frankilin roosevelt

It's not about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.


Check out my old  Voice of the People page.


Gino Napoli
San Francisco, California
High School Math Teacher

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Loyalty without truth
is a trail to tyranny.

a middle-aged
George Washington



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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 4h 41m 26s

This speech sounds better than the real one

This is damn hilarious. I had to paste the full copy, but I did not write this. The author's site is here.


The State of the Union - first draft

(Hey, Karl. Here’s the first draft of my “State of the Union” speech. I’ve put some questions for ya in parenthisaurs. Let me know what you think. Best -W)

MY STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH by George W. Bush

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, extreme members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages.

As we boldly enter a new year of hurling before us, I’ve come before you to tell you that Freedom is spreading like cancer in the Middle East, our economy is even robustier than it was last year and, if we all work together in this coming year, there will be countless more fish to fry, or bake if you’re watching your cholesterol.

Tonight, with more and more Americans going back to work, with our nation an active force for goodnicity in the world, the state of our union is truly flamboyiscious. (SP?)

This past year, we have accomplished many things that no one expected and some outright feared.

Our No Child Left Behind Act has not only increased our youngins’ ability to read and do math, but we have decreased the student population dramatically, nationwide. Now, when a child graduates high school, not only will he or she be able to print his or her name tag while asking “Do you want fries with that?” they’ll be able to add up the menu total.

The past year, we’ve reframed and totally regurgitated Medicare, creating thousands of jobs in emergency room care.

We have added two million jobs in non-auto construction related fields.

We have plugged the holes of the bankruptcy dykes, who threatened to cheat honest bankers and credit card employers out of their hard squandered cash.

We have tackled such hard questions as how frightened are you of Social Security disappearing, how many hurricanes can FEMA handle and how fast can the House pass a bill when no one is looking?

But we must not rest on our laureates.

The year ahead will present us with challenges both overseas, at home and elsewhere.

I’m going to remind you all that we’re living in hysteric times. The decisions we make today will help shape the direction of events for years, even weeks, to come.

Now, recently, there has been a hornet’s nest of inflappatory (SP?) rhetoric concerning my involvement with so called “domestic spying.” It’s true, I have allowed NASA to spy on Americans but let me remind you of one important fact: the world changed after 9/11.

Think about it. 9/10? You’re riding your bike whistling a happy tune. 9/12? You’re scared stiff. In between? 9/11. Bingo.

If any of you don’t remember 9/11, we were attacked by a group of drooling madmen who hate us for our freedoms, so I decided to lessen them.

And, if NASA can safely land people on the Moon, it can handle this finely.

Our “domestic spying” program isn’t. (Does that make sense, Karl?) It’s a program devoted to “terrorist surveillance” or, as I call it, “terrorist tattling.”

If al Qaeda is talking to you? E-mailing you? Sending you a candy-gram? I want to know about it. This program only involves American citizens who are calling known terrorists in another country or another state. We have a list of terrorist groups we’re monitoring from al Qaeda to al PETA and al Quaker.

The terrorist tattler program is necessary to protect America from attacks either within our own borders or even closer. Terrorists will use every available weapon at their disposal, from dirty bombs to free speech, to break the will of the American people. I vow I will never let that happen. That’s my job.

Some people say that I’ve broken the law. That’s not true. A President has inherent authorities given to him by the Constitution. One of them is breaking the law. I hope this puts an end to the issue.

Oh, yeah, I don’t know Jack Abramoff, either.

This year, I’m asking Congress to help me in passing bills that will help all American people struggle.

We’re setting a goal of creating two million more jobs, some of them actually in this country.

We will tackle affordable Health Care insurance the way we did Medicare. By this time, next year, Americans will be dancing in the streets, unless they’re too old or too sick.

We will help an additional 200,000 unemployed workers get training for a new job. If you could build a Bronco, you can flip a burger. It’s the American way.

We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people who want only to provide for their families, and deny businesses willing workers, and invite chaos at our border. It is time for an immigration policy that permits temporary guest workers to fill jobs Americans will not take, like joining the military. This will not apply to Canadians.

Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of our society, it should not be re-defined by activist judges or odd people. For the good of families, children, and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage as long as divorce is left out of the equestrian.

As you all know, the world is facing a possible pandemonium of bird flu. As your President, I vowel that no foreign birds will be allowed in this country without having proper background checks done.

I’m also pleased to report that our ongoing War on Global Terror has had an explosive effect on the world. After 9/11, and our world changed after 9/11, we decided to go after the evil-doers and tackle Afghanistan. I’m proud to report that Afghanistan is now a democracy, the Taliban has started it’s own political party and that formerly vicious warlords are now elected officials. Plus, their economy is booming thanks to farmers who grow flowers. From what I understand, they’ve had a record year.

In Iraq, the Iraqis are standing up so we can sit it out. They now have their own government, their own Constitution, their own problems.

Before the United States of America drove out the Butcherer of Baghdad, Iraq was a country filled with mass graves. Today? There are no more mass graves, just a whole bunch of little ones. Before the United States went to the aid of our Iraqi brothers and sisters, Saddam brutalized his own people. Now that they have their own elected government, Iraqis are free to brutalize each other as they see fit.

(Karl, I think this is where we should introduce dead soldiers’ parents, wives and kids. See if you can get one kid to bring a bunny. Bunnies are cute. Plus, Easter is right around the corner.)

Democracy is on the march in the Middle East, with more and more people choosing ballots over bullets or, sometimes, both.

As you know, even in Palestinia, there were free elections. And, if not free, relatively cheap. We look forward to working with the Humus Party in reaching a peaceful settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem as soon as they take Israel’s total destruction off the table.

Now, I know, when it comes to my foreign policy of peace, democracy and loving yourself as much as your neighbor does himself, there are some naysayers in this country who say “nay.” But, where you say “nay?” I say, “hey, how’s it going?” And many brave people with purple fingers say “hey” back, but it’s in a different language so I can’t quite catch all of it. It’s awesome-inspiring.

I suppose that makes me an optometrist. Some people look at a glass and wonder if it’s half-empty or half-full of it. I always know it’s half-full of it.

Now, in order to protect our great Homeland and to allow it to prosper, I ask Congress to do two things: make my tax cuts permanent and re-authorize the Patriot Act.

Many of my opponents have unfairly said my tax cuts are biased because rich people save the most. Well, a-heh-heh (Karl. People love it when I wink and laugh.), any economist knows that rich people have the most money to save because they have the most money. (Karl. Is this redundant or smart?)

They, then, take their savings and put it back into our great economy, creating new jobs for house servants, valets, car detailers, and tennis pros.

And don’t forget the backbone of our country, the small businesses run by entremanures. My tax cuts guarantee them savings when they expand their temp services, limousine services and landscaping enterprises.

As some of you know, the world changed after 9/11 and, since the creation of The Department of Homeland Security, we have not been attacked a second time. Sure, a lot of other countries have, but they don’t have Homeland Security departments. We do. They don’t. That simple.

Remember, these evildoers we are fighting never sleep. Their vision is dark and dim and they never have their eyes checked. Like the Tin Woodsman in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ they have no hearts. They don’t even have tin. They kill innocent men, women, children and bunnies (Karl. I guess I’m just in a bunny mood today.). In order to save the children and bunnies, I ask Congress to make Homeland Security a bastardion of our country.

The War on Global Terror will last a bazillion years. In Iraq alone, we’re battling “rejectionists,” “poo-pooers,” “al Qaeda,” “foreign fighters,” “local fighters,” “commuters,” “Baathists,” “Showerists,” and Venutians. We have to be vigilant. We have to stand tall in the saddle.

Now, I know I have my critics because of the war and Homeland Security, and I know this is an election year but, in the spirit of bi-partisanship, I extend a fig towards the opposition and say, if I may use Latin? “Ix-nay.”

Every bad thing you say about the War on Global Terror makes the evil-doers laugh and our soldiers cry. Think about it.

