How much additional evidence is really needed at this point to show that the establishment media are courtiers to power not independent journalists? Well, here is a little more anyway.

According to Michael Calderone at the Huffington Post, President Barack Obama met with over a dozen "journalists" in an off-the-record meeting to get input on how he should sell his war against ISIS to the American people.

The group, which met in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in an off-the-record session, included New York Times columnists David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo; The Washington Post's David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Beinart; The New Republic's Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky, a source familiar with the meeting told The Huffington Post.

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Women often receive warnings about protecting themselves at the mall
and in dark parking lots, etc. This is the first warning I have seen
for men. I wanted to pass it on in case you haven't heard about it.

A `heads up' for those men who may be regular Lowe's, Home Depot,
Costco, or even Wal-Mart customers. This one caught me totally by
surprise. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while
out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be
quite traumatic. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to
you or your friends.

Here's how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking, college-aged girls will come over to your car or
truck as you are packing your shopping into your vehicle. They both
start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts
almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts. (It's impossible not to
look). When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say `No' but
instead ask for a ride to McDonald's.

You agree and they climb into the vehicle. On the way, they start
undressing. Then one of them starts crawling all over you, while the other
one steals your wallet.

I had my wallet stolen Sep. 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th,
20th, 24th, & 29th. Also Oct. 1st & 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 23rd,
26th & 28th, three times last Monday and very likely again this
upcoming weekend.

So tell your friends to be careful. What a horrible way to take
advantage of us older men. Warn your friends to be vigilant.

Wal-Mart has wallets on sale for $2.99 each. I found even cheaper ones
for $.99 at the dollar store and bought them out in three of their
stores. Also, you never will get to eat at McDonald's.

For some, factoid signified a questionable or spurious piece of information, unverified, incorrect, or fabricated, that is, a brief statement which appears factual but lacks veracity; for others, it signified a small piece of true but valueless or insignificant information.[7] This new sense of factoid as a trivial but interesting fact was popularized by the CNN Headline News TV channel, which, during the 1980s and 1990s, used to frequently include such a fact under the heading factoid during newscasts. BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright uses factoids extensively on his show. Occasionally these can be incorrect, such as in September 2012 defining a Googol as the number 1 followed by one million zeroes, when the correct definition is the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.[8]

As a result of confusion over the meaning of factoid, some English-language style and usage guides recommend against its use.[9] William Safire in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet instead of factoid to express a brief interesting fact as well as a "little bit of arcana".[10] Safire suggested that factlet be used to designate a small or trivial bit of information that is nonetheless true or accurate.[10][6] A report in The Guardian identified Safire as the writer who coined the term factlet,[3] although Safire's 1993 column suggested factlet was already in use at that time.[6] The Atlantic magazine agreed with Safire, and recommended factlet instead of factoid, such that factlet would signify a "small probably unimportant but interesting fact", and that the term be used in place of factoid, which often has negative connotations.[7] The term factlet has been used in publications such as Mother Jones,[11] the San Jose Mercury News,[12] and in the Reno Gazette Journal.[13]

This survey seems to represent a significant shift in opinion since the Rasmussen poll, conducted August 15-16.  At that time, 17% of Whites believed Wilson guilty, while only 2% were willing to say he acted properly.  The remaining 81% were "undecided."  As previously mentioned, St. Louis County is 23% Black.

The manuscript is something of a prodigy in itself, it must be said: its existence was hitherto unknown, and silence wraps its discovery; apart from the attribution to Augsburg, little is certain about the possible workshop, or the patron for whom such a splendid sequence of pictures might have been created. The name of the Augsburg artist and printmaker Hans Burgkmair appears on folio 117r, on the page illustrating the birth of conjoined calves, and Borchert consequently proposes that, as Burgkmair the Elder died in the 1530s, the artist in question here must be his son, Hans Burgkmair the Younger, who is much less well attested by known works. But all in all, this Book of Miracles is a gorgeous unheralded surprise: a foundling of unknown parents, a virgin birth.

Big meeting of US Senators, state legislators, mayors, top politicians was held yesterday in St Louis County -- with this announcement coming today.

NYTimes
General to Seek Combat Troops if U.S. Air War Can't Stop ISIS
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress he would recommend sending limited Special Operations forces if airstrikes were not successful.

Wilson left his previous call at 12:00:00
Wilson made contact with jaywalkers at 12:01:00
Disturbance on Canfield first reported 12:01:50
Glide recording of shots created at 12:02:14
2nd Ferguson PD unit arrived 12:02:22

Note how quickly after the disturbance call re what was happening at the window that Wilson then emptied his weapon into the runaway 120 feet down the road.

There is hardly much time there for someone who has run 120 feet away to then stop, then turn around, and then take many steps back into that final 8 second barrage.

The Theory of Everything

It stands or falls, of course, on its central performance. But Redmayne towers: this is an astonishing, genuinely visceral performance which bears comparison with Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot. His Hawking starts askew - the glasses, maybe the shoulders a touch - and over the course of two hours contorts and buckles into a figure at once instantly familiar and fresh. This is more than just skilful impersonation - it's inhabitation. To look on as his face and body distort is to feel, yourself, discomforted, even queasy.

The film's emotional punch, however, comes from the trauma the disease wreaks on Hawking as one half of a couple. It manages that rare thing in any movie, least of all a well-upholstered biopic, and that is a realistic relationship, with grace notes, and a bedrock of respect and affection. Jones makes for a formidable opposite number; she's a consistently brilliant actor who needs a breakthrough.