Online ad alert

Seems like everywhere on the interwebs these days are ads about a mom's tooth whitening discovery.

Click through, and you'll get a page telling you that for a mere four bucks, you'll receive two products that will whiten your teeth.

Read the fine print for Dazzle White:

When you order today you'll be signed up as a member of our exclusive preferred customer club. You will be billed $4.95 for the shipping of your 14-day day trial, then once you choose to continue whitening with the DazzleWhite Pro System the low member price of only $58.76 per month for every month.

And for Smile Brite:

After ten days we will charge you at a discounted price with a 18% savings of $19.95 off the regular price, for the low price of $85.37.

I think I'll pass, and I recommend you do the same.

Why was Dr. LaRavia fired?

Folks are talking on the Hard Copy board about Dr. Dennis LaRavia's firing from the Bogalusa LSU Rural Residency Program. Wednesday's Daily News had an editorial about the "outrage."

We suspect it had something to do with this formal complaint (about one-third of the way down the page):

Dennis A. LaRavia, M.D...... L4514........... 6/4/07...... Unprofessional conduct; violation of state or federal law; violation of board rule regarding Physician in Training permits.

Please note that these are allegations, not yet proven.

The matter is set for hearing by the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings, Texas Medical Board in April 2008 - PDF file of the docket here. See page 37.

Iraq is a quagmire - for al Qaida

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, seen at Gulf Coast Pundit:

Jihadis, money and weapons were poured into Iraq. All for naught. Al-Qaida has been driven from every neighborhood in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, the U.S. commander there, said Nov. 7. This follows the expulsion of al-Qaida from two previous “capitals” of its Islamic Republic of Iraq, Ramadi and Baquba.[...]
Al-Qaida’s support in the Muslim world has plummeted, partly because of the terror group’s lack of success in Iraq, more because al-Qaida’s attacks have mostly killed Muslim civilians.[...]“The situation has changed so unmistakably and so swiftly that we should be reading proud headlines daily,” said Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. “Where are they?”

Read the whole thing. Then ask yourself if journalists deserve any respect for the lying, twisting, and obfuscation they've done about the war.

Recall the themes of nearly all the news about Iraq and our troops, according to most reporters: Our soldiers are savages, Iraqis hate us, the world hates us, 9/11 was our own fault, Iraq is another Vietnam, we'll never win, blah blah blah. Barely a word about the defeat of al Qaida in Bakuba, Ramadi and Baghdad, or the deaths of terrorists over there. Thousands of words about the few atrocities committed by a tiny number of our troops, and deaths of civilians and our soldiers.

I spit on you, Mainstream Media.

Mortgage lender implosion

144 lenders down the tubes since late 2006.

Message for friends...

Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.
You can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union.
I'm sticking to the union, 'til the day I die.

From Union Maid, by Woody Guthrie

Why you need a union.

Media bias

An outstanding article about media bias in reporting on the war.

Obviously, we can't expect Big Media to police itself. They're too busy publishing forged documents as true, ditto using faked photos, and hiring liars.

All to advance their America-hating, jihadi-loving agenda. Older readers will recall the similarity with coverage of Vietnam.

UPDATE: The Daily News also a bit truth-challenged.

Is this ethical journalism?

On July 25 there's a terse correction (click to enlarge and read):

The original article was here. Click it now and see this:

Are we to believe that the Daily News never makes mistakes? lol. They're rewriting their own online history.

I expect the disclaimer to fade away, too.

You can't find the old article online through internet archives, either. The Snooze prevents their site from being crawled.

Ethical? You decide.