So, in closing, in this coming year, we must not look back. We must look in the opposite direction. We must jog on the treadmill of hope towards a more peaceful and zesty future. The road somewhere will be long and, maybe, lumpy. But it’s up to us, as pothole filling patriots, to keep that road alive and well. And tread upon it as we do ourselves.

As Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt once said: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” So, smile and be afraid. I’m in charge.

God bless me. God bless Mommy and Daddy. And Barney. God bless all Americans. God bless der Homeland.



Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 2h 49m 21s

The essential point about the FISA law circumvention

From Larry Johnson:


I suppose the average American, one who has never held a security clearance or handled NSA intelligence, is inclined to cut George W. Bush some slack. Only a crazy person would argue that Al Qaeda terrorists have a right of privacy in the United States. But that, my friends, is a canard. The issue is not about giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Instead, does this President, hell, any President, have the right to unilaterally decide what does and does not constitute a threat to national security? We are a Republic founded on the principle that the power of the Federal Government is limited. It does not matter if George W. Bush is sincere or his intentions benign. What matters is whether he has chosen to ignore the Fourth Amendment because he, and he alone, has decided that the end justifies the means.

There's more here.


Saturday, 28 January 2006 at 3h 25m 25s

Defeat the spin machine

It's a Republican scandal stupid. Here's the proof.

Not more than one dime of Abrahmof money went to a Democrat. True there were tribes which contributed to Democrats, but that was both before and after Abrahmof became a player and redirected those contributions. In other words, not relevant nor even related to the purposes by which Abrahmof and the K- street project were a strategy to turn Washington into a one-party regime.

But the media whores lie. That's why they get paid the big bucks.


Friday, 27 January 2006 at 3h 37m 29s

Our legal scholar in chief


"FISA's still an important tool. It's an important tool, and we still use that tool. But, also -- and I looked. I said, 'Look, is it possible to conduct this program under the old law?' And people said, 'It doesn't work in order to be able do the job we expect us to do.' And so, that's why I made the decision I made. And, you know, 'circumventing' is a loaded word. And I refuse to accept it, because I believe what I'm doing is legally right."


That is George W. Bush, on January 26, 2006 confusing the law with being "an important tool" and reassuring us that by breaking the law he still believes what he's doing is "legally right."

Don't worry. They still use the FISA "tool", but since people have said that the "tool" keeps them from doing what they want to do, that's why he made the decision to break the law.

And by the way, I refuse to accept that the word "circumventing" is loaded. So is "tool" but since I believe what I'm doing is legally right, I'll break any damn law I want to.

Amazing. Simply. Amazing.


Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 2h 27m 57s

Why they are hypocrites

You should go read the source for this paraphrased and quoted summary here from Glenn Greenwald.

Basically, the Bush administration and the Congress both agreed in 2002 that the circumvention of the FISA laws was unconstitutional. A Congressmen named DeWine submitted an amendment

. . . .to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to modify the standard of proof for issuance of orders regarding non-United States persons from probable cause to reasonable suspicion. . . .

"During that time, the Administration was asked to advise Congress as to its position on this proposed amendment to loosen the standard for obtaining FISA warrants, and in response, they submitted a Statement from James A. Baker, the Justice Department lawyer who oversees that DoJ's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review" which thanked the Congress for the Patriot Act lee-way of 72 hours before a FISA court had to be notified. Furthermore, Baker said in the statement:


This modification has allowed us to make full and effective use of FISA's pre- existing emergency provisions to ensure that the government acts swiftly to respond to terrorist threats. Again, we are grateful for the tools Congress provided us last fall for the fight against terrorism. Thank you.

Mind you they were already breaking the law at the time of the above Statement. So why are they lying? Why did they need to monitor 18,000 persons inside the United States without bothering to inform the FISA court, when they were gleefully touting the 72 hour leeway provision?

