 11 million) jobs elsewhere in the economy.

That is because green jobs schemes in Spain killed 2.2 jobs per job created, or about 9 existing jobs — I'll call them "real" jobs — lost for every 4 that are created. The latter, the study shows, then become wards of the state, dependent on the continuation of the mandates and subsidies, subject to the ritual boom and bust of artifically concocted jobs (read: ethanol).

This does not include jobs lost due to redirection of resources, but are only the jobs directly killed by the scheme.

The study calculates that since 2000, Spain spent €571,138 to create each “green job,” including subsidies of more than €1 million per wind-industry job.
Each “green” megawatt installed destroys 5.39 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.32 by wind energy, 5.84 by mini-hydro.

And Spain's direct costs for these jobs, not even counting the lost jobs and lost tax revenues and higher unemployment benefits? $100,000 per job, per year.

This is a simple enough matter: If you make the cost of energy more dependent on manpower -- "more jobs" -- it inflates the cost of energy. This is not rocket science, here. If a shirt costs $4 to make when I have one guy making it, sure, I can have three guys making it in a less efficient manner, and sure, I'll have created two jobs. Trouble is -- the shirt now costs $10 to make and I can sell less of them.

The same thing happens with energy. These "green jobs" simply represent additions to the most serious cost of producing anything, namely, human labor. Yes, I can "add" green jobs by forcing energy producers to produce energy less efficiently and more expensively. Taking it to an extreme, I can simply pay ten million people to jog inside giant hamster-wheels 24 hours per day, producing electricity in that manner.

So sure, I'll have "created" ten million jobs.

Trouble is, now I am selling a kilowatt of energy for a thousand bucks, thus destroying all industry that relies on energy, which is to say, all of them. And as everything now costs more, people can buy less stuff, and businesses either cut back on production (jobs, that is, just so President Profits to Earnings Ration gets what I mean) and many more businesses go out of business entirely. I have created ten million jobs at the expense of thirty or forty or fifty million jobs.

But of course those unemployed legions are now directly dependent on President Uhh-bama for their sustenance, which I'm starting to think is a feature, not a bug.

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