CBS buys music network Last.fm
From News.com via Reuters:
CBS on Wednesday said it has paid $280 million in cash for music social network Last.fm.
CBS said in a statement that the online service has more than 15 million active users in more than 200 countries and would fit well with its plans to attract younger viewers and transform it from a content company to an audience company...
See also: What does CBS want with Last.fm?
Webware.com / Wed, 30 May 2007 15:11:00 GMT
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WEATHER BULLETIN --
Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic event-- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category five snowstorm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Streisand, No
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
It does seem that way, at least to me.
I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe SOME people (Like NO and
My Response.
Comparing the recent blizzard in
The differences between the storm in
MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED IN
No, I’m not talking about Global Warming, Rush and Bill O, I’m talking about the levees. The disaster wasn't the hurricane. It was the levees breaking and flooding the city. Whose fault was that? You certainly can’t fault the folks living there. What’s that? I guess you can because they were “immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for ‘sittin’ at home’ checks”. If they’d gotten jobs or something, maybe they could have bought hurricane insurance to insure their homes against hurricane damage. But it turns out many of them did purchase this crucial insurance. However in a brilliant move to save themselves billions of dollars in claims, many of the nations largest insurance companies have deemed the disaster a flood, and not a hurricane, therefore denying thousands of claims for people that held hurricane insurance policies (a must have in New Orleans), but failed to insure against floods.
MORE THAN A HALF-MILLION PEOPLE WERE DISPLACED TEMPORARILY FROM THEIR HOMES AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED- THOUSAND WERE LEFT HOMELESS AFTER THEIR HOMES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
Thousands of people that FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS and evacuated the city before the Hurricane lost their homes completely. Yes, there were those that didn’t heed the warnings out of stubbornness, stupidity, or a lack of transportation out of the area, but far too many of them either drowned or were rescued from the roofs of their ruined homes, only to be taken to shelters that had no medical care, food or water. Nah, those people should have fended for themselves, just like the tough folks in
How many people in
There was and still are some aid operations going on for the tough, “work or die” folks in
So in
And to the author of the original email – it seems to me it is just a very thinly disguised racist rant – “I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate” - tell me that's not filth from the mouth of someone that has a problem with people that are of a different ethnic background. Maybe next time your Hummer is stuck in a drift, as you’re trying to get your car out of the Starbucks parking lot, may it be either myself or a displaced New Orleans resident that comes to offer aid, so that we can help you get your car out and then politely tell you to f**k off.