Because they are spying on "political" opponents, trying to blacklist them like J. Edgar Hoover did when he ran the FBI like his own personal fiefdom. The FBI (pushed on by the Nixon administrations operators) were infiltrating peace groups and Democratic Party functions in the early 1970's. There is a history here folks. We already know that John Bolton used wire-taps from the NSA on two occasions: to try and derail Joe Wilson's excursion to Africa, and on a diplomatic excursion to North Korea. We already know that Karl Rove has used bugs and a plethora of dirty tricks throughout his career.

Here is the 4th Amendment:


The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Is that absolutely clear people? Don't let the corporate media jackals dumb it down, or try to use weasel words. If the Bush administration can't notify the FISA court 72 hours after they wire tapped someone -- or whatever -- they are violating the Constitution and breaking the law. They want to make this a "fighting terrorism" issue, but they are completely full of shit. They were spying on political groups not at all related to "terrorism" and this is why they keep feebly changing the story and why they ignored the laws for 3 years. They quite obviously understood the law in 2002, and in a signed statement to boot.

But this is their modus operandi. They want to center all authority in the executive department and the judicial branch that they think they can control. This is the central idea behind Samuel Alito's "unitary executive" theory. What the biscuit! We got a constitution for a reason, and this is not a god- damn scientific inquiry. Were we to allow "theories" about the constitution, than what theory do we pick? I got a few theories myself.

And as far as the executive goes, we aught to heed the first inaugural executive our nation ever had ... George Washington, who himself respected the right of Congress to deliberate, who obeyed the Constitution in its infant stages, and who understood the true role of the executive as meant by the fore- fathers. Washington always worked through Congress during a time when the Colonies were being freaking invaded by the British Army, but this "unitary executive" theory proposes just the opposite in this new dangerous world that is supposedly different from the old dangerous world.

Again, this is how the Aristocracy builds and creates an Aristocratic state. You make narrow and whittle-down the interpretation of the laws until the vast numberless people who aren't super-rich find that they are surrounded by bureaucratic intermediaries between themselves and their rights.


Sunday, 22 January 2006 at 17h 7m 55s

Like get-over it will ya

As to the tripe of "Oceans do not protect us" and "we live in a dangerous world" I have two responses.

When has the world not been dangerous? When? Give me a decade, or any year in a decade. There has always been something that was dangerous that could quite possibly harm us. That is why we need representative democracy and the rule of law more than ever. What we have "now" is not something so completely new that we must dismantle the constitution and obviate the rule of law. That is the stuff Adolph Hitler said back in the 1930's.

Uh, Oceans have never protected us morons. Washington was burned by the British during the War of 1812. Immigrants flooded the country between 1880 and 1910. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The Oil shortages occurred in 1973.

The Bush administration deliberately ignored the evidence that was abundantly available during the first 8 months of 2001. Cheney could have multiple meetings with Energy conglomerates where oil maps of Iraq were looked at, but could not hold one single meeting on Terrorism, despite the heated debate from ex-Clinton officials and Richard Clarke.


Sunday, 22 January 2006 at 16h 51m 47s

Why I love Atrios

... Because he sees through all of the Bulls**t. [SOURCE ]


I imagine that there are some out there who wonder why a factual error in an ombudsman's column combined with the dismissive attitude about complaints pisses people off so much. It's very simple. Time and time again those of us who pay attention see how right wing narratives grow to dominate ongoing news stories. Factual errors, distortions, and general misinformation on which those right wing narratives are hung are repeated over and over again both by right wing hacks and mainstream journalists.

Since the Abramoff story broke there has been a concerted effort by right wing hacks, journalists, and their editors to paint this as a bipartisan scandal when it simply isn't one. Doing so requires a degree of ignorance about who Abramoff is and what his role was which, no matter what one's opinion of the general intelligence of the Washington press, simply has to be deliberate. Reporters understand how lobbying works in DC. They also understand who Abramoff was, what his history was, what his role was, what his entire existence in Republican politics was about.

Small factual errors aren't in themselves the biggest deal in the world, but nor are they in the words of the increasingly wankerific Michael Crowley "foolish semantics." The propogation and repetition of these errors provides the structure onto which the false narrative can be hung.

