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Burger and a statin to go?
What’s up with your “comment cutoff”?
Regarding this story, I posted a message on Sat 8/14/2010 around 10:34 AM. As of Sunday. August 15, 2010 at 3:08, and after only 9 comments (presumably, mine would have been right around the 9th), this notice was posted;
“THIS DISCUSSION IS NOW CLOSED. WE WELCOME COMMENTS ON OUR ARTICLES FOR A LIMITED PERIOD AFTER THEIR PUBLICATION.
Last rites?
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 15 (Reuters Life!) – Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday, following hospitalization two days earlier due to complications from hip surgery.
You are a little out of date – there is no longer a sacrament of the ‘last rites.’
The sacrament is called Sacrament of the Sick. It’s sad to see an organization such as yours providing incorrect information.
M.S.
Backing the mosque?
Obama backs controversial New York mosque project
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” Obama said to applause at an event attended by diplomats from Islamic countries and members of the U.S. Muslim community.
It is flat-out dishonest to have a title that says “Obama backs controversial New York mosque project” but it is drawn directly from the dishonest story itself.
To reassert someone’s right to do something, is not the same as backing the specific project they choose to do. Are the reporters truly that stupid or is Reuters now a subsidiary of Drudge? You are doing his work for him. Pathetic.
In the original transcript the President specifically mentions “lower Manhattan.” You might want to ignore this, but to many people targeting a specific location pinpoints the exact location of the mosque in question. So, yes, it does put the President in the stance of backing the project.
Where did this happen?
I am an avid Reuters news reader.
The new web design is nice but there is more scope for improvement.
Rational Explanations?
British X-Files describe secret UFO encounters
Some cases subsequently received rational explanations, such as meteors burning up in the atmosphere, but many are unsolved.
Kudos to the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain for continuing to release once-classified documents regarding UFO sightings in the U.K., even if many of them are listed as “unsolved.”
But I must take issue with the Yahoo! news article – carried from Reuters – for its poor use of subtle misleading labels.
I see something in the sky.
I don’t know what it is.
Other people say they don’t know either.
I conclude it’s piloted by beings from another planet who came all the way here to look around and leave.
That doesn’t sound rational to me.
The wrong word
US trade gap widens sharply in June
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit widened a surprising 18.8 percent in June on a surge of consumer goods from China and other suppliers, while U.S. exports fell, a government report showed on Wednesday.
The desperate trade data is likely to intensify calls in the U.S. Congress for China to move more aggressively to raise the value of its currency against the dollar.
Do you mean “disparate?”
How hot was it?
Man dies in final of sauna championships
HELSINKI (Reuters) – A Russian man died in the finals of the world sauna championships in Finland after spending some six minutes sweltering in temperatures of 110 degrees Celsius (230.00F), organizers said Sunday.
Check your facts. I don’t think it is even humanly possible to spend 1 second in a sauna at 110 C. Perhaps it was 110 F?
W.P.
Offensive word…
Balotelli set for Italy debut
Balotelli, who is being courted by Manchester City and will be one of only a handful of coloured players to have represented Italy, displayed his trademark single-mindedness by immediately grabbing the number nine striker jersey with Cassano taking 10.
The Italian footballer Mario Balotelli is referred to as “coloured”. He is black.
The Powers that be…
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies aged 84
The husky-voiced Neal won an Academy Award for her role in the 1963 film “Hud” alongside Paul Newman and boasted a long list of stage, film and TV credits alongside Hollywood’s leading men including Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Tyrone Powers.
The last actor’s name is Tyrone Power, not Powers.
M.L.
Not the Air Force
Four killed in US Air Force plane crash in Alaska
In light of the accident, Atkins said, the military was considering whether to go on with the aviation show, which also features precision-flying demonstrations by the Air Force’s Blue Angels and the Canadian Forces Snowbirds.
In the article on the plane crash, 28 July 2010, at Elmendorf you refer to the Air Force Blue Angels. The Blue Angels are in the NAVY. The Air Force has the Thunderbirds. Some folks get all shook up about this sort of thing.
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Reuters never accepts my comments although they will probably post this one as I am not saying anything beneficial.