Wordless Wednesday!

 

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Noodle and crew

Sunday selfie...

 

Meet our friend Arnold!

Have a super Sunday!

Noodle and crew

We are joining The Cat on My Head blog hop!

the Truth Is Out There...

the Truth Is Out There...

                            
                                   looking for the facts...



Do ethics still matter in journalism ?

                                    

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

-Aldous Huxley-


 Donald Trump tweeted that he saved a Ford Motor Company plant in Louisville, Kentucky from moving to Mexico. He didn't because it wasn't.
The plant was never moving to Mexico but that apparently is not important in this world we live in now.
 Mr. Trump touted that he'd saved a 1000 jobs at a Carrier plant but it's how he saved those jobs that is at issue and brings into question if this is a one time PR stunt or a little bit of the old razzle, dazzle.

Trump also declared that he would extract himself from his business if he won to avoid any   appearance of impropriety  but now, not so much.

It appears that it is now only the mere suggestion of a possibility of anything that is what is held to be, truth.

Which brings me to this;

"Well, I think it's also an idea of an opinion. And that's—on one hand, I hear half the media saying that these are lies. But on the other half, there are many people that go, 'No, it's true.' And so one thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch, is that people that say facts are facts—they're not really facts. Everybody has a way—it's kind of like looking at ratings, or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth, or not truth. There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts."

-Scottie Nell Hughes, Trump surrogate-

And this;

"This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally. The American people didn’t. They understood it. They understood that sometimes, when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar, you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up."

-Corey Lewandowski, Trump surrogate

The truth is that facts are not supposed to be subjective...
Facts are just that, facts!
But it seems as though now we have reached a place where absent any evidence or facts, a mere statement if repeated enough and said loudly enough can be perceived as truth.
Truth that the media in general doesn't waste it's time trying to correct (shame...).

Which brings me back to my original question...
Do ethics still matter in journalism?
We will have to wait and see.

Until then, don't give up on the facts and the truth.

As was told to us on The X Files; the truth is out there... so are the facts.

You just have to look a little harder to find them these days.

Noodle and crew 

an open letter to Mark Burnette

 

I'm a liberal 

I'm not proud of it or ashamed of it

But I want to take this opportunity to thank 

 Mr. Mark Burnette 

and thank you America...

For giving us Donald Trump back!

In this wonderfully petty, irresponsible, selfish country where we live...

Sanctimonious, irresponsible people have given us such wonderful gifts such as

the Kardashians,

the real housewives of ...wherever

I mean without your help there would have been no Apprentice

which was a tremendous help in Donald Trumps 

popularity,

You are to be congratulated for helping to turn politics and democracy into a side show

So, thank you!

I really don't think we could have gotten here without people like, you

But hey...what do I know, I'm just a cat....

Have a super Sunday

Noodle and crew

Special gobble, gobble edition Spy cats...

A few things for the weekend...

                                                                      Spy Cats

During the cold war, the CIA attempted to transform an ordinary domesticated house cat into a sophisticated bugging device as part of Operation Acoustic Kitty. The idea was to surgically alter
cats so they could eavesdrop on Soviet conversations from park benches and window sills.

The project began in 1961when the CIA implanted a battery and a microphone into a cat and turned its tail into an antenna. However, the cat wandered off when it was hungry a problem that had to be addressed in another operation. Finally after 5 years, several surgeries, intensive training and 15 million dollars, the cat was ready for its first field test.

The CIA drove the cat to a Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington DC and let it out of a parked van across the street. The cat walked into the road and was immediately hit by a taxi.
Operation Acoustic Kitty was declared a failure and completely abandon in 1967.

OK, we have no idea if there is any truth to this tail... but we got it from a reliable source... the internet!

Next up.

Did you know that it's possible that without refrigeration Ronald Regan might not have become president...
Want to know why? http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/v06v9z/steven-Johnson


Check out Jen Bingham's open letter on McSweeney's titled; An open letter to myself when I had seven cats; http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-myself-when-i-had-seven-cats




Have a great Thanksgiving!


Noodle and crew

Sunday selfie...

 

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Noodle and crew

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Wordless Wednesday...

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Noodle and crew