Are their corrupt Democrats in congress? Quite possibly. I have no illusions that having a 'D' after your name guarantees your purity. Will their be lobbying scandals which bring down Democrats at some point in the future? Quite possibly. But this isn't a general "lobbying scandal," this is a Jack Abramoff scandal. It is a Republican scandal. That is what this story is about, and any seasoned media observer who hasn't yet figured out how bullshit right wing narratives are constantly wrapped around "foolish semantics" just hasn't figured out how this game is played.


Thank you Atrios, a true patriot.


Saturday, 21 January 2006 at 1h 23m 54s

The people speak out

Recently Monsieur Chris Matthews compared Michael Moore to Bin Laden, calling what Bin Laden said in the latest terrifyingly scary audio similar to "Michael Moore."

Then Scarbourgh on Scarbourgh Country brings on Clinton smear-artist Kellyanne Conway to say

Conway: If you held a piece of tissue paper between some of the comments that Bin Laden today and some of the comments that the president's detractor's say-it would be very difficult to stick more than a piece of tissue paper between--there's not much of a difference.

Scarborough: When you look at what Osama Bin Laden said it sounds an awful lot like what we hear the President's political enemies domestically--- not only like what a lot of democratic senators have been saying, but also what one or two movie makers have been saying over the past several years...


There is a video here.

I mean just look at this B***h !

Look at that smug smirk she has on her face, posing as the "expert" who somehow knows soooooooo much that she deserves the make baseless speculative assertions akin to taking a crap outside in an open pit.

This is absolutely disgusting.

The time to act is now folks. We need to stand on the streets on January 31st when Herr Bush attempts to lie once again to the American public in what is called the State of the Union. You know this is true. All we have to do is stand outside where we live, together. That's all we have to do.

The rest will follow, right after we all go back into our houses and quickly turn the televisions on to tell us what just happened.


Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 4h 20m 29s

The brainwashing begins


"A feeling of weariness had overwhelmed him. The faint, mad gleam of enthusiasm had come back into O'Brien's face. He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better. That the party was the eternal guardian of the weak, a dedicated sect doing evil that good might come, sacrificing its own happiness to that of others. The terrible thing, thought Winston, the terrible thing was that when O'Brien said this he would believe it. You could see it in his face. O'Brien knew everything. A thousand times better than Winston he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the ultimate purpose. What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"


    -- Winston Smith , 1984 , by George Orwell


Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 19h 1m 0s

The Chronicle sucks, don't bother reading it

Dear Chronicle headquarters,

-- or should I say Hearst Corporation headquarters?

I must say, your paper not only sucks, it sucks real bad. But let me not just utter pejorative iconography. Allow a few recent examples.

You publish a story about the horrible mining accident, but never mention once that the company had violated 105 federal regulations -- 54 alone during the prior 30 days to the accident. You didn't detail that Bush administration appointee Jack Spiderro's interpretation of coal dust might be related to the high levels of coal dust that was 40% of the above mine violations. Methane gas and coal dust are the 2 reasons mine explosions occur, which your pathetic paper also neglected to discuss. You didn't also outline that the same mining corporation has other mines that also have a history of problems.

Instead, the story you put on the front page was how you made a mistake, and that actually 11 of the 12 miners died. Yep, that was THE story. Then the story became what this political hack said, and how it was a sad event, and how the surviving family members would have a hard time adjusting. Oh but at least the paper did say that mining is a dangerous occupation. Wow, that's really chomping at the bit folks, telling everyone the obvious.

No kidding. But how did that particular mine get to become dangerous? How come that story was not on the front page?

And today's earth-shattering events on the frontpage ... ( January 13, 2006 .)


3 killed at store in 1980
- Stacy Finz

Big changes sought in how UC raises pay
Regents asked to give president more power to set salary levels
- Todd Wallack, Tanya Schevitz

Bleak audit of S.F. public golf courses
- Becky Bowman

Parents, teachers fight for schools S.F. education board postpones vote to close or merge 26 of them
- Heather Knight

SOMBER PROCESSION FOR SLAIN EAST PALO ALTO OFFICER

State steps in to help seniors get medicines


Golf courses? Seriously, on the front page?

Way back in ... 1980? Wow.

Sad people at a police funeral. Like Duh.

Stay on that pay raise story. The public really, really needs to know about how the public university system is not causing pay raises to get outta hand. We can't let that happen, right?

Hmm, how'bout a story about how nominee Alito promised the Senate that he would recuse himself from any cases involving the financial company that manages his stock portfolio, which he breaks the very first time a case comes up, makes odd legal decisions, and then writes an adamant letter complaining when another judge asks him to recuse himself from the very case. Or a judge who rules that it was acceptable to strip search a teenage girl when she didn't have her id? Or ... ?

Oh but how nice of the state to help Seniors? Don't you think an in depth detail of the pork of the Medicare Act of 2004 would be a great idea? Or actions by Schwastikanigger on California medical regulations?

Seems to me like you don't want to leave the shoe box to get to the bigger picture, and in that box are only three things : 1) opinions of political hacks, 2) over-flowing grandeur about the personality or hard-ships involved without the details or even an outline on the connections between the people and the historical context, and last but not least: 3) loaded adjectives with subtle conjectures not supported by facts.

Look at the way you numb-skulls stretch to avoid to put a story about Alito's judicial history, or anything relevant on the NSA circumvention of the FISA laws, or anything about the details concerning the pathetic "reconstruction" process going on during Katrina, or how the Diebold and ES systems corporations are having their voting machines recinded in counties of North Carolina, Florida, New York, Texas, and Minnesota when Governor Schwastikanigger's appointed Secretary of State is currently reinstalling the Diebold machines that Kevin Shelley himself recinded after the Schwastikanigger recall hoax election.

Oh but Shelley did what over a $10,000 check? Did y'all bother to even print the fact that he was NEVER indicted after he resigned because "the irregularities were not sufficient to warrant a full investigation." How come you could'nt give that fact the same everyday frontpage treatment that the hoax scandal got?

And was Schwastikanigger paid $1 million by Chevron? And what was the 9 billion Energy Market Rigging lawsuit that Schwastikanigger cancelled his very first day in office? And how much digging did your paper due into this man our Governor when he meet with various Enron and Reliant energy officials during the summer of 2001 at a Los Angeles hotel? But that $10,000 check was front page for close to 2 weeks.

How come the attack dogs have highly selective noses?

Oh, and nice job printing 5 pages of high-quality photography trying to prove that only 65,000 people attended the 2003 protest. Now that was quality journalism morons. You'd think you would also print the White House's involvement with the tainted justifications used to drag the country down their megalomaniacal path to war and dictatorship. Scotter Libby, Karl Rove, Stephen Hadley, Bolton, Wolfowitz, etc could have used at least 20 percent of the space you filled up with trying to prove that an exact number of people filled Market street completely for 8 hours.

Christ, don't you idiots recognize historical moments at all. When was the last time that many people marched down Market Street?

And what the blarney-stone is Laura Slanders doing on any paper news staff? A Conservative philosophy is not equivalent to a lying, deliberately misleading stale ruthlessly opinated hack.

And I won't forget how you served as the springboard for mendacious propagandista Kenneth Garcia's entrance into the world of columnists with opinions so biased that they manage to obviate the relevant issues rather than enlighten the public with ideas and thoughtful perspectives. Kenny-boy has since moved over to the less sophisticated but still slanted pages of the Examiner, but it was you who gave him some years as a farce of reason.

And how can the Sunday paper be ready for sale on Saturday morning? Ugh, I want to throw up.

You disgrace this city. It disgusts me that you actually publish and yet can't even be even 20 percent close to the quality of the Sacramento Bee or the San Jose Mercury News. How much of the staff was fired when the Hearst corporation decided to double the profit margin at the expense of the paper's content? Ever wonder maybe that is why subscriptions are down and a lot of folks are having the New York Times delivered?

So when will you guys just admit the Chronicle is just a haven for corporate shills.

Sincerely,

Gino Napoli.




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